Department of Physics

Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics

Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR)

The mottos for our rebuilt, CUDA GPU-enabled, advanced memory management code are

• "The code reads just like the physics!", and
• "Our SCF never diverges, because we don't do SCF".

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Professor Tomás Arias

522 Clark Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-2501
Email: muchomas@ccmr.cornell.edu

Fax: (607) 255-6428

• Jason Alexander Cline (Postdoc at Argonne National Labs, then Principal Scientist, Spectral Sciences Inc.)
• Sohrab Ismail-Beigi (Postdoc at UC Berkeley, now Assistant Professor of Applied Physics, Yale University)
• Gábor Csányi (Postdoc at University of Cambridge, then University Lecturer University of Cambridge)
• Dicle Yesilleten
• Darren Eric Segall (Postdoc at Cal Tech, then Staff Scientist, Arete Associates)
• Torkel Dyrbæk Engeness (Omni-Guide, an MIT high-tech start up, then international business consulting, CEO at Intelecom Group AS, Norway)
• Hande Üstünel (Postdoc at SISSA -- Trieste Italy, now Assistant Professor at Middle East Technical University (SISSA/ISAS), Ankara, Turkey)
• Sahak Petrosyan (Postdoc at MIT, then Goldman Sachs)
• Daniel Freedman (Postdoc in Computer Science at Cornell University, now Assitant Professor at Techion)
• Johannes Lischner (Postdoc at UC Berkeley)

• Jeehye Lee
• Kendra Letchworth-Weaver
• Ravishankar ("Shankar") Sundararaman
• Katie Schwartz

• Optics, Waves and Particles (Cornell Physics 214)
• Computational Physics (Phys 480/680, Astro 690)
• Arias's tips for oral presentations
• Hypertext Introductory Quantum Course
• Physics of the piano: (sounds, movies, and graphs -- fun for Physics 214 students!)

Lifetime Birding List (Yes, there is only one bird on my list.)

• Rufous-vented Ground-Cuckoo

  Observation: 1 adult and 1 immature in close proximity to ant colony. Juvenile exhibited feeding behavior.

  Date: July 19, 2007, approximately 12pm (overcast day)

  Location: Canopy Lodge, El Valle de Antón, Coclé, Panamá.

  Other observers: Ken Allaire (NYC), Danilo Rodríguez (local), Terry Morgan and Karen Walz (Texas), Raúl and Denise Arias (local).

• Liliana Rose Arias
• Francesca Isabel Arias
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• Photos from the Canopy Tower in Panama
• Visit El Valle, my favorite place on Earth (including sounds recorded in the Valley)
• Canopy Adventure home page (Photos, Naturalist Essays, Info on Panamá)
• Don Tomás Arias (my name-sake and paternal-paternal great-grandfather, a major figure in the history of the Republic of Panamá)

They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts.

For they have their own thoughts.

You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.

For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.

Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.