Thrity Umrigar

Person · Open Library

Works

52

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

16

Total plays

104

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Optimized trial wave functions for quantum Monte Carlo calculations

   · 1988 · cited 598x

2. A diffusion Monte Carlo algorithm with very small time-step errors

   · 1993 · cited 485x

3. Heat-Bath Configuration Interaction: An Efficient Selected Configuration Interaction Algorithm Inspired by Heat-Bath Sampling

   · 2016 · cited 451x

4. Alleviation of the Fermion-Sign Problem by Optimization of Many-Body Wave Functions

   · 2007 · cited 448x

5. Accurate exchange-correlation potentials and total-energy components for the helium isoelectronic series

   · 1994 · cited 362x

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Quotes

• “Writing was my way to make sense of the world outside and inside my home. Despite the recollections of the adults in my life, I don't think I was a terribly articulate child. Writing was a way to give wings to the inchoate emotions and feelings inside of me.”
• “I always share this advice with my writing students: Tell the story of one person so deeply and completely, that in the act of going deep into that one person, something magical happens, and it becomes a universal story.”
• “We often hear all this rhetoric of “spare the rod and spoil the child,” discipline and punishment, and I just don’t believe in that. In all my years I haven’t come across an adult who, because they got an excess of love as a child, grew up to be a not-so-nice person. In fact, I believe exactly the opposite is true. And this isn’t rocket science, but I think that parents for understandable reasons sometimes forget that…”

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