Session NA: Physics Education

Chair: Taha Mzoughi, Kennesaw State University
Scarritt-Bennett Center - Laskey Great Hall


Saturday, November 10, 2007
10:45AM - 11:15AM

NA.00001: Hands-on distance learning is an effective way to boost physics understanding and skills of inservice teachers
Invited Speaker: Joseph Straley

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Saturday, November 10, 2007
11:15AM - 11:45AM

NA.00002: Physics Education Reform: An Object Lesson from Coastal Carolina University
Invited Speaker: Louis Keiner

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Saturday, November 10, 2007
11:45AM - 12:15PM

NA.00003: Web-based Homework: the Good, the Bad, and the Possibilities
Invited Speaker: Scott Bonham

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Saturday, November 10, 2007
12:15PM - 12:45PM

NA.00004: An Intelligent Tutoring System for Conceptual Physics
Invited Speaker: Donald R. Franceschetti

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Session NB: Condensed Matter

Chair: Daniel Boye, Davidson College
Scarritt-Bennett Center - Laskey C


Saturday, November 10, 2007
10:45AM - 10:57AM

NB.00001: Design and Optimization of Force-Reduced Superconducting Magnets
Szabolcs Rembeczki

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Saturday, November 10, 2007
10:57AM - 11:09AM

NB.00002: High-current hunt for Bardeen-Stephen flux motion in A15 superconductor V$_{3}$Si at high fields
Rajendra Khadka , Albert Gapud , Lloyd Lumata , Arneil Reyes , Philip Kuhns , David Christen

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Saturday, November 10, 2007
11:09AM - 11:21AM

NB.00003: On narrowed coated conductors: granular field-hysteresis effect on transport critical current
A.A. Gapud , D.K. Christen , F.A. List III , R. Feenstra

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Saturday, November 10, 2007
11:21AM - 11:33AM

NB.00004: Ultrafast dynamics of one-dimensional excitons in metals and semiconductors.
Tobias Herel

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Saturday, November 10, 2007
11:33AM - 11:45AM

NB.00005: Control of rehydration in sol-gel glasses
Carlos Ortiz , Daniel Boye

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Saturday, November 10, 2007
11:45AM - 11:57AM

NB.00006: EXAFS Studies of the Local Bonding Structures of Ge$_{2}$Sb$_{2}$Te$_{4}$, Ge$_{2}$Sb$_{2}$Te$_{5}$, AND Ge$_{2}$Sb$_{2}$Te$_{7}$
Joseph Washington , Michael Paesler , Dave Baker , Gerald Lucovsky , Craig Taylor

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Saturday, November 10, 2007
11:57AM - 12:09PM

NB.00007: Graphite Superlattices Simulation Software and its Research Applications
Reza Rock , Philip W.T. Pong

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Saturday, November 10, 2007
12:09PM - 12:21PM

NB.00008: The effect of oxide impurities on the performance of 4H-SiC MOSFETs
Xingguang Zhu , A.C. Ahyi , J.R. Williams

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Saturday, November 10, 2007
12:21PM - 12:33PM

NB.00009: Electrical properties of MOS devices fabricated on the 4H-SiC C-face.
Zengjun Chen , A.C. Ahyi , J.R. Williams

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