Group members

Current group members:

• Anton Smessaert, PhD student (anton at phas.ubc.ca), since Jan 2011
  "Physics and Mechanics of amorphous solids"
• Shahzad Ghanbarian, PhD student (shahzadg at phas.ubc.ca), since Sept 2009
  "Like-charge attraction and nonlocal dielectric response"
• Liam Huber, MSc student (liam.huber@gmail.com), since Sept 2009
  "Density functional theory calculations in Magnesium" (jointly with Prof. M. Militzer, Materials Engineering)
• Matthew Badali, MSc student (badali14 at hotmail.com), since Sept 2010
  "Atomistic studies of ion solvation in water" (jointly with Prof. M. Berciu) 
• Amanda Parker, MSc student (parkeram at phas.ubc.ca), since Sept 2011
  "Polmer/Rubber nanocomposites"
  
  
• Joel Berry, Postdoctoral Fellow, since Jan 2012 (based at McMaster University, jointly with Prof. Nikolas Provatas)
  "Phase field crystal modeling of microstructure evolution"

• David Thompson, MSc thesis (Sept 2005-Aug 2007):
  "The Local Coulombic Monte Carlo Algorithm: Applications to the electric double layer"
• Aleksy Jones, MSc thesis (Sept 2006-Aug 2008, jointly with Prof. Tom Tiedje):
  "Kineticall determined surface topology during epitaxial growth"
• Bruce Krayenhoff, MSc thesis  (Jan 2007-Mar 2009):
  "Nonlocal dielectric effects on the dielectric barrier of an ion channel"
• Alex Morriss-Andrews. MSc student (Sept 2007-Aug 2009, jointly with Prof. Steven Plotkin)
  "Coarse grained modeling of DNA using ellipsoids"
• Mya Warren, PhD thesis (Jan 2006 - Dec 2009).
  "Aging and memory in glassy materials"
• Amy Liu, MSc thesis, (Jan 2008 - Dec 2009):
  "Physical aging in polymer glasses and nanocomposites"
  
  
  Undergraduate Students:
  
  
  
• Yi Wei, UG Honour's thesis (Sept 2008-April 2009):
  "Atomistic simulations of the iron-carbon system"
  
• Simon Hastings, UG Honour's thesis (Sept 2007-April 2008):
  "Atomistic simulations of physical aging in polyethylene"
  
• Amy Liu, UG Honour's thesis (Sept 2006-April 2007):
  "Phase field models for disordered solids"
• Scott Yang, UG Honour's thesis (Sept 2005-April 2006):
  "Molecular dynamics simulations of the force-extension relation in simple models of semiflexible biopolymers"
• Alex Shyr, UG Honour's thesis (Sept 2005-April 2006):
  "Simulating effects of shearing on the Ordering of bilayer systems"