Supercomputing, Collision Processes, and Applications

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Fifty Years of Atomic and Molecular Collision Theory

   • A. Dalgarno

   Pages 1-7

3. Electron-Atom Resonances

   • Frank H Read

   Pages 9-14

4. Recent Progress in Electron-Atom Scattering

   • Igor Bray

   Pages 15-31

5. Benchmark Studies in Electron-Inpact Excitation of Atoms

   • Klaus Bartschat

   Pages 33-50

6. A Model Adiabatic Potential to Study Shapes and Locations of Single Particle Resonances: The Case of Electron-Ozone Scattering

   • F.A. Gianturco, R.R. Lucchese, N. Sanna

   Pages 51-66

7. Aspects of an AB Initio Approach to Electron Scattering by Small Molecules

   • T. N. Rescigno

   Pages 67-76

8. Atoms in Intense Laser Fields

   • Charles J. Joachain

   Pages 77-103

9. Manipulating Small Molecules with Intense Laser Fields

   • Jan H. Posthumus, Keith Codling, Leszek J. Frasinski

   Pages 105-118

10. Matrix Methods

    • Iain S. Duff

    Pages 119-136

11. Elastic Electron Collision with Chiral and Oriented Molecules

    • K. Blum, M. Musigmann, D. Thompson

    Pages 137-153

12. Positron Scattering by Atoms

    • B.H. Bransden

    Pages 155-170

13. From Positron to Positronium Scattering

    • G Laricchia, A J Garner, K Paludan

    Pages 171-182

14. Embedding and R-Matrix Methods at Surfaces

    • J.E. Inglesfield

    Pages 183-195

15. Negative Ion Resonance of Molecules on Surfaces: From Spectroscopy to Dynamics

    • Lidija Šiller, Richard E. Palmer

    Pages 197-211

16. Bertha — 4-Component Relativistic Molecular Quantum Mechanics

    • I. P. Grant

    Pages 213-224

17. JET Applications of Atomic Collisions

    • H. P. Summers, R. W. P. McWhirter, H. Anderson, C. F. Maggi, M. G. O’Mullane

    Pages 225-247

18. Radiation Pressure and Element Diffusion in Stellar Interiors

    • M.J. Seaton

    Pages 249-267

19. Atomic Physics of Muon-Catalyzed Fusion

    • Isao Shimamura

    Pages 269-278

20. Back Matter

    Pages 279-287

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Professor Philip G. Burke, CBE, FRS formally retired on 30 September 1998. To recognise this occasion some of his colleagues, friends, and former students decided to hold a conference in his honour and to present this volume as a dedication to his enormous contribution to the theoretical atomic physics community. The conference and this volume of the invited talks reflect very closely those areas with which he has mostly been asso- ated and his influence internationally on the development of atomic physics coupled with a parallel growth in supercomputing. Phil’s wide range of interests include electron-atom/molecule collisions, scattering of photons and electrons by molecules adsorbed on surfaces, collisions involving oriented and chiral molecules, and the development of non-perturbative methods for studying multiphoton processes. His devel- ment of the theory associated with such processes has enabled important advances to be made in our understanding of the associated physics, the interpretation of experimental data, has been invaluable in application to fusion processes, and the study of astrophysical plasmas (observed by both ground- and space-based telescopes). We therefore offer this volume as our token of affection and respect to Philip G. Burke, with the hope that it may also fill a gap in the literature in these important fields.

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