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
[email protected]
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; 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
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
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 283 papers in such journals as Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal of Physical Chemistry,Physical Review Letters, JACS, Biophysical Journal, and Molecular Biology
Books
Dynamic Light Scattering(Berne and Pecora); Statistical Mechanics, Part A: Equilibrium Techniques (editor); Statistical Mechanics, Part B: Time Dependent Processes (editor); Classical and Quantum Dynamics in Condensed Phase Simulations (editor)
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
