Program overview

MONDAY AFTERNOON, 1 MAY 2000

14:00 Q9.001 Insights from the Anti-de Sitter / Conformal Field Theory Connection

Hirosi Ooguri (Caltech)

14:36 Q9.002 The Holographic Principle

Amanda Peet (ITP, Santa Barbara)

15:12 Q9.003 Anomaly-Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking

Erich Poppitz (Yale University)

15:48 Q9.004 New Dimensions and other New Ideas for Flavor

Ann E. Nelson (University of Washington)

14:00 Q10.001 Recent Results from KVI on Bremsstrahlung and Lepton Pair Production

Nasser Kalantar-Nayestanaki (Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut (KVI), Groningen, The Netherlands)

14:36 Q10.002 Weak proton-proton capture revisited

Joseph Carlson (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

15:12 Q10.003 Pion Production as a Test of Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction Models

B. v. Przewoski (Indiana University Cyclotron Facility)

15:48 Q10.004 Recent Progress in Trinucleon Photoabsorption with the Lorentz Integral Transform Method

Edward Tomusiak (University of Saskatchewan)

14:00 Q11.001 Climate for women in research departments: the CSWP site visit program

Bunny C. Clark (The Ohio State University)

14:45 Q11.002 Dual Career Couples: How Institutions are Keeping them Together

Lisa E. Wolf-Wendall (U. of Kansas)

15:30 Q11.003 The Society for Women in the Physical Sciences: a successful mentoring program at UC Berkeley

Kristine Lang (University of California at Berkeley)

14:00 Q12.001 Arms Control in Crisis

II Earle ()

14:36 Q12.002 The Presidential Initiative on Shared Early Warning

Roy Pettis (U.S. Department of State)

15:12 Q12.003 Problems of National Missile Defense

John Cornwall (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA)

15:48 Q12.004 U.S. National Security

Sidney Drell (Stanford University)

14:00 Q13.001

14:36 Q13.002 Preparing Future Physics Faculty for Teaching in Colorado

John P. Cumalat (University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA)

15:12 Q13.003 The PFPF program at UCSD

Rosalind Streichler (UC, San Diego)

15:48 Q13.004 Preparing Future Physics Faculty at the University of Arkansas: Phase I

Gay B. Stewart (University of Arkansas, Deaprtment of Physics)

16:24 Q13.005

14:00 Q14.001 The CMS Hadronic Calorimeter

Dan Karmgard (University of Notre Dame), U.S. CMS Collaboration

14:12 Q14.002 Test Beam Results of the first production prototype (PPP1) of the forward calorimeter of the CMS Experiment

Ahmet Sedat Ayan (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa), CMS HF Calorimeter Collaboration

14:24 Q14.003 Optimization of Calorimeter Responses for the DZero Detector

Kwok Chan (University of Rochester), DZero Collaboration

14:36 Q14.004 Large scale test of MSGC + GEM detectors in a high intensity hadron beam

Pascal Vanlaer (IIHE/ULB, Brussels), CMS forward MSGC Team

14:48 Q14.005 Track Segment Finding with the CDFII Online Track Processor

Christopher Neu (Ohio State University), CDF Collaboration

15:00 Q14.006 CDFII's Track Segment Linking in the Online Track Processor

Carlos Sanchez (Ohio State University), CDF Collaboration

15:12 Q14.007 The Promise of Computational Grids in the LHC Era

Paul Avery (University of Florida), CMS Experiment Collaboration

15:24 Q14.008 Designing Polymer Blends using Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms, and Markov Chains

Nilay Roy (Center for Simulational Physics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602), Walter Potter (Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602), David Landau (Center for Simulational Physics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602)

15:36 Q14.009 Kernel Estimation in High-Energy Physics

Kyle Cranmer (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

14:00 Q15.001 Preliminary Differential Cross Section Results from NuTeV.

Jeffrey McDonald (University of Pittsburgh)

14:12 Q15.002 Measurement of Solar Neutrinos in Super-Kamiokande

Erik Blaufuss (Louisiana State University), Super-Kamiokande Collaboration

14:24 Q15.003

14:36 Q15.004

14:48 Q15.005 A mass matrix for atmospheric, solar, and LSND neutrino oscillations

James M. Gelb (University of Texas at Arlington), S. Peter Rosen (U.S. Department of Energy)

15:00 Q15.006 A New Direct Limit on the Neutrino Magnetic Moment

John Beacom, Petr Vogel (Caltech)

15:12 Q15.007 A new upper limit for the tau neutrino magnetic moment

Reinhard Schwienhorst (University of Minnesota), DONUT Collaboration

15:24 Q15.008 Quantum Field Theory of Superluminal Majorana Neutrinos

Ngee-Pong Chang (City College and Graduate Center of CUNY)

15:36 Q15.009 Likelihood in Neutrino Oscillation Studies

Nathaniel P. Longley (Macalester College), V. S. Lukin (Swarthmore College)

15:48 Q15.010 Neutrino as Momemtum Density Particle of Zero Rest Mass

Franklin Keeney (Particle Physics Research Co., LLC)

14:00 Q16.001 Expanding the Capabilities of a Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Code

Juan Lara (Center for Relativity / University of Texas at Austin)

14:20 Q16.002 Signatures for a Cosmic Flux of Magnetic Monopoles

Stuart Wick (Vanderbilt University)

14:40 Q16.003 Observation of Energy-Dependent Electron-Capture Decay in Secondary Galactic Cosmic Rays

S.M. Niebur, W.R. Binns, P.L. Hink, M.H. Israel, J. Klarmann, M. Lijowski (Washington University), E.R. Christian, T.T von Rosenvinge (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center), A.C. Cummings, J.S. George, R.A. Leske, R.A. Mewaldt, E.C. Stone (California Institute of Technology), M.E. Wiedenbeck, N.E. Yanasak (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

15:00 Q16.004 The Trans-Iron Galactic Elemental Recorder (TIGER) for the Ultra-Long Duration Balloon Program (ULDB)

J.T. Link, W.R. Binns, J.R. Cummings, P.L. Hink, M.H. Israel, S.H. Sposato (Wash. U.), L.M. Barbier, G.A. de Nolfo, R.A. Mewaldt, S.M. Scindler (CIT), E.R. Christian, J.W. Mitchell, R.E. Streitmatter (NASA/GSFC), C.J. Waddington (U. of Minn.)

15:20 Q16.005 Overview of the High Resolution (HiRes) Fly's Eye Cosmic Ray Observatory

Kevin Reil, Tareq Abu-Zayyad, Charles Jui, Wayne Springer, Pierre Sokolosky, Stanton Thomas, Lawrence Wiencke (University of Utah), University of Utah Collaboration, Columbia University/Nevis Laboratory Collaboration, University of Adelaide Collaboration, University of New Mexico Collaboration, University of California at Los Angeles Collaboration, Rutgers University Collaboration, Montana State University Collaboration

15:40 Q16.006 Supernova and Big Bang Neutrinos as a Probe of Extra Dimensions?

Mitesh Patel, George M. Fuller (University of California, San Diego)

14:00 Q17.001 Coherent Contributions of Nuclear Mesons to Electroproduction --HERMES Effect

Gerald A. Miller (University of Washington), S.J. Brodsky (SLAC), FM. Karliner (Tel Aviv University)

14:12 Q17.002 J/\psi suppression as a signature for the quark-gluon plasma

Minesh Bacrania, Jorge Piekarewicz (Florida State University)

14:24 Q17.003 The g_\pi NN(t) Form Factor from Charged Pion Electroproduction

David Mack (TJNAF), Charged Pion Form Factor (E93021) Collaboration

14:36 Q17.004 A precise measurement of the g_2^d structure function

Paul DePietro (American University), E155X Collaboration Collaboration

14:48 Q17.005 The Quasielastic Transverse Asymmetry A_T' from ^3\vecHe(\vece,e')

Wang Xu (MIT), E95001 JLAB Collaboration

15:00 Q17.006 Measurement of R=\sigma_L/\sigma_T in the nucleon resonance region

Yongguang Liang (The American University / Jefferson Lab), JLab E94110 Collaboration

15:12 Q17.007 A precision measurement of the g_2^p structure function for the proton

Nawal Benmouna (American University), E155X Collaboration

14:00 Q20.001

14:12 Q20.002 Grazing Collision of Binary Black Holes I

Mijan Huq (Pennsylvania State University), Agave Collaboration

14:24 Q20.003 Grazing Collision of Binary Black Holes II: From Merger Towards Ringdown

Deirdre Shoemaker (Pennsylvania State University), The Agave Collaboration

14:36 Q20.004 Approximate Analytical Solutions to the Initial Value Problem of Black Hole Binary Systems

Pedro Marronetti (UT Austin), Deirdre Shoemaker, Mijan F. Huq (PSU), Luis Lehner, Richard A. Matzner (UT Austin), Pablo Laguna (PSU)

14:48 Q20.005 Gravitational collapse in 2+1 dimensional AdS spacetime

Frans Pretorius, Matthew Choptuik (University of British Columbia)

15:00 Q20.006 BH-NS Simulations via characteristic evolutions

Luis Lehner (University of Texas), GRACE Collaboration

15:12 Q20.007 Numerical evolution of Brill waves

David Garfinkle (Oakland University), G. Comer Duncan (Bowling Green State University)

15:24 Q20.008 Instability of Rapidly Rotating Compact Stellar Cores

Joan M. Centrella (Drexel University), Kimberly C. B. New (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Lisa L. Lowe (Drexel University)

15:36 Q20.009 Three-dimensional adaptive evolutions of gravitational waves in numerical relativity

Dae-Il Choi (Drexel University), K. C. B. New (Drexel University and Los Alamos National Laboratory), J. M. Centrella (Drexel University), P. MacNeice (Drexel University and NASA/GSFC), M. F. Huq (The Pennsylvania State University)

15:48 Q20.010 Evolution of Rotating Supermassive Stars: Low-Viscosity Limit

Kimberly New (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Stuart Shapiro (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

16:00 Q20.011 Gravitational Radiation Damping and the Three Body Problem

Zachary Wardell (University of Missouri - Columbia)

14:00 Q21.001 PARCS-Primary Atomic Reference Clock in Space

Neil Ashby (University of Colorado)

14:12 Q21.002 Isotope shift measurements on the 7P_1/2 atomic level in neutron deficient francium atoms

M. R. Pearson, J. S. Grossman, R. P. Fliller III, C. Langlois, L. A. Orozco, G. D. Sprouse (Department of Physics and Astronomy, S.U.N.Y., Stony Brook, N.Y.)

14:24 Q21.003 Trace Krypton isotope detection by two-step laser excitation and field ionization

Xinghua Li, Jens Lassen, Hans A. Schuessler (Dept. of Physics, Texas Aamp;M Univ., College Station, TX 77843-4242)

14:36 Q21.004 Investigating Spacetime Symmetry in Hydrogen and Antihydrogen

Neil Russell (Northern Michigan University), Robert Bluhm (Colby College), Alan Kostelecký (Indiana University)

14:48 Q21.005 Operation of a ^21Ne/^3He Zeeman maser

R.E. Stoner, D. Bear, R.L. Walsworth (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

15:00 Q21.006 Limit on CPT and Lorentz violation using a ^129Xe/^3He Zeeman maser

R.E. Stoner, D. Bear, R.L. Walsworth (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

15:12 Q21.007 Limit on CPT and Lorentz Violation Using Hydrogen Masers

M.A. Humphrey, D.F. Phillips, E.M. Mattison, R.E. Stoner, R.F.C. Vessot, R.L. Walsworth (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138)

15:24 Q21.008 Measurement of the Lorentz Angle in Silicon

Elina Brobeck (MIT)

15:36 Q21.009 Precision Measurement of the Casimir Force using an Atomic Force Microscope

Ben Harris (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of California- Riverside, CA 92521), Feng Chen (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of California-Riverside, CA 92521), Umar Mohideen (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA 92521)

15:48 Q21.010 Precise Calibration for the Relative Intensity Noise Spectrum of Optical Fiber Sources near 1550 nm

G.E. Obarski, J.D. Splett (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder)

16:00 Q21.011 Nature's Coin Toss: Tests of Nuclear Decay for Randomness

M. P. Silverman, W. Strange, Chris Silverman (Trinity College), T. C. Lipscombe (Princeton University Press)

16:12 Q21.012 Precision Test of Special Relativity Using Gamma Ray Bursts

Kenneth Brecher (Boston University)

14:00 Q22.001 The First Astrophysical Synthesis: What Ptolemy Did and Why It Mattered

James Evans (University of Puget Sound)

14:36 Q22.002 Copernicus and the Aesthetic Impulse

Owen Gingerich (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

15:12 Q22.003 Objections to Greek Astronomy in Islamic Times and Their Relationship to the Work of Copernicus.

George Saliba (Columbia University)