• The work of Zenghu Chang's group to produce "faster, more powerful lasers" is featured in a press release from Kansas State University's Media Relations. The story has been picked up by other outlets, along with a story in the Collegian.
• We have two papers featured in recent issues of Science. The latest is a report in the 09 November issue titled "The Simplest Double Slit: Interference and Entanglement in Double Photoionization of H₂", published by the Berkeley collaboration that includes our own Lew Cocke and Predrag Ranitovic. Earlier, in the 07 September number, in collaboration with JILA, Lew, Predrag, and former student Xiao-Min Tong published "Soft X-ray-Driven Femtosecond Molecular Dynamics". (Access to the papers may depend on your institution's subscription status.)
• The blogosphere has taken notice of the double-slit paper! Among the sites discussing the fundamental implications of the experiment are:
  • Seed's Daily Zeitgeist - 11/14/07
  • Cocktail Party Physics: The Photon Has Two Faces
  • Uncertain Principles: Single Electron Interference and Decoherence
  • Standard Deviations: Science Made More Awesome
• The more traditional news outlets are carrying LBL's press release:
  • Berkeley Lab Research News
  • EurekAlert: The world's smallest double slit experiment
  • PhysOrg: The world's smallest double slit experiment
  • PhysicsWorld: Two is a Crowd for Quantum Particles
    (Free registration required)
• In yet another collaboration, Uwe Thumm's theory group has worked with the Max Planck Institute to study "Complete Characterization of Molecular Dynamics in Ultrashort Laser Fields", work recently published in Physical Review Letters. The Max Plank Institute has a press release on the work entitled "Molecular Chords", which is also carried by PhysOrg.

Hot Topics

• Sam Fahrenholtz, KSU senior in Physics, received a Goldwater scholarship honorable mention this year. Sam works with Itzik Ben-Itzhak doing research on the physics of laser-ion and molecule-ion collisions.
• Phil Bucksbaum, director of the Ultrafast Science Center at Stanford delivered this year's Neff Public Lecture. The lecture, delivered on Monday, 31 March 2008, was titled "Ultrafast Quantum Control".
• The Neff Lecture comes on the heels of the Peterson Lecture delivered by Nobel Laurette Bill Phillips of NIST on Monday, 03 March 2008. His entertaining, demonstration-filled lecture was called "Time and Einstein in the 21st Century: The Coolest Stuff in the Universe". It was covered by a KSU Collegian article the next day.
• The March 2008 DAMOP Newsletter is now out.
• Our list of Upcoming Meetings has information on this summer's many major conferences, and our calendar has information on important dates and deadlines.
• See what's new in the Ultracold Atom News.

Web Site Updates

• Beginning-of-semester updates have been made to the personnel directory and to our databases of papers and abstracts.
• Download the Acrobat version of our latest visitor's guide.