Session H1: Recent Results in Flavor Physics

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Jack Ritchie, University of Texas, Austin
Hyatt Regency Dallas - Landmark A


Sunday, April 23, 2006
8:30AM - 9:06AM

H1.00001: CP violation and the Unitarity Triangle
Invited Speaker: James Olsen

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:06AM - 9:42AM

H1.00002: Rare Decays
Invited Speaker: Brendan Casey

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:42AM - 10:18AM

H1.00003: Semileptonic B Decays
Invited Speaker: Masahiro Morii

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Session H2: Topics in Nuclear Physics

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Donald Geesaman, Argonne National Laboratory
Hyatt Regency Dallas - Landmark B


Sunday, April 23, 2006
8:30AM - 9:06AM

H2.00001: Nuclear structure theory with coupled-cluster techniques
Invited Speaker: David Dean

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:06AM - 9:42AM

H2.00002: (t,$^{3}$He) and ($^{3}$He,t): complementary probes of spin strength for astrophysics and double beta decay.
Invited Speaker: Remco G.T. Zegers

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:42AM - 10:18AM

H2.00003: The Role of Strangeness in Nuclear Matter
Invited Speaker: Anthony Thomas

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Session H3: Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Rays: Experiment and Theory

Sponsoring Units: DPF DAP
Chair: Sean Carroll, University of Chicago
Hyatt Regency Dallas - Landmark C


Sunday, April 23, 2006
8:30AM - 9:06AM

H3.00001: Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays: Recent Results From Auger and HiRes
Invited Speaker: Stefan Westerhoff

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:06AM - 9:42AM

H3.00002: When Particle Physics Confronts Cosmic Ray Data
Invited Speaker: Angela Olinto

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:42AM - 10:18AM

H3.00003: Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Neutrinos
Invited Speaker: David Saltzberg

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Session H4: New Models for Graduate Education

Sponsoring Units: FEd
Chair: Gay Stewart, University of Arkansas
Hyatt Regency Dallas - Marsalis A


Sunday, April 23, 2006
8:30AM - 9:06AM

H4.00001: Implementing an Industrial Approach into Physics Graduate Education
Invited Speaker: Ken Vickers

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:06AM - 9:42AM

H4.00002: New Models fro Graduate Education.
Invited Speaker: Ramon Lopez

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:42AM - 10:18AM

H4.00003: TBD
Invited Speaker: David Campbell

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Session H5: Discovery Prospects at the Energy Frontier

Sponsoring Units: COM
Chair: Harrison Prosper, Florida State University
Hyatt Regency Dallas - Pegasus B


Sunday, April 23, 2006
8:30AM - 9:06AM

H5.00001: The Coming Revolution in Particle Physics
Invited Speaker: Oliver Baker

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:06AM - 9:42AM

H5.00002: Discovery prospects at the Large Hadron Collider
Invited Speaker: Ketevi Assamagan

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:42AM - 10:18AM

H5.00003: Testing the top quark lifetime
Invited Speaker: Ayana Holloway

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Session H6: Applications of Free Electron Lasers I

Sponsoring Units: DPB FIAP
Chair: Alan Todd, Advanced Energy Systems
Hyatt Regency Dallas - Cumberland J


Sunday, April 23, 2006
8:30AM - 9:06AM

H6.00001: Materials Processing with FEL Radiation- An Overview
Invited Speaker: Michael J. Kelley

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:06AM - 9:42AM

H6.00002: Infrared Pulsed Laser Deposition: Applications in Photonics and Biomedical Technologies
Invited Speaker: Richard Haglund

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:42AM - 10:18AM

H6.00003: Laser Microengineering and the Advances Gained by Use of a FEL
Invited Speaker: Henry Helvajian

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Session H7: Astrobiology and Planetary Effects

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: James Ryan, University of New Hampshire
Hyatt Regency Dallas - Pegasus A


Sunday, April 23, 2006
8:30AM - 8:42AM

H7.00001: Astrophysical radiation sources and terrestrial biodiversity
Adrian Melott

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
8:42AM - 8:54AM

H7.00002: Cosmic Rays, CO$_2$ Runaway, Sea Level Rise and Severe Global Flooding
John T.A. Ely

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
8:54AM - 9:06AM

H7.00003: The Cosmogenic Origin of the 62 Myr Biodiversity Oscillation
Mikhail Medvedev , Adrian Melott

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Session H8: Nuclear Reactions

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Peggy McMahan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Hyatt Regency Dallas - Cumberland A


Sunday, April 23, 2006
8:30AM - 8:42AM

H8.00001: Electron scattering on halo nuclei
Carlos Bertulani

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
8:42AM - 8:54AM

H8.00002: The Search for Target Structure Effects in Elastic Scattering
K.W. Kemper , O.A. Momotyuk , B.T. Roeder , N. Keeley , K. Rusek

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
8:54AM - 9:06AM

H8.00003: Tidal Effects in the Resonance decay of light clusters
Romualdo deSouza , Alan Mcintosh , Sylvie Hudan , Carl Metelko

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:06AM - 9:18AM

H8.00004: Surrogate Measurement of the $^{237}$U(n, f) Reaction Cross Section
H. Ai , C.W. Beausang , L. Ahle , L.A. Bernstein , J.T. Burke , J.A. Church , K. Moody , E.B. Norman , W. Younes , D. Bleuel , R.M. Clark , P. Fallon , I.Y. Lee , A.O. Macchiavelli , M.A. McMahan , L.W. Phair , E. Rodriguez-Vieitez , S. Sinha , M. Wiedeking

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:18AM - 9:30AM

H8.00005: Statistical model calculations of heavy-ion induced fusion-fission reactions
Scott McCalla , John Lestone

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:30AM - 9:42AM

H8.00006: Characterizing deuteron breakup on thin targets at 20 MeV
Kristen Brown , M.A. McMahan , Darren Bleuel , Lawrence Heilbronn , Larry Phair , John Keith III , L.A. Bernstein , Larry Ahle , Jason Burke , Jennifer Church , Bethany Lyles , Ian Thompson

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:42AM - 9:54AM

H8.00007: Sub-threshold neutron-induced fission cross sections of $^{240, 242}$Pu
Fredrik Tovesson , Tony Hill

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:54AM - 10:06AM

H8.00008: The Zero Degree Calorimeter for CMS.
Jeff Wood

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Session H9: Underground Neutrino Experiments and Proton Decay

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Hamish Robertson, University of Washington
Hyatt Regency Dallas - Cumberland B


Sunday, April 23, 2006
8:30AM - 8:42AM

H9.00001: Second-forbidden beta decay of ${^8}$B
Minesh Bacrania , Derek Storm , R.G. Hamish Robertson

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
8:42AM - 8:54AM

H9.00002: Periodicity studies of solar neutrino signals at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
Aubra Anthony

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
8:54AM - 9:06AM

H9.00003: SNO neutral current reaction detector array: sensitivity of the neutrons and alphas signal reconstuction to the electronics calibration
Gersende Prior

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:06AM - 9:18AM

H9.00004: Measuring Cherenkov Backgrounds from Proportional Counters in SNO
Stanley Seibert

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:18AM - 9:30AM

H9.00005: Alpha Backgrounds in the SNO $^3$He Proportional Counter Array
Laura Stonehill

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:30AM - 9:42AM

H9.00006: Muon Reconstruction in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
Christopher Kyba

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:42AM - 9:54AM

H9.00007: Searches for Proton Decay in Super-Kamiokande
Scott Clark

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:54AM - 10:06AM

H9.00008: Study of a highly-segmented HPGe detector at the Oroville Low-Background counting facility.
Reyco Henning , David Campbell , Yuen-Dat Chan , Kevin Lesko , Michelle Perry , Alan Poon , Kai Vetter

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Session H10: Production Studies in e+e- Collisions

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Bruce Berger, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Hyatt Regency Dallas - Cumberland C


Sunday, April 23, 2006
8:30AM - 8:42AM

H10.00001: Dipion Transitions from $\Upsilon(3S)$ and $\Upsilon(2S)$
Todd Pedlar

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
8:42AM - 8:54AM

H10.00002: Exclusive $\chi_c$ decays to multibody final states
Rukshana Patel

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
8:54AM - 9:06AM

H10.00003: Studies of $e^+e^-$ annihilations into vector-vector final states
Kai Yi

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:06AM - 9:18AM

H10.00004: Measurement of Upper Limits for $\Upsilon\to \gamma + {\cal R}$ Decays
Shawn Henderson

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:18AM - 9:30AM

H10.00005: Comparisons of Exact Results for the Virtual Photon Contribution to Single Hard Bremsstrahlung in Radiative Return for Electron-Positron Annihilation
Scott Yost , B.F.L. Ward , Stanislaw Jadach

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Session H11: Relativistic Simulations of Neutron Stars, Black Holes, and Plasmas

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Harald Pfeiffer, California Institute of Technology
Hyatt Regency Dallas - Cumberland E


Sunday, April 23, 2006
8:30AM - 8:42AM

H11.00001: Binary neutron stars: Equilibrium models beyond spatial conformal flatness
Koji Uryu , Francois Limousin , John Friedman , Eric Gourgoulhon , Masaru Shibata

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
8:42AM - 8:54AM

H11.00002: Models of helically symmetric binary systems
Jocelyn Read , Shin'ichirou Yoshida , Benjamin Bromley , Koji Uryu , John Friedman

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
8:54AM - 9:06AM

H11.00003: Neutron Star - Black Hole Mergers: Gravitational waves and implications for short GRBs
Pablo Laguna , Fred Rasio , Emmanouela Rantsiou , Shiho Kobayashi

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:06AM - 9:18AM

H11.00004: Simulations of magnetized, differentially rotating neutron stars in full general relativity
Branson C. Stephens , Matthew D. Duez , Yuk Tung Liu , Stuart L. Shapiro , Masaru Shibata

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:18AM - 9:30AM

H11.00005: Relativistic magnetohydrodynamics with black hole excision: Application to short gamma-ray bursts
Yuk Tung Liu , Matthew Duez , Stuart Shapiro , Masaru Shibata , Branson Stephens

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:30AM - 9:42AM

H11.00006: MHD in general relativity
David Neilsen , Eric Hirschmann , Matthew Anderson , Luis Lehner , Steven Liebling

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:42AM - 9:54AM

H11.00007: Relativistic MHD and black hole excision: Formulation and initial tests
Eric Hirschmann , David Neilsen , Steven Millward

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:54AM - 10:06AM

H11.00008: Relativistic magnetohydrodynamics with adaptive mesh refinement
Matthew Anderson , Eric Hirschmann , Steve Liebling , David Neilsen

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
10:06AM - 10:18AM

H11.00009: Introducing Flow-er: a Hydrodynamics Code for Relativistic and Newtonian Flows
Patrick Motl , Ignacio Olabarrieta , Joel Tohline

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Session H12: New Directions in Particle Theory

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Abdulmajeed Abdurrahman, Shippensburg University
Hyatt Regency Dallas - Cumberland F


Sunday, April 23, 2006
8:30AM - 8:42AM

H12.00001: Quantum mechanics using Fradkin's representation
K. V. Shajesh , Kimball Milton

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
8:42AM - 8:54AM

H12.00002: On the Origin of the Klein-Gordon-Dirac expression, and its implication in Particle Mass Ratios
D.T. Froedge

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
8:54AM - 9:06AM

H12.00003: Vacuum Structure and Dynamics; Particle Formation
J.X. Zheng-Johansson , P.-I. Johansson

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:06AM - 9:18AM

H12.00004: Multidimensional cut-off technique for Casimir energy of massless scalar fields with applications to Bose-Einstein condensates
Ariel Edery

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:18AM - 9:30AM

H12.00005: Superluminal Quantum Models of the Electron and the Photon
Richard Gauthier

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:30AM - 9:42AM

H12.00006: Nonlinear finite self-energy classical electron model
Baxter Armstrong

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:42AM - 9:54AM

H12.00007: Chaotic behavior of the renormalization group flow and standard model parameters
Ervin Goldfain

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:54AM - 10:06AM

H12.00008: Schwinger's Measurement Algebra, Preons and the Lepton Masses
Carl Brannen

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
10:06AM - 10:18AM

H12.00009: On The Structure of Leptonic Families and Currents of the Vector Nature
Rasulkhozha S. Sharafiddinov

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Session H13: Top Quark Properties I

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Reinhard Schwienhorst, Michigan State University
Hyatt Regency Dallas - Cumberland G


Sunday, April 23, 2006
8:30AM - 8:42AM

H13.00001: Search for Single Top Quark Production at D\O
Liang Li

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
8:42AM - 8:54AM

H13.00002: Searches for Single Top Production at CDF
Jason Slaunwhite

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
8:54AM - 9:06AM

H13.00003: Search for Single Top Quarks Produced via Flavor-Changing Neutral-Current Couplings at D\O
Supriya Jain

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:06AM - 9:18AM

H13.00004: A Search for Resonant $t\bar{t}$ Production at D\O
Amnon Harel

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:18AM - 9:30AM

H13.00005: Search for Dilepton Signatures Containing Tau Leptons in Top Events at CDF
Stephane Tourneur

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:30AM - 9:42AM

H13.00006: First Measurement of $\sigma(gg\rightarrow t\bar{t})/\sigma(q\bar{q} \rightarrow t\bar{t})$ in $p\bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.96$ TeV
Shabnaz Pashapour

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Session H14: Novel Techniques

Chair: Ron Mickens, Clark Atlanta University
Hyatt Regency Dallas - Cumberland I


Sunday, April 23, 2006
8:30AM - 8:42AM

H14.00001: New CP-violation and preferred-frame tests with polarized electrons
Claire Cramer , Blayne Heckel , Ted Cook , Eric Adelberger

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
8:42AM - 8:54AM

H14.00002: $^3$He Relaxation Study at Low Temperature for the Neutron Electric Dipole Moment Experiment
Qiang Ye

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
8:54AM - 9:06AM

H14.00003: Calculating Periodic Solutions to `Truly Nonlinear' Oscillatory ODE's
Ronald Mickens

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:06AM - 9:18AM

H14.00004: Analysis of the Lev Ginzburg Equation
Michael Bellamy , Ronald Mickens

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:18AM - 9:30AM

H14.00005: An Approach to Modeling Extreme Loading of Structures using Peridynamics
Paul Demmie

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:30AM - 9:42AM

H14.00006: 3D real holographic image movies are projected into a volumetric display using dynamic digital micromirror device (DMD) holograms.
Michael L. Huebschman , Jeremy Hunt , Harold R. Garner

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Session H16: Sherwood I

Sponsoring Units: DPP
Chair: John M. Finn, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Hyatt Regency Dallas - Landmark D


Sunday, April 23, 2006
8:30AM - 9:30AM

H16.00001: Fusion Physics Toward ITER
Invited Speaker: R.D. Stambaugh

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
9:30AM - 10:00AM

H16.00002: Interpretation of frequency sweeping of $n=0$ mode in JET
Invited Speaker: H.L. Berk

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
10:00AM - 10:30AM

H16.00003: News from the Geodesic Acoustic Mode: Magnetic Shear-, q-, and Geometry Effect
Invited Speaker: Klaus Hallatschek

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