Landau is a Professor of Physics Emeritus. His research specialty is theoretical studies of few body systems in Nuclear and Particle Physics. Google Scholar lists some 200 publications. He is the author/coauthor of

• Quantum Mechaics II, Wiley
• A Scientist & Engineer's Guide to Workstations & Supercomputer, Wiley
• A First Course in Scientific Computing, Princeton
• A Survey of Computational Physics, Princeton
• Computational Physics, 4 editions, Wiley
• Computational Problems for Physics, 2 editions, CRC Press

Landau introduced Computational Physics courses into the Physics Curriculum, as well as a separate degree program in Computational Physics. He has served on various national committees and editorial boards advocating Computational Science Education, and was a regular invited speaker at national and international conferences. He is the author of multiple textbooks in Computational Physics, the most recent edition to be published in 2026 or 2027.

The codes from the texts, some versions of the texts, and video lectures are available in several online places:

• Compadre (AAPT): Compdre.org/PICUP (Search on Landau)
• Github.com: Landau-Computational-Physics-Codes
• Physical Science Research enter: psrc.aapt.org/items/detail.cfm?ID=17240
• Video Lectures: Youtube: Landau Computational Physics Course

- Landau is best reached at [email protected].