Widom Research Group
Department of Physics
Carnegie Mellon University
Current and Recent Projects
- Metal alloys
- Atomistic modeling and statistical mechanics of
quasicrystals, metal alloys with noncrystalline quasiperiodic structures of
high symmetry (description)
- Structure, formation and properties of bulk metallic
glass-forming alloys
(sample publication)
-
Intermetallic structures and their enthalpies of formation
(cohesive energy database)
- Biological Physics
- Buckling instability of viral capsids
(reprint)
- Normal mode analysis of spherical and icosahedral shells
(description, reprint)
- Secondary structure of RNA
(description)
People
Ben Sauerwine
(Graduate Student)
Marek Mihalkovic (Visiting Scientist, Slovakia)
Ganesh Panchapakesan (Former Graduate Student, now at Carnegie Institution of Washington, DC)
Yang Wang (Research Scientist,
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center)
Michael Gao (National Energy Technology Lab)
Michael
Widom (Professor) (CV, publications)
and many more
Publications (full listing)
Teaching
33-759 Theoretical Physics (Fall 2009)
33-448 Solid State Physics (Spring 2010)