Program overview

SATURDAY AFTERNOON, 26 MAY 2001

Session F1. Gravity and Astrophysics.

Saturday afternoon, 14:00, A102, Physics and Astronomy Building

14:00 F1.001 High Precision Measurements of G
Jens Gundlach (University of Washington)
14:30 F1.002 ATMOSPHERIC NEUTRINO FLUX AT THE SUDBURY NEUTRINO OBSERVATORY
Thomas Kutter (University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, Canada), for the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Collaboration
15:00 F1.003 Unveiling Cosmic Structure Formation with Dwarf Galaxies
Lucio Mayer (University of Washington)
15:30 F1.004 Coffee Break
16:00 F1.005 Interpreting the Velocity of Light in Einstein's Special and General Theories of Relativity
Clarence A Gall (Universidad del Zulia, Postgrado de Ingenieria, Apartado # 98, Maracaibo, Venezuela)
16:12 F1.006 A Self Organizing Universe
Orvin E. Wagner (Wagner Research Laboratory)
16:24 F1.007 Lense-Thirring Frame Dragging and A Simple Galactic Model
Patrick Bruskiewich (Dept. Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia)
16:36 F1.008 Effects of Thermal Wavefront Distortion on Laser Interferometric Gravitational-Wave
R. G. Beausoleil, E. K. Gustafson, M. M. Fejer (Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 94305), E. D'Ambrosio, W. Kells, J. Camp (LIGO Project, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125)
16:48 F1.009 Constraining the Weight of Gravity: A Test of the Strong Equivalence Principle using Lunar Laser-Ranging
Jana Strasburg, Tom Murphy, Christopher Stubbs, Eric Adelberger (University of Washington)
17:00 F1.010 Dynamics of massive electromagnetically coupled complex scalar fields on a Schwarzschild spacetime background.
Roman Petryk, Matthew Choptuik (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia)

Session F2. Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics.

Saturday afternoon, 14:00, A110, Physics and Astronomy Building

14:00 F2.001 Ultrafast Time-space Holography by Two Photon Hole Burning
Aleksander Rebane (Montana State Univ)
14:36 F2.002 Photonic Crystals – Controlling Light on Wavelength Scale
Miriam Deutsch (Department of Physics, University of Oregon)
15:12 F2.003 Mean field numerical and analytic solutions of Bose-Einstein Condensates in a double square well.
Khan W. Mahmud, William P. Reinhardt (University of Washington)
15:27 F2.004 Coffee Break
15:50 F2.005 Simultaneous Quantum State Measurement using Array Detection
Andrew Dawes (Student Whitman College), Mark Beck (Whitman College Physics Department)
16:05 F2.006 Er^3+ ^4I_15/2 and ^4I_13/2 levels and magnetic g-tensors for C_2 and C_3i sites in Y_2O_3 by 1.5 \mum diode laser spectroscopy
Y. Reinemer, R. W. HARRIS (Montana State University)
16:20 F2.007 Directed Motion From Brownian Fluctuations in Non-Equilibrium Steady State: The Brownian Ratchet Revisited
Gilbert Martinez (Dept. of Physics, University of Washington), Hong Qian (Dept. of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington)

Session F3. Condensed Matter.

Saturday afternoon, 14:00, A114, Physics and Astronomy Building

14:00 F3.001 Temporal behavior of pulsed Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers
Todd Velde, Mark Beck (Department of Physics, Whitman College)
14:12 F3.002 Structure-electronic property correlations of single-walled carbon nanotubes using low-loss transmission electon energy-loss spectroscopy
Bryan Reed, Mehmet Sarikaya (Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington)
14:24 F3.003 Single crystal EPR determination of the quantum energy level structure for Fe8 molecular clusters
S. Maccagnano, S. Hill, E. Negusse, A. Lussier, M.M. Mola (Department of Physics, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717), R. Achey, N.S. Dalal (Department of Chemistry and National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32310)
14:36 F3.004 Analytic Trajectories for Mobility Edges in the Anderson Model
Roger Haydock (University of Oregon)
14:48 F3.005 Influence of Dynamics in Interacting Fermion Systems: Ground State Spin of Quantum Dots
Tatsuro Nagano (Washington State University), Denis Ullmo (LPTMS Orsay France), Steven Tomsovic (Washington State University), Harold U. Baranger (Duke University)
15:00 F3.006 Heavy Fermion Effective Mass in the Vortex State of a Superconductor
Emily Townsend, Allen Wasserman (Oregon State University)
15:12 F3.007 Measurements of the Vortex Core Radius and Penetration Depth
Roger Miller, Astria Price (UBC, TRIUMF), Rob Kiefl (UBC, TRIUMF, CIAR), Jeff Sonier (SFU, TRIUMF), Jess Brewer (UBC, TRIUMF,CIAR), Doug Bonn, Walter Hardy, Ruixing Liang (UBC, CIAR), J.W. Brill (U. of Kentucky), P.C. Canfield (Ames Lab, U. of Iowa), UBC/CIAR/U.Kentucky/Iowa Collaboration
15:24 F3.008 Three-Dimensional Imaging Techniques in Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy (MRFM)
Shih-hui Chao, Melissa MacBeth, William Dougherty, Joseph Garbini, John Sidles (University of Washington)
15:36 F3.009 Coffee Break
15:56 F3.010 Atomic force microscopy(AFM) of Ice Vapor-Deposited on Au(111)at 100K
Jason Donev (Physics, University of Washington), Sam Fain (Physics, University of Wasington), Steve Joyce (Pacific Northwest National lab), Nanoscale Ice Dynamics Collaboration
16:08 F3.011 Mechanical Properties Characterization at the Nanoscale
Hanson Fong, Jeffery Sopp (Affiliation), Mehmet Sarikaya (Materials Science amp; Engineering Department, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195)
16:20 F3.012 Design and Test Results for Mechanical and Electrical Properties of Ferroelectric and Dielectric Crystals Under Uniaxial Pressure
Michelle Lindmier (Mechanical Engineering- Montana State University), V Hugo Schmidt, Gary Bohannan (Physics-Montana State University Bozeman)
16:32 F3.013 Flattening of organic molecules under pressure
M.D. McCluskey, K.K. Zhuravlev (Washington State University)
16:44 F3.014 Fractal Model for Dielectric Relaxation in Deuteron Pseudospin Glass “DRADP”
V. Hugo Schmidt, Darin Arbogast (Physics Department, Montana State Univ. Bozeman)
16:56 F3.015 A Stationarity Test for Resistance Noise Measurements
Yejun Feng, Gerald T. Seidler (Physics Department, University of Washington, Seattle, WA98195), Microstructural Kinetic Lab Team

Session F4. Poster Session.

Saturday afternoon, 14:00, A-Wing Hall, Physics and Astronomy Building

F4.001 Electric Field Feature of Moving Magnetic Field
You Jun Chen
F4.002 Low Frequency Tunneling Time: wavepacket momentum redistribution at the speed of Quantum information
George Soli (Integrated Detector Systems)
F4.003 Symplectic Integration of Hamiltonian Dynamical Systems
Porscha McRobbie (Seattle University)
F4.004 The MAP Satellite: A Powerful Lesson in Thermal Physics
Pierre-Marie Robitaille (The Ohio State University)
F4.005 Error in Numerical Simulations
De Goes John (MSU-Billings)