WJ. MINI-SYMPOSIUM: SPECTRAL SIGNATURES OF MOLECULAR DYNAMICS

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 2006 - 1:30pm

Room: 2015 McPHERSON LAB

Chair: WILTON VIRGO, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

WJ01 INVITED TALK 30min1:30

BONDING AND DYNAMICS OF CN-Rg AND C₂-Rg COMPLEXES.

MICHAEL C. HEAVEN, Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322.

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WJ02			15min2:05

APPLICATION OF A COAXIALLY CONFIGURED SUB-MILLIMETER PULSE JET SPECTROMETER FOR INVESTIGATION OF THE STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF HI DIMER.

BLAKE A. MCELMURRY, Z. WANG, ROBERT R. LUCCHESE, JOHN W. BEVAN, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3255; SERGEY P. BELOV, Institute of Applied Physics of Russia Academy of Sciences, Uljanova Str. 46, Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia.

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WJ03			15min2:22

ISOMERIZATION AND CHEMICAL REACTION DYNAMICS OF HCN-GA IN HELIUM NANODROPLETS.

JEREMY MERRITT, GARY DOUBERLY AND ROGER MILLER, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599.

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WJ04			15min2:39

INFRARED INTENSITY AS A SPECTRAL SIGNATURE OF H-BOND FORMATION IN SMALL AMMONIA CLUSTERS STUDIED IN HE DROPLETS.

MIKHAIL N. SLIPCHENKO, 1605 Gilman Hall, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011-3111; BORIS G. SARTAKOV, on leave from: General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119991, Russia; ANDREY F. VILESOV, Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.

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WJ05			15min2:56

SIMULATING THE PHOTOELECTRON SPECTRA OF HYDRATED-ELECTRON CLUSTERS USING AB INITIO\/ MOLECULAR DYNAMICS.

JOHN M. HERBERT, Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210.

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INTERMISSION

WJ06			15min3:30

TIME-RESOLVED RECOMBINATION DYNAMICS OF IBr^-(CO₂)_n CLUSTERS.

J. P. MARTIN, V. DRIBINSKI, J. BARBERA, M. A. THOMPSON, R. PARSON AND W. C. LINEBERGER, JILA/Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309; A. SVENDSEN, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark.

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WJ07			15min3:47

PROBING THE MOLECULAR DYNAMICS OF A Cu(CD₃OD) CLUSTER WITH PHOTODETACHMENT-PHOTOIONIZATION SPECTROSCOPY.

J. BARBERA, V. DRIBINSKI AND W. C. LINEBERGER, JILA/Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309; S. HORVATH AND A. B. MCCOY, Department of Chemistry, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210.

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WJ08			15min4:04

REORIENTATION OF SOLVENT MOLECULES IN THE INTRAMOLECULAR CHARGE-TRANSFER REACTION OF SOLVATED CYANOPHENYLDISILANE CLUSTERS.

HARUKI ISHIKAWA, Department of Molecular Science and Material Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University, Kobe 657-8501, Japan; MASUYUKI SUGIYAMA, WATARU SETAKA, MITSUO KIRA AND NAOHIKO MIKAMI, Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan.

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WJ09			15min4:21

THE HIDDEN KERNEL OF MOLECULAR QUASI-LINEARITY: QUANTUM MONODROMY.

MANFRED WINNEWISSER, BRENDA P. WINNEWISSER, IVAN R. MEDVEDEV, FRANK C. DE LUCIA, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210; AND STEPHEN C. ROSS, Department of Physics, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton NB E3B5A3.

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WJ10			15min4:38

COMPLICATED THREEFOLD SYMMETRIC MOLECULAR SYSTEMS.

JOHN F. STANTON, Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712.

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WJ11			15min4:55

SPECTRAL SIGNATURES OF LARGE AMPLITUDE MOTIONS IN CH₅⁺.

ANNE B. MCCOY, LINDSAY M. JOHNSON, Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210.

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WJ12			15min5:12

THE JAHN-TELLER EFFECT IN CH₄⁺ : ASSIGNMENT OF THE ROTATIONALLY RESOLVED PHOTOELECTRON SPECTRUM.

HANS JAKOB WÖRNER, R. VAN DER VEEN, X. QIAN AND F. MERKT, Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland.

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WJ13			15min5:29

CURVE CROSSING DYNAMICS IN RYDBERG EXCITED TRIMETHYLAMINE.

JOB D. CARDOZA, MICHAEL P. MINITTI AND PETER M. WEBER, Dept. of Chemistry, Brown University, 324 Brook St., Providence, RI 02912..

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