SEVENTH SYMPOSIUM ON MOLECULAR REACTION DYNAMICS IN CONDENSED MATTER

March 3-6, Laguna Beach, CA

Program Chairs: D. Dlott (Illinois), E. Chronister (Riverside), and V. A. Apkarian (Irvine)

Program sponsors: Air Force Office of Scientific Research

University of California, Irvine, Office of Research and Graduate Studies

University of California, Riverside, Office of Research Affairs

The UC Discovery Grant Program (http://www.UCdiscoverygrant.org)



Conference Program

Wednesday, March 3

Arrival and check in

5:00 - 7:00 pm Reception


7:30 - 9:10 pm         Dynamics in Condensed Phases  -- Chair Eric Chronister

7:30

Keith Nelson

MIT

Terahertz polaritonics: Spatiotemporal coherent control over propagating lattice waves

8:20

Marcos Dantus

Michigan St.

Controlling nonlinear optical excitation of large molecules in condensed phase and multiphoton imaging

8:45
Harald Kauffman
Vienna
Quantum-stochastic relaxation of optical excitations in a conjugated polymer: experimental coherence and homogeneous dephasing


Thursday, March 4

7:30 - 9:00 am     Breakfast

9:00 -12:15          Condensed Phase Dynamics  -- Chair Dana Dlott

9:00
Ken Eisenthal
Columbia
Molecular Dynamics at Aqueous Interfaces
9:50
Alex Benderskii
Wayne State
Coherent time-resolved vibrational spectroscopy of surfaces and interfaces

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John Deak

Scranton

Energy Transfer over self-assembled nanostructures

10:40

Break



11:00

James Skinner

Wisconsin

Ultrafast spectroscopy and dynamics in water and aqueous solutions

11:50

David Blank

Minnesota

Direct probing of the local environment during dynamic events in solution


12:15 -2:00 pm     Lunch

2:00 - 6:05 pm         Multidimensional Spectroscopy  -- Chair Alex Benderskii

2:00

Andrei Tokmakoff

MIT

Hydrogen bond dynamics in water probed with IR echoes and 2D IR spectroscopy

2:50

Shaul Mukamel

Irvine

Multidimensional optical spectroscopies of molecules and aggregates: snapshots of electronic and vibrational coherence

3:40

Break



4:00

Nien-Hui Ge

Irvine

Heterodyned 2D IR spectroscopy of short peptides

4:25

Richard Van Duyne

Northwestern

Nanoparticle Optics for Surface-Enhanced Sensing and Spectroscopy

5:15
Yoonsoo Pang
Illinois
Vibrational energy relaxation in water and HOD/D2O by ultrafast IR-Raman spectroscopy

5:40

Dana Dlott

Illinois

Molecular dynamics with ultrahigh time and space resolution with multidimensional vibrational spectroscopy



6:05 - 8:00 pm     Dinner


8:00 - 9:40 pm      Condensed Phase Dynamics (cont.) & Quantum Computing -- Chair Benjamin Schwartz

8:00

Eric Chronister

UC Riverside

Optically generated surface acoustic waves as a probe of liquid-solid interfaces under variable high pressure conditions

8:25

Christopher Elles

Wisconsin

Solvent influence on the vibrational relaxation of CH3I

8:50

Ara Apkarian

Irvine

Quantum Coherent Dissipation - a glimpse of the "cat"


Friday, March 5


7:30 - 9:00 am      Breakfast


9:00 -12:15 pm      Molecular Dynamics Relevant to Quantum Computing -- Chair Marcos Dantus

9:00

Regina de Vivie-Riedle

München

Quantum gates and quantum algorithms operating on moelcular vibrational modes

9:50

Philip Bucksbaum

Michigan

Learning about Quantum Dynamics from Learning Control Algorithms

10:40

Break



11:00

Birgitta Whaley

Berkeley

Nanoscale Superfluidity in Molecular Hydrogen

11:50

Leonard Mueller

Riverside

NMR Quantum Information Processing with a Single-Crystal Solid


12:15 -2:00 pm      Lunch


2:00 - 5:40 pm      Collective motions probed by THz or X-rays -- Chair Andrei Tokmakoff

2:00

Steven Leone

Berkeley

Ultrafast Chemical Dynamics Probed by Soft X-Rays

2:50

Margaret Murnane

Colorado

Ultrafast EUV Probes of Surfaces: Charge Transfer and Photoacoustic Spectroscopies

3:40

Break



4:00

Christoph Rose-Petruck

Brown

XANES spectroscopy of solvated transition metal complexes measured with ultrafast laser-driven x-ray sources

4:50

Ting Guo

UC Davis

Ultrafast selected energy x-ray absorption spectroscopy (USEXAS): Principle and applications

5:15

Eberhard Riedle

München

Real-time investigation of nuclear motion during primary chemical reactions

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6:05 - 8:00 pm      Dinner


8:00 - 9:40 pm     Dynamics in Liquids -- Chair David Blank

8:00

J.T. Hynes

ENS, Paris/
Colorado

Dynamics in the Aqueous Solvation Shell of Anions

8:50
Steven Adelman
Purdue
Time Correlation Function Approach to Liquid Phase Vibrational Energy Relaxation: Dihalogen Solutes in Rare Gas Solvents
9:15
Hyung Kim
Carnegie Mellon
MD simulation study of solute and solvent dynamics in room-temperature ionic liquid


Saturday, March 6


7:30 - 9:00 am      Breakfast


9:00 - 12:25         Chemical Dynamics in Condensed Phases -- Chair Ara Apkarian

9:00

Todd Martinez

Illinois

First Principles Studies of Photoinduced Isomerization and Proton Transfer

9:50

Adam Cohen

Irvine

Resonant enhancement and dissipation in nonequilibrium van der Waals forces

10:15

Wei Zhao

Arkansas Doubly vibrationally enhanced four wave mixing spectroscopy in a metal ion-acetonitrile complex system

10:40

Break





11:00
Benjamin Schwartz
UCLA
The Roles of Electron Exchange and Correlation in Condensed-Phase Dynamics: Nonadiabatic Mixed Quantum-Classical Computer Simulations of the Hydrated Dielectron

11:50

Steven Corcelli

Wisconsin

Combined electronic structure/molecular dynamics approach for ultrafast infrared spectroscopy of dilute HOD in liquid H2O and D2O


12:15 Conference ends