Alexey V. Sergeev
Department of Chemistry
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118
(504) 247-1814

http://www.asergeev.com
Russian citizenship, US permanent residency

1974 – 1980	Student of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) State University, Russia Physics Department. Specialized in theoretical physics - quantum mechanics. Diploma thesis supervised by I. V. Abarenkov.
1986	Degree of Candidate of Sciences, Russian equivalent of PhD Leningrad State University, Russia. Thesis titled "Development of Analytical Methods of Perturbation Theory for Calculation of Atoms and Ions". Advisor A. I. Sherstyuk.
1980 – 2002	Researcher of S. I. Vavilov State Optical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia Perturbation theory for atoms in plasma, atoms in strong electric and magnetic fields, 1/n-expansion in quantum mechanics, theory of Padé approximants. Collaboration with group of V. S. Popov from ITEP, Moscow. 35 publications, prize of St. Petersburg Physical Society (1993).
Feb. – Aug. 1996 Jan. – Dec. 1997	Research Associate in SMU, Dallas, Texas 1/D-expansion in atomic and molecular physics, methods of summation. With D. Goodson, 5 publications.
Sept. – Dec. 1996	Research Associate in University of Oklahoma, Norman 1/D-expansion for helium, group of D. Watson.
1998 – 1999	Postdoctoral Researcher in Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana Transition from bound states to continuum spectrum, stability of atoms with varying nuclear charge, doubly negative ions, with S. Kais, 3 publications.
2000 – 2002	Postdoctoral Researcher in University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel Radiationless transitions in molecules using phase space representation (method of Wigner functions). Advisor B. Segev, 5 publications.
2003 – 2004	Postdoctoral Researcher in University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Behavior of Møller-Plesset perturbation theory, analysis of the energy function and improving the convergence. Advisor D. Goodson, 4 publications.
2005 until now	Postdoctoral Researcher in Tulane University, New Orleans, LA Development of semiclassical surface hopping methods. Advisor M. Herman, a study of a specific form of IVR method.
Oct. – Dec. 2005	Visiting Researcher in Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 1/D-expansion and planetary states of helium; issues of semiclassical theory, in a group of G. Ezra.