David Ceperley
American theoretical physicist (born 1949) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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David Matthew Ceperley (born 1949) is a theoretical physicist in the physics department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign or UIUC. He is a world expert in the area of Quantum Monte Carlo computations, a method of calculation that is generally recognised to provide accurate quantitative results for many-body problems described by quantum mechanics.
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David M. Ceperley | |
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Born | (1949-01-01) January 1, 1949 (age 75) Charleston, West Virginia |
Nationality | American |
Title | Professor of Physics |
Awards | Fellow of the American Physical Society Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elected member of the National Academy of Sciences Eugene Feenberg Memorial Medal Aneesur Rahman Prize |
Academic background | |
Education | B.S., Physics & Mathematics (1971) Ph.D., Theoretical Physics (1976) |
Alma mater | University of Michigan Cornell University |
Doctoral advisor | Geoffrey Chester Malvin Kalos |
Other advisors | Joel Lebowitz Berni Alder John Bardeen Anthony Leggett |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Illinois |
Main interests | Quantum Monte Carlo |
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