Atomic, Molecular, Optical, and Chemical Physics Seminar

Seminars hosted by the Atomic, Molecular, Optical, and Chemical Physics Group are held on Monday afternoons from 2:30pm to 3:30pm. Speakers include in-house faculty and students as well as visitors.

2006-2007

Date Speaker Academic Affiliation Topic
04/19/07 Han Pu Rice University Novel properties of dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates (Note: Special time, 10am and date)
10/01/07 Bastiaan Braams Emory University Construction and uses of full-dimensional potential energy surfaces for small molecules
10/22/07 Charlie Havener Oak Ridge National Laboratory Investigations of Low Energy Charge Transfer using Merged Beams
11/09/07 Kate Kirby Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Atomic and Molecular Physics for Forefront Astronomy (Note: special date and time: 10:10am)

2005-2006

Date Speaker Academic Affiliation Topic
03/21/05 Benhui Yang UGA Physics and Astronomy Diffusion quantum Monte Carlo studies of (H2)n clusters: a comparison of second- and fourth-order propagators
09/19/05 Phillip Stancil UGA Physics and Astronomy New Charge Exchange Calculations for Lowly-Charged Ions
10/10/05 Jason B. Perry UGA Physics and Astronomy Spectroscopically Accurate Calculated Properties of Molecular Hydrogen
11/28/05 Chad Fertig UGA Physics and Astronomy Riding the Light: Controlling Atomic Motion with Lasers
12/05/05 Susanne Ullrich UGA Physics and Astronomy Observing Ultrafast Dynamics in gas-phase Biomolecules: On the photostability of DNA bases
3/20/06 Benhui Yang UGA Physics and Astronomy Rotational quenching by CO due to collisions with H2
7/20/06 Rami Ali University of Nevada Reno and Hashemite University, Jordan One- and Many-Electron Processes in Slow Collisions of Multiply Charged Ions with Atoms

2003-2004

Date Speaker Academic Affiliation Topic
09/08/03 Phillip Stancil UGA Physics and Astronomy Theoretical Studies of vibrationally-resolved electron capture in low-energy ion-molecule collisions
10/20/03 Libo Zhao UGA Physics and Astronomy Dynamics of complicated atoms in external fields
11/03/03 Viktoriya Poterya UGA Chemistry Laboratory Studies of the Recombination of H3+/D3+ with Electrons: Interstellar Implications
02/02/04 Teck Lee Oak Ridge National Laboratory Hyperspherical close-coupling approach to slow ion-atom collisions
02/09/04 Nigel Adams UGA Chemistry Temperature Dependence of Dissociative Electron-Ion Recombination: Mechanisms and Significance to the Titan Ionosphere
03/08/04 Chad Fertig NIST Gaithersburg Ex uno plura: Many-body physics from dilute atomic gases
03/15/04 Chih-Yuan Lin UGA Physics and Astronomy Photoionization of Zn-like Ions

2000-2003

Date Speaker Academic Affiliation Topic
8/28/00 Yangsoo Kim UGA Physics and Astronomy IR-REMPI Double Resonance Spectroscopy of NO-Ar and NO-Ne Complexes
9/11/00 Phillip Stancil UGA Physics and Astronomy A Survey of Hydrogen Atom, Ion, and Molecule Isotopomer Collisions: Charge Exchange, Rearrangement, and Excitation
9/18/00 Jianguo Wang UGA Physics and Astronomy Theoretical Research on Dielectronic Recombination Processes
9/25/00 Milun Rakovic Oak Ridge National Laboratory On Implementation of Quantum-Classical Correspondence in Classical Studies of Atomic Processes
10/2/00 Henning Meyer UGA Physics and Astronomy Two-Photon Spectroscopy of Molecular Complexes
10/9/00 Tim Heil UGA Physics and Astronomy Including Non-Inertial and Non-Adiabatic Effects in the Born-Oppenheimer Approximation: The Electron Translation Problem
10/23/00 Phillip Stancil UGA Physics and Astronomy To ETF or Not to ETF
11/13/00 Alan Edwards UGA Physics and Astronomy Steric effects, energy loss, and correlation in fast electron-H2 collisions
11/27/00 Ken Hardy Florida International Univ. A Study of the Dissociative Recombination Reaction in Gas Discharges by Time of Flight Spectroscopy
2/15/01 Paul Wine Georgia Tech. Laboratory Studies of Atmospheric Chemical Kinetics and Photochemistry
2/22/01 Mark Edwards Georgia Southern Univ. Optical Manipulation of Bose-Einstein Condensates
3/1/01 Wesley Allen UGA Chemistry In Pursuit of the Ab Initio Limit of Molecular Quantum Mechanics via Explicitly Correlated Methods
3/15/01 Paul Schleyer UGA Chemistry Hydrocarbon Astrochemistry
3/22/01 David Micha University of Florida First Principles Collision Dynamics of Electronic Energy and Charge Transfer
4/5/01 Robert J. Buenker University of Wuppertal Calculations of Nonadiabatic Effects in Spectroscopy and Dynamics Employing the MRD-CI Method
7/27/01 Wolfgang Fritsch Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin Atomic-Orbital Close-Coupling Calculations for Charge Transfer
8/27/01 Jianguo Wang UGA Physics and Astronomy Proton-Hydrocarbon Charge Exchange Database
10/01/01 Philippe Weck UGA Physics and Astronomy (e,2e) ionization of mono- and bielectronic diatomic systems by fast electron impact
10/15/01 Tim Heil UGA Physics and Astronomy Electron gas and other simple approximations for molecular potential surfaces
10/22/01 Steven Stolte Free University of Amsterdam Intriguing Atom-Molecule Collisions
1/18*/02 Lukas Pichl Univ. of Aizu, Japan O+/H2 collision: a study of electron capture and target excitation
2/4/02 Steven Manson Georgia State University Inner-Shell Photodetachment of Negative Ions
3/18/02 Mineo Kimura RIKEN/Yamaguchi Univ., Japan Electron, Positron, and Ion Collisions with Molecules
3/25/02 Hari Saha Univ. Central Florida Correlation and Polarization Effects in Photon-Atom and Electron-Atom Collisions
4/01/02 Robert Hinde Univ. of Tennessee, Chemistry Dopant-induced infrared activity in solid hydrogen: New insights into quantum solvation
4/15/02 Henning Meyer UGA Physics and Astronomy The Molecular Hamiltonian
4/29/02 Yangsoo Kim UGA Physics and Astronomy Angular momentum coupling cases and correlation diagram

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