Roberto Olivares-Amaya
Graduate Student
Chemical Physics
Harvard University
12 Oxford St #56, Cambridge, MA 02138
Office: M 110
e-mail: olivares [at] chemistry.harvard.edu
Tel: (617) 495-9676
Education
BS, Chemistry, with "Mención Honorífica", Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), December 2006
Research Interests
- Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS): Trying to attribute some importance to the Chemical Effect.
- 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
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
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
Useful Links
Research Related
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
