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Photoions, Photoionization and Photodetachment

Gordon Research Conference

January 29 - February 3, 2006
Chair
Vice Chair

Conference Description

The 4th Gordon Conference on Photoions, Photoionization and Photodetachment will be held January 29 - February 3, 2006 at the Santa Ynez Valley Marriott in Buellton, California. This meeting will continue to cover fundamentals and applications of photoionization and photodetachment, including valence and core-level phenomena and applications to reaction dynamics, ultrashort laser pulses and the study of exotic molecules and anions.

Conference Program

SUNDAY
4:00 pm - 9:00 pmArrival and Check-in
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmPHOTODETACHMENT
7:30 pm - 7:45 pmDiscussion Leader: Mark Johnson (Yale Univ., USA)
7:45 pm - 8:20 pmLai-Sheng Wang (Wash St. Univ. / Pac. Northwest National Lab, USA)
"Photodetachment of Multiply Charged Anions, Solvated Anions, and Vibrationally Cold Anions"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pmDiscussion
8:30 pm - 9:05 pmKit H. Bowen (Johns Hopkins Univ., USA)
"Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Cluster Anions"
9:05 pm - 9:15 pmDiscussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pmHot Topic #1
9:25 pm - 9:30 pmDiscussion
MONDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
8:30 amGroup Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pmTIME-RESOLVED PHENOMENA
9:00 am - 9:15 amDiscussion Leader: Peter Weber (Brown Univ., USA)
9:15 am - 9:50 amToshinori Suzuki (RIKEN, Japan)
"Photoionization Dynamics Studied by Time-Resolved Photoelectron Imaging"
9:50 am - 10:00 amDiscussion
10:00 am - 10:35 amAlbert Stolow (National Research Council, Canada)
"Time-Resolved Photoelectron and Coincidence Imaging Spectroscopy of a Complex Dissociation"
10:35 am - 10:45 amDiscussion
10:45 amCoffee Break
11:00 am - 11:35 amDavid Villeneuve (National Research Council, Canada)
"Time-Reversed Photoelectron Angular Distributions - Observing Orbital Wave Functions using High Harmonic Generation"
11:35 am - 11:45 amDiscussion
11:45 am - 12:20 pmAndrei Sanov (Univ. Arizona, USA)
"Chemical Interactions and Dynamics Through the Eyes of Schrödinger’s Cat"
12:20 am - 12:30 pmDiscussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session 1
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmPHOTOIONIZATION
7:30 pm - 7:45 pmDiscussion Leader: Cheuk-Yiu Ng (UC Davis, USA)
7:45 pm - 8:20 pmStephen Leone (UC Berkeley / LBNL, USA)
"Photoelectron Dynamics of Nanoparticles"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pmDiscussion
8:30 pm - 9:05 pmStephen Pratt (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
"Photoionization of Some Small Hydrocarbon Radicals"
9:05 pm - 9:15 pmDiscussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pmHot Topic #2
9:25 pm - 9:30 pmDiscussion
9:45 pmPoster Session 1
TUESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmEXOTIC ANIONS
9:00 am - 9:15 amDiscussion Leader: Caroline Dessent (York Univ., UK)
9:15 am - 9:50 amW. Carl Lineberger (Univ. of Colorado / JILA, USA)
"Time-Resolved Dynamics Initiated by Anion Photodetachment"
9:50 am - 10:00 amDiscussion
10:00 am - 10:35 amJack Simons (Univ. of Utah, USA)
"Attachment of Low-Energy Electrons to Peptides and DNA"
10:35 am - 10:45 amDiscussion
10:45 amCoffee Break
11:00 am - 11:35 amLars Andersen (Univ. of Aarhus, Denmark)
"Environmental Stabilization of Short-Lived Gas-Phase Dianions, Probed by Electron Scattering"
11:35 am - 11:45 amDiscussion
11:45 am - 12:20 pmJ. Matthias Weber (Univ. of Colorado / JILA, USA)
"Photodetachment from Doubly Charged Anions - From Small Molecules to Nanoparticles"
12:20 am - 12:30 pmDiscussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session 1
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmINNER-SHELL PHOTOIONIZATION
7:30 pm - 7:45 pmDiscussion Leader: Nora Berrah (Western Michigan Univ., USA)
7:45 pm - 8:20 pmJohn Eland (Oxford Univ., UK)
"Double Photoionization from Valence and Inner Shells Studied by New Coincidence Techniques"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pmDiscussion
8:30 pm - 9:05 pmErwin Poliakoff (Louisiana State Univ., USA)
"Evolution of Photoelectron-Vibrational Coupling with Molecular Complexity"
9:05 pm - 9:15 pmDiscussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pmHot Topic #3
9:25 pm - 9:30 pmDiscussion
9:45 pmPoster Session 1
WEDNESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmVECTOR CORRELATIONS
9:00 am - 9:15 amDiscussion Leader: Danielle Dowek (Univ. Paris Sud / LCAM, France)
9:15 am - 9:50 amIvan Powis (Univ. of Nottingham, UK)
"Chiral Molecule Photoemission"
9:50 am - 10:00 amDiscussion
10:00 am - 10:35 amUwe Becker (Fritz Haber Institute, Germany)
"Coherence and De-Coherence in Molecular Double-Slit Experiments"
10:35 am - 10:45 amDiscussion
10:45 amCoffee Break
11:00 am - 11:35 amKatharine Reid (Univ. of Nottingham, UK)
"Excited State Dynamics Probed by Photoelectron Spectroscopy"
11:35 am - 11:45 amDiscussion
11:45 am - 12:20 pmJoachim Ullrich (MPIK Heidelberg, Germany)
"Ionization, Dissociation and Coulomb-Explosion in Intense Ultra-Fast Laser Pulses"
12:20 am - 12:30 pmDiscussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session 2
6:00 pmDinner
7:00 pm - 7:30 pmBusiness 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 - 9:30 pmIONIZATION PROBES OF REACTION DYNAMICS
7:30 pm - 7:45 pmDiscussion Leader: John Hepburn (Univ. British Columbia, Canada)
7:45 pm - 8:20 pmTomas Baer (Univ. North Carolina, USA)
"The Study of Sequential and Parallel Reactions by Threshold Photoelectron Photoion Coincidence"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pmDiscussion
8:30 pm - 9:05 pmArthur Suits (Wayne State University, USA)
"Vibrationally Mediated Photodissociation of Ions by Reflectron Multimas s Ion Imaging"
9:05 pm - 9:15 pmDiscussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pmHot Topic #4
9:25 pm - 9:30 pmDiscussion
9:45 pmPoster Session 2
THURSDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 10:45 amIONS AND IONIZATION (THEORY)
9:00 am - 9:15 amDiscussion Leader: Robert Lucchese (Texas A&M Univ., USA)
9:15 am - 9:50 amThomas Sommerfeld (Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA)
"Electron Binding Motifs of Water Cluster Anions"
9:50 am - 10:00 amDiscussion
10:00 am - 10:35 amChris Greene (Univ. of Colorado / JILA, USA)
"Jahn-Teller Coupling Effects on the Photofragmentation of H3"
10:35 am - 10:45 amDiscussion
10:45 amCoffee Break
11:00 am - 12:30 pmMOLECULAR PROCESSES: DIATOMICS TO ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Discussion Leader: Klaus-Müller Dethlefs (Univ. of Manchester / Photon Sci. Inst., UK)
11:00 am - 11:35 amYuxiang Mo (Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China)
"Ion Pair Formation Dynamics of Cl2 and F2 Studied by Velocity Map Imaging and XUV Laser"
11:35 am - 11:45 amDiscussion
11:45 am - 12:20 pmPaul Wenthold (Purdue Univ., USA)
"Negative Ion Photoelectron Spectroscopy Studies of Nitrenes"
12:20 am - 12:30 pmDiscussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session 2
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmZEKE PROBES OF MOLECULES AND CLUSTERS
7:30 pm - 7:45 pmDiscussion Leader: Wei Kong (Oregon State Univ., USA)
7:45 pm - 8:20 pmFredric Merkt (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
"High Resolution Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Radicals"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pmDiscussion
8:30 pm - 9:05 pmDong Sheng Yang (Univ. of Kentucky, USA)
"Pulsed-Field Ionization Electron Spectroscopy of Metal-Organic Complexes"
9:05 pm - 9:15 pmDiscussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pmHot Topic #5
9:25 pm - 9:30 pmDiscussion
9:45 pmPoster Session 2
FRIDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 amDepart

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