• The Attosecond Physics 2009 conference website is up. This satellite conference of XXVI ICPEAC will be held here in July 2009.
• Coming soon is an all-new JRM web site with a fresher look and more research content!
• Download the Acrobat version of our latest visitor's guide.

• 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.
• 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.)
• 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.

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• 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.
• See what's new in the Ultracold Atom News.