TH. MINI-SYMPOSIUM: THz SPECTROSCOPY

TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2008 - 1:30pm

Room: 1000 MCPHERSON LAB

Chair: EDWIN HEILWEIL, NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland

TH01 INVITED TALK 30min1:30

PRECISE MEASUREMENT OF LOW FREQUENCY VIBRATIONAL MODES IN SOLIDS USING WAVEGUIDE TERAHERTZ TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY.

JOSEPH S. MELINGER, Naval Research Laboratory, Code 6812, Washington, DC 20375; N. LAMAN, S. SREE HARSHA AND D. GRISCHKOWSKY, School of Computer and Electrical Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078.

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TH02			15min2:05

VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY OF TRANSFER RNA OF E.COLI: EXPERIMENT AND MODELING .

TATIANA GLOBUS, ALEXEI BYKHOVSKI, TATYANA KHROMOVA, BORIS GELMONT, Department of ECE, University of Virginia,Charlottesville, VA 22908. .

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TH03			10min2:22

VIBRATIONAL SELF-CONSISTENT FIELD CALCULATION AND TERAHERTZ SPECTRA OF VAL-ALA CLASS DIPEPTIDE NANOTUBES AND P-AAA IN CRYSTALLINE FORM..

HAILIANG ZHANG, DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 21250; KAREN SIEGRIST, DAVID F. PLUSQUELLIC, OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY DIVISION, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY, GAITHERSBURG, MARYLAND 20899-8443; SUSAN K. GREGURICK, DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 21250; OFFICE OF BIOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, GERMANTOWN, MD 20874.

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TH04			15min2:34

LOW-FREQUENCY RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY OF CARBON NANOTUBES.

A. R. HIGHT WALKER, J. R. SIMPSON, J. A. FAGAN, TANER YILDIRIM, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899 and Towson University, Baltimore, MD 21252.

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TH05			15min2:51

DEVELOPMENTS IN \underlineFAST \underlineSCAN \underlineSUBMILLIMETER \underlineSPECTROSCOPIC \underlineTECHNIQUE (FASSST) AND \underlineCOMPUTER \underlineAIDED \underlineASSIGNMENT OF \underlineASYMMETRIC \underlineROTOR \underlineSPECTRA (CAAARS) SOFTWARE SUITE..

IVAN R. MEDVEDEV AND FRANK C. DE LUCIA, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210-1106, USA; PAUL HELMINGER, Department of Physics, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL 36688.

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TH06			15min3:08

FASSST CAVITY RINGDOWN SPECTRSCOPY OF ATMOSPHERICALLY BROADEN LINESHAPES IN THE MILLIMETER SPECTRAL REGION..

COREY CASTO AND FRANK C. DE LUCIA, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210-1106, USA.

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TH07			15min3:25

INVESTIGATION OF INTERMOLECULAR HYDROGEN BONDING IN THE 2-PYRIDONE DIMER VIA PULSED TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY.

TANIEKA L MOTLEY, TIMOTHY M. KORTER, Department of Chemistry, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244-4100.

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INTERMISSION

TH08	INVITED TALK		30min4:00

AB-INITIO INVESTIGATION OF TERAHERTZ VIBRATIONAL MODES IN MOLECULAR CRYSTALS.

PETER UHD JEPSEN, Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark; STEWART CLARK, Department of Physics, University of Durham, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom.

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TH09			15min4:35

THE ROLE OF WATER IN THZ ABSORPTION BY MYOGLOBIN.

S. M. DURBIN AND C. ZHANG, Department of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907.

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TH10			15min4:52

HYDRATION DYNAMICS OF BIOMOLECULES INVESTIGATED BY THZ SPECTROSCOPY.

S. EBBINGHAUS, M. HEYDEN, B. BORN, M. HAVENITH, Institute of Physical Chemistry II, Ruhr-University Bochum, Universitätsstr.150, 44780 Bochum, Germany; S. J. KIM, M. GRUEBELE, Department of Chemistry and Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA; X. YU, D. M. LEITNER, Department of Chemistry, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, USA.

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TH11			15min5:09

PROBING HYDROGEN BOND NETWORK VIBRATIONS IN CARBOHYDRATE SOLVATION SHELLS AT THZ FREQUENCIES.

M. HEYDEN, S. EBBINGHAUS, G. NIEHUES, U. HEUGEN, E. BRÜNDERMANN, Lehrstuhl für Physikalische Chemie II, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany; D. M. LEITNER, Department of Chemistry, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557; AND M. HAVENITH, Lehrstuhl für Physikalische Chemie II, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany.

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TH12			15min5:26

PROTEIN SEQUENCE- AND PH-DEPENDENT HYDRATION PROBED BY THZ SPECTROSCOPY..

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TH13			15min5:43

MINIMUM STRUCTURE NECESSARY FOR PROTEIN DYNAMICAL TRANSITION .

YUNFEN HE, ANDREA G. MARKELZ, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA.

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TH14			15min6:00

SPECTRAL AND HYDRATION DEPENDENCE OF PROTEIN DYNAMICAL TRANSITION.

F. LIPPS, J. R. KNAB, J. Y. CHEN AND A. G. MARKELZ, Department of Physics, University at Buffalo, SUNY, NY 14260.

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