WORKSHOP ON “CHEMISTRY AT INTERFACES”

July 1, 2003

Beckman Center

UCI
 

7:45 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.                Breakfast, Beckman Center

8:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.                Welcome and introduction:  Barbara Finlayson-Pitts

Session Chair:  John Hemminger

8:45 a.m. – 9:25 a.m.                Bruce Garrett, PNNL           

                                                “Molecular Simulations of Gas Uptake”

9:25 a.m.-9:40 a.m.                  Sherri Hunt, UCI (with W. Wang, B. J. Finlayson-Pitts, E. Knipping, D. Dabdub and Alexander Laskin and Daniel Gaspar, PNNL)

                                                “Reactions at the Interface of Deliquesced NaBr Particles”

9:40 a.m. – 9:55 a.m.                Sutapa Ghosal, UCI (with J. C. Hemminger and M. Salmeron, LBL)

“The Initial Stages of the Dissolution of Alkali Halides: A High Pressure XPS Study”

9:55 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.              Leon Phillips, University of Canterbury (with C. T. Mills)

“The Onsager Heat of Transport at the Liquid-Vapor Interface: Theory and Experiment”

10:15 a.m. – 10:35 a.m.            Break

Session Chair:  R. Benny Gerber

10:35 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.            Mary Shultz, Tufts University

“Combined Molecular and Spectroscopic Probes of Dynamic Surfaces”

11:15 a.m. – 11:55 a.m.            Heather Allen, Ohio State University

“Air-Liquid Interfaces:  Alcohols, Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Water”

11:55 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.           Eric Brown, UCI (with D. Tobias, R. B. Gerber and P. Jungwirth)

“Progress Toward the Theoretical Calculation of Vibrational Spectra of Aqueous Interfaces”

12:10 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.           Donald Dabdub, UCI

“Why Interfaces Matter in the Atmosphere: A Modeling Perspective”

12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch (Beckman Center)

Session Chair:  Wytze van der Veer

1:30 p.m. – 2:10 p.m.               Paul Devlin, Oklahoma State University

“Kinetics and Spectroscopy of Interconversion of Phases in H-Bonded Nanoparticles”

2:10 p.m. – 2:50 p.m.               Veronica Vaida, University of Colorado

“Morphological and Chemical Properties of Organic Films on Atmospheric Surfaces”

2:50 p.m. – 3:05 p.m.               Yael Dubowski, UCI (with B. J. Finlayson-Pitts, E. Wilson and M. J. Ezell)

“Real-time Measurements of Oxidation of SAMs Using FTIR”

3:05 p.m. – 3:25 p.m.               Break

Session Chair:  Doug Tobias

3:25 p.m. – 3:40 p.m.               Chris Knox, UCI (with J. C. Hemminger and B. J. Finlayson-Pitts)

                                                “Mechanistic Studies of Model Atmospheric Surfaces”

3:40 p.m. – 4:20 p.m.               Lai-Sheng Wang, PNNL

“Solvation and Solvent Stabilization of Multiply Charged Anions in the Gas Phase”

4:20 p.m. – 4:40 p.m.               Pavel Jungwirth, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

“Ions at the Air/Water Interface:  Molecular Simulations of Atmospheric Aerosols”

4:40 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.               Open discussion about “hot areas” in interface chemistry