Scientific program

Updated June 30, 2009

 

Sunday, July 5, 2009

 

4:00-6:00 PM              Registration [top of the escalators]

 

6:00-7:30 PM             Dinner [Golden Cliff/Eagles Nest]

 

7:30-10:00 PM            Registration open [top of the escalators]

7:30-10:00 PM            Welcoming reception [Superior Lobby and Terrace]

 

Monday, July 6, 2009

 

7:00-8:30 A.M.            Breakfast [Golden Cliff/Eagles Nest]

7:30 -8:30 A.M            Registration open [Outside Ballroom 1]

 

Bimolecular processes I

8:30 -12:00 P.M          Morning Session [Ballroom 1]

 

8:30-8:40 A.M.            Opening remarks

 

8:40-8:55 A.M.            Introductory talk, David Nesbitt, Colorado [chair]

 

8:55-9:30 A.M.            David Osborne, Sandia

                                                Imaging Molecular Weight Growth with Isomeric Specificity

9:30-9:40 A.M.            Discussion

 

9:40-9:55 AM              CONTRIBUTED TALK

                                    Maurice H. M. Jansen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Femtosecond Photoelectron-Photoion Coincidence Imaging of Multichannel Molecular Dynamics                          

9:55-10:00 AM            Discussion

 

10:00-10:30 AM          Coffee break [Ballroom 1 Lobby]

 

10:30-11:05 AM          Stephen Klippenstein, Argonne

Kinetics of Roaming Radicals

11:05-11:15 AM          Discussion

 

11:15-11:50 AM          Tim Minton, Montana

Hyperthermal O(3P) Reaction Dynamics: Unusual mechanisms that do not follow the minimum energy path

11:50-12:00 PM          Discussion

 

12:00 PM-1:00 PM      Lunch [Golden Cliff/Eagle Nest]

1:00-5:30 PM              Free time

 

5:30-7:00 PM              Dinner [Golden Cliff/Eagle Nest]

 

Potential Surfaces

7:30-9:35 PM              Evening Session [Ballroom 1]

 

7:30-7:45 PM              Introductory talk, Larry Harding, Argonne [chair]

 

7:45-8:20 PM              Meredith Jordan, Sydney

Molecular Property Surfaces by Interpolation

 

8:20-8:30 PM              Discussion

 

8:30-8:45 PM              CONTRIBUTED TALK

Gabor Czako, Emory University

Accurate ab initio Potential Energy Surface, Dynamics and Thermochemistry of the F+CH4 à HF + CH3 reaction

8:45-8:50 PM              Discussion

 

8:50-9:25 PM              Al Wagner, Argonne

Automatically Growing Potential Energy Surfaces for Spectroscopy and Dynamics

9:25-9:35 PM              Discussion

 

9:35-12:00 AM            Poster session  [Ballroom Mezzanine]

 

 

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

 

7:00-8:30 A.M.            Breakfast [Golden Cliff/Eagles Nest]

 

Surfaces

8:35 A.M.-12:00 PM   Morning Session [Ballroom 1]

 

8:35-8:40 A.M.            Announcements

 

8:40-8:55 A.M.            Introductory talk, Arthur Utz, Tufts [chair]

 

8:55-9:30 A.M.            Eric Herbst, Ohio State

It's a Dusty Universe:  Surface Dynamics on Small Interstellar Particles

9:30-9:40 A.M.            Discussion

 

9:40-9:55 A.M.            CONTRIBUTED TALK

                                    Joseph R. Roscioli, University of Colorado/JILA

State-resolved Collision Dynamics at Gas-Ionic Liquid Interfaces: A High Resolution Infrared Perspective

9:55-10:00 A.M.          Discussion

 

10:00-10:30 AM          Break [Ballroom 1 Lobby]

 

10:30-11:05 AM          Ken McKendrick, Heriot-Watt Uniersity

Dynamics of interfacial reactions of O(3P) atoms with ‘soft’ organic surfaces

11:05-11:15 A.M.        Discussion

 

11:15-11:50 A.M.        Diego Troya, Virginia Tech

Chemical dynamics simulations of reactive and inelastic scattering of gases from self-assembled monolayers

11:50-12:00 P.M.        Discussion

 

12:00 – 1:00 P.M.        Lunch [Golden Cliff/Eagle Nest][1]

 

12:00 -5:30 P.M.         Free time

 

5:30 -7:00 P.M.           Dinner [Golden Cliff/Eagle Nest]

 

Bimolecular processes II

7:30-9:35 PM              Evening Session [Ballroom 1]

 

7:30-7:45 PM              Introductory talk, Stuart Althorpe, Cambridge [chair]

 

7:45-8:20 PM              David Anderson, Wyoming

                                                Probing the Cl+H2→HCl+H reaction in solid para-H2  at 2 K

 

8:20-8:30 PM              Discussion

 

8:30-8:45 PM              CONTRIBUTED TALK

Ahren W. Jasper, Sandia National Laboratories

Classical Trajectory Simulations of Collisional Energy Transfer in Unimolecular Reactions

8:45-8:50 PM              Discussion

 

8:50-9:25 PM              Hua Guo, New Mexico

                                                Quantum Dynamics of Complex-forming Reactions

9:25-9:35 PM              Discussion

 

9:35-12:00 AM            Poster session

 

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

 

7:00-8:30 A.M.            Breakfast [Golden Cliff/Eagles Nest]

 

Cold Collisions

8:35 A.M.-12:00 PM   Morning Session [Ballroom 1]

 

8:35-8:40 A.M.            Announcements

 

8:40-8:55 A.M.            Introductory talk, Gary Douberley, Georgia [chair]

 

8:55-9:30 A.M.            David Chandler, Sandia

                                                The Quest for Ultracold Molecules

9:30-9:40 A.M.            Discussion

 

9:40-9:55 A.M.            CONTRIBUTED TALK

Thierry Stoeklin, CNRS-UMR

Combining electric and magnetic static fields for the tuning of the lifetime of zero-energy Feshbach resonances: Applications to the 3He+NH(3S) collisions

9:55-10:00 A.M.          Discussion

 

10:00-10:30 AM          Break [Ballroom 1 Lobby]

 

10:30-11:05 AM          Heather Lewandowski, JILA

                                                Cold Atom-Molecule Interactions

11:05-11:15 A.M.        Discussion

 

11:15-11:50 A.M.        Jeremy Hutson, Durham

Collisions of ultracold atoms and molecules: will sympathetic cooling work?

11:50-12:00 P.M.        Discussion

 

12:00 – 1:00 P.M.        Lunch [Golden Cliff/Eagle Nest]

 

12:00 -5:30 P.M.         Free time

 

5:30 -7:00 P.M.           Dinner [Golden Cliff/Eagle Nest]

 

Clusters

7:30-9:35 PM              Evening Session [Ballroom 1]

 

7:30-7:45 PM              Introductory talk, Mathias Weber, Colorado [chair]

 

7:45-8:20 PM              Jim Lisy, UIUC

Stalking and capturing high energy cluster ion conformers: Trapping on the potential energy surface

8:20-8:30 PM              Discussion

 

8:30-8:45 PM              CONTRIBUTED TALK

Ben M. Elliot, Yale Univeristy

A riddle from the ionosphere reveals how water activation is controlled by the shape of an H-bonded network

8:45-8:50 PM              Discussion

 

8:50-9:25 PM              Andrei Sanov, Univ. of Arizona

Islands in the sky: Solvent effects on anion structures, reactivity, and photodetachment dynamics

9:25-9:35 PM              Discussion

 

9:35-12:00 AM            Poster session

 

 

Thursday, July 9, 2009

 

7:00-8:30 A.M.            Breakfast [Golden Cliff/Eagles Nest]

 

Atmospheric and Astrochemical Processes

8:35 A.M.-12:00 PM   Morning Session [Ballroom 1]

 

8:35-8:40 A.M.            Announcements

 

8:40-8:55 A.M.            Introductory talk, Jack Simons, Utah [chair]

 

8:55-9:30 A.M.            Mitchio Okumura, Caltech

                                                Free Radical Addition Reactions in the Atmosphere

9:30-9:40 A.M.            Discussion

 

9:40-9:55 A.M.            CONTRIBUTED TALK

George C. McBane, Grand Valley State University

Trajectory surface hopping study of energy disposal in the triplet channel of ozone photodissoiciation in the Hartley band

9:55-10:00 A.M.          Discussion

 

10:00-10:30 AM          Break [Ballroom 1 Lobby]

 

10:30-11:05 AM          John Barker, Michigan

Some Problems with Atmospheric Rate Constants: Is Anharmonicity the Answer?

11:05-11:15 A.M.        Discussion

 

11:15-11:50 A.M.        Ralph Kaiser, Hawaii

                                    On the Formation of Aromatic Molecules in Titan’s Haze Layers

11:50-12:00 P.M.        Discussion

 

12:00 – 1:00 P.M.        Lunch [Golden Cliff/Eagle Nest][2]

 

12:00 -5:30 P.M.         Free time

 

5:30 -7:00 P.M.           Barbeque – outside, weather permitting

 

Awards Session

7:30-9:35 PM              Evening Session [Ballroom 1]

 

7:30-7:45 PM              Introduction I, Bruce Garrett, PNNL

 

7:45-8:20 PM              Donald Truhlar, Minnesota

                                                New Approaches to the Calculation of Reaction Rates

8:20-8:30 PM              Discussion

 

8:30-8:45 PM              Introduction II: Knut Asmis, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

8:45-9:20 PM              Dan Neumark, Berkeley

                                    Time-resolved dynamics in water cluster anions and helium droplets

9:20-9:30 PM              Discussion

 

9:30-12:00 AM            Poster Session

 

Friday, July 10, 2009

 

7:15-8:45 A.M.            Breakfast [Golden Cliff/Eagles Nest]

 

Unimolecular processes

9:00.-11:35 AM           Morning Session [Ballroom 1]

 

9:00-9:15 A.M.            Introductory talk, W. Carl Lineberger, Colorado [chair]

 

9:15-9:50 A.M.            Scott Reid, Marquette

                                                Unimolecular processes in carbenes

9:50-10:00 A.M.          Discussion

 

10:00-10:30 AM          Break

 

10:30-10:45 A.M.        CONTRIBUTED TALK

Benj FitzPatrick, University of Chicago

Photodissociation Dynamics of Epichlorohydrin: A Look at the Reaction of O (3P) + Allyl Radicals

10:45-10:50 A.M.        Discussion

 

10:50-11:25 AM          Arthur Suits, Wayne State

                                                Imaging Reaction Dynamics in Molecules Large and Small

11:25-11:35 A.M.        Discussion

 


[1] Tuesday and Thursday lunches will be boxed lunches The Golden Cliff / Eagle Nest room has been reserved and you may eat there or take your lunch with you to eat outside or on afternoon activities.

[2] Tuesday  and Thursday lunches will be boxed lunches The Golden Cliff / Eagle Nest room has been reserved and you may eat there or take your lunch with you to eat outside or on afternoon activities.