Session NA: Physics Education (Joint with NCS-AAPT)

Chair: Shawn Weatherford, North Carolina State University
Holiday Inn Brownstone - Roosevelt


Saturday, November 1, 2008
8:15AM - 8:35AM

NA.00001: Innovations in Physics Education at NC State
Invited Speaker: Robert Beichner

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Saturday, November 1, 2008
8:35AM - 8:55AM

NA.00002: Contemporary Introductory Physics: Matter \& Interactions
Invited Speaker: Ruth Chabay

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Saturday, November 1, 2008
8:55AM - 9:15AM

NA.00003: Interactive Computer-based Models and the Internet
Invited Speaker: Wolfgang Christian

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Saturday, November 1, 2008
9:15AM - 9:45AM

NA.00004: Panel Discussion


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Saturday, November 1, 2008
9:45AM - 10:15AM

NA.00005: Posters


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Session NB: Astrophysics, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Some Particle Physics

Chair: Liliana Caballero, North Carolina State University
Holiday Inn Brownstone - Washington


Saturday, November 1, 2008
8:15AM - 8:27AM

NB.00001: The DEAP/CLEAN dark matter search
Michael Akashi-Ronquest

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Saturday, November 1, 2008
8:27AM - 8:39AM

NB.00002: Search for Friendly Mini Black Holes in the Laboratory
Romulus Godang , C.M. Jenkins , Marco Cavaglia , Lucien Cremaldi , Roy Arunava , Don Summers

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Saturday, November 1, 2008
8:39AM - 8:51AM

NB.00003: Enhanced LIGO Update
Katherine Dooley

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Saturday, November 1, 2008
8:51AM - 9:03AM

NB.00004: Magnetic Field Amplification in Nonlinear Diffusive Shock Acceleration - a Monte Carlo Model
Andrey E. Vladimirov , Donald C. Ellison , Andrei M. Bykov

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Saturday, November 1, 2008
9:03AM - 9:15AM

NB.00005: Measurement of the Total Cross-Section for the $^{9}$Be($\gamma $,n$\alpha )\alpha $ reaction
C.W. Arnold , T.B. Clegg , H.J. Karwowski , C.R. Howell , A.P. Tonchev , G. Rusev

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Saturday, November 1, 2008
9:15AM - 9:27AM

NB.00006: Study of Stellar Helium Burning with O-TPC at TUNL/HI$\gamma $S
P.-N. Seo , A.H. Young , W.R. Zimmerman , M. Gai , M.W. Ahmed , E.R. Clinton , S.S. Henshaw , C.R. Howell , B.A. Perdue , S.C. Stave , C. Sun , H.R. Weller , Y. Wu , P.P. Martel , B. Bromberger , V. Dangendrof , K. Tittermeier , A. Breskin

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Saturday, November 1, 2008
9:27AM - 9:39AM

NB.00007: The Influence of Neutron Capture Rates in the Rare Earth Region on the r-Process
Matthew Mumpower , Gail McLaughlin , Rebecca Surman

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Saturday, November 1, 2008
9:39AM - 9:51AM

NB.00008: Simplicial Matter for Simplicial Spacetimes
Jonathan McDonald , Warner Miller

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Saturday, November 1, 2008
9:51AM - 10:03AM

NB.00009: On a Latent Structure of Lepton Universality
Rasulkhozha Sharafiddinov

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Saturday, November 1, 2008
10:03AM - 10:15AM

NB.00010: New Covariant Constraints for New Forces of Nature
Jeffrey Tithof , Yuri Kamyshkov , Mikhail Vysotsky

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Session NC: Particle Physics

Chair: Reyco Henning, University of North Carolina
Holiday Inn Brownstone - Lincoln


Saturday, November 1, 2008
8:15AM - 8:27AM

NC.00001: Two Dimensional Large Nc QCD at Finite Density
Richard Galvez , Barak Bringoltz , Rajamani Narayanan

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Saturday, November 1, 2008
8:27AM - 8:39AM

NC.00002: Search for New Physics with Bs Mesons at CMS/LHC
Giordano Cerizza

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Saturday, November 1, 2008
8:39AM - 8:51AM

NC.00003: Randoms Counter Analysis
Winston Hensley , Kevin Giovanetti

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Saturday, November 1, 2008
8:51AM - 9:03AM

NC.00004: Adaptation of a Fortran-Based Monte-Carlo Microscopic Black Hole Simulation Program to C++ Based Root
C.M. Jenkins , R. Godang , M. Cavaglia , L. Cremaldi , D. Summers

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Saturday, November 1, 2008
9:03AM - 9:15AM

NC.00005: The mass, energy, space and time system theory of universe -MEST
Dayong Cao

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Saturday, November 1, 2008
9:15AM - 9:27AM

NC.00006: Derivation of the Fine Structure Constant
Ramiro Montalvo

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Saturday, November 1, 2008
9:27AM - 9:39AM

NC.00007: Fiber Optics at the JLab CLAS12 Detector
John Kroon , Kevin Giovanetti

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Saturday, November 1, 2008
9:39AM - 9:51AM

NC.00008: Searching for Isospin Violation at the Upsilon(4S) at BABAR
Romulus Godang , Lucien Cremaldi , Don Summers

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Saturday, November 1, 2008
9:51AM - 10:03AM

NC.00009: Search For the Rare Decay $K_{L}\rightarrow\pi^{0}\pi^{0}\mu^{+}\mu^{-}$
David Phillips

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