Session C1: Physics Education

Chair: Ronald Tabak, Youngstown State University
Moser Hall - 1080

Saturday, March 29, 2008
8:24AM - 8:36AM

 C1.00001: The Ohio Partnership for the Far East Region Science Teachers
Raymond Beiersdorfer , W. Gregg Sturrus

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Saturday, March 29, 2008
8:36AM - 8:48AM

 C1.00002: What is most difficult for students in physics by inquiry's properties of matter?
Gordon Aubrecht

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Saturday, March 29, 2008
8:48AM - 9:00AM

 C1.00003: Inquiring Minds Want to Know: Progress Report on SCALE-UP Physics at Penn State Erie
Jonathan Hall

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Saturday, March 29, 2008
9:00AM - 9:12AM

 C1.00004: A Classroom Martian Rover
Todd Brown , Katrina Brown

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Saturday, March 29, 2008
9:12AM - 9:24AM

 C1.00005: A linux-based lock-in amplifier
Bryan O'Gorman

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Saturday, March 29, 2008
9:24AM - 9:36AM

 C1.00006: Journey to the Center of the Earth
Ronald G. Tabak

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Saturday, March 29, 2008
9:36AM - 9:48AM

 C1.00007: Does an intelligent tutor homework system encourage beneficial collaboration?
Brett van de Sande , Robert Hausmann

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Session C2: Condensed Matter/Nanomaterials

Chair: Tom Oder, Youngstown State University
Moser Hall - 2006

Saturday, March 29, 2008
8:24AM - 8:36AM

 C2.00001: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy on Cu(111)
David Gohlke

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Saturday, March 29, 2008
8:36AM - 8:48AM

 C2.00002: Effects of Temperature, Time, and Solution on Nanoparticle Agglomeration
Michael Moulton , Kyung Yu , Laura Braydich-Stolle , John Schlager , Amanda Schrand , Saber Hussain

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Saturday, March 29, 2008
8:48AM - 9:00AM

 C2.00003: Determining Graphene Sheet Shape in Presolar Graphite Spherules
Eric Mandell

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Saturday, March 29, 2008
9:00AM - 9:12AM

 C2.00004: The Electrical and Physical Properties of Ni and ZrB$_{2}$ Schottky Contacts of n-type 4H-SiC
Tom Oder , Ta-Lun Sung , Rani Kummari , Mark Del Fraino

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Saturday, March 29, 2008
9:12AM - 9:24AM

 C2.00005: Performing Many Simultaneous Measurements---Combinatorial Hall and Resistivity Studies on Oxide Films
Jeffrey Clayhold , Oshri Pelleg , Anthony Bollinger , Gennady Logvenov , Ivan Bozovic

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Saturday, March 29, 2008
9:24AM - 9:36AM

 C2.00006: Ensemble Approach to Vicinal Crystal Surfaces
Howard L. Richards , Ryan P. Jacob

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Saturday, March 29, 2008
9:36AM - 9:48AM

 C2.00007: Structural Physics of Bee Honeycomb
Forrest Kaatz , Adhemar Bultheel , Takeshi Egami

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Saturday, March 29, 2008
9:48AM - 10:00AM

 C2.00008: Low-Energy Electron Diffraction investigation of the clean, stepped Cu(511) surface
Christopher Lemon , Mellita Caragiu , Renee Diehl , Kelly Hanna , Hsin Li , Rundong Wan

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Session C3: Polymer Physics and Optics

Chair: Michael Crescimanno, Youngstown State University
Moser Hall - 2008

Saturday, March 29, 2008
8:24AM - 8:36AM

 C3.00001: Conformation and collapse of a polymer chain in explicit solvent: A solvation potential approach
Mark Taylor

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Saturday, March 29, 2008
8:36AM - 8:48AM

 C3.00002: Diffusion and Friction Coefficients of Athermal Polymer Melts
Nenad Stojilovic , Jutta Luettmer-Strathmann

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Saturday, March 29, 2008
8:48AM - 9:00AM

 C3.00003: Effect of chain stiffness on polymer properties
Jutta Luettmer-Strathmann

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Saturday, March 29, 2008
9:00AM - 9:12AM

 C3.00004: All-Polymer Lasers
Yeheng Wu , Joseph Lott , Tomasz Kazmierczak , Hyunmin Song , Eric Baer , Kenneth Singer , Christoph Weder

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Saturday, March 29, 2008
9:12AM - 9:24AM

 C3.00005: Observations of the Diffraction Pattern Produced by the Surface Thermal Lensing (STL) Technique Applied to Polymers
Daeha Joung , Marshall Thomsen , Donald Snyder

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Saturday, March 29, 2008
9:24AM - 9:36AM

 C3.00006: Multi-photon EIT
Toomas Laarits , Bryan O'Gorman , Michael Crescimanno

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Saturday, March 29, 2008
9:36AM - 9:48AM

 C3.00007: The EIT- and N- joint resonance lineshape asymmetry
Michael Crescimanno , Cindy Hancox , Michael Hohensee , David Phillips , Ron Walsworth

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Saturday, March 29, 2008
9:48AM - 10:00AM

 C3.00008: Distributed Fiber-Bragg Grating Temperature Sensors for Real-Time Multiple-Point Temperature Monitoring
Corneliu Rablau , Simon Murphy

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Session C4: Foundations

Chair: John Feldmeier, Youngstown State University
Moser Hall - 2355

Saturday, March 29, 2008
8:24AM - 8:36AM

 C4.00001: Temporal Dimension Energy Conversion Equation
Paul Gill

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Saturday, March 29, 2008
8:36AM - 8:48AM

 C4.00002: Time Rate Gradient Effects and Negative Mass
Edmond Miksch

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Saturday, March 29, 2008
8:48AM - 9:00AM

 C4.00003: The Earth Microwave Background and the Generation of Isotropy.
Pierre-Marie Robitaille

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Session C5: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Chair: James Carroll, Youngstown State University
Moser Hall - 2350

Saturday, March 29, 2008
8:24AM - 8:36AM

 C5.00001: Trend Analysis of Nuclear Fuel Performance at Taiwan
Talun Sung , Chung-Hsing Hu

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Saturday, March 29, 2008
8:36AM - 8:48AM

 C5.00002: Radiation Imaging and Attenuation
Candace Davison , Douglas Yocum

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Saturday, March 29, 2008
8:48AM - 9:00AM

 C5.00003: Effects of a fundamental mass term in two-dimensional super Yang-Mills theory
Uwe Trittmann

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Saturday, March 29, 2008
9:00AM - 9:12AM

 C5.00004: Preliminary tests of induced depletion of $^{108m}$Ag using bremsstrahlung radiation
Trevor Balint , Geoffrey Trees , Isaac Mills , Matthew Ragan , Nathan Caldwell , Thomas Harle , Robert Gurney , Marc Litz , George Merkel , Nino Pereira , Mike Helba , Hill Roberts , Joe Schumer , Sarkis Karamian , James Carroll

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Saturday, March 29, 2008
9:12AM - 9:24AM

 C5.00005: Multi-detector coincidence techniques to test induced depletion of $^{178m2}$Hf at 331 keV
Geoffrey Trees , Trevor Balint , Isaac Mills , Thomas Harle , Sarkis Karamian , James Carroll

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