INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP

Aqueous Solutions and their Interfaces

Hotel Fodele Beach, Heraklion, Crete, GREECE

June 23 - 27, 2008

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM [PDF]

Discussion topics will include:
- structure of liquid water
- analysis of X-ray and neutron scattering experimental data
- vibrational spectroscopy of liquid water
- structure of aqueous interfaces
- spectroscopy of aqueous interfaces
- development of theoretical approaches to model the structure and spectra
of liquid water and interfaces.

MEETING AGENDA

Funding & Sponsorship Of This Workshop Was Generously Provided By:

The Office of Naval Research,
The Center for Biophysical Modeling and Simulation – University of Utah
The University of Crete
Administrative Office, Region of Crete

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

 

Afternoon                   Arrival & Check-in

17:00 – 18:00             Registration

18:00 – 21:00             Welcome Reception / Dinner


 

 

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

 

 

Morning Session

 

Session Chair: Theofanis N. Kitsopoulos – University of Crete

 

    8:00 – 8:15             General Remarks / Information / Logistics (incl. accompanying persons)

                                    Greg Voth / Sotiris Xantheas

    8:15 – 8:30             Welcome Address

                                    Theofanis Kitsopoulos – University of Crete

    8:30 – 9:15             The pH Of The Liquid Water Surface:  Selective Adsorption Of Hydroxide And Hydronium

Richard Saykally – University of California, Berkeley

  9:15 – 10:00             Second Harmonic And Sum Frequency Studies Of Equilibrium And Time Dependent Processes At Aqueous Interfaces

Ken Eisenthal – Columbia University

10:00 – 10:15             Coffee Break

10:15 – 11:00             Vibrational Spectroscopy Of Water Interfaces

                                    Ron Shen – University of California, Berkeley

11:00 – 11:45             Water At Hydrophobic Surfaces: Insights Gained From A Combined Experimental And Theoretical Approach

Geraldine Richmond – University of Oregon

11:45 – 12:30             Why Ducks Don't Need A Towel: Dynamics Of Water Around Hydrophobes

                                    Huib Bakker – FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics

12:30 – 13:30             Lunch Break

13:30 – 16:00             Free Time

 

Afternoon / Evening Session

 

Session Chair: Francesco Paesani – University of Utah

 

16:00 – 16:45             Ab Initio Quantum Mechanical Charge Field Molecular Dynamics: A Non-Parametrised First-Principle Approach To Liquid Systems Including Composite Solutes

                                    Bernd Rode – University of Innsbruck

16:45 – 17:30             Electric Field Fluctuations At The Air-Water Interface

Phillip Geissler – University of California, Berkeley

17:30 – 18:15             Influence Of Concentration And Anion Size On The Hydration Of H+ Ions And Water Structure

                                    Maria Antonietta Ricci – University of Roma III

18:30 – 21:00             Dinner

 

 

 

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

 

 

Morning Session

 

Session Chair: Sotiris S. Xantheas – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

 

    8:15 – 9:00             Quantum Effects On The Structure Of Water

Alan Soper – Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

    9:00 – 9:45             New Experimental X-Ray Studies Of Bulk Water; Indications Of Spatially Separated Two Structural Motifs

Anders Nilsson – Stanford University

  9:45 – 10:30             Theoretical And Experimental Investigations Of Bulk Water And Water At Biological Interfaces

                                    Teresa Head-Gordon – University of California, Berkeley

10:30 – 10:45             Coffee Break

10:45 – 11:30             Ultrafast Bulk And Interfacial Melting Of Ice, Investigated By Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy

Alfred Laubereau – Technical University of Munich at Garching

11:30 – 12:15             Theoretical Simulation Of X-Ray And Vibrational Spectroscopy Data On Bulk Liquid Water

Lars G. M. Pettersson – University of Stockholm

12:15 – 13:00             Is Nuclear Quantization Important To Understand The Behavior Of Water?

                                    Francesco Paesani – University of Utah

13:00 – 13:45             Lunch

13:45 – 14:30            Free Time

14:45                        Bus Leaves Hotel

15:00 – 18:00            Visit Of The Archaeological Site Of Knossos

18:30 – 21:00            Dinner


Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

 

 

Morning Session

 

Session Chair: James L. Skinner – University of Wisconsin

 

    8:15 – 9:00             Time-Resolved Dynamics Of Charge-Transfer-To-Solvent States In Anion Clusters

Dan Neumark – University of California, Berkeley

    9:00 – 9:45             Accommodation Of Excess Electrons And Protons By Water Clusters

Ken Jordan – University of Pittsburgh

  9:45 – 10:00             Composite And Asymmetrically Solvated Ions In Solution

                                    Thomas Hofer –University of Innsbruck

10:00 – 10:15             Coffee Break

10:15 – 11:00             Pump-Probe Studies Of Isomer Interconversion In H-Bonded Clusters

Mark Johnson – Yale University

11:00 – 11:45             Solvation And Reactivity Of OH Radicals In Aqueous Systems

Bruce Garrett – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

11:45 – 12:30             The Excess Proton In Water: Past Predictions And New Discoveries

                                    Greg Voth – University of Utah

12:30 – 13:30             Lunch Break

13:30 – 16:00             Free Time

 

Afternoon / Evening Session

 

Session Chair: Thomas S. Hofer – University of Innsbruck

 

16:00 – 16:45             Vibrational Spectroscopy And Hydrogen Bonding In Bulk Water, At The Liquid/Vapor Interface, And In Salt Solutions

Jim Skinner – University of Wisconsin

16:45 – 17:30             Structure And Dynamics Of Water At The Interface Of Phospholipid Membranes

Roberto Righini – University of Florence

17:30 – 17:45             Solution Structure Of NaNO3 In Water: Diffraction And Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study

                                    Szabolcs Bálint – Hungarian Academy of Sciences

18:30                           Bus Leaves Hotel

19:00 – 22:30             Conference Banquet At “Boutaris” Winery




Thursday, June 26th, 2008

 

 

Morning Session

 

Session Chair: Gregory A. Voth – University of Utah

 

    8:15 – 9:00             Computer Simulation Studies Of Water/Hydrocarbon And Water/Surfactant Interfaces

Branka Ladanyi – Colorado State University

    9:00 – 9:45             Water In Nonpolar Pores And Protein Cavities

Gerhard Hummer – National Institutes of Health

  9:45 – 10:00             Molecular Dynamics Study Of Water Adsorbed On Mixed Self-Assembled Monolayers As Proxies For Atmospheric Organic Surfaces

                                    Martina Roeselová – Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

10:00 – 10:15             Coffee Break

10:15 – 11:00             Liquid And Glassy Water In Nano-Scale Confinement

Pablo Debenedetti – Princeton University

11:00 – 11:45             Nanophase Segregation In Super-Cooled Aqueous Solutions Driven By Water Polyamorphism

Valeria Molinero – University of Utah

11:45 – 12:30             Models For Describing The Interactions Between Water Molecules

                                    Sotiris Xantheas – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

12:30 – 13:30             Lunch Break

13:30 – 16:00             Free Time

 

Afternoon / Evening Session

 

Session Chair: Martina Roeselová – Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

 

16:00 – 16:45             Peculiar Structural And Dynamic Properties Of Interfacial Water

                                    Marie-Claire Bellissent-Funel – LLB (CEA-CNRS), Saclay

16:45 – 17:30             Trapping Proton Transfer Intermediates In The Disordered H-Bonded Network Of Cryogenic Hydrofluoric Acid Solutions

                                    Patrick Ayotte – Sherbrooke University

17:30 – 17:45             The Nature Of Contact Ion-Pair Acid Dissociation Intermediates In Water: A Computational Infrared Spectroscopy Approach

                                    Radu Iftimie – University of Montreal

19:00 – 22:00             Greek Night At “Elia” Restaurant (Fodele Beach Hotel)




Friday, June 27th, 2008

 

 

Morning Session

 

Session Chair: Richard J. Saykally – University of California, Berkeley

 

    8:00 – 8:45             Balancing Local Order And Long-Ranged Interactions In The Molecular Theory Of Liquid Water And Its Interfaces

                                    Lawrence Pratt – Tulane University

    8:45 – 9:30             Specific Ion Effects At Air-Water And Surfactant-Water Interfaces

                                    Doug Tobias – University of California, Irvine

  9:30 – 10:15             Hydrophobic To Hydrophilic Hydration Of Solutes And Interfaces

                                    Shekhar Garde – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

10:15 – 10:30             Coffee Break

10:30 – 11:15             Analyzing Intermolecular Interactions From Electronic Structure Calculations And The Nature Of The Water-Water Hydrogen Bond

                                    Martin Head-Gordon – University of California, Berkeley

11:15 – 12:00             Ab-Intio Simulations Of Water In Contact With Non-Polar Surfaces

                                    Giulia Galli – University of California, Davis

12:00 – 12:30             Concluding Remarks

12:30 – 13:30             Lunch Break

14:00                         Departure

 

 

 

 

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

 

Optional 1-day trip to Santorini