| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Vibrational Spectroscopy at interfaces |
| Discussion leader - Mary Jane Shultz (Tufts University) |
| Ilan Benjamin (University of California, Santa Cruz)
"Vibrational dynamics at liquid interfaces" |
| Geri Richmond (U. Oregon)
"Advancing Our Understanding of Interfacial Structure with Vibrational Sum Frequency Spectroscopy" |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Group Photo |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Vibrational spectroscopy in Helium droplets |
| Discussion leader - Giacinto Scoles (Princeton University) |
| Andrey F. Vilesov (University of Southern California)
"Vibrational spectroscopy in helium droplets" |
| Francesco Paesani (Berkeley)
"Vibrational spectroscopy of OCS and OCS complexes with molecular hydrogen in helium clusters" |
| Frank Stienkemeier (Universität Bielefeld)
"Vibrational dynamics of molecules attached to helium nanodroplets studied with real-time methods" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Probing our planet and its place in the cosmos with Vibrational Spectroscopy |
| Discussion leader - Geoffrey A. Blake (CALTECH)
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| Quentin Williams (University of California, Santa Cruz)
"Earth's Interior: A Planetary-Scale Spectroscopic Problem" |
| Douglas Hudgins (NASA Ames Research Center)
"Vibrational Spectroscopy at Cryogenic Temperatures: From the Laboratory to the Ends of the Universe" |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Vibrational spectroscopy in chemical reaction dynamics |
| Discussion leader - F. Crim (Madison) |
| Timothy S. Zwier (Purdue University)
"Single conformation vibrational spectroscopy and isomerization dynamics: Mapping out the potential energy surfaces of flexible molecules" |
| Arthur Utz (Tufts University)
"State-Resolved Vibrational Excitation as a Probe of Gas-Surface Reaction Dynamics" |
| Philip J. Reid (University of Washington)
"Vibrational Spectroscopic Studies of Halooxide and Nitrosyl Halide Reaction Dynamics" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Industrial applications of Vibrational Spectroscopy |
| Discussion Leader - P. Larkin (Wyeth) |
| David Scheuing (Clorox Technical Center)
"Keeping Your Bathroom Cleaner, and Other Objectives
Industrial Uses of FT-IR in Surface Characterization" |
| Susan Plunkett(Philip Morris)
"Infrared spectroscopic studies of cigarette smoke" |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Vibrational spectroscopy of biosystems |
| Discussion leader - Bridgette Barry (Georgia Institute of Technology) |
| Benny Gerber (University of Jerusalem / UC Irvine)
"Vibrational Spectroscopy and the Developmentof Accurate Force Fields for Biological Molecules" |
| Richard A. Mathies (University of California, Berkeley)
"Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Studies in Photophysics and Photobiology" |
| Joachim Heberle (Julich)
"Time-resolved ATR/FT-IR Spectroscopy of Membrane Proteins: Advantages and Recent Developments" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 am - 9:30 pm | Vibrational Imaging |
| Discussion leader - Boiana Budevska (Du Pont) |
| Douglas L. Elmore (Cargill)
"Mid-Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging: From Thin Films to Food Systems" |
| Philip F. Taday (TeraView Limited)
"Applications of Terahertz Pulsed Spectroscopy and Imaging to the Medical, Pharmaceutical and Security Industries" |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Vibrational Spectroscopy at the impulsive limit |
| Discussion Leader - Paul M. Champion (Northeastern University) |
| Giulio Cerullo (politecnico di Milano)
"Time domain investigation of intrachain vibrational dynamics in conjugated molecules" |
| Wolfgang Domcke (Technical University of Munich)
"Detection of Electronic and Vibrational Coherence Effects in Nonadiabatic Excited-State Dynamics by Time and Frequency Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy" |
| John T. Fourkas (Boston College)
"Mode-selective impulsive vibrational spectroscopy" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Perspectives in Vibrational Spectroscopy: 50th anniversary session |
| Discussion leader - Edwin J. Heilweil (National Institute of Standards and Technology) |
| R. Hochstrasser (UPenn)
"Ultrafast Infrared Spectroscopy" |
| Richard VanDuyne (Northwestern University)
"Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS): Where Have We Been and Where are We Going?" |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
