Department of Chemistry, January 2006
POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS
THEORETICAL CHEMICAL PHYSICS
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RESEARCH
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Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine
One year with a possible extension to a second year
Ph.D. required, Annual Salary Depends Upon Qualifications Starting at $31,668
Three positions are available in the following areas:
(A) 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.
(B) 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.
TO APPLY:
(C) Computational Biophysics.
Simulation of multidimensional femtosecond spectroscopic probes of protein folding. Design of
novel optical pulse sequences in analogy with NMR; Single-molecule spectroscopy.
Send a curriculum vitae, publication list and arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent to:
Professor Shaul Mukamel
Telephone: (949) 824-7600
Department of Chemistry
Fax:
(949) 824-4759
University of California, Irvine
Email:
smukamel@uci.edu
Irvine, CA 92697-2025
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 DensityFunctional-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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