Program overview

MONDAY MORNING, 3 MARCH 2003

11:15 B1.001 The Wang-Landau Sampling Algorithm

David P. Landau (Center for Simulational Physics, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602)

11:51 B1.002 Improved Sampling Schemes for Liquids, Polymers, Glasses and Proteins

Juan de Pablo (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin)

12:27 B1.003 Wang-Landau Sampling for Quantum Systems

Stefan Wessel (ETH Zurich)

13:03 B1.004 Large Spins and High-Order Interactions

Naoki Kawashima (Department of Physics, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo)

13:39 B1.005 Directed loop algorithm for quantum Monte Carlo simulations

Anders Sandvik (Department of Physics, Abo Akademi University, Turku, Finland)

11:15 B2.001 Fluctuations in Fluids under Non-equilibrium Conditions

Jose M. Ortiz de Zarate (Dpto. Fisica Aplicada 1. Universidad Complutense. 28040 Madrid. SPAIN)

11:51 B2.002 Critical Phenomena near Bifurcations in Systems far from Equilibrium

Guenter Ahlers (Dept. of Physics and iQUEST, University of California at Santa Barbara)

12:27 B2.003 The role of Noise for Intracellular Calcium Signaling

Peter Jung (Departmen of Physics and Astrononmy and Quantitative Biology Institute, Ohio University, Athens OH)

13:03 B2.004 Role of Elementary Calcium Puffs in Generating Calcium Oscillations

Ian Parker (UC Irvine)

11:15 B3.001 The Physics of III-V Heterojunction Devices in Wireless Communications

Karl Johnson (Motorola)

11:51 B3.002 Quantum Tunneling Sb-Heterostructures for Millimeter Wave Radiometry

Joel N. Schulman (HRL Laboratories, Malibu, CA 90265)

12:27 B3.003 SiGe MOSFET Heterostructures

Eugene Fitzgerald (MIT)

13:03 B3.004 Applications of Quantum Cascade Lasers

Frank K. Tittel (Rice Quantum Institute, Rice University, Houston, TX 77251-1892)

13:39 B3.005 Cross-Sectional Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Studies of Segregation and Interfacial Bonding at Type-II Heterojunctions †

Michael B. Weimer (Department of Physics, Texas Aamp;M University, College Station, TX 77843)

11:15 B4.001 Ultrabroadband and multi-wavelength quantum cascade lasers and nonlinear optical effects

Claire Gmachl (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies)

11:51 B4.002 Terahertz surface plasmon quantum cascade lasers

Alessandro Tredicucci (NEST - INFM & Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy))

12:27 B4.003 Femtosecond coherent carrier dynamics in quantum cascade lasers

Thomas Elsaesser (Max-Born-Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short-Pulse Spectroscopy, Max-Born-Str. 2 A, D-12489 Berlin, Germany)

13:03 B4.004 Quantum Cascade Lasers: Microscopic Theory and Simulation

Rita Iotti (Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia (INFM) and Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy)

13:39 B4.005 Stabilized Quantum Cascade Lasers and Ultrasensitive Chemical Sensing

Matthew S. Taubman (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA)

11:15 B5.001 James McGroddy Prize Talk-Functional nanostructured materials

Charles Lieber (Harvard University)

11:51 B5.002 Nanocrystal Electronic Structure: Ab Initio DFT Calculations, and Electric Force Microscopy Experiments.

Louis Brus (Chemistry Dept, Columbia University, New York, NY)

12:27 B5.003 Adler Award Lecture: 25 Years of Metallic Superlattices

Ivan K. Schuller (University of California, San Diego)

13:03 B5.004 Brillouin Scattering Studies of MBE-Grown Nanostructured Films

Charles M. Falco (Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson)

13:39 B5.005 Aneesur Rahman Prize Talk: The density matrix renormalization group

Steven R. White (UC Irvine)

11:15 B6.001 Spin Effects in Quantum Dots Down to One Electron.

Mariusz Ciorga (National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa)

11:51 B6.002 Double quantum dots as qubit systems

Leo Kouwenhoven (Delft University of Technology)

12:27 B6.003 Effects of spin-orbit coupling on individual quantum states

Jason Petta (LASSP, Cornell University)

13:03 B6.004 Creation of a Bidirectional Spin Filter Using Quantum Coherence

Joshua Folk (Harvard University)

13:39 B6.005 Kondo effect in real quantum dots

Michael Pustilnik (Georgia Institute of Technology)

11:15 B7.001 Multiple Field Induced Transitions in the Dipolar Pyrochlore Gd_2 Ti_2 O_7

B. Sriram Shastry (IISc, Bangalore 560012, INDIA)

11:51 B7.002 Spontaneous nanostructures in inorganic spinels

Paolo G. Radaelli (ISIS facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, OX11 0QX and Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT,United Kingdom)

12:27 B7.003 Emergent excitations in geometrically frustrated magnets

Seung-Hun Lee (NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899)

13:03 B7.004 Novel charge ordering in geometrically frustrated systems; AlV_2O_4 and LiV_2O_4 spinel oxides

Hidenori TAKAGI (Department of Advanced Materials Science, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa 277-8561, Japan)

13:39 B7.005 Valence bond liquids and solids in geometrically frustrated magnets

Oleg Tchernyshyov (Physics and Astronomy Department, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218)

11:15 B8.001 Radiation Sterilization and Food Irradiation Using Gamma Radiation

Kevin O'Hara (MDS Nordion)

11:51 B8.002 A Study of Long-Lived, Oxygen Induced Radicals in Gamma Sterilized Polyethylene*

M. Shah Jahan, Jason Durant (Department of Physics, The University of Memphis)

12:03 B8.003 Nanometer scale structures generated by combined chemical and radiative exposure of solid surfaces

Khin Nwe, Steve Langford, Tom Dickinson (Washington State University)

12:15 B8.004 Bioimprinted Polymer Scaffolds for Selective Recognition of RGD Peptides

Nicole Bergmann, Nicholas A. Peppas (University of Texas - Austin)

12:27 B8.005 Monte Carlo Techniques and their application to mail sanitization

Stephen Seltzer (NIST)

13:03 B8.006 Field effect transistor based on light-emitting polymers and its integration with light-emitting diode

Hsin-Fei Meng (Institute of Physics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan, Republic of China), Sheng-Fu Horng (Department of Electric Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan, Republic of China)

13:15 B8.007 Electrical Impedance Analysis of Mammalian Cells Cultured on Polypyrrole-modified Gold Microlectrodes

Guo Chen (Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180), Charles R. Keese (Applied BioPhysics, Inc. , Troy, New York 12180), Ivar Giaever (Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, amp; Applied BioPhysics, Inc. , Troy, New York 12180)

13:27 B8.008 Determination of the Surface Energy of Sand Using Adsorption Isotherm

LIANXI MA, James Holste, Kenneth HALL (Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Texas Aamp;M University, College Station), Civil Engineering Collaboration

11:15 B9.001 A length-dynamic Tonks gas theory of histone isotherms

Tom Chou (Dept. of Biomathematics, UCLA)

11:27 B9.002 Brownian dynamics simulation of the interactions between DNA and histones

Peng-Ye Wang, Wei Li, Shuo-Xing Dou (Laboratory of Soft Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 603, Beijing 100080, China), Pei-Qing Tong (Department of Physics, Nanjing Normal Universiy, Nanjing 210097, China)

11:39 B9.003 Interaction of HIV-1 Gag protein components with single DNA molecules

Margareta Cruceanu (Department of Physics, Northeastern University), Robert J. Gorelick (AIDS Vaccine Program, SAIC-Frederick), Mark C. Williams (Department of Physics, Northeastern University)

11:51 B9.004 Kinetics of single DNA molecule denaturation by T4 Gene 32 protein

Kiran Pant (Department of Physics, Northeastern University), Richard L. Karpel (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland Baltimore County), Mark C. Williams (Department of Physics, Northeastern University)

12:03 B9.005 Microsphere adsorption method to study interaction of DNA with hydrophobic molecules

Aaron C. Carr, Harriet Crockett, Rajagopal Krishnan, Kevin Little, Thomas M. Nordlund (Dept. of Physics, University of Alabama at Birmingham)

12:15 B9.006 Mesocopic Structure of Nonviral Gene Delivery Vectors

John van Zanten (Chemical Engineering Department, North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC 27695-7905), Justin Hanes, Eva Lai, Yah-el Har-el (Department of Chemical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD 21218)

12:27 B9.007 The Intercalation of Trioxatriangulenium Ion (TOTA^+) in DNA

Charles L Cleveland, Robert N Barnett, Uzi Landman (School of Physics, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA), Gary B Schuster, Sheldon B Howerton, Loren D Williams (School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Tech), Jóhannes Reynisson (School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Tech and Nano-Science Center, University of Copenhagen, H. C., Copenhagen Denmark), Niels Harrit (Nano-Science Center, University of Copenhagen), Jonathan B Chaires (Department of Biochemistry, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS)

12:39 B9.008 Positional correlations of nucleosomes in reconstituted chromatin.

Francisco J. Solis (Physics Department, University of Texas at El Paso)

12:51 B9.009 Single-Strand Stacking Free Energy from DNA Beacon Kinetics

Daniel P. Aalberts, John M. Parman (Williams College), Noel L. Goddard (Rockefeller University)

13:03 B9.010 Modeling DNA transcriptional openings

George Kalosakas (Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory), Kim O. Rasmussen, Alan R. Bishop (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory), Anny Usheva (Harvard Medical School)

13:15 B9.011 Bubbles in the melting transition of DNA

Awrasa Montrichok, Giovanni Zocchi (Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA)

13:27 B9.012 Atomistic Simulation of Hybridization and Melting of DNA Oligimers

Michael F. Hagan, Aaron R. Dinner, David Chandler, Arup K. Chakraborty (U.C. Berkeley)

13:39 B9.013 Analytical description of finite size effects for RNA secondary structures

Tsunglin Liu, Ralf Bundschuh (Department of Physics, The Ohio State University)

13:51 B9.014 Theory of recombination in directed molecular evolution

Weiqun Peng, Terence Hwa, Herbert Levine (Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093), David A. Kessler (Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel)

14:03 B9.015 Dynamics of Viral Packaging of DNA

Andrew Spakowitz, Zhen-Gang Wang (California Institute of Technology)

11:15 B10.001 Low Temperature Electronic Transport through Macromolecules and Characteristics of Intramolecular Electron Transfer Processes

Gregoriy Zimbovskiy (Urals State Academy of Mining amp; Geology), Natalya Zimbovskaya (City College of CUNY)

11:27 B10.002 Long-Range Electron Transfer and Electronic Transport Through Macromolecules

Natalya A. Zimbovskaya (City College of CUNY), Godfrey Gumbs (Hunter College of CUNY)

11:39 B10.003 A Stochastic Model of Ionic Permeation in Protein Channels, I

Zeev Schuss (Department of Applied Mathematics, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel)

12:15 B10.004 Magic sizes of ion channel clusters

Jianwei Shuai, Peter Jung (Ohio University)

12:27 B10.005 A model for the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor ion channel: structure of the transmembrane M2 segments as a pentameric assembly in a lipid bilayer

Leonor Saiz (National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Pennsylvania), Michael L. Klein (University of Pennsylvania)

12:39 B10.006 Directed Transport in Ratchets and Channel Proteins

J. Dylan Lacewell, Ioan Kosztin (University of Missouri - Columbia)

12:51 B10.007 A Stochastic Model of Ionic Permeation in Protein Channels, Part II

Boaz Nadler (Department of Mathematics, Yale University, 10 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT, 06520-8283.)

13:27 B10.008 TECHNIQUES OF MEASURING THE MEMBRANE POTENTIAL OF BIOLOGICAL CELLS: MEASUREMENTS AND MODELING

C. Prodan, F. Mayo, J.R. Claycomb, D. Nawarathna, Jr. Miller (Department of Physics and Texas Center for Superconductivity and Advanced Materials, University of Houston, Houston TX 77204-5932), Prodan Team

13:39 B10.009 Challenges of single ion channel biosensors

F Sachs (SUNY-Buffalo), J Wikswo (Vanderbilt)

13:51 B10.010 Imaging of action currents reveals the origin of biomagnetic fields in cardiac tissue

Jenny R. Holzer, Veniamin Sidorov, Luis Fong, Franz Baudenbacher (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA)

11:15 B11.001 Ultrafast excited-state dynamics in nucleic acid polymers

Boiko Cohen, Carlos Crespo-Hernandez, Patrick M. Hare, Rosalie J. Malone, Bern Kohler (Department of Chemistry, Ohio State University)

11:27 B11.002 Ultrafast Absorption Studies of Melanins

John Simon (Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708)

12:03 B11.003 Watching a protein as it functions with picosecond X-ray crystallography and femtosecond IR spectroscopy

Philip Anfinrud (National Institutes of Health, NIDDK)

12:39 B11.004 Laser probes of the potential energy landscapes and conformational isomerization dynamics of flexible biomolecules

Brian Dian, Jasper Clarkson (Affiliation), Timothy Zwier (Department of Chemistry, Purdue University)

12:51 B11.005 Femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy of beta-carotene's ultrafast relaxation processes

Richard A. Mathies, David McCamant, Philip Kukura (Univ. of California, Berkeley)

B11.006 Anharmonic decay of vibrational states in proteins

David M Leitner (Department of Chemistry, University of Nevada, Reno)

11:15 B12.001 SFG and AFM Studies of Polymer Surface Monolayers

Gabor A. Somorjai (Department of Chemistry and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley)

11:51 B12.002 Adsorption of Polylysine Monolayers on Microparticle Surfaces in Colloids

Heather M. Eckenrode, Hai-Lung Dai (University of Pennsylvania, Department of Chemistry)

12:03 B12.003 Normal Mode Analysis of Bulk and Free-Standing Film Polymer Glass

Tushar Jain, Juan de Pablo (University of Wisconsin)

12:15 B12.004 Macromolecular Alignment at the Solid/Liquid Interface Studied by Infrared-Visible Sum Frequency Generation: Surface Hydrophobicity Effect

Joonyeong Kim, Aric Opdahl, Keng Chang Chou, Gabor A. Somorjai (Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 and Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720)

12:27 B12.005 Dynamic Mechanical Analyses of Thin Polymer Films

Kathryn Wahl (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory)

13:03 B12.006 Defect Dynamics and Diblock Copolymer Alignment on Smooth and Intentionally Crafted Templating Substrates*

Steven J. Sibener (The University of Chicago)

13:39 B12.007 Enhanced carrier transport in conjugated polymer networks formed by non-covalent interactions

Kenneth Singer, Irina Shiyanovskaya, Akshay Kokil, Christoph Weder (Case Western Reserve University)

13:51 B12.008 Mixed Monolayer of Fluorinated and Hydrogenated Surfactants at the Water-Hexane Interface

S.V. Pingali, G. Luo, M.L. Schlossman (U. Illinois, Chicago), A.M. Tikhonov (U. Chicago), T. Takiue, N. Ikeda, M. Aratono (Kyushu U., Japan)

14:03 B12.009 Synchronous Measurement of the Population Statistics of Triplet and Singlet Excitons in Organic Thin Films

Michael Segal, Marc Baldo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

11:15 B13.001 Shock waves in granular media*

Harry L. Swinney (University of Texas at Austin)

11:51 B13.002 Shear Instabilities in Granular Flows

Troy Shinbrot (Rutgers University)

12:27 B13.003 Cluster formation in gravity-driven dense granular flows

Deniz Ertas (ExxonMobil Research & Engineering), James W. Landry, Gary S. Grest (Sandia National Laboratories), Thomas C. Halsey (ExxonMobil Research & Engineering)

12:39 B13.004 Rate Dependence in Force Networks of Sheared Granular Materials

Robert Hartley, Robert P. Behringer (Department of Physics, Duke University)

12:51 B13.005 Force Distributions in Sheared Granular Materials Near the Jamming Transition

Eric Corwin, Adam Bushmaker, Heinrich Jaeger, Sidney Nagel (The James Franck Institute and Department of Physics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637)

13:03 B13.006 Forces in Granular Hopper Flow

J W Landry, G S Grest, S J Plimpton (Sandia National Laboratories)

13:15 B13.007 Penetration and Remote Sensing of Texture via a Granular Medium

M. B. Stone, D. P. Bernstein, M. D. Pelc, Y. Tsui, P Schiffer (Department of Physics The Pennsylvania State University)

13:27 B13.008 Diffusion and Elastic Energy Measurements in Dense Granular Matter

Brian Utter, R.P. Behringer (Department of Physics, Center for Nonlinear amp; Complex Systems, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708)

13:39 B13.009 Jamming Transition in a Highly Dense Granular System under Vertical Vibration

Hyuk Kyu Pak, Kipom Kim, Jong Kyun Moon, Hyung Kook Kim (Pusan National University, Busan, Korea)

13:51 B13.010 Incipient Force Chains in Gravity Driven Granular Flow

Allison Ferguson, Bulbul Chakraborty (Martin Fisher School of Physics, Brandeis University)

14:03 B13.011 Signatures of Jamming and Glassy Dynamics in a Flowing Granular Medium

Colin Denniston (Johns Hopkins University)

11:15 B14.001 Measuring the millimeter-wave properties of low-dimensional metals in high magnetic fields

Arzhang Ardavan (The Clarendon Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, UK)

11:51 B14.002 Pressured Induced Changes in the Fermi Surface of CeRhIn5

S. Tozer, T. MURPHY, E. PALM, D. HALL, H. RADOVAN (NHMFL, TLH, FL), R. GOODRICH (LSU, Baton Rouge, LA), J. Sarrao (LANL, Los Alamos, NM)

12:03 B14.003 Continuous polar and azimuthal variation of tilted magnetic fields : the device, the mathematics and recent Fermi surface studies in organic conductors

Eun-Sang Choi (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.)

12:39 B14.004 Thermal conductivity in pulsed magnets

Dongkyun Kim, Kee-Hoon Kim, Jon Betts, Fedor Balakirev, Albert Migliori (NHMFL, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

12:51 B14.005 Big Fields, Small Signals: Advances in Latest Digital Signal Acquisition And Processing

Fedor Balakirev (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

13:27 B14.006 Distributed Experiment Automation System

Gennadi Lebedev (Lawrence Berkeley National Leboratory)

13:39 B14.007 Semiparametric estimation of unimodal distributions

Jason Looper, David A. Rabson (University of South Florida)

B14.008 25 T Millimeter and Sub-Millimeter Wave Spectral Facility at the NHMFL, Tallahassee: Features and Applications.

S.A. Zvyagin, J. Krzystek (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, FSU)

11:15 B15.001 Measuring the Jamming Phase Diagram for Repulsive Liquids

Ning Xu, Corey O'Hern (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8284)

11:27 B15.002 Characterisation of the Jamming Transition in Particle Systems

Leonardo Silbert (University of Chicago), Corey O'Hern (Yale University), Andrea Liu (University of California Los Angeles), Sidney Nagel (University of Chicago)

11:39 B15.003 Dynamical Studies for Gauge Glass Models

Yukiyasu Ozeki (Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Oh-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan)

11:51 B15.004 Nonequilibrium relaxation analyses on Spin glass transitions in three dimensions

Tota Nakamura, Shin-ichi Endo, Takeo Yamamoto (Dept. of Applied Physics, Tohoku University, Aoba-yama, Aoba, Sendai 980-8579, Japan)

12:03 B15.005 A spin glass that closely resembles the physical glass transition

Marc L. Mansfield (Department of Chemistry and Chemcial Biology, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey 07030)

12:15 B15.006 Long Time Relaxation in Coulomb Glass System.

Dmitry Tsigankov, Alexei Efros (Department of Physics, University of Utah)

12:27 B15.007 Correlated fluctuations in the aging dynamics of glassy systems

Horacio Castillo (Ohio University, Athens OH), Claudio Chamon (Boston University), Leticia Cugliandolo (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris), Malcolm Kennett (Cambridge University UK)

12:39 B15.008 Equilibration and Frequency Dependence of the Specific Heat of Glass Forming Liquids

Clare Yu, Herve Carruzzo (University of California, Irvine)

12:51 B15.009 Linear Viscoelasticity and Fragility in Low-Tg Inorganic Oxide Glasses

Karl Putz, Peter F. Green (Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin)

13:03 B15.010 Trap dominated dynamics in classical dimer models

Dibyendu Das (Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay), Jane' Kondev, Bulbul Chakraborty (Martin Fisher School of Physics, Brandeis University)

13:15 B15.011 Observations of the Colloidal Glass Transition in Confined Systems

Hetal N. Patel, Eric R. Weeks (Department of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322)

13:27 B15.012 Instantaneous resonant modes in high-temperature Ga liquids

Ten-Ming Wu (Institute of Physics, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, R. O. C.)

13:39 B15.013 Frequency-dependent response of a pinned charge-density wave

Valerii Vinokur (Argonne National Lab), Michael Fogler (UCSD)

13:51 B15.014 A new class of disordered systems: large-area electronics

Victor Karpov, Alvin Compaan, Diana Shvydka (Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606)

14:03 B15.015 depinning of an elastic manifold in random media

Alberto Rosso (DPMC University of Geneva), Werner Krauth (LPS-ENS Paris)

14:15 B15.016 Aging and coarsening dynamics of colloidal gels

Maria L. Kilfoil, D. A. Weitz (Harvard University)

11:15 B16.001 Single-Molecule Transistors Incorporating Individual Inorganic Clusters

Hongkun Park (Harvard University)

11:51 B16.002 Single-Molecule Electronic Devices

Abhay Pasupathy (Cornell University, Ithaca NY)

12:27 B16.003 Potential profile across a biased molecular wire

G.-L. Ingold (Augsburg), M. Galperin (Tel Aviv), H. Grabert (Freiburg), A. Nitzan (Tel Aviv), Stephane Pleutin (Freiburg)

12:39 B16.004 Three-terminal electron transport measurements on phenylene-based conjugated molecules

Günther Lientschnig, Jeong-O Lee, Frank Wiertz, Peter Hadley, Cees Dekker (Department of NanoScience, TU Delft)

12:51 B16.005 A first-principles study of Spin Polarized Transport in a Molecular wire

R. Pati, L. Senapati (Department Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy), P.M. Ajayan (Department of Materials Science), S.K. Nayak (Department Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institutem Troy, NY 12180)

13:03 B16.006 Electrical Transport through Organic Molecules

C.N. Lau, Shun-chi Chang, Stan Williams (Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA USA), Quantum Science Group Team

13:15 B16.007 Transport Measurement on Few-Molecules Devices

Lam Yu, Douglas Natelson (Rice University, Physics and Astronomy), David Price, Jake Ciszek, James Tour (Rice University, Chemistry)

13:27 B16.008 Shot noise in tunneling transport through molecules

Matthias H. Hettler, Axel Thielmann (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut für Nanotechnologie), Jürgen König, Gerd Schön (Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik, Universtität Karlsruhe)

13:39 B16.009 Self assembly and tunneling spectroscopy of molecular wires

Geetha Dholakia, Wendy Fan, Jessica Koehne, Silvia Asano, Jie Han (Affiliation), M Meyyappan (NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035)

13:51 B16.010 Semiclassical Model for Single Molecule Tunnel Junctions

Tianjian Lu, Anita Parmar, David Dunlap (University of New Mexico), George Malliaras (Cornell University)

11:15 B17.001 Quenched and Annealed Disorder in Randomly Grafted Copolymer Melts

Deena Patel (Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara), Glenn Fredrickson (Departments of Chemical Engineering and Materials, University of California, Santa Barbara)

11:27 B17.002 Order-Disorder Transition in Randomly Grafted Copolymers

Tim Rappl (UC Berkeley), Hany Eitouni (UC Berkeley, LBNL), John Pople (SSRL), Jean Frechet (UC Berkeley, LBNL), Arup Chakraborty (UC Berkeley), Nitash Balsara (UC Berkeley, LBNL)

11:39 B17.003 Novel Gradient Copolymers Yielding an Unusual Glass Transition Temperature (Tg) Depression

Maisha Gray, John Torkelson (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-3120)

11:51 B17.004 Morphologies and tensile property study on multigraft copolymers with tri-, tetra-, and hexafunctional junction points

Roland Weidisch (Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden (IPF), Teilinstitut Physikalische Chemie und Physik der Polymere, Hohe Strasse 6, 01069 Dresden, Germany), Yuqing Zhu, Engin Burgaz, Samuel P. Gido (Department of Polymer Science amp; Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003)

12:03 B17.005 Dependence of Order-Disorder Transition on the Number of Blocks for Multiblock Copolymers

Lifeng Wu, Eric W. Cochran, Timothy P. Lodge (Affiliation), Frank S. Bates (Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota)

12:15 B17.006 Order-disorder transitions in cross-linked block copolymer networks

Hyeok Hahn, Hany Eitouni, Nitash Balsara (University of California, Bekeley)

12:27 B17.007 HOW TO PREPARE LONG MULTI-BLOCK HETEROPOLYMER CHAINS WITH AN ORDERED SEQUENCE AND CONTROLLABLE BLOCK LENGTHS

Chi Wu, Zuowei Xie (Department of Chemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T. Hong Kong)

12:39 B17.008 Association Behavior of Heptablock Copolymers in Selective Solvents

Huifen Nie, Rama Bansil (Boston University), Jyotsana Lal (Argonne National Laboratory)

12:51 B17.009 Polydispersity in a self-consistent field theory for block copolymers

Scott Sides, Glenn Fredrickson (University of California at Santa Barbara), UCSB Team

13:03 B17.010 Linear Gradient Copolymer Melt Brushes

Galen T. Pickett (CSU Long Beach Physics and Astronomy)

13:15 B17.011 Novel Sphere Phases of Diblock Copolymer Micelles

Gregory Grason, Randall Kamien (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania)

13:27 B17.012 Cylindrical Micelles of Polystyrene-Polyisoprene Diblock Copolymers in Dilute Heptane Solutions

Isaac LaRue, Mireille Adam, Sergei Sheiko, Michael Rubinstein (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

13:39 B17.013 ``Hollow-core'' dendrimers revisited

Galen T. Pickett, Thomas C. Zook (CSU Long Beach, Physics and Astronomy)

13:51 B17.014 A Monte Carlo Simulation Scheme for Nonideal Dendrimers Satisfying Detailed Balance

Giovanni Giupponi, Martin Buzza (University of Leeds)

14:03 B17.015 Self-Organization of ``Spherical'' Supramolecular Dendrimers: A New Perspective from Molecular Dynamics Simulation

Eung-Gun Kim, Michael L. Klein (Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania)

11:15 B18.001 Evidence for Coupling and Decoupling of Parts of Macromolecules by Temperature-modulated Calorimetry

Bernhard Wunderlich (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN)

11:27 B18.002 The Role of Crosslinks in PDMS Crystallization Enhancement

Jenny Naim, Rachel Yerushalmi-Rozen, Moshe Gottlieb (Chemical Engineering Department and Stadler Minerva Center for Mesoscopic Macromolecular Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, 84105 ISRAEL), Andreas Maus, Kay Saalwaechter (Institut fur Makromolekulare Chemie, Universitaet Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, GERMANY)

11:39 B18.003 The Role of Linear Polyethylene Molecular Weight into the Enhancement in Crystallisation Behavior of Branched Polyethylene

Cristián Puig (Grupo de Polímeros USB, Departamento de Ciencias de los Materiales, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Apartado Postal 89000, Caracas 1080-A, Venezuela)

11:51 B18.004 Reversible and Irreversible Heat Capacity of Poly(Lactic acid) Analyzed by Temperature-Modulated Differential Scanning Calorimetry.

(1)Marek Pyda, (2)Richard C Bopp, (1)Bernhard Wunderlich ((1)The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and ORNL, Oak Ridge,TN;(2)Cargill Dow LLD, Minnetonka, MN)

12:03 B18.005 Determination of Equilibrium Dissolution Temperatures for Linear Polyethylene Using the Non-linear Hoffman-Weeks Approach

Herve Marand (Virginia Tech)

12:15 B18.006 S.A.X.S studies of the lamellar morphology of piezoelectric poly(vinylidenefluoride) and a new method for the analysis of 4-lobe 2D S.A.X.S patterns

NILOY MUKHERJEE, GREGORY BEAUCAGE, RODNEY ROSEMAN (Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Univ. of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221), Structure-Property Studies on Electroactive Polymers Team

12:27 B18.007 Probing Amorphous Structure of Semicrystalline Poly (ethylene terephthalate) and Poly(ethylene naphthalate)

Sergei Nazarenko, Jun Lin, Alexander Jamieson (Department of Macromolecular Science, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106), Brian Olson (Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106)

12:39 B18.008 Tunable single crystal morphology of Nylon 6, 6

Christopher Li (Department of Materials Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia PA 19104), Wenwen Cai (Department of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron OH 44325), Bernard Lotz (Institute Charles Sadron, 6 Rue Boussingault, Strasbourg 67083)

12:51 B18.009 Spatio-temporal Simulations of Axialitic Morphology in Syndiotactic Polypropylene Crystals

Rujul Mehta, Thein Kyu (Institute of Polymer Engineering, The University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325)

13:03 B18.010 Shear-induced alignment of smectic side-chain liquid crystalline polymers

Stanley Rendon, Wesley Burghardt (Northwestern University), Maria Lujan Auad, Julia Kornfield (California Institute of Technology)

13:15 B18.011 Rheological Studies of Side-Chain Liquid Crystal Polymers in Nematic Solvents

Alex. M. Jamieson, Yen Ching Chiang, Yiqiang Zhao (Department of Macromolecular Science amp; Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106)

13:27 B18.012 Photopolymerized Elastomer Stripes in the Freely Suspended Liquid Crystal Films

Nattaporn Chattham, Christian Tolksdorf, Rudolf Zentel (Department of Chemistry, University of Mainz, Duesbergweg 10-14, D-55099 Mainz, Germany), Noel Clark (Department of Physics and Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Research Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309 USA)

13:39 B18.013 Liquid Crystallinity, Structure and Thermodynamics of Rod Polymer Fluids in Two Dimensions

Justin Hooper, K. S. Schweizer (University of Illinois)

13:51 B18.014 Broadening Miscibility in Liquid Crystalline Polymer Blends by Optimizing Intermolecular Hydrogen Bonding

Mark Dadmun, Sriram Viswanathan (University of Tennessee)

14:03 B18.015 Role of molecular tacticity on the plastic deformation behavior of semi-syndiotactic polypropylenes

R. M. Kannan, M. Sevegney, Gautam Parthasarthy (Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI), Allen Siedle (3M Science Research Center, 3M, St. Paul, MN)

11:15 B19.001 Density-functional study of magnetism in \delta-Pu: Part 1

Per Söderlind, Alex Landa (Physics and Advanced Technologies Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, CA 94550, U.S.A.), Babak Sadigh (Chemistry and Materials Science Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, CA 94550, U.S.A.)

11:27 B19.002 Density-functional study of magnetism in \delta-Pu: Part 2

Alex Landa, Per Söderlind (Physics and Advanced Technologies Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, CA 94550, U.S.A.), Andrei Ruban (Center for Atomic-scale Materials Physics and Physics Department, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark)

11:39 B19.003 Static and dynamic magnetic phenomena in LiHoF

Prabuddha Chakraborty (Dept. of Physics,Indiana University,Bloomington,IN 47405), Patrik Henelius (Condensed matter theory,KTH,SE-10691 Stockholm,Sweden), Heidi Kjonsberg (Telenor R and D,N-1331,Fornebu,Norway), Steven Girvin (Dept. of Physics,Yale University,New Haven,CT 06511)

11:51 B19.004 Quantum Monte Carlo simulation of LiHoF

Patrik Henelius (Condensed matter theory, KTH, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden), Anders Sandvik (Dept. of Physics, Abo Akademi, Porthansgatan 3, FIN-20500 Abo, Finland), Prabuddha Chakraborty (Dept. of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405), Steven Girvin (Dept. of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511)

12:03 B19.005 Observation of a longitudinal magnon in the tetrahedral quantum spin system Cu_2Te_2O_5Br_2 near quantum criticality

C. Gros (Saarbrücken), P. Lemmens (MPI-Stuttgart), M. Vojta (Augsburg), R. Valentí(Saarbrücken), W. Brenig (Braunschweig), K.-Y. Choi (RWTH Aachen), H. Kageyama, Z. Hiroi, N.V. Mushinikov, T. Goto (ISSP), M. Johnsson (Stockholm), P. Millet (Toulouse)

12:15 B19.006 Synchrotron studies of Magnetic Phase transitions in CeSb.

Kazimierz Gofron (NIU), Klaus Attenkofer, Mark Beno (ANL), Clyde Kimball (NIU), Marcos Avila, Paul Canfield (AL), NIU Northern Illinois University Team, ANL Argonne National Laboratory Team, AL Ames Laboratory Collaboration

12:27 B19.007 Pressure induced transition from Curie-Weiss to band magnetism in transition metal oxides

Jianshi Zhou, John B. Goodenough (Texas Materials Institute, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712)

12:39 B19.008 Azimuthal dependence of the scattering in the magnetic structure determination of GdAgSb_2

Didier Wermeille, Changyong Song, William Good, Alan Goldman, Paul Canfield (Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University)

12:51 B19.009 High Resolution Study of the Pressure-driven Quantum Critical Point in a CrV alloy

M. Lee, A. Husmann, T. F. Rosenbaum (Department of Physics and James Franck Institute, University of Chicago), G. Aeppli (NEC Research Institute, Princeton, NJ)

13:03 B19.010 Spin orbital theory for the high temperature magnetic phase transitions in Yttrium orthovanadate

Theja De Silva (University of Cincinnati), Anuvrat Joshi (National high magnetic field laboratory), Fu Chun Zhang, Michael Ma (University of Cincinnati)

13:15 B19.011 LDA and quantum critical fluctuations: an example of Pd

Igor Mazin, Paul Larson, David Singh (Naval Research Laboratory)

13:27 B19.012 Hall Effect in Nested Antiferromagnets Near the Quantum Critical Point

Michael Norman, Yaroslaw Bazaliy, Revaz Rmazashvili (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Lab), Qimiao Si

13:39 B19.013 Dimensional crossover and renormalization group equations for highly anisotropic systems

Oron Zachar (UCLA Dep. of Physics)

13:51 B19.014 Disorder-induced rounding of certain quantum phase transitions

Thomas Vojta (University of Missouri-Rolla)

14:03 B19.015 Locally converging algorithms in two dimensional ferromagnetism

Eshel Faraggi, Linda Reichl, Daniel Robb (Center for Studies in Statistical Mechanics and Complex Systems, Physics Department, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712)

11:15 B20.001 Nanoscopic Origin of d Wave Energy Gaps in Cuprate High-Temperature Superconductors

J. C. Phillips (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, N. J., 08854-8019)

11:27 B20.002 Topological Quantum Phase Transition in d-wave Superconductors

Sergio Botelho, Richard Duncan, Carlos Sa de Melo (Georgia Institute of Technology)

11:39 B20.003 Nodal Quasiparticles in the Vortex State of Cuprate Superconductors

Ashot Melikyan, Zlatko Tesanovic (Johns Hopkins University)

11:51 B20.004 Fine structure of chiral symmetry breaking in the QED3 theory of high-Tc superconductors

Babak H. Seradjeh, Igor F. Herbut (Simon Fraser University)

12:03 B20.005 Relativity restored: Dirac cone anisotropy in QED_3

Oskar Vafek, Zlatko Tesanovic (Johns Hopkins U)

12:15 B20.006 Phase fluctuating d-wave superconductors and the spin response in underdoped cuprates

Igor Herbut, Dominic Lee (Simon Fraser University)

12:27 B20.007 Gauge invariant response functions in the QED3 theory of the pseudogap in cuprates

Marcel Franz, Tami Pereg-Barnea, Dan Sheehy (University of British Columbia), Zlatko Tesanovic (Johns Hopkins University)

12:39 B20.008 Charged Vortices in High-Tc Superconductors

Daniel Knapp, Amit Ghosal, Catherine Kallin, A. John Berlinsky (McMaster University)

12:51 B20.009 Temperature dependence of Vortex Charges in High Temperature Superconductors

C.S. Ting, Yan Chen (Texas Center for Superconductivity and Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204), Z.D. Wang (Department of Physics, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China)

13:03 B20.010 A proposal to determine the spectrum of pairing-glue in high-temperature superconductors

Ilya Vekhter (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545), Chandra Varma (Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974)

13:15 B20.011 Conductivity sum rule for the cuprates

Artem Abanov (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Andrey Chubukov (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

13:27 B20.012 The superfluid density in cuprate high-Tc superconductors – a new paradigm.

Jeffery Tallon (MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Victoria University and Industrial Research Ltd., P.O. Box 31310, Lower Hutt, New Zealand.), John Loram, John Cooper, Christos Panagopoulos (IRC in Superconductivity, Cambridge University, Cambridge CB3 0HE, England.), Christian Bernhard (Max Planck Institute FKF, 1 Heisenbergstrasse, Stuttgart, Germany.)

13:39 B20.013 Complete Boson-Fermion Model of Superconductivity

Manuel de Llano (Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, UNAM, Mexico City), UNAM Collaboration, UIB Collaboration, Baumann State Technical University Collaboration

13:51 B20.014 Inhomogeneous LOFF phase revisited for surface superconductivity

Victor Barzykin (University of Tennessee), Lev P. Gor'kov (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory)

14:03 B20.015 Quantum Dynamical Manifolds of Bound Dirac Polaron Pairs, Dirac Excitons, and Bound Dirac Excitons

Thomas C. Collins (Oklahoma State University), Dillon F. Scofield (ApplSci, Inc.)

11:15 B21.001 Dependence of upper critical field on doping in High-Tc cuprates

Yayu Wang, N. Phuan Ong (Department of Physics, Princeton University), S Ono, Yoichi Ando (Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Tokyo), Y Onose, Y Tokura (Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo), Genda Gu (Physics Department, Brookhaven National laboratory), S Uchida (School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo)

11:27 B21.002 Nernst Effect in Pr_2-xCe_xCuO_4

Hamza Balci, C. P. Hill, R. L. Greene (Center for Superconductivity Research, Physics Department, University of Maryland College Park)

11:39 B21.003 Superconducting fluctuations and the Nernst effect

Iddo Ussishkin, S. L. Sondhi, David A. Huse (Princeton University)

11:51 B21.004 Anomalous Transport in the High T_c Normal State: Comparing Vortex and Pre-formed Pair Scenarios

Shina Tan, K. Levin (U. Chicago)

12:03 B21.005 Strictly In-Plane Vortex-like Excitations in Cuprate Superconductors by Measurements on Nernst Effect

H.H. Wen, Z.Y. Liu, F. Zhou, Z.X. Zhao (National Laboratory for Superconductivity, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China), Z.A. Xu (Physics Department, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, P. R. China), Z.Y. Weng (Center for Advanced Study, TsingHua University, Beijing, P. R. China)

12:15 B21.006 Nernst Coefficient and Magnetoresistance in High-Tc Superconductors: the Role of Superconducting Fluctuations

Hiroshi Kontani (Department of Physics, Saitama University)

12:27 B21.007 Numerical simulation of the Nernst effect in type II superconductors with strong fluctuations

Subroto Mukerjee, David Huse (Department of Physics, Princeton University)

12:39 B21.008 Low Temperature Thermal Conductivity in the Vortex State of High Purity YBa_2Cu_3O_6.99

Wonkee Kim, F. Marsiglio (Department of Physics, University of Alberta), J. P. Carbotte (Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University)

12:51 B21.009 Multi-Band Superconductivity in NbSe_2: a thermal conductivity study

Makariy A. Tanatar, Etienne Boaknin, Johnpierre Paglione, David Hawthorn, Filip Ronning, Robert W. Hill, Michael Sutherland, Louis Taillefer (University of Toronto), Jeff E. Sonier (Simon Fraser University), Stephen M. Hayden (H H Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol), Joseph W. Brill (University of Kentucky)

13:03 B21.010 Absence of singular superconducting fluctuation corrections to thermal conductivity

Robert Smith, Douglas Niven (University of Birmingham, England)

13:15 B21.011 Thermal Conductivity in Single Crystals La1.6-xNd0.4SrxCuO4

J.-Q. Yan (AMS), J.-S. Zhou, J.B. Goodenough (University of Texas)

13:27 B21.012 Finite temperature critical dynamics of Type I superconductors

Smitha Vishveshwara (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL), Courtney Lannert (Wellesley College, MA)

13:39 B21.013 Quantitative measurements of the thermal conductance of mesoscopic samples in proximity regime

Zhigang Jiang, Ho-chul Lim, Venkat Chandrasekhar (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA), Jonghwa Eom (Department of Physics, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea)

13:51 B21.014 Lorenz number in cuprates: digital evidence for bipolarons

Sasha Alexandrov (Loughborough University *)

14:03 B21.015 Fluctuation corrections to the ultrasound attenuation in layered superconductors.

M. Mar'enko, C. Bourbonnais, A.-M. S. Tremblay (CERPEMA, Departement de physique, Unversite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke (Quebec), Canada)

11:15 B22.001 Imaging Electron Flow in a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas*

K.E. Aidala, A.C. Bleszynski, B.J. LeRoy, A. Kalben, E.J. Heller, R.M. Westervelt (Harvard University), K.D. Maranowski, A.C. Gossard (UC Santa Barbara)

11:27 B22.002 Characterizing Electron-Electron Scattering by Imaging Coherent Electron Flow*

A.C. Bleszynski, K.E. Aidala, B.J. LeRoy, A. Kalben, E.J. Heller, R.M. Westervelt (Harvard University), K.D. Maranowski, A.C. Gossard (UCSB)

11:39 B22.003 Imaging Interference of Electron Waves in a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas

B.J. LeRoy, A.C. Bleszynski, K.E. Aidala, A. Kalben, E.J. Heller, R.M. Westervelt (Harvard University), K.D. Maranowski, A.C. Gossard (U.C. Santa Barbara)

11:51 B22.004 Charge Imaging Electrons in Quantum Dots

Subhasish Chakraborty, S. H. Tessmer (Michigan State University), M. R. Melloch (Purdue University)

12:03 B22.005 Photocurrent, Rectification, and Magnetic Field Symmetry in Quantum Dots

L. DiCarlo, C.M. Marcus (Department of Physics, Harvard University), M.G. Vavilov (TPI, University of Minnesota), Jr. Harris (Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University)

12:15 B22.006 Phase Measurements in a Quantum Dot with Tunable Fano Resonances

A. C. Johnson, C. M. Marcus (Harvard University), M. P. Hanson, A. C. Gossard (University of California, Santa Barbara)

12:27 B22.007 Transport through a triangular quantum dot

Lindsay Moore, David Goldhaber-Gordon (Stanford University Physics Department), Glenn Solomon (Electrical Engineering Stanford University)

12:39 B22.008 Field-induced semiconductor quantum dots based on a single metallic front-gate

Andreas Richter, Yuichi Harada, Hiroyuki Tamura, Tatsushi Akazaki, Tadashi Saku, Yoshiro Hirayama, Hideaki Takayanagi (NTT Basic Research Laboratories, 3-1 Morinosato-Wakamiya, Atsugi, Kanagawa 243-0198, Japan)

12:51 B22.009 Hydrodynamic pumping of a quantum Fermi liquid in a semiconductor heterostructure

J. J. Heremans, D. Kantha, H. Chen, A. O. Govorov (Ohio University, Department of Physics and Astronomy)

13:03 B22.010 Nonadiabatic Quantum Pumping in a Narrow Constriction

C.S. Tang (Physics Division, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, P.O. Box 2-131, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan), S.W. Chung (Department of Electronics Engineering, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan), C.S. Chu (Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan)

13:15 B22.011 Electron Kinetics in Pumped Mesoscopic Rings

Vladimir Yudson (Center for Frontier Science, Chiba University, Japan; Institute of Spectroscopy RAS, Troitsk, Moscow r-n, Russia), Vladimir Kravtsov (International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy; Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics RAS, Moscow, Russia)

11:15 B23.001 Collective and Quasiparticle Transport in Quantum Hall Bilayers

E. Rossi (University of Texas at Austin), A.A. Burkov (University of California, Santa Barbara), Y.N. Joglekar (Los Alamos National Laboratory), A.H. MacDonald (University of Texas at Austin)

11:27 B23.002 Theory of the tunneling resonances of the bilayer electron systems in strong magnetic field

Ramin Abolfath (University of Texas, Austin), Ramaz Khomeriki, kieran Mullen (University of Oklahoma, Norman)

11:39 B23.003 Phase Diagram for Double Layer Quantum Hall System

Donna Sheng (Deprtment of Physics and Astronomy, Cal. State Univ. Northridge), Leon Balents (Physics Department, Univ. of California at Santa Babara), Ziqiang Wang (Department of Physics, Boston College)

11:51 B23.004 Deconfinement, Disorder, and Dissipation in Quantum Hall ``Josephson'' Tunneling

H.A. Fertig, Joseph P. Straley (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky)

12:03 B23.005 In-Plane Magneto-Drag between Dilute 2D Systems

R. Pillarisetty, H. Noh, E. Tutuc, E.P. De Poortere, D.C. Tsui, M. Shayegan (Princeton University)

12:15 B23.006 Role of density imbalance in an interacting GaAs bilayer hole system

E. Tutuc, S. Melinte, E.P. De Poortere, R. Pillarisetty, M. Shayegan (Princeton University)

12:27 B23.007 Temperature Dependence of Conductance Fluctuations in Quantum Hall Multilayers

H. A. Walling, J. Xu, E. G. Gwinn (Physics Department, University of California Santa Barbara), K. D. Maranowski, A. C. Gossard (Materials Department, University of California Santa Barbara)

12:39 B23.008 Magnetoresistance Measurements in Wide and Narrow AlAs Quantum Wells

K. Vakili, Y. P. Shkolnikov, E. P. De Poortere, E. Tutuc, M. Shayegan (Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544)

12:51 B23.009 Quantum theory of bilayer quantum Hall smectics

Emiliano Papa (Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX 78712), John Schliemann (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Basel, Switzerland), Allan MacDonald (Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX 78712), Matthew P.A. Fisher (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara CA 93106)

13:03 B23.010 Two-fluid picture of the bilayer \nu =1 quantum Hall system

M.V. Milovanovic (Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Yugoslavia)

13:15 B23.011 Tunneling between bilayer quantum Hall structures in a strong magnetic field

Filippos Klironomos, Alan Dorsey (Department of Physics, University of Florida)

13:27 B23.012 Coulomb Drag between Two-Dimensional and One-Dimensional Electron Gases

S. K. Lyo (Sandia National Laboratories)

13:39 B23.013 Theory of Frictional Drag in Silicon Bilayers

Shawn Walsh, Ben Yu-Kuang Hu (University of Akron)

13:51 B23.014 On the Theory of Coulomb Drag in Quantum Hall System Near \nu = 1/2

Gregory Zimbovsky (Urals State Academy of Mining and Ceology), Natalya Zimbovskaya (City College of CUNY)

14:03 B23.015 Generalized capacitances of double-quantum-well systems*

J. R. Rodriguez, J. C. Diaz-Velez, C. B. Hanna (Boise State University)

11:15 B24.001 Replace with abstract title

Grady White, Albert Paul (Ceramics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology), Kristine Bertness (Optoelectronics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology)

11:27 B24.002 Strain Relaxation and RHEED Characterization of InAs Epilayer Grown on GaAs (001) Substrate under In-rich Conditions

L.C. Cai, H. Chen, C.L. Bao, Q Huang, J.M. Zhou (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 10080, PeopleˇŻs Republic of China)

11:39 B24.003 Quantum Well Intermixing and Band-gap Blue shift in InGaAs/InP Structures

Jie Zhao (Tianjin Normal University), Zhe Chuan Feng (Georgia Institute of Technology), Gu Xu (McMaster University) Collaboration

11:51 B24.004 A study of low melting temperature interlayers for strain relaxation

Liangjin Wu, David Jones, Jia Li, Sreenivasa Kothamasu (students), Shanthi Iyer (Advisor), Department of Electrical Engineering Team

12:03 B24.005 TEM Study of InSb/AlInSb Quantum Wells Grown on GaAs (001) Substrates

J.C. KEAY, T.D. MISHIMA, N. GOEL, S.J. CHUNG, M.B. JOHNSON, M.B. SANTOS (University of Oklahoma)

12:15 B24.006 Formation of PbTe-PbSe Superlattices Using Electrochemical - Atomic Layer Epitaxy

S.M. Cox, S.P. Compton, U. Happek (Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602), R. Vaidyanathan, J.L.. Stickney (Department of Chemistry, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602)

12:27 B24.007 MBE GROWTH AND PL STUDIES OF GAASSB/GAAS AND GAASSBN/GAAS QUANTUM WELL HETEROSTRUCTURES

David Jones, Shanthi Iyer, Liangjin Wu, Jia Li (North Carolina Aamp;T State Univ, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Greensboro, NC), S. M. Hegde (Univ of Dayton Research Institute, Dayton, OH), Kevin Matney (Bede Scientific Inc, Englewood, CO), K. K. Bajaj, R.T. Senger (Dept of Physics, Emory Univ, Atlanta, GA)

12:39 B24.008 The density functional theory study of the adsorption of arsenic and indium atoms on (001) GaSb surfaces

Sungho Kim, Seong-Gon Kim (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi 39762)

12:51 B24.009 Modeling of CuInSe2 and CuInGaSe2 Superlattices

Steven Scurlock, Robert Friedfeld (Stephen F. Austin State University)

13:03 B24.010 Fabrication of oxide/carbide multilayer superlattices

Yamamoto Youhei, Tanaka Hidekazu, Kawai Tomoji (Osaka university, Japan)

13:15 B24.011 Nature of the Deep Trap States in Alx Ga1-xAs

N.C. Halder, Kimberly Genareau (Department of Physics, Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620-6100)

13:27 B24.012 Growth and Characterization of Mg doped and p-type AlxGa(1-x)N, 0<x<30%

Fatemeh Shahedipour-Sandvik, James Grandusky, Di Wu (University at Albany-School of NanoSciences and NanoEngineering, State University of New York)

13:39 B24.013 Characterisation of Low-Temperature Gallium Nitride

S.M. Durbin, V.A. Christie (Dept. of Electrical amp; Computer Engineering, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand), S.I. Liem, R.J. Reeves (Dept. of Physics amp; Astronomy, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand), V.J. Kennedy, A. Markwitz (Institute of Geological amp; Nuclear Sciences, Ltd., Lower Hutt, New Zealand.)

13:51 B24.014 Structural Studies of Diluted Magnetic Semiconducting GaN:Mn films

Fatemeh Shahedipour-Sandvik, James Grandusky, Di Wu, Vincent LaBella, James Reynolds (University at Albany-School of NanoSciences and NanoEngineering, State University of New York), Mengbing Huang (Dept. of Physics, University at Albany-State University of New York)

11:15 B25.001 Quantum Monte Carlo Pseudopotential Calculations for Reactions on Si Surfaces

Claudia Filippi (Universiteit Leiden, Instituut Lorentz, The Netherlands)

11:51 B25.002 Electronic structure of CaB6 by QMC

Lubos Mitas, Lucas Wagner, Zack Helms, Michal Bajdich, Ji-Woo Lee (North Carolina State University)

12:03 B25.003 Quasiparticle Electronic Structure and Energetics of Point Defects on Semiconductor Surfaces

Arno Schindlmayr, Magnus Hedström, Matthias Scheffler (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4--6, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem, Germany)

12:15 B25.004 Effects of shallow core states on the quasiparticle energy band structure of covalent semiconductors

Murilo L. Tiago, Sohrab Ismail-Beigi, Steven G. Louie (University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

12:27 B25.005 Ab initio calculations for the excited-state properties of monoxide dimers

Leeor Kronik (Weizmann Institute of Science), Sohrab Ismail-Beigi, S.G. Louie (University of California at Berkeley), James Chelikowsky (University of Minnesota)

12:39 B25.006 Excited-state Forces and Photoinduced Structural Changes within a First Principles Green's Function Formalism

Sohrab Ismail-Beigi, Steven G. Louie (Dept. of Physics, U.C. Berkeley, and Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

12:51 B25.007 Absolute surface energy for zincblende semiconductors

S. B. Zhang, Su-Huai Wei (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401)

13:03 B25.008 Pseudopotential calculation of Auger processes in CdSe quantum dots

Lin-Wang Wang (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720), Marco Califano, Alex Zunger (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, 80401), Alberto Franceschetti (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831)

13:15 B25.009 Prediction of Dopant Ionization Energies in Silicon:the importance of strain

Angus Rockett, Duane Johnson, Sanjay Khare (Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, 1304 W. Green St., Urbana, IL 61801), Blair Tuttle (Physics, Penn State University at Erie, Pennsylvania 16563-0203)

13:27 B25.010 Pressure-induced instabilities in ice XI

Koichiro Umemoto (SISSA, Trieste. and INFM (Italy)), Renata Wentzcovitch (CEMS, U. of MN), Stefano Baroni, Stefano de Gironcoli (SISSA, Trieste, and INFM (Italy))

13:39 B25.011 Ab Initio Pseudopotential Simulations of Oxygen Deficiency Related Defects in Amorphous Silica

M.M.G. Alemany, James Chelikowsky (University of Minnesota)

13:51 B25.012 Theoretical investigation of the surface phase diagram of crystalline silica

Evgueni Chagarov (Arizona State University), A.A. Demkov (Motorola, Inc.), James B. Adams (Arizona State University)

14:03 B25.013 Ab initio Calculations of the Anisotropic Dielectric Tensor of GaAs/AlAs Superlattices

Silvana Botti, Nathalie Vast, Lucia Reining, Valerio Olevano (Laboratoire des Solides Irradiés, CNRS-CEA, Ecole Polytechnique F-91128 Palaiseau, France), Lucio Claudio Andreani (INFM-Dipartimento di Fisica "A. Volta", Universitŕ di Pavia, Via Bassi 6, I-27100 Pavia, Italy)

11:15 B26.001 Electronic Structure of Carbon Nanotube Peapods

Mao-Hua Du, Hai-Ping Cheng (Department of Physics and Quantum Theory Project, University of Florida)

11:27 B26.002 Pseudopotential Density Functional Calculations on C60 and C Nanotubes Inclusions in BN Nanotubes

Andrea Trave, Filipe Ribeiro, Steven G. Louie, Marvin L. Cohen (University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

11:39 B26.003 Peas in a pod: quasi-one-dimensional C60 molecules in a nanotube

Silvina M. Gatica, M. Mercedes Calbi, Milton W. Cole (Department of Physics, Penn State University)

11:51 B26.004 Electronic Structure and Paramagnetic Response of Carbon Nanotori

Hosik Lee, Jaejun Yu (School of Physics, Seoul National University)

12:03 B26.005 Novel Carbon Structures: Double-walled, Flattened and Coaxial-cable-like Carbon Nanotubes

Wenzhi LI, Jianguo Wen, Kris Kempa (Affiliation), Zhifeng Ren (Physics Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467), Michael Giersig (Hahn Meitner Institute, Berlin, Germany)

12:15 B26.006 Green function theory of confined plasmons in coaxial cylindrical geometries: Plasmon dispersion and density of states

Manvir S. Kushwaha (Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan), B. Djafari-Rouhani (Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of Lille, Lille 1, France)

12:27 B26.007 Design of a Heterostructure Peapod using Magic Silicon Clusters

Q. Wang, Q. Sun, P. Jena (Virginia Commonwealth University), Y. Kawazoe (Tohoku University)

12:39 B26.008 Ab-initio simulation for the Growth Mechanism of CN_x Nanobells

G.L. Zhao, D. Bagayoko, A. Pullen (Physics Department, Southern University and A amp; M College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70813 USA), E.G. Wang (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100080, China)

12:51 B26.009 SYNTHESIS OF CARBON NANOTUBE Y JUNCTIONS BY CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION

N. Gothard, J. Gaillard, A. Parker (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634), P. Gai (DuPont, Central Research and Development Laboratories, Experimental Station, Wilmington DE 19880; Department of Materials Science, University of Delaware), Z. L. Wang (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332), A. M. Rao (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634)

13:03 B26.010 A ROUTE FOR THE BULK SEPARATION OF METALLIC FROM SEMICONDUCTING SINGLE WALL CARBON NANOTUBES.

Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos (Nanomaterials Optoelectronics Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3136), Debjit Chattopdhyay, Izabela Galeska (Nanomaterials Optoelectronics Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3136.)

13:15 B26.011 Selective Reactivity of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Solution

Michael S. Strano, Chad B. Huffman, Valerie C. Moore, Michael J. O'Connell, Erik H. Haroz, Jarred Hubbard, Michael Miller, Carter Kittrell, Sivarajan Ramesh, Robert H. Hauge, Richard E. Smalley (Department of Chemistry, Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, and Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology, Rice University)

13:27 B26.012 Manipulation and separation of carbon nanotubes based on their chirality

Arne Rosén, Simon Gustavsson, Kim Bolton (School of Physics and Engineering Physics Gothenburg University), Molecular Physics Group Team

13:39 B26.013 Metallic/Semiconducting Nanotube Sorting: a Process and Evidence of Successful Enrichment

Zhihong Chen, Daniel Rankin, Andrew G. Rinzler (Dept. of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL)

13:51 B26.014 Electronic structure, bonding and magnetic properties of transition metals in carbon nanotubes

Duc Nguyen-Manh (Oxford University, Department of Materials, Oxford, Parks Road, OX1 3PH, UK), Steven Kenny (Loughborough University, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Loughborough, LE11 3TU, UK), David Pettifor, David Cockayne (Oxford University, Department of Materials, Oxford, Parks Road, OX1 3PH, UK), Oxford University Collaboration, Loughborough University Collaboration

B26.015 Morphological changes in graphitic nanostructures by Stone-Wales transformations

Mina Yoon (Michigan State University), Seungwu Han (Princeton University), Gunn Kim, Sangbong Lee, Jisoon Ihm (Seoul National University), Eiji Osawa (NanoCarbon Research Institute), Mauricio Terrones (IPICyT Mexico), Florian Banhart (Universität Ulm), Jean-Christophe Charlier (Universite Catholique de Louvain), Nicole Grobert (MPI Stuttgart), Humberto Terrones (IPICyT Mexico), Pulickel M.~Ajayan (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), David Tomanek (Michigan State University)

B26.016 Theoretical study of electron transport in nano peapod

R. Pati, L. Senapati (Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy), P. M. Ajayan (Department Materials Science and Engineering), S. K. Nayak (Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180)

11:15 B27.001 Nanoextraction with Carbon Nanotubes

M. Yudasaka, Y. Kasuya, T. Ichihashi, D. Kasuya, J. Fan, S. Iijima (JST, NEC, Tsukuba, 305-8501 Japan)

11:27 B27.002 Noncovalent functionalization of carbon nanotubes by aromatic organic molecules

Jian Ping Lu, Jijun Zhao (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Jie Han (Eloret Corporation, NASA Ames Research Center)

11:39 B27.003 Introduction and Characterization of Defects in Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes by Ozone Treatment

A.A. Puretzky (Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee), I.N. Ivanov, J.Y. Howe, T.E. Haynes, M.J. Lance, P.F. Britt, S.N. Jesse, D.B. Geohegan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Collaboration

11:51 B27.004 Photo-induced cleaning of oxidized carbon nanotubes

Yoshiyuki Miyamoto (NEC Fundamental Res. Labs Japan), Angel Rubio (DIPC, CSIC-Universidad de Pais Vasco, Spain), David Tomanek (Michigan State University)

12:03 B27.005 Effect of light irradiation on oxidation of HiPco single-wall carbon nanotubes

Minfang Zhang, Masako Yudasaka (ICORP-Japan Science and Technology Corporation), Sumio Iijima (ICORP-Japan Science and Technology Corporation, NEC Corporation, Meijo University)

12:15 B27.006 Functionalization of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes with Carboxylic Acids

Sriram Viswanathan, Phillip F. Britt, Ilia N. Ivanov, Alex A. Puretzky, Michael J. Lance, David B. Geohegan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Collaboration

12:27 B27.007 Modelling biomolecule functionalized carbon nanotube

Yong Kong, Daxian Cui (Max Planck Institute for Metals Research), Cengiz O. Ozkan (University of California, Riverside), Huajian Gao (Max Planck Institute for Metals Research)

12:39 B27.008 Interactions between carbon nanotubes and biomolecules: combinatorial routes to specific binding

Lena Lopatiuk, Richard H. Smith, Julie Ziffer (Univ of Central Florida), Christopher Snyder (Florida Inst of Technol), Brent A. Little (Brigham Young Univ), Ulrich H.E. Hansmann (Michigan Technological Univ), Deron A. Walters (Univ of Central Florida)

12:51 B27.009 Molecular Controls on the Inter Tubular Interactions of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes Solubilized in Super Acids

Sivarajan Ramesh, Lars M. Ericson, Joseph A. Sulpizio, Rajesh K. Saini, W.E. Billups, Robert H. Hauge, W.Wade Adams, Richard E. Smalley (Department of Chemistry, Carbon Nanotechnology Laboratory and Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, TX-77005)

13:03 B27.010 Modeling of Polyatomic-Ion Beam Induced Chemical Functionalization of Carbon Nanotube-Polystyrene Composites

Yanhong Hu, Susan Sinnott (University of Florida)

13:15 B27.011 Electronic properties of functionalized carbon nanotubes

Hyoungki Park, Jijun Zhao, Jian Ping Lu (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

13:27 B27.012 Computational study of adsorption of single atoms on a carbon nanotube

Oguz Gulseren, E. Durgun, S. Dag., V. M. K. Bagci, S. Ciraci (Physics department, Bilkent University, Bilkent, Ankara, TURKEY), Taner Yildirim (NIST Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg, MD)

11:15 B28.001 Ballistic Magnetoresistance in a Planar Nanocontact Geometry

William F. Egelhoff (National Institute of Standards & Technology)

11:51 B28.002 Spin Reorientation Transition and Magnetic Phase Transition in Coupled Magnetic Sandwiches

Z. Q. Qiu (Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720)

12:27 B28.003 Slant perpendicular magnetic anisotropy induced by steps in 4^o-miscut Si(111)/Cu/Au/Co/Au system

Chun-Yeol You, Sukmock Lee (Department of Physics, Inha University, Incheon 402-751, Korea), Sungkyun Park (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM), Charles M. Falco (Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ)

12:39 B28.004 Growth-induced uniaxial magnetic anisotropy in Co/Cu(100)

Hongwu Zhao (1.International Center for Quantum Structures, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China,2.Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720), Yizheng Wu, Changyeon Won, Ziqiang Qiu (Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720)

12:51 B28.005 Effect of Cu capping layer on the magnetic anisotropy of Ni/Cu(100) system

Yizheng Wu, Hongwu Zhao, Changyeon Won, Ziqiang Qiu (Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley)

13:03 B28.006 Thickness-Dependent Magnetic Stripe Domains in Epitaxial Co /Ru(0001)

Dongqi Li, Chengtao Yu, John Pearson (Affiliation), S. D. Bader (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory)

B28.007 Spin-reorientation in epitaxial, NdCo_5 thin film

Chengtao Yu, Michael J. Pechan (Department of Physics, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056), Z. J. Guo, J. S. Jiang, J. E. Pearson, S. D. Bader (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439), J. P. Liu (Institute for Micromanufacturing, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana 71271)

11:15 B29.001 Spin Wave Excitations in Pr[0.5] Sr[0.5] MnO[3]

G.J. Mankey, Vemuru Krishnamurthy (University of Alabama), J.L. Robertson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), N. Cavadini (Paul Sherrer Institute), John Mitchell (Argonne National Laboratory)

11:27 B29.002 Spin dynamics in magnetic phase separated La^1-xSrxCoO_3

M. J. R. Hoch, P. L. Kuhns, W. G. Moulton, A. P. Reyes (NHMFL), J. Wu, C Leighton (Department of Chemical engineering and Materials Science University of Minnesota)

11:39 B29.003 Dynamical disorder of spin-induced Jahn-Teller orbitals in Cobaltates

Despina Louca (University of Virginia), John Sarrao (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

11:51 B29.004 X-ray Scattering Studies of Charge and Orbital Correlations in Doped Manganites

J.P. Hill (Dept. of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory)

12:27 B29.005 Magnetic Compton scattering from La_1.2Sr_1.8Mn_2O_7

P. A. Montano (DOE and University of Illinois-Chicago), Y. Li (University of Illinois-Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory), J. F. Mitchell (Argonne National Laboratory), P. E. Mijnarends (Northeastern University and Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands), S. Kaprzyk (Northeastern University and AGH, Poland), B. Barbiellini, A. Bansil (Northeastern University)

12:39 B29.006 Soft x-ray emission studies at the Mn L-edge of CaMnO_3 and LaMnO_3

Cormac McGuinness, James Downes, Timothy Learmonth, Dongfeng Fu, Per-Anders Glans, Kevin Smith (Boston University, Physics Department), Peter Johnson (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Physics Department)

12:51 B29.007 Electronic Structure of Manganites Determined by Spin-Polarized X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy

Qing Qian, Trevor Tyson, S Savrassov (New Jersey Institute of Technology), C-C Kao (Brookhaven National Laboratory), M Croft (Rutgers University)

13:03 B29.008 Observation of a High-Temperature Electronic Phase Transition in the Colossal Magnetoresistive Oxides La(1-x)Sr(x)MnO3

Norman Mannella, Charles Fadley (Physics, UC Davis and Materials Sciences, LBNL)

13:15 B29.009 Dispersion Relations for X-Ray Faraday Rotation and Magnetic Circular Dichroism

D.Y. Smith (University of Vermont)

13:27 B29.010 Spin selection rule of KLL Auger decay for spin-resolved x-ray absorptin

W. P. Wu (Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan), D. J. Huang, C. F. Chang (Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu, Taiwan), J. Chen (Department of Physics, National Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan), S. C. Chung, C. T. Chen (Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu, Taiwan)

13:39 B29.011 Microscopic spin interactions in colossal magnetoresistance mangnaites

Pengcheng Dai (The University of Tennessee (UT), Knoxville, TN 37996 and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831)

11:15 B30.001 Perturbation Theory and Self Consistent Field Approach in One Dimension

Armen Kocharian (Department of Physics and Astronomy, California State University, Northridge, CA 91330-8268), Chi Yang (Department of Physics, Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taiwan 251, R.O.C.), You-Ling Chiang (Department of Physics, University, Taipei, Taiwan 111, R.O.C.)

11:27 B30.002 Optical study on Sr_2CuO_3

Kyungwan Kim (BNL, Seoul National University), C.C. Homes, Genda Gu (BNL), T.W Noh (Seoul National University)

11:39 B30.003 One-Dimensional Orbital Dynamics and Enhanced Jahn-Teller Instability in LaVO_3

Hitoshi Seo (CERC, AIST Tsukuba Central 4, Japan), Yukitoshi Motome, Zhong Fang (Tokura-SSS, ERATO, JST, c/o AIST Tsukuba Central 4, Japan), Naoto Nagaosa (Dept. Appl. Phys., Univ. Tokyo, Japan)

11:51 B30.004 Orbital Antiferromagnetism in Three Dimensions

Darrell Schroeter (Swarthmore College), Sebastian Doniach (Stanford University)

12:03 B30.005 Dielectric Response Of La2Cu1-xLixO4

Kaden Hazzard, Michael Nicklas, Vladimir A. Sidorov, John L. Sarrao, Joe D. Thompson (Los Alamos National Laboratories)

12:15 B30.006 On the origin of incommensurate antiferromagnetic correlations in LSCO

Hiroyuki Yamase (RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan), Hiroshi Kohno (Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan)

12:27 B30.007 Scaling Analysis of Field-Induced Order in Spin Liquids

Omid Nohadani (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0484), Bruce Normand (Institut de Physique Theorique, Universite Perolles, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland), Stefan Wessel (Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH-Honggerberg, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland), Stephan Haas (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0484)

12:39 B30.008

12:51 B30.009 Critical Theory of the Two-Channel Anderson Impurity Model

Henrik Johannesson (Chalmers and Göteborg University), Natan Andrei (Rutgers University), Carlos J. Bolech (University of Geneva)

13:03 B30.010 Fractionalization and Chiral Currents in Lightly Doped Mott Insulators

Arun Paramekanti (Physics Department and ITP, UC Santa Barbara), Mohit Randeria, Nandini Trivedi (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Tata Institute, India)

13:15 B30.011 Migdal's theorem and the pseudogap

Philippe Monthoux (University of Cambridge)

13:27 B30.012 Spin Wave Spectra in the Presence of Antiphase Domain Walls

David Campbell, Erica Carlson (Boston University)

13:39 B30.013 Hole pair hopping in arrangements of hole-rich/hole-poor domains in a quantum antiferromagnet

Efstratios Manousakis (Department of Physics and MARTECH, Florida State University and Department of Physics, University of Athens, Greece)

13:51 B30.014 Quantum Singlet Dynamics in the Coupled-Tetrahedra System Cu_2Te_2O_5Br_2

Valeri Kotov (ITP,University of Lausanne), Michael Zhitomirsky (CEA,Grenoble), Frederic Mila (ITP,University of Lausanne)

14:03 B30.015 Thermoelectric properties of Na_0.5CoO_2

Francisco Rivadulla, Elin Winkler, J.-S Zhou, John B Goodenough (Texas Materials Institute, ETC 9.102, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin 78712TX)

11:15 B31.001 On the Shapes of Spandex

Gary White (Society of Physics Students/AIP)

11:51 B31.002 Quasar Ejecta versus Interstellar Absorption

Britt Lundgren (The University of Chicago)

12:03 B31.003 Astroparticle Physics and the Dark Matter Question

Christina Turner (University of Oregon)

12:15 B31.004 Proton Interactions with Gases

Aaron Hoelscher, David Bixler (Angelo State University)

12:27 B31.005 Toward the Separation and Enantiomeric Excess of Chiral Carbon Nanotubes

Anton Naoumov (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

12:39 B31.006 Frequency Stabilization of a Semiconductor Laser

Justin Block, David Bixler (Angelo State University)

12:51 B31.007 Slow and fast electromagnetic pulse propagation within a coaxial crystal

Jeremy Munday, W.M. Robertson (Middle Tennessee State University)

13:03 B31.008 Modeling Magnetic Fields with FEMM 3.1

James Gumbart (Western Illinois University), James Rabchuk

13:15 B31.009 Linear Semiclassical Magnetoresistance from Nearly Free Electron

Stephen Hicks, Selman Hershfield (University of Florida)

13:27 B31.010 Reflectance Spectroscopy of Blue Bronzes

Greg Guyon (Rowan University)

13:39 B31.011 Comparison of Computational and Optical Techniques for Image Processing

Blair Unger, Patrick Bunton (William Jewell College)

13:51 B31.012 Phase Modulation of Light for Interferometric Detection of Nanoscale Particles

Liangta Cheng, Greg Sherman (Texas Christian University)

11:15 B32.001 Spin imbalance in ferromagnet-superconductor-ferromagnet single electron transistors

Sergio O. Valenzuela, Michael Tinkham (Physics Department, Harvard University)

11:27 B32.002 Mesoscopic effects in superconductor - ferromagnet - superconductor junctions

Marina Hruska (University of Washington, Department of Physics, Seattle WA 98195), A. Yu. Zyuzin (A.F. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia), B. Spivak (University of Washington, Department of Physics, Seattle WA 98195)

11:39 B32.003 STM study of the superconducting proximity effect in normal metal films and ferromagnetic nano-structures

A.K. Gupta, L. Cr\~etinon, H. Courtois, B. Pannetier (CRTBT - CNRS associ\~e a lUniversit\~e Joseph Fourier, 25 Avenue des Martyrs, 38042 GRENOBLE, France.), M. Eloui, O. Fruchart (Laboratoire Louis N\~eel, CNRS, 25 Avenue des Martyrs, 38042 GRENOBLE, France.)

11:51 B32.004 Characterization of the Interface between a Normal Metal and a Superconductor using Magnetic Screening and Andreev Reflection

Robert J. Soulen Jr., Michael Osofsky, John Claassen, Geoff Trotter, Gerald Woods (Naval Research Laboratory), Yuri Ovchinnikov (Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics), Vladimir Kresin (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Nilesh Tralshawala (CardioMag Imaging, Inc.)

12:03 B32.005 Coherent transport in superconductor - insulator - normal metal - insulator - superconductor junctions

Ivan Nevirkovets, John Ketterson, Serhii Shafranjuk (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois 60208)

12:15 B32.006 Quantum tunneling between paramagnetic and superconducting states of a nanometer-scale superconducting grain placed in a magnetic field

Andrei Lopatin, Valerii Vinokur (Argonne Nat. Lab.)

12:27 B32.007 Vortex States in a Superconducting Film with a Magnetic Dot

Serkan Erdin (School of Physics amp; Astronomy, University of Minnesota, 116 Church Street S.E.,Minneapolis, MN 55455)

12:39 B32.008 Magnetization of small lead particles

Shimon Reich, Gregory Leitus, Ronit Popovitz-Biro (Weizmann Inst. of Science.), Moshe Schechter (Hebrew Univ.)

12:51 B32.009 Experiments on Nanoscale Disordered Superconductor-Normal-Superconductor Arrays

Zhenyi Long (Box 1843, Physics Department, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912), Taejoon Kouh (Department of ENG Aero amp; Mech Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215), Michael Stewart, James Valles (Department of Physics, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912)

13:03 B32.010 Vortex Motion through Periodic Pinning Arrays formed by AFM Nano-Oxidation

Joseph Amato, Trevor King, Christopher Ritacco (Colgate University, Hamilton NY 13346)

13:15 B32.011 Quantum Phase in Nanoscopic Superconductors

Zafer Gedik (Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University, 34956 Tuzla, Istanbul, Turkey)

13:27 B32.012 Numerical scheme to find Steady-State and equilibrium vortex configurations in a small superconducting grain

Sangbum Kim, Chia-Ren Hu, Malcolm J. Andrews (Texas Aamp;M University)

13:39 B32.013 Superconducting granular balls in ac electric field with low frequency

R. Tao, Xiaojun Xu, Eyas Amr (Department of Physics, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122)

13:51 B32.014 Novel magnetic behavior of high-Tc superconducting nano-grains

Hongwei Zhao, Chia-Ren Hu (Texas Aamp;M University)

14:03 B32.015 Heat transfer in proximity structures

Eugene Bezuglyi (Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering, Kharkov, Ukraine), Valerii Vinokur (Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Ave, Argonne, IL 60439)

B32.016 Stripe-like Mott edge states in cuprate nanostructures

Alexander Chernyshev (University of California, Irvine), Antonio Castro Neto (Boston University), Steven White (University of California, Irvine)

11:15 B33.001 Simulation of Si on Si(001): a new hybrid MC-MD algorithm for the study of semiconductor surface behavior

Francesca Tavazza, David P. Landau (Center for Simulational Physics, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-2451, USA), Laura Nurminen, Antti Kuronen, Kimmo Kaski (Laboratory of Computational Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology, P.O.Box 9203, 02015 HUT, Finland)

11:27 B33.002 Mapping the Energy Landscape for a Silicon Monomer on the Reconstructed Si(111)-7x7 Surface

Ming Yu, Chris Leahy, C.S. Jayanthi, S. Y. Wu (Department of Physics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292)

11:39 B33.003 Studies of the positron surface state and annihilation characteristics at the Si(111) surface using positron annihilation induced Auger electron spectroscopy

J. L. Fry, N. G. Fazleev, S. Shannon, A. H. Weiss (Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas 76019)

11:51 B33.004 Observation of Band-Bending at the Bare Si(100) Surface Using STM Spectroscopy

Katsumi Nagaoka, Matthew Comstock, Aaron Hammack, Michael F. Crommie (Department of Physics, Univ. of California at Berkeley)

12:03 B33.005 Dimer structure of the Si(001)2x1 surface observed by low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope

Ono Masanori, Kamoshida Atsushi, Matsuura Nahoko, Eguchi Toyoaki (Affiliation), Hasegawa Yukio (Institute for Solid State Physics, the University of Tokyo)

12:15 B33.006 Surface Morphology Evolution Of Si(111) Under Aqueous NH4F Etching

Hui Zhou (Chemical Physics Program, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20740), Joseph Fu, Richard Silver, John Kramar (Precision Engineering Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899)

12:27 B33.007 Optical Second Harmonic Probing of Hole Burning Associated with Electron Dynamics at the Si(111)7x7 Surface

John A. McGuire, Markus B. Raschke, Y. R. Shen (Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley and Materials and Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720)

12:39 B33.008 Electron-beam induced decomposition of trimethylamine on Si(100)2x1

Brian M. Davies, Jr. Craig (Dept. of Physics, Bradley University, Peoria, IL 61625)

12:51 B33.009 Semiconductor Surfaces Free of Surface States: Si(001) with a Monolayer of Se

Meng Tao, Shruddha Agarwal, Darshak Udeshi, Wiley Kirk, Eduardo Maldonado (University of Texas at Arlington)

13:03 B33.010 X-ray standing wave studies of alkaline-earth metals on Si(001)

D. M. Goodner, D. L. Marasco, A. A. Escuadro, L. Cao, M. J. Bedzyk (Northwestern University, Materials Science and Engineering, Evanston, IL)

13:15 B33.011 Correlations in a One-Dimensional Lattice Fluid on Si(111)5x2-Au

A. Kirakosian, L.W. Bruch, F.J. Himpsel (University of Wisconsin - Madison), R. Bennewitz (University of Basel, Switzerland)

13:27 B33.012 Bright protrusions on the Si(111)5x2-Au surface

F.K. Men, W.S. Chen, C.H. Wu, J.S. Chou, J.C. Chang (Department of Physics, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, ROC)

13:39 B33.013 Plasmon at the Semiconductor-Metal Interface Detected by Highly Collimated Slow Electron Beam

Tadaaki Nagao (Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan; PRESTO, JST, Saitama, Japan), Shin Yaginuma, Toshio Sakurai (Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan)

13:51 B33.014 X-Ray Study of in situ Low Temperature Growth of Ag on Si(111)-(7 x 7) and Ge(111)-c(2 x 8)

L. Basile, P. Czoschke, Z. Wu, Hawoong Hong, Haydn Chen, T.-C. Chiang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

14:03 B33.015 Evidence for reconstruction at the Si(100)-SiO_2 interface from the analysis of ion scattering experiments

A. Bongiorno, A. Pasquarello (Institute of Theoretical Physics (ITP), EPFL , Lausanne, Switzerland), M.S. Hybertsen (Agere Systems, Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA), L.C. Feldman (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, USA)

11:15 B34.001 Non-equilibrium effects in Bose-Einstein condensates in an external periodical potential

Birgit Kaufmann, Hartmut Monien (University of Bonn, Germany)

11:27 B34.002 Matter-wave gap solitons in atomic bandgap structures

Elena Ostrovskaya, Pearl Louis, Yuri Kivshar (Nonlinear Physics Group, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University, ACT 0200 Canberra, Australia), Craig Savage (Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia), Nonlinear Physics Group, Department of Physics Collaboration

11:39 B34.003 Oscillating Superfluidity of Bosons in Optical Lattices

Ehud Altman, Assa Auerbach (Department of Physics, Technion, Haifa)

11:51 B34.004 Delocalizing transition of Bose-Einstein condensates in two-dimensional optical lattices

George Kalosakas (Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory), Kim O. Rasmussen, Alan R. Bishop (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

12:03 B34.005 Expansion of a Bose--Einstein Condensate in an Optical Lattice

L. DeBeer, M. Demenikov, J. Galbreath, T.J. Mahaney, B. Nelsen, M. Edwards (Georgia Southern University), C.W. Clark (NIST)

12:15 B34.006 Moving a Bose--Einstein Condensate with an Optical Lattice

M. Demenikov, L. DeBeer, J. Galbreath, T.J. Mahaney, B. Nelsen (Georgia Southern University), M. Edwards (Georgia Southern University and NIST), C.W. Clark (Georgia Southern University)

12:27 B34.007 Josephson Currents in Bose--Einstein Condensates in Optical Lattices

J. Galbreath, L. DeBeer, M. Demenikov, T.J. Mahaney, B. Nelsen (Georgia Southern University), M. Edwards (Georgia Southern University and NIST), C.W. Clark (NIST)

12:39 B34.008 Adiabatic Nonlinear Turn-On of an Optical Lattice in a Bose--Einstein Condensate

T.J. Mahaney, B. Nelsen, L. DeBeer, M. Demenikov, J. Galbreath (Georgia Southern University), M. Edwards (Georgia Southern University and NIST), C.W. Clark (NIST)

12:51 B34.009 Properties of 2D Optical Lattices for Atoms

P. Blair Blakie, Charles W. Clark (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

13:03 B34.010 Dynamics of a period-three pattern-loaded Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice

Ana Maria Rey (University of Maryland, College Park), P. Blair Blakie, Charles W. Clark (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

13:15 B34.011 Bogoliubov Approach to Superfluidity of Atoms in an Optical Lattice

Robert Roth (Oxford University), Ana Maria Rey (University of Maryland, College Park), Keith Burnett (Oxford University), Mark Edwards (Georgia Southern University), Carl J. Williams, Charles W. Clark (National Institute of Standards and Technology), MONGO Team

13:27 B34.012 Dynamics of interacting bosons in an optical lattice

Anatoli Polkovnikov, Subir Sachdev, Steven Girvin (Yale University)

13:39 B34.013 Mott insulators in strong electric fields

S. Sachdev, K. Sengupta, S. M. Girvin (Department of Physics, Yale University, P.O. Box 208120, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8120)

13:51 B34.014 Quantum Phases of ultracold bosons coupled to a superfluid environment

Ludwig Mathey (PhD student), Walter Hofstetter (Post Doc), Mikhail Lukin, Eugene Demler (assistant professor)

B34.015 High-temperature superfluidity of fermionic atoms in optical lattices

Walter Hofstetter (Harvard University), Ignacio Cirac (Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany), Peter Zoller (University of Innsbruck, Austria), Eugene Demler, Mikhail Lukin (Harvard University)

11:15 B35.001 Segmental Dynamics in Poly(ethylene oxide)/ Poly(methyl methacrylate) Miscible Blends: A Quasi-Elastic Neutron Scattering Investigation

Victoria Garcia Sakai, Chunxia Chen, Janna Maranas (Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Penn State University), Zema Chowdhuri (NIST Center for Neutron Research) Collaboration

11:27 B35.002 Effect of Carbon Black on Elastomer Blends

MAYU SI, Tadanori Koga, Yuan Ji, Young-Soo Seo, Miriam Rafailovich, Jonathan Sokolov (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11794), M. Gerspacher (Sid Richardson Co. Research Center, 4825 North Freeway, Fort Worth,TX 76106), A. J. Dias, Kriss R. Karp (Exxon Mobile Chemical Company, Polymer Science and Butyl Technology Divisions, Baytown, Texas, 77520), Sushil Satija, Min Y. Lin (Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-8562)

11:39 B35.003 Absolute Heat Capacity Measurements in Equilibrium of Poly(alpha-Methylstyrene)/Pentamer Mixtures: The Kauzmann Paradox Unresolved

Gregory B. McKenna, Sindee L. Simon, Dinghai Huang (Texas Tech University)

11:51 B35.004 Thermoplastic Polyurethanes Phase Segregation Kinetics Study

T. Mace, H. Hristov, O. Thomas (Kimberly Clark Corporation), B. Hsiao, C. Avila-Ortega, R. Somani, L. Yang (SUNY at Stony Brook), H. Beckham (Georgia Institute of Technology)

12:03 B35.005 Determination of Proton Spin-Diffusion Coefficients in Amorphous Polymers

Xin Jia, Justyna Wolak, Xingwu Wang (Affiliation), Jeffery White (Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University)

12:15 B35.006 Simulation of polymeric network formation with atomic level interactions for the study of templated and recognitive materials

David B. Henthorn, Ebru Oral (Purdue Univ., School of Chemical Engineering), Kinam Park (Purdue Univ., Dept. of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy), Nicholas A. Peppas (Univ. Texas at Austin, Dept. of Chemical Engineering)

12:27 B35.007 Collapsing/Expanding Transition in Network Glasses

Xiaorong Wang (Bridgestone/Firestone Research Center, Akron, Ohio 44317)

12:39 B35.008 Molecular Dynamics Simulation of PDMS Networks: Structure and Relaxation

D. R. Heine, M. Tsige, C. D. Lorenz, M. J. Stevens, G. S. Grest (Sandia National Laboratories)

12:51 B35.009 Theory of elasticity of granular networks

Sergey Panyukov (P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia)

13:03 B35.010 Depinning of semiflexible polymers in (1+1) dimensions

Panayotis Benetatos (Hahn-Meitner-Institute, Theoretische Physik, Glienicker Str. 100, D-14109, Berlin, Germany), Erwin Frey (Hahn-Meitner-Institute, Theoretische Physik, Glienicker Str. 100, D-14109, Berlin, Germany and Fachbereich Physik, Free University Berlin, Arnimallee 14, D-14195, Berlin, Germany)

13:15 B35.011 Dynamic Self-Consistent Field Theory for Polymer Fluids: Scaling from Unentangled to Entangled Regimes

Tak Shing Lo, Maja Mihajlovic, Yitzhak Shnidman (Dept of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry amp; Materials Science, Polytechnic University and NSF MRSEC on Polymers at Engineered Interfaces)

13:27 B35.012 Application of Density Functional Theory to Tethered Polymer Chains

John D. McCoy, Yuan Ye (New Mexico Institute of Mining amp; Technology, Socorro, NM 87801), John G. Curro (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185)

13:39 B35.013 Anomalous Behavior of Structural Recovery in Plasticized Polymers: Comparison of RH-jumps and T-jumps to the same final state

Yong Zheng, Gregory B. McKenna (Texas Tech University)

13:51 B35.014 An effective-colloid model for Lennard-Jones colloid-polymer mixtures

Orlando Guzman, Juan de Pablo (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

14:03 B35.015 Influence of Solvent Quality on Phase Behavior and Spatial Correlations in Polymer-Colloid Mixtures

Yeng-Long Chen, Kenneth S. Schweizer (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)