Dear colleagues, The 76th International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy to be held June 19-23, 2023 at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is now open for registration. The conference is highly student-oriented, aiming to give any student the opportunity to give an oral contribution. Each year, the ISMS spotlights topics of special interest in mini-symposia, typically lasting three or four half-day sessions. This year, Renske van der Veen, Joost Bakker, and I are organizing a mini-symposium entitled “Spectroscopy at Large-Scale Facilities: from Steady-State to Ultrafast.” The aim is to showcase how spectroscopy at large-scale facilities is practiced and what types of scientific questions can be addressed using the unique capabilities such facilities provide. Below is a short description of the mini-symposium, and more information on ISMS is available at the conference website: https://isms.illinois.edu/ The deadline for abstract submission is *March 1st*. We hope you would be willing to bring ISMS, and in particular our mini-symposium, to the attention of your Ph.D. students and postdocs - and of course urge them to come! Please also pass this announcement along to any other group leaders at your institute and beyond who may be interested. Regards, Dugan Hayes (University of Rhode Island) Joost Bakker (Radboud University, HFML-FELIX) Renske van der Veen (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, BESSY) --------------------------------------------------------- *Spectroscopy at Large-Scale Facilities: from Steady-State to Ultrafast* The general topic of the symposium is IR/XUV/X-ray spectroscopy at synchrotrons and free-electron lasers, applied to, but not limited to the following topics: - Ion/gas-phase/cluster chemistry - Astro- and atmospheric chemistry - Molecules for catalysis and solar energy - Reaction dynamics - Photophysics of organic molecules and transition-metal complexes Symposium description: Large-scale facilities offer unique capabilities for spectroscopic investigations of, e.g., dilute solution-phase samples, clusters, or time-resolved molecular dynamics. With the recent advent of free-electron laser (FEL) facilities, yet a new era of molecular spectroscopy has begun. The goal of this symposium is to bring together the lab-based molecular spectroscopy community (historically largely represented at ISMS) with people from recently emerged fields such as (ultrafast) IR/XUV/X-ray spectroscopy at synchrotrons and FEL facilities. -- Dugan Hayes Assistant Professor | Department of Chemistry | University of Rhode Island Beaupre 374E | 140 Flagg Road | Kingston, RI 02881 (401) 874-5516 | (*he/him*) http://www.chm.uri.edu/hayesgroup/