Workshop on Quantum Dynamics of Complex Molecular Systems

May 18-20, 2005
Paris Research Center

Scientific organizers:

Irene Burghardt
Ecole Normale Superieure
University of Florida
Paris, France
irene.burghardt@ens.fr

David A. Micha
University of Florida
Gainesville, USA
micha@qtp.ufl.edu

Quantum phenomena are ubiquitous in complex molecular systems, and yet remain a challenge for theoretical analysis. Much current activity is directed at developing methods to tackle quantum dynamics in many dimensions, including dissipative phenomena, often with the aim of interpreting and predicting experimental observations based upon ultrafast spectroscopic techniques. Treatments of interest include multiconfigurational methods, semiclassical and mixed quantum-classical approaches, various trajectory- based strategies, and density matrix methods. Of special interest are the connections between quantum dynamical and quantum statistical aspects.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together workers in this field, to discuss new theory concepts, methods, and phenomena. The workshop is intended to address

• complex molecular processes involving surfaces, clusters, solute-solvent systems, and many-atom systems in materials and biological systems
• ground-state and excited-state processes involving non-adiabatic phenomena and the theoretical description of these processes via quantum dynamical and trajectory based methods in many dimensions
• statistical descriptions and reduced dynamics using the density operator

Aspects involving energy and charge transfer processes, transition state theory, and quantum control are also part of the workshop themes.

Preliminary list of participants:

Eric Bittner (Houston)
Danniel Borgis (Evry)
Lorenz Cederbaum (Heidelberg)
Giovanni Ciccotti (Rome)
David Coker (Boston)
Pierre Degond (Toulouse)
Pierre Gaspard (Brussels)
Casey Hynes (Paris/Boulder)
Nadine Halberstadt (Toulouse)
Raymond Kapral (Toronto)
Horst Koeppel (Heidelberg)
Vladimir Mandelshtam (Irvine)
Todd Martinez (Urbana-Champaign)
Volkhardt May (Berlin)
Christophe Meier (Toulouse)
Salvador Miret-Artes (Madrid)
Yngve Ohrn (QTP, Gainesville)
Bill Poirier (Texas Tech)
Eli Pollak (Weizmann)
Oleg Prezhdo (Washington)
Peter Saalfrank (Potsdam)
Burkhard Schmidt (Berlin)
Dmitrii Shalashilin (Oxford)
Yoshitaka Tanimura (Kyoto)
Michael Thoss (Munich)
Donald Truhlar (Minneapolis)
Graham Worth (London)
Clemens Woywod (Munich)
Robert Wyatt (Austin)
Gert van der Zwan (Amsterdam)

Hotels

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