A Symposium on Atomic Physics:    
  A Tribute to Walter Johnson
   4-5 April 2008 at Notre Dame
  

       The Symposium Program              Walter's Academic Heritage         Walter's Graduate Students

       The Notre Dame Theory Group              Sally's pictures/part 1         Sally's pictures/part 2

Presentations/conference papers
(generally as Acrobat pdf and/or as powerpoint and/or MS-word files
included here - in alphabetical order - as they are received)

 • Author  • Title  • .PDF/Powerpoint/.doc
 • Peter Beiersdorfer  • Precision lifetime and energy level
measurements of highly charged ions
on the Livermore EBIT		  • PDF     • PPT
 • Nora Berrah  • Inner-Shell Photodetachment of Anions  • PDF     • PPT
 • Steven Blundell  • Applications of atomic many-body methods:
high-Z ions and quantum dots		  • PDF     • PPT
 • Tu-Nan Chang  • A number of B-spline Approaches
Started with a Brief Discussion with Walter Johnson
  • PDF
 • Kwok-Tsang Cheng  • Relativistic Quantum Defect Theory  • PDF
 • Alex Dalgarno  • Auroral X-Rays from Jupiter  • PDF
 • Andrei Derevianko  • Atomic parity violation:
recent progress and challenges		  • PDF     • PPT
 • Vladimir Dzuba  • Atomic Calculations and Search for
Variation of the Fine Structure Constant		  • PDF     • PPT
 • Victor Flambaum, #1  • Violations of parity and
time-reversal in atoms and molecules		  • PDF     • PPT
 • Victor Flambaum, #2  • Variation of Fundamental Constants
from Big Bang to Atomic Clocks:
theory and observations		  • PDF     • PPT
 • Bin Lin  • Doubly Excited States:
Comparisons of theory and experiments		  • PDF     • PPT
 • Dennis Lindle  • Nondipole Effects in Atomic Photoemission  • PDF     • PPT
 • Steve Lundeen  • Tests of Relativistic Wavefunctions
by Measurements of High-L Rydberg Fine Structure		  • PDF     • PPT
 • Steve Manson  • Relativistic-Random-Phase Approximation
Calculations of Atomic Photoionization:
What have we Learned?		  • PDF     • PPT
 • Peter Mohr  • Redefinition of SI Units for a Quantum Based System  • PDF
 • Daniel Plante  • Finite Element Grid Generation
Using Genetic Algorithms		  • PDF
 • Marianna Safronova  • Applications of the all-order method:
from parity violation to atomic clocks		     • PPT
 • Jonathan Sapirstein  • History of Finite Basis Sets  • PDF     • PPT
 • Igor Savukov  • Most diverse, successful, and
fascinating theory ever developed,
and some of my experiences with MBPT		  • PDF     • PPT
 • Thomas Wilkerson  • The Early Work of Walter Johnson
and the Interaction of Cylindrical Sound Waves
with a Stationary Shock Wave		  • PDF     • PPT


At the top left is Walter's graduation picture at Ann Arbor, University of Michigan 1957.
At the top right is a recent picture of Walter in his office in the Physics Department at Notre Dame.