Reaction and Energy Transfer Dynamics at Surfaces and Interfaces: Fundamental Insights and Applications to Complex Systems

The 2023 Gordon Research Conference on Dynamics at Surfaces builds on a 44-year tradition of bringing together experimentalists and theoreticians working at the forefront of surface and interfacial chemical dynamics. It focuses on how molecular, atomic, and electronic motion at a surface or interface impacts physical and chemical behavior, and how this fundamental molecular level understanding translates to more complex chemical systems.

Examples of featured topics include dynamics in surface reactions and heterogeneous catalysis, time-resolved dynamics at surfaces, energy conversion and storage at interfaces and surfaces, photo- and plasmonic dynamics, dynamics at liquid and complex interfaces and in extreme environments, including hyperthermal processes and plasmas, surface scattering and energy transfer, and electron dynamics and non-adiabatic effects at surfaces.

The meeting has a long history of fostering close interplay between experimentalists and theoreticians. It also aims to stimulate and support new interdisciplinary opportunities where fundamental insights can advance understanding of increasingly complex chemical systems. Investigators attend from a wide range of scientific disciplines including chemistry, physics, materials science, geology, biophysics, and astrochemistry. We encourage all attendees, including junior scientists and graduate students, to present their work during the meeting's vibrant poster sessions and exchange ideas with leaders in their own and related fields. Several young investigators who submit poster abstracts will be selected for short talks at the meeting.

A Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) for young investigators (graduate students and post-docs) will precede the GRC.