PROGRAM
Wednesday 27 July
Thursday 28 July
Friday 29 July
Saturday 30 July
Sunday 31 July

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Wednesday 27 July
  Hour Activity
16:00 - 20:30 Registration at 'Monte da Condesa'
20:30 Welcome reception at 'Monte da Condesa'


Thursday 28 July
  Hour Activity
07:30 - 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 - 09:30 Opening presentations
  Session chairman: Z. Smedarchina
09:30 - 10:20 B. Meier: Quantum tunneling in the solid as seen by NMR
10:20 - 11:10 A. Warshel: Nuclear quantum mechanical contributions to enzyme catalysis: Critical tests of a popular hypothesis
11:10 - 11:40 Coffee Break
  Session chairman: V. A. Benderskii
11:40 - 12:30

C. Enss: Interplay between atomic tunneling systems and nuclear spins

12:30 - 12:50

M. V. Basilevsky: Non-markovian modification of the golden rule rate expression

12:50 - 13:10

G. Buntkowsky: Dynamics of deuterium interacting with the surface of catalytic active nanoparticles

13:10 - 13:30 A. Fernández-Ramos: Photogenesis of vitamin D3
13:30 - 16:00 Lunch
16:00 - 19:30 Poster session


Friday 29 July
  Hour Activity
07:30 - 09:00 Breakfast
  Session chairman: H. P. Trommsdorff
09:00 - 09:50

J. Eckert: Characterization of the interaction of molecular hydrogen with porous materials by rotational tunneling spectroscopy

09:50 - 10:40

V. A. Benderskii: Multidimensional instanton approach as a rigorous semiclassical method

10:40 - 11:10 Coffee Break
  Session chairman: D. G. Truhlar
11:10 - 12:00

M. Quack: Electroweak quantum dynamics of parity violation and stereomutation tunnelling in chiral molecules

12:00 - 12:20

H. P. Trommsdorff: Probing vibrational excitations by inelastic X-ray scattering

12:20 - 12:40 A. Kohen: Tunneling and coupled motion in enzymatic catalysis
12:40 - 13:00 J. Mavri: Car-Parrinello study of the OH stretching envelope of a strong hydrogen bond in picolinic acid N-oxide in the solid state
13:00 - 16:00 Lunch
  Session chairman: J. Eckert
16:00 - 16:50 G. Reiter : Tunneling in water with acid and base impurites
16:50 - 17:10 D. V. Shalashilin: Exact fully quantum treatment of multi-dimensional tunneling with the help of coupled coherent states
17:10 - 17:30

A. Couson: Interplay of quantum methyl rotation and crystal structure

17:30 - 17:50

C. Jaffé: Semiclassical tunneling through dynamical barriers in a multi-dimensional setting

18:30 - 20:30 Guided visit to the old city


Saturday 30 July
  Hour Activity
07:30 - 09:00 Breakfast
  Session chairman: A. Fernández Ramos
09:00 - 09:50 D. G. Truhlar: Multi-dimensional tunneling in enzyme kinetics
09:50 - 10:40

M. Hippler: High-resolution infrared laser spectroscopy: New experiments to study the tunneling dynamics of molecules and clusters in the gas phase

10:40 - 11:10 Coffee Break
  Session chairman: A. Warshel
11:10 - 12:00 N. Marsh: Quantum tunneling in enzymes
12:00 - 12:50

N. García : Tunneling versus thermal activation in low lying excited levels: The role of magnetic oxides in magnetoresistance

12:50 - 13:10

J. Kohanoff: Tunneling vs isotope effect in H-bonded crystals: the case of KDP

13:10 - 13:30 M. Shibl: Dynamical study of the tautomerism in porphycene and its isotopomers- Concerted verus stepwise mechanisms
13:30 - 16:00 Lunch
16:30 Excursion to "Rias Baixas"


Sunday 31 July
  Hour Activity
07:30 - 09:00 Breakfast
  Session chairman: H. H. Limbach
09:00 - 09:50 M. Orrit: Optical probing of single tunneling systems
09:50 - 10:40 J. M. Lluch: Enzyme dynamics and tunneling in the hydrogen abstraction catalyzed by soybean lipoxygenase-1. A simulation on a QM(PM3/d-SRP)/MM PES
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee Break
  Session chairman: M. García - Viloca
11:10 - 12:00

C. S. Tautermann: Investigation of hydrogen transfer reactions on transition metal surfaces by time independent scattering calculations

12:00 - 12:20

M. Prager: The influence of molecular excitation on the lattice dynamics in methane clathrate

12:20 - 12:40 S. Ferrer: Theoretical estimation of lactate dehydrogenase rate constant using free energy perturbation and multidimensional quantum tunneling dynamics
12:40 - 13:00 Z. Lalowicz: Deuteron NMR spectra of ammonium ion isotopomers at low temperatures
13:00 - 16:00 Lunch
  Session chairman: J. Mavri
16:00 - 16:20 J. M. López del Amo: Kinetic isotope and tunneling effects of solid state single and double proton transfers
16:20 - 16:40

Z. Smedarchina: Tunneling criteria in biology: How much tunneling is there in the criteria?

16:40 - 17:00 F. Fillaux: From microscopic to macroscopic quantum tunneling: Proton transfer dynamics in the KHCO3 crystal
17:00 - 17:20

F. P. Temme: Uniform (endohedral) NMR spin systems under
SU(2)xS2n: A role for "T" invariance in auxiliary label-defined tensorial Liouville formalism and carrier space-based projective mappings; overview of isotropic media NMR properties of
Ne[13C]2n&[14N]2n≥20 hetero-fullerene analogs

20:00 Closing Banquet
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