Program overview

TUESDAY MORNING, 2 MAY 2000

08:00 V8.001 Women in Astronomy Today

Meg Urry (Space Telescope Science Institute)

08:36 V8.002 Fleming, Maury, Cannon, and the Classification of Stars

DORRIT HOFFLEIT (DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY, YALE UNIVERSITY)

09:12 V8.003 Payne and the Composition of the Stars

Katherine Gaposchkin Haramundanis (Compaq Computer Corporation)

09:48 V8.004 The Unsung Heroines 1935-1965

Martha L. Hazen (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

10:24 V8.005 Beatrice Tinsley and the Assembling of Stars into Galaxies

Barbara J. Anthony-Twarog (University of Kansas)

08:00 V10.001 An Effective Field Theory Calculation of Deuteron Compton Scattering

Roxanne P. Springer (Duke University)

08:36 V10.002 Elastic Compton scattering from the deuteron and nucleon polarizabilities

David Hornidge (University of Saskatchewan)

09:12 V10.003 Applications of Chiral Perturbation Theory to Nuclear Few-Body Systems

U. van Kolck (California Institute of Technology)

09:48 V10.004 Meson-Photoproduction in the Few Nucleon System

Reinhard Beck (University of Mainz)

08:00 V11.001 Results from the early operation of the RHIC Accelerator Complex

Mike Harrison (Brookhaven National Lab)

08:36 V11.002 Radioactive Beams from the NSCL Coupled Cyclotron Project

Bradley Sherrill (Michigan State University)

09:12 V11.003 Science and Technology of the Proposed Rare Isotope Accelerator Facility

Jerry Nolen (Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory)

09:48 V11.004 Outlook for High Energy CW Electron Accelerators for Nuclear Physics Research

Christoph Leemann (TJNAF)

08:00 V12.001 Accessible Extra Dimensions

Nima Arkani-Hamed (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

08:36 V12.002 Experiments on Gravitational Strength Forces below 1 cm

John C. Price (Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder)

09:12 V12.003

09:48 V12.004 Probing Large Extra Dimensions in Collider Experiments

Greg Landsberg (Brown University)

10:24 V12.005 Extra Dimensions, Compactification and Mass Hierarchy

Lisa Randall (Princeton University)

08:00 V13.001 Toward a Common Understanding of the N-N Correlation Concept

Giuseppina Orlandini (Department of Physics, University of Trento, Italy)

08:36 V13.002 Structure of the particle-unbound nuclei ^7,9He and ^10Li

M. Thoennessen, L. Chen, T. Aumann, B. Blank, M. Chartier, A. Galonsky, P.G. Hansen, J. Kruse, V. Maddalena (National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University), K. Ieki, Y. Iwata, Y. Higurashi, S. Takeuchi (Department of Physics, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan), F. Deak, A. Horvath, A. Kiss (Department of Atomic Physics, Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary), Z. Seres (Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary)

08:00 V14.001 Search for Standard Model and MSSM Higgs Bosons in \protect\mathrme^+\mathrme^- Collisions

Andy Hocker (University of Chicago), OPAL Collaboration

08:12 V14.002 Search for Invisibly Decaying Higgs Bosons

Naoko Kanaya (Kobe University), OPAL Collaboration

08:24 V14.003 A Flavour Independent Search for the Higgsstrahlung Process in \protect\mathrme^+\mathrme^- Collisions

Andy Hocker (University of Chicago), OPAL Collaboration

08:36 V14.004 Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson at LEP II with the ALEPH Detector

Jennifer Kile (University of Wisconsin-Madison), ALEPH Collaboration

08:48 V14.005 Search for the Neutral Higgs Bosons of the MSSM at LEP II with the ALEPH Detector

Kyle Cranmer (University of Wisconsin-Madison), ALEPH Collaboration

09:00 V14.006 Combined CDF Run I Limits of Higgs Production in Association with a Vector Boson

Thomas Gregiore (University of California at Berkeley), CDF Collaboration

09:12 V14.007 Search for Neutral Supersymmetric Higgs Bosons in p\barp Collisions at \sqrts=1.8 TeV

Juan Valls (Rutgers University), CDF Collaboration

09:24 V14.008 Higgs searches with ATLAS

Ketevi Assamagan (Hampton), ATLAS Collaboration

09:36 V14.009 SHERLOCK: A quasi-model-independent new physics search strategy.

Bruce Knuteson (University of California at Berkeley), DZero Collaboration

09:48 V14.010 Search for technirho at D0

Russell Gilmartin (Florida State University), D0 Collaboration

10:00 V14.011 Leading R-Hadrons

Thomas D. Gutierrez (University of California, Davis), Ramona Vogt (University of California, Davis and LBNL), J.F. Gunion (University of California, Davis)

10:12 V14.012 A STUDY OF THE \eta^\prime\pi^- SYSTEM PRODUCED IN THE REACTION \pi^-p\rightarrow\eta^\prime\pi^- p AT 18 GeV/c

Emil Ivanov-Tatar (University of Notre Dame), E852 Collaboration

10:24 V14.013 Partial-wave analysis of \eta\pi^+\pi^-\pi^-

Joachim Kuhn (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), E852 Collaboration

10:36 V14.014 A 1300 \sigma Effect, Incompatible with Standard Model, Omitted by Particle Data Group

Bogdan Castle Maglich (HiEnergy Microdevices, Inc., Irvine, CA.)

08:00 V15.001 Measurement of |V_cb| using B^0\rightarrow D \ell\nu decays

Jiansen Lu (University of British Columbia), OPAL Collaboration

08:12 V15.002 Study of Exclusive Semileptonic Decays of D^+ to a Vector Meson

Yuichi Kubota, Sang-Joon Lee (University of Minnesota), CLEO Collaboration

08:24 V15.003 Semileptonic charm decay

Topher Cawlfield (University of Illinos, Champaign-Urbana), FOCUS Collaboration

08:36 V15.004 Search for b\to u D_s^(*)- Transitions

Kenneth McLean (Vanderbilt University Physics), KCLEO Collaboration

08:48 V15.005 The B-physics Potential of the ATLAS Experiment

Flora Rizatdinova (Moscow), ATLAS Collaboration

09:00 V15.006 First Measurement of the D^*+ Intrinsic Width using the CLEO II.V Detector

Tony Hill (University of California, Santa Barbara), CLEO Collaboration

09:12 V15.007 Search for New Physics in Rare B Decays

Amnon Harel (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology), OPAL Collaboration

09:24 V15.008 Top physics at ATLAS

Jeremy Dodd (Nevis/Columbia), ATLAS Collaboration

09:36 V15.009 Study of Bs Oscillations using Inclusive Lepton Events

Gaelle Boix (CERN), ALEPH Collaboration

09:48 V15.010 Measurement of Charm and Beauty Production in \gamma \gamma Collisions at LEP

Denis Prokofiev (Purdue University), L3 Collaboration

10:00 V15.011 Measurement of the B^0_d Mixing Frequency Using a Probability Based Self-Tagging Algorithm Applied to Inclusive Lepton Events from p\barp Collisions at \mbox\sqrts =1.8\mbox\,TeV

Tushar Shah (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), CDF COLLABORATION

10:12 V15.012 A Preliminary Study of the Structure of b\barbg Events using Z^0 Decays

Hidemi Akimoto (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center), SLD Collaboration

08:00 V16.001 Evaluations of several proton induced thermonuclear reaction rates.

S.O. Nelson, H.R. Weller, R.S. Canon, E.C. Schreiber, K. Saburov, S. Gaff, E.A. Wulf (Duke University and TUNL), J.H. Kelley, D.R. Tilley (North Carolina State University and TUNL), R.M. Prior, M. Spraker (North Georgia State University and TUNL)

08:12 V16.002 Measurement of the reaction ^7Be(p,\gamma)^8B with a solid radioactive target

Uwe Greife (Department of Physics, Colorado School of Mines), LUNA Collaboration, NABONA Collaboration

08:24 V16.003 Weak Lensing Mass Maps of Very Nearby Clusters of Galaxies

M. Joffre (Univ. of Chicago), P. Fischer (Univ. of Michigan), J. Frieman (Univ. of Chicago/ Fermilab), T. McKay (Univ. of Michigan), J.J. Mohr (Univ. of Chicago), R.C. Nichol (CMU), D. Johnston (Univ. of Chicago), E. Sheldon (Univ. of Michigan), C. Cantaloupo, G. Griffin, J. Peterson, A.K. Romer (CMU)

08:48 V16.004 Galaxy-QSO Angular Correlation and Weak Gravitational Lensing

Antonio C.C. Guimarães, Carsten van de Bruck, Robert H. Brandenberger (Department of Physics, Brown University)

09:00 V16.005 The Large-Scale U.S. Dark Matter Axion Search

Darin Kinion, Karl van Bibber, Chris Hagmann, Wolfgang Stoeffl (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Stephen Asztalos, Ed Daw, Hong Peng, Leslie Rosenberg, Danny Yu (M.I.T.), Pierre Sikivie, Neil Sullivan, David Tanner (U. of Florida), John Clarke, Marc-Olivier Andre, Michael Muck, Dennis Moltz (U.C. Berkeley - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Michael Turner (U. Chicago - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

09:12 V16.006 Latest Results from the Search for WIMPs by the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search

Richard Schnee (Case Western Reserve University), The CDMS Collaboration

09:24 V16.007 Status of the multiple-cavity search for dark matter axions.

Steve Asztalos, Leslie Rosenberg, Hong Peng, Ed Daw (M.I.T.), Darin Kinion, Chris Hagmann, Wolfgang Stoeffll, Karl van Bibber (LLNL), Pierre Sikivie, Neil Sullivan, Dave Tanner (University of Florida), Dennis Moltz (LBNL), Michael Turner (Fermilab)

09:36 V16.008 Status of the MAXIMA Balloon Borne Experiment and Data Analysis

A.T. Lee (UC Berkeley), P. Ade, A. Balbi, J.J. Bock, J. Borrill, A. Boscaleri, P. De Bernardis, P. Ferreira, S. Hanany, V.V. Hristov, A.H. Jaffe, A.E. Lange, P. Mauskopf, C.B. Netterfield, S. Oh, E. Pascale, B. Rabii, P.L. Richards, G.F. Smoot, R. Stompor, C.D. Winant, J.H.P. Wu

09:48 V16.009

10:00 V16.010 Electroweak Baryogenesis via Weak First Order Transition

Marcelo Gleiser (Dartmouth College)

10:12 V16.011 Generalized Kasner Cosmologies with Induced Matter

Paul Halpern (University of the Sciences in Philadelphia)

10:24 V16.012 Formation of Force-Free Helix as a Model for Astrophysical Jets

Hui Li (LANL), Richard Lovelace (Cornell), Stirling Colgate, John Finn (LANL)

10:36 V16.013 Rossby Vortex Instability in Thin Accretion Disks

Hui Li, Burton Wendroff, Stirling Colgate (LANL), Richard Lovelace (Cornell)

10:48 V16.014 THE ORIGIN OF THE MAGNETIC FIELDS OF THE UNIVERSE

Stirling Colgate (Los Alamos Nat. Lab.)

08:00 V17.001 Ab initio shell-model calculations for Li isotopes

Petr Navratil (University of Arizona), James P. Vary (Iowa State University), Bruce R. Barrett (University of Arizona)

08:12 V17.002 Molecular orbital model for Be isotopes

Alexander Sakharuk, Vladimir Zelevinsky (National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, MSU.)

08:24 V17.003 Yrast band ``backbending'' in sd-shell nuclei

V.G. Gueorguiev, C. W. Johnson, J.P. Draayer (LSU)

08:36 V17.004 The implications of pseudospin symmetry on nuclear wavefunctions

Joseph Ginocchio (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

08:48 V17.005 The Nuclear Three-Body Force in a Translation-Invariant Harmonic Oscillator Basis

David Marsden (Program in Applied Mathematics, University of Arizona), Petr Navratil, Bruce Barrett (Department of Physics, University of Arizona)

09:00 V17.006 TDHF Periodic Orbits and Nuclear Collective States

Jianshi Wu (Fayetteville State University, N.C.), Michel Baranger (Massachussetts Institute of Technology, MA), Michael Strayer (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN)

09:12 V17.007 Shell Model Approach to Nuclear Level Density

Mihai Horoi (Central Michigan University)

09:24 V17.008 Microscopic description of the ^156Gd in the pseudo SU(3) shell model

Gabriela Popa (Louisiana State University), Jorge G. Hirsch (Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM, Mexico), Jerry P. Draayer (Louisiana State University)

09:36 V17.009 Evidence for Nuclear Complex Reactions in Thin-Film Electordes

George H. Miley (University of Illinois, UIUC Campus, Urbana, IL 61801)

08:00 V18.001

08:36 V18.002 Photon Collider Basics and Optics Issues

Daniel E. Klem (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

09:12 V18.003 Physics Potential of a Photon Collider

Thomas Rizzo (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)

09:48 V18.004

08:00 V19.001

08:36 V19.002 Quantum Suppression of Beamstrahlung for Future e+e- Linear Colliders

Ming Xie (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.)

09:12 V19.003 Spin Depolarization during Beam-Beam Interaction

Kathleen Thompson (SLAC)

09:48 V19.004 Boiling the Vacuum with an X-ray FEL

Claudio Pellegrini (UCLA)

10:24 V19.005 Limit on focusing of electron beams

Katsunobu Oide (KEK)

08:00 V20.001

08:24 V20.002

08:48 V20.003

09:12 V20.004

09:36 V20.005 From the Neutrino Source to a Muon Collider

David Neuffer (Muon Collider Collaboration, Fermilab)