My research is focused in the field of Theoretical/Computational Atomic Molecular Physics, Atomic and Molecular Chemical Kinetics, Computational Molecular Ro-Vibrational Spectroscopy, Spectral Line Shapes, and in the area of First Principle Computational Material Research. I also work on modeling non-linear processes in ionospheric plasmas in collaboration and funding from Sensors directorate at Air Froce Research Laboratory on Wright Patterson Air Force Base. 

• Nathan Zechar (Started Fall 2019) Title “TBA” (IASM PhD,), Wright State University
• James Serna (ASK student) ASK Undergraduate Research Mentor Training
• Sudip Acharya (Started Fall 2019) Title “Development of Embedded Atom Method Interatomic Potentials for Ge-Sn-Si Ternary and Constituent Binary Alloys for Modelling Material Crystallization” (M.S. Thesis), Wright State University. 
• Richard Vanderburg (Started Fall 2019) Title “One-Dimensional Kinetic Particle-In-Cell Simulations of Various Plasma Distributions” (M.S. Thesis), Wright State University
• Truong Nguyen (Graduated Summer, 2019) Title “Development of Numerical Methods to Study Ionospheric Plasma Turbulence and Early-Stage Cancer Cells Invasion” (Ph.D. Thesis), Wright State University. 
• Joseph Wilson (Spring 2018) Title “Using the FDTD Method to Model Electric Field Propagation through Various Materials”, (Senior Thesis), Wright State University.
• Ashok Gurung (Summer 2018) Title “Molecular Dynamics Study Of Hydrogen Trapping And Helium Clustering In Tungsten” (M.S. Thesis), Wright State University. 
• Kevin Scheiman (Spring 2018) Title “A Parallel Spectral Method Approach To Model Plasma Instabilities” (M.S. Thesis), Wright State University. 
• Thanh Nguyen (Spring 2017) Title “Atomistic modeling of Helium diffusion and clustering in Tungsten”, (Senior Thesis), Wright State University.
• Jonathan Troville (anticipated completion Spring 2017) Title “Carbon Nanotube synthesis and modeling” (M.S. Thesis), Wright State University. 
• Tony Kim (graduated in January 2017) Title “Interaction Of Very Low Frequency (Vlf) And Extremely Low Frequency (Elf) Waves In The Ionospheric Plasma And Parameteric Antenna Concept” (Ph.D. Thesis)
• Jeremy Adkins (Spring 2016) Title “First principles prediction of alloyed properties using large super-cell approach”,  (Senior Thesis), Wright State University.

• PhD in Computational Physics  (2008) Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Greifswald, Germany     
• M.S. in Physics  (1997) School of Studies in Physics, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, India    
• B.S.  in Physics and Mathematics  (1995) St. Thomas College, India  

• 2019 -         Associate Professor – Wright State University, Department of Physics                    
• 2013-2019  Assistant Professor – Wright State University, Department of Physics                     
• 2010-2013  Research Associate – Argonne National Lab, Chem. Sci. Eng. Div.                         
• 2008-2010  Post Doctoral Associate  –  Cherry L. Emerson Center for Scientific Computation, Emory University, Department of Chemistry                                                              
• 1998-2005  Research Scientist – Institute For Plasma Research, India                                        

• PHY1010                   Undergrad PHY Seminar II
• PHY 2400                  General Physics I
• PHY 2400R               General Physics I Recitation
• PHY 2410                  General Physics II
• PHY 2410R               General Physics II Recitation
• PHY 2420                  Modern Physics
• PHY 4600/6600       Quantum mechanics I
• PHY 4610/6610       Quantum mechanics II
• PHY 4830/6830       Statistical Mechanics
• PHY 4940                  Senior Project
• PHY 6990                  Special Topics in Physical Science for Teachers
• ISM 8500                   Applications of parallel computers
• PHY 7990                  Minor Problems
• PHY 8000                  Physics Seminar
• PHY 8990                  Research
• ISM 8300                   Independent research
• ISM-8400                   Dissertation research

1. E. Mishin, V. Sotnikov, N. Gershenzon, and A. R. Sharma, “Whistler Waves in the Plasmasphere Boundary Layer: Nonlinear Parametric Excitation”, Geophysical Research Letters, 46. (https://doi.org/10.1029/ 2019GL083432 ) (DOI: 10.1029/2019GL083432)
2. A. R. Sharma and D. E. Weeks, “Interatomic Potentials for Ground and Excited states of Ar + He”, Journal of Chemical Physics 149, 194302 (2018) (https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5049661)
3. A. R. Sharma and D. E. Weeks, “Excited Interatomic Potential Energy Surfaces of Rb + He that correlate with Rb terms 52S through 72S”, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2018, 20, 29274-29284. (DOI:10.1039/C8CP05550E)
4. A. R. Sharma, L. B. Harding, S. Klippenstein, and A. Jasper “Anharmonic effects in kinetic predictions for the CH₃ + O₂recombination reaction”, Submitted to Journal of Chemical Physics, Submitted.
5. L. A. Blank, A. R. Sharma, D. E. W., 2018, “Influence of basis-set size on the , ,and, potential-energy curves, vibrational energies, and D1 and D2 line shapes of Rb+He,” Physical Review A 97, 032705 (2018) . DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.97.032705
6. Jonathan M. Smith, Matthew Nikow, Jianqiang Ma, Michael J. Wilhelm, Yong-Chang Han, Amit R. Sharma, Joel M. Bowman, and Hai-Lung Dai, “Chemical Activation through Super Energy Transfer Collisions”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136, 1682−1685, 2014. DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja4126966
7. S. Carter, A. R. Sharma, and J. M. Bowman, “First-principles calculations of rovibrational energies, dipole transition intensities and partition function for ethylene using MULTIMODE,” The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 137, no. 15, p. 154301, Oct. 2012.
8. Y. Han, A. Sharma, and J. Bowman, “Quasiclassical trajectory study of fast H-atom collisions with acetylene,” The Journal of Chemical Physics, Jan. 2012.
9. A. R. Sharma, J. M. Bowman, and D. J. Nesbitt, “Large-amplitude dynamics in vinyl radical: The role of quantum tunneling as an isomerization mechanism,” The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 136, no. 3, p. 034305, 2012.
10. S. Carter, A. R. Sharma, and J. M. Bowman, “Multimode calculations of rovibrational energies and dipole transition intensities for polyatomic molecules with torsional motion: application to H₂O₂.,” The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 135, no. 1, p. 014308, Jul. 2011. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3604935
11. J. M. Bowman, B. J. Braams, S. Carter, C. Chen, G. Czakó, B. Fu, X. Huang, E. Kamarchik, A. R. Sharma, B. C. Shepler, Y. Wang, and Z. Xie, “Ab-Initio-Based Potential Energy Surfaces for Complex Molecules and Molecular Complexes,” The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, vol. 1, no. 12, pp. 1866–1874, Jun. 2010.
12. R. Warmbier, R. Schneider, A. R. Sharma, B. J. Braams, J. M. Bowman, and P. H. Hauschildt, “Ab initio modeling of molecular IR spectra of astrophysical interest: application to CH₄” A&A, vol. 495, no. 2, pp. 655–661, Feb. 2009. DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:200810983
13. S. Carter, A. R. Sharma, J. M. Bowman, P. Rosmus, and R. Tarroni, “Calculations of rovibrational energies and dipole transition intensities for polyatomic molecules using MULTIMODE,” The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 131, no. 22, p. 224106, Jan. 2009.
14. A. R. Sharma, B. J. Braams, and S. Carter, “Full-dimensional ab initio potential energy surface and vibrational configuration interaction calculations for vinyl,” The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 130, no. 17, p. 174301, 2009.http://link.aip.org/link/?JCPSA6/130/174301/1
15. A. R. Sharma, R. Schneider, and U. Toussaint, “Hydrocarbon radicals interaction with amorphous carbon surfaces,” Journal of Nuclear Materials, vol. 363, pp. 1283–1288, 2007. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2007.01.180).
16. A. R. Sharma, J. Wu, B. J. Braams, S. Carter, R. Schneider, B. shepler, and J. M. Bowman, “Potential energy surface and MULTIMODE vibrational analysis of C₂H₃⁺,” The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 125, no. 22, p. 224306, Dec. 2006.
17. A. Sharma and S. Chaturvedi, “3‐D Time‐Dependent Neutronics‐Linked Hydrodynamics Calculations for Inertial Fusion Targets,” AIP Conference Proceedings, Jan. 2005. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1945287).
18. A. Sharma, S. Ganesan, and A. Trkov, “SIGACE Code for Generating High‐Temperature ACE Files; Validation and Benchmarking,” AIP Conference Proceedings, Jan. 2005. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1945056).
19. A. R. Sharma, D. Chandra, S. Chaturvedi, S. Ganesan, and H. Wienke, “Re-investigations of integral neutron multiplication experiments with 14 MeV neutrons in lead,” Fusion Engineering and Design, vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 501–512, Sep. 2001. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0920-3796(01)00220-4).
20. Ganesan, S., Sharma, A. R., & Wienke, H., “New investigations of the criticality property of pure ²³²U”, Annals of Nuclear Energy, 29(9), 1085–1104, 2002. http://doi.org/10.1016/S0306-4549(01)00097-4
21. A. Sharma, D. Chandra, and S. Chaturvedi, “Analysis of Integral Benchmark Experiments with Latest Evaluated Nuclear Data,” Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 39(sup2), 1151–1154, 2002.http://doi.org/10.1080/00223131.2002.10875306.
22. A. R. Sharma and S. Ganesan, “Integral Validation And Use Of Improved Nuclear Data In Fusion Blanket Studies”,  IAEA report, 1^st March 2002. Research contract number 302-F4-IND-11566.
23. S. Carter, J. M. Bowman, A. S. A. C. Proceedings, 2012, “The‘MULTIMODE approach to ro-vibrational spectroscopy,” aip.scitation.org
24. A. R. Sharma, B. Braams, S. Carter, R. Schneider, B. Shepler and J. M. Bowman , “Multimode Vibrational Analysis Of C₂H₅⁺Using Full Dimensional Ab Initio Potential Energy Surface And Dipole Moment Surface”, Journal of chemical physics.
25. R. C.  Agrawal, R. K. Gupta, M. L. Verma, A. R. Sharma ,“POLARIZATION/SELF-DEPOLARIZATION STUDIES ON Ag⁺ ION CONDUCTING QUENCHED [0.75agi: 0.25agcl] MIXED SYSTEM SOLID SOLUTION”, Indian Journal of Pure & Applied Physics 37 (4): 235-238, Apr 1999 (Masters Thesis work).

Book Chapter:

23. INTRODUCTION TO MOLECULAR DYNAMICS, R. Schneider, A. R. Sharma, A. Rai, Lecture Notes in Physics, Vol. 739, 2008, XVI, 780, Hardcover, ISBN: 978-3-540-74685-0, Computational Many-Particle Physics, (Ed.) H. Fehske, R. Schneider and A. Weisse, Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 3-40, 2008, Wilhelm & Else Heraeus Summer school (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74686-7).

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS                                                                            

1. Invited to present at the “Collaborative Conference on Materials Research (CCMR)”, 25th - 29th, June 2018 in Incheon/Seoul, South Korea. 

2. Invited to present at “Joint ICTP-IAEA School and Workshop on Fundamental Methods for Atomic, Molecular and Materials Properties in Plasma Environments at the ICTP”, 16 April 2018 to 20 April 2018. 

3. Invited to present at the “Workshop on GeSn and GeSiSn” organized by Optoelectronic Technology Branch of Air Force Research Laboratory. 10th January 2018. 

4. Amit. R. Sharma, "MD and Adaptive Kinetic Monte Carlo Study of Hydrogen and Helium Diffusion/Trapping/Clustering in First–Wall Tungsten", 16th International Conference on Plasma-Facing Materials and Components (16th PFMC), Düsseldorf, Germany, from May 16th - 19th, 2017.
5. Amit. R. Sharma, “Adaptive Kinetic Monte Carlo Study of Hydrocarbon Diffusion/Trapping in First– Wall and Amorphous Hydrocarbon Flakes”, Joint ICTP-CAS-IAEA School and Workshop on Plasma- Material Interaction in Fusion Devices, CAS Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Hefei, Anhui Province, China, 18-22 July 2016.
6. Adrienne Traxler, Beth Basista, Amit R. Sharma, “Interactive Engagement Calculus-based Physics”, Teaching for Student Success Symposium, Wright State University, August 23, 2016.
7. Truong (John) Nguyen, Amit R. Sharma, Mohamed Sulman, “Development of Efficient Solver for LH Plasma Turbulence Coupled Equations” IASM Retreat, Wright State University, August 26, 2016.
8. Amit. R. Sharma, “Effective Cyberinfrastructure for Scientific Computation”, Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium2016, Sep 20-21 2016
9. G. Kozlowski, A. Sharma, R. Kleismit, S. Rana, A. Fletcher, J. Shugart, M. Braydich, J. Boeckl, N. McDonald, J. Van Nostrand, and D. Telesca, “Covetics – a new class of materials containing high carbon concentration”, 2015 MRS Fall Meeting, November 29-December 4, 2015, Boston, Massachusetts
10. Amit. R. Sharma, Lawrence B. Harding and Stephen J. Klippenstein, “Kinetics of methyl peroxy formation”, American Chemical Society National Meeting, Dallas TX, March 16-20, 2014, Type (Oral).
11. Amit. R. Sharma, QE Workshop, Penn State, June 16-20, 2014, Type (Oral).
12. Amit R. Sharma, Lawrence B. Harding, and Stephen J. Klippenstein. KINETICS OF METHYL RADICAL OXIDATION AT HIGH PRESSURE. 22nd International Symposium on Gas Kinetics, 2012. Boulder Colorado, June 18-22.
13. Amit R. Sharma, Lawrence B. Harding, and Stephen J. Klippenstein. ROLE OF RADICAL-COMPLEX INTERMEDIATES IN HIGH-PRESSURE CHEMISTRY.  Gordon Research Conference on Atomic & Molecular Interactions, Stonehill College, Easton, MA, July 2012.
14. Amit R. Sharma, Lawrence B. Harding, and Stephen J. Klippenstein. A THEORETICAL STUDY OF THE RADICAL-COMPLEX MECHANISM FOR CH₃ + O₂ AT HIGH PRESSURE. 7th International Conference on Chemical Kinetics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, July 10-14, 2011.- WON BEST POSTER AWARD
15. Amit R. Sharma, Yuri. Georgievskii, Lawrence B. Harding, and Stephen J.   Klippenstein. KINETIC STUDY OF METHYL RADICAL OXIDATION WITH MOLECULAR OXYGEN.  7th US National Combustion Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, 2011.
16. Amit R. Sharma, Joel M. Bowman, and Stuart C. Carter. REACTION PATH STUDY OF TUNNELING SPLITTING IN FLOPPY MOLECULES. Southeastern Theoretical Chemistry Association (SETCA), 2010.
17. Amit R. Sharma Bastiaan J. Braams, and Joel M. Bowman. VINYL RADICAL POTENTIAL ENERGY SURFACE: HYDROGEN MIGRATION AND VIBRATIONAL TUNNELING SPLITTING. Gordon Conference on Molecular Energy Transfer (GRCOMET), 2009.
18. Amit R. Sharma, Joel M. Bowman, and Stuart C. Carter. REACTION PATH STUDY OF TUNNELING SPLITTING IN FLOPPY MOLECULES. Southeastern Theoretical Chemistry Association (SETCA), 2008.
19. Amit R. Sharma, Bastiaan J. Braams, and Joel M. Bowman. High-accuracy spectral lines for radiation transport in stellar atmospheres. 10th HITRAN Conference, Cambridge MA, 2008.
20. A. R. Sharma, S. Ganesan and A. Trkov, "SIGACE CODE FOR GENERATING HIGH TEMPERATURE ACE FILES; Validation and Benchmarking", AIP Conference Proceedings no.769, 2005 
21. A. R. Sharma and S. Chaturvedi, “3-D NEUTRONICS-LINKED HYDRODYNAMICS CALCULATIONS FOR INERTIAL FUSION TARGETS”, AIP Conference Proceedings, May 24, 2005, Volume 769, pp. 1493-1496, International conference on nuclear data for science and technology  
22. A. R. Sharma, "MCNP- Speedup calculations on Beowulf cluster at IPR", "DAE meeting on Parallel computing and its application in science and Engineering (PASE)", November 27-28, 2003, Mumbai, India.

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Hardware Configuration

1 x Head & Storage - Pinnacle 2X3603H8

Model: Pinnacle 2X3603H8
Base System: 2U Dual Xeon system with 8x 3.5" drive bays
Processor(s): 2x Intel Ten Core Xeon E5-2640v4 2.4GHz - 90W
Memory: 128GB - 8x 16GB DDR4 2400MHz
Storage configuration: Hardware SAS/SATA RAID controller
Raid controller: Dual-core 12Gb/s hardware RAID controller (levels 0,1,5,6,10,50,60) RAID controller cache: Flash backup for RAID controller cache
Storage: 8x 6TB SATA 12Gb/s Enterprise Hard Drive 7200RPM w/ 256MB Cache Boot / OS drives: 2x 240GB Data Center SATA 2.5" Solid State Drive
Boot / OS drive location: Two 2.5" hotswap drive bays in rear of system Networking: 2x RJ45 10Gb ethernet ports
Expansion Slot(s): Single port FDR (56Gb) QSFP InfiniBand adapter
Management: Remote iKVM with dedicated management RJ45 ethernet
Power Supply: Dual 1100W PSU (redundant)

12 x Compute Block 128GB Node E5v4 204

Model: Compute Block Node E5v4 204
Base System: Compute Block Node for Xeon E5-26XXv4 series
Processor(s): 2x Intel Ten Core Xeon E5-2630v4 2.2GHz - 85W
Memory: 128GB - 8x 16GB DDR4 2400MHz
Storage configuration: 4x 2.5" hot-swap drive bays
Storage: 240GB Data Center SATA 2.5" Solid State Drive
Storage: 1TB SATAII 6Gb/s Enterprise 2.5" Hard Drive 7200RPM w/ 128MB Cache Networking: 2x RJ45 1Gb ethernet ports
InfiniBand: 1x on-board FDR (56Gb/s) InfiniBand QSFP port
Expansion Slot: Empty Low Profile 16x PCI-e Gen 3.0 slot
Management: Remote iKVM with dedicated management RJ45 ethernet

22 x Compute Block 64GB Node E5v4 204

Model: Compute Block Node E5v4 204
Base System: Compute Block Node for Xeon E5-26XXv4 series
Processor(s): 2x Intel Ten Core Xeon E5-2630v4 2.2GHz - 85W
Memory: 64GB - 8x 8GB DDR4 2400MHz
Storage configuration: 4x 2.5" hot-swap drive bays
Storage: 240GB Data Center SATA 2.5" Solid State Drive
Storage: 1TB SATAII 6Gb/s Enterprise 2.5" Hard Drive 7200RPM w/ 128MB Cache Networking: 2x RJ45 1Gb ethernet ports
InfiniBand: 1x on-board FDR (56Gb/s) InfiniBand QSFP port
Expansion Slot: Empty Low Profile 16x PCI-e Gen 3.0 slot
Management: Remote iKVM with dedicated management RJ45 ethernet

1 x 128GB Pinnacle GPU 2XG3602

Model: Pinnacle GPU 2XG3602
Base System: 2U Dual Xeon GPU ready system with 8x 2.5" drive bays
Processor(s): 2x Intel Ten Core Xeon E5-2640v4 2.4GHz - 90W
Memory: 128GB - 8x 16GB DDR4 2400MHz
Storage configuration: Onboard SATA controller (software RAID only)
Storage: 240GB Data Center SATA 2.5" Solid State Drive
Storage: 1TB SATAII 6Gb/s Enterprise 2.5" Hard Drive 7200RPM w/ 128MB Cache Networking: 2x RJ45 1Gb ethernet ports
GPU Expansion Slots: 2x NVIDIA Tesla P100 PCI-E 12GB GDDR5 Passive Single GPU Expansion Slot: Single port FDR (56Gb) QSFP InfiniBand adapter
Management: Remote iKVM with dedicated management RJ45 ethernet
Power Supply: Dual 2000W PSU (redundant)
 

1 x FDR InfiniBand networking

Model: FDR InfiniBand networking
Used IB ports: 36x ports
Oversubscription: 1:1 No-oversubscription
IB switch: 36 port IB FDR single PSU switch w/o chassis management - QSFP ports

1 x Network System - Gigabit

Node communication is provided through an Ethernet network. 

This is accomplished through one 1U Netgear 48-port managed gigabit switch.

Netgear M4300 Series - 48-port Gb L3 managed switch with 2x 10Gb SFP+ and 2x 10Gb Base-T ports 

1 x Software

Model: Software

ACT dir is Advanced Clustering's compilation of the best open-source software and tools, created by Advanced Clustering for high-performance computing.
ACT dir includes:

CentOS
Cloner - Our image replication and node installation software.
ACT Utils - Our set of command line utilities to easy cluster administration and management. Multiple message passing (MPI) libraries supporting both Ethernet and Infiniband
Job queuing / scheduler system
Benchmarking/Diagnostic tools