MA. PLENARY SESSION

Welcome
Caroline C. Whitacre, Vice President for Research
The Ohio State University
8:45

MA01			40min9:00

HELIUM DROPLETS AS NANO-CRYOSTATS FOR MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY: AGGREGATION, STATE SELECTION AND ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE.

WOLFGANG E. ERNST, Institute of Experimental Physics, Graz University of Technology, Petersgasse 16, A-8010 Graz, Austria.

MA02			40min9:45

ANION SLOW ELECTRON VELOCITY-MAP IMAGING (SEVI): APPLICATIONS TO SPECTROSCOPY AND DYNAMICS.

DANIEL M. NEUMARK, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720.

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INTERMISSION

RAO AWARDS	Presentation of Awards by Brenda Winnewisser, Ohio State University	10:50

2008 Rao Award Winners
Frank Filsinger, Max-Planck
Jen Nicole Landry, University of Alberta
Fumie Xe Sunahori, University of Kentucky

COBLENTZ AWARD	Presentation of Award by Andre Sommer, Miami University

MA03 Coblentz Society Award Lecture 40min11:10

MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY: THE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM.

BENJAMIN J. MCCALL, Departments of Chemistry, Astronomy, and Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801.