Program overview

THURSDAY MORNING, 23 OCTOBER 2003

Session QR1. Electron Scattering.

Thursday morning, 10:00, California Ballroom, Cathedral Hill Hotel

10:00 QR1.001 Collisions with Laser-Cooled, Metastable Helium Atoms
Stephen J. Buckman (RSPhysSE, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia)
10:30 QR1.002 Electron-Impact excitation into the 4p^55p levels of Kr out of the metastable levels
R O Jung, Tom Stone, John B Boffard, L W Anderson, Chun C Lin (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
10:45 QR1.003 Electron-Cesium collisions using a Magneto-Optical Trap
John MacAskill, Cormac McGrath, Wladyslaw Kedzierski, Justin Teeuwen, William McConkey (University of Windsor, Canada), Igor Bray (Murdoch University, Australia)
11:00 QR1.004 Selective Production of Nitrogen Metastable Excited Molecules by Impulse-Field Electron Acceleration Method
Hirotake Sugawara, Yosuke Sakai (Hokkaido University, Japan)
11:15 QR1.005 Low-energy electron collisions with quasi-two electron atoms
Klaus Bartschat (Drake University), Igor Bray (Murdoch University), Dmitry Fursa (Flinders University)

Session QR2. Environmental Applications.

Thursday morning, 10:00, International, Cathedral Hill Hotel

10:00 QR2.001 Abatement of atmospheric pollutants by plasma-catalysis association
Antoine Rousseau (GdR CATAPLASME, LPGP, bat 210 Univ. Paris-Sud / CNRS, 91405 Orsay, France)
10:30 QR2.002 In-situ observation of NO and NO_2 in streamer corona discharge by two-dimensional laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy
M. Aramaki, H. Kurakane, K. Sasaki (Department of Electronics, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8603 Japan)
10:45 QR2.003 Aftertreatments of environmentally hazardous materials by combinations of barrier discharges with densification by adsorption/trapping
Yukihiko Yamagata, Takashi Ebihara, Shiro Kuba, Katsunori Muraoka (Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu Univ., JAPAN)
11:00 QR2.004 Use of an Atmospheric-Pressure Plasma to Treat the Exhaust of a 160 Hp Diesel Engine
D. Dietz, S. Wieman, T. Chou, T.L. Su, O. Mogzina, D. Vaccari, C. Christodoulatos, G. Korfiatis, K. Becker (Stevens Institute of Technology), E. Houston, P.J. Ricatto, R. Crowe (PlasmaSol Corp.)
11:15 QR2.005 On synergetic effects at destroying of toluene and TCE by DC glow discharge and streamer corona at atmospheric pressure
Yuri Akishev, Vladimir Karalnik, Igor Kochetov, Anton Monich, Anatoly Napartovich, Nikolay Trushkin (State Research Center of Russian Federation Troitsk Institute for Innovation and Fusion Research (SRC RF TRINITI))