2008 APS March Meeting 
Volume 53, Number 2
Monday–Friday, March 10–14, 2008;
New Orleans, Louisiana
Session Index
Session B40: SPS Undergraduate Research and Outreach I
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Sponsoring Units: SPS 
Chair: Gary White, Society of Physics Students/American Institute of Physics 
Room: Morial Convention Center 232 
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Monday, March 10, 2008 
11:15AM - 11:27AM 
 
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B40.00001: Summer 2007: My SPS intern experience and working with ComPADRE 
Andrew Coughlin
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Monday, March 10, 2008 
11:27AM - 11:39AM 
 
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B40.00002: Demonstrating Levitation and Suspension of a Superconductor on a Magnetic Track 
Charles P. Strehlow, M.C. Sullivan
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Monday, March 10, 2008 
11:39AM - 11:51AM 
 
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B40.00003: Comprehensive study on deformation of metal samples based on measurements of temperature, in-plane displacement and stress-strain characteristics 
John Gaffney, Christopher Schneider, Sanichiro Yoshida
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Monday, March 10, 2008 
11:51AM - 12:03PM 
 
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B40.00004: Low-temperature calorimeter for magnetocaloric-effect measurements in high magnetic fields 
Travis Miller, Yasumasa Takano
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Monday, March 10, 2008 
12:03PM - 12:15PM 
 
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B40.00005: Driven Intrinsic Localized Modes in a Coupled Pendulum Array. 
Ritoban Basu Thakur, Lars English, Albert Sievers
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Monday, March 10, 2008 
12:15PM - 12:27PM 
 
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B40.00006: Quartz tuning fork as a viscometer for Helium liquids 
J. Jhaveri, M. Gonzalez, P. Bhupathi, Y. Lee
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Monday, March 10, 2008 
12:27PM - 12:39PM 
 
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B40.00007: Demonstrating the Principle of an rf Paul Ion Trap 
Andrew Johnson, James Rabchuk
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Monday, March 10, 2008 
12:39PM - 12:51PM 
 
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B40.00008: Experimental characterization of piezoelectric THUNDER actuator shape 
Paul Harris
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Monday, March 10, 2008 
12:51PM - 1:03PM 
 
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B40.00009: A Relativistic Understanding of Rotating Reference Frames 
Kacey Meaker, Tom Michalik
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