PHYSWednesday, April 9, 2008

8:00 AM-12:00 PM Morial Convention Center -- Rm. 342, Oral
Computational Spectroscopy
Spectroscopy of Materials
Organizers:Krishnan Raghavachari
H. B. Schlegel
Presiding:Charles B Musgrave
8:00 AMImproved chemical contrast in scanning tunneling microscopy: Imaging as a form of local electronic spectroscopy
D. J. Doren
8:40 AMSurface infrared spectroscopy
Yves J. Chabal, Krishnan Raghavachari
9:20 AMSurface vibrations of adsorbates on Si(111): From small clusters to infinite lattices
Glen Allen Ferguson, Krishnan Raghavachari
9:40 AMComputational spectroscopy of excited-state DNA bases
Hanneli Hudock, Todd J. Martínez
10:00 AMIntermission
10:20 AMTime-dependent density functional theory as a practical tool in the study of MCD and CD spectra of transition metal complexes. Implementations and applications
Mike Seth, Mykhaylo Krykunov, Tom Ziegler
11:00 AMComputational studies of Cα-D and C≡N vibrational probes
Steven A. Corcelli
11:40 AMTheory and simulaton of relaxation and photoluminescence in PbSe and CdSe quantum dots
Dmitri S. Kilin, Oleg V. Prezhdo, Svetlana V. Kilina

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The 235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 6-10, 2008