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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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)