Kevin Brake

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About

I am currently a PhD student in the physics department of the University of Queensland. My supervisors are Ross McKenzie and Ben Powell

My e-mail is brake@physics.uq.edu.au. During working hours (in a broad sense!) you can find me in room 1.08 of the Physics Annex (Building 6) (telephone +61 (0)7 3346 9729). My postal address is

Kevin Brake
Department of Physics
Physics annex, Building 6
University of Queensland
Brisbane
Qld 4072
Australia

Finally, you can send me a fax to +61 (0)7 3365 1242.

Research

Layered organic superconductors: from quantum chemistry to quantum many-body physics to experiment

Calculation of the parameters of simple quantum many-body models of strongly correlated materials from first principles quantum chemistry

Publications

Authors	Title	Reference	e-print
B. J. Powell, T. Baruah, N. Bernstein, K. Brake, Ross H. McKenzie, P. Meredith and M. R. Pederson.	A First Principles Density-Functional Calculation of the Electronic and Vibrational Structure of the Key Melanin Monomers	J. Chem. Phys. 120, 8608 (2004)	q-bio.BM/0401030
K. Brake, B.J. Powell, R.H. McKenzie, M.R. Pederson and T. Baruah.	First-principles density-functional calculation of the Raman spectra of BEDT-TTF	J. Phys. IV (France) 114, 293 (2004)	cond-mat/0310197

Links

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Physics

Recent pre-prints pertaining to superconductivity and strongly correlated electrons on cond-mat.
Recent pre-prints on quantitative biology.

Nature (Thurs)
PRL - Monday morning reading
PRB (1^st,15^th)
Science
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter (Wed)
J. Phys. A (Fri)
JPSJ
Physica B (monthly)
Physica C (1^st, 20^th)
Eur. J. Phys.
Eur. Phys. J. B
Virtual J. of Supercond.
Sol. State Comm.
Synthetic Metals
American Chemical Society
J. Chem. Phys.
Internet Library of Early Journals A collection of journal articles from the 18th and 19th centuries

Bibliographic databases (Science Citation Index): WoS WebSPIRS.

Magazines: New Scientist, Physics World, Physics Today, Physical Review Focus.

NIST physical reference data
Conversion factors
Abramowitz and Stegun
The Institute of Physics (IOP)
Ben Simons has a useful set of lecture notes on many body physics. as does Piers Coleman
Mike Brookes has a useful Matrix reference manual
JOST Jobs and Opportunities in Science and Technology
TIPTOP (The Internet Piolet TO Physics)
Here are some really cool movies of superconductors
Here is some useful advice on CVs, talks, jobs and the life of a scientist in general.
GAMS login

Computers

NRLMOL - the worlds greatest quantum chemistry program, and a brief guide: NRLMOL for dummies
HPCU - including the queues for ozone
LACMS - home of the brunel beowulf machine
NCSA MPI-forum and EPCC all provide introductions to Message Passing Interface (MPI) - a frequently used protocol in parallel computing.
Numerical Recipes - the art of scientific computing
or at the other end of the spectrum here is how to write unmaintainable code
NAG C library
LAPACK provide an excellent set of Linear algebra PACKages. They have an excellent introduction.
Get genuine random numbers from hotbits
If you want to write your own web page (it's very easy - give it a go) take a look at the beginners guide to html. Although once you understand the basics the best way to learn is to look at other peoples 'source code' - if your using Netscape or Internet Explorer you do this by simply right clicking and then selecting View Source. This html colour chart may also come in handy.
Anything else you want to know about computing is probably somewhere on slashdot
Unix is a Four Letter Word A useful intro to the basic unix commands, as well as a very helpful guide to vi

Credits

This page was basically copied from Denzil Rodrigues. The chain of plagiarism extends back through Andy Archer and Ben Powell to Jorge Quintallia.