Martin Head-Gordon

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Martin Head-Gordon (né "Martin Head") is a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory working in the area of computational quantum chemistry. He is a member of The International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.

A native of Australia, Head-Gordon received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon working under the supervision of John Pople developing a number of useful techniques including the Head-Gordon-Pople scheme for the evaluation of integrals, ^[1] and the orbital rotation picture of orbital optimization.

Today at Berkeley Martin supervises a group interested in pairing methods, local correlation methods, dual-basis methods, scaled MP2 methods, new efficient algorithms, and very recently corrections to the Kohn-Sham density functional framework. Broadly speaking wavefunction based methods are the focus of the research.

Head-Gordon is also one of the founders of Q-Chem Inc.

He is currently teaching Chemistry 120A with Prof. William Lester at UC Berkeley.

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1. ^ M. Head-Gordon and J. A. Pople, “A Method for Two-Electron Gaussian Integral and Integral Derivative Evaluation Using Recurrence Relations,” J. Chem. Phys. 89 (1988) 5777.