PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT
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2003 Symposium on Chemical Physics
at the University of Waterloo
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The ninteenth annual Symposium on Chemical Physics at the University of
Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, will be held on the weekend of October 31
November 2, 2003. As usual, the Symposium will include both invited and
contributed oral papers, as well as a Poster session, and will run from
approximately 7:30 PM on the Friday evening till mid-day Sunday. The
Saturday afternoon Poster session and reception will be followed by the
conference banquet and the usual extended discussions. The Invited Speakers
for this year's meeting are:
Invited Speakers
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Moshe Shapiro - University of British Columbia, Plenary Lecturer
"Quantum Control of Chiral Conversion, Spontaneous Decay,
and Tunneling
Walter Balfour - University of Victoria.
"The Challenging Playground of Transition Metal Diatomic
Spectroscopy"
Michael Gerry - University of British Columbia
"Microwave Spectroscopy of Noble Gas-Coinage Metal Halide
Complexes, and the Nature of the Noble Gas-Coinage Metal Bond"
William J. Meath - University of Western Ontario
"Mechanisms for Multiphoton Excitation of Molecules, and
On the Enhancement of `Direct' Two- and Three-Photon Excitations"
Krzysztof Szalewicz - University of Delaware
"Theoretical Spectroscopy of Van der Waals Molecules"
Timothy Zwier - Purdue University
"Laser Probes of the Potential Energy Landscapes and
Conformational Isomerization Dynamics of Flexible Biomolecules"
FULL DETAILS regarding registration, contributed paper submission, housing
and other matters, together with programs of previous meetings in this series
may be found on our WWW site:
http://scp.uwaterloo.ca
Waterloo is located approximately one hour (100 km/60 miles) from the Toronto
International Airport. For further information, please contact any member
of the local organizing committee.
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Local Organizing Comittee:
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R.J. Le Roy (519)888-4567, ext. 4051 ([log in to unmask])
P.F. Bernath, (519)888-4567, ext. 4814 ([log in to unmask])
J.D.D. Martin (519)888-4567, ext. 3201 ([log in to unmask])
F.R. McCourt (519)888-4567, ext. 3024 ([log in to unmask])
T.B. McMahon, (519)888-4567, ext. 4591 ([log in to unmask])
M. Nooijen (519)888-4567, ext. 7708 ([log in to unmask])
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Conference Secretary
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Debora Loney (519)888-4567 ext. 6973 ([log in to unmask])
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