SIGNIFICANT EVENTS - SCIENCE EVENTS
02/15/02
Fundamental Physics Researcher Wins Prize from APS
The American Physical Society annually awards the Aneesur Rahman prize to recognize
and encourage outstanding achievement in computational physics research. The 2002
recipient is David Landau of the University of Georgia, an investigator in the Fundamental
Physics program. The citation for the award reads as follows:
The APS web site for this announcement is at http://www.aps.org/praw/rahman/index.html.
"For the development of accurate Monte Carlo sampling and Renormalization Group Techniques,
the study of the kinetics of aggregation and gelation in polymer systems, and for numerous
contributions to the development and application of molecular dynamics and kinetic Monte
Carlo methods."
Landau, who is director of the Center for Simulational Physics at the University of
Georgia, was also recently selected as a Senior Teaching Fellow (for excellence in
teaching) by the University of Georgia. As well, his vita shows earlier awards for
his experimental research.
