American Physical Society March meeting 2008
Focus session on Cold Molecules

Speakers

The focus session features ten invited speakers presenting recent experimental and theoretical results and developments. In addition, a number of contributed talks and posters can be presented, see the abstract submission site for details.

Confirmed invited speakers

Massimo Boninsegni	University of Alberta, Edmonton, AL, Canada	Simulation of molecular hydrogen clusters: Quantum melting, superfluidity and Bose condensation
David DeMille	Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA	Production and optical trapping of ultracold RbCs molecules
Wolfgang Jäger	University of Alberta, Edmonton, AL, Canada	Microwave spectroscopy of doped helium clusters and doped helium droplets
Gerard Meijer	Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG, Berlin, Germany	Molecular collision studies with Stark-decelerated beams
Takamasa Momose	University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada	Spectroscopy of large hydrogen clusters in He droplets
Hanns-Christoph Nägerl	Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria	Collisions of ultracold molecules
Frank Stienkemeier	University of Freiburg, Germany	Femtosecond dynamics and superfluidity in helium nanodroplets
Roland Wester	University of Freiburg, Germany	Reactions of cold trapped anions
K. Birgitta Whaley	University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA	Coherent boson dynamics in strongly localized potentials - helium excitations at planar aromatic molecules and trapped cold atoms
Jun Ye	JILA, Boulder, CO, USA	Cold and ultracold polar molecules

Contributed talks and posters

There are preliminary lists of contributed talks and contributed posters.