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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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