Programme

The programme for Faraday Discussion 157 is as follows.

For a detailed programme, including timings, please download the pdf document from this page.

Introductory Lecture

F. Fleming Crim
University of Wisconsin, USA

Session 1: Bimolecular Reaction Dynamics in the Gas Phase

Three-state surface hopping calculations of acetaldehyde photodissociation to CH3+HCO on ab initio potential surfaces
Bina Fu, Yongchang Han and Joel M Bowman*
Emory University, USA

Reaction dynamics temperature-variable anion water clusters studied with crossed beams and by direct dynamics
R Otto, J Xie, J Brox, S Trippel, M Stei, T Best, M R Siebert, W L Hase and R Wester*
Universität Innsbruck, Austria

Multi-path variational transition state theory for chemical reaction rates of complex polyatomic species: ethanol + OH reactions
Jingjing Zheng and Donald G Truhlar*
University of Minnesota, USA

Imaging the effects of the antisymmetric stretch excitation of CH4 in the reaction with F atom
Hiroshi Kawamata, Weiqing Zhang and Kopin Liu*
IAMS, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

The dynamics of the D2+OH ? HOD+D Reaction: A combined theoretical and experimental study
Shu Liu, Chunlei Xiao, Tang Wang, Jun Chen, Tiangang Yang, Xin Xu, Donh H Zhang* and Xueming Yang
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Session 2: Photodissociation Dynamics in the Gas and Liquid-Phase

Contrasting the excited state reaction pathways of phenol and para-methylthiophenol in the gas and liquid phases
Yuyuan Zhang, Thomas A A Oliver, Michael N R Ashfold and Stephen Bradforth*
University of Southern California, USA

Ultrafast dynamics of aniline following 269-238nm excitation and the role of theS2(?3s/??*) state
Roman Spesyvtsev, Oliver M Kirkby and Helen H Fielding* 
University College London, UK

Reaction dynamics of Cl + butanol isomers by crossed-beam sliced ion imaging
Armando D Estillore, Laura M Visger-Kiefer and Arthur G Suits*
Wayne State University, USA

Between ethylene and polyenes - the non-adiabatic dynamics of cis-dienes
Thomas S Kuhlman, William J Glover, Toshifumi Mori, Klaus B Møller and Todd J Martinez*
Stanford University, USA

Infrared driven CO oxidation reactions on isolated platinum oxide clusters PtnOm+ 
Alexander C Hermes, Suzanne M Hamilton, Graham A Cooper, Christian Kerpal, Dan J Harding, Gerard Meijer, André Fielicke and Stuart R Mackenzie* 
University of Oxford, UK

Product state and speed distributions in photochemical triple fragmentations 
G de Wit, B R Healewood, M S Quinn, A T Maccarone, K Nauta, S A Reid, M J T Jordan and S H Kable* 
University of Sydney, Australia

Session 3: Reaction Dynamics at Interfaces

Vibrationally bond-selected chemisorption of methane isotopologues on Pt(111) studied by reflection absorption infrared spectroscopy
Li chen, Hirokazu Ueta, Régis Bisson and Rainer D Beck*
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

On probing ions at the gas-liquid interface by quantum state-resolved molecular beam scattering: The curious incident of the cation in the night time
Andrew W Gisler and David J Nesbitt*
JILA and University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

Dynamics of molecular and polymeric interfaces probed with atomic beam scattering and scanning probe imaging
Ryan D Brown, Qianqian Tong, James S Becker, Miriam A Freedman, Nataliya A Yufa and S J Sibener*
University of Chicago, USA

Nonadiabatic dynamics at metal surfaces: Independent electron surface hopping with phonon and electron thermostats
Neil Shenvi and John C Tully*
Yale University, USA

Reaction dynamics at a metal surface; Halogenation of Cu(110)
A Eisenstein, L Leung, T Lim, Z Ning and J C Polanyi*
University of Toronto, Canada

Kinematics and dynamics of atomic-beam scattering on liquid and self-assembled monolayer surfaces
William A Alexander, Jianming Zhang, Vanessa J Murray, Gilbert M Nathanson and Timothy K Minton*
Montana State University, USA

Session 4: Ultrafast Reaction Dynamics

Vibrtationally resolved transition state spectroscopy of the F + H2 and F + CH4 reactions
Tara I Yacovitch, Etienne Garand, Jongjin B Kim, Christian Hock, Thomas Theis and Daniel M Neumark*
University of California, Berkeley, USA

The last mile of molecular reaction dynamics virtual experiments: The case of the OH(N=1-10)+CO(j=0-3) reaction
Antonio Laganà, Ernesto Garcia, Jongjin Paladini, Piergiorgio Casavecchia and Nadia Balucani
University of Perugia, Italy

Surface-aligned femtochemistry: Real-time investigation of photoinduced bimolecular reaction dynamics at oxide surfaces
Mihai E Vaida, Thorsten M Bernhardt*
University of Ulm, Germany

Crowding effects on the small, fast-folding protein ?6-85
Sharlene Denos, Apratim Dharb and Martin Gruebele*
University of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign, USA

Ligand-field symmetry effects in Fe(II) polypyridyl compounds probed by transient x-ray absorption spectroscopy
Hana Cho, Matthew L Strader, Kiryong Hong, Lindsey Jamula, Tae Kyu Kim, James K McCusker, Robert W Schoenlein* and Nils Huse
University of Hamburg, Germany

Concluding Remarks

Richard N. Zare, Stanford University, USA

* denotes presenting author, to whom affiliation applies