Sunday p.m., January 14, 2001 |
2:00 - 9:00 p.m. | Registration |
6:00 p.m. | Dinner |
| Spectroscopy and Reactivity in Clusters |
| Session Chair : Marsha I. Lester |
7:30 - 7:40 | Conference Chairs: Opening Remarks |
7:40 - 8:00 | Marsha I. Lester (University of Pennsylvania) Perspective and overview |
8:00 - 8:50 | Michael C. Heaven (Emory University) Non-adiabatic predissociation of Van der Waals molecules |
8:50 - 9:40 | Nadine Halberstadt (Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse) Time-dependent study of vibrational energy relaxation in Van der Waals complexes: From the 1:1 diatomic-rare gas complex to the diatomic in a complete ''solvent'' shell |
Monday a.m., January 15, 2001 |
| Unimolecular Reactions |
| Session Chair: Curt Wittig |
8:30 | Conference Photo |
9:00 - 9:20 | Curt Wittig: (University of Southern California) Perspective and overview |
9:20 - 10:10 | Kaoru Yamanouchi (The University of Tokyo) Ultrafast structural deformation of small polyatomic molecules in intense laser fields |
10:10 - 10:40 | Break |
10:40 - 11:30 | Thomas R. Rizzo (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) IVR-limited unimolecular dissociation rates in state-selected HOCl and HOBr |
11:30 - 12:20 | Reinhard Schinke (Max-Planck-Institüt fur Strömungsforschung) Quantum mechanical perspective of unimolecular dissociation |
12:30 - 1:30 | Lunch |
2:00 | Business Meeting |
Monday p.m., January 15, 2001 |
6:00 p.m. | Dinner |
| Photodissociation in Complexes |
| Session Chair: Jeremy M. Hutson |
7:30 - 7:50 | Jeremy M. Hutson (University of Durham) Perspective and overview |
7:50 - 8:40 | Robert E. Continetti (University of California at San Diego) Studies of three-body dissociation dynamics by dissociative dhotodetachment |
8:40 - 9:30 | R. Benny Gerber (Hebrew University) Photochemical reactions, charge transfer and electronic energy relaxation in weakly-bound clusters |
9:30 p.m. | Poster Session I |
Tuesday a.m., January 16, 2001 |
| Photodissociation Dynamics |
| Session Chair: Keiji Morokuma |
9:00 - 9:20 | Keiji Morokuma (Emory University) Perspective and overview |
9:20 - 10:10 | Laurie J. Butler (The University of Chicago) Probing the dissociation dynamics of selected high-energy hydrocarbon radical isomers: Allyl, 1-propenyl and 2-propenyl |
10:10 - 10:40 | Break |
10:40 - 11:30 | Kirk A. Peterson (Washington State University) Photodissociation of halogen oxide molecules: HOCl, HOBr, and BrO |
11:30 - 12:20 | Jingsong Zhang (University of California, Riverside) Photodissociation dynamics of vinyl and ethyl radicals |
12:30 - 1:30 | Lunch |
1:30 - 6:00 p.m | Optional Tours |
Tuesday p.m., January 16, 2001 |
6:00 p.m | Dinner |
| He Nanodroplets |
| Session Chair: Roger E. Miller |
7:30 - 7:50 | Roger E. Miller (University of North Carolina) Perspective and overview |
7:50 - 8:40 | Kenneth C. Janda (University of California, Irvine) Toward chemical reaction dynamics at 0.4 K |
8:40 - 9:30 | Andrej Vilesov (University of Southern California) Molecular spectroscopy in helium droplets |
9:30 p.m. | Poster Session II |
Wednesday a.m., January 17, 2001 |
| Bimolecular Reactions |
| Session Chair: Paul J. Dagdigian |
9:00 - 9:20 | Paul J. Dagdigian (Johns Hopkins University) Perspective and overview |
9:20 - 10:10 | Piergiorgio Casavecchia (Universita di Perugia) Recent progress in crossed beam studies of reaction dynamics |
10:10 - 10:40 | Break |
10:40 - 11:30 | David Manolopoulos (Oxford University) Some recent developments in chemical reaction dynamics |
11:30 - 12:20 | F. Javier Aoiz (Compluteuse University, Madrid) A reaction with several paths: Dynamics and stereodynamics of the O(1D)+H2 reaction |
12:30 - 1:30 | Lunch |
Wednesday p.m., January 17, 2001 |
6:00 p.m. | Dinner |
| Single-Molecule Studies of Energy Transfer |
| Session Chair: George W. Flynn |
7:30 - 7:50 | George W. Flynn (Columbia University) Perspective and overview |
7:50 - 8:40 | Paul F. Barbara (University of Texas, Austin) Single moelcule spectroscopic studies of intramolecular energy transfer in complex systems |
8:40 - 9:30 | Wilson Ho (University of California, Irvine) Vibrational energy transfer in single adsorbed molecules with sub-Ångstrom resolution |
9:30 p.m. | Poster Session III |
Thursday a.m., January 18, 2001 |
| Energy Transfer in the Condensed Phase |
| Session Chair: Peter J. Rossky |
9:00 - 9:20 | Peter J. Rossky (University of Texas, Austin) Perspective and overview |
9:20 - 10:10 | Gilbert M. Nathanson (University of Wisconsin, Madison) One second in the life of HCl in liquid glycerol: Solvation, dissociation, and recombination |
10:10 - 10:40 | Break |
10:40 - 11:30 | Stephen E. Bradforth (University of Southern California) The dynamics of photodetachment and photoionization in aqueous solution |
11:30 - 12:20 | Tim Lian (Emory University) Dynamics of molecular adsorbates on nanoparticles: vibrational relaxation, solvation and electron transfer |
12:30 - 1:30 | Lunch |
4:00 - 6:00 p.m | Poster Session IV |
Thursday p.m., January 18, 2001 |
6:00 p.m. | Dinner |
| New Trends in Molecular Energy Transfer |
| Session Chair: Millard H. Alexander |
8:00 - 8:20 | Millard H. Alexander (University of Maryland) Perspective and overview |
8:20 - 9:20 | Stephen R. Leone (NIST/University of Colorado) Molecular energy transfer - where are we going? From vibration-vibration to quantum information science |
9:20 - 9:30 | Conference Chairs: Summary Comments |
Friday a.m., January 19, 2001 |
7:30 - 8:30 | Breakfast |
9:00: | End of Conference; Bus Departs |