SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in (Office Closed 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:35 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:35 pm - 9:30 pm | Photoionization and Photoelectron Dynamics I |
| Discussion Leader: Carl Lineberger (U Colorado at Boulder and JILA) |
7:35 pm - 8:00 pm | Vincent McKoy (CalTech)
"Looking at Ultrafast Dynamics with Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy" |
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:40 pm | Albert Stolow (Steacie Institute, NRC Canada)
"Dynamics and Control in the Molecular Frame" |
8:40 pm - 8:55 pm | Discussion |
8:55 pm - 9:20 pm | Andrei Sanov (U Arizona)
"Photoelectron imaging of anions, radicals, and reactive intermediates" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Quantum Control and Molecules in Strong Fields I |
| Discussion Leader: TBA |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | TBA
"Introduction" |
9:20 am - 9:50 am | Markus Guehr (Stanford and SLAC)
"What can we learn about electronic structure from high harmonic generation?" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break / Group Photo |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Bill McCurdy (UC Davis and LBNL)
"Short pulse double photoionization of atoms and molecules by one or more photons" |
11:00 am - 11:10 am | Discussion |
11:10 am - 11:40 am | Tobias Brixner (U Wurzburg)
"Mechanistic Coherent Control" |
11:40 am - 11:50 am | Discussion |
11:50 am - 12:20 pm | Serguei Patchkovskii (Steacie Institute, NRC Canada)
"Modeling Strong-Field Processes in Real Molecules" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Clusters and Reaction Dynamics I |
| Discussion Leader: Marsha Lester (U Penn) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | David Osborn (JILA and Sandia National Laboratories)
"Imaging Reaction Sequences with Isomeric Selectivity" |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Scott Kable (U of Sydney)
"Proton Exchange in the Photodissociation of Partially Deuterated Acetaldehyde: Roaming or Not?" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Diego Troya (Virginia Tech)
"Theoretical Studies of the Dynamics of Gas/Surface Reactions" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Clusters and Reaction Dynamics II |
| Discussion Leader: James Lisy (UIUC) |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | James Lisy (UIUC)
"Introduction" |
9:20 am - 9:50 am | Meredith Jordan (U Sydney)
"Quantum effects in H2-Li+-benzene: A model for hydrogen storage" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Mark Johnson (Yale)
"Unravelling the 'solvent coordinate' in proton-coupled bond formation: How shape controls function in the cluster regime" |
11:00 am - 11:10 am | Discussion |
11:10 am - 11:40 am | Bernd Winter (BESSY)
"X-ray Induced Ultrafast Charge Transfer and Energy Transfer in Water and Aqueous Transition Metals by Resonant Photoelectron Spectroscopy" |
11:40 am - 11:50 am | Discussion |
11:50 am - 12:20 pm | Daniel Auerbach (GRT, Inc)
"Nonadiabatic electronic effects in vibrational energy transfer at metal surfaces" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Photochemical and Nonadiabatic Dynamics I |
| Discussion Leader: Petr Slavicek (Prague Inst. Chem. Tech.) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Keiji Morokuma (Fukui Institute, Kyoto)
"Theoretical studies of excited state structure, spectroscopy and dynamics of some gas phase and bio molecular systems" |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Lyudmila Slipchenko (Purdue)
"Effective fragment potential (EFP) based method for electronic excited states: spectroscopy of solvated chromophores" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Roman Boulatov (UIUC)
"Chemical Insights from Molecular Force Probes" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Photoionization and Photoelectron Dynamics II |
| Discussion Leader: John Herbert (Ohio State) |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | John Herbert (Ohio State)
"Introduction" |
9:20 am - 9:50 am | John Stanton (U Texas at Austin)
"Vibronic coupling calculations: From qualitative to quantitative" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Roland Mitric (Humboldt U, Berlin)
"Analysis and control of ultrafast photodynamics by nonadiabatic MD 'on the fly'" |
11:00 am - 11:10 am | Discussion |
11:10 am - 11:40 am | Wei Kong (Oregon State)
"Probing Structures of Biological Molecules using Laser Spectroscopy and Electron Diffraction" |
11:40 am - 11:50 am | Discussion |
11:50 am - 12:20 pm | Katharine Reid (U Nottingham)
"Deducing Anharmonic Coupling Matrix Elements from Picosecond Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectra" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Quantum Control and Molecules in Strong Fields II |
| Discussion Leader: Jeff Cina (U Oregon) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Niels Damrauer (U Colorado, Boulder)
"Controlling Photochemistry in Complex Systems for Solar Energy Conversion" |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Graham Worth (U Birmingham)
"Following and controlling the photochemistry of polyatomic molecules using the MCTDH method" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Leticia Gonzalez (U Jena)
"Coherent Control of Ultrafast Dynamics using Strong Fields" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 11:50 am | Complex Molecules and Condensed Phases |
| Discussion Leader: Kelly Gaffney (SLAC) |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | Kelly Gaffney (SLAC)
"Introduction" |
9:20 am - 9:50 am | James Hynes (U Colorado, Boulder)
"Solvent effects on conical intersection structure and dynamics" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Sharon Hammes-Schiffer (Penn State)
"Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Catalysis and Energy Conversion Processes" |
11:00 am - 11:10 am | Discussion |
11:10 am - 11:40 am | David Manolopolous (Oxford)
"Chemical Reaction Rates from Ring Polymer Molecular Dynamics" |
11:40 am - 11:50 am | Discussion |
11:50 am - 12:30 pm | Hot Topic Talks |
11:50 am - 12:05 pm | Maurice Jansen (Vrije University)
"Toward elucidating the mechanism of femtosecond pulse shaping control in photodynamics of molecules by velocity map photoelectron and ion imaging" |
12:05 pm - 12:10 pm | Discussion |
12:10 pm - 12:25 pm | Stefan Haacke (U Strasbourg)
"Tracking vibrational wavepacket motion of ultrafast photoisomerizing molecules across the conical intersection" |
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Photochemical and Nonadiabatic Dynamics II |
| Discussion Leader: Arthur Suits (Wayne State U) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Lars Andersen (U Aarhus)
"Action spectroscopy and photoresponse of the GFP chromophore anion" |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Michel Mons (CEA, Saclay)
"Noncovalent Interactions that Shape Proteins, as Revealed by High-Resolution Vibrational Gas Phase Spectroscopy" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Michael Ashfold (U Bristol)
"Pi-Sigma* States in Molecular Photochemistry" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |