Roberto Olivares-Amaya
Graduate Student
Chemical Physics
Harvard University
e-mail: olivares [at] fas.harvard.edu
12 Oxford St #56, Cambridge, MA 02138
Office: Mallinckrodt 104
Tel: (617)-496-8221
Education
BS, Chemistry, with "Mención Honorífica", Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), December 2006
Awards
- Medalla Gabino Barreda. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), 2006. Given to the top student of each class
Research Interests
- Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS): Mainly studying the of the chemical effect of SERS.
- Computational Chemistry: Coding to adapt the use of modern technologies (Graphics Processing Units (GPUs, Distributed Computing) for the use of chemistry.
- Organic Solar Cells: Electronic properties of conjugated polymers. (Help us find better photovoltaic cells at the Clean Energy Project.
Publications
Roberto Olivares-Amaya*, Mark A. Watson*, Richard Edgar, Leslie Vogt, Yihan Shao, Alán Aspuru-Guzik. "Accelerating correlated quantum chemistry calculations using graphical processing units and a mixed-precision matrix multiplication library" J. Chem. Theory and Comput. , 6 135-144, 2010
10.1021/ct900543q
Semion Saikin, Roberto Olivares-Amaya, Dmitrij Rappoport, Michael Stopa and Alán Aspuru-Guzik. "On the chemical bonding effects in the Raman response: Benzenethiol adsorbed on silver clusters." Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 11, 9401 - 9411, 2009. 10.1039/b906885f
R. Olivares-Amaya, R. Salomon-Ferrer, W. A. Lester Jr., and C. Amador-Bedolla, "Creation of a GUI for Zori, a Quantum Monte Carlo program, using Rappture," Computing in Science and Engineering, 11, (1), 41-47, Jan./Feb. 2009, 10.1109/MCSE.2009.5
L. Vogt*, R. Olivares-Amaya*, S. Kermes, Y. Shao, C. Amador-Bedolla, A. Aspuru-Guzik "Accelerating resolution-of-the-identity second-order Moller-Plesset calculations using graphical processing units", J. Phys. Chem. A, 112 (10), 2049 -2057, 2008. 10.1021/jp0776762
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Journals
Journal of Physical Chemistry A
Journal of Chemical Physics
Computing in Science and Engineering
Universities, Departments and Institutes
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Facultad de Química
Harvard
UNAM
