International Conference on Molecular Energy Transfer in Complex Systems

Welcome to the next edition of the International Conference on Molecular Energy Transfer in Complex Systems (iCOMET) to be held at Jaipur, India.

First established in 1971 in Cambridge, UK, the scope of the iCOMET meetings is to discuss the recent progress in our understanding of the interactions and energy transfer that are central to various chemical and physical processes. The conference brings together scientists from all over the world to discuss the state-of-the-art experimental and theoretical studies of the key dynamical events in molecular systems.

The topics covered include:

  • Chemical Reaction Dynamics
  • Advances in Theoretical Chemistry
  • Photo-fragmentation Dynamics
  • Dynamics at Surfaces
  • Cold Collisions and Clusters
  • Ultrafast Dynamics
  • Electronically Non-adiabatic Phenomena
  • Energy Conversion Processes
  • Elementary processes in heterogeneous catalysis

The city of Jaipur is the capital of Rajasthan state, about 226 kms from New Delhi airport.

About Conference

First established in 1971 in Cambridge, UK, the scope of the iCOMET meetings is to discuss the recent progress in our understanding of the interactions and energy transfer that are central to various chemical and physical processes. While the initial studies focused on the energy transfer in small molecules in the gas-phase, the field has now grown investigating complex processes that happen in the condensed phase, at interfaces in heterogeneous environments, and biological systems.

The conference brings together scientists from all over the world to discuss the state-of-the-art experimental and theoretical studies of the key dynamical events in molecular systems.

History
Year• LocationOrganiser
1971• Cambridge, UKAnthony Callear
1975• Loccum, GermanyPeter Toennies
1979• Rodez, FranceMagdeleine Huetz-Aubert
1983• Cirencester, UKAnthony McCaffery
1987• Emmetten, SwitzerlandMartin Quack
1991• Nijmegen, NetherlandsJörg Reuss
1995• Kloster Banz, GermanyHans-Joachim Werner and Peter Andresen
1999• Assisi, ItalyAntonio Laganà and Piergiorgio Casavecchia
2003• San Lorenzo de El Escorial, SpainJavier Aoiz, Luis Bañares and Miguel González
2007• Arcachon, FranceMichel Costes and Jean-Claude Rayez
2011• Oxford, UKMark Brouard
2015• Chengdu, China Aart Kleyn and Xueming Yang
2017• Innsbruck, AustriaRoland Wester, Alec Wodtke
2019• Hefei, ChinaXingan Wang and Xueming Yang

Committees

International Advisory Committee

• Aart W. Kleyn (Secretary General) Leiden Institute of Chemistry, The Netherlands
• Rainer D. Beck Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne
• Astrid Bergeat University of Bordeaux
• Piergiorgio Casavecchia University of Perugia
• Shuiming Hu University of Science and Technology of China
• Sang Kyu Kim Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
• Upakarasamy Lourderaj National Institute of Science Education and Research
• Alec M. Wodtke Max Planck Institue for Biophysikal Chemistry
• Sebastiaan Y. T. van de Meerakker Radboud University Nijmegen
• Andrew Orr-Ewing University of Bristol
• Hongmei Su Beijing Normal University
• Toshinori Suzuki Kyoto University
• Jurgen Troe University of Gottingen
• Claire Vallance University of Oxford
• Chia C. Wang National Sun Yat-sen University
• Xingan Wang University of Science and Technology of China
• Roland Wester University of Innsbruck
• Xueming Yang Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Donghui Zhang Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Local Organising Committee

• Srihari Keshavamurthy IIT Kanpur
• Manikandan Paranjothy IIT Jodhpur
• Upakarasamy Lourderaj NISER Bhubaneswar

Confirmed Speakers

• Alec M. Wodtke Max Planck Institue for Biophysikal Chemistry
• Andreas Osterwalder Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne
• Andrew Orr-Ewing University of Bristol
• Ashwani Tiwari IISER Kolkata
• Biswajit Maiti Banaras Hindu University
• David Leitner University of Nevada, Reno
• Dhilip Kumar IIT Ropar
• Elangannan Arunan IISc Bangalore
• Gábor Czakó University of Szeged
• Gerrit C Groenenboom Radboud University Nijmegen
• Geert-Jan Kroes Leiden University
• György Lendvay Institute of materials and environmental chemistry, Budapest
• Hua Guo University of New Mexico
• Jino George IISER Mohali
• Jochen Küpper Universität Hamburg
• Krupa Ramasesha Sandia National Laboratories
• Luis Banares Universidad Complutense de Madrid
• Musa Ahmed Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
• N Sathyamurthy IISER Mohali
• Nadia Balucani University of Perugia
• Naresh Patwari IIT Bombay
• Ned Sibert University of Wisconsin - Madison
• Piergiorgio Casavecchia University of Perugia
• Pranav Shirhatti TIFR Hyderabad
• Rainer D. Beck Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne
• Riccardo Spezia Sorbonne Université, Paris
• Robert Georges Institut de Physique de Rennes
• Roland Wester University of Innsbruck
• Rui Sun University of Hawaii
• Sai Ramesh IISc Bangalore
• Sebastiaan Y T van de Meerakker Radboud University Nijmegen
• Stephen Kilppenstein Argonne National Laboratory
• Tetsuya Taketsugu Hokkaido University
• Vaibhav Prabhudesai TIFR Mumbai
• Vivek Tiwari IISc Bangalore

Schedule

16:55 - 19:00

14:45 - 16:45 Registration

16:45 - 16:55 Tea/Coffee

16:55 - 17:30 Luis Bañares, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Ultrafast Photoinduced Molecular Dynamics Mediated by Conical Intersections

17:30 - 18:05 Andrew Orr-Ewing, University of Bristol, UK
Effects of Solvent-Solute Interactions on Ultrafast Non-adiabatic Photo- chemical Pathways

18:05 - 18:40 Biswajit Maiti, Banaras Hindu University, India
Photodissociation Dynamics of Small Organic Molecules

18:40 - 19:00 Palas Roy, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India
Controlling Unidirectional Motor Performance through Push-Pull Substituents

19:00 - 21:00 Dinner

09:00 - 10:45

08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 - 09:35 Alec M Wodtke, University of Göttingen, Germany
Condensed Phase Isomerization Through Tunneling Gateways

09:35 - 10:10 Rainer D Beck, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Probing Surface Dynamics and Catalytical Activity by State-to-State Molecule/Surface Scattering

10:10 - 10:45 Geert-Jan Kroes, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Best-of-Both-Worlds Predictive Approach to Dissociative Chemisorption on Metal Surfaces

10:45 - 11:10 Tea/Coffee

11:10 - 13:00

11:10 - 11:45 Piergiorgio Casavecchia, University of Perugia, Italy
Reaction Dynamics of Atomic Oxygen with Aliphatic and Aromatic Hydrocarbons, N-heterocycles, and Nitriles: Product Branching-Fractions and Role of Intersystem Crossing

11:45 - 12:20 Vivek Tiwari, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India
Vibrations that Do Not Promote Vibronic Coupling can Dominate Observed Lineshapes in Two-dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy

12:20 - 13:00 Nadia Balucani, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy
Crossed Beam Experiments on the Reactions of Atomic Nitrogen in the 2D Electronic State With Small Aromatic Compounds

13:00 - 14:45 Lunch

14:45 - 16:30 POSTER SESSION - I

16:30 - 16:55 Tea/Coffee

16:55 - 19:00

16:55 - 17:30 N Sathyamurthy, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, India
Non-adiabatic Interaction in (He, H2+) Dynamics

17:30 - 18:05 Riccardo Spezia, Sorbonne Université, France
Nuclear Quantum Effects on Rate Constant Calculations from Chemical Dynamics Simulations

18:05 - 18:40 Sai G Ramesh, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India
Nuclear Quantum Effects in Hydroxide Hydrate Along the H-bond Bifurcation Pathway

18:40 - 19:00 Meghna A Manae, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Unveiling Tunnelling Mechanism in Photosensitization Using Instanton Theory

19:00 - 20:30 Dinner

20:30 - 21:25

20:30 - 21:05 Rui Sun, University of Hawaii, USA
Machine Learning Potential Energy Surfaces for Reaction Dynamics Simulation

21:05 - 21:25 Angelo Giussani, Universitat de València, Spain
Understanding the Photo-Fragmentation of Nitrobenzene into NO Through Ab-initio Electronic Structure Calculations and Dynamics Simulations

09:00 - 10:45

08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 - 09:35 Hua Guo, University of New Mexico, USA
Quantum Dynamics of Cold Collisions

09:35 - 10:10 Sebastiaan Y T van de Meerakker, Radboud University, The Netherlands
Cold and Controlled Collisions using Tamed Molecular Beams

10:10 - 10:45 Gerrit C Groenenboom, Radboud University, The Netherlands
Molecular Inelastic Quantum Scattering Calculations Revealing New Collision Mechanisms

10:45 - 11:10 Tea/Coffee

11:10 - 13:00

11:10 - 11:45 Stephen Klippenstein, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Multiple Transition States, Roaming, H2O Catalysis, Non-Thermal Effects, and Tunneling in Atmospheric Chemistry

11:45 - 12:20 G Naresh Patwari, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Photochemistry of Nitroaromatics and the NO Release: Does NO2 Roam?

12:20 - 12:40 Amit Kumar Paul, National Institute of Technology Meghalaya, India
Association/Dissociation Reactions of Weakly Bound Aromatic Complexes at High Temperatures in the Presence of Surrounding N2 Molecules

12:40 - 13:00 Jérémy Bourgalais, Université de Lorraine, France
Quantification of the Elusive Ketohydroperoxide Intermediates via Synchrotron-Based PEPICO Spectroscopy and High-Level Theoretical Quantum Calculations

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch

16:30 - 17:00 Tea/Coffee

19:00 - 20:30 Dinner

20:30 - 21:30 POSTER SESSION - II

09:00 - 10:45

08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 - 09:35 David Leitner, University of Nevada, USA
Quantum Ergodicity and Energy Flow in Molecules

09:35 - 10:10 Edwin L Sibert, University of Wisconsin, USA
Modelling Large Amplitude H-Atom Dislocation at Short Timescales

10:10 - 10:45 Elangannan Arunan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Shock Waves in Chemistry: Fundamental Chemical Kinetics, Combustion and Astrochemistry! Molecular Energy Transfer!?

10:45 - 11:10 Tea/Coffee

11:10 - 13:00

11:10 - 11:45 Krupa Ramasesha, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Ultrafast Core-Level Spectroscopy and Electron Diffraction of Two- and Multi-Body Photodissociation Dynamics

11:45 - 12:20 Musahid Ahmed, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Probing Hydrogen Bond Networks & Molecular Growth with X-Rays and Vibrational Spectroscopy

12:20 - 12:40 Vitali Zhaunerchyk, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Site-Specific Fragmentation of Varying Size Molecules Induced by Resonant Core-Valence Excitation

13:00 - 14:45 Lunch

14:45 - 16:30 POSTER SESSION - III

16:30 - 16:55 Tea/Coffee

16:55 - 19:00

16:55 - 17:30 Tetsuya Taketsugu, Hokkaido University, Japan
A Combined Reaction Path Network and Ab-initio MD Approach to Understand the Reaction Mechanism and Dynamics

17:30 - 18:05 Roland Wester, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Ion Molecule Reactive Scattering: from Classical to Quantum Dynamics

18:05 - 18:40 Gábor Czakó, University of Szeged, Hungary
First-Principles Dynamics and Mechanisms of Gas-Phase Bimolecular Chemical Reactions

18:40 - 19:00 Raghunathan Ramakrishnan, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Hyderabad, India
Calculating Intramolecular Ion-Pair Interactions: A Comparative Study Using Thermodynamic Cycle and Symmetry-Adapted Perturbation Theory

19:00 - 20:30 Dinner

20:30 - 21:25

20:30 - 21:05 György Lendvay, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungary
Dynamics of a Complex-Forming Bimolecular Reaction: QCT Studies on CH3 + HBr → CH4 + Br

21:05 - 21:25 Piyush Mishra, MIT, USA
Understanding Chemical Dynamics using the Multiplexed high-resolution Chirped-pulse Rotational Spectroscopy

09:00 - 10:45

08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 - 09:35 Jochen Küpper, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Dynamics of Microsolvated (Bio)molecules

09:35 - 10:10 Andreas Osterwalder, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Chemistry in Merged Molecular Beams and in Merged Microjets

10:10 - 10:45 Robert Georges, Institute of Physics of Rennes, France
Non-LTE Spectroscopy of Methane Recorded in a Hypersonic Flow

10:45 - 11:10 Tea/Coffee

11:10 - 13:00

11:10 - 11:45 Jino George, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, India
Long-Range Energy Transfer in Strongly Coupled Systems

11:45 - 12:20 Ashwani Tiwari, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, India
Behaviour of Atoms and Molecules under the Influence of Strong Laser Pulses

12:20 - 12:40 Anoop Thomas, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Exploring Electrical Conductance of Polymers under Vibrational Strong Coupling

12:40 - 13:00 Prerna Paliwal, University of Basel, Switzerland
Quantum-Logic Control of Complex Molecular Ions for Applications in Molecular and Chemical Physics

13:00 - 14:45 Lunch

14:45 - 18:45 Visit to Amber Fort

19:00 - 21:30 CONFERENCE DINNER

09:00 - 10:45

08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 - 09:35 Vaibhav S Prabhudesai, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
Dissociative Electron Attachment and Internal Excitation of Molecules

09:35 - 10:10 T J Dhilip Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India
NCCN Collisions with H2 : Rotationally Inelastic Cross Sections and Rate Coefficients from Quantum Dynamics at Interstellar Temperatures

10:10 - 10:45 Pranav Shirhatti, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Hyderabad, India
Understanding Activated Dissociation of CO2 on Cu Surfaces

10:45 - 11:10 Tea/Coffee

11:10 - 12:00

11:10 - 11:30 Jayashree Nagesh, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India
Effect of Charge-transfer, Disorder and 2D-Stacking on the Photophysical Behaviour of Donor-Acceptor-Donor Aggregates

11:30 - 11:50 Surajit Maity, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India
Laser Spectroscopic Determination of Solvent-to-Chromophore Excited-State Proton Transfer in Bimolecular Analogues

11:50 - 12:00 Closing Remarks

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Regular Participant (Single occupancy): USD 1000 (₹82,000)
Student Participant (Double occupancy / shared): USD 500 (₹41,000)

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