Sunday Evening, June 29
7:30 pm: Welcoming Remarks
7:40 pm: Recurrences in Fields:
- John Delos, William and Mary - Discussion Leader
- Karl Welge, Bielefeld - "Rydberg Hydrogen Atoms in Strong Static Fields"
- Neal Spellmeyer, MIT - "Recurrence Spectroscopy of a Dynamical System: a Rydberg Atom in an Oscillating Field"
9:45 pm: Welcoming Reception
Monday, June 30
9:00 am: Bose-Einstein Condensation I
- Murray Holland, JILA - Discussion Leader
- Michael Fisher, Maryland - "Superfluidity or Bose Condensation?: Lessons from the Past in Theory and Experiment"
- Dan Rokhsar, Berkeley - "Vortices, Persistent Currents, and Superfluidity in Trapped Bose Gases"
- Wolfgang Ketterle, MIT - "Single-Mode Atoms: Bose-Einstein Condensation and the Atom Laser"
12:30 pm: Lunch
4:00 - 6:00 pm: Poster Session I
6:00 pm: Dinner
7:30 pm: Bose-Einstein Condensation II
- Cass Sackett, Rice, Discussion Leader
- Debbie Jin, JILA - "BEC Experiments at JILA"
- Keith Burnett, Oxford - "Theory of Excitations in Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensed Gases"
Tuesday, July 1
8:45 am: Conference Photo
9:00 am: Quantum Measurement, Entanglement, and Computing
- Andrew Steane, Oxford, Discussion Leader
- Dave Wineland, NIST Boulder - "Trapped Ions, Quantum Logic, and Schroedinger's Cat"
- Ignacio Cirac, Innsbruck - "Quantum Communication between Distant Nodes of a Quantum Network"
- Neil Gershenfeld, MIT - "Bulk Spin Resonance Quantum Computation"
12:30 pm: Lunch
6:00 pm: Dinner
7:30 pm: Laser Cooling
- Steve Rolston, NIST Gaithersburg, Discussion Leader
- Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, ENS Paris (Alexander M. Cruickshank Lecturer) - "Ultracold Atoms: Basic Principles and Applications"
- Tilman Pfau, Konstanz - "Resonators for Atomic Matter Waves"
Wednesday, July 2
9:00 am: Strong Field Physics
- Lou Dimauro, Brookhaven, Discussion Leader
- Bob Jones, Virginia - "Electron Dynamics in Rydberg Atoms Exposed to Intense THz Radiation"
- Ken Schafer, LSU - "Theory of Rydberg Wave Packet Spectroscopy"
- Linn Van Woerkem, Ohio State - "Very High Order Above-Threshold Ionization: Multiple Excitations and Hot Electrons"
12:30 pm: Lunch
4:00 - 6:00 pm: Poster Session II
6:00 pm: Dinner
7:30 pm: Business Meeting
7:40 pm: Atom Optics
- Siu-Au Lee, Colorado State, Discussion Leader
- Mark Kasevich, Stanford - "Inertial Force Sensing with Atom Interferometers"
- Fujio Shimizu, Tokyo - "Interferometric Study of Cold Ne* Atoms"
Thursday, July 3
9:00 am: Three-Body Physics
- Ravi Rau, LSU, Discussion Leader
- Joachim Burgdoerfer, Tennessee - "Classical-Quantum Correspondence for the Three-Body Coulomb Problem"
- Helmut Ehrhardt, Kaiserslautern - "Electron Impact Ionization of Atomic Hydrogen and Helium"
- Jan Michael Rost, Freiburg - "Complete Fragmentation of Three-Body Systems as a Phase Transition"
12:30 pm: Lunch
6:00 pm: Dinner (Banquet)
7:30 pm: Applications of Atomic Physics
- Greg Lafyatis, Ohio State, Discussion Leader
- Kate Kirby, Harvard-Smithsonian - "Molecule Formation in Dust-Poor Environments"
- Ron Walsworth, Harvard-Smithsonian - "Biomedical and Materials Science Applications of Laser-Polarized Noble Gas Magnetic Resonance"
Friday, July 4
9:00 am: Buses Leave
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