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Ben Augenbraun, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Williams College will present on "Golden Opportunities: From Ultracold Molecules to Insights about Catalysis" in a joint Chemistry and Physics and Astronomy seminar. A recent triumph of physical chemistry has been to trap molecules at ultracold temperatures in “beakers” made of laser light. It is hoped that this will enable advances in quantum information science, precision measurement, and ultracold chemistry. In this talk, Augenbraun will first review recent work on molecular laser cooling. He will then discuss efforts at Williams College to identify new, complex molecules that can be cooled and trapped.