*Abstract:*Our group is exploring the specific rules and general paradigms that govern peptide interactions.Peptides are interesting biomolecules that are easy and inexpensive to produce with low toxicity and high specificity.Our primary research interest involves exploring peptides for breast cancer targeting for drug delivery and cancer diagnostics, as well as antimicrobial peptides (from bacteria) as food preservatives, therapeutics and diagnostics.Specifically, the research program is involved in developing peptides to increase the therapeutic efficacy of current chemotherapeutic drugs

All day symposium with a list of distinguished speakers.

We describe the challenges involved when using time-dependent density
functional theory (TDDFT) to describe warm dense matter (WDM) within a
plane-wave, real-time formulation. WDM occurs under conditions of
temperature and pressure (over 1000 K and 1 Mbar) where plasma physics
meets condensed matter physics. TDDFT is especially important in this
regime as it can describe ions and electrons strongly out of equilibrium.
Several theoretical challenges must be overcome including assignment of
initial state orbitals, choice of time-propogation scheme, treatment of PAW