Session Q1: High Field, Short Pulse Physics

Chair: Lew Cocke, Kansas State University
Nittany Lion Inn - Ballroom CDE


Friday, May 30, 2008
2:00PM - 2:36PM

Q1.00001: Attosecond Precision Pump-Probe Experiments: Visualizing Molecular and Electronic Dynamics
Invited Speaker: Joachim Ullrich

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Friday, May 30, 2008
2:36PM - 3:12PM

Q1.00002: Using high-harmonics for probing real-time dynamics of highly excited molecules
Invited Speaker: Arvinder Sandhu

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Friday, May 30, 2008
3:12PM - 3:48PM

Q1.00003: Correlation in double ionization of He by ultrashort pulses
Invited Speaker: Johannes Feist

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Friday, May 30, 2008
3:48PM - 4:24PM

Q1.00004: Few-Photon Ionization Using Complex Exterior Scaling
Invited Speaker: Daniel Horner

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Session Q2: Molecular Basis of Astrobiology

Chair: Daniel Savin, Columbia University
Kern Building - 112


Friday, May 30, 2008
2:00PM - 2:36PM

Q2.00001: Protons to Planets: Mapping the Routes to Life
Invited Speaker: Caleb Scharf

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Friday, May 30, 2008
2:36PM - 3:12PM

Q2.00002: Formation of Biomolecule Precursors in the Interstellar Medium and Planetary Atmospheres
Invited Speaker: Wolf Geppert

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Friday, May 30, 2008
3:12PM - 3:48PM

Q2.00003: The Enigmatic Diffuse Interstellar Bands: A Reservoir of Organic Material
Invited Speaker: Benjamin McCall

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Friday, May 30, 2008
3:48PM - 4:24PM

Q2.00004: Hot corinos: pre-biotic molecules in solar-type protostars
Invited Speaker: Sandrine Bottinelli

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Session Q3: Focus Session: Quantum Control in AMO

Chair: Aephraim Steinberg, University of Toronto
Keller Building - 104


Friday, May 30, 2008
2:00PM - 2:36PM

Q3.00001: Optimal Control of Large Spin Systems
Invited Speaker: Poul Jessen

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Friday, May 30, 2008
2:36PM - 2:48PM

Q3.00002: Decoherence-Free Control of Large Spin-Atomic Systems with Coherent Electromagnetic Fields
Seth Merkel , Souma Chaudhury , Poul Jessen , Ivan Deutsch

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Friday, May 30, 2008
2:48PM - 3:00PM

Q3.00003: Controlled transport of atoms in optical lattices
Brian Mischuck , Ivan Deutsch

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Friday, May 30, 2008
3:00PM - 3:12PM

Q3.00004: Coherent Control of Wannier-Stark States in a Tilted-Washboard Potential
Chao Zhuang , Samansa Maneshi , XiaoXian Liu , Ardavan Darabi , Luciano Cruz , Aephraim Steinberg

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Friday, May 30, 2008
3:12PM - 3:48PM

Q3.00005: Fast pulses and slow atoms: making microKelvin molecules using femtosecond lasers
Invited Speaker: Ian Walmsley

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Friday, May 30, 2008
3:48PM - 4:00PM

Q3.00006: Coherent Control of Retinal Isomerization in Bacteriorhodopsin in the High Intensity Regime
Andrei Florean , David Cardoza , James White , Janos Lanyi , Roseanne Sension , Philip Bucksbaum

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Friday, May 30, 2008
4:00PM - 4:12PM

Q3.00007: Molecular Fragmentation in the CH2XY Family of Halomethanes
Sarah Nichols , Brett Pearson , Tamas Rozgonyi , Thomas Weinacht

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Friday, May 30, 2008
4:12PM - 4:24PM

Q3.00008: Shaped-Pulse Control of CO$_{2}$ Bending Vibration
G.Y. Chen , Z. Wang , G. Minker , S. Iacangelo , W.T. Hill, III

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Session Q4: Atoms in Optical Lattices

Chair: Markus Greiner, Harvard University
Nittany Lion Inn - Ballroom AB


Friday, May 30, 2008
2:00PM - 2:12PM

Q4.00001: Exact theoretical description of two ultracold atoms in a single site of a 3D optical lattice
Alejandro Saenz , Sergey Grishkevich

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Friday, May 30, 2008
2:12PM - 2:24PM

Q4.00002: Probing higher-order interactions with an array of double-well optical-lattice interferometers
Philip Johnson , Eite Tiesinga , Carl Williams

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Friday, May 30, 2008
2:24PM - 2:36PM

Q4.00003: Studying Universality with Bose-Condensed Cesium Atoms in an Optical Lattice
Chen-Lung Hung , Xibo Zhang , Nathan Gemelke , Cheng Chin

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Friday, May 30, 2008
2:36PM - 2:48PM

Q4.00004: Self-trapped atom corrals
Jean-Felix Riou , David S. Weiss

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Friday, May 30, 2008
2:48PM - 3:00PM

Q4.00005: Matter-wave interference due to interactions
Mattias Gustavsson , Elmar Haller , Manfred Mark , Johann Danzl , Russell Hart , Hanns-Christoph N\"agerl

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Friday, May 30, 2008
3:00PM - 3:12PM

Q4.00006: Exploring a neutral-atom SWAP gate with clock states
Nathan Lundblad , Patricia Lee , John Obrecht , William Phillips , Trey Porto

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Friday, May 30, 2008
3:12PM - 3:24PM

Q4.00007: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Friday, May 30, 2008
3:24PM - 3:36PM

Q4.00008: Raman excitation of ultracold atoms to higher vibrational bands in an optical lattice
Patricia Lee , Nathan Lundblad , John Obrecht , William Phillips , Trey Porto

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Friday, May 30, 2008
3:36PM - 3:48PM

Q4.00009: Experiments on the 3D Disordered Bose-Hubbard Model
Matthew White , Matthew Pasienski , David McKay , Brian DeMarco

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Friday, May 30, 2008
3:48PM - 4:00PM

Q4.00010: A Nonlinear Dirac Equation in Ultracold Bosons in an Optical Lattice
Lincoln D. Carr , Laith Haddad

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Friday, May 30, 2008
4:00PM - 4:12PM

Q4.00011: Observing Zitterbewegung with Ultracold Atoms
J.Y. Vaishnav , Charles W. Clark

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Friday, May 30, 2008
4:12PM - 4:24PM

Q4.00012: Cavity QED determination of atomic statistics in optical lattices - power spectrum and entanglement
Wenzhou Chen , Pierre Meystre

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Session Q5: Clocks, Precision Measurements, and Atomic/Molecular Structure

Chair: Kurt Gibble, Penn State University
Nittany Lion Inn - Boardroom I


Friday, May 30, 2008
2:00PM - 2:12PM

Q5.00001: Systematic evaluation of a strontium optical lattice clock at 1x10$^{-16}$
Gretchen K. Campbell , Andrew D. Ludlow , Sebastian Blatt , Tanya Zelevinsky , Martin M. Boyd , Michael J. Martin , Jan W. Thomsen , Jun Ye , Tara M. Fortier , Jason E. Stalnaker , Scott A. Diddams , Chris W. Oates

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Friday, May 30, 2008
2:12PM - 2:24PM

Q5.00002: Ytterbium Optical Lattice Clock
Nathan Lemke , Zeb Barber , Nicola Poli , Chris Oates , Leo Hollberg

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Friday, May 30, 2008
2:24PM - 2:36PM

Q5.00003: Determination of the fine structure constant with atomic interferometry and Bloch oscillations.
Pierre Clad\'e , Malo Cadoret , Estefania de Mirandes , Saida Guellati-Kh\'elifa , Catherine Schwob , Fran\c{c}ois Nez , Lucile Julien , Fran\c{c}ois Biraben

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Friday, May 30, 2008
2:36PM - 2:48PM

Q5.00004: Precision Laser Spectroscopy of Exotic Helium Isotopes
P. Mueller , I.A. Sulai , K. Bailey , R.J. Holt , R.V.F. Janssens , Z.-T. Lu , T.P. O'Connor , A.C.C. Villari , J.A. Alcantara-Nunez , R. Alves-Conde , M. Dubois , C. Eleon , G. Gaubert , N. Lecesne , M.-G. Saint-Laurent , J.-C. Thomas , G.W.F. Drake , L.-B. Wang

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Friday, May 30, 2008
2:48PM - 3:00PM

Q5.00005: Extending Precision Atomic Mass Measurement to Higher Mass
Matthew Redshaw , Brianna Mount , Edmund Myers

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Friday, May 30, 2008
3:00PM - 3:12PM

Q5.00006: Improved Measurement of the 1s2s $^{1}$S$_{0}$ -- 1s2p $^{3}$P$_{1}$ Interval in Helium-like Silicon
Edmund Myers , Thomas DeVore , David Crosby

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Friday, May 30, 2008
3:12PM - 3:24PM

Q5.00007: Hyperfine structure of the metastable $^3P_2$ state of alkaline earth atoms as an accurate probe of nuclear magnetic octupole moments
Kyle Beloy , Andrei Derevianko , Walter Johnson

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Friday, May 30, 2008
3:24PM - 3:36PM

Q5.00008: Hyperfine Structure of Trapped $^{137}$Ba$^{+}$ Ions as a Probe of the Nuclear Magnetic Octupole Moment
Gary Howell , Boris Blinov , Norval Fortson

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Friday, May 30, 2008
3:36PM - 3:48PM

Q5.00009: Third-order relativistic many-body calculation of transition probabilities for the beryllium and magnesium isoelectronic sequences
Dansha Jiang , Rupsi Pal , Marianna Safronova

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Friday, May 30, 2008
3:48PM - 4:00PM

Q5.00010: Spectroscopy of high pressure cesium discharge
Goran Pichler , Marin Pichler

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Friday, May 30, 2008
4:00PM - 4:12PM

Q5.00011: Collisional-Radiative Modeling of EBIT Spectra from Highly-Charged High-Z Ions
Yuri Ralchenko , Ilija N. Draganic , John D. Gillaspy , Joseph N. Tan , Joshua M. Pomeroy , Joseph Reader

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Friday, May 30, 2008
4:12PM - 4:24PM

Q5.00012: The Ion $H_3^{+}$ in a Strong Magnetic Field
Nicolais Guevara Leon , Alexander V. Turbiner , Juan C. Lopez Vieyra

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Friday, May 30, 2008
4:24PM - 4:36PM

Q5.00013: Searching for allotropes of Wigner crystal clusters with Genetic Algorithm
Matt Kalinski

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Session Q6: Quantum Applications and Enabling Technology

Chair: Malcolm Boshier, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Nittany Lion Inn - Boardroom II


Friday, May 30, 2008
2:00PM - 2:12PM

Q6.00001: Classical and quantum bounds for remote optical sensing
Zachary Dutton , John Myers

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Friday, May 30, 2008
2:12PM - 2:24PM

Q6.00002: Progress Toward Atomic Magnetometry Beyond the Conventional Heisenberg Scaling
Heather Partner , Brigette Black , JM Geremia

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Friday, May 30, 2008
2:24PM - 2:36PM

Q6.00003: Coherent control of single atom Rydberg excitation
Todd Johnson , Erich Urban , Thomas Henage , Larry Isenhower , Deniz Yavuz , Thad Walker , Mark Saffman

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Friday, May 30, 2008
2:36PM - 2:48PM

Q6.00004: Consequences of Zeeman Degeneracy for van der Waals Blockade between Rydberg Atoms
Thad Walker , Mark Saffman

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Friday, May 30, 2008
2:48PM - 3:00PM

Q6.00005: Simulation of a strong van der Waals blockade in a dense ultracold gas
Jesus Hernandez , Francis Robicheaux

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Friday, May 30, 2008
3:00PM - 3:12PM

Q6.00006: MEMS-based Flexible Optical Beam Steering for Quantum Information Processing in Atomic Arrays
Jungsang Kim , Caleb Knoernschild , Felix Lu , Changsoon Kim , Kyle McKay

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Friday, May 30, 2008
3:12PM - 3:24PM

Q6.00007: Single photon generation by corporative spontaneous emission of atomic ensembles
Hoda Hossein-Nejad , Rene Stock , Daniel F.V. James

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Friday, May 30, 2008
3:24PM - 3:36PM

Q6.00008: Atomtronics and basic logic: Constructing AND and OR gates from atomtronic transistors
Ronald Pepino , John Cooper , Dana Anderson , Murray Holland

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