ATOMPAW

Contributers to the Project

Summer of 2013 update project

Jamie Drewery, WFU (class of 2014), WFURF recipient
Successfully constructed and tested several datasets.
Cameron Kates, WFU (class of 2014), WFURF recipient
Successfully constructed and tested several datasets. Developed C++ program for expediting input file construction. Updated Atompaw Handbook.
Zachary Pipkorn, WFU (class of 2014)
Successfully constructed and tested datasets.

Chaochao Dun, WFU graduate student (beginning fall 2012; mentored by David Carroll and NAWH)
Developed and tested datasets with a focus on a materials project in collaboration with experimental efforts.

Ahmad Al-Qawasmeh, WFU graduate student (beginning fall 2013)
Tested datasets in conjunction with materials project.
Jacob Seib, Brown U (class of 2014), visiting WFU summer of 2013
Tested datasets while focussing on a materials project.

Other contributions:

Qi Li, WFU graduate student (beginning Fall 2009; mentored by Richard Williams)
Inspired the development of the "explore" method of dataset construction
Nicholas Lepley, WFU graduate student (beginning Fall 2009)
Developed several perlscripts useful for dataset construction and analysis

Distant collaborators

Marc Torrent (CEA, France) developed the code for compatibility with abinit including incorporating libxc, developing a linux build system.
Alan Wright, Normand Modine, Ryan Hatcher, Alan Tackett, Greg Walker, and Rachael Hansel from Sandia National Labs, Samsong, and Vanderbilt University, independently worked on dataset construction, introducing general machine-learning type ideas

Past PAW dataset developers

Xiao Xu -- Wrote many useful scripts for the database project while working on his Ph. D. Thesis. Ph. D. in Physics in 2012 at WFU. Currently C++ Software Engineer for MATLAB libraries at The MathWorks.
David Harris -- Updated database and developed scripts during summers of 2006 and 2007, Ph. D. candidate at NCSU, Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
Nicholas Dellaripa -- Updated database during 2006; developed processing scripts. M.S. degree in Marine Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 2012. Currently product application engineer at Trimble Navigation in Westminster, CO.
John Tumbleston -- Completed first version of the database during the summer of 2005. Completed Ph. D. in Physics in 2011 at UNC followed by postdoctorial training at UCSU. Currently research scientist at CREE, Inc. in Durham, NC studying epitaxial growth of LED's. email contact

Thanks to Sina Zolghadr (with help from Eric Chapman) for the webpage design.