Program overview

SATURDAY AFTERNOON, 28 APRIL 2001

Session C1. FIP/FPS: Panel on Scientific Freedon & National Security.

Saturday afternoon, 14:30, Grand Ballroom North/Central, Renaissance Hotel

14:30 C1.001 Panel Discussion
Ernest Moniz (Dept of Energy)
15:06 C1.002 Panel Discussion
John Browne (Los Alamos National Lab)
15:42 C1.003 Panel Discussion
Charles Shank (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)
16:18 C1.004 Panel Discussion
John Hamre (Center for Strategic and International Studies)
   

Session C2. CSWP/COM: Goals for the New Century and the Scientific Workforce.

Saturday afternoon, 14:30, Grand Ballroom South, Renaissance Hotel

14:30 C2.001 The perspective from the DOE
Mildred Dresselhaus (MIT)
15:06 C2.002 The perspective from NASA
Daniel Goldin (NASA)
15:42 C2.003 Broadening the Demographics at NIST
Katharine B. Gebbie (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
16:18 C2.004 The perspective from the NSF
Joe Dehmer (National Science Foundation)
   

Session C3. GGR/DAP: The Birth and Coalescence of Black Holes.

Saturday afternoon, 14:30, Renaissance East, Renaissance Hotel

14:30 C3.001 Black Hole Demographics
David Merritt (Rutgers University)
15:06 C3.002 Two-Stage Collapse to Black Holes: A Model for Gamma Ray Bursts
Mario Vietri (Universita di Roma 3)
15:42 C3.003 Colliding Black Holes: Status and Prospects
Luis Lehner (University of British Columbia, Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences)
16:18 C3.004 Probing Black Holes with Gravitational-wave Observations
Scott Hughes (Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara)
16:54 C3.005 Testing General Relativity: Black Hole Spectroscopy
Olaf Dreyer, Lee Samuel Finn, David Garrison, Bernard Kelly, Badri Krishnan (Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry, Penn State)
   

Session C4. DPF: B Physics and CP Violation.

Saturday afternoon, 14:30, Renaissance West A, Renaissance Hotel

14:30 C4.001 B Physics Results from CLEO
Jesse Ernst (University of Illinois)
15:06 C4.002 Recent Results from Belle
Kay Kinoshita (University of Cincinnati)
15:42 C4.003 Recent Results from BABAR
David Kirkby (Stanford University)
16:18 C4.004 CP violation and FCNC in the B system
Gudrun Hiller (SLAC)
   

Session C6. DNP: Electromagnetic Interactions.

Saturday afternoon, 14:30, Auditorium, Renaissance Hotel

14:30 C6.001 Medium Dependence of the Ratio of the Longitudinal and Transverse Responses in Deep Inelastic Scattering
Antje Bruell (MIT, Cambridge, MA02139)
15:06 C6.002 Two-Body Photodisintegration of the Deuteron at High Energy
Roy Holt (Argonne National Laboratory)
15:42 C6.003 Polarization in photo-disintegration of the deuteron
Ronald Gilman (Rutgers University / Jefferson Lab)
16:18 C6.004 Photoproduction of the \Xi Hyperons
John W. Price (University of California at Los Angeles)
   

Session C9. GFC: Tests of Physics Laws.

Saturday afternoon, 14:30, Room 2, Renaissance Hotel

14:30 C9.001 Space Interferometry Mission as a Test of Special Relativity
Curt Renshaw (Tele-Consultants, Inc.)
14:42 C9.002 Discontinuity in the Uniform Separation of Rays
Elihu Lubkin (U. of Wisconsin--Milwaukee 53201-0413)
14:54 C9.003 The Rest-Frame Darwin Potential from the Lienard-Wiechert Solution in the Radiation Gauge
Horace Crater (The University of Tennessee Space Institute), Luca Lusanna (Sezione INFN di Firenze)
15:06 C9.004 Information Preprocessing vs. Interaction Entanglement: Elucidation of Paradoxes in Quantum Mechanical Behavior
Daniel Alkon (Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute), Simon Berkovich (The George Washington University)
15:18 C9.005 Davisson-Germer Revisited II
Alfred Phillips Jr. (School of Electrical and Computer Eng., Cornell University)
15:30 C9.006 Quantum Mechanics vs. Bohmian Mechanics: Are there experimental tests?
Millard Baublitz (Boston University)
15:42 C9.007 Possible Chaotic Underpinnings in Quantum Mechanics
Wm. C. McHarris (Michigan State University)
15:54 C9.008 Canonical Transformation of a Classical Wave to Generate a Complex Wave Function
Robert L.W. Chen (Physics Department, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 30322)
16:06 C9.009 Red Stars, Blue Skys and Rayleigh Scattering
Kenneth Brecher (Boston University)
16:18 C9.010 Determination of |V_cb| from the semileptonic decay B \rightarrow D^*\ell\nu
Hyunki Jang (Seoul National Univ , Seoul Korea), Belle Collaboration
16:30 C9.011 Atomic Tests of Lorentz and CPT Symmetry
Robert Bluhm (Colby College), V. Alan Kostelecky (Indiana University), Charles Lane (Colby College)
16:42 C9.012 Jet Production as a Test for TeV Scale Gravity.
David Atwood (Iowa State University)
   

Session C10. DPF: Lepton Properties.

Saturday afternoon, 14:30, Room 3, Renaissance Hotel

14:30 C10.001 Muon g-2 Measurement: Determination of the Magnetic Field
Huaizhang Deng (Yale University), Ralf Prigl (Brookhaven National Laboratory), on behalf of Muon g-2 Collaboration
14:42 C10.002 Muon (g-2) Measurement: Event Reconstruction
Frederick Gray (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Ivan Logashenko (Boston University), Muon (g-2) Collaboration
14:54 C10.003 Muon g-2 Measurement: The Ratio Fit Method
Long Duong (University of Minnesota), Muon (g-2) Collaboration
15:06 C10.004 Muon (g-2) Measurement: The Multi-Parameter Fit Method
Alex Trofimov (Boston University), Gerco Onderwater (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Cenap Özben (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Muon (g-2) Collaboration
15:18 C10.005 A Direct Measurement of the Muon Neutrino Mass to 8 keV
Priscilla Cushman (University of Minnesota)
15:30 C10.006 Large Two-Loop Contributions to Muon g-2 from a Light Pseudoscalar boson
Darwin Chang (National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC), Wai-Yee Keung (University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA), We-Fu chang (National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC)
15:42 C10.007 Measuring Inverse Muon Decay and Lepton Number Violation at the NuTeV Neutrino Experiment
Joseph Formaggio (Columbia University), NuTeV Collaboration
15:54 C10.008 In situ background monitoring technique for the SNO experiment
Xin Chen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.), The SNO Collaboration
16:06 C10.009 MiniBooNE: A Search for Neutrino Oscillations
Jennifer Raaf (University of Cincinnati), MiniBooNE Collaboration
16:18 C10.010 Measurement of meson production in proton-Beryllium interactions at AGS energies
Michel Sorel (Columbia University), MiniBooNE Collaboration
16:30 C10.011 Supernova Detection with MiniBooNE
Matthew Sharp (Columbia University), MiniBooNE Collaboration
   

Session C11. DPF: Instrumentation.

Saturday afternoon, 14:30, Room 4, Renaissance Hotel

14:30 C11.001 Computational Data Grids for Data Intensive Sciences
Paul Avery (University of Florida), Harvey Newman (California Institute of Technology)
14:54 C11.002 Test-beam Results for the CMS Forward Pixel Detector
Carsten Rott (Purdue University)
15:06 C11.003 In-situ jet energy calibration methods in ATLAS at the CERN LHC.
Catherine Biscarat (IN2P3, Université de Blaise Pascal, Clermont Ferrand, France.), ATLAS Collaboration
15:18 C11.004 The CDF Cherenkov luminosity monitor
D. Acosta, S. Klimenko, J. Konigsberg, A. Korytov, A. Madorsky, G. Mitselmakher, A. Nguyele, A. Nomerotski, A. Safonov, D. Tsybychev, S.M. Wang (University of Florida), R. Stanek, R. Vidal, M. Wong (Fermi National Laboratory)
15:30 C11.005 Test of Pixel Sensors for CMS Experiment
Amitava Roy (Purdue University)
15:42 C11.006 Calibration Hardware for the Muon Detectors at CDF
Trevor Vickey (University of Illinois), CDF Collaboration
15:54 C11.007 Detector Construction of the Forward Proton Detector at D0
Michael Strang (D0 Collaboration)
16:06 C11.008 Calibration Software for the Muon Detectors at CDF
Kevin Lannon (University of Illinois), CDF Collaboration
16:18 C11.009 Vertex Reconstruction by means of the Kalman Filter at the D0 Detector
Meenakshi Narain (D0 Collaboration)
16:30 C11.010 Calorimeter Studies Using the CDF Calorimeter
Olga Lobban (CDF), CDF Collaboration
16:42 C11.011 Studies of Jet Energy Resolution
Stefano Lami, CDF Collaboration
   

Session C12. DNP: Sub-nucleonic Degrees of Freedom.

Saturday afternoon, 14:30, Room 5, Renaissance Hotel

14:30 C12.001 Omega Meson Cloud and the Proton's Light Anti-Quark Distributions
Mary Alberg (Seattle University, University of Washington), Ernest Henley, Gerald Miller (University of Washington)
14:42 C12.002 N* Masses from QCD Sum Rules
Xinyu Liu, Frank X. Lee (George Washington University)
14:54 C12.003 N* Masses from Lattice QCD
Leming Zhou, Frank X. Lee (George Washington University)
15:06 C12.004 Maximum Entropy and Hadron Spectral Functions in Lattice QCD
Frank X. Lee (George Washington University)
15:18 C12.005 Baryon magnetic moments and quark correlations
H. Hogaasen (Univ. Oslo, Norway), K. Kubodera, F. Myhrer (Univ. South Carolina)
15:30 C12.006 Unraveling the Low Q^2 Structure of Hadrons: From Partons to Constituent Quarks.
Simonetta Liuti (University of Virginia)
15:42 C12.007 Pion form factor and QCD
Keiji Watanabe (Department of Physics Meisei University), Hirohisa Ishikawa (Department of Economics, Meikai University), Masami Nakagawa (Department of Physics, Meijo University)
15:54 C12.008 Hamiltonian Lattice Studies of Pionic Collective Excitations in the Non-linear Sigma Model
Siu A. Chin (Dept. of Physics, Texas Aamp;M University, College Station, TX 77843)
   

Session C13. FHP: History of Physics.

Saturday afternoon, 14:30, Room 12-13, Renaissance Hotel

14:30 C13.001 Cosmonumerology, Cosmophysics, and the Large Numbers Hypothesis: British Cosmology in the 1930s
Ian Durham (Mathematical Institute, School of Mathematics amp; Statistics, University of St. Andrews, Scotland)
14:54 C13.002 Oppenheimer on the Nature of Science: 1945-1954
Michael A. Day (Dept. of Physics, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA 17003)
15:18 C13.003 Rabi, the proton magnetic moment, and the ˇ2-wire˘ magnet, 1931-34
Paul Forman (Smithsonian Institution)
15:42 C13.004 University-School Partnership: Physics for Pre-Engineering High School Students
Fred L Wilson (Angelo State University), James Baker (Edison High School, San Angelo, Texas)
16:06 C13.005 IT-based Physics Education in Korea
Keum-Hwi Lee, Jin-Seung Kim (Chonbuk National University, Chonju 561-756, S. Korea), Hi-Sung Song (Seoul National University, Seoul 151-747, S. Korea)
   

Session C14. DAP: Cosmic Rays I.

Saturday afternoon, 14:30, Room 14, Renaissance Hotel

14:30 C14.001 Primary Gamma Cosmic Ray Angular Resolution Obtained from Secondary Muons at Sea Levele
John Poirier (University of Notre Dame), Alberto Fasso', Stefan Roesler (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)
14:42 C14.002 Performance of the Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter (ATIC)
S.A. Naqvi (Southern U., USA (SU)), J.H. Adams (Marshall Space Flight Center, USA), E.J. Ahn (Seoul National U., S. Korea (SNU)), H.S. Ahn (U. of Maryland, USA (UMD)), G. Bashindzhagyan (Moscow State U, Russia (MSU)), G. Case (Louisiana State U, USA (LSU)), J. Chang (Max Planck Ins. fur Aeronomie, Germany (MPI)), S. Ellison (LSU), A.R. Fazely (SU), O. Ganel (UMD), R. Gould, D. Granger (LSU), R. Gunasingha (SU), T.G. Guzik (LSU), Y.J. Han (SNU), J. Isbert (LSU), T. Kara (UMD), H.J. Kim (SNU), K.C. Kim (UMD), S.K. Kim., Y. Kwon (SNU), M. Panasyuk (MSU), B. Price (LSU), G. Samsonov (MSU), W.K.H. Schmidt (MPI), E.S. Seo, R. Sina (UMD), N. Sokolskaya (MSU), M. Stewart (LSU), A. Toptygin (UMD), A. Voronin (MSU), D. Wagner (NRL), J.Z. Wang (UMD), J.P. Wefel (LSU), J. Wu (UMD), V. Zatsepin (MSU), ATIC Collaboration
14:54 C14.003 First Flight of the Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter (ATIC)Balloon Experiment
Eun-Suk Seo (University of Maryland), ATIC Collaboration
15:06 C14.004 Models for Galactic Cosmic-Ray Propagation
Igor V. Moskalenko (NASA/GSFC), Andrew W. Strong (MPE/Germany)
15:18 C14.005 Critical Mach Numbers in Cosmic Ray Modified Shocks
Peter Becker (Department of Physics and Astronomy, George Mason University), Demosthenes Kazanas (NASA/GSFC, Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics)
15:30 C14.006 The Advanced Cosmic-ray Composition Experiment for the Space Station
Thomas Cline (NASA's GSFC)
15:42 C14.007 X-Ray Transition Radiation from High Energy Particles
Gary Case, Michael Cherry (Louisiana State University)
15:54 C14.008 Night-to-Night Calibration Checks at the High Resolution Fly's Eye Cosmic Ray Observatory
G. Archbold, T. Abu-Zayyad, J. Albretsen, K. Belov, Z. Cao, M. Dalton, A. Everett, J. Girard, R. Gray, B.F. Jones, C.C.H. Jui, D.B. Kieda, K. Kim, E.C. Loh, K. Martens, J.N. Matthews, S.A. Moore, A.N. Moosman, P. Morrison, J.R. Mumford, K. Reil, R. Riehle, P. Shen, J.D. Smith, P.V. Sokolsky, R.W. Springer, B. Stokes, S.B. Thomas, L. Wiencke (High Energy Astrophysics Institute, University of Utah), J. Bellido, R. Clay, B. Dawson, K. Simpson (University of Adelaide), J.H. Boyer, Y. Ho, B. Knapp, W. Lee, E.J. Mannel, M. Seman, C. Song, S. Westerhoff, Z. Zhang (Columbia University), J.W. Belz (Montana State University), B. Dieterle, D. Loombda, G. Martin, J.A.J. Matthews, M. Roberts (University of New Mexico), D. Bergman, W. Hanlon, L. Perera, G.B. Thomson, A. Zech (Rutgers University), N. Manago, M. Sasaki, M. Sasano, M. Teshima (Institute of Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo), High Resolution Fly's Eye Collaboration
16:06 C14.009 Observation of the Askar'yan Effect and Implications for UHE Neutrino Detection
Dawn Williams (UCLA), T-444 Collaboration
16:18 C14.010 Data acquisition system for the California High School Cosmic Ray Observatory (CHICOS)
J. Gao, R. D. McKeown, S. Horton-Smith (California Institute of Technology), Y. P. Lau (Chinese University of Hong Kong), B. Falkowski (California State University, Northridge)
16:30 C14.011 Muon Flux at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
Colin Okada (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), The SNO Collaboration
16:42 C14.012 High Multiplicity Neutron Production on Pb Targets Caused by Cosmic Rays
Thomas Ward (US Department of Energy), Alexander Rimski-Korsakov, N.G. Triumfov, A.V. Saulski, S.V. Bakhmutkin (Khlopin Radium Institute)
   

Session C15. DNP: Nuclear Structure II.

Saturday afternoon, 14:30, Room 15, Renaissance Hotel

14:30 C15.001 A Precision Measurement of the g2 Spin Structure Function of the Proton and Deuteron
Dustin McNulty (University of Virginia)
14:42 C15.002 Precise Measurement of Superallowed Branching Ratios in the \beta-decay of ^22Mg
M. Sanchez-Vega, J.C. Hardy, V.E. Iacob, E. Mayes, A. Azhari, C. A. Gagliardi, L. Trache (Affiliation), R. E. Tribble (Cyclotron Institute, Texas Aamp;M University)
14:54 C15.003 Nuclear Level Density Calculations through Exact Analytic Methods
Alfonso Anzaldo-Meneses (Area de Fisica. Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco. Mexico D.F.)
15:06 C15.004 Anomalous reduced hindrance in ^176Hf
G. Mukherjee, P. Chowdhury, I. Shestakova, R. D'Alarcao (U-Mass Lowell), H. El-Masri, P.M. Walker (U-Surrey), C. Wheldon (U-Liverpool), D.M. Cullen (U-Manchester), D.L. Balabanski, M. Danchev, T.M. Goon, D.J. Hartley, L.L. Riedinger, O. Zeidan (U-Tennessee), M.A. Riley (F.S.U), R. Kaye (Purdue U.), G.D. Dracoulis (A.N.U.), G. Sletten (N.B.I.), K. Abu Saleem, I. Ahmad, M.P. Carpenter, A. Heinz, R.V.F. Janssens, T.L. Khoo, F.G. Kondev, T. Lauritsen, C.J. Lister, D. Seweryniak, I. Wiedenhoever (A.N.L.)
15:18 C15.005 Chiral Properties in ^134Pr
K. Starosta, C.J. Chiara, D.B. Fossan, T. Koike (SUNY at Stony Brook), C.W. Beausang, A.A. Hecht (WNSL, Yale University), A.J. Boston, H.J. Chantler, E.S. Paul, H.C. Scraggs (University of Liverpool), A. Simons, R. Wadsworth (University of York), R.M. Clark (LBNL)
15:30 C15.006 Identification of near-drip line Pm nuclei
E. Padilla, A. Galindo-Uribarri, C.J. Gross, J.C. Batchelder, C. Baktash, D.C. Radford, C-H. Yu (Physics Division, ORNL), B. Fuentes, D.J. Hartley, L. Riedinger, O. Zeidan (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
15:42 C15.007 New four-quasiparticle excitations in ^182Hf
I. Shestakova, P. Chowdhury, R. D'Alarcao, G. Mukherjee (Univ. Massachusetts Lowell), C.J. Pearson, Z. Podolyak, P.M. Walker, C. Wheldon (Univ. Surrey), D.M. Cullen (Univ. Liverpool), I. Ahmad, M.P. Carpenter, R.V.F. Janssens, T.L. Khoo, F.G. Kondev, C.J. Lister, D. Seweryniak, I. Wiedenhoever (Argonne Natl. Lab.)
15:54 C15.008 Search for the Jacobi shape transition in rapidly rotating nuclei
D. Ward, W. Swiatecki , R.M. Clark, M. Cromaz, M.A. Deleplanque, R.M. Diamond, P. Fallon, G.J. Lane, I.Y. Lee, A.O. Macchiavelli, W. Myers, F.S. Stephens, C.E. Svensson, K. Vetter (Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720), I. Ragnarsson (Department of Physics, Lund University, PO Box 118, S-221 00 Lund, Sweden)