Mar 16 2009 8:00AM, Monday

A1 Graphene - Spectroscopies
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Amir Yacoby, Harvard University.

A2 Transport in Oxide Interfaces
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom BC Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Darrell Schlom, Cornell University

A3 Fe-based Superconductors: Pairing Symmetry
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Fu-Chun Zhang, University of Hong Kong

A4 Polymers and Energy Applications
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Nitash Balsara, University of California, Berkeley

A5 Nanostructuring with Ions
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: John Melngailis, University of Maryland

A6 Computational Physics in Research and Teaching: GRC Topics and Themes
Room: 406 Sponsor: FEd DCOMP Chair: Wolfgang Christian, Davidson College

A7 Systems Biology of Natural and Synthetic Circuits
Room: 407 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Jan Skotheim, Standford University

A8 Quantum Information meets Many-Particle Physics
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: GQI Chair: David DiVincenzo, IBM Watson

A9 Systems Far from Equilibrium I
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Royce Zia, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

A10 Focus Session: Ferroelectrics I
Room: 304 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Matthew Dawber, Stonybrook University

A11 Superlattices, Nanostructures, Materials: Synthesis, Growth and Characterization
Room: 305 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Joe Tischler, Naval Research Laboratory

A12 Directed Organization of Nanostructured Films
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Ray Phaneuf, University of Maryland

A13 Focus Session: Metropolis Thesis Prize and Multiscale Modeling
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Jorge Jose, SUNY Buffalo

A14 Instabilities, Turbulence and Nonlinear Flows
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Guenter Ahlers, University of California, Santa Barbara

A15 Soft Matter, Fluid Structure and Properties
Room: 316 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Wendy Zhang, University of Chicago

A16 Quantum Fermi Gases and Feshbach Resonances
Room: 317 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Martin Zwierlein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

A17 Focus Session: Photons and Quantum Dots
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Thaddeus Ladd, Stanford University

A18 Bulk Block Copolymers I
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Thomas Epps, University of Delaware

A19 The Physics of Polymer Nanocomposites: Polymer Nanoparticle Interactions
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Amalie Frischknecht, Sandia National Laboratories

A20 Spatially Confined Polymer Materials
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Joanne Budzien, Sandia National Laboratories

A21 Semiconductors: 2D Electrons and Transport
Room: 323 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Michael Zudov, University of Minnesota

A22 Focus Session: Spins in Group III-V and II-VI Semiconductors
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Paul Crowell, University of Minnesota

A23 Plasmons and Optical Absorption
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Singh, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A24 Focus Session: Nanotube Synthesis
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Avetik Harutyunyan, Honda Research

A25 Focus Session: Graphene I: Electronic Properties
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jules Carbotte, McMaster University

A26 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience I: Inorganic Nanostructures and Interfaces
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Peihong Zhang, SUNY Buffalo

A27 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy I: Low Temperatures
Room: 329 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Cyrus Hirjibehedin, London Centre for Nanotechnology

A28 Bionanotechnology
Room: 330 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Xinsheng (Sean) Ling, Brown University

A29 Spin Glasses and Disordered Magnetic Materials
Room: 333 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Ben Ueland, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Center for Neutron Research

A30 Focus Session: Vanadates, Iridates and Other Oxides
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Stephen Nagler, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A31 Focus Session: Molecular Nanomagnets
Room: 335 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Michael Pechan, Miami University

A32 Magnetization and Spin Dynamics
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Ion Garate, University of Texas at Austin

A33 Superconductivity: ARPES
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Barrett Wells, University of Connecticut

A34 Superconductivity: Spin Properties
Room: 404 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Tranquada, Brookhaven National Laboratory

A35 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors I: Synthesis and New Materials
Room: 405 Sponsor: DMP Chair: David Larbelestier, Florida State University

A36 Carbon Nanotubes: Electrical Transport and Noise
Room: 408 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Hui Tang, Yale University,

A37 Focus Session: Fundamental Developments in Density Functional Theory I
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Adam Wasserman, Purdue University

A38 Focus Session: The Chemical Physics of Biological and Biologically-inspired Solar Energy Harvesting I
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Greg Scholes, University of Toronto

A39 Cellular Biomechanics I
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Jennifer Schwarz, Syracuse University

A40 Proteins: Structure and Functions I
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Ching-Hwa Kiang, Rice University

A41 Heavy Fermions
Room: 413 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Rena Zieve, University of California, Davis

Mar 16 2009 11:15AM, Monday

B1 New Experimental Developments in Graphene
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Eva Andrei, Rutgers University

B2 HTSC: Fermi Pockets and Quantum Oscillations
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom BC Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Robert Laughlin, Stanford University

B3 10,000 Undergraduate Physics Majors: Progress on Doubling
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Robert Hilborn, University of Texas at Dallas

B4 Polymer Translocation
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Murugappan Muthukumar, University of Massachusetts

B5 Heterogeneous Integration on Silicon
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Ganesh Samudra, National University of Singapore

B6 Panel Discussion: Physics in Africa
Room: 406 Sponsor: FIP Chair: Abebe Kebede, North Carolina A&T University

B7 Bacterial Growth Laws and Systems Biology
Room: 407 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Terence Hwa, University of California, San Diego

B8 Spectroscopy of Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Erich Mueller, Cornell University

B9 GSNP Student Speaker Award Session and Applications of Statistical and Nonlinear Physics in the Life Sciences
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Harvey Gould, Clark University

B10 Focus Session: Ferroelectrics II
Room: 304 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Javier Junquera, Universidad de Cantabria

B11 Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures I: Surface Assemblies and Films
Room: 305 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Douglas Natelson, Rice University

B12 Focus Session: Structure and Dynamics of Metal Thin Films
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Theodore Einstein, University of Maryland

B13 SPS Undergraduate Research I
Room: 309 Chair: Gary White, American Institute of Physics

B14 Focus Session: Colloids I: Physical Behavior and Mechanisms
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Eric Weeks, Emory University

B15 Current Fluid Mechanics
Room: 316 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Shelley Anna, Carnegie Mellon University

B16 Cold Fusion
Room: 317 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Scott Chubb, Naval Research Laboratory

B17 Focus Session: Progress towards Scalable Quantum Information Processing
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Mark Dykman, Michigan State University

B18 Focus Session: Templated Assembly of Polymers
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Alamgir Karim, University of Akron

B19 Focus Session: Polymers and Ionic Liquids
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Peggy Cebe, Tufts University

B20 Focus Session: Polymers and Energy: Photovoltaics, Fuel Cells, Batteries I
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Bumjoon Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

B21 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors I
Room: 323 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Eugene Haller, University of California, Berkeley

B22 Focus Session: Theory of Spin-based Semiconductor Devices
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Lukasz Cywinski, University of Maryland

B23 Alloy Theory
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Benjamin Burton, National Institute of Standards and Technology

B24 Focus Session: Nanotube Characterization
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Cary Yang, Santa Clara University

B25 Graphene II: Electronic Properties and QHE
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ziqiang Wang, Boston College

B26 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience II: Mechanics, Dynamics, and Assembly
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Dennis Rapaport,, Bar-Ilan University

B27 Plasmonics and Metamaterials
Room: 329 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Harry Atwater, California Institute of Technology, Chris Van de Walle, University of California, Santa Barbara

B28 Focus Session: Graphene II: Synthesis and Characterization
Room: 330 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Yu-Ming Lin, IBM

B29 Spin-Dependent Transport
Room: 333 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Sergei Urazhdin, West Virginia University

B30 Focus Session: Manganite Superlattices
Room: 334 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Satoshi Okamoto, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

B31 Focus Session: Dimers and Other Frustrated Structures
Room: 335 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Chris Wiebe, Florida State University

B32 Cooperative Phenomena (incl. Spin Structures, Spin Waves, Phase Transitions) I
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Paul Haney, National Institute of Standards and Technology

B33 Superconductivity: Mostly Cuprates
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Timir Datta, University of South Carolina

B34 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors II: Quantum Oscillations, Electronic Structure and Magnetism
Room: 404 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Vladimir Antropov, Ames Laboratory

B35 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors III: General Theory
Room: 405 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Alex Koshelev, Argonne National Laboratory

B36 Carbon Nanotubes: Devices and Applications
Room: 408 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Masa Ishigami, University of Central Florida

B37 Focus Session: Fundamental Developments in Density Functional Theory II
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Paula Mori-Sanchez, Duke University

B38 Focus Session: The Chemical Physics of Biological and Biologically-inspired Solar Energy Harvesting II
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Bern Kohler, Ohio State University

B39 Cellular Biomechanics II
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Arpita Upadhyaya, University of Maryland

B40 Proteins: Structure and Function II
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Paul Janmey, University of Pennsylvania

B41 Heavy Fermion 115 Superconductors
Room: 413 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Carlos Bolech, Rice University

Mar 16 2009 2:00PM, Monday

C1 Poster Session I (2-5:00pm): Polymer Physics; Applications; Complex Structured Materials; Quantum Fluids; Nano/Bionanotechnology; Fluids; General; Statistical & Nonlinear; Superconductors
Room: Exhibit Hall A

Mar 16 2009 2:30PM, Monday

D1 Phase Transitions and Transport in Quantum Hall Superfluids
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Allan MacDonald, University of Texas at Austin

D2 HTSC: New Developments
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom BC Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Chandra Varma, University of California, Riverdside

D3 Pake, McGroddy, and Industrial Application of Physics Prizes, Adler Award
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: FIAP DMP Chair: Mark Lee, Sandia National Laboratories

D4 Spin Qubits in Quantum Dots
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: GQI DCMP Chair: Jason Petta, Princeton University

D5 Origins of Silicon Valley
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: FHP Chair: Gloria Lubkin, American Institute of Physics

D6 Predictive Materials Design for Alternative Energy Storage
Room: 406 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Zhenyu Zhang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

D7 Rare Events in Physics and Population Dynamics
Room: 407 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Beate Schmittmann, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

D8 Unconventional Spin Torques
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Shufeng Zhang, University of Missouri

D9 Elasticity and Geometry of Thin Objects I
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Dominic Vella, DAMTP, Cambridge and LPS ENS, Paris

D10 Focus Session: Ferroelectrics III and Piezoelectrics
Room: 304 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Alexei Grigoriev, University of Tulsa

D11 Optical Properties of Dots, Wires and Superlattices
Room: 305 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Scheibner, Naval Research Laboratory

D12 Novel Instrumentation and Techniques in Surface Science
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: MIchael Dreyer, University of Maryland

D13 SPS Undergraduate Research II
Room: 309 Chair: Gary White, American Institute of Physics

D14 Colloids II: Structure and Rheology
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: David Pine, New York University

D15 Monolayers, Membranes and Microemulsions
Room: 316 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Erik Luijten, Northwestern University

D16 Focus Session: BEC-BCS Crossover
Room: 317 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Kathy Levin, University of Chicago

D17 Focus Session: Foundations of Quantum Theory
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Ian Durham, Saint Anselm College

D18 Focus Session: Transport and Optical Properties of Conjugated Polymers and other Solution Processable Semiconductors
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Anvar Zakhidov, University of Texas at Dallas

D19 Focus Session: Grazing Incidence Scattering and New Imaging Techniques
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Marcus Cicerone, National Institute of Standards and Technology

D20 Polymers and Energy: Photovoltaics, Fuel Cells, Batteries II
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Azar Alizadeh, General Electric

D21 Semiconductors: Transport
Room: 323 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Sergey Vitkalov, City University of New York

D22 Focus Session: Spins in Group IV Semiconductors
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Bruce Kane, LPS, University of Maryland

D23 Diffusion and Transport Properties
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Duane Johnston, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

D24 Focus Session: Nanotube manipulation and processing
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Mehl, Naval Research Laboratory

D25 Focus Session: Graphene III: Growth and Structure
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Alessandra Lanzara, University of California, Berkeley

D26 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience III: Defects, Doping, and Structure
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Paul Kent, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

D27 Advances in Instrumentation and Measurement I
Room: 329 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Larry Rubin, MIT

D28 Focus Session: Thermoelectric Materials: Oxides and Complex Crystals
Room: 330 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Ali Shakouri, University of California, Santa Cruz

D29 Focus Session: The Physics and Astronomy New Faculty Workshops I
Room: 333 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Robert Hilborn, University of Texas at Dallas

D30 Focus Session: Cobaltite and Manganite films
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Chris Leighton, University of Minnesota

D31 Focus Session: Quantum Magnets
Room: 335 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Ray Osborn, Argonne National Laboratory

D32 Focus Session: Spin Dependent Physics in Organic Materials and Graphene
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Tiffany Santos, Argonne National Laboratory

D33 Superconducting Theory I
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dennis Newnes, IBM

D34 Superconductivity: Josephson Effects
Room: 404 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ulrich Welp, Argonne National Laboratory

D35 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors IV: General Experiment
Room: 405 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Rick Greene, University of Maryland

D36 Carbon Nanotubes: Low Temperature Electronic Properties
Room: 408 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Xia Hong, Pennsylvania State University

D37 Focus Session: Fundamental Developments in Density Functional Theory III
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Alberto Castro, Free University of Berlin

D38 Focus Session: The Chemical Physics of Biological and Biologically-inspired Solar Energy Harvesting III
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Martin Plenio, Imperial College

D39 Focus Session: Noise and Fluctuations in Biochemical Networks
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP GSNP Chair: Jayajit Das, Ohio State University

D40 Nucleic Acids: Packaging, Ejection and Translocation
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Xiangyun Qiu, National Institutes of Health

D41 Hidden Order and Quantum Criticality in Heavy Fermions
Room: 413 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Johnpierre Paglione, University of Maryland

Mar 16 2009 5:45PM, Monday

E1 APS Prizes and Awards Ceremonial Session
Room: 301/302 Chair: Cherry Murray, APS President, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Mar 16 2009 6:45PM, Monday

F1 Welcome Reception
Room: Second Floor Concourse

Mar 16 2009 8:00PM, Monday

G1 Energy and the Environment
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A Chair: Allen Goldman, University of Minnesota

Mar 17 2009 8:00AM, Tuesday

H1 Electronic Structure of Disordered Graphene
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Allan MacDonald, University of Texas at Austin

H2 Polymer Physics Prize Symposium Honoring Steve Granick
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom BC Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: MIchael Rubinstein, University of North Carolina

H3 New Frontiers in Biomolecular Physics
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Dean Astumian, University of Maine

H4 New Developments in Heavy Electron Superconductivity
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Joe Thompson, Los Alamos National Laboratory

H5 Physicists as Entreprenuers
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: FIAP FGSA Chair: Venky Venkatesan, Neocera

H6 Quench Dynamics and Thermalization in Quantum Systems
Room: 406 Sponsor: DCMP DAMOP Chair: Vladimir Gritsev, Harvard University

H7 Cellular Imaging at the Nanometer Scale
Room: 407 Sponsor: DBP Chair: K.C. Huang, Stanford University

H8 The Greening of the City of Pittsburgh: The History, Science and Examples
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: FPS Chair: Brian Schwartz, City University of New York

H9 Complex Networks and Their Applications
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Ira Schwartz, Naval Research Laboratory

H10 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Nanostructures I: Quantum Dots
Room: 304 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jie Shan, Case Western Reserve University

H11 Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures II: Molecular Junctions I
Room: 305 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Latha Venkataraman, Columbia University

H12 Focus Session: Directed Organization of Molecular Semiconducting Films
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Daniel Dougherty, North Carolina State University

H13 Numerical Methods for Strongly Correlated System: Heisenberg and Density Matrix
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: James Chelikowsky, University of Texas at Austin

H14 Colloids III: Formation and Control
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Itai Cohen, Cornell University

H15 Low Dimensional Magnetism (including molecules and surfaces)
Room: 316 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: William Ratcliff,, National Institute of Standards and Technology

H16 Matter waves and Quantum Optics
Room: 317 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Dan Goldbaum, Arizona

H17 Focus Session: Semiconducting Qubit Approaches
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Jeremy Levy, University of Pittsburgh

H18 Block Copolymer Thin Films I
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Kevin Yager, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Polymers

H19 Solid Amorphous Polymers
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Sergei Nazarenko, University of Southern Mississippi

H20 Electrically and Optically Active Polymers
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Lynn Loo, Princeton University

H21 Spectroscopic Studies of Semiconductors
Room: 323 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Norman Tolk, Vanderbilt University

H22 Focus Session: Optical Generation and Detection of Spins in Semiconductors
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Jay Kikkawa, University of Pennsylvania

H23 Optical and Spectroscopic Properties and Nano
Room: 325 Sponsor: FIAP DCMP Chair: Stefano Curtarolo, Duke University

H24 Focus Session: Chemical Modification of Nanotubes
Room: 326 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Traian Dumitrica, University of Minnesota

H25 Focus Session: Probing and Modifying Materials with Lasers I
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Kelley, College of William and Mary

H26 Focus Session: Graphene IV: Electronic and Structural Properties
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Stefano Curtarolo, Duke University

H27 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy II: Force Methods
Room: 329 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Young Kuk, Seoul National University

H28 Focus Session: Thermoelectric Materials: Transport Physics
Room: 330 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: David Cahill, University of Illinois

H29 The Physics and Astronomy New Faculty Workshops II
Room: 333 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Robert Hilborn, University of Texas at Dallas

H30 Focus Session: Superconducting and Magnetic Oxide Superlattices and Films
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jak Chakhalian, University of Arkansas

H31 Focus Session: Vanadate Thin Films
Room: 335 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Dmitri Basov, University of California San Diego

H32 Focus Session: Theory and Simulation of Spin-Dependent Effects and Properties I: (First-Principles Calculations)
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG DCOMP DMP Chair: Andre Petukhov, South Dakota School of Mines

H33 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors V: Tunneling, PCAR, Josephson
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Laura Greene, University of Illinois

H34 Superconductivity: Transport Properties
Room: 404 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: J.R. Thompson, University of Tennessee

H35 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors VI: Model Hamiltonians
Room: 405 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Zlatko Tesanovic, Johns Hopkins

H36 Carbon Nanotubes: Electrothermal Transport and Raman Spectroscopy
Room: 408 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Stephen Cronin, University of Southern California

H37 Focus Session: Spectroscopic Probes of Biomolecular Structure and Function I
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Sunil Saxena, University of Pittsburgh

H38 Focus Session: Theory of Electron Transport Through Molecules I
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Matthias Ernzerhof, Université de Montréal

H39 Lipid Bilayers: Structure and Function I
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Alex Levine, University of California, Los Angeles

H40 Biological Physics I
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: David Weitz, Harvard University

H41 CDW, SDW and Charge Order in Organic Conductors
Room: 413 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Claude Bourbonnais, Universite de Sherbrooke

Mar 17 2009 11:15AM, Tuesday

J1 Ballistic-Diffusive Crossover in Graphene Electron Transport
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sankar Das Sarma, University of Maryland

J2 Dynamical Layer Decoupling and Stripe Order High Tc Superconductors
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom BC Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Eduardo Fradkin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

J3 SQUID Amplifiers: at the Quantum Limit
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Clarke, University of California, Berkeley

J4 Panel Discussion: Around the World in 180 Minutes: Differences and Similarities among Women Physicists
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: CSWP FIP Chair: Eliane Lessner, CSWP, and Cherrill Spencer, FIP

J5 Polymer Nanoparticle Interactions
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Thomas Russell, University of Massachusetts

J6 Computational Modeling of Crystallization and Nucleation Phenomena
Room: 406 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Jim Belak, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

J7 Complex Cellular Biological Networks
Room: 407 Sponsor: GSNP DBP Chair: Takashi Nishikawa, Clarkson University

J8 Preparing Physics Students for Careers in Industry
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: FEd FIAP Chair: Lawrence Woolf, General Atomics

J9 Focus Session: Elasticity and Geometry of Thin Objects II
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Pedro Reis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

J10 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Nanostructures II: Quantum-Dot-Coupled Systems
Room: 304 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Feng Wang, University of California, Berkeley

J11 Quantum Dots and Quantum Point Contacts
Room: 305 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sergio Ulloa, Ohio University

J12 Organic Electronic Thin Films
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Renee Diehl, Penn State University

J13 Numerical Methods for Strongly Correlated Systems: Hubbard and Quasi-Particle
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: James Davenport, Brookhaven National Laboratory

J14 Jammed Particles
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Corey O'Hern, Yale University

J15 Quantum Entanglement
Room: 316 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Christopher Fuchs, Perimeter Institute

J16 Focus Session: Disorder in Ultra-Cold Gases
Room: 317 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Maxim Olshanyi, University of Massachusetts, Boston

J17 Focus Session: Superconducting Phase Qubits
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Rob McDermott, University of Wisconsin

J18 Charge Transport and Optical Properties of Organic Semiconductors
Room: 319 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Markus Wohlgenannt, University of Iowa

J19 Block Copolymer Thin Films II
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Kevin Cavicchi, University of Akron

J20 Frank J. Padden Jr. Award Symposium
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Glenn Fredrickson, University of California, Santa Barbara

J21 Focus Sessions: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors II
Room: 323 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Matthew McCluskey, Washington State University

J22 Focus Session: Optical Control and Electron-nuclear Effects in Quantum Dots
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Roberto Myers, Ohio State University

J23 Spectroscopic Studies of 2D Electron Gas and Other Low Dimensional Semiconductor Structures
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Aron Pinczuk, Columbia University

J24 Focus Session: Nanotube Applications
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Stefano Curtarolo, Duke University

J25 Focus Session: Graphene V: Structure and Raman Spectroscopy
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Marcos Pimenta, UFMG, Brasil

J26 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience IV: Carbon- and Silicon-based Nanostructures
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Sohrab Ismail-Beigi, Yale University

J27 Focus Session: X-ray and Neutron Instruments and Sciences I
Room: 329 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Albert Macrander, Argonne National Laboratory

J28 Focus Session: Graphene Device and Applications I
Room: 330 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: James Hannon, IBM

J29 Focus Session: Spin Currents in Metals - New and Miscellaneous Topics
Room: 333 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Samir Garzon, University of South Carolina

J30 Focus Session: Multiferroic Manganites
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Despina Louca, University of Virginia

J31 Focus Session: Magnetic Multilayers
Room: 335 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Kathryn Krycka, National Institute of Standards and Technology

J32 Artificial Structured or Self-Assembled Magnetic Materials
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Brian Maranville, National Institute of Standards and Technology

J33 Superconductivity: Novel Materials
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Elena Cimpoiasu, United States Naval Academy

J34 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors VII: Pressure Effects and Thermal Expansion
Room: 404 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Neil Sullivan, University of Florida

J35 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors VIII: Magnetism (Experiment)
Room: 405 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jeff Lynn, National Institute of Standards and Technology

J36 Si and Ge Nanowires: Electrical Transport and Simulation
Room: 408 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jonathan Pelz, Ohio State University

J37 Focus Session: Spectroscopic Probes of Biomolecular Structure and Function II
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Angela Gronenborn, University of Pittsburgh

J38 Focus Session: Theory of Electron Transport Through Molecules II
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Weitao Yang, Duke University

J39 Lipid Bilayers: Structure and Function II
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Wouter Ellenbroek, University of Pennsylvania

J40 Biological Physics II
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Joshua Socolar, Duke University

J41 Hubbard Model
Room: 413 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Philip Phillips, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Mar 17 2009 2:00PM, Tuesday

K1 Poster Session II (2-5:00pm): Education; SPS/Undergrad Research; Metals; Magnetism; Instrumentation and Measurements; Chemical Physics; Artificially Structured Materials; Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films; AMO Physics; Quantum Information; Bio Physics
Room: Exhibit Hall A

Mar 17 2009 2:30PM, Tuesday

L1 John H. Dillon Medal Symposium in Honor of Venkat Ganesan
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballrom A Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Glenn Fredrickson, University of California, Santa Barbara

L2 Buckley and Lilienfeld Prize
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballrom BC Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Warren Pickett, University of California, Davis

L3 Fe-based Superconductors: Competing Orders
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Hong Ding, Institute of Physics, CAS

L4 The Dynamics of Diversity in Astrophysics
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: COM Chair: Donna Stokes, University of Houston

L5 Competing Ground-States and Novel Excitations in Strongly Correlated Metals
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Andrea Bianchi, Université de Montréal

L6 Earth and Space Magneto-Fluid Dynamics
Room: 406 Sponsor: DFD Chair: John Hawley, University of Virginia

L7 Mechanics of Biomolecular Systems I
Room: 407 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Jens-Christian Meiners, University of Michigan

L8 Jamming at Nonzero Temperature and Stress
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: DCMP GSNP Chair: Vincenzo Vitelli, University of Pennsylvania

L9 Focus Session: Systems Far from Equilibrium II
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP DBP Chair: Michel Pleimling, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

L10 Optical Properties of Nanostructures III: Quantum Dots, Nanowires, and Related Materials
Room: 304 Sponsor: DMP Chair: John McGuire, Los Alamos National Laboratory

L11 Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures III: Molecular Junctions II
Room: 305 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Dan Ralph, Cornell University

L12 Focus Session: Photocatalysis and photovoltaic: Excitation, Trapping, and Transport of Charge Carriers at Surfaces and Interfaces
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Wladyslaw Walukiewicz, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

L13 Computational Methods: Quantum Monte Carlo
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Jeff Grossman, University of California, Berkeley

L14 Colloids IV: Colloids and Interfaces
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: David Weitz, Harvard University

L15 Pattern Formation and Nonlinear Dynamics
Room: 316 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Tom Solomon, Bucknell University

L16 Cold Gases: Spin, Rotation, and Reduced Dimension
Room: 317 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Ludwig Mathey, National Institute of Standards and Technology

L17 Superconducting Flux Qubits and Qubit Amplifiers and Readouts
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Joe Aumentado, National Institute of Standards and Technology

L18 Advanced Techniques in Acceleration and Coherent Radiation
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPB

L19 Focus Session: Ionically Gated and Conventional OFETs and Related Devices
Room: 320 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Jun Takeya, Osaka University

L20 Liquid Crystalline Polymers and Anisotropic Particles
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Lei Zhu, University of Connecticut

L21 Semiconductors: Atomic Structure and Lattices
Room: 323 Sponsor: DCMP FIAP Chair: David Snoke, University of Pittsburgh

L22 Focus Session: Spin-Orbit Effects in Semiconductors
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Roland Winkler, Northern Illinois University

L23 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect, Bilayers
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCMP FIAP Chair: Raymond Ashoori, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

L24 Focus Session: Electronic Properties of Nanotubes
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Sergei Tretiak, Los Alamos National Laboratory

L25 Focus Session: Probing and Modifying Materials with Lasers II
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Craig Arnold, Princeton University

L26 Focus Session: Graphene VI: Phonons and Raman Spectroscopy
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Kostya Novoselov, Manchester University

L27 Focus Session: Graphene Device and Applications II
Room: 329 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Marcus Freitag, IBM

L28 Focus Session: Thermoelectric Materials: Tellurides
Room: 330 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Stefan Zollner, IBM

L29 Focus Session: Incorporating Computational Physics into Teaching
Room: 333 Sponsor: FEd DCOMP Chair: James Belak, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

L30 Focus Session: Multiferroics I
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Craig Fennie, Cornell University

L31 Focus Session: Spin Transport and Exchange Bias in Nanostructures
Room: 335 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Samir Lounis, Forschungszentrum Jülich

L32 Focus Session: Nanostructured Manganites, Thin Films and Others
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Hariharan Srikanth, University of South Florida

L33 Superconductivity: Electronic Structure I
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mike Bleiweiss, Naval Academy Preparatory School

L34 Focus Session: Hybrid Magnetic-Superconducting Systems
Room: 404 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Yvan Bruynseraede, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

L35 Density Functional Theory: Methods
Room: 405 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Steven Louie, University of California, Berkeley

L36 Panel Discussion: APS Publishing: Present and Future
Room: 408

L37 Focus Session: Spectroscopic Probes of Biomolecular Structure and Function III
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: David Pratt, University of Pittsburgh

L38 Focus Session: Theory of Electron Transport Through Molecules III
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Kieron Burke, University of California, Irvine

L39 Focus Session: Theories and Simulations for Biomolecular Dynamics in Cell-like Environments
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Margaret Cheung, University of Houston

L40 Nucleic Acids: Structure, Function and Dynamics
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Michael Poirier, Ohio State University

L41 Atom-Photon Interactions
Room: 413 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Pierre Meystre, University of Arizona

Mar 17 2009 5:45PM, Tuesday

M9 GSNP Business Meeting
Room: 303

M17 GQI Business Meeting
Room: 318

M19 DPOLY Business Meeting
Room: 320

M27 GIMS Business Meeting
Room: 329

M28 FIAP Business Meeting
Room: 330

M31 GMAG Business Meeting
Room: 335

M40 DBP Business Meeting
Room: 412

Mar 17 2009 7:00PM, Tuesday

M42 DCMP Business Meeting
Room: Westin Hotel Washington

M43 DMP Business Meeting
Room: Westin Hotel Fayette

M44 DCP Business Meeting
Room: Westin Hotel Butler West

M45 DCOMP Business Meeting
Room: Westin Hotel Butler East

Mar 18 2009 8:00AM, Wednesday

P1 Optoelectronic Manipulation and Control of Charges and Spins in Quantum Dots
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballrom A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Alexander Efros, Naval Research Laboratory

P2 Critical Spin Liquids in Strongly Correlated Systems
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballrom BC Sponsor: DCMP Chair: T. Senthil, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

P3 Fe-based Superconductors: Correlation Effects
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Steve Kivelson, Stanford University

P4 Physics of Polymer Membranes for Water Purification
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Alamgir Karim, National Institute of Standards and Technology

P5 Fluid Dynamics and Computational Science
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: DFD DCOMP Chair: Pui-Kuen Yeung, Georgia Institute of Technology

P6 Ultracold Gases with Dipolar Interactions
Room: 406 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Han Pu, Rice University

P7 Forging Effective Partnerships with Your Local Science Center: Outcomes from the Workshop on University/Science Center Collaborations
Room: 407 Sponsor: FEd FPS Chair: Philip Hammer, Franklin Institute

P8 Centenary of Lev Landau
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: FHP Chair: Gloria Lubkin, American Institute of Physics

P9 Jamming: Theory and Experiment I
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Daniel Blair, Georgetown University

P10 Focus Session: Multiferroics II
Room: 304 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Serge Nakhmanson, Argonne National Laboratory

P11 Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures IV: Correlation Effects
Room: 305 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Harold Baranger, Duke University

P12 Focus Session: Characterization and Modeling of Complex Surfaces and Interfaces
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Yue Qi, General Motors

P13 Focus Session: Extreme Conditions and High Pressure I: Chemistry
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCOMP GSCCM Chair: Michelle Weinberger, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington

P14 Emulsions and Foams
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Douglas Durian, University of Pennsylvania

P15 Biologically Inspired Physics: Swimming, Propulsion, Bio-fluids
Room: 316 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Silas Alben, Georgia Institute of Technology

P16 Solid Helium: Theory
Room: 317 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Henry Glyde, University of Delaware

P17 Semiconducting Qubits I
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Christie Simmons, University of Wisconsin

P18 Bulk Block Copolymers II
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Bradley Olsen, California Institute of Technology

P19 The Physics of Polymer Nanocomposites: Properties
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Jan Obrzut, National Institute of Standards and Technology

P20 Melts and Solutions
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Chang Ryu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

P21 Computational Study of Semiconductor Band Structures
Room: 323 Sponsor: FIAP DCMP Chair: Chris Van de Walle, University of California, Santa Barbara

P22 Focus Session: Spin Hall and other Spin-Orbit Effects in Semiconductors
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Jairo Sinova, Texas A and M University

P23 Lattice and Mechanical Properties
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Daniel Finkenstadt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

P24 Focus Session: Electron Transport in Nanotubes
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Marco Buongiorno Nardelli, North Carolina State University

P25 Focus Session: Graphene VII: Electronic Properties
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Andre Geim, Manchester University

P26 Focus Session: Graphene VIII: Electronic Properties
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Fuhrer, University of Maryland

P27 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy III: High Frequency and Optical Techniques
Room: 329 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Chris Hammel, Ohio State University

P28 Focus Session: Thermoelectricity in Si-containing Materials
Room: 330 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Udo Pernisz, Dow Corning Corporation

P29 Focus Session: Manganites
Room: 333 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Gang Cao, University of Kentucky

P30 Focus Session: Oxide Surfaces and Interfaces
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jian Shen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

P31 Focus Session: Spin Ice
Room: 335 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Oleg Tchernyshyov, Johns Hopkins University

P32 Focus Session: Spin Dependent Physics in Organic Materials
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Frank Tsui, University of North Carolina

P33 Superconductivity: Electronic Structure II
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Goran Karapetrov, Argonne National Laboratory

P34 Superconductivity: STM
Room: 404 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Maria Iavarone Iavarone, Argonne National Laboratory

P35 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors IX: Mostly Transport
Room: 405 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sergey Budko, Ames Laboratory

P36 Tutorial for Authors and Referees of Physical Review; followed by Physics Journal Question and Answer
Room: 408

P37 Focus Session: Structure and Dynamics of Interfacial Water I
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Hrvoje Petek, University of Pittsburgh

P38 Focus Session: Nanomaterials for Energy Applications I
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Nathaniel Rosi, University of Pittsburgh

P39 Self-Organization in Biological Cells and Tissues I
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Andras Czirok, University of Kansas Medical Center

P40 Theoretical and Computational Biophysics
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Sonya Bahar, University of Missouri--St. Louis

P41 Models of Strongly Correlated Electrons
Room: 413 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Paul Fendley, University of Virginia

Mar 18 2009 11:15AM, Wednesday

Q1 Memory and Focusing in Catastrophic Deformations
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Brenner, Harvard University

Q2 New Insights into Hidden Order in URu2Si2
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom BC Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Mydosh, Leiden University

Q3 Physics and Culture
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Charles Falco, University of Arizona

Q4 Polymer Surface Instabilities
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: DPOLY GSNP Chair: Alfred Crosby, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Q5 Plasmonics in Future Electronics
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Boris Luk`yanchuk, Agency for Science, Technology and Research

Q6 Physics Demonstrations and Strategies for Teaching and Public Outreach
Room: 406 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Ernie Malamud, University of Nevada, Reno

Q7 Physics of the Immune System
Room: 407 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Aaron Dinner, University of Chicago

Q8 Quantum Spin Dynamics and Relaxation in Molecular Magnets
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Andrew Kent, New York University

Q9 Focus Session: Dynamics of Glassy Systems
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: David Grier, New York University

Q10 Focus Session: Multiferroics III and Dielectrics
Room: 304 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Delphine Lebuegle, University of Paris-Sud 11

Q11 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Nanostructures IV: Optical Antennas and Plasmonics
Room: 305 Sponsor: DMP Chair: P. James Schuck, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Q12 Structure, Dynamics, and Diffusion at Surfaces
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Kristen Fichthorn, Penn State University

Q13 Focus Session: Extreme Conditions and High Pressure II: Phase Transitions
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCOMP GSCCM Chair: Amy Lazicki, Geophysical Laboratory

Q14 Granular Fluctuations
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Wolfgang Losert, University of Maryland

Q15 General Topics in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Applications to Social Systems
Room: 316 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Sid Redner, Boston University

Q16 Focus Session: Dipolar Gases and Ultra-Cold Molecules
Room: 317 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Dan Stamper-Kurn, University of California, Berkeley

Q17 Superconducting Qubits: Coherence and New Implementations
Room: 318 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Matthias Steffen, IBM

Q18 Theory and Simulation I
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: August Bosse, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Q19 The Physics of Polymer Nanocomposites: Rheology and Mechanical Properties
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Francis Starr, Wesleyan University

Q20 Thin Films and Adhesion I
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Chris Stafford, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Q21 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors III
Room: 323 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Stavola, Lehigh University

Q22 Focus Session: Spins in Quantum Dots and Mn in Arsenides
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Xinyu Liu, University of Notre Dame

Q23 Quantum Hall Effect: Tunneling, High-Frequency
Room: 325 Sponsor: FIAP DCMP Chair: Ramesh Mani, Georgia State University

Q24 Focus Session: Optical Response of Nanotubes
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Achim Hartschuh, University of Munich

Q25 Focus Session: Graphene IX: Structure and Strain
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Antonio Castro Neto, Boston University

Q26 Focus Session: Graphene X: Theory
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Tobias Stauber, University of Minho, Portugal

Q27 Focus Session: X-ray and Neutron Instruments and Sciences II
Room: 329 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Dennis Mills, Argonne National Laboratory

Q28 Focus Session: Hydrogen Storage/Nanomaterials for Energy
Room: 330 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jason Graetz, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Q29 Focus Session: Ordering in Complex Oxides
Room: 333 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jaime Fernandez-Baca, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Q30 Focus Session: Oxide Superlattices
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Maria Varela, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Q31 Focus Session: Spinels, Pyrochlores and General
Room: 335 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Gavin Lawes, Wayne State University

Q32 Magnetic Domains and Domain Walls
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Kristen Buchanan, Colorado State University

Q33 Superconductivity: Response to Electromagnetic Fields and Proximity Effect
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Art Hebard, University of Florida

Q34 Focus Session: Superconductivity: Magnetic Properties
Room: 404 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Carmen Almasan, Kent State University

Q35 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors X: Spectroscopy
Room: 405 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michelle Johannes, Naval Research Laboratory

Q36 Carbon Nanotubes and Other Nanostructured Materials: Sensing, Transport, and Optical Properties
Room: 408 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Zhigang Jiang, Georgia Tech

Q37 Focus Session: Structure and Dynamics of Interfacial Water II
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Jin Zhao, University of Pittsburgh

Q38 Focus Session: Nanomaterials for Energy Applications II
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Geoff Hutchison, University of Pittsburgh

Q39 Physical Mechanisms of Membrane Remodeling
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Markus Deserno, Carnegie Mellon

Q40 Neural Computation
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: John Beggs, Indiana University

Q41 Strongly Correlated Electron Theory
Room: 413 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Andrey Chubukov, University of Wisconsin

Mar 18 2009 1:00PM, Wednesday

S1 Poster Session III (1-4:00pm): Polymer Physics II; Phase Transitions; General Theory; Insulators and Dieletrics; Semiconductors; Supplementary Abstracts; Post-Deadline Abstracts
Room: Exhibit Hall A

Mar 18 2009 2:30PM, Wednesday

T1 Probes of Nanoscale Magnetism
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballrom A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Chris Hammel, Ohio State University

T2 Electron, Exciton and Phonon Interactions in Nanoparticles
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballrom BC Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Phillippe Guyot-Sionnest, University of Chicago

T3 Keithley Award Session (GIMS)
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: James Matey, US Naval Academy

T4 Polariton Condensates
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: DCMP DAMOP Chair: Jacqueline Bloch, CNRS

T5 Industrial Biophysics
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: FIAP DBP Chair: Philip Wyatt

T6 Panel Discussion: Preparation of Graduate Students for Careers in a Globalized World
Room: 406 Sponsor: FIP FGSA Chair: John W. Clark, Washington University in St. Louis

T7 Patterns on Thin Elastic Sheets
Room: 407 Sponsor: GSNP DPOLY Chair: Benny Davidovitch, University of Massachusetts

T8 Onsager Prize, Nicholson Medal, Apker Award, Davisson-Germer Prize
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Warren Pickett, University of California, Davis

T9 Focus Session: Stochastic Processes in Biological Systems I
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Uwe C. Tauber, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

T10 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Nanostructures V: Plasmonics and Metamaterials
Room: 304 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Markus Raschke, University of Washington

T11 Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures V: Wires and Films
Room: 305 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Mark Hybertsen, Brookhaven National Laboratory

T12 Reaction Kinetics at Surfaces
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: John Kitchin, Carnegie Mellon University

T13 Electronic Structure
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: David Vanderbilt, Rutgers University

T14 Disordered Systems, Glassy Dynamics, and Jamming I
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD GSNP Chair: David Pine, New York University

T15 Fluidic Devices: Micro and Nano
Room: 316 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Thomas Cubaud, Stony Brook University

T16 Fermions in Optical Lattices I
Room: 317 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Henning Moritz, ETH Zurich

T17 Focus Session: Materials in Superconducting Qubits
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: David Pappas, National Institute of Standards and Technology

T18 Focus Session: Organic Photovoltaics and Other Photonic Devices
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Jeff Urban, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

T19 Theory and Simulation II
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Amalie Frischknecht, Sandia National Laboratories

T20 Focus Session: Magnetic Properties of Organic Semiconductors/ Surface Characterization of Organic Materials
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: C.D. Frisbie, University of Minnesota

T21 Semiconductors: Mechanical and Dynamic Properties
Room: 323 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ben Larson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

T22 Focus Session: GaMnAs
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Nitin Samarth, Penn State University

T23 Quantum Hall Effect: Coherent Phenomena
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCMP FIAP Chair: Vladimir Goldman, SUNY at Stony Brook

T24 Focus Session: Excitonic Effects in Nanotubes
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Oleg Prezhdo, University of Washington

T25 Focus Session: Graphene XI: Scanning Probes I
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Eva Andrei, Rutgers University

T26 Focus Session: Graphene XII: Synthesis and Growth
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Taisuke Ohta, Sandia National Laboratories

T27 Focus Session: Pulsed Laser Deposition of Electronic and Photonic Thin Films and Nanostructures
Room: 329 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: R. D. Vispute, University of Maryland, College Park

T28 Focus Session: Thermoelectric Materials: Nanostructures
Room: 330 Sponsor: FIAP DMP Chair: Donald Morelli, Michigan State University

T29 Focus Session: NSF's Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program: Overview and Perspectives
Room: 333 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Catherine Mader, Hope College

T30 Focus Session: Excitations in Multiferroics
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Dimitri Argyriou, Helmholtz Center-Berlin

T31 Focus Session: Magnetic, Electric, and Photo-Induced Magnetization Reversal
Room: 335 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Axel Enders, University of Nebraska

T32 Focus Session: Gilbert Damping and Non-local Spin Injection
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Gerrit E. W. Bauer, Technical University Delft

T33 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors XI: Penetration Depth and Magnetic Anisotropy
Room: 403 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Myron Salomon, University of Texas at Dallas

T34 Superconductivity: Vortex Statics and Dynamics
Room: 404 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Wai Kwok, Argonne National Laboratory

T35 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors XII: Phonons and Miscellaneous Experiment
Room: 405 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Pengcheng Dai, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

T36 Frontiers in Electronic Structure Theory
Room: 408 Sponsor: DCP DCOMP Chair: Brian Landry, Harvard University

T37 Focus Session: Structure and Dynamics of Interfacial Water III
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Kenneth Jordan, University of Pittsburgh

T38 Focus Session: The Transition State in Physics, Chemistry, and Astrophysics I
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Greg Ezra, Cornell University

T39 Focus Session: Physical Virology
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Alex Evilevitch, Lund University

T40 Focus Session: Knots and Loops in Biomolecules
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Joanna Sulkowska, University of California, San Diego

T41 Ferroelectricity and Structural Phase Transitions
Room: 413 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Craig Fennie, Cornell University

Mar 18 2009 5:45PM, Wednesday

T45 Funding Opportunities at NSF
Room: 316

Mar 18 2009 6:15PM, Wednesday

T46 Funding Opportunities at DOE
Room: 315

Mar 18 2009 7:30PM, Wednesday

U1 Windows on Our Universe: Breakthroughs in Observational Cosmology
Room: Westin Hotel Allegheny Ballroom Chair: Andrew Zentner, University of Pittsburgh

Mar 19 2009 8:00AM, Thursday

V1 Noise in Biological Systems
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A Sponsor: DBP Chair: Yin Yeh, University of California, Davis

V2 Constrained Polymers
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom BC Sponsor: DCMP DPOLY Chair: Xaio Lun Wu, University of Pittsburgh

V3 Correlated Phases in Fermi Gases of Ultracold Atoms
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: DCMP DAMOP

V4 Microgels: Colloidal Properties of Gels
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: DPOLY DCMP Chair: Weitz David, Harvard University

V5 Computational Design of Hydrogen Storage Materials
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Chris Van de Walle, University of California, Santa Barbara

V6 Recent Advances in Biomolecular Simulations
Room: 406 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Jerry Bernholc, North Carolina State University

V7 Applications of Magnetic Thin Films with Tilted Anisotropy
Room: 407 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Johan Åkerman, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

V8 The Physics of Imaging and Radiotherapy
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: FPS DBP Chair: Barry Berman, George Washington University

V9 Focus Session: Structure and Dynamics of Complex Networks
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Beate Schmittmann, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

V10 Artificially Structured Materials for Optical Manipulation
Room: 304 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ian Sellers, Sharp

V11 Transport Phenomena and Electronic Properties of Nanostructures
Room: 305 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Luis da Silva, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

V12 Semiconductor Growth and Etching
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Melissa Hines, Cornell University

V13 Physics Education and History
Room: 309 Sponsor: FEd FHP Chair: Michael Pettersen, Washington and Jefferson College

V14 Disordered Systems, Glassy Dynamics, and Jamming II
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD GSNP Chair: Peter Schall, University of Amsterdam

V15 Liquid Crystals I
Room: 316 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Jonathan Selinger, Kent State University

V16 Solid Helium: Experiment
Room: 317 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Haruo Kojima, Rutgers University

V17 Superconducting Transmons and Circuit QED
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Ben Palmer, Laboratory for Physical Sciences, University of Maryland

V18 Focus Session: Physics of Green Polymers and of Biocompatibility
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPOLY DBP Chair: John Torkelson, Northwestern University

V19 Focus Session: Hierarchically Ordered Systems
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Albertu Striolo, University of Oklahoma

V20 Thin Films and Adhesion II
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Connie Roth, Emory University

V21 Semiconductor Growth and Material Processing
Room: 323 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Nelson Tansu, Lehigh University

V22 Focus Session: Dilute Magnetic Oxide Semiconductors
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Berend Jonker, Naval Research Laboratory

V23 Focus Session: Extreme Conditions and High Pressure III: Electronic Transitions and Mixtures
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCOMP GSCCM Chair: Stephane Mazevet, French Atomic Energy Commission

V24 Focus Session: Nanotube Related Hybrid Structures
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Daniel Finkelstadt, Naval Research Laboratory

V25 Focus Session: Graphene XIII: Spectroscopic and Transport Properties
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Shaffique Adam, University of Maryland

V26 Focus Session: Graphene XIV: Magnetism and Bilayers
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Bruno Uchoa, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

V27 Focus Session: Emerging Scanning Probe Microscopy Methods for Biological Applications
Room: 329 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Igor Sokolov, Clarkson University, Sergei Kalinin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

V28 Focus Session: Graphene Device and Applications III
Room: 330 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Phaedon Avouiris, IBM

V29 Correlated Electrons
Room: 333 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Meigan Aronson, Brookhaven National Laboratory

V30 Focus Session: Multiferroic Properties of Oxide Films
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jacabo Santamaria, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

V31 Focus Session: Frustration Theory and Modeling
Room: 335 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Taner Yildirim, NIST Center for Neutron Research

V32 Focus Session: Vortex and Domain Wall Dynamics
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Ilya Krivorotov, Univerisity of California Irvine

V33 Superconductivity: Complex Order Parameter
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Suk Bum Chung, Stanford University

V34 Superconductivity: Spectroscopy
Room: 404 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Tanner, University of Florida

V35 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors XIII: Pairing Symmetry, Theory and Experiment
Room: 405 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Igor Mazin, Naval Research Laboratory

V37 Chemical Dynamics and Molecular Spectroscopy
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Harvard University

V38 Focus Session: The Transition State in Physics, Chemistry, and Astrophysics II
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: K. Srihari, Indian Institute of Technology

V39 Biological Networks and Systems Biology
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Ilya Nemenman, Los Alamos National Laboratory

V40 Mechanics of Biomolecular Systems II
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Andrew Rutenberg, Dalhousie University

Mar 19 2009 11:15AM, Thursday

W1 Supersolids
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Moses Chan, Pennsylvania State University

W2 Progress in Understanding the Nature of the 5/2 Fractional Quantum Hall State
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom BC Sponsor: DCMP GQI Chair: Steven Simon, Alcatel-Lucent

W3 Physics of Circulating Tumor Cells and Metastasis
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Jerry Lee, National Cancer Institute

W4 Recent Progress in Spin-Spiral Ferroelectricity
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: DCMP GMAG Chair: Sang-Wook Cheong, Rutgers University

W5 Physics Meets Art
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: FPS Chair: Philip Taylor, Case Western Reserve University

W6 Progress on Quantum Optics with Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics
Room: 406 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Steve Girwin, Yale University

W7 Information Theory in Biology
Room: 407 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Ned Wingreen, Princeton University

W8 Forefront Detectors for Synchrotron Radiation
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Timothy Graber, University of Chicago

W9 Systems Far from Equilibrium III
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Narayanan Menon, University of Massachusetts

W10 Insulators and Dielectrics: Electronic Structure and Optical Properties
Room: 304 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dillon Fong, Argonne National Laboratory

W11 Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures VI: Kondo Phenomena
Room: 305 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Aditi Mitra, New York University

W12 Steps, Islands and Nanostructures
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Ray Phaneuf, University of Maryland

W13 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors XIV: ARPES
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Norman Mannella, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

W14 Granular Flow
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Arshad Kudrolli, Clark University

W15 Biologically Inspired Physics: Self-Assembly, Filaments, Membranes
Room: 316 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Norm Wagner, University of Delaware

W16 Bosons in Optical Lattices I
Room: 317 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Selim Jochim, Max Planck Institute-Heidelberg

W17 Quantum Algorithms, Simulation, and Error Correction
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Yaakov Weinstein, Mitre Corporation

W18 Focus Session: Mechanical Force Spectroscopy and Device Applications of Polymeric and Biological Materials
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Denis Pristinski, National Institute of Standards and Technology

W19 The Physics of Polymer Nanocomposites: Grafting and Dispersion
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Arthi Jayaraman, University of Colorado, Boulder

W20 Theory and Simulation III
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Jack Douglas, National Institute of Standards and Technology

W21 Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors IV
Room: 323 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Anderson Janotti, University of California Santa Barbara

W22 Focus Session: Dilute Magnetic Nitride Semiconductors
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Roland Kawakami, University of California Riverside

W23 Focus Session: Extreme Conditions and High Pressure IV: Equations of State and Dynamics
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCOMP GSCCM Chair: Kyle Caspersen, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

W24 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience V: Transport
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Hyoung Joon Choi, Yonsei University, Korea

W25 Focus Session: Graphene XV: Scanning Probes II and Hall Effect
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

W26 Focus Session: Graphene XVI: Functionalization and Growth I
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Xiaosong Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology

W27 Hydrogen Storage: Sorbents
Room: 329 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Channing Ahn, California Institute of Technology

W28 Focus Session: Device Applications of Multiferroic Structures
Room: 330 Sponsor: FIAP DMP Chair: Ichiro Takeuchi, University of Maryland

W29 Focus Session: Current-Induced Oscillations
Room: 333 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Chun-Yeol You, Inha University

W30 Focus Session: Ruthenates
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Zhiqiang Mao, Tulane University

W31 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanoparticles and Nanowires
Room: 335 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Amanda Petford-Long, Argonne National Laboratory

W32 Focus Session: Theory and Simulation of Spin-Dependent Effects and Properties II
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG DCOMP DMP Chair: Aldo Romero, Cinvestav Querétaro

W33 Superconductor-Insulator Transitions
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Osofsky, Naval Research Laboratory

W34 Superconducting Nanowires
Room: 404 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Zhili Xiao, Argonne National Laboratory

W35 Superconducting Theory II
Room: 405 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Norman, Argonne National Laboratory

W36 Nanoscale Complex Structures
Room: 408 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Wei Pan, Sandia National Laboratories

W37 Theoretical Methods and Algorithms
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Mohammad Sahrapour, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

W38 Focus Session: Ion Channel Physics and Chemical Physics I
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Rob Coalson, University of Pittsburgh

W39 Quantitative Biology
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Michael Deem, Rice University

W40 Single Molecule Biophysics
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: David Lederman, University of West Virginia

W41 Kondo Physics; Dynamical Mean-Field Theory
Room: 413 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Chris Marianetti, Columbia University

Mar 19 2009 2:30PM, Thursday

X1 Persistent Currents in Normal Metals
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Karyn LeHur, Yale University

X2 Vortex Dynamics and Josephson Lasers in Superconductors
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom BC Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Alexander Gurevich, Florida State University

X3 Spin Hall and Quantum Spin Hall Effects
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Awschalom, University of California, Santa Barbara

X4 Responsive Gels at Surfaces and in the Bulk
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Ryan Hayward, University of Massachusetts

X5 Active Soft Matter: From Granular Rods to Flocks to Living Cells
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Cristina Marchetti, Syracuse University

X6 Rahman Prize Lecture and Theory of Multiferroics
Room: 406 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Craig Fennie, Cornell University

X7 DNA Loop Formation, Nucleosome Positioning and Transcriptional Regulation
Room: 407 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Phil Nelson, University of Pennsylvania

X8 50 Years of Anderson Localization
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: FHP Chair: David Thouless, University of Washington

X9 Focus Session: Jamming: Theory and Experiment II
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University

X10 Insulators and Dielectrics: Defects, Structure, and Mechanical and Dynamical Properties
Room: 304 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Tim Fister, Argonne National Laboratory

X11 Fermions in Optical Lattices II
Room: 305 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Conjung Wu, University of California, San Diego

X12 Structure and Morphology of Oxide Surfaces and Thin Films
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Shao-Chun Li, Tulane University

X13 Density Functional Methods: Applications
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Samuel Trickey, University of Florida

X14 Micro and Nano Fluid Mechanics
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Boyd Edwards, West Virginia University

X15 Liquid Crystals II
Room: 316 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Peter Collings, Swarthmore College

X16 Liquid Helium
Room: 317 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Norbert Mulders, University of Delaware

X17 Semiconducting Qubits II
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Xuedong Hu, University of Buffalo

X18 Elastomers and Gels I
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Alfred Crosby, University of Massachusetts

X19 Charged and Ion-containing Polymers
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Jodie Lutkenhaus, Yale University

X20 Long Range Order in Polymer Structures and Morphologies
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Sam Gido, University of Massachusetts

X21 Spectroscopic Studies of Semiconductor Structure and Their Growth
Room: 323 Sponsor: FIAP DCMP Chair: Yia-Chung Chang, Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica

X22 Focus Session: Magnetism in II-VI and IV Semiconductors
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Igor Zutic, SUNY Buffalo

X23 Quantum Hall Effect: Quantum Computation
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Steven Simon, Oxford University

X24 Hydrogen Storage: Complex Hydrides
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: John Vajo, HRL Laboratories

X25 Focus Session: Graphene XVII: p-n Junctions, Nanoribbons, and Quantum Dots
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Fogler, University of California, San Diego

X26 Nanowire & Nanotube Synthesis and Properties
Room: 328 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Mehl, Naval Research Laboratory

X27 Optoelectronic Devices and Applications
Room: 329 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Nelson Tansu, Lehigh University

X28 Focus Session: Magnetoelectric Coupling in Multiferroic Systems
Room: 330 Sponsor: FIAP DMP Chair: Gopalan Srinivasan, Oakland University

X29 Focus Session: Current Induced Dynamics in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions and Spin Waves
Room: 333 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Ioan Tudosa, University of California, San Diego

X30 Focus Session: Cobaltites
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Igor Zaliznyak, Brookhaven National Laboratory

X31 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanostructures: Domain Walls, Reversal, Oscillators
Room: 335 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Valnetyn Novosad, Argonne National Laboratory

X32 Cooperative Phenomena (incl. Spin Structures, Spin Waves, Phase Transitions) II
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Stephan Rosenkranz, Argonne National Laboratory

X33 MgB2 and Multigap Superconductivity
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mike Sumption, Ohio State University

X34 Superconductivity: Magnetic Field Effects
Room: 404 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Milind Kunchur, University of South Carolina

X35 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors XV: Electronic Structure and Magnetism
Room: 405 Sponsor: DMP Chair: David Parker, Naval Research Laboratory

X36 Glassy, Amorphous, and Quasicrystalline Materials
Room: 408 Sponsor: DCMP

X37 Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Single Molecules and Nanoparticles
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Will Castleman, Pennsylvania State University

X38 Focus Session: Ion Channel Physics and Chemical Physics II
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Thomas Beck, University of Cincinnati

X39 Focus Session: Crystal Growth of and Moderated by Proteins
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Raymond Friddle, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

X40 Proteins in Membranes
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Sunil Saxena, University of Pittsburgh

X41 Strongly Correlated Electrons
Room: 413 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Valery Kiryukhin, Rutgers University

Mar 20 2009 8:00AM, Friday

Y1 Superconductivity and Quantum Transport in Nanowires
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Alexei Berzryadi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Y2 Advances in Optical Microscopy
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom BC Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Weitz, Harvard University

Y3 Multi-valley Electron Systems in the Quantum Limit
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Wei Pan, Sandia National Laboratories

Y4 New insight into Exchange Bias from Advanced Scattering Techniques
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Julie Borchers, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Y5 Self-Organization in Biological Cells and Tissues II
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Ray Goldstein, University of Cambridge

Y6 Novel Orbital Quantum Phases in Cold Atom Optical Lattices
Room: 406 Sponsor: DCMP DAMOP Chair: Steve Girvin, Yale University

Y7 The Statistical Properties of Forces in Jammed Granular Matter
Room: 407 Sponsor: GSNP DCMP Chair: Wim van Saarloos, Leiden University

Y8 Pushing the Limits of Mechanical Detection
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Dan Rugar, IBM Almaden

Y9 Stochastic Processes in Biological Systems II
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Leah Shaw, The College of William and Mary

Y10 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Nanostructures VI: Artificially Structured Materials
Room: 304 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Stefano Cabrini, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Y11 Superlattices and Nanostructures - Electronic Properties
Room: 305 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Stefan Badescu, Naval Research Laboratory

Y12 Electronic and Lattice Properties, Including Quantum Size Effects
Room: 308 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Tai Chiang, University of Illlinois, Champaign-Urbana

Y13 General Theoretical and Computational Methods
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Christine Wu, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Y14 Nonequilibrium and Templated Assembly
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Jack Douglas, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Y15 Liquid Crystals III
Room: 316 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Luz Martinez-Miranda, University of Maryland

Y16 Elastomers and Gels II
Room: 317 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Ryan Hayward, University of Massachusetts

Y17 Focus Session: Quantum Metrology and Nanomechanics
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: David DiVincenzo, IBM

Y18 Focus Session: Surface Instabilities and Adsorbed or Grafted Layers
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPOLY

Y19 Surfaces and Adsorption I
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Zhiqun Lin, Iowa State University

Y20 Biological-Synthetic Hybrid Materials
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Ali Dhinojwala, University of Akron

Y22 Focus Session: Spin Resonance in Semiconductors
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Stephen Lyon, Princeton University

Y24 Focus Session: Hydrogen Storage: Atomic and Molecular Motions
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Eric Majzoub, University of Missouri--St. Louis

Y25 Focus Session: Graphene XVIII: Functionalization and Growth II
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Yong-Jie Wang, NHMFL, Florida State University

Y26 Glassy and Amorphous Systems
Room: 328 Sponsor: DCMP

Y27 Mechanical Properties of Nanomaterials
Room: 329 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Sullivan, Sandia National Laboratories

Y28 Nanotechnology I
Room: 330 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Jason Benkoski, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University

Y29 Focus Session: Spin Liquids
Room: 333 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Tsuyoshi Kimura, Osaka University

Y30 Focus Session: LAO/STO Interfaces
Room: 334 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Anand Bhattacharya, Argonne National Laboratory

Y31 Focus Session: Neutron Scattering
Room: 335 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Jason Lashley, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Y32 Focus Session: Current-Induced Magnetic Switching
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Yi Ji, University of Delaware

Y33 Nanowires and Quantum Dots
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Milind Kunchur, University of South Carolina

Y34 Superconducting Devices and Applications
Room: 404 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Galen O'Neil and Robert Horansky, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Y35 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors XVI: Hc2 and Vortex Dynamics
Room: 405 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ruslan Prozorov, Ames Laboratory

Y36 Organic and Hybrid Surfaces and Interfaces
Room: 408 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: V. Podzorov, Rutgers University

Y37 Mesoscopic Systems, Clusters, and Nanoscale Systems I
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Julius Jellinek, Argonne National Laboratory

Y38 Surfaces, Interfaces, and Colloids I
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Sunil Sainis, Rowland Institute, Harvard University

Y39 Techniques in Biophysics
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Andrea Liu, University of Pennsylvania

Y40 Physiological and Medical Physics
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Krastan Blagoev, National Science Foundation

Mar 20 2009 11:15AM, Friday

Z1 Quasiparticles and non-Abelian Statistics in the 5/2 State
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballrom A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Gregory Fiete, California Institute of Technology

Z2 Detection of Non-Gaussian Noise in Mesoscopic Systems
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballrom BC Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Norman Birge, Michigan State University

Z3 Non-viral Based Gene Delivery Systems: Opportunities, Obstacles and Challenges
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: DPOLY DBP Chair: Yongmei Wang, Memphis

Z4 Biological Polyelectrolytes
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: DPOLY DBP Chair: Garegin Papoian, University of North Carolina

Z5 Physics in the Aerospace Industry
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Jeffrey Hunt, Boeing

Z6 Impact of NSF's TeraGrid on Physics Research
Room: 406 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Michael Levine, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

Z7 Nanoprobes of Molecules and Cells
Room: 407 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Adam Cohen, Harvard University

Z8 Statistical Physics in Biology
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Marek Cieplak, Johns Hopkins University

Z9 Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaotic Systems
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Robert Behringer, Duke University,

Z10 Insulators and Dielectrics: Dielectric, Thermal, and Transport Properties
Room: 304 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jivtesh Garg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Z12 Phase Transitions at Surfaces
Room: 308 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Robert Bartynski, Rutgers University

Z14 Equilibrium Self-Assembly
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: James Gilchrist, Lehigh University

Z16 Bosons in Optical Lattices II
Room: 317 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Trey Porto, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg

Z17 Spin Qubit Coherence and Control
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Paola Cappellaro, Harvard University

Z18 Surfaces and Adsorption II
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Elaine Zhu, University of Notre Dame

Z19 Semi-Crystalline Polymers
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Steve Hudson, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Z20 Polymer Blends
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Mark Foster

Z22 Focus Session: Quantum Spin Hall Effect
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Ron Jansen, University of Twente

Z24 Hydrogen Storage: Dopants and Catalysts
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Fred Pinkerton, GM Research

Z25 Focus Session: Graphene XIX: Electronic Properties
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Silvia Viola, Boston University

Z26 Composite and Porous Media
Room: 328 Sponsor: DCMP

Z27 Advances in Instrumentation and Measurement II
Room: 329 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Charles Agosta, Clark University

Z28 Nanotechnology II
Room: 330 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Keith Williams, University of Virginia,

Z29 Magnetostructural Effects and General Magnetism
Room: 333 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Sara Majetich, Carnegie Mellon University

Z30 Focus Session: Iron-based Multiferroics
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Sang-Wook Cheong, Rutgers University

Z31 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites: Characterization
Room: 335 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Manh-Huong Phan, University of South Florida

Z32 Focus Session: Magnetoresistance and Spin-dependent Transport
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Kiran Thadani, Cornell University

Z33 Fluctuation Phenomena
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ruslan Prozorov, Ames Laboratory

Z35 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors XVII: Similar Materials: Selenides and Tellurides
Room: 405 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jiangping Hu, Purdue University

Z37 Mesoscopic Systems, Clusters, and Nanoscale Systems II
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Shiv Khanna, Virginia Commonwealth University

Z38 Surfaces, Interfaces, and Colloids II
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Sunil Sainis, Rowland Institute, Harvard University

Mar 16 2009 8:00AM, Monday

A1 Graphene - Spectroscopies
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Amir Yacoby, Harvard University.

A2 Transport in Oxide Interfaces
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom BC Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Darrell Schlom, Cornell University

A3 Fe-based Superconductors: Pairing Symmetry
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Fu-Chun Zhang, University of Hong Kong

A4 Polymers and Energy Applications
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Nitash Balsara, University of California, Berkeley

A5 Nanostructuring with Ions
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: John Melngailis, University of Maryland

A6 Computational Physics in Research and Teaching: GRC Topics and Themes
Room: 406 Sponsor: FEd DCOMP Chair: Wolfgang Christian, Davidson College

A7 Systems Biology of Natural and Synthetic Circuits
Room: 407 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Jan Skotheim, Standford University

A8 Quantum Information meets Many-Particle Physics
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: GQI Chair: David DiVincenzo, IBM Watson

A9 Systems Far from Equilibrium I
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Royce Zia, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

A10 Focus Session: Ferroelectrics I
Room: 304 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Matthew Dawber, Stonybrook University

A11 Superlattices, Nanostructures, Materials: Synthesis, Growth and Characterization
Room: 305 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Joe Tischler, Naval Research Laboratory

A12 Directed Organization of Nanostructured Films
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Ray Phaneuf, University of Maryland

A13 Focus Session: Metropolis Thesis Prize and Multiscale Modeling
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Jorge Jose, SUNY Buffalo

A14 Instabilities, Turbulence and Nonlinear Flows
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Guenter Ahlers, University of California, Santa Barbara

A15 Soft Matter, Fluid Structure and Properties
Room: 316 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Wendy Zhang, University of Chicago

A16 Quantum Fermi Gases and Feshbach Resonances
Room: 317 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Martin Zwierlein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

A17 Focus Session: Photons and Quantum Dots
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Thaddeus Ladd, Stanford University

A18 Bulk Block Copolymers I
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Thomas Epps, University of Delaware

A19 The Physics of Polymer Nanocomposites: Polymer Nanoparticle Interactions
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Amalie Frischknecht, Sandia National Laboratories

A20 Spatially Confined Polymer Materials
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Joanne Budzien, Sandia National Laboratories

A21 Semiconductors: 2D Electrons and Transport
Room: 323 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Michael Zudov, University of Minnesota

A22 Focus Session: Spins in Group III-V and II-VI Semiconductors
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Paul Crowell, University of Minnesota

A23 Plasmons and Optical Absorption
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Singh, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A24 Focus Session: Nanotube Synthesis
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Avetik Harutyunyan, Honda Research

A25 Focus Session: Graphene I: Electronic Properties
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jules Carbotte, McMaster University

A26 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience I: Inorganic Nanostructures and Interfaces
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Peihong Zhang, SUNY Buffalo

A27 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy I: Low Temperatures
Room: 329 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Cyrus Hirjibehedin, London Centre for Nanotechnology

A28 Bionanotechnology
Room: 330 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Xinsheng (Sean) Ling, Brown University

A29 Spin Glasses and Disordered Magnetic Materials
Room: 333 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Ben Ueland, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Center for Neutron Research

A30 Focus Session: Vanadates, Iridates and Other Oxides
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Stephen Nagler, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A31 Focus Session: Molecular Nanomagnets
Room: 335 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Michael Pechan, Miami University

A32 Magnetization and Spin Dynamics
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Ion Garate, University of Texas at Austin

A33 Superconductivity: ARPES
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Barrett Wells, University of Connecticut

A34 Superconductivity: Spin Properties
Room: 404 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Tranquada, Brookhaven National Laboratory

A35 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors I: Synthesis and New Materials
Room: 405 Sponsor: DMP Chair: David Larbelestier, Florida State University

A36 Carbon Nanotubes: Electrical Transport and Noise
Room: 408 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Hui Tang, Yale University,

A37 Focus Session: Fundamental Developments in Density Functional Theory I
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Adam Wasserman, Purdue University

A38 Focus Session: The Chemical Physics of Biological and Biologically-inspired Solar Energy Harvesting I
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Greg Scholes, University of Toronto

A39 Cellular Biomechanics I
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Jennifer Schwarz, Syracuse University

A40 Proteins: Structure and Functions I
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Ching-Hwa Kiang, Rice University

A41 Heavy Fermions
Room: 413 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Rena Zieve, University of California, Davis

Mar 16 2009 11:15AM, Monday

B1 New Experimental Developments in Graphene
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Eva Andrei, Rutgers University

B2 HTSC: Fermi Pockets and Quantum Oscillations
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom BC Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Robert Laughlin, Stanford University

B3 10,000 Undergraduate Physics Majors: Progress on Doubling
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Robert Hilborn, University of Texas at Dallas

B4 Polymer Translocation
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Murugappan Muthukumar, University of Massachusetts

B5 Heterogeneous Integration on Silicon
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Ganesh Samudra, National University of Singapore

B6 Panel Discussion: Physics in Africa
Room: 406 Sponsor: FIP Chair: Abebe Kebede, North Carolina A&T University

B7 Bacterial Growth Laws and Systems Biology
Room: 407 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Terence Hwa, University of California, San Diego

B8 Spectroscopy of Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Erich Mueller, Cornell University

B9 GSNP Student Speaker Award Session and Applications of Statistical and Nonlinear Physics in the Life Sciences
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Harvey Gould, Clark University

B10 Focus Session: Ferroelectrics II
Room: 304 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Javier Junquera, Universidad de Cantabria

B11 Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures I: Surface Assemblies and Films
Room: 305 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Douglas Natelson, Rice University

B12 Focus Session: Structure and Dynamics of Metal Thin Films
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Theodore Einstein, University of Maryland

B13 SPS Undergraduate Research I
Room: 309 Chair: Gary White, American Institute of Physics

B14 Focus Session: Colloids I: Physical Behavior and Mechanisms
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Eric Weeks, Emory University

B15 Current Fluid Mechanics
Room: 316 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Shelley Anna, Carnegie Mellon University

B16 Cold Fusion
Room: 317 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Scott Chubb, Naval Research Laboratory

B17 Focus Session: Progress towards Scalable Quantum Information Processing
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Mark Dykman, Michigan State University

B18 Focus Session: Templated Assembly of Polymers
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Alamgir Karim, University of Akron

B19 Focus Session: Polymers and Ionic Liquids
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Peggy Cebe, Tufts University

B20 Focus Session: Polymers and Energy: Photovoltaics, Fuel Cells, Batteries I
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Bumjoon Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

B21 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors I
Room: 323 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Eugene Haller, University of California, Berkeley

B22 Focus Session: Theory of Spin-based Semiconductor Devices
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Lukasz Cywinski, University of Maryland

B23 Alloy Theory
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Benjamin Burton, National Institute of Standards and Technology

B24 Focus Session: Nanotube Characterization
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Cary Yang, Santa Clara University

B25 Graphene II: Electronic Properties and QHE
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ziqiang Wang, Boston College

B26 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience II: Mechanics, Dynamics, and Assembly
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Dennis Rapaport,, Bar-Ilan University

B27 Plasmonics and Metamaterials
Room: 329 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Harry Atwater, California Institute of Technology, Chris Van de Walle, University of California, Santa Barbara

B28 Focus Session: Graphene II: Synthesis and Characterization
Room: 330 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Yu-Ming Lin, IBM

B29 Spin-Dependent Transport
Room: 333 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Sergei Urazhdin, West Virginia University

B30 Focus Session: Manganite Superlattices
Room: 334 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Satoshi Okamoto, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

B31 Focus Session: Dimers and Other Frustrated Structures
Room: 335 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Chris Wiebe, Florida State University

B32 Cooperative Phenomena (incl. Spin Structures, Spin Waves, Phase Transitions) I
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Paul Haney, National Institute of Standards and Technology

B33 Superconductivity: Mostly Cuprates
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Timir Datta, University of South Carolina

B34 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors II: Quantum Oscillations, Electronic Structure and Magnetism
Room: 404 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Vladimir Antropov, Ames Laboratory

B35 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors III: General Theory
Room: 405 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Alex Koshelev, Argonne National Laboratory

B36 Carbon Nanotubes: Devices and Applications
Room: 408 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Masa Ishigami, University of Central Florida

B37 Focus Session: Fundamental Developments in Density Functional Theory II
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Paula Mori-Sanchez, Duke University

B38 Focus Session: The Chemical Physics of Biological and Biologically-inspired Solar Energy Harvesting II
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Bern Kohler, Ohio State University

B39 Cellular Biomechanics II
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Arpita Upadhyaya, University of Maryland

B40 Proteins: Structure and Function II
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Paul Janmey, University of Pennsylvania

B41 Heavy Fermion 115 Superconductors
Room: 413 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Carlos Bolech, Rice University

Mar 16 2009 2:00PM, Monday

C1 Poster Session I (2-5:00pm): Polymer Physics; Applications; Complex Structured Materials; Quantum Fluids; Nano/Bionanotechnology; Fluids; General; Statistical & Nonlinear; Superconductors
Room: Exhibit Hall A

Mar 16 2009 2:30PM, Monday

D1 Phase Transitions and Transport in Quantum Hall Superfluids
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Allan MacDonald, University of Texas at Austin

D2 HTSC: New Developments
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom BC Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Chandra Varma, University of California, Riverdside

D3 Pake, McGroddy, and Industrial Application of Physics Prizes, Adler Award
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: FIAP DMP Chair: Mark Lee, Sandia National Laboratories

D4 Spin Qubits in Quantum Dots
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: GQI DCMP Chair: Jason Petta, Princeton University

D5 Origins of Silicon Valley
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: FHP Chair: Gloria Lubkin, American Institute of Physics

D6 Predictive Materials Design for Alternative Energy Storage
Room: 406 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Zhenyu Zhang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

D7 Rare Events in Physics and Population Dynamics
Room: 407 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Beate Schmittmann, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

D8 Unconventional Spin Torques
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Shufeng Zhang, University of Missouri

D9 Elasticity and Geometry of Thin Objects I
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Dominic Vella, DAMTP, Cambridge and LPS ENS, Paris

D10 Focus Session: Ferroelectrics III and Piezoelectrics
Room: 304 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Alexei Grigoriev, University of Tulsa

D11 Optical Properties of Dots, Wires and Superlattices
Room: 305 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Scheibner, Naval Research Laboratory

D12 Novel Instrumentation and Techniques in Surface Science
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: MIchael Dreyer, University of Maryland

D13 SPS Undergraduate Research II
Room: 309 Chair: Gary White, American Institute of Physics

D14 Colloids II: Structure and Rheology
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: David Pine, New York University

D15 Monolayers, Membranes and Microemulsions
Room: 316 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Erik Luijten, Northwestern University

D16 Focus Session: BEC-BCS Crossover
Room: 317 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Kathy Levin, University of Chicago

D17 Focus Session: Foundations of Quantum Theory
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Ian Durham, Saint Anselm College

D18 Focus Session: Transport and Optical Properties of Conjugated Polymers and other Solution Processable Semiconductors
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Anvar Zakhidov, University of Texas at Dallas

D19 Focus Session: Grazing Incidence Scattering and New Imaging Techniques
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Marcus Cicerone, National Institute of Standards and Technology

D20 Polymers and Energy: Photovoltaics, Fuel Cells, Batteries II
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Azar Alizadeh, General Electric

D21 Semiconductors: Transport
Room: 323 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Sergey Vitkalov, City University of New York

D22 Focus Session: Spins in Group IV Semiconductors
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Bruce Kane, LPS, University of Maryland

D23 Diffusion and Transport Properties
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Duane Johnston, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

D24 Focus Session: Nanotube manipulation and processing
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Mehl, Naval Research Laboratory

D25 Focus Session: Graphene III: Growth and Structure
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Alessandra Lanzara, University of California, Berkeley

D26 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience III: Defects, Doping, and Structure
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Paul Kent, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

D27 Advances in Instrumentation and Measurement I
Room: 329 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Larry Rubin, MIT

D28 Focus Session: Thermoelectric Materials: Oxides and Complex Crystals
Room: 330 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Ali Shakouri, University of California, Santa Cruz

D29 Focus Session: The Physics and Astronomy New Faculty Workshops I
Room: 333 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Robert Hilborn, University of Texas at Dallas

D30 Focus Session: Cobaltite and Manganite films
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Chris Leighton, University of Minnesota

D31 Focus Session: Quantum Magnets
Room: 335 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Ray Osborn, Argonne National Laboratory

D32 Focus Session: Spin Dependent Physics in Organic Materials and Graphene
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Tiffany Santos, Argonne National Laboratory

D33 Superconducting Theory I
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dennis Newnes, IBM

D34 Superconductivity: Josephson Effects
Room: 404 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ulrich Welp, Argonne National Laboratory

D35 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors IV: General Experiment
Room: 405 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Rick Greene, University of Maryland

D36 Carbon Nanotubes: Low Temperature Electronic Properties
Room: 408 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Xia Hong, Pennsylvania State University

D37 Focus Session: Fundamental Developments in Density Functional Theory III
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Alberto Castro, Free University of Berlin

D38 Focus Session: The Chemical Physics of Biological and Biologically-inspired Solar Energy Harvesting III
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Martin Plenio, Imperial College

D39 Focus Session: Noise and Fluctuations in Biochemical Networks
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP GSNP Chair: Jayajit Das, Ohio State University

D40 Nucleic Acids: Packaging, Ejection and Translocation
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Xiangyun Qiu, National Institutes of Health

D41 Hidden Order and Quantum Criticality in Heavy Fermions
Room: 413 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Johnpierre Paglione, University of Maryland

Mar 16 2009 5:45PM, Monday

E1 APS Prizes and Awards Ceremonial Session
Room: 301/302 Chair: Cherry Murray, APS President, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Mar 16 2009 6:45PM, Monday

F1 Welcome Reception
Room: Second Floor Concourse

Mar 16 2009 8:00PM, Monday

G1 Energy and the Environment
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A Chair: Allen Goldman, University of Minnesota

Mar 17 2009 8:00AM, Tuesday

H1 Electronic Structure of Disordered Graphene
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Allan MacDonald, University of Texas at Austin

H2 Polymer Physics Prize Symposium Honoring Steve Granick
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom BC Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: MIchael Rubinstein, University of North Carolina

H3 New Frontiers in Biomolecular Physics
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Dean Astumian, University of Maine

H4 New Developments in Heavy Electron Superconductivity
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Joe Thompson, Los Alamos National Laboratory

H5 Physicists as Entreprenuers
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: FIAP FGSA Chair: Venky Venkatesan, Neocera

H6 Quench Dynamics and Thermalization in Quantum Systems
Room: 406 Sponsor: DCMP DAMOP Chair: Vladimir Gritsev, Harvard University

H7 Cellular Imaging at the Nanometer Scale
Room: 407 Sponsor: DBP Chair: K.C. Huang, Stanford University

H8 The Greening of the City of Pittsburgh: The History, Science and Examples
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: FPS Chair: Brian Schwartz, City University of New York

H9 Complex Networks and Their Applications
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Ira Schwartz, Naval Research Laboratory

H10 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Nanostructures I: Quantum Dots
Room: 304 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jie Shan, Case Western Reserve University

H11 Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures II: Molecular Junctions I
Room: 305 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Latha Venkataraman, Columbia University

H12 Focus Session: Directed Organization of Molecular Semiconducting Films
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Daniel Dougherty, North Carolina State University

H13 Numerical Methods for Strongly Correlated System: Heisenberg and Density Matrix
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: James Chelikowsky, University of Texas at Austin

H14 Colloids III: Formation and Control
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Itai Cohen, Cornell University

H15 Low Dimensional Magnetism (including molecules and surfaces)
Room: 316 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: William Ratcliff,, National Institute of Standards and Technology

H16 Matter waves and Quantum Optics
Room: 317 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Dan Goldbaum, Arizona

H17 Focus Session: Semiconducting Qubit Approaches
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Jeremy Levy, University of Pittsburgh

H18 Block Copolymer Thin Films I
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Kevin Yager, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Polymers

H19 Solid Amorphous Polymers
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Sergei Nazarenko, University of Southern Mississippi

H20 Electrically and Optically Active Polymers
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Lynn Loo, Princeton University

H21 Spectroscopic Studies of Semiconductors
Room: 323 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Norman Tolk, Vanderbilt University

H22 Focus Session: Optical Generation and Detection of Spins in Semiconductors
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Jay Kikkawa, University of Pennsylvania

H23 Optical and Spectroscopic Properties and Nano
Room: 325 Sponsor: FIAP DCMP Chair: Stefano Curtarolo, Duke University

H24 Focus Session: Chemical Modification of Nanotubes
Room: 326 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Traian Dumitrica, University of Minnesota

H25 Focus Session: Probing and Modifying Materials with Lasers I
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Kelley, College of William and Mary

H26 Focus Session: Graphene IV: Electronic and Structural Properties
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Stefano Curtarolo, Duke University

H27 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy II: Force Methods
Room: 329 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Young Kuk, Seoul National University

H28 Focus Session: Thermoelectric Materials: Transport Physics
Room: 330 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: David Cahill, University of Illinois

H29 The Physics and Astronomy New Faculty Workshops II
Room: 333 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Robert Hilborn, University of Texas at Dallas

H30 Focus Session: Superconducting and Magnetic Oxide Superlattices and Films
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jak Chakhalian, University of Arkansas

H31 Focus Session: Vanadate Thin Films
Room: 335 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Dmitri Basov, University of California San Diego

H32 Focus Session: Theory and Simulation of Spin-Dependent Effects and Properties I: (First-Principles Calculations)
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG DCOMP DMP Chair: Andre Petukhov, South Dakota School of Mines

H33 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors V: Tunneling, PCAR, Josephson
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Laura Greene, University of Illinois

H34 Superconductivity: Transport Properties
Room: 404 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: J.R. Thompson, University of Tennessee

H35 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors VI: Model Hamiltonians
Room: 405 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Zlatko Tesanovic, Johns Hopkins

H36 Carbon Nanotubes: Electrothermal Transport and Raman Spectroscopy
Room: 408 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Stephen Cronin, University of Southern California

H37 Focus Session: Spectroscopic Probes of Biomolecular Structure and Function I
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Sunil Saxena, University of Pittsburgh

H38 Focus Session: Theory of Electron Transport Through Molecules I
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Matthias Ernzerhof, Université de Montréal

H39 Lipid Bilayers: Structure and Function I
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Alex Levine, University of California, Los Angeles

H40 Biological Physics I
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: David Weitz, Harvard University

H41 CDW, SDW and Charge Order in Organic Conductors
Room: 413 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Claude Bourbonnais, Universite de Sherbrooke

Mar 17 2009 11:15AM, Tuesday

J1 Ballistic-Diffusive Crossover in Graphene Electron Transport
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sankar Das Sarma, University of Maryland

J2 Dynamical Layer Decoupling and Stripe Order High Tc Superconductors
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom BC Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Eduardo Fradkin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

J3 SQUID Amplifiers: at the Quantum Limit
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Clarke, University of California, Berkeley

J4 Panel Discussion: Around the World in 180 Minutes: Differences and Similarities among Women Physicists
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: CSWP FIP Chair: Eliane Lessner, CSWP, and Cherrill Spencer, FIP

J5 Polymer Nanoparticle Interactions
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Thomas Russell, University of Massachusetts

J6 Computational Modeling of Crystallization and Nucleation Phenomena
Room: 406 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Jim Belak, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

J7 Complex Cellular Biological Networks
Room: 407 Sponsor: GSNP DBP Chair: Takashi Nishikawa, Clarkson University

J8 Preparing Physics Students for Careers in Industry
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: FEd FIAP Chair: Lawrence Woolf, General Atomics

J9 Focus Session: Elasticity and Geometry of Thin Objects II
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Pedro Reis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

J10 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Nanostructures II: Quantum-Dot-Coupled Systems
Room: 304 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Feng Wang, University of California, Berkeley

J11 Quantum Dots and Quantum Point Contacts
Room: 305 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sergio Ulloa, Ohio University

J12 Organic Electronic Thin Films
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Renee Diehl, Penn State University

J13 Numerical Methods for Strongly Correlated Systems: Hubbard and Quasi-Particle
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: James Davenport, Brookhaven National Laboratory

J14 Jammed Particles
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Corey O'Hern, Yale University

J15 Quantum Entanglement
Room: 316 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Christopher Fuchs, Perimeter Institute

J16 Focus Session: Disorder in Ultra-Cold Gases
Room: 317 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Maxim Olshanyi, University of Massachusetts, Boston

J17 Focus Session: Superconducting Phase Qubits
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Rob McDermott, University of Wisconsin

J18 Charge Transport and Optical Properties of Organic Semiconductors
Room: 319 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Markus Wohlgenannt, University of Iowa

J19 Block Copolymer Thin Films II
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Kevin Cavicchi, University of Akron

J20 Frank J. Padden Jr. Award Symposium
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Glenn Fredrickson, University of California, Santa Barbara

J21 Focus Sessions: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors II
Room: 323 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Matthew McCluskey, Washington State University

J22 Focus Session: Optical Control and Electron-nuclear Effects in Quantum Dots
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Roberto Myers, Ohio State University

J23 Spectroscopic Studies of 2D Electron Gas and Other Low Dimensional Semiconductor Structures
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Aron Pinczuk, Columbia University

J24 Focus Session: Nanotube Applications
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Stefano Curtarolo, Duke University

J25 Focus Session: Graphene V: Structure and Raman Spectroscopy
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Marcos Pimenta, UFMG, Brasil

J26 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience IV: Carbon- and Silicon-based Nanostructures
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Sohrab Ismail-Beigi, Yale University

J27 Focus Session: X-ray and Neutron Instruments and Sciences I
Room: 329 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Albert Macrander, Argonne National Laboratory

J28 Focus Session: Graphene Device and Applications I
Room: 330 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: James Hannon, IBM

J29 Focus Session: Spin Currents in Metals - New and Miscellaneous Topics
Room: 333 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Samir Garzon, University of South Carolina

J30 Focus Session: Multiferroic Manganites
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Despina Louca, University of Virginia

J31 Focus Session: Magnetic Multilayers
Room: 335 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Kathryn Krycka, National Institute of Standards and Technology

J32 Artificial Structured or Self-Assembled Magnetic Materials
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Brian Maranville, National Institute of Standards and Technology

J33 Superconductivity: Novel Materials
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Elena Cimpoiasu, United States Naval Academy

J34 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors VII: Pressure Effects and Thermal Expansion
Room: 404 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Neil Sullivan, University of Florida

J35 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors VIII: Magnetism (Experiment)
Room: 405 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jeff Lynn, National Institute of Standards and Technology

J36 Si and Ge Nanowires: Electrical Transport and Simulation
Room: 408 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jonathan Pelz, Ohio State University

J37 Focus Session: Spectroscopic Probes of Biomolecular Structure and Function II
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Angela Gronenborn, University of Pittsburgh

J38 Focus Session: Theory of Electron Transport Through Molecules II
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Weitao Yang, Duke University

J39 Lipid Bilayers: Structure and Function II
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Wouter Ellenbroek, University of Pennsylvania

J40 Biological Physics II
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Joshua Socolar, Duke University

J41 Hubbard Model
Room: 413 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Philip Phillips, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Mar 17 2009 2:00PM, Tuesday

K1 Poster Session II (2-5:00pm): Education; SPS/Undergrad Research; Metals; Magnetism; Instrumentation and Measurements; Chemical Physics; Artificially Structured Materials; Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films; AMO Physics; Quantum Information; Bio Physics
Room: Exhibit Hall A

Mar 17 2009 2:30PM, Tuesday

L1 John H. Dillon Medal Symposium in Honor of Venkat Ganesan
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballrom A Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Glenn Fredrickson, University of California, Santa Barbara

L2 Buckley and Lilienfeld Prize
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballrom BC Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Warren Pickett, University of California, Davis

L3 Fe-based Superconductors: Competing Orders
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Hong Ding, Institute of Physics, CAS

L4 The Dynamics of Diversity in Astrophysics
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: COM Chair: Donna Stokes, University of Houston

L5 Competing Ground-States and Novel Excitations in Strongly Correlated Metals
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Andrea Bianchi, Université de Montréal

L6 Earth and Space Magneto-Fluid Dynamics
Room: 406 Sponsor: DFD Chair: John Hawley, University of Virginia

L7 Mechanics of Biomolecular Systems I
Room: 407 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Jens-Christian Meiners, University of Michigan

L8 Jamming at Nonzero Temperature and Stress
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: DCMP GSNP Chair: Vincenzo Vitelli, University of Pennsylvania

L9 Focus Session: Systems Far from Equilibrium II
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP DBP Chair: Michel Pleimling, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

L10 Optical Properties of Nanostructures III: Quantum Dots, Nanowires, and Related Materials
Room: 304 Sponsor: DMP Chair: John McGuire, Los Alamos National Laboratory

L11 Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures III: Molecular Junctions II
Room: 305 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Dan Ralph, Cornell University

L12 Focus Session: Photocatalysis and photovoltaic: Excitation, Trapping, and Transport of Charge Carriers at Surfaces and Interfaces
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Wladyslaw Walukiewicz, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

L13 Computational Methods: Quantum Monte Carlo
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Jeff Grossman, University of California, Berkeley

L14 Colloids IV: Colloids and Interfaces
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: David Weitz, Harvard University

L15 Pattern Formation and Nonlinear Dynamics
Room: 316 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Tom Solomon, Bucknell University

L16 Cold Gases: Spin, Rotation, and Reduced Dimension
Room: 317 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Ludwig Mathey, National Institute of Standards and Technology

L17 Superconducting Flux Qubits and Qubit Amplifiers and Readouts
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Joe Aumentado, National Institute of Standards and Technology

L18 Advanced Techniques in Acceleration and Coherent Radiation
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPB

L19 Focus Session: Ionically Gated and Conventional OFETs and Related Devices
Room: 320 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Jun Takeya, Osaka University

L20 Liquid Crystalline Polymers and Anisotropic Particles
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Lei Zhu, University of Connecticut

L21 Semiconductors: Atomic Structure and Lattices
Room: 323 Sponsor: DCMP FIAP Chair: David Snoke, University of Pittsburgh

L22 Focus Session: Spin-Orbit Effects in Semiconductors
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Roland Winkler, Northern Illinois University

L23 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect, Bilayers
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCMP FIAP Chair: Raymond Ashoori, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

L24 Focus Session: Electronic Properties of Nanotubes
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Sergei Tretiak, Los Alamos National Laboratory

L25 Focus Session: Probing and Modifying Materials with Lasers II
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Craig Arnold, Princeton University

L26 Focus Session: Graphene VI: Phonons and Raman Spectroscopy
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Kostya Novoselov, Manchester University

L27 Focus Session: Graphene Device and Applications II
Room: 329 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Marcus Freitag, IBM

L28 Focus Session: Thermoelectric Materials: Tellurides
Room: 330 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Stefan Zollner, IBM

L29 Focus Session: Incorporating Computational Physics into Teaching
Room: 333 Sponsor: FEd DCOMP Chair: James Belak, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

L30 Focus Session: Multiferroics I
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Craig Fennie, Cornell University

L31 Focus Session: Spin Transport and Exchange Bias in Nanostructures
Room: 335 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Samir Lounis, Forschungszentrum Jülich

L32 Focus Session: Nanostructured Manganites, Thin Films and Others
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Hariharan Srikanth, University of South Florida

L33 Superconductivity: Electronic Structure I
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mike Bleiweiss, Naval Academy Preparatory School

L34 Focus Session: Hybrid Magnetic-Superconducting Systems
Room: 404 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Yvan Bruynseraede, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

L35 Density Functional Theory: Methods
Room: 405 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Steven Louie, University of California, Berkeley

L36 Panel Discussion: APS Publishing: Present and Future
Room: 408

L37 Focus Session: Spectroscopic Probes of Biomolecular Structure and Function III
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: David Pratt, University of Pittsburgh

L38 Focus Session: Theory of Electron Transport Through Molecules III
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Kieron Burke, University of California, Irvine

L39 Focus Session: Theories and Simulations for Biomolecular Dynamics in Cell-like Environments
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Margaret Cheung, University of Houston

L40 Nucleic Acids: Structure, Function and Dynamics
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Michael Poirier, Ohio State University

L41 Atom-Photon Interactions
Room: 413 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Pierre Meystre, University of Arizona

Mar 17 2009 5:45PM, Tuesday

M9 GSNP Business Meeting
Room: 303

M17 GQI Business Meeting
Room: 318

M19 DPOLY Business Meeting
Room: 320

M27 GIMS Business Meeting
Room: 329

M28 FIAP Business Meeting
Room: 330

M31 GMAG Business Meeting
Room: 335

M40 DBP Business Meeting
Room: 412

Mar 17 2009 7:00PM, Tuesday

M42 DCMP Business Meeting
Room: Westin Hotel Washington

M43 DMP Business Meeting
Room: Westin Hotel Fayette

M44 DCP Business Meeting
Room: Westin Hotel Butler West

M45 DCOMP Business Meeting
Room: Westin Hotel Butler East

Mar 18 2009 8:00AM, Wednesday

P1 Optoelectronic Manipulation and Control of Charges and Spins in Quantum Dots
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballrom A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Alexander Efros, Naval Research Laboratory

P2 Critical Spin Liquids in Strongly Correlated Systems
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballrom BC Sponsor: DCMP Chair: T. Senthil, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

P3 Fe-based Superconductors: Correlation Effects
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Steve Kivelson, Stanford University

P4 Physics of Polymer Membranes for Water Purification
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Alamgir Karim, National Institute of Standards and Technology

P5 Fluid Dynamics and Computational Science
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: DFD DCOMP Chair: Pui-Kuen Yeung, Georgia Institute of Technology

P6 Ultracold Gases with Dipolar Interactions
Room: 406 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Han Pu, Rice University

P7 Forging Effective Partnerships with Your Local Science Center: Outcomes from the Workshop on University/Science Center Collaborations
Room: 407 Sponsor: FEd FPS Chair: Philip Hammer, Franklin Institute

P8 Centenary of Lev Landau
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: FHP Chair: Gloria Lubkin, American Institute of Physics

P9 Jamming: Theory and Experiment I
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Daniel Blair, Georgetown University

P10 Focus Session: Multiferroics II
Room: 304 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Serge Nakhmanson, Argonne National Laboratory

P11 Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures IV: Correlation Effects
Room: 305 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Harold Baranger, Duke University

P12 Focus Session: Characterization and Modeling of Complex Surfaces and Interfaces
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Yue Qi, General Motors

P13 Focus Session: Extreme Conditions and High Pressure I: Chemistry
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCOMP GSCCM Chair: Michelle Weinberger, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington

P14 Emulsions and Foams
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Douglas Durian, University of Pennsylvania

P15 Biologically Inspired Physics: Swimming, Propulsion, Bio-fluids
Room: 316 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Silas Alben, Georgia Institute of Technology

P16 Solid Helium: Theory
Room: 317 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Henry Glyde, University of Delaware

P17 Semiconducting Qubits I
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Christie Simmons, University of Wisconsin

P18 Bulk Block Copolymers II
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Bradley Olsen, California Institute of Technology

P19 The Physics of Polymer Nanocomposites: Properties
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Jan Obrzut, National Institute of Standards and Technology

P20 Melts and Solutions
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Chang Ryu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

P21 Computational Study of Semiconductor Band Structures
Room: 323 Sponsor: FIAP DCMP Chair: Chris Van de Walle, University of California, Santa Barbara

P22 Focus Session: Spin Hall and other Spin-Orbit Effects in Semiconductors
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Jairo Sinova, Texas A and M University

P23 Lattice and Mechanical Properties
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Daniel Finkenstadt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

P24 Focus Session: Electron Transport in Nanotubes
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Marco Buongiorno Nardelli, North Carolina State University

P25 Focus Session: Graphene VII: Electronic Properties
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Andre Geim, Manchester University

P26 Focus Session: Graphene VIII: Electronic Properties
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Fuhrer, University of Maryland

P27 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy III: High Frequency and Optical Techniques
Room: 329 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Chris Hammel, Ohio State University

P28 Focus Session: Thermoelectricity in Si-containing Materials
Room: 330 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Udo Pernisz, Dow Corning Corporation

P29 Focus Session: Manganites
Room: 333 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Gang Cao, University of Kentucky

P30 Focus Session: Oxide Surfaces and Interfaces
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jian Shen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

P31 Focus Session: Spin Ice
Room: 335 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Oleg Tchernyshyov, Johns Hopkins University

P32 Focus Session: Spin Dependent Physics in Organic Materials
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Frank Tsui, University of North Carolina

P33 Superconductivity: Electronic Structure II
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Goran Karapetrov, Argonne National Laboratory

P34 Superconductivity: STM
Room: 404 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Maria Iavarone Iavarone, Argonne National Laboratory

P35 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors IX: Mostly Transport
Room: 405 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sergey Budko, Ames Laboratory

P36 Tutorial for Authors and Referees of Physical Review; followed by Physics Journal Question and Answer
Room: 408

P37 Focus Session: Structure and Dynamics of Interfacial Water I
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Hrvoje Petek, University of Pittsburgh

P38 Focus Session: Nanomaterials for Energy Applications I
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Nathaniel Rosi, University of Pittsburgh

P39 Self-Organization in Biological Cells and Tissues I
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Andras Czirok, University of Kansas Medical Center

P40 Theoretical and Computational Biophysics
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Sonya Bahar, University of Missouri--St. Louis

P41 Models of Strongly Correlated Electrons
Room: 413 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Paul Fendley, University of Virginia

Mar 18 2009 11:15AM, Wednesday

Q1 Memory and Focusing in Catastrophic Deformations
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Brenner, Harvard University

Q2 New Insights into Hidden Order in URu2Si2
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom BC Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Mydosh, Leiden University

Q3 Physics and Culture
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Charles Falco, University of Arizona

Q4 Polymer Surface Instabilities
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: DPOLY GSNP Chair: Alfred Crosby, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Q5 Plasmonics in Future Electronics
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Boris Luk`yanchuk, Agency for Science, Technology and Research

Q6 Physics Demonstrations and Strategies for Teaching and Public Outreach
Room: 406 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Ernie Malamud, University of Nevada, Reno

Q7 Physics of the Immune System
Room: 407 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Aaron Dinner, University of Chicago

Q8 Quantum Spin Dynamics and Relaxation in Molecular Magnets
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Andrew Kent, New York University

Q9 Focus Session: Dynamics of Glassy Systems
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: David Grier, New York University

Q10 Focus Session: Multiferroics III and Dielectrics
Room: 304 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Delphine Lebuegle, University of Paris-Sud 11

Q11 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Nanostructures IV: Optical Antennas and Plasmonics
Room: 305 Sponsor: DMP Chair: P. James Schuck, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Q12 Structure, Dynamics, and Diffusion at Surfaces
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Kristen Fichthorn, Penn State University

Q13 Focus Session: Extreme Conditions and High Pressure II: Phase Transitions
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCOMP GSCCM Chair: Amy Lazicki, Geophysical Laboratory

Q14 Granular Fluctuations
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Wolfgang Losert, University of Maryland

Q15 General Topics in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Applications to Social Systems
Room: 316 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Sid Redner, Boston University

Q16 Focus Session: Dipolar Gases and Ultra-Cold Molecules
Room: 317 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Dan Stamper-Kurn, University of California, Berkeley

Q17 Superconducting Qubits: Coherence and New Implementations
Room: 318 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Matthias Steffen, IBM

Q18 Theory and Simulation I
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: August Bosse, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Q19 The Physics of Polymer Nanocomposites: Rheology and Mechanical Properties
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Francis Starr, Wesleyan University

Q20 Thin Films and Adhesion I
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Chris Stafford, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Q21 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors III
Room: 323 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Stavola, Lehigh University

Q22 Focus Session: Spins in Quantum Dots and Mn in Arsenides
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Xinyu Liu, University of Notre Dame

Q23 Quantum Hall Effect: Tunneling, High-Frequency
Room: 325 Sponsor: FIAP DCMP Chair: Ramesh Mani, Georgia State University

Q24 Focus Session: Optical Response of Nanotubes
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Achim Hartschuh, University of Munich

Q25 Focus Session: Graphene IX: Structure and Strain
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Antonio Castro Neto, Boston University

Q26 Focus Session: Graphene X: Theory
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Tobias Stauber, University of Minho, Portugal

Q27 Focus Session: X-ray and Neutron Instruments and Sciences II
Room: 329 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Dennis Mills, Argonne National Laboratory

Q28 Focus Session: Hydrogen Storage/Nanomaterials for Energy
Room: 330 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jason Graetz, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Q29 Focus Session: Ordering in Complex Oxides
Room: 333 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jaime Fernandez-Baca, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Q30 Focus Session: Oxide Superlattices
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Maria Varela, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Q31 Focus Session: Spinels, Pyrochlores and General
Room: 335 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Gavin Lawes, Wayne State University

Q32 Magnetic Domains and Domain Walls
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Kristen Buchanan, Colorado State University

Q33 Superconductivity: Response to Electromagnetic Fields and Proximity Effect
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Art Hebard, University of Florida

Q34 Focus Session: Superconductivity: Magnetic Properties
Room: 404 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Carmen Almasan, Kent State University

Q35 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors X: Spectroscopy
Room: 405 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michelle Johannes, Naval Research Laboratory

Q36 Carbon Nanotubes and Other Nanostructured Materials: Sensing, Transport, and Optical Properties
Room: 408 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Zhigang Jiang, Georgia Tech

Q37 Focus Session: Structure and Dynamics of Interfacial Water II
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Jin Zhao, University of Pittsburgh

Q38 Focus Session: Nanomaterials for Energy Applications II
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Geoff Hutchison, University of Pittsburgh

Q39 Physical Mechanisms of Membrane Remodeling
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Markus Deserno, Carnegie Mellon

Q40 Neural Computation
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: John Beggs, Indiana University

Q41 Strongly Correlated Electron Theory
Room: 413 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Andrey Chubukov, University of Wisconsin

Mar 18 2009 1:00PM, Wednesday

S1 Poster Session III (1-4:00pm): Polymer Physics II; Phase Transitions; General Theory; Insulators and Dieletrics; Semiconductors; Supplementary Abstracts; Post-Deadline Abstracts
Room: Exhibit Hall A

Mar 18 2009 2:30PM, Wednesday

T1 Probes of Nanoscale Magnetism
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballrom A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Chris Hammel, Ohio State University

T2 Electron, Exciton and Phonon Interactions in Nanoparticles
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballrom BC Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Phillippe Guyot-Sionnest, University of Chicago

T3 Keithley Award Session (GIMS)
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: James Matey, US Naval Academy

T4 Polariton Condensates
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: DCMP DAMOP Chair: Jacqueline Bloch, CNRS

T5 Industrial Biophysics
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: FIAP DBP Chair: Philip Wyatt

T6 Panel Discussion: Preparation of Graduate Students for Careers in a Globalized World
Room: 406 Sponsor: FIP FGSA Chair: John W. Clark, Washington University in St. Louis

T7 Patterns on Thin Elastic Sheets
Room: 407 Sponsor: GSNP DPOLY Chair: Benny Davidovitch, University of Massachusetts

T8 Onsager Prize, Nicholson Medal, Apker Award, Davisson-Germer Prize
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Warren Pickett, University of California, Davis

T9 Focus Session: Stochastic Processes in Biological Systems I
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Uwe C. Tauber, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

T10 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Nanostructures V: Plasmonics and Metamaterials
Room: 304 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Markus Raschke, University of Washington

T11 Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures V: Wires and Films
Room: 305 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Mark Hybertsen, Brookhaven National Laboratory

T12 Reaction Kinetics at Surfaces
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: John Kitchin, Carnegie Mellon University

T13 Electronic Structure
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: David Vanderbilt, Rutgers University

T14 Disordered Systems, Glassy Dynamics, and Jamming I
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD GSNP Chair: David Pine, New York University

T15 Fluidic Devices: Micro and Nano
Room: 316 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Thomas Cubaud, Stony Brook University

T16 Fermions in Optical Lattices I
Room: 317 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Henning Moritz, ETH Zurich

T17 Focus Session: Materials in Superconducting Qubits
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: David Pappas, National Institute of Standards and Technology

T18 Focus Session: Organic Photovoltaics and Other Photonic Devices
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Jeff Urban, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

T19 Theory and Simulation II
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Amalie Frischknecht, Sandia National Laboratories

T20 Focus Session: Magnetic Properties of Organic Semiconductors/ Surface Characterization of Organic Materials
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: C.D. Frisbie, University of Minnesota

T21 Semiconductors: Mechanical and Dynamic Properties
Room: 323 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ben Larson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

T22 Focus Session: GaMnAs
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Nitin Samarth, Penn State University

T23 Quantum Hall Effect: Coherent Phenomena
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCMP FIAP Chair: Vladimir Goldman, SUNY at Stony Brook

T24 Focus Session: Excitonic Effects in Nanotubes
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Oleg Prezhdo, University of Washington

T25 Focus Session: Graphene XI: Scanning Probes I
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Eva Andrei, Rutgers University

T26 Focus Session: Graphene XII: Synthesis and Growth
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Taisuke Ohta, Sandia National Laboratories

T27 Focus Session: Pulsed Laser Deposition of Electronic and Photonic Thin Films and Nanostructures
Room: 329 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: R. D. Vispute, University of Maryland, College Park

T28 Focus Session: Thermoelectric Materials: Nanostructures
Room: 330 Sponsor: FIAP DMP Chair: Donald Morelli, Michigan State University

T29 Focus Session: NSF's Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program: Overview and Perspectives
Room: 333 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Catherine Mader, Hope College

T30 Focus Session: Excitations in Multiferroics
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Dimitri Argyriou, Helmholtz Center-Berlin

T31 Focus Session: Magnetic, Electric, and Photo-Induced Magnetization Reversal
Room: 335 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Axel Enders, University of Nebraska

T32 Focus Session: Gilbert Damping and Non-local Spin Injection
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Gerrit E. W. Bauer, Technical University Delft

T33 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors XI: Penetration Depth and Magnetic Anisotropy
Room: 403 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Myron Salomon, University of Texas at Dallas

T34 Superconductivity: Vortex Statics and Dynamics
Room: 404 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Wai Kwok, Argonne National Laboratory

T35 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors XII: Phonons and Miscellaneous Experiment
Room: 405 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Pengcheng Dai, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

T36 Frontiers in Electronic Structure Theory
Room: 408 Sponsor: DCP DCOMP Chair: Brian Landry, Harvard University

T37 Focus Session: Structure and Dynamics of Interfacial Water III
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Kenneth Jordan, University of Pittsburgh

T38 Focus Session: The Transition State in Physics, Chemistry, and Astrophysics I
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Greg Ezra, Cornell University

T39 Focus Session: Physical Virology
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Alex Evilevitch, Lund University

T40 Focus Session: Knots and Loops in Biomolecules
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Joanna Sulkowska, University of California, San Diego

T41 Ferroelectricity and Structural Phase Transitions
Room: 413 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Craig Fennie, Cornell University

Mar 18 2009 5:45PM, Wednesday

T45 Funding Opportunities at NSF
Room: 316

Mar 18 2009 6:15PM, Wednesday

T46 Funding Opportunities at DOE
Room: 315

Mar 18 2009 7:30PM, Wednesday

U1 Windows on Our Universe: Breakthroughs in Observational Cosmology
Room: Westin Hotel Allegheny Ballroom Chair: Andrew Zentner, University of Pittsburgh

Mar 19 2009 8:00AM, Thursday

V1 Noise in Biological Systems
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A Sponsor: DBP Chair: Yin Yeh, University of California, Davis

V2 Constrained Polymers
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom BC Sponsor: DCMP DPOLY Chair: Xaio Lun Wu, University of Pittsburgh

V3 Correlated Phases in Fermi Gases of Ultracold Atoms
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: DCMP DAMOP

V4 Microgels: Colloidal Properties of Gels
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: DPOLY DCMP Chair: Weitz David, Harvard University

V5 Computational Design of Hydrogen Storage Materials
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Chris Van de Walle, University of California, Santa Barbara

V6 Recent Advances in Biomolecular Simulations
Room: 406 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Jerry Bernholc, North Carolina State University

V7 Applications of Magnetic Thin Films with Tilted Anisotropy
Room: 407 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Johan Åkerman, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

V8 The Physics of Imaging and Radiotherapy
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: FPS DBP Chair: Barry Berman, George Washington University

V9 Focus Session: Structure and Dynamics of Complex Networks
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Beate Schmittmann, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

V10 Artificially Structured Materials for Optical Manipulation
Room: 304 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ian Sellers, Sharp

V11 Transport Phenomena and Electronic Properties of Nanostructures
Room: 305 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Luis da Silva, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

V12 Semiconductor Growth and Etching
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Melissa Hines, Cornell University

V13 Physics Education and History
Room: 309 Sponsor: FEd FHP Chair: Michael Pettersen, Washington and Jefferson College

V14 Disordered Systems, Glassy Dynamics, and Jamming II
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD GSNP Chair: Peter Schall, University of Amsterdam

V15 Liquid Crystals I
Room: 316 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Jonathan Selinger, Kent State University

V16 Solid Helium: Experiment
Room: 317 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Haruo Kojima, Rutgers University

V17 Superconducting Transmons and Circuit QED
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Ben Palmer, Laboratory for Physical Sciences, University of Maryland

V18 Focus Session: Physics of Green Polymers and of Biocompatibility
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPOLY DBP Chair: John Torkelson, Northwestern University

V19 Focus Session: Hierarchically Ordered Systems
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Albertu Striolo, University of Oklahoma

V20 Thin Films and Adhesion II
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Connie Roth, Emory University

V21 Semiconductor Growth and Material Processing
Room: 323 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Nelson Tansu, Lehigh University

V22 Focus Session: Dilute Magnetic Oxide Semiconductors
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Berend Jonker, Naval Research Laboratory

V23 Focus Session: Extreme Conditions and High Pressure III: Electronic Transitions and Mixtures
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCOMP GSCCM Chair: Stephane Mazevet, French Atomic Energy Commission

V24 Focus Session: Nanotube Related Hybrid Structures
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Daniel Finkelstadt, Naval Research Laboratory

V25 Focus Session: Graphene XIII: Spectroscopic and Transport Properties
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Shaffique Adam, University of Maryland

V26 Focus Session: Graphene XIV: Magnetism and Bilayers
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Bruno Uchoa, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

V27 Focus Session: Emerging Scanning Probe Microscopy Methods for Biological Applications
Room: 329 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Igor Sokolov, Clarkson University, Sergei Kalinin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

V28 Focus Session: Graphene Device and Applications III
Room: 330 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Phaedon Avouiris, IBM

V29 Correlated Electrons
Room: 333 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Meigan Aronson, Brookhaven National Laboratory

V30 Focus Session: Multiferroic Properties of Oxide Films
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jacabo Santamaria, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

V31 Focus Session: Frustration Theory and Modeling
Room: 335 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Taner Yildirim, NIST Center for Neutron Research

V32 Focus Session: Vortex and Domain Wall Dynamics
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Ilya Krivorotov, Univerisity of California Irvine

V33 Superconductivity: Complex Order Parameter
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Suk Bum Chung, Stanford University

V34 Superconductivity: Spectroscopy
Room: 404 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Tanner, University of Florida

V35 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors XIII: Pairing Symmetry, Theory and Experiment
Room: 405 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Igor Mazin, Naval Research Laboratory

V37 Chemical Dynamics and Molecular Spectroscopy
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Harvard University

V38 Focus Session: The Transition State in Physics, Chemistry, and Astrophysics II
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: K. Srihari, Indian Institute of Technology

V39 Biological Networks and Systems Biology
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Ilya Nemenman, Los Alamos National Laboratory

V40 Mechanics of Biomolecular Systems II
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Andrew Rutenberg, Dalhousie University

Mar 19 2009 11:15AM, Thursday

W1 Supersolids
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Moses Chan, Pennsylvania State University

W2 Progress in Understanding the Nature of the 5/2 Fractional Quantum Hall State
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom BC Sponsor: DCMP GQI Chair: Steven Simon, Alcatel-Lucent

W3 Physics of Circulating Tumor Cells and Metastasis
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Jerry Lee, National Cancer Institute

W4 Recent Progress in Spin-Spiral Ferroelectricity
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: DCMP GMAG Chair: Sang-Wook Cheong, Rutgers University

W5 Physics Meets Art
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: FPS Chair: Philip Taylor, Case Western Reserve University

W6 Progress on Quantum Optics with Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics
Room: 406 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Steve Girwin, Yale University

W7 Information Theory in Biology
Room: 407 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Ned Wingreen, Princeton University

W8 Forefront Detectors for Synchrotron Radiation
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Timothy Graber, University of Chicago

W9 Systems Far from Equilibrium III
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Narayanan Menon, University of Massachusetts

W10 Insulators and Dielectrics: Electronic Structure and Optical Properties
Room: 304 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dillon Fong, Argonne National Laboratory

W11 Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures VI: Kondo Phenomena
Room: 305 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Aditi Mitra, New York University

W12 Steps, Islands and Nanostructures
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Ray Phaneuf, University of Maryland

W13 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors XIV: ARPES
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Norman Mannella, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

W14 Granular Flow
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Arshad Kudrolli, Clark University

W15 Biologically Inspired Physics: Self-Assembly, Filaments, Membranes
Room: 316 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Norm Wagner, University of Delaware

W16 Bosons in Optical Lattices I
Room: 317 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Selim Jochim, Max Planck Institute-Heidelberg

W17 Quantum Algorithms, Simulation, and Error Correction
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Yaakov Weinstein, Mitre Corporation

W18 Focus Session: Mechanical Force Spectroscopy and Device Applications of Polymeric and Biological Materials
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Denis Pristinski, National Institute of Standards and Technology

W19 The Physics of Polymer Nanocomposites: Grafting and Dispersion
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Arthi Jayaraman, University of Colorado, Boulder

W20 Theory and Simulation III
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Jack Douglas, National Institute of Standards and Technology

W21 Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors IV
Room: 323 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Anderson Janotti, University of California Santa Barbara

W22 Focus Session: Dilute Magnetic Nitride Semiconductors
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Roland Kawakami, University of California Riverside

W23 Focus Session: Extreme Conditions and High Pressure IV: Equations of State and Dynamics
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCOMP GSCCM Chair: Kyle Caspersen, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

W24 Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience V: Transport
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Hyoung Joon Choi, Yonsei University, Korea

W25 Focus Session: Graphene XV: Scanning Probes II and Hall Effect
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

W26 Focus Session: Graphene XVI: Functionalization and Growth I
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Xiaosong Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology

W27 Hydrogen Storage: Sorbents
Room: 329 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Channing Ahn, California Institute of Technology

W28 Focus Session: Device Applications of Multiferroic Structures
Room: 330 Sponsor: FIAP DMP Chair: Ichiro Takeuchi, University of Maryland

W29 Focus Session: Current-Induced Oscillations
Room: 333 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Chun-Yeol You, Inha University

W30 Focus Session: Ruthenates
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Zhiqiang Mao, Tulane University

W31 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanoparticles and Nanowires
Room: 335 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Amanda Petford-Long, Argonne National Laboratory

W32 Focus Session: Theory and Simulation of Spin-Dependent Effects and Properties II
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG DCOMP DMP Chair: Aldo Romero, Cinvestav Querétaro

W33 Superconductor-Insulator Transitions
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Osofsky, Naval Research Laboratory

W34 Superconducting Nanowires
Room: 404 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Zhili Xiao, Argonne National Laboratory

W35 Superconducting Theory II
Room: 405 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Norman, Argonne National Laboratory

W36 Nanoscale Complex Structures
Room: 408 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Wei Pan, Sandia National Laboratories

W37 Theoretical Methods and Algorithms
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Mohammad Sahrapour, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

W38 Focus Session: Ion Channel Physics and Chemical Physics I
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Rob Coalson, University of Pittsburgh

W39 Quantitative Biology
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Michael Deem, Rice University

W40 Single Molecule Biophysics
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: David Lederman, University of West Virginia

W41 Kondo Physics; Dynamical Mean-Field Theory
Room: 413 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Chris Marianetti, Columbia University

Mar 19 2009 2:30PM, Thursday

X1 Persistent Currents in Normal Metals
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Karyn LeHur, Yale University

X2 Vortex Dynamics and Josephson Lasers in Superconductors
Room: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom BC Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Alexander Gurevich, Florida State University

X3 Spin Hall and Quantum Spin Hall Effects
Room: 301/302 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Awschalom, University of California, Santa Barbara

X4 Responsive Gels at Surfaces and in the Bulk
Room: 306/307 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Ryan Hayward, University of Massachusetts

X5 Active Soft Matter: From Granular Rods to Flocks to Living Cells
Room: 401/402 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Cristina Marchetti, Syracuse University

X6 Rahman Prize Lecture and Theory of Multiferroics
Room: 406 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Craig Fennie, Cornell University

X7 DNA Loop Formation, Nucleosome Positioning and Transcriptional Regulation
Room: 407 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Phil Nelson, University of Pennsylvania

X8 50 Years of Anderson Localization
Room: 414/415 Sponsor: FHP Chair: David Thouless, University of Washington

X9 Focus Session: Jamming: Theory and Experiment II
Room: 303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University

X10 Insulators and Dielectrics: Defects, Structure, and Mechanical and Dynamical Properties
Room: 304 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Tim Fister, Argonne National Laboratory

X11 Fermions in Optical Lattices II
Room: 305 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Conjung Wu, University of California, San Diego

X12 Structure and Morphology of Oxide Surfaces and Thin Films
Room: 308 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Shao-Chun Li, Tulane University

X13 Density Functional Methods: Applications
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Samuel Trickey, University of Florida

X14 Micro and Nano Fluid Mechanics
Room: 315 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Boyd Edwards, West Virginia University

X15 Liquid Crystals II
Room: 316 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Peter Collings, Swarthmore College

X16 Liquid Helium
Room: 317 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Norbert Mulders, University of Delaware

X17 Semiconducting Qubits II
Room: 318 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Xuedong Hu, University of Buffalo

X18 Elastomers and Gels I
Room: 319 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Alfred Crosby, University of Massachusetts

X19 Charged and Ion-containing Polymers
Room: 320 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Jodie Lutkenhaus, Yale University

X20 Long Range Order in Polymer Structures and Morphologies
Room: 321 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Sam Gido, University of Massachusetts

X21 Spectroscopic Studies of Semiconductor Structure and Their Growth
Room: 323 Sponsor: FIAP DCMP Chair: Yia-Chung Chang, Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica

X22 Focus Session: Magnetism in II-VI and IV Semiconductors
Room: 324 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Igor Zutic, SUNY Buffalo

X23 Quantum Hall Effect: Quantum Computation
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Steven Simon, Oxford University

X24 Hydrogen Storage: Complex Hydrides
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: John Vajo, HRL Laboratories

X25 Focus Session: Graphene XVII: p-n Junctions, Nanoribbons, and Quantum Dots
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Fogler, University of California, San Diego

X26 Nanowire & Nanotube Synthesis and Properties
Room: 328 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Mehl, Naval Research Laboratory

X27 Optoelectronic Devices and Applications
Room: 329 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Nelson Tansu, Lehigh University

X28 Focus Session: Magnetoelectric Coupling in Multiferroic Systems
Room: 330 Sponsor: FIAP DMP Chair: Gopalan Srinivasan, Oakland University

X29 Focus Session: Current Induced Dynamics in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions and Spin Waves
Room: 333 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Ioan Tudosa, University of California, San Diego

X30 Focus Session: Cobaltites
Room: 334 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Igor Zaliznyak, Brookhaven National Laboratory

X31 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanostructures: Domain Walls, Reversal, Oscillators
Room: 335 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Valnetyn Novosad, Argonne National Laboratory

X32 Cooperative Phenomena (incl. Spin Structures, Spin Waves, Phase Transitions) II
Room: 336 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Stephan Rosenkranz, Argonne National Laboratory

X33 MgB2 and Multigap Superconductivity
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mike Sumption, Ohio State University

X34 Superconductivity: Magnetic Field Effects
Room: 404 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Milind Kunchur, University of South Carolina

X35 Focus Session: Iron Pnictides and Other Novel Superconductors XV: Electronic Structure and Magnetism
Room: 405 Sponsor: DMP Chair: David Parker, Naval Research Laboratory

X36 Glassy, Amorphous, and Quasicrystalline Materials
Room: 408 Sponsor: DCMP

X37 Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Single Molecules and Nanoparticles
Room: 409 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Will Castleman, Pennsylvania State University

X38 Focus Session: Ion Channel Physics and Chemical Physics II
Room: 410 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Thomas Beck, University of Cincinnati

X39 Focus Session: Crystal Growth of and Moderated by Proteins
Room: 411 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Raymond Friddle, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

X40 Proteins in Membranes
Room: 412 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Sunil Saxena, University of Pittsburgh

X41 Strongly Correlated Electrons
Room: 413 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Valery Kiryukhin, Rutgers University