Focus Session: The Transition State in Physics, Chemistry, and Astrophysics I

Presentations

• Transition State Theory for Higher-Rank Saddles

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 18, 2009, 2:30 PM – March 18, 2009, 3:06 PM

  Authors

  • George Haller

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology \& Morgan Stanley

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• Exploring Topographies and Dynamics on Many-Dimensional Landscapes

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 18, 2009, 3:06 PM – March 18, 2009, 3:42 PM

  Authors

  • R. Stephen Berry

    • The University of Chicago

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• Transition State Theory: The Phase Space Perspective

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 18, 2009, 3:42 PM – March 18, 2009, 4:18 PM

  Authors

  • Turgay Uzer

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

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• Phase Space Transition States for Deterministic Thermostats

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 4:18 PM – March 18, 2009, 4:30 PM

  Authors

  • Greg Ezra

    • Cornell University

  • Stephen Wiggins

    • Bristol University

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• Using invariant manifolds to classify chaotic transport pathways in mixed phase space

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 4:30 PM – March 18, 2009, 4:42 PM

  Authors

  • Kevin Mitchell

    • University of California Merced

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• Transition State Theory: Variational Formulation, Dynamical Corrections, and Error Estimates

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 4:42 PM – March 18, 2009, 4:54 PM

  Authors

  • Eric Vanden-Eijnden

    • Courant Institute

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• The dynamics of a floppy molecule: a case study

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 4:54 PM – March 18, 2009, 5:06 PM

  Authors

  • Xiaojian Mao

    • Department of Chemistry, West Virginia University

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