2007 APS Four Corners Section/SPS Zone 16 Joint Fall Meeting
Volume 52, Number 14
Friday–Saturday, October 19–20, 2007;
Flagstaff, Arizona
Session Index
Session J1: Condensed Matter: Structure and Theory
Chair: Clark Snow, Sandia National Laboratories
Room: Chemistry (Bldg. 20) Room 224
Saturday, October 20, 2007
11:00AM - 11:12AM
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J1.00001: Simulated models of perturbed angular correlation (PAC) spectroscopy in a 4-state+S system
Jeffery A. Hodges, Michael A. Stufflebeam, William E. Evenson, P. Matheson, M.O. Zacate
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Saturday, October 20, 2007
11:12AM - 11:24AM
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J1.00002: Simulated models of inhomogeneous broadening in perturbed angular correlation spectroscopy (PAC)
Michael A. Stufflebeam, Jeffery A. Hodges, William E. Evenson, P. Matheson, M.O. Zacate
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Saturday, October 20, 2007
11:24AM - 11:36AM
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J1.00003: Structural phase transformations with plasticity using the Landau-Ginzburg theory
Roman Gr\"oger, Turab Lookman
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Saturday, October 20, 2007
11:36AM - 11:48AM
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J1.00004: How Does Nature Choose? A Combinatorial Approach to Preferred Chemical Ordering in Perovskite Structures.
Matthew Lords, Erin Gilmartin, Gus Hart
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Saturday, October 20, 2007
11:48AM - 12:00PM
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J1.00005: AC Conductivity in Hopping Systems
David H. Dunlap
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Saturday, October 20, 2007
12:00PM - 12:12PM
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J1.00006: Fluxon relaxation in superconductors
Kurt Stangel, Ralph Chamberlin, Nathan Newman, Jianyi Jiang, Brian Moeckly
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Session J2: Condensed Matter: First Principles Calculations
Chair: Mark Riffe, Utah State University
Room: Chemistry (Bldg. 20) Room 225
Session J3: Particles and Fields
Chair: Keith Dienes, University of Arizona
Room: Chemistry (Bldg. 20) Room 233
Saturday, October 20, 2007
11:00AM - 11:12AM
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J3.00001: Effective Field Theories for Kaluza-Klein Modes
Sky Bauman
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Saturday, October 20, 2007
11:12AM - 11:24AM
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J3.00002: Generating Order 2 and 4 Free-Fermionic NAHE-Based Heterotic Models
Jared Greenwald
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Saturday, October 20, 2007
11:24AM - 11:36AM
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J3.00003: Oscillation Amplitude for Neutrino Wave Packets
Luca Visinelli
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Saturday, October 20, 2007
11:36AM - 11:48AM
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J3.00004: Directional recoil rate for direct detection of WIMPs
Moqbil Alenazi, Paolo Gondolo
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Saturday, October 20, 2007
11:48AM - 12:00PM
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J3.00005: Signals for Lorentz Violation in Gravitational Experiments
Quentin Bailey
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Saturday, October 20, 2007
12:00PM - 12:12PM
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J3.00006: Electrodynamic Image Problem of a Moving Charge and a Conducting Sphere Using Conformal Transformations
Himal Rathnakumara, Manuel Berrondo
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Saturday, October 20, 2007
12:12PM - 12:24PM
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J3.00007: Inertia (mass) as a relativistic property of a fundamental wavefunction.
Alexander Panin
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Session J4: General Physics: Essentials and Pedagogy
Chair: Jean-Francois Van Huele, Brigham Young University
Room: Physical Sciences (Bldg. 19) Room 321
Saturday, October 20, 2007
11:00AM - 11:36AM
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J4.00001: Einstein's \emph{last} derivation of $E = mc^2$
Invited Speaker:
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Saturday, October 20, 2007
11:36AM - 11:48AM
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J4.00002: Energy Challenges
C. Bruce Johnson
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Saturday, October 20, 2007
11:48AM - 12:00PM
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J4.00003: Quantum-mechanical time evolution of Gaussian wavepackets in an arbitrarily time-dependent, spatially quadratic potential: How Bohm makes things simple
Gary Bowman, Michelle McMillan
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Saturday, October 20, 2007
12:00PM - 12:12PM
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J4.00004: What is proportional reasoning, anyway?
Keron Subero, Stephen Kanim
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Saturday, October 20, 2007
12:12PM - 12:24PM
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J4.00005: A Study of Peer Instruction in Large Enrollment Astronomy Courses
Mark C. James
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