Austria, November 18, 2012

It is the aim of this conference to bring together
scientists from these diverse fields, which are now
contributing to an increasing extent to developing new ideas
and approaches for the realization of cold and ultracold
molecular gases and to identifying new research directions
and applications of these novel systems.

Description:

 

During the last 15 years spectacular advances have been made 

in controlling quantum systems composed of atomic 

constituents, revolutionizing the field of traditional 

atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) physics and opening up 

new and spectacular avenues in such diverse areas as 

precision spectroscopy, quantum information, quantum 

many-body and condensed matter physics. The challenge is now 

to reach the same level of control in molecular systems, for 

which the presence of additional microscopic degrees of 

freedom promises a new era for quantum physics and 

chemistry. In this emerging, strongly multi-disciplinary 

field, challenges range from the production of cold and 

ultracold molecules to the application of these cold and 

ultracold molecules to precision spectroscopy, few-body and 

many-body quantum physics, chemical physics, and quantum 

chemistry. It is the aim of this conference to bring 

together scientists from these diverse fields, which are now 

contributing to an increasing extent to developing new ideas 

and approaches for the realization of cold and ultracold 

molecular gases and to identifying new research directions 

and applications of these novel systems. This conference 

will be structured to initiate and foster intensive 

collaborations, in particular between theory and experiment, 

which will be an essential ingredient for the overall 

progress of this interdisciplinary field.