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Session J2: Joint Session on Neutrinos

Sponsoring Units: DNP DPF
Chair: Kevin Lesko, University of California, Berkeley
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis D

Sunday, April 13, 2008 10:45AM - 11:21AM		J2.00001: Recent Progress in Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay: Its Forecast for the Future Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:21AM - 11:57AM		J2.00002: Sunshine: Photons or Neutrinos -- which tells us more? Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:57AM - 12:33PM		J2.00003: Results from MiniBooNE and MINOS Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session J3: Los Alamos and the Manhattan Project: 65th Anniversary (Followed by Panel Discussion)

Sponsoring Units: FHP FPS
Chair: Benjamin Bederson, New York University
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis E

Sunday, April 13, 2008 10:45AM - 11:21AM		J3.00001: A History Worth Preserving Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:21AM - 11:57AM		J3.00002: Recollections of a very junior physicist at Los~Alamos, 1944-1946 Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:57AM - 12:33PM		J3.00003: Panel Discussion among Physicist Alumni of the Manhattan Project. Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session J4: Topics in Mathematical and Computational Physics

Sponsoring Units: DCOMP
Chair: Rubin Landau, Oregon State University
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade B

Sunday, April 13, 2008 10:45AM - 11:21AM		J4.00001: Edward A. Bouchet Award Talk: NSFD Schemes: Genesis, Methodology and Applications Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:21AM - 11:57AM		J4.00002: Ghostbusting: Reviving quantum theories that were thought to be dead Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:57AM - 12:33PM		J4.00003: Nicholas Metropolis Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Work in Computational Physics Talk: Equation of State of the Dilute Fermi Gases Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session J5: The U.S. Particle Accelerator School

Sponsoring Units: FEd DPB
Chair: Linda Spentzouris, Illinois Institute of Technology
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade C

Sunday, April 13, 2008 10:45AM - 11:21AM		J5.00001: Overview of USPAS and its role in educating the next generation of accelerator scientists and engineers Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:21AM - 11:57AM		J5.00002: USPAS from a student's perspective: learning about accelerator physics. Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:57AM - 12:33PM		J5.00003: The USPAS from the perspective of the instructor Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session J6: Jets and Gamma Ray Bursts

Sponsoring Units: DPP GPAP
Chair: Hui Li, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade D

Sunday, April 13, 2008 10:45AM - 11:21AM		J6.00001: Magnetohydrodynamics of Gamma-Ray Burst Jets Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:21AM - 11:57AM		J6.00002: Jets in Relativistic Cosmic Explosions Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:57AM - 12:33PM		J6.00003: Prize to a Faculty Member for Research in an Undergraduate Institution Talk: Bidirectional outflow jets in the SSX reconnection experiment Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session J7: Recent Highlights in Hadronic Physics

Sponsoring Units: GHP
Chair: Paul Eugenio, Florida State University
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Rose Garden

Sunday, April 13, 2008 10:45AM - 11:21AM		J7.00001: Highlights on Hadronic Physics from Heavy Ion Physics Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:21AM - 11:57AM		J7.00002: The New Charmonium States Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:57AM - 12:33PM		J7.00003: Partial Wave Analysis Results for $\gamma p \rightarrow p \omega$ using Data from CLAS at Jefferson Lab Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session J8: Cosmic Microwave Background and Analysis Techniques

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Steve Kahn, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade A

Sunday, April 13, 2008 10:45AM - 10:57AM		J8.00001: Primordial Non-Gaussianity (fNL) in WMAP data Amit Yadav, Benjamin Wandelt Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 10:57AM - 11:09AM		J8.00002: Effects of a Primordial Magnetic Field on Low and High Multipoles of the CMB Grant Mathews, Dai Yamazaki, Toshitaka Kajino, Kiyotomo Ichiki Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:09AM - 11:21AM		J8.00003: A search for Lorentz violation in the CMB. Matthew Mewes, Alan Kostelecky Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:21AM - 11:33AM		J8.00004: Pico: Parameters for the Impatient Cosmologist William Fendt, Benjamin Wandelt Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:33AM - 11:45AM		J8.00005: Bayesian Forecasting of Cosmological Parameter Constraints for Future Experiments. Rahul Biswas, Benjamin Wandelt Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:45AM - 11:57AM		J8.00006: Astronomical Data Analysis on Graphics Cards Peter Messmer, Paul Mullowney, Michael Galloy, David Fillmore, Brian Granger, Keegan Amyx, David Fillmore Preview Abstract

Session J10: Numerical Simulations of Black Hole Binaries

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Frans Pretorius, Princeton University
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis A

Sunday, April 13, 2008 10:45AM - 10:57AM		J10.00001: Highly-Spinning-Black-Hole Binaries Yosef Zlochower, Carlos Lousto, Manuela Campanelli Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 10:57AM - 11:09AM		J10.00002: Further insight into gravitational recoil Carlos Lousto, Yosef Zlochower, Manuela Campanelli Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:09AM - 11:21AM		J10.00003: The final spin in unbound black hole mergers Pablo Laguna, Matthew Washik, Richard Matzner, Deirdre Shoemaker, Frank Herrmann, Ian Hinder Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:21AM - 11:33AM		J10.00004: Robustness of Binary Black Hole Mergers in the Presence of Spurious Radiation Tanja Bode, Deirdre Shoemaker, Frank Herrmann, Ian Hinder Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:33AM - 11:45AM		J10.00005: High-spin binary black hole mergers Pedro Marronetti, Wolfgang Tichy, Bernd Br\"ugmann, Ulrich Sperhake, Jos\'e Gonz\'alez Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:45AM - 11:57AM		J10.00006: The Final Spin of Black Hole Binaries Erik Schnetter Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:57AM - 12:09PM		J10.00007: Simulations of binary black holes with spin Wolfgang Tichy, Pedro Marronetti Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 12:09PM - 12:21PM		J10.00008: Describing Waveforms from Nonspinning Black Hole Binaries William Darian Boggs, John G. Baker, Joan Centrella, Bernard J. Kelly, Sean T. McWilliams, James R. van Meter Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 12:21PM - 12:33PM		J10.00009: Comparison of numerical relativity simulations with post-Newtonian expansions, Pade and EOB models Abdul Hussein Mroue, Saul Teukolsky, Lawrence Kidder, Harald Pfeiffer, Michael Boyle, Mark Scheel, Alessandra Buonanno, Yi Pan Preview Abstract

Session J11: QCD and Colliders I

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Claude Bernard, Washington University
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis B

Sunday, April 13, 2008 10:45AM - 10:57AM		J11.00001: Direct Photon Production in Association with a Heavy Quark Tzvetalina Stavreva, Joseph F. Owens Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 10:57AM - 11:09AM		J11.00002: Search for transitions in bottomonium involving a single pseudoscalar meson Todd Pedlar Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:09AM - 11:21AM		J11.00003: Hadronic jet-vertex association in a high-luminosity environment at the LHC David Miller Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:21AM - 11:33AM		J11.00004: Jet Shape Studies at CMS Pelin Kurt Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:33AM - 11:45AM		J11.00005: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:45AM - 11:57AM		J11.00006: Using Drell-Yan to Probe the Underlying Event in Run 2 at CDF Deepak Kar, Rick Field Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:57AM - 12:09PM		J11.00007: A Numerical Approach to Coulomb Gauge QCD Hrayr Matevosyan, Adam Szczepaniak, Patrick Bowman Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 12:09PM - 12:21PM		J11.00008: A parametrization of the baryon octet and decuplet masses Phuoc Ha Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 12:21PM - 12:33PM		J11.00009: Relations Among Helicity Amplitudes for $2\longrightarrow 2$ Scattering in the Parke-Shadmi Spin Basis Gregory Mahlon Preview Abstract

Session J12: Top I

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Graham Wilson, University of Kansas
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis C

Sunday, April 13, 2008 10:45AM - 10:57AM		J12.00001: Measurement of the Top Quark Mass at D0 Using the Matrix-Element Method in the Dilepton Channel Alexander Grohsjean Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 10:57AM - 11:09AM		J12.00002: Measurement of the ttbar Cross Section in the Dilepton Channel with the D0 Detector Marion Arthaud Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:09AM - 11:21AM		J12.00003: Top quark mass measurement in the dilepton channel at CDF using a neural network event selection and matrix element method Ravi Shekhar Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:21AM - 11:33AM		J12.00004: Study of differential distributions of top quarks Jiri Kvita Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:33AM - 11:45AM		J12.00005: Simultaneous measurement of the ratio $ {\cal {B}}( t\rightarrow Wb )/{\cal{B}}(t\rightarrow Wq )$ and the top quark pair production cross section with the D0 detector at $ \sqrt{s}=1.96$~TeV Suharyo Sumowidagdo Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:45AM - 11:57AM		J12.00006: Measurement of the ttbar Cross Section in the Lepton+track Channel with the D0 Detector Robert Wagner Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:57AM - 12:09PM		J12.00007: Meaurement of the top quark mass in the lepton+track sample at CDF Marco Trovato Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 12:09PM - 12:21PM		J12.00008: Measurement of the ttbar Production Cross Section at D0 Using Lepton + Hadronic tau Events Florent Lacroix Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 12:21PM - 12:33PM		J12.00009: Measurement of the ttbar Production Cross Section at D0 Using tau+Jets Events Mikhail Arov Preview Abstract

Session J13: Minisymposium on Hard Probes of the Quark-Gluon Plasma

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Xin-Nian Wang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis F

Sunday, April 13, 2008 10:45AM - 11:21AM		J13.00001: Hard Probes of the Quark-Gluon Plasma: Introduction and Overview Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:21AM - 11:33AM		J13.00002: Constraining energy-loss model parameters using multiple high-pt observables at RHIC Craig Ogilvie Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:33AM - 11:45AM		J13.00003: Pseudorapidity asymmetry at high $p_{T}$ in $p(d)A$ collisions Adeola Adeluyi, Gergely Barnafoldi, George Fai, Peter Levai Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:45AM - 11:57AM		J13.00004: Prototype Performance of Novel Muon Telescope Detector at STAR David Tlusty, Lijuan Ruan Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:57AM - 12:09PM		J13.00005: A Monte Carlo Event Generator for Ultra Peripheral Collisions Joseph Butterworth, Spencer Klein, Yury Gorbunov, Joakim Nystrand, Janet Seger Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 12:09PM - 12:21PM		J13.00006: Analysis of Neutral Rho Decays from Ultra-Peripheral Collisions in Deuteron-Gold Interactions Stephen Hansen Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 12:21PM - 12:33PM		J13.00007: Measurement of Electron-Muon Correlations from Semi-Leptonic D Decay in 200 GeV p+p Collisions at RHIC-PHENIX Tatia Engelmore Preview Abstract

Session J14: Minisymposium on From Thermonuclear to Pyconuclear Burning

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Michael Wiescher, Univ of Notre Dame
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis G

Sunday, April 13, 2008 10:45AM - 11:21AM		J14.00001: Five regimes of fusion reactions in dense stellar matter Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:21AM - 11:33AM		J14.00002: Molecular dynamics simulations of the crust of accreting neutron stars Charles Horowitz Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:33AM - 11:45AM		J14.00003: From thermo- to pycno-nuclear reactions in multi-component dense matter Leandro Gasques, Michael Wiescher, Dimitri Yakovlev Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:45AM - 11:57AM		J14.00004: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:57AM - 12:09PM		J14.00005: Recent progress in the study of heavy-ion fusion hindrance at extreme sub-barrier energies. C.L. Jiang, B.B. Back, C.N. Davids, H. Esbensen, R.V.F. Janssens, J.P. Greene, H.Y. Lee, C.L. Lister, M. Notani, R.C. Pardo, N. Patel, K.E. Rehm, D. Seweryniak, B. Shumard, X. Wang, S. Zhu, P. Collon, X.D. Tang Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 12:09PM - 12:21PM		J14.00006: Coupled-channels Calculations of Heavy-ion Fusion at Extreme Sub-barrier Energies. Henning Esbensen, \c Serban Mi\c sicu Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 12:21PM - 12:33PM		J14.00007: Aspects and Reaction Rates for Pycnonuclear Fusion at High Densities Mary Beard, Michael Wiescher, Anatoli Afanasjev, Leandro Gasques, Dima Yakovlev Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 12:33PM - 12:45PM		J14.00008: The JINA Reaclib Project Richard Cyburt Preview Abstract

Session J15: Nuclear Reactions and Astrophysics

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Augusto Macchiavelli, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis H

Sunday, April 13, 2008 10:45AM - 10:57AM		J15.00001: Nuclear Reaction Dynamics of the $^{10}{\rm B}(d,n_0)^{11}{\rm C}$ Reaction Below 160 keV S. Stave, M.W. Ahmed, M.A. Blackston, A.S. Crowell, S.S. Henshaw, C.R. Howell, P. Kingsberry, B.A. Perdue, H.R. Weller, B.L. Doyle, P. Rossi, A.J. Antolak, R.M. Prior, M.C. Spraker Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 10:57AM - 11:09AM		J15.00002: Study of the $^{11}B (\vec{p},\alpha)^8Be$ Reaction using polarized protons below 5.1 MeV. Seth Henshaw, Sean Stave, Mohammad Ahmed, Matthew Blackston, Brent Perdue, Henry R. Weller, Ralph France, Tom Lewis, J.P. Metzker, Richard Prior, Mark Spraker, Alex Kusnezov Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:09AM - 11:21AM		J15.00003: Neutron Asymmetry Parameterization of a Dispersive Optical Model Jonathan Mueller, Robert Charity, Lee Sobotka, Willem Dickhoff Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:21AM - 11:33AM		J15.00004: Survey of Neutron Spectroscopic Factors for \emph{Z}=8 to 28 nuclei Jenny Lee, P. Dai, M. Horoi, W.G. Lynch, S.C. Su, M.B. Tsang, S. Warren Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:33AM - 11:45AM		J15.00005: Dispersive Optical Model and Isospin S.J. Waldecker, W.H. Dickhoff Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:45AM - 11:57AM		J15.00006: Results of the First TOF Mass Measurements at NSCL M. Matos, A. Estrade, M. Amthor, D. Bazin, A. Becerril, T. Elliot, D. Galaviz, A. Gade, G. Lorusso, J. Pereira, M. Portillo, A. Rogers, H. Schatz, A. Stolz, D. Shapira, E. Smith, M. Wallace Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:57AM - 12:09PM		J15.00007: Calculation of Level Densities for Nuclei Far from the Line of Stability Shaleen Shukla, Steven Grimes Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 12:09PM - 12:21PM		J15.00008: Microscopic theory of incorporating resonances in the mean field M.S. Sabra, F.B. Malik Preview Abstract

Session J16: Physics Education I

Sponsoring Units: FEd
Chair: Ken Heller, University of Minnesota
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Director's Row 29

Sunday, April 13, 2008 10:45AM - 10:57AM		J16.00001: Lessons from the Rickover summer experience for high school students D.M. Svelnys, C.J. Lister, S.M. Fischer Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 10:57AM - 11:09AM		J16.00002: EPPOG Masterclass comes to the US Kenneth Cecire Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:09AM - 11:21AM		J16.00003: Computers in Science education, a new way to teach physics and mathematics? Morten Hjorth-Jensen, Hans Petter Langtangen, Knut M{\O}rken, Anders Malthe-S{\O}renssen, Arnt Inge Vistnes Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:21AM - 11:33AM		J16.00004: Blogging in the physics classroom: A research-based approach to shaping students' attitudes towards physics Katherine Garrett, Gintaras Duda Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:33AM - 11:45AM		J16.00005: Cosmos as Resonant Harmonies $\sim $ Singing \textit{International Year of Astronomy, 2009} $\sim $ \textit{the cultural significance of our new encounter with the universe} Kala Perkins Preview Abstract