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There are two postdoctoral positions available in the Levis laboratory at Wayne State University in the area of STRONG FIELD CONTROL OF CHEMICAL REACTIVITY USING CLOSED-LOOP, SHAPED LASER PULSES. Interested persons should consult "Selective Bond Dissociation and Rearrangement with Optimally Tailored, Strong Field Laser Pulses" 2001, SCIENCE 292 pgs 709 and 648 for the latest description of the experiment. A complete description of the research, laboratory and facilities can be found on our web page: http://www.chem.wayne.edu/~levislab **************************************************************************** ************************* We invite applications for two postdoctoral positions to investigate optimal control of chemical reactivity using shaped, strong field laser pulses. This work is part of a collaborative effort with the theoretical group of Herschel Rabitz at Princeton University to develop closed-loop, strong field control schemes. The work will involve probing the mechanisms of strong field chemistry (molecules in laser fields exceeding 10^13 W cm^- 2) and developing strong field quantum control schemes for the detection of complex polyatomic molecules (see Science 292, 709, 2001). In this work, the techniques of photoelectron spectroscopy and ion spectroscopy are combined with regeneratively amplified Ti:sapphire pulses, shaped using spatial light modulation, to produce the control experiment. Closed-loop control of selective bond cleavage and rearrangement processes is an exciting new field for chemical physics and interested students are invited to contact the Levis Group for more information. Professor Robert J. Levis Department of Chemistry Wayne State University Detroit, MI 48202 Phone: (313) 577-2597 (fax 6907) [log in to unmask] http://chem.wayne.edu/~levislab