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Session L2: Neutrinos and Astrophysics

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Andre de Gouvea, Northwestern University
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis D

Sunday, April 13, 2008 1:30PM - 2:06PM		L2.00001: Sakurai Prize Talk Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:06PM - 2:42PM		L2.00002: AMANDA and Ice Cube Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:42PM - 3:18PM		L2.00003: Results from Cosmic Ray Experiments Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session L3: The Physics of X-Ray Bursts

Sponsoring Units: DNP DAP
Chair: Ed Brown, Michigan State University
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis E

Sunday, April 13, 2008 1:30PM - 2:06PM		L3.00001: The complex and puzzling phenomenology of thermonuclear X-ray bursts Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:06PM - 2:42PM		L3.00002: Models of X-ray Bursts Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:42PM - 3:18PM		L3.00003: Progress in nuclear physics experiments for the study of X-ray bursts Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session L4: Why We Should Double the Number of Undergraduate Degrees in Physics

Sponsoring Units: FEd
Chair: Cathy Mader, Hope College/APS
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade B

Sunday, April 13, 2008 1:30PM - 2:06PM		L4.00001: Statistics and Rationale for the Doubling Initiative Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:06PM - 2:42PM		L4.00002: SPIN-UP and the Recent Increase in the Number of Undergraduate Physics Majors Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:42PM - 3:18PM		L4.00003: Undergraduate Program at the University of Washington Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session L5: Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Charles Dermer, Naval Research Laboratory
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade C

Sunday, April 13, 2008 1:30PM - 2:06PM		L5.00001: Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:06PM - 2:42PM		L5.00002: The Auger Observatory Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:42PM - 3:18PM		L5.00003: Ice Cube Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session L6: Nuclear Forensics

Sponsoring Units: FPS
Chair: Charles Ferguson
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade D

Sunday, April 13, 2008 1:30PM - 2:06PM		L6.00001: TBD Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:06PM - 2:42PM		L6.00002: Nuclear Forensics: Report of the AAAS/APS Working Group Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:42PM - 3:18PM		L6.00003: Nuclear Forensics and Attribution: A National Laboratory Perspective Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session L7: Ground-based Gravitational Wave Searches

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Stanley Whitcomb, California Institute of Technology
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Rose Garden

Sunday, April 13, 2008 1:30PM - 2:06PM		L7.00001: Searches for bursts of gravitational waves with LIGO, GEO and Virgo Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:06PM - 2:42PM		L7.00002: Searches for gravitational waves from the inspiral of binary neutron stars and black holes Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:42PM - 3:18PM		L7.00003: Extending our reach: the next decade of GW detectors Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session L8: Neutron Stars, Pulsars, and Black Holes

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Jonathan Arons, University of California, Berkeley
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade A

Sunday, April 13, 2008 1:30PM - 1:42PM		L8.00001: Nuclear Equation of State of High Density Matter. Jirina Stone Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 1:42PM - 1:54PM		L8.00002: A parametrized equation of state for neutron-star matter John L. Friedman, Jocelyn S. Read, Benjamin D. Lackey, Benjamin Owen Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 1:54PM - 2:06PM		L8.00003: Astrophysical constraints on the parameter space of the neutron-star equation of state Benjamin Lackey, Jocelyn Read, Benjamin Owen, John Friedman Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:06PM - 2:18PM		L8.00004: Spin Frequencies and Magnetic Fields of Neutron Stars: Implications of the kHz QPOs Recently Discovered in Circinus X-1 Stratos Boutloukos, Frederick Lamb Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:18PM - 2:30PM		L8.00005: A Model of Waveform Variations and Intermittency in Accretion-Powered Millisecond Pulsars Frederick K. Lamb, Stratos Boutloukos, Alexander Clare, Daniel Dorris, Sandor Van Wassenhove, Wenfei Yu, Coleman Miller Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:30PM - 2:42PM		L8.00006: Pulsar kicks with electrons in Landau levels and active, sterile neutrinos Leonard Kisslinger Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:42PM - 2:54PM		L8.00007: Particle energization and radiation in magnetized black hole accretion Edison Liang, Guy Hilburn, Siming Liu, Hui Li, Charles Gammie Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:54PM - 3:06PM		L8.00008: Testing the general relativistic ``no-hair'' theorems using the galactic center black hole SgrA* Clifford M. Will Preview Abstract

Session L10: Mathematical and Post-Newtonian Relativity

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

Sunday, April 13, 2008 1:30PM - 1:42PM		L10.00001: Black hole in a post-Newtonian tidal field Eric Poisson Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 1:42PM - 1:54PM		L10.00002: Metric of a Nonrotating Black Hole in a Tidal Environment Igor Vlasov, Eric Poisson Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 1:54PM - 2:06PM		L10.00003: Three-body equations of motion in successive post-Newtonian approximations Hiroyuki Nakano, Carlos Lousto Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:06PM - 2:18PM		L10.00004: Angular momentum at null infinity Adam Helfer Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:18PM - 2:30PM		L10.00005: Beyond Discrete Vacuum Spacetimes Jonathan McDonald, Warner Miller Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:30PM - 2:42PM		L10.00006: Measuring the Scalar Curvature with Clocks and Photons: Voronoi-Delaunay Lattices in Regge Calculus Warner Miller, Jonathan McDonald Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:42PM - 2:54PM		L10.00007: Geometrization of Electromagnetism in Purely Affine and Metric-Affine Gravity Nikodem Poplawski Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:54PM - 3:06PM		L10.00008: A modification of Einstein-Schrodinger theory which closely approximates Einstein-Weinberg-Salam theory James Shifflett Preview Abstract

Session L11: Charm Physics

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Ray Cowan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis B

Sunday, April 13, 2008 1:30PM - 1:42PM		L11.00001: Evidence for $D^0$-$\bar{D}^0$ Mixing Using the CDF~II Detector Nagesh Kulkarni Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 1:42PM - 1:54PM		L11.00002: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 1:54PM - 2:06PM		L11.00003: Measurements of D decay at CLEO-c related to the determination of the unitarity triangle angle $\gamma$ Lauren Martin Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:06PM - 2:18PM		L11.00004: Study of the decay $D^{0} \rightarrow \gamma \gamma$ James Morris Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:18PM - 2:30PM		L11.00005: Radiative decays of $\chi_c$ states to light vector mesons Jake Bennett Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:30PM - 2:42PM		L11.00006: Dalitz Plot Analysis of $D^0 \rightarrow K^0_S \pi^+ \pi^-$ and $D^0 \rightarrow K^0_S K^+ K^-$ Diego Milanes Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:42PM - 2:54PM		L11.00007: Search for the Decay $D^0 \rightarrow \omega \eta$ Caitlin Malone Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:54PM - 3:06PM		L11.00008: First measurement of the form factors in $D\to \rho e^+ \nu_e$ Junyan Ge Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:06PM - 3:18PM		L11.00009: Search for the Decay $D^0 \rightarrow K^* \eta$ Ann Elliott Preview Abstract

Session L12: Higgs I

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Kevin Pitts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis C

Sunday, April 13, 2008 1:30PM - 1:42PM		L12.00001: Search for Higgs Bosons in $WW^{(*)}\to l^+l'^-$ Decays Bjoern Penning Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 1:42PM - 1:54PM		L12.00002: Search for H Decays to WW* at CDF Susan Burke, Eric James Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 1:54PM - 2:06PM		L12.00003: Search for WH to WWW Using Like Sign Dileptons at CDF Takayuki Wakisaka, Toru Okusawa, Yoshi Seiya, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Matthew Herndon, Mark Kruse Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:06PM - 2:18PM		L12.00004: Search for Associated Production of W and Higgs Bosons in lnu bb Final States Chun Xu Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:18PM - 2:30PM		L12.00005: Search for Associated Production of Z and Higgs Bosons in nunu bb Final States Theodoros Christoudias Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:30PM - 2:42PM		L12.00006: Search for SM Higgs Boson Produced in Association with a Z or a W Boson at CDF Artur Apresyan, Daniela Bortoletto Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:42PM - 2:54PM		L12.00007: Evolutionary Neural Network Based Analysis of the ZH to ll bb channel Ravi Shekhar, Ashutosh Kotwal, Bo Jayatilaka, Daniel Whiteson Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:54PM - 3:06PM		L12.00008: On-Shell Methods Applied to Higgs Production with Heavy Quarks at NLO in QCD Physics Benjamin Thayer Preview Abstract

Session L13: Minisymposium on Flow, Eccentricity and the Equation of State in RHIC

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Alice Mignerey, University of Maryland
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis F

Sunday, April 13, 2008 1:30PM - 2:06PM		L13.00001: Importance of correlations and fluctuations on the initial eccentricity Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:06PM - 2:18PM		L13.00002: Elliptic Flow and HBT radii of thermal photons from ideal hydrodynamics Evan Frodermann Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:18PM - 2:30PM		L13.00003: Causal Viscous Hydrodynamics in 2+1 Dimensions Huichao Song, Ulrich Heinz Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:30PM - 2:42PM		L13.00004: High-$p_T$ Measurement of Azimuthal Anisotropy of Electrons from Semi-leptonic Decay of Open Heavy Flavor Mesons in Au+Au Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200 GeV$ by the PHENIX Experiment Alan Dion Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:42PM - 2:54PM		L13.00005: Phase Diagram of the Linear Sigma Model wiht Quarks at Finite Temperature and Density Edwin Bowman, Joseph Kapusta, Evgeni Kolomeitsev Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:54PM - 3:06PM		L13.00006: Persistent Quark Confinement in RHIC John Stachurski Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:06PM - 3:18PM		L13.00007: Quantitative Constraints on the RHIC Medium: Theory and Experiment Limitations James Nagle Preview Abstract

Session L14: Few-Body Systems

Sponsoring Units: GFB
Chair: Allena Opper, The George Washington University
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis G

Sunday, April 13, 2008 1:30PM - 1:42PM		L14.00001: Realistic NN Interactions in Momentum Space - Visual Comparisons A.G. Negoita, J.P. Vary, P. Maris, A. Shirokov Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 1:42PM - 1:54PM		L14.00002: Measurement of the Cross Section and Analyzing Powers for $\vec{\rm d}$+p Elastic Scattering at 180 MeV C.D. Bailey, E.J. Stephenson, A.D. Bacher, A.M. Micherdzinska, J.G. Messchendorp, A. Biegun, M. Eslami-Kalantari, L. Joulaeizadeh, N. Kalantar-Nayestanaki, H. Mardanpour, H. Moeini, A. Ramazani-Moghaddam-Arani, S.V. Shende, H. W\"ortche, E. Stephan, St. Kistryn, K. Sekiguchi Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 1:54PM - 2:06PM		L14.00003: Cluster separability and currents in the Poincar\'e invarant three-nucleon problem Mark Tucker, Bradley Keister, Wayne Polyzou Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:06PM - 2:18PM		L14.00004: A realistic three-nucleon interaction in the $^4$He scattering system Johannes Kirscher, Harald Griesshammer Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:18PM - 2:30PM		L14.00005: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:30PM - 2:42PM		L14.00006: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:42PM - 2:54PM		L14.00007: Theoretical Fully Differential Cross Sections for Four-Body Processes A.L. Harris, J.L. Peacher, M. Schulz, D.H. Madison Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:54PM - 3:06PM		L14.00008: Solving Schrodinger Equation in Mixed Representation Mallika Dhar, Charles Werneth, Christopher Sirola, Khin Maung Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:06PM - 3:18PM		L14.00009: Physical Properties of Human Whole Salivary Mucin:A Dynamic Light Scattering Study Manish Mahajan, Vijay Kumar, Mayank Saraswat, Savita Yadav, N.K. Shukla, T.P. Singh Preview Abstract

Session L15: New Ideas in Cosmology

Sponsoring Units: DPF DAP
Chair: Michael Turner, University of Chicago
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis H

Sunday, April 13, 2008 1:30PM - 1:42PM		L15.00001: A Potential Link Between the Cosmological Constant and the Fine-structure Constant Shantilal Goradia Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 1:42PM - 1:54PM		L15.00002: The Calculated Value of the Fine Structure Constant From Gravitational Potential D.T. Froedge Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 1:54PM - 2:06PM		L15.00003: Cosmic Observations and Speculation Sol Aisenberg Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:06PM - 2:18PM		L15.00004: The Dual-Time Physics of the Universe Paul Suh Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:18PM - 2:30PM		L15.00005: Redefining Planck Mass: Unlocking the Fundamental Quantum of the Universe John Laubenstein Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:30PM - 2:42PM		L15.00006: Early Universe Consisted of Concentric Orbiting Sections of Material, Not Disks Stewart Brekke Preview Abstract