NIST HOSTS WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL METHODS FOR FEW-BODY DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS.

In November 2000, NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology, Washington, DC, www.nist.gov) The standards-defining agency of the U.S. government, formerly the National Bureau of Standards. It is one of three agencies that fall under the Technology Administration (www.technology. hosted the Workshop on Computational Methods for Few-Body Dynamical Systems Dynamical Systems

A system of equations where the output of one equation is part of the input for another. A simple version of a dynamical system is linear simultaneous equations. Non-linear simultaneous equations are nonlinear dynamical systems. , a meeting of approximately 70 researchers co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the American Physical Society The American Physical Society was founded in 1899 and is the world's second largest organization of physicists. The Society publishes more than a dozen science journals, including the world renowned Physical Review and Physical Review Letters, and organizes more than twenty science , and the University of Maryland University of Maryland can refer to:

University of Maryland, College Park, a research-extensive and flagship university; when the term "University of Maryland" is used without any qualification, it generally refers to this school

. Workshop presentations focused on the computational study of atomic and molecular structure and collisions, Bose-Einstein condensation, chemical reactions, and other areas of applied quantum mechanics in which computational methods are having significant impact. In opening remarks to the attendees, the Director of the NIST Physics Laboratory reminded them of the noteworthy historical NIST/NBS contributions to few-body physics: the discovery of multiply-excited states of atoms at the SURF synchrotron synchrotron: see particle accelerator.

synchrotron

Cyclic particle accelerator in which the particle is confined to its orbit by a magnetic field. The strength of the magnetic field increases as the particle's momentum increases. facility; the theory of spectral line shapes; the development of iterative methods for solving large linear algebra problems; and the infrastructure for scientific computation provided by the Handbook of Mathematical Functions. The workshop Web page can be found at http://www.ipst.umd.edu/[sim]fewbodylFewBody.htm.

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