Current Visitors

Dr. Joao Plascak Ph.D., Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil).
Topics: phase transition and critical phenomena in classical spin system
e-mail:pla@fisica.ufmg.br

Recent Visitors

Farid Abraham
Almaden Research Center
2004 - 2006 Graham Perdue Visiting Faculty
Nilton Branco Ph.D., Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil) 1988.
Topics: classical and quantum spin systems
Last visit 2000-2001.
Matthias Exler Dipl.-Phys. 2002, Universität Osnabrück (Germany).
Quantum spin systems, Magnetic macromolecules.
Graduate student visitor: Oct. 2002 - Feb. 2003
Rodrigo Freire Graduate student visitor:  Feb. 2004 - Mar. 2005
Ken Kansky
Athens Academy - Summers 2004 - 2006
Ying Wai Li CSP visitor from Hong Kong: Jun. - Aug. 2006, Feb. 2007
email: ywli@hal.physast.uga.edu
Andrey Milchev Ph.D., Leipzig (Germany) 1978, Habilitation Sofia (Bulgaria) 1992.
Polymer Dynamics, Diffusion, disorded systems, glasses and amorphous materials.
e-mail: milchev@physast.uga.edu
Spring semester 2003: Lecturer Physics 1211.
regular short-time visitor during Summers 1990 - 2001
Dr. Nasir M. Mirza Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Science, Islamabad (Pakistan).
Computational physics and Neutron transport studies in hetergeneous systems
e-mail: nasir@physast.uga.edu
Last visit: January - December 2002.
Laura Nurminen M.Sc., Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.
Atomic level modelling of structure and growth of materials, Kinetic Monte Carlo simulation of epitaxial growth.
e-mail: lnurmine@lce.hut.fi
Graduate student visitor: Jan. 2003 - Feb. 2003
Dr. Joao Plascak Ph.D., Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil).
Topics: phase transition and critical phenomena in classical spin system
e-mail:pla@fisica.ufmg.br
Last visit: Nov. 2004 - Jan. 2005, Nov. 2005 - Jan. 2006
Yusuke Tomita M.Sc., Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan 1999.
Computational physics, Monte-Carlo simulations of Ising, XY and Potts spin models.
e-mail: ytomita@phys.metro-u.ac.jp.
Last visit: January-March 2002.
Stefan Torbruegge Wang-Landau Sampling in the 3-dimensional Heisenberg Model
Last visit:August-December 2003

Former Members and PostDocs

Dorjsuren Battogtokh Ph.D., Moscow State University (Russia) 1997.
Computational Biophysics.
Postdoc: Nov. 2000 - Nov. 2002, now at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg/VA.
Luigi Cannavacciuolo Ph.D. ETH Zürich (Swiss) 2000.
Computer simulations in soft condensed matter.
Associated with Prof. David Landau.
Hwee Kuan Lee Ph. D. Carnegie Mellon University, 2001.
Theoretical condensed matter physics with lattice spin systems.
Associated with Prof. David Landau .
Eric Lentz Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, 2000.
Computational Astrophysics.
Associated with the PHOENIX group .
Steven Mitchell Ph.D., Florida State University, 2001.
Computational and Theoretical Physics
Associated with Prof. David Landau .
Postdoc:  2004 - 2006
Kwangsik Nho Ph. D., Florida State University, 2001.
Path integral Monte Carlo simulations and spin dynamics.
Associated with Prof. David Landau .
Michael V. Pykhtin
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1999.
Associated with Prof. Steven Lewis.
Postdoc:  March 1999 - July 2000
Andreas Schweitzer Dr. rer. nat., University of Heidelberg (Germany) 1999.
Computation and analysis of atmospheres of very cool stellar objects, brown dwarfs amd extrasolar giant planets.
Still associated with the PHOENIX group .
Postdoc: 2000 - Aug. 2002, now at Sternwarte Hamburg, Hamburg/Germany.
Xiuping Tao Ph.D. 2005
David Landau
Jianguo Wang Ph.D.
Molecular physics.
Associated with the Stancil group .
Philippe F. Weck Ph. D., University of Metz (France) 2001.
Computational molecular physics for astrophysics, photodissociation, (e, 2e) collisions.
Associated with the Stancil group .
Andreas Voigt Dr.rer.nat., Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg (Germany) 1999.
Strongly correlated electron systems, magnetic order and frustration in quantum spin systems.
Associated with Prof. Heinz-Bernd Schüttler
Xiaoliang Zhu Ph.D. 2005
David Landau


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