Program overview

SATURDAY MORNING, 19 MAY 2001

Session V1. Late Breaking Progress.

Saturday morning, 09:00, Theatre, London Convention Centre

09:00 V1.001 Coherent storage of photon states in atomic ensembles
Mikhail Lukin (ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
09:36 V1.002 Ion Entanglement for Fundamental Tests and Precision Measurements
Mary Rowe (NIST, Time and Frequency Div., Boulder, CO 80305)
10:12 V1.003 Collimated Beams of 10-MeV Ions Accelerated by Intense Laser Pulses
Donald Umstadter (\urllinkCenter for Ultrafast Optical Sciencehttp://www.eecs.umich.edu/USL-HFS/, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
10:48 V1.004 Angular distributions for two-electron ionization by an ultrashort intense laser pulse: Application to Li^-
GERARD LAGMAGO KAMTA (Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Nebraska, 116 Brace Laboratory, Lincoln, NE 68588-0111, USA)
11:24 V1.005 Hydrogen-Antihydrogen Collisions at Cold Temperatures
Bernard Zygelman (Department of Physics, University of Nevada Las Vegas)

Session V2. Wavepacket Dynamics and Quantum Control.

Saturday morning, 09:00, Salon A, London Convention Centre

09:00 V2.001 Control of oscillations in H atom ionization probability P_ion by collinear static and LP microwave fields
J.W. Wilson (SUNY Stony Brook), E.J. Galvez (Colgate Univ.), P.M. Koch, K.D. Schultz (SUNY Stony Brook)
09:12 V2.002 `Much weaker' oscillations in H atom ionization by collinear static and LP microwave fields
K.D. Schultz, P.M. Koch, D. Walter, J.W. Wilson (SUNY Stony Brook)
09:24 V2.003 Inner electron ionization of radial Rydberg wave packets of Sr
H. Maeda, W. Li, T.F. Gallagher (Department of Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903)
09:36 V2.004 Shaped Terahertz Pulses for a Quantum Algorithm in a Rydberg Atom
C. Rangan, P.H. Bucksbaum (Physics Department and Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1120)
09:48 V2.005 Probing electronic coordinates with field steps
C.O. Reinhold (Oak Ridge Nat. Lab.), J. Burgdorfer (Univ. of Tennesee, TU Wien), B.E Tannian, C.L. Stokely, F.B. Dunning (Rice University)
10:00 V2.006 Impulsive Chirped Raman Excitation of Molecular Vibrations
R.A. Bartels, T. Weinacht (JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder CO), P. Bucksbaum, B. Pearson (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI), H. Kapteyn, M. Murnane (JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder CO)
10:12 V2.007 Dynamics of Autoionization in Calcium: Angular and Energy Distribution
M. L. Bajema, T. F. Gallagher (University of Virginia)
10:24 V2.008 Slowing and storing of photons in Bose-Einstein condensates: A microscopic theory
Gediminas Juzeliunas (Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy, A. Gostauto 12, Vilnius 2600, Lithuania), Howard J. Carmichael (Department of Physics, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403)
10:36 V2.009 Time correlation and entanglement in two-electron transitions Time correlation and entanglement in two-electron transitions
James H. McGuire, Alexander Godunov (Tulane University), S.G. Tolamnov Collaboration, Kh. Kh. Shakov Collaboration, R. Doerner Collaboration, H. Schmidt-Boecking Collaboration, R.M. Dreizler Collaboration
10:48 V2.010 Laser Control of Electron-Nuclear Dynamics in Dissociative Ionization of H2+, HD+ - Exact non Born-Oppenheimer Simulations
André D. Bandrauk, Szczepan Chelkowski, Jérome Lévesque (Université de Sherbrooke)

Session V3. Electron-Driven Processes: From Theory to Environmental Applications.

Saturday morning, 09:00, Salon B, London Convention Centre

09:00 V3.001 The Basic Physics of Electron-Atom Collisions: How Much Do We Know and How Much Is Left to Learn?
T.J. Gay (Behlen Laboratory of Physics, University of Nebraska)
09:36 V3.002 Quantitative plasma diagnostics by electron impact induced emission from trace rare gases
Vincent Donnelly (Agere Systems, 600 Mountain Ave, Murray Hill, NJ 07974)
10:12 V3.003 Electron Interactions in Reactive Plasmas
Kurt Becker (Stevens Institute of Technology)
10:48 V3.004 INELASTIC ELECTRON COLLISIONS WITH ADSORBATES AND THE RELEVANCE TO ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
Thomas Orlando (School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332)

Session V4. Bose-Einstein Condensation: Theory II.

Saturday morning, 09:00, Salon CD, London Convention Centre

09:00 V4.001 Quantum dynamics of a two-mode Bose-Einstein condensate
Amichay Vardi, James R. Anglin (ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
09:12 V4.002 Quantum corrections to the ground state energy of trapped Bose-Einstein condensates: A diffusion Monte Carlo calculation
Doerte Blume (JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0440), Chris H. Greene (Department of Physics and JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0440)
09:24 V4.003 Equivalence of kinetic theories
J. Wachter, R. Walser, J. Cooper, M. Holland (JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and Univerity of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0440)
09:36 V4.004 High T_c superfluidity in a quantum degenerate Fermi gas
S.J.J.M.F. Kokkelmans, M. Holland, R. Walser (JILA, University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder), M.L. Chiofalo (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy)
09:48 V4.005 Degenerate Fermion gas heating by hole creation
Eddy Timmermans (T-4, Los Alamos National Laboratory)
10:00 V4.006 Analytical calculation of vortex pair nucleation by a moving obstacle in a BEC
Michael Crescimanno (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Youngstown State University), Ron Walsworth (The Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
10:12 V4.007 Stability and collapse of an atom-molecule Bose-Einstein Condensate
Marijan Ko\^strun, Juha Javanainen (U. of Connecticut)
10:24 V4.008 Effective Linear Two-Body Equation Method for Ground and Excited (Vortices) States of Bose-Einstein Condensates
Yeong Kim, Alexander L. Zubarev (Department of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907)
10:36 V4.009 Loading a continuous-wave atom laser by optical pumping techniques
Satyan Bhongale, Murray Holland (JILA and Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder.)
10:48 V4.010 Optical Lattice Loading with a Bose-Einstein Condensate
Mark Edwards (Georgia Southern University and National Institute of Standards and Technology), Charles W. Clark (National Institute of Standards and Technology)