Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2006 APS March Meeting
Monday–Friday, March 13–17, 2006; Baltimore, MD
Epitome
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
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
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