U.S.-Japan Seminar: Dynamics, Photophysical and Photochemical Events Involving Clusters; March, 1994; Hawaii

该奖项支持14名美国科学家参加将于1993年12月16日至19日在夏威夷举行的美日动力学、光物理和光化学事件研讨会。联合组织者是宾夕法尼亚州立大学的A. W. Castleman教授和东京大学的Tamotsu Kondow教授。除了美国和日本的参与者外，还邀请了一位来自德国的科学家。在过去十年左右的时间里，集群研究领域的活动有了戏剧性的增长。从处理凝聚态物质和表面到星际空间的基础科学和应用科学的非常广泛的横截面文献中都涉及到星团。特别是，团簇提供了一种独特的方式来研究不同程度聚集的物质的性质，因此可以获得关于变化的性质和反应性的信息，从而架起了气体和凝聚态的桥梁。研讨会围绕孤立集群系统动力学领域的八个一般主题组织：电子效应；电子溶解;团簇光谱与结构；簇的性质、结构和形成；动力学和光物理事件；氢键和范德华体系中的反应；半导体与金属体系的反应；以及与表面和凝聚态物质的碰撞。这次会议将强调最近的进展，并为未来的研究方向提出想法，这将导致美国和日本科学家在这一重要领域的合作研究活动。

This award supports the participation of 14 U.S. scientists in a U.S.-Japan Seminar on Dynamics, Photophysical and Photochemical Events Involving Clusters, to be held in Hawaii December 16-19, 1993. The co-organizers are Professor A. W. Castleman, Jr. of Pennsylvania State University and Professor Tamotsu Kondow of the University of Tokyo. In addition to the U.S. and Japanese participants, a scientist from Germany has been invited. During the last decade or so, there has been a dramatic growth of activity in the field of cluster research. Reference to clusters permeates the literature of a very broad cross section of basic and applied science from that dealing with condensed matter and surfaces to interstellar space. In particular, clusters provide a unique way of investigating properties of matter at different degrees of aggregation and therefore yield information on changing properties and reactivity that serves to bridge the gas and condensed state. The seminar is organized around eight general topics in the area of the dynamics of isolated cluster systems: electronic effects; electron solvation; cluster spectroscopy and structure; cluster properties, structure, and formation; dynamics and photophysical events; reactions in hydrogen bonded and van Der Waals systems; reactions of semiconcuctor and metallic systems; and collisions with surfaces and condensed matter. This meeting, which will emphasize recent advances and develop ideas for future research direction, should lead to collaborative research activities between U.S. and Japanese scientists in this important field.