DAMOP '98 Sorting Categories

The December issue of APS Meeting News contains the first announcement of the 1998 DAMOP meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico (May 27-30). Listed below are the sorting categories for this meeting, which has an abstract deadline date of February 6, 1998. For additional information on submitting an electronic abstract, please send an e-mail message to abs-request@aps.org and include the phrase "Request DAMOP98" in the body your message.

SORTING CATEGORIES -- 1998 DAMOP MEETING

Atomic and Molecular Structure and Properties

1. RF, microwave and IR spectroscopy
2. Visible spectroscopy
3. UV/Xray spectroscopy
4. Lifetimes, oscillator strengths
5. Behavior in static fields
6. Fundamental symmetries and precision measurements
7. Atomic structure
8. Molecular structure

Photon Interactions with Atoms and Molecules

9. Photo ionization/photo detachment
10. UV /Xray photoionization and interactions
11. Photo dissociation and photo association
12. Intense field effects: multi photon processes
13. Fundamental theory

Atomic and Molecular Collisions and Interactions

14. Interaction potentials and forces
15. Reactive scattering, chemical kinetics
16. Atom-atom and atom-molecule collisions
17. Surface interactions
18. Polarized atoms
19. Scattering theory

Charged Particle Collisions

20. Electron scattering
21. Electron impact excitation/ionization
22. Positron scattering
23. Negative ion properties
24. Ion scattering
25. Charge transfer
26. Interactions with surfaces and solids
27. Spin dependences
28. Electron collision theory
29. Heavy particle collision theory

Studies with Special Atoms and Molecules

30. Highly excited species, Rydberg atoms
31. Highly charged species
32. Exotic atoms and molecules
33. Clusters

Quantum Optics/Ultrafast Phenomena

34. Wavepacket dynamics and quantum control
35. Atom interferometry
36. Nonlinear optics
37. Quantum Information
38. Cavity QED

Cooling and Trapping

39. Laser cooling and trapping
40. Bose-Einstein condensation
41. Ultra cold collisions
42. Applications to fundamental measurements

Other DAMOP Topics

43. Experimental techniques
44. Theoretical methods