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Chemistry and Physics of Liquids

Gordon Research Conference

August 1 - 6, 1999
Chair Michael L. Klein
Vice Chair Norbert F. Scherer
Holderness School
33 Chapel Lane
Holderness, New Hampshire, United States
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Conference Program

SUNDAY PM · Reaction Dynamics and Spectroscopy
Chair: Mark Berg
  1. Peter Vohringer (MPI-Goettingen)
    "Ultrafast Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of Chemical Reaction Dynamics in Liquid Solution"
  2. Charles Schmutenmaer (Yale)
    "Measuring Intermolecular Solvent Dynamics Using Time-Resolved THz Spectroscopy"
  3. Robin Hochstrasser (Penn)
    "Dynamics and Structure with Femtosecond Infrared Pulses"
MONDAY AM · Interfaces
Chair: Mark Maroncelli
  1. Bob Thomas (Oxford)
    "The Structure of Surfactants and Polymers Adsorbed at Aqueous Interfaces"
  2. Geraldine Richmond (Oregon)
    "Hydrogen Bonding of Water Molecules at Liquid Surfaces as Probed by Vibrational Sum Frequency Spectroscopy"
  3. Ken Eisenthal (Columbia)
    "Probing Interfaces of Microscopic Particles: From Semiconductors to Lyposomes"
MONDAY PM · Liquid Helium as a Solvent
Chair: B. Whaley
  1. Roger E. Miller (UNC)
    " Molecules Solvated in Superfluid Liquid Helium"
  2. Ara Apkarian (UC-Irvine)
    "Superfluid Dynamics on Molecular Scales"
TUESDAY AM · Non-uniform Fluids & Hydrophobic Effects
Chair: Jim Henderson
  1. John Weeks (Maryland)
    "Theory of Non-uniform Fluids: From Molecular Scale Structure to Interface Formation"
  2. David Chandler (UC-Berkeley)
    "Hydrophobicity at Small and Large Length Scales"
  3. Hugo Christenson (Australian National University)
    "Wetting and Phase Transitions at MICA Surfaces"
TUESDAY PM · Ionic Systems
Chair: Jean-Pierre Hansen
  1. George Stell (Stoney Brook)
    "Criticality and Tricriticality in Ionic Systems"
  2. Gren Patey (UBC)
    "Phase Transitions in Ionic Fluids"
WEDNESDAY AM · Simulation Studies
Chair: Marie-Claire Bellissent-Funel
  1. Dominik Marx (MPI-Stuttgart)
    "Ab Initio Water"
  2. Peter Rossky (Austin)
    "Supercritical Water Solutions"
  3. Ruth Lynden-Bell (Belfast)
    "Solution and Solvation"
WEDNESDAY PM · Molecular Liquids/ Dynamical Effects
Chair: Raymond D. Mountain
  1. Tom Keyes (BU)
    "Instantaneous Normal Modes, Barrier Crossing and Diffusion in Supercooled Liquids"
  2. Iwao Ohmine (Nagoya)
    "A Theoretical Study of Water Dynamics: Fluctuations, Freezing and Chemical Reactions"
THURDSAY AM · Complex Fluids/ Colloids
Chair: David W. Oxtoby
  1. John Crocker (Penn)
    "Colloids as Calipers: Using Tracer Particles and Optical Tweezers to Probe Soft Matter"
  2. Jean-Pierre Hansen (Cambridge)
    "Interactions and Segregation on the Colloidal Scale: The Subtle Games of Entropy"
  3. Amy Herhold (Exxon)
    "Nucleation Kinetics in Alkanes: Transitions between the Liquid, Rotator, and Crystal Phases"
THURDSAY PM · Phase Transitions
Chair: Frank Stillinger
  1. Austen Angell (Arizona)
    "Cooperative Excitations, Entropy, and Liquid-Liquid Phase Transitions in Single Component Liquids"

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