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Programme

The programme has not been set in stone, however, the approximate programme is as follows.

Thursday 30 October 2008

11:00–11:10            Allister Ferguson (vice principal) – introduction

2D-IR

11:10–11:50
invited

Frank Kuo, Dmitri Vorobyev and Robin Hochstrasser, "Hydrogen bond dynamics of polar groups and ions using one and two frequency 2D IR"

11:50–12:10

Jessica Anna, Kevin Kubarych, “A Study of Equilibrium Isomerization Dynamics of Dicobalt Octacarbonyl via Ultrafast 2DIR Spectroscopy

12:10–12:25

A. Ian Stewart, M. Towrie, I.P. Clark, A.W. Parker, S. Ibrahim, C.J. Pickett3 and N.T. Hunt, “Applications of ultrafast two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy to studies of the Fe-hydrogenase enzyme system

12:25–12:40

Paul Donaldson, Frederic Fourniera, Elizabeth M. Gardnera, C.B. Loeffeldab, D.R. Klug, “Bio-analytical applications of Electronic-Vibration-Vibration 2DIR Spectroscopy

lunch break & poster session

Terahertz

14:00-14:40
invited

Charles Schmuttenmaer, "Terahertz Spectroscopy: What’s it all about?"

14:40–15:00

E. Castro-Camus, J. Lloyd-Hughes, and M. B. Johnston, “Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy study of functional configurations of photoactive yellow protein in aqueous solution

15:00–15:15

Ismael A. Heisler and Stephen R. Meech, “Polarization-Resolved Ultrafast Polarizability Relaxation in Aromatic Liquids

15:15–15:30

David Turton, Johannes Hunger, Alexander Stoppa, Glenn Hefter, Andreas Thoman, Markus Walther, Hanspeter Helm, Richard Buchner,and Klaas Wynne, “Structure in simple and complex liquids studied by OKE spectroscopy

coffee

Time-resolved X-rays & surfaces etc

16:00–16:40
invited

Majed Chergui, "Electronic and structural dynamics in molecular systems by ultrafast UV and X-ray spectroscopies"

16:40–17:00

Maciej Lorenc, Eric Collet, Johan Hebert, Nicolas Moisan, Marina Servol, Marylise Buron, Hervé Cailleau, Marie-Laure Boillot, Michael Wulff, Shin-ya Koshihara, “Tracking the photoswitching dynamics of bistable spincrossover molecules at solid state

17:00–17:15

Heike Arnolds, “Time-dependent dipole coupling and line narrowing in adsorbate vibrational spectroscopy

17:15–17:30

Claus Peter Schulz, Hongtao Liu, Christian Schröter, Nick Zhavoronkov, and Ingolf V. Hertel, “Ultrafast Dynamics in Na-doped water Clusters

17:30–17:45

Richard J Marsh, Daven A Armoogm, Nicolas Nicolaou, Olivier Mongn , Mireille Blanchard –Desce, and Angus J Bain, “Soft and Hard Alignment in Excited Electronic States Probed by Time Resolved Optical Hole-burning

dinner

Friday 31 October 2008

2D-IR & surfaces

9:30–10:10
invited

Peter Hamm, Ellen Backus, Virgiliu Botan, Rolf Pfister, Alessandro Moretto, Claudio Toniolo, Phuong Hoang Nguyen, Gerhard Stock, "Energy Transport in Peptide Helices"

10:10–10:50
invited

Mischa Bonn, Jens Bredenbeck, R. Kramer Campen, Avishek Ghosh, Maria Sovago, “Ultrafast vibrational dynamics of interfacial water

10:50–11:05

Jens Bredenbeck, Avishek Ghosh, Marc Smits, Maria Sovago, Mischa Bonn, “Ultrafast 2D-IR spectroscopy of a molecular monolayer

coffee

Hydrogen bonding

11:30–12:10
invited

Thomas Elsaesser, J. R. Dwyer, L. Szyc, D. Kraemer, M. L. Cowan, A. Paarmann, N. Huse, E. T. J. Nibbering, R. J. D. Miller, "Ultrafast hydrogen bond dynamics in liquid water and hydrated DNA"

12:10–12:30

Keisuke Tominaga, Junpei Tayama, Akina Kariya, Kaoru Ohta, and Seiji Akimoto, “Vibrational Frequency Fluctuations in Solutions Studied by Infrared Nonlinear Spectroscopy

12:30–12:45

Jörg Lindner, Tim Schäfer, Dirk Schwarzer, and Peter Vöhringer, “Femtosecond mid-infrared spectroscopy of vibrational energy transfer in liquid-to-supercritical ammonia

lunch & poster session & AGM of the Molecular Physics group of the IoP

Dynamics in liquids

13:30–14:10
invited

Damien Laage, Guillaume Stirnemann and Casey Hynes, "Dynamics of Water Reorientation around Ionic and Hydrophobic Solutes"

14:10–14:30

Erik T. J. Nibbering, Katrin Adamczyk, Omar F. Mohammed, D. Pines, and E. Pines, “Femtosecond Infrared Spectroscopy of Elementary Chemical Transformations: Bimolecular Proton Transfer

14:30–14:45

Maxim S. Pshenichnikov, Dan Cringus, and Thomas l. C. Jansen, “Dissimilar Dynamics of Water Stretching Modes

14:45–15:00

Danny J. Shaw, M. R. Panman, and S. Woutersen, “Cooperative vibrational relaxation in pure liquids

15:00–15:15

Roberto Improta, Fabrizio Santoro, Alessandro Lami, Vincenzo Barone, “Environmental effects on the excited state dynamics of DNA constituents: a quantum mechanical approach

15:15–15:25

Closing remarks

06-Apr-2007