Session CA: Granular Physics

Chair: Karen Daniels, North Carolina State University
Holiday Inn Brownstone - Roosevelt

Thursday, October 30, 2008
10:45AM - 11:15AM

 CA.00001: Jamming in Granular Systems
Invited Speaker: Brian Utter

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
11:15AM - 11:45AM

 CA.00002: Dense dry granular material under pure shear and shear reversal
Invited Speaker: Jie Zhang

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
11:45AM - 12:15PM

 CA.00003: Experimental investigation of state variables in a dense granular layer
Invited Speaker: Frederic Lechenault

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
12:15PM - 12:45PM

 CA.00004: Entropy driven patterning in vibrofluidized granular materials
Invited Speaker: Jennifer Galanis

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Session CB: Particle Physics: Large Hadron Collider

Chair: Brad Cox, University of Virginia
Holiday Inn Brownstone - Washington

Thursday, October 30, 2008
10:45AM - 11:15AM

 CB.00001: The ATLAS Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
Invited Speaker: A.T. Goshaw

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
11:15AM - 11:45AM

 CB.00002: The Status and Prospects of the CMS Experiment at the LHC
Invited Speaker: Darin Acosta

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
11:45AM - 12:15PM

 CB.00003: The ALICE Experiment at CERN
Invited Speaker: Kenneth Read

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
12:15PM - 12:27PM

 CB.00004: Performance of the Level-1 Muon Trigger for the CMS Endcap Muon System with Cosmic Rays and First LHC Beams
Joseph Gartner

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
12:27PM - 12:39PM

 CB.00005: Spatial Reconstruction of Co-60 Radiation Sources Using Goodness-of-Fit Tests on Spectra Obtained from an HPGe Detector
Lenny Evans

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Session CC: Materials I

Chair: Rene Lopez, University of North Carolina
Holiday Inn Brownstone - Lincoln

Thursday, October 30, 2008
10:45AM - 10:57AM

 CC.00001: Dynamics of two dimensional alkylsiloxane self assembled monolayers
Mary Scott , Derrick Stevens , Jason Bochinski , Laura Clarke

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
10:57AM - 11:09AM

 CC.00002: Shockley-type Surface State Modification for Enantiopure vs. Racemic Tartaric Acid on Ag(111)
Nancy Santagata , Pengshun Luo , Bryce Davis , Thomas Pearl

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
11:09AM - 11:21AM

 CC.00003: Magnetic and magnetotransport properties of organic trilayers of alkanethiol self-assembled monolayers sandwiched between ferromagnetic thin films
William Rice , Paul Hoertz , Jeremy Niskala , Jeff Haller , Mike Feng , Wei You , Frank Tsui

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
11:21AM - 11:33AM

 CC.00004: Advanced spectroscopy and imaging studies of multiferroicity in YMnO$_{3}$ and BiFeO$_{3}$
Relja Vasic , Marc Ulrich , Jack Rowe , Jerry Lucovsky , Joseph Fontcuberta , Xavier Marti , Jurek Sadowski , Haidong Zhou , James Brooks , Chris Wiebe

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
11:33AM - 11:45AM

 CC.00005: Magnetism of \{Cr$_{10}$Cu$_2$\}: A story of the interplay between experiment and theory
Larry Engelhardt

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
11:45AM - 11:57AM

 CC.00006: Onset of ferrielectricity and the hidden nature of nanoscale polarization in ferroelectric thin films
Matias Nunez , Marco Buongiorno Nardelli

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
11:57AM - 12:09PM

 CC.00007: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Thursday, October 30, 2008
12:09PM - 12:21PM

 CC.00008: Elasticity and Electron Fractionalization in Graphene
William Shively , Dmitri Khveshchenko

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
12:21PM - 12:33PM

 CC.00009: Epitaxial graphene growth on several SiC surface orientations at high and ultrahigh vacuum pressure
Andreas Sandin , Zhengang Wang , Xianhua Kong , J.E. (Jack) Rowe

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
12:33PM - 12:45PM

 CC.00010: Epitaxial and stoichiometric effects on structural and chemical ordering in Heusler alloys
Brian A. Collins , Liang He , Frank Tsui , Yuncheng Zhong , Yong S. Chu

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