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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/

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Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the XV STEREODYNAMICS meeting, 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 Bergeat                      France
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

· Quantum chemistry

· Surface scattering

· Reaction dynamics in the gas phase and in condensed media, including ultracold atomic and molecular dynamics.

· Photodissociation

· Chirality

· Chemical reaction control

· 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

Kenneth McKendrick, 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/ which we will keep updated with the most recent news. More details will be given in 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 STEREODYNAMICS 2014
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

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phone:  7(812)2972064
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