Session JA: Highlights of Nuclear Physics at Laboratories in the Southeast

Chair: David Ernst, Vanderbilt University
Scarritt-Bennett Center - Laskey Great Hall


Friday, November 9, 2007
1:30PM - 2:00PM

JA.00001: Nuclear Physics Program at the Upgraded High Intensity $\gamma$-ray Source (HI$\gamma$S)
Invited Speaker: M.W. Ahmed

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Friday, November 9, 2007
2:00PM - 2:30PM

JA.00002: Beta decay studies around doubly magic 78Ni
Invited Speaker: Krzysztof Rykaczewski

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Friday, November 9, 2007
2:30PM - 3:00PM

JA.00003: Collective Phenomena in the Quark-Gluon Plasma produced at RHIC
Invited Speaker: Julia Velkovska

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Friday, November 9, 2007
3:00PM - 3:30PM

JA.00004: Precision test of the Standard Model in parity-violating electron--proton scattering
Invited Speaker: Ross Young

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Session JB: Molecules, Nanostructures and Surfaces

Chair: Laura Clarke, North Carolina State University
Scarritt-Bennett Center - Laskey C


Friday, November 9, 2007
1:30PM - 1:42PM

JB.00001: Molecular Motion in Poly(vinylmethylsiloxane)
Derrick Stevens , Julie Crowe-Willoughby , Jan Genzer , Laura Clarke

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Friday, November 9, 2007
1:42PM - 1:54PM

JB.00002: Spatially resolved micro-Raman spectroscopy on nanostructured surfaces
Jed I. Ziegler , Dimitri S. Koktysh , Kevin A. Tetz , Richard F. Haglund, Jr.

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Friday, November 9, 2007
1:54PM - 2:06PM

JB.00003: Measurements of Long-Lived Radicals in Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene
Muhammad Jahan , Muhammad Fuzail , Marlon Ridley , Benjamin Walters

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Friday, November 9, 2007
2:06PM - 2:18PM

JB.00004: Second harmonic generation in arrays of centrosymmetric gold nano-dimers
Davon W. Ferrara , Kevin A. Tetz , Matthew D. McMahon , Richard F. Haglund, Jr.

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Friday, November 9, 2007
2:18PM - 2:30PM

JB.00005: Novel Optoelectronic Transport Studies of Supramolecular Nanotube Assemblies
Harsh Chaturvedi , Jordan Poler

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Friday, November 9, 2007
2:30PM - 2:42PM

JB.00006: Optical Properties of Helical Ag Nanostructures calculated by Discrete Dipole Approximation Method
Zhongyue Zhang , Yiping Zhao

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Friday, November 9, 2007
2:42PM - 2:54PM

JB.00007: AC Field Modulation of Diffraction in Dye and Carbon Nanotube Doped Liquid Crystal Permanent Gratings
Gene Carlisle , Mikail Abbasov , Tina Maxwell

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Friday, November 9, 2007
2:54PM - 3:06PM

JB.00008: Surface Electromagnetic Phenomena in Pristine and Doped Carbon Nanotubes
Igor Bondarev

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Friday, November 9, 2007
3:06PM - 3:18PM

JB.00009: ZnO Nanowires for PV: Size Control and Scalability Studies
Darlene Gunther , Jenifer Lawrie , Akira Ueda , Richard Mu

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Friday, November 9, 2007
3:18PM - 3:30PM

JB.00010: Photosensitization of ZnO nanowires via pulsed electron beam deposition of CdTe quantum dots.
Roberto Aga , Dawit Jowhar , Akira Ueda , Zhengda Pan , Richard Mu

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Session JC: Atomic and Molecular Physics

Scarritt-Bennett Center - Laskey B

Friday, November 9, 2007
1:30PM - 1:42PM

JC.00001: Photodetachment spectroscopy near the lowest threshold of the O$^{-}$ ion
John N. Yukich , Robert H. Mohr

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Friday, November 9, 2007
1:42PM - 1:54PM

JC.00002: The Excited States of Nitric Acid: Recent Results
Paul Helminger , Douglas T. Petkie , Ivan Medvedev , Frank C. De Lucia

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Friday, November 9, 2007
1:54PM - 2:06PM

JC.00003: Acoustic Desorption from a Room Temperature Ionic Liquid.
Peter Harris , Eugene Tracy , William Cooke

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Friday, November 9, 2007
2:06PM - 2:18PM

JC.00004: Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy for measurement of fuel/oxygen mixing in combustion
Matthew Dackman , J.W.L. Lewis , Ying-Ling Chen , Lei Shi

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Friday, November 9, 2007
2:18PM - 2:30PM

JC.00005: The two-electron molecule ion, H3+, in a magnetic field
Nicolais Guevara-Leon

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Friday, November 9, 2007
2:30PM - 2:42PM

JC.00006: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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