Celebration of 50th Meeting
Since this year marks the 50th consecutive annual meeting of the
Ohio State University International
Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy, we have planned a number of
events to commemorate the
occasion. Highlighting these events will be a plenary session all day
Wednesday, June 14. The session
will feature opening and closing addresses by the Directors of the two
agencies in the United States most
directly responsible for sponsoring the research presented at the
Symposium and the Symposium itself,
respectively Neal Lane of the National Science Foundation and Gerald
Iafrate of the Army Office of
Research. The heart of the plenary session will feature lectures by
eight Nobel Laureates: Dudley
Herschbach, Harvard; Gerhard Herzberg, NRCC; Yuan T. Lee, Academia
Sinica; Charles H.
Townes, University of California at Berkeley; John Polanyi, University
of Toronto; George Porter,
Imperial College, London; Norman F. Ramsey, Harvard; Kenneth
G. Wilson, The Ohio State
University. Work of these Laureates has either been in molecular
spectroscopy or strongly influenced
by it. We expect this to be a truly memorable session.
In addition to the Wednesday plenary session, other activities will
commemorate the anniversary.
During the past year, a special committee (Jon Hougen, NIST, Chair;
Robert Curl, Rice University;
Kevin Lehmann, Princeton University; Benoit Simard, NRCC; and Mary Ann
Smith, NASA), has
worked to document the history of molecular spectroscopy as revealed
by the Symposium. This
Committee will present their findings at a special session on
Wednesday, June 14, starting at 6:00pm at
Hitchcock Hall Auditorium. This session will conclude with a
discussion of the "Outstanding
Challenges" for molecular spectroscopy in the coming years.
Additionally, their work has resulted in
numerous special features that will be found in the hard-bound copy of
the Abstract Book.
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