Program overview

SATURDAY MORNING, 24 MAY 2003

09:00 S1.001 Ultrafast Dynamics and Rydberg States in C60

Ingolf V. Hertel (Max Born Institute (MBI))

09:30 S1.002 Time-resolved coherent photoelectron spectroscopy at metal surfaces and interfaces

Ulrich Hofer (Philipps-Universitaet Marburg, Fachbereich Physik)

10:00 S1.003 Rydberg-like electronic states above metallic and dielectric nanotubes

Brian E. Granger (Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, Cambridge, MA 02138)

10:30 S1.004 Photoionization and Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Helium Droplets

Darcy S. Peterka (Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA)

09:00 S2.001 Studying Three-body Reaction Dynamics in Dissociative Recombination

Richard Thomas (Department of Physics, University of Stockholm, SCFAB, S106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.)

09:30 S2.002 Photon Interactions with Atomic Systems: Theory and Experiment

Brendan M. McLaughlin (School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University of Belfast)

10:00 S2.003 An experimental Method to Determine Photoelectron Partial Wave Probabilities and the Implications for Quantum Mechanically Complete Experiments

Orhan Yenen (Department of Physics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

10:30 S2.004 Low Energy Electron Impact of Atomic Hydrogen - Ionization, Elastic and Inelastic Scattering.

Murtadha Khakoo (Physics Department, California State University Fullerton, CA 92834)

09:00 S3.001 Atoms and molecules in a Bose-Einstein condensate with strong interactions

Servaas Kokkelmans (Ecole Normale Supérieure)

09:30 S3.002 Tunable Interactions in Bose and Fermi Gases of Lithium

Randall Hulet (Department of Physics and Astronomy and Rice Quantum Institute, Rice University, Houston, TX 77251)

10:00 S3.003 Formation of atomic tritium condensates and clusters

Doerte Blume (Department of Physics, Washington State University)

10:30 S3.004 Strongly Interacting Degenerate Fermi Gases

Subhadeep Gupta (Department of Physics, MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, and Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139)

09:00 S4.001 Controlling vibrational wave packet motion with intense modulated laser fields

David Villeneuve, Hiromichi Niikura, Paul Corkum (National Research Council of Canada)

09:12 S4.002 Controlling the population of angular momentum components in Rydberg states

Haidan Wen, Chitra Rangan, P.H. Bucksbaum (FOCUS Center, Physics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI)

09:24 S4.003 High-resolution two-photon spectroscopy with femtosecond lasers

Adela Marian, Xinye Xu (Affiliation), Jun Ye (JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0440)

09:36 S4.004 Formation of nonstationary atomic states by microwave field

H. Maeda, T.F. Gallagher (Department of Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904)

09:48 S4.005 Using Electronic Wavepackets to Probe 3-Body Coulomb Dynamics

Santosh Pisharody, Robert Jones (University of Virginia, Physics Department)

10:00 S4.006 Raman Chirped Adiabatic Passage in Rydberg Systems

C. W. S. Conover, J. A. Garfein (Department of Physics, Colby College)

10:12 S4.007 Coherent Control of Vibrational Excitations by Ultrafast Pulse Shaping

Svetlana Malinovskaya, Paul Berman, Philip Bucksbaum (FOCUS Center and Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109)

10:24 S4.008 Generation of Ultrafast 10fs Light Pulses using Molecular Phase Modulation

Nick Wagner (JILA), Randy Bartels (CSU), Henry Kaptyen, Margaret Murnane (JILA)

10:36 S4.009 Elimination of collisional dephasing by control laser fields

Alexei Sokolov (Physics Department, Texas Aamp;M University)

10:48 S4.010 Population control in a degenerate n-level atom.

J.H. McGuire, Kh. Kh. Shakov, Kh. Yu. Rakhimov (Tulane University)