Bulletin of the American Physical Society
41st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Volume 55, Number 5
Tuesday–Saturday, May 25–29, 2010; Houston, Texas
Epitome
May 25 2010 6:00PM, Tuesday
1A
Welcome Reception
Room: Imperial East and Center
May 25 2010 8:00PM, Tuesday
2A
TAMOC Business Meeting
Room: Arboretum IV-V
May 26 2010 8:00AM, Wednesday
A1
Prize Session
Room: Imperial Ballroom
Chair: Louis DiMauro, The Ohio State University
May 26 2010 10:30AM, Wednesday
B1
Atomic and Molecular Physics in Early Universe
Room: Imperial East
Chair: Daniel Savin, Columbia University
B2
Ultracold Molecules
Room: Imperial Center
Chair: Phil Gould, University of Connecticut
B3
Alkaline-Earth Quantum Fluids and Quantum Computing
Room: Imperial West
Chair: Charles Clark, National Institute of Standards and Technology
B4
Focus Session: Strong Field Alignment and Orientation
Room: Regency Ballroom
Chair: Oliver Gessner, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
B5
Photoionization
Room: Arboretum I-III
Chair: William McCurdy, University of California, Davis
B6
Quantum Information and Quantum Computing
Room: Arboretum IV-V
Chair: Dietrich Leibfried, National Institute of Standards and Technology
May 26 2010 2:00PM, Wednesday
C1
DAMOP Thesis Prize Session
Room: Imperial East
Chair: Elizabeth McCormack, Bryn Mawr College
C2
Focus Session: Molecular Spectroscopy
Room: Imperial Center
Chair: Ben McCall, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
C3
Focus Session: Strong Field Coherent Control
Room: Imperial West
Chair: George Gibson, University of Connecticut
C4
Disorder and Optical Lattices
Room: Regency Ballroom
Chair: Jason Ho, The Ohio State University
C5
Rydberg Atoms and Cold Plasmas
Room: Arboretum I-III
Chair: Thomas Gallagher, University of Virginia
C6
Methods of Ultracold Atoms
Room: Arboretum IV-V
Chair: David Hall, Amherst College
May 26 2010 3:30PM, Wednesday
D1
Meet the APS Journal Editors Reception
Room: Window Box
May 26 2010 4:00PM, Wednesday
E1
Poster Session I (4:00 pm - 6:00 pm)
Room: Exhibit Hall
May 26 2010 5:00PM, Wednesday
F1
GPMFC Business Meeting
Room: Arboretum V
May 26 2010 5:30PM, Wednesday
G1
DAMOP Women Scientists Reception
Room: Arboretum I-II
May 26 2010 8:00PM, Wednesday
H1
Public Lecture: 50 Years of the Laser
Room: Imperial Ballroom
May 27 2010 8:00AM, Thursday
J1
Novel Probes of Ultracold Atom Gases
Room: Imperial East
Chair: David Weiss, Pennsylvania State University
J2
Coherent Control with Optical Frequency Combs
Room: Imperial Center
Chair: Linda Young, Argonne National Laboratory
J3
Ultracold Chemistry
Room: Imperial West
Chair: Marjatta Lyyra, Temple University
J4
Atomic and Molecular Collisions Related to Astrophysical Applications
Room: Regency Ballroom
Co-Sponsor:
GEC
Chair: Murtadha Khakoo, California State University, Fullerton
J5
Strong Field Dissociative Ionization: Wave Packets in Molecular Ions
Room: Arboretum I-III
Chair: Carlos Trallero, National Research Council Canada
J6
Bose-Einstein Condensation
Room: Arboretum IV-V
Chair: Hal Metcalf, Stony Brook University
May 27 2010 10:30AM, Thursday
K1
Focus Session: Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases I
Room: Imperial East
Chair: Sophie Rittner, Rice University
K2
Attosecond Electron Physics
Room: Imperial Center
Chair: Markus Guehr, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
K3
Focus Session: Tests of Lorentz Invariance
Room: Imperial West
Co-Sponsor:
GPMFC
Chair: Zheng-Tian Lu, Argonne National Laboratory
K4
Trapped Ion Quantum Information
Room: Regency Ballroom
Co-Sponsor:
GQI
Chair: Wes Campbell, University of Maryland
K5
Undergraduate Session
Room: Arboretum I-III
Chair: Jan Chaloupka, University of Northern Colorado
K6
Atom-Atom Collisions
Room: Arboretum IV-V
Chair: Brett Esry, Kansas State University
May 27 2010 2:00PM, Thursday
L1
Focus Session: Many-Body Physics with Ultracold Atoms
Room: Imperial East
Chair: Brian DeMarco, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
L2
Focus Session: Symmetry Breaking & Dissociation in Small Molecules
Room: Imperial Center
Chair: David Schultz, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
L3
Quantum Entanglement of Simple Systems
Room: Imperial West
Chair: Boris Blinov, University of Washington
L4
Precision Measurements: EDMs and Other
Room: Regency Ballroom
Co-Sponsor:
GPMFC
Chair: Carol Tanner, University of Notre Dame
L5
Collisions Involving Charged Particles
Room: Arboretum I-III
Chair: Gregory Childers, California State University, Fullerton
L6
Attosecond Pulses: Generation, Characterization and Utilization
Room: Arboretum IV-V
Chair: Gilles Doumy, The Ohio State University
May 27 2010 4:00PM, Thursday
M1
Poster Session II (4:00 pm - 6:00 pm)
Room: Exhibit Hall
M2
PRA-PRL Tutorial for Authors and Referees
Room: Dogwood
May 27 2010 6:30PM, Thursday
P1
Reception and Banquet
Room: Imperial Ballroom
May 28 2010 8:00AM, Friday
Q1
Focus Session: Rydberg Atoms and Molecules
Room: Imperial East
Chair: James Shaffer, University of Oklahoma
Q2
Experiments with the World's First X-ray Free Electron Laser
Room: Imperial Center
Chair: Lew Cocke, Kansas State University
Q3
Quantum Gauge Theories and Ultra-cold Atoms
Room: Imperial West
Chair: Erich Mueller, Cornell University
Q4
Atom Optics
Room: Regency Ballroom
Chair: Han Pu, Rice University
Q5
Quantum Measurement and Entanglement
Room: Arboretum I-III
Chair: Emily Edwards, University of Maryland
Q6
EIT and Coherence Effects
Room: Arboretum IV-V
Chair: George Welch, Texas A&M University
May 28 2010 10:30AM, Friday
R1
AMO Physics for Understanding Matter under Extreme Conditions
Room: Imperial East
Chair: Arati Dasgupta, Naval Research Laboratory
R2
Efimov Physics with Ultra-cold Atoms
Room: Imperial Center
Chair: Cheng Chin, University of Chicago
R3
Focus Session: Hybrid and Condensed Matter Quantum Systems
Room: Imperial West
Chair: Luis Orozco, University of Maryland
R4
Matter Wave Guides and Interferometry
Room: Regencey Ballroom
Chair: Aaron Leanhardt, University of Michigan
R5
Ultrafast Atomic and Molecular Dynamics
Room: Arboretum I-III
Chair: Thomas Weinacht, Stony Brook University
R6
Dynamics with Ultracold Atomic Gases I
Room: Arboretum IV-V
Chair: Leslie Baksmaty, Rice University
May 28 2010 2:00PM, Friday
S1
Controlling Dissipation in Quantum Systems
Room: Imperial East
Chair: Jake Taylor, National Institute of Standards and Technology
S2
Nanoplasmas and Ponderomotive Potentials
Room: Imperial Center
Chair: Robert Jones, University of Virginia
S3
Focus Session: Opto-Mechanical Systems
Room: Imperial West
Chair: Lincoln Carr, Colorado School of Mines
S4
Precision Measurements and Clocks
Room: Regency Ballroom
Co-Sponsor:
GPMFC
Chair: Kristan Corwin, Kansas State University
S5
Ultracold Mixtures / Lattices
Room: Arboretum I-III
Chair: Kirk Madison, University of British Columbia
S6
Ultracold Dipoles
Room: Arboretum IV-V
Chair: Robert Forrey, Pennsylvania State University
May 28 2010 4:00PM, Friday
T1
Poster Session III (4:00 pm - 6:00 pm)
Room: Exhibit Hall
May 28 2010 4:30PM, Friday
U1
DAMOP Business Meeting
Room: Regency
May 29 2010 8:00AM, Saturday
W1
Advances in Applications of Optically-Pumped Alkalis
Room: Imperial East
Chair: Tim Gay, University of Nebraska
W2
Focus Session: Quantum Simulation and Complexity
Room: Imperial Center
Chair: Carl Williams, National Institute of Standards and Technology
W3
Focus Session: Molecular Photoionization and High Harmonic Generation
Room: Imperial West
Chair: Chii-Dong Lin, Kansas State University
W4
Dynamics with Ultracold Atomic Gases II
Room: Regency Ballroom
Chair: Ian Spielman, National Institute of Standards and Technology
W5
Laser Cooling and Trapping
Room: Arboretum I-III
Chair: Dan Heinzen, University of Texas at Austin
W6
Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases II
Room: Arboretum IV-V
Chair: Thomas Killian, Rice University
May 29 2010 10:30AM, Saturday
X1
Hot Topics
Room: Imperial East
Chair: Chris Monroe, University of Maryland
X2
Focus Session: Cold and Ultracold Molecules
Room: Imperial Center
Chair: Susanne Yellin, University of Connecticut
X3
Strong Field Ionization
Room: Imperial West
Chair: Alexei Sokolov, Texas A&M University
X4
Precision Atomic Spectroscopy
Room: Regency Ballroom
Co-Sponsor:
GPMFC
Chair: Brett Depaola, Kansas State University
X5
Exotic Particle and Molecular Ion Collisions
Room: Arboretum I-III
Chair: Barry Dunning, Rice University
X6
Quantum and Nonlinear Optics
Room: Arboretum IV-V
Chair: Frank Narducci, Naval Air Systems Command
May 25 2010 6:00PM, Tuesday
1A
Welcome Reception
Room: Imperial East and Center
May 25 2010 8:00PM, Tuesday
2A
TAMOC Business Meeting
Room: Arboretum IV-V
May 26 2010 8:00AM, Wednesday
A1
Prize Session
Room: Imperial Ballroom
Chair: Louis DiMauro, The Ohio State University
May 26 2010 10:30AM, Wednesday
B1
Atomic and Molecular Physics in Early Universe
Room: Imperial East
Chair: Daniel Savin, Columbia University
B2
Ultracold Molecules
Room: Imperial Center
Chair: Phil Gould, University of Connecticut
B3
Alkaline-Earth Quantum Fluids and Quantum Computing
Room: Imperial West
Chair: Charles Clark, National Institute of Standards and Technology
B4
Focus Session: Strong Field Alignment and Orientation
Room: Regency Ballroom
Chair: Oliver Gessner, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
B5
Photoionization
Room: Arboretum I-III
Chair: William McCurdy, University of California, Davis
B6
Quantum Information and Quantum Computing
Room: Arboretum IV-V
Chair: Dietrich Leibfried, National Institute of Standards and Technology
May 26 2010 2:00PM, Wednesday
C1
DAMOP Thesis Prize Session
Room: Imperial East
Chair: Elizabeth McCormack, Bryn Mawr College
C2
Focus Session: Molecular Spectroscopy
Room: Imperial Center
Chair: Ben McCall, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
C3
Focus Session: Strong Field Coherent Control
Room: Imperial West
Chair: George Gibson, University of Connecticut
C4
Disorder and Optical Lattices
Room: Regency Ballroom
Chair: Jason Ho, The Ohio State University
C5
Rydberg Atoms and Cold Plasmas
Room: Arboretum I-III
Chair: Thomas Gallagher, University of Virginia
C6
Methods of Ultracold Atoms
Room: Arboretum IV-V
Chair: David Hall, Amherst College
May 26 2010 3:30PM, Wednesday
D1
Meet the APS Journal Editors Reception
Room: Window Box
May 26 2010 4:00PM, Wednesday
E1
Poster Session I (4:00 pm - 6:00 pm)
Room: Exhibit Hall
May 26 2010 5:00PM, Wednesday
F1
GPMFC Business Meeting
Room: Arboretum V
May 26 2010 5:30PM, Wednesday
G1
DAMOP Women Scientists Reception
Room: Arboretum I-II
May 26 2010 8:00PM, Wednesday
H1
Public Lecture: 50 Years of the Laser
Room: Imperial Ballroom
May 27 2010 8:00AM, Thursday
J1
Novel Probes of Ultracold Atom Gases
Room: Imperial East
Chair: David Weiss, Pennsylvania State University
J2
Coherent Control with Optical Frequency Combs
Room: Imperial Center
Chair: Linda Young, Argonne National Laboratory
J3
Ultracold Chemistry
Room: Imperial West
Chair: Marjatta Lyyra, Temple University
J4
Atomic and Molecular Collisions Related to Astrophysical Applications
Room: Regency Ballroom
Co-Sponsor:
GEC
Chair: Murtadha Khakoo, California State University, Fullerton
J5
Strong Field Dissociative Ionization: Wave Packets in Molecular Ions
Room: Arboretum I-III
Chair: Carlos Trallero, National Research Council Canada
J6
Bose-Einstein Condensation
Room: Arboretum IV-V
Chair: Hal Metcalf, Stony Brook University
May 27 2010 10:30AM, Thursday
K1
Focus Session: Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases I
Room: Imperial East
Chair: Sophie Rittner, Rice University
K2
Attosecond Electron Physics
Room: Imperial Center
Chair: Markus Guehr, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
K3
Focus Session: Tests of Lorentz Invariance
Room: Imperial West
Co-Sponsor:
GPMFC
Chair: Zheng-Tian Lu, Argonne National Laboratory
K4
Trapped Ion Quantum Information
Room: Regency Ballroom
Co-Sponsor:
GQI
Chair: Wes Campbell, University of Maryland
K5
Undergraduate Session
Room: Arboretum I-III
Chair: Jan Chaloupka, University of Northern Colorado
K6
Atom-Atom Collisions
Room: Arboretum IV-V
Chair: Brett Esry, Kansas State University
May 27 2010 2:00PM, Thursday
L1
Focus Session: Many-Body Physics with Ultracold Atoms
Room: Imperial East
Chair: Brian DeMarco, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
L2
Focus Session: Symmetry Breaking & Dissociation in Small Molecules
Room: Imperial Center
Chair: David Schultz, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
L3
Quantum Entanglement of Simple Systems
Room: Imperial West
Chair: Boris Blinov, University of Washington
L4
Precision Measurements: EDMs and Other
Room: Regency Ballroom
Co-Sponsor:
GPMFC
Chair: Carol Tanner, University of Notre Dame
L5
Collisions Involving Charged Particles
Room: Arboretum I-III
Chair: Gregory Childers, California State University, Fullerton
L6
Attosecond Pulses: Generation, Characterization and Utilization
Room: Arboretum IV-V
Chair: Gilles Doumy, The Ohio State University
May 27 2010 4:00PM, Thursday
M1
Poster Session II (4:00 pm - 6:00 pm)
Room: Exhibit Hall
M2
PRA-PRL Tutorial for Authors and Referees
Room: Dogwood
May 27 2010 6:30PM, Thursday
P1
Reception and Banquet
Room: Imperial Ballroom
May 28 2010 8:00AM, Friday
Q1
Focus Session: Rydberg Atoms and Molecules
Room: Imperial East
Chair: James Shaffer, University of Oklahoma
Q2
Experiments with the World's First X-ray Free Electron Laser
Room: Imperial Center
Chair: Lew Cocke, Kansas State University
Q3
Quantum Gauge Theories and Ultra-cold Atoms
Room: Imperial West
Chair: Erich Mueller, Cornell University
Q4
Atom Optics
Room: Regency Ballroom
Chair: Han Pu, Rice University
Q5
Quantum Measurement and Entanglement
Room: Arboretum I-III
Chair: Emily Edwards, University of Maryland
Q6
EIT and Coherence Effects
Room: Arboretum IV-V
Chair: George Welch, Texas A&M University
May 28 2010 10:30AM, Friday
R1
AMO Physics for Understanding Matter under Extreme Conditions
Room: Imperial East
Chair: Arati Dasgupta, Naval Research Laboratory
R2
Efimov Physics with Ultra-cold Atoms
Room: Imperial Center
Chair: Cheng Chin, University of Chicago
R3
Focus Session: Hybrid and Condensed Matter Quantum Systems
Room: Imperial West
Chair: Luis Orozco, University of Maryland
R4
Matter Wave Guides and Interferometry
Room: Regencey Ballroom
Chair: Aaron Leanhardt, University of Michigan
R5
Ultrafast Atomic and Molecular Dynamics
Room: Arboretum I-III
Chair: Thomas Weinacht, Stony Brook University
R6
Dynamics with Ultracold Atomic Gases I
Room: Arboretum IV-V
Chair: Leslie Baksmaty, Rice University
May 28 2010 2:00PM, Friday
S1
Controlling Dissipation in Quantum Systems
Room: Imperial East
Chair: Jake Taylor, National Institute of Standards and Technology
S2
Nanoplasmas and Ponderomotive Potentials
Room: Imperial Center
Chair: Robert Jones, University of Virginia
S3
Focus Session: Opto-Mechanical Systems
Room: Imperial West
Chair: Lincoln Carr, Colorado School of Mines
S4
Precision Measurements and Clocks
Room: Regency Ballroom
Co-Sponsor:
GPMFC
Chair: Kristan Corwin, Kansas State University
S5
Ultracold Mixtures / Lattices
Room: Arboretum I-III
Chair: Kirk Madison, University of British Columbia
S6
Ultracold Dipoles
Room: Arboretum IV-V
Chair: Robert Forrey, Pennsylvania State University
May 28 2010 4:00PM, Friday
T1
Poster Session III (4:00 pm - 6:00 pm)
Room: Exhibit Hall
May 28 2010 4:30PM, Friday
U1
DAMOP Business Meeting
Room: Regency
May 29 2010 8:00AM, Saturday
W1
Advances in Applications of Optically-Pumped Alkalis
Room: Imperial East
Chair: Tim Gay, University of Nebraska
W2
Focus Session: Quantum Simulation and Complexity
Room: Imperial Center
Chair: Carl Williams, National Institute of Standards and Technology
W3
Focus Session: Molecular Photoionization and High Harmonic Generation
Room: Imperial West
Chair: Chii-Dong Lin, Kansas State University
W4
Dynamics with Ultracold Atomic Gases II
Room: Regency Ballroom
Chair: Ian Spielman, National Institute of Standards and Technology
W5
Laser Cooling and Trapping
Room: Arboretum I-III
Chair: Dan Heinzen, University of Texas at Austin
W6
Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases II
Room: Arboretum IV-V
Chair: Thomas Killian, Rice University
May 29 2010 10:30AM, Saturday
X1
Hot Topics
Room: Imperial East
Chair: Chris Monroe, University of Maryland
X2
Focus Session: Cold and Ultracold Molecules
Room: Imperial Center
Chair: Susanne Yellin, University of Connecticut
X3
Strong Field Ionization
Room: Imperial West
Chair: Alexei Sokolov, Texas A&M University
X4
Precision Atomic Spectroscopy
Room: Regency Ballroom
Co-Sponsor:
GPMFC
Chair: Brett Depaola, Kansas State University
X5
Exotic Particle and Molecular Ion Collisions
Room: Arboretum I-III
Chair: Barry Dunning, Rice University
X6
Quantum and Nonlinear Optics
Room: Arboretum IV-V
Chair: Frank Narducci, Naval Air Systems Command
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