Gia Maisuradze Post-doctoral Research Associate Ph.D., Tbilisi State University (Georgia), 1990
Mailing address: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Physics Program MS 216 University of Nevada - Reno Reno, Nevada 89557 Email: gia@chem.unr.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Reaction dynamics and the potential energy surfaces of small and large systems; The theory of Raman spectroscopy; Single photon optical processes in disordered media.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Physics, Tbilisi State University (Georgia), 1990.

M.S. Physics, Tbilisi State University (Georgia), 1984.

CURRICULUM VITAE

PUBLICATIONS

G. G. Maisuradze, D. L. Thompson, A. F. Wagner and M. Minkoff, " Interpolating Moving Least Squares Method for Fitting Potential Energy Surfaces: Detailed Analysis of One-Dimensional Applications," J. Chem. Phys., 119, 10002-10014 (2003).

G. G. Maisuradze and D. L. Thompson, "Interpolating Moving Least-Squares Method for Fitting Potential Energy Surfaces: Illustrative Approaches and Applications," J. Phys. Chem. A 107, 7118-7124 (2003). (Part of Donald G. Kouri Festschrift)

G. G. Maisuradze, "A study of Raman excitation profiles for soluble cis-polyacetylene", submitted to Molecular Physics.

G. G. Maisuradze, G. A. Bowmaker and R. P. Cooney, "Investigation of Raman excitation profiles for cis-(CH)x and -(CD)x polymers", J. Raman Spectrosc., 30, 53-60 (1999).

G. G. Maisuradze, G. A. Bowmaker and R. P. Cooney, "Calculation of resonance Raman excitation profiles (RREPs) for soluble and solid trans-polyacetylene (trans-PA)", Chem. Phys. Lett., 287, 224-232 (1998).

G. G. Maisuradze, "Resonance Raman scattering by carotenoids in solvents", National Conference in Biophysics, Tbilisi (Georgia), 94-95, 1991.

M. G. Zakaraya and G. G. Maisuradze, "Calculating excitation profiles for resonant Raman scattering by tetradesmethyl-b-carotene in solution", Sov. J. Appl. Spectrosc. 53, 1301-1306 (1990).

M. G. Zakaraya and G. G. Maisuradze, "Spectroscopy of resonance combination light scattering by carotenoids in solution", Biophysics 35, 940-946 (1990).

M. G. Zakaraya and G. G. Maisuradze, "Resonance Raman spectroscopy of polyatomic molecule tetradesmethyl-b-carotene", (in Russian), Proceedings of IInd Symposium "Kinetics of processes of charge transition in homogeneous and heterogeneous systems", dedicated to memory of Prof. R.R. Dogonadze, Batumi (Georgia), 39-40 (1989).

G. G. Maisuradze, "Spectra of Raman scattering and excitation profiles are a good source of information of polyatomic molecules", (in Georgian), Proceedings of the National Conference of Young Scientists, Batumi (Georgia), 94-95 (1989).

M. G. Zakaraya, G. G. Maisuradze and J. Ulstrup, "Theory of bandshape of absorption spectra and Raman scattering for polyatomic molecules in solution" (in Russian), Proceedings of the VI All-Union Conference in Photochemistry, Novosibirsk (Russia), 56 (1989).

M. G. Zakaraya, G. G. Maisuradze and J. Ulstrup, "Theory of inhomogeneous environmental Gaussian broadening of resonance Raman excitation profiles for polyatomic molecules in solution", J. Raman Spectrosc. 20, 359-365 (1989).

M. G. Zakaraya and G. G. Maisuradze, "Interpolation of vibronic spectral lines in polar media", Opt. Spectrosc. 67, 168-171 (1989).

M. G. Zakaraya and G. G. Maisuradze, "Theory of excitation profile of spectral lines in resonance Raman scattering", Opt. Spectrosc. 63, 389-390 (1987).

M. G. Zakaraya and G. G. Maisuradze, "Method of deriving the separate contributions of homogeneous and inhomogeneous broadening mechanisms of a spectral line", (in Russian), Proceedings of the National Conference of Young Scientists and Specialists, Tbilisi (Georgia), 4-6 (1986).

M. G. Zakaraya and G. G. Maisuradze, "On interpretation of some singularities of the absorption spectrum of solvated electron", Proceedings of the 37th Meeting of International Society of Electrochemistry, Vilnius (Lithuania), 3, 362-364 (1986).

M. G. Zakaraya and G. G. Maisuradze, "Interpretation of the short-wavelength wing of the absorption spectrum of a solvated electron", Opt. Spectrosc. 60, 673-674 (1986).

AWARDS

Recipient (with Dr. M. G. Zakaraya) of the special prize from the International Foundation (Soros) for the best publications among Georgian scientists for 1989-1992 (1993).