Program overview

FRIDAY MORNING, 28 MAY 2004

10:30 M1.001 Electron Rescattering from Molecules in Intense Laser Fields

C.L. Cocke (Physics Department, Kansas State University)

11:06 M1.002 Laser alignment of molecules with short laser pulses

Henrik Stapelfeldt (Department of Chemistry, University of Aarhus, Denmark)

11:42 M1.003 Selective Excitation of Highly Excited States in Nitrogen Using Strong-Field Multiphoton Coupling

George Gibson (University of Connecticut)

12:18 M1.004 Dynamic Polarization in the Strong Field Ionisation of Metal Clusters

Marc Smits (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council Canada)

10:30 M2.001 Spin-Exchange-Induced Circularly-Polarized Molecular Fluorescence

T.J. Gay (University of Nebraska)

11:06 M2.002 Near-threshold phenomena in electron-molecule scattering

Michael Allan (Chemistry Department, University of Fribourg, Switzerland)

11:42 M2.003 Threshold Vibrational Excitation of CO2 by Slow Electrons

Wim Vanroose (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

12:18 M2.004 Vibrational Feshbach resonances in electron attachment to molecules and clusters

Ilya Fabrikant (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

10:30 M3.001 ‘3DW Calculation for Electron-Impact Ionization of Molecules’

Junfang Gao, Don H. Madison, Jerry L. Peacher (Physics department of University Missouri-Rolla)

10:42 M3.002 Benchmark quantum calculations of the O(^3P)+H_2\to OH + H reaction

Balakrishnan Naduvalath (Department of Chemistry, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 89154)

10:54 M3.003 UNIFIED AND SELF-CONSISTENT TREATMENT OF PHOTOIONIZATION AND RECOMBINATION: NEW FEATURES IN Ar XIII

Sultana Nahar (The Ohio State University)

11:06 M3.004 Calculating three-body resonant states by solving Faddeev-Merkuriev equations for complex energies

Zoltan Papp, Chi-Yu Hu (Department of Physics, Cal. State Univ., Long Beach)

11:18 M3.005 Re-examination of Fano parameterizations in resonant photoionization

Peter W. Langhoff (San Diego Supercomputer Center), Carl L. Winstead (California Institue of Technology)

11:30 M3.006 The Effects of Shape Resonances on Vibrational Excitation in the Photoionization of Triatomic Molecules

Robert Lucchese (Texas Aamp;M University)

11:42 M3.007 Atomic and Molecular Double Photoionization Calculations Using Exterior Scaling

D.A. Horner (UC Berkeley), W.I. Vanroose, T.N. Rescigno, C.W. McCurdy (LBNL), F. Martín (U. Autónoma, Madrid)

11:54 M3.008 Non-Dipole Effects in Angular Distributions for Photo-Double-Ionization of He

ANDREI Y. ISTOMIN, ANTHONY F. STARACE (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), N. L. MANAKOV (Voronezh State University, Russia), A. V. MEREMIANIN (University of Freiburg, Germany)

12:06 M3.009 Three-Dimensional Fully Differential Single Ionization Cross Sections for 75 keV p + He collisions

N Maydanyuk, A Hasan, B Fendler, M Schulz (Physics Department and Laboratory for Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Research, University of Missouri-Rolla), A Voitkiv (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik)

12:18 M3.010 Solutions of the Lorentz, Klein-Gordon, and Dirac equations in an electromagnetic wave field with a vortex line

Iwo Bialynicki-Birula (Center for Theoretical Physics, Warsaw, Poland)

12:30 M3.011 Antihydrogen formation in low energy collisions of antiproton with excited positronium

Anh-Thu Le, Chii-Dong Lin (Department of Physics, Cardwell Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506)

12:42 M3.012 Role of the Passive Atomic Electron in Charged Particle Ionization of He

Matt Foster, Don Madison, Jerry Peacher, Michael Schulz, Ahmed Hasan, Nataliya Maydanyuk, Ryan Kinney (Unversity of Missouri - Rolla)

12:54 M3.013 Sufficient data exists to provide a unified physics in 2004

Eugene Pamfiloff (Optigon Research and Development, Division of Vivitar Corp.)

10:30 M4.001 Inhibiting Three-Body Recombination in Atomic Bose-Einstein Condensates

Chris Search (Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721), Weiping Zhang (Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, P. R. China), Pierre Meystre (Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721)

10:42 M4.002 Implementation of a quantum random walk with a sodium Bose-Einstein condensate

Joshua M. Grossman, Donatella Ciampini, Michael d'Arcy, Kristian Helmerson, Paul D. Lett, William D. Phillips, Alipasha Vaziri (Laser Cooling amp; Trapping Group, National Institute of Standards amp; Technology), Steven L. Rolston (Department of Physics, University of Maryland)

10:54 M4.003 Raman Amplification of Matter Waves

Dominik Schneble, Gretchen K. Campbell, Erik W. Streed, Micah Boyd, Jongchul Mun, Aaron E. Leanhardt, Dave E. Pritchard, Wolfgang Ketterle (MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

11:06 M4.004 Cold Bose-Einstein condensates for surface reflection

M. Saba, A.E. Leanhardt, T.A. Pasquini, C. Sanner, A. Schirotzek, Y. Shin, D.E. Pritchard, W Ketterle (Center for Ultracold Atoms, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139)

11:18 M4.005 Interference between Bose-Einstein Condensates Independently Prepared in Two Spin States

Mark Wheeler, Jessie Erwin, David Hall (Department of Physics, Amherst College, Amherst, MA 01002)

11:30 M4.006 Dark-State Superradiance in Bose Condensates of ^87Rb

James Higbie, Lorraine Sadler, Ananth Chikkatur, Craig Hetherington, Stefan Schmid, Matt Pasienski, Dan Stamper-Kurn (University of California)

11:42 M4.007 Raman photoassociation of a dilute gas Mott insulator

Changhyun Ryu, Xu Du, Emek Yesilada, Daniel Heinzen (The University of Texas at Austin)

11:54 M4.008 Bose Einstein condensation in an Improved Optical Plug Trap

Devang Naik, Patrick Bradley, Anthony Liang, Chandra Raman (Georgia Institute of Technology)

12:06 M4.009 Creation of a BEC by evaporative cooling in a Yag laser trap

Toshiya Kinoshita, Trevor Wenger, David S. Weiss (Penn State Physics Dept.)

12:18 M4.010 Optimizing all-optical BEC methods for creating large condensates

M.-S. Chang, C. D. Hamley, J. A. Sauer, K. M. Fortier, M. S. Allman, M. S. Chapman (Georgia Institute of Technology)