The Jordan Group

Current Group Members

Graduate Students

• Tae Hoon Choi   email: thc9+@pitt.edu
• Wendy Lampart   email: wmlst3+@pitt.edu
• Jiawei Xu   email: jix20@pitt.edu
• Glen Jenness   email: grg3+@pitt.edu
• Jing Ding   email: jid96@pitt.edu
• Guozhen Zhang  
• Ozan Karalti  

Research Associates/Postdoctoral Fellows

• Revati Kumar
• Haitao Liu
• Hao Jiang   e-mail: jianghao@pitt.edu
• Daniel Schofield   e-mail: dan@visual1.chem.pitt.edu

Visitors

• Mike Falcetta (Grove City College), 2007, 2008
• Thomas Sommerfeld (Southeastern Louisiana State Univ.), 2007, 2008
• Milan Sindelka (Czech Academy of Sciences), 2002.  

CMMS, Technical Director

• Richard Christie   email: richard@pro3.chem.pitt.edu

Former Group Members

Recent Graduates

• Albert DeFusco, PhD, 2008
• Valerie McCarthy, Ph.D., 2008
• Kadir Diri, Ph.D., 2007
• Jun Cui, Ph.D., 2007
• Li Feng, MS, 2007
• Suzanne Gardner, MS, 2007
• Alex Bayden, Ph.D., 2005
• Ming-Kang Tsai, Ph.D., 2005
• Hanbin Liu, Ph.D., 2005
• Richard Christie, Ph.D., 2004
• Feng Wang Ph.D., 2003
• Arnold Tharrington, Ph.D., 2002
• Jan Steckel, Ph.D., 2001
• John Wood, M.S., 2001
• Fernando Vila, Ph.D., 2000
• Marc Pedulla, Ph.D., 1998
• Mark Schwartz, M.S., 1998
• Sharon Fredericks, Ph.D., 1997
• Dan Love Ph.D., 1996
• Dana Nachtigallova, Ph.D., 1995
• Petr Nachtigall, Ph.D., 1995

Recent Postdocs and Visiting Scientists

• Thomas Sommerfeld, visiting scientist 2005-2007
• Yevgeny Myshakin, postdoc, 2003-2007.
• Mahalakshmi Sahasrananam, postdoc 2002 - 2003.
• Ellen Vayner, postdoc 2002 - 2003.  
• Dominic Alfonso, postdoc, 2000-2002
• Karen Karapetian, postdoc 2000-2002
• Lindsey Munro, postdoc, 1998-2000

Undergraduate Students, 2002-2007

• Nathaniel Swensen (Monte Carlo simulations on a GPU), 2008
• Neeraj Tibrewal (Simulations of protonated water clusters), 2008
• Andrew Petit (sampling methods for Monte Carlo simulations), 2007  
• Ryan Cheng, BBSI summer program (models for protein folding), 2006  
• Kristen Rozella (modeling water clusters), 2005-2006  
• Stephen Crary (animation of chemical reactions), 2006
• Glen Richard (modeling water clusters), 2004
• Wendy Lampart (modeling water clusters)2003-2004
• Tom Johnson (3D stereo project), 2003  
• Steve Ascenio (3D stereo project), 2003  
• Chris Hurt (3D stereo project), 2002

More Pictures of the Group

• The Jordan group in 2006.
• The Jordan group in 2005.
• The Jordan group in 2003.
• The Jordan group in 2001.
• The Jordan group in 1999.
• Hiking in Boulder, Colorado whilst at the ACTC in 1999.
• Checking on the first Cray Supercomputer at NCAR in 1999.
• The Jordan group in 1998.
• A whitewater rafting trip, 1997.
• The Jordan group in 1996.
• Hiking in Utah before the ACTC in 1996.
• Some group members on a whitewater rafting trip, 1996.
• The Jordan group and some friends, hiking in Ohiopyle State Park, 1995.
• Ken Jordan in 1978.