Program overview

FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 4 OCTOBER 2002

15:20 AA.001 COPENHAGEN REVISITED: WHY THE GERMANSDID NOT ACHIEVE AN ATOMIC BOMB

Harry Lustig (The American Physical Society [emeritus])

15:44 AA.002 Towards axisymmetric gravitational collapse

Eric Hirschmann (Brigham Young University), Matthew Choptuik (University of British Columbia), Steven Liebling (Long Island University), Frans Pretorius (University of British Columbia)

15:56 AA.003 Black hole singularities: a new critical phenomenon

Lior M. Burko (Department of Physics, University of Utah)

16:08 AA.004 Gravitational collapse of a dilaton in 2+1

Jay Call, Eric Hirschmann (Brigham Young University)

16:20 AA.005 A Radiation Scalar for Numerical Relativity

Christopher Beetle, Lior Burko (University of Utah)

16:32 AA.006 The standing-wave periodic approximation for black hole binary inspiral: comparison of nonlinear standing waves

Maria Cranor, Robert Owen, Richard Price (University of Utah)

16:44 AA.007 Critical Phenomena in Collapsing Einstein-Yang-Mills-Higgs fields

R. Steven Millward (Brigham Young University)

16:56 AA.008 Canonical Dynamics of the Weyl Tensor

Alok Laddha, Karel Kuchar, Christopher Beetle (University of Utah)

15:20 AB.001 Disorder Induced Superconductor-Insulator Transition in a Modified Hubbard Model

James Osborn (University of Utah)

15:32 AB.002 Band Narrowing in Semiclassical Non-Adiabatic Electron Transfer

David H. Dunlap, Tianjian Lu (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico)

15:44 AB.003 Specific heat inversion: Testing the Universal Function Set approach

Thomas Butler, William E. Evenson, Xian Xi Dai (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602)

15:56 AB.004 Modeling of Nonequilibrium Electron Dynamics in Metals at Ultrafast Time Scales

D. Mark Riffe (Physics Department, Utah State University, Logan UT, 84322-4415)

16:08 AB.005 Replace with abstract title

Chad Junkermeier, Manuel Berrono (Brigham Young University)

16:20 AB.006 Modeling the Topography of Hot-Wire Chemical Vapor Deposition Grown Microcrystalline Silicon Using a Voronoi Diagram

Jeremy Conlin, Colin Inglefield (Physics Department, Weber State University, Ogden, UT 84408)

16:32 AB.007 Waveguides in Glass formed by Ultrafast Lasers and AFM Metrology of their Ablation Craters

Matthew Leigh (University of Arizona)

16:44 AB.008 Laser Trapping and Levitation of Intensity-Fleeing Particles

Cody Bliss, John Painter, Larry Baxter, Benjamin Bellville, Justin Peatross (Brigham Young University)

16:56 AB.009 Absorptive Imaging of Laser-Cooled Calcium Atoms

Beth Cummings, Joseph Hopper, Dallin Durfee (Brigham Young University), Scott Bergeson (Affiliation)

17:08 AB.010 Boosting High Harmonic Generation with weak Interfering Light

Sergei Voronov, Liisa Hancock, Stefanie Magleby, Benjamin Pratt, Steven Rhynard, Justin Peatross (Brigham Young University), Ultrafast Laser Group Team

17:20 AB.011 Saturated Absortption in Rb with an Actively-Stabilized Diode Laser

Brooks Mattison (Weber State University Physics Department)

17:32 AB.012 A Study of the Density of Unfilled States in Yttrium Barium Copper Oxide by means of Soft X-ray Continuum Isochromats

Ramya Rajaram, Robert Liefeld (New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001)

15:20 AC.001 Starburst Galaxies - Potential Gamma Ray Sources in TeV Range

Tomoyuki Nagai, Vladimir Vassiliev (University of Utah), VERITAS Collaboration

15:32 AC.002 Observations of Potential TeV Gamma Ray Sources Found by the Tibet Air Shower Array Using the Whipple Telescope

Gary Walker, David Kieda (University of Utah), VERITAS Collaboration

15:44 AC.003 Autocorrelation Study in the Arrival Directions of Cosmic Rays above 30EeV as Observed by the High Resolution Fly's Eye (HiRes)

BT Stokes (University of Utah), HiRes Collaboration

15:56 AC.004 Searching for the Mass of the Neutrino (Spectroscopy of Ba+ ions in Liquid 136Xe)

Kendy Hall, Shie-Chang Jeng, Jr. Fairbank (Department of Physics, Colorado State University), Mitsuhiro Miyajima (Department of Applied Physics, Fukui University, Japan)

16:08 AC.005 Measurement of Continuum Dimuon Cross Sections in 800-GeV/c pp and pd Interactions

Jason Webb (New Mexico State University), FNAL E866/NuSea Collaboration

16:20 AC.006 Nuclear Reaction Analysis of Helium Retention in 6H SiC as a function of irradiation and annealing

L.J. Bissell (Department of Physics, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602), R.J. Smith (Department of Physics, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717), V Shutthanadan, E.M. Adams, S Thevuthasan, W Jiang, W.J. Weber (Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352), Y Zhang (Division of Ion Physics, Angstrom Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden)

16:32 AC.007 Calculation of Neutron Resonance Spacing with Microscopic Theory

A. N. Behkami (Physics Department, Shiraz University , Shiraz, Iran, 71454)

16:44 AC.008 Fluid Dynamic Eqs. For Adiabatic Convection In Earth's Ultracompressed Core; Turbulence Engendered Large-Scale Motions

K.L. McDonald (P.O. Box 2433, Salt Lake City, UT.)

16:56 AC.009 Study of B \rightarrow J/Psi Eta K+ and J/Psi Eta Ks

Aidong Chen, John Harton, Tao Hu, Walter Toki, Robert Wilson, Qinglin Zeng (Colorado State University)