Molecular chirality manifests itself in a myriad of fields of physical, chemical and biological importance, ranging from fundamental investigations of parity nonconservation and asymmetric catalysis to the never-ending pursuit of the origins of life. This symposium will bring together a diverse array of theorists and experimentalists to discuss the latest developments in such areas, with topics covered during the planned series of seven half-day sessions including (1) the theory and computation of chiroptical properties, (2) linear and nonlinear forms of chiroptical spectroscopy, (3) chiral surfaces and structures, (4) emerging probes of chiral molecules and their interactions, and (5) the physical and chemical origins of homochirality.

Invited Speakers

Jochen Autschbach, SUNY Buffalo Michael Barnes, U Mass, Amherst
Laurence Barron, U Glasgow David Beratan, Duke U
Paul Brumer, U Toronto David Buckingham, Cambridge U
James Canary, New York U Natalie Cann, Queen's U, Ontario
James Cheeseman, Gaussian, Inc. Robert Compton, U Tennessee
Jeanne Crassous, U Rennes George Flynn, Columbia U
Bart Kahr, U Washington Dilip Kondepudi, Wake Forest U
Alexandra MacDermott, U Houston, Clear-Lake Laurence Nafie, Syracuse U
Marcel Nooijen, U Waterloo Prasad Polavarapu, Vanderbilt U
Ivan Powis, U Nottingham Martin Quack, ETH Zürich
Kenneth Ruud, U Tromsø Yuen-Ron Shen, U California, Berkeley
David Sholl, Carnegie Mellon U Garth Simpson, Purdue U
Philip Stephens, U Southern California Thierry Verbiest, Katholieke U Leuven
Yunjie Xu, U Alberta Anne Zehnacker-Rentien, U Paris-Sud, Orsay

For further information, contact the symposium organizers:

T. D. Crawford, Virginia Tech P. H. Vaccaro, Yale University K. B. Wiberg, Yale University


We are grateful to the sponsors of this symposium:

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