European Winter School on Theoretical Methods
14-18 February 2005, Prague
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 Latest News (04/03-05):

The European Winter School on Theoretical Methods for EPIC took place on Feb 14-18 at the J Heyrovsky Institute in Prague. This meeting was 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)'

The organisers of the meeting have set up a website for the meeting where you can  download *.pdf or *.ppt files of the talks and find further details including a report from the meeting, a list of those who participated and photographs.

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.

Accommodation:

The EPIC/EIPAM project covers the accommodation for young EPIC/EIPAM participants in the Hotel DUO in Prague from Sunday the 13th up to Saturday 19th February 2005. Please, specify your room type and arrival/departure dates to Vincent Brems. If you want to stay in Prague longer, on-line reservation and contacts can be found at http://www.hotelduo.cz/index.php

Arrival:

We have added a few details about how to get from Prague airport "Ruzyne" to the hotel DUO.

There are 3 restaurants in the hotel. Our dinners will take place in Restaurant Galerie. We will meet on the first dinner at 20:00 of 13th February where some additional information about the meeting will be provided.

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

Electronic correlation in molecules

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

Schwinger Multi-Channel Method: Basic aspects
 of the theory and applications

Romarly F. da Costa

17:00-18:00

Application of the Schwinger Multichannel
Method in the study of the electronic excitation
 of H2 molecules by electron impact: Development of the Minimal Orbital Basis set for Single Configuration (MOB-SCI) strategy

Romarly F. da Costa

 

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