Session I1: New Physics with Ultracold Atoms

Chair: Charles Clark, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Nittany Lion Inn - Ballroom CDE


Thursday, May 29, 2008
8:00AM - 8:36AM

I1.00001: Damped Bloch Oscillations of Bose-Einstein Condensates in Disordered Potential Gradients
Invited Speaker: Wolfgang Ertmer

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
8:36AM - 9:12AM

I1.00002: Few-body physics of trapped unequal mass fermions
Invited Speaker: Chris H. Greene

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
9:12AM - 9:48AM

I1.00003: Pairing and superfluidity in a gas of strongly interacting fermions
Invited Speaker: Wolfgang Ketterle

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
9:48AM - 10:24AM

I1.00004: Population dynamics in a sodium spinor condensate
Invited Speaker: Paul Lett

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Session I2: Physics with Low-Energy Antimatter

Chair: Clifford Surko, University of California, San Diego
Kern Building - 112


Thursday, May 29, 2008
8:00AM - 8:36AM

I2.00001: Observation of Molecular Positronium, A Many-Positron Many-Electron System.
Invited Speaker: David Cassidy

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
8:36AM - 9:12AM

I2.00002: Vibrational Feshbach Resonance Mechanism for Positron Annihilation on Molecules
Invited Speaker: Gleb Gribakin

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
9:12AM - 9:48AM

I2.00003: Formation and Steps Toward Trapping of Antihydrogen - Results from ALPHA
Invited Speaker: Niels Madsen

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
9:48AM - 10:24AM

I2.00004: Antihydrogen Production within a Penning-Ioffe Trap (ATRAP)
Invited Speaker: E. A. Hessels

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Session I3: Focus Session: Searches for Relativity Violations (Co-Sponsored by GPMFC)

Chair: Neil Russell, Northern Michigan University
Keller Building - 104


Thursday, May 29, 2008
8:00AM - 8:36AM

I3.00001: Theory and Status of Lorentz Violation
Invited Speaker: Alan Kostelecky

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
8:36AM - 8:48AM

I3.00002: Searching for Lorentz violation with new Ives-Stilwell tests
Michael Hohensee , David F. Phillips , Ronald L. Walsworth

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
8:48AM - 9:00AM

I3.00003: Atom interferometric test of the isotropy of Post-Newtonian gravity.
Sheng-wey Chiow , Sven Herrmann , Holger Mueller , Steven Chu

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
9:00AM - 9:12AM

I3.00004: Gravitationally Coupled Atoms as a Probe of Lorentz Symmetry
Jay D. Tasson , V. Alan Kostelecky

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
9:12AM - 9:48AM

I3.00005: Modern Optical Tests of Special Relativity
Invited Speaker: Achim Peters

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
9:48AM - 10:00AM

I3.00006: New Limits on Coupling of Fundamental Constants to Gravity by Absolute Frequeny Measurements of $^{87}$Sr Optical Lattice Clocks
Sebastian Blatt , Gretchen K. Campbell , Andrew D. Ludlow , Jan W. Thomsen , Michael J. Martin , Martin M. Boyd , Jun Ye

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
10:00AM - 10:12AM

I3.00007: Molecular Optical Lattice Clock
Tanya Zelevinsky , Svetlana Kotochigova , Jun Ye

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
10:12AM - 10:24AM

I3.00008: Cavity Tests of Higher-Order Lorentz Violation
Matthew Mewes

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Session I4: Ultracold Scattering and Interactions

Chair: Marjatta Lyyra, Temple University
Nittany Lion Inn - Ballroom AB


Thursday, May 29, 2008
8:00AM - 8:12AM

I4.00001: Atomic rubidium, the workhorse of theoretical collision physics
Boudewijn Verhaar , Eric van Kempen , Servaas Kokkelmans

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
8:12AM - 8:24AM

I4.00002: Systematic assignment of Feshbach resonances via an asymptotic bound state model
Maikel Goosen , Servaas Kokkelmans

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
8:24AM - 8:36AM

I4.00003: Total control over ultracold interactions via electric and magnetic fields
Servaas Kokkelmans , Bout Marcelis , Boudewijn Verhaar

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
8:36AM - 8:48AM

I4.00004: Heteronuclear Feshbach resonances in a mixture of ultracold $^{87}$Rb and $^{133}$Cs
K. Pilch , A. Lange , A. Prantner , G. Kerner , F. Ferlaino , H.-C. Naegerl , R. Grimm

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
8:48AM - 9:00AM

I4.00005: Few-body physics with ultracold Cs atoms and molecules
Steven Knoop , Francesca Ferlaino , Martin Berninger , Michael Mark , Hanns-Christoph Naegerl , Rudolf Grimm

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
9:00AM - 9:12AM

I4.00006: Universal Analysis of Three-Body Recombination of $^{87}$Rb Atoms
Eric Braaten , Daekyoung Kang , Lucas Platter , Hans-Werner Hammer

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
9:12AM - 9:24AM

I4.00007: Three-Body Recombination of Identical Bosons with a Large Positive Scattering Length at Nonzero Temperature
Daekyoung Kang , Lucas Platter , Eric Braaten , Hans Hammer

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
9:24AM - 9:36AM

I4.00008: Finite Range Corrections in Few-Body Systems of Cold Atoms
Lucas Platter

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
9:36AM - 9:48AM

I4.00009: Efimov states embedded in the continuum
Seth T. Rittenhouse , N.P. Mehta , J.P. D'Incao , Chris H. Greene

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
9:48AM - 10:00AM

I4.00010: Extracting Efimov physics from three-body recombination at finite energy
Yujun Wang , J.P. D'Incao , B.D. Esry

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
10:00AM - 10:12AM

I4.00011: Analysis of the Four-Boson System with Large Scattering Length
Javier von Stecher , Jose P. D'Incao , Chris H. Greene

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
10:12AM - 10:24AM

I4.00012: Finite energy effects on dimer-dimer collisions in two-spin ultracold Fermi gases
Jose P. D'Incao , Seth T. Rittenhouse , Nirav P. Mehta , Chris H. Greene

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Session I5: Collisions Involving Atoms, Molecules, or Ions

Chair: Edward Gerjuoy, University of Pittsburgh
Nittany Lion Inn - Boardroom I


Thursday, May 29, 2008
8:00AM - 8:12AM

I5.00001: Magnetic Trapping and Zeeman Relaxation of NH Molecules
Edem Tsikata , Wesley Campbell , Hsin-I Lu , Laurens van Buuren , John Doyle

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
8:12AM - 8:24AM

I5.00002: Spin Relaxation of Cold Atomic Iron and Nickel in Collisions with $^3$He
Bonna Newman , Cort Johnson , Nathan Brahms , John Doyle , Dan Kleppner , Tom Greytak

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
8:24AM - 8:36AM

I5.00003: Spin-orbit interaction and large inelastic rates in bismuth-helium collisions
Stephen Maxwell , Matthew Hummon , Yihua Wang , Alexei Buchachenko , Roman Krems , John Doyle

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
8:36AM - 8:48AM

I5.00004: Second-order calculations of the transfer-ionization process: multiple differential cross sections
Alexander Godunov , Colm T. Whelan , H.R.J. Walters

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
8:48AM - 9:00AM

I5.00005: H2 dissociation due to collision with He
Luke Ohlinger , Robert C. Forrey , Teck-Ghee Lee , Phillip Stancil

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
9:00AM - 9:12AM

I5.00006: Measurement of pressure broadening of the 2s-3d transition of Li by Ne and Ar
Mark Rosenberry , Brian Stewart

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
9:12AM - 9:24AM

I5.00007: Nonlinear Pressure Shifts of $^{133}$Cs Hyperfine Frequencies
Fei Gong , Yuan-Yu Jau , William Happer

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
9:24AM - 9:36AM

I5.00008: Direct Observation of the Opening and Closing of Inelastic Scattering Channels
S.D. Gensemer , R.B. Martin , K. Gibble , S.J.J.M.F. Kokkelmans

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
9:36AM - 9:48AM

I5.00009: A Cold Atom Measurement of Charge Exchange Collisions between Trapped Yb$^{+}$ and Yb
Andrew Grier , Marko Cetina , Fedja Orucevic , Vladan Vuletic

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
9:48AM - 10:00AM

I5.00010: Electron transfer into the projectile continuum in near-relativistic ion-atom collisions
Siegbert Hagmann , Muaffaq Nofal , Thomas St\"ohlker , Andrej Surzhykov , Stefan Fritzsche , Doris Jakubassa-Amundsen , Christophor Kozhuharov , Robert Moshammer , Joachim Ullrich , Alexander Gumberidse , Uwe Spillmann , Regina Reuschl , Sebastian Hess , Sergej Trotsenko , Fritz Bosch , Dieter Liesen , Reinhard D\"orner , Hermann Rothard

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
10:00AM - 10:12AM

I5.00011: Sputtering by fast heavy ion bombardment in a shock wave model
Alexander Godunov , Andi Klein

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Session I6: Photoionization and Photodetachment Processes

Chair: Nora Berrah, Western Michigan University
Nittany Lion Inn - Boardroom II


Thursday, May 29, 2008
8:00AM - 8:12AM

I6.00001: Photoionization of atoms confined inside bucky-ball onions
Valeriy Dolmatov , Patrick Brewer , Steven Manson

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
8:12AM - 8:24AM

I6.00002: Photoionization and Electron-Ion Recombination: Fe~XVII, S~XIV AND S~XV Using Unified Method
Sultana Nahar

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
8:24AM - 8:36AM

I6.00003: Photo-Fragmentation of Lithium Atoms in FEL Radiation Fields
Lewis Foster , James Colgan , Mitch Pindzola , Alexander Dorn

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
8:36AM - 8:48AM

I6.00004: Inner-Shell Photodetachment of Iron and Ruthenium Negative Ions
Ileana Dumitriu , R.C. Bilodeau , T. Gorczyca , C.W. Walter , N.D. Gibson , A. Aguilar , Z. Pesic , D. Rolles , N. Berrah

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
8:48AM - 9:00AM

I6.00005: Photodetachment from the S$^{-}$ ion at the $^{2}$P$_{1/2 }\to $ $^{3}$P$_{2}$ threshold
John N. Yukich , James E. Wells

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
9:00AM - 9:12AM

I6.00006: Kinetic Energy Release Effects on the Angular Distributions from the Photoionization of H$_2^+$
James Colgan , Alain Huetz , Tim Reddish , Michael Pindzola

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
9:12AM - 9:24AM

I6.00007: Large internuclear distance effects on photoionization of diatomic molecules Li$_2^+$ and H$_2^+$
Frank Yip , Thomas Rescigno , C. William McCurdy

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
9:24AM - 9:36AM

I6.00008: Photoionization of Variable-Size Rare Gas Clusters
H. Zhang , D. Rolles , Z.D. Pesic , J.D. Bozek , N. Berrah

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
9:36AM - 9:48AM

I6.00009: Ionization of Methane, Ethane, Butane and Octane in Strong and Ultrastrong, Relativistic Fields
Sasikumar Palaniyappan , Robert Mitchell , Robert Sauer , Isaac Ghebregziabher , Samantha White , Matthew DeCamp , Barry Walker

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
9:48AM - 10:00AM

I6.00010: Interplay between Electronic and Nuclear Motion in the Photodouble Ionization of H$_{2}$
T.J. Reddish , J. Colgan , P. Bolognesi , L. Avaldi , M. Gisselbrecht , M. Lavoll\'ee , M.S. Pindzola , A. Huetz

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
10:00AM - 10:12AM

I6.00011: Near-ultraviolet photoionization of Xe@C$_{60}$: Sizable oscillator strength transfer from shell to atom
Himadri Chakraborty , Mohamed Madjet , Jan-Michael Rost , Steve Manson

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