Program overview

SATURDAY MORNING, 29 MAY 2004

10:30 T1.001 Atoms and the basic laws of physics

Norval Fortson (University of Washington)

11:06 T1.002 Envariance, Ignorance, and Information in Quantum Physics

Wojciech H. Zurek (Theory Division, Los Alamos)

11:42 T1.003 Ultrafast Coherent Control in AMO Physics

Philip Bucksbaum (FOCUS Center, Department of Physics, University of Michigan)

12:18 T1.004 Successes and Limitations in Quantum Control.

Moshe Shapiro

10:30 T3.001 Influence of black-body radiation on alkali-metal polar molecules

S. Kotochigova, E. Tiesinga, P.S. Julienne (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

10:42 T3.002 Formation of molecules in an expanding Bose-Einstein condensate

Vladimir Yurovsky, Abraham Ben-Reuven (School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel)

10:54 T3.003 Progress toward trapping of NH

L.D. van Buuren, W. Campbell, D. Egorov, S.E. Maxwell, E. Tsikata, J. Doyle (Harvard University)

11:06 T3.004 Dissociation and Decay of Ultra-cold Sodium Molecules

Takashi Mukaiyama, Jamil Abo-Shaeer, Kaiwen Xu, Jit Kee Chin, Daniel Miller (Affiliation), Wolfgang Ketterle (Department of Physics, MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

11:18 T3.005 Cold neutral free radical molecules

Eric R. Hudson, J.R. Bochinski, H.J. Lewandowski, Jun Ye (JILA , NIST, and University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309)

11:30 T3.006 Single shot characterization of subpicosecond and ultra-relativistic compressed electron bunches at the SLAC SPPS experiment

Adrian Cavalieri, David M. Fritz, Soo-Heyong Lee, Philip H. Bucksbaum, David A. Reis (FOCUS Center and Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI), Holger Schlarb (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany), Jerome Hastings (Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA)

11:42 T3.007 Towards Single Slit Grating Interferometry Utilizing Nano-Fabricated Structures

Brett Barwick, Glen Gronniger, Hong Gao, Herman Batelaan (University of Nebraska - Lincoln)

11:54 T3.008 Improving the output of a Littman-Metcalf diode laser using an intra-cavity Faraday-effect isolator

Dallin Durfee, Rebecca Merrill, Rebecca Olson, Scott Bergeson (Brigham Young University)

12:06 T3.009 Chirping, compressing and shaping FEL output: spectral phase properties

B. Sheehy, Z. Wu, T. Shaftan, H. Loos, L.H. Yu, G. L. Carr, E.D. Johnson, S. Krinsky, J.B. Murphy, Y. Shen, X.-J. Wang (NSLS, Brookhaven National Laboratory)