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Foreword
Twenty-six years ago, SASP was founded as a biennial winter conference by members of
the Institute for Atomic Physics (now: Institute for Ion Physics) of the University of
Innsbruck. Since then the format of SASP has been similar to that of a Gordon
Conference, with invited lectures, poster presentations with ample time for discussions
and indoor and outdoor activities. The attendance of the symposium has been kept at
about
100
participants so that active communication between all members is facilitated.
The conference seeks to promote the growth of scientific knowledge and its effective
exchange among scientists in the fields of atomic, molecular, cluster and surface physics
and related areas, including also applied topics. The symposium deals in particular with
interactions between ions, electrons, photons, atoms, molecules and clusters and their
interactions with surfaces, but in fact the subject matter of SASP is really much wider than
the acronym would indicate. Besides the more traditional themes, this year there will be
some emphasis on chemical dynamics, including reaction dynamics; non-adiabatic
effects; spectroscopy and dynamics of radicals, molecular complexes, biologically
relevant systems, and anions; helium nanodroplet spectroscopy; ultra-cold collisions; and
astrophysics.
SASP usually takes place in Austria, but every second time it may be held in a ski resort
of another country. The SASP conferences were held at the following locations:
1978
(19
to
23
February)
Zirog
1980
(10
to
16
February)
Maria Aim
1982
(7
to
12
February)
Maria Aim
1984
(29
Jan. to
4
Feb.)
Maria Aim
1986
(9
to
15
February)
Obertraum
1988
(17
to
23
January)
La Plagne
1990
(18
to
24
March)
Obertraum
1992
(19
to
25
January)
Pampeago
1994
(20
to
26
March)
Maria Aim
1996
(21
to
26
January)
Engelberg
1998
(25
to
30
January)
Going
2000
(30
Jan. to
5
Feb.)
Folgaria
2002
(17
to
23
February)
Going
2004
(1
to
6
February)
La Thuile
The University of Perugia is honored to host the 14
th
symposium of the series, which is
the third to have been held in Italy, after Pampeago and Folgaria.
We would like to thank the Department of Chemistry and the University of Perugia for
their support. In particular we thank all the invited speakers for agreeing to participate in
the symposium, and all the participants, both chemists and physicists, experimentalists
and theorists, coming from more than
10
foreign countries, including the Antipodes.
Finally, I wish to thank in particular Giovanni Capozza for his help in the editing of the
book of abstracts and for maintaining the symposium website.
Piergiorgio Casavecchia
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