John Lewis

	21th International Conference on Spectral Line Shapes 21icsls     St. Petersburg 3 June to 9 June 2012     20th International Conference on Spectral Line Shapes   St. John's 6 June to 11 June 2010     CLIMATEGATE: memorandum from the Institute of Physics to the Select Committee on Science and Technology of the UK Parliament   Report on Arctic warming
Professor of Physics; photograph courtesy of Marilyn Lewis   Vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas

PhD Toronto
 
Research interests include: theory of collective effects and many-body phenomena in collision-induced absorption; theory of globular clusters.

 

Recent and Selected Papers

• J. C. Lewis and R. M. Herman, "Elementary Statistical Models for Collision Sequence Interference Effects with Poisson distributed Collision Times and Phase Shifting", International Review of Atomic and Molecular Physics, 2 (1), 25--34 (2011).
   
  
• J. Shirokoff and J. C. Lewis, "Aromaticity Parameters in Asphalt Binders Calculated From Profile Fitting X-ray Line Spectra Using Pearson VII and Pseudo-Voigt Functions" in Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Spectral Line Shapes, edited by J. C. Lewis and A. Predoi-Cross, American Institute of Physics, volume 1290, pp. 274-278, 2010.
   
  
• J. Shirokoff and J. C. Lewis, "X-ray Diffraction Spectra in Cu-Implanted SiO₂ Films on Si(100) Substrates" in Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Spectral Line Shapes, edited by J. C. Lewis and A. Predoi-Cross, American Institute of Physics, volume 1290, pp. 279-283, 2010.
   
  
• R. M. Herman, A. Suarez, J. Sofo and J. C. Lewis, "Ortho-para conversion of H₂ in crystalline silicon" in Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Spectral Line Shapes, edited by J. C. Lewis and A. Predoi-Cross, American Institute of Physics, volume 1290, pp. 284-288, 2010.
   
  
• J. C. Lewis , "Elementary statistical models for vector collision-sequence interference effects with Poisson-distributed collision times", International Journal of Spectroscopy Volume 2010, Article ID 561697,2010.
   
  
• Herbert Wheeler and J. C. Lewis , "Diffusion--controlled reaction on a one dimensional lattice: dependence on jump and reaction probabilities", Physica A 388 , 3001-3016 (2009).
   
  
• R. M. Herman and J. C. Lewis , "Vibration-rotation-translation spectrum of molecular hydrogen in fullerite lattices around 80 K", Physica B 404, 1581-1584 (2009).
   
  
• J. C. Lewis and R. M. Herman, "A Statistical Model for Scalar Collision--Sequence Interference", in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Spectral Line Shapes, edited by M. A. Gigosos and M. A. Gonzalez, American Institute of Physics, 2008.
   
  
• J. C. Lewis, "Elementary statistical models for collision-sequence interference effects", Phys. Rev. A 77, 062702 (2008).
   
  
• P. J. Doucet and J. C. Lewis, "Scattering of Star Clusters: Computational Methods and Analysis", in Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on High-Performance Computing in an Advanced Collaborative Environment (HPCS'06), IEEE Press 2006.
   
  
• J. C. Lewis, "On the Calculation of Vector Collision-Sequence Interference in Collision-Induced Absorption", in Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Spectral Line Shapes, edited by E. Oks and M. Pindzola, American Institute of Physics}, 2006.
   
  
• J. C. Lewis and R. M. Herman, "Interaction-Induced Spectroscopy of H₂ in the Fullerenes", in Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Spectral Line Shapes, edited by E. Oks and M. Pindzola, American Institute of Physics}, 2006.
   
  
• R. M. Herman and J. C. Lewis, "Theory of the fundamental vibration-rotation-translation spectrum of H₂ in a C₆₀ lattice", Phys. Rev. B 73, art. 155408 (2006).
   
  
• J. C. Lewis and Aaron D. Ludlow, "Velocity Moments and Correlation Functions of the King and Michie Models". Unpublished MS.
   
  
• J. C. Lewis, "Further Studies of Collision-Induced Absorption in Lennard-Jonesium", in Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Spectral Line Shapes, edited by E. Dalimier, Frontier Group, 2004.
   
  
• R. M. Herman and J. C. Lewis, "On the Interaction-Induced Spectrum of H₂ in C₆₀ Lattices", in Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Spectral Line Shapes, edited by E. Dalimier, Frontier Group, 2004, pp. 369-371.
   
  
• J. C. Lewis and R. M. Herman, "Collision--Sequence Interference in Collision--Induced Spectra at Low Densities", Phys. Rev. A 68, art. 032703 (2003).
   
  
• J. C. Lewis, "A Study of Collision-Induced Absorption in Lennard-Jonesium by Molecular Dynamics Simulations", pp. 394-400 in Spectral Line Shapes 12, 16th ICSLS, American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings No. 645, 2002.
   
  
• R. M. Herman and J. C. Lewis, "Dipole Spectra of H₂ and HD in Interstitial Channels in Carbon Nanotube Bundles", pp. 233-236 in Spectral Line Shapes 12, 16th ICSLS, American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings No. 645, 2002.
   
  
• M.K. Kostov, H. Cheng, R. M. Herman, M. W. Cole, and J. C. Lewis, "Hindered Rotation of H₂ absorbed interstitially in nanotube bundles", J. Chem. Phys. 116 (4) 1720- 1724 (2002). Also http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0110263
   
  
• M.K. Kostov, J.C. Lewis, M.W. Cole. "Gas condensation within a bundle of carbon nanotubes - effects of screening", in Condensed Matter Theory 16, edited by S. Hernandez and J. Clark, Nova Science Publishers, NY,2001,
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• Milen K. Kostov, Milton W. Cole, John Courtenay Lewis, Phong Diep, J. Karl Johnson. "Many-body interactions among adsorbed atoms and molecules within carbon nanotubes and in free space". Chem. Phys. Lett. 332 26-34 (2000); preprint available from cond-mat/0007034
   
  
• R. M. Herman and J.C. Lewis , "Scalar Collisional Interference Parameters for the HD R₁(0) and R₁(1) lines in Mixtures with He", in Proceedings of the XVth International Conference on Spectral Line Shapes, Berlin 2000, AIP Conference Proceedings 559, AIP 2001.
   
  
• J.C. Lewis and R. M. Herman, "Intercollisional Interference at Low Density", in Proceedings of the XVth International Conference on Spectral Line Shapes, Berlin 2000, AIP Conference Proceedings 559, AIP 2001.
   
  
• J.C. Lewis, "Lattice Gas Models for Intercollisional Interference", in Proceedings of the XVth International Conference on Spectral Line Shapes, Berlin 2000, AIP Conference Proceedings 559, AIP 2001.
   
  
• J.C. Lewis and H. T. Wheeler, "Diffusion-Controlled Reactions on Simple Lattices: Dependence of the Rate Coefficients on Jump Probability and Dimension", Physica A 271, 63-86 (1999).
   
  
• J.C. Lewis and Clifford Stamp, "Egelstaff Time and the Birnbaum-Cohen Lineshape", pp. 482-484 in Spectral Line Shapes vol. 10, American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings No. 467 (1999).
   
  
• P. H. Gammon, J. C. Lewis, and Langley R. Muir. "Iceberg Cutting With a Hot Wire" , Cold Regions Science and Technology 15, 261-278 (1988).
   
  
• J. C. Lewis. "Pressure Narrowing and the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Process". J. Chem. Phys. 84(5), 2503-2513 (1986).
   
  
• J. C. Lewis. "Intercollisional Interference at Low Temperatures". Can. J. Phys. 63, 99-103 (1985).
   
  
• J. C. Lewis. "Intercollisional Interference - Theory and Experiment", in Phenomena Induced by Intermolecular Interactions, George Birnbaum (ed.), Plenum Press, New York, NY; pp. 215-257. Proceedings of the NATA Advanced Research Workshop on Collision-Induced Phenomena. ISBN 0-306-42071-6 (1985).
   
  
• J.C. Lewis and C.P. Benedict. "Icebergs on the Grand Banks: Oil and Gas Considerations", World Oil January 1981.