Millard H. Alexander
Distinguished University Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Institute for Physical Science and Technology
University of Maryland, College Park
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts
1989-90: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Senior U.S. Scientist Award
1992: Kipping Visiting Lecturer, University of Nottingham, UK
1996: Hillebrand Award, Chemical Society of Washington, American Chemical Society
1996-7: Distinguished Faculty Research Award, University of Maryland
1997-8: Dr. Lee's Research Fellowship, Christ Church, Oxford, UK
1997-8: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
1999: Kirwan Faculty Research Prize, University of Maryland
2013: Fellowship, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Education
1964; A.B. (Magna cum Laude) Harvard College, Cambridge MA
1971-1973: Assistant Professor, Institute for Molecular Physics, University of
Maryland
1973-1975: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of
Maryland
1975-1979: Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of
Maryland
1979-1999: Professor, Department of Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland
1999-present: Distinguished University Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
and Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland
1980: Organizer, Symposium on Inelastic Molecular Collisions, American
Physical Society "March" Meeting, New York.
1983-1987: Member, Interational Advisory Committee, IXth,
Xth, and XIth Interational Symposia on Molecular Beams
1985: Chairman, Nominating Committee, Subdivision of Theoretical Chemistry,
American Chemical Society
1985-1986: Consultant, AT&T Bell Laboratories
1986-1989: Member, Earl Plyler Prize Committee, American Physical Society
1986-1991: Specialist Editor, Computer Physics Communications
1988: Organizer, Symposium on "Chemistry of Energetic Atoms and Free Radicals,"
ACS Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting
1988: Invited Participant, ARO Workshop on Nitramine Propellant Ignition
1988: Vice Chairman, Gordon Research Conference on "Atomic and Molecular
Interactions"
1989-1990: Chairman, Earl Plyler Prize Committee, American Physical Society
1990: Chairman, Gordon Research Conference on "Atomic and Molecular
Interactions", New Hampton, NH
1992: Professeur Invité , Université de Lille Flandres-Artois,
France
1992: Invited member, program review of Division of Basic Energy Sciences, U. S.
Department of Energy
1994-1996: Member, Editorial Board, The Journal of Chemical Physics
1995: co-Vice Chair, International Conference on "Molecular Energy Transfer", Kloster Banz, Germany
1996: Organizer, Symposium on "Bi-Molecular Interactions of Small Free Radicals," American
Chemical Society National Meeting, Orlando FL
1997: co-Chair, Gordon Research Conference on "Molecular Energy Transfer", Ventura, CA
2004: co-Chair, Symposium on "'Intermolecular Interactions and Reactions involving Ions and Open- Shell Systems:,
American Chemical Society National Meeting, Anaheim, CA
2005: co-Chair, VIII Workshop on "Quantum Reactive Scattering", Santa Cruz, CA
2008: Chair, Telluride Winter Workshop on "New Challenges for Theory in Chemical Dynamics", Telluride, CO
2008-2010: Member, Board of Directors, Telluride Science Research Center
2010: Chair, Telluride Winter Workshop on
"New Challenges for Theory in Chemical Dynamics", Telluride, CO
2010: Co-Chair, CSCAMM Workshop on "Quantum-Classical Modeling of Chemical Phenomena",
College Park, MD
2012-2015: President, Telluride Science Research Center
Steven Charles Cohen, Ph. D. (Physics), 1973, Semiclassical S Matrix
Theory of Vibration Energy Transfer and Excitation in Collisions of Diatomic
Molecules.
Dharitri Misra, Ph. D. (Physics), 1974, Role of Long and Short Range
Potentials in Vibrationally and Electronically Inelastic Collisions of Diatomic
Molecules"
Andrew Elliot DePristo, Ph. D. (Chemical Physics), 1976, Partitioning and
Decoupling Approximations for Rotationally Inelastic Collisions.
Eugene Francis Jendrek, Jr., Ph. D.(Chemistry), 1979, Inelastic Scattering of
LiH and H2 by He.
Jane Elizabeth Smedley, Ph. D.(Chemistry), 1987, Close-Coupling Calculations
of Rotationally Inelastic Collisions of Nitric Oxide (X 2 Pi) with a
Silver(111) Surface.
Terrence E. Hemmer, Ph. D. (Chemical Physics), 1993, Theoretical Studies of
Hydrazoic Acid, Extensions to the RRK and RRKM Theories of Unimolecular
Reactions, and Collisional Quenching Reactions.
Susan Marchywka (Gregurick), Ph. D. (Chemistry), 1994. Theoretical
Investigations into the Dynamics of Open-Shell Systems: (1) Vibrational
Inelastic Scattering of NO(2Pi) from Ag(111) and (2) Prediction
of the Bend-Stretch Levels of ArBH(A1Pi), a van der Waals
Complex.
Jennifer Krumrine, Ph. D. (Chemical Physics), 2000 Theoretical
investigations of open-shell systems: (1) spectral simulation of the
2s2p2 2D - 2s22p 2Po
valence transition in the BAr2 cluster and (2)
quantum Monte Carlo calculations of B in solid molecular hydrogen.
Yi-Ren Tzeng, Ph. D. (Chemical Physics), 2004
The role of the F spin-orbit excited state in the F+H2 and F+HD reactions.
Qian Wang,
Ph. D. (Chemical Physics),2005, Path-integral Monte-Carlo simulations of aluminum atoms embedded in solid para-hydrogen and in helium clusters.
Sule Atahan, Ph.
D. (Chemistry), 2006, Potential Energy Surfaces and
Reaction Dynamics Studies of Small Triatomic Systems:O
+ H2, OH + H and OH+D.
Liang Tao, Ph. D. (Chemical Physics), 2007, Quantum mechanical investigation of the vibrational relaxation
of HF in collisions with H atoms.
Michael Warehime, Ph. D. (Chemical Physics), in progress.
Lifang Ma, Ph. D. (Chemistry), in progress
Brigitte Pouilly, Doctorat-ès-Sciences, Université de Lille (France), 1984.
Didier Lemoine, Doctorat-ès-Sciences, Université de Lille (France), 1990.
Andreas Berning, Ph. D., Universität Stuttgart, 1995.
Edward Rackham, Ph. D., University of Oxford, 2004.
Feb. 1990: 4th Annual AFOSR/AFAL Contractors Meeting in the Area of
High Energy Density Materials, Long Beach, CA
June 1990: XIXth Informal Conference on Photochemistry, Ann Arbor,
MI
Aug 1990: Symposium on "Intermolecular Potentials: Spectroscopic, Theoretical,
and Dynamical Probes," American Chemical Society National Meeting, Washington,
DC
Sept 1990: Plenary Lecture, 11th International Symposium on Gas
Kinetics, Assisi, Italy
Dec 1990: Information Exchange Seminar on "Theoretical Approach to Energy
Transfer and Photochemical Processus," United States - Japan Program of
Cooperation in Photoconversion and Photosynthesis, Honololu, HA (declined)
Feb 1991: 5th Annual AFOSR/AFAL Contractors Meeting in the Area of
High Energy Density Materials, Albuquerque, NM
Mar 1991: Royal Society of Chemistry, Faraday Discussion No. 91 on "Structure
and Dynamics of Reactive Transition States," Nottingham, UK
May 1991: Invited presentation, Director's Review, Division of Chemical and
Biological Sciences, U. S. Army Research Office, Research Triangle Park, NC
June 1991: NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "Status and Future Development of
Transport Property Studies," Greece (declined)
July 1991: XIIIth Conference on the Dynamics of Molecular Collisions,
Lake George, NY
July 1991: XIth Biennial Soviet Conference on Rarified Gas Dynamics,
Leningrad, USSR (declined)
Aug 1991: Symposium on "Reactions of Metallic Radicals," 4th Chemical
Congress of North America, New York (declined)
Aug 1991: Symposium on "Comparison of Ab Initio Quantum Chemistry with
Experiment: State-of-the-Art," 4th Chemical Congress of North
America, New York
Sept 1991: Seventh International Laser Science Conference, Monterey, CA
April 1992: Symposium On "State-To-State Chemistry," American Chemical Society
National Meeting, San Francisco, CA
April 1992: 6th Annual AFOSR/AFAL Contractors Meeting in the Area of
High Energy Density Materials, Palmdale, CA
March 1993: Symposium on "Electron Spin Effects in Chemistry," American Chemical
Society National Meeting, Denver, CO
March 1993: 33rd Sanibel Symposium, St. Augustine, FL (declined)
June 1993: 7th Annual AFOSR/AFAL Contractors Meeting in the Area of
High Energy Density Materials, Woods Hole, MA
June 1993: Gordon Research Conference on "Molecular Energy Transfer," New Hampton,
NH
March 1994: Symposium on "Chemical Reaction Dynamics," American Chemical Society
National Meeting, San Diego, CA
April 1994: session on "Quantum Scattering Theory," American Physical Society
National Meeting, Washington, DC
May 1994: Informal Conference on Photochemistry, York University, Canada
July 1994: Department of Energy Workshop on "Non-adiabatic Effects in Chemical
Dynamics," Argonne National Laboratory, IL
Aug 1994: Symposium on "Non-Adiabatic Processes," American Chemical Society
National Meeting, Washington, DC (declined)
Mar 1995: 35th Sanibel Symposium, St. Augustine, FL.
June 1996: 9th Annual AFOSR/AFAL Contractors Meeting in the Area of
High Energy Density Materials, Boulder, CO
Aug 1996: Symposium on "Highly Excited Molecules," American Chemical Society
National Meeting, Orlando, FL.
Nov 1996: Waterloo Symposium on Chemical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
June 1997: 10th Annual AFOSR/AFAL Contractors Meeting in the Area of
High Energy Density Materials, Chantilly, VA
July 1997: Conference on "Interactions of Oriented Molecules", Bielefeld, Germany
July 1997: XVIth Conference on the Dynamics of Molecular Collisions,
Gull Lake, MN
Jan 1998:
SPIE Symposium on Laser Techniques for Surface Science, San Jose, CA,
(declined)
July 1998: Gordon Research Conference on Atomic and Molecular
Interactions, New Hampshire
Sept 1998: International Conference on Gas Kinetics, Bilbao,
Spain
June 1999: Conference on Molecular Energy Transfer, Assisi, Italy
June 1999: Fifth Workshop on Quantum Reactive Scattering, Perugia, Italy
July 1999: Royal Society of Chemistry, Faraday Discussion 113, Leeds,
UK
Aug 1999: American Chemical Society National Meeting, New Orleans,
LA
Oct 2000: AFOSR/AFAL Contractors Meeting in the Area of High Energy Density
Materials, Park City, UT
Jan 2001: Sixth Workshop on Quantum Reactive Scattering, Pasadena, CA
Jan 2001: Gordon Research Conference on Molecular Energy Transfer (Overview Talk), Ventura,
CA
Mar 2001: First annual meeting of European Research and Training Network on "Reaction Dynamics", Oxford, UK
Apr 2001: Royal Society of Chemistry, Faraday Discussion 118, Durham, UK
May 2001: AFOSR 2001 Molecular Dynamics/Theoretical Chemistry
Contractor's meeting, Irvine, CA
Sep 2001: 26th International Symposium on Free Radicals, Assisi, Italy
June 2002: 25th Informal Conference on Photochemistry, Miami, FL
June 2002: Telluride Workshop on Doped Rare Gas Clusters, Telluride, CO
July 2002: Gordon Research Conference on Atomic and Molecular Interaction, Bristol, RI
Sept 2002: The Kinetics and Dynamics of Elementary Gas-Phase Reactions, A Symposium to Honor
Professor Ian W.M. Smith F.R.S., Birmingham, UK
Dec 2002: Conference on the "Stereodynamics of Chemical Reactions," Schoorl, The Netherlands
June 2003: NATO Advanced Study Workshop on "The theory of the dynamics of elementary reactions,"
Balatonföldvár, Hungary
June 2003: XVIII European
Conference on Molecular Energy Transfer (COMET), El Escorial, Spain
July 2003: XIXth Conference on the Dynamics of Molecular Collisions, Lake Tahoe, CA
July 2003: Telluride Workshop on "Spectroscopy and Dynamics on Multiple Potential Energy
Surfaces", Telluride, CO (declined)
July 2003: XI International Congress of Quantum Chemistry, Bonn, Germany
Feb 2004: XIV Symposium on atomic, cluster and surface physics, La Thuile (Aosta), Italy.
April 2004: Royal Society of Chemistry, Faraday Discussion No. 127,
"Non-adiabatic processes in chemical dynamics," Oxford, UK.
July 2004: Gordon Research Conference on "Atomic and Molecular Interactions," New London, NH.
June 2006: AFOSR Contractors' Meeting in the area of Molecular Dynamics, Arlington, VA.
June 2006: Telluride Workshop on "Intermolecular Interactions: New Challenges to
July 2006: Chinese Academy of Sciences Conference on "The Computational Chemistry and Parallel Software," Zhang Jia Jie, China.
Sept 2006: Symposium on "Frontiers in Molecular Dynamics: Experiment and Theory," National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, San Francisco.
Sept 2006: Conference on "Interplay of Theory and Experiment in Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics," Prague, Czech Republic.
Oct 2006: 2nd Symposium on Chemical Reaction Dynamics, Dalian, China.
July 2007: IXth Workshop on "Quantum Reactive Scattering", Cambridge, UK.
July 2008: Telluride Workshop on "Spectroscopy and Dynamics on Multiple Potential Energy
Surfaces", Telluride, CO
Oct 2008: StereoDynamics 2008, Dalian, China.
Jan 2009: Gordon Research
Conference on Molecule Energy Transfer, Ventura, CA.
Jun 2009: Xth Workshop on "Quantum Reactive Scattering," Dalian, China.
Jan 2010: Telluride Workshop on "New Challenges
for Theory in Chemical Dynamics", Telluride, CO.
Feb 2010: 6th International Meeting on Photodynamics, Havana, Cuba
Feb 2010: Mesilla Chemistry Workshop on "Electronic Non-Adiabatic Dynamics", Mesilla, NM
April 2010: First Principles Quantum Chemistry: from Elementary Reactions to Enzymes, Bad Herrenalb, Germany.
July 2010: Telluride Workshop on "Spectroscopy and Dynamics on Multiple Potential Surfaces", Telluride, CO.
Aug 2010: Telluride Workshop on
"Intermolecular Interactions: New Challenges for ab initio Theory", Telluride, CO.
Dec 2010: StereoDynamics 2010, Santa Cruz, CA (Declined)
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Invited Conference Presentations (since 1990)