May 16 2006 8:00AM, Tuesday

1A Educators' Day
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301AB

May 16 2006 9:00AM, Tuesday

2A Student Tutorials I
Room: University of Tennessee-Knoxville Nielsen Physics Building

May 16 2006 12:15PM, Tuesday

3A Student Tutorials II: Tour of Oak Ridge National Laboratory Spallation Neutron Source and Center for Nanophase Materials
Room: University of Tennessee-Knoxville Buses depart Nielsen Phys. Bldg (Tour participants must have submitted the visitor pass form by March 31)

3B Tour of Oak Ridge National Laboratory Spallation Neutron Source and Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences
Room: University of Tennessee-Knoxville Buses depart Nielsen Phys. Bldg (Tour participants must have submitted the visitor pass form by March 31)

May 16 2006 2:00PM, Tuesday

4A DAMOP Executive Committee Meeting
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Rotunda

May 16 2006 6:00PM, Tuesday

5A Welcome Reception
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Henley and Cumberland Concourse

May 16 2006 8:00PM, Tuesday

6A TAMOC Meeting
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301C

May 17 2006 8:00AM, Wednesday

A1 DAMOP Prize Session
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Ballroom EFG Chair: Charles Clark, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  C.L. Cocke  

B1 Physical Review A Staff Breakfast
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Board Room

May 17 2006 10:30AM, Wednesday

C1 Optical Clocks
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Lecture Hall Chair: David Weiss, Penn State University

C2 Astrophysics
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Ballroom EFG Chair: Kate Kirby, Harvard Center for Astrophysics

C3 Ultracold Atoms I
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301D Chair: Gil Summy, Oklahoma State University

C4 Short Pulse Processes I
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301E Chair: Chii-Dong Lin, Kansas State University

C5 Quantum Computation
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301AB Chair: Marianna Safronova, University of Delaware

C6 Atom Optics and Atom Interferometry
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301C Chair: Jennifer Sebby-Strabley, National Institute of Standards and Technology

May 17 2006 12:00PM, Wednesday

D1 Fellowship Committee Lunch
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Rotunda

D2 Precision Measurements and Fundamentals Constants Lunch and Executive Committee Meeting
Room: University of Tennessee Conference Center Board Room

May 17 2006 1:30PM, Wednesday

E1 Scalable Solutions for Quantum Computing with Atoms and Ions
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Lecture Hall Chair: Brian DeMarco, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

E2 Atomic Physics for ITER and Other Next Step Fusion Experiments
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Ballroom EFG Chair: David Schultz, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  M.S. Pindzola  

E3 Ultracold Atoms II
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301D Chair: Sergio Muniz, Georgia Institute of Technology

E4 Short Pulse Processes II
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301E Chair: Wendell Hill III, University of Maryland

E5 Ultracold Plasmas and Molecules
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301AB Chair: Nicholas Bigelow, University of Rochester

E6 Photon Interactions With Atoms, Ions and Molecules - Experiment
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301C Chair: Timothy Gay, University of Nebraska

May 17 2006 4:00PM, Wednesday

G2 PRA-PRL Session for Authors and Referees
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301B

G1 Poster Session I
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Ballroom AB, 4:00pm - 6:00pm

May 17 2006 5:30PM, Wednesday

7A Women Scientists in DAMOP Reception
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Ballroom C

May 17 2006 6:00PM, Wednesday

H1 Precision Measurements and Fundamental Constants Topical Group Reception and Business Meeting
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301C

H2 PRA/PRL Editorial Board Dinner & Cocktails
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Board Room and Rotunda

May 17 2006 8:00PM, Wednesday

J1 Public Lecture
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Ballroom EFG

May 18 2006 8:00AM, Thursday

K1 1-d Gases
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Lecture Hall Chair: Ana Maria Rey, Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Invited Speakers:  Michael K{\"o}hl  

K2 Multi-Particle Fragmentation of Atoms and Negative Ions
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Ballroom EFG Chair: Klaus Bartschat, Drake University
Invited Speakers:  Nora Berrah,  Ralf Wehlitz  

K3 Laser Cooling and Trapping
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301D Chair: Phillip Gould, University of Connecticut

K4 Fundamental Symmetries and Precision Measurements
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301E Chair: Siu Au Lee, Colorado State University

K5 Quantum Optics and Matter Optics
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301AB Chair: Pierre Meystre, University of Arizona

K6 Ion-Atom and Ion-Molecule Collisions
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301C Chair: John Tanis, Western Michigan University

May 18 2006 10:30AM, Thursday

L1 Interaction and Strong Lasers with Molecules and Clusters
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Lecture Hall Chair: Carlos Reinhold, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

L2 Undergraduate Research
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Ballroom EFG Chair: Donald Griffin, Rollins College

L3 BEC Vortices and Spinor Condensates
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301D Chair: James Williams, National Institute of Standards and Technology

L4 Entanglement
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301E Chair: Barry Sanders, University of Calgary

L5 Photoassociation Spectroscopy
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301AB Chair: Thomas Killian, Rice University

L6 Atomic and Molecular Structure and Properties I
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301C Chair: Marjatta Lyyra, Temple University

May 18 2006 12:00PM, Thursday

M1 Program Committee Lunch
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Rotunda

May 18 2006 1:30PM, Thursday

N1 Thesis Prize Session
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Lecture Hall Chair: Steven Manson, Georgia State University
Invited Speakers:  Brian Odom  

N2 Particle-Induced Ionization and Break-up Processes of Atoms and Molecules
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Ballroom EFG Chair: Itzik Ben-Itzak, Kansas State University
Invited Speakers:  Michael Schulz  

N3 Atoms in Optical Lattices
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301D Chair: Sabrina Leslie, University of California, Berkeley

N4 Quantum and Non-Linear Optics
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301E Chair: David Phillips, Harvard-Smithsonian for Astrophysics

N5 Wavepackets and Control of Molecules and Large Systems
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301AB Chair: Brett Pearson, SUNY Stony Brook

N6 Spectroscopy, Lifetimes, Oscillator Strengths
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301C Chair: Sultana Nahar, Ohio University

May 18 2006 3:30PM, Thursday

8A PRA/PRL Reception - Meet the Editors
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Rotunda

May 18 2006 4:00PM, Thursday

O1 Poster Session II
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Ballroom AB

May 18 2006 6:00PM, Thursday

R1 Nobel Symposium
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Ballroom EFG Chair: Joseph Macek, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory

May 18 2006 7:30PM, Thursday

9A Nobel Reception
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Henly and Cumberland Concourses

May 19 2006 8:00AM, Friday

S1 Coherent Spinor Dynamics in Ultracold Gases
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Lecture Hall Chair: Presiding person to be selected

S2 Rydberg Physics and Ultracold Plasmas
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Ballroom EFG Chair: Georg Raithel, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Thomas Pattard  

S3 Strong Field (Intense Laser) Processes I
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301D Chair: Mette Gaarde, Louisiana State University

S4 Electron and Positron Scattering-Theory
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301E Chair: Don Madison, University of Missouri-Rolla

S5 Nonlinear Optics and Special Topics
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301AB Chair: Ray Garrett, University of Tennessee

S6 New Theoretical Methods and Nonlinear Dynamics
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301C Chair: John Delos, College of William and Mary

May 19 2006 10:30AM, Friday

T1 Emerging Applications of AMO Physics
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Lecture Hall Chair: Mark Edwards, Georgia Southern University

T2 Positron Interactions with Atoms and Molecules
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Ballroom EFG Chair: Stephen Buckman, Australian National University
Invited Speakers:  Gaetana Laricchia  

T3 Strong Field (Intense Laser) Processes II
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301D Chair: Stephen Southworth, Argonne National Laboratory

T4 Atomic and Molecular Structure, Including in Static Fields
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301E Chair: Yuri Ralchenko, National Institute of Standards and Technology

T5 Rydberg Atoms and Wave Packets
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301 AB Chair: Francis Robicheaux, Auburn University

T6 New Experimental Techniques
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301C Chair: Yuan-Yu Jau, Princeton University

May 19 2006 12:00PM, Friday

U1 Thesis Prize Committee Luncheon
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Rotunda

May 19 2006 1:30PM, Friday

V1 Ultracold Molecules
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Lecture Hall Chair: Cheng Chin, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Tilman Pfau,  David DeMille  

V2 Attosecond Physics
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Ballroom EFG Chair: Louis DiMauro, Ohio State University
Invited Speakers:  Gerhard G. Paulus  

V3 Photoassociation, Efimov, and Feshbach Physics
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301D Chair: Brett Esry, Kansas State University

V4 Photon Interactions with Atoms, Ions, and Molecules-Theory
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301E Chair: Alfred Msezane, Clark Atlanta University

V5 Theory of Cold Atom Systems
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301AB Chair: William Reinhardt, University of Washington

V6 Surface Collisions, Molecule-Molucule Collisions and Recombination followed by Electron and Positron Scattering - Experiment
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301C Chair: Thomas Miller, Air Force Research Laboratory

May 19 2006 4:00PM, Friday

W1 Poster Session III
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Ballroom AB

May 19 2006 4:30PM, Friday

X1 DAMOP Business Meeting
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301AB

May 19 2006 6:30PM, Friday

Y1 Reception and Banquet
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Cumberland/Henley Concourse and Ballroom DEFG

May 20 2006 9:00AM, Saturday

Z1 Hot Topics
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Lecture Hall Chair: Anthony Starace, University of Nebraska

Z2 Gaseous Electronics Conference Session
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301AB Chair: Rainer Johnsen, University of Pittsburgh
Invited Speakers:  Paul Scheier  

Z3 Fermionic Superfluidity in Ultracold Gases
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301C Chair: Doerte Blume, Washington State University

Z4 Rydberg Atoms and Coherent Control
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301D Chair: Thomas Gallagher, University of Virginia

Z5 Quantum Information and Cavity QED
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301E Chair: Peter Maunz, University of Michigan

May 16 2006 8:00AM, Tuesday

1A Educators' Day
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301AB

May 16 2006 9:00AM, Tuesday

2A Student Tutorials I
Room: University of Tennessee-Knoxville Nielsen Physics Building

May 16 2006 12:15PM, Tuesday

3A Student Tutorials II: Tour of Oak Ridge National Laboratory Spallation Neutron Source and Center for Nanophase Materials
Room: University of Tennessee-Knoxville Buses depart Nielsen Phys. Bldg (Tour participants must have submitted the visitor pass form by March 31)

3B Tour of Oak Ridge National Laboratory Spallation Neutron Source and Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences
Room: University of Tennessee-Knoxville Buses depart Nielsen Phys. Bldg (Tour participants must have submitted the visitor pass form by March 31)

May 16 2006 2:00PM, Tuesday

4A DAMOP Executive Committee Meeting
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Rotunda

May 16 2006 6:00PM, Tuesday

5A Welcome Reception
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Henley and Cumberland Concourse

May 16 2006 8:00PM, Tuesday

6A TAMOC Meeting
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301C

May 17 2006 8:00AM, Wednesday

A1 DAMOP Prize Session
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Ballroom EFG Chair: Charles Clark, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  C.L. Cocke  

B1 Physical Review A Staff Breakfast
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Board Room

May 17 2006 10:30AM, Wednesday

C1 Optical Clocks
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Lecture Hall Chair: David Weiss, Penn State University

C2 Astrophysics
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Ballroom EFG Chair: Kate Kirby, Harvard Center for Astrophysics

C3 Ultracold Atoms I
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301D Chair: Gil Summy, Oklahoma State University

C4 Short Pulse Processes I
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301E Chair: Chii-Dong Lin, Kansas State University

C5 Quantum Computation
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301AB Chair: Marianna Safronova, University of Delaware

C6 Atom Optics and Atom Interferometry
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301C Chair: Jennifer Sebby-Strabley, National Institute of Standards and Technology

May 17 2006 12:00PM, Wednesday

D1 Fellowship Committee Lunch
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Rotunda

D2 Precision Measurements and Fundamentals Constants Lunch and Executive Committee Meeting
Room: University of Tennessee Conference Center Board Room

May 17 2006 1:30PM, Wednesday

E1 Scalable Solutions for Quantum Computing with Atoms and Ions
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Lecture Hall Chair: Brian DeMarco, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

E2 Atomic Physics for ITER and Other Next Step Fusion Experiments
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Ballroom EFG Chair: David Schultz, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  M.S. Pindzola  

E3 Ultracold Atoms II
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301D Chair: Sergio Muniz, Georgia Institute of Technology

E4 Short Pulse Processes II
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301E Chair: Wendell Hill III, University of Maryland

E5 Ultracold Plasmas and Molecules
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301AB Chair: Nicholas Bigelow, University of Rochester

E6 Photon Interactions With Atoms, Ions and Molecules - Experiment
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301C Chair: Timothy Gay, University of Nebraska

May 17 2006 4:00PM, Wednesday

G2 PRA-PRL Session for Authors and Referees
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301B

G1 Poster Session I
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Ballroom AB, 4:00pm - 6:00pm

May 17 2006 5:30PM, Wednesday

7A Women Scientists in DAMOP Reception
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Ballroom C

May 17 2006 6:00PM, Wednesday

H1 Precision Measurements and Fundamental Constants Topical Group Reception and Business Meeting
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301C

H2 PRA/PRL Editorial Board Dinner & Cocktails
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Board Room and Rotunda

May 17 2006 8:00PM, Wednesday

J1 Public Lecture
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Ballroom EFG

May 18 2006 8:00AM, Thursday

K1 1-d Gases
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Lecture Hall Chair: Ana Maria Rey, Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Invited Speakers:  Michael K{\"o}hl  

K2 Multi-Particle Fragmentation of Atoms and Negative Ions
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Ballroom EFG Chair: Klaus Bartschat, Drake University
Invited Speakers:  Nora Berrah,  Ralf Wehlitz  

K3 Laser Cooling and Trapping
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301D Chair: Phillip Gould, University of Connecticut

K4 Fundamental Symmetries and Precision Measurements
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301E Chair: Siu Au Lee, Colorado State University

K5 Quantum Optics and Matter Optics
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301AB Chair: Pierre Meystre, University of Arizona

K6 Ion-Atom and Ion-Molecule Collisions
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301C Chair: John Tanis, Western Michigan University

May 18 2006 10:30AM, Thursday

L1 Interaction and Strong Lasers with Molecules and Clusters
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Lecture Hall Chair: Carlos Reinhold, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

L2 Undergraduate Research
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Ballroom EFG Chair: Donald Griffin, Rollins College

L3 BEC Vortices and Spinor Condensates
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301D Chair: James Williams, National Institute of Standards and Technology

L4 Entanglement
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301E Chair: Barry Sanders, University of Calgary

L5 Photoassociation Spectroscopy
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301AB Chair: Thomas Killian, Rice University

L6 Atomic and Molecular Structure and Properties I
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301C Chair: Marjatta Lyyra, Temple University

May 18 2006 12:00PM, Thursday

M1 Program Committee Lunch
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Rotunda

May 18 2006 1:30PM, Thursday

N1 Thesis Prize Session
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Lecture Hall Chair: Steven Manson, Georgia State University
Invited Speakers:  Brian Odom  

N2 Particle-Induced Ionization and Break-up Processes of Atoms and Molecules
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Ballroom EFG Chair: Itzik Ben-Itzak, Kansas State University
Invited Speakers:  Michael Schulz  

N3 Atoms in Optical Lattices
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301D Chair: Sabrina Leslie, University of California, Berkeley

N4 Quantum and Non-Linear Optics
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301E Chair: David Phillips, Harvard-Smithsonian for Astrophysics

N5 Wavepackets and Control of Molecules and Large Systems
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301AB Chair: Brett Pearson, SUNY Stony Brook

N6 Spectroscopy, Lifetimes, Oscillator Strengths
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301C Chair: Sultana Nahar, Ohio University

May 18 2006 3:30PM, Thursday

8A PRA/PRL Reception - Meet the Editors
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Rotunda

May 18 2006 4:00PM, Thursday

O1 Poster Session II
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Ballroom AB

May 18 2006 6:00PM, Thursday

R1 Nobel Symposium
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Ballroom EFG Chair: Joseph Macek, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory

May 18 2006 7:30PM, Thursday

9A Nobel Reception
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Henly and Cumberland Concourses

May 19 2006 8:00AM, Friday

S1 Coherent Spinor Dynamics in Ultracold Gases
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Lecture Hall Chair: Presiding person to be selected

S2 Rydberg Physics and Ultracold Plasmas
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Ballroom EFG Chair: Georg Raithel, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Thomas Pattard  

S3 Strong Field (Intense Laser) Processes I
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301D Chair: Mette Gaarde, Louisiana State University

S4 Electron and Positron Scattering-Theory
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301E Chair: Don Madison, University of Missouri-Rolla

S5 Nonlinear Optics and Special Topics
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301AB Chair: Ray Garrett, University of Tennessee

S6 New Theoretical Methods and Nonlinear Dynamics
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301C Chair: John Delos, College of William and Mary

May 19 2006 10:30AM, Friday

T1 Emerging Applications of AMO Physics
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Lecture Hall Chair: Mark Edwards, Georgia Southern University

T2 Positron Interactions with Atoms and Molecules
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Ballroom EFG Chair: Stephen Buckman, Australian National University
Invited Speakers:  Gaetana Laricchia  

T3 Strong Field (Intense Laser) Processes II
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301D Chair: Stephen Southworth, Argonne National Laboratory

T4 Atomic and Molecular Structure, Including in Static Fields
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301E Chair: Yuri Ralchenko, National Institute of Standards and Technology

T5 Rydberg Atoms and Wave Packets
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301 AB Chair: Francis Robicheaux, Auburn University

T6 New Experimental Techniques
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301C Chair: Yuan-Yu Jau, Princeton University

May 19 2006 12:00PM, Friday

U1 Thesis Prize Committee Luncheon
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Rotunda

May 19 2006 1:30PM, Friday

V1 Ultracold Molecules
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Lecture Hall Chair: Cheng Chin, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Tilman Pfau,  David DeMille  

V2 Attosecond Physics
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Ballroom EFG Chair: Louis DiMauro, Ohio State University
Invited Speakers:  Gerhard G. Paulus  

V3 Photoassociation, Efimov, and Feshbach Physics
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301D Chair: Brett Esry, Kansas State University

V4 Photon Interactions with Atoms, Ions, and Molecules-Theory
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301E Chair: Alfred Msezane, Clark Atlanta University

V5 Theory of Cold Atom Systems
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301AB Chair: William Reinhardt, University of Washington

V6 Surface Collisions, Molecule-Molucule Collisions and Recombination followed by Electron and Positron Scattering - Experiment
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301C Chair: Thomas Miller, Air Force Research Laboratory

May 19 2006 4:00PM, Friday

W1 Poster Session III
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Ballroom AB

May 19 2006 4:30PM, Friday

X1 DAMOP Business Meeting
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301AB

May 19 2006 6:30PM, Friday

Y1 Reception and Banquet
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Cumberland/Henley Concourse and Ballroom DEFG

May 20 2006 9:00AM, Saturday

Z1 Hot Topics
Room: Knoxville Convention Center Lecture Hall Chair: Anthony Starace, University of Nebraska

Z2 Gaseous Electronics Conference Session
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301AB Chair: Rainer Johnsen, University of Pittsburgh
Invited Speakers:  Paul Scheier  

Z3 Fermionic Superfluidity in Ultracold Gases
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301C Chair: Doerte Blume, Washington State University

Z4 Rydberg Atoms and Coherent Control
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301D Chair: Thomas Gallagher, University of Virginia

Z5 Quantum Information and Cavity QED
Room: Knoxville Convention Center 301E Chair: Peter Maunz, University of Michigan