ANNOUNCEMENT
1999 Waterloo Symposium on Chemical Physics
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The fifteenth annual Symposium on Chemical Physics at the University of
Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, will be held on the weekend of November 5-7,
1999. As usual, the Symposium will include both invited and contributed oral
papers, as well as a Poster sesson, and will run from approximately 7:30 PM
on the Friday evening till mid-day Sunday. The Saturday afternoon Poster
session and reception will be followed by the conference banquet and the
usual extended discussions. The Invited Speakers for this year's meeting
are:
Invited Speakers
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Paul Corkum (NRC, Ottawa; Plenary Lecturer),
"Strong Fields Molecular Optics"
Kelly Chance (Harvard-Smithsonian Observatory),
"Fitting Atmospheric Spectra in the Infrared Through Ultraviolet:
Exercises in Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer"
James Farrar (Rochester), "Electronic Spectroscopy of Mass-Selected
Clusters: Probes of Ion Solvation"
Wolfgang Jaeger (Alberta), "Spectra of van der Waals Complexes:
Fingerprints of Intermolecular Interactions"
David Pratt (Pittsburgh), "Static and Dynamic Properties of Molecular
Assemblies in the Gas Phase"
Jonathan Tennyson (London), "Assigning the Spectrum of Water on the Sun
and Elsewhere"
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Following the regular meeting, a Post-Conference Workshop on
"Fitting of Atmospheric Spectra: Detailed Examples of the Process"
led by Kelly Chance (Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory) will be
offered on the afternoon of Sunday November 7. Further information is
available on the conference WWW site.
FULL DETAILS regarding registration, contributed paper submission, housing
and other matters, together with programs of previous meetings in this series
may be found on our WWW site:
http://theochem.uwaterloo.ca/watscp.html
Waterloo is located approximately one hour (60 miles) from the Toronto
International Airport. For further information, please contact any member
of the local organizing committee.
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Local Organizing Comittee:
