Bulletin of the American Physical Society

39th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volume 53, Number 7

Tuesday–Saturday, May 27–31, 2008; State College, Pennsylvania

Chair Index

A1 DAMOP Prize Session May 28 2008 8:00AM Ballroom A-E Nittany Lion Inn	William Stwalley, University of Connecticut
B1 Recent Developments in Optical Lattice Physics May 28 2008 11:00AM Ballroom CDE Nittany Lion Inn	Randy Hulet, Rice University
B2 Graduate Student Thesis Session May 28 2008 11:00AM 112 Kern Building	Robin Cote, University of Connecticut
B3 Current Topics in Gaseous Electronics (Co-Sponsored by GEC) May 28 2008 11:00AM 104 Keller Building	Rainer Johnson, University of Pittsburgh
B4 Photoassociation and Cold Collisions May 28 2008 11:00AM Ballroom AB Nittany Lion Inn	Paul Julienne, National Institute of Standards and Technology
B5 Quantum and Nonlinear Optics May 28 2008 11:00AM Boardroom I Nittany Lion Inn	Susanne Yelin, University of Connecticut
B6 Photon Interactions with Atoms, Ions, and Molecules May 28 2008 11:00AM Boardroom II Nittany Lion Inn	Tom Killian, Rice University
C1 50th Anniversary of Physical Review Letters May 28 2008 2:00PM Ballroom CDE Nittany Lion Inn	George Basbas, American Physical Society
C2 Focus Session: Vortices and Solitons May 28 2008 2:00PM 112 Kern Building	Zachary Dutton, BBN Technologies
C3 Ion and Electron Collisions May 28 2008 2:00PM 104 Keller Building	Horst Schmidt-Boecking, University of Frankfurt
C4 Ultracold Molecules May 28 2008 2:00PM Ballroom AB Nittany Lion Inn	Phil Gould, University of Connecticut
C5 Fundamental Symmetries (Co-Sponsored by GPMFC) May 28 2008 2:00PM Boardroom I Nittany Lion Inn	Protik Majumder, Williams College
C6 Quantum Computation May 28 2008 2:00PM Boardroom II Nittany Lion Inn	Junsang Kim, Duke University
H1 Public Lecture: The World's Energy Problem and What We Can Do About It May 28 2008 8:00PM Eisenhower Auditorium	David Weiss, Penn State University
I1 New Physics with Ultracold Atoms May 29 2008 8:00AM Ballroom CDE Nittany Lion Inn	Charles Clark, National Institute of Standards and Technology
I2 Physics with Low-Energy Antimatter May 29 2008 8:00AM 112 Kern Building	Clifford Surko, University of California, San Diego
I3 Focus Session: Searches for Relativity Violations (Co-Sponsored by GPMFC) May 29 2008 8:00AM 104 Keller Building	Neil Russell, Northern Michigan University
I4 Ultracold Scattering and Interactions May 29 2008 8:00AM Ballroom AB Nittany Lion Inn	Marjatta Lyyra, Temple University
I5 Collisions Involving Atoms, Molecules, or Ions May 29 2008 8:00AM Boardroom I Nittany Lion Inn	Edward Gerjuoy, University of Pittsburgh
I6 Photoionization and Photodetachment Processes May 29 2008 8:00AM Boardroom II Nittany Lion Inn	Nora Berrah, Western Michigan University
J1 New Physics with Strongly Interacting Fermions May 29 2008 11:00AM Ballroom CDE Nittany Lion Inn	Ana Maria Rey, ITAMP, Harvard University
J2 Atomic Clocks and Searches for Variations in Fundamental Constants (Co-Sponsored by GPMFC) May 29 2008 11:00AM 112 Kern Building	Eric Burt, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
J3 Focus Session: Rydberg Atoms and Molecules May 29 2008 11:00AM 104 Keller Building	Robert Jones, University of Virginia
J4 Dynamic and Out-of-Equilibrium Phenomena in Cold Atoms May 29 2008 11:00AM Ballroom AB Nittany Lion Inn	Dan Gauthier, Duke University
J5 Matter Wave Interferometry May 29 2008 11:00AM Boardroom I Nittany Lion Inn	Alex Cronin, University of Arizona
J6 Short Pulse (e.g., Attosecond, Femtosecond Processes) I May 29 2008 11:00AM Boardroom II Nittany Lion Inn	Itzik Ben-Itzhak, Kansas State University
K1 Recent Developments in Ultracold Spinor Systems May 29 2008 2:00PM Ballroom CDE Nittany Lion Inn	Cheng Chin, University of Chicago
K2 Focus Session: Ultracold Dipolar Gases May 29 2008 2:00PM 112 Kern Building	Ed Eyler, University of Connecticut
K3 Undergraduate Research Session May 29 2008 2:00PM 104 Keller Building	Eric Wells, Augustana College, Sioux Falls
K4 Experiments with Cold and Ultracold Atoms May 29 2008 2:00PM Ballroom AB Nittany Lion Inn	Doerte Blume, Washington State University
K5 Entanglement and Decoherence May 29 2008 2:00PM Boardroom I Nittany Lion Inn	Chris Monroe, University of Maryland
K6 Short Pulse (e.g., Attosecond, Femtosecond Processes) II May 29 2008 2:00PM Boardroom II Nittany Lion Inn	Ian Walmsley, University of Oxford
O1 Quantum Control of Polar Molecules May 30 2008 8:00AM Ballroom CDE Nittany Lion Inn	Paul Lett, National Institute of Standards and Technology
O2 Optical Quantum Memory (Co-Sponsored by GQI) May 30 2008 8:00AM 112 Kern Building	Barry Sanders, University of Calgary
O3 Focus Session: Degenerate Gases in Reduced Dimension May 30 2008 8:00AM 104 Keller Building	Brett Esry, Kansas State University
O4 Degenerate Fermi Gases May 30 2008 8:00AM Ballroom AB Nittany Lion Inn	Brian DeMarco, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
O5 The Ultra Intense Laser Frontier (Strong Field, Intense Laser Processes) May 30 2008 8:00AM Boardroom I Nittany Lion Inn	Chris H. Greene, University of Colorado
O6 Electron-Molecule Collisions May 30 2008 8:00AM Boardroom II Nittany Lion Inn	William McCurdy, University of California, Davis
P1 Neutral Atom Entanglement (Co-Sponsored by GQI) May 30 2008 11:00AM Ballroom CDE Nittany Lion Inn	Rene Stock, University of Toronto
P2 Controlling Electron and Nuclear Spins May 30 2008 11:00AM 112 Kern Building	Lilian Childress, Bates College
P3 Focus Session: Atomic Polarization and Dispersion May 30 2008 11:00AM 104 Keller Building	Hossein Sadeghpour, ITAMP, Harvard University
P4 Bose-Einstein Condensates May 30 2008 11:00AM Ballroom AB Nittany Lion Inn	Joseph Thywissen, University of Toronto
P5 Coherent Control/Slow and Stopped Light May 30 2008 11:00AM Boardroom I Nittany Lion Inn	Marin Pichler, Goucher College
P6 Ultracold Rydberg Atoms and Plasmas May 30 2008 11:00AM Boardroom II Nittany Lion Inn	Peter Schmelcher, University of Heidelberg
Q1 High Field, Short Pulse Physics May 30 2008 2:00PM Ballroom CDE Nittany Lion Inn	Lew Cocke, Kansas State University
Q2 Molecular Basis of Astrobiology May 30 2008 2:00PM 112 Kern Building	Daniel Savin, Columbia University
Q3 Focus Session: Quantum Control in AMO May 30 2008 2:00PM 104 Keller Building	Aephraim Steinberg, University of Toronto
Q4 Atoms in Optical Lattices May 30 2008 2:00PM Ballroom AB Nittany Lion Inn	Markus Greiner, Harvard University
Q5 Clocks, Precision Measurements, and Atomic/Molecular Structure May 30 2008 2:00PM Boardroom I Nittany Lion Inn	Kurt Gibble, Penn State University
Q6 Quantum Applications and Enabling Technology May 30 2008 2:00PM Boardroom II Nittany Lion Inn	Malcolm Boshier, Los Alamos National Laboratory
U1 Creating and Manipulating Ultracold Heteronuclear Molecules May 31 2008 8:00AM Ballroom CDE Nittany Lion Inn	Laurence Pruvost, Lab Aime Cotton
U2 Focus Session: Strongly Correlated Photons May 31 2008 8:00AM 112 Kern Building	Matt Mackie, Temple University
U3 Focus Session: Ultrafast Ionization May 31 2008 8:00AM 104 Keller Building	Thomas Rescigno, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
U4 Cooling and Trapping May 31 2008 8:00AM Ballroom AB Nittany Lion Inn	Wonho Jhe, Seoul National University
U5 New Experimental Techniques May 31 2008 8:00AM Boardroom I Nittany Lion Inn	Marty Ligare, Bucknell University
U6 Electron-Atom and Positron-Atom Collisions May 31 2008 8:00AM Boardroom II Nittany Lion Inn	Klaus Bartschat, Drake University
V1 Hot Topics May 31 2008 10:30AM Ballroom CDE Nittany Lion Inn	Pierre Meystre, University of Arizona

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39th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volume 53, Number 7

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