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.