Name: Photon Tools for Physical Chemistry 2014
Start: 2014-09-28T18:00:00+02:00
End: 2014-10-01T19:25:00+02:00
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Photon Tools for Physical Chemistry 2014

from Sunday 28 September 2014 (18:00) to Wednesday 1 October 2014 (19:25)

Monday 22 September 2014
Tuesday 23 September 2014
Wednesday 24 September 2014
Thursday 25 September 2014
Friday 26 September 2014
Saturday 27 September 2014
Sunday 28 September 2014

18:00 Dinner at Hotel Dorint
Dinner at Hotel Dorint
18:00 - 20:00

Monday 29 September 2014

08:30 Welcome
Welcome
08:30 - 08:35
08:35
08:35 - 12:05
Contributions

08:35 A brief history of TPEPICO – and the critical features that make it so powerful - Tomas Baer (University of North Carolina)

09:10 Physical chemistry with free electron Lasers (FEL) sources: A prospective view on some experiments and concepts - Gregor Knopp (Paul Scherrer Institute)

09:30 A Chemical Kinetics Shock Tube for Synchrotron Studies - Robert Tranter (Argonne National Laboratory)

10:30 Multiplexed Synchrotron Photoionization Mass Spectrometric Characterization of Fuel Oxidation Reactions - Giovanni Meloni (University of San Francisco)

10:55 Advances and Challenges in Experimental Research of Combustion - Nils Hansen (Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA 94551)

11:20 Disentangling reactive isomers in flames using PEPICO - Tina Kasper (University of Duisburg-Essen)

11:45 International (Photo)-Ionization Cross-section Database - Arnas Lucassen (Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt)
12:05 Lunch
Lunch
12:05 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 18:10
Contributions

14:00 Hot Nozzles & Cold Beams: Revealing Ion Chemistry, Solvation, & Combustion - Musahid Ahmed (Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

14:25 Pyrolysis Mechanism of Cyclopentadienone Revealed by Synchrotron Radiation - G. Barney Ellison (University of Colorado)

14:50 Experimental Investigation of the Low Temperature Oxidation of the Five Isomers of Hexane - Frédérique Battin-Leclerc (CNRS)

15:15 Experimental study of the low- and high-temperature oxidation of dimethyl ether in a jet-stirred reactor - Anne Rodriguez (CNRS-LRGP Nancy France)

15:35 The N + CH3, N + H2CN and N + CH2 reactions: kinetics and products. - Jean-Christophe Loison (CNRS - Université de Bordeaux)

16:30 Femtosecond Time-Resolved X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Liquids using SACLA - Toshinori Suzuki (Kyoto University)

16:55 Investigation of reactions of CnH (n = 1 – 6) radicals with propyne using synchrotron VUV ionization - Shih-Huang Lee (National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center)

17:20 Product Detection and Kinetic Studies of Combustion Intermediates: Substituted-Phenyl Oxidation Reactions - Adam Trevitt (University of Wollongong)

17:45 Investigation on Combustion Chemistry of Aromatic Hydrocarbons Using Synchrotron and Kinetic Modeling Tools - Yuyang Li (University of Science and Technology of China)
19:00 at Hotel Dorint
at Hotel Dorint
19:00 - 21:00
Tuesday 30 September 2014
08:00
08:00 - 11:50
Contributions

08:00 Developments of in-situ X-ray scattering diagnostic tools for studies of combustion and reactive systems - Frederik Ossler (Combustion Physics, Lund University, Sweden)

08:25 X-Ray Diagnostics of Cavitation and Sprays - Christopher Powell (Argonne National Laboratory)

08:50 Barrierless proton transfer across weak CH•••O hydrogen bonds in dimethyl ether dimer - Ruth Signorell (Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Zürich, 8093, Switzerland)

09:15 In-situ Soft X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Flames - Jonathan Frank (Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories)

10:10 VUV Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Aqueous Aerosols - Chia Wang (National Sun Yat-sen University)

10:35 Studies of combustion engine exhaust: An in-situ laser induced fluorescence oil consumption method and simulations of Diesel particulate matter via laser desorption time of flight mass spectrometry. - Eduardo Alonso-Gil (Technische Universität München)

11:00 SIMULTANEOUS X-RAY RADIOGRAPHY AND X-RAY FLUORESCENCE MEASUREMENTS FOR AERATED-LIQUID SPRAYS - Kuo-Cheng Lin (Taitech, Inc.)

11:25 Probing Molecular Weight Growth and Decomposition of Organic Particles in Planetary Atmospheres Using Vacuum Ultraviolet Photoionization Mass Spectrometry - Kevin R. Wilson (Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
11:50
11:50 - 12:20
Contributions

11:50 Photoelectron spectroscopy of radicals using double imaging coincidence techniques - Gustavo Garcia (Synchrotron SOLEIL)
12:20 Lunch
Lunch
12:20 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 17:10
Contributions

14:00 Diagnostic issues for clean(er) combustion - Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus (Department of Chemistry, Bielefeld University)

14:25 Multiplexed Photo-Ionization Mass Spectrometry Studies of Atmospheric Peroxy Radical Reactions - Mitchio Okumura (California Institute of Technology)

14:50 Application of Coincidence Spectroscopy to Inorganic Chemistry - Ingo Fischer (Universität Würzburg)

15:45 Dissociative photoionization and pyrolysis of Diazomeldrum’s acid: A threshold photoelectron spectroscopy study - Melanie Lang (Universitaet Wuerzburg)

16:05 Threshold Photoelectron Spectra of HNCO and the NCO radical - Fabian Holzmeier (Universität Würzburg)

16:25 Photoelectron Photoion Coincidence Spectroscopy for High-Accuracy Thermochemistry (…and More!) - Balint Sztaray (University of the Pacific)

16:50 Lignin Fast Pyrolysis – Mechanistic Studies of Model Compounds - Victoria Custodis (ETH Zürich)
18:00 Travel to mountain "Niederhorn", Dinner, travel back to hotel.
Travel to mountain "Niederhorn", Dinner, travel back to hotel.
18:00 - 23:10
Wednesday 1 October 2014
08:30
08:30 - 10:30
Contributions

08:30 The strange spectroscopy and fragmentation dynamics of the X 2B2 ground state of CH2F2+ - Richard Tuckett (University of Birmingham)

08:55 Dissociative photoionization dynamics of vinyl chloride in an excitation energy range of 11.0 – 14.5 eV - Xiaoguo Zhou (Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China)

09:20 Dissociation of energy-selected CH3F+ ions studied with double imaging photoelectron-photon coincidence - Xiaofeng TANG (Synchrotron SOLEIL, Gif sur Yvette, France)

09:45 Gas phase structures of small alkanes by femtosecond rotational Raman coherence spectroscopy and ab initio calculations - Hans-Martin Frey (University of Bern)

10:10 Investigation of 2-Methylfurane pyrolysis at VUV beam line of Swiss Light Source - Elke Goos (DLR Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V (German Aerospace Center))
10:30
10:30 - 12:15
Contributions

11:00 Chiral photons as trigger of life’s asymmetry? - Cornelia Meinert (Institut de Chimie de Nice, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis)

11:25 Photon Induced Desorption of interstellar relevant ices in the VUV - Jean-Hugues FILLION (LERMA - Université Pierre et Marie Curie)

11:50 Structure and energetics of PAH clusters of interstellar relevance - Christine Joblin (Université Toulouse 3/ CNRS, IRAP)
12:15 Lunch
Lunch
12:15 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 14:50
Contributions

14:00 Electronic Spectra of Organic Radicals and Ions of Relevance to Combustion and Interstellar Space - John Maier (University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 80, CH-4056 Basel)

14:25 Exploring the Ion Chemistry of Small Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons with Coincidence Spectroscopy - Paul Mayer (University of Ottawa)
14:50
14:50 - 17:40
Contributions

14:50 X-ray absorption spectroscopy on catalysts, a photon tool to determine structure – performance relationsX-ray absorption spectroscopy on catalysts, a photon tool to determine structure – performance relations - Jeroen van Bokhoven (Paul Scherrer Institut)

15:15 Photoelectron spectroscopy of size-selected cluster ions using synchrotron radiation - Gerd Ganteför (University of Konstanz)

16:10 Application of Strong VUV Light Sources in Chemical Dynamics Research - Xueming Yang (Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics)

16:35 Catalysis and Electrocatalysis by Clusters: Size, Composition and Support Effects - Stefan Vajda (Materials Science Division and Nanoscience and Technology Division Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA)

17:00 Identifying the transient phase in CO oxidation by XAS spectroscopy - Urs Hartfelder (ETH Zurich)

17:20 In situ XAS of ceria redox materials under relevant conditions for solar thermochemical fuel generation - Matthäus Rothensteiner (PSI/ETH Zurich)