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Session U1: B Physics II

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Patricia Burchat, Stanford University
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon E

Monday, April 18, 2005 3:30PM - 4:06PM		U1.00001: Semileptonic and Radiative Penguin B Decays from Belle and BaBar Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:06PM - 4:42PM		U1.00002: Rare decays and direct CP violation in the B system: probing deeper into the Standard Model Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:42PM - 5:18PM		U1.00003: B Physics at the Tevatron Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session U2: DNP Prize Session

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Donald Geesaman, Argonne National Laboratory
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon F

Monday, April 18, 2005 3:30PM - 4:06PM		U2.00001: Two Facets of the Deuteron Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:06PM - 4:42PM		U2.00002: Charged current universality and search for physics beyond the standard model Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:42PM - 5:18PM		U2.00003: Nuclear Diagnostics of the Cosmos Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session U3: Dark Energy I

Sponsoring Units: DAP DPF
Chair: Wendy Freedman, Carnegie Observatories
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon A/B

Monday, April 18, 2005 3:30PM - 4:06PM		U3.00001: Dark Energy: Measurement by the DEEP2 Redshift Survey Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:06PM - 4:42PM		U3.00002: Dark Energy and Type Ia Supernovae: Present and Future Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:42PM - 5:18PM		U3.00003: Type Ia Supernovae: Explosion Models versus Observational Constraints Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session U4: Advanced Computational Methods and Results

Sponsoring Units: DCOMP
Chair: Doug Toussaint, University of Arizona
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon C/D

Monday, April 18, 2005 3:30PM - 4:06PM		U4.00001: General methods for computing atomic collision processes Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:06PM - 4:42PM		U4.00002: The SciDAC lattice gauge theory software program Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:42PM - 5:18PM		U4.00003: Lattice Computations of the CKM Matrix Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session U5: Plasma-Based Accelerators and Beams

Sponsoring Units: DPB DPP
Chair: Bob Siemann, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon G/H

Monday, April 18, 2005 3:30PM - 4:06PM		U5.00001: Recent Advances in Plasma Accelerators Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:06PM - 4:42PM		U5.00002: High Quality Electron Beams from Laser Accelerators Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:42PM - 5:18PM		U5.00003: Laser-Produced and Accelerated High Energy Protons Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session U6: FPS Business Meeting

Sponsoring Units: FPS
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon I/J

Monday, April 18, 2005 3:30PM - 5:30PM

U6.00001: Forum on Physics and Society Business Meeting

Session U7: Top Quark Physics III

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Peter Wittich, University of Pennsylvania
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 1

Monday, April 18, 2005 3:30PM - 3:54PM		U7.00001: Search for single top quark production at CDF Sarah Budd Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 3:54PM - 4:06PM		U7.00002: Upper Limits on Cross Sections Using Kinematic Distributions and the Single Top Quark Search at D{\O} Supriya Jain Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:06PM - 4:18PM		U7.00003: Search for Electroweak Production of the Top Quark in the Muon+Jets Channel at D{\O} Daekwang Kau Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:18PM - 4:30PM		U7.00004: Electroweak Production of Top Quarks in the Electron+Jets Channel at D{\O} Shabnam Jabeen Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:30PM - 4:42PM		U7.00005: Search for Single Top Quark Production in the Electron+Jets Channel at D{\O} Philip Perea Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:42PM - 4:54PM		U7.00006: Search for Right-Handed Helicity $W$ Bosons in Top Quark Decays at D{\O} Bryan Gmyrek Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:54PM - 5:06PM		U7.00007: Search for $t\bar{t}$\ Resonance at CDF with kinematics. Brandon Parks Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 5:06PM - 5:18PM		U7.00008: Search for Top-Antitop Pair production via a non-Standard Model resonance Valentin Necula Preview Abstract

Session U8: Searches for Supersymmetry II

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Carlos Wagner, Argonne/University of Chicago
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 4

Monday, April 18, 2005 3:30PM - 3:54PM		U8.00001: SUSY with Non-universal Higgs Masses Azar Mustafayev, Howard Baer, Alexander Belyaev, Stefano Profumo, Xerxes Tata Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 3:54PM - 4:06PM		U8.00002: Search for R-parity violating supersymmetry in multilepton events with the D\O\ detector Daniela Kaefer Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:06PM - 4:18PM		U8.00003: Search for R-Parity Violating SuperSymmetry in the Four-Lepton Final State at the Tevatron Alon Attal Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:18PM - 4:30PM		U8.00004: Search for supersymmetric top and bottom squarks in the $\tilde{t}\to c\chi$ and $\tilde{b}\to b\chi$ channels with the D\O\ detector Mansoora Shamim Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:30PM - 4:42PM		U8.00005: Search for Production of Scalar Top Quark Pairs in the Opposite-sign Di-lepton Final State at the Tevatron Alexei Sedov, Oscar Gonzalez-Lopez Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:42PM - 4:54PM		U8.00006: Search for Supersymmetric Top Quark Production with R-parity Violating Decays at CDF Vadim Khotilovich Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:54PM - 5:06PM		U8.00007: Search for Stop Quark Production in GMSB SUSY Models via $p\bar{p} \to \tilde{t} \bar{\tilde{t}}$ where $\tilde{t} \to \tilde{\chi^0} + c \to \tilde{G} + c + \gamma$ at CDF Annelise Malkus Preview Abstract

Session U9: Cosmic Rays II

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Gary Zank, University of Riverside
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 5

Monday, April 18, 2005 3:30PM - 3:42PM		U9.00001: Particle Identification and Energy Measurementswith the TRACER Cosmic-Ray Detector D. Muller, M. Ave, P. Boyle, F. Gahbauer, C. Hoeppner, J. Hoerandel, M. Ichimura, A. Romero-Wolf, S. Wakely Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 3:42PM - 3:54PM		U9.00002: A New Measurement of the Energy Spectra of Heavy Cosmic-Ray Nuclei up to Very High Energies Patrick Boyle, Maximo Ave, Florian Gahbauer, Christian Hoeppner, Joerg Hoerandel, Masakatsu Ichimura, Dietrich Muller, Andrew Romero-Wolf, Scott Wakely Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 3:54PM - 4:06PM		U9.00003: A Fast Neutron Imager for Inner Heliosphere Measurements James Ryan, John Macri, Mark McConnell, Michael Moser, Robert Lin Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:06PM - 4:18PM		U9.00004: On the Importance of Electromagnetic Dissociation for Cosmic Ray and Nuclear Transport Codes John Norbury Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:18PM - 4:30PM		U9.00005: Cosmic Rays and Mountain Waves John Matthews, Charles Jui Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:30PM - 4:42PM		U9.00006: Lorentz Invariance Violation and the Spectrum and Source Power of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays Floyd Stecker, Sean Scully Preview Abstract
		U9.00007: {\it p}--air Inelastic Cross-Section Measurement at $10^{18.5}$ eV Using Cosmic Ray Data Konstantin Belov Preview Abstract

Session U10: Quantum Gravity

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Steve Carlip, University of California, Davis
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 6

Monday, April 18, 2005 3:30PM - 3:42PM		U10.00001: The First Law for Acceleration Horizons Ted Jacobson Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 3:42PM - 3:54PM		U10.00002: Macroscopic Effects of the Trace Anomaly at Event Horizons Emil Mottola, Ruslan Vaulin Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 3:54PM - 4:06PM		U10.00003: Quantum Stress-Energy Tensor From ``Classical'' Trace Anomaly Ruslan Vaulin, Emil Mottola Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:06PM - 4:18PM		U10.00004: Quantum Field Theory on a Growing Lattice Brendan Z. Foster, Ted Jacobson Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:18PM - 4:30PM		U10.00005: Acceleration of the Universe by renormalization-invariant effects of a free quantized scalar field Leonard Parker Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:30PM - 4:42PM		U10.00006: The Relativity of Entropy Warner Miller Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:42PM - 4:54PM		U10.00007: Elementary Model of Constraint Quantization with an Anomaly J. Scott Little, John Klauder Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:54PM - 5:06PM		U10.00008: Testing Projection Operator Quantization on Linearized Gravity W.R. Bomstad II, John R. Klauder Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 5:06PM - 5:18PM		U10.00009: Consistent Quantum Cosmology: Decohering Histories of Recollapsing FRW Universes David Craig Preview Abstract

Session U11: History of Physics III (Followed by FHP Business Meeting)

Sponsoring Units: FHP
Chair: Robert H. Romer, Amherst College
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 7

Monday, April 18, 2005 3:30PM - 3:54PM		U11.00001: My Half-Hour with Einstein Robert H. Romer Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 3:54PM - 4:18PM		U11.00002: Did Heisenberg Spit at Max Born? Harry Lustig Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:18PM - 4:42PM		U11.00003: The Rayleigh Papers Thomas Miller, Benjamin Bederson Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:42PM - 5:06PM		U11.00004: On The Hilbert-Einstein Priority Dispute Friedwardt Winterberg Preview Abstract

Session U12: Tevatron Techniques in B Physics

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 11

Monday, April 18, 2005 3:30PM - 3:54PM		U12.00001: Multidimensional Likelihood-based Flavor Tagging at D{\O} Dan Krop, Brendan Casey Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 3:54PM - 4:06PM		U12.00002: Flavor Tagging using electrons at the D\O\ Detector at Fermilab Md Naimuddin Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:06PM - 4:18PM		U12.00003: Lifetime Measurement of fully hadronic reconstructed {\it B} collected by the dedicate I.P. based trigger Saverio Da Ronco Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:18PM - 4:30PM		U12.00004: Likelihood Based Opposite Side Lepton and Jet Charge Tagging Vivek Tiwari Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:30PM - 4:42PM		U12.00005: Use of particle ID in reconstructing hadronic B decays at CDF Paola Squillacioti Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:42PM - 4:54PM		U12.00006: B Fragmentation and Same Side Kaon Tagger Pierluigi Catastini Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:54PM - 5:06PM		U12.00007: Opposide side B--flavour tagging using combined TOF and dEdx particle identification technique Giuseppe Salamanna Preview Abstract

Session U13: Precision Measurements and Non Linear Optics

Sponsoring Units: GPMFC
Chair: Carol Tanner, University of Notre Dame
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 12

Monday, April 18, 2005 3:30PM - 3:42PM		U13.00001: Absolute Optical Frequency Measurements of the Cesium D1 Transitions in a Thermal Atomic Beam using a Femtosecond Laser Frequency Comb Carol E. Tanner, Vladislav Gerginov, Keith Calkins, Scott Diddams, Albrecht Bartels, J. McFerran, Leo Hollberg Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 3:42PM - 3:54PM		U13.00002: Probing the speed of light with radio waves at extremely-low frequencies Martin Fullekrug Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 3:54PM - 4:06PM		U13.00003: Energy transfer: vibrational control and nonlinear wavepacket interferometry D. S. Kilin, O. V. Prezhdo, J. A. Cina Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:06PM - 4:18PM		U13.00004: Visible and near infrared optical nonlinearity of silica nanoaerogels SeongMin Ma, Qiguang Yang, JaeTae Seo, K. Lee, H. Brown, A. Jackson, T. Skyles, B. Tabibi, K.P. Yoo, S.Y. Kim, S.S. Jung, M. Namkung Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:18PM - 4:30PM		U13.00005: Slow and fast light propagation in nonlinear Kerr media. Qiguang Yang, SeongMin Ma, JaeTae Seo, Bagher Tabibi, Huitian Wang, S.S. Jung Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:30PM - 4:42PM		U13.00006: Periodicity measurements in liquid crystal lattices Merrill Garnett, Chirakkal Krishnan Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:42PM - 4:54PM		U13.00007: Optical Fiber Bragg Grating Response Function and its Temperature Dependence for a Polymer Coating of Temperature Dependent Thermal Expansion Coefficient Devendra Parmar, Alphonso Smith, Robert Rogowski Preview Abstract
Monday, April 18, 2005 4:54PM - 5:06PM		U13.00008: Electronic energy transfer: vibrational control and nonlinear wavepacket interferometry Oleg V. Prezhdo, Jeffrey A. Cina, Dmitri S. Kilin Preview Abstract
		U13.00009: Helix Pre-Tilted Monomer - Polymer Liquid Crystal System for Measurement of Shear Stress Vector Devendra Parmar, Alphonso Smith, Danny Sprinkle, Jag Singh Preview Abstract