Dear Colleagues,

 
Registration is now open for the 30th International Symposium on Free
Radicals that will be held July 25 - 30, 2009 in Savonlinna, Finland.
Registration will only be open for three months and accommodation is limited
in Savonlinna. We therefore urge you to register early. The conference dates
coincide with the world-renowned Savonlinna Opera Festival. 

In the tradition of this meeting, the focus will be on the chemical and
physical properties of free radicals broadly defined, including paramagnetic
molecules, ions, molecules in excited states and other transient species.
There will be a special issue of the Journal of Physical Chemistry, to be
published early in 2010, with papers regarding the work presented at the
30th International Symposium on Free Radicals. Contributions are invited
from all of those who present talks or posters at the Symposium.

Registration prices (include all meals and participation in social events):
Regular participant: 500 euro
Students: 350 euro
Accompanying person: 350 euro
Late registration: additional 75 euro

Accommodation costs per person range from 70 to 580 euro for the five-night
duration of the conference.
 
Please visit our conference website for the most current information:
http://www.helsinki.fi/kemia/FRS2009 

IMPORTANT DATES

July 25 - 30, 2009: Symposium in Savonlinna.
April 1, 2009: Normal registration closes.
April 1, 2009: Preliminary title submission deadline for the special issue
of the Journal of Physical Chemistry. 
April 2, 2009: Late registration opens. Accommodation options via the
registration process are limited.
April 14, 2009: Late registration closes.
May 1, 2009: Abstract submission closes.
July 1, 2009: Article submission for the special issue of the Journal of
Physical Chemistry opens.
August 31, 2009: Article submission deadline for the special issue of the
Journal of Physical Chemistry.


 
The format of the symposium includes invited lectures, hot topic
presentations and posters. The list of speakers with topics and titles includes

SPECTROSCOPY AND STRUCTURE OF FREE RADICALS
Evan Bieske (Univ. Melbourne, Australia): Molecular hydrogen attached to
metal cations: gas phase spectroscopic studies
John Brown (Univ. Oxford, UK): The measurement of the electric dipole moment
of a charged molecule
Michael Morse (Univ. Utah, USA): Laser spectroscopy of metal-containing free
radicals
Dan Neumark (Berkeley, USA): Photodissociation of free radicals
David Nesbitt (JILA, Colorado, USA): Conformational dynamics studies of
hydrocarbon radicals through high-resolution infrared spectroscopy
Rich Saykally (Berkeley, USA): pH of the liquid water surface: selective
adsorption of hydroxide and hydronium ions
Yoshihiro Sumiyoshi (Univ. Tokyo, Japan): High-resolution spectroscopy of
atom-diatom radical complexes

CHEMICAL KINETICS AND REACTION DYNAMICS
Jim Lin (Academia Sinica, Taiwan): Low energy routes from closed-shell
molecules to free radicals
Timothy Minton (Montana State Univ., USA): Crossed-beams studies of
hyperthermal O(3P) reactions: unusual mechanisms that may not follow the
minimum energy path
David Osborn (Sandia National Lab, USA): Isomer-resolved chemical kinetics:
uncovering the hidden nature of chemical reaction products

FREE RADICALS IN ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY
Henrik Kjaergaard (Univ. Otago, New Zealand): Spectroscopy of reactive
radical complexes
Mitchio Okumura (Caltech, USA): Cavity ringdown studies of atmospheric free
radicals
Akkihebbal Ravishankara (NOAA, Colorado, USA): Atmospheric free radicals:
instigators of chemistry that impacts climate and air quality

FREE RADICALS IN COMBUSTION CHEMISTRY
Marcus Alden (Univ. Lund, Sweden): Development and application of new laser
spectroscopic techniques for measurements of radicals in combustion
Larry Harding (Argonne National Lab, USA): Theoretical treatments of free
radical kinetics relevant to combustion
Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus (Univ. Bielefeld, Germany): Investigating
intermediate species chemistry in combustion

INTERSTELLAR SPECTRA AND CHEMICAL PROCESSES
Eric Herbst (Ohio State Univ., USA): The chemistry of stellar and planetary
formation
Mats Larsson (Univ. Stockholm, Sweden): Molecule formation in interstellar
space by dissociative recombination
John Maier (Univ. Basel, Switzerland): Electronic spectra of carbon chains,
rings and ions

COMPUTATIONAL AND THEORETICAL CHEMISTRY OF FREE RADICALS
Joel Bowman (Emory Univ., USA): Reactions involving "roaming" radicals
Anna Krylov (Univ. Southern California, USA): Bonding patterns in open-shell
species
Jean-Claude Rayez (Univ. Bordeaux, France): Modelisation of chemical
processes involving radicals in homogeneous and heterogeneous chemistry

ULTRACOLD SYSTEMS
David Chandler (Sandia National Laboratories, USA): Progress in the
kinematic cooling and trapping of molecules
Dieter Gerlich (Univ. Chemnitz, Germany): Cold ions in traps: applications
in interstellar chemistry
Edward Hinds (Imperial College London, UK): Fundamental physics with polar
radicals

SPEECHES
Sir Harold Kroto (Florida State University, USA) will give the conference
banquet speech on the 29th of July, which coincides with the 370th Saint
Olaf's Day.
Jürgen Troe (University of Göttingen, Germany) will give a farewell luncheon
speech on the final day.


Please accept my apologies for any cross-posting!



Best regards and we hope to see you in Savonlinna,

 
Lauri Halonen, Chair of the Local Advisory and Organizing Committees

 

Local Advisory Committee:

Chair, Lauri Halonen, University of Helsinki
Vice-Chair, Raimo Timonen, University of Helsinki
Jouko Korppi-Tommola, University of Jyväskylä 
Henrik Kunttu, University of Jyväskylä
Helge Lemmetyinen, Tampere University of Technology
Pekka Pyykkö, University of Helsinki 
Dage Sundholm, University of Helsinki 

 
 
For further information please contact:

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Professor  Lauri Halonen
Laboratory of Physical Chemistry
PO Box 55 (A.I. Virtasen aukio 1)
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki
Finland
 
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Tel: +358 (0)9 19150280
FAX: +358 (0)9 19150279

http://www.helsinki.fi/kemia/fysikaalinen/research/molspec/index.html
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