Celebration of 50th Meeting

Since this year marks the 50th consecutive annual meeting of the Ohio State University International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy, we have planned a number of events to commemorate the occasion. Highlighting these events will be a plenary session all day Wednesday, June 14. The session will feature opening and closing addresses by the Directors of the two agencies in the United States most directly responsible for sponsoring the research presented at the Symposium and the Symposium itself, respectively Neal Lane of the National Science Foundation and Gerald Iafrate of the Army Office of Research. The heart of the plenary session will feature lectures by eight Nobel Laureates: Dudley Herschbach, Harvard; Gerhard Herzberg, NRCC; Yuan T. Lee, Academia Sinica; Charles H. Townes, University of California at Berkeley; John Polanyi, University of Toronto; George Porter, Imperial College, London; Norman F. Ramsey, Harvard; Kenneth G. Wilson, The Ohio State University. Work of these Laureates has either been in molecular spectroscopy or strongly influenced by it. We expect this to be a truly memorable session.

In addition to the Wednesday plenary session, other activities will commemorate the anniversary. During the past year, a special committee (Jon Hougen, NIST, Chair; Robert Curl, Rice University; Kevin Lehmann, Princeton University; Benoit Simard, NRCC; and Mary Ann Smith, NASA), has worked to document the history of molecular spectroscopy as revealed by the Symposium. This Committee will present their findings at a special session on Wednesday, June 14, starting at 6:00pm at Hitchcock Hall Auditorium. This session will conclude with a discussion of the "Outstanding Challenges" for molecular spectroscopy in the coming years. Additionally, their work has resulted in numerous special features that will be found in the hard-bound copy of the Abstract Book.

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