Session G1: Thesis Prize Session

Chair: Brett Esry, Kansas State University
Burnham Yates Conference Center - Ballroom I

Thursday, May 19, 2005
1:30PM - 2:06PM

 G1.00001: Cavity QED with Trapped Atoms for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information
Invited Speaker: Jason McKeever

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Thursday, May 19, 2005
2:06PM - 2:42PM

 G1.00002: Ultracold Bosonic Atoms in Optical Lattices
Invited Speaker: Ana Maria Rey

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Thursday, May 19, 2005
2:42PM - 3:18PM

 G1.00003: Quasi-Phase Matching of Soft X-Ray Light from High-Order Harmonic Generation Using Waveguide Structures
Invited Speaker: Emily Gibson

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Thursday, May 19, 2005
3:18PM - 3:54PM

 G1.00004: Tunable Interactions in Quantum Degenerate Lithium
Invited Speaker: Kevin Strecker

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Session G2: Electron Driven Processes and Their Applications

Sponsoring Units: GEC
Chair: Thomas N. Rescigno, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Burnham Yates Conference Center - Ballroom II

Thursday, May 19, 2005
1:30PM - 2:06PM

 G2.00001: Fundamental Data for Semiconductor Manufacturing Unit Process Modeling and Simulation: Generation, Application and Current Needs
Invited Speaker: Peter Ventzek

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Thursday, May 19, 2005
2:06PM - 2:42PM

 G2.00002: New Opportunities in Plasma Production of Radicals and Ions for Treatment of Surfaces
Invited Speaker: Mark J. Kushner

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Thursday, May 19, 2005
2:42PM - 3:18PM

 G2.00003: The Polyatomic Dynamics of Electron-Driven Chemistry
Invited Speaker: C. William McCurdy

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Thursday, May 19, 2005
3:18PM - 3:54PM

 G2.00004: Elucidating the underlying role of electron-driven processes in atmospheric phenomena
Invited Speaker: Michael Brunger

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Session G4: Rydberg and Exotic Atoms and Molecules

Chair: Jin Wang, University of Nebraska
Burnham Yates Conference Center - Hawthorne

Thursday, May 19, 2005
1:30PM - 1:42PM

 G4.00001: Microwave Spectroscopy of High-L, n=10 Rydberg states of Silicon
R.A. Komara , E.L. Snow , M.A. Gearba , S.R. Lundeen , C.W. Fehrenbach

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Thursday, May 19, 2005
1:42PM - 1:54PM

 G4.00002: Fine structure measurements in high-L, n=17 and 20 Rydberg states of barium: A re-determination of the dipole and quadrupole polarizabilities of Ba$^{+}$
E.L. Snow , S.R. Lundeen

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Thursday, May 19, 2005
1:54PM - 2:06PM

 G4.00003: Magnetic trapping of high-angular-momentum Rydberg atoms in strong magnetic fields
J.-H. Choi , J. R. Guest , A. P. Povilus , E. Hansis , G. Raithel

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Thursday, May 19, 2005
2:06PM - 2:18PM

 G4.00004: Emission of fast Rydberg atoms from cold Rydberg-atom gases
Brenton Knuffman , Georg Raithel

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Thursday, May 19, 2005
2:18PM - 2:30PM

 G4.00005: Coherent Population Transfer of Ground State Atoms into Rydberg States
Aaron Reinhard , Tara Cubel , Kevin Teo , Vladimir Malinovsky , Jeff Guest , Brenton Knuffman , Paul Berman , Georg Raithel

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Thursday, May 19, 2005
2:30PM - 2:42PM

 G4.00006: Simulations of Rydberg-Rydberg Interactions
Francis Robicheaux , Jesus Hernandez

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Thursday, May 19, 2005
2:42PM - 2:54PM

 G4.00007: Many-Body Interactions in a Restricted Dimensionality Sample of Ultra-cold Rydberg Atoms
Thomas J. Carroll , Shubha Sunder , Michael W. Noel

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Thursday, May 19, 2005
2:54PM - 3:06PM

 G4.00008: Is a multi walled nanotube one-dimensional?
Mikhail Zamkov , Nathan Woody , Bing Shan , Zenghu Chang , Patrick Richard

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Thursday, May 19, 2005
3:06PM - 3:18PM

 G4.00009: Threshold behavior of bosonic two-dimensional few-body systems
Doerte Blume

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Session G5: Strong Field Molecular Processes

Chair: C. L. Cocke, Kansas State University
Burnham Yates Conference Center - Arbor

Thursday, May 19, 2005
1:30PM - 1:42PM

 G5.00001: Interaction of Coherent VUV Radiation with Xenon Clusters
Zachary Walters , Chris H. Greene , Robin Santra

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Thursday, May 19, 2005
1:42PM - 1:54PM

 G5.00002: A semi-quantitative model for molecular dissociation in an intense laser pulse
B.D. Esry , I. Ben-Itzhak , P.Q. Wang , A.M. Sayler , K.D. Carnes

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Thursday, May 19, 2005
1:54PM - 2:06PM

 G5.00003: Controlling H$_2^+$ dissociation pathways in an intense laser pulse with the carrier-envelope phase
Vladimir Roudnev , B.D. Esry

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Thursday, May 19, 2005
2:06PM - 2:18PM

 G5.00004: Parallel and perpendicular transitions in the dissociation of O$_{2}^{+}$ caused by an ultrashort intense laser pulse
A.M. Sayler , P.Q. Wang , K.D. Carnes , B.D. Esry , I. Ben-Itzhak

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Thursday, May 19, 2005
2:18PM - 2:30PM

 G5.00005: Probing Vibrational and Dissociative Wavepacket Dynamics in H$_2$ and D$_2$ Molecules with Ultra Short Laser Pulses
Ali Alnaser , B. Ulrich , X.-M. Tong , C.M. Maharjan , P. Ranitovic , T. Osipov , R. Ali , B. Shan , Z. Chang , C.D. Lin , I.V. Litvinyuk , C.L. Cocke

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Thursday, May 19, 2005
2:30PM - 2:42PM

 G5.00006: Dissociation of H$_{2}^{+}$ in intense femtosecond laser fields probed at different pulse durations
Pengqian Wang , A.M. Sayler , K.D. Carnes , J.F. Xia , M.A. Smith , B.D. Esry , I. Ben-Itzhak

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Thursday, May 19, 2005
2:42PM - 2:54PM

 G5.00007: Spectrally Resolved Transient Alignment of Molecular Iodine
Doug Broege , Emily Peterson , Philip Bucksbaum

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Thursday, May 19, 2005
2:54PM - 3:06PM

 G5.00008: Orientation-dependent strong field ionization of diatomic molecules
Xi Chu , Shih-I Chu

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Thursday, May 19, 2005
3:06PM - 3:18PM

 G5.00009: Observation of selective charge separation following strong-field single ionization
Chunlei Guo

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Thursday, May 19, 2005
3:18PM - 3:30PM

 G5.00010: Measurement of ionization of an H$_{2}^{+}$ beam by ultra-short intense laser pulses
I. Ben-Itzhak , P.Q. Wang , A.M. Sayler , K.D. Carnes , V. Roudnev , B.D. Esry

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