Program overview
MONDAY AFTERNOON, 30 APRIL 2001
Session S1. FPS: National Missile Defense.
Monday afternoon, 14:30, Grand Ballroom North/Central, Renaissance Hotel
14:30 S1.001
Scientific Challenges and Opportunities in Missile Defense- Peter Franklin (Deputy Director, Ballistic Missile Defense Off)
15:06 S1.002
NMD Against Rogue States-- Are We On the Right Track?- Richard L. Garwin (Senior Fellow for Science and Technology, Council on Foreign Relations)
15:42 S1.003
Countermeasures to the US National Missile Defense- Lisbeth Gronlund (Union of Concerned Scientists amp; MIT Security Studies Program)
16:18 S1.004
National Missile Defense Progress and Issues- Edward Gerry (The Boeing Company)
Session S2. DNP: Division of Nuclear Physics Prize Session.
Monday afternoon, 14:30, Grand Ballroom South, Renaissance Hotel
14:30 S2.001
2001 Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics Lecture- Richard GELLER (Institut des Sciences Nucléaires/IN2P3-CNRS - Grenoble)
15:06 S2.002
2001 Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics Lecture: ECR Ion Sources for Heavy-ion Nuclear Physics- Claude Lyneis (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
15:42 S2.003
Explosive ^17F(p,\gamma)^18Ne Burning Through the 3^+ State in ^18Ne- Daniel W. Bardayan (Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
16:18 S2.004
Bethe Prize Talk- Gerald Brown (SUNY, Stonybrook)
16:54 S2.005
Highlights in Nuclear Physics- Walter Henning (GSI)
Session S3. DPP: Self-Organization in Plasma Systems.
Monday afternoon, 14:30, Renaissance East, Renaissance Hotel
14:30 S3.001
Coulomb Crystal Experiments in Dusty Plasmas- J. Goree (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, The Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242)
15:06 S3.002
Simulation of Structures in Dusty Plasma- Glenn Joyce (Naval Research Laboratory)
15:42 S3.003
Vortex Dynamics in 2-D Fluid Turbulence: Theory and Experiments Using Non-neutral Plasmas- Daniel H.E. Dubin (University of California, San Diego)
16:18 S3.004
Phase Transitions and Self-Organized Criticality in Laser-Cooled, Crystallized Ion Plasmas- J.J. Bollinger (NIST, Boulder, CO 80305)
16:54 S3.005
Plasmas as a Prototypical Complex System: Self-Organized Criticality as a Paradigm for Plasma Transport- David Newman (Univ. of Alaska - Fairbanks)
Session S4. GFC: Femtosecond Optical Frequency Comb Metrology.
Monday afternoon, 14:30, Renaissance West A, Renaissance Hotel
14:30 S4.001
Along the Highway to Optical Clocks: an Overview- John Hall (JILA, University of Colorado)
15:06 S4.002
Harnessing the Single Ion: Precision Measurements across the Optical Spectrum using a Trapped Strontium Ion Optical Frequency Standard- Alan Madej (Institute for National Measurement Standards, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada)
15:42 S4.003
Measuring the Frequency of Light with Femtosecond Laser Pulses- Thomas Udem (Max-Planck-Institut fnr Quantenoptik, Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany)
16:18 S4.004
Phase stabilized femtosecond laser combs: From optical frequency synthesizer to quantum dynamics- Jun Ye (JILA, University of Colorado)
16:54 S4.005
Femtosecond comb metrology at PTB- Harald R. Telle (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig, Germany)
17:30 S4.006
Frequency measurements of cold-atom clocks- Scott A. Diddams (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Session S5. DPF: New Ideas in Theory.
Monday afternoon, 14:30, Renaissance West B, Renaissance Hotel
14:30 S5.001
Gravitational Description of Gauge Theories- Igor Klebanov (Princeton University)
15:06 S5.002
New Physics with Extra Dimensions- Nima Arkani-Hamed (University of California)
15:42 S5.003
Supersymmetry Breaking in String Theory- Eva Silverstein (Stanford University)
16:18 S5.004
Some New Ideas on Neutrinos- Georgi Dvali (New York University)
16:54 S5.005
SUSY and Intermediate Extra Dimensions- Markus Luty (University of Maryland)
Session S6. DAP: High Energy Physics.
Monday afternoon, 14:30, Auditorium, Renaissance Hotel
14:30 S6.001
Galactic Sources of High Energy Photons- Heinrich Völk (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany), HEGRA Collaboration
15:06 S6.002
Extragalactic Sources of High Energy Photons- Meg Urry (Space Telescope Science Institute)
15:42 S6.003
The Next Generation of Gamma Ray Telescopes in Space- Neil Gehrels (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
16:18 S6.004
The Next Generation of Ground-based Gamma Ray Telescopes- Frank Krennrich (Iowa State University)
16:54 S6.005
Using High Energy Photons to Determine the Flux and Spectrum of Intergalactic Radiation from Galaxies- Floyd W. Stecker (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Session S10. DPF: Electroweak Interactions.
Monday afternoon, 14:30, Room 3, Renaissance Hotel
14:30 S10.001
Esther Hoffman Beller Lectureship: Search for new Physics Using Dilepton Data at Hadron Colliders- Naba K. Mondal (Tata Institute, Mumbai)
15:06 S10.002
A New Upper Limit on the \DeltaL=2 Hyperon Decay \Xi^-\rightarrow p\mu^-\mu^-.- Durga Rajaram (Illinois Institute of Technology, HyperCP collaboration)
15:18 S10.003
W/Z plus Gamma Studies at the Tevatron Collider- Marina Brozovic (CDF), CDF Collaboration
15:30 S10.004
Electroweak Physics at the ATLAS experiment at the CERN LHC- Vasile Mikhai Ghete (Leopold Franzens University, Innsbruck), ATLAS Collaboration
15:42 S10.005
W/Z Plus Gamma Studies- Marina Brozovic, CDF Collaboration
15:54 S10.006
Recent results on the e^+e^- \rightarrow W^+W^- cross-section and W mass from the DELPHI experiment.- Daniel Jeans (Nuclear Physics Laboratory, Oxford University, UK), DELPHI Collaboration
16:06 S10.007
Results on W+\gamma and Z+\gamma Production using the CDF Detector- Leonard Christofek (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for the CDF Collaboration)
16:18 S10.008
Precision Physics with the ATLAS detector at the CERN LHC- Theodota Lagouri (Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik, Munich), ATLAS Collaboration
16:30 S10.009
Measurement of triple gauge boson couplings from W+W- production at LEP2- Kay Roscoe (Manchester University), OPAL Collaboration
16:42 S10.010
Direct Measurement of W Decay Width- Qichun Xu (D0 Collaboration)
Session S11. DPF: Heavy Flavors: Production and Decays.
Monday afternoon, 14:30, Room 4, Renaissance Hotel
14:30 S11.001
Partial Wave Analysis of the D_s^\pm \to K^0_\scriptscriptstyle S K^0_\scriptscriptstyle S \pi^\pm Decay- Helmut Schmuecker (Ruhr Univ. Bochum), BABAR Collaboration
14:42 S11.002
Measurement of \cal B(D^+ \rightarrow \barK^*0 \ell^+ \nu_\ell)- Sang-Joon Lee (University of Minnesota), CLEO Collaboration
14:54 S11.003
Doubly Charmed B Decays in BABAR- Sophie Trincaz-Duvoid (LAL, Orsay), BABAR Collaboration
15:06 S11.004
Doubly Charmed B Decays in BABAR- Patrick Robbe (LAPP, Annecy), BABAR Collaboration
15:18 S11.005
A Measurement of the B^0 \to D^*+D^*- Branching Ratio- Vincent Lillard (University of Maryland), BABAR Collaboration
15:30 S11.006
Measurement of B \to D^(*)D^(*) Branching Ratios- Justin Albert (Princeton University), BABAR Collaboration
15:42 S11.007
Production of Charged Pions, Kaons and Protons in e^+e^- Annihilations in Hadronic \Upsilon (4S) Decays- David Muller (SLAC), BABAR Collaboration
15:54 S11.008
Status and Plans for the HERA-B Experiment- Robert Harr (Wayne State University), HERA-B Collaboration
16:06 S11.009
J/psi Differential Cross Sections at HERA-B- Mark W. Buchler, Paul E. Karchin (Wayne State University), Hera-B Collaboration
16:18 S11.010
A Preliminary Study of the Structure of b\barbg Events using Z^0 Decays- Hidemi Akimoto (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center), SLD Collaboration
16:30 S11.011
Top quark and bottom quark production cross sections at NNLO- Nikolaos Kidonakis (Florida State University)
16:42 S11.012
A Neural Network Measurement of t\bart Cross Section Using Kinematics in p\barp Collisions at \sqrts=1.8 TeV- Eric Moore (University of New Mexico, for the CDF Collaboration)
16:54 S11.013
Spin Correlations in Top Production and Decay at e+e- Colliders- Andrew E. Blechman, Cosmin Macesanu, Lynne H. Orr (University of Rochester)
17:06 S11.014
Top physics at using the ATLAS detector at the CERN LHC- Dugan O'Neil (University of Michigan), ATLAS Collaboration
Session S12. GGR: Black Hole Entropy.
Monday afternoon, 14:30, Room 5, Renaissance Hotel
14:30 S12.001
Black Hole Entropy in String Theory- Vijay Balasubramanian (University of Pennsylvania)
15:06 S12.002
Quantum Geometry of Isolated Horizons and Black Hole Entropy.- Stephen Fairhurst (Penn State University)
15:42 S12.003
Boundary conditions, constraints, and black hole entropy- Steven Carlip (U.C. Davis)
16:06 S12.004
Horizon Entropy- Ted Jacobson (University of Maryland, College Park)
16:30 S12.005
Black hole entropy calculations based on symmetries- Olaf Dreyer, Amit Ghosh, Jacek Wisniewski (Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry, PennState)
16:42 S12.006
Remarks on Quantum Black Hole Entropy for Mini Superspace Models- Octavio Obregon (ggr), Miguel Sabido, Vladimir Tkach
16:54 S12.007
Negative Tension Branes, Black Holes, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics- Donald Marolf (Syracuse University)
Monday afternoon, 14:30, Room 12-13, Renaissance Hotel
14:30 S13.001
Identity of Particles and Continuum Hypothesis- Alexander A. Berezin (McMaster University)
14:42 S13.002
Experiments to Understand High Temperature Plasma Confinement in Dipole Magnetic Fields- M.~E. Mauel, D.~T. Garnier, A. Hansen, B. Levitt, D. Maslovsky (Columbia University), J. Kesner (MIT PSFC)
14:54 S13.003
Angular Momentum "generation" in Axisymmetric Plasmas- B. Coppi (MIT)
15:06 S13.004
The Ignitor Experiment and Efficient Density Profiles for Fusion Burning- F. Bombarda, B. Coppi, P. Detragiache (ENEA, Italy and MIT)
15:18 S13.005
Study of the ^235U(n,f) Process using GEANIE- W. Younes, J.A. Becker, L.A. Bernstein, P.E. Garrett, C.A. McGrath, D.P. McNabb (LLNL), R.O. Nelson, G.D. Johns, D.M. Drake, W.S. Wilburn (LANL)
15:30 S13.006
Accountability in Science During the Information Era: Lessons Drawn from the "Cold Fusion Furor"- Scott Chubb (Research Systems Inc., 9822 Pebble Weigh Ct., Burke, VA 22015-3378)
15:42 S13.007
Historic Experiments in Radiationless Deuterium Fusion- Talbot Chubb (Research Systems Inc., 5023 N. 38 St., Arlington, VA 22207; EMAIL: tchubb@aol.com)
15:54 S13.008
One Cold Fusion Speaker is One Too Many for a Future Energy Conference- Thomas Vallone (Integrity Research Institute,1220 L St. NW #100-232, Washington, DC 20005; EMAIL: iri@erols.com)
16:06 S13.009
Some Personal Reflections on the Cold Fusion ``Epsisode"- George H. Miley (Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering University of Illinois,103 S. Goodwin Avenue,Urbana, IL 61801; Ph: (217) 333-3772,Email: g-miley@uiuc.edu)
16:18 S13.010
May 1, 1989- A Critical Turning Point in the Cold Fusion Saga: APS, MIT and the Real Story- Sc.D. Mallove, Dr.F. Eugene (Infinite Energy Magazine, PO Box 2816,Concord, NH 03302-2816, Ph: (603.228.4516), Email: editor@infinite-energy.com), Talbot Chubb (Research Systems Inc., 5023 N. 38 St., Arlington, VA 22207; EMAIL: chubbscott@aol.com)
16:30 S13.011
And now, the long-awaited... "THEORY OF EVERYTHING"- Eugene Sittampalam (Affiliation none)
16:42 S13.012
MEASUREMENT OF THE DIVERGENCE OF LOW ENERGY ELECTRON BEAMS USING OTR – ODR INTERFEROMETRY- A. Shkvarunets, P. O'Shea, D. Feldman (Institute for Plasma Research, University of Maryland), R. Fiorito (Department of Physics, Catholic University of America), UMD Collaboration, CUA Collaboration
Session S14. DAP: Cosmology and Theory.
Monday afternoon, 14:30, Room 14, Renaissance Hotel
14:30 S14.001
Kinematics of Nonlocal Spacetime- Jose L Balduz Jr (Department of Physics, Mercer University, Macon, Georgia 31207)
14:42 S14.002
General Relativity's "Proofs" Need to be Looked at More Closely.- Ronald Kotas (Grand Quantum Research)
14:54 S14.003
Testing General Relativity With Unstable Orbits- Lucas Wanex (graduate student at the University of Nevada Reno)
15:06 S14.004
The Clifford Conjecture and Cold Dark Matter- D.F. Scofield (ApplSci, Inc, 128 Country Flower Rd, Newark, DE 19711)
15:18 S14.005
Interpreting High-Z Red Shift Cosmological Data- R.L. Collins (retired)
15:30 S14.006
Unique Low Velocity Longitudinal Waves Explain Earth and Sun Magnetic Phenomena- Orvin E. Wagner (Wagner Research Laboratory)
15:42 S14.007
What Causes the Large-Scale Structure of Galaxies in the Universe?- Howard D. Greyber (Greybar Assoc.)
15:54 S14.008
Cosmic Degenerate Matter: Gravitational Condensation of Ultra-Low Mass Bosons- M. P. Silverman (Trinity College), R. L. Mallett (University of Connecticut)
16:06 S14.009
New Bounce Size Estimate for the Pulsating Universe- Frank Tangherlini (Retired)
16:18 S14.010
A Possible Solution to Several Astrophysical Problems- Steven Scurlock (Stephen F. Austin State University)
16:30 S14.011
An Electron is the God Particle- Milo Wolff (Technotran Press)
S14.012
Other W-wave Influences- Orvin E. Wagner (Wagner Research Laboratory)