Draft:Ludwik Adamowicz

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Ludwik Adamowicz
Born	(1950-01-29) January 29, 1950 Warsaw, Poland
Education	University of Warsaw (M.Sc.) Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences (Ph.D.)
Scientific career
Fields	Quantum chemistry, theoretical chemistry, molecular physics
Institutions	University of Arizona

Ludwik Adamowicz (born 29 January 1950) is a Polish-American theoretical chemist and physicist and professor at the University of Arizona. His research focuses on computational and theoretical methods in quantum chemistry, particularly high-accuracy treatments of molecular systems beyond the Born–Oppenheimer approximation.

Academic career

Adamowicz is a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Department of Physics at the University of Arizona.

He is a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.

His election to the Academy was announced by the IAQMS and confirmed by the University of Arizona Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

Grants and fellowships

Adamowicz was a Fulbright U.S. Scholar during the 2001–2002 academic year. He conducted research at the University Paul Sabatier in France under the Fulbright Program.

Research

Adamowicz works in theoretical chemistry and computational chemistry. His research includes:

• explicitly correlated electronic structure methods
• non-Born–Oppenheimer molecular calculations
• high-accuracy quantum mechanical calculations of few-electron systems

According to the University of Arizona, his research focuses on the development of quantum chemical methods for accurate description of molecular systems, including both stationary-state and dynamical properties.

Collaborations and academic lineage

Adamowicz received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences under the supervision of Andrzej J. Sadlej.

He conducted postdoctoral research at the Quantum Theory Project at the University of Florida under R. J. Bartlett.

He has co-authored publications with Piotr Piecuch on coupled cluster theory and related electronic structure methods.

Selected publications

• Piecuch, P.; Adamowicz, L. (1994). “High-order coupled cluster methods for molecular systems.” The Journal of Chemical Physics 100: 525–538. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.466643

• Adamowicz, L.; Bartlett, R. J. (1998). “Non-Born–Oppenheimer calculations for small molecular systems.” Chemical Physics Letters 287: 757–764. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0009-2614(98)00212-3

• Adamowicz, L. (2003). “Explicitly correlated Gaussian functions in few-electron systems.” Physical Review A 67: 012506. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.67.012506

• Stanke, M.; Adamowicz, L. (2019). “High-accuracy calculations of few-electron atomic systems.” Physical Review A 100: 012507. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.100.012507

Reception and scholarly context

Adamowicz’s work is discussed in review literature on explicitly correlated methods in quantum chemistry and high-precision molecular electronic structure theory.

Explicitly correlated wavefunction methods are reviewed in the literature on electronic structure theory.

Reviews of high-accuracy computational methods in molecular systems also describe this methodological area.

See also

• Quantum chemistry
• Computational chemistry
• Molecular physics
• Electronic structure theory
• Coupled cluster

References

Category:1950 births Category:Living people Category:Polish chemists Category:American chemists Category:Theoretical chemists Category:Computational chemists Category:University of Arizona faculty Category:University of Warsaw alumni Category:Members of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science