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46461-SE
XXI Dynamics of Molecular Collisions Meeting, July 2007, Santa Fe, NM

David W. Chandler, Sandia National Laboratory

The Dynamics of Molecular Collisions meeting was held on July 8 to July 13 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The meeting was chaired by Dr. David Chandler and Dr. Anne McCoy. There were 44 lectures on areas of gas phase chemistry and collision dynamics, photochemistry, biophysics, ultra-cold molecule production, ab initio theory of potential energy surfaces and theory of chemical reactions. A new award, the Dudley Herschbach award, was presented to Dr. Richard N. Zare and Dr. William Miller. The award was for excellence in the area of experimental and theoretical physical chemistry. This meeting is very international and the money obtained from the ACS via grant 46461-se was used to support these international speakers;

Professor Jean Claude Rayez

University of Bordeaux 1,

Domaine Universitaire 1,

351 Cours de la Libeacute

Talence, Cedex 33405 France

Lecture Title: On Simple Semi Classical Tools to Improve the Capability of Classical mechanics to describe molecular scattering processes

Professor Pierre-Nicholas Roy

University of Alberta

Department of Chemsitry

University of Alberta

Edmonton, AB T6G2G2

Canada

Lecture title: Rotational Dynamics of Doped Quantum clusters

Dr. Oleg Vasyutinskii

Ioffe Institute

Russia Academy of Sciences

Polytechnicheskaya 26

St. Petersberg, 194021

Russia

Lecture title: Orbital polarization of the photofragments in predissocitation of diatomic and polyatomic m0olecules

Jim Lin

Institute of atomic and molecular Sciences

Academia Sinica POB 23-166

Taipei, 106 Taiwan

Lecture Title: Dynamics of Elementary Chemical Reactions Studied by Crossed Molecular Beam Techniques and ab initio calculation

David Manolopoulos

University of Oxford

PTCL South Park Road

Oxford, OX1 3QZ

United Kingdom

Lecture title: Chemical Reaction Rates from Ring Polymer Molecular Dynamics

Professor Wolfgang Ernst

Technical University of Graz

Petersgasse 16

Graz, 8010

Austria

Lecture title:Alkali Atoms on cold helium droplets: aggregation state selection, optical pumping and electronic spin relaxation.

Professor Dong Hui Zhang

Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics

Center for Theoretical and Computational Chemsitry

457 Zhongshan Road

Dailian, 100623

P. R. China.

Lecture title: Accurate Quantum Reactive Scattering of Chemical Reactions on ab initio potential energy surfaces.

Each speaker was given $500 for partial reimbursement of his travel expenses to the meeting except for Dr Rayez who was given $600.

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