SUNDAY |
4:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:35 pm | Opening |
7:35 pm - 9:45 pm | HIGH-RESOLUTION ELECTRONIC SPECTROSCOPY |
| Discussion Leader: Timothy S. Zwier (Purdue University West Lafayette) |
7:35 pm - 8:05 pm | Timothy C. Steimle (Arizona State University Tempe) "Optical Stark and Zeeman spectroscopy of metal containing radical molecules" |
8:05 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:50 pm | John P. Maier (University of Basel) "Electronic spectroscopy of carbon chains and rings of astronomical interest" |
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:35 pm | Terry A. Miller (Ohio State University Columbus) "Conical intersections of electronic states: a comparison of theory and experiment" |
9:35 pm - 9:45 pm | Discussion |
MONDAY |
7:00 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | EXCITED STATE DYNAMICS |
| Discussion Leader: Robert W. Field (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge) |
9:00 am - 9:35 am | Thomas F. Gallagher (University of Virginia Charlottesville) "Microwave control of Rydberg atoms" |
9:35 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 10:20 am | Helen H. Fielding (University College London) "Towards coherent control of organic photochemistry" |
10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break / Group Photo |
11:00 am - 11:35 am | Leticia González (Freie Universität Berlin) "Lighting up molecules on the way to selective dissociation" |
11:35 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:20 pm | Wolfgang Domcke (Technische Universität München) "Vibronic coupling by the spin-orbit operator" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:45 pm | ELECTRONIC SPECTROSCOPY AND FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS |
| Discussion Leader: Wim Ubachs (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) |
7:30 pm - 8:05 pm | Martin Quack (ETH Zürich) "Fundamental symmetries and the electronic structure of chiral molecules including the parity violating electroweak interaction" |
8:05 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:50 pm | Edward A. Hinds (Imperial College London) "Probing the electron EDM with cold molecules" |
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:35 pm | Ferenc Krausz (Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik Garching) "Attosecond physics" |
9:35 pm - 9:45 pm | Discussion |
9:45 pm | Poster Session |
TUESDAY |
7:00 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | COLD MOLECULES |
| Discussion Leader: Christian Jungen (Université de Paris-Sud / Laboratoire Aimé Cotton du CNRS) |
9:00 am - 9:35 am | Pierre Pillet (Université de Paris-Sud / Laboratoire Aimé Cotton du CNRS) "Dipole-dipole interactions : photoassociation, Penning ionization, dipole blockade, and frontiers" |
9:35 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 10:20 am | Timothy P. Softley (University of Oxford) "Towards the chemistry of cold molecules, ions and Rydbergs" |
10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:35 am | Gerard Meijer (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Berlin) "Deceleration and trapping of neutral polar molecules" |
11:35 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:20 pm | Peter F. Barker (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh) "Optical Stark deceleration of cold molecules" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:45 pm | BIOLOGICAL MOLECULES |
| Discussion Leader: Donald H. Levy (University of Chicago) |
7:30 pm - 8:05 pm | Samuel Leutwyler (Universität Bern) "Hydrogen atom transfer along molecular wires" |
8:05 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:50 pm | Bern Kohler (Ohio State University Columbus) "Ultrafast excited-state dynamics in DNA: from single bases to the double helix" |
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:35 pm | Thomas R. Rizzo (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) "Electronic spectroscopy of cold, biomolecular ions" |
9:35 pm - 9:45 pm | Discussion |
9:45 pm | Poster Session |
WEDNESDAY |
7:00 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | CLUSTERS AND IMAGING |
| Discussion Leader: Edward R. Grant (University of British Columbia Vancouver) |
9:00 am - 9:35 am | Elliot R. Bernstein (Colorado State University Fort Collins) "IR Plus VUV/EUV Spectroscopy of Radicals, Molecules, and Clusters" |
9:35 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 10:20 am | Michael N. R. Ashfold (University of Bristol) "Vibrational energy disposal as a probe of non-adiabatic effects in the UV photodissociation of heteroaromatic molecules" |
10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:35 am | Wolfgang E. Ernst (Technische Universität Graz) "Alkali atoms on cold helium droplets: aggregation, state selection, optical pumping, and magnetic dichroism" |
11:35 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:20 pm | Arthur G. Suits (Wayne State University Detroit) "Vibrationally- and conformationally-mediated dissociation of ions by reflectron multimass imaging" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
7:30 pm - 9:45 pm | SINGLE MOLECULE ELECTRONIC SPECTROSCOPY |
| Discussion Leader: Urs P. Wild (ETH Zürich) |
7:30 pm - 8:05 pm | Lothar Kador (Universität Bayreuth) "Investigation of two-level systems and pseudo-local vibrational modes in disordered solids by single-molecule spectroscopy" |
8:05 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:50 pm | Wybren J. Buma (University of Amsterdam) "Molecular Machines in the Gas Phase" |
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:35 pm | Christian G. Hübner (Universität Halle) "Photo-physics and photo-chemistry of individual multi-chromophoric molecules" |
9:35 pm - 9:45 pm | Discussion |
9:45 pm | Poster Session |
THURSDAY |
7:00 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | ELECTRONIC PROCESSES IN CONDENSED PHASES |
| Discussion Leader: Majed Chergui (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) |
9:00 am - 9:35 am | Todd J. Martínez (University of Illinois Urbana) "Dynamics of electronically excited nucleic acid bases" |
9:35 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 10:20 am | Tahei Tahara (RIKEN Hirosawa, Wako) "Electronic spectroscopy at interfaces" |
10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:35 am | Nikolaus P. Ernsting (Humboldt Universität Berlin) "Coherence effects in femtosecond transient absorption spectra: solvent vibrations around a charge-transfer chromophor, and recurring internal converison in ß-carotene" |
11:35 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:20 pm | Rienk van Grondelle (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) "How a photosynthetic light-harvesting complex explores its disordered energy landscape" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:45 pm | ULTRAFAST DYNAMICS AND METROLOGY |
| Discussion Leader: Paul B. Corkum (National Research Council of Canada Ottawa)
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7:30 pm - 8:05 pm | David M. Villeneuve (National Research Council of Canada Ottawa) "Can we observe a single-electron orbital wave function of a molecule using a femtosecond laser?" |
8:05 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:50 pm | Kjeld S. E. Eikema (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) "Frequency comb laser spectroscopy in the vacuum ultraviolet" |
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:35 pm | Thomas R. Schibli (JILA) "Spectroscopy at the ultimate resolution - precision test using cold atoms and molecules" |
9:35 pm - 9:45 pm | Discussion |
9:45 pm | Poster Session |
FRIDAY |
7:00 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |