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Dear Colleagues,
    
   We would like to encourage you and your students to 
submit contributed talks and poster papers 
respectively for the symposium "Frontiers in Molecular 
Dynamics: Experiment and Theory" at the National 
American Chemical Society Meeting in San 
Francisco, CA Sept. 10-14, 2006.  The symposium is 
organized by Joel Bowman and Laurie Butler and is 
designed to bridge gas and condensed phase 
chemical dynamics.

NOTE THAT THE ABSTRACT SUBMISSION 
DEADLINE IS APRIL 7, 2006.

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GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL 
ASSOCIATES

Frontiers in Molecular Dynamics: Experiment and 
Theory

Experimental and theoretical research in gas phase 
reaction dynamics and the interplay between them 
continue to play a fundamental role in advancing our 
understanding of the details of chemical reactivity.  
Transporting and extending this understanding to 
condensed phases and to interfaces is an essential 
goal of the field as well.  This symposium is devoted to 
virtually every advance made in these fields, from 
potential energy surfaces to new experimental 
techniques to probe the finest details of chemical 
reactions and intermolecular processes.

(a list of sessions and invited speakers follows at the 
end of this email)

To submit an abstract, please go to:

http://oasys.acs.org/acs/232nm/phys/papers/index.cgi

Your first step when you get to that page is to choose 
the right symposium.  Scroll down to the fourth option 
and click the circle next to:

Oral: Frontiers in Molecular Dynamics: Experiment 
and Theory. This Symposium will consist of a mix of 
invited and contributed oral presentations.
Laurie J. Butler, The Department of Chemistry, The 
University of Chicago, The James Franck Institute, 
5640 S. Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, Phone: 773-
702-7206, Fax: 773-702-5863, L-
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Joel M. Bowman, Cherry L. Emerson Center of 
Scientific Computation and Department of Chemistry, 
Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, Phone: 404-
727-6592, Fax: 404-727-6628, 
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(If you prefer a poster, scroll down farther and select 
Poster: Physical Chemistry Poster Session)

If we are not able to accommodate everyone's 
contributed talks, we will transfer the paper to the 
poster session.


Laurie J. Butler 
Professor of Chemistry
The University of Chicago

Joel Bowman,
Professor of Chemistry
Emory University


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Frontiers in Molecular Dynamics: Experiment and 
Theory
At the ACS National Meeting in San Francisco, Sept. 
10-14, 2006


FROM GASEOUS TO CONDENSED PHASE 
DYNAMICS I AND II

Mark Johnson "Watching H-atom migration in 
clusters"
Jim Skinner "Molecular dynamics and vibrational 
spectroscopy in water and aqueous solutions"
Daniel Neumark "Spectroscopy and dynamics of 
excess electrons in clusters"
Peter Hamm - TBA
John Tully "Nonadiabatic dynamics at surfaces"
Geert-Jan Kroes "Reactions of molecules at metal 
surfaces: adiabatic or not?"

NEW EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES

Steve Leone "State-resolved ultrafast coherent 
dynamics"
David Parker "Velocity Map Imaging in Molecular 
Dynamics Research"
Andrei Sanov "Photochemistry of Molecular and 
Cluster Anions via Photoelectron Imaging and 
Photofragment Spectroscopies"
David Jonas "Watching electronic motion through a 
conical intersection"

NEW THEORETICAL TECHNIQUES I AND II

David Mazzioti "Two-electron Blueprints of Many-
electron Atoms and Molecules"
Michael Collins  "Molecular Potential Energy 
Surfaces and Matrices for Chemical Reaction 
Dynamics"
Mark Tuckerman  "Advances in ab initio molecular 
dynamics exploiting `on the fly' orbital localization and 
localized basis sets"
David Manolopoulos  "Quantum effects in molecular 
dynamics"
John Herbert "Is the Car-Parrinello trick necessary in 
Gaussian basis sets?""
Stephen Klippenstein  "From Potential Energy 
Surfaces to Reaction Rates for Radical Reactions"
John Stanton "Dynamics of peroxynitrous acid and 
related molecules"
Keiji Morokuma "QM/MD simulations of the carbon 
nanotube growth and dynamics"

DYNAMICS OF ATMOSPHERIC REACTIONS

Mitchio Okumura "The OH + NO2 Reaction: 
Fundamentalissues in Termolecular Association 
Reactions"
Jim Lin "Dynamics on some elementary reactions 
involving O(1D/3P) atoms studied by crossed 
molecular beam methods"
John Hemminger "Composition and Chemistry of the 
Solution/Vapor Interface"
Anne McCoy "Investigating the spectroscopy and 
dynamics of cis,cis- and cis,perp-HOONO"

RADICAL INTERMEDIATES IN BIMOLECULAR 
REACTIONS

A. Mebel "Theoretical studies of potential energy 
surfaces, rate constants, and product branching ratios 
for the reactions of C2 and C3 with unsaturated 
hydrocarbons"
D. Osborn "Reactions of vinyl and ketenyl: the rich 
chemistry of unsaturated radicals"
A. Krylov - TBA
P. Casavecchia "Recent progress in crossed 
molecular beam studies of radical-molecule and 
radical-radical reactions: From combustion to 
astrochemistry."

BIMOLECULAR REACTION DYNAMICS  I AND II

Floyd Davis "The Role of Reactant Vibrational vs. 
Translational Energy in Transition Metal- Hydrocarbon 
Insertion Reactions"
Dick Zare "Comparing reactions of H and Cl with C-
H stretch-excited CHD3"
Hua Guo "How good is the quantum statistical 
model in treating complex-forming reactions?"
Bill Miller "Semiclassical Theory of Dynamics in 
Complex Molecular Systems"
Bastiaan Braams "Ab initio reaction dynamics on 
global fitted
potential energy surfaces - Examples H + CH4, H2 + 
C2H3+, and H2O +
H3O+"
Millard Alexander TBA
George Schatz "Theoretical studies of the reactions 
of oxygen atoms and ions with small molecules and 
with surfaces."
Amy Mullin "Vibrationally enhanced reactions of 
highly excited pyridine with Cl radicals"

PHOTODISSOCIATION DYNAMICS

Paul Houston "Photodissociation of Small Radicals"
Hanna Reisler - TBA
Scott Kable "Molecular fingerprints:  Using full 
rotational resolution (J, Ka, Kc, and more) to explore 
the pathways for photodissociation."
Mark Brouard "Atomic photofragment orbital 
polarization as a probe of molecular 
photodissociation dynamics."

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