Uzi Kaldor, D.Sc.

School of Chemistry             Phone +972-3-6408590
Tel Aviv University 		Fax   +972-3-6428273
69978 Tel Aviv 	        	kaldor@tau.ac.il
Israel 	                	http://www.tau.ac.il/~kaldor

Born:

1939, Tel Aviv, Israel

EDUCATION

	School	Field	Degree	Date
1957-62	Hebrew University, Jerusalem	Chemistry	M.Sc.	1962
1964-66	Technion, Haifa	Quantum Chemistry	D.Sc.	1966

Title of Master's Thesis:	Photochemistry of Ferrous Sulphate Solutions
Name of Supervisor:	Prof. J. Jortner
Title of D.Sc. Dissertation:	LCAO-SCF Computations for Small Molecules
Name of Supervisor:	Prof. I. Shavitt

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

	Institution	Department	Rank
1966-68	Stanford University	Chemistry	Postdoctoral Assoc.
1968-69	Tel Aviv University	Chemistry	Lecturer
1969-72	Tel Aviv University	Chemistry	Senior Lecturer
1973-80	Tel Aviv University	Chemistry	Associate Professor
1976-80	Tel Aviv University	Chemistry	Department Chairman
1980-2007	Tel Aviv University	Chemistry	Professor
1995-2009	Tel Aviv University	Emerico Letay Chair in Quantum Chemistry
2007-	Tel Aviv University	Chemistry	Professor Emeritus

Teaching in other Israeli Universities

Bar Ilan University, 1970.
Weizmann Institute of Science, 1972-1974.
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, 1970-1975.

Visiting

Centre European de Calcul Atomique et Moleculaire, CNRS, Orsay, France, 1971
The University of Southern California, Department of Chemistry, 1975-76
The Johns Hopkins University, Department of Chemistry, Summer 1987, 1988
The University of Florida, Quantum Theory Project, Summer 1990, 1991

University committees (partial list)

Alternate member, Subcommittee for Appointments and Promotions in Exact Sciences and Engineering (1974-76)
Vice president, Faculty Internal Judgement System (1983-1987)
Member, Rules Committee of the Academic Senate
Member (1984) and Chairman (1985-88), University Graduate Committee
Director, Special Program for Excellence (1987-95)
Member (1988) and Chairman (1989-95), University Computer Committee
Member, University Appointments Committee (1995-97)
Member, University Equipment Committee (1997-99)
Member, University Committee for Honorary Degrees (2001-05)


National and International

Consultant, U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation, 1985-1997
Consultant, German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research, 1990-1993
Member (1982) and Chairman (1983-84), Committee for Chemistry, Basic Research Foundation of the Israeli Academy of Science
Member of the Board and Director of Exact Sciences and Technology, Israel Science Foundation, 1991-1996.
Member, Advisory Editorial Board, International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 1992-1996.
Member of the Board, Clore Scholars Program, 1995-98.
Member, German-Israeli Minerva Fellowship Committee, 1996-2002.
Member of the Board, Inter-University Computation Center, 1995-2002.
Scientific Director, High Performance Computation Unit, IUCC, 1995-2001.
Member, Editorial Board, Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, 1997-2002.
Member, Israeli Council for Higher Education, 1997-2002.
Member, Advisory Editorial Board, International Journal of Molecular Science, 2001-06.
COST, 1998-2002: Member, PAMALOF Working Group (in D9).
COST, 2002-2006: Member, Management Committees, Actions D23 and D26; Coordinator, HAMEC Working Group (in D26); member, DIRAC Working Group (in D23).
COST, 2006-2010: Member, Management Committee, Action D37.

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

American Physical Society
Division of Physical Chemistry, American Chemical Society
Israel Chemical Society


M.Sc. STUDENTS SUPERVISED

Name	Title of Thesis
S. Mukamel	Absorption Spectrum of He $^2\Sigma_u^+$ Near 600Å.
D. Kunik	Applications of the Spin-Optimized SCF Method.
S. Ben Shlomo	Applications of the Coupled-Cluster Method.
G. Jacoby	High Sectors in the Coupled-Cluster Method.
T. Kornblu	Atomic and Molecular Applications of the Relativistic Fock-Space Coupled Cluster Method.
T. Zelovich	Properties of Heavy Elements by the Relativistic Coupled Cluster Method.

DOCTORAL STUDENTS SUPERVISED

Name	Title of Thesis
G. Hose	Application of Many-Body Perturbation Theory to Molecular Systems
A. Klonover	Electron- Molecule Scattering Calculations
M. Berman	Excited States of Rare-Gas Molecules
S. Berkovic	The Application of the Hilbert Space Coupled Cluster Method to Molecules
A. Landau	Extensions of the Fock-Space Coupled Cluster, the Intermediate Hamiltonian Approach: Theory and Applications.
A. Borschevski	Extension of the Intermediate Hamiltonian Fock Space Coupled Cluster Method and Applications to Problems of Heavy and Superheavy Elements.
H. Yakobi	Extensions of the Relativistic Multireference Coupled Cluster Method and Applications to Properties Other than Energy.
I. Itkin	In progress

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

Peter S. Stern
Azizul Haque
S. R. Hughes
Ephraim Eliav (Ilyabaev)
Roman Gelfand
Leonid Baryudin
Miroslav Iliaš

PARTICIPATION IN SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

1967

Slater Symposium on Quantum Chemistry, Sanibel Island, Florida.

1968

Gordon Research Conference on Theoretical Chemistry, Crystal Mountain, Washington, USA

1970

Second International Conference on Atomic Physics, Oxford, England

1973

International Conference on Computers in Chemistry, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia

1974

5th Canadian Symposium on Theoretical Chemistry, Ottawa, Canada

1975

First Chemical Congress of the North American Continent, Mexico City, Mexico

1976

2nd International Congress on Quantum Chemistry, New Orleans

1977

ICPEAC X, Paris, France

1978

3rd American Conference on Theoretical Chemistry, Boulder, Colorado.

1978

First Asilomar Conference on Electron Molecule Collisions, Pacific Grove, California (Invited speaker).

1979

Nobel Symposium on Many-Body Theory, Gothenburg, Sweden (Invited speaker).

1979

ICPEAC XI, Kyoto, Japan

1979

Symposium on Electron-Molecule Collisions, Tokyo, Japan

1980

Canadian Symposium on Theoretical Chemistry, Banff, Alberta, Canada

1981

4th American Conference on Theoretical Chemistry, Boulder, Colorado (Invited speaker).

1982

ACS Symposium on Electron Correlation in Molecules, Las Vegas, Nevada.

1982

``New Trends in Atomic Physics'', Les Houches, France

1983

8th Canadian Symposium on Theoretical Chemistry, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

1984

5th American Conference on Theoretical Chemistry, Jackson, Wyoming.

1985

4th International Conference on Recent Progress in Many-Body Theory, San Francisco.

1985

5th International Congress on Quantum Chemistry, Montreal, Canada.

1986

Sanibel Symposium, Marineland, Florida (Session chairman).

1986

69th Canadian Chemical Conference, Symposium on Computational and Mathematical Chemistry, Saskatoon, Canada (Invited speaker).

1986

Research Conference on Relativistic Many-Body Problem, Trieste.

1987

11th International Workshop on Condenesed Matter Theories, Oulu, Finland (Invited speaker).

1987

Fifth International Conference on Recent Progress in Many-Body Theories, Oulu, Finland.

1988

International Workshop on the Structure of Small Molecules and Ions, Neve Ilan, Israel (member, organizing committee).

1988

Eleventh International Conference on Atomic Physics, Paris.

1988

12th International Workshop on Condensed Matter Theories, Taxco, Mexico (Invited speaker).

1988

Sixth International Congress on Quantum Chemistry, Jerusalem (member, organizing committee).

1988

Workshop on Many-Body Methods in Quantum Chemistry, Tel Aviv (organizer).

1989

13th International Workshop on Condensed Matter Theories, Campos de Jordao, Brazil (Invited speaker).

1990

30th Sanibel Symposia, St. Augustine, Florida (Session chairman).

1990

Sixth American Conference on Theoretical Chemistry, San Diego, California.

1990

Workshop on Coupled Cluster Methods, Cambridge, Mass (Invited speaker).

1990

Eighth European Symposium in Computational Chemistry, Gl. Avernaes, Denmark (Invited speaker).

1991

Symposium on Comparison of Ab Initio Quantum Chemistry with Experiment, North American Chemical Congress, New York (Invited speaker).

1991

Seventh International Congress on Quantum Chemistry, Menton, France.

1992

Swedish- Israeli Symposium on 100 Years of the Arrhenius Rate Law, Jerusalem (Invited speaker).

1992

16th International Workshop on Condensed-Matter Theories, Puerto Rico (Invited speaker).

1993

Research Conference on Relativistic Effects in Heavy-Element Chemistry and Physics, De Haan, Belgium (Session chairman).

1993

Second International Conference on Atomic and Nuclear Clusters, Santorini, Greece (Invited speaker).

1994

34th Sanibel Symposia, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida (Session Chairman).

1994

Workshop on Parity Non-Conservation in Atoms and Molecules, Oxford, UK (Invited speaker).

1994

Workshop on Four-Component Methods for Atoms and Molecules, Oxford, UK (Invited speaker).

1994

Meeting on Correlation Methods in Atoms and Molecules, Semolnice, Slovakia (Invited speaker).

1994

Eighth International Congress of Quantum Chemistry, Prague (Invited speaker).

1994

Workshop on Electronic Structure Methods for Lanthanides and Actinides, Helsinki (Invited speaker).

1994

Eighth Conference on Recent Progress in Many-Body Theories, Schloß Seggau, Austria (Invited speaker).

1994

Workshop on Non-Perturbative Many-Body Methods (From Quantum Field Theory to Chemistry), Bad Honnef, Germany (Invited speaker).

1995

Research Conference on Relativistic Quantum Theory of Many-Electron Systems, Il Ciocco, Castelvecchio Pascoly, Italy (Invited speaker).

1995

15th European Conference on Few-Body Systems, Peñíscola, Spain (Member, international advisory committee; Invited speaker).

1995

Molecular Quantum Mechanics: Methods and Applications, Cambridge, UK (Invited speaker).

1996

Research Symposium on Multiconfigurational Perturbation Theory, Gandia, Spain (Speaker).

1996

The First Czech-Israeli Symposium on Structure and Dynamics in Chemistry and Biodisciplines, Prague (Invited Speaker).

1996

WATOC '96, Jerusalem (Invited Speaker).

1996

32nd Symposium on Theoretical Chemistry, Schloß Seggau, Austria (Invited speaker).

1996

Winter School in Theoretical Chemistry, Helsinki (Invited speaker).

1997

Workshop on Quantum Systems in Chemistry and Physics, Oxford (Invited Speaker).

1997

Workshop of the Schwerpunkt in Relativistic Effects in the Physics and Chemistry of Heavy Elements, Bonn (Invited Speaker).

1997

Workshop on the Physics and Chemistry of the Heaviest Elements, Stenungsbaden, Sweden (Invited Speaker).

1997

Coupled Cluster Theory and Electron Correlation Workshop, Cedar Key, Florida (Invited Speaker).

1997

Electron Correlation: From Atoms to Biomolecules, Örenäs Castle, Sweden (Invited speaker).

1997

European Summer School on Quantum Many-Body Theory, Valencia, Spain (Invited speaker).

1998

Third workshop on Quantum Systems in Chemistry and Physics, Granada, Spain (Invited Speaker).

1999

Relativistic Effects in Heavy-Element Chemistry and Physics, Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy (Invited Speaker).

1999

Fourth Workshop on Quantum Systems in Chemistry and Physics, Marly-le-Roi, France (Invited Speaker).

1999

35th Symposium on Theoretical Chemistry, Freiberg (Sachsen), Germany (Invited Speaker).

1999

First International Congress on the Chemistry and Physics of the Trans-Actinide Elements'', Seeheim, Germany (Invited Speaker).

2000

Fifth Workshop on Quantum Systems in Chemistry and Physics, Uppsala, Sweden (Invited Speaker).

2000

Workshop of the Schwerpunkt in Relativistic Effects in the Physics and Chemistry of Heavy Elements, Kloster Banz, Germany (Invited Speaker).

2001

Annual Meeting of the Israeli Chemical Society, Tel Aviv (Invited Speaker).

2001

European Science Foundation meeting on Relativistic Effects in Heavy Element Chemistry and Physics, Kerkrade, The Netherlands (Vice Chairman).

2001

First Finnish Symposium on Quantum Chemistry, Kuusamo, Finland (Invited Speaker).

2001

11th International Conference on Recent Progress in Many-Body Theories, Manchester, UK (Invited Speaker).

2002

Annual Meeting of the Israeli Chemical Society, Jerusalem (Invited Speaker).

2003

Second International Congress on TransActinides, Napa, California (Invited Speaker).

RESEARCH GRANTS

1973-1975

Israel Academy of Science, ``Application of many-body perturbation theory to molecular systems''.

1977-1979

U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation, ``Many-body perturbation theory applied to electron-molecule scattering''.

1979-1982

U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation, ``Matrix methods for low-energy electron-molecule scattering''.

1982-1985

U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation, ``Degenerate many-body perturbation theory''.

1985-1988

U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation, ``General-model-space many-body perturbation theory''.

1987-1990

U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation, ``Molecular transition energies by coupled-cluster methods''.

1989-1992

U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation, ``Coupled-cluster studies of atomic and molecular systems''.

1991-1994

Basic Research Foundation, Israel Academy of Science, ``Heavy atoms and molecules by the coupled-cluster method''.

1993-1996

U.S-Israel Binational Science Foundation, ``Coupled Cluster Method for Atomic and Molecular Systems''.

1994-1997

German-Israeli Foundation, ``Relativistic (One- and Two-Component) Coupled Cluster Method for Heavy Atoms and Molecules''.

1995-1997

Ministry of Science and the Arts, ``Parallelization of Programs in Computational Chemistry''.

1996-1999

U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation, ``Relativistic Four-Component Correlated Wavefunctions for Atoms and Molecules''.

1997-1999

Ministry of Science, ``Parallel Methods for the Computation of Atomic and Molecular Properties''.

1997-2000

INTAS, Brussels, ``Generalized Relativistic Effective Core Potentials for High-Accuracy Coupled-cluster Calculations''.

1997-2000

Israel Science Foundation, ``High Accuracy Computation of Atomic and Molecular Properties (Other than Energies) Including Relativistic Effects''.

1999-2003

U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation, ``High Accuracy Computation of Inner-Shell Processes in Atoms and Molecules''.

2000-2003

Israel Science Foundation, ``Novel Coupled Cluster Methods''.

2003-2005

U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation, ``High Accuracy Treatment of Molecules and Clusters Containing Heavy Atoms''.

2003-2007

Israel Science Foundation, ``High Accuracy Coupled Cluster Calculations of Short-Lived Atomic and Molecular States''.