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
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7:30 |
Keith Nelson |
MIT |
Terahertz polaritonics: Spatiotemporal coherent control over propagating lattice waves |
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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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1015 |
John Deak |
Scranton |
Energy Transfer over self-assembled nanostructures |
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10:40 |
Break |
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| 11:00 |
James Skinner |
Wisconsin |
Ultrafast spectroscopy and dynamics in water and aqueous solutions |
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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
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2:00 |
Andrei Tokmakoff |
MIT |
Hydrogen bond dynamics in water probed with IR echoes and 2D IR spectroscopy |
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2:50 |
Shaul Mukamel |
Irvine |
Multidimensional optical spectroscopies of molecules and aggregates: snapshots of electronic and vibrational coherence |
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3:40 |
Break |
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4:00 |
Nien-Hui Ge |
Irvine |
Heterodyned 2D IR spectroscopy of short peptides |
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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 |
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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
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8:00 |
Eric Chronister |
UC Riverside |
Optically generated surface acoustic waves as a probe of liquid-solid interfaces under variable high pressure conditions |
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8:25 |
Christopher Elles |
Wisconsin |
Solvent influence on the vibrational relaxation of CH3I |
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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
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9:00 |
Regina de Vivie-Riedle |
München |
Quantum gates and quantum algorithms operating on moelcular vibrational modes |
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9:50 |
Philip Bucksbaum |
Michigan |
Learning about Quantum Dynamics from Learning Control Algorithms |
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10:40 |
Break |
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11:00 |
Birgitta Whaley |
Berkeley |
Nanoscale Superfluidity in Molecular Hydrogen |
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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
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2:00 |
Steven Leone |
Berkeley |
Ultrafast Chemical Dynamics Probed by Soft X-Rays |
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2:50 |
Margaret Murnane |
Colorado |
Ultrafast EUV Probes of Surfaces: Charge Transfer and Photoacoustic Spectroscopies |
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3:40 |
Break |
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4:00 |
Christoph Rose-Petruck |
Brown |
XANES spectroscopy of solvated transition metal complexes measured with ultrafast laser-driven x-ray sources |
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4:50 |
Ting Guo |
UC Davis |
Ultrafast selected energy x-ray absorption spectroscopy (USEXAS): Principle and applications |
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5:15 |
Eberhard Riedle |
München |
Real-time investigation of nuclear motion during primary chemical reactions |
JJJJ 5:40 watch sunset JJJJ
6:05 - 8:00 pm Dinner
8:00 - 9:40 pm Dynamics in Liquids -- Chair David Blank
| 8:00 |
J.T. Hynes |
ENS, Paris/ |
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
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9:00 |
Todd Martinez |
Illinois |
First Principles Studies of Photoinduced Isomerization and Proton Transfer |
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9:50 |
Adam Cohen |
Irvine |
Resonant enhancement and dissipation in nonequilibrium van der Waals forces |
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10:15 |
Wei Zhao |
Arkansas | Doubly vibrationally enhanced four wave mixing spectroscopy in a metal ion-acetonitrile complex system |
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10:40 |
Break |
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| 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 |
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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