Session DA: Forefront Materials Physics I

Chair: Frank Tsui, University of North Carolina
Holiday Inn Brownstone - Roosevelt

Thursday, October 30, 2008
1:30PM - 2:00PM

 DA.00001: Generation, Modulation and Electrical Detection of Spin Currents in Silicon in Lateral Transport
Invited Speaker: Berend Jonker

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
2:00PM - 2:30PM

 DA.00002: Mode locking of electron spin coherence in singly charged quantum dots
Invited Speaker: Alexander Efros

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
2:30PM - 3:00PM

 DA.00003: From computational materials science to nanoscale device physics
Invited Speaker: Avik Ghosh

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
3:00PM - 3:12PM

 DA.00004: Temperature-dependent study of vibration and polymorphism of oligoacenes and their derivatives
Zhongqiao Ren , Laurie McNeil , Christian Kloc

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
3:12PM - 3:24PM

 DA.00005: Band Engineering in C/BN Nanoribbons and Stacks
Jeffrey Mullen , Marco Buongiorno Nardelli

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Session DB: Forefront Astrophysics

Chair: Gail McLaughlin, North Carolina State University
Holiday Inn Brownstone - Washington

Thursday, October 30, 2008
1:30PM - 2:00PM

 DB.00001: Gamma-Ray Bursts and their jets
Invited Speaker: Davide Lazzati

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
2:00PM - 2:30PM

 DB.00002: The Skynet Robotic Telescope Network
Invited Speaker: Daneil Reichart

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
2:30PM - 3:00PM

 DB.00003: GRB Studies with GLAST
Invited Speaker: Charles Meegan

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
3:00PM - 3:30PM

 DB.00004: The Supernova-GRB Connection
Invited Speaker: Roger Chevalier

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Session DC: Biophysics II

Chair: Amy Oldenbrug, University of North Carolina
Holiday Inn Brownstone - Lincoln

Thursday, October 30, 2008
1:30PM - 1:42PM

 DC.00001: Dynamics of Individual cilia to external loading- A simple one dimensional picture
Vinay Swaminathan , David Hill , R. Superfine

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
1:42PM - 1:54PM

 DC.00002: Directed Fluid Transport with Biomimetic ``Silia'' Arrays
A.R. Shields , B.A. Evans , B.L. Carstens , M.R. Falvo , S. Washburn , R. Superfine

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
1:54PM - 2:06PM

 DC.00003: A Novel Silicone-Magnetite Composite Material Used in the Fabrication of Biomimetic Cilia
B.L. Carstens , B.A. Evans , A.R. Shields , J. Su , S. Washburn , M.R. Falvo , R. Superfine

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
2:06PM - 2:18PM

 DC.00004: In-situ AFM measurement of single fibrin fiber stiffness before and after addition of Factor XIII
John Houser , E. Timothy O'Brien , Susan T. Lord , Richard Superfine , Michael R. Falvo

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
2:18PM - 2:30PM

 DC.00005: The role of single fiber strain stiffening in fibrin networks
Nathan Hudson , Daniel Millard , John Houser , E. Timothy O'Brien , Susan Lord , Richard Superfine , Michael Falvo

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
2:30PM - 2:42PM

 DC.00006: Observation of molecular rings formed from DNA deposited on Au(111)
Pengshun Luo , Michael S. Woody , Norman L. Bemelmans , Thomas P. Pearl

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
2:42PM - 2:54PM

 DC.00007: An investigation of the structural transitions between different forms of DNA using the Adaptively Biased (ABMD) and Steered Molecular Dynamics Methods
Mahmoud Moradi , Volodymyr Babin , Christopher Roland , Thomas A. Darden , Celeste Sagui

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
2:54PM - 3:06PM

 DC.00008: The free energy landscape of short polyproline peptides
Mahmoud Moradi , Volodymyr Babin , Christopher Roland , Thomas A. Darden , Celeste Sagui

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
3:06PM - 3:18PM

 DC.00009: Stochastic energetics of a Brownian motor driven by position dependent temperature
Ronald Benjamin , Ryoichi Kawai

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