We cordially invite you to attend the 31st European Congress on Molecular Spectroscopy (EUCMOS 2012) to be held at the Babeº-Bolyai University (Campus Economica), Cluj-Napoca, Romania, between August 26-31, 2012.

The scope of the Congress is to encourage the exchange of ideas and the collaboration among people interested in molecular spectroscopy, to help in the identification of new trends and in the definition of future objectives in this field. All aspects of spectroscopic methods and techniques (including applications), as well as computational and theoretical approaches for the investigation of structure, dynamics and properties of molecular systems will be discussed.

The Congress will cover different scientific topics, including:

1. 1. Vibrational, electronic and magnetic resonance spectroscopies
2. Spectroscopy of surfaces and interfaces
3. Spectroscopy of biological molecules
4. Computational methods for spectroscopy
5. Applied spectroscopies (archaeology, geology, mineralogy, arts, environmental analysis, food analysis and processing)
6. New materials (nanostructured and supramolecular systems, materials for molecular electronics and optoelectronics, magnetic materials)
7. Time resolved spectroscopy
8. Analytical methods and new instrumentation
9. Matter under extreme conditions

The scientific program of the congress will include plenary and invited talks as well as oral and poster presentations.

Invited speakers

Carlo Adamo, Chimie ParisTech et Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France
Demetrios Anglos, Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Jose Luis Alonso, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
Mischa Bonn, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany
Masahiro Ehara, Research Center for Computational Science, Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki, Japan
Hiro-o Hamaguchi, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Bernhard Lendl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Aharon Loewenschuss, Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
John P. Maier, University of Basel, Switzerland
Henry Mantsch, Institute for Biodiagnostics in Winnipeg, Canada
R. J. Dwayne Miller, University of Toronto, Canada
Ioan Notingher, The University of Nottingham, UK
Michael Oshtrakh, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation
Jurgen Popp, Jena University, Germany
Michael Schmitt, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany
Radu Silaghi-Dumitrescu, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Simion Simon, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Peter Trommsdorff, Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France
Dietrich Zahn, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany