Program overview

SATURDAY MORNING, 21 APRIL 2001

09:30 F1.001 Electrostatics in Biological Systems: The Case of DNA Condensation.

Francisco J. Solis (Hiram College), Monica Olvera de la Cruz (Northwestern University)

09:54 F1.002 A Monte Carlo Simulation of Vesicle Exocytosis in the Buffered Diffusion of Calcium Channel Currents

Z. Dimcovic, T.P. Eagan, R.W. Brown, R.G. Petschek (Dept. of Physics, CWRU), S.J. Eppell (Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, CWRU), A.M.R. Yunker, A.H. Sharp (Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics, CWRU), M.W. McEnery (Depts. of Neuroscience, Physiology and Biophysics, CWRU)

09:54 F1.002 A Monte Carlo Simulation of Vesicle Exocytosis in the Buffered Diffusion of Calcium Channel Currents

Z. Dimcovic, T.P. Eagan, R.W. Brown, R.G. Petschek (Dept. of Physics, CWRU), S.J. Eppell (Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, CWRU), A.M.R. Yunker, A.H. Sharp (Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics, CWRU), M.W. McEnery (Depts. of Neuroscience, Physiology and Biophysics, CWRU)

10:54 F1.004 Dynamic transition and functions of biopolymers

Alexei Sokolov, Alexander Kisliuk, Gokhan Caliskan (Department of Polymer Science, University of Akron)

10:18 F1.003 Study of Protein Adsorption onto Well-Defined Surfaces of Self-Assembled Monolayers

T Cregger, S. Petrash, R. Sedjo, M.D. Foster, W.J. Brittain (Maurice Morton Institute of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, OH), C.F. Majkrzak (NIST Radiation Reactor Division, Gaithersburg, MD)

11:06 F1.005 Differential Scanning Calorimetric Study of the Binding of the Primary Water of Hydration to Nucleosides

Dawn Cavanaugh, Scott Lee (University of Toledo)

11:06 F1.005 Differential Scanning Calorimetric Study of the Binding of the Primary Water of Hydration to Nucleosides

Dawn Cavanaugh, Scott Lee (University of Toledo)

10:54 F1.004 Dynamic transition and functions of biopolymers

Alexei Sokolov, Alexander Kisliuk, Gokhan Caliskan (Department of Polymer Science, University of Akron)

11:06 F1.005 Differential Scanning Calorimetric Study of the Binding of the Primary Water of Hydration to Nucleosides

Dawn Cavanaugh, Scott Lee (University of Toledo)

11:18 F1.006 Raman scattering study of cytidine as a function of pressure

Jun Li, Scott Lee (University of Toledo)

11:30 F1.007 Entropy and Information in the Genome

Joel Lepak, Michael Crescimanno (Youngstown State University)

09:30 F2.001 Can a Migrating Gas Giant Planet Retain a System of Moons?

W.J. Carpenter, S.G. Alexander (Miami University)

09:42 F2.002 Some student Beliefs in Astronomy

Greg Townsend (University of Akron)

09:54 F2.003 Rigid Body Rotation in Gravitational N-Body Simulations and the Obliquity of Uranus

Nicholas P. Abel, S.G. Alexander (Miami University)

10:06 F2.004 A Model of Dark Matter

George L. Murphy (St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Akron, Ohio)

10:18 F2.005 UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH IN PHYSICS AS A CAPSTONE EXPERIENCE: FRAMEWORK AND STRATEGIES

Shila Garg (The College of Wooster, OH), Toufic Hakim (Kean University, New Jersey)

10:30 F2.006 Physics of Control-Line Stunt Flying

W. N. Hubin (Kent State University)

10:42 F2.007 Bondi's Approach to Special Relativity

Paul Scholten, Manash Mukherjee (Department of Physics, Miami University, Oxford, OH)

10:54 F2.008 Conceptually Transparent Experiments to Introduce NMR

Jonathan Reichert (TeachSpin, Inc., Buffalo, New York)

09:30 F3.001 Polymer Wall Formation in Liquid Crystal Devices

John L. West, David J. Heineman, Michael R. Fisch, Gregory R. Magyar (Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio)

09:42 F3.002 Diffusion of Cycloalkanes in Melts and in Blends with n-Alkanes and Polyethylene.

E. D. von Meerwall, R. Ozisik, W. L. Mattice (Univ. of Akron)

09:54 F3.003 Temperature Induced Surface Rearrangement of Alkyl Side Chain Comb Polymers at the Polymer/Air Interface

Keshav S. Gautam, Ali Dhinojwala (Department of Polymer Science,University of Akron, Akron, OH-44325)

10:06 F3.004 Surface and Bulk Studies in Star/Linear Polybutadiene Blends

T.D. Martter, M.D. Foster, T. Yoo, S. Xu, G. Lizarraga, R.P. Quirk (The University of Akron, Dept. of Polymer Science, Akron, OH 44325), P. Butler (Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN 37831), C.F. Majkrzak (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899)

10:18 F3.005 Local friction in polyolefin blends - a small-scale simulation approach

Jutta Luettmer-Strathmann (University of Akron, Department of Physics)

10:30 F3.006 Chain segment order in adsorbed polymer thin films: A Deuterium NMR study

Svetlana V. Primak, T. Jin (Department of Physics, Kent State University, Kent,OH), A.C. Dagger (University of York, Department of Chemistry, Heslington, York, UK), D. Finotello, E.K. Mann (Department of Physics, Kent State University, Kent,OH)

10:42 F3.007 NMR Relaxation Spectra in Ultrasound-Devulcanized Poly(dimethyl siloxane) Rubber.

J. C. Parr, E. D. von Meerwall, S. E. Shim, A. Isayev (Univ. of Akron)

10:54 F3.008 Self-Diffusion of Trehalose and Sucrose in Water: Analysis and Simulation.

E. Feick, E. D. von Meerwall (Univ. of Akron), N. Ekdawi-Sever, J. J. de Pablo (Univ. Wisconsin-Madison)

11:06 F3.009 A Thermodynamic Theory of Rapid Entropy Drop, Kauzmann Catastrophe and an Apparent Mode-Coupling Transition in Polymers: An Exact Model Calculation on a Husimi Tree

Andrea Corsi, P. D. Gujrati (The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325 USA)

11:18 F3.010 Dielectric and SEM Study of Polymer Stabilized Nematic Liquid Crystals

R.-Q. Ma, D.-K. Yang (Chemical Physics program in Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio.)

11:30 F3.011 Ordered Polymer Microstructures Obtained Using Pattern Forming States of a Cholesteric Liquid Crystal as Templates

L.-C. Chien, S. W. Kang (Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program and Liquid Crystal Institute), S. Sprunt (Department of Physics, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio)