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Faraday Discussion 154: Ionic Liquids

22 – 24 August 2011

Belfast, UK

Deadline for Oral Abstracts: 22 October 2010

Submit yout abstract now to events@rsc.org

Room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) are currently the focus of an intense research effort because of their remarkable potential for applications coupled to favourable environmental properties. The hybrid organic-ionic nature of RTILs and the resulting interplay between different intermolecular forces give rise to a complex phenomenology whose decoding requires the close integration of experimental, theoretical and computational methods.

Ionic liquids constitute a new and exciting playground for interdisciplinary research and this meeting will discuss fundamental experimental and theoretical aspects of the physical chemistry of RTILs. The Scientific Committee will be chaired by Professor Chris Hardacre (Queen’s University Belfast, UK).

Themes:

• Thermodynamics and phase behavior of ionic fluids
• Microscopic and mesoscopic structure: experiments and simulations
• Transport and relaxation in ionic liquids
• Chemical reactivity and interfacial behavior

Confirmed Invited speakers:

• Austen Angell (Introductory) – Arizona State University, USA
• Ruth Lynden-Bell (Closing) – University of Cambridge, UK
• Pietro Ballone – Queen’s University, Belfast, UK
• Margarida Costa-Gomes – Université Blaise-Pascal, France
• Douglas MacFarlane – Monash University, Australia
• Edward Maginn – University of Notre Dame, USA
• Athanassios Panagiotopoulos – Princeton University, USA
• Alessandro Triolo – Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
• Hermann Weingärtner – Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
• James Wishart – Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA

Submit an abstract for an oral presentation by 22^nd October 2010 to events@rsc.org adding ‘FD154 abstract’ in the subject line.

For further information on attending Faraday Discussion 154, visit www.rsc.org/FD154.

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Faraday Discussion 153: Coherence and Control in Chemistry
25-27 July 2011, Leeds, UK

Extended oral abstracts deadline: 15th October 2010 – submit now

Speakers

•    Thomas Baumert (Introductory) Universität Kassel, Germany
•    Herschel Rabitz (Closing) Princeton University, USA
•    Valeria Kleiman University of Florida, USA
•    Spiridoula Matsika Temple University, USA
•    Dwayne Miller University of Toronto, Canada
•    Marcus Motzkus Universität Heidelberg, Germany
•    Kenji Ohmori Institute for Molecular Science Okazaki, Japan
•    Moshe Shapiro University of British Columbia, Canada
•    Albert Stolow Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences National Research Council, Canada
•    David Tannor Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Themes

•    Electronic coherence in biological supramolecular assemblies
•    Non-adiabatic interactions and molecular coherent control
•    Strategies for coherent control
•    Applications of coherent control
•    Strong-field high harmonic generation and alignment control

Faraday Discussion 153 aims to assess recent progress in our general understanding of coherence and control in chemistry and to define new avenues for future research, building on the achievements of FD113, held 10 years ago in Leeds, which defined many areas of current activity in the field of molecular reaction dynamics and coherent control.

The current meeting will bring together experimentalists and theoreticians working in all areas of physics and chemistry who have an interest in probing and controlling chemical interactions at the quantum resolved level with the aim of defining the future challenges in this field.