I received my PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan in May 2004. The subject of my dissertation was "Growth Energetics of Germanium Quantum Dots by Atomistic Simulation". I was employed as a National Research Council Postdoc at the National Institute of Standards and Technology from 2004 to 2007 and continued as a guest researcher into 2009. My postdoctoral projects have been related to deformation of materials during nanoindentation, including simulating phase transformation of silicon under stress and the nucleation of dislocations in metals.
I am currently unemployed and seeking flexible opportunities related to computational and theoretical physics, chemistry, materials science, and biology. Please refer to my curriculum vitae for details.
Molecular Beam Epitaxy - A Simple Introduction
Slides in PDF 310 KB
Source in PowerPoint 221 KB
Quantum Dots - Self-assembly by Molecular Beam Epitaxy
Slides in PDF 705 KB
Source in PowerPoint 759 KB
Paper on kinetics, in PDF 170 KB
Research proposal for simulating growth, in PDF 596 KB
Growth Energetics of Germanium Quantum Dots by Atomistic Simulation
Dissertation in PDF 1.4 MB
Defense slides in PDF 9.4 MB
Defense slides in Powerpoint 5.4 MB
United States Patent 5,959,211
Method and apparatus for positioning sensors against a non-planar surface
Document in PDF 454 KB
AntPainter
Create graphic textures from the random walk of ants
Mersenne Twister
Random number generator
implemented
in a fast, convenient C++ class
ConfigFile
A configuration file reader
that is convenient, portable, and free
ContainArray
Multidimensional array classes
that are convenient, portable, and free
Python Simulated Annealing Module
Python module
for simulated annealing that is convenient, portable, and free
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Rick Wagner ( wagnerr@umich.edu ) 6 Sep 09 |