registration and abstract for invited speaker Eric Herbst (NASA LAW)

[Eric Herbst <herbst@mps.ohio-state.edu>]

Registration form  (INVITED SPEAKER)
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Last name:  Herbst
First name:  Eric
Middle name/initial:
Affiliation:  Department of Physics, The Ohio State University
Street Address: Physics Research Building, 191 W. Woodruff Ave.
City:  Columbus
State:  Ohio
Postal Code: 43210-1107
Country: USA
Tel: 614-2926951
Fax: 614-292-7557
E mail:  herbst@mps.ohio-state.edu
Citizenship*: USA
Abstract title  "Astrochemistry"  (invited)
Special requirements:
*Non-US citizens should contact Cara Loomis if travel reimbursement 
for the Workshop is required.


I have attached tex and pdf versions of the abstract.  The tex 
version is also below:

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\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

\title{Astrochemistry}

\author{Eric Herbst}

\date{2 January 2006}

\maketitle

\begin{abstract}
In this talk, I will emphasize some current needs of astrochemists 
for laboratory data.  The data are urgently required both to detect 
molecules in assorted regions and to produce robust models of these 
regions.  Three areas of laboratory-based research are particularly 
crucial and yet are not being studied in the United States: (i) 
reactions more complex than the formation of molecular hydrogen on 
interstellar grain analogs (or actual dust particles) at low 
temperatures, (ii) molecular spectroscopy in the THz (far-infrared) 
region of the electromagnetic spectrum, and (iii) gas-phase kinetics 
of reactions leading to simple and complex molecules.  Reactions on 
cold granular surfaces are known to lead to species as large as 
methanol, yet the few that have been studied in any detail have been 
measured in Japanese laboratories.  Molecular spectroscopy at THz 
frequencies will be needed to make sense out of the data to come from 
SOFIA and the Herschel telescope, yet currently only one laboratory 
is well-known for such measurements, and it is located in 
Germany.  Finally, although ion-molecule reactions seem to explain, 
at least semi-quantitatively, much of the chemistry occurring in cold 
interstellar clouds, the far more complex gas-phase chemistry that 
occurs near star-forming regions in so-called hot cores and 
hot-corinos has not been studied with the completeness that is 
required. Moreover, there are even large gaps in our knowledge of 
low-temperature chemistry in the gas phase, some quite 
serious.  Without solid knowledge of many unstudied but key 
reactions, both in the gas and on grains, astrochemists will not be 
in position to keep up with the large amount of new information 
expected to come from the next generation of telescopes.

\end{abstract}

\end{document}


Eric Herbst
Distinguished University Professor of Physics, Chemistry, and Astronomy
The Ohio State University
Department of Physics
Physics Research Building
191 W. Woodruff Ave.
Columbus, OH 43210-1107 USA
tel.: 614-292-6951
fax: 614-292-7557 

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% Sample abstract for submission to NASA LAW 2006.
% See page 181-183 of Leslie Lamport's LaTeX book (second edition)
% for more info.
%
\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

\title{Astrochemistry}

\author{Eric Herbst}

\date{2 January 2006}

\maketitle

\begin{abstract}
In this talk, I will emphasize some current needs of astrochemists for laboratory data.  The data are urgently required both to detect molecules in assorted regions and to produce robust models of these regions.  Three areas of laboratory-based research are particularly crucial and yet are not being studied in the United States: (i) reactions more complex than the formation of molecular hydrogen on interstellar grain analogs (or actual dust particles) at low temperatures, (ii) molecular spectroscopy in the THz (far-infrared) region of the electromagnetic spectrum, and (iii) gas-phase kinetics of reactions leading to simple and complex molecules.  Reactions on cold granular surfaces are known to lead to species as large as methanol, yet the few that have been studied in any detail have been measured in Japanese laboratories.  Molecular spectroscopy at THz frequencies will be needed to make sense out of the data to come from SOFIA and the Herschel telescope, yet currently only one laboratory is well-known for such measurements, and it is located in Germany.  Finally, although ion-molecule reactions seem to explain, at least semi-quantitatively, much of the chemistry occurring in cold interstellar clouds, the far more complex gas-phase chemistry that occurs near star-forming regions in so-called hot cores and hot-corinos has not been studied with the completeness that is required. Moreover, there are even large gaps in our knowledge of low-temperature chemistry in the gas phase, some quite serious.  Without solid knowledge of many unstudied but key reactions, both in the gas and on grains, astrochemists will not be in position to keep up with the large amount of new information expected to come from the next generation of telescopes.

\end{abstract}

\end{document}

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