Session C1: Interaction of Slow Electrons with Biomolecules

Chair: Ilya Fabrikant, University of Nebraska
Burnham Yates Conference Center - Ballroom I

Wednesday, May 18, 2005
1:30PM - 2:06PM

 C1.00001: Temporary Negative Ions and Bond-breaking in Bio-molecules
Invited Speaker: Paul Burrow

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
2:06PM - 2:42PM

 C1.00002: Destruction of uracil and thymine at subexcitation energies
Invited Speaker: Paul Scheier

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
2:42PM - 3:18PM

 C1.00003: Low energy electron induced fragmentation and reactions of DNA and its molecular components
Invited Speaker: Andrew Bass

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
3:18PM - 3:54PM

 C1.00004: Theory of Damage to DNA by Low-energy Electrons
Invited Speaker: Jack Simons

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Session C2: Precision Tests of Relativity and Gravitation

Sponsoring Units: PMTG
Chair: Ronald L. Walsworth, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Burnham Yates Conference Center - Ballroom II

Wednesday, May 18, 2005
1:30PM - 2:06PM

 C2.00001: Lorentz and CPT Violation: Status and Prospects
Invited Speaker: Alan Kostelecky

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
2:06PM - 2:42PM

 C2.00002: A modern Michelson-Morley experiment using ultrastable optical resonators
Invited Speaker: Achim Peters

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
2:42PM - 3:18PM

 C2.00003: Laboratory Tests of Newtonian Gravity
Invited Speaker: Blayne Heckel

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
3:18PM - 3:54PM

 C2.00004: The Gravity Probe B Relativity Mission
Invited Speaker: G. M. Keiser

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Session C3: Single Photon Atomic and Molecular Processes

Chair: Linda Young, Argonne National Laboratory
Burnham Yates Conference Center - Olive Branch

Wednesday, May 18, 2005
1:30PM - 1:42PM

 C3.00001: Spectra of Stick Molecules
Reinhold Blumel

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
1:42PM - 1:54PM

 C3.00002: Near-threshold photodetachment in parallel electric and magnetic fields
Christian Bracher , John Delos

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
1:54PM - 2:06PM

 C3.00003: The vase cavity: a model for chaotic ionization
Kevin Mitchell , Paul Hansen , John Delos

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
2:06PM - 2:18PM

 C3.00004: Coulomb four-body problem near threshold in a classical framework
Agapi Emmanouilidou , Jan Michael Rost

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
2:18PM - 2:30PM

 C3.00005: Parametrizations and dynamical analysis of angle-integrated cross sections for double photoionization
Andrei Y. Istomin , Anthony F. Starace , N.L. Manakov , A.V. Meremianin

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
2:30PM - 2:42PM

 C3.00006: Circular Dichroism of Dense Alkali Vapors
Thad Walker , Earl Babcock

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
2:42PM - 2:54PM

 C3.00007: Circularly-Polarized Photo-Fragmentation of Molecular Hydrogen
T.J. Gay , J.E. Furst , D.H. Jaecks , J. Machacek , K.W. McLaughlin , O. Yenen

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
2:54PM - 3:06PM

 C3.00008: Auger Decay Studies of Core-Excited HBr by Angle-resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy
Ximao Feng , Anthony Wills , Emma Sokell , Marco Wiedenhoeft , Nora Berrah

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
3:06PM - 3:18PM

 C3.00009: Unified and Self-Consistent Treatment of Photoionization and Recombination: Fe XXI, Ne VIII, Ne IX
Sultana Nahar

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
3:18PM - 3:30PM

 C3.00010: Transition from Non-Markovian to Markovian Dynamics in a Dense Potassium Vapor
Virginia Lorenz , Steven Cundiff

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
3:30PM - 3:42PM

 C3.00011: Hyperfine-State Coherence in the Presence of Spontaneous Photon Scattering
R. Ozeri , C. Langer , J.D. Jost , B.L. DeMarco , A. Ben-Kish , R.B. Blakestad , J. Britton , J. Chiaverini , D. Hume , W.M. Itano , D. Leibfried , R. Reichle , T. Rosenband , P. Schmidt , D.J. Wineland

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
3:42PM - 3:54PM

 C3.00012: Electron angular distributions and circular dichroism effects for double photoionization of polarized atoms
N.L. Manakov , A.V. Meremianin , Andrei Y. Istomin , Anthony F. Starace

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Session C4: Bose Einstein Condensation I

Chair: Gil Summy, Oklahoma State University
Burnham Yates Conference Center - Hawthorne

Wednesday, May 18, 2005
1:30PM - 1:42PM

 C4.00001: Time-Dependent Wavepacket Propagation using the Lie-Trotter-Suzuki Method
Barry I. Schneider , Lee A. Collins

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
1:42PM - 1:54PM

 C4.00002: Photon Recoil Momentum in Dispersive Media
Gretchen K. Campbell , Aaron E. Leanhardt , Jonchul Mun , Micah Boyd , Erik Streed , Wolfgang Ketterle , David E. Pritchard

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
1:54PM - 2:06PM

 C4.00003: Direct, non-destructive imaging of transverse and longitudinal magnetization in a bose gas: II
Shin Inouye , James Higbie , Lorraine Sadler , Ananth Chikkatur , Sabrina Leslie , Kevin Moore , Veronique Savalli , Dan Stamper-Kurn

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
2:06PM - 2:18PM

 C4.00004: Multi-state fermionic Hamiltonian approach to the study of the BEC-BCS crossover in ultracold fermionic atom gases.
B. Mihaila , M.M. Parish , S. Gaudio , E. Timmermans , K.B. Blagoev , A.V. Balatsky , D.L. Smith , P.B. Littlewood

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
2:18PM - 2:30PM

 C4.00005: Bogoliubov excitations of two-component BEC supported by different vortex configurations
Sungjong Woo , Stephen Choi , Leslie Baksmaty , Nicholas Bigelow

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
2:30PM - 2:42PM

 C4.00006: Experiments with an ultracold mixture of $^{85}$Rb and $^{87}$Rb
Scott B. Papp , Juan M. Pino II , Carl E. Wieman

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
2:42PM - 2:54PM

 C4.00007: Time averaged optical dipole traps for cold atoms
Peyman Ahmadi , Brian Timmons , Gil Summy

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
2:54PM - 3:06PM

 C4.00008: Collisions in a gas of metastable helium near quantum degeneracy
Signe Seidelin , Jose Gomes , Rodolphe Hoppeler , Olivier Sirjean , Denis Boiron , Chris Westbrook , Alain Aspect

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
3:06PM - 3:18PM

 C4.00009: The phase transition in ground state configurations of a vortex lattice in an AMBEC
Sungjong Woo , Nicholas Bigelow , Q-Han Park

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
3:18PM - 3:30PM

 C4.00010: Correlation properties of atoms in two strongly coupled waveguides
Vanja Dunjko , Maxim Olshanii

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
3:30PM - 3:42PM

 C4.00011: Coherent Molecular Optics using Sodium Dimers
Daniel Miller , Kaiwen Xu , Jamil Abo-Shaeer , Jitkee Chin , Yingmei Liu , Wolfgang Ketterle

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
3:42PM - 3:54PM

 C4.00012: Dynamical instability induced domain formation in a spin-1 condensate
Wenxian Zhang , Duanlu Zhou , L. You

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 C4.00013: Bose-Einstein condensation of dipolar atoms
Juergen Stuhler , Axel Griesmaier , Marco Fattori , Tobias Koch , Sven Hensler , Joerg Werner , Tilman Pfau

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Session C5: Wavepacket Dynamics, Coherent Control, Quantum and/or Nonlinear Optics

Chair: T. F. Gallagher, University of Virginia
Burnham Yates Conference Center - Arbor

Wednesday, May 18, 2005
1:30PM - 1:42PM

 C5.00001: Coherence measurement of kicked Rydberg wave packets
Joel Murray , Haidan Wen , Santosh Pisharody , Phil Bucksbaum

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
1:42PM - 1:54PM

 C5.00002: Collisional decoherence of Rydberg wavepackets
C.O. Reinhold , J. Burgdorfer , F.B. Dunning

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
1:54PM - 2:06PM

 C5.00003: Interpreting Learning Control of Molecular Fragmentation in Terms of Enhanced Ionization
Mark Baertschy , David Cardoza , Thomas Weinacht

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
2:06PM - 2:18PM

 C5.00004: Manipulating a Rydberg electron in a classical orbit
H. Maeda , D.V.L. Norum , T.F. Gallagher

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
2:18PM - 2:30PM

 C5.00005: Quantum Coherent Control of Atoms in a Classically Chaotic Regime
Jalani Kanem , Samansa Maneshi , Matthew Partlow , Aephraim Steinberg

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
2:30PM - 2:42PM

 C5.00006: Complete Quantum Characterization of a Pulse echo in an Optical Lattice
Samansa Maneshi , Jalani Fox , Matthew Partlow , Aephraim Steinberg

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
2:42PM - 2:54PM

 C5.00007: Analysis of channelization architecture for wide-band slow light
Zachary Dutton , Mark Bashkansky , Michael Steiner , John Reintjes

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
2:54PM - 3:06PM

 C5.00008: Single-photon Swap Gate Using Electromagnetically Induced Transparency parency
Deniz Yavuz

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
3:06PM - 3:18PM

 C5.00009: The Effect of Doppler Broadening on Electromagnetically Induced Transparency and Autler-Townes splitting in Molecular Cascade Excitation Scheme
Ergin Ahmed , Angelos Lazoudis , Marjatta Lyyra

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
3:18PM - 3:30PM

 C5.00010: Influence of atomic coherence diffusion on EIT and stored light
Yanhong Xiao , Irina Novikova , David Phillips , Ronald Walsworth

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
3:30PM - 3:42PM

 C5.00011: Slow and stored light in tetracontane-coated vapor cells
Mason Klein , Irina Novikova , David Phillips , Ronald Walsworth

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
3:42PM - 3:54PM

 C5.00012: Trojan wavepackets in quantum mechanics equivalent to classical mechanics
Matt Kalinski

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
3:54PM - 4:06PM

 C5.00013: Improving coherent population amplitudes in open $\Lambda$-systems
Vishal Shah , Svenja Knappe , Peter Schwindt , Leo Hollberg , John Kitching

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 C5.00014: Cartesian-Hyperspherical Hartree-Fock method for numerical observation of stabilized Langmuir states
Matt Kalinski

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Session C7: PRA/PRL Reception

Burnham Yates Conference Center - Ivanhoe

Wednesday, May 18, 2005
3:30PM - 5:30PM

 C7.00001: PRA/PRL Reception


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