| SUNDAY |
| 4:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | ASTROPHYSICAL CLUSTERS |
| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Overview by Discussion Leader: Bill Klemperer (Harvard Univ., USA)
"Interstellar Chemistry; Why so many unsaturated carbon chains and can weakly bound complexes occur?" |
| 7:45 pm - 8:30 pm | Michael McCarthy (Harvard Univ., USA)
"Small Carbon, Silicon, and Sulfur Clusters in the Laboratory and in Space" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 9:20 pm | John Maier (Univ. of Basel, Switzerland)
"Gas Phase Electronic Spectra of Carbon-Containing Molecules of Relevance to Astrophysics" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | REACTIONS AND RADICALS |
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am | Overview by Discussion Leader: Dan Neumark (UC-Berkeley, USA)
"Photoinduced reactions in clusters" |
| 9:15 am - 10:00 am | Marsha Lester (Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA)
"Intermolecular Interactions and Reactions of Hydroxyl Radicals: A New View" |
| 10:00 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
| 10:10 am | Conference Photo / Coffee Break |
| 10:40 am - 11:25 am | Joe Francisco (Purdue Univ., USA)
"New Perspectives on Radical Reactions in Atmospheric Chemical Processes" |
| 11:25 am - 11:35 am | Discussion |
| 11:35 am - 12:20 pm | Anna Krylov (USC, USA)
"Complex photodissociation of weakly bound covalent NO dimer: Insights from electronic structure calculations" |
| 12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | HELIUM DROPLETS |
| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Overview by Discussion Leader: Andrey Vilesov (Univ. of Southern California, USA)
"Molecules, superfluidity and He droplets" |
| 7:45 pm - 8:30 pm | Birgitta Whaley (UC-Berkeley, USA)
"Spectroscopy and Superfluidity in Helium Droplets" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 9:20 pm | Martina Havenith (Ruhr Univ. Bochum, Germany)
"Probing phonon-rotational coupling: IR spectroscopy of dopants in helium nanodroplets" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| 9:45 pm - | Poster Session 1 |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | METAL CLUSTERS AND COMPLEXES |
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am | Overview by Discussion Leader: Will Castleman (Penn State Univ., USA)
"Exploring Metal Clusters" |
| 9:15 am - 10:00 am | Martin Jarrold (Indiana Univ., USA)
"Cluster Melting" |
| 10:00 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
| 10:10 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:40 am - 11:25 am | Atsushi Nakajima (Keio Univ., Japan)
"Electronic and Geometric Properties of Metal Encapsulated or Sandwiched Clusters" |
| 11:25 am - 11:35 am | Discussion |
| 11:35 am - 12:20 pm | Kit Bowen (Johns-Hopkins Univ., USA)
"Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Cluster Anions" |
| 12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 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: Jim Lisy (Univ. of Illinois, USA)
"Recent Developments in Ionic Clusters" |
| 7:45 pm - 8:30 pm | Masaaki Fuji (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
"Real-time observation of ionization induced site switching in aromatic clusters" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 9:20 pm | Lai-Sheng Wang (Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA)
"Probing the Electronic, Structural, and Chemical Properties of Metal Clusters Using Anion Photoelectron Spectroscopy" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| 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: Ken Jordan (Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA)
"Overview of Hydrogen-Bonded Systems" |
| 9:15 am - 10:00 am | Mark Johnson (Yale Univ., USA)
"Water Clusters: A Bottom-up Approach to Aqueous Chemistry" |
| 10:00 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
| 10:10 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:40 am - 11:25 am | Anne McCoy (Ohio State Univ., USA)
"Investigations of the Dynamics and Spectroscopy of H3O2- and H5O2+ using Quantum Monte Carlo" |
| 11:25 am - 11:35 am | Discussion |
| 11:35 am - 12:20 pm | Martin Suhm (Univ. of Goettingen, Germany)
"Subtleties and Surprises in Fluorinated Alcohol Clusters" |
| 12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 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 | DYNAMICS IN CLUSTERS |
| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Overview by Discussion Leader: Carl Lineberger (Univ. of Colorado/JILA, USA) |
| 7:45 pm - 8:30 pm | David Nesbitt (Univ. of Colorado/JILA, USA)
"Intramolecular Dynamics in Molecular Ions: A High Resolution Perspective" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 9:20 pm | Takayuki Ebata (Hiroshima Univ., Japan)
"IVR Dynamics of the X-H Stretching Vibrations studied by Picosecond IR-UV Pump-Probe Spectroscopy" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| 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: Mattanjah de Vries (UC-Santa Barbara, USA)
"What can we learn from isolating biomolecules in the gas phase?" |
| 9:15 am - 10:00 am | Tim Zwier (Purdue Univ., USA)
"Reorienting, shuttling, and dissociating water from a solute-water complex: New insights from hole-filling methods" |
| 10:00 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
| 10:10 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:40 am - 11:25 am | Bernd Brutschy (Univ. of Frankfurt, Germany)
"Biomolecules in the Gas Phase by Laser Desorption/Ablation from Liquid Droplets" |
| 11:25 am - 11:35 am | Discussion |
| 11:35 am - 12:20 pm | Klaus Mueller-Dethlefs (Univ. of Manchester, UK)
"TBA" |
| 12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | INTERMOLECULAR POTENTIALS |
| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Overview by Discussion Leader: Jeremy Hutson (Univ. of Durham, UK)
"Intermolecular potentials: the problem of excited states" |
| 7:45 pm - 8:30 pm | Wolfgang Domcke (Tech. Univ. of Munich, Germany)
"Cluster Models of Aqueous-Phase Photochemistry and the Solvated Electron" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 9:20 pm | Joel Bowman (Emory Univ., USA)
"Full dimensional ab initio potentials and quantum vibrational calculations for H+(H2O)2 OH-(H2O), and Cl-(H2O)" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| 9:45 pm - | Poster Session 4 |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
