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Session J2: Hadron Physics

Sponsoring Units: GHP
Chair: Curtis A. Meyer, Carnegie Mellon University
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Grand 1

Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:30AM - 11:06AM		J2.00001: The Spin of the Nucleon--Highlights from HERMES Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:06AM - 11:42AM		J2.00002: Pion Form Factor: Present and Future Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:42AM - 12:18PM		J2.00003: The Quark Gluon Plasma and the Perfect Fluid: Quantifying Degrees of Perfection Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session J3: Compact Inspirals

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: James Ryan, University of New Hampshire
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Grand 2

Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:30AM - 11:06AM		J3.00001: The Double Pulsar Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:06AM - 11:42AM		J3.00002: Compact Binary Inspirals and Gravity Waves Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:42AM - 12:18PM		J3.00003: Compact white dwarf binaries as sources of gravitational waves Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session J4: Dark Energy I

Sponsoring Units: DPF DAP
Chair: Saul Perlmutter, University of California, Berkeley/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Grand 3

Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:30AM - 11:06AM		J4.00001: Upcoming Ground-based Surveys Designed to Constrain the Nature of the Dark Energy. Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:06AM - 11:42AM		J4.00002: State of the Art in Baryon Acoustic Oscillations Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:42AM - 12:18PM		J4.00003: State of the Art in Weak Lensing Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session J5: Nobel Prize Symposium

Sponsoring Units: APS
Chair: Leo Kadanoff, University of Chicago, APS President
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Grand 6

Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:30AM - 11:06AM		J5.00001: From the Big Bang to the Nobel Prize Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:06AM - 11:42AM		J5.00002: Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Anisotropies: their Discovery and Utilization Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session J6: Nuclear Reprocessing, Nuclear Proliferation, and Nuclear Terrorism

Sponsoring Units: FPS
Chair: George Lewis, Cornell University
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Grand 7

Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:30AM - 11:06AM		J6.00001: ``Recycling'' Nuclear Power Plant Waste: Technical Difficulties and Proliferation Concerns Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:06AM - 11:42AM		J6.00002: Alternative Approaches to Recycling Nuclear Wastes Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:42AM - 12:18PM		J6.00003: TBD Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session J8: Structure and Decay of Heavy Nuclei

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Jolie Cizewski, Rutgers University
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 4

Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:30AM - 10:42AM		J8.00001: Highly Deformed Shape Structure in $^{160,161}$Tm C. Teal, K. Lagergren , M.A. Riley, A. Aguilar, M.P. Carpenter, U. Garg, G.B. Hagemann, D.A. Hartley, D.T. Joss, R.V.F. Janssens, F.G. Kondev, T. Lauritsen, C.J. Lister, E.F. Moore, S.W. $\O$deg\"{a}rd, G. Sletten, X. Wang, S. Zhu Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:42AM - 10:54AM		J8.00002: The Nuclear Structure of the High-Spin States of the $^{134}$Ba and $^{135}$Ba Nuclei. nd $^{135}$Ba Nuclei. W.T. Cluff, M.A. Riley, A. Aguilar, I. Calderin, D. Campbell, E. Diffenderfer, J. Fridmann, T. Hinners, J. Pavan, P. Pipidis, C. Teal, M. Wiedeking Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:54AM - 11:06AM		J8.00003: A Detailed Study of Odd-Odd $^{170}$Ta Approaching Spin 50 $\hbar$ A. Aguilar, M.A. Riley, C. Teal, K. Lagergren, D.J. Hartley, W.H. Mohr, J.R. Vanhoy, R.V.F. Janssens, M.P. Carpenter, A.A. Hecht, T. Lauritsen, E.F. Moore, S. Zhu, F.G. Kondev, M.K. Djongolov, M. Danchev, L.L. Riedinger, G.B. Hagemann, G. Sletten, P. Chowdhury, S.K. Tandel, W.C. Ma, S.W. $\O$deg\"{a}rd Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:06AM - 11:18AM		J8.00004: Using $^{171,173}$Yb($d,p\gamma$) to benchmark a surrogate reaction for neutron capture R. Hatarik, J.A. Cizewski, T. Swan, S.D. Pain, P.D. O'Malley, D.W. Bardayan, L.A. Bernstein, J.T. Burke, F.S. Dietrich, J.E. Escher, M.S. Johnson, J. Gibelin, L. Phair, R.L. Kozub, A. Kronenberg Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:18AM - 11:30AM		J8.00005: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:30AM - 11:42AM		J8.00006: Decay spectroscopy of the lightest proton-emitting Re isotopes Iain Darby, David Joss, Robert Page, Juha Uusitalo, John Simpson Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:42AM - 11:54AM		J8.00007: The $\beta$ decay properties of $^{83,84}$Ga J.A. Winger, S.V. Ilyushkin, K.P. Rykaczewski, C.J. Gross, D. Shapira, R. Grzywacz, S.N. Liddick, C. Mazzocchi, S. Padgett, M.M. Rajabali, J.C. Batchelder, A. Korgul, W. Krol\'{a}s, E.F. Zganjar, A. Piechazek, C. Goodin, J.H. Hamilton Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:54AM - 12:06PM		J8.00008: Identification of the $^{109}$Xe $\rightarrow$ $^{105}$Te $\rightarrow$ $^{101}$Sn alpha-decay chain S.N. Liddick, R. Grzywacz, C. Mazzocchi, C.R. Bingham, G. Drafta, A. Korgul, M.N. Tantawy, R.D. Page, I.G. Darby, D.T. Joss, J. Thomson, K.P. Rykaczewski, C.J. Gross, J.C. Batchelder, C. Goodin, J.H. Hamilton, J.K. Hwang, K.. Li, S. Ilyushkin, J.A. Winget, K. Lagergren, W. Krolas, A.A. Hecht Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 12:06PM - 12:18PM		J8.00009: High-spin states in $^{135}$Xe N. Fotiades, R.O. Nelson, M. Devlin, J.A. Cizewski, R. Kr\"{u}cken, R.M. Clark, P. Fallon, I.Y. Lee, A.O. Macchiavelli, J.A. Becker, W. Younes, T. Ethvignot, T. Granier Preview Abstract

Session J10: Momentum Transport in Astrophysical and Fusion Plasmas

Sponsoring Units: GPAP DPP
Chair: Philipp Kronberg, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 6

Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:30AM - 11:06AM		J10.00001: Spontaneous Rotation in Tokamak Plasmas Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:06AM - 11:42AM		J10.00002: Laboratory Studies of Angular Momentum Transport in Astrophysically Relevant Flows Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:42AM - 12:18PM		J10.00003: Angular Momentum Transport in Astrophysical Accretion Flows Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session J11: Neutrino Astronomy

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Jim Buckley, Washington University
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 7

Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:30AM - 10:42AM		J11.00001: Search for Ultra High Energy Neutrinos with AMANDA-II Lisa Gerhardt Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:42AM - 10:54AM		J11.00002: High Energy Astrophysical Neutrinos Soebur Razzaque Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:54AM - 11:06AM		J11.00003: The ANTARES neutrino telescope: a status report Ralf Auer, Vincenzo Flaminio Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:06AM - 11:18AM		J11.00004: Event reconstruction in the ANTARES experiment Maximilien Melissas, Vincenzo Flaminio Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:18AM - 11:30AM		J11.00005: Observation of Atmospheric Muon Neutrinos with the IceCube 9-String Detector John Pretz Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:30AM - 11:42AM		J11.00006: Searching for Neutrinos with AMANDA-II Jessica Hodges Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:42AM - 11:54AM		J11.00007: Novel Scintillation Lattice for LENS Experiment Steven Rountree, Christian Grieb Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:54AM - 12:06PM		J11.00008: ANITA: A Balloon Borne Radio Detector of Ultra High Energy Neutrinos Kimberly Palladino Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 12:06PM - 12:18PM		J11.00009: The Search for Muon Neutrinos from Gamma-Ray Bursts with AMANDA Kyler Kuehn Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 12:18PM - 12:30PM		J11.00010: AURA - Next generation neutrino detector in the South Pole Hagar Landsman Preview Abstract

Session J12: Theoretical Gravitation

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Bernard Whiting, University of Florida
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 8

Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:30AM - 10:42AM		J12.00001: Transition to matter dominance in expanding cosmological spacetimes containing gravitational waves Beverly K. Berger Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:42AM - 10:54AM		J12.00002: Quasilocal Energy Inside the Event Horizon Andrew Lundgren, Bjoern Schmekel, James York Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:54AM - 11:06AM		J12.00003: On the Existence of Radiation Gauges in Petrov Type II Spacetimes Larry Price, Karthik Shankar, Bernard Whiting Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:06AM - 11:18AM		J12.00004: Vector Theories with Spontaneous Lorentz Violation. Robert Bluhm, Alan Kostelecky Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:18AM - 11:30AM		J12.00005: Lambda-renormalized Einstein-Schrodinger theory - an alternative to Einstein-Maxwell theory James Shifflett Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:30AM - 11:42AM		J12.00006: First-order generalized symmetries of spacetimes admitting two commuting Killing vector fields Balraj Menon Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:42AM - 11:54AM		J12.00007: The periodic table of real geometric algebras, bits of space-time, and the Standard Model. Dennis Marks Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:54AM - 12:06PM		J12.00008: Cosmological Variation of Gravitation in a Quantum Theory of Mass-Spacetime Dillon Scofield Preview Abstract

Session J13: B Physics I

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Karl Ecklund, State University of New York at Buffalo
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 9

Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:30AM - 10:42AM		J13.00001: An updated search for lepton flavor violating decays $\tau\to lll$ at BaBar Jeff Kolb Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:42AM - 10:54AM		J13.00002: Study of the decay $B^\pm\to K_S^0 \pi^\pm\pi^0$ at Babar Paolo Franchini Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:54AM - 11:06AM		J13.00003: Measurement of $B\to D^0 K^*$ decays with $D^0\to CP$ eigenstates Quincy Kwan-Sut Wong Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:06AM - 11:18AM		J13.00004: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:18AM - 11:30AM		J13.00005: A search for the decays $B^0\to l^+\tau^-$ ($l = e,\mu$) using hadronic tag reconstruction Miika Klemetti Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:30AM - 11:42AM		J13.00006: Study of $B \rightarrow (J/\psi\pi\pi)K^{*}$ Brandon Drummond Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:42AM - 11:54AM		J13.00007: Measurement of the decays $B \to D_s^{(*)-} K^+ \pi^+$, $D_s^{(*)-} K_S^0 \pi^+$, $D_s^{(*)-} K^+ K^+$ Ada Rubin Preview Abstract

Session J14: Top I

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Dan Amidei, University of Michigan
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 10

Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:30AM - 10:42AM		J14.00001: Measurement of the $W$ boson helicity in top quark decay at D0 Bertrand Martin Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:42AM - 10:54AM		J14.00002: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:54AM - 11:06AM		J14.00003: Search for a Charged Higgs in Top Decays at CDF Geum-bong Yu Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:06AM - 11:18AM		J14.00004: Measurement of the top quark mass at D0 using the matrix weighting method on dilepton events Daniel Boline, Ulrich Heintz Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:18AM - 11:30AM		J14.00005: Search for Resonant $t\bar{t}$ Pair Production in the Lepton+Jets Channel at CDF Junji Naganoma Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:30AM - 11:42AM		J14.00006: First Measurement of $\sigma(gg\rightarrow t\bar{t})/\sigma(p\bar{p}\rightarrow t\bar{t})$ in $p\bar{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.96$ TeV Shabnaz Pashapour Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:42AM - 11:54AM		J14.00007: Measurement of the charge asymmetry in $t\bar{t}$ production in proton-antiproton collision at D0 Amnon Harel Preview Abstract

Session J15: Hot, Dense Matter in High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions II

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Bolek Wyslouch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 11

Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:30AM - 10:42AM		J15.00001: System Size and Energy Dependence of Jet-Induced Hadron-Hadron Angular Correlations in Heavy Ion Collisions at PHENIX Michael McCumber Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:42AM - 10:54AM		J15.00002: Measurement of direct photons with a new $\pi^{0}$ tagging method in $\sqrt{s}=200Gev$ AuAu Collision at PHENIX Haijiang Gong Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:54AM - 11:06AM		J15.00003: Disentangling the Away-Side jet contributions of two-particle $h^{\pm}$-$h^{\pm}$ correlations in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$ GeV Eric Vazquez Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:06AM - 11:18AM		J15.00004: Dielectron Mass Spectra from $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 200 GeV Cu+Cu Collisions Measured by PHENIX Sarah Campbell Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:18AM - 11:30AM		J15.00005: Di-Hadron Azimuthal Correlations Relative to the Reaction Plane Aoqi Feng Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:30AM - 11:42AM		J15.00006: Lineshape and elliptic flow of phi-mesons in AA collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV measured by the PHENIX experiment Hugo Valle Preview Abstract

Session J16: Electromagnetic Interactions II

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Douglas Hasell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 12

Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:30AM - 10:42AM		J16.00001: An experiment to measure the helicity correlation $A_{LL}$ in Compton scattering Melissa Commisso Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:42AM - 10:54AM		J16.00002: Generalized Polarizabilities of the Proton at low $Q^2$ using Virtual Compton Scattering Bourgeois Paul Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:54AM - 11:06AM		J16.00003: Precision Measurements of Low Energy Deuteron Photodisintegration Using Linearly Polarized Beams M.A. Blackston, M.A. Ahmed, B. Bewer, R. Igarashi, B. Norum, Y. Parpottas, R. Pywell, B.A. Perdue, B.D. Sawatzky, H.R. Weller Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:06AM - 11:18AM		J16.00004: An Indirect Determination of the Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn (GDH) Sum Rule for the Deuteron at Low Energies M.W. Ahmed, M. Blackston, B. Perdue, W. Tornow, H. Weller Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:18AM - 11:30AM		J16.00005: Measurement of Tensor Analyzing Powers in Elastic Electron Deuteron Scattering with BLAST Michael Kohl Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:30AM - 11:42AM		J16.00006: Vector and Tensor Asymmetries for Quasielastic Scattering from Deuterium at BLAST Adam DeGrush Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:42AM - 11:54AM		J16.00007: Pion Electroproduction in the $\Delta$ Excitation Region Yuan Xiao Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:54AM - 12:06PM		J16.00008: Pion Electroproduction from Deuterium at BLAST Aki Shinozaki Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 12:06PM - 12:18PM		J16.00009: The Neutron Charge Form Factor at Low $Q^2$ Eugene Geis Preview Abstract

Session J17: Special Lunchtime Talk: The Failure of the 17th Street Canal: Anatomy of an Engineering Disaster

Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Grand Ballroom I

Sunday, April 15, 2007 12:35PM - 1:05PM

J17.00001: The Failure of the 17th Street Canal: Anatomy of an Engineering Disaster Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract