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Neepa T. Maitra Associate Professor |
Course material: Physics
101
Research interests: in theoretical chemical physics, largely in
density functional theory, also in semiclassical
methods and quantum chaos. Most recently, the emphasis has been on time-dependent
density functional theory (TDDFT), a method to describe electronic
excitations and dynamics in atomic, molecular, chemical systems and solids.
Fundamental development: investigating properties of the exact functionals in order to guide the development of accurate
approximations eg. memory-dependence,
from non-adiabatic effects in the linear response regime, to how memory affects
species in intense fields. This has a wide range of implications and
applications: electronic excitation energies and spectra, double excitations,
highly excited Rydberg states, quantum control in
intense fields. A recent emphasis has been on time-dependent current-density
functional theory (TDCDFT) which is a neat way to go beyond the adiabatic approximation and include spatial non-local
dependence.
We’re grateful to our funders: NSF CAREER, Cottrell Scholar of Research Corporation, ACS PRF, Hunter College Gender Equity Program, Research Corporation of CUNY
Most of my publications are available here.
My education:
B.Sc.(Hons)
Ph.D.
Postdoc'ed in Bill Miller's
chemical physics group at
Group
members are here
Some useful
links:
Meetings/Conferences
of interest: American
Physical Society March Meeting Tutorial 1 on Basics of Density Functional
Theory, March 9 2008, New Orleans; APS
March Meeting Session D1 on Fundamental Developments in Density Functional
Theory, March 10 2008, New Orleans; ITAMP Workshop
in Theoretical Challenges in Attosecond Laser
Science, ITAMP-Center for Astrophysics at Harvard, Cambridge, May 12-26,
2008; 3rd
International Workshop and School on Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory,
Benasque, Spain Aug 31-Sep 15, 2008
Department Seminars: Hunter Physics Department Colloquiua
Often-used journals: Physical Review Letters,
Journal of Chemical Physics, Physical Review A,
Physical Review B, Chemical
Physics Letters, ArXiv
pre-print server
Web search: Google
Train schedules: NJ Transit
NY-Trenton , Amtrak
NYC Subway: Map
News: N.Y.Times,
BBC, NZ
Herald
Weather: N.Y.C.
Some other favourite links:
Pictures of my littlest
colleagues, and more with beloved Dida.
Interested in math? Chris Woodward's
home page
A beautiful country New
Zealand (where I grew up!)
