Session S1: Coherent Spinor Dynamics in Ultracold Gases

Chair: Presiding person to be selected
Knoxville Convention Center - Lecture Hall


Friday, May 19, 2006
8:00AM - 8:36AM

S1.00001: Coherent spinor dynamics in all-optical spin-1 condensates
Invited Speaker: Michael Chapman

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Friday, May 19, 2006
8:36AM - 9:12AM

S1.00002: Resonance spin dynamics in ultracold gases
Invited Speaker: Klaus Sengstock

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Friday, May 19, 2006
9:12AM - 9:48AM

S1.00003: Dipolar spinor condensate: a novel magnetic anisotropic superfluid
Invited Speaker: Han Pu

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Friday, May 19, 2006
9:48AM - 10:24AM

S1.00004: Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in a Ferromagnetic Spinor Condensate
Invited Speaker: Mukund Vengalattore

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Session S2: Rydberg Physics and Ultracold Plasmas

Chair: Georg Raithel, University of Michigan
Knoxville Convention Center - Ballroom EFG


Friday, May 19, 2006
8:00AM - 8:36AM

S2.00001: Expansion Dynamics of Ultracold Neutral Plasmas
Invited Speaker: Thomas Killian

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Friday, May 19, 2006
8:36AM - 9:12AM

S2.00002: Rydberg gases as thermostats for ultracold neutral plasmas
Invited Speaker: Thomas Pattard

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Friday, May 19, 2006
9:12AM - 9:48AM

S2.00003: Enhanced Recombination Rate in Ion Storage Rings: Formation of Rydberg Atoms during the Beam Merging
Invited Speaker: Shuhei Yoshida

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Friday, May 19, 2006
9:48AM - 10:24AM

S2.00004: Microwave manipulation of an atomic electron.
Invited Speaker: Thomas Gallagher

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Session S3: Strong Field (Intense Laser) Processes I

Chair: Mette Gaarde, Louisiana State University
Knoxville Convention Center - 301D


Friday, May 19, 2006
8:00AM - 8:12AM

S3.00001: Ellicity dependence of Harmonic Generation in $\rm \bf C_{60}$
Guoping Zhang , Thomas F. George

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Friday, May 19, 2006
8:12AM - 8:24AM

S3.00002: Three-Step Model for High-Harmonic Generation in Many-Electron Systems
Robin Santra , Ariel Gordon

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Friday, May 19, 2006
8:24AM - 8:36AM

S3.00003: Alignment dependence of high-order harmonic generation from CO$_{2}$
Anh-Thu Le , Xiao-Min Tong , C. D. Lin

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Friday, May 19, 2006
8:36AM - 8:48AM

S3.00004: Phase Dependence of Molecular High Order Harmonic Generation at Long-Range
Andre D. Bandrauk , Samira Barmaki , Gerard Lagmago-Kamta

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Friday, May 19, 2006
8:48AM - 9:00AM

S3.00005: Observation of Intra-molecular Vibrational Dynamics using High-Harmonic Generation as a Probe
Nick Wagner , Andrea W\"uest , Margaret Murnane , Henry Kapteyn

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Friday, May 19, 2006
9:00AM - 9:12AM

S3.00006: High harmonic generation from ions in a capillary discharge
David M. Gaudiosi , Brendan Reagan , Tenio Popmintchev , Michael Grisham , Mark Berrill , Oren Cohen , Barry C. Walker , Margaret M. Murnane , Henry C. Kapteyn , Jorge J. Rocca

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Friday, May 19, 2006
9:12AM - 9:24AM

S3.00007: Effective one-electron approaches to calculate high harmonic generation
Nina Rohringer , Robin Santra

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Friday, May 19, 2006
9:24AM - 9:36AM

S3.00008: Quantum origin of plateau structures in strong laser-atom processes
M.V. Frolov , N.L. Manakov , A.A. Khuskivadze , Anthony F. Starace

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Friday, May 19, 2006
9:36AM - 9:48AM

S3.00009: Coherent states of the periodically driven Rydberg atom
Luz Vianey Vela-Arevalo

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Friday, May 19, 2006
9:48AM - 10:00AM

S3.00010: Creating more stable molecular dications in strong laser fields
X. Wang , C. Guo

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Session S4: Electron and Positron Scattering-Theory

Chair: Don Madison, University of Missouri-Rolla
Knoxville Convention Center - 301E


Friday, May 19, 2006
8:00AM - 8:12AM

S4.00001: Importance of Different Interactions for Simultaneous Excitation-Ionization of Helium by Electron Impact
A.L. Harris , M. Foster , J.L. Peacher , D.H. Madison , K. Bartschat

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Friday, May 19, 2006
8:12AM - 8:24AM

S4.00002: A simple method for obtaining accurate electron scattering phase shifts from ab initio MBPT energies of an atom in a cavity
I. M. Savukov

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Friday, May 19, 2006
8:24AM - 8:36AM

S4.00003: R-MATRIX II Calculations for Electron Collisions with Ni~II
Anil Pradhan , Justin Oelgoetz , Sultana Nahar , V. Burke , P. Burke , C. Noble

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Friday, May 19, 2006
8:36AM - 8:48AM

S4.00004: Electron-Impact Double Ionization of H$^-$
M.S. Pindzola , F. Robicheaux , J. Colgan

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Friday, May 19, 2006
8:48AM - 9:00AM

S4.00005: Effect of Exchange Distortion on Spin Polarized Electron-Xenon Scattering
Z. Stegen , D.H. Madison , H. Saha , K. Bartschat , R. Panajotovic , S. Bellm , J. Lower , Erich Weigold

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Friday, May 19, 2006
9:00AM - 9:12AM

S4.00006: The ionization dynamics of electron impact H$_{2}$ and H$_{2}$O molecules
Junfang Gao , Don Madison , Jerry Peacher , Martyn Hussey , Andrew Murray

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Friday, May 19, 2006
9:12AM - 9:24AM

S4.00007: State-selected predissociation of H$_3$
V. Ngassam , A.E. Orel

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Friday, May 19, 2006
9:24AM - 9:36AM

S4.00008: Dissociative Electron Attachment to ClCN and BrCN
J. Royal , A.E. Orel

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Session S5: Nonlinear Optics and Special Topics

Chair: Ray Garrett, University of Tennessee
Knoxville Convention Center - 301AB


Friday, May 19, 2006
8:00AM - 8:12AM

S5.00001: Three body recombination for electrons in a strong magnetic field: magnetic moment
Francis Robicheaux

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Friday, May 19, 2006
8:12AM - 8:24AM

S5.00002: Defect dynamics in nonlinear photonic quasicrystals
Barak Freedman , Guy Bartal , Mordechai Segev , Ron Lifshitz , Demetrios N. Christodoulides , Jason W. Fleischer

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Friday, May 19, 2006
8:24AM - 8:36AM

S5.00003: Coupled dynamics of atoms and a radiation pressure driven interferometer
Dominic Meiser , Pierre Meystre

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Friday, May 19, 2006
8:36AM - 8:48AM

S5.00004: Study of decoherence and dynamical decoupling in an optical lattice
S. Maneshi , J.F. Kanem , C. Zhuang , M. Partlow , A.M. Steinberg

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Friday, May 19, 2006
8:48AM - 9:00AM

S5.00005: Physics collaboration and communication through emerging media: *odcasts, blogs and wikis
Charles W. Clark , Jamie Williams

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Friday, May 19, 2006
9:00AM - 9:12AM

S5.00006: Storage and retrieval of single photons transmitted between remote quantum memories
Stewart D. Jenkins , Thierry Chaneli\`{e}re , Dzmitry Matsukevich , Shau-Yu Lan , Odell A. Collins , Alex Kuzmich , T.A. Brian Kennedy

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Friday, May 19, 2006
9:12AM - 9:24AM

S5.00007: Up-Conversion Methods for Multi-dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy
Kent Meyer

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Friday, May 19, 2006
9:24AM - 9:36AM

S5.00008: Ultrafast Optical Rabi Oscillations on a Single Ion
Martin Madsen , Peter Maunz , David Moehring , Rudy Kohn , Chris Monroe

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Session S6: New Theoretical Methods and Nonlinear Dynamics

Chair: John Delos, College of William and Mary
Knoxville Convention Center - 301C


Friday, May 19, 2006
8:00AM - 8:12AM

S6.00001: The sign and magnitude of some semiclassical Casimir energies
Martin Schaden , Larry Spruch

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Friday, May 19, 2006
8:12AM - 8:24AM

S6.00002: Gaussian quantum operator representations for fermions
Peter Drummond , Joel Corney

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Friday, May 19, 2006
8:24AM - 8:36AM

S6.00003: Atomic Spectral Methods for Molecular Electronic Structure Calculations
Robert Hinde , Jerry Boatz , Peter Langhoff

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Friday, May 19, 2006
8:36AM - 8:48AM

S6.00004: Monodromy? What's Monodromy?
J.B. Delos , D. Sadovskii , B. Zhilinskii

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Friday, May 19, 2006
8:48AM - 9:00AM

S6.00005: The dynamic foundation of quantum mechanics
V.J. Lee

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Friday, May 19, 2006
9:00AM - 9:12AM

S6.00006: Measurement of critical exponents at spontaneous symmetry breaking~in a parametrically excited magneto-optical trap
Myoung-Sun Heo , Ki-Hwan Lee , Changil Ryoo , Dahyun Yum , Yonghee Kim , Kihwan Kim , Wonho Jhe

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Friday, May 19, 2006
9:12AM - 9:24AM

S6.00007: Radiation-Pressure-Driven Micro-Mechanical Cavity and Emergence of Chaos
Farhan Saif , Pierre Meystre

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Friday, May 19, 2006
9:24AM - 9:36AM

S6.00008: Scaling in parameter dependence of decoherence of quantum systems far from their classically chaotic counterparts
Arjendu Pattanayak , Arnaldo Gammal

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Friday, May 19, 2006
9:36AM - 9:48AM

S6.00009: Chaos-induced pulse trains of cold atoms in a double Gaussian trap
Kevin Mitchell

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