25 September 2008
SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT
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2008 Symposium on Chemical Physics
at the University of Waterloo
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The twenty-fourth annual Symposium on Chemical Physics at the University of
Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, will be held on the weekend of November 7-9,
2008. As usual, the Symposium will include both invited and contributed oral
papers, as well as a Poster session, and will run from approximately 7:30 PM
on the Friday evening till midday Sunday. The Saturday afternoon Poster
session and reception will be followed by the conference banquet and the
usual extended discussions. The Invited Speakers for this year's meeting are:
Invited Speakers
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Joel Bowman -- Emory University -- the Plenary "Roger E. Miller" Lecturer
"Reaction and Vibrational Dynamics on Full Dimensional ab initio- based
Potential Energy Surfaces"
Peter Bernath -- University of York
"Molecular Astronomy"
Garnet Chan -- Cornell University
"Strongly Interacting Electrons in Chemistry"
Daniel Gamelin -- University of Washington
"Magnetic Dopants and Charge Carriers in Colloidal Semiconductor Quantum
Dots: Progress at a New Interface Linking Chemistry and Physics"
Ruth Signorell -- University of British Columbia
"Vibrational Excitons in Aerosol Spectroscopy"
Dennis Tokaryk -- University of New Brunswick
"Rings and Things at the Ring: FTIR Spectroscopy of Moderately Large
Molecules at the Canadian Light Source"
FULL DETAILS regarding registration, contributed paper submission, housing
and other matters, together with programs of previous meetings in this series
may be found on our WWW site:
http://scp.uwaterloo.ca
Waterloo is located approximately one hour (100 km/60 miles) from the Toronto
International Airport. In addition, there are now Westjet flights directly to
Kitchener/Waterloo from a variety of western Canada destinations, and Northwest
Airlines flies between Detroit and Kitchener/Waterloo.
For further information, please contact the Conference Chair
R.J. Le Roy: (519)888-4051 or: leroy at UWaterloo.ca.
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Local Organizing Committee:
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R.J. Le Roy, T. Amano, J.D.D. Martin, F.R.W. McCourt,
T.B. McMahon, M. Nooijen and P.-N. Roy
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