Sunday
4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Van der Waals Clusters
Discussion Leader: Julia Contreras-Garcia (CNRS / Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France)
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm
Opening Remarks
7:45 pm - 8:00 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
8:00 pm - 8:35 pm
Samuel Leutwyler (University of Bern, Switzerland)
"Accurate Van der Waals Binding Energies: The Many Pains of Marrying Experiment and Theory"
8:35 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 9:20 pm
Martin Suhm (Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen, Germany)
"Vibrational Spectroscopy of Van der Waals Energy Balances to Benchmark Quantum Chemistry"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Cluster and Condensed Phase Dynamics
Discussion Leader: Masaaki Fujii (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:15 am - 9:50 am
Helen Fielding (University College London, United Kingdom)
"Liquid-Jet Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Small Chromophores in Aqueous Solution"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Alice Kunin (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
"Time-Resolved Photoelectron Imaging of the Dynamics of the Dipole-Bound and Valence-Bound Anions of Iodine-Uracil-Water Complexes"
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45 am - 11:20 am
Spiridoula Matsika (Temple University, USA)
"Nonadiabatic Dynamics in Condensed Phases"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Mitsuhiko Miyazaki (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
"Real-Time Observation of Slow Water Rearrangement Dynamics in the 5-Hydroxyindole-Water Cluster Cation by Time-Resolved IR Spectroscopy"
11:40 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:20 pm
Junichi Nishitani (Kyoto University, Japan)
"Time and Angle Resolved VUV Photoemission Spectroscopy of Aqueous Solution"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Metal-Containing Clusters
Discussion Leader: Gereon Niedner-Schatteburg (TU Kaiserslautern, Germany)
6:00 pm - 6:15 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
6:15 pm - 6:50 pm
Manfred Kappes (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany)
"Determining the Gas-Phase Structure of Metal Containing Clusters"
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:10 pm
Alexander Gentleman (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
"Reactivity of CO Towards Gas-Phase Nb-Rh Nanoalloys and Their Oxide Counterparts"
7:10 pm - 7:15 pm
Discussion
7:15 pm - 7:50 pm
J. Mathias Weber (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
"Metal-Ligand Motifs in Metal-CO2 Cluster Anions"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Hydrogen-Bonding and Biomolecular Clusters
Discussion Leader: Ilana Bar (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:15 am - 9:50 am
Jan Verlet (Durham University, United Kingdom)
"Ultrafast Dynamics in Anionic Clusters"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:10 am
John Kelly (Universität Leipzig, Germany)
"Getting Down to the Fundamentals of Psuedohalide-Water Cluster Vibrations: CN- (H2 O) and N3 - (H2 O)"
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45 am - 11:20 am
Otto Dopfer (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)
"The BerlinTrap: A New Cryogenic 22-Pole Ion Trap Spectrometer: Design and First Applications"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Markus Gerhards (TU Kaiserslautern, Germany)
"Structural Rearrangement by an Isomer-Specific IR Excitation in an Isolated Dihydrated Neutral Cluster"
11:40 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:20 pm
Francesco Paesani (University of California, San Diego, USA)
"Understanding Hydration, One Water Molecule at a Time"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Spectroscopy and Dynamics with Cryogenic Ion Traps
Discussion Leader: Heather Lewandowski (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
6:00 pm - 6:15 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
6:15 pm - 6:50 pm
Brianna Heazlewood (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
"Ion-Molecule Reactions in Coulomb Crystals"
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:10 pm
Steffen Spieler (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
"Cold Ion Vibrational Predissociation Spectroscopy of H2 -Tagged Protonated Tryptophan"
7:10 pm - 7:15 pm
Discussion
7:15 pm - 7:50 pm
Jana Roithova (Charles University, Czech Republic)
"Spectroscopy and Reactions in a Cryogenic Trap"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Nucleation, Microaggregation, Microsolvation
Discussion Leader: Xuebin Wang (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:15 am - 9:50 am
Thomas Leisner (Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Germany)
"Ice Nucleation and Growth on Free Metal-Oxide Nanoparticles"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Christopher Johnson (Stony Brook University, USA)
"Linking Structure and Growth in Atmospheric New Particle Formation"
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45 am - 11:20 am
Richard Bowles (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
"Kinetic Approaches to Nucleation in Vapour Condensation"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Barbara Wyslouzil (Ohio State University, USA)
"Large Clusters of Chain-Like Molecules: From Liquid, to Solid, to Fluff"
11:40 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:20 pm
Hanna Vehkamaki (University of Helsinki, Finland)
"Understanding Particles Forming from Thin Air"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Molecular Clusters in Helium Droplets
Discussion Leader: Martina Havenith (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)
6:00 pm - 6:15 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
6:15 pm - 6:50 pm
Wei Kong (Oregon State University, USA)
"Electron Diffraction in Superfluid Helium"
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:10 pm
Nadine Halberstadt (CNRS / Université Toulouse III, France)
"Helium-Induced Electronic Transitions in Photo-Excited Hen -Ba+ -He Exciplexes"
7:10 pm - 7:15 pm
Discussion
7:15 pm - 7:50 pm
Paul Scheier (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
"Electron Ionization of Large Doped Helium Droplets"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
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 and Photoionization
Discussion Leader: Daniel Neumark (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:15 am - 9:50 am
Andrei Sanov (University of Arizona, USA)
"Weakly Bound Anions in Cluster Environments"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Thomas Taxer (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
"Photochemistry and Spectroscopy of Hydrated Magnesium Ions Mg+ (H2 O)n , (n=1-5)"
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45 am - 11:20 am
Olle Björneholm (Uppsala University, Sweden)
"Aqueous Solutions Probed by Liquid-Jet Photoelectron Spectroscopy: Surface Propensity, Intermolecular Forces and Cooperative Effects"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Susan Rempe (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)
"Divalent Ionic Clusters and Hydration Mimicry for Fast Transport"
11:40 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:20 pm
Wei-Jun Zheng (Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
"Microsolvation of Salts in Water: Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Theoretical Studies of Size-Selected Salt-Water Clusters"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Neutral and Ionized Water Clusters
Discussion Leader: Jeremy Richardson (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
6:00 pm - 6:15 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
6:15 pm - 6:50 pm
Michael Duncan (University of Georgia, USA)
"Protonated Water Clusters: Infrared Spectroscopy, Near Infrared Spectroscopy, and Photofragment Imaging"
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:10 pm
Chinh Duong (Yale University, USA)
"Disentangling the Excess Proton Contribution to a Sea of Broad OH Bands in Protonated Water Clusters with Resonance Enhanced Two-Color IR-IR Photodissociation"
7:10 pm - 7:15 pm
Discussion
7:15 pm - 7:50 pm
Brooks Pate (University of Virginia, USA)
"Broadband Rotational Spectroscopy of Water Clusters"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure