AMP Weekly Seminars

Atomic and Molecular Physics Division

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

from September, 1993 to present

• 1993
• 1994
• 1995
• 1996
• 1997
• 1998
• 1999
• 2000
• 2001
• 2002
• 2003
• 2004
• 2005
• 2006
• 2007
• 2008
• 2009

1993

• "SF6 vs C60: Rotational-Vibrational Spectra of Molecules of High Symmetry" Prof. William G. Harter Dept. of Phys. University of Arkansas 1:00 PM Monday, September 27, 1993
• "Short-Pulse Model-Atom Studies of Ionization In Intense Laser Fields" Prof. Sydney Geltman JILA University of Calorado, Boulder 12:00 NOON Monday, September 27, 1993
• "Novel Behavior of Atoms in Very Strong Plane-Wave Fields" Prof. Howard Reiss Physics Department The American University 11:45 AM Monday, October 4, 1993
• "Spectroscopy and Ab Initio Theory of Excited States of H2, HD, HT, D2 and T2" Prof. Kurt Dressler Physical Chemistry Laboratory Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland 12:00 Noon Tuesday, October 12, 1993
• "Stimulated Recombination in the Early Universe" Prof. Bill Klemperer Harvard University 11:45 AM Monday, October 18, 1993
• "Collisions of Clusters with a Short-range Interaction" Dr. B. M. Smirnov Institute of High Temperature Russian Academy of Sciences 11:45 AM Monday, October 25, 1993
• "Application of a New Semiclassical Approximation to Quantum Recurrences in Rydberg State" Prof. M. Nauenberg Department of Physics University of California at Santa Cruz 11:45 AM Monday, November 8, 1993
• "Coulomb and Threshold Effects in Multiphoton Physics" Prof. Marvin H. Mittleman Department of Physics City College of CUNY 12:00 Noon Friday, November 12, 1993
• "Hartree-Fock Calculations of Electronic Structure and New Type of Collective Vibrations in Small Metal Clusters" Prof. V. A. Kharchenko St.Petersburg Technical University, Russia 11:45 AM Monday, November 15, 1993
• "Structures in the Long Range Potential Curves of the Na2 Molecule: Possible Applications to Cold Collisions" Dr. F. Masnou-Seeuws Laboratoire Aime Cotton Orsay, France 11:45 AM Monday, November 22, 1993
• "Scattering Theory of Fe adatom Mesostructures and Electron density oscillations on Cu(111)" Prof. Rick Heller Department of Physics, Harvard University ITAMP, 11:45 AM Monday, December 6, 1993
• "Quantization of Transfer Operators" Dr. Maurizio Carioli Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics 11:45 AM Monday, December 13, 1993

  1994

• "Semiclassical Calculation and Analysis of Molecular Spectra" Dr. Miguel Sepulveda Department of Physics, Harvard University and ITAMP, 11:45 AM Monday, January 3, 1994
• "Monopoles and Their Interactions with Matter: A Three-Pronged Search for Big Bang Relics Using the MACRO Detector" Gary J. Ludlam Department of Physics Boston University 11:45 AM Monday, January 10, 1994
• "X-ray Absorption in Helium, Rare Gases, and Alkali Metals" Dr. Gordon Berry Argonne National Lab 1:00 PM Tuesday, January 18, 1994
• "Quantization of Transfer Operators" Dr. Maurizio Carioli Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics 11:45 AM Monday, January 24, 1994
• "Laboratory X-Ray Astrophysics Using an Electron Beam Ion Trap" Dr. Brad J. Wargelin High Energy Astrophysics Division Harvard-Smithsonian Center 11:45 AM Monday, January 31, 1994
• "Time Evolution of Field-Driven Rydberg Manifolds" Prof. David Harmin Department of Physics University of Kentukey 11:45 AM Monday, February 28, 1994
• "Highly Ionized Iron in the EUV: A Solar Active Region Spectrum from SERTS and EUVE Observations of Capella" Dr. Nancy Brickhouse Harvard-Smithsonian Center For Astrophysics 11:45 AM Monday, March 7, 1994
• "Vacuum Ultra-Violet Fourier Transform Spectroscopy" Dr. K. Yoshino AMP Division Harvard-Smithsonian Center For Astrophysics 11:45 AM Monday, March 21, 1994
• "A Sampler of Early Results from the ASCA X-ray Satellite" Prof. Claude R. Canizares M.I.T. 11:45 AM Monday, April 11, 1994
• "The Stabilization Theory of Dynamics -- A New Method Doing Scattering" Prof. Howard Taylor Department of Physics University of Southern California 11:45 AM Monday, April 25, 1994
• "Selection of Atomic Electron Classical Paths with Short Laser Pulses" Dr. Mark Mallalieu Institute of Optics University of Rochester 11:45 AM Monday, May 9, 1994
• "Separation of Rotations and Internal Motions in the n-body problem: Dynamics at the Edge of Shape Space" Prof. Robert Littlejohn Department of Physics University of California-Berkeley 11:45 AM Monday, May 23, 1994
• "A High Resolution Study of the $^3Pi_u$ States of O$_2$" Prof. Julian Engleman The Australian National University 11:45 AM Tuesday, May 31, 1994
• "Recent Theoretical Developments in Dissociative Recombination" Dr. Steve Guberman Institute for Scientific Research 11:45 AM Monday, June 6, 1994
• "Universal Function to Extrapolate the Generalized Oscillator Strength Through the Unphysical Region to the Optical Oscillator Strength" Prof. Alfred Z. Msezane Department of Physics and Center for Theoretical Studies of Physical System Clark Atlanta University 11:45 AM Monday, June 13, 1994
• "Quantum Dynamics of a Laser Cooled Ideal Gas" Dr. Maciej Lewenstein Polish Academy of Science Warsaw, Poland 11:45 AM Monday, June 27, 1994
• "Simple (But Accurate) Exponential Methods of Collisional Vibrational Relaxation of OH" Dr. Ron Bieniek Physics Department University of Missouri-Rolla 11:45 AM Monday, July 18, 1994
• "Photoionization Study on Simple Molecules in the Photoionization Threshold Region Using Synchrotron Radiation at the Photon Factory" Prof. Kenji Ito Photon Factory, National Laboratory for High Energy Physics Tsukuba, Japan 11:45 AM Monday, July 25, 1994
• "Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Transition Metal Compounds" Prof. Allan S.C. Cheung Department of Chemistry University of Hong Kong 11:45 AM Monday, August 22, 1994
• "Effective Range Theory and Calculations for He-He Scattering" Dr. Michael Jamieson University of Glasgow, UK 11:45 AM Monday, August 29, 1994
• "Electromagnetic Lepton Pair Production from Relativistic Ion-ion Collisions" Dr. Jack Wells Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics 11:45 AM Monday, September 19, 1994
• "Observations of Critical Atomic and Molecular Species in the Interstellar Medium with the CFA Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite" Dr. Gary Melnick Division of Optical and Infrared Astronomy 11:45 AM Monday, September 26, 1994
• "Detector Standards for the VUV" Dr. Eric Tegeler VUV Radiometry Division PTB/BESSY 1:00 PM Friday, October 7, 1994
• "Ab Initio Perturbation Theory Calculations of Complete Intermolecular Potential Energy Surfaces" Prof. Krzysztof Szalewicz Physics Department University of Delaware 11:45 AM Monday, October 24, 1994
• "The Effects of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons on the Photoelectric Heating and Chemistry of the Interstellar Medium" Dr. Emma Bakes Princeton University 11:45 AM Monday, November 7, 1994
• "Spectral Quantization of the Transition State of Chemical Reactions: A New Line Shape Formula for Barrier Resonances" Prof. Rex Skodje JILA University of Colorado 11:45 AM Monday, November 14, 1994
• "Coulomb three-body systems -- a hyperspherical approach" Prof. C.D. Lin Department of Physics Kansas State University 11:45 AM Monday, November 21, 1994
• "A Multielectron Theory for Hidden Crossings" Prof. Gary Bent Prof Prefrag Krstic Department of Physics University of Connecticut 11:45 AM Monday, December 12, 1994
• "Four-Component Spherical Gaussian Methods For Molecules" Dr. Tony Scott Mathematical Institute University of Oxford, UK 11:45 AM Monday, December 19, 1994

  1995

• "Photoassociation Spectra and the Scattering Length" Dr. Robin Cote ITAMP, CFA and MIT 11:45 AM Monday, January 23, 1995
• "Convergence Acceleration of Variational Basis Set Expansions" Dr. Bob Forrey AMP Division Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 11:45 AM Monday, February 6, 1995
• "Wavelength to 8 Significant Figures: Why and How?" Dr. A.P. Thorne Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine London, U.K. 11:45 AM Monday, February 13, 1995
• "The OHIO Concept for Satellite-Based Measurement of Stratospheric OH" Dr. Kelly Chance Atomic and Molecular Physics Division 11:45 AM Monday, March 13, 1995
• "Generalized Franck-Condon Principle and Dynamical Nuclear Tunneling in Nonradiative and Radiative Transitions in Molecules" Dr. Emile Medvedev Institute of Chemical Physics in Chernogolovka Russia 11:45 AM Monday, March 6, 1995
• "Laboratory Sources for VUV and EUV Radiometry" Dr. Claas Heise Atomic and Molecular Physics Division Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 11:45 AM Monday, March 20, 1995
• "Deformed GOE Description of Order-Chaos Transitions in Quantum System" Prof. Mahir Hussein ITAMP-MIT-Sao Paulo 11:45 AM Monday, March 27, 1995
• "Subtle Energies in Density Functional Theory -- Dissociation and Correlation" Prof. N. H. March University of Oxford Oxford, UK 11:45 AM Thursday, March 23, 1995
• "Experimental Calibration of Iron XXIV L-Shell Line Emission" Dr. Daniel Savin University of California at Berkeley 11:00 AM Thursday, April 13, 1995
• "New results regarding double photoionization in helium, and resonant photoproduction of triply excited states of hollow lithium atoms" Prof. Ivan Sellin University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Lab 2:00 PM Tuesday, April 25, 1995
• "The Evolution of the HITRAN Molecular Spectroscopic Database" Dr. Larry Rothman Phillips Laboratory Hanscom AFB 11:45 AM Monday, May 1, 1995
• "Atoms in Strong Magnetic Fields" Prof. Jon C. Weisheit Rice University 11:45 AM Monday, May 8, 1995
• "Laboratory studies of reactive molecules of astrophysical interest" Dr. Mike McCarthy Harvard-Smithsonian for Astrophysics 11:45 AM Monday, May 15, 1995
• "Numerical methods for the Dirac equation in three dimensions coupled to classical, time-dependent fields" Dr. Jack Wells ITAMP Harvard-Smithsonian for Astrophysics 11:45 AM Monday, May 22, 1995
• "Towards a New Data Base - Laboratory Work on the Iron Group Spectra" Dr. Richard C M Learner Imperial College London, U.K. 2:30 PM Friday, July 7, 1995
• "The Influence of the Stokes Phenomenon When Calculating Some Perturbed Harmonic Oscillator Energies" Dr. Michael Jamieson University of Glasgow Glasgow, Scotland 11:45 AM Monday, August 7, 1995
• "Multichannel Effects in Electron-Molecule Resonances" Prof. Franco Gianturco University of Rome Italy 2:00 PM Monday, August 21, 1995
• Fragmentation Dynamics of Small Ionized Clusters Prof. Franco Gianturco University of Rome Italy 2:00 PM Wednesday, September 6, 1995
• Fine-structure Predissociation Linewidths in the Schumann-Runge Bands of O$_2$ Dr. B. R. Lewis Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering The Australian National University 1:00 PM Tuesday, September 19, 1995
• Alignment Effects in State-Selected Photodissociation Dynamicsand Long-Range Interactions in Alkali Dimers Studied by All-Optical Multiple Resonance Spectroscopy Dr. Bing Ji Massachusetts Institute of Technology 11:45 AM Monday, September 25, 1995
• Spin Holography Dr. Eddy Timmermans ITAMP, CFA 11:45 AM Monday, October 2, 1995
• Why calculate the spectra of small molecules? Dr. Jonathan Tennyson Dept. of Physics and Astronomy University College London 11:45 AM Monday, October 16, 1995
• Time-dependent wavepacket approach to state-to-state reaction dynamics Dr. John Zhang Dept. of Chemistry New York University 11:45 AM Friday, October 27, 1995
• Quantum Theory of Collisional Recombination Prof. Bill Miller Dept. of Chemistry UC Berkeley 11:45 AM Monday, October 30, 1995
• Nuclear spin-rotation interaction in the hydrogen molecular ion Dr. Jim Babb ITAMP Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 11:45 AM Monday, November 6, 1995
• Resonant Interactions in Ion Collisions with Rydberg Atoms Dr. Michael Cavagnero Dept. of Physics and Astronomy University of Kentucky 11:45 AM Friday, November 17, 1995
• High Precision Calculations for the Lithium Atom Dr. Zong-Chao Yan ITAMP Harvard-Smithsonian 11:45 AM Monday, December 4, 1995
• Atomic Beam-Splitter Based on Multiple Adiabatic Passage in the Optical Interference Pattern Dr. Maxim Ol'shanii ITAMP Harvard University 11:45 AM Monday, December 11, 1995

  1996

• Nuclear Structure Effects in Deuterium Hyperfine Structure and Lamb Shift Dr. Iosef Khriplovich Institute of Nuclear Physics Novosibirsk, Russia 11:45 AM Monday, January 29, 1996
• The gOME Satellite Dr. Kelly Chance AMP Division Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 11:45 AM Monday, February 5, 1996
• Semiclassical Theory of Compton Scattering Dr. Danko Bosanac Ruder Boskovic Institute Zagreb, Croatia 11:45 AM Monday, February 12, 1996
• Optical Bistability in an Optically Pumped Cesium Vapor Steve Lamoreaux Physics Department University of Washington 1:30 PM Wednesday, February 21, 1996
• Thallium Parity Nonconservation Calculations, Prof. Walter Johnson , Physics Department, University of Notre Dame, 11:45 AM Monday, March 4, 1996
• Gravitational Interaction of Spinning Bodies, Center-of-mass Coordinate and Radiation of Compact Binary Systems Dr. Iosef Khriplovich Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics Novosibirsk, Russia 11:45 AM Friday, March 8, 1996 ** Joint Seminar with Theoretical Astrophysics Division **
• Localization of light: random media and periodic structures Arek Orlowski Physics Department Harvard University 11:45 AM Monday, March 18, 1996
• Theory of Intermolecular Interactions Dr. Krzysztof Szalewicz Physics Department University of Delaware 11:45 AM Monday, March 25, 1996
• Light-induced, multiply-negative-charged ions of atomic hydrogen Dr. Ernst van Duijn FOM-Institute, AMOLF Amsterdam, The Netherlands 11:45 AM Monday, April 1, 1996
• Single and Double Ionization of He by Proton and Anti-Proton Prof. F. B. Malik Physics Department Southern Illinois University 11:45 AM Monday, April 8, 1996
• Ultra-cold collisions of Rb atoms Dominik Hoffmann Physics Department Univ. of Wisconsin 11:45 AM Friday, April 12, 1996
• Part I. Near-degeneracy effect on energy levels of Rydberg states of some highly-charged ions. Part II. Faraday effect. Larry Spruch Physics Department New York University 11:45 AM Monday, April 22, 1996
• Parity and Time Invariance Violation in Atoms Prof. Norval Fortson Physics Department Univ. of Washington-Seattle 10:30 AM Thursday, April 25, 1996
• Collective screening effect, precise atomic calculations and parity nonconservation in atoms Dr. Victor Flambaum Physics Department University of New South Wales 11:45 AM Monday, April 29, 1996
• Laser acceleration of electrons Prof. Mahir Hussein Instituto de Fisica Universidade de Sao Paulo 11:45 AM Tuesday, April 30, 1996
• Non-statistically Populated Autoionizing Levels of Li-like Carbon: Hidden-Crossings Dr. Ed Deveney Dept. of Physics University of Connecticut 11:45 AM Monday, May 6, 1996
• Chaos in the Kepler problem: from Rydberg atoms to Halley's comet Dr. Dima Shepelyansky Laboratoire de Physique Quantique Universit'e Paul Sabatier 11:45 AM Tuesday, May 7, 1996
• NMR with Laser Polarized 129Xe: A New Spin on Brain Imaging Prof. Timothy Chupp Department of Physics University of Michigan 11:45 AM Friday, May 10, 1996
• Relativistic, retardation and multipole effects in photoionization cross sections Prof. Akiva Ron Racah Institute Israel 11:45 AM Monday, May 13, 1996
• Distribution of electrons in double ionization of helium Prof. Eugen Drukarev St. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute 11:45 AM Friday, May 24, 1996
• Semiclassical Approximation for the Quantum States of a Hydrogen Atom in Magnetic Field Near the Ionization Limit Prof. O.P. Sushkov Department of Physics University of New South Wales and ITAMP 11:45 AM Tuesday, May 28, 1996
• Parity and time invariance violation in degenerate systems Dr. Max Zolotorev LBNL 11:45 AM Friday, May 31, 1996
• Spectroscopy and Reaction Dynamics of OH-H2/D2 Entrance Channel Complexes Prof. Marsha Lester Univ. of Pennsylvania 11:45 AM Monday, June 3, 1996
• Towards a fully inelastic, non-adiabatic treatment of low-energy electron-H2 scattering Mr. Darian Stibbe University College London and ITAMP 11:45 AM Monday, June 10, 1996
• Rearrangement Processes in Ion-Ion Collisions Leonid Presnyakov Lebedev Physics Institute Moscow 12:00 PM Friday, June 21, 1996
• Ab initio configuration interaction study of the electronic spectrum of As, Sb and Bi oxides employing relativistic core potentials Aleksey Alekseyev Theoretical Chemistry Bergische Universitat GH Wuppertal 11:45 AM Monday, June 24, 1996
• Electron beam ion trap: a device for spectroscopy up to the highest charge state ions Dr. Endre Takacs NIST and Kossuth University of Debrecen, Hungary 3:00pm Thursday, June 27, 1996
• Double Photoionization and the Convergent Close-coupling Method Dr. Anatoli Kheifets Department of Physics The Flinders University of South Australia 11:45 AM Friday, July 5, 1996
• Aspects of the atomic collision problem at low energies Dr. Bernard Zygelman W. M. Keck Laboratory for Computational Physics Department of Physics, UNLV 11:45 AM Friday, July 19, 1996
• Vibrational Predissociation: Quasiclassical tunneling and classical diffusion Prof. E. E. Nikitin Department of Chemistry Technion, Haifa 11:45 AM Monday, July 29, 1996
• Chaos and exponential localization of eigenfunctions in smooth hamiltonian systems Dr. Vijay Sheorey Physical Research Laboratory Navrangpura, Ahmedabad, India 1:30 PM Wednesday, August 14, 1996
• Dissociative Recombination of Cold Molecular Ions Dr. Daniel Zajfman Dept. of Particle Physics Weizmann Institute of Science 11:45 AM Monday, August 19, 1996
• Importance of accurate potentials in ultra cold hydrogen atom scattering Dr. Michael Jamieson Dept. of Computing Science University of Glasgow 11:00 AM Thursday, September 5, 1996
• Planetary Atmosphere: A Controversy Finally Resolved Dr. Weihong Liu Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 11:45 AM Monday, September 16, 1996
• Applied atomic and molecular physics: the science and business of plasma processing of microelectronics Dr. W. Lowell Morgan Kinema Research & Software 11:45 AM Monday, September 23, 1996
• Quantum-classical methods for chemical reactions Dr. Naduvalath Balakrishnan ITAMP Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 11:45 AM Monday, September 30, 1996
• Measurements of Electron Capture from Pair Production - a New Atomic Collisions Mechanism Dr. Harvey Gould Lawrence Berkeley National Lab 11:45 AM Wednesday, October 2, 1996
• Quantum tunneling in the Wigner representation, causality, and the tunneling times Dr. Bilha Segev ITAMP 11:45 AM Monday, October 7, 1996
• The Semiclassical Propagator: when forbidden paths come back to haunt us Neepa Maitra Physics Department Harvard University 11:45 AM Monday, October 21, 1996
• Ab-initio study of electronic properties of materials Dr. Kyeongjae Cho Research Laboratory of Electronics and Physics Department MIT 11:45 AM Monday, October 28, 1996
• Laboratory studies of the effects of collisions on the shape of infrared absorption for atmospheric applications Dr. Jean-Michel Hartmann Laboratoire de Physique Moleculaire et Applications Universite Paris-Sud 11:45 AM Monday, November 4, 1996
• Long range interactions in ultracold atomic collisions Prof. Alex Dalgarno Department of Astronomy Harvard University 11:45 AM Monday, November 25, 1996
• Stella Chan Department of Physics Harvard University 11:45 AM Monday, December 2, 1996
• Interactive photon counting in cavity QED experiments Dr. Hans Briegel ITAMP 11:45 AM Monday, December 9, 1996
• Optical Solitons in the Non Linear Schrodinger Equation Dr. Tony Scott Ben-Gurion University 11:45 AM Thursday, December 19, 1996

  1997

• Hund's Rules Prof. John Morgan Dept. of Physics and Astronomy University of Delaware 11:45 AM Monday, January 13, 1997
• NMR of laser polarized 129Xe in blood Dr. Ching-Hua Tseng Harvard-Smithsonian CfA 11:45 AM Monday, January 27, 1997
• Transition Probabilities for the 1815 AA and 3344 AA Forbidden Lines of Ne 2+ Mr. Adrian Daw Harvard-Smithsonian CfA 11:45 AM Monday, February 3, 1997
• Thermodynamic analysis of Laser Cooling Prof. Ronnie Kosloff Hebrew University - Jerusalem 11:45 AM Monday, February 10, 1997
• Fringe visibility and which-way knowledge: an inequality Prof. Berthold-Georg Englert University of Munich 11:00 AM Thursday, March 6, 1997
• Carbon chains and rings in the interstellar gas Dr. Michael McCarthy Harvard University 11:45 AM Monday, March 10, 1997
• Type Ia Supernovae: Atomic Physics, Spectra, and Explosion Models Dr. Weihong Liu Oak Ridge National Laboratory 11:00 AM Thursday, March 13, 1997
• A discrete-time representation of Floquet Spectroscopy Mr. Sean Cornett Physics Department University of Kentucky 11:45 AM Monday, March 17, 1997
• Laser-atom interactions at ultra-high intensities: atomic states in the relativistic high-frequency approximation Dr. Alexei M. Ermolaev Dept. of Theoretical Physics Universite Libre de Bruxelles 11:45 AM Monday, March 31, 1997
• From nanoscale machining to molecular optics with intense laser fields Dr. Tamar Seideman Steacie Institute for Institute for Molecular Sciences National Research Council of Canada 11:45 AM Monday, April 7, 1997
• Balmer-$alpha$ emission, p-H collisions revisited Dr. Brendan McLaughlin Theoretical and Computational Physics Division The Queen's University of Belfast 11:45 AM Monday, April 14, 1997
• Ensemble Quantum Computing by NMR Spectroscopy Dr. Timothy F. Havel Harvard Medical School 11:45 AM Monday, April 28, 1997
• CO A-X band laser cross section measurements and HST observations of CO in beta-Pictoris Dr. Francois Rostas Observatoire de Paris - Meudon 11:30 AM Thursday, May 8, 1997
• Electric field effects on doubly-excited states of H^- and He Dr. Y. K. (Eugene) Ho Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Taipei 11:45 AM Monday, May 12, 1997
• Non-inertial similarity transformations applied to atomic and molecular physics Dr. T. Heil Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Georgia 11:00 AM Thursday, May 22, 1997
• Spectroscopy with ISO of the Interstellar Medium and Star-forming Regions Dr. Ewine van Dishoeck University of Leiden 11:00 AM Thursday, June 5, 1997
• The Application of a VUV-FT Spectrometer and Synchrotron Radiation Source to Measurements of Oxygen and NO Molecules Dr. Kouichi Yoshino Harvard-Smithsonian CfA 11:45 AM Monday, June 9, 1997
• Spread width for two interacting particles in one-dimensional random potential Dr. O. P. Sushkov The University of New South Wales 11:45 AM Monday, July 7, 1997
• (e,2e) cross sections for atomic inner shells Dr. Colm T. Whelan The Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics University of Cambridge, England 11:45 AM Monday, July 14, 1997
• Borromean States, Efimov States and Scattering Lengths Prof. Joseph Macek Oak Ridge National Laboratory and University of Tennesee 12:30 PM Wednesday, August 13, 1997
• Double-well Potentials Dr. Brian L. Burrows Mathematics Group School of Computing 11:45 AM Monday, August 25, 1997
• Yet more about cold H-H collisions Prof. Michael Jamieson University of Glasgow 2:00 PM Thursday, August 28, 1997
• Analytical Wave Functions for Cold Collisions Dr. Michael Cavagnero Dept. of Physics and Astronomy University of Kentucky 4:00 PM Tuesday, September 9, 1997
• (e,2e), distorted waves and all that! Dr. Colm T. Whelan Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics University of Cambridge, England 4:00 PM Tuesday, September 16, 1997
• Improving the atomic and molecular database for Astrophysics using a VUV FTS Dr. Juliet Pickering Imperial College 4:00 PM Tuesday, October 7, 1997
• Photoionization and Photoabsorption studies of C II at EUV wavelengths Dr. Paolo Villoresi Laboratorio di Elletronica Quantistica Universita di Padova, Italy 11:00 AM Thursday, October 16, 1997
• Electron collisions with small molecules Dr. Brendan M McLaughlin Dept. Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics The Queen's University of Belfast 4:00 PM Tuesday, October 14, 1997
• Electron-positron pair production in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions; an high energy limit to atomic collisions Dr. Bilha Segev an high energy limit to atomic collisions ITAMP 4:00 PM Tuesday, October 21, 1997
• Circular and elliptic dichroisms in atomic photoprocesses with Dr. Nikolai Manakov Department of Theoretical Physics Voronezh State University 4:00 PM Tuesday, November 4, 1997
• Time-dependent Density-Functional Theory for Atomic and Molecular Processes in Strong Fields Dr. Shih-I Chu University of Kansas 11:00 AM Thursday, November 13, 1997
• Formation and decay of weakly bound anions: Ca- as an example Prof. Ilya I. Fabrikant University of Nebraska, Lincoln 4:00 PM Tuesday, November 25, 1997
• Microcalorimeters for High Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy of Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas Dr. Eric Silver High Energy Division Center for Astrophysics 4:00 PM Tuesday, December 2, 1997
• The SAO Dual Noble Gas Maser: Description and Recent Results Dr. Rick Stoner AMP Division Center for Astrophysics 4:00 PM Tuesday, December 9, 1997
• Noble gas NMR of porous media Dr. Ross Mair Atomic and Molecular Physics Division Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 4:00 PM Tuesday, December 16, 1997

  1998

• A measurement of the absolute cross section for Si III electron impact excitation (and its applications to observations of the solar corona) Dan Reisenfeld AMP Division Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 4:00 PM Tuesday, January 20, 1998
• Atomic data for lighting from the NIST FTS Dr. Gillian Nave NIST and HCO 11:00 AM Wednesday, January 21, 1998
• Double Bose-Einstein condensates and spatial symmetry breaking Dr. Brett Esry ITAMP 4:00 PM Tuesday, January 27, 1998
• Nonadiabatic calculation of the dipole polarizability of H2+ Prof. Janine Shertzer College of the Holy Cross and ITAMP 4:00 PM Tuesday, February 2, 1998
• Remote sensing and stratospheric photochemistry Dr. Ken Jucks OIR Division Center for Astrophysics 4:00 PM Tuesday, February 17, 1998
• Wavelet Analysis of Two Dimensional Quantum Scattering Jonathan Edwards Harvard University and ITAMP 4:00 PM Tuesday, February 24, 1998
• A geometric view of reactive scattering Dr. Laurent Wiesenfeld Laboratoire de Spectrometrie Physique Universite Joseph-Fourier-Grenoble 11:00 AM Thursday, February 26, 1998
• Wavepacket Approach to Quantum Dynamics Dr. Wei Zhu Department of Chemistry New York University 4:00 PM Tuesday, March 3, 1998
• Polarized Microwave Emission from Interstellar Dust Dr. Alex Lazarian Princeton University 11:00 AM Thursday, March 12, 1998
• Associative ionization and related collision processes in laser-excited alkali beams Prof. Winthrop Smith Department of Physics University of Connecticut 4:00 PM Tuesday, March 17, 1998
• Organic Chemistry of Relevance to Interstellar Clouds: Structure, Spectroscopy, and Chemical Rearrangements of Reactive Organic Species Prof. Robert J. McMahon Department of Chemistry University of Wisconsin 4:00 PM Tuesday, March 24, 1998
• Molecules in active galactic nuclei Prof. John H. Black Onsala Space Observatory Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden 4:00 PM Tuesday, March 31, 1998
• Line strengths determination of rotational-vibrational transitions of CO by tunable diode laser absorption spectrosccopy (TDLAS) in the mid Infrared Dr. Michael Kuehne Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt Berlin 11:00 AM Monday, April 6, 1998
• Formation and decay of three-body resonances in exotic molecules Prof. Piotr Froelich Dept. of Quantum Chemistry Uppsala University 4:00 PM Tuesday, April 21, 1998
• Meta stable pionic molecular ions and the cascade of pionic hydrogen atoms Svante Jonsell Dept. of Quantum Chemistry Uppsala University 4:00 PM Tuesday, April 28, 1998
• Experimental studies on the Effect of Nuclear Motion in Electron-Molecule Scattering Dr. Andrew Kortyna Jet Propulsion Laboratory 4:00 PM Tuesday, May 5, 1998
• Fabrication and Characterization of Multilayer Optics for Astronomy in the Hard X-ray Band Dr. Suzanne Romaine High Energy Division Center for Astrophysics 4:00 PM Tuesday, May 19, 1998
• Inelastic electron scattering from the optically prepared 3P state of sodium: 3P to 4S and 3P to 3D transitions Dr. Max Shurgalin Laser Atomic Physics Laboratory, School of Science Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia 4:00 PM Thursday, June 11, 1998
• Classical and quantum dynamics of multiphoton dissociation of molecules using chirped IR pulses Prof. Jian-Min Yuan Department of Physics Drexel University 4:00 PM Tuesday, June 30, 1998
• Transient Light Emission in Slow Ion-Atom Collisions Prof. David A. Micha Departments of Chemistry and Physics University of Florida 4:00 PM Tuesday, July 7, 1998
• Semiempirical calculations of GF values for all elements Dr. Robert L. Kurucz Harvard-Smithsonian CfA 1:00 PM Monday, September 14, 1998
• Atoms in strong magnetic fields: from the laboratory to magnetic white dwarfs Dr. Peter Schmelcher Institute of Physical Chemistry University of Heidelberg, Germany 4:00 PM Tuesday, September 22, 1998
• Atomic coherence effects in optics Dr. Mikhail Lukin ITAMP Harvard-Smithsonian CfA 4:00 PM Tuesday, September 29, 1998
• Configuration Interaction Studies of Potential Energy Surfaces and Coupling Elements and Their Use in Scattering Cross Section and Predissociation Lifetime Calculations Dr. Robert Buenker Bergische Universität 4:00 PM Tuesday, October 6, 1998
• Applications of Atomic and Molecular Physics to Measurements of the Earth's Atmosphere Dr. Kelly Chance AMP Division 4:00 PM Tuesday, October 13, 1998
• Decoupling methods for open quantum systems and quantum information Dr. Lorenza Viola Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT and Department of Physics, Northeastern University 4:00 PM Tuesday, October 27, 1998
• Atomic Processes and Spectral Modeling of High Current-Density Ion Beam-Produced Plasmas Dr. Hyun-Kyung Chung AMP Division Center for Astrophysics 4:00 PM Tuesday, November 3, 1998
• Magnetically trapped Hydrogen: Bose-Einstein Condensation and Spectroscopy Dr. Lorenz Willmann Dept. of Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology 4:00 PM Tuesday, November 10, 1998
• New dynamics in atom-diatom collisions Prof. Brian Stewart Department of Physics Wesleyan University 4:00 PM Tuesday, November 17, 1998
• Monopoles in Bose Condensates Dr. James Anglin Department of Physics University of Innsbruck 4:00 PM Tuesday, November 24, 1998
• Variability of Jupiter's Sodium Magneto-nebula Prof. Michael Mendillo Center for Space Physics Boston University 4:00 PM Tuesday, December 1, 1998
• Ab initio study of CH+, SiH+ and SiHe++ systems: their excited electronic states and related ion-atom collision processes Dr. Jian-ping Gu Bergische Universität Wuppertal 4:00 PM Tuesday, December 8, 1998
• Hale Bopp: just another comet Dr. Mayo Greenberg Astronomy Department University of Leiden 4:00 PM Tuesday, December 15, 1998

  1999

• Long-range Interactions in Ion-molecule Collisions Prof. Peter Siska Department of Chemistry University of Pittsburgh 4:00 PM Tuesday, January 19, 1999
• Atom interferometry with short light pulses Dr. Tilman Heupel Department of Physics Harvard University 4:00 PM Tuesday, February 2, 1999
• General theory of Bose-Einstein condensation in an external potential Dionisios Margetis Division of Engineering and Applied Science Harvard University 4:00 PM Tuesday, February 23, 1999
• Positronium Formation in Positron-Hydrogen Collisions Prof. Sandra J. Ward Department of Physics University of North Texas 4:00 PM Tuesday, March 9, 1999
• An experimental measurement of the 1-D diffusion persistence exponent using laser-polarized $^{129}$Xe Glenn Wong Department of Physics Harvard University 4:00 PM Tuesday, March 16, 1999
• Mathematical methods for photon transport in random media Prof. Cesare Cecchi-Pestellini Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 4:00 PM Tuesday, March 30, 1999
• Measuring the Lung's surface-to-volume ratio with polarized Xe Dr. Dominik Hoffmann Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 4:00 PM Tuesday, April 6, 1999
• Radiative atom-atom interactions in optically dense media: A nonlinear and nonlocal single-atom Bloch equation Dr. Michael Fleischhauer Department of Physics Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich 4:00 PM Tuesday, April 13, 1999
• ATOM INTERFEROMETRY USING LASER COOLED ATOMS Dr. A. Kumarkrishnan Research Laboratory of Electronics MIT 4:00 PM Tuesday, April 20, 1999
• Hollow Lithium Atom Prof. Kwong T. Chung Department of Physics North Carolina State University 4:00 PM Tuesday, April 27, 1999
• Laboratory and Astronomical Studies of Carbon Chain Molecules Dr. Aldo Apponi Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 4:00 PM Tuesday, May 4, 1999
• Double-dark resonances: physics and applications in atoms and quantum wells Dr. Susanne Yelin Research Laboratory of Electronics Massachusetts Institute of Technology 4:00 PM Tuesday, May 11, 1999
• Testing Local Lorentz Invariance with Zeeman Masers Dr. Richard E. Stoner Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 4:00 PM Tuesday, May 18, 1999
• LASER SPECTROSCOPY OF INTERSTELLAR CARBON CHAINS Dr. Christopher Ball Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 4:00 PM Tuesday, May 25, 1999
• Relativistic effects in atom-laser interactions Prof. Richard Taieb Universite Pierre et Marie Curie 4:00 PM Tuesday, June 1, 1999
• Quantum Chaos: Ergodicity, Localization, Transport, and the Theory of Wavefunction Scarring Dr. Lev Kaplan Department of Physics Harvard University 4:00 PM Tuesday, June 8, 1999
• Hydrogen - Antihydrogen Collisions Prof. Piotr Froelich Uppsala University, Sweden 4:00 PM Tuesday, June 15, 1999
• Spectroscopy of Highly Charged Ions with an Electron Beam Ion Trap Dr. John D. Gillaspy National Institute of Standards and Technology 2.30 PM Monday, June 21, 1999
• Cavity ring down spectroscopy on carbon chain radicals Dr. Harold Linnartz University of Basel, Switzerland 4:00 PM Tuesday, June 22, 1999
• Phase space derivation of propensity rules for energy transfer processes between Born-Oppenheimer surfaces Dr. Bilha Segev Department of Chemistry Ben-Gurion University, Israel 4:00 PM Tuesday, July 20, 1999
• Nonperturbative physics of molecules in intense laser fields Professor Deepak Mathur Atomic and Molecular Sciences group Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India 4:00 PM Tuesday, August 10, 1999
• Quantum suppression and enhancement of the Landau-Lifshitz Quasiclassical matrix elements: Application to low-energy vibrational relaxation of diatoms Prof. E. E. Nikitin Department of Chemistry Technion University, Israel 4:00 PM Monday, August 9, 1999
• Quantum Localization and Decoherence in Time-Driven Nonlinear Systems Prof. Hai-Woong Lee Department of Physics KAIST, Korea 4:00 PM Tuesday, August 17, 1999
• Eletron transfer and emission in ion-surface interactions Prof. Uwe Thumm Department of Physics Kansas State University 4:00 PM Tuesday, September 7, 1999
• Degenerate atoms and light Dr. Janne Ruostekoski University of Ulm, Germany 11:00 AM Friday, September 24, 1999
• The Pancharatnam phase in two-photon interferometry Bjorn Hessmo Uppsala University, Sweden 4:00 PM Tuesday, September 28, 1999
• Time-dependent density functional theory Prof. Kieron Burke Depts. of Chemistry and Physics Rutgers University 11.00 AM Thursday, September 30, 1999
• Vibronic Effects in Buckyballs Prof. Dennis Clougherty University of Vermont 4:00 PM Tuesday, October 5, 1999
• Hydrogenic chains in strong magnetic field Professor Alexander Turbiner Nuclear Physics Institute UNAM, Mexico 4:00 PM Tuesday, October 19, 1999
• A Linearized Discrete Ordinate Radiative Transfer Model for Atmospheric Retrieval Dr. Robert. J. D. Spurr Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 4:00 PM Tuesday, October 26, 1999
• Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics of Isomerizations: Spectral Signatures Correlated to Molecular Motions Prof. Emily A. Carter Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California, Los Angeles 4:00 PM Tuesday, November 2, 1999
• Manipulation of Feshbach resonances in ultracold atomic collisions using time-dependent magnetic fields Prof. Frederick H. Mies Atomic Physics Division National Institute of Standards and Technology 4:00 PM Tuesday, November 9, 1999
• Unified Description of Radiative and Dielectronic Recombination Dr. Verne L. Jacobs Naval Research Laboratory 4:00 PM Tuesday, November 16, 1999
• ADIABATIC POPULATION TRANSFER TO THE CONTINUUM: STIMULATED RAMAN PHOTOASSOCIATION AND LASER CATALYSIS Dr. Amichay Vardi ITAMP Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 4:00 PM Tuesday, November 23, 1999
• ROLE OF NEGATIVE-ENERGY STATES AND BREIT INTERACTION IN RELATIVISTIC ATOMIC STRUCTURE CALCULATIONS Dr. Andrei Derevianko ITAMP Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 4:00 PM Tuesday, November 30, 1999
• Black Holes in Bose-Einstein Condensates Dr. James R. Anglin ITAMP Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 4:00 PM Tuesday, December 7, 1999
• Do the negative ions of Rb, Cs, or Fr have bound excited states? New results on negative--ion resonances in slow electron--atom collisions Prof. Uwe Thumm Department of Physics Kansas State University 4:00 PM Tuesday, December 14, 1999
• Intermediate Coupling and Overlapping Lineshapes in Diatomic Predissociation: An Analytic Description Using GMQDT and Perturbation Theory Prof. Frederick H. Mies Atomic Physics Division NIST, Gaithersburg 11:00 AM Thursday, December 16, 1999

  2000

• Atomic and Molecular Processes in Strong Fields Professor Shih-I Chu Department of Chemistry University of Kansas 10:30 AM Tuesday, January 18, 2000
• Stability of solitons and vortices in the gaseous Bose-Einstein Condensate Professor William Reinhardt Department of Chemistry University of Washington 11:00 AM Thursday, January 20, 2000
• What's new in thermometry? Dr. Michael Kuehn PTB-Berlin 4:00 PM Tuesday, January 25, 2000
• Coherent Population Trapping Clocks using Rubidium Dr. David Phillips Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 4:00 PM Tuesday, February 1, 2000
• Theory of complex scattering lengths Prof. Mahir Hussein Department of Physics University of Sao Paulo 4:00 PM Tuesday, February 15, 2000
• Collision Physics and Spectroscopy of Complexes with Three Atoms or More Prof. Chris H. Greene JILA University of Colorado 4:00 PM Tuesday, February 22, 2000
• Characterization and Control of Ultracold Collisions Steve Gensemer Department of Physics University of Connecticut 4:00 PM Tuesday, February 29, 2000
• Constraining CPT and Lorentz Violation Using Hydrogen Masers Dr. David Phillips Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 4:00 PM Tuesday, March 7, 2000
• Estimating the Critical Velocity in Trapped Bose Condensates Michael Crescimanno Department of Physics Berea College 4:00 PM Tuesday, March 21, 2000
• Searching for a permanent electric dipole moment of the radon atom Professor Timothy Chupp Department of Physics University of Michigan 11:00 AM Thursday, March 23, 2000
• THEORY FOR PRACTICAL QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY Prof. Norbert Lutkenhaus Helsinki Institute of Physics 4:00 PM Tuesday, March 28, 2000
• From Gases to Dust: Surface Interactions in the Interstellar Medium Dr. Helen Jane Fraser Department of Physical Chemistry University of Nottingham 4:00 PM Tuesday, April 11, 2000
• Soliton beating Prof. Q-Han Park RTC- The Univ. of Rochester and Kyung Hee University 4:00 PM Tuesday, April 18, 2000
• Low-energy behavior of exothermic dissociative electron attachment Prof. Ilya Fabrikant Department of Physics University of Nebraska 2:00 PM Friday, May 19, 2000
• PHOTOASSOCIATION AND PAIR-ABSORPTION IN SUPERHEATED CESIUM ALL SAPPHIRE CELLS Dr. Goran Pichler Institute of Physics Zagreb, Croatia 4:00 PM Wednesday, June 7, 2000
• Density shift and broadening in antiprotonic helium Professor Dimitar D. Bakalov Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria 4:00 PM Tuesday, June 27, 2000
• Tests of fundamental symmetries in atoms and molecules Dr. M. G. Kozlov Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute 4:00 PM Thursday, June 29, 2000
• Near-dissociation states and long-range interactions in diatomic ions Prof. J. M. Hutson Department of Chemistry University of Durham, England 11:00 AM Friday, June 30, 2000
• Enhancement of parity and time invariance violation in the radium atom Dr. Vladimir A. Dzuba School of Physics University of New South Wales, Australia 4:00 PM Friday, August 18, 2000
• Variational Exponential Expansion and Its Application to the three Body Coulomb Problem and nonrelativistic QED Prof. Vladimir I. Korobov Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Russia 4:00 PM Thursday, August 24, 2000
• PHOTOIONIZATION OF FIXED-IN-SPACE DIATOMIC MOLECULES Prof. Nikolai Cherepkov State University of Aerospace Instrumentation St. Petersburg, Russia 4:00 PM Tuesday, September 5, 2000
• Radiation data for metal-halide lamps Dr. David Wharmby Technology Consultant, West Yorkshire, UK 4:00 PM Tuesday, September 12, 2000
• Precision Measurements of Na-Na and Na-RG absorption. Max Shurgalin Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 4:00 PM Tuesday, September 19, 2000
• High harmonic generation (up to X-rays) from carbon nanotubes Prof. Nimrod Moiseyev Dept. of Chemical Physics The Technion, Haifa, Israel 4:00 PM Tuesday, October 3, 2000
• Using evanescent light fields from optical guides for atom Dr. James Burke NIST 4:00 PM Tuesday, October 17, 2000
• Using evanescent light fields from optical guides for atom Dr. James Burke NIST 12:30 Tuesday, October 17, 2000
• Recent Developments in the Theory of Electron-Ion Collisions Prof. Don Griffin Department of Physics Rollins College 12:15 Monday, October 23, 2000
• Recent Developments in the Theory of Electron-Ion Collisions Prof. Don Griffin Department of Physics Rollins College 12:30 Tuesday, October 24, 2000
• Uncovering Branched Electron Flow Mr. Scot Shaw Department of Physics Harvard University 12:00 Monday, October 30, 2000
• New Characterizations of Doubly-Excited Atomic States Dr. Tom Gorczyca Western Michigan University 11:00 AM Thursday, November 2, 2000
• Formulation, Implementation and Application of Second and Higher Derivatives Using Coupled Cluster Theory Prof. John Stanton University of Texas 12:00 PM Monday, November 6, 2000
• Scattering laser light from Bose Einstein condensates and degenerate Fermi gases Dr. Michael G. Moore ITAMP Harvard-Smithsonian CFA 12:00 PM Monday, November 13, 2000
• The ro-vibrational states of H_3^+ and the adiabatic approximation Prof. Juergen Hinze Universität Bielefeld 12:00 PM Monday, November 20, 2000
• Calculation of spectra and oscillator strengths for neutral Ca and Zn Dr. Cecil Laughlin University of Nottingham 12:00 PM Monday, December 4, 2000
• Collapse dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate Prof. Li You Georgia Institute of Technology 4:00 PM Thursday, November 30, 2000
• Measuring the shape of single photons Dr. Alois Mair Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 12:00 PM Monday, December 18, 2000
• Magnetic trapping of underrepresented atoms and molecules Mr. Jonathan D. Weinstein Department of Physics Harvard University 12:00 PM Monday, January 15, 2000

  2001

• The CHIANTI atomic database for astrophysics Dr. Peter Young Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 12:00 PM Monday, January 22, 2001
• Magnetic trapping of underrepresented atoms and molecules Mr Jonathan Weinstein Dept. of Physics Harvard University 12:00 PM Monday, January 29, 2001
• Quasi-Exactly-Solvable Schroedinger equations Prof. Alexander Turbiner UNAM, Mexico 12:00PM Monday, February 5, 2000
• Quantum Cloning Prof. Mark Hillery Department of Physics Hunter College of CUNY 11:45 AM Monday, February 12, 2001
• Stray thoughts on scattering theory Dr. Colm Whelan University of Cambridge 12:30 PM Friday, February 9, 2001
• Laser Cooling in a High Finesse Cavity Dr. Frank Narducci NRL 4:00 PM Tuesday, February 13, 2001
• Cold Atoms and Quasi-Particles Prof. Thomas Bergeman SUNY at Stony Brook 11:45 AM Monday, February 26, 2001
• Quantum Mechanics of 1D Trapped Tonks Gases Prof. Ewan Wright University of Arizona 11:45 Monday, March 19, 2001
• Rigorous approach to the problem of ultraviolet divergencies in dilute Dr. Maxim Olshanii University of Southern California 11:00 AM Thursday, March 22, 2001
• Nonsemiclassical effects in curve crossing Dr. Vladimir Yurovsky Tel Aviv University 11:45 AM Monday, March 26, 2001
• Breakthrough in the investigation of the 5d elements: history, current situation and perspectives Dr. Vladimir Azarov Research and Development Parametric Technology Corporation 11:45 AM Monday, April 9, 2001
• Ab initio calculation and semiclassical dynamics of the photodissociation of O_2 in the Herzberg continuum Dr. Gerrit C. Groenenboom Institute of Theoretical Chemistry University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands 1:00 PM Monday, April 16, 2001
• Complementarity and simultaneous measurement of discrete-valued observables Dr. Alexei Trifonov Department of Microelectronics and Information Technology Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden 11:45 AM Monday, April 30, 2001
• Topological Excitations in Bose-Einstein Magnets Prof. Henk Stoof Institute for Theoretical Physics University of Utrecht, The Netherlands 11:45 AM Monday, May 7, 2001
• Fluctuations and Relaxation in the Wigner Representation Dr. Bilha Segev Dept. of Chemical Physics Ben-Gurion University, Israel 11:00 AM Thursday, August 9, 2001
• Fidelity and Entanglement for Two-Mode Gaussian States Prof. Paulina Marian University of Bucharest, Romania 12:30 PM Tuesday, August 14, 2001
• Evidence for Cosmological Evolution of the Fine Structure Constant Prof. Victor Flambaum University of New South Wales 11:45 Monday, September 24, 2001
• Electron Translation and Asymptotic Couplings in Low-Energy Collisions Prof. Andrey Belyaev A. I. Herzen University of Russia 11:45 Monday, September 24, 2001
• Interpretation of recent cold-atom experiments on chaos-assisted tunneling Prof. Nimrod Moiseyev Technion, Heifa, Israel 12:00 PM Tuesday, September 25, 2001
• Stellar Spectroscopy. Developing the past: Potential and limitations Dr. Elizabeth Griffin University of Oxford, UK 11:30 AM Thursday, October 4, 2001
• Theory of Electronic Non-Adiabatic Coupling Terms: Do Polyatomic Molecules Have Magnetic Dipoles ? Prof. Michael Baer Soreq Nuclear Research Center, Israel Soreq Nuclear Research Center, Israel 11:45 AM Monday, October 15, 2001
• Angular momentum mixing in slow ion-Rydberg atom collisions Dr. Daniel Vrinceanu ITAMP 12:00 PM Monday, October 22, 2001
• Theory of Electronic Non-Adiabatic Coupling Terms: Do Polyatomic Molecules Have Magnetic Fields ? Prof. Michael Baer Soreq Nuclear Research Center, Israel 11:00 AM Thursday, October 25, 2001
• New Approaches to Molecular Processes in Intense Laser Fields Dr. Xi Chu ITAMP 11:45 AM Monday, October 29, 2001
• Breit interaction correction to the hyperfine constant of an external s-electron in many-electron atom Prof. Oleg Sushkov University of New South Wales, Australia 12:00 PM Wednesday, November 14, 2001
• Cosmological evolution of the fine structure constant ? Prof. Victor Flambaum University of New South Wales 12:00 PM Wednesday, November 28, 2001
• A Christmas Time Ghost Story: Surprises in the Semiclassical Theory of Diamagnetic Atoms Dr. Brian Granger ITAMP Harvard-Smithsonian CFA 11:45 AM Monday, December 17, 2001

  2002

• Formation of Ultracold Molecules by Photoassociation and Spontaneous Emission Prof. Francoise Masnou-Seeuws Laboratoire Aime Cotton, Orsay, France 11:45 AM Monday, January 7, 2002
• Measurement of the Casimir force between parallel metallic surfaces, Dr. Roberto Onofrio, Physics Department, University of Padua & Los Alamos National Laboratory, January 30, Wednesday, 12:30 p.m.
• This talk will give a connection of the Lambda-system, the "work horse" of quantum optics, to methods from string theory, Michael Crescimanno , Youngstown State University and ITAMP, February 7, Thursday, 10:30 a.m.
• Atoms and molecules in confinement, Prof. Danko Bosanac, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, February 11, Monday, 11:45 a.m.
• A Full Angular Momentum, Three Dimensional, Smooth Exterior Complex Dilated, Finite Element Method for Computing Resonances in Triatomic Molecules - Applied to a model of the NeICl van der Waals complex, Dr. Sergey Levin , Dept. of Physics, Stokholm University; Department of Mathematical and Computational Physics, Institute for Physics, St. Petersburg University, February 28, Thursday, 11:45 a.m.
• The Stark Ball: A Programmable Multipolar Environment, Prof. Keith MacAdam, University of Kentucky, March 4, Monday, 11:45 a.m.
• Coherent spin manipulation and quantum computation in double-dot molecules, J.M. Taylor, Department of Physics, Harvard University (Lukin group), March 11, Monday, 11:45 a.m.
• Coulomb Fourier transformation of the three-body Hamiltonian with a repulsive Coulomb interaction in one particle pair, Dr. Sergey Levin , St. Petersburg University, March 15, Monday, 11:45 a.m.
• Ultrafast Spinning of Nanotubes by Circularly-polarized Light and Multi-channel Complete Population Passage Techniques Dr. Petr Kral Department of Chemical Physics Weizmann Institute 11:45 Monday, April 1, 2002
• Excitations in correlated systems: from atoms to condensed matter Dr. J. Berakdar Max-Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics Halle, Germany 11:45 AM Monday, April 8, 2002
• Sensitivity of Wave Field Evolution and Manifold Stability in Perturbed Systems Prof. Steve Tomsovic Dept. of Physics Washington State University 11:45 AM Monday, April 29, 2002
• Nonresonant Effects in One- and Two-Photon Transitions in Hydrogen and Anti-Hydrogen Atoms Leonti Labzowsky St. Petersburg State University 11:45 AM Monday, May 6, 2002
• A novel spectral method of solving the Schroedinger Eq. Prof. George Rawitsch Dept. of Physics University of Connecticut 11:45 AM Monday, June 10, 2002
• Quantum Computers Using Resonant Dipole-Dipole Interactions Prof. Gershon Kurizki Wiezmann Institute of Science 12:00 AM Tuesday, July 16, 2002
• Dipole-dipole interaction of two excited hydrogen atoms   Valentin Ostrovsky     St. Petersburg State Univ.   11:45 AM Monday, July 22, 2002    
• Corrections for cold collisions and Rb-Cs scattering Prof. Michael Jamieson Computing Science Dept. Univ. of Glasgow 11:45 AM Monday, August 12, 2002
• Ultralow energy recombination, Rydberg Collisions and Radiative Cascade Prof. Ray Flannery School of Physics Georgia Institute of Technology 11:45 AM Monday, August 19, 2002
• Simultaneous Ionization-Exciation of Atoms by Electron Impact: a Challence for Theory and Experiment Prof. Klaus Bartschat Drake University 11:45 AM Thursday, August 22, 2002
• Tonks-Girardeau Gas and Around Prof. Maxim Olshanii Physics Dept. University of Southern California 11:45 AM Monday, August 26, 2002
• Thermal and Nonthermal Escape of Planetary Atmospheres Prof. Bernie Shizgal Dept. of Physics University of British Columbia 11:45 AM Monday, October 14, 2002
• Helium droplets - an ultra-cold quantum nanolaboratory Birgitta Whaley Dept. of Chemistry UC Berkely 10:00 AM Thursday, November 14, 2002
• Quantum computation and multiparticle entanglement with trapped atoms and ions Anders Sorensen ITAMP 11:45 AM Monday, November 18, 2002
• Possible deviation from the Standard Model in Cs parity violation and huge enhancement of T-violating atomic electric dipole moments Prof. Victor Flambaum School of Physics Univ. of New South Wales 11:45 AM Monday, November 25, 2002

2003

• Coupled-Cluster Theory with Scalar Relativity: Applications to the  Isomers of Si2H3 and Si2H4 with a CBS scheme   Levent Sari   Ctr.  for Comp. Quantum Chem.   University of Georgia   11:45 AM Monday, January  27, 2003    
• Fourier Transform Spectroscopy: The Spectrum of Neutral Manganese Dr. Richard J. Blackwell-Whitehead Quantum Optics and Spectroscopy Group Imperial College, London 11:45 AM Monday, February 10,2003
• Fine structure constant measurement through helium spectroscopy Tanya Zelevinski Physics Harvard 11:45 AM Monday, February 24, 2003
• Atom Interferometry Using Chirped Standing Waves   Vladimir S.   Malinovsky   Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics & FOCUS center,  Dept. of Physics   University of Michigan   1:45 PM Tuesday, April 22, 2003  
• Teleportation of Mixed States of the Radiation Field, Professor Paulina Marian, University of Bucharest, August 11, Monday, 12 noon.
• Kinetic theory of Antihydrogen Recombination, Dr. Ronald Stowell , Princeton University, August 19, Tuesday, 12 noon.  
• Many-body effects in negative ion photodetachment, Prof. Vadim K. Ivanov, St.Petersburg Polytechnic University, Monday, September 8, 2003
• Quantum phase control of entanglement with time-delayed pulse sequences, Dr. Vladimir S. Malinovsky, MCTP and FOCUS Center University of Michigan, Monday, September 15, 2003.
• Clusters and Fullerenes: Electron Structure and Photoabsorption, Prof. Vadim K. Ivanov, , St.Petersburg Polytechnic University, Tuesday, October 14, 2003
• Strongly interacting two-component Fermi gas, Dmitry S. Petrov, ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Monday, October 20, 2003
• Ultrafast molecular dynamics and spectroscopy from a personal perspective, Svetlana Malinovskaya, FOCUS Center and Dept. of Physics, University of Michigan, Monday, November 3, 2003
• UV and IR spectroscopy of polyynes: applications to planetary atmospheres and to the ISM, Francois Shindo, Atomic and Molecular Physics Division, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Monday, November 17, 2003
• A QND measurement of Fock states using mesoscopic mechanical oscillators, Deborah Santamore, ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Monday, November 24, 2003

2004

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