2010 Annual Meeting of the California-Nevada Section of the APS
Volume 55, Number 12
Friday–Saturday, October 29–30, 2010;
Pasadena, California
Session Index
Session D1: Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science II
Chair: Uwe Bergmann, SLAC National Accelerator Lab
Room: Building 74 - Beckman Institute Auditorium
Friday, October 29, 2010
4:00PM - 4:12PM
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D1.00001: Crystallization of Solids in the Presence of Anisotropic Growth Rates and Gaussian Nucleation Rates
Kimberly Lokovic, Andreas Bill, Ralf Bergmann
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Friday, October 29, 2010
4:12PM - 4:24PM
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D1.00002: Self Assembly of CdSe Quantum Dots in Cholesteric Liquid Crystal
Andrea Rodarte
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Friday, October 29, 2010
4:24PM - 4:36PM
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D1.00003: Studies of Melamine Under Extreme Conditions
Martin Galley, Michael Pravica, Changyong Park
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Friday, October 29, 2010
4:36PM - 4:48PM
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D1.00004: Oxygen vacancies in lanthanum aluminate (LaAlO$_3$)
Joshua Sayre, Nicola Spaldin
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Friday, October 29, 2010
4:48PM - 5:00PM
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D1.00005: X-Ray Raman scattering of Aluminum Nitride under high pressure
Neelanjan Bhattacharya, Michael Pravica
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Friday, October 29, 2010
5:00PM - 5:12PM
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D1.00006: Current Driven Drift Wave Turbulence and Electron Thermal Transport in Tokamaks
C.J. Lee, P.H. Diamond, M. Porkolab
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Friday, October 29, 2010
5:12PM - 5:24PM
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D1.00007: X-ray Thomson scattering from proton heated Boron Nitride
Paul Davis, S. LePape, P. Neumayer, A.L. Kritcher, T. Doeppner, A. Bennuzzi-Mounaix, A. Ravasio, C. Brown, D. Hochhaus, C. Fortmann, G. Gregori, O.L. Landen, S.H. Glenzer
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Friday, October 29, 2010
5:24PM - 5:36PM
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D1.00008: X-rays and Magnetism -- A Perfect Match
Hendrik Ohldag
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Session D2: Gravitation and Astrophysics II
Chair: Michelle Poliskie, Solyndra
Room: Building 33 - East Bridge Physics Lecture Hall, Room 201
Friday, October 29, 2010
4:00PM - 4:12PM
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D2.00001: New Identifications of Sulfur in the Chandra Spectrum of Procyon
Jaan Lepson, Maria Obst, Peter Beiersdorfer
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Friday, October 29, 2010
4:12PM - 4:24PM
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D2.00002: Insights and possible resolution to the information loss paradox via the tunneling picture
Douglas Singleton, Elias Vagenas, Tao Zhu, Ji-Rong Ren
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Friday, October 29, 2010
4:24PM - 4:36PM
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D2.00003: Scientific Visualization of Extra Dimensions
Don V. Black
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Friday, October 29, 2010
4:36PM - 4:48PM
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D2.00004: The Big Bang and Inflation United by an Analytic Solution
Shih-Hung Chen, Itzhak Bars
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Friday, October 29, 2010
4:48PM - 5:00PM
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D2.00005: On Some Theoretical Models of Dark Energy and Relations between Them
Ratbay Myrzakulov
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Session D3: Nuclear, High Energy and Accelerator Physics II
Chair: Howard Matis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Room: Building 17 - Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Hameetman Auditorium
Friday, October 29, 2010
4:00PM - 4:12PM
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D3.00001: Front end electronics for the Majorana Demonstrator
James Loach
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Friday, October 29, 2010
4:12PM - 4:24PM
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D3.00002: CUORE and CUORE-0: Searching For Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay in $^{130}$Te
Ivo Plamenac, Samuel Meijer
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Friday, October 29, 2010
4:24PM - 4:36PM
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D3.00003: Neutrino Physics with IceCube
Mariola Lesiak-Bzdak
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Friday, October 29, 2010
4:36PM - 4:48PM
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D3.00004: A Study of Systematic Errors In a Search for Neutron Oscillation (At Super-K)
Kevin Banuelos
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Friday, October 29, 2010
4:48PM - 5:00PM
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D3.00005: The Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX) - Status and Future Plans
Karl van Bibber
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Friday, October 29, 2010
5:00PM - 5:12PM
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D3.00006: Measurement of Single Target-Spin Asymmetry in Semi-Inclusive Pion Electroproduction on a Transversely Polarized $^3$He Target
Xin Qian
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Friday, October 29, 2010
5:12PM - 5:24PM
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D3.00007: Projected Hartree-Fock in a shell-model basis
Joshua Staker, Calvin Johnson
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Session D4: Atomic and Molecular Physics II
Chair: John Price, California State University, Dominguez Hills
Room: Building 47, Downs Laboratory of Physics, Classroom 107
Friday, October 29, 2010
4:00PM - 4:12PM
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D4.00001: Efficient multipole expansion techniques for modeling the electrostatic field of large distributions of charge
Apostol Gramada, Philip Bourne
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Friday, October 29, 2010
4:12PM - 4:24PM
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D4.00002: Multipole Excitation of Fullerene C$_{60}$ Molecules in a Semi-Classical Model
Krishna Lamichhane, Matthias Brack, Peter Winkler
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Friday, October 29, 2010
4:24PM - 4:36PM
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D4.00003: Atomic Physics Measurements in Support of X-ray Astronomy
Peter Beiersdorfer, G.V. Brown, R.E. Kelley, C.A. Kilbourne, M. Leutenegger, F.S. Porter, M. Obst, J.K. Lepson, P. Desai, M.F. Gu
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Friday, October 29, 2010
4:36PM - 4:48PM
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D4.00004: Atomic and Condensed Matter Spectroscopy with an Optical Frequency Comb
Keith Penney, Derek Kimball, Erik Helgren, Jason Singley, Tony Masiello, Khoa Nguyen
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Friday, October 29, 2010
4:48PM - 5:00PM
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D4.00005: Emergence of semifluxons in long 0-$\pi$-0 Josephson junctions as a topological state change
Michael Grupp, Reinhold Walser, Wolfgang Schleich
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Friday, October 29, 2010
5:00PM - 5:12PM
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D4.00006: How the geometry of phase space influences chaotic ionization
Korana Burke, Kevin Mitchell
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