Postdoctoral Researcher
Laboratoire de Mathématiques d'Orsay
Équipe: Analyse Numérique et Equations aux Dérivées Partielles
Université Paris-Saclay

Postdoc Supervisor: Antoine Levitt
PhD Supervisor: Prof. Christoph Ortner

Research interests: Mathematical analysis of electronic structure models in materials science and quantum chemistry

Papers & Preprints:
  1. Christoph Ortner, Jack Thomas, and Huajie Chen. Locality of interatomic forces in tight binding models for insulators. ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis, 54(6): 2295-2318 (2020). [doiLink opens in a new window | arXivLink opens in a new window | abstract | posterLink opens in a new window].
  2. Christoph Ortner and Jack Thomas. Point defects in tight binding models for insulators. Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences, 30(14): 2753-2797 (2020). [doiLink opens in a new window | arXivLink opens in a new window | abstract].
  3. Jack Thomas. Locality of interatomic interactions in self-consistent tight binding models. Journal of Nonlinear Science, 30(6): 3293-3319 (2020). [doiLink opens in a new window | arXivLink opens in a new window | abstract].
  4. Jack Thomas, Huajie Chen, and Christoph Ortner. Body-ordered approximations of atomic properties. Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 246(1): 1-60 (2022). [doiLink opens in a new window | arXivLink opens in a new window | abstract].
  5. Markus Bachmayr, Geneviève Dusson, Christoph Ortner, and Jack Thomas. Polynomial approximation of symmetric functions. Mathematics of Computation, 93(346): 811-839 (2024). [doiLink opens in a new window | arXivLink opens in a new window | abstract].
  6. Jack Thomas, William J. Baldwin, Gábor Csányi, and Christoph Ortner. Self-consistent Coulomb interactions for machine learning interatomic potentials. arXiv e-prints 2406.10915. [arXivLink opens in a new window | abstract].

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Research Experience:
  • Dec 2022 - Present: Postdoctoral Researcher, Laboratoire de Mathématiques d'Orsay, Université Paris-Saclay
    • Supervised by Antoine Levitt
  • Oct 2021 - Sept 2022: Research Fellow, Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick
    • EPSRC Mathematical Sciences Research Associate scheme
    • Supervised by Christoph Ortner
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