Dear Colleague: I encourage you and your students to present your work in the field of molecular dynamics at the XIXth Conference on the Dynamics of Molecular Collisions, Lake Tahoe, July 13-18, 2003. Information on submitting a contributed abstract and the selection among those for oral presentation is included in the third announcement at http://home.uchicago.edu/~ljb4/DMC2003.html. The Web site includes the following list of invited speakers for the meeting (as well as information on registration and accommodations). In 2003 the invited sessions range from bimolecular collision dynamics to interfacial dynamics in biological systems: REACTIVE COLLISIONS I Paul Dagdigian, The Johns Hopkins University [Overview] Progress report on reactive collisions: Nonadiabatic effects, polyatomic reactions Larry Harding, Argonne National Laboratory Radical-Radical Reactions Kopin Liu, IAMS, Academia Sinica From reactive resonance to state-resolved, pair-correlated angular distributions Stuart Althorpe, University of Exeter Probing quantum reaction dynamics with plane wave packets INTERACTIONS AND DYNAMICS IN CLUSTERS Daniel Neumark, The University of California, Berkeley [Overview] Spectroscopy and dynamics in clusters spanning the molecular to nanodroplet size regimes Andrei Sanov, The University of Arizona, Tucson Photoelectron imaging of molecular cluster anions Stephen Gray, Argonne National Laboratory The role of reactant channel complexes in the OH + CO -> H + CO reaction Nadine Halberstadt, Lab. Physique Quantique, IRSAMC Relaxation dynamics in Van der Waals clusters: From gas phase to condensed phase behavior? MOLECULE-SURFACE INTERACTIONS William Hase, Wayne State University [Overview] Dynamics of Energy Transfer and Chemical Reaction in Gas-Surface Collisions Bruce Kay, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Molecular Beam Studies of Dynamics and Kinetics on Ice and Oxide Surfaces Rainer Beck, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne State resolved gas - surface reactivity of vibrationally excited methane prepared by pulsed laser radiation Bret Jackson, University of Massachusetts Eley-Rideal and Hot Atom Reactions on Metal and Graphite Surfaces PHOTODISSOCIATION AND ISOMERIZATION DYNAMICS Reinhard Schinke, Max Planck Institut, Göttingen [Overview] New advances in studies of photodissociation processes Yuan T. Lee, Academica Sinica, Taiwan Isomerization and Dissociation of Aromatic Hydrocarbons Joel Bowman, Emory University Rigorous investigation of acetylene/vinylidene isomerization using a new ab initio potential energy surface Gustav Gerber, Universität Würzburg Adaptive Quantum Control of Femtochemistry INELASTIC COLLISIONS Millard Alexander, University of Maryland [Overview] Recent work on inelastic atomic and molecular collisions Timothy Zwier, Purdue University Laser probes of the potential energy landscapes and conformational isomerization dynamics of a series of flexible biomolecules Gerard Meijer, University of Nijmegen Deceleration and trapping of polar molecules NONADIABATIC REACTION DYNAMICS David Yarkony, The Johns Hopkins University [Overview] What do conical intersections really teach you about molecular dynamics? Gabriel Balint-Kurti, University of Bristol Electronically Non-adiabatic Dynamics in Photodissociation and Reactive Scattering Hanna Reisler, University of Southern California Nonadiabatic interactions in the photochemistry of substituted methyl radicals DYNAMICS AT BIOLOGICAL INTERFACES Donald Levy, The University of Chicago [Overview] Biological Molecules in the Gas Phase: Urocanic Acid, Coumaric Acid, and Anthranilic Acid Ka Yee Lee, The University of Chicago Collapse Mechanism in Lung Surfactant Klaus Schulten, Beckman Institute, Univ. of Illinois Elementary Molecular Processes in Vision REACTIVE COLLISIONS II Albert Wagner, Argonne National Laboratory [Overview] Progress report on reactive collisions: from dynamics to kinetics Piero Casavecchia, Università di Perugia Reactive scattering of carbon and nitrogen atoms Donald Truhlar, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis New Methods for the Theoretical Treatment of Electronically Nonadiabatic Reactions (Photochemistry) Jürgen Troe, Universität Göttingen Capture processes in reaction kinetics +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Laurie J. Butler Professor of Chemistry and The James Franck Institute The University of Chicago 5640 S. Ellis Avenue Chicago, IL 60637 Phone: (773) 702-7206 FAX: (773) 702-5863 (put L. Butler on cover pg) E-mail: [log in to unmask] +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Laurie J. Butler Professor of Chemistry and The James Franck Institute The University of Chicago 5640 S. Ellis Avenue Chicago, IL 60637 Phone: (773) 702-7206 FAX: (773) 702-5863 (put L. Butler on cover pg) E-mail: [log in to unmask] +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++