Session J1: Astrophysics and Astronomy II

Chair: Stacy Palen, Weber State University
Union East, 3rd Floor - University


Saturday, October 18, 2008
1:30PM - 1:54PM

J1.00001: Opportunities for Astronomical Research using the U.S. System of Ground-Based Optical and Infrared Telescopes
Invited Speaker: Verne Smith

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
1:54PM - 2:18PM

J1.00002: Latest results from the Pierre Auger Observatory
Invited Speaker: Miguel Mostafa

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:18PM - 2:30PM

J1.00003: Site Selection for the Southern Utah Observatory
David Kieda , R. Wayne Springer , Paolo Gondolo , Stephan Lebohec , Paul Ricketts , Chris Zimmer

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:30PM - 2:54PM

J1.00004: Gravitational Wave Astronomy: a status report
Invited Speaker: Mario Diaz

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:54PM - 3:06PM

J1.00005: General relativistic effects in galactic rotation velocity profiles
Sophia Cisneros

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Session J2: Nanoscience and Biological Systems

Chair: Jordan Gerton, The University of Utah
Union East, 3rd Floor - Templeton


Saturday, October 18, 2008
1:30PM - 1:54PM

J2.00001: A Nanoscale Tale
Invited Speaker: Elba Serrano

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
1:54PM - 2:18PM

J2.00002: Status and Growth of Underground Science at WIPP
Invited Speaker: Norbert T. Rempe

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:18PM - 2:30PM

J2.00003: Formation and Characterization of Stacked Nanoscale Layers of Polymers and Silanes on Silicon Surfaces
Rosie Ochoa , Brian Davis , Hiram Conley , Katie Hurd , Matthew R. Linford , Robert C. Davis

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:30PM - 2:42PM

J2.00004: Nanoshaving and Nanografting of Water Soluble Polymers on Glass and Silicon Dioxide Surfaces with Applications to DNA Localization
Brian Davis , Hiram Conley , Rosie Ochoa , Katie Hurd , Matthew R. Linford , Robert C. Davis

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:42PM - 2:54PM

J2.00005: Molecular Dynamics Simulation of protein unfolding on lipid nanodomains
Liming Qiu , Mark Vaughn , Kwan Cheng

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:54PM - 3:06PM

J2.00006: The small angle x-ray scattering of globular proteins in solution during heat denaturation
Jose Banuelos , Jacob Urquidi

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Session J3: Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure

Chair: Barry Zink, University of Denver
Union East, 3rd Floor - Ray


Saturday, October 18, 2008
1:30PM - 1:42PM

J3.00001: Electronic structure of novel semiconducting nanotubes
Peter Lyon , Bret Hess

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
1:42PM - 1:54PM

J3.00002: Electronic Structure Calculations of NiTi Based Ternary Systems
Henry Schreiner, III , Jung-Hwan Song , Nicholas Hatcher , Arthur J. Freeman

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
1:54PM - 2:06PM

J3.00003: B2 decomposition of X5Al (X=Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Y, Zr, Nb, and Mo) system, A First-Principles Study
Payam Norouzzadeh , Mahdi Sanati

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:06PM - 2:18PM

J3.00004: Phase transformation of 2$H$ and 6$H$-SiC at high pressure: An ab initio constant pressure study
Murat Durandurdu , Sitki Eker

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:18PM - 2:30PM

J3.00005: Pressure-induced phase transformation SnO$_{2}$: An ab initio constant pressure study
Daniel Yehdego , Murat Durandurdu

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:30PM - 2:42PM

J3.00006: Study of the structural and spectroscopic properties of Zn based clusters by density functional theory
Venkata Chaganti , Rajendra Zope , Tunna Baruah

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Session J4: Plasmas, General Relativity, and Cosmology

Chair: Eric Hagedorn, The University of Texas at El Paso
Union East, 3rd Floor - Smiley


Saturday, October 18, 2008
1:30PM - 1:42PM

J4.00001: Modeling the FTICR-MS signal of a $^7$Be ion plasma using a 2D PIC code
M. Takeshi Nakata , Grant W. Hart , Bryan G. Peterson , Ross L. Spencer

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
1:42PM - 1:54PM

J4.00002: A New Design and Model for Plasma Spraying with an Inductively Coupled RF Plasma Torch
Eddie Holik III , Peter McIntyre , Akhdiyor Sattarov

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
1:54PM - 2:06PM

J4.00003: ICF Hohlraum Energy Loss Through Diagnostic Holes and Apertures
T.E. Tierney , R.G. Watt , H.E. Tierney , R.J. Kanzleiter , G.C. Idzorek , R.R. Peterson , M.R. Lopez , M.C. Jones

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:06PM - 2:18PM

J4.00004: Computational Analysis of the Decay Constant of $^{7}$Be$^{+}$ and $^{7}$BeH$^{+}$
Mark Hutchison , Bryan Peterson

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:18PM - 2:30PM

J4.00005: Chaos in General Relativity: Spinning Particles around Black Holes
Chris Verhaaren

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:30PM - 2:42PM

J4.00006: Constraint conserving boundary conditions in general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics
Michael Besselman

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:42PM - 2:54PM

J4.00007: The Contribution of The Cosmological Constant/Dark Energy to The Bending of Light and its Applications.
Mustapha Ishak , Wolfgang Rindler , Jason Dossett , Jacob Moldenhauer , Chris Allison

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:54PM - 3:06PM

J4.00008: Magnetized Stars in General Relativity
Eric Hirschmann , Jared Greenwald

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Session J5: Materials: General

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


Saturday, October 18, 2008
1:30PM - 1:42PM

J5.00001: Hyperpolarization Of Phosphorus Donors In Silicon
Eric Sorte , William Baker , Dane McCamey , Gernot Laicher , Christoph Boehme , Brian Saam

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
1:42PM - 1:54PM

J5.00002: Adiabatic Electron-Phonon Interaction at High Temperature in A15 Compounds
Jorge Munoz , Olivier Delaire , Matthew Lucas , Max Kresch , Brent Fultz

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
1:54PM - 2:06PM

J5.00003: Jump frequencies of Cd tracer atoms in L1$_{2}$ lanthanide stannides
Megan Lockwood , Gary S. Collins

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:06PM - 2:18PM

J5.00004: Pressure and magnetic field effects in heavy-fermion UCu$_{3.5}$Al$_{1.5}$
Farzana Nasreen , Karunakar Kothapalli , Heinz Nakotte , Abdel Alsmadi , Vivien Zapf , Frederik Fabris , Alex Lacerda , Jiri Kamarad

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:18PM - 2:30PM

J5.00005: Effects of Radiation Induced Conductivity on Samples Charged by Particle Beams
J.R. Dennison , Ryan Hoffmann , Jennifer Roth , Alec Sim

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:30PM - 2:42PM

J5.00006: Measuring the Surface Charge on an Insulated Sample in Vacuum
Jesse Hayes , Joshua Hodges , Ryan Hoffman , J.R. Dennison

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:42PM - 2:54PM

J5.00007: Observation and Characterization of Electrostatic Discharge in Insulating Materials Induced by Electron Beam Bombardment
Jennifer Roth , Ryan Hoffmann , J.R. Dennison

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:54PM - 3:06PM

J5.00008: Computational modeling on molybdenum sulfide grain boundary interfaces
Manuel Ramos

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Session J6: General Physics

Chair: Jean-Francois Van Huele, Brigham Young University
Union East, 3rd Floor - Wiggins


Saturday, October 18, 2008
1:30PM - 1:42PM

J6.00001: Constructing quantum localization operators using conformal symmetry
Lucas Earl , Jean-Francois Van Huele

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
1:42PM - 1:54PM

J6.00002: Application of Generalized Hamiltonian Dynamics to Modified Coulomb Potential
Julian Antolin Camarena , Eugene Oks

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
1:54PM - 2:06PM

J6.00003: Computing Energies and Properties of Small Molecules Using Fully Nonadiabatic Wavefunctions
Steve Alexander , R.L. Coldwell

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:06PM - 2:18PM

J6.00004: Efficiency of Accelerator Driven Thermal Thorium Nuclear Reactors
M.A.K. Lodhi , Mike Shubov

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:18PM - 2:30PM

J6.00005: Effective electromagnetic operators in the p-shell using the No-Core Shell Model formalism
Michael Kruse , Alexander Lisetskiy , Bruce Barrett , Petr Navr\'atil , Ionel Stetcu , James Vary

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:30PM - 2:42PM

J6.00006: Pion-Pion Scattering in the Rho Meson Region
Regina Azevedo , Ubirajara van Kolck

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:42PM - 2:54PM

J6.00007: Selectively Grown Silicon Nano-Wires for Transistor Devices
Jon Brame , Nathan Woods

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:54PM - 3:06PM

J6.00008: Nanoscale Electric Field Sensor-Development and Testing
Jon Brame , Nathan Woods

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Session J7: Graduate Student Panel

Chair: David Ernst, Vanderbilt University
Union East, 3rd Floor - Barry


Saturday, October 18, 2008
1:30PM - 3:00PM

J7.00001: Panel discussion on getting into and staying in graduate school
Invited Speaker: David Ernst

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