Session BA: Forefront Nuclear Physics

Chair: Paul Cottle, Florida State University
Holiday Inn Brownstone - Roosevelt

Thursday, October 30, 2008
8:30AM - 9:00AM

 BA.00001: The Nature of the Quark-Gluon-Plasma
Invited Speaker: Steffen Bass

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
9:00AM - 9:30AM

 BA.00002: Fundamental symmetry tests with ultracold neutrons
Invited Speaker: Brad Plaster

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
9:30AM - 10:00AM

 BA.00003: Neutrino oscillations: what do we know about $\theta_{13}$
Invited Speaker: David Ernst

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
10:00AM - 10:30AM

 BA.00004: A New ECR Ion Source for Nuclear Astrophysics Studies
Invited Speaker: John M. Cesaratto

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Session BB: Nano-Materials

Chair: Ravindra Kumar, Shaw University
Holiday Inn Brownstone - Washington

Thursday, October 30, 2008
8:30AM - 8:42AM

 BB.00001: Nonlinear optical properties of semiconductor nanocrystals: theory and experiments
Qiguang Yang , Jaetae Seo , Seongmin Ma , William Yu , SungSoo Jung , Bagher Tabibi , Jessica Freeman , Doyle Temple

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
8:42AM - 8:54AM

 BB.00002: Ultrafast intensity-dependent dephasing in CdSe nanocrystals
Jessica Freeman , Qiguang Yang , Jaetae Seo , William Yu , SungSoo Jung , Bagher Tabibi , Doyle Temple

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
8:54AM - 9:06AM

 BB.00003: Synthesis and characterization of nanocrystalline RE-substituted (RE=La, Ce, Gd, Dy, Er, Yb) Mn-Zn ferrites
Tatiana Brusentsova , Robert Peale , Nikolay Khokchlatchev , Viatcheslav Kuznetsov

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
9:06AM - 9:18AM

 BB.00004: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Thursday, October 30, 2008
9:18AM - 9:30AM

 BB.00005: Impact of complex geometries on the percolation in nanocomposites
D.R. Stevens , L.N. Downen , L.I. Clarke

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
9:30AM - 9:42AM

 BB.00006: Sizing morphology-controlled gold nanoparticles by linear absorption spectroscopy.
Jasmine Austin , Qiguang Yang , Jaetae Seo , Bagher Tabibi , Wanjoong Kim , Jinhwa Heo , Sang Woo Han , Wan Soo Yun , SungSoo Jung , Justin Vazquez , Jessica Freeman , Doyle Temple

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
9:42AM - 9:54AM

 BB.00007: Microscopic investigation on the static polarizability of nanocluster composed of chains of atoms
Zachary Bond , Hye-Young Kim , Milton Cole , Darrell Velegol

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
9:54AM - 10:06AM

 BB.00008: A novel method for size uniform 200nm particles: multimetallic particles and in vitro gene delivery
Lamar Mair , Kris Ford , Richard Superfine

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
10:06AM - 10:18AM

 BB.00009: Ligand induced ferromagnetism in ZnO nanostructures
Qiang Sun , Qian Wang , Puru Jena

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
10:18AM - 10:30AM

 BB.00010: The Constrained Crystallization of Nylon-6
Anushree Mohan , Alan Tonelli

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Session BC: Biophysics I

Chair: David Hill, University of North Carolina
Holiday Inn Brownstone - Lincoln

Thursday, October 30, 2008
8:30AM - 9:00AM

 BC.00001: Magnetomotive optical coherence tomography for elastography of small biosamples
Invited Speaker: Amy Oldenburg

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
9:00AM - 9:12AM

 BC.00002: Time-resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy and the Photoprotective Properties of Adenine
Nick Evans , William Potter , Amanda Briouillette , Susanne Ullrich

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
9:12AM - 9:24AM

 BC.00003: High Throughput Magnetic Force System for Experiments in Polymer and Biological Physics
Richard Spero , Leandra Vicci , Jeremy Cribb , Vinay Swaminathan , R. Superfine

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
9:24AM - 9:36AM

 BC.00004: Observing ultrafast dynamics in gas-phase biomolecules
Susanne Ullrich , N.L. Evans , William M. Potter

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
9:36AM - 9:48AM

 BC.00005: Novel Bioreactors to Study Forces on Bronchial Epithelial Cultures
Jerome Carpenter , Mike Millard , Matthew Cozon , Richard Superfine

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
9:48AM - 10:00AM

 BC.00006: Magnetically driven nanorod transport through Matrigel in vitro
Lamar Mair , Richard Superfine

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
10:00AM - 10:12AM

 BC.00007: Analysis of Folded Geometry for Organic Solar Cells
Aric Meyer , Jaewook Seok , Harald Ade

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
10:12AM - 10:24AM

 BC.00008: Free energy calculations of short peptide chains using Adaptively Biased Molecular Dynamics
Vadzim Karpusenka , Volodymyr Babin , Christopher Roland , Celeste Sagui

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