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)