The conference will have an inter-disciplinary formula and a wide scope covering both experimental and theoretical studies of fast kinetic processes in various systems. The list of topics for PULS/RKCM-2018 includes:

  • Experimental techniques: electron accelerator and laser equipment, pulse radiolysis, flash photolysis, pump-probe techniques, synchrotrons and XFELs, THz spectroscopy, time-resolved IR and Raman spectroscopies, multidimensional spectroscopy, high-resolution imaging, single-molecule spectroscopy, kinetic isotope effect, ESR spectroscopy, kinetic NMR measurements, dosimetry.

  • Processes under study: (chemistry) radical reactions, electron- and proton-transfer reactions, energy transfer, photo-induced processes, radiolysis of aqueous systems, radiolysis of non-polar systems, low-energy electron interactions, reactions in microheterogeneous systems, reactions in ionic liquids, reactions in polymer systems, photo-catalysis; (physics) photo-ionization processes, charge-carrier generation, carrier multiplication, charge transport, charge recombination; (biophysics and biochemistry) diffusion in crowded systems, cellular kinetics, active/passive transport in cells, dynamics of bio-molecules, self-assembly processes, molecular docking, kinetics of enzymatic reactions.

  • Theory: fundamental diffusion theory, reaction-rate calculations, kinetic models, molecular dynamics, Brownian dynamics, Monte Carlo models, modeling of biochemical systems, non-equilibrium effects in fast reaction kinetics, many-body effects in diffusion-influenced reactions, reactions in confined regions.