Dear colleagues,
at the APS March Meeting, March 13-17, 2006 in Baltimore (MD) there will
be a Division of Chemical Physics Special Symposium on "Clusters: Physics
and Chemistry of Nanoobjects". This symposium will bring together
researchers from a number of important fields of physics and chemistry,
dealing with the study of nanoscaled atomic and molecular clusters.
Particular emphasis is given to
(1) metal clusters as model systems for studying bulk properties,
including the onset of conductivity, magnetism and reactivity with
increasing size,
(2) quantum clusters, including hydrogen and doped helium nanodroplets,
their physical, photophysical and chemical properties at low temperatures,
(3) molecular clusters, including structure, dynamics and reactivity.
The symposium will cover both experiment and theory. Applications of these
studies to biochemistry, atmospheric science, catalysis and materials
science will be emphasized.
There will be 5 half day sessions. We encourage everyone working in the
field to contribute to have a stimulating meeting. All registrations will
result in oral presentations. It will be important for the field of
clusters to emphasis its importance by having numerous contributions. More
details about the meeting and registration can be found at
http://www.aps.org/meet/MAR06 (note, that at the moment at this site the
symposium still is called "Aerosols, Clusters and Droplets: Physics and
Chemistry of Nanoobjects"). Deadline for registration is November 30.
Confirmed invited speakers are:
Marcel Drabbels (EPFL Lausanne)
”Imaging the Photodynamics of Doped Helium Nanodroplets”
Michael A. Duncan (Athens)
"Infrared Spectroscopy of Metal Complexes"
Ulrich Heiz (TU Munich)
“Chemical reactivity of matter in the non-scalable size regime”
Michael Moseler (Fraunhofer-Institut fuer Werkstoffmechanik, Freiburg)
"Oxidation of supported palladium clusters leads to the ultimate
limit of epitaxy with a catalytic function"
Mark Johnson (Yale)
“Water clusters: A molecular perspective on aqueous chemistry“
Detlef Schooß (Institut für Nanotechnologie, Karlsruhe)
"Structure determination of noble metal clusters by trapped ion electron
diffraction"
Ruth Signorell (University of British Columbia)
"Spectroscopic Properties of Aerosols and their Microscopic Origin"
Josef Tiggesbäumker (Universität Rostock)
Ludger Wöste (FU Berlin)
We hope you will be able to attend!
Best regards,
Frank Stienkemeier, Roger Miller (Organizers)
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Prof. Roger Miller
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
fon: 919-962-0528
fax: 919-962-2388
email: [log in to unmask]
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Prof. Frank Stienkemeier
Physikalisches Institut, Universität Freiburg
Hermann-Herder-Str. 3, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
fon: +49 761 203-7609 fax: +49 761 203-7611
email: [log in to unmask]
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