Dario Rocca

Dario Rocca



Contact information

Chem 175, UC Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, 95616

email: drocca at ucdavis.edu

phone: (530) 754-9628







Education

-Degree in Physics, obtained cum laude at the University of Pavia in 2003. Supervisor: Prof. G. Pastori Parravicini. Thesis: "Quantum transport in localized basis mesoscopic systems"

-Ph.D. in Physics, obtained cum laude at the International School for Advanced Studies (Trieste,Italy) in 2007. Supervisors: Prof. S. Baroni and Dr. R. Gebauer. Thesis: "Time-Dependent Density Functional Perturbation Theory: new algorithms with applications to molecular spectra".

Research

Time-dependent density functional theory



Publications

  1. S. Sorella, M. Casula and D. Rocca "Weak binding between two aromatic rings: Feeling the van der Waals attraction by quantum Monte Carlo methods", J. Chem. Phys. 127, 014105 (2007)
  2. D. Rocca, R. Gebauer, Y Saad and S. Baroni "Turbo charging time-dependent density-functional theory with Lanczos chains", J. Chem. Phys. 128, 154105 (2008).