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THIRD ANNOUNCEMENT
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MOLEC XVII – 2008
European Conference on Dynamics of Molecular Systems
August 23-28, 2008
St. Petersburg, Russia
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web site: http://www.ioffe.ru/MOLEC17/
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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
Local Organizing Committee:
A. Belyaev (Herzen State University, St.Petersburg)
A. Buchachenko (Moscow State University, Moscow)
V. Ivanov (Technical University, St. Petersburg)
K. Korovin (Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg)
I. Krassovskaya (Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg): Secretary
A. Podlaskin (Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg)
A. Pravilov (St.Petersburg State University, St.Petersburg)
O. Rojdestvenskii (Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg)
A. Smolin (Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia)
O. Vasyutinskii (Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia): Chair
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), Assisi (Italy),
Bernkastel-Kues (Germany), Prague (Czech 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:
• MC - Molecular collisions in different environments (plasmas,
atmospheric/interstellar/combustion processes, gas-surface processes,*
*biologically relevant systems, etc.)
• CMD - Fundamental problems and ab-initio calculations on molecular
dynamics.
• PMI - Photon-matter interactions: spectroscopy, photodissociation and
photo-induced reactions including femtosecond dynamics.
• UC - Interaction between ultra-cold molecules and atoms, processes in
He droplets.
• VC - Steric effects and vector correlations in reactive processes and
in photodissociation.
The Conference format will include invited lectures, hot topics (some of
them are also invited), and two poster sessions. The duration of an
invited lecture is 35 min (including discussion) and the duration of a
hot-topic presentation is 25 min (including discussion). The
participation of young researchers and students is particularly welcome.
For a limited number of students a cheap accommodation will be available.
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Preliminary list of speakers:
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*Antonio Aguilar-Navarro, University of Barcelona, Spain *
*Miron Amusia, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel *
*Roger Anderson, University Santa Cruz, USA *
*Vinchenzo Aquilanti, University of Perugia, Italy *
*Daniela Ascenzi, University of Trento, Italy *
*Dmitri Babikov, Marquette University, Milwaukee, USA *
*Gabriel G. Balint-Kurti, Bristol University, UK *
*Andrei Belyaev, Herzen State University, St.Petersburg, Russia *
*Sergey Bobashev, Ioffe Institute, St.Petersburg, Russia *
*Enrico Bodo, University of Rome, Rome, Italy *
*Oleg Boyarkin, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland *
*Mark Brouard, Oxford University, Oxford, UK *
*Alexei Buchachenko, Moscow University, Russia *
*Simonetta Cavalli, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy *
*David Chandler, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, USA *
*Nikolai Cherepkov, Airspace Academy, St.Petersburg, Russia *
*Dock-Chil Che, Osaka University, Japan *
*Alexey Chichinin, Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion,
Novosibirsk, Russia *
*Jong Ho Choi, Seoul, University of Korea, Korea. *
*Wolfgang Christen, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany *
*Raluca Cireasa, Universite' Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France *
*Marcel Drabbels, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland *
*Alberto Garcia-Vela, CSIC, Madrid, Spain *
*Karl-Heinz Gericke, TU Braunschweig, Germany *
*Nina Gritsan, Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion,
Novosibirsk, Russia *
*Gregory Hall, Brookhaven Nat. Lab. New York, USA
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*Fermin Huarte, COSMO Laboratory, Barcelona, Spain *
*Maurice H. M. Janssen, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands *
*Christophe Jouvet, PPM, Orsay, France *
*Viatcheslav Kokoouline, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA *
*Raphael Levine, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel *
*Harold Linnartz, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands *
*Kopin Liu, Academia Sinica, IAMS, Taipei, Taiwan *
*Ronald McCarroll, Uiversite' Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France *
*Ken G. McKendrick, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburg, UK *
*Sebastiaan van der Meerakker, Fritz-Haber-Institut MPG, Berlin, Germany *
*Anthonius Meijer, University of Sheffield, UK *
*Giovanni Meloni, Sandia Nat. lab. CA, USA *
*Hiroki Nakamura, IMS, Okazaki, Japan *
*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 *
*Carlo Petrongolo, University of Siena, Italy *
*Se'bastien Le Picard, Institut de Physique - Universite' de Rennes 1,
France *
*Pierre Pillet, Laboratoire Aime' Cotton, Orsay, France *
*Anatoly Pravilov, St.Petersburg University, Russia *
*Jens Riedel, IAMS, Taipei, Taiwan *
*Wolfgang Sandner, Max Born Institute, Berlin, Germany *
*Reinhard Schinke, MPI Goettingen, Germany *
*Dmitri Sokolovski, Queen's University of Belfast, UK *
*Thierry Stoecklin, Institut des Moleculaires, Bordeaux *
*Steven Stolte, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands *
*Arthur Suits, Wayne State Univesrity, Detroit, USA *
*Eberhardt Tiemann, Hannover University, Germany. *
*Qadir Timerghazin, University of Alberta, Canada ***
*Stanislav Umanskii, Institute of Chemical Physics, Moscow, Russia***
*Dmitri Varshalovich, Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute RAS,
St.Petersburg, Russia***
*Koichi Yamashita, University of Tokio, Japan***
*Chaoyuan Zhu, IMC, Hsinchu, Taiwan*
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*The MOLEC-XVII Conference in St.Petersburg will join together about 140
*participants from 21 countries. Additional and updated information on
MOLEC XVII including The Preliminary Scientific Program is provided on
the conference web site:http://www.ioffe.ru/MOLEC17/.
The conference scientific program will begin in the morning August 24
and finished in the evening August 28, 2008. The Program contains 60
oral presentations. It is now given on the conference web site in its
almost final form and might undergo some minor changes if necessary to
accommodate "very valuable" demands of participants. The Final Program
will be available at the Conference. The conference is fully equipped
with electronics and computers. Speakers are encouraged to prepare their
talks in an electronic form and bring them to the conference on computer
carriers (CD disks, flash memory sticks, etc.), however they may also
use their own laptops for presentations. Oral presentations using
transparences will also be available. *The basic operating system at the
conference will be Windows XP and Windows VISTA. Mac and Linux users can
prepare their talks either in universal graphic formats (GIF, JPG, JPEG,
TIF), or in PDF format. In the latter case, the option using embedded
fonts is preferable for transferring the file into PDF. To avoid any
compatibility problems, the Windows users who use MO Power Point, should
avoid the latest versions of this program, we can recommend the version
2003 or 2007 which looks quite safe. *
Due to the large number of poster contributions (about 90), we plan two
Poster Sessions, one in Monday evening and another in Tuesday evening.
Each poster presentation may cover the area of 100 x 80 cm. The posters
may be put up from the noon of the day of presentation.
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MOLEC XVII Award
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There will be a traditional CEREMONY OF MOLEC AWARD in the afternoon
Tuesday August 26 following by the special Awardee Lecture.
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Transport Information
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The Conference Residence will be held in the Education Center of the
Academy of Professional Education in Pushkin
<http://www.infoservices.com/stpete/pushkin/>, a beautiful suburb of
St.Petersburg which is about 25 km from the downtown St. Petersburg and
has easy connection with the city by bus, by train, and by taxi. The
conference site is a former palace of Kochubey
<http://www.ioffe.ru/MOLEC17/trpic/pushkinmolec17.gif>, 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 the Russian tsars). The day of arrival is August 23, the
day of departure in August 29, 2008.
The conference center is accessible by public transportation, by taxi
and by car from all
St. Petersburg airports, bus and railway stations. The conference center
address is:
Kochubey palace, Radishcheva 4, 196602 Pushkin.
Tel. +7(812)4652155.
There will be a shuttle bus between the Pulkovo-2 International Airport
and the Conference Residence in Pushkin during the day of August 23,
which will operate every hour. For participants arriving before, or
after or from another airport or railway stations, transportation
information can be found on the conference web site:
http://www.ioffe.ru/MOLEC17/ . The participants who need help with their
transportation from the St.Petersburg airports, or railway stations to
the Conference Residence are welcome to inform the Local Organizing
Committee on the date, place, and time of their arrival.
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MOLEC - XVII Social Program:
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During the conference in the afternoon August 24 and 27 we plan two general
excursions:
1. Bus sightseeing tour through the downtown St.Petersburg, covering
major historical and architectural sightseeing's: magnificent ensembles
of Palace square, Senate square, Vassilievsky island, Smolny and
St.Isaac cathedrals, "Aurora" cruiser and more.
2.Walking excursion to the Catherine's palace of Tsarskoe Selo (Pushkin)
- a masterpiece of baroque style and the witness of work and life of
Catherine II, the greatest female ruler of the Empire. A short walk in a
picturesque park full of amusing pavilions, monuments etc. The excursion
will be finished with the Conference dinner.
Expecting many accompanying persons, we also plan to organize the
Ladies' Program (optional) in August during four working days of the
conference. It will include:
1. Bus sightseeing tour "Origin of the North Capital of Russia" in the
center of St.Petersburg, incl. Peter&Paul Fortress, First house of tsar
Peter the Great, Summer gardens and more. A combination of beautiful
sights with an exciting story of 300 troublesome years of Russian Royal
dynasty.
2. Guided excursion to the Hermitage museum - the worldwide renowned
collection of fine art masterpieces, accommodated in luxurious interiors
of a complex of 5 brilliant palaces of former Imperial residence,
commonly known as "Winter palace".
3. Guided excursion through the elegant interiors of Pavlovsk palace -
former summer residence of emperor Paul and then of his widow - followed
by a short walk in a picturesque park. Experience the stylish "private"
life of Russian sovereigns in 1800s.
4. Guided excursion in the parks of Peterhof - "capital of Russian
fountains" - designed by tsar Peter the Great on the Baltic sea shore as
a symbol of Russia's newly obtained glory over waters. 18th century's
park full of sculpture and various pavilions over still and running
water, sparkling fountains and shining sea surface will provide you
really unforgettable impression.
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/
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The weather in St.Petersburg in late August is usually sunny, but can be
changeable. The expected temperature is within 15-22 C (60-70F) with
high humidity. Rains are quite possible, so do not forget your umbrella
with you.
WELCOME TO ST. PETERSBURG!
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On behalf of the MOLEC XVII 2008
Local Organizing Committee
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
Oleg Vasyutinskii, Ioffe Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences,
St.Petersburg
phone: +7(812)2972064
fax: +7(812)2971017
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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Ioffe Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
Polytechnicheskaya 26
194021 St.Petersburg
RUSSIA
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phone: 7(812)2972064
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