2008 Joint Fall Meeting of the Texas and Four Corners Sections of APS, AAPT, and Zones 13 and 16 of SPS, and the Societies of Hispanic & Black Physicists
Volume 53, Number 11
Friday–Saturday, October 17–18, 2008;
El Paso, Texas
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Session Index
Session J1: Astrophysics and Astronomy II
Chair: Stacy Palen, Weber State University
Room: Union East, 3rd Floor University
Saturday, October 18, 2008
1:30PM - 1:54PM
J1.00001: Opportunities for Astronomical Research using the U.S. System of Ground-Based Optical and Infrared Telescopes
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
1:54PM - 2:18PM
J1.00002: Latest results from the Pierre Auger Observatory
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:18PM - 2:30PM
J1.00003: Site Selection for the Southern Utah Observatory
David Kieda, R. Wayne Springer, Paolo Gondolo, Stephan Lebohec, Paul Ricketts, Chris Zimmer
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:30PM - 2:54PM
J1.00004: Gravitational Wave Astronomy: a status report
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:54PM - 3:06PM
J1.00005: General relativistic effects in galactic rotation velocity profiles
Sophia Cisneros
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Session J2: Nanoscience and Biological Systems
Chair: Jordan Gerton, The University of Utah
Room: Union East, 3rd Floor Templeton
Saturday, October 18, 2008
1:30PM - 1:54PM
J2.00001: A Nanoscale Tale
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
1:54PM - 2:18PM
J2.00002: Status and Growth of Underground Science at WIPP
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:18PM - 2:30PM
J2.00003: Formation and Characterization of Stacked Nanoscale Layers of Polymers and Silanes on Silicon Surfaces
Rosie Ochoa, Brian Davis, Hiram Conley, Katie Hurd, Matthew R. Linford, Robert C. Davis
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:30PM - 2:42PM
J2.00004: Nanoshaving and Nanografting of Water Soluble Polymers on Glass and Silicon Dioxide Surfaces with Applications to DNA Localization
Brian Davis, Hiram Conley, Rosie Ochoa, Katie Hurd, Matthew R. Linford, Robert C. Davis
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:42PM - 2:54PM
J2.00005: Molecular Dynamics Simulation of protein unfolding on lipid nanodomains
Liming Qiu, Mark Vaughn, Kwan Cheng
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:54PM - 3:06PM
J2.00006: The small angle x-ray scattering of globular proteins in solution during heat denaturation
Jose Banuelos, Jacob Urquidi
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Session J3: Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure
Chair: Barry Zink, University of Denver
Room: Union East, 3rd Floor Ray
Saturday, October 18, 2008
1:30PM - 1:42PM
J3.00001: Electronic structure of novel semiconducting nanotubes
Peter Lyon, Bret Hess
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
1:42PM - 1:54PM
J3.00002: Electronic Structure Calculations of NiTi Based Ternary Systems
Henry Schreiner, III, Jung-Hwan Song, Nicholas Hatcher, Arthur J. Freeman
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
1:54PM - 2:06PM
J3.00003: B2 decomposition of X5Al (X=Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Y, Zr, Nb, and Mo) system, A First-Principles Study
Payam Norouzzadeh, Mahdi Sanati
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:06PM - 2:18PM
J3.00004: Phase transformation of 2$H$ and 6$H$-SiC at high pressure: An ab initio constant pressure study
Murat Durandurdu, Sitki Eker
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:18PM - 2:30PM
J3.00005: Pressure-induced phase transformation SnO$_{2}$: An ab initio constant pressure study
Daniel Yehdego, Murat Durandurdu
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:30PM - 2:42PM
J3.00006: Study of the structural and spectroscopic properties of Zn based clusters by density functional theory
Venkata Chaganti, Rajendra Zope, Tunna Baruah
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Session J4: Plasmas, General Relativity, and Cosmology
Chair: Eric Hagedorn, The University of Texas at El Paso
Room: Union East, 3rd Floor Smiley
Saturday, October 18, 2008
1:30PM - 1:42PM
J4.00001: Modeling the FTICR-MS signal of a $^7$Be ion plasma using a 2D PIC code
M. Takeshi Nakata, Grant W. Hart, Bryan G. Peterson, Ross L. Spencer
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
1:42PM - 1:54PM
J4.00002: A New Design and Model for Plasma Spraying with an Inductively Coupled RF Plasma Torch
Eddie Holik III, Peter McIntyre, Akhdiyor Sattarov
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
1:54PM - 2:06PM
J4.00003: ICF Hohlraum Energy Loss Through Diagnostic Holes and Apertures
T.E. Tierney, R.G. Watt, H.E. Tierney, R.J. Kanzleiter, G.C. Idzorek, R.R. Peterson, M.R. Lopez, M.C. Jones
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:06PM - 2:18PM
J4.00004: Computational Analysis of the Decay Constant of $^{7}$Be$^{+}$ and $^{7}$BeH$^{+}$
Mark Hutchison, Bryan Peterson
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:18PM - 2:30PM
J4.00005: Chaos in General Relativity: Spinning Particles around Black Holes
Chris Verhaaren
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:30PM - 2:42PM
J4.00006: Constraint conserving boundary conditions in general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics
Michael Besselman
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:42PM - 2:54PM
J4.00007: The Contribution of The Cosmological Constant/Dark Energy to The Bending of Light and its Applications.
Mustapha Ishak, Wolfgang Rindler, Jason Dossett, Jacob Moldenhauer, Chris Allison
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:54PM - 3:06PM
J4.00008: Magnetized Stars in General Relativity
Eric Hirschmann, Jared Greenwald
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Session J5: Materials: General
Chair: Bill Durrer, The University of Texas at El Paso
Room: Union East, 3rd Floor Elkins
Saturday, October 18, 2008
1:30PM - 1:42PM
J5.00001: Hyperpolarization Of Phosphorus Donors In Silicon
Eric Sorte, William Baker, Dane McCamey, Gernot Laicher, Christoph Boehme, Brian Saam
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
1:42PM - 1:54PM
J5.00002: Adiabatic Electron-Phonon Interaction at High Temperature in A15 Compounds
Jorge Munoz, Olivier Delaire, Matthew Lucas, Max Kresch, Brent Fultz
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
1:54PM - 2:06PM
J5.00003: Jump frequencies of Cd tracer atoms in L1$_{2}$ lanthanide stannides
Megan Lockwood, Gary S. Collins
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:06PM - 2:18PM
J5.00004: Pressure and magnetic field effects in heavy-fermion UCu$_{3.5}$Al$_{1.5}$
Farzana Nasreen, Karunakar Kothapalli, Heinz Nakotte, Abdel Alsmadi, Vivien Zapf, Frederik Fabris, Alex Lacerda, Jiri Kamarad
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:18PM - 2:30PM
J5.00005: Effects of Radiation Induced Conductivity on Samples Charged by Particle Beams
J.R. Dennison, Ryan Hoffmann, Jennifer Roth, Alec Sim
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:30PM - 2:42PM
J5.00006: Measuring the Surface Charge on an Insulated Sample in Vacuum
Jesse Hayes, Joshua Hodges, Ryan Hoffman, J.R. Dennison
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:42PM - 2:54PM
J5.00007: Observation and Characterization of Electrostatic Discharge in Insulating Materials Induced by Electron Beam Bombardment
Jennifer Roth, Ryan Hoffmann, J.R. Dennison
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:54PM - 3:06PM
J5.00008: Computational modeling on molybdenum sulfide grain boundary interfaces
Manuel Ramos
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Session J6: General Physics
Chair: Jean-Francois Van Huele, Brigham Young University
Room: Union East, 3rd Floor Wiggins
Saturday, October 18, 2008
1:30PM - 1:42PM
J6.00001: Constructing quantum localization operators using conformal symmetry
Lucas Earl, Jean-Francois Van Huele
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
1:42PM - 1:54PM
J6.00002: Application of Generalized Hamiltonian Dynamics to Modified Coulomb Potential
Julian Antolin Camarena, Eugene Oks
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
1:54PM - 2:06PM
J6.00003: Computing Energies and Properties of Small Molecules Using Fully Nonadiabatic Wavefunctions
Steve Alexander, R.L. Coldwell
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:06PM - 2:18PM
J6.00004: Efficiency of Accelerator Driven Thermal Thorium Nuclear Reactors
M.A.K. Lodhi, Mike Shubov
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:18PM - 2:30PM
J6.00005: Effective electromagnetic operators in the p-shell using the No-Core Shell Model formalism
Michael Kruse, Alexander Lisetskiy, Bruce Barrett, Petr Navr\'atil, Ionel Stetcu, James Vary
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:30PM - 2:42PM
J6.00006: Pion-Pion Scattering in the Rho Meson Region
Regina Azevedo, Ubirajara van Kolck
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:42PM - 2:54PM
J6.00007: Selectively Grown Silicon Nano-Wires for Transistor Devices
Jon Brame, Nathan Woods
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:54PM - 3:06PM
J6.00008: Nanoscale Electric Field Sensor-Development and Testing
Jon Brame, Nathan Woods
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Session J7: Graduate Student Panel
Chair: David Ernst, Vanderbilt University
Room: Union East, 3rd Floor Barry