Programme

The final programme is now available to download by clicking on this link. It also contains some further information relating to the excursion.

If you are registered for the symposium and logged in, you can also look at an online version with links to all the abtsracts and various information, via the "Planning" item in the main menu on the left.

The conference will start on Sunday, Aug 28th in the evening and will finish with the conference dinner and prize award ceremony on Thursday Sept 1st in the evening.

A welcome cocktail will take place on Sunday evening, and sessions will run all day Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. On Wednesday after the morning session there will be an excursion to Mont St Michel in the afternoon and early evening. The conference will close with a prize award session and gala dinner at the Chateau d'Apigné.

The names of the invited speakers and the titles of their presentations (where available) are:

Frédérique Battin-Leclerc, CNRS, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France
(Polanyi Medal Lecture)
Basile Curchod, University of Bristol, UK
(Driving new developments in excited-state molecular dynamics through challenging photochemical applications)
Barbara Ervens, CNRS, University of Clermont Auvergne, France
(Are average cloud droplet properties sufficient? - The role of drop-resolved properties in predicting oxidant budgets in the atmospheric multiphase system)
Aamir Farooq, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
(Unraveling The Bimolecular Reactions of Hydroxyl Radicals)
Stephen Klippenstein, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
(Polanyi Medal Lecture: Interpreting the Complexities of Chemically Reactive Environments)
John Plane, University of Leeds, UK
(Circumstellar Chemistry)
Paul Seakins, University of Leeds, UK
(New Observations of Old Reactions)
Roland Wester, University of Innsbruck, Austria
(Interstellar molecular ions: reaction kinetics and photo-processes in cold traps)

We will also have an extensive programme of contributed talks (>35) and posters (>100) covering all areas of gas kinetics and related phenomena, under the headings
Astrochemistry and planetary atmospheres - Atmospheric chemistry - Combustion - Elementary processes and reaction dynamics - Heterogeneous and gas-particle chemistry - Theoretical kinetics