Program overview
SUNDAY AFTERNOON, 29 APRIL 2001
Session J1. FHP/FPS: Perspectives on Major High Energy Physics Projects.
Sunday afternoon, 14:30, Grand Ballroom North/Central, Renaissance Hotel
14:30 J1.001
The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider- Michael Riordan (Institute for Particle Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz)
15:06 J1.002
Success Factors in Management of Large Projects- Thomas B.W. Kirk (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
15:42 J1.003
LEP, LHC and European Perspectives on the SSC- Herwig Schopper (CERN and University of Hamburg)
16:18 J1.004
An Historical and Policy Perspective on the Plight of the SSC- David Goldston
Session J2. DPF/DNP: Progress in Neutrino Physics.
Sunday afternoon, 14:30, Grand Ballroom South, Renaissance Hotel
14:30 J2.001
Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations: Results from Super-K and K2K- Christopher Walter (Boston University), Super Kamiokande and K2K Collaboration
15:06 J2.002
Results from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory- Kevin T. Lesko (Institute of Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics, Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
15:42 J2.003
Direct Determination of Neutrino Mass- Petr Vogel (Physics Department, California Institute of Technology)
16:18 J2.004
Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award Talk: \nu_e or not \nu_e? (and other high \Delta m^2 questions)- Janet Conrad (Columbia University)
16:54 J2.005
Neutrinos and Nuclear Astrophysics- Wick Haxton (Institute for Nuclear Theory)
Session J3. DPB: New Directions in Accelerators.
Sunday afternoon, 14:30, Renaissance East, Renaissance Hotel
14:30 J3.001
Challenges of High Luminosity B Factories- Michael Sullivan (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)
15:06 J3.002
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider- Thomas Roser (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
15:42 J3.003
Accelerator Physics Issues for Spallation Neutron Sources- Jie Wei (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Spallation Neutron Source Accelerator Physics Team
16:18 J3.004
Recent Progress in Linac-Based Free-Electron Lasers- Stephen V. Milton (Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory)
16:54 J3.005
Developments in Laser and Plasma-Based Accelerators- Michael Downer (University of Texas at Austin)
Session J4. DNP/GFB: Unsolved Problems in the Few-Nucleon Continuum.
Sunday afternoon, 14:30, Renaissance West A, Renaissance Hotel
14:30 J4.001
Nuclear three-body scattering: progress and problems- Gerald Payne (University of Iowa)
15:06 J4.002
The Nuclear Three-Body Continuum- Carl R. Brune (UNC-Chapel Hill and Triangle Universities Nuclear Laborat ory)
15:42 J4.003
Open problems in radiative capture studies of A=4 nuclei- Henry Weller (Duke University and Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Durham, North Carolina 27708-0308, USA)
16:18 J4.004
Four-Nucleon Scattering: Challenges and Opportunities- António C. Fonseca (Centro de Física Nuclear, University of Lisbon, Av. Gama Pinto 2, 1649-003 Lisbon, PORTUGAL)
Session J5. FEd: Whither Advanced Placement.
Sunday afternoon, 14:30, Renaissance West B, Renaissance Hotel
14:30 J5.001
Where Should We Go With Advanced Placement?- William Lichten (Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University)
15:06 J5.002
The AP Exam: Is This How People Learn?- Arthur Eisenkraft (Bedford Public Schools)
15:42 J5.003
AP as a tool for bringing the results of physics education research to the classroom- Gay Stewart (University of Arkansas, Department of Physics)
16:18 J5.004
Advanced Placement: Access Not Exclusion- Lee Jones (The College Board)
16:54 J5.005
Will the Real Advanced Placement Program Please Stand Up?- Peter Clarke (Bronxville High School)
Session J6. DAP: How Galaxies Form and Evolve.
Sunday afternoon, 14:30, Auditorium, Renaissance Hotel
14:30 J6.001
Evolution of Fluctuations From the Early Universe To Galaxy- David Spergel (Princeton University amp; IAS)
15:06 J6.002
Numerical Simulations of Galaxy Formation- Matthias Steinmetz (University of Arizona)
15:42 J6.003
Formation of the Present Day Galaxies- Chris Mihos (Case Western Reserve University)
16:18 J6.004
Effects of the Cluster Environment on Galaxy Evolution- Ben Moore (Durham University)
16:54 J6.005
Global Star Formation and Gas Dynamics in Colliding and Merging Galaxies- Bruce Elmegreen (IBM Watson Research Center)
Session J8. DNP: Electromagnetic Interactions.
Sunday afternoon, 14:30, Room Congressional B, Renaissance Hotel
14:30 J8.001
Measurement of the Proton's G_Ep/G_Mp Ratio to Q^2=5.6 GeV^2 at JLab- Olivier Gayou (College of William and Mary and Universite de Clermont-Ferrand), JLab Hall A Collaboration
14:42 J8.002
Polarization Transfer in the D(\vec e\,,e^\prime\vec p\,) Reaction- Bitao Hu (Hampton University), JLab E89-028 Collaboration
14:54 J8.003
Neutron Electric Form Factor Measurement at TJNAF- Hongguo Zhu (University of Virginia/Jefferson Lab)
15:06 J8.004
Extraction of g1p in the Resonance Region- Renee Fatemi (University of Virginia), CLAS Collaboration
15:18 J8.005
Angular Distribution Measurements of the d(\gamma,p)n Differential Cross Section at High Energies- Elaine Schulte (Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Hall A Collaboration
15:30 J8.006
Measurement of Proton Polarization in Neutral Pion Photo-production- Krishni Wijesooriya (Argonne National Laboratory), Jefferson Lab Hall-A Collaboration
15:42 J8.007
Dynamical calculations for d(e,e' \pi^+) reactions- Kawtar Hafidi, Harry Lee (Argonne National Laboratory)
15:54 J8.008
Nuclear Transparency from Quasielastic A(e,e'p) Reactions up to Q^2 = 8 (GeV/c)^2- David McKee (New Mexico State University), E94-139 Collaboration
16:06 J8.009
Study of a Possible Nuclear Dependence in R(x,Q^2) = \sigma_L / \sigma_T at Small x and Q^2- M. Eric Christy (Hampton University), JLab E99-118 Collaboration
16:18 J8.010
Measurement of R = \sigma_L / \sigma_T in the Nucleon Resonance Region- Yongguang Liang (The American University / Jefferson Lab), JLab E94-110 Collaboration
16:30 J8.011
A high power liquid hydrogen target for the SLAC E158 experiment- J. Gao, R. Carr, K. Gustafsson, R.D. McKeown, A. Scott (California Institute of Technology), R. Boyce, A. Candia, T. Weber, J.G. Weisend II (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)
16:42 J8.012
Magnetic Verification of the G0 Superconducting Magnet System- Lawrence Lee (University of Manitoba/TRIUMF), G0 Collaboration
Session J9. GGR/GFC: Experimental Gravity and Gravitational Radiation.
Sunday afternoon, 14:30, Room 2, Renaissance Hotel
14:30 J9.001
Precision Measurement of Newton's Constant- Jens H. Gundlach (University of Washington, Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, Department of Physics, Box 354290, Seattle,WA98195)
15:06 J9.002
Sub-millimeter Tests of the Gravitational Inverse-square Law- C.D. Hoyle (University of Washington), Eotwash Group Team
15:18 J9.003
Gravitational Experiment Below 1 Millimeter and Search for Extra-Dimensional Effects- Joshua Long, Allison Churnside, John Price (University of Colorado, Boulder CO)
15:30 J9.004
Testing Scalar-Tensor Gravity using Space Gravitational-Wave Interferometers- Paul D. Scharre, Clifford M. Will (Washington University, St. Louis)
15:42 J9.005
Extension of Sagnac Calibration to Broadband LISA GW Signals- Peter L. Bender (Univ. of Colorado), Craig J. Hogan (Univ. of Washington)
15:54 J9.006
Constraining sources and theories with gravitational wave observations- James Graber (ICS)
16:06 J9.007
Unequal arm gravitational wave interferometers- Shane L. Larson, William A. Hiscock (Montana State University), Ronald W. Hellings (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
16:18 J9.008
Angular Fluctuations of Mirrors at LIGO- Biplab Bhawal (LIGO-Caltech), Gabriela Gonzalez (The Pennsylvania State University), David Ottaway (LIGO-Hanford), Tiffany Summerscales (The Pennsylvania State University)
16:30 J9.009
Measurement of Motion Transfer Functions for Mirror Suspensions- Amber Stuver (Penn State), Mark Beilby (Willamette), Aran Glancy, Gabriela Gonzalez (Penn State)
16:42 J9.010
A directional analysis of environmental signals in gravitational wave detectors- Gabriela Gonzalez (Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry, The Pennsylvania State University)
16:54 J9.011
Testing the Gaussianity of Gravitational-Wave Detector Noise- Lee Samuel Finn, Gabriela Gonzalez, Patrick Sutton (Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry, Penn State)
17:06 J9.012
Scalar Gravity Waves from Neutron Stars- Stephen Fairhurst, Lee Samuel Finn, Joshua L. Willis, Jacek Wisniewski (Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry, Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA)
17:18 J9.013
Physics and Astrophysics from Distorted Pulsars- Stephen Fairhurst, Lee Samuel Finn, Joshua L. Willis, Jacek Wisniewski (Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry, Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA)
Session J10. DPF: Particle Theory.
Sunday afternoon, 14:30, Room 3, Renaissance Hotel
14:30 J10.001
Nonperturbative solution of field theories quantized on the light cone- John Hiller (Department of Physics, University of Minnesota-Duluth)
14:42 J10.002
Frame-Independence of Exclusive Amplitudes in the Light-Front Quantization- Chueng Ji, Chad Mitchell (North Carolina State University)
14:54 J10.003
Effective operators for heavy baryon systems in the combined heavy quark and large N_c limit- Boris Gelman, Thomas Cohen, Chi-Keung Chow, Aziza Baccouche (University of Maryland, College Park)
15:06 J10.004
Phenomenollogy of Heavy Baryons in the Combined Heavy Quark and Large N_c Limit- Aziza Baccouche, Borris Gelman, C.K. Chow, Tom Cohen (University of Maryland at College Park)
15:18 J10.005
Three-solitons scattering- Ramón J Cova (La Universidad del Zulia), UA FC Collaboration
15:30 J10.006
Nystrom plus Correction Method for Solving Bound State Equations in Momentum Space- Alfred Tang, John Norbury (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
15:42 J10.007
The Scattering Problem for the Square-Root Klein-Gordon Equation- Walter S. Jaronski (Radford University, Radford, VA)
15:54 J10.008
Examples of Galilei-invariant mechanics- Harry Woodcock (Philadelphia University)
16:06 J10.009
NEW NEUTRAL CURRENT INTERACTION IN THE SU(2)XU(1) GAUGE GROUP, SPONTANEOUSLY BROKEN BY TWO HIGGS-KIBBLE DOUBLETS- JOSIP SOLN (ARL, Adelphi, MD 20783)
16:18 J10.010
Disproof of the Principle of Local Conservation of Energy in Classical Mechanics- Ronald Bruner (Department of Chemistry and Physics, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ 08028-1701)
16:30 J10.011
A Model of Elementary Particle Interactions- Irshadullah Khan (The College of Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas)
16:42 J10.012
Microcausality and Finslerian Quantum Fields- Howard Brandt (Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD 20783)
16:54 J10.013
On the Seeming Existence of Matter, and the Deeper Nature of Reality as Software Alone- Jagdish Srivastava (CNS Research Professor, Colorado State University)
17:06 J10.014
World Matrix Self-Observability- William Lemmon (4th Generation)
Session J12. DNP: Relativistic Heavy Ions I.
Sunday afternoon, 14:30, Room 5, Renaissance Hotel
14:30 J12.001
Antiproton Production in 19 and 12 GeV/c p-A Collisions at the BNL-AGS.- Brett Fadem (Iowa State University), E941 Collaboration
14:42 J12.002
Leading Baryons in p+A Interactions at the AGS- Andrew Rose (Vanderbilt University), An Tai (University of California at Los Angeles), AGS E941 Collaboration
14:54 J12.003
Equilibrium and non-equilibrium properties associated with the chiral phase transition at finite density in the Gross-Neveu Mode- Fred Cooper (Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545), Wenjin Mao (Department of Physics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854), Anupam Singh (Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545), Alan Chodos (American Physical Society, One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 2074)
15:06 J12.004
Multiplicity Distributions of Charged Particles measured by Phobos at RHIC- Carla Vale (MIT), Phobos Collaboration
15:18 J12.005
Measurement of the Centrality Dependence of Charged Particle Pseudorapidity Density with the PHOBOS Vertex Detector- Michael Reuter (University of Illinois at Chicago), PHOBOS Collaboration
15:30 J12.006
Radial Flow- Jane Burward-Hoy (State University of New York at Stony Brook), PHENIX Collaboration
15:42 J12.007
PHENIX particle multiplicity compared to the predictions from various event generator models- Indrani Ojha (Vanderbilt University), PHENIX Collaboration
15:54 J12.008
Electron Spectroscopy in Au+Au collisions at \sqrts~=~130A~GeV with PHENIX- Ralf Averbeck (State University of New York at Stony Brook), PHENIX Collaboration
16:06 J12.009
A Study of Measurable Vector Meson Effects- James Nagle (Columbia University)
16:18 J12.010
MEASUREMENT OF NEUTRAL PION CORRELATIONS WITH THE PHENIX ELECTROMAGNETIC CALORIMETER- Mike Heffner (LLNL), Phenix Collaboration
16:30 J12.011
STAR HBT Interferometry Results: Charged Pion Correlations at Midrapidity from s^1/2=130 GeV/A Gold-Gold Collisions- Michael Lisa (The Ohio State University), STAR Collaboration
16:42 J12.012
STAR HBT Interferometry Results: Pion Phase Space Density, Kaon HBT, and More- John G. Cramer (Department of Physics, University of Washington), STAR Collaboration
16:54 J12.013
Event-by-event two-particle axial phase-space correlation analysis of Au-Au collisions at \sqrts_NN = 130 GeV- Aya Ishihara (the University of Texas at Austin), the STAR Collaboration
17:06 J12.014
Neutron Spectra and Correlations in AuAu Collisions at RHIC- Michael Murray (Cyclotron Texas A and M University), BRAHMS Collaboration
Session J14. DAP: X-Rays and Gamma Rays.
Sunday afternoon, 14:30, Room 14, Renaissance Hotel
14:30 J14.001
Discovery of a Cyclotron Line in X Per- Laurence E. Peterson, Wayne Coburn, William A. Heindl, Richard E. Rothschild (University of California, San Diego / CASS), Joern Wilms, Ruediger Staubert (University of Tuebingen / IAAT)
14:42 J14.002
Moderate-Frequency QPOs in X-Ray Binaries via Bardeen-Petterson Effect- P. Chris Fragile, Grant Mathews, James Wilson (Center for Astrophysics, University of Notre Dame)
14:54 J14.003
Observations of the BL Lac object, 1H1426+428 at TeV gamma-ray energies.- Trevor Weekes (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (for the VERITAS Collaboration).), VERITAS Collaboration
15:06 J14.004
Model for X-ray Emission in the Jets and Hot Spots of Radio Galaxies- Charles Dermer (Naval Research Laboratory), Hui Li (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
15:18 J14.005
Intrinsic energy cut-off in diffusive shock acceleration: possible reason for non-detection of TeV-protons in SNRs- Mikhail Malkov, Patrick Diamond (University of California at San Diego), Thomas Jones (University of Minnesota)
15:30 J14.006
Relativistic Outflows from ADAFs- Peter Becker (Department of Physics and Astronomy, George Mason University), Prasad Subramanian (National Center for Radio Astrophysics, TIFR, Pune, India), Demosthenes Kazanas (NASA/GSFC, Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics)
15:42 J14.007
Angular Momentum Transport in Thin Accretion Disks and Intermittent Accretion- P.S. Coppi (Yale Univ.), B. Coppi (MIT)
15:54 J14.008
The Kinematics of Gamma-ray Bursts- Jay D. Salmonson (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
16:06 J14.009
Search for short bursts of TeV emission with the Milagrito detector.- Joseph McCullough (University of CA, Santa Cruz), The Milagro Collaboration
16:18 J14.010
The Energy Distribution of Gamma-Ray Bursts- David Band (X-2, Los Alamos National Laboratory)
16:30 J14.011
Gamma-ray bursts as LIGO/VIRGO sources of gravitational radiation- Maurice van Putten (MIT)
16:42 J14.012
The Cloudy Bag Model of Strange Stars- C. Y. Ng, K. S. Cheng (Department of Physics, University of Hong Kong), M. C. Chu (Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong), S. Y. Pei (Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University)
16:54 J14.013
EINSTEIN REVISITED: GRAVITATION IN CURVED SPACETIME WITHOUT EVENT HORIZONS- Darryl J. Leiter (FSTC, Charlottesville, VA), Stanley L. Robertson (Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Weatherford, OK)
17:06 J14.014
DO GALACTIC BLACK HOLE CANDIDATES HAVE INTRINSIC MAGNETIC MOMENTS?- Stanley L. Robertson (Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Weatherford, OK), Darryl J. Leiter (FSTC, Charlottville, VA)
Session J15. DNP: Nuclear Theory II.
Sunday afternoon, 14:30, Room 15, Renaissance Hotel
14:30 J15.001
T=0 and T=1 Pairing In Rotational States of the N=Z Nucleus ^80Zr- Alan Goodman (Tulane U.)
14:42 J15.002
Nonlinear Picture of Nuclear Motion- Gergana Stoitcheva (G. Stoitcheva), Jerry Draayer (J. P. Draayer), Feng Pan (Feng Pan)
14:54 J15.003
Deviations from Boltzmann-Gibbs Statistics for Partially Equilibrated Systems- Athanasios Petridis (Drake University)
15:06 J15.004
An Exactly Solvable Many-Fermion Model- Nouredine Zettili (Jacksonville State University, Department of Physical Sciences, AL 36265)
15:18 J15.005
Deformations of the Fermion sp(4) Representation and its Subalgebras- Kristina Sviratcheva (Department of Physics and Astronomy,Louisiana State University,Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803), Ana Georgieva (Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy,72 Tzarigradsko chaussee Blvd.,BG–1784 Sofia, Bulgaria), Vesselin Gueorguiev, Jerry Draayer (Department of Physics and Astronomy,Louisiana State University,Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803), Michail Ivanov (Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy,72 Tzarigradsko chaussee Blvd.,BG–1784 Sofia, Bulgaria)
15:30 J15.006
Regge 6j symmetries and Spectra that result when T=0 Two body Interaction Matrix Elements are set equal to zero- Shadow J.Q. Robinson, Larry Zamick (Rutgers University)
15:42 J15.007
SU(3) Density Matrix Theory- George Rosensteel, Tsetsa Dankova (Tulane University)
15:54 J15.008
Neutron resonances, shell model spectra and random matrix theory- Declan Mulhall (Department of Physics and Astronomy and National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824), Mihai Horoi (Physics Department, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI 48859), Vladimir Zelevinsky (Department of Physics and Astronomy and National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824)
16:06 J15.009
A new efficient method for the Lippman-Schwinger integral equation"- George H. Rawitscher (Physics Department, University of Connecticut), I. Koltracht (Mathematics Department, University of Connecticut)
16:18 J15.010
Influence of the Coulomb Interaction on the Chemical Equilibrium of Nuclear Systems at Breakup- Jan Tõke, Wojtek Gawlikowicz, Wolf-Udo Schröder (University of Rochester), University of Rochester Team
16:30 J15.011
Energy spectra and electromagnetic transitions of Dy isotopes in the pseudo-SU(3) model- Gabriela Popa, J.P. Draayer (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University), J.G. Hirsch (Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
16:42 J15.012
Let Coset Invariance and Relativistic Invariance- Wayne Polyzou (The University of Iowa)
16:54 J15.013
Three Dimensional Calculations of the NN System- Ch. Elster (Ohio University), I. Fachruddin, W. Gloeckle (Ruhr-University Bochum)