Bulletin of the American Physical Society

2009 Annual Meeting of the California Section of the APS

Volume 54, Number 18

Friday–Saturday, November 13–14, 2009; Monterey, California

Session Index

Session S1: Applied Physics

Chair: Lin Yang, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Room: Spanagel 117

Saturday, November 14, 2009 2:00PM - 2:12PM		S1.00001: Development of a Laminar Flame Test Facility for Bio-Diesel Characterization Giam Tan Preview Abstract
Saturday, November 14, 2009 2:12PM - 2:24PM		S1.00002: Low Temperature Transient Performance of Polymer Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Karl Burnett Preview Abstract
Saturday, November 14, 2009 2:24PM - 2:36PM		S1.00003: Trap States in Organic Semiconductor Thin Films using Photogenerated Currents Jorge Guerra, Thomas Gredig Preview Abstract
Saturday, November 14, 2009 2:36PM - 2:48PM		S1.00004: Investigation on Novel Methods to Increase Specific Thrust in Pulse Detonation Engines via Imploding Detonations Ivan Ho Preview Abstract
Saturday, November 14, 2009 2:48PM - 3:00PM		S1.00005: Simulation, Construction, and Experimental Evaluation of a Twice-Augmented Railgun Justin Salvia Preview Abstract
Saturday, November 14, 2009 3:00PM - 3:12PM		S1.00006: NPS Gas Gun for Planar Impact Studies Chien Cheong Ho, Robert Hixson Preview Abstract
Saturday, November 14, 2009 3:12PM - 3:24PM		S1.00007: Development of a Laboratory Scale Test Facility (LSTF) to investigate Armor solutions against buried explosive threats Felipe Garcia, Jose Sinibaldi Preview Abstract
Saturday, November 14, 2009 3:24PM - 3:36PM		S1.00008: Numerical Calculation of Anelastic Seismic Pulse Propagation in a Hysteretic Elastic Material Along a Horizontal Surface Boundary of the Earth Dan Kosik Preview Abstract
Saturday, November 14, 2009 3:36PM - 3:48PM		S1.00009: Optimal Control of Shock Tube Flow via Water Addition with Application to Ignition Overpressure Mitigation in Launch Vehicles Nathan Moshman Preview Abstract
Saturday, November 14, 2009 3:48PM - 4:00PM		S1.00010: Anomalous Velocity Dependence of the Friction Coefficient of an Air Supported Pulley Matteo Crismani, Michael Nauenberg Preview Abstract
Saturday, November 14, 2009 4:00PM - 4:12PM		S1.00011: Instrumentation for Calorimetric Measurements of Strongly Correlated Electron Materials Ulises Urbina, Pei-Chun Ho Preview Abstract

Session S2: Nuclear/Atomic/Molecular Physics

Chair: Howard Matis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Room: Spanagel 231

Saturday, November 14, 2009 2:00PM - 2:12PM		S2.00001: The Neutron Induced Fission Fragment Tracking Experiment Jennifer Klay Preview Abstract
Saturday, November 14, 2009 2:12PM - 2:24PM		S2.00002: NIFFTE Software and Computing: Results from the First Mock Data Challenge Ryuho Kudo Preview Abstract
Saturday, November 14, 2009 2:24PM - 2:36PM		S2.00003: CUORE: The Three Towers Test Laura Sparks, Alison Goodsell Preview Abstract
Saturday, November 14, 2009 2:36PM - 2:48PM		S2.00004: Introducing Accelerator Physics to a Wider Audience Ernest Malamud Preview Abstract
Saturday, November 14, 2009 2:48PM - 3:00PM		S2.00005: Towards the first \textit{ab initio} description of the deuterium-tritium fusion Petr Navratil, Sofia Quaglioni Preview Abstract
Saturday, November 14, 2009 3:00PM - 3:12PM		S2.00006: Two-Body with Confining Potentials Joseph McEwen, Joseph Day, Arnulfo Gonzalez, Zoltan Papp Preview Abstract
Saturday, November 14, 2009 3:12PM - 3:24PM		S2.00007: The Proof of the ``Vortex Theory of Matter'' Russell Moon, Konstantin Gridnev, Victor Vasiliev Preview Abstract
Saturday, November 14, 2009 3:24PM - 3:36PM		S2.00008: Hierarchical Cross-linked F-actin Networks: Understanding Structure and Assembly Linda Hirst, Lam Nguyen Preview Abstract
Saturday, November 14, 2009 3:36PM - 3:48PM		S2.00009: Measurement of Colloidal Interactions Using Holographic Microscopy and Multi-particle Scattering Theory Kristopher Eric Martin, Jerome Fung, V.N. Manoharan Preview Abstract
Saturday, November 14, 2009 3:48PM - 4:00PM		S2.00010: Cesium Iodide Crystal Calorimeter of the Proton Computed Tomography (pCT) Imager Jessica Missaghian, Hartmut Sadrozinski, Brian Colby, Victor Rykalin, Ford Hurley Preview Abstract

Session S3: Condensed Matter II

Chair: Frances Houle, Stealth Startup Company
Room: Spanagel 321

Saturday, November 14, 2009 2:00PM - 2:12PM		S3.00001: Quantum entanglement in photosynthetic light harvesting Mohan Sarovar, Akihito Ishizaki, Graham Fleming, Birgitta Whaley Preview Abstract
Saturday, November 14, 2009 2:12PM - 2:24PM		S3.00002: Analyzing Particle Size Effects in ZnS:Cu using X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Scott Medling, M. Kozina, Y. Jiang, B. Balaban, F. Bridges, S. Carter Preview Abstract
Saturday, November 14, 2009 2:24PM - 2:36PM		S3.00003: Metallic-like photoluminescence and absorption in fused silica surface flaws Ted Laurence, Jeff Bude, Nan Shen, Theodore Feldman, Philip Miller, William Steele, Tayyab Suratwala Preview Abstract
Saturday, November 14, 2009 2:36PM - 2:48PM		S3.00004: Cooling and Heating Processes in the Magnetocaloric Materials: Is Reversibility possible? Ana L. Lima Sharma, Angelo M. Gomes, Catalina Salazar Mejia, Adelino A. Coelho Preview Abstract
Saturday, November 14, 2009 2:48PM - 3:00PM		S3.00005: Comparative Study of PbS and CdSe quantum dots for use in Luminescent Solar Concentrators Georgiy Shcherbatyuk, Richard Inman, Chunhua Wang, Sayantani Ghosh, Roland Winston Preview Abstract
Saturday, November 14, 2009 3:00PM - 3:12PM		S3.00006: The 1-d Long Range Diluted Heisenberg Spin Glass - A Monte Carlo Study Auditya Sharma, Peter Young Preview Abstract
Saturday, November 14, 2009 3:12PM - 3:24PM		S3.00007: Optimization of a rubidium magnetometer based on nonlinear optical rotation Lok Fai Chan, L.R. Jacome, Srikanth Guttikonda, Eric Bahr, Derek Kimball Preview Abstract
Saturday, November 14, 2009 3:24PM - 3:36PM		S3.00008: Quantitative characterization of one-dimensional magnetic chains in organic semiconductors Evan Silverstein, Brian J. Cacha, Joshua Mims, Thomas Gredig Preview Abstract
Saturday, November 14, 2009 3:36PM - 3:48PM		S3.00009: An electro-optic experimental study of an unusual liquid crystal phase transition Daniel Staines, Derek Wicks, Austin Havens, Jonathan Fernsler Preview Abstract
Saturday, November 14, 2009 3:48PM - 4:00PM		S3.00010: Electronic structure and quantum critical behavior of NbFe$_{2}$ Brian Neal, Warren Pickett Preview Abstract
Saturday, November 14, 2009 4:00PM - 4:12PM		S3.00011: Biologically inspired MEMS based directional microphone Michael Touse, Stephen Harrison, Jeffrey Catterlin, Gamani Karunasiri Preview Abstract
Saturday, November 14, 2009 4:12PM - 4:24PM		S3.00012: Environment-invariant measure of distance between evolutions of an open quantum system Matthew Grace, Jason Dominy, Robert Kosut, Constantin Brif, Herschel Rabitz Preview Abstract

Session S4: Gravitation Physics

Chair: John Price, CSU Dominguez Hills
Room: Spanagel 421

Saturday, November 14, 2009 2:00PM - 2:12PM		S4.00001: Yang-Mills Field from Quaternion Space Geometry, and its Klein-Gordon Representation Alexander Yefremov, Vic Christianto, Florentin Smarandache Preview Abstract
Saturday, November 14, 2009 2:12PM - 2:24PM		S4.00002: Einstein's Gravity as an Emergent Local Gauge Tetrad/Spin Connection Field Jack Sarfatti Preview Abstract
Saturday, November 14, 2009 2:24PM - 2:36PM		S4.00003: An Educational Look at an alternative to the Expanding Universe Model Richard Kriske Preview Abstract
Saturday, November 14, 2009 2:36PM - 2:48PM		S4.00004: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Saturday, November 14, 2009 2:48PM - 3:00PM		S4.00005: Standing gravitational waves from domain walls Douglas Singleton, Merab Gogberashvili, Shynaray Myrzakul Preview Abstract
Saturday, November 14, 2009 3:00PM - 3:12PM		S4.00006: A WKB-like approach to Unruh radiation Andrea de Gill, Douglas Singleton, Valeria Akhmedova, Terry Pilling Preview Abstract
Saturday, November 14, 2009 3:12PM - 3:24PM		S4.00007: New Perspective on the Cosmological Constant Problem Vesselin Gueorguiev Preview Abstract
Saturday, November 14, 2009 3:24PM - 3:36PM		S4.00008: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Saturday, November 14, 2009 3:36PM - 3:48PM		S4.00009: Quasilocal Energy in FRW Cosmology Marcus Afshar Preview Abstract
Saturday, November 14, 2009 3:48PM - 4:00PM		S4.00010: Understanding Dark Energy Howard Greyber Preview Abstract

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