Astronomy, Physics, and Chemistry of H3+

Scientific Program


Wednesday 9 February 2000

8:15 Registration Opens

Introductory Remarks

8:40 Mr Stephen Cox
The Royal Society, London

8:45 Professor T Oka
Department of Chemistry and Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Chicago, USA

Session I: Spectroscopy I

Chair: Professor W Klemperer
Department of Chemistry, Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA

09.00 Dr JKG Watson
Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council, Ontario, Canada
(1) An introduction to the spectroscopy of H3+ and its isotopomers

09.30 Discussion

09.40 Mr BJ McCall
Department of Chemistry and Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Chicago, USA
(2) Laboratory Spectroscopy of H3+

10.10 Discussion

10.20 Coffee and Poster Viewing

Spectroscopy II

Chair: Professor A Carrington
Department of Chemistry, University of Southampton

10.50 Dr IR McNab
Department of Physics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
(3) H3+ at dissociation

11.20 Discussion

11.30 Professor J Tennyson
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London
(4) Theory of H3+ near its dissociation limit

12.00 Discussion

12.10 Lunch and Poster Viewing

Session II: Dynamics I

Chair: Professor D Smith
Department of Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics, University of Keele

14.00 Professor M Larsson
Department of Physics, Stockholm University
(5) Experimental studies of the dissociative recombination of H3+

14.30 Discussion

14.40 Professor A Suzor-Weiner
Laboratoire de Photophysique Moleculaire, Universite de Paris-Sud, France
(6) Dissociative recombination of H3+: progress in theory

15.10 Discussion

15.20 Tea and Poster Viewing

Dynamics II

Chair: Professor DC Clary

15.50 Professor T Amano
Institute for Astrophysics and Planetary Sciences, Ibaraki University, Japan
(7) Infrared absorption spectroscopy of D3: an investigation of the formation mechanisms of triatomic hydrogen species

16.20 Discussion

16.30 Poster Session

17.30 Close


Thursday 10 February 2000

Session III: Planetary

Chair: Professor R Prange

09.00 Dr JEP Connerney
Planetary Magnetosphere Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre, USA
(8) The H3+ ion: a remote diagnostic of the Jovian magnetosphere

09.30 Discussion

09.40 Dr S Miller
Science and Technology Studies, Physics and Astronomy, University College London
(9) The role of H3+ in planetary atmospheres

10.10 Discussion

10.20 Coffee and Poster Viewing

Session IV: Interstellar

Chair: Professor EF van Dishoeck
Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands

10.50 Dr TR Geballe
GEMINI N. 8m Telescope, Hilo, Hawaii, USA
(10) H3+ between the stars

11.20 Discussion

11.30 Professor JH Black
Onsala Space Observatory, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
(11) The abudance, excitation and deuteration of interstellar H3+

12.00 Discussion

12.10 Lunch and Poster Viewing

Session V: Astronomical Modelling

Chair: Professor DA Williams
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London

14.00 Professor E Herbst
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio State University, USA
(12) The astrochemistry of H3+

14.30 Discussion

14.40 Dr TJ Millar
Department of Physics, UMIST, Manchester
(13) The role of H2D+ in the deuteration of interstellar molecules

15.10 Discussion

15.20 Tea and Poster Viewing

15.50 Dr E Roueff
DEAC, Observatoire de Paris, France
(14) H3+ recombination and bistability in the interstellar medium

16.20 Discussion

16.30 Summary - Professor T Oka


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