Welcome!
The Roundy research group studies the properties of condensed matter systems including liquid water, superconductors and nanotubes using first-principles computational methods. Currently, we are focusing on the creation of a classical density functional to describe water, and application of this approach to aqueous interfaces and systems in aqueous solution.
For more information, see the slides from a research seminar in winter 2007.
In addition to our Physics research, we also occasionally jaunt into the world of Computer Science. In particular, we are interested in using the pure functional language Haskell to solve interesting problems. At the moment, this research is focussed on the darcs revision control system, but we hope in the future to develop approaches for making our Physics research more efficient, by rapidly prototyping new functionals (see above) in Haskell.
For more information, see the slides from a colloquiem given in the Computer Science department in fall 2006.