ACS Atlanta March 2006 PHYS Division Student Poster Awards

The winners of the Physical Chemistry Student Poster Award Competition at the Spring 2006 ACS meeting in Atlanta, GA, are:

Yair Goldfarb
Yair Goldfarb, Chemical Physics Department, Weizmann Institute of Science “Bohmian mechanics with complex action”

Lindsay Hardison  
Lindsay M. Hardison, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida “Time resolved measurements for the characterization of CdSe(ZnSe) quantum nanorods”

Prashant Jain
Prashant K. Jain, Laser Dynamics Laboratory, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology “Ultrafast spectroscopy of the femtosecond pulse-initiated Au-S bond dissociation in gold nanoparticle-thiolated DNA conjugates”

Daniel Kuroda
Daniel G. Kuroda, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida “New reflective-mode pulse shaper to control chemical reactions in solution”

Jaime Rheinecker
Jaime Rheinecker, Cherry L. Emerson Center of Scientific Computation and Department of Chemistry, Emory University “Full dimensional calculations of vibrational energies of Cl- H2O using a new ab initio potential energy surface”

Katherine Stone
Katherine M. Stone, Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh “Multiple distance measurements in a ligand gated ion channel using electron spin resonance”

Congratulations to the presenters of these excellent posters! Each winner received $300 and a signed award certificate. The Physical Chemistry Division thanks the many other people who entered the competition and also the anonymous and impartial judges.