Program overview

FRIDAY MORNING, 31 MAY 2002

11:00 M1.001 Cold Antihydrogen: Are We There?

Gerald Gabrielse (Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138)

11:36 M1.002 Thermal, Photo-induced and Electron-induced Reaction of Adsorbates on Si, Followed by STM

John C. Polanyi (Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 3H6)

12:12 M1.003 Lunch Break

13:30 M1.004 Electron and Ion Reactions in Molecular Solids: from water ice to DNA

Michael A. HUELS (Dept. of Nuclear Medicine and Radiobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada)

14:06 M1.005 Metal Nanoshells: controlling subwavelength optical fields

Naomi J. Halas (ECE Department and Department of Chemistry, Rice University)

14:42 M1.006 Infrared Photodissociation Spectroscopy of Metal Ion Complexes

Michael Duncan (Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602)

11:00 M2.001 Waveguide physics using Bose-Einstein Condensates

Ananth Chikkatur, Aaron Leanhardt, David Kielpinski, Yong-Il Shin, David Pritchard, Wolfgang Ketterle (Department of Physics, MIT-Harvard Center for Ultra-cold Atoms and Research Laboratory of Physics, MIT, Cambridge, MA)

11:12 M2.002 Transport of Bose-Einstein Condensates with Optical Tweezers

Todd Gustavson, Ananth Chikkatur, Aaron Leanhardt, Axel Gorlitz, Subhadeep Gupta, David Pritchard, Wolfgang Ketterle (Department of Physics, MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, and Research Laboratory of Physics, MIT, Cambridge, MA)

11:24 M2.003 Atomic coupler for a trapped quantum degenerate Fermi gas

Sierk Pötting (Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona), Marcus Cramer, Weiping Zhang, Pierre Meystre

11:36 M2.004 Phase Imprinting in a Quasi-1D BEC

Yi Zheng, Juha Javanainen (U. of Connecticut)

11:48 M2.005 Superradiance in a Bose-Einstein condensate in the short-pulse regime

Dominik Schneble, Yoshio Torii, Erik Streed, Micah Boyd, Pavel Gorelik, Gretchen Campbell, David Pritchard, Wolfgang Ketterle (Center for Ultracold Atoms and Department of Physics, MIT)

12:00 M2.006 Spin waves in an ultracold Bose gas

Heather Lewandowski (JILA, University of Colorado), Jeffrey Mcguirk (JILA, NIST), David Harber, Eric Cornell (JILA, University of Colorado)

12:12 M2.007 Lunch Break

13:30 M2.008 Measurement of the excitation spectrum of a Bose condensate, and direct observation of the phonon energy

Roee Ozeri, Jeff Steinhauer, Nadav Katz (Affiliation), Nir Davidson (Department of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel), Davidson Team

13:42 M2.009 Extracting the Moment of Inertia of a Rotating, Vortex--Free Bose--Einstein Condensate

Mark Edwards (Georgia Southern University and NIST), Charles W. Clark (NIST)

13:54 M2.010 Magneto-Optical Production of a Molecular Bose-Einstein Condensate.

Matt Mackie (Helsinki Institute of Physics, University of Helsinki, Finland.)

14:06 M2.011 Approaches to BEC in a two species magnetic trap

S. B. Weiss, Michael J. Banks, John P. Janis, N. P. Bigelow (University of Rochester)

14:18 M2.012 Experiments with a mixture of K and Rb Bose-Einstein condensates

Giovanni Modugno, Giacomo Roati, Massimo Inguscio (European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy)

14:30 M2.013 Sympathetic cooling of fermionic ^40K with bosonic ^87Rb

S. Inouye, J. Goldwin, B.K. Newman, B.D. DePaola, D.S. Jin (JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309)

14:42 M2.014 All-Optical Production of a Degenerate Fermi Gas

M. E. Gehm (Duke University Physics Department)

14:54 M2.015 Microscopic Theory of a Vortex in a Superfluid Fermi Gas

Nicolai Nygaard (NIST), Georg M. Bruun (NORDITA), David L. Feder (NIST), Barry I. Schneider (NSF), Charles W. Clark (NIST)

11:00 M3.001 Interference Effects in Electron Emmision from H2 by Fast Ions

Nico Stolterfoht (HMI, Berlin)

11:36 M3.002 Near-Thermal Collisions of Multicharged Ions with H and Multielectron Targets

Charles Havener (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

12:12 M3.003 Lunch Break

13:30 M3.004 Superelastic and Resonant-Elastic Scattering of Quasifree Electrons from He-like Ions

T. W. Gorczyca (Western Michigan University)

14:06 M3.005 Absolute doubly differential cross section measurements for 180^\circ resonant elastic scattering of quasi-free electrons on B^3+ ions

E.P. Benis (James R. Macdonald Laboratory, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506-2601)

11:00 M4.001 Precision measurements and applications of femtosecond frequency combs

R. Jason Jones (JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309)

11:36 M4.002 An Optical Clock/Frequency Standard at 657 nm Based On Laser-Cooled Neutral Calcium

Chris Oates (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

12:12 M4.003 Lunch Break

13:30 M4.004 Trapped Hydrogen Spectroscopy: Fundamental Constants and Atomic Clocks

Lorenz Willmann (Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut, Groningen, The Netherlands)

14:06 M4.005 Helium Spectroscopy and an Optical Comb

G. Gabrielse (Harvard University)

11:00 M5.001 To be determined

Mark Johnson (Yale University)

11:36 M5.002 Threshold Photoionization Spectroscopy with Heavy Rydberg States

John W. Hepburn (University of British Columbia)

12:12 M5.003 Lunch Break

13:30 M5.004 Photodetachment probes of molecular rearrangement dynamics

W. Carl Lineberger (JILA, University of Colorado)

14:06 M5.005 Exploring reaction coordinates through infrared spectroscopy and photo-initiated dynamics of OH reactant complexes

Marsha I. Lester (University of Pennsylvania)