Program overview

THURSDAY MORNING, 22 MAY 2003

08:00 F1.001 AMO Physics of Metal-Halide High-Intensity-Discharge Lamps

J. E. Lawler (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)

08:30 F1.002 AMO Physics with Coherent Control of Ultrafast Strong Field Lasers

P.H. Bucksbaum (FOCUS Center, Physics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1120)

09:00 F1.003 Exotic Carbon and Silicon Molecules of Astronomical Interest

Michael C. McCarthy (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138 USA)

09:30 F1.004 X-rays in the Solar System

Alexander Dalgarno (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

08:00 F2.001 Long-distance atom transport: Towards an on-chip single atom detector

Jakob Reichel (Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik/University of Munich, Germany)

08:30 F2.002 Atom Field Interactions in Curved Samples of Cold Atomic Gases

Mara Prentiss (Harvard University)

09:00 F2.003 BEC in microtraps and near surfaces

E.A. Hinds (Blackett Laboratory Imperial College London)

09:30 F2.004 Towards a continuous atom laser

David Guery-Odelin (Ecole Normale Superieure, 24 Rue Lhomond, F-75005 Paris, France)

08:00 F3.001 Precision Spectroscopy of Helium

Tanya Zelevinsky, Gerald Gabrielse (Harvard University)

08:12 F3.002 High resolution hydrogen spectroscopy: towards a new Lamb shift measurement

Kendra Vant, Lia Matos, Cort Johnson, Bonna Newman, Julia Steinberger, Peng Yi, Tomohiro Ueno (MIT), Lorenz Willmann (Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut), Thomas Greytak, Daniel Kleppner (MIT)

08:24 F3.003 Challenges with ultracold deuterium

Julia Steinberger (MIT), Lorenz Willmann (Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut), Bonna Newman, Tomohiro Ueno, Cort Johnson, Lia Matos, Kendra Vant, Peng Yi, Thomas Greytak, Daniel Kleppner (MIT)

08:36 F3.004 A Two Ion Waltz

James K. Thompson, Simon Rainville, David E. Pritchard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

08:48 F3.005 Does E=mc^2 ?

Simon Rainville, James K. Thompson, David E. Pritchard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

09:00 F3.006 A Measurement of the Electron edm using GdIG

Larry Hunter, Noah Charney, Joel Gordon, Steve Peck, Oliver Elliott, Margaret McKeon (Amherst College), Steve Lamoreaux (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

09:12 F3.007 Progress Toward an Improved Limit on the Permanent Electric Dipole Moment of ^199Hg

W. C. Griffith, M. D. Swallows, L. K. Kogler, E. N. Fortson (University of Washington), M. V. Romalis (Princeton University)

09:24 F3.008 First bound on Lorentz and CPT violating boost effects for the neutron using a two-species noble gas maser

F. Cane, D.F. Phillips, M.S. Rosen, R.E. Stoner, R.L. Walsworth (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), V.A. Kostelecky (Indiana University)

09:36 F3.009 High efficiency magneto-optical trap for radioactive Fr

E. Gomez, S. Aubin, L. A. Orozco, G. D. Sprouse (SUNY Stony Brook)

09:48 F3.010 All-order calculation of spin-dependent PNC amplitude in Cs and a revised value of Cs anapole moment

M.S. Safronova (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg), W.R. Johnson (University of Notre Dame)

10:00 F3.011 Two-step method and high-precision calculation of PNC effects in heavy-atom molecules

Anatoly Titov, Nikolai Mosyagin, Aleksander Petrov, Timur Isaev (Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, St.-Petersburg, Russia), Relativistic Quantum Chemistry Team

08:00 F4.001 Nonlinear Optics at Low-Light Levels

Danielle Braje, Vlatko Bali\'c, G.Y. Yin, S.E. Harris (Stanford University)

08:12 F4.002 Observation of large Kerr nonlinearity at low light intensities

Hoonsoo Kang, Lingling Wen, Yifu Zhu (Florida International University)

08:24 F4.003 Plasma evolution during supercontinuum generation

Jennifer Tate, Corey Casto, Douglass Schumacher (The Ohio State University)

08:36 F4.004 Intrinsic amplitude noise limitations to supercontinuum spectra generated in microstructure fiber

Kristan Corwin (National Institute of Standards and Technology, 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado 80305), Nathan Newbury (NIST), John Dudley (Laboratoire d’Optique P. M. Duffieux, Université de Franche-Comté), Stéphane Cohen (Service d’Optique et Acoustique, Université Libre de Bruxelles), Scott Diddams, Brian Washburn (NIST), Karl Weber (University of Melbourne), Robert Windeler (OFS Laboratories)

08:48 F4.005 Ultrafast Deep UV FEL Source for AMO Physics at Brookhaven National Laboratory

B. Sheehy, G. L. Carr, A. Doyuran, W. Graves, R. Heese, E. D. Johnson, S. Krinsky, H. Loos, J. B. Murphy, G. Rakowsky, J. Rose, T. Shaftan, Y. Shen, J. Skaritka, X. J. Wang, Z. Wu, L. H. Yu, Yu Zhao (National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Laboratory), L. F. DiMauro (Chemistry Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton NY 11973), A. Suits, M. G. White (Chemistry Department, University of Stony Brook, Stony Brook NY 11794)

09:00 F4.006 Generation of spatially coherent light at 11-13nm using quasi phase matching in modulated hollow core fibers

Xiaoshi Zhang, Ariel Libertun, Ariel Paul (JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology amp; University of Colorado), Randy Bartels (Colorado State University,CO), Margaret Murnane, Henry Kapteyn, Sterling Backus (JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology amp; University of Colorado)

09:12 F4.007 Demonstration of Quasi-Phase-Matched High Harmonic Generation at 200eV Photon Energies

Emily Gibson, Ra'anan Tobey, Ariel Paul, Sterling Backus, Margaret Murnane, Henry Kapteyn (JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder)

09:24 F4.008 Simplified Setup for High-Resolution Spectroscopy using Ultrashort Pulses

E. Gershgoren, R. A. Bartels (JILA), J. T. Fourkas (Boston College, Department of Chemistry), R. Tobey, M. M. Murnane, H. C. Kapteyn (JILA)

09:36 F4.009 Comparison of ellipticity dependence of high order harmonic generation from molecules and atoms

Bing Shan, Shamhbu Ghimire, Chun Wang, Zenghu Chang (J. R. Macdonald Laboratory, Physics Department, Kansas State University, Manhattan KS 66506)

09:48 F4.010 Theory of Attosecond Pulse Generation by High Harmonic Phase Locking

Mette B. Gaarde, Kenneth J. Schafer (Dept.~of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4001)

08:00 F5.001 Vortices and Spin Textures in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Aaron Leanhardt, Tom Pasquini, Yong-Il Shin, Dave Kielpinski, Dave Pritchard, Wolfgang Ketterle (MIT)

08:12 F5.002 Rapidly rotating Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices

David Feder (University of Calgary)

08:24 F5.003 Thermodynamic Critical Frequency for a Vortex in a Superfluid Fermi Gas

Nygaard N. (NIST/University of Maryland), Bruun G. M. (Niels Bohr Institute), Schneider B. I. (NSF), Clark C. W. (NIST), Feder D. L. (University of Calgary)

08:36 F5.004 Superfluidity gone bad: Dynamics of compressible vortex matter

James Anglin (Center for Ultracold Atoms, MIT)

08:48 F5.005 Understanding Vortex Lattice Dynamics of a BEC

L. Baksmaty, S.J. Woo, Stephen Choi (University of Rochester)

09:00 F5.006 Generation of strongly correlated Laughlin state in Bose gases

Satyan Bhongale, Josh Milstein (JILA and Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder), Murray Holland (JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder)

09:12 F5.007 Spin mixing in ^87Rb condensates using all optical traps

M.S. Chang, M.D. Barrett, C.D. Hamley, J.A. Sauer, K.M. Fortier, M.S. Chapman (Georgia Inst. of Technology)

09:24 F5.008 Spin squeezing and stability of a resonantly driven two-component Bose-Einstein condensate

Stewart Jenkins, Brian Kennedy (School of Physics, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332-0430)

09:36 F5.009 Energetically stable point-like Skyrmions in a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate

Janne Ruostekoski (Dept of Physics; Univ of Hertfordshire; Hatfield Herts AL10 9AB; UK), Craig Savage (Dept of Physics and Theortical Physics; Australian National Univ)

09:48 F5.010 Exact SO(5) Symmetry in spin 3/2 fermionic system

Congjun Wu (Department of Physics, McCullough Building, Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305-4045), Jiang-Ping Hu (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angels, CA 90095-1547), Shou-cheng Zhang (Department of Physics, McCullough Building, Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305-4045)