Session G1: Condensed Matter II

Chair: Geoff Steeves, University of Victoria
MacLaurin - D110


Saturday, May 14, 2005
2:00PM - 2:36PM

G1.00001: Probing the Unique Size-Dependent Electronic and Structural Properties of Nanoclusters
Invited Speaker: Lai-Sheng Wang

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Saturday, May 14, 2005
2:36PM - 2:48PM

G1.00002: Size Dependence of the Magnetic Properties of Cobalt Oxide Nanoparticles Mineralized In Protein Cages
Damon Resnick , Keith Gilmore , Yves Idzerda , Michael Klem , Mark Allen , Trevor Douglas , Mark Young

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Saturday, May 14, 2005
2:48PM - 3:00PM

G1.00003: X-ray absorption spectroscopy as a direct probe of nanoparticle morphology
Adam McClure , Keith Gilmore , Damon Resnick , Alex Lussier , Yves Idzerda , Michael Klem , Jessie Mosolf , Mark Allen , Trevor Douglas , Mark Young

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Saturday, May 14, 2005
3:00PM - 3:12PM

G1.00004: Characterizing Thin Film Interface Disruption by X-rays
Yves Idzerda , Johnathon Holroyd , Joe Dvorak , Marco Liberati , Elke Arenholz , Shane Stadler

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Saturday, May 14, 2005
3:12PM - 3:37PM

G1.00005: COFFEE BREAK


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Saturday, May 14, 2005
3:37PM - 3:49PM

G1.00006: The Transition from Purely Temporal Chaos to Spatio-Temporal Chaos in the Reaction-Diffusion Model
Thomas Olsen , Yu Hou , Richard Wiener

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Saturday, May 14, 2005
3:49PM - 4:01PM

G1.00007: Controlling Chaotic Dynamics in a Simple Electronic Oscillator
Kristine Callan , Stephen Hall , Richard Wiener , Thomas Olsen

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Saturday, May 14, 2005
4:01PM - 4:13PM

G1.00008: Molecular dynamics of heat pulse propagation in single and multi wall nanotube
Taejin Kim , Mohamed Osman , Cecilia Richards , David Bahr , Robert Richards

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Saturday, May 14, 2005
4:13PM - 4:25PM

G1.00009: Hydrogen donors in zinc oxide
M.D. McCluskey , S.J. Jokela , W.M. Hlaing Oo

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Saturday, May 14, 2005
4:25PM - 4:37PM

G1.00010: Deposited Energetic Fe Particles in Co Matrix
Daniel Meyer , Jiji Antony , Amit Sharma , Joe Nutting , You Qiang

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Saturday, May 14, 2005
4:37PM - 4:49PM

G1.00011: Electronic Properties of Carbon Nanotubes within an Ionic Shell
Vladimir Dobrokhotov , Christopher Berven

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Session G2: Particles II

Chair: Paul Poffenberger, University of Victoria
MacLaurin - D101


Saturday, May 14, 2005
2:00PM - 2:36PM

G2.00001: Search for Lepton-Flavor Violation in Tau Decays at BaBar
Invited Speaker: Eric Torrence

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Saturday, May 14, 2005
2:36PM - 2:48PM

G2.00002: Study of the performance of the BaBar Detector using the $e^+e^-\to \varphi \gamma$ control sample
Nasim Boustani

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Saturday, May 14, 2005
2:48PM - 3:00PM

G2.00003: Superconducting Strings in an Unusual Environment
Max Metlitski

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Saturday, May 14, 2005
3:00PM - 3:25PM

G2.00004: COFFEE BREAK


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Saturday, May 14, 2005
3:25PM - 3:37PM

G2.00005: Confronting CPT Symmetry with Atomic Antihydrogen
Makoto Fujiwara

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Saturday, May 14, 2005
3:37PM - 3:49PM

G2.00006: Search for Rare Decays in the TWIST Muon Decay Spectrum
Ryan Bayes

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Saturday, May 14, 2005
3:49PM - 4:01PM

G2.00007: Higgs-free symmetry breaking mechanism from the complex dynamics of Levy flows
Ervin Goldfain

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Saturday, May 14, 2005
4:01PM - 4:13PM

G2.00008: Generalizing the Dirac Equation with Clifford Algebra
Carl Brannen

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Session G3: AMO, Chemical

Chair: Maciej Gutowski, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
MacLaurin - D103


Saturday, May 14, 2005
2:00PM - 2:36PM

G3.00001: Density functional theory applied to iron electron transfer systems
Invited Speaker: Dayle Smith

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Saturday, May 14, 2005
2:36PM - 3:12PM

G3.00002: Coherence and correlations in quantum degenerate atomic gases
Invited Speaker: Kirk W. Madison

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Saturday, May 14, 2005
3:12PM - 3:37PM

G3.00003: COFFEE BREAK


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Saturday, May 14, 2005
3:37PM - 3:49PM

G3.00004: Infrared Absorbance of SF-6
E.B. Nieschmidt , S.H. Vegors

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Saturday, May 14, 2005
3:49PM - 4:01PM

G3.00005: Impossibility of negative group velocity in a passive periodic layer structure with or without loss
Louis Poirier , Robert I. Thompson , Alain Hach\'{e}

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Saturday, May 14, 2005
4:01PM - 4:13PM

G3.00006: Novel microresonator with broken angular momentum symmetry
Alexander A. Govyadinov , Evgenii E. Narimanov , Viktor A. Podolskiy

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Saturday, May 14, 2005
4:13PM - 4:25PM

G3.00007: Three Photon Absorption and the Nonlinear Index of Refraction in GaAs
Walter Hurlbut , Bryan Norton , Naaman Amer , Jeremy Danielson , Yun-Shik Lee , Konstantin Vodopyunov , Martin Fejer , Vladimir Koslov

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Saturday, May 14, 2005
4:25PM - 4:37PM

G3.00008: Simulating Compsosite Materials with Giant Anisotropy
Justin Elser , Evgenii Narimanov , Viktor Podolskiy

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Saturday, May 14, 2005
4:37PM - 4:49PM

G3.00009: Non-Magnetic Negative Refraction Index Materials
Robyn Wangberg , Evgenii Narimanov , Viktor Podolskiy

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Saturday, May 14, 2005
4:49PM - 5:01PM

G3.00010: Minimum Beam Size of a Lens Exhibiting 3rd Order Spherical Aberrations
Thomas Jones , Jens Elstner , Robert Word , Gertrude F. Rempfer , Rolf Koenenkamp

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Session G4: Nuclear

Chair: John McDonald, University of Alberta
MacLaurin - D114


Saturday, May 14, 2005
2:00PM - 2:36PM

G4.00001: The Eot-Wash Axion Search
Invited Speaker: Seth Hoedl

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Saturday, May 14, 2005
2:36PM - 3:12PM

G4.00002: Probing the Weak Interaction Spacetime Structure with Muon Decay
Invited Speaker: Art Olin

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Saturday, May 14, 2005
3:12PM - 3:37PM

G4.00003: COFFEE BREAK


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Saturday, May 14, 2005
3:37PM - 4:13PM

G4.00004: Radiative Capture for Astrophysical Process
Invited Speaker: Byron Jennings

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Saturday, May 14, 2005
4:13PM - 4:25PM

G4.00005: Microscopic calculations in isospin-asymmetric nuclear matter
Francesca Sammarruca , Plamen Krastev , Wilson Barredo

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Saturday, May 14, 2005
4:25PM - 4:37PM

G4.00006: Coupling single particle states to phonons in a microscopical framework
Carlo Barbieri

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Saturday, May 14, 2005
4:37PM - 4:49PM

G4.00007: Neutron Capture Cross Sections of Tin Isotopes
Jeremy Sylvester , Kenneth Krane

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Saturday, May 14, 2005
4:49PM - 5:01PM

G4.00008: Effective Field Theory Approach to Two- and Many-Body Forces
Ruprecht Machleidt

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