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
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
Rotational spectroscopy of single carbonyl sulphide molecules embedded in superfluid helium nanodroplets
Wolfgang Jäger*, Rudolf Lehnig and Paul L Raston
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 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
High-precision spectroscopy of cold trapped molecular hydrogen ions: rotational cooling and hyperfine spectroscopy
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 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: TBC
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
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*, 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
