Early Universe Schedule


Atomic and Molecular Physics of the Early Universe March 31 - April 2, 2008 ITAMP, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge Ma 02138
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Monday, March 31, 2008 Phillips Auditorium
08:30–08:50	Coffee/Registration
Session I: Pre-Recombination/Recombination Era Chair: Alex Dalgarno
9:00-9:45	Michael Turner An Overview of Primordial Nucleosynthesis and Recombination	View Talk
9:45-10:15	Manuel Peimbert The primordial helium abundance	View Talk
10:15–10:30	Morning Break
10:30–11:15	Douglas Scott Cosmological Recombination Era	View Talk
11:15–11:45	Hossein Sadeghpour Atomic Recombination for Spectral Synthesis Simulations	View Talk
11:45–12:15	J. Chluba Cosmological recombination: two-photon processes and what we can learn from the cosmological recombination spectrum	View Talk
12:15–2:15	Lunch Break
Session II: Variations of the Fundamental Constants Chair: Kate Kirby
2:15–3:00	Matias Zaldarriaga An Overview of Variations in the Fundamental Constants	View Talk
3:00–3:30	Victor Flambaum Variation of Fundamental Constants from Big Bang to Atomic Clocks: Theory and Observations	View Talk
3:30–3:45	Afternoon Break
3:45–4:15	Sebastian Blatt Laboratory measurements of alpha variation, me/mp	View Talk
4:15–4:45	W. Ubachs Measurements of me/mp using uv spectrosc. of H2	View Talk
4:45–5:15	Arman Cingoz A Laboratory Search for Variation of the Fine-Structure Constant Using Atomic Dysprosium	View Talk
5:15–5:45	K. Menten Constraints on Variations of Fundamental Constants from Radio and (Sub)millimeter Astronomy	View Talk
5:45–7:10	Reception in Perkins Lobby (wine/hors d’oeuvres)

Tuesday, April 1, 2008 Phillips Auditorium
08:00–08:30	Coffee and Pastry
Session III: Molecule Formation and Collision Processes in the Early Universe Chair:Volker Bromm
09:00–09:45	Phil Stancil Overview talk on Atomic and Molecular processes of primary importance in Molecule formation	View Talk
9:45–10:15	Simon Glover Uncertainties in Primordial Chemistry	View Talk
10:15–10:30	Morning Break
10:30–11:00	N. Balakrishnan Near-resonant energy transfer in low energy H2-H2 collisions	View Talk
11:00–11:30	Chris Greene H⁺₃Dissociative Recombination Theory: The Ortho-para Ratio and Other Recent Developments	View Talk
11:30–12:00	Andreas Wolf Mechanisms of Cold Electron Recombination with Small Molecular Ions: Evidence from Laboratory Experiments	View Talk
12:00–12:30	Xavier Urbain Merged Beam Experiments with Positive and Negative Ions : from Charge Exchange to Reactive Scattering	View Talk
12:30–2:15	Lunch Break
2:15–2:45	Dieter Gerlich Low temperature ion trap studies of reactions involving H and D atoms	View Talk
2:45–3:15	Allan Dickinson Mutual Neutralization and Radiative Association involving Li and H	View Talk
3:15–3:30	Afternoon Break
Session III (continued): Molecule Formation and Collision Processes in the Early Universe Chair: Jim Babb
4:00–4:30	Franco Gianturco Li-Containing Molecules and Ions Interacting with H and He Partners	View Talk
4:30–5:00	Robert Forrey He + H2 Collisional dissociation from high v levels	View Talk
5:00–5:45	Stephen Lepp Calculations of Rovibrational excitation/dissociation of H2	View Talk
5:45–6:00	Daniel Wolf Savin Progress Towards Laboratory Measurements of H2 Formation for Early Universe Chemistry	View Talk

Wednesday, April 2, 2008 Phillips Auditorium
08:00–08:30	Coffee and Pastry
Session IV: Population III Formation/Reionization Chair: Avi Loeb
9:00–9:45	Matt McQuinn Overview of Signatures of Reionization	View Talk
9:45–10:15	Kaz Omukai Chemical Processes in the Early Star Formation	View Talk
10:15–10:30	Morning Break
10:30–11:00	Brett Esry Three-body processes at cold and ultracold temperatures	View Talk
11:00–11:30	Evelyn Roueff Cooling via Transitions in HD	View Talk
11:30–12:15	Volker Bromm Formation of the First Stars and Relevant Feedback issues.	View Talk
12:15–2:00	Lunch Break
Session V: 21-cm Cosmology Chair: Michael Turner
2:15–3:00	Avi Loeb 21-cm Tomography in the Dark Ages	View Talk
3:00–3:30	Jonathan Pritchard Atomic Physics and the Cosmological 21 cm Signal	View Talk
3:30–3:45	Afternoon Break
3:45–4:15	Bernard Zygelman Spin Changing Collisions of Hydrogen Atoms	View Talk
4:15–4:45	Jacqueline Hewitt 21-cm Observations	View Talk

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