Meeting Schedule
Thurs Nov 5: Harvard-Smithsonian CfA & Jefferson Laboratory, Harvard Main Campus
8:00-12:00 Phillips Auditorium at CfA
8:00-8:10 Opening remarks (Jim Parker) and MURI overview (Dave DeMille)
8:10-8:40 Martin Zwierlein, MIT: “Coherent control of ultracold polar molecules of NaK”
8:40-9:10 Alan Jamison/Ketterle group, MIT: “Toward Ground-State NaLi Molecules”
9:10-9:40 Subhadeep Gupta, Univ. of Washington: “Towards Doublet-Sigma YbLi Molecules with an all-optical approach”
9:40-10 Coffee Break
10:00-10:30 Constantinos Makrides/Kotochigova group, Temple Univ: “Reactivity, photoassociation, and laser control of ultracold polar molecules”
10:30-11:00 Bala Naduvalath, Univ. Nevada, Las Vegas: “Geometric Phase Effects in Ultracold Chemistry”
11:00-11:30 Nandini Mukherjee/Zare group, Stanford: “Preparation of vibrationally excited quantum states of H2 molecules using Stark induced adiabatic Raman passage (SARP)”
11:30-12:00 John Bohn, JILA: “Scattering of Ultracold Dipoles”
12-1:45 Lunch (individual) on Massachusetts Ave. & walk to Jefferson Lab
1:45-6:00 Jefferson Laboratory, Harvard Main Campus
1:45-3:45: Talks in Jefferson room 250
1:45-2:15 Robin Cote, Univ. of Connecticut: “Resonances in ultracold reactions”
2:15-2:45 Dave DeMille, Yale: “Sub-millikelvin molecules in a radiofrequency magneto-optical trap”
2:45-3:05 Steven Moses/Ye group, JILA: “A low entropy quantum gas of molecules in a 3D optical lattice”
3:05-3:15 Dave Reens/Ye group, JILA: “An improved trap for OH and cooling for YO”
4:00-6:00 Poster Session in Physics Library
Fri Nov 6: Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
8:15-12:30 Phillips Auditorium at CfA
8:15-8:25 Opening Remarks (Parker/Baker and Hudson)
8:25-8:55 Ken Brown, GaTech: “Expanding the catalog of cold molecular ions ”
8:55-9:25 Robin Cote, Univ. of Connecticut: “Charge exchange reactions in ultracold samples”
9:30-10:00 Coffee Break
10:00-10:30 Eric Hudson, UCLA: “Controlling quantum-state-resolved chemistry”
10:30-11:00 Svetlana Kotochigova, Temple: “Sympathetic cooling and photodissociation of heavy molecular ions”
11:00-11:30 Brian Odom, Northwestern: “Toward Controlled Molecular-Ion Chemistry with Single-Particle Resolution”
11:30-12:00 Arthur Suits, Wayne State/ U. Missouri: “State-resolved merged beam and intrabeam ion-molecule reactions at low temperature”
12:30-2:00 Lunch (individual)
2:00-5:00 Lab tours