SUNDAY |
4:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by co-Chairs Anne Zehnacker-Rentien and Andrey Vilesov |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Novel Experimental Techniques |
7:40 pm - 7:55 pm | Discussion Leader: Thomas Möller (TU Berlin, Germany) "Introduction" |
7:55 pm - 8:30 pm | Brooks Pate (University of Virginia, USA)
"Structures of Molecular Clusters from Rotational Spectroscopy" |
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
8:40 pm - 9:15 pm | Christoph Bostedt (SLAC USA)
"Imaging Ultrafast Processes with Clusters" |
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Discussion |
9:30 pm | Welcome Reception |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Quantum Clusters |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Discussion Leader: Nadine Halberstadt (CNRS-Université Toulouse, France) "Introduction" |
9:15 am - 9:50 am | Frank Stienkemeier (Freiburg University, Germany)
"Cluster Experiments at the Free Electron Laser FERMI@Elettra" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:10 am | Late-Breaking Topic: Gary Douberly (University of Georgia, USA)
"Helium Nanodroplet Isolation of Hydroxymethylene: The Formose Reaction at 0.4 K"
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10:10 am - 10:15 am | Discussion |
10:15 am | Coffee Break |
10:45 am - 11:20 am | Marcel Drabbels (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
"Existence of a Critical Landau Velocity in Finite Size Helium Systems" |
11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 11:40 am | Late-Breaking Topic: Alkwin Slenczka (Regensburg University, Germany)
"Microsolvation in Superfluid Helium Droplets"
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11:40 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:20 pm | Oliver Gessner (LBNL, Berkeley, USA)
"Femtosecond XUV Studies of Ultrafast Dynamics in Helium Nanodroplets" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Free Time |
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I (preview) |
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Theoretical Approaches to Interactions in Clusters |
6:00 pm - 6:15 pm | Discussion Leader: Sotiris Xantheas (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA) "Introduction" |
6:15 pm - 6:50 pm | Anne McCoy (Ohio State University, USA)
"Surprising Complexity in Small Molecules: Non-Adiabatic Photofragmentation Dynamics of XCN-, XCN-Arn and XCN- (CO2)n [X=I and Br]" |
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm | Discussion |
7:00 pm - 7:10 pm | Stella Constas (The University of Western Ontario, Canada)
"Charge-Induced Instabilities in Droplets Containing Charged Macromolecules"
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7:10 pm - 7:15 pm | Discussion |
7:15 pm - 7:50 pm | Joel Bowman (Emory University, USA)
"Global Potentials and Localized Quantum Dynamics of Clusters" |
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm | Dinner |
9:30 pm | Poster Session I |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Metal and Organometallic Clusters |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Discussion Leader: Bernd von Issendorff (Freiburg University, Germany) "Introduction" |
9:15 am - 9:50 am | Andre Fielicke (TU Berlin, Germany)
"Vibrational Spectroscopy of Metal Cluster Complexes: Investigating the Chemistry on a Small Surface" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:10 am | Late-Breaking Topic: Gereon Niedner-Schatteburg (Kaiserslautern University, Germany)
"Two Color IR-MPD Spectroscopy of Ligand Stabilized Metal Complexes and Clusters"
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10:10 am - 10:15 am | Discussion |
10:15 am | Coffee Break |
10:45 am - 11:20 am | Tobias Lau (Helmholtz-Zentrum, Berlin, Germany)
"Spin and Orbital Magnetic Moments of Homo- and Heteronuclear Metal Clusters" |
11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 11:40 am | Late-Breaking Topic: Katharina Otto (Göttingen University, Germany)
"Raman Spectra of Small Water Clusters"
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11:40 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:20 pm | Michael Duncan (University of Georgia, Athens, USA)
"Metal-Ligand and Metal-Solvent Interactions Studied with Selected Ion Infrared Spectroscopy" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Free Time |
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session II (preview) |
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Clusters Involving Large Molecules and Biomolecules |
6:00 pm - 6:15 pm | Discussion Leader: Gille Grégoire (CNRS, Université Paris XIII, France) "Introduction" |
6:15 pm - 6:50 pm | Markus Gerhards (TU Kaiserlautern, Germany)
"From Peptide Aggregates to Hydrated Flavonoids: IR/UV Spectroscopy to Analyze Structure and Reactivity" |
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm | Discussion |
7:00 pm - 7:10 pm | Late-Breaking Topic: Ilana Bar (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
"Ionization-Loss Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy as a Probe of Conformers and Clusters"
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7:10 pm - 7:15 pm | Discussion |
7:15 pm - 7:50 pm | Philippe Maitre (CNRS, Université Paris Sud, France)
"Structure of Cationized Mono- and Di-Saccharide Clusters: Ion Mobility and IR Spectroscopy" |
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm | Dinner |
9:30 pm | Poster Session II |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Hydrogen Bonding in Clusters |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Discussion Leader: Takayuki Ebata (Hiroshima University, Japan) "Introduction" |
9:15 am - 9:50 am | Sonia Melandri (Università degli studi di Bologna, Italy)
"Rotational Spectroscopy of Hydrogen Bonded Molecular Adducts: Structural Motifs and Dynamical Effects" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:10 am | Late-Breaking Topic: Nadja Heine (Fritz-Haber-Institut, Berlin, Germany)
"Structure and Microsolvation of Atmospherically Relevant Clusters"
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10:10 am - 10:15 am | Discussion |
10:15 am | Coffee Break |
10:45 am - 11:20 am | Michel Mons (Centre d'études nucléaires, Saclay, France)
"Gas-Phase Peptide Systems, from Structure to Electronic Dynamics" |
11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 11:40 am | Late-Breaking Topic: Mitsuhiko Miyazaki (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
"Real-Time Observation of Relaxation in Hydration Structure: Ionization Induced Reorientation of Water Around 4-Aminobenzonitrile by Picosecond Time Resolved IR Spectroscopy"
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11:40 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:20 pm | Yunjie Xu (Univeristy of Alberta, Canada)
"Solvation of Chiral Molecules: New Insights from the Chirality Transfer VCD Signatures and the Gas Phase Solvated Clusters" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Free Time |
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session III (preview) |
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Free Clusters at Low Temperatures |
6:00 pm - 6:15 pm | Discussion Leader: Thomas Rizzo (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) "Introduction" |
6:15 pm - 6:50 pm | Mark Johnson (Yale University, New Haven, USA)
"Cryogenic Cluster Ion Chemistry and Spectroscopy" |
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm | Discussion |
7:00 pm - 7:10 pm | Late-Breaking Topic: Etienne Garand (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
"Structure and Solvation of Copper-Based Water Oxidation Catalysts via Cryogenic Ion Spectroscopy"
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7:10 pm - 7:15 pm | Discussion |
7:15 pm - 7:50 pm | Timothy Zwier (Purdue University, USA)
"Single-Conformation Spectroscopy of Model Bichromophore and Biomolecular Clusters" |
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm | Dinner |
9:30 pm | Poster Session III |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am - 9:00 am | Business Meeting |
| Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Ionic Clusters |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Discussion Leader: Masaaki Fujii (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) "Introduction" |
9:15 am - 9:50 am | Daniel Neumark (University of California Berkeley, USA)
"Dynamics of Excess Electrons in Clusters" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:10 am | Late-Breaking Topic: Aude Bouchet (TU Berlin, Germany)
"Binding Motifs of a Microhydrated Neurotransmitter: IR Spectroscopy of Rare Gas-Tagged Protonated Phenylethylamine and Its Water Clusters"
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10:10 am - 10:15 am | Discussion |
10:15 am | Coffee Break |
10:45 am - 11:20 am | Asuka Fujii (Tohoku University, Japan)
"Infrared Spectroscopy of Protonated Clusters: From Dimers to Large Sizes" |
11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 11:40 am | Late-Breaking Topic: Andrei Sanov (University of Arizona, USA)
"Solvation Effects on the Angular Distributions in Cluster-Anion Photodetachment:
The Role of Solute's Electronic Structure"
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11:40 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:20 pm | John Herbert (Ohio State University, USA)
"New Theoretical Methods for Computing Interactions in Large Ionic Molecular Clusters" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Free Time |
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session IV (preview) |
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Clusters and Aerosols in Atmospheric Studies |
6:00 pm - 6:15 pm | Discussion Leader: Marsha Lester (University of Pennsylvania, USA) "Introduction" |
6:15 pm - 6:50 pm | Ruth Signorell (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
"Photoemission from Nano-Sized Aerosol Particles" |
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm | Discussion |
7:00 pm - 7:10 pm | Late-Breaking Topic: Michal Farnik and Jozef Lengyel (J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, Prague, Czech)
"Molecular Beam Studies of Atmospheric Processes on Water Clusters and Ice Nanoparticles"
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7:10 pm - 7:15 pm | Discussion |
7:15 pm - 7:50 pm | Barbara Wyslouzil (Ohio State University, USA)
"Phase Transitions in Aerosols" |
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm | Dinner |
9:30 pm | Poster Session IV |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |