Bernard Shizgal

Bernard Shizgal is a Faculty member in the Department of Chemistry at The University of British Columbia. His research interests include statistical mechanics with applications to atmospheric and space science, ion and electron transport, chemical kinetics, stochastic processes, and rarefied gas dynamics. His work is based on the Boltzmann equation or Fokker-Planck equation, focusing on the development of new methods for solving transport equations. Recent efforts involve the Quadrature Discretization Method (QDM) for kinetic theory and quantum mechanical problems. His research also includes the modeling of the terrestrial exosphere and its coupling with the ionosphere-magnetosphere systems, in collaboration with Professor Andrew Yau at the University of Calgary. His publications span various areas, including the Fokker-Planck equation, Kramers equations, and pseudospectral methods for solving differential equations.

Bernie Shizgal is a researcher at the University of British Columbia with a focus on kinetic theory. His work explores the application of numerical methods to solve complex physical and chemical problems, including the Boltzmann equation, Fokker-Planck equations, and Schrödinger equations. He has contributed to the study of nonthermal escape of planetary atmospheres, rarefied gas dynamics, and suprathermal particle distributions. His research also addresses nonequilibrium contributions to reaction rates and the resolution of Gibbs phenomena through spectral methods. Shizgal's publications highlight the use of pseudospectral and discrete ordinate methods in solving boundary value problems and eigenvalue problems in physics and chemistry.