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Session U2: Long Range Plan Town Meetings

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Richard G. Milner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Grand 1

Monday, April 16, 2007 3:30PM - 4:06PM		U2.00001: Report on Town meeting on QCD and Hadron Structure Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 4:06PM - 4:42PM		U2.00002: Report on Town Meeting on Phases of QCD Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 4:42PM - 5:18PM		U2.00003: Report on Town meeting on Nuclear Structure and Nuclear Astrophysics Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session U3: Goeppert-Mayer Award Talk and Unusual Stellar Explosions

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Fiona Harrison, California Institute of Technology
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Grand 2

Monday, April 16, 2007 3:30PM - 4:06PM		U3.00001: The Cosmic History of the Universe Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 4:06PM - 4:42PM		U3.00002: The Supernoa - GRB Connection Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 4:42PM - 5:18PM		U3.00003: Searching for the First Stars Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 5:18PM - 5:54PM		U3.00004: Collapsar / Supernova Theory Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session U4: Sakurai & Heineman Prizes

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

Monday, April 16, 2007 3:30PM - 4:06PM		U4.00001: The AdS/CFT Correspondence and QCD Phenomenology Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 4:06PM - 4:42PM		U4.00002: Daniel Heineman Prize: The Quest for Quantum Gravity Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 4:42PM - 5:18PM		U4.00003: Daniel Heineman Prize: QCD, strings and black holes: A duality between gravity and field theory Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session U6: FHP/FPS Awards Session

Sponsoring Units: FPS FHP
Chair: Lawrence Krauss, Case Western Reserve University
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Grand 7

Monday, April 16, 2007 3:30PM - 4:06PM		U6.00001: The FPS Joseph A. Burton Forum Award - Prize Lecture Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 4:06PM - 4:42PM		U6.00002: The Abraham Pais Prize Lecture: The historical Development of the Physical Concept of Time Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 4:42PM - 4:52PM		U6.00003: Tribute to Mike Casper Preview Abstract

Session U10: Computational Physics

Sponsoring Units: DCOMP
Chair: Jerome Delhommelle, University of South Carolina
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 6

Monday, April 16, 2007 3:30PM - 3:42PM		U10.00001: Insights into the Molecular Mechanism underlying Polymorph Selection Jerome Delhommelle, Caroline Desgranges Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 3:42PM - 3:54PM		U10.00002: Quantum Modeling in Simulation of Turbulent Flows Yosef Tirat-Gefen Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 3:54PM - 4:06PM		U10.00003: Numerical Calculation of Nonlinear Seismic Pulse Propagation in a Hysteretic Elastic Material Dan Kosik Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 4:06PM - 4:18PM		U10.00004: Chaos Control of 4-D Chaotic Systems using Recursive Backstepping Nonlinear Controller John Laoye, Uchechukwu Vincent, Semiu Kareem Preview Abstract

Session U11: Gravitational Wave Astronomy II and Compact Objects

Sponsoring Units: DAP GGR
Chair: Keith Riles, University of Michigan
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 7

Monday, April 16, 2007 3:30PM - 3:42PM		U11.00001: LIGO data and the stochastic gravitational wave background Bernard Whiting Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 3:42PM - 3:54PM		U11.00002: Constraining off-Kerr deviations using intermediate mass ratio inspirals in Advanced LIGO Duncan Brown, Hua Fang Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 3:54PM - 4:06PM		U11.00003: Externally triggered searches of gravitational-wave bursts with Tikhonov regularization technique Malik Rakhmanov, Soumya Mohanty, Kazuhiro Hayama, Shantanu Desai, Tiffany Summerscales, Lee Samuel Finn Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 4:06PM - 4:18PM		U11.00004: Searching for Gravitational-Wave Bursts Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts during the LIGO S5 Run Isabel Leonor Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 4:18PM - 4:30PM		U11.00005: Simulation of a Galactic Population of Gravitational Wave Emitting Pulsars Giovanni Santostasi Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 4:30PM - 4:42PM		U11.00006: Core-collapse supernova simulation with effective general relativity Shin Yoshida, Stephen Bruenn, Pedro Marronetti, Konstantin Yakunin Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 4:42PM - 4:54PM		U11.00007: Astrophysical constraints on BH-NS and NS-NS mergers and short GRBs Richard O'Shaughnessy Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 4:54PM - 5:06PM		U11.00008: Black hole formation by rotational instabilities Burkhard Zink, Nikolaos Stergioulas, Ian Hawke, Christian D. Ott, Erik Schnetter, Ewald Mueller Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 5:06PM - 5:18PM		U11.00009: Light Curves of Millisecond-Period Accreting X-ray Pulsars Sharon Morsink, Denis Leahy, Coire Cadeau Preview Abstract

Session U12: Advances in Numerical Relativity

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: David Neilsen, Brigham Young University
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 8

Monday, April 16, 2007 3:30PM - 3:42PM		U12.00001: Puncture evolution without BSSN David Brown Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 3:42PM - 3:54PM		U12.00002: 1+log slicing in gravitatonal collapse David Garfinkle, Carsten Gundlach, David Hilditch Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 3:54PM - 4:06PM		U12.00003: Parca: A Paramesh-Based Driver for Cactus David Fiske, Erik Schnetter, Manuel Tiglio Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 4:06PM - 4:18PM		U12.00004: Multi-block systems in numerical relativity Erik Schnetter, Peter Diener, Nils Dorband, Enrique Pazos, Manuel Tiglio Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 4:18PM - 4:30PM		U12.00005: Using adaptive finite element toolkit to generate initial data for multi-block infrastructure Oleg Korobkin Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 4:30PM - 4:42PM		U12.00006: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 4:42PM - 4:54PM		U12.00007: The Periodic Standing Wave Approximation; second-order Post-Minkowski Formalism and Methods Richard H. Price, Christopher Beetle, Benjamin C. Bromley, Napoleon G. Hernandez Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 4:54PM - 5:06PM		U12.00008: Adapted coordinates and the ``eigenspectral'' method for solving the periodic standing wave problem Benjamin C. Bromley, Christopher Beetle, Napoleon G. Hernandez, Richard H. Price Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 5:06PM - 5:18PM		U12.00009: Post-Minkowski Perturbation Theory for the Periodic Standing-Wave Problem Christopher Beetle Preview Abstract

Session U13: Neutrino II

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Stuart Freedman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 9

Monday, April 16, 2007 3:30PM - 3:54PM		U13.00001: Summary of the US long Baseline Neutrino Experiment Study Milind Diwan Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 3:54PM - 4:06PM		U13.00002: Electroweak radiative corrections to neutrino scattering at NuTeV Kwangwoo Park, Ulrich Baur, Doreen Wackeroth Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 4:06PM - 4:18PM		U13.00003: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 4:18PM - 4:30PM		U13.00004: Analysis of a Proposed Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiment Christine Lewis Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 4:30PM - 4:42PM		U13.00005: The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment Mary Bishai Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 4:42PM - 4:54PM		U13.00006: Electromagnetic Content of Neutral versus Charged Current Neutrino Interactions Matt Seaton, Sanjib Mishra, Andrew Godley Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 4:54PM - 5:06PM		U13.00007: Measuring Active-Sterile Neutrino Oscillations with a Stopped Pion Neutrino Source Richard Van de Water, Bill Louis, Geoff Mills Preview Abstract

Session U14: B Physics II

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Mark Convery, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 10

Monday, April 16, 2007 3:30PM - 3:42PM		U14.00001: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 3:42PM - 3:54PM		U14.00002: $B$ Meson Lifetimes in $B \to J/\psi X$ Modes Chunlei Liu Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 3:54PM - 4:06PM		U14.00003: Measurement of $B$ Meson Lifetimes Using a Monte Carlo Independent Approach Sneha Malde Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 4:06PM - 4:18PM		U14.00004: Measurement of the $B$~Meson Production Cross Section Using $B\to\mu^- D^0 X$ James Kraus Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 4:18PM - 4:30PM		U14.00005: Measurement of $\Sigma_{b}$ Baryons with the CDF\,II Detector John Ash Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 4:30PM - 4:42PM		U14.00006: Search for a $J/\psi \omega$ resonance at Babar Arafat Gabareen Mokhtar Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 4:42PM - 4:54PM		U14.00007: Evidence for $B^0\to\rho^0\rho^0$ decays Ilya Osipenkov Preview Abstract
Monday, April 16, 2007 4:54PM - 5:06PM		U14.00008: Hadronic Transitions in the Bottomonium System Todd Pedlar Preview Abstract