Session H2: Neutrinos I

Sponsoring Units: DPF DNP
Chair: Hamish Robertson, University of Washington
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - Grand 1


Sunday, April 15, 2007
8:30AM - 9:06AM

H2.00001: The Beginning of the End of an Era: Analysis after the shutdown of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
Invited Speaker: Keith Rielage

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
9:06AM - 9:42AM

H2.00002: Results from Super Kamiokande
Invited Speaker: Naho Tanimoto

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
9:42AM - 10:18AM

H2.00003: The KamLAND Experiment: Measuring Terrestrial and Solar Neutrinos
Invited Speaker: Michal Patrick Decowski

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Session H3: Dark Matter

Sponsoring Units: DPF DAP
Chair: Bernard Sadoulet, University of California, Berkeley
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - Grand 2


Sunday, April 15, 2007
8:30AM - 9:06AM

H3.00001: Looking for WIMP Dark Matter using Ultra-Cold Detectors and Other Techniques
Invited Speaker: Daniel Akerib

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
9:06AM - 9:42AM

H3.00002: Noble liquid detectors for dark matter.
Invited Speaker: Richard Gaitskell

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
9:42AM - 10:18AM

H3.00003: A microwave cavity search for axions
Invited Speaker: D.B. Tanner

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Session H4: Tevatron Collider Results

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Cecilia Gerber, University of Illinois at Chicago
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - Grand 3


Sunday, April 15, 2007
8:30AM - 9:06AM

H4.00001: Recent Measurements of the Top Quark from Fermilab
Invited Speaker: Kirsten Tollefson

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
9:06AM - 9:42AM

H4.00002: Electroweak physics and Higgs Searches at the Tevatron Collider
Invited Speaker: Gerald Blazey

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
9:42AM - 10:18AM

H4.00003: Looking for new physics at the Tevatron collider
Invited Speaker: Ulrich Heintz

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Session H5: Precision Experiments and Tests of Fundamental Laws

Sponsoring Units: GFC
Chair: Harvey Gould, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - Grand 6


Sunday, April 15, 2007
8:30AM - 9:06AM

H5.00001: Science with LIGO
Invited Speaker: David Reitze

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
9:06AM - 9:42AM

H5.00002: Ultrasensitive Searches for the Axion
Invited Speaker: Karl van Bibber

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
9:42AM - 10:18AM

H5.00003: Preferred Frame and CP-Violation Tests with Polarized Electrons
Invited Speaker: Blayne Heckel

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Session H7: Gravity Probe B

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Clifford Will, Washington University at St. Louis
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - Grand 8


Sunday, April 15, 2007
8:30AM - 9:06AM

H7.00001: The Gravity Probe B Science Instrument.
Invited Speaker: John Turneaure

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
9:06AM - 9:42AM

H7.00002: The Development Challenges of Gravity Probe-B -- an ongoing partnership between Physics and Engineering.
Invited Speaker: Bradford Parkinson

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
9:42AM - 10:18AM

H7.00003: Gravity Probe B Data Analysis Challenges, Insights, and Results
Invited Speaker: G.M. Keiser

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Session H9: Physics Education Research

Sponsoring Units: FEd
Chair: Richard Peterson, Bethel College
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - City Terrace 5


Sunday, April 15, 2007
8:30AM - 9:06AM

H9.00001: Improving student learning in physics: The challenge of identifying effective instructional strategies
Invited Speaker: Paula Heron

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
9:06AM - 9:42AM

H9.00002: Abstract or Concrete: Which is better for learning and transfer?
Invited Speaker: Andrew Heckler

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
9:42AM - 10:18AM

H9.00003: Investigative Science Learning Environment: Motivation and Outcomes
Invited Speaker: Eugenia Etkina

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Session H10: Static Few-Body Effects (Bound States)

Sponsoring Units: GFB
Chair: Viatcheslav Kokoouline, University of Central Florida
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - City Terrace 6


Sunday, April 15, 2007
8:30AM - 8:42AM

H10.00001: Energy Distribution of SiO2/Si Interface Traps: Experiments and Theory
Chih-Tang Sah , Bin B. Jie , Zuhui Chen

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
8:42AM - 8:54AM

H10.00002: Effects of Concentration and Energy Distribution of Electronic Interface Traps on Electrical Characteristics of Metal-Oxide-Silicon (MOS) Capacitors and Transistors.
Bin B. Jie , Zuhui Chen , Chih-Tang Sah

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
8:54AM - 9:06AM

H10.00003: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Sunday, April 15, 2007
9:06AM - 9:18AM

H10.00004: A Moebius-Strip Representation of the Matrix-Product Periodic System of Diatomic Molecules
Ray Hefferlin

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
9:18AM - 9:30AM

H10.00005: Correlation between bound and continuous states of three identical particles
Nicolas Douguet , Viatcheslav Kokoouline

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Session H11: MeV Gamma Ray Astronomy and Astroplasma Processes

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: James Ryan, University of New Hampshire
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - City Terrace 7


Sunday, April 15, 2007
8:30AM - 8:42AM

H11.00001: Thermal and Nonthermal Radiation in SNRs from Efficient Shock Acceleration
Don Ellison , Daniel Patnaude , Patrick Slane

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
8:42AM - 8:54AM

H11.00002: Nonlinear Diffusive Shock Acceleration with Magnetic Field Amplification
Andrey Vladimirov , Don Ellison , Andrei Bykov

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
8:54AM - 9:06AM

H11.00003: Broken Symmetry and Coherent Structure in MHD Turbulence
John Shebalin

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
9:06AM - 9:18AM

H11.00004: New Arecibo-DRAO deep probe of magnetized plasma in a supercluster environment
Philipp Kronberg , Roland Kothes , Christopher Salter , Phil Perillat

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
9:18AM - 9:30AM

H11.00005: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Sunday, April 15, 2007
9:30AM - 9:45AM

H11.00006: Positron Annihilation in the Galaxy: Spatial Distribution and Spectral Characteristics
Georg Weidenspointner , Juergen Knoedlseder , Pierre Jean , Gerry Skinner , Jean-Pierre Roques , Peter Milne , Roland Diehl

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
9:45AM - 10:00AM

H11.00007: Nucleosynthesis in the Galaxy as seen in diffuse radioactivity gamma-rays ($^{26}$Al, $^{60}$Fe)
Roland Diehl

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
10:00AM - 10:15AM

H11.00008: High-energy Emission from Accreting Binaries: Constraints with SPI/INTEGRAL
J.P. Roques

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
10:15AM - 10:30AM

H11.00009: Hard X-ray Emission from AGN and the Cosmic X-ray Background (CXB)
Volker Beckmann , Neil Gehrels , Simona Soldi

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Session H12: Relativistic Simulations of Compact Binaries

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: David Brown, North Carolina State University
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - City Terrace 8


Sunday, April 15, 2007
8:30AM - 8:42AM

H12.00001: Simulations for the merger of black hole-neutron star binary in full general relativity.
Koji Uryu , Masaru Shibata

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
8:42AM - 8:54AM

H12.00002: Efficient binary black hole simulations
Wolfgang Tichy , Pedro Marronetti , Bernd Bruegmann , Jose Gonzalez , Mark Hannam , Sascha Husa , Ulrich Sperhake

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
8:54AM - 9:06AM

H12.00003: Compact body interactions and boson stars
Carlos Palenzuela , Ignacio Olabarrieta , Luis Lehner , Steve Liebling

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
9:06AM - 9:18AM

H12.00004: Spin Dynamics in Black-Hole Binaries
Yosef Zlochower , Manuela Campanelli , Carlos Lousto , Badri Krishnan , David Merritt

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
9:18AM - 9:30AM

H12.00005: Advances in Black-Hole Mergers: Spins and Unequal Masses
Bernard Kelly , James van Meter , Sean McWilliams , Dae-Il Choi , Joan Centrella , William Darian Boggs , John Baker

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
9:30AM - 9:42AM

H12.00006: Applying Numerical Relativity Results to Massive Black Hole Binary Observation
Sean McWilliams

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
9:42AM - 9:54AM

H12.00007: Reducing junk radiation and eccentricity in binary-black-hole initial data
Geoffrey Lovelace , Harald Pfeiffer , Duncan Brown , Lee Lindblom , Mark Scheel , Lawrence Kidder

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Session H13: CP Violation

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Alexey Garmash, Princeton University
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - City Terrace 9


Sunday, April 15, 2007
8:30AM - 8:42AM

H13.00001: $CP$~Violation in $B \to J/\psi X$ Modes
Karen Gibson

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
8:42AM - 8:54AM

H13.00002: Measurement of the $CP$ Asymmetry in Semileptonic $B$~Decays at CDF
Christopher Marino

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
8:54AM - 9:06AM

H13.00003: $CP$-violating asymmetries in $B^0 \rightarrow a_1(1260)^{\pm} \pi^{\mp}$
Simone Stracka

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
9:06AM - 9:18AM

H13.00004: Improved measurement of the $CP$ asymmetry amplitude $\sin 2\beta$ in charmonium final states at Babar
Elisa Manoni

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
9:18AM - 9:30AM

H13.00005: Aspects of the $\sin2\beta$ measurement specific to the decay mode $B^0 \to J/\psi K^0_L$
Emilie Martin

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Session H14: Radiative and Penguin B Decays

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Steve Sekula, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - City Terrace 10


Sunday, April 15, 2007
8:30AM - 8:42AM

H14.00001: Search for $B \to K^{(*)} \nu \bar{\nu}$
Francesco Renga

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
8:42AM - 8:54AM

H14.00002: Study of $b \to d \gamma$ transitions with BaBar
Tim Beck

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
8:54AM - 9:06AM

H14.00003: Study of $B\to K^*ll$ decays with BaBar
Jennifer Watson

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
9:06AM - 9:18AM

H14.00004: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Sunday, April 15, 2007
9:18AM - 9:30AM

H14.00005: Measurement of the $B \to X_s \gamma$ branching fraction and photon energy
Stephen Sekula

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
9:30AM - 9:42AM

H14.00006: Angular analysis of $B\to\phi K^*$ decays
Yanyan Gao

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Session H15: Minisymposium on Hot, Dense Matter in Heavy Ion Collisions I

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Victoria Greene, Vanderbilt University
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - City Terrace 11


Sunday, April 15, 2007
8:30AM - 9:06AM

H15.00001: Heavy Flavor for the Perfect Java (QGP)
Invited Speaker: James Nagle

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
9:06AM - 9:18AM

H15.00002: Heavy Flavor Hadrons in Statistical Hadronization of Strangeness-rich QGP
Inga Kuznetsova , Johann Rafelski

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
9:18AM - 9:30AM

H15.00003: J/$\psi ->$e$^{+}$e$^{-}$ measurements in Cu+Cu collisions at $\surd $s$_{NN }$= 200 GeV
Kushal Das

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
9:30AM - 9:42AM

H15.00004: Strangeness Chemical Equilibration in QGP at RHIC and LHC
Jean Letessier , Johann Rafelski

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
9:42AM - 9:54AM

H15.00005: Azimuthal correlations with identified strange trigger particles in $Cu+Cu$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200 GeV$ at RHIC
Christine Nattrass

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
9:54AM - 10:06AM

H15.00006: Study of jet quenching mechanisms at RHIC via multi-hadron correlations
Jeremy Callner

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
10:06AM - 10:18AM

H15.00007: Probing the hot medium using dihadron fragmentation functions in $Au-Au$ and $Cu-Cu$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200 GeV $ at RHIC
Oana Catu

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Session H16: Hadronic Physics II

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Reinhard Schumacher, Carnegie Mellon University
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - City Terrace 12


Sunday, April 15, 2007
8:30AM - 8:42AM

H16.00001: Baryon Resonance Form Factors at High Momentum Transfer.
Paul Stoler

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
8:42AM - 8:54AM

H16.00002: Quark propagation and hadron formation in the nucleus
Hayk Hakobyan , Will Brooks

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
8:54AM - 9:06AM

H16.00003: Simulation of semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering from polarized $ep$ collisions at proposed EIC energies
Joseph Seele , Edward Kinney

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
9:06AM - 9:18AM

H16.00004: Beam Spin Asymmetry Measurements from Deeply Virtual exclusive Meson Production
Bo Zhao , Rita De Masi , Michel Garcon , Kyungseon Joo , Valeri Koubarovski , Paul Stoler , Maurizio Ungaro

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
9:18AM - 9:30AM

H16.00005: Heavy Meson Mass Splittings
Chandana Jayalath , Jose Goity

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
9:30AM - 9:42AM

H16.00006: Transverse Target Spin Asymmetry in exclusive vector meson production at HERMES
Stephen Gliske , Wolfgang Lorenzon , Avetik Airapetian

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
9:42AM - 9:54AM

H16.00007: Gluons and Quarks Imprisoned by QCD Forces
Carl Case

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
9:54AM - 10:06AM

H16.00008: Spin Effects in Forward Pion Production
Len Eun

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