Peter Bernath, University of York
Dennis Clouthier, University of Kentucky
Robert Continetti, University of California-San Diego
Takayuki Ebata, Hiroshima University
Juan Carlos Lopez, University of Valladolid
John Maier, University of Basel
Jun Ye, JILA/University of Colorado

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Special Sessions

For the 66th Symposium, Robert W. Field, MIT, is organizing a mini-symposium entitled, "Spectroscopic Perturbations: Molecules Behaving Badly?". Spectroscopic perturbations are more than broken or augmented patterns. They are windows onto unknown or unexpected classes of states. Invariably, the emergence of a qualitatively new class of intramolecular dynamics is encoded in patterns of broken patterns. Invited speakers will include Mark Child, University of Oxford; and Anthony Merer, Academia Sinica. A second mini-symposium is being organized by Eric Herbst, The Ohio State University on the subject of "The THz Cosmos." This mini-symposium will feature new spectroscopic studies of the interstellar medium in the far-infrared obtained with the Herschel Space Observatory and the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). Invited talks for this mini-symposium will be given by Edwin Bergin, University of Michigan; and Maryvonne Gerin, Ecole Normale Superieure. A third mini-symposium is being organized by Trevor Sears, Brookhaven National Lab and Neil Shafer-Ray, University of Oklahoma, entitled "Molecular Spectroscopy in Support of Fundamental Physics." This mini-symposium will focus on molecular spectroscopy that probes the fundamental underpinnings of physics, including parity and time-reversal violations and the universality of fundamental constants. Invited speakers include David DeMille, Yale University and Jens-Uwe Grabow, Leibniz-Universitat Hannover. A session on theory is being organized by Anne McCoy, John Herbert, and Russell Pitzer, Ohio State University, featuring an invited talk by Kirk Peterson, Washington State University.