Dear Group,
Since there was so much interest in Vladimir Mandelshtam's filter
diagonalization method (FDM) at Jeffrey's presentation, I thought I
would provide the references which I found to be the most pedagogically
useful when I learned the subject for the first time.
The most pedagogical reference is a Ph.D. thesis by Jianhan Chen, which
I am attaching to this e-mail -- the basics of the method are covered in
Chapter 2.
A second useful reference is a review article written by Professor
Mandelshtam, which I am attaching as well.
Finally, more details and extensions of the method -- including examples
in which the method has been successfully used -- can be found by
looking at some of Professor Mandelshtam's papers, which are available
on his website:
http://www.chem.uci.edu/faculty/mandelsh/
Hope this is useful to everyone!
Cheers,
Jacob