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TITLES OF THE MAIN LECTURES

Luís Arnaut (Coimbra, Portugal)
The Intersecting-State Model: A Link Between Molecular Spectroscopy and Chemical Reactivity

Hugh Burrows (Coimbra, Portugal)
Transient Absorption Spectra of Triplet States and Charge Carriers of Conjugated Polymers

Eleanor Campbell (Gothenburg, Sweden)
fs-Laser Ionization of C60: From Above Threshold Ionization to Statistical Electron Emission and Observation of Rydberg States

Paul Carey (Cleveland, USA)
Raman Spectroscopy's Role in Molecular Medicine

Chiara Castiglioni (Milan, Italy)
Density Functional Theory Prediction of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Vibrational Spectra

Maria do Céu Costa (Lisbon, Portugal)
Structural Characterisation by NMR of Rifabutinol, a Derivative of Rifabutin

Rui Fausto (Coimbra, Portugal)
Photochemical Reactivity of Matrix Isolated Monomeric Hydroxyl Containing Compounds

John Finney (London, UK)
Enzyme Activity and Molecular Mobility: Time Scales and Solvent Effects

Laura Ilharco (Lisbon, Portugal)
Reactions of Unsaturated Hydrocarbons on Metal-Surfaces Studied by RAIRS

Kersti Hermansson (Uppsala, Sweden)
Vibrational Spectroscopy in the Condensed Phases-from Theoretical Calculations

Peter Hildebrant (Mülheim a.d. Ruhr, Germany)
Dynamics and Mechanism of the Electron Transfer Process of Cytochrome-C Probed by Resonance Raman and Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

Pavel Hobza (Prague, Czech Republic)
Improper, Blue-Shifting Hydrogen Bond

Ernst-Heiner Korte (Berlin, Germany)
Characterization of Nanometer Layers by Infrared Spectroscopic Ellipsometry

Sir Harold Kroto (Sussex, UK) - Opening Lecture
Science Programmes for TV and the Internet in the 21st Century

Bernhard Lendl (Vienna, Austria)
SERS on Renewable Surfaces by Flow Injection Analysis

Maria Leonor Duarte (Lisbon, Portugal)
Linking up Two Spectroscopic Techniques to Solve an Analytical Problem: Degree of Acetylation of Chitin and Chitosan

John Maier (Basel, Switzerland)
Electronic Spectra of Carbon Chains and Their Relevance to Astrophysics

Maria da Graça Miguel (Coimbra, Portugal)
Fluorescence Studies of Polymer-Surfactant Association

Janus Mink (Budapest, Hungary)
Vibrational Spectroscopic Study of the Metal-Metal Bonded Complexes Formed in Aqueous Solution

Augusto Moutinho (Lisbon, Portugal)
Probing Molecular Behavior by Low Energy Particle Scattering

Çemil Ogretir (Eskisehir, Turkey)
Correlation Between UV-Spectral and Quantum Chemical Calculations Data on Heterocyclic Molecules

Robin Perutz (York, UK)
Photochemistry of Metal Hydride Complexes

Peter Pulay (Fayetteville, USA)
Accurate Scaled Quantum Mechanical (SQM) Force Constants and Vibrational Spectra of Transition Metal Cmplexes with Hard Ligands

Markku Räsänen (Helsinki, Finland)
New Rare Gas Chemistry

Farid Salama (Moffet Field, USA)
Molecular Spectroscopy in Astrophysics: Interstellar PAHS

Peter Sarre (Nottingham, UK)
The diffuse Interstellar Bands

Giulietta Smulevich (Florence, Italy)
Spectroscopic Versus Crystallographic Information on the Structure of the Active Site of Peroxidades

Sylvia Turrell (Lille, France)
Raman Investigation of the Kinetics of Densification Processes in Solid Gels with Controlled Pore Sizes

Benjamin van der Veken (Antwerp, Belgium)
Advances in Infrared Cryosolution Studies of Weak Intermolecular Interactions

Urs Wild (Zurich, Switzerland)
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Microscopy and Identification

Gisbert Winnewisser (Cologne, Germany)
Spectroscopy of the Heavens: From Present Star Formation to the Early Universe