Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2006 APS April Meeting
Saturday–Tuesday, April 22–25, 2006; Dallas, TX
Session V1: Plenary Session III |
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Sponsoring Units: APS Chair: Brad Sherrill, Michigan State University Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark A |
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 8:30AM - 9:06AM |
V1.00001: The Science of Nanotubes Invited Speaker: Nanotubes formed from carbon or boron nitride have highly unusual electronic and mechanical properties. Depending on composition and geometry, they range from excellent metals to wide-bandgap semiconductors. They can be grown with length-to-diameter aspect ratios exceeding 10 million, and are axially exceptionally stiff yet form nearly ideal frictionless bearings. This talk will address the exciting basic science as well as applications of nanotubes and nanotube-based nanoelectromechanical systems. [Preview Abstract] |
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 9:06AM - 9:42AM |
V1.00002: Searching for gravitational waves with LIGO Invited Speaker: The LIGO gravitational wave observatories are now taking data, having reached their design sensitivity. The LIGO scientific Collaboration is actively searching the data for signals from rotating stars, from stochastic backgrounds, from binary neutron star and black hole systems, and from transient sources like supernovas and collisions of black holes. We will show the sensitivity achieved by the detectors and present the latest results in the search for gravitational waves. We will also describe the worldwide effort for present and future detectors. [Preview Abstract] |
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 9:42AM - 10:18AM |
V1.00003: Matter, Energy, Space and Time: The International Linear Collider Physics Prospects and International Aspects Invited Speaker: Over the past century, physicists have sought to explain the character of the matter and energy in our universe, to show how the basic forces of nature and the building blocks of matter come about, and to explore the fabric of space and time. In the past three decades, experiments at laboratories around the world have given us a precise confirmation of the underlying theory called the \textit{standard model}. These particle physics advances have a direct impact for our understanding of the structure of the universe, both at its inception in the Big Bang, and in its evolution to the present and future. The final synthesis is not yet fully clear, but we know with confidence that major discoveries expanding the standard model framework will occur at the next generation of accelerators. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) being built at CERN will take us into the discovery realm. The proposed International Linear Collider (ILC) will extend the discoveries and provide a wealth of precision measurements that are essential for giving deeper understanding of their meaning, and pointing the way to further evolution of particle physics in the future. A world-wide consensus has formed for a baseline ILC project at energies of 500 GeV and beyond. The choice of the superconducting technology as basis for the ILC has paved the way for a global design effort which has now taken full speed. [Preview Abstract] |
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