Nicholas D. K. Petraco
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
c.v.
Office:
North Hall, Room 4208.2
phone: (212) 484-1315
Mail:
City
University
of New York
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Department of Science
899
10th Ave.
New
York, NY
10019
Dept. fax: (212) 237-8318
Teaching:
Current:
- Physical
Chemistry II (CHEM 302, Quantum Mechanics and Spectroscopy)
Past:
- Chemistry
I, II, CHEM 101, 102
- How
Things Work, PHYS 108
- Computational
Chemistry, CHEM 86921
- General
Chemistry II, CHEM 104
- Physical
chemistry I, equilibrium thermodynamics and kinetics, CHEM 301.
- Introduction
to Physics I, II (with algebra), PHYS 101 and 102
- Introduction
to Physics I, II (with calculus), PHYS 203 and 204
- Calculus
I (Calculus for Scientists), (Math 203, University
of Waterloo)
- Advanced
Molecular Quantum Mechanics Lecture Notes (University
of Georgia)
(notes coming eventually....)
- Summer
Lectures
- Dr.
Yamaguchi's Course
Research Interests:
- Computational
Forensic Chemistry and Physics
- Ab-initio
computational quantum forensic chemistry
- Studies
of molecular probes for detection of explosives, fingerprints and
illicit drugs
Get
MATHEMATICA!
My Mathematica
Notebooks
Erdös number = 6
Publications: (see CV above)
People and Places Doing Interesting Stuff:
Forensic
Chemistry and Forensic Science
Applied
Mathematics
Quantum
Chemistry
Chemistry
Mathematical
Physics
Friends I can't
pigeonhole
Nicholas Petraco The Forensic Scientist
Indispensable Links and Other Stuff:
Dictionary
TeX Users Group (TUG)
arxiv.org
SPIRES
MPQC
PSI 3 Quantum Chemistry Package
IAMP
Interesting Local
Seminars