International Symposium on New Developments in Methods and Applications of Few-body Physics: In Memory of Professor SA Sofianos

Abstract

PrefaceThe symposium was held in memory of Professor S A Sofianos, a distinguished physicist, who dedicated all his academic life to serving the University of South Africa and the Few-body physics community. Fourteen researchers from Brazil, Russia, Japan and South Africa presented their work at the symposium, while many others who were interested could not participate because of financial and visa challenges. Almost all the participants have collaborated with Professor S A Sofianos in their research.A wide range of few-body physics topics were discussed during the symposium. Nuclear interactions as well as bound and scattering processes formed the bases of all the discussions of the symposium. The long-standing Coulomb problem and the almost forgotten Marchenko inversion resurfaced. New developments in few-body methods such as the Artificial Neural Networks, Integrodifferential Equations Approach, Gaussian Expansion Method and the Faddeev Approach, which are applicable to stable nuclear systems, were discussed. Various three- and four-body nuclear systems were considered for illustrations of these methods. Developments in the Jost function and Jost matrix methods and their application to unstable exotic nuclear systems were also discussed. Professor S A Sofianos worked on all, and many more, of these methods and few-body systems.List of Committee, Sponsors and Participants are available in this pdf