Program overview

SATURDAY MORNING, 3 NOVEMBER 2001

08:30 CA.001 Nanocrystal Quantum Dots: Building Blocks for Optical Nanodevices

J A. Hollingsworth (Physical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy Group, Chemistry Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545)

08:55 CA.002 Surface Oscillation and Self-Diffusion of Cylindrical Sodium Nanowires

Chang-hua Zhang, Charles A. Stafford, Raymond E. Goldstein (Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Az 85721,USA), Frank Kassubek (Fakultät für Physik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Hermann-Herder-Stra\betae 3, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany)

09:07 CA.003 Nanoscale Assembly of Functional Materials from Metal and Semiconductor Nanocrystals

Brent Wacaser, Davis Robert (Brigham Young University)

09:19 CA.004 Defect Studies of CdSe Nanocrystals: In Doping for PAC Spectroscopy

Dan G. Allen (Dept. of Physics, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602), Roger G. Harrison (Dept. of Chemistry, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602), William E. Evenson (Dept. of Physics, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602)

09:31 CA.005 Coherence and Decoherence in Coupled Quantum Dots

David Cardamone, Charles Stafford (Affiliation), Bruce Barrett (University of Arizona)

09:43 CA.006 Carrier Diffusion and Trapping in Semiconductor Structures with Quantum Dots

Paul Dan Popescu, Andreas Stintz, Kevin J. Malloy (Center for High Technology Materials, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque)

09:55 CA.007 Ultrafast temopral dynamics of plasmon modes in random metal-dielectric percolation films

Viktor Podolskiy, Andrey Sarychev (Physics Department, New Mexico State University), Vladimir Shalaev (School of Electrical amp; Computer Engineering, Purdue University)

10:07 CA.008 Resonance Transmittance through Metal Films with Nano Holes

Andrey Sarychev, Viktor Podolskiy (Physics Department, New Mexico State University), Alexander Dykhne (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology), Vladimir Shalaev (School of Electrical amp; Computer Engineering, Purdue University)

08:30 CB.001 Web Delivery of Interactive Laboratories: Comparison of Three Authoring Tools.

Richard R. Silbar (WhistleSoft, Inc.)

09:06 CB.002 Classroom Assessment in Physics and Astronomy: The Good, the Bad, and the Tested

Michael Zeilik (University of New Mexico)

09:42 CB.003 Educating Physicists for the 21st Century Industrial Arena

Alaina G. Levine (The University of Arizona)

09:54 CB.004 A Graphical Physics Course

Roy C Wood (Armstrong Atlantic State University)

08:30 CC.001 On Predictions Obtained from Seismic Models

Michael H. Ritzwoller, Nikolai M. Shapiro (University of Colorado at Boulder)

08:55 CC.002 Vertical Motions of the Hawaiian Islands during the last 400 ka and their Implications for Plate-Plume Interactions

S.J. Zhong (University of Colorado), A.B. Watts (Oxford University)

09:20 CC.003 Seismic Tomography and Earth Structure beneath China and Tibet

Tom Hearn (Physics Dept., New Mexico State University)

09:45 CC.004 Inversion for crustal thickness and mantle velocity beneath the INDEPTH-III Tibet Seismic Profile.

Xiaofeng Xiao, Tom Hearn (New Mexico State University)

09:55 CC.005 Grain Size in the Lower Mantle: Constraints from Numerical Modeling of Grain Growth in Two-Phase Systems

Rifa El-Khozondar, Viatcheslav Solomatov (New Mexico State University), Veena Tikare Collaboration

10:05 CC.006 Grain size-dependent viscosity convection and the thermal evolution of the Earth

Viatcheslav Solomatov (New Mexico State University)