Ahmet Turgay Uzer is a Turkish-born

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. Regents' Professor Emeritus at

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following Joseph Ford (physicist). He has contributed in the field of atomic and molecular physics,

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and chaos significantly. His research on interplay between

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, in the context of

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is considered to be novel in molecular and theoretical physics and chemistry.

Academic career

Turgay Uzer completed his bachelor's degree at Turkey's prestigious

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. According to

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Library his doctoral thesis was entitled "Photon and electron interactions with diatomic molecules." He defended his dissertation and graduated from Harvard University in 1979. Before joining

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in 1985 as an associate professor, he worked as a research fellow at

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1979/81,

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1982/1983, and as a research associate at

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1983/85. Currently, he is a faculty member with th
Center for Nonlinear Science
and full professor of physics at

. His research areas are quite broad, but he has focused on the dynamics of intermolecular energy transfer, reaction dynamics, quantal manifestations of classical mechanics, quantization of nonlinear systems, computational physics, molecular physics, applied mathematics.

Awards

Uzer was

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-Stiftung Foundation Fellow in 1993–1994 at

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, Munich. Uzer is of Turkish origin and was also awarded the prestigious Science award for his contributions to physics from the Scientific and Technological Research Council (TÜBİTAK)br>
in 1998.

Selected publications

Books

* The Physics and Chemistry of Wave Packets, with John Yeazel
at books.google
* Lecture Notes on Atomic and Molecular Physics with Şakir Erko�
at books.google

Some of the seminal papers

Uzer has more than 80 referenced Journal articles, in a number of highly respected scientific journals.
appeared in PRE
Chaotic billiards with neutral boundaries
appeared in Science
Celestial Mechanics on a Microscopic Scale
appeared in JCP
Quantization with operators appropriate to shapes of trajectories and classical perturbation theory

References

External links

Georgia Tech Homepage

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