Anthony Novaco : B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Stevens Institute of Technology.

My area of research is the theory of condensed matter, that is the study of the liquid and solid phases of materials. This work includes the computer simulation of these condensed phases and the corresponding phase transitions. Of particular interest to me are those states which are associated with monolayer films of either atoms or simple molecules of one type which are adsorbed on the crystalline surface of another. A related problem of some interest to me is the reconstruction of the surfaces of noble metals. My area of interest is often referred to as material science.

The systems described above are predominantly two-dimensional (rather than three-dimensional) and because of this they often show rather interesting and uncommon phenomena not found in the corresponding bulk phases. The problems of major interest to me are those which involve the structure of the phases of these systems and the nature of the phase transitions between these structures.

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The work  I have done has been funded by research grants from the the National Science Foundation, the Petroleum Research Fund, and the Research Corporation. To foster the kind of interaction between theory and experiment needed for a healthy research program, I maintain contacts with experimental groups at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Exxon Corporate Research Center, the Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Washington at Seattle. Students have been involved with  my research on a number of occasions in the past, and I have supervised recent honors theses on computer simulations of monolayer melting, adsorption of quantum solids, incommensurate structures on surfaces, and deterministic chaos.

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