Agenda: Workshop on Chemistry at Interfaces
June 29, 2004
Hyatt Newporter, Newport
Beach, CA
Sergey Nizkorodov addressing the CRC Workshop, June 2004
7:30a.m.-8:15a.m. Registration and Breakfast
8:15a.m.-8:30a.m. Barbara Finlayson-Pitts Welcome and Introduction
Session I: Chemistry and Photochemistry at Aqueous Interfaces
Session Chair: Barbara Finlayson-Pitts
8:30a.m.-9:10a.m.
D. James
Donaldson, University of
Toronto
“Uptake and
Oxidation of Organic Compounds on Atmospheric Surfaces”
9:10a.m.-9:50a.m.
Christopher J.
Mundy, LLNL
“The Reactivity of
Atmospherically Relevant Interfaces Via Ab Initio”
9:50a.m.-10:20a.m.
Sherri W.
Hunt, Martina Roeselová,
William H. Robertson, Weihong Wang, Lisa M. Wingen, Douglas J. Tobias,
Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts, John S. Vieceli, and Pavel Jungwirth,
UCI/ Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
“Reactions of Ozone
and Hydroxyl Radical with Sea Salt Aerosol: Experiments, Simulations, and
Implications”
10:20a.m.-10:40a.m. Break
Session Chair: John Hemminger
10:40a.m.-11:20a.m.
Elizabeth A.
Raymond and Geraldine L.
Richmond, UCLA/ University of
Oregon
“Molecular Bonding
at Aqueous Surfaces Examined by VSFS”
11:20a.m.-11:40a.m.
Sutapa Ghosal,
Eric C. Brown, Felix Requejo, B. Simon Mun, Frank Ogletree, Miguel B.
Salmeron, John C. Hemminger, Pavel Jungwirth, Douglas J. Tobias, Martin Mucha,
and Olga Mandelshtam, UCI/
LBNL
“Surface Composition of
Alkali Halide Solutions: Experiments and Simulations”
11:40a.m.-11:55p.m.
Pavel Jungwirth,
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
“A Unified Picture
of the Air-Solution Interface of Aqueous Inorganic Acids, Bases, and Salts”
11:55p.m.-1:15p.m. Lunch (Hyatt Newporter)
Session II: Gas Uptake Processes and Aerosol Chemistry/ Photochemistry
Session Chair: Doug Tobias
1:15p.m.-1:55p.m.
Gilbert M.
Nathanson, University of
Wisconsin
“Surfactant Control
of Gas Uptake into Super Cooled Sulfuric Acid”
1:55p.m.-2:10p.m.
Leon F. Phillips,
University of Canterbury
“Surfing the
Nanowaves: Small-scale Dynamics of the Gas-Liquid Interface”
2:10p.m.-2:50p.m.
Cort Anastasio,
UC Davis
“Radical Chemistry
in Sea Salt Particles”
2:50p.m.-3:05p.m.
Sergey A.
Nizkorodov, UCI
“Photodissociation
Spectroscopy at Organic Aerosol Particle-Air Interfaces”
3:05p.m.-3:25p.m. Break
Session III: Thin Films on Solid Substrates and Atmospheric Applications
Session Chair: Donald Dabdub
3:25p.m.-4:05p.m.
Vicki H.
Grassian, University of Iowa
“Reactions of
Nitric Acid on Oxide and Carbonate Surfaces: The Importance of Water in Surface
Composition, Surface Reactivity, and the Thickness and Phase of the Resultant
Nitrate Thin Film”
4:05p.m.-4:35p.m.
Yael Dubowski,
John S. Vieceli, and Christopher J. Knox,
UCI
“Insights Into
Heterogeneous Organic Aerosol Chemistry from Organic Thin Film Experiments and
Simulations”
4:35p.m.-4:55p.m.
Kevin A.
Ramazan and Angel Jimenez,
UCI
“Nitric Acid on
Surfaces: Experiments and Air Quality Modeling”
4:55p.m.-5:15p.m.
R. Benny Gerber,
UCI
“Vibrational
Spectroscopy and Photochemical Reaction Dynamics of HNOx and HNOx-H2O”
5:15p.m. -5:30p.m. Wrap-up: Barbara Finlayson-Pitts