Bulletin of the American Physical Society
40th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Volume 54, Number 7
Tuesday–Saturday, May 19–23, 2009; Charlottesville, Virginia
Epitome
May 19 2009 6:00PM, Tuesday
1A
Opening Reception
Room: Newcomb Hall Ballroom
May 19 2009 7:00PM, Tuesday
2A
Introduction to the TeraGrid
Room: Newcomb Hall South Meeting Room
May 19 2009 7:30PM, Tuesday
2B
TAMOC Business Meeting
Room: Newcomb Hall South Meeting Room
May 20 2009 8:00AM, Wednesday
A1
DAMOP Prize Session
Room: Old Cabell Hall Auditorium
Chair: Pierre Meystre, University of Arizona
May 20 2009 10:30AM, Wednesday
B1
Magnetism in Ultracold Gases and Spinor Gases
Room: Chemistry Building 402
Chair: Daniel Goldbaum, University of Arizona
B2
Focus Session: Slow Ion-Atom and Ion-Molecule Collisions
Room: Gilmer Hall 130
Chair: Brett DePaola, Kansas State University
B3
Matter Waves
Room: Gilmer Hall 190
Chair: Michael G. Moore, Michigan State University
B4
Polarized Atoms
Room: Clark Hall 108
Chair: Tom Gentile, National Institute of Standards and Technology
B5
Electron Collisions
Room: Clark Hall 107
Chair: Timothy Gay, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
B6
Focus Session: Vibrational and Rotational Coherence
Room: Minor Hall 125
Chair: Albert Stolow, National Research Council Canada
May 20 2009 2:00PM, Wednesday
C1
DAMOP Thesis Prize
Room: Chemistry Building 402
Chair: Alex Cronin, University of Arizona
C2
Permanent EDM Searches
Room: Gilmer Hall 130
Chair: Z.T. Lu, Argonne National Laboratory
C3
Quantum Information with Trapped Ions
Room: Gilmer Hall 190
Chair: Boris Blinov, University of Washington
C4
Photoionization and Photodetachment Processes I
Room: Clark Hall 108
Chair: Norrah Berrah, Western Michigan University
C5
Ion Collisions
Room: Clark Hall 107
Chair: David Schultz, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
C6
High Field Physics at Short Wavelengths
Room: Minor Hall 125
Chair: Barry Walker, University of Delaware
May 20 2009 4:00PM, Wednesday
D1
"Physics"/Physical Review Referee Report Session
Room: Newcomb Hall South Meeting Room
E1
Poster Session I (4:00 - 6:00 pm)
Room: Newcomb Hall Ballroom
May 20 2009 5:00PM, Wednesday
May 21 2009 8:00AM, Thursday
J1
Quantum Interferometry and Spin Squeezing
Room: Chemistry Building 402
Chair: Juha Javanainen, University of Connecticut
J2
Vector Potentials in Cold Gases
Room: Gilmer Hall 130
Chair: Jay Vaishnav, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg
J3
Dynamics and Out of Equilibrium Phenomena in Cold Atoms
Room: Gilmer Hall 190
Chair: Chandra Raman, Georgia Institute of Technology
J4
Efimov States and other Many-Body Interactions
Room: Clark Hall 108
Chair: Cheng Chin, University of Chicago
J5
Undergraduate Session
Room: Clark Hall 107
Chair: Wesley Walter, Denison University
J6
Focus Session: Exotic States in Rydberg Atoms
Room: Minor Hall 125
Chair: Tom Killian, Rice University
May 21 2009 10:30AM, Thursday
K1
Disorder in Ultracold Gases
Room: Chemistry Hall 402
Chair: Klaus Moelmer, Aarhus University
K2
Focus Session: Collision-induced States in Molecules
Room: Gilmer Hall 130
Chair: Paul Julienne, National Institute of Standards and Technology
K3
Optical Lattices I
Room: Gilmer Hall 190
Chair: Kaden Hazzard, Cornell University
K4
Atomic Spectroscopy
Room: Clark Hall 108
Chair: Alex Godunov, Old Dominion University
K5
Tests of Fundamental Symmetries
Room: Clark Hall 107
Chair: Protik K. Majumder, Williams College
K6
Focus Session: Ultrafast Probes
Room: Minor Hall 125
Chair: C. Lewis Cocke, Kansas State University
May 21 2009 2:00PM, Thursday
L1
Focus Session: AMO Realizations of Condensed Matter Systems
Room: Chemistry Hall 402
Chair: Han Pu, Rice University
L2
Focus Session: Laser Frequency Combs and Applications
Room: Gilmer Hall 130
Co-Sponsor:
GPMFC
Chair: Jun Ye, JILA
L3
Quantum Information Theory and New Implementations
Room: Gilmer Hall 190
Co-Sponsor:
DAMOP GQI
Chair: Marianna Safronova, University of Delaware
L4
Cold Atoms and Molecules
Room: Clark Hall 108
Chair: Charles Sukenik, Old Dominion University
L5
Photoionization and Photodetachment Processes II
Room: Clark Hall 107
Chair: Linda Young, Argonne National Laboratory
L6
Strong-Field Physics at Relativistic Intensity
Room: Minor Hall 125
Chair: Anthony DiChiara, Ohio State University
May 21 2009 4:00PM, Thursday
M1
Poster Session II (4:00 - 6:00 pm)
Room: Newcomb Hall Ballroom
May 21 2009 5:00PM, Thursday
M2
PRA/PRL "Meet the Editors" Reception
Room: Colonnade Club Garden
N1
CAMOS Town Hall Meeting
Room: Newcomb Hall South Meeting Room
May 21 2009 7:30PM, Thursday
P1
Public Lecture: The Physics of NASCAR
Room: Old Cabell Hall Auditorium
Chair: Louis Bloomfield, University of Virginia
May 22 2009 8:00AM, Friday
Q1
Ultracold Molecules I
Room: Chemistry Building 402
Chair: Nick Bigelow, University of Rochester
Q2
Bose-Einstein Condensates
Room: Gilmer Hall 130
Chair: J. Thywissen, University of Toronto
Q3
Magnetometry
Room: Gilmer Hall 190
Chair: David Phillips, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Q4
Collisions with Biomolecules
Room: Clark Hall 108
Chair: Murtadha Khakoo, California State University, Fullerton
Q5
Nonlinear Dynamics
Room: Clark Hall 107
Chair: John Delos, College of William and Mary
Q6
Ultra-Fast Probing of Molecular Wave Functions
Room: Minor Hall 125
Chair: Tom Weinacht, SUNY Stony Brook
May 22 2009 10:30AM, Friday
R1
Focus Session: Fermi Gases
Room: Chemistry Building 402
Chair: Randy Hulet, Rice University
R2
Rydberg Gases
Room: Gilmer Hall 130
Chair: Georg Raithel, University of Michigan
R3
EIT and Slow Light
Room: Gilmer Hall 190
Chair: Deniz Yavuz, University of Wisconsin
R4
Spectroscopy Techniques / MEMS
Room: Clark Hall 108
Chair: Mishkatul Bhattacharya, University of Arizona
R5
Feshbach Resonances
Room: Clark Hall 107
Chair: Seth Aubin, College of William and Mary
R6
Focus Session: Interactions Between Individual Atoms
Room: Minor Hall 209
Chair: Thad Walker, University of Wisconsin
May 22 2009 2:00PM, Friday
S1
Quantum Information with Matter and Light
Room: Chemistry Building 402
Chair: Mirko Lobino, University of Calgary
S2
Focus Session: Spectroscopy of Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases
Room: Gilmer Hall 130
Chair: Walter Hofstetter, University of Frankfurt
S3
Optical Lattices II
Room: Gilmer Hall 190
Chair: Dominik Schneble, Stony Brook University
S4
Laser Trapping and Cooling
Room: Clark Hall 108
Chair: Kristian Corwin, Kansas State University
S5
Short Pulse Processes
Room: Clark Hall 107
Chair: Cornelis Uiterwaal, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
S6
Molecular Dissociation Induced by Electron Collisions
Room: Minor Hall 125
Chair: Chris Greene, University of Colorado
May 22 2009 4:00PM, Friday
T1
Poster Session III (4:00 - 6:00 pm)
Room: Newcomb Hall Ballroom
May 22 2009 5:00PM, Friday
U1
DAMOP Business Meeting
Room: Newcomb Hall South Meeting Room
May 22 2009 6:30PM, Friday
May 23 2009 8:00AM, Saturday
W1
Nanoscale Optomechanics
Room: Chemistry Building 402
Chair: Duncan O'Dell, McMaster University
W2
Ultracold Collisions, Photoassociation, and Spectroscopy
Room: Gilmer Hall 130
Chair: Michael Lim, Rowan University
W3
Ultracold Atoms in Reduced Dimensions
Room: Gilmer Hall 190
Chair: Stefan Baur, Cornell University
W4
Breakthroughs in Molecular Physics
Room: Clark Hall 108
Chair: Daniel Savin, Columbia University
W5
Molecules in Strong Fields
Room: Clark Hall 107
Chair: Bob Jones, University of Virginia
W6
Focus Session: Quantum Measurements and Tomography
Room: Minor Hall 125
Co-Sponsor:
GQI
Chair: Olivier Pfister, University of Virginia
May 23 2009 10:30AM, Saturday
X1
Hot Topics
Room: Chemistry Building 402
Chair: Lou DiMauro, The Ohio State University
X2
Focus Session: Ultracold Molecules II
Room: Gilmer Hall 130
Chair: Kate Kirby, ITAMP, Harvard University
X3
Optical Lattices III
Room: Gilmer Hall 190
Chair: Cass Sackett, University of Virginia
X4
Precision Measurements
Room: Clark Hall 108
Chair: Carol Tanner, University of Notre Dame
X5
Atoms and QED
Room: Clark Hall 107
Chair: Irina Novikova, College of William and Mary
X6
Focus Session: Frontiers in Strong Field Physics at Long Wavelengths
Room: Minor Hall 125
Chair: Chii-Dong Lin, Kansas State University
May 23 2009 1:30PM, Saturday
Y1
Poster Session IV (1:30 - 3:30 pm)
Room: Newcomb Hall Ballroom
May 19 2009 6:00PM, Tuesday
1A
Opening Reception
Room: Newcomb Hall Ballroom
May 19 2009 7:00PM, Tuesday
2A
Introduction to the TeraGrid
Room: Newcomb Hall South Meeting Room
May 19 2009 7:30PM, Tuesday
2B
TAMOC Business Meeting
Room: Newcomb Hall South Meeting Room
May 20 2009 8:00AM, Wednesday
A1
DAMOP Prize Session
Room: Old Cabell Hall Auditorium
Chair: Pierre Meystre, University of Arizona
May 20 2009 10:30AM, Wednesday
B1
Magnetism in Ultracold Gases and Spinor Gases
Room: Chemistry Building 402
Chair: Daniel Goldbaum, University of Arizona
B2
Focus Session: Slow Ion-Atom and Ion-Molecule Collisions
Room: Gilmer Hall 130
Chair: Brett DePaola, Kansas State University
B3
Matter Waves
Room: Gilmer Hall 190
Chair: Michael G. Moore, Michigan State University
B4
Polarized Atoms
Room: Clark Hall 108
Chair: Tom Gentile, National Institute of Standards and Technology
B5
Electron Collisions
Room: Clark Hall 107
Chair: Timothy Gay, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
B6
Focus Session: Vibrational and Rotational Coherence
Room: Minor Hall 125
Chair: Albert Stolow, National Research Council Canada
May 20 2009 2:00PM, Wednesday
C1
DAMOP Thesis Prize
Room: Chemistry Building 402
Chair: Alex Cronin, University of Arizona
C2
Permanent EDM Searches
Room: Gilmer Hall 130
Chair: Z.T. Lu, Argonne National Laboratory
C3
Quantum Information with Trapped Ions
Room: Gilmer Hall 190
Chair: Boris Blinov, University of Washington
C4
Photoionization and Photodetachment Processes I
Room: Clark Hall 108
Chair: Norrah Berrah, Western Michigan University
C5
Ion Collisions
Room: Clark Hall 107
Chair: David Schultz, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
C6
High Field Physics at Short Wavelengths
Room: Minor Hall 125
Chair: Barry Walker, University of Delaware
May 20 2009 4:00PM, Wednesday
D1
"Physics"/Physical Review Referee Report Session
Room: Newcomb Hall South Meeting Room
E1
Poster Session I (4:00 - 6:00 pm)
Room: Newcomb Hall Ballroom
May 20 2009 5:00PM, Wednesday
May 21 2009 8:00AM, Thursday
J1
Quantum Interferometry and Spin Squeezing
Room: Chemistry Building 402
Chair: Juha Javanainen, University of Connecticut
J2
Vector Potentials in Cold Gases
Room: Gilmer Hall 130
Chair: Jay Vaishnav, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg
J3
Dynamics and Out of Equilibrium Phenomena in Cold Atoms
Room: Gilmer Hall 190
Chair: Chandra Raman, Georgia Institute of Technology
J4
Efimov States and other Many-Body Interactions
Room: Clark Hall 108
Chair: Cheng Chin, University of Chicago
J5
Undergraduate Session
Room: Clark Hall 107
Chair: Wesley Walter, Denison University
J6
Focus Session: Exotic States in Rydberg Atoms
Room: Minor Hall 125
Chair: Tom Killian, Rice University
May 21 2009 10:30AM, Thursday
K1
Disorder in Ultracold Gases
Room: Chemistry Hall 402
Chair: Klaus Moelmer, Aarhus University
K2
Focus Session: Collision-induced States in Molecules
Room: Gilmer Hall 130
Chair: Paul Julienne, National Institute of Standards and Technology
K3
Optical Lattices I
Room: Gilmer Hall 190
Chair: Kaden Hazzard, Cornell University
K4
Atomic Spectroscopy
Room: Clark Hall 108
Chair: Alex Godunov, Old Dominion University
K5
Tests of Fundamental Symmetries
Room: Clark Hall 107
Chair: Protik K. Majumder, Williams College
K6
Focus Session: Ultrafast Probes
Room: Minor Hall 125
Chair: C. Lewis Cocke, Kansas State University
May 21 2009 2:00PM, Thursday
L1
Focus Session: AMO Realizations of Condensed Matter Systems
Room: Chemistry Hall 402
Chair: Han Pu, Rice University
L2
Focus Session: Laser Frequency Combs and Applications
Room: Gilmer Hall 130
Co-Sponsor:
GPMFC
Chair: Jun Ye, JILA
L3
Quantum Information Theory and New Implementations
Room: Gilmer Hall 190
Co-Sponsor:
DAMOP GQI
Chair: Marianna Safronova, University of Delaware
L4
Cold Atoms and Molecules
Room: Clark Hall 108
Chair: Charles Sukenik, Old Dominion University
L5
Photoionization and Photodetachment Processes II
Room: Clark Hall 107
Chair: Linda Young, Argonne National Laboratory
L6
Strong-Field Physics at Relativistic Intensity
Room: Minor Hall 125
Chair: Anthony DiChiara, Ohio State University
May 21 2009 4:00PM, Thursday
M1
Poster Session II (4:00 - 6:00 pm)
Room: Newcomb Hall Ballroom
May 21 2009 5:00PM, Thursday
M2
PRA/PRL "Meet the Editors" Reception
Room: Colonnade Club Garden
N1
CAMOS Town Hall Meeting
Room: Newcomb Hall South Meeting Room
May 21 2009 7:30PM, Thursday
P1
Public Lecture: The Physics of NASCAR
Room: Old Cabell Hall Auditorium
Chair: Louis Bloomfield, University of Virginia
May 22 2009 8:00AM, Friday
Q1
Ultracold Molecules I
Room: Chemistry Building 402
Chair: Nick Bigelow, University of Rochester
Q2
Bose-Einstein Condensates
Room: Gilmer Hall 130
Chair: J. Thywissen, University of Toronto
Q3
Magnetometry
Room: Gilmer Hall 190
Chair: David Phillips, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Q4
Collisions with Biomolecules
Room: Clark Hall 108
Chair: Murtadha Khakoo, California State University, Fullerton
Q5
Nonlinear Dynamics
Room: Clark Hall 107
Chair: John Delos, College of William and Mary
Q6
Ultra-Fast Probing of Molecular Wave Functions
Room: Minor Hall 125
Chair: Tom Weinacht, SUNY Stony Brook
May 22 2009 10:30AM, Friday
R1
Focus Session: Fermi Gases
Room: Chemistry Building 402
Chair: Randy Hulet, Rice University
R2
Rydberg Gases
Room: Gilmer Hall 130
Chair: Georg Raithel, University of Michigan
R3
EIT and Slow Light
Room: Gilmer Hall 190
Chair: Deniz Yavuz, University of Wisconsin
R4
Spectroscopy Techniques / MEMS
Room: Clark Hall 108
Chair: Mishkatul Bhattacharya, University of Arizona
R5
Feshbach Resonances
Room: Clark Hall 107
Chair: Seth Aubin, College of William and Mary
R6
Focus Session: Interactions Between Individual Atoms
Room: Minor Hall 209
Chair: Thad Walker, University of Wisconsin
May 22 2009 2:00PM, Friday
S1
Quantum Information with Matter and Light
Room: Chemistry Building 402
Chair: Mirko Lobino, University of Calgary
S2
Focus Session: Spectroscopy of Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases
Room: Gilmer Hall 130
Chair: Walter Hofstetter, University of Frankfurt
S3
Optical Lattices II
Room: Gilmer Hall 190
Chair: Dominik Schneble, Stony Brook University
S4
Laser Trapping and Cooling
Room: Clark Hall 108
Chair: Kristian Corwin, Kansas State University
S5
Short Pulse Processes
Room: Clark Hall 107
Chair: Cornelis Uiterwaal, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
S6
Molecular Dissociation Induced by Electron Collisions
Room: Minor Hall 125
Chair: Chris Greene, University of Colorado
May 22 2009 4:00PM, Friday
T1
Poster Session III (4:00 - 6:00 pm)
Room: Newcomb Hall Ballroom
May 22 2009 5:00PM, Friday
U1
DAMOP Business Meeting
Room: Newcomb Hall South Meeting Room
May 22 2009 6:30PM, Friday
May 23 2009 8:00AM, Saturday
W1
Nanoscale Optomechanics
Room: Chemistry Building 402
Chair: Duncan O'Dell, McMaster University
W2
Ultracold Collisions, Photoassociation, and Spectroscopy
Room: Gilmer Hall 130
Chair: Michael Lim, Rowan University
W3
Ultracold Atoms in Reduced Dimensions
Room: Gilmer Hall 190
Chair: Stefan Baur, Cornell University
W4
Breakthroughs in Molecular Physics
Room: Clark Hall 108
Chair: Daniel Savin, Columbia University
W5
Molecules in Strong Fields
Room: Clark Hall 107
Chair: Bob Jones, University of Virginia
W6
Focus Session: Quantum Measurements and Tomography
Room: Minor Hall 125
Co-Sponsor:
GQI
Chair: Olivier Pfister, University of Virginia
May 23 2009 10:30AM, Saturday
X1
Hot Topics
Room: Chemistry Building 402
Chair: Lou DiMauro, The Ohio State University
X2
Focus Session: Ultracold Molecules II
Room: Gilmer Hall 130
Chair: Kate Kirby, ITAMP, Harvard University
X3
Optical Lattices III
Room: Gilmer Hall 190
Chair: Cass Sackett, University of Virginia
X4
Precision Measurements
Room: Clark Hall 108
Chair: Carol Tanner, University of Notre Dame
X5
Atoms and QED
Room: Clark Hall 107
Chair: Irina Novikova, College of William and Mary
X6
Focus Session: Frontiers in Strong Field Physics at Long Wavelengths
Room: Minor Hall 125
Chair: Chii-Dong Lin, Kansas State University
May 23 2009 1:30PM, Saturday
Y1
Poster Session IV (1:30 - 3:30 pm)
Room: Newcomb Hall Ballroom
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