Program overview

WEDNESDAY MORNING, 21 MAY 2003

10:30 B1.001 Bosonic and fermionic atoms in optical lattices

Eugene Demler (Physics Dapartment, Harvard University)

11:00 B1.002 BEC dynamics in optical lattices

Augusto Smerzi (INFM BEC-CRS, University of Trento)

11:30 B1.003 Design and Finite Temperature Aspects of Atoms in Optical Lattices

Peter Blakie (National Institute of Standards and Technology.)

10:30 B2.001 Controlling External Molecular Modes with Intense Light

Tamar Seideman (Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University)

11:00 B2.002 Vibrationally mode-specific excitation in molecular photoionization

Erwin Poliakoff (Louisiana State University)

11:30 B2.003 The Effects of Electron Correlation and Nuclear Motion in Molecular Photoionization

Robert Lucchese (Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University)

10:30 B3.001 Low Energy Capture By Ar^8+ From Atomic and Molecular Hydrogen Targets

Erge Edgu-Fry, Lew Cocke, Jeff Stuhlman (J.R. Macdonald Laboratory, Kansas State University, Manhattan KS, 66502)

10:42 B3.002 State-selective charge transfer cross sections for p-Li collisions

M. S. Pindzola (Auburn University), T. Minami, D. R. Schultz (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

10:54 B3.003 Young-type Interferences in Electron Emission from H_2 by 1\sim10 MeV H^+ Impact

S. Hossain, A.L. Landers, A.S. Alnaser, S.M. Ferguson, J.A. Tanis (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008), Z.M. Steindler (Kalamazoo Math Sci. Center, Kalamazoo, MI 49001)

11:06 B3.004 Study of triply excited 2s2p^2 ^2S, ^2,4P, ^2D, and 2p^3 ^2P, ^2D states of fluorine produced by triple electron capture.

Mikhail Zamkov, Emmanouil Benis, Chii-Dong Lin, Patrick Richard (J. R. Macdonald Laboratory, Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506-2604), Theo Zouros (University of Crete, P.O. Box 2208, 71003 Heraklion, & Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, P.O. Box 1527, 71110 Heraklion, Crete, Greece), Toru Morishita (Dept. of Applied Physics and Chemistry, University of Electro-Communications, 1-5-1 Chofu-ga-oka, Chofu-shi, Tokyo 182, Japan)

11:18 B3.005 The effect density for annihilation of positron-electron pair in positron Hydrogen scattering

chi-yu Hu, david Caballero (California State University at Long Beach)

11:30 B3.006 Hyperspherical Close Coupling Method: Recent applications to ion-atom and positron-atom collisions

Anh-Thu Le, Teck Lee, Michel Hesse (Department of Physics, Cardwell Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506), Chien-Nan Liu (Institute of Physics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan), Chii-Dong Lin (Department of Physics, Cardwell Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506)

10:30 B4.001 Science Goals for the PARCS mission on the International Space Station

Neil Ashby (University of Colorado), Leo Hollberg, Steven Jefferts (N.I.S.T.), William Klipstein, David Seidel (J.P.L.), Donald Sullivan (N.I.S.T.)

10:42 B4.002 Millimeter-Scale Atomic Frequency References

John Kitching, Svenja Knappe, Hugh Robinson, Leo Hollberg, Li-Anne Liew, John Moreland (NIST, Boulder, CO 80305), Joe Maclennan (Physics Department, The University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309), Vladimir Velichansky (Lebedev Institute, Moscow, Russia)

10:54 B4.003 The Physics of Miniature Atomic Clocks: 0-0 Versus "End" Transitions

Amber Post, Yuan-Yu Jau, Nicholas Kuzma, William Happer (Princeton University)

11:06 B4.004 Testing the stability of fundamental constants with the ^199Hg^+ single-ion optical clock

W. H. Oskay, S. Bize, S. A. Diddams, U. Tanaka, C. E. Tanner, T. Parker, R. E. Drullinger, T. Heavner, S. R. Jefferts, L. Hollberg, W. M. Itano, J. C. Bergquist (Time and Frequency Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 325 Broadway, Boulder CO 80305 USA)

11:18 B4.005 A Ca Optical Frequency Standard Based On Colder Atoms

Chris Oates, E. Anne Curtis, Guido Wilpers, Chad Hoyt, Leo Hollberg (NIST-Boulder Labs), Andrew Ludlow (University of Colorado)

11:30 B4.006 Forbidden Transitions in a Magneto-Optical Trap

M. Bhattacharya, C. Haimberger, N.P. Bigelow (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester,New York,14627.)

11:42 B4.007 Frequency shifts in coherent population trapping clocks

D.F. Phillips, B.M. Murphy, M. Crescimanno, J. Hager, E.M. Mattison, R.F.C. Vessot, R.L. Walsworth (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

10:30 B5.001 Light scattering from random stratified dielectric layers*

S. Menon, Q. Su, R. Grobe (Intense Laser Physics Theory Unit and Department of Physics, Illinois State University)

10:42 B5.002 Bridging the gap between the Maxwell and Boltzmann theories*

R. Grobe, S. Menon, Q. Su (Intense Laser Physics Theory Unit and Department of Physics, Illinois State University)

10:54 B5.003 The Nature of the J-band in the Absorption and Fluorescence Spectra of Cyanine Dyes

Irina Struganova, Mesha Hazell, Jacinta Gaitor, Debra McNally-Carr, Sanya Zivanovic (Barry University)

11:06 B5.004 Fragment-Based Ab Initio Theory: A New Approach to Study Optical properties of Large Organic Molecules

Guru Das, Alan Yeates, Douglas Dudis (Air Force Research Laboratory, AFRL/MLBP, WPAFB, OH), AFRL/MLBP Theory Group Team

11:18 B5.005 Theory of metal/rare-gas clusters: aspects of open-shell atomic dopants

J.A. Boatz (Air Force Research Laboratory), R.J. Hinde (University of Tennessee), J.A. Sheehy (NASA Marshall SFC), P.W. Langhoff (San Diego Supercomputer Center)

11:30 B5.006 Electronic Decay of Valence Holes in Clusters

Robin Santra (JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0440), Lorenz Cederbaum (Physikalisch-Chemisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany)

11:42 B5.007 Probing adsorbate oscillations on metal surfaces using ultrafast extreme ultraviolet pulses

Chi-Fong Lei, Margaret M. Murnane, Henry C. Kapteyn (JILA, University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440, USA), Michael Bauer (Fachbereich Physik, Universitaet Kaiserslautern, Erwin Schroedinger Str. 46, D-67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany)

11:54 B5.008 Lb2 satellites spectra emitted due to N – shell spectator vacancy

Surendra Poonia (Research Scientist (X-Ray Emission Spectroscopy))