Supercomputing, Collision Processes, and Applications

Bell, Kenneth L. (EDT); Berrington, Keith A. (EDT); Crothers, Derrick S. F. (EDT); Hibbert, Alan (EDT); Taylor, Kenneth T. (EDT)

ISBN 10: 1475772157 / ISBN 13: 9781475772159

Published by Springer, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Supercomputing, Collision Processes, and Applications
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1475772157
• ISBN 13: 9781475772159
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.