Subject: Final Announcement for the Gordon Research Conference on Molecular Energy Transfer- Buellton CA Jan. 8-14 2005

From: Alec Wodtke <wodtke<<at>>chem.ucsb.edu>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 15:39:22 -0800

Final ANNOUNCEMENT FOR 2005 GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCE ON MOLECULAR 
ENERGY TRANSFER (GRCOMET):

<>The 2005 GRCOMET will take place January 9-14 at the Rancho Santa 
Barbara Marriott in Buellton, CA (north of Santa Barbara).  This meeting 
has alternated with the European conference on molecular energy transfer 
(COMET).  Application information can be found at 
www.grc.org/programs/2005/molenerg.htm 
<http://www.grc.org/programs/2005/molenerg.htm>.  A vision statement and 
speakers list with titles follows.   <>

Understanding the flow of energy within and between molecules is 
essential to the development of a fundamental understanding of the 
nature of all chemical processes. Furthermore, the deepest understanding 
can be achieved when phenomena are dealt with at the molecular level, 
connecting quantum-state, time-resolved and other modern methods of 
experimentation to ab initio theoretical study. The Gordon Research 
Conference on Molecular Energy Transfer will bring scientists together 
concerned with a wide variety of interests spanning chemistry, physics 
and biology, yet unified by the idea that developing a molecular picture 
of chemical dynamics is a central goal of their endeavors. An important 
aspect of this field is the fact that nearly every forefront topic of 
inquiry is well represented by experimental and theoretical advances. 
Topics of interest to this community are remarkably diverse, as the 
emphasis on deriving fundamental understanding often leads to insights 
in real world phenomena or even development of novel technologies.

The Gordon Conference will highlight a variety of areas of study in 
molecular energy transfer, including: energy transfer in extreme 
conditions; in clusters; with electrons and ions; at 
interfaces; simulations of natural processes; photochemistry; reaction 
dynamics.  There will also be a special session looking at exporting 
basic science for societal needs, which will include talks by Kim 
Prather; Sir Harry Kroto and Franz Hillenkamp. Prof Yuan T. Lee will be 
giving a keynote lecture as part of the Thursday evening session. A full 
Speakers List Follows.

  <>Speakers List and Titles

Ludger Woeste (Free University Berlin) "The role of charges in the 
dynamics of noble metal clusters."

Carl Lineberger (Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics/University 
of Colorado), "Time Resolved, Mode Specific Studies of Energy Flow in 
Size-Selected Cluster Anions"

Joel Bowman (Emory University) "Questioning our assumptions about 
chemical reactions"

Sharon Hammes-Schiffer (Pennsylvania State University) "Hydrogen tunneling and protein motion in enzyme reactions"

David Clary (University of Oxford, UK) "Quantum simulation of bio-molecules"

Ken Jordan (University of Pittsburgh) "Characterization of Clathrate-type Water Clusters."

Sir Harry Kroto (University of Sussex, UK) "Mechanisms of Nanostructure 
Assembly"

Kim Prather (University of California San Diego) "What can we learn 
about our environment by measuring one particle at a time?"

Franz Hillenkamp (University of M|nster), "The molecular age in medicine and biology:

The challenge of how to measure what we need to know"

Hanna Reisler (University of Southern California) "Predissociation in 
clusters and covalently bound dimers".

Richard Loomis (Washington University) "Probing the influences of 
intermolecular energy on rare gas-dihalogen half-collision dynamics".

Mike Duncan (University of Georgia) "Energy Accommodation in Cluster Cations".  

Mark Johnson (Yale University) "Spectroscopic studies of strongly shared protons in water clusters"

Jeremy Hutson (University of Durham, UK), "Cold molecules and their 
collisions".

Roger Miller (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill) "Energy transfer 
in extreme conditions (Low Temperature).

Marcel Drabbels (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland), 
"Imaging the Energy Transfer in Liquid Helium Droplets"

Gerard Meijer (Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin) "Manipulation of molecules 
with electric fields".

John Hepburn (University of British Columbia) "Understanding radicals: reactions, spectroscopy, and photofragmentation"

Xueming Yang (Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Peoples Republic of 
China), "State-to-state Inelastic and Reactive Scatterings of Rydberg 
H-atom with H2 molecules: The Validity of The Fermi Model"

Theo Kitsopoulos (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Krete) Novel Applications of slice imaging to Molecular Photodissociation and State Resolved Chemical Reactions

Anna Krylov (University of Southern California) "Accurate Thermochemistry for Open-Shell Species: Brute force or a smart shortcut?"

Bret Jackson (University of Massachusetts Amherst), "Molecule-Substrate 
Energy Transfer during Gas-Surface Collisions."

Dennis Jacobs (University of Notre Dame) "Inelastic Ion/Surface 
Collisions at Hyperthermal Energies"

Rainer Beck (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland) 
"Mode Specific Chemisorption of Methane on Nickel"

Piergiorgio Casavecchia (University of Perugia, Italy) "Recent progress in crossed molecular beam reactive scattering"

Tim Minton (Montana State University) "Hyperthermal Reactions of O(3P) 
with Hydrogen and Alkanes"

Rex Skodje (Institute of Atomic and Molecular Science, Taiwan) "The Product State Distribution of Chemical Reactions: The Imprint of the Transition State"

Floyd Davis (Cornell University) "Dynamics of C-H and C-C Bond 
Activation by Transition Metal Atoms and Complexes"

<>Yuan T. Lee (Institute of Atomic and Molecular Science, Taiwan) 
"Intramolecular Energy Transfer and Unimolecular Dissociations - A 
Historical Perspective."

-- 
Prof. Alec M. Wodtke - Chair
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