Session E1: Education

Chair: Dewey Dykstra, Boise State University
PSUB - Selway Room


Saturday, May 19, 2007
2:00PM - 2:36PM

E1.00001: Research as a guide for improving student understanding of time dependence in quantum mechanics
Invited Speaker: Andrew D. Crouse

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Saturday, May 19, 2007
2:36PM - 3:12PM

E1.00002: Coordinating the Development of Heat and Temperature Facet Clusters with Science Education Standards
Invited Speaker: Hunter Close

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Saturday, May 19, 2007
3:12PM - 3:30PM

E1.00003: Coffee Break


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Saturday, May 19, 2007
3:30PM - 4:06PM

E1.00004: Who Benefits from PER?: PER as a component of teacher preparation
Invited Speaker: Brian Pyper

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Saturday, May 19, 2007
4:06PM - 4:42PM

E1.00005: Technology Talks: clickers and gender in the classroom
Invited Speaker: Shannon Willoughby

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Session E2: Condensed Matter Physics II

Chair: Chris Berven, University of Idaho
PSUB - Bear River Room


Saturday, May 19, 2007
2:00PM - 2:36PM

E2.00001: Surface Plasmon Optical Transmission Sensors
Invited Speaker: Karen L. Kavanagh

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Saturday, May 19, 2007
2:36PM - 3:12PM

E2.00002: Impurity-controlled valence, spin, and orbital state in Sr3Ru2O7.
Invited Speaker: Suman Hossain

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Saturday, May 19, 2007
3:12PM - 3:30PM

E2.00003: Coffee Break


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Saturday, May 19, 2007
3:30PM - 3:42PM

E2.00004: Ultra-soft Magnetic Thin Films Deposited by Obliquely Energetic Fe Nanoclusters
Daniel Meyer , M. Faheem , Amit Sharma , Alan Mcconnaughery , Jamie Hass , Ryan Souza , You Qiang

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Saturday, May 19, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

E2.00005: Algorithms for the Control of Low Dimensional Chaos in the presence of System Parameter Drift
Thomas Olsen , Kjell Schroder , Katherine Carriker , Bonita Squires , Kara Yedinak , Richard Wiener

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Saturday, May 19, 2007
3:54PM - 4:06PM

E2.00006: Spin propagation in vacuum and in two-dimensional electronic systems
Jean-Francois Van Huele , Bailey Hsu

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Saturday, May 19, 2007
4:06PM - 4:18PM

E2.00007: Spin-Orbit Mediated Anisotropic Spin-Spin Coupling
Suhas Gangadharaiah , Jianmin Sun , Oleg Starykh

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Saturday, May 19, 2007
4:18PM - 4:30PM

E2.00008: Spin-orbit induced spin-density wave in a quantum wire
Jianmin Sun , suhas Gangadharaiah , Oleg Starykh

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Session E3: Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Chair: Boris Blinov, University of Washington
PSUB - Clearwater Room


Saturday, May 19, 2007
2:00PM - 2:45PM

E3.00001: Continuous Measurement of Atomic Motion
Invited Speaker: Daniel Steck

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Saturday, May 19, 2007
2:45PM - 3:00PM

E3.00002: Hartree simulations of multi-electron atoms ionization in strong laser fields
Matt Kalinski

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Saturday, May 19, 2007
3:00PM - 3:30PM

E3.00003: Coffee Break


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Saturday, May 19, 2007
3:30PM - 3:45PM

E3.00004: Utra-bright compact sources of correlated photons based on SPDC in periodically-poled KTP
Ray Beausoleil , Marco Fiorentino , Sean Spillane , Tony Roberts , Phil Battle , Mark Munroe

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Saturday, May 19, 2007
3:45PM - 4:00PM

E3.00005: Tunneling between 2D electron layers with correlated disorder: anomalous sensitivity to spin-orbit coupling
Vladimir Zyuzin , Eugene Mishchenko , Mikhail Raikh

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Saturday, May 19, 2007
4:00PM - 4:15PM

E3.00006: The Lennard-Jones oscillator in quantum Hamilton-Jacobi theory
M.K. Balasubramanya , M.W. Roth

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Saturday, May 19, 2007
4:15PM - 4:27PM

E3.00007: Spectroscopic measurements of Ba+
Joseph Pirtle , Ryan Bowler , Sanghoon Chong , Matt Dietrich , Gary Howell , Adam Kleczewski , Nathan Kurz , Viki Mirgon , Phil Nelsen , Joanna Salacka , Gang Shu , Li Wang , Boris Blinov

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Session E4: Astronomy, Cosmology, Gravity

Chair: E.J. Zita, Evergreen College
PSUB - South Fork Room


Saturday, May 19, 2007
2:00PM - 2:36PM

E4.00001: LISA: Our infrasonic ear to the universe
Invited Speaker: Sukanta Bose

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Saturday, May 19, 2007
2:36PM - 3:12PM

E4.00002: Solar dynamo modeling and prediction
Invited Speaker: Mausumi Dikpati

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Saturday, May 19, 2007
3:12PM - 3:30PM

E4.00003: Coffee Break


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Saturday, May 19, 2007
3:30PM - 3:42PM

E4.00004: Pulsar Kicks from Electrons in a Large Magnetic Field
Ernest Henley

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Saturday, May 19, 2007
3:42PM - 3:54PM

E4.00005: Laboratory Nuclear Astrophysics, viewing the universe from underground.
John E. Ellsworth , Steven E. Jones , Lawrence B. Rees , Clark G. Christensen

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Saturday, May 19, 2007
3:54PM - 4:06PM

E4.00006: Laboratory Detection of Cold Dark Matter as Sidereal Dilaton Scattering Data
George Soli

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