FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Students and Postdocs can receive partial financial support by  
entering their poster in the Young Investigator Competition.  Don't  
miss the Dynamics at Surfaces Gordon Conference!

The Dynamics at Surfaces Gordon Conference will be held August 9-14,  
2009 at Proctor Academy in Andover, NH.   We are writing to bring this  
conference to your and your students' attention and to remind you that  
the deadline for the conference registration and for inclusion in the  
YIC is July 19, 2009.  A conference program is shown at the end of  
this message.

Given the award of funding from DoE, Leiden University and Brookhaven  
National Lab, we believe that we will be able to provide $500 in  
conference fee reimbursements for each grad student or postdoc who  
presents a poster and enters the Young Investigator Competition. The  
three winners of this competition will each give a 20 minute talk (10  
minute discussion) at the Thursday evening session.  Anyone wishing to  
enter the Young Investigator Competition should send an email message  
as such to Vice Chair Geert-Jans Kroes at [log in to unmask]  
by JULY 19, 2009.

More information can be found at  
http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2009&program=dynamics.

CANOE TRIP EXCURSION ON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12
On Wednesday afternoon of the conference, please join us on a canoe  
trip. We have reserved 2-person canoes from the Contoocook River Canoe  
Company (http://www.contoocookcanoe.com/rentals_cont.html), located a  
short drive from Proctor Academy. The trip is a 2 mile paddle to a  
beach where you can use a swing rope to drop yourself in the water, or  
sunbathe, and a 2 mile paddle back, and you can do this all while  
discussing science. Departure will be shortly after lunch at 1:30 pm  
and we should be back by 5 pm. The fee is $15-25 per person, payable  
in cash at the conference (the exact fee will be announced at the  
conference).  We have ensured that a fair number of people can be  
accommodated but room is limited and participation is on a first-come,  
first-served basis. To sign up, send an email to Geert-Jan Kroes  
([log in to unmask]) indicating your name, and whether you  
are willing to drive yourself and other participants in the 17 mile  
drive to CRCC.  Please indicate how many other participants you can  
accommodate.

We hope to see you and your students and postdocs at the conference!

Best Regards,
Professor Sylvia T. Ceyer
MIT
Chair, Dynamics at Surface Gordon Conference

Professor Geert-Jan Kroes
Leiden University
Vice-Chair, Dynamics at Surfaces Gordon Conference


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DYNAMICS AT SURFACES
August 9 - 14, 2009
Program
SUNDAY

STATE TO STATE DYNAMICS

7:40 pm - 7:45 pm       Discussion Leader: Greg Sitz (University of  
Texas at Austin)
7:45 pm - 8:40 pm       Art Utz (Tufts University)
"Bond- and Mode-Selective Chemistry at Surfaces: Insights and Implications"
8:40 pm - 9:35 pm       Bret Jackson (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
"The Dynamics of Methane Reactions on Metal Surfaces"

MONDAY

REACTION DYNAMICS

9:00 am - 9:05 am       Discussion Leader: Steve Sibener (University  
of Chicago)

9:05 am - 10:00 am      Dana Dlott (University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana)
"Dynamics at Interfaces Probed by Time-Resolved Sum-Frequency  
Generation Spectroscopy"

10:30 am - 11:25 am     Liv Hornekaer (University of Aarhus)
"Dynamics of Hydrogen Atom Adsorption and Molecular Hydrogen Formation  
on Carbonaceous Surfaces"

11:25 am - 12:20 pm     Daniel Farias (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
"Probing Reaction Dynamics at Metal Surfaces with H2 Diffraction"

SINGLE MOLECULE DYNAMICS

7:30 pm - 7:35 pm       Discussion Leader: Bob Hamers (University of  
Wisconsin, Madison)

7:35 pm - 8:30 pm       Miquel Salmeron (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)
"High Pressure STM"
8:30 pm - 9:25 pm       Maki Kawai (University of Tokyo)
"Inelastic Tunneling Spectroscopy of Single Molecules at Surfaces"


TUESDAY

NON-ADIABATIC EFFECTS

9:00 am - 9:05 am       Discussion Leader: Aart Kleyn (FOM Institute  
for Plasma Physics)
9:05 am - 10:00 am      Hermann Nienhaus (Universität Duisburg-Essen)
"Non-Adiabatic Energy Dissipation in Gas-Surface Interactions"

10:30 am - 11:25 am     Konstantinos Giapis (Cal Tech)
"Gas-Surface Chemical Reactions at High-Collision Energies"
11:25 am - 12:20 pm     Maite Alducin (Centro Mixto CSIC-UPV/EHU)
"Non-Adiabatic Electronic Effects in the Adsorption of Diatomic  
Molecules at Metal Surfaces"
NON-ADIABATIC EFFECTS

7:15 pm - 7:20 pm       Discussion Leader: Cristina Díaz (Universidad  
Autónoma de Madrid)

7:20 pm - 8:15 pm       David Bird (University of Bath)
"Comparison of Perturbative and Non-Perturbative Models of  
Non-Adiabatic Processes"

8:15 pm - 9:30 pm       Daniel Auerbach (Gas Reaction Technologies)  
and Neil Shenvi (Yale University)
"Non-Adiabatic Electronic Excitation in Molecular Interactions with  
Surfaces - Experiment and Theory"



WEDNESDAY

DYNAMICS OF THE WATER INTERFACE

9:00 am - 9:05 am       Discussion Leader: Gil Nathanson (University  
of Wisconsin, Madison)
9:05 am - 10:00 am      Jens Nørskov (Technical University of Denmark)
"Tailoring the Activity of Electrode Surfaces for Fuel Cells and Water  
Splitting by Tuning the Surface Electronic Structure"

10:30 am - 11:25 am     Mischa Bonn (FOM-Institute for Atomic and  
Molecular Physics AMOLF)
"Ultrafast Vibrational Dynamics of Interfacial Water"
11:25 am - 12:20 pm     James Skinner (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
"Hydrogen Bonding Structure and Dynamics at the Water Liquid/Vapor  
Interface as Probed by Vibrational Sum-Frequency Spectroscopy"

ULTRAFAST SURFACE DYNAMICS

7:30 pm - 7:35 pm       Discussion Leader: Kurt Kolasinski (West  
Chester University)
7:35 pm - 8:30 pm       R. J. Dwayne Miller (University of Toronto)
"Femtosecond Electron Diffraction: Atomic Level Movies of Structural Dynamics"
8:30 pm - 9:25 pm       Klaus Sokolowski-Tinten (Universität Duisburg-Essen)
"Structural Dynamics in Laser-Driven Materials Studied with  
Time-Resolved Diffraction"

THURSDAY

DYNAMICS OF PHOTODESORPTION

9:00 am - 9:05 am       Discussion Leader: Rick Osgood (Columbia University)
9:05 am - 10:00 am      Nicholas Camillone (Brookhaven National laboratory)
"Ultrafast Photoexcitation for the Investigation of Model Catalysts"

10:30 am - 11:25 am     Thorsten Klüner (University of Oldenburg)
"Surface Photochemistry: New Insight From First Principles"
11:25 am - 12:20 pm     Dietrich Menzel (Technical University of  
Munich and Fritz Haber Institut, Berlin)
"Photochemistry at Metal Nanoparticles"

YOUNG INVESTIGATOR COMPETITION

Discussion Leader: John Morris (Virginia Polytechnic)

7:45 pm - 8:15 pm       Young Investigator #1

8:15 pm - 8:45 pm       Young Investigator #2

8:45 pm - 9:15 pm       Young Investigator #3

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