| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival & Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Transient and 2D-Infrared Spectroscopy |
| Discussion Leader: Tim Lian (Emory University) |
| Eric Nibbering (Max-Born Institute, Berlin Germany)
"Femtosecond IR Spectroscopy of Hydrogen Bonding and Proton Transfer" |
| Dana Dlott (U. Illinois)
"Three Dimensional Vibrational Spectroscopy: Energy Relaxation in Liquids" |
| Peter Hamm (University of Zurich)
"Ultrafast Conformational Dynamics of Small Peptides" |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Vibrational Chemical Imaging |
| Discussion Leader: Sandy Ruhman (Univ. of Jerusalem) |
| Dor Ben-Amotz (Purdue University)
"Hyper-Spectral Chemical Image Enhancement: Hardware, Software and Applications" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break / Photo |
| Sunney Xie (Harvard University)
"CARS Microspectroscopy: Theory, Experiment and Applications" |
| Lisa Miller (Brookhaven National Labs)
"Biomedical Applications of Synchrotron IR Microspectroscopy" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | SFG of Surfaces |
| Discussion Leader: John Stephenson (NIST) |
| Kim Briggman (NIST)
"In-Situ Nonlinear Optical Studies of Surface Biochemistry" |
| Martin Wolf (Freie University Berlin, Germany)
"Vibrational dynamics and reactivity of molecules at metals probed with IR-broadband SFG spectroscopy" |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Raman |
| Discussion Leader: Larry Ziegler (Boston University) |
| Terry Gustafson (Ohio State University)
"Vibrational Cooling Probed by Picosecond Transient Raman Spectroscopy and Femtosecond Transient Absorption Spectroscopy" |
| Edward Castner (Rutgers University)
"Inter- and Intra-molecular Vibrational Dynamics in Aqueous Solutions" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| Siva Umapathy (Bangalor, India)
"Understanding
solvation dynamics from resonance Raman spectroscopy" |
| Gilad Haran (Weizmann Institute, Israel)
"Single-molecule Raman Spectrsocopy and Surface Dynamics" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Vibrational Coherent Control |
| Discussion Leader: Ted Heilweil (NIST) |
| Lars Windhorn (Max-Planck Institute - Germany)
"Molecular Dissociation Induced by mid-IR Femtosecond Pulses" |
| Dan Neuhauser (UCLA)
"Vibrational dynamics in the non-linear regime: from solitons to entanglement" |
| Keith Nelson (MIT)
"Terahertz Polaritonics: Spectroscopy and Control" |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Biology |
| Discussion Leader: Tess Freedman (Syracuse University) |
| Rolf Diller (Frei University, Berlin)
"Photoinduced Structural Dynamics in Biological Molecules, Probed by Ultrafast Infrared Spectroscopy" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| Mark Braiman (Syracuse University)
"Analysis of unusual transient H-bonding environments inside proteins with time-resolved FTIR spectroscopy" |
| Feng Gai (University of Pennsylvania)
"Infrared study of the fast events in protein folding" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session II |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Neutron Spectroscopy |
| Discussion Leader: Bruce Hudson (Syracuse University) |
| Terry Udovic (NIST)
"Neutron Scattering as a Probe of Biological and Solid-state Materials" |
| Mark Johnson (ILL, France)
"Inelastic neutron scattering and periodic density functional theory calculations - understanding molecular vibrations in extended hydrogen bond networks" |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Theory |
| Discussion Leader: Steve Adelman |
| R. Kosloff (Hebrew University, Israel)
"Impulsive coherent excitation as a tool of studying vibrational dephasing in solution" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| Ned Sibert (University of Wisconsin)
"Vibrational Relaxation in liquid
methanol following ultrafast excitation of the OH stretch"
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| Casey Hynes (Ecole
Normale Superieure, Paris FR and University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
"What does Ultrafast Infrared Spectroscopy Tell Us about the Molecular
Dynamics of Water?" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session II |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Future Directions in Vibrational Spectroscopy |
| Discussion Leader: Peter Kelly (UC Davis) |
| Jan Kubelka (NIH)
"What can 13C Isotopically Edited IR Spectroscopy Tell Us About Beta-sheets?" |
| Heinrich Graener (University Halle-Wittenberg)
"Spectroscopy and Intermolecular Interaction in Liquids" |
| Huib Bakker (FOM Nethderlands)
"Transient IR Spectroscopy of Water in Ionic Environments" |
| Stefan Franzen (North Carolina State)
"Vibrational Analysis of Oligonucleotides on Surfaces: Beyond the Harmonic Approximation" |
| Robert Walker (University of Maryland)
"Advances in Sum-Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy at Interfaces" |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |
