Department of Chemistry, January 2006


POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS

THEORETICAL CHEMICAL PHYSICS


LOCATION:

Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine

DURATION:

One year with a possible extension to a second year

SALARY:

Ph.D. required, Annual Salary Depends Upon Qualifications Starting at $31,668

RESEARCH

TOPICS:

Three positions are available in the following areas:


  1. Many-body theory of nonlinear response.

Developing time-dependent density functional and nonequilibrium Green Function techniques for the electrodynamics of molecular and semiconductor nanostructures, STM currents, and ultrafast coherent optical and x ray nonlinear spectroscopy. Fluctuation theorems and fluctuation-dissipation relations in non-equilibrium steady states.


  1. Computational Quantum Chemistry.

Developing time-dependent density matrix/density functional algorithms and codes for electronic excited states and ultrafast nonlinear spectra of molecular nanostructures and chromophore aggregates.


  1. Computational Biophysics.

Simulation of multidimensional femtosecond spectroscopic probes of protein folding. Design of novel optical pulse sequences in analogy with NMR; Single-molecule spectroscopy.

TO APPLY:

Send a curriculum vitae, publication list and arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent to:

Professor Shaul Mukamel

Department of Chemistry

University of California, Irvine

Irvine, CA 92697-2025

Telephone: (949) 824-7600

Fax: (949) 824-4759

Email: smukamel@uci.edu

Website: http://mukamel.ps.uci.edu


References:

  1. "Density Matrix Analysis and Simulation of Electronic Excitations in Conjugated and Aggregated Molecules,” S. Tretiak, and S. Mukamel, Chem. Rev. 102, 3171-3212 (2002).

  2. “Many-Body Approaches for Simulating Coherent Nonlinear Spectroscopies of Electronic and Vibrational Excitons,” D. Abramavicius and S. Mukamel, Chem. Rev., 104, 2073-2098 (2004).

  3. “Intermolecular Forces and Non-Bonded Interactions: Superoperator Nonlinear Time-Dependent Density-Functional-Theory Response Approach,” U. Harbola, and S. Mukamel, Phys. Rev. A.,70,052506 (2004).

  4. "Dissecting coherent vibrational spectra of small proteins into secondary structural elements by sensitivity analysis," W. Zhuang, D. Abramavicius , and S. Mukamel, PNAS 102(21) 7443 (2005).

  5. ``Quantum Extension of the Jarzynski Relation: Analogy with Stochastic Dephasing'' S. Mukamel, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 170604-1-4, (2003).

  6. ``Quasiparticle Density Matrix Representation of Nonlinear TDDFT Response'' O. Berman and S. Mukamel, Phy. Rev. A. 67, 042503 (2003).

  7. ``Resonant Enhancement and Dissipation in Nonequilibrium van der Waals forces'', A. E. Cohen and S. Mukamel, Phys. Rev. Lett, 91, 23, 233202 (2003).

  8. ``Chirality-induced signals in coherent multidimensional spectroscopy of excitons,'' D. Abramavicius and S. Mukamel, J. Chem. Phys. 123, 1, (2005).

  9. ``Multiple Core-Hole Coherence in X-Ray Four-Wave-Mixing-Spectroscopies,'' S. Mukamel, Phys. Rev. B 72, 235110 (2005).



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