This week, Sigbjørn Løland Bore is kicking off his research stay at CAS, where he and his team aim to develop a machine learning model that can represent the intricate physics of ice from first principles.
2023/2025
Can Ice Be Described from First Principles?
Can Ice Be Described from First Principles?
Natural Sciences
Principal investigators
Sigbjørn Løland Bore
Researcher
University of Oslo (UiO)
Year at CAS
Research Area
Chemistry
/
Physics
Abstract
Ice plays a crucial role on Earth, from its presence in the polar regions to its impact on global climate and sea levels. First principle calculations, which use fundamental principles of physics to model the behavior of atoms and molecules, are commonly used to study ice. However, these calculations do not accurately predict the temperatures and pressures at which ice melts. In this project, I will develop new empirical corrections to first principle calculations, which aim to bridge the gap between what is experimentally known about ice and what is theoretically predicted. This will enable reliable computational microscopy of ice under conditions inaccessible by experiments.
Fellows
Affiliated researchers
Jurgen
Gauß
Professor
Universität Mainz
Anders
Johansson
PhD
Sandia National Laboratories
News
Meet Sigbjørn Løland Bore, one of the two Young CAS PIs for August 2023 to June 2025! Bore, a postdoctoral associate at the University of Oslo, will lead the Young CAS project ‘Can Ice be Described from First Principles?’.