PHYSWednesday, April 9, 2008

8:00 AM-12:00 PM Morial Convention Center -- Rm. 344, Oral
Optical Probes of Dynamics in Complex Environments
Nonequilibrium Dynamics and Solvation
Organizers:Andrei Tokmakoff
Roseanne J. Sension
Presiding:Christopher M. Cheatum
8:00 AMUltrafast 1- and 2-D infrared studies of complex chemical reactions
Charles B. Harris, Karma R. Sawyer, James F. Cahoon, Jacob P. Schlegel
8:40 AMNonequilibrium dynamics studied with transient Fourier transform 2-D IR spectroscopy
Robert McCanne, Carlos R. Baiz, Jessica M. Anna, Matthew J Nee, Kevin J Kubarych
9:20 AMSolute pump/solvent probe spectroscopy: Theory and molecular mechanism
Richard M. Stratt, Branka M. Ladanyi
9:40 AMUltrafast 2-D vibrational spectroscopy of molecular monolayers
Jens Bredenbeck, Avishek Ghosh, Marc Smits, Mischa Bonn
10:00 AMIntermission
10:20 AMMeasuring the changes in the local molecular environment during reaction dynamics in solution
David A. Blank
11:00 AMSolvent role in chemical reaction dynamics: Surface hopping and mode-specific energy dissipation
Stephen E. Bradforth
11:40 AMAtomic solvation dynamics and the breakdown of linear response
Arthur E. Bragg, Molly Cavanagh, Benjamin J. Schwartz

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