Program overview

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, 25 OCTOBER 3900

Session IW1. Electron-Atom/Molecule Collisions I.

Wednesday afternoon, 14:00, Grand Ballroom D, Red Lion Hotel

14:00 IW1.001 Correlation studies of excitation and ionization of simple atoms by electron impact
Albert Crowe (University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, United Kingdom)
14:30 IW1.002 The Coulomb Three-Body Problem
Andris T Stelbovics (Center for Atomic, Molecular and Surface Physics, Division of Science and Engineering, Murdoch University, Perth, 6150 Western Australia)
15:00 IW1.003 Electron Impact Excitation of the Ne 2p^53s configuration
M. Larsen, X Guo, G Kleiban, J Wrkich, M. A. Khakoo (Physics Department, California State University, Fullerton), Physics Department Team
15:15 IW1.004 Electron-Impact Excitation of Krypton and Comparison with Other Rare-Gas Atoms
J. Ethan Chilton, M. D. Stewart, Chun C. Lin (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
15:30 IW1.005 ELECTRON-WATER COLLISIONS PROBED BY DIRECT AND LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE
T. Harb, W. Kedzierski, J.W. McConkey (University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, N9B 3P4.)
15:45 IW1.006 The Total Elastic Cross Section for Electron Scattering from SF_6
R J Gulley, H Cho, S J Buckman (Australian National University)

Session IW2. GEC Cell - 10 Year Perspective.

Wednesday afternoon, 14:00, Grand Ballroom C, Red Lion Hotel

14:00 IW2.001 The GEC Cell – An ``Historical'' Overview
James Olthoff (NIST)
14:30 IW2.002 A whirlwind tour of 10 years of progress in optical and microwave diagnostics in the GEC rf reference cell
Greg Hebner (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque NM)
15:00 IW2.003 Characterisation of GEC reference reactors.
W.G. Graham, E. Costa i Bricha, C.S. Corr, S. Gomez, J. McFarland, P.G. Steen, C.E. Thompson (Dept. of Pure and Applied Physics, The Queen's University, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland), C.M.O Mahony (University of Ulster, Northern Ireland)
15:15 IW2.004 2D+1 PIC-MCC Modelling of a RF driven, capacitively coupled GEC reference cell.
E. Costa i Bricha, P.G. Steen, W.G. Graham (Dept. of Pure and Applied Physics, The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland.), C.M.O. Mahony (N.I.B.E.C., University of Ulster at Jordanstown, Northern Ireland.)
15:30 IW2.005 Using Radio-Frequency Electrical Measurements as a Plasma Diagnostic
Mark Sobolewski (NIST, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA)