Harvey Gould
Professor of Physics
Clark University
Worcester, MA 01610-1477
office: 214 Physics
email
phone: 508-793-7485
Harvey Gould uses molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo methods to study supercooled liquids near the glass transition, nucleation and the dynamics of first-order phase transitions, and other problems in statistical mechanics. He can "foresee the day when physics students take a required computational science curriculum comparable in scope to the present day mathematics curriculum." Much of his work is in collaboration with his students and with Bill Klein of Boston University.
Gould is a coauthor of the three editions of the undergraduate text on Introduction to Computer Simulations Methods in Physics with Jan Tobochnik and Wolfgang Christian. Gould is Associate Editor of the American Journal of Physics and also co-edited the Computer Simulation column in Computers in Physics and Computing in Science and Engineering for over ten years.
Gould is a native of California and received his B.A. and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He did postdoctoral work at the National Bureau of Standards (now NIST) and taught at the University of Michigan before coming to Clark in 1971. His leisure time is spent with his family and listening to music, especially jazz.
Gould wishes to promote open standards and open source software. Please do not send e-mail with attachments in a proprietary format. If you use these applications, please take a little extra time to send your attachment as a rtf, pdf, or text file. And this way, you will not send a virus.
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