Distinguished Research Professor of Physics,
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Georgia

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

A.B. in Physics, Princeton University, 1963
Ph.D. in Physics, Yale University, 1967

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Phase transitions and critical phenomena in magnets, alloys (including binary semiconductors), and equilibrium polymer systems. Emphasis is placed on high resolution simulations of static and dynamic properties of both bulk and surface properties using methods such as Monte Carlo, kinetic Monte Carlo, spin dynamics, and molecular dynamics. Developing new methodologies and scalable algorithms for parallel supercomputers.

HONORS

• Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, 1975
  
• Fellow, American Physical Society, 1976
  
• Creative Research Medal, University of Georgia, 1981
  
• Jesse W. Beams Award for Outstanding Research, American Physical Society S.E. Section, 1987
  
• Alexander von Humboldt Senior U.S. Scientist Award, 1988
  
• Senior Teaching Fellow, University of Georgia, 1993
  
• Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1999
  
• Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics, American Physical Society, 2002
  
• Lamar Dodd Creative Research Award, 2003
  
• Senior Guangbiao Distinguished Professor of Physics, Zhejiang University, 2004
  
• Fellow of the Institute of Science (London), 2004