Brief CV, Ann-Marie Mårtensson-Pendrill

Research at the borderline between atomic and nuclear physics

Mårtensson-Pendrill's research has focussed on accurate atomic many-body calculations of quantities needed to interpret experimental data. The studies of atomic parity non-conservation and electric dipole moments have given information about weak interaction parameters and about possible violations of symmetry under parity and time reversal. Her calculations in connection with Isotope Shift and Hyperfine Structure have enabled more accurate extractions of nuclear charge and magnetization radii. Her work has also included studies of fundamental questions in connection with relativistic many-body theory.

She has published about 60 refereed papers and given a number of invited talks at conferences.

Her teaching includes a gratuate course in atomic physics, several introductory undergraduate courses, as well as interdisciplinary courses in the teacher programs. This summer she runs a modern physics course including WWW-project works. Together with her students in a new programme "scientific problem solving" she has produced a web-site providing Amusement Park Physics problems in connection with the local amusement park.

She has been a member (1992-97) of the Physics committee of the Swedish Natural Science Research council, NFR. Since 1994, she is also a member of the Swedish Council for High-Performance computing, HPDR.

Selected Publications

(A more complete list available on-line)

Calculation of the Specific Mass Shift in Li and K Using Many-Body Perturbation Theory
A-M Mårtensson and S Salomonson
J. Phys. B15 2115-30 (1982)
(This paper is the first inclusion of correlation effects in SMS)

Magnetic Moment Distributions in Tl Nuclei
A-M Mårtensson-Pendrill
Phys. Rev. Lett. 74 2184-7 (1995)
(A quantitative interpretation of old rf-data!)

Calculation of the P and T Violating Weak Interaction in Xe Using Atomic Many- Body Theory
A-M Mårtensson-Pendrill
Phys. Rev. Lett. 54 1153-5 (1985)

Calculations of the Parity Non-Conserving 6s->7s Transition in Caesium
S A Blundell, A C Hartley, Z W Liu, A-M Mårtensson-Pendrill, J Sapirstein
Theor. Chim. Acta 80 257-288 (1991)
(Critical comparison of various calculations of Cs PNC)

Calculation of P and T Violating Properties in Atoms and Molecules
A-M Mårtensson-Pendrill
Methods in Computational Chemistry, Vol 6
(Ed. S Wilson, Plenum, New York, 1992), p 99-156
(A review of EDM calculations - has inspired quantum chemist to get involved!)

An Iterative Numeric Procedure to Obtain Pair Functions Applied to Two-Electron Systems
A-M Mårtensson
J. Phys. B12 3995-4012 (1979)
(First "all-order" pair correlation, generalizable to larger systems.)

The Beryllium Atom Reinvestigated - a comparison between theory and experiment
A-M Mårtensson-Pendrill, S A Alexander, L Adamowicz, N Oliphant, J Olsen, H M Quiney, P Öster, S Salomonson and D Sundholm
Phys. Rev. A43 3355-64 (1991)
(Critical analysis and comparison of several accurate Beryllium calculations.)

A Relativistic Pair Equation Projected Onto Positive Energy States
E Lindroth, J-L Heully, I Lindgren and A-M Mårtensson-Pendrill
J. Phys. B20 1679-96 (1987)
(Fundamental problems in connection with relativistic pair correlation.)

Turnaround Times at a Supercomputing Centre
A-M Mårtensson-Pendrill
"Perspective" in Int. J. Supercomputer Applications and High-Performance Computing Vol 9:4 p 312-314 (1995)
(Demonstrating that turnaround times at a Supercomputer can easily be as long as those for a workstation - (since users choose whatever will be fastest for them, an equilibrium will occur, unless prevented!) I like this one very much even if it is not really about physics.)

Ann-Marie.Pendrill@fy.chalmers.se, 1997-07-28
http://fy.chalmers.se/~f3aamp/home/cv.html