Latsis Symposium 2008 - General Information

General Information

Third Circular

Latsis-Symposium "Intramolecular Dynamics, Symmetry and Spectroscopy"
6-10 September 2008, ETH Zurich

3rd Announcement

The online registration and the site for submission of abstracts for the Latsis-Symposium "Intramolecular Dynamics, Symmetry and Spectroscopy" will be open till July 15th 2008.

The goals of the symposium are:

to review the theoretical and experimental developments in intramolecular dynamics and spectroscopy
to establish new possibilities and directions for the future, in particular to address fundamental questions in chemistry and physics
to place fundamental studies in the context of a broad range of recent applications in astrophysics, atmospheric chemistry, analytical chemistry, physics, medicine and biology.

The symposium will be devoted to the following themes:

Molecular structure and dynamics
High-resolution spectroscopy
Ab initio quantum chemistry
Unimolecular and bimolecular reaction dynamics
Mode-selective chemistry
Intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution (IVR)
Symmetry selection rules in spectroscopy and chemistry incl. parity violation
Spectroscopy and astrophysics
Spectroscopy and atmospheric chemistry
Ultrafast dynamics in chemistry and biochemistry
Applications of spectroscopy in analytical chemistry

Alphabetic list of confirmed speakers:

Berger Robert, FIAS, J. W. Goethe Universität Frankfurt
"Quantum chemistry and the violation of fundamental symmetries"
Boudon Vincent, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon
"Present status and future prospects of methane spectroscopy for planetary applications"
Carrington Tucker, Queen's University, Kingston
"Combining the advantages of an iterative eigensolver and a contracted basis to compute energy levels of CH₅⁺"
Crim Fleming F., University of Wisconsin, Madison
"Vibrational control of dissociation and isomerization in gases and liquids"
Ernst Richard R., ETH Zürich
"Fourier transformation and spectroscopy, a symbiotic pair"
Faubel Manfred, MPI für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation, Göttingen
"Photoelectron studies of protonation/deprotonation in aqueous solutions"
Flaud Jean-Marie, Laboratoire Inter-Universitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques, Créteil
"Infrared laboratory spectroscopy and satellite sensing measurements"
Hippler Michael, University of Sheffield
"Quantum chemical studies and vibrational spectroscopy of hydrogen-bonded molecules in the gas phase"
Jortner Joshua, Tel-Aviv University
"Ultrafast cluster dynamics in ultraintense laser fields"
Klopper Willem M., Universität Karlsruhe
"Slater-type geminals in molecular electronic-structure theory"
Leutwyler Samuel, Universität Bern
"Accurate structures of non-polar molecules by femtosecond rotational Raman coherence spectroscopy"
Lewerenz Marius, Université Marne-La-Vallée
"Doped helium clusters: Random walks in imaginary and real time"
Luckhaus David, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
"Hydrogen exchange tunnelling: Large curvature reaction path dynamics"
Maier John P., Universität Basel
"Electronic spectra of carbon chains and rings: Astrophysical relevance?"
Märk Tilmann, Universität Innsbruck
"Low energy electron interaction with biomolecules: from gas to condensed phase - from room temperature to near absolute zero."
Marquardt Roberto, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg
"Molecular quantum dynamics and molecular kinetics: Challenges and opportunities"
Miller William H., University of California, Berkeley
"Using the initial value representation of semiclassical theory to add quantum effects to classical molecular dynamics simulations"
Monti Oliver L. A., University of Arizona, Tucson
"Interfacial structure and dynamics in molecular solar cells one molecule at a time"
Oka Takeshi, University of Chicago
"Some special intra-molecular dynamics in protonated ions"
Rizzo Thomas R., Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
"Multiple-laser photofragment spectroscopy: From triatomics to helical peptides"
Sauer Joachim, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
"Structure and reactivity of metal oxides: Gas phase clusters compared to solid catalysts"
Schaefer (III) Henry F., University of Georgia, Athens
"Lesions in DNA subunits: Foundational studies of molecular structures and energetics"
Schwarz Helmut, Technische Universität Berlin
"Ligand and cluster size effects in the metal-mediated activation of methane: A cold approach to a hot problem"
Snels Marcel, Istituto di Scienze dell'Atmosfera e del Clima (ISAC), Roma
"Cavity ring down spectroscopy on explosives"
Suhm Martin, Universität Göttingen
"Playing with transient chirality in the gas phase"
Thanopulos Ioannis, National Hellenic Research Foundation
"Coherently controlled adiabatic passage between clusters of degenerate quantum states"
Thiel Walter, MPI für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim an der Ruhr
"Ab initio vibration-rotation spectroscopy"
Troe Jürgen, MPI für Biophysikalische Chemie, Göttingen
"Adiabatic channel models in reaction dynamics"
Tschumper Gregory S., University of Mississippi
"Generating benchmark interaction energies for weakly bound non-covalent clusters with the 2-body:many-body multicentered QM:QM method"
van den Bergh Hubert, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
"Photonics in medicine: two examples from bench to bedside"
von Ragué Schleyer Paul, University of Georgia, Athens / Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
"Determination of hydrocarbon cation structures in the gas phase"
Zare Richard N., Stanford University
"All about molecular hydrogen"
Zwier Timothy S., Purdue University, West Lafayette
"Single-conformation spectroscopy of synthetic foldamers"

The organizing committee:

Frédéric Merkt
ETH Zürich
Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie
Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland

Georg Seyfang
ETH Zürich
Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie
Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland

Renato Zenobi
ETH Zürich
Laboratorium für Organische Chemie
Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland

Download the circulars as pdf-files: 1st-Circular, 2nd-Circular, 3rd-Circular