This award supports travel for participants in the conference "Mathematical and Numerical Challenges in Molecular Simulation and Control," held 15-18 December 2010 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The meeting focuses on chemical physics, nonlinear analysis, and control theory, with emphasis on molecular simulation and control. Topics to be addressed include new computational methods in chemical physics, simulation of chemical reactions and quantum control, quantum dynamics and nonlinear analysis, and control of linear and nonlinear quantum dynamics.
The meeting features a one-day pre-conference tutorial for participants on molecular simulation and control. The conference will include invited presentations by leading researchers, as well as contributed talks.
The conference will foster collaborations among junior and senior researchers. Invited lectures and contributed talks will be posted on the conference web site. The conference encourages and supports participation by graduate students, junior researchers, and members of under-represented groups.
Conference web site: http://sciences.unlv.edu/Mathematics/MSCC.html
In the past decade, new laser technology has opened up new frontiers for coherent control of quantum dynamics. There has been rapid growth in the multidisciplinary research of molecular simulation and control at the interfaces of chemistry, physics and mathematics. Supported by the NSF, Dr. Zhonghai Ding and Dr. Matthew Coleman organized the conference "Mathematics, Analysis and Control in Chemical Physics and Related Systems", which was held at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, December 14-17, 2010. This conference had brought together leading experts from a broad spectrum of areas to identify mathematical and numerical challenges in molecular simulation and control and present new methods for addressing these challenges. Sixteen leading researchers, including five mathematicians, six physicists, and five chemists, were invited to give one-hour plenary talks. Before the main program of the conference, a one-day tutorial was offered to help those participants who have limited knowledge of molecular simulation and control and to help them to familiarize the background and basic concepts of the topics by the invited speakers. A total of thirty seven talks were given, which include four tutorial ninety-minute talks, sixteen plenary talks, seventeen contributed talks. A total of fifty two participants from four different countries attended this conference. A special issue entitled "Some Recent Progress in Mathematical Physics", consisting of fourteen papers contributed by invited speakers and participants, was published in Acta Applicandae Mathematicae, Vol. 118, No. 1, 2012.
