Program overview

THURSDAY MORNING, 30 MAY 2002

09:45 G1.001 Directional squeezed atomic matter waves from elongated Bose-Einstein condensates

Michael Moore (ITAMP, Harvard university), Ami Vardi (ITAMP, Harvard University)

09:57 G1.002 Collisional matter wave amplification and squeezing

Johnny Vogels, Kaiwen Xu, Wolfgang Ketterle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

10:09 G1.003 Coherence properties of elongated Bose condensates

J.H. Thywissen, F. Gerbier, S. Richard, Y. Le Coq, P. Bouyer, A. Aspect (Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique, Orsay, France)

10:21 G1.004 Vortex nucleation and arrangement in a stirred Bose-Einstein condensate

L.O. Baksmaty, N. Bigelow (University of Rochester)

10:33 G1.005 Collective excitations of vortex arrays in a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate

L.O. Baksmaty, S. Woo, N Bigelow (University of Rochester)

10:45 G1.006 Two-Species Mixture of Quantum Degenerate Fermi and Bose Gases

Z. Hadzibabic, C. A. Stan, K. Dieckmann, S. Gupta, M. W. Zwierlein, A. Görlitz, W. Ketterle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

10:57 G1.007 Dynamical stability of a dilute quantum degenerate Bose-Fermi mixture

Han Pu, Weiping Zhang (Optical Sciences Center, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721), Martin Wilkens (Universitat Potsdam, Institut fur Physik, Am Neuen Palais 10, 14469 Potsdam, Germany), Pierre Meystre (Optical Sciences Center, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721), Quantum Optics Team

11:09 G1.008 A Crossover Model for BEC to BCS Superconductivity in a Resonant Fermi Gas

J.N. Milstein, S.J.J.M.F. Kokkelmans, M.J. Holland (JILA, University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology.)

11:21 G1.009 Signatures of resonance superfluidity in a quantum Fermi gas

Murray Holland, Marilu Chiofalo, Servaas Kokkelmans, Josh Milstein (JILA, University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology.)

11:33 G1.010 Observation of a Feshbach resonance in a Fermi gas of atoms

C. Regal, T. Loftus, M. Olsen, D. S. Jin (JILA, NIST and the University of Colorado)

11:45 G1.011 Feshbach Resonances in Ultra-Cold Bose and Fermi Gasses

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

09:45 G2.001 Experimental Studies of Negative Ions in a Storage Ring

Dag Hanstorp (Chalmers University of Technology/Goteborg University, Sweden)

10:21 G2.002 Large Nondipole Effects in Core-Level Molecular Photoemission

Dennis W. Lindle (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

10:57 G2.003 Photoabsorption to Rydberg States in Strong Electric Fields - Spectral Informatics and Dynamics

Tom Morgan (Wesleyan University)

11:33 G2.004 RESONANT PHOTOIONIZATION DYNAMICS IN SMALL MOLECULES

Stephen Pratt (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439)

09:45 G3.001 Precise Measurement of the Stark Shift in the Thallium 6P_1/2 - 7S_1/2 378 nm Transition

S. C. Doret (Williams College)

10:09 G3.002 Manifestations of classical group and phase delays in a fully-quantized model of single-photon scattering

Thomas Purdy (Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213)

10:33 G3.003 Ionization and fragmentation of water molecules caused by fast proton impact; an isotopic effect in bond rearrangement

Max Sayler (J.R. Macdonald Laboratory, Department of Physics, Kansas State University)

10:57 G3.004 Feshbach Resonance Cooling of an Atomic Gas

J. W. Dunn (JILA and the Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440)

11:21 G3.005 X-ray emission spectra induced by hydrogenic ions in charge transfer collisions

Matthew Rigazio (Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

11:45 G3.006 Magneto-Optical Trapping of Fermionic ^6Li

Brandon Baysinger (Department of Physics and Astronomy and Rice Quantum Institute, Rice University)

09:45 G4.001 Studying non-linear dynamics with atom-optics billiards

Nir Davidson (Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science)

10:21 G4.002 Chaos-assisted tunnelling with cold atoms

Amaury MOUCHET (Laboratoire de Mathématiques et de Physique Théorique, Université Francois Rabelais, Tours, FRANCE), Christian MINIATURA, Robin KAISER (Laboratoire Ondes et Désordre, Sophia Antipolis, FRANCE), Benoît GRÉMAUD, Dominique DELANDE (Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, FRANCE), Systèmes dynamiques Team, Dynamique des systèmes coulombiens Collaboration, Chaos quantique Collaboration

10:57 G4.003 Continuous Measurement, Nonlinear Dynamics, and the Quantum-Classical Transition

Salman Habib (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

11:33 G4.004 QUANTUM CHAOS IN MICROWAVE BILLIARDS

Srinivas Sridhar (Northeastern University)

09:45 G5.001 Controlled atomic few-body physics in three-dimensional optical lattices

Eric L. Bolda, Eite Tiesinga, Carl J. Williams, Paul S. Julienne (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

09:57 G5.002 Three-body recombination of fermionic atoms in the ultracold limit

H. Suno, B.D. Esry (Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506), Chris H. Greene (Department of Physics and JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309)

10:09 G5.003 Shape Resonance Enhancement of Dipolar Relaxation in Ultra-Cold Atomic Gases

Bernard Zygelman (Dept. of Physics, UNLV), A. Dalgarno Collaboration

10:21 G5.004 Magneetic field effects in ultracold molecular collisions

John Bohn, Alessandro Volpi (JILA and Department of Physics, University of Colorado)

10:33 G5.005 A theoretical study of collisions between ultra-cold Mg or Sr atoms.

Svetlana Kotochigova, Eite Tiesinga, Paul S. Julienne (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg)

10:45 G5.006 Rethermalizing collisions between magnetically trapped metastable neon atoms

V.P. Mogendorff, B.J. Claessens, S.J.M. Kuppens, E.J.D. Vredenbregt, H.C.W. Beijerinck (Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands)

10:57 G5.007 Numerical analysis of ultra-cold atom-atom collisions at dc-electric field

Vladimir S. Melezhik (CSULB CA, JINR Dubna Russia), Chi-Yu Hu (CSULB, CA)

11:09 G5.008 The Molecular Component in Collisions in a Dense BEC

Marijan Ko\vstrun, Juha Javanainen (U. of Connecticut)

11:21 G5.009 Near threshold bound and Feshbach states of the Cesium dimer

E. Tiesinga, P. J. Leo, P. S. Julienne, C. J. Williams (Atomic Physics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg MD 20899-8423), C. Chin, V. Vuletic, A.J. Kerman, S. Chu (Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305-4060)

11:33 G5.010 Magnetic Trapping and Collisions of Ultracold Rb_2 Molecules

C. Ryu, R. S. Freeland, W. Shim, D. J. Heinzen (The University of Texas at Austin)

11:45 G5.011 Formation and detection of ultracold alkali molecules in MOT and BEC

Goran Pichler, Ticijana Ban, Robert Beuc (Institute of Physics, POBox 304, HR-10001 Zagreb, Croatia), T1 and T2 Team

11:57 G5.012 Suppression of identical particle collisions in a Bose condensate

Nadav Katz, Jeff Steinhauer, Roee Ozeri, Nir Davidson (Department of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science)