Program

March 25


10:30 Opening Remark---Yasuki Endo (University of Tokyo, Japan)


Session I : Making Cold Molecules

10:40 - 11:40 Bas van de Meerakker (MPI, Germany)

Manipulation of molecules with electric fields.

11:40 - 12:10 Hideto Kanamori (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Selecting slow molecules.

Lunch


Session II : Laser Cooling

13:40 - 14:40 Yoshio Torii (University of Tokyo, Japan)

Light scattering and atom amplification in a Bose-Einstein condensate

14:40 - 15:40 Yosuke Takasu (Kyoto University, Japan)

Realization of an ytterbium condensate in the ground state and prospects of the metastable condensate.

Coffee Break


16:00 - 16:40 Koichi Yamashita (University of Tokyo, Japan)

Laser control of molecular dynamics: enhanced ionization and optical centrifuge

16:40 - 17:40 Takashi Mukaiyama (MIT, USA)

Creation of the optically trapped ultracold sodium molecules via a Feshbach resonance.

Banquet(18:00 -)



March 26


Session III : Chemistry of Cold Molecules

9:00 - 10:00 Ian Sims (Universite de RENNES 1, France)

Experimental studies of gas phase reaction kinetics and energy transfer at very low temperatures

10:00 - 10:30 Takamasa Momose (Kyoto University, Japan)

Tunneling Chemical reaction of cold molecules

10:30 - 11:00 Yasuki Endo (Tokyo Univ, Japan)

Intermolecular interactions of open-shel l compexes

11:00 - 12:00 Takayoshi Amano (Ibaraki University, Japan)

Multiply deuterated species in space and D2H+

Lunch


Session IV : Interstellar Chemistry and Cold Molecules

13:30 - 14:30 Eric Herbst (Ohio State University, USA)

Low Temperature Gas-Phase and Surface Reactions in Interstellar Clouds (ppt file)

14:30 - 15:30 Yuri Aikawa (Kobe University, Japan)

Chemical Differentiation and Fractionation in Prestellar Cores

15:30 - 16:30 Kentarou Kawaguchi (Okayama Univeristy, Japan)

Radio observation of cold clouds

16:30 - 17:30 Anthony Merer(UBC, Canada)

Electronic spectra of some gaseous metal compounds of possible astrophysical interest.


Closing Remark --- Yasuhiro Ohshima (Kyoto University, Japan)


March 27


Postworkshop with Eric Herbst "Interstellar Chemistry and Spectroscopy"

9:30 - 11:30 Eric Herbst (OSU)

Lectures
1. Gaseous Chemistry in Interstellar Space.(ppt file)
2. Some Chemistry in Assorted Star-forming Regions.(ppt file)

11:30 - 13:00 questions & lunch

13:00 - 13:30 Hiroshi Koyama (Kobe)

Thermal Instability in Interstellar medium

13:30 - 14:00 A. Tanabashi, T. Hirao, T. Amano, (Ibaraki) and P. F. Bernath (waterloo)

Fourier transform emission spectra of the 4051A band of C3

14:00 - 14:30 Kentaro Kawaguchi (Okayama)

Observational studies relating diffuse interstellar bands

14:30 - 15:00 Yusuke Morisawa (Kyoto)

Ortho-para ratio of cyclic-C3H2 in dark cloud cores

15:00 - 15:30 Atsuko Maeda (Ibaraki)

Submillimeter-Wave Spectra of NCS


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