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