I'm Eric Bittner, Professor of Theoretical Chemistry and Chemical Physics
at the University of Houston.
My research is in the area of quantum dynamics of condensed phase systems.
Excitonic and charge-transfer procesess in organic semiconducting polymers
Decoherence and quantum localization.
Quantum transport in disordered systems
Hydrodynamic models of quantum transport
Quantum many-body theory of atomic liquids
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I've been a member/contributer of seti@home since 1999 when I downloaded the
nifty screen-saver. I often thought that should one of the signals that my Mac was chugging away on actually turn out to be an ET transmission, it would probably
say "Please, no more `I Love Lucy' or else `Pow! Right in the kisser!'"
I have been interested in the search for ET life since watching Carl Sagan's ``Cosmos'' program on PBS when I was in grade school. In fact it got me into quite a bit of trouble with the Lutheran school I attended when I gave a book report on evolution and the probability of ET contact within my lifetime.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.
