| Thursday, Oct. 7 |
Sheraton Commander Hotel Mt Vernon Room |
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8:30
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Morning Coffee and
Pastry Registration
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9:00-9:20
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Introductory Remarks
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Session I:
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Physical Chemistry | ||
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9:20-10:00
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The ring polymer molecular dynamics model for condensed
phase quantum dynamics D. Manolopoulos |
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| 10:00-10:40 | Correlated
electron(s)
in H2+ Adam Wasserman |
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10:40-11:00
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Break | ||
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11:00-11:40
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Potential Surface Coupling and Mixed Valence in
Excited Electronic States
Jeffrey Zink |
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11:40-12:20
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Controlling
Chemistry
with Light and Force Todd Marinez |
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12:20-2:00
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Lunch |
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Session II:
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Time
Domain
and Spectroscopy
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2:00-2:40
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Panta rhei - electronic and nuclear fluxes during
chemical reactions |
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2:40-3:20
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Throwing
Electron
Snowballs: Correlation via Frozen Gaussians in Time-Dependent
Density Functional Theories Neepa Maitra |
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3:20-4:00
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Chemical quantum computers and quantum
consciousness Jeff Reimers |
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4:00-4:20
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Break |
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4:20-5:00
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From
spontaneous
Raman spectroscopy to femtosecond stimulated Raman
spectroscopy Soo Y. Lee |
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5:00-5:40
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Dephasing
representation:
From quantum fidelity to pump-probe spectroscopy Jiri Vanicek |
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5:40-7:00
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Reception and Poster Session at
60 Garden Street, Cambridge MA
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| Friday, Oct. 8 |
Phillips Auditorium |
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8:30
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Morning Coffee and Pastry
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Session III:
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Semiclassics | ||
| 9:00-9:40 | Light
matter
interaction: Observable phenomena which can not be predicted by
the standard formalism of quantum mechanics. Nimrod Moiseyev |
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9:40-10:20
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Very
accurate
surface hopping calculations Mike Herman |
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| 10:20-10:40 | Break | ||
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10:40-11:20
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Heller’s
frozen
Gaussians as a starting point for methods of multidimensional
quantum dynamics Dmitry Shalashilin |
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| 11:20-12:00 | Asymptotics
of
the Wigner 9j symbol R. G. Littlejohn |
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12:00-2:00
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Lunch | ||
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Session IV
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Condensed Matter | ||
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2:00-2:40
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A Long
and Beautiful Life: True Confessions of a Spin Don Eigler |
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| 2:40-3:20 | From quantum corrals to topological insulators:
Surface states to surface states Gregory Fiete |
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3:20-4:00
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Quantum
Solitons
in BECs Bill Reinhardt |
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4:00-4:20
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Break | ||
| 4:20-5:00 | Imaging Electron Waves Bob Westervelt |
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| 5:00-5:40 | Electron Transfer Dynamics
in the condensed phase Troy van Voorhis |
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| Saturday, Oct. 9 |
Phillips
Auditorium,
ITAMP 60 Garden Street
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8:15
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Morning Coffee and Pastry
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Session V:
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Waves and Chaos | ||
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8:40-9:20
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Threshold
for
generating qunatum interferences in open chaotic systems A. Ozorio de Almeida |
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9:20-10:00
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The rate of heating in vibrating billiards Doron Cohen |
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10:00-10:40
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Recent developments in the efficient
numerical computation of high-energy eigenfunctions
Alex Barnett |
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10:40-11:00
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Break | ||
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11:00-11:40
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Freak
Waves in the Linear Regime: a Microwave Study H.-J. Stöckmann |
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| 11:40-12:20 | Quantum Chaos
from Electron Waves to Rogue Ocean Waves to Microwaves Lev Kaplan |
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12:20-1:00
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Tsunami
asymptotics Sir Michael Berry |
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Social Activities 1:00- 4:15 |
Pending sunny weather there will be an excursion to the Charles River Park (1100 Soldiers Field Road, Boston, MA) for boxed Lunches and good fun. One can rent a canoe or a kayak, and also simply walk the scenic river. If you plan on coming to this excursion, there is an additional $15 fee to cover the cost of the lunch. Please e-mail ITAMP's director, Hossein Sadeghpour hrs@cfa.harvard.edu if you plan on attending and for further details. *see map below for location |
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| 7:00 - 10:00 |
Celebratory Banquet with Guest Speaker Sir Michael
Berry |
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*The map below contains the locations of the social events held throughout the three day workshop.
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