FINAL Announcement for

Molecular Electronic Spectroscopy and Dynamics (MES&D)
Gordon Research Conference
July 30 - August 4, 2000

	The 13th triannual MES&D Gordon Research Conference will be held at
Colby Sawyer College in New London New Hampshire from July 30 to August 4.
There will be 22 invited speakers (see the MES&D GRC web site
<www.grc.uri.edu/programs/2000/molspec.htm> for list of sessions, speakers,
and lecture titles).

	The central theme of the 2000 MES&D - GRC is electronic structure:
what is the electronic wavefunction of an atom, molecule, or chromophore;
how is electronic structure modified by interaction with surroundings,
albeit another atom or 106 atoms, another part of the molecule, the
solvent, or the radiation field?  Until recently, electronic wavefunctions
were not directly experimentally observable.  Now they are.  Until
recently, macroscopic quantum clusters of open-shell atoms were not
experimentally observable.  Now they are, in the form of Bose Einstein
Condensates.  Until recently, the mechanism by which biological systems
harvest light and transport the collected energy was poorly understood.
Now detailed but conflicting mechanisms have been proposed.  Until recently
workers in the time and frequency domains either ignored or tried to
annihilate each other.  Now, the concepts, language, and techniques of both
groups are beginning to cross the time/frequency boundary.

	There will be two poster sessions.  All attendees, especially
postdocs and graduate students are encouraged to present a poster.

	To apply to attend the MES&D - GRC, please fill out the online form
obtainable at the GRC website:

(http://www.grc.uri.edu/attend.htm)

or the MES&D-GRC web site  (http://www.grc.uri.edu/programs/2000/molspec.htm),

or by email at [log in to unmask], or mail at Conference Application,
Gordon Research Conferences, University of Rhode Island, P.O. Box 984, West
Kingston, RI  02892-0984.



Robert W. Field, Conference Chair
Department of Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room 6-219, 77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA  02139-4307
617-253-1489
617-253-7030 (FAX)
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SUNDAY EVENING: Herzberg Session
Discussion Leader: Boris Stoicheff (University of Toronto)
"High Resolution in the Frequency and Time Domains: from Hyperfine
Interactions to Wavepacket Motion in Molecular Rydberg States" Christian
Jungen (Laboratoire Aime Cotton)
"New High Resolution Spectroscopic Measurements on Some of Herzberg's
Favorite Molecules" : Frederic Merkt (ETH Zurich)

MONDAY MORNING:  From Atom-in-Molecule to Supercritical Fluids (I)
Chair: Giacinto Scoles (Princeton University)
"Excited Rare Gas Dimers in Low-n* Rydberg States: A Different Take on the
Concept of United Atoms: " Robert Lipson (University of Western Ontario)
"Optical Properties of a Bose-Einstein Condensate and Phase-Coherent Matter
Wave Amplification: " Wolfgang Ketterle (MIT)
"Spectroscopy of Molecules in Liquid Helium Droplets": Andrej Vilesov (Ruhr
University, Bochum, Germany)

MONDAY EVENING:  From Atom-in-Molecule to Supercritical Fluids (II)
Chair:  Majed Chergui (Université Lausanne, Switzerland)
"High-Resolution Spectroscopy of Rovibrational and Electronic Transitions
of Molecules Embedded in Parahydrogen Crystals":  Takamasa Momose (Kyoto)
"Local Solvation and Its Effects on Spectroscopy and Reactivity in
Supercritical Fluids:"  Joan Brennecke (Notre Dame)

TUESDAY MORNING:  Imaging and Control (I)
Chair: Richard Dixon, (University of Bristol, U. K.)
"Femtosecond Time-Resolved Photoelectron/Photoion Coincidence Imaging":
Carl Hayden (Sandia National Labs)
"Photodetachment Microscopy, a 1 µeV Accurate Electron Spectrometry
Method":  Christophe Blondel (Laboratoire Aime Cotton)
"Using Feedback to Control Quantum Dynamics in Rydberg Atoms and Molecular
Liquids":  Thomas Weinacht (University of Michigan)

TUESDAY EVENING:  Imaging and Control (II)
Chair: Regina de Vivie-Riedle  (Max Planck Institüt, Germany)
"Ultrafast Phase Control in Wave Packet Dynamics":  Steve Leone (JILA)
"Quantum Coherence in Nonlinear Optical Processes": Jianshu Cao (MIT)

WEDNESDAY MORNING:  Quantum Dots
Chair:  Shuming Nie (Indiana University)
"Molecular (and Atomic) Electronic Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Clusters
and Nanocrystals":  Uri Banin (Jerusalem)
"Enormous Optical Field Enhancements on Fractal Surfaces -- The Prospect of
Single Molecule Raman Spectroscopy and Other High Field Effects":  Martin
Moskovits (University of Toronto)
"Electrons in Carbon Nanostructures":  Paul McEuen (Universiy of
California, Berkeley)

WEDNESDAY EVENING:  A Little of This and A Little of That
Chair:  Robert Jones (University of Virginia)
"Dynamics of Neutral Transition Metal Atom Reactions with Simple
Hydrocarbons":  H. Floyd Davis (Cornell University)
"Using Wavelength- and Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy to Study the
Folding of Proteins and Synthetic Structure-Seekers":  Martin Gruebele
(University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana)

THURSDAY MORNING: Light Harvesting Antenna Systems
Chair:  Graham Fleming (University of California, Berkeley)
"The Spectroscopy of Bacterial Light-Harvesting Complexes:"  Rienk Van
Grondelle (Amsterdam)
"Migration of Electronic Excitation in Photosynthetic
Chlorophyll-Carotenoid Aggregates":  Klaus Schulten (University of
Illinois, Champaign-Urbana)
"Unraveling the Photophysics of Green Fluorescent Protein" :  Silvia Volker
(Leiden)

THURSDAY EVENING: Time vs. Frequency Domain
Chair:  Jim Skinner, (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
"Two-Dimensional Fourier Transform Spectra:  Frequency Domain Pictures of
Femtosecond Spectroscopy":  David Jonas, (University of Colorado)
"Issues of Time, Phase, and Intensity in Femtosecond Spectroscopy:" Albert
Stolow (NRC, Canada).