Research Activities


You can find my PhD thesis here.


Publications

  • Laurent Vidal, Tommaso Nottoli, Filippo Lipparini & Éric Cancès. Geometric optimization of Restricted-Open and Complete Active Space Self-Consistent Field wavefunctions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A (2024).
    Published, Preprint
  • Éric Cancès, Muhammad Hassan, & Laurent Vidal. Modified-operator method for the calculation of band diagrams of crystalline materials Mathematics of Computation (2024).
    Published, Preprint
  • Éric Cancès, Geneviève Dusson, Gaspard Kemlin & Laurent Vidal. On basis set optimisation in quantum chemistry ESAIM: Proceedings and Surveys 73 (2023).
    Published, Preprint

Preprints

  • Robert Benda, Éric Cancès, Emmanuel Giner & Laurent Vidal. Self-Consistent Field algorithms in Restricted Open-Shell Hartree-Fock Submitted (2024).
    Preprint

Talks

  • February – March 2023: SIAM CSE 23 mini-symposium: Recent Advances in Numerical Methods for Electronic Structure Calculations. “Modified-Operator Method for the Calculation of Band Diagrams of Crystalline Materials” (slides).
  • August 2022: GAMM 92nd annual meeting, session 26 on Modelling, analysis and simulation of molecular systems. “On the approximation of energy bands in the Brillouin zone”.
  • June 2021: EMC2 meeting. “Methods for computing Restricted Open-Shell Hartree-Fock (ROHF) ground states”.

Other conferences and workshops

  • July 2025: CECAM Workshop Advancing simulation, analysis and prediction of complex chemical systems using modern chemical graph theory and computational topology
  • August 2022: DFTK school Numerical methods for density-functional theory simulations.
  • June – July 2022: International summer School in electronic structure Theory (ISTPC).
  • June 2022: GDR NBODY 4th mini-school.
  • July-August 2021: CEMRACS Data Assimilation and Reduced Modeling for High Dimensional Problems.