Session B1: Matter Optics and Atom Chips

Chair: Herman Batelaan, University of Nebraska
Burnham Yates Conference Center - Ballroom I


Wednesday, May 18, 2005
10:30AM - 11:06AM

B1.00001: Quantum Optics of Ultracold Molecular Dimers
Invited Speaker: Pierre Meystre

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
11:06AM - 11:42AM

B1.00002: An Atom Michelson Interferometer on a Chip
Invited Speaker: Dana Z. Anderson

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
11:42AM - 12:18PM

B1.00003: Biprism interferometry with electrons and ions, a valuable tool to study the fundamentals of quantum mechanics and quantum statistics
Invited Speaker: Franz Hasselbach

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
12:18PM - 12:54PM

B1.00004: Novel methods for matter interferometry with nanosized objects
Invited Speaker: Markus Arndt

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Session B2: Applications of AMO Science to Astrophysics

Chair: D. Schultz, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Burnham Yates Conference Center - Ballroom II


Wednesday, May 18, 2005
10:30AM - 11:06AM

B2.00001: Rovibrationally-Resolved Reactions for Early Universe Chemistry
Invited Speaker: P.C. Stancil

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
11:06AM - 11:42AM

B2.00002: Laboratory Cosmology
Invited Speaker: Daniel Wolf Savin

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
11:42AM - 12:18PM

B2.00003: X-Ray Emission in the Solar System
Invited Speaker: Thomas Cravens

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
12:18PM - 12:54PM

B2.00004: Atomic Processes in X-ray Photoioinzed Gas
Invited Speaker: Timothy Kallman

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Session B3: Electron Collisions

Chair: Murtadha Khakoo, California State University, Fullerton
Burnham Yates Conference Center - Olive Branch


Wednesday, May 18, 2005
10:30AM - 10:42AM

B3.00001: Electron collisions with Fe peak elements : Application of PRMAT parallel R-matrix codes
P.G. Burke , A. Hibbert , B.M. McLaughlin , C.A. Ramsbottom , M.P. Scott , V.M. Burke , C.J. Noble , A.G. Sunderland

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
10:42AM - 10:54AM

B3.00002: Direct and indirect relativistic effect on electron scattering from cesium and gold atoms
Junfang Gao , Rencheng Shang , Wenning Pang

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
10:54AM - 11:06AM

B3.00003: Channel-coupling and second-order effects in electron-impact excitation of Ar(3p) and Ar(3s)
Klaus Bartschat , Oleg Vorov

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
11:06AM - 11:18AM

B3.00004: Electron-impact excitation of FeII
Oleg Zatsarinny , Klaus Bartschat

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
11:18AM - 11:30AM

B3.00005: MQDT and wave packet study of dissociative recombination of Ne$_{2}^{+}$
Valery Ngassam , Ousmanou Motapon , Annick Suzor-Weiner , Ann E. Orel

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
11:30AM - 11:42AM

B3.00006: Dissociative Electron Attachment to Water: Treatment of $^2B_1$, $^2A_1$, and $^2B_2$ resonances
Daniel Haxton , Thomas Rescigno , C. William McCurdy

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
11:42AM - 11:54AM

B3.00007: Electron Impact Vibrational Excitation and Dissociative Attachment of Nitric Oxide
Cynthia Trevisan , Karel Houfek , Zhiyong Zhang , Ann Orel , Clyde McCurdy , Thomas Rescigno

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
11:54AM - 12:06PM

B3.00008: Dissociative attachment and vibrational excitation in low-energy electron-CF$_3$I collisions
I. Fabrikant , S. Marienfeld , M. Braun , M. Ruf , H. Hotop

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
12:06PM - 12:18PM

B3.00009: Electron-impact vibrational excitation of CO$_2$ in a cluster environment
Ilya Fabrikant

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
12:18PM - 12:30PM

B3.00010: Theoretical and Experimental study of the Spin Asymmetry for Electron Impact Ionization of Xenon
D.H. Madison , A. Prideaux , J. Lower , S. Bellm , R. Panajotovic , E. Weigold

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B3.00011: The Triple Differential Cross Section and Interference Effects of Electron-Impact Ionization of Molecules
Junfang Gao , Don H. Madison , Jerry Peacher

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Session B4: Strong Field Atomic and Plasma Processes

Chair: Cornelis (Kees) J. Uiterwaal, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Burnham Yates Conference Center - Hawthorne


Wednesday, May 18, 2005
10:30AM - 10:42AM

B4.00001: Femtosecond Optical Vortex
Igor Mariyenko , Chad Petersen , James Strohaber , Cornelis Uiterwaal

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
10:42AM - 10:54AM

B4.00002: Time-dependent studies of photon-induced processes in He
S. X. Hu , J. Colgan , L. A. Collins

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
10:54AM - 11:06AM

B4.00003: COLTRIMS Studies of Correlation in the Sequential Release of Two Electrons from Ar and Ne by Short Laser Pulses
Chakra Maharjan , Ali Alnaser , Xiao Tong , Predrag Ranitovic , Shambhu Ghimire , Bing Shan , Zenghu Chang , Igor Litvinyuk , Charles Cocke

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
11:06AM - 11:18AM

B4.00004: Multiphoton ionization of xenon in the VUV regime
Robin Santra , Chris H. Greene

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
11:18AM - 11:30AM

B4.00005: Effective Range Approach for High Harmonic Generation by Negative Ions
M.V. Frolov , A.V. Flegel , N.L. Manakov , Anthony F. Starace

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
11:30AM - 11:42AM

B4.00006: The Effects of Ionization on the Generation of High Energy 6 fs Pulses
Shambhu Ghimire , Bing Shan , Chris Nakamura , Chun Wang , Zenghu Chang

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
11:42AM - 11:54AM

B4.00007: Rescattering Effects in the High-Frequency Regime
N.L. Manakov , A.V. Flegel , M.V. Frolov , Anthony F. Starace

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
11:54AM - 12:06PM

B4.00008: Circularly Polarized Laser Field-Induced Rescattering Plateaus in Electron-Atom Scattering
Anthony F. Starace , A.V. Flegel , M.V. Frolov , N.L. Manakov

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
12:06PM - 12:18PM

B4.00009: Laser Conditioning of Wakefield Electron Beams
Scott Sepke , Sudeep Banerjee , Rahul Shah , Anthony Valenzuela , Donald Umstadter

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
12:18PM - 12:30PM

B4.00010: Optical deflection and temporal characterization of an ultra-fast laser-produced electron beam
Sudeep Banerjee , Scott Sepke , Anthony Valenzuela , Rahul Shah , Donald Umstadter

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
12:30PM - 12:42PM

B4.00011: Quasiclassical results for two-photon Coulomb Bremstrahlung
A. A. Krylovetsky , N. L. Manakov , S. I. Marmo

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Session B5: Cold Plasmas and Optical Lattices

Chair: Michael S. Chapman, Georgia Institute of Technology
Burnham Yates Conference Center - Arbor


Wednesday, May 18, 2005
10:30AM - 10:42AM

B5.00001: Electron Screening Effects in a Strongly Coupled Ultracold Neutral Plasma
C.E. Simien , Y.C. Chen , S. Laha , P. Gupta , Y.N. Martinez , P.G. Mickelson , S.B. Nagel , T.C. Killian

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
10:42AM - 10:54AM

B5.00002: Dipole-Dipole Excitation and Ionization in a Frozen Rydberg Gas
Paul Tanner , Wenhui Li , Thomas Gallagher

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
10:54AM - 11:06AM

B5.00003: Kinetic Energy oscillations in ultracold plasma
Sampad Laha , Y.C. Chen , P. Gupta , Y.N. Martinez , P.G. Mickelson , S.B. Nagel , A.D. Saenz , C.E. Simien , T.C. Killian

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
11:06AM - 11:18AM

B5.00004: Formation of antihydrogen positive ions
D. Vrinceanu , S. X. Hu , S. F. Mazevet , L. A. Collins

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
11:18AM - 11:30AM

B5.00005: Study of the Expansion of Ultracold Strontium Plasma
Priya Gupta , Clayton Simien , Sampad Laha , Yenny Martinez , Pascal Mickelson , Sarah Nagel , Ying-Cheng Chen , Thomas Killian

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
11:30AM - 11:42AM

B5.00006: Neutral Atoms in an Optical Lattice for Quantum Information Processing
Chad Fertig , Johnny Huckans , Ian Spielman , Jennifer Sebby-Strabley , Marco Anderlini , Steven Rolston , William Phillips , James Porto

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
11:42AM - 11:54AM

B5.00007: Progress toward a Sr optical atomic clock in an optical lattice
A. D. Ludlow , T. Ido , M. M. Boyd , M. Nottcutt , T. Zelevinsky , S. Blatt , S. Foreman , J. Ye

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
11:54AM - 12:06PM

B5.00008: Studies of the \textbf{\textit{5s$^{21}$S$_{0}$-- 5s5p$^{3}$P$_{1}$}} Transition in Atomic Strontium
Yenny Natali Martinez , Ying-Cheng Chen , Pascal Mickelson , Sarah Nagel , Thomas C. Killian

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
12:06PM - 12:18PM

B5.00009: Rapid Molecular Transport in Pulsed Optical Lattices
Peter Barker , Ray Fulton , Alexis Bishop , Mikhail Shneider

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
12:18PM - 12:30PM

B5.00010: Quantum control of ultracold atomic collisions in optical lattices
Ivan Deutsch , Rene Stock

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
12:30PM - 12:42PM

B5.00011: Period doubling and the growth of swallowtails in Bose-Einstein condensates trapped in a lattice potential
Brian Seaman , Lincoln Carr , Murray Holland

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
12:42PM - 12:54PM

B5.00012: Motional Two-Qubit Gate in an Optical Lattice
Mark Edwards , Kristen Kasprak , Adam Bozeman , Trey Porto , Charles W. Clark

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
12:54PM - 1:06PM

B5.00013: Quantum fluctuations of a 1D bosonic gas in an optical lattice
Janne Ruostekoski , Lorenzo Isella

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
1:06PM - 1:18PM

B5.00014: Raman Optical Lattice
Rui Zhang , Natalya Morrow , Paul Berman , Georg Raithel

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Session B7: Fellowship Committee Lunch

Burnham Yates Conference Center - Ivanhoe

Wednesday, May 18, 2005
12:00PM - 1:30PM

B7.00001: Fellowship Committee Lunch


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