The Gordon Conference on Atomic and Molecular Interactions will be held on Sunday, July 7, to Thursday, July 12, at Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island.  The program will feature 29 invited presentations in four morning and five evening sessions. The invited speakers and session titles are at the end of this email. There will be poster sessions of contributed presentations after four of the evening sessions.

The conference will discuss work covering a broad range of topics including reactive and nonreactive processes, intermolecular and intramolecular energy transfer, and photodissociation and unimolecular processes.  Gas phase studies, van der Waals and cluster studies, and gas/surface studies will all be included.  Each session will have as a continuing focus the underlying potential energy surface responsible for the phenomena.

Roger Williams University is located on Naragansett Bay in beautiful surroundings.  It is within an hour or two of Boston, Newport, Cape Cod and wonderful ocean beaches.  This is a premier location.

Hope to see you there.

Al Wagner, Chair
Paul Dagdigian, Vice-Chair
 
 

Program of the 2002 GRC on Atomic and Molecular Interactions

1. Reaction Dynamics and the Potential Energy Surface: Larger Systems (Sunday Evening)

Discussion Leader: Michael Collins (Australian National University, Australia)

Donald Truhlar (University of Minnesota, USA)
Todd Martinez (University of Illinois, USA)
H. Floyd Davis (Cornell University, USA)

2. Reaction Dynamics and the Potential Energy Surface: Smaller Systems (Monday Morning)

Discussion Leader:  Evelyn Goldfield (Wayne State University, USA)

Lawrence Harding (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
Joel Bowman (Emory University, USA)
Craig Taatjes (Sandia National Laboratory, USA)
Xueming Yang (Institute for Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Taiwan)

3. Half-Collision Dynamics and the Potential Energy Surface (Monday Evening)

Discussion Leader:  Reinhard Schinke
(Max-Planck-Institut fur Stromungsforschung, Germany)

Marc van Hemert (Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands)
Joe Cline (University of Nevada, USA)
Andrew Orr-Ewing (University of Bristol, UK)

4. Non-Adiabatic Dynamics and the Potential Energy Surface (Tuesday Morning)

Discussion Leader:  Laurie Butler (University of Chicago, USA)

Millard Alexander (University of Maryland, USA)
David Yarkony (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Toshinori Suzuki (Institute for Molecular Science, Japan)
Jingsong Zhang (University of California Riverside, USA)

5. Inelastic Dynamics and the Potential Energy Surface (Tuesday Evening)

Discussion Leader:  Izhack Oref (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)

F. Javier Aoiz (Universidad Complutense, Spain)
George Lendvay (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
Amy Mullin (Boston University, USA)

6. Gas/Surface Dynamics and the Potential Energy Surface (Wednesday Morning)

Discussion Leader:  Bret Jackson (University of Massachusetts, USA)

William Hase (Wayne State University, USA)
Geert-Jan Kroes (Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands)
Alec Wodtke (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA)
Steven Sibener (University of Chicago, USA)

7. Clusters Involving Water and the Potential Energy Surface (Wednesday Evening)

Discussion Leader:  Karl Kleinermanns (Universitat Dusseldorf, Germany)

Sotiris Xantheas (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
David Clary (University College London, UK)
Timothy Zwier (Purdue University, USA)

8. Clusters and the Potential Energy Surface (Thursday Morning)

Discussion Leader:  Claude Leforestier
(Universite des Science et Techniques du Languedoc, France)

Nadine Halberstadt (Universite Paul Sabatier, France)
K. Birgitta Whaley (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
Henning Meyer (University of Georgia, USA)
Marsha Lester (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

9. After Dinner Talk (Thursday Evening)

Discussion Leader:  Albert Wagner (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)

Speaker  Giacinto Scoles (Princeton University, USA)