GRC Dynamics at Surfaces: registration deadline
July 19
Students and Postdocs can receive partial financial support by
entering their poster in the Young Investigator Competition.
Don't miss the Dynamics at
Surfaces Gordon Conference!
SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT (apologies for cross postings)
The Dynamics at
Surfaces Gordon Conference will be held August 9-14, 2009 at Proctor
Academy in Andover, NH. We are writing to bring this
conference to your and your students' attention and to remind you
that the deadline for the conference registration and for inclusion in
the YIC is July 19, 2009. A conference program is shown at
the end of this message.
Given the award of funding
from DoE and from Leiden University, we believe that we will be able
to provide at least $450 in conference fee reimbursements for each
grad student or postdoc who presents a poster and enters the Young
Investigator Competition. The three winners of this competition
will each give a 20 minute talk (10 minute discussion) at the Thursday
evening session.
Anyone wishing to enter the Young Investigator Competition should send
an email message as such to Vice Chair Geert-Jans Kroes at
[log in to unmask] by JULY 19, 2009.
More information can be found
at
http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2009&program=dynamics. Registration now is helpful to our
planning.
There may be additional funding available for the following
programs:
1) Underrepresented
Minorities in the US - graduate student, postdoc, faculty or research
scientist - see http://www.grc.org/diversity.aspx.
2) International Diversity
Fellowship - non US graduate student or postdoc of an underrepresented demographic outside of
US
3) Eastern European or Former
Soviet Union - research scientist or faculty
4) Predominantly
Undergraduate Institution - research scientist or faculty
Please contact the chair,
Sylvia Ceyer ([log in to unmask]) if you or someone known to you is
interested in any of the programs 2-4 above. Funding is
available on a first come - first served basis. I would be happy to issue invitations
to anyone that you might know who falls into one of these
categories.
CANOE TRIP EXCURSION ON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
12
On Wednesday afternoon of the conference,
please join us on a canoe trip. We have reserved 2-person canoes from
the Contoocook River Canoe Company
(http://www.contoocookcanoe.com/rentals_cont.html), located a short
drive from Proctor Academy. The trip is a 2 mile paddle to a beach
where you can use a swing rope to drop yourself in the water, or
sunbathe, and a 2 mile paddle back, and you can do this all while
discussing science. Departure will be shortly after lunch at 1:30 pm
and we should be back by 5 pm. The fee is $15-25 per person, payable
in cash at the conference (the exact fee will be announced at the
conference). We have ensured that a fair number of people can be
accommodated but room is limited and participation is on a first-come,
first-served basis. To sign up, send an email to Geert-Jan Kroes
([log in to unmask]) indicating your name, and whether you
are willing to drive yourself and other participants in the 17 mile
drive to CRCC. Please indicate how many other participants you
can accommodate.
We hope to see you and your
students and postdocs at the conference!
Best Regards,
Professor Sylvia T.
Ceyer
MIT
Chair, Dynamics at Surface
Gordon Conference
Professor Geert-Jan Kroes
Leiden University
Vice-Chair, Dynamics at Surfaces Gordon
Conference
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DYNAMICS AT SURFACES
August 9 - 14, 2009
Program
SUNDAY
STATE TO STATE
DYNAMICS
7:40 pm - 7:45
pm Discussion
Leader: Greg Sitz (University of Texas at Austin)
7:45 pm - 8:40
pm Art Utz (Tufts
University)
"Bond- and
Mode-Selective Chemistry at Surfaces: Insights and
Implications"
8:40 pm - 9:35
pm Bret Jackson
(University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
"The Dynamics of
Methane Reactions on Metal Surfaces"
MONDAY
REACTION
DYNAMICS
9:00 am - 9:05
am Discussion
Leader: Steve Sibener (University of Chicago)
9:05 am - 10:00
am Dana
Dlott (University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana)
"Dynamics at Interfaces Probed by Time-Resolved
Sum-Frequency Generation Spectroscopy"
10:30 am - 11:25
am Liv Hornekaer (University of
Aarhus)
"Dynamics of Hydrogen
Atom Adsorption and Molecular Hydrogen Formation on Carbonaceous
Surfaces"
11:25 am - 12:20
pm Daniel Farias (Universidad
Autónoma de Madrid)
"Probing Reaction
Dynamics at Metal Surfaces with H2 Diffraction"
SINGLE MOLECULE
DYNAMICS
7:30 pm - 7:35
pm Discussion
Leader: Bob Hamers (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
7:35 pm - 8:30
pm Miquel Salmeron
(Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)
"High Pressure
STM"
8:30 pm - 9:25
pm Maki Kawai
(University of Tokyo)
"Inelastic Tunneling
Spectroscopy of Single Molecules at Surfaces"
TUESDAY
NON-ADIABATIC
EFFECTS
9:00 am - 9:05
am Discussion
Leader: Aart Kleyn (FOM Institute for Plasma Physics)
9:05 am - 10:00
am Hermann Nienhaus
(Universität Duisburg-Essen)
"Non-Adiabatic Energy
Dissipation in Gas-Surface Interactions"
10:30 am - 11:25
am Konstantinos Giapis (Cal
Tech)
"Gas-Surface Chemical
Reactions at High-Collision Energies"
11:25 am - 12:20
pm Maite Alducin (Centro Mixto
CSIC-UPV/EHU)
"Non-Adiabatic
Electronic Effects in the Adsorption of Diatomic Molecules at Metal
Surfaces"
NON-ADIABATIC
EFFECTS
7:15 pm - 7:20
pm Discussion
Leader: Cristina Díaz (Universidad Autónoma de
Madrid)
7:20 pm - 8:15
pm David Bird
(University of Bath)
"Comparison of
Perturbative and Non-Perturbative Models of Non-Adiabatic
Processes"
8:15 pm - 9:30
pm Daniel Auerbach
(Gas Reaction Technologies) and Neil Shenvi (Yale
University)
"Non-Adiabatic
Electronic Excitation in Molecular Interactions with Surfaces -
Experiment and Theory"
WEDNESDAY
DYNAMICS OF THE WATER
INTERFACE
9:00 am - 9:05
am Discussion
Leader: Gil Nathanson (University of Wisconsin,
Madison)
9:05 am - 10:00
am Jens Nørskov
(Technical University of Denmark)
"Tailoring the
Activity of Electrode Surfaces for Fuel Cells and Water Splitting by
Tuning the Surface Electronic Structure"
10:30 am - 11:25
am Mischa Bonn (FOM-Institute
for Atomic and Molecular Physics AMOLF)
"Ultrafast
Vibrational Dynamics of Interfacial Water"
11:25 am - 12:20
pm James Skinner (University of
Wisconsin, Madison)
"Hydrogen Bonding
Structure and Dynamics at the Water Liquid/Vapor Interface as Probed
by Vibrational Sum-Frequency Spectroscopy"
ULTRAFAST SURFACE
DYNAMICS
7:30 pm - 7:35
pm Discussion
Leader: Kurt Kolasinski (West Chester University)
7:35 pm - 8:30
pm R. J. Dwayne
Miller (University of Toronto)
"Femtosecond Electron
Diffraction: Atomic Level Movies of Structural
Dynamics"
8:30 pm - 9:25
pm Klaus
Sokolowski-Tinten (Universität Duisburg-Essen)
"Structural Dynamics
in Laser-Driven Materials Studied with Time-Resolved
Diffraction"
THURSDAY
DYNAMICS OF
PHOTODESORPTION
9:00 am - 9:05
am Discussion
Leader: Rick Osgood (Columbia University)
9:05 am - 10:00
am Nicholas Camillone
(Brookhaven National laboratory)
"Ultrafast
Photoexcitation for the Investigation of Model
Catalysts"
10:30 am - 11:25
am Thorsten Klüner
(University of Oldenburg)
"Surface
Photochemistry: New Insight From First Principles"
11:25 am - 12:20
pm Dietrich Menzel (Technical
University of Munich and Fritz Haber Institut,
Berlin)
"Photochemistry at
Metal Nanoparticles"
YOUNG INVESTIGATOR
COMPETITION
Discussion Leader:
John Morris (Virginia Polytechnic)
7:45 pm - 8:15
pm Young
Investigator #1
8:15 pm - 8:45
pm Young
Investigator #2
8:45 pm - 9:15
pm Young
Investigator #3
--
G.J.Kroes (
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LIC
Gorlaeus Laboratoria
Universiteit Leiden
Postbus 9502
2300 RA Leiden
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 71 527 4396
Fax (new!): +31 71 527 4397
Web: http://www.theorchem.leidenuniv.nl
