Program overview

FRIDAY MORNING, 23 MAY 2003

10:30 M1.001 Role of the Atomic Potential in Strong Field Phenomena

Anthony F. Starace (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska, Lincoln NE 68588-0111)

11:00 M1.002 Double Photoionization of Li Near Threshold

Ralf Wehlitz (Synchrotron Radiation Center, Univ. of Wisconsin--Madison)

11:30 M1.003 Inner-Shell Photodetachment Dynamics

Tom Gorczyca (Western Michigan University)

10:30 M2.001 Cooling and Slowing of Atoms in an Optical Cavity

Hilton Chan, Adam Black, Vladan Vuletic (Stanford University)

10:42 M2.002 New Hydrogen Cryostat

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

10:54 M2.003 Single-Step Sub-Doppler Cooling of Alkaline Earth Atoms

Tom Loftus, Xinye Xu, Josh Dunn, Chris Greene, John Hall, Alan Gallagher, Jun Ye (JILA, NIST, University of Colorado)

11:06 M2.004 Single-stage sub-Doppler cooling of alkaline earth atoms: theory

Xinye Xu, Thomas H. Loftus, Josh W. Dunn, Chris H. Greene, John L. Hall, Alan Gallagher, Jun Ye (JILA and Department of Physics, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0440)

11:18 M2.005 Evaporative Cooling in a Holographic Atom Trap

Jennifer Sebby, Raymond Newell, Thad Walker (University of Wisconsin-Madison), UW-Atom Trainers Team

11:30 M2.006 White light traps for neutral atoms

C.A. Sackett, B. Deissler (University of Virginia)

11:54 M2.007 Narrow Line Cooling in Strontium

Sarah Nagel, Sampad Laha, Priya Gupta, Clayton Simien, Tom Killian (Rice University)

10:30 M3.001 How Things Work: Teaching Physics in the Context of Everyday Life

Louis Bloomfield (Department of Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904)

11:00 M3.002 What Works? Increasing the Participation by Women in Undergraduate Physics

Barbara L. Whitten, Suzanne R. Foster, Margaret L. Duncombe (Colorado College)

11:12 M3.003 Use of Interactive Software in Teaching Undergraduate Quantum Mechanics

David E. Nitz (Physics Department, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN 55057)

11:24 M3.004 Top-Down Physics

Michael Schillaci (Francis Marion University)

10:30 M4.001 Mesoscopic Quantum Physics : Coherent Backscattering of Light by Cold Atoms

Thierry Chanelière, Yannick Bidel, Guillaume Labeyrie, David Wilkowski, Christian Miniatura, Robin Kaiser (CNRS), Dominique Delande Collaboration, Cord Mueller Collaboration

10:42 M4.002 Temperature Measurements and Heating Rate Studies in Penning Trap Ion Crystals

M.J. Jensen, T. Hasegawa, J.M. Kriesel, J.J. Bollinger (NIST, Boulder, CO 80305)

10:54 M4.003 Demonstration of storing arbitrary polarization photons in an atomic vapor*

Hong Gao, Mark Rosenberry, Herman Batelaan (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska ¨C Lincoln,116 Brace Lab, Lincoln, NE 68588-0111)

11:06 M4.004 Coherent Multiple Light Scattering in Ultracold Atomic Rb

Pasad Kulatunga, C.I. Sukenik, Salim Balik, M.D. Havey (Department of Physics, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529), D.V. Kupriyanov, I.M. Sokolov (Department of Theoretical Physics, St. Petersburg State University, Russia)

11:18 M4.005 Off-Raman resonance effects on hyperfine coherences

Sihong Gu, John A. Behr (TRIUMF)

11:30 M4.006 A Closed Class of Finite-Amplitude Excitations in Quantum Dots, Dipolar Condensates, and Some Other Systems

Jared Clarke, Maxim Olshanii (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California)

11:42 M4.007 Decoherence in n-level quantum systems

A. Ravi P. Rau (Affiliation), Weichang Zhao (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy, Louisiana State Univ)

11:54 M4.008 Dephasing model for spatially extended states in cycloatoms*

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

10:30 M5.001 Experiments with 1D Interacting Bose Gases

J. V. Porto, B. Laburthe Tolra, J. H. Huckans, K. M. O'Hara, S. L. Rolston, W. D. Phillips (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD), M. Anderlini (Department of Physics, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy)

10:42 M5.002 Short-Distance Correlation Properties of the Lieb-Liniger System and Momentum Distributions of Trapped One-Dimensional Atomic Gases

Maxim Olshanii, Vanja Dunjko (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California)

10:54 M5.003 Confinement Induced Resonances in Atom-Atom Scattering in the Presence of Tight Cylindrical Confinement

Michael Moore (ITAMP, Harvard), T. Bergeman (SUNY Stony Brook), M. Olshanii (USC)

11:06 M5.004 Exact pair correlations in a finite-temperature interacting 1D Bose gas

Peter Drummond, Karen Kheruntsyan (ACQAO, Physics Department, University of Queensland), Gora Shlyapnikov (FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, The Netherlands), Dimitri Gangardt (Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel, Ecole Normale Superieure, France)

11:18 M5.005 Microscopic frequency shift and damping rate for a few-body system under external confinement

Doerte Blume (Department of Physics, Washington State University), Chris H. Greene (Department of Physics and JILA, University of Colorado)

11:30 M5.006 Variational description of Bose-Einstein condensate as Squeezed Coherent condensate.

MASUDUL HAQUE, ANDREI RUCKENSTEIN (RUTGERS, STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY)

11:42 M5.007 Bose gas and classical fields

Kazimierz Rzazewski (Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences)

11:54 M5.008 Deterministic versus spontaneous process in atomic four wave mixing

Eric Infeld (Nuclear Institute, Warszaw, Poland.), Marek Trippenbach, Jan Chwedeczuk (Physics Department, Warsaw University, Poland), Kazimierz Rzewski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland), Mariusz Gajda (Physics Department, Warsaw University, Poland)

12:06 M5.009 Enhancement of four wave mixing in a BEC by introducing a mismatch

Eryk Infeld (Nuclear Institute, Warsaw, Poland.), Marek Trippenbach (Physics Department, Warsaw University, Poland), Nonlinear Dynamics Group Collaboration