Physics, Chemistry, and Astronomy of H3+

OkaLogo
Collage by C. M. Lindsay; H3+ laboratory spectrum from A. R. W. McKellar; Jupiter H3+ emission image from J. E. P. Connerney.

January 16-18, 2006

Royal Society Discussion Meeting (Jan 16-17)

and a Satellite Meeting (Jan 18)

Physics, Chemistry, and Astronomy of H3+

Organized by T. R. Geballe, D. Gerlich, T. Oka and J. Tennyson

(B. J. McCall, Secretary)


This Discussion Meeting is a second attempt to assemble researchers from different fields in which H3+ plays a major role and to discuss the most fundamental molecular ion from a variety of perspectives. Talks from the 2000 meeting have been published in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A (2000) 358, 2359-2559. The recent exciting developments related to H3+ and deuterated species make this discussion particularly timely. The discussions will include the following subjects:

  • New Spectroscopy of H3+ and Deuterated Species,
  • First Principles Calculation of H3+
  • Theory of the Triplet State and Asymptotic Vibrational States
  • New Experiment and Theory of Electron Recombination
  • Dissociation Dynamics and Thermalization
  • Laboratory Chemistry of H3+ and Deuterated Species
  • Nuclear Spin in Chemical Reactions
  • Observed Ubiquity of H3+ in Interstellar Space
  • Radio Observations of Interstellar H2D+ and HD2+
  • H3+ and its Isotopomers in Deuterium Fractionation
  • Hot and Diffuse Gas near the Galactic Center and Metastable H3+
  • H3+ and Isotopomers in Planets and Protoplanets
  • H3, H5+, H3+(H2)n clusters, H3-, and H3++

    • Second Circular

    Instructions for Authors

    Program (**now with presentation files**)

    Registration Link

    First Circular

    The Royal Society Discussion Meeting will include 15 invited talks with plenty of discussion time, as well as a poster session. The talks and discussions will be published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. The satellite meeting will include contributed talks.

    For additional information, contact h3plus@h3plus.uiuc.edu
    H3+ Resource Page
    Royal Society Meetings Page
    The Royal Society