Gordon Research Conference on Molecular Energy Transfer

January 18–23, 2009. Four Points Sheraton Harbortown, Ventura.

Preliminary program

Sun, Jan 18 (Evening). Molecular energy transfer: New horizons.

• Chair: Carl Lineberger (University of Colorado, Boulder)

• Albert Stolow (Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, NRC, Canada)
• Kopin Liu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
• Benny Gerber (Hebrew University Jerusalem)

Mon, Jan 19 (Morning). Imaging and unimolecular reactions.

• Chair: Scott Reid (Marquette Unviversity)

• Robert Continetti (University of Califonia, San Diego)
• Arthur Suits (Wayne State University)
• Andrei Sanov (University of Arizona)

Mon, Jan 19 (Afternoon). Photodissociation.

• Chair: Marsha Lester (University of Pennsylvania)

• Reinhard Schinke (Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation, Germany)
• Hanna Reisler (University of Southern California)

Tue, Jan 20 (Morning). Clusters and the condensed phase.

• Chair: Mark Johnson (Yale University)

• David Sherrill (Georgia Institute of Technology)
• Steve Bradforth (University of Southern California)
• Millard Alexander (University of Maryland, College Park)

Tue, Jan 20 (Afternoon). Spectroscopy and molecular energy transfer.

• Chair: David Perry (University of Akron)

• Bob Field (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Kevin Lehmann (University of Virginia)

Wed, Jan 21 (Morning). MET in coupled electron–nuclear dynamics.

• Chair: Anne McCoy (Ohio State University)

• Joel Bowman (Emory University)
• David Yarkony (Johns Hopkins University)
• Wei Kong (Oregon State University)

Wed, Jan 21 (Afternoon). MET in radical reactions.

• Chair: Alec Wodtke (University of California, Santa Barbara)

• Pierro Casavecchia (Università di Perugia, Italy)
• David Nesbitt (University of Colorado, Boulder)

Thu, Jan 22 (Morning). MET in condensed phase, interfaces, and materials.

• Chair: Ken Jordan

• George Schatz (Northwestern University)
• Arthur Utz (Tufts University)
• George Flynn (Columbia University, New York)

Thu, Jan 22 (Afternoon). Spin, quantum mechanics, and the Universe.

• Chair: Ara Apkarian (University of California, Irvine)

• Curt Wittig (University of Southern California)