FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 25 MAY 2001

Session B1. Applications of Synchrotron Radiation in Condensed Matter Physics.

Friday afternoon, 14:00, C420, Physics and Astronomy Building

14:00 B1.001 Characterizing Complex Interfaces with Magnetic Contrast: Yves Izerda (Montana State University)
14:36 B1.002 Surface Modification of CaF_2 for Improved Heteroepitaxy: A.A. Bostwick, B.R. Schroeder, J.A. Adams, M.A. Olmstead (U. Washington), E. Rotenberg (Adv. Light Source, Berkeley)
14:48 B1.003 Initial stages of Al_xSe_y heteroepitaxial growth on Si(111): J.A. Adams, A.A. Bostwick, F.S. Ohuchi, M.A. Olmstead (Univ. Washington), E. Rotenberg (Advanced Light Source, Berkeley)
15:00 B1.004 Growth of II-VI nanostructures on GaSe(0001) and GaSe-terminated Si(111: E. Wisotzki, W. Jaegermann (Tech. Univ. Darmstadt), J.A. Adams, A.A. Bostwick, M.A. Olmstead (Univ. Washington)
15:12 B1.005 Electronic Structure of a Heteroepitaxially-Passivated Si(111) Surface: GaSe-terminated Si(111): M.A. Olmstead, J.A. Adams, A.A. Bostwick, F.S. Ohuchi (Univ. Washington), R. Rudolf, C. Pettenkoffer (Hahn-Meitner Inst., Berlin), E. Rotenberg (Advanced Light Source, Berkeley), R. Fritsche, A. Klein, W. Jaegermann (Tech. Univ. Darmstadt)
15:24 B1.006 Local field effects in x-ray absorption spectra: A. I. Nesvizhskii, A. L. Ankudinov, J. J. Rehr (U. Washington)
15:36 B1.007 Coffee Break
16:04 B1.008 Lanczos Algorithms for Multiple Scattering of Electrons: A. L. Ankudinov, J.J. Rehr (U. Washington), C. Bouldin, J. Sims (NIST)
16:16 B1.009 Calculations of Inelastic Losses and Interference Terms in X-ray Absorption: L. W. Campbell (U. Washington), L. Hedin (U. Lund), J. J. Rehr (U. Washington), W. Bardyszewski (U. Warsaw)
16:28 B1.010 Fluorescence EXAFS measurements of hydrogenated amorphous silicon-germanium film alloys: B.D. Chapman, S.-W. Han (Univ. of Washington), G.T. Seidler, E.A. Stern (Univ. of Washington and PNC-CAT), J.D. Cohen (Univ. of Oregon), S. Guha, J.C. Yang (United Solar Systems Corp.)
16:40 B1.011 Measurement of the X-ray Raman Near Edge Structure (XRNES) Using a Point-Focusing Spatial Filter: E. A. Behne, Y. Feng (Physics Department, University of Washington, Seattle WA 98195-1560), G. T. Seidler (Physics Department, University of Washington, Seattle WA 98195-1560 and PNC-CAT, Building 435E, Argonne National Labs, Argonne IL 60439)

Session B2. Particle Physics.

Friday afternoon, 14:00, C231, Physics and Astronomy Building

14:00 B2.001 The Nu Standard Model: Ann Nelson (Univ. of Washington)
14:30 B2.002 Results on Neutrino Oscillations from Super-Kamiokande and K2K: Jeffrey Wilkes (Univ. of Washington)
15:00 B2.003 Recent Results from Hermes: M.C. Vetterli (TRIUMF and Simon Fraser Univ.)
15:30 B2.004 Coffee Break
15:50 B2.005 Wilson Loop in N=4 Super-Yang-Mills Theory: A Test of the Maldacena Conjecture: Gordon Semenoff (Univ. of British Columbia)
16:20 B2.006 Measurement of K+ -> pi+nu nubar and other rare kaon decays: Shaomin Chen (TRIUMF, Canada), E787/E949 Collaboration
16:50 B2.007 Wave Function of the Radion in the dS and AdS Brane Worlds: Patrick J Fox, Z Chacko (Department of Physics, University of Washington)
17:02 B2.008 Evaluation of the Photonic Conversion Finder for the BaBar detector: Zerah Lurie (Department of Physics and Astronomy, U British Columbia), BaBar Collaboration
17:14 B2.009 Equations on q-plane and Self-Dual Yang-Mills Theories: Martin Legare (U. of Alberta, Canada)

Session B3. Nuclear Physics and Applications of Quantum Mechanics.

Friday afternoon, 14:00, C421, Physics and Astronomy Building

14:00 B3.001 Probing Microscopic Nuclear Structure in High Momentum Transfer Electron Scattering; Challenges and Recent JLab Results: Mark Strikman (Pennsylvania State University)
14:36 B3.002 Atom Trap Studies of Beta Decay: J.A. Behr (TRIUMF), TRINAT Collaboration
15:12 B3.003 Lead perchlorate as a neutrino detection medium: S.R. Elliott, M.K. Bacrania, P.J. Doe, L.C. Stonehill (University of Washington)
15:27 B3.004 The Neutral Current Detector Project of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory: Kathryn Schaffer (Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195), Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Collaboration
15:42 B3.005 Coffee Break
16:00 B3.006 Muon Induced Spallation Neutrons in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory: J.L. Orrell, Q.R. Ahmad, R. Hazama, J.F. Wilkerson (University of Washington), Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Collaboration
16:15 B3.007 Measurement of |V_ub| using b hadron semileptonic decay: Jiansen Lu, Janis Mckenna (University of British Columbia, Canada), OPAL Collaboration
16:30 B3.008 What Quantum Engineering Brings to Quantum Measurement Theory: the Equivalence Between Von Neumann-type Projective Operators and Fokker-Planck Differential Operators on Density Matrices: John Sidles (University of Washington)
16:45 B3.009 Controlled Modes of Synchronized Coupled Chaotic Systems: Thomas Olsen, Collin Trail (Lewis amp; Clark College, Portland, OR), Richard Wiener, Michael Snyder (Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR)
17:00 B3.010 Past, Present and Future: Doc Castellano (PhD co.)

Session B4. Education.

Friday afternoon, 14:00, C211, Physics and Astronomy Building

14:00 B4.001 Physics as a Part of Liberal Education: James Evans (The University of Puget Sound)
14:30 B4.002 Active Engagement Strategies for Introductory Physics: Shawn Kolitch (Lewis amp; Clark College)
15:00 B4.003 Peer-Led Team Learning in Physics: NSF National Dissemination Initiative: Ronald Narode (Portland State University)
15:30 B4.004 Educating in Bulk The Introductory Physics Course Revision at Illinois: Gary Gladding (Univ. of Illinois)
16:00 B4.005 Coffee Break
16:20 B4.006 Identifying student difficulties with buoyancy: An investigation in the laboratory setting: Matthew J. Cochran, Paula R. L. Heron, Mark N. McDermott (Department of Physics Box 351560, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1560)
16:35 B4.007 Identifying and addressing student difficulties with rotational dynamics*: Luanna G. Ortiz, Paula R.L. Heron, Peter S. Shaffer, Lillian C. McDermott (University of Washington)
16:50 B4.008 Active Learning in Lecture Using Interactive Lecture Demonstrations in Heat and Thermodynamics, Electricity and Magnetism and Optics*: David R. Sokoloff (University of Oregon)
17:05 B4.009 A model regenerator for a Stirling cycle: James Carolan (Dept. of Physics amp; Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z1)
17:20 B4.010 The WALTA Project: Engaging students and teachers in forefront high energy research: Heather Zorn (University of Washington, Department of Physics), The WALTA Collaboration