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Host: Centre de recherches mathematiques
Sponsor: CRM, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Ministère de l'Industrie (France)
Homepage: http://omega.CRM.UMontreal.CA/QuantumC/
Email: activities@CRM.UMontreal.CA
Organizers: A. Bandrauk (Sherbrooke, Canada) M. Delfour (Montreal, Canada) C. Le Bris (ENPC, Paris, France)
Description:
This conference will concentrate on advanced numerical methods and new mathematical tools for control and optimization in the quantum control of matter at the molecular level using current advanced laser technology.
This new field of research is dedicated to "using current state of the art laser technology to control and manipulate the quantum behaviour and motion of matter at the molecular level". The basis of this new science is the encoding and control of quantum information at the molecular level in order to control the time evolution of molecular processes, such as guiding the final output of a reaction to a desired target. Most of the research in this area has been numerical and theoretical, involving multidimentional time-dependent Schroedinger equations,TDSE's. Coupling these molecular processes to the laser field equations, Maxwell's equations, results in coupled parabolic (TDES's) and hyperbolic (Maxwell) partial differential equations. There are outstanding problems, both numerical and mathematical, which this workshop will address by bringing together mathematicans, theoretical chemists and physicists working in the area of control and optimization of systems subject to quantum laws.
The conference will involve about 30 international experts in laser molecule interactions, optimization, theory and control of molecular dynamics. It will emphasize participation of graduate students in applied mathematics, theoretical chemistry and physics.
Graduate and postdoctoral students are invited to apply for local support (hotel room in double occupancy plus a per diem). Up to 20 such grants will be awarded. The deadline for appplication on our website is August 1st 2002. Time has been reserved for short papers presentations by graduate and postdoctoral students.
Speakers: - Molecular and Electron Control: Osman Atabek (Orsay, France), Andre D. Bandrauk (Sherbrooke, Canada), Thomas Brabec (Ottawa, Canada), Paul Brumer (Toronto, Canada), Regina de Vivie-Riedle (Garching, Germany), Ronnie Kosloff (Hebrew University, Israel), Robert Kosut (SC Solutions, USA), Helene Lefebvre-Brion (Paris-sud, France), Yukiyoshi Ohtsuki (Tohoku, Japan), Herschel Rabitz (Princeton, USA) - Quantum Control - Mathematical Problems: Goong Chen (Texas A & M, USA), Michel Delfour (Montreal, Canada), Sanjoy K. Mitter (MIT, USA), Viswanath Ramakrishna (Texas at Dallas, USA), Roberto Triggiani (Virginia, USA), Jean-Paul Zolesio (CNRS and INRIA, France), Enrique Zuazua (Complutense, Madrid, Spain) - Quantum Computing: Mikhail Y. Ivanov (NRC-Ottawa, Canada), Serge Lacelle (Sherbrooke, Canada), Raymond Laflamme (Waterloo, Canada), Daniel Lidar (Toronto, Canada) - Numerical Methods: Tucker Carrington (Montreal, Canada), Michel Fortin (Laval, Canada), Gene H. Golub (Stanford, USA), William Hager (Gainesville, USA), Claude Le Bris (ENPC, Paris, France), Yvon Maday (UPMC, Paris, France), Anthony Peirce (UBC, Canada), Marc Schonauer (INRIA, France), Gabriel Turinici (INRIA, France), Robert Wyatt (Texas, USA)
Mail Address:
Centre de recherches mathematiques, Universite de Montreal, CP 6128, succ. Centre-ville, Montreal, Canada H3C 3J7 Phone (514) 343-7501 FAX (514) 343-2254
Submitted by: Michel Delfour, Universite de Montreal
Date received: March 12, 2002, revised December 31, 2003
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