Programme
The Faraday Discussion 142 programme follows. A full programme with timings will be available to download from this page in due course.
Introductory Lecture
Dudley Herschbach*
Harvard University, USA
Session 1
Session Chair: TBC
Collision experiments with Stark decelerated beams
Sebastiaan Y T van de Meerakker* and Gerard Meijer
Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany
Zeeman transitions in cold OH(2Pi)-He collisions
Timur V Tscherbul, Gerrit C Groenenboom*, Roman V Krems and Alexander Dalgarno
Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Production and study of ultra-cold molecules produced by kinematic cooling
David W Chandler* and Kevin Strecker
Sandia National Laboratory, USA
Chirped optical Stark deceleration experiments and sympathetic cooling by collisions with ultra cold rare gas atoms
P F Barker*, P Barletta , S M Purcell, N Coppendale and J Tennyson
University College London, UK
Microwave spectroscopy of molecules embedded in helium nanodroplets
Wolfgang Jäger*
University of Alberta, Canada
Session 2
Session Chair: TBC
Testing the time-invariance of fundamental constants using microwave spectroscopy on cold diatomic radicals
Hendrick L Bethlem* and Wim Ubachs
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Prospects for measuring the electric dipole moment of the electron using electrically trapped polar molecules
M R Tarbutt*, J J Hudson, B E Sauer and E A Hinds
Imperial College London, UK
Manipulating the motion of large molecules
Jochen Küpper*, and colleagues
Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany
Buffer gas cooling of polyatomic ions in rf multi-electrode traps
Dieter Gerlich*
Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany
High-precision spectroscopy of cold trapped molecular hydrogen ions
B Roth*, R Gambke, M Hansen, S Vasilyev, I Ernsting, A Nevsky and S Schiller
Heinrich-Heine Universitat, Dusseldorf, Germany
Ion-molecule chemistry at very low temperatures: Cold chemical reactions between sympathetically cooled ions and velocity-selected neutral molecules
Alexander D Gingell, Martin T Bell, James Oldham, Timothy P Softley and Stefan Willitsch*
Universität Basel, Switzerland
Session 3
Session Chair: TBC
Laser cooling of molecules
Matthieu Viteau, Amodsen Chotia, Dimitris Sofikitis, Maria Allegrini, Nadia Bouloufa, Olivier Dulieu, Daniel Comparat and Pierre Pillet*
CNRS, Univ Paris-Sud, France
TBC
Gerhard Rempe*
Max-Planck-Institute Garching, Germany
Cooling molecules in optical cavities
Yongkai Zhao, Zhihao Lan and Weiping Lu*
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
Ultracold deeply-bound Rb2 molecules
F Lang, K Winkler, C Strauss, R Grimm and J Hecker Denschlag*
Universität Innsbruck, Austria
TBC
Hanns-Christoph Nägerl*
Universität Innsbruck, Austria
TBC
Jean-Michel Launay*
University of Rennes 1, France
Session 4
Session Chair: TBC
Photoassociation of ultracold dipolar molecules in the lowest vibrational states
J Deiglmayr, M Repp, A Grochola, C Glück, K Mörtlbauer, O Dulieu, R Wester and M Weidemüller*
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
Ultracold polar molecules near quantum degeneracy
Jun Ye*
University of Colorado, USA
Bound states of the KRb molecule from v=0 to the dissociation limit
Paul Julienne*
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA
Two-photon femtosecond photoassociation - better perspectives for coherent control?
Christine P Koch* and Ronnie Kosloff
Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Study of the dynamics of photoassociation of rubidium molecules towards their stabilisation in the low vibrational ground state
Jovana Petrovic*, David McCabe, Duncan England, Hugo Martay, Melissa Friedman, Alexander Dicks, Emiliya Dimova and Ian Walmsley
University of Oxford, UK
Fano profiles in two-photon photoassociation spectra
Maximilien Portier*, Michèle Leduc and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
Université Pierre et Marie Curie and IFRAF, Paris, France
Concluding Remarks
Franco Gianturco*
Universitá di Roma, Italy
*Denotes presenting author to whom affiliation applies
