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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 -
Scientific Session in the Radcliffe Gym
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8:30
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Registration and
Event
information Morning Coffee and Pastry
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Symposium Welcome: Kate Kirby
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Session I:
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Astrochemistry |
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9:00-9:15
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Chair: |
Bill
Klemperer, Harvard University |
 
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9:15-10:00
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Overview
Talk: |
Ewine van Dishoeck, Leiden
Observatory
Astrochemistry: Building on Dalgarno’s Legacy
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10:00-10:30
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Steve
Lepp, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Atomic and Molecular Probes of Astronomical
Environments |
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10:30-11:00
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Break |
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11:00-11:30
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Phillip
Stancil, University of Georgia
The Formation and Destruction of H− |
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11:30-12:00
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John
Black, Chalmers University of Technology
Astrochemistry: The Unfinished Symphony |
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12:00-2:00
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Lunch |
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Session II:
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Atomic and
Molecular
Processes in the Solar System and Planetary
Atmospheres
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2:00-2:15
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Chair: |
Jane
Fox, Wright State University
Oxygen Escape from Mars: A Comparison of the
Exobase
Approximation to A Monte Carlo Method |
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2:15-3:00
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Overview
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Tom
Cravens, The University of Kansas
Atomic and Molecular Processes in the Solar
System and
Planetary Atmospheres: An Overview |
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3:00-3:30
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Michael
Oppenheimer,
Princeton University
Earth’s Ice Sheets and
Sea Level
Rise: Insufficient Data, Inadequate Models, an
Urgent Need to Know |
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3:30-4:00
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Break
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4:00-4:30
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Peng
Zhang, Center for Astrophysics
Approach to Thermal Equilibrium in Atomic
Collisions |
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4:30-5:00
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Vasili
Kharchenko, ITAMP
X-rays Induced by Charge-Exchange Collisions in
Heliosphere |
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5:15-7:30
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Poster Session and
Reception at
CfA, 60 Garden Street in the Perkin Lobby
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Thursday, September 11,
2008 - in
the Radcliffe Gym
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8:30
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Morning Coffee and Pastry
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Session III:
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Calculations of
Atomic and Molecular Properties |
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Chair: |
Ray
Flannery, Georgia Tech
Calculations of Atomic and Molecular Properties |
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9:15-10:00
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Overview
Talk: |
Gordon
Drake,
University of Windsor
Calculations of Atomic and Molecular Properties
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10:00-10:30
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Bernard
Zygelman,
University of Nevada
Calculation of rotational coupling effects in
atomic
collisions |
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10:30-11:00
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Break |
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11:00-11:30
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Michael
Jamieson, University of Glasgow
Matrix Element Sums Evaluated via Differential
Equations in Calculations of Atomic and Molecular
Properties |
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11:30-12:00
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Xi
Chu, University
of
Montana
TDDFT for Dispersion Interactions,
Spectroscopy, and
Strong Field Processes |
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12:00-2:00
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Lunch |
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Session IVa:
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Undergraduate
Collaborations
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2:00-2:15
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Chair: |
Jim Babb, ITAMP
The hyperfine structure of the hydrogen
molecular ion |
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2:15-2:40
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Overview
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Jean Turner, University
of
California,
Los
Angeles
Molecular Clouds and Chemistry Beyond the
Milky Way |
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2:40-3:05
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Ron Pepino, JILA
Atom-Optical Analogs of Electronic Components
and
Devices
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3:05-3:30
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Jake Taylor, MIT
Metrology, Communication, and Simulation with
Quantum
Systems |
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3:30-3:45
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Break |
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Session IVb:
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ITAMP History
and
Highlights |
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3:45-4:00
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Chair: |
Hossein
Sadeghpour, ITAMP |
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4:00-4:15
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Overview
Talk: |
Richard Pratt,
University
of
Pittsburgh |
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Kate Kirby, ITAMP
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Barry
Schneider, The
National
Science
Foundation |
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Eric Heller, Harvard
University |
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Mikhail Lukin, Harvard
University, ITAMP |
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Alex Dalgarno, Harvard
University,
ITAMP |
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7:00
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Symposium Dinner
at
the Harvard Faculty Club |
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Banquet Speaker:
Neal Lane, Rice University |
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Friday, September 12, 2008
- in
the Radcliffe Gym
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8:30
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Morning Coffee and Pastry
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Session V:
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Ultra-cold
Collisions/Long-range
Interactions |
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9:00-9:15
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Chair: |
Francoise
Masnou, Laboratoire
Aimé
Cotton |
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9:15-10:00
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Overview
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Randy Hulet, Rice
University
Photoassociation of Ultracold Atoms |
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10:00-10:30
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Robin Cote,
University of Connecticut
Forming Ultracold Molecules |
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10:30-11:00
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Break |
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11:00-11:30
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Roman Krems, University
of
British
Columbia
On the Fully Uncoupled Space-fixed
Coordinate
Basis Representation for Molecular Collisions in the
Presence of
External Fields and the Spherical Tensor Formalism
for Atomic and
Molecular Interactions |
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11:30-12:00
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N.
Balakrishnan, University
of
Nevada,
Las
Vegas
Collisions and Reactions in Ultracold Gases |
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12:00-2:00
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Lunch |
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Session VI:
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Interstellar
Medium
and
Molecular
Astrophysics |
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2:00-2:15
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Chair: |
Pat Thaddeus, Harvard-Smithsonian
CfA |
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2:15-3:00
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Overview
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Tom Hartquist,
University
of
Leeds
How Interstellar Chemistry (and Astrochemistry More
Generally) Became
Useful |
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3:00-3:30
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Amiel
Sternberg, Tel
Aviv
University
Molecules and Radiation: From Star Forming Regions
to Quasars |
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3:30-4:00
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Break |
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4:00-4:30
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David Neufeld,
John
Hopkins
University
Molecular Astrophysics with the Spitzer Space
Telescope |
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5:30-7:00
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Concert Reception: Wine,
Hors
d'oeuvres
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Dalgarno
Celebratory Symposium Schedule