Curriculumn Vitae

Research Interest

• Numerical simulations of experimentally realistic systems
• Theoretical analysis of pattern formation in various systems
• Calculations to predict interactions between pairs of molecules

Education

• 8/2001 - present     University of Houston, Ph. D candidate in Theoretical Chemical Physics (Expected 2005)
  Thesis: Dynamical simulation and characterization of the pattern formation
  
  
• 9/1999 - 7/2001     University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada, M.Sc. in Computational and Theoretical Chemistry
  Thesis: Hydrogen-bonded clusters of glycolic acid and water: a computational study
  
  
• 9/1997 - 7/1999     Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, M.A. in Philosophy of Science
  
  
• 9/1987 - 7/1991     Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, B.Sc. in Chemistry
  Thesis: Calculation of the microcanonical rate constants for the fluorine-transfer reaction of fluoro substituted acetylene

Working Experience

1/2002 - present     Research assistant, Department of Chemistry, University of Houston

• Programming to simulate the dynamics of self-assembling nanostructures
  
• Developing various measurements to characterize the patterns formed in systems far from equilibrium
  
• MPI parallel code development of the numerical solution of Swift-Hohenberg equation
  
• Numerical calculation of the electronic nonadiabatic coupling terms
  

9/1999 - 7/2001     Research and Teaching Assistant, Department of Chemistry, University of New Brunswick

• Modeling the hydrogen-bonded clusters of one glycolic acid molecule and several water molecules
  
• Computational study of the structures and energetics of small hydrogen-bonded clusters
  

8/1991 - 8/1997     Lecturer and Lab Instructor, Wuhan Chemical Engineering School, Wuhan, China

• Giving lectures of Physical Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry and Instrumental Analytical Chemistry and also working as lab instructor

Computer Skills

• Scientific programming in C, Fortran, and Matlab
  
• Unix shell programming and MPI parallel computing

Publications

Stages of relaxation of patterns and the role of stochasticity on the final stage. Shaowen Hu, Daniel I. Goldman, Donald J. Kouri, David K. Hoffman, Harry L. Swinney and Gemunu H. Gunaratne, Nonlinearity 17, 1535 (2004)

Hydrogen-bonded complexes of glycolic acid with one and two water molecules. A. J. Thakkar, N. E.-B. Kassimi and S. Hu, Chem. Phys. Lett., 387, 142-148 (2004)

Analytic-numerical approach to calculate electronic nonadiabatic coupling terms: study of the C₂H molecule and the H₂ + H system. Á. Vibók, G. Halász, A. M. Mebel, S. Hu, M. Baer, Int. J. Quantum Chem., 99, 594-604 (2004)

The Curl-Divergence equations for the electronic nonadiabatic coupling terms: study of the C₂H molecule and the H₂+H system. Shaowen Hu, Gábor Halász, Ágnes Vibók, Alexander M. Mebel and Michael Baer, Chem. Phys. Lett., 367, 177-185 (2003)

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