Ronald D. Poshusta

R.D. Poshusta
Chemistry Department
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-4630

phone: (509) 335 3362
FAX: (509) 335 8867
e-mail: poshustr@mail.wsu.edu alternate home page: http://www.poshusta.chem.wsu.edu/

Personal

Born: 28 June 1935; Calmar Iowa

Heritage: Czech, German, Norwegian, and Scotch-Irish.

Education: Iowa State University, BS 1957 University of Texas (Austin), PhD 1963

Research Interests

Quantum Chemistry:

• Electronic structure of molecules
• Explicitly correlated wave functions
• Density matrices
• Solid state electronic structure calculations
• Polar Stratospheric clouds
• Excitons and "bi-excitons"

Mathematics and Scientific Computing:

• Symmetric Group, Sn

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Teaching

Chem 330: Problem Solving in Physical Chemistry. See the chem330 syllabus . Also see Using Mathcad .

Chem 331: Physical Chemistry I. (click here to see syllabus)

Chem 332: Physical Chemistry II. (click here to see syllabus)

Chem 509: Chemical Applications of Group theory.

Chem 535: Computational Quantum Chemistry (click here to see syllabus)

Chem 536: Quantum Chemistry (click here to see syllabus)

IDEA Project, Internet Differential Equations Applications (IDEA home page)