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Résumé: This is the annual scientific meeting of the Institute of Physics Superconductivity group, which accompanies the Annual General Meeting of the group. There are four invited speakers who will talk on a range of topics in fundamental and applied aspects of superconductivity research. There are also six short slots which will be filled by talks selected from submitted abstracts to the meeting. Hence this is a very good opportunity for UK superconductivity researchers to showcase their work. This year the meeting is sponsored by the Bristol/Cambridge/St.Andrews EPSRC portfolio partnership, as well as the Superconductivity group itself, which means that we have been able to keep the registration fees very low (only £10 for students!). So please use this opportunity to come to the meeting and present your work. As an added incentive there will be a prize of £150 for the best poster by a student.

Résumé: 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.