Program overview

FRIDAY MORNING, 18 MAY 2001

Session P1. Non-Linear and Quantum Atom Optics.

Friday morning, 08:00, Theatre, London Convention Centre

08:00 P1.001 Atomic four-wave mixing in degenerate Fermi gases
Michael G. Moore (ITAMP, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
08:36 P1.002 Squeezed States in a Bose-Einstein Condensate
Chad Orzel (Yale University)
09:12 P1.003 Studying Quantum Decoherence with an Atom Interferometer
David E. Pritchard (Physics Department and R.L.E. at M.I.T.)
09:48 P1.004 Nonlinear Atom Optics
Steven Rolston (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

Session P2. Studies with Special Atoms and Molecules.

Friday morning, 08:00, Salon A, London Convention Centre

08:00 P2.001 Multiphoton Dissociation of MgC_60^+ complexes
X. Zhao, V. Ryjkov, H.A. Schuessler (Dept. of Physics, Texas Aamp;M University, College Station, TX 77843-4242), R.I. Thompson (Dept. of Physics, University of Calgary)
08:12 P2.002 Prediction of sharp ionization features in microwave-driven hydrogen Rydberg atoms
Thomas Clausen, Reinhold Blumel (Wesleyan University, Department of Physics, Science Tower, 265 Church Street, Middletown, CT-06459)
08:24 P2.003 Enhanced Avalanche Ionization by RF Fields Creating an Ultracold Plasma
M.P. Robinson, T.F. Gallagher (University of Virginia), B. Laburthe Tolra, P. Pillet (Laboratoire Aime Cotton, CNRS II Campus d'Orsay)
08:36 P2.004 Resonant Enhancement of Dielectronic Recombination in Linearly and Circularly Polarized Microwave Fields
Victor Klimenko, T.F. Gallagher (Department of Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottevsille, VA 22901)
08:48 P2.005 Probing the Momentum Distribution of Continuum Wavepackets Using Electron - Ion Recombination
J.G. Zeibel, R.R. Jones (Physics Department, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4319)
09:00 P2.006 Ponderomotive Optical Lattices for Trapping Rydberg Atoms
Jeffrey R. Guest, Subrata K. Dutta, Alisa Walz-Flannigan, David Feldbaum, Georg Raithel (Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI)
09:12 P2.007 L-mixing collisions between Rydberg atoms and slow charged particles
Alisa Walz-Flannigan, Subrata K. Dutta, Jeffrey R. Guest, David Feldbaum, Georg Raithel (Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI)
09:24 P2.008 Spectroscopic electric-field measurement in cold plasmas
David Feldbaum, Subrata K. Dutta, Alisa Waltz-Flannigan, Jeffrey R. Guest, Georg Raithel (Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI)
09:36 P2.009 Scaled energy analysis of the Stark effect for highly perturbed Rydberg states of Barium
Kenn Bates, Camelia Vasilescu, Jumpei Masae, Douglass Schumacher (The Ohio State University)
09:48 P2.010 Core-Excited Rydberg States of Sr in an Electric Field
Kevin Mitchell, John Delos, Kathy-Anne Brickman, Bill Cooke (Department of Physics, College of William and Mary)
10:00 P2.011 Determination of the Two-Loop Lamb Shift in Lithiumlike Bismuth
J. Sapirstein (University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556), K.T. Cheng (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550)
10:12 P2.012 Microwave Spectroscopy of Ultracold Rydberg Atoms
Wenhui Li, Igor Mourachko, T.F. Gallagher (Department of Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903)
10:24 P2.013 A large-scale relativistic configuration-interaction method for oscillator strength calculations
M. H. Chen, K. T. Cheng (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), W. R. Johnson (University of Notre Dame)

Session P3. Dynamical Processes Involving 3-Body Fragmentation.

Friday morning, 08:00, Salon B, London Convention Centre

08:00 P3.001 Two- and Three-Body Kinematical Correlation in the Dissociative Recombination of H_3^+
Daniel Zajfman (Particle Physics Dept., Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel)
08:36 P3.002 New results in ultracold three-body recombination
B.D. Esry (Department of Physics, Kansas State University)
09:12 P3.003 Calculating Differential Cross Sections for Electron-Impact Ionization at Energies Near Threshold
Mark Baertschy (JILA, University of Colorado)
09:48 P3.004 Physics of correlated double ionization of atoms in intense laser fields: theory and experiment
Misha Ivanov (NRC Canada, 100 Sussex Drive, Ottawa Ontario K1A 0R6 Canada)

Session P4. Nanostructures and Clusters.

Friday morning, 08:00, Salon CD, London Convention Centre

08:00 P4.001 Spectroscopy and Dynamics on and in ^4He Nanodroplets
Kevin K. Lehmann (Department of Chemistry, Princeton University)
08:36 P4.002 Cluster polarizabilities using light forces
Keith Bonin (Wake Forest University)
09:12 P4.003 CARBON NANOELECTRONICS
Paul McEuen (Cornell University)
09:48 P4.004 Laser Guided Direct Writing of Mesoscale Structures
Michael J. Renn (Optomec, Inc., Albuquerque, NM 87109)