Plenary Speakers

Louis Brus - Columbia University
Fleming Crim, University of Wisconsin
Yasuki Endo, University of Tokyo
Thomas Gallagher, University of Virginia
Anthony Merer, IAMS Academia Sinica, Taipei
Michael Heaven, Emory University
Michael Strano, University of Illinois, Coblentz Award Winner


Special Sessions

For the 61st Symposium, Patrick Vaccaro, Yale University, and Robert Field, MIT, are organizing a mini-symposium entitled, "Spectral Signatures of Molecular Dynamics." This mini-symposium will focus on the information about large amplitude dynamics encoded in molecular spectra (e.g., vestiges of isomerization, proton-transfer/hydrogen-bonding, conformational exchange/tunneling, and chemical reactivity), as well as the experimental and theoretical techniques employed for the systematic extraction and detailed interpretation of such data. Invited speakers include Richard Dixon, University of Bristol; Michael Heaven, Emory University; and Timothy Zwier, Purdue University. A second mini-symposium is being organized by Anne McCoy, The Ohio State University; and Mark Johnson, Yale University on the subject of the "Spectroscopy of Water." This symposium focuses on unraveling the unique properties of water and its water molecules and the associated networks distort in order to accommodate reactive intermediates in aqueous chemistry. Invited talks for this mini-symposium will be given by Kenneth Leopold, University of Minnesota; James Lisy, University of Illinois; and Daniel Neumark, University of California, Berkeley. A third mini-symposium is being organized by Brooks Pate and Richard Suenram of University of Virginia; entitled "New Techniques and Challenges for Rotational Spectroscopy." This symposium will examine recent experimental advances that enhance sensitivity, extend the frequency range, decrease the measurement time, and broaden the range of molecular systems where rotational spectroscopy can be used. The symposium will also explore the limits of applying rotational spectroscopy to complex molecular systems and highlight applications where the strengths of rotational spectroscopy for structure determination are transferred to other areas of spectroscopy (through double-resonance techyniques) or used to analyze moelcules in a sample matrix. Invited speakers include Jens-Uwe Grabow, Universitat Hannover; and Wolfgang Jaeger, University of Alberta. A session on theory is being organized by Russell Pitzer and Anne McCoy, Ohio State University, featuring an invited talk by Edwin Sibert, University of Wisconsin.

Last Update: December, 2005