Session KA: Successful Programs in Physics Education

Chair: Paul Cottle, Florida State University
Holiday Inn Brownstone - Sessions

Friday, October 31, 2008
3:45PM - 4:15PM

 KA.00001: The Evolution of and Evolution in the Next Generation Florida Science Education Standards
Invited Speaker: Gerry Meisels

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Friday, October 31, 2008
4:15PM - 4:45PM

 KA.00002: Translating brilliance: Facilitating communication and growth among university and K-12 STEM faculty
Invited Speaker: Sharon Schulze

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Friday, October 31, 2008
4:45PM - 5:15PM

 KA.00003: UFTeach: A Partnership for Training Math and Science Teachers at the University of Florida
Invited Speaker: Alan Dorsey

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Friday, October 31, 2008
5:15PM - 5:45PM

 KA.00004: SKyTeach: Addressing the need for Science and Math Teachers in Kentucky
Invited Speaker: Scott Bonham

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Session KB: Forefront Materials Physics III

Chair: David Aspnes, North Carolina State University
Holiday Inn Brownstone - Washington

Friday, October 31, 2008
3:45PM - 4:15PM

 KB.00001: Magnetocapacitance and the physics of solid state interfaces
Invited Speaker: Arthur Hebard

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Friday, October 31, 2008
4:15PM - 4:45PM

 KB.00002: Microstructure and Transport properties of epitaxial VO$_{2}$ thin films on TiO$_{2}$ substrates
Invited Speaker: Jiwei Lu

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Friday, October 31, 2008
4:45PM - 5:15PM

 KB.00003: A surface-driven approach to the synthesis of basic building blocks for the design of complex Si-Ge-Mn nanostructures
Invited Speaker: Petra Reinke

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Friday, October 31, 2008
5:15PM - 5:45PM

 KB.00004: Metal Clusters as Superatoms and Nanostructures
Invited Speaker: Vitaly Kresin

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Session KC: Nuclear Physics II

Chair: Henning Back, North Carolina State University
Holiday Inn Brownstone - Jefferson

Friday, October 31, 2008
3:45PM - 3:57PM

 KC.00001: A Diamond Multistrip Detector for the JLab Hall C Compton Polarimeter
Amrendra Narayan

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Friday, October 31, 2008
3:57PM - 4:09PM

 KC.00002: Novel Likelihood PID Method for Hypernuclear Spectroscopy
Pavlo Baturin , Joerg Reinhold

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Friday, October 31, 2008
4:09PM - 4:21PM

 KC.00003: Electroproduction of Hyperons at Low Momentum Transfer
Armando Acha , Pete Markowitz

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Friday, October 31, 2008
4:21PM - 4:33PM

 KC.00004: The Padua Algorithm for the Computation of Deuteron wave functions, Binding Energy and Other Properties
Mesgun Sebhatu

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Friday, October 31, 2008
4:33PM - 4:45PM

 KC.00005: The $^{3}$He injection test for the search of neutron electric dipole moment (nEDM)
Xiaofeng Zhu

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Friday, October 31, 2008
4:45PM - 4:57PM

 KC.00006: $^3$He Relaxation Time Measurements at $\sim$400mK for the neutron electric dipole moment (nEDM) experiment
Qiang Ye , Haiyan Gao , Robert Golub , Dipangkar Dutta , Paul Huffman , Franklin Dubose

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Friday, October 31, 2008
4:57PM - 5:09PM

 KC.00007: Cryogenic Engineering for the Neutron Electric Dipole Measurement at the Spallation Neutron Source
D.G. Haase , P.R. Huffman , J. Boissevain , E.I. Ihloff , C. Vidal

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Friday, October 31, 2008
5:09PM - 5:21PM

 KC.00008: Purification of $^{4}$He through Differential Evaporation
F. DuBose , D.G. Haase , P.R. Huffman

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Friday, October 31, 2008
5:21PM - 5:33PM

 KC.00009: A thermal model for cooling the nEDM $^{3}$He services
D.P. Kendellen , D.G. Haase , P.R. Huffman

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