Plenary Speakers
Masaaki Baba, Kyoto University
Anthony Legon, University of Bristol
Wolfgang Ernst, Technische Universitaet Graz
Dan Neumark, University of California-Berkeley
Robert Le Roy, University of Waterloo
Hanna Reisler, University of Southern California
Benjamin McCall, University of Illinois, Coblentz Award Winner
Special Sessions
For the 64th Symposium, Li-Hong Xu, University of New Brunswick,
and John Pearson, JPL/NASA are organizing a mini-symposium entitled,
"FIR/THz Air/Space Missions" covering spectroscopic needs relevant to
current and emerging atmospheric and space missions, including
Herschel, ALMA, SOFIA, SPIRIT, and JWST. This mini-symposium is
designed to bring together researchers working on a host of different
systems ranging from techniques to complex molecules. Contributions
are encouraged from across the full range of molecular systems and
for atmospheric, astronomical, and spectroscopic techniques from the
microwave to the far infrared. Invited speakers will include Frank
C. De Lucia, The Ohio State
University; Robert McKellar, Steacie
Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council of
Canada; Karl Menten, Max-Planck Institut fur Radioastronomie,
Bonn; and Holger S. P. Müller, I. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, Germany. A second mini-symposium is being organized by Scott Reid,
Marquette University and
Spiridoula Matsika, Temple University on the
subject of "Conical Intersections". This mini-symposium is designed to
bring together theoretical and experimental researchers with common
interests in exploring the involvement of conical intersections in
the spectroscopy and dynamics of molecular systems. Theoretical and
experimental contributions in methodological developments and
applications are encouraged. Invited talks for this mini-symposium
will be given by David
Jonas, Colorado University
and Todd Martinez,
University of Illinois. A third mini-symposium is being organized by
Andrew
Orr-Ewing, University of
Bristol and Kevin Lehmann, University
of Virginia, entitled "Developments in Cavity Enhanced
Spectroscopy". This mini-symposium will review advances in cavity
enhanced spectroscopic techniques such as CRDS, CEAS and NICE-OHMS,
and their wide-ranging applications in fields that include
fundamental molecular spectroscopy, atmospheric and combustion
chemistry. Invited speakers include Andreas Brockhinke, Universitat
Bielefeld; Steven S. Brown, NOAA Earth System Research Lab;
and Jun
Ye, NIST/University of Colorado. A session on theory is being
organized by Anne McCoy, John Herbert, and Russell Pitzer, Ohio State
University, featuring an invited talk by Jon Hougen, NIST.