Session N1: Thesis Prize Session

Chair: Steven Manson, Georgia State University
Knoxville Convention Center - Lecture Hall


Thursday, May 18, 2006
1:30PM - 2:06PM

N1.00001: The Relative Phase of Two Spatially Separate Bose-Einstein Condensates
Invited Speaker: Yong-Il Shin

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
2:06PM - 2:42PM

N1.00002: Fully Quantum Measurement of the Electron Magnetic Moment
Invited Speaker: Brian Odom

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
2:42PM - 3:18PM

N1.00003: Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Ultracold Neutral Plasmas
Invited Speaker: Thomas Pohl

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
3:18PM - 3:54PM

N1.00004: Incoherent Waves and Random-Phase Solitons in Nonlinear Periodic Systems
Invited Speaker: Oren Cohen

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Session N2: Particle-Induced Ionization and Break-up Processes of Atoms and Molecules

Chair: Itzik Ben-Itzak, Kansas State University
Knoxville Convention Center - Ballroom EFG


Thursday, May 18, 2006
1:30PM - 2:06PM

N2.00001: Recent progress in modeling the electron-impact ionization of atoms.
Invited Speaker: Andris Stelbovics

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
2:06PM - 2:42PM

N2.00002: Electron and Photon Impact Ionization: Extracting Fundamental Quantities From Experiment
Invited Speaker: N.L.S. Martin

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
2:42PM - 3:18PM

N2.00003: Three-Dimensional Imaging of Atomic Fragmentation Processes
Invited Speaker: Michael Schulz

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
3:18PM - 3:54PM

N2.00004: Novel Studies of Electron-Impact Induced Ionization of Atoms and Molecules
Invited Speaker: Alexander Dorn

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Session N3: Atoms in Optical Lattices

Chair: Sabrina Leslie, University of California, Berkeley
Knoxville Convention Center - 301D


Thursday, May 18, 2006
1:30PM - 1:42PM

N3.00001: A lattice of double wells for manipulating pairs of cold atoms.
Jennifer Sebby-Strabley , Marco Anderlini , Ben Brown , Johnny Huckans , Jens Kruse , Patricia Lee , Ian Spielman , Steve Rolston , James Porto , William Phillips

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
1:42PM - 1:54PM

N3.00002: Experiments with Ultra-cold Atoms in an Optical Lattice with Dynamically Variable Lattice Constant
John Huckans , Ian Spielman , Bruno Laburthe Tolra , J.V. Porto , W.D. Phillips

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
1:54PM - 2:06PM

N3.00003: Probing Localization Physics with a Bose-Einstein Condensate Subject to Optical Random Potential: Interplay of Interaction and Disorder
Yong P. Chen , M. Junker , D. Dries , C. Welford , J. Hitchcock , R. G. Hulet

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
2:06PM - 2:18PM

N3.00004: Quantum coherence of Hard-Core-Bosons and Fermions: Extended, Glassy and Mott Phases
Ana Maria Rey , Indubala I. Satija , Charles W. Clark

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
2:18PM - 2:30PM

N3.00005: Metal-insulator transition revisited for cold atoms in non-Abelian gauge potentials
Daniel Dakin , Indubala Satija

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
2:30PM - 2:42PM

N3.00006: Quantum reflection of Bose-Einstein condensates from nano-pillars
T.A. Pasquini , M. Saba , Y. Shin , G. Jo , C. Christensen , S. Will , D.E. Pritchard , W. Ketterle

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
2:42PM - 2:54PM

N3.00007: Interaction-induced localization of an impurity in a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate
Ryan Kalas , D. Blume

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
2:54PM - 3:06PM

N3.00008: Coherent collisional spin-dynamics in an optical lattice
Artur Widera , Simon F\"olling , Fabrice Gerbier , Torben M\"uller , Immanuel Bloch

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
3:06PM - 3:18PM

N3.00009: Bragg spectroscopy of Bose-condensed atoms in an optical lattice
Xu Du , Shoupu Wan , Emek Yesilada , Changyun Ryu , Daniel Heinzen

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
3:18PM - 3:30PM

N3.00010: Direct Observation of Sub-Poissonian Number Statistics in a Degenerate Bose Gas.
Chih-Sung Chuu , Florian Schreck , Todd P. Meyrath , Gabriel N. Price , Mark G. Raizen

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Session N4: Quantum and Non-Linear Optics

Chair: David Phillips, Harvard-Smithsonian for Astrophysics
Knoxville Convention Center - 301E


Thursday, May 18, 2006
1:30PM - 1:42PM

N4.00001: Stored light optimization in Rb vapor cells
Irina Novikova , David Phillips , Ronald Walsworth

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
1:42PM - 1:54PM

N4.00002: Influence of EIT coherence on laser phase-noise to intensity-noise conversion
Yanhong Xiao , David Phillips , Cindy Hancox , Irina Novikova , Ronald Walsworth

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
1:54PM - 2:06PM

N4.00003: Light storage in coated vapor cells
Michael Hohensee , Mason Klein , David Phillips , Irina Novikova , Ronald Walsworth

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
2:06PM - 2:18PM

N4.00004: Negative refraction without absorption in the optical regime
Juergen Kaestel , Michael Fleischhauer , Susanne F. Yelin , Ron L. Walsworth

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
2:18PM - 2:30PM

N4.00005: The N- and CPT- joint resonance: Theory, experiment and implications for novel compact frequency references.
Michael Crescimanno , Irina Novikova , Yanhong Xiao , Cindy Hancox , David Phillips , Ron Walsworth

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
2:30PM - 2:42PM

N4.00006: Two photon quantum interference of light emitted by two ions
P. Maunz , M.J. Madsen , D.L. Moehring , K. Younge , R.N. Kohn, Jr. , C. Monroe

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
2:42PM - 2:54PM

N4.00007: Quantum State Reconstruction of a Large Angular Momentum by Continuous Weak Meaurement
Poul Jessen , Greg Smith , Andrew Silberfarb , Ivan Deutsch

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
2:54PM - 3:06PM

N4.00008: Large Cross-Phase Modulation between Slow Co-propagating Weak Pulses in $^{87}$Rb
Z.B. Wang , K.-P. Marzlin , B.C. Sanders

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
3:06PM - 3:18PM

N4.00009: Cavity-Aided Single Atom Detection on an Atom Chip
Igor Teper , Yu-ju Lin , Vladan Vuletic

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
3:18PM - 3:30PM

N4.00010: Coherent Interactions with Rubidium Atoms Confined in a Hollow-Core Photonic Band-Gap Fiber
Saikat Ghosh , Amar Bhagwat , Christopher Kyle Renshaw , Shireen Goh , Alexander Gaeta , Brian Kirby

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Session N5: Wavepackets and Control of Molecules and Large Systems

Chair: Brett Pearson, SUNY Stony Brook
Knoxville Convention Center - 301AB


Thursday, May 18, 2006
1:30PM - 1:42PM

N5.00001: Controlling Molecular Fragmentation: Charge Transfer in a Dissociating Molecule
Brett Pearson , Mark Baertschy , David Cardoza , Thomas Weinacht

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
1:42PM - 1:54PM

N5.00002: Imaging Molecular Wavefunctions during Dissociation
Mark Baertschy , Brett Pearson , David Cardoza , Thomas Weinacht

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
1:54PM - 2:06PM

N5.00003: Coherent control of excited state vibrational coherences of a molecule in solution
Andrei Florean , Elizabeth Carroll , Roseanne Sension , Philip Bucksbaum

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
2:06PM - 2:18PM

N5.00004: Dynamical coherence transfer in photoelectron diffraction in N$_2$
B. Zimmermann , V. McKoy , B. Langer , U. Becker

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
2:18PM - 2:30PM

N5.00005: Optimizing impulsive rotational wave packet excitation for molecular phase modulation
Omid Masihzadeh , Mark Baertschy , Randy Bartels

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
2:30PM - 2:42PM

N5.00006: Rotational wave packet dynamics with high energy excitation
Mark Baertschy , Omid Masihzadeh , Randy Bartels

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
2:42PM - 2:54PM

N5.00007: Optimal Control of Large Spin Systems
Seth Merkel , Souma Chaudhury , Andrew Silberfarb , Tobias Herr , Ivan Deutsch , Poul Jessen

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
2:54PM - 3:06PM

N5.00008: Control of Landau orbits by electromagnetic vortices
Iwo Bialynicki-Birula

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Session N6: Spectroscopy, Lifetimes, Oscillator Strengths

Chair: Sultana Nahar, Ohio University
Knoxville Convention Center - 301C


Thursday, May 18, 2006
1:30PM - 1:42PM

N6.00001: Fine structure measurements in high-L, n=17 and 20 Rydberg states of magnesium: A determination of the polarizabilities of Mg$^{+}$
Erica L. Snow , Laura E. Wright , Stephen R. Lundeen

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
1:42PM - 1:54PM

N6.00002: Fine Structure Measurements in High-L Rydberg States of Argon.
Laura E. Wright , Erica L. Snow , Stephen R. Lundeen , W. Gregg Sturrus

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
1:54PM - 2:06PM

N6.00003: Hyperfine splitting of the $6s$ level in Rb and its hyperfine anomaly
Adrian Perez-Galvan , Yanting Zhao , Luis Orozco

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
2:06PM - 2:18PM

N6.00004: M\"{o}ssbauer Study of Eu$_{14}$MnSb$_{11}$ and Yb$_{14}$MnSb$_{11}$ Zintl Compounds.
Durga Kafle , Dennis Brown

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
2:18PM - 2:30PM

N6.00005: Lattice based spectroscopy on an even isotope of Yb
Zeb Barber , Chad Hoyt , Chris Oates , Leo Hollberg

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
2:30PM - 2:42PM

N6.00006: 2p$_{3/2}^{-1}$3x$^{-1}$-3x$^{-1}$3d$^{-1}$ X-Ray satellites in the L$\alpha$$_{1}$ region of 4d transition elements
Surendra Poonia

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
2:42PM - 2:54PM

N6.00007: L$\beta$ $_{2 }$ satellites in the X-ray emission spectra of 5d transition elements
Surendra Poonia

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
2:54PM - 3:06PM

N6.00008: High Precision Theory and Isotope Shifts for Li and Be+
Gordon Drake , Zong-Chao Yan

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
3:06PM - 3:18PM

N6.00009: Precision Measurement of the 2$^{3}$S$_{1}$-2$^{3}$P$_{J}$ Transitions in $^{4}$He using an Optical Frequency Comb
Daniel Farkas , Gerald Gabrielse

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
3:18PM - 3:30PM

N6.00010: Temperature Dependent Electronic and Vibrational Circular Dichroism of Carvone and Limonene
Watheq Al-basheer , Jiangtao He , Prasad Polavarapu , Richard Pagni , Robert Compton

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Thursday, May 18, 2006
3:30PM - 3:42PM

N6.00011: Systematic Study of the $^{87}$Sr Clock Transition in an Optical Lattice
Martin Boyd , Andrew Ludlow , Tanya Zelevinsky , Seth Foreman , Sebastian Blatt , Mark Notcutt , Tetsuya Ido , Jun Ye

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