Persson Group Handbook
  • Persson Group Handbook
  • (Materials Project Handbook)
  • Getting Started
    • Before you Arrive
    • After you Arrive
    • Coming Onsite
    • Getting a Computer
    • Workspace Setup
    • Getting Settled
  • Group Policies
    • Meetings
    • Leave Time
    • Purchasing
    • Travel
    • Writing/Submitting Your Paper
    • Group Agreements
  • Computing
    • Setting up your computer
    • Software
    • High Performance Computing (HPC)
      • NERSC (Perlmutter)
        • Conda Environments
        • Frequently encountered blockers
      • BRC (Savio)
      • LRC (Lawrencium)
      • NREL (Kestrel)
    • Simulation Codes
      • VASP
      • Q-Chem
      • Gaussian
      • OpenMM
      • LAMMPS
      • GROMACS
    • Fireworks & Atomate
      • Setup
      • Fireworks: Advanced Usage
    • Machine Learning (ML)
  • Group Administration
    • Group Meeting Schedule
    • Group Jobs (Fall 2024)
    • Physical Resources (printers, etc.)
    • Undergraduate Research Mentoring
    • Contributing to Handbook
    • Group Roster
  • Group resources
    • Tutorials and Helpful Links
    • Group Member Expertise
    • Professional development
    • Health and wellbeing
  • Graduate Students
    • UAW 4811 Contracts
    • Research Credits (298/299)
    • Course Recommendations
    • How to Qual (MSE)
    • How to Graduate
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Persson Group Handbook

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Last updated 29 days ago

This website serves as the group handbook for the at the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

The purpose of this handbook is to:

1) serve as a living repository for knowledge within the group

2) assist new group members in onboarding

While the Onboarding Guides and the Group Librarian have the ultimate responsibility of overseeing the handbook (see ), maintaining and improving the group handbook is the responsibility of all group members. Our newest group members often have the most valuable insight in improving the onboarding process and where there may be critical gaps in the handbook. Please see for guidelines on making contributions. Note that the handbook can be dynamically searched from within the group Slack by writing /gitbook SEARCH_QUERY.

We would like to especially thank Anubhav Jain, whose wonderful group handbook () inspired much of the content you see here.

About the Group

Our group studies the physics and chemistry of materials using atomistic computational methods and high-performance computing technology. Most of our research is focused on materials for energy applications, such as battery electrode materials, electrolytes, photocatalysts, thermoelectrics, etc. We are co-located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and the University of California, Berkeley, just down the hill from the Lab. Our main workspaces are located at LBNL, but we have a number of additional desks available on campus for students to use in between classes, which are located in the Graduate Student Bay of Hearst Memorial Mining Building (HMMB).

Group events

Some of the regular things we do as a group are:

  • Happy Hour. We meet up for food & drinks most Thursday evenings.

  • Group retreats/outings. Past activities include "beach olympics", Halloween costume parties, paintball, cardboard boat races in Kristin's pool, picnics, trips to SF, and more!

  • Group Time. A meeting every other week hosted by members of the group that covers important topics within our Group Agreements.

  • Birthday celebrations. We celebrate birthdays in the group at our big group meeting.

  • Farewell dinners. We celebrate group members who are graduating or leaving the group.

  • Winter holiday party. This is often a joint party with the Ceder Group.

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The Persson Group in front of our office, Building 33 at Berkeley Lab. Photo taken March 2025.