Program overview

MONDAY MORNING, 22 APRIL 2002

10:45 O2.001 IBM

Richard Garwin (IBM)

11:21 O2.002 The role of physicists in supporting national security activities

Steven Koonin (Cal Tech)

11:57 O2.003 The Role of Physicists in Anti-Terrorism: Transportation

Anthony Fainberg (Transportation Security Agency, U.S. Department of Transportation)

12:33 O2.004 Physics, Homeland Security and the Justice System

Donald Prosnitz (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

13:09 O2.005 Counter-Terrorism Contributions from the National Labs

Jay Davis (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

10:45 O4.001 Few-Body Physics in Effective Field Theory

H.-W. Hammer (Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA)

11:21 O4.002 Low Energy Photodisintegration of the Deuteron and n-p Capture with Polarized Neutrons at HI\gammaS/TUNL

Mohammad Ahmed (Duke University, TUNL, and University of Saskatchewan.)

11:57 O4.003 Chiral Symmetry and the Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction: Recent Progress

Ruprecht Machleidt (University of Idaho)

12:33 O4.004 New Results for Neutron-Proton Bremsstrahlung

J.L. Matthews (Department of Physics and Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

10:45 O5.001 Mentoring and Community in the Physics Graduate Program

David P. Belanger (Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064)

11:21 O5.002 The Case for Developing Professional Master's Degrees to Compete in the Business World

Hans M. Bozler (University of Southern California, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0484, USA)

11:57 O5.003 Mentoring Graduate Students in Physics and Astronomy at Rutgers University

Jolie A. Cizewski (Rutgers University)

12:33 O5.004 Meeting the Challenges of Graduate Education at a Predominantly Undergraduate Institution

W.R.M. Graham (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, TCU, Box 298840, Fort Worth, TX 76129)

10:45 O6.001 Sakurai Prize Lecture: Thirty Years of Precision Electroweak Physics

Alberto Sirlin (New York University)

11:21 O6.002 Wilson Prize Lecture: The Novosibirsk Tau/Charm Factory Project: prospect/status

Alexander Skrinsky (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk)

11:57 O6.003 Panofsky Prize Lecture: Evidence for Oscillation of Atmospheric Neutrinos

Yoji Totsuka (Kamioka Observatory, ICRR, The University of Tokyo)

12:33 O6.004 Tanaka Award Lecture: Sleuthing for Physics Beyond the Standard Model

Bruce Knuteson (University of Chicago)

13:09 O6.005 Ceremony recognizing Prize/Award Winners and New DPB and DPF Fellows

10:45 O7.001 Progress toward a National Underground Science Laboratory

Wick Haxton (INT and Department of Physics, University of Washington)

11:21 O7.002 Science and Facilities at the Baksan Neutrino Observatory

V.N. Gavrin, V.V. Kuzminov, V.B. Petcov (Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)

11:33 O7.003 The Scientific Case for Future Solar Neutrino Experiments

Andrew Hime (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Robert Lanou (Brown University)

11:45 O7.004 Next Generation Solar Neutrino Detectors

Robert Lanou (Brown University), Andrew Hime (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

11:57 O7.005 Production of a ^37Ar neutrino source for calibration of solar neutrino detectors

E. P. Veretenkin (Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences)

12:09 O7.006 CLEAN

Daniel McKinsey (Princeton University), Kevin Coakley (National Institute of Standards and Technology (Boulder))

12:21 O7.007 Double Beta Decay and NUSL

Steven Elliott (University of Washington), Craig Aalseth (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

12:33 O7.008 Next-Generation Double-Beta Decay Experiments

Craig Aalseth (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Steve Elliott (University of Washington)

12:45 O7.009 The Majorana Project: a next-generation double-beta decay experiment

Harry Miley (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Majorana Collaboration

12:57 O7.010 Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay from a Modern Perspective

J.D Vergados (University of Ioannina)

13:09 O7.011 An Ultra Low Background Counting Facility at NUSL

Andre Hamer, Thomas Bowles, Michael Dragowsky, Andrew Hime (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Yuen-dat Chan, Kevin Lesko, Alan W. P. Poon (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Jeff Nico (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Andreas Piepke (University of Alabama), John F. Wilkerson (University of Washington)

13:21 O7.012 Supernova Neutrinos: Oscillations and Detection

Gail McLaughlin (NCSU)

13:33 O7.013 Detecting Supernova Neutrinos with OMNIS

R.N. Boyd (Ohio State University), The OMNIS Collaboration

O7.014 Theoretical Rates for Direct Detection of Supersymmetric Dark Matter

J.D Vergados (University of Ioannina)

10:45 O10.001 Absolute Spectroscopic Factors from Single-Nucleon Knockout Reactions

P.G Hansen, B.A Brown, B.M. Sherrill (National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University), J.A. Tostevin (University of Surrey, U.K.)

10:57 O10.002 T = \frac52 ^27Na from ^14C + ^14C

Matthew Cooper, Samuel Tabor, Tamara Baldwin, David Campbell, Catherine Chandler, Calem Hoffman, Kirby Kemper, John Pavan, Akis Pipidis, Mark Riley, Mathis Wiedeking (Florida State University)

11:09 O10.003 Beta-decay studies of nuclei near ^32Mg\footnote Work supported in part by the National Science Foundation Grant PHY-95-28844.

A.C. Morton, P.T. Hosmer, S.N. Liddick, P.F. Mantica, J.I. Prisciandaro, H.M. Schatz, M. Steiner, A. Stolz (Michigan State University)

11:21 O10.004 Beta decay studies of neutron-rich nuclides near N = 32

P.F. Mantica, B.A. Brown, A.D. Davies, T. Glasmacher, D.E. Groh, S.N. Liddick, D.J. Morrissey, A.C. Morton, W.F. Mueller, H. Schatz, M. Steiner, A. Stolz (NSCL, Michigan State University), S.L. Tabor (Florida State University)

11:33 O10.005 g Factor Measurements of Even Ca Isotopes by Inverse Kinematics and the Transient Field Technique

M. J. Taylor, N Benczer-Koller, G Kumbartzki, T. J. Mertzimekis (Rutgers University), A. E. Stuchbery (Australian National University), K.-H. Speidel (Bonn University), C Hutta (Yale University)

11:45 O10.006 Using Projectile Fragmentation to Measure Magnetic Moments

Daniel Groh, Paul Mantica (Department of Chemistry and National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 USA)

11:57 O10.007 Single-neutron knockout from ^57Ni

K.L. Miller, D.W. Anthony, T. Aumann, D. Bazin, T. Baumann, Y. Blumenfeld, B.A. Brown, T. Glasmacher, P.G. Hansen, R.W. Ibbotson, P.A. Lofy, V. Maddalena, T. Nakamura, A. Navin, B. Pritychenko, B.M. Sherrill, E.J. Spears, M. Steiner, A. Wagner, J. Yurkon (National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University), J.A. Tostevin (Department of Physics, University of Surrey)

12:09 O10.008 The ^58,60Nickel (n,x alpha) Reactions from Threshold to 50 MeV

R. C. Haight, F. B. Bateman, S. M. Sterbenz (LANL), S. M. Grimes (Ohio U), O. A. Wasson (NIST), H. Vonach (IRK-Vienna)

12:21 O10.009 Study of Collectivity in n-rich A=80 Nuclei using Radioactive Ion Beams

E. Padilla, A. Galindo-Uribarri, C. Baktash, B. Fuentes, C. Gross, P. Mueller, D.C. Radford, D. Stracener, C.-H. Yu (ORNL), R. Bijker, O. Castanos (UNAM), J. Batchelder (ORISE), D.J. Hartley (U. Tennessee)

12:33 O10.010 Production of Neutron-Rich Isotopes around the Fermi Energy

G. A. Souliotis, M. Veselsky, G. Chubarian, L. Trache, A. Keksis, E. Martin, A. Ruangma, E. Winchester, S.J. Yennello (Cyclotron Institute, Texas Aamp;M University, College Station)

12:45 O10.011 Neutron induced cross section measurements on ^89Y and ^90Zr

P.E. Garrett, J.A. Becker, L.A. Bernstein, W.E. Ormand, W. Younes (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), R.O. Nelson, M. Devlin, N. Fotiades (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

12:57 O10.012 Isoscalar Giant Dipole Resonance in ^90Zr

B. K. Nayak, Umesh Garg, B. Kharraja, M. Koss, S. Zhu (Notre Dame University), M. Uchida, H. Sakaguchi, T. Murakami, M. Yosoi, H. Takeda, M. Itoh, T. Kawabata, T. Taki, T. Ishikawa, N. Tsukuhara, Y. Yasuda (Kyoto University), M. Fujiwara, H. Fujimura, H. P. Yoshida, E. Obayashi, K. Hara (RCNP, Osaka University), H. Akimune (Konan University), M. N. Harakeh, M. Volkerts (KVI, Groningen)

13:09 O10.013 Half-life of the 6.3-keV isomer in 121Sn

G. A. Rech, E. Browne, E. B. Norman (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA), I. D. Goldman (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil), F. J. Schima (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD)

13:21 O10.014 HFB calculations for nuclei far from stability

Edgar Teran, Volker Oberacker, Sait Umar (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy. Vanderbilt University)

13:33 O10.015 Effects of setting T=0 Two Body matrix elements to zero or to a constant on Energy levels and Scissors Mode Transition Rates

Shadow Robinson, Larry Zamick (Rutgers University)

10:45 O12.001 Three Approximate Entropies

Elihu Lubkin (U. of Wisconsin--Milwaukee)

10:57 O12.002 Tests of General Theory of Relativity

Ari BRYNJOLFSSON (Applied Radiation Industries)

11:09 O12.003 ON THE FALSITY OF CERTAIN CONCLUSIONS COMMONLY DRAWN FROM APPLYING BELL'S THEOREM TO PHYSICS EXPERIMENTS

Jagdish Srivastava (Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Co. 80523, USA)

11:21 O12.004 An Alternative Quantum Model

Jr. Phillips (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University)

11:33 O12.005 Evidence of Undetected Particles

Willard Fadner (University of Northern Colorado, Department of Physics)

11:45 O12.006 Discovery of an All-Pervading Previously Unknown Longitudinal Wave

Orvin E. Wagner (Wagner Research Laboratory)

11:57 O12.007 Quantum Electromagnetics - A Local-Ether Wave Equation Unifying Quantum Mechanics, Electromagnetics, and Gravitation

Ching-Chuan Su (Department of Electrical Engineering, National Tsinghua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan)

12:09 O12.008 Countability of Planck Boxes in Quantum Branching Models

Alexander A. Berezin (McMaster U., Canada)

12:21 O12.009 On a Solution of the Problem of Unitarization of the Elementary Principles of Statistical Physics and Physical Kinetics

Temur Z. Kalanov (Institute of Electronics, F. Hodjaev 33, 700143 Tashkent, Uzbekistan)

12:33 O12.010 On the main Errors underlying Statistical Physics

Temur Z. Kalanov (Institute of Electronics, F. Hodjaev 33, 700143 Tashkent, Uzbekistan)

12:45 O12.011 On the Essence of Time

Temur Z. Kalanov (Institute of Electronics, F. Hodjaev 33, 700143 Tashkent, Uzbekistan)

12:57 O12.012 On a New Basis of Quantum Theory

Temur Z. Kalanov (Institute of Electronics, F. Hodjaev 33, 700143 Tashkent, Uzbekistan)

13:09 O12.013 Longitudinal Waves Organize and Control Plants and Other Life

Orvin E. Wagner (Wagner Research Laboratory)

10:45 O13.001 Evolution of Nuclear Spectra with Nuclear Forces

R. B. Wiringa, Steven C. Pieper (Argonne National Laboratory)

10:57 O13.002 Three Body Bound State Calculation with Two and Three Body Forces without Partial Wave Decomposition

Hang Liu, Charlotte Elster (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University), Walter Gloeckle (Institute Fuer Theoretische Physik II, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum)

11:09 O13.003 Extension of Exponential Convergence Method for Multi-Major Shell Model Calculations

Mihai Horoi (Physics Department, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI 48859), Vladimir Zelevinsky (Department of Physics and Astronomy, and National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI 48824)

11:21 O13.004 Variational two fermion wave equation in QED

Andrei Terekidi, Jurij Darewych (York University, Toronto, Canada)

11:33 O13.005 Resonances and wave packets in a potential well followed by a barrier.

George H. Rawitscher, Ionel Simbotin (Dept. of Physics, UConn.), Israel Koltracht (Dept. of Mathematics, UConn)

11:45 O13.006 The Nuclear Born--Oppenheimer Method Applied to Nuclear Collective Motion*

Nouredine Zettili (Department of Physical and Earth Sciences, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville AL 36265)

11:57 O13.007 Nuclear Matter and Nuclei in a Chiral Model

Stefan Schramm (Argonne National Laboratory)

12:09 O13.008 Relativistic Multichannel Scattering Theory with Particle Creation

Colston Chandler (University of New Mexico)

12:21 O13.009 Molecular States and Exotic Mesons

Rui Zhang (University of Minnesota), Yi-Bing Ding (Academy of Sciences of China), Xue-Qian Li (Nankai University), Philip Page (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

12:33 O13.010 Quark Model Contributions to Parton Flavor Asymmetry

C.J. Benesh (Wesleyan College), T. J. Londergan (Indiana University)

12:45 O13.011 Effects of mean field potentials on pion photoproduction from nuclei

George Caia, Louis Wright (Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701)

12:57 O13.012 Non-Abelian Gauge Groups for Real and Complex Amended Maxwell's Equations

E. A. Rauscher (Tecnic Research Laboratory)

13:09 O13.013 Response of confined relativistic particles

Mark Paris (Los Alamos National Lab - T16)

13:21 O13.014 Prediction of new Quarks, Generations and Quark Masses

Thedore Lach

O13.015 Checkerboard Model of the Nucleus

Theodore Lach

10:45 O15.001 Edward A. Bouchet

R. E. Mickens (Clark Atlanta University)

11:09 O15.002 The Uncertain Sir Arthur Eddington

Ian Durham (Simmons College amp; the University of St. Andrews)

11:33 O15.003 Quantum computers and reality: Deutsch's anti-positivist campaign for explanations-in-general, apart from his Many Worlds Interpretation.

Thomas W. O'Donnell (Department of Physics, Center for the Study of Complex Systems, and Residential College. The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1120)

10:45 O16.001 Broadband Electrostatic Waves in the Near-Earth Magnetotail*

Crockett Grabbe (University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA), J. Douglas Menietti (University of Iowa, Iowa City. IA)

10:57 O16.002 Noinlinear, Coherent, Collective, Resonant Plasma Propagation Modes in the Ionosphere

W. L. Van Bise, E. A. Rauscher (Tecnic Research Laboratory)

11:09 O16.003 Instability-Triggered Phase Transition to a Dusty Plasma Condensate

Martin Lampe, Glenn Joyce, Gurudas Ganguli (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375-5346)

11:21 O16.004 Experiments to Understand High Temperature Plasma Confinement in Dipole Magnetic Fields

M.~E. Mauel, D.~T. Garnier, A. Hansen, B. Levitt, D. Maslovsky (Columbia University), J. Kesner (MIT PSFC)

11:33 O16.005 Particle transport diagnostics on CHS and LHD with tracer-encapsulated solid pellet injection

Konstantin Khlopenkov, Naoki Tamura, Shigeru Sudo (National Institute for Fusion Science, Japan)

11:45 O16.006 Experiments with radiatively cooled supersonic plasma jets generated in conical wire array Z-pinches

Sergey Lebedev, J.P. Chittenden, S.N. Bland, A. Ciardi, D. Ampleford, M.G. Haines (Imperial College), A. Frank, E.G. Blackman (University of Rochester)

11:57 O16.007 Investigation on hot electron generation and propagation in interaction of ultrashort laser pulses with solids

Jie Zhang (Institute of Physics, CAS, Beijing 100080, China)

12:09 O16.008 Alpha multi-helicon plasma profiles

Christopher Watts (New Mexico Tech)

12:21 O16.009 Effect of neutrals on Alfven wave propagation in ALESPI

Jeremy Hanna (Auburn University), Christopher Watts (New Mexico Tech)

12:33 O16.010 Turning the Star Trek Dream into Reality by Understanding Matter amp; Antimatter

Norm Hansen (Community Land Inc.)