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Session K3: Extreme Plasma Phenomena

Sponsoring Units: DPP DNP
Chair: Amitava Bhatacharjee, University of New Hampshire
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Grand 2

Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:15PM - 1:51PM		K3.00001: Strongly coupled Quark-Gluon Plasma and its modeling via Molecular Dynamics Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:51PM - 2:27PM		K3.00002: Exotic Behavior of Extremely Dense Plasmas: Phase Transitions, Kilovolt Chemistry, and Fusion Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:27PM - 3:03PM		K3.00003: Magnetically dominated plasma in astrophysics Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session K4: Dark Energy II

Sponsoring Units: DPF DAP
Chair: Robert Cahn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Grand 3

Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:15PM - 1:51PM		K4.00001: SNAP Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:51PM - 2:27PM		K4.00002: Destiny, The Dark Energy Space Telescope Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:27PM - 3:03PM		K4.00003: TBD Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session K5: Changing Role of Nuclear Weapons in Foreign Policy

Sponsoring Units: FHP FPS
Chair: Benn H. Tannenbaum, AAAS
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Grand 6

Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:15PM - 1:51PM		K5.00001: History of Nuclear Weapons Design and Production Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:51PM - 2:27PM		K5.00002: History of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Doctrine and a Path Forward Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:27PM - 3:03PM		K5.00003: The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty: A Perspective from the National Laboratories Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session K6: Enhancing the Physics Enterprise through Gender Equity

Sponsoring Units: CSWP
Chair: Bradley Keister, National Science Foundation
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Grand 7

Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:15PM - 1:51PM		K6.00001: Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:51PM - 2:27PM		K6.00002: Recruit and ADVANCE Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:27PM - 3:03PM		K6.00003: Best Practices for Recruiting and Retaining Women in Physics. Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session K7: Classical and Semi-classical Gravity

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: James Isenberg, University of Oregon
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Grand 8

Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:15PM - 1:51PM		K7.00001: The present status of quantum field theory in curved spacetime Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:51PM - 2:27PM		K7.00002: Black Hole Rigidity Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:27PM - 3:03PM		K7.00003: On the topology of higher dimensional black holes Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session K8: Nuclear Structure with A<100

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Michael Thoennessen, Michigan State University
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 4

Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:15PM - 1:27PM		K8.00001: The Cluster Structure of $^{18}$O E.D. Johnson, G.V. Rogachev, S. Brown, V.Z. Goldberg, A. Crisp, C. Fu, B.W. Green, K.W. Kemper, O. Momotyuk, B. Roeder Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:27PM - 1:39PM		K8.00002: Structure of $^{21}$F from $^{14}$C-induced reactions M. Perry, S.L. Tabor, J. Pavan, A. Aguilar, P.C. Bender, I.J. Calderin, D.B. Campbell, W.T. Cluff, E. Diffenderfer, J. Fridmann, T.A. Hinners, C.R. Hoffman, K.W. Kemper, S. Lee, B.T. Roeder, C. Teal, Vandana Tripathi, M. Wiedeking, I. Wiedenh\"over Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:39PM - 1:51PM		K8.00003: Lifetimes of excited states in neutron rich $^{22}$F Sangjin Lee, S.L. Tabor, A. Aguilar, P.C. Bender, T.A. Hinners, C.R. Hoffmann, M. Perry, Vandana Tripathi Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:51PM - 2:03PM		K8.00004: Complimentary Approaches to the Study of T=2 30Al T.A. Hinners, Vandana Tripathi, S.L. Tabor, P.C. Bender, C.R. Hoffman, S. Lee, M. Perry, M. Wiedeking, P.F. Mantica, A.D. Davies, S.N. Liddick, W.F. Mueller, A. Stolz, B.E. Tomlin Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:03PM - 2:15PM		K8.00005: The $\beta$ and delayed-neutron decay properties of neutron rich $^{76-79}$Cu S.V. Ilyushkin, J.A. Winger, 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 2:15PM - 2:27PM		K8.00006: Neutron single-particle states and beta-delayed neutron branching ratios near $^{78}$Ni M.M. Rajabali, R. Grzywacz, S.N. Liddick, C. Bingham, I. Darby, C. Mazzocchi, K. Rykaczewski, J. Batchelder, T. Baumann, T. Ginter, P. Mantica, M. Karny, K. Miernik, M. Pfutzner, S.V. Ilyushkin, J. Winger, W. Krolas Preview Abstract

Session K9: Topics from the new Physics Education Research Journal

Sponsoring Units: FEd
Chair: Robert Beichner, North Carolina State University
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 5

Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:15PM - 1:51PM		K9.00001: Using resource graphs to model learning in physics. Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:51PM - 2:27PM		K9.00002: Model analysis: Representing and assessing the dynamics of student learning Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:27PM - 3:03PM		K9.00003: Impact of Animation on Assessment of Conceptual Understanding in Physics Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session K10: Test of Physics Laws and Precision Experiments

Sponsoring Units: GFC
Chair: Zheng-Tian Lu , Argonne National Laboratory
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 6

Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:15PM - 1:27PM		K10.00001: Gravitational Tests of Lorentz Symmetry with Atom Interferometers Jay D. Tasson, V. Alan Kostelecky Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:27PM - 1:39PM		K10.00002: New Torsion Balance Search for Spin-Spin Forces Claire Cramer, Blayne Heckel, Eric Adelberger Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:39PM - 1:51PM		K10.00003: Search for very light neutral spin-zero bosons at optical frequencies. Kenneth W. McFarlane, Andrei V. Afanasev, Roopchan R. Ramdon, Kevin Beard, George H. Biallas, James R. Boyce, Michelle D. Shinn, Oliver K. Baker, Minarni Minarni Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:51PM - 2:03PM		K10.00004: Electron Electic Dipole Moment Experiment as a Search for TeV Scale Particles Harvey Gould, Charles T. Munger Jr. Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:03PM - 2:15PM		K10.00005: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:15PM - 2:27PM		K10.00006: Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Search for Strangelets in Lunar Soil Ke Han, Alexei Chikanian, Evan Finch, Richard Majka, Jack Sandweiss, Jeffrey Ashenfelter, Andreas Heinz, Peter Parker, Peter Fisher, Benjamin Monreal, Jes Madsen Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:27PM - 2:39PM		K10.00007: The Michelson-Morley experiment in an accelerated reference frame Dennis Crossley Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:39PM - 2:51PM		K10.00008: Constraining possible time variations of the gravitational constant through terrestrial nuclear laboratory data Plamen Krastev, Bao-An Li, Francesca Sammarruca Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:51PM - 3:03PM		K10.00009: Fundamental Relationship Between Space, Time, Energy and Mass Ed Hammer Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 3:03PM - 3:15PM		K10.00010: The Action of Marine Climate on Some Polymers Mariana Cornelia Butnaru Preview Abstract

Session K11: Neutrino Astronomy II and Elementary Particles

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Lisa Gerhardt, University of California, Irvine
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 7

Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:15PM - 1:27PM		K11.00001: Studying Neutrino Oscillations Using Quasi-Elastic Events in MINOS. Sujeewa Kumaratunga Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:27PM - 1:39PM		K11.00002: A Phase Transition in U(1) Configuration Space: Vortex Annihilation and Oscillons Joel Thorarinson, Marcelo Gleiser Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:39PM - 1:51PM		K11.00003: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:51PM - 2:03PM		K11.00004: Empirical measurement of NC/CC ratio in neutrino-nucleon scattering with hadronic energy between 1.5 and 30 GeV Qun Wu Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:03PM - 2:15PM		K11.00005: Electron Identification with the ATLAS Barrel Transition Radiation Tracker. Alex Harvey, Oliver K. Baker, Kenneth W. McFarlane Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:15PM - 2:27PM		K11.00006: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:27PM - 2:39PM		K11.00007: A Theory of Flavor and Set of the Interaction Structural Parts Rasulkhozha Sharafiddinov Preview Abstract

Session K12: Experimental Gravity

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Peter F. Michelson, Stanford University
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 8

Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:15PM - 1:27PM		K12.00001: Test of F=ma for small accelerations Stephan Schlamminger, Chris Spitzer, Ki-Young Choi, Jens Gundlach, Brian Woodahl, Jennifer Coy, Ephraim Fischbach Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:27PM - 1:39PM		K12.00002: An apparatus for measuring short-range deviations from Newtonian gravity including a magnetic force calibration Andrew Geraci, David Weld, Sylvia Smullin, John Chiaverini, Aharon Kapitulnik Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:39PM - 1:51PM		K12.00003: APOLLO: Testing Gravity with Millimeter-precision Lunar Laser Ranging James Battat, Thomas Murphy, Eric Adelberger, C.D. Hoyle, Russet McMillan, Eric Michelsen, Kenneth Nordtvedt, Adam Orin, Christopher Stubbs, H. Erik Swanson Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:51PM - 2:03PM		K12.00004: Faraday Isolator Performance at High Laser Power R.M. Martin, V. Quetschke, G. Mueller, D.H. Reitze, D.B. Tanner Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:03PM - 2:15PM		K12.00005: Adaptive Heating for Thermal Compensation in Advanced LIGO Muzammil A. Arain, David H. Reitze, D.B. Tanner, Guido Mueller, Phil Willems Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:15PM - 2:27PM		K12.00006: Requirement for and characterization of electro-optic modulators for next- generation gravitational wave detector Wan Wu, Volker Quetschke, Ira Thorpe, Rodrigo Delgadillo, Guido Mueller, David Reitze, David Tanner Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:27PM - 2:39PM		K12.00007: Modeling the Pioneer anomaly Jacques Leibovitz Preview Abstract

Session K13: Searches II

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Ulrich Heintz, Boston University
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 9

Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:15PM - 1:27PM		K13.00001: Inclusive Search for Squark/Gluino Production at CDF Gianluca de Lorenzo, Monica D'Onofrio, Mario Martinez-Perez Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:27PM - 1:39PM		K13.00002: Effects of Gluino and Neutralino Phases on Squark Pair Production at Hadron Colliders Ahmet Turan Alan, Kerem Canko\c{c}ak, Durmus A. Demir Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:39PM - 1:51PM		K13.00003: Searching for Long-lived Particle Signatures at Hadron Colliders Todd Adams Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:51PM - 2:03PM		K13.00004: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:03PM - 2:15PM		K13.00005: Single and Pair Production of Heavy Leptons in $E_6$ Model A. Tolga Tasci, Ahmet Turan Alan, Nurettin Karagoz Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:15PM - 2:27PM		K13.00006: Search for scalar top admixture in the $t\bar{t}\rightarrow\ell+$jets channel Su-Jung Park Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:27PM - 2:39PM		K13.00007: Search for pair production of third generation leptoquarks in the $\tau\tau b \bar{b}$ final state with the D0 detector Yuan Hu Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:39PM - 2:51PM		K13.00008: Direct search for Z' in the di-electron channel in $p\bar{p}$ collisions at 1.96 TeV using the D0 detector at Fermilab Ioannis Katsanos Preview Abstract

Session K14: Top II

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Pushpalatha Bhat, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 10

Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:15PM - 1:27PM		K14.00001: Measurement of the top quark mass at D0 using all-hadronic events David Lam Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:27PM - 1:39PM		K14.00002: Top Quark Mass Measurement in the Lepton+Jets Channel at CDF using a Template Method Young-Jang Lee Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:39PM - 1:51PM		K14.00003: Measurement of the top quark mass at D0 using the ideogram method in the lepton+jets channel Pieter Houben Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:51PM - 2:03PM		K14.00004: Addition of the Trilepton Channel to the Search for Top Flavor Changing Neutral Current (FCNC) Decays at CDF Jennifer Gimmell Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:03PM - 2:15PM		K14.00005: First Measurement of the Top Quark Charge at CDF II Zeynep Unalan Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:15PM - 2:27PM		K14.00006: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:27PM - 2:39PM		K14.00007: Measurement of the top quark charge and branching fractions at D0 Per Hansson Preview Abstract

Session K15: Nuclear Instrumentation II and Nuclear Applications

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Jeffrey Martoff, Temple University
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 11

Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:15PM - 1:27PM		K15.00001: Micromegas gain and stability in negative ion drift chamber Michael Dion, C.J. Martoff, Michael Hosack Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:27PM - 1:39PM		K15.00002: Quartz Plate Calorimeter Prototype Ugur Akgun Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:39PM - 1:51PM		K15.00003: Development of inorganic nanocomposite scintillators for gamma-ray detection Minesh K. Bacrania, D. Wayne Cooke, Rico E. Del Sesto, Robert D. Gilbertson, Edward A. McKigney, Ross E. Muenchausen, Kevin C. Ott, Melissa A. Siemens, Sy Stange Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:51PM - 2:03PM		K15.00004: Neutron Production via a Pyroelectric Crystal without a Tip W. Tornow, S.M. Shafroth, J.D. Brownridge Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:03PM - 2:15PM		K15.00005: Space Radiation a Potential Show Stopper in Missions to Moon and Mars and beyond Ram Tripathi Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:15PM - 2:27PM		K15.00006: Nuclear Fragmentation Processes Relevant for Human Space Radiation Protection Zi-Wei Lin Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:27PM - 2:39PM		K15.00007: Stimulated Decay of Isomeric Materials for Sensor Power Marc Litz, Nino Pereira, George Merkel Preview Abstract

Session K16: Sub-Nucleonic Degrees of Freedom I

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Thomas Ulrlich, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 12

Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:15PM - 1:27PM		K16.00001: Longitudinal Structure Functions ($F_{L}$) at an Electron-Ion Collider James C. Dunlop Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:27PM - 1:39PM		K16.00002: Physics Opportunities at a New Electron-Ion Collider David Morrison Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:39PM - 1:51PM		K16.00003: Prospects of charm measurements at a new electron-ion collider Zhangbu Xu Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:51PM - 2:03PM		K16.00004: Measuring the gluon helicity distribution at a polarized electron-proton collider Christine Aidala Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:03PM - 2:15PM		K16.00005: Longitudinal Double Spin Asymmetry for inclusive back-to-back dimuons in polarized $p$+$p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 200$ GeV Carlos Munoz Camacho Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:15PM - 2:27PM		K16.00006: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:27PM - 2:39PM		K16.00007: Direct photon-hadron correlations in $\sqrt{s} = 200$ GeV p+p collisions with the PHENIX detector Matthew Nguyen Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:39PM - 2:51PM		K16.00008: $J/\psi$ Production in p+p and Au+Au collisions from the PHENIX Experiment Abigail Bickley Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:51PM - 3:03PM		K16.00009: Title: Direct measurement of fragmentation photons in p+p collisions at $\sqrt(s_{NN}) = 200$~GeV with the PHENIX experiment Ali Hanks Preview Abstract