Session EA: Nuclear Physics I

Chair: Paul Huffman, North Carolina State University
Holiday Inn Brownstone - Roosevelt

Thursday, October 30, 2008
3:45PM - 3:57PM

 EA.00001: Measurement of the $^{2}$H(n,np)n Cross Section in the SCRE Configuration
A. Couture , T. Clegg , B. Crowe , D. Markoff , L. Cumberbatch , C. Howell , A. Crowell , J. Esterline , B. Fallin , R. Pedroni

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
3:57PM - 4:09PM

 EA.00002: An Investigation of the $^{48}$Ca($\gamma$,n) Cross Section between 9.5 and 15.3 MeV
J.R. Tompkins , C.W. Arnold , H.J. Karwowski , G. Rich , L.G. Sobotka , C.R. Howell

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
4:09PM - 4:21PM

 EA.00003: Experience with the UNC Polarized $^3$He Target
Timothy Daniels , Thomas Clegg , Alex Couture , Charles Arnold

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
4:21PM - 4:33PM

 EA.00004: The $\beta$ decays of $^{75,77}$Cu
S.V. Ilyushkin , J.A. Winger , K.P. Rykaczewski , C.J. Gross , D. Stracener , R. Grzywacz , S.N. Liddick , I. Darby , S. Padgett , J.C. Batchelder , E.F. Zganjar

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
4:33PM - 4:45PM

 EA.00005: Nuclear Fragmentation Model Evaluation
Ryan Norman , Steve Blattnig

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
4:45PM - 4:57PM

 EA.00006: Light Ion Production Improvements in the NUCFRG2 Semiempirical Nuclear Fragmentation Model: Preliminary Results
Sirikul Sriprisan , Ryan Norman , Lawrence Townsend

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
4:57PM - 5:09PM

 EA.00007: Modeling and Design of a Gadolinium Based Neutron Detector
David Ticehurst , Jeromy Tompkins , Hugon Karwowski

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
5:09PM - 5:21PM

 EA.00008: Isotopic shifts in light Kr nuclei and evidence of N=36 magicity near the rp-process path
J.K. Sharma , M.M. Sharma

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
5:21PM - 5:33PM

 EA.00009: High Spin States in $^{139,140,142}$Cs
Shaohua Liu , J.H. Hamilton , A.V. Ramayya , J.K. Hwang , Y.X. Luo , J.O. Rasmussen , S.J. Zhu

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
5:33PM - 5:45PM

 EA.00010: Nonlinear Tunneling and Nuclear Decay
Christa Labadorf , Eugene Chaffin

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Session EB: Forefront Atmospheric Physics and Geophysics

Chair: Solomon Bililign, North Carolina A&T University
Holiday Inn Brownstone - Washington

Thursday, October 30, 2008
3:45PM - 4:15PM

 EB.00001: NOAA Interdisciplinary Scientific Environmental Technology Cooperative Science Center
Invited Speaker: Solomon Bililign

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
4:15PM - 4:45PM

 EB.00002: Recent Advances and Future Challenges in Hurricane Prediction
Invited Speaker: Yuh-Lang Lin

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
4:45PM - 5:15PM

 EB.00003: Simulation of the Climate of Africa Based on the Hydrodynamical System of Equations Governing Atmospheric Flow
Invited Speaker: Frederick Semazzi

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
5:15PM - 5:45PM

 EB.00004: Research and career opportunities in the geophysical sciences for physics students
Invited Speaker: Andrew Nyblade

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Session EC: Applied Physics I

Chair: Rosa Lukaszew, College of William and Mary
Holiday Inn Brownstone - Lincoln

Thursday, October 30, 2008
3:45PM - 3:57PM

 EC.00001: Information Extraction from Congested Molecular Spectra by Modulation Spectroscopy
Mohammad Khan , Karan Mohan , Amin Dharamsi

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
3:57PM - 4:09PM

 EC.00002: Regimes of resonance Raman utility: studies in diluted liquid benzene
Christopher Chadwick , Hans Hallen , Adam Willitsford , C. Russell Philbrick

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
4:09PM - 4:21PM

 EC.00003: EPR Study of SiC Defects Related to Device Processing
Sarah Thomas , Mary Ellen Zvanut

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
4:21PM - 4:33PM

 EC.00004: Thickness inhomogenities and growth mechanisms of GaP heteroepitaxy
Xiang Liu , Inkyo Kim , David Aspnes

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
4:33PM - 4:45PM

 EC.00005: The Promotion of Au Adhesion on Polymer Surfaces Using Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsequioxane
Chris Hughes , Brian Augustine , Alan Mo , Jonathan Wyrick , Bruno Caputo , Ethan Rosenthal

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
4:45PM - 4:57PM

 EC.00006: Characterization of polar molecular species adsorbed on LiNbO$_{3}$ surfaces
Satyaveda Bharath , Thomas Pearl

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
4:57PM - 5:09PM

 EC.00007: Sequestration and selective oxidation of carbon monoxide on graphene edges
Sujata Paul , Erik E. Santiso , Marco B. Nardelli

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
5:09PM - 5:21PM

 EC.00008: A Novel approach towards integration of VO$_{2}$ thin films on Si(100) for thermal switching devices applications
Alok Gupta , Ravi Aggarwal , Jagdish Narayan

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
5:21PM - 5:33PM

 EC.00009: Plasmon polaritons in conducting-metal-oxide films
A. Efremenko , C. Rhodes , M. Cerutti , M. Losego , D.E. Aspnes , J.-P. Maria , S. Franzen

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
5:33PM - 5:45PM

 EC.00010: Multimedia ellipsometry of (aminomethylaminoethyl)phenethyltrimethoxysilane (PEDA) layers
Jeremy Peters , Hans Hallen

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Thursday, October 30, 2008
5:45PM - 5:57PM

 EC.00011: Optimization of a Prototype Atomic Clock Based on Coherent Population Trapping
Eugeniy Mikhailov , Nathan Belcher , Irina Novikova

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