Mar 10 2008 8:00AM, Monday

A1 Spectroscopy of Two-Dimensional Electronic Systems
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Aron Pinczuk, Columbia University

A2 New Developments in HTSC I
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Stephen Kivelson, Stanford University

A3 Frontiers in Computational Materials
Room: Morial Convention Center RO2 - RO3 Sponsor: DCOMP TMS Chair: Giulia Galli, University of California, Davis

A4 Polymers at Surfaces: Adhesion, Tribology and Patterning
Room: Morial Convention Center 206 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Steve Granick, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

A5 Supersolid 4He: A New State of Matter
Room: Morial Convention Center RO1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Beamish, University of Alberta

A6 Novel Channel Materials for CMOS Technology
Room: Morial Convention Center RO4 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Matthew Copel, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center

A7 Oscillations Without Transcription in Vivo and in Vitro
Room: Morial Convention Center RO5 Sponsor: DBP GSNP Chair: Michal Zochowski, University of Michigan

A8 Colloidal Self-Assembly I
Room: Morial Convention Center RO6 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Hans Wyss, Harvard University

A9 Focus Session: Fluid Dynamics of Animal Motion
Room: Morial Convention Center RO7 Sponsor: DFD DBP Chair: Kenny Breuer, Brown University

A10 Tunneling on Cuprate Superconductors
Room: Morial Convention Center RO8 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Igor Zutic, University at Buffalo

A11 Focus Session: MgB2-like: Exotic Behavior in MgB2-like Materials
Room: Morial Convention Center RO9 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Xiaoxing Xi, Pennsylvania State University

A12 Strongly Correlated 1D Systems
Room: Morial Convention Center 203 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Gregory Fiete, California Institute of Technology

A13 Focus Session: Simulations of Matter at Extreme Conditions I: Hydrogen Helium, and Planetary Materials
Room: Morial Convention Center 204 Sponsor: DCOMP GSCCM Chair: Burkhard Militzer, University of California, Berkeley

A14 Focus Session: Quantum Simulation of Condensed Matter Systems With Ultracold Atoms
Room: Morial Convention Center 205 Sponsor: GQI DAMOP Chair: Ivan Deutsch, University of New Mexico

A15 Focus Session: Theory of Magnetization Dynamics
Room: Morial Convention Center 207 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP GMAG Chair: Allan MacDonald, University Of Texas, Austin

A16 Dynamics of Nucleic Acids
Room: Morial Convention Center 208 Sponsor: DBP DPOLY Chair: Igor Aronson, Argonne National Laboratory

A17 Cold Fusion
Room: Morial Convention Center 209 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Scott Chubb, Naval Research Laboratory

A18 Focus Session: Multiscale Modeling: Polymers, Nanocomposites, and Biomacromolecules
Room: Morial Convention Center 210 Sponsor: DPOLY DCOMP DBP Chair: John Curro, University of New Mexico

A19 Magnetic and Superconducting Properties
Room: Morial Convention Center 211 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Wenguang Zhu, University of Tennessee

A20 Focus Session: Quantum Dots and Semiconductor Surface Nanostructures
Room: Morial Convention Center 212 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Kristen Fichthorn, Pennsylvania State University

A21 Focus Session: Reversibly Associating Polymers: Theory and Experiments
Room: Morial Convention Center 213 Sponsor: DPOLY DBP Chair: Ken Shull, Northwestern University

A22 Focus Session: Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Nanomaterials I: Patterning and Self Assembly
Room: Morial Convention Center 214 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: R Kannan, Wayne State

A23 Focus Session: Manganites I
Room: Morial Convention Center 215 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: J. J. Neumeier, Montana State University

A24 Focus Session: Transport in Nanostructures I: STM and Atomic Control
Room: Morial Convention Center 216 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Nathan Guisinger, National Institute of Standards and Technology

A25 Block Copolymer Thin Films
Room: Morial Convention Center 217 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Alamgir Karim, National Institute of Standards and Technology

A26 Focus Session: Photophysics of Cold Molecules I
Room: Morial Convention Center 218 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Andrey Vilesov, University of Southern California

A27 Focus Session: Pyrochlores
Room: Morial Convention Center 219 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Jason Gardner, National Institute of Standards and Technology

A28 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Nanostructures I: Carbon Nanotubes
Room: Morial Convention Center 220 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Riichiro Saito, Tohoku University

A29 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials I: Graphene Transport
Room: Morial Convention Center 221 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Stephen Cronin, University of Southern California

A30 Electronic Properties of Graphene and Related Structures I
Room: Morial Convention Center 222 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Nicola Bonini, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

A31 Focus Session: Oxide Interfaces I
Room: Morial Convention Center 223 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: D. Schlom, Pennsylvania State University

A32 Disordered Magnetic Materials
Room: Morial Convention Center 225 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Leonard Spinu, University of New Orleans

A33 Focus Session: Spin Dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors: I
Room: Morial Convention Center 224 Sponsor: DMP GMAG FIAP Chair: Nitin Samarth, Pennsylvania State University

A35 Focus Session: Negative Index Materials I
Room: Morial Convention Center 227 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Shih-Yuan Wang, Hewlett Packard

A36 Focus Session: X-ray and Electron Optics and Microscopy
Room: Morial Convention Center 228 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Timothy Graber, University of Chicago

A37 Semiconductors I: Growth and Processing
Room: Morial Convention Center 229 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Max. G. Lagally, University of Wisconsin-Madison

A38 Focus Session: Biocompatibility
Room: Morial Convention Center 230 Sponsor: DBP DMP Chair: Eric Cochran, Iowa State University

A39 Focus Session: Elasticity and Geometry of Thin Objects
Room: Morial Convention Center 231 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Pedro Reis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

A40 Phase Stability and Phase Transitions
Room: Morial Convention Center 232 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Stefano Curtarolo, Duke University

Mar 10 2008 11:15AM, Monday

B1 Strongly Correlated Electrons in One Dimension
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Gil Refael, California Institute of Technology

B2 Magnetism in Semiconductors: New Frontiers
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane C Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Scott Crooker, Los Alamos National Laboratory

B3 Silicon Photonics
Room: Morial Convention Center RO2 - RO3 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Alex Bratkovsky, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

B4 Self-assembled Macromolecular Structures
Room: Morial Convention Center 206 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Spiros Anastasiadis, Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas, Keraklion, Greece

B5 Geometry and Elasticity
Room: Morial Convention Center RO1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mark Bowick, Syracuse University

B6 Quantum Simulation and Quantum Information Theory in Cold Atoms
Room: Morial Convention Center RO4 Sponsor: GQI DAMOP Chair: Lincoln Carr, Colorado School of Mines

B7 Gene Regulation
Room: Morial Convention Center RO5 Sponsor: DBP GSNP Chair: Sima Setayeshgar, Indiana University

B8 Colloidal Self-Assembly II
Room: Morial Convention Center RO6 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Eric Weeks, Emory University

B9 Pattern Formation and Nonlinear Dynamics
Room: Morial Convention Center RO7 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Vladimir Privman, Clarkson University

B10 Gaps, Pseudogaps and Fermi Surfaces in Cuprates
Room: Morial Convention Center RO8 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Laura Greene, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

B11 Magnetic Properties of Cuprate Superconductors
Room: Morial Convention Center RO9 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Malcolm Beasly, Stanford University

B12 Organic Conductors and Strongly Correlated 2D Systems
Room: Morial Convention Center 203 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Victor Yakovenko, University of Maryland

B13 Focus Session: Simulations of Matter at Extreme Conditions II: Beryllium, Carbon, and Metals
Room: Morial Convention Center 204 Sponsor: DCOMP GSCCM Chair: Eric Schwegler, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

B14 Casimir Forces, Collisions and Atomic Structure
Room: Morial Convention Center 205 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Ho Bun Chan, University of Florida

B15 Quantum Entanglement I
Room: Morial Convention Center 207 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Dagmar Bruss, Heinrich-Heine-Universitae Duesseldorf

B16 Nonlinear Dynamics of Neuronal and Cardiac Systems
Room: Morial Convention Center 208 Sponsor: DBP Chair: John Beggs, Indiana University

B17 Lipid Bilayers: Structure and Function
Room: Morial Convention Center 209 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Linda Hirst, Florida State University

B18 Focus Session: Mechanical Properties of Polymers: Fracture and Adhesion
Room: Morial Convention Center 210 Sponsor: DPOLY FIAP Chair: Theresa Hermel-Davidock, Dow Chemical Company

B19 Novel Surface Instrumentation and Techniques
Room: Morial Convention Center 211 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Wendelken, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

B20 Focus Session: Growth, Kinetics and Quantum Effects in Metal Thin Films
Room: Morial Convention Center 212 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Robert Bartynski, Rutgers University

B21 Focus Session: Clusters, Cluster Assemblies, Nanoscale Materials I
Room: Morial Convention Center 213 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Shiv Khanna, Virginia Commonwealth University

B22 Focus Session: Organic Electronics: FETs I
Room: Morial Convention Center 214 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Ting Xu, University of California, Berkeley

B23 Focus Session: Perovskite Cobaltites
Room: Morial Convention Center 215 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Stephan Rosenkranz, Argonne National Laboratory

B24 Focus Session: Transport in Nanostructures II: Strong Correlations
Room: Morial Convention Center 216 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Sergio Ulloa, Ohio University

B25 Polymer Blends
Room: Morial Convention Center 217 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Rick Register, Princeton University

B26 Focus Session: Photophysics of Cold Molecules II
Room: Morial Convention Center 218 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Roland Wester, University of Freiburg

B27 Focus Session: Molecular Magnets I
Room: Morial Convention Center 219 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Stephen Hill, University of Florida

B28 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Nanostructures II: Graphene, Graphite and Related Materials
Room: Morial Convention Center 220 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Shigeo Maruyama, University of Tokyo

B29 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials II: Graphene Transport
Room: Morial Convention Center 221 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Shan-Wen Tsai, University of California, Riverside

B30 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials III: Synthesis
Room: Morial Convention Center 222 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Chun Ning Lau, University of California, Riverside

B31 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience I: Electronic and Optical Properties of Nanoclusters
Room: Morial Convention Center 223 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: James R. Chelikowsky, University of Texas at Austin

B32 Focus Session: Nanocontacts and Inhomogeneous Magnetic States
Room: Morial Convention Center 225 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Andrei Slavin, Oakland University

B33 Focus Session: Spin Dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors: II
Room: Morial Convention Center 224 Sponsor: DMP GMAG FIAP Chair: Mark van Schilfgaarde, Arizona State University

B35 Focus Session: Emerging Materials and Devices I
Room: Morial Convention Center 227 Sponsor: FIAP DMP Chair: Stefan Zollner, Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.

B36 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy I: Low Temperatures
Room: Morial Convention Center 228 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Joseph A. Stroscio, National Institute of Standards and Technology

B37 FQHE in Higher Landau Levels
Room: Morial Convention Center 229 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Chetan Nayak, Microsoft Station Q

B38 Structure, Electronic Properties, Spectroscopy, and Ionic Transport in Insulators
Room: Morial Convention Center 230 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sudakar Chandran, Wayne State University

B39 Focus Session: Collective Dynamics of Self-Driven Particles
Room: Morial Convention Center 231 Sponsor: GSNP DFD Chair: Sriram Ramaswamy, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

B40 SPS Undergraduate Research and Outreach I
Room: Morial Convention Center 232 Sponsor: SPS Chair: Gary White, Society of Physics Students/American Institute of Physics

Mar 10 2008 2:00PM, Monday

C1 Poster Session I: 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Room: Morial Convention Center Exhibit Hall A Sponsor: APS

Mar 10 2008 2:30PM, Monday

D1 Fundamental Developments in Density Functional Theory
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane AB Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Neepa Maitra, Hunter College of the City University of New York

D2 New Developments in HTSC II
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Erica Carlson, Purdue University

D3 Materials Physics in the Fast Lane
Room: Morial Convention Center RO2 - RO3 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Brian Schwartz, City University of New York

D4 Probing Spin and Charge States in Semiconductor Quantum Dots and “Molecules”
Room: Morial Convention Center 206 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Awschalom, University of California, Santa Barbara

D5 Circuit QED: Superconducting Qubits Coupled to Cavities
Room: Morial Convention Center RO1 Sponsor: DCMP GQI Chair: Raymond Simmonds, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder

D6 Long-Distance Charge Transfer in Biological Systems
Room: Morial Convention Center RO4 Sponsor: FIAP DPOLY Chair: Nikolai Sergueev, University of Texas at Austin

D7 Locomotion in Complex Fluids
Room: Morial Convention Center RO5 Sponsor: GSNP DBP Chair: Arshad Kudrolli, Clark University

D8 Focus Session: Granular Flows: Vibrated
Room: Morial Convention Center RO6 Sponsor: DFD GSNP Chair: Mark Shattuck, City University of New York

D9 Focus Session: Turbulence
Room: Morial Convention Center RO7 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Haitao Xu, Gesellschaft fuer wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Goettingen

D10 Focus Session: Hybrid Magnetic-Superconducting Systems I
Room: Morial Convention Center RO8 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Lance Delong, University of Kentucky

D11 Inhomogeneous Superconductors and Transport
Room: Morial Convention Center RO9 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Don Gubser, Naval Research Laboratory

D12 Theory of Ferroelectric, Multiferroic, and Other Structural Transitions
Room: Morial Convention Center 203 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Craig Fennie, Argonne National Laboratory

D13 Computational Methods: Strongly Correlated and Many Body Systems
Room: Morial Convention Center 204 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Mark Jarrell, University of Cincinnatti

D14 Quantum Information Science in AMO
Room: Morial Convention Center 205 Sponsor: DAMOP GQI Chair: J. Y. Vaishnav, National Institute of Standards and Technology

D15 Focus Session: Foundations of Quantum Theory I
Room: Morial Convention Center 207 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Howard Barnum, Los Alamos National Laboratory and GSCCM Chair

D16 Biological Networks
Room: Morial Convention Center 208 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Eivind Almaas

D17 Focus Session: Time-Resolved Structural Investigations on Protein Folding and Function
Room: Morial Convention Center 209 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Aihua Xie, Oklahoma State University

D18 Polymers at Surfaces
Room: Morial Convention Center 210 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Alfred Crosby, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

D19 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors I
Room: Morial Convention Center 211 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Anderson Janotti, University of California, Santa Barbara

D20 Focus Session: Growth and Properties of Novel Semiconductor and Related Nanostructures
Room: Morial Convention Center 212 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ray Phaneuf, University of Maryland

D21 Focus Session: Clusters, Cluster Assemblies, Nanoscale Materials II
Room: Morial Convention Center 213 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Ulises Reveles, Virginia Commonwealth University

D22 Focus Session: Organic Electronics: Synthesis and Materials
Room: Morial Convention Center 214 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Lynn Loo, Princeton University

D23 Focus Session: Triangular Lattice and Spinels
Room: Morial Convention Center 215 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Art Ramirez, Lucent

D24 Superlattices and Nanostructures: Electronic Properties I
Room: Morial Convention Center 216 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Alexander Govorov, Ohio University

D25 Theory and Simulations I
Room: Morial Convention Center 217 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Arthi Jayaraman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

D26 Focus Session: Photophysics of Cold Molecules III
Room: Morial Convention Center 218 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Wolfgang Jaeger, University of Alberta

D27 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanowires and Nanodots I
Room: Morial Convention Center 219 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Paul Crowell, University of Minnesota

D28 Focus Session: Transport in Nanostructures III: Single Molecules
Room: Morial Convention Center 220 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ward Plummer, University of Tennessee

D29 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials IV: Graphene
Room: Morial Convention Center 221 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Igor Herbut, Simon Fraser University

D30 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials V: Nanotube Transport
Room: Morial Convention Center 222 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Oleg Prezhdo, University of Washington at Seattle

D31 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience II: Nanowires and Transport
Room: Morial Convention Center 223 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Serdar Ogut, University of Illinois at Chicago

D32 Focus Session: Spin Transfer Torque I
Room: Morial Convention Center 225 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Bill Rippard, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder

D33 Focus Session: Spin Dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors: III
Room: Morial Convention Center 224 Sponsor: DMP GMAG FIAP Chair: Chris Palmstrom, University of Minesota

D35 Focus Session: Negative Index Materials II
Room: Morial Convention Center 227 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Anatoly Zayats, Queen's University of Belfast

D36 Focus Session: Hydrogen Storage I: Chemical Hydride and Complex Metal Hydride Materials I
Room: Morial Convention Center 228 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Chris G. Van de Walle, University of California, Santa Barbara

D37 Optical Properties of Semiconductors (mostly nitrides)
Room: Morial Convention Center 229 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Mark Holtz, Texas Tech University

D38 Metals: Defects and Elastic Properties
Room: Morial Convention Center 230 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: George M. Stocks, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

D39 Focus Session: Econophysics and Applications Outside of Physics
Room: Morial Convention Center 231 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Victor Yakovenko, University of Maryland

D40 SPS Undergraduate Research and Outreach II
Room: Morial Convention Center 232 Sponsor: SPS DBP Chair: Gary White, Society of Physics Students/ American Institute of Physics

Mar 10 2008 5:45PM, Monday

E1 APS Prize and Award Session
Room: Morial Convention Center 206 Sponsor: APS Chair: Arthur Bienenstock, APS President, Stanford University

Mar 10 2008 6:45PM, Monday

F1 Welcome Reception
Room: Morial Convention Center Exhibit Hall B2-1 Sponsor: APS

Mar 10 2008 8:00PM, Monday

G1 25 Years of Scanning Probe Microscopy
Room: New Orleans Marriott Carondelet (3rd floor) Sponsor: APS Chair: Julia Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories

Mar 11 2008 8:00AM, Tuesday

H1 Single-Ion Magnetic Moments in Semiconductors
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Flatte, University of Iowa

H2 New Developments in HTSC III
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Eduardo Fradkin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

H3 Polymer Physics Prize
Room: Morial Convention Center RO2 - RO3 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Mark Ediger, University of Wisconsin-Madison

H4 Selected Applications Using Materials Science
Room: Morial Convention Center 206 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Yvan Bruynseraede, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

H5 CeMIn5 (115 ) Heavy Electron Materials: A Rosetta Stone for the Kondo Lattice?
Room: Morial Convention Center RO1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Zachary Fisk, University of California, Irvine

H6 Understanding Hurricanes and Severe Storms: Patterns, Prediction and Mitigation
Room: Morial Convention Center RO4 Sponsor: FPS Chair: Andrew Post-Zwicker, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

H7 Complex Active Biomaterials: Mechanics and Microrheology
Room: Morial Convention Center RO5 Sponsor: DBP DPOLY Chair: John Crocker, University of Pennsylvania

H8 Focus Session: Glassy Dynamics in Colloids
Room: Morial Convention Center RO6 Sponsor: DFD Chair: David Weitz, Harvard University

H9 Instabilities and Fluid Dynamics
Room: Morial Convention Center RO7 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Jerzy Blawzdziewicz, Yale University

H10 Josephson Effects
Room: Morial Convention Center RO8 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Chris Lobb, University of Maryland

H11 Focus Session: MgB2-like: Computational Design of Novel Superconductors
Room: Morial Convention Center RO9 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Igor Mazin, Naval Research Laboratory

H12 Lattice and Magnetic Properties of Multiferroics
Room: Morial Convention Center 203 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Andrei Sushkov, University of Maryland

H13 Focus Session: Simulations of Matter at Extreme Conditions III: Classical MD, Potentials, and Energetic Materials
Room: Morial Convention Center 204 Sponsor: DCOMP GSCCM Chair: Carter White, Naval Research Laboratory

H14 Cold Gases: One Dimensional Phenomena
Room: Morial Convention Center 205 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Robert Cherng, Harvard University

H15 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits I
Room: Morial Convention Center 207 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Britton Plourde, Syracuse University

H16 Focus Session: Biochip Physics I
Room: Morial Convention Center 208 Sponsor: DBP DFD Chair: Peter Kiesel, Palo Alto Research Center

H17 Proteins: Structure and Function
Room: Morial Convention Center 209 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Andrea Markelz, State University of New York at Buffalo

H18 Block Copolymers in Solution and Blends
Room: Morial Convention Center 210 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Ryan Hayward, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

H19 Molecules on Surface: Structure
Room: Morial Convention Center 211 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Karsten Pohl, University of New Hampshire

H20 Focus Session: Assembly of Nanowires and Related Structures
Room: Morial Convention Center 212 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ken Shih, University of Texas at Austin

H21 Focus Session: Clusters, Cluster Assemblies, Nanoscale Materials III
Room: Morial Convention Center 213 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Roberto Rodrigues, Virginia Commonwealth University

H22 Electrically and Optically Active Polymers
Room: Morial Convention Center 214 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Wesley Burghardt, Northwestern University

H23 Focus Session: Probing and Modifying Materials with Lasers I
Room: Morial Convention Center 215 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Craig Arnold, Princeton University

H24 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Nanostructures III: Functional Nanowires
Room: Morial Convention Center 216 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ramamurthy Ramprasad, University of Connecticut

H25 Adsorption of Organics on Surfaces
Room: Morial Convention Center 217 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Kookheon Char, Seoul National University

H26 Focus Session: Photophysics of Cold Molecules IV
Room: Morial Convention Center 218 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Jochen Kuepper, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

H27 Correlated Electrons: Heavy Fermions and Exotic Magnets
Room: Morial Convention Center 219 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Johnpierre Paglione, University of Maryland

H28 Photonic Crystals
Room: Morial Convention Center 220 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mark Sherwin, University of California, Santa Barbara

H29 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials VI: Graphene Transport
Room: Morial Convention Center 221 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Alessandra Lanzara, University of California, Berkeley

H30 Electronic Properties of Graphene and Related Structures II
Room: Morial Convention Center 222 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Giovanni Cantele, Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia

H31 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience III: Ferroelectrics, Surfaces, and Water
Room: Morial Convention Center 223 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Eric Schwegler, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

H32 Focus Session: Magnetic Imaging
Room: Morial Convention Center 225 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Sergei Urazhdin, West Virgina University

H33 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Magnetic Semiconductors
Room: Morial Convention Center 224 Sponsor: GMAG FIAP DMP Chair: Jim Allen, University of California, Santa Barbara

H35 Focus Session: Negative Index Materials III
Room: Morial Convention Center 227 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Igor Smolyaninov, BAE Systems

H36 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy II: Force Methods
Room: Morial Convention Center 228 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Andreas Heinrich, IBM

H37 Optical Properties of Semiconductors (mostly oxides)
Room: Morial Convention Center 229 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Matthias Schubert, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

H39 Student Prize Session followed by Focus Session: Friction
Room: Morial Convention Center 231 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Cristina Marchetti, University of Syracuse

H40 Focus Session: Earth and Planetary Materials I
Room: Morial Convention Center 232 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Robert Liebermann, COMPRES

Mar 11 2008 11:15AM, Tuesday

J1 Pake Prize, McGroddy Prizes, Buckley Prize Session
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane AB Sponsor: DCMP FIAP DMP Chair: Allen Goldman, University of Minnesota

J2 50th Anniversary of Physical Review Letters
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane C Sponsor: FHP Chair: Reinhardt Schuhmann

J3 Kondo Screening and Quantum Criticality from the Spatial Limit: From Single Spins to Droplets to Lattices
Room: Morial Convention Center RO2 - RO3 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: James Davis, Cornell University

J4 Panel Discussion: Making the Invisible Scientist Visible: Science in Emergent Countries
Room: Morial Convention Center 206 Sponsor: FIP Chair: Anita Mehta, SN Bose National Centre

J5 Where is the Center of Mass for Family, Career, and Self?
Room: Morial Convention Center RO1 Sponsor: CSWP FGSA Chair: Peter Sheldon, Randolph College

J6 Effective Potentials and Force Fields for Simulating Biological Macromolecules
Room: Morial Convention Center RO4 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Ronald Levy, Rutgers University

J7 Undergraduate Nanotechnology and Materials Physics Education I
Room: Morial Convention Center RO5 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Lawrence Woolf, General Atomics

J8 Granular Flows
Room: Morial Convention Center RO6 Sponsor: DFD GSNP Chair: Wolfgang Losert, University of Maryland

J9 Fluid Structure and Properties
Room: Morial Convention Center RO7 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Nikolai Priezjev, Michigan State University

J10 Superconductivity: Vortex I
Room: Morial Convention Center RO8 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Wai Kwok, Argonne National Laboratory

J11 Focus Session: MgB2-like: Novel Non-Boride Superconductors
Room: Morial Convention Center RO9 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Vladimir Butko, Brookhaven National Laboratory

J12 Experimental Studies of the Heavy Fermion 115 Compounds
Room: Morial Convention Center 203 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: N. Peter Armitage, The Johns Hopkins University

J13 Focus Session: Simulations of Matter at Extreme Conditions IV: Crystalline Solids, Liquids, and Methods
Room: Morial Convention Center 204 Sponsor: DCOMP GSCCM Chair: Ann Mattsson, Sandia National Laboratories

J14 Focus Session: Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Regime and Rotating Quantum Gases
Room: Morial Convention Center 205 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Hui Zhai, University of California, Berkeley

J15 Quantum Computation
Room: Morial Convention Center 207 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Gerardo Ortiz, Indiana University

J16 Focus Session: Biochip Physics II
Room: Morial Convention Center 208 Sponsor: DBP DFD Chair: David Nolte, Purdue University

J17 Focus Session: General Biological Patterns
Room: Morial Convention Center 209 Sponsor: DBP DMP Chair: Shane Hudson, Vanderbilt University

J18 Frank J. Padden Award Symposium
Room: Morial Convention Center 210 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Russell Composto, University of Pennsylvania

J19 Focus Session: How to Develop an Education Component for an NSF Proposal
Room: Morial Convention Center 211 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Greg Topasna, Virginia Military Institute

J20 Focus Session: Electronic and Lattice Properties of Surfaces and Thin Films
Room: Morial Convention Center 212 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Saw-Wai Hla, Ohio University

J21 Focus Session: Clusters, Cluster Assemblies, Nanoscale Materials IV
Room: Morial Convention Center 213 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Meichun Qian, Virginia Commonwealth University

J22 Organic Electronics, Photonics and Magnetics: Theory
Room: Morial Convention Center 214 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Zhiqiang Li, University of California, San Diego

J23 Focus Session: Cuprates and Nickelates
Room: Morial Convention Center 215 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: John Tranquada, Brookhaven National Laboratory

J24 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Nanostructures IV: Quantum Dots
Room: Morial Convention Center 216 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ado Jorio, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

J25 Focus Session: Biopolymers: Molecules, Solutions and Networks I
Room: Morial Convention Center 217 Sponsor: DPOLY DBP Chair: Paula Hammond, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

J26 Focus Session: Quantum Control I
Room: Morial Convention Center 218 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Vlasta Bonacic-Koutecky, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin

J27 Focus Session: Triangular Lattice
Room: Morial Convention Center 219 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Andrew Cornelius, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

J28 Focus Session: Thermoelectricity in Semiconductor Nanostructures
Room: Morial Convention Center 220 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Li Shi, University of Texas, Austin

J29 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials VII: Electronic Properties
Room: Morial Convention Center 221 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Philip Kim, Columbia University

J30 Optical Properties and Experimental Characterization of Graphene and Related Structures
Room: Morial Convention Center 222 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Marco Fornari, Central Michigan University

J31 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience IV: Nanocrystals
Room: Morial Convention Center 223 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Igor Vasiliev, New Mexico State University

J32 Focus Session: Damping and Spin Relaxation
Room: Morial Convention Center 225 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Casey Miller, University of South Florida

J33 Focus Session: Mostly Spins in Group IV Semiconductors and Organics
Room: Morial Convention Center 224 Sponsor: GMAG FIAP DMP Chair: Jiwei Lu, University of Virginia

J35 Focus Session: Emerging Materials and Devices II
Room: Morial Convention Center 227 Sponsor: FIAP DMP Chair: Leonid Tsybeskov, New Jersey Institute of Technology

J36 Focus Session: Materials for Photovoltaics and Photocatalysis I
Room: Morial Convention Center 228 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Matthias Batzill, University of South Florida

J37 QHE: Bilayers and Graphene
Room: Morial Convention Center 229 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Herb Fertig, Indiana University

J39 Focus Session: Friction and Contact
Room: Morial Convention Center 231 Sponsor: DMP GSNP Chair: Mark Robbins, Johns Hopkins University

J40 Focus Session: Earth and Planetary Materials II
Room: Morial Convention Center 232 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Boris Kiefer, New Mexico State University

Mar 11 2008 2:00PM, Tuesday

K1 Poster Session II: 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Room: Morial Convention Center Exhibit Hall A

Mar 11 2008 2:30PM, Tuesday

L1 Nobel Prize Session followed by Onsager Prize Session
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane AB Sponsor: APS DAMOP Chair: Arthur Beinenstock, APS President, Stanford University, followed by Ivan Schuller, University of California, San Diego

L2 The Physics of Next Generation Photovoltaics
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane C Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Arthur Nozik, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

L3 The Physics of Climate and Climate Change
Room: Morial Convention Center RO2 - RO3 Sponsor: DFD Chair: John Wettlaufer, Yale University

L4 Bosonic Modes in HTSC
Room: Morial Convention Center 206 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mike Norman, Argonne National Laboratory

L5 Phase Transitions in Disordered Magnets
Room: Morial Convention Center RO1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Raymond Bishop, University of Manchester

L6 Minorities in Condensed Matter Physics
Room: Morial Convention Center RO4 Sponsor: COM Chair: James Dickerson, Vanderbilt University

L7 Multiscale Phenomena in Biological Physics
Room: Morial Convention Center RO5 Sponsor: DBP GSNP Chair: Jianpeng Ma, Rice University/Baylor College of Medicine

L9 Colloidal Self Assembly and Interactions
Room: Morial Convention Center RO7 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Eric Dufresne

L10 Focus Session: Electronic and Vortex Mechanisms for Higher Performing Superconductors
Room: Morial Convention Center RO8 Sponsor: DMP Chair: John Sarrao, Los Alamos National Laboratory

L11 Superconductivity: Transport and Fermi Pockets
Room: Morial Convention Center RO9 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Richard Greene, University of Maryland

L12 Heavy Fermion Theory and Strong Correlations
Room: Morial Convention Center 203 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jiangping Hu, Purdue University

L13 Ground State Density Functional Theory: Theory Development
Room: Morial Convention Center 204 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Andreas Savin, Université Pierre et Marie Curie

L14 Focus Session: Foundations of Quantum Theory II
Room: Morial Convention Center 205 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Julio Gea-Banacloche, University of Arkansas

L15 Focus Session: Progress toward Scalable Quantum Information Processing
Room: Morial Convention Center 207 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Dana Berkeland, IARPA

L16 Focus Session: Brownian Motors
Room: Morial Convention Center 208 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Martin Bier, East Carolina University

L17 Solid Helium
Room: Morial Convention Center 209 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Tony Clark, Pennsylvania State University

L18 Focus Session: John H. Dillon Medal Symposium
Room: Morial Convention Center 210 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Gregory McKenna, Texas Tech University

L19 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors II
Room: Morial Convention Center 211 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Stavola, Lehigh University

L20 Focus Session: Self-Assembled Organic Overlayers
Room: Morial Convention Center 212 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Philip Cohen, University of Minnesota

L21 Focus Session: Clusters, Cluster Assemblies, Nanoscale Materials V
Room: Morial Convention Center 213 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Penee Clayborne, Virginia Commonwealth University

L22 Confinement-Induced Structures in Block Copolymers
Room: Morial Convention Center 214 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Eric Cochran, Iowa State University

L23 Focus Session: Probing and Modifying Materials with Lasers II
Room: Morial Convention Center 215 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Daniel Bubb, Rutgers University, Jagdish Narayan, North Carolina State University

L24 Focus Session: Transport in Nanostructures IV: 2DES, Dots, and QPCs
Room: Morial Convention Center 216 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Misha Fogler, University of California, San Diego

L25 Semi-crystalline Polymers
Room: Morial Convention Center 217 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Ben Hsiao, Stony Brook University

L26 Focus Session: Quantum Control II
Room: Morial Convention Center 218 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Vlasta Bonacic-Koutecky, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin

L27 Focus Session: Low-dimensional Spin Systems
Room: Morial Convention Center 219 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Christopher Wiebe, Florida State University

L28 Material Issues for Superconducting Qubits
Room: Morial Convention Center 220 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Martinez, University of California, Santa Barbara

L29 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials VIII: Electronic Structure of Graphene
Room: Morial Convention Center 221 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Fuhrer, University of Maryland

L30 Metallic and Semiconducting Nanotubes
Room: Morial Convention Center 222 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Alex Efros, Naval Research Laboratory

L31 Graphene: Atomic Structure and Lattice Properties
Room: Morial Convention Center 223 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dan Finkenstadt, Naval Research Laboratory

L32 Focus Session: Spin Transfer Torque II
Room: Morial Convention Center 225 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Jordan Katine, Hitachi

L33 Focus Session: Spins in Quantum Dots
Room: Morial Convention Center 224 Sponsor: GMAG FIAP DMP Chair: Alexander Efros, Naval Reseach Laboratory

L35 Optoelectronic Devices and Applications
Room: Morial Convention Center 227 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Fatima Toor, Princeton University

L36 Focus Session: Hydrogen Storage II: Chemical Hydride and Complex Metal Hydride Materials II
Room: Morial Convention Center 228 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Frederick E. Pinkerton, GM R&D Center

L37 Semiconductors II: Structure and Phase Diagrams
Room: Morial Convention Center 229 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Alex Zunger, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

L39 Focus Session: Deformation and Fracture
Room: Morial Convention Center 231 Sponsor: GSNP DMP Chair: Christopher Schuh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

L40 High Pressure
Room: Morial Convention Center 232 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Renata Wentzcovitch, University of Minnesota

Mar 11 2008 5:45PM, Tuesday

M15 GQI Business Meeting
Room: Morial Convention Center 207 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Lorenza Viola, Dartmouth College

M16 DBP Business Meeting
Room: Morial Convention Center 208 Sponsor: DBP

M18 DPOLY Business Meeting
Room: Morial Convention Center 210 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Mark Ediger, U Wisconsin, Madison

M23 GSCCM Business Meeting
Room: Morial Convention Center 215 Sponsor: GSCCM Chair: David Funk, Los Alamos National Laboratory and GSCCM Chair

M27 GMAG Business Meeting
Room: Morial Convention Center 219 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Daniel Reich, Johns Hopkins University

M29 GSNP Business Meeting
Room: Morial Convention Center 221 Sponsor: GSNP

M35 FIAP Business Meeting
Room: Morial Convention Center 227 Sponsor: FIAP

M36 GIMS Business Meeting
Room: Morial Convention Center 228 Sponsor: GIMS

Mar 11 2008 7:00PM, Tuesday

M37 DCP Business Meeting
Room: New Orleans Marriott, Beauregard Room Sponsor: DCP Chair: Will Castleman, Pennsylvania State University

M38 DCOMP Business Meeting
Room: New Orleans Marriott, Galvez Room Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Mei-Yin Chou, Georgia Institute of Technology

M39 DMP Business Meeting
Room: New Orleans Marriott, Audubon Room Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ivan Schuller, University of California, San Diego

M40 DCMP Business Meeting
Room: New Orleans Marriott, Jackson Room Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Allen Goldman, University of Minnesota

Mar 12 2008 8:00AM, Wednesday

P1 Is There Pairing Glue in Cuprate Superconductors?
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: C.C. Tsuei, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

P2 Controlling Electron Spins: Propagation and Dynamics
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Joseph Orenstein, University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

P3 Simple Views on Bulk Polymers: Symposium Honoring P G de Gennes
Room: Morial Convention Center RO2 - RO3 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Tom Witten, University of Chicago

P4 Fluctuations and Rare Events in Physical, Chemical, and Biological Systems
Room: Morial Convention Center 206 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Mark Dykman, Michigan State University

P5 Quantum Information Meets Gravitation
Room: Morial Convention Center RO1 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Matthew Leifer, Institute for Quantum Computing

P6 Fluid Dynamics and Biology
Room: Morial Convention Center RO4 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Silas Alben, Georgia Institute of Technology

P7 Optical Lattices
Room: Morial Convention Center RO5 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Charles Clark, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg

P8 Glassy Dynamics
Room: Morial Convention Center RO6 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Itai Cohen, Cornell University

P9 Microfluidic and Nanofluidic Devices
Room: Morial Convention Center RO7 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Patrick Tabeling, City of Paris Industrial Physics and Chemistry Higher Educational Institution

P10 Superconducting Nanostructures I
Room: Morial Convention Center RO8 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Bleiweiss, Naval Academy Prep School

P11 Focus Session: MgB2-like: Disorder in Novel Superconductors
Room: Morial Convention Center RO9 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Alex Gurevich, Florida State University

P12 Skutterudites and Other Heavy Fermions
Room: Morial Convention Center 203 Sponsor: GFC Chair: John Wei, University of Toronto

P13 Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory
Room: Morial Convention Center 204 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: E.K.U. Gross, Freie Universitat Berlin

P14 High-Bandwidth Dynamic Atomic Force Microscopy
Room: Morial Convention Center 205 Sponsor: DBP BPS FIAP Chair: Brian Salzberg, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

P15 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits II
Room: Morial Convention Center 207 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Frank Wilhelm, University of Waterloo

P16 Focus Session: Cytoskeletal Dynamics and Cell Motility I
Room: Morial Convention Center 208 Sponsor: DBP DPOLY DFD Chair: Greg Huber, University of Connecticut Health Center

P17 Quantum Fluids and Solids I
Room: Morial Convention Center 209 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Garry Williams, University of California, Los Angeles

P18 Polymer Nanocomposites I
Room: Morial Convention Center 210 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Venkat Ganesan, University of Texas at Austin

P20 Focus Session: Engineering Interfaces for New Materials I: Internal Interfaces
Room: Morial Convention Center 212 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Yue Qi, General Motors R&D

P21 Focus Session: Fundamental Issues in Catalysis I
Room: Morial Convention Center 213 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Francisco Zaera, University of California, Riverside

P22 Focus Session: Organic Electronics: FETs II
Room: Morial Convention Center 214 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Michael Chabinyc, Palo Alto Research Center

P23 Focus Session: Multifunctional Oxides: BiFeO3 and Thin Films
Room: Morial Convention Center 215 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Karin Rabe, Rutgers University

P24 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Nanostructures V: Plasmonics and Metallic Nanostructures
Room: Morial Convention Center 216 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Nicholas Fang, University of Illinois

P25 Focus Session: DNA and Protein Analysis with Micro and Nanofluidics
Room: Morial Convention Center 217 Sponsor: DPOLY DBP Chair: Ron Larson, University of Michigan

P26 Focus Session: Quantum Control III
Room: Morial Convention Center 218 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Vlasta Bonacic-Koutecky, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

P27 Focus Session: Low-dimensional Magnetism
Room: Morial Convention Center 219 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Jian Shen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

P28 Superlattices and Nanostructures (Wires, Dots, etc.): Optical Properties I
Room: Morial Convention Center 220 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Eric Stinaff, Ohio University

P29 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials IX: Graphene Electronic Structure
Room: Morial Convention Center 221 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Eli Rotenberg, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

P30 Electronic Properties of Graphene and Related Structures III
Room: Morial Convention Center 222 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Antonio Castro Neto, Boston University

P31 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience V: Mechanical Properties and General Methods
Room: Morial Convention Center 223 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Murilo L. Tiago, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

P32 Focus Session: Magnetic Media and Hard Magnetic Materials
Room: Morial Convention Center 225 Sponsor: GMAG FIAP Chair: Ping Liu, University of Texas at Arlington

P33 Focus Session: Mostly Spin Injection in Si
Room: Morial Convention Center 224 Sponsor: GMAG FIAP DMP Chair: Darrell Schlom, Pennsylvania State University

P35 Focus Session: Materials for Photovoltaics and Photocatalysis II
Room: Morial Convention Center 227 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ulrike Diebold, Tulane University

P36 Focus Session: X-ray and Neutron Instrumentation and Science
Room: Morial Convention Center 228 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: George Srajer, Argonne National Laboratory

P37 Semiconductors III: Electronic and Optical Properties I
Room: Morial Convention Center 229 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Willes H. Weber, The Physical Review

P38 Relaxor Ferroelectrics and Piezoelectrics
Room: Morial Convention Center 230 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Nicola Spaldin, University of California, Santa Barbara

P39 Applications of Complex Networks
Room: Morial Convention Center 231 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Narayan Menon, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

P40 Surface Effects, Thermodynamics and Fabrication
Room: Morial Convention Center 232 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Singh, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Mar 12 2008 9:00AM, Wednesday

P34 Tutorial for Authors and Referees of Physical Review
Room: Morial Convention Center 226

Mar 12 2008 11:15AM, Wednesday

Q1 Ballistic Charge and Spin Transport in Graphene
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Shan-Wen Tsai, University of California, Riverside

Q2 The Physics of Self-Assembled Protein Cages
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane C Sponsor: DBP DMP Chair: Bogdan Dragnea, Indiana University

Q3 Simple Views on Polymer Dynamics: Symposium Honoring P G de Gennes
Room: Morial Convention Center RO2 - RO3 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: A. Grosberg, University of Minnesota

Q4 Pairing Fluctuations Near the Superconductor-Insulator Transition
Room: Morial Convention Center 206 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Subir Sachdev, Harvard University

Q5 Panel Discussion: How Can Industry Best Support the Innovative Research That It Needs?
Room: Morial Convention Center RO1 Sponsor: AIP APS Chair: Robert Doering, Texas Instruments

Q6 Artificial and Tunable Realizations of Spin Systems
Room: Morial Convention Center RO4 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Roderich Moessner, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems

Q7 Undergraduate Nanotechnology and Materials Physics Education II
Room: Morial Convention Center RO5 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Peter Collings, Swarthmore College

Q8 Colloidal Phase Behavior
Room: Morial Convention Center RO6 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Jerzy Blawzdziewicz, Yale University

Q9 Focus Session: DNA and Biofluid Analysis with Micro and Nanofluidic Devices
Room: Morial Convention Center RO7 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Dorian Liepmann, University of California, Berkeley

Q10 Superconductivity: Vortex II
Room: Morial Convention Center RO8 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Milind Kunchur, University of South Carolina

Q11 Focus Session: Hybrid Magnetic-Superconducting Systems II
Room: Morial Convention Center RO9 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Anand Bhattacharya, Argonne National Laboratory

Q12 Focus Session: Hidden Order and Heavy Fermions
Room: Morial Convention Center 203 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Lia Krusin-Elbaum, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Q13 Ground State Density Functional Theory: Applications
Room: Morial Convention Center 204 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Kieron Burke, University of California, Irvine

Q14 Bosons in Optical Lattices
Room: Morial Convention Center 205 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Theja De Silva, State University of New York, Binghamton

Q15 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubit Approaches I
Room: Morial Convention Center 207 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Mark Eriksson, University of Wisconsin

Q16 Focus Session: Cytoskeletal Dynamics and Cell Motility II
Room: Morial Convention Center 208 Sponsor: DBP DPOLY DFD Chair: Jay Tang, Brown University

Q17 Focus Session: Hydrophobic Interactions at Multiple Scales in Biology
Room: Morial Convention Center 209 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Margaret Cheung, University of Houston

Q18 Polymer Nanocomposites II
Room: Morial Convention Center 210 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Erik Hobbie, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Q19 Physics Education: In and Out of the Classroom
Room: Morial Convention Center 211 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Shelly Hynes, Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts

Q20 Focus Session: Engineering Interfaces for New Materials II: Surfaces
Room: Morial Convention Center 212 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Ted Einstein, University of Maryland

Q21 Focus Session: Fundamental Issues in Catalysis II
Room: Morial Convention Center 213 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Wilfred Tysoe, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Q22 Focus Session: New Methods in Polymer Physics
Room: Morial Convention Center 214 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Carson Meredith, Georgia Institute of Technology

Q23 Focus Session: Bilayer Manganites
Room: Morial Convention Center 215 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Ray Osborn, Argonne National Laboratory

Q24 Focus Session: Transport in Nanostructures V: Optics, Mechanics, and Networks
Room: Morial Convention Center 216 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Douglas Natelson, Rice University

Q25 Physical Properties of Melts and Solutions
Room: Morial Convention Center 217 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Mitchell Anthamatten, University of Rochester

Q26 Advances in Spectroscopy
Room: Morial Convention Center 218 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Kyrill Kuyanov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Q27 Focus Session: One-dimensional Spin Chains
Room: Morial Convention Center 219 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Christopher Landee, Clark University

Q28 Focus Session: Thermoelectricity in Bulk Materials
Room: Morial Convention Center 220 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Joshua Zide, University of Delaware

Q29 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials X: p-n Junctions and Mesoscopic Effects in Graphene
Room: Morial Convention Center 221 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Zhenyu Zhang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Q30 Nanotubes and Nanowires I: Electronic and Transport Properties
Room: Morial Convention Center 222 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Fuhrer, University of Maryland

Q31 Computational Nanoscience: Nanotubes and Graphene
Room: Morial Convention Center 223 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: David Prendergast, Molecular Foundary, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Q32 Focus Session: Molecular Magnets II
Room: Morial Convention Center 225 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Andrew Kent, New York University

Q33 Focus Session: Spin Polarization in Compound Semiconductors
Room: Morial Convention Center 224 Sponsor: GMAG FIAP DMP Chair: Stu Wolf, University of Virginia

Q35 Focus Session: Emerging Materials and Devices III
Room: Morial Convention Center 227 Sponsor: FIAP DMP Chair: Jeff Welser, IBM Almaden

Q36 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy III: Force Methods
Room: Morial Convention Center 228 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Eric Hudson, IBM

Q37 Magnetotransport in 2DEGs
Room: Morial Convention Center 229 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Mansour Shayegan, Princeton University

Q38 Focus Session: Ferroelectric Films and Finite Size Effects
Room: Morial Convention Center 230 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Max Stengel, University of California, Santa Barbara

Q39 Focus Session: Models and Materials Far from Equilibrium
Room: Morial Convention Center 231 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Michel Pleimling, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Q40 Metals: Nanoparticles, Compounds and Thermodynamics
Room: Morial Convention Center 232 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: William H. Butler, University of Alabama

Mar 12 2008 1:00PM, Wednesday

R1 Poster Session III: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Room: Morial Convention Center Exhibit Hall A Sponsor: APS

Mar 12 2008 2:30PM, Wednesday

S1 Diamond-based Quantum Information Processing
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Awschalom, University of California, Santa Barbara

S2 Can Power Dissipation in a Switch Be Significantly Lowered?
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane C Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Jeff Welser, SRC Nanoelectronics Research Initiative

S3 Aging, Shear and Rejuvenation: Mechanics of Glasses, Colloids and Granular Matter
Room: Morial Convention Center RO2 - RO3 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Criag Maloney, Carnegie Mellon University

S4 Keithley Award Symposium
Room: Morial Convention Center 206 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: James Matey, Sarnoff Corporation

S5 Theory of Orbital Magnetization and Related Properties
Room: Morial Convention Center RO1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Raffaele Resta, University of Trieste

S6 Superfluid Density in Underdoped Cuprates
Room: Morial Convention Center RO4 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mohit Randeria, Ohio State University

S7 Panel Discussion: Non-traditional Careers for Physicists
Room: Morial Convention Center RO5 Sponsor: FGSA Chair: Gavi Begtrup, University of California, Berkeley

S8 Colloidal Rheology
Room: Morial Convention Center RO6 Sponsor: DFD Chair: David Weitz, Harvard University

S9 Optical Properties of Superconductors
Room: Morial Convention Center RO7 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Tanner, University of Florida

S10 Superconductors: Synthesis and Physical Properties
Room: Morial Convention Center RO8 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Carmen Almasan, Kent State University

S11 Theory of Superconductivity in Cuprates I
Room: Morial Convention Center RO9 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Alexander Balatsky, Los Alamos National Laboratory

S12 Strongly Correlated Quantum Phases
Room: Morial Convention Center 203 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Shailesh Chandrasekharan, Duke University

S13 Focus Session: Frontiers in Electronic Structure Theory I
Room: Morial Convention Center 204 Sponsor: DCOMP DCP Chair: Andrew Rappe, University of Pennsylvania

S14 Fermions in Optical Lattices
Room: Morial Convention Center 205 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Ana Maria Rey, Harvard University

S15 Superconducting Qubits III
Room: Morial Convention Center 207 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Franco Nori, University of Michigan & RIKEN

S16 Focus Session: General Techniques and Radiation Therapies in Biological Physics
Room: Morial Convention Center 208 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Paul Gueye, Hampton University

S17 Quantum Fluids and Solids II
Room: Morial Convention Center 209 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Henry Glyde, University of Delaware

S18 Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Nanomaterials II: Assembly and Fabrication
Room: Morial Convention Center 210 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Hendrik Heinz, University of Akron

S19 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors III
Room: Morial Convention Center 211 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Eugene Haller, University of California, Berkeley

S20 Focus Session: Engineering Interfaces for New Materials III: Heterogeneous Interfaces
Room: Morial Convention Center 212 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Eduardo Saiz, Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory

S21 Focus Session: Fundamental Issues in Catalysis III
Room: Morial Convention Center 213 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Steve Overbury, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

S22 Focus Session: Organic Electronics: Contacts and Interfaces
Room: Morial Convention Center 214 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Dave Gundlach, National Institute of Standards and Technology

S23 Focus Session: Nanostructured Oxides and Thin Films
Room: Morial Convention Center 215 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Grace Lu, University of Southern California

S24 Fullerenes (not nanotubes)
Room: Morial Convention Center 216 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dan Finkenstadt, Naval Research Laboratory

S25 Gels and Elastomers
Room: Morial Convention Center 217 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Hiroshi Watanabe, University of Kyoto

S26 Focus Session: Advances in Atmospheric Aerosol Science I
Room: Morial Convention Center 218 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Kevin Wilson, Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory

S27 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanowires and Nanodots II
Room: Morial Convention Center 219 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Daniel Ralph, Cornell University

S28 Superlattices and Nanostructures (Wires, Dots, etc.): Optical Properties II
Room: Morial Convention Center 220 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Scheibner, Naval Research Laboratory

S29 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials XI: Optical Spectroscopy
Room: Morial Convention Center 221 Sponsor: DMP Chair: James Hone, Columbia University

S30 Nanotubes, Transport, and Other Properties
Room: Morial Convention Center 222 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Vincent Crespi, Pennsylvania State University

S31 Focus Session: Multiferroics I: 113 and 125
Room: Morial Convention Center 223 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Valery Kiryukhin, Rutgers University

S32 Focus Session: Magnetic Tunneling
Room: Morial Convention Center 225 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Jack Bass, Michigan State University

S33 Focus Session: Mostly III-V Semiconductors
Room: Morial Convention Center 224 Sponsor: GMAG FIAP DMP Chair: Steve von Molnar, Florida State University

S35 Focus Session: Nanotechnology I
Room: Morial Convention Center 227 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Keith Williams, University of Virginia

S36 Focus Session: Hydrogen Storage III: Novel Porous and Sorbent Materials
Room: Morial Convention Center 228 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Hui Wu, NIST Center for Neutron Research

S37 Effect of Strain on Ferroelectrics
Room: Morial Convention Center 229 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Maitri Warusawithana, Pennsylvania State University

S39 Systems Far From Equilibrium and Other Topics in Statistical Physics
Room: Morial Convention Center 231 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Robert Ziff, University of Michigan

S40 History of Physics
Room: Morial Convention Center 232 Sponsor: FHP Chair: George Zimmerman, Boston University

Mar 12 2008 5:30PM, Wednesday

T16 Town Hall Meeting: Materials Physics at Gigabar Pressures
Room: Morial Convention Center 208 Sponsor: GSCCM Chair: Russell Hemley, Carnegie Institution for Science

Mar 12 2008 7:30PM, Wednesday

T1 Quarks to Cosmos: Breaking News at the Interface of Particle, Nuclear and Astrophysics
Room: New Orleans Marriott Carondelet (3rd floor) Chair: Arthur Bienenstock, APS President, Stanford University

Mar 13 2008 8:00AM, Thursday

U1 Isakson Prize, Adler Award, Nicholson Medal Session
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane AB Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: David Pine, New York University

U2 Electron Nematics
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jan Zaanen, University of Leiden

U3 Simple Views on Polymers at Surfaces and Interfaces: Symposium Honoring P G de Gennes
Room: Morial Convention Center RO2 - RO3 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: E. Raphael

U4 Interferometry in the Quantum Hall Regime
Room: Morial Convention Center 206 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Steven Simon, Lucent Tech/Bell Labs-Murray

U5 Epitaxial Oxide/Semiconductor Systems
Room: Morial Convention Center RO1 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Alex Demkov, University of Texas at Austin

U6 Computational and Theoretical Challenges in Predicting Climate Change
Room: Morial Convention Center RO4 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: David Bader, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

U7 Physics Demonstrations and Strategies for Teaching and Public Outreach
Room: Morial Convention Center RO5 Sponsor: FEd Chair: James McGuire, Tulane University

U8 Colloidal Manipulation Techniques
Room: Morial Convention Center RO6 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Vinothan Manoharan, Harvard University

U9 Fluctuations, Phase Transitions and the Polar Kerr Effect
Room: Morial Convention Center RO7 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jeff Tallon, Industrial Research Ltd., New Zealand

U10 Superconductivity: Magnetic Field Effects
Room: Morial Convention Center RO8 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Neil Sullivan, University of Florida

U11 Focus Session: MgB2-like: Enhancement of Superconducting Properties
Room: Morial Convention Center RO9 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Alex Koshelev, Argonne National Laboratory

U12 Strongly Correlated Electron Systems: Quantum Phase Transitions
Room: Morial Convention Center 203 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Andrew Millis, Columbia University

U13 Focus Session: Frontiers in Electronic Structure Theory II
Room: Morial Convention Center 204 Sponsor: DCOMP DCP Chair: Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl, University of Leoben-Austria

U14 Focus Session: Exotic Phases in Ultracold Fermi Gases
Room: Morial Convention Center 205 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Mehmet Oktel, Bilkent University

U15 Focus Session: Open Quantum Systems and Decoherence
Room: Morial Convention Center 207 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Sergio Boixo, University of New Mexico

U16 Focus Session: Medical Physics and Radiation Biology
Room: Morial Convention Center 208 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Richard Britten, Eastern Virginia Medical School

U17 Proteins in Membranes and the Cytoskeleton
Room: Morial Convention Center 209 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Robijn Bruinsma, University of California, Los Angeles

U18 Focus Session: Polymer Collapse and Protein Folding
Room: Morial Convention Center 210 Sponsor: GSNP DPOLY Chair: Tom Truskett, University of Texas at Austin

U19 Computational Methods: Dynamics, Transport, and Plasma
Room: Morial Convention Center 211 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Michael Zachariah, University of Maryland

U20 Focus Session: Metal Surfaces, Interfaces, and Thin Films
Room: Morial Convention Center 212 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Mina Yoon, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

U21 Surfaces and Interfaces I
Room: Morial Convention Center 213 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Arthur Reber, Virginia Commonwealth University

U22 Focus Session: Nonequilibrium Fluctuations in Biomolecules
Room: Morial Convention Center 214 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Christy Landes, University of Houston

U23 Focus Session: Manganite Thin Films
Room: Morial Convention Center 215 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Amlan Biswas, University of Florida

U24 Focus Session: Transport in Nanostructures VI: Nonequilibrium Phenomena and Noise
Room: Morial Convention Center 216 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jeff Neaton, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

U25 Theory and Simulation II
Room: Morial Convention Center 217 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Marina Guenza, University of Oregon

U26 Focus Session: Advances in Atmospheric Aerosol Science II
Room: Morial Convention Center 218 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Ruth Signorell, University of British Columbia

U27 Correlated Electrons: Theory, Actinides, and Ising Systems
Room: Morial Convention Center 219 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Makariy Tanatar, University of Sherbrooke

U28 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubit Approaches II
Room: Morial Convention Center 220 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Malcolm Carroll, Sandia National Laboratories

U29 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials XII: Graphene Transport
Room: Morial Convention Center 221 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Allan MacDonald, University of Texas

U30 Electronic Properties of Graphene and Related Structures IV
Room: Morial Convention Center 222 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mike Mehl, Naval Research Laboratory

U31 Focus Session: Multiferroics II: Theory and LuFe2O4
Room: Morial Convention Center 223 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Nicola Spaldin, University of California, Santa Barbara

U32 Focus Session: Magnetic Multilayers and Nanostructures
Room: Morial Convention Center 225 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Ilya Krivorotov, University of California, Irvine

U33 Focus Session: Theory and Simulations of Magnetism I
Room: Morial Convention Center 224 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP GMAG Chair: Xiaoguang Zhang, Oak Ridge National Laborattory

U35 Focus Session: Hydrogen Storage IV: Theoretical Predictions
Room: Morial Convention Center 227 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Karl Johnson, University of Pittsburgh

U36 Nanoinstrumentation for Biological and Other Applications
Room: Morial Convention Center 228 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Robert Guertin, Tufts University

U37 Transport Properties of Semiconductors: 2-D Systems
Room: Morial Convention Center 229 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Giti Khodaparast, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

U38 Focus Session: Ferroelectric Oxide Superlattices and Oxide Thermoelectrics
Room: Morial Convention Center 230 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jean-Mare Triscone, University of Geneva

U39 Focus Session: Structure and Dynamics of Complex Networks
Room: Morial Convention Center 231 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Sidney Redner, Boston University

U40 Biomolecular Computation
Room: Morial Convention Center 232 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Margaret Cheung, University of Houston

Mar 13 2008 11:15AM, Thursday

V1 Recent Advances in Soft Complex Materials Using Neutron Scattering
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane AB Sponsor: DMP Chair: Alan J. Hurd, Los Alamos National Laboratory

V2 Facilities for Meeting Grand Challenges
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane C Sponsor: DCMP GIMS Chair: Gwyn Williams, Thomas Jefferson Laboratory National Accelerator Facility

V3 Industrial Physics History
Room: Morial Convention Center RO2 - RO3 Sponsor: FHP Chair: Gloria B. Lubkin, American Institute of Physics

V4 Electronic Excitations in Organic Molecular Crystals/Fluctuating Fronts: Beyond a Popular Mean-Field Theory
Room: Morial Convention Center 206 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Vitaly Podzorov, Rutgers University

V5 Panel Discussion: Lessons Learned from Katrina: How to Prepare a Department for Catastrophic Events
Room: Morial Convention Center RO1 Sponsor: FPS FGSA Chair: Andrew Post-Zwicker, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

V7 Oscillations and Segmentation: Dynamical Genetic Regulation in Time and Space
Room: Morial Convention Center RO5 Sponsor: DBP GSNP Chair: Mogens Jensen, Niels Bohr Institute

V8 Liquid Crystals I: Structure and Defects
Room: Morial Convention Center RO6 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Oleg Lavrentovich, Kent State University

V9 Computational Methods: Multiscale Modeling
Room: Morial Convention Center RO7 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Kathie Newman, University of Notre Dame

V10 Proximity Effect, Electron-doped Cuprates, STM
Room: Morial Convention Center RO8 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Thomas Lemberger, Ohio State Universtiy

V11 Quasiparticle Dispersion and Coupling in Cuprates
Room: Morial Convention Center RO9 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dan Dessau, University of Colorado at Boulder

V12 Metal Insulator Transition I: Vanadium Oxides and Others
Room: Morial Convention Center 203 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: M. Brian Maple, University of California, San Diego

V13 Focus Session: Frontiers in Electronic Structure Theory III
Room: Morial Convention Center 204 Sponsor: DCP DCOMP Chair: Wei Ku, Brookhaven National Laboratory

V14 BEC-BCS Crossover
Room: Morial Convention Center 205 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Meera Parish, Princeton University

V15 Quantum Error Correction and Control
Room: Morial Convention Center 207 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Lorenza Viola, Dartmouth College

V16 Focus Session: Medical Imaging and Related Technologies
Room: Morial Convention Center 208 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Christopher Njeh, Tyler Cancer Center

V17 Focus Session: Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Small Systems
Room: Morial Convention Center 209 Sponsor: GSNP DBP Chair: Chris Jarzynski, University of Maryland

V18 Focus Session: Properties of Block Copolymers
Room: Morial Convention Center 210 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Thomas Epps, University of Delaware

V19 New Frontiers for Biological Physics
Room: Morial Convention Center 211 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Ali Mohazab, University of British Columbia

V20 Phase Transitions: Structural, Electronic, and Magnetic
Room: Morial Convention Center 212 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ted Einstein, University of Maryland

V21 Charged and Ion-Containing Polymers I
Room: Morial Convention Center 213 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Jodie Lutkenhaus, Yale University

V22 Focus Session: Organic Electronics: Molecular Junctions
Room: Morial Convention Center 214 Sponsor: DPOLY DMP Chair: James Kushmerick, National Institute of Standards and Technology

V23 Focus Session: Charge/Orbital Ordering in Complex Oxides
Room: Morial Convention Center 215 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jeff Lynn, National Institute of Standards and Technology

V24 Focus Session: Transport in Nanostructures VII: Si Interfaces and Carbon
Room: Morial Convention Center 216 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Fuhrer, University of Maryland

V25 Focus Session: Interfaces and Adhesion I
Room: Morial Convention Center 217 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Karl Freed, University of Chicago

V26 Focus Session: Advances in Atmospheric Aerosol Science III
Room: Morial Convention Center 218 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Daniel Knopf, State University of New York

V27 Focus Session: Frustrated Theory
Room: Morial Convention Center 219 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Oleg Tchernyshyov, Johns Hopkins University

V28 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Nanostructures VI: Nanoscale Metamaterials
Room: Morial Convention Center 220 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Vladimir Shalaev, Purdue University

V29 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials XIII: Synthesis
Room: Morial Convention Center 221 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Vasili Perebeinos, IBM

V30 Nanotubes and Nanowires II: Other Properties I
Room: Morial Convention Center 222 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Tony Heinz, Columbia University

V31 Focus Session: Oxide Interfaces II
Room: Morial Convention Center 223 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Arunava Gupta, University of Alabama

V32 Focus Session: Magnetic Semiconductors and Novel Magnetic Materials
Room: Morial Convention Center 225 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Kenneth Burch, Los Alamos National Laboratory

V33 Focus Session: Theory of Spin Phenomena in Semiconductors
Room: Morial Convention Center 224 Sponsor: GMAG FIAP DMP Chair: Michael Flatte, University of Iowa

V34 Panel Discussion: International Gender Issues in Physics
Room: Morial Convention Center 226 Sponsor: FIP CSWP Chair: Beverly Hartline

V35 Focus Session: Thermoelectric Phenomena in Nanostructured Materials
Room: Morial Convention Center 227 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Chris Vineis, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

V36 Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy IV: Optical and High Frequency Methods
Room: Morial Convention Center 228 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Phillip First, Georgia Institute of Technology

V37 QHE and FQHE
Room: Morial Convention Center 229 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Wei Pan, Sandia National Laboratories

V38 Focus Session: Multiferroics and Multiferroic Composites
Room: Morial Convention Center 230 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Claude Ederer, Trinity College, Ireland

V39 Focus Session: Jamming I: Theory
Room: Morial Convention Center 231 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Wouter Ellenbroek, University of Pennsylvania

V40 Nucleic Acids: Structure and Function
Room: Morial Convention Center 232 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Noel Clark, University of Colorado

Mar 13 2008 2:30PM, Thursday

W2 Electronic Structure, Magnetism and Superconductivity of Sodium Cobaltate
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michelle Johannes, Naval Research Laboratory

W3 Dislocation Patterns and Avalanches
Room: Morial Convention Center RO2 - RO3 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Charles Reichardt, Los Alamos National Laboratory

W4 Dynamics of Polymers
Room: Morial Convention Center 206 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Ralph Colby, Pennsylvania State University

W5 Sensing Science and Sensors for Industrial Applications
Room: Morial Convention Center RO1 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Mohsen Yaganeh, Exxon Mobil

W6 Strong Interacting Fermi Gases with Spin Asymmetry
Room: Morial Convention Center RO4 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Roberto Diener, Ohio State University

W7 Nonlinear Dynamics of Neural Systems: A Statistical Mechanics of the Brain
Room: Morial Convention Center RO5 Sponsor: DBP GSNP Chair: John Beggs, Indiana University

W8 Liquid Crystals II: Dynamics and Topology
Room: Morial Convention Center RO6 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Robin Selinger, Kent State University

W9 Theoretical Methods and Applications
Room: Morial Convention Center RO7 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Alexander Tchernatinsky, University of Minnesota

W10 Focus Session: Hybrid Magnetic-Superconducting Systems III
Room: Morial Convention Center RO8 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ilya Vekhter, Louisiana State University

W11 Theory of Superconductivity in Cuprates II
Room: Morial Convention Center RO9 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mohit Randeria, Ohio State University

W12 Metal Insulator Transition II: Theory
Room: Morial Convention Center 203 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jim Freericks, Georgetown University

W13 Quantum Monte Carlo
Room: Morial Convention Center 204 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Matthias Troyer, ETH Zurich

W14 Quantum Optics
Room: Morial Convention Center 205 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Mark Edwards, Georgia Southern University

W15 Quantum Entanglement II
Room: Morial Convention Center 207 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Ian Durham, Saint Anselm College

W16 Focus Session: Novel Biomedical Techniques
Room: Morial Convention Center 208 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Paul Gueye, Hampton University

W17 General Biological Physics
Room: Morial Convention Center 209 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Dean Astumian, University of Maine

W18 Focus Session: Dynamics of Nucleic Acid-Protein Interactions
Room: Morial Convention Center 210 Sponsor: DPOLY DBP Chair: Ferenc Horkay, National Institutes of Health

W19 Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors IV
Room: Morial Convention Center 211 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Matthew McCluskey, Washington State University

W20 Oxide Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films
Room: Morial Convention Center 212 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Arthur Smith, Ohio University

W21 Surfaces and Interfaces II
Room: Morial Convention Center 213 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Will Castleman, Pennsylvania State University

W22 Focus Session: Organic Photovoltaics and LEDs
Room: Morial Convention Center 214 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Chang Ryu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

W23 Focus Session: Manganites II
Room: Morial Convention Center 215 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Ichiro Takeuchi, University of Maryland

W24 Glassy and Amorphous Systems
Room: Morial Convention Center 216 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Bruno Uchoa, Boston University

W25 Focus Session: Biopolymers: Molecules, Solutions and Networks II
Room: Morial Convention Center 217 Sponsor: DPOLY DBP Chair: Ting Xu, University of California, Berkeley

W26 Focus Session: Advances in Atmospheric Aerosol Science IV
Room: Morial Convention Center 218 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Laura Voss, Bowdoin College

W27 Focus Session: Spin Glasses and SrCu2(BO3)2
Room: Morial Convention Center 219 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Matt Stone, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

W28 Superlattices and Nanostructures: Electronic Properties II
Room: Morial Convention Center 220 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jong Han, State University of New York at Buffalo

W29 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials XIV: Theory and Sensing
Room: Morial Convention Center 221 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Sankar Das Sarma, University of MarylandBob Haddon, University of California, Riverside

W30 Nanotubes and Nanowires III: Other Properties II
Room: Morial Convention Center 222 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Fuhrer, University of Maryland

W31 Focus Session: New Materials and Properties of Complex Oxides
Room: Morial Convention Center 223 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Amos Sharoni, University of California, San Diego

W32 Focus Session: Domain Wall Motion and Itinerant Magnetism
Room: Morial Convention Center 225 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Rembert Duine, Utrecht University

W33 Focus Session: Spins in Narrow Gap Semiconductors
Room: Morial Convention Center 224 Sponsor: GMAG FIAP DMP Chair: Berry Jonker, Naval Research Laboratory

W35 Focus Session: Nanotechnology II
Room: Morial Convention Center 227 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Curt Richter, National Institute of Standards and Technology

W36 Focus Session: Materials for Photovoltaics and Photocatalysis III
Room: Morial Convention Center 228 Sponsor: DMP Chair: David Ginley, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

W37 Focus Session: Multiferrocity in BiFeO$_3$-based films
Room: Morial Convention Center 229 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Craig Fennie, Argonne National Laboratory

W39 Focus Session: Jamming II: Packing and Force Networks
Room: Morial Convention Center 231 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Gregg Lois, Yale University

W40 Focus Session: Networks, Regulation, and Pathways in Cell Biology
Room: Morial Convention Center 232 Sponsor: DBP GSNP Chair: Rahul Kulkarni, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Mar 14 2008 8:00AM, Friday

X3 Interface Phenomena in Oxides
Room: Morial Convention Center RO2 - RO3 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: James Eckstein, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

X4 Approaching Quantum Limits in Optomechanical Systems
Room: Morial Convention Center 206 Sponsor: DCMP GQI Chair: Konrad Lehnert, JILA, NIST/University of Colorado

X5 Superconducting Sources of THz-Radiation
Room: Morial Convention Center RO1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Kazuo Kadowaki, University of Tsukuba

X6 Tunnel Magnetoresistance: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Room: Morial Convention Center RO4 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Igor Zutic, State University of New York at Buffalo

X7 Understanding Strongly Correlated Materials with Dynamical Mean Field Theory Methods
Room: Morial Convention Center RO5 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Matthias Troyer, Theoretische Physik, ETH Zurich

X8 Focus Session: Wormlike Micellar Fluids and Vesicles
Room: Morial Convention Center RO6 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Andrew Belmonte, Pennsylvania State University

X9 Focus Session: Spinor Condensates and Dipolar Gases
Room: Morial Convention Center RO7 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Chris Greene, University of Colorado

X10 Superconducting Devices and Applications
Room: Morial Convention Center RO8 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Constantine Vlahacos, University of Maryland

X11 Focus Session: MgB2-like: Properties of Exotic Superconductors
Room: Morial Convention Center RO9 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Peihong Zhang, University of Buffalo

X12 Charge Density Wave and Charge Order
Room: Morial Convention Center 203 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Eduardo Fradkin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

X13 Quantum Monte Carlo Methods and Strongly Correlated Systems
Room: Morial Convention Center 204 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Anders Sandvik, Boston University

X15 Emerging Nano-based Diagnostics and Therapeutics: Approaches to Cancer Treatment
Room: Morial Convention Center 207 Sponsor: DBP FIAP Chair: Larry Nagahara, National Cancer Institute

X18 Focus Session: Dynamics and Structures in Polymer Melts, Gels and Glasses
Room: Morial Convention Center 210 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Lynden Archer, Cornell University

X22 Organic Magnetics and Bio-Electronics
Room: Morial Convention Center 214 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Fabio Cicoira, Cornell University

X23 Focus Session: Multiferroics III: Other
Room: Morial Convention Center 215 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Sam Lofland, Rowan University

X24 Nanotubes: Transport, Synthesis and Growth
Room: Morial Convention Center 216 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Vincent Crespi, Pennsylvania State University

X25 Block Copolymer Phase Behavior
Room: Morial Convention Center 217 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Nitash Balsara, University of California, Berkeley

X27 Focus Session: Exchange Bias and Magnetic Interactions
Room: Morial Convention Center 219 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Christian Binek, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

X28 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Nanostructures VII: Surface Plasmons and Periodic Arrays
Room: Morial Convention Center 220 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ho-Bun Chan, University of Florida

X29 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials XV: Electronic Structure and Optical Properties
Room: Morial Convention Center 221 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Eva Andrei, Rutgers University

X30 Composite and Porous Media
Room: Morial Convention Center 222 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Stefano Curtarolo, Duke University

X31 Focus Session: Ruthenates
Room: Morial Convention Center 223 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Igor Mazin, Naval Research Laboratory

X32 Focus Session: Magnetic Sensors
Room: Morial Convention Center 225 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Thomas Crawford, University of South Carolina

X33 Focus Session: Magnetic Resonance in Magnetic Semiconductors
Room: Morial Convention Center 224 Sponsor: GMAG FIAP DMP Chair: Roland Kawakami, University of California, Riverside

X35 Semiconducting Devices and Applications
Room: Morial Convention Center 227 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Tom Oder, Youngstown State University

X36 Advances in Instrumentation and Measurements
Room: Morial Convention Center 228 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Charles Agosta, Clark University

X37 Semiconductors IV: Electronic and Optical Properties II
Room: Morial Convention Center 229 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Udo Pernisz, Dow Corning Corp.

X39 Miscellaneous Topics in Statistical Physics
Room: Morial Convention Center 231 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Bill Klein, Boston University

X40 Self Assembled Protein Cages
Room: Morial Convention Center 232 Sponsor: DBP Chair: William Klug, University of California, Los Angeles

Mar 14 2008 11:15AM, Friday

Y3 Novel Physics and Quantum Interference in Weakly Disordered Graphene Devices
Room: Morial Convention Center RO2 - RO3 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Alberto Morpurgo, Technical Univerisity of Delft

Y4 New Symmetries and Excitations in Multiferroics
Room: Morial Convention Center 206 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dennis Drew, University of Maryland

Y5 Charged and Ion-Containing Polymers II
Room: Morial Convention Center RO1 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Ron Hedden, Pennsylvania State University

Y6 Industrial Advanced Characterizations
Room: Morial Convention Center RO4 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Mark Disko, Exxon Mobile Research and Engineering Co.

Y7 Control of Light with Bacteriorhodopsin
Room: Morial Convention Center RO5 Sponsor: DBP DCP Chair: Gopal Rao, University of Massachusetts-Boston

Y8 Hydrodynamics of Surfaces and Films
Room: Morial Convention Center RO6 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Elizabeth Mann, Kent State University

Y9 BEC/Matter Optics/Atom Interferometry
Room: Morial Convention Center RO7 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Conjung Wu, University of California, San Diego

Y10 Superconducting Nanostructures II
Room: Morial Convention Center RO8 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Timir Datta, University of South Carolina

Y11 Oxide Spectroscopy
Room: Morial Convention Center RO9 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: J. Steven Dodge, Simon Fraser University

Y12 General Theory
Room: Morial Convention Center 203 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Anne Chaka, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Y13 Classical Molecular Dynamics and Fluids
Room: Morial Convention Center 204 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Brian Good, NASA GRC

Y15 Focus Session: Quantum Metrology and Control: Fundamental Limits and Applications
Room: Morial Convention Center 207 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Lorenza Viola, Dartmouth College

Y18 Dynamics of Thin Polymer Films
Room: Morial Convention Center 210 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Peter Green, University of Michigan

Y22 Interfaces and Adhesion II
Room: Morial Convention Center 214 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Alexei Sokolov, University of Akron

Y23 Focus Session: Electronic Structure of Complex Oxides
Room: Morial Convention Center 215 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Bill Butler, University of Alabama

Y24 Nanotube Devices and Applications
Room: Morial Convention Center 216 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Gary Pennington, Army Research Laboratory

Y25 Theory and Simulations III
Room: Morial Convention Center 217 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Hank Ashbaugh, Tulane University

Y27 Focus Session: Kagome Magnets
Room: Morial Convention Center 219 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Ying Chen, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Y28 Superlattices and Nanostructures: Electronic Properties III
Room: Morial Convention Center 220 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Xuedong Hu, University at Buffalo SUNY

Y29 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials XVI: Mechanical and Thermal Properties
Room: Morial Convention Center 221 Sponsor: DMP Chair: David Tomanek, Michigan State University

Y30 Low Dimensional Systems
Room: Morial Convention Center 222 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Mehl, Naval Research Laboratory

Y31 Focus Session: Sodium Cobaltites
Room: Morial Convention Center 223 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: David Singh, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Y32 Focus Session: Theory and Simulations of Magnetism II
Room: Morial Convention Center 225 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP GMAG Chair: Peter Dederichs, IFF Research Center Juelich

Y33 Focus Session: Diluted Magnetic Oxides
Room: Morial Convention Center 224 Sponsor: GMAG FIAP DMP Chair: Stuf Wolf, University of Virginia

Y36 Focus Session: Artificial Neurons
Room: Morial Convention Center 228 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Unil Perera, Georgia State University

Y37 Thermodynamic and Transport Properties of Semiconductors
Room: Morial Convention Center 229 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Terry Alford, Arizona State University

Y39 Other Topics in Statistical Physics
Room: Morial Convention Center 231 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Harvey Gould, Clark University

Y40 Bionanotechnology
Room: Morial Convention Center 232 Sponsor: DBP FIAP Chair: David Nolte, Purdue University

Mar 10 2008 8:00AM, Monday

A1 Spectroscopy of Two-Dimensional Electronic Systems
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Aron Pinczuk, Columbia University

A2 New Developments in HTSC I
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Stephen Kivelson, Stanford University

A3 Frontiers in Computational Materials
Room: Morial Convention Center RO2 - RO3 Sponsor: DCOMP TMS Chair: Giulia Galli, University of California, Davis

A4 Polymers at Surfaces: Adhesion, Tribology and Patterning
Room: Morial Convention Center 206 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Steve Granick, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

A5 Supersolid 4He: A New State of Matter
Room: Morial Convention Center RO1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Beamish, University of Alberta

A6 Novel Channel Materials for CMOS Technology
Room: Morial Convention Center RO4 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Matthew Copel, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center

A7 Oscillations Without Transcription in Vivo and in Vitro
Room: Morial Convention Center RO5 Sponsor: DBP GSNP Chair: Michal Zochowski, University of Michigan

A8 Colloidal Self-Assembly I
Room: Morial Convention Center RO6 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Hans Wyss, Harvard University

A9 Focus Session: Fluid Dynamics of Animal Motion
Room: Morial Convention Center RO7 Sponsor: DFD DBP Chair: Kenny Breuer, Brown University

A10 Tunneling on Cuprate Superconductors
Room: Morial Convention Center RO8 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Igor Zutic, University at Buffalo

A11 Focus Session: MgB2-like: Exotic Behavior in MgB2-like Materials
Room: Morial Convention Center RO9 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Xiaoxing Xi, Pennsylvania State University

A12 Strongly Correlated 1D Systems
Room: Morial Convention Center 203 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Gregory Fiete, California Institute of Technology

A13 Focus Session: Simulations of Matter at Extreme Conditions I: Hydrogen Helium, and Planetary Materials
Room: Morial Convention Center 204 Sponsor: DCOMP GSCCM Chair: Burkhard Militzer, University of California, Berkeley

A14 Focus Session: Quantum Simulation of Condensed Matter Systems With Ultracold Atoms
Room: Morial Convention Center 205 Sponsor: GQI DAMOP Chair: Ivan Deutsch, University of New Mexico

A15 Focus Session: Theory of Magnetization Dynamics
Room: Morial Convention Center 207 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP GMAG Chair: Allan MacDonald, University Of Texas, Austin

A16 Dynamics of Nucleic Acids
Room: Morial Convention Center 208 Sponsor: DBP DPOLY Chair: Igor Aronson, Argonne National Laboratory

A17 Cold Fusion
Room: Morial Convention Center 209 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Scott Chubb, Naval Research Laboratory

A18 Focus Session: Multiscale Modeling: Polymers, Nanocomposites, and Biomacromolecules
Room: Morial Convention Center 210 Sponsor: DPOLY DCOMP DBP Chair: John Curro, University of New Mexico

A19 Magnetic and Superconducting Properties
Room: Morial Convention Center 211 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Wenguang Zhu, University of Tennessee

A20 Focus Session: Quantum Dots and Semiconductor Surface Nanostructures
Room: Morial Convention Center 212 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Kristen Fichthorn, Pennsylvania State University

A21 Focus Session: Reversibly Associating Polymers: Theory and Experiments
Room: Morial Convention Center 213 Sponsor: DPOLY DBP Chair: Ken Shull, Northwestern University

A22 Focus Session: Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Nanomaterials I: Patterning and Self Assembly
Room: Morial Convention Center 214 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: R Kannan, Wayne State

A23 Focus Session: Manganites I
Room: Morial Convention Center 215 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: J. J. Neumeier, Montana State University

A24 Focus Session: Transport in Nanostructures I: STM and Atomic Control
Room: Morial Convention Center 216 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Nathan Guisinger, National Institute of Standards and Technology

A25 Block Copolymer Thin Films
Room: Morial Convention Center 217 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Alamgir Karim, National Institute of Standards and Technology

A26 Focus Session: Photophysics of Cold Molecules I
Room: Morial Convention Center 218 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Andrey Vilesov, University of Southern California

A27 Focus Session: Pyrochlores
Room: Morial Convention Center 219 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Jason Gardner, National Institute of Standards and Technology

A28 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Nanostructures I: Carbon Nanotubes
Room: Morial Convention Center 220 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Riichiro Saito, Tohoku University

A29 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials I: Graphene Transport
Room: Morial Convention Center 221 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Stephen Cronin, University of Southern California

A30 Electronic Properties of Graphene and Related Structures I
Room: Morial Convention Center 222 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Nicola Bonini, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

A31 Focus Session: Oxide Interfaces I
Room: Morial Convention Center 223 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: D. Schlom, Pennsylvania State University

A32 Disordered Magnetic Materials
Room: Morial Convention Center 225 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Leonard Spinu, University of New Orleans

A33 Focus Session: Spin Dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors: I
Room: Morial Convention Center 224 Sponsor: DMP GMAG FIAP Chair: Nitin Samarth, Pennsylvania State University

A35 Focus Session: Negative Index Materials I
Room: Morial Convention Center 227 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Shih-Yuan Wang, Hewlett Packard

A36 Focus Session: X-ray and Electron Optics and Microscopy
Room: Morial Convention Center 228 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Timothy Graber, University of Chicago

A37 Semiconductors I: Growth and Processing
Room: Morial Convention Center 229 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Max. G. Lagally, University of Wisconsin-Madison

A38 Focus Session: Biocompatibility
Room: Morial Convention Center 230 Sponsor: DBP DMP Chair: Eric Cochran, Iowa State University

A39 Focus Session: Elasticity and Geometry of Thin Objects
Room: Morial Convention Center 231 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Pedro Reis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

A40 Phase Stability and Phase Transitions
Room: Morial Convention Center 232 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Stefano Curtarolo, Duke University

Mar 10 2008 11:15AM, Monday

B1 Strongly Correlated Electrons in One Dimension
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Gil Refael, California Institute of Technology

B2 Magnetism in Semiconductors: New Frontiers
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane C Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Scott Crooker, Los Alamos National Laboratory

B3 Silicon Photonics
Room: Morial Convention Center RO2 - RO3 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Alex Bratkovsky, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

B4 Self-assembled Macromolecular Structures
Room: Morial Convention Center 206 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Spiros Anastasiadis, Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas, Keraklion, Greece

B5 Geometry and Elasticity
Room: Morial Convention Center RO1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mark Bowick, Syracuse University

B6 Quantum Simulation and Quantum Information Theory in Cold Atoms
Room: Morial Convention Center RO4 Sponsor: GQI DAMOP Chair: Lincoln Carr, Colorado School of Mines

B7 Gene Regulation
Room: Morial Convention Center RO5 Sponsor: DBP GSNP Chair: Sima Setayeshgar, Indiana University

B8 Colloidal Self-Assembly II
Room: Morial Convention Center RO6 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Eric Weeks, Emory University

B9 Pattern Formation and Nonlinear Dynamics
Room: Morial Convention Center RO7 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Vladimir Privman, Clarkson University

B10 Gaps, Pseudogaps and Fermi Surfaces in Cuprates
Room: Morial Convention Center RO8 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Laura Greene, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

B11 Magnetic Properties of Cuprate Superconductors
Room: Morial Convention Center RO9 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Malcolm Beasly, Stanford University

B12 Organic Conductors and Strongly Correlated 2D Systems
Room: Morial Convention Center 203 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Victor Yakovenko, University of Maryland

B13 Focus Session: Simulations of Matter at Extreme Conditions II: Beryllium, Carbon, and Metals
Room: Morial Convention Center 204 Sponsor: DCOMP GSCCM Chair: Eric Schwegler, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

B14 Casimir Forces, Collisions and Atomic Structure
Room: Morial Convention Center 205 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Ho Bun Chan, University of Florida

B15 Quantum Entanglement I
Room: Morial Convention Center 207 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Dagmar Bruss, Heinrich-Heine-Universitae Duesseldorf

B16 Nonlinear Dynamics of Neuronal and Cardiac Systems
Room: Morial Convention Center 208 Sponsor: DBP Chair: John Beggs, Indiana University

B17 Lipid Bilayers: Structure and Function
Room: Morial Convention Center 209 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Linda Hirst, Florida State University

B18 Focus Session: Mechanical Properties of Polymers: Fracture and Adhesion
Room: Morial Convention Center 210 Sponsor: DPOLY FIAP Chair: Theresa Hermel-Davidock, Dow Chemical Company

B19 Novel Surface Instrumentation and Techniques
Room: Morial Convention Center 211 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Wendelken, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

B20 Focus Session: Growth, Kinetics and Quantum Effects in Metal Thin Films
Room: Morial Convention Center 212 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Robert Bartynski, Rutgers University

B21 Focus Session: Clusters, Cluster Assemblies, Nanoscale Materials I
Room: Morial Convention Center 213 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Shiv Khanna, Virginia Commonwealth University

B22 Focus Session: Organic Electronics: FETs I
Room: Morial Convention Center 214 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Ting Xu, University of California, Berkeley

B23 Focus Session: Perovskite Cobaltites
Room: Morial Convention Center 215 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Stephan Rosenkranz, Argonne National Laboratory

B24 Focus Session: Transport in Nanostructures II: Strong Correlations
Room: Morial Convention Center 216 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Sergio Ulloa, Ohio University

B25 Polymer Blends
Room: Morial Convention Center 217 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Rick Register, Princeton University

B26 Focus Session: Photophysics of Cold Molecules II
Room: Morial Convention Center 218 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Roland Wester, University of Freiburg

B27 Focus Session: Molecular Magnets I
Room: Morial Convention Center 219 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Stephen Hill, University of Florida

B28 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Nanostructures II: Graphene, Graphite and Related Materials
Room: Morial Convention Center 220 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Shigeo Maruyama, University of Tokyo

B29 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials II: Graphene Transport
Room: Morial Convention Center 221 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Shan-Wen Tsai, University of California, Riverside

B30 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials III: Synthesis
Room: Morial Convention Center 222 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Chun Ning Lau, University of California, Riverside

B31 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience I: Electronic and Optical Properties of Nanoclusters
Room: Morial Convention Center 223 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: James R. Chelikowsky, University of Texas at Austin

B32 Focus Session: Nanocontacts and Inhomogeneous Magnetic States
Room: Morial Convention Center 225 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Andrei Slavin, Oakland University

B33 Focus Session: Spin Dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors: II
Room: Morial Convention Center 224 Sponsor: DMP GMAG FIAP Chair: Mark van Schilfgaarde, Arizona State University

B35 Focus Session: Emerging Materials and Devices I
Room: Morial Convention Center 227 Sponsor: FIAP DMP Chair: Stefan Zollner, Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.

B36 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy I: Low Temperatures
Room: Morial Convention Center 228 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Joseph A. Stroscio, National Institute of Standards and Technology

B37 FQHE in Higher Landau Levels
Room: Morial Convention Center 229 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Chetan Nayak, Microsoft Station Q

B38 Structure, Electronic Properties, Spectroscopy, and Ionic Transport in Insulators
Room: Morial Convention Center 230 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sudakar Chandran, Wayne State University

B39 Focus Session: Collective Dynamics of Self-Driven Particles
Room: Morial Convention Center 231 Sponsor: GSNP DFD Chair: Sriram Ramaswamy, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

B40 SPS Undergraduate Research and Outreach I
Room: Morial Convention Center 232 Sponsor: SPS Chair: Gary White, Society of Physics Students/American Institute of Physics

Mar 10 2008 2:00PM, Monday

C1 Poster Session I: 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Room: Morial Convention Center Exhibit Hall A Sponsor: APS

Mar 10 2008 2:30PM, Monday

D1 Fundamental Developments in Density Functional Theory
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane AB Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Neepa Maitra, Hunter College of the City University of New York

D2 New Developments in HTSC II
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Erica Carlson, Purdue University

D3 Materials Physics in the Fast Lane
Room: Morial Convention Center RO2 - RO3 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Brian Schwartz, City University of New York

D4 Probing Spin and Charge States in Semiconductor Quantum Dots and “Molecules”
Room: Morial Convention Center 206 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Awschalom, University of California, Santa Barbara

D5 Circuit QED: Superconducting Qubits Coupled to Cavities
Room: Morial Convention Center RO1 Sponsor: DCMP GQI Chair: Raymond Simmonds, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder

D6 Long-Distance Charge Transfer in Biological Systems
Room: Morial Convention Center RO4 Sponsor: FIAP DPOLY Chair: Nikolai Sergueev, University of Texas at Austin

D7 Locomotion in Complex Fluids
Room: Morial Convention Center RO5 Sponsor: GSNP DBP Chair: Arshad Kudrolli, Clark University

D8 Focus Session: Granular Flows: Vibrated
Room: Morial Convention Center RO6 Sponsor: DFD GSNP Chair: Mark Shattuck, City University of New York

D9 Focus Session: Turbulence
Room: Morial Convention Center RO7 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Haitao Xu, Gesellschaft fuer wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Goettingen

D10 Focus Session: Hybrid Magnetic-Superconducting Systems I
Room: Morial Convention Center RO8 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Lance Delong, University of Kentucky

D11 Inhomogeneous Superconductors and Transport
Room: Morial Convention Center RO9 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Don Gubser, Naval Research Laboratory

D12 Theory of Ferroelectric, Multiferroic, and Other Structural Transitions
Room: Morial Convention Center 203 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Craig Fennie, Argonne National Laboratory

D13 Computational Methods: Strongly Correlated and Many Body Systems
Room: Morial Convention Center 204 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Mark Jarrell, University of Cincinnatti

D14 Quantum Information Science in AMO
Room: Morial Convention Center 205 Sponsor: DAMOP GQI Chair: J. Y. Vaishnav, National Institute of Standards and Technology

D15 Focus Session: Foundations of Quantum Theory I
Room: Morial Convention Center 207 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Howard Barnum, Los Alamos National Laboratory and GSCCM Chair

D16 Biological Networks
Room: Morial Convention Center 208 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Eivind Almaas

D17 Focus Session: Time-Resolved Structural Investigations on Protein Folding and Function
Room: Morial Convention Center 209 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Aihua Xie, Oklahoma State University

D18 Polymers at Surfaces
Room: Morial Convention Center 210 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Alfred Crosby, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

D19 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors I
Room: Morial Convention Center 211 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Anderson Janotti, University of California, Santa Barbara

D20 Focus Session: Growth and Properties of Novel Semiconductor and Related Nanostructures
Room: Morial Convention Center 212 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ray Phaneuf, University of Maryland

D21 Focus Session: Clusters, Cluster Assemblies, Nanoscale Materials II
Room: Morial Convention Center 213 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Ulises Reveles, Virginia Commonwealth University

D22 Focus Session: Organic Electronics: Synthesis and Materials
Room: Morial Convention Center 214 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Lynn Loo, Princeton University

D23 Focus Session: Triangular Lattice and Spinels
Room: Morial Convention Center 215 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Art Ramirez, Lucent

D24 Superlattices and Nanostructures: Electronic Properties I
Room: Morial Convention Center 216 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Alexander Govorov, Ohio University

D25 Theory and Simulations I
Room: Morial Convention Center 217 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Arthi Jayaraman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

D26 Focus Session: Photophysics of Cold Molecules III
Room: Morial Convention Center 218 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Wolfgang Jaeger, University of Alberta

D27 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanowires and Nanodots I
Room: Morial Convention Center 219 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Paul Crowell, University of Minnesota

D28 Focus Session: Transport in Nanostructures III: Single Molecules
Room: Morial Convention Center 220 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ward Plummer, University of Tennessee

D29 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials IV: Graphene
Room: Morial Convention Center 221 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Igor Herbut, Simon Fraser University

D30 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials V: Nanotube Transport
Room: Morial Convention Center 222 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Oleg Prezhdo, University of Washington at Seattle

D31 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience II: Nanowires and Transport
Room: Morial Convention Center 223 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Serdar Ogut, University of Illinois at Chicago

D32 Focus Session: Spin Transfer Torque I
Room: Morial Convention Center 225 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Bill Rippard, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder

D33 Focus Session: Spin Dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors: III
Room: Morial Convention Center 224 Sponsor: DMP GMAG FIAP Chair: Chris Palmstrom, University of Minesota

D35 Focus Session: Negative Index Materials II
Room: Morial Convention Center 227 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Anatoly Zayats, Queen's University of Belfast

D36 Focus Session: Hydrogen Storage I: Chemical Hydride and Complex Metal Hydride Materials I
Room: Morial Convention Center 228 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Chris G. Van de Walle, University of California, Santa Barbara

D37 Optical Properties of Semiconductors (mostly nitrides)
Room: Morial Convention Center 229 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Mark Holtz, Texas Tech University

D38 Metals: Defects and Elastic Properties
Room: Morial Convention Center 230 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: George M. Stocks, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

D39 Focus Session: Econophysics and Applications Outside of Physics
Room: Morial Convention Center 231 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Victor Yakovenko, University of Maryland

D40 SPS Undergraduate Research and Outreach II
Room: Morial Convention Center 232 Sponsor: SPS DBP Chair: Gary White, Society of Physics Students/ American Institute of Physics

Mar 10 2008 5:45PM, Monday

E1 APS Prize and Award Session
Room: Morial Convention Center 206 Sponsor: APS Chair: Arthur Bienenstock, APS President, Stanford University

Mar 10 2008 6:45PM, Monday

F1 Welcome Reception
Room: Morial Convention Center Exhibit Hall B2-1 Sponsor: APS

Mar 10 2008 8:00PM, Monday

G1 25 Years of Scanning Probe Microscopy
Room: New Orleans Marriott Carondelet (3rd floor) Sponsor: APS Chair: Julia Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories

Mar 11 2008 8:00AM, Tuesday

H1 Single-Ion Magnetic Moments in Semiconductors
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Flatte, University of Iowa

H2 New Developments in HTSC III
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Eduardo Fradkin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

H3 Polymer Physics Prize
Room: Morial Convention Center RO2 - RO3 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Mark Ediger, University of Wisconsin-Madison

H4 Selected Applications Using Materials Science
Room: Morial Convention Center 206 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Yvan Bruynseraede, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

H5 CeMIn5 (115 ) Heavy Electron Materials: A Rosetta Stone for the Kondo Lattice?
Room: Morial Convention Center RO1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Zachary Fisk, University of California, Irvine

H6 Understanding Hurricanes and Severe Storms: Patterns, Prediction and Mitigation
Room: Morial Convention Center RO4 Sponsor: FPS Chair: Andrew Post-Zwicker, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

H7 Complex Active Biomaterials: Mechanics and Microrheology
Room: Morial Convention Center RO5 Sponsor: DBP DPOLY Chair: John Crocker, University of Pennsylvania

H8 Focus Session: Glassy Dynamics in Colloids
Room: Morial Convention Center RO6 Sponsor: DFD Chair: David Weitz, Harvard University

H9 Instabilities and Fluid Dynamics
Room: Morial Convention Center RO7 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Jerzy Blawzdziewicz, Yale University

H10 Josephson Effects
Room: Morial Convention Center RO8 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Chris Lobb, University of Maryland

H11 Focus Session: MgB2-like: Computational Design of Novel Superconductors
Room: Morial Convention Center RO9 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Igor Mazin, Naval Research Laboratory

H12 Lattice and Magnetic Properties of Multiferroics
Room: Morial Convention Center 203 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Andrei Sushkov, University of Maryland

H13 Focus Session: Simulations of Matter at Extreme Conditions III: Classical MD, Potentials, and Energetic Materials
Room: Morial Convention Center 204 Sponsor: DCOMP GSCCM Chair: Carter White, Naval Research Laboratory

H14 Cold Gases: One Dimensional Phenomena
Room: Morial Convention Center 205 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Robert Cherng, Harvard University

H15 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits I
Room: Morial Convention Center 207 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Britton Plourde, Syracuse University

H16 Focus Session: Biochip Physics I
Room: Morial Convention Center 208 Sponsor: DBP DFD Chair: Peter Kiesel, Palo Alto Research Center

H17 Proteins: Structure and Function
Room: Morial Convention Center 209 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Andrea Markelz, State University of New York at Buffalo

H18 Block Copolymers in Solution and Blends
Room: Morial Convention Center 210 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Ryan Hayward, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

H19 Molecules on Surface: Structure
Room: Morial Convention Center 211 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Karsten Pohl, University of New Hampshire

H20 Focus Session: Assembly of Nanowires and Related Structures
Room: Morial Convention Center 212 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ken Shih, University of Texas at Austin

H21 Focus Session: Clusters, Cluster Assemblies, Nanoscale Materials III
Room: Morial Convention Center 213 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Roberto Rodrigues, Virginia Commonwealth University

H22 Electrically and Optically Active Polymers
Room: Morial Convention Center 214 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Wesley Burghardt, Northwestern University

H23 Focus Session: Probing and Modifying Materials with Lasers I
Room: Morial Convention Center 215 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Craig Arnold, Princeton University

H24 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Nanostructures III: Functional Nanowires
Room: Morial Convention Center 216 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ramamurthy Ramprasad, University of Connecticut

H25 Adsorption of Organics on Surfaces
Room: Morial Convention Center 217 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Kookheon Char, Seoul National University

H26 Focus Session: Photophysics of Cold Molecules IV
Room: Morial Convention Center 218 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Jochen Kuepper, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

H27 Correlated Electrons: Heavy Fermions and Exotic Magnets
Room: Morial Convention Center 219 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Johnpierre Paglione, University of Maryland

H28 Photonic Crystals
Room: Morial Convention Center 220 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mark Sherwin, University of California, Santa Barbara

H29 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials VI: Graphene Transport
Room: Morial Convention Center 221 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Alessandra Lanzara, University of California, Berkeley

H30 Electronic Properties of Graphene and Related Structures II
Room: Morial Convention Center 222 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Giovanni Cantele, Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia

H31 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience III: Ferroelectrics, Surfaces, and Water
Room: Morial Convention Center 223 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Eric Schwegler, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

H32 Focus Session: Magnetic Imaging
Room: Morial Convention Center 225 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Sergei Urazhdin, West Virgina University

H33 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Magnetic Semiconductors
Room: Morial Convention Center 224 Sponsor: GMAG FIAP DMP Chair: Jim Allen, University of California, Santa Barbara

H35 Focus Session: Negative Index Materials III
Room: Morial Convention Center 227 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Igor Smolyaninov, BAE Systems

H36 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy II: Force Methods
Room: Morial Convention Center 228 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Andreas Heinrich, IBM

H37 Optical Properties of Semiconductors (mostly oxides)
Room: Morial Convention Center 229 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Matthias Schubert, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

H39 Student Prize Session followed by Focus Session: Friction
Room: Morial Convention Center 231 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Cristina Marchetti, University of Syracuse

H40 Focus Session: Earth and Planetary Materials I
Room: Morial Convention Center 232 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Robert Liebermann, COMPRES

Mar 11 2008 11:15AM, Tuesday

J1 Pake Prize, McGroddy Prizes, Buckley Prize Session
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane AB Sponsor: DCMP FIAP DMP Chair: Allen Goldman, University of Minnesota

J2 50th Anniversary of Physical Review Letters
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane C Sponsor: FHP Chair: Reinhardt Schuhmann

J3 Kondo Screening and Quantum Criticality from the Spatial Limit: From Single Spins to Droplets to Lattices
Room: Morial Convention Center RO2 - RO3 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: James Davis, Cornell University

J4 Panel Discussion: Making the Invisible Scientist Visible: Science in Emergent Countries
Room: Morial Convention Center 206 Sponsor: FIP Chair: Anita Mehta, SN Bose National Centre

J5 Where is the Center of Mass for Family, Career, and Self?
Room: Morial Convention Center RO1 Sponsor: CSWP FGSA Chair: Peter Sheldon, Randolph College

J6 Effective Potentials and Force Fields for Simulating Biological Macromolecules
Room: Morial Convention Center RO4 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Ronald Levy, Rutgers University

J7 Undergraduate Nanotechnology and Materials Physics Education I
Room: Morial Convention Center RO5 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Lawrence Woolf, General Atomics

J8 Granular Flows
Room: Morial Convention Center RO6 Sponsor: DFD GSNP Chair: Wolfgang Losert, University of Maryland

J9 Fluid Structure and Properties
Room: Morial Convention Center RO7 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Nikolai Priezjev, Michigan State University

J10 Superconductivity: Vortex I
Room: Morial Convention Center RO8 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Wai Kwok, Argonne National Laboratory

J11 Focus Session: MgB2-like: Novel Non-Boride Superconductors
Room: Morial Convention Center RO9 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Vladimir Butko, Brookhaven National Laboratory

J12 Experimental Studies of the Heavy Fermion 115 Compounds
Room: Morial Convention Center 203 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: N. Peter Armitage, The Johns Hopkins University

J13 Focus Session: Simulations of Matter at Extreme Conditions IV: Crystalline Solids, Liquids, and Methods
Room: Morial Convention Center 204 Sponsor: DCOMP GSCCM Chair: Ann Mattsson, Sandia National Laboratories

J14 Focus Session: Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Regime and Rotating Quantum Gases
Room: Morial Convention Center 205 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Hui Zhai, University of California, Berkeley

J15 Quantum Computation
Room: Morial Convention Center 207 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Gerardo Ortiz, Indiana University

J16 Focus Session: Biochip Physics II
Room: Morial Convention Center 208 Sponsor: DBP DFD Chair: David Nolte, Purdue University

J17 Focus Session: General Biological Patterns
Room: Morial Convention Center 209 Sponsor: DBP DMP Chair: Shane Hudson, Vanderbilt University

J18 Frank J. Padden Award Symposium
Room: Morial Convention Center 210 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Russell Composto, University of Pennsylvania

J19 Focus Session: How to Develop an Education Component for an NSF Proposal
Room: Morial Convention Center 211 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Greg Topasna, Virginia Military Institute

J20 Focus Session: Electronic and Lattice Properties of Surfaces and Thin Films
Room: Morial Convention Center 212 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Saw-Wai Hla, Ohio University

J21 Focus Session: Clusters, Cluster Assemblies, Nanoscale Materials IV
Room: Morial Convention Center 213 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Meichun Qian, Virginia Commonwealth University

J22 Organic Electronics, Photonics and Magnetics: Theory
Room: Morial Convention Center 214 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Zhiqiang Li, University of California, San Diego

J23 Focus Session: Cuprates and Nickelates
Room: Morial Convention Center 215 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: John Tranquada, Brookhaven National Laboratory

J24 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Nanostructures IV: Quantum Dots
Room: Morial Convention Center 216 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ado Jorio, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

J25 Focus Session: Biopolymers: Molecules, Solutions and Networks I
Room: Morial Convention Center 217 Sponsor: DPOLY DBP Chair: Paula Hammond, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

J26 Focus Session: Quantum Control I
Room: Morial Convention Center 218 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Vlasta Bonacic-Koutecky, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin

J27 Focus Session: Triangular Lattice
Room: Morial Convention Center 219 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Andrew Cornelius, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

J28 Focus Session: Thermoelectricity in Semiconductor Nanostructures
Room: Morial Convention Center 220 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Li Shi, University of Texas, Austin

J29 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials VII: Electronic Properties
Room: Morial Convention Center 221 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Philip Kim, Columbia University

J30 Optical Properties and Experimental Characterization of Graphene and Related Structures
Room: Morial Convention Center 222 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Marco Fornari, Central Michigan University

J31 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience IV: Nanocrystals
Room: Morial Convention Center 223 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Igor Vasiliev, New Mexico State University

J32 Focus Session: Damping and Spin Relaxation
Room: Morial Convention Center 225 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Casey Miller, University of South Florida

J33 Focus Session: Mostly Spins in Group IV Semiconductors and Organics
Room: Morial Convention Center 224 Sponsor: GMAG FIAP DMP Chair: Jiwei Lu, University of Virginia

J35 Focus Session: Emerging Materials and Devices II
Room: Morial Convention Center 227 Sponsor: FIAP DMP Chair: Leonid Tsybeskov, New Jersey Institute of Technology

J36 Focus Session: Materials for Photovoltaics and Photocatalysis I
Room: Morial Convention Center 228 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Matthias Batzill, University of South Florida

J37 QHE: Bilayers and Graphene
Room: Morial Convention Center 229 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Herb Fertig, Indiana University

J39 Focus Session: Friction and Contact
Room: Morial Convention Center 231 Sponsor: DMP GSNP Chair: Mark Robbins, Johns Hopkins University

J40 Focus Session: Earth and Planetary Materials II
Room: Morial Convention Center 232 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Boris Kiefer, New Mexico State University

Mar 11 2008 2:00PM, Tuesday

K1 Poster Session II: 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Room: Morial Convention Center Exhibit Hall A

Mar 11 2008 2:30PM, Tuesday

L1 Nobel Prize Session followed by Onsager Prize Session
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane AB Sponsor: APS DAMOP Chair: Arthur Beinenstock, APS President, Stanford University, followed by Ivan Schuller, University of California, San Diego

L2 The Physics of Next Generation Photovoltaics
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane C Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Arthur Nozik, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

L3 The Physics of Climate and Climate Change
Room: Morial Convention Center RO2 - RO3 Sponsor: DFD Chair: John Wettlaufer, Yale University

L4 Bosonic Modes in HTSC
Room: Morial Convention Center 206 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mike Norman, Argonne National Laboratory

L5 Phase Transitions in Disordered Magnets
Room: Morial Convention Center RO1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Raymond Bishop, University of Manchester

L6 Minorities in Condensed Matter Physics
Room: Morial Convention Center RO4 Sponsor: COM Chair: James Dickerson, Vanderbilt University

L7 Multiscale Phenomena in Biological Physics
Room: Morial Convention Center RO5 Sponsor: DBP GSNP Chair: Jianpeng Ma, Rice University/Baylor College of Medicine

L9 Colloidal Self Assembly and Interactions
Room: Morial Convention Center RO7 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Eric Dufresne

L10 Focus Session: Electronic and Vortex Mechanisms for Higher Performing Superconductors
Room: Morial Convention Center RO8 Sponsor: DMP Chair: John Sarrao, Los Alamos National Laboratory

L11 Superconductivity: Transport and Fermi Pockets
Room: Morial Convention Center RO9 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Richard Greene, University of Maryland

L12 Heavy Fermion Theory and Strong Correlations
Room: Morial Convention Center 203 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jiangping Hu, Purdue University

L13 Ground State Density Functional Theory: Theory Development
Room: Morial Convention Center 204 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Andreas Savin, Université Pierre et Marie Curie

L14 Focus Session: Foundations of Quantum Theory II
Room: Morial Convention Center 205 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Julio Gea-Banacloche, University of Arkansas

L15 Focus Session: Progress toward Scalable Quantum Information Processing
Room: Morial Convention Center 207 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Dana Berkeland, IARPA

L16 Focus Session: Brownian Motors
Room: Morial Convention Center 208 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Martin Bier, East Carolina University

L17 Solid Helium
Room: Morial Convention Center 209 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Tony Clark, Pennsylvania State University

L18 Focus Session: John H. Dillon Medal Symposium
Room: Morial Convention Center 210 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Gregory McKenna, Texas Tech University

L19 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors II
Room: Morial Convention Center 211 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Stavola, Lehigh University

L20 Focus Session: Self-Assembled Organic Overlayers
Room: Morial Convention Center 212 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Philip Cohen, University of Minnesota

L21 Focus Session: Clusters, Cluster Assemblies, Nanoscale Materials V
Room: Morial Convention Center 213 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Penee Clayborne, Virginia Commonwealth University

L22 Confinement-Induced Structures in Block Copolymers
Room: Morial Convention Center 214 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Eric Cochran, Iowa State University

L23 Focus Session: Probing and Modifying Materials with Lasers II
Room: Morial Convention Center 215 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Daniel Bubb, Rutgers University, Jagdish Narayan, North Carolina State University

L24 Focus Session: Transport in Nanostructures IV: 2DES, Dots, and QPCs
Room: Morial Convention Center 216 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Misha Fogler, University of California, San Diego

L25 Semi-crystalline Polymers
Room: Morial Convention Center 217 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Ben Hsiao, Stony Brook University

L26 Focus Session: Quantum Control II
Room: Morial Convention Center 218 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Vlasta Bonacic-Koutecky, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin

L27 Focus Session: Low-dimensional Spin Systems
Room: Morial Convention Center 219 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Christopher Wiebe, Florida State University

L28 Material Issues for Superconducting Qubits
Room: Morial Convention Center 220 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Martinez, University of California, Santa Barbara

L29 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials VIII: Electronic Structure of Graphene
Room: Morial Convention Center 221 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Fuhrer, University of Maryland

L30 Metallic and Semiconducting Nanotubes
Room: Morial Convention Center 222 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Alex Efros, Naval Research Laboratory

L31 Graphene: Atomic Structure and Lattice Properties
Room: Morial Convention Center 223 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dan Finkenstadt, Naval Research Laboratory

L32 Focus Session: Spin Transfer Torque II
Room: Morial Convention Center 225 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Jordan Katine, Hitachi

L33 Focus Session: Spins in Quantum Dots
Room: Morial Convention Center 224 Sponsor: GMAG FIAP DMP Chair: Alexander Efros, Naval Reseach Laboratory

L35 Optoelectronic Devices and Applications
Room: Morial Convention Center 227 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Fatima Toor, Princeton University

L36 Focus Session: Hydrogen Storage II: Chemical Hydride and Complex Metal Hydride Materials II
Room: Morial Convention Center 228 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Frederick E. Pinkerton, GM R&D Center

L37 Semiconductors II: Structure and Phase Diagrams
Room: Morial Convention Center 229 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Alex Zunger, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

L39 Focus Session: Deformation and Fracture
Room: Morial Convention Center 231 Sponsor: GSNP DMP Chair: Christopher Schuh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

L40 High Pressure
Room: Morial Convention Center 232 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Renata Wentzcovitch, University of Minnesota

Mar 11 2008 5:45PM, Tuesday

M15 GQI Business Meeting
Room: Morial Convention Center 207 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Lorenza Viola, Dartmouth College

M16 DBP Business Meeting
Room: Morial Convention Center 208 Sponsor: DBP

M18 DPOLY Business Meeting
Room: Morial Convention Center 210 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Mark Ediger, U Wisconsin, Madison

M23 GSCCM Business Meeting
Room: Morial Convention Center 215 Sponsor: GSCCM Chair: David Funk, Los Alamos National Laboratory and GSCCM Chair

M27 GMAG Business Meeting
Room: Morial Convention Center 219 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Daniel Reich, Johns Hopkins University

M29 GSNP Business Meeting
Room: Morial Convention Center 221 Sponsor: GSNP

M35 FIAP Business Meeting
Room: Morial Convention Center 227 Sponsor: FIAP

M36 GIMS Business Meeting
Room: Morial Convention Center 228 Sponsor: GIMS

Mar 11 2008 7:00PM, Tuesday

M37 DCP Business Meeting
Room: New Orleans Marriott, Beauregard Room Sponsor: DCP Chair: Will Castleman, Pennsylvania State University

M38 DCOMP Business Meeting
Room: New Orleans Marriott, Galvez Room Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Mei-Yin Chou, Georgia Institute of Technology

M39 DMP Business Meeting
Room: New Orleans Marriott, Audubon Room Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ivan Schuller, University of California, San Diego

M40 DCMP Business Meeting
Room: New Orleans Marriott, Jackson Room Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Allen Goldman, University of Minnesota

Mar 12 2008 8:00AM, Wednesday

P1 Is There Pairing Glue in Cuprate Superconductors?
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: C.C. Tsuei, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

P2 Controlling Electron Spins: Propagation and Dynamics
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Joseph Orenstein, University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

P3 Simple Views on Bulk Polymers: Symposium Honoring P G de Gennes
Room: Morial Convention Center RO2 - RO3 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Tom Witten, University of Chicago

P4 Fluctuations and Rare Events in Physical, Chemical, and Biological Systems
Room: Morial Convention Center 206 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Mark Dykman, Michigan State University

P5 Quantum Information Meets Gravitation
Room: Morial Convention Center RO1 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Matthew Leifer, Institute for Quantum Computing

P6 Fluid Dynamics and Biology
Room: Morial Convention Center RO4 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Silas Alben, Georgia Institute of Technology

P7 Optical Lattices
Room: Morial Convention Center RO5 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Charles Clark, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg

P8 Glassy Dynamics
Room: Morial Convention Center RO6 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Itai Cohen, Cornell University

P9 Microfluidic and Nanofluidic Devices
Room: Morial Convention Center RO7 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Patrick Tabeling, City of Paris Industrial Physics and Chemistry Higher Educational Institution

P10 Superconducting Nanostructures I
Room: Morial Convention Center RO8 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Bleiweiss, Naval Academy Prep School

P11 Focus Session: MgB2-like: Disorder in Novel Superconductors
Room: Morial Convention Center RO9 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Alex Gurevich, Florida State University

P12 Skutterudites and Other Heavy Fermions
Room: Morial Convention Center 203 Sponsor: GFC Chair: John Wei, University of Toronto

P13 Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory
Room: Morial Convention Center 204 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: E.K.U. Gross, Freie Universitat Berlin

P14 High-Bandwidth Dynamic Atomic Force Microscopy
Room: Morial Convention Center 205 Sponsor: DBP BPS FIAP Chair: Brian Salzberg, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

P15 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits II
Room: Morial Convention Center 207 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Frank Wilhelm, University of Waterloo

P16 Focus Session: Cytoskeletal Dynamics and Cell Motility I
Room: Morial Convention Center 208 Sponsor: DBP DPOLY DFD Chair: Greg Huber, University of Connecticut Health Center

P17 Quantum Fluids and Solids I
Room: Morial Convention Center 209 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Garry Williams, University of California, Los Angeles

P18 Polymer Nanocomposites I
Room: Morial Convention Center 210 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Venkat Ganesan, University of Texas at Austin

P20 Focus Session: Engineering Interfaces for New Materials I: Internal Interfaces
Room: Morial Convention Center 212 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Yue Qi, General Motors R&D

P21 Focus Session: Fundamental Issues in Catalysis I
Room: Morial Convention Center 213 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Francisco Zaera, University of California, Riverside

P22 Focus Session: Organic Electronics: FETs II
Room: Morial Convention Center 214 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Michael Chabinyc, Palo Alto Research Center

P23 Focus Session: Multifunctional Oxides: BiFeO3 and Thin Films
Room: Morial Convention Center 215 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Karin Rabe, Rutgers University

P24 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Nanostructures V: Plasmonics and Metallic Nanostructures
Room: Morial Convention Center 216 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Nicholas Fang, University of Illinois

P25 Focus Session: DNA and Protein Analysis with Micro and Nanofluidics
Room: Morial Convention Center 217 Sponsor: DPOLY DBP Chair: Ron Larson, University of Michigan

P26 Focus Session: Quantum Control III
Room: Morial Convention Center 218 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Vlasta Bonacic-Koutecky, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

P27 Focus Session: Low-dimensional Magnetism
Room: Morial Convention Center 219 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Jian Shen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

P28 Superlattices and Nanostructures (Wires, Dots, etc.): Optical Properties I
Room: Morial Convention Center 220 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Eric Stinaff, Ohio University

P29 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials IX: Graphene Electronic Structure
Room: Morial Convention Center 221 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Eli Rotenberg, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

P30 Electronic Properties of Graphene and Related Structures III
Room: Morial Convention Center 222 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Antonio Castro Neto, Boston University

P31 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience V: Mechanical Properties and General Methods
Room: Morial Convention Center 223 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Murilo L. Tiago, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

P32 Focus Session: Magnetic Media and Hard Magnetic Materials
Room: Morial Convention Center 225 Sponsor: GMAG FIAP Chair: Ping Liu, University of Texas at Arlington

P33 Focus Session: Mostly Spin Injection in Si
Room: Morial Convention Center 224 Sponsor: GMAG FIAP DMP Chair: Darrell Schlom, Pennsylvania State University

P35 Focus Session: Materials for Photovoltaics and Photocatalysis II
Room: Morial Convention Center 227 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ulrike Diebold, Tulane University

P36 Focus Session: X-ray and Neutron Instrumentation and Science
Room: Morial Convention Center 228 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: George Srajer, Argonne National Laboratory

P37 Semiconductors III: Electronic and Optical Properties I
Room: Morial Convention Center 229 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Willes H. Weber, The Physical Review

P38 Relaxor Ferroelectrics and Piezoelectrics
Room: Morial Convention Center 230 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Nicola Spaldin, University of California, Santa Barbara

P39 Applications of Complex Networks
Room: Morial Convention Center 231 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Narayan Menon, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

P40 Surface Effects, Thermodynamics and Fabrication
Room: Morial Convention Center 232 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Singh, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Mar 12 2008 9:00AM, Wednesday

P34 Tutorial for Authors and Referees of Physical Review
Room: Morial Convention Center 226

Mar 12 2008 11:15AM, Wednesday

Q1 Ballistic Charge and Spin Transport in Graphene
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Shan-Wen Tsai, University of California, Riverside

Q2 The Physics of Self-Assembled Protein Cages
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane C Sponsor: DBP DMP Chair: Bogdan Dragnea, Indiana University

Q3 Simple Views on Polymer Dynamics: Symposium Honoring P G de Gennes
Room: Morial Convention Center RO2 - RO3 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: A. Grosberg, University of Minnesota

Q4 Pairing Fluctuations Near the Superconductor-Insulator Transition
Room: Morial Convention Center 206 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Subir Sachdev, Harvard University

Q5 Panel Discussion: How Can Industry Best Support the Innovative Research That It Needs?
Room: Morial Convention Center RO1 Sponsor: AIP APS Chair: Robert Doering, Texas Instruments

Q6 Artificial and Tunable Realizations of Spin Systems
Room: Morial Convention Center RO4 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Roderich Moessner, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems

Q7 Undergraduate Nanotechnology and Materials Physics Education II
Room: Morial Convention Center RO5 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Peter Collings, Swarthmore College

Q8 Colloidal Phase Behavior
Room: Morial Convention Center RO6 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Jerzy Blawzdziewicz, Yale University

Q9 Focus Session: DNA and Biofluid Analysis with Micro and Nanofluidic Devices
Room: Morial Convention Center RO7 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Dorian Liepmann, University of California, Berkeley

Q10 Superconductivity: Vortex II
Room: Morial Convention Center RO8 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Milind Kunchur, University of South Carolina

Q11 Focus Session: Hybrid Magnetic-Superconducting Systems II
Room: Morial Convention Center RO9 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Anand Bhattacharya, Argonne National Laboratory

Q12 Focus Session: Hidden Order and Heavy Fermions
Room: Morial Convention Center 203 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Lia Krusin-Elbaum, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Q13 Ground State Density Functional Theory: Applications
Room: Morial Convention Center 204 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Kieron Burke, University of California, Irvine

Q14 Bosons in Optical Lattices
Room: Morial Convention Center 205 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Theja De Silva, State University of New York, Binghamton

Q15 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubit Approaches I
Room: Morial Convention Center 207 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Mark Eriksson, University of Wisconsin

Q16 Focus Session: Cytoskeletal Dynamics and Cell Motility II
Room: Morial Convention Center 208 Sponsor: DBP DPOLY DFD Chair: Jay Tang, Brown University

Q17 Focus Session: Hydrophobic Interactions at Multiple Scales in Biology
Room: Morial Convention Center 209 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Margaret Cheung, University of Houston

Q18 Polymer Nanocomposites II
Room: Morial Convention Center 210 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Erik Hobbie, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Q19 Physics Education: In and Out of the Classroom
Room: Morial Convention Center 211 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Shelly Hynes, Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts

Q20 Focus Session: Engineering Interfaces for New Materials II: Surfaces
Room: Morial Convention Center 212 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Ted Einstein, University of Maryland

Q21 Focus Session: Fundamental Issues in Catalysis II
Room: Morial Convention Center 213 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Wilfred Tysoe, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Q22 Focus Session: New Methods in Polymer Physics
Room: Morial Convention Center 214 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Carson Meredith, Georgia Institute of Technology

Q23 Focus Session: Bilayer Manganites
Room: Morial Convention Center 215 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Ray Osborn, Argonne National Laboratory

Q24 Focus Session: Transport in Nanostructures V: Optics, Mechanics, and Networks
Room: Morial Convention Center 216 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Douglas Natelson, Rice University

Q25 Physical Properties of Melts and Solutions
Room: Morial Convention Center 217 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Mitchell Anthamatten, University of Rochester

Q26 Advances in Spectroscopy
Room: Morial Convention Center 218 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Kyrill Kuyanov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Q27 Focus Session: One-dimensional Spin Chains
Room: Morial Convention Center 219 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Christopher Landee, Clark University

Q28 Focus Session: Thermoelectricity in Bulk Materials
Room: Morial Convention Center 220 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Joshua Zide, University of Delaware

Q29 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials X: p-n Junctions and Mesoscopic Effects in Graphene
Room: Morial Convention Center 221 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Zhenyu Zhang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Q30 Nanotubes and Nanowires I: Electronic and Transport Properties
Room: Morial Convention Center 222 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Fuhrer, University of Maryland

Q31 Computational Nanoscience: Nanotubes and Graphene
Room: Morial Convention Center 223 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: David Prendergast, Molecular Foundary, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Q32 Focus Session: Molecular Magnets II
Room: Morial Convention Center 225 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Andrew Kent, New York University

Q33 Focus Session: Spin Polarization in Compound Semiconductors
Room: Morial Convention Center 224 Sponsor: GMAG FIAP DMP Chair: Stu Wolf, University of Virginia

Q35 Focus Session: Emerging Materials and Devices III
Room: Morial Convention Center 227 Sponsor: FIAP DMP Chair: Jeff Welser, IBM Almaden

Q36 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy III: Force Methods
Room: Morial Convention Center 228 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Eric Hudson, IBM

Q37 Magnetotransport in 2DEGs
Room: Morial Convention Center 229 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Mansour Shayegan, Princeton University

Q38 Focus Session: Ferroelectric Films and Finite Size Effects
Room: Morial Convention Center 230 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Max Stengel, University of California, Santa Barbara

Q39 Focus Session: Models and Materials Far from Equilibrium
Room: Morial Convention Center 231 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Michel Pleimling, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Q40 Metals: Nanoparticles, Compounds and Thermodynamics
Room: Morial Convention Center 232 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: William H. Butler, University of Alabama

Mar 12 2008 1:00PM, Wednesday

R1 Poster Session III: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Room: Morial Convention Center Exhibit Hall A Sponsor: APS

Mar 12 2008 2:30PM, Wednesday

S1 Diamond-based Quantum Information Processing
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Awschalom, University of California, Santa Barbara

S2 Can Power Dissipation in a Switch Be Significantly Lowered?
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane C Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Jeff Welser, SRC Nanoelectronics Research Initiative

S3 Aging, Shear and Rejuvenation: Mechanics of Glasses, Colloids and Granular Matter
Room: Morial Convention Center RO2 - RO3 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Criag Maloney, Carnegie Mellon University

S4 Keithley Award Symposium
Room: Morial Convention Center 206 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: James Matey, Sarnoff Corporation

S5 Theory of Orbital Magnetization and Related Properties
Room: Morial Convention Center RO1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Raffaele Resta, University of Trieste

S6 Superfluid Density in Underdoped Cuprates
Room: Morial Convention Center RO4 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mohit Randeria, Ohio State University

S7 Panel Discussion: Non-traditional Careers for Physicists
Room: Morial Convention Center RO5 Sponsor: FGSA Chair: Gavi Begtrup, University of California, Berkeley

S8 Colloidal Rheology
Room: Morial Convention Center RO6 Sponsor: DFD Chair: David Weitz, Harvard University

S9 Optical Properties of Superconductors
Room: Morial Convention Center RO7 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Tanner, University of Florida

S10 Superconductors: Synthesis and Physical Properties
Room: Morial Convention Center RO8 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Carmen Almasan, Kent State University

S11 Theory of Superconductivity in Cuprates I
Room: Morial Convention Center RO9 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Alexander Balatsky, Los Alamos National Laboratory

S12 Strongly Correlated Quantum Phases
Room: Morial Convention Center 203 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Shailesh Chandrasekharan, Duke University

S13 Focus Session: Frontiers in Electronic Structure Theory I
Room: Morial Convention Center 204 Sponsor: DCOMP DCP Chair: Andrew Rappe, University of Pennsylvania

S14 Fermions in Optical Lattices
Room: Morial Convention Center 205 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Ana Maria Rey, Harvard University

S15 Superconducting Qubits III
Room: Morial Convention Center 207 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Franco Nori, University of Michigan & RIKEN

S16 Focus Session: General Techniques and Radiation Therapies in Biological Physics
Room: Morial Convention Center 208 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Paul Gueye, Hampton University

S17 Quantum Fluids and Solids II
Room: Morial Convention Center 209 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Henry Glyde, University of Delaware

S18 Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Nanomaterials II: Assembly and Fabrication
Room: Morial Convention Center 210 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Hendrik Heinz, University of Akron

S19 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors III
Room: Morial Convention Center 211 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Eugene Haller, University of California, Berkeley

S20 Focus Session: Engineering Interfaces for New Materials III: Heterogeneous Interfaces
Room: Morial Convention Center 212 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Eduardo Saiz, Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory

S21 Focus Session: Fundamental Issues in Catalysis III
Room: Morial Convention Center 213 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Steve Overbury, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

S22 Focus Session: Organic Electronics: Contacts and Interfaces
Room: Morial Convention Center 214 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Dave Gundlach, National Institute of Standards and Technology

S23 Focus Session: Nanostructured Oxides and Thin Films
Room: Morial Convention Center 215 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Grace Lu, University of Southern California

S24 Fullerenes (not nanotubes)
Room: Morial Convention Center 216 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dan Finkenstadt, Naval Research Laboratory

S25 Gels and Elastomers
Room: Morial Convention Center 217 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Hiroshi Watanabe, University of Kyoto

S26 Focus Session: Advances in Atmospheric Aerosol Science I
Room: Morial Convention Center 218 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Kevin Wilson, Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory

S27 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanowires and Nanodots II
Room: Morial Convention Center 219 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Daniel Ralph, Cornell University

S28 Superlattices and Nanostructures (Wires, Dots, etc.): Optical Properties II
Room: Morial Convention Center 220 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Scheibner, Naval Research Laboratory

S29 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials XI: Optical Spectroscopy
Room: Morial Convention Center 221 Sponsor: DMP Chair: James Hone, Columbia University

S30 Nanotubes, Transport, and Other Properties
Room: Morial Convention Center 222 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Vincent Crespi, Pennsylvania State University

S31 Focus Session: Multiferroics I: 113 and 125
Room: Morial Convention Center 223 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Valery Kiryukhin, Rutgers University

S32 Focus Session: Magnetic Tunneling
Room: Morial Convention Center 225 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Jack Bass, Michigan State University

S33 Focus Session: Mostly III-V Semiconductors
Room: Morial Convention Center 224 Sponsor: GMAG FIAP DMP Chair: Steve von Molnar, Florida State University

S35 Focus Session: Nanotechnology I
Room: Morial Convention Center 227 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Keith Williams, University of Virginia

S36 Focus Session: Hydrogen Storage III: Novel Porous and Sorbent Materials
Room: Morial Convention Center 228 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Hui Wu, NIST Center for Neutron Research

S37 Effect of Strain on Ferroelectrics
Room: Morial Convention Center 229 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Maitri Warusawithana, Pennsylvania State University

S39 Systems Far From Equilibrium and Other Topics in Statistical Physics
Room: Morial Convention Center 231 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Robert Ziff, University of Michigan

S40 History of Physics
Room: Morial Convention Center 232 Sponsor: FHP Chair: George Zimmerman, Boston University

Mar 12 2008 5:30PM, Wednesday

T16 Town Hall Meeting: Materials Physics at Gigabar Pressures
Room: Morial Convention Center 208 Sponsor: GSCCM Chair: Russell Hemley, Carnegie Institution for Science

Mar 12 2008 7:30PM, Wednesday

T1 Quarks to Cosmos: Breaking News at the Interface of Particle, Nuclear and Astrophysics
Room: New Orleans Marriott Carondelet (3rd floor) Chair: Arthur Bienenstock, APS President, Stanford University

Mar 13 2008 8:00AM, Thursday

U1 Isakson Prize, Adler Award, Nicholson Medal Session
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane AB Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: David Pine, New York University

U2 Electron Nematics
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jan Zaanen, University of Leiden

U3 Simple Views on Polymers at Surfaces and Interfaces: Symposium Honoring P G de Gennes
Room: Morial Convention Center RO2 - RO3 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: E. Raphael

U4 Interferometry in the Quantum Hall Regime
Room: Morial Convention Center 206 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Steven Simon, Lucent Tech/Bell Labs-Murray

U5 Epitaxial Oxide/Semiconductor Systems
Room: Morial Convention Center RO1 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Alex Demkov, University of Texas at Austin

U6 Computational and Theoretical Challenges in Predicting Climate Change
Room: Morial Convention Center RO4 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: David Bader, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

U7 Physics Demonstrations and Strategies for Teaching and Public Outreach
Room: Morial Convention Center RO5 Sponsor: FEd Chair: James McGuire, Tulane University

U8 Colloidal Manipulation Techniques
Room: Morial Convention Center RO6 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Vinothan Manoharan, Harvard University

U9 Fluctuations, Phase Transitions and the Polar Kerr Effect
Room: Morial Convention Center RO7 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jeff Tallon, Industrial Research Ltd., New Zealand

U10 Superconductivity: Magnetic Field Effects
Room: Morial Convention Center RO8 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Neil Sullivan, University of Florida

U11 Focus Session: MgB2-like: Enhancement of Superconducting Properties
Room: Morial Convention Center RO9 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Alex Koshelev, Argonne National Laboratory

U12 Strongly Correlated Electron Systems: Quantum Phase Transitions
Room: Morial Convention Center 203 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Andrew Millis, Columbia University

U13 Focus Session: Frontiers in Electronic Structure Theory II
Room: Morial Convention Center 204 Sponsor: DCOMP DCP Chair: Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl, University of Leoben-Austria

U14 Focus Session: Exotic Phases in Ultracold Fermi Gases
Room: Morial Convention Center 205 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Mehmet Oktel, Bilkent University

U15 Focus Session: Open Quantum Systems and Decoherence
Room: Morial Convention Center 207 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Sergio Boixo, University of New Mexico

U16 Focus Session: Medical Physics and Radiation Biology
Room: Morial Convention Center 208 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Richard Britten, Eastern Virginia Medical School

U17 Proteins in Membranes and the Cytoskeleton
Room: Morial Convention Center 209 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Robijn Bruinsma, University of California, Los Angeles

U18 Focus Session: Polymer Collapse and Protein Folding
Room: Morial Convention Center 210 Sponsor: GSNP DPOLY Chair: Tom Truskett, University of Texas at Austin

U19 Computational Methods: Dynamics, Transport, and Plasma
Room: Morial Convention Center 211 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Michael Zachariah, University of Maryland

U20 Focus Session: Metal Surfaces, Interfaces, and Thin Films
Room: Morial Convention Center 212 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Mina Yoon, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

U21 Surfaces and Interfaces I
Room: Morial Convention Center 213 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Arthur Reber, Virginia Commonwealth University

U22 Focus Session: Nonequilibrium Fluctuations in Biomolecules
Room: Morial Convention Center 214 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Christy Landes, University of Houston

U23 Focus Session: Manganite Thin Films
Room: Morial Convention Center 215 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Amlan Biswas, University of Florida

U24 Focus Session: Transport in Nanostructures VI: Nonequilibrium Phenomena and Noise
Room: Morial Convention Center 216 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jeff Neaton, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

U25 Theory and Simulation II
Room: Morial Convention Center 217 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Marina Guenza, University of Oregon

U26 Focus Session: Advances in Atmospheric Aerosol Science II
Room: Morial Convention Center 218 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Ruth Signorell, University of British Columbia

U27 Correlated Electrons: Theory, Actinides, and Ising Systems
Room: Morial Convention Center 219 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Makariy Tanatar, University of Sherbrooke

U28 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubit Approaches II
Room: Morial Convention Center 220 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Malcolm Carroll, Sandia National Laboratories

U29 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials XII: Graphene Transport
Room: Morial Convention Center 221 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Allan MacDonald, University of Texas

U30 Electronic Properties of Graphene and Related Structures IV
Room: Morial Convention Center 222 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mike Mehl, Naval Research Laboratory

U31 Focus Session: Multiferroics II: Theory and LuFe2O4
Room: Morial Convention Center 223 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Nicola Spaldin, University of California, Santa Barbara

U32 Focus Session: Magnetic Multilayers and Nanostructures
Room: Morial Convention Center 225 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Ilya Krivorotov, University of California, Irvine

U33 Focus Session: Theory and Simulations of Magnetism I
Room: Morial Convention Center 224 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP GMAG Chair: Xiaoguang Zhang, Oak Ridge National Laborattory

U35 Focus Session: Hydrogen Storage IV: Theoretical Predictions
Room: Morial Convention Center 227 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Karl Johnson, University of Pittsburgh

U36 Nanoinstrumentation for Biological and Other Applications
Room: Morial Convention Center 228 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Robert Guertin, Tufts University

U37 Transport Properties of Semiconductors: 2-D Systems
Room: Morial Convention Center 229 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Giti Khodaparast, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

U38 Focus Session: Ferroelectric Oxide Superlattices and Oxide Thermoelectrics
Room: Morial Convention Center 230 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jean-Mare Triscone, University of Geneva

U39 Focus Session: Structure and Dynamics of Complex Networks
Room: Morial Convention Center 231 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Sidney Redner, Boston University

U40 Biomolecular Computation
Room: Morial Convention Center 232 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Margaret Cheung, University of Houston

Mar 13 2008 11:15AM, Thursday

V1 Recent Advances in Soft Complex Materials Using Neutron Scattering
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane AB Sponsor: DMP Chair: Alan J. Hurd, Los Alamos National Laboratory

V2 Facilities for Meeting Grand Challenges
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane C Sponsor: DCMP GIMS Chair: Gwyn Williams, Thomas Jefferson Laboratory National Accelerator Facility

V3 Industrial Physics History
Room: Morial Convention Center RO2 - RO3 Sponsor: FHP Chair: Gloria B. Lubkin, American Institute of Physics

V4 Electronic Excitations in Organic Molecular Crystals/Fluctuating Fronts: Beyond a Popular Mean-Field Theory
Room: Morial Convention Center 206 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Vitaly Podzorov, Rutgers University

V5 Panel Discussion: Lessons Learned from Katrina: How to Prepare a Department for Catastrophic Events
Room: Morial Convention Center RO1 Sponsor: FPS FGSA Chair: Andrew Post-Zwicker, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

V7 Oscillations and Segmentation: Dynamical Genetic Regulation in Time and Space
Room: Morial Convention Center RO5 Sponsor: DBP GSNP Chair: Mogens Jensen, Niels Bohr Institute

V8 Liquid Crystals I: Structure and Defects
Room: Morial Convention Center RO6 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Oleg Lavrentovich, Kent State University

V9 Computational Methods: Multiscale Modeling
Room: Morial Convention Center RO7 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Kathie Newman, University of Notre Dame

V10 Proximity Effect, Electron-doped Cuprates, STM
Room: Morial Convention Center RO8 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Thomas Lemberger, Ohio State Universtiy

V11 Quasiparticle Dispersion and Coupling in Cuprates
Room: Morial Convention Center RO9 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dan Dessau, University of Colorado at Boulder

V12 Metal Insulator Transition I: Vanadium Oxides and Others
Room: Morial Convention Center 203 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: M. Brian Maple, University of California, San Diego

V13 Focus Session: Frontiers in Electronic Structure Theory III
Room: Morial Convention Center 204 Sponsor: DCP DCOMP Chair: Wei Ku, Brookhaven National Laboratory

V14 BEC-BCS Crossover
Room: Morial Convention Center 205 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Meera Parish, Princeton University

V15 Quantum Error Correction and Control
Room: Morial Convention Center 207 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Lorenza Viola, Dartmouth College

V16 Focus Session: Medical Imaging and Related Technologies
Room: Morial Convention Center 208 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Christopher Njeh, Tyler Cancer Center

V17 Focus Session: Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Small Systems
Room: Morial Convention Center 209 Sponsor: GSNP DBP Chair: Chris Jarzynski, University of Maryland

V18 Focus Session: Properties of Block Copolymers
Room: Morial Convention Center 210 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Thomas Epps, University of Delaware

V19 New Frontiers for Biological Physics
Room: Morial Convention Center 211 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Ali Mohazab, University of British Columbia

V20 Phase Transitions: Structural, Electronic, and Magnetic
Room: Morial Convention Center 212 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ted Einstein, University of Maryland

V21 Charged and Ion-Containing Polymers I
Room: Morial Convention Center 213 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Jodie Lutkenhaus, Yale University

V22 Focus Session: Organic Electronics: Molecular Junctions
Room: Morial Convention Center 214 Sponsor: DPOLY DMP Chair: James Kushmerick, National Institute of Standards and Technology

V23 Focus Session: Charge/Orbital Ordering in Complex Oxides
Room: Morial Convention Center 215 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jeff Lynn, National Institute of Standards and Technology

V24 Focus Session: Transport in Nanostructures VII: Si Interfaces and Carbon
Room: Morial Convention Center 216 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Fuhrer, University of Maryland

V25 Focus Session: Interfaces and Adhesion I
Room: Morial Convention Center 217 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Karl Freed, University of Chicago

V26 Focus Session: Advances in Atmospheric Aerosol Science III
Room: Morial Convention Center 218 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Daniel Knopf, State University of New York

V27 Focus Session: Frustrated Theory
Room: Morial Convention Center 219 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Oleg Tchernyshyov, Johns Hopkins University

V28 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Nanostructures VI: Nanoscale Metamaterials
Room: Morial Convention Center 220 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Vladimir Shalaev, Purdue University

V29 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials XIII: Synthesis
Room: Morial Convention Center 221 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Vasili Perebeinos, IBM

V30 Nanotubes and Nanowires II: Other Properties I
Room: Morial Convention Center 222 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Tony Heinz, Columbia University

V31 Focus Session: Oxide Interfaces II
Room: Morial Convention Center 223 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Arunava Gupta, University of Alabama

V32 Focus Session: Magnetic Semiconductors and Novel Magnetic Materials
Room: Morial Convention Center 225 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Kenneth Burch, Los Alamos National Laboratory

V33 Focus Session: Theory of Spin Phenomena in Semiconductors
Room: Morial Convention Center 224 Sponsor: GMAG FIAP DMP Chair: Michael Flatte, University of Iowa

V34 Panel Discussion: International Gender Issues in Physics
Room: Morial Convention Center 226 Sponsor: FIP CSWP Chair: Beverly Hartline

V35 Focus Session: Thermoelectric Phenomena in Nanostructured Materials
Room: Morial Convention Center 227 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Chris Vineis, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

V36 Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy IV: Optical and High Frequency Methods
Room: Morial Convention Center 228 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Phillip First, Georgia Institute of Technology

V37 QHE and FQHE
Room: Morial Convention Center 229 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Wei Pan, Sandia National Laboratories

V38 Focus Session: Multiferroics and Multiferroic Composites
Room: Morial Convention Center 230 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Claude Ederer, Trinity College, Ireland

V39 Focus Session: Jamming I: Theory
Room: Morial Convention Center 231 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Wouter Ellenbroek, University of Pennsylvania

V40 Nucleic Acids: Structure and Function
Room: Morial Convention Center 232 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Noel Clark, University of Colorado

Mar 13 2008 2:30PM, Thursday

W2 Electronic Structure, Magnetism and Superconductivity of Sodium Cobaltate
Room: Morial Convention Center LaLouisiane C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michelle Johannes, Naval Research Laboratory

W3 Dislocation Patterns and Avalanches
Room: Morial Convention Center RO2 - RO3 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Charles Reichardt, Los Alamos National Laboratory

W4 Dynamics of Polymers
Room: Morial Convention Center 206 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Ralph Colby, Pennsylvania State University

W5 Sensing Science and Sensors for Industrial Applications
Room: Morial Convention Center RO1 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Mohsen Yaganeh, Exxon Mobil

W6 Strong Interacting Fermi Gases with Spin Asymmetry
Room: Morial Convention Center RO4 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Roberto Diener, Ohio State University

W7 Nonlinear Dynamics of Neural Systems: A Statistical Mechanics of the Brain
Room: Morial Convention Center RO5 Sponsor: DBP GSNP Chair: John Beggs, Indiana University

W8 Liquid Crystals II: Dynamics and Topology
Room: Morial Convention Center RO6 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Robin Selinger, Kent State University

W9 Theoretical Methods and Applications
Room: Morial Convention Center RO7 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Alexander Tchernatinsky, University of Minnesota

W10 Focus Session: Hybrid Magnetic-Superconducting Systems III
Room: Morial Convention Center RO8 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ilya Vekhter, Louisiana State University

W11 Theory of Superconductivity in Cuprates II
Room: Morial Convention Center RO9 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mohit Randeria, Ohio State University

W12 Metal Insulator Transition II: Theory
Room: Morial Convention Center 203 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jim Freericks, Georgetown University

W13 Quantum Monte Carlo
Room: Morial Convention Center 204 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Matthias Troyer, ETH Zurich

W14 Quantum Optics
Room: Morial Convention Center 205 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Mark Edwards, Georgia Southern University

W15 Quantum Entanglement II
Room: Morial Convention Center 207 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Ian Durham, Saint Anselm College

W16 Focus Session: Novel Biomedical Techniques
Room: Morial Convention Center 208 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Paul Gueye, Hampton University

W17 General Biological Physics
Room: Morial Convention Center 209 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Dean Astumian, University of Maine

W18 Focus Session: Dynamics of Nucleic Acid-Protein Interactions
Room: Morial Convention Center 210 Sponsor: DPOLY DBP Chair: Ferenc Horkay, National Institutes of Health

W19 Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors IV
Room: Morial Convention Center 211 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Matthew McCluskey, Washington State University

W20 Oxide Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films
Room: Morial Convention Center 212 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Arthur Smith, Ohio University

W21 Surfaces and Interfaces II
Room: Morial Convention Center 213 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Will Castleman, Pennsylvania State University

W22 Focus Session: Organic Photovoltaics and LEDs
Room: Morial Convention Center 214 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Chang Ryu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

W23 Focus Session: Manganites II
Room: Morial Convention Center 215 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Ichiro Takeuchi, University of Maryland

W24 Glassy and Amorphous Systems
Room: Morial Convention Center 216 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Bruno Uchoa, Boston University

W25 Focus Session: Biopolymers: Molecules, Solutions and Networks II
Room: Morial Convention Center 217 Sponsor: DPOLY DBP Chair: Ting Xu, University of California, Berkeley

W26 Focus Session: Advances in Atmospheric Aerosol Science IV
Room: Morial Convention Center 218 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Laura Voss, Bowdoin College

W27 Focus Session: Spin Glasses and SrCu2(BO3)2
Room: Morial Convention Center 219 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Matt Stone, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

W28 Superlattices and Nanostructures: Electronic Properties II
Room: Morial Convention Center 220 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jong Han, State University of New York at Buffalo

W29 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials XIV: Theory and Sensing
Room: Morial Convention Center 221 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Sankar Das Sarma, University of MarylandBob Haddon, University of California, Riverside

W30 Nanotubes and Nanowires III: Other Properties II
Room: Morial Convention Center 222 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Fuhrer, University of Maryland

W31 Focus Session: New Materials and Properties of Complex Oxides
Room: Morial Convention Center 223 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Amos Sharoni, University of California, San Diego

W32 Focus Session: Domain Wall Motion and Itinerant Magnetism
Room: Morial Convention Center 225 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Rembert Duine, Utrecht University

W33 Focus Session: Spins in Narrow Gap Semiconductors
Room: Morial Convention Center 224 Sponsor: GMAG FIAP DMP Chair: Berry Jonker, Naval Research Laboratory

W35 Focus Session: Nanotechnology II
Room: Morial Convention Center 227 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Curt Richter, National Institute of Standards and Technology

W36 Focus Session: Materials for Photovoltaics and Photocatalysis III
Room: Morial Convention Center 228 Sponsor: DMP Chair: David Ginley, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

W37 Focus Session: Multiferrocity in BiFeO$_3$-based films
Room: Morial Convention Center 229 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Craig Fennie, Argonne National Laboratory

W39 Focus Session: Jamming II: Packing and Force Networks
Room: Morial Convention Center 231 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Gregg Lois, Yale University

W40 Focus Session: Networks, Regulation, and Pathways in Cell Biology
Room: Morial Convention Center 232 Sponsor: DBP GSNP Chair: Rahul Kulkarni, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University