Plenary Speakers
Stacey Bent
,
Stanford University
Jean-Marie Flaud, CNRS-
University Paris-Sud
Stephen Leone
,
JILA-University of Colorado
Marsha Lester
,
University of Pennsylvania
Michael McCarthy,
Center for Astrophysics
,
Harvard University
Martin Suhm
,
Universitaet Goettingen
Andrei Tokmakoff
,
MIT
,
Coblentz
Award Winner
Special Sessions
Several special mini-symposia are planned for this year's meeting.
Eric Herbst
,
The Ohio State University
, and
Brian Howard
,
Oxford University
, are organizing a mini-symposium entitled "Van der Waals Molecules" on the occasion of the 75th birthday of William Klemperer. Invited speakers will include:
William Klemperer
,
Harvard University
;
Michael Heaven
,
Emory University
; and
Brian Howard
,
Oxford University
; and
Robert McKellar
,
NRCC
. A second mini-symposium is being organized by
David Pratt
,
University of Pittsburgh
, on the subject of "Bio-Molecules." Talks will feature studies of the structures and dynamical behaviors of large molecules of biological significance or their mimetics, in a solvent-free environment. Invited speakers for this mini-symposium include:
Walther Caminati
,
University of Bologna
;
Martin Jarrold
,
Northwestern University
; and
Mattanjah de Vries
,
University of California at Santa Barbara
. A third mini-symposium is being organized by
Roger Miller
,
University of North Carolina
and
Takamasa Momose
,
Kyoto University
on "Spectroscopy in quantum liquids and solids" emphasizing research in He clusters and H
2
crystals and related work. Invited speakers include:
Mario Fajardo
, Air Force Research Laboratory, Munitions Directorate, Eglin Air Force Base;
Andrey Vilesov
,
University of Southern California
;
Tsutomu Yabuzaki
,
Kyoto University
and
Giacinto Scoles
,
Princeton University
. A session on theory is being organized by
Russell Pitzer
,
Ohio State University
, featuring a talk by
Wilfried Meyer
,
University of Kaiserslautern
Last Update: Thursday, Jan. 10, 2002