Bulletin of the American Physical Society
43rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Volume 57, Number 5
Monday–Friday, June 4–8, 2012; Orange County, California
Epitome
Jun 4 2012 6:00PM, Monday
1A 
Welcome Reception
Room: Poolside
Jun 5 2012 8:00AM, Tuesday
A1 
Prize Session
Room: Grand Ballroom A-D
Chair: Gerald Gabrielse, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Jean Dalibard,  David Hall,  Philip G. Burke  
Jun 5 2012 10:30AM, Tuesday
B1 
Invited Session: Synthetic Gauge Fields in Quantum Gases
Room: Grand Ballroom BCD
Chair: Congjun Wu, University of California, San Diego
Invited Speakers:  Ian Spielman,  Jing Zhang,  Sumanta Tewari,  Hui Zhai  
B2 
Atomic Spin Dynamics
Room: Grand Ballroom GF
Chair: Chandra Raman, Georgia Tech
B3 
Invited Session: Atomic and Molecular Astrophysics
Room: Grand Ballroom E
Chair: Daniel Savin, Columbia University
Invited Speakers:  Anna Frebel,  Christopher Fontes,  Steven Federman,  John C. Pearson  
B4 
Invited Session: Frontiers of Intense Laser Physics
Room: Garden 1-2
Chair: Anthony Starace, University of Nebraska
Invited Speakers:  Donald Umstadter,  Robert Jones,  Toshiki Tajima,  S.X. Hu  
B5 
Cold Collisions and Ultracold Molecules
Room: Garden 3
Chair: Phillip Gould, University of Connecticut
B6 
Invited Session: The Fine Structure Constant
Room: Garden 4
Co-Sponsor:
GPMFC
Chair: Gerald Gabrielse, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Saida Guellati,  Shannon Fogwell Hoogerheide,  Makiko Nio,  Shau-Yu Lan  
B7 
Invited Session: Quantum Control for Quantum Information Processing
Room: Terrace
Chair: Ivan Deutsch, University of New Mexico
Invited Speakers:  Jean-Michel Raimond,  Poul Jessen,  Markus Greiner,  Rajibul Islam  
Jun 5 2012 2:00PM, Tuesday
C1 
Invited Session: Dipolar Quantum Gases
Room: Grand Ballroom BCD
Chair: Doerte Blume, Washington State University
Invited Speakers:  Benjamin Lev,  Bruno Laburthe-Tolra,  Deborah Jin,  Barbara Capogrosso-Sansone  
C2 
Advances in Laser Cooling
Room: Grand Ballroom GF
Chair: Russell Hart, Rice University
C3 
Focus Session: AMO Applications
Room: Grand Ballroom E
Chair: Elizabeth McCormack, Bryn Mawr College
Invited Speakers:  Carl Winstead,  M. Cristina A. Lopes  
C4 
Invited Session: Frontiers in Ultrafast X-ray Physics
Room: Garden 1-2
Chair: Linda Young, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Adrian Cavalieri,  Anne Marie March,  Uwe Thumm,  Christoph Bostedt  
C5 
Bose Gases
Room: Garden 3
Chair: John Thomas, North Carolina State University
C6 
Invited Session: Precision Measurements and Applications to Fundamental Physics
Room: Garden 4
Co-Sponsor:
GPMFC
Chair: Holger Mueller, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Mark Kasevich,  Chris Oates,  Michael Martin,  Markus Aspelmeyer  
C7 
Invited Session: Quantum Manipulations with Rydberg Atoms
Room: Terrace
Chair: Thad Walker, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Invited Speakers:  Charles Adams,  Larry Isenhower,  Sarah E. Anderson,  Hossein Sadeghpour  
Jun 5 2012 4:00PM, Tuesday
D1 
Poster Session I (4:00 pm - 6:00 pm)
Room: Royal Ballroom
Jun 6 2012 8:00AM, Wednesday
G1 
Invited Session: Disorder in Cold Atoms Systems
Room: Grand Ballroom BCD
Chair: Steven Rolston, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Dominik Schneble,  Brian DeMarco,  Laurent Sanchez-Palencia,  Vincent Josse  
G2 
Synthetic Gauge Fields for Ultracold Systems
Room: Grand Ballroom GF
Chair: Ian Spielman, JQI, NIST, and University of Maryland
G3 
Invited Session: Line Broadening
Room: Grand Ballroom E
Chair: Arati Dasgupta, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  D.E. Winget,  Eugene Oks,  Evgeny Stambulchik,  Yuri Ralchenko  
G4 
Focus Session: Progress in Attosecond Physics
Room: Garden 1-2
Chair: Louis DiMauro, Ohio State University
Invited Speakers:  Stefan Nagele,  Zenghu Chang  
G5 
Dipolar Quantum Gases
Room: Garden 3
Chair: Jonathan Weinstein, University of Nevada, Reno
G6 
Precision Measurements and Tests of Basic Physics
Room: Garden 4
Chair: Subhadeep Gupta, University of Washington
G7 
Invited Session: Cavity Optomechanics
Room: Terrace
Chair: Pierre Meystre, University of Arizona
Invited Speakers:  Dan Stamper-Kurn,  Oskar Painter,  John Teufel,  Tobias J. Kippenberg  
Jun 6 2012 10:30AM, Wednesday
H1 
Focus Session: Efimov Physics in Cold Atoms
Room: Grand Ballroom BCD
Chair: Cheng Chin, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Rudolf Grimm,  Yujun Wang  
H2 
Disorder in Quantum Gases
Room: Grand Ballroom GF
Chair: Brian DeMarco, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
H3 
Theory and Computation of Atomic and Molecular Interactions
Room: Grand Ballroom E
Chair: Shaohao Chen, Lousiana State University
H4 
Focus Session: Strong-Field Light-Matter Interactions
Room: Garden 1-2
Chair: Jun Ye, JILA/University of Colorado
Invited Speakers:  Louis DiMauro,  Misha Ivanov  
H5 
Unconventional Atom Trap Geometries
Room: Garden 3
Chair: Trey Porto, NIST
H6 
Symmetry Tests and Electric Dipole Moment Measurements
Room: Garden 4
Chair: David Weiss, Pennsylvania State University
H7 
Quantum Computing I
Room: Terrace
Chair: Chris Monroe, University of Maryland and JQI
Jun 6 2012 2:00PM, Wednesday
J1 
Focus Session: Two-Dimensional Fermi Gas
Room: Grand Ballroom BCD
Chair: Kaden Hazzard, JILA and University of Colorado
Invited Speakers:  Michael Koehl,  Martin Zwierlein  
J2 
Novel Techniques for Cold Atoms
Room: Grand Ballroom GF
Chair: Cass Sackett, University of Virginia
J3 
Invited Session: Gaseous Electronics
Room: Grand Ballroom E
Chair: Michael Brunger, Flinders University
Invited Speakers:  Andrew Murray,  Ed Barnat,  Sasa Dujko,  Klaus Bartschat  
J4 
Photoionization or Photofragmentation of Homonuclear Molecules
Room: Garden 1-2
Chair: Wendell Hill, National Science Foundation
J5 
DAMOP Thesis Prize Session
Room: Garden 3
Invited Speakers:  Waseem Bakr,  Chen-Lung Hung,  Monika Schleier-Smith,  Mikhail Lemeshko  
J6 
Atomic Clocks and Magnetometers
Room: Garden 4
Chair: Chris Oates, NIST
J7 
Quantum Computing II
Room: Terrace
Chair: Patricia Lee, Army Research Laboratory
Jun 6 2012 4:00PM, Wednesday
K1 
Poster Session II (4:00 pm - 6:00 pm)
Room: Royal Ballroom
K3 
Tutorial for Authors and Referees
Room: Grand Ballroom E
Jun 6 2012 5:00PM, Wednesday
K5 
Topical Group on Precision Measurements and Fundamental Constants Business Meeting
Room: Garden 3
Jun 6 2012 7:00PM, Wednesday
L1 
Ramsey Commemoration Session
Room: Grand Ballroom BCD
Invited Speakers:  Gerald Gabrielse,  Dan Kleppner,  Norval Fortson,  David Wineland  
Jun 7 2012 8:00AM, Thursday
M1 
Cold Chemistry
Room: Grand Ballroom BCD
Chair: Kaden Hazzard, JILA
M2 
Strongly Interacting Fermions
Room: Grand Ballroom GF
Chair: Elise Novitski, Harvard University
M3 
Focus Session: Atomic Spectroscopy
Room: Grand Ballroom E
Chair: Yuri Ralchenko, NIST
Invited Speakers:  Duane Liedahl,  Alla Safronova  
M4 
Focus Session: Control of Molecular Dynamics
Room: Garden 1-2
Chair: Jonathan Wrubel, NIST
Invited Speakers:  Alicia Palacios,  Nicolas Sisourat  
M5 
Atoms and Cavities
Room: Garden 3
Chair: Murray Holland, University of Colorado at Boulder, JILA
M6 
Rydberg Atom Interactions and Nonlinear Optics
Room: Garden 4
Chair: Alex Kuzmich, Georgia Tech
M7 
Undergraduate Session
Room: Terrace
Chair: Charles Conover, Colby College
Invited Speakers:  Bethany Jochim  
Jun 7 2012 10:30AM, Thursday
N2 
Optical Lattices
Room: Grand Ballroom GF
Chair: Ken O'Hara, Penn State University
N3 
Electron Interactions with Atoms and Molecules
Room: Grand Ballroom E
Chair: Don Madison, Missouri University of Science and Technology
N4 
Photoionization of Atomic Systems
Room: Garden 1-2
Chair: Robert Jones, University of Virginia
N5 
Optomechanical Systems and Electromagnetically-Induced Transparency
Room: Garden 3
Chair: Junho Suh, California Institute of Technology
N6 
Quantum Networks and Hybrid Quantum Systems
Room: Garden 4
Chair: Luming Duan, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
N7 
Atomic and Molecular Structure and Spectroscopy I
Room: Terrace
Chair: Joseph Tan, NIST
Jun 7 2012 2:00PM, Thursday
P2 
Synthetic Gauge Fields and Optical Lattices
Room: Grand Ballroom GF
Chair: Congjun Wu, University of California, San Diego
P3 
Experimental Probes of Atoms, Molecules, Clusters and Surfaces
Room: Grand Ballroom E
Chair: Frank Narducci
P4 
Non-equilibrium Dynamics in Ultracold Systems
Room: Garden 1-2
Chair: Marcos Rigol, Georgetown University
P5 
Quantum Memory and Nonlinear Optics
Room: Garden 3
Chair: Jonathan Weinstein, University of Nevada
P6 
Entanglement and Error Correction
Room: Garden 4
Chair: Nicholas Guise, NIST
P7 
Light-Matter Interactions and Structure
Room: Terrace
Chair: David Hall, Amherst College
Jun 7 2012 4:00PM, Thursday
Q1 
Poster Session III (4:00 pm - 6:00 pm)
Room: Royal Ballroom
Jun 7 2012 5:30PM, Thursday
R1 
DAMOP Business Meeting
Room: Garden 3
Jun 7 2012 6:30PM, Thursday
S1 
Reception and Banquet
Room: Grand Ballroom BCD
Jun 8 2012 8:00AM, Friday
T1 
Invited Session: Rydberg Gases and Ultracold Plasmas
Room: Grand Ballroom BCD
Chair: Charles Adams, Durham University
Invited Speakers:  Thomas Killian,  Tilman Pfau,  Edward Grant,  Thomas Pohl  
T2 
Novel Optical Lattices
Room: Grand Ballroom GF
Chair: Dan Stamper-Kurn, University of California, Berkeley
T3 
Focus Session: Particle Spectroscopy
Room: Grand Ballroom E
Chair: Philip Richerme, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Fischer,  James Walters  
T4 
Cold Collisions
Room: Garden 1-2
Chair: Susanne Yelin, University of Connecticut
T5 
Matter-Wave Interferometry I
Room: Garden 3
Chair: A. Kumarakrishnan, York University
T6 
Entangled States of Photons and Atoms
Room: Garden 4
Chair: Poul Jessen, University of Arizona
T7 
Photoionization or Photofragmentation of Heteronuclear Molecules
Room: Terrace
Chair: Ali Belkacem, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jun 8 2012 10:30AM, Friday
U1 
Hot Topics
Room: Grand Ballroom BCD
Chair: David Schultz, University of North Texas
Invited Speakers:  James K. Thompson,  Arman Cing\"oz,  Lily Childress,  Phil Richerme  
U2 
Focus Session: Universal Thermodynamics and Criticality
Room: Grand Ballroom GF
Chair: Nathan Gemelke, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Matthias Troyer,  Frederic Chevy  
U3 
Interactions Involving Antimatter or Charge Transfer
Room: Grand Ballroom E
Chair: Francis Robicheaux, Auburn University
U4 
Atomic and Molecular Structure and Spectroscopy II
Room: Garden 1-2
Chair: Steve Lundeen, Colorado State University
U5 
Matter-Wave Interferometry II and Cold Plasmas
Room: Garden 3
Chair: Scott Bergeson, Brigham Young University
U6 
Vortices and Solitons
Room: Garden 4
Chair: Peter Engels, Washington State University
U7 
Physics with Ultraintense Lasers and Light Sources
Room: Terrace
Chair: Itzik Ben-Ithzak, Kansas State University
Jun 4 2012 6:00PM, Monday
1A 
Welcome Reception
Room: Poolside
Jun 5 2012 8:00AM, Tuesday
A1 
Prize Session
Room: Grand Ballroom A-D
Chair: Gerald Gabrielse, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Jean Dalibard,  David Hall,  Philip G. Burke  
Jun 5 2012 10:30AM, Tuesday
B1 
Invited Session: Synthetic Gauge Fields in Quantum Gases
Room: Grand Ballroom BCD
Chair: Congjun Wu, University of California, San Diego
Invited Speakers:  Ian Spielman,  Jing Zhang,  Sumanta Tewari,  Hui Zhai  
B2 
Atomic Spin Dynamics
Room: Grand Ballroom GF
Chair: Chandra Raman, Georgia Tech
B3 
Invited Session: Atomic and Molecular Astrophysics
Room: Grand Ballroom E
Chair: Daniel Savin, Columbia University
Invited Speakers:  Anna Frebel,  Christopher Fontes,  Steven Federman,  John C. Pearson  
B4 
Invited Session: Frontiers of Intense Laser Physics
Room: Garden 1-2
Chair: Anthony Starace, University of Nebraska
Invited Speakers:  Donald Umstadter,  Robert Jones,  Toshiki Tajima,  S.X. Hu  
B5 
Cold Collisions and Ultracold Molecules
Room: Garden 3
Chair: Phillip Gould, University of Connecticut
B6 
Invited Session: The Fine Structure Constant
Room: Garden 4
Co-Sponsor:
GPMFC
Chair: Gerald Gabrielse, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Saida Guellati,  Shannon Fogwell Hoogerheide,  Makiko Nio,  Shau-Yu Lan  
B7 
Invited Session: Quantum Control for Quantum Information Processing
Room: Terrace
Chair: Ivan Deutsch, University of New Mexico
Invited Speakers:  Jean-Michel Raimond,  Poul Jessen,  Markus Greiner,  Rajibul Islam  
Jun 5 2012 2:00PM, Tuesday
C1 
Invited Session: Dipolar Quantum Gases
Room: Grand Ballroom BCD
Chair: Doerte Blume, Washington State University
Invited Speakers:  Benjamin Lev,  Bruno Laburthe-Tolra,  Deborah Jin,  Barbara Capogrosso-Sansone  
C2 
Advances in Laser Cooling
Room: Grand Ballroom GF
Chair: Russell Hart, Rice University
C3 
Focus Session: AMO Applications
Room: Grand Ballroom E
Chair: Elizabeth McCormack, Bryn Mawr College
Invited Speakers:  Carl Winstead,  M. Cristina A. Lopes  
C4 
Invited Session: Frontiers in Ultrafast X-ray Physics
Room: Garden 1-2
Chair: Linda Young, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Adrian Cavalieri,  Anne Marie March,  Uwe Thumm,  Christoph Bostedt  
C5 
Bose Gases
Room: Garden 3
Chair: John Thomas, North Carolina State University
C6 
Invited Session: Precision Measurements and Applications to Fundamental Physics
Room: Garden 4
Co-Sponsor:
GPMFC
Chair: Holger Mueller, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Mark Kasevich,  Chris Oates,  Michael Martin,  Markus Aspelmeyer  
C7 
Invited Session: Quantum Manipulations with Rydberg Atoms
Room: Terrace
Chair: Thad Walker, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Invited Speakers:  Charles Adams,  Larry Isenhower,  Sarah E. Anderson,  Hossein Sadeghpour  
Jun 5 2012 4:00PM, Tuesday
D1 
Poster Session I (4:00 pm - 6:00 pm)
Room: Royal Ballroom
Jun 6 2012 8:00AM, Wednesday
G1 
Invited Session: Disorder in Cold Atoms Systems
Room: Grand Ballroom BCD
Chair: Steven Rolston, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Dominik Schneble,  Brian DeMarco,  Laurent Sanchez-Palencia,  Vincent Josse  
G2 
Synthetic Gauge Fields for Ultracold Systems
Room: Grand Ballroom GF
Chair: Ian Spielman, JQI, NIST, and University of Maryland
G3 
Invited Session: Line Broadening
Room: Grand Ballroom E
Chair: Arati Dasgupta, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  D.E. Winget,  Eugene Oks,  Evgeny Stambulchik,  Yuri Ralchenko  
G4 
Focus Session: Progress in Attosecond Physics
Room: Garden 1-2
Chair: Louis DiMauro, Ohio State University
Invited Speakers:  Stefan Nagele,  Zenghu Chang  
G5 
Dipolar Quantum Gases
Room: Garden 3
Chair: Jonathan Weinstein, University of Nevada, Reno
G6 
Precision Measurements and Tests of Basic Physics
Room: Garden 4
Chair: Subhadeep Gupta, University of Washington
G7 
Invited Session: Cavity Optomechanics
Room: Terrace
Chair: Pierre Meystre, University of Arizona
Invited Speakers:  Dan Stamper-Kurn,  Oskar Painter,  John Teufel,  Tobias J. Kippenberg  
Jun 6 2012 10:30AM, Wednesday
H1 
Focus Session: Efimov Physics in Cold Atoms
Room: Grand Ballroom BCD
Chair: Cheng Chin, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Rudolf Grimm,  Yujun Wang  
H2 
Disorder in Quantum Gases
Room: Grand Ballroom GF
Chair: Brian DeMarco, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
H3 
Theory and Computation of Atomic and Molecular Interactions
Room: Grand Ballroom E
Chair: Shaohao Chen, Lousiana State University
H4 
Focus Session: Strong-Field Light-Matter Interactions
Room: Garden 1-2
Chair: Jun Ye, JILA/University of Colorado
Invited Speakers:  Louis DiMauro,  Misha Ivanov  
H5 
Unconventional Atom Trap Geometries
Room: Garden 3
Chair: Trey Porto, NIST
H6 
Symmetry Tests and Electric Dipole Moment Measurements
Room: Garden 4
Chair: David Weiss, Pennsylvania State University
H7 
Quantum Computing I
Room: Terrace
Chair: Chris Monroe, University of Maryland and JQI
Jun 6 2012 2:00PM, Wednesday
J1 
Focus Session: Two-Dimensional Fermi Gas
Room: Grand Ballroom BCD
Chair: Kaden Hazzard, JILA and University of Colorado
Invited Speakers:  Michael Koehl,  Martin Zwierlein  
J2 
Novel Techniques for Cold Atoms
Room: Grand Ballroom GF
Chair: Cass Sackett, University of Virginia
J3 
Invited Session: Gaseous Electronics
Room: Grand Ballroom E
Chair: Michael Brunger, Flinders University
Invited Speakers:  Andrew Murray,  Ed Barnat,  Sasa Dujko,  Klaus Bartschat  
J4 
Photoionization or Photofragmentation of Homonuclear Molecules
Room: Garden 1-2
Chair: Wendell Hill, National Science Foundation
J5 
DAMOP Thesis Prize Session
Room: Garden 3
Invited Speakers:  Waseem Bakr,  Chen-Lung Hung,  Monika Schleier-Smith,  Mikhail Lemeshko  
J6 
Atomic Clocks and Magnetometers
Room: Garden 4
Chair: Chris Oates, NIST
J7 
Quantum Computing II
Room: Terrace
Chair: Patricia Lee, Army Research Laboratory
Jun 6 2012 4:00PM, Wednesday
K1 
Poster Session II (4:00 pm - 6:00 pm)
Room: Royal Ballroom
K3 
Tutorial for Authors and Referees
Room: Grand Ballroom E
Jun 6 2012 5:00PM, Wednesday
K5 
Topical Group on Precision Measurements and Fundamental Constants Business Meeting
Room: Garden 3
Jun 6 2012 7:00PM, Wednesday
L1 
Ramsey Commemoration Session
Room: Grand Ballroom BCD
Invited Speakers:  Gerald Gabrielse,  Dan Kleppner,  Norval Fortson,  David Wineland  
Jun 7 2012 8:00AM, Thursday
M1 
Cold Chemistry
Room: Grand Ballroom BCD
Chair: Kaden Hazzard, JILA
M2 
Strongly Interacting Fermions
Room: Grand Ballroom GF
Chair: Elise Novitski, Harvard University
M3 
Focus Session: Atomic Spectroscopy
Room: Grand Ballroom E
Chair: Yuri Ralchenko, NIST
Invited Speakers:  Duane Liedahl,  Alla Safronova  
M4 
Focus Session: Control of Molecular Dynamics
Room: Garden 1-2
Chair: Jonathan Wrubel, NIST
Invited Speakers:  Alicia Palacios,  Nicolas Sisourat  
M5 
Atoms and Cavities
Room: Garden 3
Chair: Murray Holland, University of Colorado at Boulder, JILA
M6 
Rydberg Atom Interactions and Nonlinear Optics
Room: Garden 4
Chair: Alex Kuzmich, Georgia Tech
M7 
Undergraduate Session
Room: Terrace
Chair: Charles Conover, Colby College
Invited Speakers:  Bethany Jochim  
Jun 7 2012 10:30AM, Thursday
N2 
Optical Lattices
Room: Grand Ballroom GF
Chair: Ken O'Hara, Penn State University
N3 
Electron Interactions with Atoms and Molecules
Room: Grand Ballroom E
Chair: Don Madison, Missouri University of Science and Technology
N4 
Photoionization of Atomic Systems
Room: Garden 1-2
Chair: Robert Jones, University of Virginia
N5 
Optomechanical Systems and Electromagnetically-Induced Transparency
Room: Garden 3
Chair: Junho Suh, California Institute of Technology
N6 
Quantum Networks and Hybrid Quantum Systems
Room: Garden 4
Chair: Luming Duan, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
N7 
Atomic and Molecular Structure and Spectroscopy I
Room: Terrace
Chair: Joseph Tan, NIST
Jun 7 2012 2:00PM, Thursday
P2 
Synthetic Gauge Fields and Optical Lattices
Room: Grand Ballroom GF
Chair: Congjun Wu, University of California, San Diego
P3 
Experimental Probes of Atoms, Molecules, Clusters and Surfaces
Room: Grand Ballroom E
Chair: Frank Narducci
P4 
Non-equilibrium Dynamics in Ultracold Systems
Room: Garden 1-2
Chair: Marcos Rigol, Georgetown University
P5 
Quantum Memory and Nonlinear Optics
Room: Garden 3
Chair: Jonathan Weinstein, University of Nevada
P6 
Entanglement and Error Correction
Room: Garden 4
Chair: Nicholas Guise, NIST
P7 
Light-Matter Interactions and Structure
Room: Terrace
Chair: David Hall, Amherst College
Jun 7 2012 4:00PM, Thursday
Q1 
Poster Session III (4:00 pm - 6:00 pm)
Room: Royal Ballroom
Jun 7 2012 5:30PM, Thursday
R1 
DAMOP Business Meeting
Room: Garden 3
Jun 7 2012 6:30PM, Thursday
S1 
Reception and Banquet
Room: Grand Ballroom BCD
Jun 8 2012 8:00AM, Friday
T1 
Invited Session: Rydberg Gases and Ultracold Plasmas
Room: Grand Ballroom BCD
Chair: Charles Adams, Durham University
Invited Speakers:  Thomas Killian,  Tilman Pfau,  Edward Grant,  Thomas Pohl  
T2 
Novel Optical Lattices
Room: Grand Ballroom GF
Chair: Dan Stamper-Kurn, University of California, Berkeley
T3 
Focus Session: Particle Spectroscopy
Room: Grand Ballroom E
Chair: Philip Richerme, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Fischer,  James Walters  
T4 
Cold Collisions
Room: Garden 1-2
Chair: Susanne Yelin, University of Connecticut
T5 
Matter-Wave Interferometry I
Room: Garden 3
Chair: A. Kumarakrishnan, York University
T6 
Entangled States of Photons and Atoms
Room: Garden 4
Chair: Poul Jessen, University of Arizona
T7 
Photoionization or Photofragmentation of Heteronuclear Molecules
Room: Terrace
Chair: Ali Belkacem, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jun 8 2012 10:30AM, Friday
U1 
Hot Topics
Room: Grand Ballroom BCD
Chair: David Schultz, University of North Texas
Invited Speakers:  James K. Thompson,  Arman Cing\"oz,  Lily Childress,  Phil Richerme  
U2 
Focus Session: Universal Thermodynamics and Criticality
Room: Grand Ballroom GF
Chair: Nathan Gemelke, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Matthias Troyer,  Frederic Chevy  
U3 
Interactions Involving Antimatter or Charge Transfer
Room: Grand Ballroom E
Chair: Francis Robicheaux, Auburn University
U4 
Atomic and Molecular Structure and Spectroscopy II
Room: Garden 1-2
Chair: Steve Lundeen, Colorado State University
U5 
Matter-Wave Interferometry II and Cold Plasmas
Room: Garden 3
Chair: Scott Bergeson, Brigham Young University
U6 
Vortices and Solitons
Room: Garden 4
Chair: Peter Engels, Washington State University
U7 
Physics with Ultraintense Lasers and Light Sources
Room: Terrace
Chair: Itzik Ben-Ithzak, Kansas State University
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