Session J2: Hadron Physics

Sponsoring Units: GHP
Chair: Curtis A. Meyer, Carnegie Mellon University
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - Grand 1


Sunday, April 15, 2007
10:30AM - 11:06AM

J2.00001: The Spin of the Nucleon--Highlights from HERMES
Invited Speaker: Elke-Caroline Aschenauer

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:06AM - 11:42AM

J2.00002: Pion Form Factor: Present and Future
Invited Speaker: Garth Huber

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:42AM - 12:18PM

J2.00003: The Quark Gluon Plasma and the Perfect Fluid: Quantifying Degrees of Perfection
Invited Speaker: James Nagle

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Session J3: Compact Inspirals

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: James Ryan, University of New Hampshire
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - Grand 2


Sunday, April 15, 2007
10:30AM - 11:06AM

J3.00001: The Double Pulsar
Invited Speaker: Ingrid Stairs

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:06AM - 11:42AM

J3.00002: Compact Binary Inspirals and Gravity Waves
Invited Speaker: Christopher Deloye

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:42AM - 12:18PM

J3.00003: Compact white dwarf binaries as sources of gravitational waves
Invited Speaker: Daniel Steeghs

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Session J4: Dark Energy I

Sponsoring Units: DPF DAP
Chair: Saul Perlmutter, University of California, Berkeley/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - Grand 3


Sunday, April 15, 2007
10:30AM - 11:06AM

J4.00001: Upcoming Ground-based Surveys Designed to Constrain the Nature of the Dark Energy.
Invited Speaker: Christopher Stubbs

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:06AM - 11:42AM

J4.00002: State of the Art in Baryon Acoustic Oscillations
Invited Speaker: David Schlegel

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:42AM - 12:18PM

J4.00003: State of the Art in Weak Lensing
Invited Speaker: Ludovic Van Waerbeke

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Session J5: Nobel Prize Symposium

Sponsoring Units: APS
Chair: Leo Kadanoff, University of Chicago, APS President
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - Grand 6


Sunday, April 15, 2007
10:30AM - 11:06AM

J5.00001: From the Big Bang to the Nobel Prize
Invited Speaker: John Mather

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:06AM - 11:42AM

J5.00002: Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Anisotropies: their Discovery and Utilization
Invited Speaker: George Smoot

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Session J6: Nuclear Reprocessing, Nuclear Proliferation, and Nuclear Terrorism

Sponsoring Units: FPS
Chair: George Lewis, Cornell University
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - Grand 7


Sunday, April 15, 2007
10:30AM - 11:06AM

J6.00001: ``Recycling'' Nuclear Power Plant Waste: Technical Difficulties and Proliferation Concerns
Invited Speaker: Edwin Lyman

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:06AM - 11:42AM

J6.00002: Alternative Approaches to Recycling Nuclear Wastes
Invited Speaker: William H. Hannum

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:42AM - 12:18PM

J6.00003: TBD
Invited Speaker: Marvin Miller

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Session J8: Structure and Decay of Heavy Nuclei

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Jolie Cizewski, Rutgers University
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - City Terrace 4


Sunday, April 15, 2007
10:30AM - 10:42AM

J8.00001: Highly Deformed Shape Structure in $^{160,161}$Tm
C. Teal , K. Lagergren , M.A. Riley , A. Aguilar , M.P. Carpenter , U. Garg , G.B. Hagemann , D.A. Hartley , D.T. Joss , R.V.F. Janssens , F.G. Kondev , T. Lauritsen , C.J. Lister , E.F. Moore , S.W. $\O$deg\"{a}rd , G. Sletten , X. Wang , S. Zhu

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
10:42AM - 10:54AM

J8.00002: The Nuclear Structure of the High-Spin States of the $^{134}$Ba and $^{135}$Ba Nuclei. nd $^{135}$Ba Nuclei.
W.T. Cluff , M.A. Riley , A. Aguilar , I. Calderin , D. Campbell , E. Diffenderfer , J. Fridmann , T. Hinners , J. Pavan , P. Pipidis , C. Teal , M. Wiedeking

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
10:54AM - 11:06AM

J8.00003: A Detailed Study of Odd-Odd $^{170}$Ta Approaching Spin 50 $\hbar$
A. Aguilar , M.A. Riley , C. Teal , K. Lagergren , D.J. Hartley , W.H. Mohr , J.R. Vanhoy , R.V.F. Janssens , M.P. Carpenter , A.A. Hecht , T. Lauritsen , E.F. Moore , S. Zhu , F.G. Kondev , M.K. Djongolov , M. Danchev , L.L. Riedinger , G.B. Hagemann , G. Sletten , P. Chowdhury , S.K. Tandel , W.C. Ma , S.W. $\O$deg\"{a}rd

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:06AM - 11:18AM

J8.00004: Using $^{171,173}$Yb($d,p\gamma$) to benchmark a surrogate reaction for neutron capture
R. Hatarik , J.A. Cizewski , T. Swan , S.D. Pain , P.D. O'Malley , D.W. Bardayan , L.A. Bernstein , J.T. Burke , F.S. Dietrich , J.E. Escher , M.S. Johnson , J. Gibelin , L. Phair , R.L. Kozub , A. Kronenberg

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:18AM - 11:30AM

J8.00005: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:30AM - 11:42AM

J8.00006: Decay spectroscopy of the lightest proton-emitting Re isotopes
Iain Darby , David Joss , Robert Page , Juha Uusitalo , John Simpson

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:42AM - 11:54AM

J8.00007: The $\beta$ decay properties of $^{83,84}$Ga
J.A. Winger , S.V. Ilyushkin , K.P. Rykaczewski , C.J. Gross , D. Shapira , R. Grzywacz , S.N. Liddick , C. Mazzocchi , S. Padgett , M.M. Rajabali , J.C. Batchelder , A. Korgul , W. Krol\'{a}s , E.F. Zganjar , A. Piechazek , C. Goodin , J.H. Hamilton

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:54AM - 12:06PM

J8.00008: Identification of the $^{109}$Xe $\rightarrow$ $^{105}$Te $\rightarrow$ $^{101}$Sn alpha-decay chain
S.N. Liddick , R. Grzywacz , C. Mazzocchi , C.R. Bingham , G. Drafta , A. Korgul , M.N. Tantawy , R.D. Page , I.G. Darby , D.T. Joss , J. Thomson , K.P. Rykaczewski , C.J. Gross , J.C. Batchelder , C. Goodin , J.H. Hamilton , J.K. Hwang , K.. Li , S. Ilyushkin , J.A. Winget , K. Lagergren , W. Krolas , A.A. Hecht

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
12:06PM - 12:18PM

J8.00009: High-spin states in $^{135}$Xe
N. Fotiades , R.O. Nelson , M. Devlin , J.A. Cizewski , R. Kr\"{u}cken , R.M. Clark , P. Fallon , I.Y. Lee , A.O. Macchiavelli , J.A. Becker , W. Younes , T. Ethvignot , T. Granier

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Session J10: Momentum Transport in Astrophysical and Fusion Plasmas

Sponsoring Units: GPAP DPP
Chair: Philipp Kronberg, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - City Terrace 6


Sunday, April 15, 2007
10:30AM - 11:06AM

J10.00001: Spontaneous Rotation in Tokamak Plasmas
Invited Speaker: John Rice

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:06AM - 11:42AM

J10.00002: Laboratory Studies of Angular Momentum Transport in Astrophysically Relevant Flows
Invited Speaker: Hantao Ji

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:42AM - 12:18PM

J10.00003: Angular Momentum Transport in Astrophysical Accretion Flows
Invited Speaker: Eliot Quataert

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Session J11: Neutrino Astronomy

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Jim Buckley, Washington University
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - City Terrace 7


Sunday, April 15, 2007
10:30AM - 10:42AM

J11.00001: Search for Ultra High Energy Neutrinos with AMANDA-II
Lisa Gerhardt

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
10:42AM - 10:54AM

J11.00002: High Energy Astrophysical Neutrinos
Soebur Razzaque

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
10:54AM - 11:06AM

J11.00003: The ANTARES neutrino telescope: a status report
Ralf Auer , Vincenzo Flaminio

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:06AM - 11:18AM

J11.00004: Event reconstruction in the ANTARES experiment
Maximilien Melissas , Vincenzo Flaminio

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:18AM - 11:30AM

J11.00005: Observation of Atmospheric Muon Neutrinos with the IceCube 9-String Detector
John Pretz

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:30AM - 11:42AM

J11.00006: Searching for Neutrinos with AMANDA-II
Jessica Hodges

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:42AM - 11:54AM

J11.00007: Novel Scintillation Lattice for LENS Experiment
Steven Rountree , Christian Grieb

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:54AM - 12:06PM

J11.00008: ANITA: A Balloon Borne Radio Detector of Ultra High Energy Neutrinos
Kimberly Palladino

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
12:06PM - 12:18PM

J11.00009: The Search for Muon Neutrinos from Gamma-Ray Bursts with AMANDA
Kyler Kuehn

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
12:18PM - 12:30PM

J11.00010: AURA - Next generation neutrino detector in the South Pole
Hagar Landsman

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Session J12: Theoretical Gravitation

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Bernard Whiting, University of Florida
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - City Terrace 8


Sunday, April 15, 2007
10:30AM - 10:42AM

J12.00001: Transition to matter dominance in expanding cosmological spacetimes containing gravitational waves
Beverly K. Berger

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
10:42AM - 10:54AM

J12.00002: Quasilocal Energy Inside the Event Horizon
Andrew Lundgren , Bjoern Schmekel , James York

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
10:54AM - 11:06AM

J12.00003: On the Existence of Radiation Gauges in Petrov Type II Spacetimes
Larry Price , Karthik Shankar , Bernard Whiting

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:06AM - 11:18AM

J12.00004: Vector Theories with Spontaneous Lorentz Violation.
Robert Bluhm , Alan Kostelecky

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:18AM - 11:30AM

J12.00005: Lambda-renormalized Einstein-Schrodinger theory - an alternative to Einstein-Maxwell theory
James Shifflett

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:30AM - 11:42AM

J12.00006: First-order generalized symmetries of spacetimes admitting two commuting Killing vector fields
Balraj Menon

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:42AM - 11:54AM

J12.00007: The periodic table of real geometric algebras, bits of space-time, and the Standard Model.
Dennis Marks

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:54AM - 12:06PM

J12.00008: Cosmological Variation of Gravitation in a Quantum Theory of Mass-Spacetime
Dillon Scofield

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Session J13: B Physics I

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Karl Ecklund, State University of New York at Buffalo
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - City Terrace 9


Sunday, April 15, 2007
10:30AM - 10:42AM

J13.00001: An updated search for lepton flavor violating decays $\tau\to lll$ at BaBar
Jeff Kolb

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
10:42AM - 10:54AM

J13.00002: Study of the decay $B^\pm\to K_S^0 \pi^\pm\pi^0$ at Babar
Paolo Franchini

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
10:54AM - 11:06AM

J13.00003: Measurement of $B\to D^0 K^*$ decays with $D^0\to CP$ eigenstates
Quincy Kwan-Sut Wong

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:06AM - 11:18AM

J13.00004: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:18AM - 11:30AM

J13.00005: A search for the decays $B^0\to l^+\tau^-$ ($l = e,\mu$) using hadronic tag reconstruction
Miika Klemetti

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:30AM - 11:42AM

J13.00006: Study of $B \rightarrow (J/\psi\pi\pi)K^{*}$
Brandon Drummond

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:42AM - 11:54AM

J13.00007: Measurement of the decays $B \to D_s^{(*)-} K^+ \pi^+$, $D_s^{(*)-} K_S^0 \pi^+$, $D_s^{(*)-} K^+ K^+$
Ada Rubin

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Session J14: Top I

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Dan Amidei, University of Michigan
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - City Terrace 10


Sunday, April 15, 2007
10:30AM - 10:42AM

J14.00001: Measurement of the $W$ boson helicity in top quark decay at D0
Bertrand Martin

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
10:42AM - 10:54AM

J14.00002: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Sunday, April 15, 2007
10:54AM - 11:06AM

J14.00003: Search for a Charged Higgs in Top Decays at CDF
Geum-bong Yu

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:06AM - 11:18AM

J14.00004: Measurement of the top quark mass at D0 using the matrix weighting method on dilepton events
Daniel Boline , Ulrich Heintz

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:18AM - 11:30AM

J14.00005: Search for Resonant $t\bar{t}$ Pair Production in the Lepton+Jets Channel at CDF
Junji Naganoma

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:30AM - 11:42AM

J14.00006: First Measurement of $\sigma(gg\rightarrow t\bar{t})/\sigma(p\bar{p}\rightarrow t\bar{t})$ in $p\bar{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.96$ TeV
Shabnaz Pashapour

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:42AM - 11:54AM

J14.00007: Measurement of the charge asymmetry in $t\bar{t}$ production in proton-antiproton collision at D0
Amnon Harel

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Session J15: Hot, Dense Matter in High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions II

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Bolek Wyslouch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - City Terrace 11


Sunday, April 15, 2007
10:30AM - 10:42AM

J15.00001: System Size and Energy Dependence of Jet-Induced Hadron-Hadron Angular Correlations in Heavy Ion Collisions at PHENIX
Michael McCumber

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
10:42AM - 10:54AM

J15.00002: Measurement of direct photons with a new $\pi^{0}$ tagging method in $\sqrt{s}=200Gev$ AuAu Collision at PHENIX
Haijiang Gong

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
10:54AM - 11:06AM

J15.00003: Disentangling the Away-Side jet contributions of two-particle $h^{\pm}$-$h^{\pm}$ correlations in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$ GeV
Eric Vazquez

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:06AM - 11:18AM

J15.00004: Dielectron Mass Spectra from $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 200 GeV Cu+Cu Collisions Measured by PHENIX
Sarah Campbell

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:18AM - 11:30AM

J15.00005: Di-Hadron Azimuthal Correlations Relative to the Reaction Plane
Aoqi Feng

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:30AM - 11:42AM

J15.00006: Lineshape and elliptic flow of phi-mesons in AA collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV measured by the PHENIX experiment
Hugo Valle

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Session J16: Electromagnetic Interactions II

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Douglas Hasell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - City Terrace 12


Sunday, April 15, 2007
10:30AM - 10:42AM

J16.00001: An experiment to measure the helicity correlation $A_{LL}$ in Compton scattering
Melissa Commisso

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
10:42AM - 10:54AM

J16.00002: Generalized Polarizabilities of the Proton at low $Q^2$ using Virtual Compton Scattering
Bourgeois Paul

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
10:54AM - 11:06AM

J16.00003: Precision Measurements of Low Energy Deuteron Photodisintegration Using Linearly Polarized Beams
M.A. Blackston , M.A. Ahmed , B. Bewer , R. Igarashi , B. Norum , Y. Parpottas , R. Pywell , B.A. Perdue , B.D. Sawatzky , H.R. Weller

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:06AM - 11:18AM

J16.00004: An Indirect Determination of the Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn (GDH) Sum Rule for the Deuteron at Low Energies
M.W. Ahmed , M. Blackston , B. Perdue , W. Tornow , H. Weller

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:18AM - 11:30AM

J16.00005: Measurement of Tensor Analyzing Powers in Elastic Electron Deuteron Scattering with BLAST
Michael Kohl

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:30AM - 11:42AM

J16.00006: Vector and Tensor Asymmetries for Quasielastic Scattering from Deuterium at BLAST
Adam DeGrush

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:42AM - 11:54AM

J16.00007: Pion Electroproduction in the $\Delta$ Excitation Region
Yuan Xiao

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
11:54AM - 12:06PM

J16.00008: Pion Electroproduction from Deuterium at BLAST
Aki Shinozaki

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
12:06PM - 12:18PM

J16.00009: The Neutron Charge Form Factor at Low $Q^2$
Eugene Geis

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Session J17: Special Lunchtime Talk: The Failure of the 17th Street Canal: Anatomy of an Engineering Disaster

Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - Grand Ballroom I

Sunday, April 15, 2007
12:35PM - 1:05PM

J17.00001: The Failure of the 17th Street Canal: Anatomy of an Engineering Disaster
Invited Speaker: David Kestenbaum

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