Session G1: Astrophysics and Gravity

Chair: Kim Venn, University of Victoria
Macintyre - 309


Saturday, May 20, 2006
2:00PM - 2:36PM

G1.00001: Cosmological Simulations of Galaxy Formation
Invited Speaker: Fabio Governato

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Saturday, May 20, 2006
2:36PM - 3:12PM

G1.00002: Observational Cosmology from the Local Group of Galaxies
Invited Speaker: Alan McConnachie

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Saturday, May 20, 2006
3:12PM - 3:24PM

G1.00003: Emission Line Observations of Ionized Gas in Isolated, Compact High-Velocity Interstellar Clouds
David Honegger

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Saturday, May 20, 2006
3:24PM - 3:44PM

G1.00004: BREAK


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Saturday, May 20, 2006
3:44PM - 3:56PM

G1.00005: WMAP: A Radiological Analysis II.
Pierre-Marie Robitaille

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Saturday, May 20, 2006
3:56PM - 4:08PM

G1.00006: Using di quark scalar fields for a cosmological constant permitting gravitons escaping from early universe branes
Andrew Beckwith

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Saturday, May 20, 2006
4:08PM - 4:20PM

G1.00007: The Derivation of the Elastic-Constants of the Space Medium and the Speed of Light in the Universe
Milo Wolff , Michael Harney

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Saturday, May 20, 2006
4:20PM - 4:32PM

G1.00008: Can magnetic waves in the auroral region transform into acoustic waves?
Jada Maxwell , E.J. Zita

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Saturday, May 20, 2006
4:32PM - 4:44PM

G1.00009: Solar Magnetism and Effects on Earth
E. Zita , Night Song , Mausumi Dikpati , Eric McDonald

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Saturday, May 20, 2006
4:44PM - 4:56PM

G1.00010: Discovering the Dilaton particle with the Cosmic Compass experiment
George Soli

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Session G2: Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Chair: Shannon Mayer, University of Portland
Macintyre - 303


Saturday, May 20, 2006
2:00PM - 2:36PM

G2.00001: Quantum Hydrodynamics in Bose-Einstein Condensates
Invited Speaker: Peter Engels

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Saturday, May 20, 2006
2:36PM - 3:00PM

G2.00002: Implementing Hardy's Test of Local Realism
M. Beck , M.D. Olmstead , J.A. Carlson

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Saturday, May 20, 2006
3:00PM - 3:20PM

G2.00003: BREAK


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Saturday, May 20, 2006
3:20PM - 3:56PM

G2.00004: Paired Photons with Controllable Waveforms
Invited Speaker: Danielle Braje

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Saturday, May 20, 2006
3:56PM - 4:20PM

G2.00005: An Overview of HP's Research Towards Optical Quantum Information Processing
Ray Beausoleil

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Saturday, May 20, 2006
4:20PM - 4:56PM

G2.00006: Large Cross-Phase Modulation between Slow Co-propagating Weak Pulses in $^{87}$Rb
Invited Speaker: Karl-Peter Marzlin

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Session G3: Condensed Matter II

Chair: Patricia Mooney, Simon Fraser University and Janet Tate, Oregon State University
Wyatt - 101


Saturday, May 20, 2006
2:00PM - 2:36PM

G3.00001: A view of metals through the terahertz window
Invited Speaker: Steve Dodge

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Saturday, May 20, 2006
2:36PM - 2:48PM

G3.00002: Image-based Nanocrystallography in Two and Three Dimensions with Database Support
Peter Moeck , Bjoern Seipel , Ruben Bjorge , Phil Fraundorf

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Saturday, May 20, 2006
2:48PM - 3:00PM

G3.00003: Nanocrystal Phase Identification by Lattice Fringe Fingerprinting from High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscope Images
Ruben Bjorge , Bjoern Seipel , Peter Moeck , Philip Fraundorf

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Saturday, May 20, 2006
3:00PM - 3:20PM

G3.00004: BREAK


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Saturday, May 20, 2006
3:20PM - 3:32PM

G3.00005: Emergence and Phase Transitions
Arnold Sikkema

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Saturday, May 20, 2006
3:32PM - 3:44PM

G3.00006: Modified Taylor-Couette Flow in Multiply-Waisted Hourglass Geometries Simulations based upon Reaction-Diffusion Models
Thomas Olsen , Yu Hou , Adam Kowalski , Richard Wiener

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Saturday, May 20, 2006
3:44PM - 3:56PM

G3.00007: Energy from Ocean Waves, River Currents, and Wind
Shyamal Guha

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Saturday, May 20, 2006
3:56PM - 4:08PM

G3.00008: Open Access Internet Resources for Nano-Materials Physics Education
Peter Moeck , Bjoern Seipel , Girish Upreti , Morgan Harvey , Will Garrick

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Session G4: Education

Chair: Lillian McDermott, University of Washington
Wyatt - 109


Saturday, May 20, 2006
2:00PM - 2:30PM

G4.00001: New insights into student understanding of electric circuits
Invited Speaker: MacKenzie R. Stetzer

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Saturday, May 20, 2006
2:30PM - 3:00PM

G4.00002: Identifying student difficulties with basic scientific reasoning skills: An example from control of variables
Invited Speaker: Andrew Boudreaux

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Saturday, May 20, 2006
3:00PM - 3:12PM

G4.00003: Do You Know if You Know?
Amanda Brighton , Steven Gardner

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Saturday, May 20, 2006
3:12PM - 3:30PM

G4.00004: BREAK


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Saturday, May 20, 2006
3:30PM - 4:00PM

G4.00005: Physics Teaching in Times of Change
Invited Speaker: Dewey Dykstra

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Saturday, May 20, 2006
4:00PM - 4:12PM

G4.00006: Helping students relate work and changes in energy
Beth A. Lindsey , Paula R.L. Heron , Peter S. Shaffer , Lillian C. McDermott

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Saturday, May 20, 2006
4:12PM - 4:24PM

G4.00007: Research as a guide for developing curricula on waves and physical optics
Mila Kryjevskaia , MacKenzie R. Stetzer , Paula R.L. Heron , Lillian C. McDermott

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Saturday, May 20, 2006
4:24PM - 4:36PM

G4.00008: Comparing Constituent Fluxes of Students into and out of Physics Majors
Shem Thompson , Brian Pyper

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Saturday, May 20, 2006
4:36PM - 4:48PM

G4.00009: Threatened Because of Gender?
Candice Humpherys , Brian Pyper

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Saturday, May 20, 2006
4:48PM - 5:00PM

G4.00010: Examining student understanding of basic topics in quantum mechanics in different populations
Homeyra R. Sadaghiani , Peter S. Shaffer , Lillian C. McDermott

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Saturday, May 20, 2006
5:00PM - 5:12PM

G4.00011: Examples from research on the learning and teaching of quantum mechanics
Andrew D. Crouse , Peter S. Shaffer , Lillian C. McDermott

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Saturday, May 20, 2006
5:12PM - 5:24PM

G4.00012: A Tale of Two Frames: a relativistic gedankenexperiment
Achin Sen

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Session G5: Particle Physics

Chair: Eric Torrence, University of Oregon and Paul Weber, University of Puget Sound
Jones - 203


Saturday, May 20, 2006
2:00PM - 2:36PM

G5.00001: The International Linear Collider
Invited Speaker: James E. Brau

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Saturday, May 20, 2006
2:36PM - 3:12PM

G5.00002: Status of the Atlas at the LHC
Invited Speaker: Henry Lubatti

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Saturday, May 20, 2006
3:12PM - 3:32PM

G5.00003: BREAK


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Saturday, May 20, 2006
3:32PM - 3:52PM

G5.00004: An Introduction to the LHC Olympics
Andrew Larkoski , Kyle Armour , Amanda Gray , Dan Ventura , Jon Walsh , Rob Schabinger

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Saturday, May 20, 2006
3:52PM - 4:12PM

G5.00005: LHC Olympics: Advanced Analysis Techniques
Kyle Armour , Andrew Larkoski , Amanda Gray , Dan Ventura , Jon Walsh , Rob Schabinger

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Saturday, May 20, 2006
4:12PM - 4:32PM

G5.00006: Discovering a Hidden Valley; Unusual Signals at Hadron Colliders
Matthew Strassler , Kathryn Zurek

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Saturday, May 20, 2006
4:32PM - 4:52PM

G5.00007: The Evergreen State College Cyclotron Project
Paul Lessard , Amandeep Dhillon , Christopher Smalls

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Saturday, May 20, 2006
4:52PM - 5:12PM

G5.00008: Asymmetry in Muon Psuedo-Rapidity and the Search for Single Top Quarks at the Tevatron
Amanda Gray , Thomas Gadfort , Gordon Watts

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