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)
9.15 | Takeshi Oka
University of Chicago, USA Introductory Remarks |
Session 1 | |
Chair | Richard Porter
SUNY, Stony Brook, USA |
9.30 | Werner Kutzelnigg
University of Bochum, Germany Explicity correlated potential energy surface of H3+, including relativistic and adiabatic corrections |
10.00 | Discussion |
10.15 | Alexander Alijah
University of Coimbra, Portugal H3+ in the electronic triplet state |
10.45 | Discussion |
11.00 | Tea and Coffee |
Session 2 | |
Chair | James Watson
National Research Council, Canada |
11.30 | Jennifer Gottfried
University of Chicago, USA Near-infrared spectroscopy of H3+ above the barrier to linearity |
11.50 | Discussion |
12.00 | Juraj Glosik
Charles University Prague, Czech Republic Action spectroscopy of H3+ using overtone excitation |
12.20 | Discussion |
12.30 | Takayoshi Amano
Ibaraki University, Japan Submillimeter-wave lines of H2D+ and D2H+ as probes into chemistry of cold dark clouds |
12.50 | Discussion |
13.00 | Lunch |
Session 3 | |
Chair | Mats Larsson
Stockholm University, Sweden |
14.00 | Benjamin McCall
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Dissociative recombination of cold H3+ and its interstellar implications |
14.30 | Discussion |
14.45 | Chris Greene
University of Colorado, USA How H3+ and its isotopomers recombine efficiently at low energies |
15.15 | Discussion |
15.30 | Tea and Coffee |
Session 4 | |
Chair | Alexander Dalgarno
Harvard University, USA |
16.00 | Andreas Wolf
Max-Planck Institute für Kernphysik, Germany Effects of molecular rotation in low-energy electron collisions with H3+ |
16.30 | Discussion |
16.45 | Dieter Gerlich
Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany Dynamical constraints and nuclear spin caused restrictions in H+ + H2, H3+ + H2, and deuterated variants |
17.15 | Discussion |
17.30 | Close |
Session 5 | |
Chair | Alan Carrington
University of Southampton |
9.15 | Daniel Zajfman
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel and Max-Planck Institute für Kernphysik, Germany Nuclear dynamics in the dissociative recombination of H3+ and its isotopomers |
9.45 | Discussion |
10.00 | Jonathan Tennyson
University College London The role of asymptotic vibrational states in H3+ |
10.30 | Discussion |
10.45 | Tea and Coffee |
Session 6 | |
Chair | John Black
Onsala Space Observatory, Sweden |
11.15 | Thomas Geballe
Gemini Observatory, USA H3+ toward and within the Galactic center |
11.45 | Discussion |
12.00 | Harvey Liszt
National Radio Astronomy Observatory, USA What do we learn about the diffuse interstellar medium from observations of H3+? |
12.30 | Discussion |
12.45 | Lunch |
Session 7 | |
Chair | Eric Herbst
Ohio State University, USA |
14.00 | Helen Roberts
University of Manchester Deuterated H3+ as a probe of isotope fractionation in star-forming regions |
14.30 | Discussion |
14.45 | Charlotte Vastel
California Institute of Technology, USA Deuterium enhancement in H3+ in pre-stellar cores |
15.05 | Discussion |
15.15 | Cecilia Ceccarelli
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de l'Observatoire de Grenoble, France Observations and theory of deuterated H3+ in the proto-planetary disks |
15.35 | Discussion |
15.45 | Tea and Coffee |
Session 8 | |
Chair | Robert Joseph
Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii |
16.15 | Emmanuel Lellouch
Observatoire de Paris, France Spectro-imaging observation of H3+ on Jupiter |
16.35 | Discussion |
16.45 | Steven Miller
University College London H3+: the driver of giant planet atmospheres |
17.15 | Discussion |
17.30 | Close |
Session 9 | |
Chair | Brian Sutcliffe
Universite Libre de Bruxelle, Belgium |
9.00 | Jürgen Hinze
Universitat Bielefeld, Germany Rovibrational states of H3+ |
9.25 | Discussion |
9.30 | Joel Bowman
Emory University, USA A global potential energy surface, vibrational and reaction dynamics of H5+, H3+ + H2 and isotopomers |
9.50 | Discussion |
9.55 | Åsa Larson
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Theoretical study of the ion-pair formation in electronic recombination with H3+ |
10.15 | Discussion |
10.20 | Tea and Coffee |
Session 10 | |
Chair | Evgueni Nikitin
Israel Institute of Technology |
10.50 | Alexandre Faure
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble, France Electron impact rotational excitation of H3+: Relevance for dissociation dynamics and thermalization |
11.10 | Discussion |
11.15 | Holger Kreckel
Max-Planck Institute für Kernphysik, Germany Rotational and vibrational cooling of H3+ in laboratory experiments |
11.35 | Discussion |
11.40 | Simon Glover
Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, Germany H3+ cooling in primordial gas |
12.00 | Discussion |
12.05 | Alexander Turbiner
ICN-UNAM, Mexico Molecular Systems in a Strong Magnetic Field |
12.25 | Lunch |
Session 11 | |
Chair | Martin Jungen
University of Basel, Switzerland (to be confirmed) |
14.00 | Hanspeter Helm
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Germany Experimental studies of non-adiabatic coupling in dissociation of excited H3 molecules |
14.20 | Discussion |
14.25 | Robert Continetti
University of California, San Diego, USA Dissociation dynamics of Rydberg states of H3 and its isotopomers |
14.45 | Discussion |
14.50 | Stephan Schlemmer
Universität zu Köln, Germany Probing H2D+ with FELIX and other laser sources |
15.10 | Discussion |
15.15 | Tea and Coffee |
Session 12 | |
Chair | Tom Millar
University of Manchester |
15.45 | Miwa Goto
Max-Planck Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany Absorption line survey toward the Galactic center: stars in Quintuplet and Sgr A* clusters |
16.05 | Discussion |
16.10 | Floris van der Tak
Max-Planck Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany Observations and models of H2D+ in star-forming regions |
16.30 | Discussion |
16.35 | Franck Le Petit
Observatoire de Paris, France H3+ in diffuse clouds: The question of ionization in the interstellar medium |
16.55 | Discussion |
17.00 | Greg Harris
University College London The role of H3+ in very metal deficient cool stars |
17.20 | Discussion |
17.25 | Closing
Jonathan Tennyson (to be confirmed) University College London |
H2D+: a light on the baryonic dark matter?, C. Dominik & C. Ceccarelli
Fesbach resonance of H3+, M. Jungen & M. Lehner
High-resolution visible spectroscopy of H3+, C. Morong, C. Neese, & T. Oka
H3+ as a trap for noble gases, F. Pauzat & Y. Ellinger
Search for H2 absorption lines toward the Galactic Centre, T. Usuda, M. Goto, N. Kobayashi, H. Terada, & K. S. Usuda
Possible configurations of clusters of H3+ and H2 and their energies, L. Ziemczonek, T. Wroblewski, & G. P. Karwasz
Ultracold molecular ions: towards precision spectroscopy of HD+, S. Schiller, B. Roth, H. Daerr, J. Koelemeu, & A. Nevsky
Deuterium chemistry in starforming regions, M. Emprectinger & M. C. Wiedner
The ion H3+ in a strong magnetic field in linear configuration, A. Turbiner, J. C. Lopez Vieyra, & N. L. Guevara
Exotic ion H3++ in strong magnetic fields: low-lying states, A. Turbiner, J. C. Lopez Vieyra, & N. L. Guevara