Light Interaction With Matter: The New Frontier
The Chemistry and Physics departments hosted Light Interaction With Matter: The New Frontier, an interdisciplinary Symposium, on November 19. Temple faculty were joined by innovative colleagues from all over the country in presenting their cutting-edge research on nonlinear spectroscopy of complex systems, high field chemistry and physics, attosecond time scale dynamics and the quantum control of dynamic processes:
Eric Borguet, Temple University
The Vibrational Dynamics of Water at Interfaces
Hai-Lung Dai, Dean, College of Science and Technology
Nonlinear Optical Scattering from Nanoparticles and Biological Cells
Robin Hochstrasser, University of Pennsylvania
Two Dimensional Infared Spectroscopy
Robert R. Jones, University of Virginia
Controlled Electron Dynamics in Atoms and Small Molecules
Andrew Kung, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica (Taiwan)
Generation of Ultrashort Single-Cycle Pulses by the Raman Technique
Stephen Leone, University of California, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Atomic and Molecular Dynamics by X-Ray Transient Absorption in the Attosecond Limit
Marjatta Lyyra, Temple University
Molecular Quantum Interference Effects and Quantum Control in the Frequency Domain
Spiridoula Matsika, Temple University
Conical Intersections in Photoinitiated Processes
Margaret Murnane, University of Colorado
Molecular Materials Dynamics Probed by Coherent X-Rays
Kenneth J. Schafer, Louisiana State University
Attosecond Science
Y. Ron Shen, University of California, Berkeley
Searching for Understanding of Water Interfaces
Thomas Weinacht, SUNY Stonybrook
Strong Field Control of Molecular Dynamics
Session Chairs:
Bob Stanley, Department of Chemistry, Temple
Noureddine Melikechi, Department of Physics, Delaware State University
Kurt Kolasinski, Department of Chemistry, West Chester University
Tom Stephenson, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Swarthmore College