Thursday, March 16, 2006 
8:00AM - 8:12AM 
 
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U45.00001: Effect of external strain on the order-disorder phase transition of the Si(001) surface 
Masanori Yata
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Thursday, March 16, 2006 
8:12AM - 8:24AM 
 
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U45.00002: Faceting and defaceting phase transitions of Pd/W(111) 
Yu-Wen Liao, L.H. Chen, K.C. Kao, Minn-Tsong Lin , Cheng-Hsun Nien, Ker-Jar Song
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Thursday, March 16, 2006 
8:24AM - 8:36AM 
 
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U45.00003: Ultrafast lattice dynamics of FeRh 
D.A. Walko, E.C. Landahl, Jin Wang, J.-U. Thiele, E.E. Fullerton
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Thursday, March 16, 2006 
8:36AM - 8:48AM 
 
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U45.00004: Phase stability and Jahn-Teller distortion in doped lithiated manganese oxides: A LSDA+U study 
Rajendra Prasad, Nitya Nath Shukla, Roy Benedek
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Thursday, March 16, 2006 
8:48AM - 9:00AM 
 
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U45.00005: Crystal Fields and the $ \gamma \rightarrow \alpha$ transition in Ce 
Sukalpa Basu, Peter Riseborough
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Thursday, March 16, 2006 
9:00AM - 9:12AM 
 
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U45.00006: Bifurcation Techniques for Structural Phase Transitions 
Ryan S. Elliott, John A. Shaw, Nicolas Triantafyllidis
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Thursday, March 16, 2006 
9:12AM - 9:24AM 
 
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U45.00007: Imaging the evolution of a glassy magnetic transition in a disordered ferromagnetic manganite 
Weida Wu, Casey Israel, Alex de Lozanne, Namjung Hur, Soonyong Park, S.-W. Cheong
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Thursday, March 16, 2006 
9:24AM - 9:36AM 
 
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U45.00008: Quantum Relaxation in a Proton Glass 
C. Ancona-Torres, Y. Feng, T. F. Rosenbaum, S. R. Nagel, E. Courtens, D. Price, G. Reiter
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Thursday, March 16, 2006 
9:36AM - 9:48AM 
 
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U45.00009: Switching between one and two dimensions: Pb induced chain structures on Si(557) 
Christoph Tegenkamp, Ziad Kallasy, Herbert Pfn\"{u}r
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Thursday, March 16, 2006 
9:48AM - 10:00AM 
 
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U45.00010: Spontaneous polarization in one-dimensional Pb(ZrTi)O$_3$ nanowires 
Ivan Naumov, Huaxiang Fu
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Thursday, March 16, 2006 
10:00AM - 10:12AM 
 
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U45.00011: Computational investigation of wetting and prewetting phase behavior 
Jeffrey Errington
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Thursday, March 16, 2006 
10:12AM - 10:24AM 
 
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U45.00012: Magnetic properties of weak itinerant ferromagnetic Ni-V alloys 
Sara Ubaid-Kassis, Almut Schroeder
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Thursday, March 16, 2006 
10:24AM - 10:36AM 
 
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U45.00013: Scaling Behavior of Classical Wave Transport in Mesoscopic Media at the Localization Transition 
Sai-Kit Cheung, Zhao-Qing Zhang
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Thursday, March 16, 2006 
10:36AM - 10:48AM 
 
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U45.00014: Optical Near-Field Based Nanoscale Rapid Melting and Crystallization of Amorphous Silicon Thin Films 
David Hwang, Anant Chimmalgi, Costas Grigoropoulos
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Thursday, March 16, 2006 
10:48AM - 11:00AM 
 
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U45.00015: Explosive Crystallization of Amorphous Semiconductor Films in the Presence of Melting 
Alexander Golovin, Costas Grigoropoulos, Matthew Rogers, Seung Hwan Ko, Bernard Matkowsky
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