About Author#
Ryoichi Kawai (Associate Professor Emeritus)
Department of Physics, University of Alabama at Birmingham
email: kawai@uab.edu
website: kawaihome.link
Dr. Kawai received Ph. D from Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan) in 1985. After that he worked at Department of Mathematics, the Imperial College of London, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center (Yorktown Heights, NY), Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego. Throughout the period, he acquired a wide range of science including mathematical and computational skills.
In 1991, he joined the University of Alabama at Birmingham as assistant professor. He taught a wide range of courses from basic physics such as quantum mechanics and statistical physics to biophysics. In 1997, he received The President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching . In 2021, he officially retired but continues his research and educational activities as emeritus faculty.
His research topics includes
Foundation of quantum mechanics
Foundation of classical and quantum statistical physics and thermodynamics
Quantum information theory and quantum computation
Classical and quantum stochastic processes
Electronic structure calculation of molecules and crystals.
Theoretical/computational cellular biology
Theoretical/computational neuroscience
In addition, he is interested in
The origin of time’s arrow
The origin of life