Brenda Rubenstein
Research Interests
Development of quantum Monte Carlo methods for the study of real chemical systems; dynamical heterogeneity in liquid crystals; stochastic methods for matrix diagonalization.
Education
- Ph.D. Candidate in Chemical Physics, Columbia University, 2013 (Advisor: David Reichman)
- M.Sc. in Chemical Physics, Columbia University, 2008
- M.Phil. in Theoretical Chemistry, University of Cambridge, 2008 (Advisor: Mark Miller)
- Sc.B. in Chemical Physics w/Honors, A.B. in Applied Mathematics, Brown University, 2007 (Advisors: Richard Stratt, Laura Kaufman)
Honors
- First Prize in Physics, LANL Student Symposium, 2009
- NSF Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2008
- DOE CSGF, 2008
- Student Poster Award in Physical Chemistry, Fall ACS Meeting, 2008
- Churchill Fellowship, 2008
- Goldwater Fellowship, 2006
Publications
- , Finite-temperature auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo for Bose-Fermi mixtures. Physical Review A 86, 053606 (2012).
- , Controlling the Folding and Substrate-Binding of Proteins Using Polymer Brushes. Physical Review Letters 108, 208104 (2012).
- , Comparative Monte Carlo Efficiency by Monte Carlo Analysis. Physical Review E 82, 036701 (2010).
- , Protein Folding Amidst Entropy Sources. University of Cambridge M.Phil.Thesis (2008).
- , The Role of Extracellular Matrix in Glioma Invasion: A Cellular Potts Model Approach. Biophysical Journal 95, 5661-5680 (2008).