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The exchange of experience between experimenters and theoreticians involved in high-resolution spectroscopy is the goal of the organizers of the prestigious Summer Bridging Experiment and Theory in Precision Spectroscopy (BETS) organized by scientists from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń on June 26-30, 2018.

The organizers of the project are: dr Dariusz Kędziera (chairman, NCU Faculty of Chemistry, dr habil. Michał Zawada, NCU Prof. (NCU Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Informatics) and Dr. Justyna Cembrzyńska (President of the Management Board of the Alexander Jabłoński Foundation). The Scientific Committee includes: Attila Császár (Eötvö Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary), Majdi Hochlaf (University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France) and Prof. dr habil. Roman Ciuryło (Nicolaus Copernicus University).

The school is addressed mainly to doctoral students studying physics or chemistry, but also students of first and second cycle studies and persons with the title of doctor. From among 36 participants, half have Polish affiliations (of which 10 are from UMK), the rest come from the European Union countries.

The official opening of the School took place on Tuesday, June 26 at 9:30 in the University Hotel at ul. Szosa Chełmińska 83a in Toruń. Lectures began at 10.00. See the programme in English.

Among the speakers there are 10 scientists who will present various aspects of spectroscopy. Lectures on theoretical description of molecules (electron structure, vibrational states, resonances, and dynamics of cold molecules) will be conducted by: Mariusz Puchalski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań), Tucker Carrington (Queen's University, Kingston, Canada), Tamas Szidarovszky (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest), Piotr Żuchwski (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń). Experimental techniques will be presented by: Benoît Darquié (Université Paris 13, Villetaneuse), Maximilian Beyer (ETH, Zürich), Nikku Madhusudhan (University of Cambridge), Michael Tarbutt (Iperial College London), Daniel Lisak (NCU, Toruń), Piotr Masłowski (NCU, Toruń), who will discuss the spectroscopy of ultracold molecules, loss spectroscopy in the frequency stabilization cavity, parity violation in chiral molecules, ultra-precise spectroscopy of multi-electron systems and the use of spectroscopy in astrochemistry and astrophysics.

The school is fully funded by CMST COST Action CM1405 Molecules in Motion (cost-molim.eu). The head of the Action is Attila Csaszar (Eötvös University, Budapest), who participate in the meeting in Toruń. It is worth noting that the members of the Action Management Committee are two scientists from the Nicolaus Copernicus University: Prof. dr habil. Roman Ciuryło from the Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Informatics and Dr Dariusz Kędziera from the Faculty of Chemistry

To find out more about the Summer School BETS at the NCUvisit: bets-molim.faj.org.pl