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abstract: There have been enormous recent advances in our ability to produce and trap samples of translationally cold molecules (below 1 K) and ultracold molecules (below 1 mK). Molecules such as NH3, OH and NH have been cooled from room temperature to the milliKelvin regime by a variety of methods including buffer-gas cooling and Stark deceleration. Molecules have also been produced in ultracold atomic gases by photoassociation and magnetoassociation of pairs of atoms. Bose-Einstein condensates have been produced for dimers of both bosonic and fermionic alkali metal atoms, and the first signatures of ultracold triatomic and tetraatomic molecules have been observed.

The new capabilities open up many exciting prospects, including:

The study of collision processes in unprecedented detail using cooled or velocity-controlled species

The use of cold molecules in high-precision measurement to observe fundamentally important quantities

The production of quantum gases of dipolar molecules, which would exhibit many new properties

The use of cold molecules as qubits in quantum computing

Controlled ultracold chemistry, in which controlled chemical changes are achieved coherently for large samples using external fields.

abstract: In June 2007, a workshop on Non-equilibrium behaviour in superfluid gases at finite temperature was held in Sandbjerg, Denmark. At its conclusion it was decided to hold another workshop in approximately two years time, on such topics as kinetic equations, classical field theory, Kadanoff-Baym equations, projected Gross-Pitaevskii equations, the truncated Wigner approximation, Positive P, 2PI, etc., in particular as applied to cold, trapped atomic and molecular gases, but also on solid state systems that can be treated in a formally similar way. We intend to hold such a workshop at Van Mildert College, in Durham, England in September 2009.