Monday January 6 2003 | ||
| Monday Morning Plenary Session 1 | ||
| Herschel A. Rabitz, Princeton University (Closed Loop Control of Quantum Systems) ``Tying the Loop Tighter Around Quantum Systems'' | ||
| Szymon Suckewer, Princeton University (Application of Ultrashort Pulses and X-Ray Radiations) ``Some New Approaches to Generation of Ultrashort and Ultraintense Pulses and Potential Applications'' | ||
| Jim Gordon, Lucent Technologies (Solitons) ``Wigner densities, quantum noise, and solitons'' | ||
| Monday Morning Invited Session 1 | ||
| Closed Loop Control of Quantum Systems | Application of Ultrashort Pulses and X-Ray Radiations | Solitons |
| Philip Bucksbaum, University of Michigan ``Experimental aspects of closed-loop control of unimolecular reactions in liquids'' |
Todd Ditmire, University of Texas, Austin ``Generation of X-Rays and Neutrons with Ultraintense and Ultrafast Pulse Laser'' |
Jorge R. Tredicce, Institut Non Lineaire de Nice, France ``Cavity solitons as pixels in semiconductor microcavities'' |
| Marcus Motzkus, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik ``Quantum control of ultracomplex molecular systems with shaped pulses'' |
Nat Fisch, Princeton University ``Raman Amplification and Compression of Ultrashort Pulses in Plasmas; a Successor Technology to CPA?'' |
Ildar Gabitov, University of Arizona |
| Robert R. Jones, University of Virginia ``Closed Loop Control of Intense Laser Fragmentation of Small Clusters'' |
Jim Dunn, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ``Ultrashort Pulse Driven X-Ray Lasers'' |
Randy Hulet, Rice University ``Tunable Interactions in Ultracold Bose and Fermi Gases: Solitons to Superfluids'' |
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| Monday Morning Plenary Session 2 | ||
| Joseph W. Haus, University of Dayton (Photonics) ``Nonlinear optics in photonic crystals'' | ||
| Gustav Gerber, Universität Würzburg (Closed Loop Control of Quantum Systems) ``Adaptive Femtosecond Quantum Control'' | ||
| Monday Morning Invited Session 2 | ||
| Closed Loop Control of Quantum Systems | Application of Ultrashort Pulses and X-Ray Radiations | Photonics |
| Ian Walmsley, University of Oxford ``Looking for peace and quiet: Using learning control to avoid decoherence'' |
Jorge Rocca, Colorado State University ``Applications of Very Compact Soft X-Ray Lasers'' |
Giuseppe D'Aguanno, Università di Roma ``La Sapienza'' ``Trapping and Storing Light in c(2) Photonic Crystals'' |
| Henry Kapteyn, JILA, University of Colorado ``Coherent Control of Atoms and Molecules Using Broad-Bandwidth Light Pulses'' |
Margaret Murnane, JILA ``Multiphoton EUV PHotonics: Quasi Phase Matching at Short Wavelengths'' |
Lute Maleki, Jet Propulsion Laboratory ``Photonic oscillator'' |
| Hideo Mabuchi, California Institute of Technology ``Experiments in Quantum Feedback'' |
Elena Kuznetsova, Texas A&M University ``Short pulse generation in the gamma-ray range'' |
Shi-Yao Zhu, Hong Kong Baptist College ``Light propagation in one-dimensional photonic crystals with dispersion'' |
| Ludger Wöste, Freie Universität Berlin ``Coherent Control of Metal Clusters: Learning Dynamics with Self-Learning Algorithms'' |
Heinrich Schwoerer, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena ``Relativistic laser plasmas and laser-induced nuclear reactions'' |
Kohzo Hakuta, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan ``Quantum coherence in solid hydrogen'' |
| Robert Levis, Temple University ``Adaptive Strong Field Control of Chemistry'' |
Anil K. Patnaik, University of Electro-Communications, Japan ``Slow light propagation in a thin optical fiber via electromagnetically induced transparency'' |
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| -- Afternoon -- | ||
| Leon Cohen, City University of New York (Hunter College) (The Quantum/Classical Interface) ``Quantum phase space, correspondence rules, and the speech-hearing connection'' | ||
| Theo Nieuwenhuizen, University of Amsterdam (Quantum Thermodynamics) ``Thermodynamics and small quantum systems'' | ||
| M. Shapiro, Weizmann Institute (Quantum Control of Molecular Processes) ``Dark states: An analytical solution to the non-degenerate quantum control problem and a proposed mechanism for quantum jumps'' | ||
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| Monday Evening Invited Session | ||
| Quantum Control of Molecular Processes | Quantum Thermodynamics | The Quantum/Classical Interface |
| Paul Brumer, University of Toronto ``Control and Decoherence: When is Quantum Decoherence Dynamics Classical?'' |
D. P. Sheehan, University of San Diego ``Hammers, anvils and stirrups: sounding second law tests'' |
Pat Loughlin, University of Pittsburgh ``Instantaneous frequency, quantum mechanical current, and phase-space distributions'' |
| Ara Apkarian, University of California, Irvine ``Multilinear spectroscopy to control and compute in the molecular Hilbert space'' |
M. Howard Lee, University of Georgia ``Carnot cycle for photon gas?'' |
Lorenzo Galleani, Politecnico di Torino, Italy ``Nonlinear oscillations and the Wigner distribution'' |
| Ilya Averbukh, Weizmann Institute of Science ``Squeezing of Atoms by Pulsed Optical Lattices'' |
Peter Keefe, Keefe & Associates ``Coherent Magneto-Caloric Effect Superconductive Heat Engine Process Cycle'' |
Robert Kosut, SC Solutions, Inc. ``Adaptive Control of Quantum Systems'' |
| Andre D. Bandrauk, Univ. de Sherbrooke, Canada ``Attosecond Control of Harmonic Generation'' |
Zoe Sariyianni, Texas A&M University ``Photo-Carnot quantum engine'' |
David H. Hughes, AFRL ``Time-Frequency Signatures in Classical Phenomenological Physics'' |
| Victor Batista, Yale University ``Coherent Control of Photoisomerization in Retinal'' |
Yanhua Shih, UMBC ``Classical and Quantum Imaging'' |
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Tuesday January 7 2003 | ||
| Tuesday Morning Plenary Session 1 | ||
| Federico Capasso, Harvard University (Infrared Semiconductor Optoelectroncs) ``Mid and far infrared Quantum Cascade lasers'' | ||
| Daniel J. Heinzen, University of Texas at Austin (Bose-Einstein Condensation and Ultra-cold Gasses) ``Coherent production of molecules in Bose-Einstein condensates'' | ||
| Tamar Seideman, National Research Council of Canada (Strong Field Control of External Molecular Modes) ``Current-Triggered Dynamics in Molecular-Scale Devices'' | ||
| Tuesday Morning Invited Session 1 | ||
| Strong Field Control of External Molecular Modes | Quantum Information and Quantum Computing | Infrared Semiconductor Optoelectroncs |
| Roger E. Miller, University of North Carolina ``Transition Moment Directions in Oriented Biomolecules: A New Structural Tool" |
Timothy F. Havel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ``The Real Density Matrix'' |
Claire Gmachl, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies ``Multiwavelength and Nonlinear Light Generation in Quantum Cascade Lasers'' |
| Ilya Averbukh, Weizmann Institute of Science ``Controlling Quantum Rotation with Light'' |
Jean-Pierre Leburton, University of Illinois ``A scalable Spin-qubit Circuit with Quantum Dots'' |
Alexey Belyanin, Texas A&M University ``Resonant Nonlinear Optical Processes in Semiconductor Lasers'' |
| Bretislav Friedrich, Harvard University ``Population Transfer, Spectrosocpy and Manipulation of Molecules in Nonresonant Fields'' |
Mark Hillery, Hunter College, CUNY ``Programmable quantum circuits'' |
Ben Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ``Development of THz quantum-cascade lasers'' |
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| Tuesday Morning Plenary Session 2 | ||
| Michael Feld, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Biological and Organic Photonics) | ||
| Charles Munnerlyn, Visx Inc. (Biological and Organic Photonics) ``"Lasers in Ophthalmology: Past, Present, and Future'' | ||
| Tuesday Morning Invited Session 2 | ||
| Strong Field Control of External Molecular Modes | Biological and Organic Photonics | Infrared Semiconductor Optoelectroncs |
| Gerard Meijer, FOM-Institute for Plasma-Physics `Rijnhuizen' ``Deceleration and Trapping of Polar Molecules'' |
Andrew Berger, University of Rochester ``Raman spectroscopy for studying oral bacteria'' |
Oleg Astafiev, Japan Science and Technology Corporation ``Infrared photon detectors using semiconductor quantum dots'' |
| Jon Marangos, Imperial College ``Molecular HHG and Electron Dynamics in Strong Laser Fields'' |
Frank Wise, Cornell University ``Semiconductor Quantum Dots: New Capabilities for Fluorescence Microscopy'' |
Dennis G. Deppe, The University of Texas at Austin ``Unipolar Quantum Cascade Quantum Dot Structures for Infrared Light Emission'' |
| Robert Gordon, University of Illinois at Chicago ``Nanolithography with Molecular Optics'' |
Lewis Rothberg, University of Rochester ``Photophysics of Conjugated Polymers'' |
Rolf Binder, University of Arizona ``Theory of biexcitonic electromagnetically-induced transparency in semiconductors'' |
| Wolfgang Lange, Max-Planck Institut für Quantenoptik ``Ions and Photons under Deterministic Control'' |
Z. Valy Vardeny, University of Utah ``Random Lasers in Organics'' |
Jerome Faist, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland ``Quantum Cascade Lasers: THz and the Search for Second-Order Gain'' |
| Karl L. Kompa, Max-Planck Institut für Quantenoptik ``Controlling vibrational energy in molecules'' |
Hans Schuessler, Texas A&M University ``Heart and brain reseach at the molecular and subcellular levels with laser excited surface plasmons'' |
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| -- Afternoon -- | ||
| Tuesday Evening Plenary Session | ||
| Bob Doering, Texas Instruments (Semiconductor Challenges in Industry) ``Can We Tunnel Through the Barriers Facing Moore's Law?'' | ||
| Vladimir M. Shalaev, Purdue University (Nano-Optics) ``Plasmonic Nanophotonics: Manipulating Light and Sensing Molecules'' | ||
| Barry Sanders, Macquarie University, Australia (Quantum Information and Quantum Computing) ``Requirements for quantum computation'' | ||
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| Tuesday Evening Invited Session | ||
| Quantum Information and Quantum Computing | Nano-Optics | Bose-Einstein Condensation and Ultra-cold Gasses |
| Janos Bergou, Hunter College, CUNY ``Quantum state discrimination'' |
Naomi Halas, Rice University ``Plasmon Hybridization: Design Principles and Realization of Nanophotonic Architectures'' |
Juha Javanainen, University of Connecticut ``Making a molecular condensate using the Feshbach resonance'' |
| Jim Franson, Johns Hopkins University ``Progress in Linear Optics Quantum Computing'' |
Jason W. Fleischer, Technion, Israel ``Solitons in optically-induced photonic lattices'' |
Belen Paredes, Max-Planck Institut für Quantenoptik ``1/2-Anyons with small atomic Bose-Einstein condensates'' |
| Laszlo Kish, Texas A&M University ``Noise, Speed and Dissipation: End of Moore's Law of Miniaturization?'' |
Yujie J. Ding, Lehigh University ``Efficient laser amplifiers based on quasi-indirect-bandgap GaAs/AlAs nanostructures'' |
Robert Brecha, University of Dayton ``Collapse of a degenerate Fermi gas'' |
| Attila Bergou, Jet Propulsion Laboratory ``Relativistic Quantum Information Theory'' |
David Smith, NASA Huntsville ``Enhancement of Optical Nonlinearities in Composite Media and Structures via Local Fields and Electromagnetic Coupling Effects'' |
Jonathan Weinstein, NIST ``Photoassociation spectroscopy of Na$_2$ and electromagnetically-induced matter-wave transparency'' |
Wednesday January 8 2003 | ||
| Wednesday Morning Plenary Session 1 | ||
| Alexander Gaeta, Cornell University (Ultrashort Laser Propagation) ``The Universal Nature of Nonlinear Wave Collapse'' | ||
| Ludger Wöste, Freie Universität Berlin (Ultrashort Laser Propagation) ``"First" fs-TW Generated Artificial Beacons'' | ||
| Terry Michalske, Sandia National Laboratories (Semiconductor lasers) ``Integrated Nanotechnology: Activities at Sandia and Opportunities with DOE's Nanoscience User Facilities' | ||
| Wednesday Morning Invited Session 1 | ||
| Ultrashort Laser Propagation | Semiconductor lasers | EIT and Coherence Effects |
| Vern Schlie, AFRL/DE ``Propagation Summary'' |
Jim Harris, Stanford University ``VCSELs for snowmaking'' |
Kishore Kapale, Texas A&M University ``Quenching of spontaneous emission through interference of incoherent pump processes'' |
| Andrey Mysyrowicz, Ecole Polytechnique, France ``Femtosecond Light bullets in the sky: recent advances'' |
Kent Choquette, University of Illnois ``Coupled Microcavities in Vertical Cavity Lasers'' |
Olga Kocharovskaya, Texas A&M University ``Atomic and Nuclear Interference in Solids'' |
| Jerry Moloney, Univ of Arizona ``Femtosecond Atmospheric Light Strings: Supercontinuum and Rf Emission Sources'' |
Hailin Wang, University of Oregon ``Electromagnetically induced transparency from spin coherence in semiconductors'' |
Roman Kolesov, Texas A&M University ``Electromagnetically induced transparency in a neon discharge: prospects for a new method of plasma diagnostics'' |
| Phil Sprangle, Naval Research Laboratory ``Propagation of Intense, Short Laser Pulses in Atm'' |
Connie Chang, University of California, Berkeley ``Proposal of Semiconductor Variable All-Optical Buffer'' |
George R. Welch, Texas A&M University ``Ellipticity-dependent magneto-optical polarization rotation via multi-photon coherence'' |
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| Wednesday Morning Plenary Session 2 | ||
| Award Lamb Medal (Lamb Medal) ``The presentation of the 2002 Willis E. Lamb medal for Laser Science and Quantum Optics to Leon Cohen, Michael Feld, and Herschel Rabitz'' | ||
| Wednesday Morning Invited Session 2 | ||
| Ultrashort Laser Propagation | Coherent Optics in Semiconductors | Quantum Information and Quantum Computing |
| Antonio Ting, Naval Research Laboratory ``Optical Guiding fs-TW Experiments in Air/Plasmas'' |
Leonid Butov, University of California at Berkeley ``Exciton condensation in semiconductor nanostructures'' |
Suhail Zubairy, Texas A&M University ``Cavity QED based quantum phase gate and applications'' |
| Mike Campbell, General Atomics ``Application of Petawatt Lasers for Fast Ignition'' |
Cristiano Ciuti, University of California at San Diego ``Polariton parametric interactions in semiconductor microcavities'' |
Paolo Tombesi, U. Camerino, Italy ``Beating the standard quantum limit with entangled meters'' |
| Roberto Merlin, University of Michigan ``Optically-Induced Multi-Spin Entanglement in a Semiconductor Quantum Well'' |
Phil Hemmer, Texas A&M University ``Progress toward quantum computing and stopped-light quantum storage, using EIT in solids'' |
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| Carlo Piermarocchi, Michigan State Univ. ``Optical control of electron spins in quantum dots for quantum computation'' |
Gordon Chen, Texas A&M University ``Quantum Circuit Design for the Multi-Object Search Problem'' |
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| -- Afternoon -- | ||
| Wednesday Evening Plenary Session | ||
| Christoph H. Keitel, University of Freiburg (Ultraintense laser fields) ``Ultra-intense laser-matter interaction: from atomic towards high-energy physics'' | ||
| Gershon Kurizki, Weizmann Institute of Science (Laser Induced Effects in Cold Gases) ``Cold Gases with Laser-Induced Long-Range Forces'' | ||
| Alexander Litvak, Institute of Applied Physics, RAS (High Power Microwaves) ``High Power Microwaves: Sources and Applications'' | ||
| -- Break -- | ||
| Wednesday Evening Invited Session | ||
| Ultraintense laser fields | Laser Induced Effects in Cold Gases | Field Effects |
| Wilhelm Becker, Max Born Institute, Berlin ``Quantum-path survey of the relativistic laser-atom interaction'' |
Roy Ozeri, Weizmann Institute ``Experiments in Laser - Induced Interactions in Condensates'' |
L. J. Wang, NEC ``Light transmission through nano-apertures'' |
| Pravesh Patel, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ``Generation of intense proton beams with ultrashort-pulse lasers'' |
Qian Niu, University of Texas at Austin ``Laser Tweezers in Condensates'' |
Marcus Pollnau, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ``Novel broadband light sources for optical coherence tomography'' |
| Koichi Yamakawa, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Kyoto ``Ultrafast, petawatt Ti:sapphire laser and its applications to relativistic ionization of atoms and clusters'' |
Duncan O'Dell, University of Sussex ``Rotons and Excitation Spectra in Laser-Illuminated Condensates'' |
Steve Blair, University of Utah ``Engineering the nonlinear phase shift using artificial resonances'' |
| Joerg Evers, University of Freiburg ``Spontaneous emission suppression with intense low-frequency laser fields'' |
Pierre Pillet, Laboratoire Aimé Cotton ``Experiments in Frozen Rydberg Gases'' |
Qiang Lin, Zhejiang University ``Coherence effect on superluminal propagation of light'' |
| Thomas Becker, Max-Planck Institut für Quantenoptik ``Fock-state generation and phase diffusion'' |
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Thursday January 9 2003 | ||
| Thursday Morning Plenary Session 1 | ||
| Mark A. Kasevich, Stanford University (Metrology) ``Towards Heisenberg-limited de Broglie-wave force sensors'' | ||
| Alessandra Gatti, Università dell'Insubria (Entanglement) ``Entangled imaging and wave-particle duality: from the microscopic to the macroscop realm'' | ||
| Thursday Morning Invited Session 1 | ||
| Entanglement | Novel Optics | Metrology |
| Marc J. Feldman, University of Rochester ``Computers without Switches'' |
Howard Brandt, Army Research Lab ``Quantum Vacuum Heuristics'' |
Alexander Kolomenski, Texas A&M University ``A comparative analysis of laser methods in Raman spectroscopy'' |
| Mauro Paternostro, The Queen's University of Belfast ``Generation of entangled coherent states using a double electromagnetically induced transparency'' |
Manfred Kleber, Technical University of Munich ``Matter waves from quantum sources'' |
Nan Yu, Jet Propulsion Laboratory ``Atom interferometry in space - from fundamental physics to practical applications'' |
| Ashok Muthukrishnan, Texas A&M University ``Two-photon sources and path entanglement'' |
Michael E. Crenshaw, US Army Aviation and Missile Command ``Index Enhancement and Absorption Compensation via Quantum Coherence Control in Multicomponent Media'' |
Irina Novikova, Texas A&M University ``Effects of buffer gas on nonlinear magneto-optic rotation'' |
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| Thursday Morning Plenary Session 2 | ||
| Alexander Sergienko, Boston University (Quantum Metrology) ``Quantum Metrology with Entangled Photons'' | ||
| Robert Boyd, University of Rochester (Photonics) ``Everything photonic'' | ||
| Thursday Morning Invited Session 2 | ||
| Femtosecond Pulses | Quantum Metrology | Plasmas and Free Electron Lasers |
| Eric Mazur, Harvard University ``Femtosecond Laser Micromachining: Applications in Photonics and Biology'' |
Ulvi Yurtsever, Jet Propulsion Laboratory ``using entangled particles to do metrology on the gravitational metric'' |
Sandra G. Biedron, MAX-Laboratory and Argonne National Lab. ``Overview of short-wavelength free-electron lasers and exotic schemes'' |
| Alexei V. Sokolov, Texas A&M University ``Ultra-Short Optical Pulse Generation by the Adiabatic Raman Technique'' |
Aephraim M. Steinberg, University of Toronto ``Quantum information with photons and atoms: from tomography to error correction'' |
Takashi Tanaka, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Japan ``Theoretical investigation of misalignment effects in the FEL based on self-amplified spontaneous emission'' |
| Roland Allen, Texas A&M University ``Molecular Transformations following Femtosecond-scale Laser Pulses'' |
A. Migdall, NIST (Gaithersburg) ``Two photon metrology - getting gown to business'' |
Yuri Rostovtsev, Texas A&M University ``Free Electron Lasers without Inversion: Concept and First Numerical Experiments'' |
| Kazuhiko Misawa, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology ``Wave packet engineering using a phase-programmable femtosecond optical source'' |
S. Castelletto, IEN Galileo Ferraris, Italy ``Quantum and Classical resources for the metrology of biphoton field in parametric down conversion'' |
Gennady Shvets, Illinois Institute of Technology and Fermilab ``Electromagnetically Induced Transparency of Plasma: From Quantum to Classical Mechanics, and Back'' |
| Robert Lucht, Purdue University ``Sensitive, Selective Detection of Molecular Species Using Electronic-Resonance-Enhanced Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering (ERE CARS)'' |
Jonathan S. Wurtele, University of California at Berkeley ``Magnetically Induced Transparency of Plasma: Applications to Particle Acceleration and Pulse Compression'' |
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| -- Afternoon -- | ||
| Thursday Evening Plenary Session | ||
| Jay Eversole, Naval Research Laboratory (Detection of Large Biological Molecules) ``Bio-Agent Detection: DoD application of optical techniques'' | ||
| Marlan O. Scully, Texas A&M University (Detection of Large Biological Molecules) ``FAST CARS Detection of Large Molecules'' | ||
| Regina de Vivie-Riedle, MPI für Quantenoptik (Bose-Einstein Condensation and Ultra-cold Gasses) ``Conversion of an atomic to a molecular Bose-Einstein-Condensate with optimizd pulses in the n- and fs-regime'' | ||
| -- Break -- | ||
| Thursday Evening Invited Session | ||
| Detection of Large Biological Molecules | Bells Inequalities | Novel Optics |
| Patrick J. Treado, Chemicon Inc. ``Raman Chemical Imaging for Rapid, Non-Invasive and Reagentless BioThreat Detection'' |
Louis Sica, NRL ``A new view of Bell's inequalities'' |
Vitaly Kocharovsky, Texas A&M University ``Mechanism of BEC'' |
| John Reintjes, Naval Research Laboratory ``Femtoseond CARS for real time spore detection'' |
Karl Hess, University of Illinois ``Time and setting dependent instrument parameters and proofs of the Bell inequalities'' |
Frank Narducci, Naval Air Systems Command ``Progress towards magneto-optc rotation in a cold gas'' |
| Tomas Opatrny, Texas A&M University ``Molecular coherence preparation using chirped pulses and fractional STIRAP'' |
Walter Philipp, University of Illinois ``A local mathematical model for EPR experiments'' |
Andrey Matsko, Jet Propulsion Laboratory ``Optical measurements of gravity fields'' |
| Guy Beadie, Naval Research Laboratory ``Femtosecond CARS in polyatomic molecules'' |
Edward S. Fry, Texas A&M University ``Loophole-free tests of Bell Inequalities'' |
Justin Peatross, Brigham Young University ``Group Velocity and the Propagation of Broadband Pulses'' |
| Aleksander Rebane, Montana State University ``Background-free femtosecond CARS detection of porphyrins in solids'' |
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