DIVISION OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY

Final Program, 226th ACS National Meeting, New York, NY, September 7-11, 2003

Full Abstracts now available

J. L. Skinner, Program Chair

SUNDAY MORNING

Section A
Javits Convention Center -- 1E06

Combinatorial Biophysical Chemistry and Molecular Evolution
Protein Design and Sequence Complexity

J. G. Saven, Presiding
E. T. Boder and J. G. Saven, Organizers

8:25 — Introductory Remarks.

8:30 —1. De novo design of peptides, proteins, and peptide mimetics. W. F. DeGrado

9:10 —2. Combinatorial associations of the human bZIP transcription factor leucine zippers. A. E. Keating

9:50 —3. Structures and functions of de novo proteins from designed combinatorial libraries. M. H. Hecht

10:30 — Intermission.

10:50 —4. A dynamic combinatorial library approach to protein design. G. L. McLendon

11:30 —5. Directed evolution of proteins. A. Plueckthun

Section B
Javits Convention Center -- 1E08

Making and Breaking Chemical Bonds in Gas and Condensed Phases
Biological Systems, Large Scale Applications, QM/MM Approaches

J. Rice, Presiding
A. I. Krylov and M. S. Gordon, Organizers

8:20 — Introductory Remarks.

8:30 —6. Reactivity patterns of cytochrome P450 in oxygen transfer reactions: The protein, the active species and the chameleon. S. Shaik

9:10 —7. Modeling chemical reactions in proteins by the QM/MM method based on the flexible effective fragment potential technique. A. V. Nemukhin, B. Grigorenko, I. A. Topol, S. K. Burt

9:50 —8. Simulation of chemical reactions in enzymes with a density functional theory QM/MM free energy method. W. Yang

10:30 — Intermission.

10:50 —9. Heterolytic OH bond breaking in the condensed phase: prediction of carboxyl pKa's in proteins using QM. J. H. Jensen, A. D. Robertson, H. Li

11:30 —10. The floating occupation molecular orbital reparameterized semiempirical configuration interaction method: Direct photodynamics for large chromophores in proteins and condensed phases. A. Toniolo, T. J. Martinez

Section C
Javits Convention Center -- 1E07

Physical Chemistry of Complex Fluids
Nucleation Phenomena in Polymers

Cosponsored with COLL
T. P. Lodge, Presiding
A. J. Liu and T. P. Lodge, Organizers

8:30 —11. Flow-induced crystallization precursors in polymer melt. B. Hsiao, R. Somani, L. Yang

9:10 —12. Role of melt dynamics in flow-induced formation of oriented nuclei in polymer crystallization. J. A. Kornfield

9:50 —13. Metastable phases and the nature of the melt state in polymer melts. P. D. Olmsted, A. V. Maidens, A. J. Ryan, E. Heeley

10:30 — Intermission.

10:50 —14. Does conventional nucleation occur during liquid-liquid phase separation in polymer mixtures? N. P. Balsara, A. A. Lefebvre, B. Hammouda, T. Rappl

11:30 —15. Kinetics of individual grain growth in block copolymer order-order transitions. T. P. Lodge, T. Q. Chastek

11:50 —16. Dynamics versus length scales in hydrophilic A-B-A triblock copolymers. K. E. Steege, M. R. DeRitter, T. A. Fadeeva, E. W. Castner Jr.

Section D
Javits Convention Center -- 1E10

Size-Selected Clusters on Surfaces
Size-Dependent Chemistry on Metal Clusters (I)

H. Metiu, Organizer, Presiding
D. W. Goodman and H. Metiu, Organizers

8:30 —17. Clusters, facets and edges: Site-dependent selective chemistry on model catalysts. H. Freund

9:10 —18. Size selected metal clusters on surfaces and in the gas phase. M. T. Bowers, P. R. Kemper, M. Mannard

9:50 —19. Anionic gold clusters, and their reactivity. V. E. Bondybey, I. Balteanu, O. P. Balaj, B. S. Fox, M. K. Beyer, Z. Bastl

10:30 — Intermission.

10:50 —20. Gas-phase transition metal cluster catalysis: Energetics of reaction intermediates. K. M. Ervin, M. Dogbevia, L. A. Angel, Y. Shi

11:30 —21. Catalytic water formation on free platinum clusters. M. Andersson, A. Rosén

11:50 —22. Gas-phase molybdenum carbide and sulfide clusters and nanocrystallites: Production and reactivity. J. M. Lightstone, R. J. Beuhler, M. G. White

Section E
Javits Convention Center -- 1E09

Slow Dynamics Near the Glass Transition

J. P. Garrahan, Presiding
D. Reichman and D. A. Vanden Bout, Organizers

8:30 —23. Structural signatures of vitrification in hard core fluids. S. K. Kumar, S. Garde, J. F. Douglas, F. W. Starr

8:50 —24. Particle rearrangements due to transitions between inherent structures of a supercooled Lennard-Jones liquid. M. Vogel, S. C. Glotzer, A. Heuer, B. Doliwa

9:10 —25. Density of states simulation of the thermodynamic and mechanical properties of glass formers. Bulk and confined systems. J. J. de Pablo

9:50 —26. Equilibration and frequency dependence of the specific heat of glass forming liquids. C. C. Yu, H. M. Carruzzo

10:30 — Intermission.

10:50 —27. Low temperature properties of glass forming liquids from computer simulations. S. Sastry

11:30 —28. Understanding the dynamics of a supercooled liquid in terms of its potential energy landscape. A. Heuer

SUNDAY AFTERNOON

Section A
Javits Convention Center -- 1E06

Combinatorial Biophysical Chemistry and Molecular Evolution
Theoretical Methods for Combinatorial Biophysics

C. D. Maranas, Presiding
J. G. Saven and E. T. Boder, Organizers

1:30 —29. Protein optimization with high throughput virtual and experimental screening. J. R. Desjarlais

2:10 —30. Grid computing methods for enhancing sampling and accuracy in computational protein design. V. S. Pande

2:50 —31. Ab initio profile for a given backbone structure - application to protein design and the detection functionally important residues. H. Kono, J. G. Saven

3:30 — Intermission.

3:50 —32. Computational approaches for combinatorial protein library prescreening and optimization. C. D. Maranas, G. L. Moore, M. C. Saraf, S. Lee

Section B
Javits Convention Center -- 1E08

Making and Breaking Chemical Bonds in Gas and Condensed Phases
Large Systems and Novel Approaches

J. H. Jensen, Presiding
A. I. Krylov and M. S. Gordon, Organizers

1:30 —33. Modeling reactive chemistry in protein active sites via mixed quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics methods. R. A. Friesner

2:10 —34. Reactions of relevance to biological systems. J. E. Rice

2:50 —35. Bond breaking and bond making in photobiology: Structure of the excited state force field of retinal chromophores. M. Olivucci

3:30 — Intermission.

3:50 —36. Solvation dynamics in protein environments. X. Song, P. Chowdhury, M. Halder, J. W. Petrich

4:30 —37. Development of nonadiabatic molecular theory for simultaneous determination of nuclear and electronic wave functions: ab initio NOMO theory. H. Nakai

Section C
Javits Convention Center -- 1E07

Physical Chemistry of Complex Fluids
Monolayers, Bilayers and Microfluidics

Cosponsored with COLL
J. A. Kornfield, Presiding
T. P. Lodge and A. J. Liu, Organizers

1:30 —38. Viscosity of monolayers at coexistence. J. A. Zasadzinski, C. Alonso, A. J. Waring

2:10 —39. Seeing spots: miscibility transitions in lipid/cholesterol membranes. S. L. Keller, S. L. Veatch, B. L. Stottrup

2:50 —40. Morphology and collapse of binary phospholipid monolayers. A. Gopal, H. Diamant, T. A. Witten, K. Y. C. Lee

3:10 —41. Mechanism of peptide-induced lamellar to inverted hexagonal phase transition in phospholipid systems using coarse grain molecular dynamics. S. O. Nielsen, C. F. Lopez, P. B. Moore, M. L. Klein

3:30 — Intermission.

3:50 —42. Using microfluidics to control chemical systems in time. R. F. Ismagilov, H. Song, J. D. Tice

4:30 —43. Microfluidic applications for nucleic acid and protein sizing. A. W. Chow, J. Molho, A. Tripathi, B. Fathollahi, M. Spaid, S. Biondi, S. Mouradian

Section D
Javits Convention Center -- 1E10

Size-Selected Clusters on Surfaces
Size-Dependent Chemistry on Metal Clusters (II)

D. W. Goodman, Presiding
H. Metiu and D. W. Goodman, Organizers

1:30 —44. Hydrocarbon reactions on oxide-supported metal nanoparticles. D. E. Starr, S. Tait, L. Ngo, C. T. Campbell

2:10 —45. Chemistry and catalysis of metal clusters on surfaces. U. Heiz

2:50 —46. Structural, electronic, and doping effects in nanocatalysis by supported and free gold clusters. U. Landman, H. Häkkinen

3:30 — Intermission.

3:50 —47. Bond energies of molecular fragments to transition metal clusters. P. B. Armentrout, F. Liu, X. Zhang

4:30 —48. Surface scattering studies of gold nanocluster chemistry. C. B. Mullins

Section E
Javits Convention Center -- 1E09

Slow Dynamics Near the Glass Transition

S. K. Kumar, Presiding
D. Reichman and D. A. Vanden Bout, Organizers

1:30 —49. Unified classical and quantum theory of structural glasses. P. G. Wolynes

2:10 —50. To move or not to move, and in what direction: The essentials of glass formers. D. Chandler, J. P. Garrahan

2:50 —51. Dynamic heterogeneities, defects, and the non-topographic view of glass transition phenomena. J. P. Garrahan, L. Berthier

3:10 —52. Dynamics of elementary excitations in supercooled liquids: on the universality of relaxation time near the crossover temperature. U. Mohanty

3:30 — Intermission.

3:50 —53. Dynamic transition in glass-forming liquids and proteins. A. Sokolov

4:30 —54. Glassy Kinetics in Protein Folding. J. Wang

Unifying Research and Education Using Principles and Applications of Modern Spectroscopy
Spectroscopy in Biological Chemistry

Cosponsored with CHED

MONDAY MORNING

Section A
Javits Convention Center -- 1E06

Combinatorial Biophysical Chemistry and Molecular Evolution
Computational and Experimental Tools for Directed Evolution and Biological Function Analysis

G. A. Weiss, Presiding
J. G. Saven and E. T. Boder, Organizers

8:30 —55. Computation driven directed evolution of a beta-lactamase. V. W. Cornish, S. Goldberg, D. Sengupta, B. Gherman, R. A. Friesner

9:10 —56. Dissecting molecular recognition with phage-displayed protein libraries. G. A. Weiss, K. Sato, P. Tam, K. Murase, S. K. Avrantinis

9:50 —57. Novel diversity for the creation of protein function. M. Ostermeier

10:30 — Intermission.

10:50 —58. Computational and experimental analysis of DNA shuffling. N. Maheshri, D. V. Schaffer

Section B
Javits Convention Center -- 1E08

Frontiers in Biophysical Methods
Novel Spectroscopies and Microscopies

Cosponsored with COMP
R. J. D. Miller, Presiding
M. T. Zanni and P. A. Anfinrud, Organizers

8:30 —59. Nonlinear optical molecular imaging. R. D. Schaller, K. P. Knutsen, L. F. Lee, J. C. Johnson, R. J. Saykally

9:10 —60. Nonlinear laser microscopies and spectroscopies of the molecular dynamics of life. W. W. Webb

9:50 —61. Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy: Cellular imaging with vibrational contrast. E. O. Potma, J. Cheng, X. Nan, X. S. Xie

10:10 —62. Simultaneous force and fluorescence dynamics of single antigen-antibody pairs. W. F. Heinz, P. Yim, C. Daeron, L. S. Goldner

10:30 — Intermission.

10:50 —63. Femtosecond pulse shaping approaches to multiphoton imaging. W. S. Warren, W. Wagner, P. Tian, T. Ye

11:30 —64. Approaches to infrared and visible reflectance spectroscopic imaging. I. W. Levin, D. C. Fernandez, S. W. Huffman, K. J. Zuzak, R. Bhargava

Section C
Javits Convention Center -- 1E07

Physical Chemistry of Complex Fluids
Liquid Crystals

Cosponsored with COLL
U. Wiesner, Presiding
T. P. Lodge and A. J. Liu, Organizers

8:30 —65. Supermolecular stereochemistry in liquid crystals. D. M. Walba, E. Körblova, R. Shao, J. E. Maclennan, D. R. Link, M. A. Glaser, D. A. Coleman, J. Fernsler, M. Nakata, N. A. Clark

9:10 —66. Liquid-crystalline phases of anisotropic inorganic Nanocrystals. A. P. Alivisatos

9:50 —67. Tubelets: A new phospholipid tubule intermediate. B. N. Thomas, B. K. Mishra

10:10 —68. Phase transitions and molecular detection in a lipid membrane-derivatized colloid. M. M. Baksh, M. Jaros, J. T. Groves

10:30 — Intermission.

10:50 —69. Geometric approach to self-assembly. R. D. Kamien

11:30 —70. Nematic-isotropic transition in liquid crystalline elastomers. B. R. Ratna, J. V. Selinger, J. Naciri, A. Srinivasan, J. Kim

Section D
Javits Convention Center -- 1E10

Size-Selected Clusters on Surfaces
Structure of Clusters (I)

C. T. Campbell, Presiding
H. Metiu and D. W. Goodman, Organizers

8:30 —71. Influence of oxygen vacancies on surface and interface reactions on the rutile TiO2(110) surface. F. Besenbacher, R. Schaub, E. Wahlström, A. Rønnau, P. Thostrup, E. Lægsgaard

9:10 —72. Structure and reactivity of metal clusters at oxide surfaces characterized by time-resolved DXAFS and STM. Y. Iwasawa, K. Fukui, S. Takakusagi, A. Suzuki, M. Nomura

9:50 —73. Structures and complexes of size-selected silver clusters. M. Moskovits, T. Haslett, K. Bosnick

10:30 — Intermission.

10:50 —74. The structure of Au in Au/titania catalysts, used in the epoxidation of propene in H2/O2 mixtures. J. A. Moulijn, A. Zwijnenburg, W. G. Sloof, M. W. J. Crajé, M. Makkee

11:30 —75. Shape, sintering and SERS from size-selected metal clusters on oxide supports. S. K. Buratto

Section E
Javits Convention Center -- 1E11

Slow Dynamics Near the Glass Transition

D. A. Vanden Bout, Presiding
D. Reichman and D. A. Vanden Bout, Organizers

8:30 —76. Phase transition of reaction dynamics in glassy environment. J. Sung, R. J. Silbey

8:50 —77. Effects of dynamical heterogeneity on translational diffusion and single-molecule studies in glass forming liquids. Y. Jung, D. Chandler, J. P. Garrahan

9:10 —78. Self-diffusion near Tg in single component glass formers. M. D. Ediger, S. Swallen

9:50 —79. Single-particle dynamics in deeply supercooled liquids. J. T. Fourkas, T. J. Kempa, R. A. Farrer, R. M. Dickson

10:30 — Intermission.

10:50 —80. Quenching-in of different high T complexities of glassformers for leisurely study at lower temperatures. C. A. Angell, Y. Yue, L. Wang, J. R. D. Copley, S. Borick, S. Mossa

11:30 —81. Anatomy of a string: Correlated particle motion in simulated supercooled liquids. S. C. Glotzer, Y. Gebremichael, M. Vogel, M. Bergroth

Unifying Research and Education Using Principles and Applications of Modern Spectroscopy
Spectroscopy in Materials Chemistry

Cosponsored with CHED

MONDAY AFTERNOON

Section A
Javits Convention Center -- 1E06

Combinatorial Biophysical Chemistry and Molecular Evolution
Molecular Evolution and Antibody Maturation

E. T. Boder, Presiding
J. G. Saven and E. T. Boder, Organizers

1:30 —82. Evolutionary perspectives on protein folding, structure, and thermodynamics. R. A. Goldstein

2:10 —83. Protein building blocks for recombination. Z. Wang

2:50 —84. Exploring sequence space by structure-guided recombination. J. J. Silberg, M. M. Meyer, C. R. Otey, F. H. Arnold

3:30 — Intermission.

3:50 —85. Focused saturation mutagenesis for antibody affinity maturation. K. D. Wittrup, K. Midelfort, S. Lippow, B. A. Kellogg, B. Tidor

4:30 —86. Evolution and mis-evolution of antibodies in the immune system. M. W. Deem, J. Park

Section B
Javits Convention Center -- 1E08

Making and Breaking Chemical Bonds in Gas and Condensed Phases
Multi-Reference and CI Approaches

T. L. Windus, Presiding
A. I. Krylov and M. S. Gordon, Organizers

1:30 —87. Doing chemistry with MCSCF wavefunctions. M. W. Schmidt

2:10 —88. Assessing quantum chemical methods for bond breaking: Single-reference, multi-reference, and minimalist models. C. D. Sherrill

2:50 —89. Direct CI and MCSCF method for multiple active spaces with variable occupations. J. Ivanic

3:30 — Intermission.

3:50 —90. String product space self-consistent field method and second-order perturbation theory. H. Nakano

4:30 —91. Large full valence spaces without configurational deadwood. L. Bytautas, K. Ruedenberg

Section C
Javits Convention Center -- 1E07

Frontiers in Biophysical Methods
Manipulation and Fluorescence of Single Biomolecules

Cosponsored with COMP
D. Leckband, Presiding
M. T. Zanni and P. A. Anfinrud, Organizers

1:30 —92. Imaging, spectroscopy and dynamics of single biomolecules: From in vitro to in vivo studies. X. S. Xie

2:10 —93. What can we learn about protein folding from single-molecule FRET trajectories? G. Haran, E. Rhoades, M. Cohen

2:50 —94. Emerging frontiers in single-molecule fluorescence imaging. W. E. Moerner, M. Vrljic, S. Nishimura, H. M. McConnell, K. A. Willets, R. J. Twieg

3:30 — Intermission.

3:50 —95. Single molecule protein folding. W. A. Eaton

4:30 —96. Single molecule fluorescence polarization for real-time structural dynamics of macromolecules. Y. E. Goldman

Section D
Javits Convention Center -- 1E10

Size-Selected Clusters on Surfaces
Structure of Clusters

F. Besenbacher, Presiding
H. Metiu and D. W. Goodman, Organizers

1:30 —97. Clusters: Insights into surface reactions and catalyst involving oxygen transfer processes. A. W. Castleman Jr.

2:10 —98. Infrared spectroscopy of size-selected cluster-adsorbate complexes. M. A. Duncan Jr.

2:50 —99. Size-selected cluster models for nm-scale catalysts: Adsorption & reactions in an atmospheric-pressure flow reactor. A. J. Leavitt, M. G. Arredondo, W. T. Wallace, R. B. Wyrwas, R. L. Whetten

3:30 — Intermission.

3:50 —100. Infrared spectroscopy on size-selected gas-phase clusters and cluster adducts. G. von Helden, A. Fielicke, G. Meijer

4:30 —101. Atomic-scale structure of RuS2 nanoclusters from Ru3(CO)12 and S2 precursors. T. Cai, Z. Song, G. Liu, J. A. Rodriguez, J. Hrbek

4:50 —102. Size-, packing density-, and shape-controlled nanocrystal-coated nanotube fabrication using molecular recognition and conformation control of sequenced peptides. I. A. Banerjee, L. Yu, H. Matsui

Section E
Javits Convention Center -- 1E09

Slow Dynamics Near the Glass Transition

G. Szamel, Presiding
D. Reichman and D. A. Vanden Bout, Organizers

1:30 —103. Fluctuating ages in glassy dynamics. L. F. Cugliandolo

2:10 —104. Emergence of glassy dynamics in a lattice model with constraints. B. Chakraborty

2:50 —105. Slow-relaxation and non-hydrodynamic behavior. J. Witkoskie, J. Wu, J. Cao

3:10 —106. L'evy distribution of single molecule line shape cumulants in glasses. E. J. Barkai, Y. G. Vainer, L. Kador, R. J. Silbey

3:30 — Intermission.

3:50 —107. Nanoscale noise in glass. N. Israeloff

4:30 —108. Dynamically selective heating in viscous liquids. R. Richert, K. R. Jeffrey, K. Duvvuri

Unifying Research and Education Using Principles and Applications of Modern Spectroscopy
Spectroscopic Methods and Practices

Cosponsored with CHED

MONDAY EVENING

Section A
Javits Convention Center -- North Pavillion

Sci-Mix

J. L. Skinner, Organizer

8:00 - 10:00

223, 224, 225, 228, 231, 235, 237, 238, 239, 248, 252, 261, 265, 267, 269, 271, 273, 274, 275, 277, 278, 279, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288, 298, 300, 303, 305, 308, 309, 311, 314, 315, 316, 318, 321, 322, 329, 332, 333, 334, 339, 342, 343, 344, 346, 347, 348, 352, 353, 356, 358, 389, 390, 395, 397, 398, 400, 406, 407, 409, 411, 414, 417, 427, 429.

TUESDAY MORNING

Section A
Javits Convention Center -- 1E06

Frontiers in Biophysical MethodsManipulation and Fluorescence of Single Biomolecules

Cosponsored with COMP
X. S. Xie, Presiding
M. T. Zanni and P. A. Anfinrud, Organizers

8:30 —109. Single molecule studies of complex bio-molecular systems. S. Chu

9:10 —110. Single protein mechanics. J. M. Fernandez

9:50 —111. Novel protein binding mechanisms determined by force measurements. D. E. Leckband

10:30 — Intermission.

10:50 —112. Theory and single molecule experiments. I. Gopich, G. Hummer, A. Szabo

11:30 —113. Single-molecule protein recognition and reaction dynamics. H. P. Lu

Section B
Javits Convention Center -- 1E08

Making and Breaking Chemical Bonds in Gas and Condensed Phases
CC and EOM Methods for Bond-Breaking

A. I. Krylov, Presiding
M. S. Gordon and A. I. Krylov, Organizers

8:30 —114. Equation of motion coupled-cluster methods and multireference issues. J. F. Stanton

9:10 —115. Describing new chemistry by the spin-flip method: Electronic structure and thermochemistry of the dehydro-meta-xylylene triradical. L. V. Slipchenko, A. I. Krylov

9:50 —116. Single- and multi-reference coupled-cluster methods for quasidegenerate electronic states and bond breaking. P. Piecuch, K. Kowalski, I. S. O. Pimienta, P. Fan, M. J. McGuire

10:30 — Intermission.

10:50 —117. Breaking bonds perturbatively. S. R. Gwaltney

11:30 —118. New class of noniterative energy corrections to coupled-cluster energies for excited electronic states. K. Kowalski, P. Piecuch

Section C
Javits Convention Center -- 1E07

Physical Chemistry of Complex Fluids
Block Copolymer Self-assembly

Cosponsored with COLL
T. P. Lodge, Presiding
A. J. Liu and T. P. Lodge, Organizers

8:30 —119. Nanostructuring of polymer materials by reactive blending. L. Leibler, H. Pernot, S. Girault, F. Court, M. Baumert

9:10 —120. Self-assembly and dispersion of amphiphilic diblock copolymers. V. Ponsinet, D. Bendejacq, S. Rivillon

9:50 —121. Self-assembly, static and dynamic properties of polymer vesicles: a coarse grain molecular dynamics simulation study. G. Srinivas, J. C. Shelley, D. Discher, M. L. Klein

10:10 —122. Network formation in ABC block copolymers. E. W. Cochran, F. S. Bates

10:30 — Intermission.

10:50 —123. Environmentally responsive materials constructed via copolypeptide molecule folding and self-assembly. D. J. Pochan

11:30 —124. Block copolymer-ceramic thin films. U. Wiesner

Section D
Javits Convention Center -- 1E10

The Conduction Band in Liquids and Disordered Solids
Probing Electronic States of Disordered Condensed Phases

D. M. Bartels, Presiding
S. E. Bradforth and D. M. Bartels, Organizers

8:30 —125. Electron tunneling resonances in water: signature of conduction band states? A. Nitzan

9:10 —126. Using photoelectron spectroscopy of hydrated electron clusters to characterize the conduction band of bulk water. J. V. Coe, S. M. Williams, J. Eaton, S. Arnold, K. H. Bowen Jr.

9:50 —127. Population-modulated electron attachment spectroscopy: A new way to measure size-selective properties of neutral clusters. M. Johnson

10:10 —128. High-pressure index of refraction measurements as a probe of electronic band structure. M. R. Furlanetto, R. J. Hemley

10:30 — Intermission.

10:50 —129. Probing the conduction band of disordered atomic and molecular solids with low energy electrons. L. Sanche

11:30 —130. Femtosecond studies of recombination dynamics in liquid water. S. R. Keiding, J. Thøgersen, J. Larsen, D. Madsen, S. K. Jensen

Section E
Javits Convention Center -- 1E09

Slow Dynamics Near the Glass Transition

U. Mohanty, Presiding
D. Reichman and D. A. Vanden Bout, Organizers

8:30 —131. Three-dimensional single molecule rotational and translational diffusion in glassy state polymer films. R. M. Dickson, A. P. Bartko, K. Xu

9:10 —132. Confocal microscopy and the colloidal glass transition. E. R. Weeks, P. Habdas

9:50 —133. Colloidal glass transition: beyond the mode-coupling theory. G. Szamel

10:10 —134. Supercooled fluids under shear: A mode coupling approach. K. Miyazaki, R. Yamamoto, D. Reichman

10:30 — Intermission.

10:50 —135. Activated hopping and the glass transition in colloidal suspensions and polymer melts. K. S. Schweizer, E. J. Saltzman

11:30 —136. Novel characterization of the distribution of glass transition temperatures across polymer films: Impact of surfaces and polymer-substrate interactions. J. M. Torkelson, C. J. Ellison

TUESDAY AFTERNOON

Section A
Javits Convention Center -- 1E06

The Conduction Band in Liquids and Disordered Solids
Order and Disorder in Organic Crystals, Conjugated Polymers and Semiconductors

B. J. Schwartz, Presiding
D. M. Bartels and S. E. Bradforth, Organizers

1:30 —137. Charge injection and transport in molecular organic thin films: What this tells us about the energetics of organic semiconductors. S. Forrest

2:10 —138. Modeling the consequences of disorder on the photophysics of conjugated polymers: Do excitons and charges see the same disorder? D. Yaron, M. Pasquinelli, L. A. Liu

2:50 —139. Interpolymer band dispersion in conjugated conducting polymers. M. Kertesz, S. Yang, J. Huang

3:10 —140. Wavelength-resolved ultrafast pump-probe study of photoexcited polaron dynamics in conductive polyaniline. J. Kim, S. Park, N. F. Scherer

3:30 — Intermission.

3:50 —141. Spin polarization mechanisms and optical properties of excess electrons in TiO2 nanoparticles. T. Rajh, Z. Saponjic, D. M. Bartels, N. M. Dimitrijevic

4:30 —142. Conductivity in disordered solids: What can THz spectroscopy tell us? G. M. Turner, M. C. Beard, C. A. Schmuttenmaer

Section B
Javits Convention Center -- 1E08

Making and Breaking Chemical Bonds in Gas and Condensed Phases
CC Methods: New Developments and Local Correlation Approaches

C. D. Sherrill, Presiding
A. I. Krylov and M. S. Gordon, Organizers

1:30 —143. Coupled-cluster methods and their applications to energetic molecules. R. J. Bartlett, S. Fau, M. Musial, A. Perera

2:10 —144. Multireference coupled cluster methods and local correlation. M. Nooijen, A. Auer

2:50 —145. Fast methods for electron correlation. M. Head-Gordon

3:30 — Intermission.

3:50 —146. Local coupled cluster methods for molecular response properties. T. D. Crawford, N. J. Russ

4:30 —147. Equation-of-motion spin-flip coupled-cluster model with single and double substitutions: Theory and application to sigma-pi diradicals. S. V. Levchenko, A. I. Krylov

Section C
Javits Convention Center -- 1E07

Physical Chemistry of Complex Fluids
Colloids

Cosponsored with COLL
M. Muthukumar, Presiding
T. P. Lodge and A. J. Liu, Organizers

1:30 —148. Intermittent dynamics in aging colloidal gels. V. Trappe, H. Bissig, L. Cipelletti

2:10 —149. Colloidal transport in holographic optical tweezer arrays. D. G. Grier

2:50 —150. Multivalent mesoscale structures using DNA as a molecular glue. C. M. Soto, B. R. Ratna

3:10 —151. Collective structure, gelation and elasticity in polymer-colloid suspensions. K. S. Schweizer, Y. Chen, M. Fuchs, S. A. Shah, S. Ramakrishnan, C. F. Zukoski

3:30 — Intermission.

3:50 —152. Long-lived metastable states in colloidal suspensions. W. C. K. Poon

4:30 —153. Rearrangements of droplets and nonlinear rheology in dense emulsions. D. J. Pine, E. Kohen

Section D
Javits Convention Center -- 1E10

Size-Selected Clusters on Surfaces
Reactions on Metal Clusters

J. A. Moulijn, Presiding
H. Metiu and D. W. Goodman, Organizers

1:30 —154. CO adsorption on TiO2-supported gold clusters. A. Selloni

2:10 —155. Inelastic neutron scattering study of the species formed in situ on reacting H2 and O2 over Au/TiO2 supported catalysts. J. Eckert, L. L. Daemen, C. Sivadinaryana, T. V. Choudhary, D. W. Goodman

2:50 —156. Aspects of propylene epoxidation by gold clusters supported on titania. H. Metiu, G. Mills, V. Shapovalev

3:10 —157. Mechanistic aspects of carbon nanotube nucleation and growth by thermal and catalytic phenomena in condensed and uncondensed systems. R. B. Little

3:30 — Intermission.

3:50 —158. A density functional theory study of CO oxidation on Au-based catalysts. P. Hu

4:30 —159. Density functional study of the selective epoxidation of propene on gold clusters supported on titania. S. Chrétien, G. Mills, H. Metiu

Section E
Javits Convention Center -- 1E09

Quantum Monte Carlo Methods
Fundamental Developments

J. B. Anderson, Presiding
S. M. Rothstein and J. B. Anderson, Organizers

1:30 —160. Fermion Monte Carlo calculations of the electronic structure of first row dimers. M. H. Kalos, R. Q. Hood

2:10 —161. Analysis of wavefunctions by Monte Carlo methods. H. Flad

2:50 —162. Trial wave function construction and the nodes of trial and exact wave functions in quantum Monte Carlo. D. Bressanini

3:30 — Intermission.

3:50 —163. Direct calculation of excited state energies by spectral evolution Monte Carlo. P. Huang, F. Paesani, K. B. Whaley

4:30 —164. Automated histogram filtering approach to optimize wave functions for use in Monte Carlo simulations. S. Larrass, H. L. Gordon, S. M. Rothstein

4:50 —165. Optimization of quantum Monte Carlo trial wave functions by energy minimization. D. G. Prendergast

WEDNESDAY MORNING

Section A
Javits Convention Center -- 1E06

Frontiers in Biophysical Methods
Novel Spectroscopies and Microscopies

Cosponsored with COMP
R. J. Saykally, Presiding
M. T. Zanni and P. A. Anfinrud, Organizers

8:30 —166. Multiple pulse coherent vibrational spectroscopy of peptides. S. Mukamel, D. Abramavicius, A. M. Moran, J. Dreyer, R. Venkatramani, W. Zhuang

9:10 —167. Multidimensional dual frequency infrared analogues of NMR: Applications to peptides and isotopomers of secondary structures. I. Rubtsov, J. Wang, C. fang, Y. S. Kim, A. K. Charnley, A. B. Smith III, S. M. Decatur, R. Hochstrasser

9:50 —168. Femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy of biophysical structural dynamics. R. A. Mathies, D. W. McCamant, P. Kukura

10:10 —169. Relating vibrational couplings and dynamics to biomolecular structure using 2D IR spectroscopy. M. T. Zanni, A. Krummel, P. Mukherjee, B. Van Devener

10:30 — Intermission.

10:50 —170. Protein functions and the quantum conundrum. R. J. D. Miller

11:30 —171. Single molecule measurement of photo-altered protein stability. N. F. Scherer

Section B
Javits Convention Center -- 1E08

The Conduction Band in Liquids and Disordered Solids
Ionization and Excess Electrons

P. F. Barbara, Presiding
D. M. Bartels and S. E. Bradforth, Organizers

8:30 —172. Role of defect configuration in the excitation and ionization of condensed water. T. M. Orlando

9:10 —173. Excited states of solvated electrons. P. J. Rossky

9:50 —174. Probing ionization in liquid water with 25fs resolution. A. Jailaubekov, S. E. Bradforth

10:10 —175. Generation and thermalization of electrons in the liquid water conduction band. R. A. Crowell, R. Lian, I. Shkrob, D. Oulianov

10:30 — Intermission.

10:50 —176. Localized electrons in polar liquids and molten alkali metal-alkali halides: A femtosecond study. A. N. Unterreiner, H. Brands, S. Dogel, W. Freyland, H. Hippler, J. Lindner, D. Nattland, C. Nese, P. Voehringer

11:30 —177. Excess electrons in "other liquids". I. Shkrob

Section C
Javits Convention Center -- 1E07

Physical Chemistry of Complex Fluids
Polyelectrolyte Phase Behavior

Cosponsored with COLL
A. J. Liu, Presiding
T. P. Lodge and A. J. Liu, Organizers

8:30 —178. Computer simulations of polyelectrolyte solutions. A. Dobrynin

9:10 —179. Phase behavior of polyelectrolyte solutions. M. Muthukumar

9:50 —180. Preferential interaction coefficient of polyelectrolytes. U. Mohanty

10:10 —181. Hydrogen bonding structure and dynamics of water at the DMPC lipid bilayer surface from a molecular dynamics simulation. C. F. Lopez, S. O. Nielsen, M. L. Klein, P. B. Moore

10:30 — Intermission.

10:50 —182. Phase diagram for complexation of DNA with positive colloids or polymers. B. I. Shklovskii

11:30 —183. Complex behavior of simple ions near biological polyelectrolytes. G. Wong

Section D
Javits Convention Center -- 1E10

Size-Selected Clusters on Surfaces
Preparation and Characterization of Clusters

U. Heiz, Presiding
H. Metiu and D. W. Goodman, Organizers

8:30 —184. Model Ir and Pd catalysts by cluster ion deposition. S. L. Anderson, S. Lee, M. Aizawa

9:10 —185. DFT calculations on the formation of benzene from acetylene on small iron clusters. D. R. Salahub, S. Chretien

9:50 —186. Nanoscale deposition of platinum on alumina. A. M. Rappe, Y. Yourdshahyan, V. R. Cooper, I. Grinberg

10:30 — Intermission.

10:50 —187. First principles studies on nanoparticle gold catalysis. N. Lopez, J. K. Norskov

11:30 —188. Surface deposition of polymetallic clusters in helium droplets. V. Mozhayskiy, M. N. Slipchenko, V. K. Adamchuk, B. E. Koel, A. F. Vilesov

11:50 —189. Characterization of supported nanoclusters at realistic reaction conditions. D. W. Goodman

Section E
Javits Convention Center -- 1E09

Quantum Monte Carlo Methods
Electronic Structure

S. M. Rothstein, Presiding
J. B. Anderson and S. M. Rothstein, Organizers

8:30 —190. Benchmark quantum Monte Carlo calculations. J. C. Grossman

9:10 —191. Linear scaling calculations of the local energy in QMC. A. Lüchow

9:50 —192. Application of quantum Monte Carlo to molecular systems. A. C. Kollias, A. Aspuru-Guzik, W. A. Lester Jr.

10:30 — Intermission.

10:50 —193. Zero-variance zero-bias principle for observables in QMC: Application to forces. M. Caffarel, R. Assaraf

11:30 —194. Computing atomic forces in quantum Monte Carlo calculations. A. M. Rappe, M. Mella, M. Casalegno

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON

Section A
Javits Convention Center -- 1E06

Frontiers in Biophysical Methods
Manipulation and Fluorescence of Single Biomolecules

Cosponsored with COMP
W. E. Moerner, Presiding
M. T. Zanni and P. A. Anfinrud, Organizers

1:30 —195. Unraveling the engineering principles of cell adhesion proteins. V. Vogel

2:10 —196. DNA unbraiding by a single type II topoisomerase. D. Bensimon, G. Charvin, V. Croquette

2:50 —197. Control of biomolecular function by nanocrystal antennas. K. Hamad-Schifferli

3:30 — Intermission.

3:50 —198. Single-molecule dynamics of DNA recombination intermediates. T. Ha

4:30 —199. Visualizing infection of individual influenza viruses. X. Zhuang

Section B
Javits Convention Center -- 1E08

Making and Breaking Chemical Bonds in Gas and Condensed Phases
Large Systems and New Methods

M. S. Gordon, Presiding
A. I. Krylov and M. S. Gordon, Organizers

1:30 —200. Breaking chemical bonds in molecules and crystals: Methods and physical insight. E. A. Carter

2:10 —201. Bond breaking and formation in the reaction of acetylene on the Si(100)-(2x1) surface. J. M. Rintelman, M. S. Gordon

2:50 —202. Theoretical studies of chemical reactions following electronic excitation. G. M. Chaban

3:30 — Intermission.

3:50 —203. Investigation of hydrogen transfer reactions with the multiconfigurational nuclear-electronic orbital method. S. Hammes-Schiffer, M. Pak, T. Iordanov, S. P. Webb, C. Swalina

4:30 —204. Dissociation of oxygen and water at metal oxide surfaces: Role of the surface and surrounding environment. A. M. Chaka, M. L. Cafiero, C. A. Gonzàlez

Section C
Javits Convention Center -- 1E07

The Conduction Band in Liquids and Disordered Solids
Localization and Delocalization in Nanoparticles and Polymers

C. A. Schmuttenmaer, Presiding
D. M. Bartels and S. E. Bradforth, Organizers

1:30 —205. Excited state relaxation and dynamics in organic light emitting diodes. E. Bittner

2:10 —206. Exciton and polaron dynamics in polymeric semiconductors: The influence of interchain order. C. Silva, L. M. Herz, C. Daniel

2:50 —207. Photo-excitation in polyfluorene: Excitation density and probe wavelength dependent ultrafast pump-probe measurements. Q. Xu, D. Moses, A. J. Heeger

3:10 —208. Effects of aggregation and disorder on the electronic properties of materials used to make organic LED’s. L. A. Peteanu, S. Wachsmann-Hogiu, T. Smith, X. Wang, R. Schmehl

3:30 — Intermission.

3:50 —209. The roles of localized states in electron transfer between molecular adsorbates and semiconductor nanoparticles. T. Lian, N. A. Anderson, X. Ai, E. Hao

4:30 —210. Real-time atomistic simulation of the ultrafast photoinduced electron transfer from molecular donors to the TiO2 Acceptor. O. V. Prezhdo, W. Stier

Section D
Javits Convention Center -- 1E10

Size-Selected Clusters on Surfaces
Preparation and Characterization of Clusters

N. Lopez, Presiding
H. Metiu and D. W. Goodman, Organizers

1:30 —211. Sequential oxidation of metal clusters. P. Jena

2:10 —212. Investigating stored metal clusters. L. Schweikhard

2:50 —213. Size effects in the temperature-dependent magnetization of iron clusters. K. Meiwes-Broer

3:30 — Intermission.

3:50 —214. Nano-faceted Re surface: Probe for size and structural effects in catalytic chemistry. A. S. Y. Chan, H. Wang, J. E. Rowe, T. E. Madey

4:10 —215. Probing of surface states with non-linear optical techniques. A. Rosén, M. Andersson

Section E
Javits Convention Center -- 1E09

Quantum Monte Carlo Methods
Clusters and Molecular Interactions

W. A. Lester Jr., Presiding
J. B. Anderson and S. M. Rothstein, Organizers

1:30 —216. Number of excited states of small helium clusters. P. Nightingale

2:10 —217. A "shake'n'see" DMC approach to the study of structure and stability of small protonated water clusters. M. Mella, D. C. Clary

2:50 —218. HF and HCl dimers in small helium clusters: Vibration-tunneling dynamics in a quantum environment. Z. Bacic, H. Jiang, J. W. Moskowitz, A. Sarsa, K. E. Schmidt

3:10 —219. Towards a universal potential for water. N. Goldman, C. J. Leforestier, R. J. Saykally

3:30 — Intermission.

3:50 —220. Quantum Monte Carlo descriptions of molecular interactions relevant to biopolymers. S. Tanaka

4:30 —221. CH3OH - H2O and CH3CH2OH - H2O complexes: A quantum Monte Carlo study of solvation effects. J. W. Moskowitz, H. Jiang, Z. Bacic, A. Sarsa, K. E. Schmidt

WEDNESDAY EVENING

Section A
Javits Convention Center -- North Pavillion

Poster Session
Theoretical Methods and Algorithms

J. L. Skinner, Organizer

7:30 - 10:00

222. A novel variable transformation approach for enhancing conformational sampling in complex systems. P. Minary, G. Martyna, M. E. Tuckerman

223. Ab initio molecular dynamics study of the E2 and Sn2 reaction between X- + CH3CH2Y. B. Ensing, F. L. Gervasio, A. Laio, M. Parrinello, M. L. Klein

224. Computer aided implementation of many-body methods: the tensor contraction engine. G. Baumgartner, D. Cociorva, A. Bibireata, X. Gao, S. Krishnamoorthy, S. Krishnan, C. Lam, Q. Lu, A. Sibiryakov, R. M. Pitzer, P. Sadayappan, D. E. Bernholdt, V. Choppella, S. Hirata, J. Ramanujam, M. Nooijen, A. Auer

225. Cooperativity in amide hydrogen bonding chains. A comparison between vibrational coupling through hydrogen bonds and covalent bonds. Implications for peptide vibrational spectra. J. J. Dannenberg, N. Kobko

226. Development of energy density analysis and its applications. T. Baba, Y. Kawamura, H. Nakai

227. Diffusion quantum Monte Carlo studies of (H2)n clusters: a comparison of second- and fourth-order propagators. B. Yang, R. J. Hinde

228. Electron Propagator Theory calculation of photoionization intensities. G. D. M. Seabra, J. V. Ortiz, I. G. Kaplan, V. G. Zakrzewski

229. Empirical approaches to chemical bonding with bond-order potentials. S. J. Stuart

230. Fermion Monte Carlo calculations of atomic and molecular systems. A. Aspuru-Guzik, W. A. Lester Jr., M. H. Kalos

231. Growing potential energy surfaces: The interface of Grow and GAMESS. H. Netzloff, M. A. Collins, M. S. Gordon

232. H2+ in the old quantum theory. S. K. Knudson, C. W. Crawford, A. V. Durden

233. Highly excited vibrations of formaldehyde: Iterative solutions with energy selected basis (ESB). H. Lee, J. C. Light

234. How important are van der Waals parameters in hybrid QM/MM simulations? D. Riccardi, Q. Cui

235. Innovative method for large scale simulations of gas phase reactions. M. R. Salazar

236. Linear-scaling time-dependent density-functional theory. C. Y. Yam, S. Yokojima, G. Chen

237. Model for the formation and breaking of bonds in halogen reactions. H. O. bello

238. Molecular dynamics with quantum transitions for proton transfer: Quantum treatment of hydrogen and donor-acceptor motions. S. Y. Kim, S. Hammes-Schiffer

239. Molecular orbital calculations of water clusters on counterpoise-corrected potential energy surfaces. J. J. Dannenberg, R. Wieczorek, L. Haskamp

240. MP2 based effective fragment potential method. J. Song, M. S. Gordon

241. New algorithm for the rapid computation of molecular integrals: elementary basis algorithm. M. Kobayashi, H. Nakai

242. New methods for simulating supermolecular complexes at multiple resolutions scales and multiple length scales. J. Ma

243. Numerical assesment of the ab initio NOMO theory. K. Sodeyama, H. Nakai

244. Parallelized staged simulation and excess solvation free energy calculation. Y. Deng, B. Roux

245. Practical implementation of the flexible effective fragment QM/MM method for modeling chemical reactions in condensed phases. B. Grigorenko, A. V. Nemukhin, I. A. Topol, S. K. Burt

246. Quantum Drude model for atomic and molecular polarizabilities. T. W. Whitfield, G. Martyna

247. Quasiparticle pictures of chemical bond formation. J. V. Ortiz

248. Simple Gaussian model for the nonlocal kinetic energy functional of electrons in density-functional theory. J. Chai, J. D. Weeks

249. Spin-orbit effects on the potential energy functions of mercury and halogen containing species. B. C. Shepler, N. B. Balabanov, K. A. Peterson

250. The role of exact exchange and correlation functionals in chemical reactions. M. L. Cafiero, C. Gonzalez

251. Toward a one-electron density matrix functional theory. J. M. Herbert, J. E. Harriman

252. Treatment of electron-proton correlation in the multiconfigurational nuclear-electronic orbital method. M. Pak, S. Hammes-Schiffer

253. Using compound model chemistries in ONIOM. T. Vreven, K. Morokuma, S. Zhong, G. A. Petersson, M. J. Frisch

254. Zero variance principle for atoms and molecules. A. C. Kollias, W. A. Lester Jr.

Section B
Javits Convention Center -- North Pavillion

Poster Session
Gas Phase Structure and Dynamics

J. L. Skinner, Organizer

7:30 - 10:00

255. A study of the reactions of O2 and H2 with small gold clusters. S. A. Varganov, M. S. Gordon, R. M. Olson, H. Metiu, G. Mills

256. Absolute rate calculations of atom-transfer reactions. L. G. Arnaut, S. J. Formosinho, M. Barroso

257. Anharmonicity in IR spectra of anion/water complexes. E. M. Myshakin, W. H. Robertson, E. D. Diken, M. Johnson, K. D. Jordan

258. Atmospheric photochemistry via vibrational overtone absorption of water clusters with atmospheric chromophores. V. Vaida

259. Atomic orbital polarization by DC slice imaging: S(1D2) alignment in the photodissociation of ethylene sulfide and propylene sulfide. S. K. Lee, D. Townsend, M. P. Minitti, A. G. Suits

260. Bonding in transition metal compounds: How important are near-degeneracy effects? J. N. Harvey, F. R. Manby

261. Characterization of ions detected via ICP-MS. E. A. McKinney, M. S. Gordon, R. S. Houk

262. ClOO van der Waals isomer: Low-spin open-shell/open-shell complex. K. K. Irikura

263. Coherent control of vibrational excitations by ultrafast pulse shaping. S. Malinovskaya, P. Berman, P. Bucksbaum

264. Determination of the gas phase heats of formation of cyclopentadienyl, indenyl, and fluorenyl cations using mass spectroscopic techniques. A. Fattahi, Z. Glasovac, M. Eckert-Maksic, S. R. Kass

265. Dissociation and isomerization of gas-phase proton-bound cluster ions. P. M. Mayer, J. A. D. McCormack

266. Fe + SO2: Kinetic and DFT study. R. E. McClean, L. Norris

267. Femtosecond dynamics of copper-ligand clusters. M. S. Taylor, F. Muntean, A. B. McCoy, W. C. Lineberger

268. Gas-Phase DNMR study of the internal rotation in N-trifluoroacetylpyrrolidine. C. Suárez, E. J. Nicholas, M. R. Bowman

269. Ground and low-lying excited states of difluorodiazirine. R. R. Pandey, M. R. Hoffmann

270. Ground state molecular geometries of oxazoles with implicit and explicit account for electron correlation. S. I. Kotelevskii, O. V. Prezhdo

271. High-spin pathways towards accurate thermochemistry for open-shell species. A. C. Cristian, A. I. Krylov

272. Hydrated complexes: atmospheric implications and spectroscopy. K. J. Feierabend, V. Vaida, H. G. Kjaergaard, D. K. Havey

273. Kinetics and thermochemistry for dissociation of chloromethanols and chemical activation reactions of OH and Cl with chloromethyl radicals. H. Sun, J. W. Bozzelli

274. Kinetics of photochemical aerosol by laser photolysis/laser scattering imaging. E. N. Chesnokov, S. N. Dubtsov, L. N. Krasnoperov

275. Microwave spectroscopic investigation of HNO3-(H2O)2. M. B. Craddock, C. S. Brauer, K. R. Leopold

276. Na D-line broadening in Na-He collisions: a model for brown dwarf atmospheric absorption spectra. T. C. Lillestolen, R. J. Hinde

277. New mechanism of the gas drift occurring in presence of an evanescent wave. M. A. Waxman (Vaksman)

278. Novel multi-pass cell for sensitive absorption measurements. L. N. Krasnoperov

279. Optical fiber cavity ring-down spectroscopy. P. B. Tarsa, P. Rabinowitz, K. K. Lehmann

280. Photodissociation of sulfur dioxide in the region of 222-234 nm. Y. Lei, E. Quiñones

281. Potential energy surfaces for reactions of mercury with halogens. N. B. Balabanov, B. C. Shepler, K. A. Peterson

282. Proton-transfer reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometry. J. A. Bradshaw, R. L. Whetten

283. Quantum chemical study of mechanism of L-ascorbic acid reaction with molecular oxygen: An MNDO and experimental approach. K. C. Rajanna, K. Channamallu, P. K. Saiprakash

284. Quantum-chemical and variational RRKM/ME study of the mechanism and kinetics of the C6H5 + O2 reaction. I. V. Tokmakov, A. M. Mebel, G. Kim, M. C. Lin

285. Reaction of O2+ with C9H12 (n-propylbenzene) and C10H14 (n-butylbenzene) as a function of pressure and temperature: Rate constants and collisional stabilization of the charge transfer product. A. Fernandez, A. A. Viggiano, S. Williams, J. Troe

286. Reactions of O2, CO, and CO2 with Pt+ and PtO+ and thermochemistry of platinum oxide cations. X. Zhang, P. B. Armentrout

287. Reactions of peroxy radicals: calculations of elementary reaction paths important to ignition of hydrocarbons, comparisons with experiments. T. Barckholtz, J. W. Bozzelli, C. Chen

288. Resonance energies of the allyl cation and allyl anion. J. M. Karty

289. Ring expansion and isomerization in 5-membered rings. Quantum chemical and kinetics calculations. F. Dubnikova, A. Lifshitz

290. Self-recombination of the hyponitrite radical. G. Poskrebyshev, S. V. Lymar

291. Size and isomer dependence of HF vibrational frequency shifts in ArnHF clusters from diffusion Monte Carlo calculations on nonadditive potential energy surfaces. H. Jiang, J. Hutson, Z. Bacic

292. Spectroscopic characterization of trans-perp HOONO. E. X. J. Li, I. B. Pollack, I. M. Konen, M. I. Lester

293. Study of benzene-NH3 intermolecular potential-energy surface. S. Lee, P. M. Felker

294. Study of the reaction of CH3CHO + Cl using LIF. Y. Gong, V. I. Makarov, B. R. Weiner

295. The hyponitrite radical: Spectrum and thermodynamic properties. G. Poskrebyshev, S. V. Lymar

296. Theoretical study of electron impact dissociation of water. Z. Zhang, D. J. Haxton, T. N. Rescigno, C. W. McCurdy

297. Thermochemical properties of acetyl and ethyl hydroperoxides and peroxyacetyl and peroxyethyl nitrite. J. Lee, J. W. Bozzelli

298. Thermochemistry, kinetics and pathway analysis on atmospheric reactions of benzene. C. Chen, J. W. Bozzelli, S. Grebenkin, L. Krasnoperov

299. Thermodynamic and kinetic analysis using ab initio calculations of the allyl radical with O2 reaction system. J. Lee, J. W. Bozzelli

300. Ultrafast mid-IR induced diazomethane dissociation. J. S. Yeston, L. Windhorn, T. Witte, D. Proch, M. Motzkus, W. Fuss, K. L. Kompa, C. B. Moore

301. Using C-H vibrational overtone spectra to evaluate models of C-H bond dissociation. R. L. Swofford, B. M. Ashcraft

302. UV absorption cross-sections of methyl substituted hydroxycyclohexadienyl radicals. L. N. Krasnoperov, D. Johnson, R. Lesclaux

Section C
Javits Convention Center -- North Pavillion

Poster Session
Condensed Phase Structure and Dynamics

J. L. Skinner, Organizer

7:30 - 10:00

303. A quantum solute in a classical solvent: Classical and quantum Monte Carlo studies of Ar-H2 and Ar-D2 mixtures. J. W. Mancillas

304. Aging in dispersive transport in disordered solids. E. J. Barkai

305. Applications of time-resolved linear dichroism spectroscopy: Solvent effects on the photophysics of excited charge transfer complexes. D. Levy, B. R. Arnold

306. Characterization of high-pressure transformations of N2O4 by Raman, synchrotron Infrared spectroscopy and x-ray diffraction. Y. Song, R. Hemley, H. Mao, D. Herschbach

307. Correlation of activity coefficients of organic electrolytes . S. Perisanu

308. Dependence of the position of the maximum and the shape of the J-band in the spectra of diluted solutions of cyanine dyes on the structure of molecules. I. Struganova

309. Dramatic rate enhancements in ultrasonically irradiated oxidation of alcohols, aldo and keto sugars by Ce(IV) in aqueous acid media: A kinetic approach. K. C. Rajanna, K. Zaheeruddin, P. K. Saiprakash

310. Electron transfer in supercritical xenon as studied by pulse radiolysis. R. Holroyd, J. F. Wishart, M. Nishikawa, K. Itoh

311. Enthalpy-entropy compensation effect in liquid crystals, alkanes and polymers used as chromatographic stationary phases. M. Rogalski, E. Rogalska, H. Guermouche

312. Excited states of carotenoids studied by ultrafast multiple-pulse transient absorption spectroscopy. E. Papagiannakis

313. High temperature thermodynamic properties of oxygen. L. Biolsi, P. M. Holland, M. L. Biolsi

314. Imaging individual perylene tetramers using AFM and scanning confocal microscopy. A. Chowdhury, P. Yan, D. M. Adams

315. Magnetic field effect on the viscosity of ion-solvent interactions in aqueous CoCl2 at different temperatures. S. A. Ghauri, M. A. Khan, M. Afzal

316. Measurement of electron traps in molecular solids by photodetachment. E. M. Hébert, P. Cloutier, L. Sanche

317. Medium-controlled intramolecular electron transfer at the single molecule level. K. Ching, R. Liu, A. Chowdhury, L. Zang, D. M. Adams

318. Molecular and crystal orbital studies of organic crystal formation. J. J. Dannenberg, A. Masunov

319. Partial bond breaking and bond making due to charge transfer in condensed phase. M. Kertesz, J. Huang, G. Sun

320. Photo-induced electron transfer studies: Electron tunneling by way of non-bonded contacts. M. Liu, D. H. Waldeck

321. Pseudo Jahn-Teller distortion in a porphyrin cation radical. Comparison of high precision structural data at 20 K with DFT calculations. J. Fajer, M. Renner, K. Barkigia, G. Wu

322. Quantum Monte Carlo studies of calcium doped helium droplets. G. L. Warren Jr., R. J. Hinde

323. Reorientational dynamics of 2-aminopurine from fluorescence polarization anisotropies. M. Barch, B. J. Lee, E. W. Castner Jr.

324. Single-molecule spectroscopy of intramolecular electron transfer in donor-bridge-acceptor systems. R. Liu, L. Zang, M. W. Holman, D. M. Adams

325. Solvation dynamics in ionic liquid systems. M. N. Kobrak

326. Solvent effects on Diels-Alder reactions. Application of the three layers LSCF/MM/Continuum hybrid method. X. Assfeld, Y. Moreau

327. Solvent effects on the SN2 reaction – theory and application of the DFT based effective fragment potential method. I. Adamovic, M. S. Gordon

328. Spectroscopic characterization of short-lived intermediates: A femtosecond transient absorbance study of MbCO in solution and in single crystals. H. S. Cho, A. Smirnov, P. A. Anfinrud

329. Toward a universal potential for water. N. Goldman, C. J. Leforestier, R. J. Saykally

330. Transition path sampling of the catalyzed dissociation of hydrogen peroxide by iron(II) in water. B. Ensing, E. J. Baerends

331. Ultrafast studies of the CTTS band of the hydroxide ion in liquid water. R. A. Crowell, R. Lian, I. Shkrob, D. M. Bartels

332. Unimolecular dissociation of aryl halide radical anions in organic solvents studied by pulse radiolysis. N. Takeda, P. P. Poliakov, A. R. Cook, J. R. Miller

333. VISION: A new inelastic neutron vibrational spectrometer for SNS. B. S. Hudson

Section D
Javits Convention Center -- North Pavillion

Poster Session
Surfaces and Interfaces

J. L. Skinner, Organizer

7:30 - 10:00

334. Ab initio molecular dynamics studies on the mechanisms of oxygen reduction on a Pt(111) surface. Y. Wang, P. B. Balbuena

335. Complex fluid interfaces at the nano-scale. R. C. Bell, H. Wang, M. J. Iedema, J. P. Cowin

336. Degradation of functionalized alkanethiolate monolayers by 0 - 18 eV electrons. M. A. Huels, P. Dugal, L. Sanche

337. Electron impact vibrational and electronic excitation of H2O physisorbed on thymine films. W. Cho, M. Michaud, L. Sanche

338. Electron-induced decomposition and reactivity of organohalides co-adsorbed with water (ice). N. S. Faradzhev, C. C. Perry, D. O. Kusmierek, D. H. Fairbrother, T. E. Madey

339. Erosion of surfaces in low earth orbit by atomic oxygen: KMC simulation of graphite + O(3P). K. L. Kelly, J. C. Tully

340. H2S and C4H4S adsorption on polycrystalline UO2. Q. Wu, M. N. Hedhili, B. V. Yakshinskiy, T. Gouder, T. E. Madey

341. Hexadecanoic acid on graphite: A theoretical picture. T. L. Werblowsky, G. W. Flynn, B. J. Berne

342. Investigation of lipid domain structure through physical methods of perturbation and measurement. J. J. Heetderks, P. S. Weiss

343. Low-energy electron-stimulated transformations of thin water films adsorbed on Pt(111). N. G. Petrik, G. A. Kimmel

344. Mediating electronic switching of single molecules using chemical interactions. P. A. Lewis, C. E. Inman, J. M. Tour, J. E. Hutchison, P. S. Weiss

345. Nanoscale structure and surface chemistry on Ir(210). W. Chen, I. Ermanoski, T. E. Madey

346. Octadecanol oxidation to octadecanoic acid over Co3O4/SiO2 catalyst. H. Zhuang, Y. Bi, T. Cheng, K. Zhen

347. Positive charging and discharge of solid Ar films induced by low-energy electron bombardment. E. Vichnevetski, A. Bass, P. Cloutier, L. Sanche

348. Probing polarity at liquid/liquid interfaces with cationic molecular rulers. C. L. Beildeck, W. H. Steel, R. A. Walker

349. Production and characterization of thin polymeric coatings from supercritical carbon dioxide solutions. E. M. Glebov, A. A. Chernov, Y. Li, O. M. Usov, V. Stepanov, L. N. Krasnoperov

350. Radiation induced decomposition of SF6 on Ru(0001). N. S. Faradzhev, B. V. Yakshinskiy, D. O. Kusmierek, T. E. Madey

351. Resolving the puzzle of haloalkane structures on graphite using a theoretical approach. T. L. Werblowsky, G. W. Flynn, B. J. Berne

352. Salty liquid surfaces: How dissolved ions influence gas-liquid interfacial reactions. A. H. Muenter, G. M. Nathanson

353. Scanning tunneling microscopy studies of chemistry on graphite surfaces: Toward understanding PAH formation and soot particle growth. G. M. Florio, T. Müller, K. T. Rim, G. W. Flynn

354. Single-molecule spectroscopy of electron transfer at semiconductor interfaces. M. W. Holman, R. Liu, P. Yan, D. M. Adams

355. Solvent effect on the mobility and photostability of single molecules encapsulated in a silica sol-gel thin film. K. Yokoyama, W. T. Yip

356. Surface chemistry of carbon nanotubes. S. Banerjee, S. S. Wong

357. Surface system modeling by the energy density analysis. Y. Kawamura, H. Nakai

358. Ultrafast electron solvation and localization at nitrile/Ag(111) interfaces. P. Szymanski, K. J. Gaffney, A. D. Miller, S. Garret-Roe, I. Bezel, C. B. Harris

359. Vibrational studies of the alkane/vapor interface and slow film formation. O. Esenturk, R. A. Walker

Section E
Javits Convention Center -- North Pavillion

Poster Session
Materials and Polymers

J. L. Skinner, Organizer

7:30 - 10:00

360. 2- and 3-dimentional assembly of shape-selected and surface-modified Au nanoparticles: Nature of packing and its correlation to optical properties. O. R. Miranda, T. S. Ahmadi

361. Computer simulations of clathrates (tertiarybutylammonium) at very concentrations. R. L. Napoleon, P. B. Moore

362. Direct measurement of polymer segment orientation and distortion in shear: Semi-dilute solution behaviour of a conjugated system. E. K. Hill, Y. Wei, D. E. Dunstan

363. Effect of electrostatic interaction on single molecule mobility within a silica sol-gel host. J. W. Gilliland, N. A. Garland, K. Yokoyama, W. T. Yip

364. Electrophoretic and diffusion NMR as a method to study interactions between ionic surfactant and non-ionic polymers. E. Pettersson, D. Topgaard, P. Stilbs, O. Söderman

365. Enhanced infrared absorption of lipid bilayers supported on metallic microarrays of subwavelength apertures. J. V. Coe, S. M. Williams, K. R. Rodriguez, S. Kennedy, A. D. Stafford

366. Enhanced IR absorption of lipid bilayers supported on metallic microarrays of subwavelength holes. K. R. Rodriguez, S. M. Williams, S. Kennedy, A. D. Stafford, J. V. Coe

367. Formation of fullerene molecules from carbon nanotubes: A quantum chemical molecular dynamics model study. G. Zheng, M. Elstner, S. Irle, K. Morokuma

368. Fundamental tests of ab initio methods on organic-based charge transfer crystals using inelastic neutron spectroscopy. J. A. Ciezak, C. M. Brown, B. S. Hudson

369. Interparticle interactions and surface of nanoparticles of ã-Fe2O 3 and their thin films. T. S. Ahmadi, S. Sangamkar

370. Investigation of electron transfer dynamics between quantum size particles and perylene dye molecules. J. choi, A. Chowdhury, L. Zang, D. M. Adams

371. Ionic liquids as a potential high energy density material. D. D. Zorn, M. S. Gordon

372. Ionic liquids: Composition effects on reactivity patterns and solvation dynamics. A. M. Funston, J. F. Wishart, P. Neta, S. I. Lall, R. Engel

373. Is NMR chemical shift constant in nanorings or nanotubes? A. Kubo

374. Mechanistic aspects of carbon nanotube nucleation and growth. R. B. Little

375. Molecular visualization: Kinematics and mass transport during spreading of polymer drops. S. S. Sheiko, H. Xu, D. Shirvaniants, K. L. Beers, K. Matyjaszewski

376. Nano-particles formation by rapid expansion of supercritical solution. V. Stepanov, I. B. Elkina, L. N. Krasnoperov

377. Optical properties of luminescent layered semiconductor nanoparticles in solution and films. G. K. Kasi, T. S. Ahmadi

378. Organometallic synthesis of TiO2 and HfO2 nanoparticles. J. Tang, M. Steigerwald, L. E. Brus

379. Photoluminescence of individual single-walled carbon nanotubes. H. N. Pedrosa, A. Hartschuh, T. D. Krauss, L. Novotny

380. Photosynthetic biomimetic system based on inorganic TiO2 rods embedded in nanoporous alumina membrane. C. S. Toh, E. J. Nemanick, N. S. Lewis

381. Rapid charge injection and recombination in nanoparticles sensitized with 1-carboxy and 2-carboxy azulene: Involvement of the short-lived S1 state. C. V. Pagba, M. Myahkostupov, G. Zordan, P. Piotrowiak

382. Spectroscopic and dynamics studies of DCM encapsulated in mesoporous materials MCM-41 and Y zeolite. H. Guo, X. Zhang, M. Aydin, W. Xu, D. L. Akins

383. Spectroscopy and dynamics of energy-transfer in p-conjugated polyelectrolytes. E. Atas, C. Tan, J. Takeda, K. S. Schanze, V. Kleiman

384. Synthesis and characterization of monodispersed 300 nm RDX nanoparticles. L. M. Gomez, S. P. Hernandez, N. Mina, R. T. Lareau, R. T. Chamberlain, M. E. Castro

385. Thermochemistry of 5,5 Buckytubes (SWNTs) vs length. K. R. Rodriguez, S. M. Williams, M. A. Young, A. D. Stafford, S. R. Bishop, U. K. Lincoln, J. V. Coe

386. Ultrafast electronic relaxation of single-walled carbon nanotubes. L. Huang, H. N. Pedrosa, T. D. Krauss

387. Understanding the temperature dependence of charge-carrier mobilities in organic polyacene crystals. R. Abrol, D. M. Newns, G. J. Martyna

388. Vibrational spectroscopy measurements on single gold nanoparticles. B. Posada, S. P. Hernandez, J. Briano, R. Irizarry, Y. Ishikawa, M. E. Castro

Section F
Javits Convention Center -- North Pavillion

Poster Session
Biophysical Chemistry

J. L. Skinner, Organizer

7:30 - 10:00

389. N-methylacetamide studied theoretically in the gas phase and aqueous solution. Y. A. Mantz, G. J. Martyna

390. A density functional theory study of the H-bonding in beta-sheet peptide models. J. J. Dannenberg, R. Viswanathan, A. Asensio

391. Amyloid self-assembly studied using single molecule Brownian motion spectroscopy. J. Giurleo, B. Strangfeld, H. Kim, J. Jung, Y. Hou, D. S. Talaga

392. Aqueous photoionization threshold energy of 2’-deoxyguanosine. G. A. Papadantonakis, R. Tranter, K. Brezinsky, Y. Yang, R. B. van Breemen, P. R. LeBreton

393. Attenuated total internal reflection study in conformational changes of Cytochrome c on fused silica surfaces. K. M. Gligorich, S. A. Hocker, K. Brocksmith, M. Su, G. Hoops, Y. Cheng, S. Lin, H. Chang

394. Bond dissociations associated with GTP hydrolysis. T. L. Windus, Y. Alexeev

395. Calculated vibrational circular dichroism of nucleic acid oligomers utilizing DeVoe polarizability theory making use of DFT derived input parameters. S. D. Ferber, D. S. Moore

396. Coherent control of cis/trans isomerization in rhodopsin. S. C. Flores, V. Batista

397. Computational design of protein and gene libraries. W. Wang, J. G. Saven

398. Computer guided design of functional synthetic foldamers: Ligand recognition with phenylene-ethynylene hetero-oligomers. X. Fu, J. G. Saven

399. Computer simulations of protein-polyelectrolyte complexes. J. Jeon, A. Dobrynin

400. Cooperative hydrogen-bonding in adenine-thymine and guanine-cytosine base pairs. Density functional theory and Møller-Plesset molecular orbital studies. J. J. Dannenberg, A. Asensio, N. Kobko

401. Determining protein structural stability by infrared techniques. J. S. Vrettos, C. W. Meuse

402. Dynamics of proton transfer in bacteriorhodopsin. Y. S. Lee, M. Krauss

403. Excited state lifetimes of the N(7)H and N(9)H tautomers of adenine and their methyl derivatives. P. M. Hare, B. Cohen, B. Kohler

404. Free radical-induced degradation of vesicle-encapsulated microtubules. A. E. Counterman, T. G. D'Onofrio, P. S. Weiss

405. In situ detection of receptor oligomerization in immunological synapse by contact area FRET. D. G. Sauder, V. Zarnitsyna, C. Zhu

406. In-situ AFM investigation of the remodeling and salt behavior of chromatin. H. Wang, R. Bash, J. Yodh, G. L. Hager, D. Lohr, S. M. Lindsay

407. Incoherent control of the photoactive yellow protein photocycle. D. Larsen, M. Vengris, I. H. M. van Stokkum, M. A. van der Horst, F. L. de Weerd, K. Hellingwerf, R. van Grondelle

408. Infrared reflection absoption spectroscopy (IRRAS) of b-amyloid Langmuir and Langmuir-Blodgett films. J. Orbulescu, M. L. Patrick, C. Li, R. M. Leblanc

409. Intra- and inter-strand vibrational couplings of DNA studied with 2D IR spectroscopy. A. Krummel, P. Mukherjee, B. Van Devener, M. T. Zanni

410. Low-energy electron induced damage to thymidine. Y. Zheng, J. R. Wagner, P. Cloutier, D. J. Hunting, L. Sanche

411. Molecular dynamics simulation of the lipid bilayer edge. F. Y. Jiang, Y. Bouret, J. T. Kindt

412. Molecular dynamics simulations of layer-by-layer protein-polyelectrolyte self assembly. V. Panchagnula, J. Jeon, J. F. Rusling, A. Dobrynin

413. Molecular dynamics studies of ion distributions around DNA duplexes and duplex dimers and the connection to cooperative DNA melting in DNA-nanoparticle aggregates. H. Long, G. C. Schatz

414. Molecular geometry of membrane-associating biomolecular complexes using variable angle sample spinning (VASS) NMR. A. I. Kishore, J. C. Amor, R. A. Kahn, J. H. Prestegard

415. Oxygen transfer in the oxygenation of camphor in P450cam. S. D. Dalosto, V. S. Batista

416. Pauling triangle and proteins. D. Gurel, O. Gurel

417. Photophysics of DNA and RNA polymers studied by femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy. B. Kohler, C. E. Crespo-Hernandez

418. Precise two-photon absorption measurements of biomolecules using femtosecond broadband pulses. S. Yamaguchi, T. Tahara

419. QM/MM calculations of the S0 and S1 energy surfaces in biomolecules: Study of green fluorescent protein and visual rhodopsin. J. A. Gascon, V. Batista

420. Real time observation of stochastic events of gene expression in single living cells. J. Xiao, L. Cai, J. Markson, X. S. Xie

421. Reconstitution of 5, 10-methenyltetrahydrofolate in E. coli DNA photolyase to determine its structural role. C. Cecala, O. Sokolova, K. Connell, Y. M. Gindt, J. P. M. Schelvis

422. Resonance raman studies of genetically modified reaction centers. L. Chen, C. Kirmaier, D. Holten, D. F. Bocian

423. Role of the second chromophore in Escherichia coli DNA photolyase. O. Sokolova, C. Cecala, M. Ramsey, Y. M. Gindt, J. P. M. Schelvis

424. Single molecule studies of the conformational dependence of electron transfer through peptides. H. Kim, Y. Issa, J. J. Jung, J. Giurleo, Y. Hou, S. S. Isied, D. S. Talaga

425. Spectroscopic investigation of the mechanism of resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis catalase-peroxidase KatG(S315T). S. Kapetanaki, S. Chouchane, S. Girotto, S. Yu, R. S. Magliozzo, J. P. M. Schelvis

426. Substrate binding perturbs the properties of the flavin neutral radical semiquinone in DNA photolyase. J. P. M. Schelvis, M. Ramsey, S. Kapetanaki, Y. M. Gindt

427. Theory of single molecule spectroscopy of multichromophoric macromolecules and its application to LH2 of purple bacteria. S. Jang, R. J. Silbey

428. Thermodynamic molecular switch controls chemical equilibrium in biological systems: Why does the human body maintain a constant 37 degree temperature? P. W. Chun

429. Two-dimensional correlation infrared spectroscopic study of N-methylacetamide as a function of temperature. H. Huang, M. Serghei, M. M. Coleman, P. C. Painter

430. Vibrational energy relaxation of "tailored'" hemes in myoglobin following ligand photolysis supports energy funneling mechanism of heme "cooling". L. Bu, J. E. Straub

THURSDAY MORNING

Section A
Javits Convention Center -- 1E06

Frontiers in Biophysical Methods
Structure and Dynamics of Transient Intermediates

Cosponsored with COMP
K. Schulten, Presiding
M. T. Zanni and P. A. Anfinrud, Organizers

8:30 —431. Smaller but slower: Folding kinetics of a b-hairpin and a three-helix bundle. F. Gai, W. F. DeGrado, Y. Zhu, D. Du

9:10 —432. Ligand dynamics and binding in myoglobin. G. U. Nienhaus

9:50 —433. Nature of structural inhomogeneities during folding of a helix: Manifestation in IR. S. Gnanakaran, R. M. Hochstrasser, A. E. Garcia

10:10 —434. Watching a protein as it functions with picosecond X-ray crystallography. P. A. Anfinrud, F. Schotte, M. Wulff

10:30 — Intermission.

10:50 —435. Protein dynamics from computer simulations compared to time-resolved X-ray crystallography. G. Hummer

11:30 —436. Crystal structures and molecular mechanism of a light-induced signaling switch: the Phot-LOV1 domain. I. Schlichting, R. Fedorov, E. Hartmann, T. Domratcheva, M. Fuhrmann, P. Hegemann

Section B
Javits Convention Center -- 1E08

Making and Breaking Chemical Bonds in Gas and Condensed Phases
High-Performance Computing and Novel Algorithms

T. D. Crawford, Presiding
A. I. Krylov and M. S. Gordon, Organizers

8:30 —437. From molecules to proteins: Possibilities for data and algorithmic integration using HPC technologies. K. K. Baldridge

9:10 —438. Artificial intelligence for electronic structures: Automated parallel implementations of configuration-interaction, coupled-cluster, and many-body perturbation theories. S. Hirata

9:50 —439. Parallel multiconfigurational self-consistent field. G. D. Fletcher

10:30 — Intermission.

10:50 —440. Bond dissociations associated with GTP hydrolysis. T. L. Windus, Y. Alexeev, D. Dixon

11:30 —441. Analytic energy second derivatives for MCSCF wavefunctions: Implementation and parallelization. T. J. Dudley, M. S. Gordon

Section C
Javits Convention Center -- 1E07

Physical Chemistry of Complex Fluids
Biopolymers

Cosponsored with COLL
A. J. Liu, Presiding
T. P. Lodge and A. J. Liu, Organizers

8:30 —442. Polyelectrolyte-surfactant complexes: phase diagrams and novel microemulsions. H. H. Strey, M. J. Leonard, W. Wong

9:10 —443. Controlling the size of nanoscale toroidal DNA condensates with static curvature and ionic strength. N. V. Hud, C. Conwell, I. Vilfan

9:50 —444. Monte Carlo simulations of self-assembled polymers and networks. J. T. Kindt, X. Lv, J. Ni

10:10 —445. Effect of mono- and multivalent salts on the interaction between two charged rods. K. Lee, I. Borukhov, W. M. Gelbart, A. J. Liu, M. J. Stevens

10:30 — Intermission.

10:50 —446. Osmotic force suppression of viral ejection. A. Evilevitch, M. Castelnovo, L. Lavelle, C. M. Knobler, E. Raspaud, W. M. Gelbart

11:30 —447. Viral self-assembly as a thermodynamic process. R. Bruinsma, J. Rudnick, W. M. Gelbart

Section D
Javits Convention Center -- 1E10

The Conduction Band in Liquids and Disordered Solids
Accessing the Conduction Band in Liquids

E. Bittner, Presiding
D. M. Bartels and S. E. Bradforth, Organizers

8:30 —448. S-state to conduction band spectrum of the hydrated electron. P. F. Barbara, T. W. Kee, Y. J. Lee

9:10 —449. The role of dispersion in the interaction of excess electrons with water clusters. K. D. Jordan

9:50 —450. Mapping the conduction band under CTTS Transitions: the photodetachment quantum yield of sodide in THF. B. J. Schwartz, E. R. Barthel, R. E. Larsen

10:30 — Intermission.

10:50 —451. Photoelectron spectroscopy of solute ions in water jets. M. Faubel

11:30 —452. Electron Photodetachment from aqueous halide ions via CTTS States and the bulk conduction band. X. Chen, J. A. Kloepfer, S. E. Bradforth

11:50 —453. Conduction band in nonpolar fluids. R. A. Holroyd

Section E
Javits Convention Center -- 1E09

Quantum Monte Carlo Methods
Condensed Matter

S. Tanaka, Presiding
J. B. Anderson and S. M. Rothstein, Organizers

8:30 —454. Linear scaling quantum Monte Carlo: Applications to semiconductor nanomaterials. A. Williamson

9:10 —455. Electronic structure of systems with transition metals by quantum Monte Carlo. L. Mitas, P. Sen, L. K. Wagner, J. Lee, M. Bajdich

9:50 —456. Diffusion Monte Carlo studies of excitation energies in solids and quantum dots. C. J. Umrigar

10:30 — Intermission.

10:50 —457. Diffusion quantum Monte Carlo studies of Wigner crystals. R. J. Needs

11:30 —458. QMC computations for homogeneous and inhomogeneous jellium systems. P. Ballone

THURSDAY AFTERNOON

Section A
Javits Convention Center -- 1E06

Frontiers in Biophysical Methods
Structure and Dynamics of Transient Intermediates

Cosponsored with COMP
G. Hummer, Presiding
M. T. Zanni and P. A. Anfinrud, Organizers

1:30 —459. Molecular dynamics simulation of bacteriorhodopsin's photoisomerization using ab initio forces for the excited chromophore. K. Schulten, S. Hayashi, E. Tajkhorshid

2:10 —460. Transport mechanism from crystal structures of seven states in the bacteriorhodopsin photocycle. J. K. Lanyi

2:50 —461. Measurements of fluctuations in DNA structure on the nanosecond to femtosecond time scales. M. A. Berg, D. Andreatta, C. J. Murphy, R. S. Coleman, L. L. Pérez Lustres, S. A. Kovalenko, N. P. Ernsting

3:10 —462. New technique to detect energy and conformational changes of proteins in time-domain. M. Terazima

3:30 — Intermission.

3:50 —463. Nanosecond time-resolved macromolecular crystallography: blue light photoperception. K. Moffat, S. Crosson, S. Anderson

4:30 —464. Initial steps in biological signal generation: ultrafast isomerization and structural changes in the photoactive yellow protein. M. Groot, D. Larsen, K. Hellingwerf, R. Van Grondelle

Section B
Javits Convention Center -- 1E08

Making and Breaking Chemical Bonds in Gas and Condensed Phases
DFT for Bond-Breaking

M. Nooijen, Presiding
A. I. Krylov and M. S. Gordon, Organizers

1:30 —465. Electron correlation treated using time-dependent approaches. R. Baer, S. Yacobi, Y. Kurzweil

2:10 —466. Can density functional theory provide a reliable description of bond making/breaking processes? E. Kraka, J. Gräfenstein, D. Cremer

2:50 —467. The spin-flip approach within time-dependent density functional theory. Y. Shao, A. I. Krylov, M. Head-Gordon

3:30 — Intermission.

3:50 —468. Excited states via linear response in DFT and HF free of basis set error. R. J. H. Harrison, T. Yanai

4:30 —469. Bond-breaking in density functional theory. K. Burke, M. Fuchs

Section C
Javits Convention Center -- 1E07

Physical Chemistry of Complex Fluids
Biopolymers

Cosponsored with COLL
H. H. Strey, Presiding
T. P. Lodge and A. J. Liu, Organizers

1:30 —470. Cell cytoskeletal actin-bundle assembly in-vitro. C. R. Safinya, L. Hirst

2:10 —471. Force generation by polymerization of actin filaments. J. A. Theriot

2:50 —472. Linker-assisted biopolymer aggregation. I. Borukhov, R. Bruinsma, W. M. Gelbart, A. J. Liu

3:30 — Intermission.

3:50 —473. Programming colloidal interactions with DNA hybridization. J. C. Crocker, A. J. Kim, P. Biancaniello

4:30 —474. Biophysical layers: elaboration of sensing surfaces using hydrophobin. E. Rogalska, A. Walcarius, R. Rink, Y. Corvis

4:50 —475. Local friction and dynamics in aqueous poly(ethylene glycol) solutions. B. J. Lee, E. G. Diken, E. W. Castner Jr.

Section D
Javits Convention Center -- 1E10

The Conduction Band in Liquids and Disordered Solids
Electrons in Disordered Media and at Interfaces

S. E. Bradforth, Presiding
D. M. Bartels and S. E. Bradforth, Organizers

1:30 —476. Transition from delocalized states of electrons at interfaces to localized states. C. B. Harris

2:10 —477. Atomically detailed description of metal-dielectric interfaces: The crossover from surface to bulk donducting properties. B. Space

2:30 —478. Electron-stimulated reactions at the interfaces of amorphous solid water films driven by long-range energy transfer from the bulk. G. A. Kimmel, N. G. Petrik

2:50 —479. Chemical dynamics of low energy electrons. S. M. Pimblott, N. J. B. Green

3:30 — Intermission.

3:50 —480. Dynamics of photoinjected electrons in amorphous ice layers: Localization, solvation and the conduction band. U. Bovensiepen, C. Gahl, M. Wolf

4:30 —481. Probing electrical conductivity in liquids and solids by THz time-domain spectroscopy. E. Knoesel, J. Shan, F. Wang, E. Hendry, M. Bonn, T. F. Heinz

Section E
Javits Convention Center -- 1E09

Quantum Monte Carlo Methods
Structure, Dynamics, and Panel Discussion

K. B. Whaley, Presiding
J. B. Anderson and S. M. Rothstein, Organizers

1:30 —482. Quantum Monte Carlo study of photoactive molecules. C. Filippi, F. Schautz, F. Buda

2:10 —483. Diffusion Monte Carlo approaches for studying the structure of weakly bound complexes. A. B. McCoy

2:50 —484. Molecular thermochemistry via path integral Monte Carlo. L. E. Fried, K. R. Glaesemann

3:10 —485. Simulations of impurity rotational dynamics in quantum cryogenic solids. R. J. Hinde

3:30 — Intermission.

3:50 —486. Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of electronic structure of large molecules: C20 and C60. J. B. Anderson

4:10 —487. Estimating Bohm's quantum potential via expectation modelling. J. Maddox, E. Bittner

4:30 — Panel Discussion.