IGERT SELIM Research Retreat
“Science & Engineering of Laser
Interactions with Matter”
Omni Hotel, Charlottesville,
VA
Saturday, August 28th, 2004, 8:30 am – 6 pm
8:30 am Registration (name tags) &
Coffee
8:50 Retreat
Prospectus and Charge.......................................................... Lisa
Friedersdorf
9:00 Welcome
.................... Roseanne Ford,
Assoc. VP
for Research and Graduate Studies
9:10 Overview of SELIM Program................................................................... Ian
Harrison
9:25 SELIM
at Norfolk State University............................................................ Carl
Bonner
9:45 Course
Curriculum............................................................................... Lou
Bloomfield
10:00 Externships....................................................................................... Barbara
Hampton
10:30 Coffee
Break
10:45 Free Electron Laser Program at Jefferson Lab.............................................. Fred Dylla
11:15 CAMOS Ultrafast Laser Facility.......................................................... Kurt
Kolasinski
11:30 Keck Center for Cellular Imaging.................................................... Ammasi
Periasamy
11:45 pm Lunch
& Round Table Introductions
Research Overviews by
UVa and NSU SELIM Fellows and Associates:
Ultrafast
Laser Facilitated Research
12:45 pm Vibrational
Dynamics in Molecules............................................................... Pam
Crum
1:05 Surface
Chemistry.................................................................................. Kristy
DeWitt
1:25 Coherent
Control and Coulomb Explosions.............................................. Dan
Pinkham
1:45 Emission
Quenching and Charge Separation in Copolymers................ Abram
Ledbetter
2:05 Dynamics
& Magnetism of Nanoclusters.................................................. Forest
Payne
2:25 Discussion
2:35 Coffee
Break
NonLinear Optics
& Spectroscopy
2:50 Quantum
Optics and Quantum Information........................................... Raphael
Pooser
2:10 Frequency
Domain Studies of Vibrational Dynamics.............................. Gordon
Brown
3:30 Fiber
Coupled Random Lasers............................................................ Ichesia
Fowlkes
3:50 Bose-Einstein
Condensates................................................................... Jessica
Reeves
4:10 Discussion
4:20 Student
Poster Session and Reception
5:50 pm Announcement
of Student Poster Prize Winners and Close