Gregory P. Smith
Senior Research Chemist,
Laser-Based Diagnostics Program
Molecular Physics Laboratory
Pure and Applied Physical Sciences Division
SRI International
Menlo Park, CA 94025
E-mail: <smith@mplvax.sri.com>
Phone: (650) 859-3496, Fax: (650) 859-6196
Specialized Professional Competence
Gas-phase chemical kinetics; molecular beams; ion-molecule processes;
laser fluorescence spectroscopy and detection; statistical theories of
reaction; computer programming; laser-based combustion diagnostics and
kinetics studies; organometallic bond energies; modeling complex
kinetic processes; atmospheric chemistry
Representative Research Assignments at SRI (Since 1976)
- Measurement of photodissociation cross sections of atmospheric cluster ions
- Application of RRKM theory to radical combination and chemical activation reactions
- Visible and infrared laser fluorescence studies of energy transfer
processes in large molecules, in laser pyrolysis, and in flames
- Development of a laser pyrolysis technique and application to
organometallic bond energy measurements and high temperature radical
reactions
- Combustion kinetics modeling of low pressure flame observations and
atmospheric photochemistry using sensitivity analysis
- Development of optimized kinetics mechanisms for combustion modeling
Other Professional Experience
- Research associate, Columbia University: research on energy
partitioning in reactions using laser fluorescence, with Professor
R. N. Zare
- Associate editor, International Journal of Chemical Kinetics, since 1985
Academic Background
- B.S. in chemistry (1970) and B.A. in mathematics (1970), Syracuse University;
- Ph.D. in chemistry (1974), Yale University
Professional Associations and Honors
- American Chemical Society;
- American Physical Society;
- Combustion Institute;
- American Geophysical Union,
- Phi Beta Kappa
Publications
- Over 75 publications on crossed-beam ion-molecule reactions,
laser-fluorescence studies of reaction energy partitioning, ion-photodestruction cross sections,
energy-transfer processes, organometallic bond energies, laser-pyrolysis kinetics studies, RRKM
rate calculations, atmospheric chemistry, combustion kinetics, laser-based flame diagnostics,
and laser-fluorescence spectroscopy