Program overview

SUNDAY MORNING, 21 APRIL 2002

10:45 I3.001 Wigner in Hungary

George Marx (Department of Physics, Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary)

11:30 I3.002 Eugene Wigner, The First Nuclear Reactor Engineer

Alvin M. Weinberg (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

12:15 I3.003 Wigner's Changing View of the Elementary Quantum Phenomenon

John Archibald Wheeler (Princeton University and University of Texas at Austin)

13:00 I3.004 Eugene Wigner and Symmetries In Physics

Marcos Moshinsky (Instituto de Fisica-UNAM. Apartado Postal 20-364, 01000 Mexico, DF MEXICO)

10:45 I5.001 Beller Lecture: The Role of the ICTP in International Science

Miguel Virasoro (Abdus Salam ICTP)

11:21 I5.002 The Role of the ICTP in International Science

Boris Kayser (Fermilab)

11:57 I5.003 The South Asian Perspective on the Role of the ICTP

Pervez Hoodbhoy (Quaid-e-Azam University)

12:33 I5.004 The Latin American Perspective on the Role of the ICTP

Arnulfo Zepeda (Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados)

10:45 I6.001 Joseph A. Burton Forum Award: How to have fun, defend science, and keep up your research

Adrian L. Melott (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas)

11:21 I6.002 Leo Szilard Lectureship Award: The Public Obligation of Scientists in the 21st Century

Henry Kelly (Federation of American Scientists)

11:57 I6.003 Nicholson Medal Talk: The Future of the American Research University

D. Allan Bromley (Sterling Professor of the Sciences,Yale University, New Haven, CT)

10:45 I7.001 Lattice QCD with Dynamical Quarks

Steven Gottlieb (Fermilab/Indiana University)

11:21 I7.002 Quantum Monte Carlo for Electronic Systems

Shiwei Zhang (College of William and Mary)

11:57 I7.003 QMC Calculations of Light Nuclei

Steven C. Pieper (Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439)

12:33 I7.004 Stochastic Methods Employed in Beam Physics

Salman Habib (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

10:45 I10.001 Recent Progress in Studying Generalized Parton Distributions

Xiangdong Ji (University of Maryland)

11:21 I10.002 Deep Virtual Compton Scattering (DVCS) with the CLAS detector at Jefferson Lab, first results and future plans

L. Elouadrhiri (Jefferson Lab)

11:33 I10.003 Single Spin Azimuthal Asymmetry Associated with Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering

James Ely (University of Colorado), HERMES Collaboration

11:45 I10.004 Beam Charge Azimuthal Asymmetry Associated with Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering

David Gaskell (University of Colorado), HERMES Collaboration

11:57 I10.005 Single-Spin Asymmetries in Pion Electroproduction at CLAS

Harut Avagyan (Jefferson Lab), CLAS Collaboration

12:09 I10.006 Exclusive \rho^0 electroproduction on the nucleon above the resonance region at CLAS

Cynthia Hadjidakis, Michel Guidal (IPN Orsay), Michel Garcon (CE Saclay), Elton Smith (Jefferson Laboratory), CLAS Collaboration

12:21 I10.007 Radiative Corrections for the Exclusive Pion Electroproduction with a Polarized Beam

Andrei Afanasev, Igor Akushevich, Volker Burkert, Kyungseon Joo (Jefferson Lab)

12:33 I10.008 Production of vector and pseudoscalar mesons in NN collisions

Kazuo Tsushima, Kanzo Nakayama (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Georgia)

I10.009 Analysis of the single pion electroproduction data from CLAS

Hovanes Egiyan (Jefferson Lab), Inna Aznaurian (YerPhI), Volker Burkert, Kyungseon Joo (Jefferson Lab), Cole Smith (UVA), Stepan Stepanyan (ODU), for the CLAS Collaboration

I10.010 Model independent multipole analysis of the single pion photoproduction on proton in the first resonance region

Olexandr Omelayenko (National Science Center "Kharkiv Institute of Physics amp; Technology", Ukraine)

10:45 I11.001 A Scientific Approach to Doing Science Outreach Programs?

Laurie Pichla, James Rabchuk (Department of Physics, Western Illinois University)

10:57 I11.002 Physics Outreach at the University of Wisconsin with the IceCube/AMANDA experiment

Robert Atkins, Matthew Briggs (Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, 1150 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706), Eileen Callahan (Graduate School, University of Wisconsin, 500 Lincoln Drive, Madison, WI 53706), Jodi Cooley (Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706), Brenda Dingus (Department of Physics, University of Wiscsonsin, Madison, WI 53706), Francis Halzen (Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706), Jim Madsen (Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, 410 South Third St., River Falls, WI 54022), Terry Millar (Associate Dean, University of Wisconsin, 500 Lincoln Drive, Madison, WI 53706), David Steele (Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, 1150 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706)

11:09 I11.003 The Notre Dame QuarkNet Center

Randy Ruchti, James Bishop, Dan Karmgard, Mitchell Wayne, Beth Beiersdorf, Patrick Mooney, LeRoy Castle, Dale Wiand, Ken Andert, Ken Andrzejewski, Jeff Chorney, Helene Dauerty, Brian Dolezal, Ed Fidler, Tom Guthrie, Margaret Jensen, Kevin Johnston, Monica Konrath, Tom Loughran, Rick Roberts, Gerry Van Laeke (The Notre Dame QuarkNet Center)

11:21 I11.004 Creating an Advanced Laboratory for K-16 Science Education at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Andrew Post-Zwicker (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ), Sophia Gershman (Watchung Hills Regional High School, Warren, NJ), Nick Guilbert (The Peddie School, Hightstown, NJ)

11:33 I11.005 The CHICOS Project: Teaching Science Through Modern Research

Michelle Larson (California Institute of Technology), Ryoichi Seki (California State University Northridge), CHICOS Collaboration

11:45 I11.006 Information Literacy--Don't Search the WWW Without It!

Donna E. Cromer (Centennial Science and Engineering Library/University of New Mexico)

11:57 I11.007 The ADS Abstract Service: A Free NASA Service

Guenther Eichhorn, Alberto Accomazzi, Carolyn S. Grant, Michael J. Kurtz, Vicente ReyBacaicoa, Stephen S. Murray (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA)

10:45 I12.001 Isolated Horizons with NUT Charge

Joshua L. Willis, Abhay Ashtekar, Badri Krishnan (Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry, Penn State)

10:57 I12.002 Wick transform and physical states in 2+1 loop quantum gravity

Jacek Wisniewski, Abhay Ashtekar, Bruno Hartmann (Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry, Physics Department, The Pennsylvania State University)

11:09 I12.003 Understanding Beth, the particulate mass functional

Wayne R. Lundberg (University of Dayton)

11:21 I12.004 On non-unitarity in quantum gravity

Charles Torre (Utah State University)

11:33 I12.005 Noncommutative quantum cosmology

Octavio Obregon (Instituto de Fisica de la Universidad de Guanajuato), Cupatitzio Ramirez (Facultad de Ciencias Fisicos-Matematicas, Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla), Hugo Garcia-Compean (Departamento de Fisica, CINVESTAV)

11:45 I12.006 Quantum Singularity as Indicated by Klein-Gordon, Maxwell, and Dirac Fields in Quasiregular Spacetimes

Deborah A. Konkowski (Department of Mathematics, U.S. Naval Academy), Valerie Arndt, Thomas M. Helliwell (Department of Physics, Harvey Mudd College)

11:57 I12.007 Induced Matter Solutions of Five Dimensional Bianchi Type II Models

Paul Halpern (University of the Sciences in Philadelphia)

12:09 I12.008 String Motion and Spin

Richard Hammond (North Dakota State University)

12:21 I12.009 Stress-energy tensor for massless spin one-half fields in static black hole spacetimes

Paul Anderson, Peter Groves, Eric Carlson (Wake Forest University)

12:33 I12.010 Self-force on a non-minimally coupled static scalar test charge outside a Schwarzschild black hole

Demian H.J. Cho, Antonios Tsokaros, Alan G. Wiseman (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

12:45 I12.011 Gravitational Condensate Stars: An Alternative to Black Holes

Emil Mottola (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Div., T-8), Pawel O. Mazur (Univ. of So. Carolina)

12:57 I12.012 Dielectric Black Hole Analogs

Ralf Schützhold (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver B.C., V6T 1Z1 Canada), Günter Plunien, Gerhard Soff (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Dresden, D-01062 Dresden, Germany)

10:45 I13.001 Detector Alignment for a Parity-Violating Asymmetry Measurement in \vecn + p \rightarrow d + \gamma

Gregory Mitchell (Physics Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory), NPDGamma Collaboration

10:57 I13.002 Measuring the Parity-Violating Asymmetry in \vecn + p \rightarrow d + \gamma .

Michael Gericke (Indiana University), NPDGamma Collaboration

11:09 I13.003 Development of silicon detectors for neutron beta decay studies

W.S. Wilburn, J.D. Bowman, S.I. Pentilla (Los Alamos National Laboratory), J.S. Nico (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

11:21 I13.004 A Low-Energy-Positron Spectrometer

Mark Schneider, Laura Frantz, Bridget Lavelle, Holly Maness, Meghan O'Connell, Erin Will (Grinnell College Physics Dept.)

11:33 I13.005 An Apparatus to Store, Polarize and Spin-Flip Ultra-Cold Neutrons

C.-Y. Liu, U. Pesavento (Princeton University), J. Yuan (California Institute of Technology), P. Geltenbort (Institut Laue-Langevin), A. Pichlmaier, A. Saunders, W. Teasdale (Los Alamos National Laboratory), A.R. Young (NCstate University), M. Lasakov, I. Krasnoshekova, A. Serebrov, A. Vasiliev (Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute), M. Makela, M. Pitt, R.B. Vogelaar (Virginia Polytechnical University)

11:45 I13.006 Depolarization of Ultracold Neutrons in Diamond Coated Guides

M. Makela, M. Pitt, R.B. Vogelaar (Virginia Tech), J. Yuan (California Institute of Technology), A. Pichlmaeir, B. Teasdale (Los Alamos National Laboratory), P. Geltenbort (Institut Laue-Langevin), A. Young (North Carolina State University), M. Lasakov, I. Krasnoshekova, A. Serebrov, A. Vasiliev (Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute), C.Y. Liu, U. Pesavento (Princeton University)

11:57 I13.007 Using Magnetically Trapped Ultracold Neutrons (UCN) to Measure the Neutron Lifetime

P. R. Huffman, A. K. Thompson, G. L. Yang (National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg), S. Dzhosyuk, C. E. H. Mattoni, S. Maxwell, D. N. McKinsey, L. Yang, J. M. Doyle (Harvard University), R. Golub, E. I. Korobkina (Hahn Meitner Institut, Berlin), S. K. Lamoreaux (Los Alamos National Laboratory), K. J. Coakley (NIST, Boulder)

12:09 I13.008 Precision Measurements of the n-H, n-D, and n-3He Coherent Scattering Lengths

K. Schoen (University of Missouri-Columbia), T. Black (University of North Carolina-Wilmington), W. M. Snow (University of Indiana), P. Huffman, M. Arif (NIST), H. Kaiser (University of Missouri-Columbia), D. Jacobson (NIST), S. Werner (University of Missouri-Columbia, NIST), S. Lamoreaux (LANL)

12:21 I13.009 The JLab Qweak Experiment - Precision Test of the Standard Model Via Measurement of the Proton's Weak Charge

Neven Simicevic (Louisiana Tech University), Qweak Collaboration

12:33 I13.010 Searching for Second Class Currents in A=8 nuclei

Jennifer M. Cox, A. Garcia, D.C. McFeron, M.C. Pyle, G.L. Strycker, E.R. Tatar, S. Triambak (University of Notre Dame)

12:45 I13.011 Calibration source locating system for Borexino

Henning O. Back, R. Bruce Vogelaar (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), BOREXINO Collaboration

12:57 I13.012 Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Neutron Calibration in the pure D_2O Phase

Michael Dragowsky (Los Alamos National Laboratory), SNO Collaboration

13:09 I13.013 Inclusive Electron Neutrino Reactions in Nuclei and the Neutron Number

Stephan Mintz (Florida International University)

13:21 I13.014 The investigation of GaAs as a possible solar neutrino detector

Yulia Kozlova, Vladimir Gavrin, Anatoli Kalikhov, Evgeny Veretenkin, Victor Yants (Institute for Nuclear Research), Alexander Markov, Alexander Polyakov (Institute of Chemical Problems of Microelectronics), Oleg Koshelev, Valentina Morozova (Moscow State University), Vladimir Eremin, Elena Verbitskaya (Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute), Thomas Bowles, Andrew Hime (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

13:33 I13.015 The Reaction e^- + p\longrightarrow \Lambda +\nu_e At Near Threshold Energies

Stephan Mintz, Michael Barnett (Florida International University)

10:45 I14.001 Time-Dependent Analysis of B^0 Decays into a Charmonium State and a K^0_\scriptscriptstyle S

Shahram Rahatlou (University of California, San Diego), BABAR Collaboration

10:57 I14.002 Search for D^0 \rightarrow K^(*)+e^-øverline\nu_e via Mixing

Christopher Sedlack (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Sean McGee (Wayne State University), CLEO Collaboration

11:09 I14.003 Study of the Decay B^0 \to \rho \pi with the BABAR Detector

Pierre-Francois Giraud (Saclay), BABAR Collaboration

11:21 I14.004 A Study of Time-Dependent C\!P-violating Asymmetries in B^0 \to D^(*)øverlineD^(*)

Justin Albert (Princeton University), BABAR Collaboration

11:33 I14.005 Measurements of Semileptonic B Decays with Lepton Tags

Christopher Stepaniak, Ron Poling (University of Minnesota), CLEO Collaboration

11:45 I14.006 Search for rare radiative penguin B decays

Ming Chao (University of California, Irvine), BABAR Collaboration

11:57 I14.007 Time-Dependent Analysis of B^0 \to J\mskip -3mu/\mskip -2mu\psi\mskip 2mu K^0_\scriptscriptstyle L in BABAR

Bryan Dahmes (University of California, Santa Barbara), BABAR Collaboration

12:09 I14.008 Using W Helicity to Test for Non-Standard Dynamics in Top Decay

Ben Kilminster (University of Rochester), CDF Collaboration

12:21 I14.009 Measurements of \cal B(D^+ \rightarrow \pi^+ \pi^0) and \cal B(D^+ \rightarrow K^+ \pi^0)

Chul Gwon, Klaus Honscheid (The Ohio State University), CLEO Collaboration

12:33 I14.010 Measurement of Inclusive B \to X_s \gamma Decay

Ruth Schmitz (University of California, Santa Cruz), BABAR Collaboration

12:45 I14.011 Measurement of the t øverlinet Cross-section in the All-jets Channel in Run 2 at the DØExperiment

Freya Blekman (NIKHEF, Netherlands), D0 Collaboration

12:57 I14.012 Partial Reconstruction of D_s^+ \to \phi \pi^+

Jeremy Williams, George Gollin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), CLEO Collaboration

13:09 I14.013 Measurement of the Top Mass in the Dilepton Channel in Run 2 of the DØExperiment

Sarosh Fatakia (Boston University), D0 Collaboration

13:21 I14.014 Study of the CP Asymmetry in B^0 \rightarrow D^* \pi Decays

Cecilia Voena (Universita di Roma ``La Sapienza'' and INFN, Sezione di Roma I), BABAR Collaboration

13:33 I14.015 Measurement of the Top Mass in the Lepton+jets Channel in Run 2 of the DØExperiment

Kevin Black (Boston University), D0 Collaboration

10:45 I15.001 Supernova Neutrinos and LSND

Michel Sorel (Columbia University), MiniBooNE Collaboration

10:57 I15.002 Neutrino Oscillations and the Paschos-Wolfenstein Ratio

T. Goldman (Los Alamos National Laboratory), G.J. Stephenson Jr. (University of New Mexico), B.H.J. McKellar, M. Garbutt (University of Melbourne)

11:09 I15.003 Search for NuMu-->NuTau Oscillations in NOMAD

Andrew Godley (University of South Carolina), NOMAD Collaboration

11:21 I15.004 Neutrino Superbeams and Scenarios for BNL

Zohreh Parsa (Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Physics Dept., 510A, Upton, NY 11973-5000, USA.)

11:33 I15.005 NuTeV Constraints on Effects in Tritium Beta Decay

G.J. Stephenson Jr. (University of New Mexico), T. Goldman (Los Alamos National Laboratory), B.H.J. McKellar, M. Garbutt (University of Melbourne)

11:45 I15.006 There's More to Neutrinos Than Oscillations

Bonnie T. Fleming (Fermi Naitonal Accelerator Laboratory)

11:57 I15.007 New Results from DONUT

Regina Rameika (Fermilab), DONUT Collaboration

12:09 I15.008 Results on charm production and neutrino oscillation from the CHORUS experiment

Alessia Satta (University of Rome), CHORUS Collaboration

12:21 I15.009 A Search for Heavy Neutrino in NOMAD Forward Carolimeter

Sanjib Mishra (University of South Carolina), NOMAD Collaboration

12:33 I15.010 OPERA experiment

Toshiyuki Toshito (Nagoya University), OPERA Collaboration

12:45 I15.011 Neutrinos as the messengers of CPT violation

Gabriela Barenboim (Fermilab), Liubomir Borissov (Columbia University), Joe Lykken (Fermilab), Small Leg Hippos Collaboration

12:57 I15.012 Event Separation in the MINOS Near Detector

David Reyna (Argonne National Laboratory), MINOS Collaboration

13:09 I15.013 Radioactive Background in the SNO Detector

Ilan Levine (Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada), SNO Collaboration

13:21 I15.014 The Commissioning the KamLAND Experiment

Nikolai Tolich (Stanford University), KamLAND Collaboration

I15.015 A search for muon-neutrino to electron-neutrino oscillations with the NuTeV detector

Arie Bodek (University of Rochester), NuTeV Collaboration

10:45 I16.001 Prize To A Faculty Member For Research In An Undergraduate Institution Talk: Measuring molecular hyperfine interactions with molecular beam spectroscopy

James Cederberg (St. Olaf College)

11:21 I16.002 Thin foil Faraday collector under burning plasma reactor like conditions

Andy Aakhus-Witt, James Hawbaker, Jack Sayers, Ed Cecil (Colorado School of Mines), Tim Debay (Denver Federal Center)

11:33 I16.003 Convection in Granular Material Based on Geometry

Ryan Holloman, Cynthia Galovich (University of Northern Colorado)

11:45 I16.004 The Investigation of Ions in Orbit about Charged Dust Particles: A Microwave Plasma Density Diagnostic

Aaron Svoboda, Robert Walch (University of Northern Colorado)

11:57 I16.005 Refining the Mass Map of Abell 781

Katherine Smith (University of New Mexico)

12:09 I16.006 Interfacing and Motion Control of the UNC Heliostat

Lee McMains (University of Northern Colorado)

12:21 I16.007 Examining Cluster Gas Evolution With Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect and X-ray Observations

Christina Turner (University of Oregon)

12:33 I16.008 Cosmology and the Evolution of the Universe

Miranda Dettwyler (Randolph-Macon Woman's College)

12:45 I16.009 A Trigger for the Time-of Flight detector at the CDF experiment

Damian Ricci (University of Florida)

12:57 I16.010 Scattered Photon Interference

WIlliam Blickos, William Faden (University of Northern Colorado)

13:09 I16.011 Coincidence Measurments in Nuclear Physics

Sheila Lutz (University of Northern Colorado)

13:21 I16.012 Theoretical Analysis of Hyperfine Structure of NaK

Angela Wilkins (University of Northern Colorado)

13:33 I16.013 Measuring the resistance of an YBa2Cu3O7 disk

David Niemi (Brighman Young University-Idaho)

13:45 I16.014 Optical Properties and Characterization of Thin-film Uranium Oxide in the XUV

Richard Sandberg, David D. Allred, R. Steven Turley, Shannon Lunt, Elke Jackson, Kristi Adamson (Brigham Young University), Maria Bell (University of Utah)