PROGRAM

9:00 - 9:15 Opening Remarks
Chairperson : M. Child
9:15 - 9:55 Ronnie Kosloff, "Direct Fourier methods: How far can you push them?" [abstract]
9:55 - 10:35 Tucker Carrington Jr., "A new iterative method for calculating energy levels and wavefunctions" [abstract]
10:35 - 11:05 Coffee Break
11:05 - 11:45 Claude Leforestier, "The Jacobi-Wilson method : A new approach to the calculation of excited rovibrational bound states of semi-rigid molecules" [abstract]
11:45 - 12:25 Attila Askar, "Quantum fluid dynamics (QFD) in the Langrangian and Eulerian representation" [abstract]
12:25 - 14:15 Lunch Break
Chairperson : R. Schienke
14:15 - 14:55 Vladimir Mandelshtam, "Recent developments in spectral analysis of time correlation functions" [abstract]
14:55 - 15:35 Zlatko Bacic, "Six-dimensional quantum treatment of the vibrations of diatomic adsorbates on solid surfaces with application to CO on Cu(100)" [abstract]
15:35 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:40 Stavros Farantos, "Variable order finite difference algorithms for quantum molecular dynamics" [abstract]
16:40 - 17:20 Christophe Iung,"Vector parametrization of a N-atom problem: Application to vibrational calculations" [abstract]

9:00 - 9:40 Mark Child, "Bifurcations and level structures in the spectra of simple molecules'' [abstract]
9:40 - 10:20 Howard Taylor, "From complex molecular vibrational spectra to detailed molecular motions without a PES: C₂H₂ (bending) and Bromochlorofluoromethan " [abstract]
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:30 Mike Kellman, "Bifurcations, spectral patterns, and ultrafast dynamics in highly excited molecules" [abstract]
11:30 - 12:10 Marc Joyeux, "Quantum vibrational chaos: how subtle a concept is it ?" [abstract]
12:10 - 14:15 Lunch Break
Chairpeson : J. Tennyson
14:15 - 14:55 Reinhard Schinke,"Nonlinear dynamics effects in vibrational spectra: HCP, DCP, and HOCl" [abstract]
14:55 - 15:35 Haruki Ishikawa, "Spectroscopic investigation of the isomerization of HCP: Recent developments of experimental observation of highly excited vibrational levels" [abstract]
15:35 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:40 Matthew Jacobson, "Bond-breaking internal rotation: Experimental and theoretical challenges" [abstract]
16:40 - 17:20 Friedrich Temps, "Experimental studies of vibrationally highly excited molecules: Comparison with effective polyad model Hamiltonian calculations for the reaction DCO (X ²A') -> D + CO" [abstract]

9:00 - 9:40 Joel Bowman, "Techniques for the calculation of highly excited rovibrational bound, quasibound, and reactive L² eigenstates" [abstract]
9:40 - 10:20 Jonathan Tennyson, "Calculating Quantum States of Molecules at Dissociation" [abstract]
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:30 Martin Quack, "Spectroscopy and quantum dynamics of highly excited chiral molecules: Experiment and theory including parity violation" [abstract]
11:30 - 12:10 Lauri Halonen, "New experimental and theoretical aspects of overtone spectroscopy" [abstract]
12:10 - 14:15 Lunch
Chairpeson : S. C. Farantos
14:15 - 14:55 Mark Law, "Highly excited vibrational states in the methyl halides" [abstract]
14:55 - 16:00 Concluding Remarks