Wednesday July 27/4:30
MS35/Grande Ballroom
Control of Quantum Phenomena (Part 1 of 2)
Ever since the inception of laser technology, control of molecular motion has been a goal of chemists. In principle, this ability enables one to control reactions more accurately than other reagents would. It is only recently that systematic methods from control theory have entered into any analysis of the subject. In this minisymposium, the speakers wish to attract the attention of the control community at large to the fact that well known tools from control theory such as optimal control, tracking and regulation, etc., play a crucial role in the control of molecular dynamics and nanotechnology. They have invited leading figures in this discipline. Their affiliations range from chemistry department to mechanical and electrical engineering departments. They want to draw attention to this young and intrinsically multidisciplinary field. In particular, they hope that applied mathematicians would take note of the interesting mathematical problems this subject gives rise (e.g. motion control for dynamical systems on lie groups). (For part 2, see MS52A.)
Organizers: H. Rabitz and Viswanath Ramakrishna
Princeton University
- 4:30: Multiple-pulse Femtosecond Optics, Spectroscopy, and Control Over Collective Material Behavior
Marc M. Wefers and Keith A. Nelson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 5:00: Augmented Lagrangian Methods for Optimal Pulse Shaping in Coherent Control of Photochemistry
Andre D. Bandrauk, Hai Shen, and Jean Pierre Dussault, Universit‚ de Sherbrooke, Canada
- 5:30: New Control Problems Arising in the Control of Molecular Dynamics
Herschel Rabitz and Vish Ramakrishna, Organizers
- 6:00: Optimally-Controlled Mode-selective Multiphoton Excitation of Molecules
Matjaz Kaluza and James T. Muckerman, Brookhaven National Laboratory
- 6:30: Treatment of Model and Laboratory Errors in Molecular Optimal Control Calculations
Charles Schwieters, College of William and Mary, and Herschel Rabitz, Co-organizer
(For part 2, see MS52A.)