AirUCI
Annual Workshop
January 26-27, 2006
Hotel Laguna
Laguna Beach, California
AGENDA
Thursday, January 26th
8:30 am — Opening session begins
Barbara Finlayson-Pitts; AirUCI Director
Welcome and Introduction
Session Chair: Donald Dabdub Presiding
8:40 to 9:15 — N. Winter and Ilan Benjamin; “Modeling Ionic Dissociation Reactions at Liquid Interfaces”
9:15 to 9:30 — Raffaella D’Auria and Doug Tobias; “Insights into the Mechanism of the Cl- Oxidation by OH: Electronic Structure and Molecular Dynamics Simulations”
9:30 to 9:45 — Matthew Brown, Albert Verdaguer, Miquel Salmeron, Hendrik Bluhm, Sutapa Ghosal, and John Hemminger; “Spectral Identification of Anions at the Surface and in the Bulk of Aqueous Solutions”
9:45 to 10:00 — Paul Nissenson, Christopher Knox, Barbara Finlayson-Pitts, Leon Phillips, and Donald Dabdub; “Enhanced Photolysis in an Aerosol Relative to the Bulk-Liquid”
10:00 to 10:30 — Break
Session Chair: Sergey Nizkorodov Presiding
10:30 to 10:50 — Chris Mundy, Will Kuo, Doug Tobias, John Viecelli, Ilja Siepmann; “Ab Initio Approaches to Structure and Reactivity in Atmospherically Relevant Systems”
10:50 to 11:10 — Alex Laskin, H. Wang, William Robertson, James Cowin, Michael Ezell, and Barbara. Finlayson-Pitts; “A Laboratory Kinetic Study of the Heterogeneous Reactivity of Hydroxyl Radicals with Deliquesced Sodium Chloride Particles”
11:10 to 11:45 — Paul Cremer; “Biofouling: Why Some Blood Clotting Proteins can be replaced from the Surface”
11:45 to 1:15 — Lunch on own in Laguna Beach
Session Chair: John Hemminger Presiding
1:15 to 1:50 — S. Raja, J. Chen, R. Ravikrishna and Kaliat Valsaraj; “Organic Species Interactions at the Environmental Air-Water Interface”
1:50 to 2:05 — Tony Gomez, Maggie Walser, Jiho Park, Ashley Russell, and Sergey Nizkorodov; “Piecing it Together: Oxidative and Photochemical Aging of Various Organic Aerosol Systems”
2:05 to 2:25 — Theresa McIntire, Rachelle Smalley, John Newberg, A. Scott Lea, John Hemminger, and Barbara Finlayson-Pitts; “Impact of Substrates on the Heterogeneous Chemistry of Organics on Proxies for Airborne Dust”
2:25 to 2:45 — Lai-Sheng Wang and Xue-Bin Wang; “Solvation of Complex Anions”
2:45 to 3:00 — Joelle Underwood, Ahmad Alshawa, Steven Ng, and Sergey Nizkorodov; “Aerosolized Inverted Micelles as Model Systems for Probing Atmospheric Reactions of Ultrafine Organic Particles”
3:00 to 3:30 — Break
Session Chair: Benny Gerber Presiding
3:30 to 4:05 — Dongping Zhong; “Water Dynamics at Bio-Interfaces”
4:05 to 4:20 — Jennie Thomas, Angel Jimenez-Aranda, Barbara Finlayson-Pitts, and Donald Dabdub; “When Are Interface Reactions Important?"
4:20 to 4:40 — Miquel Salmeron; “Scanning Probe Studies of Water at Interfaces”
4:40 to 4:55 — Karen Callahan and Doug Tobias; “Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Influence of Magnesium Dication on the Interfacial Structure of Aqueous Salt Solutions”
5:30 pm — Dinner for invited speakers, AirUCI faculty, international and DOE lab collaborators and Advisory Committee members at Las Brisas
AGENDA
Friday, January 27th
8:15 am — Morning session begins
Session Chair: Doug Tobias Presiding
8:35 to 9:10 — Markus Ammann, Konrad Stemmler, Christian George, and Joerg Kleffmann; “Photosensitized Reduction of NO2 on Organic Mimics of Soil and Atmospheric Aerosol Surfaces”
9:10 to 9:25 — Yifat Miller and R. Benny Gerber; “Dynamics of Atmospheric Reactions at Large Water Clusters: Hydrolysis of N2O4 and Ionization of HNO3”
9:25 to 9:45 — Sotiris Xantheas; “Structures and Spectra of Mixtures of Nitric Acid with Water”
9:45 to 10:00 — Michael Brown, Michael Ezell, Barbara Finlayson-Pitts, and Leon Phillips; “Surface Enhancement of Nitrate Photolysis?”
10:00 to 10:20 — Liem Dang, Tsun-Mei Chang, Martina Roeselova, Bruce Garrett, and Doug Tobias; “On NO3- - H2O Interactions in Aqueous Solutions and at Interfaces”
10:20 to 10:50 — Break
Session Chair: Leon Phillips Presiding
10:50 to 11:05 — Lisa Wingen, Amy Moskun, Jennie Thomas, Martina
Roeselova, Doug Tobias, and Barbara Finlayson-Pitts; “Exploring the Effects of
Nitrate Ion on the Interface Chemistry of Chloride in Aerosol Particles”
11:05 to 11:25
— Jim Cowin,
Xin Yang, and Alex Laskin; “Aging of Supported Particles… Flow Thru Approach”
11:30 to 1:00 — Lunch for all participants and Advisory Committee
ADVISORY PANEL MEETING
Friday, January 27th
1:00 pm to 5:00 pm — Discussion of AirUCI issues
5:30 pm — Dinner for AirUCI faculty, international and DOE collaborators, and Advisory Committee at Cedar Creek Inn
