Session H1: Nanoscale Physics

Chair: J.R. Dennison, Utah State University
Eccles Conference Center - Room 216

Saturday, October 7, 2006
8:30AM - 9:06AM

 H1.00001: Toward Nanoscale Imaging of Biomolecular Systems
Invited Speaker: Jordan Gerton

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Saturday, October 7, 2006
9:06AM - 9:18AM

 H1.00002: Apertureless SNOM imaging of higher density samples
Chun Mu , Chang'An Xie , Jonathan Cox , Ben Mangum , Jordan Gerton

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Saturday, October 7, 2006
9:18AM - 9:30AM

 H1.00003: Functionalization and Metalization of Carbon Nanotube Mats
Jacob Fluckiger , Dustin Lloyd , Lei Pei , Robert Davis

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Saturday, October 7, 2006
9:30AM - 9:42AM

 H1.00004: Preparation of a dense, vertically-aligned carbon nanotube forest from colloidal iron nanoparticles
David Hutchison , Richard Vanfleet , Robert Davis , Brian F. Woodfield , Juliana Boerio-Goates

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Saturday, October 7, 2006
9:42AM - 9:54AM

 H1.00005: Separation of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes by Density using Isopycnic Fractionation
Michael Clemens , Tobias Hertel

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Saturday, October 7, 2006
9:54AM - 10:06AM

 H1.00006: The effects of carbon chain length on nano-crystal structure
Hiram Conley , Uma Maran , Robert Davis , Peter Stang

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Saturday, October 7, 2006
10:06AM - 10:18AM

 H1.00007: Nanoscale defect architectures and their influence on material properties
Branton Campbell

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Session H2: Condensed Matter Electronic Properties

Chair: T.C. Shen, Utah State University
Eccles Conference Center - Room 205/207

Saturday, October 7, 2006
8:30AM - 8:42AM

 H2.00001: Femtosecond transient studies of charge transfer in~polymers doped with acceptor molecules; applications~for organic solar cells
Josh Holt , Chuanxiang Sheng , Tomer Drori , Z. Valy Vardeny

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Saturday, October 7, 2006
8:42AM - 8:54AM

 H2.00002: Optical and Transport studies of isolated and aggregated molecular wires
Alexandre Ndobe , Vladimir Burtman , Golda Hukic , Valy Vardeny

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Saturday, October 7, 2006
8:54AM - 9:06AM

 H2.00003: Surface Green function calculations in the infinite number of principal layer approach: A non-recursive scheme
Aleksey Kletsov , Yuri Dahnovsky , Vinz Ortiz

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Saturday, October 7, 2006
9:06AM - 9:18AM

 H2.00004: Coherent Excitation of the Optic Phonon in Si Measured with Femtosecond Spectroscopy
D.M. Riffe , A.J. Sabbah

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Saturday, October 7, 2006
9:18AM - 9:30AM

 H2.00005: Electron transport in laterally confined phosphorus $\delta $-layers in silicon
S.J. Robinson , J.R. Tucker , T.-C. Shen

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Saturday, October 7, 2006
9:30AM - 9:42AM

 H2.00006: Calculation of efficiency losses in Cu(In,Ga)Se2/CdS solar cells with ultra-thin absorbers
Ana Kanevce , James Sites

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Saturday, October 7, 2006
9:42AM - 9:54AM

 H2.00007: E-Field Conditioning and Charging Memory in Low Density Polyethylene
Jerilyn Brunson , J.R. Dennison

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Saturday, October 7, 2006
9:54AM - 10:06AM

 H2.00008: Electric Field Induced Hopping Conductivity: An Investigation of Electric Field-Dependent Resistivity in Polymers
S.R. Hart , J. Brunson , J.R. Dennison

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Saturday, October 7, 2006
10:06AM - 10:18AM

 H2.00009: Photodarkening of Te-modified TiO2 Nanocrystals
Steven Phillips

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Session H3: Applied Physics and Spectroscopy

Chair: Charles Durfee, Colorado School of Mines
Eccles Conference Center - Room 201/203

Saturday, October 7, 2006
8:30AM - 8:42AM

 H3.00001: Near-field mapping of pressure fields during active noise control of small axial cooling fans
Benjamin Shafer , Cole Duke , Kent Gee

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Saturday, October 7, 2006
8:42AM - 8:54AM

 H3.00002: Use of near-field energy-based error signals for active control of free-field sound
Ryan Chester , Timothy Leishman

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Saturday, October 7, 2006
8:54AM - 9:06AM

 H3.00003: The Effects of Nonlinear Propagation on Acoustic Source Imaging in One-Dimension
Micah Shepherd , Kent L. Gee

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Saturday, October 7, 2006
9:06AM - 9:18AM

 H3.00004: Aerodynamic and Propulsion Assisted Maneuvering for Waverider Vehicles
Patrick Jolley

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Saturday, October 7, 2006
9:18AM - 9:30AM

 H3.00005: Flush Air Data Sensing System for Trans-Atmospheric Vehicles
Joel Ellsworth

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Saturday, October 7, 2006
9:30AM - 9:42AM

 H3.00006: Conical soft x-ray Von Hamos spectrometer
Matthew Harrison , John E. Ellsworth , Alexander Shevelko , Larry V. Knight

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Saturday, October 7, 2006
9:42AM - 9:54AM

 H3.00007: Conical Reflection in Direct Simulation Monte Carlo
Andrew Sampson , Adam Payne , William Somers , Ross Spencer

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Saturday, October 7, 2006
9:54AM - 10:06AM

 H3.00008: Increasing Diagnostics Resolution in a Monte Carlo Simulation of an ICP-MS
Adam Payne , Andrew Sampson , William Somers , Ross Spencer

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Saturday, October 7, 2006
10:06AM - 10:18AM

 H3.00009: Supersonic Nozzle Flow Using DSMC
William Somers , Adam Payne , Andrew Sampson , Ross Spencer

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Session H4: Fields and General Theory

Chair: Charles Torre, Utah State University
Eccles Conference Center - Room 305

Saturday, October 7, 2006
8:30AM - 8:42AM

 H4.00001: Possible origin of inertial mass and of De Broglie wave.
Alexander Panin

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Saturday, October 7, 2006
8:42AM - 8:54AM

 H4.00002: Special relativity: two postulates or one?
David Eckhard , Alexander Panin

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Saturday, October 7, 2006
8:54AM - 9:06AM

 H4.00003: Causality in Classical Electrodynamics: a Comparison of Different Approaches
Himal Rathnakumara , Manuel Berrondo

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Saturday, October 7, 2006
9:06AM - 9:18AM

 H4.00004: Performance requirements for ensemble implementations of quantum algorithms
David Collins

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Saturday, October 7, 2006
9:18AM - 9:30AM

 H4.00005: Isometric Families of Minimal Surfaces
Stephen Taylor

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Saturday, October 7, 2006
9:30AM - 9:42AM

 H4.00006: Stability of D1/D5 Black Strings
Jared Greenwald , Eric Hirschmann

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Saturday, October 7, 2006
9:42AM - 9:54AM

 H4.00007: Kaluza-Klein Masses and Couplings: Radiative Corrections to Tree-Level Relations
Sky Bauman

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Saturday, October 7, 2006
9:54AM - 10:06AM

 H4.00008: Effects of Dynamical Compactification on D-Dimensional Gauss-Bonnet FRW Cosmology
Keith Andrew , Brett Bolen , Chad Middleton

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Session H5: Atmospheric and Nuclear Physics

Chair: Andrea Palounek, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Eccles Conference Center - Room 309

Saturday, October 7, 2006
8:30AM - 8:42AM

 H5.00001: Propagation and Ducting of Short-Period Gravity Waves over Antarctica
Kim Nielsen , Michael Taylor , Robert Hibbins , Martin Jarvis

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Saturday, October 7, 2006
8:42AM - 8:54AM

 H5.00002: Imaging Gravity Waves and Sprites in the Earth's Upper Atmosphere
Michael Taylor

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Saturday, October 7, 2006
8:54AM - 9:06AM

 H5.00003: Three New Ionospheric Indices
Cesar Noguera , Jan Sojka

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Saturday, October 7, 2006
9:06AM - 9:18AM

 H5.00004: Extracting air motion velocity data from aerosol distortion patterns detected in fast lidar scans
Jan Marie Andersen , Thomas Wilkerson

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Saturday, October 7, 2006
9:18AM - 9:30AM

 H5.00005: Heavy Baryons at CDF II
John Ash

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Saturday, October 7, 2006
9:30AM - 9:42AM

 H5.00006: Influence of the Ground State Spin of the Projectile -target on the Fission Anisotropies
Aziz Bhkami

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Saturday, October 7, 2006
9:42AM - 9:54AM

 H5.00007: Proton configuration and mass variations are observed in each of the 3036 isotopes studied.
Eugene Pamfiloff

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Saturday, October 7, 2006
9:54AM - 10:06AM

 H5.00008: Accelerate the transition of radioisotopes and unwanted weapons-grade $^{239}$Pu into stable nuclei with a system of high frequency modulation for a net energy gain
Eugene Pamfiloff

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