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 B1: Earth Science and Atmospheric Physics
Chair: Rosa Fitzgerald, The University of Texas at El Paso
Room: Union East, 3rd Floor Templeton
Friday, October 17, 2008
10:30AM - 10:54AM
B1.00001: Earthquake Amplitudes and Crustal Attenuation in Asia and the Globe
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Friday, October 17, 2008
10:54AM - 11:18AM
B1.00002: Understanding Charge Transport by Lightning
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Friday, October 17, 2008
11:18AM - 11:30AM
B1.00003: Analytic representations of high-altitude auroral H$^{+}$ and O$^{+}$ densities, flow velocities and temperatures in terms of drivers for incorporation into global magnetospheric models
James Horwitz, Wen Zeng
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Friday, October 17, 2008
11:30AM - 11:42AM
B1.00004: The interplay of Alfv\'{e}n waves and energized electrons with auroral ionospheric plasma
James Horwitz, Fajer Jaafari, Sam Jones, Yi-Jiun Su, Wen Zeng
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Friday, October 17, 2008
11:42AM - 11:54AM
B1.00005: Plasmasphere Plume-associated Storm-Enhanced Densities (SED) as Suppliers of Ionospheric Outflows to the Magnetosphere
James Horwitz, Wen Zeng, John Foster, Robert Strangeway, Mark Adrian, Thomas Moore
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Friday, October 17, 2008
11:54AM - 12:06PM
B1.00006: Spectroscopic Distance Measurements of Atmospheric Continuum Light Sources (e. g. Marfa lights)
Sagar Ghimire, Karl Stephan
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Session B2: Condensed Matter: Thin Films
Chair: C.A. Quarles, Texas Christian University
Room: Union East, 3rd Floor Ray
Friday, October 17, 2008
10:30AM - 10:54AM
B2.00001: Bilayer manganites: a playground for magnetoresistance, charge density waves and spin reorientation transitions
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Friday, October 17, 2008
10:54AM - 11:06AM
B2.00002: Interfacial Barrier Height by Internal Photoemission for Metal/Oxide/Semiconductor Structure
Kunal Bhatnagar, Nhan Nguyen
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Friday, October 17, 2008
11:06AM - 11:18AM
B2.00003: Field dependency of return point memory in exchange bias films
Brian Wilcken, Karine Chesnel, Eric Fullerton, Steve Kevan
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Friday, October 17, 2008
11:18AM - 11:30AM
B2.00004: From exchange bias to magnetic memory
Karine Chesnel, Steve Kevan, Eric Fullerton, Jeff Kortright, Olav Hellwig, Brian Wilcken, Joe Nelson
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Friday, October 17, 2008
11:30AM - 11:42AM
B2.00005: Low Temperature Bonding of Si to Silicates using Langmuir-Blodgett molecular films as precursors for a bonding SilOxSi interphase
Murdock Hart, Shawn Whaley, James Bradley, David Sell, Nicole Herbots, Robert Culbertson, Vasudeva Atluri
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Friday, October 17, 2008
11:42AM - 11:54AM
B2.00006: Use of a non-contact synthesis method in selective area porous silicon thin film formation
Daniel Taylor, Toni Sauncy
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Friday, October 17, 2008
11:54AM - 12:06PM
B2.00007: Doped mesoporous silica thin films for chemical vapor detection
John Como, Jacob Ajimo, Louisa Hope-Weeks, Juyang Huang, Kwan Cheng
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Session B3: High Energy Physics: Theory
Chair: Teruki Kamon, Texas A&M University
Room: Union East, 3rd Floor Smiley
Friday, October 17, 2008
10:30AM - 10:42AM
B3.00001: The Spin-Statistics connection in String theory
Menika Sharma
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Friday, October 17, 2008
10:42AM - 10:54AM
B3.00002: Chiral Supergravity in Three Dimensions
Sean Downes, Melanie Becker, Ergin Sezgin
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Friday, October 17, 2008
10:54AM - 11:06AM
B3.00003: Dark Matter in the Left-Right Twin Higgs Model
Ethan Dolle, Shufang Su
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Friday, October 17, 2008
11:06AM - 11:18AM
B3.00004: Supersymmetry breaking, heterotic strings and fluxes
Chris Bertinato, Katrin Becker, Yu-Chieh Chung, Guangyu Guo
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Friday, October 17, 2008
11:18AM - 11:30AM
B3.00005: On the Connection Between Chiral Gravity and String Theory
Paul Bruillard, Melanie Becker
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Friday, October 17, 2008
11:30AM - 11:42AM
B3.00006: Mirror Symmetry for Quasi-Homogeneous Singularities
Himal Rathnakumara, Tyler Jarvis
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Session B4: Crystal Lattices: Experiment and Computation
Chair: Dieter Hochheimer, Colorado State University
Room: Union East, 3rd Floor Elkins
Friday, October 17, 2008
10:30AM - 10:42AM
B4.00001: Searching for Natures Missing Crystal Structure
Thomas O. McConkie, David D. Allred, Gus L.W. Hart, Brian Hicks
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Friday, October 17, 2008
10:42AM - 10:54AM
B4.00002: Single x-ray photon diffraction
Alexander Panin
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Friday, October 17, 2008
10:54AM - 11:06AM
B4.00003: High-Temperature Phase Transitions in CsH$_{2}$PO$_{4}$
Cristian Botez, Juan Hermosillo, Jianzhong Zhang, Jiang Qian, Yusheng Zhao, Juraj Majzlan, Russell Chianelli
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Friday, October 17, 2008
11:06AM - 11:18AM
B4.00004: Finding new structures in hexagonal-close-packed alloys
Gus Hart, Rodney Forcade
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Friday, October 17, 2008
11:18AM - 11:30AM
B4.00005: Predicting new structures in B-cation ordering perovskites
Matthew Lords, Gus Hart
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Friday, October 17, 2008
11:30AM - 11:42AM
B4.00006: Calculation of NMR lineshapes for Ba-Al-Ge clathrates
Sergio Rodriguez, Weiping Gou, Joseph Ross
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Friday, October 17, 2008
11:42AM - 11:54AM
B4.00007: New Structures for Jewelry Applications in Palladium
Jacqueline Corbitt, Erin Gilmartin, Gus Hart
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Friday, October 17, 2008
11:54AM - 12:06PM
B4.00008: Alternative alloys for platinum jewelry? New structures in Pt-Hf and Pt-Mo
Erin Gilmartin, Jacqueline Corbitt, Gus Hart
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Session B5: Physics Education
Chair: Milijana Suskavcevic, The University of Texas at El Paso
Room: Union East, 3rd Floor Wiggins
Friday, October 17, 2008
10:30AM - 10:42AM
B5.00001: Two forms of Wien's displacement law
Lianxi Ma
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Friday, October 17, 2008
10:42AM - 10:54AM
B5.00002: Student understanding of physical concepts based on in-class demonstrations.
Sergio Flores, Luis L. Alfaro, Juan E. Chavez
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Friday, October 17, 2008
10:54AM - 11:06AM
B5.00003: A first approaching to work with viscosity in college level
Karla Carmona, Sergio Flores, Luis L. Alfaro, Maria D. Gonzalez
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Friday, October 17, 2008
11:06AM - 11:18AM
B5.00004: Transfer from classical mechanics context to electricity and magnetism context
Maria D. Gonzalez, Stephen Kanim
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Friday, October 17, 2008
11:18AM - 11:30AM
B5.00005: Update on Physics TEKS Revision
Hugh Henderson, Jill Marshall, Jeff Funkhouser
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Friday, October 17, 2008
11:30AM - 11:42AM
B5.00006: The Physics TEKS and the College Readiness Standards
Hugh Henderson, Jill Marshall, Daniel Marble, Jeff Funkhouser
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Session B6: GRE Preparation
Chair: David Ernst, Vanderbilt University
Room: Union East, 3rd Floor Barry