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FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
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STEREODYNAMICS 2014
August 17-22, 2014
St. Petersburg, Russia
Web site: www.ioffe.ru/STD14/ <http://www.ioffe.ru/STD14/>
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Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the XV STEREODYNAMICSmeeting, to be held in
St. Petersburg, Russia, from 17th to 22th August 2014. The series of
biennial STEREODYNAMICS meetings started in 1986,
when the first Conference was held in Jerusalem (Israel). Since that
time the conference took place in Bad Honnef (Germany), Santa Cruz
(USA), Assisi (Italy), Gif sur Yvette (France), Bielefeld (Germany),
El Escorial (Spain), Schoorl (The Netherlands), Osaka (Japan), Arcachon
(France), Jerusalem (Israel), Dalian (China), Santa Cruz (USA), Paris
(France), and now it comes to St.Petersburg.
_International Scientific Committee:_
Roger Anderson, USA
Vincenzo Aquilanti, Italy
Astrid BergeatFrance
Mark Brouard, UK
David Chandler,USA
Angel González-Urea,Spain
Toshio Kasai,Japan
Raphael Levine,Israel
Hansjürgen Loesch,Germany
Andrew Orr-Ewing, UK
David Parker,The Netherlands
Peter Rakitzis,Greece
Benoit Soep,France
Steven Stolte,The Netherlands
Oleg Vasyutinskii,Russia
Xueming Yang,China
Stereodynamics of chemical and biological processes seeks to unravel the
most fundamental aspects of reactions studied at the molecular level.
This fundamental field of research has become so broad over last years
that it concerns nowadays a wide range of topics related to physics,
chemistry and biology.
Th This meeting, the fifteenth in the series, is devoted to
experimental and theoretical aspects of anisotropy and vector
correlation effects in:·
* Ultrafast photochemistry and real time dynamics of small molecules,
clusters and biologically relevant molecules
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·Quantum chemistry
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·Surface scattering
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·Reaction dynamics in the gas phase and in condensed media,
including ultracold atomic and molecular dynamics.
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·Photodissociation
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·Chirality
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·Chemical reaction control
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·Spin effects
The Conference format will include invited keynote lectures, plenary
lectures, hot topics, and poster sessions. The participation of young
researchers and students is particularly welcome.
For a limited number of students a reduced conference fee and cheap
accommodation will be available.
_Preliminary list of speakers_:
Luis Bañares, Madrid University, Spain
David Chandler, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, USA
Vladimir Chernyak,**Wayne State University, Detroit, USA
Karl-Heinz Gericke, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Ralf Kaiser, University of Honolulu, USA
King-Chuen Lin, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Kopin Liu, IAMS, Taipei, Taiwan
KennethMcKendrick, Edinburgh, UK
David Nesbitt, JILA University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Daniel Neumark, UCB, Berkeley, USA
Martin Quack, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Octavio Roncero, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Arthur Suits, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA
Dmitry Varshalovich, Ioffe Institute, St.Petersburg, Russia
Alec Wodtke, MPI Goettingen, Germany
The conference will be held in a very beautiful place, in the old city
center on the embankment of the Neva river, with the Hermitage (the
former Winter residence of Russian tzars and a famous museum now)across
the river.
In order to have a really great scientific event the organizers will try
to invite many bright people and include new stereodynamic topics.
The day of arrival is August 17. The scientific program will begin in
the evening August 17 and finish in the afternoon August 22, 2014.**
St.Petersburg is one of the most important scientific and cultural
centers in Russia and one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. An
illustrated history of St. Petersburg, points of interest, and a virtual
city
tour can be found at the following web sites:
http://www.saint-petersburg.com/history/index.asp
http://www.saint-petersburg.com/virtual-tour/index.asp
http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/
Expecting many accompanying persons, the Local Organizing Committee
plans to organize a special excursion program for them.
Further information can be found on the conference web site
www.ioffe.ru/STD14/ <http://www.ioffe.ru/STD14/>which we will keep
updated with the most recent news. More details will be givenin the
Second Announcement.
The participants who plan to participate at the conference are kindly
asked to pre-register at the conference web site indicating tentative
presentation title and preferable way of presentation (oral/poster).
Using this information the Organizing committee will complete the
conference program and select plenary lectures and hot topics.
Welcome to St.Petersburg!
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On behalf of the STEREODYNAMICS2014
Local Organizing Committee:
Oleg Vasyutinskii, St.Petersburg (Chair)
Irina Semenova, St.Petersburg (Secretary)
Mikhail Krasilnikov, St.Petersburg
Andrey Smolin, St.Petersburg
Peter Shternin, St.Petersburg
phone: +7(812)2972064
fax:+7(812)2971017
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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Dr. Oleg S. Vasyutinskii, FInsP
Professor of Physics
Ioffe Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
Polytechnicheskaya 26
194021 St.Petersburg
RUSSIA
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
phone: 7(812)2972064
FAX: 7(812)2971017
