2006 Four Corners Section of the APS Fall Meeting
Friday–Saturday, October 6–7, 2006;
Logan, Utah
Session Index
Session D1: Thin Films and Quantum Dots
Chair: Heinz Nakotte, New Mexico State University
Room: Eccles Conference Center Room 216
Friday, October 6, 2006
1:30PM - 1:42PM
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D1.00001: The Effect of Voltage Ramp Rate on Dielectric Breakdown of Thin Film Polymers
Anthomas Thomas, J. Dennison, Steve Hart, Ryan Hoffmann
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Friday, October 6, 2006
1:42PM - 1:54PM
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D1.00002: Orientation Studies of Recrystallized Vanadium Dioxide
Felipe Rivera, Laurel Burk, Robert Davis, Richard Vanfleet
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Friday, October 6, 2006
1:54PM - 2:06PM
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D1.00003: Characterization of Crystallization of Silicon on Alumina
Brady Cox
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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:06PM - 2:18PM
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D1.00004: Characterization of GeSbTe Thin Films for Phase-Change Applications
C.D. Grijalva, C.E. Inglefield, T. Herring, Heng Li, P.C. Taylor
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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:18PM - 2:30PM
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D1.00005: Morphological study on dot-chains using molecular beam epitaxy and \textit{in-situ} scanning tunneling microscopy
Haeyeon Yang, Dongjun Kim, Edward Everett, Richard Wilson
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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:30PM - 2:42PM
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D1.00006: Linear alignment of InGaAs quantum dots on nominal GaAs(001) surfaces
Dong Jun Kim, Addison Everett, Haeyeon Yang
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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:42PM - 2:54PM
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D1.00007: Variation and effects of As$_{4}$ flux on morphology of InGaAs quantum dots
E. Addison Everett, Dong Jun Kim, Haeyeon Yang
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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:54PM - 3:06PM
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D1.00008: Structural Characterization of Nanopolar Domains in PZN-PT
Vayee Vue, Branton Campbell
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Session D2: Bio-related Physics
Chair: Jean Francois Van Huele, Brigham Young University
Room: Eccles Conference Center Room 205/207
Friday, October 6, 2006
1:30PM - 2:06PM
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D2.00001: Developing Serial Diffraction and Microdroplet Beams for Protein Structure Determination
Invited Speaker:
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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:06PM - 2:18PM
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D2.00002: Fabrication, Cleaning, and Filtering of Microscopic Droplet Beam Nozzles
J. Warner, M. Hunter, U. Weierstall, J.C.H. Spence, R.B. Doak
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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:18PM - 2:30PM
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D2.00003: Breathing interplay effects during proton radiation therapy and development of repainting solutions
Daniel Robertson, Joao Seco, Alexei Trofimov, Harald Paganetti
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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:30PM - 2:42PM
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D2.00004: Lead Levels in Utah Eagles
Michelle Arnold
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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:42PM - 2:54PM
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D2.00005: Modeling Wave Propagation in Cells and Tissues at the Microscopic Level
Timothy Doyle, Keith Warnick
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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:54PM - 3:06PM
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D2.00006: Energy Computation for nanopore DNA sequencing with an AFM
Shahid Qamar
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Session D3: Plasmas and Fusion
Chair: Ross Spencer, Brigham Young University
Room: Eccles Conference Center Room 201/203
Friday, October 6, 2006
1:30PM - 1:42PM
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D3.00001: Collisional Braginskii closure vs. the integral closure and closing the fluid equations
J.-Y. Ji, E.D. Held
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Friday, October 6, 2006
1:42PM - 1:54PM
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D3.00002: General parallel closures for tokamak plasmas
M. Sharma, J.-Y. Ji, E.D. Held
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Friday, October 6, 2006
1:54PM - 2:06PM
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D3.00003: Implementation and Analysis of 4$^{th}$ Order CWENO Reconstruction for use in Relativisitic MHD Simulations
Nicholas Nelson, David Neilsen
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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:06PM - 2:18PM
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D3.00004: Non-local plasma heat flow in a perturbed magnetic field
John James, Eric Held
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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:18PM - 2:30PM
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D3.00005: Effects of Generalized Ion Stress on Plasma Sound Waves
Michael Addae-Kagyah, Eric Held
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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:30PM - 2:42PM
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D3.00006: Construction of a Low-energy Single-wire Z-pinch Apparatus for Metal-catalyzed Fusion Studies
Shannon Walch, Steven Jones, John Ellsworth
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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:42PM - 2:54PM
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D3.00007: Hollow Plasma Instability: Theory vs. Experiment
Melissa Powell, Grant Mason, Ross Spencer
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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:54PM - 3:06PM
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D3.00008: Evidence of New Plasma Equilibrium State Sought
William Edwards, Eric Held, Ajay Singh, Jeremy Bishop
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Friday, October 6, 2006
3:06PM - 3:18PM
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D3.00009: Generalized Stationary States for Fusion Plasmas
E.D. Held, W.F. Edwards, A. Kullberg
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Session D4: General Physics and Physics Education
Chair: Brian Pyper, Brigham Young University-Idaho
Room: Eccles Conference Center Room 305
Friday, October 6, 2006
1:30PM - 1:42PM
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D4.00001: Quantum-mechanical time evolution and uniform forces
Gary Bowman
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Friday, October 6, 2006
1:42PM - 1:54PM
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D4.00002: Searching for photon rest-mass with ion interferometry
Dan Christensen, Brian Neyenhuis, Ross Spencer, Dallin Durfee
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Friday, October 6, 2006
1:54PM - 2:06PM
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D4.00003: Experiences Teaching Inquiry-Based Physics to Prospective Elementary School Teachers
Bill Tiernan
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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:06PM - 2:18PM
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D4.00004: Why are you in Physics, Anyway?
Shem Thompson, Brian Pyper
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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:18PM - 2:30PM
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D4.00005: Threatened by Gender?
Candice Humpherys, Brian Pyper
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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:30PM - 2:42PM
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D4.00006: Does Size Matter? Searching for Rhyme or Reason in Course-End Student Surveys in a Large, Eclectic Physics Department
David Peak
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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:42PM - 2:54PM
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D4.00007: A Lecture Hall Sized Color Mixing Apparatus
James Coburn
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Friday, October 6, 2006
2:54PM - 3:06PM
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D4.00008: Einstein's Meanders
Bradley Carroll
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Friday, October 6, 2006
3:06PM - 3:18PM
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D4.00009: Twisting Relativity Part II: Gravity Behaving Badly
Jerry W. Jensen
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