Programme

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Introductory Lecture

Takeshi Oka
University of Chicago, USA

Session 1: Precision spectroscopy

Optical frequency comb spectroscopy
A Foltynowicz, P Maslowski, T Ban, F Adler, K C Cossel, T C Briles and J Ye*
University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

Tailored molecular samples for precision spectroscopy experiments
Melanie Schnell* and Jochen Küpper
Max-Planck Advanced Study Group at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, Germany

Towards measuring the ionization and dissociation energies of molecular hydrogen with sub-MHz accuracy
Daniel Sprecher, Christian Jungen, Wim Ubachs and Frédéric Merkt*
ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Synchrotron-based highest resolution Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy of naphthalene(C₁₀H₈) and indole (C₈H₇N) and its application to astrophysical problems
Sieghard Albert*, Karen Keppler Albert, Philippe Lerch and Martin Quack
ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Spectroscopy of molecules in very high rotational states using an optical centrifuge
Liwei Yuan, Carlos Toro, Mack Bell and Amy S Mullin*
University of Maryland, USA

Session 2: Biomolecules

Potential for the detection of molecular complexes and determination of interaction geometry by 2DIR: Application to protein sciences
Rui Guo, Margherita Miele, Elizabeth M Gardner, Frederic Fournier, Kathryn M Kornau and David R Klug*
Imperial College, London, UK 

State-resolved THz spectroscopy and dynamics of crystalline peptide-water systems
Zeeshan Ahmed, Shin Grace Chou, Karen Siegrist and David F Plusquellic*
National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA

Exploring hydrophobicity by THz absorption spectroscopy of solvated amino acids
Gudrun Niehues, Matthias Heyden, Diedrich A Schmidt and Martina Havenith*
Ruhr Universität-Bochum, Germany

Single-conformation spectroscopy and population analysis of model g-peptides: New tests of amide stacking                                                               Evan G Buchanan, William H. James III, Anna Gutberlet, Jacob C Dean, Li Guo, Samuel H Gellman and and Timothy S Zwier*
Purdue University, USA

Structural studies of biomolecules in the gas phase by chirped-pulse Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy
Amanda L steber, Justin L Neill, Daniel P Zaleski, Brooks H Pate, Alberto Lesarri, Ryan G Bird, Vanesa Vaquero-Varac and David W Pratt*
University of Pittsburgh, USA

Spectroscopy of mobility-selected biomolecular ions
Georgios Papadopoulos, Annette Svensden, Oleg V Boyarkin and Thomas R Rizzo*
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Session 3: Theoretical Spectroscopy

Time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy from first principles: Excited state dynamics of benzene
Alexis L Thompson and Todd J Martinez
Stanford University, USA

The effect of microhydration on ionization energies of thymine
Kirill Khistyev, Ksenia B Bravaya, Eugene Kamarchik, Oleg Kostko, Musahid Ahmed and Anna Krylov*
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

Quantitative vibronic coupling calculations. The visible spectrum of propadienylidene
John F Stanton*
The University of Texas at Austin, USA

Charge-transfer and the hydrogen bond: Spectroscopic and structural implications from electronic structure calculations
Eloy Ramos-Cordoba, Daniel S Lambrecht and Martin Head-Gordon*
University of California, Berkeley, USA

Application of time-independent cumulant expansion to calculation of Franck-Condon profiles for large molecular systems
Joonsuk Huh and Robert Berger*
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany

Structural characterization of spectroscopic substates in carbonmonoxy neuroglobin                                                                                                          Stephan Lutz and Markus Meuwly*
University of Basel, Switzerland

Session 4: Spectroscopy for Dynamics

Non-Born-Oppenheimer wavepacket dynamics in polyatomic molecules: vibrations at conical intersections in DABCO
Andrey E Boguslavskiy, Michael S Schuurman, Dave Townsend and Albert Stolow*
National Research Council, Canada

Linking photochemistry in the gas and condensed phase: S-H bond fission in p-methylthiophenol following UV photoexcitation
Thomas A A Oliver, Yuyuan Zhang, Michael N R Ashfold and Stephen E Bradforth*
University of Southern California, USA

Robustness of electronic coherence in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex to vibronicand structural modifications
Dugan Hayes, Jianzhong Wen, Gitt Panitchayangkoon, Robert E Blakenship and Gregory S. Engel*
University of Chicago, USA

Quantum state resolved velocity-map imaging spectroscopy: A new tool for collision dynamics at gas/self-assembled monolayer interfaces
Joseph R Roscioli and David J Nesbitt*
University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

Photoelectron-photofragment coincidence studies of NO -X clusters(X =H₂O,CD₄)
Berwyck L J Poad, Christopher J Johnson and Robert E Continetti*
University of California, San Diego, USA

The structure and terahertz dynamics of water confined in nanoscale pools in salt solutions
David A Turton, Carmelo Corsaro, Marco Candelaresi, Angela Brownlie, Ken R Seddon, Francesco Mallamace and Klaas Wynne*
University of Strathclyde, UK

Concluding Remarks

Martin Quack
ETH Zürich, Switzerland

* denotes presenting author, to whom affiliation applies