Dear Colleagues:
We are writing to encourage you to contribute to the international
symposium entitled "Electronically Nonadiabatic Processes in Gaseous,
Cluster and Condensed Media" at the ACS National Meeting in New Orleans,
Louisiana, August 22-26, 1999. We would be most pleased if you or a young
colleague from your group would contribute a poster presentation to the
symposium (we have room for four 20-minute contributed talks from those
contributions). The symposium includes the elucidation of electronically
nonadiabatic effects using experiment and electronic structure theory and
quantum reaction dynamics theory. We include a wide range of reactive
processes in gaseous and condensed media including photochemistry, ion
chemistry, physical organic mechanisms, cluster dynamics, and
photosynthesis. The symposium will last four days (seven half day
sessions plus one joint half day with another Symposium entitled "Imaging
in Chemical Dynamics") and is the largest sponsored by the Physical
Chemistry Division at this ACS Meeting. Its goal is to bring together
experimentalists and theorists who are active in gas- and condensed- phase
reaction dynamics, in order to present state-of-the-art measurements and
calculations to encourage cross-fertilization between the researchers in
different fields, so we are especially eager to include a contribution from
your research group.
We plan a symposium dinner during the meeting, and would be delighted to
invite any of your contributing students/postdocs to the dinner to
facilitate the cross-fertilization between them and the broad spectrum of
international speakers (list attached) presenting at the meeting. Please
send to Laurie ([log in to unmask]) the email addresses of any of
your young colleagues who plan to contribute to the meeting so we can make
the invitation directly.
Please submit your abstract electronically by April 1, 1999. The ACS is
requiring electronic submission for the New Orleans meeting! The
electronic submission Web page will be ready by March 8; it may be accessed
at http://www.acs.org/meetings/abstract/abinfo.html
Yours Sincerely,
Laurie J. Butler and Donald G. Truhlar
Laurie Butler, Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of Chicago, 5640 S. Ellis Ave.,
Chicago, IL 60637, (773) 702-7206, fax (773) 702-5863,
[log in to unmask]
Don Truhlar, Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455,
(612) 624-7555, fax (612) 626-9390, e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Invited Speakers include:
Millard Alexander, University of Maryland
Dr. Mutsumi Aoyagi, Institute for Molecular Science, JAPAN
V. Ara Apkarian, University of California, Irvine
Gabriel G. Balint-Kurti, University of Bristol
Paul F. Barbara, University of Texas, Austin
Bill Breckenridge, University of Utah
Robert J. Buenker, Bergische Universität
David F. Coker, Boston University
Karl F. Freed, University of Chicago
Michael D. Hack, University of Minnesota
Martin Head-Gordon, University of California, Berkeley
Michael F. Herman, Tulane University
Paul L. Houston, Cornell University
Brian Kendrick, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Karl L. Kompa, Max-Planck Institut für Quantenoptik
Horst Köppel, Universität Heidelberg, GERMANY
Marsha I. Lester, University of Pennsylvania
Raphy Levine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Carl Lineberger, JILA, University of Colorado
Todd J. Martinez, University of Illinois, Urbana
Bill Miller, University of California, Berkeley
Hiroki Nakamura, Institute for Molecular Science
David Nesbitt, JILA, University of Colorado
Daniel Neumark, University of California, Berkeley
Simon W. North, Texas A&M University
Robert Parson, JILA, University of Colorado
John Polanyi, University of Toronto
Michael A. Robb, King's College London
George C. Schatz, Northwestern University
Reinhard Schinke, Max-Planck Institut, Göttingen
Benoit Soep, CNRS, Université Paris Sud
Gerhard Stock, University of Freiburg
Peter J. Wagner, Michigan State University
Hans-Joachim Werner, University of Stuttgart
David Yarkony, Johns Hopkins University
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Laurie J. Butler
Professor of Chemistry
and The James Franck Institute
The University of Chicago
5640 S. Ellis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
Phone: (773) 702-7206
FAX: (773) 702-5863 (put To: L. Butler on cover pg)
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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