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David Chandler
Professor of Chemistry
Bruce Mahan Professor
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Email: chandler@cchem.berkeley.edu
Office: 208 Gilman
Lab: Pitzer Center |
Phone: (510) 643-6821
Fax: (510) 643-1566
Lab Phone: (510) 643-7128 |
| Student / Post Doc Office: Rms 35, 37, 39 & 42 Gilman Hall, Pitzer Center |
Research Interests:
Physical Chemistry · Theoretical · Condensed Matter · Molecular
Structure and Dynamics -- Statistical
mechanics and quantum theory of many
body systems.
Professor Chandler's research in theoretical
chemistry is concerned with a variety
of phenomena in complex systems, especially
condensed matter. He has created the
basic and standard theories of liquid
structure. He has also developed
the statistical mechanical techniques
for analyzing chemical equilibrium and
chemical dynamics in liquids.
He and his students study both classical and quantum mechanical problems employing the methods of statistical mechanics to understand liquids, solutions and self-assembly. These methods include field theories, perturbation theories and numerical simulation. Exploiting analogies between various disciplines, his students learn the theories of polymers as well as electrons, and theories of solvation as well as chemical dynamics. They become facile with both analytical and numerical techniques.
Recent work in the Chandler group falls mainly into three areas: i. theory of hydrophobic effects at large length scales, ii. sampling pathways of rare but important events, and iii. theory of aging and the glass transition. The first is concerned with the driving force of self-assembly pertinent in biology and materials science. The second builds on his groups development of transition path sampling -- a statistical mechanics of trajectory space. The third considers dynamics and order-disorder phenomena in systems far from equilibrium.
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Biography:
David Chandler, born 1944; S.B., MIT (1966); Ph.D. Harvard (1969); Sloan Fellow (1972-1974); Guggenheim Fellow (1981-1982); Bourke Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry (1985); Hildebrand Award of the American Chemical Society (1989); 1996 ACS Award in Theoretical Chemistry; Miller Research Professor
(1991, 1999-2000); Directeur de Recherche, Laboratoire de Physique, Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon (1992); Hinshelwood Lecturer, Oxford University (1993); Hirschfelder Theoretical Chemistry Prize, University of Wisconsin (1998); Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award (1999); Mulliken Medal, University of Chicago (2000); Lennard-Jones Lectureship, Royal Society of Chemistry (2001); Schlumberger Visiting Professorship, Oxford University (2004); Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics,
American Physical Society (2005).
Fellow, American Association for Advancement of Science; Fellow, American Physical Society; Member, National Academy of Sciences; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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