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Session M2: Dark Matter and Dark Energy

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

Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:30PM - 4:06PM		M2.00001: Results and Prospects for Direct Dark Matter Detection via Cryogenic Techniques Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:06PM - 4:42PM		M2.00002: Axions and Their Possible Role as Dark Matter Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:42PM - 5:18PM		M2.00003: What can we learn from future dark energy probes? Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session M3: New Results on the Polarized Glue in the Nucleon

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Abhay Deshpande, Stony Brook University and RIKEN-BNL Research Center
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis E

Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:30PM - 4:06PM		M3.00001: Review of results on polarized glue from fixed target DIS experiments Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:06PM - 4:42PM		M3.00002: Review of recent results from RHIC on the polarized gluon distribution Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:42PM - 5:18PM		M3.00003: Beller Lectureship Talk: Theoretical status and advances in understanding the role of polarized gluons Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session M4: Computational Physics Education

Sponsoring Units: DCOMP
Chair: Amy Bug, Swarthmore College
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade B

Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:30PM - 4:06PM		M4.00001: CiSE and Computational Physics: Undergraduate Physics Challenge Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:06PM - 4:18PM		M4.00002: CiSE Computational Physics Challenge Winner: Analysis of Photon Transport in Scintillating Target Prototypes John Barrett, Rory Miskimen Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:18PM - 4:30PM		M4.00003: CiSE Computational Physics Challenge Winner: Fast parton evolution and the search for gluon asymmetry in the hadron with PartonKit Yevgeny Binder, Gordon Ramsey Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:30PM - 4:42PM		M4.00004: CiSE Computational Physics Challenge Winner: Electron Wave Packet Propagation in Graphene Nanoribbons Steven M. Anton Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:42PM - 5:18PM		M4.00005: Computational Physics as a Path for Physics Education Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session M5: Recent Results in Gamma-Ray Astrophysics

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Fiona Harrison, California Institute of Technologoy
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade C

Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:30PM - 4:06PM		M5.00001: Gamma-ray Observations of Extragalactic Particle Accelerators Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:06PM - 4:42PM		M5.00002: The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:42PM - 5:18PM		M5.00003: Very High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy. Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session M6: Equipping Scientists to Run for Political Office

Sponsoring Units: FPS FGSA
Chair: Jennifer Wiseman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade D

Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:30PM - 3:40PM		M6.00001: Equipping Scientists to Run for Office: The Multi-Society Campaign Project Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:40PM - 3:50PM		M6.00002: I WISH It Was Rocket Science: Lessons Learned from School Board Service Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:50PM - 4:00PM		M6.00003: State School Boards: Winning the Election and Achieving Your Goals Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:00PM - 4:10PM		M6.00004: TBA Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:10PM - 4:20PM		M6.00005: Scientists Serving in Public Office Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:20PM - 5:18PM		M6.00006: Panel Discussion Preview Abstract

Session M7: The Broad Spectrum of Gravitation

Sponsoring Units: GGR COM
Chair: Pablo Laguna, Pennsylvania State University
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Rose Garden

Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:30PM - 4:06PM		M7.00001: Binary black hole simulations Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:06PM - 4:42PM		M7.00002: Recent developments in loop quantum gravity Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:42PM - 5:18PM		M7.00003: The Bright Future of Gravitational Wave Astronomy Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session M8: Future Gamma Ray and X-Ray Astronomy Projects

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Neil Gehrels, NASA/GSFC
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade A

Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:30PM - 3:42PM		M8.00001: White Paper on the Status and Future of Ground-based Gamma-ray Astronomy - Overview V. Vassiliev Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:42PM - 3:54PM		M8.00002: The Advanced Gamma-ray Imaging System (AGIS) James Buckley Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:54PM - 4:06PM		M8.00003: Technology Development for AGIS (Advanced Gamma-ray Imaging System). Frank Krennrich Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:06PM - 4:18PM		M8.00004: HAWC: The Future of Wide-Field TeV Gamma-Ray Astrophysics John Pretz Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:18PM - 4:30PM		M8.00005: Utilizing Fractionated Space Mission Design and Small Satellites for a Next Generation Gamma Ray Burst Observatory Rashied Amini Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:30PM - 4:42PM		M8.00006: A balloon-borne X-ray polarimeter for the study of bright astronomical sources Ramanath Cowsik Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:42PM - 4:54PM		M8.00007: Pathfinder to EXIST: ProtoEXIST A.B. Garson III, B. Allen, R.G. Baker, S.D. Barthelmy, M. Burke, J. Burnham, N. Chammas, J. Collins, W.R. Cook, A. Copete, N. Gehrels, T. Gauron, J. Grindlay, F.A. Harrison, J. Hong, J. Howell, H. Krawczynski, S. Labov, B. Said, S. Sheikh Sheikh Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:54PM - 5:06PM		M8.00008: X-Ray Astronomy Discovery Experiments* P.C. Fisher Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 5:06PM - 5:18PM		M8.00009: Recent Results from the Chandra Deep Field Surveys William Brandt Preview Abstract

Session M10: Gravitational Waves from Neutron Stars and Stochastic Backgrounds

Sponsoring Units: GGR DAP
Chair: Keith Riles, University of Michigan
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis A

Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:30PM - 3:42PM		M10.00001: Displacement Calibration Techniques for the LIGO Detectors Evan Goetz Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:42PM - 3:54PM		M10.00002: Beating the spin-down limit on gravitational wave emission from the Crab pulsar Michael Landry Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:54PM - 4:06PM		M10.00003: Results from the Einstein@Home search of the LIGO S4 data set Bruce Allen Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:06PM - 4:18PM		M10.00004: Broadband Search for Continuous-Wave Gravitation Radiation with LIGO Vladimir Dergachev Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:18PM - 4:30PM		M10.00005: What can LIGO results say about mountains on pulsars? Benjamin Owen, Richard O'Shaughnessy Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:30PM - 4:42PM		M10.00006: R-modes in newborn neutron stars: nonlinear development Ruxandra Bondarescu, Saul Teukolsky, Ira Wasserman Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:42PM - 4:54PM		M10.00007: Search for Stochastic Background of Gravitational Waves with LIGO Vuk Mandic Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:54PM - 5:06PM		M10.00008: Stochastic Background of Gravitational Waves from Cosmological Sources Larry Price, Xavier Siemens Preview Abstract

Session M11: Higgs II

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Ricardo Flores, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis B

Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:30PM - 3:42PM		M11.00001: Search for charged Higgs in lepton+jets channel at CDF Geumbong Yu Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:42PM - 3:54PM		M11.00002: Search for a Charged Higgs Boson with Decay to a Top Quark and a Bottom Quark at D0 Christopher Potter Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:54PM - 4:06PM		M11.00003: The ATLAS Charged Higgs Trigger Strategy and Discovery Potential Chris Potter Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:06PM - 4:18PM		M11.00004: Search for Neutral Supersymmetric Higgs Bosons in bbb(b) Final States Tim Scanlon Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:18PM - 4:30PM		M11.00005: Search for Neutral Supersymmetric Higgs Bosons in di-tau Final States Wan-Ching Yang Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:30PM - 4:42PM		M11.00006: Search for Standard Model Higgs Particle in Two Photon Final State at LHC Jaehoon Yu, Hyeonjin Kim Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:42PM - 4:54PM		M11.00007: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:54PM - 5:06PM		M11.00008: Search for Higgs boson using a matrix-element technique at CDF Barbara Alvarez, Javier Cuevas, Florencia Canelli, Bernd Stelzer, Rocio Vilar Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 5:06PM - 5:18PM		M11.00009: Search for Associated Production of W and Higgs Bosons in the All Hadronic Decay Mode Justace Clutter Preview Abstract

Session M12: Top III

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Chip Brock, Michigan State University
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis C

Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:30PM - 3:42PM		M12.00001: Top quark mass measurement in the lepton+jets channel at CDF using a mulitvariate template method Paul Lujan Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:42PM - 3:54PM		M12.00002: Measurement of the ttbar Production Cross Section at D0 Using lepton+jets events Sehwook Lee Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:54PM - 4:06PM		M12.00003: Measurement of the Top Quark Mass at D0 Using the Matrix-Element Method in the Lepton+Jets Channel Zhenyu Ye Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:06PM - 4:18PM		M12.00004: Top quark mass measurement in the lepton+jets and dilepton channels at CDF using a template method Hyun Su Lee Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:18PM - 4:30PM		M12.00005: Measurement of the Top Quark Mass at D0 Using the Ideogram Method in the Lepton+Jets Channel Amnon Harel Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:30PM - 4:42PM		M12.00006: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:42PM - 4:54PM		M12.00007: Measurement of the top production cross section rate from gluon-gluon fusion at CDF Jared Yamaoka Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:54PM - 5:06PM		M12.00008: Measurement of the top production cross section using events with large missing transverse energy and bottom quark jets at CDF Gabriele Compostella Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 5:06PM - 5:18PM		M12.00009: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract

Session M13: Neutrinos I

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Steve Elliott, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis F

Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:30PM - 3:42PM		M13.00001: Solar neutrino flux results measured with the Neutral Current Detector array in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) Keith Rielage Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:42PM - 3:54PM		M13.00002: A Monte Carlo Simulation of the SNO Neutral Current Detector Array Jocelyn Monroe Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:54PM - 4:06PM		M13.00003: Low Background Phase of KamLAND Gregory Keefer Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:06PM - 4:18PM		M13.00004: Probing the Mystery of Neutrino Mass with CUORE Larissa Ejzak Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:18PM - 4:30PM		M13.00005: Systematic Effects on Pulse Shape Analysis in HPGe Detectors for 0$\nu\beta\beta$ Searches Victor M. Gehman Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:30PM - 4:42PM		M13.00006: P-type Modified Electrode Germanium Detector Impurity Profiles Jeremy Kephart Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:42PM - 4:54PM		M13.00007: The COBRA Neutrinoless Double Beta Experiment. Qiang Li Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:54PM - 5:06PM		M13.00008: $^{112}$Sn Double-Electron Capture to Excited States - A Possible Alternative to Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Mary Kidd, James Esterline, Werner Tornow Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 5:06PM - 5:18PM		M13.00009: CLEAR: Prospects for a Low Threshold Neutrino Experiment at the Spallation Neutron Source Kate Scholberg Preview Abstract

Session M14: Nuclear Structure: Medium Mass Nuclei

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Nikolaos Fotiades, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis G

Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:30PM - 3:42PM		M14.00001: The g-factor measurement of the 4$^+_1$ state in $^{70}$Zn G. G\"{u}rdal, G. Kumbartzki, N. Benczer-Koller, B. Krieger, Y.Y. Sharon, D. M\"{u}cher, K. Speidel, R. Casperson, V. Werner, E. Williams Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:42PM - 3:54PM		M14.00002: Coulomb Excitation of n-rich nuclei along the N = 50 shell closure E. Padilla-Rodal, A. Galindo-Uribarri , J.C. Batchelder, J.R. Beene , C. Bingham , B.A. Brown , K.B. Lagergren , P.E. Mueller , D.C. Radford , D.W. Stracener , J.P. Urrego-Blanco , R.L. Varner , C.-H. Yu Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:54PM - 4:06PM		M14.00003: Reinvestigation of direct two-proton radioactivity of $^{94}$Ag$^{m }$(J$^{\pi }$= 21$^{+}$, 6.7 MeV) Joseph Cerny, D.W. Lee, K. Perajarvi, D.M. Moltz, B.R. Barquest, L.E. Grossman, W. Jeong, C.C. Jewett Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:06PM - 4:18PM		M14.00004: Spectroscopy of exotic 123,125Ag produced in fragmentation reactions I. Stefanescu, W.B. Walters, N. Hoteling, B. Tomlin, P.F. Mantica, J. Pereira, A. Becerril, T. Fleckenstein, A.A. Hecht, G. Lorusso, M. Quinn, J.S. Pinter, J.B. Stoker Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:18PM - 4:30PM		M14.00005: Nuclear Dipole Response of Bound States in N=82 Nuclei Below Particle Threshold A. Tonchev, A. Hutcheson, E. Kwan, G. Rusev, W. Tornow, C. Angell, S. Hammond, H. Karwowski, J. Kelley Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:30PM - 4:42PM		M14.00006: Single-particle states outside the N=82 core Benjamin Kay, John Schiffer, Sean Freeman, Jason Clark, Catherine Deibel, Andreas Heinz, Anuj Parikh, Chris Wrede Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:42PM - 4:54PM		M14.00007: CENS: A computational environment for nuclear structure Morten Hjorth-Jensen, Gustav R. Jansen Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:54PM - 5:06PM		M14.00008: Trends in Thermostatic Properties of Excited Finite Nuclei Michael Quinlan, Yun-Tse Tsai, Iwona Pawelczak, Jan T\~oke, Udo Schr\"oder Preview Abstract

Session M15: Space and Astrophysical Plasma

Sponsoring Units: DPP
Chair: Michael Brown, Swarthmore College
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis H

Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:30PM - 3:42PM		M15.00001: Gravity Damping in Neutron Star Magnetospheres Steven Bekhor Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:42PM - 3:54PM		M15.00002: The influence of radiation on shocks structure in laboratory astrophysics Matthias Gonzalez, Edouard Audit, Chantal Stehle, Michel Busquet Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:54PM - 4:06PM		M15.00003: Production of Magnetic Turbulence by Cosmic Rays Drifting Upstream of Supernova Remnant Shocks Martin Pohl, Jacek Niemiec, Tom Stroman Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:06PM - 4:18PM		M15.00004: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:18PM - 4:30PM		M15.00005: Relativistic MHD Jets and Their Interactions with the Intra-cluster Medium: Plasma Physics at its Extreme Hui Li, Masanori Nakamura, Shengtai Li, Hao Xu Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:30PM - 4:42PM		M15.00006: X-ray emission from charge-exchange: An astrophysical plasma diagnostic tool. Thomas Cravens, Ina Robertson, Steven Snowden, Michael Collier, Kip Kuntz, Mikhail Medvedev, Kenneth Hansen Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:42PM - 4:54PM		M15.00007: Effects of Electron Self-Force on Superstrong Laser Pulse Natalia M. Naumova, Igor V. Sokolov, Victor P. Yanovsky, John A. Nees, Gerard A. Mourou Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:54PM - 5:06PM		M15.00008: A Self-Consistent Description of Dust Interactions in Space and Nano-structured Plasmas Steven Bekhor Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 13, 2008 5:06PM - 5:18PM		M15.00009: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract