Program overview

FRIDAY MORNING, 31 MAY 2002

08:00 L1.001 Atom Optics, Atom Counting, etc.

Alain Aspect (Orsay)

08:36 L1.002 Quantum phase transition from a superfluid to a Mott insulator in a gas of ultracold atoms

Immanuel Bloch (Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching)

09:12 L1.003 Quantum Atom Optics, Squeezed Matter Waves, etc.

Mark Kasevich (Yale University)

09:48 L1.004 Integrate Atom Optics

Mara Prentiss (Harvard University)

08:00 L2.001 Angular Momentum Partitioning in the Kr 4p^55p Manifold

B.G. Birdsey, T.J. Gay (Behlen Laboratory of Physics, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588-0111)

08:12 L2.002 Suppression of generalized oscillator strengths in particular kinematic situations

N. B. Avdonina, R. H. Pratt (University of Pittsburgh, Department of Pysics and Astronomy, Pittsburgh, PA 15260)

08:24 L2.003 Superelastic Electron Scattering from Cesium

Peter Teubner, Victor Karaganov, Michael Brunger, Daniel Slaughter (School of Chemistry, Physics and Earth Sciences, Flinders University,Adelaide, Australia.)

08:36 L2.004 Doubly Differential Cross Sections for (e,2e) on Hydrogen

Mark Baertschy (JILA, University of Colorado)

08:48 L2.005 Cs ELECTRON SCATTERING CROSS SECTIONS MEASURED USING AN MOT.

John MacAskill, Wladek Kedzierski, William McConkey (University of Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4, Canada.), Jola Domyslawska (Nicholas Copernicus University, Poland), Igor Bray (Murdoch University, Australia)

09:00 L2.006 CCKT calculation of e^--H total cross sections

A.K. Bhatia (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center), B.I. Schneider (National Science Foundation), A. Temkin (NASA/Gddard Space Flight Center)

09:12 L2.007 Inclusion of exchange in e-H scattering calculations, revisited.

George H. Rawitscher (Dept. of Physics, UConn.)

09:24 L2.008 Dielectronic Capture in Electron Scattering on a He^+ Ion

D. M. Mitnik, D. C. Griffin (Rollins College), M. S. Pindzola, F. J. Robicheaux (Auburn University)

09:36 L2.009 Small-angle electron-impact excitation of He 3^1D.

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

09:48 L2.010 Extraction of energy-differential ionization cross sections in time-dependent calculations.

Greg Ver Steeg, Seamus Riordan, Klaus Bartschat (Drake University)

10:00 L2.011 Threshold Electron Excitation Scattering Energy Dependence Studies of Mg 3s3p ^1P to 3s3p ^3P and 3s^2 ^1S

Tahllee Baynard, R. Stephen Berry (The University of Chicago)

10:12 L2.012 Near-threshold angle-differential electron-impact excitation of the np^5(n+1)s states in noble gases.

Alexei Grum-Grzhimailo, Klaus Bartschat (Drake University)

08:00 L3.001 Collective Modes of the Ground and Excited States of Bose-Einstein Condensates

M. S. Pindzola, F. J. Robicheaux (Auburn University)

08:12 L3.002 Quadrupole modes in finite temperature Bose-Einstein condensates

Brian Jackson, Eugene Zaremba (Queen's University, Canada)

08:24 L3.003 Gaussons in weakly excited Bose condensate with attractive and focusing interation

Matt Kalinski (Department of Quantum Optics, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany)

08:36 L3.004 Density Functional Theory of Bosons in Three and Low-Dimensional Traps

Alexander L. Zubarev, Yeong E. Kim (Purdue Nuclear and Many-Body Theory Group, Department of Physics, Purdue University)

08:48 L3.005 Nonlinear Dynamics of Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensates

Yeong E. Kim, Alexander L. Zubarev (Purdue Nuclear and Many-Body Theory Group, Department of Physics, Purdue University)

09:00 L3.006 Multistate curve crossing in Bose-Einstein condensates

Vladimir Yurovsky, Abraham Ben-Reuven (School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University)

09:12 L3.007 Collective Spin Dynamics in a Dilute Bose-Condensed Gas

Jamie Williams (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland), Tetsuro Nikuni (University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada), Charles Clark (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland)

09:24 L3.008 Spin dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattice

Weiping Zhang, Han Pu, Chris Search (Affiliation), Pierre Meystre (Optical Sciences Center, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721), Quantum Optics Team

09:36 L3.009 Bose and Fermi systems with large scattering lengths

Servaas Kokkelmans (JILA, University of Colorado and NIST), Josh Milstein, Marilu Chiofalo, Reinhold Walser, Murray Holland

09:48 L3.010 Ground-state Properties of Trapped Bosons with Negative Scattering Length: Beyond Mean-field Theory

Wirawan Purwanto, Shiwei Zhang (College of William and Mary, Virginia)

10:00 L3.011 Castaing Instability and Precessing Domains in Confined Alkali Gases

Anatoly Kuklov (CSI,CUNY;), Alexander Meyerovich (University of Rhode Island)

10:12 L3.012 Instability of a Bose condensate induced by a rotating thermal gas

E. Zaremba, B. Jackson (Queen's University, Canada)

08:00 L4.001 Chaotic Ionization of Hydrogen in Parallel Fields

Kevin Mitchell, Joel Handley, Brian Tighe, Abby Flower, Steve Knudson, John Delos (College of William and Mary)

08:12 L4.002 KAM-Laser action on ``scar"-modes and KAM transition to chaos in semiconductor diode lasers with deformed resonators

Evgenii Narimanov (Princeton University), Claire Gmachl, Federico Capasso (Bell Labs)

08:24 L4.003 Spectra and wave functions of open chaotic billiards

W. T. Lu, S. Sridhar, Northeastern University

08:36 L4.004 Recovering the Classical Limit of a System with Spin via Continuous Measurement.

Shohini Ghose, Ivan Deutsch (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM 87131), Paul Alsing (Albuquerque High Performance Computing Ctr. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM 87131), Kurt Jacobs, Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Salman Habib (T-8, Theoretical Division, MS B285, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545)

08:48 L4.005 Replacement manifolds: a method to uniformize semiclassical wavefunctions

Jiri Vanicek, Eric Heller (Harvard University)

09:00 L4.006 On the Spin-Statistics Theorem

Murray Peshkin (Argonne Natl. Lab.)

09:12 L4.007 Computational Approaches to Time-Dependent Quantum Mechanics

Lee Collins (Group T4-Theoretical Division-Los Alamos National Laboratory), Barry Schneider (Physics Division-National Science Foundation), David Feder (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

09:24 L4.008 Diagonalization of the Translation Operator in a Coulomb Sturmian Basis: Application to Multicenter Integrals Over Exponential-Type Orbitals

Charles Weatherford (Physics Department, Florida A&M University)

09:36 L4.009 Finite Size Scaling for Atomic and Molecular Systems

Sabre Kais (Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907)

09:48 L4.010 Non-Markovian convolutionless master equations from quantum trajectories: Quantum Brownian Motion revisited

Walter Strunz (Universitat GH Essen, Germany), Ting Yu (University of Rochester)

10:00 L4.011 Unified Framework for Finding the Eigenstates of Helmholtz Equation Using Boundary Methods

Natasha Lepore (Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachussetts), Doron Cohen (Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel and Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge,MA), Eric Heller (Department of Physics, and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts)

08:00 L5.001 Absolute photoionization cross-section measurements for Ne^3+

A. Aguilar, M.F. Gharaibeh, R.A. Phaneuf (University of Nevada, Reno), C. Cisneros, G. Hinojosa (UNAM Cuernavaca, Mexico), J.D. Bozek, B. Rude, G. Ackerman, A.S. Schlachter (Advanced Light Source, LBNL), S. Canton (Western Michigan University)

08:12 L5.002 Experimental and Theoretical Investigations of Doubly-excited Sextet States in

Bin Lin, H. Gordon Berry, A. Eugene Livingston (Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556), Henri-Pierre Garnir, Thierry Bastin (I.P.N.A.S., Sart Tilman B15 (parking P45), University of Liege, Belgium), J. Désesquelles (Laboratoire de Spectrométrie Ionique et Moléculaire (UMR CNRS 5579), Université Lyon 1, Campus de la Doua, F-69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France)

08:24 L5.003 Extended analysis of the spectrum of three-times ionized niobium, Nb IV*

Joseph Reader, Tauheed Ahmad (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

08:36 L5.004 Laser Spectroscopy of Highly-Charged Ions in an Electron Beam Ion Trap

K. Hosaka, D.N. Crosby, K. Gaarde-Widdowson, C.J. Smith, J.D. Silver (Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PU, UK), T. Kinugawa, S. Ohtani (University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Tokyo, 182-0024, Japan), E.G. Myers (Department of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4350)

08:48 L5.005 Measurements of Photoelectron Partial Wave Probabilities for the Ar^+ (3p^4 \: [^1D] \: 4p' \: \: ^2F^o_5/2,7/2) Residual Ionic States

K.W. McLaughlin (Loras College), O. Yenen, T.J. Gay, D.H. Jaecks (Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln), M.M. Sant'Anna (Advaced Light Source)

09:00 L5.006 Compton scattering in the impulse approximation

Paul Bergstrom (National Intitute of Standards and Technology)

09:12 L5.007 SELF-CONSISTENT AND UNIFIED COMPUTATIONS FOR PHOTOIONIZATION AND RECOMBINATION

Anil Pradhan, Sultana Nahar (The Ohio State U.), Hong Lin Zhang (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

09:24 L5.008 Deviations from the Statistical Ratio for d_3/2 and s_1/2 Partial Wave Probabilities of Photoelectrons for the Ar^+ (3p^4 \: [^3P] \: 4p \: \: ^2S^o_1/2) Residual Ionic State

O. Yenen, T.J. Gay, D.H. Jaecks (Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln), K.W. McLaughlin (Loras College), E.A. Seddon, C. Cacho (Daresbury Laboratory, UK)

09:36 L5.009 K-shell photoexcitation of carbon ions: lifetime of a K-shell vacancy

A. S. Schlachter (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley CA 94720 USA), M. M. Sant'Anna (Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), A. M. Covington, A. Aguilar, M. Gharaibeh, R. A. Phaneuf (Department of Physics, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0058), G. Hinojosa, I. Alvarez, C. Cisneros (Centro de Ciencias Fisicas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Cuernavaca 62131, Mexico), A. Müller (Institut für Kernphysik, Universität Giessen, D-35392 Giessen, Germany), B. M. McLaughlin (School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT71NN, UK)

09:48 L5.010 Lifetimes, transition rates, and oscillator strengths for n = 3 states in Al-like ions

U.I. Safronova (University of Notre Dame), M. Sataka (JAERI), J.R. Albritton (LLNL), W.R. Johnson, M.S. Safronova (University of Notre Dame)

10:00 L5.011 Interaction of correlated-variable with configuration-state basis functions

David G. Ellis (University of Toledo)

10:12 L5.012 Measurements of transition rates in argon and CI+MBPT calculations

Igor Savukov, H. Gordon Berry, Walter Johnson (Department of Physics, Notre Dame University, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556)