Program overview

WEDNESDAY EVENING, 19 MARCH 1997

L35.01 The Influence of Dimer Defects on the Reactions of Hydrogen with the Si(100) Surface

Jan Steckel, Kenneth D. Jordan (Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260)

L35.02 Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Oxygen Induced Pit Defects on Highly Oriented Pyrolytic Graphite

K.G. Vandervoort, K.M. McLain, D.J. Butcher (Chemistry/Physics Dept., Western Carolina University, NC)

L35.03 Periodically Driven Electron Transfer Reactions in Condensed Media with Dynamical Disorder

I.A. Goychuk (BITP Kiev)

L35.04 Phase Stability of Small Carbon Clusters

Nicholas Winter, Francis H. Ree (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

L35.05 Self Organized Critical Behavior in a 2-d Model Glass

D.J. Webb (Dept. of Physics,UCDavis)

L35.06 Chaotic Scattering in Few-Body Systems

J.M. Yuan, V. Daniels, M. Vallieres (Drexel University)

L35.07 An Investigation of the Solvent Dependence on the Ultrafast Intersystem Crossing Kinetics of Xanthone

Joseph J. Cavaleri, Katherine Prater, Robert M. Bowman (Department of Chemistry, Unversity of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045)

L35.08 Rotational Relaxation of Perylene in Liquid solvents by Two-Photon Induced Anisotropy Decay

Steven W. Pauls, Carey K. Johnson (University of Kansas)

L35.09 Femtosecond Studies of the Solvent Dependence of Intersystem Crossing in Xanthione

Katherine Prater, Joseph J. Cavaleri, Lars O. Husebo, Robert M. Bowman (Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045)

L35.10 An Ultrafast Transient Absorption Study of Solvent-Dependent Photophysics of All-trans Retinal

Erica J. Larson, Carey K. Johnson (University of Kansas)

L35.11 \Delta I=4 and \Delta I=8 Bifurcations in Rotational Bands of Diatomic Molecules

Dennis Bonatsos (N.C.S.R. Demokritos, Aghia Paraskevi, Greece), C. Daskaloyannis, G. A. Lalazissis (U. Thessaloniki, Greece), S. B. Drenska, N. Minkov, P. P. Raychev, R. P. Roussev (INRNE, Sofia, Bulgaria)

L35.12 Photophysics of Aldehyde Molecules Induced by High Pressure in Solid Polymeric Matrices

Z.A. Dreger, H.G. Drickamer (Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois)

L35.13 Vibronic Coupling And Microscopic Solvation of 1-Naphthol

Richard Knochenmuss (ETH Zurich), Pedro Muino (Kansas State University), Claudia Wickleder (University of Bern)

L35.14 Millisecond Photoinduced Absorption Studies of Pyridine-Based Copolymer Films

K.A. Coplin, D.T. Clark (Denison Univ.), S.W. Jessen, A. J. Epstein (The Ohio State Univ.), D.-K. Fu, T. M. Swager (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.)

L35.15 Molecular dynamics simulation of anthracene translational and rotational diffusion in organic solvents

Jas Gouri, Krzysztof Kuczera (University of Kansas)

L35.16 Theoretical Characterization of the Structures and Vibrational Spectra of (H2O)8 and Benzene-(H2O)8 Clusters

Sharon Y. Fredericks, Kenneth D. Jordan (University of Pittsburgh), Timothy S. Zwier (Purdue University)

L35.17 Ab initio electronic structure calculations of M@Si_7 clusters

Kazuo Tsumuraya (School of Science and Engineering, Meiji university), Haruk Eguchi, Shuuichi Onizawa, Hiroya Ishiguro (School of science and engineering, Meiji university)

L35.18 The Short-Time Mechanism of Vibrational Friction in Liquids

Grant Goodyear, Richard M. Stratt (Brown University)

L35.19 "Simple" Water: Electronic Structure Calculations of H_2O and Friends

P. E. Kaldon (Hope College, Dept. of Physics, Holland MI and the Center for Independent Quantum Studies, West Olive MI)

L35.20 Approaching Bulk Water Through Clusters

James Coe, Michael Cohen, Alan Earhart, Wan Yong Feng, Ellen Gundlach, Michael Tissandier (The Ohio State University)

L35.21 Excitation Spectra of Alkali Atoms on the Surface of He and Hydrogen Clusters: Influence of the Quantum Properties of the Host Matrix.

Carlo Callegari, John Higgins, James Reho, Giacinto Scoles (Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544)

L35.22 Transitions Between Families of Water Cluster Structures From Dimer to Bulk

Michael Tissandier, Sultan Muhammed, Michael Cohen, Alan Earhart, Wan Yong Feng, Ellen Gundlach, James Coe (The Ohio State University)

L35.23 Charge Transfer within Large Liquid Helium Droplets

B.E. Callicoatt, D.D. Mar, K. Förde, L. Jung, K.C. Janda (UCI)

L35.24 Temperature Dependence of ^7Li Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in a LiRbSO_4 Single Crystal

Ae Ran Lim (Dept. of Physics, Jeonju Univ., Chonju), Sung Ho Park (Dept. of Chemistry, Jeonju Univ., Chonju), Sung Ho Choh (Dept. of Physics, Korea Univ., Seoul, Korea)

L35.25 ^7Li NMR Study of Low Temperature Phase Transition in a LiKSO_4 Single Crystal

Ae Ran Lim (Dept. of Physics, Jeonju Univ., Chonju 560-759, Chonbuk), Kwan Soo Hong (Seoul Branch, Korea Basic Science Institute, Seoul 136-701), Sung Ho Choh (Dept. of Physics, Korea Univ., Seoul 136-701), Se Young Jeong (Dept. of Physics, Pusan National Univ., Pusan 609-735)

20:00 L1.01 Panel Discussion

James Langer Moderator (University of California-Santa Barbara)