Sunday, July 08

 

9:00-7:00 p.m.

Registration

5:30-6:30 p.m.

Reception (Lumpkins Ballroom, cash bar)

6:30-8:00 p.m.

Dinner  (Lumpkins Ballroom)

8:00-9:00 p.m.

Welcome and Overview Talk
Dudley Herschbach – Molecular Beams Dynamics: The Audacity of Hope.

9:00-12:00 a.m.

Poster Session A  (Lumpkins Ballroom, cash bar)


Monday, July 09

 

 

SESSION:  Bimolecular Interactions

 

Chair:  Piero Casavecchia, University of Perugia

7:30-8:15 a.m.

Continental Breakfast (Mezzanine)

8:15-8:30 a.m.

Overview by Session Chair

8:30-9:15 a.m.

Amy Mullin

 

Collisions and reactions of highly excited molecules:  Mode specific and non-specific effects

9:15-10:00 a.m.

Jean-Claude Rayez

 

On Simple Semi-classical Tools to Improve the Capability of Classical

10:00-10:45 a.m.

Fleming Crim

 

Vibrational Energy and Bimolecular Reactions in Gases and Liquids

10:45-11:00 a.m.

Coffee Break

11:00-11:45 a.m.

Donghui Zhang

 

Accurate Quantum Reactive Scattering Of Chemical Reactions on ab initio Potential Energy Surfaces

11:45-12:30 p.m.

Dick Zare

 

Adventures in Ion Imaging

12:30-3:30 p.m.

RECREATION

 

SESSION:  Non-Adiabatic Processes

 

Chair:  Laurie Butler, University of Chicago

3:45-4:00 p.m.

Overview by Session Chair

4:00-4:45 p.m.

Curt Wittig

 

Fermions, Bosons, and Spin

4:45-5:30 p.m.

Spiridoula Matsika

 

Non-adiabatic Effects on Excited States of Biomolecules: Photophysics of Nucleic Acid Bases

5:30 -7:15 p.m.

Dinner (La Terraza)

7:30 - 8:15 p.m.

Andrew Orr-Ewing

 

Scattering dynamics and non-adiabaticity in reactions of Cl atoms with polyatomic molecules

8:15 - 9:00 p.m.

Wolfgang Domcke

 

Hydrogen Bonds, Conical Intersections and Photostability of the Building Blocks of Life

9:00-12:00 a.m.

Poster Session A (Lumpkins Ballroom, cash bar)


Tuesday, July 10

 

SESSION:  Clusters

 

Chair:  Mark Johnson, Yale University

7:30-8:15 a.m.

Continental Breakfast (Mezzanine)

8:15-8:30 a.m.

Overview by Session Chair

8:30-9:15 a.m.

Carl Lineberger

 

Time-resolved study of solvent induced recombination in photodissociated dihalides

9:15-10:00 a.m.

Pierre- Nicholas Roy

 

Rotational Dynamics in Doped Quantum Clusters

10:00-10:45 a.m.

Dan Neumark

 

Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Clusters, Radicals, and Pre-reactive Complexes Studied by Photoelectron Imaging

10:45-11:00 a.m.

Coffee Break

11:00-11:45 a.m.

Peter Toennies

 

Chemical Dynamics Inside Superfluid Helium Droplets at 0.37 K

11:45-12:30 p.m.

Wolfgang Ernst

 

Alkali atoms on cold helium droplets: aggregation, state selection, optical pumping, and electronic spin relaxation

12:30-3:30 p.m.

Recreation

 

SESSION: Elementary Processes

 

Chair:  David Parker, Radboud University of Nijmegen

3:45-4:00 p.m.

Overview by Session Chair

4:00-4:45 p.m.

Steve Leone

 

Nanoparticle Dynamics:  From Electron Detachment to Reactive Chemistry

4:45-5:30 p.m.

Bruce Garrett

 

The Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Molecular Clusters Controlling Gas-to-Particulate Nucleation

5:30-7:15 p.m.

DINNER

7:30-8:15 p.m.

Hanna Reisler

 

Imaging the predissociation of weakly hydrogen-bonded dimers

8:15-9:00 p.m.

Scott Anderson

 

Experimental and Trajectory Studies of Vibrational Dynamics in Ion-Molecule Scattering

9:00-12:00 a.m.

Poster Session B (Lumpkins Ballroom, cash bar)


Wednesday, July 11

 

SESSION:  Bio and Macromolecular Dynamics

 

Chair:  Carl Hayden, Sandia National Laboratories

7:30-8:15 a.m.

Continental Breakfast (Mezzanine)

8:15-8:30 a.m.

Overview by Session Chair

8:30-9:15 a.m.

Mattanjah de Vries

 

Biological building blocks under single collision conditions

9:15-10:00 a.m.

Ursula Roethlisberger

 

Longer Life through Solvation:  First-Principles Excited State Dynamics of Protonated Tryptophan

10:00-10:45 a.m.

Bern Kohler

 

Complex nonradiative decay pathways of single DNA and RNA bases in solution

10:45-11:00 a.m.

Coffee Break

11:00-11:45 a.m.

David Manolopoulos

 

Chemical Reaction Rates from Ring Polymer Molecular Dynamics

11:45-12:30 p.m.

Martin Gruebele

 

Colliding Lassoed Proteins: Investigating Transient Aggregation by Tethering

12:30-3:30 p.m.

Recreation

 

SESSION:  Bimolecular Interactions II

 

Chair:  Al Wagner, Argonne National Laboratory

3:45-4:00

Overview by Session Chair

4:00 - 4:45

David Nesbitt

 

Reactions in Molecular Jets: Probing reaction dynamics with quantum
state resolution

4:45 - 5:30

Jim Lin

 

Dynamics of Elementary Chemical Reactions Studied by Crossed Molecular Beam Technique and ab initio Calculation

5:30 - 7:15

Dinner

7:30 – 8:15

Floyd Davis

 

Crossed Beams Studies of Elementary Free Radical Reactions

8:15 - 9:00

Bill Miller

 

Using the Initial Value Representation of Semiclassical Theory to Include Quantum Effects in Classical Molecular Dynamics Simulations

9:00-12:00

Poster Session B (Lumpkins Ballroom, cash bar)


Thursday, July 12

 

SESSION:  Surface Interactions

 

Chair:  Ron Naaman, Weizmann Institute

7:30-8:15 a.m.

Continental Breakfast (Mezzanine)

8:15-8:30 a.m.

Overview by Session Chair

8:30-9:15 a.m.

John Tully

 

Chemical Dynamics at Metal Surfaces:  Electronic Excitations

9:15-10:00 a.m.

Alex Kandel

 

The Role of Local Surface Structure In Gas-surface Collisions

10:00-10:45 a.m.

Dan Neuhauser

 

From the Schrödinger equation to mesoscopic simulations

10:45-11:00 a.m.

Coffee Break

11:00-11:45 a.m.

Eckart Hasselbrink

 

Non-adiabaticity in Surface Chemical Reactions

11:45-12:30 p.m.

George Schatz

 

Atom/surface collision modeling: O + squalane and graphite oxide

 

SESSION:  Cold Molecules and Hot Topics

 

Chair:  Dick Zare, Stanford University

12:30-1:45

RECREATION

2:00-2:15 p.m.

Hot Topic: Thierry Stoeklin

Vibrational and Rotational Energy Transfer of CH+ in collision with He

2:15-2:30 p.m.

Hot topic: Sebastian Y. T. van de Meerakker

Scattering experiments using Stark Decelerated molecular beams

2:30-2:45 p.m.

Hot topic: Craig Murray

Dissociation Dynamics of HOOO Radical Upon IR Excitation

2:45-3:00 p.m.

Hot topic: Samantha Horvath

Two Dimensional Studies of the IHB Stretch in F-(H2O) and F-(D2O)

3:00-3:15 p.m.

Hot topic: Richard Dawes

Interpolative Moving Least Squares Fit to Potential Energy Surfaces: 3D, 6D and 9D Systems.

3:15-4:00 p.m.

Olivier Dulieu

 

The Molecular Side of Cold Molecules

4:00-4:45 p.m.

Dudley Herschbach

 

Pursuit of Molecular Collisions Near Zero Kinetic Energy

5:00-5:20 p.m.

Walk to Museum

5:30-8:00 p.m.

Awards and hors d'oeuvres at George O’Keeffe Museum


Friday, July 13

 

SESSION:  Unimolecular Processes

 

Chair: Peter Rakitzis, IESL-Forth

7:30-8:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast (Mezzanine)

8:15-8:30 a.m.

Overview by Session Chair

8:30-9:15 a.m.

Paul Houston

 

Imaging  And Molecular Beam Studies Of Photodissociation

9:15-10:00 a.m.

Oleg Vasyutinskii

 

Orbital Polarization Of The Photofragments In Predissociation Of Diatomic And Polyatomic Molecules

10:00-10:45 a.m.

Tim Zwier

 

Population Distributions and Conformational Isomerization by Laser Excitation and Collisional Cooling of Flexible Molecules

10:45-11:00 a.m.

Coffee Break

11:00-11:45 a.m.

Anna Krylov

 

Probing Excited States By Photoelectron Imaging: Dyson Orbitals Within Equation Of Motion Coupled-Cluster Formalism

11:45-12:30 p.m.

Andy Alexander

 

Measuring spin helicity of polarized photofragments

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