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)