GROUP MEETING

GN09-20

September 4, 2009

 

To:

LaJohn

 

There will be a group meeting FRIDAY  October 2,11 am   Room 221B AH.

 

(Oct 30, Nov 13?, 27, Dec 11, Wed 30?)

 

1

Organizational Issues

a

Appointments, next meeting, other meetings, lectures

 

 

b

Computer issues, finances,

 

2

Meetings

Place

Date

 

 

 

 

 

ISRP

Melbourne, Australia

Sept 21-25

 

AAAS

San Diego, CA

Feb 18-22

 

IRPScouncil

Buenos Aires, AR

March/April

 

DAMOP

Houston, TX

May 25-29. 10

 

Res Elas & Inela X-ray scattering

Saskatoon, CN

July 8-9, 10

 

VUVX

Vancouver, CN

July 11-16, 10

 

Ulrafast VUV & X-ray science

SLAC, Stanford, CA

July 19-20, 10

 

CAARI 2010

Fort Worth, TX

Aug 8-13, 10

 

IRPScouncil

NIST, Gaithersburg, MD

Sept 2010

 

3

Deadlines

 

 

 

 

 

Abstracts

 

 

Manuscripts

 

 

Registration

 

 

4

Travels, Visitors

 

 

 

 

Travel

 

 

Arrivals

 

 

Departures

 

 

Visits

Surzhykov (Feb/Mar?), Suric (May?), Sen Gupta (fall?), Avdonina (winter?).

 

 

RHP

Pitt

DC

Travel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sept

4-7

8-14

15-26

Melbourne, Sydney

 

Oct

2-4

S27-1

 

 

 

 

30-1

5-16

?17-25?

Zagreb,Frnkfrt?, Dubrovnik

 

 

O30-Nov1

26-29

 

 

 

Nov

?13-15?

2-12

?6-14?

?Zagreb,Frnkfrt?, Dubrovnik  ?

 

 

26-29

16-25

 

 

 

Dec

11-14

N30-10

 

 

 

 

24-J3

15-23

 

 

 

Jan

15?17?

4-14?

 

 

 

Feb

 

 

 

 

 

Mar

 

 

 

?India?

 

April

 

 

 

Buenos Aires?

 

May

 

 

25-29

Houston

 

June

 

 

 

 

 

July

 

 

12-16

Vancouver

 

 

 

 

?30-Aug 1?

Mt. Pleasant

 

5

Manuscripts

 

 

 

 

562

"On the Nature of Matter - 2500 Years of Debate", B. K. Chatterjee (based on M.  N. Saha 2007 Memorial Lecture of R. H. Pratt), published Science and Culture 74, 241-250 (2008).

 

563

"The Beginnings of ITAMP - Proposals from the AMO Community and the NSF Response",  R. H. Pratt, for Proceedings of the Dalgarno Celebratory Symposium, to be published by World Scientific

 

564

"Compton scattering revisited", R. H. Pratt, L. A. LaJohn, V. Florescu, T. Suric, B. K. Chatterjee, S. C. Roy, accepted for publication in RPC

 

565

"Partial cancellation of correlations in nonrelativistic high energy asymptotics of photoeffect", E. G. Drukarev and R. H. Pratt, PRA 80, 013406  (2009).

 

566

"A Personal History of Photoeffect, from Ancient Toward Modern Times", R. H. Pratt, University of Bucharest 2009, on occasion of award of Doctor Honoris Causa, June 15, 2009, Magurele, Bucharest, Romania

 

567

"K-shell Compton scattering at high photon energy", Viorica Florescu and R. H. Pratt, accepted for Phys. Rev. A

 

568

"Characterization of the Relativistic Contributions to Compton Doubly Differential Cross Sections", L. A. LaJohn, under revision, to resubmit to Phys. Rev. A.

 

6

Funding

 

 

 

 

Pittsburgh Proposals

 

 

 

 

Pittsburgh Awards

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other Awards

 

 

 

 

Due Dates

 

 

 

7

Recent Preprints

 

 

 

 

 

8

Recent Papers

 

 

 

 

 

a           

Pratt

"Absolute differential bremsstrahlung cross sections for 0.4 - 2 keV electrons scattered by Ar, Kr, Xe", Gnatchenko. Nechay, Tkachenko, PRA 80. 022707 (2009)

 

9

Review of Literature:

 

 

 

 

 

 

10

Presentations

 

 

 

 

 

a

Pratt

"A comparison of the hydrogenlike dipole radial matrix elements with overlap integrals and a step toward explicit expressions of the multipole matrix elements", Blaive and Cadilhae, PPB 42, 165002 (2009).

 

11

Manuscripts in Preparation

 

 

 

 

a

"Polarization correlations for d,f states", Kim, Goldberg, Pratt

 

b

"Observables in quantum mechanics: creating spin polarization in the absence of spin orbit interactions", Young Soon Kim and R. H. Pratt

 

c

“Some notes on analytic continuation of the Coulomb dipole matrix element:, O. I. Obolensky and R. H. Pratt

 

d

“Singularities of the Dipole Matrix Element”, D. B. Uskov & R. H. Pratt

 

e

Regge ideas in bremsstrahlung”, D. B. Uskov & R. H. Pratt

 

f

"Survey of Compton ScatteringDoubly Differential Cross Sections: Future Direction", Chatterjee, Roy, LaJohn, for NIM

 

g

"Compton scattering from bound system", Z. Kalliman, K. Pisk, R. H. Pratt

 

12

Work in Progress

 

 

 

 

Avdonina

Regge trajectories

 

Kim (YS)

qm observables

 

Lajohn

quad 0's, corr in atten,  Compton

 

Pisk

Compton from positronium

 

Suric

Compton scattering, photo atten,  Stobbe & Elwert factors, mol.interfer

 

13

Computer facilities

 

 

 

The group owns a number of computers, including PC Intel Pentium 4, (Stribor), Sun SPARCstation 5 (Oat), Pentium laptop computer (Shiba), PC Intel Celeron (OatPC), and R. Pratt’s PowerMac G4.

 

Stribor (operated by Linux Red Hat 9) serves as the main group computer.  All user files are stored on Stribor.  It has the latest version of Intel fortran compiler, and users are encouraged to compile, debug and run their codes using Stribor.

 

Stribor also runs the IMAP mail server and Apache web server. The group’s website address is http://stribor.phyast.pitt.edu

 

Old large codes (Rayleigh and Compton scattering, bremsstrahlung) can be run on Oat (operated by Solaris 2.6). Rayleigh & Compton have also been modified for compilation under the Windows operating system.  The latest version of these can be obtained from L. LaJohn. 

 

OatPC runs WindowsXP and has all commonly used applications.  Short term visitors who prefer Windows over Linux can use OatPC.

 

The group has books available on various operating systems, languages and software, also hardcopy documentation on the codes.