Computational Physics

Institute of Physics

Tampere University of Technology

P.O. Box 692 , FIN-33101 Tampere, Finland

• Explaining the physics behind an experimental result.
• Studying properties of materials that are for example hard to produce experimentally.
• Solving problems that are impossible to solve analytically.

• Determination of surface structure and reconstruction of surfaces of e.g. catalytic materials.
• Knowledge of fundamentals behind the dynamics, absorption and adsorption of molecules on catalytic surfaces.
• Knowledge of electronic structures of e.g. high-T_c superconductors via interpretation of experimental photoemission results using high precision supercell calculations.
• Concentration and stress dependence of the linear optical properties of semiconductor alloys.

• Institute of Advanced Computing, TUT, Tampere, Finland.
• Advanced Scientific Computation Center, NEU, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
• Center for Scientific Computing, Helsinki, Finland.

• Prof. Arun Bansil, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
• Prof. Renee D. Diehl, Penn State University, PA, U.S.A.
• Prof. Stanislaw Kaprzyk, Academy of Metallurgy and Mining, Krakow, Poland.
• Dr. Karina Morgenstern, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
• Prof. John Pethica, Oxford University, England, UK.
• Prof. Karl-Heinz Rieder, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

• Statistical Physics
• Classical Mechanics
• Quantum Mechanics I
• J.M. Ziman: Elements of Advanced Quantum Theory
• Laboratory Works on Computational Physics