Conference Program
 
MOLECULAR ENERGY TRANSFER

January 14-19, 2001
Four Points Sheraton / Holiday Inn Express
Ventura, CA

Chairs:
Hanna Reisler & Joel Bowman

Overview

As is customary, the meeting (which alternates every two years between Europe and the US) will cover all aspects of energy transfer, such as decomposition and reaction dynamics, intramolecular energy transfer, and energy transfer in media ranging from gas and clusters to condensed phases and interfaces. Several sessions will be devoted to new topics such as He nanodroplets, single molecule detection, etc. Oral sessions will take place in the morning and in the evening. At the beginning of each session, the session Chair will give a 20 minute perspective of the field. Each oral presentation will be 35 minutes, leaving ample time for discussion.

The conference will begin on Sunday afternoon at 4:30 PM with a reception and oral presentations at 7:30 PM. Poster sessions will take place after the evening talks on Monday - Thursday. Afternoons are free for discussions, volleyball at the beach, jogging, swimming, etc. Trips to nearby points of interest will be organized. The conference will culminate with the Thursday evening banquet, and the after dinner session in which the breadth of the field of molecular energy transfer, its modern practice and novel directions will be discussed. Departure is on Friday morning.

Contributors

  • U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research
  • U.S. Office of Naval Research
  • The Gordon Research Conferences
  • Gaussian, Inc.
  • Spectra Physics
  • Continuum Lasers
Sunday p.m., January 14, 2001
2:00 - 9:00 p.m.Registration
6:00 p.m.Dinner
Spectroscopy and Reactivity in Clusters
Session Chair : Marsha I. Lester
7:30 - 7:40Conference Chairs: Opening Remarks
7:40 - 8:00Marsha I. Lester (University of Pennsylvania)
Perspective and overview
8:00 - 8:50Michael C. Heaven (Emory University)
Non-adiabatic predissociation of Van der Waals molecules
8:50 - 9:40Nadine Halberstadt (Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)
Time-dependent study of vibrational energy relaxation in Van der Waals complexes: From the 1:1 diatomic-rare gas complex to the diatomic in a complete ''solvent'' shell
Monday a.m., January 15, 2001
Unimolecular Reactions
Session Chair: Curt Wittig
8:30Conference Photo
9:00 - 9:20Curt Wittig: (University of Southern California)
Perspective and overview
9:20 - 10:10Kaoru Yamanouchi (The University of Tokyo)
Ultrafast structural deformation of small polyatomic molecules in intense laser fields
10:10 - 10:40Break
10:40 - 11:30Thomas R. Rizzo (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
IVR-limited unimolecular dissociation rates in state-selected HOCl and HOBr
11:30 - 12:20Reinhard Schinke (Max-Planck-Institüt fur Strömungsforschung)
Quantum mechanical perspective of unimolecular dissociation
12:30 - 1:30Lunch
2:00Business Meeting
Monday p.m., January 15, 2001
6:00 p.m.Dinner
Photodissociation in Complexes
Session Chair: Jeremy M. Hutson
7:30 - 7:50Jeremy M. Hutson (University of Durham)
Perspective and overview
7:50 - 8:40Robert E. Continetti (University of California at San Diego)
Studies of three-body dissociation dynamics by dissociative dhotodetachment
8:40 - 9:30R. Benny Gerber (Hebrew University)
Photochemical reactions, charge transfer and electronic energy relaxation in weakly-bound clusters
9:30 p.m.Poster Session I
Tuesday a.m., January 16, 2001
Photodissociation Dynamics
Session Chair: Keiji Morokuma
9:00 - 9:20Keiji Morokuma (Emory University)
Perspective and overview
9:20 - 10:10Laurie J. Butler (The University of Chicago)
Probing the dissociation dynamics of selected high-energy hydrocarbon radical isomers: Allyl, 1-propenyl and 2-propenyl
10:10 - 10:40Break
10:40 - 11:30Kirk A. Peterson (Washington State University)
Photodissociation of halogen oxide molecules: HOCl, HOBr, and BrO
11:30 - 12:20Jingsong Zhang (University of California, Riverside)
Photodissociation dynamics of vinyl and ethyl radicals
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 6:00 p.mOptional Tours
Tuesday p.m., January 16, 2001
6:00 p.mDinner
He Nanodroplets
Session Chair: Roger E. Miller
7:30 - 7:50Roger E. Miller (University of North Carolina)
Perspective and overview
7:50 - 8:40 Kenneth C. Janda (University of California, Irvine)
Toward chemical reaction dynamics at 0.4 K
8:40 - 9:30 Andrej Vilesov (University of Southern California)
Molecular spectroscopy in helium droplets
9:30 p.m.Poster Session II
Wednesday a.m., January 17, 2001
Bimolecular Reactions
Session Chair: Paul J. Dagdigian
9:00 - 9:20 Paul J. Dagdigian (Johns Hopkins University)
Perspective and overview
9:20 - 10:10Piergiorgio Casavecchia (Universita di Perugia)
Recent progress in crossed beam studies of reaction dynamics
10:10 - 10:40Break
10:40 - 11:30David Manolopoulos (Oxford University)
Some recent developments in chemical reaction dynamics
11:30 - 12:20F. Javier Aoiz (Compluteuse University, Madrid)
A reaction with several paths: Dynamics and stereodynamics of the O(1D)+H2 reaction
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
Wednesday p.m., January 17, 2001
6:00 p.m.Dinner
Single-Molecule Studies of Energy Transfer
Session Chair: George W. Flynn
7:30 - 7:50George W. Flynn (Columbia University)
Perspective and overview
7:50 - 8:40Paul F. Barbara (University of Texas, Austin)
Single moelcule spectroscopic studies of intramolecular energy transfer in complex systems
8:40 - 9:30 Wilson Ho (University of California, Irvine)
Vibrational energy transfer in single adsorbed molecules with sub-Ångstrom resolution
9:30 p.m.Poster Session III
Thursday a.m., January 18, 2001
Energy Transfer in the Condensed Phase
Session Chair: Peter J. Rossky
9:00 - 9:20 Peter J. Rossky (University of Texas, Austin)
Perspective and overview
9:20 - 10:10 Gilbert M. Nathanson (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
One second in the life of HCl in liquid glycerol: Solvation, dissociation, and recombination
10:10 - 10:40Break
10:40 - 11:30Stephen E. Bradforth (University of Southern California)
The dynamics of photodetachment and photoionization in aqueous solution
11:30 - 12:20Tim Lian (Emory University)
Dynamics of molecular adsorbates on nanoparticles: vibrational relaxation, solvation and electron transfer
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
4:00 - 6:00 p.mPoster Session IV
Thursday p.m., January 18, 2001
6:00 p.m.Dinner
New Trends in Molecular Energy Transfer
Session Chair: Millard H. Alexander
8:00 - 8:20Millard H. Alexander (University of Maryland)
Perspective and overview
8:20 - 9:20Stephen R. Leone (NIST/University of Colorado)
Molecular energy transfer - where are we going? From vibration-vibration to quantum information science
9:20 - 9:30Conference Chairs: Summary Comments
Friday a.m., January 19, 2001
7:30 - 8:30Breakfast
9:00:End of Conference; Bus Departs
Last Updated: May 4, 2006