Session H1: Condensed Matter

Chair: Gus Hart, Brigham Young University
Union East, 3rd Floor - University


Saturday, October 18, 2008
10:30AM - 10:54AM

H1.00001: Electron and Phonon Transport in Thermoelectric Thin Films and Nanostructures
Invited Speaker: Barry Zink

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
10:54AM - 11:06AM

H1.00002: Spatial self-organization and self-alignment of quantum dots and rods by liquid crystals
Dennis Gardner , Ivan Smalyukh

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
11:06AM - 11:18AM

H1.00003: Diffraction by Permanent Gratings in Dye-Doped Liquid Crystal
Mikail Abbasov , Gene Carlisle

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
11:18AM - 11:30AM

H1.00004: Metal-to-Insulator Transition in Vanadium Dioxide Thin Films
Felipe Rivera , Art Brown , Robert Davis , Richard Vanfleet

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
11:30AM - 11:42AM

H1.00005: $^{1}$H NMR In Hydrogenated Nano-Crystalline Silicon Thin Films
Kristin Kiriluk , T. Su , P.C. Taylor , B. Yan , J. Yang , S. Guha

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
11:42AM - 12:06PM

H1.00006: Effects of Nanostructure Formation in InAs/GaSb Superlattices
Invited Speaker: Donna Stokes

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Session H2: Biological and Chemical Physics

Chair: Karine Chesnel, Brigham Young University
Union East, 3rd Floor - Templeton


Saturday, October 18, 2008
10:30AM - 10:54AM

H2.00001: Emergence and Evolution of Order in Physical, Chemical, and Biological Systems
Invited Speaker: Harry Swinney

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
10:54AM - 11:06AM

H2.00002: Nanoscale High Aspect Ratio Structures
Jonathan Abbott , Robert Davis , Richard VanFleet , Hiram Conley

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
11:06AM - 11:18AM

H2.00003: Toward Nanoscale Fluorescence Microscopy of Biological Systems
Jordan Gerton , Ben Mangum , Chun Mu , Eyal Shafran

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
11:18AM - 11:42AM

H2.00004: Regulating gene-expression by mechanical force
Invited Speaker: Koen Visscher

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
11:42AM - 11:54AM

H2.00005: Fluorescence decay dynamics of surface-functionalized nanoparticles
Jacob Ajimo , Lun Ma , Mingzhen Yao , Xing Zhang , John Como , Louisa Hope-weeks , Juyang Huang , Wei Chen , Kwan Cheng

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
11:54AM - 12:06PM

H2.00006: In-Situ Laser Tagging of $^{136}$Ba$^{+ }$Ions in a Liquid $^{136}$Xe Detector
Kendy Hall , Cesar Benitez , William Fairbank

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Session H3: Medical Physics

Chair: Mickey Manciu, The University of Texas at El Paso
Union East, 3rd Floor - Ray


Saturday, October 18, 2008
10:30AM - 10:42AM

H3.00001: Inharmonicity Analysis: A Novel Physical Method for Acoustic Screening of Dysphonia
Sam Matteson , Fang-Ling Lu

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
10:42AM - 10:54AM

H3.00002: Inhibition of urinary calculi -- a spectroscopic study
Felicia Manciu , Jayesh Govani , William Durrer , Layra Reza , Luis Pinales

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
10:54AM - 11:06AM

H3.00003: MAGIC Gel Dosimetry
Rachel Mifflin , Kambiz Shahnazi , Rick Jesseph

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
11:06AM - 11:18AM

H3.00004: Construction of a cost effective optical tweezers for manipulation of birefringent materials using circularly polarized light
Allison McMahon , Toni Sauncy

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
11:18AM - 11:30AM

H3.00005: Secondary Structure of Nucleic Acids near a Surface
Joaquin Ambia-Garrido , B. Montgomery Pettitt

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
11:30AM - 11:42AM

H3.00006: Cellular mechanics on the nano-patterned scaffolds
Soyeun Park , Justin Mcanally

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
11:42AM - 11:54AM

H3.00007: Inferring kinetic pathways, rates, and force dependence from nonprocessive optical tweezers experiments: a maximum likelihood approach
Bennett Kalafut , Koen Visscher

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Session H4: Astrophysics and Astronomy I

Chair: Verne Smith, National Optical Astronomy Observatory
Union East, 3rd Floor - Smiley


Saturday, October 18, 2008
10:30AM - 10:42AM

H4.00001: Big and Bright: Two Discoveries from the Texas Supernova Search
Robert Quimby

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
10:42AM - 10:54AM

H4.00002: Orbits of selected stars in a barred Galactic potential
Hector Noriega-Mendoza , Christine Allen , Edmundo Moreno

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
10:54AM - 11:06AM

H4.00003: Observations of Mrk 421 with VERITAS
Kerianna Butler

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
11:06AM - 11:18AM

H4.00004: VERITAS observation of the Intermediate BL-Lac W Comae
Michael Newbold

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
11:18AM - 11:30AM

H4.00005: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Saturday, October 18, 2008
11:30AM - 11:42AM

H4.00006: Magnetic Fields in Quasar Jets and their Environments
Christopher Walker , David Hough

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
11:42AM - 11:54AM

H4.00007: Computational Astrophysics Software for the Study of Near by Planetary Systems
Ryan Haynes , John Armstrong

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Session H5: High Energy Physics: Experimental

Chair: Jorge Lopez, The University of Texas at El Paso
Union East, 3rd Floor - Elkins


Saturday, October 18, 2008
10:30AM - 10:42AM

H5.00001: CMS Computing at TTU and the Search for New Physics at the LHC
Vanalet Rusuriye , Sung-Won Lee , Alan Sill , Chiyoung Jeong

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
10:42AM - 10:54AM

H5.00002: Cosmology in the Focus Point Region at the Large Hadron Collider
Abram Krislock , Bhaskar Dutta , Will Flanagan , Alfredo Gurrola , Teruki Kamon , Nikolay Kolev , Mike VanDyke

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
10:54AM - 11:06AM

H5.00003: Measurements of Neutralino/Chargino Masses in the Focus Point Region at the LHC
Will Flanagan , Teruki Kamon , Bhaskar Dutta , Alfredo Gurrola , Nikolay Kolev , Michael VanDyke , Abram Krislock

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
11:06AM - 11:18AM

H5.00004: Gluino Mass Reconstruction in the Focus Point Region at the LHC
Michael VanDyke , Will Flanagan , Alfredo Gurrola , Abram Krislock , Nikolay Kolev , Teruki Kamon , Bhaskar Dutta

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
11:18AM - 11:30AM

H5.00005: Cavity Technology that will increase the power and reduce the cost of ILC
Nathaniel Pogue , Peter McIntyre , Akhdiyor Sattarov

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
11:30AM - 11:42AM

H5.00006: Quality Assurance Test Setup for MPPCs used by the P0D in the T2K Experiment
Daniel Ruterbories , Bruce Berger , Norm Buchanan , Ben Gookin , David Warner , Robert Wilson

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
11:42AM - 11:54AM

H5.00007: Status of the CMS HCAL and Performance on the First Beam at the LHC
Sung-Won Lee

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
11:54AM - 12:06PM

H5.00008: TBD
Zafar Yasin

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Session H6: Diffraction and Scattering

Chair: Miguel Castro-Colin, The University of Texas at El Paso
Union East, 3rd Floor - Wiggins


Saturday, October 18, 2008
10:30AM - 10:42AM

H6.00001: Neutron Diffraction Studies of Hydrogen Adsorption in a Highly Stable Porous Rare-Earth Metal-Organic Framework
Junhua Luo , Yusheng Zhao , Hongwu Xu , Luc L. Daemen

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
10:42AM - 10:54AM

H6.00002: Evolution of Magnetism in Sr$_{2-x}$La$_{x}$FeO$_{4 }$ system of compounds at low temperature
Karunakar Kothapalli , Abdel Alsmadi , H. Kawanaka , Heinz Nakotte

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
10:54AM - 11:06AM

H6.00003: Total electron scattering cross section of Fluorocarbons at intermediate electron energies
Prasanga Palihawadana , Gilberto Villela , Wickramasinghe Ariyasinghe

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
11:06AM - 11:18AM

H6.00004: Negative thermal expansion in hexacyanocobaltates of divalent metals
Sourav Adak , Luke Daemen , Heinrich Nakotte

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
11:18AM - 11:30AM

H6.00005: Fabrication and Optical Intensity Analysis of Nd$^{3+}$:Y$_{2}$O$_{3}$ nanoparticles embedded in PMMA
Sreerenjini Chandra , John B. Gruber , Dhiraj K. Sardar

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
11:30AM - 11:42AM

H6.00006: Atom-interferomtery measurements of dispersive phase shifts for matter waves due to nano-structures
Vincent P.A. Lonij , Alexander D. Cronin , Steven Lepoutre , Haikel Jelassi , G\'erard Tr\'enec , Matthias B\"uchner , Jacques Vigu\'e

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
11:42AM - 11:54AM

H6.00007: Semi-Quantitative Analysis of Standard Reference Materials (SRM) and Metallic Plates through X-ray Fluorescence using a Portable Pyro-electric X-ray Generator.
Sunil Kumar Valaparla , Nick del Rio

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