Bruce J. Berne
Higgins Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Chemical Engineering
Department of Chemistry
Columbia University
3000 Broadway, Mail Code 3103
New York, NY 10027
(212) 854-2186, 2203
Fax: 212-854-7454
bb8@columbia.edu
Principal Research Activities
Theory of liquids, molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations of
condensed matter including biomolecular systems;
theoretical chemical kinetics, chaos in molecular systems, dynamics and
structure of small molecular clusters, liquids and proteins; quantum Monte
Carlo and molecular dynamics of condensed quantum systems, computational chemistry;The simulation of quantum dynamics; Design of Polarizable Force Fields for biomolecules;
The Multiple Time Scale Problem in molecular dynamics; Sampling methods for
rough energy landscapes; Hydrophobic interactions on large and small length scales, Protein folding.
Education
B.S. in Chemistry, Brooklyn College, 1961
Ph.D. in Chemical Physics, University of Chicago, 1964
Fellowships and Honors
National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, 1962
NASA Predoctoral Fellow, 1963-1964
NATO Postdoctoral Fellow with I. Prigogine at Universite
Libre de Bruxelles, 1965
Sloan Foundation Fellow, 1967-1970
Guggenheim Foundation Fellow , 1972
Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1977
NSF Creativity Awards 1984-86, 1990-92, 1995-97
Alexander von Humoldt-Stiftung Senior Scientist award
1992
Miller Istitute Visiting Professor, U. California,
Berkeley, 1994
American Chemical Society Award in Theoretical Chemistry, 1995
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1995
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1998
Member of National Academy of Sciences, 1998
Joseph O. Hirschfelder Prize in Theoretical Chemistry,
U. Wisconsin, 2001
Joel Henry Hildebrand Award in the Theoretical and Experimental Chemistry of
Liquids of the American Chemical Society, 2002
IBM Research Achievement Award,
2005
Mulliken Medal, University of Chicago, 2009
Named Lectures
Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecturer, University of Tel Aviv,
Israel, 1985
Reilly Lecturer, Notre Dame University, 1997
Davidson Lecturer, University of Kansas, 1998
Albert J. Moscowitz Memorial Lecturer, University of
Minnesota, 1999
Moses Gomberg Lecturer, University of Michigan, 2000
Joseph O. Hirschfelder Lecturer, University of Wisconsin, 2001
Joe E. Franklin Lecturer, Rice University, 2002
Frontiers Lecturese, Texas A&M University, 2009
Mulliken Lecture, University of Chicago, 2009
Employment
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1998-
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Higgins Professor of Chemistry
Columbia University
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1972-
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Full Professor of Chemistry
Columbia University
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1972
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Visiting Professor of Chemistry
University of Tel Aviv, Israel
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1969-1972
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Associate Professor of Chemistry
Columbia University
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1966-1969
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Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Columbia University
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1964-1965
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Research Associate, Department of
Physics
University of Chicago
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Publications:
Over 320 papers in such journals as Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal of
Physical Chemistry,Physical
Review Letters, JACS, Biophysical Journal, SCIENCE, and NATURE
Books
Bruce J. Berne and R. Pecora, Dynamic
Light Scattering, John Wiley & Sons (New York: 1976).
Bruce J. Berne, editor,
Statistical Mechanics, Part A: Equilibrium Techniques, Plenum Press (New York: 1977).
Bruce J. Berne, editor,
Statistical Mechanics, Part B: Time
Dependent Processes, Plenum Press (New York: 1977).
Bruce J. Berne, Giovanni Ciccotti and David
F. Coker, editors, Classical and
Quantum Dynamics in Condensed Phase Simulations ,World Scientific Publishing
Co. (Singapore, 1998).
Bruce J. Berne and R. Pecora, Dynamic
Light Scattering, Dover Publications (New York: 2000).
Professional Societies:
American Physical Society, American Chemical
Society, AAAS
National Committees, Editorial
Boards and Scientific Advisory Boards
1974-1976 Member, Panel of NAS-NRC on National Resource for Computers in
Chemistry
1976-1979 Member, Editorial Board of Journal of Statistical Physics
1976-1979 Chairman, Advisory Panel of National Science Foundation, Division
of Chemistry
1977-1980 Member, Policy Board of National Resource for Computation in
Chemistry, Lawrence Laboratories, Berkeley, Califoria
1979-1982 Member, Committee on Chemical Sciences, National Academy of
Sciences
1985-1986 Member, Board of Directors, Von Neuman
Supercomputer Center, Princeton University, Princeton,
New Jersey
1985-1988 Member, Advisory Board for The Journal of
Physical Chemistry
1985- Member, Editorial board of Advances in Chemical Physics
1986-1989 Member, Editorial Board of Journal of Chemical Physics
1987-1990 Chairman Subdivision of Theoretical Chemistry, Member of Executive
Committee of the Division of Physical Chemistry, American Chemical Society
1988-1991 Member Executive Committee, Division of Chemical Physics, American
Physical Society
1992- Member Board of Directors of Telluride Research Conferences
1996-97 Member Scientific Advisory Board, Curagen Inc
1997-Advisory Editor, Theoretical Chemistry Accounts (Theoretica
Chimica Acta)
1996-97 Member Scientific Advisory Board,
Schrodinger, Inc
2000- Member Editorial Board of Chemical Physics Letters
2000-Associate Editor, Physical Review Letters
2000-2003 Member Board of Trustees Telluride Conferences
2003- Member Editorial Board of Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences
2004- Member Editorial Board of Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation