Session U1: Creating and Manipulating Ultracold Heteronuclear Molecules

Chair: Laurence Pruvost, Lab Aime Cotton
Nittany Lion Inn - Ballroom CDE

Saturday, May 31, 2008
8:00AM - 8:36AM

 U1.00001: Rovibrational Dynamics and Photoassociation of Cold Heteronuclear Dimers in Electric Fields
Invited Speaker: Rosario Gonzalez-Ferez

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
8:36AM - 9:12AM

 U1.00002: Heteronuclear K-Rb mixtures with tunable interactions
Invited Speaker: Matteo Zaccanti

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
9:12AM - 9:48AM

 U1.00003: Creation of heteronuclear Feshbach molecules with $^{85}$Rb and $^{87}$Rb
Invited Speaker: Scott Papp

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
9:48AM - 10:24AM

 U1.00004: Cold Controlled Chemistry
Invited Speaker: Roman Krems

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Session U2: Focus Session: Strongly Correlated Photons

Chair: Matt Mackie, Temple University
Kern Building - 112

Saturday, May 31, 2008
8:00AM - 8:36AM

 U2.00001: Strong Interactions of Photon Pairs in Cavity QED
Invited Speaker: H.J. Kimble

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
8:36AM - 8:48AM

 U2.00002: Coherent control of a single atom in cavity QED
T.E. Northup , A.D. Boozer , R. Miller , A. Boca , D. Wilson , H.J. Kimble

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
8:48AM - 9:00AM

 U2.00003: Combining Cavity QED and Atom Chips
Thomas Purdy , Daniel Brooks , Dan Stamper-Kurn

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
9:00AM - 9:12AM

 U2.00004: Progress Toward a Cavity-QED Realization of the Dicke Model Quantum Phase Transition
Robert Cook , Ben Baragiola , JM Geremia

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
9:12AM - 9:48AM

 U2.00005: Strongly correlated photons in one-dimensional waveguides
Invited Speaker: Shanhui Fan

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
9:48AM - 10:00AM

 U2.00006: Conditional Quantum Beats in Cavity QED
David Norris , Rebecca Olson Knell , Jietai Jing , L.A. Orozco

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
10:00AM - 10:12AM

 U2.00007: Can we make precision measurements more precise?
James K. Thompson , Shannon R. Sankar , Zilong Chen

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
10:12AM - 10:24AM

 U2.00008: Spin squeezing in optical lattice clocks through lattice based quantum non-demolition measurements
Dominic Meiser , Murray J. Holland

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Session U3: Focus Session: Ultrafast Ionization

Chair: Thomas Rescigno, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Keller Building - 104

Saturday, May 31, 2008
8:00AM - 8:36AM

 U3.00001: Imaging and Controlling Ultrafast Ionization Processes
Invited Speaker: Kenneth Schafer

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
8:36AM - 8:48AM

 U3.00002: Extracting accurate cross sections for one- and two-photon double ionization from a time-dependent wavepacket
Alicia Palacios , Thomas Rescigno , C. William McCurdy

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
8:48AM - 9:00AM

 U3.00003: Time-series analysis of vibrational nuclear wave packet dynamics
U. Thumm , T. Niederhausen , B. Feuerstein

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
9:00AM - 9:12AM

 U3.00004: Two-dimensional electron angular distributions from aligned molecules
Vinod Kumarappan , Lotte Holmegaard , Christian Martiny , Christian Madsen , Thomas Kjeldsen , Simon Viftrup , Lars Madsen , Henrik Stapelfeldt

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
9:12AM - 9:48AM

 U3.00005: Fragmentation of Small Molecules by Photo-Double Ionization
Invited Speaker: Timur Osipov

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
9:48AM - 10:00AM

 U3.00006: Excitation and Ionization of Argon by Few-Cycle Intense Laser Pulses
Xiaoxu Guan , Oleg Zatsarinny , Klaus Bartschat , Barry Schneider

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Session U4: Cooling and Trapping

Chair: Wonho Jhe, Seoul National University
Nittany Lion Inn - Ballroom AB

Saturday, May 31, 2008
8:00AM - 8:12AM

 U4.00001: Magnetic trapping of copper and silver using buffer gas loading
Nathaniel Brahms , Bonna Newman , Cort Johnson , Thomas Greytak , Daniel Kleppner , John Doyle

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
8:12AM - 8:24AM

 U4.00002: Magnetic Trapping of Atomic Nitrogen and Cotrapping of NH
Matthew Hummon , Wesley Campbell , Hsin-I Lu , Edem Tsikata , Yihua Wang , John Doyle

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
8:24AM - 8:36AM

 U4.00003: AC electric trapping of neutral atoms
Adela Marian , Sophie Schlunk , Wieland Schoellkopf , Gerard Meijer

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
8:36AM - 8:48AM

 U4.00004: Progress towards a buffer gas cooled BEC of metastable He
S. Charles Doret , Colin B. Connolly , Wolfgang Ketterle , John M. Doyle

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
8:48AM - 9:00AM

 U4.00005: Narrow-Line Laser Cooling and Trapping of Strongly Magnetic Atoms
Andrew Berglund , James Hanssen , Jabez McClelland

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
9:00AM - 9:12AM

 U4.00006: Collisional cooling of ultra-cold atom ensembles
Ludwig Mathey , Eite Tiesinga , Paul Julienne , Charles Clark

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
9:12AM - 9:24AM

 U4.00007: Trapping cold Cs atoms in an optical bottle beam
Larry Isenhower , Will Williams , Adam Dally , Mark Saffman

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
9:24AM - 9:36AM

 U4.00008: State-insensitive two-color optical trapping
Bindiya Arora , M.S. Safronova , Charles W. Clark

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
9:36AM - 9:48AM

 U4.00009: Spin Relaxation in Dark Optical Traps
Spencer Olson , Matthew Terraciano , Mark Bashkansky , Fredrik Fatemi

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
9:48AM - 10:00AM

 U4.00010: Evaporative Cooling Of a Photon Fluid to Quantum Degeneracy
Brian Seaman , Murray Holland

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
10:00AM - 10:12AM

 U4.00011: Optomechanical cooling and trapping in a three-mirror cavity
M. Bhattacharya , H. Uys , P. Meystre

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
10:12AM - 10:24AM

 U4.00012: Using a Laguerre-Gaussian beam to cool and trap the rotational motion of a mirror
M. Bhattacharya , P.-L. Giscard , P. Meystre

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Session U5: New Experimental Techniques

Chair: Marty Ligare, Bucknell University
Nittany Lion Inn - Boardroom I

Saturday, May 31, 2008
8:00AM - 8:12AM

 U5.00001: Rubidium atomic hyperfine filter for amplitude manipulation of femtosecond frequency comb
Marin Pichler , Hrvoje Skenderovi\' c , Damir Aumiler , Ticijana Ban , Goran Pichler

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
8:12AM - 8:24AM

 U5.00002: Laser frequency comb for improved exoplanet detection and cosmology
Chih-Hao Li , Andrew J. Benedick , Peter Fendel , Alex Glenday , Franz X. Kaertner , David F. Phillips , Dimitar Sasselov , Andrew Szentgyorgyi , Ronald L. Walsworth

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
8:24AM - 8:36AM

 U5.00003: Spin-Exchange Optical Pumping of Alkali Salts
Ben Olsen , Brian Patton , Yuan-Yu Jau , Will Happer , Kiyoshi Ishikawa

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
8:36AM - 8:48AM

 U5.00004: Laser-Atomic Oscillator
Yuan-Yu Jau , William Happer

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
8:48AM - 9:00AM

 U5.00005: Polarization of metastable 129Xe
Tian Xia , Steven Morgan , Yuan-Yu Jau , William Happer

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
9:00AM - 9:12AM

 U5.00006: Slowing and Stopping Supersonic Beams with an Atomic Coilgun
Adam Libson , Edvardas Narevicius , Christian G. Parthey , Isaac Chavez , Julia Narevicius , Uzi Even , Mark G. Raizen

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
9:12AM - 9:24AM

 U5.00007: Detecting level crossings without looking at the spectrum
M. Bhattacharya , C. Raman

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
9:24AM - 9:36AM

 U5.00008: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Saturday, May 31, 2008
9:36AM - 9:48AM

 U5.00009: Monitoring coherent vibrational control with transient multidimensional infrared spectroscopy.
Matthew Ross , Kevin Kubarych

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
9:48AM - 10:00AM

 U5.00010: Detection and Imaging of $\rm{He}_2$ Triplet Molecules in Superfluid Helium
W.G. Rellergert , S.B. Cahn , A. Curioni , J.A. Nikkel , J.D. Wright , D.N. McKinsey

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
10:00AM - 10:12AM

 U5.00011: Laser Induced Electron Diffraction
A. Staudte , M. Meckel , D. Comtois , D. Zeidler , D. Pavicic , H. Bandulet , H. Pepin , J.C. Kieffer , R. Doerner , D.M. Villeneuve , P.B. Corkum

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
10:12AM - 10:24AM

 U5.00012: Analysis of a single pulse of light through a Fabry-P\'{e}rot interferometer
J. Bruce Johnson , Kevin Lyon , Michael J. Johnson

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Session U6: Electron-Atom and Positron-Atom Collisions

Chair: Klaus Bartschat, Drake University
Nittany Lion Inn - Boardroom II

Saturday, May 31, 2008
8:00AM - 8:12AM

 U6.00001: Coupled-cluster based R-matrix codes (CCRM): Recent developments
Chiranjib Sur , Anil K. Pradhan

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
8:12AM - 8:24AM

 U6.00002: Full-Relativistic B-Spline R-Matrix Calculations for Electron Collisions with Gold Atoms.
Oleg Zatsarinny , Klaus Bartschat , Charlotte Froese \hbox{Fischer}

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
8:24AM - 8:36AM

 U6.00003: Electron Impact Ionization of Xenon Atomic Ions
John A. Ludlow , Stuart D. Loch , Michael S. Pindzola

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
8:36AM - 8:48AM

 U6.00004: Differential Cross Sections for Electron-Impact Single and Double Ionization of Helium
Michael S. Pindzola , John A. Ludlow , Francis J. Robicheaux , James P. Colgan

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
8:48AM - 9:00AM

 U6.00005: Electron impact autoionization in the presence of a laser field
B.A. deHarak , K.D. Wells , K.B. MacAdam , N.L.S. Martin

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
9:00AM - 9:12AM

 U6.00006: Energy of the quasi-free electron in low density Ar and Kr: Extension of the local Wigner-Seitz model
Xianbo Shi , Luxi Li , Gina Moriarty , Cherice Evans , Gary Findley

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Saturday, May 31, 2008
9:12AM - 9:24AM

 U6.00007: High resolution positron scattering from helium
James Sullivan , Peter Caradonna , Adric Jones , Stephen Buckman , Casten Makochekanwa

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