Session K1: 1-d Gases

Chair: Ana Maria Rey, Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Knoxville Convention Center - Lecture Hall


Thursday, May 18, 2006
8:00AM - 8:36AM

K1.00001: Dynamics and correlations in one-dimensional gases
Invited Speaker: Dimitri Gangardt

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
8:36AM - 9:12AM

K1.00002: A quantum Newton's cradle
Invited Speaker: Toshiya Kinoshita

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
9:12AM - 9:48AM

K1.00003: Low-Dimensional Fermi Gases in Optical Lattices
Invited Speaker: Michael K{\"o}hl

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
9:48AM - 10:24AM

K1.00004: Empirical manifestations of integrability in cold quantum gases
Invited Speaker: Maxim Olshanii

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Session K2: Multi-Particle Fragmentation of Atoms and Negative Ions

Chair: Klaus Bartschat, Drake University
Knoxville Convention Center - Ballroom EFG


Thursday, May 18, 2006
8:00AM - 8:36AM

K2.00001: Probing Dynamics from Within in Negative Ions, Neutral Molecules and van der Waals Clusters
Invited Speaker: Nora Berrah

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
8:36AM - 9:12AM

K2.00002: Multiple Photoionization of C60
Invited Speaker: Ralf Wehlitz

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
9:12AM - 9:48AM

K2.00003: Momentum Imaging Study of the H$_{2}$ Coulomb Explosion
Invited Speaker: T.J. Reddish

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
9:48AM - 10:24AM

K2.00004: Double Potoionization of Molecular Hydrogen
Invited Speaker: Wim Vanroose

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Session K3: Laser Cooling and Trapping

Chair: Phillip Gould, University of Connecticut
Knoxville Convention Center - 301D


Thursday, May 18, 2006
8:00AM - 8:12AM

K3.00001: Generation of large clouds of ultracold metastable helium
S. Charles Doret , Scott V. Nguyen , Colin B. Connolly , Robert A. Michniak , Wolfgang Ketterle , John M. Doyle

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
8:12AM - 8:24AM

K3.00002: Laser cooling of trapped ytterbium ions with an ultraviolet diode laser
David Kielpinski , Marko Cetina , Jonathan Cox , Franz Kaertner

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
8:24AM - 8:36AM

K3.00003: Magneto-optical trapping of erbium atoms: trapping without repumping
J.J. McClelland , J.L. Hanssen

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
8:36AM - 8:48AM

K3.00004: Reabsorption Mitigation Using Frequency-Broadened Light
Anthony Gorges , Ansel Foxley , David French , Jacob Roberts

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
8:48AM - 9:00AM

K3.00005: Magic wavelengths for the $ns-np$ transitions in alkali-metal atoms
Bindiya Arora , M.S. Safronova , Charles W. Clark

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
9:00AM - 9:12AM

K3.00006: Cold atom confinement in hollow laser beams with high charge number
Fredrik Fatemi , Mark Bashkansky

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
9:12AM - 9:24AM

K3.00007: Bichromatic transverse cooling and guiding in hollow beams
Frank A. Narducci

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
9:24AM - 9:36AM

K3.00008: Open-Channel fluorescence imaging of atoms in a high-gradient magnetic guide
Rahul Mhaskar , Spencer Olson , Georg Raithel

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
9:36AM - 9:48AM

K3.00009: Scaling and Suppression of Heating in an Adjustable Ion Trap
Steven Olmschenk , Louis Deslauriers , Dan Stick , Winfried Hensinger , Jon Sterk , Christopher Monroe

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
9:48AM - 10:00AM

K3.00010: Ion Trap in a Semiconductor Chip
Dan Stick , Winfried Hensinger , Steven Olmschenk , Martin Madsen , Keith Schwab , Chris Monroe

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Session K4: Fundamental Symmetries and Precision Measurements

Chair: Siu Au Lee, Colorado State University
Knoxville Convention Center - 301E


Thursday, May 18, 2006
8:00AM - 8:12AM

K4.00001: Cold Molecular Ion Source for an electron EDM measurement
Russell Stutz , Aaron Leanhardt , Laura Sinclair , Eric Cornell

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
8:12AM - 8:24AM

K4.00002: Laser trapping of Radium and progress towards an electric dipole moment measurement
J.R. Guest , N. D. Scielzo , I. Ahmad , K. Bailey , J. P. Greene , R. J. Holt , Z.-T. Lu , T. P. O'Connor , D. H. Potterveld , H. Gould

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
8:24AM - 8:36AM

K4.00003: Progress Towards a Measurement of the Electric Dipole Moment of the Electron
Sarah Bickman , Paul Hamilton , Yong Jiang , David Kawall , Richard Paolino , David DeMille

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
8:36AM - 8:48AM

K4.00004: Ba$^{+}$ vs. Cs: prospects for parity-nonconservation studies
M.S. Safronova , E. Iskrenova-Tchoukova

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
8:48AM - 9:00AM

K4.00005: Gravitational Tests of Lorentz Symmetry with Atoms
Jay D. Tasson , V. Alan Kostelecky

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
9:00AM - 9:12AM

K4.00006: Progress ttrapping single indium ions for possible frequency reference
William Trimble , Jeff Sherman , Warren Nagourney

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
9:12AM - 9:24AM

K4.00007: An Aluminum Ion Optical Clock Using Quantum Logic
T. Rosenband , P.O. Schmidt , D.B. Hume , T.M. Fortier , W.H. Oskay , J.C.J. Koelemeij , K. Kim , W.M. Itano , S.A. Diddams , J.C. Bergquist , R.E. Drullinger , D.J. Wineland

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
9:24AM - 9:36AM

K4.00008: N-resonance characterization for compact atomic clocks
Cindy Hancox , Irina Novikova , Yanhong Xiao , David Phillips , Ronald Walsworth

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
9:36AM - 9:48AM

K4.00009: Improved performance of the ${}^{129}$Xe/${}^3$He Zeeman maser
Alex Glenday , Federico Cane , Matthew Rosen , David Phillips , Ronald Walsworth

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
9:48AM - 10:00AM

K4.00010: Differential phase shift spectroscopy in a thallium atomic beam
Protik Majumder , David Butts , Ralph Uhl

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Session K5: Quantum Optics and Matter Optics

Chair: Pierre Meystre, University of Arizona
Knoxville Convention Center - 301AB


Thursday, May 18, 2006
8:00AM - 8:12AM

K5.00001: Polarization squeezing of ultrashort pulses in fibres
Peter Drummond , Joel Corney , Joel Heersink , Vincent Josse , Gerd Leuchs , Ulrik Andersen

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
8:12AM - 8:24AM

K5.00002: Optical absorption in a spherical artificial atom
Yiming Mi , Shuichi Iwata

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
8:24AM - 8:36AM

K5.00003: Rotating a Bose-Einstein condensate using photons with orbital angular momentum
Mikkel Andersen , Pierre Clade , Changhyun Ryu , Vasant Natarajan , Kristian Helmerson , William Phillips

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
8:36AM - 8:48AM

K5.00004: Theory of Raman Superradiance Imaging of Condensed Bose Gases
Hermann Uys , Pierre Meystre

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
8:48AM - 9:00AM

K5.00005: Coherent acceleration of matter waves in circular waveguides
Omjyoti Dutta , Markku Jaaskelainen , Pierre Meystre

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
9:00AM - 9:12AM

K5.00006: Genetic Algorithm approach to Excited Gaussons in Bose-Einstein Condensates with attractive interactions
Matt Kalinski

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
9:12AM - 9:24AM

K5.00007: All-optical modeling of superfluid shock waves
Jason W. Fleischer , Wenjie Wan

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
9:24AM - 9:36AM

K5.00008: Diffraction of 0.5 keV electrons from free-standing transmission gratings
Ben McMorran , John Perreault , Tim Savas , Alex Cronin

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
9:36AM - 9:48AM

K5.00009: Interference between competing pathways in the interaction of three-level atoms and radiation
Tony Abi-Salloum , Lorenzo Narducci

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
9:48AM - 10:00AM

K5.00010: Noninvasive imaging in biology using ultrafast coherent control via a pair of chirped pulses
Svetlana Malinovskaya , Vladimir Malinovsky

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Session K6: Ion-Atom and Ion-Molecule Collisions

Chair: John Tanis, Western Michigan University
Knoxville Convention Center - 301C


Thursday, May 18, 2006
8:00AM - 8:12AM

K6.00001: Angular and High-Frequency Analysis of Interference Structures in Electron Emission Spectra from 60 MeV/u Kr$^{34+}$ + H$_{2}$.
J.A. Tanis , J.-Y. Chesnel , A. Cassimi , J.-P. Grandin , L. Adoui , D. Hennecart , B. Sulik , B. Skogvall , P. Sobocinski , N. Stolterfoht

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
8:12AM - 8:24AM

K6.00002: Simultaneous electron capture to bound an continuum states in 90 AMeV U$^{88+}$+N$_{2}$ collisions
Siegbert Hagmann , Muaffaq Nofal , Thomas Stoehlker , Christophor Kozhuharov , Xincheng Wang , Alexander Gumberidze , U. Spillmann , Regina Reuschl , Sebastian Hess , Fritz Bosch , Dieter Liesen , Doris Jakubassa , Joachim Ullrich , Robert Moshammer , Reinhard Doerner

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
8:24AM - 8:36AM

K6.00003: Radiative Electron Capture to Continuum in 90 AMeV U88+ + N2 : the Short Wavelength Limit of Electron Nucleus Bremsstrahlung
Siegbert Hagmann , Muaffaq Nofal , Thomas Stoehlker , Christophor Kozhuharov , Xincheng Wang , Alexander Gumberidze , Uwe Spillmann , Regina Reuschl , Sebastian Hess , Fritz Bosch , Dieter Liesen , Doris Jakubassa , Joachim Ullrich , Robert Moshammer , Reinhard Doerner

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
8:36AM - 8:48AM

K6.00004: Fragmentation of H$_{2}$O by 1 -- 5 keV He$^{2+}$ ions: Experiment and Theory
N. Stolterfoht , R. Hellhammer , P. Sobocinski , R. Cabrera-Trujillo , Y. Ohrn , E. Deumens , J. Sabin

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
8:48AM - 9:00AM

K6.00005: Measurements of Total Cross Sections of the n = 2 Excitation of Helium from the Impact of 10-25 keV Protons
T.J. Kvale , G.S. Hodges , J. Kang , J.D. Thomas , D.G. Seely

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
9:00AM - 9:12AM

K6.00006: Using Electron-Impact Ionization results to Understand Out-of-the-Scattering Plane Structure seen For Heavy Particle Impact
M. Foster , J.L. Peacher , M. Schulz , D.H. Madison

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
9:12AM - 9:24AM

K6.00007: Laser-Phase Dependence for Electron Capture in Laser-Assisted Proton -- Hydrogen Collisions
Thomas Niederhausen , Uwe Thumm

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
9:24AM - 9:36AM

K6.00008: Local Momenta and Weak Quantum Measurements in Massive Three-Body Coulomb Systems
Michael Schillaci

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