Lucas K. Wagner
Post-doctoral Research Scholar
Contact Information:
email: lkwagner@mit.edu
phone: 617-452-3120
Room: 13-4080
Research Interests:
The underlying theme of my research is the study of interacting and stochastic systems. In the context of materials, I am particularly interested in materials such as amorphous silicon, where there is very high entropy, and how that extra phase space can affect the properties of the material. I also study the interaction of electrons within a material primarily using quantum Monte Carlo(QMC)--a very accurate(but still approximate) way of treating the interactions between electrons explicitly. I am the lead programmer of an open source general purpose QMC program qwalk (http://www.qwalk.org/wiki).
Project research pages:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA 02139-4307