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. PLEASE FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO YOUR 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- [log in to unmask] 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, [log in to unmask] (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 ___________________ 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." To join or leave the molecular-dynamics-news email list, go to: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/molecular-dynamics-news.html