Program overview

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, 16 MAY 2001

Session C1. From Atom Coherences to Slow Light.

Wednesday afternoon, 14:00, Ballroom 5 and 6, London Convention Centre

14:00 C1.001 Pondermotive Forces with Slow Light
S. E. Harris (Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-4085)
14:36 C1.002 Taming light with cold atoms: Light at bicycle speed ... and slower yet!
Lene Hau (Harvard University and Rowland Institute)
15:12 C1.003 Molecular coherence in solid hydrogen
Kohzo Hakuta (University of Electro-Communications and CREST/JST)
15:48 C1.004 Kerr Non-linerity in Slow Light Propagation for Quantum Teleportation
Paolo Tombesi (Dip. di Matematica e Fisica and Unità INFM, Università di Camerino, via Madonna delle Carceri 62032, Camerino, Italy)

Session C2. Photon Interactions: Photo Ionization and Photo Dissociation.

Wednesday afternoon, 14:00, Salon A, London Convention Centre

14:00 C2.001 Determination of relative and absolute photoionization cross-sections in multiply-charged Ba^n+ Ions
J.-M. Bizau, D. Cubaynes, J. M. Esteva, F. J. Wuilleumier (LSAI, Univ. Paris-Sud, Orsay), R. Marmoret, L. Petrault, C. Remond, C. Couillaud, A. Compant La Fontaine, C. Blancard (CEA/DIF, BP12, 91680 Bruyeres-le-Chatel), D. Hitz, P. Ludwig (CEA, CENG, Grenoble), P. C. Deshmukh, H.-L. Zhou, S. T. Manson (Georgia St. U., Atlanta, GA)
14:12 C2.002 Mirroring Doubly Excited Resonances in Ar
S.E. Canton-Rogan, A.A. Wills, T Gorczyca, M Wiendenhoeft, O. Nayandin (Affiliation), N. Berrah (Physics Dept, Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, MI), C.-N Liu (Max-PLank-Institut fur Physics, Dresden, Germany)
14:24 C2.003 Fully Quantal (\gamma,2e) Calculations for Absolute Differential Cross Sections of Helium and the Alkaline Earths
J Colgan, M S Pindzola, F Robicheaux (Department of Physics, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849)
14:36 C2.004 Quantum differential photoionization of Xe Stark states
Frederic Texier, Francis Robicheaux (Department of Physics, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849)
14:48 C2.005 High Frequency Limits of Two-electron photo-ionization cross sections
Rajmund Krivec (Department of Theoretical Physics, J. Stefan Institute, PO Box 3000, Ljubljana 1001, Slovenia), Miron Ya Amusia (Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel and A. F. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg 194021, Russia), Victor B. Mandelzweig (Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel)
15:00 C2.006 Relativistic Close Coupling Calculations for X-Ray/UV Photoionization, Recombination, and Transition Probabiliites of He-LIKE and Li-LIKe C,O, and Fe
Sultana Nahar, Anil Pradhan (The Ohio State U.), Honglin Zhang (LANL)
15:12 C2.007 HIGH RESOLUTION X-RAY RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY: OSCILLATOR STRENGTHS FOR KLL RESONANCES IN Li-LIKE C IV, O VI, AND Fe XXV
Anil Pradhan, Sultana Nahar (The Ohio State U.), Honglin Zhang (LANL)
15:24 C2.008 Inner-shell photoionization of singly charged argon ions
A. S. Schlachter (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley CA 94720), A. M. Covington, A. Aguilar, M. Garaibeh, G. Hinojosa, R. A. Phaneuf (Department of Physics, University of Nevada-Reno, Reno NV 89557), C. Cisneros, I. Alvarez (Centro de Ciencias Fisicas, UNAM, Cuernavaca 62131, Mexico), M. M. Sant'Anna (Departamento de Fisica, Pontificia Universidade Catolica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), M. Martins (Institut fur Experimentalphysik, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany), B. M. McLaughlin (Queen's University Belfast, N. Ireland)
15:36 C2.009 One-photon excitation and dissociation of both, weakly bound rotational excited states, vibrational excited states, of HD2+ and photofragment branching ratio D+/H+ of the final predissociative states.
F.B. Yousif (Centro de Ciencias Físicas, UNAM, P.O. Box 48-3, 62251, Cuernavaca, Mor. México), C. Cisneros, J Urquijo, I Alvarez
15:48 C2.010 Driving superfluidity with photoassociation.
Matt Mackie (Helsinki Institute of Physics), Eddy Timmermans (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Robin Côté (University of Connecticut), Juha Javanainen (University of Connecticut.)
16:00 C2.011 N and Z Independent Relativistic High Energy Matrix Element Zeros
L.A. LaJohn, R.H. Pratt (University of Pittsburgh)
16:12 C2.012 Invariant Techniques in the Theory of Angular Distributions for Atomic Processes
Nikolai L. Manakov, Alexei V. Meremianin (Department of Physics, Voronezh State University, 394693 Voronezh, Russia), Anthony F. Starace (Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588-0111, USA)
16:24 C2.013 High-resolution correlation satellites in 2p- and 2s- photoioni-zation of Na
F.J. Wuilleumier, S. Diehl, D. Cubaynes, J.-M. Bizau (Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Atomique et Ionique, Orsay, France), J.D. Bozek (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA), N. Berrah, S. Canton (Dept. of Physics, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI)

Session C3. Atomic and Molecular Structure and Properties.

Wednesday afternoon, 14:00, Salon B, London Convention Centre

14:00 C3.001 FREQUENCY MEASUREMENTS OF OPTICALLY PUMPED LASER EMISSIONS AND STARK SPECTROSCOPY OF CD_3OD and CHD_2OH
M. Jackson, H. J. Hockel, M. E. Lauters, J. Sullivan, G. R. Sudhakaran (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse), M. D. Allen, K. M. Evenson (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Li-Hong Xu, R. M. Lees (University of New Brunswick), I. Mukhopadhyay (University of Akron)
14:12 C3.002 Collision-Induced Absorption Spectra of Double Vibrational Transitions in H2+N2 1
C. Stamp, R.D.G. Prasad, P.G. Gillard, S. Paddi Reddy (Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography,Memorial University of Newfoundland,St.John’s, NF, A1B 3X7, Canada), C. Stamp Collaboration, R.D.G. Prasad Collaboration, P.G. Gilliard Collaboration, S.P.Reddy Collaboration
14:24 C3.003 Ion Dynamics and Laser Cooling in a Linear Combined Trap
T. Nakamura, S. Ohtani (Institute for Laser Science, University of Electro-Communications, 1-5-1 Chofugaoka, Japan), M. Wada (Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan), K. Okada (Department of Physics, Sophia University, 7-1 Kioicho, Chiyoda, Tokyo 102-8554, Japan), I. Katayama (Institute of Partical and Nuclear Study (IPNS), High Energy Accelerator Research Organization(KEK), 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan), H. A. Schuessler (Dept. of Physics, Texas Aamp;M University, College Station, TX 77843-4242, USA)
14:36 C3.004 Optical Spectroscopy of Microplasmas produced with Sub-millijoule Laser Pulses
Georg W. Rieger, Michael T. Taschuk, Ying Y. Tsui, Robert Fedosejevs (Dept. Elec. Comp. Eng., Universtiy of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada), Laser-Plasma Group
14:48 C3.005 VUV Spectroscopy of Zr VI
M. D. Lindsay, Joseph Reader (NIST)
15:00 C3.006 Precision measurement of wavelengths emitted by a molecular fluorine laser at 157 nm
Joseph Reader, Craig Sansonetti (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
15:12 C3.007 Measurement of the Hyperfine Structure of the 4d2D3/2,5/2 Levels and Isotope Shifts of the 4p2P3/2 - 4d2D3/2 and 4p2P3/2 - 4d2D5/2 Transitions in Gallium 69 and 71
S.J. Rehse, Jr. Fairbank, S.A. Lee (Department of Physics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523)
15:24 C3.008 Quantum Monte Carlo Study of Static Electrical Properties
Miroslav Hornik, Stuart M. Rothstein (Departments of Chemistry and Physics, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1)
15:36 C3.009 Atomic Polarizability Measurements Using a Cold Atom Fountain
Jason Maddi, Daniel Schwan, Harvey Gould (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
15:48 C3.010 Computation of molecular spectra with coupled-cluster-based approaches
Xiangzhu Li, Holger Meissner (Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont. N2L 3G1), Josef Paldus (Department of Applied Mathematics, Department of Chemistry, and (GWC)^2, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont. N2L 3G1)
16:00 C3.011 A New Approach to the Architecture of Diatomic Molecules
Tolga Yarman (Galatasaray University and Isik University, Istanbul, Turkey)

Session C4. Interactons of Ions with Atoms, Molecules, and Surfaces.

Wednesday afternoon, 14:00, Salon CD, London Convention Centre

14:00 C4.001 Ion and electron impact ionization of high-Z atoms at relativistic energies
Ali Belkacem (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
14:36 C4.002 Momentum transfer in proton helium collisions: A new structure in momentum space
Thorsten Weber (IKF, Universitaet Frankfurt, Germany)
15:12 C4.003 Application of Highly Charged Ion-Surface Collisions
Alex Hamza (University of California/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
15:48 C4.004 MOTRIMS: Magneto Optically Trapped-target Recoil Ion Momentum Spectroscopy in Atomic Collisions
Xavier Flechard (J.R. Macdonald Laboratory, Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506-2604)