Session G1: Condensed Matter: Structure Characterization

Chair: David Cornelison, Northern Arizona University
Chemistry (Bldg. 20) - Room 224


Saturday, October 20, 2007
8:15AM - 8:27AM

G1.00001: AFM and TEM Studies on the Phase Transition of Micro and Nanocrystalline Films of Vanadium Dioxide
Felipe Rivera , Mike Clemens , Brady Cox , Robert Davis , Richard Vanfleet

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
8:27AM - 8:39AM

G1.00002: Mapping of GeSbTe Thin Film Electrical Properties with Conductive AFM
Jordan Brocious , Colin Inglefield , David Bobela , Thomas Herring , P. Craig Taylor

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
8:39AM - 8:51AM

G1.00003: Electronic properties of single crystalline UNi$_{0.39}$Rh$_{0.61}$Al
Farzana Nasreen , Sami El Khatib , Alexander Andreev , Alex Lacerda , Heinrich Nakotte

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
8:51AM - 9:03AM

G1.00004: X-ray diffuse scattering from a ferroelectric relaxor
Va Yee Vue , Branton J. Campbell

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
9:03AM - 9:15AM

G1.00005: Hybridization effects and magnetism in UPdSn
Karunakar Kothapalli , Sami el-khatib , Heinz Nakotte , Ekkehard Bruck

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Session G2: Condensed Matter: Path Integrals

Chair: Kris Andersen, Northern Arizona University
Chemistry (Bldg. 20) - Room 225


Saturday, October 20, 2007
8:15AM - 8:51AM

G2.00001: Path integral simulations for nanoelectronics
Invited Speaker: John Shumway

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
8:51AM - 9:03AM

G2.00002: Path Integral Simulations of Graphene
Hosam Yousif

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
9:03AM - 9:15AM

G2.00003: Path Integral Monte Carlo Study of the Electrical Polarizability of Dimerized Hydrogen Chains
Mark Sanger , John Shumway

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
9:15AM - 9:27AM

G2.00004: Charging of Ge/Si Dots
Sourabh Sinha , Sutharsan Ketharanathan , Jeff Drucker , John Shumway

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Session G3: Astro: Kuiper Belt Objects

Chair: David Kieda, University of Utah
Chemistry (Bldg. 20) - Room 233


Saturday, October 20, 2007
8:15AM - 8:51AM

G3.00001: Physical Properties of Kuiper Belt Objects
Invited Speaker: Stephen Tegler

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
8:51AM - 9:27AM

G3.00002: Seeing Double -- The Discovery of Binaries in the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt
Invited Speaker: Denise Stephens

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Session G4: Nonlinearity and Complexity

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


Saturday, October 20, 2007
8:15AM - 8:27AM

G4.00001: Does it matter if I exercise? What can ``cardiophysics" tell us?
Gus Hart , Benjamin Wilson , Allen Parcell

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
8:27AM - 8:39AM

G4.00002: Fractal Hearts are Healthy Hearts---Are Fractal Companies Healthy Companies?
Bronson Argyle , Gus Hart

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
8:39AM - 8:51AM

G4.00003: Self-Organized Dynamic Flocking Behavior from a Simple Deterministic Map
Wesley Krueger

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
8:51AM - 9:03AM

G4.00004: Nonlinear Differential Equation Reconstruction and Takens' Embedding Theorem
Keith Warnick , Charles Tolle , John James

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
9:03AM - 9:15AM

G4.00005: Correlations of Couples Logistic Maps
John Harrison

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
9:15AM - 9:27AM

G4.00006: First order post-Newtonian analysis of a chaotic three-body problem.
J.J. Campbell , Miriam Neubauer , David Tanner , David Neilsen

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