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.
A vision statement and speakers list with titles follows.
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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.
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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 Münster), "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."
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