Universality, nonlinear chemical dynamics

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Epstein IR, Pojman JA (1998) An introduction to nonlinear chemical dynamics. Oscillations, waves, patterns, and chaos. Oxford University Press, New York... 

I. R. Epstein and J. A. Pojman, An Introduction to Nonlinear Chemical Dynamics, Oxford University Press, 1998. 

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An introduction to Nonlinear Chemical Dynamics, Oxford University Press. 

T. Jensen. Dynamic Control of Large Dimension Nonlinear Chemical Processes. PhD thesis, Princeton University, 1964. 

Summary. This chapter summarizes a series of new single-molecule spectroscopy investigations in the life sciences at Cornell University that began with our invention of Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS) about 1970. Our invention of FCS became my first focus on the Molecular Dynamics of Life. It motivated my transition from research on quantum fluctuations and transport in condensed matter physics including superconductivity and in the molecular dynamics of coherent fluctuations and nano-transport in inanimate physical and chemical systems subject to the nonlinear dynamics of continuous phase transitions. These interdisciplinary transitions exemplify the productivity of such interdisciplinary interactions in science. 

Well-stirred chemically reacting systems, hereinafter referred to as homogeneous systems, exhibit a variety of nonlinear phenomena illustrative of the universal behavior found at all levels of organization. Because these systems are homogeneous, the dynamics at one point in the reaction vessel are considered to be the same as the dynamics at any other point. In other words, time is the only independent variable that enters the description spatial variations do not occur, so dependence on spatial coordinates or phenomena that depend on the existence of gradients (such as diffusion) do not need to be included here. 

Shaul Mukamel, who is currently the C. E. Kenneth Mees Professor of Chemistry at the University of Rochester, received his Ph.D. in 1976 from Tel Aviv University, follot by postdoctoral appointments at MIT and the University of California at Berkeley and faculty positions at the Weizmann Institute and at Rice University. He has b n the recipient of the Sloan, Dreyfus, Guggenheim, and Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist awards. His research interests in theoretical chemical physics and biophysics include developing a density matrix Liouville-space approach to femtosecond spectroscopy and to many body theory of electronic and vibrational excitations of molecules and semiconductors multidimensional coherent spectroscopies of sbucture and folding dynamics of proteins nonlinear X-ray and single molecule spectroscopy electron transfer and energy ftrnneling in photosynthetic complexes and Dendrimers. He is the author of over 400 publications in scientific journals and of the textbook. Principles of Nonlinear OfMical Spectroscopy (Oxford University Press), 1995. 

Pratim Kumar Chattaraj earned a BSc (Honors) and an MSc from Burdwan University and a PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, India, and then joined the faculty of the IIT, Kharagpur, India. He is now a professor with the Department of Chemistry and also the convener of the Center for Theoretical Studies there. In the meantime, he visited the University of North Carolina, Chapel HiU, as a postdoctoral research associate and several other universities throughout the world as a visiting professor. Apart from -------------- teaching. Professor Chattaraj is involved in research on density functional theory, the theory of chemical reactivity, aromaticity in metal clusters, ab initio calculations, quantum trajectories, and nonlinear dynamics. He has... 

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