Session A1: General Experimental I

Shamrock Main - 261M

Friday, October 21, 2005
10:30AM - 10:42AM

A1.00001: Study of the Expansion of Ultracold Strontium Plasma
Priya Gupta , Clayton Simien , Sampad Laha , Thomas Killian

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Friday, October 21, 2005
10:42AM - 10:54AM

A1.00002: Ultracold Neutral Plasmas
Thomas Killian

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Friday, October 21, 2005
10:54AM - 11:06AM

A1.00003: Effect of Hydrogen on nitrogen incorporation in RF nitrogen plasma assisted chemical beam epitaxy of III-V dilute nitrides
Aristotelis Fotkatzikis , Alexandre Freundlich

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Friday, October 21, 2005
11:06AM - 11:18AM

A1.00004: Spectroscopic Determination of Strontium Scattering Lengths
Pascal Mickelson , S.B. Nagel , A.D. Saenz , Y.N. Martinez , Y.C. Chen , T.C. Killian , P. Pellegrini , R. Cote

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Friday, October 21, 2005
11:18AM - 11:30AM

A1.00005: IR-VIS-UV Coherent Light Source utilizing the combined Stimulated Raman Scattering / Collinear Raman Generation effect
Alexey Chugreev , Andrea Burzo , Alexei Sokolov

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Session A2: Condensed Matter I

Waldorf Astoria A - 210A

Friday, October 21, 2005
10:30AM - 10:42AM

A2.00001: Bipolar Resistive Switching: a Defect Driven Nonvolatile Memory
Stephen Tsui , Nilanjan Das , Yuyi Xue , C.W. Chu

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Friday, October 21, 2005
10:42AM - 10:54AM

A2.00002: Magnetic Phase Diagrams of Hexagonal RMnO$_{3}$ (R = Ho, Tm, Er)
Fei Yen , Bernd Lorenz , M.M. Gospodinov , C.W. Chu

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Friday, October 21, 2005
10:54AM - 11:06AM

A2.00003: Magnetic Structure of Ce(Mn$_{1-x}$Cu$_{x})_{2}$Si$_{2}$
Gan Liang , F. Yen , S. Keith , Y.Y. Xue

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Friday, October 21, 2005
11:06AM - 11:18AM

A2.00004: Electron Correlation and Charge Transfer in (Ba$_{0.9}$Nd$_{0.1})$CuO$_{2+\delta }$/(CaCuO$_{2})_{2 }$ Superconducting Superlattices
Byron Freelon , Andreas Augustsson , Jinghua Guo , Pier Gianni Medaglia , Antonio Tebano , Giusseppe Balsestrino

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Friday, October 21, 2005
11:18AM - 11:30AM

A2.00005: Enhanced Jc OF Multi-layer YBa$_{2}$Cu$_{3}$O$_{x}$ Films
Zhenyu Zuo , Ruling Meng , Tom Johansen , Irene A. Rusakova , Andrei Baikalov , Duc Pham , Cheng Fen , Ching-Wu Chu

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Session A3: Theory I

Waldorf Astoria B - 210B

Friday, October 21, 2005
10:30AM - 10:42AM

A3.00001: A study of time reversal violation in two mechanisms through spin dependent total cross section measurements
Guanghua Xu

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Friday, October 21, 2005
10:42AM - 10:54AM

A3.00002: Quantum transport in chains with noisy off-diagonal couplings
Anderey Pereverzev , Eric Bittner

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Friday, October 21, 2005
10:54AM - 11:06AM

A3.00003: Bohmian Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and Ehrenfest's Theorem for Energy
Donald Kobe

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Friday, October 21, 2005
11:06AM - 11:18AM

A3.00004: Physics of Quantum Cascade Raman lasers
Feng Xie , Alexey Belyanin

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Friday, October 21, 2005
11:18AM - 11:30AM

A3.00005: Integrable Cousin of a One-Dimensional Gravitating System
Kenneth Yawn , Bruce Miller

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Session A4: Poster Session I

Waldorf Astoria - Lobby




A4.00001: An SEM study on the effect of strain rate on the deformation process of amorphous Cu-Nb alloy thin films using nanoindentation
Stephen Myers , Suman Vadlakonda , Reza Mirshams , Rajarshi Banerjee

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A4.00002: Positron annihilation spectroscopy study of polymers and organic liquids
Paul Arpin , C.A. Quarles

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A4.00003: Waking an Anemic Giant: Exploring a Recently Discovered Circumnuclear Star Forming Ring
Sarah Dorn , Pamela Marcum , Michael Fanelli

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A4.00004: Binding of Two Photoactive Molecules to Tubulin
Lorenzo Brancaleon , Fang Tian

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A4.00005: Electronic structure and dynamics of microhydrated DNA base clusters
Valoris Smith , Elena Samoylova , Thomas Schultz , Hans-Hermann Ritze , I.V. Hertel

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A4.00006: Study of poly[N-isopropylacrylamide-co-Glycidyl Methacrylate] Particle Size Under the Effects of Varying Phase Ratio, Initiator Dose and Temperature
Nicole Fox , Jun Zhou , Zhibing Hu

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A4.00007: Bragg Diffraction as an Indicator of Hydrogel Crystal Uniformity
William Estabrook , Tong Cai , Zhibing Hu

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A4.00008: Planarizing Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Fibers
Michelle Prewitt , Nolan Nicholas , Jae Jang , Erik Haroz , Myung Kim , Hongwei Shan , Richard Smalley

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A4.00009: Characterization of MEMS Deformable Mirrors for Wavefront Control in Extreme Adaptive Optics
Layra Reza

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A4.00010: Elastic properties, Mossbauer spectra and phonon density of states in FexCr1-x alloys
Tomas Hernandez , Matthew S. Lucas , Brent Fultz

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A4.00011: Balloon and Satellite Observations of Substorm Activity
Brandon Reddell , Edgar Bering

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A4.00012: Terrace Width Distributions for Stepped Crystal Surfaces: An Ensemble Approach
Ryan P. Jacob , Howard L. Richards

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A4.00013: Investigation of bremsstrahlung radiation from slabs of different thickness with PENELOPE
Keith Hayton , C.A. Quarles

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A4.00014: Electronic Band Structure Investigation of GaP$_{1-x}$N$_{x}$/GaAs$_{1-x}$N$_{x}$ Superlattices Lattice-matched to Si
Wenkai Zhu , Lekhnath Bhusal , Andenet Alemu , Alex Freundlich

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