Hi Everyone,

Thomas will be giving group meeting tomorrow at 2:30pm in the division room. Please see below for his title and abstract.

Jennifer

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Title: Finite Temperature Electronic Structure

Abstract: I've been thinking about how to build temperature into electronic structure for quite a while, and I'm finally going to present some thoughts on how to do so. I'll start by making a few observations about uncertainty relations and temperature in many-body theory, as well as stating a few of my own results that motivated me to pursue this idea seriously. I'll then discuss how to build temperature into an arbitrary hamiltonian with known degrees of freedom, and how to make them useful for chemistry. Finally, I'll discuss some possible next steps.