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MAGICS center software won HPCAsia2020 best paper award

Congratulations, Subodh on HPCAsia2020 best paper award for "Quantum dynamics at scale: ultrafast control of emergent functional materials" using QXMD!

3rd MAGICS Workshop was held at Marriott Washingtonian Center, Nov. 11-13, 2018

Third MAGICS Materials workshop was successfully held at USC. You can access courseware from the workshop here

2nd MAGICS Workshop was held at USC, March 2-4, 2018

Second MAGICS Materials workshop was successfully held at USC. You can access courseware from the workshop here

Group photograph of participants for the 2nd MAGICS Software Workshop

Inaugural 1st MAGICS Workshop was held at USC, November 12-15, 2017

First MAGICS Materials workshop was successfully held at USC. You can access courseware from the workshop here

Group workshop 2

Joint USC-Rice publication is selected for the Cover of Advanced Materials

November 2017

MAGICS students attends ATPESC 2016

May 2017

MAGICS students from USC, Subodh Tiwari and Chunyang Sheng took part in ATPESC 2016, an intensive, two-week training program on key skills required to advance computational science on leadership-class computing systems of the future


MAGICS students attend computational workshop at Argonne National Lab

May 2017

MAGICS students from USC, Lindsay Bassman, Subodh Tiwari and Kuang Liu learned state-of-the-art optimization techniques at ALCF Computational Performance Workshop.


All-hands meeting at USC

April 2017

MAGICS team members gathered for the all-hands meeting at USC


Center teams from USC, Rice and SLAC meet to discuss ultrafast electron diffraction experiments

March 2017

MAGICS team presents research results at APS

March 2017

Postdocs and graduate students from MAGICS presented results about computational synthesis and experimental characterization of two dimensional materials


Center teams from USC, Rice and SLAC coordinate for future experiments in Houston

February 2017

PIs Priya Vashishta, David Fritz and Pulickel Ajayan conducted discussions about upcoming experiments in March 2017


USC students attend the Materials Project Workshop organized by co-PI, Persson, at Berkeley.

August 2016

MAGICS students from USC, Nitish Baradwaj and Chunyang Sheng received hands-on training in the Materials Project software infrastructure in a workshop organized by MAGICS Co-PI, Kristin Persson.

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Joint USC-Rice publication is selected for the Cover of Advanced Materials

November 2017

MAGICS students attends ATPESC 2016

May 2017

MAGICS students from USC, Subodh Tiwari and Chunyang Sheng took part in ATPESC 2016, an intensive, two-week training program on key skills required to advance computational science on leadership-class computing systems of the future

MAGICS students attends ATPESC 2016

May 2017

MAGICS students from USC, Lindsay Bassman, Subodh Tiwari and Kuang Liu learned state-of-the-art optimization techniques at ALCF Computational Performance Workshop.

All-hands meeting at USC

April 2017

MAGICS team members gathered for the all-hands meeting at USC

Center teams from USC, Rice and SLAC meet to discuss ultrafast electron diffraction experiments

March 2017

MAGICS team presents research results at APS

March 2017

Postdocs and graduate students from MAGICS presented results about computational synthesis and experimental characterization of two dimensional materials

Center teams from USC, Rice and SLAC coordinate for future experiments in Houston

February 2017

PIs Priya Vashishta, David Fritz and Pulickel Ajayan conducted discussions about upcoming experiments in March 2017

USC students attend the Materials Project Workshop organized by co-PI, Persson, at Berkeley.

August 2016

MAGICS students from USC, Nitish Baradwaj and Chunyang Sheng received hands-on training in the Materials Project software infrastructure in a workshop organized by MAGICS Co-PI, Kristin Persson.

Published on July 19th, 2017Last updated on June 22nd, 2023