Faculty Members
Professor Paul Brumer: Theoretical chemical physics. Laser and coherent control of atomic and molecular processes, light-matter interactions, nonlinear dynamics and chaos, theoretical molecular spectroscopy, classical-quantum correspondence, semiclassical mechanics.
Professor Simon Fraser: Theoretical chemical physics. The kinetics of biochemical systems, stochastic differential equations (particularly those showing anomalous relaxation and fractal attractors), and cellular automata.
Professor Raymond Kapral: Theoretical chemical physics. Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, theory and simulations of classical and quantum rate processes, condensed phase and cluster reactions, stochastic theory of reacting systems, nonlinear dynamics, chemical waves and pattern formation.
Professor Jeremy Schofield: Theoretical chemical physics. Statistical mechanics of simple and complex fluids and glasses, structure and dynamics of biomolecular systems, biophysics.
Professor John Valleau: Theoretical chemical physics. Statistical mechanics, particularly of dense systems at equilibrium: fluids, surfaces, phase transitions and critical behavior, polyelectrolytes; with a special focus on novel Monte Carlo methods for such problems.
Professor Stuart Whittington: Theoretical chemical physics. Rigorous statistical mechanics of lattice systems, especially lattice models of polymers. Topological and combinatorial problems in statistical mechanics. Random knotting and linking. Monte Carlo methods.