Biographical Sketch
Brian Austin is a staff member of the Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) in computational research at Berkeley Lab.
As a post-doc, he worked with Prof. Jonathan Wurtele's research group at the Berkeley Lab to run simulations for developing the Next Generation Light Source.
As an undergraduate student at Reed College in Portland, Ore., Austin developed a strong interest in quantum chemistry. "This led me to a summer research program in theoretical chemistry at Colorado State University, where I was first acquainted with scientific computing," he says.
As a graduate student at U.C. Berkeley, Austin focused on enhancing the Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) approach to computing molecular properties. He learned about high performance computing and parallel programming by helping to rewrite his research group’s QMC code and running these codes on large-scale supercomputers at NERSC.
Originally from St. Louis, Mo., Austin says that he did not learn to like fresh vegetables until he moved to the Bay Area. In his spare time, Austin can be found playing board games, baking bread, bicycling, bowling and finding unexpected incidents of alliteration.
» Current Research
Journal Articles
D.Y. Zubarev, B.M. Austin, W.A. Lester Jr,
“Practical Aspects of Quantum Monte Carlo for the Electronic Structure of Molecules”,
Practical Aspects of Computational Chemistry I: An Overview of the Last Two Decades and Current Trends,
January 1, 2012,
255,
D.Y. Zubarev, B.M. Austin, W.A. Lester Jr,
“Quantum Monte Carlo for the x-ray absorption spectrum of pyrrole at the nitrogen K-edge”,
The Journal of chemical physics,
January 1, 2012,
136:144301,
Erin LeDell, Prabhat, Dmitry Yu Zubarev, Brian Austin, Jr. William A. Lester,
“Classification of Nodal Pockets in Many-Electron Wave Functions via Machine Learning”,
accepted, Journal of Mathematical Chemistry,
January 1, 2012,
B.M. Austin, D.Y. Zubarev, WA Lester,
“Quantum Monte Carlo and Related Approaches.”,
Chemical Reviews,
January 1, 2011,
Jinhua Wang, Dominik Domin, Brian Austin, Dmitry Yu, Jarrod McClean, Michael Frenklach, Tian Cui, Jr. Lester,
“A Diffusion Monte Carlo Study of the O-H Bond Dissociation of Phenol”,
J. Phys. Chem. A,
January 1, 2010,
114:9832,
A. Aspuru--Guzik, R. Salom\ on--Ferrer, B. Austin, R. Perusqu\ \ia--Flores, M.A. Griffin, R.A. Oliva, D. Skinner, D. Domin, W.A. Lester Jr,
“Zori 1.0: A parallel quantum Monte Carlo electronic structure package”,
Journal of Computational Chemistry,
January 1, 2005,
26:856--862,
A. Aspuru-Guzik, R. Salomon-Ferrer, B. Austin, Jr. Lester,
“A sparse algorithm for the evaluation of the local energy in quantum Monte Carlo”,
J. Comp. Chem.,
January 1, 2005,
26:708,
Conference Papers
J.N. Corlett, B. Austin, K.M. Baptiste, J.M. Byrd, P. Denes, R. Donahue, L. Doolittle, R.W. Falcone, D. Filippetto, S. Fournier, D. Li, H.A. Padmore, C. Papadopoulos, C. Pappas, G. Penn, M. Placidi, S. Prestemon, D. Prosnitz, J. Qiang, A. Ratti, M. Reinsch, F. Sannibale, R. Schlueter, R.W. Schoenlein, J.W. Staples, T. Vecchione, M. Venturini, R. Wells, R. Wilcox, J. Wurtele, A. Charman, E. Kur, A.A. Zholents,
“A Next Generation Light Source Facility at LBNL”,
PAC 11 Conference Proceedings,
January 1, 2011,
J. Chou, M. Howison, B. Austin, K. Wu, J. Qiang, E. Bethel, A. Shoshani, O. R\ ubel, R.D. Ryne, others,
“Parallel index and query for large scale data analysis”,
Proceedings of 2011 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis,
January 1, 2011,
30,
B. Austin, A. Aspuru-Guzik, R. Salomon-Ferrer, Jr. W.A. Lester,
“Linear-Scaling Evaluation of the Local Energy in Quantum Monte Carlo”,
Advances in Quantum Monte Carlo,
American Chemical Society,
January 1, 2006,
Posters
Brian Austin, Ji Qiang, Jonathan Wurtele, Alice Koniges,
“Influences of architecture and threading on the MPI communication strategies in an accelerator simulation code.”,
SciDAC 2011, Denver, CO,
January 1, 2011,
Matthias Reinsch, Brian Austin, John Corlett, Lawrence Doolittle, Gregory Penn, Donald Prosnitz, Ji Qiang, Andrew Sessler, Marco Menturini, Jonathan Wurtele,
“System Trade Analysis for an FEL Facility”,
Free Electron Laser Conference FEL 2011, Shanghai, China,
January 1, 2011,
