Plenary Speakers
Tucker Carrington
,
Queens University
Marsha Lester
,
University of Pennsylvania
Sam Leutwyler
,
University of Bern
Fusakazu Matsushima
,
University of Toyama
Al Wootten
,
NRAO
Amy Mullin
,
University of Maryland
Greg Engel
,
University of Chicago
Coblentz Award Winner
Special Sessions
For the 67th Symposium,
Caroline Chick Jarrold
,
Indiana University-Bloomington
, is organizing a mini-symposium entitled, "Ultimate Electronic Transitions - Photodetachment and Photoionization". This mini-symposium will encompass areas from atomic physics to gas-phase biomolecules to liquid jets, where photodetachment and photoionization studies open the door to fundamental physical and chemical phenomena. Invited speakers will include
Daniel M. Neumark
,
University of California at Berkeley
,
Lai-Sheng Wang
,
Brown University
and
Frederic Merkt
,
ETH Zurich
. A second mini-symposium is being organized by
Gary Douberly
,
University of Georgia
and
David Anderson
,
University of Wyoming
on the subject of "Cold Quantum Systems." This mini-symposium is designed to bring together researchers interested in studying the spectroscopy and chemistry of cold molecular systems in which quantum mechanical effects dominate. Invited talks for this mini-symposium will be given by
Ken Brown
,
Georgia Tech
;
Marcel Drabbels
,
EPFL
;
Takamasa Momose
,
University of British Columbia
; and
Pierre-Nicholas Roy
,
University of Waterloo
. A third mini-symposium is being organized by
Michael Duncan
,
University of Georgia
entitled "Spectroscopy of Liquid and Cluster Interfaces." The common properties of liquid interfaces and molecular clusters will be explored by bringing together researchers doing spectroscopy on these different systems. Invited speakers include
Heather Allen
,
The Ohio State University
and
Richard Saykally
,
University of California at Berkeley
. A session on theory is being organized by
Anne McCoy
,
John Herbert
, and
Russell Pitzer
,
Ohio State University
, featuring an invited talk by
Henrik Kjaergaard
,
University of Copenhagen
.