Curriculum Vitae

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EDUCATION

• A.B. in Physics, Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1989-1993.

• DEA degree in Statistical Physics and Non-linear Phenomena, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Lyon, France, 1993-1994.

• Ph.D. in Physics, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Student of Prof. Tomás Arias, MIT, Dept. of Physics. 1994-2000.

• Postdoctoral Researcher in Physics, University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California. Working in the group of Prof. Steven G. Louie, Dept. of Physics. 2000-2003.

• Assistant Professor, Dept. of Applied Physics, Yale University. New Haven, Connecticut. 2003-present

HONORS

• Winner of a Certificate of Distinction in Teaching Award (Spring 1992).
• Elected to Phi Beta Kappa as a Junior (Spring 1992).
• Graduated summa cum laude (highest GPA possible) from Harvard College (June 1993).
• Winner of the Hoopes Prize for excellence in undergraduate research in Physics: Thesis title: "Development of a New Interatomic Potential for silicon" under the direction of Prof. Efthimios Kaxiras, Dept. of Physics (June 1993).
• Funding for Studies in Lyon, France provided for by a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship (September 1993-June 1994).
• Winner of best graduate student poster prize at The Workshop On New Methods In Electronic Structure (May 1999).
• Invited paper for special issue of Computer Physics Communications on ``Parallel Computing in Chemical Physics'' (August 1999).
• Invited talk at the Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Methods, Atlanta, GA (May 2000).
• Invited talk at the Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Methods, Princeton, NJ (June 2001).
• Invited talk at the 11^th International Workshop on Computational Physics and Materials Science, Trieste, Italy (January 2003).

• ``Free energy of concerted-exchange mechanism for self-diffusion in silicon'', by A. Antonelli, S. Ismail-Beigi, E. Kaxiras, and K. C. Pandey, Physical Review B, 53 1310 (1996).

• ``Edge-driven transition in surface structure of nanoscale silicon'', by S. Ismail-Beigi and T.A. Arias, Physical Review B, 57 11923 (1998). http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/9805343

• ``Paramagnetic Structure of the Soliton of the 30^o Partial Dislocation in Silicon'', by G. Csányi, S. Ismail-Beigi, and T. A. Arias, Physical Review Letters, 80 3984 (1998). http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/9805328

• ``Locality of the Density Matrix in Metals, Semiconductors, and Insulators'', by S. Ismail-Beigi, and T. A. Arias, Physical Review Letters, 82 2127 (1999). http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/9805147

• ``Ab Initio Study of Screw Dislocations in Mo and Ta: A new picture of plasticity in bcc transition metals'', by S. Ismail-Beigi and T. A. Arias, Physical Review Letters, 84 1499 (2000). http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/9908110

• ``New Algebraic Formulation of Density Functional Calculation'', invited paper for the special issue of Computer Physics Communications on ``Parallel Computing in Chemical Physics'', by S. Ismail-Beigi and T. A. Arias, Comp. Phys. Comm., 128 1-45 (June 2000). http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/9909130

• ``Ab Initio approach to continuum calculations of solvation energies in water'', by S. Ismail-Beigi, P. Marrone, M. Reagan, T. A. Arias, and J. Tester. (Part of Ph.D. thesis) http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0007514

• ``New Physics of the 30^o Partial Dislocation in Silicon'' by G. Csányi, T. D. Engeness, S. Ismail-Beigi, and T. A. Arias, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 12 (2000) 10029. http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0011147

• ``Coupling of Nonlocal Potentials to Electromagnetic Fields'', by S. Ismail-Beigi, E. K. Chang, and S. G. Louie, Physical Review Letters, 87 087402 (2001). http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0101383

• ``Elasticity of nanometer-sized objects'', by D. E. Segall, S. Ismail-Beigi, and T. A. Arias, Physical Review B, 65 214109 (2002). http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0004154

• ``Quasiparticle band structure of ZnS and ZnSe'', by W. Luo, S. Ismail-Beigi, M. L. Cohen, and S. G. Louie, Phys. Rev. B 66, 195215 (2002).

• ``Ab Initio and Finite Temperature Molecular Dynamics Studies of Lattice Resistance in Tantalum'', by D. S. Segall, S. Ismail-Beigi, A. Strachan, W. A. Goddard III, and T. A., Arias, Phys. Rev. B 68, 014104 (2003).

• ``Excited-state Forces within the Ab Initio Bethe-Salpeter Formalism'', by S. Ismail-Beigi and S. G. Louie, Phys. Rev. Lett 90, 076401 (2003). http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0207248.

TALKS AND POSTERS

• ``Structural Properties, Surface and Edge Effects, and Phase Transitions in Nanoscale Beams of Silicon'', American Physical Society March Meeting, Saint Louis, Missouri, March 1996.

• ``Ab initio calculation of solvation energies for chemical reactions in water near its critical point'', American Physical Society March Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, March 1998.

• ``Locality of the Density Matrix In Metals, Semiconductors, and Insulators'', Workshop On New Methods In Electronic Structure, Philadelphia, May 1998.

• ``Ab initio Cores of <111> Screw Dislocations in Mo'', preliminary results for work regarding the ASCII project, presented at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, September 1998.

• ``Locality of the Density Matrix in Solids'', American Physical Society March Meeting, Atlanta, GA, March 1999.

• ``Ab Initio Study of Dislocation Cores in BCC Molybdenum'', American Physical Society Meeting, Atlanta, GA, March 1999.

• ``Ab Initio Study of [111] Screw Dislocations in Bcc Mo and Ta'', Workshop On New Methods In Electronic Structure, Urbana-Champaign, IL, May 1999 (winner of best graduate student poster prize).

• ``Ab initio Study of [111] Screw Dislocations in Bcc Mo and Ta'', invited talk for work regarding the ASCII project, presented at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, September 1999.

• ``Ab Initio Insights into Bcc Plasticity: A Different View of <111> Screw Dislocations'', American Physical Society March Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, March 2000.

• ``New Algebraic Formulation of Ab Initio Calculation: DFT++'', invited talk at the Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Methods, Atlanta, GA, May 2000.

• ``Gauge-invariant Coupling of Nonlocal Potentials to Electromagnetic Fields'', Workshop on Excited State Properties and Response Functions for Materials (Sponsored by the Computational Materials Sciences Network), Minneapolis, MN, November 2000.

• ``Coupling of Nonlocal Potentials to Electromagnetic Fields'', American Physical Society March Meeting, Seattle, WA, March 2001.

• ``Coupling of Nonlocal Potentials to Electromagnetic Fields'', invited talk at the Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Methods, Princeton, NJ, June 2001.

• ``Forces for Excited States within the Bethe-Salpeter Formalism'', Workshop on Excited State Properties and Response Functions for Materials (Sponsored by the Computational Materials Sciences Network), Berkeley, CA, October 2001.

• ``Ab Initio Calculation of Forces in Optically Excited States'', American Physical Society March Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, March 2002.

• ``Ab Initio Forces in Optically Excited States'', poster presented at the Workshop for Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Methods, Berkeley, CA, June 2002.

• ``Ab Initio Forces in Optically Excited States'', Workshop on Excited State Properties and Response Functions for Materials (Sponsored by the Computational Materials Sciences Network), Seattle, WA, September 2002.

• ``Excited-state Forces and Photoinduced Structural Changes within a First Principles Green's Function Formalism'', American Physical Society Meeting, Austin, TX, March 2003.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

• Research work with Prof. Wayne Hendrickson in the Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York (Summers of 1989, 1990, and 1991):
  • Implementation of fully anisotropic thermal ellipsoids in least squares refinements programs for high-resolution X-ray crystallographic protein structure determination; separation and purification of the two strains of the protein Crambin via HPLC techniques for future crystallization and high resolution studies; development and testing of various codes for use in the X-ray crystallographic community to help facilitate and accelerate the acquisition, processing, and fitting of protein structure to X-ray diffraction data.

• Research work with Prof. Martin Karplus at Harvard College (September 1991-May 1992):
  • Molecular Dynamics study of dielectric behavior of large collections of water molecules as a preliminary step in calculation of solvation energies; development of various system management codes for the research group.

• Research work with Prof. Efthimios Kaxiras at Harvard College (June 1992-June 1993):
  • Theoretical study of self diffusion in silicon mediated by the concerted exchange mechanism using finite temperature Monte Carlo methods and interatomic potentials; development of a new coordination-dependent interatomic potential for silicon fit to a large library of bulk structures and the energetics of their deformations.

• Research for DEA degree under the direction of Prof. Stefan Fauve at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (September 1993-June 1994):
  • The study of the distribution of pressure and velocity fluctuations and correlations in high Reynolds number fluid flows with high shear stress.

• Graduate Student in Physics with Prof. Tomás Arias at MIT (September 1994-2000):
  • Development, ab ovo, of a fully parallel ab initio code based on the analytically continued functional technique (DFT++ formalism); work on ab initio studies of the nature of surfaces, edges, and their interactions in nano-scale structures of silicon; work on the analytical decay rate of the electronic density matrix which has important consequences for O(N) techniques and locality of electronic perturbations; work on analytical studies and computational tests of wavelet methods in ab initio calculations; work on the effect of dielectric polarization on the super critical oxidation of methylene chloride; ab initio studies of dislocation cores in BCC metals (screw $\langle 111\rangle$ dislocations in Mo and Ta particular); implementation of ab initio calculations on distributed memory parallel architectures.

• Postdoctoral work with Prof. Steven G. Louie at Berkeley (June 2000-2003):
  • Work on the use of many-body methods for study of the electronic structure of excited states of materials (GW and Bethe-Salpeter methods); calculation of forces on excited states within the Bethe-Salpeter formalism geared toward the modeling and understanding of photoluminescence; work on the coupling of electromagnetic fields to nonlocal Hamiltonians; ongoing research on exciton trapping in SiO₂, optical properties of carbon nanotubes, and photoisomerization of azobenzene.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Teaching Assistant for Prof. Dror Bar-Natan for a year long introductory first year course on Mathematics for students of Physics and was a winner of a Certificate of Distinction in Teaching Award (Harvard, September 1991-June 1992).

• Teaching Assistantship for Prof. John Belcher in an intermediate level Electrodynamics course (MIT, Fall 1994).

• Teaching Assistantship for Prof. Ulrich Becker as Tutor for introductory level Electrodynamics course (MIT, Spring 1999).

• Substitute teacher and guest lecturer for graduate level introductory Solid State courses of Profs. Marvin Cohen and Steven G. Louie (U. C. Berkeley, 2001-present).

• Supervision of two graduate students in the Louie group, Murilo Tiago and Catalin Spataru, working on excited state azobenzene and optical properties of carbon nanotubes, respectively (U. C. Berkeley 2002-present).

• Instructor for Theory of Solids I, graduate level course, Dept. of Applied Physics, Yale University, Fall 2003.

REFERENCES

Prof. Tomás Arias
Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics
522 Clark Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-2501
(607) 255-0450
muchomas@ccmr.cornell.edu

Prof. Marvin Cohen
Department of Physics
366 Le Conate Hall #7300
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
(510) 642-4753
cohen@civet.berkeley.edu

Prof. John Joannopoulos
Department of Physics
Room 12-116
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 253-4806
joannop@mit.edu

Prof. Efthimios Kaxiras
Department of Physics
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 495-7977
kaxiras@cmt.harvard.edu

Prof. Steven G. Louie
Department of Physics
366 Le Conte Hall #7300
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
(510) 642-1709
sglouie@uclink.berkely.edu

Prof. Wayne Hendrickson
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
203 Black Building
Columbia University
New York, NY 10032
(212) 305-3456