 Professor of Physics, Department of Physics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND Ph.D., Cornell University, 1976. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Professor Ceperley received his BS in physics from the in 1971 and his Ph.D. in physics from Cornell University in 1976. After two years of postdoctoral work at Rutgers University, he worked as a staff scientist at both Lawrence Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories. In 1987, he joined the Department of Physics at Illinois. Professor Ceperley is also the applications coordinator and a staff scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at NCSA. Professor Ceperley's work can be broadly classified into technical contributions to quantum Monte Carlo methods and contributions to our physical or formal understanding of quantum many-body systems. His most important contribution is his calculation of the energy of the electron gas, providing basic input for most numerical calculations of electronic structure. He was one of the pioneers in the development and application of path integral Monte Carlo methods for quantum systems at finite temperature, such as superfluid helium and hydrogen under extreme conditions.
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