Program overview

SATURDAY MORNING, 17 JUNE 2000

10:00 W2.01 Gerhard Herzberg: An Illustrious Life in Science

Boris P. Stoicheff (Department of Physics, University of Toronto)

10:36 W2.02 Interstellar H_3^+: Herzberg and Hydrogenic Species

Takeshi Oka (Departments of Chemistry, Astronomy amp; Astrophysics, University of Chicago)

11:12 W2.03 Electronic Spectra of Some Linear Triatomic Molecules Containing Transition Metal Atoms

Anthony J. Merer (Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1Z1)

11:48 W2.04 Theory of Highly Excited Molecular States : Some Recent Developments

Christian Jungen (Laboratoire Aimé Cotton du CNRS,Université de Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay, France)

10:00 W3.01 Taming light with cold atoms

Lene Vestergaard Hau (Harvard University)

10:36 W3.02 New Light on Bose-Einstein condensates

Wolfgang Ketterle (Research Laboratory of Electronics and Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139)

11:12 W3.03 A Quantum Degenerate Gas of Fermionic Atoms

Deborah Jin (JILA/Univ. of Colorado)

11:48 W3.04 Generating Solitons in a Bose-Einstein Condensate by Phase Imprinting

Kristian Helmerson (Physics Laboratory, NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland)

10:00 W4.01 Electronic Population Transfer with Ultrafast, Chirped Laser Pulses

Jeffrey L. Krause, Vladimir Malinovsky (Quantum Theory Project, University of Florida)

10:12 W4.02 Learning to Control Dissociative Ionization in a Diatomic Molecule

B. J. Pearson, T. C. Weinacht, J. L. White, P. H. Bucksbaum (Physics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1120)

10:24 W4.03 Measuring dissociating wave packets by laser Coulomb explosion imaging

Szczepan Chelkowski, André Bandrauk (Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique, Université de Sherbrooke, Qué. J1K 2R1, Canada), Paul B. Corkum (Femtoscience Group, National Research Council, Ottawa, Ont. K1A 0R6, Canada)

10:36 W4.04 A Direct Measurement of The Oscillation Between Degenerate Bound States in a Rapidly Autoionizing Two-Electron Configuration

Heider Ereifej (University of Missouri - Rolla), J. G. Story (Univeristy of missouri - Rolla)

10:48 W4.05 Reconstructing the density matrix of an angular momentum

Gerd Klose, Gregory A. Smith, Poul S. Jessen (Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona),

11:00 W4.06 Ionization of excited H atoms by a bichromatic field

P.M. Koch (SUNY Stony Brook), L. Sirko (SUNY Stony Brook and Inst.\ of Physics, PAN, Warsaw)

11:12 W4.07 Phase- and amplitude-dependent phenomena in He Rydberg atoms driven by a bichromatic field

L. Sirko (SUNY Stony Brook and Inst.\ of Physics, PAN, Warsaw), S.A. Zelazny, P.M. Koch (SUNY Stony Brook)

11:24 W4.08 Quantum localization of the kicked Rydberg atom

S. Yoshida (Univ. of Tennessee), C.O. Reinhold (Oak Ridge Natl. Lab., Univ. of Tennessee), P. Kristofel (Vienna Univ. of Technology), J. Burgdorfer (Univ. of Tennessee, Vienna Univ. of Technology)

11:36 W4.09 Electric Field Controlled, Pulsed Autoionization

J.G. Story, Heider Ereifej (University of Missouri - Rolla)

11:48 W4.10 Monocycle THz pulse influencing the dynamics of a Rydberg wave packet

Anouk Wetzels, Andreas Guertler, Francis Robicheaux (Department of Physics, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849 USA), Bart Noordam (Fom Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Kruislaan 407, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

12:00 W4.11 Optical Control of the Angular Distribution of Autoionized Electrons

R. van Leeuwen, K. Vijayalakshmi, R. R. Jones (Physics Department, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, 22901),

10:00 W5.01 Isolated Core Excitations in Static Fields

F. Robicheaux (Auburn Univ.), J.B.M. Warntjes, L.D. Noordam (AMOLF), R.R. Jones, B.J. Lyons, M.A. Baig, S.T. Mincheva, T.F. Gallagher (Univ. of Virginia)

10:12 W5.02 The Effect of Strong Transient Electric Fields on Isolated-Core Excitations in Ca

J.G. Zeibel, S.N. Pisharody, R.R. Jones (University of Virginia)

10:24 W5.03 Four-body Continuum Measurements of Double Photoionization of Spatially Aligned D_2

A. L. Landers (Western Michigan University), T. Weber, R. Dörner, V. Mergel, H. Schmidt-Böcking (Institut für Kernphysik, Universitat Frankfurt), C.L. Cocke, T. Osipov (Kansas State University), M. H. Prior (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

10:36 W5.04 Mode-Dependent Vibrational Autoionization of Aniline

C. A. Raptis, S. T. Pratt (Argonne National Laboratory)

10:48 W5.05 PHOTOIONIZATION AND RECOMBINATION OF Ni II, C IV-V, O VI-VII, Fe XXIV-XXV

Sultana Nahar, Anil Pradhan (The Ohio State University), Manuel Bautista (Goddard Space Flight Center), Honglin Zhang (Los Alamos National Lab)

11:00 W5.06 High energy behaviour of the atomic photoionization cross sections

N. B. Avdonina (University of Tennessee), E. G. Drukarev (Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Russia), R. H. Pratt (University of Pittsburgh,)

11:12 W5.07 A New Test of the Wannier Threshold Law

R. Wehlitz, M.-T. Huang (Photon Factory, IMSS, KEK), I. A. Sellin (Univ. of Tennessee), Y. Azuma (Photon Factory, IMSS, KEK)

11:24 W5.08 Photoionization spectra of CH_3I and C_2H_5I perturbed by CF_4 and c-C_4F_8: Electron scattering in halocarbon gases

C. M. Evans (Department of Chemistry and the Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70806 and Department of Chemistry, University of Louisiana at Monroe, Monroe, LA 71209), E. Morikawa (Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803), G. L. Findley (Department of Chemistry, University of Louisiana at Monroe, Monroe, LA 71209)

11:36 W5.09 Laser Ignited Glow Discharge in Lithium Vapour

Hrvoje Skenderovic, Irena Labazan, Slobodan Milosevic, Goran Pichler (Institute of Physics Zagreb, P.O. Box 304, Croatia), T-2 Team