Meeting Contributions
    I. Presentations and Posters:
    1. 13th International Meeting "Laser Induced Chemistry", Bechyne (Chezck Republic), September 1989.
      "Emission of excited acetone vapour at low pressures"
       
    2. 8th Interdisciplinary Laser Science Conference, Albuquerque (New Mexico), September 1992.
      "Experimental and calculated transition probabilities in the OH A-X system"
       
    3. Fall Meeting of the Western States Section of the Combustion Institute, Berkeley,(California), October 1992.
      "Calculated transition probabilities in the A-X system of OH".
       
    4. 48th International Symposium of Molecular Spectroscopy, Columbus (Ohio), June 1993.
      "Transition probabilities for the OH (A-X) system"
      "Electronic transition moment for the B-X system of NO"
       
    5. 9th Interdisciplinary Laser Science Conference, Toronto (Canada), September 1993.
      "Rotational dependence of quenching of NO B by NO and O2".
      "Electronic transition moment in the nitric oxide B-X system".
       
    6. Fall Meeting of the Western States Section of the Combustion Institute, Menlo Park (California), November 1993.
      "Quenching of the A and B states of nitric oxide".
       
    7. Spring Meeting of the Western States Section of the Combustion Institute, Davis (California), March 1994.
      "Calculated rotational radiative lifetimes and transition probabilities in CH (A-X) and (B-X)".
    8. 25th International Symposium on Combustion, Irvine (California), August 1994.
      "Calculated rotationally dependent transition probabilities for OH and CH"
       
    9. 10th European Conference on Dynamics of Molecular Collisions, Salamanca (Spain), August 1994.
      "Photodissociation of ketene at 193 nm: one and two photon processes"
       
    10. 42nd annual meeting of the Western Spectroscopy Association, Monterey (CA),February 1995.
      "Determination of the electronic transition moment of CS (A-X) from experimental branching ratio measurements"
       
    11. 50th International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy, Columbus (Ohio), June 1995.
      "Predissociation and rotational energy transfer in CH B (v’=0, N’>14; v’=1, N’>6)"
      "Experimental detemination of electronic transition moments in hydrides: OH (A-X), CH (A-X) and CH (B-X)."
       
    12. Gordon Research Conference of Laser Diagnostics in Combustion, Plymouth (MA), July (1995).
      "Laser-induced fluorescence determination of absolute CH radical concentration in a low pressure flame"
      "Comparison of several laser-based temperature measurement methods in a low pressure flame".
       
    13. 11th Interdisciplinary Laser Science Conference, Portland (Oregon) September 1995.
      "Quantitative temperature measurements using NO A-X laser-induced fluorescence."
      "Absolute concentration measurements of CH radicals using laser-induced fluorescence".
      "Transition probabilities and collisional quenching of the CS A-X system".
       
    14. Fall meeting of the Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute, Worcester (MA) October 1995.
      "Laser-induced fluorescence measurements of temperature in low-pressure flames"
       
    15. 1995 International symposium of the American flame comittee, Monterey (CA) October 1995.
      "Laser diagnostics and computer models of NOx formation chemistry in natural gas combustion".
       
    16. Fall meeting of the Western States Section of the Combustion Institute, Stanford (CA) October 1995.
      "Absolute measurements of CH radical concentrations in low pressure flames using laser- induced fluorescence"
       
    17. 1995 International Gas Research Conference, France, November (1995)
      "Laser-induced fluorescence measurements of CH radicals in natural gas flames"
       
    18. 43nd annual meeting of the Western Spectroscopy Association, Monterey (CA),February 1996.
      "Concentration of CH and C3 and temperature profile in arcjets for CVD of diamond"
       
    19. Spring meeting of the Western States Section of the Combustion Institute, Tempe (AZ) March 1996.
      "Absolute concentration measurements of CH radical in a diamond depositing dc-arcjet reactor"
       
    20. Optical Society of America topical meeting on Laser applications to Chemical and enviromental analysis. Orlando (Florida), March 1996.
      "NO laser-induced fluorescence as a flame thermometer"
      "Quantitative detection of CH radicals by laser-induced fluorescence in arcjets and flames".
       
    21. 26th International Symposium on Combustion, Naples (Italy), July 1996.
      "Quantitative CH determinations in low pressure flames"
      "Absolute LIF measurements of C2 and CH during Diamond Chemical Deposition"
       
    22. Gordon Research Conference on Diamond. Plymouth (MA), August 1996.
      "Optical measurements to characterize a dc-arcjet plasma during diamond CVD"
      "Number densities of CH, C2 and C3 in dc-arcjet plasma during diamond CVD"
       
    23. Fall meeting of the Western States Section of the Combustion Institute, Los Angeles (CA) October 1996.
      "Atomic hydrogen concentration in a diamond depositing dc-arcjet determined by calorimetry"
      "Spatial distributions of C2, C3 and CH radicals in a diamond depositing dc-arcjet reactor"
       
    24.  Optical Society of America, Rochester, NY, October 1996.
      "Determination of Atomic Hydrogen Density in a Plume of a dc-Arcjet via Optical Measurements"
       
    25. 35th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno (NV), January 1997
      "Optical measurements to characterize a dc-arcjet plasma during diamond CVD".
       
    26.  Western States Section of the Combustion Institute, Paper 97S-014, Livermore, CA, April, 1997.
      "Two-photon laser-induced fluorescence of atomic hydrogen in a diamond depositing dc-arcjet"
      "Quenching of CH A, NO A, OH A in low pressure hydrocarbon flames"
       
    27.   Gordon Research Conference on Laser Diagnostics, Plymouth, NH, July, 1997.
      "LIFBASE: Spectral simulation and database for diatomic molecules"
       
    28. 8th European Conference on Diamond and Diamond like Materials, Edingburgh, Scotland, UK, August, 1997,
      "Absolute concentration, temperature, and velocity measurements in a diamond depostiong dc-arcjet reactor"
       
    29.  12th International Conference on Gas Discharges, Greifswald, Germany, September, 1997.
      "Diamond deposition in a dc-arcjet reactor and plasma characterization by spectroscopy"
       
    30.  Optical Society of America, Rochester, Long Beach CA, October 1997.
      "Radiative and collisional processes in NO A v'=4 and NO D v'=0"
      "Excited states distributions in a diamond depositing dc-arcjet reactor"
       
    31. Western States Section of the Combustion Institute,  Berkeley, CA, March, 1998.
      "LIFBASE:  A database and spectral simulation tool for OH,CH, CN and NO"
     
    32.  American Vacuum Society meeting, Millbrae, CA, October, 1998.
         "Velocity, temperature and chemical composition of a dc-arcjet plume"
     
    33.  Gordon Research Conference on Laser Diagnostics, Il Ciocco, Italy, June, 1999.
                "Radiative, collisional and predissociative effects in CH quantitative laser-induced fluorescence"
                "Transition probabilities and lifetimes in A-X, D-X and D-A transitions of NO"
                "Comparison of non-predissociated and predissociated Laser-induced fluorescence of CH in an atmospherice pressure         partially premixed flame"
     
    34. 25th International Free Radicals Symposium, Flagstaff, AZ, USA, August 1999.
    "Collisional processes near the CH B v'=0,1 predissociation limit and their application to laser-induced fluorescence flame diagnostics"
     
    35.  Optical Society of America Annual meeting, Santa Clara,CA, USA September, 1999.
    "Comparison between predissociative and non-predissociative laser-induced fluorescence of CH B v'=0,1 in atmospheric pressure flames"
     
    36.  Fall  meeting of the Western States Section of the Combustion Institute, Long Beach (CA), October 1999
    "Predissociative and non-predissociative laser-induced fluorescence of CH B v'=0,1 in atmospheric pressure flames"
     
    37. American Flame Research Committee Meeting, San Francisco (CA), USA  1999
    "Laser imaging diagnostics for Bunsen flame pollutant sources"
     
    38. Society of fluid dynamics and heat, Veldhoven, The Netherlands, November 1999.
    "Predissociative and non-predissociative laser-induced fluorescence of CH B v'=0,1 in atmospheric pressure flames"
     
    39. 38th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, NV, USA, January, 2000
    "Predissociative and non-predissociative laser-induced fluorescence of CH B v'=0,1 in atmospheric pressure flames"
     
    40. Optical Society of America topical meeting on Laser applications to chemical and environmental  analysis. Santa Fe (New Mexico), February 2000.
    "Atmospheric pressure laser-induced fluorescence measurements of CH using B state levels near predissociation"
     
     

     
II. Invited Presentations:
     
    1.  "Optical Measurements to Characterize a dc-Arcjet Plume During Diamond CVD," Jay B. Jeffries, J. Luque, Elizabeth Brinkman, and Wolfgang Juchmann, Diamond Gordon Research Conference, Plymouth, NH, August, 1996.
     
    2.  "Optical Measurements to Understand the Chemistry of Diamond CVD," Jay B. Jeffries, J. Luque, Elizabeth Brinkman, and Wolfgang Juchmann, American Chemical Society, Orlando, FL, August, 1996.
     
    3.  "Optical Measurements to Characterize the Reactive Flow from a dc-Arcjet Plasma," Jay B. Jeffries, J. Luque, and Wolfgang Juchmann, Gordon Research Conference on Laser Diagnostics, Plymouth, NH, July, 1997.
     

    4.  "Diagnostics in a diamond depositing dc-arcjet", Jorge Luque, Plasma Etchers User Group, Sunnyvale, CA USA, September 1999


III. Invited Courses:


 
1. "Aplications of Laser-Induced Fluorescence to Chemical systems: Plasmas and Combustion". University of Barcelona, Spain, December 16-17, 1997