Program overview

FRIDAY EVENING, 18 APRIL 1997

Session D1. DAP, DNP, DPF: Tri Divisional Colloquia.

Friday evening, 20:00, North Salon, Renaissance

20:00 D1.01 "Super-Kamiokande": First Results.: Kenneth K. Young (University of Washington)
20:36 D1.02 Exploring for Martian Life: Jack D. Farmer (Exobiology Branch, NASA Ames Research Center, MS 239-4, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000, jfarmer@mail.arc.nasa.gov)

Session D15. DAMOP: Poster Session and Reception.

Friday evening, 19:30, Congressional Hall, Renaissance

Photodissociation

D15.01 Photoexcitation and Predissociation Intensities of N_2 Singlet States: C.W. Walter (Denison Univ., Granville, OH), P.C. Cosby (SRI International, Menlo Park, CA.)
D15.02 Quantum-Classical Comparison in Chirped Pulse Excitation and Dissociation of Diatomic Molecules: Jian-Min Yuan (Drexel Univ.), Wing-Ki Liu (Univ. of Waterloo), Xiaoge Li (Drexel Univ.)
D15.03 Photofragmentation of CF_3Cl in the vicinity of the Cl K-shell resonance.: J. Cotter, P. Neill (University of Nevada, Reno), D.L. Hansen, B. Vanderford, W.L. Manner, D.W. Lindle (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), M. Simon (LURE and CEN Saclay, France), K.T. Leung (University of Waterloo, Canada), Y. Uehara (Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan), R.C.C. Perera (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
D15.04 Floquet Formulation of Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory for Intense-Field Multiphoton Processes.: D. Telnov, X. Chu, S.I. Chu (University of Kansas)
D15.05 The Energy Spectra of Multiphoton Above-Threshold Dissociation of H_2^+ in Intense Laser Fields: D. Telnov, S.I. Chu (Univ. of Kansas)
D15.06 \begincenter Bright light shines quickly. Electron, once Coulomb bound, has light now set free? \endcenter: Niki Hatzilambrou, H.R. Reiss (American University)
D15.07 Coulomb correction to the linear polarization SFA: A. Shabaev, H.R. Reiss (American University)
D15.08 Femtosecond electron beam pulses produced by intense lasers: H.R. Reiss (American University)
D15.09 Effect of frequency chirping in resonant ionization by intense laser pulses: Roberta Marani, Edward J. Robinson (N.Y.U.)
D15.10 A test of a simple semi-classical model of intense field ionization in the tunneling limit: K. C. Kulander (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), B. C. Walker (University of California at San Diego), B. Sheehy, L. F. DiMauro (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
D15.11 Hybrid Vacuum-Atmosphere Compressors for High Peak Power, Chirped Pulse Amplification Lasers: Barry C. Walker, J. A. Squier, K. R. Wilson, C. P. J. Barty (Univ. of Calif. at San Diego, San Diego, CA)
D15.12 A Parallel Processing Method for Solving the Time Dependent Schrödinger Equation with Applications to Multiphoton Processes.: Mircea Marinescu, Anthony F. Starace (The University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.)
D15.13 Floquet States from Spectral Analysis of Wave Packets.: J. C. Wells, I. Simbotin, M. Gavrila (ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian.)
D15.14 The Autler-Townes Effect with a Modulated Pump: Simultaneously Forbidden Resonances: R. S. Conti, G. W. Ford (Department of Physics, The University of Michigan), V. N. Smelyanskiy (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University)
D15.15 Multiphoton Microwave Processes in Rydberg Atoms.: M. J. Cavagnero (Univ. Kentucky), S. T. Cornett (Univ. Kentucky and Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics)
D15.16 Scattering of Positrons and Electrons from Magnesium: David D. Reid (Eastern Michigan University), J. M. Wadehra (Wayne State University)
D15.17 Calculations of Positron Scattering from the Noble Gases and Alkaline Earths: R.I. Campeanu (George Brown College), R.P. McEachran (York University), L.A. Parcell (Maquarie University), A.D. Stauffer (York University)
D15.18 Measurements of Elastic Differential Cross Sections for Positrons Scattered from Krypton and Xenon: W. Addo-Asah, W.E. Kauppila, C.K. Kwan, D.A. Przybyla, T.S. Stein (Wayne State Univ.)
D15.19 Positron annihilation with inner-shell electrons in atoms: Koji Iwata, R.G. Greaves, C.M. Surko (University of California, San Diego), G.F. Gribakin (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
D15.20 The Hidden Crossing Method Applied to Positronium Formation: S.J. Ward (Univ. of North Texas), J.H. Macek, S.Yu. Ovchinnikov (Univ. of Tenn. and ORNL)
D15.21 Momentum distributions of electrons in atomic few-body Coulomb problem: Positive energy Sturmian technique( Sponsored by the Office of Basic Energy Science, U.S. Department of Energy, under Contract No. DE-AC05-96OR22464 with Lockheed Martin Energy Research Corp.): S.Y. Ovchinnikov, J.H. Macek (University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
D15.22 Measurements of Total and Lower Limit-Positronium Formation Cross Sections for Positron and Electron-Magnesium Scattering: T.S. Stein, J. Jiang, M. Harte, W.E. Kauppila, C.K. Kwan (Wayne State Univ.)
D15.23 Measurements of Positronium Formation Cross Sections for Positron-Kr, Xe Scattering: W.E. Kauppila, C.K. Kwan, H. Li, T.S. Stein, S. Zhou (Wayne State Univ.)
D15.24 Measurents of Positronium Formation Cross Sections for CO_2 and SF_6: C.K. Kwan, W.E. Kauppila, T.S. Stein (Wayne State Univ.)
D15.25 Measurements of Differential Cross Sections for Positrons Scattered from Molecules: D.A. Przybyla, W. Addo-Asah, W.E. Kauppila, C.K. Kwan, T.S. Stein (Wayne State Univ.)
D15.26 Triply differential bremsstrahlung cross section for 100 and 140 keV electrons on Cu, Ag and TbF_3: Vinod Ambrose (Digital Equipment Corp.), C. A. Quarles (Texas Christian University)
D15.27 Absolute Triply Differential (e,2e) Cross Section Measurements for H and He with Comparison to Theory.: J. Röder, H. Ehrhardt (Fachbereich Physik, Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany), Cheng Pan, Anthony F. Starace (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE), Igor Bray, Dmitry V. Fursa (Electronic Structure of Materials Centre, Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia)
D15.28 Cadmium (e,2e) Energy Spectra in the Autoionizing Region: N.L.S. Martin, R.P. Bauman (University of Kentucky,USA), M. Wilson (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
D15.29 Anti-Capture to the Continuum via a Double Collision Mechanism in (e,2e) Collisions: S.J. Ward, E.G. Roth, B.N. Guo, D.E. Golden, D.W. Mueller (Univ. of North Texas)
D15.30 100 eV Asymmetric (e,2e) Study of Molecular and Atomic Oxygen: J.P. Doering
D15.31 Comprehensive Cross Section Results for Electron-Impact Excitation out of the 2^3S Level of He: Garrett A. Piech, John B. Boffard, Mark E. Lagus, L. W. Anderson, Chun C. Lin (University of Wisconsin--Madison)
D15.32 Relativistic Calculation of Superelastic Electron-Alkali Atom Scattering: R.P. McEachran, V. Zeman, A.D. Stauffer (York University)
D15.33 Autoionization Resonances in Orientation and Alignment Parameters for Excited Ions after Electron Impact Ionization.: Vselovod Balashov, Klaus Bartschat, Pascale Marchalant (Drake University)
D15.34 Electron scattering from HeII ions at intermediate energies: B M McLaughlin, M P Scott, P G Burke (The Queens University of Belfast), J S Dahler (University of Minnesota)
D15.35 Effective Collision Strengths for Electron-Impact Excitation of Mg VI: K.L. Bell, C.A. Ramsbottom (The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland)
D15.36 Anomalous Behavior in Zero-Angle Electron Differential Cross-Sections for Mg 3 \; ^1S \rightarrow 3 \; ^1 D and Cd 5 \; ^1S \rightarrow 5 \; ^1 D Excitation.^\ast: Z. Felfli , A. Z. Msezane (CTSPS, Clark Atlanta U.)
D15.37 Accurate Determination of Small-Angle Electron Excitation Differential Cross Sections: Aid to Measurements.^\ast: Z. Felfli, A. Z. Msezane (CTSPS, Clark Atlanta U.)
D15.38 R-Matrix with Pseudo-State Calculations for Electron Scattering from Beryllium and Boron Atoms and Ions.: Pascale Marchalant, Klaus Bartschat (Drake University)
D15.39 The IRON Project: Electron excitation of Be-like iron: M.C. Chidichimo, V. Zeman (University of Waterloo), J.A. Tully (Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur), K.A. Berrington (The Queen's University of Belfast)
D15.40 Progress Toward an Absolute Measurement of Electron Impact Excitation of Si^2+: D. B. Reisenfeld, P. H. Janzen, L. D. Gardner, J. L. Kohl (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
D15.41 Integrated Stokes Parameters for Impact Excitation of Noble Gases by Spin-Polarized Electrons.: Vlado Zeman, Klaus Bartschat (Drake University)
D15.42 Use of Fourier Transform Spectroscopy in the Study of Electron-Impact Excitation of Rare Gas Atoms: John T. Fons, J. Ethan Chilton, John B. Boffard, Chun C. Lin (Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
D15.43 Cross Sections for Electron-Impact Excitation of the 5F He Levels: J. Ethan Chilton, Chun C. Lin (Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
D15.44 On the Theory of Electron Induced Ionization of Hydrogen: Colston Chandler, Archie G. Gibson (University of New Mexico)
D15.45 Time Dependent Electron Impact Excitation and Ionization of Hydrogen: G.D. Buffington, D.H. Madison, J.L. Peacher (University of Missouri-Rolla), D.R. Schultz (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
D15.46 Three-Body Models of Electron-Hydrogen Ionization: S. Jones, D. H. Madison (University of Missouri-Rolla)
D15.47 The Electron-Impact Ionization Cross Sections of Be-like Ions: Jyh-Ching Chang (Department of Mathematics and Science Education, National Hsin-chu Teachers' College, Hsin-chu, Taiwan 300, Republic of China), Keh-Ning Huang (Institution of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, P.O. Box 23-166, Taipei, Taiwan 106, Republic of China)
D15.48 Electron-Impact Total Ionization Cross Section of Rb.: Y.-K. Kim (NIST), J. Migda\l ek, W. Siegel (Cracow Pedagogical Univ.), J. Biero\'n (Jagellonian Univ., Kraków, Poland)
D15.49 Electron Impact Ionization of Cadmium for Energies near Autoionizing States: D.H. Madison, V.D. Kravtsov, J.B. Dent (University of Missouri-Rolla), M. Wilson (Royal Hollaway College)
D15.50 Electron Impact Ionization of D_2O and OD: Vladimir Tarnovsky, Peter Kurunczi (City College of C.U.N.Y.), Kurt Becker (Stevens Institute of Technology)
D15.51 Absolute partial cross sections for electron-impact ionization of CH_4, H_2O, and D_2O from threshold to 1000 eV.: H. C. Straub, B. G. Lindsay, K. A. Smith, R. F. Stebbings (Rice Univ.)
D15.52 Electron Attachment at Near Zero Scattering Energy: A. Kortyna, M. Darrach, A. Chutjian (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)
D15.53 Electron Attachment to BCl_3: W.L. Morgan (Kinema Research and Software, Monument, CO 80132)
D15.54 VUV Photon Emission Following Electron Impact on Ar Clusters. *: W.A. Kedzierski, J.W. McConkey (University of Windsor, Ontatio, Canada N9B 3P4)
D15.55 Dissociative Excitation of Normal and Heavy Water by Electron Impact.*: J.M. Derbyshire, W.A. Kedzierski, J.W. McConkey (University of Windsor, Ontatio, Canada N9B 3P4)
D15.56 O(^1D) from the Dissociative Recombination of O_2^+: Steven L. Guberman (Institute for Scientific Research)
D15.57 Measurement of iron L-shell dielectronic recombination (DR) rates for X-ray photoionized nebulae: Fe XVIII and Fe XIX \Delta n=0 DR: D. W. Savin, S. M. Kahn (Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory), J. Linkemann, A. A. Saghiri, M. Schmitt, A. Wolf (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik), T. Bartsch, A. Müller, S. Schippers (Justus-Liebig-Universität), M. H. Chen (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
D15.58 Very-high-n Stark wavepackets generated by an electric field step.^*: M. T. Frey, F. B. Dunning (Rice Univ.), C. O. Reinhold, J. Burgdörfer (Univ. of Tennessee and Oak Ridge Nat. Lab.)
D15.59 Single-Shot Detection of Wavepacket Evolution: M.B. Campbell, B.L. Wood, T.J. Bensky, R.R. Jones (University of Virginia)
D15.60 Electron dynamics in a strong electric field: F. Robicheaux, J. Shaw (Auburn University)
D15.61 A New Approach to the Production of Coherent Atomic States.: J.F. Baugh, C.E. Garver, W.P. Leventhal (Department of Physics, University of Missouri-St. Louis)
D15.62 Coherent States Composed of Stark Eigenfunctions of the Hydrogen Atom.: J.F. Baugh, C.E. Burkhardt, D. A. Edmonds, P. T. Nellesen, J.J. Leventhal (Department of Physics, University of Missouri-St. Louis)
D15.63 Ramsey Interference of ``Stroboscopic'' Rydberg States of Diatomic Molecules: J.N. Yukich, J.M. Caraher, J.M. Dertouzos, P.H. Bucksbaum (University of Michigan), Robert J. Gordon (University of Illinois-Chicago)
D15.64 Ionization of Very-High-n Rydberg Atoms by Multiple Half Cycle Pulses in the Short-Pulse Regime.^*: C. O. Reinhold, J. Burgdörfer (Univ. of Tennessee and Oak Ridge Nat. Lab.), M. T. Frey, B. E. Tannian, F. B. Dunning (Rice Univ.)
D15.65 Time-Gated Photoionization Spectroscopy of Cesium Rydberg Wave packets in an Electric Field.: L. D. Noordam, G. M. Lankhuijzen (FOM-Institute AMOLF, The Netherlands), F. Robicheaux (Auburn University, AL)
D15.66 Coherent Phase Control of the Photoionization and Photodissociation of HI and DI: Robert J. Gordon, Jeanette A. Fiss, Langchi Zhu (University of Illinois at Chicago), Kunihiro Suto, Ryuichi Wada (Hokkaido University)
D15.67 Reflection on a modulated evanescent wave mirror : from diffusion to diffraction: Ladragin Arnaud, Henkel Carsten, Cognet Laurent, Horvath Gabriel, Labeyrie Guillaume, Vansteenkiste Nathalie, Bouyer Philippe, Westbrook Chris, Aspect Alain (Groupe d'Optique Atomique, Orsay)
D15.68 Atom Guiding Through Hollow-Core Optical Fibers: B. DeMarco, E. R. I. Abraham, D. Müeller, K. L. Corwin, C. E. Wieman, D. Z. Anderson, E. A. Cornell (JILA and Dept. of Physics, U. of Colorado and NIST)
D15.69 Conical emission from a self-focused laser beam: B. D. Paul, J. Cooper (\urllinkJILAhttp://jilawww.colorado.edu/, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado), M. L. Dowell, A. Gallagher (\urllinkNISThttp://www.boulder.nist.gov/, Boulder, Colorado)
D15.70 Z-Scan Measurement of Nonlinear Optical Properties of Sulfur Rich Materials: Sean M. Kirkpatrick (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory), Jonathan G. Breitzer, Dana D. Dlott, Larry Iwaki
D15.71 Temporal Behavior of Pulsed Optically Pumped Lasers.: B.K. Clark (Department of Physics, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61790-4560.)
D15.72 Study of Threshold Condition for the Interference-based Suppression of 3-Photon Resonant Ionization Signals(RIS) in C_2H_2 Due to Laser Bandwith Considerations: M.A. Moore (St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA)
D15.73 Experimental Work on Quantum Computation at Los Alamos National Laboratory: M.S. Gulley, M.H. Holzscheiter , P. Kwiat, V. Sandberg, M. Schauer, D. Tupa, R.J. Hughes (University of California, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab)
D15.74 Quantum Computing in Fock Space Systems: Alexander A. Berezin (McMaster University)
D15.75 Implementation of Qubits by Coaxial RF Squids: Bernard Rosen (Stevens Institute of Technology)
D15.76 POVM Receivers for Quantum Cryptography: H. E. Brandt (U.S. Army Research Laboraotory)
D15.77 Determinstic Single Photon Generation in Cavity QED: C.K. Law (Rochester Theory Center for Optical Science and Engineering, University of Rochester), H.J. Kimble (Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics, California Institute of Technology)
D15.78 Demonstration of Quantum Memory and Creation of Massive EPR Pairs.: E.W. Hagley, M. Brune, C. Wunderlich, X. Maitre, G. Nogues, J.M. Raimond, S. Haroche (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Dept. of Physics, 24 rue Lhomond, Paris, France)
D15.79 Source for slow atoms without laser cooling: J. Gerton, C. Sackett, R. Hulet (Rice University)
D15.80 The Recoil Regime: A New Domain of Laser Cooling: M. R. Williams, J. Bellanca, L. Liu, J. S. Hack, W. F. Buell, T. Bergeman, H. Metcalf (SUNY Stony Brook, NY 11794-3800)
D15.81 Experimental and computational analysis of Doppler cooling and the magneto-optic trap.: J. A. Cowan Jr., R. A. Cline (Department of Physics, Davidson College, Davidson, NC.)
D15.82 Trap loss in photoassociative spectroscopy.: Robin Côté, and A. Dalgarno (ITAMP, Harvard--Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
D15.83 Magneto-Optic Trapping of Radioactive ^38mK and ^37K for Precision Nuclear Experiments: T.B. Swanson, J.A. Behr, A. Gorelov, O. Häusser, J.M. D'Auria, M. Trinczek, D. Asgeirsson (Simon Fraser U. and TRIUMF), L. Buchmann, M. Dombsky, K.P. Jackson, C.D.P. Levy (TRIUMF), U. Giesen, G. Roy (U. Alberta), J. Dilling (U. Heidelberg), J. Deutsch (Louvain-la-Neuve), W.P. Alford (U. Western Ontario and TRIUMF)
D15.84 Long-Range Interaction of ^39K(4s) + ^39K(4p) Asymptote by Photoassociative Spectroscopy of Ultracold ^39K Atoms: H. Wang, P. L. Gould, W. C. Stwalley (University of Connecticut)
D15.85 Impact of the ^87Rb singlet scattering length on suppressing inelastic collisions: James Burke (JILA and the Department of Physics, University of Colorado), John L. Bohn (Quantum Physics Division, NIST), B. D. Esry, Chris H. Greene (JILA and the Department of Physics, University of Colorado)
D15.86 Triplet s-wave resonance in ^6Li collisions and scattering lengths of ^6Li and ^7Li: W. I. McAlexander, E. Abraham, J. Gerton, R. Hulet (Rice University), R. Côté, A. Dalgarno (Harvard-Smithsonian)
D15.87 Photoassociation of metastable Ne using a bright atomic beam: M. R. Doery, E. J. D. Vredenbregt, J. G. C. Tempelaars, H. C. W. Beijerinck, B. J. Verhaar (Physics Department, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, Netherlands.)
D15.88 Control of ultracold atomic collisions with resonant light: John L. Bohn (Quantum Physics Division, NIST, Boulder, CO), Paul S. Julienne (Atomic Physics Division, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD)
D15.89 Quantum defect theory of atomic collisions and molecular vibrational spectra: Bo Gao (University of Toledo)
D15.90 Direct Observation of Fine Structure Exchange Predissociation of the 0_u^+ State of ^39K_2 by Photoassociative Spectroscopy.: H. Wang, P. L. Gould, W. C. Stwalley (University of Connecticut)
D15.91 Progress towards a cesium atomic fountain clock: William M. Klipstein, Georg A. Raithel, Steven L. Rolston, William D. Phillips (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Christopher R. Ekstrom (United States Naval Observatory)
D15.92 Driven Equations in Time-Dependent and Time-Independent Quantum Mechanics: Barry I. Schneider (Physics Division, National Science Foundation, Arlington VA 22230)
D15.93 Density-Matrix Descriptions of Optical Interactions in Quantized Electronic Systems: V. L. Jacobs (Naval Research Laboratory)
D15.94 Unitary Integration: A Numerical Technique Preserving the Structure of the Quantum Liouville Equation: B. A. Shadwick (UC Berkeley), W. F. Buell (SUNY Stony Brook)
D15.95 Parafermionic Extension of the Jaynes Cummings Model: G. Petsos, C. Daskaloyannis, G. A. Lalazissis (U. Thessaloniki, Greece), D. Bonatsos (N.C.S.R. Demokritos, Aghia Paraskevi, Greece)
D15.96 A Neural Network Method To Analyze Data Compression In Dna And Rna Sequences: Torsten Alvager (Department of Physics, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN 47809), David Hutchison, George Graham (Department of Mathematics, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN 47809), James Westgard (Department of Physics, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN 47809)
D15.97 Correlation: How to Understand Complex Systems in Terms of Simple Ones: JH McGuire, J Wang (Tulane University)
D15.98 A set of fluid equations for the selfconsistent description of transport and fluctuations in plasmas: Julio J. Martinell (IPR-Univ. of Maryland)