Program overview

FRIDAY MORNING, 5 OCTOBER 2001

Session AA. AAPT Contributed Papers.

Friday morning, 10:30, SWR L2, Sid W. Richardson Building

Session AB. Astronomy and Space Physics.

Friday morning, 10:30, SWR L1, Sid W. Richardson Building

10:30 AB.001 Coupled Ion-Neutral Motions in the Upper Atmosphere
Roderick Heelis (University of Texas at Dallas)
11:06 AB.002 HI Properties of Loose Groups
P. M. Marcum (TCU), W. van Driel (Observatoire de Paris)
11:18 AB.003 Surface Brightness Profiles and Fine Structure of Isolated Elliptical Galaxies
C.E. Aars, P.M. Marcum (TCU), M.N. Fanelli (UNT)
11:30 AB.004 Structure, Kinematics, Spectra, and Polarization of Parsec-scale Jets in Lobe-dominated Quasars
David Hough, Nickolaus Wing, Justin Linick (Trinity U.), Stephen Escobedo (San Antonio College and Trinity U.), Richard Porcas (MPIfR), Anton Zensus (MPIfR and NRAO), Rene Vermeulen (NFRA), Anthony Readhead (Caltech)
11:42 AB.005 Have Event Horizons Been Detected?
Stanley Robertsom (Southwestern Oklahoma State University)
11:54 AB.006 A SCALING LAW FOR ORGANIZED MATTER IN THE UNIVERSE
Nassim Haramein (Anodos Foundation, Ben Lomond, CA)

Session AC. Theory.

Friday morning, 10:30, SWR L4, Sid W. Richardson Building

10:30 AC.001 Causality and General Relativity in Flat Spacetime
J. Brian Pitts (St. Edward's University), W. C. Schieve (The University of Texas at Austin)
10:42 AC.002 Superlogic: Supersymmetric Quantum Logic
Stephen L. Weinberg (Department of Physics, The Academy of Artscience, Box 1, 18 Langslow St., Rochester NY 14620-2928)
10:54 AC.003 Is Quantum Mechanics Nonlocal?
James Espinosa (Texas Woman's University)
11:06 AC.004 The use of an analytic Hamiltonian matrix for solving the hydrogenic atom
Mohammad Bhatti (The University of Texas Pan American), Warren Perger Collaboration
11:18 AC.005 Two-body Hamiltonian for a Hydrogen atom in an Electromagnetic Field
Donald H. Kobe (Department of Physics, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203), Wolfgang P. Schleich (Department of Quantum Physics, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany)
11:30 AC.006 The Thorium-Cycle: safe, abundant power for the new millennium
May Don, Kim George, McIntyre Peter (Texas Aamp;M University), Meitzler Charles (Sam Houston State University), Rogers Robert, Sattarov Akhdior, Yavuz Mustafa (Texas Aamp;M University)
11:42 AC.007 Low energy positrons as probes of semiconductor surfaces.*
N.G. Fazleev, J.L. Fry, A.H. Weiss (The University of Texas at Arlington), Department of Physics Collaboration

Session AD. Optical Properties and Spectroscopy.

Friday morning, 10:30, SWR L3, Sid W. Richardson Building

10:30 AD.001 Far-Infrared and Raman Spectra and The Ring-Twisting Potential Energy Function of 1,3-Cyclohexadiene
Daniel Autrey, Jaebum Choo, Jaan Laane (Texas Aamp;M University)
10:42 AD.002 Infrared Absorption Spectra of a Gas Mixture of Deuterium Hydride (HD) and Helium
Magnus Gustafsson, Lothar Frommhold (The University of Texas at Austin)
10:54 AD.003 FTIR and DFT studies of Novel Germanium-Carbon Clusters
D.L. Robbins, C.M.L. Rittby, W.R.M. Graham (TCU Department of Physics and Astronomy)
11:06 AD.004 Optical Properties of Disperse-Red-1-Doped Nematic Liquid Crystal
Gene Carlisle, Yongjing Wang (West Texas Aamp;M University)
11:18 AD.005 Two Photon Fluorescence Microscopy and Deconvolution Analysis
Claire Nerbun (University of Dallas), Keith Berland (Emory University)