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2013 Awards Program Symposium
"MOLECULES in SPACE"








~PROGRAM~

2:00-2:10 Opening:
Doug Doren
Associate Dean, College of Arts and Science, University of Delaware
Ed Sion
Chair of the Physics Cluster of the Franklin Institute Committee on Science and the Arts

2:10-2:45
David Neufeld (Johns Hopkins University):
Small Interstellar Molecules and What They Tell Us

2:45-3:20
Eric Herbst (University of Virginia):
Organic Molecules in Star-Forming Regions

3:20-3:40 Coffee break

3:40-4:15
Tom Hartquist (University of Leeds):
Molecules in Astrophysical Accretion - From Protoplanetary Discs to Clusters of Galaxies

4:15-4:50
Alex Dalgarno (Harvard University):
The Growth of Molecular Complexity in the Universe