Session B1: Recent Developments in Optical Lattice Physics

Chair: Randy Hulet, Rice University
Nittany Lion Inn - Ballroom CDE


Wednesday, May 28, 2008
11:00AM - 11:36AM

B1.00001: Spinning Atoms with the Orbital Angular Momentum of Light
Invited Speaker: William D. Phillips

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
11:36AM - 12:12PM

B1.00002: Towards Quantum Magnetism with Ultracold Quantum Gases in Optical Lattices
Invited Speaker: Immanuel Bloch

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
12:12PM - 12:48PM

B1.00003: Fermions and bosons in optical lattices
Invited Speaker: Michael Koehl

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
12:48PM - 1:24PM

B1.00004: Probing and controlling quantum magnetism with ultra-cold atoms
Invited Speaker: Ana Maria Rey

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Session B2: Graduate Student Thesis Session

Chair: Robin Cote, University of Connecticut
Kern Building - 112


Wednesday, May 28, 2008
11:00AM - 11:36AM

B2.00001: Coherent manipulation of single electronic and nuclear spins in diamond
Invited Speaker: Lilian Childress

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
11:36AM - 12:12PM

B2.00002: Towards Hybrid Quantum Information Processing with Polar Molecules
Invited Speaker: Peter Rabl

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
12:12PM - 12:48PM

B2.00003: Solid State Analogs in Bose-Condensed Gases
Invited Speaker: Gretchen Campbell

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
12:48PM - 1:24PM

B2.00004: Remote Entanglement and Quantum Networks with Trapped Atomic Ions
Invited Speaker: David Moehring

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Session B3: Current Topics in Gaseous Electronics (Co-Sponsored by GEC)

Chair: Rainer Johnson, University of Pittsburgh
Keller Building - 104


Wednesday, May 28, 2008
11:00AM - 11:36AM

B3.00001: Stark Spectroscopy: Measuring Electric Fields in Plasmas
Invited Speaker: Mark Bowden

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
11:36AM - 12:12PM

B3.00002: Electron-Impact Excitation of Complex Atoms: Impact on Gaseous Electronics Applications
Invited Speaker: Arati Dasgupta

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
12:12PM - 12:48PM

B3.00003: A Puzzle in the Earth's Mesosphere: Runaway Electrons
Invited Speaker: E.E. Kunhardt

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
12:48PM - 1:24PM

B3.00004: Bound States and Feshbach Resonances in Positron-Molecule Annihilation
Invited Speaker: J.A. Young

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Session B4: Photoassociation and Cold Collisions

Chair: Paul Julienne, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Nittany Lion Inn - Ballroom AB


Wednesday, May 28, 2008
11:00AM - 11:12AM

B4.00001: Rate Saturation of Photoassociation in a Bose-Einstein Condensate
J. Hitchcock , M. Junker , D. Dries , C. Welford , Y.P. Chen , T.A. Corcovilos , R.G. Hulet

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
11:12AM - 11:24AM

B4.00002: Giant formation rates of ultracold molecules via Feshbach optimized photoassociation
Philippe Pellegrini , Mark Gacesa , Robin C\^ot\'e

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
11:24AM - 11:36AM

B4.00003: Feshbach-optimized photoassociation in LiRb
Marko Gacesa , Philippe Pellegrini , Robin C\^ot\'e

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
11:36AM - 11:48AM

B4.00004: Light Assisted Collisional Losses in a $^{85/87}$Rb Optical Trap
Anthony Gorges , Michael DeAngelo , Nicholas Bingham , Mathew Hamilton , Jacob Roberts

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
11:48AM - 12:00PM

B4.00005: Control of Ultracold Collisions with Nonlinear Frequency Chirps
J.A. Pechkis , J.L. Carini , C.E. Rogers III , P.L. Gould

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
12:00PM - 12:12PM

B4.00006: Spectral Phase Effects on Ultrafast Coherent Control
H.U. Jang , M.L. Trachy , G. Veshapidze , C.W. Fehrenbach , B.D. DePaola

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
12:12PM - 12:24PM

B4.00007: Ultracold collisions between Rb and excited NH
Steven Wrathmall , Edmund Meyer , Daniel Haxton , Heather Lewandowski , Chris Greene

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
12:24PM - 12:36PM

B4.00008: Photoassociation of $^{171}$Yb atoms
Iris Reichenbach , Ivan Deutsch

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
12:36PM - 12:48PM

B4.00009: Spectroscopy of $^{1}$S$_{0 }$-- $^{3}$P$_{1} \quad ^{88}$Sr Atomic Transition in a 1.06 $\mu $m Optical Dipole Trap
Y.N. Martinez de Escobar , P.G. Mickelson , A.J. Traverso , T.C. Killian

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
12:48PM - 1:00PM

B4.00010: Repumping of ultracold strontium atoms using the $^3$P$_2$ - $^3$D$_2$ transition
P.G. Mickelson , Y.N. Martinez de Escobar , A.J. Traverso , T.C. Killian

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
1:00PM - 1:12PM

B4.00011: Fine-structure changing collisions in atomic titanium
Mei-Ju Lu , Kyle Hardman , Jonathan Weinstein

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Session B5: Quantum and Nonlinear Optics

Chair: Susanne Yelin, University of Connecticut
Nittany Lion Inn - Boardroom I


Wednesday, May 28, 2008
11:00AM - 11:12AM

B5.00001: Strong Interaction Between Light and a Single Trapped Atom Without a Cavity
Meng Khoon Tey , Zilong Chen , Syed Aljunid , Brenda Chng , Gleb Maslennikov , Christian Kurtsiefer

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
11:12AM - 11:24AM

B5.00002: Optical switching via recoil-induced resonances
Joel Greenberg , Marcos Oria , Daniel Gauthier

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
11:24AM - 11:36AM

B5.00003: Low-frequency vacuum squeezing in Rb vapor
Eugeniy Mikhailov , Irina Novikova

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
11:36AM - 11:48AM

B5.00004: EIT with noisy laser fields
Yanhong Xiao , Tun Wang , Susanne F. Yelin , Maria Baryakhtar , David F. Phillips , Ronald L. Walsworth

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
11:48AM - 12:00PM

B5.00005: Non-linear Optics with Cold Atoms inside a Hollow Core Photonic Crystal Fiber
Michal Bajcsy , Sebastian Hofferberth , Vlatko Balic , Thibault Peyronel , Alexander Zibrov , Vladan Vuletic , Mikhail Lukin

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
12:00PM - 12:12PM

B5.00006: Controlled generation of Rb-vapor in hollow-core photonic bandgap fibers
Amar Bhagwat , Aaron Slepkov , Vivek Venkataraman , Pablo Londero , Alexander Gaeta

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
12:12PM - 12:24PM

B5.00007: Observation of Optical Precursors at the Biphoton Level
Shengwang Du , Chinmay Belthangady , Pavel Kolchin , G.Y. Yin , S.E. Harris

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
12:24PM - 12:36PM

B5.00008: STIRAP in a sodium gas using picosecond lasers
Kevin Lyon , Susan D. Allen , Michael J. Johnson , William D. Murry , Daniel R. Britton , Tomasz Kutner , J. Bruce Johnson

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
12:36PM - 12:48PM

B5.00009: Simultaneously spectral phase and amplitude characterization of coherent molecular vibrations and its application in Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy
Xiaoji Xu , Stanislav Konorov , John Hepburn , Valery Milner

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
12:48PM - 1:00PM

B5.00010: Classification of Four Three-Level Atomic Systems into Two Categories in Light of the Study of Their Resonances
Tony Abi-Salloum

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
1:00PM - 1:12PM

B5.00011: Four-wave mixing in a birefringent semiconductor waveguide for correlated photon generation
Daniel Rogers , Julius Goldhar , Christopher Richardson , Alessandro Restelli , Joshua Bienfang , Charles Clark

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
1:12PM - 1:24PM

B5.00012: Electromagnetic radiation by gravitating bodies
Iwo Bialynicki-Birula , Zofia Bialynicka-Birula

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Session B6: Photon Interactions with Atoms, Ions, and Molecules

Chair: Tom Killian, Rice University
Nittany Lion Inn - Boardroom II


Wednesday, May 28, 2008
11:00AM - 11:12AM

B6.00001: Resonant X-Ray Attenuation by Highly Ionized Ions of High-Z Elements
Anil Pradhan , Sultana Nahar , Yan Yu , C. Sur , M. Montenegro , M. Mrozik , R. Pitzer

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
11:12AM - 11:24AM

B6.00002: Characterization of the relativistic contributions to Compton doubly differential cross sections
L.A. LaJohn , R.H. Pratt

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
11:24AM - 11:36AM

B6.00003: Characterization of laser-induced recolliding wave packet. Application to non-sequential double ionization.
Samuel Micheau , Zhangjin Chen , Anh-Thu Le , Chii-Dong Lin

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
11:36AM - 11:48AM

B6.00004: Strong-Field Control of Laser Filamentation Mechanisms
Robert Levis , Dmitri Romanov , Aleskey Filin , Ryan Compton

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
11:48AM - 12:00PM

B6.00005: Structure of the Xe 6s and 6s' Rydberg states in supercritical Ar
Luxi Li , Xianbo Shi , C.M. Evans , G.L. Findley

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
12:00PM - 12:12PM

B6.00006: Double-resonance spectroscopy of interacting Rydberg-atom systems
Aaron Reinhard , Kelly Younge , Tara Cubel-Liebisch , Brenton Knuffman , Paul Berman , Georg Raithel

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
12:12PM - 12:24PM

B6.00007: Velocity-Changing Collisions in Ultracold Neutral Plasma.
Hong Gao , Jose Castro , Clayton Simien , Tom Killian

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
12:24PM - 12:36PM

B6.00008: \textit{In situ} measurements of three-dimensional ion densities in focused femtosecond radiation.
James Strohaber , Cornelis Uiterwaal

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
12:36PM - 12:48PM

B6.00009: Photoelectric Effect Formula Must Include Rotational and Vibrational as well as Linear Kinetic Energies
Stewart Brekke

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
12:48PM - 1:00PM

B6.00010: Direct measurement of core-level relaxation dynamics on a surface- adsorbate system
Jing Yin , Luis Miaja-Avila , Guido Saathoff , Chan La-o-Vorakiat , Margaret Murnane , Henry Kapteyn , Stefan Mathias , Martin Aeschlimann , Michael Bauer

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