Program
Program
The program below is tentative and subject to change.
Plenary lecture: 50 min talk + 10 min Q&A
Invited talk (IT): 20 min talk + 5 min Q&A
Contributed talk (CT) and Student talk(ST): 15 min talk + 5 min Q&A
The student presentations (ST) are eligible for consideration for the Jon Hougen Prize.
Poster: All poster presenters are expected to attend both poster sessions.
Poster board size is A0 (portrait).
The poster presentations given by students (marked with *) are eligible for consideration for the Li-Hong Xu Award.
Announcements
| 2026/10/20 | The final version of the AWMS 2026 scientific program is now available. |
| 2026/10/13 | Poster presentation list added to the preliminary program.The program remains subject to change. |
| 2026/10/06 | All oral presentation slots have been assigned. Program remains subject to change. |
First Day (November 4, 2026)
| Time | Program |
|---|---|
| 08:30- | Registration |
| 09:25-09:30 | Opening Remarks Masashi Tsuge (Hiroshima University) |
| 09:30-10:30 |
Plenary Lecture 1 Physicochemical Processes on Low-Temperature Ice Surfaces: A Key to Molecular Evolution in Space Naoki Watanabe (Hokkaido University) |
| 10:30-10:55 |
IT01 Wavelength-Dependent Photodesorption of S atoms from Amorphous Silicate in the Visible Region Ni-En Sie (Hokkaido University) |
| 10:55-11:15 | Coffee Break |
| 11:15-11:35 |
CT01 Reaction-Induced Transient Diffusion of Radicals: A Driver of Chemical Complexity on Ice Surfaces at 10 K Atsuki Ishibashi (Hokkaido University) |
| 11:35-11:55 |
CT02 Precision Spectroscopy of Molecules: Scanning without a Map Shuiming Hu (University of Science and Technology of China) |
| 11:55-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-13:55 |
IT02 Precision Excitation and Measurement of Molecules with Cavity-Enhanced Technology Cun-Feng Cheng (University of Science and Technology of China) |
| 13:55-14:20 |
IT03 Intramolecular Charge Transfer in the Excited State Yoonsoo Pang (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology,) |
| 14:20-14:40 |
CT04 Dynamic Molecular Properties. Part I. Vibrationally Averaged Structures of Linear Molecules Tsuneo Hirano (Ochanomizu University) |
| 14:40-15:00 | Coffee Break |
| 15:00-15:20 |
ST01 Cold ion trap IR spectra of solvated H+ pyridine and H+ 1-methylpyrrolidine-—anharmonic vibrational analyses of NH stretching Jun-Hao Yu (Intsitute of Science Tokyo) |
| 15:20-15:40 |
ST02 Determination of Absolute OH ν1 Line Strengths by Simultaneous Measurements of OH and HO2 in the HO2 + NO Reaction Che-Wei Chang (IAMS, Academia Sinica) |
| 15:40-16:00 |
ST03 Photodissociation Dynamics of N,N-Dimethylformamide: Application to Generating Quasi-Bound Resonance States of HCO Momiji Karino (Hiroshima University) |
| 16:00-16:20 |
ST04 Floquet-AIMD Study of Molecular Dynamics in Intense Laser Field Ryuto Kambara (Hokkaido University) |
| 16:30-17:30 | Poster Session |
Second Day (November 5, 2026)
| Time | Program |
|---|---|
| 09:30-10:30 |
Plenary Lecture 2 Unique Applications of para-Hydrogen Matrix-Isolation to Astrochemistry Yuan-Pern Lee (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University) |
| 10:30-10:55 |
IT04 Quantum Tunneling in Molecular Clusters: Insights from Rotational Spectroscopy Wei-Xing Li (Fudan University) |
| 10:55-11:15 | Coffee Break |
| 11:15-11:40 |
IT05 Advanced chiral photoelectron spectroscopy Yoshiichi Suzuki (Health Sciences University of Hokkaido) |
| 11:40-12:00 |
CT05 Dynamic Molecular Properties. Part II. ab Initio MD is really ab initio? Confirmation by Wave Packet Dynamics Tsuneo Hirano (Ochanomizu University) |
| 12:00-13:30 | Group Photo + Lunch |
| 13:30-13:55 |
IT06 Fine tuning of computational vibronic spectra Henryk Witek (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University) |
| 13:55-14:20 |
IT07 Update on the High-Resolution LIF Analysis of B3 and Detection of GaCH3 and InCH3 Fumie Sunahori (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology) |
| 14:20-14:40 |
CT06 Deperturbation Analysis of Ω = 1 States of PbO Katsunari Enomoto (University of Toyama) |
| 14:40-15:00 |
CT07 Theoretical Description of Torsion-vibration Coupling of Methanol Molecule Ayaki Sunaga (Hokkaido University) |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30-15:50 |
ST04 Spectroscopy of Hydrogenated Carbon Chain Anions Patrick Watkins (The University of Melbourne) |
| 15:50-16:10 |
ST05 Direct Observation of OH Radical via Photocatalysis of Iron Mineral Surface Raiki Nishizawa (The University of Tokyo) |
| 16:10-16:30 |
ST06 Determination of Activation Energy for Thermal Diffusion of N Atoms on Amorphous Solid Water Tamaki Endo (Hokkaido University) |
| 16:30-16:50 |
ST07 Theoretical analysis of the rotational constants of Cyano-PAHs detected in interstellar molecules Kazuki Kataoka (Hiroshima University) |
| 17:00-18:00 | Poster Session |
Third Day (November 6, 2026)
| Time | Program |
|---|---|
| 09:30-09:55 |
IT08 Cryogenic Ion-Trap Spectroscopy of Three-Membered-Ring Carbocations: How is Aromaticity Reflected in Electronic Spectra? Satoru Muramatsu (Hiroshima University) |
| 09:55-10:15 |
CT08 Conformational Landscapes of Alkali Metalated N-acetylhexosamines Kenee Kaiser Suyo Custodio (IAMS, Academia Sinica) |
| 10:15-10:35 |
CT09 Unraveling Ca–O Coordination in EPN–Ca–Carbohydrate Complexes through IR Spectroscopy and Deep-Learning-Accelerated Conformational Exploration Dong Cao Hieu (IAMS, Academia Sinica) |
| 10:35-11:00 |
IT09 Anharmonic Vibrational Analysis of Water-Cyanide Isotopologues and Isotopomers Qian-Rui Huang (IAMS, Academia Sinica) |
| 11:00-11:20 | Coffee Break |
| 11:20-11:40 |
CT10 Direct Observation of Carbon Atoms on Solid CO and Formation of Carbon Chains under Interstellar Ice Conditions Masashi Tsuge (Hiroshima University) |
| 11:40-12:00 |
CT11 High-resolution Laser Spectroscopy and ab Initio Calculation of CN-PAHs － Approach to the Origin of Life in Outer Space － Masaaki Baba (Kobe University) |
| 12:00-12:15 |
Award Ceremony and Concluding Remarks |
| 12:15-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-16:00 | Free Discussion & Lab Tour (Prof. Watanabe's Laboratory) |
Poster Presentations
All poster presenters are expected to attend both poster sessions.
| No. | Title | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| P01 | Vibronic Spectroscopy of Tetracene and Pentacene Isolated in Solid para-H2 | Isabelle Weber (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University) |
| *P02 | Temperature Dependence of Sulfur Atom Photodesorption from an Amorphous Forsterite Surface | Nayuko Hishikawa (Hokkaido University) |
| *P03 | Ab Initio Real-Time Electron Dynamics Simulation of Multipolar High-Order Harmonic Generation and Elucidation of Selection Rules by Perturbation Theory | Risa Amano (Hokkaido University) |
| *P04 | Tracking N2 Diffusion on Amorphous Solid Water at Low Coverage | Susumu Hironaka (Hokkaido University) |
| P05 | High-Resolution Laser Spectroscopy of Nitrogen Dioxide around 615 and 790 nm | Kohei Tada (Fukuoka University) |
| *P06 | Development of a Cryogenic Apparatus for Studying Photochemistry of Aromatic Molecules in Interstellar Ice Analogs | Akari Yasuda (Hiroshima University) |
| P07 | TD-DFT Analysis of the Structures and UV–Vis Absorption Spectra of Butin and Butein | Jun Miyazaki (Tokyo Denki University) |
| *P08 | Millimeter-Wave Rotational Spectra of Hydantoins for Interstellar Detection | Haruto Ishii (Toho University) |
| *P09 | Formation Pathways and Branching Ratios of CO, HCOOH, and CO2 from H2CO + OH Reactions on Amorphous Solid Water at 10 K | Kodai Fukasaka (Hokkaido University) |
| *P10 | Rotational Spectral Analysis of Aminoacetonitrile | Kazuki Matsushita (Toho University) |
| *P11 | High-resolution Spectroscopy of Ω = 1 Electronic States of Lead Monoxide (PbO) | Hiroki Inoue; co-presenter Haruto Yokotake (University of Toyama) |
| *P12 | Line-Shape Analysis of CO₂-Broadened H₂O Rotational Transitions in the Submillimeter-Wave Region | Akihiro Murakami (Toho University) |
| P13 | Experimental Development for Highly Sensitive Spectroscopy of Interstellar H3+ | Arisa Iguchi (The University of Electro-Communications) |
| P14 | Nonadiabatic Variational Calculation of the H3+ Molecular Ion Using the Gaussian Expansion Method | Toru Sasaki (Yokohama City University) |
| *P15 | Photoelectron Circular Dichroism in (R)-(+)-1-Phenylethanol | Yuxiao Xiao (Hiroshima University) |
| P16 | Methanol formation by the association reaction between CH3 and OH radicals via chemical transient diffusion on ASW at low temperatures | Hiroshi Hidaka (Hokkaido University) |
* Eligible for consideration for the Li-Hong Xu Award.