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OUR BOOK Amazon.
Enter "potential distribution theorem" and it is the first link.
Theoretical and Computational Chemistry:
- Theory of liquids.
- Statistical mechanics.
- Theory and modeling of ion channels.
- Quantum simulation methods.
- Path integrals in statistical mechanics.
- Large-scale electrostatics and electronic structure with
multiscale (multigrid) techniques.
- Quantum Transport in Molecular Devices.
- Computer simulations of liquid surfaces relevant to liquid chromatography.
- Polyelectrolyte solutions.
- Theory, modeling, and development of selective membranes for ion
separation.
Old Group Photo. Left to right, Anping Liu,
Nimal Wijesekera, Uma Mahankali, Guogang Feng, Nobu Matsuno,
Jason Clohecy, Tom Beck. See General info below for description
of group member research interests.
Multigrid Group Photo. In back, Guogang
Feng, Karlis Mikelsons, Nimal Wijesekera.
Channels Group Photo. Left to right,
Anping Liu (Director of Molecular Modeling), Nobu Matsuno, TB, Uma
Mahankali, Zhifeng Kuang, Jason Clohecy, Jian Yin.
Group Party 2004.
Group photo 2006: Phil Durham, Roman Petrenko, David Rogers, Zhifeng Kuang,
TLB, Uma Mahankali, Guogang Feng, Manori Jayasinghe, Anping Liu (Director
of Molecular Modeling). Nimal Wijesekera was visiting family in Sri Lanka
at the time of the photo. The photo was taken is a dusky office at UC
and was then magically transformed to this form by David Rogers.
Group photo 2006. A photo of my first student
working on multigrid methods is here:
Mike Merrick. He got the ball rolling
in that research area!
Here is a photo of my family.
Here is a photo of the Cincinnati Dancing
Pigs. TLB is second from left.
CTM Center for Transport and Membranes.
MURI/DoD/Army funded center studying biological/synthetic
membranes for selective/active transport.
TLB is a co-author on a new statistical mechanics book, "The Potential
Distribution Theorem and Models of Molecular Solutions,"
with Michael Paulaitis and Lawrence Pratt. It presents a new
theory of liquids based on the chemical potential, and is
published by Cambridge University Press. There are many applications
to biophysical problems in the book: ion solvation, Flory-Huggins theory,
free energy calculations, and hydrophobic effects are examples.
It is available
on Amazon.com for a huge sum, but it should be out in
paperback shortly. It should be published in April, 2006.
Links
Last updated Feb. 1, 2008. 
Life story of TLB.
