Program overview

SATURDAY MORNING, 3 NOVEMBER 2001

10:30 DA.001 Photoexcitation dynamics in self-organized, pi conjugated polymer films

Oleg Korovyanko (University of Utah)

10:55 DA.002 Photorefraction in Azo Dye and Polymer Doped Liquid Crystals

Gene Carlisle, Manlin Pei, Yong-jing Wang (West Texas Aamp;M University)

11:07 DA.003 Nanooptics with Plasmonic Nanomaterials

Vladimir Shalaev (Purdue University)

11:32 DA.004 Second-harmonic generation from bulk solution of silver aggregates

Vladimir Drachev, Fedda Alzoubi (New Mexico State University), Vladimir Shalaev (Purdue University), Robert Armstrong (New Mexico State University)

11:44 DA.005 Femtosecond Carrier and Coherent-Phonon Dynamics of Si(100) Measured with Pump-Probe Reflectivity at 800 nm

D. Mark Riffe, Ali Sabbah (Utah State University)

11:56 DA.006 LOCAL OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF SEMICONTINUOUS METALLIC FILMS AND FILM-MICROCAVITY COMPOSITE SYSTEMS

Katyayani Banerjee, Mark. A. Nelson, Vladimir M. Shalaev, Z. Charles Ying (New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM)

12:08 DA.007 Photoluminescence Study of Metastable Degradation of Amorphous Silicon

Jeremy Conlin, Colin Inglefield (Physics Department, Weber State University, Ogden, UT 84408), Robin Plachy, Tining Su, P. Craig Taylor (Physics Department, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112), Gautam Ganguly, Dave Carlson (BP Solar, Toano, VA 23168)

10:30 DB.001 3D Numerical Modeling of the Dynamics of Earth's Mantle

John R. Baumgardner (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

10:55 DB.002 Satellite Measurements of Time Variable Gravity: What Can They Tell Us About the Earth?

John Wahr (Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)

11:20 DB.003 Waves in the martian atmosphere: Observations, Theory, and Application

James Murphy (Department of Astronomy, New Mexico State University)

11:45 DB.004 The timing of formation of Beta Regio, Venus, and its geodynamical implications

A. V. Vezolainen, V. S. Solomatov (Department of Physics, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003), J. W. Head (Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912), A. T. Basilevsky (Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia), L.-N. Moresi (Australian Geodynamics Cooperative Research Centre,CSIRO Exploration amp; Mining, 39 Fairway, Nedlands 6009, Western Australia)

11:57 DB.005 Solar Variability, El Nino, and OH in the Middle Atmosphere

Tim Canty (Dept. of Physics, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801), Ken Minschwaner (Dept. of Physics, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology), Clyde Burnett (Geophysical Research Center, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology)

12:09 DB.006 Earth Tide Measurements Using a Horizontal Pendulum

J. Leo Banuelos, Stephen Kanim (New Mexico State University)

10:30 DC.001 Large N_c QCD: Physics in a World of Many Colors

Richard Lebed (Arizona State University)

11:06 DC.002 Investigating Mesons on the Transverse Lattice

Sudip Seal, Matthias Burkardt (New Mexico State University)

11:18 DC.003 Forward dispersion relations as a consistency check of new partial wave analyses

Jugoslav Stahov, Michael Daugherity (Abilene Christian University)

11:30 DC.004 Pion double charge exchange on ^4He

M. Alqadi, W. R. Gibbs (Department of Physics, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM)

11:42 DC.005 Caloric curves and heavy ion collision stages.

Armando Barranon (Dept. of Basical Sciences, UAM-A, Mexico City), Jorge A. Lopez (Dept. of Physics, The University of Texas at El Paso, USA), C.O. Dorso (Dept. of Physics, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina), LATINO Collaboration

11:54 DC.006 Four-body hypernuclei as a laboratory for \LambdaN interactions

A. Nogga (University of Arizona), H. Kamada, W. Glöckle (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

12:06 DC.007 BaBar Computing at Colorado State University

Aidong Chen (Colorado State University), BaBar Collaboration