Program overview

THURSDAY AFTERNOON, 30 MAY 2002

13:30 H1.001 Subfemtosecond Pulse Generation by Molecular Modulation

Alexei V. Sokolov (Department of Physics and Institute for Quantum Studies, Texas Aamp;M University)

14:06 H1.002 Quantum Behavior of an Atomic Fermi Gas

Brian DeMarco (NIST, Boulder)

14:42 H1.003 Entanglement and Decoherence in a Trapped-Ion Quantum Register

David Kielpinski (Research Laboratory of Electronics and Center for Ultracold Atoms, MIT, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA 02139)

15:18 H1.004 Break

15:30 H1.005 Quantal-Classical Correspondence in Atomic Collisions

Daniel Vrinceanu (Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

16:06 H1.006 Manipulating Bose-Einstein condensates with laser light

Shin Inouye (JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440)

13:30 H2.001 The Kicked Rydberg Atom

F. Barry Dunning (Rice University)

14:06 H2.002 Population Transfer with Tailored Microwave Pulses

C. W. S. Conover (Department of Physics, Colby College, Waterville, ME)

14:42 H2.003 Simulations of ultracold plasmas

F Robicheaux (Auburn University)

15:18 H2.004 Evolution of Ultracold, Neutral Plasmas

Stephane Mazevet (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545)

13:30 H3.001 Experimental demonstration of a technique for generation of arbitrary harmonic oscillator states.

A. Ben-Kish, B. DeMarco, M. Rowe, V. Meyer, J. Britton, W. M. Itano, B. M. Jelenkovi\'c, C. Langer, D. Leibfried, T. Rosenband, D. J. Wineland (NIST, Time and Frequency Division, Boulder.)

13:42 H3.002 Field-Free Orientation of Molecules

Mette Machholm (NORDITA, Blegdamsvej 17, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark), Niels E. Henriksen (Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Denmark, DTU 207, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark)

13:54 H3.003 Imaging and control of interfering wavepackets in a dissociating molecule

M Machholm (NORDITA, Blegdamsvej 17, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark), E Skovsen (Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, Denmark), T Ejdrup, J ThØgersen, H Stapelfeldt (Department of Chemistry, University of Aarhus, Denmark)

14:06 H3.004 Controlling the fragmentation branching ratios in intense field ionization of clusters

E. Wells, R.R. Jones (Department of Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4714), C.W.S. Conover (Department of Physics, Colby College, Waterville, ME 04901)

14:18 H3.005 Attosecond Laser Pulse Control of Molecular Photoionization

Andre D Bandrauk, Sczepan Chelkowski, Hong Son Nguyen (Sciences-Chimie,Universite de Sherbrooke,Que,J1K 2R1,Canada)

14:30 H3.006 Time-Resolved Study of Double Rydberg n'l'nl Wavepackets in Barium

Santosh Pisharody, Robert Jones (Department of Physics, University of Virginia)

14:42 H3.007

14:54 H3.008 Partial Field Ionization of Entangled Stark States

Joel Murray, Catherine Herne, Jaewook Ahn, Ralph Conti, Phil Bucksbaum (University of Michigan)

15:06 H3.009 Probing the Time-Dependent Momentum Distribution of 3D Localized Electronic Wavepackets

J.G. Zeibel, R.R. Jones (Physics Department, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4319)

15:18 H3.010 Coherent population transfer beyond rotating wave approximation

Yongjoo Rhee, Duck-Hee Kwon, Jaemin Han, Hyunmin Park, Sunkook Kim (Laboratory for quantum optics, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Daejon, Korea)

15:30 H3.011 Spectrum of a System of Identical Two-level Atoms between the First Excited Manifold and the Ground State

Sheng Li, Eric J. Heller (Harvard University)

15:42 H3.012 Measurement of Transition Dipole Moments in Molecular Lithium Using Electromagnetically Induced Transparency

Angelos Lazoudis (Physics Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122), Jianbing Qi (Physics Department, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269), Frank Spano (Chemistry Department, Temple University , Philadelphia, PA 19122), Teodora Kirova, Jenny Magnes (Physics Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122), Li Li (Physics Department, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 10084), Lorenzo Narducci (Physics Department, Drexel University,Philadelphia, PA 19104), Robert Field (Chemistry Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139), Marjatta Lyyra (Physics Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122)

13:30 H4.001 Resonant above-threshold ionization signatures in the photoelectron spectra of Magnesium

G.D. Gillen, L.D. VanWoerkom (Ohio State University)

13:42 H4.002 Transition from multiphoton to tunneling regimes observed in double ionization electron energy spectra

J. L. Chaloupka, J. Rudati, R. Lafon, L. F. DiMauro (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton NY 11973), P. Agostini (SPAM, Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, France)

13:54 H4.003 Population inversions in the VUV produced by strong laser fields

George Gibson (University of Connecticut)

14:06 H4.004 Anomalous high harmonic generation cutoff of O2 molecule

Bing Shan, X. M. Tong, Z. X. Zhao, C. D. Lin (cdlin@phys.ksu.edu), Zenghu Chang (Kansas State University)

14:18 H4.005 Pseudo-Classical Scaling of Tunneling Ionization Intensities for Multielectron Atoms

Brian Buerke (Albright College)

14:30 H4.006 Ultra-energetic GeV Electrons from Superstrong Laser-Ion Interactions*

S. X. Hu, A. F. Starace (Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 116 Brace Lab, Lincoln, NE 68588-0111)

14:42 H4.007 Retardation and kinematic relativistic effects in scattered light

P. Krekora, R.E. Wagner, Q. Su, R. Grobe (Intense Laser Physics Theory Unit, Illinois State University)

14:54 H4.008 Electron Ionization Asymmetries with Intense Ultrasort Pulses

Andre D Bandrauk, Sczepan Chelkowski, Jerome Levesque (Sciences-Chimie,Universite de Sherbrooke)

15:06 H4.009 Investigating double ionization through wavefunction masking and reverse-time propagation

K. Hoekema, S.L. Haan (Calvin College)

15:18 H4.010 The role of excited states in strong-field double-ionization jet formation

Raphael Panfili (University of Rochester), Joseph H. Eberly (eberly@pas.rochester.edu)

15:30 H4.011 Resonancelike phenomena in above-threshold ionization and nonsequential double ionization

S.V. Popruzhenko, Ph.A. Korneev, S.P. Goreslavski (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia), W. Becker (Max-Born-Institut, Berlin, Germany)

15:42 H4.012 Angular Resolved Three-Atom \textitCoulomb Explosion

Kun Zhao, III Hill (University of Maryland)

13:30 H5.001 Relativistic (e,2e) Processes

M. Kampp, N.C. Pyper (University of Cambridge), H.R.J. Walters (The Queen's University Belfast), Colm T. Whelan (Old Dominion University)

13:42 H5.002 Mapping of Many-Electron Bound States Using the Correlation Function

Michael Schulz (University of Missouri-Rolla), Robert Moshammer (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik Heidelberg), Leonid Gerchikov (St. Petersburg State Technical University, Russia), Sergei Sheinerman (St. Petersburg State Maritime Technical University), Joachim Ullrich (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik Heidelberg)

13:54 H5.003 Fraction of Metastable 1s2s ^3S ions in fast He-like Beams (Z = 5-9) Produced in Collisions with Carbon Foils

Mikhail Zamkov, Emmanouil Benis, Patrick Richard (James R. Macdonald Laboratory, Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506-2604), Theo Zouros (Dept. of Physics, University of Crete, P.O. Box 2208, 71003 Heraklion, Crete, Greece)

14:06 H5.004 Relativistic treatment of target and projectile for the stopping power of heavy element targets

Scott M. Cohen (Department of Physics, Duquesne University)

14:18 H5.005 Double-K-Shell-Vacancy Production in Li by 60 MeV Kr^34+ Ions

J.A. Tanis, A.L. Landers (Western Michigan University), J. Rangama, J.-Y. Chesnel, F. Fremont, X. Husson, D. Hennecart (University of Caen), A. Cassimi (GANIL), B. Sulik (ATOMKI, Debrecen), B. Skogvall, V. Hoffmann, N. Stolterfoht (HMI, Berlin)

14:30 H5.006 Analysis of relativistic effects in electron-impact excitation of S\toP transitions in heavy atoms.

Nils Andersen (Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen (DK)), Klaus Bartschat (Drake University)

14:42 H5.007 Simultaneous COLTRIMS and X-ray spectroscopic studies of single-electron capture in 100-keV Ne^10+ on He, Ne, and Ar collisions

R. Ali, C.L. Harris, P.A. Neill (University of Nevada, Reno), P. Beiersdorfer (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), D.R. Schultz, M.J. Rakovi\'c (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), J.G. Wang, P.C. Stancil (University of Georgia)

14:54 H5.008 KINEMATICALLY COMPLETE LOW ENERGY CHARGE TRANSFER COLLISIONS WITH GROUND AND EXCITED STATES OF Rb*

H. Nguyen, T. G. Lee, R. Bredy, H. Camp, B. D. DePaola (J. R. Macdonald Laboratory, Kansas State University, Manhattan KS 66506-2604 USA)

15:06 H5.009 Electron Charge Exchange Cross Sections At Very Low Energies

Chris Verzani, Lew Cocke (J.R. Macdonald Laboratory, Department of Physics, Kansas State University), Kazuhiko Okuno (Department of Physics, Tokyo Metropolitan University), Charles Fehrenbach, Brett D. DePaola (J.R. Macdonald Laboratory, Department of Physics, Kansas State University)

15:18 H5.010 Variation of Electron Correlation in Hollow State Formation in Li-Like Ions

A. S. Alnaser, A. Landers, S. Hossain, S. Ferguson, O.A. Haija, J.A. Tanis (Western Michigan University), E.P. Benis (Kansas State University)

15:30 H5.011 The ejected electron spectrum in low-energy proton-hydrogen collisions

David Schultz, Carlos Reinhold, Predrag Krstic (Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

15:42 H5.012 Charge transfer, dissociative and associative processes in slow H^++H_2(\nu ) and H+H_2^+(\nu ) collisions

Predrag Krstic (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)