Session B1: Computational Physics Symposium

Chair: Eric Held, Utah State University
Eccles Conference Center - Room 216


Friday, October 6, 2006
10:30AM - 11:06AM

B1.00001: Computational Approaches to Viral Evolution and Rational Vaccine Design
Invited Speaker: Tanmoy Bhattacharya

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Friday, October 6, 2006
11:06AM - 11:42AM

B1.00002: Recent discoveries from massive computation in beam physics
Invited Speaker: John Cary

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Friday, October 6, 2006
11:42AM - 12:18PM

B1.00003: Simulating Biological Cells
Invited Speaker: Steve Plimpton

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Session B2: Lasers, Optics, and Spectroscopy

Chair: William E. Evenson, Utah Valley State College
Eccles Conference Center - Room 205/207


Friday, October 6, 2006
10:30AM - 10:42AM

B2.00001: Development of a kHz-repetition rate TW ultrafast amplifier
Charles Durfee , Thomas Planchon , Sudipta Bera , Jeff Field , Daniel Adams , Colby Childress , Jeff Squier

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Friday, October 6, 2006
10:42AM - 10:54AM

B2.00002: Direct Observation of Laser Filamentation in High-Order Harmonic Generation
Gavin Giraud , John Painter , Nicole Brimhall , Mark Adams , Nathan Powers , Eric Christiansen , Matt Turner , Michael Ware , Justin Peatross

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Friday, October 6, 2006
10:54AM - 11:06AM

B2.00003: The Application of High-Order Harmonics to Extreme Ultraviolet Polarimetry
Nicole Brimhall , John Painter , Matthew Turner , R. Steven Turley , Michael Ware , Justin Peatross

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Friday, October 6, 2006
11:06AM - 11:18AM

B2.00004: Advantages of a Grazing Incidence Monochromator in the Extreme Ultraviolet
Sarah Barton , R. Steven Turley

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Friday, October 6, 2006
11:18AM - 11:30AM

B2.00005: Oxidation Effects on the Optical Constants of Heavy Metals
Amy Grigg , Steve Turley

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Friday, October 6, 2006
11:30AM - 11:42AM

B2.00006: From Whence Come the Electrons
Jonathan Abbott , J.R. Dennison , Jason Kite , R.C. Hoffmann , Rob Davies

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Friday, October 6, 2006
11:42AM - 11:54AM

B2.00007: The Emission Angle and Incident Energy Dependence of the Boundary between Secondary and Backscattered Electrons
J.R. Dennison , Jason Kite

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Friday, October 6, 2006
11:54AM - 12:06PM

B2.00008: Measuring Auger Signatures Using a Rotatable, High-Resolution Retarding Field Analyzer Faraday Cup Detector
Jason Kite , J.R. Dennison

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Friday, October 6, 2006
12:06PM - 12:18PM

B2.00009: Optimized controller design for an ECDL locked to at optical cavity
James Archibald , Brian Neyenhuis , Matthew Washburn , W. Sam Weyerman , Sean Warnick , Dallin Durfee

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Session B3: Condensed Matter Structure and Spin

Chair: Dieter Hochheimer, Colorado State University
Eccles Conference Center - Room 201/203


Friday, October 6, 2006
10:30AM - 10:42AM

B3.00001: Domain Growth Law Violations in a Compressible 2D Ising Model
Matthew Wright

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Friday, October 6, 2006
10:42AM - 10:54AM

B3.00002: Magnetic Transitions In UCuSn
Karunakar Kothapalli , Sami El-Khatib , Farzana Nasreen , Ian Swainsson , Anna Llobet , Heinz Nakotte

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Friday, October 6, 2006
10:54AM - 11:06AM

B3.00003: Muon spin resonance study on UCu$_{1.5}$Sn$_{2}$
Sami El-Khatib , G. Michael Kalvius , D.R. Noakes , E.J. Ansaldo , C.E. Stronach , E. Br\"uck , A. Llobet , H. Nakotte

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Friday, October 6, 2006
11:06AM - 11:18AM

B3.00004: High-pressure Raman studies of both hcp phases of Ba.
Helmut Olijnyk , Satoshi Nakano , Kenichi Takemura

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Friday, October 6, 2006
11:18AM - 11:30AM

B3.00005: Phase diagram of Ti metal at high pressure
Yahya Al Khatatbeh , Kanani Lee , Boris Kiefer

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Friday, October 6, 2006
11:30AM - 11:42AM

B3.00006: Temperature dependence of absorption and emission spectra of Ba in solid Ar
Brian Mong

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Friday, October 6, 2006
11:42AM - 11:54AM

B3.00007: Experimental evidence for the existence of eigenvalues of the time evolution operator governing the behavior of nuclear spins in solids
Steven Morgan , Brian Saam

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Friday, October 6, 2006
11:54AM - 12:06PM

B3.00008: Propagator Methods in Spintronics applied to the Rashba Hamiltonian
Bailey Hsu , Jean-Francois Van Huele

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Friday, October 6, 2006
12:06PM - 12:18PM

B3.00009: Obtaining an EELS Fingerprint for the Phases of Aluminum Oxide
Michael Tanner , David Cullen , Richard Vanfleet

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Friday, October 6, 2006
12:18PM - 12:30PM

B3.00010: Microstructural Constitutive Theory: Statistical Particulate Mechanics
Michael Webb

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Session B4: Astrophysics

Chair: Tom Tierney, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Eccles Conference Center - Room 305


Friday, October 6, 2006
10:30AM - 10:42AM

B4.00001: Laboratory Nuclear Astrophysics or The universe as seen from underground.
John E. Ellsworth , Steven E. Jones , Shannon Walch , Matthew R. Nerdin

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Friday, October 6, 2006
10:42AM - 10:54AM

B4.00002: Low energy accelerator for studying laboratory nuclear astrophysics.
Matthew R. Nerdin , John E. Ellsworth , Steven E. Jones

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Friday, October 6, 2006
10:54AM - 11:06AM

B4.00003: Photoevaporation of Clustered Minihalos by Primordial Stars
Joseph Smidt , Dan Whalen

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Friday, October 6, 2006
11:06AM - 11:18AM

B4.00004: Phase-space distribution of unbound dark matter near the Sun
Moqbil Alenazi , Paolo Gondolo

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Friday, October 6, 2006
11:18AM - 11:30AM

B4.00005: Characterizing lasers for cosmic ray ``test beams" at the Pierre Auger Observatory
Shoji Komatsu , Lawrence Wiencke , Miguel Mostafa

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Friday, October 6, 2006
11:30AM - 11:42AM

B4.00006: Surveying the TeV Sky with Milagro
Gary Walker

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Friday, October 6, 2006
11:42AM - 11:54AM

B4.00007: Monocular spectrum and the search for exotic events in the ultra high energy cosmic ray data of HiRes (The High Resolution Fly's Eye).
Douglas Rodriguez

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