Bulletin of the American Physical Society
40th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Volume 54, Number 7
Tuesday–Saturday, May 19–23, 2009; Charlottesville, Virginia
Invited Speakers
| Agostini, Pierre  Ohio State University  | 
Session X6.00001 Strong field atomic physics at mid-infrared wavelengths Room: Minor Hall 125 | 
| Beiersdorfer, Peter  LLNL  | 
Session B2.00002 Recent result in slow ion-atom and ion-molecule collisions Room: Gilmer Hall 130 | 
| Belkacem, Ali  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory  | 
Session C6.00002 Femtosecond Isomerization Dynamics in the Ethylene Molecule Room: Minor Hall 125 | 
| Bhattacharya, Mishkatul  University of Arizona  | 
Session W1.00004 Cavity optomechanics and its applications Room: Chemistry Building 402 | 
| Bostedt, Christoph  TU Berlin  | 
Session C6.00001 Ultrafast processes and single shot imaging of clusters with intense soft x-ray radiation from the FLASH free electron laser Room: Minor Hall 125 | 
| Brunger, Michael  ARC Centre for Antimatter-Matter Studies, SoCPES, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide SA 5001, Australia  | 
Session Q4.00003 Positron Scattering from Bio-Molecules Room: Clark Hall 108 | 
| Clark, Stephen  Clarendon Laboratory, Physics Department, University of Oxford  | 
Session J2.00001 Realizing artificial magnetic fields via optical lattice immersion Room: Gilmer Hall 130 | 
| Cole, Garrett  Austrian Academy of Sciences  | 
Session W1.00002 Quantum-Opto-Mechanics: Towards quantum optical control of micromechanical resonators Room: Chemistry Building 402 | 
| Copsey, Bert D.  California Polytechnic State University  | 
Session J5.00001 Light Polarization Dependence of Optical Dipole Traps Created in the Diffraction Pattern of a Pinhole Room: Clark Hall 107 | 
| Corbitt, Thomas  MIT  | 
Session C1.00004 Quantum Noise and Radiation Pressure Effects in High Power Optical Interferometers Room: Chemistry Building 402 | 
| Corwin, Kristan  Kansas State University, Department of Physics  | 
Session L2.00002 Fibers and combs: weaving a portable frequency reference in the near-IR Room: Gilmer Hall 130 | 
| Crim, Fleming  University of Wisconsin-Madison  | 
Session W4.00003 Observing Energy Flow and Controlling Molecular Dynamics in Gases and Liquids Room: Clark Hall 108 | 
| Das Sarma, Sankar  Condensed Matter Theory Center and Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland  | 
Session L1.00004 Strong Correlation Condensed Matter Physics in Cold Atom Optical Lattices Room: Chemistry Hall 402 | 
| DeMarco, Brian  University of Illinois  | 
Session L1.00007 Transport Measurements in the Disordered Bose-Hubbard Model Room: Chemistry Hall 402 | 
| Demler, Eugene  Harvard University  | 
Session B1.00002 Magnetism of ultracold atoms in optical lattices Room: Chemistry Building 402 | 
| Dieckmann, Kai  Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany  | 
Session Q1.00004 Ultracold Heteronuclear Fermi-Fermi Molecules Room: Chemistry Building 402 | 
| Dunning, F. Barry  Rice University  | 
Session R2.00001 Generation of localized ``Bohr-like'' wavepackets in near-circular orbit about the nucleus Room: Gilmer Hall 130 | 
| Filippone, Brad  Caltech  | 
Session C2.00003 Electric Dipole Moment of the Neutron Room: Gilmer Hall 130 | 
| Foot, Christopher J.  University of Oxford, UK  | 
Session J2.00002 Cold atoms in a rotating optical lattice Room: Gilmer Hall 130 | 
| Gerber, Gustav  University of Wuerzburg  | 
Session A1.00002 Herbert P. Broida Prize Talk: Experimental realization of coherent control of molecular dynamics and chemical reactions with feedback-optimized laser pulses--Quantum Control of Femtochemistry Room: Old Cabell Hall Auditorium | 
| Gibson, George  University of Connecticut  | 
Session B6.00005 Strong field physics revealed through time-domain spectroscopy Room: Minor Hall 125 | 
| Gisin, Nicolas  GAP, University of Geneva  | 
Session S1.00001 Towards Quantum Repeaters Room: Chemistry Building 402 | 
| Goldbaum, Daniel  The University of Arizona  | 
Session J2.00003 Vortex configurations of ultracold bosons in rotating optical lattices Room: Gilmer Hall 130 | 
| Guehr, Markus  Stanford PULSE Institute, Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 382 Via Pueblo Mall, Stanford CA 94304, USA  | 
Session Q6.00003 Multi-Orbital contributions in High Harmonic Generation Room: Minor Hall 125 | 
| Hackermueller, Lucia  Institut f. Physik, University of Mainz  | 
Session B1.00001 Repulsively and Attractively Interacting Fermi-Mixtures in Optical Lattices Room: Chemistry Building 402 | 
| Harris, Jack  Yale University  | 
Session W1.00001 Coupling MEMS to photons: a new approach to macroscopic quantum phenomena Room: Chemistry Building 402 | 
| Haxton, Daniel  JILA and the University of Colorado, Boulder  | 
Session S6.00004 Ab initio calculations of dissociative attachment and dissociative recombination of electrons and polyatomic species Room: Minor Hall 125 | 
| Hecker Denschlag, Johannes  Institut fuer Experimentalphysik, Universitaet Innsbruck  | 
Session Q1.00002 Ultracold triplet Rb$_{2}$ molecules in the rovibrational ground state Room: Chemistry Building 402 | 
| Hinds, Ed  Centre for Cold Matter, Imperial College London  | 
Session C2.00001 Probing the electron electric dipole moment with cold molecules Room: Gilmer Hall 130 | 
| Hofstetter, Walter  Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt am Main  | 
Session K1.00004 Disorder and strong correlations in optical lattices Room: Chemistry Hall 402 | 
| Hogan, Stephen  Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.  | 
Session R2.00002 Deceleration and electrostatic trapping of hydrogen Rydberg molecules Room: Gilmer Hall 130 | 
| Hostetter, James  Louisana State University  | 
Session J5.00002 Semi-classical electron dynamics and the generation of below threshold harmonics Room: Clark Hall 107 | 
| Hulet, Randall  Department of Physics and Astronomy and Rice Quantum Institute, Rice University  | 
Session K1.00003 Superfluid Transport Through Random Disorder Room: Chemistry Hall 402 | 
| Inguscio, Massimo  LENS and Dipartimento di Fisica, Universit\'a di Firenze  | 
Session K1.00002 Ultracold atoms in disordered optical lattices Room: Chemistry Hall 402 | 
| Jin, D.  JILA and University of Colorado  | 
Session S2.00001 TBA Room: Gilmer Hall 130 | 
| Julienne, Paul  NIST  | 
Session X2.00001 Understanding ultracold polar molecules Room: Gilmer Hall 130 | 
| Keitel, Christoph  Max-Planck-Institut f\"ur Kernphysik  | 
Session L6.00001 Strong-field physics at relativistic intensity Room: Minor Hall 125 | 
| Kokoouline, Viatcheslav  Department of Physics, University of Central Florida  | 
Session S6.00003 Theory of dissociative recombination of triatomic molecular ions Room: Minor Hall 125 | 
| Kuzmich, Alex  Georgia Tech  | 
Session S1.00004 Long-lived Quantum Memories Room: Chemistry Building 402 | 
| Laroussi, Mounir  Old Dominion University  | 
Session Q4.00004 Plasmas for Biomedical Applications: Interaction Pathways of Low Temperature Plasmas with Biological Cells Room: Clark Hall 108 | 
| Larsson, Mats  Stockholm University  | 
Session S6.00001 Molecular dissociation induced by electron collisions Room: Minor Hall 125 | 
| Leslie-Pelecky, Diandra  University of Texas at Dallas  | 
Session P1.00001 The Physics of NASCAR Room: Old Cabell Hall Auditorium | 
| Levin, Kathryn  University of Chicago, James Franck Inst.  | 
Session R1.00001 Theory of BCS-BEC Crossover in Ultracold Fermi Gases: Insights into Thermodynamical and Spectroscopic Experiments Room: Chemistry Building 402 | 
| Li, Wen  JILA, University of Colorado/NIST  | 
Session Q6.00004 Molecular dynamics probed using high harmonic generation and strong field ionization Room: Minor Hall 125 | 
| Lin, Chii-Dong  Kansas State University  | 
Session Q6.00002 Theory of Dynamic Chemical Imaging with infrared laser Pulses Room: Minor Hall 125 | 
| Lobino, Mirko  Institute fo Quantum Information Science, University of Calgary  | 
Session W6.00002 Coherent State Quantum Process Tomography Room: Minor Hall 125 | 
| Loftus, Thomas H.  University of Washington  | 
Session C2.00002 A New Limit on the Permanent Electric Dipole Moment (EDM) of $^{199}$Hg Room: Gilmer Hall 130 | 
| Ludlow, Andrew  JILA, NIST and Univ. of Colorado  | 
Session C1.00002 The Strontium Optical Lattice Clock: Optical Spectroscopy with Sub-Hertz Accuracy Room: Chemistry Building 402 | 
| Lukin, Mikhail  Physics Department, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138  | 
Session A1.00001 I.I. Rabi Prize Talk: Exploring New Frontiers of Quantum Optical Science Room: Old Cabell Hall Auditorium | 
| Martinis, John  UC Santa Barbara  | 
Session X1.00003 Synthesizing arbitrary photon states in a superconducting resonator: The quantum digital to analog converter Room: Chemistry Building 402 | 
| Matsukevich, Dzmitry  JQI and Department of Physics, University of Maryland  | 
Session S1.00003 Quantum networking with trapped ions and photons Room: Chemistry Building 402 | 
| McCarthy, Michael  Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics  | 
Session W4.00004 Exotic Molecules in the Laboratory and Interstellar Space Room: Clark Hall 108 | 
| McKenna, Jarlath  J.R. Macdonald Laboratory, Department of Physics, Kansas State University  | 
Session K6.00005 Benchmark measurements of H$_{3}^{+}$ fragmentation in intense ultrashort laser pulses Room: Minor Hall 125 | 
| Ni, Kang-Kuen  JILA  | 
Session Q1.00001 Ultracold Polar Molecules Room: Chemistry Building 402 | 
| Ott, Herwig  Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz  | 
Session X1.00002 Electron Microscopy of Ultracold Quantum Gases Room: Chemistry Building 402 | 
| Panajotovic, Radmila  Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK  | 
Session Q4.00002 Effects of low-energy electrons on DNA constituents: effective cross sections for condensed thymidine Room: Clark Hall 108 | 
| Partridge, Guthrie  Rice University  | 
Session C1.00003 Pairing of Fermionic $^6$Li Throughout the BEC-BCS Crossover Room: Chemistry Building 402 | 
| Pate, Brooks  University of Virginia  | 
Session W4.00002 High-Throughput Microwave Spectroscopy for Chemical Kinetics and Trace Detection Room: Clark Hall 108 | 
| Pfister, Olivier  University of Virginia  | 
Session X1.00001 Towards quantum computing over the rainbow: scalable multipartite entanglement in the optical frequency comb Room: Chemistry Building 402 | 
| Revelle, Melissa  University of Arizona  | 
Session J5.00003 Polarizability Measurements in a Multi-Species Atom Interferometer Room: Clark Hall 107 | 
| Robicheaux, Francis  Auburn University  | 
Session R2.00004 Simulations of a strongly interacting Rydberg gas Room: Gilmer Hall 130 | 
| Rohringer, Nina  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory  | 
Session C6.00004 Ultrashort non-linear interactions of x-rays with atoms Room: Minor Hall 125 | 
| Rolston, Steven  University of Maryland  | 
Session J6.00007 Rydberg atoms in ultracold plasmas Room: Minor Hall 125 | 
| Rost, Jan Michael  Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden  | 
Session C6.00003 Ultrafast electron dynamics in finite atomic systems Room: Minor Hall 125 | 
| Rou\'ee, Arnaud  FOM Instituut voor Atoom en Molecuul Fysica (AMOLF)  | 
Session X6.00005 Strong field Ionization in the Far Infrared Limit Room: Minor Hall 125 | 
| Saffman, Mark  University of Wisconsin  | 
Session R6.00002 Observation of long range Rydberg blockade Room: Minor Hall 209 | 
| Sanchez-Palencia, Laurent  Institut d'Optique  | 
Session K1.00001 Anderson localization in interacting Bose-Einstein condensates Room: Chemistry Hall 402 | 
| Schillaci, Cory D.  University of Washington  | 
Session J5.00004 Modeling BEC's in Double Wells Room: Clark Hall 107 | 
| Schmidt, Lothar  Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt am Main  | 
Session K2.00007 Young-type interference in collisions between Helium and molecular Hydrogen ions Room: Gilmer Hall 130 | 
| Schultz, David  Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory  | 
Session B2.00001 A contemporary theoretical view of ion-atom, -molecule interactions Room: Gilmer Hall 130 | 
| Shaffer, James  The University of Oklahoma  | 
Session J6.00001 Observation of ultralong range Rydberg molecules Room: Minor Hall 125 | 
| Silberhorn, Christine  Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen, G\"unther-Scharowskystr 1 / Bau 24, 91058 Erlangen, Germany  | 
Session W6.00001 Quantum Measurements Based on Photon Number Resolved Detection Room: Minor Hall 125 | 
| Smirnova, O.  Max-Born-Institute, Max-Born-Str. 2A, 12489 Berlin, Germany  | 
Session Q6.00001 Time and Space Resolved High Harmonic Imaging of Electron Tunnelling from Molecules Room: Minor Hall 125 | 
| Spielman, Ian  JQI, NIST and the University of Maryland  | 
Session J2.00004 Creating effective vector potentials with light Room: Gilmer Hall 130 | 
| Stapelfeldt, Henrik  Department of Chemistry, University of Aarhus  | 
Session B6.00001 Quantum state selection of polar molecules: Alignment, orientation and conformational control Room: Minor Hall 125 | 
| Stolow, Albert  National Research Council Canada  | 
Session K6.00001 Imaging Ultrafast Dynamics in the Molecular Frame Room: Minor Hall 125 | 
| Sushkov, Alexander  Yale University  | 
Session C2.00004 Solid state-based searches for violation of parity and time-reversal symmetries Room: Gilmer Hall 130 | 
| Thomas, John  Duke University  | 
Session R1.00002 Experiments with Interacting Fermi Gases Room: Chemistry Building 402 | 
| Treutlein, Philipp  MPQ and LMU Munich  | 
Session W1.00003 Ultracold atoms coupled to micro- and nanomechanical oscillators: towards hybrid quantum systems Room: Chemistry Building 402 | 
| Tsakiris, George D.  Max-Planck Institut f\"ur Quantenoptik, D-85748 Garching, Germany  | 
Session X1.00004 Plasma-vacuum interface: a new medium for attosecond pulse generation Room: Chemistry Building 402 | 
| Ursrey, Dustin  Kansas State University  | 
Session J5.00005 Molecular analogs for studying the time-dependence of atomic ionization Room: Clark Hall 107 | 
| van de Meerakker, Sebastiaan Y.T.  Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany  | 
Session X2.00002 Experiments with Stark decelerated and trapped molecules Room: Gilmer Hall 130 | 
| van Linden van den Heuvell, H.B.  Van der Waals-Zeeman Institute, University of Amsterdam  | 
Session R2.00003 Dipole-dipole interaction between cold Rydberg atoms in RF fields Room: Gilmer Hall 130 | 
| Vengalattore, M.  Cornell University  | 
Session B1.00003 Supersolidity in a quantum degenerate dipolar spinor gas Room: Chemistry Building 402 | 
| von Stecher, Javier  JILA and Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado  | 
Session C1.00001 Few-body physics in ultracold gases Room: Chemistry Building 402 | 
| Vuckovic, Jelena  Stanford University  | 
Session S1.00002 Quantum dots in photonic crystals: from quantum information processing to single photon nonlinear optics Room: Chemistry Building 402 | 
| Walker, Barry C.  University of Delaware  | 
Session L6.00002 Ionization of Atoms and Small Molecules in Ultra-Strong Laser Fields Room: Minor Hall 125 | 
| Walsworth, Ronald  Harvard-Smithsonian  | 
Session L2.00001 Laser frequency combs for precision astrophysical spectroscopy Room: Gilmer Hall 130 | 
| Ware, Michael  Brigham Young University  | 
Session L6.00003 Photoemission out the side of a relativistic laser focus by individual free electrons Room: Minor Hall 125 | 
| Weidemuller, Matthias  Physics Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany  | 
Session Q1.00003 Photoassociation of ultracold polar molecules in the rovibrational ground state Room: Chemistry Building 402 | 
| Wells, Eric  Department of Physics, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD 57197 USA  | 
Session K2.00003 Rapid formation of H$_{3}^{+}$ from ammonia and methane following ionization by fast protons Room: Gilmer Hall 130 | 
| White, Samantha L.  University of Delaware  | 
Session J5.00006 Ionization of Methane in Strong and Ultrastrong Fields Room: Clark Hall 107 | 
| Wilk, Tatjana  Institut d`Optique in Palaiseau (France)  | 
Session R6.00001 Towards entanglement of two individual atoms using the Rydberg blockade Room: Minor Hall 209 | 
| Winfree, Erik  California Institute of Technology  | 
Session W4.00001 Molecular Programming with DNA Room: Clark Hall 108 | 
| Winstead, Carl  California Institute of Technology  | 
Session Q4.00001 Low-Energy Electron Collisions with Biomolecules Room: Clark Hall 108 | 
| Wolf, Andreas  Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg  | 
Session S6.00002 Molecular Dissociation Induced by Electron Collisions Room: Minor Hall 125 | 
| Zhou, Fei  University of British Columbia  | 
Session B1.00004 Dynamics and generation of fractionalized vortices in spinor BECs Room: Chemistry Building 402 | 
| Zwierlein, Martin  Massachusetts Institute of Technology  | 
Session S2.00004 Observation of Spin Polarons in a Tunable Fermi Liquid of Ultracold Atoms Room: Gilmer Hall 130 | 
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