Program overview

TUESDAY AFTERNOON, 28 SEPTEMBER 2004

14:00 NT1.001 Probing low temperature plasmas with diode lasers

Gus Hancock (Oxford University, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory)

14:30 NT1.002 Visualized measurements of densities and velocities of Fe and Cu atoms in magnetron sputtering plasmas

Junsi Gao, Nayan Nafarizal (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Nagoya University, Japan), Kanji Shibagaki (Suzuka National College of Technology, Japan), Koichi Sasaki, Hirotaka Toyoda, Satoshi Iwata, Takeshi Kato, Shigeru Tsunashima, Hideo Sugai (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Nagoya University, Japan)

14:45 NT1.003 Surface dependant electric field structure and rf discharge excitation in argon

E. V. Barnat, G. A. Hebner (Sandia Nationla Laboratories)

15:00 NT1.004 A high sensitivity broad-band mode-locked cavity-enhanced absorption technique with a femtosecond laser

E. Eslami, T. Gherman, D. Romanini, N. Sadeghi (University Joseph Fourier amp; CNRS)

15:15 NT1.005 Stark shifts and width of a hydrogen atom in Debye plasmas

Anthony C.H. Yu, Y. K. Ho (Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

14:00 NT2.001 Making Molecules at MicroKelvin

William Stwalley (University of Connecticut)

14:30 NT2.002 Collisions and Interactions in Ultracold Rydberg Plasmas

Raymond Flannery (Georgia Institute of Technology), Daniel Vrinceanu (Harvard University)

14:45 NT2.003 Autoionizing Rydberg States of Argon and Xenon

J. Wright, M. van Lier-Walqui, J. Lambert, H. Flores-Rueda, J. DiSciacca, T. Morgan (Dept. of Phys., Wesleyan Univ., Middletown, CT), B. Graham (Dept. of Phys., Queen's Univ., Belfast, N. Ireland)