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Session E1: Physics in Extra Dimensions

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Andrew Cohen, Boston University
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon E

Saturday, April 16, 2005 3:30PM - 4:06PM		E1.00001: B-Factory Signals for a Warped Extra Dimension Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:06PM - 4:42PM		E1.00002: Warped Fermions Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:42PM - 5:18PM		E1.00003: Warped Extra Dimensions Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session E2: Hadronic Physics I

Sponsoring Units: GHP
Chair: Ed Kinney, University of Colorado
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon F

Saturday, April 16, 2005 3:30PM - 4:06PM		E2.00001: Recent Experimental Results from RHIC and the Search for Non-Hadronic Matter Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:06PM - 4:42PM		E2.00002: Overview of Experimental Pentaquark Data Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:42PM - 5:18PM		E2.00003: Generalized Parton Distributions Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session E3: Rare Isotope Physics and Facilities

Sponsoring Units: DPB DNP
Chair: Jerry Nolen, Argonne National Laboratory
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon A/B

Saturday, April 16, 2005 3:30PM - 4:06PM		E3.00001: The Rare Isotope Accelerator: Driver Linac Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:06PM - 4:42PM		E3.00002: ISOL Systems: Design and Physics Potential Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:42PM - 5:18PM		E3.00003: Experiments and goals with present and future in-flight separators Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session E4: Cosmological Constraints on Theories of Gravity and Fundamental Physics

Sponsoring Units: GGR DAP
Chair: Sean Carroll, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon C/D

Saturday, April 16, 2005 3:30PM - 4:06PM		E4.00001: Dark Matter and Its Alternatives Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:06PM - 4:42PM		E4.00002: Theories of Cosmic Acceleration Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:42PM - 5:18PM		E4.00003: CMB measurements and early universe cosmology Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session E5: Teaching Special and General Relativity II

Sponsoring Units: FEd
Chair: Paula Heron, University of Washington
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon G/H

Saturday, April 16, 2005 3:30PM - 4:06PM		E5.00001: Relativity as a General Audience Course: The Inventor's Paradox and the Explainer's Paradox Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:06PM - 4:42PM		E5.00002: Computer-Based Interactive Material for Teaching Special and General Relativity Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:42PM - 5:18PM		E5.00003: General Relativity in the Undergraduate Physics Curriculum Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session E6: The Problem with Visas: The Impact on Universities, National Labs and Industry

Sponsoring Units: FIP
Chair: Helen Quinn, SLAC
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon I/J

Saturday, April 16, 2005 3:30PM - 4:06PM		E6.00001: Restrictions on International Exchange: the view from the National Labs Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:06PM - 4:42PM		E6.00002: Restrictions on International Exchange: the view from universities Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:42PM - 5:18PM		E6.00003: Restrictions on International Exchange: the view from industry Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session E7: Electroweak Physics with W's and Z's

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: John Laiho, Fermilab
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 1

Saturday, April 16, 2005 3:30PM - 3:54PM		E7.00001: Study of Z$\gamma$ production Yurii Maravin Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E7.00002: Search at D\O\ for Inclusive $WZ$ Diboson Events in Trilepton Final States at $\sqrt(s)=1.96$ TeV James Degenhardt Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E7.00003: A Limit on WW+WZ Boson Production in the Lepton + MET + Jets Decay Channel Jorgen Sjolin Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E7.00004: Measurement of the forward--backward asymmetry of muons coming from the decay of $W$ bosons with the D\O\ Detector Sinjini Sengupta Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E7.00005: A New Method for Determining the W Production Charge Asymmetry Boyoung Han Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:42PM - 4:54PM		E7.00006: A New Method to Measure the Ratio of W and Z Cross Sections Katherine Copic, Victoria Martin, Michael Schmitt Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:54PM - 5:06PM		E7.00007: Event Generation for the Run 2 W Mass Measurement Ian Vollrath Preview Abstract

Session E8: B Factory Hadronic Decays and Vub

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: William Trischuk, University of Toronto
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 4

Saturday, April 16, 2005 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E8.00001: Measurement of BF($B^0\to\pi^-\ell^+\nu$) and BF($B^0\to\rho^-\ell^+\nu$) using neutrino reconstruction Amanda Weinstein Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 3:42PM - 3:54PM		E8.00002: Study of $B\to X_{u}\ell\nu$ Decays on the Recoil of Fully Reconstructed $B$ Mesons with the BaBar Experiment Wolfgang Menges Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E8.00003: Measurement of $\bar{B^0}\to\pi^+\ell^-\bar{\nu}$ on the recoil of partially reconstructed $B^0$ decays Alessandro Gaz Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E8.00004: Search for quark-annihilation type B-meson decays $B^- \to D_S^- \phi$ and B^- \to D_S^{*-} \phi$ Adam Cunha Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E8.00005: Search for the decays $B^0 \rightarrow D_s^{(*)+} a^-_{0(2)}$ Vitaly Eyges Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E8.00006: Study of $B\to D^{(*)}(n\pi)$ Hadronic Decays Haiwen Zhao Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:42PM - 4:54PM		E8.00007: A Search for $B^{0}_{d} \to D_{s}^{(*)-} D_{s}^{(*)+}$ Decays Asish Satpathy Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:54PM - 5:06PM		E8.00008: Search for exclusive two body decays $B \rightarrow {D_s}^{*} h$ at Belle R. Luminda Kulasiri Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 5:06PM - 5:18PM		E8.00009: Search for $B^+\to D^{(*)+}K_S^0$ decays Francesco Polci Preview Abstract

Session E9: Neutrino Astronomy

Sponsoring Units: DAP DPF
Chair: Steven Barwick, University of California-Irvine
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 5

Saturday, April 16, 2005 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E9.00001: Search for Extremely High Energy Neutrinos with AMANDA-II Lisa Gerhardt Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 3:42PM - 3:54PM		E9.00002: Search for extraterrestrial point sources of high energy neutrinos with AMANDA-II using data collected in 2000-2002 You-Ren Wang, Paolo Desiati Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E9.00003: The Search for Neutrinos from Gamma-Ray Bursts with AMANDA Kyler Kuehn Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E9.00004: RICE bounds on cosmogenic neutrino fluxes and interactions Shahid Hussain, Douglas McKay Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E9.00005: Exposing Supernovae with Neutrinos Hasan Yuksel Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E9.00006: Ultrahigh energy tau neutrinos: propagation and tau energy loss Mary Hall Reno, Sharada Iyer Dutta, Yiwen Huang Preview Abstract

Session E10: Focus Session: Numerical Relativity

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Manuela Campanelli, University of Texas, Brownsville
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 6

Saturday, April 16, 2005 3:30PM - 4:06PM		E10.00001: Solvig Einstein's Equations Using Spectral Methods Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E10.00002: Constructing Helically Symmetric Spacetimes Jocelyn Read, Koji Uryu, Shin Yoshida, Benjamin Bromley, John Friedman Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E10.00003: Dynamical evolution of quasi-circular binary black hole data Peter Diener, Miguel Alcubierre, Bernd Bruegmann, Ian Hawke, Scott Hawley, Frank Herrmann, Michael Koppitz, Denis Pollney, Edward Seidel, Jonathan Thornburg Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E10.00004: A New Code for Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics in Dynamical Spacetimes Yuk Tung Liu, Matthew Duez, Stuart Shapiro, Branson Stephens Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:42PM - 4:54PM		E10.00005: Why Enforce the Hamiltonian Constraint in Numerical Relativity? Beverly K. Berger Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:54PM - 5:06PM		E10.00006: Towards Accurate Modeling of Binary Black Holes Dae-Il Choi, Joan Centrella, John Baker, Jim van Meter, David Fiske, Michael Koppitz, Breno Imbiriba, Darian Boggs, David Brown, Lisa Lowe Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 5:06PM - 5:18PM		E10.00007: A global binary black hole metric via asymptotic matching of post-Newtonian and black hole perturbation expansions Nicolas Yunes, Wolfgang Tichy, Benjamin J. Owen, Bernd Bruegmann Preview Abstract

Session E11: QCD

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: John Womersley, Fermilab
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 7

Saturday, April 16, 2005 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E11.00001: The total hadronic cross section in $e^{+}e^{-}$ annihilation at 7.0-10.3 GeV Surik Mehrabyan Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 3:42PM - 4:06PM		E11.00002: Study of Charm Pair Production at Tevatron Burkard Reisert Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E11.00003: Preliminary measurement of the b-jet cross section at CDF Run-II Greg Williams Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E11.00004: Probing strange quark in proton using $p\bar{p}\rightarrow Wc$ at D$\O$} Mahsana Ahsan Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E11.00005: Study of the Decay $B^- \rightarrow D_J^0 \pi^-$ Jong Yi Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:42PM - 4:54PM		E11.00006: $J/\psi$ Spin Alignment in $p \overline{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96$ TeV Min-Jeong Kim Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:54PM - 5:06PM		E11.00007: Subleading Shape Functions in Inclusive B Decays Gil Paz Preview Abstract

Session E12: Instrumentation and Applications

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: E. J. Stephenson, IUCF
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 11

Saturday, April 16, 2005 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E12.00001: Small, Fast, Gas Detector for High-Energy Electrons E. Norbeck, J.E. Olson, Y. Onel Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 3:42PM - 3:54PM		E12.00002: Qweak Detector Update David Mack Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E12.00003: Critical Need for Radiation Damage Tools for Space Missions Ram Tripathi, John Wilson Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E12.00004: Nuclear imaging of iodine uptake in mouse tissues W.T. Hammond, J.T. Cella, C. McLoughlin, K.J. Smith, R.E. Welsh, E.L. Bradley, M.S. Saha, J. Qian, S. Majewski, V. Popov, M.F. Smith, A.G. Weisenberger Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E12.00005: Neutron-Induced Partial Gamma-Ray Cross-Section Measurements on 238U Using a Monoenergetic and Pulsed Beam at TUNL A. Hutcheson, S.T. Churchwell, A.S. Crowell, B. Fallin, C.R. Howell, J. Kelley, M. Kiser, A.P. Tonchev, W. Tornow, R.L. Walter, R.S. Pedroni, G.J Weisel, J.A. Becker, J.R. Cooper, D. Dashdor, R.A. Macri, N. Fotiades, R.O. Nelson, I. Lantuejoul Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E12.00006: Thermal neutron probe of trace elements in synthetic sapphire for LIGO optics S.C. McGuire, G.P. Lamaze, E.A. Mackey Preview Abstract

Session E13: Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Collisions I: Elliptic Flow and Azimuthal Correlations

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Johann Rafelski, University of Arizona
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 12

Saturday, April 16, 2005 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E13.00001: The effect of chemical freezeout on transverse dynamics in relativistic heavy ion collisions Tetsufumi Hirano, Miklos Gyulassy Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 3:42PM - 3:54PM		E13.00002: Scaling properties of azimuthal anisotropy of mesons and baryons Arkadij Taranenko Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E13.00003: $\phi$-meson $v_{2}$ from Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=62.4 GeV Sarah-Louise Blyth Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E13.00004: Elliptic Flow in BRAHMS Erik Johnson Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E13.00005: Azimuthal Anisotropy at Intermediate Rapidity in $\sqrt{S_{NN}} =$ 200 GeV Au-Au Collisions in PHENIX at RHIC-BNL Benjamin Norman Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E13.00006: Search for Conical Flow in Ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions at RHIC Mark Horner Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:42PM - 4:54PM		E13.00007: Comparison of high-pt di-hadron correlations in 62 AGeV and 200 AGeV Au+Au collisions Marco van Leeuwen Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2005 4:54PM - 5:06PM		E13.00008: Jet Properties from Di-hadron Azimuthal Correlations in d+Au Collision Nathan Grau Preview Abstract