Cold and Ultracold Collisions:
How Photons can Sew Atoms into Molecules and Nanostructures

John Weiner
jweiner@annick2.umd.edu
Laboratoire des Collisions, Agregats, et Reactivite
IRSAMC, Universite Paul Sabatier
118 route de Narbonne, 3100 Toulouse, France
      and
Laboratory for Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Science and Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA

This talk will review theoretical and experimental developments in cold and ultracold collisions since there inception about ten years ago to their present role in quantum- statistical condensates. Optical control of inelastic processes and molecule formation will also be reviewed and future potential assessed.