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  1. High Power Lasers and Applications, Munich, June 20-22, 1977.
  2. AFOSR Contractor's Meeting, Hanscom AFB, October 26-27, 1977.
  3. Department of Chemistry, MIT, November 13, 1977.
  4. APS Division of Electronic and Atomic Physics, Knoxville, TN, December 5, 1977.
  5. Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado, March 20, 1978.
  6. University of Notre Dame Radiation Lab, June 16, 1978.
  7. SPIE Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, August 30-31, 1978.
  8. Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, September 28, 1978.
  9. Air Force Weapons Lab, Albuquerque, NM, November 28, 1978.
  10. Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, November 29, 1978.
  11. International Conference on Laser Chemistry, Ein Bokek, Israel, December 17-22, 1978.
  12. Department of Chemistry, Ohio State University, February 19, 1979.
  13. Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, April 5, 1979.
  14. Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University, May 10, 1979.
  15. National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, July 18, 1979.
  16. AFOSR Contractor's Meeting, Colorado Springs, CO, October 3-5, 1979.
  17. Brookhaven National Laboratory, October, 23, 1979.
  18. Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, November 9, 1979.
  19. Lasers 79, Orlando, Florida, December 18, 1979.
  20. Clarkson College, Department of Physics, May 18, 1980.
  21. Energy Scrambling Workshop, University of Bielefeld, (West Germany), July 4, 1980.
  22. Gordon Conference on Chemistry at Interfaces, Meridan, NH, July 22-25, 1980 (presented talk and organized session).
  23. AFOSR Contractor's Meeting, Hanscom, AFB, October 8-10, 1980.
  24. Dow Chemical, Midland, Michigan, September 19, 1980.
  25. SUNY Geneseo, Department of Chemistry, November 4, 1980.
  26. ACS Meeting, Atlanta, March 29-April 3, 1981.
  27. Gordon Conference on Molecular Energy Transfer, June 29-July 3, 1981.
  28. ACS Meeting, New York, NY August 23-28, 1981.
  29. Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies, VIII Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, September 20-25, 1981.
  30. Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Chemistry, October 21, 1981.
  31. State-Specific Photodissociation Conference, Berkeley, CA, November 11-13, 1981.
  32. University of Wisconsin, Department of Chemistry, December 1, 1981.
  33. Jackson State University, Department of Chemistry, December 11, 1981.
  34. Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching, West Germany, January 29, 1982.
  35. Kaiserslautern University, Kaiserslautern, West Germany, Department of Physics, February 11, 1982.
  36. Laboratory of Molecular Photophysics, Orsay, France, May 5, 1982.
  37. Gordon Conference on Visible/UV Multiphoton Dissociation and Ionization, July 12-16, 1982.
  38. Mobil Research and Development Corporation, October 4, 1982.
  39. Princeton University, Department of Chemistry, October 5, 1982.
  40. Harvard University, Department of Chemistry, October 6, 1982.
  41. Conference on Molecular Dynamics and Surface Chemistry, USAF Academy, December 1-3, 1982.
  42. Pennsylvania State University, Department of Chemistry, December 16, 1982.
  43. The Hebrew University, Department of Physical Chemistry, January 5 and January 7, 1983.
  44. Tel Aviv University, Department of Chemistry, January 6, 1983.
  45. The Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Department of Chemistry, January 13, 1983.
  46. Recent Advances in Laser Spectroscopy, Fourth Annual Symposium, Polytechnic Institute of New York, May 20, 1983.
  47. Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, June 8, 1983.
  48. Conference on Molecular Energy Transfer, Cirenchester, England, July 3-8, 1983.
  49. EUCHEM Conference on C-Nitroso Compounds, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, Currie, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, August 23-26, 1983
  50. Symposium on Scattering and Desorption from Surfaces, Division of Physical Chemistry, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, August 29-September 2, 1983.
  51. Workshop on Primary Photophysical Processes, Herrsching am Ammersee, West Germany, October 16-20, 1983.
  52. Chemical Research and Development Center, Scientific Conference on Chemical Defense Research, Aberdeen Proving Ground, November 15-18, 1983.
  53. Conference on Singlet Molecular Oxygen, Clearwater Beach, Florida, January 4-7, 1984.
  54. Seventeenth Jerusalem Symposium on Quantum Chemistry and Biochemistry: Dynamics of Molecule-Surface Interactions, Jerusalem, April 30-May 3, 1984.
  55. Department of Physics, The Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, May 9, 1984.
  56. Laboratoire de Photophysique Moleculaire, Orsay, France, May 14, 1984.
  57. Symposium on Photodissociation, Chemical Institute of Canada, Can-Am Chemical Congress, Montreal, June 3-6, 1984.
  58. Gordon Research Conference on Atomic and Molecular Interactions, Brewster Academy, Wolfeboro, NH, July 30 - August 3, 1984.
  59. Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, September 20, 1984.
  60. Department of Chemistry, York University, September 21, 1984.
  61. Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, October 16, 1984.
  62. Molecular Dynamics and Surface Chemistry Contractor's Conference, October 24-26, 1984, Albuquerque, NM.
  63. International Conference on Lasers 1984, San Francisco, November 26-30, 1984.
  64. Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, April 23, 1985.
  65. Department of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, RI, May 10, 1985.
  66. Chicago Area Research Discussion Group on Chemical Kinetics (UofI, UofC, IIT, Northwestern, Argonne), October 21, 1985.
  67. Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, October 22, 1985.
  68. Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY, January 30, 1985.
  69. IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, February 19, 1986.
  70. Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, February 27, 1986.
  71. Gordon Conference on Multiphoton Processes, New London, NH, June 9-13, 1986.
  72. Chemical Sciences/Industry Forum, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 3, 1986.
  73. American Chemical Society Meeting, Anaheim, CA, September 7-12, 1986.
  74. Faraday Discussion Number 82, "Dynamics of Molecular Photofragmentation," Bristol, England, September 15-17, 1986.
  75. Fifth Workshop on Interactions of Beams and Surfaces, 1986 De Eemhof, Flevopolder, the Netherlands, September 22-25, 1986.
  76. University of Bielefeld (West Germany), Department of Physics, September 26, 1986.
  77. Air Force Office of Scientific Research Contractors' Meeting, October 15-17, 1986.
  78. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Physical Chemistry, November 13, 1986.
  79. Workshop on Dynamical Aspects of Stereochemistry, HebrewUniversity, Jerusalem, Israel, November 16-24, 1986.
  80. Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California, Combustion Research Facility, December 12, 1986.
  81. University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Chemistry, February 13, 1987.
  82. University of New Hampshire, Department of Chemistry, April 2, 1987.
  83. University of Southern California, Department of Chemistry, April 6, 1987.
  84. Brookhaven National Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, April 21, 1987.
  85. Conference on Molecular Energy Transfer, Emmetten, Switzerland, August 23-28, 1987.
  86. International Conference on Laser and Optical Science, Atlantic City, NJ, November 1-5, 1987.
  87. Laser and Lightwave Centre, University of Toronto, February 23, 1988.
  88. University of Maryland, Department of Chemistry, May 12, 1988.
  89. Gordon Conference on Atomic and Molecular Interactions, Plymouth, NH, August 1-5, 1988.
  90. Rice University, Department of Chemistry, September 14, 1988.
  91. Wayne State University, Department of Chemistry, Frontier Seminar, October 3, 1988.
  92. Air Force Office of Scientific Research Contractors' Meeting, Newport Beach, CA, October 31-Nov. 2, 1988.
  93. University of California, Irvine, Department of Chemistry, November 2, 1988.
  94. University of Cincinnati, Department of Chemistry, December 2, 1988.
  95. Faraday Symposium on Orientation and Polarization Effects in Reactive Collisions, , Bad Honef, West Germany, December 12-14,1988.
  96. Molecular Science Research Center, Batelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory, January 6, 1989.
  97. XVIII Informal Photochemistry Meeting, Santa Monica, CA, Jan. 9-12, 1989.
  98. University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Chemistry, Jan. 11, 1989.
  99. Institute For Molecular Science, Department of Electronic Structure, Okazaki, Japan, February 7, 1989.
  100. Kobe University, Department of Chemistry, Kobe, Japan, February 23, 1989.
  101. Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Chemistry, Tokyo, Japan, April 12, 1989.
  102. University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus, Tokyo, Japan, April 14, 1989.
  103. University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus, Tokyo, Japan, April 15, 1989.
  104. Institute For Molecular Science, Department of Electronic Structure, Okazaki, Japan, April 25, 1989.
  105. University of Iowa, Department of Chemistry, Iowa City, IA, May 24, 1989.
  106. Gordon Research Conference on Molecular Energy Transfer, Wolfeboro, N. H., July 9-14, 1989.
  107. Combustion Dynamics Workshop/Review, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, October 16-17, 1989.
  108. Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, November 28, 1989
  109. Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, April 17, 1990
  110. ACS Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, April 23-27, 1990.
  111. Department of Chemistry, U. Colorado Boulder, Series of five lectures on the Dynamics of Molecular Collisions, July 11-18,1990.
  112. Eleventh International Symposium on Gas Kinetics, Assisi, Italy, Sept 3-7, 1990.
  113. Sixth Interdisciplinary Laser Science Conference, Minneapolis, MN, Sept. 18-22, 1990.
  114. Air Force Contractor's Meeting, Annapolis, MD, October 28-30,1990.
  115. Nato Advanced Research Workshop on Dynamical Stereochemistry, Santa Cruz, CA, November 15-20, 1990.
  116. Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, December 6, 1990.
  117. Naval Research Laboratories, January 9, 1991.
  118. Department of Chemistry, Cornell University, February 14, 1991.
  119. Department of Chemistry, Harvard University, February 27, 1991.
  120. Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, April 5, 1991.
  121. Department of Chemistry, Tulane University, April 8, 1991.
  122. Argonne National Laboratory, April 9, 1991.
  123. Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, April 10, 1991.
  124. Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, April 11, 1991.
  125. Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Chery Emerson Lecture, April 30, 1991.
  126. Office of Basic Energy Sciences Combustion Research Meeting, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, May 28-31, 1991.
  127. Department of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Leeds, England, July 25, 1991.
  128. XVth International Conference on Photochemistry, Paris, July 28 - August 2, 1991.
  129. Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, October 7, 1991.
  130. AFOSR Workshop on Gas Phase Infrared Lasers, Air Force Phillips Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM, October 9, 1991.
  131. Waterloo Chemical Physics Conference, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, October 25-27, 1991.
  132. Department of Chemistry, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, November 1, 1991.
  133. Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, March 18, 1992.
  134. American Chemical Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 5-10, 1992.
  135. Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Oneonta, April 22, 1992.
  136. XXth Informal Photochemistry Meeting, Atlanta, GA, April 26 - May 1, 1992.
  137. Department of Chemistry, University of Nevada, Reno, May 8, 1992.
  138. Quantum Electronics and Laser Science, Anaheim, CA, May 10-15, 1992.
  139. XIVth International Symposium on Molecular Beams, Asilomar, CA, June 7-12, 1992 (talk presented by Arthur Suits).
  140. ACS, Northeast Regional Meeting, Syracuse, June 21-24, 1992.
  141. American Chemical Society Meeting, Washington, DC, August 23-28, 1992.
  142. Department of Chemistry, MIT, September 29, 1992.
  143. Department of Chemistry, Brown University, September 30, 1992.
  144. Air Force Molecular Dynamics Contractors' Conference, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, October 25-29, 1992.
  145. Department of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, December 8, 1992.
  146. Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, December 10, 1992.
  147. Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, March 8, 1993.
  148. Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, March 26, 1993
  149. 14th Conference on the Dynamics of Molecular Collisions, Helen, Georgia, June 6-11, 1993.
  150. Gordon Research Conference on Molecular Energy Transfer, Wolfeboro, NH, June 21-25, 1993.
  151. American Chemical Society National Meeting, Chicago, IL., August 22-27, 1993.
  152. National Science Foundation/George Washington University Joint Colloquium, Washington, D.C. November 16, 1993.
  153. Department of Chemistry, Yale University, January 25, 1994.
  154. Department of Chemistry, Ohio State University, February 22, 1994.
  155. American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 14-17, 1993.
  156. Conference on Photodissociation Dynamics, University of Bristol, Bristol, England, April 10-12, 1994.
  157. Department of Chemistry, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, May 18, 1994.
  158. Department of Energy Combustion Meeting, Granlibaken, CA June 1-3, 1994.
  159. Department of Chemistry, Tel-Aviv University, June 12, 1994.
  160. Workshop on Imaging Methods in Molecular Structure and Dynamics, Neve Ilan, Israel, June 13-16, 1994.
  161. Department of Chemistry, Wonkwang University, Chonbuk, Korea, October 18, 1994.
  162. Center for Molecular Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Taejon, Korea, October 19, 1994.
  163. Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Taejon, Korea, October 20, 1994.
  164. The Korean Chemical Society Annual Meeting, Chungbuk University, Chungbuk, Korea, October 21, 1994.
  165. Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, November 3, 1994.
  166. Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Nov. 15 1994.
  167. Department of Chemistry, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Nov. 17, 1994.
  168. Conference on Stereodynamics and Active Control in Chemical Reactions, Orsay - Gif sur Yvette, France, December 12-14, 1994.
  169. Department of Chemistry, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, Feb 23, 1994.
  170. Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, March 28, 1995.
  171. Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, March 30, 1995.
  172. Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, April 27, 1995.
  173. Canadian Chemical Society Meeting, Guelph, Canada, May 30-June 1, 1995.
  174. SPIE International Symposium, July 9-14, 1995, San Diego, CA.
  175. American Chemical Society Meeting, Chicago, August 21, 1995.
  176. Symposium on "Recent Progress and Future Prospects of Molecular Electronic Spectroscopy," Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan, October 23-25, 1995.
  177. Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki, Japan, October 26, 1995.
  178. Department of Chemistry, Williams College, Williams, Massachusetts, December 1, 1995. (Class of 1960 Fellow)
  179. Department of Chemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, December 11, 1995.
  180. Department of Chemistry, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, February 20, 1996.
  181. Department of Chemistry, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, March 5, 1996.
  182. Molecular Beams and Dynamics Group Meeting, April 1-2, 1966 Bristol, England.
  183. Department of Chemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, April 16, 1996.
  184. Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, April 17, 1996.
  185. Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas, April 18, 1996.
  186. Department of Chemistry, Notre Dame University, May 2, 1996.
  187. Department of Chemistry, North Dakota State University, May 9, 1996.
  188. XXIInd Informal Conference on Photochemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, June 16-21, 1996.
  189. American Chemical Society Meeting, Orlando, August 25-29, 1996.
  190. Department of Chemistry, Colgate University, October 1, 1996.
  191. Cuban Physical Society Meeting, Havana, Cuba, Nov 4-8 1996.
  192. Gordon Research Conference on Molecular Energy Transfer, Ventura, CA, Jan 5-10, 1997.
  193. American Chemical Society Meeting, San Francisco, April 13-17, 1997.
  194. Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, April 11, 1997.
  195. Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL May 9, 1997.
  196. Conference on the Dynamics of Molecular Collisions, Gull Lake, MN, July 20-25, 1997.
  197. Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, November 6, 1997.
  198. Workshop on Chemical Dynamics, Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki, Japan, February 18, 1998.
  199. Department of Physics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, March 19, 1998.
  200. "Scientific Directions at the Advanced Light Source," March 23-25, 1998, Berkeley, CA, co-chair, Working Group on AMO Physics and Chemical Dynamics.
  201. Gordon Research Conference on Atomic and Molecular Interactions, Colby-Sawyer College, NH, June 28-July 3,1998.
  202. Second Australian Conference on Physical Chemistry, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, July 1998.
  203. University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, October 14, 1998
  204. University of Wisconsin, Madison, November 17-18, McElwain Lecturer
  205. American Chemical Society Meeting, New Orleans, August, 1999
  206. Ithaca Sciencenter, September 18, 1999, "Chemical Reaction Rates," (lecture/demonstration to fourth graders).
  207. XXIV Informal Conference on Photochemistry, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 9-14, 2000
  208. Gordon Conference on Multiphoton Processes, Tilton, NH, June 18-23.
  209. Syracuse University, Department of Chemistry, September 19, 2000.
  210. National Sun Yat-Sen University, Department of Chemistry, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, October 11, 2000.
  211. AISAMP4, The Fourth Asian International Seminar on Atomic and Molecular Physics, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, 13-18 October, 2000.
  212. National Tsing Hua University, Department of Chemistry, Hsinchu, Taiwan, October 19, 2000.
  213. Peking University, Department of Chemistry, Beijing, China, October 23, 2000.
  214. Peking University, Department of Chemistry, Beijing China, October 27, 2000.
  215. Stereodynamics of Chemical Reactions, Escorial (Madrid), Spain, December 1-5, 2000.
  216. PacifiChem 2000, "New Frontiers in Chemical Reaction Dynamics, Hawaii, December 14-19, 2000.
  217. Department of Inorganic and General Chemistry, University of Rome "La Sapienza", March 5, 2001.
  218. XIX Symposium on Molecular Beams, Rome, Italy, June 4-8, 2001.
  219. ILS/OSA Annual Meeting, Long Beach, California, October 18, 2001.
  220. University of Chicago, Department of Chemistry, Closs Lecture, October 21, 2002.
  221. Stanford University, Department of Chemistry, February 24, 2003.
  222. American Chemical Society Meeting, New Orleans, March 23-27, 2003.
  223. Combustion Dynamics Contractor's Meeting, Lake Tahoe, CA, May 27-30, 2003.
  224. Gordon Research Conference on Electronic Spectroscopy, July, 2003, (Discussion Leader)
  225. University of California at Berkeley, Physical Chemistry Seminar, September 16, 2003
  226. National Research Council, Ottawa, April 15, 2004
  227. Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Departmental Seminar, April 16, 2004
  228. Cornell Nanobiotechnology Seminar Series, Sept. 7, 2004
  229. American Chemical Society Meeting, San Diego, March 13-17, 2005
  230. CCP6 Vector Correlation Workshop, Bristol, England, July 24-27, 2005
  231. American Chemical Society Meeting, San Francisco, Sept. 10-14, 2006
  232. Texas A&M University, Department of Chemistry, Physical Chemistry Colloquium, Oct. 24, 2006
  233. Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Feb. 22, 2007
  234. Dynamics of Molecular Collisions, Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 8-13, 2007
  235. Gordon Research Conference on Atomic and Molecular Interactions, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH, July 6-11, 2008, Discussion Leader
  236. American Chemical Society Meeting, Washington, DC, August 16-20, 2009
  237. Roaming-Radical/Multiple-Mechanism Workshop, Argonne National Laboratory, April 18-20, 2010
  238. Stereodynamics 2010, Nov. 28 - Dec. 3, 2010, Santa Cruz, CA.
  239. Chemistry Department Colloquium, Kennesaw State University, November 17, 2011.
  240. Panel Discussant, National Academy of Sciences Chemistry Graduate Education Workshop, January 23-24, 2012.
  241. Symposium honoring Fleming Crim, Madison, WI, May 25-26, 2012.
  242. Chemistry Department, University of Georgia, Sept. 18, 2012.
  243. ACS Board of Directors, "Graduate Education in the Chemical Sciences," Dec. 8, 2012
  244. NSF, "Graduate Education in the Chemical Sciences," Jan. 28, 2013.
  245. OMB, "Graduate Education in the Chemical Sciences," Jan. 29, 2013.
  246. MIT, Department of Chemistry, "Graduate Education in the Chemical Sciences," Feb. 14, 2013.
  247. Emory University, Chemistry Department, Symposium honoring Joel Bowman, Feb. 10, 2013
  248. Mesilla Workshop on Molecular Dynamics, Feb 11-12, 2013
  249. AAAS National Meeting, Boston, MA, "Graduate Education in the Chemical Sciences," Feb. 15, 2013.
  250. Emory University, Department of Chemistry, "Graduate Education in the Chemical Sciences," Mar. 18, 2013.
  251. ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, "Graduate Education in the Chemical Sciences," April 9, 2013.
  252. OXIDE Meeting, Washington, DC, "Graduate Education in the Chemical Sciences," April 15, 2013.

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