The 2013 annual TAMOC business meeting was held during the 44th Annual DAMOP Meeting June 3-7, 2013, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The slides of the TAMOC business meeting discuss the progress of TAMOC since the 2012 meeting.
Agenda
8:00 Welcome
8:05 TAMOC annual report
8:15 Latest news from ITAMP, Hossein Sadeghpour (ITAMP Director)
Funding situation reports:
8:25 National Science Foundation & Department of Energy Ann Orel (Atomic Theory NSF program manager)
8:45 APS report from Washington, Mike Lubell (Director of APS Office of Public Affairs)
9:00 Discussions
9:15 Adjourn
Detailed minutes of the TAMOC Business meeting were prepared by Svetlana Kotochigova, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
An invited Session M7: Invited Session: Theoretical Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics - Current and Future Directions on the current state of theoretical atomic, molecular, and optical physics (TAMOP) was held on the DAMOP 2013 meeting for the benefit of physics students and established researchers alike. This session aimed to provide an overview of present questions and challenges in TAMOP and was intended to be accessible to the wide audience of DAMOP; it aimed to inform researcher about current trends and help students to make decisions for a potential thesis project in TAMOP. All broad areas of modern TAMOP—as formulated in a recent review Theoretical Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics: Recent Developments and a Vision for the Future—were addressed. They are “Atomic/molecular structure and collisions,” “Strong-field interactions and ultrafast control,” “Cold atoms and degenerate quantum gases,” and “Quantum optics and quantum information.”
The session was chaired by Svetlana Malinovskaya, Stevens Inst of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA with the following speakers:
Quantum Optics, Cavity QED, and Quantum Optomechanics, Pierre Meystre
Murray Holland, JILA, University of Colorado
Kenneth Schafer, Louisiana State Univ- Baton Rouge
Anthony Starace, Univ of Nebraska - Lincoln