Program overview

FRIDAY MORNING, 15 NOVEMBER 1996

09:00 CA.01 The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Project.

Vasken Hagopian (vasken@hep.fsu.edu)

09:35 CA.02 A Review of Experimental Searches for Cold, Dark Matter in the Universe

Frank T. Avignone\ III (Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of South Carolina)

10:10 CA.03 Recent Physics Results from The SLD Detector at the SLAC Linear Collider

Robert S. Kroeger (University of Mississippi)

10:45 CA.04 Light-cone quark model predictions for radiative meson decays

Ho-Meoyng Choi, Chueng-Ryong Ji (North Carolina State University)

10:57 CA.05 Direct Photons in pbar-p Collisions at Fermilab

Christopher Shaffer (Florida State University)

11:09 CA.06 An Update on R_b Anomaly

Peter Povinec (University of Alabama)

11:21 CA.07 Light Gluino And Jet Experiments At The Tevatron

Igor Terekhov (Dept. of Physics, The University of Alabama)

11:33 CA.08 A Precision Displacement Monitoring System for Silicon Strip Detectors

Mark Behrens, Hans Tuchscherer (University of Alabama), Peter Raics, Gyula Zilizi, Sandor Juhasz, Zoltan Szillasi, Jozsef Szabo, Zsolt Szabo, Tibor Sztaricskai, Sandor Nagy, Gyongyi Marian (Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary), Gyorgy Bencze (KFKI, Budapest, Hungary), Antal Adam, Janos Kornis (Technical University, Budapest, Hungary)

11:45 CA.09 Analysis of the Geometric Stability of the Silicon Microvertex Detector in L3 at LEP

Mark Behrens (University of Alabama)

11:57 CA.10 Current Mass quarks in the Proton and Roper Resonance

George Strobel (Physics Dept., Univ. of Georgia), Klara Shitikova (Nuclear Physics, SUNY, Stony Brook)

09:00 CB.01 Symmetry breaking around a wormhole

A. L. Choudhury (Elizabeth City State University, Elizabeth City, NC)

09:12 CB.02 Torsion Fields Which Produce Cosmic Strings

William M. Baker, Baxter Rogers, Douglas Irving (Depart. of Physics, Furman Univ.)

09:24 CB.03 Studies of Kink-AntiKink Collisions in 1+1 D in \phi^4 and Double Sine Gordon Nonlinear Wave Equations

Christopher G. Fasano (Francis Marion University)

09:36 CB.04 Unified Semi-Classical Field Theory Of Fundamental Interactions

Krishna Kumar (Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN 38505)

09:48 CB.05 Chaos in Robertson-Walker Cosmology

Luca Bombelli (Department of Physics, University of Mississippi), Mario Castagnino (Institute of Astronomy and Space Physics, Buenos Aires), Fernando Lombardo (Department of Physics, University of Buenos Aires)

10:00 CB.06 A Nonspherical Extension of the Reissner-Nordstrom Solution in the Cases of Small and Large Charge

G.K. Menon, J.H. Young (University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL)

10:12 CB.07 Numerical and Analytical Investigations of Extragalactic Radio Jets

Jagbir S. Hooda (GSU)

10:24 CB.08 EV Aurigae: A UU Herculis Star?

R. W. Youngren, D. L. DuPuy (Virginia Military Institute), J. DeYoung (U. S. Naval Observatory)

10:36 CB.09 The Optical Variability of the EGRET Blazar, PKS 1633+38

Alyssa Benson, H. Richard Miller (Georgia State University), John C. Noble (Western Kentucky University)

10:48 CB.10 Nature of Variabilty Discovered for Star, HD191706

Edward Burke, Barry Etter (King College)

11:00 CB.11 What is the Story about the Search for Life on Mars?

David G. Agresti, Thomas J. Wdowiak (Astro and Solar System Physics Program, Department of Physics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294-1170)

09:00 CC.01 NMR Study of the Orientational Behavior of Thin Films of Molecular Hydrogen on Boron Nitride.^\ast

Kiho Kim, N.S. Sullivan (Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-8440.)

09:12 CC.02 NMR charaterization of the pseudogap at the Fermi level in Quasicrystals

X.-P. Tang, S. K. Wonnell, E. A. Hill, Y. Wu (Department of Physics and Astronomy,University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599), S. J. Poon (Department of Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22901)

09:24 CC.03 Properties of Melt Grown CdZnTe Crystals as Related to Their Growth Conditions

Davis Swanson, Kuo-Tong Chen, Henry Chen, Arnold Burger (Center for Photonic Materials and Devices, Department of Physics, Fisk University), Yi-Gao Sha, Ching-Hua Su, Sandor Lehoczky (NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center)

09:36 CC.04 Chromium Diffusion-doping in ZnS and ZnSe Crystals.

Troy Journigan, Kuo-Tong Chen, Henry Chen, Arnold Burger (Center for Photonic Materials and Devices, Department of Physics, Fisk University), Kathleen Schaffers, Ralph Page, Steve Payne (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

09:48 CC.05 Optical Characterization and Modeling of Metal Ion Implanted Optical Grade Silica

Z.Y. Gu, D.O. Henderson, A. Ueda, Y.S. Tung, Jinli Chen, R. Mu (Chemical Physics Laboratory, Fisk University, Nashville, TN 37208), W.C. White, R.A. Zuhr, Jane G. Zhu (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6057)

10:00 CC.06 Free Standing Quantum Wells

M. D. Williams (Center for Microelectronics and Photonics, Department= of Physics, Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA)

10:12 CC.07 Space Charge Analysis in Multiquantum Well Structures via Capacitance Measurements

S. G. Matsik, V. G. Silvestrov, A. G. U. Perera (Georgia State University), H. C. Liu (NRC-Canada)

10:24 CC.08 Temperature Dependence of Capacitance and AC Conductance in MQW Structures

V. G. Silvestrov, S. G. Matsik, A. G. U. Perera (Georgia State University), H. C. Liu (NRC-Canada)

10:36 CC.09 Electronic transport in a quantum well in the presence of electric and magnetic fields

J. E. Hasbun (State University of West Georgia)

10:48 CC.10 Coherent State Wavefunction for Systems with Spin-Dependent Correlations

John W. Lawson (Department of Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University)

11:00 CC.11 Deposition of zinc sulfide thin films by chemical bath process

Isaiah O. Oladeji, Lee Chow (Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816)

11:12 CC.12 Photoluminescence of a-Si:H using a Free Electron Laser

Glennys A. Mensing, E. Hurt, J. Gilligan, N. Tolk (Vanderbilt University), P. C. Taylor (University of Utah)

11:24 CC.13 Microscopic Description of Optical Near-Field Phase Conjugation

Torsten Andersen, Ole Keller (Institute of Physics, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.)

11:36 CC.14 Thermal Isomerization in Isolated Cesium-Halide Clusters

Louis Bloomfield, Fredrik Fatemi, Darius Fatemi (Department of Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903)