Workshop agenda

Workshop Agenda  (download)

June 20, 2023 09:00 - 22:30 CEST / Amphi 2301 OU RH (Jardin Botanique) Montpellier, France

09h00 – 09h30 Onsite registration (Welcome coffee)

09h30 – 09h40 Presentation of the MAK’IT program and venue by MAK’IT

“Atmospheric science and climate action”

Chairwoman : Dr. Bibiana BILBAO

(Professor at the Environmental Studies Department, Simón Bolívar University in Venezuela, and an active Cobra Collective CIC (Community Interest Company), UK member)

09h40 – 09h50 Introduction by the organizers (1st part)

09h50 – 10h30 Dr. Abir HADDAD (virtual)

(Legal Futurist, Founder and director of Institute for Legal Transformation (Bonn), Adjunct Professor, Universität zu Köln)

Key note talk: "Scarce Global Water Resources: A new methodological interdisciplinary approach to create sustainable regulatory frameworks for future generations by combining comparative law methods and futurism" (abstract)

10h30 – 10h50 Discussion

10h50 – 11h05 Coffee break

11h05 – 11h45 Dr. Rebecca GARLAND (virtual)

(Professor, University of Pretoria, South-Africa, specialist on atmospheric chemistry with a focus on air quality, climate change, and science-policy linkages)

Key note talk: "Improving the quantitative evidence base for air quality management in a data scarce region: perspectives from South Africa" (abstract)

11h45 – 12h05 Discussion

12h05 – 13h30 Reception (lunch)

“Theoretical modeling of gas-phase reactions in different atmospheres”

13h30 – 13h40 Introduction by the organizers (2nd part)

Subsession : “Reactions in planetary atmospheres”

Chairwoman : Dr. Nadine HALBERSTADT

(CNRS Researcher, LCAR-FERMI, University Paul Sabatier, France) 

13h40 – 14h10 Dr. Sergey YURCHENKO

(Professor, University College London, UK)

Title : “Computing molecular line lists for atmospheric applications: completeness versus accuracy” (abstract)

14h10 – 14h40 Dr. Alejandro RIVERO-SANTAMARIA

(Professor, Laboratoire PhLAM, Université de Lille, France)

Title : "Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics calculation on NO oxidation over graphite oxides" (abstract)

14h40 – 15h10 Dr. Jean Christophe TREMBLAY (virtual)

(Professor, University of Lorraine, France)

Title : "Stochastic Simulations of Energy Exchange at Surfaces" (abstract)

15h10 – 15h40 Dr. Maikel BALLESTER-FURONES (virtual)

(Professor, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brasil)

Title : "Vibrational relaxation and recrossing effects in the OH + SO → H + SO2 reaction" (abstract)

15h40 – 16h00 Coffee break

Subsession : “Photochemical reactions: Non-adiabatic dynamics”

Chairman : Dr. Sergey YURCHENKO

(Professor, University College London, UK)

16h00 – 16h30 Dr. Sebastian FERNANDEZ-ALBERTI (virtual)

(Professor, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina)

Title : “Vibrational Funnels for Energy Transfer during Internal Conversion in Organic Chromophores” (abstract)

16h30 – 17h00 Dr. Benjamin LASORNE

(CNRS Researcher, Institut Charles Gerhardt Montpellier, France)

Title : "Variational error in molecular quantum dynamics - a dialog between maths and chemistry" (abstract)

17h00 – 17h30 Dr. Basile CURCHOD (virtual)

(Professor, University of Bristol, UK)

Title : “Photochemistry from a theoretical and computational perspective” (abstract)

17h30 – 18h30 Cocktail & Poster Session

20h00 – 22h00 Social Dinner

June 21, 2023 09:15 - 12:30 CEST / Amphi 2301 OU RH (Jardin Botanique) Montpellier, France

Subsession : “High resolution spectroscopy and reaction dynamics”

09h00 – 09h30 Welcome coffee

Chairman : Dr. Benjamin LASORNE 

(CNRS Researcher, Institut Charles Gerhardt Montpellier, France)

09h30 – 10h00 Dr. Ha TRAN (virtual)

(CNRS Resercher, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD) Paris)

Title : "Collisional effects on the spectral shape and atmospheric remote sensing" (abstract)

10h00 – 10h30 Dr. Nadine HALBERSTADT

(CNRS Researcher, LCAR-FERMI, University Paul Sabatier, France)

Title : "Dynamics of superfluid helium nanodroplets" (abstract)

10h30 – 11h00 Dr. Marta I. HERNANDEZ-HERNANDEZ

(Researcher, CSIC Madrid, Spain)

Title : "Attachment of hydrogen molecules to atomic ions: role of the hydrogen rotational states" (abstract)

11h00 – 11h20 Coffee break

11h20 – 11h50 Dr. Lidice CRUZ-RODRIGUEZ (virtual)

(Postdoctoral Fellow, University College London, UK)

Title : "Forward and hybrid path-integral approaches in photoelectron holography" (abstract)

11h50 – 12h20 Dr. Pascal LARREGARAY

(Professor, Diputy director, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires, Université de Bordeaux, France)

Title : “Recent applications of the statistical approach of reaction dynamics” (abstract)

12h20 – 12h30 Concluding Remarks