PLENARY SPEAKERS
Asuka Fujii
Tohoku University, Japan
Juan Carlos López
University of Valladolid, Spain
Anne McCoy
University of Washington, USA
Konstantin Vodopyanov
University of Central Florida, USA
Linda Young
Argonne National Lab, USA
COBLENTZ AWARD WINNER
Milan Delor
Columbia University
MILLER PRIZE WINNER
Miguel Sanz-Novo
Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA)
FLYGARE AWARD LECTURES
Zhou Lin
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Minjung Son
Boston University
MINI-SYMPOSIA
Engaging undergraduates in spectroscopy research
Organized by:
Helen Leung (Amherst College),
Mark Marshall (Amherst College)
This mini-symposium showcases excellent spectroscopy research that engages undergraduate students,
highlighting the benefits of research at every level, the importance of scientific inquiry to society
and students, and successful strategies of conducting high-impact research across a wide range of institutions.
Invited Speakers:
Rebecca Peebles (California State University - Sacramento),
Peter Chen (Spelman College)
Experimentally Inspired Computational Spectroscopy
Organized by:
Terry Miller (The Ohio State University),
Anne McCoy (University of Washington),
Cristina Puzzarini (Universita' di Bologna)
The efficacy of the combination of experimental and computational spectroscopy, typically involving
high-level quantum chemistry calculations, is well recognized today. This mini symposium will focus
on the computational spectroscopy of small and moderate-sized molecules and include complementary
experimental spectra. Examples of such work include computational method development and applications
to simulate and understand observed, or sought, spectra of molecules. Such spectra may include features
from the breakdown of the Born Oppenheimer approximation, vibronic and/or spin coupling within and
between electronic states, anharmonicities in vibrational spectra, rotational effects beyond the rigid
rotor limit. New experimental spectra requiring such computations are welcome.
Invited Speakers:
Josh Baraban (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev),
Lan Cheng (Johns Hopkins University),
Jürgen Gauss (Universität Mainz),
Michael McCarthy (CFA , Harvard & Smithsonian),
Daniel Tabor (Texas A&M University)
Probing Chemical Reactions with High-Resolution Spectroscopy
Organized by:
Laurent H Coudert,
Cristina Puzzarini,
Oliver Pirali
In recent years, molecular spectroscopy has increasingly become a robust, efficient and reliable tool for
monitoring gas-phase and solid-state chemical reactions, with particular emphasis on astrochemistry. In
this context, attention will be given to new experimental and theoretical developments targeting highly
reactive radicals and ions involved in these chemical processes. This mini-symposium aims at providing
an overview of the most recent developments and results in the field of molecular spectroscopy applied
to chemical reactions
Invited Speakers:
Sandra Brünken (HFML-FELIX),
Katrin Erath-Dulitz (Innsbruck University),
Brian Hays (Lille University),
Arthur G. Suits (University of Missouri)
MINI-SYMPOSIUM HISTORY
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Minjung Son
Boston University
| Year | Title (number of half day sessions) | Organizers | Invited Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Astrochemistry - Laboratory, Computations, and Observations (7) | Brett McGuire, Laurent Margulé, Marie-Aline Martin-Drumel, Arielle Moullet | Jenny Bergner, Ilsa Cooke, Audrey Coutens, Jérôme Loreau, Roman Motiyenko, Xander Thelen |
| 2025 | Multidimensional Molecular Spectroscopy (4) | Sean Garrett-Roe, James Gaynor, Melanie Reber | Lukas Bruder, Peter Chen, Keith Nelson, John Wright, Larry Ziegler |
| 2025 | Spectroscopy of Large Clusters Beyond Dimers (4) | Rebecca Peebles, Maria Eugenia Sanz | Christopher Johnson, Anne McCoy, Nasser Moazzen-Ahmadi, Brooks Pate, George Shields |
| 2024 | Atmospherically Relevant Species (5) | Erin Adkins, Brian Drouin, Paul Raston | Isabelle Kleiner, Peter Bernath, Carl Percival, Scott Kable |
| 2024 | Heavy Element Spectroscopy (4) | Lan Cheng, Mike Heaven | Michael Morse, Michael Duncan, David Dixon, Svetlana Kotochigova |
| 2024 | Synergy Between Experiment and Theory (7) | Nathan Kidwell, Cristina Puzzarini | Malgorzata Biczysko, Joseph S. Francisco, Etienne Garand, Marie-Aline Martin-Drumel |
| 2023 | Infrared Spectroscopy in the JWST Era (4) | Sandra Brünken, Sergio Ioppolo, Rens Waters | Klaus Pontoppidan, Ameek Sidhu, Helen Fraser |
| 2023 | Spectroscoy at Large-Scale Facilities: from Steady-State to Ultrafast (4) | Renske van der Veen, Joost Bakker, Dugan Hayes | Kelly Gaffney, Sandra Lang, Daniel Rolles, Melanie Schnell |
| 2023 | Spectroscopy with Cryogenic Ion Traps (4) | Joseph Fournier, Chris Johnson | Sandra Brünken, Masaaki Fujii, Lai-Sheng Wang |
| 2022 | Benchmarking in Spectroscopy (6) | Emilio Cocinero, Gang Feng, Daniel Obenchain | Taija Fischer, Brian Esselman, Qian Gou, Lan Cheng |
| 2022 | Machine Learning (3) | Kelvin Lee, Daniel Tabor | Heather Kulik, Thomas Markland, AndréMontoya-Castillo, Steven Shipman, Andrew White |
| 2022 | Spectroscopy meets Chemical Dynamics (7) | David Osborn, Krupa Ramasesha, Timothy Zwier | Randall Goldsmith, Steve Leone, Melanie Reber, Dave Townsend |
| 2021 | Large Amplitude Motions (5) | Isabelle Kleiner, Vadim Ilyushin | Jens-Uwe Grabow, Ronald Lees, Maria-Luisa Senent |
| 2021 | Precision Spectroscopy for Fundamental Physics (3) | Shui-Ming Hu, Nick Hutzler | Ronald Garcia-Ruiz, Nick Hutzler, Frédéric Merkt |
| 2021 | Spectroscopy with Undergraduates (2) | Jacob Stewart, AnGayle (AJ) Vasiliou | Garry "Smitty" Grubbs II, Laura R. McCunn |
| 2019 | Astrochemistry and Astrobiology in the age of ALMA (5) | Laurent Margulès, Anthony Remijan | Jes Jorgensen, Brett A. McGuire, Nami Sakai, Charlotte Vastel |
| 2019 | High-Harmonic Generation and XUV Spectroscopy (4) | Robert Baker, Scott Sayres, Josh Vura-Weis | Lou DiMauro, Wen Li, Arvinder Sandhu |
| 2019 | Non-Covalent Interactions (6) | Helen Leung, Mark Marshall, Yunjie Xu | Maria Sanz, Joseph Francisco, Kenneth Leopold |
| 2018 | Far-Infrared Spectroscopy (3) | Olivier Pirali and Shanshan Yu | Brian Drouin, Jean-Françs Lampin, Hiroyuki Ozeki, Charles Schmuttenmaer, Jean Vander Auwera |
| 2018 | Frequency-Comb Spectroscopy (5) | Aleksandra Foltynowicz, Nathalie Picquéand Jun Ye | Kjeld Eikema, Paolo De Natale, Greg Rieker, Takeshi Yasui |
| 2018 | New Ways of Understanding Molecular Spectra (4) | Per Jensen and Stephan Schlemmer | Renato Lemus, Brooks Pate, Sergey Yurchenko |
| 2017 | Multiple Potential Energy Surfaces (4) | Jinjun Liu and Chris Elles | Robert W. Field, Roseanne J. Sension, John F. Stanton |
| 2017 | Chirality-Sensitive Spectroscopy (2) | Yunjie Xu and Melanie Schnell | Rina Dukor, Laurent Nahon, Patrick Vaccaro |
| 2017 | ALMA's Molecular View (4) | Brett McGuire and Anthony Remijan | Susanne Aalto, Arnaud Belloche, Michael McCarthy, Chunhua Qi, Noaki Watanabe |
| 2016 | Spectroscopy in Atmospheric Chemistry (4) | Steve Brown and Frank Keutsch | Stan Sander, Phil Stevens, Rainer Volkamer, Gerard Wysocki |
| 2016 | Spectroscopy in Traps (3) | Stephan Schlemmer | Mark Johnson, Jos Oomens, Roland Wester |
| 2016 | Spectroscopy of Large Amplitude Motions(5) | Isabelle Kleiner and Jon Hougen | Therese Huet, Marek Kreglewski, Stephan Schlemmer |
| 2015 | Accelerator-Based Spectroscopy (3) | Jos Oomens, Jennifer van Wijngaarden | Robert Georges, Terry McMahon, Gaël Mouret, Gert von Helden |
| 2015 | High-Precision Spectroscopy (3) | Mike Heaven, Trevor Sears | Thomas K. Allison, Ian Coddington, David Long, Hiroyuki Sasada, Wim Ubachs |
| 2015 | Spectroscopy in the Classroom (2) | Stephen Cooke, Andrea Minei | Geoffrey A. Blake, Colin Western |
| 2014 | Astronomical Molecular Spectroscopy in the Age of ALMA (5) | Leslie Looney and Anthony Remijan | Ted Bergin, Geoffrey Blake |
| 2014 | Beyond the Mass-to-Charge Ratio: Spectroscopic Probes of the Structures of Ions (3) | Mike Duncan and Tim Zwier | Knut Asmis, Yuan-Pern Lee, Cheuk-Yiu Ng |
| 2014 | Spectroscopy in Kinetics and Dynamics (3) | Martin Gruebele and Iam Sims | Toshinori Suzuki, Joel Bowman, Ian Sims |
| 2013 | Spectroscopy of Planetary Atmospheres (2) | Vincent Boudon and Peter Bernath | Pierre Coheur, Glenn Orton, Jonathan Tennyson |
| 2013 | Spectroscopy Tests of Fundamental Physics (3) | Wim Ubachs and Tim Steimle | Peter Schwerdtfeger, Wim Ubachs |
| 2013 | Theory and Spectroscopy (4) | John Stanton | Cristina Puzzarini, Jon Hougen, Horst Koeppel, Timothy Lee |
| 2012 | Cold Quantum Systems (3) | Gary Douberly and David Anderson | Takamasa Momose, Pierre-Nicholas Roy, Kenneth Brown, Marcel Drabbels |
| 2012 | Spectroscopy of Liquid and Cluster Interfaces (2) | Michael Duncan | Rich Saykally, Heather Allen |
| 2012 | Ultimate Electronic Transitions - Photodetachment and Photoionization (3) | Caroline Chick Jarrold | Daniel Neumark, Frederic Merkt |
| 2011 | Molecular Spectroscopy in Support of Fundamental Physics (2) | Trevor Sears and Neil Shafer-Ray | David Demille, Jens-Uwe Grabow |
| 2011 | Spectroscopic Perturbations: Molecules Behaving Badly? (3) | Robert W. Field | Robert Field, Anthony Merer, Mark Child |
| 2011 | The THz Cosmos (2) | Eric Herbst | Maryvonne Gerin, Ted Bergin |
| 2010 | Biomolecules and Cluster Ions (2) | Tom Rizzo and Fleming Crim | Thomas Rizzo, Timothy Zwier, Mark Johnson |
| 2010 | Metal Containing Molecules (4) | Michael Duncan | Michael Heaven, Andre Fielicke, Lucy Ziurys, Michael Duncan |
| 2010 | Precision/Frequency Combs (2) | Ben McCall and Jun Ye | Ronald Holzwarth, Ronald Walsworth |
| 2009 | Cavity Enhanced Spectroscopy (3) | Andrew Orr-Ewing and Kevin Lehmann | Jun Ye, Steven Brown, Andreas Brockhinke |
| 2009 | Conical Intersections (2) | Scott Reid and Spiridoula Matsika | Todd Martinez, David Jonas |
| 2009 | FIR/THz Air/Space Missions (3) | Li-Hong Xu and John Pearson | Holger Mü Karl Menten, Frank De Lucia, Bob McKellar |
| 2008 | Cold Molecules/Clusters (4) | Frederic Merkt | Andrey Vilesov, Stefan Willitsch, Uzi Even, Eberhard Tiemann |
| 2008 | Multi-Dimensional IR (2) | Marty Zanni | Timothy Zwier, Chris Cheatum, Igor Rubtsov |
| 2008 | THz Spectroscopy (2) | David Plusquellic and Edwin Heilweil | Peter Uhd Jepsen, Joseph Melinger, Frank De Lucia |
| 2007 | Alkali dimers and long-range molecules (2) | Bob Field and Amanda Ross | David Demille, Paul Julienne |
| 2007 | Dynamics Probed by Spectroscopy (2) | Rich Loomis and Scott Reid | Scott Kable, Carl Lineberger, Simon North |
| 2007 | Theoretical/Computational Spectroscopy (5) | Anne McCoy and Jon Hougen | James Muckerman, David Perry, Pierre-Nicholas Roy |
PLENARY SPEAKER HISTORY
| Name | Institution | Country | Years |
| Ashfold, Michael | University of Bristol | United Kingdom | 2008 |
| Alán Aspuru-Guzik | University of Toronto | Canada | 2023 |
| Baba, Masaaki | Kyoto University | Japan | 2009 |
| Baker, Robert | The Ohio State University | USA | 2023 (C) |
| Bernath, Peter | Old Dominion University | USA | 2011 |
| Bieske, Evan | University of Melbourne | Australia | 2013 |
| Brus, Lou | Columbia University | USA | 2006 |
| Bunker, Phil | National Research Council of Canada | Canada | 2008 |
| Brogan, Crystal | National Radio Astronomy Observatory | USA | 2019 |
| Brünken, Sandra | Radboud University | Netherlands | 2018 |
| Burghardt, Irene | Goethe University Frankfurt | Germany | 2018 |
| Campargue, Alain | Universite Grenoble 1/CNRS | France | 2013 |
| Carrington, Tucker | Queen's University | Canada | 2012 |
| Cernicharo, Jose | ICMM-CSIC | Spain | 2016 |
| Chen, Peng | Cornell University | USA | 2014 |
| Chen, Peter | ETH Zurich | Switzerland | 2023 |
| Cheng, Ji-Xin | Purdue University | USA | 2016 |
| Chick Jarrold, Caroline | Indiana University | USA | 2018 |
| Clouthier, Dennis | University of Kentucky | USA | 2011 |
| Cocinero, Emilio J. | Universidad del Pais Vasco and Biofisika Institute | Spain | 2024 |
| Continetti, Robert | The University of California San Diego | USA | 2011 |
| Cornell, Eric | National Institute of Standards and Technology | USA | 2010 |
| Crim, Fleming | The Univeristy of Wisconsin | USA | 1994, 2006, 2022 |
| Curl, Bob | Rice University | USA | 1993, 1997, 2005, 2010 |
| De Lucia, Frank | The Ohio State University | USA | 2013 |
| Douberly, Gary | The University of Georgia | USA | 2015 (C) |
| Doyle, John | Harvard University | USA | 2019 |
| Drouin, Brian | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | USA | 2019 |
| Ebata, Takayuki | Hiroshima University | Japan | 2011 |
| Endo, Yasuki | The University of Tokyo | Japan | 1993, 2006, 2014, 2022 |
| Engel, Greg | The University of Chicago | USA | 2012 (C) |
| Ernst, Wolfgang | Graz University of Technology | Austria | 2009 |
| Field, Robert | MIT | USA | 2014 |
| Foltynowicz, Aleksandra | Umeå University | Sweden | 2019 (C) |
| Gallagher, Tom | University of Virginia | USA | 2006 |
| Gerry, Michael | University of British Columbia | Canada | 2007 |
| Grabow, Jens-Uwe | Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Universität | Germany | 2015 |
| Hartmann, Jean-Michel | University Paris-Est Créteil | France | 2016 |
| Havenith, Martina | Ruhr University Bochum | Germany | 2015 |
| Heaven, Michael | Emory University | USA | 2006 |
| Hinds, Ed | Imperial College London | United Kingdom | 2010 |
| Hougen, Jon | National Institute of Standards and Technology | USA | 1988, 2010 |
| Johnson, Mark | Yale University | USA | 2022 |
| Kleiner, Isabelle | CNRS - Université Paris-Est Créteil et Université de Paris | France | 2022 |
| Knappenberger, Jr., Kenneth L. | Florida State University | USA | 2016 (C) |
| Le Roy, Robert | University of Waterloo | Canada | 2009 |
| Lee, Yuan-Pern | National Chiao Tung University | Taiwan | 2007, 2018 |
| Legon, Anthony | University of Bristol | United Kingdom | 1996, 2009 |
| Leopold, Ken | University of Minnesota | USA | 2021 |
| Leone, Stephen R. | University of California, Berkeley | USA | 2024 |
| Lester, Marsha | University of Pennsylvania | USA | 2012,2024 |
| Leung, Helen O. | Amherst College | USA | 2017 |
| Leutwyler, Samuel | University of Berne | Switzerland | 2012 |
| Lewandowski, Heather | University of Colorado | USA | 2023 |
| Lewis, Nikole K. | Cornell University | USA | 2024 |
| Long, David A. | National Institute of Standards and Technology | USA | 2024 (C) |
| Lopez, Juan Carlos | Universidad de Valladolid | Spain | 2011 |
| Maier, John | University of Basel | Switzerland | 2011, 2016 |
| Matsushima, Fusakazu | University of Toyama | Japan | 2012 |
| McCall, Ben | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | USA | 2009 (C) |
| McCarthy, Michael | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | USA | 2002, 2010 |
| McCoy, Anne | The Ohio State University | USA | 2013 |
| McKellar, Bob | National Research Council of Canada | Canada | 1982, 2007 |
| Merer, Anthony | University of British Columbia | Canada | 1992, 2006 |
| Miller, Terry | The Ohio State University | USA | 2014, 2022 |
| Momose, Takamasa | University of British Columbia | Canada | 2014 |
| Mullin, Amy | University of Maryland | USA | 2012 |
| Nesbitt, David | JILA - University of Colorado | USA | 1995, 2000, 2010 |
| Neumark, Daniel | The University of California | USA | 1997, 2009, 2023 |
| Ni, Kang-Kuen | Harvard University | USA | 2022 |
| Ohshima, Yasuhiro | Tokyo Institute of Technology | Japan | 2021 |
| Oka, Takeshi | The University of Chicago | USA | 1984, 1986, 1999, 2008, 2022 |
| Okumura, Mitchio | California Institute of Technology | USA | 2015 |
| Orr-Ewing, Andrew | University of Bristol | United Kingdom | 2018 |
| Pate, Brooks | The University of Virginia | USA | 1999 (C), 2007, 2014 |
| Picque, Nathalie | Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics | Germany | 2013 (C) |
| Puzzarini, Cristina | University of Bologna | Italy | 2019 |
| Quack, Martin | ETH Zurich | Switzerland | 1982 (C), 1992, 2007 |
| Reisler, Hanna | University of Southern California | USA | 2009 |
| Richmond, Geraldine | University of Oregon | USA | 2022 |
| Rodgers, Mary | Wayne State University | USA | 2021 |
| Schlemmer, Stephan | I. Physikalisches Institut | Germany | 2013 |
| Schmidt, Timothy | The University of Sydney | Australia | 2010 |
| Schnell, Melanie | Max-Planck-Institut für Struktur und Dynamik der Materie | Germany | 2014 |
| Sibert, Edwin (Ned) | University of Wisconsin, Madison | USA | 2022 |
| Signorell, Ruth | ETH Zurich | Canada | 2008 |
| Sims, Ian | Institut de Physique de Rennes | France | 2024 |
| Skatrud, David | U.S. Army Research Office | USA | 2010 |
| Stanton, John | The University of Texas | USA | 2008 |
| Steimle, Tim | Arizona State University | USA | 2016 |
| Stienkemeier, Frank | University of Freiburg | Germany | 2017 |
| Strano, Michael | MIT | USA | 2006 (C) |
| Suhm, Martin | University of Goettingen | Germany | 2023 |
| Suits, Arthur | Wayne State University | USA | 2015 |
| Tanaka, Keiichi | Kyushu University | Japan | 2008 |
| Thaddeus, Patrick | Harvard University | USA | 1994, 2010 |
| Tyuterev, Vladimir | University of REIMS | France | 2010 |
| Ubachs, Wim | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | Netherlands | 2017 |
| van der Void, Ad | Radboud University Nijmegen | Netherlands | 2021 |
| van Dishoeck, Ewine | Leiden University | Netherlands | 2017 |
| Vaida, Veronica | University of Colorado | USA | 2010 |
| Widicus Weaver, Susanna | University of Wisconsin, Madison | USA | 2021 |
| Winnewisser, Brenda | The Ohio State University | USA | 1981, 2010 |
| Wodtke, Alec | Max Planck Institute for biophysical Chemistry | Germany | 2013 |
| Wootten, Al | National Radio Astronomy Observatory | USA | 2012 |
| Xu, Li-Hong | University of New Brunswick | Canada | 2016 |
| Xu, Yunjie | University of Alberta | Canada | 2021 |
| Yan, Elsa | Yale University | USA | 2019 |
| Ye, Jun | NIST and University of Colorado | USA | 2011, 2018 |
| Zanni, Martin | The Univeristy of Wisconsin | USA | 2007 (C) |
| Zehnacker, Anne | CNRS - Université Paris-Saclay | France | 2022 |
| Zhou, Mingfei | Fudan University | China | 2017 |
| Zhuang, Xiaowei | Harvard University | USA | 2008 (C) |
| Ziurys, Lucy | University of Arizona | USA | 2023 |
| Zwier, Timothy | Purdue University | USA | 1998, 2007 |
| (C) = Coblentz Prize Winner | |||