Alexander Grosberg

Theoretical Physics of Polymers and Biopolymers

Theoretical Biophysics

at the University of Minnesota

Students:
Longhua Hu

Some of the former students

Alexander Zhestkov, PhD 1980, Professor, Chelyabinsk
Eugene Shakhnovich , PhD 1984, Professor, Harvard
Serguei Nechaev , PhD 1987, Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics, and Institute de Physique Nucleaire, Orsay
Dmitri Kuznetsov, PhD 1987
Eugenia Kaganova, PhD 1989, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
Dmitri Pakhomov, PhD 1989
Irene Gabashvili, PhD 1991, computational bioscience research at Hewlett-Packard
Natalia Khrustova, PhD 1994, Institute of Biochemical Physics, Moscow
Vijay Pande , PhD 1995, Associate Professor, Stanford
Rose Du , PhD 1999 + MD 2000, Faculty Member Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Jeffrey Chuang , PhD 2002, Assistant Professor, Boston College
George Estrevez, MSc 2003, Grad. Student, Univ. Minnesota, Chemistry
Douglas Ohlendorf, MSc 2004, Student, Univetsity of Minnesota Medical School
Rhonald Lua, PhD 2005, NIST researcher
Nathan Moore, Assistant Professor of Physics, Winiona State

This is the lattice model of a protein attacking its substrate. Yes, it does follow an anecdote ("Assume that a horse has a shape of a cube, 1 meter size and 1 kilogramm weight ..."), except it is serious.

In the Digital Technology Center , several computationally intensive projects are now under way involving lattice and other models of biopolymers.

PAPERS

Complete (more or less complete) list of publications is available here in pdf.

Separately, here is the list of review articles.

BOOKS

Alexander Grosberg and Alexei Khokhlov " Statistical Physics of Macromolecules " AIP, 1994
(you welcome to comment here )
New edition is still in works

Alexander Grosberg and Alexei Khokhlov " Giant Molecules " (write your comments here )
Academic Press, 1997

Alexander Grosberg, Editor " Theoretical and Mathematical Models in Polymer Research " ( comments, please )
Academic Press, 1998

Alexander Grosberg "Lectures on Disordered Polymers"
(coming, hopefully, soon)

RESUME

Alexander Grosberg
Graduated from Moscow State University (1972);
PhD (1975), supervisor Professor Ilya M.Lifshitz;
DSc (1982).
Professor of Physics, University of Minnesota, since 1999.
Born in Moscow, Russia, in 1949.
Married, two children.
Nickname: Shura.

Here you can see my more detailed resume , in pdf format.

Heteropolymers

Polyelectrolytes and Polyampholytes
Here is the review article on charge inversion

Knots
Here are some of my articles on knots,
Critical exponents for random knots , and
Self avoiding knots .

Here is the (not so recent) PRL on glass transition in polymer globule.

I collaborated a lot with the experimental group of Professor Tanaka at MIT on polymer gels.

FAQ

**And here is my favorite image of computer simulations in biophysics:**

Please E-mail me at grosberg@physics.umn.edu