Dr. Mike Towler

Towler, M.

Royal Society Research Fellow
College Lecturer at Emmanuel College

Group: Theory of Condensed Matter

Address:
Room 529 Mott Building,
Cavendish Laboratory,
JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge CB3 0HE.
Tel: +44 (0)1223 337378
Email: mdt26 "at" cam.ac.uk

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Tracey Ingham
Tel: +44 (0)1223 337254
Fax: +44 (0)1223 337356
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Biography:

I am a Royal Society research fellow in the Theory of Condensed Matter (TCM) Group at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge and a College Lecturer at Emmanuel College. For more biographical information, please visit my homepage.

Homepage.

Research Interests:

  • Electronic structure theory and its use in the first principles simulation of matter (condensed or otherwise). I use a mixture of quantum Monte Carlo, density functional theory and various "quantum chemistry" methods.
  • Development of the theory of the quantum Monte Carlo method and our implementation of it in the Cambridge quantum Monte Carlo code "CASINO".
  • Foundational issues in quantum mechanics.
  • The relationship between quantum chemistry and theoretical physics.
  • Fundamental problems in density functional theory.
  • The physics of strongly-correlated systems from the point of view of electronic structure theories.

Research Group - Theory of Condensed Matter

Selected Publications:

A list of selected publications.