Program overview

THURSDAY MORNING, 27 MAY 2004

08:00 F1.001 Learning control of atomic and molecular dynamics

Randy Bartels (Colorado State University)

08:30 F1.002 Quantum phase transition from a superfluid to a Mott insulator in a gas of ultracold atoms

Markus Greiner (JILA: NIST and University of Colorado)

09:00 F1.003 Vortices in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Paul C. Haljan (University of Michigan)

09:30 F1.004 Generation of Indistinguishable Single Photons Using Semiconductor Quantum Dots

Charles Santori (Stanford University)

10:00 F1.005 Testing E=mc^2 with a Two-Ion Mass Balance

James K. Thompson (MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA)

08:00 F2.001 Strongly magnetized Rydberg gases and plasmas

J.R. Guest, J.-H. Choi, E. Hansis, G. Raithel (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1120)

08:12 F2.002 Influence of Thermal Blackbody Radiation on the Evolution of a Cold Rydberg Gas

A. Walz-Flannigan, J. R. Guest, J. -H. Choi, G. Raithel (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI)

08:24 F2.003 Ultracold Plasma Imaging

C. E. Simien, Y. C. Chen, P. Gupta, S. Laha, T. C. Killian (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Tx 77005)

08:36 F2.004 Absorption Spectrum of an expanding Ultracold Strontium Plasma

Priya Gupta, Sampad Laha, Sarah Nagel, Clayton Simien, Pascal Mickelson, Yenny Martinez, Ying Chen, Thomas Killian (Rice University)

08:48 F2.005 Study of density profile of ultracold Sr plasma

Sampad Laha, Y. C. Chen, Priya Gupta, Clayton Simien (Affiliation), Thomas C. Killian (Rice University)

09:00 F2.006 Investigations of Disorder-induced Heating in Ultracold Neutral Plasmas

Y. C. Chen, C. E. Simien, P. Gupta, S. Laha, P. G. Mickelson, S. B. Nagel, Y. N. Martinez, T. C. Killian (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University)

09:12 F2.007 Evidence for the solid-liquid phase transition in a trapped ion plasma

M. J. Jensen, T. Hasegawa, J. J. Bollinger (NIST, Boulder, CO 80305), D. H. E. Dubin (UCSD, La Jolla, CA 92093)

09:24 F2.008 Optical Detection of Ultracold Neutral Calcium Plasmas

Elizabeth Cummings, Jared Daily, Dallin Durfee, Scott Bergeson (Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602)

09:36 F2.009 Electron impact ionization of Rydberg atoms

Daniel Vrinceanu (ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138), M. R. Flannery (School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA 30332)

08:00 F3.001 Laser-cooling and magnetic trapping near 3 Tesla

J.-H. Choi, J.R. Guest, E. Hansis, A. Povilus, G. Raithel (Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1120)

08:12 F3.002 Heteronuclear losses in a mixed two-species mirror magneto-optical trap

Michael Holmes, Michaela Tscherneck, Pedro Quinto-Su, Nicholas Bigelow (Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y. 14627)

08:24 F3.003 Dynamics of ^88 Sr narrow-line cooling

Tetsuya Ido, Thomas H. Loftus, Martin M. Boyd, Andrew D. Ludlow, Jun Ye (JILA / NIST and Univ. of Colorado)

08:36 F3.004 Prospects for an optical atomic clock based on cold ytterbium

C. W. Hoyt, C. W. Oates (NIST), Zeb W. Barber (NIST and University of Colorado), L. Hollberg (NIST)

08:48 F3.005 Highly efficient RF induced Sisyphus cooling in a magnetic trap.

J. Janis, M. Banks, N. P. Bigelow (University of Rochester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester, NY 14627)

09:00 F3.006 Zero-Point Cooling and Heating of Trapped Cadmium Ions

Patricia Lee, Kathy-Anne Brickman, Louis Deslauriers, Paul Haljan, Christopher Monroe (FOCUS and Physics Department, University of Michigan)

09:12 F3.007 Computational and theoretical analysis of sympathetic cooling of non-crystallized ions in a linear Paul trap

T.J. Harmon, N. Moazzen-Ahmadi, R.I. Thompson (University of Calgary)

09:24 F3.008 Cold atomic and molecular beams using buffer-gas cooling

Nathaniel Brahms (Harvard University, Harvard/MIT CUA), David Glenn (Yale University), Rob DeCarvalho (MIT, Harvard/MIT CUA), Scott Nguyen (Harvard University, Harvard/MIT CUA), Dave Kielpinski (MIT, Harvard/MIT CUA), Dave DeMille (Yale University), John Doyle (Harvard University, Harvard/MIT CUA)

09:36 F3.009 One Million Years of Groundwater History Revealed by Atom Trap Trace Analysis of Krypton-81

Peter Mueller (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Il. 60439), for the Sahara Groundwater Age Collaboration

09:48 F3.010 Narrow Line Cooling in Strontium

Sarah Nagel, Y.C. Chen, Natali Martinez, Pascal Mickelson, Thomas Killian (Rice University)

08:00 F4.001 Higher order corrections to the Wannier threshold law for positron scattering

James Sternberg (University of Tennessee), S.J. Ward (University of North Texas), J.H. Macek (University of Tennessee and Oak Ride National Laboratory), J. Shertzer (College of the Holy Cross)

08:12 F4.002 AB INITIO STUDY OF LOW-ENERGY ELECTRON COLLISIONS WITH C_2F_4

Cynthia Trevisan, Ann Orel (Department of Applied Science, University of California, Davis, California 95616), Thomas Rescigno (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Computing Sciences, Berkeley, California 94720)

08:24 F4.003 Low-energy electron collisions with SF_6 molecules

Ilya Fabrikant (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Hartmut Hotop (University of Kaiserslautern)

08:36 F4.004 Electron impact ionization at relativistic energies

Ali Belkacem, Kyra Cole, Marcus Hertlein, Benedict Feinberg, Ralf Schriel, Hidehito Adaniya, Nadine Neumann (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

08:48 F4.005 Frequency enhancement of the interference pattern in electron emission from H_2 by fast H^+ impact

S. Hossain, S.M. Ferguson., J. Baran, D. Strohschein, J.A. Tanis (Western Michigan University)

09:00 F4.006 Polarization effects in ionization-excitation of helium

Klaus Bartschat (Drake University), Nils Andersen (University of Copenhagen)

09:12 F4.007 Dissociative Recombination of HCO+

Aasa Larson, Stefano Tonzani, Robin Santra, Chris H. Greene (JILA - University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309-0440)

09:24 F4.008 Ionization of He-like systems by electrons at intermediate and high energies

B. C. Saha (Department of Physics, Florida Aamp;M University, Tallahassee, FL-32307), M. A. Uddin, A. K. Basak (Department of Physics, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh.)

09:36 F4.009 \textitAB INITIO STUDY OF RESONANT DISSOCIATIVE RECOMBINATION OF He_2^+

J. Royal, A. E. Orel (Department of Applied Science, University of California at Davis, California 95616)

09:48 F4.010 Low-energy Electron Scattering by NO: a Theoretical Study

Zhiyong Zhang, Wim Vanroose, T.N. Rescigno, C.W. McCurdy (LBNL), A.E. Orel (UC Davis)

10:00 F4.011 R-MATRIX II APPROACH TO ELECTRON CORRELATIONS IN HEAVY ATOMIC SYSTEMS

A. Pradhan, S. Nahar, J. Oelgoetz (The Ohio State. U.), P. Burke (QUB,Daresbury Lab), V. Burke, A. Sunderland, C. Noble (Daresbury Lab)

10:12 F4.012 Electron-impact Excitation of Xenon

ARATI DASGUPTA (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC), KLAUS BARTSCHAT (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Drake University, Des Moines, IA), DON MADISON (Physics Department, University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, MO)