Program overview

SATURDAY MORNING, 5 OCTOBER 2002

08:30 BA.001 Studies of the Optical Properties of Opal-based Metallic Photonic Crystals

Vladimir Kamaev, Vladimir Kozhevnikov, Valy Vardeny (University of Utah), Preston Landon, Anvar Zakhidov (University of Texas at Dallas)

08:42 BA.002 Morphology, Optical and Electrical Properties of Semicontinuous Metallic Films

Katyayani Seal, Mark A. Nelson, Z. Charles Ying (Department of Physics, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM), Dentcho A. Genov, Andrey K. Sarychev, Vladimir M. Shalaev (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN)

08:54 BA.003 Photoluminescence Properties of Nanoscale GaN Powders

Joel Feldmeier (Department of Physics, University of Idaho), Andrew Purdy (Chemistry Division Code 6125, Naval Research Lab), Xiang-Bai Chen, Leah Bergman (Department of Physics, University of Idaho)

09:06 BA.004 The observation of nanoscale structural features in solid-state materials via x-ray and neutron diffuse scattering

Branton Campbell (Dept,. of Physics amp; Astronomy, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602)

09:18 BA.005 Domain-wall-induced asymmetric switching in Co-nanostructures probed by magnetoresistance

Di Wu, W. Casey Uhlig, Jing Shi (Physics Department, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84112)

09:30 BA.006 Nano-scale patterned magnetic structures for investigations of spin-momentum transfer effects

W. Casey Uhlig, Jing Shi (University of Utah, Department of Physics, Salt Lake City, Ut 84112)

09:42 BA.007 Resistance and Magneto-resistance of Co-infiltrated Opals

Mohit Diwekar, J. Shi, Z.V. Vardeny (University of Utah, Department of Physics, Salt Lake City, UT 84112)

09:54 BA.008 In Doping of CdSe Nanocrystals

Sterling Fillmore, Dan Allen, Roger Harrison, Bret Hess, Bill Evenson (), Robert Davis (Brigham Young University)

08:30 BB.001 Low Temperature Photoluminescence Studies of GaAsSbN/GaAs Quantum Wells

K.E. Waldrip, E.D. Jones, F. Jalali, N.A. Modine, J.F. Klem, G.M. Peake (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185)

08:42 BB.002 Structure and Electronic Transitions of Stacked InAs-rich Quantum Wires

David Follstaedt, John Reno, Steve Lee, Eric Jones (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185), Sebastien Francoeur, Andrew Norman, Angelo Mascarenhas (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden CO 80401)

08:54 BB.003 UV-Photoluminescence Properties of AlGaN Wide Band Gap Semiconductor Alloys

Xiang-Bai Chen, Joel Feldmeier, Timothy Paulitz (Affiliation), Leah Bergman (Department of Physics, University of Idaho, Moscow ID 83844-0903)

09:06 BB.004 Al NMR study of molten aluminum oxide compounds and mixtures, measured at ultra high temperatures.

J. Piwowarczyk, R.F. Marzke, G.H. Wolf, W.T Petuskey, B. Takulapalli (Arizona State University)

09:18 BB.005 Improving Oxide Quality for Scanning Capacitance Microscopy

Justin Murray (Affiliation), Clayton Williams (University of Utah)

09:30 BB.006 Cleaning of Hydrocarbon Buildup on Metallic Thin Films

Richard Sandberg, Dr. David Allred, Ross Robinson, Aaron Jackson (Brigham Young University), Brigham Young University X-Ray Optics Research Group Team

09:42 BB.007 Fundamental Mechanisms of 3He Relaxation on Glass

Richard Jacob (University of Utah), Bastiaan Driehuys (Amersham Health), Brian Saam (University of Utah)

09:54 BB.008 Relaxation Mechanisms in Hyperpolarized Polycrystalline ^129Xe

G. Samuelson, T. Su, B. Saam (University of Utah)

08:30 BC.001 Simulations of Ultracold Plasmas

James Hart, Scott Bergeson, Ross Spencer (Brigham Young University)

08:42 BC.002 MODELING OF ULTRA COLD PLASMA EXPANSION

Zafar Yasin, R.L. Spencer, S.D. Bergeson (Brigham Young University, Provo Utah)

08:54 BC.003 Formulation of an explicit solution to the acoustic wave equation for imaging compressional-wave data in depth in inhomogeneous materials

Alvin Benson (Utah Valley State College)

09:06 BC.004 Static Hybrid Quarkonium Potential with Improved Staggered Quarks

Ziwen Fu, Charleton Detar (University of Utah), MILC Collaboration

09:18 BC.005 A Floating Random-Walk Algorithm based on Iterative Perturbation Theory: Solution of the Maxwell-Helmholtz Equation

Kausik Chatterjee (California State University, Fresno), Yannick Le Coz (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

09:30 BC.006 Going Beyond Bohr: Computer Experiments to Study Quantum Reality

Jagdish Srivastava (Colorado State University)

09:42 BC.007 Identifying student reasoning difficulties with the mathematical formalism of rotational mechanics

Luanna Ortiz (Arizona State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy)

09:54 BC.008 On the limitations of thought experiments in physics and the consequences for physics teaching

Lior M. Burko (Department of Physics, University of Utah), Miriam Reiner (Department of Education in Technology and Science, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)