EUCMOS 2008 - CONGRESS SCHEDULE
 
Sunday, August 31
14.00 – 19.00 Registration
20.00 – 22.00 Welcome Reception
    
Monday, September 1
MORNING SESSION
08.30 – 09.00 Opening Ceremony
  PLENARY LECTURES

09.00 – 09.45
 

Austin Barnes
EUCMOS - Past, Present and Future      
09.45 – 10.30
  		Vincenzo Schettino
Spectroscopy and Monitoring of High Pressure Phenomena  
    
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
  Congress Hall
  Topic 1. Molecular Structure (Chairs: S. Akyuz, A. Loewenschuss)
11.00 – 11.20
  
  		G. Keresztury, M. Rogojerov, T. Sundius
Polarized IR Spectroscopy and Transition Dipole Moment Determinations in Structural Studies   
11.20 – 11.40
 
  		J. Laane, P. Boopalachandran, K. McCann, M. Wagner
Spectroscopic Studies of the Electronic Excited States of Pyridine-d0 and -d5, 2-Fluoro- and 3-Fluoropyridine, and 1,3-Benzodioxan   
11.40 – 12.00
  
  		E. Kleinpeter, A. Koch
Spatial Magnetic Properties of Trisannelated Benzenes and Cyclobutadiene Dianion Derivatives Subjected to Aromaticity  
12.00 – 12.20
  
  
  		M. Szafran, I. Kowalczyk, E. Bartoszak-Adamska, Z. Dega-Szafran
X-Ray diffraction, FTIR and NMR Spectra, and DFT Calculations of 2-Aminopyridine Betaine and 1-H-2-oxo-2,3-dihydroimidazo[1,2-a] Pyridinium Chloride, Bromide and Perchlorate   
12.20 – 12.40
  
  		D.K. Breitinger, G. Brehm, M. Weil, S. Baumann
Vibrational Spectra of K2[O(HgSO3)3] Containing a New Anionic Metallo-Oxonium Complex with a OHg3 Core   
12.40 – 13.00
  
  		A. Virdi
X-ray crystallographic, spectroscopy and quantum chemical studies on 3, 3, 6-trimethyl-3, 4-dihydroiso-coumarin   
      
  Hall: Camelia 1
  Topic 2. Biospectroscopy (Chairs: M. Heise, A. Barth)
11.00 – 11.20
  
  
  		G. Schäfer, M.-K. Verhoefen, S. Shastri, I. Weber, C. Glaubitz, J. Wachtveitl, W. Mäntele
Low Temperature FTIR Difference Spectroscopy Reveals New Insights on the Proton Pathway of Proteorhodosin at Different pH Values  
11.20 – 11.40
  		J. Grdadolnik
Preferential Conformations of Blocked Amino Acids in Water  
11.40 – 12.00
  		N.S. Kudryasheva, N.V. Belogurova
Energy Conversion in Bioluminescent Reactions   
12.00 – 12.20
 
  		P.S. Sherin, O.A. Snytnikova, Yu.P. Tsentalovich, E. Vauthey
The excited-state dynamics of kynurenine – UV filter of the human eye   
12.20 – 12.40
  
    
    		B.R. Wood, T. Chenenko, U. Bernhard, C. Jayne, A. Bramble, A.O. Trounson, D. McNaughton, O. Lacham-Kaplan
Synchrotron FTIR Spectroscopy Reveals New Insights into Mouse Oocyte Maturation   
12.40 – 13.00
  
  		Y. Ike, Y. Seshimo, S. Kojima
Crystallization and Vitrification of Cryoprotectants Studied by Raman Scattering, Brillouin Scattering and THz-TDS   
    
  Hall: Camelia 2
  Topic 11. Time resolved spectroscopy & Topic 12. New instrumentation
(Chairs: I. Pálinkó, V. Ivanovski)
11.00 – 11.20
  
  		C. Niezborala, F. Hache
Ultrafast Conformational Dynamics of (R) - 1,1'-Bi-2-naphthol Measured with Time-Resolved Circular Dichroism   
11.20 – 11.40
  
  		C. Krejtschi, O. Ridderbusch, R. Huang, T.A. Keiderling, K. Hauser
Site-Specific Folding Dynamics of Peptides Studied by Time-Resolved Infrared-Spectroscopy    
11.40 – 12.00
 
 		 D. McNaughton, R. Tuckermann, L. Puskar, B. Wood, J. Popp, T. Frosch
Raman Spectroscopic Analysis in Acoustically Levitated Drops  
12.00 – 12.20
 
 		 J. Mink, J. Mihály, Z. Bacsik, V. Gombás, X. Zhou
New Application of Infrared Microscopy and Imaging in Difficult Sample Analysis   
   
    
AFTERNOON SESSION
  INVITED LECTURES
  Chairs: G. Keresztury, V. Schettino
15.00 – 15.30
  
  		Zlatko Meić, T. Hrenar
Vibrational Assignment of 1,4-(E,E)-Distyrylbenzene Supported by Isotopic Shifts and DFT Calculations     
15.30 – 16.00
  		Ruth Signorell
Intrinsic Particle Properties in Infrared Spectra of Aerosols   
16.00 – 16.30
 
 		 Nađa Došlić
Multidimensional Quantum Dynamics of Large Amplitude Motion
    
16.30 – 17.00 Coffee break
    
  ORAL PRESENTATIONS
  Congress Hall
  Topic 1. Molecular Structure (Chairs: J. Laane, M. Szafran)
17.00 – 17.20
  		C. Öğretir
The Hydrogen Bonding in Life and Society  
17.20 – 17.40
 
 
  		B. Tolnai, J.T. Kiss, K. Felföldi, I. Pálinkó
C-H•••F Hydrogen Bonds as the Organising Force in F-substituted α-phenyl Cinnamic Acid Aggregates Studied by the Combination of FTIR Spectroscopy and Computations   
17.40 -18.00
  
  		D. Michalska, K. Hernik, R. Wysokiński, W. Zierkiewicz, A. Pietraszko
Structures of Vitamin B13 Complexes with Transition Metal Ions. The Role of Unusual Cu(II)---π Interaction and Hydrogen Bonds.  
18.00 – 18.20
 
  		J.G. Philis
UV R2PI Spectra of p-difluorobenzene van der Waals Complexes 
18.20 – 18.40
 
  		A.K. Singh, V. Mukherjee, V.B. Singh, B. Singh, A.N. Singh
Spectroscopic Investigation of the Vibrational Spectra of the Benzoxazine  
18.40 – 19.00
  
  
  		S. Mishra, D. Chaturvedi, P. Tandon, V.P. Gupta, A.P. Ayala, S.B. Honorato, H.W. Siesler
Molecular Structure and Vibrational Spectroscopy investigation of Secnidazole using Density-Functional Theory   
 
Hall: Camelia 2
Topic 6. Spectroscopy in Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Analyses
(Chairs: O. Cozar, I. Hannus)
17.00 – 17.20
   
    		O. Abbas, R. Codony, C. von Holst, V. Baeten
Assessment of the Discrimination of Animal Fat by FT-Raman Spectroscopy   
17.20 – 17.40
  
  		J. Barbillat, S. Sobanska, J. Rimetz, S. Scolaro, J. Laureyns, D. Petitprez, C. Brémard
Raman and AFM Imaging of Marine Aerosol Particles   
17.40 – 18.00
  
  		T. Frosch, J. Popp
Vibrational Spectroscopic Investigation of Drug-Target-Interactions in Malaria Research   
18.00 – 18.20
  
  		M. Watanabe, T. Kurabayashi, T. Tanno, N. Kikuchi
Significance of Terahertz Spectrometry for Detecting Molecular States of Chemicals   
 
17.00 – 19.30 WORKSHOP
Hall: Camelia 1

  
  		HORIBA Jobin Yvon
Latest Innovations in Raman Microscopy for Ultra Fast Raman Imaging and Macro-mapping   
 
21.00 – 22.00 Concert
Tuesday, September 2
MORNING SESSION
  PLENARY LECTURES
  Chairs: I.P. Suzdalev, M. Oshtrakh
 08.30 – 09.15 
 
  		Philip Gütlich
Mössbauer Spectroscopy - A Powerful Tool In Molecular Magnetism
 09.15 – 10.00
 
 
  		Eddy De Grave, V.G. de Resende, C. Van Cromphaut, Ch. Laurent, L. Presmanes, R.E. Vandenberghe
Integral Low-Energy Electron Mössbauer Spectroscopy (ILEEMS): Methodology and Recent Applications in Material Research 
    
10.00 – 10.30 Coffee break
    
  ORAL PRESENTATIONS
  Congress Hall
  Topic 3. Nanostructured Materials (Chairs: E. De Grave, E. Culea)
10.30 – 10.50
  
  		 I.P. Suzdalev, Yu.V. Maksimov
Magnetic Phase Transitions in Nanoclusters and Nanostructures  
10.50 – 11.10
 
 
 
  		S.N.B. Bhaktha, O. Robbe-Cristini, K. Raulin, B. Capoen, M. Bouazaoui, S. Turrell, J. Habinshuti, B. Grandidier, C. Kinowski
Use of Spectroscopic Techniques for Synthesis Optimisation and for the Characterisation of Optical Properties of Semiconductor Nanoparticles  
11.10 – 11.30
 
  		R. Holomb, V. Mitsa
Ring-, Branchy-, and Cage-Like AsnSm Nanoclusters in the Structure of Amorphous Semiconductors: ab initio and Raman Study   
11.30 – 11.50
  		S.K. Gupta, P.K. Jha
Vibrational Quantization in Semiconductor Nanocomposites   
11.50 – 12.10
 
  		O. Robbe-Cristini, K. Raulin, B. Capoen, M. Bouazaoui, S. Turrell
Spectroscopic Studies of Energy Transfer between Semiconductor Nanoparticles and Eu3+ Ions in Silica Gels   
12.10 – 12.30
 
 
  		D. Gracin, A. Gajović, M. Ceh, K. Juraić, D. Meljanac, P. Dubček, S. Bernstorff
Structural Analysis of Thin Amorphous- Nano-Crystalline Thin Films by HRTEM, GISAXS and Raman Spectroscopy   
12.30 – 12.50 
  
  		 V. Ličina, A. Moguš-Milanković, Ž. Skoko, S. Musić, M. Ivanda
Influence of Crystallization on the Electronic Conductivity of Iron Phosphate Glasses   
   
   
  Hall: Camelia 1
  Topic 1. Molecular Structure (Chairs: D.K. Breitinger, J. Philis)
10.30 – 10.50
  
 
 		 P. Drożdżewski, M. Kubiak
Crystal Structure and Vibrational Spectroscopy of Mixed-valence [Cu(biz)2][Cu2Br4] Complex Formed After In Situ Oxidation of 2-Hydrazino-2-Imidazoline to Bisimidazoline (biz) by Copper(II) Ions   
10.50 – 11.10 
 
 		 L. Krim, N. Dozova, E. Alikhani, N. Lacome
Infrared Spectra of CH3Cl + H2O and NO + H2O Isolated in Solid Neon at 5 K   
11.10 – 11.30 
 
 		 N. Biliškov, G. Baranović
Infrared Spectroscopy of Liquid Water-N,N-dimethylformamide Mixtures   
11.30 – 11.50 
 
   		Y. Kawashima, Y. Tanaka, A. Sato, E. Hirota
Fourier Transform Microwave Spectra of Isobutylmercaptan and Normal Butylmercaptan   

11.50 – 12.10 
  
  

R. Singh, M. Kumar, R.A. Yadav
Theoretical Study of IR and Raman Spectra of 5-Hydroxy Uracil   
   
  Hall: Camelia 2
  Topic 2. Biospectroscopy (Chairs: W. Pohle, V. Mohaček Grošev)
10.30 – 10.50
 
 
    		A.A. Kamnev
Application of Mössbauer and FTIR Spectroscopic Techniques in Structural Research Related to Microbial Signalling and Cellular Responses to Environmental Factors   
10.50 – 11.10
  
 
  		M. Di Foggia, C. Fagnano, P. Taddei, A. Torreggiani, M. Dettin, S. Sanchez-Cortes, A. Tinti
Vibrational Characterization of Self-Assembling Oligopeptides for Tissue Engineering on TiO2 Surfaces   
11.10 – 11.30
 
  		P. Matějka, L. Mrnka, H. Tokárová, M. Vosátka, K. Volka
Effect of Different Fungal Associates on the FT Raman Spectral Characteristics of Norway Spruce Needles   
11.30 – 11.50
  
  
  		I. Piantanida, L. Mašić, G. Rusak
Structure-Activity Relationship in Interactions of Quercetin and its Analogues with Double Stranded DNA/RNA and Single Stranded RNA   
11.50 – 12.10
 
  		A. Zwielly, J. Gopas, G. Brkic, S. Mordechai
Identification of Drug Resistant Melanoma Cell Lines Using Vibrational Spectroscopy   
12.10 – 12.25 
      		Marion Egelkraut-Holtus, Uwe Oppermann (Shimadzu)
“State of the Art” Spectroscopy in Food Analysis   
   
AFTERNOON SESSION
  PLENARY LECTURES
15.00 – 15.45
 
 
  		Mile Ivanda, D. Ristić, K. Furić, S. Musić, M. Ristić, M. Gotić, G. Štefanić, Z. Crnjak Orel, M. Bitenc, M. Montagna, M. Ferrari, A. Chisaera, Y. Jestin
Low-Frequency Raman Scattering in Materials Research  
15.45 – 16.30 
 
  		Thomas Bally
Electronic and Vibrational Spectroscopy of Radical Cations in Argon Matrices  
      
16.30 – 17.00 Coffee break
   
17.00 – 19.00 POSTER PRESENTATIONS
  Poster Session A
  Topics: 1. Molecular Structure
    2. Biospectroscopy
    3. Nanostructured Materials
    11. Time Resolved Spectroscopy
    12. New Instrumentation
   
  Wednesday