Session J2: Joint Session on Neutrinos

Sponsoring Units: DNP DPF
Chair: Kevin Lesko, University of California, Berkeley
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - St. Louis D


Sunday, April 13, 2008
10:45AM - 11:21AM

J2.00001: Recent Progress in Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay: Its Forecast for the Future
Invited Speaker: Steven Elliott

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:21AM - 11:57AM

J2.00002: Sunshine: Photons or Neutrinos -- which tells us more?
Invited Speaker: R. Vogelaar

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:57AM - 12:33PM

J2.00003: Results from MiniBooNE and MINOS
Invited Speaker: Rustem Ospanov

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Session J3: Los Alamos and the Manhattan Project: 65th Anniversary (Followed by Panel Discussion)

Sponsoring Units: FHP FPS
Chair: Benjamin Bederson, New York University
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - St. Louis E


Sunday, April 13, 2008
10:45AM - 11:21AM

J3.00001: A History Worth Preserving
Invited Speaker: Cynthia Kelly

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:21AM - 11:57AM

J3.00002: Recollections of a very junior physicist at Los~Alamos, 1944-1946
Invited Speaker: Anthony P. French

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:57AM - 12:33PM

J3.00003: Panel Discussion among Physicist Alumni of the Manhattan Project.
Invited Speaker: David C. Cassidy

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Session J4: Topics in Mathematical and Computational Physics

Sponsoring Units: DCOMP
Chair: Rubin Landau, Oregon State University
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - Promenade B


Sunday, April 13, 2008
10:45AM - 11:21AM

J4.00001: Edward A. Bouchet Award Talk: NSFD Schemes: Genesis, Methodology and Applications
Invited Speaker: Ronald Mickens

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:21AM - 11:57AM

J4.00002: Ghostbusting: Reviving quantum theories that were thought to be dead
Invited Speaker: Carl Bender

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:57AM - 12:33PM

J4.00003: Nicholas Metropolis Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Work in Computational Physics Talk: Equation of State of the Dilute Fermi Gases
Invited Speaker: Soon Yong Chang

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Session J5: The U.S. Particle Accelerator School

Sponsoring Units: FEd DPB
Chair: Linda Spentzouris, Illinois Institute of Technology
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - Promenade C


Sunday, April 13, 2008
10:45AM - 11:21AM

J5.00001: Overview of USPAS and its role in educating the next generation of accelerator scientists and engineers
Invited Speaker: William Barletta

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:21AM - 11:57AM

J5.00002: USPAS from a student's perspective: learning about accelerator physics.
Invited Speaker: Evgenya Smirnova

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:57AM - 12:33PM

J5.00003: The USPAS from the perspective of the instructor
Invited Speaker: Michael Syphers

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Session J6: Jets and Gamma Ray Bursts

Sponsoring Units: DPP GPAP
Chair: Hui Li, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - Promenade D


Sunday, April 13, 2008
10:45AM - 11:21AM

J6.00001: Magnetohydrodynamics of Gamma-Ray Burst Jets
Invited Speaker: Arieh Konigl

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:21AM - 11:57AM

J6.00002: Jets in Relativistic Cosmic Explosions
Invited Speaker: Shri Kulkarni

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:57AM - 12:33PM

J6.00003: Prize to a Faculty Member for Research in an Undergraduate Institution Talk: Bidirectional outflow jets in the SSX reconnection experiment
Invited Speaker: Michael Brown

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Session J7: Recent Highlights in Hadronic Physics

Sponsoring Units: GHP
Chair: Paul Eugenio, Florida State University
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - Rose Garden


Sunday, April 13, 2008
10:45AM - 11:21AM

J7.00001: Highlights on Hadronic Physics from Heavy Ion Physics
Invited Speaker: James Dunlop

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:21AM - 11:57AM

J7.00002: The New Charmonium States
Invited Speaker: Eric Swanson

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:57AM - 12:33PM

J7.00003: Partial Wave Analysis Results for $\gamma p \rightarrow p \omega$ using Data from CLAS at Jefferson Lab
Invited Speaker: Mike Williams

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Session J8: Cosmic Microwave Background and Analysis Techniques

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Steve Kahn, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - Promenade A


Sunday, April 13, 2008
10:45AM - 10:57AM

J8.00001: Primordial Non-Gaussianity (fNL) in WMAP data
Amit Yadav , Benjamin Wandelt

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
10:57AM - 11:09AM

J8.00002: Effects of a Primordial Magnetic Field on Low and High Multipoles of the CMB
Grant Mathews , Dai Yamazaki , Toshitaka Kajino , Kiyotomo Ichiki

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:09AM - 11:21AM

J8.00003: A search for Lorentz violation in the CMB.
Matthew Mewes , Alan Kostelecky

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:21AM - 11:33AM

J8.00004: Pico: Parameters for the Impatient Cosmologist
William Fendt , Benjamin Wandelt

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:33AM - 11:45AM

J8.00005: Bayesian Forecasting of Cosmological Parameter Constraints for Future Experiments.
Rahul Biswas , Benjamin Wandelt

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:45AM - 11:57AM

J8.00006: Astronomical Data Analysis on Graphics Cards
Peter Messmer , Paul Mullowney , Michael Galloy , David Fillmore , Brian Granger , Keegan Amyx , David Fillmore

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Session J10: Numerical Simulations of Black Hole Binaries

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Frans Pretorius, Princeton University
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - St. Louis A


Sunday, April 13, 2008
10:45AM - 10:57AM

J10.00001: Highly-Spinning-Black-Hole Binaries
Yosef Zlochower , Carlos Lousto , Manuela Campanelli

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
10:57AM - 11:09AM

J10.00002: Further insight into gravitational recoil
Carlos Lousto , Yosef Zlochower , Manuela Campanelli

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:09AM - 11:21AM

J10.00003: The final spin in unbound black hole mergers
Pablo Laguna , Matthew Washik , Richard Matzner , Deirdre Shoemaker , Frank Herrmann , Ian Hinder

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:21AM - 11:33AM

J10.00004: Robustness of Binary Black Hole Mergers in the Presence of Spurious Radiation
Tanja Bode , Deirdre Shoemaker , Frank Herrmann , Ian Hinder

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:33AM - 11:45AM

J10.00005: High-spin binary black hole mergers
Pedro Marronetti , Wolfgang Tichy , Bernd Br\"ugmann , Ulrich Sperhake , Jos\'e Gonz\'alez

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:45AM - 11:57AM

J10.00006: The Final Spin of Black Hole Binaries
Erik Schnetter

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:57AM - 12:09PM

J10.00007: Simulations of binary black holes with spin
Wolfgang Tichy , Pedro Marronetti

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
12:09PM - 12:21PM

J10.00008: Describing Waveforms from Nonspinning Black Hole Binaries
William Darian Boggs , John G. Baker , Joan Centrella , Bernard J. Kelly , Sean T. McWilliams , James R. van Meter

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
12:21PM - 12:33PM

J10.00009: Comparison of numerical relativity simulations with post-Newtonian expansions, Pade and EOB models
Abdul Hussein Mroue , Saul Teukolsky , Lawrence Kidder , Harald Pfeiffer , Michael Boyle , Mark Scheel , Alessandra Buonanno , Yi Pan

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Session J11: QCD and Colliders I

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Claude Bernard, Washington University
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - St. Louis B


Sunday, April 13, 2008
10:45AM - 10:57AM

J11.00001: Direct Photon Production in Association with a Heavy Quark
Tzvetalina Stavreva , Joseph F. Owens

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
10:57AM - 11:09AM

J11.00002: Search for transitions in bottomonium involving a single pseudoscalar meson
Todd Pedlar

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:09AM - 11:21AM

J11.00003: Hadronic jet-vertex association in a high-luminosity environment at the LHC
David Miller

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:21AM - 11:33AM

J11.00004: Jet Shape Studies at CMS
Pelin Kurt

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:33AM - 11:45AM

J11.00005: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:45AM - 11:57AM

J11.00006: Using Drell-Yan to Probe the Underlying Event in Run 2 at CDF
Deepak Kar , Rick Field

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:57AM - 12:09PM

J11.00007: A Numerical Approach to Coulomb Gauge QCD
Hrayr Matevosyan , Adam Szczepaniak , Patrick Bowman

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
12:09PM - 12:21PM

J11.00008: A parametrization of the baryon octet and decuplet masses
Phuoc Ha

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
12:21PM - 12:33PM

J11.00009: Relations Among Helicity Amplitudes for $2\longrightarrow 2$ Scattering in the Parke-Shadmi Spin Basis
Gregory Mahlon

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Session J12: Top I

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Graham Wilson, University of Kansas
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - St. Louis C


Sunday, April 13, 2008
10:45AM - 10:57AM

J12.00001: Measurement of the Top Quark Mass at D0 Using the Matrix-Element Method in the Dilepton Channel
Alexander Grohsjean

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
10:57AM - 11:09AM

J12.00002: Measurement of the ttbar Cross Section in the Dilepton Channel with the D0 Detector
Marion Arthaud

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:09AM - 11:21AM

J12.00003: Top quark mass measurement in the dilepton channel at CDF using a neural network event selection and matrix element method
Ravi Shekhar

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:21AM - 11:33AM

J12.00004: Study of differential distributions of top quarks
Jiri Kvita

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:33AM - 11:45AM

J12.00005: Simultaneous measurement of the ratio $ {\cal {B}}( t\rightarrow Wb )/{\cal{B}}(t\rightarrow Wq )$ and the top quark pair production cross section with the D0 detector at $ \sqrt{s}=1.96$~TeV
Suharyo Sumowidagdo

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:45AM - 11:57AM

J12.00006: Measurement of the ttbar Cross Section in the Lepton+track Channel with the D0 Detector
Robert Wagner

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:57AM - 12:09PM

J12.00007: Meaurement of the top quark mass in the lepton+track sample at CDF
Marco Trovato

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
12:09PM - 12:21PM

J12.00008: Measurement of the ttbar Production Cross Section at D0 Using Lepton + Hadronic tau Events
Florent Lacroix

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
12:21PM - 12:33PM

J12.00009: Measurement of the ttbar Production Cross Section at D0 Using tau+Jets Events
Mikhail Arov

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Session J13: Minisymposium on Hard Probes of the Quark-Gluon Plasma

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Xin-Nian Wang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - St. Louis F


Sunday, April 13, 2008
10:45AM - 11:21AM

J13.00001: Hard Probes of the Quark-Gluon Plasma: Introduction and Overview
Invited Speaker: Abhijit Majumder

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:21AM - 11:33AM

J13.00002: Constraining energy-loss model parameters using multiple high-pt observables at RHIC
Craig Ogilvie

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:33AM - 11:45AM

J13.00003: Pseudorapidity asymmetry at high $p_{T}$ in $p(d)A$ collisions
Adeola Adeluyi , Gergely Barnafoldi , George Fai , Peter Levai

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:45AM - 11:57AM

J13.00004: Prototype Performance of Novel Muon Telescope Detector at STAR
David Tlusty , Lijuan Ruan

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:57AM - 12:09PM

J13.00005: A Monte Carlo Event Generator for Ultra Peripheral Collisions
Joseph Butterworth , Spencer Klein , Yury Gorbunov , Joakim Nystrand , Janet Seger

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
12:09PM - 12:21PM

J13.00006: Analysis of Neutral Rho Decays from Ultra-Peripheral Collisions in Deuteron-Gold Interactions
Stephen Hansen

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
12:21PM - 12:33PM

J13.00007: Measurement of Electron-Muon Correlations from Semi-Leptonic D Decay in 200 GeV p+p Collisions at RHIC-PHENIX
Tatia Engelmore

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Session J14: Minisymposium on From Thermonuclear to Pyconuclear Burning

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Michael Wiescher, Univ of Notre Dame
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - St. Louis G


Sunday, April 13, 2008
10:45AM - 11:21AM

J14.00001: Five regimes of fusion reactions in dense stellar matter
Invited Speaker: Dmitry Yakovlev

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:21AM - 11:33AM

J14.00002: Molecular dynamics simulations of the crust of accreting neutron stars
Charles Horowitz

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:33AM - 11:45AM

J14.00003: From thermo- to pycno-nuclear reactions in multi-component dense matter
Leandro Gasques , Michael Wiescher , Dimitri Yakovlev

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:45AM - 11:57AM

J14.00004: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:57AM - 12:09PM

J14.00005: Recent progress in the study of heavy-ion fusion hindrance at extreme sub-barrier energies.
C.L. Jiang , B.B. Back , C.N. Davids , H. Esbensen , R.V.F. Janssens , J.P. Greene , H.Y. Lee , C.L. Lister , M. Notani , R.C. Pardo , N. Patel , K.E. Rehm , D. Seweryniak , B. Shumard , X. Wang , S. Zhu , P. Collon , X.D. Tang

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
12:09PM - 12:21PM

J14.00006: Coupled-channels Calculations of Heavy-ion Fusion at Extreme Sub-barrier Energies.
Henning Esbensen , \c Serban Mi\c sicu

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
12:21PM - 12:33PM

J14.00007: Aspects and Reaction Rates for Pycnonuclear Fusion at High Densities
Mary Beard , Michael Wiescher , Anatoli Afanasjev , Leandro Gasques , Dima Yakovlev

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
12:33PM - 12:45PM

J14.00008: The JINA Reaclib Project
Richard Cyburt

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Session J15: Nuclear Reactions and Astrophysics

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Augusto Macchiavelli, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - St. Louis H


Sunday, April 13, 2008
10:45AM - 10:57AM

J15.00001: Nuclear Reaction Dynamics of the $^{10}{\rm B}(d,n_0)^{11}{\rm C}$ Reaction Below 160 keV
S. Stave , M.W. Ahmed , M.A. Blackston , A.S. Crowell , S.S. Henshaw , C.R. Howell , P. Kingsberry , B.A. Perdue , H.R. Weller , B.L. Doyle , P. Rossi , A.J. Antolak , R.M. Prior , M.C. Spraker

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
10:57AM - 11:09AM

J15.00002: Study of the $^{11}B (\vec{p},\alpha)^8Be$ Reaction using polarized protons below 5.1 MeV.
Seth Henshaw , Sean Stave , Mohammad Ahmed , Matthew Blackston , Brent Perdue , Henry R. Weller , Ralph France , Tom Lewis , J.P. Metzker , Richard Prior , Mark Spraker , Alex Kusnezov

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:09AM - 11:21AM

J15.00003: Neutron Asymmetry Parameterization of a Dispersive Optical Model
Jonathan Mueller , Robert Charity , Lee Sobotka , Willem Dickhoff

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:21AM - 11:33AM

J15.00004: Survey of Neutron Spectroscopic Factors for \emph{Z}=8 to 28 nuclei
Jenny Lee , P. Dai , M. Horoi , W.G. Lynch , S.C. Su , M.B. Tsang , S. Warren

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:33AM - 11:45AM

J15.00005: Dispersive Optical Model and Isospin
S.J. Waldecker , W.H. Dickhoff

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:45AM - 11:57AM

J15.00006: Results of the First TOF Mass Measurements at NSCL
M. Matos , A. Estrade , M. Amthor , D. Bazin , A. Becerril , T. Elliot , D. Galaviz , A. Gade , G. Lorusso , J. Pereira , M. Portillo , A. Rogers , H. Schatz , A. Stolz , D. Shapira , E. Smith , M. Wallace

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:57AM - 12:09PM

J15.00007: Calculation of Level Densities for Nuclei Far from the Line of Stability
Shaleen Shukla , Steven Grimes

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
12:09PM - 12:21PM

J15.00008: Microscopic theory of incorporating resonances in the mean field
M.S. Sabra , F.B. Malik

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Session J16: Physics Education I

Sponsoring Units: FEd
Chair: Ken Heller, University of Minnesota
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - Director's Row 29


Sunday, April 13, 2008
10:45AM - 10:57AM

J16.00001: Lessons from the Rickover summer experience for high school students
D.M. Svelnys , C.J. Lister , S.M. Fischer

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
10:57AM - 11:09AM

J16.00002: EPPOG Masterclass comes to the US
Kenneth Cecire

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:09AM - 11:21AM

J16.00003: Computers in Science education, a new way to teach physics and mathematics?
Morten Hjorth-Jensen , Hans Petter Langtangen , Knut M{\O}rken , Anders Malthe-S{\O}renssen , Arnt Inge Vistnes

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:21AM - 11:33AM

J16.00004: Blogging in the physics classroom: A research-based approach to shaping students' attitudes towards physics
Katherine Garrett , Gintaras Duda

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
11:33AM - 11:45AM

J16.00005: Cosmos as Resonant Harmonies $\sim $ Singing \textit{International Year of Astronomy, 2009} $\sim $ \textit{the cultural significance of our new encounter with the universe}
Kala Perkins

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