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The First Announcement
MOLEC XVII – 2008
European Conference on Dynamics of Molecular Systems
August 23-28, 2008
St. Petersburg, Russia

http://www.ioffe.ru/MOLEC17/index.htm
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International Scientific Committee:
V. Aquilanti, Italy
G. G. Balint-Kurti, UK
M. Brouard, UK
G. Delgado-Barrio, Spain
D. Dowek, France
D. Field, Denmark
K.-H. Gericke, Germany
F. A. Gianturco, Italy
Z. Herman, Czech Republic
R. McCarroll, France
H. Stapelfeldt, Denmark
S. Stolte, The Netherlands
J. P. Toennies, Germany
P. Tosi, Italy
A. J. C. Varandas, Portugal
O. S. Vasyutinskii, Russia
E. Yurtsever, Turkey
D. Zajfman, Israel

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the XVII MOLEC meeting, to be held in St. 
Petersburg, Russia, from 23th to 28th August 2008. The series of 
biennial MOLEC Meetings started in 1976, when the first Conference was 
held in Trento. Since that time the conference was held in Brandbjerg 
Hojskole (Denmark), Oxford (UK), Nijmegen (The Netherlands), Jerusalem 
(Israel), Aussois (France), Bernkastel-Kues (Germany), Prague (Chech 
Republic), Salamanca (Spain), Nyborg Strand (Denmark), Bristol (UK), 
Jerusalem (Israel), Istanbul (Turkey), Nunspeet (The Netherlands), 
Trento (Italy), and now comes to St.Petersburg.

European Conference on Dynamics of Molecular Systems focuses on the 
different aspects of atomic and molecular interactions, with emphasis on 
both experimental and theoretical studies of the dynamics of elastic, 
inelastic and reactive encounters between atoms, molecules, ions, 
clusters and surfaces. The meeting deals in particular with:

• Molecular collisions in different environments (plasmas, 
atmospheric/interstellar/combustion processes, gas-surface processes, 
biologically relevant systems, etc.)
• Fundamental problems and ab-initio calculations on molecular dynamics
• Photon-matter interactions: spectroscopy, photodissociation and 
photo-induced reactions including femtosecond dynamics.
• Interaction between ultra-cold molecules and atoms, processes in He 
droplets.
• Steric effects and vector correlations in reactive processes and in 
photodissociation.

The Conference format will include invited lectures, hot topics (some of 
them will be also invited), and poster sessions. The participation of 
young researchers and students is particularly welcome. For a limited 
number of students a reduced conference fee and cheap accommodation will 
be available.

Preliminary list of speakers:

Enrico Bodo, University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Mark Brouard, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Simonetta Cavalli, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
David Chandler, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, USA
Marcel Drabbels, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Alberto Garcia-Vela, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Karl-Heinz Gericke, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Gregory Hall, Brookhaven Nat. Lab. New York, USA
Christophe Jouvet, PPM, Orsay, France
Raphael Levine, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Harold Linnartz, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
Daniel Neumark, UCB, Berkeley, USA
Eugene Nikitin, Technion, Haifa, Israel
Andrew Orr-Ewing, Bristol University, Bristol, UK
David Parker, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Pierre Pillet, Laboratoire Aim? Cotton, Orsay, France
Albert Stolow, NRC, Ottawa, Canada
Arthur Suits, Wayne State Univesrity, Detroit, USA
Stanislav Umanskii, Institute of Chemical Physics, Moscow, Russia

The Conference will be held in the Education Center of the Academy of 
Professional Education in Pushkin, a beautiful suburb of St.Petersburg. 
The conference site is a former palace of Kochubey, a Russian prince and 
statesman of the 18-19 centuries, and is located a few hundred meters 
from the famous palace of Empress Catherine the Second (a Summer 
residence of Russian tzars). The day of arrival is August 23. The 
scientific program will begin in the morning August 24 and finished in 
the evening August 28, 2008.

St.Petersburg is one of most important scientific and cultural centers 
in Russia and one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. An illustrated 
history of St. Petersburg, points of interest, and a virtual city tour 
can be found at the following web sites:
http://www.saint-petersburg.com/history/index.asp
http://www.saint-petersburg.com/virtual-tour/index.asp
http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/
Expecting many accompanying persons, the Local Organizing Committee 
plans to organize for them a special excursion program.

Further information can be found on the conference web site
http://www.ioffe.ru/MOLEC17/index.htm
which we will keep updated with the most recent news. More details will 
be given in the Second Announcement.

Welcome to St.Petersburg!
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On behalf of the MOLEC XVII 2008
Local Organizing Committee

Oleg Vasyutinskii, Ioffe Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 
St.Petersburg
Andrey Belyaev, Herzen State University, St.Petersburg
Alexei Buchachenko, Moscow State University, Moscow
Vadim Ivanov, Polytechnical University, St.Petersburg
Irina Krassovskaya, Ioffe Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 
St.Petersburg
Anatoly Pravilov, St.Petersburg State University, St.Petersburg

phone: +7(812)2972064
fax: +7(812)2971017
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Oleg S. Vasyutinskii		                  	
Ioffe Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences	
Polytechnicheskaya 26						
194021 St.Petersburg 
RUSSIA

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