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)
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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
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13:30 - 14:30 Eric Herbst (Ohio State University, USA)
- Low Temperature Gas-Phase and Surface
Reactions in Interstellar Clouds (ppt file)
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14:30 - 15:30 Yuri Aikawa (Kobe University, Japan)
- Chemical Differentiation and Fractionation
in Prestellar Cores
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15:30 - 16:30 Kentarou Kawaguchi (Okayama Univeristy, Japan)
- Radio observation of cold clouds
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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)
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Submillimeter-Wave Spectra of NCS
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