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Essay Titles for the Winter School in Theoretical Chemistry 2006
Astrochemistry
December 11th–14th, 2006
Choose one of the essay titles below, write an essay, and
e-mail it to Dage Sundholm at sundholm@chem.helsinki.fi.
pdf files are recommended, and Word-documents are discouraged.
The dead-line is February 1st, 2007.
Titles
- Cyanopolyynes and cyanopolyyne radicals: high-level ab initio calculations,
microwave and millimetrewave spectroscopy and radioastronomical observations
Refs: PCCP 5 (2003) 3337; CPL 421 (2006) 488; TCA 114 (2005) 350. (PB)
- Pure carbon chains (n=3-13): coupled cluster calculations, high-resolution
IR spectrosopy and IR astronomy, Refs: PCCP 5 (2003) 3337; CPL 421 (2006) 488; TCA 114 (2005) 350. (PB)
- New insights into the chemistry of Titan's atmosphere and ionosphere from
the Cassini-Huygens mission (WG)
- Evidence of water on Mars - a critical review (WG)
- Deuterium fractionation in different interstellar environments and the
chemistry behind it (WG)
- The use of astronomical observations of HCO+ and DCO+ to determine the
electron abundance in cold clouds (TM)
- The formation of carbon-chain molecules in the envelopes of carbon-rich,
late-type stars (TM)
- The role of neutral-neutral reactions in the formation of interstellar
molecules at low temperature - experiment and theory (TM)
- Deuterium Fractionation - a hot topic in astrochemistry (SS)
- The role of ions in space (SS)
- The role of spectroscopy for astronomy (SS)
- The interplay of theory and experiment in laboratory astrophysics (JS)
- The role of vibronic coupling in electronic spectra (JS)
- How does the spectrum of a molecule change with temperature? (JT)
- Physics of molecular opacity (JT)
- Your own title related to the theme of the Winter School
If you have questions or need help to find references, you are welcome
to contact the lecturers.
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