Schulich Faculty of Chemistry & ITAMP Workshop

on

Resonances: From Few-body to Many-body

Program

Sunday 02.11.08

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15:00-16:00 Administration

16:00-20:00 Excursion to Haifa promenade and dinner

Monday 03.11.08

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Morning Session. Chairperson: Hossein Sadeghpour

09:00-10:00 Administration

10:00-11:00 Lenz Cederbaum, University of Heidelberg

Cold atoms physics by the multi-orbital mean-field approach

11:00-12:00 Andras Kruppa, Institute of Nuclear Research, Debrecen, Hungary

Resonances and stochastic variational method

12:00-14:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session. Chairperson: Shmuel Fishman

14:00-15:00 Agapi Emmanouilidou, University of Oregon

Exploring attosecond phenomena in ionization of multi-electron atoms by single
photon absorption and strong laser fields

15:00-15:30 Shachar Klaiman, Technion

Narrow resonances in complex potential energy surfaces

15:30-16:00 Or Peleg, Technion

Interfering resonances in optics – bound states in the continuum for a
modulated waveguide pair

16:00-18:00 Informal Discussion

Evening Session. Chairperson: Nimrod Moiseyev

18:00-19:00 Uri Peskin, Technion

On the relation between resonance widths and steady-state currents
in molecular junctions

19:00 Dinner

Tuesday 04.11.08

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Morning Session. Chairperson: Lenz Cederbaum

09:00-10:00 Thomas Sommerfeld, Southeastern Louisiana University

Vibrational Feshbach resonances in electron capture of fructose

10:00-11:00 Julius Su, CalTech

Simulation of large-scale excited electron dynamic

11:00-12:00 Ofir Alon, University of Heidelberg

Exact decay and tunneling dynamics of interacting few-boson systems

12:00-14:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session. Chairperson: Uri Peskin

14:00-15:00 Roland Lefebvre, University of Paris

Control of Photodissociation through Zero-width Resonances

15:00-16:00 Petra Ruth Kapralova-Zdanska, Academy of Science, Czech

Quasiclassical method for calculation of molecular vibrational levels

16:00-18:00 Informal Discussion

Evening Session. Chairperson: Nimrod Moiseyev

18:00-19:00 Edvardas Narevicius, Weizmann Institute

Towards adiabatic magnetic deceleration and molecular cooling

19:00 Dinner

Wednesday 05.11.08

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Morning Session. Chairman: E. Nikitin

09:00-10:00 Francoise Masnou, CNRS

Formation of ultracold molecules by photoassociation :

interpretation as an optical Feshbach resonance

10:00-11:00 Naomichi Hatano, University of Tokyo

Quantum resonance and electronic conduction in mesoscopic systems

11:00-12:00 Ronnie Kosloff, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Simulation of quantum many-body dynamics using dynamical
coarse graining: application to tunneling

12:00-14:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session. Chairperson: Ronnie Kosloff

14:00-15:00 Helene Lefebvre-Brion, CNRS, Orsay

Resonance Widths in the Predissociation of N2 and CO

15:00-15:30 Ido Gilary, Technion

Suppression of photo-ionization by a static field

15:30-16:00 Milan Sindelka,Technion

Field induced conical intersection: the phenomenon and
its consequences

16:00-18:00 Informal Discussion

Evening Session. Chairperson: Nimrod Moiseyev

18:00-19:00 Hossein Sadeghpour, Harvard

Collisional properties of ultracold Bose-Fermi mixture of dipolar gases

19:00 Dinner

Thursday 06.11.08

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Morning Session. Chairperson: Ronald Lefebvre

09:00-10:00 Y. Sajeev and Sourav Pal, National Chemical Laboratory, India

A general formalism of Fock space multireference coupled cluster method for
investigating electronic resonances in molecules

10:00-11:00 Vladimiro Mujica, Northwestern University

Resonances and electronic transport in molecular junctions

11:00-12:00 Nimrod Moiseyev, Technion

Proposition of new type of Harmonic Generation and Above-threshold-ionization
experiments based on the non-hermitian QM theory

12:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:00 Concluding Remarks