January 8 - Joint
Atomic Physics Colloquium, Dr. Harald Friedrich - U. of Munchen,
"A New Look at the Phase in the WKB Wave Function"
January 13 - AMP
Seminar, Prof. John Morgan, Department of Physics, University
of Delaware, "Hund's Rules"
January 15 - Cold Atom Topical Group Seminar: Prof. John Doyle,
Department of Physics, Harvard University, "Buffer-Gas Loading of
Eu Atoms into a Magnetic Trap--On the Road to Molecules"
January 27 - AMP
Seminar:Dr. Ching-Hua Tseng, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics, "NMR of Laser Polarized 129Xe in Blood"
January 29 - Cold Atom Topical Group Seminar: Dr. Ron Walsworth,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, AMP Division, "Selective
Creation of Quasiparticle in Trapped Bose Condensates"
Visitors
Dr. Harald Friedrich - U. of Munchen, January 5 to February
8, 1997
Dr. Evelyne Roueff - Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, January 6
to 17, 1997
Professor John Morgan - University of Delaware, Newark, January13
to February 10, 1997
Professor Peter Zoller - University of Innsbruck, January 29
to 31, 1997
February 3 - AMP
Seminar, Mr. Adrian Daw, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
"Transition Probabilities for the 1815 AA and 3344 AA Forbidden Lines
of Ne2+"
February 5 - Joint
Atomic Physics Colloquium, Prof. William Reinhardt, University
of Washington, Seattle, "Collisions of Bose Einstein Condensates:
Interferences, Solitons and Phase Rigidity"
February 10 - AMP
Seminar, Prof. Ronnie Kosloff, Hebrew University-Jerusalem,
"Thermodynamic Analysis of Laser Cooling"
March 5- Joint
Atomic Physics Colloquium, Prof. Robert Gordon, University of
Illinois, Chicago, "Coherent Phase Control of Chemical Reactions"
March 6 - AMP
Seminar, Prof. Berthold-Georg Englert, University of Munich,
"Fringe Visibility and Which-Way Knowledge: An Inequality"
March 10, 1997, 11:45 AM - AMP
Seminar, Dr. Michael McCarthy, Harvard University, Center for
Astrophysics, "Carbon chains and rings in the interstellar gas"
March 12 - ITAMP Cold Atom Topical Group Seminar: Mr. Michael R.
Andrews, Physics Department, M.I.T., "Bose-Einstein Condensates:
Laser-Like Atoms"
March 13 , 11:00 AM, Pratt Conference Room- AMP
Seminar, Dr. Weihong Liu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, "Type
Ia Supernovae: Atomic Physics, Spectra, and Explosion Models"
March 17, 11:45 AM, Pratt Conference Room - AMP
Seminar, Mr. Sean Cornett, Physics Department, University of
Kentucky, and ITAMP, "A discrete-time representation of Floquet Spectroscopy,"
March 19, 5:00 PM, Jefferson Lab 356 - Joint
Atomic Physics Colloquium, Prof. Louis Dube, Laval University,
"The Control of Hamiltonian Chaos: Dynamics with a Gentle Touch"
March 31, 11:45 AM, Pratt Conference Room - AMP
Seminar, Dr. Alexei M. Ermolaev, Department of Theoretical Physics,
Universite Libre de Bruxelles, "Laser-atom interactions at ultra-high
intensities: atomic states in the relativistic high-frequency approximation"
Visitors
Dr. Tamar Seideman, Steacie Institute - Canada, March 1 to July
31, 1997
Dr. Alexei M. Ermolaev, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, March
3 to 31, 1997
Professor Dr. Berthold-Georg Englert, Universitat Munchen, March
4 to 10, 1997
Professor Joseph Macek, Univ. of Tennessee, ORNL, March 31 to
August 31, 1997
April 2, 5:00 PM, Jefferson Lab, Room 356 - Joint
Atomic Physics Colloquium, Dr. William Phillips, NIST, "Bumping,
squeezing and massaging atoms with light: results with optical lattices"
April 7, 11:45 AM, Pratt Conference Room - AMP
Seminar, Dr. Tamar Seideman, Steacie Institute for Molecular
Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, "From nanoscale machining
to molecular optics with intense laser fields"
April 8, 11:00 AM, Tea Room,
Macek Lecture Series: Hidden-Crossing Theory, Prof. Joseph Macek,
University of Tennessee and ITAMP, "Introduction"
April 9, 5:00 PM, Jefferson Lab, Room 356 - Joint
Atomic Physics Colloquium, Prof. Axel Schenzle, University of
Munich and MPI for Quantum Optics, Garching, "Interference of Bose
Condensates"
April 10, 11:00 AM, Tea Room,
Macek Lecture Series: Hidden-Crossing Theory, Prof. Joseph Macek,
University of Tennessee and ITAMP, "Solov'ev transformation"
April 14, 11:45 AM, Pratt Conference Room- AMP
Seminar, Dr. Brendan McLaughlin, Theoretical and Computational
Physics Division, The Queen's University of Belfast, "Balmer-alpha
emission, p-H collisions revisited"
April 16, 5:00 PM, Jefferson Lab, Room 356 - Joint
Atomic Physics Colloquium, Dr. Toshi Yamazaki, University of
Tokyo and CERN, "Metastable Antiprotonic Helium Atomcules"
April 23, 11:00 AM, Pratt Conference Room - Cold Atoms Topical Group
Seminar, Yvan Castin, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Ecole Normale
Superieure (Paris), "Nonlinear Dynamics of a Bose Condensate in a
Trap: Regular vs Chaotic Motion"
April 28, 11:45 AM, Pratt Conference Room- AMP
Seminar, Dr. Timothy F. Havel, Harvard Medical School, "Ensemble
Quantum Computing by NMR Spectroscopy"
April 30, 5:00 PM, Jefferson Lab- Joint
Atomic Physics Colloquium, Prof. Turgay Uzer, Georgia Institute
of Technology, "Rydberg Atoms in Crossed Fields: Order, Chaos, and
Nonspreading Wave Packets"
Visitors
Dr. Tamar Seideman, Steacie Institute - Canada, until July 31,
1997
Prof. Joseph Macek, Univ. of Tennessee & ORNL until August 31,
1997
Prof. Turgay Uzer, Georgia Tech, until June 31, 1997
Workshops
"Classical Orbits
and Interferences in Designer Atoms", April 24-26, 1997
Abstract Deadline: April 14, 1997
Organizers: Joachim Burgdoerfer
Dept. of Physics
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996
and
John Delos
Department of Physics
College of William & Mary
Williamsburg, VA 23185
May 6, 11:00 AM, C-34,
Macek Lecture Series: Hidden-Crossing Theory, Prof. Joseph Macek,
University of Tennessee and ITAMP, "Sturmian expansion and complex
Sturmians"
May 8, 11:30 AM, Classroom A-101 - AMP
Seminar, Dr. Francois Rostas, Observatoire de Paris - Meudon,
"CO A-X band laser cross section measurements and HST observations
of CO in beta-Pictoris"
May 12, 11:45 AM, Pratt Conference Room - AMP
Seminar, Dr. Y.K. (Eugene) Ho, Institute of Atomic and Molecular
Sciences, Taipei, "Electric field effects on doubly-excited states
of H- and He"
May 13, 11:00 AM, C-34,
Macek Lecture Series: Hidden-Crossing Theory, Prof. Joseph Macek,
University of Tennessee and ITAMP, "Sturmian expansion (cont'd) and
solutions
May 20, 11:00 AM, C-34,
Macek Lecture Series: Hidden-Crossing Theory, Prof. Joseph Macek,
University of Tennessee and ITAMP, "Stationary phase approximation
and hidden crossing"
May 22, 11:00 AM, Pratt Conference Room- AMP
SeminarDr. T. Heil, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University
of Georgia: "Non-inertial similarity transformations applied to atomic
and molecular physics"
May 27, 11:00 AM, C-34,
Macek Lecture Series: Hidden-Crossing Theory, Prof. Joseph Macek,
University of Tennessee and ITAMP, "Applications"
Visitors
Dr. Tamar Seideman, Steacie Institute - Canada, until July 31,
1997
Prof. Joseph Macek, University of Tennessee & ORNL, until August
31, 1997
Prof. Turgay Uzer, Georgia Tech. until June 30, 1997
Dr. Y.K. Ho, Institute of Atomic & Molecular Sciences, Academia
Sinica, Taipei, May 1 to June 30, 1997
Prof. Sandra Ward, University of North Texas, May 18-31, 1997
Workshops
"Dusty Plasmas",
May 15-17, 1997
Abstract Deadline: May 5,1997
Organizers: Tom Hartquist
Max-Planck Institute
Garching, Germany
and
Alan Garscadden
Wright-Patterson AFB
Dayton, Ohio
June 3, 11:00 AM, C-34,
Macek Lecture Series: Hidden-Crossing Theory, Prof. Joseph Macek,
University of Tennessee and ITAMP, "Hyperspherical coordinate representation"
June 5, 11:00 AM, C-34,
Macek Lecture Series: Hidden-Crossing Theory, Prof. Joseph Macek,
University of Tennessee and ITAMP, "Hyperangle Sturmians"
June 6, 11:30 AM, Pratt Conference Room- AMP
Seminar - Dr. Ewine van Dishoeck, University of Leiden, "Spectroscopy
with ISO of the Interstellar Medium and Star-Forming Regions"
June 16, 12:30 AM, Pratt Conference Room- AMP
SeminarDr. Kouichi Yoshino, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics, "The Application of a VUV-FT Spectrometer and Synchrotron
Radiation Source to Measurements of Oxygen and NO Molecules"
Visitors
Dr. Tamar Seideman, Steacie Institute - Canada, until July 31,
1997
Prof. Joseph Macek, University of Tennessee & ORNL, until August
31, 1997
Prof. Turgay Uzer, Georgia Tech., until June 31, 1997
Dr. Y.K. Ho, Institute of Atomic & Molecular Sciences, Academia
Sinica, Taipei, until June 30, 1997
Professor David Farrelly, Utah State University, June 14 to
28, 1997
Dr. Colm Whelan, University of Cambridge, June 7 to September
14, 1997
July 7, 11:45 AM, Pratt Conference Room- AMP
Seminar - Dr. O. P. Sushkov, The University of New South Wales,
"Spread Width for Two Interacting Particles in One-Dimensional Random
Potential"
July 14, 11:45 AM, Pratt Conference Room- AMP
Seminar - Dr. Colm T.Whelan, University of Cambridge, England,
"(e,2e) Cross Sections for Atomic Inner Shells"
Workshops
"Resonances and Fragmentation of Three-Body Systems" Date: July 10-12, 1997
Cambridge, MA Abstract Deadline:
Organizers: Anthony Starace
Dept. of Physics
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE 68588
and Contact: Jan-Michael Rost
Department of Physics
Albert-Ludwig Universitat
Germany
Visitors
Dr. Tamar Seideman, Steacie Institute - Canada, until July 31,
1997
Prof. Joseph Macek, University of Tennessee & ORNL, until August
31, 1997
Dr. Colm Whelan, Cambridge University, until September 14, 1997
August 6, 12:30 AM, Pratt Conference Room- AMP
Seminar - Dr. Daniel Savin, Columbia University Astrophysics
Laboratory: "Laboratory Measurements for Modeling X-ray Spectra from
Photoionized Gas"
August 13, 12:30 AM, Pratt Conference Room- AMP
Seminar - Prof. Joseph Macek, University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge
National Laboratory and ITAMP: "Borromean States, Efimov States and
Scattering Lengths"
August 25, 11:45 AM, Pratt Conference Room- AMP
Seminar - Dr. Brian L. Burrows, Mathematics Group, School of
Computing, Staffordshire University, UK: "Double-Well Potentials"
August 28, 2:00 p.m., Pratt Conference Room- AMP
Seminar - Dr. Michael Jamieson, Department of Computing Science,
University of Glasgow, UK: "Yet more about cold H-H collisions"
Workshops
"Experimental Realizations
of Quantum Logic"
Date: August 1-15, 1997
Cambridge, MA
Abstract Deadline:
Contact: Seth Lloyd
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
MIT
Cambridge, MA 02139
slloyd@mit.edu
Visitors
Prof. Joseph Macek, University of Tennessee & ORNL, until August
15, 1997
Dr. Colm Whelan, Cambridge University, until September 14, 1997
Prof. Maurice Cohen, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, August
20-22, 1997
Dr. Brian L. Burrows, Staffordshire University, August 17 to
31, 1997
Dr. Mauricio Pato, Universidade de Sãn Paulo, Brazil,
August 18 to 31, 1997
Prof. Michael Cavagnero, University of Kentucky, August 18,
1997 to May 31, 1998
Prof. Janine Shertzer, College of the Holy Cross, September
1, 1997 to May 31, 1998
Prof. Michael Cavagnero, University of Kentucky, until May 31,
1998
Dr. Colm Whelan, Cambridge University, until September 14, 1997
Prof. Ilya Fabrikant, University of Nebraska, September 15 through
December 15, 1997
Seminars
September 9, 4 p.m., Pratt Conference Room- AMP
Seminar - Dr. Michael Cavagnero, Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Kentucky: "Analytical wave functions for cold collisions"
September 16, 4 p.m., Pratt Conference Room- AMP
Seminar - Dr. Colm T. Whelan, Department of Applied Mathematics
& Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, England: "(e,2e),
distorted waves and all that!"
September 24, 5 p.m., Jefferson Lab, Room 356 - Joint
Atomic Physics Colloquium, Prof. Ilya Fabrikant, University
of Nebraska, "Inelastic electron-molecule collisions: from eV to sub-meV
range"
October 1, 12:30 p.m., Phillips Auditorium - Cold
Atom Topical Group Talk: David Landhuis, Physics Department,
Harvard University/MIT, "Two-photon spectroscopy and outlook for BEC
in spin-polarized hydrogen"
October 7, 4 p.m., Pratt Conference Room- AMP
Seminar - Dr. Juliet Pickering, Imperial College: "Improving
the atomic and molecular data-base for astrophysics using a VUV FTS"
October 8, 5 p.m., Jefferson Lab, Room 356 - Joint
Atomic Physics Colloquium, Prof. Steve Harris, Stanford University,
"Electromagnetically induced transparency"
October 14, 4 p.m., Pratt Conference Room- AMP
Seminar - Dr. Brendan M. McLaughlin, Department of Applied Mathematics
and Theoretical Physics, The Queen's University of Belfast: "Electron
collisions with small molecules"
October 15, 12:30 p.m., PhillipsAuditorium - Cold
Atom Topical Group Talk: Dr. Maxim Ol'Shanii, Physics Department,
Harvard University, "Bosonic solitons"
October 16, 11 a.m., Pratt Conference Room- AMP
Seminar - Dr. Paolo Villoresi, Laboratorio di Elletronica Quantistica,
Universita di Padova, Italy: "Photoionization and photoabsorption
studies of C II at EUV wavelengths"
October 21, 4 p.m., Pratt Conference Room- AMP
Seminar - Dr. Bilha Segev, ITAMP: "Electron-positron pair
production in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions; a high energy limit
to atomic collisions"
October 22, 5 p.m., Jefferson Lab, Room 356 - Joint
Atomic Physics Colloquium, Prof. Peter Koch, SUNY-Stony Brook,
"Resonances! resonances! in periodically driven hydrogen atoms"
October 29, 12:30 p.m., Phillips Auditorium - Cold
Atom Topical Group Talk: Dr. Robin Côté, ITAMP:
"Potassium scattering lengths and BEC"
November 4, 4 p.m., Pratt Conference Room- AMP
Seminar - Dr. Nikolai Manakov, Department of Theoretical Physics,
Voronezh State University: "Circular and elliptic dichroisms in atomic
photoprocesses with unpolarized targets"
November 5, 5 p.m., Jefferson Lab, Room 356 - Joint
Atomic Physics Colloquium, Dr. Sandro Stringari, Universita
di Trento: "Statistical and thermodynamic behavior of trapped bose
gases"
November 12, 12:30 p.m., Phillips Auditorium, Cold
Atom Topical Group Talk: N. Balakrishnan, Harvard University: "Ultracold
atom-molecule collisions" [Abstract]
November 13, 11 a.m., Pratt Conference Room- AMP
Seminar - Prof. Shih-I Chu, Department of Chemistry, University
of Kansas: "Time-dependent density-functional theory for atomic and
molecular processes in strong fields"
November 19, 5 p.m., Jefferson Lab, Room 356 - Joint
Atomic Physics Colloquium, Prof. Michael Cavagnero, University
of Kentucky: "Quasi-classical Rydberg targets: New challenges for
collision theory"
November 25, 4 p.m., Pratt Conference Room- AMP
Seminar - Prof. Ilya I. Fabrikant, University of Nebraska, Lincoln:
"Formation and decay of weakly bound anions: ca- as an example"
[TALK POSTPONED UNTIL AFTER THE NEW YEAR. NEW DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED.]
November 26, 12:30 p.m., Phillips Auditorium, Cold
Atom Topical Group Talk: Bill Stwalley, Physics Department, University
of Connecticut: "Making molecules at microkelvin"
Visitors
Dr. Nikolai Manakov, Department of Theoretical Physics, Voronezh
State University, November 3-6, 1997
Professor Shih-I Chu, Watkins Professor of Chemistry and Director
of Kansas Institute for Theoretical and Computational Science, November
10-14, 1997
Dr. Victor Yakhontov, Universität Heidelberg, until November
7, 1997
Prof. Janine Shertzer, College of the Holy Cross, until May
31, 1998
Prof. Michael Cavagnero, University of Kentucky, until, May
31, 1998
Prof. Ilya Fabrikant, University of Nebraska, until December
15, 1997
December 2, 4 p.m., Pratt Conference Room- AMP
Seminar - Dr. Eric Silver, High Energy Division, Center for
Astrophysics, "Microcalorimeters for high resolution X-ray spectroscopy
of laboratory and astrophysical plasmas"
December 3, 5 p.m., Jefferson Lab, Room 356 - Joint
Atomic Physics Colloquium, Dr. David DiVincenzo, IBM, Yorktown
Heights: "What is needed to build a quantum computer?"
December 9, 4 p.m., Pratt Conference Room- AMP
Seminar - Dr. Rick Stoner, Atomic and Molecular Physics Division,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, "The SAO dual noble gas
maser: Description and recent results"
December 10, 12:30 p.m., Phillips Auditorium - Cold
Atom Topical Group Talk, Maxim Ol'Shanii, Harvard University
Physics Department: "Atomic scattering in presence of tight confinement"
December 16, 4 p.m., Pratt Conference Room- AMP
Seminar - Dr. Ross Mair, Atomic and Molecular Physics Division,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: "Noble gas NMR
of porous media"
December 17, 5 p.m., Jefferson Lab, Room 356 - Joint
Atomic Physics Colloquium, Dr. Bretislav Friedrich, Chemistry
Department, Harvard University: "Spectroscopy and trapping of pendular
molecules"
Visitors
Dr. Isao Shimamura, RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical
Research), December 4-9, 1997
Dr. Mahir Hussein, Universidade de São Paulo, December
9-20, 1997
Prof. Janine Shertzer, College of the Holy Cross, until May
31, 1998
Prof. Michael Cavagnero, University of Kentucky, until, May
31, 1998
Prof. Ilya Fabrikant, University of Nebraska, until December
15, 1997
