J. V. Ortiz

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Email: ortiz@auburn.edu
Webpage: www.auburn.edu/academic/science_math/cosam/departments/chemistry/faculty_staff/ortiz/index.htm
Group Website: www.auburn.edu/cosam/JVOrtiz

Ruth W. Molette Professor of Chemistry and Chairman,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Auburn University, Alabama

Ph.D., University of Florida
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University and Cornell University

Contributions to Gaussian: Outer Valence Green's Function (OVGF) methods.

Research Interests

  • Employing propagator concepts and methods, especially those of electron propagator theory, for the direct, rigorous calculation of observables and succinct expression of model systems.

Selected Publications

J. V. Ortiz, "Toward an Exact One-Electron Picture of Chemical Bonding," Advances in Quantum Chemistry, 35 (1999) 33.

J. V. Ortiz, "Orbital and Shakeup Operator Renormalizations in Electron Propagator Theory," Journal of Chemical Physics, 109 (1998) 5741.

J. V. Ortiz, " A Nondiagonal, Renormalized Extension of Partial Third Order Quasiparticle Theory: Comparisons for Closed-Shell Ionization Energies," Journal of Chemical Physics, 108, (1998) 1008.

O. Dolgounitcheva, V. G. Zakrzewski and J. V. Ortiz, "Structure, Bonding and Energetics of C72- Isomers," Journal of Chemical Physics, 109 (1998) 87.

J. V. Ortiz, 'The Electron Propagator Picture of Molecular Electronic Structure," Computational Chemistry: Reviews of Current Trends, 2 , J. Leszczynski, ed., World Scientific, Singapore, (1997) 1.

J. V. Ortiz, V. G. Zakrzewski and O. Dolgounitcheva, "One-Electron Pictures of Electronic Structure: Propagator Calculations on Photoelectron Spectra of Aromatic Molecules," Conceptual Perspectives in Quantum Chemistry, 3 J.-L. Calais and E. Kryachko, eds., Kluwer, Dordrecht, (1997) 465.

M. Enlow, J. V. Ortiz and H. P. Luethi, "Tetrahedral Quadranionic Carbon Clusters, "Molecular Physics 92 (1997) 441.

Last update: 29 April 2010