TRVSXIV Program

Saturday, May 09, 2009

3:00 PM

Registration

6:00 PM

Reception

Sponsored by Infrared Systems Development and Infrared Associates

Sunday, May 10, 2009

7:30 AM

Breakfast

8:50 AM

Opening Remarks

Water and Hydrogen Bonding

9:00 AM

Thomas Elsaesser

Ultrafast vibrational dynamics of hydrated DNA

9:40 AM

Huib Bakker

Melting of hydrophobic icebergs

10:00 AM

Damien Laage

Why water reorientation slows down without iceberg formation around hydrophobic solutes

10:20 AM

Artem Bakulin

Do hydrophobic groups stabilize the water structure?

10:40 AM

Break

Biochemical Dynamics

11:10 AM

Richard Mathies

Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy of Chemical and Biochemical Reaction Dynamics

11:50 AM

Wolfgang Zinth

Ultrafast IR-spectroscopy: CPD-photodamage in DNA  is formed from the excited singlet state

12:10 PM

Stephen Meech

Early Events in the Blue-Light Sensing BLUF Domain Protein Viewed Through Time Resolved IR

12:30 PM

Lunch

Chemical Dynamics

2:00 PM

Tahei Tahara

Observing continuous structural change of reacting molecules: ISRS and computational study on the reaction coordinate of photoisomerization of cis-stilbene

2:20 PM

Peter Vohringer

Ultrafast vibrational dynamics of artificial hydrogen-bond networks

2:40 PM

Sander Woutersen

Real-time observation of shuttling molecular devices

3:00 PM

Karin Haiser

The Photochemistry of Chromenes Studied with Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy

3:20 PM

Break

Sponsored by Tokyo Instruments

Multidimensional Spectroscopy

3:50 PM

Shaul Mukamel

Time-resolved Stimulated Vibtrational Spectroscopy with Pulse Shaping and Entangled Photons

4:30 PM

Igor Rubtsov

Correlating Energy Transport Time with Distance using Relaxation-Assisted 2DIR

4:50 PM

Jennifer Ogilvie

Two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy with a continuum probe

6:00 PM

Dinner

7:30 PM

Poster Session 1

Monday, May 11, 2009

7:30 AM

Breakfast

Imaging and Single Molecules

9:00 AM

Sunney Xie

Label-Free Biomedical Imaging with High Sensitivity by Stimulated Raman Scattering Microscopy

9:40 AM

Richard van Duyne

Advances in Single-Molecule Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectrscopy

10:20 AM

Break

Sponsored by Renishaw

Emerging Methods

10:50 AM

Minhaeng Cho

Ultrafast characterization of vibrational optical activity

11:30 AM

Jan Helbing

Transient Vibrational Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy

11:50 AM

David McCamant

Two-dimensional stimulated Raman spectroscopy: New developments in theory and experiments that probe intra- and inter-molecular anharmonicity

12:10 PM

Marcus Motzkus

Pump-DFWM as multidimensional method to investigate molecular vibrations in the excited state of biological molecules

12:30 PM

Lunch

Protein Photochemistry

2:00 PM

Sandy Ruhman

Investigating the excited state of the retinal protein chromophore with transient impulsive Raman

2:40 PM

Robin Hochstrasser

 Ultrafast IR studies of aqueous ions

3:20 PM

Break

Sponsored by ThermoElectron

Charge Transfer

3:50 PM

Erik Nibbering

Ultrafast aqueous protonation dynamics of cyanate and bicarbonate

4:10 PM

John Asbury

2D IR Spectroscopic Study of Charge Traps in Organic Photovoltaic Polymer Blends

4:30 PM

Tim Lian

Vibrational Sum-Frequency Generation Study of Interfacial Charge Transfer Complexes of Single Crystal TiO2 Surfaces

4:50 PM

Sean T. Roberts

Transport of the Aqueous Hydroxide Ion Probed Through Ultrafast Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy

6:00 PM

Dinner

Dynamics in Solution

7:30 PM

Mike Fayer

Investigations of Chemical Dynamics with Ultrafast 2D IR Vibrational Echo Chemical Exchange Spectroscopy

8:10 PM

Martin Zanni

Residue-by-residue structural and time resolution with pulse shaping 2D IR spectroscopy and isotope labeled peptides

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

7:30 AM

Breakfast

Imaging and Single Molecules

9:00 AM

Hiro-o Hamaguchi

Toward single molecule and single cell time-resolved vibrational spectroscopy

9:40 AM

Gilad Haran

Single-Molecule Raman Scattering: from Plasmonics to Charge Transfer

10:20 AM

Peter Lu

AFM-Raman Imaging Analysis of Single-Molecule Interfacial Electron Transfer Dynamics

10:40 AM

Break

Spectroscopy at Interfaces

11:10 AM

Dana Dlott

Dynamics at interfaces probed by time-resolved sum-frequency generation spectroscopy

11:50 AM

Ken Eisenthal

Time Resolved Vibrational Sum Frequency Generation (SFG) at Liquid Surfaces

12:10 PM

Christian Frischkorn

Vibrational response of D2O molecules in thin layers absorbed on Ru(001) after femtosecond UV excitation

12:30 PM

Lunch

Proteins

2:00 PM

Paul M. Champion

Recent Studies of Coherent Vibrational Motion in Biomolecules

2:20 PM

Carsten Kotting

Proteins in Action: Monitored by tr(time-resolved) FTIR spectroscopy

2:40 PM

Ziad Ganim

2D IR Spectroscopy of Insulin Dimer Dissociation and Unfolding Dynamics

3:00 PM

Break

Multidimensional Spectroscopy

3:30 PM

Charles Harris

Using two dimensional vibrational spectroscopy to determine transition state geometries in liquids

3:50 PM

Munira Khalil

Understanding vibrational interactions on the ground and electronic excited states of transition metal complexes using multidimensional visible-infrared spectroscopies

4:10 PM

Kevin Kubarych

Temperature-dependent vibrational relaxation measured by non-equilibrium 2DIR spectroscopy

4:30 PM

Niel Hunt

Vibrational Dynamics of a Free Radical Intermediate via Transient 2D-IR Spectroscopy of a Photolysis Reaction

6:00 PM

Dinner

7:30 PM

Poster Session 2

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

7:30 AM

Breakfast

Water and Peptides

9:00 AM

Jim Skinner

Water and peptide structure and dynamics as probed by vibrational spectroscopy

9:40 AM

Roberto Righini

Structural properties and dynamics of membrane associated anchor peptide

10:00 AM

Ellen Backus

Glass transition regulated heat transport through a helical peptide

10:20 AM

Thomas la Cour Jansen

Isotope label 2DIR spectroscopy in proteins

10:40 AM

Break

Solid State and Terahertz

11:10 AM

Keith Nelson

THz-pump/THz-probe nonlinear spectroscopy

11:30 AM

Tomonori Nomoto

Near-surface low-frequency vibrations of TiO2 observed by fourth-order coherent Raman spectroscopy

11:50 AM

Susan Dexheimer

Acoustic and optical phonon dynamics in excition self-trapping

12:10 PM

Christopher Konek

Terahertz Spectroscopy of Explosives

12:30 PM

Lunch

Vibrational Dynamics in Liquids

2:00 PM

Takayoshi Kobayashi

Direct observation of molecular structural change during oxidation in the ground state triggered by stimulated Raman by 5 fs laser

2:20 PM

Alexander Paarmann

Vibrational Excitons in Liquid Formamide

2:40 PM

Klaas Wynne

Ultrafast cage rattling and TA "phonon" modes in atomic and molecular liquids: implications for glass formation

Excursion

Banquet

Thursday, May 14, 2009

7:30 AM

Breakfast

Peptides and Proteins

9:00 AM

Esben Andresen

Site-specific difference 2D-IR spectroscopy of bacteriorhodopsin

9:20 AM

Mariangela Di Donato

The proton transfer pathway in Green Fluorescent Proteins studied with femtosecond time resolved Vis/midIR pump-probe spectroscopy and multi-pulse visible spectroscopy

9:40 AM

Karin Hauser

Site-specific folding dynamics of peptides studied by temperature-jump infrared-spectroscopy

10:00 AM

Hajime Torii

Toward Efficient Time-Domain Calculations of 2D-IR Spectra

10:20 AM

Jasper van Thor

 Balance between ultrafast parallel reactions in the green fluorescent protein has a structural origin

10:40 AM

Break

Water at Interfaces

11:10 AM

Mischa Bonn

Structure and dynamics of interfacial water

11:50 AM

Alexander Benderskii

Vibrational Line Shapes and Ultrafast Orientational Dynamics at the Air/Water Interface

12:10 PM

Eric Borguet

The effect of ordering on the vibrational dynamics of interfacial water

12:30 PM

Lunch