Ralf K. Heilmann

        (Director: Mark L. Schattenburg)

Post-Doctoral Fellow (08/96 - 07/99) Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Harvard University Principal Investigator: Peter S. Pershan

Projects:

• Structural studies of Langmuir monolayers at liquid/gas interfaces
• Wetting with binary liquids

Experimental Tools:

• X-ray reflectometry (specular and diffuse)
• Grazing incidence x-ray diffraction
• Brewster angle microscopy
• Area-pressure-isotherm measurements

• X-Ray Reflectivity and Diffraction Study of Growth Dynamics in Quenched Xenon Films

Advisor: Robert M. Suter ( CMU X-ray Scattering Facility )

(Ph.D., Department of Physics , Carnegie Mellon 08/96)

• Monte-Carlo simulations of the 3-state antiferromagnetic Potts model

(with Robert H. Swendsen and Jian-Sheng Wang )

• Histogram Monte-Carlo Study of the Simple Cubic Ising Model with Competing Interactions

Advisors: Rainer W. Gerling (FAU) and David P. Landau (Center for Simulational Physics , UGA )

(with lots of input from Alan M. Ferrenberg (CSP and UCNS, UGA))

(Diplom Physik, Institut für Theoretische Physik I, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg 07/91)