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May 28 2008 8:00AM, Wednesday
Session A1 DAMOP Prize Session
Chair: William Stwalley, University of Connecticut Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom A-E
Invited Speakers: Horst Schmidt-Bocking
May 28 2008 11:00AM, Wednesday
Session B1 Recent Developments in Optical Lattice Physics
Chair: Randy Hulet, Rice University Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom CDE
Invited Speakers: William Phillips, Immanuel Bloch, Michael Koehl, Ana Maria Rey
Session B2 Graduate Student Thesis Session
Chair: Robin Cote, University of Connecticut Room: Kern Building 112
Invited Speakers: Lilian Childress
Session B3 Current Topics in Gaseous Electronics (Co-Sponsored by GEC)
Chair: Rainer Johnson, University of Pittsburgh Room: Keller Building 104
Invited Speakers: E.E. Kunhardt
Session B4 Photoassociation and Cold Collisions Chair: Paul Julienne, National Institute of Standards and Technology Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom AB
Session B5 Quantum and Nonlinear Optics Chair: Susanne Yelin, University of Connecticut Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom I
Session B6 Photon Interactions with Atoms, Ions, and Molecules Chair: Tom Killian, Rice University Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom II
May 28 2008 2:00PM, Wednesday
Session C1 50th Anniversary of Physical Review Letters
Chair: George Basbas, American Physical Society Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom CDE
Invited Speakers: Daniel Kleppner, Deniz van Heijnsbergen
Session C2 Focus Session: Vortices and Solitons
Chair: Zachary Dutton, BBN Technologies Room: Kern Building 112
Invited Speakers: Murray Holland
Session C3 Ion and Electron Collisions
Chair: Horst Schmidt-Boecking, University of Frankfurt Room: Keller Building 104
Invited Speakers: Daniel Fischer, Matthew Foster
Session C4 Ultracold Molecules Chair: Phil Gould, University of Connecticut Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom AB
Session C5 Fundamental Symmetries (Co-Sponsored by GPMFC) Chair: Protik Majumder, Williams College Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom I
Session C6 Quantum Computation Chair: Junsang Kim, Duke University Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom II
May 28 2008 3:20PM, Wednesday
Session D1 Meet the APS Journal Editors and Celebrate 50 Years of PRL Room: Nittany Lion Inn Outside Ballroom CDE
May 28 2008 4:00PM, Wednesday
Session E1 Poster Session I: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Room: HUB-Robeson Center Alumni Hall
May 28 2008 4:30PM, Wednesday
Session F1 Women Scientists in DAMOP Reception Room: HUB-Robeson Center Room 129A
May 28 2008 6:00PM, Wednesday
Session G1 Topical Group on Precision Measurements and Fundamental Constants Business Meeting Room: Osmond Laboratory Room 103
May 28 2008 8:00PM, Wednesday
Session H1 Public Lecture: The World's Energy Problem and What We Can Do About It
Chair: David Weiss, Penn State University Room: Eisenhower Auditorium
Invited Speakers: Steven Chu
May 29 2008 8:00AM, Thursday
Session I1 New Physics with Ultracold Atoms
Chair: Charles Clark, National Institute of Standards and Technology Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom CDE
Invited Speakers: Chris H. Greene, Paul Lett
Session I2 Physics with Low-Energy Antimatter
Chair: Clifford Surko, University of California, San Diego Room: Kern Building 112
Invited Speakers: Gleb Gribakin, Niels Madsen, E.A. Hessels
Session I3 Focus Session: Searches for Relativity Violations (Co-Sponsored by GPMFC)
Chair: Neil Russell, Northern Michigan University Room: Keller Building 104
Invited Speakers: Alan Kostelecky, Achim Peters
Session I4 Ultracold Scattering and Interactions Chair: Marjatta Lyyra, Temple University Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom AB
Session I5 Collisions Involving Atoms, Molecules, or Ions Chair: Edward Gerjuoy, University of Pittsburgh Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom I
Session I6 Photoionization and Photodetachment Processes Chair: Nora Berrah, Western Michigan University Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom II
May 29 2008 11:00AM, Thursday
Session J1 New Physics with Strongly Interacting Fermions
Chair: Ana Maria Rey, ITAMP, Harvard University Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom CDE
Invited Speakers: Carlos A.R. Sa de Melo, Wenhui Li
Session J2 Atomic Clocks and Searches for Variations in Fundamental Constants (Co-Sponsored by GPMFC)
Chair: Eric Burt, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Room: Kern Building 112
Invited Speakers: Sebastien Bize
Session J3 Focus Session: Rydberg Atoms and Molecules
Chair: Robert Jones, University of Virginia Room: Keller Building 104
Invited Speakers:
Session J4 Dynamic and Out-of-Equilibrium Phenomena in Cold Atoms Chair: Dan Gauthier, Duke University Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom AB
Session J5 Matter Wave Interferometry Chair: Alex Cronin, University of Arizona Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom I
Session J6 Short Pulse (e.g., Attosecond, Femtosecond Processes) I Chair: Itzik Ben-Itzhak, Kansas State University Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom II
May 29 2008 2:00PM, Thursday
Session K1 Recent Developments in Ultracold Spinor Systems
Chair: Cheng Chin, University of Chicago Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom CDE
Invited Speakers: Dan Stamper-Kurn
Session K2 Focus Session: Ultracold Dipolar Gases
Chair: Ed Eyler, University of Connecticut Room: Kern Building 112
Invited Speakers:
Session K3 Undergraduate Research Session
Chair: Eric Wells, Augustana College, Sioux Falls Room: Keller Building 104
Invited Speakers: P.W. Hess, J.S. Salacka, Aaron Dunn, J. Rau
Session K4 Experiments with Cold and Ultracold Atoms Chair: Doerte Blume, Washington State University Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom AB
Session K5 Entanglement and Decoherence Chair: Chris Monroe, University of Maryland Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom I
Session K6 Short Pulse (e.g., Attosecond, Femtosecond Processes) II Chair: Ian Walmsley, University of Oxford Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom II
May 29 2008 4:00PM, Thursday
Session L1 PRA/PRL Tutorial Session for Authors and Referees Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom I
Session L2 Poster Session II: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Room: HUB-Robeson Center Alumni Hall
May 29 2008 5:00PM, Thursday
Session M1 TAMOC Business Meeting Room: Osmond Laboratory Room 101
May 29 2008 6:30PM, Thursday
Session N1 Reception and Banquet Room: Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center President's Hall
May 30 2008 8:00AM, Friday
Session O1 Quantum Control of Polar Molecules
Chair: Paul Lett, National Institute of Standards and Technology Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom CDE
Invited Speakers: David DeMille, Tommaso Calarco, Susanne Yelin, John Doyle
Session O2 Optical Quantum Memory (Co-Sponsored by GQI)
Chair: Barry Sanders, University of Calgary Room: Kern Building 112
Invited Speakers: Hanna Krauter, Hugues de Riedmatten, Matthew Sellars
Session O3 Focus Session: Degenerate Gases in Reduced Dimension
Chair: Brett Esry, Kansas State University Room: Keller Building 104
Invited Speakers: Pierre Clade
Session O4 Degenerate Fermi Gases Chair: Brian DeMarco, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom AB
Session O5 The Ultra Intense Laser Frontier (Strong Field, Intense Laser Processes) Chair: Chris H. Greene, University of Colorado Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom I
Session O6 Electron-Molecule Collisions Chair: William McCurdy, University of California, Davis Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom II
May 30 2008 11:00AM, Friday
Session P1 Neutral Atom Entanglement (Co-Sponsored by GQI)
Chair: Rene Stock, University of Toronto Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom CDE
Invited Speakers: Ivan Deutsch, Luming Duan
Session P2 Controlling Electron and Nuclear Spins
Chair: Lilian Childress, Bates College Room: Kern Building 112
Invited Speakers: Jason Petta
Session P3 Focus Session: Atomic Polarization and Dispersion
Chair: Hossein Sadeghpour, ITAMP, Harvard University Room: Keller Building 104
Invited Speakers:
Session P4 Bose-Einstein Condensates Chair: Joseph Thywissen, University of Toronto Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom AB
Session P5 Coherent Control/Slow and Stopped Light Chair: Marin Pichler, Goucher College Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom I
Session P6 Ultracold Rydberg Atoms and Plasmas Chair: Peter Schmelcher, University of Heidelberg Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom II
May 30 2008 2:00PM, Friday
Session Q1 High Field, Short Pulse Physics
Chair: Lew Cocke, Kansas State University Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom CDE
Invited Speakers: Arvinder Sandhu, Daniel Horner
Session Q2 Molecular Basis of Astrobiology
Chair: Daniel Savin, Columbia University Room: Kern Building 112
Invited Speakers: Caleb Scharf, Wolf Geppert, Sandrine Bottinelli
Session Q3 Focus Session: Quantum Control in AMO
Chair: Aephraim Steinberg, University of Toronto Room: Keller Building 104
Invited Speakers: Poul Jessen, Ian Walmsley
Session Q4 Atoms in Optical Lattices Chair: Markus Greiner, Harvard University Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom AB
Session Q5 Clocks, Precision Measurements, and Atomic/Molecular Structure Chair: Kurt Gibble, Penn State University Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom I
Session Q6 Quantum Applications and Enabling Technology Chair: Malcolm Boshier, Los Alamos National Laboratory Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom II
May 30 2008 4:00PM, Friday
Session R1 Poster Session III: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Room: HUB-Robeson Center Alumni Hall
May 30 2008 5:30PM, Friday
Session S1 Town Hall Meeting on DAMOP Meeting Format and Organization Room: HUB-Robeson Center Auditorium
May 30 2008 6:30PM, Friday
Session T1 DAMOP Business Meeting Room: HUB-Robeson Center Auditorium
May 31 2008 8:00AM, Saturday
Session U1 Creating and Manipulating Ultracold Heteronuclear Molecules
Chair: Laurence Pruvost, Lab Aime Cotton Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom CDE
Invited Speakers: Rosario Gonzalez-Ferez
Session U2 Focus Session: Strongly Correlated Photons
Chair: Matt Mackie, Temple University Room: Kern Building 112
Invited Speakers:
Session U3 Focus Session: Ultrafast Ionization
Chair: Thomas Rescigno, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Room: Keller Building 104
Invited Speakers:
Session U4 Cooling and Trapping Chair: Wonho Jhe, Seoul National University Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom AB
Session U5 New Experimental Techniques Chair: Marty Ligare, Bucknell University Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom I
Session U6 Electron-Atom and Positron-Atom Collisions Chair: Klaus Bartschat, Drake University Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom II
May 31 2008 10:30AM, Saturday
Session V1 Hot Topics
Chair: Pierre Meystre, University of Arizona Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom CDE
Invited Speakers: