Masaaki Baba, Kyoto University
Anthony Legon, University of Bristol
Wolfgang Ernst, Technische Universitaet Graz
Dan Neumark, University of California-Berkeley
Robert Le Roy, University of Waterloo
Hanna Reisler, University of Southern California
Benjamin McCall, University of Illinois, Coblentz Award Winner

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Special Sessions

For the 64th Symposium, Li-Hong Xu, University of New Brunswick, and John Pearson, JPL/NASA are organizing a mini-symposium entitled, "FIR/THz Air/Space Missions" covering spectroscopic needs relevant to current and emerging atmospheric and space missions, including Herschel, ALMA, SOFIA, SPIRIT, and JWST. This mini-symposium is designed to bring together researchers working on a host of different systems ranging from techniques to complex molecules. Contributions are encouraged from across the full range of molecular systems and for atmospheric, astronomical, and spectroscopic techniques from the microwave to the far infrared. Invited speakers will include Frank C. De Lucia, The Ohio State University; Robert McKellar, Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council of Canada; Karl Menten, Max-Planck Institut fur Radioastronomie, Bonn; and Holger S. P. Müller, I. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, Germany. A second mini-symposium is being organized by Scott Reid, Marquette University and Spiridoula Matsika, Temple University on the subject of "Conical Intersections". This mini-symposium is designed to bring together theoretical and experimental researchers with common interests in exploring the involvement of conical intersections in the spectroscopy and dynamics of molecular systems. Theoretical and experimental contributions in methodological developments and applications are encouraged. Invited talks for this mini-symposium will be given by David Jonas, Colorado University and Todd Martinez, University of Illinois. A third mini-symposium is being organized by Andrew Orr-Ewing, University of Bristol and Kevin Lehmann, University of Virginia, entitled "Developments in Cavity Enhanced Spectroscopy". This mini-symposium will review advances in cavity enhanced spectroscopic techniques such as CRDS, CEAS and NICE-OHMS, and their wide-ranging applications in fields that include fundamental molecular spectroscopy, atmospheric and combustion chemistry. Invited speakers include Andreas Brockhinke, Universitat Bielefeld; Steven S. Brown, NOAA Earth System Research Lab; and Jun Ye, NIST/University of Colorado. A session on theory is being organized by Anne McCoy, John Herbert, and Russell Pitzer, Ohio State University, featuring an invited talk by Jon Hougen, NIST.