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Please note the seminar below. </span><span
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style="color:black">The speaker is Director of the Institute
of Theoretical Atomic, Molecular, Optical Physics at Harvard
and Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.</span><br>
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Monday 12th of May, 1pm:<o:p></o:p></span>
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in large carbon-rich structures:
how the first carbon molecules
may have synthesized
in interstellar space</span></b><span
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R. Sadeghpour, ITAMP - Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA 02138</span></i><span
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style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#222222">Carbon
is the 4th most abundant element
in the Universe. It is the
building block of
life. Hydrocarbons, alcohols,
acids, aldehydes, amines, and
sugar have been detected in
interstellar medium (ISM). There's
substantial evidence pointing to
the existence of polycyclic
aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in
space. Vibrational lines of
fullerenes have been detected in
the microwave in nebulae. The mere
fact that such atomistically
pristine molecules are now known
to exist in the dust of the ISM,
while their natural terrestrial
abundance is low,
raises fascinating challenges.
Where do they come from? How are
they synthesized? What are
the dynamics leading to
self-assembly and what are the
rates for such reactions? In this
presentation, I will attempt at
addressing some of these
questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Monday 12th of May, 1-2pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Lecture Theatre 100 (LT100), School of
Chemistry, Joseph Black Building, King's
Buildings Campus, University of Edinburgh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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information: Contact Adam Kirrander (<a
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href="mailto:Adam.Kirrander@ed.ac.uk">Adam.Kirrander@ed.ac.uk</a>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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will be served afterwards in the 'Museum'.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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Hossein R. Sadeghpour (Harvard, Director of
ITAMP, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itamp/">http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itamp/</a>)
is a theoretician with a wide range of
interests across ultracold chemistry,
nanodevices, and astrochemistry. He has
>120 publications, including papers in
Science and Nature.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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schedule a short meeting with Dr Sadeghpour, please
make an appointment on Doodle (</span><span
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or send an email to Adam Kirrander.</span></span><span
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Adam Kirrander<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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of Edinburgh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Black Building, West Mains Road<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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Scotland EH9 3JJ, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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+44-(0)131-6504716<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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+44-(0)7905-226075<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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