A Coupled Schrodinger Equation Approach to Modeling Predissociation in Sulfur Monoxide and Carbon Monoxide

Acknowledgements Thank you to everyone who helped and supported me in completing this thesis! First, of course, thanks to Professor Stark for inviting me to SOLEIL for my independent study last year, for keeping me on as a thesis student, and for a second trip to France (even though I am less useful because I don't speak any French). Your guidance and patience in teaching me spectroscopy, basically from scratch, was much appreciated! I would also like to thank Alan Heays and Stephen Gibson for the use of their CSE and RKR programs, and a special thanks to Alan for the assistance of his borderline magical computer skills. Thanks also to the rest of the crew in France, especially Jim Lyons and Nelson de Oliveira, for answering all my questions. I would also like to thank the rest of my thesis committee, Christopher Arumainayagam, Ted Ducas, and Ray Starr, for their support of my endeavors (even in an unrelated field, in the case of Professor Starr). Finally, thanks to Sandor Kadar for merciless revisions.