Vibrational and electronic 2D spectroscopy is a novel spectroscopic tool to investigate the structure and dynamics of solution phase systems with unprecedented detail, in a way very similar to 2D-NMR spectroscopy. Optical 2D spectroscopy measures couplings between certain vibrational or electronic transitions, which are related to the relative distance and orientation of the corresponding chromophors. In this way, structural information can be extracted. Essentially all elementary pulse sequences known from 2D-NMR spectroscopy (NOESY, COSY, EXSY) have been applied to vibrational and electronic transitions. The potential advantage of vibrational and electronic 2D spectroscopy is the inherent time resolution which is orders of magnitudes faster than what NMR can achieve. Potential applications are in protein structure determination, protein folding, DNA structure and dynamics, proton transfer, vibrational dynamics, dephasing processes, liquid dynamics, solvation dynamics, and in new analytical approaches.

Conference Topics:
•    Development of experimental and theoretical methodologies
•    New pulse sequences
•    Combination with coherent control schemes
•    Protein and peptide structure determination
•    Protein and peptide dynamics
•    DNA structure and dynamics
•    Exciton coupling
•    Proton transfer
•    Liquid dynamics
•    Solvation Dynamics

The following people have already agreed to talk at the meeting:
Tobias Brixner, Minhaeng Cho, Steve Cundiff, Thomas Elsaesser, Thomas Feurer, Robin Hochstrasser, Manuel Joffre, David Jonas, David Klug, Jasper Knoester, Dwayne Miller, Shaul Mukamel, Maxim Pshenichnikov, Jim Skinner, Gerhard Stock, Yoshitaka Tanimura, Andrei Tokmakoff, Sander Woutersen, Martin Zanni.