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)
   

Session S13. General Physics.

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)