Program overview

MONDAY MORNING, 18 MARCH 3902

08:00 A1.001 Enhancement of the Upper Critical Field near an Insulator-Superconductor Transition

InJae Lee (Department of Physics, Princeton University)

08:36 A1.002 Magnetic-Field-Induced Superconductivity in Two-Dimensional Organic Conductors

Shinya UJI (National Institute for Materials Science)

09:12 A1.003 The normal state of high-temperature superconductors and the marginal Fermi liquid

Elihu Abrahams (Center for Materials Theory, Serin Physics Laboratory, Rutgers University, 136 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019)

09:48 A1.004 Low temperature Hall effect in the normal state of single-layer BSLCO

Greg Boebinger (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

10:24 A1.005 Far-infrared Hall effect in the YBCO normal state

Matthew Grayson (Walter Schottky Institut, Germany)

08:00 A2.001 MESOSTRUCTURE CONTROL OF POLYMER-INORGANIC NANOCOMPOSITES

R. Vaia (Air Force Researh Laboratory, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate)

08:36 A2.002 Phase Behavior of Block Copolymer directed Nanostructured Organic/Inorganic Hybrids

Ulrich Wiesner (Department for Material Science and Engineering, Bard Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853)

09:12 A2.003 Dynamics of Polymeric Nanocomposites

Ramanan Krishnamoorti (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Houston)

09:48 A2.004 NT characterization and NT/polymer composites for LED's

David L. Carroll (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University)

10:24 A2.005 Mechanical Compression of Carbon Nanotubes

Alan Windle (Department of Materials Science, Cambridge University, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, UK)

08:00 A3.001 Ferromagnetic Imprinting of Nuclear Spins in Semiconductors

Roland Kawakami (Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106)

08:36 A3.002 Spin-Density-Wave in fcc-Fe/Cu(100)

Xiaofeng Jin (Surface Physics Laboratory, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China; and International Center for Quantum Structures, CAS, Beijing 100080, China)

09:12 A3.003 Quantum Disordered State in D>1 Spin-1/2 Systems

Daniel H. Reich (Johns Hopkins University)

09:48 A3.004 Magnetism in Low dimensions: Films, stripes and dots of Fe on Cu(111)

Jian Shen (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

10:24 A3.005 Thin film magnetism in the picosecond time scale

Danilo Pescia (Lab fuer Festkoerperphysik, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich)

08:00 A4.001 Electronic Properties of Nanotubes*

Steven G. Louie (University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

08:36 A4.002 First-principles theory of transport in molecules and multilayer nanostructures

Sokrates T. Pantelides (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN)

09:12 A4.003 Ab initio molecular dynamics

Roberto Car (Princeton University)

09:48 A4.004 Optical Properties of Nanocrystals

James Chelikowsky (University of Minnesota)

08:00 A5.001 Computer simulations as concrete models for student reasoning

Jan Tobochnik (Kalamazoo College)

08:36 A5.002 Statistical Mechanics of Motorized Molecules

Jeffrey Prentis (University of Michigan - Dearborn)

09:12 A5.003 Relating Macroscopic Thermal Phenomena with Molecular Models

Priscilla W. Laws (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA 17013)

09:48 A5.004 Student Understanding of The First Law of Thermodynamics

Michael Loverude (California State University Fullerton)

10:24 A5.005 Overview of Curriculum Developments in the Teaching of Statistical Physics

Harvey Gould (Clark University)

08:00 A6.001 Tunneling in Superconductors

Ivar Giaever (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180)

08:36 A6.002 Tunneling in Biology

Jose Onuchic (Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0319)

09:12 A6.003 Tunneling - the Beginning

Eugen Merzbacher (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

09:48 A6.004 Tunneling in Chemistry

Nancy Makri (UIUC)

08:00 A7.001 Preparing for public policy

Brendan Plapp (American Physical Society Congressional Science Fellow (2000-2001))

08:36 A7.002 Thinking about expectations

Jeffrey Rogers (HRL Laboratories, LLC)

09:12 A7.003 Light and Sound: Neglected Subjects in Physics Education

Thomas D. Rossing (Physics Department, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115)

08:00 A8.001 Artifcial Atoms: Solution for Infrared Multicolor Focal Plane Arrays

Manijeh Razeghi (Northwestern University, Center for Quantum Devices, ECE Department)

08:36 A8.002 Multi-Band Quantum Well Infrared Photodetectors

Sumith Bandara, Sarath Gunapala, John Liu (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology,)

08:48 A8.003 Performance Improvements of Homojunction FIR Detectors

M.B.M. Rinzan, S.G. Matsik, A.G.U. Perera (Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA), H.C. Liu (National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada), B Zvonkov, V. Gavrilenko (Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia)

09:00 A8.004 Effects of Doping on the Cutoff Wavelength and Barrier Height in p-type Far Infrared Detectors

S. G. Matsik, M. B. M. Rinzan, A. G. U Perera (Georgia State University, Atlanta GA), H. C. Liu (National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada), B. Zvonkov, V. Gavrilenko (Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), W. J. Schaff (Cornell University, Ithaca NY)

09:12 A8.005 Cutoff Tailoring with Al Fraction in Heterojunction Interfacial Workfunction Internal Photoemission Detectors

A.G.U. Perera, S.G. Matsik, M.B.M. Rinzan (Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA), H.C. Liu (National Research Council, Ottatwa, Canada)

09:24 A8.006 Responsivity of Terahertz Quantum Well Infrared Photodetectors (QWIPs)

Mazin A. Gadir, Paul Harrison (IMP, School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, The University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK), Richard A. Soref (Sensors Directorate, AFRL/SNHC, Air Force Research laboratory, Hanscom Air Force Base, MA 01731, U.S.A.)

09:36 A8.007 Light coupling in corrugated and quantum grid IR detectors

K. K. Choi (US Army Research Lab, Adelphi MD 20783), T. Tamir (Polytechnic University, Brooklyn NY 11201), J. Mao, D. C. Tsui (Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544)

09:48 A8.008 Cross-Sectional STM Studies of Indium Segregation in GaSb/InAs Quantum Wells for Type-II Mid-IR Lasers

J. Steinshnider, M. Bergsten, M. Weimer (Department of Physics, Texas Aamp;M University, College Station, TX 77843), R. Kaspi (Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, NM 87117)

A8.009 Experimental and Many-Body Theoretical Investigation of Intersubband Far Infrared Absorption in Quantum Well Photodetectors

Mark I. Stockman, Sergey V. Faleev, Steven G. Matsik, A.G. Unil Perera (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 30303), H.C. Liu (Institute of Microstructural Sciences, NRC-Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)

A8.010 Optical, vibrational, and structural properties of GeSn alloys on Si

S. Zollner, N.V. Edwards, E. Duda (Motorola), J. Tolle, J. Taraci, M.R. McCartney, J. Menendez, G. Wolf, D.J. Smith, J. Kouvetakis (Arizona State University)

08:00 A9.001 Polydimethylsiloxane/silicon oxide interface - A molecular dynamics study

S. W. Sides (University of California, Santa Barbara), T. Soddemann, M. O. Robbins (John Hopkins University), G. S. Grest, M. Stevens, M. Tsige (Sandia National Laboratories)

08:12 A9.002 Quantifying Surface Interactions Using a Multilens JKR Approach

Alfred J. Crosby, Alamgir Karim, Eric J. Amis (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

08:24 A9.003 Instability and Fracture of Confined Elastic Gels

Rebecca Webber, Kenneth Shull (Northwestern University), Alexandra Roos, Costantino Creton (Ecole Superior de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles)

08:36 A9.004 Stress intensity in small viscoelastic contacts

W. N. Unertl, M. Giri (Univ. of Maine, Orono, ME 04469)

08:48 A9.005 Combinatorial Measurement of Polymer Craze Growth and Fracture

Kathryn Beers, Alfred Crosby, Alamgir Karim, Eric Amis (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

09:00 A9.006 Relating Fracture Strength to Entanglements at Partially Miscible Polymer Interfaces

Russell E. Gorga, Balaji Narasimhan (Iowa State University)

09:12 A9.007 Probing Polymer-Polymer Interfaces

Gary Harp, Keshav Gautam, Ali Dhinojwala (Department of Polymer Science, The University of Akron)

09:24 A9.008 Chain diffusion and microstructure at a glassy-rubbery polymer interface by SIMS

A. C.-M. Yang, H. C. Lin, I. F. Tsai (National Tsing Hua University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Hsinchu, TAIWAN), M. S. Hsu, Y. C. Ling (National Tsing Hua University, Department of Chemistry, Hsinchu, TAIWAN)

09:36 A9.009 Neutron and X-ray Reflectometry Measurements of the Deprotection Reaction-Diffusion Front in Chemically Amplified Photoresist Thin Films

Eric Lin, Christopher Soles, Ronald Jones, Joseph Lenhart, Wen-li Wu, Sushil Satija (NIST), Dario Goldfarb, Marie Angelopoulos (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center), Brian Trinque, Sean Burns, C. Grant Willson (University of Texas - Austin)

09:48 A9.010 Diffusion in Monolayer-Thick Films

Jiang Zhao, Steve Granick (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801)

10:00 A9.011 Diffusion of Polymer into a Confined Matrix

Clive Li, Eric Petersen, Jonathan Sokolov, Miriam Rafailovich (Stony Brook University), Vladimir Zaitsev, Steven Schwarz (Queens college)

10:12 A9.012 Real-Time Diffusion Dynamics of Polymer/Metal Nanocomposites Using X-Ray Standing Waves

Rodney S. Guico, Suresh Narayanan, Andrew Richter, Jin Wang (Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory), Kenneth Shull (Northwestern University)

10:24 A9.013 Probing In-Plane Distribution of Au Nanoparticles in Polymer Thin Films Using Resonance-Enhancement Effect*

Suresh Narayanan, Rodney Guico, Dong Ryeol Lee, Jin Wang (Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439.), Alain Gibaud (Université du Maine, Faculté des Sciences, CNRS 72085, Le Mans Cedex 09, FRANCE.), Sunil Sinha (Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093.)

10:36 A9.014 Durability of Polymeric Coatings: Cyclic Loading and Free Volumes

Hongmin Chen, Qinghua Peng, Yichu Wu, Ying Li, Junjie Zhang, T.C. Sandreczki, Renwu Zhang, Y.C. Jean, J.R. Richardson (University of Missouri-Kansas City)

08:00 A10.001 Counterion Distribution and Osmotic Pressure of Polyelectrolyte Solutions

Michael Rubinstein, Qi Liao (Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3290), Andrey Dobrynin (Institute of Materials Science and Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, Strolls, CT, 06269-3136)

08:12 A10.002 Phase behavior of strongly charged polyelectrolytes in the presence of multivalent ions

Aleksander Ermoshkin, Monica Olvera de la Cruz (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA 60208)

08:24 A10.003 Structure and Dynamics of Hydrophobic Polyelectrolytes

Thomas A. P. Seery (Polymer Program and Dept. of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT-06269), Damien Baigl, Claudine Williams (Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée, CNRS URA 792, Collège de France, 11, place Marcelin Berthelot, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France)

08:36 A10.004 Conformations of polyelectrolytes with annealed charge distribution: single-chain Self-consistent field theory calcultaions.

Mohsen Sabouri (Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara), Henri Orland (Service de Physique Theorique, CE-Saclay), Glenn H. Fredrickson (Chemical Engineering amp; Materials Departments and Mitsubishi Chemical Center for Advanced Materials, University of California, Santa Barbara)

08:48 A10.005 Integral Equation Theory for the Structure of DNA Solutions

Chwen-Yang Shew (Chemistry Department, College of Staten Island/CUNY, Staten Island, NY 10314), Arun Yethiraj (Chemistry Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706)

09:00 A10.006 The Strongly Charged Polymer Brush

Ben O'Shaughnessy, Qingbo Yang (Columbia University)

09:12 A10.007 Polyelectrolyte Brushes from Amphiphilic Block Copolymers

Feng Li, Matthew Tirrell (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106)

09:24 A10.008 Charge Fluctuations and Counterion Condensation

Andy W.C. Lau (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia), Dima B. Lukatsky (Weizmann Institute), Philip A. Pincus (University of California, Santa Barbara), Samuel A. Safran (Weizmann Institute)

09:36 A10.009 Effect of Micellization on the Adsorption Kinetics of Polymeric Surfactants to the Solid/Water Interface

Ryan Toomey, Matthew Tirrell (Materials Research Laboratory, University of California at Santa Barbara)

09:48 A10.010 Adsorption of Sodium Polystyrene Sulfonate to the Air Surface of Water by Neutron and X-ray Reflectivity and Surface Tension Measurements: Polymer Concentration Dependence

Mike Kent, Hyun Yim, Aaron Matheson, Mark Stevens (Sandia National Labs), Robert Ivkov, Sushil Satija (National Institute for Standards and Technology), Jaroslaw Majewski, Greg Smith (Los Alamos National Lab.)

10:00 A10.011 Adsorption of hydrophobic polyelectrolytes at oppositely charged surfaces

Andrey Dobrynin (Institute of Materials Science and Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 06269), Michael Rubinstein (Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-3290)

10:12 A10.012 The Influence of Charge Density on Adsorbed Polyelectrolyte Dynamics

Maria Santore (Department of Polymer Science, University of Massachusetts), Nanthiya Hansupalak (Department of Chemical Engineering Lehigh U)

10:24 A10.013 Adsorption of charged proteins on surfaces with grafted polymers

Igal Szleifer, Marcelo Carignano (Purdue University)

10:36 A10.014 Multilayer Formation: Irreversible Model

Stella Park, Jonas Mendelsohn, Michael Rubner, Anne Mayes (MIT, Department of Materials Science and Engineering)

10:48 A10.015 Quantitative Model of Ionization Response in Layered Polyelectrolyte Self-Assemblies

Dan Finkenstadt, D. D. Johnson (Depts. of Physics and Materials Science amp; Engineering, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana Il 61801)

08:00 A11.001 Theory of Charge Transport in Organic Crystals: Lessons from the Past and Prospects for the Future

V. M. Kenkre (University of New Mexico)

08:36 A11.002 Spin Dynamics in Oligomeric \pi-Conjugated (Porphinato)metal Arrays

Paul J. Angiolillo (Dept. of Physics, Saint Joseph's University), Kimihiro Susumu, Michael J. Therien (Dept. of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania)

08:48 A11.003 Dependency of Conductivity of Selected Doped Conducting Polymers on Unusual ``Through Space" Electric Field Effect

A.G. MacDiarmid, H. Okuzaki, J. Lu, S.K. Manohar, E. Bashari, D.M. Temple, N.J. Pinto (Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania), A.J. Epstein (Department of Physics and Chemistry, Ohio State University)

09:00 A11.004 Origin of Anomalous Magnetoresistivity in Organic-Based Magnetic Semiconductor V[TCNE]x

Vladimir Prigodin, Arthur Epstein (The Ohio State University)

09:12 A11.005 Nonlinear Response Theory via Boltzmann Equations for Charge Transport in Organic Crystals

Luca Giuggioli, V. M. Kenkre (Center for Advanced Study and Department of Physics, University of New Mexico)

09:24 A11.006 Investigating charge transport mechanisms of Schottky barriers with a conducting polymer | inorganic semiconductor interface

Frank Jones (Material Science Institute, Department of Physics, University of Oregon), Mark Lonergan (Material Science Institute, Department of Chemistry, University of Oregon)

09:36 A11.007 Electrical conductivity in a nonconjugated polymer intermediate between polyisoprene and polyacetylene

Jitto Titus, Mrinal Thakur (Auburn University)

09:48 A11.008 Nonlinear field dependence of injected carrier transport in organic crystals

Paul E. Parris (University of Missouri-Rolla), V.M. Kenkre (University of New Mexico)

10:00 A11.009 Conductivity in stacks, strands, and herringbone structured electroactive organic materials

Sven Stafström (Linköping University, Sweden), Åsa Johansson, Mattias Hjort, Mikael Unge (Linköping University)

10:12 A11.010 Carrier Mobility in Semiconducting Star Polymers

J. B. Ferguson (Air Force Research Laboratory and The Ohio State University), V. N. Prigodin, A. J. Epstein (The Ohio State University), F. Wang (EIC Laboratories, Inc.)

10:24 A11.011 EPR studies of polyaniline fibers

P.K. Kahol, B.J. McCormick (Wichita State University), N.J. Pinto (University of Puerto Rico-Humacao)

10:36 A11.012 Disordered Carrier Transport in Smectic Liquid Crystals

Akihide Haruyama, Jun-ichi Hanna (Imaging Science and Engineering Lab., Tokyo Institute of Technology)

10:48 A11.013 Modeling and Simulation of Carrier Transport in Liquid Crystalline Semiconductor

Akira Ohno, Jun-ichi Hanna (Imaging Science and Engineering Lab., Tokyo Institute of Technology)

08:00 A12.001 Spin-fermion model for high temperature superconductors

Andrey Chubukov (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

08:36 A12.002 Filamentary Theory of Broken Symmetry of Neutron and Infrared Vibronic Spectra of YBCO

Jan A. Jung (University of Alberta,), James C. Phillips (Bell Labs.,Lucent Tech.)

08:48 A12.003 The case against high-temperature superconductivity originating in the cuprate-planes.

John D. Dow (Arizona State Univ.), Dale R. Harshman (Physikon Research Corp.)

09:00 A12.004 Investigating the effects of Dirac-cone anisotropy on the QED_3 theory of the pseudogap regime of the cuprates

Daniel Sheehy, Marcel Franz (University of British Columbia)

09:12 A12.005 Magnetic order near vortices in cuprate superconductors

Marcel Franz, Daniel E. Sheehy (University of British Columbia), Zlatko Tesanovic (Johns Hopkins University)

09:24 A12.006 High temperature superconductivity: the attractive U_p regime

Raymond Chan, Miklos Gulacsi (Department of Theoretical Physics, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia)

09:36 A12.007 Analysis of the dynamical cluster approximation for the Hubbard model

Karan Aryanpour (Department of physics, university of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH 45221, USA), Matthias. H Hettler (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut fuer Nanotechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany), Mark Jarrell (Department of physics, university of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH 45221, USA)

09:48 A12.008 Dynamical Cluster Approximation Calculation of the Three-Band Hubbard Model

Alexandru Macridin (University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands), Mark Jarrell, Thomas Maier (University of Cincinnati OH 45221, USA), George Sawatzky (University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands)

10:00 A12.009 Superconductors in a Static Electric Field

R. Tao (Temple U., Philadelphia, PA)

10:12 A12.010 Conduction-band orbitals for cuprates and correlation with Tc at optimal hole doping

Indra Dasgupta (ITT Bombay, Mumbai 400 076, India), Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta (S. N. Bose Centre, Calcutta 700098, India), Eva Pavarini (INFM Dept of Physics, I-27100, Italy), Ove Jepsen, Ole Krogh Andersen (MPI-FKF, D-70506 Stuttgart, Germany)

10:24 A12.011 Quantum tunneling cyclic loops (QTCLs) probably is the key to find new high Tc superconductors (SC).

dawei Zhou (General Superconductor)

10:36 A12.012 How antiferromagnetic fluctuations can both help and hinder d-wave superconductivity

Bumsoo Kyung, J.-S. Landry, A.-M.S. Tremblay (CERPEMA and Université de Sherbrooke)

08:00 A13.001 Nano-electro-mechanics of Coulomb-blockaded superconducting systems

Robert Shekhter (Chalmers University of Technology and Goeteborg University, SE-412 96 Goeteborg, Sweden)

08:36 A13.002 Superconducting nanowires in magnetic field

Nina Markovic, Chun Ning Lau, M. Tinkham (Harvard University)

08:48 A13.003 Superconducting Nanowires

C.N. Lau, N. Markovic, M. Tinkham (Physics Dept, Harvard University)

09:00 A13.004 Sub-10 nm Superconducting Nanowires Deposited on Insulating Fluorinated Carbon Nanotubes

Anthony Bollinger (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801), W. Chaing, John Margrave (Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005), Alexey Bezryadin (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801)

09:12 A13.005 Electronic Transport in Underdoped High-Tc Superconductor Nanowires and Nanostructures

J.A. Bonetti, D.J. Van Harlingen, M.B. Weissman (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Physics)

09:24 A13.006 Characterization of Photoinduced Submicron Superconducting Wires in Underdoped YBCO

B. S. Palmer, H. D. Drew (Laboratory for Physical Sciences, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD), R. S. Decca (Dept. of Physics, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN), B. Maiorov, E. Osquiguil (Centro Atomico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro, Argentina), R. A. Hughes, J. S. Preston (Dept. of Engineering Physics, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada)

09:36 A13.007 Magnetization Measurement of Sn and Pb Nanowires

Mingliang Tian, Joseph Snyder, James Kurtz, Brian Kelley, Ying Liu, Peter Schiffer, Thomas Mallouk, Moses Chan (Center for Collective Phenomena and Restricted Geometries, and the Materials Research Institute, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802)

09:48 A13.008 Quantum fluctuations in thin superconducting wires of finite length

Hans Peter Buchler, Vadim Geshkenbein, Gianni Blatter (Theoretische Physik, ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

10:00 A13.009 Magnetic measurements of phase slips in superconducting tungsten rings

Per G. Björnsson, Kathryn A. Moler (Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-4045)

10:12 A13.010 Destruction of the global phase coherence in ultrathin, doubly connected superconducting cylinders

Ying Liu, Mari-Anne Rosario, Yuri Zadorozhny, Benjamin Rock, Paul Carrigan, Haohua Wang (The Pennsylvania Stae University)

10:24 A13.011 Tunneling studies of superconducting Au0.7In0.3 films: Observation of an energy gap in the parallel magnetic field induced metallic phase

Mari-Anne Rosario, Haohua Wang, Ying Liu (The Pennsylvania State University)

10:36 A13.012 Zero-temperature superconducting phase transition in two dimensions and in the magnetic field

Wen-Chin Wu (National Taiwan Normal University), Igor F. Herbut (Simon Fraser University)

10:48 A13.013 Quantum superconductor-metal transition

Boris Spivak (Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle), Alexander Zyuzin (A.F.Ioffe Physical- Technical Institute, St.Petersburg), Marina Hruska (Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle)

11:00 A13.014 Low-temperature negative magnetoresistance of quasi-one-dimensional superconducting wires

Boris Spivak (Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle), Marina Hruska (Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle)

08:00 A14.001 Magnesium diboride: basic physical properties and high H_c2 anisotropy

Sergey L. Bud'ko (Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA)

08:36 A14.002 Resistivity and Residual Resistivity Ratio of MgB_2

R. A. Ribeiro, N. Anderson, S. L. Bud'ko, P. C. Canfield (Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University)

08:48 A14.003 Thermoelectric power of MgB_2-xBe_x

J.S. Ahn (Ctr. for Strongly Correlated Materials Research, Seoul National U., Korea), E.S. Choi, W. Kang (Dept. of Physics, Ewha Womans U., Korea), D.J. Singh (Ctr. for Computational Materials Science, Naval Research Lab.), M.-S. Kim, S.-I. Lee (Ctr. for Superconductivity and Dept. of Physics, Pohang U. of Sci. and Tech., Korea), Y.-J. Kim, E.J. Choi (Dept. of Physics, U. of Seoul, Korea)

09:00 A14.004 Penetration depth and anisotropy of MgB_2 superconductor from ^11B NMR

Moohee Lee, E. E. Sigmund, P. Sengupta, W. P. Halperin (Northwestern University, Evanston IL 60208, U.S.A.), B. K. Cho (KJ-IST, Kwangju 500-712 Korea)

09:12 A14.005 Anisotropic Superconducting Properties of MgB_2

Z. X. Shi, A. K. Prandhan, M. Tokunaga, T. Tamegai (Dept. of Appl., The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan), Y. Togano (National Institute for Materials Science, 1-2-1, Sengen, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, 2-1-6, Sengen, Tsukuba 305-0047, Japan), K. Kito, H. Ihara (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba 305-8568, Japan)

09:24 A14.006 Fluctuation Study on Heat Capcity of MgB2

Tuson Park, Myron Salamon (Dept. of Physics and Material Research Lab, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), C. U. Jung, Min-Seok Park, Kyunghee Kim, Sung-Ik Lee (Dept. of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology)

09:36 A14.007 Calculations of the Carrier Specific Heat Cp in Superconducting High Tc (HTS) and MgB2 Systems

IN-HO LEE (KRISS), SANG BOO NAM (KAERI)

09:48 A14.008 Anisotropic Lattice Anomaly at T_c in MgB_2

J. D. Jorgensen, D. G. Hinks, S. Short (Argonne National Laboratory), P. G. Radaelli, W. I. F. David, R. M. Ibberson (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK)

10:00 A14.009 Dependence of the Superconducting Transition Temperature of MgB2 on Pressure to above 30 GPa

S. Deemyad, J. J. Hamlin, T. Tomita, J. S. Schilling (Department of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis, MO), D. G. Hinks, J. D. Jorgensen (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory)

10:12 A14.010 The enhanced MgB2 superconductivity under high pressure

C.-Q JIN, Z.-X LIU, J.-Y YOU, S.-C LI, J.-L ZHU, R.-C YU, F.-Y LI, S.-K SU (Institute of Physic, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, P. R. China)

10:24 A14.011 Effects of Hydrostatic Pressure on Superconductivity of Carbon Doped Magnesium Diboride

Xiaosheng Huang, Alex Zettl (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of California, Berkeley and Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA)

10:36 A14.012 MgB2 - A review of superconducting and normal properties (I)

Cristina Buzea, Tsutomu Yamashita (Tohoku University, Japan)

A14.013 MgB2 - A review of superconducting and normal properties (II)

Cristina Buzea, Tsutomu Yamashita (Tohoku University, Japan)

08:00 A15.001 Magnetization reversal by a spin-polarized current: theory and experiments

Albert Fert (Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS-Thales and Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France)

08:36 A15.002 Magnetotransport Effects of Spin-Current in Individual Nanomagnets

Fred Mancoff, Stephen Russek (NIST-Boulder)

08:48 A15.003 Current induced switching of magnetic multilayers.

Asya Shpiro, Peter M. Levy (Department of Physics, New York University, 4 Washington Place, New York, NY 10003), Shufeng Zhang (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211)

09:00 A15.004 Interplay of spin transfer torques and thermal activation in nanomagnet reversal

E. B. Myers, J. C. Sankey, E. Bonet, D. C. Ralph, F. J. Albert, N. C. Emley, R. A. Buhrman

09:12 A15.005 Effective action approach for current induced magnetization switching

J. Fernandez-Rossier, A. H. MacDonald (Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin)

09:24 A15.006 Spin-Transfer Phenomena and Spin-Dependent Transport in thin Film CPP Magnetic Nanostructures.

F.J. Albert, N.C. Emley, E.M. Ryan, E.B. Myers, D.C. Ralph, R.A. Buhrman (Cornell University)

09:36 A15.007 Effects of Spin-polarized Current on Magnetization Dynamics

Shufeng Zhang, Zhanjie Li (University of Missouri)

09:48 A15.008 GMR and Spin-Momentum Transfer in Thin Film Magnetic Nanostructures

N.C. Emley, F.J. Albert, E.M. Ryan, E.B. Myers, D.C. Ralph, R.A. Buhrman (Cornell University)

10:00 A15.009 Domain wall resistance in narrow ferromagnetic wires

B. Cetin, N. Giordano (Department of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1396)

10:12 A15.010 Magnetoresistance investigations of controlled spin switching in narrow ferromagnetic rings

M. Kläui, C. A. F. Vaz, J. A. C. Bland (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB30HE, UK), W. Wernsdorfer (Laboratoire L. Néel-CNRS, BP 166, 38042 Grenoble, France), G. Faini, E. Cambril (LPN-CNRS, Route de Nozay, 91960 Marcoussis, France)

10:24 A15.011 Magnetotransport in single, electrodeposited nanowires

M. Tanase, D. M. Silevitch, M. Chen, C. L. Chien, P. C. Searson, D. H. Reich (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218)

10:36 A15.012 Perpendicular giant magnetoresistance in nanowires

Julian Velev, Yia-Chung Chang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

10:48 A15.013 Magnetoresistance Measurements of Ultrathin Ferromagnetic Nanowires

Myles Steiner, Thomas Tombler, Hongjie Dai, Aharon Kapitulnik (Stanford University)

A15.014 Distinguishing between coherent magnetization rotation and generation of incoherent spin waves in a spin-transfer effect experiment

Yaroslaw Bazaliy (MSD, Argonne National Laboratory), Barbara Jones (IBM Almaden Research Center)

08:00 A16.001 Possible Theory of Colossal Magnetoresistance Materials

Elbio Dagotto (Dept. of Physics and National High Magnetic Field Lab, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306)

08:36 A16.002 Spin Waves, Phase Separation, and Interphase Boundaries in Double Exchange Magnets.

D. I. Golosov (Theoretical Physics, Oxford University, 1 Keble Rd., Oxford OX1 3NP, United Kingdom.)

08:48 A16.003 Magnetic properties of manganites in the low-doping limit

Matthias Mayr (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Festkoerperforschung), Sean Foss, Elbio Dagotto (Florida State University/NHMFL)

09:00 A16.004 Electronic phase separation in electron-doped CaMnO_3

John J. Neumeier (Florida Atlantic University)

09:36 A16.005 Metal-insulator transition and magnetoresistance in mono-layered manganite

N.H. Hur, E.O. Chi, W.S. Kim, C.S. Hong (Center for CMR Materials, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Yusong, P. O. Box 102, Taejon 305-600, Korea)

09:48 A16.006 Critical Exponents of sputter-deposited LCMO-Films

Andreas Berger (IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA), Gloria Campillo, Paula Vivas, Eval Baca, Pedro Prieto (Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia), John Pearson, Samuel Bader (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL)

10:00 A16.007 Phase diagram of 0.5 doped Manganites and Cobaltites

Oron Zachar (UCLA Dep. of Physics), Igor Zalinzyac (Brookhaven National Lab.)

08:00 A17.001 Spin disorder scattering in HoMn_12-xFe_x alloys

Jolanta Stankiewicz, Juan Bartolomé (ICMA, CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza), Daniel Fruchart (Laboratoire de Cristallographie, CNRS)

08:12 A17.002 Neutron scattering studies on a two-dimensional triangular antiferromagnet YMnO_3

T. Katsufuji, M. Masaki, H. Takagi (Department of Advanced Materials Science, Univ. of Tokyo), S.-H. Lee (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

08:24 A17.003 Influence of macroscopic parameters on nanoscale intrinsic localized modes in an antiferromagnet

L. Q. English, M. Sato, B. E. Hubbard, A. J. Sievers (Cornell University)

08:36 A17.004 Spectrum of the Magnetized State of the S=1/2 Linear Chain Antiferromagnet Copper Pyrazine Dinitrate

M.B. Stone, D.H. Reich, C. Broholm (The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218), K. Lefmann (Materials Research Department, RisøNational Laboratory, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark), C. Rischel (Ørsted Laboratory, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Københaven ØDenmark), C.P. Landee, M.M. Turnbull (Carlson School of Chemistry and Department of Physics, Clark University, Worcester, MA 01610)

08:48 A17.005 Geometric versus Quantum Disorder in 2D Heisenberg Antiferromagnets

Owen Vajk (Department of Physics, Stanford University), Martin Greven (Department of Applied Physics and Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Stanford University)

09:00 A17.006 Anomalies in diluted 2D antiferromagnets

Sasha Chernyshev (Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Yu-Chang Chen (Department of Physics, University of California, Riverside), Antonio H. Castro Neto (Department of Physics, Boston University)

09:12 A17.007 Time Correlation Functions of Classical Heisenberg Spins on an Isosceles Triangle and on a Squashed Tetrahedron

Marco Ameduri, Richard Klemm (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden, Germany)

09:24 A17.008 Exchange Constants and Columnar Order in Li2VOSiO4

Rajiv Singh, Helge Rosner (Department of Physics, UC Davis), Weihong Zheng, Jaan Oitmaa (School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney), Warren Pickett (Department of Physics, UC Davis), Stefan-Ludwig Drechsler (Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstofforschung Dresden)

09:36 A17.009 Chern-Simons Theory for Magnetization Plateaus of Frustrated J_1-J_2 Heisenberg model

Ming-Che Chang (National Taiwan Normal University), Min-Fong Yang (Tunghai University)

09:48 A17.010 Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg systems coupled to phonons

Federico Becca, Frederic Mila (Institut de Physique Theorique, Universite' de Lausanne)

10:00 A17.011 Specific Heat of S = 1 Quasi-1D Antiferromagnet NDMAP in Magnetic Fields

H. Tsujii, B. Andraka, Y. Takano (University of Florida), Z. Honda (Saitama University), K. Katsumata (RIKEN Harima Institute)

10:12 A17.012 Antiferromagnetic resonance and magnetization of the doped Haldane magnet PbNi_2V_2O_8.

A.I. Smirnov, V.N. Glazkov (P.Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems RAS, 117334 Moscow, Russia), L.N. Demianets, A.Ya. Shapiro (A.V.Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography RAS, 117333 Moscow, Russia), H.-A. Krug von Nidda, A. Loidl (University of Augsburg, D 86135 Augsburg, Germany)

10:24 A17.013 Decomposition of Sr_2CuO_3 in air and water: Magnetic properties of Sr_2Cu(OH)_6

Julienne M. Hill, David C. Johnston, Lance L. Miller (Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011)

08:00 A18.001 Low temperature epitaxial growth of silicon on Si(100) in the STM

Holger Grube, Geoffrey Brown, Marilyn Hawley (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

08:12 A18.002 Comparison of Growth Morphology in Homoepitaxial Growth of Germanium Using MBE and Pulsed Laser Deposition

J.P. Leonard, M.J. Aziz (Harvard University, Div. Engineering amp; Applied Sciences)

08:24 A18.003 Epitaxial Silicon Growth for the Fabrication of a Solid State Quantum Computer

Lars Oberbeck, Neil Curson, Steven Schofield, Michelle Simmons, Robert Clark (Centre for Quantum Computer Technology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)

08:36 A18.004 Electrochemical Atomic Layer Epitaxy: Deposition of In_2Se_3 Thin Films

S.M. Cox, S.P. Compton, L. Pham, U. Happek (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602), R. Vaidyanathan, J.L. Stickney (Dept. of Chemistry, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602)

08:48 A18.005 Electrodeposition of InSb for photonic crystal and other semiconductor device applications

Challa Bekele, Tiberiu Fulop, Kathleen Kash, Uziel Landau, John Angus (Case Western Reserve University)

09:00 A18.006 Adsorption of C-based molecules at the Si surface: the initial stages of SiC growth, from ab-initio simulations.

Carlo Antonio Pignedoli, Rosa Di Felice, Carlo Maria Bertoni (INFM, Physics Department, Universita' di Modena e Reggio E., Modena Italy), Giancarlo Cicero (INFM, Physics Department, Polytechnic of Torino, Torino Italy), Pier Luigi Silvestrelli, Francesco Ancilotto, Carlo Sbraccia (INFM, Physics Department, Universita' di Padova, Padova Italy), Alessandra Catellani (CNR-MASPEC, Parma Italy)

09:12 A18.007 One-dimensional arrays of Ce on vicinal Si(100)

Hangil Lee, Elio Vescovo (NSLS, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, 11973), Dohyun Lee, Se-hun Kim (Department of Chemistry and School of Molecular Science (BK21), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Korea), Chanyong Hwang (Nano-Surface Group, Materials Evaluation Center, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 305-600, Korea)

09:24 A18.008 Delamination of Crystalline Silicon Film from Substrate through Hydrogenation of Trap Layer

Alexander Usenko (Silicon WAfer Technologies, Inc.), William Carr, Bo Chen (New Jersey Institute of Technology)

09:36 A18.009 Contactless in-situ Measurements of Carrier Concentration on GaAs Surfaces by Reflectance Anisotropy Spectroscopy

Markus Pristovsek, Shiro Tsukamoto (National Institute for Materials Science, Nanodevice Group, Sengen 1-2-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0047, Japan)

09:48 A18.010 Ultrafast melting and ablation of silicon: Dependence on pulse duration

Harald O. Jeschke, Martin E. Garcia (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin, Germany)

10:00 A18.011 Investigation of Small Boron Nitride Clusters

Sigrid Greene, Pui K. Lam (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822)

10:12 A18.012 Ab-Initio Modeling of Carbon-Boron Interactions in Silicon

Wolfgang Windl (Dept. of Materials Science amp; Engineering, Ohio State University), Chun-Li Liu, Xiang-Yang Liu, Shifeng Lu, Len Borucki (Digital DNA Laboratories, Motorola, Inc.)

10:24 A18.013 Hydrolytic Weakening in Amorphous Silica

Chun Zhang, Maohua Du, Linlin Wang, Andrew M. Kolchin, Hai-Ping Cheng

A18.014 Formation of PbSe Thin Films by Electrochemical Atomic-Layer Epitaxy

U. Happek (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602), R. Vaidyanathan, J.L. Stickney (Dept. of Chemistry,The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602)

08:00 A19.001 Electrical control of spin coherence in semiconductor nanostructures

Gian Salis (Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106)

08:36 A19.002 Electrical Control of Electron Spin Coherence in III-V Quantum Wells

Wayne H. Lau, Michael E. Flatte' (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa)

08:48 A19.003 Optoelectronic manipulation of electron spins in semiconductor nanostructures

Y. Kato, G. Salis, K. Ensslin, D.C. Driscoll, A.C. Gossard, D.D. Awschalom (Center for Spintronics and Quantum Computing, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106)

09:00 A19.004 Spin relaxation in short-period InAs/GaSb (110) and (001) superlattices

T. F. Boggess, K. Gundogdu, E. Altunkaya, W. H. Lau, M. E. Flatte' (University of Iowa), J. J. Zinck (HRL Laboratiories), W.B. Barvosa-Carter, S.L. Skeith (HRL Laboratories)

09:12 A19.005 (110)-oriented ZnSe/(Zn,Cd)Se Quantum Wells: New Templates for Spin Coherence Studies

K. C. Ku, S. H. Chun, W.H. Wang, W. Fadgen, N. Samarth (Penn State University), R. J. Epstein, D. D. Awschalom (University of California-Santa Barbara)

09:24 A19.006 Spin- and cyclotron resonance in symmetric and asymmetric InSb quantum wells: resolving the Rashba spin splitting

M. B. Santos, G. A. Khodaparast, R. E. Doezema, S. J. Chung, K. J. Goldammer (University of Oklahoma)

09:36 A19.007 Ultrafast Manipulation of Electron Spin Coherence

J.A. Gupta, D.D. Awschalom (Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106), R. Knobel, N. Samarth (Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802)

09:48 A19.008 Theory of Ultrafast Electron Spin Manipulation in Quantum Dots

C. Pryor, M. E. Flatté (Optical Science and Technology Center, University of Iowa)

10:00 A19.009 Spin-density excitations in quantum wells

Carsten A. Ullrich (Department of Physics, University of Missouri-Rolla)

10:12 A19.010 Optically Injected Spin Currents in a Strained Quantum Well.

Ali Najmaie, J. E. Sipe (University of Toronto)

10:24 A19.011 Kinetic theory of spin relaxation in semiconductors

Franz X. Bronold (Otto-von-Guericke-Universitaet Magdeburg, D-39016 Magdeburg, Germany), A. Saxena, D.L. Smith (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545)

10:36 A19.012 Room temperature electron spin coherence in long wavelength HgCdTe

C.R. Pidgeon, P. Murzyn, J-P.R. Wells (Physics Department, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK), N.T. Gordon, T. Ashley, J.H. Jefferson, T.M. Burke (QinetiQ, St Andrews Road, Malvern, Worcs WR14 3PS, UK), C.D. Maxey (BAE SYSTEMS Infra Red Ltd., Southampton SO15 0EG, UK), Heriot-Watt University Team, QinetiQ Team, BAE SYSTEMS Infra Red Ltd. Team

10:48 A19.013 Spontaneous Spin Coherence in n-GaAs Produced by Ferromagnetic Proximity Polarization

R. J. Epstein, I. Malajovich, R. K. Kawakami, Y. Chye, M. Hanson, P. M. Petroff, A. C. Gossard, D. D. Awschalom (Center for Spintronics and Quantum Computation, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106.)

08:00 A20.001 Localized spin ordering in the periodic Anderson models

Ian McCulloch, Miklos Gulacsi (Department of Theoretical Physics, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia)

08:12 A20.002 Effects of incoherent correlations on the localization properties of heavy fermion alloys

M. Carolina de O. Aguiar, E. Miranda (Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin, Unicamp, Caixa Postal 6165, CEP 13083-970, Campinas - SP, Brazil), V. Dobrosavljevi\'c (Department of Physics and National High Magnetic Field Lab, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306)

08:24 A20.003 Phase diagram of the anisotropic 1-D Kondo lattice

E. Novais, E. Miranda, G. G. Cabrera (Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin, Unicamp, C.P. 6165, 13083-970 Campinas SP, Brasil), A. H. Castro-Neto (Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA, 02215)

08:36 A20.004 Phase diagram of the one-dimensional two-channel Kondo lattice model

Thomas Schauerte, Daniel L. Cox (University of California, Davis), Reinhard M. Noack (Universitat Mainz, Germany)

08:48 A20.005 Theory of dynamical defects with Kondo behavior

Alfred Zawadowski (Technical Univ. Budapest), Laszlo Borda (LMU Muenchen)

09:00 A20.006 The Bose-Fermi Kondo problem and the local critical point in Kondo lattices

Lijun Zhu, Qimiao Si (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX 77251-1892)

09:12 A20.007 Bound states in the one-dimensional Kondo lattice model

Simon Trebst, Hartmut Monien (Bonn University, Germany), Manfred Sigrist (Theoretische Physik, ETH, 8093 Zuerich, Switzerland)

09:24 A20.008 Composite spin and orbital triplet superconductivity formed out of a Non-Fermi Liquid phase

Frithjof B Anders (University of Technology, Institut für Festkörperphysik, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany)

09:36 A20.009 Heavy fermion behavior and orbital fluctuations in LiV2O4

Yasufumi Yamashita, Kazuo Ueda (ISSP, Japan)

09:48 A20.010 LiV_20_4: mixed valence preceding Kondo physics

John Hopkinson, Piers Coleman (Center for Materials Theory, Rutgers University)

10:00 A20.011 Spin and Orbital Effects of Cooper Pairs Coupled to a Single Magnetic Impurity

Mikito Koga, Masashige Matsumoto (Shizuoka University, Japan)

10:12 A20.012 A NCA Solution of the Anisotropic Single Impurity Anderson Model and Comparison to CeAl_3.

Peter S. Riseborough (Department of Physics, Temple University)

10:24 A20.013 Key role of orbital degree of freedom for superconductivity in f-electron systems

Takashi Hotta, Tetsuya Takimoto, Takahiro Maehira (Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute), Kazuo Ueda (Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo)

10:36 A20.014 Size effects on magnetic properties in CePt2+x

Y.Y. Chen (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China), C.R. Wang, B.H. Huang (Department of Physics, Fu Jen University, Taiwan, Republic of China)

08:00 A21.001 Hidden degree of freedom and critical states in a two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of a random magnetic field

Hoang Nguyen (Physics Department, University of California, Los Angeles)

08:12 A21.002 Localized and De-localized Electrons at the M-I transition in a-Gd_xY_ySi_1-x-y

V. M. Preisler, K. Steinmeyer, D. Queen, B. L. Zink, F. Hellman (University of California, San Diego)

08:24 A21.003 Specific Heat of a-Y_xSi_1-x Thin Films Near the M-I Transition

B. L. Zink, E. Janod, F. Hellman (University of California, San Diego)

08:36 A21.004 MIT and Itinerant Ferromagnetism in the Half Heuslers

Fivos Drymiotis (Florida State University and National High Magnetic Field Laboratory,Tallahassee,FL,32306), Luis Balicas (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory,Tallahassee,FL,32306), Zachary Fisk (Florida State University and National High Magnetic Field Laboratory,Tallahassee,FL,32306)

08:48 A21.005 The metallic resistance of a dilute 2D hole gas in a GaAs quantum well: two-phase separation at finite temperature?

Xuan P.A. Gao (Dept. of Applied Physics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027), Allen P. Mills (Dept. of Physics, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA92521), Arthur P. Ramirez (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545), Loren N. Pfeiffer, Kenneth W. West (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974)

09:00 A21.006 Metal-insulator transition in perovskite bismuth cobaltates

Zikri Yusof, Barrett Wells (University of Connecticut), Tonica Valla, Peter Johnson (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Alexei Fedorov (University of Colorado), S.M. Loureiro, R.J. Cava (Princeton University)

09:12 A21.007 Unusual Physical Phenomena in Quasi-one-dimensional BaIrO3

Gargi Shaw, Joe Brill (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington KY40506), Gang Cao, Jack Crow (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, FL32310)

09:24 A21.008 A Phase (Bose) Glass is a Metal: New Conducting State in 2D

Denis Dalidovich (National High Field Magnetic Laboratory,Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida), Philip Phillips (Loomis Laboratory of Physics,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1100 W.Green St., Urbana, IL, 61801-3080)

09:36 A21.009 The Metal-Insulator Transition in Y_1-xCa_xTiO_3 Caused by Structural Phase Separation

Kenichi Kato (JASRI), Eiji Nishibori, Masaki Takata, Makoto Sakata (Dept. of Appl. Phys., Nagoya Univ.), Toshihiro Nakano, Kazuyuki Uchihira, Masami Tsubota, Fumitoshi Iga, Toshiro Takabatake (ADSM, Hiroshima Univ.)

09:48 A21.010 SPIN POLARON EXCITATION AND THE TWO-DIMENSIONAL METAL-INSULATOR TRANSITION

Junren Shi, X.C. Xie (Department of Physics, Oklahoma State University)

10:00 A21.011 Universal behavior in the floating up of quantum Hall extended states as B \rightarrow 0 and the apparent metal-insulator transition at B = 0

Carlin Yasin, Michelle Simmons, Alex Hamilton, Nancy Lumpkin, Robert Clark (School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia), Loren Pfeiffer, Ken West (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Tehcnologies, Murray Hills NJ 07974, USA)

10:12 A21.012 Epitaxial Growth and Properties of Layered Vanadate Thin Films

Jobu Matsuno, Yoichi Okimoto, Hiroyuki Yamada (Joint Research Center for Atom Technology (JRCAT)), Akihito Sawa (Correlated Electron Research Center (CERC), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)), Masashi Kawasaki (JRCAT, CERC-AIST, Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University), Yoshinori Tokura (JRCAT, CERC-AIST, Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo)

10:24 A21.013 Temperature dependent resistivity of spin-split subbands in GaAs 2D hole systems: Role of screening and spin intersubband scattering

S. Das Sarma, E. H. Hwang (University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland)

10:36 A21.014 Electrical and Magnetic Measurements of Cd1-xMnxTe:In at the Metal-Insulator Transition

D.E. Read, I Terry (Department of Physics, University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK), H. Goetz, G. Eska (Physikalisches Institut, Universitaet Bayreuth, D-95440 Bayreuth, Germany)

10:48 A21.015 Pressure dependence of the electrical resistivity of La_2-xSr_xNiO_4*

GUOQING WU, J. J. NEUMEIER (Florida Atlantic University)

08:00 A22.001 Vibrational Entropy and Step Morphology

Abdelkader Kara (Physics Department, Kansas State University)

08:36 A22.002 Determination of Absolute Step Energies on TiN(111) from Analysis of Shape Fluctuations of Two-Dimensional Anisotropic Islands

S. Kodambaka, V. Petrova, S.V. Khare, D.D. Johnson, I. Petrov, J.E. Greene (Department of Materials Science, UIUC, Urbana, IL 61801)

08:48 A22.003 Step Fluctuations on a Chemically Heterogeneous Reconstructed Surface: Al/Si(111)

I. Lyubinetsky, D.B. Dougherty, E.D. Williams (Department of Physics and MRSEC, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742)

09:00 A22.004 Dynamics of steps on Si(001) studied by temporal LEED

M. Kammler, M. Horn von Högen (Universität Essen), N. Voss, M. Tringides (Iowa State Univ.), A. Menzel, E. Conrad (School of Physics, Georgia Tech)

09:12 A22.005 Evolution of Step Morphology in Thermal equilibrium

Altaf Karim, Talat Rahman (Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506), Marko Rusanen, Ismo Koponen (Department of Physical Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland), Tapio Ala Nissila (Laboratory of Physics, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland)

09:24 A22.006 Long Jump in Surface Self-Diffusion: W on W (110)*

Sang-mun Oh, Seong Jin Koh**, Gert Ehrlich (Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Kentaro Kyuno (The University of Tokyo)

09:36 A22.007 Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Reactive Wetting

Edmund Webb III (Sandia National Laboratories)

09:48 A22.008 Numerical Simulation of Phase Ordering and Roughening on Growing Films

Ehsan Nedaaee Oskoee (Department of Physics,Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran), Muhammad Sahimi (Chemical Engineering Department, University of Southern California,Los Angeles, CA 90089-1211,and Department of Physics,Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran), Mohammad Reza Khajehpour (Department of Physics,Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran)

10:00 A22.009 Computational Study of Effects of Steps on Island Distribution

Aaron Johnson, Shudun Liu (University of Louisville)

10:12 A22.010 Continuum model of crystal surface relaxation below the roughening transition: Diffusion-mediated decay of axisymmetric structures

Dionisios Margetis, Michael J. Aziz, Howard A. Stone (Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University)

10:24 A22.011 Island Growth and Dissolution on an Electrode Following a Potential Pulse

Daniel E. Roberts, Per Arne Rikvold (Florida State University)

10:36 A22.012 Dynamical behaviors of GaCl on the GaAs surface by pulsed molecular beam scattering

Masafumi Ohashi, Masashi Ozeki (JRCAT-ATP)

10:48 A22.013 Silicon adatom diffusion and clustering on hydrogenated Si(001)-2x1 surface

Gefei Qian (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Xuan Luo (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), Shang-Fen Ren (Department of Physics, Illinois State University), S. B. Zhang (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), Y.-C. Chang (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

08:00 A23.001 Electron transport in nanoscale films, wires and point contacts

M. Aono (Department of Precision Science and Technology, Osaka University, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan)

08:36 A23.002 TOWARDS NANOSCALE FOUR-POINT PROBE MEASUREMENTS OF CONDUCTIVITY AT SURFACES

Torben M Hansen, Peter Boggild (Mikroelektronik Centret (MIC), Bldg 345 east, Tech. Univ. Denmark, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark), Ichiro Shiraki, Shuji Hasegawa (Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan)

08:48 A23.003 Is it possible to extract parameters of surface roughness from conductivity neasurements?

Ilya Ponomarev, Alexander Meyerovich (Department of Physics, University of Rhode Island, Kingston RI 02881)

09:00 A23.004 Fermi Surfaces of Surface States on Si(111)

J N Crain, K N Altmann, F J Himpsel (physics department, U. Wisconsin - Madison), C Bromberger (physics department, Philipps U., Marburg, Germany)

09:12 A23.005 Fabrication of well ordered atomic scale P-N junctions on Si(111) surface

Jianlong Li (The Rowland Institute for Science, Cambridge, MA 02142), Qikun Xue (Institue of Physics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100080, P. R. China), Dongmin Chen (The Rowland Institute for Science, Cambridge, MA 02142)

09:24 A23.006 Band-Bending at Passivated InAs Surfaces

Dmitri Y. Perovykh (Physics Dept., Univ. of Maryland - College Park and NRL), M. J. Yang, L. J. Whitman (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC)

09:36 A23.007 BEEM studies of the formation of ultra-thin aluminum oxide tunnel barriers

A.C. Perrella, P.G. Mather, W.H. Rippard, R.A. Buhrman (Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca NY)

09:48 A23.008 Characterization of an ultra-dense 2DEG confined to a \delta-layer of P in single-crystal Si.

M. A. Zudov, J. Zhang, R.-R. Du (University of Utah), T.-C. Shen, J.-Y. Ji (Utah State University), J. S. Kline, J. R. Tucker (University of Illinois)

10:00 A23.009 Anomalous resistivity behavior of Ag films on C_60

Chih-Wei Chang, William Mickelson, Alex Zettl (Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, and Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720)

A23.010 Electrical Transport through Surface States Measured by a Four-Tip STM

Shuji Hasegawa, Ichiro Shiraki, Fuhito Tanabe (Department of Physics, the University of Tokyo, JAPAN)

A23.011 Growth and conductivity of bismuth overlayers on Si(111) surfaces

Tadaaki Nagao (Department of Physics, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST)), Takeharu Sekiguchi (Department of Physics, Univ. of Tokyo), Shuji Hasegawa (Department of Physics, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST))

08:00 A24.001 Magnetic Properties of Transition Metal Clusters

Mark Knickelbein (Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory)

08:36 A24.002 Relationship Between Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Magnetic Moment of Ni_7 Clusters

S. N. Khanna, P. Jena (Virginia Commonwealth University)

08:48 A24.003 Magnetic Excitations of Co_2 Dimer

G. L. Gutsev (NASA Ames Research Center), S. N. Khanna, P. Jena (Virginia Commonwealth University)

09:00 A24.004 Magnetic Field effect on Thermal Fluctuations of Magnetization in Small Clusters with Competing Interaction - a Monte Carlo Study.

Keyur Desai, S. D. Mahanti (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University)

09:12 A24.005 Magnetization of interacting Co nanoclusters in Cu

You Qiang (Center for Materials Research and Analysis, Behlen Laboratory of Physics, University of nebraska, Lincoln NE 68588-0113), Ralph Skomski, David J. Sellmyer (same)

09:24 A24.006 Novel Metal Encapsulated Silicon Cage Clusters

Yoshiyuki Kawazoe (Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University)

10:00 A24.007 Multistage DFTB-DFT Strategy for Energy Surface Search

Mihai Horoi, Dusan Polovina, Bogdan Horchidan, Koblar A. Jackson (Physics Department, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859)

10:12 A24.008 Enhanced Radiative Transition in SiGe Nanoclusters

Ming Yu, C.S. Jayanthi, S.Y. Wu (Department of Physics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292), D.A. Drabold (Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Condensed Matter and Surface Science Program, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701-2979)

10:24 A24.009 Stability and band gap of semiconductor clusters

Jan-Ole Joswig, Sudip Roy, Pranab Sarkar, Michael Springborg (Physical Chemistry, University of Saarland, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany)

A24.010 Magic Numbers in Metal-Semiconductor Clusters: Chromium Encapsulated in Silicon Cages

S. N. Khanna, B. K. Rao, P. Jena (Virginia Commonwealth University)

A24.011 Geometric and electronic structure of MeSi(n) (Me=Mo,W;n=1-6,12) clusters

Frank Hagelberg, Chuanyun Xiao (Computational Center for Molecular Structure and Interactions, Jackson State University), William A. Lester (Department of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley)

08:00 A25.001 Synthesis and alignment of carbon nanotubes

Yuegang Zhang (Stanford Univeristy)

08:36 A25.002 Patterning of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Catalyst Sites with a Nanotube-Tipped Atomic Force Microscopy Probe

Todd Narkis, Joe Braun, Susan Gillmor, Max Lagally (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

08:48 A25.003 Nucleation of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

X Fan (Center for Advanced Microscopy, Michigan State University), R Buczko (Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences), A Puretzky (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee), D Geohegan (Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory), S Pantelides (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University), S Pennycook (Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

09:00 A25.004 CATALYST EFFECTS IN MODELING A HIGH PRESSURE CARBON MONOXIDE NANOTUBE REACTOR

Carl Scott (ES4 NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston TX 77058), Christopher Dateo, Tahir Gökçen (Eloret Corporation, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffatt Field, CA), Alex Povitsky (ICASE, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA), Peter Willis, Richard Smalley (Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University, Houston, TX)

09:12 A25.005 CFD Analysis of Laser-Ablation Carbon Nanotube Plume Flow Dynamics

Robert Greendyke (The University of Texas at Tyler), Carl Scott (NASA Johnson Space Center)

09:24 A25.006 Production of small-diameter acute multi-wall carbon nanotubes using high-frequency plasma generator

Akira Koshio, Masako Yudasaka (Nanotubulites project, ICORP-JST), Sumio Iijima (Nanotubulites project, ICORP-JST, Meijo University, NEC)

09:36 A25.007 Boron Nitride nanotube synthesis using liquid arc discharge

Roger Holliday (University of North Carolina at CHapel Hill), Mike Falvo (University of North Carolina at Chapel HIll), Sean Washburn (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Richard Superfine (Unviersity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

09:48 A25.008 High-yield synthesis and one-dimensional structure of C_60 encapsulated in single wall carbon nanotubes

Brian W. Smith, David E. Luzzi (Department of Materials Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA)

10:00 A25.009 Packing and Fusion of Fullerenes in Nanotube Peapods

David Tomanek, Mina Yoon, Savas Berber (Michigan State University), Eiji Osawa (NanoCarbon Research Institute, Japan)

10:12 A25.010 NMR Study of Fulerene-encapsulated Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes

Hironori Ogata, Syouhei Takabuchi (Dept. of Materials Chemistry, Hosei University), Koji Ito, Yahachi Saito (Dept. of Electronics and Electronic Engineering, Mie University)

10:24 A25.011 Electrical and Thermal Properties of C_60-filled SWNT

M. C. Llaguno, J. Vavro, B. C. Satishkumar, R. Haggenmueller, K. I Winey, D. E. Luzzi, J. E. Fischer (U. PENN.)

10:36 A25.012 Measuring the Electronic Structure of Nanotube Peapods with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

D.J. Hornbaker, S.-J. Kahng, S. Misra (University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign), B.W. Smith, A.T. Johnson, E.J. Mele, D.E. Luzzi (University of Pennsylvania), A. Yazdani (University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign)

10:48 A25.013 Theory of STM Imaging of Fullerene Peapods

E.J. Mele, C.L. Kane (Univ. of Pennsylvania)

08:00 A26.001 Ultrasound studies of clathrate thermoelectrics

Veerle Keppens (National Center for Physical Acoustics and Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS.)

08:36 A26.002 Theoretical Study of Rattling Atoms in Tin-Based Type II Clathrate Materials

Charles W. Myles (Texas Tech University), Jianjun Dong (Auburn University), Otto F. Sankey (Arizona State University)

08:48 A26.003 Magnetic and Electronic Properties of Type-I Germanium-Copper Clathrates

Yang Li, Jr. Ross (Department of Physics, Texas Aamp;M University, College Station, TX 77843-4242)

09:00 A26.004 Large Knight shifts in partially filled type II germanium clathrates

Jan Gryko (Jacksonville State University), George S. Nolas (University of South Florida), Robert Marzke (Arizona State University)

09:12 A26.005 Local structure about Sr and Eu in the Sr_8Ga_16Ge_30 and Eu_8Ga_16Ge_30 clathrates

Frank Bridges, Ryan Baumbach, Daliang Cao (UC Santa Cruz Santa Cruz CA 95064), Brian Sales (Solid Stae Div. ORNL TN 37831-4814)

09:24 A26.006 Thermoelectric Properties of ZrNiSn-Based Half-Heusler Compounds

Jihui Yang (Materials and Processes Laboratory, GM Ramp;D Center)

10:00 A26.007 The XANES and EXAFS study of CeFe_4P_12 and CeFe_4Sb_12 filled skutterudites.

Daliang Cao, Paul Chesler, Ryan Baumbach, Frank Bridges (UC, Santa Cruz), Eric Bauer, M. B. Maple (UC, San Diego)

10:12 A26.008 A Tl L_III-edge XANES and Sn-119 Moessbauer Spectral Study of the Tl_xCo_4-yFe_ySb_12 and Tl_xCo_4Sb_12-zSn_z Skutterudite Compounds

Gary J. Long (University of Missouri-Rolla, Department of Chemistry), Fernande Grandjean (University of Liege, Department of Physics), Bernard Mahieu (University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Department of Chemistry), Brian C. Sales (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

10:24 A26.009 Lattice Dynamics of Filled Skutterudites

J.L. Feldman, C. Kendziora, D.J. Singh (Materials Science and Technology Division, Naval Research Laboratory), D. Mandrus, B.C. Sales (Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

10:36 A26.010 A Yb L_III-edge XANES and Sn-119 Moessbauer Spectral Study of the Yb_yCo_4Sb_12-xSn_x Skutterudite Compounds

Fernande Grandjean (University of Liege, Belgium), Gary J. Long (University of Missouri-Rolla), Bernard Mahieu (Universite de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)

08:00 A27.001 Classical Kicked Harper: Fractal Phase Boundaries and Accelerator Modes

Bala Sundaram (City Univ, Long Island), Indubala Satija (George Mason Univ)

08:12 A27.002 Erovive patterns in a sedimented layer

Adrian Daerr (PMMH-ESPCI and University of Paris VII), Eric Clement (LMDH University of Paris VI)

08:24 A27.003 Concentration and Solvent Dependence of Optical Pulsing in an Absorbing Liquid

J. O. Barnes (Anteon Corporation), D. R. Evans (Technical Management Concepts Inc.), S. Guha (Air Force Research Laboratory)

08:36 A27.004 Pattern formation in an excitable liquid crystal system

Peng-Ye Wang (Laboratory of Soft Matter Physics, Institute of Physics and Center for Condensed Matter Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 603, Beijing 100080, China), Weiping Lu, Dejin Yu, Robert G. Harrison (Department of Physics, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK)

08:48 A27.005 AN ENERGY-CONSERVING LOW-ORDER MODEL FOR 3D THERMAL CONVECTION

Christopher Tong, Alexander Gluhovsky (Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University)

09:00 A27.006 Dynamics of hexagon patterns in a model for rotating convection at small Prandtl numbers

Yuan-Nan Young, Hermann Riecke (Northwestern University)

09:12 A27.007 Influence of temporal symmetries on resonant interactions in parametrically driven surface waves

Jeff Porter, Mary Silber (Northwestern University)

09:24 A27.008 One-dimensional periodic and quasi-periodic Faraday waves from a spatial near-resonant mode interaction

Hermann Riecke, Maria Higuera, Mary Silber, Paul Umbanhowar (Northwestern University)

09:36 A27.009 A Re-evaluation of the Crossover from Elastic to Capillary Surface Waves on a Gel

Yuriy Kosevich (Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, D-01187 Dresden, Germany), Keunho Ahn, Mahn Won Kim (Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 373-1, Kusong-dong, Yusong-gu, Taejon, 305-701, South Korea)

09:48 A27.010 Observation of slip at the liquid-solid interface in nanoscale channels

J Cheng, N Giordano (Purdue University)

08:00 A28.001 Wax tectonics: from deep rifts to ridges

Noah Oblath, Karen Daniels, Eberhard Bodenschatz (LASSP, Cornell University)

08:12 A28.002 Solidification of a Supercooled Liquid in a Narrow Channel

Mohsen Sabouri-Ghomi (Department of Physics McGill University, Center for the Physics of Materials and Materials Science Research Lab, University of California at Santa Barbara), Nikolas Provatas (Department of Physics, McGill University, Center for the Physics of Materials and Department of Materials Science, McMaster University), Martin Grant, Department of Physics Collaboration

08:24 A28.003 The role of sidebranches in the stability of dendritic array

Kyuyong Lee (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Maryland), Wolfgang Losert (Dept. of Physics and IPST, Univ. of Maryland)

08:36 A28.004 Grain Boundary Formation in Polymer Blend Thin Films

Matthew Ferguson, Wolfgang Losert (Department of Physics - University of Maryland College Park)

08:48 A28.005 Diverse Patterns Induced by Constant Electric-Field in Colloid

Yilong Han, David Grier (Department of Physics, University of Chicago)

09:00 A28.006 Universality classes in anisotropic non-equilibrium growth models

Uwe C. Tauber (Physics Department, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0435), Erwin Frey (Hahn-Meitner-Institut, Abteilung Theorie, D-14109 Berlin, Germany)

09:12 A28.007 Damping the Fingering Instability in Rotating Magnetic Fluids

David P. Jackson (Dickinson College, Carlisle PA), Jose A. Miranda (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE Brazil)

09:24 A28.008 Computational solution of liquid-gas interface shapes from the refractions of a defocused grid

Ana Oprisan, Sorinel Oprisan, John Hegseth (Department of Physics, University of New Orleans)

09:36 A28.009 Transverse Bursts in Inclined Layer Convection: Experiment

Karen Daniels (LASSP, Cornell University), Richard Wiener (Pacific University), Eberhard Bodenschatz (LASSP, Cornell University)

09:48 A28.010 Transverse Bursts in Inclined Layer Convection: Theory

Eberhard Bodenschatz, Jeandrew Brink (LASSP, Cornell University), Werner Pesch (University of Bayreuth)

10:00 A28.011 Phase diagram of the liquid crystal N4 in electroconvection

Denis Funfschilling, Brian Sammuli, Michael Dennin (U.C. Irvine, Department of Physics and Astronomy)

10:12 A28.012 Random-walk simulations of Hele-Shaw viscous flows: From unstable fractals to steady-state Saffman-Taylor fingers

Vladislav A. Bogoyavlenskiy (Physics Department, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton NY 13902-6016)

10:24 A28.013 Reconstruction of Process Pathways from Computational Time-Series

Chris Wiggins (Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, NYC 10027)

10:36 A28.014 Spatio-Temporal instabilities and an Intrinsic Feedback-like Mechanism in Nonlinear LiNbO3 crystals

Dong Ho Wu, Terence J. Wieting (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375)

08:00 A29.001 Observing interactions between DNA bases using ion dip spectroscopy

Mattanjah deVries (University of California)

08:36 A29.002 Structures and Energetics of Solvent Free Deprotonated and Deprotonated/Metallated Small DNA Oligomers

Michael T. Bowers (Department of Chemistry, University of California at Santa Barbara)

09:12 A29.003 Metal Binding Energetics of DNA Bases

M.T. Rodgers (Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202)

09:48 A29.004 Solvation Energetics of Biomolecules

Evan Williams (University of California, Berkeley)

10:24 A29.005 Biological Molecules in Solvent Free and Minimal Solvent Enviornments

Martin F. Jarrold (Northwestern University, Department of Chemistry, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston. IL 60208)

08:00 A30.001 Fast Structural Fluctuations in DNA - The Other Biopolymer

Eric Brauns, Mark Somoza, Murphy Catherine, Mark Berg (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208), Mihaela Madaras, Robert Coleman (Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210)

08:12 A30.002 Localization of denaturation bubbles in Heterogenous DNA Sequences

Enzo Marinari (Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza"), Terence Hwa (Physics Dept, U.C. San Diego)

08:24 A30.003 Differential scanning calorimetry study of deoxyadenosine and its water of hydration

R.L. Cooper, S.A. Lee (University of Toledo)

08:36 A30.004 A Monte Carlo Study of DNA Beacon Kinetics

John M. Parman, Kristina M. Weyer (Williams College), Noel L. Goddard (Rockefeller University), Daniel P. Aalberts (Williams College)

08:48 A30.005 Nucleosome loading under thermal equilibrium.

Francisco J. Solis (Physics Deparment, Arizona State University)

09:00 A30.006 Experimental studies on the nature of bonding of DNA/bipyridyl-(ethylenediamine)platinum(II) and DNA/netropsin complexes in solution and oriented wet-spun films

R.L. Marlowe (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga), A. Szabo (University of Virginia), S.A. Lee (University of Toledo), A. Rupprecht (University of Stockholm)

09:12 A30.007 Development of PNA-Surfactant Systems for Nucleic Acid Separations

James Vernille (Carnegie Mellon University Chemical Engineering), Bruce Armitage (Carnegie Mellon University Chemistry), James Schneider (Carnegie Mellon University Chemical Engineering)

09:24 A30.008 Microrheology of Particles in Semidilute DNA Solutions

Eric R. Weeks (Dept. of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322), Daniel T. Chen (Dept. of Physics amp; Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19103), John C. Crocker (Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania), Mohammad F. Islam (Dept. of Physics amp; Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania), Alex J. Levine (Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, 93106), Ritu Verma (Unilever, Edgewater, NJ), Arjun G. Yodh (Dept. of Physics amp; Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania)

09:36 A30.009 Effects of self-interaction on mechanical properties of ssDNA

Alexei Tkachenko (University of Michigan)

09:48 A30.010 Two possible phases for the secondary structures of random RNA sequences

Ralf Bundschuh (Department of Physics, The Ohio State University), Terence Hwa (Physics Department, University of California, San Diego)

10:00 A30.011 RNA pseudoknot prediction

Lei-Han Tang (Hong Kong Baptist University), Peiqing Tong (Nanjing Normal University), Sheng Hui (Hong Kong Baptist University)

10:12 A30.012 Statistical mechanics of RNA-RNA binding

Shi-Jie Chen (Department of Physics and Biochemistry, University of Missouri-Columbia), Wenbing Zhang (Department of Physics, University of Missouri-Columbia)

10:24 A30.013 Raman scattering study of the phase transition in wet-spun films of lithium hyaluronate

I. Reineck, T.J. Suleski, S.A. Lee (University of Toledo), A. Rupprecht (University of Stockholm)

10:36 A30.014 Force Signals from Inhomogeneities Encountered During Unzipping of DNA

Abhijit Sarkar, John F. Marko (Department of Physics, The University of Illinois at Chicago)

10:48 A30.015 DNA electrophoresis in agarose gels: Effects of electric field and gel concentration on the exponential dependence of reciprocal mobility on DNA length

Afshin Beheshti, David Van Winkle (Department of Physics and MARTECH (Center for Material Research and Technology), Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4350), Rill Randolph (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4350)

A30.016 Non-Arrhenius kinetics of RNA hairpin folding

Shi-Jie Chen (Department of Physics and Biochemistry, University of Missouri-Columbia), Wenbing Zhang (Department of Physics, University of Missouri-Columbia)

08:00 A31.001 DIFFUSION OF DIOXYGEN AND AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS IN N-ALKANES

Bruce Kowert, Kurt Sobush, Chantel Fuqua, Courtney Mapes (Department of Chemistry, St. Louis University)

08:12 A31.002 Hydrogen Storage in Sodium Alanates II: Low Pressure Rehydriding of NaH+Al to Na3AlH6

Gary G. Tibbetts, Gregory P. Meisner, Frederick E. Pinkerton, Charles H. Olk, Michael P. Balogh (Materials and Processes Lab, General Motors Ramp;D Center)

08:24 A31.003 Hydrogen Storage in Sodium Alanates I: Thermal Decomposition of Milled and Doped NaAlH4

Gregory P. Meisner, Gary G. Tibbetts, Frederick E. Pinkerton, Charles H. Olk, Michael P. Balogh (General Motors R amp; D Center, MC 480-106-224, Warren, MI, 48090-9055)

08:36 A31.004 Analytical approaches in time-dependent nucleation: recent updates

Vitaly Shneidman (Department of Physics, NJIT, Newark, NJ 07102)

08:48 A31.005 New Extended Phases of Carbon Dioxide at High Pressures

Choong-Shik Yoo, Valentin Iota, Hyunchae Cynn, Jaehyun Park (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551), Malcolm Nicol, Holger Kohlmann (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154)

09:00 A31.006 Ab initio Investigation of He^+ Bubble Formation in Solid Hydrogen

R. H. Scheicher, T. P. Das (State University of New York at Albany, Albany NY), K. Ishida, T. Matsuzaki, S. N. Nakamura, N. Kawamura (RIKEN, Wako-shi, Japan), K. Nagamine (KEK-MSL, Tsukuba, Japan; RIKEN)

09:12 A31.007 Effects of Gas Diffusion on Nucleation of Gas-Supersaturated Liquids

G.J. Brereton, X. Liu, S. Garrett (Michigan State University), J.R. Spears (Wayne State University)

09:24 A31.008 Effect of Adsorption on the Contact Angle: Water-Glass System

Ali Keshavarz (PhD Student), Charles A. Ward (Professor, APS member)

09:36 A31.009 Small Hydrophobic Molecules in Water: First Principles Simulations

Jeffrey C. Grossman, Andrew Williamson, Eric Schwegler, Giulia Galli (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Ave. L-415, Livermore, CA 94550)

09:48 A31.010 First-Principles Study of Influence of Intermolecular Bonding on Nuclear Quadrupole Interaction in Solid Halogens

D. D. Paudyal, M. M. Aryal, S. Byahut (Central Department of Physics, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal), Junho Jeong, R. H. Scheicher, T. P. Das (Department of Physics, State University of New York at Albany, Albany NY)

10:00 A31.011 Electronic structure study of Ti-Ni amorphous and crystalline alloys by Auger electron appearance potential spectroscopy

S.H. McKinney, A.R. Chourasia (Department of Physics, Texas Aamp;M University-Commerce, Commerce, TX 75429), A. Ishida Collaboration

10:12 A31.012 Theory of Nuclear Quadrupole Interactions in the Chemical Ferromagnet p-Cl-Ph-CH-N=TEMPO

TINA M. BRIERE (Inst. MAt. Res., Tohoku Univ., Japan), JUNHO JEONG (SUNY Albany, Albany, NY), N. SAHOO (Albany Medical College, Albany, NY; SUNY Albany, Albany, NY), T.P. DAS (SUNY Albany), S. OHIRA (RIKEN, Wako-shi, Japan), K. NISHIYAMA (KEK-MSL, Tsukuba, Japan), K. NAGAMINE (RIKEN; KEK-MSL)

10:24 A31.013 A Simple Surface Nucleation Model of Small Particle Melting Applied to Water in Silica Pores

Karl Unruh (University of Delaware)

10:36 A31.014 Nucleation near the spinodal in Yukawa fluids

G. Wilemski, J.-S. Li (University of Missouri-Rolla)

10:48 A31.015 Temperature dependence of nucleation in Yukawa fluids

J.-S. Li, G. Wilemski (University of Missouri-Rolla)

A31.016 Finite Size Scaling in Quantum Mechanics

Sabre Kais (Chemistry Department, Purdue University)

08:00 A32.001 Two-Dimensional Vibrational Spectroscopy of Molecular Dynamics in Solution

Andrei Tokmakoff (MIT, Department of Chemistry)

08:36 A32.002 Simulations of the IR Photon Echo Response in Water

Andrei Piryatinski, Chris Lawrence, James L. Skinner (Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

08:48 A32.003 The lineshape function for the vibrational four-wave mixing spectroscopy:beyond stochastic modeling

Jaeyoung Sung, Robert J. Silbey (Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

09:00 A32.004 Correlated Transition Energy Fluctuations Studied by Two-Dimensional Vibrational Spectroscopy of Coupled Vibrations

Nurettin Demirdöven, Munira Khalil, Andrei Tokmakoff (Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA 02139)

09:12 A32.005 Dispersive and Dipolar Solvent-Solute Interactions of Acetone and Acetonitrile

George Devendorf (Indiana Academy, Ball State University)

09:24 A32.006 Chemical Measurement by Coherent Multi-dimensional Vibrational Spectroscopy

John Wright (University of Wisconsin- Madison)

10:00 A32.007 Direct observation of intramolecular vibrational energy flow down a hydrocarbon chain using 3D IR-Raman spectroscopy.

Andrei Pakoulev, Zhaohui Wang, Dana Dlott (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

10:12 A32.008 Directly probing the solvent response with third-order nonresonant femtosecond spectroscopy following resonant initiation of solvation and proton transfer

David Underwood, Sarah Schmidtke, David Blank (University of Minnesota)

10:24 A32.009 Two-Color Three Pulse Photon Echo Peak Shift Spectroscopy

Bradley Prall, Ritesh Agarwal, Abbas Rizvi, Mino Yang, Graham Fleming (Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley and Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California)

10:36 A32.010 Disentangling polar and non-polar solvation with 2D spectra

Anchi Yu, John Hybl, Darcie Farrow, David Jonas (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0215)