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Pierre GASPARD
Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems
Campus Plaine - CP 231
Université Libre de Bruxelles
B-1050 Brussels - Belgium

E-mail: gaspard@ulb.ac.be ,
Phone: +32-2-650-57-93 (direct)
+32-2-650-55-35 (secretariat)
Fax:+32-2-650-57-67

Research activities

Fundamental problems in complex systems research

Dynamical systems theory and statistical mechanics

Complex quantum systems

Fluctuation theory and stochastic processes

Monograph

P. Gaspard
Chaos, Scattering, and Statistical Mechanics
Cambridge University Press,
Nonlinear Science Series No. 9,
May 1998, ISBN 0-521-39511-9 hardback, pp. 475.

Selected publications

P. Gaspard and G. Nicolis
What Can We Learn From Homoclinic Orbits in Chaotic Dynamics?
Journal of Statistical Physics 31 (1983) 499-518.

P. Gaspard and X.-J. Wang
Sporadicity: Between periodic and chaotic dynamical behaviors
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U. S. A. 85 (1988) 4591-4595.

P. Gaspard and S. A. Rice
Scattering from a classically chaotic repellor
Journal of Chemical Physics 90 (1989) 2225-2241, 2242-2254, 2255-2262.

P. Gaspard, S. A. Rice, H. J. Mikeska, and K. Nakamura
Parametric motion of energy levels: Curvature distribution
Physical Review A 42 (1990) 4015-4027.

P. Gaspard and G. Nicolis
Transport Properties, Lyapunov Exponents, and Entropy per Unit Time
Physical Review Letters 65 (1990) 1693-1696.

P. Gaspard and D. Alonso Ramirez
Ruelle classical resonances and dynamical chaos: The three- and four-disk scatterers
Physical Review A 45 (1992) 8383-8397.

P. Gaspard and X.-J. Wang
Noise, chaos, and (epsilon,tau)-entropy per unit time
Physics Reports 235 (1993) 291-345.

P. Gaspard and F. Baras
Chaotic scattering and diffusion in the Lorentz gas
Physical Review E 51 (1995) 5332-5352.

J. R. Dorfman and P. Gaspard
Chaotic Scattering Theory of Transport and Reaction-Rate Coefficients
Physical Review E 51 (1995) 28-35.

P. Gaspard, D. Alonso, and I. Burghardt
New Ways of Understanding Semiclassical Quantization
Advances in Chemical Physics 90 (1995) 105-364.

P. Gaspard and M. Nagaoka
NonMarkovian Stochastic Schrödinger Equation
Journal of Chemical Physics 111 (1999) 5676-5690.

P. Gaspard and S. Tasaki
Liouvillian Dynamics of the Hopf Bifurcation
Physical Review E 64 (2001) 056232 (17 pages).

Editorialship Member of the Editorial Board of the following journals or series:

``Advances in Chemical Physics",
published by J. Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York
( http://www.wiley.com).

``Nonlinearity",
published by The Institute of Physics and The London Mathematical Society
( http://www.iop.org/Journals/Non).

``Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science",
published by the American Institute of Physics
( http://ojps.aip.org/chaos/).

``Journal of Statistical Physics",
published by Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
( http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0022-4715).

``The European Physical Journal D: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics",
published by EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, & Springer-Verlag
( http://www.edpsciences.org/epjd/).

Organizership

Member of the Coordination Committee of the International Workshop and Seminar on
"Microscopic Chaos and Transport in Many-Particle Systems",
Max-Plank-Institut für Physik Komplexer Systeme,
Dresden, Germany, 5-25 August 2002
( http://www.mpipks-dresden.mpg.de/~chaotran).

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