Conference: 2003 Electronic Spectroscopy and Dynamics Gordon Conference; Bates College, Lewiston, Maine

在戈登研究会议（GRC）汇集了活跃的研究人员，专家和初学者，在一个广泛定义的科学领域。目的是通过邀请讲座、投稿海报和广泛的非正式讨论来确定和分析关键问题、最新进展和新研究的机会。该提案的一个具体目标是为将于7月6日至11日在缅因州刘易斯顿的贝茨学院举行的2003年电子光谱学和动力学GRC （ES&amp；D）获得部分资金。esd是一个非常广泛和及时的主题，从研究双原子分子中的一个原子如何探测另一个原子的电子波函数，到研究生物光收集天线系统的电子结构如何控制能量传输机制。到目前为止，分子电子波函数只是通过实验间接探测的；现在不仅存在分子中电子分布的直接可视化方法，而且存在用于创建、开发和控制特定的、局部的、电子和核波包激发的动力学的方案。新的微观系统（玻色爱因斯坦凝聚体，掺杂到超流体4氦液滴中的分子，单纳米颗粒）已经出现，表现出新的电子/核/辐射耦合机制。新环境中的分子（超临界流体，超流体4 He，结晶H2矩阵）或受新辐射场（半周期和啁啾脉冲序列，亚飞秒脉冲）的影响，提出了以前mesd - grcs时无法想象的问题和可能性。es&d是一个具有巨大基础和技术重要性的领域。计划举办9场科学会议，邀请31位演讲者。每次会议都将有一位专家主席（通常是建立该领域的人），他可以指导和激励讨论，并对所考虑的主题给出一些观点。讨论的主题包括：成像电子分布和反应动力学；低温（3 He/ 4 He）分离光谱；小分子簇，有机的和无机的；气相和凝聚相的生物分子；辐射与物质的强场、超高速、相干和非线性相互作用；凝聚相动力学；纳米粒子与材料；和接口。计划举办两场海报会议（每次持续两天两夜），鼓励研究生、博士后、年轻研究者和所有与会者展示他们的研究成果。这个ES&amp；D-GRC传统上吸引了来自学术界，国家实验室和工业界的不同科学家群体。这个多样化的群体包括研究电子光谱学基础方面的基础研究人员，以及追求更多实际问题的应用科学家。此外，还特别努力将年轻科学家（近一半的受邀演讲者）和女性（31人中的4人）纳入受邀演讲者之列。有限的出席人数（约100人），重点是跨学科的科学会议（每次邀请演讲35分钟，然后是10分钟的讨论），生动的海报会议，非正式聚会和活动，以及国际范围的受邀演讲者将为制定和交流新思想提供一个令人兴奋和有效的论坛。这个广泛的计划和参与基础的意图，并关注来自世界各地的年轻研究人员，旨在强调光谱学和辐射/物质相互作用对物理科学进步的核心重要性。申请的资金将用于鼓励初级研究人员、研究生和博士后参加会议，并通过支持他们的会议费用和差旅费来展示他们的研究。

0313498BernsteinThe Gordon Research Conferences (GRC) bring together active researchers, both experts and beginners, in a broadly defined scientific field. The purpose is to identify and analyze key issues, recent advances, and opportunities for new research through invited lectures, contributed posters, and extensive informal discussions. One specific objective of this proposal is to secure partial funding for the 2003 GRC on Electronic Spectroscopy and Dynamics (ES&D), to be held on July 6 - 11, at Bates College, in Lewiston, Maine. ES&D is an exceptionally broad and timely topic, ranging from the study of how one atom in a diatomic molecule probes the electronic wavefunction of the other atom, to the study of how the electronic structure of biological light harvesting antenna systems controls the energy transport mechanism. Until recently, molecular electronic wavefunctions were only indirectly probed by experiment; now not only do direct visualization methods exist for electron distribution in molecules, but schemes also exist for creating, exploiting, and controlling the dynamics of specific, localized, electronic, and nuclear wavepacket excitations. New microscopic systems (Bose Einstein Condensates, molecules doped into superfluid 4 He droplets, single nanoparticles) have emerged that exhibit novel electronic/nuclear/radiation coupling mechanisms. Molecules in new environments (supercritical fluids, superfluid 4 He, crystalline H2 matrices) or subject to novel radiation fields (half-cycle and chirped pulse sequences, subfemtosecond pulses) raise questions and possibilities that were unimagined at the time of the previous MES&D-GRCs. ES&D is an area of enormousfundamental and technological importance. Nine scientific sessions, featuring 31 invited speakers, are planned. Each session will have an expert chair (often the person who instituted the field) who can guide and energize the discussion and give some perspective to the topic considered. Topics to be discussed include: imaging electronic distributions and dynamics of reactions; low temperature ( 3 He/ 4 He) isolation spectroscopy; small clusters of molecules, organic and inorganic; biomolecules in the gas phase and condensed phase; strong field, superfast, coherent, and nonlinear interactions of radiation and matter; condensed phase dynamics; nanoparticles and materials; and interfaces. Two poster sessions (each lasting for two days and nights) are planned to encourage graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, young investigators, and all attendees to present their research. This ES&D-GRC traditionally attracts a diverse group of scientists, from academe, national laboratories, and industry. This diverse group includes basic researchers studying fundamental aspects of electronic spectroscopy to more applied scientists pursuing more practical problems. A special effort has been made to include younger scientists (nearly half of the invited speakers) and women (4 of 31) among the invited speakers. The limited attendance (~100), focused yet interdisciplinary scientific sessions (35 minutes for each invited talk followed by 10 minutes of discussion), lively poster sessions, informal gatherings and events, and an international spectrum of invited speakers will provide an exciting and effective forum for the formulation and exchange of new ideas. The intent of this broad program and participation base, and focus on younger investigators from around the world, is designed to emphasize the central importance of spectroscopy and radiation/matter interactions to the advancement of physical science. The requested funding will be used to encourage junior investigators, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows to attend the meeting and present their research through support for their conference fees and travel expenses.