Symposium on Chemical Physics - 2009

November 6 - 8, 2009

Celebrating 25 years of chemical physics meetings

The twenty-fifth annual "regional" Symposium on Chemical Physics, will be held on the weekend of November 6-8, at the University of Waterloo. As usual, the Symposium will include both invited and contributed oral papers, as well as a Poster session, and it will run from the evening of Friday November 6 to mid-day on Sunday November 8. The Friday evening scientific session, beginning at 7:30 PM, will be followed by opportunities for informal socializing and discussion, while the Saturday afternoon Poster session and reception will be followed by the conference banquet and the usual extended discussions at the grad club. This year's invited speakers and their topics are:

Invited Speakers	Topics
The Roger E. Miller Lecturer Marsha Lester University of Pennsylvania	Dynamical Outcomes of Quenching: Reflections on a Conical Intersection
Jeremy Hutson University of Durham	Ultracold Molecules and ultracold collisions
Wolfgang Jager University of Alberta	Doped superfluid clusters
Roman Krems University of British Columbia	Ultracold chemistry
Kevin Lehmann University of Virgina	Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy
Robert J. Le Roy University of Waterloo	Adventures in 'Potentiology'
Giacinto Scoles Princeton University, and International Center for Science and High Technology (ICS-UNIDO) and International School for Advanced Studies (Trieste)	Nanomedicine: towards new definitions, diagnostics and cure of illness in modern medicine

Program of the 2009 Meeting

The Roger E. Miller Lectureship

As usual, contributed papers will be a key component of the program. A limited number of them can be presented orally, although most will be part of a poster session, to be held in a relaxed atmosphere with appropriate refreshments available. We very much hope to have a substantial degree of participation by graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Please circulate this notice and the conference URL to any colleagues or students who you think might be interested in attending.

In a marked change from previous years, all regular conference sessions (including the poster session) will be held in or adjacent to Room 1015 of the EIT building (EIT on the Waterloo campus map, just south of the Davis Center where sesions were held in previous years), while the dinner again will be at South Campus Hall (SCH on the campus map, by the main entrance to the University from University Avenue; pay parking lot HV is beside that entrance). For the sessions, on-campus parking is available in lot B (off Phillip Street, enter off the driveway on the north side of East Campus Hall ECH), HV, N and M; see the Waterloo campus map for location of these buildings and parking lots. All of these lots are coin operated: Lots B & HV cost $3.00/entry after 4:00PM Friday, Lot N is "pay and display", and Lot M costs $4.00/entry. A schematic map of the Kitchener-Waterloo area showing how to reach the University of Waterloo may be readily printed from the above link.

For those planning to arrive by air, Waterloo is located only a short distance (approximately a 1 hour drive) from Toronto International Airport. A convenient limousine service run by Airways Transit provides convenient door-to-door service between the three Toronto terminals and all sites in the Waterloo area. Reservations may be made by sending e-mail to infowaterloo@airwaystransit.com and informing them of: a) your airline, flight number, and date and time of Toronto arrival, and b) the hotel or University location you want to be taken to. Such reservations should be made at least 24 hours prior to arrival (or departure). Departure arrangements may be made by phone from Waterloo. In the Toronto airport terminals, the Airways Transit drivers may be met at the "Ground Transportation Desk" in the Arrivals Concourse.

Registration and the Submission of Contributed Papers should be performed on-line by following the instructions on the above links. The contributed paper submission deadline is Tuesday October 27 for papers which wish to be considered for oral presentation, and Monday November 2 for Poster Papers. There will be a $10.00 surcharge for registration submitted after Tuesday October 27. If you have any questions or suggestions regarding any aspect of these arrangements, please contact P.-N. Roy or R.J. Le Roy (see Contact Info).