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Dr. Craig Taatjes, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratory is presenting "Understanding Complex Chemical Systems Step by Step." 

In complex chemical systems, the crucial steps are often reactions of intermediate species formed in previous reaction steps. Often these reactants are formed relatively slowly and may react away rapidly, so it is often difficult to isolate them and study these crucial steps in detail. In our research we have long sought to produce elusive reactive species and directly study their kinetics, focusing on products of the reactions as well as rate coefficients.

In this talk I will discuss a few recent examples of reactions in which the product branching determines consequences of the reaction for applications that are governed by a complex chemical model.