Mar 20 2005 9:00AM, Sunday

Session CCP2005 Special Plenary Session of the Division of Computational Physics CCP2005 I Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Lee Collins/LANL Room: Westin Hotel San Francisco
Invited Speakers:  Uzi Landman,  Philip Burke,  David Vanderbilt,  Marvin Cohen,  Jeremiah Ostriker 

Mar 20 2005 5:00PM, Sunday

Session CCP2005A Special Plenary Session of the Division of Computational Physics and CCP2005 II Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Barry Schneider Room: Westin Hotel, San Francisco Reception, Sacramento
Invited Speakers:  Leo Kadanoff,  Robert Laughlin 

Mar 21 2005 8:00AM, Monday

Session A1 Nuclear Spin Dynamics in Semiconductor Nanostructures Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Seigo Tarucha, University of Tokyo Room: LACC 152
Invited Speakers:  Go Yusa,  Xuedong Hu,  Mikhail Lukin 

Session A2 Quantum Criticality of Strongly Correlated Metals Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Brian Maple, University of California-San Diego Room: LACC 151
Invited Speakers:  Lijun Zhu,  Kamran Behnia 

Session A3a STM Manipulation of Single Atoms, Charges, and Spins Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Robert Celotta, NIST Room: LACC 515B
Invited Speakers:  Andreas Heinrich,  Amir Yacoby 

Session A4 Chemical and Biological Sensing with Microcantilevers Sponsor: GIMS Chair: A.T. Macrander, Argonne National Lab. Room: LACC 515A
Invited Speakers:  Harold Craighead,  Jesse Adams 

Session A5 Physics of Emerging Organic Displays - OLEDs and PLEDs Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Geoffrey Nunes, Dupont Room: LACC 502B
Invited Speakers:  Alan Heeger,  Klemens Brunner,  Michael Kane 

Session A6 Correlated Electrons Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Barry Schneider, NSF Room: LACC 502A
Invited Speakers:  Anders Sandvik,  Mark Jarrell 

Session A7 From Egg to Adult: Patterning and Morphogenesis in Animal Development Sponsor: DBP Chair: Boris Shraiman, UCSB Room: LACC 408B
Invited Speakers:  Albrecht Ott,  Nicholas Ingolia 

Session A9 Magnetic Domains and Dynamics Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Mark Stiles, NIST Room: LACC 153A

Session A10 Focus Session: Spin Transport Devices Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Roland Kawakami, UC Riverside Room: LACC 153B
Invited Speakers:  Jing Shi 

Session A11 Earth and Planetary Materials I Sponsor: DMP DCMP GSCCM Chair: Taku Tsuchiya, University of Minnesota Room: LACC 153C
Invited Speakers:  Artem R. Oganov 

Session A12 Vortices in Superconductors I Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Victor Gurarie, University of Colorado Room: LACC 402A

Session A13 Spectroscopic Properties of Superconductors Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Tanner, University of Florida Room: LACC 402B

Session A14 Focus Session: Molecular-Scale Electronics and Sensors I Sponsor: FIAP DCP Chair: Vince McKoy, Caltech Room: LACC 403B
Invited Speakers:  Gerald J. Iafrate,  James Tour 

Session A15 Focus Session: THz Devices and Materials I Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Mark Lee, Sandia National Labs Room: LACC 405
Invited Speakers:  John L. Reno 

Session A16 Focus Session: Nano-optical Plasmonics Sponsor: DMP Chair: Gary Wiederrecht, Argonne National Labs Room: LACC 404A
Invited Speakers:  Harry Atwater 

Session A17 Kondo Effect and Correlations in Quantum Dots Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Luis G. Dias da Silva, Ohio University Room: LACC 404B

Session A18 Focus Session: Semiconductor Characterization Sponsor: FIAP GIMS Chair: David Seiler, NIST Room: LACC 406A
Invited Speakers:  Alain Diebold 

Session A19 Quantum Hall Effect Sponsor: DCMP Chair: HongWen Jiang, UCLA Room: LACC 406B

Session A20 Multilayers, Thin Films, and Interfaces Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Igor Roshchin, UCSD Room: LACC 407

Session A21 Focus Session: Dynamics of Transcription Sponsor: DBP Chair: Ken Dill, University of California-San Francisco Room: LACC 409A
Invited Speakers:  Andrei Ruckenstein,  Terence Strick,  Yi-Kuo Yu 

Session A23 Focus Session: Biological Hydrodynamics I Sponsor: DFD DBP GSNP Chair: Peter Lenz, Universitaet Marburg Room: LACC 410
Invited Speakers:  John Kessler 

Session A24 Focus Session: Structure, Dynamics and Resilience of Complex Networks Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Alessandro Vespignani, Indiana University Room: LACC 411
Invited Speakers:  Bernardo A. Huberman,  Reka Albert 

Session A25 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience I Sponsor: DMP DCOMP DAMOP Chair: J.R. Manson, Clemson University Room: LACC 501A
Invited Speakers:  Marshall Stoneham 

Session A26 Focus Session: Nanotubes and Nanowires: Carbon Nanotube Transistors Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jie Liu, Duke University Room: LACC 501B
Invited Speakers:  Phaedon Avouris 

Session A27 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Optical Properties I Sponsor: DMP Chair: Marcus Freitag, IBM Room: LACC 501C
Invited Speakers: 

Session A28 Polymer Surfaces I Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Chang Yeol Ryu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Room: LACC 506

Session A29 Charged and Ion-Containing Polymers I Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Andrey Dobrynin, University of Connecticut Room: LACC 504

Session A30 Block Copolymers I Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Eric Cochran, UCSB Room: LACC 505

Session A31 Molecular Motion in Miscible Blends Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Sanat Kumar, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Room: LACC 503
Invited Speakers:  Juan Colmenero,  Janna Maranas 

Session A32 Focus Session: Novel Computational Algorithms: From Materials to the Universe I Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Mark Novotny, Mississippi State Room: LACC 507
Invited Speakers:  Erik Luijten 

Session A34 Environmental Interfaces I Sponsor: DCP Chair: Franz Geiger, Northwestern University Room: LACC 511A
Invited Speakers:  Bruce Kay 

Session A35 Energy Landscapes in Clusters, Materials, and Biology I Sponsor: DCP Chair: M. Gruebele, University of Illinois Room: LACC 511B
Invited Speakers:  William Eaton,  Iwao Ohmine 

Session A36 Focus Session: Novel States of Matter in Atomic Gases Sponsor: DAMOP DCMP Chair: Erich Mueller, Cornell University Room: LACC 510
Invited Speakers: 

Session A37 Liquid Crystals I Sponsor: DFD Chair: Antal Jakli, Kent State University Room: LACC 512

Session A38 Metal-Insulator Phase Transitions - Theory I Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Wei Ku, Brookhaven National Lab Room: LACC 513

Session A39 SPS: Undergraduate Research I Chair: Jack Hehn, American Institute of Physics Room: LACC 514
Invited Speakers: 

Session A40 Focus Session: Morphology and Evolution at Surfaces: Structure and Organics Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Fulvio Ratto, Universite' de Que'bec Room: LACC 408A

Session A42 Artificially Structured or Self-Assembled Magnetic Materials - I Sponsor: GMAG Chair: William Pratt, Michigan State University Room: LACC 150B

Session A43 Focus Session: Spin Transfer Effect I Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Robert Buhrman, Cornell University Room: LACC 150C
Invited Speakers: 

Mar 21 2005 9:48AM, Monday

Session A3b Superconductivity in Diamond Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Joe Thompson, LANL Room: LACC 515B
Invited Speakers:  Vladimir Sidorov 

Mar 21 2005 11:15AM, Monday

Session B1 Spin Hall Effect Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Naota Nagaosa, University of Tokyo Room: LACC 152
Invited Speakers:  Shou-Cheng Zhang,  Kentaro Nomura,  Bertrand Halperin,  Joerg Wunderlich 

Session B2 Novel Metal-like States in Two-Dimensions Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sankar Das Sarma, Univ. of Maryland Room: LACC 151
Invited Speakers:  Boris Spivak,  Myles Steiner,  Sergey Vitkalov,  Emanuel Tutuc,  L.A. Tracy 

Session B3 DCMP/DMP Joint Prize Session Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Samuel Bader, Argonne National Lab and Sidney Nagel, University of Chicago Room: LACC 515B
Invited Speakers:  Ivo Souza,  Yuri Suzuki,  Ernst Bauer,  R. Ramesh,  Yoshinori Tokura 

Session B4 Glassy Polymers Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Alexei Sokolov, University of Akron Room: LACC 515A
Invited Speakers:  Juan de Pablo,  Sindee Simon,  Hans Wolfgang Spiess 

Session B5 Einstein and Friends I Sponsor: FHP Chair: Virginia Trimble, University of California-Irvine Room: LACC 502B
Invited Speakers:  Charlotte Erwin,  A.J. Kox,  John Stachel,  Nina Byers 

Session B6 Theoretical and Computational Studies of Water Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Giulia Galli/LLNL Room: LACC 502A
Invited Speakers:  Lars G.M. Pettersson,  Francesco Sciortino,  Roberto Car,  Eric Schwegler,  Gregory Voth 

Session B7 Women at the Forefront of Biological Physics Sponsor: DBP CSWP Chair: Aihua Xie, Oklahoma State University Room: LACC 408B
Invited Speakers:  Ilme Schlichting,  Michelle D. Wang,  Marilyn Gunner 

Session B9 Magentic Recording/Exchange Bias/Magnetic Properties Sponsor: GMAG Chair: William Egelhoff, NIST Room: LACC 153A

Session B10 Focus Session: III-V Magnetic Semiconductors Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Nitin Samarth, Pennsylvania State University Room: LACC 153B
Invited Speakers:  Bryan Gallagher 

Session B11 High Pressure I Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Matteo Cococcione, MIT Room: LACC 153C

Session B12 Vortices in Superconductors II Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Laura Greene, UIUC Room: LACC 402A

Session B13 Josephson Junctions and SQUIDs I Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Malcolm Beasley, Stanford University Room: LACC 402B

Session B14 Focus Session: Molecular-Scale Electronics and Sensors II Sponsor: FIAP DCP Chair: Carter White, Naval Research Lab Room: LACC 403B
Invited Speakers:  Mark Ratner 

Session B15 Focus Session: Inorganic Glasses Sponsor: FIAP Chair: John Kieffer, University of Michigan Room: LACC 405
Invited Speakers:  Denise Krol 

Session B16 Optics of Metallic Nanoshells and Nanoparticles Sponsor: DMP Chair: Harry Attwater, Caltech Room: LACC 404A

Session B17 Focus Session: Materials and Device Physics for Quantum Computing I Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Henry Everitt, Army Research Office Room: LACC 404B
Invited Speakers: 

Session B18 Quantum Dots, Wires, and QH Edge States Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Woowon Kang, University of Chicago Room: LACC 406A
Invited Speakers:  L.N. Pfeiffer,  Kirk Baldwin 

Session B20 Phase Transitions and Excitations at Surfaces Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Roland Stumpf, Sandia Natl Lab Livermore Room: LACC 407

Session B21 Protein Metastability Sponsor: DBP Chair: Denis Rousseau, Albert Einstein Medical Room: LACC 409A

Session B22 Focus Session: Fluctuations and Fluctuation Analysis in Biological Systems Sponsor: DBP Chair: Peter Hanggi, University Augsburg Room: LACC 409B
Invited Speakers:  Zuzanna Siwy 

Session B24 Focus Session: Friction, Fracture, and Deformation I Sponsor: GSNP DMP Chair: Martin Muser, Western Ontario Room: LACC 411
Invited Speakers:  W.A. Curtin 

Session B25 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience II Sponsor: DMP DCOMP DAMOP Chair: Talat S. Rahman, Kansas State University Room: LACC 501A
Invited Speakers:  Riccardo Ferrando 

Session B26 Focus Session: Nanotubes and Nanowires: Synthesis and Properties of Nanowires Sponsor: DMP Chair: Grace Jia Lu, University of California-Irvine Room: LACC 501B
Invited Speakers: 

Session B27 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Optical Properties II Sponsor: DMP Chair: Vasili Perebeinos, IBM Room: LACC 501C
Invited Speakers:  John Mintmire 

Session B28 Polymer Surfaces II Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Steve Hudson, NIST Room: LACC 506

Session B29 Charged and Ion-Containing Polymers II Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: M. Muthukumar, Univ. of Massachusetts Room: LACC 504

Session B30 Organic Field Effect Transistors I Sponsor: DPOLY FIAP Chair: George Malliaras, Cornell University Room: LACC 505
Invited Speakers:  Colin Nuckolls 

Session B32 Focus Session: Superconductivity: Theory and Computation I Sponsor: DCOMP DCMP Chair: Jens Kortus, IPCMS Room: LACC 507
Invited Speakers:  E.K.U. Gross 

Session B33 Quantum Entanglement and Entropy Sponsor: GQI Chair: Gregor Weihs, University of Vienna Room: LACC 511C

Session B34 Environmental Interfaces II Sponsor: DCP Chair: Vicki Grassian, University of Iowa Room: LACC 511A
Invited Speakers:  Barbara Finlayson-Pitts,  Charles Kolb,  Jeffrey Roberts 

Session B35 Energy Landscapes in Clusters, Materials, and Biology II Sponsor: DCP Chair: D. Leitner, University of Nevada - Reno Room: LACC 511B
Invited Speakers:  Meigan Aronson,  S.N. Yaliraki 

Session B36 Colloids I Sponsor: DFD Chair: David Grier, New York University Room: LACC 510

Session B37 Liquid Crystals II Sponsor: DFD Chair: Luz J. Martinez-Miranda, U of Maryland Room: LACC 512

Session B38 Metal-Insulator Transitions - Experiment I Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Tranquada, Brookhaven NL Room: LACC 513

Session B39 Heavy Fermion Superconductivity Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Sarrao, Los Alamos National Lab Room: LACC 514

Session B40 Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures I: Contacts Sponsor: DMP DCP Chair: A. Yu. Kasumov, Institute of Microelectronics Room: LACC 408A
Invited Speakers: 

Session B41 Cooperative Phenomena: Magnetism Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Mark Van Schilfgaarde, Arizona State University Room: LACC 150A

Session B42 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanoparticles, Nanostructures & Heterostructures I Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Axel Hoffmann, Argonne National Laboratory Room: LACC 150B
Invited Speakers:  Juergen Kirschner 

Session B43 Focus Session: Spin Transfer Effect II Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Andrew Kent, New York University Room: LACC 150C
Invited Speakers: 

Session B44 X-ray and Neutron Scattering Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Bennett Larson, Oak Ridge National Lab Room: LACC 518

Mar 21 2005 2:00PM, Monday

Session C1 Poster Session I Room: LACC Exhibit Hall 2:00-5:00pm

Mar 21 2005 2:30PM, Monday

Session D1 Crystalline Organic Semiconductors: Materials to Devices Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mikhail Itkis, University of California, Riverside Room: LACC 152
Invited Speakers:  Vladimir Butko,  Vitaly Podzorov 

Session D2 Spin, Charge and Orbital Excitations in Manganites Sponsor: DCMP Chair: H. Dennis Drew, University of Maryland Room: LACC 151
Invited Speakers:  Stephane Grenier,  Rilana Maeser,  Peter Littlewood 

Session D3 Diversity Issues and Remedies Sponsor: CSWP COM Chair: Pat Mooney, IBM TJ Watson Room: LACC 515B
Invited Speakers:  James Gates,  Rachel Ivie,  Keith Jackson,  Myra Gordon 

Session D4 The New DOE Centers for Nanoscale Science Sponsor: GIMS DMP Chair: A.T. Macrander, Argonne National Lab Room: LACC 515A
Invited Speakers:  Doug Lowndes,  Robert Hwang,  Terry A. Michalske 

Session D5 The Grand Challenge of Hydrogen Storage Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Sunita Satyapal, U.S. DOE and Frederick E. Pinkerton, GM R&D Center Room: LACC 502B
Invited Speakers:  Jan Herbst,  Andrew Weisberg 

Session D6 The Facts of Life: Data-Driven Approaches To Systems Biology Sponsor: DBP DCOMP Chair: Chris Wiggins, Columbia University Room: LACC 502A
Invited Speakers:  Leonid Mirny,  Nikolaus Rajewsky,  Yoav S. Freund 

Session D7 Giant Spin-Lattice Coupling in Multiferroics Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Sang-Wook Cheong, Rutgers University Room: LACC 408B
Invited Speakers:  Namjung Hur,  Bernd Lorenz 

Session D9 Focus Session: Theory of Magnetic Semiconductors Sponsor: DCOMP DMP GMAG Chair: Andre Petukhov, SDSMT Room: LACC 153A
Invited Speakers: 

Session D10 Focus Session: Spin Transport and Dynamics Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: David Awschalom, University of California-Santa Barbara Room: LACC 153B
Invited Speakers:  R.C. Myers 

Session D11 Focus Session: Simulations of Matter at Extreme Conditions I Sponsor: DCOMP DMP GSCCM Chair: Carter White, Naval Research Lab Room: LACC 153C
Invited Speakers:  Alejandro Strachan 

Session D12 Tunnelling in Superconductors Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Richard Harris, NIST Room: LACC 402A

Session D13 STS and Imaging of Superconductors Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Timir Datta, University of South Carolina Room: LACC 402B

Session D14 Focus Session: Engineered Group IV Clathrates and Clusters Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Jan Gryko, Jacksonville State University Room: LACC 403B
Invited Speakers: 

Session D15 Focus Session: THz Devices and Materials II Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Mark Sherwin, University of California-Santa Barbara Room: LACC 405
Invited Speakers:  G.B. Serapiglia 

Session D16 Photonic Crystals and Nanoscale Physics Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Richard Warburton, Heriot-Watt University Room: LACC 404A

Session D17 Focus Session: Transport Through Molecules: Scanned Probe Methods Sponsor: DMP DCP Chair: Mark Hybertsen, Columbia University Room: LACC 404B
Invited Speakers: 

Session D20 Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures II: Molecules & Surfaces Sponsor: DMP DCP Chair: Michelle Simmons, UNSW Room: LACC 407
Invited Speakers:  Uzi Landman,  Mark Hersam 

Session D21 Methods in Nanobiotechnology Sponsor: DBP Chair: Kai Felix Braun, Ohio University Room: LACC 409A

Session D22 Focus Session: Protein Folding Sponsor: DBP Chair: Denis Rousseau, AECOM Room: LACC 409B
Invited Speakers:  Ken Dill,  Robert Callender 

Session D23 Networks and Complex Systems Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Michael F. Shlesinger, ONR Room: LACC 410

Session D25 Optical Response of Molecules and Clusters: Theory Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Sudha Srinivas, Central Michigan Univ. Room: LACC 501A

Session D26 Focus Session: Nanotubes and Nanowires: Electronic Properties Sponsor: DMP Chair: Chongwu Zhou, USC Room: LACC 501B
Invited Speakers:  Julio Gomez-Herrero 

Session D27 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Raman Spectroscopy Sponsor: DMP Chair: Pehr Pehrson, Naval Research Lab Room: LACC 501C

Session D28 Block Copolymer Thin Films Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Michael Fasolka, NIST Room: LACC 506

Session D30 Organic Field Effect Transistors II Sponsor: DPOLY FIAP Chair: Arthur Epstein, Ohio State Univ. Room: LACC 505
Invited Speakers:  K.S. Narayan 

Session D32 Many Body and Strongly Correlated Systems Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Barry Schneider, NSF Room: LACC 507

Session D33 Quantum Dots, Gates and Single Photon Devices Sponsor: GQI Chair: Anton Zeilinger, University of Vienna Room: LACC 511C
Invited Speakers:  Ivan Deutsch 

Session D34 Environmental Interfaces III Sponsor: DCP Chair: William Schneider, Notre Dame Room: LACC 511A
Invited Speakers:  Geraldine Richmond,  Christopher Mundy 

Session D35 Nanophotonic Materials, Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy I Sponsor: DCP Chair: Michael D. Barnes, Univ. Massachusetts Room: LACC 511B
Invited Speakers:  Malvin Teich 

Session D36 Colloids II Sponsor: DFD Chair: Penger Tong, Univ. of Sci. and Tech Room: LACC 510

Session D37 Liquid Crystals and Complex Fluids Sponsor: DFD Chair: Philip Taylor, Case Western Reserve Univ Room: LACC 512

Session D38 Heavy Fermions Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Greg Stewart, University of Florida Room: LACC 513

Session D39 SPS Undergraduate Research II Chair: Gary White, AIP Room: LACC 514
Invited Speakers:  Kibrom Tewolde 

Session D40 Focus Session: Morphology and Evolution at Surfaces: Epitaxy Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Jim Hannon, IBM Research Room: LACC 408A
Invited Speakers: 

Session D41 Cooperative Phenomena: Magnetic Properties and Spin Dynamics Sponsor: GMAG Chair: David Pappas, NIST, Boulder Room: LACC 150A

Session D42 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanoparticles, Nanostructures & Heterostructures II Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: David Pappas Room: LACC 150B
Invited Speakers: 

Session D43 Focus Session: Magnetic Tunnel Junctions I Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Pieter Visscher, Univ. of Alabama Room: LACC 150C
Invited Speakers:  Xiu-Feng Han 

Mar 21 2005 5:45PM, Monday

Session E24 APS Prizes & Awards Ceremony Sponsor: APS Room: LACC 411

Mar 21 2005 8:00PM, Monday

Session G1 Paradigm Shifts: Breakthroughs and Advances That Shaped Our Field Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Helen Quinn, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Room: LACC 152
Invited Speakers:  Carlos Bustamante,  Andrea Ghez,  Barry C. Barrish,  Robert Laughlin 

Mar 22 2005 8:00AM, Tuesday

Session H1 Spin-Liquid Insulators and Strongly Correlated Superconductors Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Matthew Fisher, UC-Santa Barbara Room: LACC 152
Invited Speakers:  Andrew Millis,  Leon Balents,  Shivaji Sondhi,  Nandini Trivedi,  Philip Phillips 

Session H2 Polymer Physics Prize Symposium Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Richard Register, Princeton University Room: LACC 151
Invited Speakers:  Thomas Russell,  Craig Hawker,  Spiros H. Anastasiadis,  Ullrich Steiner 

Session H3 Prize Session Sponsor: APS Chair: Gordon Thomas, New Jersey Institute of Technology Room: LACC 515B
Invited Speakers:  Hanna Reisler,  Uzi Landman,  Giorgio Parisi 

Session H4 Recent Developments in Semiconductor Heterostructure Spin Physics Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Awschalom, University of California-Santa Barbara Room: LACC 515A
Invited Speakers:  Roland Winkler,  Jean J. Heremans,  Mansour Shayegan 

Session H5 From Biological to Infrastructure Networks: Structure and Dynamics Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Laszlo Barabasi, Notre Dame University Room: LACC 502B
Invited Speakers:  Alessandro Vespignani,  Kertesz Janos,  Hawoong Jeong 

Session H6 The Physics Community's Defense of Human Rights Sponsor: FPS Chair: Myriam Sarachik, Physics Department, CCNY Room: LACC 502A
Invited Speakers:  Li-Zhi Fang,  Joel Lebowitz,  Yuri Chernyak,  Hadi Hadizadeh,  Edward Gerjuoy 

Session H7 Nanomechanical Biosensors Sponsor: DBP Chair: Thomas Thundat, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Room: LACC 408B
Invited Speakers:  Arun Majumdar,  Haifeng JI,  Vinayak Dravid,  Larry Nagahara 

Session H9 Focus Session: Low Dimensional Magnetism Sponsor: DCOMP DMP GMAG Chair: Kirill Belashchenko, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Room: LACC 153A
Invited Speakers: 

Session H10 Focus Session: Magnetic Semiconductors: Electronic Structure Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jairo Sinova, Texas A&M University Room: LACC 153B
Invited Speakers: 

Session H11 Focus Session: Simulations of Matter at Extreme Conditions II Sponsor: DCOMP DMP GSCCM Chair: Stephane Mazevet, LANL Room: LACC 153C
Invited Speakers:  Stanimir Bonev 

Session H12 Vortices in Superconductors III Sponsor: DCMP Chair: M. Tikham, Harvard University Room: LACC 402A

Session H13 Superconducting Magneto-Transport Properties Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Carmen Alamasan, Kent State University Room: LACC 402B

Session H14 Focus Session: Organic / Inorganic Hybrid Nanomaterials Sponsor: FIAP DPOLY Chair: John Kieffer, University of Michigan Room: LACC 403B
Invited Speakers:  Mark Gordon 

Session H15 Focus Session: Dilute Nitride Semiconductors: From Atoms to Devices I Sponsor: FIAP DCMP DMP Chair: Rachel S. Goldman, University of Michigan Room: LACC 405
Invited Speakers:  Stephen Fahy,  Amalia Patane 

Session H16 Focus Session: Tip-enhanced Nano-optics and Spectroscopy of Quantum Dots Sponsor: DMP Chair: Khaled Karrai, Ludwig-Maximilians University Room: LACC 404A
Invited Speakers: 

Session H17 Focus Session: Transport Through Molecules: Single Molecule Junctions Sponsor: DMP DCP Chair: Robert L. Willett, Bell Laboratories Room: LACC 404 B
Invited Speakers:  Mark Hybertsen 

Session H18 Modeling of Superconducting Systems for Quantum Computing Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Xuedong Hu University at Buffalo, SUNY Room: LACC 406A

Session H19 Bilayers Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Fogler, UCSD Room: LACC 406 B

Session H20 Focus Session: Properties of Complex Oxides and Interfaces I Sponsor: DMP Chair: Marco Buongiorno Nardelli, NCSU Room: LACC 407
Invited Speakers:  Tuson Park 

Session H22 Nucleic Acids Sponsor: DBP Chair: Robert Austin, Princeton University Room: LACC 409B

Session H23 Focus Session: Brownian Motion and Stochastic Dynamics in the 100 Years Since Einstein Sponsor: GSNP DBP Chair: Peter Jung, Ohio University Room: LACC 410
Invited Speakers:  Peter Baxendale,  Peter Hänggi 

Session H24 Focus Session: Friction, Fracture, and Deformation II Sponsor: GSNP DMP Chair: Robin Selinger, Catholic University Room: LACC 411
Invited Speakers:  Mark Robbins 

Session H25 Focus Session: Novel and Complex Oxides: NaxCoO2 Experiment and Theory Sponsor: DMP Chair: Claude Ederer, UC-Santa Barbara Room: LACC 501A
Invited Speakers:  Michelle Johannes 

Session H26 Focus Session: Nanotubes and nanowires: Theoretical Studies Sponsor: DMP Chair: M.P. Anantram, NASA Ames Room: LACC 501B
Invited Speakers:  Slava V. Rotkin 

Session H27 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Electronic Properties I Sponsor: DMP Chair: Tony Heinz, Columbia University Room: LACC 501C
Invited Speakers:  Christian Schoenenberger 

Session H28 Focus Session: Metallic Glasses and Liquids I Sponsor: DMP Chair: Despina Louca, University of Virginia Room: LACC 506
Invited Speakers:  Joseph Poon,  William L. Johnson,  Paul Voyles 

Session H30 Liquid Crystalline Polymers Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Patrick Mather, Case Western Reserve University Room: LACC 505

Session H31 Photonics and Optoelectronics Sponsor: DPOLY FIAP Chair: Adam Fontecchio, Drexel University Room: LACC 503

Session H32 Novel Computational Algorithms II Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Ron Mickens, Clark-Atlanta Room: LACC 507
Invited Speakers: 

Session H33 Quantum Fluids and Solids I Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Norbert Mulders, University of Delaware Room: LACC 511C

Session H34 Environmental Interfaces IV Sponsor: DCP Chair: Bruce Kay, PNNL Room: LACC 511A
Invited Speakers:  Alan Stone,  Gilbert Nathanson 

Session H35 Energy Landscapes in Clusters, Materials, and Biology III Sponsor: DCP DBP Chair: J. Onuchic, University of California-San Diego Room: LACC 511B
Invited Speakers:  Jose Onuchic 

Session H36 BEC and Trapped Bose Gases Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Dan Stamper-Kurn, UC-Berkeley Room: Convention Center 510

Session H37 General Fluid Dynamics and Phenomena Sponsor: DFD Chair: Gary Williams, UCLA Room: LACC 512

Session H38 Metal-Insulator Phase Transitions - Theory II Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Steven Kivelson, UCLA Room: Concention Center 513

Session H39 Ferroelectric Phase Transitions Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Clifford M. Krowne, NRL Room: Conference Center 514

Session H40 Focus Session: Morphology and Evolution at Surfaces: Persistence and Islands Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Ted Einstein, University of Maryland Room: LACC 408A

Session H41 Cooperative Phenomena: Phase Transition in Magnetic Systems Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Tom Kaplan, Michigan State University Room: LACC 150A

Session H42 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanoparticles, Nanostructures & Heterostructures III Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: John Wendelken, Oak Ridge National Lab Room: LACC 150B
Invited Speakers:  Harald Brune 

Session H43 Focus Session: Magnetic Tunnel Junctions II Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Xiu-Feng Han, Institute of Physics, Beijing Room: LACC 150 C
Invited Speakers:  Evgeny Tsymbal 

Mar 22 2005 11:15AM, Tuesday

Session J1 Vortex Avalanches Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ulrich Welp, Argonne National Laboratory Room: LACC 152
Invited Speakers:  Vitalii Vlasko-Vlasov,  Daniel Shantsev,  Eli Zeldov 

Session J2 Heterostructures of Correlated Oxide Materials Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Allen Goldman, University of Minnesota Room: LACC 151
Invited Speakers:  James Eckstein,  Ansgar Liebsch,  Akira Ohtomo,  Satoshi Okamoto,  Darrell Schlom 

Session J3 Recent Progess in Quantum Physics and Quantum Information Sponsor: GQI Chair: Anthony Leggett, University of Illinois Room: LACC 515B
Invited Speakers:  Michel Devoret,  Anton Zeilinger,  Wojciech Hubert Zurek 

Session J4 Conducting Polymers Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Rachel Segalman, UC-Berkeley Room: LACC 515A
Invited Speakers:  Michael McGehee 

Session J5 Teaching Classical Mechanics and Non-Linear Dynamics: Highlights from a Gordon Conference Sponsor: FEd Chair: Paula Heron, University of Washington Room: LACC 502B
Invited Speakers:  John Taylor,  Matthew Moelter,  Michael Dennin,  Edwin Taylor 

Session J6 Extreme Computing Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Thomas Schulthess, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Room: LACC 502A
Invited Speakers:  Thomas Maier 

Session J7 Biological Microsystem Technologies Using Microfluidics and Integrated Circuits Sponsor: DBP Chair: Robert M. Westervelt, Harvard University Room: LACC 408B
Invited Speakers:  John Rogers,  Bruce C. Bunker,  Xing Su,  Donald Ingber 

Session J9 Focus Session: Spin Transport/Magnetism Theory Sponsor: DCOMP DMP GMAG Chair: Oleg Mryasov, Seagate Research Center Room: LACC 153A
Invited Speakers: 

Session J10 Focus Session: Spin Dynamics in Semiconductors Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Scott Crooker, LANL Room: LACC 153B
Invited Speakers:  John Colton 

Session J11 High Pressure II Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Andrea Trave, LLNL Room: LACC 153C

Session J12 Superconducting Properties of MgB2 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Allen Hermann, University of Colorado Room: LACC 402A

Session J13 Defects and Other Structure in Superconductors Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Don Gubser, Naval Research Laboratory Room: LACC 402B
Invited Speakers: 

Session J14 Focus Session: Anisotropic Building Blocks: Synthesis and Assembly Sponsor: FIAP DMP Chair: Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan Room: LACC 403B
Invited Speakers:  Francesco Stellacci,  Joerg Lahann 

Session J15 Focus Session: Strained Si and Other Semiconductors for Device Applications Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Ya-Hong Xie, UCLA Room: LACC 405
Invited Speakers:  Qi Xiang,  George Celler 

Session J16 Focus Session: Nano-spectroscopy of Quantum Dots Sponsor: DMP Chair: Sergio E. Ulloa, Ohio University Room: LACC 404A
Invited Speakers:  Victor Klimov 

Session J17 Focus Session: Materials and Device Physics for Quantum Computing Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Carlo Piermaroochi, Michigan State University Room: LACC 404B

Session J18 Focus Session: Wide Band Gap Semiconductors I Sponsor: DMP Chair: Alan Doolittle, Georgia Tech Room: LACC 406A
Invited Speakers:  Cammy Abernathy 

Session J20 Surfaces: Novel Instrumentation and Techniques Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jianhua Gu, West Virginia University Room: LACC 407

Session J21 Lipid and Insulating Bilayers Sponsor: DBP Chair: Jurgen Kurths, University of Potsdam Room: LACC 409A

Session J22 Biochemical and Genetic Networks Sponsor: DBP Chair: Gabor Balazsi, Northwestern University Room: LACC 409 B

Session J23 Stochastic Processes and Nonlinear Dynamics Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Bob Ecke, LANL Room: LACC 410

Session J24 GSNP Student Presentation Session and Far From Equilibrium Systems Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Mark Robbins, Johns Hopkins University Room: LACC 411

Session J25 Focus Session: Novel and Complex Oxides: Ruthenates and Osmiumates Sponsor: DMP Chair: Chris Leighton, University of Minnesota Room: LACC 501A
Invited Speakers:  Zenji Hiroi 

Session J26 Nanotubes and Nanowires: Applications Sponsor: DMP Chair: Chongwu Zhou, USC Room: LACC 501B

Session J27 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Electronic Properties II Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Fuhrer, UMD Room: LACC 501C
Invited Speakers: 

Session J28 Focus Session: Metallic Glasses and Liquids II Sponsor: DMP Chair: Anup Gangopadhay, Washington University Room: LACC 506
Invited Speakers:  Yue Wu,  Simon Billinge,  Z.P. Lu 

Session J30 Elastomers and Gels Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Claude Cohen, Cornell University Room: LACC 505

Session J31 Frank J. Padden Award Symposium Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Steve Granick, UIUC Room: LACC 503

Session J32 Focus Session: Superconductivity: Theory and Computation (Mostly Triplet) Sponsor: DCOMP DCMP Chair: Igor Mazin, Naval Research Lab Room: LACC 507

Session J34 Environmental Interfaces V Sponsor: DCP Chair: Barbara Finlayson-Pitts, UC Irvine Room: Convention Center 511 A
Invited Speakers:  Gordon E. Brown, Jr.,  Scot Martin,  William Schneider 

Session J35 Energy Landscapes in Clusters, Materials, and Biology IV Sponsor: DCP Chair: A. Heuer, University of Muenster Room: LACC 511B
Invited Speakers:  Andreas Heuer 

Session J36 Trapped Fermi Gases and Feshbach Resonances Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Lincoln Carr, JILA, Boulder, CO Room: LACC 510

Session J37 Fluid Turbulence and Instabilities Sponsor: DFD GSNP Chair: Guenter Ahlers, University of California-Santa Barbara Room: LACC 512

Session J38 Metal-Insulator Phase Transitions - Experiment II Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Genda Gu, Brookhaven National Lab Room: LACC 513

Session J39 Phase Transitions in Surfaces and Films: Ferroelectrics and Multiferroics Sponsor: DCMP Chair: T. Kimura, Los Alamos National Lab Room: Conference Center 514

Session J40 Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures III: Semiconductors & Surfaces Sponsor: DMP DCP Chair: J. Crain, NIST Room: LACC 408A
Invited Speakers: 

Session J41 Correlated Electrons: Manganites Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Amlan Biswas, University of Florida Room: LACC 150A

Session J42 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanoparticles, Nanostructures & Heterostructures IV Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Zhiqiang Qiu, UC Berkeley Room: LACC 150B
Invited Speakers:  Xiaofeng Jin 

Session J43 Low Dimensional Magnetism: General Topics Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Yasu Takano, University of Florida Room: Convention Center 150C

Mar 22 2005 2:00PM, Tuesday

Session K1 Poster Session II Room: LACC Exhibit Hall 2:00-5:00pm

Mar 22 2005 2:30PM, Tuesday

Session L1 Vortex Ratchet Effect Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Eva Andrei, Rutgers University Room: LACC 152
Invited Speakers:  Maria I. Montero,  Guohong Li,  Franco Nori,  Akira Tonomura 

Session L2 Martensitic Phase Transformations Under Pressure Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Robert Albers, Los Alamos National Lab Room: LACC 151
Invited Speakers:  Ho-kwang Mao,  Dallas Trinkle,  Jason Lashley 

Session L3 Recent Work on Strongly Coupled Fermi Gases I Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Alexander Fetter, Stanford University Room: LACC 515B
Invited Speakers:  Markus Greiner,  Andrey Turlapov,  Tin-Lun Ho 

Session L4 Invited Symposium: The Role of Physics in NASA's Vision for Space Exploration Sponsor: DMP Chair: Darrell Jan, NASA JPL Room: LACC 515A
Invited Speakers:  Kenneth Kelton,  Peter Voorhees,  Ara Chutjian,  Dr. Darrell Jan,  Jitendra Joshi 

Session L5 Emerging Devices and Materials for the Microelectronics Industry Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Alex Demkov, University of Texas, Austin Room: LACC 502B
Invited Speakers:  Ralph K. Cavin,  Dennis Buss,  Michael Garner,  Gerhard Klimeck and Mark Lundstrom 

Session L6 Presenting Current Research to Undergraduates: Physical Review Focus Authors Sponsor: FEd Chair: David Ehrenstein, APS Room: LACC 502A
Invited Speakers:  David Grier,  Eugene Stanley 

Session L7 Modeling Large Scale Molecular Biological Data Sponsor: DBP DCOMP Chair: Orly Alter, University of Texas at Austin Room: LACC 408B
Invited Speakers:  Eric Siggia,  Todd Yeates,  Orly Alter,  Sigeo Ihara,  Erez Braun 

Session L9 Focus Session: Exchange Interactions and Magnetization Sponsor: DCOMP DMP GMAG Chair: Renat Sabiryanov, University of Nebraska-Omaha Room: LACC 153A
Invited Speakers: 

Session L10 Focus Session: Magnetic Impurities in Semiconductors Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jacek Furdyna, University of Notre Dame Room: LACC 153B
Invited Speakers: 

Session L11 Earth and Planetary Materials II Sponsor: DMP DCMP GSCCM Chair: Jay Bass, University of Illinois at Urbana, Chicago Room: LACC 153C
Invited Speakers:  James Badro 

Session L12 Superconducting Properties Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Stan Tozer, NHMFL Room: LACC 402A

Session L13 Superconducting Nanostructures Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Bleiweiss, Naval Academy Prep. Room: LACC 402B

Session L14 Focus Session: Multifunctional Oxides I Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Jane P. Chang, UCLA Room: LACC 403B
Invited Speakers: 

Session L15 Focus Session: Dilute Nitride Semiconductors: From Atoms to Devices II Sponsor: FIAP DCMP DMP Chair: Eicke Weber, University of California-Berkeley Room: LACC 405
Invited Speakers: 

Session L16 Photonic Crystals I Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Guy Ramon, Naval Research Laboratory Room: LACC 404A

Session L17 Structural and Optical Properties of Nanostructures Sponsor: DMP Chair: Tom Kennedy, NRL Room: LACC 404B

Session L18 Focus Session: Wide Band Gap Semiconductors II Sponsor: DMP Chair: Niti Goel, Univ. of Notre Dame Room: LACC 406A
Invited Speakers:  William Schaff 

Session L19 History of Physics Sponsor: FHP Chair: Nina Byers, UCLA Room: LACC 406B

Session L20 Focus Session: Properties of Complex Oxides and Interfaces II Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Marco Fornari, Central Michigan University Room: LACC 407
Invited Speakers:  George Samara 

Session L21 Focus Session: Intracellular Calcium Dynamics in Myocytes Sponsor: DBP Chair: Wouter-Jan Rappel, UCSD Room: LACC 409A
Invited Speakers:  James D Weiss 

Session L22 Metalloenzymes: Structure and Function Sponsor: DBP Chair: Marilyn Gunner, CCNY Room: LACC 409B
Invited Speakers: 

Session L23 Coherent Structures, Pattern Formation and Spatio-Temporal Chaos Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Bruno Eckhardt, University of Marburg Room: LACC 410

Session L24 Focus Session: Friction, Fracture, and Deformation III Sponsor: GSNP DMP Chair: Roland Bennewitz, McGill University Room: LACC 411
Invited Speakers:  Kathryn J. Wahl 

Session L27 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Devices Sponsor: DMP Chair: Christian Schoenenberger, University of Basel Room: LACC 501C
Invited Speakers:  Prof. Alex Zettl 

Session L28 Phonons in Metals Sponsor: DMP Chair: Adolfo Equiluz, University of Tennessee Room: LACC 506

Session L30 Polymers-Inorganic Composites I Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Dilip Gersappe, SUNY Stony Brook Room: LACC 505

Session L31 Organic Photovoltaic and Electrochromic Devices Sponsor: DPOLY FIAP Chair: Graciela Blanchet, Dupont Room: LACC 503
Invited Speakers:  Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci 

Session L32 Focus Session: Superconductivity: Superconductivity (Mostly Electron-Phonon) Sponsor: DCOMP DCMP Chair: A. A. Golubov, University of Tweute, Holland Room: LACC 507
Invited Speakers: 

Session L33 Quantum Fluids and Solids II Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Rena Zieve, UC Davis Room: LACC 511C

Session L34 Dynamics in Condensed Phase I Sponsor: DCP Chair: Haw Yang, UC-Berkeley Room: LACC 511A
Invited Speakers:  Everett A. Lipman,  Haw Yang 

Session L35 Nanophotonic Materials, Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy II Sponsor: DCP Chair: John Fourkas, Boston College Room: LACC 511B
Invited Speakers:  Shoji Maruo 

Session L36 Focus Session: Granular Gases and Liquids I Sponsor: GSNP DFD Chair: Eli Ben-Naim, Los Alamos National Laboratory Room: LACC 510
Invited Speakers:  Narayanan Menon 

Session L37 Microfluidic Physics I: Applications, Separations, Polymers Sponsor: DFD Chair: Todd Squires, Caltech Room: LACC 512
Invited Speakers: 

Session L38 Phase Transitions in Model Magnets Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Markus Huecker, Brookhaven National Lab Room: LACC 513

Session L39 Focus Session: Intrinsic Inhomogeneity in Multiferroic Materials Sponsor: DMP Chair: Neil D. Mathur, University of Cambridge Room: LACC 514
Invited Speakers:  Marin Alexe,  Jian Shen 

Session L40 Dillon Medal Symposium Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Russel Composto, Univ. of Penn Room: LACC 408A
Invited Speakers:  Jan Genzer 

Session L41 Correlated Electrons: Hall Effect and Kondo Physics Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Michael Pustilink, Georgia Tech Room: LACC 150A

Session L42 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanoparticles, Nanostructures & Heterostructures V Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jian Shen, Oak Ridge National Lab Room: LACC 150B
Invited Speakers:  Ralph Skomski 

Session L43 Focus Session: Phase Complexity and Enhanced Functionality in Magnetic Oxides I Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: David Mandrus, University of Tennessee Room: LACC 150C
Invited Speakers:  Dipankar Das Sarma 

Session L44 Panel Discussion with APS Journal Editors Sponsor: APS Room: LACC 518

Mar 22 2005 5:30PM, Tuesday

Session M4 Keithley Award Sponsor: GIMS Chair: David Seiler, NIST Room: LACC 515A
Invited Speakers:  Dwight Adams 

Session M5a GSNP Business Meeting Sponsor: GSNP Room: LACC 502B

Session M6 Multi-Scale Aspects and Dynamical Networks in Integrated Physiologic Systems Sponsor: DBP Chair: Plamen Ivanov, Boston University Room: LACC 502A
Invited Speakers:  Juergen Kurths,  Hans Albert Braun,  Sonya Bahar,  Plamen Ch. Ivanov 

Session M7 Kinked States of DNA: From Physical Measurement to Functional Significance Sponsor: DBP Chair: Philip Nelson, University of Pennsylvania Room: LACC 408B
Invited Speakers:  Alexander Vologodskii,  Paul Wiggins 

Session M10 GMAG Business Meeting Sponsor: GMAG Room: LACC 153B

Session M15 FIAP Business Meeting Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan Room: LACC 405

Session M34 DCP Business Meeting Sponsor: DCP Room: LACC 511A

Session M40 DPOLY Business Meeting Sponsor: DPOLY Room: LACC 408A

Mar 22 2005 6:00PM, Tuesday

Session M21 DBP Business Meeting Sponsor: DBP Room: LACC 409A

Mar 22 2005 6:10PM, Tuesday

Session M44 GIMS Business Meeting Sponsor: GIMS Room: LACC 518

Mar 22 2005 6:30PM, Tuesday

Session M45 DCMP Business Meeting Sponsor: DCMP Room: Westin Hotel Los Cerritos

Session M46 DMP Business Meeting Sponsor: DMP Room: Westin Hotel La Brea

Mar 22 2005 7:30PM, Tuesday

Session M5b Tetrahedratic (Octupolar) Order in Complex Materials Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Harald Pleiner, MPI Polymer Research Room: LACC 502B
Invited Speakers:  Leo Radzihovsky,  Patricia Cladis 

Mar 23 2005 8:00AM, Wednesday

Session N1 Superconducting Qubits Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Martinis, UCSB Room: LACC 152
Invited Speakers:  Evgeni Il'ichev,  Andreas Wallraff,  Ken Cooper 

Session N2 Spin and Charge in Mott Systems Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dennis Newns, IBM Room: LACC 151
Invited Speakers:  Olivier Parcollet,  Akihisa Koga,  Denis Demchenko,  J.W. Allen 

Session N3 Electronic and Spin Effects in Low-Dimensional and Nanoscale Systems Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mei-Yin Chou, Georgia Institute of Technology Room: LACC 515B
Invited Speakers:  T.C. Chiang,  Qi-Kun Xue,  Ward PLummer 

Session N4 Polymer Entanglement and Elasticity Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: William Graessley, Princeton University Room: LACC 515A
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Read,  Shi-Qing Wang,  Michael Rubinstein 

Session N5 Applications of THz Radiation Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Alan Todd, Advanced Energy Systems and Gwyn P. Williams, Jefferson Lab Room: LACC 502B
Invited Speakers:  Tatiana Globus,  Michael Kemp,  David Zimdars,  Erich Grossman 

Session N6 Recent Work on Strongly-coupled Fermi Gases II Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Allan Griffin, University of Toronto Room: LACC 502A
Invited Speakers:  Dmitry Petrov,  Stefano Giorgini,  Rudolf Grimm,  Paivi Torma 

Session N7 Einstein and Friends II Sponsor: FHP Chair: Alex Maradudin, UCLA-Irvine Room: LACC 408B
Invited Speakers:  Diana Buchwald,  Martin J. Klein 

Session N9 Geometrically Frustrated Magnets I Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Jason Garner, NIST Room: LACC 153A

Session N10 Focus Session: Spin Transport and Dynamics in Quantum Dots Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Michael Flatte, University of Iowa Room: LACC 153B
Invited Speakers:  Pablo Jarillo-Herrero 

Session N12 Vortices in Superconductors IV Sponsor: DCMP Chair: V.Z. Kresin, LBL, University of California Room: LACC 402A

Session N13 Devices and Applications I Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Alan Todd, Advanced Energy Systems Room: LACC 402B

Session N14 Focus Session: Multifunctional Oxides II Sponsor: FIAP DMP Chair: Jean Fompeyrine, Jane Chang, IBM Room: LACC 403B
Invited Speakers:  Jean-Pierre Locquet 

Session N15 Focus Session: Theory of Nanostructures and Nanowires Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Andrew Williamson, LLNL Room: LACC 405
Invited Speakers:  Giulia Galli 

Session N16 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Subwavelength Apertures and Nanoparticle Arrays Sponsor: DMP Chair: Bennett Goldberg, Boston University Room: LACC 404A
Invited Speakers: 

Session N17 Research on the Learning and Teaching of Physics Sponsor: FEd Chair: Gary White, American Institute of Physics Room: 2005 3 23 8:00 404 B
Invited Speakers: 

Session N18 Focus Session: Wide Band Gap Semiconductors III Sponsor: DMP Chair: William Schaff, Cornell University Room: LACC 406A
Invited Speakers:  Leonard Feldman 

Session N19 Transport and Microwave Conductivity Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Niti Goel, University of Notre Dame Room: LACC 406B

Session N20 Focus Session: Ferroelectrics Sponsor: FIAP DMP Chair: Nicola Spaldin, UC-Santa Barbara Room: LACC 407
Invited Speakers:  Marco Fornari 

Session N21 Focus Session: Single Molecule Nanobiology Sponsor: DBP Chair: Saw-Wai Hla, Ohio University Room: LACC 409A
Invited Speakers:  Harold Craighead 

Session N22 High Magnetic Fields/Electronic and Photonic Devices Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Eric Palm, National High Magnetic Field Lab Room: LACC 409B

Session N23 Focus Session: Methods of Statistical Physics in Population Dynamics and Epidemiology Sponsor: GSNP DBP Chair: Len Sander, University of Michigan Room: LACC 410
Invited Speakers:  Bryan Grenfell 

Session N24 Focus Session: Friction, Fracture, and Deformation IV Sponsor: GSNP DMP Chair: Udo Schwarz, Yale University Room: LACC 411
Invited Speakers:  Scott Perry 

Session N25 Focus Session: Novel and Complex Oxides: Cobaltites and Manganites Sponsor: DMP Chair: Rongying Jin, ORNL Room: LACC 501A
Invited Speakers:  Despina Louca 

Session N26 Computational Nanoscience III Sponsor: DCOMP DMP DAMOP Chair: Brahim Akdim, AFRL Room: LACC 501B
Invited Speakers: 

Session N27 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Functionalization I Sponsor: DMP Chair: Lars Ericson, NRL Room: LACC 501C
Invited Speakers:  Peter Eklund 

Session N28 Focus Session: Mechanical Properties of Metals Sponsor: DMP Chair: Mo Li, Georgia Institute of Technology Room: LACC 506

Session N29 Block Copolymers II Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Thomas Epps, NIST Room: LACC 504

Session N30 Polymer - Inorganic Composites II Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Joao Cabral, Imperial College Room: LACC 505

Session N32 Focus Session: Superconductivity: Theory and Computations Sponsor: DCOMP DCMP Chair: Richard Scalettar, University of California-Davis Room: LACC 507

Session N33 Quantum Fluid and Solids III Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Chris Gould, University of Southern California Room: LACC 511C

Session N34 Dynamics in Condensed Phase II Sponsor: DCP Chair: Everett Lipman, University of California-Santa Barbara Room: LACC 511A
Invited Speakers: 

Session N35 Nanophotonic Materials, Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy III Sponsor: DCP Chair: Joe Perry, Georgia Institute of Technology Room: LACC 511B
Invited Speakers:  David Piston 

Session N36 Focus Session: Granular Liquids and Gases II Sponsor: GSNP DFD DCMP Chair: Arshad Kudrolli, Clark University Room: LACC 510
Invited Speakers:  Eli Ben-Naim 

Session N37 Focus Session: Microfluidic Physics II: Electrokinetics Sponsor: DFD Chair: Armand Ajdari, PCT-ESPCI-CNRS Room: LACC 512
Invited Speakers: 

Session N38 Phase Transitions in Itinerant Magnets Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sevnghun Lee, NIST Room: LACC 513

Session N39 Structural Phase Transitions Sponsor: DCMP Chair: T. Egami, University of Tennessee Room: LACC 514

Session N40 Focus Session: Morphology and Evolution at Surfaces: Ion Beams and Instabilities Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Lars Samuelson, Lund University, Sweden Room: LACC 408A

Session N41 Correlated Electrons: Magnetism in Cobaltates, Ruthenates and Skutterudites Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Joe Feldman, NRL Room: LACC 150A

Session N42 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanoparticles, Nanostructures & Heterostructures VI Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Ralph Skomski, University of Nebraska Room: LACC 150B
Invited Speakers:  J.W. Harrell 

Session N43 Focus Session: Phase Complexity and Enhanced Functionality in Magnetic Oxides II Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: N. D. Mathur, Cambridge University Room: LACC 150C
Invited Speakers:  Shigeo Mori,  K.H. Ahn 

Mar 23 2005 9:30AM, Wednesday

Session N44 Session on Refereeing Sponsor: APS Room: LACC 518

Mar 23 2005 11:15AM, Wednesday

Session P1 Buckley Prize, Bouchet Award, and Apker Award Talks Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sidney Nagel, University of Chicago Room: LACC 152
Invited Speakers:  Godfrey Gumbs,  Nathan Hodas 

Session P2 New Techniques for Biological Structure Determination Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Janos Kirz, SUNY Stony Brook Room: LACC 151
Invited Speakers:  Gelsomina De Stasio,  Carolyn Larabell,  Michael Mossle 

Session P3 Physics and Sustainable Development Sponsor: APS FIP Chair: Judy Franz, APS Room: LACC 515B
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Kammen,  Perry Sprawls 

Session P4 Structure in Solutions and Melts Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Zhen-Gang Wang, California Institute of Technology Room: LACC 515A
Invited Speakers:  Julia Kornfield,  Francoise M. Winnik,  Grant Smith 

Session P5 Nitride-Based Microelectronics Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Joanna Mirecki-Millunchick, University of Michigan Room: LACC 502B
Invited Speakers:  Steven Ringel,  Umesh Mishra,  Robert Coffie,  Lester F. Eastman,  David Storm 

Session P6 Spectroscopy of Novel Magnetic Materials Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: H. Dennis Drew, University of Maryland Room: LACC 502A
Invited Speakers:  Kenneth Burch 

Session P7 Oh the Places You'll Go, Career Paths in Physics Sponsor: FGSA Chair: Lindley Winslow, University of California-Berkeley Room: LACC 408B
Invited Speakers:  Robert Dynes,  Elaine Chandler,  James Camparo,  Christopher Fuglesang 

Session P10 Focus Session: Magnetic Semiconductors: Oxides Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Christoph Adelmann, University of Minnesota Room: LACC 153B

Session P12 Superconducting Materials Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Myron Salamon, University of Illinois Room: LACC 402A

Session P13 Superconducting Thin Films and Transport Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Paola Barbara, Georgetown University Room: LACC 402B

Session P14 Focus Session: Hydrogen Storage I: Media Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Frederick E. Pinkerton, GM Research and Development Center Room: LACC 403B
Invited Speakers: 

Session P15 Focus Session: Relaxation and Phonons in Nanostructures Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Fran Wise, Cornell University Room: LACC 405
Invited Speakers:  Richard Schaller 

Session P16 Focus Session: Optical Resonances and Techniques in Nano-Optics Sponsor: DMP Chair: Henri Lezec, CNRS & Caltech Room: LACC 404A
Invited Speakers:  Khaled Karrai and Constanze H\"ohberger-Metzger 

Session P17 Focus Session: Materials and Device Physics for Quantum Computing II Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: John Worlock, University of Utah Room: LACC 404B
Invited Speakers:  Charles Marcus 

Session P18 Surfaces and Point Defects in Semiconductor Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dr. Tae-Sik Yoon, Dept. MSE, UCLA Room: LACC 406A

Session P19 Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Nanostructures II Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Giti Khodaparast, Virginia Tech Room: LACC 406B

Session P20 Surface Localized States Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Eric Fullerton, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Room: LACC 407

Session P21 Nanotubes, Nanowire and Nanoparticles in Biology Sponsor: DBP Chair: Robert Austin, Princeton University Room: LACC 409A

Session P23 Focus Session: Biological Hydrodynamics II Sponsor: DFD DBP GSNP Chair: Peter Lenz, University of Marburg Room: LACC 410
Invited Speakers:  Julie Theriot 

Session P24 Focus Session: Jamming: Rheology and Failure Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Corey O'Hern, Yale University Room: LACC 411
Invited Speakers: 

Session P25 Focus Session: Novel and Complex Oxides: Multiferroic and Other Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Michelle Johannes, NRL Room: LACC 501A
Invited Speakers:  Claude Ederer 

Session P26 Computational Nanoscience IV Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: R. Klemm, Kansas State University Room: LACC 501B

Session P27 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Functionalization II Sponsor: DMP Chair: Keith Perkins, NRL Room: LACC 501C
Invited Speakers:  Serge Lemay 

Session P29 Transport and Electronic Structure of Organic Electronic Materials Sponsor: DPOLY FIAP Chair: Arthur Epstein, Ohio State University Room: LACC 504
Invited Speakers:  Vladimir Prigodin 

Session P30 Polymers - Inorganic Composites III Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Mark Dadmun, University of Tennessee, Knoxsville Room: LACC 505

Session P31 Biopolymers: Molecules, Solutions and Networks I Sponsor: DPOLY DBP Chair: John Crocker, University of Pennsylvania Room: LACC 503
Invited Speakers: 

Session P32 Computational Methods Classical and Quantum Monte Carlo Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Alice Kolakowska, Mississippi State University Room: LACC 507

Session P33 Quantum Mechanical Properties Sponsor: GQI Chair: Irfan Siddiqi, Yale University Room: LACC 511C

Session P34 Dynamics in Condensed Phase III Sponsor: DCP Chair: Philip Geissler, University of California-Berkeley Room: LACC 511A
Invited Speakers:  David Chandler,  Jan Liphardt 

Session P35 Molecular Electronics I Sponsor: DCP DMP FIAP Chair: Cherie Kagan, IBM, TJ Watson Room: LACC 511B
Invited Speakers:  Duncan Stewart,  Paul S. Weiss,  Arrelaine A. Dameron,  Amanda M. Moore 

Session P36 Focus Session: BCS-BEC Physics in Fermi Gases Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Nicolai Nygaard, NIST Room: LACC 510
Invited Speakers: 

Session P37 Focus Session: Microfluidic Physics III: Surface Effects and Flows Sponsor: DFD Chair: Lyderic Bocquet, University Lyon I Room: LACC 512

Session P39 Fermi Liquid and Strong Correlations Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Kun Yang, Florida State University Room: LACC 514

Session P40 Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures IV: Wires Sponsor: DMP DCP Chair: D. Natelson, Rice University Room: LACC 408A
Invited Speakers: 

Session P42 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanoparticles, Nanostructures & Heterostructures VII Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Xiaofeng Jin, Fudan University, China Room: LACC 150B

Session P43 Focus Session: Phase Complexity and Enhanced Functionality in Magnetic Oxides III Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Ichiro Takeuchi, University of Maryland Room: LACC 150C
Invited Speakers: 

Mar 23 2005 1:00PM, Wednesday

Session R1 Poster Session III Room: LACC Exhibit Hall 1:00-4:00pm

Mar 23 2005 2:30PM, Wednesday

Session S1 Pairing and Symmetry Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Kirtley, IBM Room: LACC 152
Invited Speakers:  Chang Tsuei,  Ying Liu,  Klaus Hasselbach,  Myron Salamon 

Session S2a Granular Impact-Cratering Dynamics and Morphology Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Robert Behringer, Duke University Room: LACC 151
Invited Speakers:  Douglas Durian,  Lev Tsimring 

Session S3 Nanoscale Metal-Semiconductor Schottky Contacts Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jonathan Pelz, Ohio State University Room: LACC 515B
Invited Speakers:  Cristian Tivarus,  Horng-Chih Lin 

Session S4 Surface Structure of Compound Semiconductors Sponsor: FIAP Room: LACC 515A
Invited Speakers:  Tim Jones,  Joanna Mirecki-Millunchick,  Giovanni Costantini 

Session S5 Solitons in Physics: 50 Years Since Fermi, Pasta & Ulam Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Charlie Doering, University of Michigan Room: LACC 502B
Invited Speakers:  David Campbell,  E.G.D. Cohen,  Mason Porter,  Bambi Hu,  Norman J. Zabusky 

Session S6 Solid State Qubits, Resonators, and Quantum Optics Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University Room: LACC 502A
Invited Speakers:  Alexandre Blais,  Lilian Childress,  Hyatt Gibbs,  Denis Vion,  Michael Geller 

Session S7 Gene Chips Sponsor: DBP Chair: Ned Wingreen, Princeton University Room: LACC 408B
Invited Speakers:  David Botstein,  Harmen J. Bussemaker,  Eric Schadt 

Session S9 Geometrically Frustrated Magnets II Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Oleg Tchernyshov, Johns Hopkins University Room: LACC 153A

Session S10 Focus Session: Magnetic Semiconductor Heterostructures Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jing Shi, University of Utah Room: LACC 153B
Invited Speakers: 

Session S12 Focus Session: Superconductivity: Theory and Computation II Sponsor: DCOMP DCMP Chair: Oleg Starykh, University of Utah Room: LACC 402A
Invited Speakers: 

Session S13 uSR and NMR in Superconductors Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Steve Anlage, University of Maryland Room: LACC 402B

Session S14 Focus Session: Hydrogen Storage II: Measurements Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Frederick Pinkerton, General Motors Room: LACC 403B

Session S15 Focus Session: Transport in Ensemble of Nanocrystals Sponsor: FIAP Chair: V. Klimov, LANL Room: LACC 405
Invited Speakers: 

Session S16 Focus Session: Molecular Materials: Electronic Transport and Growth Sponsor: DMP DCP Chair: Douglas Natelson, Rice University Room: LACC 404A
Invited Speakers:  Claudia Goldmann 

Session S17 Issues in Physics Education Sponsor: FEd DCOMP Chair: Karen Cummings, Southern CT State Univ Room: LACC 404B

Session S18 Focus Session: Wide Band Gap Semiconductors IV Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jennifer Zinck, HRL Room: LACC 406A
Invited Speakers: 

Session S19 Bulk Semiconductors: Electronic and Optical Properties Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Stefan Zollner, Freescale Semiconductor Room: LACC 406B

Session S20 Focus Session: Ferroelectric Thin Films Sponsor: FIAP DMP Chair: Fred Walker, ORNL Room: LACC 407
Invited Speakers: 

Session S21 Cellular Biomechanics Sponsor: DBP Chair: Alexander Neiman, Ohio University Room: LACC 409A

Session S22 Biological Physics Sponsor: DBP Chair: Sonya Bahar, University of Missouri-St. Louis Room: LACC 409B

Session S23 Quantum Chaos Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Nicholas Cerruti, Washington State University Room: LACC 410

Session S24 Focus Session: Jamming: Effective temperature and Aging Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Daniel Blair, Harvard University Room: LACC 411
Invited Speakers: 

Session S25 Strongly Correlated Oxides, Superlattices and Synthesis Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Zenji Hiroi, University of Tokyo Room: LACC 501A

Session S26 Nanowires I: Theory and Modeling Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Daniel Stein, University of Arizona Room: LACC 501B

Session S27 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Theory Sponsor: DMP Chair: Mark Pederson, NRL Room: LACC 501C
Invited Speakers: 

Session S28 Excitations, Scattering and Surfaces of Metals Sponsor: DMP Chair: Randy Fishman, ORNL Room: LACC 506

Session S30 Polymer Blends Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Alamgir Karim, NIST Room: LACC 505

Session S31 Organic Electronics Materials Characterization Sponsor: DPOLY FIAP Chair: Graciela Blanchet, DuPont Room: LACC 503

Session S32 Electronic Structure Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Estela Blaisten-Barojas, GMU Room: LACC 507

Session S33 Focus Session: Pathway to Practical Quantum Computing Sponsor: GQI DAMOP DCOMP Chair: Daniel Greenberger, City College of New York Room: LACC 511C
Invited Speakers:  Hideo Mabuchi 

Session S35 Molecular Electronics II Sponsor: DCP FIAP DMP Chair: Edwin Chandross, Bell Labs Room: LACC 511B
Invited Speakers:  Abraham Nitzan,  Theresa Mayer 

Session S36 Trapped Atoms in Optical Lattices Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: James Williams, NIST-Gaithersburg Room: LACC 510

Session S37 Colloids III Sponsor: DFD Chair: Noel Clark, University of Colorado Room: LACC 512

Session S39 Quantum Phase Transitions in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Victor Galitski, UCSB Room: Los Angeles Convention Center 514

Session S40 Focus Session: Morphology and Evolution at Surfaces: Wires and Self-Assembly Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Pantelis Kelires, University of Crete Room: LACC 408A
Invited Speakers:  Lars Samuelson 

Session S41 Correlated Electrons: Exotic Magnetism Sponsor: GMAG Chair: S.D. Mahanti, Michigan State Univ. Room: LACC 150A

Session S42 Artificially Structured or Self-Assembled Magnetic Materials - II Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Satish Ogale, University of Maryland Room: LACC 150B
Invited Speakers:  Changyeon Won 

Session S43 Focus Session: Phase Complexity and Enhanced Functionality in Magnetic Oxides IV Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Sang-Wook Cheong, Rutgers University Room: LACC 150C
Invited Speakers:  Nicola Spaldin,  Jeffrey Lynn 

Session S44 Magnetic and Force Microscopy Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Mark Hersam, Northwestern University Room: LACC 518

Mar 23 2005 4:18PM, Wednesday

Session S2b Supersolidity and Bose-Einstein Condensation in Solid Helium Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Moses Chan, Penn State University Room: LACC 151
Invited Speakers:  Eunseong Kim,  Keiya Shirahama 

Mar 23 2005 5:30PM, Wednesday

Session T32 DCOMP Business Meeting Sponsor: DCOMP Room: Westin Hotel Palos Verdes

Mar 23 2005 7:30PM, Wednesday

Session T1 Einstein and Condensed Matter Physics Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Marvin L. Cohen, University of California-Berkeley Room: Westin Hotel San Francisco
Invited Speakers:  Moses Chan,  Zhixun Shen 

Mar 24 2005 8:00AM, Thursday

Session U1 High Tc Transport Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Marcel Franz, UBC Room: LACC 152
Invited Speakers:  Walter Hardy 

Session U2 Jamming and Geometric Constraints Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Leonardo Silbert, University of Chicago Room: LACC 151
Invited Speakers:  Paul Chaikin,  Cynthia Olson Reichhardt,  Giulio Biroli 

Session U3 Unconventional Electronic and Optical Uses of Negative Refractive and Negative Index Materials Sponsor: DCMP DAMOP Chair: Costas Soukoulis, Iowa State University Room: LACC 515B
Invited Speakers:  Yong Zhang 

Session U4 Polymer Microstructures Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Karen Winey, University of Pennsylvania Room: LACC 515A
Invited Speakers:  Mohan Srinivasarao,  P.F. Nealey,  Ulrich Wiesner,  Ben Chu,  Nitash Balsara 

Session U5 Spin Control in Ferromagnetic Semiconductor Structures Sponsor: GMAG DCMP Chair: Peter Schiffer, Penn State University Room: LACC 502B
Invited Speakers:  Hideo Ohno,  Jason Stephens,  Nitin Samarth,  L.J. Sham,  Michael Coey 

Session U6 Physics of Slip Phenomena at Liquid/Solid Interfaces Sponsor: DFD Chair: Sandra Troian, Princeton University Room: LACC 502A
Invited Speakers:  Kalman Migler 

Session U7 Nucleic Acid Translocation Through Nanopores Sponsor: DBP Chair: David Lubensky, Vrije University Room: LACC 408B
Invited Speakers:  Mehran Kardar,  Amit Meller,  Ralf Bundschuh 

Session U9 Glassy and Random Magnets Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Bulbul Chakroborty, Brandeis University Room: LACC 153A

Session U10 Focus Session: Spin Hall Effect Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Igor Zutic, Naval Research Lab Room: LACC 153B
Invited Speakers:  Qian Niu 

Session U12 Point Contact Tunnelling and Proximity Effect Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Milind Kunchur, University of South Carolina Room: LACC 402A

Session U13 Devices & Applications II Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Ajul Koukar, University of Southern California Room: LACC 402B

Session U14 Hydrogen Storage III: Modeling Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Frederick E. Pinderton, General Motors Room: LACC 403B
Invited Speakers: 

Session U15 Focus Session: Synthesis and Doping of Nanostructures Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Tom Kennedy, NRL Room: LACC 405

Session U16 Photonic Crystals II Sponsor: DCMP Chair: J. Albrecht, WP-AFB AFRL/SNDD Room: LACC 404A

Session U17 Optical Response and Spin-Orbit Coupling in Quantum Dots Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Tigran Shahbazyan, Jackson State University Room: LACC 404B

Session U18 Focus Session: Wide Band Gap Semiconductors V Sponsor: DMP Chair: Andrei Sirenko, NJIT Room: LACC 406A

Session U19 Fractional QHE/Composite Fermions Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Kun Yang, Florida State University Room: LACC 406B

Session U20 High-K Dielectrics Sponsor: DMP Chair: Rodney McKee, ORNL Room: LACC 407

Session U21 Biomedical Physics Sponsor: DBP Chair: Herbert Levine, University of California, San Diego Room: LACC 409A

Session U22 Transport and Kinetics in Biological Systems Sponsor: DBP GSNP Chair: Uwe Tauber, Virginia Tech Room: LACC 409B
Invited Speakers: 

Session U23 Statistical Physics and Disordered Nonlinear Systems Sponsor: GSNP Chair: William Klein, Boston U Room: LACC 410

Session U25 Nanowires II: Metals and Oxides Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Michael Mehl, Naval Research Lab Room: LACC 501A

Session U26 Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Materials: Theory and Experiment Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: David Drabold, Ohio University Room: LACC 501B

Session U27 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Growth Sponsor: DMP Chair: Vera Sazanova, Cornell University Room: LACC 501C
Invited Speakers:  Annick Loiseau 

Session U29 Organic Light Emitting Diodes Sponsor: DPOLY FIAP Chair: Eric Lin, NIST Room: LACC 504
Invited Speakers:  Junji Kido,  George Malliaras 

Session U30 Polymer Thin Films: General Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Azar Alizadeh, GE Room: LACC 505

Session U31 Polymers and Filaments for the Cytoskeleton Sponsor: DPOLY DBP Chair: David Morse, U Minnesota Room: LACC 503

Session U32 Density Functional Theory Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Dimitrios Papaconstantopoulos, NRL Room: LACC 507

Session U33 Cold Fusion Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Scott Chubb, Naval Research Lab Room: LACC 511C

Session U36 Quantum Optics, Quantum Control, and Ultrafast Processes Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Bernado Mendoza, CIO, Mexico Room: LACC 510

Session U39 Non-Fermi Liquids and Spin Liquids Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Alexander Balatsky, LANL Room: LACC 514

Session U40 Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures V: Molecules Sponsor: DMP DCP Chair: J. v. Ruitenbeek, Universiteit Leiden Room: LACC 408A
Invited Speakers:  Alekber Kasumov,  Abhay Pasupathy 

Session U41 Correlated Electrons: Superconductivity and Magnetism Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Norman Birge, Michigan State Univ. Room: LACC 150A

Session U42 Magnetism Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Jack Bass, Michigan State University Room: LACC 150B

Session U43 Focus Session: Phase Complexity and Enhanced Functionality in Magnetic Oxides V Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Andrei Sushkov, University of Maryland Room: LACC 150C
Invited Speakers:  J.H. Park,  Harold Y. Hwang 

Session U44 Focus Session: Interfaces, Characterization, and Fabrication Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Karen Waldrip, Sandia National Labs Room: LACC 518
Invited Speakers:  Kevin Zavadil,  Steven Thornberg 

Mar 24 2005 11:15AM, Thursday

Session V1 Collective Modes, Phonons in Cuprates Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Z-X Shen, Stanford University Room: LACC 152
Invited Speakers:  Andrei Mishchenko 

Session V2a Frustrated Quantum Magnetism Sponsor: DCMP GMAG Chair: Arthur Ramirez, Lucent Tech, Bell Labs Room: LACC 151
Invited Speakers:  Oleg Tchernyshyov,  Sriram Shastry 

Session V3 Spectroscopy of Carbon Nanotubes Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Tobias Hertel, Vanderbilt University Room: LACC 515B
Invited Speakers:  Marcus Freitag,  Jacques Lefebvre 

Session V4 Albert Einstein and Social Responsibility Sponsor: FPS Chair: Barbara Levi Consulting Editor, Physics Room: LACC 515A
Invited Speakers:  Virginia Iris Holmes,  Ze'ev Rosenkranz,  Patricia Rife 

Session V5 Invited Symposium: Transport in Single Molecules Sponsor: DMP Chair: Mark Hybertsen, Columbia University Room: LACC 502B
Invited Speakers:  Douglas Natelson,  Massimiliano Di Ventra,  Ning Liu,  Michael Crommie 

Session V6 Jamming in Granular Media, Colloidal Suspensions and Glasses Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Eric Weeks, Emory University Room: LACC 502A
Invited Speakers:  Corey O'Hern,  Ning Xu,  Jerzy Blawzdziewicz,  Stephan Koehler,  Piotr Habdas,  Scott Franklin,  Peter Sollich 

Session V7 Randomness and Chaos in Quantum Information Processing Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: C. Stephen Hellberg, NRL Room: LACC 408B
Invited Speakers:  Patrick Hayden,  Michael Henry 

Session V9 Magnetic Anisotropy Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Kai Liu, University of California-Davis Room: LACC 153A

Session V10 Focus Session: Spin Injection into Semiconductors Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Chris Palmstrom, University of Minnesota Room: LACC 153B
Invited Speakers: 

Session V12 Superconducting Ruthenides and Borides Sponsor: DCMP Chair: James Knight, University of South Carolina Room: LACC 402A

Session V13 Infrared and Optical Spectroscopy of Superconductors Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Larry Carr, NSLS Room: LACC 402B

Session V14 Focus Session: Electronic and Atomic Structure of Interfaces and Gate Stacks I Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Alex Demkov, University of Texas-Austin Room: LACC 403B
Invited Speakers: 

Session V15 Focus Session: Plasmonics, Biological, Solar Cell QDs Sponsor: FIAP Chair: H. Atwater, Caltech Room: LACC 405
Invited Speakers:  Mark Stockman 

Session V16 Optical Properties of Quantum Well Structures Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Krzysztof Kempa, Boston College Room: LACC 404A

Session V17 Spin Control and Measurement for Quantum Computation Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ilya Ponomarev, Naval Research Laboratory Room: LACC 404B

Session V19 Correlated Phases in 2-D Systems and Shot Noise Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Alan Dorsey, Univ. of Florida Room: LACC 406B

Session V20 Surface Kinetics and Dynamics Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Guang-Hong Lu, University of Utah Room: LACC 407

Session V21 Localized Dynamical States Sponsor: DBP Chair: Bernard Gerstman, Florida International University Room: LACC 409A
Invited Speakers:  Gary Gerfen 

Session V22 Biological Computation Sponsor: DBP Chair: Peter Jung, Ohio University Room: LACC 409B

Session V24 Focus Session: Non-equilibrium Dynamics of Adsorption Diffusion and Reaction Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Bob Ziff, University of Michigan Room: LACC 411
Invited Speakers: 

Session V25 Nanowires III: Silicon Based Nanowires Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Peter Ecklund, Penn State University Room: LACC 501A

Session V26 Light Emission and Luminescence from Silicon and Theory and Simulations Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Philip Collins, University of California-Irvine Room: LACC 501B

Session V27 Theory of Nanotubes & Carbon Based Nanostructures Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Vincent Meunier, Oak Ridge National Lab Room: LACC 501C
Invited Speakers:  Susan Sinnott,  Humberto Terrones 

Session V28 Actinides, ... Chair: Robert Albers, LANL Room: LACC 506

Session V29 Polymer Theory and Simulation I: General Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Cameron Abrams, Drexel University Room: LACC 504

Session V30 Flow of Immiscible Polymer Blends Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Gary Leal, University of California-Santa Barbara Room: LACC 505
Invited Speakers:  Chris Macosko,  Steven Hudson 

Session V31 Bioploymers: Molecules, Solutions and Networks II Sponsor: DPOLY DBP Chair: Jay Tang, Brown University Room: LACC 503

Session V32 Focus Session: Superconductivity: Theory and Computation III Sponsor: DCOMP DCMP Chair: A. Bansil, Northeastern University Room: LACC 507

Session V33 Quantum Computing Sponsor: GQI Chair: Jonathan Dowling, Louisiana State University Room: LACC 511C

Session V34 Condensed Phase Dynamics, Structure and Thermodynamics Sponsor: DCP Chair: Bruce Garrett, PNNL Room: LACC 511A

Session V35 Molecular Electronics III Sponsor: DCP DMP FIAP Chair: Duncan Stewart, Hewlett Packard Room: LACC 511 B
Invited Speakers:  Paul Barbara 

Session V37 Focus Session: Microfluidic Physics IV: Particles, Drops, and Mixing Sponsor: DFD Chair: Darren Link, Rain Dance Technologies Room: LACC 512

Session V38 Magnets That Can Superconduct Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Qimiao Si, Rice University Room: LACC 513

Session V39 Metamaterials for Negative Refraction and Related Phenomena Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David R. Smith Room: LACC 514

Session V40 Focus Session: Morphology and Evolution at Surfaces: Phase-field and Ge/Si Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Jacques Amar, University of Toledo Room: LACC 408A
Invited Speakers:  Fulvio Ratto 

Session V42 Magnetization Dynamics Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Manfred Fiebig, Max Born Institute Room: LACC 150B

Session V43 Low Dimensional Magnetism: Clusters & Molecules Sponsor: GMAG Chair: V. Kiryukhin, Rutgers University Room: LACC 150C

Session V44 MEMS/NEMS: Applications and Resonators Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Danhong Huang, Air Force Research Lab Room: LACC 518

Mar 24 2005 1:03PM, Thursday

Session V2b Dynamical Heterogeneities and Quantum Glassiness in Electronic Systems Sponsor: DCMP GMAG Chair: Clare Yu, University of California-Irvine Room: LACC 151
Invited Speakers:  Zvi Ovadyahu,  Minhyea Lee 

Mar 24 2005 2:30PM, Thursday

Session W1 Neutron Scattering in High Tc Cuprates Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Eugene Demler, Harvard University Room: LACC 152
Invited Speakers:  Stephen Hayden,  John Tranquada,  William Buyers,  Tom Timusk 

Session W2a Novel Ordering in Smectics and Other Layered Systems Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jonathan Selinger, Naval Research Lab Room: LACC 151
Invited Speakers:  Randall Kamien,  Noel Clark 

Session W3 Quantum Spin Dynamics in Single-Molecule Magnets Sponsor: DCMP GMAG Chair: Stephen Hill, University of Florida Room: LACC 515B
Invited Speakers:  Philip Stamp,  Martin Dressel 

Session W4 Industrial Challenges to Polymer Physics Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Edward Kramer, University of California-Santa Barbara Room: LACC 515A
Invited Speakers:  Pratima Rangarajan,  Bernd Gotsmann,  Robert Street,  David Lohse,  Michel Armand 

Session W5 Functional Ceramics: the Nano/Microstructure-Property Relationship in Electronic, Optical, Biological and Structural Materials Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Robert Marzke, Arizona State University Room: LACC 502B
Invited Speakers:  Ilhan Aksay,  Carlos G. Levi,  Pentti Tengvall 

Session W6 Quantum Information Meets Density Matrix Renormalization Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Steve White, UCI Room: LACC 502A
Invited Speakers:  Ulrich Schollwock,  Jose Gaite,  F. Verstraete 

Session W7 Advances in the Biological Physics of Morphogenesis Sponsor: DBP Chair: Timothy Newman, Arizona State University Room: LACC 408B
Invited Speakers:  Stuart A. Newman,  Lance Davidson,  James Glazier,  Gabor Forgacs 

Session W10 Focus Session: Spin Transport and Spin Hall Effect Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Allan MacDonald, University of Texas Room: LACC 153B
Invited Speakers: 

Session W13 Thermodynamic Properties of Superconductors Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Donald Naugle, Texas A&M University Room: LACC 402B

Session W14 Focus Session: Electronic and Atomic Structures of Interfaces and Gate Stacks II Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Gerd Duscher, NCSU Room: LACC 403B
Invited Speakers:  Sokrates Pantelides 

Session W15 Focus Session: Optical properties of QDs Sponsor: FIAP Chair: P. Guyot Sionnest, University of Chicago Room: LACC 405

Session W16 Non-Equilibrium, Tunneling and Many-Body Properties of Quantum Dots Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Giovanni Vignale, University of Missouri Room: LACC 404A

Session W17 Nanostructures: Electrical, Optical and Structural Properties Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Stefan Badescu, Naval Research Laboratory Room: LACC 404B

Session W20 Surface Structural and Electronic Properties Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Qiming Zhang, University of Texas-Arlington Room: LACC 407

Session W21 Techniques in Biophysics Sponsor: DBP Chair: Robert Riehn, Princeton University Room: LACC 409A

Session W22 Focus Session: Microtubules and Molecular Motors Sponsor: DBP GSNP Chair: Beate Schmittmann, Virginia Tech Room: LACC 409B
Invited Speakers: 

Session W24 Granular Flow I Sponsor: DFD GSNP DCMP Chair: Wolfgang Losert, University of Maryland Room: LACC 411

Session W25 Nanowires IV: Nitrides and Others Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Andrea Trave, LLNL Room: LACC 501A

Session W26 First-Principles Simulation of Complex Materials Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Steven Erwin, NRL Room: LACC 501B

Session W27 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Growth and Manipulation Sponsor: DMP Chair: Sami Rosenblatt, Cornell University Room: LACC 501C

Session W29 Polymer Theory and Simulation II: Interfaces and Confinement Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: John McCoy, NMT Room: LACC 504

Session W30 Organic Thin Films Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Yueh Lin Loo, University of Texas Room: LACC 505

Session W31 Focus Session: Interaction of Polymers with Biological Systems Sponsor: FIAP DPOLY Chair: Roland Faller, University of California-Davis Room: LACC 503
Invited Speakers:  Anna Balazs 

Session W32 Focus Session: High Tc Cuprates: Theory and Computation Sponsor: DCOMP DCMP Chair: Alexander Balatsky, LANL Room: LACC 507

Session W33 Josephson Junctions and SQUIDS II Sponsor: GQI Chair: Dietrich Leibfried, NIST Room: LACC 511C
Invited Speakers:  I. Siddiqi 

Session W34 Theory and Modeling Sponsor: DCP Chair: Mark Ratner, Northwestern University Room: LACC 511A

Session W35 Molecular Electronics IV Sponsor: DCP DMP FIAP Chair: Douglas Natelson, Rice University Room: LACC 511B
Invited Speakers:  Hongkun Park,  Paul Solomon,  Daniel Ralph 

Session W37 Nanocolloids and General Fluids Sponsor: DFD Chair: Eric Dufresne, Yale University Room: LACC 512

Session W38 Critical and Inhomogeneous Fermionic Systems Sponsor: DCMP Chair: A. Vishwanath, MIT Room: LACC 513

Session W40 Focus Session: Morphology and Evolution at Surfaces: Instabilities and Patterned Substrates Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Gary Kellogg, Sandia National Labs Room: LACC 408A
Invited Speakers:  Roland Bennewitz 

Session W42 Mostly Half-Metals Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Ching Fong, University of California-Davis Room: LACC 150B

Session W43 Low Dimensional Magnetism: Surfaces and Molecules Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Ale Lukaszew, University of Toledo Room: LACC 150C

Session W44 Microscopy: Near-field, X-ray, Optical, and Probe Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Joseph Stroscio, NIST Room: LACC 518

Mar 24 2005 4:18PM, Thursday

Session W2b Nanoscale Liquids Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Oleg Gang, Brookhaven National Laboratory Room: LACC 151
Invited Speakers:  Colin Denniston,  Laurence Lurio 

Mar 24 2005 5:30PM, Thursday

Session WW7 The Physics and Bioengineering of Artificial Sight Sponsor: DBP Chair: Robert Greenberg, Second Light LLC Room: LACC 408B
Invited Speakers:  Mark Humayun,  James Weiland,  Frank Werblin,  Daniel Palanker,  Elias Greenbaum 

Mar 25 2005 8:00AM, Friday

Session X1 Cobaltates Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jeffrey Lynn, Tech-NIST Room: LACC 152
Invited Speakers:  Warren Pickett,  Hong Ding,  Jungseek Hwang,  Christian Bernhard,  Andrew Boothroyd 

Session X2 Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov Superconductivity in Heavy Fermion Compounds Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Stanley Tozer, NHMFL Room: LACC 151
Invited Speakers:  Henri A. Radovan,  Kun Yang,  Hiroshi Shimahara,  Yuji Matsuda 

Session X3 Single Spin Detection Sponsor: DCMP GMAG Chair: Daniel Ralph, Cornell University Room: LACC 515B
Invited Speakers:  Jeroen Elzerman,  Scott Crooker 

Session X4 Extreme Materials Science: the X-Games of Condensed Matter Physics Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Bruce Remington, LLNL Room: LACC 515A
Invited Speakers:  K. Thomas Lorenz,  Nigel Browning,  Paul Loubeyre 

Session X6 Frontiers in Computational Materials Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Mei-Yin Chou, Georgia Tech Room: LACC 502A
Invited Speakers:  Stefano Curtarolo,  Wanda Andreoni 

Session X7 Complex Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Cardiac Tissue Sponsor: DBP Chair: Leon Glass, McGill University Room: LACC 408B
Invited Speakers:  Gil Bub,  Arkady Pertsov,  Nenad Bursac 

Session X10 Focus Session: Spin Transport/Novel Magnetic Semiconductors Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Paul Crowell, University of Minnesota Room: LACC 153B

Session X12 HTSC: Neutron Scattering and Magnetism Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Al Ehrlich, Naval Research Laboratory Room: LACC 402A

Session X14 Nanomechanical Physics and Devices Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Rajiv Kalia, University of Southern California Room: LACC 403B

Session X15 Thermoelectrics Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Paul von Allmen, NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory Room: LACC 405

Session X16 Superconductors for Quantum Computing: Experimental Techniques and Fabrication Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Martinis, University of California-Santa Barbara Room: LACC 404A

Session X17 Quasi-1D Transport and Quantum Dot Spectroscopy Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jean Heremans, Ohio University Room: LACC 404B

Session X20 Dielectric and Optical Phenomena Sponsor: DMP Chair: Eric Shirley, NIST Room: LACC 407

Session X21 Focus Session: MultiScale Analysis of Ions in Solutions, Proteins, and Channels: Analysis Sponsor: DBP Chair: Robert Eisenberg, Rush Medical Center Room: LACC 409A
Invited Speakers:  Boaz Nadler 

Session X24 Granular Flow II Sponsor: GSNP DCMP DFD Chair: Jeremay Lechman, Sandia National Laboratory Room: LACC 411

Session X25 Theory and Simulation of Carbon Nanotubes Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Jeffrey C. Grossman, LLNL Room: LACC 501A

Session X26 Simulations & Theory of Complex Materials Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Mike Norman, Argonne National Lab Room: LACC 501B
Invited Speakers:  Jeffrey Grossman,  Xiangyang Huang,  Lizhi Ouyang 

Session X27 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Mechanical Properties Sponsor: DMP Chair: Zhihong Chen, IBM Research Center Room: LACC 501C
Invited Speakers:  Vera Sazonova 

Session X28 Electronic Theory of Metals Sponsor: DMP Chair: Don Nicholson, ORNL Room: LACC 506

Session X29 Wetting & Dewetting-Stability of Polymer Thin Films Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: John Dutcher, University of Guelph Room: LACC 504

Session X30 Polymer Crystallization Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Ben Hsiao, Stonybrook Room: LACC 505

Session X31 Organic-based Magnetism and Spintronics Sponsor: DPOLY FIAP Chair: Arthur Epstein, Ohio State University Room: LACC 503

Session X32 Theoretical and Multiscale Modeling Methods Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Daryl Hess, NSF Room: LACC 507

Session X34 Surfaces and Interfaces I Sponsor: DCP Chair: Bruce Garrett, PNNL Room: LACC 511 A

Session X35 Energy Landscapes of Gases, Clusters, Materials and Biomolecules Sponsor: DCP Chair: B. J. Hinch, Rutgers Room: LACC Room 511B

Session X40 Focus Session: Morphology and Evolution at Surfaces: Defects and Transport Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Katsuyo Thornton, University of Michigan Room: LACC 408A

Session X42 Magnetic Oxides Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Sashi Satpathy, University of Missouri-Columbia Room: LACC 150B

Session X43 Low Dimensional Magnetism: Wires, Chains, and 1-D Sponsor: GMAG Chair: J. P. Hill, Brookhaven Room: LACC 150C

Mar 25 2005 11:15AM, Friday

Session Y1 Charge Order in Cuprates Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Peter Hirschfeld, University of Florida Room: LACC 152
Invited Speakers:  Shashank Misra,  Kyle Shen,  Zlatko Tesanovic,  Dung-Hai Lee 

Session Y2 Kondo Physics and Spin Control in Nanostructure Optics and Transport Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mikhail Raikh, University of Utah Room: LACC 151
Invited Speakers: 

Session Y3 Quantum Spin Liquids Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Douglas Scalapino, University of California-Santa Barbara Room: LACC 515B
Invited Speakers:  Sandro Sorella,  Roger Melko,  Igor Zaliznyak 

Session Y4 Polymer Dynamics and Rheology Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Kalman Migler, NIST Room: LACC 515 A
Invited Speakers:  Russell Composto,  George Fytas,  Daniel Bonn 

Session Y5 Parallel and High-Throughput Experimentation for the Physical Sciences: Methods, Applications and Technology Development Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Eric Amis, NIST Room: LACC 502B
Invited Speakers:  Hans-Werner Schmidt,  Radislav Potyrailo,  Michael Fasolka,  Ichiro Takeuchi 

Session Y13 Photoemission Studies of Superconductors Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Daniel Dessau, University of Colorado Room: LACC 402B

Session Y14 Focus Session: Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Processing Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Shubhra Gangopadhyay, U of Missouri Room: LACC 403 B
Invited Speakers:  James Watkins,  Richard Reidy 

Session Y15 Biosensors and Hybrid Biodevices Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Pritraj Mohanty, Boston University Room: LACC 405

Session Y16 Superconducting Single and Coupled Qubits Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Guido Burkard, University of Basel Room: LACC 404A

Session Y17 Spin Dynamics in Semiconducting Materials and Quantum Dots Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Janica Whitaker, Naval Research Lab Room: LACC 404B

Session Y21 Focus Session: Multiscale Analysis in Biology: Computation Sponsor: DBP Chair: Robert Eisenberg, Rush Medical Center Room: LACC 409A
Invited Speakers:  Montgomery Pettitt 

Session Y25 Fullerenes and Nanographite Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Tunna Baruah, Howard University Room: LACC 501A

Session Y27 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Spectroscopies Sponsor: DMP Chair: David Luzzi, University of Pennsylvania Room: LACC 501 C

Session Y30 Solid Amorphous Polymers Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Greg McKenna, Texas Tech Room: LACC 505

Session Y31 Polymer Melts and Solutions Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Howard Wang, Michigan Tech University Room: LACC 503

Session Y34 Surfaces and Interfaces II Sponsor: DCP Chair: Andrew Rappe, University of Pennsylvania Room: LACC 511A

Session Y35 Materials Sponsor: DCP Chair: Mark Ratner, Northwestern University Room: LACC 511B

Session Y42 Magnetotransport Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Adnan Rebei, Seagate Technology Room: LACC 150B

Session Y43 New Techniques and Applications Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Sam Lofland, Rowan University Room: LACC 150C