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Web Site Updates

The all-new JRM web site has launched! Report errors to Vince, please.
The Attosecond Physics 2009 conference website is up. The Second International Conference on Attosecond Physics will be held here in July 2009.
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Local Research in the News

In early November, Uwe Thumm was the focus of yet another press release, this one entitled "K-State Physics professor finds a way to steer electrons in a molecule using laser pulses". The release is quoted in many of the usual news sources, and a full list is available on our Ultrafast Physics press release page. The release describes the work published as:
Strong-field modulated diffraction effects in the correlated electron-nuclear motion in dissociating H₂⁺
Feng He, Andreas Becker, Uwe Thumm
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 213002 (2008)
At the same time, Lew Cocke, Predrag Ranitovic and their collaborators have published new findings in the prestigious journal Science. The paper is titled "Observing the Creation of Electronic Feshbach Resonances in Soft X-ray-Induced O2 Dissociation" and appears in the 14 November 2008 issue (access to the papers may depend on your institution's subscription status).
In late October the University released a new press release celebrating the lab. The release, titled "K-State physics lab becoming a frontrunner in ultrafast laser research" has started to show up in other news sources around the web. For a complete list, see our Ultrafast Physics press release page.
Kristan Corwin is quoted concerning a recent REU workshop in the August-September edition of the APS News:
Participants said they found the workshop useful "It was helpful to hear how other site directors run their programs; every site seems to have its own unique qualities. I believe the REU program is very important, and was especially impressed by the efforts to reach out to minorities and women," said Kristan Corwin of Kansas State University.
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.

Hot Topics

This place looks like a tornado hit it!
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 July 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.
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