Department of Physics - Dr. Peter Nightingale

University of Rhode Island Physics Department

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Department of Physics University of Rhode Island 2 Lippitt Road Kingston, RI 02881-0817 USA tel.: (401)874-2633/4 fax: (401)874-2380

01/14/08

Dr. Peter Nightingale

Professor

Education:
Ph. D., Amsterdam, 1978.

Research Interests:

Condensed Matter Theory
- Phase transitions and critical phenomena
- Critical dynamics
- Surface physics
- Van der Waals clusters
Computational Physics
- Classical Monte Carlo methods
- Quantum Monte Carlo methods
- Large-scale parallel computations
- Finite-size scaling
- Optimization
- Many-body interactions and invariants
Publications

Semester Schedule:

PHY 205: Elementary Physics III

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