Edited by
Welford Castleman Jr., Departments of Chemistry and Physics, Penn State University, University Park, USA
By
Michele Kimble
Description
Since the emergence of femtochemistry seventeen years ago, remarkable progress has been made and femtosecond spectroscopy devoted to Chemistry
and Biology has become a well established field of research, giving rise to femtochemistry and femtobiology. The significance of the
field is recognized through its impact around the world, giving rise to numerous conferences which includes the most recent conference
from the Femtochemistry Conference Series, Femtochemistry VII.
This title is made up of contributions made from the Femtochemistry
VII conference held in Washington D.C., 17-22 July 2005. The stimulating conference was opened by Professor Ahmed Zewail (1999 Nobel
Prize Winner), and as was evident by the attendees at the conference, had a very active program with the presentation of numerous talks
and a large number of posters. Subjects covered include imaging, structural dynamics, and spectroscopies, fundamentals of reaction dynamics,
salvation phenomenta, liquids and interfaces, aggregates/particles/surfaces, protein dynamics and photobiology, quantum control, and
intense laser-matter interactions.
Audience:
Chemists, physicists and biologists in the fields of atomic and molecular science.
