Third Announcement

XVIIth CONFERENCE ON THE DYNAMICS OF MOLECULAR COLLISIONS
July 18-23, 1999
The Resort at Split Rock
Lake Harmony, Pennsylvania USA

James J. Valentini, Chair
Department of Chemistry
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027 USA

James T. Muckerman, Vice-Chair
Department of Chemistry
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Upton, NY 11973 USA

DESCRIPTION OF THE CONFERENCE

The Dynamics of Molecular Collisions Conference focuses on all aspects of
reactive and non-reactive molecular collisions as well as half collisions.
The Conference began as a Gordon Conference in 1965, and, though it now
operates independently, retains the Gordon Conference format and spirit.

MEETING SITE

The meeting will be held at The Resort at Split Rock in eastern
Pennsylvania, a five-hundred-acre year-round resort situated on Lake
Harmony and surrounded by the forests, lakes and streams of the Pocono
Mountains.

The Resort is located 1-1/2 to 2 hours from New York City airports. Bus
transportation from the closest airport, Newark International Airport, to
Split Rock on Sunday, July 18 and from Split Rock to Newark Airport on
Friday, July 23 has been arranged. Bus sign-up is done as part of meeting
registration (see below) on the Split Rock web site,
http://www.splitrockresort.com.

Split Rock has abundant recreational facilities for hiking, biking, golf,
tennis, swimming, racquetball, billiards, bowling, fishing, water skiing,
and boating. More information on Split Rock is available at the Resort web
site.

MEETING PROGRAM

The Conference will have morning sessions on Monday through Friday , and
evening sessions Monday through Thursday. Afternoons are free for
discussions and recreation. Session topics and speakers are:

Bimolecular Reaction Dynamics--Experiment
Paul Dagdigian
Richard Zare
Arthur Suits
Hansjuergen Loesch
Bimolecular Reaction Dynamics--Theory
Russell Pack
John Zhang
Stephen Gray
Antonio Varandas
Collisions at Surfaces
Barbara Garrison
J. Michael White
Hua Guo
Collisions at Ultralow Temperatures
Daniel Heinzen
Paul Julienne
William Stwalley
Control of Molecular Dynamics
David Tannor
Robert Gordon
Stephen Leone
Gustav Gerber
Dynamics in Clusters
James Lisy
Michael Heaven
Zlatko Bacic
Koichi Yamashita
Eigenstate Resolved Dynamics
Thomas Rizzo
Patrick Vaccaro
Amit Sinha
Nonadiabatic Processes
Robert Parson
Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
Laurie Butler
Photodissociation Dynamics
Reinhard Schinke
Gabriel Balint-Kurti
Gregory Hall

POSTERS

Split Rock has extensive and attractive facilities for presentation of
posters. Poster sessions for contributed papers will be scheduled for
Monday through Thursday evenings. To present a poster a one-page abstract
must be submitted to the Chair by fax or U.S. mail (not email) and received
by May 15.

REGISTRATION AND FEES

Registration and payment of fees will be done on-line through the Split
Rock Resort web site, at http://www.splitrockresort.com. A direct link to
the registration form is now part of the Split Rock home page. The
registration deadline is June15.

It is anticipated that there will be some funds available for graduate
student scholarships. Applications for student scholarships must be
submitted to the Chair by May 15.

CONFERENCE CONTACTS

Web: http://www.gpmd.bnl.gov/~dmc_conf
Email: [log in to unmask]
Fax: 212-932-1289
Voice: 212-854-7590
U.S.Mail: J.J. Valentini
Dept. of Chemistry
Columbia University
3000 Broadway, MC 3120
New York, NY 10027


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Professor James J. Valentini
Department of Chemistry
Columbia University
Mail Code 3120
3000 Broadway
New York, NY 10027

Phone: 212-854-7590
Fax: 212-932-1289




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