Session GA: Forefront Particle Physics

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

Friday, October 31, 2008
8:30AM - 9:00AM

 GA.00001: Neutrinos -- Going to extremes
Invited Speaker: John F. Wilkerson

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Friday, October 31, 2008
9:00AM - 9:30AM

 GA.00002: Accelerator-based Neutrino Physics at Fermilab
Invited Speaker: Edmond Dukes

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Friday, October 31, 2008
9:30AM - 10:00AM

 GA.00003: Plans and Prospects at Fermilab
Invited Speaker: Susan Blessing

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Friday, October 31, 2008
10:00AM - 10:12AM

 GA.00004: The T2K Long Baseline Neutrino Beam Experiment
Joshua Albert

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Friday, October 31, 2008
10:12AM - 10:24AM

 GA.00005: Prospects for a Low Threshold Neutrino Experiment at the SNS
Diane Markoff

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Session GB: Forefront Materials Physics II

Chair: Matthew Edwards, Alabama A&M University
Holiday Inn Brownstone - Roosevelt

Friday, October 31, 2008
8:30AM - 9:00AM

 GB.00001: Plasmon Polariton Excitation and Enhancement of the Magneto-optical Activity
Invited Speaker: Rosa Alejandra Lukaszew

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Friday, October 31, 2008
9:00AM - 9:30AM

 GB.00002: Electrophoretic Deposition of Thin Films of Nanoparticles
Invited Speaker: James Dickerson

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Friday, October 31, 2008
9:30AM - 10:00AM

 GB.00003: Photonic Structuring of Bulk Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells
Invited Speaker: Rene Lopez

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Friday, October 31, 2008
10:00AM - 10:30AM

 GB.00004: Bulk crystal growth of scintillator materials for gamma ray detectors
Invited Speaker: Mohan Aggarwal

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Session GC: Mathematical Physics and Physics Education

Chair: Ronald Mickens, Clark Atlanta University
Holiday Inn Brownstone - Lincoln

Friday, October 31, 2008
8:30AM - 8:42AM

 GC.00001: Eigenvalue Spacings in the Asymmetric Infinite Square Well
Todd Timberlake , Molly Nelson

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Friday, October 31, 2008
8:42AM - 8:54AM

 GC.00002: Nonassociative decomposition of angular momentum operator using complex octonions
Jens Koeplinger , Vladimir Dzhunushaliev

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Friday, October 31, 2008
8:54AM - 9:06AM

 GC.00003: Information Content in Antenna Radiation Patterns
Karan Mohan , M. Amir Khan , Amin Dharamsi

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Friday, October 31, 2008
9:06AM - 9:18AM

 GC.00004: Closed Analytic Solution for the Potential and Equations of Motion in the Presence of a Gravitating Oblate Spheroid
William Atkinson

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Friday, October 31, 2008
9:18AM - 9:30AM

 GC.00005: Semi-classical Determination of the Energy Levels of a $x^{4/3}$ Potential
Kale Oyedeji , Ronald Mickens

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Friday, October 31, 2008
9:30AM - 9:42AM

 GC.00006: A Theoretical Estimate for the Frequency of the TNL Oscillator $\ddot x + x + x^{1/3}=0$
Dorian Wilkenson , Ronald Mickens

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Friday, October 31, 2008
9:42AM - 9:54AM

 GC.00007: On a Connection Between the Eigenvalues of the One-dimensional Finite Square Well and Number Theory
Walter Jaronski

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Friday, October 31, 2008
9:54AM - 10:06AM

 GC.00008: Teaching Introductory Physics with Turning Point Software
R. Seth Smith

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Friday, October 31, 2008
10:06AM - 10:18AM

 GC.00009: Investigation of 60Hz electromagnetic environmental noise
John Howell , John Gaffney , Sanichiro Yoshida

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Friday, October 31, 2008
10:18AM - 10:30AM

 GC.00010: Dispositioning Unwanted Radioactive Materials - A South Carolina Perspective
David Peterson

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