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Walter C. Ermler

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Walter C. Ermler

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate: 1976-1978, University of California, Berkeley
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate: 1973-1975, University of Chicago
  • Ph.D. Physical Chemistry: 1972, The Ohio State University
  • M.S. Physical Chemistry: 1970, The Ohio State University
  • B.S. Chemistry: 1969, Northern Illinois University

Research Interests

  • Theoretical Chemistry: Development of accurate relativistic effective core potentials that include core/valence polarization and correlation
  • Modeling Heavy-element Compounds: Ab initio relativistic quantum mechanical calculations of structures and electronic states of metal, lanthanide, actinide and post-actinide molecular systems
  • Computational Spectroscopy: High-order perturbation theory treatment of anharmonicities and coupling effects in polyatomic vibration-rotation spectra using symbolic mathematical approaches together with large-scale computing


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Selected Publications

  1. Tilson, J. L.; Naleway, C.; Seth, M.; R. Shepard, R.; Wagner, A. F.; Ermler, W. C. An ab Initio Study of AmCl+1: f-f Spectroscopy and Chemical Binding. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2004, 121, 5661-5675.
  2. Tilson, J. L.; Naleway, C.; Seth, M.; R. Shepard, R.; Wagner, A. F.; Ermler, W. C. An ab Initio Study of f-f Spectroscopy of Am+3. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2002, 1116, 5494-5502.
  3. Naleway, C.; Seth, M.; R. Shepard, R.; Wagner, A. F.; Tilson, J. L.; Ermler, W. C.; Brozell, S. R. An ab Initio Study of the Ionization Potentials and f-f Spectroscopy of Europium Atoms and Ions. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2002, 116, 5481-5493.
  4. Ermler, W. C.; Marino, M. M. Nodeless Valence (Pseudo)Spinors. Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, 2001, 41, 77-82.
  5. Tilson, J. L.; Ermler, W. C.; Pitzer, R. M. Parallel Spin-Orbit Configuration Interaction. Computer Physics Communications, 2000, 128, 128-138.
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