Session T1: Emerging Applications of AMO Physics

Chair: Mark Edwards, Georgia Southern University
Knoxville Convention Center - Lecture Hall


Friday, May 19, 2006
10:30AM - 11:06AM

T1.00001: TBD
Invited Speaker: Jay Lowell

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Friday, May 19, 2006
11:06AM - 11:42AM

T1.00002: TBD
Invited Speaker: Mark Kasevich

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Friday, May 19, 2006
11:42AM - 12:18PM

T1.00003: All-optical atomic magnetometry
Invited Speaker: Dmitry Budker

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Friday, May 19, 2006
12:18PM - 12:54PM

T1.00004: Chip-Scale Atomic Devices
Invited Speaker: John Kitching

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Session T2: Positron Interactions with Atoms and Molecules

Chair: Stephen Buckman, Australian National University
Knoxville Convention Center - Ballroom EFG


Friday, May 19, 2006
10:30AM - 11:06AM

T2.00001: Positronic Atoms --- Understanding a Sticky (Few-Body) Situation
Invited Speaker: Michael W.J. Bromley

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Friday, May 19, 2006
11:06AM - 11:42AM

T2.00002: Resonances in Positron-molecule Interactions
Invited Speaker: C. M. Surko

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Friday, May 19, 2006
11:42AM - 12:18PM

T2.00003: Ionisation by Positron and Positronium Impact
Invited Speaker: Gaetana Laricchia

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Friday, May 19, 2006
12:18PM - 12:54PM

T2.00004: Many-body theory of positron-atom interactions
Invited Speaker: Gleb Gribakin

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Session T3: Strong Field (Intense Laser) Processes II

Chair: Stephen Southworth, Argonne National Laboratory
Knoxville Convention Center - 301D


Friday, May 19, 2006
10:30AM - 10:42AM

T3.00001: Observation of Enhanced Excitation of $I_2^{2+}$ by Strong Laser Fields
George Gibson , Ryan Coffee , Li Fang

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Friday, May 19, 2006
10:42AM - 10:54AM

T3.00002: Resonant-Like~Enhancement~of~the High-Energy Plateau in ATD
Katarzyna Krajewska , Ilya I. Fabrikant , Anthony F. Starace

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Friday, May 19, 2006
10:54AM - 11:06AM

T3.00003: Two-photon excitation/ionization of inner shell atoms: Non-dipole approximation
S.A. Novikov , S.S. Tayal

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Friday, May 19, 2006
11:06AM - 11:18AM

T3.00004: Electron-Positron Pair Production by the Impact of a High-Power Laser Pulse on Relativistic Ions
Katarzyna Krajewska , Jerzy Z. Kami\'{n}ski , Fritz Ehlotzky

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Friday, May 19, 2006
11:18AM - 11:30AM

T3.00005: Charges in an electromagnetic wave directed along a constant magnetic field: quantum and classical solutions
William E. Baylis , Renan Cabrera

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Friday, May 19, 2006
11:30AM - 11:42AM

T3.00006: Optimizing dynamic alignment in diatomic molecules by pulse shaping
Daniel Pinkham , Karen Mooney , Robert Jones

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Friday, May 19, 2006
11:42AM - 11:54AM

T3.00007: X-ray probe of Alignment by Strong-field Ionization
C. H\"{o}hr , E. Peterson , D.A. Arms , E.M. Dufresne , R.W. Dunford , D.L. Ederer , E.P. Kanter , B. Kr\"{a}ssig , E.C. Landahl , J. Rudati , R. Santra , S.H. Southworth , L. Young

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Friday, May 19, 2006
11:54AM - 12:06PM

T3.00008: Aligned Molecules for X-Ray Microprobe Studies
E. Peterson , C. H\"{o}hr , S. Southworth , E. Landahl , B. Kr\"{a}ssig , E. Kanter , S. Pratt , L. Young

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Friday, May 19, 2006
12:06PM - 12:18PM

T3.00009: Dielectronic Recombination From a Continuum of Finite Bandwidth Above the Classical Ionization Limit
Edward Shuman , Tom Gallagher

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Friday, May 19, 2006
12:18PM - 12:30PM

T3.00010: High repetition rate saturated output lasers in nickel-like ions at wavelengths down to 13.2 nm
M.A. Larotonda , Y. Wang , B.M. Luther , D. Alessi , M. Berrill , V.N. Shlyaptsev* , J.J. Rocca

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Session T4: Atomic and Molecular Structure, Including in Static Fields

Chair: Yuri Ralchenko, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Knoxville Convention Center - 301E


Friday, May 19, 2006
10:30AM - 10:42AM

T4.00001: Measurement of pressure broadening of the 2S-3S transition of $^{7}$Li by noble gases
Mark Rosenberry , Kristin Burgess , Kok Win Goh , Michael Reuter , Brian Stewart

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Friday, May 19, 2006
10:42AM - 10:54AM

T4.00002: Precision calculations of atomic properties of Ga and Ga-like ions
U.I. Safronova , M.S. Safronova , T.E. Cowan

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Friday, May 19, 2006
10:54AM - 11:06AM

T4.00003: The He-He dimer binding energy: A new computational method..
George Rawitscher , Israel Koltracht

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Friday, May 19, 2006
11:06AM - 11:18AM

T4.00004: Triple excitations in the relativistic coupled-cluster formalism and calculation of Na properties
Sergey Porsev , Andrei Derevianko

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Friday, May 19, 2006
11:18AM - 11:30AM

T4.00005: Quantitative Theory for Electron-Atom Scattering
Colm T. Whelan , Robert K. Nesbet , Jason. Martinez

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Friday, May 19, 2006
11:30AM - 11:42AM

T4.00006: Complete treatment of the non-linear terms in the single-double all-order method
Rupsi Chandra , M.S. Safronova , W.R. Johnson

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Friday, May 19, 2006
11:42AM - 11:54AM

T4.00007: $B$-spline calculations of oscillator strengths in noble gases.
Oleg Zatsarinny , Klaus Bartschat

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Friday, May 19, 2006
11:54AM - 12:06PM

T4.00008: The correlation of nucleon mass to nuclear stability is investigated
Eugene Pamfiloff

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Friday, May 19, 2006
12:06PM - 12:18PM

T4.00009: Energetics and structural properties of bosonic three-dimensional clusters near threshold
D. Blume , G. J. Hanna

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Session T5: Rydberg Atoms and Wave Packets

Chair: Francis Robicheaux, Auburn University
Knoxville Convention Center - 301 AB


Friday, May 19, 2006
10:30AM - 10:42AM

T5.00001: High-Resolution Rydberg-spectroscopy on ultracold Rubidium atoms
Tilman Pfau , Rolf Heidemann , Axel Grabowski , Vera Bendkowsky , Eva Kuhnle , Juergen Stuhler

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Friday, May 19, 2006
10:42AM - 10:54AM

T5.00002: Superradiance in ultracold Rydberg atoms
Tun Wang , Robin Cote , Edward Eyler , S. Farooqi , Philip Gould , Marijan Kostrun , David Tong , Daniel Vrinceanu , Susanne Yelin

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Friday, May 19, 2006
10:54AM - 11:06AM

T5.00003: Quadrupole Transitions to Rydberg States in an Ultracold $^{85}$Rb Gas
D. Tong , S.M. Farooqi , E.G.M van Kempen , E.E. Eyler , P.L. Gould

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Friday, May 19, 2006
11:06AM - 11:18AM

T5.00004: Van-der-Waals shifts of rubidium Rydberg states
Tara Cubel Liebisch , Aaron Reinhard , Brenton Knuffman , Paul Berman , Georg Raithel

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Friday, May 19, 2006
11:18AM - 11:30AM

T5.00005: Ionization of an Highly Excited Hydrogen atom in parallel Electric and Magnetic fields
T\"urker Top\c cu , Francis Robicheaux

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Friday, May 19, 2006
11:30AM - 11:42AM

T5.00006: Microwave Ionization of Sodium at High Scaled Frequency
Xiaodong Zhang , Thomas Gallagher

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Friday, May 19, 2006
11:42AM - 11:54AM

T5.00007: Probing Time-Dependent Electron Interactions in Double-Rydberg Wavepackets
X. Zhang , R.R. Jones

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Friday, May 19, 2006
11:54AM - 12:06PM

T5.00008: Orbital dynamics of two-electron atoms in a static electric field probed by scaled energy spectroscopy
J. Murray-Krezan , J. Kelly , M.R. Kutteruf , R.R. Jones

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Friday, May 19, 2006
12:06PM - 12:18PM

T5.00009: Coherent population transfer by multiphoton adiabatic rapid pasasage
H. Maeda , J.H. Gurian , D.V.L. Norum , T.F. Gallagher

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Friday, May 19, 2006
12:18PM - 12:30PM

T5.00010: Observing angular precession of a Rydberg wave packet due to spin-orbit coupling by orthogonal polarized half-cycle pulses
Haidan Wen , Santosh Pisharody , Joel Murray , Philip Bucksbaum

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Session T6: New Experimental Techniques

Chair: Yuan-Yu Jau, Princeton University
Knoxville Convention Center - 301C


Friday, May 19, 2006
10:30AM - 10:42AM

T6.00001: Multiply-Charged Positive Ion Polarizabilities from Rydberg Ion Fine Structure
Stephen R. Lundeen , Laura E. Wright , Erica L. Snow

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Friday, May 19, 2006
10:42AM - 10:54AM

T6.00002: Progress in High-Field Optical Pumping of Alkali Metal Nuclei
B. Patton , K. Ishikawa , Y.-Y. Jau , W. Happer

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Friday, May 19, 2006
10:54AM - 11:06AM

T6.00003: NMR studies of Phase Transitions in Alkali Metal Films on Glass Substrates
K. Ishikawa , B. Patton , Y.-Y. Jau , W. Happer

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Friday, May 19, 2006
11:06AM - 11:18AM

T6.00004: Optical Transfer Cavity Stabilization using Tunable Sidebands of RF Current-Modulated Injection-Locked Diode Lasers.
Parisa Bohlouli-Zanjani , James D.D. Martin

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Friday, May 19, 2006
11:18AM - 11:30AM

T6.00005: Engineered Light Fields Designed to Manipulate Cold Atoms
Matthew Pasienski , Hong Gao , Matthew White , Brian DeMarco

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Friday, May 19, 2006
11:30AM - 11:42AM

T6.00006: Autler Townes Effect as a Probe of Molecular Electronic Transition Dipole Moments
Ergin Ahmed , Peng Qi , Omer Salihoglu , Bediha Beser , Svetlana Kotochigova , Marjatta Lyyra

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Friday, May 19, 2006
11:42AM - 11:54AM

T6.00007: Buffer gas loading and Doppler cooling of strontium ions in a planar Paul trap
Robert Clark , Kenneth Brown , Jaroslaw Labaziewicz , Philip Richerme , Isaac Chuang

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Friday, May 19, 2006
11:54AM - 12:06PM

T6.00008: Evanescent wave magnetometer
Z. Wu , K. Zhao

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