Chandre Dharma-wardana

Chandre Dharma-wardana is a Sri Lankan-born academic and scientist. A former President of Vidyodaya Campus (now the University of Sri Jayewardenepura), he is currently a Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Université de Montréal.

Education

Educated at Ananda College and at Royal College, Colombo he earned a BSc (Hon.) from the University of Ceylon in 1961.^[1] He proceeded to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge where he earned his PhD with a dissertation on quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics.^{[citation needed]}

Academic career

After a period at the National Research Council of Canada, he returned to Vidyodaya University (now the University of Sri Jayewardenepura), Sri Lanka, then under leadership of Ven. Walpola Rahula as President in 1969.^{[citation needed]} Joining the university as a senior lecturer, he was later appointed Professor of Chemistry.^[2] From 1974 to 1975 he was appointed as President of Vidyodaya Campus. During this period he also held associate appointments with the Université de Paris, Orsay via the CECAM institute, associated with the French Atomic Energy Commission and the CNRS.^[2] He was also a Director of the CeyLon Leather Products and Tannery from 1972 to 1974.^{[citation needed]} Currently, he is affiliated with the National Research Council of Canada and the Université de Montréal, and works on various topics in the quantum theory and nanotechnology.^[3]

Fields of research

Professor Dharma-wardana has worked on a wide variety of scientific topics, where the unifying theme is the application of the quantum theory, usually to many-body problems.^[4] His work focused on quantum theory, statistical mechanics and solid state physics. He has also done research into many-body theory and plasma physics, often in collaboration with François Perrot of the French Atomic Energy commission. Thus the construction of the classical-map scheme for quantum systems ^[5] is a ground-breaking work, leading to the formulation of the classical-map hyper-netted chain method (CHNC). This method has led to a new approach for the evaluation of properties of Fermi liquids. His previous work on the density-functional theory of dense plasmas ^[6] is now a well-established method in the field. It has led to the development of methods for the first-principles evaluation of the equation of state, and the transport properties of dense plasmas.^[7] His contributions to the energy-relaxation of hot electrons in semiconductors and also in plasmas,^[8][9] has presented a new direction in the theory of non-equilibrium states of two-temperature charged fluids. His paper elucidating the unusual thermal conductivity of clathrates still attracts many citations.^[10] His contributions to surface science (e.g. reconstruction of the sulphur-passivated InP surface), nanotechnology, phonons in semiconductor structures, quasi-periodic systems ^[11] etc., are well known and are contained in over 200 research publications. Dharma-wardana currently serves as a Principal Research scientist at the National Research Council of Canada, and is a Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Université de Montréal, so also Whose Who, Canada.^[1]

Contributions to development studies

Professor Dharma-wardana has also contributed to development studies^[12] in Sri Lanka. He was invited to talk about a web site of place names in a conference organized by the Roryal asiatic Society of Sri Lanka.^[13]

See also

• Classical-map hypernetted-chain method
• Classical fluids, Quantum fluid

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Whose Who, Canada (University of Toronto Publication, updated annually)
2. ^ ^{a b} Nuclear Plants in Sri Lanka and the Indiansubcontinent
3. ^ Quantum Theory Group
4. ^ M.W.C. Dharma-wardana, M. Cornille and F. Schuller, "Le Problem a N- corps", Université Paris-N., Villetaneuse, France (1982) ISBN 2-906222-02-x. [NRCC 20279]
5. ^ Physical Review Letters, vol 84, p. 959 (2000)
6. ^ Density Functional Theory, Ed. E. K. U. Gross and R. M. Dreizler, Plenum, New York, 1995, p635
7. ^ Phys. Rev. E . vol 73, p 036401 (2006)
8. ^ Density functional and non-equilibrium methods for unusual states of matter produced using short-pulse lasers, in Laser Interactions with Atoms, Solids, and Plasmas (NATO ASI, series B vol. 327), p 331 Edited by R.M.More (Plenum, N.Y) 1994.
9. ^ M. W. C. Dharma-wardana, Quantum corrections and bound-state effects in hot dense hydrogen, Phys. Rev. Lett. vol.101, p.035002 (2008)
10. ^ The Thermal Conductivity of Ice Polymorphs and the Ice-Clathrates, J. Phys. Chem. 87, 4185 (1983)
11. ^ M.W.C. Dharma-wardana, A.H. MacDonald, D.J. Lockwood, J.-M. Baribeau and D.C. Houghton, Raman Scattering in Fibonacci Superlattices, Phys. Rev. Lett. vol.58, p.1761 (1987)
12. ^ Dudley Seer's Report, Matching Employment Opportunities and Expectations, (ILO), tables 3.2-3 1972
13. ^ [http://www.royalasiaticsociety.lk/http://www.royalasiaticsociety.lk/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/RASSL-2010-Vol-01-No-31.pdf RASSL NEWSLETTER]

External links

• Descriptive page at the National Research Council of Canada
• Link to Université de Montreal

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