FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 5 OCTOBER 2001

Session BA. SPS Contributed Papers.

Friday afternoon, 15:00, SWR L2, Sid W. Richardson Building

Session BB. Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Friday afternoon, 15:00, SWR L1, Sid W. Richardson Building

15:00 BB.001 Study of the effect of tower failure on event reconstruction for GLAST: Danielle Rabidas, Daniel Suson, Russell Carden (Texas Aamp;M University-Kingsville)
15:12 BB.002 Study of the effectiveness of a four layer hardware trigger for GLAST: Russell Carden, Daniel Suson, Danielle Rabidas (Texas Aamp;M University-Kingsville)
15:24 BB.003 Near-IR Stellar Spectra: Gravity and Metallicity-Sensitive Spectral Indices: J. M. Dunn, P. M. Marcum (Texas Christian University), M. N. Fanelli (University of North Texas)
15:36 BB.004 Luminous Blue Compact Galaxies as Templates for Galaxy Evolution: Michael Fanelli, Heather Appleby (University of North Texas), Pamela Marcum (Texas Christian University)
15:48 BB.005 Investigations of Relaxation in a One Dimensional Gravitating System: Kenneth R. Yawn, Bruce N. Miller (Texas Christian University)
16:00 BB.006 Angular momentum induced phase transition in spherical self-gravitating systems: Peter Klinko, Bruce Miller (Texas Christian University)
16:12 BB.007 Particle Astrophysics at UT-Dallas: William S. Burgett (Dept. of Physics, University of Texas at Dallas)
16:24 BB.008 SUSY Astrophenomenology: Dimitri Nanopoulos (Texas A&M University and Houston Advanced Research Center)

Session BC. Quantum Thermodynamics I.

Friday afternoon, 15:00, SWR L4, Sid W. Richardson Building

15:00 BC.001 Thermalization and statistical equilibrium in closed systems of interacting Fermi-particles: Felix Izrailev (Instituto de Fisica, BUAP, Puebla, Mexico)
15:36 BC.002 Beyond the weak-coupling approximation: quantum breakdown of the second principle or wave-function collapse made ostensible?
16:12 BC.003 Self-trapping of light particles in fluids: application of path integral Monte Carlo to positronium decay in fluid Xenon: Bruce Miller (Texas Christian University)

Session BD. Applied Physics and Materials Science.

Friday afternoon, 15:00, SWR L3, Sid W. Richardson Building

15:00 BD.001 Structure/Property Relations in Self Reinforcing Segment Polyurethanes: Toward Understanding the Physics of Polymer Reinforcement: Rex Hjelm (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
15:36 BD.002 Advanced Analytical/Physics Tools to Characterize Tire Materials and Behavior: Michel Gerspacher (Sid Richardson Carbon Co., Fort Worth, TX)
16:12 BD.003 Erbium-Doped Silicon Nanocrystals: Structure and Photophysics.: Jeffery Coffer (Texas Christian University)
16:48 BD.004 Magnetism of field structured composites: Robert A. Anderson (Sandia National Laboratories)

Session BE. Poster Session I.

Friday afternoon, 15:00, SWR First Floor Hallway, Sid W. Richardson Building

BE.001 Raman Microimaging of Polymer Blends: Guanghua Song, Tadeusz Waldek Zerda (Texas Christian University)
BE.002 Spatial Probing of Gas Nanostructures: Gregory Sherman, Curtis Bradley (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas Christian University)
BE.003 Laser Manipulation of Microscopic Bubbles: Ezra N. Purdy, Curtis C. Bradley (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy., Texas Christian University)
BE.004 Lattice, Magnetic, Transport, and Ce-L3 Valence results of Sm1-x-yGdxCeyMn2Ge2 system: Gan Liang (Dept. of Physics, Sam Houston State University), Jhon T. Markert (Dept. of Physics, University of Texas at Austin)
BE.005 Studies of Proton Collisions with Gases: Lucas Phinney, David Bixler (Angelo State University)
BE.006 FTIR Study of Novel Germanium Clusters: Lin Ding, Sanjay Devdas, C.M.L. Rittby, W.R.M. Graham (TCU)
BE.007 Photodetachment of lithium negative ion (\textitLi^- (2\textits^2 ^1\textitS)) into \textite^- - \textitLi(2\textitp) above the \textitLi(2\textitp) threshold*: J. C. Hunnell, S. J. Ward (University of North Texas)
BE.008 Use of the Scanning Electron Microscope to Develop Knowledge About the Geological Source Area in Rocks by Comparing Relative Intensities of X-ray Peaks: Casey Patterson (Department of Geology, Department of Physics, Texas Christian University), C.A. Quarles (Department of Physics, Texas Christian University)
BE.009 An experimental procedure for preparation porous silicon thin films without annodization: J. Scott, M. Jackson, A. Workman, D. Workman, T. Sauncy (Angelo State University)
BE.010 Setup and Calibration of a low-cost Liquid Nitrogen Cryostat for Temperature-dependant Optical Studies: D. Workman, M. Jackson, J. Scott, A. Workman, T. Sauncy (Angelo State University)
BE.011 Use of LabVIEW^TM for automation of a scanning optical spectroscopy sys: A. Workman, J. Scott, M. Jackson, D. Workman, T. Sauncy (Angelo State University)
BE.012 UHV Evaporation System for Controlled Growth of Ge Nano-scale Islands on Si: Jinggang Zhu, Anat Eshed, Jiong Yan, Alex Weiss (University of Texas at Arlington)
BE.013 COMPARISON OF POSITRON AND ELECTRON IMPACT IONIZATION CROSS SECTIONS FOR THE L2,3 (2p1/2 and 2p3/2) ELECTRONIC LEVELS IN Si(111): Shannon Starnes (Physics Department, University of Texas at Arlington), N.G. Fazleev, W.C. Chen, A.H. Weiss Weiss (Physics Dept., University of Texas at Arlington)