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Session R2: Nuclear Structure

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Richard Casten, Yale University
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Grand 1

Monday, April 16, 2007 10:45AM - 11:21AM		R2.00001: High-accurcay Penning trap mass measurements for nuclear structure and fundamental studies Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:21AM - 11:57AM		R2.00002: The single-particle structure around $^{132}$Sn explored through the (d,p) reaction Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:57AM - 12:33PM		R2.00003: Understanding proton-neutron mixed symmetry from microscopic internucleon interactions Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session R3: Computational Challenges of CMB Research: COBE and the future

Sponsoring Units: DCOMP
Chair: Kent Irwin, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Grand 2

Monday, April 16, 2007 10:45AM - 11:21AM		R3.00001: Challenges for CMB Data Analysis: from COBE to WMAP Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:21AM - 11:57AM		R3.00002: Challenges for CBM Data Analysis: from WMAP to Planck Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:57AM - 12:33PM		R3.00003: Challenges for CMB Data Analysis: Planck and Beyond Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session R4: Neutrinos II

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Karsten Heeger, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Grand 3

Monday, April 16, 2007 10:45AM - 11:21AM		R4.00001: Recent Results from the MINOS Experiment Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:21AM - 11:57AM		R4.00002: NOvA and its Competitors Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:57AM - 12:33PM		R4.00003: Neutrino Oscillation Search at MiniBooNE Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 12:33PM - 12:45PM		R4.00004: The MiniBooNE Oscillation Fit Result Heather Ray Preview Abstract

Session R5: Physics Popularization and Physics Education

Sponsoring Units: FPS FEd
Chair: Lawrence M. Krauss, Case Western Reserve University
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Grand 6

Monday, April 16, 2007 10:45AM - 11:21AM		R5.00001: Selling Physics to Unwilling Buyers Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:21AM - 11:57AM		R5.00002: Bringing Science to the Public through City-wide Science Festivals and Street Fairs/Supported in part by the National Science Foundation and the Lounsbery Foundation Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session R7: Physics Education

Sponsoring Units: FEd
Chair: Paula Heron, University of Washington
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Grand 8

Monday, April 16, 2007 10:45AM - 10:57AM		R7.00001: Using Test Generating Software for Assessment Tarlok Singh Aurora Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 10:57AM - 11:09AM		R7.00002: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:09AM - 11:21AM		R7.00003: Developing state-of-the-art Cosmology courses for undergraduate non-science students Ramon Lopez-Aleman Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:21AM - 11:33AM		R7.00004: Teaching physics mysteries versus pseudoscience Fred Kuttner Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:33AM - 11:45AM		R7.00005: Using the QuarkNet Cosmic Ray Detector and e-Lab as an Undergraduate Student Project Kenneth Cecire Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:45AM - 11:57AM		R7.00006: PR$^{2}$EPS: Preparation, recruitment, retention and excellence in the physical sciences Hugh Gallagher, Sunil Labroo, John Schaumloffel, Paul Bischoff, Nancy Bachman Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:57AM - 12:09PM		R7.00007: On failures in education and public policy John T.A. Ely Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 12:09PM - 12:21PM		R7.00008: Bringing Technology into college and High School Physics Classrooms Nouredine Zettili Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 12:21PM - 12:33PM		R7.00009: Summer Institute for Physical Science Teachers Ponn Maheswaranathan, Cliff Calloway Preview Abstract

Session R8: Fusion Plasmas

Sponsoring Units: DPP
Chair: Ian Hutchinson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 4

Monday, April 16, 2007 10:45AM - 11:21AM		R8.00001: Progress in 5-Dimensional Plasma Turbulence Simulations of Fusion Energy Devices Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:21AM - 11:57AM		R8.00002: Noninductive Current Drive Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:57AM - 12:33PM		R8.00003: Advances in Control and Understanding of Fusion Plasmas in DIII-D Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session R9: Bridging the Digital Divide II

Sponsoring Units: FIP DPB
Chair: Harvey Newman, California Institute of Technology
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 5

Monday, April 16, 2007 10:45AM - 11:21AM		R9.00001: Marshak Lectureship Award: Closing the Digital Divide in Latin America Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:21AM - 11:57AM		R9.00002: The Virtual Silk Highway -- Connectivity for Central Asia and the Caucasus Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:57AM - 12:33PM		R9.00003: South African Astronomy in the Internet Era: exploiting the AVO Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 12:33PM - 1:09PM		R9.00004: Moving Pakistan into the Global Community via Networking Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session R10: History of Physics II

Sponsoring Units: FHP
Chair: David C. Cassidy, Hofstra University
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 6

Monday, April 16, 2007 10:45AM - 11:09AM		R10.00001: Walther Nernst, Albert Einstein, Otto Stern, and the Specific Heat of Hydrogen. Clayton Gearhart Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:09AM - 11:21AM		R10.00002: Einstein in the City Danian Hu Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:21AM - 11:33AM		R10.00003: Einstein's Viscous Advice Flowed Freely Nonetheless Paul Halpern Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:33AM - 11:45AM		R10.00004: The Unfinished Revolution: Einstein's revenge James Beichler Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:45AM - 11:57AM		R10.00005: Fermi's Conundrum: Proliferation and Closed Societies Wendy Teller, Catherine Westfall Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:57AM - 12:09PM		R10.00006: Physics in the international arms control effort: a history and introduction William Mendoza, Ann Ganzer, Amy Westling Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 12:09PM - 12:21PM		R10.00007: Evolution \textit{versus} creation in the public school curriculum: History of the legal battles Ruprecht Machleidt Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 12:21PM - 12:33PM		R10.00008: Founding \emph{The Physical Review} and its early years Guy Emery Preview Abstract

Session R11: TeV Gamma-Ray Astronomy and AGNs

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Martin Pohl, Iowa State University
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 7

Monday, April 16, 2007 10:45AM - 10:57AM		R11.00001: Discovry of TeV Gamma-Ray Emission from the Cygnus Region of the Galaxy with Milagro Aous Abdo Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 10:57AM - 11:09AM		R11.00002: Survey of the Galactic Plane at 12 TeV with Milagro Gary Walker Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:09AM - 11:21AM		R11.00003: A Survey of EGRET Sources by Milagro Observatory Chuan Chen Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:21AM - 11:33AM		R11.00004: Gamma-Rays Produced in Cosmic-Ray Interactions and the TeV-band Spectrum of RX J1713-3946 Martin Pohl, Ching-Yuan Huang, Song-Eui Park, Chris Daniels Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:33AM - 11:45AM		R11.00005: Optical, Gamma-ray and X-ray monitoring of Markarian 421 in 2005-2006 season Kuen Lee Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:45AM - 11:57AM		R11.00006: X-ray and TeV Gamma-Ray Emission from Parallel Electron-Positron or Electron-Proton Beams in BL Lac Objects Henric Krawczynski Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:57AM - 12:09PM		R11.00007: A Model of MBH Accretion Disk Dynamo, Jet and Radio Lobe Stirling Colgate, Hui Li, Philipp Kronberg Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 12:09PM - 12:21PM		R11.00008: Influence of Local Angular Momentum Transport and Ring Configurations in the Strong Gravity of a Central Object* F. Rousseau, B. Coppi Preview Abstract

Session R12: Gravitational Waves For and By LIGO

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Peter Shawhan, University of Maryland
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 8

Monday, April 16, 2007 10:45AM - 10:57AM		R12.00001: Search for compact binary systems during LIGO's fifth science run Drew Keppel Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 10:57AM - 11:09AM		R12.00002: Noise transients and veto studies in the search for gravitational wave bursts with LIGO Shantanu Desai Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:09AM - 11:21AM		R12.00003: Gravitational Wave Burst Search in LIGO's Fifth Science Run Laura Cadonati Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:21AM - 11:33AM		R12.00004: Coherent all-sky search for gravitational wave bursts with the LIGO, GEO and VIRGO detectors Igor Yakushin Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:33AM - 11:45AM		R12.00005: Searching for Gravitational Wave Repeaters John Dwyer, Zsuzsa Marka, Luca Matone, Susie Bedikian, Szabolcs Marka Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:45AM - 11:57AM		R12.00006: Matched Filtering and Convergence of Numerical Relativity Templates Deirdre Shoemaker Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:57AM - 12:09PM		R12.00007: Towards a wave extraction method for Numerical Relativity: Estimating the gravitational wave content of spatial hypersurfaces Lior M. Burko Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 12:09PM - 12:21PM		R12.00008: How far away is far enough for extracting numerical waveforms and how much do they depend on the extraction method? Enrique Pazos, Nils Dorband, Alessandro Nagar, Carlos Palenzuela, Erik Schnetter, Manuel Tiglio Preview Abstract

Session R13: LHC I

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Vasken Hagopian, Florida State University
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 9

Monday, April 16, 2007 10:45AM - 10:57AM		R13.00001: Electromagnetic Calorimeter Intercalibration with Neural Networks for the CMS Experiment at CERN Sergei Gleyzer Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 10:57AM - 11:09AM		R13.00002: Calibration of the CMS Barrel Electromagnetic Calorimeter Using Neutral Pion Decays Marat Gataullin Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:09AM - 11:21AM		R13.00003: Electron/photon reconstruction in ATLAS Julia Hoffman Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:21AM - 11:33AM		R13.00004: Alignment of the Silicon Detectors of the ATLAS Experiment Florian Heinemann Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:33AM - 11:45AM		R13.00005: Analyses of the CMS ECAL+HCAL Test Beam Data and Jet Reconstruction Kazim Gumus, Heejong Kim, Lisa Berntzon, Nural Akchurin, Sung-Won Lee, Richard Wigmans Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:45AM - 11:57AM		R13.00006: Prospects for measuring the Underlying Event and Minimum Bias at the LHC Khristian Kotov Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:57AM - 12:09PM		R13.00007: Status and Design of Muon Reconstruction at the Large Hadron Collider with the CMS detector Adam Everett, Norbert Neumeister, Chang Liu Preview Abstract

Session R14: Top III

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Jerry Blazey, Northern Illinois University
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 10

Monday, April 16, 2007 10:45AM - 10:57AM		R14.00001: Measurement of the Ratio $q\bar{q}/g\bar{g}$ in the $t\bar{t}$ Production Mechanism using the Dilepton Channel at CDF Naoki Kimura Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 10:57AM - 11:09AM		R14.00002: Measurement of the $t\bar{t}$ production cross section at D0 using $\tau$+jets events Amnon Harel Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:09AM - 11:21AM		R14.00003: Measurement of the $t\bar{t}$ production cross section at D0 using event kinematics Hwidong Yoo Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:21AM - 11:33AM		R14.00004: Measurement of the $t\bar{t}$ production cross section at D0 using soft lepton $b$ tagging Michele Weber Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:33AM - 11:45AM		R14.00005: Measurement of the $t\bar{t}$ cross section and spin correlation in the dilepton channel with the D0 detector Jens-Peter Konrath Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:45AM - 11:57AM		R14.00006: Measurement of the $t\bar{t}$ Production Cross Section in the Lepton+Jets Channel with Lifetime Tagging Hwidomg Yoo Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:57AM - 12:09PM		R14.00007: Measurement of $t\bar{t}$ pair production at D0 using lepton+hadronic $\tau$ events Suharyo Sumowidagdo Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 12:09PM - 12:21PM		R14.00008: The Top Quark Width at the CDF Experiment Satomi Shiraishi Preview Abstract

Session R15: Neutrino Physics

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Andrew Hime, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 11

Monday, April 16, 2007 10:45AM - 10:57AM		R15.00001: Measuring $^8B$ Solar Neutrino Elastic Scattering with KamLAND Lindley A. Winslow Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 10:57AM - 11:09AM		R15.00002: The Majorana Neutrinoless Double-beta Decay Experiment. Reyco Henning Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:09AM - 11:21AM		R15.00003: Multiple-Isotope Comparison for Determining 0$\nu\beta\beta$ Mechanisms Victor M. Gehman, Steven Elliott Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:21AM - 11:33AM		R15.00004: Neutron-Induced Background for Double-Beta Decay Experiments V.E. Guiseppe, S.R. Elliott, A. Hime, R.O. Nelson, N. Fotiadis, M.J. Devlin, R.C. Haight, D.-M. Mei, C. Keller, W. Tornow, A.P. Tonchev, A. Chyzh, J.H. Esterline, B. Fallin, C.R. Howell, A. Hutcheson, H.J. Karwowski, J.H. Kelley, M. Kidd Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:33AM - 11:45AM		R15.00005: The KATRIN Neutrino Mass Experiment Joseph Formaggio Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:45AM - 11:57AM		R15.00006: Commissioning Studies with the KATRIN Pre-Spectrometer Michelle Leber Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:57AM - 12:09PM		R15.00007: Calibrating the KATRIN tritium beta-decay experiment Benjamin Monreal Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 12:09PM - 12:21PM		R15.00008: Creating Unbinned, Nonparametric PDFs using the Kernel Estimation Method Stanley Seibert Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 12:21PM - 12:33PM		R15.00009: External Beta-Gamma Background Tails Analysis in SNO Christopher Tunnell Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 12:33PM - 12:45PM		R15.00010: Pulse Shape Simulation for the NCD Phase of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Noah Oblath Preview Abstract

Session R16: Nuclear Theory I

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Anatolijs Afanasjevs, Mississippi State University
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 12

Monday, April 16, 2007 10:45AM - 10:57AM		R16.00001: Ergodicity of the $\Delta_3(L)$ statistic, in a RMT analysis of neutron resonance data Declan Mulhall, Zachary Huard, Vladimir Zelevinsky Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 10:57AM - 11:09AM		R16.00002: Thermalization and Entropy in Nuclear Pairing Phase Transition Tony Sumaryada, Alexander Volya Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:09AM - 11:21AM		R16.00003: The role of internal degrees of freedom in reactions with composite systems Naureen Ahsan, Alexander Volya Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:21AM - 11:33AM		R16.00004: The equation of state for spin-polarized cold nuclear matter Francesca Sammarruca, Plamen Krastev Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:33AM - 11:45AM		R16.00005: Small-$x$ Nuclear shadowing from Diffractive Scattering Trang Nguyen, Adeola Adeluyi Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:45AM - 11:57AM		R16.00006: Is the Loop Expansion in Quantum Hadrodynamics Perturbative? Jeff McIntire, Brian Serot, Ying Hu Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 11:57AM - 12:09PM		R16.00007: ABSTRACT HAS BEEN MOVED TO X16.00007 Preview Abstract