Program overview

WEDNESDAY MORNING, 20 MARCH 2002

08:00 L1.001 Vortex dynamics in artificial channels.

Peter Kes (Leiden University, POB 9504, 2300RA Leiden, The Netherlands)

08:36 L1.002 Nucleation of Superconductivity and "Vortex Molecules" in Artificial Mesoscopic Structures

Victor V. Moshchalkov (Lab. VSM, KULeuven, Celestijnenlaan 200 D, B-3001 Belgium)

09:12 L1.003

09:48 L1.004 Phonon contribution to the electron self energy in cuprate superconductors

Zhi-Xun Shen (Stanford University)

10:24 L1.005 Influence of hole states on the phonon spectrum in High Tc superconductors

Robert McQueeney (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

08:00 L2.001 Cells on Polymer Surfaces

Linda G. Griffith (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

08:36 L2.002 Model Substrates for Understanding and Controlling the Interactions of Cells with Materials

Milan Mrksich (The University of Chicago, Department of Chemistry)

09:12 L2.003 Cell Spreading and Function on Peptide Tethered Organic Surfaces

Russell J. Composto (Materials Science and Eng., Center for Bioactive Mat. and Tissue Eng., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA)

09:48 L2.004 Controlled surface chemistries and quantitative cell response

Anne L. Plant (NIST - Biotechnology Division)

10:24 L2.005 Bioactive Hydrogels

Jeffrey T. Koberstein (Columbia University)

08:00 L3.001 Measurements of spin-dependent exciton formation cross-sections in \pi-conjugated oligomers and polymers

Markus Wohlgenannt (Department of Physics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112)

08:36 L3.002 Spin dependent exciton formation in pi-conjugated polymer LEDs

Richard Friend (University of Cambridge)

09:12 L3.003 Spin polarized injection in sexithienyl thin films

Carlo Taliani (Istituto di Spettroscopia Molecolare, CNR, via Gobetti, 101, 40129 Bologna, Italy)

09:48 L3.004 Electrophosphorescence in organic thin films: Relationship between efficiency, energy transfer and spin statistics

Stephen Forrest (Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University)

10:24 L3.005 Theoretical Studies of Singlet and Triplet Formation in Polymer LEDs.

Sumit Mazumdar (University of Arizona)

08:00 L4.001 Quasi-elastic scattering in the high-field phase of a Haldane antiferromagnet

Ying Chen (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD)

08:36 L4.002 Exact results for dynamic spin structure factors of the spin-1/2 XXX and XXZ chains

Gerhard Muller (Department of Physics, University of Rhode Island)

09:12 L4.003 Multiparticle Excitations and Spectral Densities in Quantum Spin Systems

Goetz S. Uhrig (Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Koeln, Germany)

09:48 L4.004 Instability of coherent excitations in low-dimensional quantum magnets

Igor Zaliznyak (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

10:24 L4.005 Single particle and continuum states in a gapped quantum magnet

Michel Kenzelmann (NIST Center for Neutron Research and Johns Hopkins University)

08:00 L5.001 The Origin of Universal Scaling in Biology from Molecules amp; Cells to Whales and Ecosystems

Geoffrey West (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

08:36 L5.002 Classes of real-world 'small-world' networks: From the neural network of C. Elegans to the web of human sexual contacts

Luis A. Nunes Amaral (Boston University)

09:12 L5.003 The Architecture of Complex Systems: Emergence of Scaling in Real Networks

Albert-László Barabási (Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame)

08:00 L6.001 Dynamical tunneling of ultracold atoms

Kristian Helmerson (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

08:36 L6.002 Chaos-Assisted Tunneling in Atom Optics

Mark G. Raizen (Center for Nonlinear Dynamics and Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin)

09:12 L6.003 Mesoscopic Quantum Coherence in an Optical Lattice

Poul Jessen (Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona)

09:48 L6.004 Structured doping of materials using an optical lattice

T. Pfau (5th Institute of Physics, University of Stuttgart, Germany)

08:00 L7.001 The Global Positioning System: a high-tech success story

Neil Ashby (Dept. of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0390)

08:36 L7.002 The Science Behind Optical Fiber for Telecommunications

Donald B. Keck (Corning, Inc.)

09:12 L7.003 Liquid Crystal Display Technology

Noel Clark (University of Colorado)

09:48 L7.004 Physics Applied to Oil and Gas Exploration

Larry Schwartz (Schlumberger)

10:24 L7.005 Automotive Emissions Control

George Graham (Ford Motor Company)

08:00 L8.001 Fundamental principles of metal oxide based chemical sensors

Nicolae Barsan (Inst. of Phys. Theor. Chemistry, University of Tuebingen)

08:36 L8.002 Direct Observation of Metal-Oxide Interactions in Nanoscale Systems

Robert F. Klie, Kai Sun, Nigel D. Browning (University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 West Taylor Street, Chicago, IL 60607), Mark M. Disko (ExxonMobil Research and Eng. Co., Annandale, NJ 08801), J. Liu (Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri 63167)

08:48 L8.003 First Principles Studies of Ultra-thin Pt Films on Chiral SrTiO3 Surfaces

Aravind Asthagiri, David Sholl (Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University)

09:00 L8.004 Nature and Strength of Defect Interactions in Cubic Stabilized Zirconia

Alexander Bogicevic (Ford Motor Company), Christopher Wolverton (Ford Research Laboratory)

09:12 L8.005 Enthalpies of Formation of Yttria- and Zirconia-Doped Ceria

Theresa Lee, Alexandra Navrotsky (University of California at Davis)

09:24 L8.006 Effect of Anion Sublattice Structure on Conductivity in Cubic Bismuth Oxides

Eric Wachsman (University of Florida)

09:36 L8.007 Neutron quasielastic scattering study of hydrogen diffusion in ZrBe_2H_1.5

Z. Chowdhuri (NIST Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, and University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742), R. L. Cappelletti, T. J. Udovic (NIST Center for Neutron Research)

09:48 L8.008 Improved Electrodes and Electrolytes for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells

Tom Zawodzinski (Los Alamos National Lab)

10:24 L8.009 Quantum treatment of H adsorbed on a Pt(111) surface

Gustav Källen, Göran Wahnström (Department of Applied Physics, Chalmers University of Technology and Göteborg University, SE-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden)

10:36 L8.010 First Principles Investigation of Hydrogen Transport through Copper-Palladium Alloy Membranes.

Preeti Kamakoti (Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University), David Sholl (Carnegie Mellon University and National Energy Technology Laboratory)

08:00 L9.001 Artificial muscle using nonlinear elastomers

Banahalli Ratna (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC)

08:36 L9.002 Existence of disclinations in nematic elastomers

Eliot Fried, Russell E. Todres (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

08:48 L9.003 Isotropic-Nematic Transition in Liquid-Crystalline Elastomers

Jonathan V. Selinger, Hong G. Jeon, B. R. Ratna (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC)

09:00 L9.004 Elasticity and Broken Symmetry in Nematic Elastomers

Ranjan Mukhopadhyay (NEC Research Institute), T.C. Lubensky (University of Pennsylvania), Xiangjun Xing, Leo Radzihovsky (University of Colorado at Boulder)

09:12 L9.005 Collapse of nematic gels driven by isotropic-nematic transition

David Lacoste, Andy W. C. Lau, Tom C. Lubensky (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)

09:24 L9.006 Elasticity, Fracture, and Thermoreversible Gelation of Highly Filled Physical Gels

Peter L. Drzal, Kenneth R. Shull (Northwestern University)

09:36 L9.007 Nano-structured silica fillers for elastomer reinforcement

Douglas Kohls, Gregory Beaucage (University of Cincinnati), Sotiris Pratsinis, Hendrik Kammler (ETH, Zurich)

09:48 L9.008 Bulk Viscoelastic Contribution to the Wet Sliding Friction of Rubber Compounds

Xiao-Dong Pan (Bridgestone/Firestone Research, Inc., 1200 Firestone Parkway, Akron, Ohio 44317-0001)

10:00 L9.009 The Effect of Carbon Black Fillers on Interfacial Adhesion

Mordechai Joseph Bronner (Rambam Mesivta High School), Anshul Shah (Harvard University), Hong Joon Kim (Seoul National University), Xuesong Hu (SUNY Stony Brook), Dennis Peiffer (EXXON/Mobil Research and Engineering), Jonathan Sokolov, Miriam H Rafailovich (SUNY at Stony Brook)

10:12 L9.010 The Effect of Filler Mixtures on Fracture Toughness at Polymer Interfaces

Mayu Si (SUNY Stony Brook), Mordechai Joseph Bronner (Rambam Mesivta High School), Dennis Peiffer (EXXON/Mobil Research and Engineering), Jonathan Sokolov (SUNY Stony Brook), Miriam H Rafailovich (SUNY at Stony Brook)

10:24 L9.011 The Effect of Clay on the Compatibilization of PS and PMMA Blend

Ying Sun (Ward Melville High School, Setauket, New York), Wenhua Zhang, Xuesong Hu, Miriam Rafailovich, Jonathan Sokolov (Material Science Department, SUNY Stony Brook)

10:36 L9.012 Nanoparticles in Mesostructured Polymers: Stabilizations and Morphology Selection

Jaeup Kim, Ben O'Shaughnessy (Columbia University)

10:48 L9.013 Physical Properties of Polystyrene and PMMA Nanocomposites

Yu Zhong, Shi-Qing Wang (Department of Polymer Science, University of Akron)

08:00 L10.001 Application of the dissipative particle dynamics simulation method to materials

Janette Jones, Patrick Warren (Unilever Research, Port Sunlight Laboratory, The Wirral, UK)

08:12 L10.002 Field-Theoretic Polymer Simulations

Venkat Ganesan (University of Texas at Austin), Glenn Fredrickson (University of California at Santa Barbara)

08:24 L10.003 Effect of fillers on structure and dynamics of polymer nanocomposites

Rajdip Bandyopadhyaya, Oleg Borodin, Grant Smith (Univ. of Utah)

08:36 L10.004 Monte Carlo Lattice Simulations of Cubic Phases in ABC/A/C Copolymer and Homopolymer Blends

Tomonari Dotera (Saitama Study Center, the University of the Air, 682-2 Nishiki-cho, Saitama 331-0851, Japan)

08:48 L10.005 Efficient computation of structural behavior of block copolymers

Kim Rasmussen, Lookman Turab, Avadh Saxena (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

09:00 L10.006 Block Copolymers at Interfaces of Polymer Blends Under Shear: A Comparative DSCF-MD Study.

Maja Mihajlovic, Yitzhak Shnidman (Polytechnic University and the NSF MRSEC on Polymers at Engineered Interfaces), Wen Tao Li, Dilip Gersappe (SUNY, Stony Brook, and the NSF MRSEC on Polymers at Engineered Interfaces)

09:12 L10.007 Computer Simulation of Block Copolymer Copolymer Phase Behavior

Andrew J. Schultz, Carol K. Hall, Jan Genzer (NC State University)

09:24 L10.008 Cell Dynamics Simulations of Pattern Coarsening in Thin Films of Sphere-Forming Block Copolymers

Daniel Vega, Richard Register, Christopher Harrison, Dan Angelescu, Matthew Trawick, David Huse, Paul Chaikin, Douglas Adamson (Princeton University)

09:36 L10.009 Comparative Study of Interfacial Slip in Sheared Polymer Blends using Dynamic Self Consistent Field Theory and Molecular Dynamics

Tak Shing Lo, Maja Mihajlovic, Yitzhak Shnidman (Dept. of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering amp; Materials Science, Polytechnic University), Wentao Li, Dilip Gersappe (Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, SUNY Stony Brook)

09:48 L10.010 Modeling Interdiffusion at Partially Miscible Polymer Interfaces

Erin Jablonski, Balaji Narasimhan (Iowa State University)

10:00 L10.011 Numerical Investigation of a Compressible Interacting Binary Blend of Fixed-length Star and Linear Polymers Next to a Surface

Richard Batman, P.D. Gujrati (The University of Akron)

10:12 L10.012 Multiscale modeling of compatibilized polymer blends

Simon McGrother, Gerhard Goldbeck-Wood (Accelrys, 9685 Scranton Rd, San Diego, CA 92121), Albert Widmann-Schupak (MatSim GmbH, Zurich)

10:24 L10.013 Concentration fluctuation and chain connectivity effects in miscible polymer blends

Sumeet Salaniwal, Rama Kant, Ralph Colby, Sanat Kumar (The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA-16801)

10:36 L10.014 Phase behavior of polymer--polymer--solvent mixtures

Erik Luijten (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801)

10:48 L10.015 Adsorption of Flexible Polymers in Porous Media under Weak and Strong Flows

Pacelli L.J. Zitha (Delft University of Technology)

08:00 L11.001 Dynamics of Polystyrene Thin Films and Surfaces

Alexander Schwab, Ali Dhinojwala (University of Akron, Akron, OH)

08:12 L11.002 How the shift of the glass transition temperature near a surface contributes to reinforcement in filled elastomer

Francois Lequeux, Julien Berriot, Helene Montes (LPM/PCSM, ESPCI, 10 rue Vauquelin 75005 PARIS Cedex France), Didier Long, Paul Sotta (LPS/Bat 510, Centre Universitaire d'ORSAY 91 405 ORSAY France)

08:24 L11.003 Effects of Film Thickness and Tacticity on \alpha and \beta- Relaxations in Thin Films of PMMA

M.R. Wuebbenhorst (Delft Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands), C.A. Murray, J.R. Dutcher (Univ. of Guelph, Canada), E. Muresan, J.A. Forrest (Univ. of Waterloo, Canada)

08:36 L11.004 Glass transition temperature of films of PMMA/PMMA-OH blends

Silvia Pasqualini, Ranjeet S. Tate, Juan J. de Pablo, Paul F. Nealey (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

08:48 L11.005 X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy on polymer films with Molecular Weight Dependence

HYUNJUNG KIM (Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory and Dept. of Physics, Univ. of California San Diego), A. RUEHM (Center for Materials Science and Engineering, MIT), L. B. LURIO (Dept. of Physics, Northern Illinois University), J. K. BASU (Materials Research Laboratory, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), J. LAL (Intense Pulsed Neutron Source, Argonne National Laboratory), S. K. SINHA (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of California San Diego), S. G. J. MOCHRIE (Departments of Physics and Applied Physics, Yale University)

09:00 L11.006 Dynamics and Morphology of Spincoated Polymer Wedges

J. Thomas, C.A. Murray, J.R. Dutcher (Univ. of Guelph, Canada)

09:12 L11.007 Modeling the Reduced Enthalpy Recovery of a Glass-Former Confined in Nanopores: Evidence for an Intrinsic Size Effect on Tg

Gregory McKenna, Sindee Simon (Texas Tech University)

09:24 L11.008 Glass Transition of Nanofilms

T. S. Chow (Xerox Corporation, Webster, NY)

09:36 L11.009 Local thermal analysis of thin polymer films: calorimetry or rheology?

Ranjeet S. Tate, Juan J. de Pablo, Paul F. Nealey (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

09:48 L11.010 Conjectures on the Glass Transition of Polymers in Confined Geometries

John D. McCoy (New Mexico Tech), John G. Curro (Sandia National Laboratories)

10:00 L11.011 Glass Transition Temperature of Freely-Standing Poly (methyl methacrylate) Films

C.B. Roth, J.R. Dutcher (Univ. of Guelph, Canada)

10:12 L11.012 Effect of Annealing of Polystyrene Films in the Freely-Standing State

C.A. Murray, J. Thomas, J.R. Dutcher (Univ. of Guelph, Canada)

10:24 L11.013 Character of Hole Growth in Freely-Standing Polystyrene Films

B. Deh, C.B. Roth, J.R. Dutcher (Univ. of Guelph, Canada)

L11.014 Glass Transition Behavior of Cross-linked Thin films

Xiaorong Wang (Bridgestone/Firestone Research, Akron, Ohio 44317)

L11.015 Interfacial Interactions and Confinement Effects on the Glass Transition of Thin Film Polymer/Polymer Blends

Peter Green, Joseph Pham (Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin)

08:00 L12.001 Quasiparticles in the presence of disordered array of Aharonov-Bohm fluxes

Ashot Melikyan, Zlatko Tesanovic (Johns Hopkins University)

08:12 L12.002 A rigorous perturbative description for the mixed state of BCS superconductors.

Anton Knigavko, Frank Marsiglio (Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada T6G 2J1)

08:24 L12.003 Heat Transfer Between Phonons and Impurity-Induced Quasiparticles in d-Wave Superconductors

M.F. Smith, M.B. Walker (Department of Physics, University of Toronto)

08:36 L12.004 An effective Hamiltonian for phase fluctuations on a lattice: an extended XY model

Wonkee Kim, J. P. Carbotte (Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)

08:48 L12.005 Abrikosov Liquid Crystals

Erica Carlson, Antonio Castro Neto, David Campbell (Boston University)

09:00 L12.006 Superconductivity versus spin glass

Victor Galitski, Anatoly Larkin (Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota)

09:12 L12.007 Semiclassical theory of quasiparticles in the superconducting state

Kevin Duncan, Balazs Gyorffy (H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TL, Uk)

09:24 L12.008 Phonon-plasmon Mechanism of Superconductivity in Layered Systems

Hans Morawitz (IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120, USA), Andreas Bill (Paul Scherrer Institute, Condensed Matter Theory, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland), Vladimir Z. Kresin (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA)

09:36 L12.009 Scaling of Coulomb pseudo-potential in s-wave narrow-band superconductors

Tae-Ho Park, Han-Yong Choi (Department of Physic, Institute for Basic Science Research, and BK21 Physics Research Division, Sung Kyun Kwan University, Suwon 440-746, Korea)

09:48 L12.010 The Allender-Bray-Bardeen Model of Excitonic Superconductivity Revisited

Nie Luo (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208)

10:00 L12.011 Holes in superconductors and BEC

M. de Llano (IIM-UNAM, Mexico, DF), M. Fortes (IF-UNAM, Mexico, DF), O. Rojo (PESTIC-IPN, Mexico, DF), M.A. Solís (IF-UNAM, Mexico, DF), V.V. Tolmachev, A.A. Valladares (IIM-UNAM, Mexico, DF), UNAM Superconductivity Theory Collaboration

10:12 L12.012 Dynamic Screening and Enhancement of Critical Temperature in Layered Intercalated Nitride Halides

Andreas Bill (Paul Scherrer Institute, Condensed Matter Theory, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland), Hans Morawitz (IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120, USA), Vladimir Z. Kresin (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA)

10:24 L12.013 Shape-Dependent Pairing Characteristics of a Nanosize Superconducting Grain

V. N. Gladilin, V. M. Fomin, J. T. Devreese (TFVS, Universiteit Antwerpen (UIA), Belgium)

10:36 L12.014 A closer look at the elementary fermions

Maurice Goldhaber (Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973)

08:00 L13.001 Linear Scaling Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations

Andrew Williamson (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

08:36 L13.002 Quantum Monte Carlo study of electron correlation in transition metal-oxygen systems

Lucas K. Wagner, Lubos Mitas (D. of Physics, North Carolina State U.)

08:48 L13.003 Monte Carlo Simulation Technique for Interacting Electrons in Quantum Structures

Dyutiman Das, Richard M. Martin, David M. Ceperley (Univ.\ of IL.\ at Urbana-Champaign), M. H. Kalos (Lawrence Livermore National Lab)

09:00 L13.004 Coupled Electronic-Ionic Monte Carlo

Mark Dewing (Intel), David Ceperley (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

09:12 L13.005 Optimal inhomogeneous electron correlation terms in periodic solids

David Prendergast, Stephen Fahy (National University of Ireland, Cork)

09:24 L13.006 Feynman-Kac Path Integral Calculations of Atomic Properties of He, Li and Be with High-Quality Trial Wavefunctions.

J. L. Fry, S. Datta, N. G. Fazleev (University of Texas at Arlington), S. A. Alexander (University of Texas Pan American), R. L. Coldwell (University of Florida)

09:36 L13.007 Path Integral Simulations in the Quantum Microcanonical Ensemble

John W. Lawson (NASA Ames Research Center)

09:48 L13.008 Culuster Algorithm for Quantum Magnets in External Field

Synge Todo (ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland)

10:00 L13.009 Self-adapting method for the localization of quantum critical points using Quantum Monte Carlo techniques

Fabien Alet, Erik Sørensen (Laboratoire de Physique Quantique amp; UMR CNRS 5626, Université Paul Sabatier, 31062 Toulouse, France)

10:12 L13.010 Charge and spin ordering, and charge transport properties in a two-dimensional inhomogeneous t-J model

Jose Riera (Departamento de Fisica, UNR-CONICET, Rosario Argentina)

10:24 L13.011 Monte Carlo Study of the Magnetic Properties of the 3D Hubbard Model

Isabel Campos, James W. Davenport (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

10:36 L13.012 Correlation energy and spin polarization in the 2D electron gas

Paola Gori-Giorgi, Claudio Attaccalite, Saverio Moroni, Giovanni B. Bachelet (INFM Center for Statistical Mechanics and Complexity and Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Roma ``La Sapienza'', Piazzale A. Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy)

10:48 L13.013 Coarse Integration of Monte Carlo Simulations of Bacterial Chemotaxis

C. William Gear (NEC Research Institute), Ioannis G. Kevrekidis (Princeton University), Hans G. Othmer (University of Minnesota), Sima Setayeshgar (Princeton University)

L13.014 Kinetic Monte Carlo simulation of near-critical Fickian diffusion

Subhranil De (Graduate student, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY), Eldred Chimowitz (Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY), Yonathan Shapir (Professor of Physics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY)

L13.015 Worm Algorithms for Classical Statistical Models

Nikolay Prokof'ev (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Boris Svistunov (Kurchatov Institute)

08:00 L14.001 Stripes and Superconductivity in a Spin-Fermion Model for Cuprates

Adriana Moreo (Department of Physics and NHMFL, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, U.S.A.)

08:36 L14.002 Formation of static stripes in lightly-doped La_2-xSr_xCuO_4 as manifested in magnetic and transport properties of untwinned single crystals.

A. N. Lavrov, S. Komiya, Y. Ando (CRIEPI)

08:48 L14.003 Local structure in stripe phase of La_1.6-xSr_xNd_0.4CuO_4

S.-W. Han, E. A. Stern (Department of Physics, University of Washington), D. Haskel (Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory), A. R. Moodenbaugh (material and chemical science devision, Brookhaven National Loboratory)

09:00 L14.004 Structural compliance, misfit strain and stripe nanostructures in cuprate superconductors

Phillip Duxbury (Michigan State University), Simon Billinge

09:12 L14.005 Charge Density Wave Formation in the Low-Temperature-Tetragonal Phase of Cuprates

Nils Hasselmann (Max Planck Institute, Dresden), Antonio Castro Neto (Physics Department, Boston University), Cristiane Morais Smith (Institute de Physique Theorique, Fribourg)

09:24 L14.006 Charge-Density-Waves and Oxygen-Ordering in Underdoped YBCO

Zahirul Islam (Advanced Photon Source (APS), Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)), S. K. Sinha (University of California San Diego), D. Haskel, J. C. Lang, G. Srajer, D. R. Haeffner (APS/ANL), B. W. Veal (Materials Science Division, ANL), H. Mook (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

09:36 L14.007 Lattice effects in La_1.48Nd_0.4Sr_0.12CuO_4 under hydrostatic pressure

Irina Pozdnyakova, Despina Louca (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA), Takeshi Egami (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA), S. Uchida (University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan)

09:48 L14.008 Lattice Instability in Nonsuperconducting PrBa_2Cu_4O_8

Joakim Baeckstroem (Inst. Applied Physics, University of Hamburg, Jungiusstr. 11, 20355 Hamburg, Germany), Dennis Engberg, Anders Mellergaard, Sten Eriksson, Robert Delaplane (Studsvik Neutron Research Laboratory, 611 82 Nykoeping, Sweden), Minoru Osada, Masato Kakihana (Materials and Structures Lab., Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nagatsuta 4259, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan), Lars Boerjesson (Dep. of Applied Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96 Goeteborg, Sweden)

10:00 L14.009 Relevance of Phonons in High-Temperature Superconductivity

Takeshi Egami, Jae-Ho Chung, Przemek Piekarz (University of Pennsylvania), Masatoshi Arai (KEK), Setsuko Tajima (SRL-ISTEC), Masashi Tachiki (CREST-JST)

10:12 L14.010 In-plane anisotropy in the phonon dispersion of YBa_2Cu_3O_6.95

Jae-Ho Chung, Przemek Piekarz, Takeshi Egami (University of Pennsylvania), Robert McQueeney (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Mohana Yethiraj (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Masatoshi Arai (KEK)

10:24 L14.011 Enhancement of the superconducting transition temperature within the two-band model

Annette Bussmann-Holder (Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research), Roman Micnas (Institute of Physics, A. Mickiewicz University), Alan R. Bishop (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division)

10:36 L14.012 Evolution of phonon density of states and electron-phonon interaction in Nd_2-xCe_xCuO_4

Hye Jung Kang, Pengcheng Dai, D. Mandrus (Department of Physics, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996 and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN 37831), R. Jin (ORNL), D. A. Adroja, S. M. Bennington (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot OX11 0QX, UK), S. -H. Lee, J. W. Lynn (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 28899)

10:48 L14.013 Investigation of stripe formation in an extended t-J model

Toru Sakai (Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology), Didier Poilblanc (Universite Paul Sabatier)

08:00 L15.001 Magnetic and tunnel properties of epitaxial Transition Metal / MgO heterostructures.

Alfonso Cebollada (Instituto de Microelectrónica de Madrid, IMM (CNM-CSIC). Isaac Newton 8, PTM, E-28760 Tres Cantos. Madrid. Spain.)

08:36 L15.002 First-principles calculation of tunneling conductance of Fe|FeO|MgO|Fe tunneling junctions

X.-G. Zhang (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), William H Butler (University of Alabama)

08:48 L15.003 Principal Layer Green Function Approach for Magnetic Tunneling

D. A. Stewart, M. van Schilfgaarde (Sandia National Laboratory CA)

09:00 L15.004 Origin of spin polarization in spin polarized tunneling experiments?

Markus Muenzenberg, Jagadeesh S. Moodera (Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, MIT)

09:12 L15.005 Voltage dependence of Inverse Tunneling Magnetoresistance

Alex F. Panchula, Christian Kaiser, Stuart S. P. Parkin (IBM Research Division, Almaden Reseach Center, 650 Harry Rd. San Jose CA 95120)

09:24 L15.006 Origin of Temperature Dependence in Tunneling Magnetoresistance.

Igor V. Roshchin, Ivan K. Schuller (Physics Department, UCSD, La Jolla, CA 92093), Johan J. Akerman, Renu Whig Dave, J. M. Slaughter (Motorola Labs, Physical Sciences Research Laboratories, Tempe, AR 85284)

09:36 L15.007 Magnetocapacitance: A probe of spin-dependent electrochemical potentials

Kevin McCarthy, Stephen Arnason, Arthur Hebard (University of Florida)

09:48 L15.008 Relationship of spin polarization and magnetization for various Co and Fe alloys

Christian Kaiser (IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California, 2. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH-Aachen, Aachen, Germany), Stuart S.P. Parkin (IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California)

10:00 L15.009 Enhancement of switching stability of tunneling magnetoresistance system with artificial ferrimagnet

Chun-Yeol You, Sam. D. Bader (MSD, Argonne National Lab., Argonne, IL 60439), M. R. Scheinfein (Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287)

10:12 L15.010 A novel superconducting material as spin detector for spin polarized tunneling studies

Tae Hee Kim, Jagadeesh S. Moodera (Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, MIT)

10:24 L15.011 Influence of Barrier Oxidation Time on Temperature-Dependent Spin Polarization Decay in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions.

Johan J. Akerman, Renu Whig Dave, J. M. Slaughter (Motorola Labs, Physical Sciences Research Laboratories, Tempe, AR 85284), Igor V. Roshchin, S. Puerta, Ivan K. Schuller (Physics Department, UCSD, La Jolla, CA 92093)

10:36 L15.012 Andreev Reflection Studies of AlOx Tunnel Barriers for Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

P. Chalsani, S.K. Upadhyay, O. Ozatay, R.A. Buhrman (Dept. of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University)

10:48 L15.013 Pinholes and Bias Dependence of the Conductance in Tunnel Junctions

Zhongsheng Zhang, David Rabson (University of South Florida)

L15.014 Role of interface layers on Tunneling Magnetoresistance

See-Hun Yang, Mahesh Samant, Stuart S. P. Parkin (IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA 95120)

08:00 L16.001 Electric field effects in mixed-valent manganite thin films: a new probe of multiphase coexistence.

Satishchandra Ogale (Center for Superconductivity Research, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-4111)

08:36 L16.002 Correlation between colossal magnetoresistance and phase separation: evidenced by ESR study

Young Sun, Myron Salamon (Department of Physics and Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana 61801, IL)

08:48 L16.003 Complex Phase Segregation in Pr_0.65(Sr_1-yCa_y)_0.35MnO_3

L.C. Chapon (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, 60439.), P.G. Radaelli (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory-CCLRC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX, United Kingdom), D.N. Argyriou, J.F. Mitchell (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, 60439.)

09:00 L16.004 Evidence of Microscopic Phase Segregation in CMR Thin Films

Atif Imtiaz, Steven Anlage (CSR University of Maryland at College Park)

09:12 L16.005 Observation of percolation in Colossal Magnetoresistive Materials with a Magnetic Force Microscope

liuwan zhang, Emil Casey Israel, Alejandro de Lozanne (Physics Dept., U. Texas, Austin, TX 78712), Amlan Biswas, T. Venkatesan, R. L. Greene (Center for Superconductivity Research, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742)

09:24 L16.006 Anomalous Paramagnetic State in Naturally Layered Manganites

Andreas Berger (IBM Almaden Research Center)

08:00 L17.001 Local structure of amorphous V[TCNE]_x molecule-based magnet

D. Haskel, Z. Islam, C. R. Kmety, J. Lang, G. Srajer (Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory), K. I. Pokhodnya, J. S. Miller (Dept. of Chemistry, University of Utah), A. J. Epstein (Dept. of Physics, The Ohio State University)

08:12 L17.002 FMR Studies of high-temperature organic-based magnetic semiconductor V(TCNE)_x.

Y. Batayev, N.P. Raju, V.N. Prigodin (The Ohio State University), P. Kahol (Wichita State University), R. Plachy, P.C. Taylor (University of Utah), K.I. Pokhodnya (The Ohio State University and University of Utah), J.S. Miller (University of Utah), A.J. Epstein (The Ohio State University)

08:24 L17.003 Anomalous magnetoresistance in high-temperature organic-based magnetic semiconductor V(TCNE)_x films.

N.P. Raju, T. Savrin, V.N. Prigodin (The Ohio State University), K.I. Pokhodnya (The Ohio State University and University of Utah), J.S. Miller (University of Utah), A.J. Epstein (The Ohio State University)

08:36 L17.004 Magnetic excitations in molecule-based magnets

H.N. Bordallo (IPNS, Argonne Nat. Lab.), T. Yildirim, S.-H. Lee (NIST Center for Neutron Research), L. Chapon, J.L. Manson (MSD, Argonne Nat. Lab.)

08:48 L17.005 Metastable States and Photoinduced Magnetization in Organic-Based Magnets M(TCNE)_2\cdot x(CH_2Cl_2), M = Mn, Fe

D. A. Pejakovic, A. J. Epstein (The Ohio State University), C. Kitamura, J. Raebiger, J. S. Miller (University of Utah)

09:00 L17.006 Viscous Glassy Behavior in a Quasi-1D Organic-based Magnet

S.J. Etzkorn (Department of Physics, The Ohio State University), Wendy Hibbs, Joel S. Miller (Department of Chemistry, University of Utah), A.J. Epstein (Departments of Physics and Chemistry, The Ohio State University)

09:12 L17.007 Theory of Muon and Muonium Trapping and Hyperfine Interactions in the Chemical Ferromagnet p-NPNN (\beta-phase)

JUNHO JEONG (SUNY Albany, Albany, NY), TINA M. BRIERE (Inst. MAt. Res., Tohoku Univ., Japan), N. SAHOO (Albany Medical College, Albany, NY; SUNY Albany, Albany, NY), T. P. DAS (SUNY Albany), S. OHIRA (RIKEN, Wako-shi, Japan), K. NISHIYAMA (KEK-MSL, Tsukuba, Japan), K. NAGAMINE (RIKEN; KEK-MSL)

09:24 L17.008 Magnetic Properties of a Two-dimensional Iron-Nickel Cyanide-bridged Network.

J.-H. Park, M.W. Meisel (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Florida), J.T. Culp, D.R. Talham (Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of Florida)

09:36 L17.009 Magnetic Properties of Isotropic Molecular-Based Spin Ladders: Copper Quinoxaline Dihalides

C. P. Landee, C. Galeriu, A. Delcheva, G. Pena, M. M. Turnbull (Department of Physics and Carlson School of Chemistry, Clark University, Worcester, MA 01610)

09:48 L17.010 Exact Time Autocorrelation Function of the N-Spin Classical Heisenberg Equivalent Neighbor Model

Richard Klemm, Marco Ameduri (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik komplexer Systeme)

08:00 L18.001 Reconstruction of Fractional Quantum Hall Edges

Kun Yang (Florida State University)

08:36 L18.002 Numerical study of the FQHE edge Luttinger liquid

Sudhansu S. Mandal, J.K. Jain (The Pennsylvania State University)

08:48 L18.003 Collective modes at the fractional quantum Hall edge

Yogesh Joglekar, Ganpathy Murthy (University of Kentucky)

09:00 L18.004 Momentum-resolved tunneling spectroscopy at fractional-quantum-Hall edges

Ulrich Zülicke (Universität Karlsruhe, Germany), Efrat Shimshoni (University of Haifa at Oranim, Israel), Michele Governale (Universität Karlsruhe, Germany)

09:12 L18.005 Klein Factors in multiple Fractional Quantum Hall edge tunneling

Rodolphe Guyon, Pierre Devillard, Thierry Martin (Centre de Physique Theorique, Case 907, 13288 Marseille, France), Ines Safi (Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Universite de Paris Sud, 91405 Orsay, France)

09:24 L18.006 Inter edge Tunneling in Quantum Hall Line Junctions

Eun-Ah Kim, Eduardo Fradkin (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 W.\ Green St.\ , Urbana, IL 61801-3080, USA)

09:36 L18.007 Hyper-fermion statistics and universal conductance of an FQHE edge

Vadim V. Ponomarenko, Dmitri V. Averin (Dep-t of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University/SUNY)

09:48 L18.008 Magnetophonon Oscillations by Leaky Interface-Acoustic Phonons

Michael Zudov (Department of Physics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, U.S.A.)

10:24 L18.009 Oscillatory Magneto-Thermopower and Interface-Phonon Drag in a High-Mobility 2DEG

J. ZHANG, C.-L. YANG, R.-R. DU (Department of Physics, University of Utah), J.A. SIMMONS, J.L. RENO (Sandia National Laboratories)

10:36 L18.010 Magnetoquantum Oscillations of the Thermoelectric Power in Quantum Wires at Low Temperatures

D. Huang (Air Force Research Laboratory), S. K. Lyo (Sandia National Laboratories)

08:00 L19.001 Fluctuations and Disorder in DMS Ferromagnets

Allan H. MacDonald (University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX, 78703)

08:36 L19.002 Spatial Distribution of Ferromagnetically Imprinted Nuclear Spins in n-GaAs

J. Stephens, R.K. Kawakami, M. Hanson, A.C. Gossard, D.D. Awschalom (Center for Spintronics and Quantum Computation, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106)

08:48 L19.003 Monte Carlo Study of Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors

Gonzalo Alvarez, Elbio Dagotto (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. Florida State University. Tallahassee FL32306)

09:00 L19.004 Spin Waves in Disordered III-V Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors

Mona Berciu (Princeton Materials Institute, Princeton University), R. N. Bhatt (Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University)

09:12 L19.005 Monte Carlo simulations of an impurity band model for III-V diluted magnetic semiconductors

Malcolm P. Kennett (Princeton University, Physics), Mona Berciu (Princeton University, Electrical Engineering), R. N. Bhatt (Princeton University, PMI)

09:24 L19.006 Noncollinear Ferromagnetism in (III,Mn)V Semiconductors

John Schliemann, Allan H. MacDonald (The University of Texas at Austin)

09:36 L19.007 Disorder effect in magnetic semiconductors

Y. Xiong, X.C. Xie (Department of Physics, Oklahoma State University), Michael Ma, F.C. Zhang (Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati)

09:48 L19.008 Enhanced Curie Temperature in Ferromagnetic Semiconductor Superlattices

Igor Vurgaftman, Jerry Meyer (Naval Research Laboratory)

10:00 L19.009 Effect of the lattice site locations of Mn atoms on the magnetic properties of GaMnAs

K. M. Yu, W. Walukiewicz (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720), T. Wojtowicz, I. Kuryliszyn, X. Liu (xliu2@nd.edu), Y. Sasaki, J. K. Furdyna (University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556)

10:12 L19.010 Studies of Mn/GaSb Digital Alloys by X-ray Scattering and Diffraction

G. Kioseoglou, S. Kim, Y. L. Soo, X. Chen, H. Luo, Y. H. Kao (SUNY at Buffalo), Y. Sasaki, X. Liu, J. K. Furdyna (University of Notre Dame)

10:24 L19.011 Investigation of Local Structure Around Mn in Mn/GaSb Digital Alloys Using X-ray Absorption Fine Structure

Y. H. Kao, Y. L. Soo, G. Kioseoglou, S. Kim, X. Chen, H. Luo (SUNY at Buffalo), Y. Sasaki, X. Liu, J. K. Furdyna (University of Notre Dame)

10:36 L19.012 Magnetic force microscopy of GaSb/Mn digital alloy epilayers and patterned structures

Miyeon Cheon, Gibum Kim, Xi Chen, Shumin Wang, Hong Luo (Department of Physics, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York), X. Liu (Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame), Y. Sasaki, T Wojtowicz, J. K. Furdyna (Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame), Department of Physics Team, Department of Physics Team

10:48 L19.013 Magnetic properties of above-room-temperature ferromagnetic GaSb/Mn digital alloys

X. Chen, M. Na, M. Cheon, S. Wang, G. B. Kim, H. Luo, B. D. McCombe (Department of Physics, University at Buffalo, State University of New York), X. Liu, Y. Sasaki, T. Wojtowicz, J. K. Furdyna (Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame), S. J. Potashnik, P. Schiffer (Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University)

L19.014 A theory of the domain wall energy in ferromagnetic semiconductors quantum well systems

Byounghak Lee (Indiana University/University of Texas at Austin), John Schliemann, Allan MacDonald (University of Texas at Austin)

08:00 L20.001 Finite-Temperature Phase Diagram of Hard-Core Bosons in Two Dimensions

Guido Schmid, Synge Todo, Matthias Troyer (Theoretische Physik, Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich, CH-8093 Zuerich)

08:12 L20.002 Large-N solution of the Sp(N) Heisenberg quantum antiferromagnet on the anisotropic triangular lattice in a magnetic field.

Chung-Hou Chung, Brad Marston (Brown University)

08:24 L20.003 Quantum critical behavior in disordered itinerant ferromagnets: Instability of the ferromagnetic phase

S.L. Sessions, D. Belitz (Department of Physics and Materials Science Institute, University of Oregon)

08:36 L20.004 Bond and Néel order and fractionalization in ground states of easy-plane antiferromagnets in two dimensions

Kwon Park, Subir Sachdev (Department of Physics, Yale University)

08:48 L20.005 Excitonic Ferromagnetism

E. Bascones, A. Burkov, A. H. MacDonald (Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin)

09:00 L20.006 Spin-density-wave instabilities in the organic conductor (TMTSF)_2ClO_4: Role of anion ordering.

Nicolas Dupuis (Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Associé au CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay, France), K. Sengupta (Department of Physics, Yale university, New Haven, CT-06520)

09:12 L20.007 Behavior of spin fluctuations in TMTSF_22PF_6 near to the critical pressure

W. Yu, F. Zamborszky, S. E. Brown, B. Alavi (UCLA), W. Kang (U. Chicago), P. M. Chaikin, I. J. Lee (Princeton)

09:24 L20.008 Evidence for competition between charge-ordered and spin-Peierls phases in (TMTTF)_2AsF_6

F. Zamborszky (LANL and UCLA), W. Yu, W. Raas, G. Gaidos, S. E. Brown, B. Alavi, C. A. Merlic, A. Baur (UCLA)

09:36 L20.009 Resonant magnetic x-ray scattering study of GdCo_2Ge_2

William Good, J. Kim, D. Wermeille, A. I. Goldman, P. C. Canfield (Ames Laboratory-USDOE and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University), Z. Islam, J. C. Lang, G. Srajer (Advanced Photon Source), I. R. Fisher (Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University)

09:48 L20.010 A Detailed Look at the Entropy and Excess Entropy in a Transition in which Order Arises from Quenched Disorder

Matthew D. Robinson (The University of Maine, Orono, ME), David P. Feldman (College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME and The University of Maine, Orono, ME), Susan R. McKay (The University of Maine, Orono, ME)

L20.011 Metamagnetic transition in UPdSn for fields applied along the c axis

Heinz Nakotte, Sung Chang, Abdel Alsmadi (New Mexico State University, Las Cruces NM 88003), Alex Lacerda, Myung-Hwa Jung (NHMFL, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos NM 87545), Karel Prokes (BENSC, Hahn Meitner Institute, Berlin, Germany), Ekkehard Bruck (Van der Waals Zeeman Instituut, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

00:00 L20.012 High-pressure enhanced antiferromagnetism in Sr3Ru2O7

Yuri Sushko, Bruno DeHarak, Gargi Shaw (Affiliation), Joseph Brill (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506), Gang Cao (Affiliation), Jack Crow (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, FL 32310)

00:12 L20.013 Nonlinear Behavior in Ferromagnetism Simple Example and Possible Implications

Eshel Faraggi (Center for Statistical Mechanics and Complex Systems, University of Texas at Austin)

00:24 L20.014 Orbital ordering in paramagnetic LaMnO_3 and KCuF_3

Julia E. Medvedeva (Institute of Metal Physics, Ekaterinburg, Russia and Northwestern U.), A. J. Freeman (Northwestern U.), M. A. Korotin, V. I. Anisimov (Institute of Metal Physics, Ekaterinburg, Russia)

00:36 L20.015 Magnetism of MgC_1-xNi_3

S.I. Simak (Applied Physics, Gothenburg University/Chalmers), R. Ahuja (Condensed Matter Theory group, Uppsala University (Sweden))

L20.016 Quantum Thouless-Anderson-Palmer equations

Giulio Biroli (Rutgers University), Leticia Cugliandolo (LPT ENS, Paris)

08:00 L21.001 2D Ising Phase Transition Time Response in a Thin Layer Electrochemical Cell

Jonathan DeVilbiss (University of Illinois, Department of Physics), Jia Wang, Ben Ocko, Kazuhisa Tamura, Radoslav Adzic (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Ivan Vartanyants, Ian Robinson (University of Illinois, Department of Physics)

08:12 L21.002 A Study of the Surface Properties of the Mixed Crystal KTa_xNb_1-xO_3 (KTN) Using Helium Atom Scattering

J. G. Skofronick, T.W. Trelenberg, E.A. Akhadov, S. A. Safron, D. H. Van Winkle (Florida State University), L. A. Boatner (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), F. A. Flaherty (Valdosta State Univesity)

08:24 L21.003 Vibrational dynamics and thermodynamics of disordered Cu_3Au surfaces

Faisal Mehmood, Abdelkader Kara, Talat S. Rahman (Physics Department, Kansas State University)

08:36 L21.004 Atomic scale imaging and spectroscopy of the V_2O_3 (0001)-surface: bulk versus surface effects

Marcus Preisinger, Judith Will, Matthias Klemm, Stefan Klimm, Sigfried Horn (Lehrstuhl für Experimentalphysik II, Universität Augsburg, 86135 Augsburg, Germany)

08:48 L21.005 Quantum Melting of Stripes in 2D Incommensurate Phases

Tsutomu Momoi (Institute of Physics, University of Tsukuba)

09:00 L21.006 Thermal conductance and wettability of rare gases adsorbed on aerogels

Da-Ming Zhu, Nanxia Rao, Harrington Steven (University of Missouri-Kansas City)

09:12 L21.007 The Orientational Ordering of Molecular Hydrogen in 2D

Neil Sullivan (University of Florida), Valery Kokshenev (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)

09:24 L21.008 Study of Confinement Effects on Methyl Iodide

Yvonne Glanville (Affiliation), Paul Sokol (Pennsylvania State University), Robert Dimeo (NIST), Yufei Hu, S.N. Ehrlich (NSLS)

08:00 L22.001 Probing Transient Conductivity in Condensed Matter by THz Time-Domain Spectroscopy

Tony F. Heinz (Columbia University, New York, NY 10027)

08:36 L22.002 Optical second harmonic spectroscopy of silicon-adsorbate surfaces and silicon nanocrystals

Michael Downer (University of Texas at Austin)

09:12 L22.003 The Interaction of Ultrashort Laser Pulses with Semiconductors

B.R. Torralva, A. Gonis, P.E.A. Turchi (Department of Chemistry and Materials Science, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, L-353, P.O. Box 808, Livermore California 94551)

09:24 L22.004 Femtosecond Energy Localization on Nanoscale Controlled by Pulse Phase

Mark I. Stockman, Sergey V. Faleev (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 30303), David J. Bergman (School of Physics and Astronomy, Raymond and Beverly Sacler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel)

09:36 L22.005 Ultrafast Auger spectroscopy in strong magnetic field

Tigran V Shahbazyan, Neil Primozich, Ilias Perakis (Vanderbilt University)

09:48 L22.006 Interfacial Dynamics Studied by Time-Resolved Surface Vibrational Sum-Frequency Spectroscopy

James Patterson, Alexei Lagoutchev, Shufeng Wang, Dana Dlott (School of Chemical Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

10:00 L22.007 Isotope Effect in Femtosecond Laser-Induced Desorption of O_2/Pd(111)

Daniel P. Quinn, Tony F. Heinz (Dept. of Physics, Columbia University)

L22.008 CdSe electronic structure and pulsed laser photoelectron spectroscopy

Yonas Abraham, K.B. Ucer, R.T. Williams, N.A.W. Holzwarth (Wake Forest U.)

00:00 L22.009 Changes in Carrier Dynamics at Si/SiO2 Interfaces After X-ray Irradiation Detected by Electric Field Induced Second-Harmonic Generation

R. Pasternak, Z. Marka, Y. V. Shirokaya, S. N. Rashkeev, S. T. Pantelides, B. K. Choi, D. M. Fleetwood, R. D. Schrimpf, N. H. Tolk (Vanderbilt University)

00:12 L22.010 Wavelength Dependent Carrier Injection at Si/SiO2 Interfaces Using Intense, Tunable, Ultra-fast Laser Pump-Probe Techniques

Z. Marka, R. Pasternak, J Kozub, S. N. Rashkeev, N. H. Tolk (Vanderbilt University)

00:24 L22.011 Initial relaxation process of photoinduced phase transition in organic materials

Kunio Ishida (Research and Development Center, Toshiba Corporation), Tetsuo Ogawa (Department of Physics, Osaka University)

08:00 L23.001 Novel electronic structures of self-organized 1D surface nanostructures

Han Woong Yeom (Atomic-scale Surface Science Research Center and Institute of Physics and Applied Physics, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea)

08:36 L23.002 Structural and Electronic Properties of Ho nanowires grown on Si(001)

Chigusa Ohbuchi, Frederic Pierre, Norman Birge (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University), Jun Nogami (Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University)

08:48 L23.003 EFFECTIVE MASS AND DIELECTRIC CONSTANT IN ULTRASMALL SI NANOPARTICLES USING SCANNING TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY

Joel Therrien, Adam Smith, Munir Nayfeh (Dept. of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), A Alaql (Dept. of Physics, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)

09:00 L23.004 Electron Conduction through Quasi-One-Dimensional Indium Atomic Wires on Silicon

Takashi Uchihashi, Urs Ramsperger (Nanodevice Research Group, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-2-1, Sengen, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0047, Japan)

09:12 L23.005 NANO- AND MESOSCOPIC PATTERNS ON SEMICONDUCTOR SURFACES

Vladimir Samuilov, Young-Soo Seo (Department of Materials Science, SUNY at Stony Brook), Vitaly Ksenevich (Department of Physics, State University of Belarus), Jean Galibert (Laboratoire National des Champs Magnetiques Pulses), Jonathan Sokolov, Miriam Rafailovich (Department of Materials Science, SUNY at Stony Brook)

09:24 L23.006 Electrical transport through a 15~nm Schottky diode

G.D.J. Smit, S. Rogge, T.M. Klapwijk (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

09:36 L23.007 Ab initio I-V characteristics of Si clusters and small C20 chains

Christopher Roland (Department of Physics, NC State University, Raleigh NC), Vincent Meunier (Department of Physics, NC State University, Raleigh, NC), Brian Larade (Department of Physics, McGill University), Jeremy Taylor, Hong Guo (Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal PQ Canada)

09:48 L23.008 Electrical Conductance through a Hydrogen Bridge

Yves Noat, Roel Smit, Carlos Untiedt, Jan van Ruitenbeek (Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory, Universiteit Leiden, P.O.Box 9504, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands), Norton Lang (IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598), Mark van Hemert (Gorlaeus Laboratory, Universiteit Leiden, P.O.Box 9504, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands)

10:00 L23.009 Influence of physically adsorbed H_2 on conductivity of gold nanocontacts.

A. Halbritter, Sc. Csonka, G. Mihály (Department of Physics, Institute of Physics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 1111 Budapest, Hungary), O.I. Shklyarevskii, S. Speller, H. van Kempen (Research Institute for Materials, University of Nijmegen, Toernooiveld 1, NL--6525 ED Nijmegen, the Netherlands)

L23.010 Nano Metallic Solid Electrolyte Switches and Cu Nanowire Interconnects for Molecular Electronics

Massood Tabib-Azar, Adina Scott, Nathan Pletcher, Rainer Adelung, Frank Ernst (Case Western reserve University)

L23.011 Transport and electron-phonon coupling in clean organic semiconductors

Misha Turlakov (University of Cambridge,), Peter Littlewood (University of Cambridge)

08:00 L24.001 SHAPE DEPENDENT PROPERTIES OF SEMICONDUCTOR AND METALLIC NANOCRYSTALS

MOSTAFA EL-SAYED (LASER DYNAMICS LABORATORY- SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY - GEORGIA TECH)

08:36 L24.002 A Density Functional Study of Carbon Monoxide Adsorption On Small Cationic, Neutral and Anionic Gold Clusters

Xueyuan Wu, Lax Senapati, Saroj Nayak (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180), Annabella Selloni (Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544)

08:48 L24.003 Chirality in Bare and Passivated Gold Nanoclusters

Ignacio L. Garzon, Juan A. Reyes-Nava, Ian Sigal, Karo Michaelian (Instituto de Fisica, UNAM, 01000 Mexico, D.F., Mexico), Juan I. Rodriguez-Hernandez, Marcela R. Beltran (Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, UNAM, Mexico, D.F, Mexico.)

09:00 L24.004 Theoretical Investigations of the Interaction of Silver Clusters with Ethylene

Sudha Srinivas (Department of Physics, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859), Julius Jellinek, Umesh Salian (Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439)

09:12 L24.005 Atomic Structure, Binding Energy, and Magnetic Properties of Iron Atoms Supported on Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons

L. Senapati, S. K. Nayak (Rensslear Polytechnic Institute), B. K. Rao, P. Jena (Virginia Commonwealth University)

09:24 L24.006 Defect Induced Catalytic Behavior of Carbon Nanotubes

Saroj Nayak (Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180)

10:00 L24.007 A search for the smallest stable cage clusters: heteroatom fullerenes

Alana E. Kirby, Lubos Mitas (D. of Physics, North Carolina State U.)

10:12 L24.008 Si(111)5\times 2-Au: An atomic memory

A. Kirakosian, R. Bennewitz, J.N. Crain, J.-L. Lin, J.L. McChesney, D.Y. Petrovykh, F.J. Himpsel (Dept. of Physics, U. Wisconsin-Madison)

10:24 L24.009 Gd-induced chain structures on Si(111) surfaces

JIA-LING LIN, A. KIRAKOSIAN, J.L. MCCHESNEY, R. BENNEWITZ, J.N. CRAIN, F.J. HIMPSEL (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

10:36 L24.010 Magic Numbers and Pascal's Triangle

Elías López-Cruz (Instituto de Física de la BUAP, Puebla, México)

08:00 L25.001 Heat and charge transport in carbon nanotubes

Paul L. McEuen (Dept. of Physics, Cornell University)

08:36 L25.002 Thermoelectric power measurement of individual single walled carbon nanotubes

Philip Kim (Department of Physics, Columbia University)

08:48 L25.003 Thermal vibrations of and scattering off carbon nanotubes

Arne Rosen (Dept of Physics, Gothenburg University, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-41296 Gothenburg Sweden), Kim Bolton (Dept of Physics Gothenburg University, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96 Gothenburg Sweden)

09:00 L25.004 INFLUENCE OF OXYGEN ADSORPTION ON THE THERMOELECTRIC POWER (TEP) IN MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES

Traig Savage, Sriparna Bhattacharya, Bindu Sadanadan, Jay Gaillard, Terry Tritt, Apparao Rao (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University), Ya-Ping Sun (Dept. of Chemistry, Clemson University)

09:12 L25.005 Nonlinear behavior in the thermopower of doped carbon nanotubes

R. Czerw (Dept. of Physics, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634), Y.-M. Choi, D.=S. Lee (Dept. of Physics and Cond. Matter Research Inst., Seoul National Univ., Seoul, Korea), P.-W. Chiu (Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart, Germany), M. Terrones, N. Grobert, M. Reyes-Reyes (Fullerene Science Center, CPES, Univ. of Sussex, Brighton, England), H. Terrones (IPICYT, Av. Venustiano Carranza 2425-A, San Luis Potosi 78210, Mexico), J.-C. Charlier (Université Catholique de Louvain, Unité de Physico-Chimie et de Physique des Matériaux, Place Croix du Sud 1, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), P. M. Ajayan (Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY), D. L. Carroll (Dept. of Physics, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634), S. Roth (Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart, Germany), Y. -W. Park (Dept. of Physics and Cond. Matter Research Inst., Seoul National Univ., Seoul, Korea)

09:24 L25.006 Thermodynamic behavior of H2 and D2 adsorbed in C nanotube bundles

Raluca Trasca, Milen Kostov, Milton Cole (Department of Physics,Pennsylvania State University,University Park,PA 16802)

09:36 L25.007 Plasmons in single wall carbon nanotubes.

K. Kempa (Boston College)

09:48 L25.008 Magnetoresistance of multiwall carbon nanotubes

Li Lu, N. Kang, W.J. Kong, J.S. Hu, Z.W. Pan, S.S. Xie (Key Laboratory of Extreme Conditions Physics, Institute of Physics amp; Center for Condensed Matter Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, P.R. China)

10:00 L25.009 Magnetic Properties of Edge States in Nanographite Ribbons and Carbon Nanotubes: Density-Matrix Renormalization-Group Study

Toshiya Hikihara, Xiao Hu (National Institute for Materials Science)

10:12 L25.010 Colossal Paramagnetic Moments in Metallic Carbon Nanotori

Lei Liu, C.S. Jayanthi, S.Y. Wu (Department of Physics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292), G.Y. Guo (Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan 106)

10:24 L25.011 Excited State Dynamics of Carbon Nanotubes with Defects: A Time-Dependent Kohn-Sham Approach

10:36 L25.012 Superconductivity by proximity effect in multi-walled carbon nanotube arrays

Junji Haruyama, Kazuya Takazawa, Kiriyama Hiroshi, Takesue Izumi, Ishida Shinya (Aoyama Gakuin University)

10:48 L25.013 Spin stripes in nanotubes

Alex Kleiner (Institute of theoretical physics, Chalmers university of technology, Sweden)

08:00 L26.001 Third Sound Attenuation due to Vortices in Thick Helium Films

Konstantin Penanen, Richard E. Packard (University of California at Berkeley)

08:12 L26.002 Propagation of Third Sound through Sets of CaF_2 Scatterers

J.C. Herrmann, R.B. Hallock (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Mass., Amherst, MA 01003)

08:24 L26.003 Singularity in the boundary resistance between superfluid ^4He and a solid surface

Kerry Kuehn, Sarabjit Mehta, Haiying Fu, Edgar Genio, Daniel Murphy (Univ. of Calif. at Santa Barbara), Fengchuan Liu, Yuanming Liu (Jet Propulsion Lab), Guenter Ahlers (Univ. of Calif. at Santa Barbara)

08:36 L26.004 Pressure Dependence of the Thermal Resistivity of Liquid ^4He in a Confined Geometry near T_\lambda

Daniel Murphy, Edgar Genio, Guenter Ahlers (Dept. of Physics and iQUEST, University of California, Santa Barbara), Feng-Chuan Liu, Yuan-Ming Liu (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA)

08:48 L26.005 Effects of the van der Waals interaction on the superfluid density of confined ^4Helium

Kevin P. Mooney, Francis M. Gasparini (University at Buffalo, SUNY)

09:00 L26.006 0D crossover in the specific heat of confined helium.

Mark O. Kimball, Francis M. Gasparini (University at Buffalo, SUNY)

09:12 L26.007 Bose-Einstein Condensation in Liquid ^4He in Disorder

Richard Azuah (University of Liverpool, UK), Henry Glyde (University of Delaware), Bjorn Fak (ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory U.K.), R. Scherm (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany), W. G. Stirling (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, France)

09:24 L26.008 Excitations of Superfluid ^4He at Wavevectors Beyond the Roton

Henry Glyde, Asaad Sakhel (University of Delaware)

09:36 L26.009 Excitations in liquid ^4He in Geltech silica

O. Plantevin, H. Schober (Inst. Laue-Langevin, France), Henry Glyde, N. Mulders (Univ. of Delaware), Fak Bjorn (ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Lab. U.K.), J. Bossy (Cent. de Recherche sur les Tres Basses Temp., France), F. Albergamo (Lab. Leon Brillouin, France)

09:48 L26.010 Finite-Size Scaling of Thermal Conductivity of Confined Helium

Efstratios Manousakis (Department of Physics and MARTECH, Florida State University), Kwangsik Nho (Center for Simulational Physics, University of Georgia)

10:00 L26.011 Submonolayer Molecular Hydrogen on Graphite: A Path Integral Monte Carlo Study

Kwangsik Nho (Center for Simulational Physics, University of Georgia), Efstratios Manousakis (Department of Physics and MARTECH, Florida State University)

08:00 L27.001 The role of forcing in the velocity correlations of a vibrated granular monolayer

A. Prevost, D. A. Egolf, J.S. Urbach (Georgetown University)

08:12 L27.002 Algebraic Velocity Distributions in Inelastic Gases

Paul Krapivsky (Boston University), Eli Ben-Naim (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

08:24 L27.003 A non-monotonic dependence of coefficient of restitution on impact velocity

Hunter King, Ryan White, Iva Zaharieva, Narayanan Menon (Dept. of Physics, U. of Massachusetts, Amherst)

08:36 L27.004 Entropic Tightening of Vibrated Granular Chains

Matthew Hastings, Zahir Daya, Eli Ben-Naim, Robert Ecke (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

08:48 L27.005 Spirals in vertically-vibrated granular chains

Robert E. Ecke, Zahir Daya, Michael Rivera, Matthew Hastings, Eli Ben-Naim (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

09:00 L27.006 Vortices in vibrated granular rods

Toni Neicu, Arshad Kudrolli (Department of Physics, Clark University, Worcester, MA 01610)

09:12 L27.007 Phase transition to vortical motion in a layer of vibrated rods

Lev Tsimring (University of California, San Diego), Igor Aranson (Argonne National Laboratory)

09:24 L27.008 Correlations between velocity and force fluctuations in a 2D granular flow

Sonia M. Dragulin, Nalini Easwar (Smith College, Northampton, MA.), Narayanan Menon (University of Massachussets, Amherst, MA.)

09:36 L27.009 Stress in a Two-dimensional Granular Medium

G. W. Baxter, B. P. Tepke (Physics Department, Penn. State Erie, The Behrend College)

09:48 L27.010 Point-Force Response in 2D Granular Materials

Junfei Geng, R.P. Behringer (Duke University), G. Redellet, Eric Clément (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)

10:00 L27.011 Impulse acoustics in granular media

Juan H. Agui (NASA Glenn Research Center)

10:12 L27.012 Impulse dispersion of a tapered granular chain

Masami Nakagawa, Juan H. Agui (NASA Glenn Research Center), Surajit Sen (State University of New York at Buffalo), David Wu (Colorado School of Mines)

10:24 L27.013 Boundary Effects on the Penetration Force in Granular Media

Peter Schiffer, Yee-kin Tsui, Pal Tegzes (Penn State University)

10:36 L27.014 Random packings of frictionless particles

Corey O'Hern (UCLA and University of Chicago), Stephen Langer (NIST), Andrea Liu (UCLA), Sidney Nagel (University of Chicago)

10:48 L27.015 Granular Packing with Side Walls

James Landry, Leonardo Silbert, Gary Grest, Steven Plimpton (Sandia National Labs)

L27.016 Particles on a Random Surface

Jayajit Das, Beate Schmittmann (Dept. of Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061)

08:00 L28.001 Boron suboxide crystal: high pressure synthesis and hardness measurement

Duanwei He (Los Alamos National Laboratory), L-12 Collaboration

08:12 L28.002 Competing ferrimagnetic and spin-glass order in Fe[TCNE]2 molecule-based magnet

Konstantin Pokhodnya, Nate Petersen, Joel S. Miller (University of Utah), Arthur J. Epstein (Ohio State University)

08:24 L28.003 Calorimetric investigation of the formation of metastable silicides in Au/amorphous Si thin film multilayers

R. R. Chromik (Physics Department; SUNY Binghamton; Binghamton, NY 1302), L. Zavalij, M. Johnson, Eric Cotts

08:36 L28.004 Organic Monolayers on Silicon and Germanium Surfaces: Harnessing Synthetic Versatility toward Intelligent Interfacial Design

Jr. Porter, J. M. Schmeltzer, Jillian M. Buriak (Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, 1393 Brown Labs of Chemistry, West Lafayette, IN 47907)

08:48 L28.005 Photoinduced Polymerization of Vapor Deposited Low Dielectric Films

V.J. Bellitto, M.J. Brooks, J.P. Long, P.G. Santangelo, M.L. Rebbert, Jr. Russell (Naval Research Laboratory, 4555 Overlook Ave SW, Washington DC 20375)

09:00 L28.006 Non-linear Electronic Response by Compositionally Broken Inversion Symmetry

Maitri Warusawithana, Eugene Colla, M. B. Weissman, James N. Eckstein (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.)

09:12 L28.007 Studying the Optical Properties of the NPD Mirrors

Yenny Martinez, Mike Newey, Maria Bell, Dr. David Allred, Dr. R. Steven Turley (Brigham Young University), XUV Research Group Team

09:24 L28.008 Synthesis of ultra-thin, insulating layers of zirconia for passivation and tunneling on YBCO

P.J. Hentges, L.H. Greene (Dept. of Physics, University of Illinois), Glenn Westwood, Walter Klemperer (Dept. of Chemistry, University of Illinois)

09:36 L28.009 Study of the oxidation rate of vanadium

Nick Webb, David Allred, Guillermo Acosta (Brigham Young University, Department of Physics)

09:48 L28.010 First-principles calculations of C14-type Laves phase Ti-Mn hydrides

N. Nagasako, A. Fukumoto, K. Miwa (Toyota Central Ramp;D Labs., Inc.)

10:00 L28.011 LDA-Prediction of New Stable Crystal Structures within=0A= the Cu-Au and Ni-Pt Alloy Systems.^\ast

M. Sanati, L. Wang, Alex Zunger (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO)

10:12 L28.012 Crystal Growth and characterization of VSe_2-x

Jian He (Physics and Astronomy Department, The University of Tennessee, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory), R. Jin (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Jangwoo Choi, Jan Musfeldt (Chemistry Department, University of Tennessee), D. Mandrus (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee,)

10:24 L28.013 Shadow Mask Evaporation and its Application in Nano-Electronics

Yangxin Zhou, James Hone, Alan. T. Johnson (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104), Walter F. Smith (Department of Physics, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania 19041), Nick Pinto (Department of Physics and Electronics, University of Puerto Rico, Humacao, Humacao, Puerto Rico 00791)

L28.014 Green Phosphorescence of CaAl2O4: Tb3+, Ce3+ through Persistence Energy Transfer

Dongdong Jia, Richard Meltzer, william Yen (Dept. of Phys. amp; Astro., University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602), Weiyi Jia (Dept. of Phys. University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguze, PR 00681), Xiaojun Wang (Department of Physics, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA30460)

08:00 L29.001 Folding and Signaling Share the Same Pathway in a Photoreceptor Protein

Wouter Hoff (University of Chicago)

08:36 L29.002 Theory of Mechanical Force of Protein Folding

K. U. Lu (Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics, CSULB)

08:48 L29.003 Hydrophobic/Hinge-Force model for Protein Folding, Evidence and Consequence

Per-Anker Lindgård (Department of Materials Science, Risø\ National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark and QUP, Quantum Protein Center, Technical University, Lyngby, Denmark)

09:00 L29.004 Single molecule studies of the folding of C-domain P RNA: Bacillus subtilis Rnase and the multi-domain autofluorescent protein Nitric Oxide Synthase

Zheng Xie, Liu Yang (Grad student, Univ. of Chicago,), Norbert Scherer, Tao Pan, Tobin Sosnick (Professor, Univ. of Chicago,)

09:12 L29.005 Shedding new light on the folding reaction of Cytochrome c

Syun-Ru Yeh (Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine)

09:48 L29.006 A Theoretical Study of Distribution of First Passage Times of Biomolecular Folding and Reactions with Application to Single Molecules

Jin Wang (SUNY at Stony Brook), Vitor Leite (University of Sao Paulo), George Stell, Chi-lun Lee (SUNY at Stony Brook)

10:00 L29.007 Thermodynamics and kinetic analysis of the SH3 fold

Jose M. Borreguero (Center for Polymer Studies, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215 USA), Nikolay V. Dokholyan (Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA), Sergey Buldyrev (Center for Polymer Studies, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215 USA), Eugene I. Shakhnovich (Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA), H. Eugene Stanley (Center for Polymer Studies, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215 USA)

10:12 L29.008 Cooperativity amp; Chemical Control in Forced Unfolding

Dennis Discher, Philippe Carl, Richard Law, David Speicher (University of Pennsylvania amp; Wistar Institute)

10:24 L29.009 Mechanical unfolding of titin domains at low temperatures

Ensheng Liu, Guoliang Yang (Department of Physics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104)

10:36 L29.010 Measurement of Loop Formation Rates in Disordered Polypeptides and Analysis using a Diffusion Model

Lisa Lapidus, Attila Szabo, William Eaton, James Hofrichter (Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health)

08:00 L30.001 In Vivo Measurements of Blood Hemodynamics in Rat Brain using Diffuse Optical Tomography and Diffuse Correlation Spectroscopy

Turgut Durduran (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania)

08:36 L30.002 Functional and structural connectivity in the brain from MEG and MRI

K.B. Blagoev (Department of Physics, Boston College), A.M. Dale, S.M. Stufflebeam, D. Salat (Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard University Medical School), T. Witzel (Massachusetts General Hospital), A.R. Bishop (Los Alamos National Laboratory), E. Halgren (Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard University Medical School), Integrating Modalities Team

08:48 L30.003 Shear Modulation Force Microscopy in liquid and its application to adsorbed protein and living cells

Shouren Ge (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-2275), Nadine Pernodet (Bioelectromagnetics Research Laboratory, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5281), Jonathan Sokolov, Miriam Rafailovich (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-2275)

09:00 L30.004 Magnetic and Fluorescent Imaging of Wave Front Propagation in Cardiac Tissue

Jenny R. Holzer, Eric Chancellor, Veniamin Sidorov, Luis Fong, Franz Baudenbacher (Living State Physics, Vanderbilt University)

09:12 L30.005 Unique antiscatter grid to improve mammography

Cha-Mei Tang (Creatv MicroTech, Inc., Rockville, MD 20850)

09:48 L30.006 3D Fluorescent Microscopy with 10nm Resolution

B. B. Goldberg (Boston University Physics), A. K. Swan (Boston University Electrical and Computer Engineering), L. Moiseev (Boston University Biology), Y. J. Tong (Boston University Physics), S. Lipoff (Harvard University), M. S. Unlu (Boston University Electrical and Computer Engineering)

10:00 L30.007 Confocal Coherence Imaging of Highly Scattering Scaffold Materials

Marcus Cicerone, Joy Dunkers (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

10:12 L30.008 Observation of biological samples by Scanning Microwave Microscopy(SMM)

Jewook Park, Sangjin Hyun, Ahram Kim, Tesu Kim, Kookrin Char (Center for Strongly Correlated Material Research, School of Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea)

10:24 L30.009 Imaging Dynamically Scattered Light Fluctuations of Microscopic Objects

Rhonda Dzakpasu, Daniel Axelrod (The University of Michigan, Department of Physics, Biophysics Research Division)

10:36 L30.010 Magnetic Properties of CoFe_2O_4 and Fe_3O_4

Robert Rodriguez, T. Chan, G.G. Kenning (Dept. of Physics), L. Huang, Y. Yan (Dept. of Chem and Envir. Engr., University of California, Riverside)

L30.011 Imaging of Biologically Derived Anisotropic Fluids

Aline Miller, Athene Donald (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

08:00 L31.001 Infrared Spectroscopy of Mass-Selected Transition Metal Complexes

Michael Duncan (University of Georgia)

08:36 L31.002 Electric Field Deflection Studies of Nickel and Niobium Clusters

Mark Knickelbein (Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory)

08:48 L31.003 Photoionization of alkali nanoclusters in a beam: Energy and temperature dependence

Vitaly Kresin, Kin Wong, George Tikhonov, Vitaly Kasperovich (University of Southern California)

09:00 L31.004 Trapped Ion Electron Diffraction: Probing Structural Changes in Nanoclusters

Joel H Parks (Rowland Institute for Science; Cambridge, Massachusetts)

09:36 L31.005 Electron Binding Energies of Anionic Magnesium Clusters and the Size-Induced Insulator-to-Metal Transition*

Julius Jellinek, Paulo Acioli (Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439)

09:48 L31.006 Infrared Spectroscopy of Gas Phase Metal Clusters

Deniz van Heijnsbergen, Gerard Meijer (FOM Institute Rijnhuizen, Edisonbaan 14, 3439 MN Nieuwegein, The Netherlands), Michael Duncan (Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602), Gert von Helden (FOM Institute Rijnhuizen, Edisonbaan 14, 3439 MN Nieuwegein, The Netherlands)

10:00 L31.007 Structure, stability, dissociation, and vibration of Ni_N clusters

Valeri G. Grigoryan, Michael Springborg (Physical Chemistry, University of Saarland, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany)

10:12 L31.008 LCAO Density-functional study of platinum clusters

Edoardo Apra (EMSL - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Alessandro Fortunelli (ICQEM - CNR)

08:00 L32.001 Quantum Mechanical Studies of Protein Dynamics and Functions

Weitao Yang (Duke University)

08:36 L32.002 Investigation of DNA through coupling molecular dynamics and electronic-structure methods.

James P. Lewis (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young University), Hao Wang, Otto F. Sankey (Arizona State University), Eugene Starikow (Free University of Berlin), Thomas E. Cheatham (University of Utah)

08:48 L32.003 Electronic Properties of Overstretched DNA

Paul Maragakis, Ryan Barnett, Efthimios Kaxiras (Harvard University), Marcus Elstner, Thomas Frauenheim (University of Paderborn)

09:00 L32.004 Adiabatic Charge Dynamics in Molecules Dissolved in A Polar Solvent. Application to Charge Migration in DNA

A. L. Burin, Yu. A. Berlin, I. Kurnikov, M. A. Ratner (Dept. of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208)

09:12 L32.005 Structural accommodation and competition in and near B-DNA oligomers.

Charles Cleveland, Robert Barnett, Uzi Landman (School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30032)

09:24 L32.006 Protein dynamics controlling electron tunneling routes. Going beyond the Pathways Model

Jose Onuchic (Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0319)

10:00 L32.007 Kinetics Probes of Protein Folding Processes

Jay Winkler, Jennifer Lee, Julia Lyubovitsky, Akif Tezcan, Harry Gray (Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology)

10:12 L32.008 Symmetry and electron transfer in biomolecules

Maria R. D'Orsogna, Robijn Bruinsma (UCLA)

10:24 L32.009 Unusual energy transfer and structures in guanine oligodeoxynucleotides

Steven Paul Davis, Tiffany Truss, Thomas M. Nordlund (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham)

10:36 L32.010 Diffusion-influenced reactions of polymeric reactants

Pyeong Jun Park, Sangyoub Lee (School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering and Center for Molecular Catalysis, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-747, Korea)