Session D1: Thin Films and Quantum Dots

Chair: Heinz Nakotte, New Mexico State University
Eccles Conference Center - Room 216

Friday, October 6, 2006
1:30PM - 1:42PM

 D1.00001: The Effect of Voltage Ramp Rate on Dielectric Breakdown of Thin Film Polymers
Anthomas Thomas , J. Dennison , Steve Hart , Ryan Hoffmann

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Friday, October 6, 2006
1:42PM - 1:54PM

 D1.00002: Orientation Studies of Recrystallized Vanadium Dioxide
Felipe Rivera , Laurel Burk , Robert Davis , Richard Vanfleet

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Friday, October 6, 2006
1:54PM - 2:06PM

 D1.00003: Characterization of Crystallization of Silicon on Alumina
Brady Cox

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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:06PM - 2:18PM

 D1.00004: Characterization of GeSbTe Thin Films for Phase-Change Applications
C.D. Grijalva , C.E. Inglefield , T. Herring , Heng Li , P.C. Taylor

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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:18PM - 2:30PM

 D1.00005: Morphological study on dot-chains using molecular beam epitaxy and \textit{in-situ} scanning tunneling microscopy
Haeyeon Yang , Dongjun Kim , Edward Everett , Richard Wilson

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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:30PM - 2:42PM

 D1.00006: Linear alignment of InGaAs quantum dots on nominal GaAs(001) surfaces
Dong Jun Kim , Addison Everett , Haeyeon Yang

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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:42PM - 2:54PM

 D1.00007: Variation and effects of As$_{4}$ flux on morphology of InGaAs quantum dots
E. Addison Everett , Dong Jun Kim , Haeyeon Yang

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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:54PM - 3:06PM

 D1.00008: Structural Characterization of Nanopolar Domains in PZN-PT
Vayee Vue , Branton Campbell

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Session D2: Bio-related Physics

Chair: Jean Francois Van Huele, Brigham Young University
Eccles Conference Center - Room 205/207

Friday, October 6, 2006
1:30PM - 2:06PM

 D2.00001: Developing Serial Diffraction and Microdroplet Beams for Protein Structure Determination
Invited Speaker: R.B. Doak

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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:06PM - 2:18PM

 D2.00002: Fabrication, Cleaning, and Filtering of Microscopic Droplet Beam Nozzles
J. Warner , M. Hunter , U. Weierstall , J.C.H. Spence , R.B. Doak

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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:18PM - 2:30PM

 D2.00003: Breathing interplay effects during proton radiation therapy and development of repainting solutions
Daniel Robertson , Joao Seco , Alexei Trofimov , Harald Paganetti

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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:30PM - 2:42PM

 D2.00004: Lead Levels in Utah Eagles
Michelle Arnold

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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:42PM - 2:54PM

 D2.00005: Modeling Wave Propagation in Cells and Tissues at the Microscopic Level
Timothy Doyle , Keith Warnick

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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:54PM - 3:06PM

 D2.00006: Energy Computation for nanopore DNA sequencing with an AFM
Shahid Qamar

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Session D3: Plasmas and Fusion

Chair: Ross Spencer, Brigham Young University
Eccles Conference Center - Room 201/203

Friday, October 6, 2006
1:30PM - 1:42PM

 D3.00001: Collisional Braginskii closure vs. the integral closure and closing the fluid equations
J.-Y. Ji , E.D. Held

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Friday, October 6, 2006
1:42PM - 1:54PM

 D3.00002: General parallel closures for tokamak plasmas
M. Sharma , J.-Y. Ji , E.D. Held

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Friday, October 6, 2006
1:54PM - 2:06PM

 D3.00003: Implementation and Analysis of 4$^{th}$ Order CWENO Reconstruction for use in Relativisitic MHD Simulations
Nicholas Nelson , David Neilsen

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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:06PM - 2:18PM

 D3.00004: Non-local plasma heat flow in a perturbed magnetic field
John James , Eric Held

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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:18PM - 2:30PM

 D3.00005: Effects of Generalized Ion Stress on Plasma Sound Waves
Michael Addae-Kagyah , Eric Held

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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:30PM - 2:42PM

 D3.00006: Construction of a Low-energy Single-wire Z-pinch Apparatus for Metal-catalyzed Fusion Studies
Shannon Walch , Steven Jones , John Ellsworth

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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:42PM - 2:54PM

 D3.00007: Hollow Plasma Instability: Theory vs. Experiment
Melissa Powell , Grant Mason , Ross Spencer

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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:54PM - 3:06PM

 D3.00008: Evidence of New Plasma Equilibrium State Sought
William Edwards , Eric Held , Ajay Singh , Jeremy Bishop

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Friday, October 6, 2006
3:06PM - 3:18PM

 D3.00009: Generalized Stationary States for Fusion Plasmas
E.D. Held , W.F. Edwards , A. Kullberg

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Session D4: General Physics and Physics Education

Chair: Brian Pyper, Brigham Young University-Idaho
Eccles Conference Center - Room 305

Friday, October 6, 2006
1:30PM - 1:42PM

 D4.00001: Quantum-mechanical time evolution and uniform forces
Gary Bowman

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Friday, October 6, 2006
1:42PM - 1:54PM

 D4.00002: Searching for photon rest-mass with ion interferometry
Dan Christensen , Brian Neyenhuis , Ross Spencer , Dallin Durfee

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Friday, October 6, 2006
1:54PM - 2:06PM

 D4.00003: Experiences Teaching Inquiry-Based Physics to Prospective Elementary School Teachers
Bill Tiernan

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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:06PM - 2:18PM

 D4.00004: Why are you in Physics, Anyway?
Shem Thompson , Brian Pyper

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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:18PM - 2:30PM

 D4.00005: Threatened by Gender?
Candice Humpherys , Brian Pyper

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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:30PM - 2:42PM

 D4.00006: Does Size Matter? Searching for Rhyme or Reason in Course-End Student Surveys in a Large, Eclectic Physics Department
David Peak

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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:42PM - 2:54PM

 D4.00007: A Lecture Hall Sized Color Mixing Apparatus
James Coburn

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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:54PM - 3:06PM

 D4.00008: Einstein's Meanders
Bradley Carroll

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Friday, October 6, 2006
3:06PM - 3:18PM

 D4.00009: Twisting Relativity Part II: Gravity Behaving Badly
Jerry W. Jensen

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