2005 Ohio Sections of the APS and AAPT Joint Fall Meeting
Friday–Saturday, October 14–15, 2005;
Cleveland, OH
Session Index
Session D1: Solid State Physics - Experiments
Chair: Paul Hambourger
Room: Cleveland State University 3
Saturday, October 15, 2005
9:30AM - 9:42AM
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D1.00001: A Segmented Aerogel Cherenkov Detector for the HKS Spectrometer
Pavlo Baturin, Joerg Reinhold
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Saturday, October 15, 2005
9:42AM - 9:54AM
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D1.00002: Micro-characterization of diamond like carbon thin films on glass
Jeremy McMinis, Rene Crombez, Eva Montalvo, Weidian Shen
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Saturday, October 15, 2005
9:54AM - 10:06AM
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D1.00003: Electrical conductivity measurements of sputter-deposited Scandium Nitride thin films.
Mark Little, Andrew Moore, Matt Koepke
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Saturday, October 15, 2005
10:06AM - 10:18AM
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D1.00004: Optical Analysis of Thin Films for Photovoltaics Technology: Spectroscopic Ellipsometry of Multi-Layer Transparent Conducting Oxide Films
Kevin Wells
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Saturday, October 15, 2005
10:18AM - 10:30AM
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D1.00005: Thermally Stable Schottky Contacts on n-type GaN using ZrB${_2}$
Tom Oder, Pamela Martin
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Saturday, October 15, 2005
10:30AM - 10:42AM
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D1.00006: $^{181}$\textit{Ta-}PAC Experiments with Zircon: The Case of the Lost Anisotropy
Herbert Jaeger, Sean McBride
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Session D2: Solid State - Theory
Chair: Michael Crescimanno
Room: Cleveland State University 1
Saturday, October 15, 2005
9:30AM - 9:42AM
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D2.00001: Theory of the band offset at the Si(100)-SiO$_2$ interface
Blair Tuttle
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Saturday, October 15, 2005
9:42AM - 9:54AM
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D2.00002: Band Structure of Helical Carbon Nanotubes
Gian Guzman-Verri, Lok Lew Van Yoon
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Saturday, October 15, 2005
9:54AM - 10:06AM
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D2.00003: Hidden symmetry and spin-splitting effects of electron dispersion in narrow-band semiconductor films.
Leonid Isaev, Yong Joe, Arkady Satanin
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Saturday, October 15, 2005
10:06AM - 10:18AM
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D2.00004: Fano Resonance in Photonic Crystals and Quantum Mechanics
Solomon Duki, Francesc Ferrer, H. Mathur
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Saturday, October 15, 2005
10:18AM - 10:30AM
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D2.00005: Cubic is not Isotropic!
John Platig, Lok Lew Yan Voon
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Saturday, October 15, 2005
10:30AM - 10:42AM
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D2.00006: A Theoretical perspective on N-resonance spectroscopy
Michael Crescimanno, Michael Hohensee, David Phillips, Irina Novikova, Ronald Walsworth
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Saturday, October 15, 2005
10:42AM - 10:54AM
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D2.00007: Interlevel optical properties of quantum dots: some unexpected problems and their solutions
Victor Bondarenko
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Session D3: Polymers - Experiments
Chair: Elizabeth Mann
Room: Cleveland State University 11
Saturday, October 15, 2005
9:30AM - 9:42AM
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D3.00001: Deuteron NMR Study of the Isotropic-Smectic A transition in Liquid-Crystal-Aerosil Dispersions
Vishal Pandya, Daniele Finotello
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Saturday, October 15, 2005
9:42AM - 9:54AM
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D3.00002: Langmuir Layers of Bent-Core Liquid Crystals
Ji Wang, Lu Zou, Antal J\'{a}kli, Wolfgang Weissflog, Elizabeth Mann
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Saturday, October 15, 2005
9:54AM - 10:06AM
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D3.00003: Hole dynamics in polymer Langmuir films
Lu Zou, Elizabeth K. Mann, James C. Alexander, J. Adin Mann Jr., Andrew J. Bernoff
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Saturday, October 15, 2005
10:06AM - 10:18AM
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D3.00004: Diffusion of biomolecules in nanoporous glasses
Gregory Zimmerli, Marius Asipauskas, Katrina Schweiker, Nicole Compitello, David Fischer
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Saturday, October 15, 2005
10:18AM - 10:30AM
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D3.00005: Dynamics of Polyethylene Melts, Studied by Monte-Carlo Methods
E. von Meerwall, H. Lin, W.L. Mattice
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Saturday, October 15, 2005
10:30AM - 10:42AM
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D3.00006: Zero-crossing Pattern and Scaling of Background Brain Dynamics and Alpha Rhythm
Asif Sharif, DerChyan Lin, Hon Kwan
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Session D4: Physics Education
Chair: James Lock
Room: Cleveland State University Auditorium
Saturday, October 15, 2005
9:30AM - 9:42AM
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D4.00001: Building a College or School Observatory
Roger Knacke, Darren Williams, Jionathan Hall
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Saturday, October 15, 2005
9:42AM - 9:54AM
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D4.00002: Writing in physics: what we know and where we're going
Dedra Demaree, Catherine Gubernatis, Gordon Aubrecht, Lars Schweidenback, Scott Franklin, Lisa Hermsen
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Saturday, October 15, 2005
9:54AM - 10:06AM
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D4.00003: Elementary laboratory for determination of the Faraday rotation in Rubidium-85 vapor
Brian Hamilton, Brandon Latronica, Michael Crescimanno
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Saturday, October 15, 2005
10:06AM - 10:18AM
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D4.00004: The appearance, apparent speed, and removal of optical effects for relativistically moving objects
R.J. Deissler
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Saturday, October 15, 2005
10:18AM - 10:30AM
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D4.00005: Assessment of using in-class polling system in lectures
Pengfei Li, Neville Reay, Lei Bao
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Saturday, October 15, 2005
10:30AM - 10:42AM
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D4.00006: Orbiting in Electromagnetic Scattering by a Luneburg Lens
James Lock
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Session D5: Polymers - Theory and Simulation
Chair: Mark Taylor
Room: Cleveland State University 3
Saturday, October 15, 2005
11:00AM - 11:12AM
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D5.00001: Solvation potentials for polymer chains in solution
Mark Taylor
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Saturday, October 15, 2005
11:12AM - 11:24AM
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D5.00002: Monte Carlo Study of Reversible Polymer Brushes
Chun-Chung Chen, Elena E. Dormidontova
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Saturday, October 15, 2005
11:24AM - 11:36AM
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D5.00003: Monte Carlo Simulation of Reversibly Associated Network
Shihu Wang, Chun-Chung Chen, Elena E. Dormidontova
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Saturday, October 15, 2005
11:36AM - 11:48AM
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D5.00004: On the range of interlayer interactions in smectic-C liquid crystals
Mehdi Bagheri-Hamaneh, Philip Taylor
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Saturday, October 15, 2005
11:48AM - 12:00PM
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D5.00005: Phylogenetic methods for computationally correlating genotypes and phenotypes
Farhat Habib, Daniel Janies, Ralf Bundschuh
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Session D6: Theory
Chair: Jacqueline Vitali
Room: Cleveland State University 1
Saturday, October 15, 2005
11:00AM - 11:12AM
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D6.00001: Specific Examples of Negative Mass
Edmond Miksch
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Saturday, October 15, 2005
11:12AM - 11:24AM
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D6.00002: Introducing the Unified Physical Field Theory
N. Glenn Gratke
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Saturday, October 15, 2005
11:24AM - 11:36AM
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D6.00003: Complexity in Quantum Field Theory and physics beyond the Standard Model
Ervin Goldfain
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Saturday, October 15, 2005
11:36AM - 11:48AM
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D6.00004: From Complexity to Quantum Mechanics: Nonlinearities Underlying Quantum Mechanics
Wm. C. McHarris
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Saturday, October 15, 2005
11:48AM - 12:00PM
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D6.00005: Matrix Models, String Theory, Field Theory, ... and the Big Bang?
Jeremy Michelson
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