Mar 20 2005 9:00AM, Sunday

CCP2005 Special Plenary Session of the Division of Computational Physics CCP2005 I
Room: Westin Hotel San Francisco Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Lee Collins/LANL

Mar 20 2005 5:00PM, Sunday

CCP2005A Special Plenary Session of the Division of Computational Physics and CCP2005 II
Room: Westin Hotel, San Francisco Reception, Sacramento Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Barry Schneider

Mar 21 2005 8:00AM, Monday

A1 Nuclear Spin Dynamics in Semiconductor Nanostructures
Room: LACC 152 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Seigo Tarucha, University of Tokyo

A2 Quantum Criticality of Strongly Correlated Metals
Room: LACC 151 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Brian Maple, University of California-San Diego

A3a STM Manipulation of Single Atoms, Charges, and Spins
Room: LACC 515B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Robert Celotta, NIST
Invited Speakers:  Amir Yacoby  

A4 Chemical and Biological Sensing with Microcantilevers
Room: LACC 515A Sponsor: GIMS Chair: A.T. Macrander, Argonne National Lab.

A5 Physics of Emerging Organic Displays - OLEDs and PLEDs
Room: LACC 502B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Geoffrey Nunes, Dupont

A6 Correlated Electrons
Room: LACC 502A Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Barry Schneider, NSF

A7 From Egg to Adult: Patterning and Morphogenesis in Animal Development
Room: LACC 408B Sponsor: DBP Chair: Boris Shraiman, UCSB

A9 Magnetic Domains and Dynamics
Room: LACC 153A Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Mark Stiles, NIST

A10 Focus Session: Spin Transport Devices
Room: LACC 153B Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Roland Kawakami, UC Riverside

A11 Earth and Planetary Materials I
Room: LACC 153C Sponsor: DMP DCMP GSCCM Chair: Taku Tsuchiya, University of Minnesota

A12 Vortices in Superconductors I
Room: LACC 402A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Victor Gurarie, University of Colorado

A13 Spectroscopic Properties of Superconductors
Room: LACC 402B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Tanner, University of Florida

A14 Focus Session: Molecular-Scale Electronics and Sensors I
Room: LACC 403B Sponsor: FIAP DCP Chair: Vince McKoy, Caltech

A15 Focus Session: THz Devices and Materials I
Room: LACC 405 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Mark Lee, Sandia National Labs

A16 Focus Session: Nano-optical Plasmonics
Room: LACC 404A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Gary Wiederrecht, Argonne National Labs

A17 Kondo Effect and Correlations in Quantum Dots
Room: LACC 404B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Luis G. Dias da Silva, Ohio University

A18 Focus Session: Semiconductor Characterization
Room: LACC 406A Sponsor: FIAP GIMS Chair: David Seiler, NIST

A19 Quantum Hall Effect
Room: LACC 406B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: HongWen Jiang, UCLA

A20 Multilayers, Thin Films, and Interfaces
Room: LACC 407 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Igor Roshchin, UCSD

A21 Focus Session: Dynamics of Transcription
Room: LACC 409A Sponsor: DBP Chair: Ken Dill, University of California-San Francisco

A23 Focus Session: Biological Hydrodynamics I
Room: LACC 410 Sponsor: DFD DBP GSNP Chair: Peter Lenz, Universitaet Marburg
Invited Speakers:  John O. Kessler  

A24 Focus Session: Structure, Dynamics and Resilience of Complex Networks
Room: LACC 411 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Alessandro Vespignani, Indiana University

A25 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience I
Room: LACC 501A Sponsor: DMP DCOMP DAMOP Chair: J.R. Manson, Clemson University

A26 Focus Session: Nanotubes and Nanowires: Carbon Nanotube Transistors
Room: LACC 501B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jie Liu, Duke University

A27 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Optical Properties I
Room: LACC 501C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Marcus Freitag, IBM

A28 Polymer Surfaces I
Room: LACC 506 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Chang Yeol Ryu, Rensselaer Polytechnic

A29 Charged and Ion-Containing Polymers I
Room: LACC 504 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Andrey Dobrynin, University of Connecticut

A30 Block Copolymers I
Room: LACC 505 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Eric Cochran, UCSB

A31 Molecular Motion in Miscible Blends
Room: LACC 503 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Sanat Kumar, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

A32 Focus Session: Novel Computational Algorithms: From Materials to the Universe I
Room: LACC 507 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Mark Novotny, Mississippi State

A34 Environmental Interfaces I
Room: LACC 511A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Franz Geiger, Northwestern University

A35 Energy Landscapes in Clusters, Materials, and Biology I
Room: LACC 511B Sponsor: DCP Chair: M. Gruebele, University of Illinois

A36 Focus Session: Novel States of Matter in Atomic Gases
Room: LACC 510 Sponsor: DAMOP DCMP Chair: Erich Mueller, Cornell University

A37 Liquid Crystals I
Room: LACC 512 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Antal Jakli, Kent State University

A38 Metal-Insulator Phase Transitions - Theory I
Room: LACC 513 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Wei Ku, Brookhaven National Lab

A39 SPS: Undergraduate Research I
Room: LACC 514 Chair: Jack Hehn, American Institute of Physics
Invited Speakers:  Matthew Shanks  

A40 Focus Session: Morphology and Evolution at Surfaces: Structure and Organics
Room: LACC 408A Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Fulvio Ratto, Universite' de Que'bec

A42 Artificially Structured or Self-Assembled Magnetic Materials - I
Room: LACC 150B Sponsor: GMAG Chair: William Pratt, Michigan State University

A43 Focus Session: Spin Transfer Effect I
Room: LACC 150C Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Robert Buhrman, Cornell University

Mar 21 2005 9:48AM, Monday

A3b Superconductivity in Diamond
Room: LACC 515B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Joe Thompson, LANL

Mar 21 2005 11:15AM, Monday

B1 Spin Hall Effect
Room: LACC 152 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Naota Nagaosa, University of Tokyo
Invited Speakers:  Joerg Wunderlich  

B2 Novel Metal-like States in Two-Dimensions
Room: LACC 151 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sankar Das Sarma, Univ. of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Sergey Vitkalov  

B3 DCMP/DMP Joint Prize Session
Room: LACC 515B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Samuel Bader, Argonne National Lab and Sidney Nagel, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Yuri Suzuki  

B4 Glassy Polymers
Room: LACC 515A Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Alexei Sokolov, University of Akron

B5 Einstein and Friends I
Room: LACC 502B Sponsor: FHP Chair: Virginia Trimble, University of California-Irvine

B6 Theoretical and Computational Studies of Water
Room: LACC 502A Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Giulia Galli/LLNL

B7 Women at the Forefront of Biological Physics
Room: LACC 408B Sponsor: DBP CSWP Chair: Aihua Xie, Oklahoma State University

B9 Magentic Recording/Exchange Bias/Magnetic Properties
Room: LACC 153A Sponsor: GMAG Chair: William Egelhoff, NIST

B10 Focus Session: III-V Magnetic Semiconductors
Room: LACC 153B Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Nitin Samarth, Pennsylvania State University

B11 High Pressure I
Room: LACC 153C Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Matteo Cococcione, MIT

B12 Vortices in Superconductors II
Room: LACC 402A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Laura Greene, UIUC

B13 Josephson Junctions and SQUIDs I
Room: LACC 402B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Malcolm Beasley, Stanford University

B14 Focus Session: Molecular-Scale Electronics and Sensors II
Room: LACC 403B Sponsor: FIAP DCP Chair: Carter White, Naval Research Lab

B15 Focus Session: Inorganic Glasses
Room: LACC 405 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: John Kieffer, University of Michigan

B16 Optics of Metallic Nanoshells and Nanoparticles
Room: LACC 404A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Harry Attwater, Caltech

B17 Focus Session: Materials and Device Physics for Quantum Computing I
Room: LACC 404B Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Henry Everitt, Army Research Office

B18 Quantum Dots, Wires, and QH Edge States
Room: LACC 406A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Woowon Kang, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Rafi de Picciotto  

B20 Phase Transitions and Excitations at Surfaces
Room: LACC 407 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Roland Stumpf, Sandia Natl Lab Livermore

B21 Protein Metastability
Room: LACC 409A Sponsor: DBP Chair: Denis Rousseau, Albert Einstein Medical

B22 Focus Session: Fluctuations and Fluctuation Analysis in Biological Systems
Room: LACC 409B Sponsor: DBP Chair: Peter Hanggi, University Augsburg

B24 Focus Session: Friction, Fracture, and Deformation I
Room: LACC 411 Sponsor: GSNP DMP Chair: Martin Muser, Western Ontario

B25 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience II
Room: LACC 501A Sponsor: DMP DCOMP DAMOP Chair: Talat S. Rahman, Kansas State University

B26 Focus Session: Nanotubes and Nanowires: Synthesis and Properties of Nanowires
Room: LACC 501B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Grace Jia Lu, University of California-Irvine
Invited Speakers:  Zhong Lin Wang  

B27 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Optical Properties II
Room: LACC 501C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Vasili Perebeinos, IBM

B28 Polymer Surfaces II
Room: LACC 506 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Steve Hudson, NIST

B29 Charged and Ion-Containing Polymers II
Room: LACC 504 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: M. Muthukumar, Univ. of Massachusetts

B30 Organic Field Effect Transistors I
Room: LACC 505 Sponsor: DPOLY FIAP Chair: George Malliaras, Cornell University

B32 Focus Session: Superconductivity: Theory and Computation I
Room: LACC 507 Sponsor: DCOMP DCMP Chair: Jens Kortus, IPCMS

B33 Quantum Entanglement and Entropy
Room: LACC 511C Sponsor: GQI Chair: Gregor Weihs, University of Vienna

B34 Environmental Interfaces II
Room: LACC 511A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Vicki Grassian, University of Iowa

B35 Energy Landscapes in Clusters, Materials, and Biology II
Room: LACC 511B Sponsor: DCP Chair: D. Leitner, University of Nevada - Reno
Invited Speakers:  Meigan Aronson  

B36 Colloids I
Room: LACC 510 Sponsor: DFD Chair: David Grier, New York University

B37 Liquid Crystals II
Room: LACC 512 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Luz J. Martinez-Miranda, U of Maryland

B38 Metal-Insulator Transitions - Experiment I
Room: LACC 513 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Tranquada, Brookhaven NL

B39 Heavy Fermion Superconductivity
Room: LACC 514 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Sarrao, Los Alamos National Lab

B40 Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures I: Contacts
Room: LACC 408A Sponsor: DMP DCP Chair: A. Yu. Kasumov, Institute of Microelectronics

B41 Cooperative Phenomena: Magnetism
Room: LACC 150A Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Mark Van Schilfgaarde, Arizona State University

B42 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanoparticles, Nanostructures & Heterostructures I
Room: LACC 150B Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Axel Hoffmann, Argonne National Laboratory

B43 Focus Session: Spin Transfer Effect II
Room: LACC 150C Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Andrew Kent, New York University

B44 X-ray and Neutron Scattering
Room: LACC 518 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Bennett Larson, Oak Ridge National Lab

Mar 21 2005 2:00PM, Monday

C1 Poster Session I
Room: LACC Exhibit Hall 2:00-5:00pm

Mar 21 2005 2:30PM, Monday

D1 Crystalline Organic Semiconductors: Materials to Devices
Room: LACC 152 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mikhail Itkis, University of California, Riverside

D2 Spin, Charge and Orbital Excitations in Manganites
Room: LACC 151 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: H. Dennis Drew, University of Maryland

D3 Diversity Issues and Remedies
Room: LACC 515B Sponsor: CSWP COM Chair: Pat Mooney, IBM TJ Watson

D4 The New DOE Centers for Nanoscale Science
Room: LACC 515A Sponsor: GIMS DMP Chair: A.T. Macrander, Argonne National Lab
Invited Speakers:  Douglas Lowndes  

D5 The Grand Challenge of Hydrogen Storage
Room: LACC 502B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Sunita Satyapal, U.S. DOE and Frederick E. Pinkerton, GM R&D Center
Invited Speakers:  Jan Herbst  

D6 The Facts of Life: Data-Driven Approaches To Systems Biology
Room: LACC 502A Sponsor: DBP DCOMP Chair: Chris Wiggins, Columbia University

D7 Giant Spin-Lattice Coupling in Multiferroics
Room: LACC 408B Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Sang-Wook Cheong, Rutgers University

D9 Focus Session: Theory of Magnetic Semiconductors
Room: LACC 153A Sponsor: DCOMP DMP GMAG Chair: Andre Petukhov, SDSMT

D10 Focus Session: Spin Transport and Dynamics
Room: LACC 153B Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: David Awschalom, University of California-Santa Barbara

D11 Focus Session: Simulations of Matter at Extreme Conditions I
Room: LACC 153C Sponsor: DCOMP DMP GSCCM Chair: Carter White, Naval Research Lab

D12 Tunnelling in Superconductors
Room: LACC 402A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Richard Harris, NIST

D13 STS and Imaging of Superconductors
Room: LACC 402B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Timir Datta, University of South Carolina

D14 Focus Session: Engineered Group IV Clathrates and Clusters
Room: LACC 403B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Jan Gryko, Jacksonville State University
Invited Speakers:  George Nolas  

D15 Focus Session: THz Devices and Materials II
Room: LACC 405 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Mark Sherwin, University of California-Santa Barbara

D16 Photonic Crystals and Nanoscale Physics
Room: LACC 404A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Richard Warburton, Heriot-Watt University

D17 Focus Session: Transport Through Molecules: Scanned Probe Methods
Room: LACC 404B Sponsor: DMP DCP Chair: Mark Hybertsen, Columbia University

D20 Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures II: Molecules & Surfaces
Room: LACC 407 Sponsor: DMP DCP Chair: Michelle Simmons, UNSW

D21 Methods in Nanobiotechnology
Room: LACC 409A Sponsor: DBP Chair: Kai Felix Braun, Ohio University

D22 Focus Session: Protein Folding
Room: LACC 409B Sponsor: DBP Chair: Denis Rousseau, AECOM

D23 Networks and Complex Systems
Room: LACC 410 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Michael F. Shlesinger, ONR

D25 Optical Response of Molecules and Clusters: Theory
Room: LACC 501A Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Sudha Srinivas, Central Michigan Univ.

D26 Focus Session: Nanotubes and Nanowires: Electronic Properties
Room: LACC 501B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Chongwu Zhou, USC

D27 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Raman Spectroscopy
Room: LACC 501C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Pehr Pehrson, Naval Research Lab

D28 Block Copolymer Thin Films
Room: LACC 506 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Michael Fasolka, NIST

D30 Organic Field Effect Transistors II
Room: LACC 505 Sponsor: DPOLY FIAP Chair: Arthur Epstein, Ohio State Univ.

D32 Many Body and Strongly Correlated Systems
Room: LACC 507 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Barry Schneider, NSF

D33 Quantum Dots, Gates and Single Photon Devices
Room: LACC 511C Sponsor: GQI Chair: Anton Zeilinger, University of Vienna

D34 Environmental Interfaces III
Room: LACC 511A Sponsor: DCP Chair: William Schneider, Notre Dame

D35 Nanophotonic Materials, Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy I
Room: LACC 511B Sponsor: DCP Chair: Michael D. Barnes, Univ. Massachusetts
Invited Speakers:  H. Jeff Kimble  

D36 Colloids II
Room: LACC 510 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Penger Tong, Univ. of Sci. and Tech

D37 Liquid Crystals and Complex Fluids
Room: LACC 512 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Philip Taylor, Case Western Reserve Univ

D38 Heavy Fermions
Room: LACC 513 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Greg Stewart, University of Florida

D39 SPS Undergraduate Research II
Room: LACC 514 Chair: Gary White, AIP
Invited Speakers:  Kibrom Tewolde  

D40 Focus Session: Morphology and Evolution at Surfaces: Epitaxy
Room: LACC 408A Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Jim Hannon, IBM Research

D41 Cooperative Phenomena: Magnetic Properties and Spin Dynamics
Room: LACC 150A Sponsor: GMAG Chair: David Pappas, NIST, Boulder

D42 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanoparticles, Nanostructures & Heterostructures II
Room: LACC 150B Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: David Pappas

D43 Focus Session: Magnetic Tunnel Junctions I
Room: LACC 150C Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Pieter Visscher, Univ. of Alabama

Mar 21 2005 5:45PM, Monday

E24 APS Prizes & Awards Ceremony
Room: LACC 411 Sponsor: APS

Mar 21 2005 8:00PM, Monday

G1 Paradigm Shifts: Breakthroughs and Advances That Shaped Our Field
Room: LACC 152 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Helen Quinn, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Mar 22 2005 8:00AM, Tuesday

H1 Spin-Liquid Insulators and Strongly Correlated Superconductors
Room: LACC 152 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Matthew Fisher, UC-Santa Barbara

H2 Polymer Physics Prize Symposium
Room: LACC 151 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Richard Register, Princeton University

H3 Prize Session
Room: LACC 515B Sponsor: APS Chair: Gordon Thomas, New Jersey Institute of Technology

H4 Recent Developments in Semiconductor Heterostructure Spin Physics
Room: LACC 515A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Awschalom, University of California-Santa Barbara

H5 From Biological to Infrastructure Networks: Structure and Dynamics
Room: LACC 502B Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Laszlo Barabasi, Notre Dame University

H6 The Physics Community's Defense of Human Rights
Room: LACC 502A Sponsor: FPS Chair: Myriam Sarachik, Physics Department, CCNY

H7 Nanomechanical Biosensors
Room: LACC 408B Sponsor: DBP Chair: Thomas Thundat, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

H9 Focus Session: Low Dimensional Magnetism
Room: LACC 153A Sponsor: DCOMP DMP GMAG Chair: Kirill Belashchenko, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

H10 Focus Session: Magnetic Semiconductors: Electronic Structure
Room: LACC 153B Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jairo Sinova, Texas A&M University
Invited Speakers:  Alex Zunger  

H11 Focus Session: Simulations of Matter at Extreme Conditions II
Room: LACC 153C Sponsor: DCOMP DMP GSCCM Chair: Stephane Mazevet, LANL

H12 Vortices in Superconductors III
Room: LACC 402A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: M. Tikham, Harvard University

H13 Superconducting Magneto-Transport Properties
Room: LACC 402B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Carmen Alamasan, Kent State University

H14 Focus Session: Organic / Inorganic Hybrid Nanomaterials
Room: LACC 403B Sponsor: FIAP DPOLY Chair: John Kieffer, University of Michigan

H15 Focus Session: Dilute Nitride Semiconductors: From Atoms to Devices I
Room: LACC 405 Sponsor: FIAP DCMP DMP Chair: Rachel S. Goldman, University of Michigan

H16 Focus Session: Tip-enhanced Nano-optics and Spectroscopy of Quantum Dots
Room: LACC 404A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Khaled Karrai, Ludwig-Maximilians University

H17 Focus Session: Transport Through Molecules: Single Molecule Junctions
Room: LACC 404 B Sponsor: DMP DCP Chair: Robert L. Willett, Bell Laboratories

H18 Modeling of Superconducting Systems for Quantum Computing
Room: LACC 406A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Xuedong Hu University at Buffalo, SUNY

H19 Bilayers
Room: LACC 406 B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Fogler, UCSD

H20 Focus Session: Properties of Complex Oxides and Interfaces I
Room: LACC 407 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Marco Buongiorno Nardelli, NCSU

H22 Nucleic Acids
Room: LACC 409B Sponsor: DBP Chair: Robert Austin, Princeton University

H23 Focus Session: Brownian Motion and Stochastic Dynamics in the 100 Years Since Einstein
Room: LACC 410 Sponsor: GSNP DBP Chair: Peter Jung, Ohio University
Invited Speakers:  Peter H\"anggi  

H24 Focus Session: Friction, Fracture, and Deformation II
Room: LACC 411 Sponsor: GSNP DMP Chair: Robin Selinger, Catholic University
Invited Speakers:  Mark Robbins  

H25 Focus Session: Novel and Complex Oxides: NaxCoO2 Experiment and Theory
Room: LACC 501A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Claude Ederer, UC-Santa Barbara

H26 Focus Session: Nanotubes and nanowires: Theoretical Studies
Room: LACC 501B Sponsor: DMP Chair: M.P. Anantram, NASA Ames

H27 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Electronic Properties I
Room: LACC 501C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Tony Heinz, Columbia University

H28 Focus Session: Metallic Glasses and Liquids I
Room: LACC 506 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Despina Louca, University of Virginia

H30 Liquid Crystalline Polymers
Room: LACC 505 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Patrick Mather, Case Western Reserve University

H31 Photonics and Optoelectronics
Room: LACC 503 Sponsor: DPOLY FIAP Chair: Adam Fontecchio, Drexel University

H32 Novel Computational Algorithms II
Room: LACC 507 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Ron Mickens, Clark-Atlanta

H33 Quantum Fluids and Solids I
Room: LACC 511C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Norbert Mulders, University of Delaware

H34 Environmental Interfaces IV
Room: LACC 511A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Bruce Kay, PNNL

H35 Energy Landscapes in Clusters, Materials, and Biology III
Room: LACC 511B Sponsor: DCP DBP Chair: J. Onuchic, University of California-San Diego

H36 BEC and Trapped Bose Gases
Room: Convention Center 510 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Dan Stamper-Kurn, UC-Berkeley

H37 General Fluid Dynamics and Phenomena
Room: LACC 512 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Gary Williams, UCLA

H38 Metal-Insulator Phase Transitions - Theory II
Room: Concention Center 513 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Steven Kivelson, UCLA

H39 Ferroelectric Phase Transitions
Room: Conference Center 514 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Clifford M. Krowne, NRL

H40 Focus Session: Morphology and Evolution at Surfaces: Persistence and Islands
Room: LACC 408A Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Ted Einstein, University of Maryland

H41 Cooperative Phenomena: Phase Transition in Magnetic Systems
Room: LACC 150A Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Tom Kaplan, Michigan State University

H42 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanoparticles, Nanostructures & Heterostructures III
Room: LACC 150B Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: John Wendelken, Oak Ridge National Lab

H43 Focus Session: Magnetic Tunnel Junctions II
Room: LACC 150 C Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Xiu-Feng Han, Institute of Physics, Beijing

Mar 22 2005 11:15AM, Tuesday

J1 Vortex Avalanches
Room: LACC 152 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ulrich Welp, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Rinke J. Wijngaarden  

J2 Heterostructures of Correlated Oxide Materials
Room: LACC 151 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Allen Goldman, University of Minnesota

J3 Recent Progess in Quantum Physics and Quantum Information
Room: LACC 515B Sponsor: GQI Chair: Anthony Leggett, University of Illinois
Invited Speakers:  Wojciech Hubert Zurek  

J4 Conducting Polymers
Room: LACC 515A Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Rachel Segalman, UC-Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Benjamin Schwartz  

J5 Teaching Classical Mechanics and Non-Linear Dynamics: Highlights from a Gordon Conference
Room: LACC 502B Sponsor: FEd Chair: Paula Heron, University of Washington
Invited Speakers:  Matthew Moelter  

J6 Extreme Computing
Room: LACC 502A Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Thomas Schulthess, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

J7 Biological Microsystem Technologies Using Microfluidics and Integrated Circuits
Room: LACC 408B Sponsor: DBP Chair: Robert M. Westervelt, Harvard University

J9 Focus Session: Spin Transport/Magnetism Theory
Room: LACC 153A Sponsor: DCOMP DMP GMAG Chair: Oleg Mryasov, Seagate Research Center

J10 Focus Session: Spin Dynamics in Semiconductors
Room: LACC 153B Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Scott Crooker, LANL

J11 High Pressure II
Room: LACC 153C Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Andrea Trave, LLNL

J12 Superconducting Properties of MgB2
Room: LACC 402A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Allen Hermann, University of Colorado

J13 Defects and Other Structure in Superconductors
Room: LACC 402B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Don Gubser, Naval Research Laboratory

J14 Focus Session: Anisotropic Building Blocks: Synthesis and Assembly
Room: LACC 403B Sponsor: FIAP DMP Chair: Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan

J15 Focus Session: Strained Si and Other Semiconductors for Device Applications
Room: LACC 405 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Ya-Hong Xie, UCLA
Invited Speakers:  George Celler  

J16 Focus Session: Nano-spectroscopy of Quantum Dots
Room: LACC 404A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Sergio E. Ulloa, Ohio University

J17 Focus Session: Materials and Device Physics for Quantum Computing
Room: LACC 404B Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Carlo Piermaroochi, Michigan State University

J18 Focus Session: Wide Band Gap Semiconductors I
Room: LACC 406A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Alan Doolittle, Georgia Tech

J20 Surfaces: Novel Instrumentation and Techniques
Room: LACC 407 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jianhua Gu, West Virginia University

J21 Lipid and Insulating Bilayers
Room: LACC 409A Sponsor: DBP Chair: Jurgen Kurths, University of Potsdam

J22 Biochemical and Genetic Networks
Room: LACC 409 B Sponsor: DBP Chair: Gabor Balazsi, Northwestern University

J23 Stochastic Processes and Nonlinear Dynamics
Room: LACC 410 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Bob Ecke, LANL

J24 GSNP Student Presentation Session and Far From Equilibrium Systems
Room: LACC 411 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Mark Robbins, Johns Hopkins University

J25 Focus Session: Novel and Complex Oxides: Ruthenates and Osmiumates
Room: LACC 501A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Chris Leighton, University of Minnesota

J26 Nanotubes and Nanowires: Applications
Room: LACC 501B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Chongwu Zhou, USC

J27 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Electronic Properties II
Room: LACC 501C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Fuhrer, UMD

J28 Focus Session: Metallic Glasses and Liquids II
Room: LACC 506 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Anup Gangopadhay, Washington University

J30 Elastomers and Gels
Room: LACC 505 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Claude Cohen, Cornell University

J31 Frank J. Padden Award Symposium
Room: LACC 503 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Steve Granick, UIUC

J32 Focus Session: Superconductivity: Theory and Computation (Mostly Triplet)
Room: LACC 507 Sponsor: DCOMP DCMP Chair: Igor Mazin, Naval Research Lab

J34 Environmental Interfaces V
Room: Convention Center 511 A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Barbara Finlayson-Pitts, UC Irvine
Invited Speakers:  Gordon E. Brown, Jr.  

J35 Energy Landscapes in Clusters, Materials, and Biology IV
Room: LACC 511B Sponsor: DCP Chair: A. Heuer, University of Muenster

J36 Trapped Fermi Gases and Feshbach Resonances
Room: LACC 510 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Lincoln Carr, JILA, Boulder, CO

J37 Fluid Turbulence and Instabilities
Room: LACC 512 Sponsor: DFD GSNP Chair: Guenter Ahlers, University of California-Santa Barbara

J38 Metal-Insulator Phase Transitions - Experiment II
Room: LACC 513 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Genda Gu, Brookhaven National Lab

J39 Phase Transitions in Surfaces and Films: Ferroelectrics and Multiferroics
Room: Conference Center 514 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: T. Kimura, Los Alamos National Lab

J40 Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures III: Semiconductors & Surfaces
Room: LACC 408A Sponsor: DMP DCP Chair: J. Crain, NIST

J41 Correlated Electrons: Manganites
Room: LACC 150A Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Amlan Biswas, University of Florida

J42 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanoparticles, Nanostructures & Heterostructures IV
Room: LACC 150B Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Zhiqiang Qiu, UC Berkeley

J43 Low Dimensional Magnetism: General Topics
Room: Convention Center 150C Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Yasu Takano, University of Florida

Mar 22 2005 2:00PM, Tuesday

K1 Poster Session II
Room: LACC Exhibit Hall 2:00-5:00pm

Mar 22 2005 2:30PM, Tuesday

L1 Vortex Ratchet Effect
Room: LACC 152 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Eva Andrei, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Jose Vicent  

L2 Martensitic Phase Transformations Under Pressure
Room: LACC 151 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Robert Albers, Los Alamos National Lab

L3 Recent Work on Strongly Coupled Fermi Gases I
Room: LACC 515B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Alexander Fetter, Stanford University

L4 Invited Symposium: The Role of Physics in NASA's Vision for Space Exploration
Room: LACC 515A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Darrell Jan, NASA JPL

L5 Emerging Devices and Materials for the Microelectronics Industry
Room: LACC 502B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Alex Demkov, University of Texas, Austin

L6 Presenting Current Research to Undergraduates: Physical Review Focus Authors
Room: LACC 502A Sponsor: FEd Chair: David Ehrenstein, APS

L7 Modeling Large Scale Molecular Biological Data
Room: LACC 408B Sponsor: DBP DCOMP Chair: Orly Alter, University of Texas at Austin

L9 Focus Session: Exchange Interactions and Magnetization
Room: LACC 153A Sponsor: DCOMP DMP GMAG Chair: Renat Sabiryanov, University of Nebraska-Omaha

L10 Focus Session: Magnetic Impurities in Semiconductors
Room: LACC 153B Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jacek Furdyna, University of Notre Dame

L11 Earth and Planetary Materials II
Room: LACC 153C Sponsor: DMP DCMP GSCCM Chair: Jay Bass, University of Illinois at Urbana, Chicago

L12 Superconducting Properties
Room: LACC 402A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Stan Tozer, NHMFL

L13 Superconducting Nanostructures
Room: LACC 402B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Bleiweiss, Naval Academy Prep.

L14 Focus Session: Multifunctional Oxides I
Room: LACC 403B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Jane P. Chang, UCLA

L15 Focus Session: Dilute Nitride Semiconductors: From Atoms to Devices II
Room: LACC 405 Sponsor: FIAP DCMP DMP Chair: Eicke Weber, University of California-Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Sergey Dudiy  

L16 Photonic Crystals I
Room: LACC 404A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Guy Ramon, Naval Research Laboratory

L17 Structural and Optical Properties of Nanostructures
Room: LACC 404B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Tom Kennedy, NRL

L18 Focus Session: Wide Band Gap Semiconductors II
Room: LACC 406A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Niti Goel, Univ. of Notre Dame

L19 History of Physics
Room: LACC 406B Sponsor: FHP Chair: Nina Byers, UCLA

L20 Focus Session: Properties of Complex Oxides and Interfaces II
Room: LACC 407 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Marco Fornari, Central Michigan University

L21 Focus Session: Intracellular Calcium Dynamics in Myocytes
Room: LACC 409A Sponsor: DBP Chair: Wouter-Jan Rappel, UCSD

L22 Metalloenzymes: Structure and Function
Room: LACC 409B Sponsor: DBP Chair: Marilyn Gunner, CCNY

L23 Coherent Structures, Pattern Formation and Spatio-Temporal Chaos
Room: LACC 410 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Bruno Eckhardt, University of Marburg

L24 Focus Session: Friction, Fracture, and Deformation III
Room: LACC 411 Sponsor: GSNP DMP Chair: Roland Bennewitz, McGill University

L27 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Devices
Room: LACC 501C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Christian Schoenenberger, University of Basel

L28 Phonons in Metals
Room: LACC 506 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Adolfo Equiluz, University of Tennessee

L30 Polymers-Inorganic Composites I
Room: LACC 505 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Dilip Gersappe, SUNY Stony Brook

L31 Organic Photovoltaic and Electrochromic Devices
Room: LACC 503 Sponsor: DPOLY FIAP Chair: Graciela Blanchet, Dupont

L32 Focus Session: Superconductivity: Superconductivity (Mostly Electron-Phonon)
Room: LACC 507 Sponsor: DCOMP DCMP Chair: A. A. Golubov, University of Tweute, Holland

L33 Quantum Fluids and Solids II
Room: LACC 511C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Rena Zieve, UC Davis

L34 Dynamics in Condensed Phase I
Room: LACC 511A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Haw Yang, UC-Berkeley

L35 Nanophotonic Materials, Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy II
Room: LACC 511B Sponsor: DCP Chair: John Fourkas, Boston College

L36 Focus Session: Granular Gases and Liquids I
Room: LACC 510 Sponsor: GSNP DFD Chair: Eli Ben-Naim, Los Alamos National Laboratory

L37 Microfluidic Physics I: Applications, Separations, Polymers
Room: LACC 512 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Todd Squires, Caltech

L38 Phase Transitions in Model Magnets
Room: LACC 513 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Markus Huecker, Brookhaven National Lab

L39 Focus Session: Intrinsic Inhomogeneity in Multiferroic Materials
Room: LACC 514 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Neil D. Mathur, University of Cambridge

L40 Dillon Medal Symposium
Room: LACC 408A Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Russel Composto, Univ. of Penn

L41 Correlated Electrons: Hall Effect and Kondo Physics
Room: LACC 150A Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Michael Pustilink, Georgia Tech

L42 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanoparticles, Nanostructures & Heterostructures V
Room: LACC 150B Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jian Shen, Oak Ridge National Lab

L43 Focus Session: Phase Complexity and Enhanced Functionality in Magnetic Oxides I
Room: LACC 150C Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: David Mandrus, University of Tennessee

L44 Panel Discussion with APS Journal Editors
Room: LACC 518 Sponsor: APS

Mar 22 2005 5:30PM, Tuesday

M4 Keithley Award
Room: LACC 515A Sponsor: GIMS Chair: David Seiler, NIST

M5a GSNP Business Meeting
Room: LACC 502B Sponsor: GSNP

M6 Multi-Scale Aspects and Dynamical Networks in Integrated Physiologic Systems
Room: LACC 502A Sponsor: DBP Chair: Plamen Ivanov, Boston University

M7 Kinked States of DNA: From Physical Measurement to Functional Significance
Room: LACC 408B Sponsor: DBP Chair: Philip Nelson, University of Pennsylvania

M10 GMAG Business Meeting
Room: LACC 153B Sponsor: GMAG

M15 FIAP Business Meeting
Room: LACC 405 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan

M34 DCP Business Meeting
Room: LACC 511A Sponsor: DCP

M40 DPOLY Business Meeting
Room: LACC 408A Sponsor: DPOLY

Mar 22 2005 6:00PM, Tuesday

M21 DBP Business Meeting
Room: LACC 409A Sponsor: DBP

Mar 22 2005 6:10PM, Tuesday

M44 GIMS Business Meeting
Room: LACC 518 Sponsor: GIMS

Mar 22 2005 6:30PM, Tuesday

M45 DCMP Business Meeting
Room: Westin Hotel Los Cerritos Sponsor: DCMP

M46 DMP Business Meeting
Room: Westin Hotel La Brea Sponsor: DMP

Mar 22 2005 7:30PM, Tuesday

M5b Tetrahedratic (Octupolar) Order in Complex Materials
Room: LACC 502B Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Harald Pleiner, MPI Polymer Research

Mar 23 2005 8:00AM, Wednesday

N1 Superconducting Qubits
Room: LACC 152 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Martinis, UCSB

N2 Spin and Charge in Mott Systems
Room: LACC 151 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dennis Newns, IBM
Invited Speakers:  J.W. Allen  

N3 Electronic and Spin Effects in Low-Dimensional and Nanoscale Systems
Room: LACC 515B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mei-Yin Chou, Georgia Institute of Technology

N4 Polymer Entanglement and Elasticity
Room: LACC 515A Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: William Graessley, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Ralf Everaers  

N5 Applications of THz Radiation
Room: LACC 502B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Alan Todd, Advanced Energy Systems and Gwyn P. Williams, Jefferson Lab
Invited Speakers:  G. Lawrence Carr  

N6 Recent Work on Strongly-coupled Fermi Gases II
Room: LACC 502A Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Allan Griffin, University of Toronto

N7 Einstein and Friends II
Room: LACC 408B Sponsor: FHP Chair: Alex Maradudin, UCLA-Irvine
Invited Speakers:  Diana Buchwald  

N9 Geometrically Frustrated Magnets I
Room: LACC 153A Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Jason Garner, NIST

N10 Focus Session: Spin Transport and Dynamics in Quantum Dots
Room: LACC 153B Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Michael Flatte, University of Iowa

N12 Vortices in Superconductors IV
Room: LACC 402A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: V.Z. Kresin, LBL, University of California

N13 Devices and Applications I
Room: LACC 402B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Alan Todd, Advanced Energy Systems

N14 Focus Session: Multifunctional Oxides II
Room: LACC 403B Sponsor: FIAP DMP Chair: Jean Fompeyrine, Jane Chang, IBM

N15 Focus Session: Theory of Nanostructures and Nanowires
Room: LACC 405 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Andrew Williamson, LLNL

N16 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Subwavelength Apertures and Nanoparticle Arrays
Room: LACC 404A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Bennett Goldberg, Boston University

N17 Research on the Learning and Teaching of Physics
Room: 2005 3 23 8:00 404 B Sponsor: FEd Chair: Gary White, American Institute of Physics

N18 Focus Session: Wide Band Gap Semiconductors III
Room: LACC 406A Sponsor: DMP Chair: William Schaff, Cornell University

N19 Transport and Microwave Conductivity
Room: LACC 406B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Niti Goel, University of Notre Dame

N20 Focus Session: Ferroelectrics
Room: LACC 407 Sponsor: FIAP DMP Chair: Nicola Spaldin, UC-Santa Barbara

N21 Focus Session: Single Molecule Nanobiology
Room: LACC 409A Sponsor: DBP Chair: Saw-Wai Hla, Ohio University

N22 High Magnetic Fields/Electronic and Photonic Devices
Room: LACC 409B Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Eric Palm, National High Magnetic Field Lab

N23 Focus Session: Methods of Statistical Physics in Population Dynamics and Epidemiology
Room: LACC 410 Sponsor: GSNP DBP Chair: Len Sander, University of Michigan

N24 Focus Session: Friction, Fracture, and Deformation IV
Room: LACC 411 Sponsor: GSNP DMP Chair: Udo Schwarz, Yale University

N25 Focus Session: Novel and Complex Oxides: Cobaltites and Manganites
Room: LACC 501A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Rongying Jin, ORNL

N26 Computational Nanoscience III
Room: LACC 501B Sponsor: DCOMP DMP DAMOP Chair: Brahim Akdim, AFRL

N27 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Functionalization I
Room: LACC 501C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Lars Ericson, NRL

N28 Focus Session: Mechanical Properties of Metals
Room: LACC 506 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Mo Li, Georgia Institute of Technology

N29 Block Copolymers II
Room: LACC 504 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Thomas Epps, NIST

N30 Polymer - Inorganic Composites II
Room: LACC 505 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Joao Cabral, Imperial College

N32 Focus Session: Superconductivity: Theory and Computations
Room: LACC 507 Sponsor: DCOMP DCMP Chair: Richard Scalettar, University of California-Davis

N33 Quantum Fluid and Solids III
Room: LACC 511C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Chris Gould, University of Southern California

N34 Dynamics in Condensed Phase II
Room: LACC 511A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Everett Lipman, University of California-Santa Barbara

N35 Nanophotonic Materials, Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy III
Room: LACC 511B Sponsor: DCP Chair: Joe Perry, Georgia Institute of Technology

N36 Focus Session: Granular Liquids and Gases II
Room: LACC 510 Sponsor: GSNP DFD DCMP Chair: Arshad Kudrolli, Clark University

N37 Focus Session: Microfluidic Physics II: Electrokinetics
Room: LACC 512 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Armand Ajdari, PCT-ESPCI-CNRS

N38 Phase Transitions in Itinerant Magnets
Room: LACC 513 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sevnghun Lee, NIST

N39 Structural Phase Transitions
Room: LACC 514 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: T. Egami, University of Tennessee

N40 Focus Session: Morphology and Evolution at Surfaces: Ion Beams and Instabilities
Room: LACC 408A Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Lars Samuelson, Lund University, Sweden

N41 Correlated Electrons: Magnetism in Cobaltates, Ruthenates and Skutterudites
Room: LACC 150A Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Joe Feldman, NRL

N42 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanoparticles, Nanostructures & Heterostructures VI
Room: LACC 150B Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Ralph Skomski, University of Nebraska
Invited Speakers:  J.W. Harrell  

N43 Focus Session: Phase Complexity and Enhanced Functionality in Magnetic Oxides II
Room: LACC 150C Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: N. D. Mathur, Cambridge University

Mar 23 2005 9:30AM, Wednesday

N44 Session on Refereeing
Room: LACC 518 Sponsor: APS

Mar 23 2005 11:15AM, Wednesday

P1 Buckley Prize, Bouchet Award, and Apker Award Talks
Room: LACC 152 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sidney Nagel, University of Chicago

P2 New Techniques for Biological Structure Determination
Room: LACC 151 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Janos Kirz, SUNY Stony Brook
Invited Speakers:  Carolyn Larabell,  Jianwei Miao  

P3 Physics and Sustainable Development
Room: LACC 515B Sponsor: APS FIP Chair: Judy Franz, APS

P4 Structure in Solutions and Melts
Room: LACC 515A Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Zhen-Gang Wang, California Institute of Technology

P5 Nitride-Based Microelectronics
Room: LACC 502B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Joanna Mirecki-Millunchick, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Robert Coffie  

P6 Spectroscopy of Novel Magnetic Materials
Room: LACC 502A Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: H. Dennis Drew, University of Maryland

P7 Oh the Places You'll Go, Career Paths in Physics
Room: LACC 408B Sponsor: FGSA Chair: Lindley Winslow, University of California-Berkeley

P10 Focus Session: Magnetic Semiconductors: Oxides
Room: LACC 153B Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Christoph Adelmann, University of Minnesota

P12 Superconducting Materials
Room: LACC 402A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Myron Salamon, University of Illinois

P13 Superconducting Thin Films and Transport
Room: LACC 402B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Paola Barbara, Georgetown University

P14 Focus Session: Hydrogen Storage I: Media
Room: LACC 403B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Frederick E. Pinkerton, GM Research and Development Center

P15 Focus Session: Relaxation and Phonons in Nanostructures
Room: LACC 405 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Fran Wise, Cornell University

P16 Focus Session: Optical Resonances and Techniques in Nano-Optics
Room: LACC 404A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Henri Lezec, CNRS & Caltech

P17 Focus Session: Materials and Device Physics for Quantum Computing II
Room: LACC 404B Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: John Worlock, University of Utah

P18 Surfaces and Point Defects in Semiconductor
Room: LACC 406A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dr. Tae-Sik Yoon, Dept. MSE, UCLA

P19 Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Nanostructures II
Room: LACC 406B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Giti Khodaparast, Virginia Tech

P20 Surface Localized States
Room: LACC 407 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Eric Fullerton, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies

P21 Nanotubes, Nanowire and Nanoparticles in Biology
Room: LACC 409A Sponsor: DBP Chair: Robert Austin, Princeton University

P23 Focus Session: Biological Hydrodynamics II
Room: LACC 410 Sponsor: DFD DBP GSNP Chair: Peter Lenz, University of Marburg

P24 Focus Session: Jamming: Rheology and Failure
Room: LACC 411 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Corey O'Hern, Yale University

P25 Focus Session: Novel and Complex Oxides: Multiferroic and Other
Room: LACC 501A Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Michelle Johannes, NRL

P26 Computational Nanoscience IV
Room: LACC 501B Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: R. Klemm, Kansas State University

P27 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Functionalization II
Room: LACC 501C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Keith Perkins, NRL

P29 Transport and Electronic Structure of Organic Electronic Materials
Room: LACC 504 Sponsor: DPOLY FIAP Chair: Arthur Epstein, Ohio State University

P30 Polymers - Inorganic Composites III
Room: LACC 505 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Mark Dadmun, University of Tennessee, Knoxsville

P31 Biopolymers: Molecules, Solutions and Networks I
Room: LACC 503 Sponsor: DPOLY DBP Chair: John Crocker, University of Pennsylvania

P32 Computational Methods Classical and Quantum Monte Carlo
Room: LACC 507 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Alice Kolakowska, Mississippi State University

P33 Quantum Mechanical Properties
Room: LACC 511C Sponsor: GQI Chair: Irfan Siddiqi, Yale University

P34 Dynamics in Condensed Phase III
Room: LACC 511A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Philip Geissler, University of California-Berkeley

P35 Molecular Electronics I
Room: LACC 511B Sponsor: DCP DMP FIAP Chair: Cherie Kagan, IBM, TJ Watson
Invited Speakers:  Paul S. Weiss  

P36 Focus Session: BCS-BEC Physics in Fermi Gases
Room: LACC 510 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Nicolai Nygaard, NIST

P37 Focus Session: Microfluidic Physics III: Surface Effects and Flows
Room: LACC 512 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Lyderic Bocquet, University Lyon I

P39 Fermi Liquid and Strong Correlations
Room: LACC 514 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Kun Yang, Florida State University

P40 Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures IV: Wires
Room: LACC 408A Sponsor: DMP DCP Chair: D. Natelson, Rice University

P42 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanoparticles, Nanostructures & Heterostructures VII
Room: LACC 150B Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Xiaofeng Jin, Fudan University, China

P43 Focus Session: Phase Complexity and Enhanced Functionality in Magnetic Oxides III
Room: LACC 150C Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Ichiro Takeuchi, University of Maryland

Mar 23 2005 1:00PM, Wednesday

R1 Poster Session III
Room: LACC Exhibit Hall 1:00-4:00pm

Mar 23 2005 2:30PM, Wednesday

S1 Pairing and Symmetry
Room: LACC 152 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Kirtley, IBM
Invited Speakers:  Ying Liu  

S2a Granular Impact-Cratering Dynamics and Morphology
Room: LACC 151 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Robert Behringer, Duke University

S3 Nanoscale Metal-Semiconductor Schottky Contacts
Room: LACC 515B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jonathan Pelz, Ohio State University

S4 Surface Structure of Compound Semiconductors
Room: LACC 515A Sponsor: FIAP

S5 Solitons in Physics: 50 Years Since Fermi, Pasta & Ulam
Room: LACC 502B Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Charlie Doering, University of Michigan

S6 Solid State Qubits, Resonators, and Quantum Optics
Room: LACC 502A Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University

S7 Gene Chips
Room: LACC 408B Sponsor: DBP Chair: Ned Wingreen, Princeton University

S9 Geometrically Frustrated Magnets II
Room: LACC 153A Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Oleg Tchernyshov, Johns Hopkins University

S10 Focus Session: Magnetic Semiconductor Heterostructures
Room: LACC 153B Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jing Shi, University of Utah

S12 Focus Session: Superconductivity: Theory and Computation II
Room: LACC 402A Sponsor: DCOMP DCMP Chair: Oleg Starykh, University of Utah

S13 uSR and NMR in Superconductors
Room: LACC 402B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Steve Anlage, University of Maryland

S14 Focus Session: Hydrogen Storage II: Measurements
Room: LACC 403B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Frederick Pinkerton, General Motors

S15 Focus Session: Transport in Ensemble of Nanocrystals
Room: LACC 405 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: V. Klimov, LANL

S16 Focus Session: Molecular Materials: Electronic Transport and Growth
Room: LACC 404A Sponsor: DMP DCP Chair: Douglas Natelson, Rice University

S17 Issues in Physics Education
Room: LACC 404B Sponsor: FEd DCOMP Chair: Karen Cummings, Southern CT State Univ

S18 Focus Session: Wide Band Gap Semiconductors IV
Room: LACC 406A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jennifer Zinck, HRL

S19 Bulk Semiconductors: Electronic and Optical Properties
Room: LACC 406B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Stefan Zollner, Freescale Semiconductor

S20 Focus Session: Ferroelectric Thin Films
Room: LACC 407 Sponsor: FIAP DMP Chair: Fred Walker, ORNL

S21 Cellular Biomechanics
Room: LACC 409A Sponsor: DBP Chair: Alexander Neiman, Ohio University

S22 Biological Physics
Room: LACC 409B Sponsor: DBP Chair: Sonya Bahar, University of Missouri-St. Louis

S23 Quantum Chaos
Room: LACC 410 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Nicholas Cerruti, Washington State University

S24 Focus Session: Jamming: Effective temperature and Aging
Room: LACC 411 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Daniel Blair, Harvard University

S25 Strongly Correlated Oxides, Superlattices and Synthesis
Room: LACC 501A Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Zenji Hiroi, University of Tokyo

S26 Nanowires I: Theory and Modeling
Room: LACC 501B Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Daniel Stein, University of Arizona

S27 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Theory
Room: LACC 501C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Mark Pederson, NRL

S28 Excitations, Scattering and Surfaces of Metals
Room: LACC 506 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Randy Fishman, ORNL

S30 Polymer Blends
Room: LACC 505 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Alamgir Karim, NIST

S31 Organic Electronics Materials Characterization
Room: LACC 503 Sponsor: DPOLY FIAP Chair: Graciela Blanchet, DuPont

S32 Electronic Structure
Room: LACC 507 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Estela Blaisten-Barojas, GMU

S33 Focus Session: Pathway to Practical Quantum Computing
Room: LACC 511C Sponsor: GQI DAMOP DCOMP Chair: Daniel Greenberger, City College of New York

S35 Molecular Electronics II
Room: LACC 511B Sponsor: DCP FIAP DMP Chair: Edwin Chandross, Bell Labs

S36 Trapped Atoms in Optical Lattices
Room: LACC 510 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: James Williams, NIST-Gaithersburg

S37 Colloids III
Room: LACC 512 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Noel Clark, University of Colorado

S39 Quantum Phase Transitions in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems
Room: Los Angeles Convention Center 514 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Victor Galitski, UCSB

S40 Focus Session: Morphology and Evolution at Surfaces: Wires and Self-Assembly
Room: LACC 408A Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Pantelis Kelires, University of Crete
Invited Speakers:  Gary Kellogg  

S41 Correlated Electrons: Exotic Magnetism
Room: LACC 150A Sponsor: GMAG Chair: S.D. Mahanti, Michigan State Univ.

S42 Artificially Structured or Self-Assembled Magnetic Materials - II
Room: LACC 150B Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Satish Ogale, University of Maryland

S43 Focus Session: Phase Complexity and Enhanced Functionality in Magnetic Oxides IV
Room: LACC 150C Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Sang-Wook Cheong, Rutgers University

S44 Magnetic and Force Microscopy
Room: LACC 518 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Mark Hersam, Northwestern University

Mar 23 2005 4:18PM, Wednesday

S2b Supersolidity and Bose-Einstein Condensation in Solid Helium
Room: LACC 151 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Moses Chan, Penn State University

Mar 23 2005 5:30PM, Wednesday

T32 DCOMP Business Meeting
Room: Westin Hotel Palos Verdes Sponsor: DCOMP

Mar 23 2005 7:30PM, Wednesday

T1 Einstein and Condensed Matter Physics
Room: Westin Hotel San Francisco Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Marvin L. Cohen, University of California-Berkeley

Mar 24 2005 8:00AM, Thursday

U1 High Tc Transport
Room: LACC 152 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Marcel Franz, UBC

U2 Jamming and Geometric Constraints
Room: LACC 151 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Leonardo Silbert, University of Chicago

U3 Unconventional Electronic and Optical Uses of Negative Refractive and Negative Index Materials
Room: LACC 515B Sponsor: DCMP DAMOP Chair: Costas Soukoulis, Iowa State University

U4 Polymer Microstructures
Room: LACC 515A Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Karen Winey, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Ben Chu  

U5 Spin Control in Ferromagnetic Semiconductor Structures
Room: LACC 502B Sponsor: GMAG DCMP Chair: Peter Schiffer, Penn State University
Invited Speakers:  L. J. Sham  

U6 Physics of Slip Phenomena at Liquid/Solid Interfaces
Room: LACC 502A Sponsor: DFD Chair: Sandra Troian, Princeton University

U7 Nucleic Acid Translocation Through Nanopores
Room: LACC 408B Sponsor: DBP Chair: David Lubensky, Vrije University

U9 Glassy and Random Magnets
Room: LACC 153A Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Bulbul Chakroborty, Brandeis University

U10 Focus Session: Spin Hall Effect
Room: LACC 153B Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Igor Zutic, Naval Research Lab
Invited Speakers:  Qian Niu  

U12 Point Contact Tunnelling and Proximity Effect
Room: LACC 402A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Milind Kunchur, University of South Carolina

U13 Devices & Applications II
Room: LACC 402B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Ajul Koukar, University of Southern California

U14 Hydrogen Storage III: Modeling
Room: LACC 403B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Frederick E. Pinderton, General Motors

U15 Focus Session: Synthesis and Doping of Nanostructures
Room: LACC 405 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Tom Kennedy, NRL

U16 Photonic Crystals II
Room: LACC 404A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: J. Albrecht, WP-AFB AFRL/SNDD

U17 Optical Response and Spin-Orbit Coupling in Quantum Dots
Room: LACC 404B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Tigran Shahbazyan, Jackson State University

U18 Focus Session: Wide Band Gap Semiconductors V
Room: LACC 406A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Andrei Sirenko, NJIT

U19 Fractional QHE/Composite Fermions
Room: LACC 406B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Kun Yang, Florida State University

U20 High-K Dielectrics
Room: LACC 407 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Rodney McKee, ORNL

U21 Biomedical Physics
Room: LACC 409A Sponsor: DBP Chair: Herbert Levine, University of California, San Diego

U22 Transport and Kinetics in Biological Systems
Room: LACC 409B Sponsor: DBP GSNP Chair: Uwe Tauber, Virginia Tech

U23 Statistical Physics and Disordered Nonlinear Systems
Room: LACC 410 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: William Klein, Boston U

U25 Nanowires II: Metals and Oxides
Room: LACC 501A Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Michael Mehl, Naval Research Lab

U26 Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Materials: Theory and Experiment
Room: LACC 501B Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: David Drabold, Ohio University

U27 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Growth
Room: LACC 501C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Vera Sazanova, Cornell University

U29 Organic Light Emitting Diodes
Room: LACC 504 Sponsor: DPOLY FIAP Chair: Eric Lin, NIST

U30 Polymer Thin Films: General
Room: LACC 505 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Azar Alizadeh, GE

U31 Polymers and Filaments for the Cytoskeleton
Room: LACC 503 Sponsor: DPOLY DBP Chair: David Morse, U Minnesota

U32 Density Functional Theory
Room: LACC 507 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Dimitrios Papaconstantopoulos, NRL

U33 Cold Fusion
Room: LACC 511C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Scott Chubb, Naval Research Lab

U36 Quantum Optics, Quantum Control, and Ultrafast Processes
Room: LACC 510 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Bernado Mendoza, CIO, Mexico

U39 Non-Fermi Liquids and Spin Liquids
Room: LACC 514 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Alexander Balatsky, LANL

U40 Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures V: Molecules
Room: LACC 408A Sponsor: DMP DCP Chair: J. v. Ruitenbeek, Universiteit Leiden

U41 Correlated Electrons: Superconductivity and Magnetism
Room: LACC 150A Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Norman Birge, Michigan State Univ.

U42 Magnetism
Room: LACC 150B Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Jack Bass, Michigan State University

U43 Focus Session: Phase Complexity and Enhanced Functionality in Magnetic Oxides V
Room: LACC 150C Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Andrei Sushkov, University of Maryland

U44 Focus Session: Interfaces, Characterization, and Fabrication
Room: LACC 518 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Karen Waldrip, Sandia National Labs

Mar 24 2005 11:15AM, Thursday

V1 Collective Modes, Phonons in Cuprates
Room: LACC 152 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Z-X Shen, Stanford University

V2a Frustrated Quantum Magnetism
Room: LACC 151 Sponsor: DCMP GMAG Chair: Arthur Ramirez, Lucent Tech, Bell Labs

V3 Spectroscopy of Carbon Nanotubes
Room: LACC 515B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Tobias Hertel, Vanderbilt University

V4 Albert Einstein and Social Responsibility
Room: LACC 515A Sponsor: FPS Chair: Barbara Levi Consulting Editor, Physics

V5 Invited Symposium: Transport in Single Molecules
Room: LACC 502B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Mark Hybertsen, Columbia University

V6 Jamming in Granular Media, Colloidal Suspensions and Glasses
Room: LACC 502A Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Eric Weeks, Emory University
Invited Speakers:  Peter Sollich  

V7 Randomness and Chaos in Quantum Information Processing
Room: LACC 408B Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: C. Stephen Hellberg, NRL

V9 Magnetic Anisotropy
Room: LACC 153A Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Kai Liu, University of California-Davis

V10 Focus Session: Spin Injection into Semiconductors
Room: LACC 153B Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Chris Palmstrom, University of Minnesota

V12 Superconducting Ruthenides and Borides
Room: LACC 402A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: James Knight, University of South Carolina

V13 Infrared and Optical Spectroscopy of Superconductors
Room: LACC 402B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Larry Carr, NSLS

V14 Focus Session: Electronic and Atomic Structure of Interfaces and Gate Stacks I
Room: LACC 403B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Alex Demkov, University of Texas-Austin

V15 Focus Session: Plasmonics, Biological, Solar Cell QDs
Room: LACC 405 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: H. Atwater, Caltech

V16 Optical Properties of Quantum Well Structures
Room: LACC 404A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Krzysztof Kempa, Boston College

V17 Spin Control and Measurement for Quantum Computation
Room: LACC 404B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ilya Ponomarev, Naval Research Laboratory

V19 Correlated Phases in 2-D Systems and Shot Noise
Room: LACC 406B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Alan Dorsey, Univ. of Florida

V20 Surface Kinetics and Dynamics
Room: LACC 407 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Guang-Hong Lu, University of Utah

V21 Localized Dynamical States
Room: LACC 409A Sponsor: DBP Chair: Bernard Gerstman, Florida International University

V22 Biological Computation
Room: LACC 409B Sponsor: DBP Chair: Peter Jung, Ohio University

V24 Focus Session: Non-equilibrium Dynamics of Adsorption Diffusion and Reaction
Room: LACC 411 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Bob Ziff, University of Michigan

V25 Nanowires III: Silicon Based Nanowires
Room: LACC 501A Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Peter Ecklund, Penn State University

V26 Light Emission and Luminescence from Silicon and Theory and Simulations
Room: LACC 501B Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Philip Collins, University of California-Irvine

V27 Theory of Nanotubes & Carbon Based Nanostructures
Room: LACC 501C Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Vincent Meunier, Oak Ridge National Lab

V28 Actinides, ...
Room: LACC 506 Chair: Robert Albers, LANL

V29 Polymer Theory and Simulation I: General
Room: LACC 504 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Cameron Abrams, Drexel University

V30 Flow of Immiscible Polymer Blends
Room: LACC 505 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Gary Leal, University of California-Santa Barbara

V31 Bioploymers: Molecules, Solutions and Networks II
Room: LACC 503 Sponsor: DPOLY DBP Chair: Jay Tang, Brown University

V32 Focus Session: Superconductivity: Theory and Computation III
Room: LACC 507 Sponsor: DCOMP DCMP Chair: A. Bansil, Northeastern University

V33 Quantum Computing
Room: LACC 511C Sponsor: GQI Chair: Jonathan Dowling, Louisiana State University

V34 Condensed Phase Dynamics, Structure and Thermodynamics
Room: LACC 511A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Bruce Garrett, PNNL

V35 Molecular Electronics III
Room: LACC 511 B Sponsor: DCP DMP FIAP Chair: Duncan Stewart, Hewlett Packard

V37 Focus Session: Microfluidic Physics IV: Particles, Drops, and Mixing
Room: LACC 512 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Darren Link, Rain Dance Technologies

V38 Magnets That Can Superconduct
Room: LACC 513 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Qimiao Si, Rice University

V39 Metamaterials for Negative Refraction and Related Phenomena
Room: LACC 514 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David R. Smith

V40 Focus Session: Morphology and Evolution at Surfaces: Phase-field and Ge/Si
Room: LACC 408A Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Jacques Amar, University of Toledo

V42 Magnetization Dynamics
Room: LACC 150B Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Manfred Fiebig, Max Born Institute

V43 Low Dimensional Magnetism: Clusters & Molecules
Room: LACC 150C Sponsor: GMAG Chair: V. Kiryukhin, Rutgers University

V44 MEMS/NEMS: Applications and Resonators
Room: LACC 518 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Danhong Huang, Air Force Research Lab

Mar 24 2005 1:03PM, Thursday

V2b Dynamical Heterogeneities and Quantum Glassiness in Electronic Systems
Room: LACC 151 Sponsor: DCMP GMAG Chair: Clare Yu, University of California-Irvine

Mar 24 2005 2:30PM, Thursday

W1 Neutron Scattering in High Tc Cuprates
Room: LACC 152 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Eugene Demler, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Tom Timusk  

W2a Novel Ordering in Smectics and Other Layered Systems
Room: LACC 151 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jonathan Selinger, Naval Research Lab

W3 Quantum Spin Dynamics in Single-Molecule Magnets
Room: LACC 515B Sponsor: DCMP GMAG Chair: Stephen Hill, University of Florida

W4 Industrial Challenges to Polymer Physics
Room: LACC 515A Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Edward Kramer, University of California-Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  David Lohse  

W5 Functional Ceramics: the Nano/Microstructure-Property Relationship in Electronic, Optical, Biological and Structural Materials
Room: LACC 502B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Robert Marzke, Arizona State University
Invited Speakers:  Jean Toulouse  

W6 Quantum Information Meets Density Matrix Renormalization
Room: LACC 502A Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Steve White, UCI
Invited Speakers:  Ulrich Schollwoeck  

W7 Advances in the Biological Physics of Morphogenesis
Room: LACC 408B Sponsor: DBP Chair: Timothy Newman, Arizona State University

W10 Focus Session: Spin Transport and Spin Hall Effect
Room: LACC 153B Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Allan MacDonald, University of Texas

W13 Thermodynamic Properties of Superconductors
Room: LACC 402B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Donald Naugle, Texas A&M University

W14 Focus Session: Electronic and Atomic Structures of Interfaces and Gate Stacks II
Room: LACC 403B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Gerd Duscher, NCSU

W15 Focus Session: Optical properties of QDs
Room: LACC 405 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: P. Guyot Sionnest, University of Chicago

W16 Non-Equilibrium, Tunneling and Many-Body Properties of Quantum Dots
Room: LACC 404A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Giovanni Vignale, University of Missouri

W17 Nanostructures: Electrical, Optical and Structural Properties
Room: LACC 404B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Stefan Badescu, Naval Research Laboratory

W20 Surface Structural and Electronic Properties
Room: LACC 407 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Qiming Zhang, University of Texas-Arlington

W21 Techniques in Biophysics
Room: LACC 409A Sponsor: DBP Chair: Robert Riehn, Princeton University

W22 Focus Session: Microtubules and Molecular Motors
Room: LACC 409B Sponsor: DBP GSNP Chair: Beate Schmittmann, Virginia Tech

W24 Granular Flow I
Room: LACC 411 Sponsor: DFD GSNP DCMP Chair: Wolfgang Losert, University of Maryland

W25 Nanowires IV: Nitrides and Others
Room: LACC 501A Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Andrea Trave, LLNL

W26 First-Principles Simulation of Complex Materials
Room: LACC 501B Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Steven Erwin, NRL

W27 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Growth and Manipulation
Room: LACC 501C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Sami Rosenblatt, Cornell University

W29 Polymer Theory and Simulation II: Interfaces and Confinement
Room: LACC 504 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: John McCoy, NMT

W30 Organic Thin Films
Room: LACC 505 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Yueh Lin Loo, University of Texas

W31 Focus Session: Interaction of Polymers with Biological Systems
Room: LACC 503 Sponsor: FIAP DPOLY Chair: Roland Faller, University of California-Davis
Invited Speakers:  Ka Yee C. Lee  

W32 Focus Session: High Tc Cuprates: Theory and Computation
Room: LACC 507 Sponsor: DCOMP DCMP Chair: Alexander Balatsky, LANL

W33 Josephson Junctions and SQUIDS II
Room: LACC 511C Sponsor: GQI Chair: Dietrich Leibfried, NIST

W34 Theory and Modeling
Room: LACC 511A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Mark Ratner, Northwestern University

W35 Molecular Electronics IV
Room: LACC 511B Sponsor: DCP DMP FIAP Chair: Douglas Natelson, Rice University

W37 Nanocolloids and General Fluids
Room: LACC 512 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Eric Dufresne, Yale University

W38 Critical and Inhomogeneous Fermionic Systems
Room: LACC 513 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: A. Vishwanath, MIT

W40 Focus Session: Morphology and Evolution at Surfaces: Instabilities and Patterned Substrates
Room: LACC 408A Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Gary Kellogg, Sandia National Labs

W42 Mostly Half-Metals
Room: LACC 150B Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Ching Fong, University of California-Davis

W43 Low Dimensional Magnetism: Surfaces and Molecules
Room: LACC 150C Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Ale Lukaszew, University of Toledo

W44 Microscopy: Near-field, X-ray, Optical, and Probe
Room: LACC 518 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Joseph Stroscio, NIST

Mar 24 2005 4:18PM, Thursday

W2b Nanoscale Liquids
Room: LACC 151 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Oleg Gang, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Colin Denniston  

Mar 24 2005 5:30PM, Thursday

WW7 The Physics and Bioengineering of Artificial Sight
Room: LACC 408B Sponsor: DBP Chair: Robert Greenberg, Second Light LLC
Invited Speakers:  Frank Werblin  

Mar 25 2005 8:00AM, Friday

X1 Cobaltates
Room: LACC 152 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jeffrey Lynn, Tech-NIST

X2 Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov Superconductivity in Heavy Fermion Compounds
Room: LACC 151 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Stanley Tozer, NHMFL

X3 Single Spin Detection
Room: LACC 515B Sponsor: DCMP GMAG Chair: Daniel Ralph, Cornell University

X4 Extreme Materials Science: the X-Games of Condensed Matter Physics
Room: LACC 515A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Bruce Remington, LLNL

X6 Frontiers in Computational Materials
Room: LACC 502A Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Mei-Yin Chou, Georgia Tech

X7 Complex Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Cardiac Tissue
Room: LACC 408B Sponsor: DBP Chair: Leon Glass, McGill University

X10 Focus Session: Spin Transport/Novel Magnetic Semiconductors
Room: LACC 153B Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Paul Crowell, University of Minnesota

X12 HTSC: Neutron Scattering and Magnetism
Room: LACC 402A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Al Ehrlich, Naval Research Laboratory

X14 Nanomechanical Physics and Devices
Room: LACC 403B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Rajiv Kalia, University of Southern California

X15 Thermoelectrics
Room: LACC 405 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Paul von Allmen, NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory

X16 Superconductors for Quantum Computing: Experimental Techniques and Fabrication
Room: LACC 404A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Martinis, University of California-Santa Barbara

X17 Quasi-1D Transport and Quantum Dot Spectroscopy
Room: LACC 404B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jean Heremans, Ohio University

X20 Dielectric and Optical Phenomena
Room: LACC 407 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Eric Shirley, NIST

X21 Focus Session: MultiScale Analysis of Ions in Solutions, Proteins, and Channels: Analysis
Room: LACC 409A Sponsor: DBP Chair: Robert Eisenberg, Rush Medical Center

X24 Granular Flow II
Room: LACC 411 Sponsor: GSNP DCMP DFD Chair: Jeremay Lechman, Sandia National Laboratory

X25 Theory and Simulation of Carbon Nanotubes
Room: LACC 501A Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Jeffrey C. Grossman, LLNL

X26 Simulations & Theory of Complex Materials
Room: LACC 501B Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Mike Norman, Argonne National Lab

X27 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Mechanical Properties
Room: LACC 501C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Zhihong Chen, IBM Research Center
Invited Speakers:  Vera Sazonova  

X28 Electronic Theory of Metals
Room: LACC 506 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Don Nicholson, ORNL

X29 Wetting & Dewetting-Stability of Polymer Thin Films
Room: LACC 504 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: John Dutcher, University of Guelph

X30 Polymer Crystallization
Room: LACC 505 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Ben Hsiao, Stonybrook

X31 Organic-based Magnetism and Spintronics
Room: LACC 503 Sponsor: DPOLY FIAP Chair: Arthur Epstein, Ohio State University

X32 Theoretical and Multiscale Modeling Methods
Room: LACC 507 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Daryl Hess, NSF

X34 Surfaces and Interfaces I
Room: LACC 511 A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Bruce Garrett, PNNL

X35 Energy Landscapes of Gases, Clusters, Materials and Biomolecules
Room: LACC Room 511B Sponsor: DCP Chair: B. J. Hinch, Rutgers

X40 Focus Session: Morphology and Evolution at Surfaces: Defects and Transport
Room: LACC 408A Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Katsuyo Thornton, University of Michigan

X42 Magnetic Oxides
Room: LACC 150B Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Sashi Satpathy, University of Missouri-Columbia

X43 Low Dimensional Magnetism: Wires, Chains, and 1-D
Room: LACC 150C Sponsor: GMAG Chair: J. P. Hill, Brookhaven

Mar 25 2005 11:15AM, Friday

Y1 Charge Order in Cuprates
Room: LACC 152 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Peter Hirschfeld, University of Florida

Y2 Kondo Physics and Spin Control in Nanostructure Optics and Transport
Room: LACC 151 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mikhail Raikh, University of Utah

Y3 Quantum Spin Liquids
Room: LACC 515B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Douglas Scalapino, University of California-Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Igor Zaliznyak  

Y4 Polymer Dynamics and Rheology
Room: LACC 515 A Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Kalman Migler, NIST
Invited Speakers:  George Fytas  

Y5 Parallel and High-Throughput Experimentation for the Physical Sciences: Methods, Applications and Technology Development
Room: LACC 502B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Eric Amis, NIST

Y13 Photoemission Studies of Superconductors
Room: LACC 402B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Daniel Dessau, University of Colorado

Y14 Focus Session: Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Processing
Room: LACC 403 B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Shubhra Gangopadhyay, U of Missouri

Y15 Biosensors and Hybrid Biodevices
Room: LACC 405 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Pritraj Mohanty, Boston University

Y16 Superconducting Single and Coupled Qubits
Room: LACC 404A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Guido Burkard, University of Basel

Y17 Spin Dynamics in Semiconducting Materials and Quantum Dots
Room: LACC 404B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Janica Whitaker, Naval Research Lab

Y21 Focus Session: Multiscale Analysis in Biology: Computation
Room: LACC 409A Sponsor: DBP Chair: Robert Eisenberg, Rush Medical Center

Y25 Fullerenes and Nanographite
Room: LACC 501A Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Tunna Baruah, Howard University

Y27 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Spectroscopies
Room: LACC 501 C Sponsor: DMP Chair: David Luzzi, University of Pennsylvania

Y30 Solid Amorphous Polymers
Room: LACC 505 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Greg McKenna, Texas Tech

Y31 Polymer Melts and Solutions
Room: LACC 503 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Howard Wang, Michigan Tech University

Y34 Surfaces and Interfaces II
Room: LACC 511A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Andrew Rappe, University of Pennsylvania

Y35 Materials
Room: LACC 511B Sponsor: DCP Chair: Mark Ratner, Northwestern University

Y42 Magnetotransport
Room: LACC 150B Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Adnan Rebei, Seagate Technology

Y43 New Techniques and Applications
Room: LACC 150C Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Sam Lofland, Rowan University

Mar 20 2005 9:00AM, Sunday

CCP2005 Special Plenary Session of the Division of Computational Physics CCP2005 I
Room: Westin Hotel San Francisco Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Lee Collins/LANL

Mar 20 2005 5:00PM, Sunday

CCP2005A Special Plenary Session of the Division of Computational Physics and CCP2005 II
Room: Westin Hotel, San Francisco Reception, Sacramento Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Barry Schneider

Mar 21 2005 8:00AM, Monday

A1 Nuclear Spin Dynamics in Semiconductor Nanostructures
Room: LACC 152 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Seigo Tarucha, University of Tokyo

A2 Quantum Criticality of Strongly Correlated Metals
Room: LACC 151 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Brian Maple, University of California-San Diego

A3a STM Manipulation of Single Atoms, Charges, and Spins
Room: LACC 515B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Robert Celotta, NIST
Invited Speakers:  Amir Yacoby  

A4 Chemical and Biological Sensing with Microcantilevers
Room: LACC 515A Sponsor: GIMS Chair: A.T. Macrander, Argonne National Lab.

A5 Physics of Emerging Organic Displays - OLEDs and PLEDs
Room: LACC 502B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Geoffrey Nunes, Dupont

A6 Correlated Electrons
Room: LACC 502A Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Barry Schneider, NSF

A7 From Egg to Adult: Patterning and Morphogenesis in Animal Development
Room: LACC 408B Sponsor: DBP Chair: Boris Shraiman, UCSB

A9 Magnetic Domains and Dynamics
Room: LACC 153A Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Mark Stiles, NIST

A10 Focus Session: Spin Transport Devices
Room: LACC 153B Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Roland Kawakami, UC Riverside

A11 Earth and Planetary Materials I
Room: LACC 153C Sponsor: DMP DCMP GSCCM Chair: Taku Tsuchiya, University of Minnesota

A12 Vortices in Superconductors I
Room: LACC 402A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Victor Gurarie, University of Colorado

A13 Spectroscopic Properties of Superconductors
Room: LACC 402B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Tanner, University of Florida

A14 Focus Session: Molecular-Scale Electronics and Sensors I
Room: LACC 403B Sponsor: FIAP DCP Chair: Vince McKoy, Caltech

A15 Focus Session: THz Devices and Materials I
Room: LACC 405 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Mark Lee, Sandia National Labs

A16 Focus Session: Nano-optical Plasmonics
Room: LACC 404A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Gary Wiederrecht, Argonne National Labs

A17 Kondo Effect and Correlations in Quantum Dots
Room: LACC 404B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Luis G. Dias da Silva, Ohio University

A18 Focus Session: Semiconductor Characterization
Room: LACC 406A Sponsor: FIAP GIMS Chair: David Seiler, NIST

A19 Quantum Hall Effect
Room: LACC 406B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: HongWen Jiang, UCLA

A20 Multilayers, Thin Films, and Interfaces
Room: LACC 407 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Igor Roshchin, UCSD

A21 Focus Session: Dynamics of Transcription
Room: LACC 409A Sponsor: DBP Chair: Ken Dill, University of California-San Francisco

A23 Focus Session: Biological Hydrodynamics I
Room: LACC 410 Sponsor: DFD DBP GSNP Chair: Peter Lenz, Universitaet Marburg
Invited Speakers:  John O. Kessler  

A24 Focus Session: Structure, Dynamics and Resilience of Complex Networks
Room: LACC 411 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Alessandro Vespignani, Indiana University

A25 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience I
Room: LACC 501A Sponsor: DMP DCOMP DAMOP Chair: J.R. Manson, Clemson University

A26 Focus Session: Nanotubes and Nanowires: Carbon Nanotube Transistors
Room: LACC 501B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jie Liu, Duke University

A27 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Optical Properties I
Room: LACC 501C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Marcus Freitag, IBM

A28 Polymer Surfaces I
Room: LACC 506 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Chang Yeol Ryu, Rensselaer Polytechnic

A29 Charged and Ion-Containing Polymers I
Room: LACC 504 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Andrey Dobrynin, University of Connecticut

A30 Block Copolymers I
Room: LACC 505 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Eric Cochran, UCSB

A31 Molecular Motion in Miscible Blends
Room: LACC 503 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Sanat Kumar, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

A32 Focus Session: Novel Computational Algorithms: From Materials to the Universe I
Room: LACC 507 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Mark Novotny, Mississippi State

A34 Environmental Interfaces I
Room: LACC 511A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Franz Geiger, Northwestern University

A35 Energy Landscapes in Clusters, Materials, and Biology I
Room: LACC 511B Sponsor: DCP Chair: M. Gruebele, University of Illinois

A36 Focus Session: Novel States of Matter in Atomic Gases
Room: LACC 510 Sponsor: DAMOP DCMP Chair: Erich Mueller, Cornell University

A37 Liquid Crystals I
Room: LACC 512 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Antal Jakli, Kent State University

A38 Metal-Insulator Phase Transitions - Theory I
Room: LACC 513 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Wei Ku, Brookhaven National Lab

A39 SPS: Undergraduate Research I
Room: LACC 514 Chair: Jack Hehn, American Institute of Physics
Invited Speakers:  Matthew Shanks  

A40 Focus Session: Morphology and Evolution at Surfaces: Structure and Organics
Room: LACC 408A Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Fulvio Ratto, Universite' de Que'bec

A42 Artificially Structured or Self-Assembled Magnetic Materials - I
Room: LACC 150B Sponsor: GMAG Chair: William Pratt, Michigan State University

A43 Focus Session: Spin Transfer Effect I
Room: LACC 150C Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Robert Buhrman, Cornell University

Mar 21 2005 9:48AM, Monday

A3b Superconductivity in Diamond
Room: LACC 515B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Joe Thompson, LANL

Mar 21 2005 11:15AM, Monday

B1 Spin Hall Effect
Room: LACC 152 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Naota Nagaosa, University of Tokyo
Invited Speakers:  Joerg Wunderlich  

B2 Novel Metal-like States in Two-Dimensions
Room: LACC 151 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sankar Das Sarma, Univ. of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Sergey Vitkalov  

B3 DCMP/DMP Joint Prize Session
Room: LACC 515B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Samuel Bader, Argonne National Lab and Sidney Nagel, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Yuri Suzuki  

B4 Glassy Polymers
Room: LACC 515A Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Alexei Sokolov, University of Akron

B5 Einstein and Friends I
Room: LACC 502B Sponsor: FHP Chair: Virginia Trimble, University of California-Irvine

B6 Theoretical and Computational Studies of Water
Room: LACC 502A Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Giulia Galli/LLNL

B7 Women at the Forefront of Biological Physics
Room: LACC 408B Sponsor: DBP CSWP Chair: Aihua Xie, Oklahoma State University

B9 Magentic Recording/Exchange Bias/Magnetic Properties
Room: LACC 153A Sponsor: GMAG Chair: William Egelhoff, NIST

B10 Focus Session: III-V Magnetic Semiconductors
Room: LACC 153B Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Nitin Samarth, Pennsylvania State University

B11 High Pressure I
Room: LACC 153C Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Matteo Cococcione, MIT

B12 Vortices in Superconductors II
Room: LACC 402A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Laura Greene, UIUC

B13 Josephson Junctions and SQUIDs I
Room: LACC 402B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Malcolm Beasley, Stanford University

B14 Focus Session: Molecular-Scale Electronics and Sensors II
Room: LACC 403B Sponsor: FIAP DCP Chair: Carter White, Naval Research Lab

B15 Focus Session: Inorganic Glasses
Room: LACC 405 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: John Kieffer, University of Michigan

B16 Optics of Metallic Nanoshells and Nanoparticles
Room: LACC 404A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Harry Attwater, Caltech

B17 Focus Session: Materials and Device Physics for Quantum Computing I
Room: LACC 404B Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Henry Everitt, Army Research Office

B18 Quantum Dots, Wires, and QH Edge States
Room: LACC 406A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Woowon Kang, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Rafi de Picciotto  

B20 Phase Transitions and Excitations at Surfaces
Room: LACC 407 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Roland Stumpf, Sandia Natl Lab Livermore

B21 Protein Metastability
Room: LACC 409A Sponsor: DBP Chair: Denis Rousseau, Albert Einstein Medical

B22 Focus Session: Fluctuations and Fluctuation Analysis in Biological Systems
Room: LACC 409B Sponsor: DBP Chair: Peter Hanggi, University Augsburg

B24 Focus Session: Friction, Fracture, and Deformation I
Room: LACC 411 Sponsor: GSNP DMP Chair: Martin Muser, Western Ontario

B25 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience II
Room: LACC 501A Sponsor: DMP DCOMP DAMOP Chair: Talat S. Rahman, Kansas State University

B26 Focus Session: Nanotubes and Nanowires: Synthesis and Properties of Nanowires
Room: LACC 501B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Grace Jia Lu, University of California-Irvine
Invited Speakers:  Zhong Lin Wang  

B27 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Optical Properties II
Room: LACC 501C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Vasili Perebeinos, IBM

B28 Polymer Surfaces II
Room: LACC 506 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Steve Hudson, NIST

B29 Charged and Ion-Containing Polymers II
Room: LACC 504 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: M. Muthukumar, Univ. of Massachusetts

B30 Organic Field Effect Transistors I
Room: LACC 505 Sponsor: DPOLY FIAP Chair: George Malliaras, Cornell University

B32 Focus Session: Superconductivity: Theory and Computation I
Room: LACC 507 Sponsor: DCOMP DCMP Chair: Jens Kortus, IPCMS

B33 Quantum Entanglement and Entropy
Room: LACC 511C Sponsor: GQI Chair: Gregor Weihs, University of Vienna

B34 Environmental Interfaces II
Room: LACC 511A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Vicki Grassian, University of Iowa

B35 Energy Landscapes in Clusters, Materials, and Biology II
Room: LACC 511B Sponsor: DCP Chair: D. Leitner, University of Nevada - Reno
Invited Speakers:  Meigan Aronson  

B36 Colloids I
Room: LACC 510 Sponsor: DFD Chair: David Grier, New York University

B37 Liquid Crystals II
Room: LACC 512 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Luz J. Martinez-Miranda, U of Maryland

B38 Metal-Insulator Transitions - Experiment I
Room: LACC 513 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Tranquada, Brookhaven NL

B39 Heavy Fermion Superconductivity
Room: LACC 514 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Sarrao, Los Alamos National Lab

B40 Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures I: Contacts
Room: LACC 408A Sponsor: DMP DCP Chair: A. Yu. Kasumov, Institute of Microelectronics

B41 Cooperative Phenomena: Magnetism
Room: LACC 150A Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Mark Van Schilfgaarde, Arizona State University

B42 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanoparticles, Nanostructures & Heterostructures I
Room: LACC 150B Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Axel Hoffmann, Argonne National Laboratory

B43 Focus Session: Spin Transfer Effect II
Room: LACC 150C Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Andrew Kent, New York University

B44 X-ray and Neutron Scattering
Room: LACC 518 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Bennett Larson, Oak Ridge National Lab

Mar 21 2005 2:00PM, Monday

C1 Poster Session I
Room: LACC Exhibit Hall 2:00-5:00pm

Mar 21 2005 2:30PM, Monday

D1 Crystalline Organic Semiconductors: Materials to Devices
Room: LACC 152 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mikhail Itkis, University of California, Riverside

D2 Spin, Charge and Orbital Excitations in Manganites
Room: LACC 151 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: H. Dennis Drew, University of Maryland

D3 Diversity Issues and Remedies
Room: LACC 515B Sponsor: CSWP COM Chair: Pat Mooney, IBM TJ Watson

D4 The New DOE Centers for Nanoscale Science
Room: LACC 515A Sponsor: GIMS DMP Chair: A.T. Macrander, Argonne National Lab
Invited Speakers:  Douglas Lowndes  

D5 The Grand Challenge of Hydrogen Storage
Room: LACC 502B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Sunita Satyapal, U.S. DOE and Frederick E. Pinkerton, GM R&D Center
Invited Speakers:  Jan Herbst  

D6 The Facts of Life: Data-Driven Approaches To Systems Biology
Room: LACC 502A Sponsor: DBP DCOMP Chair: Chris Wiggins, Columbia University

D7 Giant Spin-Lattice Coupling in Multiferroics
Room: LACC 408B Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Sang-Wook Cheong, Rutgers University

D9 Focus Session: Theory of Magnetic Semiconductors
Room: LACC 153A Sponsor: DCOMP DMP GMAG Chair: Andre Petukhov, SDSMT

D10 Focus Session: Spin Transport and Dynamics
Room: LACC 153B Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: David Awschalom, University of California-Santa Barbara

D11 Focus Session: Simulations of Matter at Extreme Conditions I
Room: LACC 153C Sponsor: DCOMP DMP GSCCM Chair: Carter White, Naval Research Lab

D12 Tunnelling in Superconductors
Room: LACC 402A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Richard Harris, NIST

D13 STS and Imaging of Superconductors
Room: LACC 402B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Timir Datta, University of South Carolina

D14 Focus Session: Engineered Group IV Clathrates and Clusters
Room: LACC 403B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Jan Gryko, Jacksonville State University
Invited Speakers:  George Nolas  

D15 Focus Session: THz Devices and Materials II
Room: LACC 405 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Mark Sherwin, University of California-Santa Barbara

D16 Photonic Crystals and Nanoscale Physics
Room: LACC 404A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Richard Warburton, Heriot-Watt University

D17 Focus Session: Transport Through Molecules: Scanned Probe Methods
Room: LACC 404B Sponsor: DMP DCP Chair: Mark Hybertsen, Columbia University

D20 Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures II: Molecules & Surfaces
Room: LACC 407 Sponsor: DMP DCP Chair: Michelle Simmons, UNSW

D21 Methods in Nanobiotechnology
Room: LACC 409A Sponsor: DBP Chair: Kai Felix Braun, Ohio University

D22 Focus Session: Protein Folding
Room: LACC 409B Sponsor: DBP Chair: Denis Rousseau, AECOM

D23 Networks and Complex Systems
Room: LACC 410 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Michael F. Shlesinger, ONR

D25 Optical Response of Molecules and Clusters: Theory
Room: LACC 501A Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Sudha Srinivas, Central Michigan Univ.

D26 Focus Session: Nanotubes and Nanowires: Electronic Properties
Room: LACC 501B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Chongwu Zhou, USC

D27 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Raman Spectroscopy
Room: LACC 501C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Pehr Pehrson, Naval Research Lab

D28 Block Copolymer Thin Films
Room: LACC 506 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Michael Fasolka, NIST

D30 Organic Field Effect Transistors II
Room: LACC 505 Sponsor: DPOLY FIAP Chair: Arthur Epstein, Ohio State Univ.

D32 Many Body and Strongly Correlated Systems
Room: LACC 507 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Barry Schneider, NSF

D33 Quantum Dots, Gates and Single Photon Devices
Room: LACC 511C Sponsor: GQI Chair: Anton Zeilinger, University of Vienna

D34 Environmental Interfaces III
Room: LACC 511A Sponsor: DCP Chair: William Schneider, Notre Dame

D35 Nanophotonic Materials, Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy I
Room: LACC 511B Sponsor: DCP Chair: Michael D. Barnes, Univ. Massachusetts
Invited Speakers:  H. Jeff Kimble  

D36 Colloids II
Room: LACC 510 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Penger Tong, Univ. of Sci. and Tech

D37 Liquid Crystals and Complex Fluids
Room: LACC 512 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Philip Taylor, Case Western Reserve Univ

D38 Heavy Fermions
Room: LACC 513 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Greg Stewart, University of Florida

D39 SPS Undergraduate Research II
Room: LACC 514 Chair: Gary White, AIP
Invited Speakers:  Kibrom Tewolde  

D40 Focus Session: Morphology and Evolution at Surfaces: Epitaxy
Room: LACC 408A Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Jim Hannon, IBM Research

D41 Cooperative Phenomena: Magnetic Properties and Spin Dynamics
Room: LACC 150A Sponsor: GMAG Chair: David Pappas, NIST, Boulder

D42 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanoparticles, Nanostructures & Heterostructures II
Room: LACC 150B Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: David Pappas

D43 Focus Session: Magnetic Tunnel Junctions I
Room: LACC 150C Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Pieter Visscher, Univ. of Alabama

Mar 21 2005 5:45PM, Monday

E24 APS Prizes & Awards Ceremony
Room: LACC 411 Sponsor: APS

Mar 21 2005 8:00PM, Monday

G1 Paradigm Shifts: Breakthroughs and Advances That Shaped Our Field
Room: LACC 152 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Helen Quinn, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Mar 22 2005 8:00AM, Tuesday

H1 Spin-Liquid Insulators and Strongly Correlated Superconductors
Room: LACC 152 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Matthew Fisher, UC-Santa Barbara

H2 Polymer Physics Prize Symposium
Room: LACC 151 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Richard Register, Princeton University

H3 Prize Session
Room: LACC 515B Sponsor: APS Chair: Gordon Thomas, New Jersey Institute of Technology

H4 Recent Developments in Semiconductor Heterostructure Spin Physics
Room: LACC 515A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Awschalom, University of California-Santa Barbara

H5 From Biological to Infrastructure Networks: Structure and Dynamics
Room: LACC 502B Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Laszlo Barabasi, Notre Dame University

H6 The Physics Community's Defense of Human Rights
Room: LACC 502A Sponsor: FPS Chair: Myriam Sarachik, Physics Department, CCNY

H7 Nanomechanical Biosensors
Room: LACC 408B Sponsor: DBP Chair: Thomas Thundat, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

H9 Focus Session: Low Dimensional Magnetism
Room: LACC 153A Sponsor: DCOMP DMP GMAG Chair: Kirill Belashchenko, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

H10 Focus Session: Magnetic Semiconductors: Electronic Structure
Room: LACC 153B Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jairo Sinova, Texas A&M University
Invited Speakers:  Alex Zunger  

H11 Focus Session: Simulations of Matter at Extreme Conditions II
Room: LACC 153C Sponsor: DCOMP DMP GSCCM Chair: Stephane Mazevet, LANL

H12 Vortices in Superconductors III
Room: LACC 402A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: M. Tikham, Harvard University

H13 Superconducting Magneto-Transport Properties
Room: LACC 402B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Carmen Alamasan, Kent State University

H14 Focus Session: Organic / Inorganic Hybrid Nanomaterials
Room: LACC 403B Sponsor: FIAP DPOLY Chair: John Kieffer, University of Michigan

H15 Focus Session: Dilute Nitride Semiconductors: From Atoms to Devices I
Room: LACC 405 Sponsor: FIAP DCMP DMP Chair: Rachel S. Goldman, University of Michigan

H16 Focus Session: Tip-enhanced Nano-optics and Spectroscopy of Quantum Dots
Room: LACC 404A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Khaled Karrai, Ludwig-Maximilians University

H17 Focus Session: Transport Through Molecules: Single Molecule Junctions
Room: LACC 404 B Sponsor: DMP DCP Chair: Robert L. Willett, Bell Laboratories

H18 Modeling of Superconducting Systems for Quantum Computing
Room: LACC 406A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Xuedong Hu University at Buffalo, SUNY

H19 Bilayers
Room: LACC 406 B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Fogler, UCSD

H20 Focus Session: Properties of Complex Oxides and Interfaces I
Room: LACC 407 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Marco Buongiorno Nardelli, NCSU

H22 Nucleic Acids
Room: LACC 409B Sponsor: DBP Chair: Robert Austin, Princeton University

H23 Focus Session: Brownian Motion and Stochastic Dynamics in the 100 Years Since Einstein
Room: LACC 410 Sponsor: GSNP DBP Chair: Peter Jung, Ohio University
Invited Speakers:  Peter H\"anggi  

H24 Focus Session: Friction, Fracture, and Deformation II
Room: LACC 411 Sponsor: GSNP DMP Chair: Robin Selinger, Catholic University
Invited Speakers:  Mark Robbins  

H25 Focus Session: Novel and Complex Oxides: NaxCoO2 Experiment and Theory
Room: LACC 501A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Claude Ederer, UC-Santa Barbara

H26 Focus Session: Nanotubes and nanowires: Theoretical Studies
Room: LACC 501B Sponsor: DMP Chair: M.P. Anantram, NASA Ames

H27 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Electronic Properties I
Room: LACC 501C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Tony Heinz, Columbia University

H28 Focus Session: Metallic Glasses and Liquids I
Room: LACC 506 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Despina Louca, University of Virginia

H30 Liquid Crystalline Polymers
Room: LACC 505 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Patrick Mather, Case Western Reserve University

H31 Photonics and Optoelectronics
Room: LACC 503 Sponsor: DPOLY FIAP Chair: Adam Fontecchio, Drexel University

H32 Novel Computational Algorithms II
Room: LACC 507 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Ron Mickens, Clark-Atlanta

H33 Quantum Fluids and Solids I
Room: LACC 511C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Norbert Mulders, University of Delaware

H34 Environmental Interfaces IV
Room: LACC 511A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Bruce Kay, PNNL

H35 Energy Landscapes in Clusters, Materials, and Biology III
Room: LACC 511B Sponsor: DCP DBP Chair: J. Onuchic, University of California-San Diego

H36 BEC and Trapped Bose Gases
Room: Convention Center 510 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Dan Stamper-Kurn, UC-Berkeley

H37 General Fluid Dynamics and Phenomena
Room: LACC 512 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Gary Williams, UCLA

H38 Metal-Insulator Phase Transitions - Theory II
Room: Concention Center 513 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Steven Kivelson, UCLA

H39 Ferroelectric Phase Transitions
Room: Conference Center 514 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Clifford M. Krowne, NRL

H40 Focus Session: Morphology and Evolution at Surfaces: Persistence and Islands
Room: LACC 408A Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Ted Einstein, University of Maryland

H41 Cooperative Phenomena: Phase Transition in Magnetic Systems
Room: LACC 150A Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Tom Kaplan, Michigan State University

H42 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanoparticles, Nanostructures & Heterostructures III
Room: LACC 150B Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: John Wendelken, Oak Ridge National Lab

H43 Focus Session: Magnetic Tunnel Junctions II
Room: LACC 150 C Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Xiu-Feng Han, Institute of Physics, Beijing

Mar 22 2005 11:15AM, Tuesday

J1 Vortex Avalanches
Room: LACC 152 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ulrich Welp, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Rinke J. Wijngaarden  

J2 Heterostructures of Correlated Oxide Materials
Room: LACC 151 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Allen Goldman, University of Minnesota

J3 Recent Progess in Quantum Physics and Quantum Information
Room: LACC 515B Sponsor: GQI Chair: Anthony Leggett, University of Illinois
Invited Speakers:  Wojciech Hubert Zurek  

J4 Conducting Polymers
Room: LACC 515A Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Rachel Segalman, UC-Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Benjamin Schwartz  

J5 Teaching Classical Mechanics and Non-Linear Dynamics: Highlights from a Gordon Conference
Room: LACC 502B Sponsor: FEd Chair: Paula Heron, University of Washington
Invited Speakers:  Matthew Moelter  

J6 Extreme Computing
Room: LACC 502A Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Thomas Schulthess, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

J7 Biological Microsystem Technologies Using Microfluidics and Integrated Circuits
Room: LACC 408B Sponsor: DBP Chair: Robert M. Westervelt, Harvard University

J9 Focus Session: Spin Transport/Magnetism Theory
Room: LACC 153A Sponsor: DCOMP DMP GMAG Chair: Oleg Mryasov, Seagate Research Center

J10 Focus Session: Spin Dynamics in Semiconductors
Room: LACC 153B Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Scott Crooker, LANL

J11 High Pressure II
Room: LACC 153C Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Andrea Trave, LLNL

J12 Superconducting Properties of MgB2
Room: LACC 402A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Allen Hermann, University of Colorado

J13 Defects and Other Structure in Superconductors
Room: LACC 402B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Don Gubser, Naval Research Laboratory

J14 Focus Session: Anisotropic Building Blocks: Synthesis and Assembly
Room: LACC 403B Sponsor: FIAP DMP Chair: Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan

J15 Focus Session: Strained Si and Other Semiconductors for Device Applications
Room: LACC 405 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Ya-Hong Xie, UCLA
Invited Speakers:  George Celler  

J16 Focus Session: Nano-spectroscopy of Quantum Dots
Room: LACC 404A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Sergio E. Ulloa, Ohio University

J17 Focus Session: Materials and Device Physics for Quantum Computing
Room: LACC 404B Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Carlo Piermaroochi, Michigan State University

J18 Focus Session: Wide Band Gap Semiconductors I
Room: LACC 406A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Alan Doolittle, Georgia Tech

J20 Surfaces: Novel Instrumentation and Techniques
Room: LACC 407 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jianhua Gu, West Virginia University

J21 Lipid and Insulating Bilayers
Room: LACC 409A Sponsor: DBP Chair: Jurgen Kurths, University of Potsdam

J22 Biochemical and Genetic Networks
Room: LACC 409 B Sponsor: DBP Chair: Gabor Balazsi, Northwestern University

J23 Stochastic Processes and Nonlinear Dynamics
Room: LACC 410 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Bob Ecke, LANL

J24 GSNP Student Presentation Session and Far From Equilibrium Systems
Room: LACC 411 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Mark Robbins, Johns Hopkins University

J25 Focus Session: Novel and Complex Oxides: Ruthenates and Osmiumates
Room: LACC 501A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Chris Leighton, University of Minnesota

J26 Nanotubes and Nanowires: Applications
Room: LACC 501B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Chongwu Zhou, USC

J27 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Electronic Properties II
Room: LACC 501C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Fuhrer, UMD

J28 Focus Session: Metallic Glasses and Liquids II
Room: LACC 506 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Anup Gangopadhay, Washington University

J30 Elastomers and Gels
Room: LACC 505 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Claude Cohen, Cornell University

J31 Frank J. Padden Award Symposium
Room: LACC 503 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Steve Granick, UIUC

J32 Focus Session: Superconductivity: Theory and Computation (Mostly Triplet)
Room: LACC 507 Sponsor: DCOMP DCMP Chair: Igor Mazin, Naval Research Lab

J34 Environmental Interfaces V
Room: Convention Center 511 A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Barbara Finlayson-Pitts, UC Irvine
Invited Speakers:  Gordon E. Brown, Jr.  

J35 Energy Landscapes in Clusters, Materials, and Biology IV
Room: LACC 511B Sponsor: DCP Chair: A. Heuer, University of Muenster

J36 Trapped Fermi Gases and Feshbach Resonances
Room: LACC 510 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Lincoln Carr, JILA, Boulder, CO

J37 Fluid Turbulence and Instabilities
Room: LACC 512 Sponsor: DFD GSNP Chair: Guenter Ahlers, University of California-Santa Barbara

J38 Metal-Insulator Phase Transitions - Experiment II
Room: LACC 513 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Genda Gu, Brookhaven National Lab

J39 Phase Transitions in Surfaces and Films: Ferroelectrics and Multiferroics
Room: Conference Center 514 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: T. Kimura, Los Alamos National Lab

J40 Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures III: Semiconductors & Surfaces
Room: LACC 408A Sponsor: DMP DCP Chair: J. Crain, NIST

J41 Correlated Electrons: Manganites
Room: LACC 150A Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Amlan Biswas, University of Florida

J42 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanoparticles, Nanostructures & Heterostructures IV
Room: LACC 150B Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Zhiqiang Qiu, UC Berkeley

J43 Low Dimensional Magnetism: General Topics
Room: Convention Center 150C Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Yasu Takano, University of Florida

Mar 22 2005 2:00PM, Tuesday

K1 Poster Session II
Room: LACC Exhibit Hall 2:00-5:00pm

Mar 22 2005 2:30PM, Tuesday

L1 Vortex Ratchet Effect
Room: LACC 152 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Eva Andrei, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Jose Vicent  

L2 Martensitic Phase Transformations Under Pressure
Room: LACC 151 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Robert Albers, Los Alamos National Lab

L3 Recent Work on Strongly Coupled Fermi Gases I
Room: LACC 515B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Alexander Fetter, Stanford University

L4 Invited Symposium: The Role of Physics in NASA's Vision for Space Exploration
Room: LACC 515A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Darrell Jan, NASA JPL

L5 Emerging Devices and Materials for the Microelectronics Industry
Room: LACC 502B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Alex Demkov, University of Texas, Austin

L6 Presenting Current Research to Undergraduates: Physical Review Focus Authors
Room: LACC 502A Sponsor: FEd Chair: David Ehrenstein, APS

L7 Modeling Large Scale Molecular Biological Data
Room: LACC 408B Sponsor: DBP DCOMP Chair: Orly Alter, University of Texas at Austin

L9 Focus Session: Exchange Interactions and Magnetization
Room: LACC 153A Sponsor: DCOMP DMP GMAG Chair: Renat Sabiryanov, University of Nebraska-Omaha

L10 Focus Session: Magnetic Impurities in Semiconductors
Room: LACC 153B Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jacek Furdyna, University of Notre Dame

L11 Earth and Planetary Materials II
Room: LACC 153C Sponsor: DMP DCMP GSCCM Chair: Jay Bass, University of Illinois at Urbana, Chicago

L12 Superconducting Properties
Room: LACC 402A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Stan Tozer, NHMFL

L13 Superconducting Nanostructures
Room: LACC 402B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Bleiweiss, Naval Academy Prep.

L14 Focus Session: Multifunctional Oxides I
Room: LACC 403B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Jane P. Chang, UCLA

L15 Focus Session: Dilute Nitride Semiconductors: From Atoms to Devices II
Room: LACC 405 Sponsor: FIAP DCMP DMP Chair: Eicke Weber, University of California-Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Sergey Dudiy  

L16 Photonic Crystals I
Room: LACC 404A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Guy Ramon, Naval Research Laboratory

L17 Structural and Optical Properties of Nanostructures
Room: LACC 404B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Tom Kennedy, NRL

L18 Focus Session: Wide Band Gap Semiconductors II
Room: LACC 406A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Niti Goel, Univ. of Notre Dame

L19 History of Physics
Room: LACC 406B Sponsor: FHP Chair: Nina Byers, UCLA

L20 Focus Session: Properties of Complex Oxides and Interfaces II
Room: LACC 407 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Marco Fornari, Central Michigan University

L21 Focus Session: Intracellular Calcium Dynamics in Myocytes
Room: LACC 409A Sponsor: DBP Chair: Wouter-Jan Rappel, UCSD

L22 Metalloenzymes: Structure and Function
Room: LACC 409B Sponsor: DBP Chair: Marilyn Gunner, CCNY

L23 Coherent Structures, Pattern Formation and Spatio-Temporal Chaos
Room: LACC 410 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Bruno Eckhardt, University of Marburg

L24 Focus Session: Friction, Fracture, and Deformation III
Room: LACC 411 Sponsor: GSNP DMP Chair: Roland Bennewitz, McGill University

L27 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Devices
Room: LACC 501C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Christian Schoenenberger, University of Basel

L28 Phonons in Metals
Room: LACC 506 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Adolfo Equiluz, University of Tennessee

L30 Polymers-Inorganic Composites I
Room: LACC 505 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Dilip Gersappe, SUNY Stony Brook

L31 Organic Photovoltaic and Electrochromic Devices
Room: LACC 503 Sponsor: DPOLY FIAP Chair: Graciela Blanchet, Dupont

L32 Focus Session: Superconductivity: Superconductivity (Mostly Electron-Phonon)
Room: LACC 507 Sponsor: DCOMP DCMP Chair: A. A. Golubov, University of Tweute, Holland

L33 Quantum Fluids and Solids II
Room: LACC 511C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Rena Zieve, UC Davis

L34 Dynamics in Condensed Phase I
Room: LACC 511A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Haw Yang, UC-Berkeley

L35 Nanophotonic Materials, Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy II
Room: LACC 511B Sponsor: DCP Chair: John Fourkas, Boston College

L36 Focus Session: Granular Gases and Liquids I
Room: LACC 510 Sponsor: GSNP DFD Chair: Eli Ben-Naim, Los Alamos National Laboratory

L37 Microfluidic Physics I: Applications, Separations, Polymers
Room: LACC 512 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Todd Squires, Caltech

L38 Phase Transitions in Model Magnets
Room: LACC 513 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Markus Huecker, Brookhaven National Lab

L39 Focus Session: Intrinsic Inhomogeneity in Multiferroic Materials
Room: LACC 514 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Neil D. Mathur, University of Cambridge

L40 Dillon Medal Symposium
Room: LACC 408A Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Russel Composto, Univ. of Penn

L41 Correlated Electrons: Hall Effect and Kondo Physics
Room: LACC 150A Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Michael Pustilink, Georgia Tech

L42 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanoparticles, Nanostructures & Heterostructures V
Room: LACC 150B Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jian Shen, Oak Ridge National Lab

L43 Focus Session: Phase Complexity and Enhanced Functionality in Magnetic Oxides I
Room: LACC 150C Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: David Mandrus, University of Tennessee

L44 Panel Discussion with APS Journal Editors
Room: LACC 518 Sponsor: APS

Mar 22 2005 5:30PM, Tuesday

M4 Keithley Award
Room: LACC 515A Sponsor: GIMS Chair: David Seiler, NIST

M5a GSNP Business Meeting
Room: LACC 502B Sponsor: GSNP

M6 Multi-Scale Aspects and Dynamical Networks in Integrated Physiologic Systems
Room: LACC 502A Sponsor: DBP Chair: Plamen Ivanov, Boston University

M7 Kinked States of DNA: From Physical Measurement to Functional Significance
Room: LACC 408B Sponsor: DBP Chair: Philip Nelson, University of Pennsylvania

M10 GMAG Business Meeting
Room: LACC 153B Sponsor: GMAG

M15 FIAP Business Meeting
Room: LACC 405 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan

M34 DCP Business Meeting
Room: LACC 511A Sponsor: DCP

M40 DPOLY Business Meeting
Room: LACC 408A Sponsor: DPOLY

Mar 22 2005 6:00PM, Tuesday

M21 DBP Business Meeting
Room: LACC 409A Sponsor: DBP

Mar 22 2005 6:10PM, Tuesday

M44 GIMS Business Meeting
Room: LACC 518 Sponsor: GIMS

Mar 22 2005 6:30PM, Tuesday

M45 DCMP Business Meeting
Room: Westin Hotel Los Cerritos Sponsor: DCMP

M46 DMP Business Meeting
Room: Westin Hotel La Brea Sponsor: DMP

Mar 22 2005 7:30PM, Tuesday

M5b Tetrahedratic (Octupolar) Order in Complex Materials
Room: LACC 502B Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Harald Pleiner, MPI Polymer Research

Mar 23 2005 8:00AM, Wednesday

N1 Superconducting Qubits
Room: LACC 152 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Martinis, UCSB

N2 Spin and Charge in Mott Systems
Room: LACC 151 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dennis Newns, IBM
Invited Speakers:  J.W. Allen  

N3 Electronic and Spin Effects in Low-Dimensional and Nanoscale Systems
Room: LACC 515B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mei-Yin Chou, Georgia Institute of Technology

N4 Polymer Entanglement and Elasticity
Room: LACC 515A Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: William Graessley, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Ralf Everaers  

N5 Applications of THz Radiation
Room: LACC 502B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Alan Todd, Advanced Energy Systems and Gwyn P. Williams, Jefferson Lab
Invited Speakers:  G. Lawrence Carr  

N6 Recent Work on Strongly-coupled Fermi Gases II
Room: LACC 502A Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Allan Griffin, University of Toronto

N7 Einstein and Friends II
Room: LACC 408B Sponsor: FHP Chair: Alex Maradudin, UCLA-Irvine
Invited Speakers:  Diana Buchwald  

N9 Geometrically Frustrated Magnets I
Room: LACC 153A Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Jason Garner, NIST

N10 Focus Session: Spin Transport and Dynamics in Quantum Dots
Room: LACC 153B Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Michael Flatte, University of Iowa

N12 Vortices in Superconductors IV
Room: LACC 402A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: V.Z. Kresin, LBL, University of California

N13 Devices and Applications I
Room: LACC 402B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Alan Todd, Advanced Energy Systems

N14 Focus Session: Multifunctional Oxides II
Room: LACC 403B Sponsor: FIAP DMP Chair: Jean Fompeyrine, Jane Chang, IBM

N15 Focus Session: Theory of Nanostructures and Nanowires
Room: LACC 405 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Andrew Williamson, LLNL

N16 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Subwavelength Apertures and Nanoparticle Arrays
Room: LACC 404A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Bennett Goldberg, Boston University

N17 Research on the Learning and Teaching of Physics
Room: 2005 3 23 8:00 404 B Sponsor: FEd Chair: Gary White, American Institute of Physics

N18 Focus Session: Wide Band Gap Semiconductors III
Room: LACC 406A Sponsor: DMP Chair: William Schaff, Cornell University

N19 Transport and Microwave Conductivity
Room: LACC 406B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Niti Goel, University of Notre Dame

N20 Focus Session: Ferroelectrics
Room: LACC 407 Sponsor: FIAP DMP Chair: Nicola Spaldin, UC-Santa Barbara

N21 Focus Session: Single Molecule Nanobiology
Room: LACC 409A Sponsor: DBP Chair: Saw-Wai Hla, Ohio University

N22 High Magnetic Fields/Electronic and Photonic Devices
Room: LACC 409B Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Eric Palm, National High Magnetic Field Lab

N23 Focus Session: Methods of Statistical Physics in Population Dynamics and Epidemiology
Room: LACC 410 Sponsor: GSNP DBP Chair: Len Sander, University of Michigan

N24 Focus Session: Friction, Fracture, and Deformation IV
Room: LACC 411 Sponsor: GSNP DMP Chair: Udo Schwarz, Yale University

N25 Focus Session: Novel and Complex Oxides: Cobaltites and Manganites
Room: LACC 501A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Rongying Jin, ORNL

N26 Computational Nanoscience III
Room: LACC 501B Sponsor: DCOMP DMP DAMOP Chair: Brahim Akdim, AFRL

N27 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Functionalization I
Room: LACC 501C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Lars Ericson, NRL

N28 Focus Session: Mechanical Properties of Metals
Room: LACC 506 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Mo Li, Georgia Institute of Technology

N29 Block Copolymers II
Room: LACC 504 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Thomas Epps, NIST

N30 Polymer - Inorganic Composites II
Room: LACC 505 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Joao Cabral, Imperial College

N32 Focus Session: Superconductivity: Theory and Computations
Room: LACC 507 Sponsor: DCOMP DCMP Chair: Richard Scalettar, University of California-Davis

N33 Quantum Fluid and Solids III
Room: LACC 511C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Chris Gould, University of Southern California

N34 Dynamics in Condensed Phase II
Room: LACC 511A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Everett Lipman, University of California-Santa Barbara

N35 Nanophotonic Materials, Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy III
Room: LACC 511B Sponsor: DCP Chair: Joe Perry, Georgia Institute of Technology

N36 Focus Session: Granular Liquids and Gases II
Room: LACC 510 Sponsor: GSNP DFD DCMP Chair: Arshad Kudrolli, Clark University

N37 Focus Session: Microfluidic Physics II: Electrokinetics
Room: LACC 512 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Armand Ajdari, PCT-ESPCI-CNRS

N38 Phase Transitions in Itinerant Magnets
Room: LACC 513 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sevnghun Lee, NIST

N39 Structural Phase Transitions
Room: LACC 514 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: T. Egami, University of Tennessee

N40 Focus Session: Morphology and Evolution at Surfaces: Ion Beams and Instabilities
Room: LACC 408A Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Lars Samuelson, Lund University, Sweden

N41 Correlated Electrons: Magnetism in Cobaltates, Ruthenates and Skutterudites
Room: LACC 150A Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Joe Feldman, NRL

N42 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanoparticles, Nanostructures & Heterostructures VI
Room: LACC 150B Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Ralph Skomski, University of Nebraska
Invited Speakers:  J.W. Harrell  

N43 Focus Session: Phase Complexity and Enhanced Functionality in Magnetic Oxides II
Room: LACC 150C Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: N. D. Mathur, Cambridge University

Mar 23 2005 9:30AM, Wednesday

N44 Session on Refereeing
Room: LACC 518 Sponsor: APS

Mar 23 2005 11:15AM, Wednesday

P1 Buckley Prize, Bouchet Award, and Apker Award Talks
Room: LACC 152 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sidney Nagel, University of Chicago

P2 New Techniques for Biological Structure Determination
Room: LACC 151 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Janos Kirz, SUNY Stony Brook
Invited Speakers:  Carolyn Larabell,  Jianwei Miao  

P3 Physics and Sustainable Development
Room: LACC 515B Sponsor: APS FIP Chair: Judy Franz, APS

P4 Structure in Solutions and Melts
Room: LACC 515A Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Zhen-Gang Wang, California Institute of Technology

P5 Nitride-Based Microelectronics
Room: LACC 502B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Joanna Mirecki-Millunchick, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Robert Coffie  

P6 Spectroscopy of Novel Magnetic Materials
Room: LACC 502A Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: H. Dennis Drew, University of Maryland

P7 Oh the Places You'll Go, Career Paths in Physics
Room: LACC 408B Sponsor: FGSA Chair: Lindley Winslow, University of California-Berkeley

P10 Focus Session: Magnetic Semiconductors: Oxides
Room: LACC 153B Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Christoph Adelmann, University of Minnesota

P12 Superconducting Materials
Room: LACC 402A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Myron Salamon, University of Illinois

P13 Superconducting Thin Films and Transport
Room: LACC 402B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Paola Barbara, Georgetown University

P14 Focus Session: Hydrogen Storage I: Media
Room: LACC 403B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Frederick E. Pinkerton, GM Research and Development Center

P15 Focus Session: Relaxation and Phonons in Nanostructures
Room: LACC 405 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Fran Wise, Cornell University

P16 Focus Session: Optical Resonances and Techniques in Nano-Optics
Room: LACC 404A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Henri Lezec, CNRS & Caltech

P17 Focus Session: Materials and Device Physics for Quantum Computing II
Room: LACC 404B Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: John Worlock, University of Utah

P18 Surfaces and Point Defects in Semiconductor
Room: LACC 406A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dr. Tae-Sik Yoon, Dept. MSE, UCLA

P19 Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Nanostructures II
Room: LACC 406B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Giti Khodaparast, Virginia Tech

P20 Surface Localized States
Room: LACC 407 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Eric Fullerton, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies

P21 Nanotubes, Nanowire and Nanoparticles in Biology
Room: LACC 409A Sponsor: DBP Chair: Robert Austin, Princeton University

P23 Focus Session: Biological Hydrodynamics II
Room: LACC 410 Sponsor: DFD DBP GSNP Chair: Peter Lenz, University of Marburg

P24 Focus Session: Jamming: Rheology and Failure
Room: LACC 411 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Corey O'Hern, Yale University

P25 Focus Session: Novel and Complex Oxides: Multiferroic and Other
Room: LACC 501A Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Michelle Johannes, NRL

P26 Computational Nanoscience IV
Room: LACC 501B Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: R. Klemm, Kansas State University

P27 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Functionalization II
Room: LACC 501C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Keith Perkins, NRL

P29 Transport and Electronic Structure of Organic Electronic Materials
Room: LACC 504 Sponsor: DPOLY FIAP Chair: Arthur Epstein, Ohio State University

P30 Polymers - Inorganic Composites III
Room: LACC 505 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Mark Dadmun, University of Tennessee, Knoxsville

P31 Biopolymers: Molecules, Solutions and Networks I
Room: LACC 503 Sponsor: DPOLY DBP Chair: John Crocker, University of Pennsylvania

P32 Computational Methods Classical and Quantum Monte Carlo
Room: LACC 507 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Alice Kolakowska, Mississippi State University

P33 Quantum Mechanical Properties
Room: LACC 511C Sponsor: GQI Chair: Irfan Siddiqi, Yale University

P34 Dynamics in Condensed Phase III
Room: LACC 511A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Philip Geissler, University of California-Berkeley

P35 Molecular Electronics I
Room: LACC 511B Sponsor: DCP DMP FIAP Chair: Cherie Kagan, IBM, TJ Watson
Invited Speakers:  Paul S. Weiss  

P36 Focus Session: BCS-BEC Physics in Fermi Gases
Room: LACC 510 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Nicolai Nygaard, NIST

P37 Focus Session: Microfluidic Physics III: Surface Effects and Flows
Room: LACC 512 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Lyderic Bocquet, University Lyon I

P39 Fermi Liquid and Strong Correlations
Room: LACC 514 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Kun Yang, Florida State University

P40 Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures IV: Wires
Room: LACC 408A Sponsor: DMP DCP Chair: D. Natelson, Rice University

P42 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanoparticles, Nanostructures & Heterostructures VII
Room: LACC 150B Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Xiaofeng Jin, Fudan University, China

P43 Focus Session: Phase Complexity and Enhanced Functionality in Magnetic Oxides III
Room: LACC 150C Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Ichiro Takeuchi, University of Maryland

Mar 23 2005 1:00PM, Wednesday

R1 Poster Session III
Room: LACC Exhibit Hall 1:00-4:00pm

Mar 23 2005 2:30PM, Wednesday

S1 Pairing and Symmetry
Room: LACC 152 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Kirtley, IBM
Invited Speakers:  Ying Liu  

S2a Granular Impact-Cratering Dynamics and Morphology
Room: LACC 151 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Robert Behringer, Duke University

S3 Nanoscale Metal-Semiconductor Schottky Contacts
Room: LACC 515B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jonathan Pelz, Ohio State University

S4 Surface Structure of Compound Semiconductors
Room: LACC 515A Sponsor: FIAP

S5 Solitons in Physics: 50 Years Since Fermi, Pasta & Ulam
Room: LACC 502B Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Charlie Doering, University of Michigan

S6 Solid State Qubits, Resonators, and Quantum Optics
Room: LACC 502A Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University

S7 Gene Chips
Room: LACC 408B Sponsor: DBP Chair: Ned Wingreen, Princeton University

S9 Geometrically Frustrated Magnets II
Room: LACC 153A Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Oleg Tchernyshov, Johns Hopkins University

S10 Focus Session: Magnetic Semiconductor Heterostructures
Room: LACC 153B Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jing Shi, University of Utah

S12 Focus Session: Superconductivity: Theory and Computation II
Room: LACC 402A Sponsor: DCOMP DCMP Chair: Oleg Starykh, University of Utah

S13 uSR and NMR in Superconductors
Room: LACC 402B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Steve Anlage, University of Maryland

S14 Focus Session: Hydrogen Storage II: Measurements
Room: LACC 403B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Frederick Pinkerton, General Motors

S15 Focus Session: Transport in Ensemble of Nanocrystals
Room: LACC 405 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: V. Klimov, LANL

S16 Focus Session: Molecular Materials: Electronic Transport and Growth
Room: LACC 404A Sponsor: DMP DCP Chair: Douglas Natelson, Rice University

S17 Issues in Physics Education
Room: LACC 404B Sponsor: FEd DCOMP Chair: Karen Cummings, Southern CT State Univ

S18 Focus Session: Wide Band Gap Semiconductors IV
Room: LACC 406A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jennifer Zinck, HRL

S19 Bulk Semiconductors: Electronic and Optical Properties
Room: LACC 406B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Stefan Zollner, Freescale Semiconductor

S20 Focus Session: Ferroelectric Thin Films
Room: LACC 407 Sponsor: FIAP DMP Chair: Fred Walker, ORNL

S21 Cellular Biomechanics
Room: LACC 409A Sponsor: DBP Chair: Alexander Neiman, Ohio University

S22 Biological Physics
Room: LACC 409B Sponsor: DBP Chair: Sonya Bahar, University of Missouri-St. Louis

S23 Quantum Chaos
Room: LACC 410 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Nicholas Cerruti, Washington State University

S24 Focus Session: Jamming: Effective temperature and Aging
Room: LACC 411 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Daniel Blair, Harvard University

S25 Strongly Correlated Oxides, Superlattices and Synthesis
Room: LACC 501A Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Zenji Hiroi, University of Tokyo

S26 Nanowires I: Theory and Modeling
Room: LACC 501B Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Daniel Stein, University of Arizona

S27 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Theory
Room: LACC 501C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Mark Pederson, NRL

S28 Excitations, Scattering and Surfaces of Metals
Room: LACC 506 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Randy Fishman, ORNL

S30 Polymer Blends
Room: LACC 505 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Alamgir Karim, NIST

S31 Organic Electronics Materials Characterization
Room: LACC 503 Sponsor: DPOLY FIAP Chair: Graciela Blanchet, DuPont

S32 Electronic Structure
Room: LACC 507 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Estela Blaisten-Barojas, GMU

S33 Focus Session: Pathway to Practical Quantum Computing
Room: LACC 511C Sponsor: GQI DAMOP DCOMP Chair: Daniel Greenberger, City College of New York

S35 Molecular Electronics II
Room: LACC 511B Sponsor: DCP FIAP DMP Chair: Edwin Chandross, Bell Labs

S36 Trapped Atoms in Optical Lattices
Room: LACC 510 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: James Williams, NIST-Gaithersburg

S37 Colloids III
Room: LACC 512 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Noel Clark, University of Colorado

S39 Quantum Phase Transitions in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems
Room: Los Angeles Convention Center 514 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Victor Galitski, UCSB

S40 Focus Session: Morphology and Evolution at Surfaces: Wires and Self-Assembly
Room: LACC 408A Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Pantelis Kelires, University of Crete
Invited Speakers:  Gary Kellogg  

S41 Correlated Electrons: Exotic Magnetism
Room: LACC 150A Sponsor: GMAG Chair: S.D. Mahanti, Michigan State Univ.

S42 Artificially Structured or Self-Assembled Magnetic Materials - II
Room: LACC 150B Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Satish Ogale, University of Maryland

S43 Focus Session: Phase Complexity and Enhanced Functionality in Magnetic Oxides IV
Room: LACC 150C Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Sang-Wook Cheong, Rutgers University

S44 Magnetic and Force Microscopy
Room: LACC 518 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Mark Hersam, Northwestern University

Mar 23 2005 4:18PM, Wednesday

S2b Supersolidity and Bose-Einstein Condensation in Solid Helium
Room: LACC 151 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Moses Chan, Penn State University

Mar 23 2005 5:30PM, Wednesday

T32 DCOMP Business Meeting
Room: Westin Hotel Palos Verdes Sponsor: DCOMP

Mar 23 2005 7:30PM, Wednesday

T1 Einstein and Condensed Matter Physics
Room: Westin Hotel San Francisco Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Marvin L. Cohen, University of California-Berkeley

Mar 24 2005 8:00AM, Thursday

U1 High Tc Transport
Room: LACC 152 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Marcel Franz, UBC

U2 Jamming and Geometric Constraints
Room: LACC 151 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Leonardo Silbert, University of Chicago

U3 Unconventional Electronic and Optical Uses of Negative Refractive and Negative Index Materials
Room: LACC 515B Sponsor: DCMP DAMOP Chair: Costas Soukoulis, Iowa State University

U4 Polymer Microstructures
Room: LACC 515A Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Karen Winey, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Ben Chu  

U5 Spin Control in Ferromagnetic Semiconductor Structures
Room: LACC 502B Sponsor: GMAG DCMP Chair: Peter Schiffer, Penn State University
Invited Speakers:  L. J. Sham  

U6 Physics of Slip Phenomena at Liquid/Solid Interfaces
Room: LACC 502A Sponsor: DFD Chair: Sandra Troian, Princeton University

U7 Nucleic Acid Translocation Through Nanopores
Room: LACC 408B Sponsor: DBP Chair: David Lubensky, Vrije University

U9 Glassy and Random Magnets
Room: LACC 153A Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Bulbul Chakroborty, Brandeis University

U10 Focus Session: Spin Hall Effect
Room: LACC 153B Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Igor Zutic, Naval Research Lab
Invited Speakers:  Qian Niu  

U12 Point Contact Tunnelling and Proximity Effect
Room: LACC 402A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Milind Kunchur, University of South Carolina

U13 Devices & Applications II
Room: LACC 402B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Ajul Koukar, University of Southern California

U14 Hydrogen Storage III: Modeling
Room: LACC 403B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Frederick E. Pinderton, General Motors

U15 Focus Session: Synthesis and Doping of Nanostructures
Room: LACC 405 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Tom Kennedy, NRL

U16 Photonic Crystals II
Room: LACC 404A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: J. Albrecht, WP-AFB AFRL/SNDD

U17 Optical Response and Spin-Orbit Coupling in Quantum Dots
Room: LACC 404B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Tigran Shahbazyan, Jackson State University

U18 Focus Session: Wide Band Gap Semiconductors V
Room: LACC 406A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Andrei Sirenko, NJIT

U19 Fractional QHE/Composite Fermions
Room: LACC 406B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Kun Yang, Florida State University

U20 High-K Dielectrics
Room: LACC 407 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Rodney McKee, ORNL

U21 Biomedical Physics
Room: LACC 409A Sponsor: DBP Chair: Herbert Levine, University of California, San Diego

U22 Transport and Kinetics in Biological Systems
Room: LACC 409B Sponsor: DBP GSNP Chair: Uwe Tauber, Virginia Tech

U23 Statistical Physics and Disordered Nonlinear Systems
Room: LACC 410 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: William Klein, Boston U

U25 Nanowires II: Metals and Oxides
Room: LACC 501A Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Michael Mehl, Naval Research Lab

U26 Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Materials: Theory and Experiment
Room: LACC 501B Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: David Drabold, Ohio University

U27 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Growth
Room: LACC 501C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Vera Sazanova, Cornell University

U29 Organic Light Emitting Diodes
Room: LACC 504 Sponsor: DPOLY FIAP Chair: Eric Lin, NIST

U30 Polymer Thin Films: General
Room: LACC 505 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Azar Alizadeh, GE

U31 Polymers and Filaments for the Cytoskeleton
Room: LACC 503 Sponsor: DPOLY DBP Chair: David Morse, U Minnesota

U32 Density Functional Theory
Room: LACC 507 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Dimitrios Papaconstantopoulos, NRL

U33 Cold Fusion
Room: LACC 511C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Scott Chubb, Naval Research Lab

U36 Quantum Optics, Quantum Control, and Ultrafast Processes
Room: LACC 510 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Bernado Mendoza, CIO, Mexico

U39 Non-Fermi Liquids and Spin Liquids
Room: LACC 514 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Alexander Balatsky, LANL

U40 Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures V: Molecules
Room: LACC 408A Sponsor: DMP DCP Chair: J. v. Ruitenbeek, Universiteit Leiden

U41 Correlated Electrons: Superconductivity and Magnetism
Room: LACC 150A Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Norman Birge, Michigan State Univ.

U42 Magnetism
Room: LACC 150B Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Jack Bass, Michigan State University

U43 Focus Session: Phase Complexity and Enhanced Functionality in Magnetic Oxides V
Room: LACC 150C Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Andrei Sushkov, University of Maryland

U44 Focus Session: Interfaces, Characterization, and Fabrication
Room: LACC 518 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Karen Waldrip, Sandia National Labs

Mar 24 2005 11:15AM, Thursday

V1 Collective Modes, Phonons in Cuprates
Room: LACC 152 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Z-X Shen, Stanford University

V2a Frustrated Quantum Magnetism
Room: LACC 151 Sponsor: DCMP GMAG Chair: Arthur Ramirez, Lucent Tech, Bell Labs

V3 Spectroscopy of Carbon Nanotubes
Room: LACC 515B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Tobias Hertel, Vanderbilt University

V4 Albert Einstein and Social Responsibility
Room: LACC 515A Sponsor: FPS Chair: Barbara Levi Consulting Editor, Physics

V5 Invited Symposium: Transport in Single Molecules
Room: LACC 502B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Mark Hybertsen, Columbia University

V6 Jamming in Granular Media, Colloidal Suspensions and Glasses
Room: LACC 502A Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Eric Weeks, Emory University
Invited Speakers:  Peter Sollich  

V7 Randomness and Chaos in Quantum Information Processing
Room: LACC 408B Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: C. Stephen Hellberg, NRL

V9 Magnetic Anisotropy
Room: LACC 153A Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Kai Liu, University of California-Davis

V10 Focus Session: Spin Injection into Semiconductors
Room: LACC 153B Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Chris Palmstrom, University of Minnesota

V12 Superconducting Ruthenides and Borides
Room: LACC 402A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: James Knight, University of South Carolina

V13 Infrared and Optical Spectroscopy of Superconductors
Room: LACC 402B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Larry Carr, NSLS

V14 Focus Session: Electronic and Atomic Structure of Interfaces and Gate Stacks I
Room: LACC 403B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Alex Demkov, University of Texas-Austin

V15 Focus Session: Plasmonics, Biological, Solar Cell QDs
Room: LACC 405 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: H. Atwater, Caltech

V16 Optical Properties of Quantum Well Structures
Room: LACC 404A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Krzysztof Kempa, Boston College

V17 Spin Control and Measurement for Quantum Computation
Room: LACC 404B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ilya Ponomarev, Naval Research Laboratory

V19 Correlated Phases in 2-D Systems and Shot Noise
Room: LACC 406B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Alan Dorsey, Univ. of Florida

V20 Surface Kinetics and Dynamics
Room: LACC 407 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Guang-Hong Lu, University of Utah

V21 Localized Dynamical States
Room: LACC 409A Sponsor: DBP Chair: Bernard Gerstman, Florida International University

V22 Biological Computation
Room: LACC 409B Sponsor: DBP Chair: Peter Jung, Ohio University

V24 Focus Session: Non-equilibrium Dynamics of Adsorption Diffusion and Reaction
Room: LACC 411 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Bob Ziff, University of Michigan

V25 Nanowires III: Silicon Based Nanowires
Room: LACC 501A Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Peter Ecklund, Penn State University

V26 Light Emission and Luminescence from Silicon and Theory and Simulations
Room: LACC 501B Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Philip Collins, University of California-Irvine

V27 Theory of Nanotubes & Carbon Based Nanostructures
Room: LACC 501C Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Vincent Meunier, Oak Ridge National Lab

V28 Actinides, ...
Room: LACC 506 Chair: Robert Albers, LANL

V29 Polymer Theory and Simulation I: General
Room: LACC 504 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Cameron Abrams, Drexel University

V30 Flow of Immiscible Polymer Blends
Room: LACC 505 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Gary Leal, University of California-Santa Barbara

V31 Bioploymers: Molecules, Solutions and Networks II
Room: LACC 503 Sponsor: DPOLY DBP Chair: Jay Tang, Brown University

V32 Focus Session: Superconductivity: Theory and Computation III
Room: LACC 507 Sponsor: DCOMP DCMP Chair: A. Bansil, Northeastern University

V33 Quantum Computing
Room: LACC 511C Sponsor: GQI Chair: Jonathan Dowling, Louisiana State University

V34 Condensed Phase Dynamics, Structure and Thermodynamics
Room: LACC 511A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Bruce Garrett, PNNL

V35 Molecular Electronics III
Room: LACC 511 B Sponsor: DCP DMP FIAP Chair: Duncan Stewart, Hewlett Packard

V37 Focus Session: Microfluidic Physics IV: Particles, Drops, and Mixing
Room: LACC 512 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Darren Link, Rain Dance Technologies

V38 Magnets That Can Superconduct
Room: LACC 513 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Qimiao Si, Rice University

V39 Metamaterials for Negative Refraction and Related Phenomena
Room: LACC 514 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David R. Smith

V40 Focus Session: Morphology and Evolution at Surfaces: Phase-field and Ge/Si
Room: LACC 408A Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Jacques Amar, University of Toledo

V42 Magnetization Dynamics
Room: LACC 150B Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Manfred Fiebig, Max Born Institute

V43 Low Dimensional Magnetism: Clusters & Molecules
Room: LACC 150C Sponsor: GMAG Chair: V. Kiryukhin, Rutgers University

V44 MEMS/NEMS: Applications and Resonators
Room: LACC 518 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Danhong Huang, Air Force Research Lab

Mar 24 2005 1:03PM, Thursday

V2b Dynamical Heterogeneities and Quantum Glassiness in Electronic Systems
Room: LACC 151 Sponsor: DCMP GMAG Chair: Clare Yu, University of California-Irvine

Mar 24 2005 2:30PM, Thursday

W1 Neutron Scattering in High Tc Cuprates
Room: LACC 152 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Eugene Demler, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Tom Timusk  

W2a Novel Ordering in Smectics and Other Layered Systems
Room: LACC 151 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jonathan Selinger, Naval Research Lab

W3 Quantum Spin Dynamics in Single-Molecule Magnets
Room: LACC 515B Sponsor: DCMP GMAG Chair: Stephen Hill, University of Florida

W4 Industrial Challenges to Polymer Physics
Room: LACC 515A Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Edward Kramer, University of California-Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  David Lohse  

W5 Functional Ceramics: the Nano/Microstructure-Property Relationship in Electronic, Optical, Biological and Structural Materials
Room: LACC 502B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Robert Marzke, Arizona State University
Invited Speakers:  Jean Toulouse  

W6 Quantum Information Meets Density Matrix Renormalization
Room: LACC 502A Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Steve White, UCI
Invited Speakers:  Ulrich Schollwoeck  

W7 Advances in the Biological Physics of Morphogenesis
Room: LACC 408B Sponsor: DBP Chair: Timothy Newman, Arizona State University

W10 Focus Session: Spin Transport and Spin Hall Effect
Room: LACC 153B Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Allan MacDonald, University of Texas

W13 Thermodynamic Properties of Superconductors
Room: LACC 402B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Donald Naugle, Texas A&M University

W14 Focus Session: Electronic and Atomic Structures of Interfaces and Gate Stacks II
Room: LACC 403B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Gerd Duscher, NCSU

W15 Focus Session: Optical properties of QDs
Room: LACC 405 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: P. Guyot Sionnest, University of Chicago

W16 Non-Equilibrium, Tunneling and Many-Body Properties of Quantum Dots
Room: LACC 404A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Giovanni Vignale, University of Missouri

W17 Nanostructures: Electrical, Optical and Structural Properties
Room: LACC 404B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Stefan Badescu, Naval Research Laboratory

W20 Surface Structural and Electronic Properties
Room: LACC 407 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Qiming Zhang, University of Texas-Arlington

W21 Techniques in Biophysics
Room: LACC 409A Sponsor: DBP Chair: Robert Riehn, Princeton University

W22 Focus Session: Microtubules and Molecular Motors
Room: LACC 409B Sponsor: DBP GSNP Chair: Beate Schmittmann, Virginia Tech

W24 Granular Flow I
Room: LACC 411 Sponsor: DFD GSNP DCMP Chair: Wolfgang Losert, University of Maryland

W25 Nanowires IV: Nitrides and Others
Room: LACC 501A Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Andrea Trave, LLNL

W26 First-Principles Simulation of Complex Materials
Room: LACC 501B Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Steven Erwin, NRL

W27 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Growth and Manipulation
Room: LACC 501C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Sami Rosenblatt, Cornell University

W29 Polymer Theory and Simulation II: Interfaces and Confinement
Room: LACC 504 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: John McCoy, NMT

W30 Organic Thin Films
Room: LACC 505 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Yueh Lin Loo, University of Texas

W31 Focus Session: Interaction of Polymers with Biological Systems
Room: LACC 503 Sponsor: FIAP DPOLY Chair: Roland Faller, University of California-Davis
Invited Speakers:  Ka Yee C. Lee  

W32 Focus Session: High Tc Cuprates: Theory and Computation
Room: LACC 507 Sponsor: DCOMP DCMP Chair: Alexander Balatsky, LANL

W33 Josephson Junctions and SQUIDS II
Room: LACC 511C Sponsor: GQI Chair: Dietrich Leibfried, NIST

W34 Theory and Modeling
Room: LACC 511A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Mark Ratner, Northwestern University

W35 Molecular Electronics IV
Room: LACC 511B Sponsor: DCP DMP FIAP Chair: Douglas Natelson, Rice University

W37 Nanocolloids and General Fluids
Room: LACC 512 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Eric Dufresne, Yale University

W38 Critical and Inhomogeneous Fermionic Systems
Room: LACC 513 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: A. Vishwanath, MIT

W40 Focus Session: Morphology and Evolution at Surfaces: Instabilities and Patterned Substrates
Room: LACC 408A Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Gary Kellogg, Sandia National Labs

W42 Mostly Half-Metals
Room: LACC 150B Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Ching Fong, University of California-Davis

W43 Low Dimensional Magnetism: Surfaces and Molecules
Room: LACC 150C Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Ale Lukaszew, University of Toledo

W44 Microscopy: Near-field, X-ray, Optical, and Probe
Room: LACC 518 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Joseph Stroscio, NIST

Mar 24 2005 4:18PM, Thursday

W2b Nanoscale Liquids
Room: LACC 151 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Oleg Gang, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Colin Denniston  

Mar 24 2005 5:30PM, Thursday

WW7 The Physics and Bioengineering of Artificial Sight
Room: LACC 408B Sponsor: DBP Chair: Robert Greenberg, Second Light LLC
Invited Speakers:  Frank Werblin