Bulletin of the American Physical Society

2006 APS April Meeting

Saturday–Tuesday, April 22–25, 2006; Dallas, TX

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Apr 22 2006 8:30AM, Saturday

A1 Plenary Session I
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark A Sponsor: APS Chair: John Hopfield, APS President, Princeton University

Apr 22 2006 10:45AM, Saturday

B1 Underground Labs: Plans and Progress
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark A Sponsor: DNP DPF Chair: Hamish Robertson, University of Washington
Invited Speakers: Kate Scholberg

B2 Light Exotic Nuclei
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Michael Thoenessen, Michigan State University

B3 Laboratory Astrophysics: Supernovae and Jets
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark C Sponsor: DPP GPAP Chair: Paul Bellan, California Institute of Technology

B4 Research Talks at the Undergraduate Level
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Marsalis A Sponsor: FEd Chair: David Ehrenstein, APS

B5 Cosmology I
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Pegasus B Sponsor: DAP FHP Chair: James Ryan, University of New Hampshire

B7 Gamma-Ray Bursts and GLAST
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Pegasus A Sponsor: DAP Chair: Julie McEnery, Goddard Space Flight Center

B8 Nuclear Instrumentation and Applications
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland A Sponsor: DNP Chair: Gary Westfall, Michigan State University

B9 Hadronic Physics I
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Paul Reimer, Argonne National Laboratory

B11 Focus Session: Recent Results in Quantum Gravity
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland E Sponsor: GGR Chair: William Hiscock, Montana State University

B12 B Meson Decays
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland F Sponsor: DPF Chair: James Olsen, Princeton University

B13 W and Z Bosons I
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland G Sponsor: DPF Chair: Peter Nemethy, New York University

B14 Particle Beam Physics and Technologies
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland I Sponsor: DPB Chair: Joseph Bisognano, University of Wisconsin

Apr 22 2006 1:30PM, Saturday

C1 Novel Detector Technologies
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark A Sponsor: DPF Chair: John Jaros, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

C2 Hadronic Physics II
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark B Sponsor: GHP Chair: Peter Tandy, Kent State University

C3 Very High Energy Cosmic Gamma Rays
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark C Sponsor: DAP DPF Chair: Reshmi Mukherjee, Barnard College

C4 Public and Private Funding for International Research
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Marsalis A Sponsor: FIP Chair: Arthur Bienenstock, Stanford University

C5 Cosmology II
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Pegasus B Sponsor: DAP FHP Chair: Virginia Trimble, University of California, Irvine

C6 Ground-Based Gravitational Wave Detection
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland J Sponsor: GGR GPMFC Chair: Benjamin Owen, The Pennsylvania State University

C7 Gravitational Wave Astronomy
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Pegasus A Sponsor: DAP Chair: Charles Dermer, Naval Research Laboratory

C8 Nuclear Theory I
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland A Sponsor: DNP

C9 Minisymposium: Toward a Universal Density Functional Theory for Nuclei I
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland B Sponsor: DNP Chair: David Dean, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

C10 Nuclear Science Education for the Nation
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland C Sponsor: FEd DNP Chair: Jolie Cizewski, Rutgers University

C11 SPS Undergraduate Research
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland E Sponsor: SPS Chair: Gary White, Society of Physics Students

C12 Accelerator-Based Neutrino Experiments
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland F Sponsor: DPF Chair: Hugh Gallagher, Tufts University

C13 W and Z Bosons II
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland G Sponsor: DPF Chair: Sarah Eno, University of Maryland

C14 Physics of Muon and Polarized Beams
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland I Sponsor: DPB Chair: Mike Syphers, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

C16 DPP Contributed Orals I
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark D Sponsor: DPP Chair: Benjamin Chandran, University of New Hampshire

Apr 22 2006 2:00PM, Saturday

D1 Poster Session
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Marsalis Hall B, 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Apr 22 2006 3:30PM, Saturday

E1 Accelerator and Detector R&D for the International Linear Collider
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark A Sponsor: DPB DPF Chair: Shekhar Mishra, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

E2 Primordial Nucleosynthesis
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Carl R. Brune, Ohio University

E3 Laboratory Astrophysics: Magnetic Reconnection
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark C Sponsor: DPP DAP GPAP Chair: Vincent Chan, General Atomics

E4 Science and Development: Innovation Systems for Fighting Poverty
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Marsalis A Sponsor: FIP FPS Chair: Albrecht Wagner, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron

E5a 50 Years Since the Discovery of Parity Nonconservation in the Weak Interactions I
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Pegasus B Sponsor: FHP DPF Chair: Natalie Roe, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

E6 Experimental Tests of General Relativity
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland J Sponsor: GGR Chair: Marc Favata, Cornell University

E7 Cosmology III
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Pegasus A Sponsor: DAP

E8 Minisymposium: the Spin Structure of the Nucleon
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland A Sponsor: DNP Chair: Ernst Sichtermann, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

E9 Minisymposium: Toward a Universal Density Functional Theory for Nuclei II
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Scott Bogner, Ohio State University

E10 Focus Session: K-12 Education
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland C Sponsor: FEd Chair: Peggy McMahan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

E11 Quantum and Classical Gravity
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland E Sponsor: GGR Chair: Kevin Vandersloot, Pennsylvania State University

E12 Neutrino Oscillations and Cross Sections
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland F Sponsor: DPF Chair: Petr Vogel, California Institute of Technology

E13 Jet and Fragmentation Studies
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland G Sponsor: DPF Chair: Andreas Kronfeld, Fermilab

E14 Few Body Problems
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland I Chair: Charlotte Elster, Ohio University

Apr 22 2006 5:00PM, Saturday

E5b 50 Years Since the Discovery of Parity Nonconservation in the Weak Interactions II
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Pegasus B Sponsor: FHP DPF Chair: Noemie Koller, Rutgers University

Apr 22 2006 5:30PM, Saturday

F1 APS Welcome Reception
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Union Station, Grand Hall Sponsor: APS

Apr 22 2006 7:15PM, Saturday

G1 New Reports from Major National Studies
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark A Chair: John Hopfield, Princeton University, APS President

Apr 23 2006 8:30AM, Sunday

H1 Recent Results in Flavor Physics
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark A Sponsor: DPF Chair: Jack Ritchie, University of Texas, Austin

H2 Topics in Nuclear Physics
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Donald Geesaman, Argonne National Laboratory

H3 Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Rays: Experiment and Theory
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark C Sponsor: DPF DAP Chair: Sean Carroll, University of Chicago

H4 New Models for Graduate Education
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Marsalis A Sponsor: FEd Chair: Gay Stewart, University of Arkansas

H5 Discovery Prospects at the Energy Frontier
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Pegasus B Sponsor: COM Chair: Harrison Prosper, Florida State University

H6 Applications of Free Electron Lasers I
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland J Sponsor: DPB FIAP Chair: Alan Todd, Advanced Energy Systems

H7 Astrobiology and Planetary Effects
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Pegasus A Sponsor: DAP Chair: James Ryan, University of New Hampshire

H8 Nuclear Reactions
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland A Sponsor: DNP Chair: Peggy McMahan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

H9 Underground Neutrino Experiments and Proton Decay
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Hamish Robertson, University of Washington

H10 Production Studies in e+e- Collisions
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland C Sponsor: DPF Chair: Bruce Berger, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

H11 Relativistic Simulations of Neutron Stars, Black Holes, and Plasmas
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland E Sponsor: GGR Chair: Harald Pfeiffer, California Institute of Technology

H12 New Directions in Particle Theory
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland F Sponsor: DPF Chair: Abdulmajeed Abdurrahman, Shippensburg University

H13 Top Quark Properties I
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland G Sponsor: DPF Chair: Reinhard Schwienhorst, Michigan State University

H14 Novel Techniques
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland I Chair: Ron Mickens, Clark Atlanta University

H16 Sherwood I
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark D Sponsor: DPP Chair: John M. Finn, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers: Klaus Hallatschek

Apr 23 2006 10:30AM, Sunday

I1 QCD: the Lattice Meets Data
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark A Sponsor: DPF Chair: Marcela Carena, Fermilab

I2 Applications of Nuclear Science
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Alexander Saunders, Los Alamos National Laboratory

I5 Theories of Gravity, Dark Energy, and Cosmology
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Pegasus B Sponsor: GGR DPF Chair: Joseph Lykken, Fermilab

I6 Applications of Free Electron Lasers II
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland J Sponsor: DPB FIAP Chair: Alan Todd, Advanced Energy Systems

I7 Astroparticle Physics I
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Pegasus A Sponsor: DAP Chair: Ulisse Bravar, University of New Hampshire

I8 Minisymposium: Nuclei and Nuclear Matter at Non-Normal Density I
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland A Sponsor: DNP Chair: Sherry J Yennello Texas A&M University

I9 Minisymposium: Electro-Weak Interactions
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Krishna Kumar, University of Massachusetts

I10 Charm Production, Decay, and Excited States
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland C Sponsor: DPF Chair: Gregory Dubois-Felsmann, California Institute of Technology

I11 Focus Session: Initial Data Sets for Numerical Relativity
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland E Sponsor: GGR Chair: Larry Kidder, Cornell University

I12 Higgs Physics I
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland F Sponsor: DPF Chair: Thomas Junk, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

I13 Top Quark Properties II
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland G Sponsor: DPF Chair: Ann Heinson, University of California, Riverside

I16 Sherwood II
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark D Sponsor: DPP Chair: Zhi Hong Lin, U.C. Irvine

Apr 23 2006 1:15PM, Sunday

J1 Top is Ten
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark A Sponsor: DPF Chair: Harry Weerts, Argonne National Laboratory

J2 A High Luminosity Lepton Ion Collider to Study QCD
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark B Sponsor: DPB DNP Chair: Richard G. Milner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

J4 Precision Cosmology
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Marsalis A Sponsor: DAP GGR Chair: John Beacom, Ohio State University
Invited Speakers: Daniel Eisenstein

J5 Pioneering Women Astronomers
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Pegasus B Sponsor: CSWP FHP Chair: Marc Sher, William and Mary

J6 Laboratory Astrophysics: Dynamo and the Magnetorotational Instability
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland J Sponsor: DPP DAP Chair: Steven Cowley, University of California, Los Angeles

J7 Astroparticle Physics II
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Pegasus A Sponsor: DAP Chair: Martin Pohl, Iowa State University

J8 Minisymposium: Nuclei and Nuclear Matter at Non-Normal Density II
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland A Sponsor: DNP Chair: William Lynch, Michigan State University

J9 Double Beta Decay
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Andrew Hime, Los Alamos National Laboratory

J10 Charm Mixing, Rare D and K Decays
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland C Sponsor: DPF Chair: Ian Shipsey, Purdue University

J11 Advances in Numerical Relativity I
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland E Sponsor: GGR Chair: Bernard Kelly, The University of Texas at Brownsville

J12 Higgs Physics II
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland F Sponsor: DPF Chair: Thomas Junk, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

J13 Particle Theory
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland G Sponsor: DPF Chair: Joseph Lykken, Fermilab

Apr 23 2006 2:00PM, Sunday

K1 Poster Session: Magnetically Confined Plasma I
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Marsalis Hall B, 2:00pm - 5:00pm

K15 Panel Discussion with PR/PRL Editors
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland K Sponsor: APS

Apr 23 2006 3:15PM, Sunday

L1 Physics at the Energy Frontier
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark A Sponsor: DPF Chair: Robert Cahn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

L2 Study of Hadron Structure using Spin Polarized Beams
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark B Sponsor: DPB DNP Chair: Fulvia Pilat, Brookhaven National Laboratory

L3 Advances in Numerical Relativity II
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark C Sponsor: GGR COM Chair: Deirdre Shoemaker, The Pennsylvania State University

L4 Women in Science Policy
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Marsalis A Sponsor: CSWP FPS Chair: Marc Sher, William and Mary

L6 Scholars at Risk
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland J Sponsor: FIP Chair: Andrew Sessler, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

L7 Galaxies, AGNs and Galactic Gamma-Ray Sources
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Pegasus A Sponsor: DAP Chair: Charles Dermer, Naval Research Laboratory

L8 Nuclear Astrophysics
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland A Sponsor: DNP Chair: Betty Tsang Michigan State University

L9 Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ions
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Brant Johnson, Brookhaven National Laboratory

L10 B Meson Branching Fractions
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland C Sponsor: DPF Chair: Masahiro Morii, Harvard University

L11 Experimental Gravitation
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland E Sponsor: GGR Chair: Duncan Brown, California Institute of Technology

L12 Exclusive D Meson Decays
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland F Sponsor: DPF Chair: Todd Pedlar, Luther College

L13 Top Quark Mass Measurements
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland G Sponsor: DPF Chair: Eva Halkiadakis, Rutgers University

L16 Laboratory Astrophysics I
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark D Sponsor: DPP Chair: Hantao Ji, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Apr 23 2006 5:15PM, Sunday

M1 APS Award Presentations, Past President's Address, and Lilienfeld Prize Talk
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark A Sponsor: APS Chair: John Hopfield, APS President, Princeton University

Apr 24 2006 8:30AM, Monday

O1 Plenary Session II
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark A Sponsor: APS Chair: William Carithers, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Apr 24 2006 10:45AM, Monday

P1 DPF and DPB Prize Session
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark A Sponsor: DPB DPF Chair: Gerald Dugan, Cornell University

P2 Neutrinos II
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark B Sponsor: DNP DPF Chair: Kevork Abazajian, Los Alamos National Laboratory

P3 Innovative Programs in K-12 Teacher Preparation
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark C Sponsor: FEd Chair: Ramon Lopez, Florida Institute of Technology

P4 Gravitational Wave Sources and Phenomenology
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Marsalis A Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Gabriela Gonzalez, Louisianna State University

P6 The Postdoctoral Experience
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland J Sponsor: FGSA Chair: Minesh Bacrania, APS FGSA Chair

P7 Cosmic Rays and Solar Physics I
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Pegasus A Sponsor: DAP Chair: Stefan Westerhoff, Columbia University

P8 Minisymposium: Parton Distributions at Larger X : Data and Challenges
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland A Sponsor: DNP Chair: Cynthia Keppel, Hampton University/Jefferson Lab

P9 Minisymposium: Advances in Zero- and Finite-Temperature Lattice QCD
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Ron Soltz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

P10 50 Years Since the Discovery of Parity Nonconservation in the Weak Interactions III
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland C Sponsor: FHP DNP Chair: Susan Seestrom, Los Alamos National Laboratory

P11 Focus Session: Space-Based Gravitational Wave Detection
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland E Sponsor: GGR Chair: John Friedman, University of Wisconsin at Madison

P12 Bs, Bc Lifetimes and Mixing
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland F Sponsor: DPF Chair: Nigel Lockyer, University of Pennsylvania

P13 Particle Searches I
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland G Sponsor: DPF Chair: Vladimir Litvin, California Institute of Technology

P16 Sherwood III
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark D Sponsor: DPP Chair: Linda Sugiyama, PSFC, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Apr 24 2006 12:45PM, Monday

1A Rising Above the Gathering Storm
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark D

Apr 24 2006 1:30PM, Monday

Q1 Neutrinos I
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark A Sponsor: DAP DPF Chair: George Fuller, University of California, San Diego

Q2 Implications of QCD Phase Transitions
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Vickie Green, Vanderbilt University

Q3 Particle Acceleration
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark C Sponsor: DAP DPP Chair: James Drake, University of Maryland

Q4 Three-Body Systems
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Marsalis A Sponsor: GFB Chair: Werner Tornow, Duke University

Q5 Evolution: From the Big Bang to Us
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Pegasus B Sponsor: FPS FEd Chair: Barbara Levi, Physics Today

Q6 Advanced Acceleration Techniques for Future Energy Frontier Accelerators
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland J Sponsor: DPB Chair: James Rosenzweig, University of California, Los Angeles

Q8 Electromagnetic Interactions
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland A Sponsor: DNP Chair: Ioana Niculescu, James Madison University

Q9 Nuclear Structure
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Carlos Bertulani, University of Arizona

Q10 Rare B Decays
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland C Sponsor: DPF Chair: Brendan Casey, Brown University

Q11 Simulations of Binary Black Hole Mergers
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland E Sponsor: GGR Chair: Carlos Lousto, The University of Texas at Brownsville

Q12 Baryons and B Lifetime Studies
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland F Sponsor: DPF Chair: William T. Ford, University of Colorado

Q13 Particle Searches II
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland G Sponsor: DPF Chair: Beate Heinemann, University of Liverpool

Q14 History of Physics
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland I Sponsor: FHP Chair: Robert H. Romer, Amherst College

Apr 24 2006 2:00PM, Monday

R1 Poster Session: Magnetically Confined Plasma II
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Marsalis Hall B, 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Apr 24 2006 3:30PM, Monday

S1 High Power Proton Drivers for Accelerator-based Neutrino Physics
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark A Sponsor: DPB DPF Chair: Thomas Roser, Brookhaven National Laboratory

S2 DNP Prize Session
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Bradley Sherrill, Michigan State University

S3 The Heliospheric Termination Shock
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark C Sponsor: DAP Chair: Martin Lee, University of New Hampshire

S4 FHP/FPS Award Session
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Marsalis A Sponsor: FHP FPS Chair: George Lewis, Peace Studies Program, Cornell University

S6 Panofsky Prize Session
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland J Sponsor: DPF Chair: Bill Carithers, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

S10 Focus Session: Undergraduate and Graduate Education
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland C Sponsor: FEd Chair: Bruce Ackerson, Oklahoma State University

S11 Sources of Gravitational Waves
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland E Sponsor: GGR Chair: John Baker, Goddard Space Flight

S12 CP Violation in B Meson Decays
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland F Sponsor: DPF Chair: Masahiro Morii, Harvard University

S13 Top Quark Production
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland G Sponsor: DPF Chair: David Cline, University of California, Los Angeles

S16 Laboratory Astrophysics II
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark D Chair: Parvez Guzdar, University of Maryland

Apr 24 2006 5:30PM, Monday

T2 DNP Business Meeting
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark B Sponsor: DNP

T4 FPS Business Meeting
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Marsalis A Sponsor: FPS

T5 DPB Business Meeting and Reception
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Reverchon AB Sponsor: DPB

T7 DAP Business Meeting
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Pegasus A Sponsor: DAP

T11 GFB Business Meeting
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland E

T12 GGR Business Meeting
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland F Sponsor: GGR

T14 FHP Business Meeting
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland I Sponsor: FHP Chair: Robert H. Romer, Amherst College

Apr 25 2006 8:30AM, Tuesday

V1 Plenary Session III
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark A Sponsor: APS Chair: Brad Sherrill, Michigan State University

Apr 25 2006 10:30AM, Tuesday

W5 Abrupt Climate Change Scenario
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Pegasus B Sponsor: FPS Chair: Tina Kaarsberg, U.S. Department of Energy

W15 Poster Session IV: Post-deadline Posters
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Marsalis Hall B, 10:30am-2:00pm

Apr 25 2006 10:45AM, Tuesday

W1 Shedding Light on Dark Energy
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark A Sponsor: DPF DAP Chair: Natalie Roe, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

W2 Notes from Underground
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark B Sponsor: DNP DPF Chair: George Fuller, University of California, San Diego

W3 Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark C Sponsor: DAP Chair: Charles Meegan, National Space Science and Technology Center

W6 Research on Teaching Thermal Physics and Quantum Mechanics
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland J Sponsor: FEd Chair: Paula Heron, University of Washington

W7 Cosmic Rays and Solar Physics II
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Pegasus A Sponsor: DAP

W8 Minisymposium: Heavy Quark Energy Loss & Flow
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland A Sponsor: DNP Chair: Peter Jacobs, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

W9 Nuclear Theory II
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Vladimir Zelevinsky, Michigan State University

W10 Heineman Prize Session
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland C Sponsor: GGR DPF Chair: Pierre Sikivie, University of Florida

W11 Gravitational Wave Searches
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland E Sponsor: GGR Chair: Lior Burko, The University of Alabama, Huntsville

W12 Bs, B*, eta-B decays
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland F Sponsor: DPF Chair: Robert Cahn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

W13 Particle Physics Instrumentation
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland G Sponsor: DPF Chair: Stephen Magill, Argonne National Laboratory

W16 Sherwood IV
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark D Sponsor: DPP Chair: Eric Held, Utah State University

Apr 25 2006 12:15PM, Tuesday

X5 Elements of a Real Energy Strategy
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Pegasus B Sponsor: FPS Chair: Anthony Nero, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Apr 25 2006 1:30PM, Tuesday

X1 Dark Matter
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark A Sponsor: DNP DPF Chair: Uwe Oberlack, Rice University

X2 Physical Properties of Partonic Matter
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Vickie Green, Vanderbilt University

X3 Magnetars
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark C Sponsor: DAP Chair: David Palmer, Los Alamos National Laboratory

X16 Research on Teaching Large Enrollment Classes
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark D Sponsor: FEd Chair: David Meltzer, University of Washington