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William C. McCurdy
Professor

Email: cwmccurdy@ucdavis.edu
Phone:(530) 754-9736

Professor, University of California, Davis, July 2004 - present.
Adjunct Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, October 1996 - present.
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Principal Research Interests
Professor McCurdy’s research interests principally concern the theory of dynamical processes in chemistry and chemical physics. He has developed new fundamental methods for calculations on the basic processes of electron-driven chemistry including electron-molecule scattering, electron-impact ionization and molecular photoionization, and is the author of numerous publications in these areas.
Representative Publications

“Electron-helium scattering in the S-wave model using exterior complex scaling,” D. A. Horner, C. W. McCurdy and T. N. Rescigno, Phys. Rev. A 71, 012701 (2005)

“Electron-impact excitation-autoionization of helium in the S-wave limit”, D. A. Horner, C. W. McCurdy and T. N. Rescigno, Phys. Rev. A 71, 010701 (2005).

“Topology of the adiabatic potential energy surfaces for the resonance states of the water anion,” D. J. Haxton, T. N. Rescigno, and C. W. McCurdy Phys. Rev. A 72, 022705 (2005)

“Nonlocal model of dissociative electron attachment and vibrational excitation of NO,” C. S. Trevisan, K. Houfek, Z. Zhang, A. E. Orel, C. W. McCurdy, and T. N. RescignoPhys. Rev. A 71, 052714 (2005)

“Threshold vibrational excitation of CO2 by slow electrons”, W. Vanroose, Z. Zhang, C. W. McCurdy, and T. N. Rescigno, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 053201 (2004).

“Implementation of exterior complex scaling in B-splines to solve atomic and molecular collision problems”, C. W. McCurdy and F. Martín, J. Phys B: At. Mol. Phys. 37, 917-936 (2004)

“Theoretical treatment of double photoionization of helium using a B-spline implementation of exterior complex scaling”, C. W. McCurdy, D. A. Horner, T. N. Rescigno, and F. Martín, Phys. Rev. A. 69 032707 (2004).

“Complex Potential Surface for the 2B1 metastable state of the water anion,” Daniel J. Haxton, Zhiyong Zhang, C. William McCurdy and Thomas N. Rescigno, Phys. Rev. A, 69 062713 (2004).

“Dynamics of dissociative attachment of electrons to water through the 2B1 metastable state of the anion,” Daniel J. Haxton, Zhiyong Zhang, Hans-Dieter Meyer, Thomas N. Rescigno and C. William McCurdy, Phys Rev. A, 69 062714 (2004).

“Solving the three-body Coulomb breakup problem using exterior complex scaling,” C. W. McCurdy, M. Baertschy and T. N. Rescigno, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys, 37 R137 (2004).

“Symmetrized complex amplitudes for He double photoionization from the time-dependent close coupling and exterior complex scaling methods,” D. A. Horner, J. Colgan, F. Martín, C. W. McCurdy, M. S. Pindzola, and T. N. Rescigno, Phys. Rev. A 70 064701 (2004).

“Nonperturbative theory of double photoionization of the hydrogen molecule,” W. Vanroose, F. Martín, T. N. Rescigno and C. W. McCurdy, Phys. Rev. A 70, 050703 (2004).