Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2009 APS March Meeting
Volume 54, Number 1
Monday–Friday, March 16–20, 2009; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Epitome
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
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 JĂ¼lich
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 Ă…kerman, 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
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 JĂ¼lich
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 Ă…kerman, 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
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