Session MA: Rising Above the Gathering Storm

Chair: David G. Haase, North Carolina State University
Williamsburg Hospitality House - Empire A/B

Saturday, November 11, 2006
8:30AM - 9:00AM

 MA.00001: Revitalizing Support for the Physical Sciences: The American Competitiveness Initiative
Invited Speaker: Peter Rooney

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Saturday, November 11, 2006
9:00AM - 9:30AM

 MA.00002: The Changing Landscape of Undergraduate Physics
Invited Speaker: Ruth Howes

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Saturday, November 11, 2006
9:30AM - 10:00AM

 MA.00003: Physics Majors: Where do they come from? Where do they go?
Invited Speaker: Patrick Mulvey

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Saturday, November 11, 2006
10:00AM - 10:30AM

 MA.00004: Seeds and Sparks: Cultivating Children's Interest in Physics through Public Outreach
Invited Speaker: Jessica Clark

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Session MB: Nuclear Physics III

Chair: David Armstrong, College of William & Mary
Williamsburg Hospitality House - Huntington

Saturday, November 11, 2006
8:30AM - 8:54AM

 MB.00001: Parity Violating electron scattering from Hydrogen and Helium-4 and Strangness in the nucleon: Results from HAPPEX-II
Bryan Moffit

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Saturday, November 11, 2006
8:54AM - 9:06AM

 MB.00002: Extracting nucleon strange and anapole form factors from world data
Roger Carlini , Ross Young , Anthony Thomas , Julie Roche

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Saturday, November 11, 2006
9:06AM - 9:18AM

 MB.00003: Rescattering of the $\Sigma ^{-}$(1385) and the K$^{+}$ on the proton, R.M. Davis (GWU), for the CLAS Collaboration
Rebecca Davis

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Saturday, November 11, 2006
9:18AM - 9:30AM

 MB.00004: $\Lambda$ Hypernuclear Spectroscopy up to the Medium-Heavy Region Through the (e,e$'$K$^{+})$ Reaction
Leon Cole

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Saturday, November 11, 2006
9:30AM - 9:42AM

 MB.00005: High Resolution 1P-Shell Hypernuclear Spectroscopy at JLAB, HALL A (E94-107)
Armando Acha , Pete Markowitz

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Saturday, November 11, 2006
9:42AM - 9:54AM

 MB.00006: Combined analysis of $\pi^+ \to {\rm e}^+\nu\gamma$ decay in the PIBETA data stream.
Maxim Bychkov

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Saturday, November 11, 2006
9:54AM - 10:06AM

 MB.00007: Redesign of the PIBETA Beam Detectors for a New $\pi_{2e}$ Experiment at PSI
Emil Frlez

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Saturday, November 11, 2006
10:06AM - 10:18AM

 MB.00008: Search for Sub-Threshold J/psi Photoproduction
Parikshit Junnarkar

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Saturday, November 11, 2006
10:18AM - 10:30AM

 MB.00009: The NPDGamma Experiment: Hadronic Parity Violation in the Radiative Capture of Polarized Cold Neutrons on Protons
Michael Gericke

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Session MC: High Energy Physics II

Chair: Simonetta Liuti, University of Virginia
Williamsburg Hospitality House - Empire C

Saturday, November 11, 2006
8:30AM - 8:42AM

 MC.00001: Status of the ATLAS Transitional Radiation Tracker
Richard Wall

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Saturday, November 11, 2006
8:42AM - 8:54AM

 MC.00002: Calibration, Installation {\&} Commissioning of Sensors for the Alignment of Muon Endcap Chambers in the CMS Experiment
Samir Guragain , Marcus Hohlmann

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Saturday, November 11, 2006
8:54AM - 9:06AM

 MC.00003: Muon Ionization Cooling for an 8 TeV Lepton Collider
Don Summers

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Saturday, November 11, 2006
9:06AM - 9:18AM

 MC.00004: The MiniBooNE event reconstruction and particle identification
Denis Perevalov

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Saturday, November 11, 2006
9:18AM - 9:30AM

 MC.00005: Three flavor neutrino oscillation analysis of atmospheric neutrinos in Super-Kamiokande
Roger Wendell

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Saturday, November 11, 2006
9:30AM - 9:42AM

 MC.00006: Parameterization of Parton Distributions Functions Based on Self-Organizing Maps
Y. Loitiere , H. Honkanen , S. Liuti

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Saturday, November 11, 2006
9:42AM - 9:54AM

 MC.00007: Studying the Phase-Space Structure of Nucleons Using Generalized Parton Distributions
Saeed Ahmad , Simonetta Liuti , Heli Honkanen , Swadhin K. Taneja

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Saturday, November 11, 2006
9:54AM - 10:06AM

 MC.00008: New Parametrization for Generalized Parton Distributions with Non-Zero Skewedness
Heli Honkanen , Swadhin K. Taneja , Saeed Ahmad , Simonetta Liuti

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Saturday, November 11, 2006
10:06AM - 10:18AM

 MC.00009: Leptonic Structure Functions of Photons
Klaus Dehmelt , Laszlo Baksay , Marcus Hohlmann

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