XVII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MOLECULAR ENERGY TRANSFER (COMET XVII) ************************** 1st Announcement ************************* Date: June 15-20, 2003 Location: 'Euroforum Infantes', San Lorenzo de El Escorial, SPAIN First announcement at the web page: http://batracio.quim.ucm.es/comet/index.html E-mail: [log in to unmask] Following this first announcement, information will be continuously updated on this site and the Second announcement e-mailed to those on the Conference mailing list. To be added to the mailing list, fill out and submit the preregistration form in http://batracio.quim.ucm.es/comet/preform.htm The XVII International Conference on Molecular Energy Transfer (COMET XVII) will take place at "Euroforum Infantes" in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, SPAIN, 15-20 June 2003. San Lorenzo de El Escorial is a small town famous because of The Monastery, declared heritage of manking by UNESCO. It is located in a beautiful landscape at the foothills of the Guadarrama Mountains, 50 km north-west of Madrid. The purpose of the 2003 Symposium is to survey recent advances, undertake stimulating discussions, generate new ideas, and map out future directions in the field of molecular energy transfer. Chair: F. Javier Aoiz Departamento de Quimica Fisica Facultad de Quimica Universidad Complutense 28040 Madrid, Spain Phone: (+34) 91 3944126 Fax: (+34) 91 3944135 Email: [log in to unmask] The local organizing committee includes the members of the Madrid Molecular Reaction Dynamics and Spectroscopy Group (home page http://batracio.quim.ucm.es), of the Department of Physical Chemistry of the Complutense University of Madrid (http://www.ucm.es) : J. Santamaria, L. Banares, E. Verdasco, M. Menendez (Conference Secretary), J. F. Castillo, I. Torres, J. Barr, V. J. Herrero, V. Saez Rabanos, B. Martinez-Haya. The scientific programme will cover a wide variety of topics by papers and discussions: - Dynamics of Chemical Reactions, Experiment and Theory - Inelastic collision dynamics and state-selective energy transfer - Energy transfer in clusters and van der Waals complexes - Photodissociation - Femtosecond dynamics - Nonadiabatic processes - Single-molecule studies of energy transfer - Energy transfer in the condensed phase There will be several invited talks covering the listed topics above. Contributed papers will be presented in poster sessions with a brief introduction by the author. A few contributions will be selected for oral presentation as Hot Topics. ======================================= Dr. Luis Banares Departamento de Quimica Fisica Facultad de Quimica Universidad Complutense 28040 Madrid, Spain Tlf.: +34-1-3944126 Fax: +34-1-3944135 email: [log in to unmask] internet: http://batracio.quim.ucm.es ======================================