James B. Anderson

Evan Pugh Professor

Office Address:

               Department of Chemistry
               104 Chemistry Building
               The Pennsylvania State University
               University Park, PA  16802

               Telephone:  (814) 865-3933
               FAX:  (814) 865-3314
               email:  jba@psu.edu

 

 

Professional Experience:

1974 - present            

               Associate Professor/Professor/Evan Pugh Professor
               Department of Chemistry
               The Pennsylvania State University

2002 – present          

               Evan Pugh Professor
               Department of Physics
               The Pennsylvania State University

2001 – present          

               Director, Consortium for Education in Many-Body Applications

1968 - 74                     

               Associate Professor
               Department of Engineering and Applied Science
               Yale University

1964 - 68                     

               Assistant Professor
               Department of Chemical Engineering
               Princeton University

1964                             

               Visiting Lecturer (part-time)
               Department of Chemical Engineering
               Rutgers University

1963 - 64                     

               Postdoctoral Research Associate
               Department of Chemical Engineering
               Princeton, New Jersey

1958 - 60                     

               Petrochemical Research & Development Engineer
               Shell Chemical Company
               Deer Park, Texas

Education:

               The Pennsylvania State University,  1953 - 57
               B.S., Chemical Engineering, 1957

               University of Illinois, 1957 - 58
               Major Professor:  Max S. Peters
               Thesis:  Kinetics of the Aldol Condensation
               M.S., Chemical Engineering, 1958

               Princeton University, 1960 - 63
               Major Professor:  Michel Boudart
               Thesis:  Sticking Probability of Oxygen on Germanium
               M.A., Chemical Engineering, 1962
               Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, 1963

Professional Society Membership:

               American Chemical Society
               American Physical Society
               American Association for the Advancement of Science

Consulting:

               Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
               Sandia National Laboratory
               Exxon Research and Engineering Company
               Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

Honors:

               Bausch and Lomb Award
               Evan Pugh Medal (Silver)
               Evan Pugh Medal (Gold)
               National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
               Fellow of the American Physical Society
               Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
               Faculty Scholar Medal
               Senior Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn, Germany

Visiting Professorships:

               Visiting Professor
               Department of Theoretical and Organic Chemistry
               Cambridge University
               Cambridge, England
               January - June, 1985

               Visiting Professor
               Department of Chemistry
               University of Milan
               Milan, Italy
               October, 1992

               Visiting Professor
               Department of Physics
               University of Kaiserslautern
               Kaiserslautern, Germany
               January - July, 1994

               Visiting Professor
               Department of Chemistry
               Göttingen, Germany
               Summer, 1995
              
               Visiting Professor
               Department of Physical Chemistry
               Free University of Berlin
               Berlin, Germany
               Fall, 2000

Conferences Organized:

               Fifth Annual Conference on New Methods in Electronic Structure
               Penn State University
               May, 1993

               Monte Carlo Methods for Electronic Structure
               Session of PacificChem Meeting
               Honolulu, Hawaii
               December, 1995

               Monte Carlo Methods for Electronic Structure
               Session of PacificChem Meeting
               Honolulu, Hawaii
               December, 2000

               Quantum Monte Carlo
               American Chemical Society National Meeting
               New York, New York
               September, 2003

               Organizer, QMC Sessions
               Pacifichem 2005
               International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basis Societies
              Honolulu   December 2005
              Title: "Advances in Quantum Monte Carlo Methods"