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Session U1: Hot Topics

Chair: David Schultz, University of North Texas
Room: Grand Ballroom BCD

Friday, June 8, 2012 10:30AM - 11:00AM		U1.00001: A steady-state superradiant laser with less than one intracavity photon Invited Speaker: James K. Thompson Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 11:00AM - 11:30AM		U1.00002: Frequency combs and precision spectroscopy in the extreme ultraviolet Invited Speaker: Arman Cing\"oz Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 11:30AM - 12:00PM		U1.00003: Spins and photons: connecting quantum registers in diamond Invited Speaker: Lily Childress Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 12:00PM - 12:30PM		U1.00004: Antimatter Advances Include Trapped Antihydrogen in Its Ground State Invited Speaker: Phil Richerme Preview Abstract

Session U2: Focus Session: Universal Thermodynamics and Criticality

Chair: Nathan Gemelke, Pennsylvania State University
Room: Grand Ballroom GF

Friday, June 8, 2012 10:30AM - 11:00AM		U2.00001: Quantum Monte Carlo simulations and thermometry in ultracold quantum gases Invited Speaker: Matthias Troyer Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 11:00AM - 11:12AM		U2.00002: Quantum Criticality and Dynamics in Two-dimensional Bose Gases Xibo Zhang, Li-Chung Ha, Chen-Lung Hung, Shih-Kuang Tung, Cheng Chin Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 11:12AM - 11:42AM		U2.00003: Equation of state of strongly interacting fermions Invited Speaker: Frederic Chevy Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 11:42AM - 11:54AM		U2.00004: On a scale-invariant Fermi gas in a time-dependent harmonic potential Sergej Moroz Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 11:54AM - 12:06PM		U2.00005: Universal relations for Fermi gases in arbitrary dimension Manuel Valiente, Nikolaj T. Zinner, Klaus Molmer Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 12:06PM - 12:18PM		U2.00006: Thermodynamic properties of the SU($2N$) ultra-cold fermions in optical lattices Hsiang-hsuan Hung, Zi Cai, Lei Wang, Dong Zheng, Congjun Wu Preview Abstract

Session U3: Interactions Involving Antimatter or Charge Transfer

Chair: Francis Robicheaux, Auburn University
Room: Grand Ballroom E

Friday, June 8, 2012 10:30AM - 10:42AM		U3.00001: Efficient Production of Rydberg Positronium Tomu Hisakado, David Cassidy, Harry Tom, Allen Mills Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 10:42AM - 10:54AM		U3.00002: Towards a hyperspherical description of positronium-positronium scattering Javier von Stecher, Chris H. Greene Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 10:54AM - 11:06AM		U3.00003: Low-Energy Positron Scattering from H$_{2}$ J.R. Machacek, E. Anderson, C. Makochekanwa, D. Mueller, J.P. Sullivan, S.J. Buckman Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 11:06AM - 11:18AM		U3.00004: Low-energy S- and P-wave Positronium-Hydrogen Collisions Denton Woods, S.J. Ward, P. Van Reeth Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 11:18AM - 11:30AM		U3.00005: Few Body Quantum Dynamics of high-Z Ions studied at the Future Relativistic HESR Storage Ring Siegbert Hagmann, Thomas Stoehlker, Yuri Litvinov, Christophor Kozhuharov, Pierre-Michel Hillenbrand, Michael Lestinsky, Dieter Schneider, Kurt Stiebing Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 11:30AM - 11:42AM		U3.00006: Charge exchange and spectroscopy with isolated highly-charged ions Nicholas D. Guise, Samuel M. Brewer, Joseph N. Tan Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 11:42AM - 11:54AM		U3.00007: Vibrationally Resolved NonDissociative Charge Transfer in Collisions between Hydrogen or Deuterium Molecules and Atomic or Molecular Ions V.M. Andrianarijaona, J.G. King, M.F. Martin, X. Urbain Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 11:54AM - 12:06PM		U3.00008: Observing forbidden radiative decay of highly charged ions in a compact Penning trap Samuel M. Brewer, Nicholas D. Guise, Joseph N. Tan Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 12:06PM - 12:18PM		U3.00009: Si$^{3+}$ +H collisions: role of rotational couplings D.C. Joseph, B.C. Saha Preview Abstract

Session U4: Atomic and Molecular Structure and Spectroscopy II

Chair: Steve Lundeen, Colorado State University
Room: Garden 1-2

Friday, June 8, 2012 10:30AM - 10:42AM		U4.00001: ABSTRACT MOVED TO U1.00002 Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 10:42AM - 10:54AM		U4.00002: Calculation of Ionization in Direct Frequency Comb Spectroscopy Bachana Lomsadze, Charles Fehrenbach, Brett DePaola Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 10:54AM - 11:06AM		U4.00003: Developments in Cavity-Enhanced Direct Frequency Comb Spectroscopy (CE-DFCS) Bryce Bjork, Aleksandra Foltynowicz-Matyba, Adam Fleisher, Piotr Maslowski, Jun Ye Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 11:06AM - 11:18AM		U4.00004: Hyperfine Interactions and Electric Dipole of Cs 11s by Using Electromagnetically Induced Transparency Chin-Chun Tsai, Zong-Syun He, Jyh-Hung Tsai, Ming-Tsung Lee, Yung-Yung Chang, Thou-Jen Whang Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 11:18AM - 11:30AM		U4.00005: Detecting the single photon recoil using trapped ions Cornelius Hempel, Benjamin P. Lanyon, Petar Jurcevic, Florian Zaehringer, Rene Gerritsma, Rainer Blatt, Christian F. Roos Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 11:30AM - 11:42AM		U4.00006: Subnatural spectroscopy by two-photon frequency modulation Lei Feng, Pengxiong Li, Liang Jiang, Yanhong Xiao Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 11:42AM - 11:54AM		U4.00007: Sub-femto-Tesla Scalar Atomic Magnetometer with Spin-squeezing Dong Sheng, Shuguang Li, Nezih Dural, Michael Romalis Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 11:54AM - 12:06PM		U4.00008: Excitation energies, radiative and autoionization rates, dielectronic satellite lines, and dielectronic recombination rates for excited states of Yb-like W P. Beiersdorfer, U.I. Safronova, A.S. Safronova Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 12:06PM - 12:18PM		U4.00009: Testing the accuracy of the coupled-cluster method for trivalent atoms Heman Gharibnejad, Andrei Derevianko Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 12:18PM - 12:30PM		U4.00010: Relativistic Pseudopotential Followed by Restoration Method for Studying Heavy-Atom Systems Alexander Petrov, Leonid Skripnikov, Nikolay Mosyagin, Anatoly Titov Preview Abstract

Session U5: Matter-Wave Interferometry II and Cold Plasmas

Chair: Scott Bergeson, Brigham Young University
Room: Garden 3

Friday, June 8, 2012 10:30AM - 10:42AM		U5.00001: Using a lens for matter waves in an atom interferometer Raisa Trubko, Ivan Hromada, William Holmgren, Alexander Cronin Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 10:42AM - 10:54AM		U5.00002: ABSTRACT HAS BEEN MOVED TO P7.00010 Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 10:54AM - 11:06AM		U5.00003: Electric and Magnetic Field Sensing with a Charged Particle Moire Deflectometer Roger Bach, Herman Batelaan, Glen Gronniger Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 11:06AM - 11:18AM		U5.00004: An ionizing time domain matter-wave interferometer Nadine Doerre, Philipp Haslinger, Philipp Geyer, Jonas Rodewald, Stefan Nimmrichter, Klaus Hornberger, Markus Arndt Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 11:18AM - 11:30AM		U5.00005: Progress Toward a Cold Ion Interferometer James Archibald, Erickson Christopher, Jarom Jackson, Dallin Durfee Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 11:30AM - 11:42AM		U5.00006: Minimizing the effects of disorder-induced heating through electron screening in ultracold plasmas Mary Lyon, Scott Bergeson Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 11:42AM - 11:54AM		U5.00007: The long time dynamics of a molecular ultracold plasma Hossein Sadeghi Esfahani, Jonathan Morrison, Nicolas Saquet, Markus Schulz-Weiling, Edward Grant Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 11:54AM - 12:06PM		U5.00008: Ultracold neutral plasma resonant response to few-cycle radiofrequency pulses Truman Wilson, Wei-Ting Chen, Jacob Roberts Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 12:06PM - 12:18PM		U5.00009: Creation and interrogation of a correlated molecular plasma Jonathan Morrison, Nicolas Saquet, Ed Grant Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 12:18PM - 12:30PM		U5.00010: Ultracold neutral plasmas at room temperature Joshua Wilson, Stephen Rupper, Daniel Thrasher, Nathan Heilmann, Scott Bergeson Preview Abstract

Session U6: Vortices and Solitons

Chair: Peter Engels, Washington State University
Room: Garden 4

Friday, June 8, 2012 10:30AM - 10:42AM		U6.00001: Phase-Dependent Interactions of Bright Matter-Wave Solitons Paul Dyke, Sidong Lei, Randall Hulet Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 10:42AM - 10:54AM		U6.00002: Interacting Bright Solitons in Trapped BECs: Mean-Field Theory and Way Beyond William Reinhardt Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 10:54AM - 11:06AM		U6.00003: Physical and Algebraic Origins of the Reflectionless Property of the Bogoliubov-de-Gennes-sine-Gordon Equation Around a Soliton Albert Albert Kamanzi, Zaijong Hwang, Maxim Olshanii Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 11:06AM - 11:18AM		U6.00004: Dynamic Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in 2D Bose mixtures of ultra-cold atoms Ludwig Mathey, Kenneth Guenter, Jean Dalibard, Anatoli Polkovnikov Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 11:18AM - 11:30AM		U6.00005: Origins of bright soliton transparency to Bogoliubov quasi-particles Zaijong Hwang, Andrew Koller, Maxim Olshanii Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 11:30AM - 11:42AM		U6.00006: Observation of Topologically Stable 2D Skyrmions in an Antiferromagnetic Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate Jaeyoon Choi, Woo Jin Kwon, Sang Won Seo, Yong-il Shin Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 11:42AM - 11:54AM		U6.00007: On the dynamics of dark-bright and dark-dark solitons in two-component BECs JiaJia Chang, Chris Hamner, Peter Engels Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 11:54AM - 12:06PM		U6.00008: Pinning and manipulation of vortex cores in Bose-Einstein condensates Kali Wilson, E. Carlo Samson, Zachary Newman, Brian P. Anderson Preview Abstract

Session U7: Physics with Ultraintense Lasers and Light Sources

Chair: Itzik Ben-Ithzak, Kansas State University
Room: Terrace

Friday, June 8, 2012 10:30AM - 10:42AM		U7.00001: X-ray resonance fluorescence and Rabi flopping for ultrafast and ultraintense pulses Stefano M. Cavaletto, Zolt\'{a}n Harman, Christoph H. Keitel, Christian Buth, Elliot P. Kanter, Linda Young, Stephen H. Southworth Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 10:42AM - 10:54AM		U7.00002: Femtosecond time-resolved x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy studies of charge transfer dynamics in novel photovoltaic systems Oliver Gessner, Andrey Shavorskiy, Katrin Siefermann, Daniel Slaughter, Felix Sturm, Fabian Weise, Matthew Strader, Hana Cho, Ming-Fu Lin, Travis Wright, Jinghua Guo, Hendrik Bluhm, Robert Schoenlein, Ali Belkacem, Daniel Neumark, Stephen Leone, Amy Cordones, Josh Vura-Weis, Sheraz Gul, Jin Zhang, Dennis Nordlund, Hirohito Ogasawara, Anders Nilsson, Martin Beye, Nils Huse Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 10:54AM - 11:06AM		U7.00003: Electron-positron-photon cascades in the strong laser field Maxim Legkov, Alexander Fedotov Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 11:06AM - 11:18AM		U7.00004: Tracing nuclear wave-packet dynamics in diatomic molecules with XUV pump- and probe- pulses M. Magrakvelidze, O. Herrwerth, Y.H. Jiang, A. Rudenko, M. Kurka, L. Foucar, K.U. K\"{u}hnel, M. K\"{u}bel, N.G. Johnson, C.D. Schr\"{o}ter, S. D\"{u}sterer, R. Treusch, M. Lezius, I. Ben-Itzhak, R. Moshammer, J. Ullrich, M.F. Kling, U. Thumm Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 11:18AM - 11:30AM		U7.00005: Laser-generated proton bunches from chirped laser-plasma interaction Benjamin Galow, Yousef Salamin, Tatyana Liseykina, Zoltan Harman, Jian-Xing Li, Christoph Keitel Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 11:30AM - 11:42AM		U7.00006: Controlling Auger decay with electromagnetically induced transparency for x rays Antonio Picon, Gilles Doumy, Stephen Southworth, Linda Young, Christian Buth Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 11:42AM - 11:54AM		U7.00007: Effect of wave-function localization on the time delay in photoemission from surfaces Uwe Thumm, Chanh-hua Zhang Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 11:54AM - 12:06PM		U7.00008: Non-linear Compton Scattering in Short Laser Pulses Katarzyna Krajewska, Jerzy Kami\'nski Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 12:06PM - 12:18PM		U7.00009: Attosecond x rays from x-ray-boosted high-order harmonic generation Christian Buth, Markus C. Kohler, Feng He, Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan, Joachim Ullrich, Christoph H. Keitel Preview Abstract
Friday, June 8, 2012 12:18PM - 12:30PM		U7.00010: Correction of the relativistic factorizable expression (RKJ) for Compton scattering doubly differential cross sections L.A. LaJohn, R.H. Pratt Preview Abstract