FEBRUARY 1996
Spring greetings from your very own topical group on few body systems!
Congratulations to Ken Kulander and Jim Friar who were just elected Chair-Elect and Vice Chair of the Topical Group. As Chair-Elect, Ken immediately assumed the responsibility for organizing our annual spring program (to be held this year during the Indianapolis meeting in early May). He did an excellent job putting the program together with very little lead time, and I am very grateful to him for the efficient and cheerful way he carried out this task. I hope to see many of you at the sessions in Indianapolis, and at our business meeting.
With the election of Don Lehman and Gerry Payne, our executive committee is now up to 2/3 strength. Our bylaws provide for an executive committee of six members which hold staggered three year terms, so this month we elect four more members. The two who receive the most votes will replace Bill Reinhardt and Joe Sucher, who rotate off the committee this May, and the next two will fill the two unoccupied positions, serving until May, 1998. We are also electing a Vice-Chair (to replace Jim as he rotates into the Chair-Elect position). After this we will be up to full strength, and the next election will not be until the spring of 1997. We have had so many elections this year because we went two years without any elections at all! Thanks for your patience.
The annual business meeting of the topical group will be at 5:30pm on Saturday, May 4, in Indianapolis. All are invited to this business meeting, and I hope the Officers and members of the Executive Committee will make a special effort to attend. On the agenda is a discussion of our interactions with the Divisions of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Particles and Fields, and Nuclear Physics, and we will discuss future directions for the Topical Group.
Membership in the Few Body Topical Group has been decreasing slowly over the last few years (as is the case for many other groups). Those of us who are active in the group sometimes find that colleagues well known to us are not members. If all those interested in Few Body Physics would join the Topical Group, our membership would increase substantially.
What are the advantages to being a member of the Topical Group? Through the organization of Symposia at the spring meetings and the nomination of outstanding members for Fellowship in the Society, topical group members support the field of Few Body Physics. Selection of members for Fellowship is one way we can confer recognition on younger colleagues. Normally at least one person nominated each year by our Fellowship Committee (chaired this year by Jim Friar) receives Fellowship in the Society.
If you know colleagues active in Few Body Physics who are not members of the Topical Group please consider asking them to join. The $5 membership fee is a small price to pay for the maintenance of a professional organization which supports our work!
Sincerely, Franz Gross
Terms expiring May, 1996
William Reinhardt rein@chem.washington.edu
Joseph Sucher sucher@umdhep.umd.edu
Terms expiring May, 1997
Gerry Payne payne@iajet.physics.uiowa.edu
Don Lehman nuc10100@gwuvm.gwu.edu
Jim Friar (chair) friar@lampf.lanl.gov
Ken Kulander kenkul@coral.llnl.gov
Don Lehman nuc10100@gwuvm.gwu.edu
Steve Berry (chair) berry@rainbow.uchicago.edu
Franz Gross gross@cebaf.gov
Russ Pack rtp@iron.lanl.gov
YOU MUST VOTE FOR ONE CANDIDATE FOR VICE-CHAIR AND
FOUR (4) CANDIDATES FOR THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Nominees for Vice-Chair (to assume office in May, 1996)
Nominees for Executive Committee (two with most votes to serve until May,
1999, second two to serve until May, 1998)
Colston Chandler is a professor of physics and associate chairman of the
Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of New Mexico. He
received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He has
held visiting appointments at The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,
Bonn University, Argonne National Laboratory, and the Flinders University
of South Australia. He is a Fellow of The American Physical Society, has
served on the Executive Committee of the APS Topical Group on Few-Body
Systems and Multiparticle Dynamics (1991-1994), and is vice-chairman of
the 1996 Gordon Conference on the Dynamics of Simple Systems in Chemistry
and Physics. His research has been mainly concerned with the mathematical
foundations of nonrelativistic multichannel quantum scattering theory,
particularly with establishing a mathematically rigorous theory of
approximate solutions of the N-body Schroedinger equation, and is
presently concerned with incorporating particle production and
annihilation into the theory at the same level of mathematical
sophistication.
Statement: The Topical Group is distinguished by its focus on
mathematically and numerically precise treatments of physical systems
with relatively few degrees of freedom regardless of the particular area
of physics or chemistry or, increasingly, biology. The Group has
primarily advanced its interests by sponsoring and organizing specialized
meetings and interdisciplinary symposia. While these activities should
remain a central activity of the Group, it is important to develop other
services to its membership (such as an electronic preprint archive),
stronger links to few-body groups abroad, and other ways of promoting an
appreciation of the contributions of few-body physics to the physical
understanding of nature.
born March 24, 1944;
Professional Employment:
My group's field of specialization is that of Atoms, Molecules
and Chaos. Our research has dealt with atomic collisions, molecular
vibrations, highly-excited states of atoms in magnetic and electric
fields. We study the boundary between quantum and classical behavior,
especially for systems that are classically chaotic. Semi-classical
approximations and periodic orbits are a recurring theme.
Statement: The "few-body" community cuts across the traditional subfields
of physics, so our symposia should provide a means of communication among
physicists who may be using similar concepts and methods to study very
diverse phenomena.
Born 10/11/56.
Statement: My career to this point has been focused on few body problems,
starting with the study of electron correlation effects in two electron
atoms and continuing with experiments on the electronic and magnetic
structures of atomic clusters. In that time, I have seen the contributions
that people from seemingly different specialties can make to few body
problems and would like to advance such cross disciplinary work as a
member of the FBSTG Executive Committee. I view few body systems as a
frontier of physics that, despite a long and illustrious history, can
easily be forgotten among the more widely recognized physics specialties.
In my work on clusters, I have been involved in atomic, molecular, and
optical physics, condensed matter physics, and materials science and I
interact frequently with nuclear theory. With the enormity of some of the
APS divisions and meetings, it is hard to find related work in other
fields. The FBSTG should provide that connection.
Address: Physics Department,
Professional employment:
Honors and Awards:
Statement: Physics is a dynamic science nourished by interactions among
its subfields. The Few Body Topical Group is a valuable tool for
communicating new strategic ideas and techniques from diverse areas and
fostering increased cooperation and collaboration. We can make it still
better. Possible ways to do so include starting a Few Body internet
discussion group, making the newsletter available electronically,
including spreading news of relevant meetings here and abroad, and liasing
more strongly with the European Few Body community.
Born 1951.
Statement: In my opinion, the scientific interests of the topical group in
few body systems and multiparticle dynamics overlap strongly with the
divisions of chemical, computational and condensed matter physics. If
elected to the executive committee, I will work to facilitate
communication among these different subfields through the cosponsorship of
symposia that address problems in multiparticle dynamics.
"If one looks down at earth from the moon, there is virtually no distance
between the Louvre and the zoo." - anonymous quote from a building in
Santa Fe, NM.
Professor of Physics, Ohio University. Research Interests: Nuclear reactions at intermediate energies,
application of few-body techniques in nuclear reaction theory, few-nucleon
systems, computational physics.
Statement: Working on few body problems can bridge between different
subfields of physics like atomic, molecular, nuclear, particle and
computational physics. The symposia and meetings organized by the topical
group provide excellent means of communication between physicists working
in the different areas on different phenomena yet using similar methods
and concepts. I would like to see especially the younger members,
postdoctoral researchers and graduate students actively involved in the
few body community, having stimulating discussions about the most resent
research topics.
Evelyn Goldfield received a B.S. degree in mathematics in 1963 and an
M.A. in philosophy in 1969 from the University of Chicago. After
obtaining her B.S., she pursued a career in scientific computer
programming which included working at the experimental Institute for
Computer Research at the University of Chicago. In 1978, she returned to
graduate school to study chemistry at the University of Illinois at
Chicago, working with David Gorenstein and Eric Gislason and receiving her
Ph.D. in 1983. While a graduate student at UIC she received the first
Otis Dante scholarship, awarded annually to one graduate student for
excellence in research. She then went on to do postdoctoral work with
Kate Kirby in the Atomic and Molecular Physics Group at the
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. She went to Cornell in 1984,
initially as a research associate in the department of chemistry, working
with Greg Ezra. In 1987 she began her role as a Computational Research
Associate at the Cornell Theory Center one of the NSF-funded national
centers. In addition to engaging in her own research activities, she was
responsible for a large number of chemistry - related projects in support
of the Theory Center user community. She was promoted to Senior Research
Scientist at the Theory Center, responsible for managing the Computational
Science and Engineering Research Group, a group of computational
scientists in diverse disciplines. She was the 1993 Maria Geoppert Mayer
Distinguished Scholar at Argonne National Laboratory, working in the
Theoretical Chemistry Group.
She came to Wayne State University in the
fall of 1994 as a Senior Research Scientist in the College of Science,
advising the Dean on issues related to computers and computing in the
College. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of
Chemistry. Her current research interest focuses on the use of massively
parallel computers in quantum chemical dynamics.
Statement: As a theoretical physical chemist whose interests are highly
computational, I am very aware of the value and importance of
interdisciplinary activities. Thus I am excited at the prospect of serving
the Few Body topical group with its inherently interdisciplinary
character. I think it is important to increase the visibility of this
topical group within the APS, not only to attract new members but also to
share the interesting and important research in Few Body physics with
other members of the scientific community.
Jim McGuire has been an active member of the Few Body Systems and
Multiparticle Dynamics Topical Group since its inception and has served on
the GFB Nominating Committee twice. Jim has served on various committees
of the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics
Teachers. He was one of the organizers of the first Congressional Day of
The American Physical Society. He served for three years as the
Secretary-Treasurer of the Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical
Physics of the American Physical Society, and begins a six year term as
Secretary of the International Conference on the Physics of Electronic and
Atomic Collisions (ICPEAC), a leading international organization in atomic
and molecular physics. Jim serves an Associate editor of the Encyclopedia
of Physics. He has served actively as advisor to Women in Science at
Tulane and has been active in support of racial diversity in The American
Physical Society and has been active in establishing liaison between
physics in universities and industry in New Orleans. He also belongs to
the American Chemical Society. Jim currently holds the Murchison Mallory
Chair at Tulane University in New Orleans.
Jim's research has been in understanding the dynamics of electron
correlation. In simplest terms, this is understanding how complicated
things are made from simple ones. Dr. McGuire has published over 175
papers in atomic, optical, chemical, nuclear and mathematical physics and
is finishing a book, Dynamic correlation: multiple electron transitions in
atomic collisions. Jim has also been active in outreach and reform in
science education.
Statement: The few and many body problem is central in science and
technology and it is likely to remain so for some time. As such it
deserves recognition. The Few Body Systems and Multiparticle Dynamics
Topical Group can be an effective way to do this. There are a couple of
obvious goals I would support. First, I would work to increase the size of
the membership. Second, I would encourage more participation by
experimentalists. And I would promote new interest in chemical and
condensed matter physics. In my view we scientists need to do a more
effective job of explaining what we do and why we do it. This is
especially true for the GFB which reflects a problem that is relatively
abstract. This could be begun by establishing a home page for GFB at
APS, which I would be happy to do. I am especially interested in
developing the conceptual nature of the physics we do and teach. We can
also sponsor talks and topics at meetings of The American Physical Society
which promote few and many particle physics and also reach out to people
outside our field.
Robert B. Wiringa, currently Chief of Theory Group, Physics Division,
Argonne National Laboratory.
Research interests in nucleon-nucleon interaction, few-body nuclei, nuclear
matter, neutron stars, liquid helium, and many-body theory and
computational methods in general.
Statement: Few-body physics is a fascinating area, where we seek to
extend detailed knowledge of two-body dynamics to the multiple-particle
regime in a rigorous fashion. Great advances have been made in recent
years thanks primarily to rapid increases in computational resources.
The chief purpose of this topical group should be to foster continued
progress by sponsoring meetings and other means of interaction between
members of the community, so that advances in different areas, such as
nuclear and atomic physics, can be shared. We should also promote
interactions with other branches of physics, such as astrophysics and
computational physics, which can profit from progress in our field and
bring benefits to us.
John Delos delos@atoms.physics.wm.edu
Colston Chandler chandler@unmb.unm.edu
Louis Bloomfield lab3e@rabi.phys.Virginia.EDU
Carl Carlson carlson@cebaf.gov
Andrew DePristo depristo@chem1.fi.ameslab.gov
Charlotte Elster elster@stingray.phy.ohiou.edu
Evelyn Goldfield evi@gopher.chem.wayne.edu
James McGuire mcguire@mcguire.phy.tulane.edu
Robert Wiringa wiringa@theory.phy.anl.gov
CANDIDATES FOR CHAIR-ELECT
B.S. (Chemistry), University of Michigan, 1965;
Ph.D. (Physical Chemistry), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970.
Research Associate, University of British Columbia, 1970-71;
Assistant-Associate-Full Professor of
Physics, College of William and Mary, 1971-present;
Visiting Research Scientist; FOM Institute, Amsterdam, 1979-1980;
Consultant, Naval Surface Weapons Center, 1981;
Visiting Fellow, JILA, 1986-87;
Visiting Scientist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 1992;
Visiting Fellow, JILA, 1994-95. CANDIDATES FOR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Education/Professional Experience:
B.A. Physics, Amherst College, 1979;
Ph.D. Physics, Stanford, 1983;
Postdoc, AT&T Bell Laboratories, 1983-1985;
Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Virginia, 1985-1991;
Associate Professor of Physics, University of Virginia, 1991-Present.
Honors and Awards: APS Apker Award, 1979;
NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1986;
ONR Young Investigator Award, 1988;
Sloan Fellow, 1989;
APS Fellow, 1994
College of William and Mary,
Williamsburg, VA 23187,
804-221-3509; fax, 804-221-3540;
e-mail carlson@physics.wm.edu.
Born: 27 April 1945.
Degrees: A.B. & Ph. D, Columbia, 1965 & 1968;
Field: Particle and Nuclear Theory.
Instructor, Columbia University, 1967-1968;
Research Associate, SLAC, 1968-1970;
Research Associate, Enrico Fermi Institute, 1970-1972;
Assistant, Associate, and Full
Professor, College of William and Mary, 1972-present;
Visiting Scientist, SLAC, 1977-78;
Visiting Scientist, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, 1978;
Guest Professor, NORDITA, Copenhagen, 1980-81;
Visiting Professor, State University of New York at Stony Brook,
1982-83;
Guest Reseacher, Department of Theoretical Physics, University
of Lund, Sweden, 1985-86.
Fellow of The American Physical Society;
Class of 1962 Professor of Physics;
A .P. Sloan Foundation Fellow (1976);
Alumni Association Teaching Award (9178);
Thomas Ashley Graves Award for Sustained Excellence in Teaching (1994);
elected Foreign Member of the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters
(1996).
University of Maryland, Ph.D. (1976)
Princeton University, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow (1976-79).
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Assistant Professor
(1979-82).
Iowa State University, Assistant, Associate and Professor
(1982-Present).
Ames Laboratory (USDOE), Program Director for Fundamental Interactions
(1989-1995) and for Advanced Industrial Concepts (1992-present).
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar (1983-88).
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow (1984-88).
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow (1987-88).
Fellow of The American Physical Society (1990).
Secretary-Treasurer,
Division of Physical Chemistry, American Chemical Society, 1991-present.
NORDITA Professor of Physics at the Center for Atomic-scale Materials
Physics, Danish Technical University, 1995.
Dipl. Phys. 1983, University ofBonn,
Ph.D. 1986, University of Bonn,
Postdoctoral Research at Kent State
University 1986-87, University of Maryland 1987-88, The Ohio State
University 1988-91,
Battelle Fellow, Battelle Memorial Institute 1988-89,
Asst. Prof. of Physics, Ohio University 1991-present.
Consultant, Los Alamos National Laboratory 1988-93,
Member of the American Physical
Society Committee on the Status of Women in Physics 1992-95,
Statewide User Group, Ohio Supercomputer Center, Vice-Chair 1995-present.
B.S. 1972, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;
Ph.D. 1978, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;
Research Associate, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1978-80;
Research Associate, Argonne National Laboratory, 1981-83;
Assistant Physicist, 1983-87; Physicist, 1987-present;
Visiting Associate & Lecturer, California Institute of Technology, 1993.
FBSTG Program Spring Joint APS-AAPT Meeting
Session I: Organized by Jim McGuire, Tulane University
Title: Probing few body processes in atoms with high energy photons
1. Hossein Sadeghpour, Harvard-Smithsonian Dominant dynamical mechanism for single and double photoionization
2. Paul Bergstrom, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Knock outs, shakings and other violent phenomena in high-energy photon- atom collisions
3. Jim McGuire, Tulane University How to describe interactions with charged particles in terms of interactions with photons
4. Horst Schmidt-Boecking, University of Frankfurt High resolution recoil-ion momentum spectroscopy: A new microscope for atomic many particle dynamics
Session II: Organized by Howard Taylor, University of Southern California
Title: State-of-the-art methods for heavy particle dynamics
1. George Schatz, Northwestern University, An overview of the hyperspherical method for reactive scattering
2. John Zhang, New York University, An overview of the time-dependent method in reactive scattering
3. Vladimir Mandelshtam, University of Southern California, An overview of the recursive polynomial methods for reactive dynamics
4. Ken Kay, Bar-Ilan University, An overview of time-dependent semi-classical methods for chemical dynamics
Session III (Joint with the Division of Nuclear Physics): Organized by Doug Beck University of Illinois and Ken Kulander, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Title: New developments in few-body physics
1. James Friar, Los Alamos National Laboratory Chiral perturbation theory and the few nucleon problem
2. Rocco Schiavilla, CEBAF Short-range structure in the deuteron and heavier systems
3. Aaron Kuppermann, California Institute of Technology The geometric phase in reaction dynamics
4. Eric Heller, Harvard University Recent progress in semi-classical approximations for chaotic systems
If you have questions, contact the Chair-Elect, Ken Kulander, kenkul@coral.llnl.gov
I am both very surprised and pleased to be serving as the Chair-Elect of our Topical Group. I want to congratulate James Frair who was elected Vice-Chair and Donald Lehman and Gerald Payne who will be joining the Executive Committee for the next two years.
As Chair-Elect, I found that the responsibility of also serving as the Chair of the Program Committee meant immediately putting together two invited sessions for the "April" "Washington" Joint Meeting of the APS and AAPT which will be held May 2-5, 1996 in Indianapolis. We also have a joint session with the Division of Nuclear Physics at this meeting. These arrangements were made with rather severe time constraints due to the delayed election and an early deadline for the Meeting. The symposia, however, are sure to be very interesting and worth your attendance.
The topic of one of the symposia is a shamelessly selfish selection on my part. I have a current interest in the correlation between atomic electrons in an electromagnetic field. Recently there have been observations of unexpectedly strong direct (simultaneous) double- and now triple-ionization of inert gas atoms in strong, short-pulse optical laser fields and no mechanism has been established. I thought it would be interesting to have a look at the, perhaps, closely related problem of single photon, double ionization for which substantial progress in understanding the ionization dynamics has recently emerged. In the single photon case, it seems the dynamical interpretation of the process can depend on the gauge chosen for the calculation. I am hoping the four excellent talks scheduled in this area will provide some insight relevant to the long wavelength case.
Our second symposium will provide a survey of some of the computational methods currently being used for the study of chemical reaction dynamics. This is an area filled with extremely talented and creative scientists who have developed a variety of semi-classical and quantum mechanical methods for representing the collision dynamics of three- and four-body systems. We will hear four representative talks from this extremely rich and important area of multiparticle dynamics.
The joint symposium will feature talks about recent progress in few nucleon systems, in the semi- classical representation of chaotic dynamics and on the importance of the geometric phase in quantal rearrangement collisions. These talks will provide a nice overview of some current research problems in few body systems.
I encourage all members of the Topical Group to attend these symposia and to submit contributed papers so that we will have some interesting contributed sessions, also.
Finally, I would hope that, with the substantial lead time now available, many of you will provide input to James Friar who will be arranging the symposia for next year's meeting. I suspect he will appreciate the assistance.
See you in Indianapolis and thanks for your support.
The financial health of the Topical Group is reasonably good, according to the most recent report form the APS Headquarters. As of 12/15/95, we had $7,550.65 in the treasury, along with $2,203.03 in a separate account, for a total balance of $9,753.68. Last year's expenses included paying a portion of the travel costs of a European speaker at one of the symposia organized by the FBSTG at the Washington meeting, and the cost of two newsletters. As you are probably aware, we derive our funds principally from the annual dues and from funds provided by the APS out of conference registration fees. These are divided among the various divisions and topical groups of the APS according to the number of sessions organized, including both invited and contributed ones. The more members we can attract and the more active we are at organizing sessions at the national meetings, the better off we will be!
The latest membership figures for this year show a decrease in the membership of the topical group (similar to others). The detailed figures are as follows. We had 14 new APS members who also chose to join the FBSTG, 263 renewing APS members also renewed their membership in the topical group, and 26 renewing APS members who joined the FBSTG, for a total current membership of 303. Unfortunately, we also had 62 people who renewed their APS membership but lapsed their FBSTG membership, and 35 individuals who lapsed both their APS and FBSTG membership. Thus, we went from a membership of 363 down to 303. We need to make some concerted efforts both to recruit new and lapsed members, and to address reasons for people leaving the topical group. This should be an important topic for discussion at the upcoming business meeting in May.
One of the most enjoyable tasks that the secretary has is to announce that two new Fellows of the APS have been elected from the FBSTG membership. Their names and Fellowship citations are:
Bradley D. Keister, elected "for important contributions to the development of relativistic descriptions of few body systems".
Richard Guy Woolley, elected "for fundamental advances in the proper quantum description of molecules and their interaction with radiation".
We offer our heartiest congratulations to these outstanding members of the topical group. If you want to nominate someone for Fellowship in the APS through the FBSTG, send the information to the Fellowship Committee listed elsewhere in this newsletter.
Sincerely, Don Kouri, Secretary/Treasurer
This is the former Gordon Conference on Few Body Problems.
The 1996 Gordon Conference on the Dynamics of Simple Systems in Chemistry and Physics will be held 11-16 August at Proctor Academy, Andover, New Hampshire. This Conference will bridge topics from the behavior of light nuclei through simple atoms to atomic and molecular few-body systems. Its goals are to enable people in these areas to find tools, approaches and concepts they can share, and in so doing, find ways to solve important problems that might otherwise be intractable. "Simple Systems" reflects the origins of the Conference, as a forum for discussion of few-body problems. These remain the principal focus but the content has broadened to what we might call "several-body" systems gaining just a bit more flexibility.
People interested in participating should contact any of these:
R. Stephen Berry, Chair, berry@rainbow.uchicago.edu or
Colston Chandler, Vice-Chair, chandler@unm.edu
Information, and especially application forms, can be obtained from the Gordon Conference office (grc@grcmail.grc.uri.edu).
The following schedule is reasonably firm, but changes are always possible.
Ultracold and Ultraslow Phenomena
Ultracooling Keith Burnett, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford
Slow collisions J. Weiner, Chemistry, Univ. Maryland
Atom diffraction D. Pritchard, Physics, MIT
New Developments in Chirality Effective Lagrangians and chiral symmetry
J. Friar, T-Division, LANL
Experimental evidence of chiral symmetry
Thomas Walcher, Physics, Mainz
Experiments on few-body systems
CEBAF deuteron photodisintegration,
Michael Miller, Physics, Univ. Illinois
Phase changes of trapped species,
H. Walther, Max Planck Institute, Muenchen
Pion collisions, J. Matthews, Physics,
MIT Coulomb explosions of molecules, D. Zajfman, Physics, Weizmann
Institute
(e,3e) experiments, J. Moore, Chemistry, Univ. Maryland
(e,3e) theory, C. Dal Cappello, Lab. Physique Moleculaire, Metz
Eta meson physics, B. M. K. Nefkens, Physics, UCLA
Relativistic effects and theories
Overview of relativistic nuclear processes, John Tjon, Institute for
Theoretical Physics, Univ. of Utrecht
Bound states of three-body systems, A. Stadler, Physics, William and Mary
Multichannel scattering, Iraj Afnan, Physics, Flinders University of
South Australia
Theory of Casimir forces James Babb, Harvard Observatory
Light front theories Bradley Kiester, Physics, Carnegie-Mellon Univ.
Quantum Monte Carlo methods in nuclei, J. Carlson, T-Division, LANL
Alamos;
in clusters, J. Doll, Chemistry, Brown University
Quantum Control Survey of Experiment, R. Gordon, Chemistry, Univ. Illinois
(Chicago)
Survey of Theory, S. Rice, Chemistry, Univ. Chicago
Review of 3-body Calculations, W. Gloeckle, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Ruehr-Universitaet Bochum
Trapped Clusters and Molecules NeNePo Ludger Woeste, Physics, Free
University of Berlin
Trapped ions Scott Anderson, Chemistry, University of Utah
Posters: Posters to be put up on Monday. Half the presenters to be with their posters Monday, 4:30-6:00 pm. The remaining half to be with their posters Wednesday, 4:30-6:00 pm.
1996 Electronic Structure Workshop Eighth Annual Conference on New Methods in Electronic Structure Calculations
June 15-17, 1996
Hubert H. Humphrey Center
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
In 1996, this annual conference moves to the upper midwest. Previous conferences have been held at St. Mary's City, Urbana, Columbus, Ithaca, Raleigh, State College (Pennsylvania), and Santa Barbara.
Program: Representative topics will include: large-N methods, pseudopotentials, quantum Monte Carlo methods, methods for quantum molecular dynamics, basis sets methods, real space methods, parallel computing, density functional theory, etc. Speakers will be selected by the organizing committee in early 1996. Suggestions are welcome. There will be a poster session open to all attendees.
The conference site: The proposed 1996 workshop will be held at the Hubert H. Humphrey Center at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Lodging will be provided at the Holiday Inn Metrodome and the Days Inn University. The Humphrey Center, which is named after the former Vice President and U.S. Senator, is a large, comfortable conference center which provides space for both the plenary sessions and the poster sessions as well as dining services for breaks and lunches.
To receive registration information send email to es96@msi.umn.edu (please be sure to include your mailing address) or contact Michael Olesen, the symposium administrator, at (612) 624-1356.