Program overview

MONDAY AFTERNOON, 22 APRIL 2002

14:30 S3.001 Bonner Prize Talk: Parity Violation in Compound-Nuclear Resonances

J. David Bowman (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

15:06 S3.002 Dissertation in Nuclear Physics Award Talk: Effective Field Theory for Nuclear Physics

Jiunn-Wei Chen (U. of Maryland, College Park)

15:42 S3.003 Edward A. Bouchet Award Talk: Nuclear and Particle Physics Research

Oliver K. Baker (Hampton University and Jefferson Lab)

16:18 S3.004 Bethe Prize Talk: Exploring Matter Under Extreme Conditions

Gordon Baym (University of Illinois, Urbana, IL)

14:30 S4.001 Einstein's Biggest Blunder? High-Redshift Supernovae and the Accelerating Universe

Alexei V. Filippenko (University of California, Berkeley)

15:06 S4.002 Galaxy Formation in the Cosmological Context

Charles Steidel (California Institute of Technology)

15:42 S4.003 Sources and Detection of Dark Matter in the Galaxy and Universe

David Cline (UCLA)

16:18 S4.004 CMB and Cosmology

Lloyd Knox (University of California, Davis)

14:30 S5.001 Linear Colliders: Achieving High Beam Power

Chris Adolphsen (SLAC)

15:06 S5.002 Linear Colliders: Achieving High Luminosity

Gerald Dugan (Cornell University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

15:42 S5.003 Providing Bright-Hard X-ray Beams from a Lower Energy Light Source

David Robin (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

16:18 S5.004 Photoinjected Energy Recovery Linac

Ilan Ben-Zvi (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

16:54 S5.005 Generation of Femtosecond Pulses for Ultra-Fast X-ray Science

Alexander Zholents (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

14:30 S6.001 NSF: Outreach is in Our Name?

Joe Dehmer (National Science Foundation)

15:06 S6.002 A Tale of Two Programs

Len Bugel (Fermilab)

15:42 S6.003 How Physicists can work with Science Centers around the Country

Robert Semper (Exploratorium)

16:18 S6.004 Research and Education: Planning an Effective Outreach Program in Balance with a Research Career

Brian Connolly (Fermilab)

16:54 S6.005 The Art of the Public Lecture

Chris Quigg (Fermilab)

14:30 S7.001 Soft Gamma Repeaters - Magnetars: Observational results

Chryssa Kouveliotou (NASA/MSFC, USRA)

14:54 S7.002 RXTE Monitoring of Anomalous X-ray Pulsars

Victoria Kaspi (McGill University/MIT), Fotis Gavriil (McGill University)

15:18 S7.003 MAGNETARS: A THEORETICAL OVERVIEW

Thompson Christopher (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics)

15:54 S7.004 Chandra/HETGS Spectroscopy of the Anomalous X-ray Pulsar 4U 0142+61

Adrienne M. Juett, Herman L. Marshall, Deepto Chakrabarty, Norbert S. Schulz (MIT)

16:06 S7.005 Chandra Observations of Kes 73 and its Anomalous X-ray Pulsar

P. Slane (CfA), J. P. Hughes (Rutgers), D. N. Burrows, J. A. Nousek (Penn State)

16:18 S7.006 Particle Acceleration in High Field Pulsars and Magnetars

Alice Harding (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), Matthew Baring (Rice University), Alexander Muslimov (Emergent Technologies Services, Inc.), Peter Gonthier (Hope College)

16:30 S7.007 Matter in Superstrong Magnetic Fields: New Theoretical Challenges

Dong Lai (Cornell University)

16:42 S7.008 Atmospheres and Spectra of Strongly Magnetized Neutron Stars II: Effect of Vacuum Polarization

Wynn C.G. Ho, Dong Lai (Cornell University)

14:30 S11.001 Probing Variability Modes in XRBs: Dependence of HighFrequency QPOs on the Phase of Low Frequency Variabilities

Wenfei Yu, Michiel van der Klis (Univeristy of Amsterdam)

14:42 S11.002 QPOs, Black Hole Mass and Angular Momentum from Diskoseismology

Robert Wagoner (Dept. of Physics, Stanford University), Alexander Silbergleit (Gravity Probe B, HEPL, Stanford University), Manuel Ortega-Rodriguez (Dept. of Applied Physics, Stanford University)

14:54 S11.003 Millisecond Oscillation Sidebands in Thermonuclear X-Ray Bursts

Deepto Chakrabarty (MIT)

15:06 S11.004 Inconstant peak fluxes of photospheric radius-expansion thermonuclear X-ray bursts

Duncan Galloway (MIT), Pavlin Savov (MIT/Caltech), Dimitrios Psaltis (MIT/IAS), Deepto Chakrabarty, Michael Muno (MIT)

15:18 S11.005 High Resolution Spectroscopy of X-ray Bursts from EXO 0748-676

Herman Marshall, Adrienne Juett, Nathan Murphy, Norbert Schulz, Claude Canizares (MIT Center for Space Research)

15:30 S11.006 A new class of type-I X-ray bursters with low persistent luminosities?

Remon Cornelisse (SRON National Institute for Space Research), Frank Verbunt, Jean in't Zand (Astronomical Institute, Utrecht University), Erik Kuulkers, John Heise (SRON National Institute for Space Research), Massimo Cocchi, Lorenzo Natalucci, Angela Bazzano, Pietro Ubertini (Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale)

15:42 S11.007 Chandra and XMM-Newton observations of quiescent neutron star transients

Rudy Wijnands, Jon Miller (Center for Space Research, MIT)

15:54 S11.008 Variability in the Effective Temperature of Quiescent Neutron Star Transi ents

Edward Brown (Enrico Fermi Inst./U. of Chicago), Lars Bildsten (ITP/UCSB), Philip Chang (Dept. Physics/UCSB)

16:06 S11.009 On the Nature of the X-ray Emission of Accreting Millisecond Pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658

Juri Poutanen (Astronomy Division, P.O.Box 3000, 90014 University of Oulu, Finland)

16:18 S11.010 Hysteresis in X-ray Transient Spectral Transitions

Thomas Maccarone (SISSA), Paolo Coppi (Yale)

16:30 S11.011 A Magnetic Bomb Model for Jet Events in GRS 1915+105

Stephen Eikenberry (Cornell University), Maurice van Putten (MIT)

14:30 S12.001 Gravitational Radiation Reaction and Inspiraling Compact Binaries

Clifford M. Will (Washington University, St. Louis)

15:06 S12.002 LISA, binary stars, and the mass of the graviton

William A. Hiscock (Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717), Shane L. Larson (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125)

15:18 S12.003 Optimized Data Analysis Strategies for LISA

Shane L. Larson (California Institute of Technology), Massimo Tinto (Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology)

15:30 S12.004 Resonant gravitomagnetic excitation of Rossby modes in neutron star binaries

Etienne Racine, Eanna Flanagan (Cornell University)

15:42 S12.005 Parametric Classification of Gravitational Wave Chirp Signals

James Graber

15:54 S12.006 Calibration of the Gravity Probe B Scientific Instrument Prior to Launch

G. M. Keiser, W. Bencze, R. Bernier, K. Bower, R. Brumley, S. Buchman, B. Clarke, D. Gill, J. Goebel, C. Gray, M. Heifetz, D. Hipkins, J. Lockhart, F. Marcelja, D. Meriwether, J. Mester, B. Muhlfelder, Y. Ohshima, P. Shestople, A. Silbergleit, J. Turneaure, S. Wang, P. Zhou (Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-4085), N. Bennett, K. Burns, R. Farley, W. Given, T. McGinnis, B. Schultz, R. Whelan (Lockheed-Martin Research Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA 94304-1211)

16:06 S12.007 Experimental Search for New Macroscopic Forces Below 1 Millimeter

Joshua C. Long, Eric A. Gulbis, Allison B. Churnside, John C. Price (University of Colorado, Boulder CO)

16:18 S12.008 Search for the Effects of Inhomogenous Electric Fields on Gravitation

Ming Yin (Benedict College, Columbia, SC), Michael Bleiweiss, Ruslan Prozorov, Timir Datta (University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC)

16:30 S12.009 Anomalies in Pendulum Periodicity and Spacecraft Radio Frequency

Shane Vartti (DaimlerChrysler)

16:42 S12.010 Are neutron stars crushed? Gravitomagnetic tidal forces as a mechanism for binary-induced collapse

Marc Favata (Cornell University), Kip S. Thorne (Caltech)

14:30 S14.001 Measurement of the Fraction of Charmless Semileptonic Decays of B Mesons and the Determination of \vert V_ub \vert / \vert V_cb \vert

Urs Langenegger (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center), BABAR Collaboration

14:42 S14.002 A Measurement of the B^0 øverline B^0 Oscillation Frequency and Lifetime Using Semileptonic Decays

Chih-hsiang Cheng (Stanford University), BABAR Collaboration

14:54 S14.003 Measurement of the Ratio of Branching Fractions of the \Upsilon(4S) to Charged and Neutral B Mesons

Romulus Godang (University of Virginia), Kay Kinoshita (University of Cincinnati), CLEO Collaboration

15:06 S14.004 Measurement of the B^0 øverline B^0 Oscillation Frequency with Inclusive Dilepton Events

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

15:18 S14.005 Study of T and CP Violations in B^0 øverline B^0 Mixing with Inclusive Dilepton Events

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

15:30 S14.006 Factorization Tests with Cabibbo-Favored Hadronic B Decays

Richard Kass, K. Honscheid, T. Pedlar, E. von Toerne, T. Wilksen (The Ohio State University), CLEO Collaboration

15:42 S14.007 A Study of the Decay B^0 \rightarrow D_s^+\pi^-

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

15:54 S14.008 Study of the B^0 \rightarrow D_s^*+\pi^- Decay

Toyoko Orimoto (University of California, Berkeley), BABAR Collaboration

16:06 S14.009 The Determination Of Heavy Quark Expansion Parameters \lambda_1 and øverline\Lambda from the Inclusive Lepton Spectrum in B Meson Decay

Chaouki Boulahouache, Marina Artuso (Syracuse University), CLEO Collaboration

16:18 S14.010 A Study of the Decay B^0 \to D^(*) øverlineD^(*)

Vincent Lillard (University of Maryland, College Park), BABAR Collaboration

16:30 S14.011 Measurements of Branching Fractions and CP Asymmetries in Charmless Two-Body B Decays into Pions and Kaons.

James Olsen (Princeton University), BABAR Collaboration

16:42 S14.012 A Precise Measurement of B Meson Lifetimes with Inclusive Dilepton Events

Michael Kay (University of Liverpool), BABAR Collaboration

16:54 S14.013 Study of Rare B decays to Charmonium

Jinlong Zhang (Colorado State University), BABAR Collaboration

17:06 S14.014 Measurement of the Ratio of the Branching Fractions \cal B(B^- \rightarrow D^(*)0K^-)/\cal B(B^-\rightarrow D^(*)0\pi^-)

Matteo Rama (University of Pisa), BABAR Collaboration

17:18 S14.015 Particles with a Stochastic Electromagnetic Structure

Fredrick W. Cotton

S14.016 B-Quark Production at Dzero

Hal Evans (University of Columbia), D0 Collaboration

14:30 S15.001 Recent Higgs Results from LEP

Peter McNamara (University of Wisconsin)

15:06 S15.002 Search for New Physics with ATLAS

Marie-Helene Genest (University of Montreal, Canada), ATLAS Collaboration

15:18 S15.003 High Mass Higgs Studies Using gg->H and qq->qqH at the LHC

Anne-Sylvie Nicollerat (ETH, Zurich, Switzerland), Michael Dittmar (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), CMS Collaboration

15:30 S15.004 Search for Neutral Supersymmetric Higgs Bosons at the D0 Detector at the Tevatron in Run II

Andrew Haas (University of Washington), D0 Collaboration

15:42 S15.005 A Neural Net technique for the Higgs Search at the Tevatron

Dmitri Smirnov (University of New Mexico and Moscow State University)

15:54 S15.006 Prospects for Higgs Searches at the LHC with CMS

Volker Drollinger (University of New Mexico), CMS Collaboration

16:06 S15.007 Searches for charged Higgs bosons with the ATLAS detector

Yann Coadou (Uppsala University, Sweden), ATLAS Collaboration

16:18 S15.008 MSSM Constraints from Higgs Boson Searches

Andre Sopczak (Lancaster University)

16:30 S15.009 Study of the Like Sign Di-Electron Search for SUSY with DZero Detector in the Tevatron Run 2

Brent Zhongmin Wang (Stony Brook), D0 Collaboration

16:42 S15.010 Searches for R-parity violating Supersymmetry at D0.

Pavel Demine (ISN Grenoble, France), D0 Collaboration

16:54 S15.011 The Puzzle of the Bottom Quark Production Cross Section

Edmond Berger (Argonne National Laboratory)

17:06 S15.012 Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in e^+e^- collisions with the L3 detector at LEP

Jin Yamamoto (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), L3 Collaboration