Program overview

SUNDAY MORNING, 6 APRIL 2003

10:45 H1.001 Supersymmetry and its Experimental Tests

K.S. Babu (Oklahoma State University)

11:21 H1.002 Collider Tests for Extra Dimensions

Kingman Cheung (National Center for Theoretical Sciences)

11:57 H1.003 String/Brane Cosmology Confronting Observations

Henry Tye (Cornell University)

12:33 H1.004 Particle Dark Matter from Physics Beyond the Standard Model

Konstantin Matchev (Department of Physics, University of Florida)

13:09 H1.005 Time-Varying Fundamental Constants

Keith Olive (University of Minnesota)

10:45 H2.001 Electromagnetic Excitation of Nucleon Resonances using CLAS

Kyungseon Joo (University of Connecticut)

11:21 H2.002 Nucleon Resonances and Lattice QCD

David Richards (Jefferson Laboratory)

11:57 H2.003 Unravelling the Proton's Spin

Andrei Belitsky (Department of Physics, University of Maryland at College Park)

12:33 H2.004 Nucleon Spin Structure: Experiment

Andy Miller (TRIUMF)

10:45 H3.001 An Overview of the Dynamics of Gas in Galaxy Clusters

Joel N. Bregman (University of Michigan)

11:21 H3.002 A Chandra and XMM View of the Metals in Groups and Clusters of Galaxies

David Buote (University of California, Irvine)

11:57 H3.003 Hot X-ray emitting gas in galaxies

G. Fabbiano (Harvard University)

12:33 H3.004 Galactic Fountains and Winds --- the link between galaxies and the intergalactic medium

David Strickland (The Johns Hopkins University)

13:09 H3.005 Molecular Gas and Star Formation in Nearby Galaxies

Michele D. Thornley (Bucknell University)

10:45 H4.001 30 Years of APS Congressional Fellows: Looking Back and Looking Forward

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10:45 H5.001 Scientific Operation of LIGO

Gary H Sanders (California Institute of Technology)

11:21 H5.002 LIGO Detector Commissioning

Frederick Raab (LIGO Hanford Observatory, California Institute of Technology)

11:57 H5.003 LIGO and GEO Developments for Advanced LIGO

Sheila Rowan (Stanford Universtiy and University of Glasgow)

12:33 H5.004 Analysis of the First LIGO Data

Erik Katsavounidis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

13:09 H5.005 Sources and Science with LIGO data

Jolien Creighton (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee)

10:45 H6.001 New results in direct drive inertial confinement fusion

T. Craig Sangster (University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics)

11:21 H6.002 Indirect Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion Hohlraum Physics Using A 1-2 MJ Z-pinch X-ray Source*

R. J. Leeper (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185)

11:57 H6.003 Physics Issues of Heavy-Ion-Beam-Driven Inertial Confinement Fusion*

Christine Celata (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Heavy Ion Fusion Virtual National Laboratory)

12:33 H6.004 Early-Time Evolution of Hydrodynamic Perturbations in Laser Fusion Targets

Alexander L. Velikovich (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375)

13:09 H6.005 Energy Transport and Ionization Balance in Isochorically Heated Dense Plasmas*

Otto Landen (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore CA 94550)

10:45 H7.001 How Things Work: Teaching Physics in the Context of Everyday Life

Louis Bloomfield (Department of Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904)

11:21 H7.002 The Wonders of Physics

J. C. Sprott (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

11:57 H7.003 Classroom Demonstrations: Learning Tools or Entertainment?

Catherine H. Crouch (Harvard University)

12:33 H7.004 The Physics IQ Test

Richard Berg (University of Maryland)

10:45 H8.001 Elmer Samuel Imes

Ronald E. Mickens (Clark Atlanta University)

11:09 H8.002 Emergence of Cosmic Structure: The First Two Centuries of the First Two Eons

Virginia Trimble (Astronomy Department, University of Maryland, College Park)

11:33 H8.003 Rabi, Snow, and "The Two Cultures"

Michael A. Day (Department of Physics, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA 17003)

11:57 H8.004 Fritz Reiche and German Refugee Scientists

Benjamin Bederson (New York University)

12:21 H8.005 Why did the Germans not produce an atomic bomb?

Harry Lustig (City University of New York and APS,emeritus)

12:45 H8.006 Lawrence's Legacy : Seaborg's Cyclotron - The 88-Inch Cyclotron turns 40

Margaret McMahan, David Clark (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

13:09 H8.007 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT): Current Status

Ram Chaturvedi (SUNY College at Cortland)

10:45 H9.001 Dark Matter and Dark Energy

Chung-Pei Ma (UC Berkeley)

11:21 H9.002 Evidence from Type Ia Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and Dark Energy.

Alexei V. Filippenko (University of California, Berkeley)

11:57 H9.003 Supernovae and Dark Energy -- What's Next?

Saul Perlmutter (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

12:21 H9.004 Beyond the Accelerating Universe, Supernovae at z>1

Adam Riess (STScI)

12:45 H9.005 Probing dark energy with cosmology

Michael S. Turner (The University of Chicago and Fermi National Accelerator Lab)

13:09 H9.006 Testing Curved-Spacetime Quantum Field Theory as a Cause of the Acceleration of the Universe

Leonard Parker (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

13:33 H9.007 The Acceleration of the Universe as a Function of Redshift and Constraints on Dark Energy

Ruth Daly (Penn State University), S. G. Djorgovski (California Institute of Technology)

10:45 H10.001 From Theory to Observation with Highly Entropic Objects

Donald Marolf, Rafael Sorkin (Syracuse University)

10:57 H10.002 Consistent discrete general relativity on the lattice

Jorge Pullin (Louisiana State University), Rodolfo Gambini (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay)

11:09 H10.003 Generalized Quantum Theory of Bianchi IX Cosmologies

David Craig (Hamilton College), James Hartle (University of California, Santa Barbara)

11:21 H10.004 Modeling the Low Energy Limit of Loop Quantum Gravity: Shadow States and Quantum Mechanics

Joshua L. Willis, Abhay Ashtekar, Stephen Fairhurst (Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry, Penn State)

11:33 H10.005 Validity of semiclassical gravity in Minkowski and de Sitter spacetimes

Paul R. Anderson (Wake Forest University), Carmen Molina-Paris (University of Leeds), Emil Mottola (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

11:45 H10.006 Semiclassical states of Bianchi Models

Brett Bolen, Luca Bombelli (University of Mississippi), Alejandro Corichi (UNAM, Mexico)

11:57 H10.007 Statistical Geometry Framework for Semiclassical Quantum Gravity

Luca Bombelli (University of Mississippi), Alejandro Corichi (UNAM, Mexico), Oliver Winkler (Perimeter Institute)

12:09 H10.008 Stationary Kaluza-Klein States in a Minisuperspace Framework

Demian H.J. Cho, John L. Friedman (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

12:21 H10.009 ``QUANTUM vs. CLASSICAL'' SINGULARITIES

Deborah Konkowski (U.S. Naval Academy), Thomas Helliwell, Christopher Wieland (Harvey Mudd College)

12:33 H10.010 Stress-energy tensor for the massless spin-1/2 field in an extreme Reissner-Nordstrom metric

William H. Hirsch, Eric D. Carlson, Paul R. Anderson (Wake Forest University)

12:45 H10.011 Stress-energy tensor for a fermion field in Schwarzschild spacetime II

Eric D. Carlson, Paul R. Anderson, Benedikt Obermayer, Peter B Groves (Wake Forest University)

12:57 H10.012 Stress-energy tensor for a fermion field in Schwarzschild spacetime

Benedikt Obermayer, Eric D. Carlson, Paul R. Anderson, Peter B. Groves (Wake Forest University)

13:09 H10.013 BTZ black hole entropy and boundary Liouville field theory

Yujun Chen (UC Davis)

13:21 H10.014 Quantum Dynamics of the Massive Graviton

D. F. Scofield (ApplSci, Inc, Newark, DE 19711)

10:45 H11.001 Measurements of Semileptonic B Decays at the Y(4S) resonance with one fully reconstructed hadronic B decay

Oliver Buchmueller (SLAC), BABAR Collaboration

11:09 H11.002 Measurement of the Ratio of Branching Fractions B(D^0 \rightarrow \pi \ell øverline\nu)/ B(D^0 \rightarrow K \ell øverline\nu)

Lauren Hsu, Hanna Mahlke-Krueger (Cornell University), CLEO Collaboration

11:21 H11.003 Method for determination of |V_ub| using B^0\rightarrow \pi \ell \nu decays.

Amanda Weinstein (SLAC), BABAR Collaboration

11:33 H11.004 Measurements of the CKM Parameter |V_cb| at Belle

T. Okabe, Thomas E. Browder (University of Hawaii), Yoshi Sakai (KEK), Belle Collaboration

11:45 H11.005 Measurements of the CKM parameter |V_ub| at Belle

Thomas E. Browder (University of Hawaii), Yoshi Sakai (KEK), Belle Collaboration

11:57 H11.006 Measurement of Exclusive b \rightarrow u \ell \nu Decays and |V_ub| with CLEO

Karl Ecklund (Cornell University), CLEO Collaboration

12:09 H11.007 Measurement of form factors in B^0\rightarrow D \ell \nu_\ell.

Mandeep Gill (LBNL), BABAR Collaboration

12:21 H11.008 Semileptonic neutral B meson decay to D \ell \nu_\ell: branching fraction measurement and determination of |V_cb|.

Diego Monorchio (INFN Naples), BABAR Collaboration

12:33 H11.009 Study of the B^- \rightarrow D^(*)0 K^(*)- and B^0 \rightarrow øverline D^(*)0 K^(*)0 Decays

Shahram Rahatlou (UCSD), BABAR Collaboration

12:45 H11.010 The Determination Of Heavy Quark Expansion Parameters \lambda_1 and øverline\Lambda from the Inclusive Lepton Spectrum in B Meson Decay

Chaouki Boulahouache (Syracuse University), CLEO Collaboration

12:57 H11.011 Measurements of Semileptonic B Decays Using Tags

Christopher Stepaniak, Ronald Poling (University of Minnesota), CLEO Collaboration

13:09 H11.012 A search for B^+\rightarrow \tau^+ \nu_\tau

Mousumi Datta (U. Wisconsin), BABAR Collaboration

13:21 H11.013 Study of the Decay B \to X_s \ell^+\ell^- Using a Sum of Exclusive Modes Technique

Ventzislav Koptchev (U. Mass.), BABAR Collaboration

10:45 H12.001 Research Opportunities for High School Teachers and Students Through QuarkNet, USCMS, D0 and RET

Randy Ruchti (Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556-5670 USA)

11:09 H12.002 Help Teachers Share Particle Physics and Research with Their Students

Marjorie Bardeen (Fermilab)

11:33 H12.003 MINOS: Neutrino Physics for Everyone

Nathaniel Longley (Macalester College), Karen Phillips (The Blake School), MINOS Collaboration

11:57 H12.004 Soudan: Weak Physics for Everyone

Nathaniel Longley (Macalester College), Karen Phillips (The Blake School), MINOS Collaboration

12:09 H12.005 Education and outreach efforts at MiniBooNE: challenging expectations

Paul Nienaber (College of the Holy Cross/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), E898 - MiniBooNE Collaboration

12:21 H12.006 New developments from the Contemporary Physics Educ Project

Michael Barnett (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Contemporary Physics Education Project Collaboration

12:45 H12.007 The World of Subatomic Particles: HEP High-School Outreach

Elizabeth H. Simmons, John Butler, Ulrich Heintz, Ed Kearns, Meenakshi Narain, Chris Walter (Boston University), Kate Scholberg (MIT)

12:57 H12.008 The Cosmic Ray Observatory Project: A Statewide Outreach and Education Experiment in Nebraska

Gregory Snow, Daniel Claes (University of Nebraska)

13:09 H12.009 An Event to Encourage High School Students to Pursue College Degrees in Physics and Math

Bruce Bukiet, Gordon Thomas (New Jersey Institute of Technology)

13:21 H12.010 Online Physics Education: Progress and Prospects

Robert V. Steiner (Program in Science Education, Teachers College, Columbia University and Department of Physics, Sarah Lawrence College)

13:33 H12.011 The Electron as Field Quantum: The Straightforward Way To Teach Quantum Physics Conceptually

Art Hobson (U of Arkansas)

13:45 H12.012 Mathematica with a Numerical Methods Course

Rodney Varley (Hunter College, Physics Dept.)

10:45 H13.001 Calibrating the Jet Energy Scale of the Calorimeter at DO.

V. Abazov et al. (DZero Collaboration), DZero Collaboration

10:57 H13.002 Design and performance of a trigger collecting Z \to b\barb decays in p\barp collisions at \sqrts=1.96 TeV

Giorgio Cortiana (Padova University), CDF Collaboration

11:09 H13.003 Lepton + Track triggers and Chargino-Neutralino Search with Taus in CDF Run 2

Sasha Baroiant (University of California at Davis), Takashi Ogawa (Waseda University), Maxwell Chertok (University of California at Davis), Teruki Kamon, Vadim Khotilovich (Texas Aamp;M University), Richard Lander (University of California at Davis), Carmine Pagliarone (INFN-Sezione di Pisa), Alexei Safonov (University of California at Davis), Aurore Savoy-Navarro (Universites de Paris 6amp;7/CNRS-IN2P3), John R. Smith (University of California at Davis), CDF Collaboration

11:21 H13.004 The Dimuon Trigger of the CDF Experiment in Run 2

James Kraus (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), CDF Collaboration

11:33 H13.005 The Level 1 Central Track Trigger at DO

Satish Desai (State University of New York, Stony Brook), DZero Collaboration

11:45 H13.006 Use of the DO Central Preshower Detector in Electron Identification.

John Gardner (University of Kansas), DZero Collaboration

11:57 H13.007 Secondary Vertex Reconstruction of Long Lived Particles at CDF using Run 2 Data

Juan Pablo Fernandez (Purdue University), CDF Collaboration

12:09 H13.008 The DO forward proton detector.

Tamsin Edwards (Manchester University), DZero Collaboration

12:21 H13.009 Using the Z \to b\barb decay as a calibration line in p\barp collisions at \sqrts=1.96 TeV

Matthew Baumgart (University of Chicago), CDF Collaboration

12:33 H13.010 Calibrating the Jet Energy Scale of the Calorimeter at DO

Philip Perea (University of California at Riverside), DZero Collaboration

12:45 H13.011 Lead Tungstate Crystal and its Monitoring for CMS

Ren-yuan Zhu (Caltech), CMS Collaboration

12:57 H13.012 Results From the Beam Tests of the CMS Forward Quartz Fiber Calorimeter Pre-Production-Prototype and The Two Production Wedges

Ugur Akgun (University of Iowa), CMS Collaboration

13:09 H13.013 Implementation and Preliminary Results of Algorithms for the ATLAS High Level Trigger

Stephen Armstrong (CERN), ATLAS Collaboration

13:21 H13.014 The ATLAS Pixel Detector

Kevin Einsweiler (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab), Maurice Garcia-Sciveres, Gil Gilchriese, John Richardson, Aldo Saavedra, The ATLAS Pixel Collaboration

H13.015 Design of an Upgraded DZero Silicon Microstrip Tracker for Fermilab Run2b

Marcel Demarteau (Fermilab), Dzero Collaboration

10:45 H14.001 Top Dilepton Cross Section Measurement at the Tevatron

Mircea Coca (University of Rochester), CDF Collaboration

10:57 H14.002 Study of Standard Model processes with a final state of two high-P_T leptons, large Missing Energy, and at least 2 high-E_T jets at CDF

Jong-Young Chung (The Ohio State University), CDF Collaboration

11:09 H14.003 Measurement of the t\bart production cross section in the dilepton decay channels in p\barp collisions at \sqrts=1.96 GeV

V. Abazov et al. (DZero Collaboration), DZero Collaboration

11:21 H14.004 Measurement of the tøverlinet cross section in the dielectron channel at the DO experiment in Run\simII of the Tevatron.

Joseph Kozminski (Michigan State University), DZero Collaboration

11:33 H14.005 Measurement of the t\bart cross section in the dimuon channel at the DO experiment in Run\simII of the Fermilab Tevatron.

Jeff Temple (University of Arizona), DZero Collaboration

11:45 H14.006 Measurement of the t\bart production cross section in the electron and muon channel at the DO experiment at Run\simII of the Tevatron.

Daniel Whiteson (University of California at Berkeley), DZero Collaboration

11:57 H14.007 Measurement of t \bart Production Cross Section at the Tevatron Run 2 CDF Experiment Using B-Tagging.

Henri Bachacou (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), CDF Collaboration

12:09 H14.008 Measurement of \sigma(p\barp \to t\bartX) in the lepton plus jets decay mode using a neural network

Radu Marginean (The Ohio State University), CDF Collaboration

12:21 H14.009 Measurement of the t\bart production cross section in the lepton+jets decay channels in p\barp collisions at \sqrts=1.96 GeV

V. Abazov et al. (DZero Collaboration), DZero Collaboration

12:33 H14.010 Measurement of the t\bart cross section in the lepton+jets channel at the DO experiment in Run\simII of the Tevatron.

Tobias Golling (Bonn University), DZero Collaboration

12:45 H14.011 Measurement of the t\bart cross section in the e+jets channel using the matrix element method.

Chunhui Han (University of Michigan), DZero Collaboration