Mar 12 2006 3:00PM, Sunday

1B GSCCM Business Meeting
Room: Marriot Waterfront Hotel Falkland Sponsor: GSCCM

Mar 12 2006 7:30PM, Sunday

1A NRC/NAS Town Meeting
Room: Marriot Waterfront Hotel Grand Ballroom Salon V

Mar 13 2006 8:00AM, Monday

A1 Quantum Properties of Superconducting Nanowires
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom IV Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Nina Markovic, Johns Hopkins University
Invited Speakers:  Subir Sachdev,  Mingliang Tian,  Andrey Rogachev,  Sergei Khlebnikov,  Konstantin Arutyunov  

A2 Magnetic-Ferroelectric Coupling in Multiferroics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom III Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jeffrey Lynn, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Sang-Wook Cheong,  Owen Vajk,  A. Brooks Harris,  Paul C.W. Chu,  Maxim Mostovoy  

A3 Bilayer 2D Systems: Interlayer Drag and Spontaneous Coherence
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jim Eisenstein, CalTech
Invited Speakers:  Ravi Pillarisetty,  Sankar Das Sarma,  Steven Kivelson,  Steven H. Simon,  Vittorio Pellegrini  

A4 Particle Self Assembly
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 308 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Maria Santore, University of Massachusetts
Invited Speakers:  John Crocker,  Francis Starr,  Paula Hammond,  Jack Douglas,  Lynn Walker  

A5 Advanced Materials for Energy Applications
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 309 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: George Crabtree, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  M. S. Dresselhaus,  Mercouri Kanatzidis,  Claus Hviid Christensen,  Manos Mavrikakis,  E. Fred Schubert  

A6 Frontiers of Computational Materials
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 310 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Stefano Curtarolo, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Mark Asta,  Duane Johnson,  Nicola Marzari,  Gus L. W. Hart,  Aleksey Kolmogorov  

A7 Bacterial Flagellar Dynamics, Polymorphism, and Conformational Spread
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 307 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Phil Nelson, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Thomas Powers,  Holger Stark,  Nicholas Darnton,  Joshua Shaevitz  

A8 Pattern Formation and Nonlinear Dynamics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 314 Sponsor: DFD GSNP Chair: P. Palffy-Muhoray, Kent State University

A9 Electronic Structure on Surfaces and in Reduced Dimensions
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 301 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Hanno Weitering, University of Tennessee

A10 Focus Session: Physical Chemistry of Nanoscale Systems I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 302 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Tim Lian, Emory University; Ken Kuno, University of Notre Dame
Invited Speakers:  David Nesbitt,  Richard Van Duyne  

A11 Focus Session: Promises and Challenges in Chemical Dynamics I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 303 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Malcolm Bersohn, University of Toronto
Invited Speakers:  Moshe Shapiro,  Sheng-Hsien Lin  

A12 Focus Session: Steps, Growth, and Smoothing
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 304 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Mina Yoon, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Dionisios Margetis  

A13 Focus Session: Spectroscopy of Biomolecules from Isolated Molecules to Cell Environment I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 305 Sponsor: DCP DBP Chair: David Pratt, University of Pittsburgh
Invited Speakers:  Philip Anfinrud,  Megan Spence  

A15 Metals: 1D, 2D, 3D
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 311 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Duane Johnson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

A16 Focus Session: Hydrogen Storage I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 312 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Louis G. Hector, General Motors
Invited Speakers:  Frederick Pinkerton  

A17 Focus Session: Structure and Properties of Nanoscale Oxide Films
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 313 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Gennadi Bersuker, SEMATECH
Invited Speakers:  Stephen Pennycook,  Hans-Joachim Freund  

A18 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Synthesis and Growth I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 315 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Arnold, Northwestern University
Invited Speakers:  Kenji Hata  

A19 Focus Session: Optical and Electrical Spin Generation in Semiconductors
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 316 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: David Awschalom, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  John Sipe  

A20 Focus Session: Complex Oxide Thin Films Surfaces and Interfaces I: Superlattice Fabrication and Properties
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 317 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: John Mitchell, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Maria Varela  

A21 Colloids I: Emulsions, Foams, and Suspensions
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 318 Sponsor: DFD Chair: P. Chaikin, New York University

A22 Focus Session: Current Driven Magnetization Dynamics I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 319 Sponsor: GMAG FIAP DMP Chair: Andrew Kent, New York University
Invited Speakers:  Matthew Pufall  

A23 Strongly Correlated Electrons I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 320 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Chris Stock, John Hopkins University

A24 Semi-Crystalline and Structured Polymers
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: N. Sanjeeva Murthy, University of Vermont

A25 Focus Session: Organic Field Effect Transistors
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 322 Sponsor: DPOLY DMP Chair: David Martin, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Tobin Marks  

A26 Biomolecular Computation
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 323 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Thomas Darden, National Institute of Health

A28 Polymer Blends
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 325 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Kalman Migler, National Institute of Standards and Technology

A29 Experimental Techniques in Biophysics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 326 Sponsor: DBP Chair: J. P. Landry, University of California, Davis

A30 Focus Session: Block Copolymer Dynamics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 327 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Nitash Balsara, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  David Morse  

A31 Metallic Nanostructures
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 328 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Haftel, Naval Research Laboratory

A32 Fullerenes
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 329 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Tunna Baruah, University of Texas, El Paso

A33 Focus Session: Econophysics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 336 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Mark Newman, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Victor Yakovenko  

A35 Focus Session: Nanoscale Thermal, Thermoelectric and Mass Transport: Measurement and Characterization
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 338 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Heiner Linke, University of Oregon
Invited Speakers:  Warren Fon  

A36 Structural, Optical, and Electronic Properties of Nanostructures
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 339 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Stefan Badescu, Naval Research Laboratory

A38 Superconductivity-Vortex Matter
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 341 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Wai Kwok, Argonne National Laboratory

A39 Focus Session: Magnesium Diboride and Related Compounds: Multi Gap Superconductivity
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 342 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Lance Cooley, Brookhaven National Laboratory

A40 Quantum Entanglement
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 343 Sponsor: TGQI DCMP Chair: Christopher Fuchs, Bell Labs & Lucent Technologies

A41 Quantum Fluids and Solids
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 344 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Haruo Kojima, Rutgers University

A42 Focus Session: Planetary Materials I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 345 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Renata Wentzcovitch, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Stefano de Gironcoli,  Jung-Fu Lin  

A43 Focus Session: Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases and the BCS-BEC Crossover I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 346 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: C. Chin, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Johannes Hecker Denschlag  

A45 Cuprates and Nickelates
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 348 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: John Tranquada, Brookhaven National Laboratory

A46 Focus Session: Wide Bandgap Semiconductors I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 349 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Mary Ellen Zvanut, University of Alabama
Invited Speakers:  Christian Wetzel  

Mar 13 2006 11:15AM, Monday

B1 DCMP/DCOMP Prize Session
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom IV Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Susan Coppersmith, University of Wisconsin
Invited Speakers:  Robert Meyer,  Noel Clark,  Roberto Merlin,  David Vanderbilt  

B2 Solid Helium
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom III Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Ma, University of Cincinnati
Invited Speakers:  Anthony Clark,  John Beamish,  Xi Dai,  Luciano Reatto,  David Ceperley  

B3 Uncovering the Structure of Complex Networks
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom I Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, University of Notre Dame
Invited Speakers:  Mark Newman,  Roger Guimera,  Tamas Vicsek,  Miguel A. Mu\~{n}oz,  Eivind Almaas  

B4 Advances in ZnO Materials Physics and Applications
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 308 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Tom Myers, West Virginia University
Invited Speakers:  Chris G. Van de Walle,  Atsushi Tsukazaki,  Leonard Brillson,  Julia W. P. Hsu,  David Norton  

B5 Nuclear Proliferation & Nuclear Terrorism
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 309 Sponsor: FPS Chair: David Hafemeister, California Polytechnic State University
Invited Speakers:  Joseph Cirincione,  Steve Fetter,  Brent Park,  Mike Carter  

B6 Spin-Based Quantum Computing
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 310 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jason Petta, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Ronald Hanson,  Sayantani Ghosh,  Michael Flatt\'e,  Jonathan Finley,  Guido Burkard  

B7 Bionanotechnology: Application and Fundamental Aspects of Processes at Nano-scale
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 307 Sponsor: DBP DCMP Chair: Zuzanna S. Siwy, University of California, Irvine
Invited Speakers:  Robert Eisenberg,  Ioan Kosztin,  Derek Stein,  Clare Yu,  Punit Kohli  

B8 Focus Session: Granular Materials Near Jamming
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 314 Sponsor: GSNP DFD Chair: Bob Behringer, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Charles Campbell,  Karen Daniels  

B9 Phase Transitions, Dynamics, and Excitations
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 301 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Alberto Pimpinelli, Université Blaise Pascal

B10 Focus Sessions: Physical Chemistry of Nanoscale System II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 302 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Haw Yang, University of California, Berkeley; Clemens Burda, Case Western Reserve University
Invited Speakers:  Mostafa El-Sayed,  Susan Dexheimer  

B11 Focus Session: Promises and Challenges in Chemical Dynamics II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 303 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Jim Valentini, Columbia University
Invited Speakers:  Joshua Jortner,  Louis Brus  

B12 Quantum Metal Films and Overlayer Structures
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 304 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Zhenyu Zhang, Oak Ridge Natinoal Laboratory

B13 Focus Session: Spectroscopy of Biomolecules from Isolated Molecules to Cell Environment II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 305 Sponsor: DCP DBP Chair: Philip Anfinrud, National Institutes of Health
Invited Speakers:  Mattanjah de Vries,  Martin Jarrold,  Rebecca Jockusch  

B15 Metals: Lattice, Low D, Phonons
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 311 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Larry Boyer, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Alexander Burin  

B16 Focus Session: Molecular-Scale Electronics I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 312 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Udo Pernisz, Dow Corning Corporation, Midland MI
Invited Speakers:  Alexandre Champagne  

B17 Focus Session: Phase Transitions and Domains in Ferroelectric Nanostructures I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 313 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Alex Bratkovsky, Hewlett-Packard
Invited Speakers:  Arkadi Levanyuk  

B18 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Synthesis, Processing and Characterization
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 315 Sponsor: DMP Chair: David Luzzi, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Michael Arnold  

B19 Focus Session: Transition Metal Oxide Ferromagnetic Semiconductors
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 316 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Stephan von Molnar, Penn State University
Invited Speakers:  Satishchandra Ogale  

B20 Focus Session: Phase Competition and Separation in Pervoskite Oxides
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 317 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Chris Leighton, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Tom Wu  

B21 Colloids II: Colloidal Crystals, Gels, and Glasses
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 318 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Maria Kilfoil, McGill University

B22 Focus Session: Current Driven Magnetization Dynamics II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 319 Sponsor: GMAG FIAP DMP Chair: Mark Stiles, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Geoffrey Beach  

B23 Quantum Spin Chains I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 320 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Christopher Landee, Clark University

B26 Focus Session: Single Molecule Biophysics: DNA & RNA
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 323 Sponsor: DBP DPOLY Chair: Ching-Hwa Kiang, Rice University
Invited Speakers:  David Nelson  

B28 Experimental Techniques in Biomaterials Science
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 325 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Kevin Hewitt, Dalhousie University

B29 Focus Session: Micro-Organism Motility
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 326 Sponsor: DBP GSNP Chair: Udo Erdman, Humboldt University
Invited Speakers:  Eberhard Bodenschatz  

B31 Insulating Nanostructures
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 328 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Babak Nikoobakht, National Institute of Standards and Technology

B32 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 329 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Andrew Canning, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  David Roundy  

B33 Financial Markets and Other Applications of Statistical Physics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 336 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Victor Yakovenko, University of Maryland

B35 Focus Session: Nanoscale Thermal, Thermoelectric and Mass Transport: Theory and Simulation
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 338 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Joel E. Moore, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Stefan Heinze  

B36 Electronic Properties of Nanowires
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 339 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Lars Samuelson, Lund University

B37 High-Tc: STM and Pseudogap
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 340 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: J. Y. T. Wei, University of Toronto

B38 Superconducting Devices and AppIications
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 341 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Bleiweiss, Naval Academy Prep School

B39 Superconductivity-Magnetic Properties
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 342 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Daniel Agterberg, University of Wisconsin

B40 Topics in Quantum Foundations
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 343 Sponsor: TGQI DCMP Chair: Terry Rudolph, Imperial College London

B42 SPS Undergraduate Research I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 345 Chair: Gary White, Society of Physics Students

B43 BEC in Trapped Atomic Gases
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 346 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Henry Glyde, University of Delaware

B46 Focus Session: Wide Band Gap Semiconductors II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 349 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Paul Klein, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  A.F. Wright  

Mar 13 2006 1:30PM, Monday

B34 Author Workshop: Submitting to the APS Journals
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 337

Mar 13 2006 2:00PM, Monday

C1 Poster Session I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Exhibit Hall 2:00pm - 5:00pm (DPOLY session: 11:15am - 2:15pm)

Mar 13 2006 2:30PM, Monday

D1 Fluctuation and Relaxation Near Jamming
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom IV Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  J. S. Langer,  Hernan Makse,  Adam Abate,  Leonardo Silbert,  Wolfgang Losert  

D2 Quantum Hall Effect in Graphene
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom III Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Gene Mele, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Philip Kim,  Andre Geim,  Sergei Sharapov,  Walt De Heer  

D3 Scientists from Developing Countries: is There an Effective Way to Support Meaningful Research?
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom I Sponsor: FIP Chair: Katepalli Sreenivasan, the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Invited Speakers:  Timoleon Crepin Kofane,  Zohra Ben Lakdar,  Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz,  Bernard M'Passi-Mabiala  

D4 Organic Electronics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 308 Sponsor: DPOLY DMP Chair: Chang Yeol Ryu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Invited Speakers:  Richard Friend,  David Martin,  Yueh-Lin Loo,  Michael Chabinyc,  Eric K. Lin  

D5 Catalysis and Complexity: Ken Hass Memorial
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 309 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Willes Weber, Caltech
Invited Speakers:  William Schneider,  Christopher Wolverton,  Anders Carlsson,  L. Craig Davis  

D6 Simulating Hydrogen Storage: From Current Challenges to Future Promises
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 310 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Shengbai Zhang, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Karl Johnson,  John Tse,  Yufeng Zhao,  Puru Jena,  William Goddard  

D7 New Results in Geometrically Frustrated Magnets
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 307 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Arthur Ramirez, Lucent Technologies
Invited Speakers:  Philippe Mendels,  Roderich Moessner,  Jason Gardner,  Peter Schiffer,  Peter Lunkenheimer  

D8 Patterns and Instabilities I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 314 Sponsor: DFD GSNP Chair: Brian Hunt, University of Maryland

D9 Methods in Nanobiotechnology
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 301 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Ido Braslavsky, Ohio University
Invited Speakers:  Michael Roukes,  Robert Austin,  Josef Michl,  Paul Wiseman,  Saw-Wai Hla  

D10 Focus Session: Physical Chemistry of Nanoscale System III
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 302 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Yiping Zhao, University of Georgia
Invited Speakers:  Stephen Leone,  Sunney Xie  

D11 Focus Session: Promises and Challenges in Chemical Dynamics III
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 303 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Laurie Butler, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Masahiro Kawasaki  

D12 Morphological Evolution and Instabilities
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 304 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Ted Einstein, University of Maryland

D13 Focus Session: Spectroscopy of Biomolecules from Isolated Molecules to Cell Environment III
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 305 Sponsor: DCP DBP Chair: Megan Spence, University of Pittsburgh
Invited Speakers:  Tobias Baumgart,  Taekjip Ha  

D15 Focus Session: Atomic Tunneling, Films, Nanostructures
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 311 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Daniel Finkenstadt, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Christian Enss  

D16 Focus Session: Negative Refractive Index I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 312 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Vladimir M Shalaev, Purdue University
Invited Speakers:  Steven Brueck  

D17 Focus Session: Phase Transitions and Domains in Ferroelectric Nanostructures II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 313 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Alex Demkov, The University of Texas
Invited Speakers:  Marty Gregg  

D18 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Synthesis and Growth II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 315 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Robert Hauge, Rice University

D19 Focus Session: Semiconductor Spin Injection and Detection
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 316 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Berry Jonker, Naval Research Laboratoy
Invited Speakers:  Paul A. Crowell  

D20 Focus Session: Multiferroics I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 317 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Nicola Spaldin, University of California, Santa Barbara

D21 Colloids III: Particles at Interfaces and in Confined Geometries
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 318 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Charles Reichhardt, Los Alamos National Laboratory

D22 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanopatterns
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 319 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Laura Lewis, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  C.L. Chien  

D23 Focus Session: MAG.THY I / Spin Structures and Dynamics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 320 Sponsor: GMAG DMP DCOMP Chair: Dale Koelling, Department of Energy
Invited Speakers:  Viatcheslav V. Dobrovitski  

D25 Focus Session: Particle Dynamics and Organization; Polymer Tethers and Interfacial Segregation
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 322 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Francis Starr; Wesleyan University
Invited Speakers:  Grant Smith  

D26 Focus Session: Dynamics of Nuclei Acid-Protein Interaction: Single Molecule
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 323 Sponsor: DBP DPOLY Chair: Mark C. WiIliams, Northeastern University
Invited Speakers:  Michelle Wang,  Gijs Wuite  

D27 Focus Session: Novel Computational Algorithms I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 324 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Francois Gygi, University of California, Davis
Invited Speakers:  Suxing Hu,  Alan Aspuru-Guzik  

D28 Block Copolymer Thin Films
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 325 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Travis Bailey, Colorado State University

D29 Molecular Machines and Motors
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 326 Sponsor: DBP GSNP Chair: Dean Astumian, University of Maine
Invited Speakers:  Amar Flood,  Yale E. Goldman  

D30 Multiphase Polymer Materials
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 327 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Ali Dhinojwala, University of Akron

D31 Properties of Semiconducting Nanostructures
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 328 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Steve Erwin, Navel Research Laboratory

D32 Focused Session: Computational Nanoscience II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 329 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Joshua Schrier, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

D33 Focus Session: Friction, Fracture and Deformation I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 336 Sponsor: DMP GSNP Chair: H.G.E. Henstchel, Emory University
Invited Speakers:  J. Thomas Dickinson  

D35 Focus Session: Thermal Transport and Thermoelectricity in Nanotubes and Graphene
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 338 Sponsor: DMP Chair: B.C. Regan, University of California, Los Angeles
Invited Speakers:  Li Shi  

D38 Focus Session: Superconductivity-Properties of Doped and Irradiated Magnesium Diboride and Related Compounds
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 341 Sponsor: DMP Chair: David Larbalestier, University of Wisconsin
Invited Speakers:  Marina Putti  

D39 Spin Properties of Superconductors
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 342 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jeff Lynn, National Institute of Standards and Technology

D40 Focus Session: Foundations of Quantum Theory
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 343 Sponsor: TGQI DCMP Chair: Daniel Greenberger, City College of the City University of New York
Invited Speakers:  Lucien Hardy  

D42 SPS Undergraduate Research II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 345 Sponsor: SPS Chair: Gary White, Society of Physics Students

D43 Focus Session: Vortices and Vortex Lattices in Fermi and Bose Superfluid Gases
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 346 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: D. Feder, University of Calgary
Invited Speakers:  Martin Zwierlein  

D45 Strongly Correlated Electrons on Triangular Lattices
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 348 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Cedomir Petrovic, Brookhaven National Laboratory

D46 Focus Session: Wide Band Gap Semiconductors III
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 349 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Robert Nemanich, North Carolina State University
Invited Speakers:  Xianrong Huang  

Mar 13 2006 5:45PM, Monday

E5 APS Award Session
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 309

Mar 13 2006 6:45PM, Monday

E6 Welcome Reception
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom II

Mar 13 2006 8:00PM, Monday

F50 Emerging Emergent Phenomena
Room: Marriot Waterfront Hotel Grand Salons V-VI Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Leo Kadanoff, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Edward Witten,  Susan J. Lolle,  Albert-L\'aszl\'o Barab\'asi,  Bernard Sadoulet  

Mar 14 2006 8:00AM, Tuesday

G1a Nobel Prize Symposium
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom IV Chair: John Hopfield, Princeton University, APS President
Invited Speakers:  Theodor W. Haensch,  John L. Hall,  Roy J. Glauber  

G1b Special Prize Session
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom IV Chair: Charles Clark, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Q. Charles Su,  Rainer Grobe  

G2 Quantum Criticality in Cuprates
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom III Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Lia Krusin-Elbaum, IBM
Invited Speakers:  Claudio Chamon,  Jeffery Tallon,  Takasada Shibauchi,  Bella Lake,  David Broun  

G3 Coupled Superconducting Qubits
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Steven Girvin, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Alexander Shnirman,  John Martinis,  David Schuster,  Jelle Plantenberg,  Alberto Morpurgo  

G4 Polymer Physics Prize
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 308 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Murugappan Muthukumar, University of Massachusetts
Invited Speakers:  Ludwik Leibler,  Martin M\"{o}ller,  Glenn Fredrickson,  Jean Sauveur Candau,  Ralph H. Colby  

G5 Advanced Materials for Solar Energy Utilization
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 309 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Julia Hsu, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Nathan Lewis,  Sarah Kurtz,  Pei-Dong Yong,  Thomas Moore,  David Carlson  

G7 Shear-Induced Patterns in Complex Fluids and Granular Matter
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 307 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: David Weitz, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Wim van Saarloos,  David Reichmann,  Richard Register,  Benny Davidovitch,  Heinrich Jaeger  

G8 Patterns and Instabilities II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 314 Sponsor: DFD GSNP

G10 Focus Sessions: Physical Chemistry of Nanoscale System IV
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 302 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Jin Zhang, University of California, Santa Cruz
Invited Speakers:  Peidong Yang,  Younan Xia  

G11 Focus Session: Promises and Challenges in Chemical Dynamics IV
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 303 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Sunita Satyapal, Department of Energy
Invited Speakers:  Neil Shafer-Ray  

G12 Self-Assembled Nanostructures: Growth and Patterning
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 304 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Christian Ratsch, University of California, Los Angeles

G13 Focus Session: Spectroscopy of Biomolecules from Isolated Molecules to Cell Environment IV
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 305 Sponsor: DCP DBP Chair: Tobias Baumgart, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Timothy Zwier,  Robin Hochstrasser,  Michel Mons  

G15 Mechanical Properties of Metals
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 311 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael J. Mehl, Naval Research Laboratory

G16 Focus Session: Negative Refractive Index II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 312 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Gennady Shvets, University of Texas
Invited Speakers:  Evgenii Narimanov  

G17 Focus Session: Emerging Research Devices and Materials for Microelectronics Industry I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 313 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Mike C. Garner, Intel Corporation
Invited Speakers:  Eric Vogel  

G18 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Electronic and Optical Properties I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 315 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Tobias Hertel, Vanderbilt University
Invited Speakers:  Catalin Spataru  

G19 Focus Session: III-V Magnetic Semiconductors I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 316 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Mark van Schilfgaarde, Arizona State University
Invited Speakers:  Martino Poggio  

G20 Focus Session: Complex Oxide Thin Films Surfaces and Interfaces II: Surfaces and Theory
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 317 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Maria Varela, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

G21 Colloids IV: Polymeric and Colloid-Polymer Systems
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 318 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Cynthia Olson Reichhardt, Los Alamos National Laboratory

G22 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanoparticles I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 319 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Hariharan Srikanth, University of South Florida
Invited Speakers:  Diandra Leslie-Pelecky  

G23 Focus Session: MAG.THY II / Transport & General
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 320 Sponsor: GMAG DMP DCOMP Chair: Wei Cai, Standford University
Invited Speakers:  Yugui Yao  

G24 Polymer Nanomaterials I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Kookheon Char, Seoul National University

G25 Structure and Dynamics of Functional Macromolecules
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 322 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Xinyan Cui, University of Pittsburgh

G26 Focus Session: Trapping of Nanoscale Biological Objects
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 323 Sponsor: DBP Chair: W. E. Moerner, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Adam Cohen,  Enrico Gratton  

G27 Focus Session: Novel Computational Algorithms II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 324 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Barry Schneider, National Science Foundation
Invited Speakers:  Zhaojun Bai,  Stefano Baroni  

G28 Focus Session: Microphysical Properties of Block Copolymer Aggregates I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 325 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Erik Hobbie, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Dennis Discher  

G29 Focus Session: Physical and Engineering Constraints on the Function of Biological Systems
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 326 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Partha Mitra, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Timothy Lezon,  John Doyle  

G30 Focus Session: Electronic Transport in Organic Films
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 327 Sponsor: DPOLY DMP Chair: Denis Fichou, CNRS CEA-Saclay
Invited Speakers:  Steven De Feyter,  Fabrice Charra  

G31 Focus Session: Simulation of Complex Materials I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 328 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Jeff Grossman, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Lucas Wagner  

G32 Focus Session: Orbital/Charge Order in Complex Oxides
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 329 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Ray Osborn, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Feng Ye  

G33 GSNP Student Award Session and Glasses
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 336 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Narayanan Menon, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

G34 Glassy Dynamics and Jamming
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 337 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Eric Weeks, Emory University

G35 Nanoparticles, Nanotubes and Nanocrystals: Optical and Structural Properties
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 338 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Alexander Efros, Naval Research Laboratory

G37 Focus Session: Nanoscale Materials Physics of Phase Transitions I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 340 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Richard Haglund, Vanderbilt University
Invited Speakers:  Matthew Dawber  

G38 Focus Session: Superconductivity-Carbon Alloying of Magnesium Diboride and Related Compounds
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 341 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Paul Canfield, Iowa State University
Invited Speakers:  Rudeger H.T. Wilke  

G39 Focus Session: Superconductivity: Theory and Computation I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 342 Sponsor: DCMP DCOMP Chair: Alexander Balatsky, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Douglas Scalapino  

G40 Focus Session: Materials for Quantum Computing I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 343 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jason Petta, Harvard University

G41 Supersolid
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 344 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Norbert Mulders, University of Delaware

G42 Physics Education Research and Undergraduate Education
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 345 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Paula Heron, University of Washington

G44 Charge-Density Waves
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 347 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Robert Thorne, Cornell University

G45 Phase Transitions in Ruthenates
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 348 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Sung Chang, Ames Lab

G46 QHE, Including Graphene
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 349 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Allan MacDonald, University of Texas

Mar 14 2006 11:15AM, Tuesday

H1 Quantum Information, Concepts and Computation
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom IV Sponsor: GQI Chair: Barry Sanders, University of Calgary
Invited Speakers:  Rainer Blatt,  Yoshihisa Yamamoto,  Mark Raizen,  Nicolas Gisin,  Birgitta Whaley  

H2 Spin Liquids in 2D Frustrated Quantum Magnets
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom III Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Matthew Fisher, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Radu Coldea,  Jason Alicea,  Kazushi Kanoda,  Olexei Motrunich,  Young Lee  

H3 Soft Interfaces
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Thomas Powers, Brown University
Invited Speakers:  David Quere,  Wendy Zhang,  Kathleen Stebe,  Sascha Hilgenfeldt,  Ajay Gopal  

H4a Physics for Everyone
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 308 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ivan Schuller, University of California, San Diego
Invited Speakers:  E. Dan Dahlberg,  Charles Falco,  Brian Schwartz  

H5 Forum: What Has Actually Changed in Physics Departments in the Situation for Women, Graduate Students and Other People?
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 309 Sponsor: FEd FGSA FPS and CSWP Chair: Anthony Nero, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

H6 The Response of Extended Systems to Electrical and Magnetic Fields: Novel, Theoretical, and Computational Methods
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 310 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Nicola Marzari, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Timo Thonhauser,  Allan H. MacDonald,  Wei Cai,  Paolo Umari,  Philippe Ghosez  

H7 Nanopore Biophysics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 307 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Xinsheng Sean Ling, Brown University
Invited Speakers:  J.J. Kasianowicz,  Cees Dekker,  Liviu Movileanu,  Jiali Li,  Aleksei Aksimentiev  

H8 Focus Session: Jamming in Glasses, Grains, and Gels I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 314 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Andrea Liu, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Craig Maloney  

H10 Focus Session: Frontiers in Computational Chemical Physics I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 302 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Eugene Mele, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Xi Lin,  Rubio Angel  

H11 Focus Session: Chemical and Spectroscopic Applications of Nonlinear Optics I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 303 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Peer Fischer, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Kenneth Eisenthal,  Mary Jane Shultz  

H12 Thin Film Growth and Interfaces
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 304 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Michael Scarpulla, University of California, Berkeley

H13 Colloid and Polymer Interfaces
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 305 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Hai-Lung Dai, University of Pennsylvania

H15 Metals: Electronic Structure, Fermiology, Transport
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 311 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Wei Ku, Brookhaven National Laboratory

H16 Focus Session: Hydrogen Storage II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 312 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Gregory P. Meisner, General Motors
Invited Speakers:  Channing Ahn  

H17 Focus Session: Emerging Research Devices and Materials for Microelectronics Industry II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 313 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Bruce White, Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
Invited Speakers:  Hans Coufal  

H18 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Electronic and Optical Properties II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 315 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Vasili Perebeinos, IBM
Invited Speakers:  Christoph Lienau,  Deborah Prezzi  

H19 Focus Session: III-V Magnetic Semiconductors II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 316 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Nitin Samarth, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Kenneth Burch  

H20 Frustration in 3D
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 317 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Sarah Dunsiger, McMaster University

H21 Focus Session: Microfluidic Physics I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 318 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Patrick Doyle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Matthew Paoletti  

H22 Focus Session: Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 319 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Meigan Aronson, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Jian-Ping Wang  

H23 GMR and AMR
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 320 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Pete Eames, NVE Corporation

H24 Polymers at Interfaces
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Chris Soles, National Institute of Standards and Technology

H25 Focus Session: Particle Dynamics and Organization
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 322 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Lynn Walker, Carnegie Mellon University

H27 Computational Methods: Multiscale Modeling
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 324 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Jean-Luc Fattebert, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

H28 Focus Session: Energetics and Transport in Conjugated Organics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 325 Sponsor: DPOLY DMP Chair: David Gundlach, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Denis Fichou  

H29 Focus Session: Physical Aspects of Morphogenesis: Computational Approaches
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 326 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Shane Hutson, Vanderbilt University
Invited Speakers:  G. Wayne Brodland,  Yi Jiang  

H30 Padden Award Symposium
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 327 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Anne Mayes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

H31 Focus Session: Simulation of Complex Materials II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 328 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Giulia Galli, University of California, Davis
Invited Speakers:  Tadashi Ogitsu  

H32 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience III
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 329 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Byounghak Lee, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Zhenyu Zhang  

H33 Focus Session: Friction, Fracture and Deformation II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 336 Sponsor: DMP GSNP Chair: Udo D. Schwarz, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Enrico Gnecco  

H35 Electronic Properties of Quantum Wells and Superlattices
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 338 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Joe Tischler, Naval Research Laboratory

H36 Focus Session: Single Molecule Conductance
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 339 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Doug Natelson, Rice University
Invited Speakers:  Heiko Weber  

H37 Focus Session: Nanoscale Materials Physics of Phase Transitions II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 340 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Eric Mazur, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Manfred Albrecht  

H38 Superconductivity-Disordered Thin Films and Quantum Phenomena
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 341 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: A. M. Goldman, University of Minnesota

H39 Focus Session: Superconductivity-Josephson Junctions and Pairing State Symmetry
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 342 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mac Beasley, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Richard Klemm  

H40 Focus Session: Materials for Quantum Computing II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 343 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Britton Plourde, Syracuse University
Invited Speakers:  Robert Buhrman  

H41 Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 344 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Eugene Tsiper, Naval Research Laboratory

H42 Focus Session: Dynamic Compression
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 345 Sponsor: GSCCM DCMP Chair: Hector Lorenzana, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Dennis Hayes,  Roger Minich  

H43 Focus Session: Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases and the BCS-BEC Crossover II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 346 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Murray Holland, University of Colorado
Invited Speakers:  Cindy Regal  

H44 Quantum Phase Transitions
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 347 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: T. Vojta, University of Missouri, Rola

H45 Theoretical Methods in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 348 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: A.J. Millis, Columbia University

H46 Focus Session: Wide Band Gap Semiconductors IV
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 349 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Stavola, Lehigh University
Invited Speakers:  Fang Qian  

Mar 14 2006 1:03PM, Tuesday

H4b Depletion Forces In Vitro and Out of Equilibrium
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 308 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Crocker, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Yehuda Snir,  Jennifer Lewis  

Mar 14 2006 2:00PM, Tuesday

J1 Poster Session II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Exhibit Hall, 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Mar 14 2006 2:30PM, Tuesday

K1 Optical Frequency Clocks and Experimental Quantum Optics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom IV Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: David Weiss, Penn State University
Invited Speakers:  Patrick Gill,  Thomas Udem,  Jun Ye,  James Bergquist,  Serge Haroche  

K2 Exotic Ordering in Spinels
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom III Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sang-Wook Cheong, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Mark Croft,  Yoichi Horibe,  Daniel Khomskii,  Andrei Sushkov,  Paolo G. Radaelli  

K3 Electron Doped High Tc Superconductors
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Martin Greven, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Yoram Dagan,  Girsh Blumberg,  Hiroaki Matsui,  Eugene Motoyama,  Michio Naito  

K4 DMP/CSWP Prize Symposium
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 308 Sponsor: DMP CSWP Chair: Lynn Boatner, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  James Chelikowsky,  Hui Cao,  Hongjie Dai,  Alex Zettl  

K5 Microelectronics for Mid-Infrared through Terahertz
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 309 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Mark Lee, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Claire Gmachl,  Daniel Prober,  Eric Shaner,  Alessandro Tredicucci,  Dan Schmidt  

K6 Minorities in the Nanosciences
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 310 Sponsor: COM Chair: James Dickerson, Vanderbilt University
Invited Speakers:  Nadya Mason,  Conrad James,  Juan Noveron,  Donna Stokes  

K7 New Methods and Algorithms for Biomolecular Modeling
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 307 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Christopher Roland, North Carolina State University
Invited Speakers:  Eric Darve,  Celeste Sagui,  Michael Thorpe,  Mark Tuckerman,  Weitao Yang  

K8 Focus Session: Jamming in Glasses, Grains and Gels II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 314 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Corey O'Hern, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Blair  

K10 Focus Session: Frontiers in Computational Chemical Physics II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 302 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Rigoberto Hernandez, Georgia Tech
Invited Speakers:  Karsten Reuter  

K11 Focus Session: Chemical and Spectroscopic Applications of Nonlinear Optics II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 303 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Alexander V. Benderskii, Wayne State University
Invited Speakers:  Y. Ron Shen,  Garth Simpson,  Akihiro Morita  

K12 Focus Session: Magnetic Thin Films and Narrow Gap Semiconductors
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 304 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Juliet Correa, University of Muenster
Invited Speakers:  Hanno H. Weitering  

K13 Atomic And Molecular Processes at Solid Surfaces
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 305 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Eric Borguet, Temple University

K16 Focus Session: Molecular-Scale Electronics II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 312 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Ravindra Pandey, Michigan Technological University
Invited Speakers:  Shashi Karna  

K17 Focus Session: Si, Ge and SiGe Nanostructures
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 313 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Leonid Tsybeskov, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Frances Ross,  Theodore Kamins  

K18 Focus Session: Dillon Medal Symposium
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 315 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Hiroshi Watanabe, Kyoto University
Invited Speakers:  Kenji Urayama  

K19 Focus Session: III-V Magnetic Semiconductors III
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 316 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Brian Kirby, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Mark van Schilfgaarde  

K20 Focus Session: Multiferroics II - Hexagonal Systems
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 317 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Alois Loidl, Augsburg University
Invited Speakers:  Craig Fennie  

K21 Colloids V
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 318 Sponsor: DFD Chair: D. Grier, New York University

K22 Focus Session: Magnetization Dynamics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 319 Sponsor: GMAG FIAP DMP Chair: Paul Crowell, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Theo Rasing  

K23 Quantum Magnets: BEC and 2D
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 320 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Collin Broholm, Johns Hopkins University

K24 Polymer Nanomaterials II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Azar Alizadeh, General Electric

K25 Polymer Electrolytes and Conduction
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 322 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Bulent Ozbas; Princeton University

K26 Focus Session: Single Molecule Biophysics I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 323 Sponsor: DBP DCMP Chair: David Nelson, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Steven Chu  

K27 Density Functional Theory
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 324 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Kieron Burke, Rutgers University

K28 Focus Session: Microphysical Properties of Block Copolymer Aggregates II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 325 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Dennis Discher, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Maria Santore  

K29 Proteins Structure and Function
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 326 Sponsor: DBP Chair: F. A. Ferrone, Drexel University

K30 Carbon Nanotubes: Applications and Novel Phenomena
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jun Kono, Rice University

K31 Focus Session: Simulation of Complex Materials III
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 328 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Alberto Franceschetti, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Volker Blum  

K32 Focused Session: Computational Nanoscience IV
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 329 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Milen Kostev, North Carolina State University

K33 Novel Moving Boundary Problems
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 336 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Wim Saarloos, Leiden University
Invited Speakers:  Joachim Krug,  David Kessler,  Ute Ebert,  Raymond Goldstein,  Alain Karma  

K34 Panel Discussion with PR/PRL Editors
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 337

K35 Electronic Properties and the Kondo Effect in Quantum Dots
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 338 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Scheibner, Naval Research Laboratory

K36 Magnetic Domains and Applied Magnetic Materials
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 339 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: John Unguris, National Institute of Standards and Technology

K37 Superconductivity-Time Resolved Optical and Inelastic x-ray Scattering in Cuprates
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 340 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Tanner, University of Florida

K38 Superconductivity-Mesoscopics and Theory
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 341 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Timir Datta, University of South Carolina

K39 Focus Session: Superconductivity: Theory and Computation II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 342 Sponsor: DCOMP DCMP Chair: Richard Klemm, Kansas State University
Invited Speakers:  Michele Fabrizio  

K40 Focus Session: Materials for Quantum Computing III
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 343 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Seongshik Oh, National Institute of Standards and Technology-Boulder
Invited Speakers:  Robert McDermott  

K41 Focus Session:Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 344 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Darrell Schlom, Penn State University
Invited Speakers:  Eugene Venturini  

K42 Focus Session: Planetary Materials II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 345 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Eric Schwegler, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

K43 Trapped Fermi Gases
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 346 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: C. Sa de Melo, Georgia Institute of Technology

K44 Transport in Disordered Electronic Systems
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 347 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: A. Punnose, University of Wisconsin

K45 Heavy Fermions: Experiment
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 348 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: M. Aronson, University of Michigan

K46 Spectroscopy of Semiconductors
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 349 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Giti Khodaparast, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Mar 14 2006 5:30PM, Tuesday

L9 GIMS Business Meeting
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 301 Sponsor: GIMS

L10 DCP Business Meeting
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 302 Sponsor: DCP

L16 FIAP Business Meeting
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 312 Sponsor: FIAP

L18 DPOLY Business Meeting
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 315 Sponsor: DPOLY

L23 GMAG Business Meeting
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 320 Sponsor: GMAG

L29 DBP Business Meeting
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 326 Sponsor: DBP

L33 GSNP Business Meeting
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 336 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Daniel Lathsop, University of Maryland

L40 TGQI Business Meeting
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 343 Sponsor: TGQI

L48 FIP Business Meeting
Room: Marriot Waterfront Hotel Galena Sponsor: FIP

Mar 14 2006 5:45PM, Tuesday

L7 Flexible Molecular Recognition: The New Paradigm
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 307 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Jin Wang, Stony Brook University
Invited Speakers:  C. Robert Matthews,  Dorothee Kern,  Susan S. Taylor,  Patricia A. Jennings,  Jin Wang  

Mar 14 2006 7:00PM, Tuesday

L49 DCMP Business Meeting
Room: Marriot Waterfront Hotel Dover A Sponsor: DCMP

L50 DMP Business Meeting
Room: Marriot Waterfront Hotel Dover B Sponsor: DMP

Mar 14 2006 7:30PM, Tuesday

M50 Intelligent Design: Its Impact and Responses to It
Room: Marriot Waterfront Hotel Grand Salon V Sponsor: FPS Chair: Robert Eisenstein
Invited Speakers:  Jeremy Gunn,  Marshall Berman,  Francis Slakey,  Cornelia Dean  

Mar 15 2006 8:00AM, Wednesday

N1 Topological Phases and Quantum Computing
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom IV Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Eduardo Fradkin, University of Illinois
Invited Speakers:  Alexei Kitaev,  Michael Hermele,  Michael Freedman,  Ady Stern,  Paul Fendley  

N2 Nanoscale Crystals
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom III Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dmitri Talapin, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Nathaniel Craig,  A. Paul Alivisatos,  Marija Drndic,  Todd Krauss  

N3 Insulating Cobaltates: Mottness on a Triangular Lattice
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Philip Phillips, University of Illinois
Invited Speakers:  Goran Gasparovic,  M. Zahid Hasan,  Henny Zandbergen,  Luis Balicas,  Takashi Imai  

N4 Polymer Crystallization
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 308 Sponsor: DPOLY DMP Chair: Freddy Khoury, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Stephen Cheng,  Benjamin Hsiao,  Goran Ungar,  Murugappan Muthukumar,  Laszlo Granasy  

N5 Pake and AIP Industrial Physics Prizes
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 309 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Thomas Theis, IBM
Invited Speakers:  Charles Duke,  Hratch Semerjian,  Peter Palffy-Muhoray,  Michael S. Lubell,  William Edelstein  

N6 Fermi Superfluid Gases : Non-equal Spin Polarization (FFLO State) and p-Wave pairing
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 310 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Erich Mueller, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  Dam Thanh Son,  Sungkit Yip,  Randall Hulet,  Roberto Diener,  Carlos A. R. Sa de Melo  

N7 Recent Advances in the Computation of Optical and Transport Properties of Nanostructures
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 307 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Marco Buongiorno Nardelli, North Carolina State University
Invited Speakers:  Hans-Christian Weissker,  Gabriel Bester,  Ralph Gebauer,  Stefano Sanvito,  Alessandro Pecchia  

N8 Granular Flows
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 314 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Erin Rericha, University of Maryland

N10 Focus Session: Frontiers in Computational Chemical Physics III
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 302 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Jeffrey Saven, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Qiang Cui  

N11 Focus Session: Aerosols, Clusters, Droplets: Physics and Chemistry of Nanoobjects I: Helium Nanodroplets I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 303 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Giacinto Scoles, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Marcel Drabbels,  Josef Tiggesb{\"a}umker  

N12 Focus Session: Alloy and Interface Composition
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 304 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Karsten Pohl, University of New Hampshire
Invited Speakers:  James Hannon  

N13 Focus Session: Ultrafast and Ultrahigh Field Chemistry I: Strong Field Phenomena
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 305 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Robert Levis, Temple University
Invited Speakers:  Robert Jones,  Kaoru Yamanouchi  

N16 Focus Session: Hydrogen Storage III
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 312 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Jan F. Herbst, General Motors
Invited Speakers:  Taner Yildirim  

N17 Focus Session: Semiconductors for THz and IR I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 313 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: K. K. Choi, Army Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Unil Perera  

N18 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Transport I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 315 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jun Kono, Rice University
Invited Speakers:  Christoph Strunk  

N19 Semiconductor Spin Transport
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 316 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Jim Chelikowsky, University of Texas

N20 Focus Session: Complex Oxide Thin Films Surfaces and Interfacess III: New Materials, New Techniques, and Effects of Strain
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 317 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Anand Bhattacharya, Argonne National Laboratory

N21 Microfluidic Physics II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 318 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Patrick Tabeling, Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris

N22 Focus Session: Magnetic Vortices and Exchange Biased Thin Films
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 319 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Jian Shen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Igor V. Roshchin  

N23 Focus Session: MAG.THY III: Oxides and Phase Transitions
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 320 Sponsor: GMAG DMP DCOMP Chair: Bruce Harmon, Ames Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Thomas Schulthess  

N24 Structure and Dynamics in Polymer Thin Films
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Steve Granick, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

N25 Focus Session: Organic Photovoltaics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 322 Sponsor: DPOLY DMP Chair: Max Shtein, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Olle Ingan\"{a}s  

N26 Focus Session: DNA and Protein Analysis with Micro and Nano Fluidics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 323 Sponsor: DBP DFD Chair: Steven Quake, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Robert Riehn,  Carl Hansen  

N27 Electronic Structure I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 324 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Michael Mehl, Naval Research Laboratory

N28 Polymer Adsorption and Surface Modification
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 325 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Eric Lin, National Institute of Standards and Technology

N29 Focus Session: Physical Models of Ion Channel Function
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 326 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Bob Eisenberg, Rush University
Invited Speakers:  Dirk Gillespie,  Rob Coalson  

N30 Block Copolymer Phase Behavior
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 327 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Thomas Epps, National Institute of Standards and Technology

N31 Carbon Nanotubes: Theory
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 328 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dimitrios Papaconstantopoulos, Naval Research Laboratory

N32 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Composites and Applications
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 329 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Andrew Rinzler, University of Florida
Invited Speakers:  R.H. Baughman  

N33 Focus Session: Instabilities & Turbulence in Complex Fluids
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 336 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Daniel Lathrop, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  R. Sureshkumar  

N35 Focus Session: Organization of Complex Networks
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 338 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Sidney Redner, Boston University
Invited Speakers:  Jos\'e Mendes  

N36 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Nanostructures with S, Se, Te, and Ge
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 339 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Janica Whitaker, Naval Research Laboratory

N37 Focus Session: Nanoscale Fabrication, Assembly and Semiconductor Nanowires
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 340 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Latha Venkataraman, Columbia University
Invited Speakers:  Veena Misra  

N38 Transport Properties of High-Tc Superconductors
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 341 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Patrick Fournier, University of Sherbrooke

N39 Focus Session: Superconductivity-Thin Films and Junctions Magnesium Diboride and Related Compounds
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 342 Sponsor: DMP Chair: John Rowell, Arizona State University
Invited Speakers:  Xiaoxing Xi  

N41 Insulating and Dielectric Oxides
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 344 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Seong Gon Kim, Mississippi State University

N42 Focus Session: Simulations of Matter at Extreme Conditions I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 345 Sponsor: DCOMP GSCCM DMP Chair: Larry Fried, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Borje Johansson  

N43 Quantum Optics and Strong Field Physics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 346 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: V. Jacobs, Naval Research Laboratory

N44 Quantum Criticality and Nematic Ordering
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 347 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Q. Si, Rice University

N45 Exotic Phases in Strongly Correlated Systems
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 348 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: A. Sandvik, Boston University

N46 Semiconductor Devices / Semiconductors General
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 349 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Andrei Sergeev, University at Buffalo

Mar 15 2006 9:30AM, Wednesday

N34 Referee Training Session
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 337

Mar 15 2006 11:15AM, Wednesday

P1 Electron Transport in Single Molecules
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom IV Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Allan MacDonald, University of Texas at Austin
Invited Speakers:  N.J. Tao,  Zhen Yao,  Karsten Flensberg,  Robert Wolkow,  Israel Bar-Joseph  

P2 The Electronic Properties of Overdoped Cuprates: The Clean Gateway to High-Tc Superconductivity
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom III Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Andy Mackenzie, University of St. Andrews
Invited Speakers:  Nigel Hussey,  Andrea Damascelli,  James Slezak,  Louis Taillefer,  Dirk van der Marel  

P3 Physics Teacher Preparation at a Crisis: Innovative Programs Addressing a National Need
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom I Sponsor: FEd Chair: Ramon Lopez, Florida Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Paula Heron,  Michael Marder,  Gay Stewart,  Noah Finkelstein,  Warren Hein  

P4 Keithley Award Session
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 308 Sponsor: GIMS
Invited Speakers:  Frances Hellman,  Terrence Jach,  Nathanael Fortune,  Albert Migliori  

P5 Shedding Light on the Enigma of the Transition to Turbulence in Pipes and other Shear Flows
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 309 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Tom Mullin, DFD; R.R. Kerswell, Bristol University
Invited Speakers:  Tom Mullin,  Dan Henningson,  Fabian Waleffe,  Rich Kerswell,  Anatoli Tumin,  Bruno Eckhardt  

P6 Quantum Spin Dynamics in Molecular Nanomagnets
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 310 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Andrew Kent, New York University
Invited Speakers:  Oliver Waldmann,  Eugene Chudnovsky,  Roberta Sessoli,  Bruce Harmon,  Kyungwha Park  

P7 Focus Session: Physics of Transcriptional Regulatory Networks
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 307 Sponsor: GSNP DBP Chair: Joshua Socolar, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Linchong You,  Nicolas Buchler,  Hao Li,  Sui Huang,  Alexei Vazquez  

P8 Focus Session: Jets, Shocks & Splashes
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 314 Sponsor: DFD GSNP Chair: Wendy Zhang, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Lei Xu,  Detlef Lohse  

P10 Focus Session: Frontiers in Computational Chemical Physics IV
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 302 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Andrew Rappe, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Todd Martinez  

P11 Focus Session: Aerosols, Clusters, Droplets: Physics and Chemistry of Nanoobjects II: Helium Nanodroplets II, Aerosols, and Miscellaneous
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 303 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Geoffrey Smith, University of Georgia
Invited Speakers:  Ruth Signorell  

P12 Metal Islands and Clusters
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 304 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Jim Hannon, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

P13 Focus Session: Ultrafast and Ultrahigh Field Chemistry II: Quantum Control
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 305 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Kenji Ohmori, Institute of Molecular Science Japan
Invited Speakers:  Yaron Silberberg,  Bertrand Girard  

P16 Focus Session: Molecular-Scale Electronics III
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 312 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Shashi Karna, Army Research Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  David Janes  

P18 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Opto-Electronics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 315 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Vasili Perebeinos, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Invited Speakers:  Jia Chen  

P19 Focus Session: Spin Interference and Spin Hall Effect
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 316 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Jairo Sinova, Texas A&M University
Invited Speakers:  Vanessa Sih  

P20 Focus Session: Cobaltites, Nickelates and Vanadates
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 317 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Owen Vajk, National Institute of Standards and Technology

P21 Microfluidic Physics III
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 318 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Mark Robbins, John Hopkins University

P22 Focus Session: Spin Transport in Metals
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 319 Sponsor: GMAG FIAP DMP Chair: Branislav Nikolic, University of Delaware
Invited Speakers:  Samir Garzon  

P23 Quantum Spin Chains II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 320 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Matthew Stone, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

P26 Focus Session: Protein Dynamics in Folding and Function
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 323 Sponsor: DBP DCP Chair: Robert Callendar, Albert Einstein College
Invited Speakers:  Albert Mildvan,  Eva de Alba,  Anne-Frances Miller,  Michael F. Summers,  Sharon Campbell,  Kathleen Hall,  Richard Pastor,  Alfred Redfield  

P27 Electronic Structure II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 324 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Anne Chaka, National Institute of Standards and Technology

P29 Biomolecular Structure and Functions
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 326 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Suzanna Zsiwy, University of California at Irvine

P30 Focus Session: Organic Interfaces
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 327 Sponsor: DPOLY DMP Chair: Lynn Loo, University of Texas, Austin
Invited Speakers:  Federico Rosei  

P31 Nanotubes: Theory and Experiment
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 328 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Nicholas Kioussis, California State, Northridge

P32 Spin Glasses
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 329 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: G. Luke, McMaster University

P33 Focus Session: Friction, Fracture and Deformation III
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 336 Sponsor: DMP GSNP Chair: Yue Qi, General Motors Research and Development
Invited Speakers:  Michael Falk  

P35 Nanostructure Fabrication, Quantum Point Contacts, and Single Electron Transistors
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 338 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ilya Ponomarev, Naval Research Laboratory

P36 Focus Session: Plasmon Resonances in Nanostructures
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 339 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Zachary Levine, National Institute of Standards and Technology

P38 Superconductivity-Optical Spectroscopy of Cuprates
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 341 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Tomas Timusk, McMaster University

P39 Focus Session: Superconductivity-Theory and Computation (Mainly First Principles)
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 342 Sponsor: DCOMP DCMP Chair: Ole Andersen, Max Planck Institute
Invited Speakers:  Igor Mazin  

P40 Focus Session: Pathways to Practical Quantum Computing I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 343 Sponsor: DCOMP TGQI Chair: Gerardo Ortiz, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  David DiVincenzo  

P41 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides III
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 344 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Nicola Spaldin, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Volkmar Dierolf  

P42 Focus Session: Planetary Materials III
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 345 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Lars Stixrude, University of Michigan

P43 Novel Phases in Quantum Gases
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 346 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: B. Svistunov, University of Massachusetts

P44 Organic Conductors
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 347 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Naughton, Boston College

P45 Structural and Ferroelectric Phase Transitions
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 348 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Pavel Krotkov, University of Maryland

P46 FQHE
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 349 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Dmitri Feldman, Brown University

Mar 15 2006 1:00PM, Wednesday

Q1 Poster Session III
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Exhibit Hall, 1:00pm - 4:00pm (DPOLY session: 11:15am - 2:15pm)

Mar 15 2006 2:30PM, Wednesday

R1 Cytoskeletal Dynamics and Mechanics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom IV Sponsor: DCMP DBP Chair: Gerard Wong, University of Illinois
Invited Speakers:  Tatyana Svitkina,  Ajay Gopinathan,  Margaret Gardel,  Cornelis Storm  

R2 Fractional Quantum Hall Systems
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom III Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Horst Stormer, Columbia University
Invited Speakers:  Gabor Csathy,  Yann Gallais,  Michael Peterson,  Eun-Ah Kim,  Fritz Schulze-Wischeler  

R3 Lateral Spin Transport
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Chia-Ling Chien, Johns Hopkins University
Invited Speakers:  Yi Ji,  Gerrit Bauer,  Sergio O. Valenzuela,  Yoshichika Otani  

R4 Ionic, Dipolar and H-bonding Polymers
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 308 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Sanat Kumar, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Invited Speakers:  Victor Breedveld,  Elena Dormidontova,  Darrin Pochan,  Paul Cremer,  Vivek Prabhu  

R5 Paths from Academics to Employment
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 309 Sponsor: FGSA FIAP Chair: John L. Orrell, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Roman Czujko,  Bernard Silbernagel,  David Seiler,  Christopher J. Stanton,  Shila Garg  

R6 U.S. Women in Physics: Perspectives on Race and Gender
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 310 Sponsor: CSWP Chair: Kimberly Budil, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Ariel Michelman-Ribeiro,  Barbara L. Whitten,  K. Renee Horton,  Mia Ong,  Apriel K. Hodari  

R7 The Experimental and Theoretical Foundations of Evolution
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 307 Sponsor: DBP FEd FPS Chair: Herbert Levine, University of California, San Diego
Invited Speakers:  Juan Keymer,  Michael Deem,  Daniel S. Fisher,  James Shapiro,  Paul Sniegowshi  

R8 Monolayers, Membranes & Microemulsions
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 314 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Mark Bowick, Syracuse University

R9 Imaging, Signal Detection and Processing
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 301 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Karen Waldrip, Sandia National Laboratories

R10 Focus Session: Surfaces and Interfaces in Electronic Materials I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 302 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Eric Borguet, Temple University
Invited Speakers:  Andrzej Wieckowski,  Jay Switzer  

R11 Focus Session: Aerosols, Clusters, Droplets: Physics and Chemistry of Nanoobjects III: Molecular Clusters
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 303 Sponsor: DCP Chair: David Nesbit, University of Colorado
Invited Speakers:  Mark Johnson  

R12 Dynamics at silicon surfaces
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 304 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Paul G. Evans, University of Wisconsin-Madison

R13 Focus Session: Ultrafast and Ultrahigh Field Chemistry III: Ultrafast Processes
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 305 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Yaron Silberberg, Weizmann Institute
Invited Speakers:  Kenneth Schafer,  David Villeneuve,  Yoshiyasu Matsumoto  

R16 Thermoelectrics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 312 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Joseph P. Heremans, Ohio State University

R17 Focus Session: Semiconductors for THz and IR II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 313 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: A. G. U. Perera, Georgia State University
Invited Speakers:  X.-C. Zhang  

R18 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Transport II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 315 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Brian LeRoy, TU Delft
Invited Speakers:  Stephan Roche  

R19 Focus Session: Spin Hall Effect and Spin Transport
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 316 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Allan MacDonald, University of Texas
Invited Speakers:  Hans-Andreas Engel  

R20 Focus Session: Multiferroics III: Perovskites
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 317 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Craig Fennie, Rutgers University

R21 Focus Session: Biological Hydrodynamics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 318 Sponsor: DFD DBP Chair: Ray Goldstein, University of Arizona
Invited Speakers:  Igor Aranson  

R22 Focus Session: Biomagnetism and Exchange Biased Thin Films
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 319 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: David Lederman, West Virginia University
Invited Speakers:  Axel Hoffmann  

R23 Focus Session: Theory and Simulation for Information Storage Applications
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 320 Sponsor: GMAG FIAP Chair: Andreas Berger, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
Invited Speakers:  Thomas Schrefl  

R24 Block Copolymer Applications
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Ting Xu, National Institute of Standards and Technology

R25 Adhesion and Viscoelasticity in Polymer Thin Films
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 322 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Karen Winey, University of Pennsylvania

R26 Focus Session: Counterion Dynamics in Charged Biopolymer Systems
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 323 Sponsor: DBP DPOLY Chair: Alex Travesset, Ames Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Gerard Wong,  Roland Netz  

R27 Many-Body/Strongly Correlated
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 324 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Gerardo Ortiz, Los Alamos National Laboratory

R28 Focus Session: Biological Networks: Structure, Dynamics and Function
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 325 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Chao Tang, University of California, San Francisco
Invited Speakers:  Hana El-Samad,  Gurol Suel  

R29 Biomolecular Structure and Function
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 326 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Sonya Bahar, University of Missouri, St. Louis

R30 Polymer Nanocomposites
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 327 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Alamgir Karim, National Institute of Standards and Technology

R31 Properties of Carbon Nanotubes
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 328 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Nicola Marzari, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

R32 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience V
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 329 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Wenchang Lu, North Carolina State University
Invited Speakers:  Paul Tangney  

R33 Focus Session: Friction, Fracture and Deformation IV
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 336 Sponsor: DMP GSNP Chair: Stefan Koehler, Emory University
Invited Speakers:  Jack E. Houston  

R34 Turbulence
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 337 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Walter Goldburg, University of Pittsburg

R36 Focus Session: Optical and X-ray Properties of Nanostructures
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 339 Sponsor: DMP Chair: John Rehr, University of Washington
Invited Speakers:  Igor Vasiliev  

R37 Focus Session: Nanoscale Conductance Theory I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 340 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Mark Hybertsen, Columbia University
Invited Speakers:  Harold U. Baranger  

R38 Superconductivity-Optical Spectroscopy of Cuprates: IR Hall Effect
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 341 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Cerne, University at Buffalo, SUNY

R39 Superconductivity-Sodium Cobaltate
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 342 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Igor Mazin, Naval Research Laboratory

R40 Focus Session: Pathways to Practical Quantum Computing II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 343 Sponsor: DCOMP TGQI Chair: Juan Pablo Paz, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Raymond Laflamme  

R41 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides IV
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 344 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Maitri Warusawithana, Penn State University
Invited Speakers:  Stephen Streiffer  

R42 Focus Session: Plasticity and Phase Transitions
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 345 Sponsor: DCMP GSCCM Chair: Ricky Chau, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Christopher Robinson,  Thomas Lorenz  

R43 One Dimensional Bose Gases
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 346 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: A.B. Kuklov, The College of Staten Island, CUNY

R44 Experimental Studies of 115 Materials
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 347 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: J. Sarrao, Los Alamos National Laboratory

R45 Strong Correlation in Metals: Mott Transition
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 348 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sergej Savrasov, University of California, Davis

R46 Electronic and Optical Properties of Semiconductors: First Principals
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 349 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Hai Ping Cheng, University of Florida

Mar 15 2006 5:30PM, Wednesday

S48 FED Business Meeting & Reception
Room: Marriot Waterfront Hotel Grand Ballroom Salon III Sponsor: FEd

Mar 15 2006 5:45PM, Wednesday

T7 Physics, Chemistry and Biology of the Hydrophobic Effect
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 307 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Chao Tang, University of California, San Francisco
Invited Speakers:  Je-Luen Li,  Benjamin Widom,  David Chandler,  Thomas Truskett  

Mar 15 2006 6:30PM, Wednesday

S49 DCOMP Business Meeting
Room: Marriot Waterfront Hotel Dover C Sponsor: DCOMP

Mar 15 2006 7:30PM, Wednesday

T50 Perspectives on our Energy Future
Room: Marriot Waterfront Hotel Grand Salon V
Invited Speakers:  Steven Koonin,  Patricia Dehmer  

Mar 16 2006 8:00AM, Thursday

U1 Spin Liquids and Superconductivity near the Mott Transition
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom IV Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dunghai Lee, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Patrick Lee,  Joerg Schmalian,  Andre-Marie Tremblay,  Herb A. Mook,  Phiippe Bourges  

U2 Quantum Magnets in High Magnetic Fields
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom III Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Igor Zaliznyak, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Collin Broholm,  Beatrice Grenier,  Andrey Zheludev,  Masayuki Hagiwara,  Fabian Essler  

U3 Nanomechanical Architecture of Strained Thin Films
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Max Lagally, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Invited Speakers:  Victor Prinz,  Feng Liu,  Oliver G. Schmidt,  Robert Blick  

U4 Lithography
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 308 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Vivek Prabhu, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Polymers Division
Invited Speakers:  Grant Willson,  Ralph Dammel,  Paul Nealey,  Ronald Jones,  William Hinsberg  

U5 Low Temperature Physics, A Historical Perspective
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 309 Sponsor: FHP Chair: George O. Zimmerman, Boston University
Invited Speakers:  Robert Wheeler,  Russell Donnelly,  Horst Meyer,  D.M. Lee  

U6 Strong Electronic Correlation in Solids: Applications of the LDA+U method
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 310 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Nicola Spaldin, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Steven G. Louie,  Anderson Janotti,  Alexander Lichtenstein,  Jan Kunes,  Matteo Cococcioni  

U7 Nanoscale Pattern Generation and Lithography
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 307 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Ya-Hong Xie, University of California, Los Angeles
Invited Speakers:  Obert Wood,  Henry I. Smith,  John Baglin,  Ki-Bum Kim,  Thomas Russell  

U8 Granular Materials
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 314 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Wolfgang Losert, University of Maryland

U9 Scanning Probe Microscopy
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 301 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Karen Waldrip, Sandia National Laboratories

U10 Focus Session: Surfaces and Interfaces in Electronic Materials II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 302 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Marcus Lay, University of Georgia
Invited Speakers:  Jillian Buriak,  Juen-Kai Wang  

U11 Focus Session: Aerosols, Clusters, Droplets: Physics and Chemistry of Nanoobjects IV: Metal Clusters I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 303 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Knut Asmis, Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin
Invited Speakers:  Michael Duncan,  Ludger Woeste  

U12 Focus Session: Electrochemical and Related Growth
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 304 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Shirley Chiang, University of California, Davis
Invited Speakers:  Mu Wang  

U16 Nanotechnology: Applications and Measurements
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 312 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: S. Sridhar, Northeastern University

U17 Physics and Imaging in Medicine
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 313 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Steven Avery, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Howard Amols,  Christopher Soares,  Richard Baird,  Paul Gueye  

U18 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Transport III
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 315 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Angel Rubio, DIPC San Sebastian
Invited Speakers:  Andrea C. Ferrari  

U19 Focus Session: Semiconductor Spin Nanostructures for Quantum Computing
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 316 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Jay Kikkawa, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Ari Mizel  

U20 Focus Session: Metal-Insulator Transition and Electron Phonon Coupling in Perovskites
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 317 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Michael Hayward, University of Oxford
Invited Speakers:  Gonzalo Alvarez  

U21 Liquid Crystals I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 318 Sponsor: DFD Chair: P. Palffy-Muhoray, Kent State University

U22 Focus Session: Magnetic Tunneling I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 319 Sponsor: GMAG FIAP DMP Chair: Jonathan Sun, IBM
Invited Speakers:  Hyunsoo Yang  

U23 Frustration in 2D
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 320 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Bruce Gaulin, McMaster University

U24 Liquid-Crystalline Polymers
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Matteo Pasquali, Rice University

U25 Focus Session: Oligoacene Semiconductors
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 322 Sponsor: DPOLY DMP Chair: John Rogers, University of Illinois

U26 Focus Session: Cytoskeletal Dynamics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 323 Sponsor: GSNP DBP DPOLY Chair: Christina Marchetti, Syracuse University
Invited Speakers:  Gaudenz Danuser  

U27 Computational Methods: Monte Carlo/Molecular Dynamics I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 324 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Andrew Williamsom, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

U28 Focus Session: Biological Hydrodynamics II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 325 Sponsor: DBP DFp Chair: Steve Quake, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Alex Groisman,  Michael Brenner  

U29 Focus Session: Nonequilibrium Fluctuation in Biomolecules and Artificial Nanodevices
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 326 Sponsor: DBP DPOLY Chair: Ioan Kosztin, University of Missouri, Columbia
Invited Speakers:  R. Dean Astumian,  Boldizsar Janko  

U30 Focus Session: Mechanical Properties: Deformation, Rupture and Failure
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 327 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Teri Hermel-Davidock, Dow Chemical Company
Invited Speakers:  Michael Marder  

U31 Nanotubes, Experiment
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 328 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Chris Kendziora, Naval Research Laboratory

U33 Dynamics and Systems Far From Equilibrium
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 336 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Harvey Gould, Clark University

U35 Nanowires
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 338 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Hyun Park, Naval Research Laboratory

U36 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Nano-Dots, Holes, and Wires
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 339 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Connie Li, Naval Research Laboratory

U37 Focus Session: Nanowire and Nanodot Quantum Devices
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 340 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Alexey Bezryadin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Invited Speakers:  Yong-Joo Doh  

U38 1-D Superconductors and Organics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 341 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Andrei Lebed, University of Arizona

U39 Superconducting Proximity Effect-S/N and S/F
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 342 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: James Eckstein, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Invited Speakers:  Matthias Eschrig  

U40 Focus Session: Pathways to Practical Quantum Computing III
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 343 Sponsor: DCOMP TGQI DAMOP Chair: Fernando M. Cucchietti, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Ignacio Cirac  

U41 Dielectrics: Response Properties
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 344 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Serge M. Nakhmanson, Rutgers University

U42 Focus Session: Simulations of Matter at Extreme Conditions II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 345 Sponsor: DCOMP GSCCM DMP Chair: Sandro Scandolo, ICTP, Trieste
Invited Speakers:  Neil Ashcroft  

U43 Focus Session: Novel Phases in Low Dimensional Quantum Gases
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 346 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: M. Olshanii, University of Southern California
Invited Speakers:  J. V. Porto,  Andrew Ho  

U44 Models of Strongly Correlated Electrons
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 347 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: S.-W. Tsai, University of California, Riverside

U45 Structural, Surface and other Phase Transitions
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 348 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: P. Riseborough, Temple University

U46 Optical Properties of Semiconductors: Excitons and Phonons
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 349 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: David Reitze, University of Florida

Mar 16 2006 11:15AM, Thursday

V1 Quantum Hall Edges
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom IV Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Woowon Kang, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Matthew Grayson,  Inseok Yang,  Edward Rezayi,  Stefano Roddaro,  Emiliano Papa  

V2 Excitons in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom III Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sumitendra Mazumdar, University of Arizona
Invited Speakers:  Guglielmo Lanzani,  Chuan-Xiang Sheng,  Hongbo Zhao,  Alexander Mirlin,  Stephanie Reich  

V3 Nonequilibrium Nano-oscillators
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP Chair: B. Golding, Michigan State University
Invited Speakers:  Andrew Cleland,  Ho Bun Chan,  Mark Dykman,  Rajamani Vijayaraghavan,  Aashish Clerk  

V4 Dynamics and Non-equilbrium Phenomena in Optical Lattices
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 308 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Eugene Demler, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  George Batrouni,  Anatoli Polkovnikov,  David Weiss,  Marcos Rigol,  Anna Minguzzi  

V5 Surfaces and Interfaces of Correlated Oxides
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 309 Sponsor: DMP Chair: James Eckstein, University of Illinois
Invited Speakers:  Masashi Kawasaki,  Charles Ahn,  Jacobo Santamaria,  Ivan Bozovic,  Jochen Mannhart  

V7 Noise in Biological Systems
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 307 Sponsor: GSNP DBP Chair: Alex van Oudenaarden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Philippe Cluzel,  Yuhai Tu,  Herbert Levine,  Sima Setayeshgar,  Victor Sourjik  

V8 Focus Session: Simulations Using Particles
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 314 Sponsor: DCOMP DFD Chair: Lorena Barba, University of Bristol
Invited Speakers:  Joel Koplik,  Georges-Henri Cottet  

V9 Magnetic Force Microscopies
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 301 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Albert Macrander, Argonne National Laboratory

V10 Focus Session: Surfaces and Interfaces in Electronic Materials III
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 302 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Yuh-Lin Wang, IAMS Taiwan
Invited Speakers:  Kohei Uosaki,  Ching-Ming Wei  

V11 Focus Session: Aerosols, Clusters, Droplets: Physics and Chemistry of Nanoobjects V: Metal Clusters II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 303 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Michael Duncan, University of Georgia
Invited Speakers:  Detlef Schooss,  Ori Cheshnovsky  

V12 Focus Session: Wetting and Hard-Soft Interfaces
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 304 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: E. Kaxiras, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Giancarlo Cicero  

V16 Nanotechnology: Biological and Polymer
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 312 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Robert Austin, Princeton University

V17 Medical Physics Panel Discussion
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 313 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Paul Gueye, Hampton College

V18 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Transport IV
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 315 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Fuhrer, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  David Hecht  

V19 The Changing Dynamics of Industrial Research as a Consequence of Global Trends
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 316 Sponsor: APS AIP Chair: Mark Bernius, The Dow Chemical Company
Invited Speakers:  Alan Taub,  Hans Stork,  Mark Durcan,  Abel Weinrib,  Thomas Feist  

V20 Focus Session: Semiconductor Spin Dynamics: Optics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 317 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Dimitri Basov, University of California, San Diego
Invited Speakers:  Kimberley Hall  

V21 Liquid Crystals II: Nano & Bio
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 318 Sponsor: DFD Chair: P. A. Heiney, University of Pennsylvania

V22 Focus Session: Magnetic Tunneling II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 319 Sponsor: GMAG FIAP DMP Chair: Alex Panchula, Grandis Inc.

V23 Spin Waves
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 320 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: James J. Rhyne, Los Alamos National Laboratory

V24 Charged and Ion-Containing Polymers: Properties
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Ralph Colby, Penn State University

V25 Polymer Composites - Nanotubes and Nanoclays
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 322 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Rick Beyer, Army Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Ali Dhinojwala  

V26 Cellular Biomechanics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 323 Sponsor: DBP

V27 Computational Methods:Monte Carlo/Molecular Dynamics II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 324 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Lee Collins, Los Alamos National Laboratory

V28 Rheology of Biopolymer Solutions
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 325 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Daniel Savin, University of Vermont

V29 Nonlinear Phenomena & Pattern Formation in Biology
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 326 Sponsor: DBP DCMP Chair: Igor Aronson, Argonne National Laboratory

V30 Focus Session: Mechanical Properties: Microscale Deformation and Failure
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 327 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Jae Hyun Kim, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Hung-Jue Sue  

V31 Nanotubes: Transport
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 328 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Laxmidhar Senapati, Naval Research Laboratory

V33 Focus Session: Social Networks
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 336 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Alessandro Vespignani, Indiana University
Invited Speakers:  Sidney Redner  

V35 Photonic Crystals
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 338 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Xiaomei Jiang, University of Texas at Dallas

V36 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes and C60
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 339 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Eric Shirley, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Yingzhong Ma  

V38 Superconductivity-Thermodynamics and Structure
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 341 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jeff Tallon, Industrial Research Limited

V39 Focus Session: Superconductivity-Theory and Computation III
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 342 Sponsor: DCOMP DCMP Chair: Alex Gurevich, University of Wisconsin-Madison

V40 Focus Session: Linear Optics Quantum Computation
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 343 Sponsor: TGQI DCMP Chair: Jonathan Dowling, Louisiana State University
Invited Speakers:  Terry Rudolph  

V41 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides V
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 344 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Eric Cockayne, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Maitri Warusawithana  

V42 History and Physics Outreach
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 345 Sponsor: FHP FEd Chair: Bill Evenson, Utah Valley State College

V43 Atomic/Molecular Structure and AMO Processes on Surfaces and in Condensed Matter
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 346 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: M. Safronova, University of Delaware

V44 Kondo Physics and Luttinger liquids
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 347 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: K. Ingersent, University of Florida

V45 Spin Structure and Phase Transitions: Theory
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 348 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Donald J. Priour, Jr., University of Maryland

V46 Defects and Impurities in Si/Ge
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 349 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Torgny Gustafsson, Rutgers University

V47 Spectroscopy and Transport in 2D Semiconductors
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 350 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Emilio Mendez, SUNY at Stony Brook

Mar 16 2006 2:30PM, Thursday

W1 ARPES in High Tc Superconductors
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom IV Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Peter Johnson, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Dan Dessau,  Tonica Valla,  Andrey Chubukov,  Tanja Cuk,  Akihiro Ino  

W2 Imaging Charge and Spin and Semiconductors
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom III Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Robert Westervelt, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Gary Steele,  Susumu Komiyama,  Brian LeRoy,  Katherine Aidala,  Yukio Hasegawa  

W3 Topological Aspects of Electron Transport in Solids
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Shoucheng Zhang, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Naoto Nagaosa,  F. D. M. Haldane,  Charles Kane,  B. Andrei Bernevig  

W4 Carbon Nanotube Dispersions
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 308 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Ramanan Krishnamoorti, University of Houston
Invited Speakers:  Erik K. Hobbie,  Matteo Pasquali,  Philippe Poulin,  Alan Windle,  Karen I. Winey  

W5 A Century of Critical Phenomena
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 309 Sponsor: FHP Chair: Pierre Hohenberg, New York University
Invited Speakers:  Alexander Voronel,  Guenter Ahlers,  Michael E. Fisher,  Leo P. Kadanoff  

W6 New Applications of Silicon in Photonics and Biomedicine
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 310 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Sharon Weiss, Vanderbilt University
Invited Speakers:  Sharon Weiss,  Bahram Jalali,  Michal Lipson,  Thomas Murphy,  Yurii Vlasov  

W7 Physics of Cell Elasticity, Interactions and Tissue Formation
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 307 Sponsor: DBP DPOLY Chair: Philip Nelson, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Riveline,  Robijn Bruinsma,  Paul Janmey,  S.A. Safran,  Subra Suresh  

W8 Focus Session: Nonlinear Electrokinetics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 314 Sponsor: GSNP DFD Chair: Martin Bazant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Isaak Rubinstein  

W9 X-ray, Light, and Particle Scattering and Diffraction
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 301 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Carolyn MacDonald, University at Albany, SUNY

W10 Focus Session: Surfaces and Interfaces in Electronic Materials IV
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 302 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Shaowei Chen, University of California, Santa Cruz
Invited Speakers:  Reginald M. Penner,  Ulrich Goesele  

W11 Focus Session: Aerosols, Clusters, Droplets: Physics and Chemistry of Nanoobjects VI: Nanocatalysis, Supported Clusters
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 303 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Peter Lievens, Leuven University, Belgium
Invited Speakers:  Ueli Heiz,  Michael Moseler  

W12 Molecules on Surfaces
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 304 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Michael Altman, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

W16 Semiconductor Applications
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 312 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: James Levine, Kodak

W18 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Electronic and Optical Properties III
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 315 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Gordana Dukovic, Columbia University
Invited Speakers:  Shigeo Maruyama  

W19 Focus Session: Semiconductor Spin Transport: Noise/Theory
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 316 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Gerrit Bauer, TU Delft

W20 Focus Session: Multiferroics IV
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 317 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Sang-Wook Cheong, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Alois Loidl  

W21 Liquid Crystals III
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 318 Sponsor: DFD Chair: P. Collings, Swarthmore College

W22 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanoparticles II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 319 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Dimitris Kechrakos, Institute for Materials Science, Greece
Invited Speakers:  Joseph Dvorak  

W23 Focus Session: MAG.THY IV / ab initio Studies
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 320 Sponsor: GMAG DMP DCOMP Chair: Renat Sabiryanov, University of Nebraska, Omaha
Invited Speakers:  Valeriy Stepanyuk  

W24 Focus Session: Lithography
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Ronald Jones, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Christopher Soles,  Alain M. Jonas  

W25 Gels and Networks
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 322 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Vijay Tirumala, National Institute of Standards and Technology

W26 Focus Session: Biological Photophysics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 323 Sponsor: DBP Chair: J. Timothy Sage, Northeastern University
Invited Speakers:  Dongping Zhong,  Andrea Markelz  

W28 Focus Session: Ordered Optoelectronic Organics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 325 Sponsor: DPOLY DMP Chair: Howard Katz, Johns Hopkins University

W29 Biological Networks and System Biology
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 326 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Alexander Neiman, Ohio University

W30 Focus Session: Biopolymers at Interfaces
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 327 Sponsor: DPOLY DBP Chair: Darrin Pochan, University of Delaware
Invited Speakers:  Christopher Ober  

W31 Nanotubes: Devices
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 328 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Kris Andersen, Naval Research Laboratory

W32 Glassy and Amorphous Systems
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 329 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Mehl, Naval Research Laboratory

W33 Nonequilibrium and Templated Assembly
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 336 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Srinivasa R Raghavan, University of Maryland

W34 Fluid Structure & Properties
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 337 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Steve Granick, University of Illinois

W36 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Nanostructures of Si & GaAs
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 339 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Matt Doty, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  M.Y. Chou,  Luca Dal Negro  

W37 Nanoscale Conductance Theory II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 340 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Harold Baranger, Duke University

W38 Flux Pinning and Critical Currents
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 341 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Judy Wu, University of Kansas

W39 Superconductivity-Josephson Junctions and Qubits
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 342 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: J. Robert Anderson, University of Maryland

W40 Quantum Communication, Cryptography and Computation
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 343 Sponsor: TGQI DAMOP Chair: Steven H. Simon, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

W41 Cold Fusion
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 344 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Scott Chubb, Naval Research Laboratory

W42 Focus Session: Simulations of Matter at Extreme Conditions III
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 345 Sponsor: DCOMP GSCCM DMP Chair: Stephane Mazevet, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Frederick H. Streitz  

W43 Focus Session: Cold Atoms in Optical Lattices
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 346 Sponsor: DAMOP GQI Chair: S. das Sarma, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Eugene Demler  

W45 Spin Structure in Magnetic Materials
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 348 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Mike Fitzsimmons, Los Alamos National Laboratory

W46 Compound Semiconductor Defects and Dopants
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 349 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: H. T. Johnson, University of Illinois, Champagne

W47 Quantum Transport in Semiconductors: Theory and Experiment
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 350 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Andrey Kiselev, North Carolina State University

Mar 17 2006 8:00AM, Friday

Y1 Engineering Biomolecules and Circuits by Rational Design and Genetic Selection
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom IV Sponsor: DCMP DBP Chair: Andrea Liu, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Terry Hwa,  Calin Guet,  Mark Goulian,  James Liao,  Vincent Noireaux  

Y2 Electrostatic Levitation and High Energy X-rays
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom III Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Kenneth F. Kelton, Washington University
Invited Speakers:  Jan Rogers,  Robert Hyers,  Alan Goldman,  Charles S. Fadley,  Tien-Lin Lee  

Y4 High TMR MgO Tunneling and Spin Momentum Transfer Materials, Physics, and Devices
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 308 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Robert Buhrman, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  Stuart Parkin,  Shinji Yuasa,  Gregory Fuchs,  Yiming Huai,  Jonathan Sun  

Y5 New Functionalities in Glasses and Nanomaterials
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 309 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Punit Boolchand, University of Cincinatti
Invited Speakers:  Dipankar Chakravorty,  Venkataran Gopalan,  Himanshu Jain,  John Kieffer,  Eric Mazur  

Y6 Is the Hubbard/t-J Model a High Temperature Superconductor?
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 310 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Steven Kivelson, University of California, Los Angeles
Invited Speakers:  Leonid P. Pryadko,  William Putikka,  Matthias Troyer,  Masao Ogata  

Y7 Challenges and Issues in Nanowire Nanodevices
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 307 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Paul S. Weiss, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Robin Friedman,  Tomihiro Hashizume,  David Cobden,  Masakazu Aono  

Y8 General Fluid Dynamics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 314 Sponsor: DFD Chair: John Labenski, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Joseph Barranco  

Y12 Oxide Surface and Interfaces
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 304 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Jiandi Zhang, Florida International University

Y16 Optics and Optoelectronics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 312 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Stuart A Solin, Washington University

Y18 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Adsorption and Gas Surface Interactions with Carbon Nanotubes
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 315 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Aleksey Kolmogorov, Duke University

Y19 Focus Session: Novel Ferromagnetic Semiconductors I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 316 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Chris Palmstrom, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Hidekazu Saito  

Y20 Focus Session: Ruddlesden-popper Phase Manganites
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 317 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Jeff Lynn, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Michael Hayward  

Y22 Focus Session: Coupled Thin-Film Structures for Magnetic Recording
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 319 Sponsor: GMAG FIAP Chair: Axel Hoffmann, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Jan-Ulrich Thiele  

Y23 Single Molecule Magnets
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 320 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Mark Pederson, Naval Research Laboratory

Y24 Polymer Melts & Solutions: Structure & Solubility
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Ferenc Horkay, National Institutes of Health

Y25 Charged and Ion-Containing Polymers: Computation
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 322 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Cameron Abrams, Drexel University

Y26 Focus Session: Physics of Physiological Systems
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 323 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Peter Jung, Ohio University
Invited Speakers:  Eshel Ben-Jacob  

Y28 Focus Session: Magnetic and Doping Effects in Cojugated Organics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 325 Sponsor: DPOLY DMP Chair: Maria Nikolou, Cornell University

Y29 Focus Session: Noise and Fluctuation in Biological Systems
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 326 Sponsor: DBP DPOLY Chair: Gabor Balazsi, Boston University
Invited Speakers:  Alexander van Oudenaarden,  Pierre-Gilles de Gennes  

Y30 Focus Session: Biopolymers I: Phase Transitions
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 327 Sponsor: DPOLY DBP Chair: Jose Onuchic, University of California, San Diego
Invited Speakers:  Angel Garcia,  Jose Onuchic  

Y31 Quasicrystals, Adsorption on Quasicrystals, Porous and Random Materials
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 329 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Stefano Curtarolo, Duke University

Y33 Statistical Physics:Dynamics and Transitions
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 336 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: AlfredHubler, University of Illinois

Y37 Focus Session: Probing Novel Nanostructures
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 340 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Daniel Ralph, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  Stefan F\"olsch  

Y38 Superconductivity-Vortex Lattices and Pinning Center Arrays
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 341 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ulrich Welp, Argonne National Laboratory

Y39 Superconductivity-Materials and Processing
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 342 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Doug Kirven, Sigma-K Corporation

Y40 Solid State Quantum Computing I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 343 Sponsor: TGQI DCMP Chair: John Martinis, University of California, Santa Barbara

Y45 Magnetic Phase Transitions
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 348 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Julie Borchers, National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Neutron Research

Y46 Bilayers,Wigner Crystals
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 349 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Alan Dorsey, University of Florida

Mar 17 2006 11:15AM, Friday

Z1 Strong Interaction Effects in Small Conductors
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom IV Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Leon Balents, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Jason Petta,  Konstantin Matveev,  Hadar Steinberg,  Gregory Fiete,  Karyn LeHur  

Z2 Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering in Complex Oxides
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom III Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Trevor Tyson, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Young-June Kim,  Jason Hancock,  Kenji Ishii,  Giacomo Ghiringhelli,  Yinwan Li  

Z4 Biopolymers
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 308 Sponsor: DPOLY DBP Chair: Michael Lang and Zuowei Wang, University of North Carolina
Invited Speakers:  Viola Vogel,  Michael Sheetz,  Thomas Perkins,  Sandra Greer,  Ferenc Horkay  

Z7 Synchrony and Complexity in Brain Activity and Function
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 307 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Michael Zochowski, University of Michigan; Eshel Ben-Jacob, Tel Aviv University
Invited Speakers:  Vernon L. Towle,  Suhita Nadkarni,  Steven Schiff,  Klaus Lehnertz,  Michal Zochowski  

Z18 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Double Wall Nanotubes, Sheets and Chains
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 315 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Feng Wang, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Hans Kuzmany  

Z19 Focus Session: Spin Dynamics in Quantum Dots
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 316 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Ari Mizel, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Gerhard Abstreiter  

Z20 Focus Session: Novel Ferromagnetic Semiconductors II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 317 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Jacek Furdyna, University of Notre Dame

Z22 Focus Session: FePt Nanoparticles for Information Storage
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 319 Sponsor: GMAG FIAP Chair: Kai Liu, University of California, Davis
Invited Speakers:  Dieter Weller  

Z23 Strongly Correlated Electrons II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 320 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Patrick Morales, University of Toronto

Z24 Polymer Melts & Solutions: Rheology & Dynamics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Yonathan Thio, Georgia Tech

Z25 Molecular Dynamics: Theory and Simulation
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 322 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Eric Cochran, Iowa State University

Z26 Radiation Therapy and Medical Imaging Techniques
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 323 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Paul Gueye, Hampton University

Z28 Methods of Statistical Physics, Population Dynamics and Epidemiology
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 325 Sponsor: DBP GSNP Chair: Vadim Smelyanskiy, NASA Ames Research Center
Invited Speakers:  Dirk Brockmann  

Z31 Complexed Structured Materials, Glasses and Clathrates
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 329 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: M. J. Mehl, Naval Research Laboratory

Z33 Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 336 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Kurt Wiesenfeld, Georgia Institute of Technology

Z37 Focus Session: Nanoscale Conductance Theory III
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 340 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jeffrey Neaton, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Z38 High Tc Cuprates: ARPES
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 341 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michelle Johannes, Naval Research Laboratory

Z39 Focus Session: Superconductivity-Theory and Computations (Mostly Phonons)
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 342 Sponsor: DCOMP DCMP Chair: Boldizsar Janko University of Notre Dame

Z40 Solid State Quantum Computing II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 343 Sponsor: TGQI DCMP Chair: Mark Gyure, HRL Laboratories

Z45 Mostly Spinels
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 348 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: S H Lee, University of Virginia

Z46 2D Multi-Valley Systems: QHE Experiment
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 349 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Bruce Kane, University of Maryland

Mar 12 2006 3:00PM, Sunday

1B GSCCM Business Meeting
Room: Marriot Waterfront Hotel Falkland Sponsor: GSCCM

Mar 12 2006 7:30PM, Sunday

1A NRC/NAS Town Meeting
Room: Marriot Waterfront Hotel Grand Ballroom Salon V

Mar 13 2006 8:00AM, Monday

A1 Quantum Properties of Superconducting Nanowires
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom IV Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Nina Markovic, Johns Hopkins University
Invited Speakers:  Subir Sachdev,  Mingliang Tian,  Andrey Rogachev,  Sergei Khlebnikov,  Konstantin Arutyunov  

A2 Magnetic-Ferroelectric Coupling in Multiferroics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom III Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jeffrey Lynn, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Sang-Wook Cheong,  Owen Vajk,  A. Brooks Harris,  Paul C.W. Chu,  Maxim Mostovoy  

A3 Bilayer 2D Systems: Interlayer Drag and Spontaneous Coherence
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jim Eisenstein, CalTech
Invited Speakers:  Ravi Pillarisetty,  Sankar Das Sarma,  Steven Kivelson,  Steven H. Simon,  Vittorio Pellegrini  

A4 Particle Self Assembly
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 308 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Maria Santore, University of Massachusetts
Invited Speakers:  John Crocker,  Francis Starr,  Paula Hammond,  Jack Douglas,  Lynn Walker  

A5 Advanced Materials for Energy Applications
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 309 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: George Crabtree, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  M. S. Dresselhaus,  Mercouri Kanatzidis,  Claus Hviid Christensen,  Manos Mavrikakis,  E. Fred Schubert  

A6 Frontiers of Computational Materials
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 310 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Stefano Curtarolo, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Mark Asta,  Duane Johnson,  Nicola Marzari,  Gus L. W. Hart,  Aleksey Kolmogorov  

A7 Bacterial Flagellar Dynamics, Polymorphism, and Conformational Spread
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 307 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Phil Nelson, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Thomas Powers,  Holger Stark,  Nicholas Darnton,  Joshua Shaevitz  

A8 Pattern Formation and Nonlinear Dynamics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 314 Sponsor: DFD GSNP Chair: P. Palffy-Muhoray, Kent State University

A9 Electronic Structure on Surfaces and in Reduced Dimensions
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 301 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Hanno Weitering, University of Tennessee

A10 Focus Session: Physical Chemistry of Nanoscale Systems I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 302 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Tim Lian, Emory University; Ken Kuno, University of Notre Dame
Invited Speakers:  David Nesbitt,  Richard Van Duyne  

A11 Focus Session: Promises and Challenges in Chemical Dynamics I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 303 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Malcolm Bersohn, University of Toronto
Invited Speakers:  Moshe Shapiro,  Sheng-Hsien Lin  

A12 Focus Session: Steps, Growth, and Smoothing
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 304 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Mina Yoon, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Dionisios Margetis  

A13 Focus Session: Spectroscopy of Biomolecules from Isolated Molecules to Cell Environment I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 305 Sponsor: DCP DBP Chair: David Pratt, University of Pittsburgh
Invited Speakers:  Philip Anfinrud,  Megan Spence  

A15 Metals: 1D, 2D, 3D
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 311 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Duane Johnson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

A16 Focus Session: Hydrogen Storage I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 312 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Louis G. Hector, General Motors
Invited Speakers:  Frederick Pinkerton  

A17 Focus Session: Structure and Properties of Nanoscale Oxide Films
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 313 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Gennadi Bersuker, SEMATECH
Invited Speakers:  Stephen Pennycook,  Hans-Joachim Freund  

A18 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Synthesis and Growth I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 315 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Arnold, Northwestern University
Invited Speakers:  Kenji Hata  

A19 Focus Session: Optical and Electrical Spin Generation in Semiconductors
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 316 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: David Awschalom, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  John Sipe  

A20 Focus Session: Complex Oxide Thin Films Surfaces and Interfaces I: Superlattice Fabrication and Properties
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 317 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: John Mitchell, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Maria Varela  

A21 Colloids I: Emulsions, Foams, and Suspensions
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 318 Sponsor: DFD Chair: P. Chaikin, New York University

A22 Focus Session: Current Driven Magnetization Dynamics I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 319 Sponsor: GMAG FIAP DMP Chair: Andrew Kent, New York University
Invited Speakers:  Matthew Pufall  

A23 Strongly Correlated Electrons I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 320 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Chris Stock, John Hopkins University

A24 Semi-Crystalline and Structured Polymers
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: N. Sanjeeva Murthy, University of Vermont

A25 Focus Session: Organic Field Effect Transistors
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 322 Sponsor: DPOLY DMP Chair: David Martin, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Tobin Marks  

A26 Biomolecular Computation
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 323 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Thomas Darden, National Institute of Health

A28 Polymer Blends
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 325 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Kalman Migler, National Institute of Standards and Technology

A29 Experimental Techniques in Biophysics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 326 Sponsor: DBP Chair: J. P. Landry, University of California, Davis

A30 Focus Session: Block Copolymer Dynamics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 327 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Nitash Balsara, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  David Morse  

A31 Metallic Nanostructures
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 328 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Haftel, Naval Research Laboratory

A32 Fullerenes
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 329 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Tunna Baruah, University of Texas, El Paso

A33 Focus Session: Econophysics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 336 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Mark Newman, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Victor Yakovenko  

A35 Focus Session: Nanoscale Thermal, Thermoelectric and Mass Transport: Measurement and Characterization
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 338 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Heiner Linke, University of Oregon
Invited Speakers:  Warren Fon  

A36 Structural, Optical, and Electronic Properties of Nanostructures
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 339 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Stefan Badescu, Naval Research Laboratory

A38 Superconductivity-Vortex Matter
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 341 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Wai Kwok, Argonne National Laboratory

A39 Focus Session: Magnesium Diboride and Related Compounds: Multi Gap Superconductivity
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 342 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Lance Cooley, Brookhaven National Laboratory

A40 Quantum Entanglement
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 343 Sponsor: TGQI DCMP Chair: Christopher Fuchs, Bell Labs & Lucent Technologies

A41 Quantum Fluids and Solids
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 344 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Haruo Kojima, Rutgers University

A42 Focus Session: Planetary Materials I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 345 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Renata Wentzcovitch, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Stefano de Gironcoli,  Jung-Fu Lin  

A43 Focus Session: Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases and the BCS-BEC Crossover I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 346 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: C. Chin, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Johannes Hecker Denschlag  

A45 Cuprates and Nickelates
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 348 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: John Tranquada, Brookhaven National Laboratory

A46 Focus Session: Wide Bandgap Semiconductors I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 349 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Mary Ellen Zvanut, University of Alabama
Invited Speakers:  Christian Wetzel  

Mar 13 2006 11:15AM, Monday

B1 DCMP/DCOMP Prize Session
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom IV Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Susan Coppersmith, University of Wisconsin
Invited Speakers:  Robert Meyer,  Noel Clark,  Roberto Merlin,  David Vanderbilt  

B2 Solid Helium
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom III Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Ma, University of Cincinnati
Invited Speakers:  Anthony Clark,  John Beamish,  Xi Dai,  Luciano Reatto,  David Ceperley  

B3 Uncovering the Structure of Complex Networks
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom I Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, University of Notre Dame
Invited Speakers:  Mark Newman,  Roger Guimera,  Tamas Vicsek,  Miguel A. Mu\~{n}oz,  Eivind Almaas  

B4 Advances in ZnO Materials Physics and Applications
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 308 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Tom Myers, West Virginia University
Invited Speakers:  Chris G. Van de Walle,  Atsushi Tsukazaki,  Leonard Brillson,  Julia W. P. Hsu,  David Norton  

B5 Nuclear Proliferation & Nuclear Terrorism
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 309 Sponsor: FPS Chair: David Hafemeister, California Polytechnic State University
Invited Speakers:  Joseph Cirincione,  Steve Fetter,  Brent Park,  Mike Carter  

B6 Spin-Based Quantum Computing
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 310 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jason Petta, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Ronald Hanson,  Sayantani Ghosh,  Michael Flatt\'e,  Jonathan Finley,  Guido Burkard  

B7 Bionanotechnology: Application and Fundamental Aspects of Processes at Nano-scale
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 307 Sponsor: DBP DCMP Chair: Zuzanna S. Siwy, University of California, Irvine
Invited Speakers:  Robert Eisenberg,  Ioan Kosztin,  Derek Stein,  Clare Yu,  Punit Kohli  

B8 Focus Session: Granular Materials Near Jamming
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 314 Sponsor: GSNP DFD Chair: Bob Behringer, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Charles Campbell,  Karen Daniels  

B9 Phase Transitions, Dynamics, and Excitations
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 301 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Alberto Pimpinelli, Université Blaise Pascal

B10 Focus Sessions: Physical Chemistry of Nanoscale System II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 302 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Haw Yang, University of California, Berkeley; Clemens Burda, Case Western Reserve University
Invited Speakers:  Mostafa El-Sayed,  Susan Dexheimer  

B11 Focus Session: Promises and Challenges in Chemical Dynamics II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 303 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Jim Valentini, Columbia University
Invited Speakers:  Joshua Jortner,  Louis Brus  

B12 Quantum Metal Films and Overlayer Structures
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 304 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Zhenyu Zhang, Oak Ridge Natinoal Laboratory

B13 Focus Session: Spectroscopy of Biomolecules from Isolated Molecules to Cell Environment II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 305 Sponsor: DCP DBP Chair: Philip Anfinrud, National Institutes of Health
Invited Speakers:  Mattanjah de Vries,  Martin Jarrold,  Rebecca Jockusch  

B15 Metals: Lattice, Low D, Phonons
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 311 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Larry Boyer, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Alexander Burin  

B16 Focus Session: Molecular-Scale Electronics I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 312 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Udo Pernisz, Dow Corning Corporation, Midland MI
Invited Speakers:  Alexandre Champagne  

B17 Focus Session: Phase Transitions and Domains in Ferroelectric Nanostructures I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 313 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Alex Bratkovsky, Hewlett-Packard
Invited Speakers:  Arkadi Levanyuk  

B18 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Synthesis, Processing and Characterization
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 315 Sponsor: DMP Chair: David Luzzi, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Michael Arnold  

B19 Focus Session: Transition Metal Oxide Ferromagnetic Semiconductors
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 316 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Stephan von Molnar, Penn State University
Invited Speakers:  Satishchandra Ogale  

B20 Focus Session: Phase Competition and Separation in Pervoskite Oxides
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 317 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Chris Leighton, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Tom Wu  

B21 Colloids II: Colloidal Crystals, Gels, and Glasses
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 318 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Maria Kilfoil, McGill University

B22 Focus Session: Current Driven Magnetization Dynamics II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 319 Sponsor: GMAG FIAP DMP Chair: Mark Stiles, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Geoffrey Beach  

B23 Quantum Spin Chains I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 320 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Christopher Landee, Clark University

B26 Focus Session: Single Molecule Biophysics: DNA & RNA
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 323 Sponsor: DBP DPOLY Chair: Ching-Hwa Kiang, Rice University
Invited Speakers:  David Nelson  

B28 Experimental Techniques in Biomaterials Science
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 325 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Kevin Hewitt, Dalhousie University

B29 Focus Session: Micro-Organism Motility
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 326 Sponsor: DBP GSNP Chair: Udo Erdman, Humboldt University
Invited Speakers:  Eberhard Bodenschatz  

B31 Insulating Nanostructures
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 328 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Babak Nikoobakht, National Institute of Standards and Technology

B32 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 329 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Andrew Canning, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  David Roundy  

B33 Financial Markets and Other Applications of Statistical Physics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 336 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Victor Yakovenko, University of Maryland

B35 Focus Session: Nanoscale Thermal, Thermoelectric and Mass Transport: Theory and Simulation
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 338 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Joel E. Moore, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Stefan Heinze  

B36 Electronic Properties of Nanowires
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 339 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Lars Samuelson, Lund University

B37 High-Tc: STM and Pseudogap
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 340 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: J. Y. T. Wei, University of Toronto

B38 Superconducting Devices and AppIications
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 341 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Bleiweiss, Naval Academy Prep School

B39 Superconductivity-Magnetic Properties
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 342 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Daniel Agterberg, University of Wisconsin

B40 Topics in Quantum Foundations
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 343 Sponsor: TGQI DCMP Chair: Terry Rudolph, Imperial College London

B42 SPS Undergraduate Research I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 345 Chair: Gary White, Society of Physics Students

B43 BEC in Trapped Atomic Gases
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 346 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Henry Glyde, University of Delaware

B46 Focus Session: Wide Band Gap Semiconductors II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 349 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Paul Klein, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  A.F. Wright  

Mar 13 2006 1:30PM, Monday

B34 Author Workshop: Submitting to the APS Journals
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 337

Mar 13 2006 2:00PM, Monday

C1 Poster Session I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Exhibit Hall 2:00pm - 5:00pm (DPOLY session: 11:15am - 2:15pm)

Mar 13 2006 2:30PM, Monday

D1 Fluctuation and Relaxation Near Jamming
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom IV Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  J. S. Langer,  Hernan Makse,  Adam Abate,  Leonardo Silbert,  Wolfgang Losert  

D2 Quantum Hall Effect in Graphene
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom III Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Gene Mele, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Philip Kim,  Andre Geim,  Sergei Sharapov,  Walt De Heer  

D3 Scientists from Developing Countries: is There an Effective Way to Support Meaningful Research?
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom I Sponsor: FIP Chair: Katepalli Sreenivasan, the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Invited Speakers:  Timoleon Crepin Kofane,  Zohra Ben Lakdar,  Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz,  Bernard M'Passi-Mabiala  

D4 Organic Electronics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 308 Sponsor: DPOLY DMP Chair: Chang Yeol Ryu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Invited Speakers:  Richard Friend,  David Martin,  Yueh-Lin Loo,  Michael Chabinyc,  Eric K. Lin  

D5 Catalysis and Complexity: Ken Hass Memorial
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 309 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Willes Weber, Caltech
Invited Speakers:  William Schneider,  Christopher Wolverton,  Anders Carlsson,  L. Craig Davis  

D6 Simulating Hydrogen Storage: From Current Challenges to Future Promises
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 310 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Shengbai Zhang, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Karl Johnson,  John Tse,  Yufeng Zhao,  Puru Jena,  William Goddard  

D7 New Results in Geometrically Frustrated Magnets
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 307 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Arthur Ramirez, Lucent Technologies
Invited Speakers:  Philippe Mendels,  Roderich Moessner,  Jason Gardner,  Peter Schiffer,  Peter Lunkenheimer  

D8 Patterns and Instabilities I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 314 Sponsor: DFD GSNP Chair: Brian Hunt, University of Maryland

D9 Methods in Nanobiotechnology
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 301 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Ido Braslavsky, Ohio University
Invited Speakers:  Michael Roukes,  Robert Austin,  Josef Michl,  Paul Wiseman,  Saw-Wai Hla  

D10 Focus Session: Physical Chemistry of Nanoscale System III
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 302 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Yiping Zhao, University of Georgia
Invited Speakers:  Stephen Leone,  Sunney Xie  

D11 Focus Session: Promises and Challenges in Chemical Dynamics III
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 303 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Laurie Butler, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Masahiro Kawasaki  

D12 Morphological Evolution and Instabilities
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 304 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Ted Einstein, University of Maryland

D13 Focus Session: Spectroscopy of Biomolecules from Isolated Molecules to Cell Environment III
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 305 Sponsor: DCP DBP Chair: Megan Spence, University of Pittsburgh
Invited Speakers:  Tobias Baumgart,  Taekjip Ha  

D15 Focus Session: Atomic Tunneling, Films, Nanostructures
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 311 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Daniel Finkenstadt, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Christian Enss  

D16 Focus Session: Negative Refractive Index I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 312 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Vladimir M Shalaev, Purdue University
Invited Speakers:  Steven Brueck  

D17 Focus Session: Phase Transitions and Domains in Ferroelectric Nanostructures II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 313 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Alex Demkov, The University of Texas
Invited Speakers:  Marty Gregg  

D18 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Synthesis and Growth II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 315 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Robert Hauge, Rice University

D19 Focus Session: Semiconductor Spin Injection and Detection
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 316 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Berry Jonker, Naval Research Laboratoy
Invited Speakers:  Paul A. Crowell  

D20 Focus Session: Multiferroics I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 317 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Nicola Spaldin, University of California, Santa Barbara

D21 Colloids III: Particles at Interfaces and in Confined Geometries
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 318 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Charles Reichhardt, Los Alamos National Laboratory

D22 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanopatterns
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 319 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Laura Lewis, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  C.L. Chien  

D23 Focus Session: MAG.THY I / Spin Structures and Dynamics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 320 Sponsor: GMAG DMP DCOMP Chair: Dale Koelling, Department of Energy
Invited Speakers:  Viatcheslav V. Dobrovitski  

D25 Focus Session: Particle Dynamics and Organization; Polymer Tethers and Interfacial Segregation
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 322 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Francis Starr; Wesleyan University
Invited Speakers:  Grant Smith  

D26 Focus Session: Dynamics of Nuclei Acid-Protein Interaction: Single Molecule
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 323 Sponsor: DBP DPOLY Chair: Mark C. WiIliams, Northeastern University
Invited Speakers:  Michelle Wang,  Gijs Wuite  

D27 Focus Session: Novel Computational Algorithms I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 324 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Francois Gygi, University of California, Davis
Invited Speakers:  Suxing Hu,  Alan Aspuru-Guzik  

D28 Block Copolymer Thin Films
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 325 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Travis Bailey, Colorado State University

D29 Molecular Machines and Motors
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 326 Sponsor: DBP GSNP Chair: Dean Astumian, University of Maine
Invited Speakers:  Amar Flood,  Yale E. Goldman  

D30 Multiphase Polymer Materials
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 327 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Ali Dhinojwala, University of Akron

D31 Properties of Semiconducting Nanostructures
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 328 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Steve Erwin, Navel Research Laboratory

D32 Focused Session: Computational Nanoscience II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 329 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Joshua Schrier, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

D33 Focus Session: Friction, Fracture and Deformation I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 336 Sponsor: DMP GSNP Chair: H.G.E. Henstchel, Emory University
Invited Speakers:  J. Thomas Dickinson  

D35 Focus Session: Thermal Transport and Thermoelectricity in Nanotubes and Graphene
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 338 Sponsor: DMP Chair: B.C. Regan, University of California, Los Angeles
Invited Speakers:  Li Shi  

D38 Focus Session: Superconductivity-Properties of Doped and Irradiated Magnesium Diboride and Related Compounds
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 341 Sponsor: DMP Chair: David Larbalestier, University of Wisconsin
Invited Speakers:  Marina Putti  

D39 Spin Properties of Superconductors
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 342 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jeff Lynn, National Institute of Standards and Technology

D40 Focus Session: Foundations of Quantum Theory
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 343 Sponsor: TGQI DCMP Chair: Daniel Greenberger, City College of the City University of New York
Invited Speakers:  Lucien Hardy  

D42 SPS Undergraduate Research II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 345 Sponsor: SPS Chair: Gary White, Society of Physics Students

D43 Focus Session: Vortices and Vortex Lattices in Fermi and Bose Superfluid Gases
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 346 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: D. Feder, University of Calgary
Invited Speakers:  Martin Zwierlein  

D45 Strongly Correlated Electrons on Triangular Lattices
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 348 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Cedomir Petrovic, Brookhaven National Laboratory

D46 Focus Session: Wide Band Gap Semiconductors III
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 349 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Robert Nemanich, North Carolina State University
Invited Speakers:  Xianrong Huang  

Mar 13 2006 5:45PM, Monday

E5 APS Award Session
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 309

Mar 13 2006 6:45PM, Monday

E6 Welcome Reception
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom II

Mar 13 2006 8:00PM, Monday

F50 Emerging Emergent Phenomena
Room: Marriot Waterfront Hotel Grand Salons V-VI Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Leo Kadanoff, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Edward Witten,  Susan J. Lolle,  Albert-L\'aszl\'o Barab\'asi,  Bernard Sadoulet  

Mar 14 2006 8:00AM, Tuesday

G1a Nobel Prize Symposium
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom IV Chair: John Hopfield, Princeton University, APS President
Invited Speakers:  Theodor W. Haensch,  John L. Hall,  Roy J. Glauber  

G1b Special Prize Session
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom IV Chair: Charles Clark, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Q. Charles Su,  Rainer Grobe  

G2 Quantum Criticality in Cuprates
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom III Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Lia Krusin-Elbaum, IBM
Invited Speakers:  Claudio Chamon,  Jeffery Tallon,  Takasada Shibauchi,  Bella Lake,  David Broun  

G3 Coupled Superconducting Qubits
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Steven Girvin, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Alexander Shnirman,  John Martinis,  David Schuster,  Jelle Plantenberg,  Alberto Morpurgo  

G4 Polymer Physics Prize
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 308 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Murugappan Muthukumar, University of Massachusetts
Invited Speakers:  Ludwik Leibler,  Martin M\"{o}ller,  Glenn Fredrickson,  Jean Sauveur Candau,  Ralph H. Colby  

G5 Advanced Materials for Solar Energy Utilization
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 309 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Julia Hsu, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Nathan Lewis,  Sarah Kurtz,  Pei-Dong Yong,  Thomas Moore,  David Carlson  

G7 Shear-Induced Patterns in Complex Fluids and Granular Matter
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 307 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: David Weitz, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Wim van Saarloos,  David Reichmann,  Richard Register,  Benny Davidovitch,  Heinrich Jaeger  

G8 Patterns and Instabilities II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 314 Sponsor: DFD GSNP

G10 Focus Sessions: Physical Chemistry of Nanoscale System IV
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 302 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Jin Zhang, University of California, Santa Cruz
Invited Speakers:  Peidong Yang,  Younan Xia  

G11 Focus Session: Promises and Challenges in Chemical Dynamics IV
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 303 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Sunita Satyapal, Department of Energy
Invited Speakers:  Neil Shafer-Ray  

G12 Self-Assembled Nanostructures: Growth and Patterning
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 304 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Christian Ratsch, University of California, Los Angeles

G13 Focus Session: Spectroscopy of Biomolecules from Isolated Molecules to Cell Environment IV
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 305 Sponsor: DCP DBP Chair: Tobias Baumgart, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Timothy Zwier,  Robin Hochstrasser,  Michel Mons  

G15 Mechanical Properties of Metals
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 311 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael J. Mehl, Naval Research Laboratory

G16 Focus Session: Negative Refractive Index II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 312 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Gennady Shvets, University of Texas
Invited Speakers:  Evgenii Narimanov  

G17 Focus Session: Emerging Research Devices and Materials for Microelectronics Industry I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 313 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Mike C. Garner, Intel Corporation
Invited Speakers:  Eric Vogel  

G18 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Electronic and Optical Properties I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 315 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Tobias Hertel, Vanderbilt University
Invited Speakers:  Catalin Spataru  

G19 Focus Session: III-V Magnetic Semiconductors I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 316 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Mark van Schilfgaarde, Arizona State University
Invited Speakers:  Martino Poggio  

G20 Focus Session: Complex Oxide Thin Films Surfaces and Interfaces II: Surfaces and Theory
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 317 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Maria Varela, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

G21 Colloids IV: Polymeric and Colloid-Polymer Systems
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 318 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Cynthia Olson Reichhardt, Los Alamos National Laboratory

G22 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanoparticles I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 319 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Hariharan Srikanth, University of South Florida
Invited Speakers:  Diandra Leslie-Pelecky  

G23 Focus Session: MAG.THY II / Transport & General
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 320 Sponsor: GMAG DMP DCOMP Chair: Wei Cai, Standford University
Invited Speakers:  Yugui Yao  

G24 Polymer Nanomaterials I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Kookheon Char, Seoul National University

G25 Structure and Dynamics of Functional Macromolecules
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 322 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Xinyan Cui, University of Pittsburgh

G26 Focus Session: Trapping of Nanoscale Biological Objects
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 323 Sponsor: DBP Chair: W. E. Moerner, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Adam Cohen,  Enrico Gratton  

G27 Focus Session: Novel Computational Algorithms II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 324 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Barry Schneider, National Science Foundation
Invited Speakers:  Zhaojun Bai,  Stefano Baroni  

G28 Focus Session: Microphysical Properties of Block Copolymer Aggregates I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 325 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Erik Hobbie, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Dennis Discher  

G29 Focus Session: Physical and Engineering Constraints on the Function of Biological Systems
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 326 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Partha Mitra, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Timothy Lezon,  John Doyle  

G30 Focus Session: Electronic Transport in Organic Films
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 327 Sponsor: DPOLY DMP Chair: Denis Fichou, CNRS CEA-Saclay
Invited Speakers:  Steven De Feyter,  Fabrice Charra  

G31 Focus Session: Simulation of Complex Materials I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 328 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Jeff Grossman, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Lucas Wagner  

G32 Focus Session: Orbital/Charge Order in Complex Oxides
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 329 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Ray Osborn, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Feng Ye  

G33 GSNP Student Award Session and Glasses
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 336 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Narayanan Menon, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

G34 Glassy Dynamics and Jamming
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 337 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Eric Weeks, Emory University

G35 Nanoparticles, Nanotubes and Nanocrystals: Optical and Structural Properties
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 338 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Alexander Efros, Naval Research Laboratory

G37 Focus Session: Nanoscale Materials Physics of Phase Transitions I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 340 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Richard Haglund, Vanderbilt University
Invited Speakers:  Matthew Dawber  

G38 Focus Session: Superconductivity-Carbon Alloying of Magnesium Diboride and Related Compounds
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 341 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Paul Canfield, Iowa State University
Invited Speakers:  Rudeger H.T. Wilke  

G39 Focus Session: Superconductivity: Theory and Computation I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 342 Sponsor: DCMP DCOMP Chair: Alexander Balatsky, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Douglas Scalapino  

G40 Focus Session: Materials for Quantum Computing I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 343 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jason Petta, Harvard University

G41 Supersolid
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 344 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Norbert Mulders, University of Delaware

G42 Physics Education Research and Undergraduate Education
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 345 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Paula Heron, University of Washington

G44 Charge-Density Waves
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 347 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Robert Thorne, Cornell University

G45 Phase Transitions in Ruthenates
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 348 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Sung Chang, Ames Lab

G46 QHE, Including Graphene
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 349 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Allan MacDonald, University of Texas

Mar 14 2006 11:15AM, Tuesday

H1 Quantum Information, Concepts and Computation
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom IV Sponsor: GQI Chair: Barry Sanders, University of Calgary
Invited Speakers:  Rainer Blatt,  Yoshihisa Yamamoto,  Mark Raizen,  Nicolas Gisin,  Birgitta Whaley  

H2 Spin Liquids in 2D Frustrated Quantum Magnets
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom III Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Matthew Fisher, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Radu Coldea,  Jason Alicea,  Kazushi Kanoda,  Olexei Motrunich,  Young Lee  

H3 Soft Interfaces
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Thomas Powers, Brown University
Invited Speakers:  David Quere,  Wendy Zhang,  Kathleen Stebe,  Sascha Hilgenfeldt,  Ajay Gopal  

H4a Physics for Everyone
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 308 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ivan Schuller, University of California, San Diego
Invited Speakers:  E. Dan Dahlberg,  Charles Falco,  Brian Schwartz  

H5 Forum: What Has Actually Changed in Physics Departments in the Situation for Women, Graduate Students and Other People?
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 309 Sponsor: FEd FGSA FPS and CSWP Chair: Anthony Nero, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

H6 The Response of Extended Systems to Electrical and Magnetic Fields: Novel, Theoretical, and Computational Methods
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 310 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Nicola Marzari, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Timo Thonhauser,  Allan H. MacDonald,  Wei Cai,  Paolo Umari,  Philippe Ghosez  

H7 Nanopore Biophysics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 307 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Xinsheng Sean Ling, Brown University
Invited Speakers:  J.J. Kasianowicz,  Cees Dekker,  Liviu Movileanu,  Jiali Li,  Aleksei Aksimentiev  

H8 Focus Session: Jamming in Glasses, Grains, and Gels I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 314 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Andrea Liu, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Craig Maloney  

H10 Focus Session: Frontiers in Computational Chemical Physics I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 302 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Eugene Mele, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Xi Lin,  Rubio Angel  

H11 Focus Session: Chemical and Spectroscopic Applications of Nonlinear Optics I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 303 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Peer Fischer, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Kenneth Eisenthal,  Mary Jane Shultz  

H12 Thin Film Growth and Interfaces
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 304 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Michael Scarpulla, University of California, Berkeley

H13 Colloid and Polymer Interfaces
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 305 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Hai-Lung Dai, University of Pennsylvania

H15 Metals: Electronic Structure, Fermiology, Transport
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 311 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Wei Ku, Brookhaven National Laboratory

H16 Focus Session: Hydrogen Storage II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 312 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Gregory P. Meisner, General Motors
Invited Speakers:  Channing Ahn  

H17 Focus Session: Emerging Research Devices and Materials for Microelectronics Industry II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 313 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Bruce White, Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
Invited Speakers:  Hans Coufal  

H18 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Electronic and Optical Properties II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 315 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Vasili Perebeinos, IBM
Invited Speakers:  Christoph Lienau,  Deborah Prezzi  

H19 Focus Session: III-V Magnetic Semiconductors II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 316 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Nitin Samarth, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Kenneth Burch  

H20 Frustration in 3D
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 317 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Sarah Dunsiger, McMaster University

H21 Focus Session: Microfluidic Physics I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 318 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Patrick Doyle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Matthew Paoletti  

H22 Focus Session: Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 319 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Meigan Aronson, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Jian-Ping Wang  

H23 GMR and AMR
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 320 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Pete Eames, NVE Corporation

H24 Polymers at Interfaces
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Chris Soles, National Institute of Standards and Technology

H25 Focus Session: Particle Dynamics and Organization
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 322 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Lynn Walker, Carnegie Mellon University

H27 Computational Methods: Multiscale Modeling
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 324 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Jean-Luc Fattebert, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

H28 Focus Session: Energetics and Transport in Conjugated Organics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 325 Sponsor: DPOLY DMP Chair: David Gundlach, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Denis Fichou  

H29 Focus Session: Physical Aspects of Morphogenesis: Computational Approaches
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 326 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Shane Hutson, Vanderbilt University
Invited Speakers:  G. Wayne Brodland,  Yi Jiang  

H30 Padden Award Symposium
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 327 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Anne Mayes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

H31 Focus Session: Simulation of Complex Materials II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 328 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Giulia Galli, University of California, Davis
Invited Speakers:  Tadashi Ogitsu  

H32 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience III
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 329 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Byounghak Lee, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Zhenyu Zhang  

H33 Focus Session: Friction, Fracture and Deformation II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 336 Sponsor: DMP GSNP Chair: Udo D. Schwarz, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Enrico Gnecco  

H35 Electronic Properties of Quantum Wells and Superlattices
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 338 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Joe Tischler, Naval Research Laboratory

H36 Focus Session: Single Molecule Conductance
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 339 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Doug Natelson, Rice University
Invited Speakers:  Heiko Weber  

H37 Focus Session: Nanoscale Materials Physics of Phase Transitions II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 340 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Eric Mazur, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Manfred Albrecht  

H38 Superconductivity-Disordered Thin Films and Quantum Phenomena
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 341 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: A. M. Goldman, University of Minnesota

H39 Focus Session: Superconductivity-Josephson Junctions and Pairing State Symmetry
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 342 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mac Beasley, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Richard Klemm  

H40 Focus Session: Materials for Quantum Computing II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 343 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Britton Plourde, Syracuse University
Invited Speakers:  Robert Buhrman  

H41 Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 344 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Eugene Tsiper, Naval Research Laboratory

H42 Focus Session: Dynamic Compression
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 345 Sponsor: GSCCM DCMP Chair: Hector Lorenzana, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Dennis Hayes,  Roger Minich  

H43 Focus Session: Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases and the BCS-BEC Crossover II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 346 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Murray Holland, University of Colorado
Invited Speakers:  Cindy Regal  

H44 Quantum Phase Transitions
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 347 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: T. Vojta, University of Missouri, Rola

H45 Theoretical Methods in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 348 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: A.J. Millis, Columbia University

H46 Focus Session: Wide Band Gap Semiconductors IV
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 349 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Stavola, Lehigh University
Invited Speakers:  Fang Qian  

Mar 14 2006 1:03PM, Tuesday

H4b Depletion Forces In Vitro and Out of Equilibrium
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 308 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Crocker, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Yehuda Snir,  Jennifer Lewis  

Mar 14 2006 2:00PM, Tuesday

J1 Poster Session II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Exhibit Hall, 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Mar 14 2006 2:30PM, Tuesday

K1 Optical Frequency Clocks and Experimental Quantum Optics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom IV Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: David Weiss, Penn State University
Invited Speakers:  Patrick Gill,  Thomas Udem,  Jun Ye,  James Bergquist,  Serge Haroche  

K2 Exotic Ordering in Spinels
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom III Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sang-Wook Cheong, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Mark Croft,  Yoichi Horibe,  Daniel Khomskii,  Andrei Sushkov,  Paolo G. Radaelli  

K3 Electron Doped High Tc Superconductors
Room: Baltimore Convention Center Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Martin Greven, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Yoram Dagan,  Girsh Blumberg,  Hiroaki Matsui,  Eugene Motoyama,  Michio Naito  

K4 DMP/CSWP Prize Symposium
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 308 Sponsor: DMP CSWP Chair: Lynn Boatner, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  James Chelikowsky,  Hui Cao,  Hongjie Dai,  Alex Zettl  

K5 Microelectronics for Mid-Infrared through Terahertz
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 309 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Mark Lee, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Claire Gmachl,  Daniel Prober,  Eric Shaner,  Alessandro Tredicucci,  Dan Schmidt  

K6 Minorities in the Nanosciences
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 310 Sponsor: COM Chair: James Dickerson, Vanderbilt University
Invited Speakers:  Nadya Mason,  Conrad James,  Juan Noveron,  Donna Stokes  

K7 New Methods and Algorithms for Biomolecular Modeling
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 307 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Christopher Roland, North Carolina State University
Invited Speakers:  Eric Darve,  Celeste Sagui,  Michael Thorpe,  Mark Tuckerman,  Weitao Yang  

K8 Focus Session: Jamming in Glasses, Grains and Gels II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 314 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Corey O'Hern, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Blair  

K10 Focus Session: Frontiers in Computational Chemical Physics II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 302 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Rigoberto Hernandez, Georgia Tech
Invited Speakers:  Karsten Reuter  

K11 Focus Session: Chemical and Spectroscopic Applications of Nonlinear Optics II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 303 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Alexander V. Benderskii, Wayne State University
Invited Speakers:  Y. Ron Shen,  Garth Simpson,  Akihiro Morita  

K12 Focus Session: Magnetic Thin Films and Narrow Gap Semiconductors
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 304 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Juliet Correa, University of Muenster
Invited Speakers:  Hanno H. Weitering  

K13 Atomic And Molecular Processes at Solid Surfaces
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 305 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Eric Borguet, Temple University

K16 Focus Session: Molecular-Scale Electronics II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 312 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Ravindra Pandey, Michigan Technological University
Invited Speakers:  Shashi Karna  

K17 Focus Session: Si, Ge and SiGe Nanostructures
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 313 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Leonid Tsybeskov, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Frances Ross,  Theodore Kamins  

K18 Focus Session: Dillon Medal Symposium
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 315 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Hiroshi Watanabe, Kyoto University
Invited Speakers:  Kenji Urayama  

K19 Focus Session: III-V Magnetic Semiconductors III
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 316 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Brian Kirby, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Mark van Schilfgaarde  

K20 Focus Session: Multiferroics II - Hexagonal Systems
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 317 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Alois Loidl, Augsburg University
Invited Speakers:  Craig Fennie  

K21 Colloids V
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 318 Sponsor: DFD Chair: D. Grier, New York University

K22 Focus Session: Magnetization Dynamics
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 319 Sponsor: GMAG FIAP DMP Chair: Paul Crowell, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Theo Rasing  

K23 Quantum Magnets: BEC and 2D
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 320 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Collin Broholm, Johns Hopkins University

K24 Polymer Nanomaterials II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Azar Alizadeh, General Electric

K25 Polymer Electrolytes and Conduction
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 322 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Bulent Ozbas; Princeton University

K26 Focus Session: Single Molecule Biophysics I
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 323 Sponsor: DBP DCMP Chair: David Nelson, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Steven Chu  

K27 Density Functional Theory
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 324 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Kieron Burke, Rutgers University

K28 Focus Session: Microphysical Properties of Block Copolymer Aggregates II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 325 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Dennis Discher, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Maria Santore  

K29 Proteins Structure and Function
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 326 Sponsor: DBP Chair: F. A. Ferrone, Drexel University

K30 Carbon Nanotubes: Applications and Novel Phenomena
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jun Kono, Rice University

K31 Focus Session: Simulation of Complex Materials III
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 328 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Alberto Franceschetti, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Volker Blum  

K32 Focused Session: Computational Nanoscience IV
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 329 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Milen Kostev, North Carolina State University

K33 Novel Moving Boundary Problems
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 336 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Wim Saarloos, Leiden University
Invited Speakers:  Joachim Krug,  David Kessler,  Ute Ebert,  Raymond Goldstein,  Alain Karma  

K34 Panel Discussion with PR/PRL Editors
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 337

K35 Electronic Properties and the Kondo Effect in Quantum Dots
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 338 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Scheibner, Naval Research Laboratory

K36 Magnetic Domains and Applied Magnetic Materials
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 339 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: John Unguris, National Institute of Standards and Technology

K37 Superconductivity-Time Resolved Optical and Inelastic x-ray Scattering in Cuprates
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 340 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Tanner, University of Florida

K38 Superconductivity-Mesoscopics and Theory
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 341 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Timir Datta, University of South Carolina

K39 Focus Session: Superconductivity: Theory and Computation II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 342 Sponsor: DCOMP DCMP Chair: Richard Klemm, Kansas State University
Invited Speakers:  Michele Fabrizio  

K40 Focus Session: Materials for Quantum Computing III
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 343 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Seongshik Oh, National Institute of Standards and Technology-Boulder
Invited Speakers:  Robert McDermott  

K41 Focus Session:Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 344 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Darrell Schlom, Penn State University
Invited Speakers:  Eugene Venturini  

K42 Focus Session: Planetary Materials II
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 345 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Eric Schwegler, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

K43 Trapped Fermi Gases
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 346 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: C. Sa de Melo, Georgia Institute of Technology

K44 Transport in Disordered Electronic Systems
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 347 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: A. Punnose, University of Wisconsin

K45 Heavy Fermions: Experiment
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 348 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: M. Aronson, University of Michigan

K46 Spectroscopy of Semiconductors
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 349 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Giti Khodaparast, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Mar 14 2006 5:30PM, Tuesday

L9 GIMS Business Meeting
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 301 Sponsor: GIMS

L10 DCP Business Meeting
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 302 Sponsor: DCP

L16 FIAP Business Meeting
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 312 Sponsor: FIAP

L18 DPOLY Business Meeting
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 315 Sponsor: DPOLY

L23 GMAG Business Meeting
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 320 Sponsor: GMAG

L29 DBP Business Meeting
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 326 Sponsor: DBP

L33 GSNP Business Meeting
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 336 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Daniel Lathsop, University of Maryland

L40 TGQI Business Meeting
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 343 Sponsor: TGQI

L48 FIP Business Meeting
Room: Marriot Waterfront Hotel Galena Sponsor: FIP

Mar 14 2006 5:45PM, Tuesday

L7 Flexible Molecular Recognition: The New Paradigm
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 307 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Jin Wang, Stony Brook University
Invited Speakers:  C. Robert Matthews,  Dorothee Kern,  Susan S. Taylor,  Patricia A. Jennings,  Jin Wang  

Mar 14 2006 7:00PM, Tuesday

L49 DCMP Business Meeting
Room: Marriot Waterfront Hotel Dover A Sponsor: DCMP

L50 DMP Business Meeting
Room: Marriot Waterfront Hotel Dover B Sponsor: DMP

Mar 14 2006 7:30PM, Tuesday

M50 Intelligent Design: Its Impact and Responses to It
Room: Marriot Waterfront Hotel Grand Salon V Sponsor: FPS Chair: Robert Eisenstein
Invited Speakers:  Jeremy Gunn,  Marshall Berman,  Francis Slakey,  Cornelia Dean