First ISSI meeting


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Session I:  INTRODUCTION TO ASTROCHEMISTRY AND GAS-PHASE DATABASES

Introduction to Astrochemistry and its Uses in Astronomy   
Ewine van Dishoeck

Classes of Reactions used in Models: what is known and what is not known  
Eric Herbst

Gas-Phase Networks and Models of Assorted Sources    
Tom Millar

The Meudon PDR Code       
Evelyne Roueff

Session II:  ESTIMATED UNCERTAINTIES IN RATE COEFFICIENTS AND HOW THEY ARE USED

Estimation of Rate Coefficient Uncertainties in Rate06   
Andrew Markwick-Kemper

Uncertainty representation and propagation in chemical networks    
Pascal Pernot

Abundance Uncertainties and Sensitivity Analyses in Cold and Hot Sources Using osu.2008   
Valentine Wakelam

Some Important Reactions   
 J.-C. Loison

Session III:   THEORY AND TEMPERATURE EXTRAPOLATION

Photoprocesses   
Ewine van Dishoeck

Neutral-neutral & ion-molecule reactions: detailed theories   
Juergen Troe

Low temperature extrapolations: methods of estimation   
Ian Smith

Ab initio potential surfaces and their uses   
Dahbia Talbi

Session IV:       GAS-PHASE EXPERIMENTS AND UNCERTAINTIES IN RATE COEFFICIENTS

Ion-neutral reactions       
Dieter Gerlich

Dissociative Recombination Reactions   
Wolf Geppert

Neutral-neutral reactions   
Ian Smith

Critical Analysis of Conflicting Data: Previous Evaluations   
Juergen Troe

Session V:    SURFACE CHEMISTRY AND UNCERTAINTIES

H2 formation in the laboratory: simple or complex?   
Liv Hornekaer

The formation of polyatomic molecules in the laboratory   
Harold Linnartz

Uncertainties in interstellar modeling: small particles, few reactive adsorbates   
 Eric Herbst

Uncertainties in stochastic simulations   
Herma Cuppen


Final remarks   



Second ISSI meeting


V. Wakelam: Identification of important reactions in dense clouds / Effects of new rate coefficients on models based on OSU


I. Smith: Neutral-Neutral rections / Association reactions


W. Geppert: Dissociation reactions  


M. Agundez Chico: Effects of new rate coefficients on models based on UMIST


E. Herbst: How do you construct a chemical network for astrochemistry?


P. Pernot: Uncertainty representations for dissociative electron recombination rates and branching ratios  


J. Troe: Ion-Polar reactions
/ New theory on electron-neutral sticking reactions

E. Roueff: Potential importance of neutral-neutral reactions with the CH2 radical
/ Influence of H2 formation rate in PdR models

H. Cuppen: Surface chemistry: Summary of Herma’s workshop
/ Influence of H formation rate in PdR models  

A. Vasyunin: Monte-carlo simulations versus rate coefficient methods


K. Oberg: News on photo-evaporation rates