Session JA: Nuclear Exotic Beams

Chair: David Ernst, Vanderbilt University
Holiday Inn Brownstone - Washington

Friday, October 31, 2008
1:30PM - 2:00PM

 JA.00001: Spectroscopy of light exotic nuclei in resonance reactions
Invited Speaker: Grigory Rogachev

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Friday, October 31, 2008
2:00PM - 2:30PM

 JA.00002: $^{78}$Ni, Nuclear Structure and LeRIBSS: New results from the HRIBF
Invited Speaker: Jeff Winger

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Friday, October 31, 2008
2:30PM - 3:00PM

 JA.00003: Direct measurements with low-energy, rare isotope beams for nuclear astrophysics
Invited Speaker: Jeff Blackmon

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Friday, October 31, 2008
3:00PM - 3:30PM

 JA.00004: Alpha decay studies near $^{100}$Sn
Invited Speaker: Sean Liddick

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Session JB: History and Philosophy of Physics

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

Friday, October 31, 2008
1:30PM - 2:00PM

 JB.00001: P.A.M. Dirac's Impact on Physics
Invited Speaker: Eugen Merzbacher

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Friday, October 31, 2008
2:00PM - 2:30PM

 JB.00002: Entanglement, Complementarity, and Decoherence: Bohr on the Classical and the Macroscopic
Invited Speaker: Don Howard

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Friday, October 31, 2008
2:30PM - 3:00PM

 JB.00003: The Rise and Fall of the Luminiferous Aether: Are We Poised for Another Rise?
Invited Speaker: Christo Christov

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Friday, October 31, 2008
3:00PM - 3:30PM

 JB.00004: What is a Physical Law?
Invited Speaker: Marc Lange

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Session JC: Semiconductors and some Atmospheric Physics

Chair: James Dickerson, Vanderbilt University
Holiday Inn Brownstone - Lincoln

Friday, October 31, 2008
1:30PM - 1:42PM

 JC.00001: The Wavefunction of Nitrogen Shallow Donors in 4H-SiC Probed by 240 GHz Pulsed EPR/ENDOR
Johan van Tol , Mary-Ellen Zvanut

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Friday, October 31, 2008
1:42PM - 1:54PM

 JC.00002: Substrate Temperature effect on the transition characteristics of Vanadium (IV) oxide
Tsung-Han Yang , Wei Wei , Chunming Jin , Jay Narayan

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Friday, October 31, 2008
1:54PM - 2:06PM

 JC.00003: Bilayered Oxide thin films for transparent electrode application
Titas Dutta , Jagdish Narayan

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Friday, October 31, 2008
2:06PM - 2:18PM

 JC.00004: Virtual Sources in OMCVD Growth of ZnO: The importance of real-time diagnostics for process development
E.J. Adles , X. Liu , D.E. Aspnes

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Friday, October 31, 2008
2:18PM - 2:30PM

 JC.00005: Correlations Between XAS and Spectroscopic Ellipsometry Studies and Ab-Initio Quantum Calculations on RPE-MOCVD Deposited Titanium Silicate Alloys
Nicholas Stoute , Gerald Lucovsky , David Aspnes

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Friday, October 31, 2008
2:30PM - 2:42PM

 JC.00006: Tunable THz plasmon resonances in a InGaAs/InP heterostructure
Himanshu Saxena , Robert Peale , Walter Buchwald

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Friday, October 31, 2008
2:42PM - 2:54PM

 JC.00007: Epitaxial growth of zinc oxide thin films on silicon (100) substrates with zirconia buffer layer
Ravi Aggarwal , Chunming Jin , Wei Wei , Jagdish Narayan , Roger J. Narayan

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Friday, October 31, 2008
2:54PM - 3:06PM

 JC.00008: Cavity Ring Down Spectroscopy for Atmospheric Research
Israel Begashaw , Solomon Bililign , Anthony Cochran , Christopher Jessamy

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Friday, October 31, 2008
3:06PM - 3:18PM

 JC.00009: Wavelet-based adaptive mesh refinement algorithm for atmospheric chemical transport modeling
Yevgenii Rastigejev

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