Program overview

WEDNESDAY MORNING, 26 MAY 2004

10:30 B1.001 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHOTODETACHMENT MICROSCOPY

Christophe Blondel (Laboratoire Aimé-Cotton, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, université Paris-sud)

11:06 B1.002 Probing 2-Electron Dynamics at the Classical Limit of an Atom

Robert Jones (Physics Department, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA)

11:42 B1.003 Probing and manipulating Rydberg atoms

F. Robicheaux (Auburn University)

12:18 B1.004 Chaos-Induced Pulse Trains in the Ionization of Hydrogen

Kevin Mitchell (College of William and Mary)

10:30 B2.001 Single State Atom Interferometry using Grating Echoes

A Kumarakrishnan (Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3)

11:06 B2.002 Manipulation of magnetically guided atomic beams

Georg Raithel (FOCUS Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109)

11:42 B2.003 Interaction-Induced Degradation of Sensitivity of Waveguide-Based Atom Interferometers

Maxim Olshanii (University of Southern California)

12:18 B2.004 Atom Optics on Chips

Mauritz Andersson, Peter Krüger, Stephan Wildermuth, Jörg Schmiedmayer (Physikalisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Germany)

10:30 B3.001 Observation of Bose-Einstein Condensation of Molecules

Martin W. Zwierlein, Claudiu A. Stan, Christian H. Schunck, Sebastian M. F. Raupach, Subhadeep Gupta, Zoran Hadzibabic, Wolfgang Ketterle (Department of Physics, MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, and Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139)

10:42 B3.002 Achieving a BCS transition in an atomic Fermi gas

Lincoln D. Carr (JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and Physics Department, University of Colorado), Gora V. Shlyapnikov (Universite Paris Sud, University of Amsterdam, and Kurchatov Institute), Yvan Castin (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Ecole Normale Superieure)

10:54 B3.003 Soliton trains in Bose-Einstein condensate induced by attractive interaction with degenerate Fermi gases

Kai Bongs (Institut für Laser-Physik, Universität Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany), Tomasz Karpiuk, Miroslaw Brewczyk (Uniwersytet w Bialymstoku, ul. Lipowa 41, 15-424 Bialystok, Poland), Meriusz Gajda (Instytut Fizyki PAN, Al. Lotnikow 32/46, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland), Kazimierz Rzazewski (Centrum Fizyki Teoretycznej PAN, Al. Lotnikow 32/46, Warsaw, Poland)

11:06 B3.004 Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas of Atoms in a Harmonic Trap

Alexander L. Zubarev, Yeong E. Kim (Purdue Nuclear and Many-Body Theory Group, Department of Physics, Purdue University)

11:18 B3.005 Damping BEC-excitations by means of a fermionic superfluid: acoustic attenuation in atom traps

Sergio Gaudio (Theoretical Division, LANL and Boston College), Krastan Blagoev (Theoretical Division. LANL), Kevin Bedell (Boston College), Eddy Timmermans (Theoretical Division,LANL)

11:30 B3.006 Thermodynamics of an atomic fermi gas subject to a Feshbach resonance

Robert Chiaramonte, Lincoln Carr, Murray Holland (JILA, University of Colorado)

11:42 B3.007 Spectroscopy of a two component quantum degenerate Fermi gas

G. B. Partridge, K. E. Strecker, M. W. Jack, R. G. Hulet (Department of Physics and Astronomy and Rice Quantum Institute, Rice University, Houston TX, 77251)

11:54 B3.008 Production of a quantum degenerate Bose-Fermi mixture with ^87Rb and ^40K

J. Goldwin, S. Inouye, M.L. Olsen, D.S. Jin (JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309)

12:06 B3.009 High T_c superfluids in the vicinity of a Feshbach resonance

Alexander Avdeenkov, John L. Bohn (JILA, University of Colorado)

10:30 B4.001 The inverse ATI process: electron-ion recombinations in intense ultrashort laser pulses

S. X. Hu, L. A. Collins (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545)

10:42 B4.002 Attosecond Control of Continuum Harmonic Generation

Andre D Bandrauk, Stephane Chelkowski, Hong Shon Nguyen (Université de Sherbrooke)

10:54 B4.003 Classical Modeling of Double Ionization of Atoms in Intense Laser Fields

Stanley Haan, Andrew Vache, Llian Breen (Calvin College)

11:06 B4.004 Fully differential rates for femtosecond multiphoton double ionization of neon

M. Weckenbrock, A. Staudte, Th. Weber, M. Schoeffler, M. Meckel, S. Kammer, M. Smolarski, O. Jagutzki, R. Doerner (Institut fuer Kernphysik, Universitaet Frankfurt, D-60486 Frankfurt, Germany), D. Zeidler, V.R. Bhardwaj, D.M. Rayner, D.M. Villeneuve, P.B. Corkum (National Research Council, 100 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1A 0R6)

11:18 B4.005 Electron-electron dynamics in laser-induced nonsequential double ionization

C. Figueira de Morisson Faria (Quantum Optics Group, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany), H. Schomerus (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden, Germany), X. Liu, W. Becker (Max-Born-Institut, Berlin, Germany)

11:30 B4.006 Multielectron Responses and Ionization Mechanisms of Diatomic Molecules in Intense Laser Fields

Xi Chu (ITAMP), ShiH-I Chu (University of Kansas)

11:42 B4.007 Probing Helium Double Excitation States by a Short XUV Light Pulse Combined with an Intense Laser Field

X. M Tong, Z. X. Zhao, C. D. Lin (Physics Department, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506)

11:54 B4.008 Diffraction without a grating?

Herman Batelaan (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Olga Smirnova (University of Vienna), Misha Ivanov (National Research Council Ottawa), Dan Freimund (University of Maryland)

12:06 B4.009 Xenon Clusters in Intense VUV Laser Fields

Robin Santra, Chris Greene (Department of Physics and JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder)

12:18 B4.010 High-order above-threshold ionization by few-cycle pulses

D.B. Milo\vsevi\'c (Faculty of Science, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina), G.G. Paulus (Dept. of Physics, Texas Aamp;M University), W. Becker (Max-Born-Institut, Berlin, Germany)

12:30 B4.011 Electron detachment by an intense laser field: dependence of elliptic dichroism on initial state symmetry

M.V. FROLOV, ANTHONY F. STARACE (The University of Nebraska-Lincoln), N.L. MANAKOV, E.A. PRONIN (Voronezh State University, Russia)

12:42 B4.012 Relativistic electron localization and the lack of Zitterbewegung

P. Krekora, Q. Su, R. Grobe (Intense Laser Physics Theory Unit, Illinois State University)

12:54 B4.013 The Klein paradox in spatial and temporal resolution

Q. Su, P. Krekora, R. Grobe (Intense Laser Physics Theory Unit, Illinois State University)