Session B1: Condensed Matter: Etching, Shapes and Surfaces

Chair: Colin Inglefield, Weber State University
Chemistry (Bldg. 20) - Room 224


Friday, October 19, 2007
2:10PM - 2:22PM

B1.00001: Discerning the Piezoelectric Quality of CdS Crystals and ZnO Films From Their Etch Properties
Fred Hickernell , Thomas Hickernell

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Friday, October 19, 2007
2:22PM - 2:34PM

B1.00002: Correction Model for Reflection off Rough Conductive Surfaces
W. Todd Doughty , R. Steven Turley , Elise Martin , Jed Johnson

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Friday, October 19, 2007
2:34PM - 2:46PM

B1.00003: Remanent states of Cobalt nanostructures
Kevin Winn

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Friday, October 19, 2007
2:46PM - 2:58PM

B1.00004: Photochemical Reactivity of Ba1-xSrxTiO3 Solid Solutions
Andrew Gamalski , Nina V. Burbure , Gregory S. Rohrer

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Friday, October 19, 2007
2:58PM - 3:10PM

B1.00005: Coupling flexible solar cell with parabolic trough solar-concentrator-prototype design and performance
Alexander Panin , Jonathon Bergquist

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Session B2: Condensed Matter: General Theory

Chair: William Evenson, Utah Valley State College
Chemistry (Bldg. 20) - Room 225


Friday, October 19, 2007
2:10PM - 2:22PM

B2.00001: Open Systems and the Millikan Oil-Drop Experiment
Steven Valone

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Friday, October 19, 2007
2:22PM - 2:34PM

B2.00002: Nonlinear Scattering of BECs on a Finite Barrier
Rachel R. Miller , Matthew S. Heller , Lincoln D. Carr

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Friday, October 19, 2007
2:34PM - 2:46PM

B2.00003: Many-body treatment of quantum transport through single molecules
Justin Bergfield , Charles Stafford

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Friday, October 19, 2007
2:46PM - 2:58PM

B2.00004: Persistent Spin Helix Propagators
Bailey Hsu , Jean-Francois Van Huele

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Session B3: Nuclear and Plasma Physics

Chair: Ross Spencer, Brigham Young University
Chemistry (Bldg. 20) - Room 233


Friday, October 19, 2007
2:10PM - 2:22PM

B3.00001: Fragment Angular Anisotropies for Magic and Non-Magic Nuclei
A.N. Behkami , S. Maroofi , A. Esmailipour , S. Rasooli

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Friday, October 19, 2007
2:22PM - 2:34PM

B3.00002: Effective Shell-Model interactions from the No-Core Shell-Model
Michael Kruse , Alexander Lisetskiy , Bruce Barrett , Petr Navr\'atil , James Vary

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Friday, October 19, 2007
2:34PM - 2:46PM

B3.00003: Electron Screening and Early Dynamics of Ultracold Neutral Plasmas
Adam Denning , Scott Bergeson

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Friday, October 19, 2007
2:46PM - 2:58PM

B3.00004: Modeling the FTICR-MS signal of a $^{7}$Be Ion Plasma using a 2D PIC code
M. Takeshi Nakata , Grant W. Hart , Bryan G. Peterson , Ross L. Spencer

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Friday, October 19, 2007
2:58PM - 3:10PM

B3.00005: Parallelizing and Optimizing Simulations of Nonneutral Plasma Instabilities in a Malmberg-Penning Trap
Melissa Powell , Grant Mason , Ross Spencer

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Friday, October 19, 2007
3:10PM - 3:22PM

B3.00006: Auxiliary field GFMC calculation on the possibility of a pion condensate state of neutron matter at high densities
Mohamed Bouadani

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Session B4: Astro: Observatories

Chair: Denise Stephens, Brigham Young University
Physical Sciences (Bldg. 19) - Room 321


Friday, October 19, 2007
2:10PM - 2:22PM

B4.00001: Status of the Southern Utah Observatory (SUO) 32" Telescope
David Kieda , R. Wayne Springer , Paolo Gondolo

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Friday, October 19, 2007
2:22PM - 2:34PM

B4.00002: Pierre Auger Observatory: Anisotropy studies around the Galactic center
David Thomas

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Friday, October 19, 2007
2:34PM - 2:46PM

B4.00003: Thermal Modeling of Auger Surface Detectors
Yevgeniy Petrov , Patrick Burns

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Friday, October 19, 2007
2:46PM - 2:58PM

B4.00004: VERITAS observation of high-energy gamma-ray emission from 1ES1218+304
Matthew Kress

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Friday, October 19, 2007
2:58PM - 3:10PM

B4.00005: Search for exotic particles in the High Resolution Fly's Eye data set.
Adam Blake

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