Subject: Announcement: coherent control of chemical events (2004)

From: Jussi Eloranta <eloranta-.at.-cc.jyu.fi>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 22:32:27 +0300

Dear CCL members,

I am pleased to announce the Jyväskylä Summer School 2004 / chemistry 
program:

Coherent Control of Chemical Events (CH1)

Time: 			14 hours during 23 – 27 Aug 2004
Location: 		University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland.
Lecturer: 		Prof. David Tannor (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
Course credits:		ECTS 4 cr (equivalent to 2 study weeks in Finland)
Registration:		http://www.jyu.fi/summerschool
Contacts: 		Jussi Eloranta (eloranta-.at.-jyu.fi) and Juha Ruuska 
(jss-.at.-cc.jyu.fi)

Course outline:

Introduction to wavepacket dynamics (4 hours of lectures)

1. Introduction to the time dependent Schrödinger equation
2. Gaussian wavepackets
3. The Wigner representation
4. Wavepacket correlation functions and spectra

Passive control of chemical reactions (4 hours of lectures)

1. Time dependent perturbation theory
2. Femtosecond pump and probe experiments
3. Absorption and resonance Raman spectroscopy
4. Rabi solution, FVH representation, dressed states

Active Control of Chemical Reactions (6 hours of lectures)

1. Pump-dump control of reaction products
2. Optimal control of chemical reactions
3. STIRAP and local optimization
4. Interfering pathway control
5. Pulse shaping, learning algorithms, and mechanism

Additional homework and related reading will be distributed during the 
lectures.

Jussi Eloranta (eloranta-.at.-jyu.fi)
Department of Chemistry
University of Jyväskylä
Finland