Program overview
TUESDAY MORNING, 1 MAY 2001
Session V2. DNP: Nuclear Structure at the Limits of Stability.
Tuesday morning, 08:00, Grand Ballroom South, Renaissance Hotel
14:30 V2.001
Study of the 11B(p,d)10Be reaction and prospects for nulceon transfer studies with radioactive beams- Wilton Catford (Department of Physics)
15:06 V2.002
Nuclear Masses and Nucleosynthesis in the Universe- Ani Aprahamian (Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556)
15:42 V2.003
The nuclear structure above N=40 in Co, Ni, and Cu nuclei produced in resonant-laser ion sources.- Wilhelm F. Mueller (University of Leuven, 200D Celestijnenlaan, B3001 Leuven, BELGIUM)
16:18 V2.004
The Production and Stability of the Heaviest Elements- Robert Smola\'nczuk (So\ltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Ho\.za 69, PL-00-681 Warszawa, Poland)
Session V3. DPF/DPB: Joint DPF - DPB Prize Session.
Tuesday morning, 08:00, Renaissance East, Renaissance Hotel
08:00 V3.001
Panofsky Prize Address - The Rise of Large Physics Collaborations- Paul Grannis (SUNY Stony Brook)
08:36 V3.002
Sakurai Prize Address - TBD- Nathan Isgur (Jefferson Laboratory)
09:00 V3.003
Sakurai Prize Address - Navigating through Strong Interactions with Heavy Quarks- Mikhail Voloshin (TPI, University of Minnesota and ITEP, Moscow)
09:24 V3.004
Sakurai Prize Address - TBD- Mark Wise (Cal Tech)
09:48 V3.005
Collective phenomena in electron beams: physics and applications.- Claudio Pellegrini (Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA)
10:24 V3.006
Ceremony recognizing new DPF and DPB Fellows- Ron Davidson (PPPL)
Session V4. DPP: The X-Ray/Gamma Ray Connection.
Tuesday morning, 08:00, Renaissance West A, Renaissance Hotel
08:00 V4.001
The BATSE Experiment on the Compton Observatory- Gerald J. Fishman (NASA-MSFC)
08:36 V4.002
The World of Compact Objects as Revealed by RXTE's Observations- Jean Swank (Goddard Space Flight Center)
09:12 V4.003
Chandra Observations of Supernova Remnants and the Galactic Center- Gordon Garmire (Penn State University)
09:48 V4.004
Progress towards an Advanced Compton Telescope mission- James Kurfess (Naval Research Laboratory)
10:24 V4.005
Dedication to Herbert Friedman- Herbert Gursky (Naval Research Laboratory)
Session V5. FEd: Recruiting and Retaining Women.
Tuesday morning, 08:00, Renaissance West B, Renaissance Hotel
08:00 V5.001
Technology Camp for 6-8th Grade Young Women- Catherine Chess (IBM Corporation - TJ Watson Research), Technology Camp for Young Women Team
08:36 V5.002
The IBM/APS Research Internship for Undergraduate Women- Barbara Jones (IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA)
09:12 V5.003
Women in Physics: The Next Generation At Our National Laboratories- Cheryl Krossa (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
09:48 V5.004
Changing Roles for Women at Research Universities- Heidi Newberg (RPI)
Session V6. FHP/DAMOP: History of Atomic Collision Physics.
Tuesday morning, 08:00, Auditorium, Renaissance Hotel
08:00 V6.001
The quantum-classical correspondence: What happened to the Kepler-Bohr orbits in quantum mechanics?- Michael Nauenberg (University of California Santa Cruz)
08:36 V6.002
Atomic Collision Processes in Astrophysics- Alexander Dalgarno (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
09:12 V6.003
The Quest for the Perfect Scattering Experiment- T.J. Gay (Behlen Laboratory of Physics, University of Nebraska)
09:48 V6.004
The history of the use of lasers in atomic collision physics- Thomas Gallagher (Department of Physics)
Session V9. DPP: Magnetoplasmas in Laboratory and Space; Education Issues.
Tuesday morning, 08:00, Room 2, Renaissance Hotel
08:00 V9.001
Novel Feature of the Improved Mode on STOR-M Tokamak- S. Sen, A. Fukuyama (Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan), C. Xiao, A. Hirose (University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada), R.A. Cairns (University of St. Andrews, St-Andrews, UK)
08:12 V9.002
Magnetic Reconnection Events in the MST Reversed Field Pinch – Structure of Reconnection Layer and Ion Heating- G. Fiksel, D. Craig, N.A. Crocker, D.J. Den Hartog, S.C. Prager, J. Reardon, J.S. Sarff (Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin - Madison)
08:24 V9.003
Conserving Magnetic Helicity in Astrophysical Dynamos- Ethan Vishniac (Johns Hopkins University), Jungyeon Cho (University of Wisconsin)
08:36 V9.004
Particle injection though reconnection in the dayside magnetopause- Ken-Ichi Nishikawa (Rutgers University)
08:48 V9.005
Tearing mode instability of the magnetotail thin current sheet: Roles of trapped and transient electrons- Mikhail I Sitnov, A. Surjalal Sharma, Parvez N. Guzdar (University of Maryland)
09:00 V9.006
Spatio-temporal structure of geomagnetic activity triggered by dynamic pressure pulses: Mutual information functional analysis- Jonathan W. Edwards, A. Surjalal Sharma, Mikhail I Sitnov (University of Maryland)
09:12 V9.007
Phase transition and critical behavior of the magnetosphere during substorms- A. Surjalal Sharma, Mikhail I Sitnov, Dennis Papadopoulos (University of Maryland)
09:24 V9.008
Intermittence in the solar wind turbulence illustrated by Castaing probability density functions and their cascade- Miriam A. Forman (SUNY Stony Brook), Leonard F. Burlaga (NASA/Goddard Spaceflight Center)
09:36 V9.009
The Use of a Glow Discharge Source in Teaching Introductory Physics- Andrew Post-Zwicker (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Sophia Gershman (Watchung Hills Regional High School, Warren, NJ)
09:48 V9.010
Enlivening Introductory Physics With SETI- Art Hobson (University of Arkansas)
10:00 V9.011
Retaining undergrads, and preparing grads for academic jobs: the PFPF program- Gay Stewart (University of Arkansas)
10:12 V9.012
The IEC Device as a Low Cost Student Experiment with a Burning Fusion Plasma- George H. Miley (University of Illinois, UIUC Campus, Urbana, IL 61801)
Session V10. DNP: RHIC Instrumentation.
Tuesday morning, 08:00, Room 3, Renaissance Hotel
08:00 V10.001
The STAR-RICH Detector at RHIC- Matt Horsley (Yale University), STAR Collaboration, STAR-RICH (Yale-Bari-CERN) Collaboration
08:12 V10.002
The PHENIX Event Builder- Sean Kelly (Columbia University), The PHENIX Collaboration
08:24 V10.003
Status and Expectations of the Muon Tracking System of PHENIX- Rusty Towell (Los Alamos National Laboratory), PHENIX Collaboration
08:36 V10.004
Muon Reconstruction and Particle Identification- Yajun Mao (CIAE/RIKEN), PHENIX Collaboration
08:48 V10.005
Front-End Electronics in the Muon Tracking System of the PHENIX Experiment- Ming X. Liu (Los Alamos Natinal Lab), PHENIX Collaboration
09:00 V10.006
Readiness of the PHENIX Muon Identifier for Au+Au and Polarized p+p Collisions at RHIC- Hiroki Sato (Kyoto University), PHENIX Collaboration
09:12 V10.007
The PHENIX Muon Identifier Front End Electronics- Andrew Glenn (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), PHENIX Collaboration
09:24 V10.008
The PHENIX Muon Arm Triggers- Jason Newby (University of Tennessee), PHENIX Collaboration
09:36 V10.009
Studies on a Vertex Spectrometer for the PHENIX Experiment at RHIC- Johann M. Heuser (State University of New York at Stony Brook), PHENIX Collaboration
Session V11. GGR: Quantum Gravity.
Tuesday morning, 08:00, Room 4, Renaissance Hotel
08:00 V11.001
Bouchet Award talk: Canonical quantum gravity, progress and challenges- Jorge Pullin (Penn State)
08:36 V11.002
Semiclassical perturbations of extreme black holes- William Hiscock (Montana State University), Paul Anderson (Wake Forest University), Brett Taylor (Radford University)
08:48 V11.003
Quantum Inequalities for the Electromagnetic Field- Michael Pfenning (Univ. of Guelph)
09:00 V11.004
Quantum Singularity of Quasiregular Spacetimes- Deborah A. Konkowski (U.S. Naval Academy), Thomas M. Helliwell (Harvey Mudd College)
09:12 V11.005
Quantization of maximally-charged slowly-moving black holes- George Siopsis (The University of Tennessee)
09:24 V11.006
Planck Length Coefficient in GR Field Equations- Karl Moesgen (Newton College, La Molina Lima Peru)
09:36 V11.007
Delocalizations of Dp-branes- Pedro J. Silva (Syracuse University)
09:48 V11.008
Schrodinger's Equation,General Relativity, and Natural Strings- Chris Vuille (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University)
10:00 V11.009
Quantum mechanics applied to the gravitational redshift- ARI BRYNJOLFSSON
10:12 V11.010
Stochastic Definitions of Planck and Boltzmann Constants and Quantum Theory of Gravitation- S H. Sohrab (Northwestern University)
10:24 V11.011
Spin Gravity and Strings- Richard Hammond (North Dakota State University)
Session V12. DNP: Nuclear Reactions: Heavy-Ions/Rare Isotope Beams.
Tuesday morning, 08:00, Room 5, Renaissance Hotel
08:00 V12.001
The ^12C(^7\vecLi,^6Li)^13C Transfer Reaction- E.E. Bartosz, N. Keeley, K.W. Kemper (Florida State University)
08:12 V12.002
A ^5He + \alpha Cluster Model of ^9Be- N. Keeley, K.W. Kemper (Florida State University), K. Rusek (The Andrzej So\l tan Institute for Nuclear Studies)
08:24 V12.003
Decay Characteristics of an Excited Projectile-like Fragment in ^106,114Cd + ^98,92Mo Reactions at 50 MeV/A- R. Alfaro, B. Davin, L. Beaulieu, R.T. DeSouza, Y. Larochelle, T. Lefort, V.E. Viola, H.S. Xu, R. Yanez (IUCF and Indiana University, IN 47408), C.K. Gelbke, T.X. Liu, X.D. Liu, W.G. Lynch, A. Vander Molen, R. Shomin, W.P. Tan, M.B. Tsang, A. Wagner, H.F. Xi (NSCL and Michigan State University, MI, 48824), R.J. Charity, L.G. Sobotka (Washington University, MO 63130), A. Botvina (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany)
08:36 V12.004
Nuclear temperature of 8 GeV/c negative pion and anti-proton on gold reactions- A. Ruangma, R. Laforest, E. Martin, E. Ramakrishnan, D.J. Rowland, E.M. Winchester, S.J. Yennello (Cyclotron Institute, Texas Aamp;M University), L. Beaulieu, W.-c. Hsi, K. Kwiatkowski, T. Lafort, V.E. Viola (Indiana University), L. Pienkowski (Warsaw University, Poland), R.G. Korteling (Simon Fraser University, Canada), H. Breuer (University of Maryland), S. Gushue, L.P. Remsberg (Brookhaven National Laboratory), B. Back (Argonne National Laboratory)
08:48 V12.005
Nucleus-Nucleus total cross sections in multiple scattering approach- Ram K. Tripathi, John W. Wilson (NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23681), Francis A. Cucinotta (NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058)
09:00 V12.006
Isotope Yield Systematics from Cd+Mo reactions at E/A=50 MeV- H.S. Xu, B. Davin, R. Alfaro-Molina, R.T. de Souza, L. Beaulieu, Y. Larochelle, T. Lefort, V.E. Viola, R. Yanez (Department of Chemistry and Indiana University Cyclotron Facility, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47408), T.X. Liu, X.D. Liu, W.G. Lynch, R. Shomin, W.P. Tan, M.B. Tsang, G. Verde, A. Wagner, H.F. Xi, C.K. Gelbke (National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824), R.J. Charity, L.G. Sobotka (Department of Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130)
09:12 V12.007
Characterization of reaction mechanisms in the ^209Bi+^136Xe reaction- W. Gawlikowicz, D.K. Agnihotri, W. Skulski, J. Toke, W. U. Schroeder (University of Rochester), R.J. Charity, L.G. Sobotka (Washington University), T. Barczyk, K. Grotowski, S. Micek, R. Planeta, Z. Sosin (Jagellonian University, Cracow)
09:24 V12.008
Optimization of Isotope-Separator-On-Line Targets Based on Monte-Carlo Simulations of Ion Release Curves- Brahim MUSTAPHA, Jerry NOLEN (Argonne National Laboratory)
09:36 V12.009
AMS at HRIBF- B. Fuentes, A. Galindo-Uribarri, J. Gomez del Campo, J.F. Liang, G. Mills, G.D. Alton, R. Auble, J.R. Beene, R.C. Juras, M. Meigs, D.C. Radford, S. Raman (Physics Division, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN), J. Doupe, A.E. Litherland (IsoTrace Lab., U. Of Toronto)
09:48 V12.010
Status of the negative ion beam cooler at HRIBF- J.F. Liang, Y. Liu, G.D. Alton, J.R. Beene (Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S.A.), H. Wollnik, Zh. Zhou (II. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Giessen, Germany)