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)