Independent Activities Period (IAP) January 2005

Multidimensional Spectroscopy:
Four Why's

This symposium will explore the basis for coherent multidimensional spectroscopy from its origins in NMR, where it now plays a central role, to its more recent emergence in the IR and visible spectral ranges. The power of multidimensional spectroscopy will be illustrated through examples of important current areas that it has illuminated, and its prospects for further advances will be discussed.

Wednesday, January 19, 2005
9:00 - 11:30 AM

John Waugh, MIT Professor Emeritus
Multidimensional spectroscopy — Why it started with NMR and (mostly) stays there.

Robert Griffin, MIT Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory
Multidimensional NMR in rotating solids — Why high resolution?

Joseph Loparo, MIT Department of Chemistry
Two-dimensional IR spectroscopy: Observing coherent vibrations and hydrogen bond dynamics in water — Why two dimensions are better than one.

Keith Nelson, MIT Department of Chemistry
Multidimensional spectroscopy — Why it is moving to the optical regime and has a glowing future there.

MIT Grier Room 34-401

Sponsored by the G.R. Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory