U.S.-Denmark Cooperative Research in Solid State Physics

该奖项支持教授詹姆斯P. Sethna和成员 他在康奈尔大学的研究小组合作， 应用物理研究与教授卡斯滕W。Jacobsen 和Jens Norskov，应用物理实验室，技术 丹麦林比丹麦大学。 在这个丹麦 实验室，主要的理论和实验工作是 正在探索离子和分子散射， 表面。 Sethna教授正在开发一种互动的， 研究分子动力学和散射的模块系统 在表面上。 与他在丹麦的东道主一起， Sethna将他的分子动力学软件包概括为 在丹麦的新实验系统中很有用 实验室 此外，他还在开发一个用户界面， 用于电子结构计算。 这个领域 丹麦集团也相当积极， 将是富有成效和互惠互利的。 塞斯纳医生会 还与教授约翰赫兹，艾伦路德和 Nordita（北欧理论研究所） 物理学，位于哥本哈根）的各种主题， 凝聚态理论，包括临界现象， 无序的玻璃状体系。 Sethna教授过去几年的研究 主要在液晶和玻璃化转变领域。 他的休假研究计划将扩展他的工作 更积极地进入表面现象。 加强和 他希望在2008年完成的经过实验室测试的软件程序 与丹麦合作伙伴的伙伴关系将有广泛的 应用于各种实验室环境。

This award supports Professor James P. Sethna and members of his research group at Cornell University to collaborate in applied physics research with Professors Karsten W. Jacobsen and Jens Norskov, Laboratory of Applied Physics, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark. In this Danish laboratory, major theoretical and experimental efforts are being pursued to explore ion and molecular scattering at surfaces. Professor Sethna is developing an interactive, modular system for studying molecular dynamics and scattering on surfaces. Together with his hosts in Denmark, Professor Sethna will generalize his molecular dynamics package to be useful in the new experimental systems at the Danish laboratory. In addition, he is working on a user interface for electronic structure calculations. This is an area where the Danish group is also quite active, and where joint effort will be productive and mutually beneficial. Dr. Sethna will also collaborate with Professors John Hertz, Alan Luther and others at Nordita (The Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, located in Copenhagen) on a variety of topics in condensed matter theory, including critical phenomena of disordered and glassy systems. Professor Sethna's research for the past few years has been primarily in the area of liquid crystals and glass transition. His research plans for his sabbatical will expand his work more actively into surface phenomena. The enhanced and bench tested software programs he hopes to complete in partnership with Danish collaborators will have wide applications in a variety of laboratory settings.