Program overview

THURSDAY MORNING, 17 MAY 2001

08:00 H1.001 Quantum Non Demolition detection of a single photon

Gilles Nogues (Physics department, Yale University)

08:36 H1.002 Using Feedback for Coherent Control of Quantum Systems

Thomas Weinacht (JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder)

09:12 H1.003 Nonlinear wave mixing between atomic and optical fields

Michael G Moore (ITAMP, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

09:48 H1.004 Molecular rotation and dynamics in superfluid ^4He nanodroplets

Carlo Callegari (Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544)

08:00 H2.001 Fully Differential Cusp Electron Production Cross Sections in H_2^++ He Collisions

Kh. Khayyat, L. An, M. Schulz (University of Missouri-Rolla)

08:12 H2.002 Interference Effects in Electron Emission from H_2 by Fast Krypton Ions

N. Stolterfoht, V. Hoffmann, B. Skogvall (Hahn-Meitner-Institut, Berlin), B. Sulik (ATOMKI, Debrecen), J.-Y. Chesnel, J. Rangama, F. Frémont, D. Hennecart, A. Cassimi, X. Husson, A. Landers, J.A. Tanis (Western Michigan Univ.), M.E. Galassi, R.D. Rivarola (Inst. Fisica Rosario)

08:24 H2.003 2s Electron Loss to the Continuum from Metastable C^4+(1s2s, ^3S) in C^4+ Plus Helium Collisions

H. Aliabadi, P. Richard, C. P. Bhalla (J R Macdonald Laboratory, Kansas State University, Manhattan KS 66506), M. Gealy (Concordia College, Morehead, MN)

08:36 H2.004 Charge state dependence of 0^\circ binary encounter electron production in B^q+ (q=2-5) in collisions with H_2

E.P. Benis, T.J.M. Zouros (Univ. of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece amp; J.R. Macdonald Lab, Kansas State University), H. Aliabadi, M. Zamkov, C.P. Bhalla, P. Richard (J.R. Macdonald Lab, Kansas State University)

08:48 H2.005 B^3+(2p^2)^1D doubly-excited state formed in energetic collisions of B^4+ + H_2 by resonant transfer and excitation

T.J.M. Zouros, E.P. Benis (Univ. of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece amp; J.R. Macdonald Lab, Kansas State University), H. Aliabadi, M. Zamkov, P. Richard (J.R. Macdonald Lab, Kansas State University)

09:00 H2.006 Triply excited states formed in metastable ion-atom collisions

M. Zamkov, P. Richard, H. Tawara (J.R. Macdonald Lab, Kansas State University), E.P. Benis, T.J.M. Zouros (Univ. of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece amp; J.R. Macdonald Lab, Kansas State University)

09:12 H2.007 Energy and Charge State Dependencies of Transfer Ionization and Single Capture

R. Ünal, P. Richard, I. Ben-Itzhak, C. L. Cocke, M. J. Singh*, H. Tawara, N. Woody (J. R. Macdonald Laboratory, Kansas State University Manhattan Kansas 66506)

09:24 H2.008 Nonperturbative calculations of charge-changing processes in ion collisions with neon atoms

Tom Kirchner, Marko Horbatsch (Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3), Hans Jürgen Lüdde (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Frankfurt, D-60054 Frankfurt, Germany)

09:36 H2.009 Optimization of Negative Ion Production by Sequential Charge Transfer

X. Zhao, R. Ryjkov, J. Lassen, X. Li, H.A. Schuessler (Department of Physics, Texas Aamp;M University, College Station, Texas 77843-4242, USA)

09:48 H2.010 Double-K-Vacancy Production in Li-Like Be ^+ and C ^3+ Ions Colliding With Helium.

Ali Alnaser, Allen Landers, Steve Ferguson, John Tanis (Western Michigan University,Kalamazoo, Michigan, U.S.)

10:00 H2.011 Experimental study of L-distributions resulting from charge capture by Si^(3+) on Rydberg atoms

R.A. Komara, S.R. Lundeen (Dept. of Physics, Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO 80523), C.W. Fehrenbach, B.D. DePaola (Dept. of Physics, Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS 66502)

10:12 H2.012 Quantum Transport of Excited States of Highly Charged Ions

T. Minami (Univ. of Tennessee), C.O. Reinhold (Oak Ridge Natl. Lab., Univ. of Tennessee), M. Seliger (Vienna Univ. of Technology), J. Burgdorfer (Univ. of Tennessee, Vienna Univ. of Technology), D. Vernhet, C. Fourment, E. Lamour, J-P. Rozet (Universite Paris 6amp;7), B. Gervais (CEA-ISMRA-CNRS UMR)

08:00 H4.001 Molecular Spectroscopy of Ultracold ^7Li Atoms

I. D. Prodan, J. M. Gerton, R. G. Hulet (Physics and Astronomy Department and Rice Quantum Institute, Rice University)

08:12 H4.002 Spectroscopy of the Highest Rb_2 Bound States with 10 kHz Precision

B. J. Verhaar, Servaas Kokkelmans, Eric van Kempen (Dept. of Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology), R.S. Freeland, Roahn Wynar, D. Comparat, C. Ryu, D. J. Heinzen (Dept. of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin)

08:24 H4.003 Production of translationally cold Na_2 molecules in high vibrational levels of the triplet ground state.

Kevin M. Jones (Dept. of Physics,Williams College,Williamstown MA 01267), Fredrik Fatemi, Paul D. Lett (NIST,Gaithersburg MD)

08:36 H4.004 Cesium Photoassociation Below the 7P Asymptotes

Marin Pichler, Jianbing Qi, William C. Stwalley (Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, Storrs CT, 06269)

08:48 H4.005 Plasma Formation Followed by Recombination in a Gas of Ultracold Rydberg Atoms

A. Estrin, D. Tong, J.R. Ensher, C.-H. Cheng, E.E. Eyler, P.L. Gould (Physics Department, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.)

09:00 H4.006 Simulations of ultracold plasmas and cold Rydberg gases

S. Mazevet, L.A. Collins, J.D. Kress (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545)

09:12 H4.007 Trap Loss and Photoassociative collisions of cold alkaline earth atoms

Paul Julienne (NIST), Mette Machholm (National University of Singapore), Kalle-Antti Suominen (University of Turku)

09:24 H4.008 Resonant Energy Transfer and Excitons in a Frozen Rydberg Gas

V. Celli, J. S. Frasier (University of Virginia)

09:36 H4.009 Quenching of molecular rotations and vibrations at ultracold temperatures

A. Dalgarno, N. Balakrishnan (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138)

09:48 H4.010 Positron cooling of antiprotons: precursor of recombination

J.N. Tan, J. Estrada, P. Yesley, N. Bowden, P. Oxley, C. Storry, M. Wessels, J. Tan, G. Gabrielse (Harvard Univ.), W. Oelert, G. Scheppers, D. Gronzonka, T. Sefsick (IKP-Forschungszentrum), H. Fermann, H. Zmeskal, W. Breunlich (IMEP), H. Kalinowsky (Univ. of Bonn), C. Wesdorp (FOM), ATRAP Collaboration

10:00 H4.011 Multiple coherent light scattering in ultracold rubidium

M.D. Havey, C.I. Sukenik, P. Kulatunga (Old Dominion University), D.V. Kupriyanov, I.M. Sokolov (St. Petersburg State Technical University)

10:12 H4.012 Evaporative cooling of atomic chromium

J.D. Weinstein, R. deCarvalho, C.I. Hancox, J.M. Doyle (Harvard University)