1st Announcement**
        25th International Symposium
              on Free Radicals
                      
             The Silver Jubilee
                                      
 August 15-20, 1999, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
        http://frs.mps.ohio-state.edu/frs

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Organizing Committee

R. F. Curl (Houston)
M. Heaven (Atlanta)
T. A. Miller (Columbus), Chair
T. Steimle (Tempe), Treasurer

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Terry A. Miller
25th International Free Radicals Symposium
Department of Chemistry
The Ohio State University
120 W. 18th Avenue
Columbus Ohio USA 43210

The 25th International Symposium on Free Radicals will
be held Aug. 15-20, 1999 at Little America resort
hotel, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA. The Symposium will
address the physical and chemical properties of FREE
RADICALS, including paramagnetic molecules, ions, and
molecules in excited states and other short-lived species.

LOCATION

The conference will be held at the Little America resort hotel
on the outskirts of Flagstaff, Arizona. Flagstaff is located at
7000ft (2100M) with a nearly ideal climate. In August the
average high and low are 78øF (26øC) and 49øF (10øC)
respectively with typically quite low humidity and very clear
air.

The country that surrounds Flagstaff is some of the most
fascinating and beautiful in the world. The Grand Canyon
National Park, Oak Creek Canyon and Sedona,  along with
three National Monuments: Walnut Canyon, Sunset Crater
Volcano, and Wupatki (ancient native American dwellings)
are within an 80 mile (150 km) radius of Flagstaff, requiring
at most slightly over an hour's driving. Numerous additional
attractions including the Painted Desert and Petrified Forest
National Park, the Montezuma Castle National Monument,
the Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Tuzigoot National
Monument, and Meteor Crater are also within relatively easy
driving distance. Located in Flagstaff itself is the Lowell
Observatory.

There will be some organized excursions to these attractions
during the Symposium. However, some may wish to allow
additional time before or after the meeting to visit other sites
on their own.

SYNOPSIS

Free radicals play a vital role as intermediates in many
chemical reactions including those involved in combustion
and chemical synthesis, as well as ones in the atmosphere and
in interstellar space. The International Free Radicals
Symposium was established nearly fifty years ago to bring
together workers at the frontier of research in a wide variety
of areas of free radical chemistry with particular emphasis on
the spectroscopic identification, characterization and
dynamics of radicals. The composition of the International
Committee below, guarantees the high scientific level of these
meetings.

While the theme of the present meeting remains the same as
for the first Free Radicals Symposium, the experimental and
theoretical approaches, as well as the applications, have
advanced tremendously. Whereas at that time, the presence or
importance of free radicals in a particular process was
typically only inferred or hypothesized, today using modern
spectroscopic means of detection their presence cannot only
be proven but the radicals themselves characterized in great
detail. Indeed what once was seen as "through a  glass
darkly," has now been illuminated brightly by lasers and other
means of detection.

The study of radicals, and their radiative and dynamical
properties has shed light on a vast variety of physical and
chemical processes. These processes span an environment
from inside every living being, through the fires of
combustion, to our atmosphere, and beyond to the observable
limits of interstellar space. Indeed some free radicals have
been observed for the first time in interstellar space before
they could be produced in the laboratory. Therefore the Free
Radicals Symposia are strongly interdisciplinary with
chemists, physicists, astrophysicists and environmental
scientists participating, resulting in a conference unique in its
creative interaction between diverse disciplines in both their
theoretical and experimental aspects.

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

A wide variety of topics will be covered by papers and
discussions:
 * Spectroscopy of radicals
 * Dynamics and reaction kinetics, theory and experiment
 * Structure of free radicals
 * Molecular ions and molecules in excited states
 * Free radicals and atmospheric chemistry
 * Interstellar spectroscopy and chemistry
 * Free radicals as reaction intermediates
 * Free radicals in applied research
 * Production and observation techniques

There will be invited talks covering the above topics given by
the following persons who have agreed to participate:
A. Carrington (Southampton)
P. Casavecchia (Perugia)
P. Chen (Zurich)
D. Clary (London)
F. Crim (Madison)
J. Doyle (Cambridge, Mass.)
B. Ellison (Boulder)
Y. Endo (Tokyo)
K. Evenson (Boulder)
Y. P. Lee (Hsinchu)
J. Maier (Basel)
M. McCarthy (Cambridge, Mass.)
T. Oka (Chicago)
F. S. Rowland (Irvine)
T. Sears (Upton, NY)
F. Temps (Kiel)
V. Vaida (Boulder)
G. Winnewisser (Cologne)
A. Wodtke (Santa Barbara)

Contributed papers will be presented in poster sessions, each
preceded by a session of brief oral introductions by the
authors. Information for abstract submission will be available
at our WWW site beginning January 1999.

SOCIAL PROGRAM

It is planned to arrange tours to the Grand Canyon and other
nearby sites of interest. Additional information on the
organized tours will be electronically available subsequently. 

COSTS

The registration fee for the Conference will be about $235.
The accommodation costs, including room and meals from
Sunday evening until Friday lunch, will be per person $445,
double occupancy, or $668, single occupancy. If funds
become available, they will be used to subsidize the
attendance of  young researchers.

REGISTRATION

All subsequent announcements for the Symposium will be
electronic ONLY! Detailed information about costs, registration,
submission of poster papers, and the excursions will be sent
via email to those who pre-register through this email or at our
WWW site. Much of this same information will be posted as
available at our WWW site, http://frs.mps.ohio-state.edu/frs


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FREE RADICALS SYMPOSIUM
INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE

A. Carrington (Southampton)
J. M. Brown (Oxford), Chair
R. Colin (Brussels)
S. D. Colson (Washington)
R. F. Curl (Houston)
K. M. Evenson (Boulder)
G. Herzberg (Ottawa)
E. Hirota (Yokohama)
W. E. Jones (Windsor, Ont.)
M. Larsson (Stockholm)
S. Leach (Paris)
A. J. Merer (Vancouver)
T. A. Miller (Columbus)
G. Porter (London)
H. E. Radford (Cambridge, Mass)
D. A. Ramsay (Ottawa)
F. S. Rowland (Irvine)
V. L. Tal rose (Moscow)
I. Tanaka (Tokyo)
J. J. ter Meulen (Nijmegen)
B. A. Thrush (Cambridge, UK)


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