| Sunday (Evening) August 6, 2000 - Opening Day of Conference |
| 2:00-11:00 p.m. | Arrival and registration |
| 5.00 p. m. | Chairs' Reception |
| 6:00 p. m. | Dinner |
| Sunday P.M. | Glass transition |
Discussion leader: A. Hallbrucker (Universität of Innsbruck, Austria)
- G. Johari (Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Mc Master University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)
Relaxations and thermodynamics of supercooled water and amorphous ices
- H. Kanno (Department of Chemistry, National Defense Academy, Yokosuka, Japan)
Supercooled and glassy states of
water and aqueous solutions
| Monday A.M. | Hydrogen bonds |
Discussion leader: C.A. Angell (Arizona State University)
- G. Gallot (Lab. d'Optique Quantique, CNRS et Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France)
Ultrafast dynamics of the hydrogen bond in liquid water: a real time study
- Han-Kwang Nienhuys (FOM-AMOLF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Reorientational motion and hydrogen-bond stretching dynamics in liquid water
- G. Richmond (Department of Chemistry, University of Oregon, USA)
Spectroscopic studies of hydrogen bonding at water surfaces: Some surprises!
| Monday P.M. | Water: molecular dynamics |
Discussion leader: A. Geiger (University of Dortmund)
- D. Marx (Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany)
Diffusion and reactions in water
- V. Buch (Department of Physical Chemistry and the Fritz Haber Research Center, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel)
Structure and spectroscopy of ice in clusters, particles and thin layers
| Tuesday A.M. | Electrolytes and polyelectrolytes |
Discussion leader: P. Turq (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France)
- R. Dougherty (Dept. of Chemistry, Florida State University, USA)
Equilibrium structural model for density and free energy in aqueous electrolyte solutions
- J. Yarwood (Sheffield Hallam University, Material Research Institute, Sheffield, UK)
Vibrational Spectroscopic studies of the diffusion and perturbation of water in polymer electrolyte thin films
- Ph. Pincus (Physics & Materials Departments, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Polyions and salty surfaces: Forces between DNA in DNA/cationic membrane complexes
| Tuesday P.M. | Proton and ion dynamics |
Discussion leader: B. Ladanyi (Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA)
- R. Vuilleumier (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, U.K.)
A molecular dynamics study of an excess proton in aqueous solution: Use of an extended empirical valence-bond approach
- F. Hirata (Institute for Molecular Science, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Japan)
Interaction-site description of collective excitations and ion dynamics in water
| Wednesday A.M. | Models of water |
Discussion leader: A. Robledo (Instituto de Fisica, UNAM, Mexico)
- H.E. Stanley (Boston University, USA)
Recent theoretical developments in understanding liquid water
- E. Del Giudice (University of Milano, Italy)
Liquid and solid water in Quantum Electro Dynamics
- G. Wilse Robinson (SubPicosecond and Quantum Radiation Laboratory, Texas Techn. University, USA)
Water anomalies thought easily resolved
| Wednesday P.M. | Water in Biology |
Discussion leader: R.M. Daniel (University of waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand)
- D. Tobias (Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, USA)
Molecular dynamics simulations of the dynamics of protein hydration water
- E. Mertz (NIH, Bethesda, USA)
Anomalously high dielectric reorganization of water in enzymatic and non-enzymatic charge transfer reactions
| Thursday A.M. | Extreme conditions. Confinement |
Discussion leader: S.-H. Chen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)
- S. Klotz (Physique des Milieux Condensés, CNRS et Université de Paris VI, France)
High pressure neutron diffraction studies on metastable ice phases at low temperature
- N. Skipper (Department of Physics and Astronomy,University College, London, UK)
Neutron diffraction studies of water in 2-dimensional pores
- A. Luzar (School of Pharmacy, University of California, San Francisco, USA)
Drying and cavitation dynamics: relevance to confined water
Discussion leaders: P. Debenedetti (Princeton University, New Jersey, USA) and J. Finney (University College London, UK)
- F. Franks (BioUpdate Foundation, Cambridge, U.K.)
Technological and ecological aspects of solid aqueous solutions of carbohydrates
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