Seminar on
Modern Optics and Spectroscopy


Andrey Vilesov, University of Southern California

"Molecular spectroscopy in quantum fluid clusters"

April 29, 2008

12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m. Grier Room 34-401


Abstract:

Spectra of molecules embedded in helium droplets provide a unique insight into superfluidity on an atomic scale.  Liquid helium is also a versatile, extremely cold matrix for assembling and studying of atomic and molecular clusters.  In this talk spectroscopic manifestations of superfluidity in helium droplets will be discussed.  Raman spectroscopic experiments aimed at the observation of superfluidity in liquid hydrogen will also be reviewed.

TUESDAYS, 12:00-1:00, GRIER ROOM (34-401)
Refreshments served following the seminar

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Co-sponsored by the George R. Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory,
the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and
the School of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.