Session B1: Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Chair: Shannon Mayer, University of Portland
Miller - 105


Friday, May 16, 2008
2:00PM - 2:36PM

B1.00001: The Continuing Evolution of Femtosecond Frequency Combs
Invited Speaker: David Jones

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Friday, May 16, 2008
2:36PM - 3:12PM

B1.00002: Organic (opto)electronic materials: understanding charge carrier dynamics
Invited Speaker: Oksana Ostroverkhova

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Friday, May 16, 2008
3:12PM - 3:24PM

B1.00003: Understanding Entanglement as a Resource for Quantum Information Processing
Scott M. Cohen

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Friday, May 16, 2008
3:24PM - 3:36PM

B1.00004: Hybrid Gaussian Mode Formation Due to the Common Dielectric Mirror
David Foster

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Friday, May 16, 2008
3:36PM - 3:50PM

B1.00005: BREAK


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Friday, May 16, 2008
3:50PM - 4:02PM

B1.00006: Unifying the Thermodynamic and Colour Temperature Scales with Gall's Black Body Radiation Law
Clarence A. Gall

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Friday, May 16, 2008
4:02PM - 4:14PM

B1.00007: Experimental Tachyons
George Soli

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Friday, May 16, 2008
4:14PM - 4:26PM

B1.00008: Copenhagen Orthodoxy, or are Naturoptics{\texttrademark} and Quantum Mechanics truly Bedmates?
Roger McLeod

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Friday, May 16, 2008
4:26PM - 4:38PM

B1.00009: String Electron and Three-ring Quarked Nucleons' Transverse Interlocks Build Atoms, Vindicate Schr\"{o}dinger
David McLeod , Roger David McLeod

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Friday, May 16, 2008
4:38PM - 4:50PM

B1.00010: Directors of Naturoptics for Safe Recovery of Vision{\texttrademark}, Inc. Release Patented Process to Awardees for their Personal Use and Mentored Teaching of the Process
Paul J. Giordano, N.D., D.C. , Roger David McLeod

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Friday, May 16, 2008
4:50PM - 5:02PM

B1.00011: Can Naturoptics, Inc. Provide Self-funding Mentored Awards for Students, Research, Athletics, Schools, and Minority use of Natural Medicine Protocols?
Thomas Sampson , Roger David McLeod

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Session B2: Biophysics

Chair: Bethe Scalettar, Lewis and Clark
Miller - 102


Friday, May 16, 2008
2:00PM - 2:36PM

B2.00001: The Role of Cryoprotectants in the Successful Cryogenic Cooling of Protein Crystals
Invited Speaker: Douglas Juers

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Friday, May 16, 2008
2:36PM - 2:48PM

B2.00002: A Contactless Capacitance Detection System for Microchip Capillary Electrophoresis
Peter Wu

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Friday, May 16, 2008
2:48PM - 3:00PM

B2.00003: Studying Light Propagation in Bone for Treatment of Bone Cancers with Photodynamic Therapy
Vincent Rossi , Scott Gustafson , Steven Jacques

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Friday, May 16, 2008
3:00PM - 3:12PM

B2.00004: Characteristics of Waves in Plants
Orvin Wagner

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Friday, May 16, 2008
3:12PM - 3:24PM

B2.00005: Elucidating Molecular Events Underlying Learning with Fluorescence Microscopy
Bethe Scalettar , Mariya Chavarha , Janis Lochner

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Friday, May 16, 2008
3:24PM - 3:36PM

B2.00006: Quantum Capillary Action
Richard Kriske

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Friday, May 16, 2008
3:36PM - 3:50PM

B2.00007: BREAK


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Session B3: Condensed Matter Physics I

Chair: You Qiang, University of Idaho
Olin - 301


Friday, May 16, 2008
2:00PM - 2:36PM

B3.00001: Characterization and Properties of Nanoparticles
Invited Speaker: Donald Baer

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Friday, May 16, 2008
2:36PM - 3:12PM

B3.00002: Structural Fingerprinting of Nanocrystals in the Transmission Electron Microscope
Invited Speaker: Peter Moeck

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Friday, May 16, 2008
3:12PM - 3:24PM

B3.00003: HRTEM of Quantum Dot Nanostructures: The First 15 Years
S. Rouvimov , N.N. Ledentsov , P. Moeck , V.A. Shchukin , D. Bimberg

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Friday, May 16, 2008
3:24PM - 3:36PM

B3.00004: Epitaxial BaCuSeF thin films: a new blue LED candidate?
Andriy Zakutayev , Robert Kykyneshi , David McIntyre , Heather Platt , Douglas Keszler , Janet Tate

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Friday, May 16, 2008
3:36PM - 3:50PM

B3.00005: BREAK


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Friday, May 16, 2008
3:50PM - 4:26PM

B3.00006: Enhanced tunneling magnetroresistance and high spin polarization in polystyrene coated Fe$_{3}$O$_{4 }$granular system
Invited Speaker: Jinke Tang

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Friday, May 16, 2008
4:26PM - 4:38PM

B3.00007: Electrochemically Prepared Fe/GaAs (110)
Sarmita Majumder , Anthony Arrott , Karen Kavanagh

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Friday, May 16, 2008
4:38PM - 4:50PM

B3.00008: Microstructures of Bi-alloy Metal Films by Dealloying
W.J. Yeh , Shilpa Chava , Julia Tilles

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Friday, May 16, 2008
4:50PM - 5:02PM

B3.00009: Giant positive magnetoresistance in Co-doped ZnO nanocluster films
You Qiang , Yufeng Tian , Shishen Yan , Ryan Souza

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Friday, May 16, 2008
5:02PM - 5:14PM

B3.00010: Photoluminescence and ferromagnetism in nitrogen doped ZnO nanoclusters
Yufeng Tian , Ryan Souza , Alan Mcconnaughey , Amit Sharma , Shishen Yan , You Qiang

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Friday, May 16, 2008
5:14PM - 5:26PM

B3.00011: Transparent Conductive Oxide by Pulsed Laser Deposition: Zn$_{2}$In$_{2}$O$_{5}$
Robert Kykyneshi , Janet Tate

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Friday, May 16, 2008
5:26PM - 5:38PM

B3.00012: Hydrophobic Interactions in Multiple Scales Using Density-Functional Theory
Dennis Jackson , David Roundy

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Friday, May 16, 2008
5:38PM - 5:50PM

B3.00013: Site Determination of Zn and Mn Doping into Protein Encapsulated Fe$_{3}$O$_{4}$ Nanoparticles
V. Pool , M. Klem , J. Holroyd , T. Harris , R. Szilagyi , T. Douglas , M. Young , Y.U. Idzerda

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Friday, May 16, 2008
5:50PM - 6:02PM

B3.00014: Gas Sensing Properties of ZnO Nanowires at Room Temperature
Sirisha Chava , Daqing Zhang , Chris Berven

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Friday, May 16, 2008
6:02PM - 6:14PM

B3.00015: Island formation and dynamics of gold clusters on amorphous carbon films
Guenter Schneider

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Session B4: Nuclear Physics

Chair: Kara Keeter, Idaho State University
Olin - 102


Friday, May 16, 2008
2:00PM - 2:36PM

B4.00001: The fusion of neutron-rich nuclei with $^{208}$Pb
Invited Speaker: Walter Loveland

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Friday, May 16, 2008
2:36PM - 3:12PM

B4.00002: Taking a Broad Look at the Nuclear Equation of State
Invited Speaker: Francesca Sammarruca

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Friday, May 16, 2008
3:12PM - 3:24PM

B4.00003: The Strong and Weak Lithium Anomaly in BBN
Patrick Bruskiewich

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Friday, May 16, 2008
3:24PM - 3:36PM

B4.00004: Lifetimes of states in 19Ne above the 15O + alpha threshold
Mythili Subramanian , Barry Davids , Tom Alexander , Gordon Ball , M. Chicoine , Ravuri Chakrawarthy , Randy Churchman , Jim Forster , S. Gujrathi , Greg Hackman , Derek Howell , Ritu Kanungo , J. Leslie , Elizabeth Padilla , Chris Pearson , Chris Ruiz , Gotz Ruprecht , Mike Schumaker , Isao Tanihata , Chris Vockenhuber , Pat Walden , Stan Yen

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Friday, May 16, 2008
3:36PM - 3:50PM

B4.00005: BREAK


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Friday, May 16, 2008
3:50PM - 4:26PM

B4.00006: Solving a Five Decade-Old Mystery: Why is there Carbon Dating?
Invited Speaker: Ruprecht Machleidt

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Friday, May 16, 2008
4:26PM - 4:38PM

B4.00007: Ultra-Low Background Measurements using AMS
Daniel J. Robertson , John D. Baker , Philippe Collon , Jaret Heise , Kara J. Keeter , Christopher J. Schmitt , Ed Tatar , Charles Taylor

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Friday, May 16, 2008
4:38PM - 4:50PM

B4.00008: Fast Analysis of Potential Scintillators Using Ion Time Of Flight
Brian Milbrath , Yanwen Zhang

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Friday, May 16, 2008
4:50PM - 5:02PM

B4.00009: Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence Response of U-235
Glen Warren

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Friday, May 16, 2008
5:02PM - 5:14PM

B4.00010: Defect Measurements and Performance Testing of CZT Detectors Using I-DLTS, TCT, I-V, C-V and $\gamma $-Ray Spectroscopy
Rubi Gul , Zheng Li , Kara Keeter , Rene Rodriguez , Ralph James

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Session B5: Astronomy, Cosmology, Gravity

Chair: Stephen Tufte, Lewis and Clark
Miller - 104


Friday, May 16, 2008
2:00PM - 2:12PM

B5.00001: 42.8503{\ldots}A Theory of the Unification of Gravitation and Electromagnetism
John Brandenburg

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Friday, May 16, 2008
2:12PM - 2:24PM

B5.00002: A testable solution to the problem of quantum gravity
Alexander Mayer

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Friday, May 16, 2008
2:24PM - 2:36PM

B5.00003: How Gravity Materializes as Mass From The Driving Force Of Original Spin
Roy Masters

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Friday, May 16, 2008
2:36PM - 2:48PM

B5.00004: The Reciprocal of the Fundamental Theorem of Riemannian Geometry
Hector Calderon

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Friday, May 16, 2008
2:48PM - 3:00PM

B5.00005: Large-Scale Convection and the Solar Activity Cycle
Herschel Snodgrass

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Friday, May 16, 2008
3:00PM - 3:12PM

B5.00006: Gravity Virgins
Richard Benish

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Friday, May 16, 2008
3:12PM - 3:24PM

B5.00007: Wonders of Planck Scale Physics with Real Dimensions
Shantilal Goradia

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Friday, May 16, 2008
3:24PM - 3:36PM

B5.00008: Time-Correlated Structure in Pulsar Spin Fluctuations
Steven Price , Bennett Link , Steve Shore

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Friday, May 16, 2008
3:36PM - 3:50PM

B5.00009: BREAK


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Friday, May 16, 2008
3:50PM - 4:02PM

B5.00010: Correlating vertical velocities of ionized interstellar medium to star formation rates in nearby face-on spiral galaxies
Christina Ketchum , Stephen Tufte , Mathew Bershady , David Andersen

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Friday, May 16, 2008
4:02PM - 4:14PM

B5.00011: Progress on a new sub-millimeter test of the gravitational inverse square law
Charles Hagedorn , Matthew Turner , Stephan Schlamminger , Scott Pollack , Jens Gundlach

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