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Session X2: Future Accelerator Facilities

Sponsoring Units: DPB DPF
Chair: Young-Kee Kim, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis D

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 1:30PM - 2:06PM		X2.00001: Super B-Factory: Physics and Technology Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:06PM - 2:42PM		X2.00002: Project X: Intensity-Frontier Physics Based on ILC Technology Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:42PM - 3:18PM		X2.00003: Neutrino Factories and Muon Colliders Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session X3: Topics In Nuclear Physics

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Richard Casten, Yale University
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis E

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 1:30PM - 2:06PM		X3.00001: Correlations in ground-state nuclei and their dependence on the neutron-proton ratio Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:06PM - 2:42PM		X3.00002: The strange electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon at low $Q^2$ Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:42PM - 3:18PM		X3.00003: Test QCD symmetries via precision measurement of the neutral pion lifetime Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session X4: Programs to Prepare Teaching Assistants to Teach

Sponsoring Units: FEd FGSA
Chair: Peter Shaffer, University of Washington
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade B

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 1:30PM - 2:06PM		X4.00001: Preparing Undergrads to Teach (Well): The Colorado Learning Assistant Model Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:06PM - 2:42PM		X4.00002: Professional development of graduate TAs: The role of physics education research Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:42PM - 3:18PM		X4.00003: Preparing and Sustaining Teaching Assistants Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session X5: Short Gamma-Ray Bursts

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Neil Gehrels, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade C

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 1:30PM - 2:06PM		X5.00001: Observations of Short Gamma-Ray Bursts Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:06PM - 2:42PM		X5.00002: Triggering Short Gamma-Ray Bursts Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:42PM - 3:18PM		X5.00003: Expected High Energy Prompt Emissions from Short GRBs Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session X6: Space Debris

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

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 1:30PM - 2:06PM		X6.00001: An Introduction to Space Debris Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:06PM - 2:42PM		X6.00002: Considering the Consequences of Space Warfare in the Geosynchronous Region Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:42PM - 3:18PM		X6.00003: China's ASAT Weapon: Capabilities and the Potential Threat Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session X7: Numerical Relativity Meets the Post Newtonian Approximation

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Clifford Will, Washington University
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Rose Garden

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 1:30PM - 2:06PM		X7.00001: Post-Newtonian diagnostics for initial data Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:06PM - 2:42PM		X7.00002: Matching of PN Waveforms with long-time numerical evolutions Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:42PM - 3:18PM		X7.00003: Developing templates for binary black hole coalescences using analytical and numerical relativity Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session X8: Gamma Ray Astronomy

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

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 1:30PM - 1:42PM		X8.00001: Observation of the high-frequency peaked BL Lac object 1ES 1218+304 with VERITAS Reshmi Mukherjee Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 1:42PM - 1:54PM		X8.00002: Observation of very high-energy gamma-ray emission from Cassiopeia A with VERITAS Alexander Konopelko Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 1:54PM - 2:06PM		X8.00003: Observation of very high-energy gamma-ray emission from IC443 with VERITAS Viatcheslav Bugaev Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:06PM - 2:18PM		X8.00004: Multiwavelength Observations of the Blazar 1ES 2344+514 Matthias Beilicke Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:18PM - 2:30PM		X8.00005: Blazar Monitoring with the Whipple 10m Telescope Kuen Lee Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:30PM - 2:42PM		X8.00006: A Measurement of the Spatial Distribution of TeV Gamma Ray Emission from the Galactic Plane with Milagro Petra Huentemeyer Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:42PM - 2:54PM		X8.00007: A Survey of EGRET Sources at Very High Energies Chuan Chen Preview Abstract

Session X10: Alternative Gravity II

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

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 1:30PM - 1:42PM		X10.00001: Curvature, vacuum energy and the quantization of gravity Max Chaves Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 1:42PM - 1:54PM		X10.00002: Dark Energy and the Age of the Universe James Donovan Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 1:54PM - 2:06PM		X10.00003: Newtonian Gravitation and General Relativity as Possible Classical Corresponding Theories to Quantum Gravity Philmore Russell Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:06PM - 2:18PM		X10.00004: Quantized Gravitation of Electromagnetic Waves as a Possible Solution to the Pioneer Anomaly Philmore Russell Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:18PM - 2:30PM		X10.00005: Coherent and conventional gravidynamic quantum 1/f noise Peter H. Handel, Thomas F. George Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:30PM - 2:42PM		X10.00006: Probabistic Aspect of Gravity Shantilal Goradia Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:42PM - 2:54PM		X10.00007: A Quantum Theory of Gravity Frank Keeney Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:54PM - 3:06PM		X10.00008: Our Static Universe David Pressler Preview Abstract

Session X11: Top II

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Amnon Harel, University of Rochester
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis B

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 1:30PM - 1:42PM		X11.00001: Search for Flavor Changing Neutral Currents in Top Quark Decays at CDF Jennifer Gimmell Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 1:42PM - 1:54PM		X11.00002: An upper limit on the total width of the top quark at CDF Satomi Shiraishi Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 1:54PM - 2:06PM		X11.00003: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:06PM - 2:18PM		X11.00004: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:18PM - 2:30PM		X11.00005: Search for W' boson resonances decaying to a top quark and a bottom quark Monica Pangilinan Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:30PM - 2:42PM		X11.00006: Search for single top quark production at CDF using a matrix element method Peter Dong Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:42PM - 2:54PM		X11.00007: Search for single top quark production at CDF using neural networks at CDF Ji-Eun Jung Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:54PM - 3:06PM		X11.00008: Search for single top quark production optimized for s-channel production at CDF Koji Nakamura Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 3:06PM - 3:18PM		X11.00009: Optimizing the search for single top quark and $WH$ production at CDF Bruno Casal Preview Abstract

Session X12: Searches III

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Brendan Casey, Fermi National Acceleratory Laboratory
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis C

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 1:30PM - 1:42PM		X12.00001: Search for Charged Massive Stable Particles Using Data from D0 Yunhe Xie Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 1:42PM - 1:54PM		X12.00002: Identification of Heavy Stable Charged Particles at the CMS Experiment Seth Cooper Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 1:54PM - 2:06PM		X12.00003: Heavy Stable Charged Particle Physics and Discovery Potential at CMS Jie Chen Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:06PM - 2:18PM		X12.00004: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:18PM - 2:30PM		X12.00005: Discriminating Supersymmetry and Black Holes at the Large Hadron Collider Arunava Roy, Marco Cavaglia Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:30PM - 2:42PM		X12.00006: Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Search for Strangelets in Lunar Soil Ke Han, Alexei Chikanian, Evan Finch, Richard Majka, Jack Sandweiss, Jeffrey Ashenfelter, Andreas Heinz, Peter Parker, Peter Fisher, Benjamin Monreal, Jes Madsen Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:42PM - 2:54PM		X12.00007: Global Search for New Electroweak-Scale Physics at CDF Si Xie Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:54PM - 3:06PM		X12.00008: A Model Independent Search Using D0 Run II Data Joel Piper Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 3:06PM - 3:18PM		X12.00009: Search for Technicolor Particles Produced in Association with a W Boson at CDF Yoshikazu Nagai, Tatsuya Masubuchi, Wei-Ming Yao Preview Abstract

Session X13: Electromagnetic Interactions II

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Jen-Chieh Peng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis F

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 1:30PM - 1:42PM		X13.00001: Proton Compton Scattering in the Wide-angle Regime David Hamilton, Ron Gilman, Alan Nathan, Bogdan Wojtsekhowski Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 1:42PM - 1:54PM		X13.00002: New proton form factor ratio measurements in Jefferson Lab Hall C Andrew Puckett Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 1:54PM - 2:06PM		X13.00003: Barely Off-shell Nucleon Structure. Svyatoslav Tkachenko Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:06PM - 2:18PM		X13.00004: The Effect of Pion Exchange in a Relativistic Quark Model of Baryons T. Goldman, R. R. Silbar Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:18PM - 2:30PM		X13.00005: Measurement of the dressed spin effects of $^3$He Pinghan Chu, Andrea Esler, Douglas Beck, Jen-Chieh Peng, Steve Williamson, Jacob Yoder Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:30PM - 2:42PM		X13.00006: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:42PM - 2:54PM		X13.00007: Qweak Main Detector Status David Mack Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:54PM - 3:06PM		X13.00008: A Prototype Diamond Multistrip Detector for the JLab Hall C Compton Polarimeter Amrendra Narayan Preview Abstract

Session X14: Nuclear Structure: Heavy Nuclei

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Walter Reviol, Washington University at St. Louis
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis G

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 1:30PM - 1:42PM		X14.00001: Transition rates of high spin bands in $^{136}$Nd S. Mukhopadhyay, D. Almehed, U. Garg, S. Frauendorf, T. Li, P. V. Madhusudhana Rao, X. Wang, S.S. Ghugre, M.P. Carpenter, S. Gros, A. Hecht, R.V.F. Janssens, F.G. Kondev, T. Lauritsen, D. Seweryniak, S. Zhu Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 1:42PM - 1:54PM		X14.00002: SU(3)-Basis Description of the Alhassid-Whelan Arc of Regularity M.S. Fetea, R.F. Casten, S. Eckel, P.B. Manchev Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 1:54PM - 2:06PM		X14.00003: Decay pathways and rotational properties of strongly deformed bands in $^{168}$Hf W.C. Ma, R.B. Yadav, H. Amro, P.G. Varmette, Y.C. Zhang, G.B. Hagemann, B. Herskind, K.A. Schmidt, G. Sletten, M. Carpenter, R.V.F. Janssens, T.L. Khoo, T. Lauritsen, C.J. Lister, A. Bracco, S. Frattini, B. Million, J. Domscheit, H. Hubel, D.J. Hartley, L.L. Riedinger, S.W. Odegard, S. Siem Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:06PM - 2:18PM		X14.00004: Study of $^{171}$Hf at High Rotional Frequency Y.C. Zhang, W.C. Ma, A.V. Afanasjev, E. Ngijoi-Yogo, D.G. Roux, R.B. Yadav, G.B. Hagemann, M.P. Carpenter, R.V.F. Janssens, T.L. Khoo, F.G. Kondev, T. Lauritsen, E.F. Moore, S. Zhu, P. Chowdhury, D.M. Cullen, S.V. Rigby, D.T. Scholes, M.K. Djongolov, L.L. Riedinger, D.J. Hartley, S. Odegard Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:18PM - 2:30PM		X14.00005: Level and life-time studies in odd-odd $^{202,204}$Tl N. Fotiades, R.O. Nelson, M. Devlin, J.A. Becker Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:30PM - 2:42PM		X14.00006: Shears bands in $^{204}$At and $^{206}$Fr? E.P. Seyfried, D.J. Hartley, W. Reviol, D.G. Sarantites, C.J. Chiara, O.L. Pechenaya, K. Hauschild, A. Lopez-Martens, M.P. Carpenter, R.V.F. Janssens, D. Seweryniak, S. Zhu Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:42PM - 2:54PM		X14.00007: Non-yrast states in $^{221}$Th W. Reviol, D.G. Sarantites, C.J. Chiara, O.L. Pechenaya, J. Snyder, K. Hauschild, A. Lopez-Martens, D.J. Hartley, M.P. Carpenter, R.V.F. Janssens, T. Lauritsen, D. Seweryniak, S. Zhu Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:54PM - 3:06PM		X14.00008: Investigation of K-isomers in $^{255}$Lr and $^{256}$Rf H.B. Jeppesen, I. Dragojevic, R.M. Clark, K.E. Gregorich, M.N. Ali, J.M. Allmond, C.W. Beausang, D.L. Bleuel, J. Dvorak, P.E. Ellison, P. Fallon, M.A. Garcia, J.M. Gates, J.P. Greene, S. Gros, I.Y. Lee, A.O. Macchiavelli, S.L. Nelson, H. Nitsche, L. Stravsetra, M. Widerking Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 3:06PM - 3:18PM		X14.00009: Search for Dipole States in $^{235,238}$U Samantha Hammond, Chris Angell, Hugon J. Karwowski, Elaine Kwan, Gencho Rusev, Anton Tonchev, Werner Tornow, John Kelley Preview Abstract

Session X15: Nuclear Theory

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Mihai Horoi, Central Michigan University
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis H

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 1:30PM - 1:42PM		X15.00001: Common signatures of Coulomb fragmentation of excited realistic nuclei and phase transitions in hypothetical confined matter Jan T\~oke, Udo Schr\"oder Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 1:42PM - 1:54PM		X15.00002: Properties of Unitary Fermi Gas from the Epsilon Expansion Andrei Kryjevski Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 1:54PM - 2:06PM		X15.00003: Quasiparticle Density Functional Theory with Dispersive Optical Model Self Energies Mark Burnett, Willem Dickhoff Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:06PM - 2:18PM		X15.00004: Generalized Auxiliary Field Monte Carlo method:a new efficient variational method for CBF theory Mohamed Bouadani Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:18PM - 2:30PM		X15.00005: Odd-even Mass Nuclei in Nuclear Energy Density Functional theory Nicolas Schunck, Jacek Dobaczewski, Mario Stoitsov, Witold Nazarewicz Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:30PM - 2:42PM		X15.00006: Meson Spectroscopy in Light-Front Quark Model Martin DeWitt, Chueng Ji Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:42PM - 2:54PM		X15.00007: A study of No-pair two-body equation with non-central potentials. Charles Werneth, Mallika Dhar, Lawrence Mead, Khin Maung Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:54PM - 3:06PM		X15.00008: Hadron Confinement Theory Carl Case Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 3:06PM - 3:18PM		X15.00009: Octet Baryon Magnetic Moments from QCD Sum Rules Lai Wang, Frank Lee Preview Abstract