The unreasonable accuracy of asymptotic expansions: Why density functional theory works ORAL Abstract I will discuss why local and semilocal approximations work as well as they do (and why they fail where they fail). March 17, 2010, 9:00 AM – March 17, 2010, 9:12 AM Authors Kieron Burke University of California, Irvine Attila Cangi University of California, Irvine Donghyung Lee University of California, Irvine Peter Elliott University of California, Irvine