Homepage of Henk W. J. Blöte

	Work:	Home:
Phone:	(+31) 71-5275523 (+31) 71-5275505 (secretary)	(+31) 71-5893406
Fax:	(+31) 71-5275511

Address:	Lorentz Institute Leiden University Niels Bohrweg 2 2333 CA Leiden The Netherlands	Nassaulaan 74 2382 GP Zoeterwoude The Netherlands
Email:	henk@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl

Present affiliations:

Emeritus professor at the Lorentz Institute ; guest professor at the Beijing Normal University.

Current research:

Novel simulation techniques

Phase transitions and critical phenomena

Renormalization group theory

For details, see List of Publications .

An interactive demonstration of novel Monte Carlo methods was provided by Jouke Heringa (e-mail: J.R.Heringa@tudelft.nl) .

Courses lectured:

Quantum mechanics

Computational physics

Statistical physics

Non-local Monte Carlo methods

Exact solutions of lattice models

Renormalization group theory

General relativity

Non-professional activities: astronomy, telescope building

Some pictures taken in Shabla, Bulgaria, of the 1999 total solar eclipse, using a reflex camera with a 400 mm telephoto objective and Kodak Elite 400 ISO film for color slides:

Picture 1: beginning of eclipse (F/16, 1/500 sec.) Picture 2: corona (F/16, 1/100 sec.) Picture 3: corona (F/8, 1/20 sec.) Picture 4: end of eclipse, diamond ring (F/16, 1/500 sec.) It thus seems that even theorists can take pictures, as further illustrated by few more images of this solar eclipse: see Pierre van Baal's eclipse page and a picture taken by Gerard 't Hooft.