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

*3rd Announcement

Dear Colleagues,


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
– Modeselective chemistry
– Intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution (IVR)
– Symmetry selection rules in spectroscopy and molecular reactions
– Dynamics including 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 JeanMarie, Laboratoire InterUniversitaire 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, TelAviv University
“Ultrafast cluster dynamics in ultraintense laser fields”
– Klopper Willem M., Universität Karlsruhe
“Slatertype geminals in molecular electronicstructure theory”
– Leutwyler Samuel, Universität Bern
“Accurate structures of nonpolar molecules by femtosecond rotational 
Raman coherence spectroscopy”
– Lewerenz Marius, Université MarneLaVallée
“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 intramolecular 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 metalmediated 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”
– Thiel Walter, MPI für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim an der Ruhr
“Ab initio vibrationrotation 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 2body: 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”

For further informations we refer to the website of the conference 
(www.latsis2008.ethz.ch).

We look forward to seeing you in Zurich in September!

With our best regards,

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

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