Program overview

THURSDAY MORNING, 31 OCTOBER 2002

Session BA. Plasma Physics Invited Session.

Thursday morning, 08:30, Auditorium, Auburn University Hotel/Dixon Conference Center

08:30 BA.001 Innovation in the Stellarator Concept: An overview of new US stellarator experiments for fusion research
Stephen Knowlton (Department of Physics, Auburn University)
09:05 BA.002 Dusty Plasmas
Mian Abbas (MSFC/NSSTC)
09:40 BA.003 NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center’s Contributions to Space Plasma Physics
Mark L. Adrian (NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center — University of Alabama in Huntsville — National Space Science and Technology Center)

Session BB. Condensed Matter I: Thin Films.

Thursday morning, 08:30, Room I, Auburn University Hotel/Dixon Conference Center

08:30 BB.001 Electrochemical Atomic Layer Epitaxy of Thin Film CdSe
L. PHAM, K. KALEIDA, U. HAPPEK (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602), M.K. MATHE, R. VAIDYANATHAN, J.L. STICKNEY (Dept. of Chemistry, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602), M. RADEVIC (Dept. of Physics, The University of Portland, Portland, OR)
08:45 BB.002 Electrochemical Atomic Layer Epitaxy: Deposition of PbSe, PbTe, and PbSe/PbTe-superlattice thin films.
S.P. Compton, S.M. Cox, U. Happek (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602), R. Vaidyanathan, J.L. Stickney (Dept. of Chemistry, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602)
09:00 BB.003 Photoelectron spectroscopy of interfaces of HfO_2 on SiO_2 and Si_3N_4 films
M. D. Ulrich, T. D. Abatemarco, G. N. Parsons, J. E. Rowe (North Carolina State University), T. E. Madey (Rutgers University)
09:15 BB.004 UV-Visible Photoluminescence-Raman Microscopy of GaN Thin Films Grown on Sapphire by Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition
Zhe Chuan Feng, Ian Ferguson (Georgia Institute of Technology), School of Electrical amp; Computer Engineering Team
09:30 BB.005 Investigation of the activation and passivation of the Mg acceptor in GaN:Mg using EPR
D. Matlock, M.E. Zvanut (Department of Physics, UAB, Birmingham, AL 35294-1170), R.L. Henry (NRL, Washington D.C.)

Session BC. Quantum Theory.

Thursday morning, 08:30, Ballroom B, Auburn University Hotel/Dixon Conference Center

08:30 BC.001 Does the Wave Function Collapse When Indefiniteness Becomes Definite?
Wendell G. Holladay (Vanderbilt University)
08:45 BC.002 Derivation of a measuring master equation
James Marsh (The University of West Florida)
09:00 BC.003 Transient Effects during the Boost Phase of a Free Particle Wave-packet
Ravi Vadapalli (Engineering Research Center, Mississippi State University), Charles Weatherford (Dept. of Physics, Florida A amp; M University), Carino Ricolindo (Engineering Research Center), Ioana Banicescu (Dept. of Computer Science amp; Engineering Research Center), Zhu Jianping (Dept. of Theoretical and Applied Mathematics, Univeristy of Akron)
09:15 BC.004 Semi-Classical Calculation of the Energy Levels For the Linear Potential
'Kale Oyedeji (Morehouse College), Ronald E. Mickens (Clark Atlanta University)
09:30 BC.005 Dynamics on Differential One-Forms
Troy Story (Morehouse College)
09:45 BC.006 Building real 4-d space-time from real 2-d spaces
Dennis Marks (Valdosta State University), Larry Arbuckle (Florida Institute of Technology), Jason Looper (University of South Florida)