European Winter School on Theoretical Methods
14-18 February 2005, Prague

 

The European Winter School on Theoretical Methods for EPIC will take place on Feb 14-18 at the J Heyrovsky Institute in Prague. This meeting will be supported by the EU Training Network 'Electron and Positron Induced Chemistry' (EPIC) and the European Science Foundation Programme 'Electron Induced Processing at the Molecular Level (EIPAM)'

AIMS of the meeting:

  • To learn more about the different theoretical methods currently being used to treat electron molecule-collisions. In particular, what does not work that well for each of them.
  • To establish which method or methods are best suited to be developed for the different processes being studied by the EPIC community.

Structure of the Meeting:

Since the aim of the meeting is to be able to interact among ourselves and to ask the sort of questions that are not asked in more formal seminars, we want to allow plenty of time for each talk and its following discussion. We have also agreed on not to have any talks on Wednesday, with the idea of having time to rest or to split into smaller discussion groups. Each one-hour talk includes quarter an hour discussion.

Programme:

Monday 14th February

  Basic Quantum Chemistry
 
Chairman: Vincent Brems
9:00-10:00 How to represent molecular electronic states Jimena Diaz Gorfinkiel
 
10:15-11:15   Jan Franz
  Basic Scattering Theory (I)
 
 
11:30-12:30 Introduction to Scattering Theory
 
Martin Cizek
    Chairwoman: Jimena Gorfinkiel
 
14:00-15:00 Resonance Theory
 
Vincent Brems
15:30-16:30 Multi-Channel Resonances
 
Martin Cizek
17:00-18:00 Feshbach-Fano Partitioning Vincent Brems
     

Tuesday 15th February

  Basic Scattering Theory (II) Chairman: Martin Cizek
 
9:00-10:00, 10:15-11:15 Optical Potential
 
Roman Curik
  Detailed Discussions (I)
 
 
11:30-12:30 Laboratory Frame Close-Coupling method
 
Slawek Telega
    Chairman: Roman Curik
14:00-15:00 Shape resonances localization and analysis by means of the Single Center Expansion e-molecule scattering theory
 
Andrea Grandi
  Plenary Lecture (I)
 
 
15:30-16:30, 17:00-18:00 Multi-Channel Schwinger Variational Method  
     
 

Wednesday 16th February

Free Time

Thursday 17th February

  Detailed discussions (II)
 
Chairman: Vincent Brems
9:00-10:00 R-Matrix theory for spherical symmetric potential scattering Premysl Kolorenc
10:15-11:15 The UK R-Matrix code
 
Jimena Diaz Gorfinkiel
11:30-12:30 Feshbach-Fano R-Matrix Method
 
Premysl Kolorenc
  Plenary Lecture (II) Chairman: Roman Curik
 
14:00-15:00,  15:30-16:30 Atom-Molecule Reactive Scattering Enrico Bodo
  Short report
 
 
17:00-17:30 A semi rigorous method, modified single centre-Additivity rule for calculating various total cross section Minaxi Vinodkumar
     

Friday 18th February

  Detailed discussions (III)
 
Chairwoman : Jimena Gorfinkiel
9:00-10:00 Non-Local Nuclear Dynamics
 
Martin Cizek
10:15-11:15 Exploring the wavepacket land: DEA
calculations
 
Simone Taioli
11:30-12:30 Discrete Momentum Representation method
 
Michal Kovacic
  Plenary Lecture (III)
 
Chairman : Martin Cizek
14:00-15:00, 15:30-16:30 Discrete Variable Representation and Exterior Complex Scaling methods and applications
 
Karel Houfek
17:00-18:00 Concluding final discussions