22^nd International Symposium on Gas Kinetics

Agenda

Sun June 17
Mon June 18
Tues June 19
Wed June 20
Thur June 21
Fri June 22

Time	Session	Location
5:00 - 9:00 pm	Registration Check-in and Ice-Breaker Reception	Millennium Hotel Boulder

Time	Session	Speaker	Title/Abstract	Location
8:50	Welcome/Logistics			CU MATH 100
9:00	Sid Benson Tribute
9:20	Keynote Address	Prof. Michael Pilling	Gas kinetics – the interface between experiment, theory and application
10:00	Multi-Phase Chemistry	Prof. Barbara Finlayson-Pitts	From Gases to the Condensed Phase and Back: Some Current Challenges in Atmospheric Chemistry
10:40	Refreshment Break
11:10		Prof. Markus Ammann	Constraining kinetic parameters of gas particle interactions in the transition from liquid to solid	CU MATH 100
11:30		Dr. James M. Roberts	The Multi-phase Atmospheric Chemistry of Isocyanic Acid, HNCO
11:50		Prof. Hans Osthoff	Production of gas-phase nitrogen dioxide and nitrous, peroxynitrous and peroxynitric acid from photolysis of nitrate in ice
12:10		Prof. Jesse H. Kroll	Kinetics of the multiphase formation of oxidized organic aerosol
12:30	Lunch			CU Center for Community (C4C)
2:00	Combustion Chemistry	Dr. Craig Taatjes	Measuring reactions of key intermediates in hydrocarbon oxidation	CU MATH 100
2:40		Prof. Paul Marshall	Kinetic Studies of the Reactions of NH₂ Radicals with H₂S and SO₂: Differing Roles for Bound Intermediates
3:00		Dr. Judit Zádor	QOOH decomposition and the QOOH + O₂ reaction: Direct experimental investigation and theory
3:20		Prof. Lev Krasnoperov	Kinetics of Reactions of Combustion Importance at Elevated Temperatures and Pressures
3:40	Refreshment Break
4:10		Prof. William H. Green	Automated Predictive Chemical Kinetics: Triumphs and Challenges	CU MATH 100
4:30		Dr. Adam J. Trevitt	Synchrotron Product Detection Studies of Ortho and Meta Methylphenyl + O₂
4:50		Dr. Jeffrey A. Manion	A Pressure Dependence of the Decomposition of n-Pentyl Radicals near 1000 K
5:10		Dr. Robert S. Tranter	High temperature sources of phenyl and benzyne radicals and their reactions
5:30	Free evening

Time	Session	Speaker	Title/Abstract	Location
6:00 - 7:30	Sunrise Nature Hike
8:50	Announcements			CU MATH 100
9:00	Multi-Phase Chemistry	Prof. Hartmut Herrmann	Tropospheric multiphase chemistry in lab, modeling and field studies
9:40		Ms. Kerry King	Dynamics of interfacial collisions of OH with organic liquid surfaces
10:00		Prof. Veronica Vaida	Atmospheric Consequences of the Hydration in Gas Phase of Aldehydes and Ketones
10:20		Dr. John Crowley	Trace-gas burial in growing ice
10:40	Refreshment Break
11:10	Experimental Methods and Applications	Prof. Markus Kalberer	Recent advances in mass spectrometry techniques to determine the composition and reactivity of atmospheric aerosols	CU MATH 100
11:50		Prof. Lei Zhu	Investigation of the Photolysis of Nitric Acid on Surfaces by Using Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy and Its Novel Variant
12:10		Dr. Julien Daranlot	Low temperature kinetic studies of atomic nitrogen - radical reactions
12:30		Mr. Eric Osecky	Ignition Quality Tester (IQT): An Alternative for Characterizing Combustion Kinetics of Low Volatility Fuels
12:50	Box Lunch
1:00	Buses depart for excursions
	Excursions: Celestial Seasonings and Dushanbe Teahouse in Boulder, or Red Rocks Park & Amphitheater and Dinosaur Ridge in Morrison
5:00	Approximate return from excursions
7:00 - 10:00	Poster Session			CU Stadium Club

Time	Session	Speaker	Title/Abstract	Location
8:50	Announcements			CU MATH 100
9:00	Fundamentals of Chemical Reactivity	Prof. Rex T. Skodje	Modeling Chemical Reactions in the 21^st Century: Picking the Right Method and the Right Problem
9:40		Ms. Caroline C. Womack	Product branching of the 2-hydroxyethyl radical intermediate of the OH + ethene reaction
10:00		Prof. John R. Barker	The OH + CO Reaction System: ab initio SCTST Rate Constants and Semi-Empirical Master Equation Models
10:20		Dr. Raghu Sivaramakrishnan	Revisiting the Thermal Decomposition of CH₃CHO
10:40	Refreshment Break
11:10	Fundamentals of Chemical Reactivity	Prof. Kopin Liu	What is new on the mode-specific and bond-selective chemistry in bimolecular reactions?	CU MATH 100
11:50		Dr. Sébastien D. Le Picard	The F + H₂ reaction at very low temperatures
12:10		Prof. Amitabha Sinha	Atmospheric Acids as Catalyst for Gas Phase Reactions: CH₃O isomerization and SO₃ hydrolysis
12:30	Lunch			CU Center for Community (C4C)
2:00		Prof. Fabien Goulay	Product detection of the CH radical reactions with acetaldehyde and acetone	CU MATH 100
2:20		Dr. Albert Wagner	Theoretical Studies of HOCO -> H + CO₂
2:40		Dr. Josep M. Anglada	The gas phase reactivity of hydroxyl radical in the atmosphere. Hydrogen atom transfer versus proton coupled electron transfer processes.
3:00	Mario Molina Tribute	Prof. Geoffrey D. Smith	Reducing Uncertainties in Using Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy to Measure Aerosol Optical Properties
3:20		Prof. Renyi Zhang	Atmospheric Aging of Soot Aerosols
3:40		Prof. Carl J. Percival	Direct Measurement of the reaction of Criegee Intermediates with SO₂
4:00		Prof. Kimberly Prather	Probing complex single particles one at a time: What can we learn about the troposphere?
4:20
5:30	Polanyi Lecture (video)	Dr. Mario Molina	From Atmospheric Chemistry to Science-Policy of Climate Change	CU Glenn Miller Ballroom
6:30	Buses depart for banquet after lecture
7:00 - 10:00	Banquet			NCAR Mesa Lab

Time	Session	Speaker	Title/Abstract	Location
6:00 - 7:30	Sunrise Nature Hike
8:50	Announcements			CU MATH 100
9:00	Alternative Fuels and Renewable Energy	Dr. Timothy J. Wallington	Gas Kinetics and Sustainable Mobility
9:40		Prof. G. Barney Ellison	Biomass Pyrolysis in a Heated Microtubular Reactor
10:00		Dr. Oliver Welz	Low-temperature oxidation chemistry of 1-butanol: A combined photoionization mass spectrometry and quantum-chemical/master-equation study
10:20		Mr. Shamel S. Merchant	Detailed Kinetic Model for Iso-Butanol Pyrolysis and Combustion
10:40	Refreshment Break
11:10	Alternative Fuels and Renewable Energy	Prof. Anthony M. Dean	Free Radical Kinetics of Alternative Fuels: From Diesel Ignition to Biocorrosion	CU MATH 100
11:50		Dr. Sebastian Peukert	Experiment and Theory on methylformate and methylacetate kinetics at high temperatures: Rate constants for H-atom abstraction and thermal decomposition
12:10		Prof. Mathias Olzmann	Pyrolysis of 2,5-Dimethylfuran - Shock Tube Study and Kinetic Modeling
12:30	Lunch			CU Center for Community (C4C)
2:00	Atmospheric Chemistry	Dr. Geoffrey S. Tyndall	New Insights into the Atmospheric Degradation of Isoprene and Some of its Oxidation Products	CU MATH 100
2:40		Prof. Neil M. Donahue	Down Down Down: Vinyl Hydroperoxide Stabilization
3:00		Prof. John Plane	Reaction kinetics of Ca, Mg and Fe atoms with O₂(a¹Δ_g)
3:20		Prof. Paul H. Wine	Kinetics of Elementary Steps in the Br-Initiated Oxidation of Alkenes Under Atmospheric Conditions
3:40	Refreshment Break
4:10		Dr. James Lockhart	Chemical activation in the product yields of the OH/C₂H₂/O₂ system: Yields as a function of oxygen and temperature	CU MATH 100
4:30		Prof. Christa Fittschen	248nm photolysis of acetaldehyde: quantum yield of H and HCO and rate constant of the reaction CH₃ + HO₂
4:50		Prof. Anthony J. Hynes	Radical quantum yields from formaldehyde photolysis in the 30400 - 32890 cm^-1 (304 - 329 nm) spectral region: Detection of radical photoproducts using Pulsed Laser
5:10		Dr. Bernard Aumont	Contribution of the multigenerational oxidation process to SOA formation and ageing
5:30
7:00 - 10:00	Poster Session			CU Stadium Club

Time	Session	Speaker	Title/Abstract	Location
8:50	Announcements			CU MATH 100
9:00	Heterogeneous Chemical Processes	Prof. Paul J. Ziemann	Unraveling the complexity of organic aerosol chemistry through the study of simple heterogeneous reaction systems
9:40		Prof. Yinon Rudich	Secondary Organic Aerosol formation in the atmosphere by new aerosol-based photo-induced processes
10:00		Prof. George Marston	Aerosol formation from the ozonolysis of α-pinene derivatives
10:20		Mr. Benjamin J. Dennis-Smither	Oxidative aging of mixed component single aerosol particles
10:40	Refreshment Break
11:10	Ions and Chemical Processes	Prof. Veronica M. Bierbaum	Gas phase ion chemistry: From the laboratory to the stars	CU MATH 100
11:50		Prof. Karl-Michael Weitzel	Rotational dependence of the proton-transfer reaction HCl⁺ + HCl -> H₂Cl⁺ + Cl
12:10		Dr. Ghanshyam L. Vaghjiani	Volatilization mechanism of 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium bromide ionic liquid
12:30		Dr. Ludovic Biennier	Laboratory investigation of negative ion cold chemistry: application to Titan's upper atmosphere
12:30	Lunch			CU Center for Community (C4C)
2:00	ADJOURN
2:30 - 5:00	Lab Tours: CU Chemistry / JILA or NCAR or NOAA / Science on a Sphere * * NOAA tour requires an advance security screening and prior clearance.

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22nd International Symposium on Gas Kinetics

Agenda

22^nd International Symposium on Gas Kinetics