Bulletin of the American Physical Society

9th Annual Meeting of the Northwest Section of the APS

Volume 52, Number 6

Thursday–Saturday, May 17–19, 2007; Pocatello, Idaho

Session Index

Session E1: Education

Chair: Dewey Dykstra, Boise State University
Room: PSUB Selway Room

Saturday, May 19, 2007 2:00PM - 2:36PM		E1.00001: Research as a guide for improving student understanding of time dependence in quantum mechanics Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 19, 2007 2:36PM - 3:12PM		E1.00002: Coordinating the Development of Heat and Temperature Facet Clusters with Science Education Standards Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 19, 2007 3:12PM - 3:30PM		E1.00003: Coffee Break
Saturday, May 19, 2007 3:30PM - 4:06PM		E1.00004: Who Benefits from PER?: PER as a component of teacher preparation Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 19, 2007 4:06PM - 4:42PM		E1.00005: Technology Talks: clickers and gender in the classroom Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session E2: Condensed Matter Physics II

Chair: Chris Berven, University of Idaho
Room: PSUB Bear River Room

Saturday, May 19, 2007 2:00PM - 2:36PM		E2.00001: Surface Plasmon Optical Transmission Sensors Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 19, 2007 2:36PM - 3:12PM		E2.00002: Impurity-controlled valence, spin, and orbital state in Sr3Ru2O7. Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 19, 2007 3:12PM - 3:30PM		E2.00003: Coffee Break
Saturday, May 19, 2007 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E2.00004: Ultra-soft Magnetic Thin Films Deposited by Obliquely Energetic Fe Nanoclusters Daniel Meyer, M. Faheem, Amit Sharma, Alan Mcconnaughery, Jamie Hass, Ryan Souza, You Qiang Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 19, 2007 3:42PM - 3:54PM		E2.00005: Algorithms for the Control of Low Dimensional Chaos in the presence of System Parameter Drift Thomas Olsen, Kjell Schroder, Katherine Carriker, Bonita Squires, Kara Yedinak, Richard Wiener Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 19, 2007 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E2.00006: Spin propagation in vacuum and in two-dimensional electronic systems Jean-Francois Van Huele, Bailey Hsu Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 19, 2007 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E2.00007: Spin-Orbit Mediated Anisotropic Spin-Spin Coupling Suhas Gangadharaiah, Jianmin Sun, Oleg Starykh Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 19, 2007 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E2.00008: Spin-orbit induced spin-density wave in a quantum wire Jianmin Sun, suhas Gangadharaiah, Oleg Starykh Preview Abstract

Session E3: Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Chair: Boris Blinov, University of Washington
Room: PSUB Clearwater Room

Saturday, May 19, 2007 2:00PM - 2:45PM		E3.00001: Continuous Measurement of Atomic Motion Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 19, 2007 2:45PM - 3:00PM		E3.00002: Hartree simulations of multi-electron atoms ionization in strong laser fields Matt Kalinski Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 19, 2007 3:00PM - 3:30PM		E3.00003: Coffee Break
Saturday, May 19, 2007 3:30PM - 3:45PM		E3.00004: Utra-bright compact sources of correlated photons based on SPDC in periodically-poled KTP Ray Beausoleil, Marco Fiorentino, Sean Spillane, Tony Roberts, Phil Battle, Mark Munroe Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 19, 2007 3:45PM - 4:00PM		E3.00005: Tunneling between 2D electron layers with correlated disorder: anomalous sensitivity to spin-orbit coupling Vladimir Zyuzin, Eugene Mishchenko, Mikhail Raikh Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 19, 2007 4:00PM - 4:15PM		E3.00006: The Lennard-Jones oscillator in quantum Hamilton-Jacobi theory M.K. Balasubramanya, M.W. Roth Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 19, 2007 4:15PM - 4:27PM		E3.00007: Spectroscopic measurements of Ba+ Joseph Pirtle, Ryan Bowler, Sanghoon Chong, Matt Dietrich, Gary Howell, Adam Kleczewski, Nathan Kurz, Viki Mirgon, Phil Nelsen, Joanna Salacka, Gang Shu, Li Wang, Boris Blinov Preview Abstract

Session E4: Astronomy, Cosmology, Gravity

Chair: E.J. Zita, Evergreen College
Room: PSUB South Fork Room

Saturday, May 19, 2007 2:00PM - 2:36PM		E4.00001: LISA: Our infrasonic ear to the universe Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 19, 2007 2:36PM - 3:12PM		E4.00002: Solar dynamo modeling and prediction Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 19, 2007 3:12PM - 3:30PM		E4.00003: Coffee Break
Saturday, May 19, 2007 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E4.00004: Pulsar Kicks from Electrons in a Large Magnetic Field Ernest Henley Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 19, 2007 3:42PM - 3:54PM		E4.00005: Laboratory Nuclear Astrophysics, viewing the universe from underground. John E. Ellsworth, Steven E. Jones, Lawrence B. Rees, Clark G. Christensen Preview Abstract
Saturday, May 19, 2007 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E4.00006: Laboratory Detection of Cold Dark Matter as Sidereal Dilaton Scattering Data George Soli Preview Abstract

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