Session B1: Condensed Matter I

Chair: Janet Tate, Oregon State University and Patricia Mooney, Simon Fraser University
Macintyre - 103

Friday, May 19, 2006
2:00PM - 2:36PM

 B1.00001: Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy of ZnO Nanoparticles
Invited Speaker: W.M. Hlaing Oo

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Friday, May 19, 2006
2:36PM - 2:48PM

 B1.00002: Ultraviolet-Photoluminescence and Raman Properties of Mg$_{x}$Zn$_{1-x}$O Nanopowders$^{\ast }$
John Morrison , Xiang-Bai Chen , Jesse Huso , Heather Hoeck , James Mitchell , Leah Bergman , Tsvetanka Zheleva

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Friday, May 19, 2006
2:48PM - 3:00PM

 B1.00003: Pressure Response of the UV-Photoluminescence of ZnO and MgZnO Nanocrystallites
Jesse Huso , John L. Morrison , Heather Hoeck , Leah Bergman , Slade Jokela , Matthew McCluskey , Tsvetanka Zheleva

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Friday, May 19, 2006
3:00PM - 3:12PM

 B1.00004: Quaternary p-type sulfide-fluoride transparent conductor: BaCuSF
Robert Kykyneshi , Janet Tate , Cheol-Hee Park , Douglas Keszler

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Friday, May 19, 2006
3:12PM - 3:24PM

 B1.00005: Thin film growth of the p-type semiconductor BiCuOSe by pulsed laser deposition
Paul Newhouse , Peter Hersh , Douglas Keszler , Janet Tate

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Friday, May 19, 2006
3:24PM - 3:44PM

 B1.00006: BREAK


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Friday, May 19, 2006
3:44PM - 3:56PM

 B1.00007: Barium Hexaferrite Thick Films Made by Liquid Phase Epitaxy Reflow Method
Alaaedeen Abuzir

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Friday, May 19, 2006
3:56PM - 4:08PM

 B1.00008: Gallium Nitride Calcined with Copper Oxide: Structural and Spectroscopic Studies
L. Noice , B. Seipel , C. Li , P. Moeck , R. Erni , A. Gupta , N. Browning , K.V. Rao

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Friday, May 19, 2006
4:08PM - 4:44PM

 B1.00009: Brownian Motors from Biology to Quantum Electronics
Invited Speaker: Heiner Linke

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Friday, May 19, 2006
4:44PM - 4:56PM

 B1.00010: The Heat Pulse Porpagations in Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes
Taejin Kim , Mohamed Osman , Cecilia Richards , Robert Richards , David Bahr

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Friday, May 19, 2006
4:56PM - 5:08PM

 B1.00011: Radial Heat Transfer Dynamics in Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes
Mohamed Osman , Taejin Kim

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Session B2: History of Physics

Chair: James Evans, University of Puget Sound
Wyatt - 109

Friday, May 19, 2006
2:00PM - 2:28PM

 B2.00001: Science and Politics in the Philosophy of Science of Popper, Polanyi, and Kuhn
Invited Speaker: Mary Jo Nye

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Friday, May 19, 2006
2:28PM - 2:56PM

 B2.00002: A Bit More Sinuosity: John Herschel's Graphical Method
Invited Speaker: Thomas Hankins

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Friday, May 19, 2006
2:56PM - 3:24PM

 B2.00003: The German Physical Society in the Third Reich: Local Conservatism between Co-optation and Autonomy.
Invited Speaker: Richard Beyler

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Friday, May 19, 2006
3:24PM - 3:44PM

 B2.00004: BREAK


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Friday, May 19, 2006
3:44PM - 3:58PM

 B2.00005: Plato's Ideas and the Theories of Modern Particle Physics: Amazing Parallels
Ruprecht Machleidt

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Friday, May 19, 2006
3:58PM - 4:26PM

 B2.00006: The Role of Competition, Community, and Priority in the Discovery of the Tau Lepton
Invited Speaker: Leandra Swanner

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Friday, May 19, 2006
4:26PM - 4:54PM

 B2.00007: The Context, Significance, and Reception of Helmholtz's Physiological Acoustics
Invited Speaker: Patrick MacDonald

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Friday, May 19, 2006
4:54PM - 5:22PM

 B2.00008: Einstein and the Quantum: The Secret Life of EPR
Invited Speaker: Arthur Fine

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Session B3: Nuclear Physics

Chair: Mary Alberg, Seattle University and Alejandro Garcia, University of Washington
Wyatt - 101

Friday, May 19, 2006
2:00PM - 2:30PM

 B3.00001: Radiative Capture Rates from DRAGON: Nova and Supernova Diagnostics
Invited Speaker: Chris Ruiz

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Friday, May 19, 2006
2:30PM - 3:00PM

 B3.00002: Nuclear Physics with Lattice QCD
Invited Speaker: Martin Savage

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Friday, May 19, 2006
3:00PM - 3:30PM

 B3.00003: Unitarity of the CKM mass-mixing matrix as a test of the Standard Model: status and future prospects
Invited Speaker: Dan Melconian

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Friday, May 19, 2006
3:30PM - 3:40PM

 B3.00004: BREAK


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Friday, May 19, 2006
3:40PM - 3:52PM

 B3.00005: Neutron Multiplicities in the Actinides
Peter H. Sprunger , Walter D. Loveland , A.M. Vinodkumar

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Friday, May 19, 2006
3:52PM - 4:04PM

 B3.00006: Neutron Capture Cross Sections of Tellurium Isotopes
Micah Eastman , Kenneth Krane

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Friday, May 19, 2006
4:04PM - 4:16PM

 B3.00007: Characterization of Solid State Ultracold Neutron Detectors
Anne Sallaska , Alejandro Garcia , Sky Sjue , Seth Hoedl , Dan Melconian , Albert Young , Adam Holley , Peter Geltenbort

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Friday, May 19, 2006
4:16PM - 4:28PM

 B3.00008: Polarized neutron $\beta$-decay: proton asymmetry and recoil-order currents
Sky Sjue

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Friday, May 19, 2006
4:28PM - 4:40PM

 B3.00009: $^{31}{\rm P}(p,\gamma)$ and the isobaric multiplet mass equation
Smarajit Triambak , Alejandro Garcia , Eric Adelberger , Greg Hodges , Dan Melconian , Erik Swanson , Seth Hoedl , Sky Sjue , Anne Sallaska , Hideko Iwamoto

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Friday, May 19, 2006
4:40PM - 4:52PM

 B3.00010: Will Lanthanum Halide Scintillators Make NaI(Tl) Obsolete?
Brian Milbrath

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Friday, May 19, 2006
4:52PM - 5:04PM

 B3.00011: Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction above 1 GeV
Ehab Marji , Ruprecht Machleidt

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Friday, May 19, 2006
5:04PM - 5:16PM

 B3.00012: The Nuclear Equation of State and Its Applications to Neutron Stars
Plamen Krastev , Francesca Sammarruca

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Friday, May 19, 2006
5:16PM - 5:28PM

 B3.00013: Nuclear Physics and Cancer Treatment: Recent Advances
Ruprecht Machleidt

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Friday, May 19, 2006
5:28PM - 5:40PM

 B3.00014: Koide's Mass Formula for Neutrinos
Carl Brannen

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