Ion chemistry in space is a long-standing subject and has recently emerged again in the focus of scientific interests due to the detection of anions and the identification of several new ionic species by the Herschel Space Telescope. The programme consists of 8 sessions covering a wide range of different observational, experimental and theoretical research approches to the subject. Furthermore, one additional session is devoted to recent new developments in the general field of astrochemistry. A poster session will be held on Tuesday, May 17th 2011 in the evening. The dimensions of the poster boards are 150 (height)x 100 cm (width) in the portrait format. So DIN A0 in the portrait format should be fine.

A preliminary schedule of the programme can be downloaded as. doc file from this link.

Confirmed speakers are:

Christian Alcaraz, Université Paris-Sud, France
Daniela Ascenzi, University of Trento, Italy
Thorsten Best, University of Freiburg, Germany
Arnold Benz, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
Veronica Bierbaum, JILA, USA
Cecilia Ceccarelli, Grenoble Observatory, France
Henrik Cederquist, Stockhom University
Claudio Codella, Observatory of Arcetri, Italy
Stephan Denifl, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Odile Dutuit, Grenoble Observatory, France
Felipe Ferreira da Silva, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Alexandre Faure, Grenoble Observatory, France
David Field, Aarhus University
Franco Gianturco, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
Benjamin Godard, Observatory Paris-Meudon, France
Pascal Honvault, University of Franche-Comte, France
Viatcheslav Kokoouline, University of Central Florida, USA
Tomas Kotrik, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic
Nigel Mason, The Open University, UK
Tom J. Millar, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Oldřich Novotny, Columbia University, USA
Laurent Pagani, Observatory Paris-Meudon, France
Bérengère Parise, MPI for Radio Astronomy, Germany
Radek Plasil, Charles University of Prague, Czech Republic
Stephan Schlemmer, University of Cologne
Wing-Fai Thi, Grenoble Observatory, France
Roland Thissen, Grenoble Observatory, France
Einar Uggerud, Oslo University, Norway
Veronique Vuitton, Grenoble Observatory, France
Andreas Wolf, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Germany
Jan Žabka, J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, Prague, Czech Republic

Social programme

A lecture about the history of astronomy in Prague will be given been at the conference venue on Wednesday 18 May 2011. This will be followed by a nighttime walk through Prague (with some astronomically relevant sights).
The conference banquet will be held at the restaurant "Villa Richter" (Staré zámecké schody 6/251, 118 00, Praha 1, Pražský hrad, phone ++420–257–219–079 ) on the slope of Prague Castle (with magnificent view on the on the Vltava and he Old City) on Thursday May 19, 20:00. A map with directions is found below. For those who do not feel confident to find the place: We will meet you on Thursday 19:45 at the exit of Malostranská subway station.

Accompanying persons can take part in the conference banquet for EUR 60,- (or CZK 1500,-) to be paid in cash upon registration.