Programme

The programme that was delivered at Faraday Discussion 142 is listed on this page. A full programme with provisional timings is available to download from the bottom of this page.

Introductory Lecture

Dudley Herschbach* 
Harvard University, USA

Session 1

Session Chair: Edward A Hinds, Imperial College London, UK

Collision experiments with Stark decelerated beams
Sebastiaan Y T van de Meerakker* and Gerard Meijer
Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany

Dynamics of OH(2II)-He collisions in combined electric and magnetic fields
Timur V Tscherbul, Gerrit C Groenenboom*, Roman V Krems and Alexander Dalgarno
Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Production of cold ND3 by kinematic cooling 
David W Chandler*, Jeffrey J Kay, Sebastiaan Y T van de Meerakker and Kevin Strecker
Sandia National Laboratory, USA

Sympathetic cooling by collisions with ultra cold rare gas atoms and recent progress in optical Stark deceleration
P F Barker*, P Barletta , S M Purcell, N Coppendale, P Douglas, C Maher-McWilliams and J Tennyson
University College London, UK

Prospects for sympathetic cooling of polar molecules: NH with alkali-metal and alkaline-earth atoms - a new hope
Pavel Soldán*, Piotr S Zuchowski and Jeremy M Hutson
Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic 

Session 2

Session Chair: Gerard Meijer, Fritz-Haber-Institute, Germany

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 neutral molecules 
Jochen Küpper*, Frank Filsinger and Gerard Meijer
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

Rotational spectroscopy of single carbonyl sulphide molecules embedded in superfluid helium nanodroplets
Wolfgang Jäger*, Rudolf Lehnig and Paul L Raston
University of Alberta, Canada

Ion-molecule chemistry at very low temperatures: Cold chemical reactions between Coulomb-crystallized 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: William C Stwalley, University of Connecticut, USA

Broadband lasers to detect and cool the vibration of cold molecules
Matthieu Viteau, Amodsen Chotia, Dimitris Sofikitis, Maria Allegrini, Nadia Bouloufa, Olivier Dulieu, Daniel Comparat and Pierre Pillet*
CNRS, Univ Paris-Sud, France

Continuous guided beams of slow and internally cold polar molecules
Gerhard Rempe*, Christian Sommer, Laurens D van Buuren, Michael Motsch, Sebastien Pohle, Josef Bayerl and Pepijn W H Pinkse
Max-Planck-Institute Garching, Germany

Self-organisation and cooling of a large ensemble of particles in optical cavities
Yongkai Zhao, P F Barker, Guangjiong Dong and Weiping Lu*
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK

Dark state experiments with ultracold deeply-bound triplet molecules 
F Lang, K Winkler, C Strauss, R Grimm, T Takekoshi and J Hecker Denschlag*
Universität Innsbruck, Austria

Precision molecular spectroscopy for ground state transfer of molecular quantum gases
Hanns-Christoph Nägerl*, Johann G Danzl, Manfred J Mark, Elmar Haller, Mattias Gustavsson, Nadia Bouloufa, Olivier Dulieu, Helmut Ritsch and Russell Hart
Universität Innsbruck, Austria

Session 4

Session Chair: Rudolf Grimm, University of Innsbruck, Austria

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*, S Ospelkaus, K K Ni, M H G de Miranda, B Neyenhuis
D Wang, S Kotochigova, P S Julienne and D S Jin
University of Colorado, USA

Ultracold molecules from ultra cold atoms: A case study with the KRb molecule
Paul Julienne*
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA

Two-photon coherent control of femtosecond photoassociation 
Christiane P Koch*, Mamadou Ndong and Ronnie Kosloff
Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany

A pump probe study of the photoassociation of cold rubidium molecules
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