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HONORS AND AWARDS
UCD Chancellor's Outstanding Undergraduate Mentor Award, 2009 Elected Fellow, American Physical Society, 2004 EMPLOYMENT/EDUCATION HISTORY Vice Chairman, Physics Department, University of California, Davis: 2009-2011. Project Coordinator, DOE Computational Materials Science Network: 2006-2009 "Mott Transition in MnO, Multielectron Magnetic Moments, and Dynamic Effects in Correlated Materials" Project Coordinator, DOE Computational Materials Science Network: 2003-2006 "Predictive Capability for Strongly Correlated Electron Materials" Vice Chairman, Physics Department, University of California, Davis: 1998-2003. Professor of Physics, University of California, Davis: 1997-present. Associate Professor of Physics, University of California, Davis: 1993-1997. Assistant Professor of Physics, University of California, Davis: 1989-1993. Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: 1988-1989. Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1987-88. Ph.D., Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1986. B.S., Physics and Mathematics, University of California, Irvine, 1982. |
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| GENERAL RESEARCH INTERESTS: THEORETICAL CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS My research interests are in the study of phases and phase transitions in strongly interacting quantum systems, including magnetism, metal-insulator transitions, and superconductivity. I am currently working on the volume collapse transition in Cerium, antiferromagnetism and Mott insulators in transition metal monoxides, optically trapped atoms, as well as related phenomena in model Hamiltonians. The methodology I most commonly employ in these studies is Quantum Monte Carlo. I am interested in developing algorithms for doing these simulations more effectively. My research is supported by the Department of Energy and the DARPA OLE Program. |
MURPPS UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROGRAM
I am the chairman of the executive committee of a program which provides undergraduates the opportunity to work one-on-one with UC Davis
faculty to do research. Go to this link for more information:
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DOE COMPUTATIONAL MATERIAL SCIENCE NETWORK
With Warren Pickett, I lead a group of researchers looking at
computational studies of materials with strong electron-electron
interactions.
2003-2006 Computational Research Team: Predictive Capability
for Strongly Correlated Electron Materials
2006-2009 Computational Research Team: Predictive Capability
for Strongly Correlated Electron Materials
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