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XIXth Conference on the Dynamics of Molecular Collisio
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


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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]
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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]
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