Apr 11 2008 8:30AM, Friday

Session 1HE Stellar Explosions, Turbulence and Instabilities Sponsor: HEDP HEDLA Chair: Paul Drake, University of Michigan Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade F
Invited Speakers:  David Meyerhofer,  Herbert J. Muthsam,  T. Plewa,  Carolyn Kuranz,  Aaron Miles,  Dov Shvarts 

Apr 11 2008 11:15AM, Friday

Session 2HE Accretion and Photoionized Plasmas Sponsor: HEDP HEDLA Chair: Roberto Mancini, University of Nevada-Reno Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade F
Invited Speakers:  James Bailey,  Michael Witthoeft,  John Hawley,  Steven Rose,  H. Takabe 

Apr 11 2008 2:50PM, Friday

Session 3HE AGN/BH Jet Dynamics Sponsor: HEDP HEDLA Chair: Paul Bellan, California Institute of Technology Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade F
Invited Speakers:  Mario Livio,  Yoshiaki Kato,  S.V. Lebedev 

Apr 11 2008 4:20PM, Friday

Session 4HE Launching Dynamics for Stellar Jets Sponsor: HEDP HEDLA Chair: Patrick Hartigan, Rice University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade F
Invited Speakers:  T. Ray,  Attilio Ferrari,  Paul Bellan 

Apr 11 2008 6:00PM, Friday

Session 5HE HEDP/HEDLA Reception and Banquet Sponsor: HEDP HEDLA Chair: Bruce Remington, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis E
Invited Speakers:  Edward I. Moses 

Apr 12 2008 8:30AM, Saturday

Session A1 Plenary Session I Sponsor: APS Chair: Curt Callan, APS Vice President, Princeton University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Lous DE
Invited Speakers:  Witold Nazarewicz,  Roger Blandford,  Inez Fung 

Apr 12 2008 10:45AM, Saturday

Session B2 Tevatron Physics Sponsor: DPF Chair: Pier Oddone, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis D
Invited Speakers:  Graham Wilson,  Erik Brubaker,  Brian Winer 

Session B3 Few Body Nuclear Physics I Sponsor: DNP GFB Chair: Robert Wiringa, Argonne National Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis E
Invited Speakers:  Kevin Schmidt,  Rodney Bartlett,  David Dean 

Session B4 How to Communicate Physics to the General Public Using Books and Articles Sponsor: FEd FPS Chair: Andrew Post-Zwicker, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade B
Invited Speakers:  Art Hobson,  Michael Lemonick 

Session B5 Dark Matter Sponsor: DAP DPF Chair: Steven Kahn, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade C
Invited Speakers:  Juan I. Collar,  Tom Shutt,  Elliott Bloom 

Session B6 Triumphs of 20th Century Astrophysics I: Observatories and Telescopes Sponsor: FHP DAP Chair: Ramanath Cowsik, Washington University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade D
Invited Speakers:  Joseph Miller,  Mario Livio,  Elizabeth Barton 

Session B7 The Quantum Nature of Gravitational Singularities Sponsor: GGR Chair: Lior Burko, University of Alabama, Huntsville Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Rose Garden
Invited Speakers:  Beverly K. Berger,  Abhay Ashtekar,  Gary Horowitz 

Session B8 Neutrino Astronomy Sponsor: DAP Chair: Kara Hoffman, University of Maryland Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade A

Session B10 Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Inspirals and Mergers Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Duncan Brown, Syracuse University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis A

Session B11 B Physics I Sponsor: DPF Chair: Rick van Kooten, Indiana University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis B

Session B12 Detectors II Sponsor: DPF Chair: Ray Cowan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis C

Session B13 Minisymposium on Nuclear Physics Deep Underground I Sponsor: DNP Chair: Andrew Hime, Los Alamos National Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis F
Invited Speakers:  John F. Wilkerson 

Session B14 Nucleon Spin Structure at High Energy Sponsor: DNP Chair: Gerry Bunce, Brookhaven National Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis G

Apr 12 2008 10:50AM, Saturday

Session 6HE Shocks in Stellar Jets Sponsor: HEDP HEDLA Chair: Sergey Lebedev, Imperial College Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade F
Invited Speakers:  P. Hartigan,  A. Frank,  J.M. Foster,  Philippe Nicolai 

Apr 12 2008 1:30PM, Saturday

Session D2 Collider and Heavy Flavor Physics Sponsor: DPF Chair: Robert Cahn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis D
Invited Speakers:  Sheldon Stone,  Ray Cowan,  Alexey Drutskoy 

Session D3 Quantum Chromodynamics Sponsor: DPF DNP Chair: Paul Mackenzie, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis E
Invited Speakers:  Allen Caldwell,  Thomas Ullrich,  Jozef Dudek 

Session D4 Few Body Nuclear Physics II Sponsor: DNP GFB Chair: Wayne Polyzou, University of Iowa Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade B
Invited Speakers:  W. Tornow,  Scott Bogner,  P. Navratil 

Session D5 Triumphs of 20th Century Astrophysics II: We Master the Stars Sponsor: FHP DAP Chair: Ramanath Cowsik, Washington University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade C
Invited Speakers:  Matthew Stanley,  Stirling Colgate,  Mark McCaughrean 

Session D6 Panel Discussion: International Gender Issues in Physics Sponsor: FIP FPS Chair: Arthur Bienenstock, APS President, Stanford University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade D
Invited Speakers:  Arthur Bienenstock,  Giulia Pancheri,  Meg Urry,  Marcia Barbosa 

Session D7 Physics Demonstrations and Strategies for Teaching and Public Outreach Sponsor: FEd Chair: John Wiegers, Washington University in St. Louis Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Rose Garden
Invited Speakers:  Diane Miller,  James Cibulka,  Rebecca Trousil 

Session D8 Nuclear Astrophysics I Sponsor: DAP Chair: Henric Krawczynski, Washington University at St. Louis Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade A

Session D10 Techniques of Numerical Relativity Sponsor: GGR Chair: Steve Liebling, Long Island University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis A

Session D11 Accelerator Neutrinos Sponsor: DPF Chair: Janet Conrad, Columbia University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis B

Session D12 Dark Matter I Sponsor: DPF Chair: Tom Shutt, Case Western University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis C

Session D13 Minisymposium on Nuclear Physics Deep Underground II Sponsor: DNP Chair: Andrew Hime, Los Alamos National Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis F

Session D14 Instrumentation for Low and Medium Energy Nuclear Physics Sponsor: DNP Chair: Peggy McMahan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis G

Session D15 Electroweak Interactions Sponsor: DNP Chair: William Donnelly, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis H

Apr 12 2008 2:00PM, Saturday

Session 7HE Shocks in the Universe and Laboratory Sponsor: HEDP HEDLA Chair: Hideaki Takabe, Osaka University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade F
Invited Speakers:  Dongsu Ryu,  J.R. Jokipii,  Tony Bell,  J.F. Hansen,  Ryo Yamazaki 

Apr 12 2008 3:30PM, Saturday

Session E1 FIP Business Meeting Sponsor: FIP Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Boardroom 23

Session E2 Prize Winners Sponsor: DPF Chair: Natalie Roe, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis D
Invited Speakers:  George Cassiday,  Pierre Sokolsky,  Jedrzej Biesiada 

Session E3 Accelerator Technology and the Physics it Enables Sponsor: DNP DPB Chair: Geoffrey Krafft, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis E
Invited Speakers:  Peter Ostroumov,  Christoph Tschalaer,  Swapan Chattopadhyay 

Session E4 Panel Discussion: Non-traditional Careers for Physicists Sponsor: FGSA Chair: Meghan Anzelc, Northwestern University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade B
Invited Speakers:  Don Engel,  Robert Garisto,  David Morgenstern,  Stan Lawton 

Session E5 Computational Nuclear Physics Sponsor: DNP GHP Chair: Curtis Meyer, Carnegie Mellon University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade C
Invited Speakers:  Colin Morningstar,  Alan Calder,  Haiyan Gao 

Session E6 Ultra-High-Density Plasmas Sponsor: DPP Chair: Jonathan Fortney, University of California, Santa Cruz Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade D
Invited Speakers:  Russell Hemley,  Didier Saumon,  S. Glenzer 

Session E7 Astrophysicists' Perspectives on Current Problems in Plasma Astrophysics I Sponsor: GPAP Chair: Steven Spangler, University of Iowa Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Rose Garden
Invited Speakers:  Jean Eilek,  R.P. Drake,  Russell Kulsrud 

Session E8 Gamma Ray Bursts, Gravitational Wave Bursts, Supernovae Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Erik Katsavounidis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade A

Session E10 Self Force and Gravitational Wave Tails Sponsor: GGR Chair: Eric Poisson, University of Guelph Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis A

Session E11 Electroweak II Sponsor: DPF Chair: Erik Brubaker, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis B

Session E12 B Physics II Sponsor: DPF Chair: Alexei Garmash, Princeton University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis C

Session E13 Minisymposium on Nuclear Physics Deep Underground III Sponsor: DNP Chair: Andrew Hime, Los Alamos National Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis F

Session E14 Theory Involving Finite Nuclei Sponsor: DNP Chair: Witold Nazarewicz, University of Tennessee Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis G

Session E15 Manhattan Project and Beyond Sponsor: FHP Chair: Jeffrey Dunham, Middlebury College Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis H

Apr 12 2008 4:05PM, Saturday

Session 8HE HEDP/HEDLA Poster Session (4:05-6:30pm) Sponsor: HEDP HEDLA Chair: Bruce Remington, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade E and Promenade Lobby

Apr 12 2008 5:30PM, Saturday

Session F1 Welcome Reception and Poster Session I (5:30-6:45 p.m.) Sponsor: APS Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Fourth Floor Lobby

Apr 12 2008 7:00PM, Saturday

Session G1 APS Energy Efficiency Study Sponsor: APS Chair: Arthur Bienenstock, APS President, Stanford University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis D
Invited Speakers:  Burton Richter 

Apr 13 2008 8:30AM, Sunday

Session H2 B Physics III Sponsor: DPF Chair: Jack Ritchie, University of Texas Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis D
Invited Speakers:  Alexei Garmash,  Mathew Graham,  Rick Van Kooten 

Session H3 The Long Distance Structure of the Nucleon Sponsor: DNP Chair: Richard Milner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis E
Invited Speakers:  T. William Donnelly,  Thomas Walcher,  C. Crawford 

Session H4 Undergraduate Education in Nuclear Physics Sponsor: DNP FEd Chair: Cornelius Beausang, University of Richmond Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade B
Invited Speakers:  Warren Rogers,  John Shriner,  Sekazi Mtingwa 

Session H5 Astrophysicists' Perspectives on Current Problems in Plasma Astrophysics II Sponsor: GPAP DAP Chair: Dmitri Uzdensky, Princeton University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade C
Invited Speakers:  Jonathan Arons,  Ramesh Narayan,  Robert Rosner 

Session H6 Impact of Major Accelerator Projects on the Development of Emergent Countries Sponsor: DPB FIP Chair: Satoshi Ozaki, Brookhaven National Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade D
Invited Speakers:  Vinod Chandra Sahni,  Won Namkung,  Herman Winick 

Session H7 Laboratory and Space Tests of Gravitation Sponsor: GGR Chair: Eric Adelberger, University of Washington Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Rose Garden
Invited Speakers:  Slava G. Turyshev,  Tom Murphy 

Session H8 Galactic and Planetary Astrophysics Sponsor: DAP Chair: Steve Kahn, SLAC/Stanford University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade A

Session H10 Numerical Simulations of Neutron Stars Sponsor: GGR Chair: Grant Mathews, University of Notre Dame Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis A

Session H11 Muon Colliders and Nu Beams Sponsor: DPF Chair: Steve Geer, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis B

Session H12 New Ideas Sponsor: DPF Chair: Cecilia Gerber, University of Illinois at Chicago Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis C

Session H13 Minisymposium on Correlations and Jets in Heavy-Ion Collisions Sponsor: DNP Chair: Jim Thomas, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis F
Invited Speakers:  Jason Glyndwr Ulery 

Session H14 Nuclear Structure: Light and Medium Mass Nuclei Sponsor: DNP Chair: Lee Sobotka, Washington University at St. Louis Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis G

Session H15 Nuclear Astrophysics II Sponsor: DNP Chair: Hendrik Schatz, Michigan State University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis H

Session 9HE HEDP/HEDLA Poster Session (8:30-11:00am) (Continuation of Poster Session 8HE) Sponsor: HEDP HEDLA Chair: Bruce Remington, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade E and Promenade Lobby

Apr 13 2008 10:45AM, Sunday

Session J2 Joint Session on Neutrinos Sponsor: DNP DPF Chair: Kevin Lesko, University of California, Berkeley Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis D
Invited Speakers:  S. Elliott,  R. Vogelaar,  Rustem Ospanov 

Session J3 Los Alamos and the Manhattan Project: 65th Anniversary (Followed by Panel Discussion) Sponsor: FHP FPS Chair: Benjamin Bederson, New York University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis E
Invited Speakers:  Cynthia Kelly,  Anthony P. French,  David C. Cassidy 

Session J4 Topics in Mathematical and Computational Physics Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Rubin Landau, Oregon State University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade B
Invited Speakers:  Ronald Mickens,  Carl Bender,  Soon Yong Chang 

Session J5 The U.S. Particle Accelerator School Sponsor: FEd DPB Chair: Linda Spentzouris, Illinois Institute of Technology Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade C
Invited Speakers:  William Barletta,  Evgenya Smirnova,  Michael Syphers 

Session J6 Jets and Gamma Ray Bursts Sponsor: DPP GPAP Chair: Hui Li, Los Alamos National Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade D
Invited Speakers:  Arieh Konigl,  Shri Kulkarni,  Michael Brown 

Session J7 Recent Highlights in Hadronic Physics Sponsor: GHP Chair: Paul Eugenio, Florida State University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Rose Garden
Invited Speakers:  James Dunlop,  Eric Swanson,  Mike Williams 

Session J8 Cosmic Microwave Background and Analysis Techniques Sponsor: DAP Chair: Steve Kahn, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade A

Session J10 Numerical Simulations of Black Hole Binaries Sponsor: GGR Chair: Frans Pretorius, Princeton University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis A

Session J11 QCD and Colliders I Sponsor: DPF Chair: Claude Bernard, Washington University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis B

Session J12 Top I Sponsor: DPF Chair: Graham Wilson, University of Kansas Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis C

Session J13 Minisymposium on Hard Probes of the Quark-Gluon Plasma Sponsor: DNP Chair: Xin-Nian Wang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis F
Invited Speakers:  Abhijit Majumder 

Session J14 Minisymposium on From Thermonuclear to Pyconuclear Burning Sponsor: DNP Chair: Michael Wiescher, Univ of Notre Dame Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis G
Invited Speakers:  Dmitry Yakovlev 

Session J15 Nuclear Reactions and Astrophysics Sponsor: DNP Chair: Augusto Macchiavelli, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis H

Session J16 Physics Education I Sponsor: FEd Chair: Ken Heller, University of Minnesota Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Director's Row 29

Apr 13 2008 11:00AM, Sunday

Session 10HE Radiation and Supernovae Sponsor: HEDP HEDLA Chair: Steve Rose, Imperial College Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade F
Invited Speakers:  Jacco Vink,  Stefan Immler,  Martin Laming,  C. Michaut,  Daniel Kasen 

Apr 13 2008 1:30PM, Sunday

Session L2 Neutrinos and Astrophysics Sponsor: DPF Chair: Andre de Gouvea, Northwestern University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis D
Invited Speakers:  Alexei Smirnov,  Kara Hoffman,  Vasiliki Pavlidou 

Session L3 The Physics of X-Ray Bursts Sponsor: DNP DAP Chair: Ed Brown, Michigan State University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis E
Invited Speakers:  Duncan Galloway,  Randall Cooper,  Wanpeng Tan 

Session L4 Why We Should Double the Number of Undergraduate Degrees in Physics Sponsor: FEd Chair: Cathy Mader, Hope College/APS Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade B
Invited Speakers:  Theodore Hodapp,  Robert Hilborn,  David Boulware 

Session L5 Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos Sponsor: DAP Chair: Charles Dermer, Naval Research Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade C
Invited Speakers:  Pierre Sokolsky,  James Cronin,  Albrecht Karle 

Session L6 Nuclear Forensics Sponsor: FPS Chair: Charles Ferguson Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade D
Invited Speakers:  Michael K. Evenson,  Benn Tannenbaum,  Howard L. Hall 

Session L7 Ground-based Gravitational Wave Searches Sponsor: GGR Chair: Stanley Whitcomb, California Institute of Technology Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Rose Garden
Invited Speakers:  E. Katsavounidis,  Duncan Brown,  Samuel Waldman 

Session L8 Neutron Stars, Pulsars, and Black Holes Sponsor: DAP Chair: Jonathan Arons, University of California, Berkeley Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade A

Session L10 Mathematical and Post-Newtonian Relativity Sponsor: GGR Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis A

Session L11 Charm Physics Sponsor: DPF Chair: Ray Cowan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis B

Session L12 Higgs I Sponsor: DPF Chair: Kevin Pitts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis C

Session L13 Minisymposium on Flow, Eccentricity and the Equation of State in RHIC Sponsor: DNP Chair: Alice Mignerey, University of Maryland Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis F
Invited Speakers:  Constantin Loizides 

Session L14 Few-Body Systems Sponsor: GFB Chair: Allena Opper, The George Washington University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis G

Session L15 New Ideas in Cosmology Sponsor: DPF DAP Chair: Michael Turner, University of Chicago Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis H

Apr 13 2008 2:00PM, Sunday

Session K1 Poster Session II (2:00-5:00pm) Sponsor: APS Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Fourth Floor Lobby

Apr 13 2008 3:10PM, Sunday

Session 11HE Physics of Planetary Interiors Sponsor: HEDP HEDLA Chair: Jonathan Fortney, University of California, Santa Cruz Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade F
Invited Speakers:  Diana Valencia,  Jon Eggert,  Burkhard Militzer 

Apr 13 2008 3:30PM, Sunday

Session M2 Dark Matter and Dark Energy Sponsor: DPF DAP Chair: Juan Collar, University of Chicago Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis D
Invited Speakers:  Jodi Cooley,  Leslie Rosenberg,  Andreas Albrecht 

Session M3 New Results on the Polarized Glue in the Nucleon Sponsor: DNP Chair: Abhay Deshpande, Stony Brook University and RIKEN-BNL Research Center Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis E
Invited Speakers:  Gerhard K. Mallot,  Gerry Bunce,  Daniel de Florian 

Session M4 Computational Physics Education Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Amy Bug, Swarthmore College Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade B
Invited Speakers:  Denis Donnelly,  Rubin H. Landau 

Session M5 Recent Results in Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Sponsor: DAP Chair: Fiona Harrison, California Institute of Technologoy Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade C
Invited Speakers:  H. Krawczynski,  Steven Ritz,  Jordan Goodman 

Session M6 Equipping Scientists to Run for Political Office Sponsor: FPS FGSA Chair: Jennifer Wiseman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade D
Invited Speakers:  Francis Slakey,  Philip W. Hammer,  Marshall Berman,  Lesley Stone,  Michael Fortner 

Session M7 The Broad Spectrum of Gravitation Sponsor: GGR COM Chair: Pablo Laguna, Pennsylvania State University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Rose Garden
Invited Speakers:  Manuel Tiglio,  Jorge Pullin,  Gabriela Gonzalez 

Session M8 Future Gamma Ray and X-Ray Astronomy Projects Sponsor: DAP Chair: Neil Gehrels, NASA/GSFC Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade A

Session M10 Gravitational Waves from Neutron Stars and Stochastic Backgrounds Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Keith Riles, University of Michigan Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis A

Session M11 Higgs II Sponsor: DPF Chair: Ricardo Flores, University of Missouri-St. Louis Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis B

Session M12 Top III Sponsor: DPF Chair: Chip Brock, Michigan State University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis C

Session M13 Neutrinos I Sponsor: DNP Chair: Steve Elliott, Los Alamos National Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis F

Session M14 Nuclear Structure: Medium Mass Nuclei Sponsor: DNP Chair: Nikolaos Fotiades, Los Alamos National Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis G

Session M15 Space and Astrophysical Plasma Sponsor: DPP Chair: Michael Brown, Swarthmore College Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis H

Apr 13 2008 4:25PM, Sunday

Session 12HE Laboratory Studies of Dense Matter I Sponsor: HEDP HEDLA Chair: Michel Koenig, Ecole Polytechnique Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade F
Invited Speakers:  J. Wark,  S. Regan 

Apr 13 2008 5:30PM, Sunday

Session N1 APS Awards Presentations, Past-President's Address and Lilienfeld Prize Talk Sponsor: APS Chair: Arthur Bienenstock, APS President, Stanford University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade C
Invited Speakers:  Leo Kadanoff,  H. Eugene Stanley 

Apr 14 2008 8:30AM, Monday

Session Q1 Plenary Session II Sponsor: APS Chair: Arthur Bienenstock, APS President, Stanford University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Lous DE
Invited Speakers:  Michael Kramer,  Michael Peskin,  C.W. Chu 

Apr 14 2008 10:45AM, Monday

Session R2 American Particle Physics in the Coming Era I Sponsor: DPF Chair: Charlie Baltay, Yale University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis D
Invited Speakers:  Abraham Seiden,  Michael Harrison,  Robert Tschirhart 

Session R3 Neutron Rich Nuclei in the Laboratory and in the Cosmos Sponsor: DNP Chair: Hendrik Schatz, Michigan State University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis E
Invited Speakers:  Anna Frebel,  Yong-Zhong Qian,  T. Baumann 

Session R4 Building a Successful Career: Perseverance, Funding & Climate Sponsor: CSWP Chair: Roxanne Springer, Duke University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade B
Invited Speakers:  Harriet Kung,  Persis Drell,  Cherry Murray,  Nora Berrah 

Session R5 Advanced Acceleration Techniques Sponsor: DPB DPP Chair: Warren Mori, University of California, Los Angeles Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade C
Invited Speakers:  Chan Joshi,  Wim Leemans,  Wei Gai 

Session R6 80 Years of Quantum Mechanics: A New International Project Sponsor: FHP Chair: Clayton A. Gearhart, St. John's University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade D
Invited Speakers:  Michel Janssen,  Christoph Lehner,  Alexei Kojevnikov 

Session R8 Cosmology / Early Universe Sponsor: DAP Chair: Edmund Bertschinger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade A

Session R9 Lattice QCD in Elementary Particle Physics Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Steven Gottlieb, Indiana University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade E
Invited Speakers:  Claude Bernard,  Ruth Van de Water,  Michael Clark 

Session R10 Topics in Numerical Relativity Sponsor: GGR Chair: Lee Lindblom, Caltech Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis A

Session R11 Detectors I Sponsor: DPF Chair: Dan Amidei, University of Michigan Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis B

Session R12 Electroweak I Sponsor: DPF Chair: Graham Wilson, University of Kansas Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis C

Session R13 Neutrinos II Sponsor: DNP Chair: William Louis, Los Alamos National Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis F

Session R14 Nuclear Reactions Sponsor: DNP Chair: Robert Charity, Washington University, St Louis Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis G

Session R15 Electromagnetic Interactions I Sponsor: DNP Chair: Zein-Eddine Meziani, Temple University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis H

Session R16 Frontiers in Physics Education Research Sponsor: FEd Chair: Paula Heron, University of Washington Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Director's Row 29
Invited Speakers:  Robert Endorf 

Apr 14 2008 10:50AM, Monday

Session 13HE Laboratory Studies of Dense Matter II Sponsor: HEDP HEDLA Chair: Dieter Hoffmann, GSI Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade F
Invited Speakers:  Vladimir Fortov,  Frank Bieniosek 

Apr 14 2008 11:40AM, Monday

Session 14HE HEDP Theory and Experiments Sponsor: HEDP HEDLA Chair: George Kyrala, Los Alamos National Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade F
Invited Speakers:  N.A. Tahir,  Richard Petrasso,  Jie Zhang 

Apr 14 2008 12:30PM, Monday

Session R18 DPB Business Meeting and Reception Sponsor: DPB Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Director's Row 26

Apr 14 2008 1:30PM, Monday

Session S2 American Particle Physics in the Coming Era II Sponsor: DPF Chair: Robert Cahn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis D
Invited Speakers:  Andre de Gouvea,  K. Lesko,  Gary Bernstein 

Session S3 DNP Dissertation Awards Sponsor: DNP Chair: Richard Casten, Yale University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis E
Invited Speakers:  Deepshikha Shukla,  Nikolai Tolich,  Ross Young 

Session S4 Numerical Relativistic Astrophysics Sponsor: DAP Chair: Scott Hughes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade B
Invited Speakers:  Christian D. Ott,  Alessandra Buonanno,  Emmanouela Rantsiou 

Session S5 50th Anniversary of Physical Review Letters Sponsor: FHP DPF Chair: R. Sekhar Chivukula, Michigan State University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade C
Invited Speakers:  Robert Garisto,  Michael S. Turner,  Michael Peskin 

Session S6 FPS/FHP Awards Session Sponsor: FPS FHP Chair: Lawrence Krauss, Case Western Reserve University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis H
Invited Speakers:  Gerald Holton,  Liangying Xu,  Pierre Goldschmidt,  Anatoli Diakov,  Pavel Podvig 

Session S8 Stellar Physics and Super Novae Sponsor: DAP Chair: Neil Brandt, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade A

Session S9 Inertial Confinement and High Energy Density Plasma Sponsor: DPP Chair: Juan Fernandez, Los Alamos National Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade E

Session S10 Gravitational Waves Sources for LISA Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Richard Price, University of Texas at Brownsville Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis A

Session S11 Searches I Sponsor: DPF Chair: Alexey Drutskoy, University of Cincinnatti Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis B

Session S12 Accelerator Physics Sponsor: DPB Chair: Thomas Roser, Brookhaven National Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis C

Session S13 QCD and Colliders II Sponsor: DPF Chair: Dan Amidei, University of Michigan Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis F

Session S16 The Place of the Advanced Laboratory in Undergraduate Education Sponsor: FEd Chair: David G. Haase, North Carolina State University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Director's Row 29
Invited Speakers:  Jeffrey Dunham 

Apr 14 2008 2:00PM, Monday

Session S1 Poster Session III (2:00-5:00pm) Sponsor: APS Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Fourth Floor Lobby

Apr 14 2008 2:06PM, Monday

Session S18 Undergraduate Session I Sponsor: SPS Chair: Gary White, Society of Physics Students/American Institute of Physics Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Director's Row 46

Session S19 Undergraduate Session II Sponsor: SPS Chair: Monica Plisch, American Physical Society Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Director's Row 47

Session S20 Undergraduate Session III Sponsor: SPS Chair: Kendra Rand, American Institute of Physics Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Director's Row 48

Apr 14 2008 2:25PM, Monday

Session 15HE Intense Laser-Matter Interactions Sponsor: HEDP HEDLA Chair: Peter Norreys, Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade F
Invited Speakers:  Roland Smith,  P. Patel,  Raoul Trines,  Luis Silva,  Y. Sentoku,  F. Beg 

Apr 14 2008 3:30PM, Monday

Session T2 DPB/DPF Prize Session Sponsor: DPB DPF Chair: Stephen Holmes, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis D
Invited Speakers:  Lyndon Evans,  Rama R. Calaga,  David Larbalestier 

Session T3 Bethe, Bonner Prize Session Sponsor: DNP Chair: Richard Milner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis E
Invited Speakers:  F.K. Thielemann,  Arthur Poskanzer,  Krishna Rajagopal 

Session T4 Electric Dipole Moment Experiments Sponsor: GPMFC Chair: Eric Hessels, York University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade B
Invited Speakers:  Norval Fortson,  David Weiss,  David DeMille 

Session T5 Dark Energy Sponsor: DAP DPF Chair: Michael Turner, University of Chicago Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade C
Invited Speakers:  Peter Garnavich,  Bhuvnesh Jain,  Robert Nichol 

Session T6 Astrophysics of Black Hole Mergers Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: John Friedman, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade D
Invited Speakers:  Scott Hughes,  Frans Pretorius,  Michael Coleman Miller 

Session T7 Excellence in Physics Education Award Session Sponsor: FEd Chair: Leo Kadanoff, APS Past-President, University of Chicago Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Rose Garden
Invited Speakers:  Peter Shaffer,  Paula Heron,  Lillian McDermott,  Jill Marshall,  Gary Gladding 

Session T8 Cosmic Rays Sponsor: DAP Chair: Elliott Bloom, SLAC/Stanford University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade A

Session T9 History of Physics Sponsor: FHP Chair: Don Howard, University of Notre Dame Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade E

Session T10 Experimental Test of Gravitation and Gravitational Wave Detectors Sponsor: GGR Chair: Jens Gundlach, University of Washington Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis A

Session T11 Miscellaneous Searches II Sponsor: DPF Chair: Al Goshaw, Duke University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis B

Session T12 Accelerator Neutrino Expts. I Sponsor: DPF Chair: Chris Polly, Indiana University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis C

Session T13 Precision Low Energy Sponsor: DPF Chair: Ta Pei Cheng, University of Missouri-St. Louis Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis F

Session T14 SUSY Sponsor: DPF Chair: Boris Kayser, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis G

Apr 14 2008 5:30PM, Monday

Session U8 DAP Business Meeting Sponsor: DAP Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade C

Session U9 GHP Business Meeting Sponsor: GHP Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade F

Session U10 GGR Business Meeting Sponsor: GGR Chair: Dieter Brill, University of Maryland Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis A

Session U11 DPF Town Hall Meeting: A New Era for Particle Physics Sponsor: DPF Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis B

Session U12 GFC Business Meeting Sponsor: GFC Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis C

Session U13 FEd Business Meeting and Reception Sponsor: FEd Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis F

Session U14 DNP Business Meeting Sponsor: DNP Chair: Rick Casten, Yale Unviersity Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis G

Session U15 GFB Business Meeting Sponsor: GFB Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis H

Session U16 FHP Business Meeting Sponsor: FHP Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Director's Row 29

Apr 15 2008 8:30AM, Tuesday

Session V1 Plenary Session III Sponsor: APS Chair: Natalie Roe, Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Lous DE
Invited Speakers:  Sara Seager,  Robert Cahn,  Bruce Remington 

Apr 15 2008 10:45AM, Tuesday

Session W2 The LHC/ILC Era Sponsor: DPF DPB Chair: Boris Kayser, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis D
Invited Speakers:  Fabiola Gianotti,  Daniel Marlow,  Heather Logan 

Session W3 Recent Developments in the Structure of Exotic Nuclei Sponsor: DNP Chair: Robert Janssens, Argonne National Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis E
Invited Speakers:  N. Benczer-Koller,  Paul Fallon 

Session W5 Computational Challenges in Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravitation Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Pablo Laguna, Pennsylvania State University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade C
Invited Speakers:  Luis Lehner,  Deirdre Shoemaker,  Raph Hix 

Session W7 Astrophysics Sponsor: DAP Chair: Steven Kahn, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Rose Garden
Invited Speakers:  Vicky Kalogera,  Matthew Becker,  Ian Shipsey 

Session W10 Alternative Gravity I Sponsor: GGR Chair: David Garfinkle, Oakland University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis A

Session W11 Particle and String Theory Sponsor: DPF Chair: Sherwin Love, Purdue University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis B

Session W12 D and B Physics Sponsor: DPF Chair: Brendan Casey, Fermi National Acceleratory Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis C

Session W13 Neutrinos III Sponsor: DNP Chair: Zelimir Djurcic, Columbia University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis F

Session W14 Applications of Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Techniques Sponsor: DNP Chair: George Souliotis, Texas A and M University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis G

Session W15 Hadronic Physics Sponsor: DNP Chair: Bernd Surrow, MIT Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis H

Session W16 Physics Education II Sponsor: FEd Chair: Bruce Mason, University of Oklahoma Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Director's Row 29

Apr 15 2008 10:50AM, Tuesday

Session 16HE Quark-Gluon Plasmas Sponsor: HEDP HEDLA Chair: Barbara Jacak, State University of New York at Stony Brook Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade F
Invited Speakers:  Edward Shuryak,  Stanislaw Mrowczynski,  Yasuyuki Akiba,  ShinIchi Esumi,  Peter Jacobs,  Miklos Gyulassy 

Apr 15 2008 1:30PM, Tuesday

Session X2 Future Accelerator Facilities Sponsor: DPB DPF Chair: Young-Kee Kim, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis D
Invited Speakers:  David MacFarlane,  A.J. Lankford,  Seve Geer 

Session X3 Topics In Nuclear Physics Sponsor: DNP Chair: Richard Casten, Yale University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis E
Invited Speakers:  R.J. Charity,  Jianglai Liu,  Liping Gan 

Session X4 Programs to Prepare Teaching Assistants to Teach Sponsor: FEd FGSA Chair: Peter Shaffer, University of Washington Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade B
Invited Speakers:  Steven Pollock,  MacKenzie Stetzer,  Kenneth Heller 

Session X5 Short Gamma-Ray Bursts Sponsor: DAP Chair: Neil Gehrels, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade C
Invited Speakers:  Derek Fox,  Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz,  Soeb Razzaque 

Session X6 Space Debris Sponsor: FPS Chair: Benn Tannenbaum, AAAS Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade D
Invited Speakers:  David Wright,  Caroline Reilly,  Geoffrey Forden 

Session X7 Numerical Relativity Meets the Post Newtonian Approximation Sponsor: GGR Chair: Clifford Will, Washington University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Rose Garden
Invited Speakers:  Emanuele Berti,  Lawrence Kidder,  Yi Pan 

Session X8 Gamma Ray Astronomy Sponsor: DAP Chair: Steve Ritz, NASA/GSFC Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade A

Session X10 Alternative Gravity II Sponsor: GGR Chair: David Garfinkle, Oakland University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis A

Session X11 Top II Sponsor: DPF Chair: Amnon Harel, University of Rochester Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis B

Session X12 Searches III Sponsor: DPF Chair: Brendan Casey, Fermi National Acceleratory Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis C

Session X13 Electromagnetic Interactions II Sponsor: DNP Chair: Jen-Chieh Peng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis F

Session X14 Nuclear Structure: Heavy Nuclei Sponsor: DNP Chair: Walter Reviol, Washington University at St. Louis Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis G

Session X15 Nuclear Theory Sponsor: DNP Chair: Mihai Horoi, Central Michigan University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis H

Apr 15 2008 2:50PM, Tuesday

Session 17HE Relativistic Plasmas and Gamma-Ray Bursts Sponsor: HEDP HEDLA Chair: Tomasz Plewa, Florida State University Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade F
Invited Speakers:  Andrew MacFadyen,  John Kirk,  Hans-Thomas Janka,  Edison Liang 

Apr 15 2008 4:50PM, Tuesday

Session 18HE HEDLA Business Meeting Sponsor: HEDP HEDLA Chair: Bruce Remington, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade F