MI. MINI-SYMPOSIUM: SPECTRAL SIGNATURES OF MOLECULAR DYNAMICS

MONDAY, JUNE 19, 2006 - 1:30pm

Room: 1015 McPHERSON LAB

Chair: ROBERT FIELD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

MI01 INVITED TALK 30min1:30

SPECTRAL SIGNATURES OF NON-ADIABATIC DYNAMICS.

RICHARD N. DIXON, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TH, UK.

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MI02			15min2:05

ELECTRONIC SPECTROSCOPY OF CORONENE AND BENZOPERYLENE INSIDE HELIUM NANODROPLETS.

PAOLO MORESCHINI, OZGUR BIRER, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University; KEVIN K. LEHMANN, Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia.

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MI03			15min2:22

ULTRAFAST DYNAMICS OF RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER IN MYOGLOBIN.

JUSTIN J. LINK, JEFFREY A. STEVENS, YA-TING KAO AND DONGPING ZHONG, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210.

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MI04			15min2:39

PROTON TUNNELING ESTIMATES FOR MALONALDEHYDE VIBRATIONS FROM SUPERSONIC JET AND MATRIX QUENCHING EXPERIMENTS.

T. N. WASSERMANN, M. A. SUHM, Institut f. Physikalische Chemie, Universität Göttingen, Tammannstr. 6, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany; D. LUCKHAUS, Chemistry Departement, University of British Columbia, 6174 University Blvd., Vancouver, BC, Canada; AND S. COUSSAN, Laboratoire Physique des Interactions Ioniques et Moléculaires, UMR 6633, Université de Provence-CNRS, Centre St-Jérôme, 13397 Marseille Cedex 20, France.

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MI05			15min2:56

QUANTUM TUNNELING IN THE MIDRANGE VIBRATIONAL FUNDAMENTALS OF TROPOLONE.

RICHARD L. REDINGTON AND THERESA E. REDINGTON, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409; ROBERT L. SAMS, Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352.

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MI06			15min3:13

MULTISTAGE VIBRATION - TORSION - ROTATION COUPLING IN THE

₆ ASYMETRIC N-O STRETCH OF NITROMETHANE.

LOU DEGLIUMBERTO, DAVID S. PERRY, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325; WENDY HEISERMAN, REBECCA COOK, HOWARD D. METTEE, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH 44555; ROBERT L. SAMS, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352; GEORG O. SORENSEN, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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INTERMISSION

MI07			15min3:45

A PRACTICAL PROCEDURE FOR AB INITIO DETERMINATION OF VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPIC CONSTANTS, RESONANCES, AND POLYADS.

WILLIAM F. POLIK, Department of Chemistry, Hope College, Holland, MI 49423.

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MI08			15min4:02

ROVIBRATIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF X² Sigma

⁺ ¹¹BH⁺ BY THE EXTRAPOLATION OF PHOTOSELECTED HIGH-RYDBERG SERIES IN ¹¹BH.

C. RICARDO VITERI AND ANDREW T. GILKISON, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907; SCOTT J. RIXON AND EDWARD R. GRANT, Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 6174 University Boulevard, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z3.

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MI09			15min4:19

DISCRETE-CONTINUUM INTERACTIONS AND LINESHAPES IN THE AUTOIONIZATION SPECTRA OF BH.

FRAUKE SCHROEDER AND EDWARD R. GRANT, Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 6174 University Boulevard, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z3; ANDREW T. GILKINSON AND C. RICARDO VITERI, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907.

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MI10			15min4:36

DYNAMICS OF DISSOCIATIVE RECOMBINATION, ELECTRON LOSS AND ISOLATED-CORE PHOTON ABSORPTION IN SINGLE ROVIBRONIC RYDBERG RESONANCES OF ¹¹BH.

C. RICARDO VITERI AND ANDREW T. GILKISON, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907; SCOTT J. RIXON AND EDWARD R. GRANT, Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 6174 University Boulevard, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z3.

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MI11			15min4:53

BROAD SHAPE RESONANCE EFFECTS IN CaF RYDBERG STATES.

SERHAN N. ALTUNATA, STEPHEN L. COY AND ROBERT W. FIELD, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.

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MI12			15min5:10

TIME DOMAIN THz SPECTROSCOPY OF INTRACOMPLEX RYDBERG-RYDBERG TRANSITIONS IN CaF.

VLADIMIR S. PETROVIC, EMILY E. FENN AND ROBERT W. FIELD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chemistry Department 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA 02139 .

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