Latest news
• Congratulations to Lukas Razinkovas, the second PhD student of the group! Lukas Razinkovas defended his thesis on 2021 Dec. 10.
• Congratulations to Mažena, the first PhD student in the group to to defend her thesis!
• October 2020: Vytautas Žalandauskas and Rokas Silkinis have officially become PhD students at FTMC. Congratulations!
• September 2020: Marek has participated at the Apropos 17 conference at FTMC.
• June 2020: Rokas and Vytautas defended their Master thesis. Congratulations!
• October 2019: Lukas and Mažena won Best Oral Presentation Award during FizTech 2019 Conference, Lithuania.
• September 2019: Mažena has participated at the XLV Meeting of Polish Physicists and IPSEC XII, Cracow, Poland.
• July 2019: Lukas and Mažena won Scholarship of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences for Academic Achievements.
• June 2019: Audrius received a teaching award from Kaunas University of Technology.
• May 2019: Audrius gave an interview for Žinių radijas.
• April 2019: Mažena gave an interview for Lithuanian National Radio and Television “Mokslo sriuba” (Mokslo Lietuva, Lrytas.tv).
• March 2019: Lukas won a “Brilliant poster” award at the Hasselt diamond conference SBDD XXIV.
• January 2019: Mažena gave an interview for zw.lt “Stereotypical image – what a scientist should look like” and received an award “Talent of the Year” at Faculty of Physics.
• October 2018: Audrius hosted and Lukas participated in OSA Defects by Design: Quantum Nanophotonics in Emerging Materials Incubator, OSA Headquarters, Washington, DC, USA.
• September 2018: Mažena won a Graduate Student Award at the EMRS 2018 Fall Meeting in Warszaw, Poland.
• July 2018: Mažena has co-organised the Humboldt Kolleg “Controlling quantum matter: From ultracold atoms to solids”.
Prof. Gediminas Juzeliūnas (Vilnius University), Prof. Wolfgang Ketterle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Nobel Prize in Physics 2001) and Mažena.
• June 2018: Vytautas and Rokas defended their Bachelor thesis. Congratulations!
• May 2018: Mažena represented FTMC at 7th European Physical Society Young Minds Conference in Prague, Czech Republic.
• April 2018: Audrius gave an interview to “Verslo Žinios”: “How quantum computing will change the world?”.
• April 2018: Audrius gave an interview to “Žinių radijas” about quantum computing.
• March 2018: Mažena gave an interview for Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT televizija).
• February 2018: Mažena received 3 awards:
INFOBALT Scholarship for Young Scientist 3rd place, The Best Young Scientist Award at Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, and Lithuanian Academy of Sciences Scholarship.
• September 2017: Mažena has participated at the E-MRS meeting in Warsaw.
Prof. Chris Van de Walle and Mažena
• July 2017: Lukas attended the workshop and summer school “Density-Functional Theory and Beyond: Accuracy, Efficiency and Reproducibility in Computational Materials Science” in Berlin, Germany.
• December 2016: Audrius received the Marshak lectureship award to attend the 2017 APS March meeting in New Orleans, USA.
• December 2016: Mažena has received the Karl Mey Scholarship of the German Physical Society to attend the 2017 DPG Spring meeting in Dresden, Germany.
• October 2016: Lukas and Mažena have officially become PhD students at FTMC. Congratulations!
Visitors
• Ksenija Kovalenka from the University of Manchester stayed with the group from June 1 to September 30, 2020.
• Simone Manti from the Technical University of Denmark was staying at the group from September 2 to November 30, 2019.
• Gérard Mourou (Nobel Prize in physics 2018) during “Open Readings 2019” conference at Electronic Structure Theory Laboratory.
• Marek Maciaszek from the Warsaw University of Technology was staying at the group from September 1 to November 30, 2018.
• Chris G. Van de Walle (UCSB, USA): October 2-5, 2017.
• Adam Gali (Wigner Center, Hungary): November 13-15, 2017.
• Fedor Jelezko (University of Ulm, Germany): Ocober 17, 2017
• Algita Stankevičiūtė (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland and Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania): August 3, 2017
• Egidijus Auksorius (Ecole Polytéchnique, France): April 13, 2017
• Laima Bušaitė (University of Latvia): April 3 – April 14, 2017
• Florian H. Gahbauer (University of Latvia): January 30, 2017
• Denis Gryaznov (Institute of Solid State Physics, Latvia): November 29, 2016
• Prithvi Reddy (Australian National University): September 26 – October 7, 2016
• Laima Bušaitė (University of Latvia): September 21-23, 2016
• Alex Gaiduk (University of Chicago, USA): June 20-21, 2016
• Marcus W. Doherty (Australian National University): May 24-27, 2016
• Florian H. Gahbauer (University of Latvia): May 5-6, 2016
• Ymir Frodason (University of Oslo, Norway): January 25 – February 12, 2016
• Klaus M. H. Johansen (University of Oslo, Norway): January 25, 2016
• Helmut Fedder (University of Stuttgart, Germany): December 7-8, 2015
• Petr Khomyakov (ETH Zurich, Switzerland): December 3-4, 2015
• Vyacheslavs Kashcheyevs (University of Latvia): October 22-23, 2015
• Elisa Londero (Wigner Center, Hungary): April 20-22, 2015
• Cyrus E. Dreyer (University of California, Santa Barbara): August 21-23, 2014
Puntukas electronic structure theory group 