Robert Swendsen
Robert Haakon Swendsen (born April 4, 1943 in New York City ) is an American physicist who deals with computer physics.
Swendsen studied at Yale University with a bachelor's degree in 1964 and at the University of Pennsylvania , where he received his doctorate in physics in 1971. As a post-doctoral student he was an assistant at the University of Cologne from 1971 to 1973 , from 1974 to 1976 at the Jülich nuclear research facility and from 1976 to 1979 at the Brookhaven National Laboratory . From 1979 to 1984 he was at the IBM research center near Zurich. Since 1984 he has been a professor at Carnegie Mellon University , where he headed the physics faculty from 1994 to 1999.
Swendsen deals with computer simulations in solid state physics, phase transitions, magnetism, crystal growth and biological macromolecules. At the end of the 1970s, he developed several other Monte Carlo renormalization group processes at the same time (originally proposed by S.-k. Ma in 1976). With Alan Ferrenberg he developed a multiple histogram method for Monte Carlo simulations, for example of biomolecules, and with Jian-Sheng Wang the Swendsen-Wang algorithm (1987) for Monte Carlo simulations of the Ising model (a cluster algorithm in the framework of the MCMC procedure ).
In 2014 he received the Aneesur Rahman Prize . In 1983 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society .
Fonts
- Monte Carlo Renormalization Group, in Zinn-Justin, M. Levy, Le Guillou Phase Transitions. Cargèse 1980 , Plenum Press 1982, 395-422
- with Shankar Kumar, John M. Rosenberg, Djamal Bouzida, Peter A. Kollman The weighted histogram analysis method for free-energy calculations on biomolecules I , J. of Computational Chemistry, 13, 1992, 1011-1021
- with Alan Ferrenberg New Monte Carlo technique for studying phase transitions , Physical Review Letters 61, 1988, p. 2635
- with Ferrenberg Optimizd Monte Carlo Data Analysis , Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 1989, 1195
- Monte Carlo Calculation of Renormalized Coupling Parameters , Physical Review Letters 52, 1984, p. 1165
- with G. Pawley, D. Wallace, K. Wilson , Monte Carlo renormalization-group calculations of critical behavior in the simple-cubic Ising model , Physical Review B 29, 1984, p. 4030
- with David P. Landau , Monte Carlo renormalization-group study of tricritical behavior in two dimensions , Physical Review B 33, 1986, 7700
- Dynamics of random sequential adsorption , Physical Review A 24, 1981, p. 504
- Monte Carlo Renormalization Group , Physical Review Letters 42, 1979, p. 859
- with Jian-Sheng Wang, Nonuniversal critical dynamics in Monte Carlo simulations , Physical Review Letters 58, 1987, p. 86
- with Jian-Sheng Wang Replica Monte Carlo Simulations of Spin-Glasses , Phys. Rev. Lett., 57, 1986, p. 2607
- with PJ Kortman, DP Landau, Heiner Müller-Krumbhaar Spiral growth of crystals: Simulations on a stochastic model , J. Crystal Growth, 35, 1976, 73
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science Thomson Gale 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Swendsen, Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Swendsen, Robert Haakon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |