Session A1 DAMOP Prize Session
Chair: William Stwalley, University of Connecticut
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom A-E
Invited Speakers:
Horst Schmidt-Bocking
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, Peter Rabl, Gretchen Campbell, David Moehring
Session B3 Current Topics in Gaseous Electronics (Co-Sponsored by GEC)
Chair: Rainer Johnson, University of Pittsburgh
Room: Keller Building 104
Invited Speakers:
Mark Bowden, 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
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:
Peter Engels, Murray Holland
Session C3 Ion and Electron Collisions
Chair: Horst Schmidt-Boecking, University of Frankfurt
Room: Keller Building 104
Invited Speakers:
Daniel Fischer, Thomas Stoehlker, Teck-Ghee Lee, 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
Session D1 Meet the APS Journal Editors and Celebrate 50 Years of PRL Room: Nittany Lion Inn Outside Ballroom CDE
Session E1 Poster Session I: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Room: HUB-Robeson Center Alumni Hall
Session F1 Women Scientists in DAMOP Reception Room: HUB-Robeson Center Room 129A
Session G1 Topical Group on Precision Measurements and Fundamental Constants Business Meeting Room: Osmond Laboratory Room 103
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
Session I1 New Physics with Ultracold Atoms
Chair: Charles Clark, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom CDE
Invited Speakers:
Wolfgang Ertmer, Chris H. Greene, Wolfgang Ketterle, Paul Lett
Session I2 Physics with Low-Energy Antimatter
Chair: Clifford Surko, University of California, San Diego
Room: Kern Building 112
Invited Speakers:
David Cassidy, 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
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, R. Grimm, D. Blume, 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:
Victor Flambaum, Till Rosenband, Ekkehard Peik, Sebastien Bize
Session J3 Focus Session: Rydberg Atoms and Molecules
Chair: Robert Jones, University of Virginia
Room: Keller Building 104
Invited Speakers:
Peter Schmelcher, Thomas Gallagher
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
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, Masahito Ueda, Michael Chapman, Klaus Sengstock
Session K2 Focus Session: Ultracold Dipolar Gases
Chair: Ed Eyler, University of Connecticut
Room: Kern Building 112
Invited Speakers:
Silke Ospelkaus, Axel Griesmaier
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, Justin T. Schultz, 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
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
Session M1 TAMOC Business Meeting Room: Osmond Laboratory Room 101
Session N1 Reception and Banquet Room: Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center President's Hall
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, Alexander Lvovsky, 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, Belen Paredes
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
Session P1 Neutral Atom Entanglement (Co-Sponsored by GQI)
Chair: Rene Stock, University of Toronto
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom CDE
Invited Speakers:
Trey Porto, Antoine Browaeys, Ivan Deutsch, Luming Duan
Session P2 Controlling Electron and Nuclear Spins
Chair: Lilian Childress, Bates College
Room: Kern Building 112
Invited Speakers:
David Awschalom, Gurudev Dutt, Paola Cappellaro, Jason Petta
Session P3 Focus Session: Atomic Polarization and Dispersion
Chair: Hossein Sadeghpour, ITAMP, Harvard University
Room: Keller Building 104
Invited Speakers:
Jim Mitroy, Marianna Safronova
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
Session Q1 High Field, Short Pulse Physics
Chair: Lew Cocke, Kansas State University
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom CDE
Invited Speakers:
J. Ullrich, Arvinder Sandhu, Johannes Feist, Daniel Horner
Session Q2 Molecular Basis of Astrobiology
Chair: Daniel Savin, Columbia University
Room: Kern Building 112
Invited Speakers:
Caleb Scharf, Wolf Geppert, Benjamin McCall, 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
Session R1 Poster Session III: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Room: HUB-Robeson Center Alumni Hall
Session S1 Town Hall Meeting on DAMOP Meeting Format and Organization Room: HUB-Robeson Center Auditorium
Session T1 DAMOP Business Meeting Room: HUB-Robeson Center Auditorium
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, Matteo Zaccanti, Scott Papp, Roman Krems
Session U2 Focus Session: Strongly Correlated Photons
Chair: Matt Mackie, Temple University
Room: Kern Building 112
Invited Speakers:
H.J. Kimble, Shanhui Fan
Session U3 Focus Session: Ultrafast Ionization
Chair: Thomas Rescigno, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Room: Keller Building 104
Invited Speakers:
Kenneth Schafer
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
Session V1 Hot Topics
Chair: Pierre Meystre, University of Arizona
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom CDE
Invited Speakers:
Nergis Mavalvala, Karl D. Nelson, Edvardas Narevicius, Ferdinand Brennecke