Bulletin of the American Physical Society

2011 Annual Meeting of the Four Corners Section of the APS

Volume 56, Number 11

Friday–Saturday, October 21–22, 2011; Tuscon, Arizona

Session Index

Session K1: AMO II: Cold Atoms, Quantum Information

Chair: Alex Cronin, University of Arizona
Room: UA Student Union South Ballroom

Saturday, October 22, 2011 8:30AM - 8:42AM		K1.00001: Generation and pinning of high winding-number vortices in Bose-Einstein condensates E. Carlo Samson, Kali Wilson, Zachary Newman, Ewan Wright, Brian P. Anderson Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2011 8:42AM - 8:54AM		K1.00002: Resonance Imaging and Coherent Transport of Atoms in an Optical Lattice Jae Hoon Lee, Enrique Montano, Daniel Hemmer, Ivan Deutsch, Poul Jessen Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2011 8:54AM - 9:06AM		K1.00003: Quantum State Tomography via Continuous Measurement of Laser Cooled Cesium Atoms Aaron Smith, Brian Anderson, Hector Sosa, Poul Jessen, Carlos Riofrio, Ivan Deutsch Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2011 9:06AM - 9:18AM		K1.00004: Polarizability measurements of the alkalis using an atom interferometer Ivan Hromada, William Holmgren, Raisa Trubko, Joseph Ronan, Alexander Cronin Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2011 9:18AM - 9:30AM		K1.00005: Quantum Control of the 133Cs Full Hyperfine Ground Manifold Brian Anderson, Aaron Smith, Hector Sosa, Poul Jessen, Carlos Riofrio, Ivan Deutsch Preview Abstract

Session K2: Carbon Nanostructures I

Chair: Brian LeRoy, University of Arizona
Room: UA Student Union Ventana

Saturday, October 22, 2011 8:30AM - 8:42AM		K2.00001: Low-Z, Chemically Resistant, Microfabricated Carbon Composite Transmission Electron Microscope Grids Kyle Zufelt, Richard Vanfleet, Robert Davis Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2011 8:42AM - 8:54AM		K2.00002: Mechanical and Electrical Properties of Carbon Nanotube Templated Metal Microstructures Richard Hansen, David McKenna, Brian Jensen, Richard Vanfleet, Robert Davis, David Allred Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2011 8:54AM - 9:06AM		K2.00003: Edge effects in chemical vapor deposition grown graphene Matthew Yankowitz Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2011 9:06AM - 9:18AM		K2.00004: The number of transmission channels through a buckyball Jarred Hudson, Michael Stefferson, Charles Stafford Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2011 9:18AM - 9:30AM		K2.00005: Scanning tunneling spectroscopy of graphene on boron nitride Jiamin Xue, Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi, Danny Bulmash, Philippe Jacquod, Aparna Deshpande, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Brian LeRoy Preview Abstract

Session K3: Magnetic Systems

Chair: Shufeng Zhang, University of Arizona
Room: UA Student Union Agave

Saturday, October 22, 2011 8:30AM - 8:42AM		K3.00001: Multiferroic Effects in W-type Hexagonal Ferrites Yiyan Sun, Young-Yeal Song, Zihui Wang, Daryl Freeman, Mingzhong Wu Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2011 8:42AM - 8:54AM		K3.00002: Damping Constant in Perpendicular Recording Media Lei Lu, Michael Kabatek, Mingzhong Wu Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2011 8:54AM - 9:06AM		K3.00003: Micromagnetic simulations of antivortex formation Martin Asmat-Uceda, Kristen Buchanan Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2011 9:06AM - 9:18AM		K3.00004: Combining symmetry-mode analysis and magnetic symmetry to characterize a magnetic structure Eric Gibbs, Branton Campbell, Juan Lopes Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2011 9:18AM - 9:30AM		K3.00005: Electric field control of interface magnetic anisotropy Lei Xu, Shufeng Zhang Preview Abstract

Session K4: Cosmology and Galactic Structure and Formation

Chair: Drew Milsom, University of Arizona
Room: UA Student Union Copper

Saturday, October 22, 2011 8:30AM - 8:42AM		K4.00001: Summer 2011 VERITAS Observations of Blazar BL Lac Spencer Hatch Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2011 8:42AM - 8:54AM		K4.00002: Correlation Between the Effective Neutrino Number and Curvature Aaron Smith Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2011 8:54AM - 9:06AM		K4.00003: Stellar Archeology : Chemical Compositions and Kinematics Bayard Stringer, Bruce Carney Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2011 9:06AM - 9:18AM		K4.00004: A recipe for seeds: Growing SMBHs from PBHs James Chisholm Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2011 9:18AM - 9:30AM		K4.00005: Classification of Galaxies in the Clowes-Campusano Large Quasar Group Drake Ranquist, Lutz Haberzettl Preview Abstract

Session K5: Experimental High Energy Physics

Chair: Elliott Cheu, University of Arizona
Room: UA Student Union Presidio

Saturday, October 22, 2011 8:30AM - 8:42AM		K5.00001: Measurement of the Properties of $\Sigma _{b}^{(\ast )\pm }$ with the CDF II Experiment Prabhakar Palni Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2011 8:42AM - 8:54AM		K5.00002: Measurement of the Top-Pair Differential Cross Section with pp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV at ATLAS R. Matt Leone Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2011 8:54AM - 9:06AM		K5.00003: Searching for Top Quark Pair Resonances using Boosted Top Jets in the Lepton Plus Jets Channel using pp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with ATLAS Sam Silva Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2011 9:06AM - 9:18AM		K5.00004: Searching for t-tbar Resonances in the Lepton plus Jets Channel using pp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with ATLAS Fionnbarr O'Grady Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2011 9:18AM - 9:30AM		K5.00005: SUSY Searches at ATLAS in Multilepton Final States with Jets and Missing Transverse Energy Caleb Lampen Preview Abstract

Session K6: Applied Physics II

Chair: Koen Visscher, University of Arizona
Room: UA Student Union Santa Cruz

Saturday, October 22, 2011 8:30AM - 8:42AM		K6.00001: Electrode-electrolyte impedance due to polarization: influence of surface roughness Brian Mazzeo, Efren Cruz Cortes, Brett Mellor Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2011 8:42AM - 8:54AM		K6.00002: Dielectric function of Ni-Pt alloys from 0.6 to 6.6 eV by spectroscopic ellipsometry L.S. Abdallah, S. Zollner, C. Lavoie, A. Ozcan, M. Raymond Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2011 8:54AM - 9:06AM		K6.00003: Carbon Nanotube Templated Microfabrication of Nickel-Plated Size Exclusion Filters Ryan Badger Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2011 9:06AM - 9:18AM		K6.00004: Low-cost broadband RF impedance spectroscopy in micromachined microfluidic channels Shiul Khadka, Bryan Blankenagel, Matthieu Giraud-Carrier, Aaron Hawkins, Karl Warnick, Brian Mazzeo Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2011 9:18AM - 9:30AM		K6.00005: Field Performance of Photovoltaic Systems in the Tucson Desert Sean Orsburn, Adria Brooks, Daniel Cormode, James Greenberg, Garrett Hardesty, Vincent Lonij, Anas Salhab, Tyler St. Germaine, Gabe Torres, Alexander Cronin Preview Abstract

Session K7: Plasma Physics/Physics Education

Chair: Shufang Su, University of Arizona
Room: UA Student Union Tubac

Saturday, October 22, 2011 8:30AM - 8:42AM		K7.00001: Non-linear Plasma Wave Excitation for Laser Wakefield Acceleration Zafar Yasin Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2011 8:42AM - 8:54AM		K7.00002: Modeling Radial Bernstein Modes in an Axisymmetric Finite Length Non-Neutral Plasma Mark Hutchison, Bryan Peterson, Ross Spencer Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2011 8:54AM - 9:06AM		K7.00003: Measuring Ion Bernstein Waves in a Non-Neutral, Finite Plasma William Hall, Bryan Peterson Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2011 9:06AM - 9:18AM		K7.00004: Experimentally validating numerical codes describing non-neutral plasmas Jordan Davis, Grant Hart, Bryan Peterson Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 22, 2011 9:18AM - 9:30AM		K7.00005: Accurate Scientific Visualization in Research and Physics Teaching Tim Wendler Preview Abstract

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