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MIC2010

Molecular & Ionic Cluster Conference 2010 Program


(All the titles are tentative and will be updated in due course)
Sunday (September 5, 2010)
12:00 - 18:00 Arrival and Check-in
18:00 - 19:20 Dinner
19:20 - 19:35 Opening Remarks (Masaaki Fujii, Ken Jordan and Eizi Hirota)
19:35 - 21:35
Session 1 : He Droplets and Quantum Condensed Phase
Discussion Leader: Nadine Halberstadt (Université Paul Sabatier-Toulouse)
19:35 - 19:50 Discussion Leader's Overview
19:50 - 20:25 Takamasa Momose (University of British Columbia)
“Helium nanodroplet spectroscopy for the study of atomic and molecular clusters”
20:25 - 20:35 Discussion
20:35 - 20:45 Hot Topics: Andrey Vilesov (University of Southern California)
“Different modes of cluster growth in He droplets - from nano-droplets to micro-droplets”
20:45 - 20:50 Discussion
20:50 - 21:25 Frank Stienkemeier (Universität Freiburg)
“Phase and Structural Transitions of Hydrogen, Argon and Neon Clusters Attached to Helium Nanodroplets”
21:25 - 21:35 Discussion
21:50 - 23:00 Welcome Party (Arena)

Monday (September 6, 2010)
7:00 - 8:30 Breakfast
9:00 - 12:30
Session 2 : Ionic Clusters
Discussion Leader: Asuka Fujii (Tohoku University)
9:00 - 9:15 Discussion Leader's Overview
9:15 - 9:50 Mark Johnson (Yale University)
“Exploring the solvation landscape using Ar-mediated pump-probe spectroscopy in the vibrational manifolds”
9:50 - 10:00 Discussion
10:00 - 10:10 Hot Topics: Kiyokazu Fuke (Kobe University)
“Development of Gas-Phase NMR Spectroscopy for Mass-Selected Cluster Ions”
10:10 - 10:15 Discussion
10:15 - 10:25 Hot Topics: Namjoon Kim (Chungbuk National University)
“Ultraviolet Photodepletion Spectroscopy of Isolated Dibenzo-18-Crown-6 Complexes with Alkali and Alkaline Earth Metal Cations”
10:25 - 10:30 Discussion
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break / Group Phot
11:00 - 11:35 Kazuo Takatsuka (University of Tokyo)
“Electron and nuclear coupled dynamics in ionic clusters”
11:35 - 11:45 Discussion
11:45 - 12:20 Otto Dopfer (Technische Universität Berlin)
“IR spectroscopy of aromatic ions and clusters”
12:20 - 12:30 Discussion
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 17:30 Free time
17:30 - 19:30
Session 3 : Clusters and Aerosols in Atmospheric Chemistry
Discussion Leader: Ruth Signorell (University of British Columbia)
17:30 - 17:45 Discussion Leader's Overview
17:45 - 18:20 Veronica Vaida (University of Colorado)
“Water clusters and water mediated chemistry: relevance to atmospheric aerosols”
18:20 - 18:30 Discussion
18:30 - 18:40 Hot Topics: Kaito Takahashi (IAMS, Academia Sinica)
“Theoretical study on oh stretching vibrational energy decay in protonated, deprotonated and neutral water clusters”
18:40 - 18:45 Discussion
18:45 - 19:20 Marsha Lester (University of Pennsylvania)
“Intermolecular Interactions and Reactions of Hydroxyl Radicals with Atmospheric Species”
19:20 - 19:30 Discussion
19:30 - 21:00 Dinner
21:00 - 23:00 Poster Session 1 (Arena)

Tuesday (September 7, 2010)
7:00 - 8:30 Breakfast
9:00 - 12:30
Session 4 : Intermolecular Potentials
Discussion Leader: Sotiris Xantheas (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
9:00 - 9:15 Discussion Leader's Overview
9:15 - 9:50 Krzysztof Szalewicz (University of Delaware)
“Perspectives of computing first-principles intermolecular interactions potentials for dimers containing hundreds of atoms”
9:50 - 10:00 Discussion
10:00 - 10:10 Hot Topics: John Herbert (Ohio State University)
“The role of self-consistent polarization in the description of the hydrated electron”
10:10 - 10:15 Discussion
10:15 - 10:25 Hot Topics: Stuart R Mackenzie (Oxford University)
“Infra-red induced reactivity on the surface of isolated size-selected clusters”
10:25 - 10:30 Discussion
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:35 Anne McCoy (Ohio State University)
“Using Quantum Monte Carlo Approaches for Studying the Spectroscopy of Ionic Clusters”
11:35 - 11:45 Discussion
11:45 - 12:20 Jean-Philip Piquemal (Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI))
“Development of next generation ab initio force fields using gaussian electrostatics”
12:20 - 12:30 Discussion
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 17:30 Free time
17:30 - 19:30
Session 5 : Metal Clusters
Discussion Leader: Bernd von Issendorff (Universität Freiburg)
17:30 - 17:45 Discussion Leader's Overview
17:45 - 18:20 Gereon Niedner-Schatteburg (Technische Universität Kaiserslautern)
“The spin and orbit contributions to the magnetic moments of isolated transition metal clusters”
18:20 - 18:30 Discussion
18:30 - 18:40 Hot Topics: Michael Duncan (University of Georgia)
“Infrared spectroscopy of exotic metal-ligand cluster ions”
18:40 - 18:45 Discussion
18:45 - 19:20 Atsushi Nakajima (Keio University)
“Electronic properties of binary superatoms”
19:20 - 19:30 Discussion
19:30 - 21:00 Dinner
21:00 - 23:00 Poster Session 2 (Arena)

Wednesday (September 8, 2010)
7:00 - 8:30 Breakfast
9:00 - 12:30
Session 6 : Hydrogen-Bonded Networks
Discussion Leader: Seong Keun Kim (Seoul National University)
9:00 - 9:15 Discussion Leader's Overview
9:15 - 9:50 Hiroshi Sekiya (Kyushu University)
“Photo-induced rearrangement of water network in hydrated amide groups”
9:50 - 10:00 Discussion
10:00 - 10:10 Hot Topics: Markus Gerhards (TU Kaiserslautern, Germany)
“IR-UV investigations on proton wire coordinates of 3 hydroxyflavone water clusters in the electronically excited state”
10:10 - 10:15 Discussion
10:15 - 10:25 Hot Topics: Eric Gloaguen (CEA-Saclay, CNRS)
“Effects of microhydration on a model peptide chain investigated by IR-UV double resonance spectroscopy”
10:25 - 10:30 Discussion
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:35 James Lisy (University of Illinois)
“Unexpected twists and turns on potential energy surfaces. These and other surprises in cluster ions.”
11:35 - 11:45 Discussion
11:45 - 12:20 G. Naresh Patwari (Indian Institute of Technology)
“Phenylacetylene: A Hydrogen Bonding Chameleon”
12:20 - 12:30 Discussion
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 17:30 Free time
17:00 - 17:30 Business Meeting
17:30 - 19:30
Session 7 : Cold Molecules and Controlled Collisions
Discussion Leader: Klaus Müller-Dethlefs (University of Manchester)
17:30 - 17:45 Discussion Leader's Overview
17:45 - 18:20 Thierry Stoecklin (CNRS / University of Bordeaux)
“The interaction of MnH with He Triatomic bound states and Collisional Zeeman relaxation in a magnetic field”
18:20 - 18:30 Discussion
18:30 - 18:40 Hot Topics: Gert von Helden (Fritz-Haber-Institut, Max-Planck)
“Catching proteins in liquid helium droplets”-->
18:40 - 18:45 Discussion
18:45 - 19:20 Timothy Softley (Oxford University)
“Cold ion-molecule reactions with laser cooled ions”
19:20 - 19:30 Discussion
19:30 - 21:00 Dinner
21:00 - 23:00 Poster Session 3 (Arena)

Thursday (September 9, 2010)
7:00 - 8:30 Breakfast
9:00 - 12:30
Session 8 : Noncovalent Interactions in Biological / Large Molecules & Clusters
Discussion Leader: Anne Zenacker-Retien (Université Paris Sud)
9:00 - 9:15 Discussion Leader's Overview
9:15 - 9:50 Takayuki Ebata (Hiroshima University)
“Revealing the structure and dynamics of functional molecules”
9:50 - 10:00 Discussion
10:00 - 10:10 Hot Topics: Shun-ichi Ishiuchi (Tokyo Tech, Japan)
“Gas-phase spectroscopy of biomolecules by gold nano particle assisted laser desorption supersonic jet technique”
10:10 - 10:15 Discussion
10:15 - 10:25 Hot Topics: Oleg Boyarkine (EPFL, Switzerland)
“Spectroscopy of isolated and solvated forms of protonated gramicidin S in the gas phase”
10:25 - 10:30 Discussion
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:35 Timothy Zwier (Purdue University)
“The Competition between Hydrogen Bonding and Amide Stacking in Gamma-peptide-H2O complexes”
11:35 - 11:45 Discussion
11:45 - 12:20 Bernard Brutchy (University of Frankfurt)
“Dynamics of the Watson-Crick-base-pair Adenine-Thymine in gasphase with fs/IR spectroscopy”
12:20 - 12:30 Discussion
12:30 - 13:00 Lunch
13:30 - 17:30 Free time
17:30 - 19:30
Session 9 : Dynamics in Clusters
Discussion Leader: Carl Lineberger (University of Colorado)
17:30 - 17:45 Discussion Leader's Overview
17:45 - 18:20 Christophe Jouvet (Université Paris Sud)
“Dynamics and spectroscopy of excited states protonated cluster”
18:20 - 18:30 Discussion
18:30 - 18:40 Hot Topics: Hirokazu Hasegawa (IMS, Japan)
“Coherent excitation of intermolecular vibration in NO-Ar by a nonresonant intense femtosecond laser pulse”
18:40 - 18:45 Discussion
18:45 - 19:20 Daniel Neumark (University of California Berkeley)
“Time-resolved dynamics in clusters”
19:20 - 19:30 Discussion
19:30 - 21:00 Conference Banquet
21:00 - 23:00 Poster Session 4 (Arena)

Friday (September 10, 2010)
7:00 - 8:30 Breakfast
9:00 Departure