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Session B1: Recent Developments in Optical Lattice Physics

Chair: Randy Hulet, Rice University
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom CDE

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:00AM - 11:36AM		B1.00001: Spinning Atoms with the Orbital Angular Momentum of Light Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:36AM - 12:12PM		B1.00002: Towards Quantum Magnetism with Ultracold Quantum Gases in Optical Lattices Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 12:12PM - 12:48PM		B1.00003: Fermions and bosons in optical lattices Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 12:48PM - 1:24PM		B1.00004: Probing and controlling quantum magnetism with ultra-cold atoms Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session B2: Graduate Student Thesis Session

Chair: Robin Cote, University of Connecticut
Room: Kern Building 112

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:00AM - 11:36AM		B2.00001: Coherent manipulation of single electronic and nuclear spins in diamond Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:36AM - 12:12PM		B2.00002: Towards Hybrid Quantum Information Processing with Polar Molecules Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 12:12PM - 12:48PM		B2.00003: Solid State Analogs in Bose-Condensed Gases Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 12:48PM - 1:24PM		B2.00004: Remote Entanglement and Quantum Networks with Trapped Atomic Ions Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session B3: Current Topics in Gaseous Electronics (Co-Sponsored by GEC)

Chair: Rainer Johnson, University of Pittsburgh
Room: Keller Building 104

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:00AM - 11:36AM		B3.00001: Stark Spectroscopy: Measuring Electric Fields in Plasmas Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:36AM - 12:12PM		B3.00002: Electron-Impact Excitation of Complex Atoms: Impact on Gaseous Electronics Applications Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 12:12PM - 12:48PM		B3.00003: A Puzzle in the Earth's Mesosphere: Runaway Electrons Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 12:48PM - 1:24PM		B3.00004: Bound States and Feshbach Resonances in Positron-Molecule Annihilation Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session B4: Photoassociation and Cold Collisions

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

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:00AM - 11:12AM		B4.00001: Rate Saturation of Photoassociation in a Bose-Einstein Condensate J. Hitchcock, M. Junker, D. Dries, C. Welford, Y.P. Chen, T.A. Corcovilos, R.G. Hulet Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:12AM - 11:24AM		B4.00002: Giant formation rates of ultracold molecules via Feshbach optimized photoassociation Philippe Pellegrini, Mark Gacesa, Robin C\^ot\'e Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:24AM - 11:36AM		B4.00003: Feshbach-optimized photoassociation in LiRb Marko Gacesa, Philippe Pellegrini, Robin C\^ot\'e Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:36AM - 11:48AM		B4.00004: Light Assisted Collisional Losses in a $^{85/87}$Rb Optical Trap Anthony Gorges, Michael DeAngelo, Nicholas Bingham, Mathew Hamilton, Jacob Roberts Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:48AM - 12:00PM		B4.00005: Control of Ultracold Collisions with Nonlinear Frequency Chirps J.A. Pechkis, J.L. Carini, C.E. Rogers III, P.L. Gould Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 12:00PM - 12:12PM		B4.00006: Spectral Phase Effects on Ultrafast Coherent Control H.U. Jang, M.L. Trachy, G. Veshapidze, C.W. Fehrenbach, B.D. DePaola Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 12:12PM - 12:24PM		B4.00007: Ultracold collisions between Rb and excited NH Steven Wrathmall, Edmund Meyer, Daniel Haxton, Heather Lewandowski, Chris Greene Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 12:24PM - 12:36PM		B4.00008: Photoassociation of $^{171}$Yb atoms Iris Reichenbach, Ivan Deutsch Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 12:36PM - 12:48PM		B4.00009: Spectroscopy of $^{1}$S$_{0 }$-- $^{3}$P$_{1} \quad ^{88}$Sr Atomic Transition in a 1.06 $\mu $m Optical Dipole Trap Y.N. Martinez de Escobar, P.G. Mickelson, A.J. Traverso, T.C. Killian Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 12:48PM - 1:00PM		B4.00010: Repumping of ultracold strontium atoms using the $^3$P$_2$ - $^3$D$_2$ transition P.G. Mickelson, Y.N. Martinez de Escobar, A.J. Traverso, T.C. Killian Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 1:00PM - 1:12PM		B4.00011: Fine-structure changing collisions in atomic titanium Mei-Ju Lu, Kyle Hardman, Jonathan Weinstein Preview Abstract

Session B5: Quantum and Nonlinear Optics

Chair: Susanne Yelin, University of Connecticut
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom I

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:00AM - 11:12AM		B5.00001: Strong Interaction Between Light and a Single Trapped Atom Without a Cavity Meng Khoon Tey, Zilong Chen, Syed Aljunid, Brenda Chng, Gleb Maslennikov, Christian Kurtsiefer Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:12AM - 11:24AM		B5.00002: Optical switching via recoil-induced resonances Joel Greenberg, Marcos Oria, Daniel Gauthier Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:24AM - 11:36AM		B5.00003: Low-frequency vacuum squeezing in Rb vapor Eugeniy Mikhailov, Irina Novikova Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:36AM - 11:48AM		B5.00004: EIT with noisy laser fields Yanhong Xiao, Tun Wang, Susanne F. Yelin, Maria Baryakhtar, David F. Phillips, Ronald L. Walsworth Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:48AM - 12:00PM		B5.00005: Non-linear Optics with Cold Atoms inside a Hollow Core Photonic Crystal Fiber Michal Bajcsy, Sebastian Hofferberth, Vlatko Balic, Thibault Peyronel, Alexander Zibrov, Vladan Vuletic, Mikhail Lukin Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 12:00PM - 12:12PM		B5.00006: Controlled generation of Rb-vapor in hollow-core photonic bandgap fibers Amar Bhagwat, Aaron Slepkov, Vivek Venkataraman, Pablo Londero, Alexander Gaeta Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 12:12PM - 12:24PM		B5.00007: Observation of Optical Precursors at the Biphoton Level Shengwang Du, Chinmay Belthangady, Pavel Kolchin, G.Y. Yin, S.E. Harris Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 12:24PM - 12:36PM		B5.00008: STIRAP in a sodium gas using picosecond lasers Kevin Lyon, Susan D. Allen, Michael J. Johnson, William D. Murry, Daniel R. Britton, Tomasz Kutner, J. Bruce Johnson Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 12:36PM - 12:48PM		B5.00009: Simultaneously spectral phase and amplitude characterization of coherent molecular vibrations and its application in Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy Xiaoji Xu, Stanislav Konorov, John Hepburn, Valery Milner Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 12:48PM - 1:00PM		B5.00010: Classification of Four Three-Level Atomic Systems into Two Categories in Light of the Study of Their Resonances Tony Abi-Salloum Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 1:00PM - 1:12PM		B5.00011: Four-wave mixing in a birefringent semiconductor waveguide for correlated photon generation Daniel Rogers, Julius Goldhar, Christopher Richardson, Alessandro Restelli, Joshua Bienfang, Charles Clark Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 1:12PM - 1:24PM		B5.00012: Electromagnetic radiation by gravitating bodies Iwo Bialynicki-Birula, Zofia Bialynicka-Birula Preview Abstract

Session B6: Photon Interactions with Atoms, Ions, and Molecules

Chair: Tom Killian, Rice University
Room: Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom II

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:00AM - 11:12AM		B6.00001: Resonant X-Ray Attenuation by Highly Ionized Ions of High-Z Elements Anil Pradhan, Sultana Nahar, Yan Yu, C. Sur, M. Montenegro, M. Mrozik, R. Pitzer Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:12AM - 11:24AM		B6.00002: Characterization of the relativistic contributions to Compton doubly differential cross sections L.A. LaJohn, R.H. Pratt Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:24AM - 11:36AM		B6.00003: Characterization of laser-induced recolliding wave packet. Application to non-sequential double ionization. Samuel Micheau, Zhangjin Chen, Anh-Thu Le, Chii-Dong Lin Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:36AM - 11:48AM		B6.00004: Strong-Field Control of Laser Filamentation Mechanisms Robert Levis, Dmitri Romanov, Aleskey Filin, Ryan Compton Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:48AM - 12:00PM		B6.00005: Structure of the Xe 6s and 6s' Rydberg states in supercritical Ar Luxi Li, Xianbo Shi, C.M. Evans, G.L. Findley Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 12:00PM - 12:12PM		B6.00006: Double-resonance spectroscopy of interacting Rydberg-atom systems Aaron Reinhard, Kelly Younge, Tara Cubel-Liebisch, Brenton Knuffman, Paul Berman, Georg Raithel Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 12:12PM - 12:24PM		B6.00007: Velocity-Changing Collisions in Ultracold Neutral Plasma. Hong Gao, Jose Castro, Clayton Simien, Tom Killian Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 12:24PM - 12:36PM		B6.00008: \textit{In situ} measurements of three-dimensional ion densities in focused femtosecond radiation. James Strohaber, Cornelis Uiterwaal Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 12:36PM - 12:48PM		B6.00009: Photoelectric Effect Formula Must Include Rotational and Vibrational as well as Linear Kinetic Energies Stewart Brekke Preview Abstract
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 12:48PM - 1:00PM		B6.00010: Direct measurement of core-level relaxation dynamics on a surface- adsorbate system Jing Yin, Luis Miaja-Avila, Guido Saathoff, Chan La-o-Vorakiat, Margaret Murnane, Henry Kapteyn, Stefan Mathias, Martin Aeschlimann, Michael Bauer Preview Abstract