Program overview

THURSDAY AFTERNOON, 31 OCTOBER 2002

13:30 DA.001 Highlights from Three years of the Chandra X-ray Observatory

Martin Weisskopf (NASA/MSFC)

14:05 DA.002 Commissioning the first LIGO detectors

Joseph A. Giaime (Louisiana State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy)

14:40 DA.003 Short-lived Extinct Radioactivities and the Birth of the Sun

Bradley Meyer (Clemson University)

13:30 DB.001 Thermal conductivity of the elemental crystalline silicon clathrate Si_136

Jr. Lamberton, Terry M. Tritt (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University), M. Beekman, R. W. Ertenberg, George S. Nolas (Department of Physics, University of South Florida), J. Gryko (Department of Physical and Earth Sciences, Jacksonville State University)

13:45 DB.002 Electrical Transport Properties of Rare Earth Doped Pentatellurides

Nathan D. Lowhorn, Terry M. Tritt (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University), Edward E. Abbott, J. W. Kolis (Dept. of Chemistry, Clemson University)

14:00 DB.003 Electrical and Thermal Transport in Quasicrystalline Materials

Amy Pope, Terry Tritt (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, SC)

14:15 DB.004 Grain size effects on reductions in lattice thermal conductivity of TiNiSn half-Heusler alloys

S. Bhattacharya, Terry M. Tritt (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634 USA), Y. Xia, V. Ponnambalam, S.J. Poon (Dept. of Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA), N. Thadhani (Dept. of Material Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA)