Session CA: Jefferson Lab: The First Ten Years

Chair: Marc Sher, College of William & Mary
Williamsburg Hospitality House - Empire A/B


Thursday, November 9, 2006
10:45AM - 11:21AM

CA.00001: Early History of Jefferson Laboratory
Invited Speaker: Franz Gross

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Thursday, November 9, 2006
11:21AM - 11:57AM

CA.00002: Highlights from the first 10 years of Physics Experiments at JLab
Invited Speaker: Rolf Ent

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Thursday, November 9, 2006
11:57AM - 12:33PM

CA.00003: Addressing Physics Grand Challenges Using the Jefferson Lab FEL
Invited Speaker: Gwyn P. Williams

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Session CB: Materials I

Chair: Mary Ellen Zvanut, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Williamsburg Hospitality House - Jamestown


Thursday, November 9, 2006
10:45AM - 10:57AM

CB.00001: Neutron diffraction study of water intercalation in superconducting sodium cobaltate
Cinzia Metallo , Takeshi Egami , Thomas Proffen , David Mandrus , Brian Sales

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Thursday, November 9, 2006
10:57AM - 11:09AM

CB.00002: EXAFS investigation of the amorphous Ge$_{2}$Sb$_{2}$Te$_{5}$ optical memory material
Joseph Washington , David Baker , Gerald Lucovsky , Michael Paesler , Craig Taylor

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Thursday, November 9, 2006
11:09AM - 11:21AM

CB.00003: First Principles Study of FCC-HCP Interface Dynamics Under Uniaxial Tension
Sungho Kim , Seong-Gon Kim , Mark F. Horstemeyer

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Thursday, November 9, 2006
11:21AM - 11:33AM

CB.00004: A First-principles Study of GaSb(001) Surface Reconstruction
Seong-Gon Kim , Jeffery Houze , Sungho Kim , Steven C. Erwin

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Thursday, November 9, 2006
11:33AM - 11:45AM

CB.00005: Optical Excitation Study of Defects in Strontium Titanate Substrates
Shehnaz Jeddy , M.E. Zvanut

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Thursday, November 9, 2006
11:45AM - 11:57AM

CB.00006: Effects of heat treatments on defects in strontium titanate substrates for magnetoelectric multiferroics
Brian Lassiter , Mary Ellen Zvanut

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Thursday, November 9, 2006
11:57AM - 12:09PM

CB.00007: Mid-infrared spectroscopy of Praseodymium doped Ternary Lead Halides
Peter Amedzake , Ei Brown , Uwe Hommerich , Moronkeji Bandele , Sudhir Trivedi , John Zavada

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Thursday, November 9, 2006
12:09PM - 12:21PM

CB.00008: Modeling defect level occupation for recombination statistics
Adam Topaz , Tim Gfroerer , Mark Wanlass

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Thursday, November 9, 2006
12:21PM - 12:33PM

CB.00009: High Resolution Acoustoelastic Measurements of Materials
Mark McKenna , Samuel Guy , Joseph Heyman

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Session CC: Theory, General

Chair: Chris Carone, College of William & Mary
Williamsburg Hospitality House - Yorktown


Thursday, November 9, 2006
10:45AM - 10:57AM

CC.00001: Quantum spins and their approach to the classical limit
Larry Engelhardt

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Thursday, November 9, 2006
10:57AM - 11:09AM

CC.00002: Energetics and thermal transport of a Brownian heat engine in the underdamped regime.
Ronald Benjamin , Ryoichi Kawai

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Thursday, November 9, 2006
11:09AM - 11:21AM

CC.00003: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Thursday, November 9, 2006
11:21AM - 11:33AM

CC.00004: Radial oscillation of a gas bubble in a fluid as a problem in canonical perturbation theory
James Stephens

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Thursday, November 9, 2006
11:33AM - 11:45AM

CC.00005: Chaotic Escape of Specularly Reflecting Rays From a Vase-shaped Cavity
Jaison Novick , John Delos , Kevin Mitchell

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Thursday, November 9, 2006
11:45AM - 11:57AM

CC.00006: The Parker-Sochacki Method of Solving Differential Equations: Applications and Limitations
Joseph W. Rudmin

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Thursday, November 9, 2006
11:57AM - 12:09PM

CC.00007: A General Relativistic Model for the Electron.
Joseph D. Rudmin

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Thursday, November 9, 2006
12:09PM - 12:21PM

CC.00008: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Thursday, November 9, 2006
12:21PM - 12:33PM

CC.00009: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Thursday, November 9, 2006
12:33PM - 12:45PM

CC.00010: D-branes in the QCD Vacuum
Harry Thacker

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