THURSDAY AFTERNOON, 17 MAY 2001

Session K1. Quantum Condensed Systems.

Thursday afternoon, 14:00, Theatre, London Convention Centre

14:00 K1.001 A Two-Component Fermi Gas of Atoms: Deborah Jin (JILA, NIST and University of Colorado)
14:36 K1.002 Experiments with a Bose-Einstein Condensate in an Optical Trap: Todd L. Gustavson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
15:12 K1.003 Molecule Formation in Bose-Einstein Condensates: Daniel Heinzen (University of Texas)
15:48 K1.004 Vortices, Solitons and Vortex Rings in a Bose-Einstein Condensate: Paul C. Haljan (JILA)

Session K2. Lepton Scattering by Atoms, Ions, and Molecules.

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

14:00 K2.001 Zero Momentum Transfer limit of Generalized Oscillator Strengths from Ions.: J.H. Macek (University of Tennessee), N.B. Avdonina (University of Pittsburgh)
14:12 K2.002 Fully quantal (e,2e) calculations for hydrogen and alkali metals: J. Colgan, M. S. Pindzola (Auburn University, Auburn, AL), D Mitnik, D. C. Griffin (Rollins College, Winter Park, FL)
14:24 K2.003 Resonance Structures in Simultaneous Ionization--Excitation of Helium: Y. Fang, K. Bartschat (Drake University)
14:36 K2.004 Investigation of spin dependent impact excitation of He^-(2s(2p)^2)^2D: B.G. Birdsey, T. Niessen, T.J. Gay (Behlen Laboratory of Physics, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588-0111)
14:48 K2.005 Low-energy electron scattering from atomic oxygen: Oleg Zatsarinny, Swaraj Tayal (Clark Atlanta University)
15:00 K2.006 Excitation of the D states of magnesium: R Srivastava (University of Roorkee, India), R P McEachran, A D Stauffer (York University, Toronto)
15:12 K2.007 R-matrix with Pseudo-States Calculations for Electron Impact Excitation of Cesium.: K. Bartschat, Y. Fang (Drake University)
15:24 K2.008 SUPERELASTICALLY SCATTERED ELECTRONS IN METASTABLE O^6+ AND C^4+ + H_2 COLLISIONS.: S. Hossain, A. S. Al-Naser, A. L. Landers, O. A. Haija, D. J. Pole, T. W. Gorczyca, J. A. Tanis (Western Michigan University), H. Knutson, E. Breza, R. Hebert (Kalamazoo Math Science Center.)
15:36 K2.009 High resolution studies of electronic excitation and resonance formation in positron-molecule scattering: J.P. Sullivan, S.J. Gilbert, C.M. Surko (UCSD, La Jolla, CA), S.J. Buckman (ANU, Canberra, Australia)
15:48 K2.010 Multichannel scattering cross sections in e+ + H system: Chi Yu Hu (Dept. of physics, California State University at Long Beach), Modified Faddeev equation Collaboration
16:00 K2.011 Analysis of Doppler Broadening Spectra of Thermalization of Positronium in Gases: C.M. Nakamura, J.J. Engbrecht, M. Skalsey, D.W. Gidley (Dept. of Physics, The University of Michigan)
16:12 K2.012 Measurements of the Rotational Constants of the Helium Molecular Ion Using the Dissociative Recombination Reaction: Kenneth Hardy, Cristina Caraballo, Miguel Faxas, Abilio Pacheco, John Rojas, Adnan Salem, Libni Simons (Florida International University)

Session K3. Undergraduate Research Session.

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

14:00 K3.001 Progress Toward a Dilute Gas Bose-Fermi Mixture: Scott B. Papp (JILA, NIST and University of Colorado)
14:25 K3.002 FAR-INFRARED LASER STARK SPECTROSCOPY OF 1,1 DIFLUOROETHYLENE: Jessica Lynn Olson (Physics Department, University of Wisconsin La Crosse)
14:50 K3.003 A novel apparatus for experiments with Bose-Einstein condensates: Till Rosenband (Department of Physics and Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT)
15:15 K3.004 Optical Billiards for Atoms: Wesley C. Campbell (University of Texas, Austin)
15:40 K3.005 The validity of semiclassical two-electron distribution functions: Robert Wagner (Intense Laser Physics Theory Unit and Department of Physics, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61790-4560)

Session K4. NIST Centennial Symposium: Fundamental Constants and Spectroscopy.

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

14:00 K4.001 Newton's constant measured with an accelerating torsion balance: Jens H. Gundlach (CENPA, Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA98195)
14:36 K4.002 Optical Frequency Synthesizer based on an Octave Spanning Frequency Comb: Thomas Udem (Max-Planck Institut für Quantenopik)
15:12 K4.003 Measuring the Planck constant via the Watt/Electronic Kilogram Experiment: Richard Steiner (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
15:48 K4.004 High-precision Measurement of the 2 Triplet P Intervals in Atomic Helium: A Measurement of the Fine-structure Constant: E.A. Hessels (York University)