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Semi-classical Methods in Physics and Chemistry
Apr 7, 2003 to Apr 11, 2003

Organizer(s)

R. Littlejohn, W.H. Miller, and M. Zworski
To apply for funding, you must register by Mon, Jan 20 2003.

Registration Deadline

Fri, Apr 11 2003

Contact

The goal of the workshop is to bring together experts in applied and mathematical semi-classical methods. We are hoping for a blend of talks on applied mathematics, numerical methods, and concrete physical applications.

Funding

To apply for funding, you must register by Mon, Jan 20 2003. Click to Register
Students, recent Ph.D.'s, women, and members of underrepresented minorities are particularly encouraged to apply. Funding awards are made typically 6 weeks before the workshop begins. Requests received after the funding deadline are considered only if additional funds become available.

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Schedule
Monday, April 07, 2003
9:00AM - 9:15AM Loa Nowina-Sapinski Welcome and introduction
9:15AM - 10:15AM Mark Child Quantum monodromy in the spectrum of water and other species [Video available]
10:15AM - 10:45AM Marsha Borg Morning Tea
10:45AM - 11:45AM Predrag Cvitanovic Hopf’s last hope: Spatiotemporal chaos in terms of unstable recurrent patterns [Video available]
11:45AM - 12:45PM Paul Brumer Semi-classical mechanics in the coherent control of molecular processes [Video available]
12:45PM - 2:00PM Marsha Borg Lunch
2:00PM - 3:00PM William Miller TBA [Video available]
3:00PM - 3:30PM Marsha Borg Afternoon Tea
3:30PM - 4:30PM Boris Zhilinskii Fractional monodromy of classical and quantum nonlinear oscillators and defects of lattices [Video available]
Tuesday, April 08, 2003
9:00AM - 10:00AM Frederic Faure Topological indices in molecular spectra [Video available]
10:00AM - 10:30AM Marsha Borg Morning Tea
10:30AM - 11:30AM Elliott Lieb A review of the Thomas-Fermi semi-classical theory of atoms and molecules [Video available]
11:30AM - 12:30PM Oleg Prezhdo Novel approaches to non-adiabatic molecular dynamics [Video available]
12:30PM - 2:00PM Marsha Borg Lunch
2:00PM - 3:00PM Michael Thoss Semic-lassical description of quantum effects in molecular dynamics [Video available]
3:00PM - 3:30PM Marsha Borg Afternoon Tea
3:30PM - 4:30PM Bernard Helffer Semi-classical methods in superconductivity [Video available]
4:30PM - 5:30PM Marsha Borg Reception
Wednesday, April 09, 2003
9:00AM - 10:00AM Luc Hillairet Contribution of periodic diffractive orbits in polygonal billiards [Video available]
10:00AM - 10:30AM Marsha Borg Morning Tea
10:30AM - 11:30AM Srinivas Sridhar Exploring semi-classics using microwaves [Video available]
11:30AM - 12:30PM Avraham Soffer Time dependent resonance theory and applications [Video available]
12:30PM - 2:00PM Marsha Borg Lunch
2:00PM - 3:00PM Eugene Tracy Ray helicity: A geometric invariant for multi-dimensional resonant linear wave conversion [Video available]
3:00PM - 3:30PM Marsha Borg Afternoon Tea
3:30PM - 4:30PM Patrick Leboeuf Semi-classical thermodynamics of small Fermi systems [Video available]
Thursday, April 10, 2003
9:00AM - 10:00AM Stephen Creagh Wavefunction and tunnelling statistics using scar states [Video available]
10:00AM - 10:30AM Marsha Borg Morning Tea
10:30AM - 11:30AM Kenneth Kay Exact quantum mechanics from classical trajectories [Video available]
11:30AM - 12:30PM Jonathan Robbins Maslov indices and singularities of integrable systems [Video available]
12:30PM - 2:00PM Marsha Borg Lunch
2:00PM - 3:00PM Gregor Tanner Dynamics near the triple collision in two-electron atoms [Video available]
3:00PM - 3:30PM Marsha Borg Afternoon Tea
3:30PM - 4:30PM Steven Tomsovic Sensitivity of wave field evolution and manifold stability in chaotic system [Video available]
Friday, April 11, 2003
9:00AM - 10:00AM Victor Ivrii Sharp spectral asymptotics for operators with irregular coefficients: Pushing the limits [Video available]
10:00AM - 10:30AM Marsha Borg Morning Tea
10:30AM - 11:30AM Michael Wilkinson Non-adiabatic transitions in multi-level systems [Video available]
11:30AM - 12:30PM Kevin Mitchell Pulse trains, fractals, and the ionization of hydrogen [Video available]
12:30PM - 2:00PM Marsha Borg Lunch
2:00PM - 3:00PM Laurent Wiesenfeld Relative transition state: Relevance for inelastic scattering [Video available]
3:00PM - 3:30PM Marsha Borg Afternoon Tea
3:30PM - 4:30PM Herbert Spohn Peierls substitution and beyond (space-adiabatic perturbation theory) [Video available]
Parent Program(s):
Semi-Classical Analysis


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Semi-classical Methods in Physics and Chemistry
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USA

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