Recent highlights of research conducted in our group:

Dynamical Mean-Field Theory within an Augmented Plane-Wave Framework: Assessing Electronic Correlations in the Iron Pnictide LaFeAsO (2009)
Cooling fermionic atoms in optical lattices by shaping the confinement (2009)
Trapping and cooling fermionic atoms into the Mott and Neel states (posted 2008)
Controlling Luttinger liquid physics in weakly coupled ladders under magnetic field (posted 2008)
Optical Properties of Correlated Materials or Why Intelligent Windows may look Dirty (2008)
Bandwidth and Fermi surface of Iron-Oxypnictides: covalency and sensitivity to structural changes (posted 2008)
Multiplets Matter: The Electronic Structure of Rare-Earth Semiconductors and Semimetals (posted 2008)
Quench Dynamics and Nonequilibrium Phase Diagram of the Bose-Hubbard Model (posted 2007)
Cold atom microscope (posted 2007), see as well 'Microscope could scan optical lattices' in PhysicsWeb.org
Wannier functions and flexible implementation of DMFT within electronic structure codes (posted 2006)
Interaction-Induced Adiabatic Cooling and Antiferromagnetism of Cold Fermions in Optical Lattices(posted 2005)
Interorbital charge transfers as the driving force for the metal-insulator transition of BaVS_3 (posted 2005)
When Mott meets Peierls: the Metal-Insulator Transition in Vanadium Dioxide(posted 2004)

 Honours and distinctions:

2009: Thesis Price of Ecole Polytechnique awarded to Lam Dao for his PhD thesis "Strongly-correlated ultracold atoms in optical lattices" under the direction of A. Georges
2009: Hertha-Sponer Prize of the German Physical Society awarded to C. Kollath
2008: Thesis Price of Ecole Polytechnique awarded to Jan M. Tomczak for his PhD thesis "Spectral and Optical Properties of Correlated Materials" under the direction of S. Biermann
2007: Silver Medal of CNRS-France awarded to A. Georges
2006: A.Georges, G.Kotliar, W.Metzner and D.Vollhardt have been awarded the: Agilent Technologies-Europhysics Prize `for the development and application of Dynamical Mean-Field Theory'
2004: Dargelos prize of the society of alumni of Ecole Polytechnique awarded to A.Georges (jointly with climatologist H. Le Treut)