| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | HELIUM DROPLETS AND ULTRACOLD COLLISIONS |
| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Overview by Discussion Leader: Jeremy Hutson (Univ. Durham, UK) |
| 7:45 pm - 8:25 pm | Roger Miller (UNC-Chapel Hill, USA)
"Mixing It Up in Helium Nanodroplets: Exotic Clusters Containing Radicals, Metals and Biomolecules" |
| 8:25 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
| 8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Andrey Vilesov (Univ. Southern California, USA)
"Spectroscopy of Molecular Clusters in Helium Droplets" |
| 9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Discussion |
| 9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Hot Topic #1: Nadine Halberstadt (CNRS)
"Non-adiabatic Dynamics of Ionized Neon Clusters inside Helium Nanodroplets" |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | CLUSTERS AND INTERMOLECULAR POTENTIALS |
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am | Overview by Discussion Leader: Sotiris Xantheas (PNNL, USA) |
| 9:15 am - 10:00 am | Claude LeForestier (Univ. Montpellier, France)
"Fitting a flexible water dimer potential for use in the near IR" |
| 10:00 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
| 10:10 am | Coffee Break / Photo |
| 10:35 am - 11:20 am | Krzysztof Szalewicz (Univ. of Delaware, USA)
"Convergence of the many-body expansion of intermolecular interaction potentials for liquid water and water clusters" |
| 11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:15 pm | Rich Saykally (UC-Berkeley, USA)
"Towards the Development of a Universal Potential for Water from VRT Spectra of Water Clusters" |
| 12:15 pm - 12:25 pm | Discussion |
| 12:25 pm - 12:30 pm | Hot Topic #2: Gunnar Ohrwall (Uppsala Univ., Sweden)
"The Electronic Structure of Free Water Clusters Studied by Auger Spectroscopy" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | REACTIONS AND RADICALS IN CLUSTERS |
| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Overview by Discussion Leader: Marsha Lester (Univ. Penn., USA) |
| 7:45 pm - 8:25 pm | Christophe Jouvet (CNRS Orsay, France)
"Hydrogen transfer from excited state aromatic enol or azine molecules: From clusters to biology" |
| 8:25 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
| 8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Sam Leutwyler (Univ. Bern, Switzerland)
"Probing Hydrogen and Proton Transfers along Hydrogen-Bonded Wires" |
| 9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Discussion |
| 9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Hot Topic #3: Fuminori Misaizu (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
"Multiple photofragmentation pathways with diverse recoil anisotropy
from a metal-ligand complex" |
| 9:45 pm - | Poster Session 1 |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | METAL LIGAND CLUSTERS: NEUTRAL AND IONIC |
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am | Overview by Discussion Leader: Mike Duncan (Univ. of Georgia, USA) |
| 9:15 am - 10:00 am | Tony Stace (Univ Sussex, UK)
"Chemical and spectroscopic studies of multiply charged metal - ligand complexes" |
| 10:00 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
| 10:10 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:35 am - 11:20 am | Dong-Sheng Yang (Univ. of Kentucky, USA)
"ZEKE spectroscopy and structures of metal clusters and complexes" |
| 11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:15 pm | Philippe Maitre (CNRS Orsay, France)
"Infrared Spectroscopy of Organometallic Ions" |
| 12:15 pm - 12:25 pm | Discussion |
| 12:25 pm - 12:30 pm | Hot Topic #4: Gereon Niedner-Schatteburg (Univ. Kaiserslautern, Germany)
"Who probes whom: Early transition metal cluster ions meet (non)aromatic hydrocarbon molecules" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | FINITE SIZE EFFECTS ON THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES |
| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Overview by Discussion Leader: Steve Berry (Univ. Chicago, USA) |
| 7:45 pm - 8:25 pm | Jonathan Doye (Cambridge, UK)
"Energy Landscapes as Networks" |
| 8:25 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
| 8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Greg Schenter (PNNL, USA)
"Thermodynamics and Dynamics of Water Cluster Nucleation" |
| 9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Discussion |
| 9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Hot Topic #5: Ana Proykova (Univ. Sofia, Bulgaria)
"Phase behavior of Methane Clusters from MD Calculations" |
| 9:45 pm - | Poster Session 2 |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | HYDROGEN-BONDED NETWORKS |
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am | Overview by Discussion Leader: Mark Johnson (Yale, USA) |
| 9:15 am - 10:00 am | H.-C. Chang (Academica Sinica, Taiwan)
"Studies of protonated water clusters: From dimers to the 21-mers" |
| 10:00 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
| 10:10 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:35 am - 11:20 am | Ken Jordan (Univ. of Pittsburgh)
"Protonated Water Clusters: Where is the Excess Proton?" |
| 11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:15 pm | J. Atwood (Univ. of Missouri-Columbia)
"Large, Stable Spherical Capsules Held Together by Hydrogen Bonds" |
| 12:15 pm - 12:25 pm | Discussion |
| 12:25 pm - 12:30 pm | Hot Topic #6: Asuka Fujii (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
"IR spectroscopy of protonated water and protonated methanol clusters" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | IONIC CLUSTERS |
| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Overview by Discussion Leader: Otto Dopfer (Univ. Wurzburg, Germany) |
| 7:45 pm - 8:25 pm | Jim Lisy (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)
"Vibrational Spectroscopy of Solvated Ions: New Perspectives" |
| 8:25 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
| 8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Evan Bieske (Univ. of Melbourne, Australia)
"Negative vibrations: Infrared spectroscopy of simple anion complexes and clusters" |
| 9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Discussion |
| 9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Hot Topic #7: Masaaki Fujii (Tokyo Inst. Tech., Japan)
"IR Dip Spectroscopy of the Phenol-Ar2 Cation: When does Ar Move?" |
| 9:45 pm - | Poster Session 3 |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | CLUSTERS CONTAINING BIOLOGICAL MOLECULES |
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am | Overview by Discussion Leader: Kit Bowen (Johns Hopkins, USA) |
| 9:15 am - 10:00 am | Markus Gerhards (Univ. Dusseldorf, Germany)
"Microsolvation and inhibition of peptides and peptide clusters" |
| 10:00 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
| 10:10 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:35 am - 11:20 am | Mattanjah S. de Vries (UC-Santa Barbara, USA)
"Isolated DNA base pairs and their clusters with water" |
| 11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:15 pm | J.P. Schermann (Univ. Paris 13, Villetaneuse, France)
"Infrared spectroscopy of mass-selected peptides without chromophores" |
| 12:15 pm - 12:25 pm | Discussion |
| 12:25 pm - 12:30 pm | Hot Topic #8: Anne Rentien-Zehnacker (Orsay, France)
"Chiral Recognition in Jet-cooled Complexes" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | DYNAMICS IN CLUSTERS |
| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Overview by Discussion Leader: Anne McCoy (Ohio State, USA) |
| 7:45 pm - 8:25 pm | Andrei Sanov (Univ. of Arizona, USA)
"Cluster Chemistry from the Electronic Perspective" |
| 8:25 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
| 8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Dan Neumark (UC-Berkeley, USA)
"Dynamics and spectroscopy of anionic clusters using photoelectron imaging" |
| 9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Discussion |
| 9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Hot Topic #9: Takayuki Ebata (Hiroshima Univ., Japan)
"IVR Dynamics probed by time-resolved IR-UV pump-probe spectroscopy" |
| 9:45 pm - | Poster Session 4 |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |
