Curriculum Vitae June 2008
Dr. Paul D. Siders  
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (218)726-6138 (office)
University of Minnesota Duluth (218)726-7394 ( fax)
1039 University Drive web: http://www.duluth.umn.edu/~psiders
Duluth, Minnesota 55812-3020

Education:

Ph. D., Chemistry, 1983
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

B. S., Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics, 1978
University of Wisconsin - Whitewater, Whitewater, Wisconsin

Employment:

Associate Professor, 1992 - current, Assistant Professor, 1986 - 1991
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Minnesota Duluth

Research Associate, June 1986 to August 1986
Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory

Assistant Professor, 1985 - 1986
Department of Chemistry, Florida Atlantic University

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 1983 - 1985
Radiation Laboratory, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana

Professional Associations:
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Physical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society

M.S. Chemistry theses supervised:

  1. Mengtao He, 1989, Monte Carlo calculation of orientationally anisotropic pair distribution functions and energy transfer in a model monolayer.
  2. Qingsheng Xin, 1993, The statistical mechanics of hard spheres in narrow cylindrical pores.
  3. Isao Hiyane, 1994, The application of the isothermal-isobaric ensemble: The unification of one-dimensional nearest-neighbor systems.
  4. Yi Mao, 1995, Modeling of calcite surface and ab initio studies of calcite surface speciation and kinetics of dissolution in acidic and neutral solution.
  5. Kunnath Sushma C. Kumaran, 2004, Nonequilibrium steady states of the lattice gas.

Publications:

  1. Paul Siders and J. K. Romary, "Computer quadrature programs for the determination of best-fit acid dissociation and complex formation constants," J. Inorg. Nucl. Chem., 41(4), 547-548, 1979. doi:10.1016/0022-1902(79)80442-X
  2. R. Ramaswamy, Paul Siders, and R. A. Marcus, "Semiclassical quantization of multidimensional systems," J. Chem. Phys., 73, 5400-5401, 1980. doi:10.1063/1.439939
  3. Paul Siders and R. A. Marcus, "Quantum effects in electron- transfer reactions," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 103, 741-747, 1981. legacy archives
  4. Paul Siders and R. A. Marcus, "Quantum effects in electron-transfer reactions in the 'inverted region'," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 103, 748-752, 1981. legacy archives
  5. R. Ramaswamy, Paul Siders, and R. A. Marcus, "A simple classical model of infrared multiphoton dissociation," J. Chem. Phys., 74, 4418-4425, 1981. doi:10.1063/1.441683
  6. R. A. Marcus and Paul Siders, "Theory of highly exothermic electron-transfer reactions," J. Phys. Chem., 86, 622-630, 1982. legacy archives
  7. R. A. Marcus and Paul Siders, "Further developments in electron transfer," in Mechanistic Aspects of Inorganic Reactions, D. B. Rorabacher and J. F. Endicott, Eds., ACS Symposium Series 198, American Chemical Soc., Washington, D.C., 1982, pp. 235-248.
  8. Paul Siders and John J. Kozak, "The Kirkwood superposition approximation for hard rods at high pressure," J. Chem. Phys., 81, 4594-4602, 1984. doi:10.1063/1.447391
  9. Paul Siders, Robert J. Cave, and R. A. Marcus, "A model for orientation effects in electron-transfer reactions," J. Chem. Phys., 81, 5613-5624, 1984. doi:10.1063/1.447665
  10. Paul Siders and John J. Kozak, "Thermodynamic self-consistency for hard spheres at low density," J. Chem. Phys., 82, 4257-4263, 1985. doi:10.1063/1.448816
  11. Robert J. Cave, Paul Siders, and R. A. Marcus, "Mutual orientation effects on electron transfer between porphyrins," J. Phys. Chem., 90, 1436-1444, 1986. legacy archives
  12. Jodi Wesemann, Lihong Qin, and Paul Siders, "Orientational Ordering in a Monolayer of Hard Oblate Spheroids," Langmuir, 5, 1358-1363, 1989. legacy archives
  13. Paul Siders, "Monte Carlo study of a monolayer of hard oblate spheroids," Molecular Physics, 68(5), 1001-1013, 1989. doi: 10.1080/00268978900102701
  14. He Mengtao and Paul Siders, "Monte Carlo calculation of orientationally anisotropic pair distributions and energy transfer in a model monolayer," J. Phys. Chem., 94, 7280-7288, 1990. legacy archives
  15. Paul Siders, "Monte-Carlo calculation of energy and electron transfer in a monolayer of spheroids," J. Chem. Soc., Faraday Trans., 87(1), 51-56, 1991. doi:10.1039/FT9918700051
  16. Qingsheng Xin, Isao Hiyane, and Paul Siders, "Statistical thermodynamics of hard spheres in a narrow cylindrical pore," J. Chem. Soc., Faraday Trans., 90(7), 973-977, 1994. doi:10.1039/FT9949000973
  17. Paul Siders, "Calorimetric determination of aqueous ion enthalpies", J. Chem. Ed., 74(2), 235-236, 1997. abstract
  18. Yi Mao and Paul Siders, "Molecular Hartree-Fock model of calcium carbonate," The Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, 419, 173-184, 1997. doi:10.1016/S0166-1280(97)00186-3
  19. Dennis J. Thackeray and Paul Siders, "Molecular-orbital and empirical-potential descriptions of CaCO3," J. Chem. Soc., Faraday Trans., 94, 2653-2661, 1998. doi:10.1039/a804260h
  20. Paul D. Siders, "Effects of field orientation on the driven lattice gas," J. Stat. Phys., 119(3-4), 861-880, 2005. doi: 10.1007/s10955-005-4427-9