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.  A more detailed program can be accessed at either the conference web site http://chemistry.anl.gov/conferences/AMI-GRC.html or the Gordon Research Conference organization web site at http://www.grc.org/.  There will be poster sessions of contributed presentations after four of the evening sessions.

There are still some openings for this conference and registration information can be found at either web site.  Registration can take place on-line.  However, the conference fee increases by $50 after Monday, June 17.

Many postdocs and graduate students have asked about financial support.  Due to a generous contribution from Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and BioSciences Division of the Office of Basic Energy Sciences of the U.S. Department of Energy, we will be able to give partial reimbursements of the costs of the conference to all graduate students and postdocs who present posters at the conference.  No separate application for this support is necessary.  It will be given to each postdoc or graduate student who gives a poster presentation.  I also have pending support from another funding agency.  So the total amount of support cannot be determined at this time.  However, we hope to equal or exceed the average reimbursement of ~$175 given out at the AMI conference two years ago. Other aspects of the conference are being supported by the generous contributions of Continuum Physics Inc and Advanced Clustering Technologies.

Each of the four poster sessions can accommodate 30 posters (see either of the two web sites above for more details).  While the application form allows a limited abstract for posters, we urge all poster presenters who have not already done so to send either a word or pdf file of their one page poster abstract to [log in to unmask]  We will post these abstracts on the conference web site and have them available at the conference.

Hope to see you at the meeting.

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)
Theory   Donald Truhlar (University of Minnesota, USA)
Todd Martinez (University of Illinois, USA)
Experiment  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)
Theory   Lawrence Harding (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
Joel Bowman (Emory University, USA)
Experiment  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)
Theory   Marc van Hemert (Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands)
Experiment  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)
Theory   Millard Alexander (University of Maryland, USA)
 David Yarkony (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Experiment  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)
Theory   F. Javier Aoiz (Universidad Complutense, Spain)
 George Lendvay (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
Experiment  Amy Mullin (Boston University, USA)

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

Discussion Leader:  Bret Jackson (University of Massachusetts, USA)
Theory   William Hase (Wayne State University, USA)
 Geert-Jan Kroes (Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands)
Experiment  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)
Theory   Sotiris Xantheas (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
 David Clary (University College London, UK)
Experiment  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)
Theory   Nadine Halberstadt (Universite Paul Sabatier, France)
 K. Birgitta Whaley (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
Experiment  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)