[Ifeffit] Upcoming symposium on spectroscopy at large-scale facilities

[Dugan Hayes]

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)

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*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/
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