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Special Issue "A Tribute to Oleg Zatsarinny (1953–2021)" on "Atoms" Deadline extended. FINAL DEADLINE Jan 24, 2022: [publication fees are waived]
This Special Issue is dedicated to the memory of Oleg Zatsarinny and his many contributions to the science of atomic structure, collisions, and other continuum processes occurring in atomic molecular, and optical (AMO) physics. The articles highlight the contributions Oleg has made to our understanding of AMO physics and the impact the methods he developed already have had and certainly will continue to have on future developments, both in fundamental science and the many applications of AMO physics. The latter include the modelling of energy transport in plasmas and astrophysical objects, as well as light-matter interactions, including short-pulse, intense laser physics. Also included is a collection of short testimonies from friends and colleagues that summarize the impact Oleg has had on their life.
Special Issue in CPC on Attosecond-Science Programs: survey on potential contributors
(the deadline for manifesting your interest is July 22, 2020)
In an effort to make the computer codes developed within the AttoChem COST Action (2019 - 2023) available to a broad community, Dr. Jimena Gorfinkiel, one of the Computer Physics Communications (CPC) Specialist Editors and member of the AttoChem Managing Committee, has obtained a preliminary agreement from the CPC Principal Editor to publish a Special issue on Attosecond Chemistry Software in that journal. This special edition will be open also to contributors external to the action. All contributions would be collected by Summer or Fall of 2022, so that the Special Issue could be published by Fall 2023, before the end of the Action. The prospective Guest Editors are Jimena Gorfinkiel, Luca Argenti and Fernando Martin. To finalize the negotiation with the editor, and giving full latitude to our TAMOC colleagues to participate, it is now essential to collect a list of potential TAMOC contributors from outside the action.
TASK: If you wish to express your interest in contributing to this special issue, please contact the action grant-holder at attochem-wg2-l@uam.es by July 22, 2020 , indicating if you would be able to:
1. submit a contribution to the CPC Attosecond Chemistry (& Physics) Software Special Issue by Fall 2022. Please, consider that each participation requires not only to write a paper but also to submit a code (or a piece of a code) ready for use by others.
2. produce your software according to the CPC requirements, which are summarized here:
Computer Programs in Physics Papers are full papers describing new or revised programs to be placed in the CPC Program Library. The submitted software must adhere to one of the Mendeley Data approved open-source software licenses. It should be implemented in a language and executable on hardware that is widely available and well documented; it should meet accepted standards for scientific programming, be adequately documented and, where appropriate, supplied with a separate User Manual, which together with the manuscript should make clear the structure, functionality, installation, and operation of the program. Manuscripts must be accompanied by: the program source code; a README file giving the names and a brief description of the files/directory structure that make up the package and clear instructions on the installation and execution of the program; sample input and output data for at least one comprehensive test run that will convince the reviewers that the program operates as specified; and, where appropriate, a user manual.
May 22, 2020 TAMOC Annual Business Meeting: To be held online within DAMOP ( https://www.aps.org/units/damop/meetings/annual/ ) on Tuesday, June 2 from 5 pm to 7 pm PDT with the following agenda:
The Legacy of Tony Starace. Chii-Dong Lin, Kansas State University
Reports from program managers. Thomas Settersten: The DOE BES AMO program; Robert Forrey: The NSF atomic theory program.
Discussion of COVID-19 related budget issues
Reports from center directors. Hossein Sadeghpour: Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics - ITAMP; Artem Rudenko: J. R. Macdonald Laboratory - JRML.
Computing and Digital Libraries. Barry Schneider: The NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions and a Science Gateway for AMO physics
Election of TAMOC co-chairs
Announcements
May 18, 2020 ITAMP Winter School lectures archive: The current uncertainty associated with the pandemic has forced many schools to prepare for a scenario in which online teaching becomes a significant component of the academic portfolio in the near future. We thought that the collection of full-length ITAMP Winter School lectures covering a large spectrum of topical and fundamental AMO science (ultracold, ultrafast, coherent control, quantum information, quantum many-body, astrochemistry, ...) can be helpful to you in preparation for such a scenario. The lectures are available in the public domain (https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itamp-events/winterschool), but we ask that when you use these lectures, to please give proper citation to the authors (from Hossein Sadeghpour, ITAMP Director).
December 16, 2019 Two reports on the future of AMO science:
1) Decadal Assessment and Outlook Report on Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Science by the Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. See http://nap.edu/25613 or goto https://www.phys.ksu.edu/personal/thumm/TAMOC/2019-AMO-assessment-NAS.pdf for a prepublication copy.
2) For comparison, you find the 2011 NSF workshop report "TAMOP: Recent Developments and a Vision for the Future" at https://www.phys.ksu.edu/personal/thumm/TAMOC/TAMOP_Report_14Dec2011.pdf\
September 7, 2019 Sad news: Anthony Starace, George Holmes Distinguished Professor of Physics at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, NE died unexpectedly at the age of 74 on September 5, 2019. This comes as a big shock to us. Tony was a very active and prolific member of the AMO physics community for decades and TAMOC chair from 1986 to 1989. He made seminal contributions to the theory of atomic ionization.
August 26. 2019 Workshop: A Science Gateway for atomic and molecular Physics. This project grew out of an NSF supported workshop held at ITAMP, May 14-16, 2018 entitled, “Developing Flexible and Robust Software in Computational Atomic and Molecular (A&M) Physics” organized by Barry Schneider (chair), Robert Forrey (Penn State), and Naduvalath Balakrishnan (UNLV). Following the workshop six of the groups interested in atomic and molecular collisions and the interaction of those systems with electromagnetic radiation submitted an NSF proposal to the eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment ( XSEDE ) to build and maintain a Science Gateway devoted to the codes developed in these groups. The purpose of the project is to explore mechanisms to collectively make codes available and easier to use by the partners as well as others in the community. With the proposal granted, the group was joined by Sudhakar Pamidighantam of the XSEDE project for development of the gateway. With some of the codes being ported to various XSEDE platforms, we are now taking the next step by describing the science and the computational details of our codes to a larger community with the goal of making them available and useful to others and to also invite people who have similar interests to consider more direct participation in the project.
The tentative agenda is:
· Day 1, Wednesday, Dec 11:
o An introduction and some background to set the stage.
o One-hour overview talks on the science and computational techniques used in each code and an additional 15 minutes for discussion. These talks will be designed to give the attendees enough background on the science problems that can be tackled with the code and the methods employed by the developers.
· Day 2, Thursday, Dec 12:
o One-hour demonstrations of using the codes on the gateway with 30 minutes for questions, discussion, comments, etc.
· Day 3, Friday, Dec 13:
o Short presentations from attendees, open discussions, suggestions, etc. This is currently planned to be a half day, but it could be extended to a full day if there is sufficient interest,
We considered a more hands-on process with breakouts into separate rooms, where participants would actually work with their own laptops on the gateway. That was eventually rejected as being too time consuming for a workshop of this length, and it has the additional downside of not allowing a participant to attend more than a single session. The use of the Science Gateway does not require users to download and install the code on their own platform, a process that many of us know can be filled with difficulties. The codes are already installed and running on various NSF supercomputers. Note that there will also be a presentation on the gateway itself and other aspects that are relevant to people interested in using the gateway for their science.
Practical details: The workshop will be held on the NIST campus. It is being supported by the Molecular Sciences Software Institute (MOLSSI), the NSF, and NIST. All participants will be staying at the Hilton in Gaithersburg, as it will provide shuttle service to the NIST campus free of charge. There will be a dinner at the hotel on Day 2 of the workshop. There will be a small registration fee of $100 USD to cover incidental expenses. Please respond to Barry Schneider ( bis@nist.gov ) by October 7 as attendance is limited.
May 16, 2019 Please attend the TAMOC Business Meeting during the upcoming DAMOP meeting on Monday, May 27th 2019 from 8:00 to about 9:00 pm in the Wisconsin Center, room 101 CD. The agenda will be (we expect on average 10 min. per report):
1) Reports from program managers (Note the separate session on all-AMO funding opportunities “What’s new with regard to AMO funding opportunities?” on Tuesday 5/ 28 at 6:30 pm)
· NSF atomic theory program: John Gillaspy, NSF (substituting Mike Cavagnero, NSF)
2) Reports from center directors
· Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics (ITAMP): Hossein Sadeghpour
· J. R. Macdonald Laboratory (JRML): Brett Esry
3) Other Reports
· NIST High Performance Computing and Digital Libraries: Klaus Bartschat for Barry Schneider
3) Announcements (Events, upcoming meetings, carrier opportunities.Can be scheduled at short notice. For brief announcement please contact the TAMOC chairs just before the meeting.)
May 16, 2019: In the week of August 4-8 the 11th Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics (CQO-11) will be held on the campus of the University of Rochester. Tutorial and historical presentations as well as invited and contributed papers will be included, see https://www.rochester.edu/ccqo/cqo11/ Special interest attaches to focused sessions planned for Quantum Coherence in Chemistry, Quantum Opto-Mechanics, and an Emil Wolf Memorial Symposium. Conference Secretaries are N.P. Bigelow, J.H. Eberly, A.N. Jordan, A.N. Vamivakas.
May 13, 2019: Funding opportunities in Quantum Information Science and Engineering Research at NSF. See https://www.nsf.gov/mps/quantum/quantum_research_at_nsf.jsp
January 21, 2019: Message from TAMOC chairs: The 50th annual DAMOP meeting is in Milwaukee, WI. from May 27 to May 31, 2019. The deadline for submitting an abstract is February 1, 2019.
June 5, 2018: Message from the TAMOC chairs: The TAMOC Business Meeting took place during the DAMOP meeting on Tuesday, May 29th from 7:00-8:00 pm with the following agenda: 1) Election of new chairs. 2) NSF atomic theory program report - Michael Cavagnero. 3) ITAMP report - Hossein Sadeghpour. 4) TAMOC report on the recent workshop "Developing Flexible and Robust Software in Computational Atomic and Molecular Physics".
Nominations are currently being sought for the 2019 Nicholas Metropolis Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Work in Computational Physics. This award recognizes doctoral thesis research of outstanding quality and achievement in computational physics and to encourage effective written and oral presentation of research results. The annual award consists of $2,500, a certificate, travel reimbursement up to $1,500, and a registration waiver to receive the award and give an invited talk at the APS March Meeting. The deadline for nominations submissions is July 2nd. Please visit the following URL for more information: https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/dissertation/metropolis.cfm
January 25, 2018: Message from Bernard Zygelman: Assistant/Associate Professor in experimental AMO physics
January 20, 2018: Message from TAMOC chairs: We call your attention to the upcoming ITAMP workshop: Developing Flexible and Robust Software in Computational Atomic and Molecular Physics Dates: May 14-16, 2018; Location: ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Organizers: Barry Schneider (NIST), Bob Forrey (Penn State), N. Balakrishnan (UNLV). This workshop aims to identify and prioritize the outstanding problems in AMO science which would benefit from a concerted community effort in developing new software tools and algorithms, leading to more rapid scientific progress. More information will be available on the ITAMP website in the coming weeks.
January 19, 2018: Message from TAMOC chairs: The next DAMOP meeting is in Ft. Lauderdale, FL from May 28-June 1, 2018 and the deadline for submitting an abstract is January 26, 2018.
October 25, 2017: Message from Perry Rice: Assistant Professor in theoretical/computational physics
October 20, 2017: Message from Svetlana Malinovskaya: Tenure-track Faculty Position in Physics
August 28, 2017: Message from Gleb Gribakin: Research Fellow in Theoretical Atomic Physics
June 23, 2017: Message from Victor Flambaum: Research Associate in Theoretical Physics
June 10, 2017: The 2017 annual TAMOC business meeting was held during the 48th Annual DAMOP Meeting June 5-9, 2017, Sacramento, CA (USA).
May 5, 2017: Message from Uwe Thumm: Research Associate position at Kansas State University
January 13, 2017: Message from TAMOC chairs: The deadline for abstract submission (01/27/2017) for the 48th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics is two weeks away.
November 7, 2016: Message from Barry Schneider: The NSF XSEDE program provides allocations of supercomputer resources to the open science community on a number of platforms ranging from traditional supercomputers to cloud computing. Startup allocations may be obtained without submission of a formal proposal and larger allocations are reviewed 4 times a year. For more details see, https://portal.xsede.org/allocations-overview
November 1, 2016: Message from Brian Kendrick: Open position at Los Alamos National Laboratory
November 1, 2016: Message from Svante Jonsell: Assistant Professor in Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics, Stockholm University
October 24, 2016: Message from Uwe Thumm: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN THEORETICAL ULTRAFAST AMO PHYSICS,DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS, KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY
October 5, 2016: Message from Anatoli Kheifets: The first Announcement of ICPEAC30 in Australia
September 15, 2016: The TAMOC community is saddened by the passing of Deborah Jin. To read about her pioneering research or to share your remembrances or thoughts, please go to https://jila.colorado.edu/news/deborah-jin-dies-47
June 30, 2016: Message from Barry Schneider: The Information Technology Laboratory has established two, new NIST funded postdoctoral positions. These are in addition to the NRC postdoctoral positions and program that NIST has traditionally participated in. As with the NRC programs, only US citizens are eligible but as this is limited to our laboratory and under our control, the chances of being selected is far greater. The program is going to begin this August and continue into the indefinite future. It will be a biannual call, August and January, in order to coincide with the NRC call. The salary and benefits will align with the NRC program and are therefore quite good by most standards. I would like to encourage those of you with really qualified graduate students to have them think about applying to the program. While there is a variety of research topics going on within the Applied and Computational Mathematics Division, I am particularly interested in applicants with experience in scattering theory, interaction of radiation with matter and quantum chemistry. All postdocs are encouraged to develop there own ideas and there is considerable freedom in what specific research problems they can pursue. In addition, it has been traditional that NIST has made many permanent appointments from their postdoctoral pool. Please contact Barry Schneider at bis@nist.gov for more details.
May 5, 2016: The 2016 annual TAMOC business meeting was held during the 47th Annual DAMOP Meeting May 23-27, 2016, Providence, RI (USA).
May 5, 2016: With the DAMOP 2016 approaching, we would like to invite you to attend your TAMOC business meeting to be held Tuesday, May 24, 8:00 – 9:00 pm in Room 555 AB (5th Floor). This business meeting will highlight opportunities for collaboration and workshops at theory institutes, ITAMP, and the Perimeter Institute. An NSF program officer will speak about the agency’s perspective and strategy on AMO theory funding. There will be a demonstration of the new NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions resource. New TAMOC leadership will be selected. All DAMOP participants are welcome. Please note that program managers from many of the prominent funding agencies will be speaking the evening before at the DAMOP Business Meeting, Monday, 8:00 – 10:00 pm, Room 553 AB, which you may also find useful to attend in addition to our TAMOC meeting. We look forward to your participation. Have a safe trip to Providence, Rhode Island! Your TAMOC co-chairs, Andrei Derevianko and Mike Crescimanno
(Jan 6, 2016)
Dear TAMOC Physicist,
Happy New year, 2016! Wishing you success in all you endeavor this year, and looking forward to catching up with you at one of the year's professional meetings, including
ICOLS, Jan 12,13, Zurich, Switzerland
DAMOP, May 23-27, Providence, Rhode Island, (Jan. 29 Abstracts deadline)
CLEO-QUELS, June 5-10, San Jose, California, (Jan. 27 Abstract deadline)
QCMC2016, July 4-8, Singapore (Feb. 29 Abstracts deadline)
ICAP, July 24-29, Seoul, Korea
As usual TAMOC will hold a business meeting at DAMOP (to be scheduled).
Previous TAMOC meeting notes (including program managers viewgraphs) can be found on the TAMOC website (https://sites.google.com/site/tamocphysics/) under the "TAMOC business..." tab (https://sites.google.com/site/tamocphysics/community/tamoc-2013-meeting).
June 26, 2014, Ann Orel, NSF TAMOP program manager, has provided the information on a change in how proposals are submitted to NSF/PHY. This change affects proposals the up-coming funding cycle. The information is given in the links below. Two important changes that must be emphasized:
1) From now on there is a DEADLINE! Not a target date. That means no late proposals.
2) There is additional information required if you have other grants/sources of support.The division-wide solicitation is 14-576. Here is the link to the summary (also given under "Funding Opportunities" on the PHY web page): http://www.acpt.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505058&org=PHY&from=home This page in turn provides the link to the solicitation itself.
The solicitation for a Theory Institute in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics is: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/nsf14570/nsf14570.htm Additionally, please find here Ann Orel's presentation at the TAMOC Business Meeting at DAMOP in Madison, WI, June 2nd, 2014.
September 30, 2013: On behalf of the Theoretical Atomic, Molecular, and Optical (AMO) Physics Community (TAMOC), we, Svetlana Malinovskaya and Christian Buth (cochairs), would like to extend our congratulations to Ana Maria Rey for receiving a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, http://jila.colorado.edu/arey/news/2013/ana-maria-rey-named-2013-macarthur-foundation-fellow. Such a "genius grant" represents an extraordinary distinction that is based on excellent previous accomplishments and almost guarantees fabulous future work. We are delighted that again a researcher from the field of AMO has been chosen for this fellowship and, on behalf of the TAMOC, we wish Ana Maria Rey fortune in your future research.
April 15, 2013: New book Schrödinger's Killer App — Race to Build the World's First Quantum Computer by Jonathan P. Dowling, to be published May 02, 2013 by Taylor & Francis – 453 pages, http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9781439896730. Written by a renowned quantum physicist closely involved in the U.S. government’s development of quantum information science, Schrödinger’s Killer App: Race to Build the World’s First Quantum Computer presents an inside look at the government’s quest to build a quantum computer capable of solving complex mathematical problems and hacking the public-key encryption codes used to secure the Internet. The "killer application" refers to Shor’s quantum factoring algorithm, which would unveil the encrypted communications of the entire Internet if a quantum computer could be built to run the algorithm. Schrödinger’s notion of quantum entanglement—and his infamous cat—is at the heart of it all.
April 10, 2013: There will be session entitled “Theoretical atomic, molecular, and optical physics – current and future directions” at the 44th Annual DAMOP Meeting June 3–7, 2013 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada http://www.aps.org/units/damop/meetings/annual.
April 10, 2013: With the end of March, two AMO-related theory workshops sponsored by the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) came to a close. The first one, led by Tommaso Calarco, Ivan Deutsch, Gerard Milburn, and Birgitta Whaley, dealt with "Control of Complex Quantum Systems." The second was led by Lincoln Carr, Paul Julienne, Roman Krems, and Susanne Yelin about "Fundamental Science and Applications of Ultra-cold Polar Molecules." The workshops were twelve and ten weeks long each and consisted of 20+ mostly theory participants at any given time plus a number of experimental visitors. While the most time was given to unscheduled discussions and other free working time, each workshop offered about five talks per week and one or two scheduled discussions. Because of the obvious overlap of the two topics, many of the talks and discussions were joint between the two workshops. In addition, each workshop featured a one-week long conference. Both programs organized themselves using wikis that are now (still) publicly accessible. Nearly all talks are recorded and both the recordings and the slides are accessible. The wiki addresses are http://qcontrol13.wikispaces.com/home and http://coldmoles13.wikispaces.com. (The links inside are self-explanatory.) Judging from feedback, both KITP permanent personnel and participants from both workshops were very satisfied with the programs. It would be great if we, the TAMOC community, could have many more of those very productive workshops. We would therefore urge everybody to submit proposals for future workshops - or even better to team up and either consolidate or try to take advantage of parallel interactive topics as in this case. (This information is provided by Susanne Yelin)