Session B1: CM1: Condensed Matter

Chair: Artem Abanov, Texas A&M University
Rudder Tower - 401


Friday, October 19, 2007
10:40AM - 10:52AM

B1.00001: Bose-Einstein Condensate in solid helium
Souleymane Diallo , Henry Glyde

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Friday, October 19, 2007
10:52AM - 11:04AM

B1.00002: Molecular Production at a wide Feshbach resonance in Fermi-gas of cooled atoms
Deqiang Sun , Artem Abanov , Valery Pokrovsky

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Friday, October 19, 2007
11:04AM - 11:16AM

B1.00003: Quantum Vortex Dynamics in two-dimensional neutral superfuids
Cheng-Ching Wang , Rembert Duine , Allan MacDonald

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Friday, October 19, 2007
11:16AM - 11:28AM

B1.00004: The Fourier-Bessel Method
Patrick Nash

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Friday, October 19, 2007
11:28AM - 11:40AM

B1.00005: Continuous Neel to Bloch transition as thickness increases: statics and dynamics
Konstantin Romanov , Kirill Rivkin , Yury Adamov , Artem Abanov , Wayne Saslow , Valery Pokrovsky

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Friday, October 19, 2007
11:40AM - 11:52AM

B1.00006: Comparisons of Different Particle-Chain Methods for Path Integral Monte Carlo Methods
Terrence Reese , Bruce Miller

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Friday, October 19, 2007
11:52AM - 12:04PM

B1.00007: Many-Body Density Matrix Perturbation Theory
C.J. Tymczak , Anders Niklasson

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Friday, October 19, 2007
12:04PM - 12:16PM

B1.00008: Statistical Mechanical Proof of the Second Law of Thermodynamics based on Volume Entropy
Michele Campisi

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Session B2: AMO1: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

Chair: Olga Kocharovskaya, Texas A&M University
Rudder Tower - 501


Friday, October 19, 2007
10:40AM - 10:52AM

B2.00001: Coherent Control of Trapped Bosons
Analabha Roy , Linda Reichl

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Friday, October 19, 2007
10:52AM - 11:04AM

B2.00002: Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Self-similar Expansion Studies in Ultracold Neutral Plasmas
Jose Castro , Hong Gao , Priya Gupta , Sampad Laha , Clayton Simien , Thomas Killian

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Friday, October 19, 2007
11:04AM - 11:16AM

B2.00003: Coherent Slowing of a Pulsed Supersonic Beam with an Atomic Paddle
Isaac Chavez , Edvardas Narevicius , Adam Libson , Max Riedel , Christian Parthey , Uzi Even , Mark Raizen

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Friday, October 19, 2007
11:16AM - 11:28AM

B2.00004: Fluctuations of Particle Number in Two-component Interacting Bose-Einstein Condensate.
Andrii Sizhuk , Anatoly Svidzinsky , Marlan Scully

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Friday, October 19, 2007
11:28AM - 11:40AM

B2.00005: Single-Photon Atomic Cooling
Travis Bannerman , Gabriel Price , Kirsten Viering , Ed Narevicius , Mark Raizen

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Friday, October 19, 2007
11:40AM - 11:52AM

B2.00006: Optical Pumping in Ultracold Neutral Plasma.
Hong Gao , Jose Castro , Clayton E. Simien , Sampad Laha , Thomas C. Killian

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Friday, October 19, 2007
11:52AM - 12:04PM

B2.00007: Phase Diagram of a Polarized Fermi Gas Across a Feshbach
Wenhui Li , Yean-an Liao , Guthrie B. Partridge , R.G. Hulet

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Friday, October 19, 2007
12:04PM - 12:16PM

B2.00008: Pulsed Magnetic Slowing of Atoms and Molecules
Christian G. Parthey , Edvardas Narevicius , Adam Libson , Julia Narevicius , Isaac Chavez , Uzi Even , Mark G. Raizen

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Friday, October 19, 2007
12:16PM - 12:28PM

B2.00009: Quantum Contextuality and Einsteinian Realism
Brian La Cour

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Session B3: HEN1: High Energy/Nuclear

Chair: Robert Webb, Texas A&M University
Rudder Tower - 701


Friday, October 19, 2007
10:40AM - 10:52AM

B3.00001: Comparing Methods for Multivariate Classifier Training Variable Selection using the Search for the Scalar Top Quark as a Case Study.
Dennis Mackin

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Friday, October 19, 2007
10:52AM - 11:04AM

B3.00002: Searches for a Dark Matter Candidate in Particle Physics Experiments at the Fermilab Tevatron
Paul Geffert , Max Goncharov , Eunsin Lee , Rishi Patel , David Toback , Peter Wagner , Vyacheslav Krutelyov

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Friday, October 19, 2007
11:04AM - 11:16AM

B3.00003: Probing 23{\%} of the Universe at the Large Hadron Collider
Alfredo Gurrola , Richard Arnowitt , Bhaskar Dutta , Teruki Kamon , Abram Krislock , Dave Toback

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Friday, October 19, 2007
11:16AM - 11:28AM

B3.00004: Dark Matter Relic Density and Supersymmetry at the LHC
Jonathan Asaadi

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Friday, October 19, 2007
11:28AM - 11:40AM

B3.00005: Heavy-Quark diffusion in the Quark-Gluon Plasma
Hendrik van Hees , Massimo Mannarelli , Vincenzo Greco , Ralf Rapp

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Friday, October 19, 2007
11:40AM - 11:52AM

B3.00006: Transverse-momentum dependence of $J/\psi$ suppression in heavy-ion collisions
Xingbo Zhao , Ralf Rapp

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Friday, October 19, 2007
11:52AM - 12:04PM

B3.00007: Systematic Statistical Study of NAHE Based String Models
Tim Renner , Jared Greenwald , Gerald Cleaver

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Friday, October 19, 2007
12:04PM - 12:16PM

B3.00008: Heterotic Strings on Mirror Half-Flat Manifolds
Tibra Ali , Gerald Cleaver

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Session B4: AS1: Astrophysics, Space Physics, Astronomy and Cosmology

Chair: Kevin Krisciunas, Texas A&M University
Rudder Tower - 510


Friday, October 19, 2007
10:40AM - 10:52AM

B4.00001: Testing a New Method of Detecting RR Lyrae Variable Stars
W. Lee Powell Jr. , Ronald Wilhelm , Gwen Armstrong , Stephen Torrence

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Friday, October 19, 2007
10:52AM - 11:04AM

B4.00002: Investigation of Element Processing in the Crab Nebula
Tim Satterfield , Gordon MacAlpine

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Friday, October 19, 2007
11:04AM - 11:16AM

B4.00003: VI CCD Photometry of the Old Open Clusters IC 361 and Berkeley 78.
Amy Jones , Randy Phelps

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Friday, October 19, 2007
11:16AM - 11:28AM

B4.00004: Untangling the M Cloud Within the Local Supercluster
Mike Fanelli , Lindsay Anderson

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Friday, October 19, 2007
11:28AM - 11:40AM

B4.00005: A Search for Parsec-scale Radio Jets in Faint Quasar and Radio Galaxy Nuclei
David Hough , Christian Aars

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Friday, October 19, 2007
11:40AM - 11:52AM

B4.00006: Simulations of the Cleft Ion Fountain outflows resulting from the passage of Storm Enhanced Density (SED) plasma flux tubes through the dayside cleft auroral processes region
James Horwitz , Wen Zeng

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Friday, October 19, 2007
11:52AM - 12:04PM

B4.00007: Compact representations of high-latitude ionospheric outflows
James Horwitz , Wen Zeng

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Friday, October 19, 2007
12:04PM - 12:16PM

B4.00008: Formation of O$^{+}$ trough zones in the polar cap ionosphere-magnetosphere coupling region: Dynamic Fluid-Kinetic Simulations
James Horwitz , Wen Zeng , Fajer Jaafari

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Session B5: GEN1: Biological, Chemical and General Physics

Chair: Alexei Sokolov, Texas A&M University
Rudder Tower - 504


Friday, October 19, 2007
10:40AM - 10:52AM

B5.00001: A Swept Wavelength Optical Resonant Raman Detector (SWOrRD) for Bio-detection.
Charles Manka , Jacob Grun , Dan Zabetakis , Sergei Nikitin , Gelu Comanescu , Jeff Bowles , David Gillis

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Friday, October 19, 2007
10:52AM - 11:04AM

B5.00002: Towards Single-Shot Detection of Bacterial Endospores via Coherent Raman Spectroscopy
Dmitry Pestov , Xi Wang , Gombojav Ariunbold , Robert Murawski , Vladimir Sautenkov , Alexei Sokolov , Marlan Scully

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Friday, October 19, 2007
11:04AM - 11:16AM

B5.00003: Microfabricated Devices for Control of Electric and Magnetic Fields on Cellular Length Scales
Daniel Stark , Laura Timmerman , Lisa Biswal , Robert Raphael , Thomas Killian

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Friday, October 19, 2007
11:16AM - 11:28AM

B5.00004: Vibratonal Spectra and DFT calculations of dipicolinic acid and its calcium salt
Kathleen McCann , Jaan Laane

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Friday, October 19, 2007
11:28AM - 11:40AM

B5.00005: Surface Engineering for Microtubule Manipulation
John Noel , Winfried Teizer , Wonmuk Hwang

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Friday, October 19, 2007
11:40AM - 11:52AM

B5.00006: Conformation transition of betaA in solution and on surface of lipid bilayer
Liming Qiu , Andrew Reay , Qing Zhu , Mark Vaughn , Kwan Cheng

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Friday, October 19, 2007
11:52AM - 12:04PM

B5.00007: Emergence of Alpha and Gamma Like Rhythms in a Large Scale Simulation of Interacting Neurons
Philipp Gaebler , Bruce Miller

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Session B6: P1: Poster Session I: Condensed Matter and Atomic, Molecular, and Optical

Chair: Andrea Burzo, Texas A&M University
MSC - 292





B6.00001: Optical Techniques for the Measurement of Nanoscale Hydrogel Crystal Particles
Preston Kendall , Chenglin Chi , Wells Estabrook , Tong Cai , Zhibing Hu

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B6.00002: Optical Characterization of the Ho$^{3+}$ Complex in HEMA
Manuel Rodriguez III , Dhiraj Sardar , Kelly Nash , Raylon Yow , John Gruber

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B6.00003: Effects of Sintering Temperature on Superconductivity in undoped and SiC-doped MgB$_{2}$/Ti Wires
Cad Hoyt , Hui Fang , John Douglas , K. West , Gan Liang , Samaresh Guchhait , John Markert

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B6.00004: Spectroscopic and thermal studies of amino acid doped Potassium Dihydrogen Phosphate crystals
Jayesh Govani , Mihir Joshi , Dipak Dave , Ketan Parikh , Felicia Manciu

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B6.00005: Effects of Gasses on the Thermal Etching Properties of Graphene Nanoribbons
Jason Jones , Phillip Ecton , Yudong Mo , Brian Gorman , David Diercks , Thomas Scharf , Jose Perez

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B6.00006: Spectroscopic studies of particulate formation in fuel blends
Felicia Manciu , Mahesh Subramanya , Jayesh Govani , Ahsan Choudhuri

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B6.00007: Ion Beam Analysis of Thin Films on Silicon and Carbon Substrates
Pelham Keahey , J'Nae Zwaschka , Lucas Phinney , Lee Mitchell , Khalid Hossian , Jerome Duggan

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B6.00008: Growth and Characterization of Wide Band Gap Semiconductors (Zinc Oxide, Zinc Sulfide)
Jeffrey Schwartz , Jose Perez , Yudong Mo

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B6.00009: Thioindigo Interaction with Palygorskite and Sepiolite
Alejandra Ramirez , Russell Chianelli , Sridhar Komarneni , Swati Kumar

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B6.00010: Surface and optical analyses of a dye-mineral composite -- an XPS, FTIR and Raman study
William Durrer , Felicia Manciu , Alejandra Ramirez , Russell Chianelli

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B6.00011: Optical phonon modes of PbSe nanoparticles - a Raman and infrared study
Francisco Carreto , Felicia Manciu , Yudhisthira Sahoo , Paras Prasad

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B6.00012: Anomalous Angular Nonstoichiometric Sputtering Yield of a Ga-In Eutectic Target
Mariel Kerbacher , J.W. Deaton , L.R. Burns , N.T. Deoli , D.L. Weathers

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B6.00013: Fabrication of Nanodopatterns Using Microphase Separation of Block Copolymer
Andrew Bradshaw , Takuo Tanaka , Nobuyuki Takeyasu , Atsushi Taguchi , Satoshi Kawata

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B6.00014: Photon trajectories in multiple slit interference experiments with femtosecond pulses of light?
Luis Grave de Peralta , Ayrton Bernussi

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B6.00015: Creating an Inexpensive Grid for Monte Carlo Calculations
Sean Smith , Steve Alexander , Stephen Foster , Nathan Lindzey , Robert S. Potter , Walter M. Potter , Jon. T Rogers , Carl West , R.L. Coldwell , S. Datta

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B6.00016: A Mathematical Model to Derive the Lorentz Factor, Zero Velocity, and Length Contractions (Finding a Privileged Reference Point)
Richard Selvaggi , Charles Rogers

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B6.00017: Using Genetic Algorithms to Converge on Molecules with Specific Properties
Stephen Foster , Nathan Lindzey , Jon Rogers , Carl West , Walt Potter , Sean Smith , Steven Alexander

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B6.00018: Using Zero Velocity to Explain the Michelson-Morley and 2007 Rogers-Selvaggi-Chen Experiment
Richard Selvaggi , Charles Rogers

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B6.00019: Spectroscopic properties of Ho$^{3+}$ in Ho$^{3+}$:Y$_{2}$O$_{3}$ Nanocrystals
Douglas Dee , Kelly Nash , John Gruber , Dhiraj Sardar

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B6.00020: Absorption Intensities Analysis of Ho$^{3+}$:KPb$_{2}$Cl$_{5}$
Sreerenjini Chandrasekharan , Kelly L. Nash , John B. Gruber , Dhiraj K. Sardar

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B6.00021: Frequency Dependence of the Dielectric Response of Select Materials at Microwave Frequencies
R. Caufield , J. Roberts , J. Dahiya , A. Anand , B. Johnson

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B6.00022: A New Max-Min Variational, Semi-Definite Programming Based, Quantization Procedure.
Carlos Handy

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Session B7: AAPTK12: AAPT Pre-College Teaching and Teacher Education-Honoring Robert Beck Clark

Chair: Thomas O'Kuma, Lee College
Rudder Tower - 707


Friday, October 19, 2007
10:40AM - 11:00AM

B7.00001: Physics Enhancement Program (PEP) at TAMU: What is Was and What it Accomplished
Bill Franklin

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Friday, October 19, 2007
11:00AM - 11:20AM

B7.00002: PEPTYC- Multiple Perspectives of the PEPTYC Professional Development Model
Todd Leif

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Friday, October 19, 2007
11:20AM - 11:40AM

B7.00003: Passionately PTRA
Evelyn Restivo

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Friday, October 19, 2007
11:40AM - 11:52AM

B7.00004: Two-Year Colleges Have a Role in Teacher Preparation
April Moore

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Friday, October 19, 2007
11:52AM - 12:04PM

B7.00005: Pre-service Teachers Learn the Nature of Science in Simulated Worlds
Jill Marshall

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Friday, October 19, 2007
12:04PM - 12:16PM

B7.00006: Correlation of Symbols and Units in AP Physics and AP Chemistry
Andrzej Sokolowski

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Friday, October 19, 2007
12:16PM - 12:28PM

B7.00007: ATE Program for Physics Faculty
Thomas O'Kuma

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