Sunday, July 08 |
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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 |
9:00-12:00 a.m. |
Poster Session A (Lumpkins Ballroom, cash bar) |
Monday, July 09 |
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SESSION: Bimolecular Interactions |
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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 |
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Collisions and reactions of highly excited molecules: Mode specific and non-specific effects |
9:15-10:00 a.m. |
Jean-Claude Rayez |
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On Simple Semi-classical Tools to Improve the Capability of Classical |
10:00-10:45 a.m. |
Fleming Crim |
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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 |
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Accurate Quantum Reactive Scattering Of Chemical Reactions on ab initio Potential Energy Surfaces |
11:45-12:30 p.m. |
Dick Zare |
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Adventures in Ion Imaging |
12:30-3:30 p.m. |
RECREATION |
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SESSION: Non-Adiabatic Processes |
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Chair: Laurie Butler, University of Chicago |
3:45-4:00 p.m. |
Overview by Session Chair |
4:00-4:45 p.m. |
Curt Wittig |
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Fermions, Bosons, and Spin |
4:45-5:30 p.m. |
Spiridoula Matsika |
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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 |
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Scattering dynamics and non-adiabaticity in reactions of Cl atoms with polyatomic molecules |
8:15 - 9:00 p.m. |
Wolfgang Domcke |
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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 |
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SESSION: Clusters |
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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 |
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Time-resolved study of solvent induced recombination in photodissociated dihalides |
9:15-10:00 a.m. |
Pierre- Nicholas Roy |
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Rotational Dynamics in Doped Quantum Clusters |
10:00-10:45 a.m. |
Dan Neumark |
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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 |
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Chemical Dynamics Inside Superfluid Helium Droplets at 0.37 K |
11:45-12:30 p.m. |
Wolfgang Ernst |
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Alkali atoms on cold helium droplets: aggregation, state selection, optical pumping, and electronic spin relaxation |
12:30-3:30 p.m. |
Recreation |
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SESSION: Elementary Processes |
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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 |
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Nanoparticle Dynamics: From Electron Detachment to Reactive Chemistry |
4:45-5:30 p.m. |
Bruce Garrett |
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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 |
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Imaging the predissociation of weakly hydrogen-bonded dimers |
8:15-9:00 p.m. |
Scott Anderson |
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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 |
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SESSION: Bio and Macromolecular Dynamics |
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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 |
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Biological building blocks under single collision conditions |
9:15-10:00 a.m. |
Ursula Roethlisberger |
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Longer Life through Solvation: First-Principles Excited State Dynamics of Protonated Tryptophan |
10:00-10:45 a.m. |
Bern Kohler |
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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 |
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Chemical Reaction Rates from Ring Polymer Molecular Dynamics |
11:45-12:30 p.m. |
Martin Gruebele |
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Colliding Lassoed Proteins: Investigating Transient Aggregation by Tethering |
12:30-3:30 p.m. |
Recreation |
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SESSION: Bimolecular Interactions II |
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Chair: Al Wagner, Argonne National Laboratory |
3:45-4:00 |
Overview by Session Chair |
4:00 - 4:45 |
David Nesbitt |
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Reactions in Molecular Jets: Probing reaction dynamics with quantum |
4:45 - 5:30 |
Jim Lin |
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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 |
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Crossed Beams Studies of Elementary Free Radical Reactions |
8:15 - 9:00 |
Bill Miller |
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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 |
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SESSION: Surface Interactions |
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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 |
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Chemical Dynamics at Metal Surfaces: Electronic Excitations |
9:15-10:00 a.m. |
Alex Kandel |
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The Role of Local Surface Structure In Gas-surface Collisions |
10:00-10:45 a.m. |
Dan Neuhauser |
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From the Schrödinger equation to mesoscopic simulations |
10:45-11:00 a.m. |
Coffee Break |
11:00-11:45 a.m. |
Eckart Hasselbrink |
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Non-adiabaticity in Surface Chemical Reactions |
11:45-12:30 p.m. |
George Schatz |
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Atom/surface collision modeling: O + squalane and graphite oxide |
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SESSION: Cold Molecules and Hot Topics |
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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 |
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The Molecular Side of Cold Molecules |
4:00-4:45 p.m. |
Dudley Herschbach |
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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 |
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SESSION: Unimolecular Processes |
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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 |
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Imaging And Molecular Beam Studies Of Photodissociation |
9:15-10:00 a.m. |
Oleg Vasyutinskii |
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Orbital Polarization Of The Photofragments In Predissociation Of Diatomic And Polyatomic Molecules |
10:00-10:45 a.m. |
Tim Zwier |
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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 |
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Probing Excited States By Photoelectron Imaging: Dyson Orbitals Within Equation Of Motion Coupled-Cluster Formalism |
11:45-12:30 p.m. |
Andy Alexander |
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Measuring spin helicity of polarized photofragments |
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