SUNDAY |
4:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in (Office Closed 6:00 pm - 7:45 pm) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
| Welcome by Co-Chairs Anne McCoy and Frank Stienkemeier |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Reactions and Radicals in Clusters |
7:40 pm - 7:55 pm | Discussion Leader: David Nesbitt (University of Colorado / JILA, USA)
"Introduction"
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7:55 pm - 8:30 pm | Joseph Francisco (Purdue University, USA)
"Atmospheric radical-molecule reactions at water surfaces: New perspectives from a study of cluster reaction models"
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8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
8:40 pm - 9:15 pm | Gary Douberly (University of Georgia, USA)
"Hydrocarbon radical reactions in helium nanodroplets"
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9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Discussion |
9:30 pm | Welcome Reception |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Probing Fundamental Processes through Cluster Studies |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Discussion Leader: Mark Johnson (Yale, USA)
"Introduction"
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9:15 am - 9:50 am | Jim Lin (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
"Photochemistry of the ClO dimer in the ozone hole formation"
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9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:10 am | Hot topic talk: Amanda Case (University of Colorado/JILA, USA)
"CN rotation following photoexcitation of ICN-"
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10:10 am - 10:15 am | Discussion |
10:15 am | Coffee Break |
10:45 am - 11:20 am | Zlatko Bacic (New York University, USA)
"Quantum dynamics of small clusters of hydrogen molecules in nanoscale confinement: Energetics, maximum occupancy, and temperature-dependent spatial distributions"
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11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 11:40 am | Hot topic talk: Christian van der Linde (Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Germany)
"Reactivity of hydrated metal ions M+(H2O)n, M=Mg, V to Zn, towards O2 and CO2: Mg exhibits chemistry of the hydrated electron while transition metals show different reactivity"
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11:40 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Michael Heaven (Emory University, USA)
"Spectroscopic studies related to the search for the dipole moment of the electron"
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12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I (preview) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Low Temperature Interactions and Cooperative Effects |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Takamasa Momose (University of British Columbia, Canada)
"Introduction"
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7:45 pm - 8:20 pm | Nadine Halberstadt (Université Paul Sabatier, France)
"Dynamics simulation of doped helium droplets"
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8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Hot topic talk: Richard A. Loomis (Washington University, USA)
"Experimental interrogation of the competing relaxation pathways of Ar•••I2(B,v')"
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8:40 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
8:45 pm - 9:20 pm | Jeremy Hutson (University of Durham, UK)
"Towards quantum control in ultracold chemistry"
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9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
9:30 pm | Poster Session I |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Water-containing Clusters |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Discussion Leader: Kenneth Jordan (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
"Introduction"
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9:15 am - 9:50 am | Hanna Reisler (University of Southern California, USA)
"Imaging bond breaking pathways in water containing complexes"
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9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:10 am | Hot topic talk: Marie-Pierre Gaigeot (Universite Evry val d'Essonne, France)
"Colliding ions with molecular clusters: modeling cluster ion formation"
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10:10 am - 10:15 am | Discussion |
10:15 am | Coffee Break |
10:45 am - 11:20 am | Takashi Nagata (University of Tokyo, Japan)
"Embryonic complex anions of water cluster with various molecules"
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11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 11:40 am | Hot topic talk: Bruce Yoder (University of British Columbia, Canada)
"Sizer for neutral weakly bound ultrafine aerosol particles based on sodium doping and mass spectrometric detection"
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11:40 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Sotiris Xantheas (PNNL, USA)
"Universal scaling of potential energy surfaces describing intermolecular interactions: New generalized forms of some popular interaction potentials and applications to the X-(H2O), X=F, Cl, Br, I and M+(H2O), M=Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs systems"
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12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session II (preview) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Finite Size Effects on Structure and Thermodynamics |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Bruce Garrett (PNNL, USA)
"Introduction"
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7:45 pm - 8:20 pm | Caroline Chick-Jarrold (Indiana University, USA)
"Physical and chemical properties of group 5 and 6 transition metal cluster anions in low oxidation states"
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8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Hot topic talk: Jennifer Meyer (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)
"Spin and orbital magnetic moments of isolated transition metal clusters"
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8:40 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
8:45 pm - 9:20 pm | Bernd von Issendorff (University of Freiburg, Germany)
"Structure and thermodynamics of pure and doped water clusters"
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9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
9:30 pm | Poster Session II |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Quantum Clusters |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Discussion Leader: Jan-Peter Toennies (MPI Göttingen, Germany)
"Introduction"
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9:15 am - 9:50 am | Martina Havenith (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany)
"Rock and roll at 0.37 K - High resolution IR spectroscopy of ultracold molecular cluster"
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9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:10 am | Hot topic talk: Katrin Siefermann (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA)
"Relaxation dynamics of electronically excited He droplets studied by femtosecond time-resolved photoelectron and ion imaging"
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10:10 am - 10:15 am | Discussion |
10:15 am | Coffee Break |
10:45 am - 11:20 am | Pierre-Nicholas Roy (Waterloo, Canada)
"Probing non-classical rotations in doped helium an hydrogen clusters"
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11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 11:40 am | Hot topic talk: Vladimir Mandelshtam (University of California, Irvine, USA)
"Size-induced structural transitions in large quantum Lennard-Jones clusters by the variational Gaussian wavepacket method"
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11:40 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Massimo Boninsegni (University of Alberta, Canada)
"The role of exchange in the structure of quantum Lennard-Jones clusters"
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12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session III (preview) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| Nominations for the next Vice Chairs; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Clusters at New XUV Light Sources |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Dan Neumark (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
"Introduction"
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7:45 pm - 8:20 pm | Thomas Möller (Technical University Berlin, Germany)
"Imaging ultrafast x-ray induced processes in clusters"
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8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Tobias Lau (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Germany)
"X-ray magnetic circular dichroism spectroscopy of size-selected cluster ions: Electron localization, spin coupling, orbital moment quenching"
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8:40 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
8:45 pm - 9:20 pm | Josef Tiggesbäumker (Universität Rostock, Germany)
"Probing the properties of clusters and particles with intense VUV light pulses"
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9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
9:30 pm | Poster Session III |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Molecular Clusters as Models for Solvation |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Discussion Leader: Jan Verlet (University of Durham, UK)
"Introduction"
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9:15 am - 9:50 am | Mathias Weber (University of Colorado, USA)
"Infrared studies of solvated anions"
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9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:10 am | Hot topic talk: Nadja Heine (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Germany)
"Isomer-selective IR/IR double resonance spectroscopy: Isolating the spectral signatures of H+(H2O)6+ isomers"
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10:10 am - 10:15 am | Discussion |
10:15 am | Coffee Break |
10:45 am - 11:20 am | R. Benny Gerber (Hebrew University, Israel)
"Dynamics and mechanisms of atmospherically-relevant reactions on ice and water clusters"
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11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 11:40 am | Hot topic talk: Einar Uggerud (University of Oslo, Norway)
"Proton mobility in water clusters"
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11:40 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Oleg Boyarkin (ETH, Switzerland)
"Spectroscopy of cold protonated peptide-water clusters beyond the free OH-stretch vibration"
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12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session IV (preview) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Ionic Clusters |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Hellmut Haberland (University of Freiburg, Germany)
"Introduction"
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7:45 pm - 8:20 pm | Evan Bieske (University of Melbourne, Australia)
"Molecular hydrogen attached to metal cations"
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8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Hot topic talk: Kiichirou Koyasu (Tohoku University, Japan)
"Temperature dependence of oxidation reactions of isomer-separated carbon cluster cations"
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8:40 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
8:45 pm - 9:20 pm | Masaaki Fujii (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
"Water migration dynamics in ionic clusters"
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9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
9:30 pm | Poster Session IV |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |