Sunday, January 5

Energy Transfer in Reactive Encounters

• Session Chair: Antonio Laganà (University of Perugia, Italy)
• Paul Houston (Cornell University) - Snapshots of RRKM
• Uwe Manthe (Universität Freiburg, Germany) - Quantum mechanical calculation of rate constants
• David Manolopoulos (Oxford University, UK) - The dynamics of some elementary chemical reactions

Monday, January 6

Non-Adiabatic Effects in Reactions and Photodissociation

• Session Chair: Hanna Reisler (University of Southern California)
• Paul Dagdigian (The Johns Hopkins University) - Radiative decay, predissociation, and chemical reaction in electronically excited van der Waals complexes of the Boron atom
• Robert Gordon (University of Illinois Chicago) - Nonadiabatic effects in the spectrum and photodissociation dynamics of HCl
• David Yarkony (The Johns Hopkins University) - Diabolical conical intersections

Collisions of Highly Excited Molecules

• Session Chair: George Flynn (Columbia University)
• Hai-Lung Dai (University of Pennsylvania) - Collisional energy transfer of highly excited molecules
• George Schatz (Northwestern University) - Classical and quantum studies of collisional energy transfer involving highly excited polyatomic molecules

Tuesday, January 7

Collision Processes in Combustion/Atmospheric/Astrophysical Environments

• Session Chair: David Crosley (SRI International)
• Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus (Universität Bielefeld, Germany) - Energy transfer in quantitative combustion diagnostics: Does an engineer need physics?
• John Barker (University of Michigan) - Experimental and modeling studies of the energy transfer step-size distribution
• Eric Herbst (Ohio State University) - Chemistry in the cosmos: reactive and inelastic collisions in space

Intramolecular Vibrational Relaxation

• Session Chair: F. Fleming Crim (University of Wisconsin)
• Robert Field (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - Intramolecular dynamics in the frequency domain
• Edwin Sibert (University of Wisconsin) - The bending dynamics of acetylene

Wednesday, January 8

Energy Transfer in Condensed Phases

• Session Chair: Anne Myers (University of Rochester)
• Robin Hochstrasser (University of Pennsylvania) - Energy and phase relaxation of small molecules in liquids
• Craig Martens (University of California, Irvine) - Ultrafast dynamics in condensed phase systems
• Michael Fayer (Stanford University) - Vibrational echo studies of liquids, glasses, and proteins

Collisions of State-Selected or Aligned Molecules

• Session Chair: Curt Wittig (University of Southern California)
• Brian Orr (Macquarie University, Australia) - Collision-induced rovibrational energy transfer in acetylene: such a small molecule, but so complicated!
• Steven Leone (NIST and University of Colorado) - Alignment effects in atomic and molecular energy transfer

Thursday, January 9

Energy Transfer in Clusters

• Session Chair: Carl Lineberger (University of Colorado)
• Udo Buck (Max-Planck-Institut für Strömungsforschung, Göttingen) - Single, multiple and collective excitations of clusters in low energy He collisions
• Roger Miller (University of North Carolina) - ) State-to-state vibrational dynamics in clusters and at surfaces
• Birgitta Whaley (University of California, Berkeley) - Dopant spectroscopy in quantum clusters

Inelastic Collision Dynamics and Reactions

• Session Chair: Sally Chapman (Barnard College)
• Ian Smith (Cornell University) - Vibrational energy transfer in the presence of strong attractive forces
• Hans-Joachim Werner (Universität Stuttgart, Germany) - Spin-orbit effects in inelastic and reactive collisions