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******* Apologies for cross postings ******* We are glad to inform you about the recent publication of a book on Cold Chemistry It contains a collection of 13 tutorial style chapters on key aspects of Cold Chemistry, and we were happy to have assembled an expert group of authors that each wrote about their field of expertise, as evidenced by the table of contents below. The book is intended to serve as an entry-point for new scientists to enter the field of cold and ultracold chemistry in the broad sense, as well as a general reference for advanced scientists. It can be downloaded from http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/9781782626800 and will also become available in print very soon. With our best regards, Andreas Osterwalder and Oliver Dulieu, Editors Cold Chemistry: Molecular Scattering and Reactivity Near Absolute Zero Abstract: Recent years have seen tremendous progress in research on cold and controlled molecular collisions, both in theory and in experiment. The advent of techniques to prepare cold and ultracold molecules and ions, to store them in optical lattices or in charged quasicristalline structures, and to use them in crossed or merged beam experiments have opened many new possibilities to study the most fundamental aspects of molecular interactions. At the same time, theoretical work has made progress in tackling these problems and accurately describing quantum effects in complex systems, and in proposing viable options to control chemical reactions at ultralow energies. Through tutorials on both the theoretical and experimental aspects of research in cold and ultracold molecular collisions, this book provides advanced undergraduate students, graduate students and researchers with the foundations needed to understand this exciting field. Contents: Foreword by Dudley Herschbach 1. Low-Temperature Chemistry in Uniform Supersonic Flows, M. Fournier, S. D. Le Picard and I. R. Sims 2. Cold Molecular Collisions: Quantum Scattering Calcula- tions and Their Relevance in Astrophysical Applications, J. Kłos and F. Lique 3. Low-energy Scattering in Crossed Molecular Beams, C. Naulin and A. Bergeat 4. Long-range Interactions Between Ultracold Atoms and Molecules, M. Lepers and O.Dulieu 5. Interactions of Atoms and Molecules in Cold Chemistry, M. Hapka and P. S. Zuchowski 6. Effects of External Magnetic Fields on Cold Molecular Collisions, T. V. Tscherbul 7. Role of Resonances at Ultracold Temperatures, R. Côté 8. Experiments with Large Superfluid Helium Nanodroplets, R. M. P. Tanyag, C. F. Jones, C. Bernando, S. M. O. O’Connell, D. Verma and A. F. Vilesov 9. Molecular Impurities Interacting with a Many-particle Environment: From Ultracold Gases to Helium Nanodroplets M. Lemeshko and R. Schmidt 10. Cold Ion chemistry, D. Zhang and S. Willitsch 11. Controlling a Quantum Gas of Polar Molecules in an Optical Lattice J. P. Covey, S. A. Moses, J. Ye and D. S. Jin 12. Ultracold Collisions of Molecules, G. Quéméner 13. Coherent Control of Cold Collisions, C. Koch To join or leave the molecular-dynamics-news email list, go to: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/molecular-dynamics-news.html