Program overview

THURSDAY MORNING, 17 MAY 2001

11:00 J1.001 1 and 2 Dimensional Bose Einstein Condensates

Johnny Vogels, Axel Gorlitz, Chandra Raman, Todd Gustavson, Marija Drndic, Aaron Leanhardt, Jamil Abo-Shaeer, Robert Loew, Wolfgang Ketterle (MIT)

11:12 J1.002 Growth of a Hydrogen Bose Condensate

Stephen Moss, Kendra Vant, Lorenz Willmann, David Landhuis, Lia Matos, Julia Steinberger, Thomas Greytak, Daniel Kleppner (Center for Ultracold Atoms and Department of Physics, MIT)

11:24 J1.003 Direct Monte-Carlo simulations of Bose-condensed gases at finite temperatures.

Brian Jackson, Eugene Zaremba (Queen's University, Canada)

11:36 J1.004 Finite temperature scissors modes in trapped Bose-Einstein condensates.

Eugene Zaremba, Brian Jackson (Queen's U., Canada)

11:48 J1.005 Divergence of an atom laser

Joseph Thywissen, Yann Le Coq, Sadiq Rangwala, Guillaume Delannoy, Fabrice Gerbier, Simon Richard, Philippe Bouyer, Alain Aspect (Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique), Groupe Optique Atomique Team

12:00 J1.006 Dual Quantum Degeneracy in a Bose/Fermi Mixture of Lithium

Kevin E. Strecker, Andrew G. Truscott, Guthrie B. Partridge, Randall G. Hulet (Department of Physics and Astronomy and Rice Quantum Institute, Rice University)

12:12 J1.007 Interaction of Intense laser Pulses with Ultra-cold Atoms

Donatella Ciampini (INFM, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy), Francesco Fuso (INFM, Dipartimento di Fisica Università di Pisa, Pisa. Italy), Jorg H. Mûller, Marco Anderlini (INFM, Dipartimento di Fisica Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy), Oliver Morsch (INFM, Dipartimento di Fisica Università di Pisa, Pisa. Italy), Ennio Arimondo (INFM, Dipartimento di Fisica Università di Pisa, Via F. Buonar)

12:24 J1.008 A novel optical dipole trap toward Bose-Einstein condensation

Yong-Il Shin, Wooshik Shim, Heung-Ryoul Noh, Wonho Jhe (Center for Near-field Atom-photon Technology and Department of Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea)

12:36 J1.009 Critical collisional opacity in a ^87Rb Bose-Einstein Condensate

Herman Beijerinck (Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven), Johannes Schuster, Andreas Marte, Sebastian Amtage, Bernhard Sang, Gerhard Rempe (Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching)

12:48 J1.010 Towards Bose-Einstein Condensation of metastable neon

Jeffrey Kuppens, Bert Mogendorff, Eric Tempelaars

13:00 J1.011 Bose-Einstein condensates in the F=2 state of Na

Aaron Leanhardt, Ananth Chikkatur, Subhadeep Gupta, Shin Inouye, Till Rosenband, Axel Gorlitz, Todd Gustavson, David Pritchard, Wolfgang Ketterle (MIT)

11:00 J2.001 Measurement of the 1s Hyperfine Transition of Two Tl^80+ Isotopes

P. Beiersdorfer, S.B. Utter, K.L. Wong, J.R. Crespo López-Urrutia, J.A. Britten, H. Chen, R.S. Thoe, D.B. Thorn, E. Träbert (LLNL), M.G.H. Gustavsson, C. Forssén, A.-M. Mårtenson-Pendrill (Göteborg U.), C.L. Harris (U. Nevada-Reno)

11:12 J2.002 Development of a Stark Scan Apparatus for 2^3s_1\rightarrow 2^3p_j Spectroscopy in Positronium

M.W. Pennington, J.J. Engbrecht, R.S. Conti (University of Michigan)

11:24 J2.003 Very long transverse spin relaxation time of liquid ^129Xe.

M.V. Romalis, M.P. Ledbetter (University of Washington)

11:36 J2.004 Parity Violation Observed in the Beta Decay of ^82Rb Confined to a TOP Trap

S.G. Crane, S.J. Brice, M. Di Rosa, A. Goldschmidt, R. Guckert, A. Hime, J.J. Kitten, D.J. Vieira, X. Zhao (Los Alamos National Laboratory and Utah State University)

11:48 J2.005 Generation of metastable atomic hydrogen beam by optical pumping for atomic parity violation measurement

Zehuang Lu, Li-Bang Wang, Eric Thorsland, Douglas Beck, Jeff White (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Roy Holt (Argonne National Laboratory)

12:00 J2.006 Precise Atomic Structure Measurements in Thallium at 378 nm using a Frequency-doubled Diode Laser

Protik Majumder, Robert Lyman, Paul Friedberg, David Richardson (Physics Dept., Williams College)

12:12 J2.007 Towards an order of magnitude improvement in high-precision atomic mass measurements

Simon Rainville, James K. Thompson, David E. Pritchard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

12:24 J2.008 Controversy Over the Positronium Ground State Splitting (\Delta \nu)

M. Skalsey, R.S. Conti, J.J Engbrecht, D.W. Gidley, R.S. Vallery, P.W. Zitzewitz (Randall Laboratory of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109)

12:36 J2.009 Ultrasensitive Rare Krypton Isotope Detection

X. Li, J. Lassen, H. A. Schuessler (Dept. of Physics, Texas Aamp;M University, College Station, TX 77843-4242)

12:48 J2.010 Measurement of the 3 ^2S --- 2 ^2S transition isotope shift in atomic lithium

W. DeGraffenreid, M. D. Lindsay, C. J. Sansonetti (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

11:00 J3.001 Relativistic dynamics of resonantly driven classical and quantum systems

P. Peverly, R. Wagner, Q. Su, R. Grobe (Intense Laser Physics Theory Unit and Department of Physics, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61790-4560 USA)

11:12 J3.002 Spatial spin distributions of cycloatoms

P. Krekora, Q. Su, R. Grobe (Intense Laser Physics Theory Unit and Department of Physics, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61790-4560 USA)

11:24 J3.003 High-efficiency high-harmonic generation without tunneling

S.X. Hu, A.F. Starace (Univ. of Lincoln), D.B. Milo\vsevi\'c (Univ. of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina), W. Becker, W. Sandner (Max-Born-Institut, Berlin, Germany)

11:36 J3.004 Measuring moving nuclear wave packets using Laser Coulomb Explosion Imaging - LCEI

Szczepan Chelkowski (Université de Sherbrooke), Paul B. Corkum (National Research Council of Canada), André D. Bandrauk (Université de Sherbrooke)

11:48 J3.005 Preparation and Alignment of Highly Vibrationally Excited Molecules by CARP - Chirped Adiabatic Raman Passage

François Légaré (National Research Council of Canada), Szczepan Chelkowski, André D. Bandrauk (Université de Sherbrooke)

12:00 J3.006 Time resolved tunneling velocity for superluminal propagation under a barrier

P. Krekora, Q. Su, R. Grobe (Intense Laser Physics Theory Unit and Department of Physics, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61790-4560 USA)

12:12 J3.007 Unraveling the Process of Supercontinuum Generation

Jennifer Tate, Douglass Schumacher (The Ohio State University)

12:24 J3.008 Intensity and Spectral Dependence of Super Continuum Generation and Consequences For Control

Douglass Schumacher, Jennifer Tate (The Ohio State University)

12:36 J3.009 Time-resolved x-ray Pendellösung oscillations in impulsively strained crystals

D. A. Reis, M. DeCamp, P. H. Bucksbaum, J. M. Caraher, R. Clarke, C. W. S. Conover, E. Dufresne, R. Merlin, V. A. Stoica, J. Wahlstrand (University of Michigan)

12:48 J3.010 Picosecond Core-Level Dynamics in Laser-Perturbed Silicon

T.E. Glover, G.D. Ackermann, A. Belkacem, C Ray, W.F. Steele (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

13:00 J3.011 A Novel Approach To The End Results of The General Theory of Relativity and To Bound Muon Decay Rate Retardation

Tolga Yarman (Galatasaray University, Isik University, Istanbul, Turkey)

11:00 J4.001 Control of Asymmetric Photoelectron Angular Distributions

D. S. Elliott, Zheng-Min Wang (Purdue University)

11:12 J4.002 Coherent "learning" control of vibrational motion in room-temperature molecular gases

Thomas Weinacht, Randy Bartels (JILA, Uiversity of Colorado, Boulder), JM Geremia (Princeton University), Margaret Murnane, Henry Kapteyn (JILA, Uiversity of Colorado, Boulder), Brett Pearson, Philip Bucksbaum (University of Michigan), Herschel Rabitz (Princeton Universty)

11:24 J4.003 Stair-Step Decay of Autoionizing Radial Wavepackets

Santosh Pisharody, Robert Jones (UVA)

11:36 J4.004 Chaos-assisted tunneling in atom optics

W.H. Oskay, D.A. Steck, M.G. Raizen (The University of Texas at Austin)

11:48 J4.005 Controlling a Rydberg wave packet using a half-cycle pulse

D. N. Hutchinson, J. Ahn, C. Rangan, P. H. Bucksbaum (University of Michigan)

12:00 J4.006 Study of Coherent Raman Energy Transfer in Molecular Liquids with Strong Field Laser Excitation

B. J. Pearson, D. S. Morris, P. H. Bucksbaum (Physics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-1120), T. C. Weinacht (JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309-0440)

12:12 J4.007 Programmable Terahertz waveform generation

Catherine Herne, Phil Bucksbaum (University of Michigan)

12:24 J4.008 Observation of the Kapitza-Dirac effect

Dan Freimund, Kayvan Aflatooni, Herman Batelaan (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

12:36 J4.009 Matter-wave index of refraction and dispersion

Alex Cronin, Tony Roberts, David Kokorowski, David Pritchard (MIT)

12:48 J4.010 Magnetic Guiding of Neutral Atoms with Simple Wire Structures

Jacob Sauer, Murray Barrett, David Zhu, Michael S. Chapman (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA)