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Organizers: B. Abel and D. Schwarzer (Göttingen)

Dear participants,

now the meeting is coming closer at the end of the month…

A few notes:

The meeting will start at Monday 26, at around 8 a.m.. For those who arrive on Sunday, September 25, we will arrange a very informal get-together in the Foyer (in front of the M. Eigen Lecture Hall) of the MPI for biophysical Chemistry at 7 p.m..

We will make hotel reservations for the invited speakers. All other participants will have to arrange their accommodation on their own. Please use the information about hotels in Göttingen from these web pages (Technical Details).

All participants or those who still would like to participate should register at the conference office. We would prefer if you could pay the registration fee via bank transfer, but at the meeting you will have the chance to register and to pay cash.

On Monday (September 26) there will be a poster session at 6 p.m with beer and wine with an open end and plenty of room for discussions.

On Tuesday (September 27) there will be a Conference Dinner starting at 18:30 p.m.

The meeting will end on Wednesday, September 28, around 5 p.m., after some closing remarks.

We are looking forward to an excellent and very exciting meeting. The topics that will be covered in various sessions are:

• ultrafast dynamics in water

• hydrogen bonding

• proton transfer

• conical intersections and excited states of biomolecules or building blocks of nature

• dynamics of light triggered biomolecules

• femtochemistry in various molecular environments

• time resolved x-ray spectroscopy

• dynamics at interfaces

• electron transfer in DNA

• new probes for time resolved spectroscopy

• molecular dynamics

• NMR to study protein dynamics

• spectromicroscopy

• solvated electrons and ionic liquids

The preliminary program can be inspected and downloaded here.

Preliminary list of speakers that have confirmed to present a lecture or a contributed talk:

Ch. Griesinger “NMR to study protein dynamics”

J. T. Hynes “Infrared- induced proton transfer reactions in solution”

H. Grubmüller “Title to be announced”

P. Jungwirth „Structure and dynamics of ions at the air/water interface“

Th. Elsässer "Ultrafast vibrational dynamics of intermolecular hydrogen bonds in the liquid phase"

N. Ernsting "new approach to femtosecond fluorescence spectroscopy: broadband upconversion with tilted gate pulses"

M. Chergui "Ultrafast structural dynamics and electric field effects in chemical and biological systems"

W. Zinth „Ultrafast conformational dynamics in light-triggered cyclic peptides”

S. Hell "Fluorescence nanoscopy: breaking the diffraction barrier by the RESOLFT concept"

P. Hamm „The onset of condensed phase behavior: The IR-driven cis-trans isomerization of HONO in a Kr matrix“

W. Domke “Conical intersections of potential-energy surfaces and ultrafast deactivation of excited electronic states in biomolecules”

P. J. Rossky „Simulation of condensed phase quantum dynamics by exploiting quantum decoherence“

D. Marx “Nonadiabatic ab initio Molecular Dynamics: Coupled Proton--Electron Transfer in Solution”

H. Bakker “Title to be announced”

P. Vöhringer “Femtosecond relaxation dynamics of solvated electrons in liquid ammonia”

G. Stock “Molecular dynamics simulation of photo switchable peptides”

J. Wachtveitl “Primary reactions in proteorhodopsin”

F. Temps “Femtosecond Time-Resolved Fluorescence Up-Conversion Studies of the Non-Radiative Electronic Relaxation Dynamics of Nucleic Acid Bases”

M. Kling “19-electron Intermediates and Cage-effects in the Photochemical Disproportionation of [CpW(CO)3]2 with Lewis Bases“

I. Fischer “Electron Transfer Dynamics in Organic Mixed-Valence Compounds Studied by Transient Absorption Spectroscopy”

A. Unterreiner “Ultrafast spectroscopy of cycloheptatriene and its perchlorinated analogue in solution”

M. Hilbert “Correlational Analysis of Proteins and Nanospheres in a Deep-Nulling Microscope”

P. J. Walla “Femtosecond Two-Photon Spectroscopy of Photosynthetic Protein Complexes”

J. Bredenbeck "A Pico- to Microsecond Study of the Folding of a Photoswitchable alpha- Helix"

E. Nibbering "Sequential proton transfer through water bridges in acid-base reactions"

J. Lindner „Vibrational energy relaxation of pure liquid water“

T. Lenzer "Ultrafast intramolecular dynamics of carotenoids"

S. Schmatz „Photo-induced decomposition of organic peroxides in solution“

S. Techert “Title to be announced”

J. Schroeder "Photodissociation versus photoisomerization of diiodomethane in supercritical solution, a manifestation of the photolytic cage effect"

D. Laage “On the Molecular Mechanism of Water Reorientation”

B. Lang “Ultrafast solvation dynamics in ionic liquids”

U. Diederichsen “Base pair mediated electron transfer in DNA like systems”

J. Weinstein “Structural reorganization via 3-electron S::S bonding: Tuning excited states of metal chromophores”

(Note, this list is preliminary and will be updated within the next two weeks)

In addition, there will be an exciting poster session on Monday night also covering exciting topics.

We are looking forward to meeting you in Göttingen at the end of the month!

Bernd Abel and Dirk Schwarzer