May 28 2008 8:00AM, Wednesday

A1 DAMOP Prize Session
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom A-E Chair: William Stwalley, University of Connecticut

May 28 2008 11:00AM, Wednesday

B1 Recent Developments in Optical Lattice Physics
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom CDE Chair: Randy Hulet, Rice University

B2 Graduate Student Thesis Session
Room: Kern Building 112 Chair: Robin Cote, University of Connecticut

B3 Current Topics in Gaseous Electronics (Co-Sponsored by GEC)
Room: Keller Building 104 Chair: Rainer Johnson, University of Pittsburgh

B4 Photoassociation and Cold Collisions
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom AB Chair: Paul Julienne, National Institute of Standards and Technology

B5 Quantum and Nonlinear Optics
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom I Chair: Susanne Yelin, University of Connecticut

B6 Photon Interactions with Atoms, Ions, and Molecules
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom II Chair: Tom Killian, Rice University

May 28 2008 2:00PM, Wednesday

C1 50th Anniversary of Physical Review Letters
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom CDE Chair: George Basbas, American Physical Society

C2 Focus Session: Vortices and Solitons
Room: Kern Building 112 Chair: Zachary Dutton, BBN Technologies

C3 Ion and Electron Collisions
Room: Keller Building 104 Chair: Horst Schmidt-Boecking, University of Frankfurt

C4 Ultracold Molecules
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom AB Chair: Phil Gould, University of Connecticut

C5 Fundamental Symmetries (Co-Sponsored by GPMFC)
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom I Chair: Protik Majumder, Williams College

C6 Quantum Computation
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom II Chair: Junsang Kim, Duke University

May 28 2008 3:20PM, Wednesday

D1 Meet the APS Journal Editors and Celebrate 50 Years of PRL
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Outside Ballroom CDE

May 28 2008 4:00PM, Wednesday

E1 Poster Session I: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Room: HUB-Robeson Center Alumni Hall

May 28 2008 4:30PM, Wednesday

F1 Women Scientists in DAMOP Reception
Room: HUB-Robeson Center Room 129A

May 28 2008 6:00PM, Wednesday

G1 Topical Group on Precision Measurements and Fundamental Constants Business Meeting
Room: Osmond Laboratory Room 103

May 28 2008 8:00PM, Wednesday

H1 Public Lecture: The World's Energy Problem and What We Can Do About It
Room: Eisenhower Auditorium Chair: David Weiss, Penn State University

May 29 2008 8:00AM, Thursday

I1 New Physics with Ultracold Atoms
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom CDE Chair: Charles Clark, National Institute of Standards and Technology

I2 Physics with Low-Energy Antimatter
Room: Kern Building 112 Chair: Clifford Surko, University of California, San Diego

I3 Focus Session: Searches for Relativity Violations (Co-Sponsored by GPMFC)
Room: Keller Building 104 Chair: Neil Russell, Northern Michigan University

I4 Ultracold Scattering and Interactions
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom AB Chair: Marjatta Lyyra, Temple University

I5 Collisions Involving Atoms, Molecules, or Ions
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom I Chair: Edward Gerjuoy, University of Pittsburgh

I6 Photoionization and Photodetachment Processes
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom II Chair: Nora Berrah, Western Michigan University

May 29 2008 11:00AM, Thursday

J1 New Physics with Strongly Interacting Fermions
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom CDE Chair: Ana Maria Rey, ITAMP, Harvard University

J2 Atomic Clocks and Searches for Variations in Fundamental Constants (Co-Sponsored by GPMFC)
Room: Kern Building 112 Chair: Eric Burt, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

J3 Focus Session: Rydberg Atoms and Molecules
Room: Keller Building 104 Chair: Robert Jones, University of Virginia

J4 Dynamic and Out-of-Equilibrium Phenomena in Cold Atoms
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom AB Chair: Dan Gauthier, Duke University

J5 Matter Wave Interferometry
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom I Chair: Alex Cronin, University of Arizona

J6 Short Pulse (e.g., Attosecond, Femtosecond Processes) I
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom II Chair: Itzik Ben-Itzhak, Kansas State University

May 29 2008 2:00PM, Thursday

K1 Recent Developments in Ultracold Spinor Systems
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom CDE Chair: Cheng Chin, University of Chicago

K2 Focus Session: Ultracold Dipolar Gases
Room: Kern Building 112 Chair: Ed Eyler, University of Connecticut

K3 Undergraduate Research Session
Room: Keller Building 104 Chair: Eric Wells, Augustana College, Sioux Falls

K4 Experiments with Cold and Ultracold Atoms
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom AB Chair: Doerte Blume, Washington State University

K5 Entanglement and Decoherence
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom I Chair: Chris Monroe, University of Maryland

K6 Short Pulse (e.g., Attosecond, Femtosecond Processes) II
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom II Chair: Ian Walmsley, University of Oxford

May 29 2008 4:00PM, Thursday

L1 PRA/PRL Tutorial Session for Authors and Referees
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom I

L2 Poster Session II: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Room: HUB-Robeson Center Alumni Hall

May 29 2008 5:00PM, Thursday

M1 TAMOC Business Meeting
Room: Osmond Laboratory Room 101

May 29 2008 6:30PM, Thursday

N1 Reception and Banquet
Room: Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center President's Hall

May 30 2008 8:00AM, Friday

O1 Quantum Control of Polar Molecules
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom CDE Chair: Paul Lett, National Institute of Standards and Technology

O2 Optical Quantum Memory (Co-Sponsored by GQI)
Room: Kern Building 112 Chair: Barry Sanders, University of Calgary

O3 Focus Session: Degenerate Gases in Reduced Dimension
Room: Keller Building 104 Chair: Brett Esry, Kansas State University

O4 Degenerate Fermi Gases
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom AB Chair: Brian DeMarco, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

O5 The Ultra Intense Laser Frontier (Strong Field, Intense Laser Processes)
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom I Chair: Chris H. Greene, University of Colorado

O6 Electron-Molecule Collisions
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom II Chair: William McCurdy, University of California, Davis

May 30 2008 11:00AM, Friday

P1 Neutral Atom Entanglement (Co-Sponsored by GQI)
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom CDE Chair: Rene Stock, University of Toronto

P2 Controlling Electron and Nuclear Spins
Room: Kern Building 112 Chair: Lilian Childress, Bates College

P3 Focus Session: Atomic Polarization and Dispersion
Room: Keller Building 104 Chair: Hossein Sadeghpour, ITAMP, Harvard University

P4 Bose-Einstein Condensates
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom AB Chair: Joseph Thywissen, University of Toronto

P5 Coherent Control/Slow and Stopped Light
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom I Chair: Marin Pichler, Goucher College

P6 Ultracold Rydberg Atoms and Plasmas
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom II Chair: Peter Schmelcher, University of Heidelberg

May 30 2008 2:00PM, Friday

Q1 High Field, Short Pulse Physics
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom CDE Chair: Lew Cocke, Kansas State University

Q2 Molecular Basis of Astrobiology
Room: Kern Building 112 Chair: Daniel Savin, Columbia University

Q3 Focus Session: Quantum Control in AMO
Room: Keller Building 104 Chair: Aephraim Steinberg, University of Toronto

Q4 Atoms in Optical Lattices
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom AB Chair: Markus Greiner, Harvard University

Q5 Clocks, Precision Measurements, and Atomic/Molecular Structure
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom I Chair: Kurt Gibble, Penn State University

Q6 Quantum Applications and Enabling Technology
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom II Chair: Malcolm Boshier, Los Alamos National Laboratory

May 30 2008 4:00PM, Friday

R1 Poster Session III: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Room: HUB-Robeson Center Alumni Hall

May 30 2008 5:30PM, Friday

S1 Town Hall Meeting on DAMOP Meeting Format and Organization
Room: HUB-Robeson Center Auditorium

May 30 2008 6:30PM, Friday

T1 DAMOP Business Meeting
Room: HUB-Robeson Center Auditorium

May 31 2008 8:00AM, Saturday

U1 Creating and Manipulating Ultracold Heteronuclear Molecules
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom CDE Chair: Laurence Pruvost, Lab Aime Cotton

U2 Focus Session: Strongly Correlated Photons
Room: Kern Building 112 Chair: Matt Mackie, Temple University

U3 Focus Session: Ultrafast Ionization
Room: Keller Building 104 Chair: Thomas Rescigno, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

U4 Cooling and Trapping
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom AB Chair: Wonho Jhe, Seoul National University

U5 New Experimental Techniques
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom I Chair: Marty Ligare, Bucknell University

U6 Electron-Atom and Positron-Atom Collisions
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom II Chair: Klaus Bartschat, Drake University

May 31 2008 10:30AM, Saturday

V1 Hot Topics
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom CDE Chair: Pierre Meystre, University of Arizona

May 28 2008 8:00AM, Wednesday

A1 DAMOP Prize Session
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom A-E Chair: William Stwalley, University of Connecticut

May 28 2008 11:00AM, Wednesday

B1 Recent Developments in Optical Lattice Physics
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom CDE Chair: Randy Hulet, Rice University

B2 Graduate Student Thesis Session
Room: Kern Building 112 Chair: Robin Cote, University of Connecticut

B3 Current Topics in Gaseous Electronics (Co-Sponsored by GEC)
Room: Keller Building 104 Chair: Rainer Johnson, University of Pittsburgh

B4 Photoassociation and Cold Collisions
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom AB Chair: Paul Julienne, National Institute of Standards and Technology

B5 Quantum and Nonlinear Optics
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom I Chair: Susanne Yelin, University of Connecticut

B6 Photon Interactions with Atoms, Ions, and Molecules
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom II Chair: Tom Killian, Rice University

May 28 2008 2:00PM, Wednesday

C1 50th Anniversary of Physical Review Letters
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom CDE Chair: George Basbas, American Physical Society

C2 Focus Session: Vortices and Solitons
Room: Kern Building 112 Chair: Zachary Dutton, BBN Technologies

C3 Ion and Electron Collisions
Room: Keller Building 104 Chair: Horst Schmidt-Boecking, University of Frankfurt

C4 Ultracold Molecules
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom AB Chair: Phil Gould, University of Connecticut

C5 Fundamental Symmetries (Co-Sponsored by GPMFC)
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom I Chair: Protik Majumder, Williams College

C6 Quantum Computation
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom II Chair: Junsang Kim, Duke University

May 28 2008 3:20PM, Wednesday

D1 Meet the APS Journal Editors and Celebrate 50 Years of PRL
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Outside Ballroom CDE

May 28 2008 4:00PM, Wednesday

E1 Poster Session I: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Room: HUB-Robeson Center Alumni Hall

May 28 2008 4:30PM, Wednesday

F1 Women Scientists in DAMOP Reception
Room: HUB-Robeson Center Room 129A

May 28 2008 6:00PM, Wednesday

G1 Topical Group on Precision Measurements and Fundamental Constants Business Meeting
Room: Osmond Laboratory Room 103

May 28 2008 8:00PM, Wednesday

H1 Public Lecture: The World's Energy Problem and What We Can Do About It
Room: Eisenhower Auditorium Chair: David Weiss, Penn State University

May 29 2008 8:00AM, Thursday

I1 New Physics with Ultracold Atoms
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom CDE Chair: Charles Clark, National Institute of Standards and Technology

I2 Physics with Low-Energy Antimatter
Room: Kern Building 112 Chair: Clifford Surko, University of California, San Diego

I3 Focus Session: Searches for Relativity Violations (Co-Sponsored by GPMFC)
Room: Keller Building 104 Chair: Neil Russell, Northern Michigan University

I4 Ultracold Scattering and Interactions
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom AB Chair: Marjatta Lyyra, Temple University

I5 Collisions Involving Atoms, Molecules, or Ions
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom I Chair: Edward Gerjuoy, University of Pittsburgh

I6 Photoionization and Photodetachment Processes
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom II Chair: Nora Berrah, Western Michigan University

May 29 2008 11:00AM, Thursday

J1 New Physics with Strongly Interacting Fermions
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom CDE Chair: Ana Maria Rey, ITAMP, Harvard University

J2 Atomic Clocks and Searches for Variations in Fundamental Constants (Co-Sponsored by GPMFC)
Room: Kern Building 112 Chair: Eric Burt, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

J3 Focus Session: Rydberg Atoms and Molecules
Room: Keller Building 104 Chair: Robert Jones, University of Virginia

J4 Dynamic and Out-of-Equilibrium Phenomena in Cold Atoms
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom AB Chair: Dan Gauthier, Duke University

J5 Matter Wave Interferometry
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom I Chair: Alex Cronin, University of Arizona

J6 Short Pulse (e.g., Attosecond, Femtosecond Processes) I
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom II Chair: Itzik Ben-Itzhak, Kansas State University

May 29 2008 2:00PM, Thursday

K1 Recent Developments in Ultracold Spinor Systems
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom CDE Chair: Cheng Chin, University of Chicago

K2 Focus Session: Ultracold Dipolar Gases
Room: Kern Building 112 Chair: Ed Eyler, University of Connecticut

K3 Undergraduate Research Session
Room: Keller Building 104 Chair: Eric Wells, Augustana College, Sioux Falls

K4 Experiments with Cold and Ultracold Atoms
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom AB Chair: Doerte Blume, Washington State University

K5 Entanglement and Decoherence
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom I Chair: Chris Monroe, University of Maryland

K6 Short Pulse (e.g., Attosecond, Femtosecond Processes) II
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom II Chair: Ian Walmsley, University of Oxford

May 29 2008 4:00PM, Thursday

L1 PRA/PRL Tutorial Session for Authors and Referees
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom I

L2 Poster Session II: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Room: HUB-Robeson Center Alumni Hall

May 29 2008 5:00PM, Thursday

M1 TAMOC Business Meeting
Room: Osmond Laboratory Room 101

May 29 2008 6:30PM, Thursday

N1 Reception and Banquet
Room: Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center President's Hall

May 30 2008 8:00AM, Friday

O1 Quantum Control of Polar Molecules
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom CDE Chair: Paul Lett, National Institute of Standards and Technology

O2 Optical Quantum Memory (Co-Sponsored by GQI)
Room: Kern Building 112 Chair: Barry Sanders, University of Calgary

O3 Focus Session: Degenerate Gases in Reduced Dimension
Room: Keller Building 104 Chair: Brett Esry, Kansas State University

O4 Degenerate Fermi Gases
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom AB Chair: Brian DeMarco, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

O5 The Ultra Intense Laser Frontier (Strong Field, Intense Laser Processes)
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom I Chair: Chris H. Greene, University of Colorado

O6 Electron-Molecule Collisions
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom II Chair: William McCurdy, University of California, Davis

May 30 2008 11:00AM, Friday

P1 Neutral Atom Entanglement (Co-Sponsored by GQI)
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom CDE Chair: Rene Stock, University of Toronto

P2 Controlling Electron and Nuclear Spins
Room: Kern Building 112 Chair: Lilian Childress, Bates College

P3 Focus Session: Atomic Polarization and Dispersion
Room: Keller Building 104 Chair: Hossein Sadeghpour, ITAMP, Harvard University

P4 Bose-Einstein Condensates
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom AB Chair: Joseph Thywissen, University of Toronto

P5 Coherent Control/Slow and Stopped Light
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom I Chair: Marin Pichler, Goucher College

P6 Ultracold Rydberg Atoms and Plasmas
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom II Chair: Peter Schmelcher, University of Heidelberg

May 30 2008 2:00PM, Friday

Q1 High Field, Short Pulse Physics
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom CDE Chair: Lew Cocke, Kansas State University

Q2 Molecular Basis of Astrobiology
Room: Kern Building 112 Chair: Daniel Savin, Columbia University

Q3 Focus Session: Quantum Control in AMO
Room: Keller Building 104 Chair: Aephraim Steinberg, University of Toronto

Q4 Atoms in Optical Lattices
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom AB Chair: Markus Greiner, Harvard University

Q5 Clocks, Precision Measurements, and Atomic/Molecular Structure
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom I Chair: Kurt Gibble, Penn State University

Q6 Quantum Applications and Enabling Technology
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom II Chair: Malcolm Boshier, Los Alamos National Laboratory

May 30 2008 4:00PM, Friday

R1 Poster Session III: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Room: HUB-Robeson Center Alumni Hall

May 30 2008 5:30PM, Friday

S1 Town Hall Meeting on DAMOP Meeting Format and Organization
Room: HUB-Robeson Center Auditorium

May 30 2008 6:30PM, Friday

T1 DAMOP Business Meeting
Room: HUB-Robeson Center Auditorium

May 31 2008 8:00AM, Saturday

U1 Creating and Manipulating Ultracold Heteronuclear Molecules
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom CDE Chair: Laurence Pruvost, Lab Aime Cotton

U2 Focus Session: Strongly Correlated Photons
Room: Kern Building 112 Chair: Matt Mackie, Temple University

U3 Focus Session: Ultrafast Ionization
Room: Keller Building 104 Chair: Thomas Rescigno, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

U4 Cooling and Trapping
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom AB Chair: Wonho Jhe, Seoul National University

U5 New Experimental Techniques
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom I Chair: Marty Ligare, Bucknell University

U6 Electron-Atom and Positron-Atom Collisions
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom II Chair: Klaus Bartschat, Drake University

May 31 2008 10:30AM, Saturday

V1 Hot Topics
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom CDE Chair: Pierre Meystre, University of Arizona