Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS March Meeting 2010
Volume 55, Number 2
Monday–Friday, March 15–19, 2010; Portland, Oregon
Epitome
Mar 15 2010 8:00AM, Monday
A1 
Phase-sensitive Probes of the Pairing Symmetry in Fe-Based Superconductors
Room: Oregon Ballroom 201
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Igor Mazin, Naval Research Laboratory
A2 
Topological Insulators and Topological Superfluids
Room: Oregon Ballroom 202
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Shinsei Ryu, University of California, Berkeley
A3 
New Developments in Strontium Ruthenates
Room: Oregon Ballroom 203
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Victor Yakovenko, University of Maryland
A4 
Human Mobility: The Statistical Physics of When, Where, and How
Room: Oregon Ballroom 204
Sponsor: 
GSNP
Chair: Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Northeastern University
A5 
Silicon Photonics
Room: Portland Ballroom 256
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: David Lockwood, National Research Council Canada
A6 
Recent (algorithmic) Developments in Complex and Glass Systems
Room: Portland Ballroom 253
Sponsor: 
DCOMP
Chair: Gergely T. Zimanyi, University of California, Davis
A7 
Single Chain Experiments: from Polymers to Biophysics
Room: Portland Ballroom 254
Sponsor: 
DBP DPOLY
Chair: Alexander Grosberg, New York University
A8 
Quantum Opto-Mechanics
Room: Portland Ballroom 255
Sponsor: 
DAMOP GQI
Chair: Lucia Hackermueller, University of Nottingham
A9 
Focus Session: Optics of Nanostructures -- Quantum Dots I
Room: A105
Sponsor: 
DMP
A10 
Focus Session: Single Molecule Biophysics and Chemical Physics I
Room: A106
Sponsor: 
DCP DBP DPOLY
Chair: David Rueda, Wayne State University
A11 
Energy Conversion Followed by Energy Storage Methods
Room: A107-A109
Sponsor: 
GERA
Chair: Sayantani Ghosh , University of California, Merced
A12 
Microfluidics I: Electrokinesis and Transport
Room: B110-B111
Sponsor: 
DFD
Chair: Eberhard Bodenschatz, Cornell University
A13 
Convection and Crystal Growth
Room: B112
Sponsor: 
DFD GSNP
Chair: Joseph Niemela, Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics
A14 
Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures I: Single-Molecule Junctions
Room: B113
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Latha Venkataraman, Columbia University
A15 
Structural Materials, Defects, Deformation
Room: B114
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Lin-Lin Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
A16 
Graphite and Intercalated Compounds
Room: B115
Sponsor: 
DCMP DMP
Chair: Arthur Hebard, University of Florida
A17 
Focus Session: Relaxation Dynamics of Polymeric Glasses I
Room: B116
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Jack Douglas, NIST
A18 
Focus Session: Multiscale Modeling in Polymer and Soft Matter Physics
Room: B117
Sponsor: 
DPOLY DCOMP
Chair: Mesfin Tsige, University of Illinois at Carbondale
A19 
Polymer Blends
Room: B118-B119
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Chinedum Osuji, Yale
A20 
Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Functionalization and Growth
Room: C120-122
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Jeff Blackburn, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
A21 
Focus Session: Graphene: Quantum Interference and Transport
Room: Portland Ballroom 251
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Steve Cronin, University of Southern California
A22 
Graphene Applications
Room: Portland Ballroom 252
Sponsor: 
DMP DCMP
Chair: Tomas Palacios, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A23 
Density Functional Theory I
Room: C125-C126
Sponsor: 
DCOMP
Chair: John Perdew, Tulane University
A24 
Spintronic Materials
Room: D133-D134
Sponsor: 
GMAG DMP
Chair: George Kioseoglou, University of Crete
A25 
Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors - ZnO
Room: D135
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Mike Stavola, Lehigh University
A26 
Focus Session: Recent Progress in Quantum Algorithms and Computational Complexity
Room: D136
Sponsor: 
GQI
Chair: Dave Bacon, University of Washington
A27 
Evolutionary and Ecological Systems
Room: D137
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Jeff Gore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A28 
Focus Session: Confined and Biological Water I
Room: C124
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Gerhard Hummer, National Institutes of Health
A29 
Physics and Materials for Inorganic Photovoltaics: I
Room: C123
Sponsor: 
DMP GERA
Chair: Tonio Buonassis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A30 
Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Chirality-Controlled Growth of Carbon Nanotubes and Nanostructures
Room: D139
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: David Geohegan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A31 
Spinor Degrees of Freedom and Rotation in Quantum Gases
Room: E141
Sponsor: 
DAMOP
Chair: Richard Scalettar, University of California, Davis
A32 
Focus Session: Directed Self Assembly of Dots, Islands and Wires on Templates
Room: E142
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Ray Phaneuf, University of Maryland
A33 
Focus Session: Magnetization and Spin Dynamics I
Room: E143
Sponsor: 
GMAG DMP
Chair: Michael Flatté, University of Iowa
A34 
Focus Session: Nanomagnetism -- Nanostructured Films
Room: E144
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Kirill Bolotin, Vanderbilt University
A35 
Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors -- Hyperfine Interactions
Room: E145
Sponsor: 
GMAG DMP FIAP
Chair: Gian Salis, IBM, Zurich
A36 
Focus Session: Bulk Properties of Complex Oxides -- Perovskite Manganites
Room: E146
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Jing Tao, Brookhaven National Laboratory
A37 
Focus Session: Complex Oxide Thin Films -- Conductivity at Oxide Interfaces
Room: E147-E148
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Andy Millis, Columbia
A38 
Quantum Criticality I: Kondo Lattice Systems
Room: F149
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Filip Ronning, Los Alamos National Laboratory
A39 
Focus Session: Iron Superconductors: New Materials
Room: F150
Sponsor: 
DMP DCMP
Chair: Athena Sefat, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A40 
Focus Session: Phonons and Electron Correlations in High Temperature Superconductors I
Room: F151
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Alexander Balatsky, Los Alamos National Laboratory
A41 
Superconductivity: Multilayers and Josephson Effects
Room: F152
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: John Clarke, University of California, Berkeley
A42 
Focus Session: Physics Teacher Preparation: Effective Strategies, National Models, and Challenging Issues
Room: D138
Sponsor: 
FEd
Chair: Stamatis Vokos, Seattle Pacific University
Mar 15 2010 11:15AM, Monday
B1 
Magnetism in Fe Pnictides and Chalcogenides
Room: Oregon Ballroom 201
Sponsor: 
DCMP DMP
Chair: Steven Kivelson, Stanford University
B2 
Theory and Experiment on Topological Insulators
Room: Oregon Ballroom 202
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Shoucheng Zhang, Stanford University
B3 
How to Interest Middle School Children in Physical Science
Room: Oregon Ballroom 203
Sponsor: 
FEd FPS
Chair: Lawrence Woolf, General Atomics
B4 
Dynamics of Polymers on Multi-Length Scales: Solutions
Room: Oregon Ballroom 204
Sponsor: 
DPOLY DCOMP
Chair: David Wang, Colorado State University
B5 
Five Legacies from the Laser
Room: Portland Ballroom 256
Sponsor: 
FHP FIAP
Chair: Daniel Kleppner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B6 
Controlling Dissipation in Quantum Systems
Room: Portland Ballroom 253
Sponsor: 
DAMOP GQI
Chair: Jacob Taylor, National Institute of Standards and Technology
B7 
Evolutionary Dynamics
Room: Portland Ballroom 254
Sponsor: 
DBP GSNP
Chair: Herbert Levine, University of California, San Diego
B8 
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Redux: The Physics of Global Catastrophes and Global Countermeasures
Room: Portland Ballroom 255
Sponsor: 
FIP
Chair: John W. Clark, Washington University in St. Louis
B9 
Theory of Semiconductors
Room: A105
Sponsor: 
DCMP FIAP
Chair: Viktor Sverdlov, Institute for Microelectronics TU Wien
B10 
Focus Session: Single Molecule Biophysics and Chemical Physics II
Room: A106
Sponsor: 
DCP DBP DPOLY
Chair: Antoine Van Oijen, Harvard Medical School
B11 
Energy Storage Methods
Room: A107-A109
Sponsor: 
GERA
Chair: Timo Thonhauser, Wake Forest University
B12 
GSNP Graduate Student Prize and Liquid Crystals: Smectics
Room: B110-B111
Sponsor: 
GSNP DFD
Chair: Susan Coppersmith, University of Wisconsin, and Luz J. Martinez-Miranda, University of Maryland
B13 
Focus Session: Complex Networks I
Room: B112
Sponsor: 
GSNP
Chair: Alex Vespignani, Indiana University
B14 
Focus Session: Electrodynamics of Metamaterials
Room: B113
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Roberto Merlin, University of Michigan
B15 
Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy I: Novel AFM, MRFM, and Acoustic Microscopy
Room: B114
Sponsor: 
GIMS
Chair: Robert McMichael, National Institute of Standards and Technology
B16 
Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics: Solar Cell Materials and Devices
Room: B115
Sponsor: 
DMP DPOLY
Chair: Max Shtein
B17 
Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films
Room: B116
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Jutta Luettmer-Strathmann, University of Akron
B18 
Focus Session: Crystallization in Confined Geometry I
Room: B117
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Christopher Li, Drexel University
B19 
Focus Session: Thin Films Copolymers I
Room: B118-B119
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Paul Nealy, University of Wisconsin
B20 
Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Superconductivity, Electrical Properties
Room: C120-C122
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Nathaniel Gabor, Cornell University
B21 
Focus Session: Graphene: Magnetic Properties
Room: Portland Ballroom 251
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Sudip Chakravarty, University of California, Los Angeles
B22 
Focus Session: Graphene Structure: Local Probes
Room: Portland Ballroom 252
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Vikas Berry, Kansas State University
B23 
Strongly Correlated Systems I
Room: C125-C126
Sponsor: 
DCOMP
Chair: Paul Kent, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
B24 
Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides -- Thin Film Multiferroics
Room: D133-D134
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Patrycja Paruch, University of Geneva
B25 
Focus Session: Electric-to-Light Conversion and Optics in Semiconductors I
Room: D135
Sponsor: 
DMP GERA
Chair: Sean O'Malley, Rutgers University, Camden
B26 
Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits - Silicon and III-Vs
Room: D136
Sponsor: 
GQI
Chair: Jason Petta, Princeton University
B27 
Experimental Techniques in Biophysics
Room: D137
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Mark Reeves, George Washington University
B28 
SPS Undergraduate Research I
Room: C124
Sponsor: 
SPS
Chair: Gary White, AIP/SPS
B29 
Focus Session: Thermoelectrics I: Recent Concepts
Room: C123
Sponsor: 
DMP FIAP GERA
Chair: Donald Morelli, Michigan State University
B30 
High Pressure I
Room: D139
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Javier Antonio Montoya, Carnegie Institution of Washington
B31 
BEC/Matter Wave Optics
Room: E141
Sponsor: 
DAMOP
Chair: Edward Taylor, The Ohio State University
B32 
Structure and Morphology: Oxide Surfaces
Room: E142
Sponsor: 
DMP DCMP
Chair: Patrick Rinke, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
B33 
Cooperative Phenomena Theory
Room: E143
Sponsor: 
GMAG
Chair: Chia-Ren Hu, Texas A&M University
B34 
Focus Session: Nanomagnetism -- Exchange & Multiferroics
Room: E144
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Mihai Miron, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
B35 
Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors -- Quantum Dots
Room: E145
Sponsor: 
GMAG DMP FIAP
Chair: Kohei Itoh, Keio University
B36 
Focus Session: Bulk Properties of Complex Oxides -- Manganite Multiferroics
Room: E146
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Hari Srikanth, University of South Florida
B37 
Focus Session: Complex Oxide Thin Films -- LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Interfaces
Room: E147-E148
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Chris Bell, University of Tokyo
B38 
Heavy Fermions I: URu2Si2 and other U- and Yb-based systems
Room: F149
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Nicholas Butch, University of Maryland
B39 
Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors Synthesis and Doping
Room: F150
Sponsor: 
DCMP DMP
Chair: David Singh, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
B40 
Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors Physical Properties I
Room: F151
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Rongying Jin, Louisiana State University
B41 
Tunneling Spectroscopy of Superconductors
Room: F152
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Laura Greene, University of Illinois
B42 
Charge, Spin, and Superconductivity
Room: D138
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Andrei Bernevig, Princeton University
Mar 15 2010 2:00PM, Monday
C1 
Poster Session I (2:00 pm - 5:00 pm)
Room: Exhibit CD
Mar 15 2010 2:30PM, Monday
D1 
Goeppert Mayer Award, IUPAP Young Scientist Award, and Apker Award Session
Room: Oregon Ballroom 201
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Samuel Bader, Argonne National Laboratory
D2 
Correlated System including Topological Insulators: Materials, Measurements, and Majorana Modes
Room: Oregon Ballroom 202
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Patrick Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
D3 
Materials for Solar to Electricity Conversion: Status and Future
Room: Oregon Ballroom 203
Sponsor: 
DMP GERA
Chair: Ramamoorthy Ramesh, University of California, Berkeley
D4 
Quantum Computer Science
Room: Oregon Ballroom 204
Sponsor: 
GQI
Chair: Dave Bacon, University of Washington
D5 
Pais Prize Talk; Sam Goudsmit: Physics, Editor, and More
Room: Portland Ballroom 256
Sponsor: 
FHP
Chair: Gloria Lubkin, Physics Today, Editor Emerita
D6 
Dynamics of Polymers on Multi-Length Scales: Interfaces
Room: Portland Ballroom 253
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Sushil Satija, National Institutes of Standards and Technology
D7 
Fluctuations and Critical Phenomena in Population Dynamics
Room: Portland Ballroom 254
Sponsor: 
GSNP DBP
Chair: Mark Dykman, Michigan State University
D8 
Spin Transport in Carbon-based Materials
Room: Portland Ballroom 255
Sponsor: 
GMAG
Chair: Jing Shi, University of California, Riverside
D9 
Semiconductor Structure and Mechanical Properties
Room: A105
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Chris van de Walle, University of California, Santa Barbara
D10 
Focus Session: Single Molecule Biophysics and Chemical Physics III
Room: A106
Sponsor: 
DCP DBP DPOLY
Chair: Rob Phillips, California Institute of Technology
D11 
Physics of Bacteria I
Room: A107-A109
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Yuhai Tu, IBM
D12 
Colloidal Crystals, Suspensions and Films
Room: B110-B111
Sponsor: 
DFD DCMP
Chair: Sharon Gerbode, Cornell University
D13 
Focus Session: Complex Networks II
Room: B112
Sponsor: 
GSNP
Chair: Corey S. O'Hern, Yale University
D14 
Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures II: Non-Equilibrium and Correlated Electron Phenomena
Room: B113
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Mark Hybertsen, Brookhaven National Laboratory
D15 
Focus Session: X-ray and Neutron Instruments and Measurement Science I
Room: B114
Sponsor: 
GIMS
Chair: Susan Mini, Northern Illinois University
D16 
Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics: Solar Cells and Photophysics
Room: B115
Sponsor: 
DMP DPOLY
Chair: Jenny Nelson, Imperial College London
D17 
Liquid Crystalline Order in Polymer and Complex Fluids
Room: B116
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Aniket Bhattacharya, University of Central Florida
D18 
Focus Session: Crystallization in Confined Geometry II
Room: B117
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Christopher Li, Drexel University
D19 
Focus Session: Thin Films Copolymers II
Room: B118-B119
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Juan de Pablo, University of Wisconsin-Madison
D20 
Focus Session: Computational Design of New Materials -- Structure/Property Relationships
Room: C120-122
Sponsor: 
DMP DCOMP
Chair: Dane Morgan, University of Wisconsin
D21 
Focus Session: Graphene: Correlated States
Room: Portland Ballroom 251
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Philip Kim, Columbia University
D22 
Materials Chemically Derived from Graphene
Room: Portland Ballroom 252
Sponsor: 
DMP DCMP
Chair: Adalberto Fazzio, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
D23 
Strongly Correlated Systems II
Room: C125-C126
Sponsor: 
DCOMP
Chair: Randy Fishman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
D24 
Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides -- Bulk Multiferroics
Room: D133-D134
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Eric Bousquet, University of California, Santa Barbara
D25 
Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors - Nitrides, SiC
Room: D135
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Eugene Haller, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
D26 
Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits - Silicon
Room: D136
Sponsor: 
GQI
Chair: Charles Tahan, LPS and University of Maryland
D27 
Self-organization in Biological Cells and Tissue I
Room: D137
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Shane Hutson, Vanderbilt University
D28 
SPS Undergraduate Research II
Room: C124
Sponsor: 
SPS
Chair: Crystal Bailey, American Physical Society
D29 
Physics and Materials for Inorganic Photovoltaics: II
Room: C123
Sponsor: 
DMP GERA
Chair: Jeffrey Neaton, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
D30 
Focus Session: Hydrogen Storage I
Room: D139
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Channing Ahn, California Institute of Technology
D31 
Molecular and Dipolar Quantum Gases
Room: E141
Sponsor: 
DAMOP
Chair: Kadan Hazzard, Cornell University
D32 
Focus Session: Controlled Self Assembly and Growth
Room: E142
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Hung-Chih Kan, National Chung-Cheng University
D33 
Focus Session: Complex Oxide Thin Films -- Magnetic Oxides
Room: E143
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Mark Rzchowski, University of Wisconsin-Madison
D34 
Focus Session: Nanomagnetism -- Nanowires & Thermal Effects
Room: E144
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Dmitri Litvinov, University of Houston
D35 
Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors -- Topological Insulators
Room: E145
Sponsor: 
GMAG DMP FIAP
Chair: Tomasz Dietl, Polish Academy of Sciences
D36 
Focus Session: Bulk Properties of Complex Oxides -- Cobaltites and Vanadates
Room: E146
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: John Mitchell, Argonne National Laboratory
D37 
Focus Session: Complex Oxide Thin Films -- Oxide 2DEGs and Devices
Room: E147-E148
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Amlan Biswas, University of Florida
D38 
Charge Density Waves
Room: F149
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Peter Abbamonte, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
D39 
Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors: Theory I
Room: F150
Sponsor: 
DCMP DMP
Chair: Igor Mazin, Navel Research Laboratory
D40 
Superconductivity: Vortices
Room: F151
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Milind Kunchur, University of South Carolina
D41 
Ruthenates and Unconventional Superconducting Pairing
Room: F152
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Ying Liu, Pennsylvania State University
D42 
Topological Insulators: Experiment
Room: D138
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Dennis Drew, University of Maryland
Mar 15 2010 5:45PM, Monday
E1 
APS Prizes and Awards Ceremonial Session
Room: Portland 251
Chair: Curtis Callan, APS President and Princeton University
Mar 15 2010 6:45PM, Monday
F1 
Welcome Reception
Room: Exhibit Hall B
Mar 15 2010 8:00PM, Monday
G1 
Physics Community Outreach: Physics with a Bang!
Room: C120-C122
Chair: Samuel Bader, Argonne National Laboratory
Mar 16 2010 8:00AM, Tuesday
H1 
Charge and Spin Transport in Josephson and Proximity Devices
Room: Oregon Ballroom 201
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: James Sauls, Northwestern University
H2 
Recent Advances in Cell and Single Molecule Manipulation
Room: Oregon Ballroom 202
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Omar Saleh, University of California, Santa Barbara
H3 
Room Temperature Semiconductor Spintronics
Room: Oregon Ballroom 203
Sponsor: 
GMAG
Chair: Berry Jonker, Naval Research Laboratory
H4 
Polymer Physics Prize
Room: Oregon Ballroom 204
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Hyuk Yu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
H5 
Facing the Challenge of the LED Droop
Room: Portland Ballroom 256
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: Jim Speck, University of California, Santa Barbara
H6 
Artificial Electromagnetism and other Gauge Fields in Cold Atomic Gases
Room: Portland Ballroom 253
Sponsor: 
DAMOP
Chair: Lindsay LeBlanc, University of Toronto
H7 
Optimization Principles in Biological Physics
Room: Portland Ballroom 254
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: William Bialek, Princeton University
H8 
Opportunities for Research and Employment in Transporation Science
Room: Portland Ballroom 255
Sponsor: 
FPS
Chair: Brian Schwartz, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
H9 
Optoelectronic Properties of Quantum Dots
Room: A105
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Michael Scheibner, University of California, Merced
H10 
Physics of Bacteria II
Room: A106
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Eshel Ben-Jacob, Tel Aviv University
H11 
Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics I
Room: A107-A109
Sponsor: 
GSNP
Chair: P. Reis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
H12 
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics of Social Systems
Room: B110-B111
Sponsor: 
GSNP
Chair: Beate Schmittmann, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
H13 
Liquid Crystals: Nanoparticles and Surfaces
Room: B112
Sponsor: 
DFD
Chair: Robin Selinger, Kent State University
H14 
Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures III: Theory and Computation I
Room: B113
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Jeffrey Neaton, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
H15 
Metals: Compounds, Magnetism
Room: B114
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: J. von Pezold, Max-Planck Institut fur Eisenforschung
H16 
Nanowires: Synthesis, Structural Properties and Growth Kinetics
Room: B115
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Douglas Strachan, University of Kentucky
H17 
Focus Session: Relaxation Dynamics of Polymeric Glasses II
Room: B116
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Greg Mckenna, Texas Tech University
H18 
Polymer Composites
Room: B117
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Bryan Vogt, Arizona State University
H19 
Focus Session: Long Range Order in Polymeric Structure and Morphology I
Room: B118-B119
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Kevin Cavicchi, The University of Akron
H20 
Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Excitonic Effects
Room: C120-C122
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Vasili Perebeinos, IBM
H21 
Focus Session: Graphene: Nanoribbons
Room: Portland Ballroom 251
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Nancy Sandler, Ohio University
H22 
Epitaxial Graphene on Silicon Carbide
Room: Portland Ballroom 252
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Gregory Rutter, National Institute of Standards and Technology
H23 
Classical and Quantum Monte Carlo I
Room: C125-C126
Sponsor: 
DCOMP
Chair: Pui-Man Lam, Southern University
H24 
Focus Session: Production and Application of Cold Molecules I
Room: D133-D134
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: David Chandler, Sandia National Laboratories
H25 
Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors - Si
Room: D135
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Pat Mooney, Simon Fraser University
H26 
Spin Qubits - Diamond, III-Vs, and Coupling to Cavities
Room: D136
Sponsor: 
GQI
Chair: Sophia Economou, Naval Research Laboratory
H27 
Focus Session: Confined and Biological Water II
Room: D137
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Teresa Head?Gordon, University of California, Berkeley
H28 
Focus Session: New Frontiers in Electronic Structure Theory I
Room: C124
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Axel Becke, Dalhousie University
H29 
Physics and Materials for Inorganic Photovoltaics: III
Room: C123
Sponsor: 
DMP GERA
Chair: Lin?Wang Wang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
H30 
Focus Session: Frontiers in Computational Thermodynamics of Materials
Room: D139
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: Stefano Curtarolo, Duke University
H31 
Weakly and Strongly Interacting Fermions
Room: E141
Sponsor: 
DAMOP
Chair: Marcos Rigol, Georegetown University
H32 
Focus Session: Tribophysics -- Fracture and Plasticity
Room: E142
Sponsor: 
GSNP DMP
Chair: Bernd Gotsmann, IBM Zurich
H33 
Focus Session: Magnetization and Spin Dynamics II
Room: E143
Sponsor: 
GMAG DMP
Chair: A. Lukaszew, College of William and Mary
H34 
Focus Session: Frustrated and Low-D Magnetism -- Spin Chains and Ladders
Room: E144
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Andrei Bernevig, Princeton University
H35 
Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors -- DMS: Nitrides and Oxides
Room: E145
Sponsor: 
GMAG DMP FIAP
Chair: Alberta Bonanni, Johannes Kepler University
H36 
Focus Session: Nanomagnetism -- Spin Torque
Room: E146
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Liam O'Brien, Imperial College London
H37 
Focus Session: Complex Oxide Thin Films -- Manganites
Room: E147-E148
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: John Freeland, Argonne National Laboratory
H38 
Phase Transitions in Vanadium Oxides
Room: F149
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Jenny Hoffman, Harvard University
H39 
Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors: Pairing Symmetry
Room: F150
Sponsor: 
DMP DCMP
Chair: David Singh, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
H40 
Focus Session: Phonons and Electron Correlations in High Temperature Superconductors II
Room: F151
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: David Parker, Naval Research Laboratory
H41 
Superconductivity: Proximity Effects
Room: F152
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Thomas Lemberger, Ohio State University
H42 
Focus Session: Research in Mathematics Education and Mathematics in Physics Education
Room: D138
Sponsor: 
FEd
Chair: John Thompson, University of Maine
Mar 16 2010 11:15AM, Tuesday
J1 
The Gap Structure of the Fe Superconducters
Room: Oregon Ballroom 201
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Douglas Scalapino, University of California, Santa Barbara
J2 
Non-equilibrium Phenomena in Very High Landau Levels
Room: Oregon Ballroom 202
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Myriam Sarachik, City College of New York, CUNY
J3 
Energy Research and Applications: Future Materials and Systems
Room: Oregon Ballroom 203
Sponsor: 
GERA
Chair: Joseph Poon, University of Virginia
J4 
Dynamics of Polymers on Multi-Length Scales: Melts
Room: Oregon Ballroom 204
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Anna Balazs, University of Pittsburgh
J5 
Panel Discussion: What Works for Women in Physics: Lessons Learned from Research
Room: Portland Ballroom 256
Sponsor: 
COM CSWP
Chair: Yevgeniya Zastavker, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
J6 
Advanced Electronic Structure Methods for Defects in Semiconductors and Insulators
Room: Portland Ballroom 253
Sponsor: 
DCOMP
Chair: Shengbai Zhang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
J7 
Biofilms and Multicellularity
Room: Portland Ballroom 254
Sponsor: 
GSNP
Chair: Sigolene Lecuyer, Harvard University
J8 
LaserFest: Laser Education and Outreach
Room: Portland Ballroom 255
Sponsor: 
FEd
Chair: Theodore Hodapp, American Physical Society
J9 
Transport in Semiconductors I
Room: A105
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Sergei Vitkalov, City College of New York
J10 
Protein-Protein Interaction and Protein Aggregation
Room: A106
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Ka Yee Lee, University of Chicago
J11 
Biological Networks & System Biology
Room: A107-A109
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Lev Tsimring, University of California, San Diego
J12 
Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Thermal Transport
Room: B110-B111
Sponsor: 
DCMP DMP
Chair: Rodrigo Capaz, UFRJ, Brazil
J13 
Systems Far From Equilibrium
Room: B112
Sponsor: 
GSNP
Chair: Alan Middleton, Syracuse University
J14 
Focus Session: Optics of Nanostructures – Plasmons, Nanoantennas, and Quantum Dots
Room: B113
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Richard Averitt, Boston University
J15 
Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy II: Optical Techniques
Room: B114
Sponsor: 
GIMS
Chair: Andreas Heinrich, IBM Almaden Research Center
J16 
Focus Session: Polymers and Energy: Photovoltaics I
Room: B115
Sponsor: 
DPOLY GERA DMP
Chair: Karim Alamgir, The University of Akron
J17 
Frank J. Padden Jr. Award Symposium
Room: B116
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Ron Larson, University of Michigan
J18 
Physics of Copolymers
Room: B117
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Svetlana Sukhishvili, Stevens Institute of Technology
J19 
Focus Session: Hierarchically and Templated Ordered Systems I
Room: B118-B119
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Azar Alizadeh, GE Global Research Center
J20 
Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Mechanical properties and Biosensors
Room: C120-C122
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Apparao Rao, Clemson University
J21 
Focus Session: Graphene: Transport I
Room: Portland Ballroom 251
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Millie Dresselhaus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
J22 
Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Optoelectronic Devices
Room: Portland Ballroom 252
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Jiwoong Park, Cornell University
J23 
Focus Session: Plyler Prize Session and New Trends in Spectroscopy I
Room: C125-C126
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Brooks Pate, University of Virginia
J24 
Topological Insulators: Theory
Room: D133-D134
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Dennis Drew, University of Maryland
J25 
Focus Session: Electric-to-Light Conversion and Optics in Semiconductors II
Room: D135
Sponsor: 
DMP GERA
Chair: Ferdinand Scholz, Ulm University
J26 
Focus Session: Topological Quantum Computing
Room: D136
Sponsor: 
GQI
Chair: Kirill Shtengel, University of California, Riverside
J27 
Focus Session: Confined and Biological Water III
Room: D137
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Sol M. Gruner, Cornell University
J28 
Focus Session: New Frontiers in Electronic Structure Theory II
Room: C124
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Edward Valeev, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
J29 
Focus Session: Thermoelectrics II: Dirac, Bi2Te3 & Nanostructures
Room: C123
Sponsor: 
DMP FIAP GERA
Chair: Joseph Heremans, Ohio State University
J30 
Focus Session: High Pressure II: Equations of State
Room: D139
Sponsor: 
DCOMP GSCCM
Chair: Ramon Ravelo, University of Texas at El Paso
J31 
Focus Session: Hybrid AMO-condensed Matter Systems for Quantum Information Science
Room: E141
Sponsor: 
DAMOP GQI
Chair: Luis Orozco, U Maryland
J32 
Structure and Morphology: Metal Surfaces
Room: E142
Sponsor: 
DMP DCMP
Chair: Theodore Einstein, University of Maryland
J33 
Focus Session: Spin Dependent Physics in Organic-Based Materials I
Room: E143
Sponsor: 
GMAG
Chair: Arthur Epstein, The Ohio State University
J34 
Correlated Electrons: New Materials
Room: E144
Sponsor: 
GMAG
Chair: Eric Bauer, Los Alamos National Laboratory
J35 
Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors -- Spin Orbit Effects and Spin Relaxation
Room: E145
Sponsor: 
GMAG DMP FIAP
Chair: Scott Crooker, Los Alamos National Laboratory
J36 
Focus Session: Nanomagnetism -- Domain Dynamics
Room: E146
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Geoffrey Beach, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
J37 
Focus Session: Novel Magnetic Devices - Spin Torque I
Room: E147-E148
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Ursula Ebels, Spintec/CEA
J38 
Heavy Fermions II: Ce-based 115 and 122 Systems
Room: F149
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Johnpierre Paglione, University of Maryland
J39 
Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors: Properties and Pressure
Room: F150
Sponsor: 
DCMP DMP
Chair: M McGuire, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
J40 
Strongly Correlated Models for Cuprate Systems
Room: F151
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Philip Phillips, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
J41 
Response to Electromagnetic Fields (Optical, Raman)
Room: F152
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Oleg Shpyrko, University of California, San Diego
J42 
General Theory, Methods, Education and Relativity
Room: D138
Sponsor: 
DCOMP
Chair: Cyrus Umrigar, Cornell University
Mar 16 2010 2:00PM, Tuesday
K1 
Poster Session II (2:00 pm - 5:00 pm)
Room: Exhibit CD
Mar 16 2010 2:30PM, Tuesday
L1 
Novel Probes of Electron Interactions in One-Dimensional Systems
Room: Oregon Ballroom 201
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Karyn Le Hur, Yale University
L2 
Correlated States for Topological Quantum Computing
Room: Oregon Ballroom 202
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Chetan Nayack, Station Q, University of California, Santa Barbara
L3 
How to Predict Localized Hole-States in Oxides and Wide-Gap Semiconductors?
Room: Oregon Ballroom 203
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Alex Zunger, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
L4 
Onsager, Heineman and Metropolis Prize Session
Room: Oregon Ballroom 204
Sponsor: 
APS
Chair: Peter Young, University of California, Santa Cruz
L5 
Promoting Excellence: Preparation, Execution, and Opportunities
Room: Portland Ballroom 256
Sponsor: 
COM
Chair: William Evans, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
L6 
Intracellular Fluid Dynamics
Room: Portland Ballroom 253
Sponsor: 
DFD
Chair: Juan Del Alamo, University of California, San Diego
L7 
Educational Challenges in Biological Physics
Room: Portland Ballroom 254
Sponsor: 
DBP FEd
Chair: Aihua Xie, Oklahoma State University
L8 
Recent Advances and New Projects in Neutron and X-Ray Sources
Room: Portland Ballroom 255
Sponsor: 
DPB
Chair: Christoph Leemann, Thomas Jefferson Lab National Accelerator Facility
L9 
Optical Properties of Nanocrystals
Room: A105
Sponsor: 
DCOMP
Chair: Danny Kim, Naval Research Laboratory
L10 
Focus Session: Single Molecule Biophysics and Chemical Physics IV
Room: A106
Sponsor: 
DCP DBP DPOLY
Chair: Ashok Deniz, Scripps Research Institute
L11 
Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics II
Room: A107-A109
Sponsor: 
GSNP
Chair: Thomas Halsey, ExxonMobil
L12 
Granular Materials I
Room: B110-B111
Sponsor: 
DFD
Chair: Mark Shattuck, CUNY-CCNY
L13 
Liquid crystals: Mostly Nematics
Room: B112
Sponsor: 
DFD
Chair: Fangfu Ye, University of Illinois
L14 
Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures IV: Charge Dynamics and Imaging of Photoactive Molecules
Room: B113
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Douglas Natelson, Rice University
L15 
Focus Session: X-ray and Neutron Instruments and Measurement Science II
Room: B114
Sponsor: 
GIMS
Chair: Timothy Graber, University of Chicago
L16 
Focus Session: Polymers and Energy: Photovoltaics II
Room: B115
Sponsor: 
DPOLY GERA DMP
Chair: Tom Russell, University of Massuchusetts at Amherst
L17 
Focus Session: Dillon Medal Symposium
Room: B116
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Rick Register, Princeton University
L18 
Focus Session: Long Range Order in Polymeric Structure and Morphology II
Room: B117
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Thomas Epps, University of Delaware
L19 
Focus Session: Hierarchically and Templated Ordered Systems II
Room: B118-B119
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Vladimir Tsukruk, Georgia Institute of Technology
L20 
Focus Session: Computational Design of New Materials -- Nanostructure Design
Room: C120-122
Sponsor: 
DMP DCOMP
Chair: Sergey Stolbov, University of Central Florida
L21 
Focus Session: Graphene: Transport II
Room: Portland Ballroom 251
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Eduardo Mucciolo, University of Central Florida
L22 
Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes Alignment and Sorting: Device Applications
Room: Portland Ballroom 252
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Mathias Steiner, IBM
L23 
Classical and Quantum Monte Carlo II
Room: C125-C126
Sponsor: 
DCOMP
Chair: Jeffery Grossman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
L24 
Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides -- Applications
Room: D133-D134
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Matthew Dawber, Stony Brook University
L25 
Optical and Electronic Properties of Semiconductors
Room: D135
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Alex Hamilton, University of New South Wales
L26 
Spin Qubits - Control, Transport, Architecture and Decoherence
Room: D136
Sponsor: 
GQI
Chair: Mark Friesen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
L27 
Focus Session: Confined and Biological Water IV
Room: D137
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Shekhar Garde, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
L28 
Nucleic Acids: Structure & Function
Room: C124
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Ralf Bundschuh, Ohio State University
L29 
Focus Session: Interface Controlled Organic Thin Films for Enhanced Device Performance
Room: C123
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: Suchi Guha, University of Missouri-Columbia
L30 
Focus Session: Hydrogen Storage II -- Complex Hydrides
Room: D139
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Jan Herbst, General Motors
L31 
APS Editorial Q & A
Room: E141
L32 
Focus Session: Tribophysics -- Sliding Friction
Room: E142
Sponsor: 
DMP GSNP DPOLY
Chair: Izabela Szlufarska, University of Wisconsin
L33 
Focus Session: Spin Dependent Physics in Organic-Based Materials II
Room: E143
Sponsor: 
GMAG
Chair: Anthony Caruso, University of Missouri - Kansas City
L34 
Focus Session: Frustrated and Low-D Magnetism -- Strongly Frustrated Antiferromagnets in 2D
Room: E144
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Alexander Seidel, Washington University in St. Louis
L35 
Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors -- Spin Injection
Room: E145
Sponsor: 
GMAG DMP FIAP
Chair: Ron Jansen, University of Twente
L36 
Focus Session: Nanomagnetism -- Tunnel Junctions
Room: E146
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Jeff Childress, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
L37 
Focus Session: Novel Magnetic Devices: Spin Torque II
Room: E147-E148
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Jonathan Sun, IBM T.J Watson Research Center
L38 
Charge Order in One-Dimensional Systems
Room: F149
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Stuart Brown, University of California, Los Angeles
L39 
Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors: Magnetism and Structure
Room: F150
Sponsor: 
DCMP DMP
Chair: Rob McQueeney, Ames Laboratory
L40 
Superconductivity: Electronic Structure (ARPES)
Room: F151
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Michael Norman, Argonne National Laboratory
L41 
Focus Session: Search for New Superconductors - Heterostructures, Thin Films, Intercalated and High-Pressure Compounds
Room: F152
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Alan Bishop, Los Alamos National Laboratory
L42 
High Reynolds Number Flows
Room: D138
Sponsor: 
DFD
Chair: Marcel Ilie, University of Central Florida
Mar 16 2010 5:45PM, Tuesday
M7 
DBP Business Meeting
Room: Portland Ballroom 254
M11 
GSNP Business Meeting
Room: A107-A109
M16 
GERA Business Meeting
Room: B115
M17 
DPOLY Business Meeting
Room: B116
M27 
GQI Business Meeting
Room: D137
M29 
FIAP Business Meeting
Room: C123
M30 
GSCCM Business Meeting
Room: D139
Sponsor: 
GSCCM
M36 
GMAG Business Meeting
Room: E146
Mar 16 2010 7:00PM, Tuesday
M45 
DCP Business Meeting
Room: Portland Hilton Executive Suite
M46 
DCMP Business Meeting
Room: Portland Hilton Broadway II
Sponsor: 
DCMP
M47 
DCOMP Business Meeting
Room: Senate Suite
M48 
DMP Business Meeting
Room: Broadway III
Mar 17 2010 8:00AM, Wednesday
P1 
Superconductivity and Magnetism of Iron Chalcogenides
Room: Oregon Ballroom 201
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Collin Broholm, John Hopkins University
P2 
Quantum Oscillations, Superconductivity, and Pseudogaps in Nanoscaled Metal Films and Islands
Room: Oregon Ballroom 202
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Mei-Yin Chou, Georgia Institute of Technology
P3 
Emergent Behavior in Particle Systems Subjected to Time-Dependent Fields
Room: Oregon Ballroom 203
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Jack Douglass, National Institute of Standards and Technology
P4 
Celebrating 50 Years of Lasers in Condensed Matter Physics: Dynamics & Imaging
Room: Oregon Ballroom 204
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Marcus Cicerone, National Institute of Standards and Technology
P5 
Lattice Boltzmann Method and Its Applications
Room: Portland Ballroom 256
Sponsor: 
DFD
Chair: Li-Shi Luo, Old Dominion University
P6 
Fermions at Unitarity: Gravity, the Quark-Gluon Plasma, and Ultra-Cold Atoms
Room: Portland Ballroom 253
Sponsor: 
DAMOP
Chair: Lincoln Carr, Colorado School of Mines
P7 
Physics, Culture and the Arts
Room: Portland Ballroom 254
Sponsor: 
FPS
Chair: Philip L. Taylor, Case Western Reserve University
P8 
Physicists as Entrepreneurs
Room: Portland Ballroom 255
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: T. Venkatesan, National University of Singapore
P9 
Electronic Properties of Quantum Dots
Room: A105
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Luis Dias da Silva, University of Tennessee
P10 
Focus Session: Physics of Behavior
Room: A106
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Will Ryu, University of Toronto
P11 
Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics III
Room: A107-A109
Sponsor: 
GSNP
Chair: A. Kudrolli, Clark University
P12 
Granular Materials II
Room: B110-B111
Sponsor: 
DFD
Chair: Colin Denniston, University of Western Ontario
P13 
Membranes: General, Surface, Biological
Room: B112
Sponsor: 
DFD
Chair: Haskell Taub, University of Missouri
P14 
Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures V: Theory and Computation II
Room: B113
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Harold Baranger, Duke University
P15 
Instrumentation for Nanoscale Science
Room: B114
Sponsor: 
GIMS
Chair: Young Jae Song, National Institute of Standards and Technology
P16 
Nanowires: Electronic and Optical Properties
Room: B115
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Jason Petta, Princeton University
P17 
Focus Session: Glass Transition in Thin Films I
Room: B116
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Rodney Priestley, Princeton University
P18 
Focus Session: Biological-Synthetic Hybrid Materials I
Room: B117
Sponsor: 
DPOLY DBP
Chair: Francis Starr, Wesleyan University
P19 
Focus Session: Physics of Polymer Nanocomposites I
Room: B118-B119
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Sanat Kumar, Columbia University
P20 
Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Electron Transport
Room: C120-C122
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Saiful Khondaker, University of Central Florida
P21 
Focus Session: Nano-Graphene
Room: Portland Ballroom 251
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Philip First, Georgia Institute of Technology
P22 
Bilayer Graphene
Room: Portland Ballroom 252
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Xia Hong, Pennsylvannia State University
P23 
Classical and Quantum Molecular Dynamics
Room: C125-C126
Sponsor: 
DCOMP
Chair: Glenn Martyna, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
P24 
Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides -- Nanostructures
Room: D133-D134
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Tae Won Noh, Seoul National University
P25 
Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors - III-V's
Room: D135
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Volkmar Dierolf, Lehigh University
P26 
Superconducting Qubits: Materials / Nanomechanical Resonators
Room: D136
Sponsor: 
GQI
Chair: David Schuster, Yale University
P27 
Focus Session: New Trends in Spectroscopy II
Room: D137
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Greg Hall, Brookhaven National Laboratory
P28 
Focus Session: New Frontiers in Electronic Structure Theory III
Room: C124
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Martin Head-Gordon, University of California, Berkeley
P29 
Focus Session: Thermoelectrics III: IV-VI's & Nanostructures
Room: C123
Sponsor: 
DMP FIAP GERA
Chair: Chris Dames, University of California, Riverside
P30 
Nanopores and Related Structures for DNA Detection
Room: D139
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: Derek Stein, Brown University
P31 
Ultracold Gases in One Dimensional and Ring Geometries
Room: E141
Sponsor: 
DAMOP
Chair: Yu-Ju Lin, National Institute of Standards and Technology
P32 
Focus Session: Tribophysics -- Adhesion and Friction
Room: E142
Sponsor: 
DMP GSNP DPOLY
Chair: Erio Tosatti, SISSA/ICTP
P33 
Focus Session: Spin Dependent Physics in Organic-Based Materials III
Room: E143
Sponsor: 
GMAG
Chair: Konstantin Pokhodnya, North Dakota State University
P34 
Focus Session: Frustrated and Low-D Magnetism -- Antiferromagnets on the Triangular Lattice
Room: E144
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Oleg Starykh, University of Utah
P35 
Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors -- GaMnAs Electronic Structure
Room: E145
Sponsor: 
GMAG DMP FIAP
Chair: Nitin Samarth, The Pennsylvania State University
P36 
Focus Session: Bulk Properties of Complex Oxides -- Cobaltites
Room: E146
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Christopher Leighton, University of Minnesota
P37 
Focus Session: Complex Oxide Thin Films -- Conductivity and Metal-Insulator Transition I
Room: E147-E148
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Nicola Spaldin, University of California, Santa Barbara
P38 
Quantum Criticality II
Room: F149
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Dirk van der Marel, University of Geneva
P39 
Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors: Theory II
Room: F150
Sponsor: 
DMP DCMP
Chair: Michelle Johannes, Navel Research Laboratory
P40 
Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors: Physical Propertise II
Room: F151
Sponsor: 
DCMP DMP
Chair: Brian Sales, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
P41 
Tutorial for Authors and Referees
Room: F152
P42 
Superconductivity: Fluctuation Phenomena
Room: D138
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Mike Bleiweiss, Naval Academy Prep School
Mar 17 2010 11:15AM, Wednesday
Q1 
Novel Superconductivity: Insights from a Materials Perspective
Room: Oregon Ballroom 201
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Aharon Kapitulnik, Stanford University
Q2 
Jamming
Room: Oregon Ballroom 202
Sponsor: 
DCMP GSNP
Chair: Wouter Ellenbroek, University of Pennsylvania
Q3 
Physics for Everyone
Room: Oregon Ballroom 203
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Ivan K. Schuller, University of California, San Diego
Q4 
Celebrating 50 Years of Lasers in Condensed Matter Physics: Surfaces, Imaging & Technology
Room: Oregon Ballroom 204
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Marcus Cicerone, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Q5 
A Critical Challenge for the Biotech Industry: The Measurement of Protein Associations
Room: Portland Ballroom 256
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: Philip Wyatt, Wyatt Technology Corporation
Q6 
Science Literacy, the Nature of Science and Religion
Room: Portland Ballroom 253
Sponsor: 
FEd
Chair: Lawrence Woolf, General Atomics
Q7 
Mechanics in Cell Biology
Room: Portland Ballroom 254
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Dan Siegal-Gaskins, NSF Mathematical Biosciences Institute at Ohio State University
Q8 
Magnonics: Spin Wave Processes in Magnetic Materials
Room: Portland Ballroom 255
Sponsor: 
GMAG
Chair: Olle Heinonen, Seagate Technology
Q9 
Electronic Properties of Low Dimensional Systems
Room: A105
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Sergio Ulloa, Ohio University
Q10 
Focus Session: Physics of Biochips I
Room: A106
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Peter Kiesel, PARC
Q11 
Self-organization in Biological Cells and tissue II
Room: A107-A109
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Tim Newman, Arizona State
Q12 
Self-Assembly: Equilibrium and Non-Equilibrium
Room: B110-B111
Sponsor: 
DFD DCMP
Chair: Jacques Amar, University of Toledo
Q13 
Focus Session: Stochastic Processes in Biology I
Room: B112
Sponsor: 
GSNP DBP
Chair: Ira Schwartz, Naval Research Laboratory
Q14 
Focus Session: Optics of Nanostructures: Quantum Dots and Nanomaterials
Room: B113
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Scott Crooker, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Q15 
Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy III: Spectroscopic Techniques at Low Temperatures
Room: B114
Sponsor: 
GIMS
Chair: Andreas Heinrich, IBM Almaden Research Center
Q16 
Focus Session: Polymers and Energy: Fuel Cells and Batteries
Room: B115
Sponsor: 
DPOLY GERA DMP
Chair: Karim Alamgir, The University of Akron
Q17 
Focus Session : Glass Transition in Thin Films II
Room: B116
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Connie Roth, Emory University
Q18 
Focus Session: Biological-Synthetic Hybrid Materials II
Room: B117
Sponsor: 
DBP DPOLY
Chair: Oleg Gang, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Q19 
Focus Session: Physics of Polymer Nanocomposites II
Room: B118-B119
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Michael Mackay, University of Delaware
Q20 
Focus Session: Graphene: Local Probes
Room: C120-122
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Peter Johnson, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Q21 
Focus Session: Graphene: Bilayers I
Room: Portland Ballroom 251
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Sankar Das Sarma, University of Maryland
Q22 
Graphene Junctions
Room: Portland Ballroom 252
Sponsor: 
DCMP DMP
Chair: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Q23 
Electronic Structure
Room: C125-C126
Sponsor: 
DCOMP
Chair: Guang-Lin Zhao, Southern University
Q24 
Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides -- Strain and Interfaces
Room: D133-D134
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Dragan Damjanovic, EPFL
Q25 
QHE: Bilayers and Tunneling
Room: D135
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: Joel Moore, University of California, Berkeley
Q26 
Quantum Error Correction and Dynamical Decoupling
Room: D136
Sponsor: 
GQI
Chair: Dave Bacon, University of Washington
Q27 
Focus Session: New Trends in Spectroscopy III
Room: D137
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: David Osborn, Sandia National Laboratories
Q28 
Focus Session: New Frontiers in Electronic Structure Theory IV
Room: C124
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: David Sherrill, Georgia Institute of Technology
Q29 
Focus Session: Thermoelectrics IV: Group IV's & Nanostructures
Room: C123
Sponsor: 
DMP FIAP GERA
Chair: Rama Venkatasubramanian, RTI International
Q30 
Focus Session: High Pressure III
Room: D139
Sponsor: 
DCOMP
Chair: Ken Esler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Q31 
Focus Session: Quantum Simulation using AMO Systems
Room: E141
Sponsor: 
DAMOP
Chair: Victor Gurarie, University of Colorado
Q32 
Focus Session: Self Assembly of Molecules on Surfaces
Room: E142
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Janice Reutt-Robey, University of Maryland
Q33 
Focus Session: Complex Oxide Thin Films -- Oxide/Semiconductor Interfaces and Defects
Room: E143
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Susanne Stemmer, University of California, Santa Barbara
Q34 
Focus Session: Frustrated and Low-D Magnetism -- Spins, Orbitals, and Phonons
Room: E144
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Joachim Deisenhofer, Augsburg University
Q35 
Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors -- Spin Device Physics
Room: E145
Sponsor: 
GMAG DMP FIAP
Chair: Hanan Dery, University of Rochester
Q36 
Focus Session: Bulk Properties of Complex Oxides -- Fe-Based Multiferroics
Room: E146
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Sang?Wook Cheong, Rutgers University
Q37 
Focus Session: Complex Oxide Thin Films -- Conductivity and Metal-Insulator Transition II
Room: E147-E148
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Jak Chakhalian, University of Arkansas
Q38 
Topological Insulators: Theory and Experiment
Room: F149
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Peter Armitage, Johns Hopkins University
Q39 
Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors: Theory III
Room: F150
Sponsor: 
DCMP DMP
Chair: M. Korshunov, University of Florida
Q40 
Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors Physical Properties III
Room: F151
Sponsor: 
DCMP DMP
Chair: T. Devereaux, University of Waterloo
Q41 
Focus Session: Phonons and Electron Correlations in High Tc Superconductors
Room: F152
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: David Tanner, University of Florida
Q42 
Theory of Superconducting Properties
Room: D138
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Maxim Vavilov, University of Wisconsin
Mar 17 2010 1:00PM, Wednesday
S1 
Poster Session III (1:00 pm - 4:00 pm)
Room: Exhibit CD
Mar 17 2010 2:30PM, Wednesday
T1 
Prize Session: Buckley, Lilienfeld
Room: Oregon Ballroom 201
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: David Pine, New York University
T2 
Quantum Fluctuations and Magnetic Frustration in Strongly Correlated Metals
Room: Oregon Ballroom 202
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Zachary Fisk, Los Alamos National Laboratory
T3 
Materials with Topological Defects on Gaussian Curved Surfaces
Room: Oregon Ballroom 203
Sponsor: 
DCMP DPOLY
Chair: Paul Chaikin, New York University
T4 
Keithly Award Session: Precision Time and Frequency Measurements
Room: Oregon Ballroom 204
Sponsor: 
GIMS
Chair: James Matey, United States Naval Academy
T5 
Measuring Magnetism at the Nanoscale
Room: Portland Ballroom 256
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: Ernesto Marinero, Hitachi Research Center-San Jose
T6 
Graduate Education in Physics: Which Way Forward
Room: Portland Ballroom 253
Sponsor: 
FEd FGSA
Chair: Theodore Hodapp, American Physical Society
T7 
Avalanches in Condensed Matter
Room: Portland Ballroom 254
Sponsor: 
GSNP DCMP
Chair: Craig Maloney, Carnegie Mellon University
T8 
Panel Discussion: Emerging Scientific Powers in the East: China
Room: Portland Ballroom 255
Sponsor: 
FIP FGSA
Chair: Noemie Koller, Rutgers University
T9 
Focus Session: Optics of Nanostructures - Near Field, Single Molecule, and Plasmonics
Room: A105
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Rudolf Bratschitsch, University of Konstanz
T10 
Focus Session: Physics of Biochips II
Room: A106
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: David Nolte, Purdue University
T11 
Focus Session: Single Molecule Biophysics and Chemical Physics V
Room: A107-A108
Sponsor: 
DCP DBP DPOLY
Chair: David Nesbitt, JILA/University of Colorado
T12 
Microfluidics II: Devices
Room: B110-B111
Sponsor: 
DFD
Chair: Cindy Harnett, University of Louisville
T13 
Focus Session: Stochastic Processes in Biology II
Room: B112
Sponsor: 
GSNP DBP
Chair: L. Shaw, College of William and Mary
T14 
Energy Resources Followed by Energy Production, Sustainability and Environment
Room: B113
Sponsor: 
GERA
Chair: Terry Tritt, Clemson University
T15 
Metals, Compounds, and Metal-like Behavior
Room: B114
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Joerg Neugebauer, Max-Planck Institut fur Eisenforschung
T16 
Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics: Transport
Room: B115
Sponsor: 
DMP DPOLY
Chair: Leeor Kronik, The Weizmann Institute of Science
T17 
Focus Session: Dynamics of Polymers and Complex Fluids I
Room: B116
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Ron Larson, University of Michigan
T18 
Focus Session: Biological-Synthetic Hybrid Materials III
Room: B117
Sponsor: 
DPOLY DBP
Chair: Francis Starr, Wesleyan University
T19 
Focus Session: Polymer-Nanoparticle Interactions I
Room: B118-B119
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: John Torkelson, Northwestern University
T20 
Focus Session: Computational Design of New Materials -- Energy
Room: C120-122
Sponsor: 
DMP DCOMP
Chair: Abdelkader Kara, University of Central Florida
T21 
Focus Session: Graphene: Bilayers II
Room: Portland Ballroom 251
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Antonio Castro Neto, Boston University
T22 
Multiscale Materials (Theory, Modeling and Experiments that Bridge Scales)
Room: Portland Ballroom 252
Sponsor: 
DCOMP GSCCM
Chair: Thomas Sewell, University of Missouri Columbia
T23 
Density Functional Theory II
Room: C125-C126
Sponsor: 
DCOMP
Chair: Neepa Maitra, Hunter College, CUNY
T24 
Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides -- Domains
Room: D133-D134
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Beatriz Noheda, University of Groenigen
T25 
QHE: Microwaves and Periodic Modulation
Room: D135
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: Michael Zudov, University of Minnesota
T26 
Superconducting Qubits: Measurements
Room: D136
Sponsor: 
GQI
Chair: Leo DiCarlo, Yale University
T27 
Cellular Biomechanics
Room: D137
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Wolfgang Losert, University of Maryland
T28 
Focus Session: Production and Application of Cold Molecules II
Room: C124
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Jeremy Hutson, University of Durham
T29 
Superconducting Devices and Applications
Room: C123
Sponsor: 
FIAP DCMP
Chair: Fred Wellstood, University of Maryland
T30 
Focus Session: Hydrogen Storage III
Room: D139
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Donald Siegel, Unverisity of Michigan
T31 
Quantum Phase Transitions in Atomic and Molecular Systems
Room: E141
Sponsor: 
DAMOP
Chair: Cheng Chin, University of Chicago
T32 
Focus Session: Self Assembly on Novel Templates
Room: E142
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Karsten Pohl, University of New Hampshire
T33 
Novel Magnetic Materials
Room: E143
Sponsor: 
GMAG
Chair: Yves Idzerda, Montana State University
T34 
Correlated Electrons: Theory
Room: E144
Sponsor: 
GMAG
Chair: Juana Moreno, Louisiana State University
T35 
Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors -Spin Hall Effect and Spin Currents
Room: E145
Sponsor: 
GMAG DMP FIAP
Chair: Michael Flatté, University of Iowa
T36 
Focus Session: Bulk Properties of Complex Oxides -- Layered Manganites and Theory
Room: E146
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Feng Ye, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
T37 
Focus Session: Complex Oxide Thin Films -- Interfaces and Superlattices
Room: E147-E148
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: R. Ramesh, University of California, Berkeley
T38 
Electronic Phase Transitions in Correlated Systems
Room: F149
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Brian Wells, University of Connecticut
T39 
Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors: Scanning Probe
Room: F150
Sponsor: 
DCMP DMP
Chair: Ruslan Prozorov, Ames Laboratory
T40 
Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors: Doping and Magnetism
Room: F151
Sponsor: 
DMP DCMP
Chair: Mao-Hua Du, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
T41 
Focus Session: Search for New Superconductors - Nanotubes and Fullerides
Room: F152
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Anvar Zakhidov, University of Texas at Dallas
T42 
Superconductivity: Spin Properties
Room: D138
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Jaime Fernandez-Baca, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Mar 17 2010 5:45PM, Wednesday
U1 
Nobel Prize Session
Room: Portland Ballroom 252
Chair: David Pine, New York University
U4 
GIMS Business Meeting
Room: Oregon Ballroom 204
Mar 17 2010 7:00PM, Wednesday
U10 
Panel Discussion: Fuels of the Future
Room: Portland Ballroom 254
Sponsor: 
GERA
Chair: George Crabtree, Argonne National Laboratory
Mar 17 2010 7:30PM, Wednesday
U45 
``Trends" in the APS Publication Physics
Room: Portland Hilton Pavillion Ballroom
Sponsor: 
APS
Chair: Samindranath Mitra, American Physical Society
Mar 18 2010 8:00AM, Thursday
V1 
Structure, Magnetic Properties, and Superconductivity in the Pnictides
Room: Oregon Ballroom 201
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Sergey Budko, Ames Laboratory
V2 
Relaxation and Dynamic Heterogeneity and Glass
Room: Oregon Ballroom 202
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Zexin Zhang, University of Pennsylvania
V3 
Electronic, Magnetic, and Magnetoelectric Excitations in Multiferroics
Room: Oregon Ballroom 203
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Sang-Wook Cheong, Rutgers University
V4 
Biological Nanostructures for Photonics and Adhesion
Room: Oregon Ballroom 204
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Mohan Srinivasrao, Center for Advnaced Research on Optical Microscopy
V5 
Industrial Applications of Neutron Scattering
Room: Portland Ballroom 256
Sponsor: 
DCMP FIAP
Chair: Michael Crawford, DuPont
V6 
The Impact of Large Scale Computing on Research in Physics
Room: Portland Ballroom 253
Sponsor: 
DCOMP
Chair: Barry Schneider, National Science Foundation
V7 
Piconewtons and Nanometers: The Physics of Molecular Motors
Room: Portland Ballroom 254
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Ned Wingreen, Princeton University
V8 
Spots, Stripes, and Turbulence
Room: Portland Ballroom 255
Sponsor: 
GSNP DFD
Chair: John Gibson, Georgia Institute of Technology
V9 
Fractional QHE
Room: A105
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Alexander Abanov, Stony Brook University
V10 
Focus Session: Dynamics of Neural Systems
Room: A106
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Rhonda Dzakpasu, Georgetown University
V11 
Focus Session: Nonlinear Hydrodynamics of Swimming Cells
Room: A107-A109
Sponsor: 
DFD
Chair: Aparna Baskaran, Syracuse University
V12 
Colloidal Particles and Clusters
Room: B110-B111
Sponsor: 
DFD
Chair: Alex Levine, University of California, Los Angeles
V13 
Focus Session: Jamming I
Room: B112
Sponsor: 
GSNP
Chair: Corey O’Hern, Yale University
V14 
Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures VI: Inorganic Nanostructures and Nanomechanics
Room: B113
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Pierre Darancet, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
V15 
Focus Session: Novel Instrumentation and Measurements for Medical and Biological Systems
Room: B114
Sponsor: 
GIMS
Chair: Larry Nagahara, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
V16 
Nanowires: Electrical and Thermal Properties
Room: B115
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Derek Stewart, Cornell University
V17 
Focus Session: Dynamics of Polymers and Complex Fluids II
Room: B116
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Ron Larson, University of Michigan
V18 
Biopolymer Molecules - Solutions, Networks, and Gels
Room: B117
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Gila Stein, University of Houston
V19 
Focus Session: Polymer-Nanoparticle Interactions II
Room: B118-B119
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Chris Ellison, University of Texas at Austin
V20 
Graphene Synthesis, Characterization and Applications
Room: C120-122
Sponsor: 
DCMP DMP
Chair: Masahiro Ishigami, University of Central Florida
V21 
Focus Session: Graphene: Mechanical and Thermal Properties
Room: Portland Ballroom 251
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Vitor Pereira, Boston University
V22 
Quantum Hall Effect in Graphene
Room: Portland Ballroom 252
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Dmitri Abanin, Princeton University
V23 
Solid Helium I
Room: C125-C126
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Boris Svistunov, University of Massachusetts Amherst
V24 
Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides -- Bulk Ferroelectrics I
Room: D133-D134
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Valentino Cooper, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
V25 
Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors - Oxides, general
Room: D135
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Evan Glaser, Naval Research Laboratory
V26 
Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits
Room: D136
Sponsor: 
GQI
Chair: Andrew Hoffman, Princeton University
V27 
Focus Session: Attosecond Science and Strong Field Chemical Physics I
Room: D137
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Dan Neumark, University of California, Berkeley
V28 
Focus Session: Charge Transport in Nanostructures I
Room: C124
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Ward Plummer, University of Tennessee
V29 
Optical/Laser Devices and Applications
Room: C123
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: Anthony Johnson, University of Maryland-Baltimore County
V30 
Nanotechnology Applications: NEMS, CNTs, Graphene, and Nanoscale Devices
Room: D139
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: Willi Mickelson, Center for Integrated Nanomechanical Systems, University of California, Berkeley
V31 
Focus Session: Strongly Interacting Quantum Gases
Room: E141
Sponsor: 
DAMOP
Chair: David Pekker, Harvard University
V32 
Surface Reactions and Dynamics
Room: E142
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Alexey Zayak, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
V33 
Cooperative Phenomena- Experiment, Spin Dynamics and Materials
Room: E143
Sponsor: 
GMAG
Chair: Shireen Adenwalla, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
V34 
Focus Session: Frustrated and Low-D Magnetism -- Quantum Magnetism I
Room: E144
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Igor Zaliznyak, Brookhaven National Laboratory
V35 
Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors -- Carbon-based Systems
Room: E145
Sponsor: 
GMAG DMP FIAP
Chair: Stephan von Molnar, Florida State University
V36 
Spin Transport in Metals including GMR
Room: E146
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Olaf van 't Erve, Naval Research Laboratory
V37 
Focus Session: Complex Oxide Thin Films -- Multiferroics and Tunneling
Room: E147-E148
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Stuart Wolf, University of Virginia
V38 
Disordered Electronic Systems
Room: F149
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Smitha Vishveshwara, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
V39 
Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors: Lattice Probes & Irradiation
Room: F150
Sponsor: 
DCMP DMP
Chair: A. Gurevich, Florida State University
V40 
Superconducting Vortices: Pinning & Lattice Effects
Room: F151
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Michael Sumption, Ohio State University
V41 
Superconductor-Insulator Transitions
Room: F152
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Mike Osofsky, Naval Research Laboratory
V42 
Surfaces: Phase Transitions, Magnetic and Superconducting Properties
Room: D138
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Venkatraman Gopalan, Pennsylvania State University
Mar 18 2010 11:15AM, Thursday
W1 
Direct Imaging of Crystal Nucleation
Room: Oregon Ballroom 201
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Arjun Yodh, University of Pennsylvania
W2 
Drop-based Microfluidics for Use with Soft-materials and Biology
Room: Oregon Ballroom 202
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Michael Rubinstein, University of North Carolina
W3 
Adler, McGroddy, and Pake Award/Prize Session
Room: Oregon Ballroom 203
Sponsor: 
DMP FIAP
Chair: Robert Nemanich, Arizona State University
W4 
Electric Voltages Generated by Magnetization Dynamics
Room: Oregon Ballroom 204
Sponsor: 
GMAG
Chair: Axel Hoffmann, Argonne National Laboratory
W5 
Renewable Energy Education
Room: Portland Ballroom 256
Sponsor: 
FEd
Chair: Robert Ehrlich, George Mason University
W6 
Superconducting Qubits
Room: Portland Ballroom 253
Sponsor: 
GQI
Chair: Irfan Siddiqi, University of California, Berkeley
W7 
Biological Networks
Room: Portland Ballroom 254
Sponsor: 
DBP GSNP
Chair: Jin Wang, State University of New York, Stony Brook
W8 
Scanned Probe Microscopy of Novel Materials and Systems
Room: Portland Ballroom 255
Sponsor: 
GIMS
Chair: Joseph Stroscio, National Institute of Standards and Technology
W9 
QHE and topological insulators
Room: A105
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Marcel Franz, University of British Columbia
W10 
Lipid Bilayers I
Room: A106
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Christian Santangelo, University of Massachusetts
W11 
Proteins: Structure, Function, and Folding
Room: A107-A109
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Margaret Cheung, University of Houston
W12 
Foams and Suspensions
Room: B110-B111
Sponsor: 
DFD
Chair: Dan Blair, Georgetown Univeristy
W13 
Focus Session: Jamming II
Room: B112
Sponsor: 
GSNP
Chair: C. Olson Reichhardt, Los Alamos National Laboratory
W14 
Focus Session: Optics of Nanostructures -- Quantum Dots II
Room: B113
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Carlo Piermarocchi, Michigan State University
W15 
Surfaces, Thin Films, and Nanostructures
Room: B114
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Don Nicholson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
W16 
Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics: Transistors and Light Emitting Devices
Room: B115
Sponsor: 
DMP DPOLY
Chair: Lynn Loo, Princeton University
W17 
Focus Session: Dynamics of Polymers and Complex Fluids III
Room: B116
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Shi-Qing Wang, The University of Akron
W18 
Focus Session: Polymer Network Mechanics I
Room: B117
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Catalin Picu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
W19 
Focus Session: Synchrotron X-ray and Neutron Techniques in Soft Matter and Biological
Room: B118-B119
Sponsor: 
DPOLY DBP
Chair: Zhang Jiang, Argonne National Laboratory
W20 
Graphene Spectroscopy
Room: C120-122
Sponsor: 
DMP DCMP
Chair: Tony Heinz, Columbia University
W21 
Focus Session: Graphene: Strain
Room: Portland Ballroom 251
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Michael Fuhrer, University of Maryland
W22 
Graphene Nanoribbons
Room: Portland Ballroom 252
Sponsor: 
DMP DCMP
Chair: Gary Pennington, University of Maryland
W23 
Solid Helium II
Room: C125-C126
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Josh West, Pennsylvania State University
W24 
Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides -- Bulk Ferroelectrics II
Room: D133-D134
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Serge Nakhmanson, Argonne National Laboratory
W25 
Semiconductor Growths and Wide Bandgap Semiconductors
Room: D135
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Nelson Tansu, Lehigh University
W26 
Quantum Control and Resources for Quantum Computing
Room: D136
Sponsor: 
GQI
Chair: Frank Wilhelm, University of Waterloo
W27 
Focus Session: Attosecond Science and Strong Field Chemical Physics II
Room: D137
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Robin Santra, Argonne National Laboratory
W28 
Focus Session: Charge Transport in Nanostructures II
Room: C124
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Yaguang Wei, Georgia Institute of Technology
W29 
Focus Session: Thermoelectrics V: III-V's & Nanostructures
Room: C123
Sponsor: 
DMP FIAP GERA
Chair: Lilia Woods, University of South Florida
W30 
Focus Session: High Pressure IV: Dynamics of Shock Induced Phase Transitions
Room: D139
Sponsor: 
DCOMP GSCCM
Chair: Timothy Germann, Los Alamos National Laboratory
W31 
Non-equilibrium Quantum Dynamics in Atomic Systems
Room: E141
Sponsor: 
DAMOP
Chair: Gavin Brennen, Macquarie University
W32 
Structure and Morphology: Semiconductor Surfaces
Room: E142
Sponsor: 
DMP DCMP
Chair: Steve Erwin, Naval Research Laboratory
W33 
Quantum Entanglement
Room: E143
Sponsor: 
GQI
Chair: Ivette Fuentes-Schuller, University of Nottingham, UK
W34 
Focus Session: Nanomagnetism -- Atomic Size Structures
Room: E144
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Pietro Gambardella, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
W35 
Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors -- DMS: III-V and Devices
Room: E145
Sponsor: 
GMAG DMP FIAP
Chair: Masaaki Tanaka, University of Tokyo
W36 
Focus Session: Frustrated and Low-D Magnetism -- Spin Ice
Room: E146
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Xianglin Ke, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
W37 
Focus Session: Complex Oxide Thin Films -- BiFeO3 Multiferroics
Room: E147-E148
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Ichiro Takeuchi, University of Maryland
W38 
Correlated Electrons: Lattice Models
Room: F149
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: G Fernando, University of Connecticut
W39 
Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors: Neutron Scattering and Magnetism
Room: F150
Sponsor: 
DCMP DMP
Chair: Pengcheng Dai, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
W40 
Mesoscopic and Nanoscopic Superconductors
Room: F151
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Mingliang Tian, Pennsylvania State University
W41 
Focus Session: Search for New Superconductors - Silicides, Nickelates and Cobaltates
Room: F152
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Robert Cava, Princeton University
W42 
Excitation and Transport at Complex Interfaces
Room: D138
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Patrick Woodward, Ohio State University
Mar 18 2010 2:30PM, Thursday
X1 
Nanostructure Studies of Strongly Correlated Materials
Room: Oregon Ballroom 201
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Rossitza Pentcheva, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
X2 
Quantum Simulation of Strongly Correlated Systems with Cold Atoms in Optical Lattices
Room: Oregon Ballroom 202
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Allan Griffin, University of Toronto
X3 
Magnetic Monopoles and Dirac Strings in Condensed Matter
Room: Oregon Ballroom 203
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Peter Schiffer, The Pennsylvania State University
X4 
Dynamics of Nano-confined Polymer Films
Room: Oregon Ballroom 204
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: James Forrest, University of Waterloo
X5 
Emerging Tomographic Algorithms: From Bending Molecules to Beating Hearts
Room: Portland Ballroom 256
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: Peter Schwander, University of Wisconsin
X6 
The Neural Dynamics of Songbirds
Room: Portland Ballroom 253
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Dezhe Jin, The Pennsylvania State University
X7 
Waves in Actin Dynamics
Room: Portland Ballroom 254
Sponsor: 
DPB
Chair: Martin Falcke, Delbruck Institute for Molecular Medicine
X8 
The 50th Anniversary of the Prediction of Superfluidity of He3
Room: Portland Ballroom 255
Sponsor: 
FHP
Chair: George Zimmerman, Boston University
X9 
QHE: High Filling Factors and Weak Fields
Room: A105
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Michael Manfra, Purdue University
X10 
Virology and Medical Physics
Room: A106
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Michael Hagan, Brandeis University
X12 
General Fluid Mechanics: Surface and Thermal Effects
Room: B110-B111
Sponsor: 
DFD
Chair: Amber Krummel, Harvard University
X13 
Focus Session: Jamming III
Room: B112
Sponsor: 
GSNP
Chair: Ch. Reichardt, Los Alamos National Laboratory
X14 
Nanowires and Nanotubes: Devices and Applications
Room: B113
Sponsor: 
DMP DCMP
Chair: Lilia Woods, University of South Florida
X15 
Structural and Electronic Properties of Metals I
Room: B114
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Di Xiao, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
X16 
Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics: Electronic Structure and Interfaces
Room: B115
Sponsor: 
DMP DPOLY
Chair: Calvin Chan, National Institute of Standards and Technology
X17 
Charged and Ion-Containing Polymers I
Room: B116
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Jodie Lutkenhaus, Yale
X18 
Focus Session: Polymer Network Mechanics II
Room: B117
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Al Crosby, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
X19 
Focus Session: Polymer Colloids: Particle Interactions and Assembly
Room: B118-B119
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Tony Dinsmore, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
X20 
Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Optical Studies
Room: C120-C122
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Steve Cronin, University of Southern California
X21 
Focus Session: Graphene: Devices
Room: Portland Ballroom 251
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Vasili Perebeinos, IBM
X22 
Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Absorption and Defects
Room: Portland Ballroom 252
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Jerome Lagoute, CNRS
X23 
Many Body I
Room: C125-C126
Sponsor: 
DCOMP
Chair: Tara Das, University at Albany-SUNY
X24 
Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides -- Defects and Relaxors
Room: D133-D134
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Marty Gregg, Queen's University of Belfast
X25 
Quantum Structures
Room: D135
Sponsor: 
DCMP FIAP
Chair: Gerard Martinez, LNCMI, CNRS, Grenoble
X26 
Superconducting Qubits: Coherent Phases in Superconducting Resonators
Room: D136
Sponsor: 
GQI
Chair: Matthias Steffen, IBM
X27 
Focus Session: Chemical Control of the Properties of Complex Oxides I
Room: D137
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Patrick Woodward, Ohio State University
X28 
Focus Session: Charge Transport in Nanostructures III
Room: C124
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Max Lagally, University of Wisconsin
X29 
Photonics Applications
Room: C123
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: Hans-Peter Wagner, University of Cincinnatti
X30 
Bionanotechnology
Room: D139
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: Raghuveer Parthasarathy, University of Oregon
X31 
High Pressure V
Room: E141
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Stanimir Bonev, Dalhousie University
X32 
Quantum Size Effects and Interfaces
Room: E142
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Wenguang Zhu, University of Tennessee
X33 
Focus Session: Foundations of Quantum Theory
Room: E143
Sponsor: 
GQI
Chair: Ian Durham, Saint Anselm College
X34 
Magnetic Characterization and Imaging
Room: E144
Sponsor: 
GMAG
Chair: Ranko Heindl, NIST
X35 
Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors -- Spin Dynamics
Room: E145
Sponsor: 
GMAG DMP FIAP
Chair: Roland Kawakami, University of California, Riverside
X36 
Focus Session: Bulk Properties of Complex Oxides -- Novel Systems
Room: E146
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Ram Seshadri, University of California, Santa Barbara
X37 
Focus Session: Nanomagnetism -- Molecules
Room: E147-E148
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Dan Ralph, Cornell University
X38 
Structural Phase Transitions
Room: F149
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Kyle Shen, Cornell University
X39 
Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors: Spin Excitation
Room: F150
Sponsor: 
DMP DCMP
Chair: Despina Louca, University of Virginia
X40 
Superconductivity: Transport Properties
Room: F151
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Myron Salamon, University of Texas at Dallas
X41 
Focus Session: Search for New Superconductors - Carbides, Borides and Organics
Room: F152
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Zach Fisk, University of California, Irvine
X42 
Physics Education: Research, Techniques, Classic Experiments, and Policy
Room: D138
Sponsor: 
FEd
Chair: Thomas Olsen, American Institute of Physics
Mar 19 2010 8:00AM, Friday
Y1 
Extended Quantum Criticality - The Link Between Heavy Fermions and Cuprate Superconductors?
Room: Oregon Ballroom 201
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Piers Coleman, Rutgers University
Y2 
Composite Fermions: Recent Advances in States and Excitations
Room: Oregon Ballroom 202
Sponsor: 
DCMP APS
Chair: Vito Scarola, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Y3 
Two-particle Entanglement with Single Particle Emitters
Room: Oregon Ballroom 203
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Janine Splettstoesser, Institute for Theoretical Physics A, RWTH Aachen, and Peter Samuelsson, Lund University
Y4 
Microscopic Physics of Magnetization Damping
Room: Oregon Ballroom 204
Sponsor: 
GMAG
Chair: Olle Heinonen, Seagate Technology-Stillwater
Y5 
Conductance and Coherence in Nanotubes and Nanobeams
Room: Portland Ballroom 256
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: David Cobden, University of Washington
Y6 
Quantum Hydrodynamics
Room: Portland Ballroom 253
Sponsor: 
DAMOP
Chair: Tin-Lun Ho, The Ohio State University
Y7 
Convergence of Physics and Life Sciences: Emerging Perspectives in Cancer
Room: Portland Ballroom 254
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Larry Nagahara, National Cancer Institute
Y8 
Ion Interactions and Transport in Ion-Containing Polymers
Room: Portland Ballroom 255
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Ralph Colby, The Pennsylvania State University
Y9 
Transport in Semiconductors II
Room: A105
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Sudarshan Karki, University of Missouri Kansas City
Y10 
Computational Molecular Biophysics
Room: A106
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Gregory Grason, University of Massachusetts
Y12 
Disordered and Glassy Systems I
Room: B110-B111
Sponsor: 
DFD
Chair: Katharina Vollmayer-Lee, Bucknell University
Y13 
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics I
Room: B112
Sponsor: 
GSNP
Chair: H.G.E. Hentschel, Emory University
Y14 
Focus Session: Nanostructures and Plasmonics
Room: B113
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: Keshav Dani, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Y15 
Detectors, Sensors, and Transducers
Room: B114
Sponsor: 
GIMS
Chair: Sander Otte, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Y16 
Fullerenes and Composites
Room: B115
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Rajendra Zope, University of Texas at El Paso
Y17 
Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Electronic, Optical, Magnetic Properties
Room: B116
Sponsor: 
DPOLY DMP
Chair: Enrico Da Como, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Y18 
Elastomers and Gels
Room: B117
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Bradley Olsen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Y19 
Focus Session: Polymer Colloids: Dynamics
Room: B118-B119
Sponsor: 
DPOLY DCMP
Chair: Ken Schweizer, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Y20 
Glassy and Amorphous Materials
Room: C120-122
Sponsor: 
DMP DCMP
Chair: Frances Hellman, University of California, Berkeley
Y21 
Focus Session: Graphene: Field-Effect Devices
Room: Portland Ballroom 251
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Marc Bochrath, University of California, Riverside
Y22 
Graphene Theory
Room: Portland Ballroom 252
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Ganpathy Murthy, University of Kentucky
Y23 
Quantum Fluids and Solids
Room: C125-C126
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Robert Hallock, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Y24 
Insulators: pt. Defects, Dielectrics, and Scintillators/Phosphors
Room: D133-D134
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Tianshu Li, University of California, Davis
Y25 
Nanoparticles
Room: D135
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Christopher Sorensen, Kansas State University
Y26 
Superconducting Qubits: Decoherence and Noise
Room: D136
Sponsor: 
GQI
Chair: Andrew Houck, Princeton University
Y27 
Focus Session: Chemical Control of the Properties of Complex Oxides II
Room: D137
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Ram Seshadri, University of California, Santa Barbara
Y28 
Chemical Dynamics
Room: C124
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Wen Li, Wayne State University
Y29 
Focus Session: Thermoelectrics VI: Oxides, Measurements, Devices
Room: C123
Sponsor: 
DMP FIAP GERA
Chair: R Ramesh, University of California, Berkeley
Y30 
Disordered Magnetic Materials
Room: D139
Sponsor: 
GMAG
Chair: Stefanos Papanikolaou, Cornell University
Y31 
Ferromagnetism and Spin-imbalances in Quantum Gases
Room: E141
Sponsor: 
DAMOP
Chair: Chuanwei Zhang, University of Washington
Y32 
Novel Instrumentation & Techniques in Surface Science
Room: E142
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: William Cullen, University of Maryland
Y33 
Novel Probes of Quantum Gases and Quantum Measurement / Quantum Information
Room: E143
Sponsor: 
DAMOP GQI
Chair: Mark Coffey, Colorado School of Mines
Y34 
Focus Session: Frustrated and Low-D Magnetism -- Quantum Magnetism II
Room: E144
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Alexander Chernyshev, University of California, Irvine
Y35 
Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors -- Qubits and Quantum Wires
Room: E145
Sponsor: 
GMAG DMP FIAP
Chair: Paul Crowell, University of Minnesota
Y36 
Focus Session: Bulk Properties of Complex Oxides -- General Multiferroics
Room: E146
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Gavin Lawes, Wayne State University
Y37 
Focus Session: Nanomagnetism -- Nanoparticles I
Room: E147-E148
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Paolo Vavassori, CIC Nanogune
Y38 
Nanostructures of Correlated Materials
Room: F149
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Aditi Mitra, New York University
Y39 
Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors: Spectroscopy I
Room: F150
Sponsor: 
DCMP DMP
Chair: Dongui Lu, Stanford University
Y40 
Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors: Magnetism and Transport
Room: F151
Sponsor: 
DCMP DMP
Chair: Athena Safa-Sefat, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Y41 
Strongly Correlated Systems - Theory
Room: F152
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Eun-Ah Kim, Cornell University
Y42 
Superconductivity: Thermodynamic, Mechanical and Structural Properties
Room: D138
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: George Crabtree, Argonne National Laboratory
Mar 19 2010 11:15AM, Friday
Z1 
Coherent Optical Manipulation of Electron and Nuclear Spin in Artificial Atomic and Molecular Systems in Solids
Room: Oregon Ballroom 201
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Lu Sham, University of California, San Diego
Z2 
Plasmonic Nanogaps: From Single Molecule Sensing to Light Manipulation and Beyond
Room: Oregon Ballroom 202
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Zhenyu Zhang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Z3 
Response of Magnetism to Electric Fields and Light
Room: Oregon Ballroom 203
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Ramamoorthy Ramesh, University of California, Berkeley
Z4 
Plasmonics Applications
Room: Oregon Ballroom 204
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: Ernesto Marinero, Hitachi Research Center-San Jose
Z9 
QHE: Quantum Computing
Room: A105
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Steven Simon, Oxford University
Z10 
Physics of Physiological Systems
Room: A106
Sponsor: 
DBP
Z11 
Lipid Bilayers II
Room: A107-A109
Sponsor: 
DBP
Z12 
Disordered and Glassy Systems II
Room: B110-B111
Sponsor: 
DFD
Chair: Jack Douglas, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Z13 
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics II
Room: B112
Sponsor: 
GSNP
Chair: M. Kaufman, Cleveland State University
Z14 
Graphene: Adsorbates and Defects
Room: B113
Sponsor: 
DMP DCMP
Chair: Bobby Sumpter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Z15 
Structural and Electronic Properties of Metals II
Room: B114
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: T. Hickel, Max-Planck Institut fur Eisenforschung
Z16 
Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics: Fundamentals
Room: B115
Sponsor: 
DMP DPOLY
Chair: Wolfgang Kalb
Z17 
Charged and Ion-Containing Polymers II
Room: B116
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Jodie Lutkenhaus, Yale University
Z18 
New Experimental, Theoretical, and Computational Methods in Polymer and Soft Matter Physics
Room: B117
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Vivek Sharma
Z19 
Focus Session: Polymer Brushes
Room: B118-B119
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Chanjoong Kim, Kent State University
Z20 
Carbon Nanotubes: Fundamentals and Applications
Room: C120-122
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: Yuriy Bozme, Duke University
Z21 
Focus Session: Graphene: Growth
Room: Portland Ballroom 251
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Jun Zhu, Pennsylvania State University
Z22 
Graphene Optical Properties and Imaging
Room: Portland Ballroom 252
Sponsor: 
DCMP DMP
Chair: Joel Therrien, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Z24 
Oxides and other Insulators
Room: D133-D134
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Rickard Armiento, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Z25 
Theoretical Methods and Applications
Room: D135
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Peter Talkner, University of Augsberg
Z26 
Superconducting Qubits: New States and Effects
Room: D136
Sponsor: 
GQI
Chair: Matthew Neeley, University of California, Santa Barbara
Z27 
Surfaces
Room: D137
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Adam Hauser, Ohio State University
Z28 
Clusters
Room: C124
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Rich Loomis, Washington University in St. Louis
Z29 
A Potpourri of AMO and Quantum Information
Room: C123
Sponsor: 
DAMOP
Chair: Laith Haddad, Colorado School of Mines
Z30 
Optoelectronic Devices and Applications
Room: D139
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: John Conley, Oregon State University
Z31 
Quantum Optics and Quantum Many-body Physics in Optical Lattices
Room: E141
Sponsor: 
DAMOP
Chair: Yong Chen, Purdue University
Z32 
Interactions and Thin Films
Room: E142
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Arthur Smith, Ohio University
Z33 
Open Quantum Systems and Decoherence
Room: E143
Sponsor: 
GQI
Chair: Joe Renes, Technische Universitat Darmstadt
Z34 
Focus Session: Frustrated and Low-D Magnetism -- Quantum Magnetism III
Room: E144
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Sriram Shastry, University of California, Santa Cruz
Z35 
Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors -- DMS: II-VI and Group IV
Room: E145
Sponsor: 
GMAG DMP FIAP
Chair: Daniel Gamelin, University of Washington
Z36 
Focus Session: Bulk Properties of Complex Oxides -- 4d and 5d Systems
Room: E146
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Rongying Jin, Louisiana State University
Z37 
Focus Session: Nanomagnetism -- Nanoparticles II
Room: E147-E148
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Ilya Krivorotov, University of California, Irvine
Z39 
Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors: Spectroscopy II
Room: F150
Sponsor: 
DCMP DMP
Chair: Suchitra Sebastian, University of Cambridge
Z40 
Superconductivity: Spectroscopy (Neutron, Optical and others)
Room: F151
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Wei Bao, Renmin University of China
Z42 
Many Body II
Room: D138
Sponsor: 
DCOMP
Chair: Eduardo Fradkin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mar 15 2010 8:00AM, Monday
A1 
Phase-sensitive Probes of the Pairing Symmetry in Fe-Based Superconductors
Room: Oregon Ballroom 201
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Igor Mazin, Naval Research Laboratory
A2 
Topological Insulators and Topological Superfluids
Room: Oregon Ballroom 202
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Shinsei Ryu, University of California, Berkeley
A3 
New Developments in Strontium Ruthenates
Room: Oregon Ballroom 203
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Victor Yakovenko, University of Maryland
A4 
Human Mobility: The Statistical Physics of When, Where, and How
Room: Oregon Ballroom 204
Sponsor: 
GSNP
Chair: Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Northeastern University
A5 
Silicon Photonics
Room: Portland Ballroom 256
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: David Lockwood, National Research Council Canada
A6 
Recent (algorithmic) Developments in Complex and Glass Systems
Room: Portland Ballroom 253
Sponsor: 
DCOMP
Chair: Gergely T. Zimanyi, University of California, Davis
A7 
Single Chain Experiments: from Polymers to Biophysics
Room: Portland Ballroom 254
Sponsor: 
DBP DPOLY
Chair: Alexander Grosberg, New York University
A8 
Quantum Opto-Mechanics
Room: Portland Ballroom 255
Sponsor: 
DAMOP GQI
Chair: Lucia Hackermueller, University of Nottingham
A9 
Focus Session: Optics of Nanostructures -- Quantum Dots I
Room: A105
Sponsor: 
DMP
A10 
Focus Session: Single Molecule Biophysics and Chemical Physics I
Room: A106
Sponsor: 
DCP DBP DPOLY
Chair: David Rueda, Wayne State University
A11 
Energy Conversion Followed by Energy Storage Methods
Room: A107-A109
Sponsor: 
GERA
Chair: Sayantani Ghosh , University of California, Merced
A12 
Microfluidics I: Electrokinesis and Transport
Room: B110-B111
Sponsor: 
DFD
Chair: Eberhard Bodenschatz, Cornell University
A13 
Convection and Crystal Growth
Room: B112
Sponsor: 
DFD GSNP
Chair: Joseph Niemela, Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics
A14 
Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures I: Single-Molecule Junctions
Room: B113
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Latha Venkataraman, Columbia University
A15 
Structural Materials, Defects, Deformation
Room: B114
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Lin-Lin Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
A16 
Graphite and Intercalated Compounds
Room: B115
Sponsor: 
DCMP DMP
Chair: Arthur Hebard, University of Florida
A17 
Focus Session: Relaxation Dynamics of Polymeric Glasses I
Room: B116
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Jack Douglas, NIST
A18 
Focus Session: Multiscale Modeling in Polymer and Soft Matter Physics
Room: B117
Sponsor: 
DPOLY DCOMP
Chair: Mesfin Tsige, University of Illinois at Carbondale
A19 
Polymer Blends
Room: B118-B119
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Chinedum Osuji, Yale
A20 
Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Functionalization and Growth
Room: C120-122
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Jeff Blackburn, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
A21 
Focus Session: Graphene: Quantum Interference and Transport
Room: Portland Ballroom 251
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Steve Cronin, University of Southern California
A22 
Graphene Applications
Room: Portland Ballroom 252
Sponsor: 
DMP DCMP
Chair: Tomas Palacios, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A23 
Density Functional Theory I
Room: C125-C126
Sponsor: 
DCOMP
Chair: John Perdew, Tulane University
A24 
Spintronic Materials
Room: D133-D134
Sponsor: 
GMAG DMP
Chair: George Kioseoglou, University of Crete
A25 
Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors - ZnO
Room: D135
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Mike Stavola, Lehigh University
A26 
Focus Session: Recent Progress in Quantum Algorithms and Computational Complexity
Room: D136
Sponsor: 
GQI
Chair: Dave Bacon, University of Washington
A27 
Evolutionary and Ecological Systems
Room: D137
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Jeff Gore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A28 
Focus Session: Confined and Biological Water I
Room: C124
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Gerhard Hummer, National Institutes of Health
A29 
Physics and Materials for Inorganic Photovoltaics: I
Room: C123
Sponsor: 
DMP GERA
Chair: Tonio Buonassis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A30 
Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Chirality-Controlled Growth of Carbon Nanotubes and Nanostructures
Room: D139
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: David Geohegan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A31 
Spinor Degrees of Freedom and Rotation in Quantum Gases
Room: E141
Sponsor: 
DAMOP
Chair: Richard Scalettar, University of California, Davis
A32 
Focus Session: Directed Self Assembly of Dots, Islands and Wires on Templates
Room: E142
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Ray Phaneuf, University of Maryland
A33 
Focus Session: Magnetization and Spin Dynamics I
Room: E143
Sponsor: 
GMAG DMP
Chair: Michael Flatté, University of Iowa
A34 
Focus Session: Nanomagnetism -- Nanostructured Films
Room: E144
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Kirill Bolotin, Vanderbilt University
A35 
Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors -- Hyperfine Interactions
Room: E145
Sponsor: 
GMAG DMP FIAP
Chair: Gian Salis, IBM, Zurich
A36 
Focus Session: Bulk Properties of Complex Oxides -- Perovskite Manganites
Room: E146
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Jing Tao, Brookhaven National Laboratory
A37 
Focus Session: Complex Oxide Thin Films -- Conductivity at Oxide Interfaces
Room: E147-E148
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Andy Millis, Columbia
A38 
Quantum Criticality I: Kondo Lattice Systems
Room: F149
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Filip Ronning, Los Alamos National Laboratory
A39 
Focus Session: Iron Superconductors: New Materials
Room: F150
Sponsor: 
DMP DCMP
Chair: Athena Sefat, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A40 
Focus Session: Phonons and Electron Correlations in High Temperature Superconductors I
Room: F151
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Alexander Balatsky, Los Alamos National Laboratory
A41 
Superconductivity: Multilayers and Josephson Effects
Room: F152
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: John Clarke, University of California, Berkeley
A42 
Focus Session: Physics Teacher Preparation: Effective Strategies, National Models, and Challenging Issues
Room: D138
Sponsor: 
FEd
Chair: Stamatis Vokos, Seattle Pacific University
Mar 15 2010 11:15AM, Monday
B1 
Magnetism in Fe Pnictides and Chalcogenides
Room: Oregon Ballroom 201
Sponsor: 
DCMP DMP
Chair: Steven Kivelson, Stanford University
B2 
Theory and Experiment on Topological Insulators
Room: Oregon Ballroom 202
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Shoucheng Zhang, Stanford University
B3 
How to Interest Middle School Children in Physical Science
Room: Oregon Ballroom 203
Sponsor: 
FEd FPS
Chair: Lawrence Woolf, General Atomics
B4 
Dynamics of Polymers on Multi-Length Scales: Solutions
Room: Oregon Ballroom 204
Sponsor: 
DPOLY DCOMP
Chair: David Wang, Colorado State University
B5 
Five Legacies from the Laser
Room: Portland Ballroom 256
Sponsor: 
FHP FIAP
Chair: Daniel Kleppner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B6 
Controlling Dissipation in Quantum Systems
Room: Portland Ballroom 253
Sponsor: 
DAMOP GQI
Chair: Jacob Taylor, National Institute of Standards and Technology
B7 
Evolutionary Dynamics
Room: Portland Ballroom 254
Sponsor: 
DBP GSNP
Chair: Herbert Levine, University of California, San Diego
B8 
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Redux: The Physics of Global Catastrophes and Global Countermeasures
Room: Portland Ballroom 255
Sponsor: 
FIP
Chair: John W. Clark, Washington University in St. Louis
B9 
Theory of Semiconductors
Room: A105
Sponsor: 
DCMP FIAP
Chair: Viktor Sverdlov, Institute for Microelectronics TU Wien
B10 
Focus Session: Single Molecule Biophysics and Chemical Physics II
Room: A106
Sponsor: 
DCP DBP DPOLY
Chair: Antoine Van Oijen, Harvard Medical School
B11 
Energy Storage Methods
Room: A107-A109
Sponsor: 
GERA
Chair: Timo Thonhauser, Wake Forest University
B12 
GSNP Graduate Student Prize and Liquid Crystals: Smectics
Room: B110-B111
Sponsor: 
GSNP DFD
Chair: Susan Coppersmith, University of Wisconsin, and Luz J. Martinez-Miranda, University of Maryland
B13 
Focus Session: Complex Networks I
Room: B112
Sponsor: 
GSNP
Chair: Alex Vespignani, Indiana University
B14 
Focus Session: Electrodynamics of Metamaterials
Room: B113
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Roberto Merlin, University of Michigan
B15 
Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy I: Novel AFM, MRFM, and Acoustic Microscopy
Room: B114
Sponsor: 
GIMS
Chair: Robert McMichael, National Institute of Standards and Technology
B16 
Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics: Solar Cell Materials and Devices
Room: B115
Sponsor: 
DMP DPOLY
Chair: Max Shtein
B17 
Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films
Room: B116
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Jutta Luettmer-Strathmann, University of Akron
B18 
Focus Session: Crystallization in Confined Geometry I
Room: B117
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Christopher Li, Drexel University
B19 
Focus Session: Thin Films Copolymers I
Room: B118-B119
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Paul Nealy, University of Wisconsin
B20 
Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Superconductivity, Electrical Properties
Room: C120-C122
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Nathaniel Gabor, Cornell University
B21 
Focus Session: Graphene: Magnetic Properties
Room: Portland Ballroom 251
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Sudip Chakravarty, University of California, Los Angeles
B22 
Focus Session: Graphene Structure: Local Probes
Room: Portland Ballroom 252
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Vikas Berry, Kansas State University
B23 
Strongly Correlated Systems I
Room: C125-C126
Sponsor: 
DCOMP
Chair: Paul Kent, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
B24 
Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides -- Thin Film Multiferroics
Room: D133-D134
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Patrycja Paruch, University of Geneva
B25 
Focus Session: Electric-to-Light Conversion and Optics in Semiconductors I
Room: D135
Sponsor: 
DMP GERA
Chair: Sean O'Malley, Rutgers University, Camden
B26 
Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits - Silicon and III-Vs
Room: D136
Sponsor: 
GQI
Chair: Jason Petta, Princeton University
B27 
Experimental Techniques in Biophysics
Room: D137
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Mark Reeves, George Washington University
B28 
SPS Undergraduate Research I
Room: C124
Sponsor: 
SPS
Chair: Gary White, AIP/SPS
B29 
Focus Session: Thermoelectrics I: Recent Concepts
Room: C123
Sponsor: 
DMP FIAP GERA
Chair: Donald Morelli, Michigan State University
B30 
High Pressure I
Room: D139
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Javier Antonio Montoya, Carnegie Institution of Washington
B31 
BEC/Matter Wave Optics
Room: E141
Sponsor: 
DAMOP
Chair: Edward Taylor, The Ohio State University
B32 
Structure and Morphology: Oxide Surfaces
Room: E142
Sponsor: 
DMP DCMP
Chair: Patrick Rinke, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
B33 
Cooperative Phenomena Theory
Room: E143
Sponsor: 
GMAG
Chair: Chia-Ren Hu, Texas A&M University
B34 
Focus Session: Nanomagnetism -- Exchange & Multiferroics
Room: E144
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Mihai Miron, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
B35 
Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors -- Quantum Dots
Room: E145
Sponsor: 
GMAG DMP FIAP
Chair: Kohei Itoh, Keio University
B36 
Focus Session: Bulk Properties of Complex Oxides -- Manganite Multiferroics
Room: E146
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Hari Srikanth, University of South Florida
B37 
Focus Session: Complex Oxide Thin Films -- LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Interfaces
Room: E147-E148
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Chris Bell, University of Tokyo
B38 
Heavy Fermions I: URu2Si2 and other U- and Yb-based systems
Room: F149
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Nicholas Butch, University of Maryland
B39 
Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors Synthesis and Doping
Room: F150
Sponsor: 
DCMP DMP
Chair: David Singh, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
B40 
Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors Physical Properties I
Room: F151
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Rongying Jin, Louisiana State University
B41 
Tunneling Spectroscopy of Superconductors
Room: F152
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Laura Greene, University of Illinois
B42 
Charge, Spin, and Superconductivity
Room: D138
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Andrei Bernevig, Princeton University
Mar 15 2010 2:00PM, Monday
C1 
Poster Session I (2:00 pm - 5:00 pm)
Room: Exhibit CD
Mar 15 2010 2:30PM, Monday
D1 
Goeppert Mayer Award, IUPAP Young Scientist Award, and Apker Award Session
Room: Oregon Ballroom 201
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Samuel Bader, Argonne National Laboratory
D2 
Correlated System including Topological Insulators: Materials, Measurements, and Majorana Modes
Room: Oregon Ballroom 202
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Patrick Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
D3 
Materials for Solar to Electricity Conversion: Status and Future
Room: Oregon Ballroom 203
Sponsor: 
DMP GERA
Chair: Ramamoorthy Ramesh, University of California, Berkeley
D4 
Quantum Computer Science
Room: Oregon Ballroom 204
Sponsor: 
GQI
Chair: Dave Bacon, University of Washington
D5 
Pais Prize Talk; Sam Goudsmit: Physics, Editor, and More
Room: Portland Ballroom 256
Sponsor: 
FHP
Chair: Gloria Lubkin, Physics Today, Editor Emerita
D6 
Dynamics of Polymers on Multi-Length Scales: Interfaces
Room: Portland Ballroom 253
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Sushil Satija, National Institutes of Standards and Technology
D7 
Fluctuations and Critical Phenomena in Population Dynamics
Room: Portland Ballroom 254
Sponsor: 
GSNP DBP
Chair: Mark Dykman, Michigan State University
D8 
Spin Transport in Carbon-based Materials
Room: Portland Ballroom 255
Sponsor: 
GMAG
Chair: Jing Shi, University of California, Riverside
D9 
Semiconductor Structure and Mechanical Properties
Room: A105
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Chris van de Walle, University of California, Santa Barbara
D10 
Focus Session: Single Molecule Biophysics and Chemical Physics III
Room: A106
Sponsor: 
DCP DBP DPOLY
Chair: Rob Phillips, California Institute of Technology
D11 
Physics of Bacteria I
Room: A107-A109
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Yuhai Tu, IBM
D12 
Colloidal Crystals, Suspensions and Films
Room: B110-B111
Sponsor: 
DFD DCMP
Chair: Sharon Gerbode, Cornell University
D13 
Focus Session: Complex Networks II
Room: B112
Sponsor: 
GSNP
Chair: Corey S. O'Hern, Yale University
D14 
Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures II: Non-Equilibrium and Correlated Electron Phenomena
Room: B113
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Mark Hybertsen, Brookhaven National Laboratory
D15 
Focus Session: X-ray and Neutron Instruments and Measurement Science I
Room: B114
Sponsor: 
GIMS
Chair: Susan Mini, Northern Illinois University
D16 
Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics: Solar Cells and Photophysics
Room: B115
Sponsor: 
DMP DPOLY
Chair: Jenny Nelson, Imperial College London
D17 
Liquid Crystalline Order in Polymer and Complex Fluids
Room: B116
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Aniket Bhattacharya, University of Central Florida
D18 
Focus Session: Crystallization in Confined Geometry II
Room: B117
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Christopher Li, Drexel University
D19 
Focus Session: Thin Films Copolymers II
Room: B118-B119
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Juan de Pablo, University of Wisconsin-Madison
D20 
Focus Session: Computational Design of New Materials -- Structure/Property Relationships
Room: C120-122
Sponsor: 
DMP DCOMP
Chair: Dane Morgan, University of Wisconsin
D21 
Focus Session: Graphene: Correlated States
Room: Portland Ballroom 251
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Philip Kim, Columbia University
D22 
Materials Chemically Derived from Graphene
Room: Portland Ballroom 252
Sponsor: 
DMP DCMP
Chair: Adalberto Fazzio, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
D23 
Strongly Correlated Systems II
Room: C125-C126
Sponsor: 
DCOMP
Chair: Randy Fishman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
D24 
Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides -- Bulk Multiferroics
Room: D133-D134
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Eric Bousquet, University of California, Santa Barbara
D25 
Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors - Nitrides, SiC
Room: D135
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Eugene Haller, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
D26 
Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits - Silicon
Room: D136
Sponsor: 
GQI
Chair: Charles Tahan, LPS and University of Maryland
D27 
Self-organization in Biological Cells and Tissue I
Room: D137
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Shane Hutson, Vanderbilt University
D28 
SPS Undergraduate Research II
Room: C124
Sponsor: 
SPS
Chair: Crystal Bailey, American Physical Society
D29 
Physics and Materials for Inorganic Photovoltaics: II
Room: C123
Sponsor: 
DMP GERA
Chair: Jeffrey Neaton, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
D30 
Focus Session: Hydrogen Storage I
Room: D139
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Channing Ahn, California Institute of Technology
D31 
Molecular and Dipolar Quantum Gases
Room: E141
Sponsor: 
DAMOP
Chair: Kadan Hazzard, Cornell University
D32 
Focus Session: Controlled Self Assembly and Growth
Room: E142
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Hung-Chih Kan, National Chung-Cheng University
D33 
Focus Session: Complex Oxide Thin Films -- Magnetic Oxides
Room: E143
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Mark Rzchowski, University of Wisconsin-Madison
D34 
Focus Session: Nanomagnetism -- Nanowires & Thermal Effects
Room: E144
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Dmitri Litvinov, University of Houston
D35 
Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors -- Topological Insulators
Room: E145
Sponsor: 
GMAG DMP FIAP
Chair: Tomasz Dietl, Polish Academy of Sciences
D36 
Focus Session: Bulk Properties of Complex Oxides -- Cobaltites and Vanadates
Room: E146
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: John Mitchell, Argonne National Laboratory
D37 
Focus Session: Complex Oxide Thin Films -- Oxide 2DEGs and Devices
Room: E147-E148
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Amlan Biswas, University of Florida
D38 
Charge Density Waves
Room: F149
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Peter Abbamonte, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
D39 
Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors: Theory I
Room: F150
Sponsor: 
DCMP DMP
Chair: Igor Mazin, Navel Research Laboratory
D40 
Superconductivity: Vortices
Room: F151
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Milind Kunchur, University of South Carolina
D41 
Ruthenates and Unconventional Superconducting Pairing
Room: F152
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Ying Liu, Pennsylvania State University
D42 
Topological Insulators: Experiment
Room: D138
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Dennis Drew, University of Maryland
Mar 15 2010 5:45PM, Monday
E1 
APS Prizes and Awards Ceremonial Session
Room: Portland 251
Chair: Curtis Callan, APS President and Princeton University
Mar 15 2010 6:45PM, Monday
F1 
Welcome Reception
Room: Exhibit Hall B
Mar 15 2010 8:00PM, Monday
G1 
Physics Community Outreach: Physics with a Bang!
Room: C120-C122
Chair: Samuel Bader, Argonne National Laboratory
Mar 16 2010 8:00AM, Tuesday
H1 
Charge and Spin Transport in Josephson and Proximity Devices
Room: Oregon Ballroom 201
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: James Sauls, Northwestern University
H2 
Recent Advances in Cell and Single Molecule Manipulation
Room: Oregon Ballroom 202
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Omar Saleh, University of California, Santa Barbara
H3 
Room Temperature Semiconductor Spintronics
Room: Oregon Ballroom 203
Sponsor: 
GMAG
Chair: Berry Jonker, Naval Research Laboratory
H4 
Polymer Physics Prize
Room: Oregon Ballroom 204
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Hyuk Yu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
H5 
Facing the Challenge of the LED Droop
Room: Portland Ballroom 256
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: Jim Speck, University of California, Santa Barbara
H6 
Artificial Electromagnetism and other Gauge Fields in Cold Atomic Gases
Room: Portland Ballroom 253
Sponsor: 
DAMOP
Chair: Lindsay LeBlanc, University of Toronto
H7 
Optimization Principles in Biological Physics
Room: Portland Ballroom 254
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: William Bialek, Princeton University
H8 
Opportunities for Research and Employment in Transporation Science
Room: Portland Ballroom 255
Sponsor: 
FPS
Chair: Brian Schwartz, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
H9 
Optoelectronic Properties of Quantum Dots
Room: A105
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Michael Scheibner, University of California, Merced
H10 
Physics of Bacteria II
Room: A106
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Eshel Ben-Jacob, Tel Aviv University
H11 
Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics I
Room: A107-A109
Sponsor: 
GSNP
Chair: P. Reis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
H12 
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics of Social Systems
Room: B110-B111
Sponsor: 
GSNP
Chair: Beate Schmittmann, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
H13 
Liquid Crystals: Nanoparticles and Surfaces
Room: B112
Sponsor: 
DFD
Chair: Robin Selinger, Kent State University
H14 
Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures III: Theory and Computation I
Room: B113
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Jeffrey Neaton, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
H15 
Metals: Compounds, Magnetism
Room: B114
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: J. von Pezold, Max-Planck Institut fur Eisenforschung
H16 
Nanowires: Synthesis, Structural Properties and Growth Kinetics
Room: B115
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Douglas Strachan, University of Kentucky
H17 
Focus Session: Relaxation Dynamics of Polymeric Glasses II
Room: B116
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Greg Mckenna, Texas Tech University
H18 
Polymer Composites
Room: B117
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Bryan Vogt, Arizona State University
H19 
Focus Session: Long Range Order in Polymeric Structure and Morphology I
Room: B118-B119
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Kevin Cavicchi, The University of Akron
H20 
Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Excitonic Effects
Room: C120-C122
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Vasili Perebeinos, IBM
H21 
Focus Session: Graphene: Nanoribbons
Room: Portland Ballroom 251
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Nancy Sandler, Ohio University
H22 
Epitaxial Graphene on Silicon Carbide
Room: Portland Ballroom 252
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Gregory Rutter, National Institute of Standards and Technology
H23 
Classical and Quantum Monte Carlo I
Room: C125-C126
Sponsor: 
DCOMP
Chair: Pui-Man Lam, Southern University
H24 
Focus Session: Production and Application of Cold Molecules I
Room: D133-D134
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: David Chandler, Sandia National Laboratories
H25 
Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors - Si
Room: D135
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Pat Mooney, Simon Fraser University
H26 
Spin Qubits - Diamond, III-Vs, and Coupling to Cavities
Room: D136
Sponsor: 
GQI
Chair: Sophia Economou, Naval Research Laboratory
H27 
Focus Session: Confined and Biological Water II
Room: D137
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Teresa Head?Gordon, University of California, Berkeley
H28 
Focus Session: New Frontiers in Electronic Structure Theory I
Room: C124
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Axel Becke, Dalhousie University
H29 
Physics and Materials for Inorganic Photovoltaics: III
Room: C123
Sponsor: 
DMP GERA
Chair: Lin?Wang Wang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
H30 
Focus Session: Frontiers in Computational Thermodynamics of Materials
Room: D139
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: Stefano Curtarolo, Duke University
H31 
Weakly and Strongly Interacting Fermions
Room: E141
Sponsor: 
DAMOP
Chair: Marcos Rigol, Georegetown University
H32 
Focus Session: Tribophysics -- Fracture and Plasticity
Room: E142
Sponsor: 
GSNP DMP
Chair: Bernd Gotsmann, IBM Zurich
H33 
Focus Session: Magnetization and Spin Dynamics II
Room: E143
Sponsor: 
GMAG DMP
Chair: A. Lukaszew, College of William and Mary
H34 
Focus Session: Frustrated and Low-D Magnetism -- Spin Chains and Ladders
Room: E144
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Andrei Bernevig, Princeton University
H35 
Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors -- DMS: Nitrides and Oxides
Room: E145
Sponsor: 
GMAG DMP FIAP
Chair: Alberta Bonanni, Johannes Kepler University
H36 
Focus Session: Nanomagnetism -- Spin Torque
Room: E146
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Liam O'Brien, Imperial College London
H37 
Focus Session: Complex Oxide Thin Films -- Manganites
Room: E147-E148
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: John Freeland, Argonne National Laboratory
H38 
Phase Transitions in Vanadium Oxides
Room: F149
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Jenny Hoffman, Harvard University
H39 
Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors: Pairing Symmetry
Room: F150
Sponsor: 
DMP DCMP
Chair: David Singh, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
H40 
Focus Session: Phonons and Electron Correlations in High Temperature Superconductors II
Room: F151
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: David Parker, Naval Research Laboratory
H41 
Superconductivity: Proximity Effects
Room: F152
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Thomas Lemberger, Ohio State University
H42 
Focus Session: Research in Mathematics Education and Mathematics in Physics Education
Room: D138
Sponsor: 
FEd
Chair: John Thompson, University of Maine
Mar 16 2010 11:15AM, Tuesday
J1 
The Gap Structure of the Fe Superconducters
Room: Oregon Ballroom 201
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Douglas Scalapino, University of California, Santa Barbara
J2 
Non-equilibrium Phenomena in Very High Landau Levels
Room: Oregon Ballroom 202
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Myriam Sarachik, City College of New York, CUNY
J3 
Energy Research and Applications: Future Materials and Systems
Room: Oregon Ballroom 203
Sponsor: 
GERA
Chair: Joseph Poon, University of Virginia
J4 
Dynamics of Polymers on Multi-Length Scales: Melts
Room: Oregon Ballroom 204
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Anna Balazs, University of Pittsburgh
J5 
Panel Discussion: What Works for Women in Physics: Lessons Learned from Research
Room: Portland Ballroom 256
Sponsor: 
COM CSWP
Chair: Yevgeniya Zastavker, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
J6 
Advanced Electronic Structure Methods for Defects in Semiconductors and Insulators
Room: Portland Ballroom 253
Sponsor: 
DCOMP
Chair: Shengbai Zhang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
J7 
Biofilms and Multicellularity
Room: Portland Ballroom 254
Sponsor: 
GSNP
Chair: Sigolene Lecuyer, Harvard University
J8 
LaserFest: Laser Education and Outreach
Room: Portland Ballroom 255
Sponsor: 
FEd
Chair: Theodore Hodapp, American Physical Society
J9 
Transport in Semiconductors I
Room: A105
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Sergei Vitkalov, City College of New York
J10 
Protein-Protein Interaction and Protein Aggregation
Room: A106
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Ka Yee Lee, University of Chicago
J11 
Biological Networks & System Biology
Room: A107-A109
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Lev Tsimring, University of California, San Diego
J12 
Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Thermal Transport
Room: B110-B111
Sponsor: 
DCMP DMP
Chair: Rodrigo Capaz, UFRJ, Brazil
J13 
Systems Far From Equilibrium
Room: B112
Sponsor: 
GSNP
Chair: Alan Middleton, Syracuse University
J14 
Focus Session: Optics of Nanostructures – Plasmons, Nanoantennas, and Quantum Dots
Room: B113
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Richard Averitt, Boston University
J15 
Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy II: Optical Techniques
Room: B114
Sponsor: 
GIMS
Chair: Andreas Heinrich, IBM Almaden Research Center
J16 
Focus Session: Polymers and Energy: Photovoltaics I
Room: B115
Sponsor: 
DPOLY GERA DMP
Chair: Karim Alamgir, The University of Akron
J17 
Frank J. Padden Jr. Award Symposium
Room: B116
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Ron Larson, University of Michigan
J18 
Physics of Copolymers
Room: B117
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Svetlana Sukhishvili, Stevens Institute of Technology
J19 
Focus Session: Hierarchically and Templated Ordered Systems I
Room: B118-B119
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Azar Alizadeh, GE Global Research Center
J20 
Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Mechanical properties and Biosensors
Room: C120-C122
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Apparao Rao, Clemson University
J21 
Focus Session: Graphene: Transport I
Room: Portland Ballroom 251
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Millie Dresselhaus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
J22 
Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Optoelectronic Devices
Room: Portland Ballroom 252
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Jiwoong Park, Cornell University
J23 
Focus Session: Plyler Prize Session and New Trends in Spectroscopy I
Room: C125-C126
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Brooks Pate, University of Virginia
J24 
Topological Insulators: Theory
Room: D133-D134
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Dennis Drew, University of Maryland
J25 
Focus Session: Electric-to-Light Conversion and Optics in Semiconductors II
Room: D135
Sponsor: 
DMP GERA
Chair: Ferdinand Scholz, Ulm University
J26 
Focus Session: Topological Quantum Computing
Room: D136
Sponsor: 
GQI
Chair: Kirill Shtengel, University of California, Riverside
J27 
Focus Session: Confined and Biological Water III
Room: D137
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Sol M. Gruner, Cornell University
J28 
Focus Session: New Frontiers in Electronic Structure Theory II
Room: C124
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Edward Valeev, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
J29 
Focus Session: Thermoelectrics II: Dirac, Bi2Te3 & Nanostructures
Room: C123
Sponsor: 
DMP FIAP GERA
Chair: Joseph Heremans, Ohio State University
J30 
Focus Session: High Pressure II: Equations of State
Room: D139
Sponsor: 
DCOMP GSCCM
Chair: Ramon Ravelo, University of Texas at El Paso
J31 
Focus Session: Hybrid AMO-condensed Matter Systems for Quantum Information Science
Room: E141
Sponsor: 
DAMOP GQI
Chair: Luis Orozco, U Maryland
J32 
Structure and Morphology: Metal Surfaces
Room: E142
Sponsor: 
DMP DCMP
Chair: Theodore Einstein, University of Maryland
J33 
Focus Session: Spin Dependent Physics in Organic-Based Materials I
Room: E143
Sponsor: 
GMAG
Chair: Arthur Epstein, The Ohio State University
J34 
Correlated Electrons: New Materials
Room: E144
Sponsor: 
GMAG
Chair: Eric Bauer, Los Alamos National Laboratory
J35 
Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors -- Spin Orbit Effects and Spin Relaxation
Room: E145
Sponsor: 
GMAG DMP FIAP
Chair: Scott Crooker, Los Alamos National Laboratory
J36 
Focus Session: Nanomagnetism -- Domain Dynamics
Room: E146
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Geoffrey Beach, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
J37 
Focus Session: Novel Magnetic Devices - Spin Torque I
Room: E147-E148
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Ursula Ebels, Spintec/CEA
J38 
Heavy Fermions II: Ce-based 115 and 122 Systems
Room: F149
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Johnpierre Paglione, University of Maryland
J39 
Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors: Properties and Pressure
Room: F150
Sponsor: 
DCMP DMP
Chair: M McGuire, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
J40 
Strongly Correlated Models for Cuprate Systems
Room: F151
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Philip Phillips, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
J41 
Response to Electromagnetic Fields (Optical, Raman)
Room: F152
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Oleg Shpyrko, University of California, San Diego
J42 
General Theory, Methods, Education and Relativity
Room: D138
Sponsor: 
DCOMP
Chair: Cyrus Umrigar, Cornell University
Mar 16 2010 2:00PM, Tuesday
K1 
Poster Session II (2:00 pm - 5:00 pm)
Room: Exhibit CD
Mar 16 2010 2:30PM, Tuesday
L1 
Novel Probes of Electron Interactions in One-Dimensional Systems
Room: Oregon Ballroom 201
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Karyn Le Hur, Yale University
L2 
Correlated States for Topological Quantum Computing
Room: Oregon Ballroom 202
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Chetan Nayack, Station Q, University of California, Santa Barbara
L3 
How to Predict Localized Hole-States in Oxides and Wide-Gap Semiconductors?
Room: Oregon Ballroom 203
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Alex Zunger, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
L4 
Onsager, Heineman and Metropolis Prize Session
Room: Oregon Ballroom 204
Sponsor: 
APS
Chair: Peter Young, University of California, Santa Cruz
L5 
Promoting Excellence: Preparation, Execution, and Opportunities
Room: Portland Ballroom 256
Sponsor: 
COM
Chair: William Evans, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
L6 
Intracellular Fluid Dynamics
Room: Portland Ballroom 253
Sponsor: 
DFD
Chair: Juan Del Alamo, University of California, San Diego
L7 
Educational Challenges in Biological Physics
Room: Portland Ballroom 254
Sponsor: 
DBP FEd
Chair: Aihua Xie, Oklahoma State University
L8 
Recent Advances and New Projects in Neutron and X-Ray Sources
Room: Portland Ballroom 255
Sponsor: 
DPB
Chair: Christoph Leemann, Thomas Jefferson Lab National Accelerator Facility
L9 
Optical Properties of Nanocrystals
Room: A105
Sponsor: 
DCOMP
Chair: Danny Kim, Naval Research Laboratory
L10 
Focus Session: Single Molecule Biophysics and Chemical Physics IV
Room: A106
Sponsor: 
DCP DBP DPOLY
Chair: Ashok Deniz, Scripps Research Institute
L11 
Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics II
Room: A107-A109
Sponsor: 
GSNP
Chair: Thomas Halsey, ExxonMobil
L12 
Granular Materials I
Room: B110-B111
Sponsor: 
DFD
Chair: Mark Shattuck, CUNY-CCNY
L13 
Liquid crystals: Mostly Nematics
Room: B112
Sponsor: 
DFD
Chair: Fangfu Ye, University of Illinois
L14 
Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures IV: Charge Dynamics and Imaging of Photoactive Molecules
Room: B113
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Douglas Natelson, Rice University
L15 
Focus Session: X-ray and Neutron Instruments and Measurement Science II
Room: B114
Sponsor: 
GIMS
Chair: Timothy Graber, University of Chicago
L16 
Focus Session: Polymers and Energy: Photovoltaics II
Room: B115
Sponsor: 
DPOLY GERA DMP
Chair: Tom Russell, University of Massuchusetts at Amherst
L17 
Focus Session: Dillon Medal Symposium
Room: B116
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Rick Register, Princeton University
L18 
Focus Session: Long Range Order in Polymeric Structure and Morphology II
Room: B117
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Thomas Epps, University of Delaware
L19 
Focus Session: Hierarchically and Templated Ordered Systems II
Room: B118-B119
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Vladimir Tsukruk, Georgia Institute of Technology
L20 
Focus Session: Computational Design of New Materials -- Nanostructure Design
Room: C120-122
Sponsor: 
DMP DCOMP
Chair: Sergey Stolbov, University of Central Florida
L21 
Focus Session: Graphene: Transport II
Room: Portland Ballroom 251
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Eduardo Mucciolo, University of Central Florida
L22 
Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes Alignment and Sorting: Device Applications
Room: Portland Ballroom 252
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Mathias Steiner, IBM
L23 
Classical and Quantum Monte Carlo II
Room: C125-C126
Sponsor: 
DCOMP
Chair: Jeffery Grossman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
L24 
Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides -- Applications
Room: D133-D134
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Matthew Dawber, Stony Brook University
L25 
Optical and Electronic Properties of Semiconductors
Room: D135
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Alex Hamilton, University of New South Wales
L26 
Spin Qubits - Control, Transport, Architecture and Decoherence
Room: D136
Sponsor: 
GQI
Chair: Mark Friesen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
L27 
Focus Session: Confined and Biological Water IV
Room: D137
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Shekhar Garde, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
L28 
Nucleic Acids: Structure & Function
Room: C124
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Ralf Bundschuh, Ohio State University
L29 
Focus Session: Interface Controlled Organic Thin Films for Enhanced Device Performance
Room: C123
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: Suchi Guha, University of Missouri-Columbia
L30 
Focus Session: Hydrogen Storage II -- Complex Hydrides
Room: D139
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Jan Herbst, General Motors
L31 
APS Editorial Q & A
Room: E141
L32 
Focus Session: Tribophysics -- Sliding Friction
Room: E142
Sponsor: 
DMP GSNP DPOLY
Chair: Izabela Szlufarska, University of Wisconsin
L33 
Focus Session: Spin Dependent Physics in Organic-Based Materials II
Room: E143
Sponsor: 
GMAG
Chair: Anthony Caruso, University of Missouri - Kansas City
L34 
Focus Session: Frustrated and Low-D Magnetism -- Strongly Frustrated Antiferromagnets in 2D
Room: E144
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Alexander Seidel, Washington University in St. Louis
L35 
Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors -- Spin Injection
Room: E145
Sponsor: 
GMAG DMP FIAP
Chair: Ron Jansen, University of Twente
L36 
Focus Session: Nanomagnetism -- Tunnel Junctions
Room: E146
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Jeff Childress, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
L37 
Focus Session: Novel Magnetic Devices: Spin Torque II
Room: E147-E148
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Jonathan Sun, IBM T.J Watson Research Center
L38 
Charge Order in One-Dimensional Systems
Room: F149
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Stuart Brown, University of California, Los Angeles
L39 
Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors: Magnetism and Structure
Room: F150
Sponsor: 
DCMP DMP
Chair: Rob McQueeney, Ames Laboratory
L40 
Superconductivity: Electronic Structure (ARPES)
Room: F151
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Michael Norman, Argonne National Laboratory
L41 
Focus Session: Search for New Superconductors - Heterostructures, Thin Films, Intercalated and High-Pressure Compounds
Room: F152
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Alan Bishop, Los Alamos National Laboratory
L42 
High Reynolds Number Flows
Room: D138
Sponsor: 
DFD
Chair: Marcel Ilie, University of Central Florida
Mar 16 2010 5:45PM, Tuesday
M7 
DBP Business Meeting
Room: Portland Ballroom 254
M11 
GSNP Business Meeting
Room: A107-A109
M16 
GERA Business Meeting
Room: B115
M17 
DPOLY Business Meeting
Room: B116
M27 
GQI Business Meeting
Room: D137
M29 
FIAP Business Meeting
Room: C123
M30 
GSCCM Business Meeting
Room: D139
Sponsor: 
GSCCM
M36 
GMAG Business Meeting
Room: E146
Mar 16 2010 7:00PM, Tuesday
M45 
DCP Business Meeting
Room: Portland Hilton Executive Suite
M46 
DCMP Business Meeting
Room: Portland Hilton Broadway II
Sponsor: 
DCMP
M47 
DCOMP Business Meeting
Room: Senate Suite
M48 
DMP Business Meeting
Room: Broadway III
Mar 17 2010 8:00AM, Wednesday
P1 
Superconductivity and Magnetism of Iron Chalcogenides
Room: Oregon Ballroom 201
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Collin Broholm, John Hopkins University
P2 
Quantum Oscillations, Superconductivity, and Pseudogaps in Nanoscaled Metal Films and Islands
Room: Oregon Ballroom 202
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Mei-Yin Chou, Georgia Institute of Technology
P3 
Emergent Behavior in Particle Systems Subjected to Time-Dependent Fields
Room: Oregon Ballroom 203
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Jack Douglass, National Institute of Standards and Technology
P4 
Celebrating 50 Years of Lasers in Condensed Matter Physics: Dynamics & Imaging
Room: Oregon Ballroom 204
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Marcus Cicerone, National Institute of Standards and Technology
P5 
Lattice Boltzmann Method and Its Applications
Room: Portland Ballroom 256
Sponsor: 
DFD
Chair: Li-Shi Luo, Old Dominion University
P6 
Fermions at Unitarity: Gravity, the Quark-Gluon Plasma, and Ultra-Cold Atoms
Room: Portland Ballroom 253
Sponsor: 
DAMOP
Chair: Lincoln Carr, Colorado School of Mines
P7 
Physics, Culture and the Arts
Room: Portland Ballroom 254
Sponsor: 
FPS
Chair: Philip L. Taylor, Case Western Reserve University
P8 
Physicists as Entrepreneurs
Room: Portland Ballroom 255
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: T. Venkatesan, National University of Singapore
P9 
Electronic Properties of Quantum Dots
Room: A105
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Luis Dias da Silva, University of Tennessee
P10 
Focus Session: Physics of Behavior
Room: A106
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Will Ryu, University of Toronto
P11 
Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics III
Room: A107-A109
Sponsor: 
GSNP
Chair: A. Kudrolli, Clark University
P12 
Granular Materials II
Room: B110-B111
Sponsor: 
DFD
Chair: Colin Denniston, University of Western Ontario
P13 
Membranes: General, Surface, Biological
Room: B112
Sponsor: 
DFD
Chair: Haskell Taub, University of Missouri
P14 
Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures V: Theory and Computation II
Room: B113
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Harold Baranger, Duke University
P15 
Instrumentation for Nanoscale Science
Room: B114
Sponsor: 
GIMS
Chair: Young Jae Song, National Institute of Standards and Technology
P16 
Nanowires: Electronic and Optical Properties
Room: B115
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Jason Petta, Princeton University
P17 
Focus Session: Glass Transition in Thin Films I
Room: B116
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Rodney Priestley, Princeton University
P18 
Focus Session: Biological-Synthetic Hybrid Materials I
Room: B117
Sponsor: 
DPOLY DBP
Chair: Francis Starr, Wesleyan University
P19 
Focus Session: Physics of Polymer Nanocomposites I
Room: B118-B119
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Sanat Kumar, Columbia University
P20 
Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Electron Transport
Room: C120-C122
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Saiful Khondaker, University of Central Florida
P21 
Focus Session: Nano-Graphene
Room: Portland Ballroom 251
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Philip First, Georgia Institute of Technology
P22 
Bilayer Graphene
Room: Portland Ballroom 252
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Xia Hong, Pennsylvannia State University
P23 
Classical and Quantum Molecular Dynamics
Room: C125-C126
Sponsor: 
DCOMP
Chair: Glenn Martyna, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
P24 
Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides -- Nanostructures
Room: D133-D134
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Tae Won Noh, Seoul National University
P25 
Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors - III-V's
Room: D135
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Volkmar Dierolf, Lehigh University
P26 
Superconducting Qubits: Materials / Nanomechanical Resonators
Room: D136
Sponsor: 
GQI
Chair: David Schuster, Yale University
P27 
Focus Session: New Trends in Spectroscopy II
Room: D137
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Greg Hall, Brookhaven National Laboratory
P28 
Focus Session: New Frontiers in Electronic Structure Theory III
Room: C124
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Martin Head-Gordon, University of California, Berkeley
P29 
Focus Session: Thermoelectrics III: IV-VI's & Nanostructures
Room: C123
Sponsor: 
DMP FIAP GERA
Chair: Chris Dames, University of California, Riverside
P30 
Nanopores and Related Structures for DNA Detection
Room: D139
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: Derek Stein, Brown University
P31 
Ultracold Gases in One Dimensional and Ring Geometries
Room: E141
Sponsor: 
DAMOP
Chair: Yu-Ju Lin, National Institute of Standards and Technology
P32 
Focus Session: Tribophysics -- Adhesion and Friction
Room: E142
Sponsor: 
DMP GSNP DPOLY
Chair: Erio Tosatti, SISSA/ICTP
P33 
Focus Session: Spin Dependent Physics in Organic-Based Materials III
Room: E143
Sponsor: 
GMAG
Chair: Konstantin Pokhodnya, North Dakota State University
P34 
Focus Session: Frustrated and Low-D Magnetism -- Antiferromagnets on the Triangular Lattice
Room: E144
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Oleg Starykh, University of Utah
P35 
Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors -- GaMnAs Electronic Structure
Room: E145
Sponsor: 
GMAG DMP FIAP
Chair: Nitin Samarth, The Pennsylvania State University
P36 
Focus Session: Bulk Properties of Complex Oxides -- Cobaltites
Room: E146
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Christopher Leighton, University of Minnesota
P37 
Focus Session: Complex Oxide Thin Films -- Conductivity and Metal-Insulator Transition I
Room: E147-E148
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Nicola Spaldin, University of California, Santa Barbara
P38 
Quantum Criticality II
Room: F149
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Dirk van der Marel, University of Geneva
P39 
Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors: Theory II
Room: F150
Sponsor: 
DMP DCMP
Chair: Michelle Johannes, Navel Research Laboratory
P40 
Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors: Physical Propertise II
Room: F151
Sponsor: 
DCMP DMP
Chair: Brian Sales, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
P41 
Tutorial for Authors and Referees
Room: F152
P42 
Superconductivity: Fluctuation Phenomena
Room: D138
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Mike Bleiweiss, Naval Academy Prep School
Mar 17 2010 11:15AM, Wednesday
Q1 
Novel Superconductivity: Insights from a Materials Perspective
Room: Oregon Ballroom 201
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Aharon Kapitulnik, Stanford University
Q2 
Jamming
Room: Oregon Ballroom 202
Sponsor: 
DCMP GSNP
Chair: Wouter Ellenbroek, University of Pennsylvania
Q3 
Physics for Everyone
Room: Oregon Ballroom 203
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Ivan K. Schuller, University of California, San Diego
Q4 
Celebrating 50 Years of Lasers in Condensed Matter Physics: Surfaces, Imaging & Technology
Room: Oregon Ballroom 204
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Marcus Cicerone, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Q5 
A Critical Challenge for the Biotech Industry: The Measurement of Protein Associations
Room: Portland Ballroom 256
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: Philip Wyatt, Wyatt Technology Corporation
Q6 
Science Literacy, the Nature of Science and Religion
Room: Portland Ballroom 253
Sponsor: 
FEd
Chair: Lawrence Woolf, General Atomics
Q7 
Mechanics in Cell Biology
Room: Portland Ballroom 254
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Dan Siegal-Gaskins, NSF Mathematical Biosciences Institute at Ohio State University
Q8 
Magnonics: Spin Wave Processes in Magnetic Materials
Room: Portland Ballroom 255
Sponsor: 
GMAG
Chair: Olle Heinonen, Seagate Technology
Q9 
Electronic Properties of Low Dimensional Systems
Room: A105
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Sergio Ulloa, Ohio University
Q10 
Focus Session: Physics of Biochips I
Room: A106
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Peter Kiesel, PARC
Q11 
Self-organization in Biological Cells and tissue II
Room: A107-A109
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Tim Newman, Arizona State
Q12 
Self-Assembly: Equilibrium and Non-Equilibrium
Room: B110-B111
Sponsor: 
DFD DCMP
Chair: Jacques Amar, University of Toledo
Q13 
Focus Session: Stochastic Processes in Biology I
Room: B112
Sponsor: 
GSNP DBP
Chair: Ira Schwartz, Naval Research Laboratory
Q14 
Focus Session: Optics of Nanostructures: Quantum Dots and Nanomaterials
Room: B113
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Scott Crooker, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Q15 
Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy III: Spectroscopic Techniques at Low Temperatures
Room: B114
Sponsor: 
GIMS
Chair: Andreas Heinrich, IBM Almaden Research Center
Q16 
Focus Session: Polymers and Energy: Fuel Cells and Batteries
Room: B115
Sponsor: 
DPOLY GERA DMP
Chair: Karim Alamgir, The University of Akron
Q17 
Focus Session : Glass Transition in Thin Films II
Room: B116
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Connie Roth, Emory University
Q18 
Focus Session: Biological-Synthetic Hybrid Materials II
Room: B117
Sponsor: 
DBP DPOLY
Chair: Oleg Gang, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Q19 
Focus Session: Physics of Polymer Nanocomposites II
Room: B118-B119
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Michael Mackay, University of Delaware
Q20 
Focus Session: Graphene: Local Probes
Room: C120-122
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Peter Johnson, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Q21 
Focus Session: Graphene: Bilayers I
Room: Portland Ballroom 251
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Sankar Das Sarma, University of Maryland
Q22 
Graphene Junctions
Room: Portland Ballroom 252
Sponsor: 
DCMP DMP
Chair: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Q23 
Electronic Structure
Room: C125-C126
Sponsor: 
DCOMP
Chair: Guang-Lin Zhao, Southern University
Q24 
Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides -- Strain and Interfaces
Room: D133-D134
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Dragan Damjanovic, EPFL
Q25 
QHE: Bilayers and Tunneling
Room: D135
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: Joel Moore, University of California, Berkeley
Q26 
Quantum Error Correction and Dynamical Decoupling
Room: D136
Sponsor: 
GQI
Chair: Dave Bacon, University of Washington
Q27 
Focus Session: New Trends in Spectroscopy III
Room: D137
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: David Osborn, Sandia National Laboratories
Q28 
Focus Session: New Frontiers in Electronic Structure Theory IV
Room: C124
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: David Sherrill, Georgia Institute of Technology
Q29 
Focus Session: Thermoelectrics IV: Group IV's & Nanostructures
Room: C123
Sponsor: 
DMP FIAP GERA
Chair: Rama Venkatasubramanian, RTI International
Q30 
Focus Session: High Pressure III
Room: D139
Sponsor: 
DCOMP
Chair: Ken Esler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Q31 
Focus Session: Quantum Simulation using AMO Systems
Room: E141
Sponsor: 
DAMOP
Chair: Victor Gurarie, University of Colorado
Q32 
Focus Session: Self Assembly of Molecules on Surfaces
Room: E142
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Janice Reutt-Robey, University of Maryland
Q33 
Focus Session: Complex Oxide Thin Films -- Oxide/Semiconductor Interfaces and Defects
Room: E143
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Susanne Stemmer, University of California, Santa Barbara
Q34 
Focus Session: Frustrated and Low-D Magnetism -- Spins, Orbitals, and Phonons
Room: E144
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Joachim Deisenhofer, Augsburg University
Q35 
Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors -- Spin Device Physics
Room: E145
Sponsor: 
GMAG DMP FIAP
Chair: Hanan Dery, University of Rochester
Q36 
Focus Session: Bulk Properties of Complex Oxides -- Fe-Based Multiferroics
Room: E146
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Sang?Wook Cheong, Rutgers University
Q37 
Focus Session: Complex Oxide Thin Films -- Conductivity and Metal-Insulator Transition II
Room: E147-E148
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Jak Chakhalian, University of Arkansas
Q38 
Topological Insulators: Theory and Experiment
Room: F149
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Peter Armitage, Johns Hopkins University
Q39 
Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors: Theory III
Room: F150
Sponsor: 
DCMP DMP
Chair: M. Korshunov, University of Florida
Q40 
Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors Physical Properties III
Room: F151
Sponsor: 
DCMP DMP
Chair: T. Devereaux, University of Waterloo
Q41 
Focus Session: Phonons and Electron Correlations in High Tc Superconductors
Room: F152
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: David Tanner, University of Florida
Q42 
Theory of Superconducting Properties
Room: D138
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Maxim Vavilov, University of Wisconsin
Mar 17 2010 1:00PM, Wednesday
S1 
Poster Session III (1:00 pm - 4:00 pm)
Room: Exhibit CD
Mar 17 2010 2:30PM, Wednesday
T1 
Prize Session: Buckley, Lilienfeld
Room: Oregon Ballroom 201
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: David Pine, New York University
T2 
Quantum Fluctuations and Magnetic Frustration in Strongly Correlated Metals
Room: Oregon Ballroom 202
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Zachary Fisk, Los Alamos National Laboratory
T3 
Materials with Topological Defects on Gaussian Curved Surfaces
Room: Oregon Ballroom 203
Sponsor: 
DCMP DPOLY
Chair: Paul Chaikin, New York University
T4 
Keithly Award Session: Precision Time and Frequency Measurements
Room: Oregon Ballroom 204
Sponsor: 
GIMS
Chair: James Matey, United States Naval Academy
T5 
Measuring Magnetism at the Nanoscale
Room: Portland Ballroom 256
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: Ernesto Marinero, Hitachi Research Center-San Jose
T6 
Graduate Education in Physics: Which Way Forward
Room: Portland Ballroom 253
Sponsor: 
FEd FGSA
Chair: Theodore Hodapp, American Physical Society
T7 
Avalanches in Condensed Matter
Room: Portland Ballroom 254
Sponsor: 
GSNP DCMP
Chair: Craig Maloney, Carnegie Mellon University
T8 
Panel Discussion: Emerging Scientific Powers in the East: China
Room: Portland Ballroom 255
Sponsor: 
FIP FGSA
Chair: Noemie Koller, Rutgers University
T9 
Focus Session: Optics of Nanostructures - Near Field, Single Molecule, and Plasmonics
Room: A105
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Rudolf Bratschitsch, University of Konstanz
T10 
Focus Session: Physics of Biochips II
Room: A106
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: David Nolte, Purdue University
T11 
Focus Session: Single Molecule Biophysics and Chemical Physics V
Room: A107-A108
Sponsor: 
DCP DBP DPOLY
Chair: David Nesbitt, JILA/University of Colorado
T12 
Microfluidics II: Devices
Room: B110-B111
Sponsor: 
DFD
Chair: Cindy Harnett, University of Louisville
T13 
Focus Session: Stochastic Processes in Biology II
Room: B112
Sponsor: 
GSNP DBP
Chair: L. Shaw, College of William and Mary
T14 
Energy Resources Followed by Energy Production, Sustainability and Environment
Room: B113
Sponsor: 
GERA
Chair: Terry Tritt, Clemson University
T15 
Metals, Compounds, and Metal-like Behavior
Room: B114
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Joerg Neugebauer, Max-Planck Institut fur Eisenforschung
T16 
Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics: Transport
Room: B115
Sponsor: 
DMP DPOLY
Chair: Leeor Kronik, The Weizmann Institute of Science
T17 
Focus Session: Dynamics of Polymers and Complex Fluids I
Room: B116
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Ron Larson, University of Michigan
T18 
Focus Session: Biological-Synthetic Hybrid Materials III
Room: B117
Sponsor: 
DPOLY DBP
Chair: Francis Starr, Wesleyan University
T19 
Focus Session: Polymer-Nanoparticle Interactions I
Room: B118-B119
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: John Torkelson, Northwestern University
T20 
Focus Session: Computational Design of New Materials -- Energy
Room: C120-122
Sponsor: 
DMP DCOMP
Chair: Abdelkader Kara, University of Central Florida
T21 
Focus Session: Graphene: Bilayers II
Room: Portland Ballroom 251
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Antonio Castro Neto, Boston University
T22 
Multiscale Materials (Theory, Modeling and Experiments that Bridge Scales)
Room: Portland Ballroom 252
Sponsor: 
DCOMP GSCCM
Chair: Thomas Sewell, University of Missouri Columbia
T23 
Density Functional Theory II
Room: C125-C126
Sponsor: 
DCOMP
Chair: Neepa Maitra, Hunter College, CUNY
T24 
Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides -- Domains
Room: D133-D134
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Beatriz Noheda, University of Groenigen
T25 
QHE: Microwaves and Periodic Modulation
Room: D135
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: Michael Zudov, University of Minnesota
T26 
Superconducting Qubits: Measurements
Room: D136
Sponsor: 
GQI
Chair: Leo DiCarlo, Yale University
T27 
Cellular Biomechanics
Room: D137
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Wolfgang Losert, University of Maryland
T28 
Focus Session: Production and Application of Cold Molecules II
Room: C124
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Jeremy Hutson, University of Durham
T29 
Superconducting Devices and Applications
Room: C123
Sponsor: 
FIAP DCMP
Chair: Fred Wellstood, University of Maryland
T30 
Focus Session: Hydrogen Storage III
Room: D139
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Donald Siegel, Unverisity of Michigan
T31 
Quantum Phase Transitions in Atomic and Molecular Systems
Room: E141
Sponsor: 
DAMOP
Chair: Cheng Chin, University of Chicago
T32 
Focus Session: Self Assembly on Novel Templates
Room: E142
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Karsten Pohl, University of New Hampshire
T33 
Novel Magnetic Materials
Room: E143
Sponsor: 
GMAG
Chair: Yves Idzerda, Montana State University
T34 
Correlated Electrons: Theory
Room: E144
Sponsor: 
GMAG
Chair: Juana Moreno, Louisiana State University
T35 
Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors -Spin Hall Effect and Spin Currents
Room: E145
Sponsor: 
GMAG DMP FIAP
Chair: Michael Flatté, University of Iowa
T36 
Focus Session: Bulk Properties of Complex Oxides -- Layered Manganites and Theory
Room: E146
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Feng Ye, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
T37 
Focus Session: Complex Oxide Thin Films -- Interfaces and Superlattices
Room: E147-E148
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: R. Ramesh, University of California, Berkeley
T38 
Electronic Phase Transitions in Correlated Systems
Room: F149
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Brian Wells, University of Connecticut
T39 
Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors: Scanning Probe
Room: F150
Sponsor: 
DCMP DMP
Chair: Ruslan Prozorov, Ames Laboratory
T40 
Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors: Doping and Magnetism
Room: F151
Sponsor: 
DMP DCMP
Chair: Mao-Hua Du, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
T41 
Focus Session: Search for New Superconductors - Nanotubes and Fullerides
Room: F152
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Anvar Zakhidov, University of Texas at Dallas
T42 
Superconductivity: Spin Properties
Room: D138
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Jaime Fernandez-Baca, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Mar 17 2010 5:45PM, Wednesday
U1 
Nobel Prize Session
Room: Portland Ballroom 252
Chair: David Pine, New York University
U4 
GIMS Business Meeting
Room: Oregon Ballroom 204
Mar 17 2010 7:00PM, Wednesday
U10 
Panel Discussion: Fuels of the Future
Room: Portland Ballroom 254
Sponsor: 
GERA
Chair: George Crabtree, Argonne National Laboratory
Mar 17 2010 7:30PM, Wednesday
U45 
``Trends" in the APS Publication Physics
Room: Portland Hilton Pavillion Ballroom
Sponsor: 
APS
Chair: Samindranath Mitra, American Physical Society
Mar 18 2010 8:00AM, Thursday
V1 
Structure, Magnetic Properties, and Superconductivity in the Pnictides
Room: Oregon Ballroom 201
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Sergey Budko, Ames Laboratory
V2 
Relaxation and Dynamic Heterogeneity and Glass
Room: Oregon Ballroom 202
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Zexin Zhang, University of Pennsylvania
V3 
Electronic, Magnetic, and Magnetoelectric Excitations in Multiferroics
Room: Oregon Ballroom 203
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Sang-Wook Cheong, Rutgers University
V4 
Biological Nanostructures for Photonics and Adhesion
Room: Oregon Ballroom 204
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Mohan Srinivasrao, Center for Advnaced Research on Optical Microscopy
V5 
Industrial Applications of Neutron Scattering
Room: Portland Ballroom 256
Sponsor: 
DCMP FIAP
Chair: Michael Crawford, DuPont
V6 
The Impact of Large Scale Computing on Research in Physics
Room: Portland Ballroom 253
Sponsor: 
DCOMP
Chair: Barry Schneider, National Science Foundation
V7 
Piconewtons and Nanometers: The Physics of Molecular Motors
Room: Portland Ballroom 254
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Ned Wingreen, Princeton University
V8 
Spots, Stripes, and Turbulence
Room: Portland Ballroom 255
Sponsor: 
GSNP DFD
Chair: John Gibson, Georgia Institute of Technology
V9 
Fractional QHE
Room: A105
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Alexander Abanov, Stony Brook University
V10 
Focus Session: Dynamics of Neural Systems
Room: A106
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Rhonda Dzakpasu, Georgetown University
V11 
Focus Session: Nonlinear Hydrodynamics of Swimming Cells
Room: A107-A109
Sponsor: 
DFD
Chair: Aparna Baskaran, Syracuse University
V12 
Colloidal Particles and Clusters
Room: B110-B111
Sponsor: 
DFD
Chair: Alex Levine, University of California, Los Angeles
V13 
Focus Session: Jamming I
Room: B112
Sponsor: 
GSNP
Chair: Corey O’Hern, Yale University
V14 
Focus Session: Transport Properties of Nanostructures VI: Inorganic Nanostructures and Nanomechanics
Room: B113
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Pierre Darancet, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
V15 
Focus Session: Novel Instrumentation and Measurements for Medical and Biological Systems
Room: B114
Sponsor: 
GIMS
Chair: Larry Nagahara, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
V16 
Nanowires: Electrical and Thermal Properties
Room: B115
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Derek Stewart, Cornell University
V17 
Focus Session: Dynamics of Polymers and Complex Fluids II
Room: B116
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Ron Larson, University of Michigan
V18 
Biopolymer Molecules - Solutions, Networks, and Gels
Room: B117
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Gila Stein, University of Houston
V19 
Focus Session: Polymer-Nanoparticle Interactions II
Room: B118-B119
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Chris Ellison, University of Texas at Austin
V20 
Graphene Synthesis, Characterization and Applications
Room: C120-122
Sponsor: 
DCMP DMP
Chair: Masahiro Ishigami, University of Central Florida
V21 
Focus Session: Graphene: Mechanical and Thermal Properties
Room: Portland Ballroom 251
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Vitor Pereira, Boston University
V22 
Quantum Hall Effect in Graphene
Room: Portland Ballroom 252
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Dmitri Abanin, Princeton University
V23 
Solid Helium I
Room: C125-C126
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Boris Svistunov, University of Massachusetts Amherst
V24 
Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides -- Bulk Ferroelectrics I
Room: D133-D134
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Valentino Cooper, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
V25 
Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors - Oxides, general
Room: D135
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Evan Glaser, Naval Research Laboratory
V26 
Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits
Room: D136
Sponsor: 
GQI
Chair: Andrew Hoffman, Princeton University
V27 
Focus Session: Attosecond Science and Strong Field Chemical Physics I
Room: D137
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Dan Neumark, University of California, Berkeley
V28 
Focus Session: Charge Transport in Nanostructures I
Room: C124
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Ward Plummer, University of Tennessee
V29 
Optical/Laser Devices and Applications
Room: C123
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: Anthony Johnson, University of Maryland-Baltimore County
V30 
Nanotechnology Applications: NEMS, CNTs, Graphene, and Nanoscale Devices
Room: D139
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: Willi Mickelson, Center for Integrated Nanomechanical Systems, University of California, Berkeley
V31 
Focus Session: Strongly Interacting Quantum Gases
Room: E141
Sponsor: 
DAMOP
Chair: David Pekker, Harvard University
V32 
Surface Reactions and Dynamics
Room: E142
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Alexey Zayak, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
V33 
Cooperative Phenomena- Experiment, Spin Dynamics and Materials
Room: E143
Sponsor: 
GMAG
Chair: Shireen Adenwalla, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
V34 
Focus Session: Frustrated and Low-D Magnetism -- Quantum Magnetism I
Room: E144
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Igor Zaliznyak, Brookhaven National Laboratory
V35 
Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors -- Carbon-based Systems
Room: E145
Sponsor: 
GMAG DMP FIAP
Chair: Stephan von Molnar, Florida State University
V36 
Spin Transport in Metals including GMR
Room: E146
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Olaf van 't Erve, Naval Research Laboratory
V37 
Focus Session: Complex Oxide Thin Films -- Multiferroics and Tunneling
Room: E147-E148
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Stuart Wolf, University of Virginia
V38 
Disordered Electronic Systems
Room: F149
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Smitha Vishveshwara, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
V39 
Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors: Lattice Probes & Irradiation
Room: F150
Sponsor: 
DCMP DMP
Chair: A. Gurevich, Florida State University
V40 
Superconducting Vortices: Pinning & Lattice Effects
Room: F151
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Michael Sumption, Ohio State University
V41 
Superconductor-Insulator Transitions
Room: F152
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Mike Osofsky, Naval Research Laboratory
V42 
Surfaces: Phase Transitions, Magnetic and Superconducting Properties
Room: D138
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Venkatraman Gopalan, Pennsylvania State University
Mar 18 2010 11:15AM, Thursday
W1 
Direct Imaging of Crystal Nucleation
Room: Oregon Ballroom 201
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Arjun Yodh, University of Pennsylvania
W2 
Drop-based Microfluidics for Use with Soft-materials and Biology
Room: Oregon Ballroom 202
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Michael Rubinstein, University of North Carolina
W3 
Adler, McGroddy, and Pake Award/Prize Session
Room: Oregon Ballroom 203
Sponsor: 
DMP FIAP
Chair: Robert Nemanich, Arizona State University
W4 
Electric Voltages Generated by Magnetization Dynamics
Room: Oregon Ballroom 204
Sponsor: 
GMAG
Chair: Axel Hoffmann, Argonne National Laboratory
W5 
Renewable Energy Education
Room: Portland Ballroom 256
Sponsor: 
FEd
Chair: Robert Ehrlich, George Mason University
W6 
Superconducting Qubits
Room: Portland Ballroom 253
Sponsor: 
GQI
Chair: Irfan Siddiqi, University of California, Berkeley
W7 
Biological Networks
Room: Portland Ballroom 254
Sponsor: 
DBP GSNP
Chair: Jin Wang, State University of New York, Stony Brook
W8 
Scanned Probe Microscopy of Novel Materials and Systems
Room: Portland Ballroom 255
Sponsor: 
GIMS
Chair: Joseph Stroscio, National Institute of Standards and Technology
W9 
QHE and topological insulators
Room: A105
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Marcel Franz, University of British Columbia
W10 
Lipid Bilayers I
Room: A106
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Christian Santangelo, University of Massachusetts
W11 
Proteins: Structure, Function, and Folding
Room: A107-A109
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Margaret Cheung, University of Houston
W12 
Foams and Suspensions
Room: B110-B111
Sponsor: 
DFD
Chair: Dan Blair, Georgetown Univeristy
W13 
Focus Session: Jamming II
Room: B112
Sponsor: 
GSNP
Chair: C. Olson Reichhardt, Los Alamos National Laboratory
W14 
Focus Session: Optics of Nanostructures -- Quantum Dots II
Room: B113
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Carlo Piermarocchi, Michigan State University
W15 
Surfaces, Thin Films, and Nanostructures
Room: B114
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Don Nicholson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
W16 
Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics: Transistors and Light Emitting Devices
Room: B115
Sponsor: 
DMP DPOLY
Chair: Lynn Loo, Princeton University
W17 
Focus Session: Dynamics of Polymers and Complex Fluids III
Room: B116
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Shi-Qing Wang, The University of Akron
W18 
Focus Session: Polymer Network Mechanics I
Room: B117
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Catalin Picu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
W19 
Focus Session: Synchrotron X-ray and Neutron Techniques in Soft Matter and Biological
Room: B118-B119
Sponsor: 
DPOLY DBP
Chair: Zhang Jiang, Argonne National Laboratory
W20 
Graphene Spectroscopy
Room: C120-122
Sponsor: 
DMP DCMP
Chair: Tony Heinz, Columbia University
W21 
Focus Session: Graphene: Strain
Room: Portland Ballroom 251
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Michael Fuhrer, University of Maryland
W22 
Graphene Nanoribbons
Room: Portland Ballroom 252
Sponsor: 
DMP DCMP
Chair: Gary Pennington, University of Maryland
W23 
Solid Helium II
Room: C125-C126
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Josh West, Pennsylvania State University
W24 
Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides -- Bulk Ferroelectrics II
Room: D133-D134
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Serge Nakhmanson, Argonne National Laboratory
W25 
Semiconductor Growths and Wide Bandgap Semiconductors
Room: D135
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Nelson Tansu, Lehigh University
W26 
Quantum Control and Resources for Quantum Computing
Room: D136
Sponsor: 
GQI
Chair: Frank Wilhelm, University of Waterloo
W27 
Focus Session: Attosecond Science and Strong Field Chemical Physics II
Room: D137
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Robin Santra, Argonne National Laboratory
W28 
Focus Session: Charge Transport in Nanostructures II
Room: C124
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Yaguang Wei, Georgia Institute of Technology
W29 
Focus Session: Thermoelectrics V: III-V's & Nanostructures
Room: C123
Sponsor: 
DMP FIAP GERA
Chair: Lilia Woods, University of South Florida
W30 
Focus Session: High Pressure IV: Dynamics of Shock Induced Phase Transitions
Room: D139
Sponsor: 
DCOMP GSCCM
Chair: Timothy Germann, Los Alamos National Laboratory
W31 
Non-equilibrium Quantum Dynamics in Atomic Systems
Room: E141
Sponsor: 
DAMOP
Chair: Gavin Brennen, Macquarie University
W32 
Structure and Morphology: Semiconductor Surfaces
Room: E142
Sponsor: 
DMP DCMP
Chair: Steve Erwin, Naval Research Laboratory
W33 
Quantum Entanglement
Room: E143
Sponsor: 
GQI
Chair: Ivette Fuentes-Schuller, University of Nottingham, UK
W34 
Focus Session: Nanomagnetism -- Atomic Size Structures
Room: E144
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Pietro Gambardella, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
W35 
Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors -- DMS: III-V and Devices
Room: E145
Sponsor: 
GMAG DMP FIAP
Chair: Masaaki Tanaka, University of Tokyo
W36 
Focus Session: Frustrated and Low-D Magnetism -- Spin Ice
Room: E146
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Xianglin Ke, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
W37 
Focus Session: Complex Oxide Thin Films -- BiFeO3 Multiferroics
Room: E147-E148
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Ichiro Takeuchi, University of Maryland
W38 
Correlated Electrons: Lattice Models
Room: F149
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: G Fernando, University of Connecticut
W39 
Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors: Neutron Scattering and Magnetism
Room: F150
Sponsor: 
DCMP DMP
Chair: Pengcheng Dai, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
W40 
Mesoscopic and Nanoscopic Superconductors
Room: F151
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Mingliang Tian, Pennsylvania State University
W41 
Focus Session: Search for New Superconductors - Silicides, Nickelates and Cobaltates
Room: F152
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Robert Cava, Princeton University
W42 
Excitation and Transport at Complex Interfaces
Room: D138
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Patrick Woodward, Ohio State University
Mar 18 2010 2:30PM, Thursday
X1 
Nanostructure Studies of Strongly Correlated Materials
Room: Oregon Ballroom 201
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Rossitza Pentcheva, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
X2 
Quantum Simulation of Strongly Correlated Systems with Cold Atoms in Optical Lattices
Room: Oregon Ballroom 202
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Allan Griffin, University of Toronto
X3 
Magnetic Monopoles and Dirac Strings in Condensed Matter
Room: Oregon Ballroom 203
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Peter Schiffer, The Pennsylvania State University
X4 
Dynamics of Nano-confined Polymer Films
Room: Oregon Ballroom 204
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: James Forrest, University of Waterloo
X5 
Emerging Tomographic Algorithms: From Bending Molecules to Beating Hearts
Room: Portland Ballroom 256
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: Peter Schwander, University of Wisconsin
X6 
The Neural Dynamics of Songbirds
Room: Portland Ballroom 253
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Dezhe Jin, The Pennsylvania State University
X7 
Waves in Actin Dynamics
Room: Portland Ballroom 254
Sponsor: 
DPB
Chair: Martin Falcke, Delbruck Institute for Molecular Medicine
X8 
The 50th Anniversary of the Prediction of Superfluidity of He3
Room: Portland Ballroom 255
Sponsor: 
FHP
Chair: George Zimmerman, Boston University
X9 
QHE: High Filling Factors and Weak Fields
Room: A105
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Michael Manfra, Purdue University
X10 
Virology and Medical Physics
Room: A106
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Michael Hagan, Brandeis University
X12 
General Fluid Mechanics: Surface and Thermal Effects
Room: B110-B111
Sponsor: 
DFD
Chair: Amber Krummel, Harvard University
X13 
Focus Session: Jamming III
Room: B112
Sponsor: 
GSNP
Chair: Ch. Reichardt, Los Alamos National Laboratory
X14 
Nanowires and Nanotubes: Devices and Applications
Room: B113
Sponsor: 
DMP DCMP
Chair: Lilia Woods, University of South Florida
X15 
Structural and Electronic Properties of Metals I
Room: B114
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Di Xiao, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
X16 
Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics: Electronic Structure and Interfaces
Room: B115
Sponsor: 
DMP DPOLY
Chair: Calvin Chan, National Institute of Standards and Technology
X17 
Charged and Ion-Containing Polymers I
Room: B116
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Jodie Lutkenhaus, Yale
X18 
Focus Session: Polymer Network Mechanics II
Room: B117
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Al Crosby, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
X19 
Focus Session: Polymer Colloids: Particle Interactions and Assembly
Room: B118-B119
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Tony Dinsmore, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
X20 
Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Optical Studies
Room: C120-C122
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Steve Cronin, University of Southern California
X21 
Focus Session: Graphene: Devices
Room: Portland Ballroom 251
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Vasili Perebeinos, IBM
X22 
Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Absorption and Defects
Room: Portland Ballroom 252
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Jerome Lagoute, CNRS
X23 
Many Body I
Room: C125-C126
Sponsor: 
DCOMP
Chair: Tara Das, University at Albany-SUNY
X24 
Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides -- Defects and Relaxors
Room: D133-D134
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Marty Gregg, Queen's University of Belfast
X25 
Quantum Structures
Room: D135
Sponsor: 
DCMP FIAP
Chair: Gerard Martinez, LNCMI, CNRS, Grenoble
X26 
Superconducting Qubits: Coherent Phases in Superconducting Resonators
Room: D136
Sponsor: 
GQI
Chair: Matthias Steffen, IBM
X27 
Focus Session: Chemical Control of the Properties of Complex Oxides I
Room: D137
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Patrick Woodward, Ohio State University
X28 
Focus Session: Charge Transport in Nanostructures III
Room: C124
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Max Lagally, University of Wisconsin
X29 
Photonics Applications
Room: C123
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: Hans-Peter Wagner, University of Cincinnatti
X30 
Bionanotechnology
Room: D139
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: Raghuveer Parthasarathy, University of Oregon
X31 
High Pressure V
Room: E141
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Stanimir Bonev, Dalhousie University
X32 
Quantum Size Effects and Interfaces
Room: E142
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Wenguang Zhu, University of Tennessee
X33 
Focus Session: Foundations of Quantum Theory
Room: E143
Sponsor: 
GQI
Chair: Ian Durham, Saint Anselm College
X34 
Magnetic Characterization and Imaging
Room: E144
Sponsor: 
GMAG
Chair: Ranko Heindl, NIST
X35 
Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors -- Spin Dynamics
Room: E145
Sponsor: 
GMAG DMP FIAP
Chair: Roland Kawakami, University of California, Riverside
X36 
Focus Session: Bulk Properties of Complex Oxides -- Novel Systems
Room: E146
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Ram Seshadri, University of California, Santa Barbara
X37 
Focus Session: Nanomagnetism -- Molecules
Room: E147-E148
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Dan Ralph, Cornell University
X38 
Structural Phase Transitions
Room: F149
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Kyle Shen, Cornell University
X39 
Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors: Spin Excitation
Room: F150
Sponsor: 
DMP DCMP
Chair: Despina Louca, University of Virginia
X40 
Superconductivity: Transport Properties
Room: F151
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Myron Salamon, University of Texas at Dallas
X41 
Focus Session: Search for New Superconductors - Carbides, Borides and Organics
Room: F152
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Zach Fisk, University of California, Irvine
X42 
Physics Education: Research, Techniques, Classic Experiments, and Policy
Room: D138
Sponsor: 
FEd
Chair: Thomas Olsen, American Institute of Physics
Mar 19 2010 8:00AM, Friday
Y1 
Extended Quantum Criticality - The Link Between Heavy Fermions and Cuprate Superconductors?
Room: Oregon Ballroom 201
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Piers Coleman, Rutgers University
Y2 
Composite Fermions: Recent Advances in States and Excitations
Room: Oregon Ballroom 202
Sponsor: 
DCMP APS
Chair: Vito Scarola, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Y3 
Two-particle Entanglement with Single Particle Emitters
Room: Oregon Ballroom 203
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Janine Splettstoesser, Institute for Theoretical Physics A, RWTH Aachen, and Peter Samuelsson, Lund University
Y4 
Microscopic Physics of Magnetization Damping
Room: Oregon Ballroom 204
Sponsor: 
GMAG
Chair: Olle Heinonen, Seagate Technology-Stillwater
Y5 
Conductance and Coherence in Nanotubes and Nanobeams
Room: Portland Ballroom 256
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: David Cobden, University of Washington
Y6 
Quantum Hydrodynamics
Room: Portland Ballroom 253
Sponsor: 
DAMOP
Chair: Tin-Lun Ho, The Ohio State University
Y7 
Convergence of Physics and Life Sciences: Emerging Perspectives in Cancer
Room: Portland Ballroom 254
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Larry Nagahara, National Cancer Institute
Y8 
Ion Interactions and Transport in Ion-Containing Polymers
Room: Portland Ballroom 255
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Ralph Colby, The Pennsylvania State University
Y9 
Transport in Semiconductors II
Room: A105
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Sudarshan Karki, University of Missouri Kansas City
Y10 
Computational Molecular Biophysics
Room: A106
Sponsor: 
DBP
Chair: Gregory Grason, University of Massachusetts
Y12 
Disordered and Glassy Systems I
Room: B110-B111
Sponsor: 
DFD
Chair: Katharina Vollmayer-Lee, Bucknell University
Y13 
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics I
Room: B112
Sponsor: 
GSNP
Chair: H.G.E. Hentschel, Emory University
Y14 
Focus Session: Nanostructures and Plasmonics
Room: B113
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: Keshav Dani, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Y15 
Detectors, Sensors, and Transducers
Room: B114
Sponsor: 
GIMS
Chair: Sander Otte, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Y16 
Fullerenes and Composites
Room: B115
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Rajendra Zope, University of Texas at El Paso
Y17 
Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Electronic, Optical, Magnetic Properties
Room: B116
Sponsor: 
DPOLY DMP
Chair: Enrico Da Como, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Y18 
Elastomers and Gels
Room: B117
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Bradley Olsen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Y19 
Focus Session: Polymer Colloids: Dynamics
Room: B118-B119
Sponsor: 
DPOLY DCMP
Chair: Ken Schweizer, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Y20 
Glassy and Amorphous Materials
Room: C120-122
Sponsor: 
DMP DCMP
Chair: Frances Hellman, University of California, Berkeley
Y21 
Focus Session: Graphene: Field-Effect Devices
Room: Portland Ballroom 251
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Marc Bochrath, University of California, Riverside
Y22 
Graphene Theory
Room: Portland Ballroom 252
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Ganpathy Murthy, University of Kentucky
Y23 
Quantum Fluids and Solids
Room: C125-C126
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Robert Hallock, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Y24 
Insulators: pt. Defects, Dielectrics, and Scintillators/Phosphors
Room: D133-D134
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Tianshu Li, University of California, Davis
Y25 
Nanoparticles
Room: D135
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Christopher Sorensen, Kansas State University
Y26 
Superconducting Qubits: Decoherence and Noise
Room: D136
Sponsor: 
GQI
Chair: Andrew Houck, Princeton University
Y27 
Focus Session: Chemical Control of the Properties of Complex Oxides II
Room: D137
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Ram Seshadri, University of California, Santa Barbara
Y28 
Chemical Dynamics
Room: C124
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Wen Li, Wayne State University
Y29 
Focus Session: Thermoelectrics VI: Oxides, Measurements, Devices
Room: C123
Sponsor: 
DMP FIAP GERA
Chair: R Ramesh, University of California, Berkeley
Y30 
Disordered Magnetic Materials
Room: D139
Sponsor: 
GMAG
Chair: Stefanos Papanikolaou, Cornell University
Y31 
Ferromagnetism and Spin-imbalances in Quantum Gases
Room: E141
Sponsor: 
DAMOP
Chair: Chuanwei Zhang, University of Washington
Y32 
Novel Instrumentation & Techniques in Surface Science
Room: E142
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: William Cullen, University of Maryland
Y33 
Novel Probes of Quantum Gases and Quantum Measurement / Quantum Information
Room: E143
Sponsor: 
DAMOP GQI
Chair: Mark Coffey, Colorado School of Mines
Y34 
Focus Session: Frustrated and Low-D Magnetism -- Quantum Magnetism II
Room: E144
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Alexander Chernyshev, University of California, Irvine
Y35 
Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors -- Qubits and Quantum Wires
Room: E145
Sponsor: 
GMAG DMP FIAP
Chair: Paul Crowell, University of Minnesota
Y36 
Focus Session: Bulk Properties of Complex Oxides -- General Multiferroics
Room: E146
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Gavin Lawes, Wayne State University
Y37 
Focus Session: Nanomagnetism -- Nanoparticles I
Room: E147-E148
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Paolo Vavassori, CIC Nanogune
Y38 
Nanostructures of Correlated Materials
Room: F149
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Aditi Mitra, New York University
Y39 
Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors: Spectroscopy I
Room: F150
Sponsor: 
DCMP DMP
Chair: Dongui Lu, Stanford University
Y40 
Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors: Magnetism and Transport
Room: F151
Sponsor: 
DCMP DMP
Chair: Athena Safa-Sefat, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Y41 
Strongly Correlated Systems - Theory
Room: F152
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Eun-Ah Kim, Cornell University
Y42 
Superconductivity: Thermodynamic, Mechanical and Structural Properties
Room: D138
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: George Crabtree, Argonne National Laboratory
Mar 19 2010 11:15AM, Friday
Z1 
Coherent Optical Manipulation of Electron and Nuclear Spin in Artificial Atomic and Molecular Systems in Solids
Room: Oregon Ballroom 201
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Lu Sham, University of California, San Diego
Z2 
Plasmonic Nanogaps: From Single Molecule Sensing to Light Manipulation and Beyond
Room: Oregon Ballroom 202
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Zhenyu Zhang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Z3 
Response of Magnetism to Electric Fields and Light
Room: Oregon Ballroom 203
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Ramamoorthy Ramesh, University of California, Berkeley
Z4 
Plasmonics Applications
Room: Oregon Ballroom 204
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: Ernesto Marinero, Hitachi Research Center-San Jose
Z9 
QHE: Quantum Computing
Room: A105
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Steven Simon, Oxford University
Z10 
Physics of Physiological Systems
Room: A106
Sponsor: 
DBP
Z11 
Lipid Bilayers II
Room: A107-A109
Sponsor: 
DBP
Z12 
Disordered and Glassy Systems II
Room: B110-B111
Sponsor: 
DFD
Chair: Jack Douglas, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Z13 
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics II
Room: B112
Sponsor: 
GSNP
Chair: M. Kaufman, Cleveland State University
Z14 
Graphene: Adsorbates and Defects
Room: B113
Sponsor: 
DMP DCMP
Chair: Bobby Sumpter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Z15 
Structural and Electronic Properties of Metals II
Room: B114
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: T. Hickel, Max-Planck Institut fur Eisenforschung
Z16 
Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics: Fundamentals
Room: B115
Sponsor: 
DMP DPOLY
Chair: Wolfgang Kalb
Z17 
Charged and Ion-Containing Polymers II
Room: B116
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Jodie Lutkenhaus, Yale University
Z18 
New Experimental, Theoretical, and Computational Methods in Polymer and Soft Matter Physics
Room: B117
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Vivek Sharma
Z19 
Focus Session: Polymer Brushes
Room: B118-B119
Sponsor: 
DPOLY
Chair: Chanjoong Kim, Kent State University
Z20 
Carbon Nanotubes: Fundamentals and Applications
Room: C120-122
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: Yuriy Bozme, Duke University
Z21 
Focus Session: Graphene: Growth
Room: Portland Ballroom 251
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Jun Zhu, Pennsylvania State University
Z22 
Graphene Optical Properties and Imaging
Room: Portland Ballroom 252
Sponsor: 
DCMP DMP
Chair: Joel Therrien, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Z24 
Oxides and other Insulators
Room: D133-D134
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Rickard Armiento, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Z25 
Theoretical Methods and Applications
Room: D135
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Peter Talkner, University of Augsberg
Z26 
Superconducting Qubits: New States and Effects
Room: D136
Sponsor: 
GQI
Chair: Matthew Neeley, University of California, Santa Barbara
Z27 
Surfaces
Room: D137
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Adam Hauser, Ohio State University
Z28 
Clusters
Room: C124
Sponsor: 
DCP
Chair: Rich Loomis, Washington University in St. Louis
Z29 
A Potpourri of AMO and Quantum Information
Room: C123
Sponsor: 
DAMOP
Chair: Laith Haddad, Colorado School of Mines
Z30 
Optoelectronic Devices and Applications
Room: D139
Sponsor: 
FIAP
Chair: John Conley, Oregon State University
Z31 
Quantum Optics and Quantum Many-body Physics in Optical Lattices
Room: E141
Sponsor: 
DAMOP
Chair: Yong Chen, Purdue University
Z32 
Interactions and Thin Films
Room: E142
Sponsor: 
DMP
Chair: Arthur Smith, Ohio University
Z33 
Open Quantum Systems and Decoherence
Room: E143
Sponsor: 
GQI
Chair: Joe Renes, Technische Universitat Darmstadt
Z34 
Focus Session: Frustrated and Low-D Magnetism -- Quantum Magnetism III
Room: E144
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Sriram Shastry, University of California, Santa Cruz
Z35 
Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors -- DMS: II-VI and Group IV
Room: E145
Sponsor: 
GMAG DMP FIAP
Chair: Daniel Gamelin, University of Washington
Z36 
Focus Session: Bulk Properties of Complex Oxides -- 4d and 5d Systems
Room: E146
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Rongying Jin, Louisiana State University
Z37 
Focus Session: Nanomagnetism -- Nanoparticles II
Room: E147-E148
Sponsor: 
DMP GMAG
Chair: Ilya Krivorotov, University of California, Irvine
Z39 
Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors: Spectroscopy II
Room: F150
Sponsor: 
DCMP DMP
Chair: Suchitra Sebastian, University of Cambridge
Z40 
Superconductivity: Spectroscopy (Neutron, Optical and others)
Room: F151
Sponsor: 
DCMP
Chair: Wei Bao, Renmin University of China
Z42 
Many Body II
Room: D138
Sponsor: 
DCOMP
Chair: Eduardo Fradkin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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