Thomas N. Rescigno

Senior Scientist, Atomic and Molecular Theory Program

Chemical Sciences
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley, California 94720

Phone: (510) 486-8652 | Fax: (510) 486-5812

Dr. Thomas N. Rescigno is a Senior Scientist in the Chemical Sciences directorate at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he co-directs the Atomic and Molecular Theory Group. From 1975 to 2002, he worked at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Dr. Rescigno did his undergraduate work at Columbia College, obtained his PhD in Chemical Physics from Harvard University and pursued post-doctoral studies at the California Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and has served on the executive boards of several APS divisions and is Chair of the Topical Group on Few-Body Systems. He has also been a member of the editorial board of Physical Review A. His principal areas of research interest are low and intermediate energy electron-atom and electron-molecule collisions, few-body breakup, photoionization of atoms and molecules, analyticity and resonance phenomena .

Curriculum Vitae: Education, Employment, Research Interests, Professional Societies,

TNR's Publication List

TNR's Colleagues

Ken Kulander, Bill McCurdy ,Ann Orel

TNR's Graduate students

Mark Baertschy ,Dan Byrum, Dan Haxton, Dan Horner, Jeanna Royal, Frank Yip

TNR's Postdocs

William Isaacs, Cynthia Trevisan, Wim Vanroose, Zhiyong Zhang

The Atomic and Molecular Theory Group at LBNL

Personal Links

spouse-Erie Mills, brother-Joseph Rescigno

EDUCATION

BA- Chemical Physics, Columbia College (1969)

MA-Chemistry, Harvard University (1971)

PhD - Chemical Physics, Harvard University (1973)

Research Director: William P. Reinhardt

Thesis: The Fredholm Method in Electron-Atom Scattering

EMPLOYMENT

June 2003 - present: Senior Scientist, Chemical Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

June 2001 - June 2003: Senior Scientist, Computing Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Janaury 2000 - June 2001: staff scientist, Computing Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

May 1986 - September 2002: Senior Scientist, Physics Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Summer 1994 and summer 1993: Lecturer, Summer School in Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics, University of New Mexico, Los Alamos

Summer 1991 and summer 1987: Visiting Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory

May 1985 - May 1986: Leader, Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics Group, Physics Department, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

October 1981 - May 1985: Leader, Atomic and Molecular TheoryGroup, Chemistry and Materials Science Department, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

June 1979 - October 1981: Leader, Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics Group, Laser Program, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

November 1975 - June 1979: staff scientist, Laser Program, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

October 1973 - September 1975: Research Fellow in Chemistry, California Institute of Technology

Summer 1969: National Science Foundation Trainee, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Summer 1968: National Science Foundation Trainee, Columbia University

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Low and intermediate energy electron-atom and electron-molecule collisions

Photoionization of atoms and molecules

Analyticity and resonance phenomena

Atomic and molecular structure

Many-body theory

Kinetic modeling

Numerical analysis

PROFESSIONAL AND HONORARY SOCIETIES

American Institute of Physics

Physical Review A, Editorial Board, 1995-2000 American Physical Society, Fellow 1989

Gaseous Electronics Conference, Executive Committee, 1998-2000, 2003-
Allis Prize Committee
Chair (2001)
Vice-Chair (1999)
Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

Program Committee 1981, 2001
Fellowship Committee 2000-2002
Local Chair, Annual Meeting 1990
Executive Committee, 1996-99, 2003-
Nominating Committee, 2003 Topical Group on Few-Body Physics and Multiparticle Dynamics
Chair-Elect 2001, Chair 2003
Phi Lambda Upsilon

Phi Beta Kappa

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Last updated Jan 31, 1997