Program overview

FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 30 MARCH 2001

15:00 AA.001 Atomics: a Capstone Laboratory in Optics and Atomic Physics*

C. Boekema, R.D. Bahuguna, V.A. Gubanov (San Jose State University)

15:15 AA.002 Hydrogen formation cross sections in positron Hydrogen scattering

Chi Yu Hu, david Caballero, Zolton Papp (Dept. of physics, California State University at Long Beach)

15:30 AA.003 Fast-Ion Transport Caused By Fluctuations

L. Zhao, H. Boehmer, D. Edrich, W. W. Heidbrink, R. McWilliams (University of California, Irvine), W. Gekelman (University of California, Los Angeles)

15:45 AA.004 Electron Impact Excitation of Neon - Tests of Wavefunctions used in Scattering Models

Joseph Wrkich, Michael Larsen, M.A. Khakoo (Physics Department, California State University, Fullerton), Electron Scattering Group Team

16:00 AA.005 Exchange Interaction for e-Atom Scattering at Intermediate Energies

Joseph Paikeday (Southeast Missouri State University)

15:00 AB.001 Theoretical calculation of the Equation of State of Condensed Helium at High Pressure

Soon-Yong Chang, Massimo Boninsegni (San Diego State University)

15:15 AB.002 Helium in Corrugated Nanopores

Massimo Boninsegni (Department of Physics, San Diego State University), Seung-Yeop Lee, Vincent H. Crespi (Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University)

15:30 AB.003 Self-diffusion of hard-sphere fluids in cylindrical confinement

David Allison, Massimo Boninsegni (Department of Physics, San Diego State University)

15:45 AB.004 STRUCTURAL AND MAGNETIC STUDIES IN BiMnO_3

H. Martinho, R.R. Urbano, C. Rettori, A. Garcia Perez, I. Torriani (Instituto de Física "Gleb Wataghin", UNICAMP, 13083-970, Campinas-SP, Brazil), S.B. Oseroff (San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182,U.S.A.), S-W Cheong, T.Y. Koo (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers Univ. Piscataway, NJ 08854, U.S.A.)

16:00 AB.005 Microscopic Models of 2D Magnets with Fractionalized Excitations

Kirill Shtengel (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, UC Irvine), Chetan Nayak (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA)

16:15 AB.006 DYNAMIC STABILITY OF THE ACTINIDES DETERMINED FROM DENSITY FUNCTIONAL PERTURBATION THEORY

Andrew Quong, Babak Sadigh (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

16:30 AB.007 Microanalysis of biologically transformed manganese oxides

Andrea Belz (California Institute of Technology and Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Channing Ahn (Cailfornia Institute of Technology), Kenneth Nealson (California Institute of Technology and Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

16:45 AB.008 Three Examples of Domain Coarsening in Electroconvection

Carina Kamaga, Michael Dennin (University of California, Irvine)

17:00 AB.009 Magnetostatic Spin Wave Modes in Ferromagnetic Nanowires; A New Approach

Rodrigo Arias , D. L. Mills (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of California, Irvine, Ca. 92697)

17:15 AB.010 Magnetic Coupling In Antiferromagnetic/Ferromagnetic Sandwiches - A Spectromicroscopy Study

Hendrik Ohldag, Joachim Stöhr, Frithjof Nolting (Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory), Andreas Scholl (Advanced Light Source), Tom Regan, Robert L. White (Stanford University), Simone Anders (IBM Almaden Research Center), Nils B. Weber, Franz U. Hillebrecht (University of Düsseldorf)

15:00 AC.001 Precision Measurements with an Atomic Candle

James Camparo (The Aerospace Corporation)

15:15 AC.002 Light Scattering from a Surface Defect

M. Kretschmann, T.A. Leskova, A.A. Maradudin (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine CA 92697)

15:30 AC.003 The Design of One-Dimensional Random Surfaces that Display Enhanced Backscattering for Only One Angle of Incidence

T.A. Leskova, A.A. Maradudin (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine CA 92697), M. Ciftan (Physics Division, U. S. Army Research Office, P. O. Box 12211, Research Triangle Park NC 27709-2211)

15:45 AC.004 A Band-Limited Uniform Diffuser in Transmission

A.A. Maradudin, T.A. Leskova (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine CA 92697 USA), E.R. Méndez (CICESE, Ensenada, B.C. México)

16:00 AC.005 Double resonant processes in 1D nonlinear periodic media

Vladimir Kuzmiak (Department of Physics and Astronomy, UC Irvine, CA, U.S.A.), Vladimir Konotop (Centro de Fisica Condensada , Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)

16:15 AC.006 Scattering properties of a cylindrical crystal fabricated from left-handed material

Vladimir Kuzmiak, Alexei Maradudin (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California Irvine, CA, U.S.A.)

16:30 AC.007 Scattering of Electromagnetic Waves from a Random Surface of a Left-Handed Medium

Tamara Leskova, Alexei Maradudin (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California, 92697)

15:00 AD.001 Pion Phase Space Density and Source Charge Density in 2-8 AGeV Au+Au Collisions

Daniel Cebra (University of California, Davis), E895 Collaboration

15:15 AD.002 Radial and Longitudinal Flow in 2-8 AGeV Au+Au Collisions

J.L. Klay (University of California, Davis, California 95616), E895 Collaboration

15:30 AD.003 Pion phase space density in pp collisions at the SPS

Thomas Gutierrez, Daniel Ferenc (University of California, Davis)

15:45 AD.004 Search for Second Neutral Pion

W. A. Perkins (Perkins Advanced Computer Systems)

16:00 AD.005 Charged Hadron Spectra from \sqrts_NN = 130 GeV at RHIC

Stephenie Ritchey (University of California, Davis, CA 95616), STAR Collaboration

16:15 AD.006 The National Ignition Facility – Status and Plans for Laser Fusion and High Energy Density Experimental Studies

Craig R. Wuest (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

16:30 AD.007 An Important Issue: Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

Doc Castellano (PhD Co.)

16:45 AD.008 Equations governing non-static stellar structure, pulsating stars and gravitational wave

K. U. Lu (Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics, Calif. State University, Long Beach, Ca 90840)

17:00 AD.009 Origin of the Natural Laws from Wave Structure

Milo Wolff (Technotran Press)

15:00 AE.001 Room Temperature Scanning Laser Microscopy for the Study of High Temperature Superconducting Thin Films

B. E. Klein, S. Seo, C. Kwon (Department of Physics and Astronomy, California State University-Long Beach, Long Beach, CA 90840)

15:15 AE.002 High Pressure synthesis of MgB2 superconductor with Tc above 39 K

C.-Q JIN, Shaochun LI, Jialin ZHU, Richeng YU, Fengying LI, Zhenxing LIU (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. O. Box 603, Beijing 100080)

15:30 AE.003 High pressure synthesis and superconductivty of MgB2 with Tc above 39K

C.-Q JIN, Shaochun LI, Jia-lin ZHU, Richeng YU, Fengying LI, Zhenxing LIU (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, P. R. China)

15:45 AE.004 Vibration and Diffusion of Single Hydrogen Atoms Observed by STM

T.M. Wallis, W. Ho (Department of Physics and Astronomy and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA)

16:00 AE.005 Single-Bond Formation and Characterization with a Scanning Tunneling Microscope

Hyojune Lee, Wilson Ho (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-4575)