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Abstract Submission Closed Friday, February 4, 2011

1. Atomic and Molecular Structure and Properties
1.1 Spectroscopy, lifetimes, oscillator strengths
1.2 Atomic and molecular structure, including in static fields
1.3 Fundamental symmetries and precision measurements

2. Photon Interactions with Atoms, Ions, and Molecules
2.1 Atomic photoionization and photodetachment processes
2.2 Molecular photoionization, photodetachment, and photodissociation processes
2.3 Physics with Ultra-Intense Lasers
2.4 High Harmonic and Attosecond Pulse Generation
2.5 Atomic and Molecular Dynamics in Intense Laser Fields
2.6 Perturbative and Resonant Multiphoton Processes
2.7 Focus Session: Time Resolved Spectroscopy with HHG and FEL
2.8 Focus Session: Photoionization Spectroscopy

3. Atomic, Molecular, and Charged Particle Collisions
3.1 Atom-atom and atom-molecule collisions
3.2 Reactive scattering and recombination processes
3.3 Electron-Atom Collisions
3.4 Electron-Molecule Collisions
3.5 Collisions involving antimatter
3.6 Ion-atom and ion-ion collisions
3.7 Collisions involving clusters
3.8 Collisions involving surfaces
3.9 Focus Session: Recent Advances in Collision Studies
3.10 Focus Session: Recollision Physics
3.11 Focus Session: Electronic, Atomic, and Molecular Collision Studies

4. Quantum Optics, Matter Optics, and Coherent Control
4.1 Atom optics
4.2 Matter wave interferometry
4.3 Quantum and/or nonlinear optics
4.4 Slowing and stopping light
4.5 Focus Session: Control of Quantum dynamics

5. Quantum Information
5.1 Entanglement, decoherence, and error correction
5.2 Quantum cryptography and communication
5.3 Quantum computation
5.4 Quantum measurement
5.5 Focus Session: Advances in NV centers

6. Cold Atoms, Molecules, and Plasmas
6.1 Bose-Einstein condensates
6.2 Degenerate Fermi gases
6.3 Atoms in optical lattices
6.4 Dynamic and out-of-equilibrium phenomena in cold atoms
6.5 Ultracold collisions and photoassociation processes
6.6 Focus session: Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of cold gases
6.7 Laser cooling and trapping
6.8 Low temperature plasmas
6.9 Focus Session: In-situ imaging of Ultracold Atomic Gases
6.10 Focus Session: Synthetic Gauge Fields in ultracold systems
6.11 Focus Session: Dipolar quantum gases
6.12 Focus Session: Equation of State of Strongly interacting gases
6.13 Focus Session: Cold Rydberg Gases

7. Special Topics
7.1 Exotic atoms and molecules
7.2 Nonlinear dynamics
7.3 New experimental techniques
7.4 New theoretical methods
7.5 Applications of AMO science
7.6 Focus Session: Progress in Cavity Opto-mechanics