Program overview

MONDAY MORNING, 18 MARCH 3902

11:00 B1.001 Phase coherence and superconductor-insulator transition in superconducting nanowires

Alexey Bezryadin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

11:36 B1.002 Quantum Tunneling of the Order Parameter in Superconducting Nanowires

Andrei Zaikin (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut für Nanotechnologie, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany)

12:12 B1.003 Superconductivity in multidimensional superconductors.

Dmitriy Dikin (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois)

12:48 B1.004 Nucleation of Superconductivity in Nanosized Structures

V. M. Fomin (TFVS, Universiteit Antwerpen (UIA), Belgium. Permanent address: State University of Moldova, Kishinev.)

13:24 B1.005 Superconducting nanostructures fabricated with an STM

Sebastian Vieira (Laboratorio de Bajas Temperaturas,Dpto.Física de Materia Condensada,Inst.Nicolas Cabrera, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid,Spain)

11:00 B2.001 Single molecule studies of the Coil-Stretch Transition

Steve Chu (Stanford University)

11:36 B2.002 Modeling the viscoelasticity of DNA chains

David Morse (University of Minnesota)

12:12 B2.003 Brownian dynamics simulations of DNA in fluid flow

Ronald Larson (University of Michigan)

12:48 B2.004 The Dynamics of DNA in Mixed Flows with Application to Scission in Contraction Flow

Eric S. G. Shaqfeh (Departments of Chemical and Mechanical Eng., Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305)

13:24 B2.005 Micro and Nanofluidics of Long Polymers

Robert H. Austin (Princeton University)

11:00 B3.001 Vortex formation in magnetic narrow rings

J.A.C. Bland (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, U.K.)

11:36 B3.002 Dynamic Magnetization Reversal in Ring Structures

Vitali Metlushko (University of Illinois at Chicago)

12:12 B3.003 Fabrication of high density magnetic structures and observation of flux closure states in cobalt rings

Yong Chen (Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures, LPN/CNRS, Route de Nozay, 91460 Marcoussis, France)

12:48 B3.004 Micromagnetic calculation of magnetization reversal in magnetic rings

Luis Lopez-Diaz (Universidad de Salamanca. Salamanca, Spain)

11:00 B4.001 Experimental Studies of the Granular Temperature in Vibrated Inelastic Gases

Narayanan Menon (Dept. of Physics, U. of Massachusetts, Amherst)

11:36 B4.002 Knots and Random Walks in Vibrated Granular Chains

Eli Ben-Naim (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

12:12 B4.003 Angle of repose and segregation in cohesive granular matter*

Arshad Kudrolli (Department of Physics, Clark University, Worcester, MA 01610)

12:48 B4.004 Force Chain Splitting in Granular Materials

Dov Levine (Technion-IIT, 32000 Haifa, Israel)

13:24 B4.005 Force distributions in granular materials

Heinrich M. Jaeger* (The James Franck Institute and Department of Physics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637)

11:00 B5.001 Correlated Polarons in Dissimilar Perovskite Manganites

Christie Nelson (Department of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory)

11:36 B5.002 The role of nanoscale structural correlations in the colossal magnetoresistance

V. Kiryukhin (Rutgers University)

12:12 B5.003 Charge Ordering and Polaron Formation in La_0.7Ca_0.3MnO_3

C.P. Adams (NIST Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg, MD/ Univ. of Maryland, College Pk., MD)

12:48 B5.004 The structure of nanoscale polaron correlations in the layered manganites

Branton Campbell (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory)

13:24 B5.005 X-ray Scattering Study of the Layered Manganites

Simon Larochelle (Physics Department, Stanford University)

11:00 B6.001 Theory of the Anisotropic Kondo Model

Theo Costi (University of Karlsruhe, Institut fuer Theorie der Kondensierten Materie)

11:36 B6.002 Neutron and Muon Evidence of Anisotropic Kondo Behavior

Eugene Goremychkin (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439)

12:12 B6.003 Magnetic Field Dependence of Ce_1-xLa_xAl_3

Bohdan Andraka (University of Florida)

12:48 B6.004 29-Si NMR and Hidden Order in URu2Si2

Oscar O. Bernal (California State University, Los Angeles)

13:24 B6.005 Spin Dynamics in the Anisotropic Kondo System CeRu_2(Si,Ge)_2

Brian Rainford (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, U.K.)

11:00 B7.001 MEMS Standardization

Michael Gaitan (NIST Semiconductor Electronics Division, Gaithersburg MD)

11:36 B7.002 Quantum methods for prototyping both nanodevice properties and fabrication

Charles Musgrave (Stanford University)

12:12 B7.003 Creating New Semiconductor Materials through Nanoscale Design

Gail Brown (Air Force Research Laboratory)

12:48 B7.004 From BioMEMS to Bionanotechnology: Interfacing Life Sciences and Engineering

Rashid Bashir (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.)

13:24 B7.005 The Interface of Biology with Micro- and Nano-Technologies

Morley Stone (Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate)

11:00 B8.001 Intersubband Terahertz Detectors

Mark S. Sherwin (Physics Department and Center for Terahertz Science and Technology, UCSB)

11:36 B8.002 Effects of Compensation Variations in Blocked Impurity Band Detectors

S. A. Samperi, N. M. Haegel (Dept. of Physics, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT 06430 USA), A. M. White (White Numeric Consulting Ltd., Mulvern, England)

11:48 B8.003 Numerical Modeling of Interface Effects in Blocked Impurity Band Detectors

N. M. Haegel, S. A. Samperi (Department of Physics, Fairfield University, Fairfield CT.), A. M. White (White Numeric Consulting Ltd., Malvern, England)

12:00 B8.004 Voltage-tunable two-color quantum-well infrared photodetector

Amlan Majumdar (Princeton University), K. K. Choi (U. S. Army Research Laboratory), J. L. Reno (Sandia National Laboratories), L. P. Rokhinson, D. C. Tsui (Princeton University)

12:12 B8.005 Dual Wavelength Quantum Cascade Submillimeter Emission

V.M. Menon (UMass Lowell), L. R. Ram-Mohan (AFRL/SND, Wright Patterson AFB, OH), W.D. Goodhue, A.S. Karakashian, A. Naweed (Photonics Center amp; Dept. of Physics, UMass Lowell), A. Gatesman, J. Waldman (Submillimeter Wave Technology Lab, UMass Lowell)

12:24 B8.006 Key Properties in PbSrSe Thin Films and PbSe/PbSrSe Quantum Wells for Mid-Infrared Optoelectronic Applications

W.Z. Shen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), H.Z. Wu (University of Oklahoma)

12:36 B8.007 Model of Eight-Layer Quantum-Well/Grating Structure

Mario Serna (Air Force Research Labs)

12:48 B8.008 Quantum Dot Infrared Photodetectors with Superlattice Matrix Layers

John Little, Steve Kennerly, Wendy Sarney, Kim Olver (Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD)

B8.009 Effects of Interface Asymmetry on Optical Properties of InAs/GaSb laser active regions

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

B8.010 Mid-Infrared Photonic-Crystal Distributed-Feedback Lasers for High Brightness and High Power in a Single Mode

Igor Vurgaftman, William Bewley, Christopher Felix, Robert Bartolo, Ryan Lindle, Chadwick Canedy, Jerry Meyer (Naval Research Laboratory), Hao Lee, Ray Martinelli (Sarnoff Corporation)

11:00 B9.001 An overview of multiferroic materials and dynamics

Leslie E Cross (Pennsylvania State Univeristy)

11:36 B9.002 Soft phonons in the relaxor ferroelectric PMN

Shuichi Wakimoto (University of Toronto / BNL)

12:12 B9.003 A first-principles study of the structure and lattice dielectric response of \mboxCaCu_3\mboxTi_4\mboxO_12

Lixin He, J. B. Neaton, Morrel H. Cohen, David Vanderbilt (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University), C. C. Homes (Department of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory)

12:24 B9.004 Domain Symmetry and Superior Piezoelectric Properties of PMN-PT and PZN-PT Crystals

Rui Zhang, Wenwu Cao (Pennsylvania State University)

12:36 B9.005 Neutron diffraction studies of phase transitions in relaxor ferroelectrics

Ross Piltz (Neutron Scattering Group, ANSTO, Australia), Erich Kisi, Jennifer Forrester (Mechanical Engineering, Newcastle University, Australia), Brett Hunter (Neutron Scattering Group, ANSTO, Australia)

12:48 B9.006 POTASSIUM NIOBATE SINGLE-DOMAIN CRYSTALS AS PIEZOELECTRICS WITH LOW DIELECTRIC AND HIGH ELECTROMECHANICAL COUPLING PROPERTIES

Satoshi Wada, K. Muraoka, H. Kakemoto, H. Kumagai, T. Tsurumi, Graduate School of Science and Engineering Collaboration

13:00 B9.007 High frequency ultrasonic dispersion of single crystal PMN-28%PT with engineered domain structures

Wenhua Jiang (Materials Research Institute, Penn State U.), Wenwu Cao (Materials Research Institute and Department of Mathematics, Penn State U.)

13:12 B9.008 Optimized Ultrasonic Method for Determination of Physical Constants of Piezoelectric Materials

Haifeng Wang, Wenwu Cao (Pennsylvania State University)

13:24 B9.009 Symmetries of Multidomain Structures Resulting from a Phase Transition

H. T. Stokes, D. M. Hatch (Brigham Young University)

11:00 B10.001 Raman Scattering and Visible Emission from CeO_2-y Nanoparticles.

Richard Robinson, Jonathan Spanier, Feng Zhang, Siu-wai Chan, Irving Herman (Columbia University, Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, New York, NY.)

11:12 B10.002 Probing the Ionization Threshold of Impurity Ions in Large Bandgap Materials

P.A. Schmidt, J. Fleniken, U. Happek (Dept. of Physica and Astronomy, The University of Georgia, Athens, Ga, 30602), J.A. Campbell (Physics Department, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ.)

11:24 B10.003 On the efficiency of the photon cascade phosphor SrAl_12O_19:Pr^3+

J. Grimm, J. Fleniken, U. Happek (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602), A.A. Setlur, H.A. Comanzo, A.M. Srivastava (GE Corporate Research and Development, Niskayuna, NY 12309)

11:36 B10.004 Nd in calcite: Model system for nuclear waste remediation

S. Withers, A. Schulte, G. Braunstein, R. Peale (Dept of Physics, Univ of Central Florida), K. Beck, W. Hess (PNNL, Richland, WA), R. Reeder (Dept of Geosciences, SUNY Stony Brook)

11:48 B10.005 Multichannel Formulation of Green's Function Method: Ultraviolet Absorption in Ionic Crystals

Anna Taranukhina, Rostislav Vedrinskii (Institute of Physics, Rostov State University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia)

12:00 B10.006 PAW Simulation of the F-center in Alkali Halides

R. B. Dunning, G. Eric Matthews, N.A.W. Holzwarth (Wake Forest University), Alan Tackett (Vanderbilt University)

12:12 B10.007 Ab initio electronic structure calculations of point defects in KDP

C.S. Liu, Qing Zhang, Nicholas Kioussis (Department of physics, California state university, Northridge, CA 91325-8268), H.B. Demos-Radousky (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O.Box 808, Livermore, CA 94580)

12:24 B10.008 Investigation of Electron Transfer Processes in Solids via Thermally Stimulated Luminescence Excitation Spectroscopy

J. Fleniken, U. Happek (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602)

12:36 B10.009 Electron Transfer Processes in LuBO_3:Ce^3+

U. Happek, J. Fleniken (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602), M.J. Weber (LNBL, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94270)

B10.010 On the Ionization Threshold of Cr^3+ in Ruby

U. Happek, J. Fleniken (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602)

B10.011 Investigation of Thermoluminescence and the Pyroelectric Effect in LiNbO3:Fe

D.R. Evans (Technical Management Concepts, Inc.), T.J. Bunning, S.G. Guha (Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate/MLPJ), S.A. Basun (A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute), R.A. Meltzer (Dept. of Physics, University of Georgia)

B10.012 Determining concentrations of divalent and trivalent iron in lithium niobate using optical absorption spectroscopy

D. R. Evans (Technical Management Concepts Inc.), J. O. Barnes (Anteon Corporation), T. J. Bunning, S. Guha (Air Force Research Laboratory), S. A. Basun (A. F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute), G. Cook (Defence Science and Technology Laboratory), R. S. Meltzer (University of Georgia, Department of Physics and Astronomy)

B10.013 Photoconductive Studies of Cerium Doped GSO, LSO, and YSO

J. Choi, U. Happek (Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602), A.J. Becker, M. Berheide (Schlumberger-Doll reseacrh, Ridgefield, CT 06877)

B10.014 Inertial effects in the nonlinear transient relaxation of Brownian particles in strong external electric fields

William Coffey (Trinity College Dublin), Yuri Kalmykov (Centre d’Etudes Fondamentales, Universite´ de Perpignan, 52, Avenue de Villeneuve, 66860 Perpignan Cedex, France), Sergei Titov (Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vvedenskii Square 1, Fryazino, Moscow Region, 141190, Russian Federation)

11:00 B11.001 Organic crystalline field effect transistors based on TMTSF

M.-S. Nam, P.M. Chaikin (Department of Physics, Princeton University), A. Ardavan (Department of Physics, University of Oxford)

11:12 B11.002 Quantized Hall Effect and Anion Ordering Transition in (TMTSF)_2ClO_4

I. Yang, W. Kang (University of Chicago)

11:24 B11.003 Angular Study of the Magnetic Breakdown Effect in the Organic Conductor k- (BEDT-TTF)2Cu (NCS)2 at High Magnetic Field

Izabela Mihut, Charles Agosta (Clark University,Physics Department, Worcester, MA,USA), Charles Mielke (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM,USA), M. Tokomoto (Electrotechnical Laboratory , Tsukuba,Ibaraki 305, Japan)

11:36 B11.004 Transport in poly(3-hexylthiophene) transistors at high densities

D. Natelson, B. Hamadani (Rice University Dept. of Physics and Astronomy), C. Winkler, J. Lu, S. Stemmer (Rice University Dept. of Mechanical Eng. and Materials Science)

11:48 B11.005 Transistor-type Devices Based on Conducting Polymers

F.C. Hsu, J.A.O. Smallfield (The Ohio State University), J. Joo (The Ohio State University, Korea University), J. Lu, A.G. MacDiarmid (University of Pennsylvania), A.J. Epstein (The Ohio State University)

12:00 B11.006 Electronic structure of a C_60 Field Effect Transistor.

Alvaro S. Núñez, J. Fernández-Rossier (Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin), J. J. Palacios (Departamento de Fisica Aplicada, Universidad de Alicante, Spain), J. Sinova, A. H. MacDonald (Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin)

12:12 B11.007 Field effect transistors based on n-type conjugated polymers

AMIT BABEL, SAMSON A. JENEKHE (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, Box 351750, Seattle, WA 98195-1750)

12:24 B11.008 Photoluminescence Detected Magnetic Resonance (PLDMR) Study of Poly(p-phenylene vinylene) (PPV) Derivatives

Chang-Hwan Kim (), Joseph Shinar (Ames Laboratory - USDOE^* and Physics Dept, Iowa State Univ, Ames, IA 50011), Dong-Won Lee, Young-Rae Hong, Jung-Il Jin (Center for Electro- and Photo-responsive Molecules and Department of Chemistry, Korea University, Seoul 136-701, Korea.)

12:36 B11.009 Space Charge Effects in Single Molecular Devices

David H. Dunlap (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico), George G. Malliaras (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University)

12:48 B11.010 Fabrication and transport studies of molecular transistors with conjugated oligomers

Jeong-O Lee, Peter Hadley, Cees Dekker (Delft University of Technology, Department of Applied Physics , Lorentzweg 1, 2628CJ Delft, the Netherlands)

13:00 B11.011 Effects of Anisotropy on Bipolaron Wavefunction Symmetry

David Campbell, Erica Carlson (Boston University)

13:12 B11.012 Inelastic scattering of oppositely charged polarons in a polymer chain

Zhong AN, Chang-Qin WU (Research Centre for Theoretical Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China)

B11.013 SHG in DASMS single-crystal film producing ultraviolet

Ayayi Ahyi, Sanchit Khatavkar, Mrinal Thakur (Auburn University)

11:00 B12.001 Effects of Electron Irradiation and Columnar Defects on Vortex-Liine Lattice Melting Transition and Vortex Liquid-Liquid Transition in Single Crystalline Bi2212

Kazuo Kadowaki, Kazuhiro Kimura, Shiho Kamisawa, Kenji Noda (Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba, Japan)

11:12 B12.002 Thermodynamics of the Bragg glass phase

Thierry Giamarchi (Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Univ. Paris Sud,Orsay, France), Gregory Schehr, Pierre Le Doussal (LPT-ENS, France)

11:24 B12.003 Structural Phase Transition and Elastic Moduli from Anisotropic Ginzburg-Landau Theory

Alexios Klironomos, Alan Dorsey (University of Florida)

11:36 B12.004 Neutron scattering evidence for vortex disentanglement/entanglement in the Bragg glass melting transition

Sean Ling, Sang Park (Brown University), Jeff Lynn (NIST-NCNR), Sungmin Choi (KAIST), Daniel Dender (NIST-NCNR)

11:48 B12.005 Melting Transition in Single Crystals of Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_8+\delta Studied by c-axis and in-plane Resistivity Measurements Near ab-plane

Jovan Mirkovic (Faculty of Sciences, University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Yugoslavia and Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8573, Japan), Sergey S. Savel'ev, Shintaro Hayama, Emiko Sugahara, Kazuo Kadowaki (Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8573, Japan)

12:00 B12.006 First order superconducting phase transition in CeCoIn_5.

Niels Oeschler^1, Andrea Bianchi^2, Roman Movshovich^2, Philipp Gegenwart^1, Frank Steglich, Joe D. Thompson^2, Pascoal G. Pagliuso^2, John L. Sarrao^2 (^1Max-Planck-Institute for the Chemical Physics of Solids, Noethnitzer Str. 40, 01187 Dresden, Germany)

12:12 B12.007 Numerical simulation of the substrate model for pancake vortices in a layered superconductor

Hans Fangohr (Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK.), Matthew J. W. Dodgson (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK.), Peter A. J. de Groot (Department of Physics, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK.), Simon J. Cox (Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK.)

12:24 B12.008 Neutron spin echo study of supercooled vortex states

S.R. Park, X.S. Ling (Physics Department, Brown University, Providence, RI), J.W. Lynn (NIST Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg, MD), F. Mezei (Hahn Meitner Institute, Berlin, Germany), M. Russina (Los Alamos National Lab), G. Kali (Institute Laue Langevin, Grenoble, France)

12:36 B12.009 Ac-dc Interference Effects and Noise Spectra in the Driven State of Vortices in Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_y

Yoshihiko Togawa, Haruhisa Kitano, Atsutaka Maeda (Department of Basic Science, University of Tokyo)

12:48 B12.010 Vortex transport and voltage noise in disordered superconductors

Jayajit Das, Uwe Täuber, Tom Bullard (Dept. of Physics, Virginia Tech , Blacksburg, VA 24061)

13:00 B12.011 Irreversible magnetization in Tl_2Ba_2CaCu_2O_8 single crystals

Prasanta Chowdhury, Heon-Jung Kim, In-sun Jo, Sung-Ik Lee (National Creative Research Initiative Center for Superconductivity and Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 790-784, Republic of Korea)

13:12 B12.012 No ending point in the Bragg-to-vortex glass phase transition line at low temperatures and the overlap between the Bragg-to-vortex glass transition and the 3D-to-2D decoupling transition

Shiliang Li, Hai-Hu Wen, Zhiwen Zhao (National Laboratory for Superconductivity, Institute of Physics and Center for Condensed Matter Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 603, Beijing 100080, China)

13:24 B12.013 Vortex voltage noise signatures in anisotropic superconductors

Leonardo P Viana (Laboratorio de Fisica Teorica e Computacional, Departamento de Fisica, UFPE), Cynthia J Olson, Charles Reichhardt (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

13:36 B12.014 Internal Avalanches in a Growing Pile of Superconducting Vortices

Choong-seop Lee, Kevin E. Bassler (Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, 77204-5005), Maya Paczuski (Department of Mathematics, Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom)

13:48 B12.015 Critical Dynamics of a Vortex-Loop Model for the Superconducting Transition

Vivek Aji, Nigel Goldenfeld (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

B12.016 Entanglement in dilute flux line liquids

A.M. Ettouhami (Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309)

11:00 B13.001 Time-reversal Symmetry Breaking in Doped YBCO

Yoram Dagan (School of Physics and Astronomy Tel Aviv University)

11:36 B13.002 Inhomogeneous d-wave superconducting state of a doped Mott insulator

Ziqiang Wang, Jan Engelbrecht, Shancai Wang, Hong Ding (Boston College), Shuheng Pan (University of Houston)

11:48 B13.003 Toward a Quantitative Understanding of Tunneling Spectra in BSCCO 2212

John Zasadzinski (Illinois Institute of Technology), L. Ozyuzer, Paola Romano, K.E. Gray (Argonne National Lab)

12:00 B13.004 Short-Pulse Interlayer Tunneling Spectroscopy for Bi_2Sr_2Ca_2Cu_3O_10+\delta

Minoru Suzuki, Yoshiharu Yamada, Anagawa Kenkichi, Shibauchi Takasada (Kyoto University), Takao Watanabe (NTT Basic Research Laboratories)

12:12 B13.005 Tunneling spectroscopy study of underdoped high-T_c cuprates under quasiparticle spin-injection

John Wei, Yu-Chih Tseng, Joseph Ngai, Frank Chen (University of Toronto)

12:24 B13.006 Spin-polarized quasiparticle injection into high-T_c thin-films

Frank Chen, Patrick Morales, Vlad Pribiag, Doug Perovic, John Wei (University of Toronto)

12:36 B13.007 Magnetic Field Scaling of the Conductance of Epitaxial Cuprate-Manganite Bilayers.

Anand Bhattacharya, Phillip A. Kraus, Allen M. Goldman (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota)

12:48 B13.008 Spin Polarized Vacuum Tunneling from a Conventional Superconductor

C.E. Sosolik, E.W. Hudson, J.A. Stroscio, S.R. Blankenship, A.P. Fein, R.J. Celotta (Electron Physics Group, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8412)

13:00 B13.009 Spin-polarized quasiparticle transport in cuprate superconductors

C.-C. Fu, N.-C. Yeh, Z. Huang (Department of Physics, Caltech, Pasadena, CA)

13:12 B13.010 Tunneling Asymmetry in Spectroscopy of the Conventional Superconductor V_3Si

E.W. Hudson, C.E. Sosolik, J.A. Stroscio, S.R. Blankenship, A.P. Fein, R.J. Celotta (Electron Physics Group, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8412)

13:24 B13.011 Local Impurity States of Ti-doped Sr_2RuO_4

B.I. Barker, S.K. Dutta, J.C. Davis (Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley), N. Kikugawa, Y. Maeno (Department of Physics, Kyoto University)

13:36 B13.012 Tunneling and Phase-sensitive studies of Sr_2RuO_4

Karl D. Nelson, Zhiqiang Mao, Ying Liu (Penn State University, University Park), Yoshiteru Maeno (Kyoto University)

11:00 B14.001 Growth and superconductivity of MgB2 thin film and single crystal

Sung-Ik Lee (Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 790-784, Korea)

11:36 B14.002 Growth and Study of the Physical Properties of MgB2 Single Crystals

Setsuko Tajima (Superconductivity Research Laboratory, ISTEC, Tokyo 135-0062, Japan)

12:12 B14.003 Nonstoichiometry in MgB_2

D.G. Hinks, J.D. Jorgensen, Hong Zheng (Argonne National Laboratory, Materials Science Division, Argonne IL 60439)

12:24 B14.004 Percolative Superconductivity in Mg_1-xB_2

P.A. Sharma, N. Hur, Y. Horibe (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854), C. H. Chen (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ 07974), B. G. Kim, S. Guha, Marta Z. Cielplak, S-W. Cheong (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854)

12:36 B14.005 Electron diffraction studies of vacancy ordering in (Mg, Al)_1-xB_2

Y. Horibe (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, and Rutgers University), C.H. Chen (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), P.A. Sharma, N. Hur (Rutgers University), S-W. Cheong (Rutgers University, and Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies)

12:48 B14.006 Superconductivities of (Mg_1-xAl_x)^11B_2 synthesized under the high pressure

Min-Seok Park, J. Y Kim, Kyung-Hee Kim, C. U. Jung, Sung-Ik Lee (National Creative Research Initiative Center for Superconductivity and Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 790-784, Republic of Korea)

13:00 B14.007 Theoretical Study of Superstructures and Superconductivity in Mg_1-xAl_xB_2.

Sergey V. Barabash, David Stroud (The Ohio State University)

13:12 B14.008 Effect of electron doping on the structural and electronic properties of superconducting MgB2.

Omar de la Pena, Aaron Aguayo, Romeo de Coss (Department of Applied Physics, CINVESTAV-Merida, A.P. 73 Cordemex, Merida, MEXICO.)

13:24 B14.009 The Effects of Lithium and Other Dopants on the Superconducting and Structural Properties of Magnesium Diboride

Jafar Amirzadeh (Morris College, Sumter SC), Ming Yin (Benedict College), Michael Bleiweiss, Timir Datta, W. E. Sharp (University of South Carolina)

13:36 B14.010 Substitution of Mn for Mg in MgB_2*

Michael D. Fitzpatrick, David C. Johnston, Lance L. Miller, Julienne M. Hill (Ames Laboratory and Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University)

13:48 B14.011 Effects of Carbon-Doping on Superconductivity in Magnesium Diboride

William Mickelson, Alex Zettl (Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, and Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, U.S.A)

11:00 B15.001 Experimental confirmation of model predictions for exchange-spring magnets

K.V. O'Donovan, J.A. Borchers, C.F. Majkrzak (NIST Center for Neutron Research), O. Hellwig, Eric E. Fullerton (IBM Almaden Research Center)

11:12 B15.002 Exchange Springs and Hysteresis Loop - An Analytical Approach

Hans-Benjamin Braun, Andreas Bill (Paul Scherrer Institute, Condensed Matter Theory, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland)

11:24 B15.003 Visualization of magnetization reversal in the buried layer of an exchange-spring magnet by hard X-ray spectro-microscopy

C. R. Kmety, D. Haskel, J. C. Lang, G. Srajer (Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory), J. S. Jiang, S. D. Bader (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory)

11:36 B15.004 The Spin-flop Transition in Antiferromagnetic Superlattices

S.G.E. te Velthuis, J.S. Jiang, S.D. Bader, G.P. Felcher (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL)

11:48 B15.005 90 degree coupling in PtMn/CoFe10/CoFe2O4/CoFe10 films

Stefan Maat, Bruce A. Gurney (IBM Almaden Research Center)

12:00 B15.006 Oscillations of the interlayer coupling and the Ni layer Curie temperature in Ni/Fe/Co/Cu(100)

C. Won, Y. Z. Wu, F. Toyoma, Z. Q. Qiu (Dept. of Physics, UC-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720), X. F. Jin (Surf. Phys. Lab., Fudan Univ, Shanghai 200433,and 4International Center for Quantum Structures, CAS, Beijing 100080, China), A School, A Doran, N. V. Smith (Advanced Light Source, LBNL, Berkeley, CA 94720)

12:12 B15.007 Interfacial magnetic live layer of fcc Fe in Fe/Co/Cu(100) and Ni/Fe/Co/Cu(100)

F. Toyoma, Y. Z. Wu, C Won, Z. Q. Qiu (Dept. of Physics, UC-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720), X. F. Jin (Surf. Phys. Lab., Fudan Univ, Shanghai 200433,and 4International Center for Quantum Structures, CAS, Beijing 100080, China), A School, A Doran, N. V. Smith (Advanced Light Source, LBNL, Berkeley, CA 94720)

12:24 B15.008 Probing Buried Interfaces with Soft X-ray Standing Waves

See-Hun Yang (Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720), B. S. Mun, N. Mannella, L. Zhao (1Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, 2Department of Physics, University of California at Davis, Davis, California 95016), S.-K. Kim (Department of Physics and the Center for Nanospinics of Spintronic Materials, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Taejon 305-701, Korea), J. B. Kortright, J. Underwood (Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720), E. Arenholz, T. Young, Z. Hussain (Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720), C. S. Fadley (1Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, 2Department of Physics, University of California at Davis, Davis, California 95016)

12:36 B15.009 Transition layer thickness of thin magnetic films determined by X-ray Resonant Magnetic Scattering (XRMS)

John Kelly IV, Bryan Barnes (University of Wisconsin-Madison SRC), Doug Lagally, Mark Friesen, Don Savage, Max Lagally (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

12:48 B15.010 Structure and magnetism of Co_1-x-yMn_xGe_y/Ge heterostructures

Liang He, Lei Ma, Frank Tsui (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC 27599)

13:00 B15.011 Novel magnetism of ultrathin iron oxide layers in metal/native oxide multilayers

G.S.D. Beach, F.T. Parker, A.E. Berkowitz (Dept. of Physics and Center for Magnetic Recording Research, Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0401), B. Ramadurai, D.J. Smith (Center for Solid State Science and Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, Arizona 85287-1504)

13:12 B15.012 Growth and characterization of BSTO/Hexaferrite composite thin films

Ranko Hajndl, Jeff Sanders, Srikanth Hariharan (Department of Physics, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL), Nancy Dudney (Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN)

13:24 B15.013 Construction of spinel based Kagom artificial superlattice by Laser-MBE and their magnetic properties

Youhei Yamamoto, Hiroshi Yahiro, Hidekazu Tanaka, Tomoji Kawai (The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, Japan)

13:36 B15.014 Hysteretic spin-density-wave ordering of Cr layers in confined geometries

Eric E. Fullerton (IBM Almaden Research Center), J. L. Robertson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), A.R.E. Prinsloo, H. L. Alberts (Rand Afrikaans University), S. D. Bader (Argonne National Laboratory)

13:48 B15.015 Multicritical Regions and Low-Temperature Phases in Helimagnetic Multilayers

Douglas Lovelady, David Rabson (University of South Florida)

11:00 B16.001 Magnon-magnon bound states in 1DHA chains and ladders.

Ted Barnes (ORNL and U.Tenn.), Jose Riera (Rosario U.), David Tennant (Oxford U. and RAL)

11:12 B16.002 Phase diagram and correlation exponents for quantum spin-1 chain

Guang-Hong Chen, Yong-Shi Wu (Physics Department, University of Utah)

11:24 B16.003 Spin Reduction Transition in Spin-3/2 Random Heisenberg Chains

Gil Refael (Department of Physics, Harvard University), Stefan Kehrein (Theoretische Physik III, Elektronische Korrelationen und Magnetismus, Universitaet Augsburg, Germany), Daniel S. Fisher (Department of Physics, Harvard University)

11:36 B16.004 2D Ising physics in quantum Hall ferromagnets

Tomas Jungwirth (University of Texas at Austin and Institute of Physics ASCR, Prague, Czech Republic)

12:12 B16.005 Magnetization profiles of open S=1 chains and open S=1/2 ladders

Edmond ORIGNAC (Ecole Normale Superieure - France), Philippe Lecheminant (University of Cergy - France)

12:24 B16.006 Low temperature behavior of weakly coupled random antiferromagnetic S=1/2 chains

Anuvrat Joshi, Kun Yang (NHMFL, Florida State University)

12:36 B16.007 Spinons in a Crossed-Chains Model of a 2D Spin Liquid

Oleg Starykh (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hofstra University), Rajiv Singh (Department of Physics, University of California at Davis), Gregory Levine (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hofstra University)

12:48 B16.008 NMR of ^89Y in the Copper-Oxide Spin-Chain Compound Ca_2+xY_2-xCu_5O_10

John T. Markert, Gergana I. Drandova, Troy C. Messina (Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712 USA)

13:00 B16.009 Magnetic properties of a metal-organic chain system [Co(bpdc)(H2O)2]H2O

Tan Yuen, C.L. Lin (Department of Physics, Temple University), Long Pan, Jing Li (Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, Camden)

13:12 B16.010 High Magnetic Field NMR Studies of LiVGe_2O_6, a quasi 1-D Spin S = 1 System

P. Vonlanthen, Atsushi Goto, W. G. Clark (UCLA Physics and Astronomy), J. Y. Henry (CENG DRFMC/SPSMS/MDN, Grenoble, France), J. L. Gavilano, H. R. Ott (ETH-Hönggerberg, Zürich, Switzerland), F. Mila (IPT, Univ. of Lausanne, Switzerland), P. Kuhns, A. P. Reyes, W. G. Moulton (NHMFL, Tallahassee, FL)

13:24 B16.011 Magnetism and Transport for Two-Dimensional Electrons : Absence of Stoner Ferromagnetism and Large In-Plane Magnetoresistance in the Metallic Phase

Philippe Jacquod (Lorentz Institute, Leiden University, PO Box 9506, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands)

13:36 B16.012 Phase separation concomitant with marked metallic behavior observed in electron-doped antiferromagnetic CaMnO_3

Xiao-Juan Fan, Junpei Kasai, Kazuhisa Inaba, Hideomi Koinuma, Tetsuya Hasegawa (Advanced Materials Laboratory, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan; Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan)

11:00 B17.001 Exotic Phase Transitions in Osmium- and Rhenium-based Pyrochlores

David Mandrus (Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

11:36 B17.002 Optical properties of metallic pyrochlore molybdates: \textitR_2Mo_2O_7(R=Nd and Sm)

M. W. Kim (School of Physics and ReCOE, SNU, Korea), Y. S. Lee (School of Physics and CSCMR, SNU, Korea), T. W. Noh (School of Physics and ReCOE, SNU, Korea), Y. Moritomo (CIRSE, Nagoya University, Japan)

11:48 B17.003 Enhancement of anomalous Hall effect in a filling-controlled pyrochlore-type molybdate

Yasujiro Taguchi (Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan), Yoshinori Tokura (Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan and Correlated Electron Research Center, National Institute of Industrial Science and Technology, Japan)

12:00 B17.004 Neutron Scattering in Dipolar Pyrochlore Magnets with Local 111 Anisotropy

Matthew Enjalran (Department of Physics, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1), Michel J.P. Gingras (Department of Physics, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1 and Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, 180 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1Z8)

12:12 B17.005 Order by distortion in pyrochlore antiferromagnets

Oleg Tchernyshyov, Roderich Moessner, Shivaji Sondhi (Princeton University)

12:24 B17.006 Planar Pyrochlore: A Strong-Coupling Analysis

Wolfram Brenig, Andreas Honecker (Institute for theoretical physics, TU Braunschweig, Germany)

12:36 B17.007 Spin Waves in the Frustrated Pyrochlore Antiferromagnet Gd_2Ti_2O_7

Adrian Del Maestro, Michel J.P. Gingras (Department of Physics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L-3G1, Canada)

12:48 B17.008 Magnetic Susceptibility of the Geometrically Frustrated Spin Ice Material Dy2Ti2O7

J. Snyder (Penn State Univ), J.S. Slusky, R.J. Cava (Princeton Materials Institute), P. Schiffer (Penn State Univ)

13:00 B17.009 Composite spin degree of freedom in a geometrically frustrated antiferromagnet

S.-H. Lee (National Institute of Standards and Technology), C. Broholm (Johns Hopkins University), W. Ratcliff (Rutgers University), G. Gasparovic (Johns Hopkins University), Q. Huang (National Institute of Standards and Technology), T.H. Kim (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), S-W. Cheong (Rutgers University)

13:12 B17.010 Frustration and Satisfiability on Triangular Lattices: Insights from Physics and from Computer Science

Radu Cojocaru, Phillip Duxbury (Michigan State University)

11:00 B18.001 Momentum-resolved tunnel spectroscopy of quantum Hall edge channels

M. Huber, M. Grayson, M. Rother, M. Bichler, G. Abstreiter (Walter Schottky Institut, D-85748 Garching, Germany), W. Biberacher (Walther-Meissner-Institut, D-85748 Garching, Germany), W. Wegscheider (U. Regensburg, D-93040 Regensburg, Germany)

11:12 B18.002 OPNMR Studies of Skyrmion Dynamics

A.E. Dementyev, D. Li, N.N. Kuzma, P. Khandelwal, S.E. Barrett (Department of Physics, Yale University), L.N. Pfeiffer, K.W. West (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies)

11:24 B18.003 Zener Tunneling Between Landau Orbits in a High-Mobility Two-Dimensional Electron Gas

C. -L. YANG, J. ZHANG, R.-R. DU (Department of Physics, University of Utah), J. A. SIMMONS, J. L. RENO (Sandia National Laboratories)

11:36 B18.004 High Frequency Conductivity in the Quantum Hall Regime

Rolf Haug (University of Hannover)

12:12 B18.005 IQHE Temperature Dependence Measurements of \sigma_xx in the Regime where the Localization Length approaches the Cyclotron Radius

John Matthews (University of Maryland, College Park, MD), Marvin E. Cage (NIST, Gaithersburg, MD)

12:24 B18.006 Long-range correlated disorder and the localization-delocalization transition in integer quantum Hall systems.

Nancy Sandler, Hamid Maei, Jane' Kondev (Brandeis University)

12:36 B18.007 A study on the universality of the phase transition of the GaAs/AlGaAs system in a magnetic field

C.F. Huang, Y.H. Chang, H.D. Yeh, G.J. Hwang, Department of Physics Collaboration, National Measurement Laboratory Collaboration

12:48 B18.008 Tunneling density of states and dynamical scaling near integer quantum Hall transitions

Shanhui Xiong, Ziqiang Wang (Boston College)

13:00 B18.009 ``Forbidden'' transitions between quantum Hall and insulating phases in p-SiGe heterostructures

Mohammed Sakr, Maryam Rahimi, S. V. Kravchenko (Northeastern University), P. T. Coleridge, R. L. Williams, J. Lapointe (National Research Council of Canada)

13:12 B18.010 Comments on Liouvillians

John Chalker (Oxford University), Vadim Oganesyan, Shivaji Sondhi (Princeton University)

13:24 B18.011 Parametric Dynamics of Spectra in the Integer Quantum Hall Effect

Isa Zharekeshev (Theoretische Physik III, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Universitaetsstr. 150, 44801 Bochum, Germany)

13:36 B18.012 Topological Quantum Phase Transition in Superconductivity on Lattices --- Chern number, Dirac Monopole and Edge States ---

Yasuhiro Hatsugai (Applied Physics, Univ. of Tokyo, Presto, JST), Shinsei Ryu (Applied Physics, Univ. of Tokyo)

11:00 B19.001 Spin-Dependent Transport in Ferromagnet-Semiconductor Schottky Diodes

Paul A. Crowell (University of Minnesota, School of Physics and Astronomy)

11:36 B19.002 Electrical Spin Injection from an Fe/AlGaAs Schottky Contact

G. Itskos, R. Mallory, G. Kioseoglou, A. Petrou (State University of New York at Buffalo), A.T. Hanbicki, B.T. Jonker (Naval Research Laboratory)

11:48 B19.003 Effects of a Depletion Region on Spin Injection

J. D. Albrecht, D. L. Smith (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

12:00 B19.004 Spin-injection through an Fe/InAs Interfaces

Maciej Zwierzycki, Ke Xia, Paul Kelly (Faculty of Applied Physics and MESA+ Research Institute, University of Twente, The Netherlands), Gerrit Bauer (Department of Applied Physics and DIMES, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands), Ilja Turek (Institute of Physics of Materials, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Repbulic, Czech Republic)

12:12 B19.005 Ballistic Spin Injection from Fe(001) into ZnSe and GaAs

Olaf Wunnicke, Phivos Mavropoulos, Rudi Zeller, Peter H. Dederichs (IFF, Forschungszentrum Juelich, D-52425 Juelich, Germany), Dirk Grundler (Institute for Applied Physics, University of Hamburg, Germany)

12:24 B19.006 Polarization-Resolved Electroluminescence in Ferromagnet-Semiconductor Schottky Diodes

A.F. Isakovic, B.D. Schultz, J. Strand, C.J. Palmstrom, P.A. Crowell (University of Minnesota)

12:36 B19.007 Electric-field dependent spin diffusion and enhancement of spin injection into semiconductors

Z. G. Yu, M. E. Flatte (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa)

12:48 B19.008 Spin injection at Co_2MnGe/GaAs interfaces: an ab-initio study of potential discontinuity

Silvia Picozzi, Alessandra Continenza (INFM - Dip. Fisica Univ. L'Aquila - ITALY), Arthur J. Freeman (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy- Northwestern University - Evanston, IL (USA))

13:00 B19.009 Anisotropic Electrical Spin Injection in Ferromagnetic Semiconductor Heterostructures

Darron K. Young, E. Johnston-Halperin, D. D. Awschalom (Center for Spintronics and Quantum Computation, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106), Y. Ohno, H. Ohno (Laboratory for Electronic Intelligent Systems, Tohoku University, Japan)

13:12 B19.010 Band-Edge Recombination Mechanisms in ZnMnSe(n)/AlGaAs(n)/GaAs/AlGaAs(p) Spin LEDs

R. Mallory, G. Itskos, G. Kioseoglou, A. Dzyubenko, A. Petrou (State University of New York at Buffalo), A.T. Hanbicki, B.T. Jonker (Naval Research Laboratory), X. Wei (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory)

13:24 B19.011 Spin-Polarized Zener Tunneling in (Ga,Mn)As

Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin, D. Lofgreen, R.K. Kawakami, D.K. Young, L. Coldren, A.C. Gossard, D.D. Awschalom (Center for Spintronics and Quantum Computation, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106)

13:36 B19.012 PARAMAGNETIC ION DOPED NANOCRYSTAL AS A VOLTAGE CONTROLLED SPIN FILTER

Alexander Efros, Mervine Rosen (Nanostructure Optics Section, Naval Research Laboratory), Emmanuel Rashba (Department of Physics, SUNY Buffalo)

13:48 B19.013 From classical to quantum spintronics : Theory of coherent spin injection and spin valve phenomena

Francisco Mireles (Centro de Ciencias de la Materia Condensada, UNAM-México), George Kirczenow (Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Canada.)

B19.014 First-Principles Theory of Band Offsets in CdCr_2Se_4/Si and CdCr_2Se_4/GaAs Heterostructures

James Sullivan, Steven C. Erwin (Naval Research Laboratory)

11:00 B20.001 Heavy electron states and metal-insulator transition in filled skutterudites

Sasa Dordevic (University of California, San Diego)

11:36 B20.002 Evolution of the Fermi Surface of CeRhIn_5 Under Pressure

Donavan Hall, S. W. Tozer, E. C. Palm, T. P. Murphy (NHMFL), R. G. Goodrich (LSU), J. L. Sarrao (LANL)

11:48 B20.003 Evidence for Nonmagnetic Quadrupolar Ground State in the Heavy Fermion Superconductor PrOs_4Sb_12

E. D. Bauer, V. S. Zapf, N. A. Frederick, P.- C. Ho, M. B. Maple (UC-San Diego), T. Schauerte, D. L. Cox (UC-Davis), F. B. Anders (Technische Hochschule)

12:00 B20.004 Pressure Induced Superconductivity in the Heavy-Fermion System Ce_2RhIn_8

M. Nicklas, V. A. Sidorov, H. A. Borges, C. Petrovic, P. G. Pagliuso, Z. Fisk, J. L. Sarrao, J. D. Thompson (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM)

12:12 B20.005 Impurity studies in CeCoIn_5

Z. Fisk, P.G. Pagliuso, N.O. Moreno, M.F. Hundley, J.D. Thompson, J.L. Sarrao (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, U.S.A.)

12:24 B20.006 Origin of the zero-resistance anomaly in heavy fermion superconducting CeIrIn_5

Roman Movshovich, Andrea Bianchi, Marcelo Jaime, Pascoal G. Pagliuso, Joe D. Thompson, John L. Sarrao (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545)

12:36 B20.007 Heavy-Electron Behavior and Structural Change in A 4d Transition-Metal Oxide Ca_1.7Sr_0.3RuO_4

R. Jin (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), J. Thompson, J. He (The University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory), M. Farmer (Baylor University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory), D. Mandrus (Oak Ridge National Laboratory and The University of Tennessee)

12:48 B20.008 Optical evidence for strong mass-enhancement in pyrochlore Cd_2Re_2O_7

N.L. Wang (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O.Box 2711, Beijing 100080, P. R. China, and Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4M1, Canada), J.J. McGuire, T. Timusk (Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4M1, Canada), R. Jin, J. He, D. Mandrus (Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA)

13:00 B20.009 Single-crystal growth and bulk properties of plutonium intermetallic compounds

J.L. Sarrao, L.A. Morales, J.D. Thompson, N.J. Curro (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

13:12 B20.010 Unanticipated resistivity results in the uranium niobium binary alloy system

Jason C. Cooley (Los Alamos National Laboratory), L. B. Dauelsberg, P.S. Dunn, R. D. Field, W. L. Hults, A. M. Kelly (LANL), B. E. Lang (Brigham Young University), J. C. Lashley (LANL), G. M. Schmiedeshoff (Occidental College), D. J. Thoma, D. F. Teter, P. K. Tubesing (LANL), B. F. Woodfield (BYU), J. L. Smith (LANL)

13:24 B20.011 Fermi Surface Studies of the Ferromagnetic Superconductor UGe_2 under High Pressure

Taichi Terashima, Takehiko Matsumoto, Chieko Terakura, Shinya Uji (National Institute for Materials Science, Japan), Noriaki Kimura, Motoki Endo, Takemi Komatsubara, Haruyoshi Aoki (CLTS, Tohoku University, Japan), Kunihiko Maezawa (Toyama Prefectural University, Japan)

13:36 B20.012 High Magnetic Field Heat Capacity of URu_2Si_2

Marcelo Jaime, Kee Hoon Kim (NHMFL-Los Alamos National Lab., New Mexico, USA), Scott McCall (NHMFL-Florida State Univ., Florida, USA), John A. Mydosh (K. Onnes Lab., Leiden University, The Netherlands)

13:48 B20.013 Ultrasonic measurements in URu_2Si_2

A. Souslov, J. Feller^*, Bimal K. Sarma (Physics Department, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), J. Ketterson (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University), D. Hinks (Argonne National Laboratory), M. Jaime, F. Balakirev, A. Migliori, C. Mielke, A. Lacerda (NHMFL, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

11:00 B21.001 Metal-semiconductor phase transition in nanoscale vanadium dioxide precipitates formed in silica by ion implantation

Rene Lopez (Vanderbilt University), Lynn A. Boatner, Tony E. Haynes (Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Richard F. Haglund, Leonard C. Feldman (Vanderbilt University)

11:12 B21.002 The simultaneous Measurement of the Density of States and the Conductivity at the Metal-Insulator Transition and Implications for the Scaling Theory

R.C. Dynes, F. Hellman, W. Teizer* (Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093)

11:24 B21.003 Study of MIT in pure and disordered Hubbard Model on triangular lattice with real-space renormalization-group method

Jiaxiang Wang, Sabre Kais (Chemistry Department,Purdue University)

11:36 B21.004 Metal-Insulator Transition Associated with [0110] Charge Ordering in (EDO-TTF)_2X

O. Drozdova, D.B. Tanner (University of Florida), K. Yakushi (Institute for Molecular Science), A. Ota, H. Yamochi, G. Saito (Kyoto University)

11:48 B21.005 Dependence of the two dimensional transport properties on electron density

Vladimir Butko, Arthur Ramirez (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA), Philip Adams (Dept. of Phys. and Astron., LSU, Baton Rouge, USA), Robert Haddon, Xialou Chi (Chem. Dept. UC Riverside, USA)

12:00 B21.006 Finite-Size Scaling of the Level Compressibility at the Anderson Transition

Rudolf A. Roemer, Macleans L. Ndawana (Institut fuer Physik, Technische Universitaet, D-09107 Chemnitz, Germany), Michael Schreiber (School of Engineering and Science, International University Bremen, D-28725 Bremen, Germany)

12:12 B21.007 Field Effect Conductivity Modulation In Amorphous Indium Oxide, Approaching the Superconductor to Insulator Transition.

Stephen Arnason (University of Massachusetts, Boston), Mithra Partha, Arthur Hebard (University of Florida, Gainesville)

12:24 B21.008 Sharp increase of the effective mass near the critical point in a metallic 2D electron system

S. V. Kravchenko (Northeastern University), A. A. Shashkin, V. T. Dolgopolov (Institute of Solid State Physics), T. M. Klapwijk (Delft University of Technology)

12:36 B21.009 Superconductivity in Systems with Diluted Interactions

Grzegorz Litak (Technical University of Lublin, Nadbystrzycka 36, 20-618 Lublin, Poland), Thereza Paiva, Raimundo dos Santos (Departamento de Fisica dos Solidos, Instituto de Fisica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, CX Postal 68528, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, 21945-970), Carey Huscroft (Hewlett-Packard Company, 8000 Foothills Boulevard, Roseville, CA 95747), Scalettar Richard (Physics Department, University of California, Davis CA 95616)

12:48 B21.010 Superfluid and Insulating Phases in the Boson Hubbard Model with a Confining Potential

Richard Scalettar (Physics Department, University of California, Davis CA 95616), Valery Rousseau, Georges Batrouni (Universite de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Institut Non-Lineaire de Nice, UMR 6618 C.N.R.S. UNSA, 1361 route des Lucioles, 06560 Valbonne FRANCE), Peter Denteneer (Instituut-Lorentz, University of Leiden, P.O. Box 9506, 2300 RA Leiden), Alejandro Muramatsu (Institut fur Theoretische Physik III, Universitat Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57, D-70550 Stuttgart, GERMANY)

13:00 B21.011 Current Driven Insulator-to-Superconductor Transition in Quench-Condensed Beryllium Films

Edward Bielejec, Wenhao Wu (University of Rochester)

13:12 B21.012 Evidence for short range orbital order in paramagnetic insulating (Al,V)_2O_3

Peter Pfalzer, Judith Will, Alexei Nateprov, Matthias Klemm, Volker Eyert, Siegfried Horn (Institut fuer Physik, Universitaet Augsburg, Universitaetsstr. 1, 86135 Augsburg, Germany), Anatoly I. Frenkel (Physics Department, Yeshiva University, 245 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York 10016), Scott Calvin (Naval Research Lab, Code 6340, Washington, DC 20375), Marten L. denBoer (Department of Physics, Hunter College, City University of New York, 695 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10021)

13:24 B21.013 Coupling of transport and magnetic properties in FeS2-CoS2-NiS2 pyrites

Y-S. Hor, P. A. Sharma, S. Guha, S-W. Cheong (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway NJ 08854.)

11:00 B22.001 Nanostructured Materials

Jonah Erlebacher (Johns Hopkins University)

11:36 B22.002 The Azimuthal Orientation Alignment of Epitaxial Ag Nanoclusters on Si(111) Surfaces

Jian-Min Zuo, Boquan Li (Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering and Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana and Champaign, 1304 West Green Street)

11:48 B22.003 Nanowires at Steps

F. J. Himpsel (Dept. Physics, Univ. Wisconsin Madison)

12:24 B22.004 Optimizing the growth of rare-earth silicide nanowires on Si(001)

Bangzhi Liu, Jun Nogami (Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,Michigan State University, East Lansing,MI 48824)

12:36 B22.005 Gd disilicide nanowires attached to Si(111) steps

J. L. McChesney, A. Kirakosian, R. Bennewitz, J.-L. Lin, J.N. Crain, F.J. Himpsel (University of Wisconsin)

12:48 B22.006 Observation of islands and elongated wire structures for Er on Si(100)

Lena Fitting, M.C. Zeman, Woochul Yang, R.J. Nemanich (NC State Univ)

13:00 B22.007 "Structure and Epitaxy of Titanium Silicide Nanowires"

Zhian He (Science and Engineering of Materials, Arizona State University), Peter Bennett (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University)

13:12 B22.008 "Insitu growth study of titanium silicide nanowires"

Peter Bennett (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University), R. M. Tromp (T. J. Watson Research Lab)

13:24 B22.009 Ordered Metal Nanowire Arrays Formed on Si(100) 2xn Surface

Jinfeng Jia, Jun-Zhong Wang, Jian-Long Li, Xi Liu, Xue Qikun (State Key Laboratory for Surface Physics amp; International Center for Quantum Structures, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China)

13:36 B22.010 One-dinensional arrays of Ce on vivinal Si(001)

H.G. Lee, D. Lee, J.Y. Maeng, S. Kim (Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Korea), C. Hwang (Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science)

11:00 B23.001 Positron states and annihilation characteristics at the reconstructed (100) surface of GaAs.

N. G. Fazleev, J. L. Fry, A. H. Weiss (Physics Department, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019)

11:12 B23.002 Probing confined interfacial excitations in buried layers by Brillouin light scattering

Xinya Zhang, R. Sooryakumar (Departments of Physics, The ohio State University)

11:24 B23.003 Surface-state Mediated Interactions: Analytic and Numerical Results for 3 Adatoms

Per Hyldgaard (Chalmers U. of Tech. amp; Göteborg U.), T.L. Einstein (Univ. of Maryland)

11:36 B23.004 Relaxation of fcc(110) vicinals Pd(320) and Cu(320): an ab initio study

A. Kara, T.S. Rahman, Physics Department Team

11:48 B23.005 Parabolic Quantum Corrals.

Carlos Trallero-Giner (Havana University), Sergio E. Ulloa (Ohio University)

12:00 B23.006 High Resolution X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopic Study of Copper Phthalocyanine

Kenneth Park (Baylor University, Deparment of Physics), Kamil Klier (Lehigh University, Department of Chemistry)

12:12 B23.007 Copper/Diamond Adhesion and Hydrogen Termination

Xiao-Gang Wang, John R. Smith (Delphi Research Labs, Shelby Twp., MI 48316)

12:24 B23.008 Structure, Bonding, and Dynamics of Thiolate on Copper Surfaces

M. Konopka, I. Stich (CCMS, Dept. Phys., Slovak Technical University (FEI-STU))

12:36 B23.009 Simulation of imaging mechanism in non-contact AFM on metal surfaces: Cu(001)

I. Stich, P. Dieska (CCMS, Dept. of Physics, Slovak Technical University (FEI STU)), R. Perez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)

12:48 B23.010 P-type Oxides and the Growth of Heterostructure Oxide Devices

Hideo HOSONO (Tokyo Institute of Technology amp; ERATO, Japan Science and Technology, JAPAN)

13:24 B23.011 NMR Relaxation Study of the p-Type Transparent Conductor CuYO_2:Ca

A. Rajabzadeh, T. Olheiser, V. Achuthan, M. K. Jayaraj, J. Tate, Jr. Warren (Oregon State University, Corvallis)

13:36 B23.012 New class of diluted magnetic oxides: search for n-type ferromagnetism and visible light transparency.

Oleg Mryasov (Seagate Research), Mark van Shilfgaarde (Sandia National Laboratories)

13:48 B23.013 Oxygen-intercalated CuScO_2

A. D. Draeseke, H. Yanagi, D. Tucker, D. Easley, D. H. McIntyre, J. Tate (Department of Physics, Oregon State University), J. Li, A. W. Sleight (Department of Chemistry, Oregon State University)

11:00 B24.001 Anions of Transition Metal Cluster/Benzene Complexes

Kit Bowen (Dept. of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University)

11:36 B24.002 Spectroscopy of Ni_n(Benzene)_m Anion Complexes

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

11:48 B24.003 Novel Properties of Rhodium Clusters

J. M. An, W. E. Pickett (physics, UC Davis)

12:00 B24.004 Structural Forms, Energies, and Electronic Properties of Neutral and Charged Magnesium Clusters*

Paulo Acioli, Julius Jellinek (Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439)

12:12 B24.005 Atomic structure and electronic excitation energies of small clusters

Wei Nie, Saroj K. Nayak, P. D. Persans, T. M. Hayes (Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street,Troy, NY 12180-3590)

12:24 B24.006 Atomic and Electronic Properties of Neutral and Cationic Be and BeLi_k Clusters

Andrew M. Kolchin, Hai-Ping Cheng (Quantum Theory Project, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611), Randall W. Hall (Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803)

12:36 B24.007 Delayed Ionization of the Met-Car: Delayed Atomic Ion and Structural Changes

J. R. Stairs, Jr. Castleman (The Pennsylvania State University)

12:48 B24.008 Dynamical Effects on the Photo-detachment Spectra of Li_4^-

C. R. Ashman, S. N. Khanna (Department of Physics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va 23284-2000), M. R. Pederson (Center For Computational Materials Science-6392, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D. C. 20375-5000)

13:00 B24.009 First principles study of neutral and cationic strontium clusters

Bokwon Yoon, Hannu Häkkinen, Uzi Landman (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA)

13:12 B24.010 Competition among magic-fragment channels in the fission of charged alkali-metal clusters: A systematic experimental and theoretical study

C. Bréchignac, Ph. Cahuzac, J. Leygnier (Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, Orsay, France), C. Yannouleas, U. Landman (School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology)

13:24 B24.011 Trends and surprises in bonding in anionic clusters of coinage metals

Michael Moseler (Universität Freiburg, Germany), Hannu Häkkinen, Uzi Landman (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA)

13:36 B24.012 The Dynamical Studies for Sodium Cluster Collision

X.L Xu, X.H Zeng (Yangzhou University and Complexity Science Center, Yangzhou 225002)

B24.013 Evidence of Ferrimagnetism in Mn Clusters

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

11:00 B25.001 Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Crystals

James K. Gimzewski (UCLA)

11:36 B25.002 CVD Synthesis and Spectroscopy of Carbon Nanotubes

Eleanor Campbell (School of Physics and Engineering Physics, Göteborg University and Chalmers, SE-41296 Göteborg, Sweden)

12:12 B25.003 Efficient Growth of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes on Supported Fe/Mo Catalyst

Louis Hornyak (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), Leonid Grigorian (Honda Research and Development Americas, Inc., Detroit, MI 48075), Anne Dillon, Phillip Parilla, Kim Jones (NREL), Mike Heben (NREL,1617 Cole Blvd., Golden, CO 80401)

12:24 B25.004 Atomic resolution Z-contrast imaging and energy loss spectroscopy of carbon nanotubes and bundles

A. R. Lupini, M. F. Chisholm, A. A. Puretzky, G. Eres, A. V. Melechko, G. Schaaff, D. H. Lowndes, D. B. Geohegan, H. Schittenhelm, S. J. Pennycook (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Solid State Division, PO Box 2008, Oak Ridge TN 37831-6030), Y. Wang, R. E. Smalley (Rice University, Houston, TX 77251 USA)

12:36 B25.005 Coalescence of SWNTs and SWNHs by Heat Treatment

M. Yudasaka (JST, Tsukuba, Japan), T. Ichihashi (NEC), D. Kasuya (Meijo Univ.), H. Kataura (Tokyo Metrop. Univ.), K. Takahashi, F. Kokai (IRI), S. Iijima (NEC, JST)

12:48 B25.006 Scroll-to-nanotube transition: The zipper mechanism

Savas Berber, Mina Yoon, David Tomanek (Michigan State University)

13:00 B25.007 Synthesis and structure of straight Y-junctions

Wenzhi Li, Jianguo Wen, Zhifeng Ren (Department of Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467)

13:12 B25.008 Cutting and nicking of carbon nanotubes using an atomic force microscope

Ji-Yong Park, Yuval Yaish, Sami Rosenblatt, Markus Brink, Paul McEuen (Department of Physics, Cornell University)

13:24 B25.009 Preparation of 1D Silver Selenide Nanowires

Achim Amma, Yvonne Glanville, David Narehood, Paul Sokol, Thomas Mallouk (Pennsylvania State University), Steve Ehrlich (NSLS)

13:36 B25.010 A Comparative Study of the Properties of C and BN Nanotubes

Brahim Akdim (AFRL/ML), Xiaofeng Duan (ASC/MSRC), Ruth Pachter, Wade Adams (AFRL/ML)

13:48 B25.011 High production rate Synthesis Of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes (SWNTs) Using a Free Electron Laser (FEL)

B. K. Pradhan, K. W. Adu , Q. Xiong, S. Bhattachaya, G. Chen, P. C. Eklund (Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA), J. E. Fischer (Dept of M S and E and LRSM, University of Pennsylvania), A. D. Friedman, B. C. Holloway (Dept. of Applied Science, College of Williams and Marry, Williamsburg, VA 23187), M. W. Smith (NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23681)

11:00 B26.001 Superlattice Thermoelectric Materials and Devices

Rama Venkatasubramanian (Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709)

11:36 B26.002 Bi_1-xSb_x Nanowires: Band Structure Engineering for Thermoelectrics

Oded Rabin, Yu-Ming Lin, M. S. Dresselhaus (M.I.T.)

11:48 B26.003 Thermoelectric Properties of Bi_1-xSb_x Nanowire Arrays

Yu-Ming Lin, Oded Rabin, Stephen B. Cronin, Jackie Y. Ying, Mildred S. Dresselhaus (MIT)

12:00 B26.004 Theoretical Investigation for Thermoelectric Properties of Segmented Bi/Bi_1-xSb_x Nanowires

Gene Dresselhaus, Yu-ming Lin, Oded Rabin, Mildred S. Dresselhaus (MIT)

12:12 B26.005 Enhanced thermopower of bismuth nanocomposites

Joseph P. Heremans, Christopher M. Thrush, Donald T. Morelli (Delphi Research Labs, Delphi Automotive Systems, Shelby Township, MI 48315)

12:24 B26.006 Enhancement of the Thermoelectric Properties for the Mixed System Rb_2-xK_xBi_8Se_13^*

John R. Ireland, C. R. Kannewurf (ECE Dept., Northwestern University), Theodora Kyratsi, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis (Dept. of Chemistry, Michigan State University)

12:36 B26.007 Electron and Hole Bands of Bismuth Near the Fermi Level

Christian R Ast, Hartmut Höchst (Synchrotron Radiation Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

12:48 B26.008 Thermopower of Bi_2S_3 Under High Pressure

Feng Chen, Jiye Fang, Kevin L. Stokes (Advanced Material Research Institute, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148), Adam Stern, James MacLaren (Physics Department, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118)

13:00 B26.009 Thermionic Refrigeration with Semiconductor Coated Cathode

Yoshikazu Hishinuma, Boris Y. Moyzhes, Theodore H. Geballe, Thomas W. Kenny (Stanford University)

13:12 B26.010 Efficient thermal to electrical conversion using thermal diodes

Yan Kucherov (ENECO, Inc.), Peter Hagelstein (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

13:24 B26.011 Enhancement of the figure of merit for thermal to electrical energy conversion with thermal diodes

Peter Hagelstein (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Yan Kucherov (ENECO, Inc.)

11:00 B27.001 Quantum spin liquids and their excitations

Claire Lhuillier (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, UMR 7600 of CNRS, Paris)

11:36 B27.002 Longitudinal spin waves in a dilute Bose gas

James Williams (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Tetsuro Nikuni (Univeristy of Toronto), Charles Clark (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

11:48 B27.003 Internal waves and synchronized precession in a cold vapor

Mehmet Oktel (Dept. of Physics, The Ohio state University), Leonya Levitov (Department of Physics, Massacusetts Institute of Technology)

12:00 B27.004 Spin-singlet Bose-Einstein condensate for spin-1 bosons with fractional spin and statistics

W. Vincent Liu, Xiao-Gang Wen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

12:12 B27.005 Periodically Dressed Bose-Einstein Condensates

James Higbie, Kevin Moore, Lorraine Sadler, Veronique Savalli, Dan Stamper-Kurn (UC Berkeley)

12:24 B27.006 Quantization of vortex motion in Bose-Einstein Condensates

Jian-Ming Tang (University of Iowa)

12:36 B27.007 Two component Bose-Einstein Condensates with Large Number of Vortices

Erich Mueller, Tin-Lun Ho (Department of Physics, Ohio State University)

12:48 B27.008 Absence of Bose-Einstein Condensation in Two-Dimensional Vortex Matter

Jairo Sinova (University of Texas at Austin), C. B. Hanna (Boise State University), A. H. MacDonald (University of Texas at Austin)

13:00 B27.009 Controlled Generation of Dark Solitons with Phase Imprinting

Biao Wu, Jie Liu, Qian Niu (Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Texas 78712)

13:12 B27.010 Interaction of a BEC with a quantum dot

Roberto Diener, Biao Wu, Mark Raizen, Qian Niu (Dept. of Physics, University of Texas at Austin)

13:24 B27.011 Analytic Symmetry Breaking Mean Field solutions of Bose-Einstein Condensate in a double well

K. W. Mahmud, J. N. Kutz, W. P. Reinhardt (University of Washington)

13:36 B27.012 Simple solvable examples of the Bogoliubov-deGennes equations for Bose-Einstein condensates

Charles W. Clark (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

13:48 B27.013 BCS-BEC Crossover in a Trapped Gas of Fermi Atoms with a Feshbach Resonance

Yoji Ohashi (University of Toronto and University of Tsukuba), Allan Griffin (University of Toronto)

B27.014 Decay of ultracold atoms from an optical potential

Wu-Ming Liu (National Lab. of Magnetism, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, CHINA), Qian Niu (Department of Physics, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712), Siu-Tat Chui (Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716), Davis K. Campbell (College of Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215)

B27.015 Quantum Phase separation dynamics in mixtures of BEC

Wu-Ming Liu, S. T. Chui (Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716)

11:00 B28.001 Specific Heat and Transport of ReSb2 Compounds

B.K. Gamble (Clemson University; LANL; Coastal Carolina University), N. Lowhorn, M.J. Skove, M. Nevitt, T. Tritt, G.X. Tessema (Clemson University), A.H. Lacerda (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (Pulsed Fields), Los Alamos National Laboratory)

11:12 B28.002 Specific Heat of Undercooled Liquid of Complex Crystal Forming Ti-Fe-Si-O Alloys

A. K. Gangopadhyay, G. W. Lee, K. F. Kelton (Department of Physics, Washington University, Campus Box 1105, St. Louis, MO 63130), T. J. Rathz (University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL), J. Rogers, M. B. Robinson (NASA George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL 35812)

11:24 B28.003 The Effect of Isotopic Composition on the Lattice Parameter of Germanium

M. Y. Hu, H. Sinn, A. Alatas, E. E. Alp, W. Sturhahn (APS, Argonne), H. C. Wille, Y. Shvyd'ko (Univ. of Hamburg), J. P. Sutter (Hasylab, Hamburg), J. Bandaru, E. E. Haller (Univ. of California and LBNL, Berkeley), V. I. Ozhogin (Kurchatov Inst., Moscow), S. Rodriguez, R. Colella (Purdue University), E. Kartheuser (Liège), M. A. Villeret (London)

11:36 B28.004 Titanium HCP to Omega Transformation with Oxygen Impurities.

R. C. Albers, J. Bouchet, S. G. Srinivasan (Los Alamos National Laboratory), D. R. Trinkle, R. G. Hennig, J. W. Wilkins (Ohio State Univ.)

11:48 B28.005 Studies of Vibrational Properties in Actinide Metals by Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure

Erik Nelson, Patrick Allen (Seaborg Institute for Transactinium Science, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P. O. Box 808, Livermore, CA 94551), Corwin Booth (Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720)

12:00 B28.006 Complete Titanium HCP to Omega Transformation Mechanism.

D. R. Trinkle, R. G. Hennig, J. W. Wilkins (Ohio State Univ.), D. M. Hatch, H. T. Stokes (Brigham Young University), M. D. Jones (SUNY, Buffalo), R. C. Albers, S. G. Srinivasan (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

12:12 B28.007 Vibrational Properties of Random Alloys: a Formalism to Treat Off-diagonal Disorder

Subhradip Ghosh, Paul L. Leath, Morrel H. Cohen (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, USA)

12:24 B28.008 Ab initio calculations of theoretical strength of copper under uniaxial tension

Miroslav Cerny (Institute of Physics of Materials, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Zizkova 22, CZ­-616 62 Brno, Czech Republic), Mojmir Sob (Institute of Physics of Materials, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Zizkova 22, CZ-­616 62 Brno, Czech Republic), Pavel Sandera (Institute of Engineering Physics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Brno University of Technology, Technicka 2, CZ-616 69 Brno, Czech Republic), Jaroslav Pokluda (Institute of Engineering Physics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology, Technicka 2, CZ-616 69 Brno, Czech Republic)

12:36 B28.009 Self-Diffusion of Adatoms on fcc (100) Surfaces

C.-M. Chang (National Center for High-Performance Computing, Hsinchu, Taiwan 30077, ROC), C.-M. Wei (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan 11529, ROC), M. Y. Chou (School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0430, USA)

12:48 B28.010 Evidence of local magnetic order in compressed hcp iron

Gerd Steinle-Neumann (Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC 20015-1035), Lars Stixrude (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1063), R. E. Cohen (Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC 20015-1035)

13:00 B28.011 Why is Polonium simple cubic?

David Roundy, Robert E. Kraig, Marvin L. Cohen (Dept. of Physics, University of California at Berkeley,CA, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley NationalLaboratory, Berkeley, CA.)

13:12 B28.012 Thermodynamic and structural properties of hcp bulk and nano-precipitated Ag-Al.

Nikolai Zarkevich, Duane Johnson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Andrei Smirnov (UIUC)

13:24 B28.013 Phonon anomalies in B2 NiAl from first principles

Xiangyang Huang, Ivan Naumov, Karin Rabe (Rutgers University), Rutgers University Team

13:36 B28.014 Ab-initio based electronic structure studies in elemental plutonium and cerium

A.K. Setty, B.R. Cooper (West Virginia University), D.L. Price (U. of Memphis)

13:48 B28.015 K-edge EXAFS and XANES studies of Cu in CdTe thin-film solar cells

Xiangxin Liu, Akhlesh Gupta, Alvin D. Compaan (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Toledo), Nadia Leyarovska (Biological, Chemical, and Physical Sciences, Illinois Institute of Technology), Jeff Terry (Dept. of Physics, University of Notre Dame), The Materials Research Collaborative Access Team

11:00 B29.001 Nanopore analysis of polymers in solution.

David Deamer (Dept. Chemistry, UC Santa Cruz CA)

11:36 B29.002 Some Physics and Applications for DNA Transport Through Single Nanopores

J.J. Kasianowicz (NIST, Gaithersburg, MD)

12:12 B29.003 Measuring DNA diffusion through a nanopore one molecule at a time

Amit Meller (The Rowland Institute for Science)

12:48 B29.004 Structure and Stability of Individual DNA or RNA Hairpin Molecules Captured in an Ion Channel

Mark Akeson (Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz)

13:24 B29.005 Solid State Nanopores for Single Molecule Detection and Characterization

Jene A. Golovchenko (Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences amp; Physics Department, Harvard University)

11:00 B30.001 Theoretical Studies of Gas Phase Bioanions

Maciej Gutowski (Theory, Modelingamp;Simulation, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, P.O. Box 999, Richland, WA 99352 and Department of Chemistry, University of Gdansk, 80-952 Gdansk, Poland)

11:36 B30.002 Dynamic transition in biopolymers: Role of a solvent

Alexei Sokolov (Department of Polymer Science, The University of Akron), Gokhan Caliskan, Alexander Kisliuk

11:48 B30.003 The Reactivity of HNO_x Species in Solvent-Free, Aqueous Media and Biological Systems

Joseph S. Francisco (Purdue University), David A. Dixon, David Feller, Chang-guo Zhan (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

12:00 B30.004 MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS HELP UNDERSTAND SINGLE-MOLECULE SPECTROSCOPIC ENZYME HYDROLYSIS (Part 2)

Erich R. Vorpagel, H. Peter Lu, Dehong Hu, Yu Chen (Pacific Northwest National Lab)

12:12 B30.005 Stability and properties of an \alpha-helix under uniaxial strain: a DFT study

Joel Ireta, Jörg Neugebauer, Matthias Scheffler (Fritz-Haver-Institut der Max Planck Gesellschaft, Berlin Germany.), Arturo Rojo, Marcelo Galván (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, México D.F., México.)

12:24 B30.006 Competing Intramolecular Forces in Polyenes

Hans F. Stabenau, Daniel P. Aalberts (Williams College)

12:36 B30.007 Active site structure and catalytic mechanism of phosphodiesterase for degradation of intracellular second messengers

Chang-Guo Zhan (Columbia University and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

12:48 B30.008 Slipperiness on Weak Interaction Potential Surfaces I.

Clifford Dykstra (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis)

13:00 B30.009 Protein Force Field Validation

George Kaminski, Matthew Jacobson, Richard Friesner (Columbia University Department of Chemistry)

13:12 B30.010 Semiempirical electron-photon-ion dynamics of chemical and biological systems

Roland Allen, Yusheng Dou (Texas Aamp;M University)

13:24 B30.011 Solvation of Polypeptides and Small Protiens: A Molecular Dynamics Study

Michael T. Bowers, Perdita Barran, Thomas Wyttenbach (Department of Chemistry, Universty of California at Santa Barbara)

13:36 B30.012 Examination of the Hydrogen-Bonding Properties of Anthranilic Acid in a Supersonic Jet

Cathrine A. Southern, Donald H. Levy (Department of Chemistry and the James Franck Institute, University of Chicago), Gina M. Florio, Asier Longarte, Timothy S. Zwier (Department of Chemistry, Purdue University)

B30.013 Decomposition of Peroxynitrous Acid does Not Yield HNO and O_2

Joseph S. Francisco (Purdue University), David A. Dixon, David Feller, Chang-guo Zhan (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

11:00 B31.001 Quantum Correlation of Optical and Matter Fields

Brian Seaman, Hong Ling (Rowan University)

11:12 B31.002 High-pressure studies of electrical transport and magnetic susceptibility in Ca3Ru2O7

B.A. deHarak, Y.V. Sushko (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506), G. Cao, J.E. Crow (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, FL 32310)

11:24 B31.003 Phase Transition in Computing Cost of Overconstrained NP-Complete 3-SAT Problems

Adam Woodson (NSF-REU Program, Physics Dept., University of Michigan; Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri), Thomas O'Donnell (Department of Physics, and Center for Study of Complex Systems, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI), Peter Maniloff (NSF-REU Program, Physics Dept., University of Michigan Duke University, Raleigh, NC)

11:36 B31.004 Developing Transparent Substrates Conductive AFM Studies of Semiconductor Nanocrystals

Sabrina Cleavenger (Student, Wheeling Jesuit University), Brigham Young University Physics Department Collaboration

11:48 B31.005 Measurements of Carbon Monoxide Abundance in Diffuse Interstellar Gas Clouds

Thomas Crenny (Wheeling Jesuit University, SPS), Steven Federman (University of Toledo, Professor)

12:00 B31.006 Coffee Break

12:12 B31.007 Hamline/3M Project: Liaison for Curricular Change

Andy Rundquist (Hamline University)

12:24 B31.008 Public Relations for Physics Departments: Convincing the Community that Quarks are Cool

Alaina G. Levine (The University of Arizona)

12:36 B31.009 African Scientific Network: A model to enhance scientific research in developing countries

Abebe Kebede (NC Aamp;T State University)

12:48 B31.010 GR for Replacement of Bounded, Decaying Populations

A.C. Tuary, John Wikswo (Vanderbilt University)

13:00 B31.011 Computational Physics in a Nutshell

Michael Schillaci (Francis Marion University)

13:12 B31.012 Spring- Coupled Masses with Wind Resistance

Joseph West (PHAO, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology)

13:24 B31.013 Research Experience for Students: A model to integrate research and education

Abebe Kebede (NC Aamp;T State University)

13:36 B31.014 Incorporating Business Education into Professional Master’s Degrees in Applied and Industrial Physics: What Works and What Doesn’t

Alaina G. Levine (The University of Arizona)

11:00 B32.001 Time-Frequency Resolved Four-Wave Mixing: From Control to Computing

V. A. Apkarian (Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine)

11:36 B32.002 Femtosecond laser control of multiphoton processes and nonlinear optical computation.

Katherine Walowicz, Igor Pastirk, Vadim Lozovoy, Matthew Comstock, Evgeny Sudachenko, Marcos Dantus (Michigan State University)

11:48 B32.003 Harnessing optical and chemical nonlinearity for nanofabrication

John Fourkas, Tommaso Baldacchini, Huzhen Chen, Richard Farrer (Department of Chemistry, Boston College), Michael Naughton, Joel Moser (Department of Physics, Boston College)

12:00 B32.004 A Coupled-Oscillator Model for Molecular Chirality in Nonlinear Optics

M. A. Belkin (Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley), C. Flytzanis (Laboratoire d'Optique Quantique du CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, France), Y. R. Shen (Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley)

12:12 B32.005 Nonlinear Optical Chiral Responses from Surface Monolayers and Bulk

S. H. Han, M. A. Belkin, Na Ji, Y. R. Shen (Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley)

12:24 B32.007 Polarization-Resolved Four-Wave Mixing Spectroscopy as a Probe of Intramolecular Dynamics

Patrick H. Vaccaro (Department of Chemistry, Yale University)

13:00 B32.008 Calculations of nonlinear Raman spectroscopy of Xe

Jianshu Cao (MIT)

13:12 B32.009 Absorption Anisotropy Studies of Ultrafast Dynamics in Transition Metal Chromophores

James McCusker (Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University)

13:24 B32.010 The Interaction Between Rotating Dipoles

Y.C. Lan, R. Tao (Temple U., Philadelphia, PA)

B33.001 Polymer Physics I

B33.002 Miscibility of Polymers under Pressure

Juan Gonzalez, You-Yeon Won, Anne M. Mayes (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Kwan-Woo Shin, Sushil Satija (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland)

B33.003 Morphology of Rigid Rod Polymers (PBO, PBT) Membranes

Rahmi Ozisik, S. Putthanarat, Lei Zhu, R.K. Eby (Dept. and Inst. of Polymer Science, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-3909), Soo Y. Park, Hilmar Koerner, Shane Juhl, Thuy A. Dang, Barry L. Farmer (AFRL/MLBP, WPAFB, OH 45433-7734), Fengji Yeh (Dept. of Chemistry, The State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, 11794-3400)

B33.004 The Crystallization Behavior of Strongly Interacting Chains

Amy M. Heintz, Robin L. McKiernan, Sam P. Gido, Jacques Penelle, Shaw L. Hsu (Polymer Science and Engineering Department and Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, University of Massachusetts at Amherst)

B33.005 Crystallization and Microstructure Formation of Poly(L-lactide-co-meso-lactide) Copolymers: A Time-Resolved Wide- and Small-Angle X-ray Scattering Study

J. Cho, S. Baratian, J. Kim, J. Runt (Penn State University), F. Yeh, B. S. Hsiao (SUNY Stony Brook)

B33.006 A vibrational spectroscopic study on amorphous phase associated with crystallization and deformation behavior of poly(lactic acid)

Shuhui Kang (University of Massachussetts at Amherst, Dept. of physics and Dept. of polymer sciamp;eng.), Shaw Ling Hsu (University of Massachussetts at Amherst, Dept. of polymer sciamp;eng.)

B33.007 Copolymer Crystallization: Approaching Equilibrium

Buckley Crist, Terry Finerman (Northwestern University)

B33.008 Structural Studies on Naphthalene-Based Rigid-Rod Benzobisthiazole Polymers

Soo-Young Park (Air Force Research Lab), Jar-wha Lee (Syscom Technology Inc.), N. Venkatasubramanian (Univ. of Dayton Research Inst.), Thuy D. Dang, Fred E. Arnold, B. L. Farmer (Air Force Research Lab)

B33.009 The Study of Exciton relax Process in a Polymeric molecule

Xi-juan Zhang (Department of Physics, Yangzhou University, China.), Zheng-ming Shao (Yangzhou Skilled Workers' School, China.)

B33.010 An Integrated Approach to the ATHAS Data Bank

E. V. Kosyreva, A. I. Buzin, M. Pyda, B. Wunderlich (The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN)

B33.011 Friction on Macroscopic vs. Nanoscopic Objects: Solute Rotation in Small-Molecule and Polymer Solvents

Mark M. Somoza, Mikhail I. Sluch, Mark A. Berg (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia SC 29208)

B33.012 Polymer Dynamics of Entangled Mixtures in Both Terminal and Rouse Regimes

Shanfeng Wang, Shi-Qing Wang (Department of Polymer Science, University of Akron)

B33.013 Understanding the Mechanism of Cyanoacrylate Polymerization in Latent Fingerprinting

Steve Wargacki, Mark Dadmun (Chemistry Dept. University of Tennesse, Knoxville, TN 37996), Linda Lewis, Gerald Devault (Y-12 National Security Complex, Oak Ridge TN 37831)

B33.014 Molecular Modeling of Structural Evolution in PBO Fibers

Greg Hostetter, David Martin (The University of Michigan)

B33.015 Chirality Effects on the Morphology and Structure of Synthetic Chiral Main-chain Liquid Crystal Polyesters

X. Weng, C. Y. Li, J. Z. Zhang, F. Bai, S. Jin, F. W. Harris, S. Z. D. Cheng (The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325-3909)

B33.016 Morphology Development and Dynamics of Thermally Initiated Polymerization-Induced Phase Separation in Mixtures of a Nematic Liquid Crystal and Self-Curable Monomer

Hatice Duran, Yamashita Atsushi, Thein Kyu (The University of Akron)

B33.017 Phase Behavior and Phase Structures of Hexa-n-octoxyl-triphenylene

J. Jing, Y. Tang, B. Monsdorf, H. W. Harris, S. Z. D. Cheng (Maurice Morton Institute and Department of Polymer Science)

B33.018 Structural and Morphological Cahracterization of PBO Mmembranes for High Temperature Fuel Cells

Hilmar Koerner, S. Juhl (Univ. of Dayton Research Inst.), S. Y. Park, T. D. Dang, Fred E. Arnold, B. L. Farmer (Air Force Research Lab), R. Ozisik, S. Puttanarat, R. K. Eby (Univ. of Akron)

B33.019 Spatio-Temporal simulation of Twisted Polymer Single Crystal

Rujul Mehta, Thein Kyu (Institute of Polymer Engineering, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325-0301)

B33.020 Structure and morphology of Nylon 6,6

W. Cai (The University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325), C. Y. Li (Department of materials engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104), F. Khoury (NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 3460, Gaithersburg, MD 20899), S.Z.D. Cheng (The University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325)

B33.021 Phase Structure and Properties of a Biodegradable Block Copolymer Coalesced from It's Crystalline Inclusion Compound Formed with alpha-Cyclodextrin

Xintao Shuai (ERC and Technical Research Center of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China), Min Wei, Francis Probeni, Todd A. Bullions (Fiber amp; Polymer Science Program, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC), I. Daniel Shin (Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Campbell Universiuty, Buies Creek, NC), Alan E. Tonelli (Fiber amp; Polymer Science Program, North Carolina State University, Campus Box 8301, raleigh, NC 27695-8301), NCState Fiber amp; Polymer science Collaboration, Chinese Academy of Sciences Collaboration, Campbell University School of Pharmacy Collaboration

B33.022 Calorimetric Study of Gradient Block-copolymers of Poly(butylacrylate) and Poly(methylmethacrylate)

(1) A. I. Buzin, (1)M. Pyda, (2) K. Matyjaszewski, (1) B. Wunderlich ((1) The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN;(2) Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA)

B33.023 Phase Separation in Poly(urethane urea) Multiblock Copolymers

J. T. Garrett, R. Xu, J. Cho, J. Runt (Penn State University)

B33.024 The Extensional Viscosity and Orientation of Triblock Copolymer

Eun Young Kim, Chris Macosko (University of Minnesota, Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science), Tim Lodge (University of Minnesota, Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science, Department of Chemistry)

B33.025 Application of Density Function Theory to Tethered Polymer Chains

John D. McCoy, Yuan Ye (Mate. Dept., New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM 87801), John G. Curro (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185)

B33.026 Ionic Transport in Polyimide Films as Probed by Impedance Spectroscopy

F. Nelson Nunalee, Kenneth R. Shull, Thomas O. Mason (Northwestern University)

B33.027 Scanning Force Microscopy Study of Surface Effects in Ion Containing Polymers

Russell J. Composto, Karen E. Sohn (Department of Materials Science amp; Engineering, Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104), Yossef Yossef Elabd (U.S. Army Research Lab, Aberdeen, Md), Russel M. Walters (Department of Chemical Engineering, Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104)

B33.028 Dewetting Studies of Perfluorinated Ionomer Thin Films

Yunfei Jiang, Teresa Hill, Jiao Xuesong, Dvora Perahia (Chemistry Department and Material Science and Engineering,Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634)

B33.029 Formation of DNA-network embedding ferromagnetic Cobalt nano-particles

Teruo Kanki, Hidekazu Tanaka, Hideaki Shirakawa, Yu Sacho, Masateru Taniguchi, Hea-yeon Lee, Tomoji Kawai (The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, Japan), Nam-Jung Kang, Jinwoo Chen (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea)

B33.030 STUDIES OF NATURAL RUBBER CLONES BY STANDARD METHODS AND NANOMECHANICS TECHNIQUES

Mariselma Ferreira (IFSC, USP, São Carlos, SP, Brazil, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA), Luiz Henrique Capparelli Mattoso, Rogerio Moreno (Embrapa, São Carlos, SP, Brazil), Paulo Goncalves (IAC, Campinas, SP, Brazil), Dorothy Hosler, Christine Ortiz (MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA)

B33.031 Shear-Induced Structure in Asymmetric Polymer Blends

E. K. Hobbie, H. Wang, H. Jeon, H. Kim, D. J. Stout, C. C. Han (NIST)

B33.032 Dynamics of Polymer Blends with Intermolecular Hydrogen Bonding

S. H. Zhang, P. C. Painter, J. Runt (Penn State University)

B33.033 Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Alkyl Sulfonic Acid-Doped Polyaniline/Layered Silicate Nanocomposites

Dongkyu Lee, Kookheon Char (School of Chemical Engineering and Institute of Chemical Processes, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-744, Korea)

B33.034 Homopolymer/homopolymer blends with UCST and LCST

Du Yeol Ryu, Seung Hoon Chae, Jin Kon Kim (Department of Chemical Engineering and Polymer Research Institute, Electronic and Computer Engineering Divisions, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Kyungbuk 790-784, Korea)

B33.035 Phase Behavior of block copolymer and homopolymer blends with constituent blocks.

Du Yeol Ryu, Jin Kon Kim (Department of Chemical Engineering and Polymer Research Institute, Electronic and Computer Engineering Divisions, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Kyungbuk 790-784, Korea), Thomas P. Russell (Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA01003), Thomas P. Russell Collaboration

B33.036 Reaction of End-Functionalized Chains at the Interface between Immiscible Polymers

B. J. Kim, E. J. Kramer (UCSB), H. Kang, K. Char (SNU)

B33.037 Oriented Structure of Pentablock Copolymers Induced by Solution Extrusion

Tamotsu Harada, Frank S. Bates, Timothy P. Lodge (Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota)

B33.038 Cylinder Nucleation at T-Junction Grain Boundaries in Lamellar Block Copolymer / Homopolymer Blends

Engin Burgaz, Samuel Gido (Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst)

B33.039 Morphologies and tensile properties of Block-Double-Graft Copolymers

Yuqing Zhu, Samuel P. Gido (University of Massachusetts-Amherst), Gabriel Velis, Nikos Hadjichristidis (University of Athens)

B33.040 Micellization of PEO-PPO-PEO triblock copolymers in aqueous electrolyte solutions

S.K. Sukumaran, G. Beaucage (Dept. of Materials Science and Eng., University of Cincinnati), P. Thiyagarajan (Intensed Pulsed Neutron Source, Argonne National Laboratory)

B33.041 Exploring the Molecular Origins of Bio(in)compatibility: Adhesion Between Proteins and Individual Chains of Poly(ethylene oxide)

Monica A. Rixman (), Christine Ortiz (M.I.T., Cambridge, MA)

B33.042 On Annealing and Ferroelectric Behavior in Poly(Vinylidene Fluoride-Trifluoroethylene) Random Copolymers

M.C. Christie (Chemical and Physical Laboratory, Cordis Corporation, A Johnson amp; Johnson Company, Miami Lakes, Florida), J.I. Scheinbeim (Polymer Electroprocessing Laboratory, Department of Chemical amp; Biochemical Engineering,Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey)

B33.043 Diffusion of Polystyrene in PS/PVME Blends

Ha Seon Park, Timothy P. Lodge (University of Minnesota)

B33.044 Shear-induced droplet coalescence in immiscible fluids

Steven Hudson (NIST), Brian Burkhart (Goodyear Tire amp; Rubber Co.), Alex Jamieson (Case Western Reserve U.), Prasad Gopalkrishnan (Case Wesern Reserve U.), Robert Davis (U. Colorado, Boulder)

B33.045 Improving Compatibility of Melt Blending of Poly(methyl methacrylate) and Polystyrene by Using Nanoscale fillers

MAYU SI, Miriam Rafailovich, Jonathan Sokolov (Department of Material Science and Engineering, State University of New York at Stony Brook)

B33.046 Diffusion Studies of PS and PMMA Thin Films in Nanoparticles Filled Systems

Xuesong Hu (Dept. of Materials Sci. amp; Eng., SUNY at Stony Brook, NY 11794), M. Bronner (Rambam Mesivta High School, Cedarhurst, NY 11516), A. Shah (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138), W. Zhang, M. Rafailovich, J. Sokolov (Dept. of Materials Sci. amp; Eng., SUNY at Stony Brook, NY 11794), V. Zaitsev, S. Schwarz (Dept. of Physics, Queens CUNY, Flushing, NY 11367), D. Peiffer (ExxonMobile Research and Engineering Company, Annandale, NJ 08801)

B33.047 Studies on the Phase Separation Dynamics of Polyetherimide Modified Thermosetting Polyimides

Gregory Yandek, Thein Kyu (The University of Akron), Jong-Beom Baek, Tan Loon-Seng (AFRL/MLBP, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB)

B33.048 Solution Spinning and Characterization of Poly (vinyl alcohol) /Soybean Polyblend Fibers

XIEFEI ZHANG, Satish Kumar (School of Textile and Fiber Engineering, GIT)

B33.049 Effect Of Supercooling On Morphology Of Crystals Grown In Blends Of Syndiotactic Polypropylene And Polyolefin Elastomers

Wirunya Keawwattanna, Thein Kyu (Institute of Polymer Engineering, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44304-0301)

B33.050 Broadband Dielectric Investigation of Poly(ethylene oxide) and Its Blends with Poly(styrene-co-p-hydroxystyrene)

X. Jin, J. Runt (Penn State University)

B33.051 Self-Assembled Morphology and Dewetting Pathway for Annealed Polymer Trilayer Films

C. Schultz-Nielsen, J.R. Dutcher (Univ. of Guelph, Canada)

B33.052 Roughness-induced morphology in polystyrene capped films of poly(ethylene oxide)

David Vader, James A. Forrest (Department of Physics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada), Kari Dalnoki-Veress (Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada)

B33.053 Crystallization in Thin Films of Poly(ethylene-vinyl acetate)

Yantian Wang, Wenhua Zhang, Shouren Ge, Miriam Rafailovich, Jonathan Sokolov (Dept. of Materials Sci. amp; Eng., State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook)

B33.054 Nanoparticle Arrays via Polymer Template Thin Films

Matthew Misner, Habib Skaff, Todd Emrick, Thomas P. Russell (Polymer Science amp; Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts - Amherst)

B33.055 Dynamics of Dewetting Polymer Films

Ralf Seemann, Stephan Herminghaus, Karin Jacobs (University of Ulm, Dept. of Applied Physics, D-89069 Ulm)

B33.056 Determination of Surface Energies with Polymer Thin Film Dewetting

Sung-Hwan Choi, Bi-Min Zhang Newby (The University of Akron)

B33.057 Photoacid Generation in Thin Films of Chemically Amplified Photoresist

Adam Pawloski, Paul Nealey (Center for Nanotechnology and Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison)

B33.058 Gradient Heterogeneous Surface

Irene Tsai, Masahiro Kimura, Zhiqun Lin, Rebecca Stockton, Alex Fadeev, Bruce Jacobson, Thomas P. Russell (University of Mass - Amherst)

B33.059 Optimization of a Chlorosilane Reaction with Oxidized Polydimethylsiloxane

Rachel L. McSwain, Kenneth R. Shull, SonBinh T. Nguyen, HongYing Zhou (Northwestern University)

B33.060 Building Micromachines out of Liquids

Shu Yang, Tom Krupenkin (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies)

B33.061 Experimental investigation of the Ogston model for electrophoresis using calibrated matrices

Laurette McCormick, Gary Slater (University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada), Bernard Tinland (Institut Charles Sadron, CNRS, Strasbourg, France)

B33.062 Characterization of peptide based hydrogels using cryo-transmission electron microscopy

Bulent Ozbas, Lisa Pakstis, Vahik Krikorian, Darrin Pochan (Dept of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware), Andrew P. Nowak, Timothy J. Deming (Depts of Materials and Chemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara)

B33.063 Behavior of Electrospinning Jet

Han Xu, Darrell Reneker (Maurice Morton Institute of Polymer Science, The University of Akron)

B33.064 Novel Fluorescence Methods for Characterizing Tg and Relaxation Dynamics in Ultrathin Polymer Films

Christopher J. Ellison, John M. Torkelson (Northwestern University)

B33.065 Role of water in polymer surface modification using organosilanes

Pradeep Kumar Thallapalle, Bi-Min Zhang Newby (THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON)

B33.066 Critical Electric Field strength of alignment of symmetric diblock copolymers

Ting Xu, Yuqing Zhu (Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Mass., Amherst), Thomas Russell (AffiDepartment of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Mass., Amherst)

B33.067 Imaging Polymer Surfaces with Time-Resolved Fluorescence

Jeff Turner (Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois), Sangmin Jeon, Sung Chul Bae (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois), Steve Granick (Departments of Chemistry, of Physics, and of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois)

B33.068 Percolation Analysis of Lamella Melting and Thin Film Glass Transition Temperatures

Richard Wool (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark DE 19716-3144)

B33.069 Guided Self-assembly of Cylinder-forming Asymmetric Diblock Copolymers on Nano-patterned Substrates Produced by Interferometric Lithography

Qiang Wang, Paul Nealey, Juan de Pablo (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison)

B33.070 Dewetting on Coated Substrates

Sabrina Segnere, Ana Pinto, Holly Hudson, Matthew Clarke, Joseph Polidan, Alan Esker (Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech)

B33.071 Electrospinning of Molten Polymers in Vacuum and Air

Ratthapol Rangkupan, Darrell Reneker (Maurice Morton Institute of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, OH)

B33.072 Ordering in thin films of novel block copolymers with thermo-reactive blocks

H. -C. Kim, L. Li, E. Harth, C. J. Hawker (IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120), T. P. Russell (Polymer Science and Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003)

B33.073 Polypropylene /Single Wall Carbon Nano Tube Composites – Crystallization Behavior and Fiber Processing Studies

T. V. Sreekumar, Arup R Bhattacharyya, Atul Kumar, Huina Guo, Satish Kumar (School of Textile and Fiber Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332), Lars Ericson, Richard E Smalley (Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston TX)

B33.074 Controlling Pore Size in Membranes prepared by Phase Separating Thin Film Polymer Blend

Hyun-joong Chung (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania), Howard Wang (Polymer Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology), Russell J. Composto (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania)

B33.075 Single Wall Carbon Nano Tube Films and Coatings

T. V. Sreekumar, Satish Kumar (School of Textile and Fiber Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332), Lars M. Ericson, Richard E. Smalley (Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston TX)

B33.076 Fluorinated Side-Chain Polystyrene-Based Polymers

A. Hexemer, E. J. Kramer (UCSB), X. Li, L. Andruzzi, C. K. Ober (Cornell), G. Galli, E. E. Chiellini (Univ. Pisa)

B33.077 Spreading of a chain macromolecule onto a cell membrane by a computer simulation Model

Jun Xie, Ras Pandey (University of Southern Mississippi)

B33.078 Mixed interactions in random copolymers

Toma Marinov, Jutta Luettmer-Strathmann (Department of Physics, The University of Akron)

B33.079 A lattice model of the Ogston Regime of gel electrophoresis: generalization to treat high electric field intensities.

Michel G. Gauthier, Gary W. Slater (University of Ottawa)

B33.080 Effects of Size Disparity of Filler Particles on Percolation and Thermal Properties of a Polymer Matrix: An Exact Model Calculation on Recursive Lattices

Andrea Corsi, P. D. Gujrati (Department of Physics and Department of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325 USA)

B33.081 DNA Electrophoresis on Nanopatterned surfaces

Haobin Luo, Dilip Gersappe (Dept. of Materials Science and Engg, SUNY at Stony Brook)

B33.082 Entropic effects of copolymer localization at semiflexible polymer interfaces

Wentao Li (Dept of Materials Science and Engg, SUNY at Stony Brook), Glen Ko (MC-RIC, Cambridge MA), Dilip Gersappe (Dept of Materials Science and Engg, SUNY at Stony Brook)

B33.083 IR Dichroism of poly(trimethylene terephthalate) Fibers

Jing Wu (Chemical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology), Baohua Guo, Rui Yang (Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)

B33.084 The Hydration Dynamics of Polyelectrolyte Gels

Charles Wolgemuth (University of California, Berkeley), Alex Mogilner (University of California, Davis), George Oster (University of California, Berkeley)

B33.085 Single lamella studies of self-assembled block copolymers

Dennis Discher, Helim Aranda-Espinoza, Harry Bermudez, Aaron Brannan, Frank Bates (University of Pennsylvania amp; University of Minnesota*)

B33.086 Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Layered Silicate-Solvent System

Anuchai Sinsawat (Univ. of Virginia), R. A. Vaia, B. L. Farmer (Air Force Research Lab)

B33.087 Computer Simulation of the Mechanical Properties of Nanostructures of Polymer Glasses

Kevin Van Workum, Paul F. Nealey, Juan J. de Pablo (Center for NanoTechnology, University of Wisconsin - Chemical Engineering)

B33.088 Deformation Properties in Combinatorial Nanoscopic Polymer Structures

Mark P. Stoykovich, Kenji Yoshimoto, Heidi B. Cao, Paul F. Nealey (University of Wisconsin - Madison and Center for NanoTechnology), Leonidas E. Ocola (Agere Systems)

B33.089 From micro to nano stamps

Dong Ha Kim, Zhiqun Lin (Polymer Science and Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst), Ho-Cheol Kim (IBM Almaden Research Center), Kyu Soon Shin (Seoul National University), Thomas Russell (Polymer Science and Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst)

B33.090 NEXAFS of Poly(amidoamine-organosilicon) (PAMAMOS) Dendrimer Network Nanocomposites

Robert Bubeck, Jieming Li, Petar Dvornic (Michigan Molecular Institute), Alexander Hexemer (Univeristy of California at Santa Barbara), Xuefa Li (Cornell Univeristy), Luisa Andruzzi (Cornell University), Daniel Fischer (NIST)

B33.091 Phase behavior and transitions in nanostructured polymers

Hu Duan, Prartana Kewsuwan (Case Western Reserve U.), Steven Hudson (NIST), Virgil Percec (U. Pennsylvania)

B33.092 Processing, Structure, and Properties of Fibers from PMMA/ Carbon Nano Fiber Composites

Jijun Zeng, Satish Kumar (School of Textile and Fiber Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology)

B33.093 Rheology of nanofilled polymer composites

Eihab Jaber, Dilip Gersappe (Dept. of Materials Science and Engg, SUNY at Stony Brook)

B33.094 Rod shaped MEH-PPV Nanoparticles that are Spatially Oriented

KK Pradeep Kumar, Mark Dadmun (Chemistry Dept., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996), R.M. Dickson (School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332), Michael D. Barnes (Chemical Sciences Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge TN 37830)

B33.095 Simulation of Nanoscale Inclusions in Binary Phase-separating Mixtures.

Gavin Buxton, Anna Balazs (Chemical Engineering Department, University of Pittsburgh.), David Jasnow (Department of Physics, University of Pittsburgh.)

B33.096 Structural Analysis of Photoresist Collapse

Kenji Yoshimoto (University of Wisconsin, Center for Nanotechnology), Mark Stoykovich, Heidi Cao, Paul Nealey

B33.097 Structure and Properties of poly (para phynelyne benzobisoxazole) (PBO) /single wall carbon nano tube composite fibers

Satish Kumar, Xiefei Zhang, Arup R. Bhattacharyya, Byung G. Min (School of Textile and Fiber Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA-30332-0295), T.D. Dang, F.E. Arnold, Richard A. Vaia (Air Force Research Laboratory, WPAFB OH 45433-7750), S. Ramesh, P.A. Willis, R.H. Hauge, R.E. Smalley (CNST, Rice University, Houston TX 77005)

B33.098 Confinement Free Energy of Polymer Solutions between Two Parallel Plates

Yongmei Wang, Yingchuan Gong (Department of Chemistry, North Carolina A amp;T State University), Michael Rubinstein (Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3290)

B33.099 Fast Position Measurements with Scanning Line Optical Tweezers

Rajalakshmi Nambiar, Jens-Christian Meiners (University of Michigan, Dept. of Physics and Biophysics Research Division)