Program overview

MONDAY AFTERNOON, 7 APRIL 2003

14:30 R2.001 Resolving the Solar Neutrino Problem with the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

Art McDonald (Physics Department, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada)

15:06 R2.002 Bethe Prize Talk: Nuclear Physics Phenomena in Cataclysmic Stellar Binary Systems

Michael Wiescher (University of Notre Dame)

15:42 R2.003 Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics Prize Talk: Model-Independent Measurement of the ^8B Solar Neutrino Flux and Evidence for Neutrino Flavor Change at SNO

Karsten M. Heeger (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

16:18 R2.004 Complex Systems: From Nuclear Physics to Financial Markets

Josef Speth (Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany)

14:30 R3.001 Energy Equals Managing Carbon Cleanly

Robert Socolow (Princeton University)

15:06 R3.002 Science Fashions and Scientific Fact

Michael Riordan (University of California, Santa Cruz and Stanford University)

15:42 R3.003 The Role of Physicists in Science Education Reform

Ramon Lopez (University of Texas at El Paso)

14:30 R4.001 Swift - A Gamma Ray Bursts Explorer

Neil Gehrels (NASA/GSFC)

15:06 R4.002 The Constellation X Observatory

Kim Weaver (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center)

15:42 R4.003 XEUS: Studying the origin and evolution of the hot Universe

X. Barcons (Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria (CSIC-UC), Santander, Spain)

16:18 R4.004 EXIST: Deep Hard X-ray Imaging Survey for Black Holes

Jonathan Grindlay (Harvard)

16:54 R4.005 The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope

Peter Michelson (Department of Physics and SLAC, Stanford University)

14:30 R6.001 Dusty Plasmas in the Laboratory and Space

Robert L. Merlino (The University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy)

15:06 R6.002 A plasma that acts like a crystal

John Goree (The University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy)

15:42 R6.003 Advances in the physics of plasma confinement in stellerator magnetic configurations.

Michael C. Zarnstorff (PPPL, Princeton University.)

16:18 R6.004 Oscillatory modes driven by fusion alpha particles in TFTR and predictions for future burning plasma experiments

Raffi Nazikian (Princeton University)

16:54 R6.005 Physics Issues of Edge Transport Barriers in Magnetically Confined Fusion Experiments

Amanda Hubbard (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center)

14:30 R8.001 Numerical Simulation of Black Holes

Saul Teukolsky (Cornell University)

15:06 R8.002 The final plunge of spinning binary black holes

John Baker (NASA Goddard), Manuela Campanelli, Carlos Lousto (The University of Texas at Brownsville), Ryoji Takahashi (Theoretical Astrophysics Center, Denmark), Lazarus Team

15:18 R8.003 Evolving a Black Hole with Mesh Refinement

Breno Imbiriba (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and Dept. of Physics, University of MD, College Park), Dae-Il Choi (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center), J. David Brown (Dept. of Physics, North Carolina State University), John Baker, Joan Centrella (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center)

15:30 R8.004 Dynamic singularity excision

Kenneth Smith, Bernard Kelly, Pablo Laguna, Ulrich Sperhake (Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry and Center for Gravitational Wave Physics, Penn State University)

15:42 R8.005 Head-On Binary Black-Hole Collisions in BSSN

Bernard Kelly, Pablo Laguna, Kenneth Smith, Ulrich Sperhake (Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry, Center for Gravitational Wave Physics, Penn State University)

15:54 R8.006 Constraint violations in 3D black hole evolutions and boundary conditions

David Neilsen, Olivier Sarbach, Manuel Tiglio (Louisiana State University)

16:06 R8.007 Analysis of mode-mode coupling in black hole waveforms

Roberto Gomez (Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center), Luis Lehner (Louisiana State University), Jeffrey Winicour, Yosef Zlochower (University of Pittsburgh)

16:18 R8.008 Treating star-black hole systems via the characteristic formulation of GR

Luis Lehner (Louisiana State University), Nigel Bishop (University of South Africa), Jeffrey Winicour (University of Pittsburgh), Robert Gomez (Pittsrbugh Supercomputing Center), Sascha Husa (Albert Einstein Institute), Manoj Maharaj (University of Durban-Westville)

16:30 R8.009 Quasiequilibrium models for binary black hole systems

Antonios Tsokaros (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee), Koji Uryu Collaboration, John L. Friedman Collaboration

16:42 R8.010 Binary systems with helical Killing vectors

John Friedman, Antonios Tsokaros (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Koji Uryu (SISSA, Trieste), Patrick Brady (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

16:54 R8.011 Towards a Realistic Neutron Star Binary Inspiral: Initial Data and Long Timescale Evolution

Mark Miller (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

17:06 R8.012 Dynamical Determination of the ISCO for Neutron Star Binaries

Pedro Marronetti (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Thomas W. Baumgarte (Bowdoin College - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Matthew D. Duez, Stuart L. Shapiro (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

17:18 R8.013 Toward standard testbeds for numerical relativity

Jeff Winicour (University of Pittsburgh), Mexico Numerical Relativity Workshop 2002 Participants Collaboration

R8.014 Evolving excised black holes with TVD numerical methods

David Neilsen (Louisiana State University)

R8.015 Dirty Black Hole Evolutions

Deirdre Shoemaker (Cornell University), Pablo Laguna (Penn State University)

R8.016 Rigorous numerical techniques for stable 3D black hole evolutions

Gioel Calabrese, Luis Lehner, David Neilsen, Jorge Pullin, Olivier Sarbach (Louisiana State University), Oscar Reula (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba), Manuel Tiglio (Louisiana State University)

14:30 R9.001 Overview of Spectral Redshifts Caused by Optical Correlations

Peter Walsh, William Lama (none)

14:42 R9.002 Multiple Scattering Theory and Shift of the Spectraldue to Induced Correlation.

Malabika Roy (School oc Computational Sciences, George Mason University,U.S.A.), Sisir Roy (School of Computational Sciences, George Mason University,U.S.A.), Menas Kafatos (School of Computational Sciences, George Mason University, U.S.A.)

14:54 R9.003 Quasar Redshifts due to Optical Correlations

William Lama (none)

15:06 R9.004 Non-Doppler Redshifts in Dynamic Multiple Scattering andImplications for Interpretation of Quasar Redshifts

Menas Kafatos, Malabika Roy, Sisir Roy (School of Computational Sciences, George Mason University, U.S.A.)

15:18 R9.005 Red-Shifts via Incoherent Raman Processes.

Polly Nelson, C. F. Gallo (Superconix Inc.)

15:30 R9.006 Redshifts via "Coherent Raman Effect on time-Incoherent Light" (CREIL)

Jacques Moret-Bailly (Université Dijon France)

15:42 R9.007 Abnormally Large Non-Doppler Red-Shifts from Quasars due to Coherent Raman Interactions.

David Engelhardt (Superconix Inc., 2440 Lisbon Ave, Lake Elmo MN 55042), Jacques Moret-Bailly (Physique, Université de Bourgogne, F-21000 Dijon France)

15:54 R9.008 Cosmic Microwave Background

Ari Brynjolfsson (Appl. Rad. Ind.)

16:06 R9.009 Lab Experiments Revealing Non-Doppler Redshifts with Possible Cosmological Applications

H. C. Kandpal (National Physical Lab, India)

16:18 R9.010 Experimental Verification of Non-Doppler Shift of Frequency and Multiple Scattering Theory

Sisir Roy (School oc Computational Sciences, George Mason University,U.S.A.), H.C. Kandpal (National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India), Menas Kafatos (School of Computational Sciences, George Mason University, U.S.A.)

16:30 R9.011 Neutrino Red-Shifts in Cosmology?

C. F. Gallo (Superconix Inc.)

16:42 R9.012 Pressler's Static Universe/End of Big Bang Theory

David E. Pressler (Primary Nuclear Research)

16:54 R9.013 The Infinite Universe of Einstein and Newton

Barry Bruce (None)

17:06 R9.014 Reinterpretation of the kinematics of the Universe expansion and a test for non-Dopplerian ingredient in the CMB dipole

Simon Berkovich (The George Washington University)

R9.015 Plasma Alternatives to conventional cosmology

Eric J. Lerner (Lawrenceville Plasma Physics)

R9.016 Origin of the Solar System

Yikun Zhang (freelance)

14:30 R11.001 CEBAF Energy Recovery Experiment

S. Alex Bogacz, Andrew M. Hutton (Jefferson Lab), E-02-102 Experiment Collaboration

14:42 R11.002 Polarization Studies in the MIT-Bates South Hall Ring

Wilbur Franklin, Manouchehr Farkhondeh, June Matthews, Jan Van der Laan, Fuhua Wang, Townsend Zwart (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Dipangkar Dutta (Duke University)

14:54 R11.003 Frictional Cooling of Muons

Raphael Galea (Nevis Laboratories, Columbia University), Allen Caldwell (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut))

15:06 R11.004 Primary Target Systems for a Muon Collider /Neutrino Factory - What has the experimental effort taught us thus far

Nikolaos Simos, Harold Kirk, Steve Kahn, Peter Thieberger, Roman Samulyak (BNL), Kirk McDonald (Princeton University), Adrian Fabich (CERN), BNL Muon Collider Collaboration, CERN Neutrino Factory Collaboration

15:18 R11.005 Progress in Designing a Final Muon Cooling Ring

Yasuo Fukui, David Cline, Alpher Garren (UCLA), Harold Kirk (BNL)

15:30 R11.006 Injector Research at the Advanced Photon Source

John Lewellen (Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory)

15:42 R11.007 Longitudinal Phase Space Measurements of Picosecond Beams for Instability Studies in the Storage Ring

Y. K. Wu, O. A. Shevchenko, V. N. Litvinenko, J. Li (Duke University)

15:54 R11.008 Coherent beamstrahlung as a beam-beam monitoring tool at the NLC

Nicholas Powell, Giovanni Bonvicini (Wayne State University), Wayne State University Cleo-BTeV Group

16:06 R11.009 Spectrum of Depolarizing Resonances in a Storage Ring with Snakes

S.R. Mane (Convergent Computing, Inc.)

14:30 R12.001 Propagation Speed of Gravity and the Relativistic Time Delay

Clifford Will (Washington University, St. Louis)

14:42 R12.002 Estimation of the Gravitational Deflection of Radio Waves by the Sun Using Geodetic VLBI Data, 1979--1999

Steven S. Shapiro (Guilford College), James L. Davis (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

14:54 R12.003 Short-Range Tests of Newton's Inverse Square Law

E.G. Adelberger, J.H. Gundlach, B.R. Heckel, D.J. Kapner, H.E. Swanson (CENPA, University of Washington, Seattle), C.D. Hoyle (University of Trento, Trento, Italy)

15:06 R12.004 The Nuclear Electromagnetic Graviton, Basis of Gravity-Gravitation and Nuclear Quantum Gravitation

Ronald Kotas (Grand Quantum Research)

15:18 R12.005 Mass IS the Fifth Dimension - and how the "extra six" curl up

Wayne R. Lundberg (University of Dayton)

15:30 R12.006 The Unification of Electromagnetism and Gravity via the Derivation of G

Willie Johnson Jr. (Rutgers University)

15:42 R12.007 Quantum Mechanics Expressed in Curved Space-Time by the Use of a Generalized Form of Newton's Second Law

David Savickas (Western New England College)

15:54 R12.008 Essential Quantum-Gravitational phenomenology

Daniel C. Galehouse (Department of Physics, University of Akron)

16:06 R12.009 Analysis of 2002 Solar Eclipse Gravity Wave Experiment Data

Shane Vartti (The Vartti Group)

16:18 R12.010 Gravity and Nuclear Forces: Potentially Linked by Quantum Wormholes

Shantilal Goradia (Retired Nuclear Engineer, American Electric Power)

16:30 R12.011 A Proposed Mechanism for the Curvature of Space and Related Phenomena

John Neilson (JMSN Consulting)

16:42 R12.012 New Perspectives on Gravitation

Yikun Zhang (freelance)

16:54 R12.013 The Quantum Inertial Field as a Function of Cosmic Acceleration

Mart Gibson (Unified Services Enterprise)

14:30 R15.001 Physics and the Large Hadron Collider

Homer A. Neal (University of Michigan)

15:06 R15.002 Supersymmetry: Pro and Con

Edward Witten (Institute for Advanced Study)

15:42 R15.003 Neutrino oscillations: the next 20 months, the next 20 years

Peter Meyers (Princeton University)

16:18 R15.004 Looking For a New Angle on CP Violation

Natalie Roe (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

16:54 R15.005 Connecting Quarks with the Cosmos

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