Session B1: New Directions in Quantum Control of AMO Systems

Chair: P. Bucksbaum, Stanford University
TELUS Convention Centre - Macleod BC


Wednesday, June 6, 2007
10:30AM - 11:06AM

B1.00001: Developments in the Coherent Control of Collisional Processes
Invited Speaker: Paul Brumer

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
11:06AM - 11:42AM

B1.00002: Coherent control of infinite-dimensional quantum systems
Invited Speaker: Chitra Rangan

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
11:42AM - 12:18PM

B1.00003: Frontiers in quantum feedback control
Invited Speaker: Hideo Mabuchi

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
12:18PM - 12:54PM

B1.00004: Fourier Synthesis and Robust Control of Quantum Dynamics
Invited Speaker: Navin Khaneja

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Session B2: Focus Session: Dynamic and Out-of-Equilibrium Phenomena in Cold Atoms

Chair: D. Feder, University of Calgary
TELUS Convention Centre - Macleod D


Wednesday, June 6, 2007
10:30AM - 11:06AM

B2.00001: Observation of a dimensional crossover from 1D to 3D gases
Invited Speaker: David S. Weiss

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
11:06AM - 11:42AM

B2.00002: Quantum gases out of balance.
Invited Speaker: Tilman Esslinger

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
11:42AM - 11:54AM

B2.00003: Cold matter and short laser pulses: creating cold molecules and probing pair correlations in condensates.
Francoise Masnou-Seeuws , Jordi Mur-Petit , Eliane Luc-Koenig

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
11:54AM - 12:06PM

B2.00004: Spontaneous symmetry breaking in parametrically driven atomic trap and observation of its critical properties.
Myoung-Sun Heo , Yonghee Kim , Wonho Jhe , Kihwan Kim , Heung-Ryoul Noh

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
12:06PM - 12:18PM

B2.00005: Time-dependent electromagnetic wave dynamics in ultracold, high-density Rb vapor
S. Balik , J. Mills , C.I. Sukenik , M.D. Havey , I.M. Sokolov , D.V. Kupriyanov

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
12:18PM - 12:30PM

B2.00006: Collective self-focusing and atom-optical solitons
William Williams , Mark Saffman

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
12:30PM - 12:42PM

B2.00007: Non-monotonicity in the quantum-classical transition: Chaos induced by quantum effects
Arjendu Pattanayak , Arie Kapulkin

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Session B3: Ultrafast Collision Processes

Chair: H. Schmidt-Boecking, University of Frankfurt
TELUS Convention Centre - Glen 201-203


Wednesday, June 6, 2007
10:30AM - 11:06AM

B3.00001: Recollision revisited: How far can we push the classical picture?
Invited Speaker: Andr\'e Staudte

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
11:06AM - 11:42AM

B3.00002: Attosecond control of electron dynamics
Invited Speaker: Matthias Kling

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
11:42AM - 12:18PM

B3.00003: Ionization and dissociation of molecular ion beams by intense ultrafast laser pulses
Invited Speaker: Itzik Ben-Itzhak

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
12:18PM - 12:54PM

B3.00004: Laser-induced nonsequential double and multiple ionization of atoms: what can be learned from models
Invited Speaker: Wilhelm Becker

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Session B4: Vortices and Solitons in Bose-Einstein Condensates

Chair: M. Kraemer, University of Colorado
TELUS Convention Centre - Glen 206


Wednesday, June 6, 2007
10:30AM - 10:42AM

B4.00001: Exchange of Spin and Orbital Angular Momentum Between an Ultracold Bose Gas and Optical Angular Momentum Beams
Kevin C. Wright , Andrew B. Kowalik , L. Suzanne Leslie , Michael V. Pack , Nicholas P. Bigelow

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
10:42AM - 10:54AM

B4.00002: Persistent flow in a Bose-Einstein condensate
Pierre Clade , Changhyun Ryu , Mikkel Andersen , Vasant Natarajan , Anand Ramanathan , Kristian Helmerson , William Phillips

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
10:54AM - 11:06AM

B4.00003: Quantum dynamics of Raman-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates with Laguerre-Gaussian beams
Rina Kanamoto , Ewan Wright , Pierre Meystre

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
11:06AM - 11:18AM

B4.00004: Vortex formation by merging multiple trapped Bose-Einstein condensates
Chad Weiler , Tyler Neely , David Scherer , Brian Anderson

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
11:18AM - 11:30AM

B4.00005: Spontaneous vortex formation during the creation of Bose-Einstein condensates
Brian Anderson , Chad Weiler , Tyler Neely , David Scherer

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
11:30AM - 11:42AM

B4.00006: Collective Excitations of Pinned Vortex Lattice of a Rotating Condensate
Han Pu , Leslie Baksmaty , Nicholas Bigelow

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
11:42AM - 11:54AM

B4.00007: Signatures of Quantized Vortex States in Rotating Optical Lattices
Brandon Peden , Rajiv Bhat , Meret Kr\"{a}mer , Murray Holland

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
11:54AM - 12:06PM

B4.00008: Observation of Phase Defects of a quasi-2D BEC in a Single Dipole Trap
Pierre Clade , Changhyun Ryu , Anand Ramanathan , Kristian Helmerson , William Phillips

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
12:06PM - 12:18PM

B4.00009: Use of custom potentials to facilitate access to quantum Hall states in rotating Bose gases
Alexis Morris , David Feder

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
12:18PM - 12:30PM

B4.00010: Quantum phase transitions, symmetry breaking, and the Goldstone mode in metastable Bose-Einstein condensates
Rina Kanamoto , Lincoln Carr , Masahito Ueda

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
12:30PM - 12:42PM

B4.00011: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
12:42PM - 12:54PM

B4.00012: Nonlocal stabilization of nonlinear beams in a self-focusing atomic vapor
Mark Saffman , Stefan Skupin , Wieslaw Krolikowski

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Session B5: Metrology & Electric Dipole Moments

Chair: D. Durfee, Brigham Young University
TELUS Convention Centre - Glen 205


Wednesday, June 6, 2007
10:30AM - 10:42AM

B5.00001: Slow-Atom Electron EDM Experiment with Electric Field Quantization
Harvey Gould , Jason Amini , Charles Munger Jr.

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
10:42AM - 10:54AM

B5.00002: An Electron EDM Search Using Trapped Molecular Ions
Laura Sinclair , John Bohn , Aaron Leanhardt , Edmund Meyer , Russell Stutz , Eric Cornell

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
10:54AM - 11:06AM

B5.00003: Progress Towards a New Measurement of the Electric Dipole Moment of $^{199}$Hg.
M.D. Swallows , W.C. Griffith , B.R. Heckel , E.N. Fortson , M.V. Romalis

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
11:06AM - 11:18AM

B5.00004: Toward Searches for Electric Dipole Moments of Radium
Subhadeep De , Umakanth Dammalapati , Klaus Jungmann , Aran Mol , Lorenz Willmann

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
11:18AM - 11:30AM

B5.00005: Accurate determination of the electric-dipole matrix elements in K and Rb from the Stark shift measurements
Marianna Safronova , Bindiya Arora , Charles W. Clark

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
11:30AM - 11:42AM

B5.00006: State-selective ionization of lead monofluoride
C.P. McRaven , P. Sivakumar , N.E. Shafer-Ray

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
11:42AM - 11:54AM

B5.00007: Precision Mass Spectrometry and Polarizability Shifts with Two Ions in a Penning Trap
Matthew Redshaw , Joseph McDaniel , Elizabeth Wingfield , Brianna Mount , Edmund Myers

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
11:54AM - 12:06PM

B5.00008: Blackbody radiation shift in optical frequency standard with $^{43}$Ca$^{\rm{+}}$ ion
Bindiya Arora , M.S. Safronova , Charles W. Clark

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
12:06PM - 12:18PM

B5.00009: A Thermal-beam Calcium Interferometer
Christopher Erickson , Marshall Van Zjill , Matthew Washburn , James Archibald , Dan Christensen , Jeremiah Birrell , Adam Burdett , Dallin Durfee

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
12:18PM - 12:30PM

B5.00010: New search for a spin-gravity interaction
Derek Kimball

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
12:30PM - 12:42PM

B5.00011: Near-IR frequency comb to characterize acetylene-filled fiber-based frequency references
Kristan L. Corwin , Rajesh Thapa , Kevin Knabe , Karl Tillman , Andrew Jones , Brian R. Washburn , Jeffrey W. Nicholson , Man F. Yan

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Session B6: Rydberg Atoms and Molecules

Chair: J. Shaffer, University of Oklahoma
TELUS Convention Centre - Olde Scotch Room


Wednesday, June 6, 2007
10:30AM - 10:42AM

B6.00001: Rydberg Multipole Transitions in Time-Dependent Ponderomotive Potentials
B. Knuffman , G. Raithel

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
10:42AM - 10:54AM

B6.00002: Enhancement of Rydberg atom interactions using ac Stark shifts
Joseph Petrus , Parisa Bohlouli-Zanjani , James Martin

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
10:54AM - 11:06AM

B6.00003: Resonant enhancement of state-mixing and ionizing collisions in Rb Rydberg states
Aaron Reinhard , Tara Cubel Liebisch , Paul Berman , Georg Raithel

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
11:06AM - 11:18AM

B6.00004: Spatially resolved observation of dipole-dipole interaction between Rydberg atoms
Carolijn van Ditzhuijzen , Femius Koenderink , Atreju Tauschinsky , Bart Noordam , Ben van Linden van den Heuvell

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
11:18AM - 11:30AM

B6.00005: Investigation into the Dipole-Dipole Interaction between Two Localized Groups of Rydberg Atoms
Peter D. Maenner , Thomas J. Carroll , Michael W. Noel

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
11:30AM - 11:42AM

B6.00006: Coherent many-body dynamics in cold Rydberg gases
Thomas Pohl , Mikhail D. Lukin

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
11:42AM - 11:54AM

B6.00007: Radiative lifetime measurements of high-$n$ Rb Rydberg states
Duncan Tate , Mao Zheng , Drew Branden , Tamas Juhasz , Andrew Kortyna

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
11:54AM - 12:06PM

B6.00008: Resonant collision processes in a Cs Rydberg gas
K. Richard Overstreet , Arne Schwettmann , Jonathan Tallant , James P. Shaffer

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
12:06PM - 12:18PM

B6.00009: Long-range Cs Rydberg molecules
Arne Schwettmann , K. Richard Overstreet , Jonathan Tallant , James P. Shaffer

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
12:18PM - 12:30PM

B6.00010: Measurements in high-L, n=17 and 20 Rydberg states of barium: An investigation of ion core properties of Ba$^{+}$.
Erica L. Snow , Stephen R. Lundeen

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
12:30PM - 12:42PM

B6.00011: Higher-order contributions to fine structure in high-L Rydberg states of Si$^{2+}$.
Erica L. Snow , Stephen R. Lundeen

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
12:42PM - 12:54PM

B6.00012: Polarizability of Kr$^{6+}$ from High-L Kr$^{5+}$ Fine Structure Measurements
S.R. Lundeen , C.W. Fehrenbach

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