Program overview

FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 24 OCTOBER 2003

Session F1. Lead-Off Invited Session.

Friday afternoon, 13:42, Pima, Memorial Union

13:42 F1.001 Hyperpolarized Gases: From Atomic Physics to Seeing Lungs Breathe
Brian Saam (Department of Physics, University of Utah)
14:18 F1.002 Protein Flexibilty and Folding
Michael Thorpe (Arizona State University)
14:54 F1.003 Neutrino Masses and Mixing: An Overview
Steven Elliott (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Session F2. Biophysics.

Friday afternoon, 16:00, Pima, Memorial Union

16:00 F2.001 Towards a continuum theory of movement in interacting cellular systems
Timothy Newman (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University)
16:36 F2.002 Atomic Force Microscope Conductivity Measurements on Single Ferritin Molecules
Degao Xu, Gerald D. Watt, John N. Harb, Robert C. Davis (Brigham Young University)
16:48 F2.003 Slaved and Non-Slaved Dynamical Transitions in a protein
Robert D. Young (Northern Arizona University amp; Los Alamos National Lab.)
17:00 F2.004 Survival distributions for movement in a heterogeneous environment
Paul Logan, Timothy Newman (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University), Biophysics Group Collaboration
17:12 F2.005 Physics in Medicine: Building a Proton Therapy Facility at the Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute
Michael M. Skeen (Department of Physics, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602)
17:24 F2.006 Bilayer Incorporated Influenza A M2 Single Molecule Time Dependent AFM Studies
Travis Hughes, Brad Strongin, Viksita Vijayvergia, David Busath, Robert Davis (Brigham Young University)

Session F3. Materials Design.

Friday afternoon, 16:00, LaPaz, Memorial Union

16:00 F3.001 Ab Initio investigations of the initial dehydroxylation reactions in 1-T lizardite
Deirdre Gormley, Andrew Chizmeshya (Arizona State University)
16:12 F3.002 An electron holography study of GaN p-n junction
Rong Liu, Fernando A. Ponce (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ)
16:24 F3.003 Transitions in SiC
Jesse Gunter, James Lewis, Harold Stokes, Dorian Hatch (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young University)
16:36 F3.004 Evaluation of the electronic band structure of a new semiconductor ternary using Ge, Si, and Sn
Candi S. Cook (Arizona State University), Stefan Zollner (Motorola), Jose Menendez, A.V.G. Chizmeshya, Pavan Aella, John Tolle, John Kouvetakis (Arizona State Univeristy)
16:48 F3.005 Fitting Model Hamiltonians via Genetic Algorithms: Applications to Cluster Expansions
Gus L. Hart (Northern Arizona University), Volker Blum (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), Michael Walorski (Northern Arizona University)
17:00 F3.006 Changes in CdS/CdTe Solar Cells Subjected to Elevated Temperature, Voltage and Illumination
Samuel Demtsu, Tim Nagle (Colorado State University)
17:12 F3.007 Cluster-Expansion Modeling of the TiC_1-xN_x system: A Predictive Route to Effective Materials Design
Brian Kolb, Gus Hart (Northern Arizona University)
17:24 F3.008 Density functional study of aluminum ceramic interfaces
Newton E. Ooi, James B. Adams (Arizona State University)

Session F4. Novel Themes.

Friday afternoon, 16:00, Coconino, Memorial Union

16:00 F4.001 Total Negative Refraction: A New Frontier in Optics
Angelo Mascarenhas (NREL, 1617 Cole Blvd., Golden CO 80401)
16:36 F4.002 Using Atomic Diffraction of Na from Material Gratings to Measure Atom-Surface Interactions
John D. Perreault, Alexander D. Cronin (University of Arizona)
16:48 F4.003 Making transmission and reflection holograms using 650 nm laser diode from laser pointer
Alexander Panin, Eric Brown, Tracy Martinez, Dmitry Panin (Utah Valley State College)
17:00 F4.004 Chile Sorting Using Measurement of Specular Reflection at Brewster's Angle
Ryan Herbon (New Mexico State University MTECH), DeAntonio Michael, Montgomery Jeff (New Mexico State University Physics Department), New Mexico Chili Task Force Team
17:12 F4.005 Self-referencing interferometric measurement of microradian wedge angles
Rebecca Olson, Rebecca Merrill, Elizabeth Cummings, Scott Bergeson, Dallin Durfee (Brigham Young University)
17:24 F4.006 Field Ionization detection of supersonic helium atom beams
R.B. Doak (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ)