Session C1: Applied Physics

Chair: Jeff Clayhold, Miami University
Culler Hall - 234


Saturday, October 20, 2007
8:30AM - 8:42AM

C1.00001: Order Parameters for Two-Dimensional Networks
Forrest Kaatz , Adhemar Bultheel , Takeshi Egami

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
8:42AM - 8:54AM

C1.00002: MgO Growth Conditions for Magnetic Tunnel Junctions
Se Young O , Chan-Gyu Lee , Alexander Shapiro , William Egelhoff , Mark Vaudin , Jennifer Ruglovsky , Jonathan Mallett , Philip W.T. Pong

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
8:54AM - 9:06AM

C1.00003: Optical Thickness Monitoring System for a High Vacuum Deposition Chamber for Thin Film Photovoltaic Solar Cells
Ryan Zeller

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
9:06AM - 9:18AM

C1.00004: 80-Channel Multiplexer-Demultiplexer Module for DWDM Communications using Hybrid AWG -- Interleaver Technology
Corneliu Rablau , Lance Bredthauer

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
9:18AM - 9:30AM

C1.00005: Charmed Meson Reconstruction with STAR's Silicon Detectors
Joseph Vanfossen , Spyridon Margetis

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
9:30AM - 9:42AM

C1.00006: Genetic Algorithm Optimization of Inlet Bleed Design for a Hypersonic Jet Engine with Mode Transition
Kyle Gaiser , Meng-Sing Liou

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
9:42AM - 9:54AM

C1.00007: Convolution Dynamics
G.C. Stey

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
9:54AM - 10:06AM

C1.00008: UV excited long persistent LEDs
Dongdong Jia , Jenna Girardi , Sean Gehart , Lenu Zamann , Dustin Kern

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
10:06AM - 10:18AM

C1.00009: Sol-gel glass nanocomposite scintillator
Dongdong Jia , Jenna Girardi

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
10:18AM - 10:30AM

C1.00010: Synthesis green emitting PPV thin film via solvent free chemical vapor deposition
Dongdong Jia , Sean Gehart , Lenu Zamann , Dustin Kern , Anura Goonewarden

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Session C2: Condensed Matter Physics

Chair: Michael Pechan, Miami University
Culler Hall - 220


Saturday, October 20, 2007
8:30AM - 8:42AM

C2.00001: Effect of Carbon-Black Filler and Processing Oil on Ultrasound Devulcanization of Isoprene Rubber
Ernst von Meerwall , Ximei Sun , Tirtha Joshi , Avraam Isayev

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
8:42AM - 8:54AM

C2.00002: Broad-band Cryogenic Microwave Filtering Scheme for Operating Devices at Sub 0.1 Kelvin Temperatures
Kristen Herrmann , Andrei Kogan

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
8:54AM - 9:06AM

C2.00003: Quartet condensation of fermions.
Aseem Talukdar , Michael Ma , Fu-Chun Zhang

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
9:06AM - 9:18AM

C2.00004: Determination of crystallization conditions of nano-crystalline soft magnetic ribbons
Michael Titus

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
9:18AM - 9:30AM

C2.00005: Incipient ordering of Nd in La$_{1.6-x}$Nd$_{0.4}$Sr$_x$CuO$_4$ at low temperatures
Katherine Wooley , Erica Carlson

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
9:30AM - 9:42AM

C2.00006: Effects of inter-dot tunnel coupling and magnetic flux on an Aharonov-Bohm ring with double quantum dots
Chunghee Roh , Eric Hedin , Yong Joe

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
9:42AM - 9:54AM

C2.00007: Long Term Thermal Stability of ZrB$_{2}$/SiC and Ni/SiC Schottky Contacts
Sara Schaefer , Tom Oder

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
9:54AM - 10:06AM

C2.00008: Improved SiC Schottky Diodes using ZrB$_{2}$ Deposited at High Temperatures
Tom Oder , Pamela Martin , Adetayo Adedeji , Tamara Isaacs-Smith , John Williams

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Session C3: High Energy and Nuclear Physics

Chair: Perry Rice, Miami University
Culler Hall - 216


Saturday, October 20, 2007
8:30AM - 8:42AM

C3.00001: Undergraduate research in nuclear physics in Youngstown State University's Isomer Physics Project
James Carroll

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
8:42AM - 8:54AM

C3.00002: Status of a test of induced depletion of $^{108m}$Ag using bremsstrahlung at Youngstown State University's X-ray Effects Laboratory
Trevor Balint , Geoffrey Trees , Matthew Ragan , Nathan Caldwell , Stephen Smyczynski , Sean Ludt , Stephanie McCann , Robert Gurney , Marc Litz , George Merkel , Nino Pereira , Mike Helba , Hill Roberts , Joe Schumer , Sarkis Karamian , James Carroll

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
8:54AM - 9:06AM

C3.00003: Data analysis for the level scheme of $^{175}$Tm obtained with the TRIUMF ``8-$\pi $'' gamma-ray array
Nathan Caldwell , John Hoffman , James Carroll

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
9:06AM - 9:18AM

C3.00004: Determination of the Secondary Emission Coefficient $\gamma$ Used in Electron Capture Cross Section Measurements in Low-Energy Collisions of Multiply-Charged Ions with Atoms
J.D. Thomas , T.J. Kvale , D.G. Seely , C.C. Havener

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
9:18AM - 9:30AM

C3.00005: Cockcroft-Walton Base Design for Photomultiplier Tube Experiments
Caitlin Malone

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
9:30AM - 9:42AM

C3.00006: Improving the Higgs Mass Resolution
Jessica Hanzlik

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
9:42AM - 9:54AM

C3.00007: Measurement of the Branching Fractions for $B^0_s\rightarrow J/\psi\,\phi$ and $B^0_s\rightarrow J/\psi\, K^0_S$ at the $\Upsilon(5S)$ Resonance
Kazi Sayeed , Alan Schwartz

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
9:54AM - 10:06AM

C3.00008: GLAST Gamma-Ray Identification using a Neural Network
Lindsey Perry

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
10:06AM - 10:18AM

C3.00009: An Exactly Soluble Quantum Mechanics Problem and its String Theory Applications
Jeremy Michelson

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Session C4: Biophysics

Chair: Paul Urayama, Miami University
Culler Hall - 120


Saturday, October 20, 2007
8:30AM - 8:42AM

C4.00001: High-pressure studies on the calcium-ion-sensitive fluorophore Fluo-4
Eric W. Frey , Paul Urayama

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
8:42AM - 8:54AM

C4.00002: Biological method for nanophosphor synthesis
Dongdong Jia , Tyler Laudenslager , Jenna Girardi

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Session C5: Nanomaterials and Optics

Chair: Jan Yarrison-Rice, Miami University
Culler Hall - 218


Saturday, October 20, 2007
8:30AM - 8:42AM

C5.00001: Fabrication of a Photonic Band Gap (PBG) Wavelength Demultiplexing Device
Siwei Cao , Meron Tekeste , Jan Yarrison-Rice

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
8:42AM - 8:54AM

C5.00002: High resolution optical imaging of single nanostructures for optical spectroscopy
Joshua Nohle , Melodie Fichenscher , Howard Jackson , Leigh Smith , Jan Yarrison-Rice , Y.-J. Choi , K.-J. Choi , J.-G. Park

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
8:54AM - 9:06AM

C5.00003: Two-Dimensional Crystallization of Microspheres by Drop-Drying
Lindsay Sanzenbacher , Terry Bigioni

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
9:06AM - 9:18AM

C5.00004: Use of Glauber P distributions to characterize entanglement
Jeff Hyde , Perry Rice

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
9:18AM - 9:30AM

C5.00005: Cavity QED with Quantized Center of Mass Motion
Felipe Andrade , Perry Rice

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
9:30AM - 9:42AM

C5.00006: Real-time measurement of the complex refractive index of turbid colloidal suspensions
Samir Bali , William Calhoun , LM Bali , Michael McClimans , Sharmishtha Roy

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
9:42AM - 9:54AM

C5.00007: Quantum trajectory simulation of a quantum teleportation protocol based on collective spontaneous emission
Richard Wagner , James Clemens

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
9:54AM - 10:06AM

C5.00008: Investigation of atom and photon transport in optical lattices using intensity correlation measurement
Matthew Briel , Sam Bish , Ben Agyare , Samir Bali

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Saturday, October 20, 2007
10:06AM - 10:18AM

C5.00009: Observation of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in Rubidium using the Hanle Effect
Samir Bali , Iris Zhang

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