Session K1: Attosecond and High Energy Density Physics

Sponsoring Units: DLS
Chair: Zenghu Chang, Kansas State University
Burnham Yates Conference Center - Ballroom I


Friday, May 20, 2005
10:30AM - 11:06AM

K1.00001: Dynamics of Attosecond Electron Wave Packets
Invited Speaker: Johan Mauritsson

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Friday, May 20, 2005
11:06AM - 11:42AM

K1.00002: Molecules in Intense Laser Fields and Electron-Nuclear Dynamics form Femto Attosecond Time Scales
Invited Speaker: Andr\'e Bandrauk

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Friday, May 20, 2005
11:42AM - 12:18PM

K1.00003: Attosecond nonlinear optics
Invited Speaker: Shuntaro Watanabe

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Friday, May 20, 2005
12:18PM - 12:54PM

K1.00004: Ultrashort-Pulse-Duration Laser and Charged-Particle Beams from High-Intensity Laser-Plasma Interactions
Invited Speaker: Donald Umstadter

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Session K2: The BCS-BEC Crossover in Trapped Fermi Gases

Chair: Pierre Meystre, University of Arizona
Burnham Yates Conference Center - Ballroom II


Friday, May 20, 2005
10:30AM - 11:06AM

K2.00001: Molecular Probe of the BCS/BEC Crossover in $^6$Li
Invited Speaker: Randall G. Hulet

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Friday, May 20, 2005
11:06AM - 11:42AM

K2.00002: Feshbach Molecule Formation in Finite-Temperature Quantum Gases
Invited Speaker: Jamie Williams

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Friday, May 20, 2005
11:42AM - 12:18PM

K2.00003: Pairing of fermionic atoms in a strongly interacting quantum gas
Invited Speaker: Cheng Chin

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Friday, May 20, 2005
12:18PM - 12:54PM

K2.00004: Density Profiles And Thermodynamics In Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases
Invited Speaker: Kathryn Levin

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Session K4: Atom Optics, Atom Interferometry, and Cavity QED

Chair: L. A. Orozco, University of Maryland
Burnham Yates Conference Center - Hawthorne


Friday, May 20, 2005
10:30AM - 10:42AM

K4.00001: A Microchip Ring Trap for Cold Atoms
Paul Baker , Matt Crookston , Mike Robinson

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Friday, May 20, 2005
10:42AM - 10:54AM

K4.00002: Reconstruction of the phase of matter-wave fields using nonlinear wave-mixing
Dominic Meiser

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Friday, May 20, 2005
10:54AM - 11:06AM

K4.00003: Nano-Fabricated Gratings for Electrons
Glen Gronniger , Brett Barwick , Tim Savas , Herman Batelaan

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Friday, May 20, 2005
11:06AM - 11:18AM

K4.00004: A polarizing beam splitter for dipolar molecules
Omjyoti Dutta , Markku J\"{a}\"{a}skel\"{a}inen , Pierre Meystre

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Friday, May 20, 2005
11:18AM - 11:30AM

K4.00005: Dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates in double wells
Markku J\"{a}\"{a}skel\"{a}inen , Pierre Meystre

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Friday, May 20, 2005
11:30AM - 11:42AM

K4.00006: Light scattering to determine the relative phase of two Bose-Einstein Condensates
M. Saba , T.A. Pasquini , C. Sanner , Y. Shin , G. Jo , W. Ketterle , D.E. Pritchard

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Friday, May 20, 2005
11:42AM - 11:54AM

K4.00007: Atom trapping with a thin magnetic film
Micah Boyd , Gretchen Campbell , Jonchul Mun , Erik W. Streed , Aaron E. Leanhardt , David E. Pritchard , Wolfgang Ketterle

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Friday, May 20, 2005
11:54AM - 12:06PM

K4.00008: Many-body bound states in waveguide bends
R Cabrera-Trujillo , B.D. Esry , M.W.J. Bromley

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Friday, May 20, 2005
12:06PM - 12:18PM

K4.00009: Interaction-induced loss of contrast in Michelson-type atom interferometers
Maxim Olshanii , Vanja Dunjko

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Friday, May 20, 2005
12:18PM - 12:30PM

K4.00010: Entanglement evolution in cavity QED.
D.L. Freimund , M.L. Terraciano , R. Olson , L.A. Orozco , P.R. Rice , J. Gea-Banacloche

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Friday, May 20, 2005
12:30PM - 12:42PM

K4.00011: Experiments with ultracold atoms in an optical cavity
Subhadeep Gupta , Kevin Moore , Kater Murch , Thomas Purdy , Dan Stamper-Kurn

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Session K5: Spectroscopy, Lifetime, and Oscillator Strengths

Chair: Alan Hibbert, Queen's University Belfast
Burnham Yates Conference Center - Arbor


Friday, May 20, 2005
10:30AM - 10:42AM

K5.00001: Lifetime Measurement of the $8s$ Level in Francium
E. Gomez , G. D. Sprouse , L. A. Orozco , A. Perez-Galvan

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Friday, May 20, 2005
10:42AM - 10:54AM

K5.00002: Precision Spectroscopy and Density dependant Frequency Shifts in Ultracold Strontium
Martin M. Boyd , Tetsuya Ido , Andrew D. Ludlow , Thomas H. Loftus , Jun Ye

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Friday, May 20, 2005
10:54AM - 11:06AM

K5.00003: Testing fundamental constants with trapped indium ions
William Trimble , Warren Nagourney

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Friday, May 20, 2005
11:06AM - 11:18AM

K5.00004: Observation of the $^{1}$S$_{0}$ -- $^3$P$_0$ clock transition at 578 nm in atomic Yb
Tao Hong , Claire Cramer , Eryn Cook , Warren Nagourney , Norval Fortson

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Friday, May 20, 2005
11:18AM - 11:30AM

K5.00005: Physical Model of Modulation Dependent Effects in CPT Clocks
Michael Crescimanno , Irina Novikova , David Phillips , Ron Walsworth

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Friday, May 20, 2005
11:30AM - 11:42AM

K5.00006: Femtosecond Comb Coherent Accumulation and Spectroscopy
Matthew Stowe , Adela Marian , John Lawall , Daniel Felinto , Flavio Cruz , Jun Ye

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Friday, May 20, 2005
11:42AM - 11:54AM

K5.00007: Microwave spectroscopy of Ba 5$d_{3/2}$n$\ell $ autoionizing states
E. S. Shuman , T. F. Gallagher

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Friday, May 20, 2005
11:54AM - 12:06PM

K5.00008: X-ray M-shell spectra of multiply-charged heavy ions and their polarization properties
Alla Safronova , Ulyana Safronova , Travis Hoppe , Nicholas Ouart , Victor Kantsyrev

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Friday, May 20, 2005
12:06PM - 12:18PM

K5.00009: Splitting of $\Lambda$-doubling in the transition of Hund's coupling cases in sodium molecule
Chin-Chun Tsai , Ray-Yuan Chang , Thou-Jen Whang , Chuen-Ping Cheng

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Friday, May 20, 2005
12:18PM - 12:30PM

K5.00010: Calculations of liquid helium and neon VUV emission spectra, self-absorption and scattering for a neutrino detector
I.M. Savukov

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K5.00011: Precision lifetime measurements of a single trapped ion with fast laser pulses
David Moehring , Martin Madsen , Boris Blinov , Rudolph Kohn , Richard Vallery , David Gidley , Christopher Monroe

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Session K7: Thesis Prize Committee Lunch

Burnham Yates Conference Center - Ivanhoe

Friday, May 20, 2005
12:00PM - 1:30PM

K7.00001: Thesis Prize Committee Lunch


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