Plenary Speakers
60th Celebration
A modest celebration in honor of the 60th uninterrupted annual
International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy is planned. A focus
of this celebration will be a special plenary session titled
"Perspectives on Spectroscopy and Science." It will feature talks by
Robert
Curl, Rice University, and
Harry Kroto, Sussex
University, 1996 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry. Jon Hougen,
NIST, will oversee a light-hearted retrospective on the Symposium as
part of the festivities before the picnic. With the guidance of the
International Advisory Committee, both the plenary speakers above and
the mini-symposia topics below have been selected on the basis of a
theme this year. For the three mini-symposia, it was decided to
highlight applications of spectroscopy. The plenary speakers were
chosen to discuss topics that have either been of fundamental
spectroscopic interest for the 20th Century and expected to continue
well into the 21st, or topics that may establish themselves as such in
the 21st Century.
Special Sessions
Last Update:
December, 2004