Mar 16 2009 8:00AM, Monday

A1 Graphene - Spectroscopies
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Amir Yacoby, Harvard University.
Invited Speakers:  Dmitri Basov,  Guohong Li,  Alessandra Lanzara,  Antonio Castro Neto  

A2 Transport in Oxide Interfaces
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom BC Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Darrell Schlom, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  Jochen Mannhart,  Jeremy Levy,  C. Stephen Hellberg,  Yuri Suzuki,  Harold Hwang  

A3 Fe-based Superconductors: Pairing Symmetry
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Fu-Chun Zhang, University of Hong Kong
Invited Speakers:  C.L. Chien,  Hong Ding,  Antony Carrington,  Dung-Hai Lee,  Ilya Eremin  

A4 Polymers and Energy Applications
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Nitash Balsara, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Zhen-Gang Wang,  Klaus Schmidt-Rohr,  Yueh-Lin Loo,  Hiroyuki Nishide,  Jayant Kumar  

A5 Nanostructuring with Ions
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: John Melngailis, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Jeroen A. van Kan,  Henri Lezec,  Andreas Dirk Wieck,  Bin Ming,  John Melngailis  

A6 Computational Physics in Research and Teaching: GRC Topics and Themes
Room: 406 Sponsor: FEd DCOMP Chair: Wolfgang Christian, Davidson College
Invited Speakers:  Bruce Boghosian,  Bradley Ambrose,  Dennis C. Rapaport,  Anne Cox,  Adam Frank  

A7 Systems Biology of Natural and Synthetic Circuits
Room: 407 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Jan Skotheim, Standford University
Invited Speakers:  Jan Skotheim,  Sharad Ramamathan,  Ned Wingreen,  Terry Hwa,  Nicolas Buchler  

A8 Quantum Information meets Many-Particle Physics
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: GQI Chair: David DiVincenzo, IBM Watson
Invited Speakers:  David Poulin,  Gerardo Ortiz,  Zhengcheng Gu,  Jens Eisert,  Anil Shaji  

A9 Systems Far from Equilibrium I
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Royce Zia, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

A10 Focus Session: Ferroelectrics I
Room: 304 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Matthew Dawber, Stonybrook University
Invited Speakers:  Javier Junquera  

A11 Superlattices, Nanostructures, Materials: Synthesis, Growth and Characterization
Room: 305 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Joe Tischler, Naval Research Laboratory

A12 Directed Organization of Nanostructured Films
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Ray Phaneuf, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Chris Palmstrom,  Robert Hull  

A13 Focus Session: Metropolis Thesis Prize and Multiscale Modeling
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Jorge Jose, SUNY Buffalo
Invited Speakers:  Chao Cao  

A14 Instabilities, Turbulence and Nonlinear Flows
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Guenter Ahlers, University of California, Santa Barbara

A15 Soft Matter, Fluid Structure and Properties
Room: 316 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Wendy Zhang, University of Chicago

A16 Quantum Fermi Gases and Feshbach Resonances
Room: 317 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Martin Zwierlein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

A17 Focus Session: Photons and Quantum Dots
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Thaddeus Ladd, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  G.D. Fuchs  

A18 Bulk Block Copolymers I
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Thomas Epps, University of Delaware

A19 The Physics of Polymer Nanocomposites: Polymer Nanoparticle Interactions
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Amalie Frischknecht, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Sharon Glotzer  

A20 Spatially Confined Polymer Materials
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Joanne Budzien, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Glenn Fredrickson  

A21 Semiconductors: 2D Electrons and Transport
Room: 323 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Michael Zudov, University of Minnesota

A22 Focus Session: Spins in Group III-V and II-VI Semiconductors
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Paul Crowell, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Pallab Bhattacharya,  Athanasios Chantis  

A23 Plasmons and Optical Absorption
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Singh, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A24 Focus Session: Nanotube Synthesis
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Avetik Harutyunyan, Honda Research
Invited Speakers:  Stefano Curtarolo  

A25 Focus Session: Graphene I: Electronic Properties
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jules Carbotte, McMaster University
Invited Speakers:  George Flynn  

A26 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience I: Inorganic Nanostructures and Interfaces
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Peihong Zhang, SUNY Buffalo
Invited Speakers:  Massimiliano Stengel,  Yosuke Kanai  

A27 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy I: Low Temperatures
Room: 329 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Cyrus Hirjibehedin, London Centre for Nanotechnology
Invited Speakers:  Eric Hudson  

A28 Bionanotechnology
Room: 330 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Xinsheng (Sean) Ling, Brown University

A29 Spin Glasses and Disordered Magnetic Materials
Room: 333 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Ben Ueland, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Center for Neutron Research

A30 Focus Session: Vanadates, Iridates and Other Oxides
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Stephen Nagler, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A31 Focus Session: Molecular Nanomagnets
Room: 335 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Michael Pechan, Miami University
Invited Speakers:  Wolfgang Wernsdorfer  

A32 Magnetization and Spin Dynamics
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Ion Garate, University of Texas at Austin

A33 Superconductivity: ARPES
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Barrett Wells, University of Connecticut

A34 Superconductivity: Spin Properties
Room: 404 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Tranquada, Brookhaven National Laboratory

A35 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors I: Synthesis and New Materials
Room: 405 Sponsor: DMP Chair: David Larbelestier, Florida State University

A36 Carbon Nanotubes: Electrical Transport and Noise
Room: 408 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Hui Tang, Yale University,

A37 Focus Session: Fundamental Developments in Density Functional Theory I
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Adam Wasserman, Purdue University
Invited Speakers:  Weitao Yang,  Kieron Burke  

A38 Focus Session: The Chemical Physics of Biological and Biologically-inspired Solar Energy Harvesting I
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Greg Scholes, University of Toronto
Invited Speakers:  Tessa Calhoun,  Marc Baldo,  Darius Abramavicius  

A39 Cellular Biomechanics I
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Jennifer Schwarz, Syracuse University

A40 Proteins: Structure and Functions I
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Ching-Hwa Kiang, Rice University

A41 Heavy Fermions
Room: 413 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Rena Zieve, University of California, Davis

Mar 16 2009 11:15AM, Monday

B1 New Experimental Developments in Graphene
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Eva Andrei, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Kostya Novoselov,  N. Phuan Ong,  Philip Kim,  Dmitry Abanin,  Allan H. MacDonald  

B2 HTSC: Fermi Pockets and Quantum Oscillations
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom BC Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Robert Laughlin, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Sudip Chakravarty,  Suchitra Sebastian,  Peter Johnson,  Takasada Shibauchi,  Louis Taillefer  

B3 10,000 Undergraduate Physics Majors: Progress on Doubling
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Robert Hilborn, University of Texas at Dallas
Invited Speakers:  Theodore Hodapp,  Anthony Johnson,  Margaret Murnane,  Michael Marder,  Wolfgang Bauer  

B4 Polymer Translocation
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Murugappan Muthukumar, University of Massachusetts
Invited Speakers:  Gary W. Slater,  Juan de Pablo,  Aniket Bhattacharya,  Gerard Barkema  

B5 Heterogeneous Integration on Silicon
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Ganesh Samudra, National University of Singapore
Invited Speakers:  Emanuel Tutuc,  William Milne,  Solomon Assefa,  Tomas Palacios,  Darrell Schlom  

B6 Panel Discussion: Physics in Africa
Room: 406 Sponsor: FIP Chair: Abebe Kebede, North Carolina A&T University
Invited Speakers:  Alexander Animalu,  Mzamo P. Mangaliso,  Ndeye Arame Boye-Faye,  Bernard M'Passi-Mabiala  

B7 Bacterial Growth Laws and Systems Biology
Room: 407 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Terence Hwa, University of California, San Diego
Invited Speakers:  Patrick Dennis,  Matthew Scott,  Stefan Klumpp,  Arbel Tadmor,  Atul Narang  

B8 Spectroscopy of Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Erich Mueller, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  Martin Zwierlein,  Deborah Jin,  Giancarlo Strinati,  Kathryn Levin,  Georg Bruun  

B9 GSNP Student Speaker Award Session and Applications of Statistical and Nonlinear Physics in the Life Sciences
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Harvey Gould, Clark University

B10 Focus Session: Ferroelectrics II
Room: 304 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Javier Junquera, Universidad de Cantabria
Invited Speakers:  Alexei Gruverman,  Alexei Grigoriev  

B11 Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures I: Surface Assemblies and Films
Room: 305 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Douglas Natelson, Rice University
Invited Speakers:  Peter Liljeroth  

B12 Focus Session: Structure and Dynamics of Metal Thin Films
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Theodore Einstein, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Yunsic Shim  

B13 SPS Undergraduate Research I
Room: 309 Chair: Gary White, American Institute of Physics

B14 Focus Session: Colloids I: Physical Behavior and Mechanisms
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Eric Weeks, Emory University
Invited Speakers:  Itai Cohen  

B15 Current Fluid Mechanics
Room: 316 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Shelley Anna, Carnegie Mellon University

B16 Cold Fusion
Room: 317 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Scott Chubb, Naval Research Laboratory

B17 Focus Session: Progress towards Scalable Quantum Information Processing
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Mark Dykman, Michigan State University

B18 Focus Session: Templated Assembly of Polymers
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Alamgir Karim, University of Akron
Invited Speakers:  Aline Miller  

B19 Focus Session: Polymers and Ionic Liquids
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Peggy Cebe, Tufts University
Invited Speakers:  Timothy Lodge  

B20 Focus Session: Polymers and Energy: Photovoltaics, Fuel Cells, Batteries I
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Bumjoon Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Mohit Singh  

B21 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors I
Room: 323 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Eugene Haller, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Anderson Janotti  

B22 Focus Session: Theory of Spin-based Semiconductor Devices
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Lukasz Cywinski, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Stewart Barnes  

B23 Alloy Theory
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Benjamin Burton, National Institute of Standards and Technology

B24 Focus Session: Nanotube Characterization
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Cary Yang, Santa Clara University
Invited Speakers:  Jean-Louis Sauvajol,  Stephen Doorn  

B25 Graphene II: Electronic Properties and QHE
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ziqiang Wang, Boston College
Invited Speakers:  Cheol-Hwan Park  

B26 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience II: Mechanics, Dynamics, and Assembly
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Dennis Rapaport,, Bar-Ilan University
Invited Speakers:  Otto F. Sankey  

B27 Plasmonics and Metamaterials
Room: 329 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Harry Atwater, California Institute of Technology, Chris Van de Walle, University of California, Santa Barbara

B28 Focus Session: Graphene II: Synthesis and Characterization
Room: 330 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Yu-Ming Lin, IBM
Invited Speakers:  James Hannon,  Thomas Seyller,  Byung Hee Hong  

B29 Spin-Dependent Transport
Room: 333 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Sergei Urazhdin, West Virginia University

B30 Focus Session: Manganite Superlattices
Room: 334 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Satoshi Okamoto, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Anand Bhattacharya  

B31 Focus Session: Dimers and Other Frustrated Structures
Room: 335 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Chris Wiebe, Florida State University
Invited Speakers:  Eric Samulon  

B32 Cooperative Phenomena (incl. Spin Structures, Spin Waves, Phase Transitions) I
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Paul Haney, National Institute of Standards and Technology

B33 Superconductivity: Mostly Cuprates
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Timir Datta, University of South Carolina

B34 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors II: Quantum Oscillations, Electronic Structure and Magnetism
Room: 404 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Vladimir Antropov, Ames Laboratory

B35 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors III: General Theory
Room: 405 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Alex Koshelev, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Andrey Chubukov  

B36 Carbon Nanotubes: Devices and Applications
Room: 408 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Masa Ishigami, University of Central Florida

B37 Focus Session: Fundamental Developments in Density Functional Theory II
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Paula Mori-Sanchez, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Neepa Maitra,  Carsten A. Ullrich  

B38 Focus Session: The Chemical Physics of Biological and Biologically-inspired Solar Energy Harvesting II
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Bern Kohler, Ohio State University
Invited Speakers:  Robert J. Silbey,  Gregory Scholes  

B39 Cellular Biomechanics II
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Arpita Upadhyaya, University of Maryland

B40 Proteins: Structure and Function II
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Paul Janmey, University of Pennsylvania

B41 Heavy Fermion 115 Superconductors
Room: 413 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Carlos Bolech, Rice University

Mar 16 2009 2:00PM, Monday

C1 Poster Session I (2-5:00pm): Polymer Physics; Applications; Complex Structured Materials; Quantum Fluids; Nano/Bionanotechnology; Fluids; General; Statistical & Nonlinear; Superconductors
Room: Exhibit Hall A

Mar 16 2009 2:30PM, Monday

D1 Phase Transitions and Transport in Quantum Hall Superfluids
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Allan MacDonald, University of Texas at Austin
Invited Speakers:  Alexandre Champagne,  Steven H. Simon,  Vittorio Pellegrini,  H.A. Fertig,  Koji Muraki  

D2 HTSC: New Developments
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom BC Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Chandra Varma, University of California, Riverdside
Invited Speakers:  Martin Greven,  Vivek Aji,  Brigitte Leridon,  Adam Kaminski,  Kenjiro K. Gomes  

D3 Pake, McGroddy, and Industrial Application of Physics Prizes, Adler Award
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: FIAP DMP Chair: Mark Lee, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  David Bishop,  Philip Wyatt,  William Johnson,  Akihisa Inoue,  Salvatore Torquato  

D4 Spin Qubits in Quantum Dots
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: GQI DCMP Chair: Jason Petta, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Christian Barthel,  Katja Nowack,  Bill Coish,  Richard Warburton,  Jacob Taylor  

D5 Origins of Silicon Valley
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: FHP Chair: Gloria Lubkin, American Institute of Physics
Invited Speakers:  Stewart Gillmor,  David Leeson,  Michael Riordan,  James Gibbons  

D6 Predictive Materials Design for Alternative Energy Storage
Room: 406 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Zhenyu Zhang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Mei-Yin Chou,  Yong-Hyun Kim,  Puru Jena,  Zheng Xiao Guo,  Mina Yoon  

D7 Rare Events in Physics and Population Dynamics
Room: 407 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Beate Schmittmann, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Stein,  Uwe C. Tauber,  Ira Schwartz,  Lewi Stone,  Eyal Buks  

D8 Unconventional Spin Torques
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Shufeng Zhang, University of Missouri
Invited Speakers:  Gerrit Bauer,  Aurelien Manchon,  Paul Haney,  Maxim Tsoi,  Sergei Urazhdin  

D9 Elasticity and Geometry of Thin Objects I
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Dominic Vella, DAMTP, Cambridge and LPS ENS, Paris

D10 Focus Session: Ferroelectrics III and Piezoelectrics
Room: 304 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Alexei Grigoriev, University of Tulsa

D11 Optical Properties of Dots, Wires and Superlattices
Room: 305 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Scheibner, Naval Research Laboratory

D12 Novel Instrumentation and Techniques in Surface Science
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: MIchael Dreyer, University of Maryland

D13 SPS Undergraduate Research II
Room: 309 Chair: Gary White, American Institute of Physics

D14 Colloids II: Structure and Rheology
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: David Pine, New York University

D15 Monolayers, Membranes and Microemulsions
Room: 316 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Erik Luijten, Northwestern University

D16 Focus Session: BEC-BCS Crossover
Room: 317 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Kathy Levin, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Carlos A. R. Sa de Melo  

D17 Focus Session: Foundations of Quantum Theory
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Ian Durham, Saint Anselm College
Invited Speakers:  Byron C. Drury,  Robert Griffiths  

D18 Focus Session: Transport and Optical Properties of Conjugated Polymers and other Solution Processable Semiconductors
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Anvar Zakhidov, University of Texas at Dallas

D19 Focus Session: Grazing Incidence Scattering and New Imaging Techniques
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Marcus Cicerone, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Jin Wang,  Hiroshi Jinnai  

D20 Polymers and Energy: Photovoltaics, Fuel Cells, Batteries II
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Azar Alizadeh, General Electric

D21 Semiconductors: Transport
Room: 323 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Sergey Vitkalov, City University of New York

D22 Focus Session: Spins in Group IV Semiconductors
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Bruce Kane, LPS, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Belita Koiller  

D23 Diffusion and Transport Properties
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Duane Johnston, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

D24 Focus Session: Nanotube manipulation and processing
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Mehl, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Ralph Krupke  

D25 Focus Session: Graphene III: Growth and Structure
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Alessandra Lanzara, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Jing Kong  

D26 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience III: Defects, Doping, and Structure
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Paul Kent, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Peihong Zhang  

D27 Advances in Instrumentation and Measurement I
Room: 329 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Larry Rubin, MIT

D28 Focus Session: Thermoelectric Materials: Oxides and Complex Crystals
Room: 330 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Ali Shakouri, University of California, Santa Cruz
Invited Speakers:  Subroto Mukerjee  

D29 Focus Session: The Physics and Astronomy New Faculty Workshops I
Room: 333 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Robert Hilborn, University of Texas at Dallas
Invited Speakers:  Kenneth Krane  

D30 Focus Session: Cobaltite and Manganite films
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Chris Leighton, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Thomas Ward  

D31 Focus Session: Quantum Magnets
Room: 335 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Ray Osborn, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Oleg Tchernyshyov  

D32 Focus Session: Spin Dependent Physics in Organic Materials and Graphene
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Tiffany Santos, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Oleg Yazyev  

D33 Superconducting Theory I
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dennis Newnes, IBM

D34 Superconductivity: Josephson Effects
Room: 404 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ulrich Welp, Argonne National Laboratory

D35 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors IV: General Experiment
Room: 405 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Rick Greene, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Hideo Hosono,  Hai-Hu Wen  

D36 Carbon Nanotubes: Low Temperature Electronic Properties
Room: 408 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Xia Hong, Pennsylvania State University

D37 Focus Session: Fundamental Developments in Density Functional Theory III
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Alberto Castro, Free University of Berlin
Invited Speakers:  Klaus Capelle,  Axel Becke,  David C. Langreth  

D38 Focus Session: The Chemical Physics of Biological and Biologically-inspired Solar Energy Harvesting III
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Martin Plenio, Imperial College
Invited Speakers:  Leonas Valkunas,  Alan Aspuru-Guzik  

D39 Focus Session: Noise and Fluctuations in Biochemical Networks
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP GSNP Chair: Jayajit Das, Ohio State University
Invited Speakers:  Juan Manuel Pedraza,  Sorin Tanase-Nicola  

D40 Nucleic Acids: Packaging, Ejection and Translocation
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Xiangyun Qiu, National Institutes of Health

D41 Hidden Order and Quantum Criticality in Heavy Fermions
Room: 413 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Johnpierre Paglione, University of Maryland

Mar 16 2009 5:45PM, Monday

E1 APS Prizes and Awards Ceremonial Session
Room: 301/302 Chair: Cherry Murray, APS President, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Mar 16 2009 6:45PM, Monday

F1 Welcome Reception
Room: Second Floor Concourse

Mar 16 2009 8:00PM, Monday

G1 Energy and the Environment
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A Chair: Allen Goldman, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Kevin E. Trenberth,  George Crabtree  

Mar 17 2009 8:00AM, Tuesday

H1 Electronic Structure of Disordered Graphene
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Allan MacDonald, University of Texas at Austin
Invited Speakers:  Jens Martin,  Joseph A. Stroscio,  B. Huard,  Marco Polini,  Enrico Rossi  

H2 Polymer Physics Prize Symposium Honoring Steve Granick
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom BC Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: MIchael Rubinstein, University of North Carolina
Invited Speakers:  Steve Granick,  Joseph DeSimone,  Thomas Russell,  Jack Douglas,  Sanat Kumar  

H3 New Frontiers in Biomolecular Physics
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Dean Astumian, University of Maine
Invited Speakers:  Alexander Yu. Grosberg,  Alexander R. Dunn,  R. Dean Astumian,  Steven S. Plotkin,  Jeffery G. Saven  

H4 New Developments in Heavy Electron Superconductivity
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Joe Thompson, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Tuson Park,  Dai Aoki,  Maxim Dzero,  Satoru Nakatsuji  

H5 Physicists as Entreprenuers
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: FIAP FGSA Chair: Venky Venkatesan, Neocera
Invited Speakers:  Xindi Wu,  R.D. Vispute,  Nicholas Economou,  Connie Chang-Hasnain,  Zhiyun Chen  

H6 Quench Dynamics and Thermalization in Quantum Systems
Room: 406 Sponsor: DCMP DAMOP Chair: Vladimir Gritsev, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Maxim Olshanii,  Roman Barankov,  Alessandro Silva  

H7 Cellular Imaging at the Nanometer Scale
Room: 407 Sponsor: DBP Chair: K.C. Huang, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  W. E. Moerner,  Stefan Hell,  Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz,  Grant Jensen,  Joshua W. Shaevitz  

H8 The Greening of the City of Pittsburgh: The History, Science and Examples
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: FPS Chair: Brian Schwartz, City University of New York
Invited Speakers:  Joel Tarr,  Cliff Davidson,  Alan Traugott,  Mark Leahy  

H9 Complex Networks and Their Applications
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Ira Schwartz, Naval Research Laboratory

H10 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Nanostructures I: Quantum Dots
Room: 304 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jie Shan, Case Western Reserve University
Invited Speakers:  Duncan G. Steel,  Moungi Bawendi  

H11 Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures II: Molecular Junctions I
Room: 305 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Latha Venkataraman, Columbia University
Invited Speakers:  Christian Schonenberger,  Douglas Natelson  

H12 Focus Session: Directed Organization of Molecular Semiconducting Films
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Daniel Dougherty, North Carolina State University
Invited Speakers:  Klaus Kern,  Karsten Pohl  

H13 Numerical Methods for Strongly Correlated System: Heisenberg and Density Matrix
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: James Chelikowsky, University of Texas at Austin

H14 Colloids III: Formation and Control
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Itai Cohen, Cornell University

H15 Low Dimensional Magnetism (including molecules and surfaces)
Room: 316 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: William Ratcliff,, National Institute of Standards and Technology

H16 Matter waves and Quantum Optics
Room: 317 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Dan Goldbaum, Arizona

H17 Focus Session: Semiconducting Qubit Approaches
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Jeremy Levy, University of Pittsburgh
Invited Speakers:  John Morton  

H18 Block Copolymer Thin Films I
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Kevin Yager, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Polymers

H19 Solid Amorphous Polymers
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Sergei Nazarenko, University of Southern Mississippi

H20 Electrically and Optically Active Polymers
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Lynn Loo, Princeton University

H21 Spectroscopic Studies of Semiconductors
Room: 323 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Norman Tolk, Vanderbilt University

H22 Focus Session: Optical Generation and Detection of Spins in Semiconductors
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Jay Kikkawa, University of Pennsylvania

H23 Optical and Spectroscopic Properties and Nano
Room: 325 Sponsor: FIAP DCMP Chair: Stefano Curtarolo, Duke University

H24 Focus Session: Chemical Modification of Nanotubes
Room: 326 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Traian Dumitrica, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Michael Strano  

H25 Focus Session: Probing and Modifying Materials with Lasers I
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Kelley, College of William and Mary
Invited Speakers:  Costas Fotakis,  Xiang Zhang  

H26 Focus Session: Graphene IV: Electronic and Structural Properties
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Stefano Curtarolo, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Rodney Ruoff  

H27 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy II: Force Methods
Room: 329 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Young Kuk, Seoul National University
Invited Speakers:  Oscar Custance  

H28 Focus Session: Thermoelectric Materials: Transport Physics
Room: 330 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: David Cahill, University of Illinois
Invited Speakers:  Supriyo Datta,  Arunava Majumdar  

H29 The Physics and Astronomy New Faculty Workshops II
Room: 333 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Robert Hilborn, University of Texas at Dallas

H30 Focus Session: Superconducting and Magnetic Oxide Superlattices and Films
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jak Chakhalian, University of Arkansas
Invited Speakers:  Suzanne G.E. te Velthuis,  Christian Bernhard  

H31 Focus Session: Vanadate Thin Films
Room: 335 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Dmitri Basov, University of California San Diego
Invited Speakers:  Amos Sharoni  

H32 Focus Session: Theory and Simulation of Spin-Dependent Effects and Properties I: (First-Principles Calculations)
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG DCOMP DMP Chair: Andre Petukhov, South Dakota School of Mines
Invited Speakers:  Andrei Ruban  

H33 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors V: Tunneling, PCAR, Josephson
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Laura Greene, University of Illinois
Invited Speakers:  Renato Gonnelli  

H34 Superconductivity: Transport Properties
Room: 404 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: J.R. Thompson, University of Tennessee

H35 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors VI: Model Hamiltonians
Room: 405 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Zlatko Tesanovic, Johns Hopkins

H36 Carbon Nanotubes: Electrothermal Transport and Raman Spectroscopy
Room: 408 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Stephen Cronin, University of Southern California

H37 Focus Session: Spectroscopic Probes of Biomolecular Structure and Function I
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Sunil Saxena, University of Pittsburgh
Invited Speakers:  Kurt Warncke,  Philip Anfinrud,  Bern Kohler  

H38 Focus Session: Theory of Electron Transport Through Molecules I
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Matthias Ernzerhof, Université de Montréal
Invited Speakers:  Jeffrey Reimers,  Barry D. Dunietz  

H39 Lipid Bilayers: Structure and Function I
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Alex Levine, University of California, Los Angeles

H40 Biological Physics I
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: David Weitz, Harvard University

H41 CDW, SDW and Charge Order in Organic Conductors
Room: 413 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Claude Bourbonnais, Universite de Sherbrooke

Mar 17 2009 11:15AM, Tuesday

J1 Ballistic-Diffusive Crossover in Graphene Electron Transport
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sankar Das Sarma, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Kirill Bolotin,  Shaffique Adam,  Michael Folger,  Eduardo R. Mucciolo,  Claudio Chamon  

J2 Dynamical Layer Decoupling and Stripe Order High Tc Superconductors
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom BC Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Eduardo Fradkin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Invited Speakers:  Alexander Schafgans,  Erez Berg,  Vladimir Hinkov,  Michael Norman,  Young-June Kim  

J3 SQUID Amplifiers: at the Quantum Limit
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Clarke, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Michel Devoret,  Manuel Castellanos-Beltran,  Tsuyoshi Yamamoto,  Darin Kinion,  Lafe Spietz  

J4 Panel Discussion: Around the World in 180 Minutes: Differences and Similarities among Women Physicists
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: CSWP FIP Chair: Eliane Lessner, CSWP, and Cherrill Spencer, FIP
Invited Speakers:  CO-CHAIR: Eliane Lessner,  Judy Franz,  Yevgeniya V. Zastavker,  Karimat El Sayed,  Young-Kee Kim,  Kandice Tanner,  MODERATOR: Cherrill Spencer  

J5 Polymer Nanoparticle Interactions
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Thomas Russell, University of Massachusetts
Invited Speakers:  Grant Smith,  Ramanan Krishnamoorti,  Richard Spontak,  Christopher Li,  Francis W. Starr  

J6 Computational Modeling of Crystallization and Nucleation Phenomena
Room: 406 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Jim Belak, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Ken Kelton,  Eduardo Sanz,  Valeria Molinero,  Tianshu Li,  Luciano Colombo  

J7 Complex Cellular Biological Networks
Room: 407 Sponsor: GSNP DBP Chair: Takashi Nishikawa, Clarkson University
Invited Speakers:  Sergei Maslov,  Jennifer Reed,  Adilson E. Motter,  Hawoong Jeong,  Ranran Zhang  

J8 Preparing Physics Students for Careers in Industry
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: FEd FIAP Chair: Lawrence Woolf, General Atomics
Invited Speakers:  Roman Czujko,  Stefan Zollner,  Mohan Kalelkar,  Edward Van Keuren  

J9 Focus Session: Elasticity and Geometry of Thin Objects II
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Pedro Reis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Michael Brenner  

J10 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Nanostructures II: Quantum-Dot-Coupled Systems
Room: 304 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Feng Wang, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  David D. Awschalom  

J11 Quantum Dots and Quantum Point Contacts
Room: 305 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sergio Ulloa, Ohio University

J12 Organic Electronic Thin Films
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Renee Diehl, Penn State University

J13 Numerical Methods for Strongly Correlated Systems: Hubbard and Quasi-Particle
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: James Davenport, Brookhaven National Laboratory

J14 Jammed Particles
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Corey O'Hern, Yale University

J15 Quantum Entanglement
Room: 316 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Christopher Fuchs, Perimeter Institute

J16 Focus Session: Disorder in Ultra-Cold Gases
Room: 317 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Maxim Olshanyi, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Invited Speakers:  Brian DeMarco  

J17 Focus Session: Superconducting Phase Qubits
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Rob McDermott, University of Wisconsin
Invited Speakers:  Erik Lucero  

J18 Charge Transport and Optical Properties of Organic Semiconductors
Room: 319 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Markus Wohlgenannt, University of Iowa
Invited Speakers:  Yoshihiro Iwasa  

J19 Block Copolymer Thin Films II
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Kevin Cavicchi, University of Akron

J20 Frank J. Padden Jr. Award Symposium
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Glenn Fredrickson, University of California, Santa Barbara

J21 Focus Sessions: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors II
Room: 323 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Matthew McCluskey, Washington State University
Invited Speakers:  Fatemeh Shahedipour-Sandvik  

J22 Focus Session: Optical Control and Electron-nuclear Effects in Quantum Dots
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Roberto Myers, Ohio State University
Invited Speakers:  Danny Kim  

J23 Spectroscopic Studies of 2D Electron Gas and Other Low Dimensional Semiconductor Structures
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Aron Pinczuk, Columbia University

J24 Focus Session: Nanotube Applications
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Stefano Curtarolo, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Adrian Bachtold  

J25 Focus Session: Graphene V: Structure and Raman Spectroscopy
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Marcos Pimenta, UFMG, Brasil
Invited Speakers:  Andrea C. Ferrari  

J26 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience IV: Carbon- and Silicon-based Nanostructures
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Sohrab Ismail-Beigi, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Feng Liu  

J27 Focus Session: X-ray and Neutron Instruments and Sciences I
Room: 329 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Albert Macrander, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Yujie Wang  

J28 Focus Session: Graphene Device and Applications I
Room: 330 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: James Hannon, IBM
Invited Speakers:  Yu-Ming Lin,  Yi Zheng,  Jianhao Chen  

J29 Focus Session: Spin Currents in Metals - New and Miscellaneous Topics
Room: 333 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Samir Garzon, University of South Carolina
Invited Speakers:  Takahiro Moriyama  

J30 Focus Session: Multiferroic Manganites
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Despina Louca, University of Virginia
Invited Speakers:  A. Brooks Harris  

J31 Focus Session: Magnetic Multilayers
Room: 335 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Kathryn Krycka, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Jan-Ulrich Thiele,  Kai Liu  

J32 Artificial Structured or Self-Assembled Magnetic Materials
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Brian Maranville, National Institute of Standards and Technology

J33 Superconductivity: Novel Materials
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Elena Cimpoiasu, United States Naval Academy

J34 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors VII: Pressure Effects and Thermal Expansion
Room: 404 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Neil Sullivan, University of Florida
Invited Speakers:  Paul Canfield  

J35 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors VIII: Magnetism (Experiment)
Room: 405 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jeff Lynn, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Andrew Christianson  

J36 Si and Ge Nanowires: Electrical Transport and Simulation
Room: 408 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jonathan Pelz, Ohio State University

J37 Focus Session: Spectroscopic Probes of Biomolecular Structure and Function II
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Angela Gronenborn, University of Pittsburgh
Invited Speakers:  Robert Tycko,  Nien-Hui Ge,  Terry Miller  

J38 Focus Session: Theory of Electron Transport Through Molecules II
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Weitao Yang, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Mark Ratner,  Kurt Stokbro  

J39 Lipid Bilayers: Structure and Function II
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Wouter Ellenbroek, University of Pennsylvania

J40 Biological Physics II
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Joshua Socolar, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Timothy Newman,  John C. Crocker  

J41 Hubbard Model
Room: 413 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Philip Phillips, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Mar 17 2009 2:00PM, Tuesday

K1 Poster Session II (2-5:00pm): Education; SPS/Undergrad Research; Metals; Magnetism; Instrumentation and Measurements; Chemical Physics; Artificially Structured Materials; Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films; AMO Physics; Quantum Information; Bio Physics
Room: Exhibit Hall A

Mar 17 2009 2:30PM, Tuesday

L1 John H. Dillon Medal Symposium in Honor of Venkat Ganesan
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballrom A Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Glenn Fredrickson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Venkat Ganesan  

L2 Buckley and Lilienfeld Prize
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballrom BC Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Warren Pickett, University of California, Davis
Invited Speakers:  Terunobu Miyazaki,  Robert Meservey,  Jagadeesh Moodera,  Paul Tedrow,  Ramamurti Shankar  

L3 Fe-based Superconductors: Competing Orders
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Hong Ding, Institute of Physics, CAS
Invited Speakers:  Nan Lin Wang,  Pengcheng Dai,  Taner Yildirim,  Bernd Buechner  

L4 The Dynamics of Diversity in Astrophysics
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: COM Chair: Donna Stokes, University of Houston
Invited Speakers:  Larry Gladney,  Samina Masood,  George Carruthers,  Ruth Daly,  Hakeem Oluseyi  

L5 Competing Ground-States and Novel Excitations in Strongly Correlated Metals
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Andrea Bianchi, Université de Montréal
Invited Speakers:  Silke Paschen,  Meigan Aronson,  Seiji Yamamoto,  Stephen Julian,  Peter Woelfle  

L6 Earth and Space Magneto-Fluid Dynamics
Room: 406 Sponsor: DFD Chair: John Hawley, University of Virginia
Invited Speakers:  Paul Bellan,  John Hawley,  Peter Olson,  Wolf-Christian M\"uller,  Gary Zank  

L7 Mechanics of Biomolecular Systems I
Room: 407 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Jens-Christian Meiners, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Philip Nelson,  Raghuveer Parthasarathy,  Alexei Tkachenko,  Hong-Wei Wang  

L8 Jamming at Nonzero Temperature and Stress
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: DCMP GSNP Chair: Vincenzo Vitelli, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Ning Xu,  Stephen Teitel,  Olivier Dauchot,  Douglas Durian,  Craig Maloney  

L9 Focus Session: Systems Far from Equilibrium II
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP DBP Chair: Michel Pleimling, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Invited Speakers:  Daniel ben-Avraham  

L10 Optical Properties of Nanostructures III: Quantum Dots, Nanowires, and Related Materials
Room: 304 Sponsor: DMP Chair: John McGuire, Los Alamos National Laboratory

L11 Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures III: Molecular Junctions II
Room: 305 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Dan Ralph, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  N.J. Tao,  Bert de Boer  

L12 Focus Session: Photocatalysis and photovoltaic: Excitation, Trapping, and Transport of Charge Carriers at Surfaces and Interfaces
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Wladyslaw Walukiewicz, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Heinz Frei,  Matthew Kanan  

L13 Computational Methods: Quantum Monte Carlo
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Jeff Grossman, University of California, Berkeley

L14 Colloids IV: Colloids and Interfaces
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: David Weitz, Harvard University

L15 Pattern Formation and Nonlinear Dynamics
Room: 316 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Tom Solomon, Bucknell University

L16 Cold Gases: Spin, Rotation, and Reduced Dimension
Room: 317 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Ludwig Mathey, National Institute of Standards and Technology

L17 Superconducting Flux Qubits and Qubit Amplifiers and Readouts
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Joe Aumentado, National Institute of Standards and Technology

L18 Advanced Techniques in Acceleration and Coherent Radiation
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPB
Invited Speakers:  Kwang-Je Kim,  Alexander Zholents,  Gennady Shvets,  Joseph Bisognano,  Paul Corkum  

L19 Focus Session: Ionically Gated and Conventional OFETs and Related Devices
Room: 320 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Jun Takeya, Osaka University
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Frisbie  

L20 Liquid Crystalline Polymers and Anisotropic Particles
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Lei Zhu, University of Connecticut

L21 Semiconductors: Atomic Structure and Lattices
Room: 323 Sponsor: DCMP FIAP Chair: David Snoke, University of Pittsburgh

L22 Focus Session: Spin-Orbit Effects in Semiconductors
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Roland Winkler, Northern Illinois University

L23 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect, Bilayers
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCMP FIAP Chair: Raymond Ashoori, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

L24 Focus Session: Electronic Properties of Nanotubes
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Sergei Tretiak, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Marc Bockrath  

L25 Focus Session: Probing and Modifying Materials with Lasers II
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Craig Arnold, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Barbara Garrison  

L26 Focus Session: Graphene VI: Phonons and Raman Spectroscopy
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Kostya Novoselov, Manchester University
Invited Speakers:  Leandro M. Malard  

L27 Focus Session: Graphene Device and Applications II
Room: 329 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Marcus Freitag, IBM
Invited Speakers:  Jeremy Robinson,  Toshiaki Enoki  

L28 Focus Session: Thermoelectric Materials: Tellurides
Room: 330 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Stefan Zollner, IBM
Invited Speakers:  Joseph P. Heremans  

L29 Focus Session: Incorporating Computational Physics into Teaching
Room: 333 Sponsor: FEd DCOMP Chair: James Belak, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Steven Gottlieb  

L30 Focus Session: Multiferroics I
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Craig Fennie, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  Young Jai Choi,  Michel Kenzelmann  

L31 Focus Session: Spin Transport and Exchange Bias in Nanostructures
Room: 335 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Samir Lounis, Forschungszentrum Jülich
Invited Speakers:  Felix Casanova  

L32 Focus Session: Nanostructured Manganites, Thin Films and Others
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Hariharan Srikanth, University of South Florida

L33 Superconductivity: Electronic Structure I
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mike Bleiweiss, Naval Academy Preparatory School

L34 Focus Session: Hybrid Magnetic-Superconducting Systems
Room: 404 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Yvan Bruynseraede, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Invited Speakers:  Javier E. Villegas  

L35 Density Functional Theory: Methods
Room: 405 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Steven Louie, University of California, Berkeley

L36 Panel Discussion: APS Publishing: Present and Future
Room: 408

L37 Focus Session: Spectroscopic Probes of Biomolecular Structure and Function III
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: David Pratt, University of Pittsburgh
Invited Speakers:  Sanford Asher,  Eric Gloaguen  

L38 Focus Session: Theory of Electron Transport Through Molecules III
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Kieron Burke, University of California, Irvine
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Kosov,  Michael Thoss  

L39 Focus Session: Theories and Simulations for Biomolecular Dynamics in Cell-like Environments
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Margaret Cheung, University of Houston
Invited Speakers:  Margaret Cheung,  Gregory Grason  

L40 Nucleic Acids: Structure, Function and Dynamics
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Michael Poirier, Ohio State University

L41 Atom-Photon Interactions
Room: 413 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Pierre Meystre, University of Arizona

Mar 17 2009 5:45PM, Tuesday

M9 GSNP Business Meeting
Room: 303

M17 GQI Business Meeting
Room: 318

M19 DPOLY Business Meeting
Room: 320

M27 GIMS Business Meeting
Room: 329

M28 FIAP Business Meeting
Room: 330

M31 GMAG Business Meeting
Room: 335

M40 DBP Business Meeting
Room: 412

Mar 17 2009 7:00PM, Tuesday

M42 DCMP Business Meeting
Room: Westin Hotel Washington

M43 DMP Business Meeting
Room: Westin Hotel Fayette

M44 DCP Business Meeting
Room: Westin Hotel Butler West

M45 DCOMP Business Meeting
Room: Westin Hotel Butler East

Mar 18 2009 8:00AM, Wednesday

P1 Optoelectronic Manipulation and Control of Charges and Spins in Quantum Dots
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballrom A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Alexander Efros, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Manfred Bayer,  Daniel Gammon,  Sokratis Kalliakos,  Sankar Das Sarma,  Maiken H. Mikkelsen  

P2 Critical Spin Liquids in Strongly Correlated Systems
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballrom BC Sponsor: DCMP Chair: T. Senthil, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Reizo Kato,  Hidenori Takagi,  Olexei Motrunich,  Yong Baek Kim,  Donna Sheng  

P3 Fe-based Superconductors: Correlation Effects
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Steve Kivelson, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Donghui Lu,  M. M. Qazilbash,  Qimiao Si,  Jiangping Hu  

P4 Physics of Polymer Membranes for Water Purification
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Alamgir Karim, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  David Cahill,  Benjamin Hsiao,  Thomas Mallouk,  Olgica Bakajin,  Darrell H. Reneker  

P5 Fluid Dynamics and Computational Science
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: DFD DCOMP Chair: Pui-Kuen Yeung, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Paolo Padoan,  Gerorge Karniadakis,  Jacqueline Chen,  Fuqing Zhang,  Said Elghobashi  

P6 Ultracold Gases with Dipolar Interactions
Room: 406 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Han Pu, Rice University
Invited Speakers:  Silke Ospelkaus,  Eugene Demler,  Dan Stamper-Kurn,  Axel Griesmaier,  Peter Zoller  

P7 Forging Effective Partnerships with Your Local Science Center: Outcomes from the Workshop on University/Science Center Collaborations
Room: 407 Sponsor: FEd FPS Chair: Philip Hammer, Franklin Institute
Invited Speakers:  David Statman,  Leo Kadanoff,  Eric Marshall,  Daniele Finotello  

P8 Centenary of Lev Landau
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: FHP Chair: Gloria Lubkin, American Institute of Physics
Invited Speakers:  Pierre Hohenberg,  Lev Pitaevskii,  Valery Pokrovsky,  Igor Dzyaloshinskii,  Roald Sagdeev  

P9 Jamming: Theory and Experiment I
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Daniel Blair, Georgetown University

P10 Focus Session: Multiferroics II
Room: 304 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Serge Nakhmanson, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Delphine Lebeugle  

P11 Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures IV: Correlation Effects
Room: 305 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Harold Baranger, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Kristian Thygesen  

P12 Focus Session: Characterization and Modeling of Complex Surfaces and Interfaces
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Yue Qi, General Motors
Invited Speakers:  Wayne Kaplan,  Tahir Cagin  

P13 Focus Session: Extreme Conditions and High Pressure I: Chemistry
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCOMP GSCCM Chair: Michelle Weinberger, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Invited Speakers:  Choong-Shik Yoo  

P14 Emulsions and Foams
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Douglas Durian, University of Pennsylvania

P15 Biologically Inspired Physics: Swimming, Propulsion, Bio-fluids
Room: 316 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Silas Alben, Georgia Institute of Technology

P16 Solid Helium: Theory
Room: 317 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Henry Glyde, University of Delaware

P17 Semiconducting Qubits I
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Christie Simmons, University of Wisconsin

P18 Bulk Block Copolymers II
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Bradley Olsen, California Institute of Technology

P19 The Physics of Polymer Nanocomposites: Properties
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Jan Obrzut, National Institute of Standards and Technology

P20 Melts and Solutions
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Chang Ryu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

P21 Computational Study of Semiconductor Band Structures
Room: 323 Sponsor: FIAP DCMP Chair: Chris Van de Walle, University of California, Santa Barbara

P22 Focus Session: Spin Hall and other Spin-Orbit Effects in Semiconductors
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Jairo Sinova, Texas A and M University
Invited Speakers:  Michel I. Dyakonov  

P23 Lattice and Mechanical Properties
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Daniel Finkenstadt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

P24 Focus Session: Electron Transport in Nanotubes
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Marco Buongiorno Nardelli, North Carolina State University
Invited Speakers:  Paul McEuen  

P25 Focus Session: Graphene VII: Electronic Properties
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Andre Geim, Manchester University
Invited Speakers:  Fredrik Schedin,  Mikhail Katsnelson  

P26 Focus Session: Graphene VIII: Electronic Properties
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Fuhrer, University of Maryland

P27 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy III: High Frequency and Optical Techniques
Room: 329 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Chris Hammel, Ohio State University
Invited Speakers:  Lukas Novotny  

P28 Focus Session: Thermoelectricity in Si-containing Materials
Room: 330 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Udo Pernisz, Dow Corning Corporation
Invited Speakers:  Davide Donadio  

P29 Focus Session: Manganites
Room: 333 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Gang Cao, University of Kentucky
Invited Speakers:  Shuai Dong  

P30 Focus Session: Oxide Surfaces and Interfaces
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jian Shen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Warren Pickett  

P31 Focus Session: Spin Ice
Room: 335 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Oleg Tchernyshyov, Johns Hopkins University
Invited Speakers:  Xianglin Ke  

P32 Focus Session: Spin Dependent Physics in Organic Materials
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Frank Tsui, University of North Carolina
Invited Speakers:  Arthur Epstein  

P33 Superconductivity: Electronic Structure II
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Goran Karapetrov, Argonne National Laboratory

P34 Superconductivity: STM
Room: 404 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Maria Iavarone Iavarone, Argonne National Laboratory

P35 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors IX: Mostly Transport
Room: 405 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sergey Budko, Ames Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Fedor Balakirev  

P36 Tutorial for Authors and Referees of Physical Review; followed by Physics Journal Question and Answer
Room: 408

P37 Focus Session: Structure and Dynamics of Interfacial Water I
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Hrvoje Petek, University of Pittsburgh
Invited Speakers:  Martin Wolf,  Bernd Winter,  David Beratan  

P38 Focus Session: Nanomaterials for Energy Applications I
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Nathaniel Rosi, University of Pittsburgh
Invited Speakers:  Stanislaus Wong,  Bellave Shivaram  

P39 Self-Organization in Biological Cells and Tissues I
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Andras Czirok, University of Kansas Medical Center

P40 Theoretical and Computational Biophysics
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Sonya Bahar, University of Missouri--St. Louis

P41 Models of Strongly Correlated Electrons
Room: 413 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Paul Fendley, University of Virginia

Mar 18 2009 11:15AM, Wednesday

Q1 Memory and Focusing in Catastrophic Deformations
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Brenner, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Michael Berry,  Wendy Zhang,  Tom Mullin,  Hepeng Zhang  

Q2 New Insights into Hidden Order in URu2Si2
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom BC Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Mydosh, Leiden University
Invited Speakers:  Premala Chandra,  Jonathan Denlinger,  Christopher Wiebe,  Elena Hassinger  

Q3 Physics and Culture
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Charles Falco, University of Arizona
Invited Speakers:  James Z. Wang,  Jennifer Ouellette,  Sidney Perkowitz,  J. Murray Gibson,  Ivan Schuller  

Q4 Polymer Surface Instabilities
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: DPOLY GSNP Chair: Alfred Crosby, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Invited Speakers:  Alan Gent,  Ryan Hayward,  Pedro Reis,  Animangsu Ghatak,  Pascal Damman  

Q5 Plasmonics in Future Electronics
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Boris Luk`yanchuk, Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Invited Speakers:  Daniel S. Pickard,  Mark I. Stockman,  Rashid Zia,  Sergey Bozhevolnyi,  Zengbo Wang  

Q6 Physics Demonstrations and Strategies for Teaching and Public Outreach
Room: 406 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Ernie Malamud, University of Nevada, Reno
Invited Speakers:  John G. Radzilowicz,  Andrew Zentner,  John Pollock,  Samuel Franklin,  Mike Hennessy  

Q7 Physics of the Immune System
Room: 407 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Aaron Dinner, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Arup K. Chakraborty,  Michael Deem,  Michal Or-Guil,  Stephen Quake,  Aaron Dinner  

Q8 Quantum Spin Dynamics and Relaxation in Molecular Magnets
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Andrew Kent, New York University
Invited Speakers:  Susumu Takahashi,  Enrique del Barco,  Gregoire de Loubens,  Irinel Chiorescu,  Saritha Nellutla  

Q9 Focus Session: Dynamics of Glassy Systems
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: David Grier, New York University
Invited Speakers:  Matthieu Wyart  

Q10 Focus Session: Multiferroics III and Dielectrics
Room: 304 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Delphine Lebuegle, University of Paris-Sud 11
Invited Speakers:  Pradeep Sharma  

Q11 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Nanostructures IV: Optical Antennas and Plasmonics
Room: 305 Sponsor: DMP Chair: P. James Schuck, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Jon Schuller  

Q12 Structure, Dynamics, and Diffusion at Surfaces
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Kristen Fichthorn, Penn State University

Q13 Focus Session: Extreme Conditions and High Pressure II: Phase Transitions
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCOMP GSCCM Chair: Amy Lazicki, Geophysical Laboratory

Q14 Granular Fluctuations
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Wolfgang Losert, University of Maryland

Q15 General Topics in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Applications to Social Systems
Room: 316 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Sid Redner, Boston University

Q16 Focus Session: Dipolar Gases and Ultra-Cold Molecules
Room: 317 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Dan Stamper-Kurn, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Han Pu,  Kai Dieckmann  

Q17 Superconducting Qubits: Coherence and New Implementations
Room: 318 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Matthias Steffen, IBM

Q18 Theory and Simulation I
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: August Bosse, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Q19 The Physics of Polymer Nanocomposites: Rheology and Mechanical Properties
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Francis Starr, Wesleyan University

Q20 Thin Films and Adhesion I
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Chris Stafford, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Q21 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors III
Room: 323 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Stavola, Lehigh University
Invited Speakers:  Gunter Luepke  

Q22 Focus Session: Spins in Quantum Dots and Mn in Arsenides
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Xinyu Liu, University of Notre Dame
Invited Speakers:  George Kioseoglou  

Q23 Quantum Hall Effect: Tunneling, High-Frequency
Room: 325 Sponsor: FIAP DCMP Chair: Ramesh Mani, Georgia State University

Q24 Focus Session: Optical Response of Nanotubes
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Achim Hartschuh, University of Munich
Invited Speakers:  Achim Hartschuh  

Q25 Focus Session: Graphene IX: Structure and Strain
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Antonio Castro Neto, Boston University
Invited Speakers:  Vitor Pereira  

Q26 Focus Session: Graphene X: Theory
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Tobias Stauber, University of Minho, Portugal

Q27 Focus Session: X-ray and Neutron Instruments and Sciences II
Room: 329 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Dennis Mills, Argonne National Laboratory

Q28 Focus Session: Hydrogen Storage/Nanomaterials for Energy
Room: 330 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jason Graetz, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Jeffrey R. Long  

Q29 Focus Session: Ordering in Complex Oxides
Room: 333 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jaime Fernandez-Baca, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Khomskii  

Q30 Focus Session: Oxide Superlattices
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Maria Varela, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Ole Krogh Andersen,  Jacques Chakhalian  

Q31 Focus Session: Spinels, Pyrochlores and General
Room: 335 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Gavin Lawes, Wayne State University
Invited Speakers:  Leon Balents  

Q32 Magnetic Domains and Domain Walls
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Kristen Buchanan, Colorado State University

Q33 Superconductivity: Response to Electromagnetic Fields and Proximity Effect
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Art Hebard, University of Florida

Q34 Focus Session: Superconductivity: Magnetic Properties
Room: 404 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Carmen Almasan, Kent State University
Invited Speakers:  Goran Karapetrov  

Q35 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors X: Spectroscopy
Room: 405 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michelle Johannes, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Kenji Ishida  

Q36 Carbon Nanotubes and Other Nanostructured Materials: Sensing, Transport, and Optical Properties
Room: 408 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Zhigang Jiang, Georgia Tech

Q37 Focus Session: Structure and Dynamics of Interfacial Water II
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Jin Zhao, University of Pittsburgh
Invited Speakers:  Mark Johnson,  Anders Nilsson,  Mischa Bonn  

Q38 Focus Session: Nanomaterials for Energy Applications II
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Geoff Hutchison, University of Pittsburgh
Invited Speakers:  Chuan-Jian Zhong,  Omar Yaghi,  Raymond Schaak  

Q39 Physical Mechanisms of Membrane Remodeling
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Markus Deserno, Carnegie Mellon
Invited Speakers:  Patricia Bassereau,  Lukas Tamm  

Q40 Neural Computation
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: John Beggs, Indiana University

Q41 Strongly Correlated Electron Theory
Room: 413 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Andrey Chubukov, University of Wisconsin

Mar 18 2009 1:00PM, Wednesday

S1 Poster Session III (1-4:00pm): Polymer Physics II; Phase Transitions; General Theory; Insulators and Dieletrics; Semiconductors; Supplementary Abstracts; Post-Deadline Abstracts
Room: Exhibit Hall A

Mar 18 2009 2:30PM, Wednesday

T1 Probes of Nanoscale Magnetism
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballrom A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Chris Hammel, Ohio State University
Invited Speakers:  Matthias Bode,  Daniel Rugar,  Denis Pelekhov,  Jean-Yves Bigot,  Peter Fischer  

T2 Electron, Exciton and Phonon Interactions in Nanoparticles
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballrom BC Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Phillippe Guyot-Sionnest, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Odile Stephan,  Min Ouyang,  Victor Klimov,  Harry Atwater,  Alexander Govorov  

T3 Keithley Award Session (GIMS)
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: James Matey, US Naval Academy
Invited Speakers:  Robert Schoelkopf,  John Clarke,  Konrad Lehnert,  Daniel Prober,  Irfan Siddiqi  

T4 Polariton Condensates
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: DCMP DAMOP Chair: Jacqueline Bloch, CNRS
Invited Speakers:  Peter Littlewood,  David Snoke,  Yoshihisa Yamamoto,  Daniele Sanvitto,  Alexey Kavokin  

T5 Industrial Biophysics
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: FIAP DBP Chair: Philip Wyatt
Invited Speakers:  Vladimer Razinkov,  Michael Larkin,  Diego Olego,  Stephen Laderman,  Malcolm Skolnick,  Steven Trainoff  

T6 Panel Discussion: Preparation of Graduate Students for Careers in a Globalized World
Room: 406 Sponsor: FIP FGSA Chair: John W. Clark, Washington University in St. Louis
Invited Speakers:  Sabine O'Hara,  Amy Flatten,  Fatiha Benmokhtar,  T. Venkatesan,  Daniel Cox  

T7 Patterns on Thin Elastic Sheets
Room: 407 Sponsor: GSNP DPOLY Chair: Benny Davidovitch, University of Massachusetts
Invited Speakers:  Haiyi Liang,  Eran Sharon,  Narayanan Menon,  Ka Yee C. Lee,  Rui Huang  

T8 Onsager Prize, Nicholson Medal, Apker Award, Davisson-Germer Prize
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Warren Pickett, University of California, Davis
Invited Speakers:  Katepalli Sreenivasan,  Sriram Shastry,  Sujit Datta,  Yves Chabal,  Krishnan Raghavachari  

T9 Focus Session: Stochastic Processes in Biological Systems I
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Uwe C. Tauber, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Invited Speakers:  Tom Chou  

T10 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Nanostructures V: Plasmonics and Metamaterials
Room: 304 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Markus Raschke, University of Washington
Invited Speakers:  Vladimir Shalaev  

T11 Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures V: Wires and Films
Room: 305 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Mark Hybertsen, Brookhaven National Laboratory

T12 Reaction Kinetics at Surfaces
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: John Kitchin, Carnegie Mellon University

T13 Electronic Structure
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: David Vanderbilt, Rutgers University

T14 Disordered Systems, Glassy Dynamics, and Jamming I
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD GSNP Chair: David Pine, New York University

T15 Fluidic Devices: Micro and Nano
Room: 316 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Thomas Cubaud, Stony Brook University

T16 Fermions in Optical Lattices I
Room: 317 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Henning Moritz, ETH Zurich

T17 Focus Session: Materials in Superconducting Qubits
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: David Pappas, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Robert McDermott,  Benjamin Palmer  

T18 Focus Session: Organic Photovoltaics and Other Photonic Devices
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Jeff Urban, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  P. Peumans  

T19 Theory and Simulation II
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Amalie Frischknecht, Sandia National Laboratories

T20 Focus Session: Magnetic Properties of Organic Semiconductors/ Surface Characterization of Organic Materials
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: C.D. Frisbie, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Markus Wohlgenannt,  Jung Woo Yoo,  Norbert Koch  

T21 Semiconductors: Mechanical and Dynamic Properties
Room: 323 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ben Larson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

T22 Focus Session: GaMnAs
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Nitin Samarth, Penn State University
Invited Speakers:  Hideo Ohno  

T23 Quantum Hall Effect: Coherent Phenomena
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCMP FIAP Chair: Vladimir Goldman, SUNY at Stony Brook

T24 Focus Session: Excitonic Effects in Nanotubes
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Oleg Prezhdo, University of Washington
Invited Speakers:  Oleg Prezhdo,  Laurent Cognet  

T25 Focus Session: Graphene XI: Scanning Probes I
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Eva Andrei, Rutgers University

T26 Focus Session: Graphene XII: Synthesis and Growth
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Taisuke Ohta, Sandia National Laboratories

T27 Focus Session: Pulsed Laser Deposition of Electronic and Photonic Thin Films and Nanostructures
Room: 329 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: R. D. Vispute, University of Maryland, College Park
Invited Speakers:  Solomon Kolagani,  David Norton  

T28 Focus Session: Thermoelectric Materials: Nanostructures
Room: 330 Sponsor: FIAP DMP Chair: Donald Morelli, Michigan State University
Invited Speakers:  Gang Chen  

T29 Focus Session: NSF's Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program: Overview and Perspectives
Room: 333 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Catherine Mader, Hope College
Invited Speakers:  Mario Affatigato  

T30 Focus Session: Excitations in Multiferroics
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Dimitri Argyriou, Helmholtz Center-Berlin
Invited Speakers:  Nobuo Furukawa,  Rolando Valdes Aguilar  

T31 Focus Session: Magnetic, Electric, and Photo-Induced Magnetization Reversal
Room: 335 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Axel Enders, University of Nebraska
Invited Speakers:  Yves Acremann  

T32 Focus Session: Gilbert Damping and Non-local Spin Injection
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Gerrit E. W. Bauer, Technical University Delft
Invited Speakers:  Ion Garate  

T33 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors XI: Penetration Depth and Magnetic Anisotropy
Room: 403 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Myron Salomon, University of Texas at Dallas

T34 Superconductivity: Vortex Statics and Dynamics
Room: 404 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Wai Kwok, Argonne National Laboratory

T35 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors XII: Phonons and Miscellaneous Experiment
Room: 405 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Pengcheng Dai, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

T36 Frontiers in Electronic Structure Theory
Room: 408 Sponsor: DCP DCOMP Chair: Brian Landry, Harvard University

T37 Focus Session: Structure and Dynamics of Interfacial Water III
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Kenneth Jordan, University of Pittsburgh
Invited Speakers:  Junseok Lee,  Angel Rubio  

T38 Focus Session: The Transition State in Physics, Chemistry, and Astrophysics I
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Greg Ezra, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  George Haller,  R. Stephen Berry,  Turgay Uzer  

T39 Focus Session: Physical Virology
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Alex Evilevitch, Lund University
Invited Speakers:  Russell Schwartz,  James Conway  

T40 Focus Session: Knots and Loops in Biomolecules
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Joanna Sulkowska, University of California, San Diego
Invited Speakers:  Joanna Sulkowska ,  Peter Virnau  

T41 Ferroelectricity and Structural Phase Transitions
Room: 413 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Craig Fennie, Cornell University

Mar 18 2009 5:45PM, Wednesday

T45 Funding Opportunities at NSF
Room: 316
Invited Speakers:  Zakya H. Kafafi  

Mar 18 2009 6:15PM, Wednesday

T46 Funding Opportunities at DOE
Room: 315
Invited Speakers:  Harriet Kung  

Mar 18 2009 7:30PM, Wednesday

U1 Windows on Our Universe: Breakthroughs in Observational Cosmology
Room: Westin Hotel Allegheny Ballroom Chair: Andrew Zentner, University of Pittsburgh
Invited Speakers:  John Ruhl,  David Weinberg,  Sandy Faber  

Mar 19 2009 8:00AM, Thursday

V1 Noise in Biological Systems
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A Sponsor: DBP Chair: Yin Yeh, University of California, Davis
Invited Speakers:  Wouter-Jan Rappel,  Martin Falcke,  Xiao-Lun Wu,  Sui Huang,  Vladislav Volman  

V2 Constrained Polymers
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom BC Sponsor: DCMP DPOLY Chair: Xaio Lun Wu, University of Pittsburgh
Invited Speakers:  Omar A. Saleh,  Mahn Kim,  Dmitri Chklovskii,  Roy Bar-Ziv,  Dev Thirumalai  

V3 Correlated Phases in Fermi Gases of Ultracold Atoms
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: DCMP DAMOP
Invited Speakers:  Henning Moritz,  Wolfgang Ketterle,  Corinna Kollath,  Meera Parish,  Selim Jochim  

V4 Microgels: Colloidal Properties of Gels
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: DPOLY DCMP Chair: Weitz David, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Arjun Yodh,  Veronique Trappe,  Jin-Woong Kim,  A. D. Dinsmore,  Alberto Fernandez-Nieves  

V5 Computational Design of Hydrogen Storage Materials
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Chris Van de Walle, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Christopher Wolverton,  Donald Siegel,  Shengbai Zhang,  Tim Mueller,  Hakan Gunaydin  

V6 Recent Advances in Biomolecular Simulations
Room: 406 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Jerry Bernholc, North Carolina State University
Invited Speakers:  Michele Parrinello,  Miroslav Hodak,  B.J. Berne,  Greg Voth,  Cecilia Clementi  

V7 Applications of Magnetic Thin Films with Tilted Anisotropy
Room: 407 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Johan Åkerman, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Invited Speakers:  Kai-Zhong Gao,  Jian-Ping Wang,  Manfred Albrecht,  Chaolin Zha  

V8 The Physics of Imaging and Radiotherapy
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: FPS DBP Chair: Barry Berman, George Washington University
Invited Speakers:  John Boone,  Xiaochuan Pan,  Cedric Yu,  David Jaffray,  Barry Berman  

V9 Focus Session: Structure and Dynamics of Complex Networks
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Beate Schmittmann, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Invited Speakers:  Zoltan Toroczkai  

V10 Artificially Structured Materials for Optical Manipulation
Room: 304 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ian Sellers, Sharp

V11 Transport Phenomena and Electronic Properties of Nanostructures
Room: 305 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Luis da Silva, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

V12 Semiconductor Growth and Etching
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Melissa Hines, Cornell University

V13 Physics Education and History
Room: 309 Sponsor: FEd FHP Chair: Michael Pettersen, Washington and Jefferson College

V14 Disordered Systems, Glassy Dynamics, and Jamming II
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD GSNP Chair: Peter Schall, University of Amsterdam

V15 Liquid Crystals I
Room: 316 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Jonathan Selinger, Kent State University

V16 Solid Helium: Experiment
Room: 317 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Haruo Kojima, Rutgers University

V17 Superconducting Transmons and Circuit QED
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Ben Palmer, Laboratory for Physical Sciences, University of Maryland

V18 Focus Session: Physics of Green Polymers and of Biocompatibility
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPOLY DBP Chair: John Torkelson, Northwestern University
Invited Speakers:  Shaw Ling Hsu,  Younan Xia  

V19 Focus Session: Hierarchically Ordered Systems
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Albertu Striolo, University of Oklahoma
Invited Speakers:  Ting Xu  

V20 Thin Films and Adhesion II
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Connie Roth, Emory University

V21 Semiconductor Growth and Material Processing
Room: 323 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Nelson Tansu, Lehigh University

V22 Focus Session: Dilute Magnetic Oxide Semiconductors
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Berend Jonker, Naval Research Laboratory

V23 Focus Session: Extreme Conditions and High Pressure III: Electronic Transitions and Mixtures
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCOMP GSCCM Chair: Stephane Mazevet, French Atomic Energy Commission
Invited Speakers:  Lee A. Collins  

V24 Focus Session: Nanotube Related Hybrid Structures
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Daniel Finkelstadt, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Slava V. Rotkin  

V25 Focus Session: Graphene XIII: Spectroscopic and Transport Properties
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Shaffique Adam, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Marek Potemski,  Tobias Stauber  

V26 Focus Session: Graphene XIV: Magnetism and Bilayers
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Bruno Uchoa, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

V27 Focus Session: Emerging Scanning Probe Microscopy Methods for Biological Applications
Room: 329 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Igor Sokolov, Clarkson University, Sergei Kalinin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Boris Akhremitchev,  Bryan Huey  

V28 Focus Session: Graphene Device and Applications III
Room: 330 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Phaedon Avouiris, IBM
Invited Speakers:  Kenneth Shepard  

V29 Correlated Electrons
Room: 333 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Meigan Aronson, Brookhaven National Laboratory

V30 Focus Session: Multiferroic Properties of Oxide Films
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jacabo Santamaria, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Invited Speakers:  Mikel Holcomb  

V31 Focus Session: Frustration Theory and Modeling
Room: 335 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Taner Yildirim, NIST Center for Neutron Research
Invited Speakers:  Oleg Starykh  

V32 Focus Session: Vortex and Domain Wall Dynamics
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Ilya Krivorotov, Univerisity of California Irvine

V33 Superconductivity: Complex Order Parameter
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Suk Bum Chung, Stanford University

V34 Superconductivity: Spectroscopy
Room: 404 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Tanner, University of Florida

V35 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors XIII: Pairing Symmetry, Theory and Experiment
Room: 405 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Igor Mazin, Naval Research Laboratory

V37 Chemical Dynamics and Molecular Spectroscopy
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Harvard University

V38 Focus Session: The Transition State in Physics, Chemistry, and Astrophysics II
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: K. Srihari, Indian Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Holger Waalkens,  Thomas Bartsch,  Tamiki Komatsuzaki,  Tomohiro Yanao  

V39 Biological Networks and Systems Biology
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Ilya Nemenman, Los Alamos National Laboratory

V40 Mechanics of Biomolecular Systems II
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Andrew Rutenberg, Dalhousie University

Mar 19 2009 11:15AM, Thursday

W1 Supersolids
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Moses Chan, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Lode Pollet,  John Beamish,  Joshua West,  Norbert Mulders,  Jan Nyeki  

W2 Progress in Understanding the Nature of the 5/2 Fractional Quantum Hall State
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom BC Sponsor: DCMP GQI Chair: Steven Simon, Alcatel-Lucent
Invited Speakers:  Michael Peterson,  Csaba Toke,  Adrian Feiguin,  Guillaume Gervais,  Aron Pinczuk  

W3 Physics of Circulating Tumor Cells and Metastasis
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Jerry Lee, National Cancer Institute
Invited Speakers:  Denis Wirtz,  Bartosz A. Grzybowski,  Hsian-Rong Tseng,  Ram H. Datar,  Richard Bruce  

W4 Recent Progress in Spin-Spiral Ferroelectricity
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: DCMP GMAG Chair: Sang-Wook Cheong, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Tsuyoshi Kimura,  Maxim Mostovoy,  Yoshinori Onose,  Valery Kiryukhin,  Elbio Dagotto  

W5 Physics Meets Art
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: FPS Chair: Philip Taylor, Case Western Reserve University
Invited Speakers:  Peter Lu,  Denis Weaire,  Katherine Jones-Smith,  Charles M. Falco  

W6 Progress on Quantum Optics with Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics
Room: 406 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Steve Girwin, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Andreas Wallraff,  Jens Koch,  Max Hofheinz,  Enrique Solano,  Gerd Sch\"on  

W7 Information Theory in Biology
Room: 407 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Ned Wingreen, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  William Bialek,  Chris Wiggins,  Tatyana Sharpee,  Pankaj Mehta,  Boris Shraiman  

W8 Forefront Detectors for Synchrotron Radiation
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Timothy Graber, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Peter Siddons,  Heinz Graafsma,  Sol Gruner,  Christian Broennimann  

W9 Systems Far from Equilibrium III
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Narayanan Menon, University of Massachusetts

W10 Insulators and Dielectrics: Electronic Structure and Optical Properties
Room: 304 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dillon Fong, Argonne National Laboratory

W11 Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures VI: Kondo Phenomena
Room: 305 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Aditi Mitra, New York University

W12 Steps, Islands and Nanostructures
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Ray Phaneuf, University of Maryland

W13 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors XIV: ARPES
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Norman Mannella, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

W14 Granular Flow
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Arshad Kudrolli, Clark University

W15 Biologically Inspired Physics: Self-Assembly, Filaments, Membranes
Room: 316 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Norm Wagner, University of Delaware

W16 Bosons in Optical Lattices I
Room: 317 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Selim Jochim, Max Planck Institute-Heidelberg

W17 Quantum Algorithms, Simulation, and Error Correction
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Yaakov Weinstein, Mitre Corporation

W18 Focus Session: Mechanical Force Spectroscopy and Device Applications of Polymeric and Biological Materials
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Denis Pristinski, National Institute of Standards and Technology

W19 The Physics of Polymer Nanocomposites: Grafting and Dispersion
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Arthi Jayaraman, University of Colorado, Boulder

W20 Theory and Simulation III
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Jack Douglas, National Institute of Standards and Technology

W21 Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors IV
Room: 323 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Anderson Janotti, University of California Santa Barbara

W22 Focus Session: Dilute Magnetic Nitride Semiconductors
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Roland Kawakami, University of California Riverside
Invited Speakers:  Alberta Bonanni  

W23 Focus Session: Extreme Conditions and High Pressure IV: Equations of State and Dynamics
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCOMP GSCCM Chair: Kyle Caspersen, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

W24 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience V: Transport
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Hyoung Joon Choi, Yonsei University, Korea
Invited Speakers:  A. Devrim G\"u\c{c}l\"u  

W25 Focus Session: Graphene XV: Scanning Probes II and Hall Effect
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Yuanbo Zhang  

W26 Focus Session: Graphene XVI: Functionalization and Growth I
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Xiaosong Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology

W27 Hydrogen Storage: Sorbents
Room: 329 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Channing Ahn, California Institute of Technology

W28 Focus Session: Device Applications of Multiferroic Structures
Room: 330 Sponsor: FIAP DMP Chair: Ichiro Takeuchi, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Gopalan Srinivasan,  Leonid Rokhinson  

W29 Focus Session: Current-Induced Oscillations
Room: 333 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Chun-Yeol You, Inha University
Invited Speakers:  Li Gao  

W30 Focus Session: Ruthenates
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Zhiqiang Mao, Tulane University
Invited Speakers:  Gang Cao  

W31 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanoparticles and Nanowires
Room: 335 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Amanda Petford-Long, Argonne National Laboratory

W32 Focus Session: Theory and Simulation of Spin-Dependent Effects and Properties II
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG DCOMP DMP Chair: Aldo Romero, Cinvestav Querétaro
Invited Speakers:  Gino Hrkac  

W33 Superconductor-Insulator Transitions
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Osofsky, Naval Research Laboratory

W34 Superconducting Nanowires
Room: 404 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Zhili Xiao, Argonne National Laboratory

W35 Superconducting Theory II
Room: 405 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Norman, Argonne National Laboratory

W36 Nanoscale Complex Structures
Room: 408 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Wei Pan, Sandia National Laboratories

W37 Theoretical Methods and Algorithms
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Mohammad Sahrapour, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

W38 Focus Session: Ion Channel Physics and Chemical Physics I
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Rob Coalson, University of Pittsburgh
Invited Speakers:  Mary H. Cheng,  Thomas Beck,  Lawrence Pratt,  Vasanthi Jayaraman  

W39 Quantitative Biology
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Michael Deem, Rice University

W40 Single Molecule Biophysics
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: David Lederman, University of West Virginia

W41 Kondo Physics; Dynamical Mean-Field Theory
Room: 413 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Chris Marianetti, Columbia University

Mar 19 2009 2:30PM, Thursday

X1 Persistent Currents in Normal Metals
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Karyn LeHur, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Markus Buttiker,  Ania Bleszynski-Jayich,  Hendrik Bluhm,  Ora Entin-Wohlman,  Xavier Waintal  

X2 Vortex Dynamics and Josephson Lasers in Superconductors
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom BC Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Alexander Gurevich, Florida State University
Invited Speakers:  Haim Beidenkopf,  Kathryn Moler,  Alexei Koshelev*,  Kazuo Kadowaki  

X3 Spin Hall and Quantum Spin Hall Effects
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Awschalom, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  N.P. Stern,  Shoucheng Zhang,  Laurens Molenkamp,  Liang Fu,  M. Zahid Hasan  

X4 Responsive Gels at Surfaces and in the Bulk
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Ryan Hayward, University of Massachusetts
Invited Speakers:  Anna Balazs,  Ryan Toomey,  Stephen Craig,  Richard A. Vaia,  Jason Shear  

X5 Active Soft Matter: From Granular Rods to Flocks to Living Cells
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Cristina Marchetti, Syracuse University
Invited Speakers:  Arshad Kudrolli,  Irene Giardina,  Aparna Baskaran,  Gijsje Koenderink,  Samuel Safran  

X6 Rahman Prize Lecture and Theory of Multiferroics
Room: 406 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Craig Fennie, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  A. Peter Young,  Kris Delaney,  Jorge I\~niguez,  Andrei Malashevich,  Mike Whangbo  

X7 DNA Loop Formation, Nucleosome Positioning and Transcriptional Regulation
Room: 407 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Phil Nelson, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Alexandre Morozov,  Laura Finzi,  Martin Guthold,  Jason Kahn,  Jens-Christian Meiners  

X8 50 Years of Anderson Localization
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: FHP Chair: David Thouless, University of Washington
Invited Speakers:  David Thouless,  Robert Dynes,  Mordechai Segev,  Igor Lerner,  Alain Aspect  

X9 Focus Session: Jamming: Theory and Experiment II
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University
Invited Speakers:  Brian Utter  

X10 Insulators and Dielectrics: Defects, Structure, and Mechanical and Dynamical Properties
Room: 304 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Tim Fister, Argonne National Laboratory

X11 Fermions in Optical Lattices II
Room: 305 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Conjung Wu, University of California, San Diego

X12 Structure and Morphology of Oxide Surfaces and Thin Films
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Shao-Chun Li, Tulane University

X13 Density Functional Methods: Applications
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Samuel Trickey, University of Florida

X14 Micro and Nano Fluid Mechanics
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Boyd Edwards, West Virginia University

X15 Liquid Crystals II
Room: 316 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Peter Collings, Swarthmore College

X16 Liquid Helium
Room: 317 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Norbert Mulders, University of Delaware

X17 Semiconducting Qubits II
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Xuedong Hu, University of Buffalo

X18 Elastomers and Gels I
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Alfred Crosby, University of Massachusetts

X19 Charged and Ion-containing Polymers
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Jodie Lutkenhaus, Yale University

X20 Long Range Order in Polymer Structures and Morphologies
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Sam Gido, University of Massachusetts
Invited Speakers:  Caroline Ross  

X21 Spectroscopic Studies of Semiconductor Structure and Their Growth
Room: 323 Sponsor: FIAP DCMP Chair: Yia-Chung Chang, Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica

X22 Focus Session: Magnetism in II-VI and IV Semiconductors
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Igor Zutic, SUNY Buffalo

X23 Quantum Hall Effect: Quantum Computation
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Steven Simon, Oxford University

X24 Hydrogen Storage: Complex Hydrides
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: John Vajo, HRL Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Eric Majzoub  

X25 Focus Session: Graphene XVII: p-n Junctions, Nanoribbons, and Quantum Dots
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Fogler, University of California, San Diego
Invited Speakers:  Lingfeng Matthew Zhang  

X26 Nanowire & Nanotube Synthesis and Properties
Room: 328 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Mehl, Naval Research Laboratory

X27 Optoelectronic Devices and Applications
Room: 329 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Nelson Tansu, Lehigh University

X28 Focus Session: Magnetoelectric Coupling in Multiferroic Systems
Room: 330 Sponsor: FIAP DMP Chair: Gopalan Srinivasan, Oakland University
Invited Speakers:  Kee Hoon Kim,  Peng Zhao  

X29 Focus Session: Current Induced Dynamics in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions and Spin Waves
Room: 333 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Ioan Tudosa, University of California, San Diego
Invited Speakers:  Mairbek Chshiev  

X30 Focus Session: Cobaltites
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Igor Zaliznyak, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Chris Leighton  

X31 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanostructures: Domain Walls, Reversal, Oscillators
Room: 335 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Valnetyn Novosad, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Justin Shaw,  Johan Akerman  

X32 Cooperative Phenomena (incl. Spin Structures, Spin Waves, Phase Transitions) II
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Stephan Rosenkranz, Argonne National Laboratory

X33 MgB2 and Multigap Superconductivity
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mike Sumption, Ohio State University

X34 Superconductivity: Magnetic Field Effects
Room: 404 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Milind Kunchur, University of South Carolina

X35 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors XV: Electronic Structure and Magnetism
Room: 405 Sponsor: DMP Chair: David Parker, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  David J. Singh  

X36 Glassy, Amorphous, and Quasicrystalline Materials
Room: 408 Sponsor: DCMP

X37 Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Single Molecules and Nanoparticles
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Will Castleman, Pennsylvania State University

X38 Focus Session: Ion Channel Physics and Chemical Physics II
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Thomas Beck, University of Cincinnati
Invited Speakers:  Diego Krapf,  Sergei Sukharev,  Maria Kurnikova  

X39 Focus Session: Crystal Growth of and Moderated by Proteins
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Raymond Friddle, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Jim De Yoreo,  Yin Yeh  

X40 Proteins in Membranes
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Sunil Saxena, University of Pittsburgh

X41 Strongly Correlated Electrons
Room: 413 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Valery Kiryukhin, Rutgers University

Mar 20 2009 8:00AM, Friday

Y1 Superconductivity and Quantum Transport in Nanowires
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Alexei Berzryadi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Invited Speakers:  Andrey Rogachev,  Nayana Shah,  Subir Sachdev,  Dmitry Golubev  

Y2 Advances in Optical Microscopy
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom BC Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Weitz, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Mats G. L. Gustafsson,  Roberto Cerbino,  David Grier,  Cathie Ventalon,  Suliana Manley  

Y3 Multi-valley Electron Systems in the Quantum Limit
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Wei Pan, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Lu Li,  Fauqu\'e Beno\^It,  Yakov Kopelevich,  Mansour Shayegan,  Robert N. McFarland  

Y4 New insight into Exchange Bias from Advanced Scattering Techniques
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Julie Borchers, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Sunil K. Sinha,  Thomas Hauet,  Mikhail Feygenson,  Xavier Batlle,  Sara Majetich  

Y5 Self-Organization in Biological Cells and Tissues II
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Ray Goldstein, University of Cambridge
Invited Speakers:  Toshiyuki Nakagaki,  Eberhard Bodenschatz ,  Alain Karma,  Raymond Goldstein,  Kyoung Jin Lee  

Y6 Novel Orbital Quantum Phases in Cold Atom Optical Lattices
Room: 406 Sponsor: DCMP DAMOP Chair: Steve Girvin, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Torben Mueller,  Trey Porto,  W. Vincent Liu,  Congjun Wu,  Vito Scarola  

Y7 The Statistical Properties of Forces in Jammed Granular Matter
Room: 407 Sponsor: GSNP DCMP Chair: Wim van Saarloos, Leiden University
Invited Speakers:  Bob Behringer,  Silke Henkes,  Eric I. Corwin,  Brian Tighe,  Matthias Schr\"{o}ter  

Y8 Pushing the Limits of Mechanical Detection
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Dan Rugar, IBM Almaden
Invited Speakers:  Markus Aspelmeyer,  Matthew LaHaye,  H.J. Mamin,  Aharon Kapitulnik,  Nergis Mavalvala  

Y9 Stochastic Processes in Biological Systems II
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Leah Shaw, The College of William and Mary

Y10 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Nanostructures VI: Artificially Structured Materials
Room: 304 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Stefano Cabrini, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Murilo L. Tiago  

Y11 Superlattices and Nanostructures - Electronic Properties
Room: 305 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Stefan Badescu, Naval Research Laboratory

Y12 Electronic and Lattice Properties, Including Quantum Size Effects
Room: 308 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Tai Chiang, University of Illlinois, Champaign-Urbana

Y13 General Theoretical and Computational Methods
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Christine Wu, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Y14 Nonequilibrium and Templated Assembly
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Jack Douglas, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Y15 Liquid Crystals III
Room: 316 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Luz Martinez-Miranda, University of Maryland

Y16 Elastomers and Gels II
Room: 317 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Ryan Hayward, University of Massachusetts

Y17 Focus Session: Quantum Metrology and Nanomechanics
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: David DiVincenzo, IBM
Invited Speakers:  Paola Cappellaro  

Y18 Focus Session: Surface Instabilities and Adsorbed or Grafted Layers
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPOLY
Invited Speakers:  Zhiqun Lin  

Y19 Surfaces and Adsorption I
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Zhiqun Lin, Iowa State University

Y20 Biological-Synthetic Hybrid Materials
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Ali Dhinojwala, University of Akron
Invited Speakers:  Darrin Pochan  

Y22 Focus Session: Spin Resonance in Semiconductors
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Stephen Lyon, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Chandrasekhar Ramanathan  

Y24 Focus Session: Hydrogen Storage: Atomic and Molecular Motions
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Eric Majzoub, University of Missouri--St. Louis
Invited Speakers:  Mark Conradi  

Y25 Focus Session: Graphene XVIII: Functionalization and Growth II
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Yong-Jie Wang, NHMFL, Florida State University

Y26 Glassy and Amorphous Systems
Room: 328 Sponsor: DCMP

Y27 Mechanical Properties of Nanomaterials
Room: 329 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Sullivan, Sandia National Laboratories

Y28 Nanotechnology I
Room: 330 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Jason Benkoski, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University

Y29 Focus Session: Spin Liquids
Room: 333 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Tsuyoshi Kimura, Osaka University
Invited Speakers:  Maiko Kofu  

Y30 Focus Session: LAO/STO Interfaces
Room: 334 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Anand Bhattacharya, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Gervasi Herranz  

Y31 Focus Session: Neutron Scattering
Room: 335 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Jason Lashley, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Jacob Ruff,  Maxim Khodas  

Y32 Focus Session: Current-Induced Magnetic Switching
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Yi Ji, University of Delaware
Invited Speakers:  Patrick Braganca  

Y33 Nanowires and Quantum Dots
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Milind Kunchur, University of South Carolina

Y34 Superconducting Devices and Applications
Room: 404 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Galen O'Neil and Robert Horansky, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Y35 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors XVI: Hc2 and Vortex Dynamics
Room: 405 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ruslan Prozorov, Ames Laboratory

Y36 Organic and Hybrid Surfaces and Interfaces
Room: 408 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: V. Podzorov, Rutgers University

Y37 Mesoscopic Systems, Clusters, and Nanoscale Systems I
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Julius Jellinek, Argonne National Laboratory

Y38 Surfaces, Interfaces, and Colloids I
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Sunil Sainis, Rowland Institute, Harvard University

Y39 Techniques in Biophysics
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Andrea Liu, University of Pennsylvania

Y40 Physiological and Medical Physics
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Krastan Blagoev, National Science Foundation

Mar 20 2009 11:15AM, Friday

Z1 Quasiparticles and non-Abelian Statistics in the 5/2 State
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballrom A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Gregory Fiete, California Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Bertrand I. Halperin,  Moty Heiblum_,  Iuliana P. Radu,  Robert Willett,  Chetan Nayak  

Z2 Detection of Non-Gaussian Noise in Mesoscopic Systems
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballrom BC Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Norman Birge, Michigan State University
Invited Speakers:  Jukka Pekola,  Hugues Pothier,  Mark Dykman,  Andrew Jordan,  Hermann Grabert  

Z3 Non-viral Based Gene Delivery Systems: Opportunities, Obstacles and Challenges
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: DPOLY DBP Chair: Yongmei Wang, Memphis
Invited Speakers:  Leaf Huang,  Ram Mahato,  Dexi Liu,  Chi Wu,  Alexander Kabanov  

Z4 Biological Polyelectrolytes
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: DPOLY DBP Chair: Garegin Papoian, University of North Carolina
Invited Speakers:  Kerry Bloom,  Andrey Dobrynin,  Gerard C.L. Wong,  Tamar Schlick,  Boris Shklovskii  

Z5 Physics in the Aerospace Industry
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Jeffrey Hunt, Boeing
Invited Speakers:  Andrew Hammond,  Gregory Glaros,  Richard Holmes,  B. Spivey,  D. Sandler,  L. Cuellar,  Isaac Shpantzer,  Michael Mellon  

Z6 Impact of NSF's TeraGrid on Physics Research
Room: 406 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Michael Levine, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Invited Speakers:  Ralph Roskies,  Axel Kohlmeyer,  Tiziana Di Matteo,  Steven G. Johnson,  Aleksei Aksimentiev  

Z7 Nanoprobes of Molecules and Cells
Room: 407 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Adam Cohen, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Amit Meller,  Derek Stein,  Michael Roukes,  Jan Liphardt,  Adam Cohen  

Z8 Statistical Physics in Biology
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Marek Cieplak, Johns Hopkins University
Invited Speakers:  Jayanth Banavar,  Marek Cieplak,  Jorge Jose,  Andrea Liu,  Daniel Rokhsar  

Z9 Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaotic Systems
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Robert Behringer, Duke University,

Z10 Insulators and Dielectrics: Dielectric, Thermal, and Transport Properties
Room: 304 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jivtesh Garg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Z12 Phase Transitions at Surfaces
Room: 308 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Robert Bartynski, Rutgers University

Z14 Equilibrium Self-Assembly
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: James Gilchrist, Lehigh University

Z16 Bosons in Optical Lattices II
Room: 317 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Trey Porto, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg

Z17 Spin Qubit Coherence and Control
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Paola Cappellaro, Harvard University

Z18 Surfaces and Adsorption II
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Elaine Zhu, University of Notre Dame

Z19 Semi-Crystalline Polymers
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Steve Hudson, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Z20 Polymer Blends
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Mark Foster

Z22 Focus Session: Quantum Spin Hall Effect
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Ron Jansen, University of Twente
Invited Speakers:  Wang Yao  

Z24 Hydrogen Storage: Dopants and Catalysts
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Fred Pinkerton, GM Research

Z25 Focus Session: Graphene XIX: Electronic Properties
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Silvia Viola, Boston University

Z26 Composite and Porous Media
Room: 328 Sponsor: DCMP

Z27 Advances in Instrumentation and Measurement II
Room: 329 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Charles Agosta, Clark University

Z28 Nanotechnology II
Room: 330 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Keith Williams, University of Virginia,

Z29 Magnetostructural Effects and General Magnetism
Room: 333 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Sara Majetich, Carnegie Mellon University

Z30 Focus Session: Iron-based Multiferroics
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Sang-Wook Cheong, Rutgers University

Z31 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites: Characterization
Room: 335 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Manh-Huong Phan, University of South Florida

Z32 Focus Session: Magnetoresistance and Spin-dependent Transport
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Kiran Thadani, Cornell University

Z33 Fluctuation Phenomena
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ruslan Prozorov, Ames Laboratory

Z35 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors XVII: Similar Materials: Selenides and Tellurides
Room: 405 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jiangping Hu, Purdue University

Z37 Mesoscopic Systems, Clusters, and Nanoscale Systems II
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Shiv Khanna, Virginia Commonwealth University

Z38 Surfaces, Interfaces, and Colloids II
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Sunil Sainis, Rowland Institute, Harvard University

Mar 16 2009 8:00AM, Monday

A1 Graphene - Spectroscopies
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Amir Yacoby, Harvard University.
Invited Speakers:  Dmitri Basov,  Guohong Li,  Alessandra Lanzara,  Antonio Castro Neto  

A2 Transport in Oxide Interfaces
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom BC Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Darrell Schlom, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  Jochen Mannhart,  Jeremy Levy,  C. Stephen Hellberg,  Yuri Suzuki,  Harold Hwang  

A3 Fe-based Superconductors: Pairing Symmetry
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Fu-Chun Zhang, University of Hong Kong
Invited Speakers:  C.L. Chien,  Hong Ding,  Antony Carrington,  Dung-Hai Lee,  Ilya Eremin  

A4 Polymers and Energy Applications
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Nitash Balsara, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Zhen-Gang Wang,  Klaus Schmidt-Rohr,  Yueh-Lin Loo,  Hiroyuki Nishide,  Jayant Kumar  

A5 Nanostructuring with Ions
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: John Melngailis, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Jeroen A. van Kan,  Henri Lezec,  Andreas Dirk Wieck,  Bin Ming,  John Melngailis  

A6 Computational Physics in Research and Teaching: GRC Topics and Themes
Room: 406 Sponsor: FEd DCOMP Chair: Wolfgang Christian, Davidson College
Invited Speakers:  Bruce Boghosian,  Bradley Ambrose,  Dennis C. Rapaport,  Anne Cox,  Adam Frank  

A7 Systems Biology of Natural and Synthetic Circuits
Room: 407 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Jan Skotheim, Standford University
Invited Speakers:  Jan Skotheim,  Sharad Ramamathan,  Ned Wingreen,  Terry Hwa,  Nicolas Buchler  

A8 Quantum Information meets Many-Particle Physics
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: GQI Chair: David DiVincenzo, IBM Watson
Invited Speakers:  David Poulin,  Gerardo Ortiz,  Zhengcheng Gu,  Jens Eisert,  Anil Shaji  

A9 Systems Far from Equilibrium I
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Royce Zia, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

A10 Focus Session: Ferroelectrics I
Room: 304 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Matthew Dawber, Stonybrook University
Invited Speakers:  Javier Junquera  

A11 Superlattices, Nanostructures, Materials: Synthesis, Growth and Characterization
Room: 305 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Joe Tischler, Naval Research Laboratory

A12 Directed Organization of Nanostructured Films
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Ray Phaneuf, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Chris Palmstrom,  Robert Hull  

A13 Focus Session: Metropolis Thesis Prize and Multiscale Modeling
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Jorge Jose, SUNY Buffalo
Invited Speakers:  Chao Cao  

A14 Instabilities, Turbulence and Nonlinear Flows
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Guenter Ahlers, University of California, Santa Barbara

A15 Soft Matter, Fluid Structure and Properties
Room: 316 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Wendy Zhang, University of Chicago

A16 Quantum Fermi Gases and Feshbach Resonances
Room: 317 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Martin Zwierlein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

A17 Focus Session: Photons and Quantum Dots
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Thaddeus Ladd, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  G.D. Fuchs  

A18 Bulk Block Copolymers I
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Thomas Epps, University of Delaware

A19 The Physics of Polymer Nanocomposites: Polymer Nanoparticle Interactions
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Amalie Frischknecht, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Sharon Glotzer  

A20 Spatially Confined Polymer Materials
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Joanne Budzien, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Glenn Fredrickson  

A21 Semiconductors: 2D Electrons and Transport
Room: 323 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Michael Zudov, University of Minnesota

A22 Focus Session: Spins in Group III-V and II-VI Semiconductors
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Paul Crowell, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Pallab Bhattacharya,  Athanasios Chantis  

A23 Plasmons and Optical Absorption
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Singh, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A24 Focus Session: Nanotube Synthesis
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Avetik Harutyunyan, Honda Research
Invited Speakers:  Stefano Curtarolo  

A25 Focus Session: Graphene I: Electronic Properties
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jules Carbotte, McMaster University
Invited Speakers:  George Flynn  

A26 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience I: Inorganic Nanostructures and Interfaces
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Peihong Zhang, SUNY Buffalo
Invited Speakers:  Massimiliano Stengel,  Yosuke Kanai  

A27 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy I: Low Temperatures
Room: 329 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Cyrus Hirjibehedin, London Centre for Nanotechnology
Invited Speakers:  Eric Hudson  

A28 Bionanotechnology
Room: 330 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Xinsheng (Sean) Ling, Brown University

A29 Spin Glasses and Disordered Magnetic Materials
Room: 333 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Ben Ueland, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Center for Neutron Research

A30 Focus Session: Vanadates, Iridates and Other Oxides
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Stephen Nagler, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A31 Focus Session: Molecular Nanomagnets
Room: 335 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Michael Pechan, Miami University
Invited Speakers:  Wolfgang Wernsdorfer  

A32 Magnetization and Spin Dynamics
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Ion Garate, University of Texas at Austin

A33 Superconductivity: ARPES
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Barrett Wells, University of Connecticut

A34 Superconductivity: Spin Properties
Room: 404 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Tranquada, Brookhaven National Laboratory

A35 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors I: Synthesis and New Materials
Room: 405 Sponsor: DMP Chair: David Larbelestier, Florida State University

A36 Carbon Nanotubes: Electrical Transport and Noise
Room: 408 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Hui Tang, Yale University,

A37 Focus Session: Fundamental Developments in Density Functional Theory I
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Adam Wasserman, Purdue University
Invited Speakers:  Weitao Yang,  Kieron Burke  

A38 Focus Session: The Chemical Physics of Biological and Biologically-inspired Solar Energy Harvesting I
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Greg Scholes, University of Toronto
Invited Speakers:  Tessa Calhoun,  Marc Baldo,  Darius Abramavicius  

A39 Cellular Biomechanics I
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Jennifer Schwarz, Syracuse University

A40 Proteins: Structure and Functions I
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Ching-Hwa Kiang, Rice University

A41 Heavy Fermions
Room: 413 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Rena Zieve, University of California, Davis

Mar 16 2009 11:15AM, Monday

B1 New Experimental Developments in Graphene
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Eva Andrei, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Kostya Novoselov,  N. Phuan Ong,  Philip Kim,  Dmitry Abanin,  Allan H. MacDonald  

B2 HTSC: Fermi Pockets and Quantum Oscillations
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom BC Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Robert Laughlin, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Sudip Chakravarty,  Suchitra Sebastian,  Peter Johnson,  Takasada Shibauchi,  Louis Taillefer  

B3 10,000 Undergraduate Physics Majors: Progress on Doubling
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Robert Hilborn, University of Texas at Dallas
Invited Speakers:  Theodore Hodapp,  Anthony Johnson,  Margaret Murnane,  Michael Marder,  Wolfgang Bauer  

B4 Polymer Translocation
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Murugappan Muthukumar, University of Massachusetts
Invited Speakers:  Gary W. Slater,  Juan de Pablo,  Aniket Bhattacharya,  Gerard Barkema  

B5 Heterogeneous Integration on Silicon
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Ganesh Samudra, National University of Singapore
Invited Speakers:  Emanuel Tutuc,  William Milne,  Solomon Assefa,  Tomas Palacios,  Darrell Schlom  

B6 Panel Discussion: Physics in Africa
Room: 406 Sponsor: FIP Chair: Abebe Kebede, North Carolina A&T University
Invited Speakers:  Alexander Animalu,  Mzamo P. Mangaliso,  Ndeye Arame Boye-Faye,  Bernard M'Passi-Mabiala  

B7 Bacterial Growth Laws and Systems Biology
Room: 407 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Terence Hwa, University of California, San Diego
Invited Speakers:  Patrick Dennis,  Matthew Scott,  Stefan Klumpp,  Arbel Tadmor,  Atul Narang  

B8 Spectroscopy of Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Erich Mueller, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  Martin Zwierlein,  Deborah Jin,  Giancarlo Strinati,  Kathryn Levin,  Georg Bruun  

B9 GSNP Student Speaker Award Session and Applications of Statistical and Nonlinear Physics in the Life Sciences
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Harvey Gould, Clark University

B10 Focus Session: Ferroelectrics II
Room: 304 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Javier Junquera, Universidad de Cantabria
Invited Speakers:  Alexei Gruverman,  Alexei Grigoriev  

B11 Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures I: Surface Assemblies and Films
Room: 305 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Douglas Natelson, Rice University
Invited Speakers:  Peter Liljeroth  

B12 Focus Session: Structure and Dynamics of Metal Thin Films
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Theodore Einstein, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Yunsic Shim  

B13 SPS Undergraduate Research I
Room: 309 Chair: Gary White, American Institute of Physics

B14 Focus Session: Colloids I: Physical Behavior and Mechanisms
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Eric Weeks, Emory University
Invited Speakers:  Itai Cohen  

B15 Current Fluid Mechanics
Room: 316 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Shelley Anna, Carnegie Mellon University

B16 Cold Fusion
Room: 317 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Scott Chubb, Naval Research Laboratory

B17 Focus Session: Progress towards Scalable Quantum Information Processing
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Mark Dykman, Michigan State University

B18 Focus Session: Templated Assembly of Polymers
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Alamgir Karim, University of Akron
Invited Speakers:  Aline Miller  

B19 Focus Session: Polymers and Ionic Liquids
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Peggy Cebe, Tufts University
Invited Speakers:  Timothy Lodge  

B20 Focus Session: Polymers and Energy: Photovoltaics, Fuel Cells, Batteries I
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Bumjoon Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Mohit Singh  

B21 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors I
Room: 323 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Eugene Haller, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Anderson Janotti  

B22 Focus Session: Theory of Spin-based Semiconductor Devices
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Lukasz Cywinski, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Stewart Barnes  

B23 Alloy Theory
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Benjamin Burton, National Institute of Standards and Technology

B24 Focus Session: Nanotube Characterization
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Cary Yang, Santa Clara University
Invited Speakers:  Jean-Louis Sauvajol,  Stephen Doorn  

B25 Graphene II: Electronic Properties and QHE
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ziqiang Wang, Boston College
Invited Speakers:  Cheol-Hwan Park  

B26 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience II: Mechanics, Dynamics, and Assembly
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Dennis Rapaport,, Bar-Ilan University
Invited Speakers:  Otto F. Sankey  

B27 Plasmonics and Metamaterials
Room: 329 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Harry Atwater, California Institute of Technology, Chris Van de Walle, University of California, Santa Barbara

B28 Focus Session: Graphene II: Synthesis and Characterization
Room: 330 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Yu-Ming Lin, IBM
Invited Speakers:  James Hannon,  Thomas Seyller,  Byung Hee Hong  

B29 Spin-Dependent Transport
Room: 333 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Sergei Urazhdin, West Virginia University

B30 Focus Session: Manganite Superlattices
Room: 334 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Satoshi Okamoto, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Anand Bhattacharya  

B31 Focus Session: Dimers and Other Frustrated Structures
Room: 335 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Chris Wiebe, Florida State University
Invited Speakers:  Eric Samulon  

B32 Cooperative Phenomena (incl. Spin Structures, Spin Waves, Phase Transitions) I
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Paul Haney, National Institute of Standards and Technology

B33 Superconductivity: Mostly Cuprates
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Timir Datta, University of South Carolina

B34 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors II: Quantum Oscillations, Electronic Structure and Magnetism
Room: 404 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Vladimir Antropov, Ames Laboratory

B35 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors III: General Theory
Room: 405 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Alex Koshelev, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Andrey Chubukov  

B36 Carbon Nanotubes: Devices and Applications
Room: 408 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Masa Ishigami, University of Central Florida

B37 Focus Session: Fundamental Developments in Density Functional Theory II
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Paula Mori-Sanchez, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Neepa Maitra,  Carsten A. Ullrich  

B38 Focus Session: The Chemical Physics of Biological and Biologically-inspired Solar Energy Harvesting II
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Bern Kohler, Ohio State University
Invited Speakers:  Robert J. Silbey,  Gregory Scholes  

B39 Cellular Biomechanics II
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Arpita Upadhyaya, University of Maryland

B40 Proteins: Structure and Function II
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Paul Janmey, University of Pennsylvania

B41 Heavy Fermion 115 Superconductors
Room: 413 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Carlos Bolech, Rice University

Mar 16 2009 2:00PM, Monday

C1 Poster Session I (2-5:00pm): Polymer Physics; Applications; Complex Structured Materials; Quantum Fluids; Nano/Bionanotechnology; Fluids; General; Statistical & Nonlinear; Superconductors
Room: Exhibit Hall A

Mar 16 2009 2:30PM, Monday

D1 Phase Transitions and Transport in Quantum Hall Superfluids
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Allan MacDonald, University of Texas at Austin
Invited Speakers:  Alexandre Champagne,  Steven H. Simon,  Vittorio Pellegrini,  H.A. Fertig,  Koji Muraki  

D2 HTSC: New Developments
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom BC Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Chandra Varma, University of California, Riverdside
Invited Speakers:  Martin Greven,  Vivek Aji,  Brigitte Leridon,  Adam Kaminski,  Kenjiro K. Gomes  

D3 Pake, McGroddy, and Industrial Application of Physics Prizes, Adler Award
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: FIAP DMP Chair: Mark Lee, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  David Bishop,  Philip Wyatt,  William Johnson,  Akihisa Inoue,  Salvatore Torquato  

D4 Spin Qubits in Quantum Dots
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: GQI DCMP Chair: Jason Petta, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Christian Barthel,  Katja Nowack,  Bill Coish,  Richard Warburton,  Jacob Taylor  

D5 Origins of Silicon Valley
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: FHP Chair: Gloria Lubkin, American Institute of Physics
Invited Speakers:  Stewart Gillmor,  David Leeson,  Michael Riordan,  James Gibbons  

D6 Predictive Materials Design for Alternative Energy Storage
Room: 406 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Zhenyu Zhang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Mei-Yin Chou,  Yong-Hyun Kim,  Puru Jena,  Zheng Xiao Guo,  Mina Yoon  

D7 Rare Events in Physics and Population Dynamics
Room: 407 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Beate Schmittmann, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Stein,  Uwe C. Tauber,  Ira Schwartz,  Lewi Stone,  Eyal Buks  

D8 Unconventional Spin Torques
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Shufeng Zhang, University of Missouri
Invited Speakers:  Gerrit Bauer,  Aurelien Manchon,  Paul Haney,  Maxim Tsoi,  Sergei Urazhdin  

D9 Elasticity and Geometry of Thin Objects I
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Dominic Vella, DAMTP, Cambridge and LPS ENS, Paris

D10 Focus Session: Ferroelectrics III and Piezoelectrics
Room: 304 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Alexei Grigoriev, University of Tulsa

D11 Optical Properties of Dots, Wires and Superlattices
Room: 305 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Scheibner, Naval Research Laboratory

D12 Novel Instrumentation and Techniques in Surface Science
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: MIchael Dreyer, University of Maryland

D13 SPS Undergraduate Research II
Room: 309 Chair: Gary White, American Institute of Physics

D14 Colloids II: Structure and Rheology
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: David Pine, New York University

D15 Monolayers, Membranes and Microemulsions
Room: 316 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Erik Luijten, Northwestern University

D16 Focus Session: BEC-BCS Crossover
Room: 317 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Kathy Levin, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Carlos A. R. Sa de Melo  

D17 Focus Session: Foundations of Quantum Theory
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Ian Durham, Saint Anselm College
Invited Speakers:  Byron C. Drury,  Robert Griffiths  

D18 Focus Session: Transport and Optical Properties of Conjugated Polymers and other Solution Processable Semiconductors
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Anvar Zakhidov, University of Texas at Dallas

D19 Focus Session: Grazing Incidence Scattering and New Imaging Techniques
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Marcus Cicerone, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Jin Wang,  Hiroshi Jinnai  

D20 Polymers and Energy: Photovoltaics, Fuel Cells, Batteries II
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Azar Alizadeh, General Electric

D21 Semiconductors: Transport
Room: 323 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Sergey Vitkalov, City University of New York

D22 Focus Session: Spins in Group IV Semiconductors
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Bruce Kane, LPS, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Belita Koiller  

D23 Diffusion and Transport Properties
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Duane Johnston, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

D24 Focus Session: Nanotube manipulation and processing
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Mehl, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Ralph Krupke  

D25 Focus Session: Graphene III: Growth and Structure
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Alessandra Lanzara, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Jing Kong  

D26 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience III: Defects, Doping, and Structure
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Paul Kent, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Peihong Zhang  

D27 Advances in Instrumentation and Measurement I
Room: 329 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Larry Rubin, MIT

D28 Focus Session: Thermoelectric Materials: Oxides and Complex Crystals
Room: 330 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Ali Shakouri, University of California, Santa Cruz
Invited Speakers:  Subroto Mukerjee  

D29 Focus Session: The Physics and Astronomy New Faculty Workshops I
Room: 333 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Robert Hilborn, University of Texas at Dallas
Invited Speakers:  Kenneth Krane  

D30 Focus Session: Cobaltite and Manganite films
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Chris Leighton, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Thomas Ward  

D31 Focus Session: Quantum Magnets
Room: 335 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Ray Osborn, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Oleg Tchernyshyov  

D32 Focus Session: Spin Dependent Physics in Organic Materials and Graphene
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Tiffany Santos, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Oleg Yazyev  

D33 Superconducting Theory I
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dennis Newnes, IBM

D34 Superconductivity: Josephson Effects
Room: 404 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ulrich Welp, Argonne National Laboratory

D35 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors IV: General Experiment
Room: 405 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Rick Greene, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Hideo Hosono,  Hai-Hu Wen  

D36 Carbon Nanotubes: Low Temperature Electronic Properties
Room: 408 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Xia Hong, Pennsylvania State University

D37 Focus Session: Fundamental Developments in Density Functional Theory III
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Alberto Castro, Free University of Berlin
Invited Speakers:  Klaus Capelle,  Axel Becke,  David C. Langreth  

D38 Focus Session: The Chemical Physics of Biological and Biologically-inspired Solar Energy Harvesting III
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Martin Plenio, Imperial College
Invited Speakers:  Leonas Valkunas,  Alan Aspuru-Guzik  

D39 Focus Session: Noise and Fluctuations in Biochemical Networks
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP GSNP Chair: Jayajit Das, Ohio State University
Invited Speakers:  Juan Manuel Pedraza,  Sorin Tanase-Nicola  

D40 Nucleic Acids: Packaging, Ejection and Translocation
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Xiangyun Qiu, National Institutes of Health

D41 Hidden Order and Quantum Criticality in Heavy Fermions
Room: 413 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Johnpierre Paglione, University of Maryland

Mar 16 2009 5:45PM, Monday

E1 APS Prizes and Awards Ceremonial Session
Room: 301/302 Chair: Cherry Murray, APS President, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Mar 16 2009 6:45PM, Monday

F1 Welcome Reception
Room: Second Floor Concourse

Mar 16 2009 8:00PM, Monday

G1 Energy and the Environment
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A Chair: Allen Goldman, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Kevin E. Trenberth,  George Crabtree  

Mar 17 2009 8:00AM, Tuesday

H1 Electronic Structure of Disordered Graphene
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Allan MacDonald, University of Texas at Austin
Invited Speakers:  Jens Martin,  Joseph A. Stroscio,  B. Huard,  Marco Polini,  Enrico Rossi  

H2 Polymer Physics Prize Symposium Honoring Steve Granick
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom BC Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: MIchael Rubinstein, University of North Carolina
Invited Speakers:  Steve Granick,  Joseph DeSimone,  Thomas Russell,  Jack Douglas,  Sanat Kumar  

H3 New Frontiers in Biomolecular Physics
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Dean Astumian, University of Maine
Invited Speakers:  Alexander Yu. Grosberg,  Alexander R. Dunn,  R. Dean Astumian,  Steven S. Plotkin,  Jeffery G. Saven  

H4 New Developments in Heavy Electron Superconductivity
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Joe Thompson, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Tuson Park,  Dai Aoki,  Maxim Dzero,  Satoru Nakatsuji  

H5 Physicists as Entreprenuers
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: FIAP FGSA Chair: Venky Venkatesan, Neocera
Invited Speakers:  Xindi Wu,  R.D. Vispute,  Nicholas Economou,  Connie Chang-Hasnain,  Zhiyun Chen  

H6 Quench Dynamics and Thermalization in Quantum Systems
Room: 406 Sponsor: DCMP DAMOP Chair: Vladimir Gritsev, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Maxim Olshanii,  Roman Barankov,  Alessandro Silva  

H7 Cellular Imaging at the Nanometer Scale
Room: 407 Sponsor: DBP Chair: K.C. Huang, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  W. E. Moerner,  Stefan Hell,  Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz,  Grant Jensen,  Joshua W. Shaevitz  

H8 The Greening of the City of Pittsburgh: The History, Science and Examples
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: FPS Chair: Brian Schwartz, City University of New York
Invited Speakers:  Joel Tarr,  Cliff Davidson,  Alan Traugott,  Mark Leahy  

H9 Complex Networks and Their Applications
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Ira Schwartz, Naval Research Laboratory

H10 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Nanostructures I: Quantum Dots
Room: 304 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jie Shan, Case Western Reserve University
Invited Speakers:  Duncan G. Steel,  Moungi Bawendi  

H11 Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures II: Molecular Junctions I
Room: 305 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Latha Venkataraman, Columbia University
Invited Speakers:  Christian Schonenberger,  Douglas Natelson  

H12 Focus Session: Directed Organization of Molecular Semiconducting Films
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Daniel Dougherty, North Carolina State University
Invited Speakers:  Klaus Kern,  Karsten Pohl  

H13 Numerical Methods for Strongly Correlated System: Heisenberg and Density Matrix
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: James Chelikowsky, University of Texas at Austin

H14 Colloids III: Formation and Control
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Itai Cohen, Cornell University

H15 Low Dimensional Magnetism (including molecules and surfaces)
Room: 316 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: William Ratcliff,, National Institute of Standards and Technology

H16 Matter waves and Quantum Optics
Room: 317 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Dan Goldbaum, Arizona

H17 Focus Session: Semiconducting Qubit Approaches
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Jeremy Levy, University of Pittsburgh
Invited Speakers:  John Morton  

H18 Block Copolymer Thin Films I
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Kevin Yager, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Polymers

H19 Solid Amorphous Polymers
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Sergei Nazarenko, University of Southern Mississippi

H20 Electrically and Optically Active Polymers
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Lynn Loo, Princeton University

H21 Spectroscopic Studies of Semiconductors
Room: 323 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Norman Tolk, Vanderbilt University

H22 Focus Session: Optical Generation and Detection of Spins in Semiconductors
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Jay Kikkawa, University of Pennsylvania

H23 Optical and Spectroscopic Properties and Nano
Room: 325 Sponsor: FIAP DCMP Chair: Stefano Curtarolo, Duke University

H24 Focus Session: Chemical Modification of Nanotubes
Room: 326 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Traian Dumitrica, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Michael Strano  

H25 Focus Session: Probing and Modifying Materials with Lasers I
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Kelley, College of William and Mary
Invited Speakers:  Costas Fotakis,  Xiang Zhang  

H26 Focus Session: Graphene IV: Electronic and Structural Properties
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Stefano Curtarolo, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Rodney Ruoff  

H27 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy II: Force Methods
Room: 329 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Young Kuk, Seoul National University
Invited Speakers:  Oscar Custance  

H28 Focus Session: Thermoelectric Materials: Transport Physics
Room: 330 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: David Cahill, University of Illinois
Invited Speakers:  Supriyo Datta,  Arunava Majumdar  

H29 The Physics and Astronomy New Faculty Workshops II
Room: 333 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Robert Hilborn, University of Texas at Dallas

H30 Focus Session: Superconducting and Magnetic Oxide Superlattices and Films
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jak Chakhalian, University of Arkansas
Invited Speakers:  Suzanne G.E. te Velthuis,  Christian Bernhard  

H31 Focus Session: Vanadate Thin Films
Room: 335 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Dmitri Basov, University of California San Diego
Invited Speakers:  Amos Sharoni  

H32 Focus Session: Theory and Simulation of Spin-Dependent Effects and Properties I: (First-Principles Calculations)
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG DCOMP DMP Chair: Andre Petukhov, South Dakota School of Mines
Invited Speakers:  Andrei Ruban  

H33 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors V: Tunneling, PCAR, Josephson
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Laura Greene, University of Illinois
Invited Speakers:  Renato Gonnelli  

H34 Superconductivity: Transport Properties
Room: 404 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: J.R. Thompson, University of Tennessee

H35 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors VI: Model Hamiltonians
Room: 405 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Zlatko Tesanovic, Johns Hopkins

H36 Carbon Nanotubes: Electrothermal Transport and Raman Spectroscopy
Room: 408 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Stephen Cronin, University of Southern California

H37 Focus Session: Spectroscopic Probes of Biomolecular Structure and Function I
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Sunil Saxena, University of Pittsburgh
Invited Speakers:  Kurt Warncke,  Philip Anfinrud,  Bern Kohler  

H38 Focus Session: Theory of Electron Transport Through Molecules I
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Matthias Ernzerhof, Université de Montréal
Invited Speakers:  Jeffrey Reimers,  Barry D. Dunietz  

H39 Lipid Bilayers: Structure and Function I
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Alex Levine, University of California, Los Angeles

H40 Biological Physics I
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: David Weitz, Harvard University

H41 CDW, SDW and Charge Order in Organic Conductors
Room: 413 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Claude Bourbonnais, Universite de Sherbrooke

Mar 17 2009 11:15AM, Tuesday

J1 Ballistic-Diffusive Crossover in Graphene Electron Transport
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sankar Das Sarma, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Kirill Bolotin,  Shaffique Adam,  Michael Folger,  Eduardo R. Mucciolo,  Claudio Chamon  

J2 Dynamical Layer Decoupling and Stripe Order High Tc Superconductors
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom BC Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Eduardo Fradkin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Invited Speakers:  Alexander Schafgans,  Erez Berg,  Vladimir Hinkov,  Michael Norman,  Young-June Kim  

J3 SQUID Amplifiers: at the Quantum Limit
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Clarke, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Michel Devoret,  Manuel Castellanos-Beltran,  Tsuyoshi Yamamoto,  Darin Kinion,  Lafe Spietz  

J4 Panel Discussion: Around the World in 180 Minutes: Differences and Similarities among Women Physicists
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: CSWP FIP Chair: Eliane Lessner, CSWP, and Cherrill Spencer, FIP
Invited Speakers:  CO-CHAIR: Eliane Lessner,  Judy Franz,  Yevgeniya V. Zastavker,  Karimat El Sayed,  Young-Kee Kim,  Kandice Tanner,  MODERATOR: Cherrill Spencer  

J5 Polymer Nanoparticle Interactions
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Thomas Russell, University of Massachusetts
Invited Speakers:  Grant Smith,  Ramanan Krishnamoorti,  Richard Spontak,  Christopher Li,  Francis W. Starr  

J6 Computational Modeling of Crystallization and Nucleation Phenomena
Room: 406 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Jim Belak, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Ken Kelton,  Eduardo Sanz,  Valeria Molinero,  Tianshu Li,  Luciano Colombo  

J7 Complex Cellular Biological Networks
Room: 407 Sponsor: GSNP DBP Chair: Takashi Nishikawa, Clarkson University
Invited Speakers:  Sergei Maslov,  Jennifer Reed,  Adilson E. Motter,  Hawoong Jeong,  Ranran Zhang  

J8 Preparing Physics Students for Careers in Industry
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: FEd FIAP Chair: Lawrence Woolf, General Atomics
Invited Speakers:  Roman Czujko,  Stefan Zollner,  Mohan Kalelkar,  Edward Van Keuren  

J9 Focus Session: Elasticity and Geometry of Thin Objects II
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Pedro Reis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Michael Brenner  

J10 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Nanostructures II: Quantum-Dot-Coupled Systems
Room: 304 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Feng Wang, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  David D. Awschalom  

J11 Quantum Dots and Quantum Point Contacts
Room: 305 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sergio Ulloa, Ohio University

J12 Organic Electronic Thin Films
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Renee Diehl, Penn State University

J13 Numerical Methods for Strongly Correlated Systems: Hubbard and Quasi-Particle
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: James Davenport, Brookhaven National Laboratory

J14 Jammed Particles
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Corey O'Hern, Yale University

J15 Quantum Entanglement
Room: 316 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Christopher Fuchs, Perimeter Institute

J16 Focus Session: Disorder in Ultra-Cold Gases
Room: 317 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Maxim Olshanyi, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Invited Speakers:  Brian DeMarco  

J17 Focus Session: Superconducting Phase Qubits
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Rob McDermott, University of Wisconsin
Invited Speakers:  Erik Lucero  

J18 Charge Transport and Optical Properties of Organic Semiconductors
Room: 319 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Markus Wohlgenannt, University of Iowa
Invited Speakers:  Yoshihiro Iwasa  

J19 Block Copolymer Thin Films II
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Kevin Cavicchi, University of Akron

J20 Frank J. Padden Jr. Award Symposium
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Glenn Fredrickson, University of California, Santa Barbara

J21 Focus Sessions: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors II
Room: 323 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Matthew McCluskey, Washington State University
Invited Speakers:  Fatemeh Shahedipour-Sandvik  

J22 Focus Session: Optical Control and Electron-nuclear Effects in Quantum Dots
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Roberto Myers, Ohio State University
Invited Speakers:  Danny Kim  

J23 Spectroscopic Studies of 2D Electron Gas and Other Low Dimensional Semiconductor Structures
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Aron Pinczuk, Columbia University

J24 Focus Session: Nanotube Applications
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Stefano Curtarolo, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Adrian Bachtold  

J25 Focus Session: Graphene V: Structure and Raman Spectroscopy
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Marcos Pimenta, UFMG, Brasil
Invited Speakers:  Andrea C. Ferrari  

J26 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience IV: Carbon- and Silicon-based Nanostructures
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Sohrab Ismail-Beigi, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Feng Liu  

J27 Focus Session: X-ray and Neutron Instruments and Sciences I
Room: 329 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Albert Macrander, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Yujie Wang  

J28 Focus Session: Graphene Device and Applications I
Room: 330 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: James Hannon, IBM
Invited Speakers:  Yu-Ming Lin,  Yi Zheng,  Jianhao Chen  

J29 Focus Session: Spin Currents in Metals - New and Miscellaneous Topics
Room: 333 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Samir Garzon, University of South Carolina
Invited Speakers:  Takahiro Moriyama  

J30 Focus Session: Multiferroic Manganites
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Despina Louca, University of Virginia
Invited Speakers:  A. Brooks Harris  

J31 Focus Session: Magnetic Multilayers
Room: 335 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Kathryn Krycka, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Jan-Ulrich Thiele,  Kai Liu  

J32 Artificial Structured or Self-Assembled Magnetic Materials
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Brian Maranville, National Institute of Standards and Technology

J33 Superconductivity: Novel Materials
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Elena Cimpoiasu, United States Naval Academy

J34 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors VII: Pressure Effects and Thermal Expansion
Room: 404 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Neil Sullivan, University of Florida
Invited Speakers:  Paul Canfield  

J35 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors VIII: Magnetism (Experiment)
Room: 405 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jeff Lynn, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Andrew Christianson  

J36 Si and Ge Nanowires: Electrical Transport and Simulation
Room: 408 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jonathan Pelz, Ohio State University

J37 Focus Session: Spectroscopic Probes of Biomolecular Structure and Function II
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Angela Gronenborn, University of Pittsburgh
Invited Speakers:  Robert Tycko,  Nien-Hui Ge,  Terry Miller  

J38 Focus Session: Theory of Electron Transport Through Molecules II
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Weitao Yang, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Mark Ratner,  Kurt Stokbro  

J39 Lipid Bilayers: Structure and Function II
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Wouter Ellenbroek, University of Pennsylvania

J40 Biological Physics II
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Joshua Socolar, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Timothy Newman,  John C. Crocker  

J41 Hubbard Model
Room: 413 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Philip Phillips, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Mar 17 2009 2:00PM, Tuesday

K1 Poster Session II (2-5:00pm): Education; SPS/Undergrad Research; Metals; Magnetism; Instrumentation and Measurements; Chemical Physics; Artificially Structured Materials; Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films; AMO Physics; Quantum Information; Bio Physics
Room: Exhibit Hall A

Mar 17 2009 2:30PM, Tuesday

L1 John H. Dillon Medal Symposium in Honor of Venkat Ganesan
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballrom A Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Glenn Fredrickson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Venkat Ganesan  

L2 Buckley and Lilienfeld Prize
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballrom BC Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Warren Pickett, University of California, Davis
Invited Speakers:  Terunobu Miyazaki,  Robert Meservey,  Jagadeesh Moodera,  Paul Tedrow,  Ramamurti Shankar  

L3 Fe-based Superconductors: Competing Orders
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Hong Ding, Institute of Physics, CAS
Invited Speakers:  Nan Lin Wang,  Pengcheng Dai,  Taner Yildirim,  Bernd Buechner  

L4 The Dynamics of Diversity in Astrophysics
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: COM Chair: Donna Stokes, University of Houston
Invited Speakers:  Larry Gladney,  Samina Masood,  George Carruthers,  Ruth Daly,  Hakeem Oluseyi  

L5 Competing Ground-States and Novel Excitations in Strongly Correlated Metals
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Andrea Bianchi, Université de Montréal
Invited Speakers:  Silke Paschen,  Meigan Aronson,  Seiji Yamamoto,  Stephen Julian,  Peter Woelfle  

L6 Earth and Space Magneto-Fluid Dynamics
Room: 406 Sponsor: DFD Chair: John Hawley, University of Virginia
Invited Speakers:  Paul Bellan,  John Hawley,  Peter Olson,  Wolf-Christian M\"uller,  Gary Zank  

L7 Mechanics of Biomolecular Systems I
Room: 407 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Jens-Christian Meiners, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Philip Nelson,  Raghuveer Parthasarathy,  Alexei Tkachenko,  Hong-Wei Wang  

L8 Jamming at Nonzero Temperature and Stress
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: DCMP GSNP Chair: Vincenzo Vitelli, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Ning Xu,  Stephen Teitel,  Olivier Dauchot,  Douglas Durian,  Craig Maloney  

L9 Focus Session: Systems Far from Equilibrium II
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP DBP Chair: Michel Pleimling, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Invited Speakers:  Daniel ben-Avraham  

L10 Optical Properties of Nanostructures III: Quantum Dots, Nanowires, and Related Materials
Room: 304 Sponsor: DMP Chair: John McGuire, Los Alamos National Laboratory

L11 Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures III: Molecular Junctions II
Room: 305 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Dan Ralph, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  N.J. Tao,  Bert de Boer  

L12 Focus Session: Photocatalysis and photovoltaic: Excitation, Trapping, and Transport of Charge Carriers at Surfaces and Interfaces
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Wladyslaw Walukiewicz, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Heinz Frei,  Matthew Kanan  

L13 Computational Methods: Quantum Monte Carlo
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Jeff Grossman, University of California, Berkeley

L14 Colloids IV: Colloids and Interfaces
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: David Weitz, Harvard University

L15 Pattern Formation and Nonlinear Dynamics
Room: 316 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Tom Solomon, Bucknell University

L16 Cold Gases: Spin, Rotation, and Reduced Dimension
Room: 317 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Ludwig Mathey, National Institute of Standards and Technology

L17 Superconducting Flux Qubits and Qubit Amplifiers and Readouts
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Joe Aumentado, National Institute of Standards and Technology

L18 Advanced Techniques in Acceleration and Coherent Radiation
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPB
Invited Speakers:  Kwang-Je Kim,  Alexander Zholents,  Gennady Shvets,  Joseph Bisognano,  Paul Corkum  

L19 Focus Session: Ionically Gated and Conventional OFETs and Related Devices
Room: 320 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Jun Takeya, Osaka University
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Frisbie  

L20 Liquid Crystalline Polymers and Anisotropic Particles
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Lei Zhu, University of Connecticut

L21 Semiconductors: Atomic Structure and Lattices
Room: 323 Sponsor: DCMP FIAP Chair: David Snoke, University of Pittsburgh

L22 Focus Session: Spin-Orbit Effects in Semiconductors
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Roland Winkler, Northern Illinois University

L23 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect, Bilayers
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCMP FIAP Chair: Raymond Ashoori, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

L24 Focus Session: Electronic Properties of Nanotubes
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Sergei Tretiak, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Marc Bockrath  

L25 Focus Session: Probing and Modifying Materials with Lasers II
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Craig Arnold, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Barbara Garrison  

L26 Focus Session: Graphene VI: Phonons and Raman Spectroscopy
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Kostya Novoselov, Manchester University
Invited Speakers:  Leandro M. Malard  

L27 Focus Session: Graphene Device and Applications II
Room: 329 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Marcus Freitag, IBM
Invited Speakers:  Jeremy Robinson,  Toshiaki Enoki  

L28 Focus Session: Thermoelectric Materials: Tellurides
Room: 330 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Stefan Zollner, IBM
Invited Speakers:  Joseph P. Heremans  

L29 Focus Session: Incorporating Computational Physics into Teaching
Room: 333 Sponsor: FEd DCOMP Chair: James Belak, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Steven Gottlieb  

L30 Focus Session: Multiferroics I
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Craig Fennie, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  Young Jai Choi,  Michel Kenzelmann  

L31 Focus Session: Spin Transport and Exchange Bias in Nanostructures
Room: 335 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Samir Lounis, Forschungszentrum Jülich
Invited Speakers:  Felix Casanova  

L32 Focus Session: Nanostructured Manganites, Thin Films and Others
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Hariharan Srikanth, University of South Florida

L33 Superconductivity: Electronic Structure I
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mike Bleiweiss, Naval Academy Preparatory School

L34 Focus Session: Hybrid Magnetic-Superconducting Systems
Room: 404 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Yvan Bruynseraede, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Invited Speakers:  Javier E. Villegas  

L35 Density Functional Theory: Methods
Room: 405 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Steven Louie, University of California, Berkeley

L36 Panel Discussion: APS Publishing: Present and Future
Room: 408

L37 Focus Session: Spectroscopic Probes of Biomolecular Structure and Function III
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: David Pratt, University of Pittsburgh
Invited Speakers:  Sanford Asher,  Eric Gloaguen  

L38 Focus Session: Theory of Electron Transport Through Molecules III
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Kieron Burke, University of California, Irvine
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Kosov,  Michael Thoss  

L39 Focus Session: Theories and Simulations for Biomolecular Dynamics in Cell-like Environments
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Margaret Cheung, University of Houston
Invited Speakers:  Margaret Cheung,  Gregory Grason  

L40 Nucleic Acids: Structure, Function and Dynamics
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Michael Poirier, Ohio State University

L41 Atom-Photon Interactions
Room: 413 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Pierre Meystre, University of Arizona

Mar 17 2009 5:45PM, Tuesday

M9 GSNP Business Meeting
Room: 303

M17 GQI Business Meeting
Room: 318

M19 DPOLY Business Meeting
Room: 320

M27 GIMS Business Meeting
Room: 329

M28 FIAP Business Meeting
Room: 330

M31 GMAG Business Meeting
Room: 335

M40 DBP Business Meeting
Room: 412

Mar 17 2009 7:00PM, Tuesday

M42 DCMP Business Meeting
Room: Westin Hotel Washington

M43 DMP Business Meeting
Room: Westin Hotel Fayette

M44 DCP Business Meeting
Room: Westin Hotel Butler West

M45 DCOMP Business Meeting
Room: Westin Hotel Butler East