Distinguished Faculty Award, Louisiana State University, 2001.
Humboldt Research Award for Senior Scientists, Alexander von
Humboldt Foundation, Germany, 1999.
Distinguished Research Master, Louisiana State University, 1988.
Member of Committee on Atomic and Molecular Sciences of the Board
of Physics and Astronomy, National Research Council, 1985-1988.
JILA Visiting Fellowship, Joint Institute of Laboratory
Astrophysics, Boulder, 1984.
Fellow, American Physical Society, 1982-
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, 1977-1980.
K. S. Krishnan Gold Medal, University of Delhi, 1966.
LSU Foundation Faculty Research Award, Summer 1976 and 1982.
Seminars
& Conferences
Organizer of a symposium "Resonances and Reflections" in honor of
Ugo Fano, Institute of Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics,
Harvard University, July 2002.
Invited speaker, Technische Universitaet, Darmstadt, Germany, June 2002.
Invited speaker, John Briggs Symposium, Max Planck Institute for
Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany, June 2002.
Invited speaker, Workshop on Threshold Phenomena, Institute for
Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
June 1998.
Invited speaker, International Workshop on Intense Laser-Atom
Interactions, Goa, India, February 1998.
Invited discussion leader, Gordon Conference on Atomic Physics,
New Hampshire, July 1997.
Invited speaker, Joint American Physical Society/American
Association of Physics Teachers Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 1997.
Invited lecturer, Summer School in Atomic, Molecular and Optical
Physics, Los Alamos, New Mexico, July 1996.
Invited lecturer, Workshop at the Australian National
University, Canberra, June 1996.
Organizer and Chairman, Symposium on Chemical Kinetics, Second
International Congress on Theoretical Chemical Physics, New Orleans,
April 1996
Invited speaker, Workshop on Strong Perturbations of Rydberg States
at Institute of Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, July 1995.
Invited speaker, NATO Advanced Study Institute on (e, 2e) and (e,
3e) Collisions, Cambridge, England, September 1992.
Invited speaker, New Developments in Two-electron Atoms and Ions,
Boulder, Colorado, July 1992.
Invited speaker, Sixth International Symposium on Polarization
and Correlation, Adelaide, Australia, July 1991.
Invited speaker, Eleventh International Conference on the
Applications of Accelerators, Denton, Texas, November 1990.
Invited speaker, International Conference on Aspects of
Photoionization, New Haven, July 1989
Invited lecturer, NATO Advanced Study Institute, Maratea, Italy,
September 1987
Invited speaker, European Few Body Conference, France, September 1987
Invited speaker, Gordon Conference on Simple Systems, August 1987
Invited lecturer, NATO Advanced Study Institute, Cargese,
Corsica, June 1985
Delivered the Thirteenth Annual Hannan Rosenthal Memorial
Lecture of the Departments of Physics of Yale and Columbia
University, Yale University, March 1, 1985
Invited lecturer, NATO Advanced Study Institute, Cargese,
Corsica, June 1985
Invited lecturer, Workshop of Indian Atomic Physicists, Bombay,
India, December 1984
Chairman of a session and Invited Speaker at a Workshop on
Collisions and Spectra in External Fields, National Bureau of
Standards, Washington, D. C., October 1984
Invited by C.N.R.S. (France) and the Danish Science Council to be
a principal speaker at the workshop on electron correlation effects,
Denmark, September 1984
Invited speaker at the IX International Conference on Atomic
Physics, Seattle, July 1984
Invited lecturer, NATO Advanced Study Institute, Lake Geneva,
Wisconsin, August 1982
Chairman, Panel on Theoretical Techniques, for a National
Research Council Workshop on Atomic Spectroscopy, 1982
Invited by XIII International Conference on Electronic and Atomic
Collisions, Berlin, 1983 to organize a Symposium on Threshold Laws
Invited by C.N.R.S. (France) to speak at an International
Colloquium, Aussois, 1982
Conference Fellow, III International Conference on Atomic
Physics, Boulder, 1972
