Current Developments in Atomic, Molecular, and Chemical Physics with Applications, 2002

Proceedings of an International Conference on Current Developments in Atomic, Molecular, and Chemical Physics with Applications, held March 20-22, 2002, in Delhi, India.
The 38 chapters cover a broad range of research activities categorized into four sub-topics, namely:

* Processes in Laser Fields,
* Chemical Physics,
* Collision Processes,
* Atomic Structure and Applications.

I-Processes in Laser Fields.- 1. Generation of Photon Number States on Demand.- 2. Polarization-Dependent Spectra in the Photoassociative Ionisation of Cold Atoms in a Bright Sodium Beam.- 3. Dynamic Imaging of Molecular Motion with Ultrashort Intense Laser Pulses.- 4. Fractal Singularities and the Rate of Multiphoton Dissociation.- 5. Multiphoton Processes in Laser Field.- 6. Femtosecond Ionization of CH3-CN-NaI and CH3-CN-CsI.- 7. Study of Intramolecular Dynamics of Highly Energised Small Molecules Using Laser Spectroscopic Techniques.- 8. Quantum Dynamics of Polyatomic Molecules.- 9. Study of Excited State Dynamics to Improve the Optical Limiting Performance of Tetra Tolyl Porphyrins.- II- Chemical Physics.- 10. Nonadiabatic Transitions and Chemical Dynamics.- 11. Quantum Theory of Molecular Reactions and Photodissociation.- 12. Recent Applications of the Quantum Trajectory Method.- 13. Theory and Control of Photo-Excited Polyatomic Reactions.- 14. Quantum-Dressed Classical Mechanics.- 15. Reactive Scattering Resonances in (He,H2+) Collisions.- 16. Quantum Molecular Dynamics on the Conically Intersecting Potential Energy Surfaces: Nonadiabatic Effects and Ultrafast Relaxation.- 17. Van Der Waals Interaction Probed by Solvatochromic Shifts.- 18. Role of Electronic Structure of Ruthenium Polypyridyl Dyes in the Photoconversion Efficiency of Dye - Sensitized Solar Cells: A Semi-Empirical Investigation.- III- Collision Processes.- 19. UV Spectroscopy by Electron Impact for Planetary Astronomy and Astrophysics.- 20. Electron Impact of Astrophysically Important Neutral Atoms.- 21. Ionization and Fragmentation of Fullerene Ions by Electron Impact.- 22. Electron Impact Ionisation Cross-Sections of the Transition Metals.- 23. Multiple Ionisation of Atoms.- 24. Longitudinal Spin Asymmetry in (e, 2e) Processes on Atoms by Relativistic Electrons.- 25. Correlations in Some Two Electron Transition Processes.- 26. Electron Excitation of the D States of Atoms.- 27. Relativistic Dynamical Effects in Atomic Photoabsorption.- 28. Vibrational Excitation of Polyatomic Molecules by Electron- and Positron-Collisions.- 29. Electron Attachment to Molecules of Practical Applications.- 30. Electron Impact Cross Sections with O Atoms; 02 And 03 Molecules - A Theoretical Survey.- 31. Study of X-Ray and High Energy Electron Scattering Intensities of Molecules Using a Density Functional Theory.- 32. Electron-Positronium Scattering and Doubly Excited Autodetaching States of the Positronium Negative Ion.- IV - A Tomic Structure and Applications.- 33. Recent Progress in Radiative Transition Probability Determination in Lanthanide Ions.- 34. Concentrations of Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases, Aerosols and their Comparison with COSMIC.- 35. Channeling Radiation in Strained Layer Super Lattices - A Quantum Mechanical Calculation.- 36. C III Emission Lines in Ionizing and Recombining Plasmas.- 37. X-Ray Emission from Laser Produced Plasmas.- 38. Atomic Spectroscopy of Fusion Plasmas.