Program overview

FRIDAY MORNING, 23 MAY 2003

08:00 L1.001 SPIN-UP: Strategic Programs for Innovations in Undergraduate Physics

Robert Hilborn (Amherst College)

08:30 L1.002 Applying the tools of physics to teaching physics

Carl Wieman (University of Colorado)

09:00 L1.003 Making sense of how students learn modern physics

Richard Steinberg (City College of New York)

09:30 L1.004 CyberTutor: An Effective Combination of Tutoring, Assessment, and Educational Research

David E. Pritchard (Physics Department, MIT)

08:00 L2.001 Observations of Cold Antihydrogen

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

08:30 L2.002 Bose-Einstein Condensation of Optically Trapped Cesium

Rudolf Grimm (Institute of Experimental Physics, Univ. Innsbruck, Austria)

09:00 L2.003 Indistinguishable single photons for quantum information systems

Yoshihisa Yamamoto (Quantum Entanglement Project, ICORP, JST, E.L. Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 and NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Atsugi-shi, Kanagawa, Japan)

09:30 L2.004 Attosecond molecular dynamics using sub-cycle wavepacket correlation

David Villeneuve (National Research Council of Canada)

08:00 L3.001 High resolution, non-linear spectroscopy of cold Rydberg atoms

B. K. Teo, D. Feldbaum, T. Cubel, J. R. Guest, P. R. Berman, G. Raithel (FOCUS Center and Physics Dept. University of Michigan)

08:12 L3.002 Cold Rydberg atoms in strong magnetic fields

J.R. Guest, J.-H. Choi, A. Povilus, G. Raithel (FOCUS Center and Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1120)

08:24 L3.003 Diffusion in a Frozen Rydberg Gas

Wenhui Li, Paul J. Tanner (Department of Physics, University of Virginia), Igor Mourachko (Department of Physics, Universtiy of Virginia), Thomas F. Gallagher (Department of Physics, University of Virginia)

08:36 L3.004 Long-Range Molecular Resonances in a Cold Rydberg Gas

S.M. Farooqi, S. Krishnan, J. Stanojevic, D. Tong, Y.P. Zhang, A.S. Estrin, R. Côté, E.E. Eyler, P.L. Gould (Physics Department, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT)

08:48 L3.005 Excitation Efficiency of a Cold Rydberg Gas

J. Stanojevic, S. M. Farooqi, D. Tong, S. Krishnan, Y. P. Zhang, A. S. Estrin, R. Côté, John Calsamiglia, E. E. Eyler, P. L. Gould (Physics Department, University of Connecticut, 2152 Hillside Road, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3046.)

09:00 L3.006 Electron Temperatures in Ultracold Plasmas

James Hart, Ross Spencer, Dallin Durfee, Scott Bergeson (Brigham Young University)

09:12 L3.007 Temperature Moderation in Ultracold Plasmas

Jacob Roberts, Chad Fertig, Steve Rolston (NIST, Gaithersburg)

09:24 L3.008 Simulations of the Expansion of Ultra-Cold Plasmas

F. Robicheaux, James Hanson (Auburn University)

09:36 L3.009 Ultracold Plasma Imaging

Clayton Simien, Priya Gupta, Sampad Laha, Sarah Nagel (Affiliation), Thomas Killian (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy, Rice University)

09:48 L3.010 Magneto-Optic Rotation in a Cold Gas

Justin Nash, Frank A. Narducci (Naval Air Systems Command)

08:00 L4.001 Theoretical and computational studies of nondipole effects in the angular distributions of photoelectrons from fixed-in-space molecules

B. Zimmermann (Caltech), D.W. Lindle (UNLV), P.W. Langhoff (SDSC)

08:12 L4.002 Fragment Distributions From the Photo-ionization and Dissociation of Aligned H2 and D2 Molecules

L. Foucar, M.H. Prior (UC Lawrence Berkeley Nat. Lab.), M. Schöffler, L. Schmidt, H. Schmidt-Böcking, R. Dörner (IKF U. Frankfurt), A. Landers (Western Michigan U.), T. Osipov, E.P. Benis, C.L. Cocke (Kansas State U.)

08:24 L4.003 Photoelectron Diffraction from Fixed-in-Space Ethylene Molecules

T. Osipov, C.L. Cocke (Kansas State University), A.L. Landers (Western Michigan University), R. Doerner, T. Weber, O. Jagutski, M. Hattas, A. Demian-Braeuning, H. Schmidt-Boecking (Institut fur Kernphysik, Universitat Frankfurt), H. Braeuning (Institute fur Kernphysik, Universitat Giessen), M.H. Prior (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), A. Cassimi (CIRIL/CEA/CNRS, Caen)

08:36 L4.004 Imaging Wave Packets by Resonant Auger Spectroscopy

John Bozek (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, MS 6R2100, Berkeley, CA 94720), Sophie Canton, Nora Berrah (Dept. of Physics, Western Michigan Univ., Kalamazoo, MI 49008), Denis Cubayne (LIXAM et LURE, CNRS, Univ. Paris – Sud, Bat 350, 91405 Orsay, France), Edwin Kukk (Dept. of Physical Sciences, PO Box 3000, Univ. of Oulu, Oulu, Finland)

08:48 L4.005 Photodetachment microscopy of polar molecules

Ilya Fabrikant (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

09:00 L4.006 The Investigation of The Relationship Electronic Energy \sim (Vibrational Frequency x Internuclear Distance)^2, Regarding The Vibrational Electronic States of Hydrogen Molecule

Tolga Yarman (Isik University, Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey), Faruk Yarman (Turkish Defence Industry and Manufacturer Association, Ankara), Fatih Ozaydin (Isik University, Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey)

09:12 L4.007 The Investigation of The Relationship Electronic Energy \sim 1/ (Internuclear Distance) Regarding The Vibrational Electronic States of Hydrogen Molecule

Tolga Yarman (Isik University, Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey), Faruk Yarman (Turkish Defence Industry and Manufacturer Association, Ankara, Turkey), Fatih Ozaydin (Isik University, Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey)

08:00 L5.001 A Waveguide Beamsplitter for Bose-Einstein Condensates

Peter Schwindt, Ying-Ju Wang, Tetsuo Kishimoto, Quentin Diot, Dana Anderson (University of Colorado at Boulder, JILA), Eric Cornell (University of Colorado at Boulder, JILA and NIST)

08:12 L5.002 Noise limits in matter-wave interferometry using degenerate quantum gases.

Christopher Search, Pierre Meystre (Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ)

08:24 L5.003 Bose-Einstein Condensates in Magnetic Waveguides

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

08:36 L5.004 Experiments with a rubidium condensate in an optical tweezer

Gretchen Campbell, Micah Boyd, Erik Streed, Jongchul Mun, Dominik Schneble, Jeff Steinhauer, David E. Pritchard, Wolfgang Ketterle (M.I.T.)

08:48 L5.005 Bose-Einstein condensation in one dimension on a microfabricated chip

Cheng Chin (Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-4060), Yu-Ju Lin, Igor Teper, Vladan Vuletic

09:00 L5.006 Interaction induced phase fluctuations in a guided atom laser

Isabelle Bouchoule (Institut d'Optique, Orsay, France), Klaus Moelmer (QUANTOP-Danish National Research Foundation Center for Quantum Optics, University of Aarhus C., Denmark)

09:12 L5.007 Propagation of ultracold atoms through bends in waveguides

M.W.J. Bromley, B.D. Esry (Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506 USA)

09:24 L5.008 Ferromagnetic storage ring for atom interferometry

Wilbert Rooijakkers, Mukund Vengalattore, Richard Conroy, Mara Prentiss (Harvard University, Physics Dept.), Prentiss Group Team

09:36 L5.009 Spinor dynamics in a magnetic waveguide

Wilbert Rooijakkers, Saijun Wu, Mara Prentiss (Harvard University, Physics Dept.), Prentiss Group Team

09:48 L5.010 Elementary Excitations of One Dimensional Trapped Bose Gas

Yeong E. Kim, Alexander L. Zubarev (Department of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN)