Program overview

WEDNESDAY MORNING, 5 MARCH 2003

11:15 P1.001 Global Seismic Tomography: 25 years later

Adam Dziewonski (Department of Earth Planetary Sciences, Harvard University)

11:51 P1.002 Physics of the Geodynamo

Peter Olson (Johns Hopkins University)

12:27 P1.003 Dynamics of the Earth's Deep Interior: Understanding convection in the mantle from numerical models and observations

Louise Kellogg (Department of Geology, University of California, Davis, CA, 95616)

13:03 P1.004 Mantle Convection and Plate Dynamics

Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni (University of Michigan)

13:39 P1.005 The composition and properties of the Earth's core: An approach from first principles.

G. David Price (Department of Earth Sciences, University College London)

11:15 P2.001 George E. Pake Prize Talk: A Peaceful and Free World Through Technology

C. Paul Robinson (Sandia National Laboratories)

11:51 P2.002 Information barriers for classified measurements

James Fuller (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

12:27 P2.003 OAK RIDGE MULTIPLE ATTRIBUTE SYSTEM (ORMAS) FOR PU, HEU, HE, AND CHEMICAL AGENTS

John Mihalczo (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

13:03 P2.004 Development of a wide-bandgap semiconductor enables research on the origins of the solar system, while making our world more secure

Thomas Prettyman (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

11:15 P3.001 Robust patterns in food web structure: models and empirical results

Roger Guimera (Department of Chemical Engineering, Northwestern University)

11:51 P3.002 Energy Flow in Food Webs

Guido Caldarelli (University of Rome)

12:27 P3.003 Simple Rules Yield Complex Food Webs

Neo Martinez (Cornell University / San Francisco State University)

13:03 P3.004 Scaling in the growth of geographically subdivided populations: invariant patterns from a continent-wide biological survey

Timothy H. Keitt (Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin)

11:15 P4.001 Structure and dynamics of spin polarons induced by doping a Haldane spin-1 chain

Collin Broholm (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218)

11:51 P4.002 Magnetized state of a Haldane-gap antiferromagnet: a neutron scattering study

Andrey Zheludev (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

12:27 P4.003 Quantum Field Theory Description of Frustrated Spin Chains

F. D. M. Haldane (Princeton University)

13:03 P4.004 Quasi-one-dimensional antiferromagnets with non-magnetic disorder

Ian Affleck (Boston University)

13:39 P4.005 Resonance Valent Bond State Stabilized by Frustration

Alexei Tsvelik (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

11:15 P5.001 Hot-electron instability in vortex motion

Milind N. Kunchur (University of South Carolina, Department of Physics and Astronomy)

11:51 P5.002 Interaction of vortices with acoustic waves

Boris Ivlev (Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia; Univ. of San Luis Potosi, San Luis Potosi)

12:27 P5.003 A one-dimensional chain state of vortex matter

Simon Bending (University of Bath)

13:03 P5.004 Crossing vortex lattice melting transition in BSCCO single crystals

Kazuo Kadowaki (Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba)

13:39 P5.005 Do Superconductors Have Zero Resistance in a Magnetic Field?

C. J. Lobb (University of Maryland, Department of Physics, Center for Superconductivity Research, College Park, MD 20742-4111)

11:15 P6.001 Substrate orientation dependence of interface alloy formation for Ni films on Al single crystals: Comparisons of Monte Carlo simulations with experiment

R.J. Smith, N. Winward, C.V. Ramana, V. Shutthanandan, N.R. Shivaparan, Y.-W. Kim (Montana State University, Bozeman MT 59717)

11:27 P6.002 A Novel Alloying Mechanism for Ge on Si(001)

J.B. Hannon, M. Copel, R.M. Tromp (IBM Research Division, Yorktown Hts., NY)

11:39 P6.003 Kinetics of growth of a multilayer in a fcc alloy system

Jun Ni, Hongting Shi (Department of Physics, Tsinghua University)

11:51 P6.004 Pyramidal surface morphology and height distribution in noble metal homoepitaxy

P. F. Miceli, C. E. Botez, W. C. Elliott (Univ. Missouri-Columbia), P. W. Stephens (State Univ. New York- Stony Brook)

12:03 P6.005 Analyses of the growth mechanism in Cu films by using ac four-point impedance spectroscopy

S. Y. Park, S. F. Li (q-Psi and Dept. of Physics, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea), J. Y. Rhee (Dept. of Physics, Hoseo University, Asan, Korea), Y. P. Lee (q-Psi and Dept. of Physics, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea)

12:15 P6.006 Diffusion of small Cu clusters on Cu(111)

Chandana Ghosh, Abdelkader Kara, Talat S. Rahman (Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506)

12:27 P6.007 Getting beneath the surface -- vacancies in solids and the stability of surface morphology

Kevin McCarty (Sandia National Labs, Livermore, CA)

12:39 P6.008 Vacancy trapping during the homoepitaxial growth of noble metals

C. E. Botez, K. Li, E. D. Lu, P. F. Miceli (Univ. Missouri-Columbia), E. H. Conrad (Georgia Inst. of Technology), P. W. Stephens (State Univ. New York- Stony Brook)

12:51 P6.009 Adsorbate induced restructuring of Ag films on Ru(0001) studied in real time

Konrad Thürmer, Norman Bartelt, Robert Hwang (Sandia Nat’l Labs, Livermore, CA)

13:03 P6.010 Competing Classical and Quantum Effects in Shape Relaxation of a Metallic Nanostructure*

Dongmin Chen, Hiroshi Okamoto (Rowland Institute at Harvard, Harvard University), Toshishi Yamada (NASA Ames Research Center)

13:15 P6.011 Dislocation mediated layer-by-layer growth of strained Ag films on Ru(0001)

W.L. Ling, J.C. Hamilton, G.E. Thayer, J. de la Figuera, A.K. Schmid, R.Q. Hwang (Sandia National Labs, Livermore, CA)

13:27 P6.012 The Role of Surface Oxygen in Formation of Metastable Pb Crystallites

W. G. Cullen, D. B. Dougherty (Department of Physics, University of Maryland), K. Thuermer (Thin-Film and Interface Science Division, Sandia National Lab), J. E. Reutt-Robey (Department of Chemistry, University of Maryland), E. D. Williams (Department of Physics, University of Maryland)

13:39 P6.013 Defect Formation and Kinetics of Atomic Terrace Merging

Ajay Gopinathan, Thomas Witten (University of Chicago)

11:15 P7.001 Non-linear Optics in Dendritic Polymers

Theodore Goodsen (Wayne State University)

11:51 P7.002 Unfolding of Proteins

Julio Fernandez (Mayo Clinic)

12:27 P7.003 Organization and Instabilities of Entangled Active Polar Filaments

Tanniemola Liverpool (Royal Society University Research Fellow)

11:15 P8.001 Hybrid Molecular/Inorganic Electronic Devices and Systems

Gregory Parsons (NC State University)

11:51 P8.002 Strain-relaxed SiGe buffer layers with low defect density and surface roughness

P.M. Mooney (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10498 USA), S.H. Christiansen, J.O. Chu, A. Grill

12:03 P8.003 Spectroscopic ellipsometry on strained Si channel structures

S. Zollner, C.S. Cook, Q. Xie, M. Erickson, X.-D. Wang, E. Duda, M. Canonico, R. Liu, T. White, B.-Y. Nguyen (Motorola, Inc., APRDL)

12:15 P8.004 Hafnium silicate and hafnium silicon oxynitride gate dielectrics for strained Si_xGe_1-x: Interface stability

Swarna Addepalli, Prasanna Sivasubramani, Mohamed El-Bouanani, Moon Kim, Bruce Gnade, Robert Wallace (Department of Materials Science, University of North Texas, Denton, TX-76203)

12:27 P8.005 HfSiON with less than 2 nm EOT by UV ozone oxidation

Gaurang Pant, Prakaipetch Punchaipetch, Moon J. Kim, Mohamed El' Bouanani, Robert Wallace, Bruce Gnade (University of North Texas)

12:39 P8.006 Interface and bulk properties of HfO2 films

Nivedita Biswas, Harlan Harris, Kisik Choi, Henryk Temkin, Shubhra Gangopadhyay (NanoTech Center, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 79409)

12:51 P8.007 Model of Photoresist Trimming Using CF_4/O_2 Plasma

Shahid Rauf, Tab Stephens (Motorola Inc.), Srikanteswara Dakshina-Murthy (Advanced Micro Devices)

13:03 P8.008 Effect of rapid thermal annealing on the thermally- and plasma-grown aluminum oxide tunnel barriers

E. Cimpoiasu, S.K. Tolpygo, X. Liu, N. Simonian, Yu. A. Polyakov, J.E. Lukens, K.K. Likharev (Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3800, U.S.A)

13:15 P8.009 Structural Properties of FeSi_2 Films Grown Using Reactive Deposition Epitaxy

D. Koustubh, R. Failla, R.J. Cottier, A. Wadhawan, T.D. Golding, J.M. Perez (University of North Texas, Department of Physics, Denton, TX 76203)

13:27 P8.010 Thermal Conductivity of Germanium-, Silicon-, and Carbon Nitride

Donald Morelli, Joseph Heremans (Delphi Research Labs)

13:39 P8.011 Morphokinetics of Origami Self-Assembly of Nanoporous Silica Shapes

Yaroslav Yu. Kievsky, Igor Yu. Sokolov (Department of Physics, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, 13699)

P8.012 Hafnium germanosilicate thin films for gate and capacitor dielectric applications: thermal stability studies

Swarna Addepalli, Prasanna Sivasubramani, Mohamed El-Bouanani, Moon Kim, Bruce Gnade, Robert Wallace (Department of Materials Science, University of North Texas, Denton, TX-76203)

11:15 P9.001 E. coli's division decision: modeling Min-protein oscillations I

Ned S. Wingreen (NEC Laboratories America, Inc.), K. C. Huang (Department of Physics, MIT), Yigal Meir (Department of Physics, Ben Gurion University)

11:27 P9.002 E. coli's division decision: modeling Min-protein oscillations II

K. C. Huang (Department of Physics, MIT), Ned S. Wingreen (NEC Laboratories America, Inc.), Yigal Meir (Department of Physics, Ben Gurion University)

11:39 P9.003 Diffusion-limited reactions on the cell surface

Manoj Gopalakrishnan, Uwe Tauber (Department of Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24060), Kimberly Forsten-Williams (Department of Chemical Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24060)

11:51 P9.004 Minimal Assumptions Comprehensive Electrostatic Model for Mitotic Motions

L. John Gagliardi (Rutgers University, Camden, NJ 08102)

12:03 P9.005 Microtubule self-organized spindle formation induced by motor-proteins

Stuart Schaffner, Jorge Jose (Northeastern University)

12:15 P9.006 Chromatin motion and nucleosome dynamics in live cells and isolated nuclei observed using two-photon standing wave photobleaching

Sara K. Davis, Christopher Bardeen (U. Illinois)

12:27 P9.007 STRUCTURE AND MECHANICS OF ACTIN CORTEX CONTAINED IN VESICLES

Laurent Limozin, Alexander Roth, Erich Sackmann (E22 Biophysik, Technical Univ. Munich, 85748 Garching, Germany), E22 Biophysik Team

12:39 P9.008 The Role of Actin Networks in Eukaryotic Cells

Revathi Ananthakrishnan (Institute for Soft Matter Physics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig and CNLD, UT Austin, Austin), Jochen Guck (Institute for Soft Matter Physics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig), Tess Moon (Department of Mechanical Engineering, UT Austin, Austin), Josef Käs (Institute for Soft Matter Physics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig)

12:51 P9.009 Self Assembly and Spatial Structure in Actin Networks

Brian Gentry, Josef Käs (Institute for Soft Matter Physics Universität Leipzig)

13:03 P9.010 Mimicking Temperature Through Molecular Machines

David Smith, Josef Käs (University of Leipzig)

13:15 P9.011 Fluctuations in the Internal Viscoelasticity of Living Bovine Endothelial Cells

E.A. Rickter, L.A. Hough, H.D. Ou-Yang (Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015)

13:27 P9.012 Correlation of Cell and Substrate Mechanical Properties

Tedhar Setton (Plainview Old Bethpage JFK High School, Plainview, NY 11803), Joshua Levine (Ramaz High School, New York, NY 10021), Joseph Levine (St. Francis Hospital, Port Washington, NY 11576), E Guan, Lourdes Collazo, Shouren Ge, Emilia Entcheva, Miriam Rafailovich (SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794)

13:39 P9.013 Correlation between local viscoleastic behavior and lamellipodia extension

Soyeun Park, Josef Kas (Institute for Soft Matter Physics, Universitat Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany), Chih-Kang Ken Shih (Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712)

13:51 P9.014 Universal strain stiffening in biological gels and tissues

Cornelis Storm, Jennifer Pastore (University of Pennsylvania), Fred MacKintosh (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Tom Lubensky, Paul Janmey (University of Pennsylvania)

14:03 P9.015 A Microfluidic Optical Stretcher As A Diagnostic Tool

Bryan Lincoln, Stefan Schinkinger, Falk Wottawah, Jochen Guck (Universität Leipzig)

11:15 P10.001 Three-dimensional Breast Imaging with Full Field Digital Mammography Tomosynthesis

Jeffrey W. Eberhard (GE Global Research, 1 Research Circle, Niskayuna NY 12309)

11:51 P10.002 Elastography: Imaging the elastic properties of soft tissues with ultrasound

Jonathan Ophir (University of Texas Medical School)

12:27 P10.003 Optical Diagnostics in Medicine

Nicusor Iftimia (Harvard Medical School and Wellman Laboratories of Photomedicine at MGH)

13:03 P10.004 Sheding light on gene expression using fluorescence molecular tomography

Vasilis Ntziachristos (Harvard University)

11:15 P11.001 Single Molecules as Nanophotonic Probes and Sources

W.E. Moerner (Department of Chemistry, Stanford University)

11:51 P11.002 Spectroscopy of Single Isolated Polymer Chains and the Dynamics of Delocalized Charges in Organic Thin Films

Paul Barbara (Dept. of Chemistry, University ofTexas, Austin TX, 78712)

12:27 P11.003 Single Molecule Light Emitting Diodes

Tae-Hee Lee, Robert Dickson (Georgia Institute of Technology)

12:39 P11.004 Photon Echo and Single Molecule Fluorescence Measurements of Organic Dyes

Robin Smith (Swarthmore College), Carl Grossman (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Swarthmore College), François Tresussart and Jean-François Roch (LPQM Collaboration

12:51 P11.005 Near-field interference spectroscopy of individual metal nanostructures

Alexander Mikhailovsky, Melissa Petruska, Andrew Bartko, Marc Achermann (Chemistry Division, C-PCS, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545), Mark Stockman (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University), Victor Klimov (Chemistry Division, C-PCS, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545)

13:03 P11.006 Generating function methods for single molecule observables

Frank Brown (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Santa Barbara)

13:15 P11.007 Photoluminescence dynamics of single nanocrystal quantum dots

Inhee Chung, Oliver Dial, Ray Ashoori, Moungi Bawendi (MIT)

13:27 P11.008 Radaitive decay engineering in GaN Quantum Dots for biomedical application

Arup Neogi (Department of Physics, University of North Texas), Purnima Basu Neogi (University of North Texas), Hadis Morkoc (Department of Physics and Electrical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University)

13:39 P11.009 Carbon Nanotube Electronics and Electro-Optics

Phaedon Avouris (IBM Research Division, T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598)

11:15 P12.001 Coupled coherent phonons and magnons by resonant excitation of the exchange split surface state of Gd(0001)

Uwe Bovensiepen, Alexey Melnikov, Ilie Radu, Oleg Krupin, Kai Starke, Eckart Matthias, Martin Wolf (Fachbereich Physik, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin, Germany)

11:27 P12.002 First-principles calculations of vibrational modes of H on Pt(111)

Sampyo Hong, Talat S. Rahman (Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506), Rolf Heid, Klaus Peter Bohnen (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, IFF, Karlruhe, Germany)

11:39 P12.003 Hydrogen catalyzed adsorption of alkenes on the diamond (001) surface

Leonard Kleinman, Jun-Hyung Cho (Dept. of Physics, University of Texas at Austin)

11:51 P12.004 Imaging Furan Decomposition on Pd(111)

A. Loui (UC Davis), D.N. Futaba (Hokkaido Univ.), S. Chiang (UC Davis)

12:03 P12.005 First-principles study of oxygen activation of nanoporous carbon for styrene catalysis

Johan M. Carlsson, Matthias Scheffler (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, D-14195 Berlin, Germany)

12:15 P12.006 Adsorption of ammonia on ice surface under ambient pressure

L. Zhang, C. Zhang, Y. R. Shen (Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720)

12:27 P12.007 Catalytic water formation on free platinum clusters

Mats Andersson, Arne Rosén (Department of Experimental Physics, Chalmers University of Technology and Göteborg University, SE-41296 Göteborg, Sweden)

12:39 P12.008 Site Selectivity in Relaxations and S Chemisorption on stepped Pd surfaces: ab initio studies

Ilja Makkonen, Petri Salo, Matti Alatalo (Laboratory of Physics, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland), Talat S. Rahman (Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506)

12:51 P12.009 Local structure of disordered molecules on surfaces from LEED I/E data of Bragg spots

Hin-Cheuk Poon, Saldin Dilano (Physics Department, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Zheng Tao, Wilfred Tysoe (Chemistry Department, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

13:03 P12.010 Cooperative Oxidation of CO on Iron-Oxide Particles

B. V. Reddy, F. Rasouli, M.R. Hajaligol (Research Center, Philip Morris USA, Richmond, VA 23234), S.N. Khanna (Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284)

13:15 P12.011 Aerosol formation and growth in shaped supersonic nozzles. First direct SANS measurements.

Kiril Streletzky, Barbara Wyslouzil (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Kristina Iland, Reinhard Strey (University of Cologne)

13:27 P12.012 Structural transformation between high- and low-density amorphous ice

C. A. Tulk (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN USA 37831), C. J. Benmore, J. Uquirdi (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne IL USA 60439), M. Guthrie (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN USA 37831), D. D. Klug (National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa ON Canada K1A 0R6), B. Tomberli (Department of Physics, University of Guelph, Guelph ON Canada N1G 2W1), J. Neuefeind (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne IL USA 60439), P. A. Egelstaff (Department of Physics, University of Guelph, Guelph ON Canada N1G 2W1)

13:39 P12.013 Monte Carlo simulations of gases adsorbed within nanopores

Raluca A. Trasca, M. Mercedes Calbi, Milton W. Cole (Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA,16802)

13:51 P12.014 Neutron diffraction and inelastic scattering studies of hydride phases in ZrBe_2H_x

R.L. Cappelletti (NIST Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg, MD 20899), Zema Chowdhuri (NIST Center for Neutron Research and University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742), T.J. Udovic, Q.Z. Huang (NIST Center for Neutron Research)

14:03 P12.015 The Metal-Oxide Interface and the Field-Induced Resistance Switch

Stephen Tsui, Andrei Baikalov, Y.Y. Xue, Bernd Lorenz, Jared Cmaidalka, Y.Q. Wang, Bo Shen, Y.Y. Sun (TCSAM, University of Houston), C.W. Chu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; TCSAM, University of Houston; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

11:15 P13.001 Microfluidic Actuation by Modulation of Surface Stresses: From Theoretical Considerations to Device Development

Sandra Troian (Princeton University)

11:51 P13.002 Moving contact lines in heated liquid films

Ana Oprisan, John Hegseth (Department of Physisc, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148), Daniel Beysens, Yves Garrabos (ESEME, Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux, F-33608 Pessac, France)

12:03 P13.003 Spreading of Nano-Scale Droplets: Comparison of Langevin and DPD Thermostats

G. S. Grest, D. R. Heine, E. B. Webb III (Sandia National Laboratories)

12:15 P13.004 A Dynamic Self-Consistent Field Theory of Sheared Polymer Fluids with Spherical Nanofillers

Maja Mihajlovic, Yitzhak Shnidman (Department of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and Materials Science, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY 11201, and the NSF MRSEC on Polymers at Engineered Interfaces)

12:27 P13.005 Apparent Slip in Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Microchannels

Chang-Hwan Choi, Johan Westin, Kenneth Breuer (Brown University)

12:39 P13.006 Computational study of mixing microchannel flows

Patrick Bennett (Manhasset High School), Chris Wiggins (Columbia University department of applied physics and applied mathematics)

12:51 P13.007 Simulation of polymer translocation through a nanoscopic hole: a Molecular Dynamics Study

Gary W. Slater, Steve Guillouzic (University of Ottawa)

13:09 P13.008 Anomalous hydrodynamic interactions in confined geometries

Haim Diamant (Tel Aviv University), Bianxiao Cui, Binhua Lin, Stuart Rice (University of Chicago)

13:15 P13.009 Magnetic properties of Magneto-Rheological fluids with uniformly dispersed Fe nanoparticles

P. Poddar, J. L. Wilson, H. Srikanth (Department of Physics, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL), N. M. Wereley (Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD), R. Radhakrishnan (Materials Modification Inc, Fairfax, VA)

13:27 P13.010 Slip Behavior of Short Chain Polymers in Nano-Couette Flow

Nikolai V. Priezjev, Sandra M. Troian (Depts. of Chemical Engineering and Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ)

13:39 P13.011 Dynamic Capillary Phenomena on Chemically Patterned Surfaces

Anton A. Darhuber, Jeffrey M. Davis, Sandra M. Troian (Microfluidic Research and Engineering Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ)

11:15 P14.001 SQUID-Detected NMR and MRI in Microtesla Magnetic Fields

Robert McDermott (UC Berkeley and LBNL)

11:51 P14.002 3D Imaging by Use of Magnetic Resonance Force Microscope

Yohsuke YOSHINARI, Shigenori TSUJI, Masaru SEKINE, Masao SHIMIZU (JEOL Ltd.)

12:03 P14.003 Improvements in Mechanical Detection of Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy (MRFM)

Raul Fainchtein (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723-6099)

12:15 P14.004 Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy at Millikelvin Temperatures

Raffi Budakian, John Mamin, Benjamin Chui, Daniel Rugar (IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center)

12:27 P14.005 High-field magnet-on-tip nuclear magnetic resonance force microscopy

Sean R. Garner, Jahan Dawlaty, Seppe Kuehn, Neil Jenkins, Tse Nga Ng, John A. Marohn (Cornell University)

12:39 P14.006 170 Nanometer Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Optically Pumped GaAs

Kent R. Thurber (U.S. Army Research Lab, Adelphi, MD), Lee E. Harrell (U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY), Doran D. Smith (U.S. Army Research Lab, Adelphi, MD)

12:51 P14.007 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy: Relaxation Mapping

Casey W. Miller, Utkur M. Mirsaidov, Yong J. Lee, Troy C. Messina, John T. Markert (University of Texas at Austin, Department of Physics, Austin, TX 78712)

13:03 P14.008 Characterization by cantilever magnetometry of single submicron magnets for magnetic resonance force microscopy

Tse Nga Ng, Neil Jenkins, Sean Garner, Seppe Kuehn, Jahan Dawlaty, John A. Marohn (Cornell University)

13:15 P14.009 Interpreting Electric Force Microscopy Images Using 3D Electrostatic Simulations

D. G. Keppel, Emma Tevaarwerk, P. Rugheimer, D. M. Savage, M. G. Lagally, M. A. Eriksson (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

13:27 P14.010 Shear-mode magnetic force microscopy using a quartz tuning

Yongho Seo (Department of Physics, University of Virginia), Kyungho Kim, Wonho Jhe (Center for Near-field Atom-photon Technology and School of Physics, Seoul National University)

13:39 P14.011 Fabrication of Double Torsional Oscillators using double-sided Processing for Application in Scanning Force Microscopy

Yong J. Lee, Utkur M. Mirsaidov, Casey W. Miller, Wei Lu, John T. Markert (University of Texas at Austin)

13:51 P14.012 Single electron tunneling to an insulator surface detected by electrostatic force

Levente J. Klein, Clayton C. Williams (Dept. of Physics, University of Utah)

14:03 P14.013 Atomic resolution of non-contact surface force microscopy on metallic surfaces

I. STICH, P. DIESKA (CCMS, Slovak University of Technology (FEI STU), Bratislava, Slovakia), R. PEREZ (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)

11:15 P15.001 Non-Markovian Stochastic Resonance

Igor Goychuk, Peter Hanggi (University of Augsburg, Germany)

11:27 P15.002 Stochastic Resonance in a Simple Magnetic Pendulum

Arriety Lowell, Lowell I. McCann (Physics Dept., Univ. of Wisconsin--River Falls)

11:39 P15.003 Experimental realization of stochastic resonance on two-dimensional arrays

Nilgun Sungar, John Sharpe, Matthew Swaney, Keith Carrigan, Sean Wheeler (Dept. Physics, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407)

11:51 P15.004 Statistics of entrance times

Peter Talkner (Institut fuer Physik, Universitaet Augsburg, Universitaetsstr.1, D-86135 Augsburg, Germany)

12:03 P15.005 Critical exponents for escape of a driven particle

D. Ryvkine, M.I. Dykman, B. Golding (Michigan State University)

12:15 P15.006 Escape of a mesoscopic particle from a modulated optical trap

J. R. Kruse, M. I. Dykman, B. Golding (Michigan State University)

12:27 P15.007 Formation and destruction of pulses in lasers - a noise induced phase transition

Ariel Gordon, Boris Vodonos, Baruch Fischer (Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel)

12:39 P15.008 Explicit functions for random dynamics

Leonardo I. Reyes (Departamento de Física, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela), Jorge A. González (Centro de Física, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela), José Juan Suárez, Luis Emilio Guerrero (Departamento de Física, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela), Gustavo Gutiérrez

12:51 P15.009 Noise in Landau-Zener theory

Nikolai Sinitsyn, Valery Porkovsky (Texas Aamp;M University, Department of Physics.), V.L. Pokrovsky superconductivity and magnetism group Collaboration

13:03 P15.010 Fluctuations below a stationary supercritical bifurcation to electroconvection in a nematic liquid crystal

Xin-liang Qiu, Guenter Ahlers (Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106)

11:15 P16.001 Simulation of Fundamental Polymer Nanocomposite Properties

Francis Starr (Center for Thoretical and Computational Materials Science amp; Polymers Division, NIST), Sharon Glotzer (Depts. of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, U. Michigan), Jack Douglas (Polymers Division, NIST)

11:27 P16.002 Molecular dynamics simulation of polymer-nanoparticle composites: Nanoparticle interactions in a neat polymer matrix.

Dmitry Bedrov, Grant Smith, James Smith, Oleksiy Byutner (University of Utah)

11:39 P16.003 Multiscale Micromechanical Modeling of Polymer/Clay Nanocomposites and the Effective Clay Particle

Nuo Sheng, Mary C. Boyce, David M. Parks (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA), Oleg Manovitch, Gregory C. Rutledge (Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA), Hojun Lee, Gareth H. McKinley (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA)

11:51 P16.004 Dewetting dynamics of nanofilled polymer thin films

Haobin Luo, Dilip Gersappe (Dept of Materials Science and Engg, SUNY at Stony Brook)

12:03 P16.005 Structure and Rheology of Polyethylene Oxide / Silica Nanocomposites

Qiang Zhang, Lynden A. Archer (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University), Microrheology Group Team

12:15 P16.006 Nanoparticles for Control of Polymer Blend Structures

Koray Yurekli, Jeremy Strauch, Ramanan Krishnamoorti (University of Houston)

12:27 P16.007 Interfacial Properties of Novel Hybrid POSS-Amphiphiles and their Blends with Polymers

Jianjun Deng, John Hottle, Alan Esker (Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech), Brent Viers (Air Force Research Laboratories, Edwards Air Force Base)

12:39 P16.008 Ultrathin POSS/Polymer Systems for Dynamic Studies

Alan Esker, Ben Vastine (Deparment of Chemistry, Virginia Tech), Sushil Satija (NIST Center for Neutron Research), Brent Viers (Air Force Research Laboratories, Edwards Air Force Base)

12:51 P16.009 Shear-induced orientation in model polymer-clay nanocomposites

Laura Dykes, Wesley Burghardt (Northwestern University), Ramanan Krishnamoorti (University of Houston)

13:03 P16.010 Diffusion Coefficients of n-Alkanes and Polyethylenes Filled with Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles

Rahmi Ozisik (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Wayne L. Mattice, Ernst von Meerwall (University of Akron)

13:15 P16.011 Effects of Nanoscale Size Disparity of Filler Particles and Their Interactions on Percolation and Thermal Properties of a Polymer Matrix

Andrea Corsi, P. D. Gujrati (Department of Physics and Department of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325 USA)

13:27 P16.012 Nonspecific Compatibilization of Polymer Blends Using Functionalized Clays

Robert Fisher (HANC High School, Uniondale, NY 11553), Michael Goldman (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA), Michael Rubinstein (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,NC, 27599), Mayu Si, Jonathan Sokolov, Miriam Rafailovich, Gregory Ruderman (SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794)

13:39 P16.013 Pulse Field Gradient NMR Study of Diffusion in a Permeable Glassy Blend

Haihui Cao, Guoxing Lin, Marcus Giotto, Alan Jones (Clark University, Carlson School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Worcester, MA 01610)

13:51 P16.014 Effect of Surfaces on the Distribution of Orientations of Rod-Like Particles

Raffy Mor, Moshe Gottlieb (Chemical Engineering Department, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, 84105 ISRAEL), Lisa A. Mondy (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185-0834, USA), Alan L. Graham (Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79410, USA)

14:03 P16.015 Phase Behavior of Trisilanolisobutyl-POSS with Polar PDMS Derivatives

Hyong-Jun Kim, Jennifer Hoyt, Judy Riffle, Alan Esker (Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech), Brent Viers (Air Force Research Laboratories, Edwards Air Force Base)

11:15 P17.001 Edge Effects on the Order and Melting of a 2D Array of Block Copolymer Spheres

R. A. Segalman, A. Hexemer, E. J. Kramer (UC Santa Barbara)

11:27 P17.002 Epitaxial Relationships between Close-Packed and BCC Lattices in Copolymer Micelles

Joona Bang, Timothy P. Lodge (University of Minnesota)

11:39 P17.003 Wulff Shape of Cylindrical Domains Growing in Lamellar Block Copolymer Homopolymer Blends, and Nucleation of a Second Phase at Grain Boundaries

Samuel Gido, Engin Burgaz (Dept. of Polymer Science amp; Eng., Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst)

11:51 P17.004 Anisotropy of lamellar block copolymer grains

Bruce Garetz, Maurice Newstein (Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY 11201), Nitash Balsara (University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720), Carlos Marques (Universite Strasbourg, France 67084), Samuel Gido (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003)

12:03 P17.005 Shear-generated long range ordering of thin diblock copolymer films

Dan Angelescu (Princeton University), Paru Deshpande, Matthew Trawick, Douglas Adamson, Stephen Chou, Richard Register, Paul Chaikin

12:15 P17.006 Size Adaptation of Block Copolymer Microdomains at Lattice Defect Sites

M. R. Hammond, S. W. Sides, G. H. Fredrickson, E. J. Kramer (UCSB), J. Ruokolainen (Helsinki Univ. of Technology), S. F. Hahn (Dow Chemical Co.)

12:27 P17.007 Origin for the formation of inverted phase in drying solution-cast block copolymer films

Haiying Huang, Fajun Zhang, Hu Zhijun, Binyang Du, Tianbai He (Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry), Fuk Kay Lee, Yongjian Wang, Ophelia K. C. Tsui (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

12:39 P17.008 Achieving and controlling perpendicular lamellar orientation in thin diblock copolymer films using substrate topology.

Easan Sivaniah, Yoshihiro Hayashi, Shinya Matsubara, Shinya Kiyono, Takeji Hashimoto (Department of Polymer Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University,Kyoto 606-8501, Japan), Kenji Fukunaga (Ube Industries Ltd., Ichihara, Chiba 290-0045, Japan.)

12:51 P17.009 Elastic Constants of Ordered Diblock Copolymer Phases

David M. Cooke, An-Chang Shi (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)

13:03 P17.010 Epitaxial Transitions among FCC, HCP, BCC, and Cylinder Phases in a Block Copolymer Solution

Moon Jeong Park, Joona Bang, Timothy P. Lodge (University of Minnesota), Kookheon Char (Seoul National University)

13:15 P17.011 alignment of block copolymer thin films under electric field

Ting Xu, Thomas P. Russell (Department of polymer science and engineering, University of Mass., Amherst)

13:27 P17.012 Collective dynamics and self-diffusion in a diblock copolymer melt in the body-centered cubic phase

Kristoffer Almdal, Kell Mortensen (Danish Polymer Centre, Risø\ National Laboratory, P.O. Box 40, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark), Christine M. Papadakis, Frank Rittig (Fakultät für Physik und Geowissenschaften, Universität Leipzig, Linnéstr.\ 5, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany), Petr \vSt\vepánek (Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Heyrovsky sq. 2, CZ-16206 Prague 6, Czech Republic)

13:39 P17.013 Dynamics of Spherical Microdomains in Diblock Copolymer Thin Films

M.L. Trawick, D.E. Angelescu, P.M. Chaikin (Department of Physics), J.H. Waller, R.A. Register (Department of Chemical Engineering), D.H. Adamson (Materials Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA)

13:51 P17.014 Anisotropic Self-Diffusion in Block Copolymer Cylinders

Kevin Cavicchi, Tim Lodge (University of Minnesota)

14:03 P17.015 Electrically induced patterning in block copolymer films

Hongqi Xiang, Zhiqun Lin, Thomas P. Russell (Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003)

11:15 P18.001 Thermoreversibly aggregated microgels: fractal structure and aggregation mechanism

Zhenyu Gu, Rong Cao, Bruce Armitage, Gary Patterson (Carnegie Mellon University)

11:27 P18.002 Swimming Towards the Dark: A Photophobic Light-driven Elastomeric Swimmer

P. Palffy-Muhoray, M. Camacho-Lopez (Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent OH 44242), H. Finkelmann (Institute für Macromoleculare Chemie, Albert-Ludwigs Universität, Freiburg, Germany), M. Shelley (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University,New York, NY 10012)

11:39 P18.003 Reversible gelation in polymer melts with van der walls interactions

Matthew Wallace, Béla Joós (University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada), Michael Plischke (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada)

11:51 P18.004 Small angle light scattering and microscopy study of agarose gels in an electric field

Ariel Michelman, Rama Bansil, Chien-shiu Kuo, Ryan Morris (Boston University), Ralph Nossal (NIH)

12:03 P18.005 Thermo-mechanical response in chemically disordered gels and analysis of the relative macro-meso affinity

Lorin Gutman, Eugene Shakhnovich (Harvard University)

12:15 P18.006 Universal elasticity and fluctuations of nematic gels

Xiangjun Xing, Leo Radzihovsky (Department of Physics, University of Colorado)

12:27 P18.007 From random coils to hard spheres: Rheology of polymer “nano-particoils”

Ingrid Stepanek, Pradeep Bhat, Jong H. Han, Matteo Pasquali (Affiliation), Michael S. Wong (Rice University, Chemical Engineering Dept, 6100 Main, Houston TX 77005)

12:39 P18.008 Surfactant Templated Polyacrylamide Gels

Mukundan Chakrapani, D.H. Van Winkle (Center for Materials Research and Technology and Dept. of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306), R.L. Rill (College of Medicine, Institute of Molecular Biophysics, and Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306)

12:51 P18.009 The Influences of Molecular Architectures on the Association of Rigid-rod Poly(p-phenyleneethynylene)s in Toluene into Gels.

Rakchart Traiphol, Dvora Perahia (Department of Chemistry, and MSamp;E Program Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29634-0973), Uwe Bunz (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and the USC NanoCenter, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, 29208)

13:03 P18.010 2D GELATION OF AMPHIPHILIC LIPOPOLYMERS AT THE AIR-WATER INTERFACE

Christoph Naumann, John Coffman, Michael Foreman (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Department of Chemistry), Sonia Cesana, Rainer Jordan (Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Lehrstuhl f. Makromolekulare Stoffe), Greg Smith (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Manuel Lujan Neutron Scattering Center)

13:15 P18.011 Vector Percolation Analysis of Triglyceride-based Thermoset Polymers

John J. LaScala, Richard P. Wool (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark De 19716-3144)

13:27 P18.012 Explaining the Strength of Autoacceleration in Free Radical Polymerization: Quantifying the "Short" in the Short-Long Diffusion-Controlled Termination Process

Brian Chekal, John Torkelson (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-3120)

13:39 P18.013 Mobility of Small Molecules and Polymer Chains in CO2-Swollen Polymer Matrices

Ravi Gupta, Thomas Russell, James Watkins (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Watkins-Russell Team

13:51 P18.014 A simple model for the dynamics of probes in polymer gels

Chwen-Yang Shew (Department of Chemistry, College of Staten Island of the City University of New York, 2800 Victory Boulevard, Staten Island, NY 10314)

14:03 P18.015 Microrheology of cross-linked polymers

Bivash R Dasgupta, D. A. Weitz (Department of Physics and DEAS, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138)

11:15 P19.001 Quantum Information Science with Single Atoms and Photons

H. J. Kimble (California Institute of Technology)

11:51 P19.002 Constraints on Eavesdropping Strategies for the BB84 Protocol: Emulation of Count Rate and Photon Number Statistics

Gerald Gilbert, Michael Hamrick (MITRE), MITRE Quantum Information Science Group Team

12:03 P19.003 Investigations of Entangled States in NMR Quantum Computing

Terri Yu, Joshua Powell, Isaac Chuang (MIT Center for Bits and Atoms - Cambridge 02139)

12:15 P19.004 Entanglement dynamics in 1D quantum cellular automata

Gavin Brennen, Jamie Williams (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

12:27 P19.005 Dressed qubits: a new method for eliminating inherent gate errors in quantum computation

Lian-Ao Wu, Daniel A. Lidar (Chemical Physics Theory Group, Chemistry Department, University of Toronto, 80 St. George St., Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada)

12:39 P19.006 Experimental implementation of a quantum search algorithm using higher order spins

Murali Kota, Matthias Steffen (Center for Bits and Atoms - MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139), Patrick Judeinstein (Institut de Chimie Moleculaire d'Orsay, Universite Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France), Isaac Chuang (Center for Bits and Atoms - MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139)

12:51 P19.007 Pure Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance Techniques for Quantum Computation

Wei-Han Huang (MIT Media Lab), Zilong Chen (MIT), Isaac Chuang (MIT Media Lab)

13:03 P19.008 Experimental implementation of an adiabatic quantum optimization algorithm

Matthias Steffen (Center for Bits and Atoms - MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139), Wim van Dam, Tad Hogg (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA 94394), Greg Breyta (IBM Almaden Reserach Center, San Jose, CA 95120), Isaac Chuang (Center for Bits and Atoms - MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139)

13:15 P19.009 Electrical manipulation of nuclear spins in a quantum-Hall device

Tomoki Machida (Nanostructure and Material Property, PRESTO, JST, Japan), Tomoyuki Yamazaki, Kenji Ikushima, Susumu Komiyama (Department of Basic Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan)

13:27 P19.010 Quantum Computing with Spin Cluster Qubits

Florian Meier (University of Basel), Jeremy Levy (University of Pittsburgh), Daniel Loss (University of Basel), Center for Oxide-Semiconductor Materials for Quantum Computation Team

13:39 P19.011 Electron Wave Computing from Quantum Resistor Networks

C.H. Wu, G. Shankaranarayanan (Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. University of Missouri-Rolla)

13:51 P19.012 Interplay of qubit inhomogeneity and imperfect gates in a double quantum dot

Xuedong Hu, S. Das Sarma (Condensed Matter Theory Center, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742)

14:03 P19.013 Full Bloch states effects on donor-pair exchange in silicon-based quantum computer architectures

Belita Koiller, R.B. Capaz (Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 21945, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Xuedong Hu, S. Das Sarma (Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742)

11:15 P20.001 Two impurities in a half-filled d-wave superconductor: a bridge to the many impurity problem

W. A. Atkinson (Southern Illinois University Carbondale), P. J. Hirschfeld, Lingyin Zhu (University of Florida)

11:27 P20.002 Two impurities in a d-wave superconductor: local density of states

Lingyin Zhu (Department of Physics,University of Florida), W.A. Atkinson (Department of Physics, Southern Illinois University), P.J. Hirschfeld (Department of Physics,University of Florida)

11:39 P20.003 Study of Electronic Surface Properties for a 2D D-wave Superconductor

Lucian Covaci, Frank Marsiglio (Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada)

11:51 P20.004 Energy-Dependent LDOS Modulation in Cuprate Superconductors

Degang Zhang, Chin-Sen Ting (Texas Center for Superconductivity , UH, Houston, TX 77204)

12:03 P20.005 A numerical analyzing tool for impurity-induced resonant-state STM images in high-Tc superconductors

Qian Wang, Chia-Ren Hu (Texas Aamp;M University)

12:15 P20.006 Quantum Interference Between d-wave Superconductivity with Weak Stripe Modulation and a Strong Impurity

Hong-Yi Chen (Affiliation), C.S. Ting (Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204)

12:27 P20.007 Relationship between impurity scattering resonances and nanoscale electronic disorder in BSCCO

K. Swamy, J. E. Hoffman, K. McElroy, K. M. Lang, E. W. Hudson (University of California, Berkeley), H. Eisaki, S. Uchida (University of Tokyo), J. C. Davis (University of California, Berkeley)

12:39 P20.008 Local electronic structure near impurities in d-wave superconductors

Jian-Ming Tang, Michael Flatté (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa)

12:51 P20.009 New Insights from Quasiparticle Interference in BSCCO-2212

Kyle McElroy, J. E. Hoffman, R.W. Simmonds, D.-H. Lee (Physics Dept., UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720-7300, USA), H. Eisaki, S. Uchida (Dept. of Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan.), J.C. Davis (Dept. Phys, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA.)

13:03 P20.010 Ward identities for disordered metals and superconductors

Revaz Ramazashvili (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA.)

13:15 P20.011 Microwave conductivity of d-wave superconductors disordered by extended impurities

Daniel Sheehy (University of British Columbia)

13:27 P20.012 Quantum Interference between Impurities: Creating Novel Many-Body States in Superconductors

Nikolaos Stavropoulos, Dirk Morr (University of Illinois at Chicago)

11:15 P21.001 An efficient quantum Monte Carlo algorithm for softcore boson systems

Jurij Smakov (Condensed Matter Theory Group, Department of Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, AlbaNova University Center, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden), Kenji Harada (Department of Applied Analysis and Complex Dynamical Systems, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan), Naoki Kawashima (Department of Physics, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo 192-0397, Japan)

11:27 P21.002 Aspect Ratio Dependence of the Spin Stiffness of a 2D XY model

Roger G. Melko, D.J. Scalapino (University of California Santa Barbara), A.W. Sandvik (Abo Akademi University)

11:39 P21.003 Numerical study of clean two-dimensional charged Bose gas at T=0

Stefania De Palo (University of Rome ``La Sapienza'', Piazzale A. Moro, 2, I-00185, Rome, Italy), Sergio Conti (Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences), Saverio Moroni (University of Rome ``La Sapienza''and INFM Center SMC, Piazzale A. Moro, 2, I-00185, Rome, Italy)

11:51 P21.004 Quantum simulation for two-dimensional disordered charged bosons

Michela Botti, Stefania De Palo (University of Rome ``La Sapienza'', Piazzale A. Moro, 2, I-00185, Rome, Italy), Saverio Moroni (University of Rome ``La Sapienza'' and INFM Center SMC , Piazzale A. Moro, 2, I-00185, Rome, Italy)

12:03 P21.005 Superfluid--Insulator Transition in Disordered Bosonic Systems: Large-Scale Worm-Algorithm Simulations

Nikolay Prokof'ev, Boris Svistunov (University of Massachusetts)

12:15 P21.006 SUPERCONDUCTIVITY WITH DISORDER: A QUANTUM MONTE CARLO STUDY

James Osborn (University of Utah), Shailesh Chandrasekharan, Anand Priyadarshee, Harold Baranger (Duke University)

12:27 P21.007 Calculating Atomic Properties Using The Feynman Kac Method

Steven Alexander (University of Texas Pan American), Nail Fazleev, John Fry (University of Texas Arlington)

12:39 P21.008 Path Integral Monte Carlo finite-temperature electronic structure of quantum dots

Markku Leino, Tapio T. Rantala (Institute of Physics, Tampere University of Technology, P.O.Box 692, FIN-33101 Tampere, Finland)

12:51 P21.009 Wave-packet dynamics using the Quantum Trajectory Method on Message Passing Architecture

R. K. Vadapalli, R. L. Carino (ERC), I. Banicescu (ERC & Dept. of Computer Science), C. A. Weatherford (FAMU), J. Zhu (Univ. of Akron), M. A. Novotny (ERC & Dept. of Physics & Astronomy)

13:03 P21.010 Monte-Carlo Feynman diagram summation for the d=2 Hubbard model: What are the important diagrams?

Andreas Voigt, Heinz-Bernd Schuttler (The University of Georgia, Athens/GA)

13:15 P21.011 Quantum Monte Carlo method using phase-free random walks with Slater determinants

Shiwei Zhang, Henry Krakauer (College of William and Mary)

13:27 P21.012 Extracting canonical results from grand canonical simulations

Robert Sedgewick, Luca Capriotti, Douglas Scalapino, Robert Sugar (University of California, Santa Barbara)

13:39 P21.013 Superfluid Density of the t-J Model

Adrian E. Feiguin, Steven R. White (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine.), D. J. Scalapino (Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara.)

13:51 P21.014 Numerical renormalization group study of the symmetric Anderson-Holstein model: phonon and electron spectral functions

Tae-Ho Park (SungKyunKwan Univ.), Gun Sang Joen (Penn. State Univ.), Han-Yong Choi (SungKyunkwan Univ.)

P21.015 Photoemission spectroscopy and sum rules in dilute electron-phonon systems

Pavel Kornilovitch (Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, OR 97330)

P21.016 Self-Trapping at the Critical Point

Terrence Reese (Southern University), Bruce Miller (Texas Christian University)

11:15 P22.001 Spin states and polarized current emission from Coulomb blockaded quantum dots

R. M. Potok, J. A. Folk, C. M. Marcus (Harvard University), V. Umansky (Weizmann Institute)

11:27 P22.002 Quantum Phase Trasition in Parallel-Coupled Double-Quantum-Dots

Jeng-Chung Chen, Albert M. Chang (Dept. of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907), Michael R. Melloch (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907)

11:39 P22.003 Asymmetry in the Interfering Signal through a Quantum Dot

Kensuke Kobayashi, Hisashi Aikawa, Akira Sano, Shingo Katsumoto, Yasuhiro Iye (Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan)

11:51 P22.004 Local Moment Formation in Quantum Point Contacts

Kenji Hirose (Fund.Res.Labs., NEC Corp.), Ned Wingreen (NEC Labs., USA), Yigal Meir (Ben-Gurion Univ.)

12:03 P22.005 Fluctuations of the Kondo Effect in Quantum Dots

Ribhu K. Kaul, Denis Ullmo, Harold U. Baranger (Duke University)

12:15 P22.006 Theory of the nonequilibrium Kondo Effect in a Quantum Dot

Tatsuya Fujii (Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo), Kazuo Ueda (Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy)

12:27 P22.007 Transport Properties of Trimer Quantum Dots

C.A. Busser (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory - Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32310), E. Dagotto (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory - Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL32310), E.V. Anda, M.A. Davidovich (Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro - RJ, Brazil)

12:39 P22.008 Theory of spin flips in lateral quantum dots - role of exchange and correlations

Marek Korkusinski, Pawel Hawrylak (Quantum Theory Group, Institute for Microstructural Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa ON Canada K1A 0R6), Andreas Wensauer (Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Universitaet Regensburg, D-93040 Regensburg, Germany), Andy Sachrajda, Mariusz Ciorga, Michel Pioro-Ladriere (Quantum Physics Group, Institute for Microstructural Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa ON Canada K1A 0R6)

12:51 P22.009 Spectrum and Transport of Spherical Quantum Dots: Orbital Blockade and Spin Blockade Effects

Gilmar E. Marques (UFSCAR (Brazil)), Carlos F. Destefani (Ohio University), C. Trallero-Giner (Universidad de La Haban (Cuba))

13:03 P22.010 Quantum dot ground state energies and spin polarizations: soft versus hard chaos

Denis Ullmo (Duke University), Tatsuro Nagano, Steven Tomsovic (Washington State University)

13:15 P22.011 Spin and Conductance Peak-Spacing Distributions in Isolated and Realistic Quantum Dots: A Density Functional Theory Study

Hong Jiang, H. U. Baranger, Denis Ullmo, Weitao Yang (Duke University)

P22.012 Kondo effect in coupled quantum dots: a Non-crossing approximation study

Ramon Aguado (Departamento de Teoria de la Materia Condensada, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid , CSIC, Cantoblanco 28049, Madrid, Spain), David Langreth (Center for Materials Theory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019, USA.)

11:15 P23.001 Processes of nucleation from the liquid phase in a tetrahedral semiconductor model

Philippe Beaucage, Normand Mousseau (Departement de physique, Universite de Montreal, CP 6128, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montreal (Quebec), Canada H3C 3J7)

11:27 P23.002 First Principle Molecular Dynamics Study of Melting in Silicon and Germanium

Xiaofei Wang, Sandro Scandolo, Roberto Car (Department of Chemistry and Princeton Material Institute, Princeton University, NJ, 08540)

11:39 P23.003 SIEST-A-RT: a study of vacancy diffusion in crystalline silicon using a local-basis first-principle (SIESTA) activation technique (ART).

Fedwa El Mellouhi, Normand Mousseau (Département de physique and Centre de recherche en physique et technologie des couches minces, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-ville, Montréal (Québec) H3C 3J7, Canada), Pablo Ordejòn (Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (CSIC), Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, E-08193, Barcelona, Spain.)

11:51 P23.004 Dynamics of Intrinsic Defects in Si (001) Surfaces and Si/SiO2 Interfaces: A First Principles Study

Taras Kirichenko (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712), Decai Yu, Yung Wang (Department of Chemical Engineering The University of Texas at Austin, Austin), Sanjay Banerjee (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712), Gyeong Hwang (Department of Chemical Engineering The University of Texas at Austin, Austin)

12:03 P23.005 An Atomistic Model of the Elastic Field of a Surface Step

Cameron Connell (Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology), Russell Caflisch (Department of Mathematics, UCLA)

12:15 P23.006 Distribution of Dimer Vacancy Lines on Si(001) surface and their local bonding behavior

Eunja Kim, Changfeng Chen (Physics Dept. Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas)

12:27 P23.007 The ground state structure of ultra-thin Si nanowires

Yufeng Zhao, Boris I. Yakobson (Rice University)

12:39 P23.008 The origin of the residual acceptor ground state splitting in silicon

D. Karaiskaj, G. Kirczenow, M. L. W. Thewalt (Department of physics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6), R. Buczko (Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Al. Lotników 32/46, PL 02-668, Warsaw, Poland), M. Cardona (Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany)

12:51 P23.009 A General and Efficient Prescription for the Calculation of the Phonon Spectrum

Hadley Lawler (University of Maryland), Eric K. Chang (Universita di Modena), Eric L. Shirley (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

13:03 P23.010 Monte Carlo Simulation of Charge Ordering in Mixed Ion Systems using Faraday Field Lines Method

Keyur Desai, Malay Dey, S. D. Mahanti (Michigan State University)

13:15 P23.011 Doping of CuInSe_2 and CuGaSe_2 by hydrogen

Cetin Kilic, Alex Zunger (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)

13:27 P23.012 Native defects and oxygen in CdTe and CZT

John Jaffe, Mary Bliss (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Kelvin Lynn (Washington State University)

13:39 P23.013 Properties of hexagonal ScN from first-principles

V. Ranjan, N. Farrer, L. Bellaiche (Physics Department, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA.), Eric J. Walter (Department of Physics, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187, USA)

11:15 P24.001 Quantum interference control of ballistic spin currents in semiconductors

Martin Stevens, Arthur Smirl (Laboratory for Photonics amp; Quantum Electronics, University of Iowa), Ravi Bhat, Ali Najmaie, John Sipe, Henry van Driel (Department of Physics, University of Toronto)

11:27 P24.002 Electron spin resonance in n-GaAs heterostructures with optical polarization and optical detection

J.S. Colton, T.A. Kennedy, A.S. Bracker, D. Gammon, J.B. Miller (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C.)

11:39 P24.003 Optical Orientation and Femtosecond Spectroscopy of Spin-Polarized Holes in bulk Gallium Arsenide

David Hilton, Chung Tang (Cornell University)

11:51 P24.004 Spin decay and quantum parallelism in semiconductor nanostrcutures due to hyperfine interaction with nuclei

John Schliemann (University of Basel, Switzerland)

12:27 P24.005 OPTICAL MEASUREMENT OF AN ELECTRON SPIN IN A SINGLE QUANTUM DOT

Andrew Shabaev, Alexander Efros, Daniel Gammon (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, USA), Igor Merkulov (Ioffe Institute, RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia)

12:39 P24.006 Magnetic field effect on electron spin dephasing induced by hyperfine interaction in quantum dots

Yuriy Semenov (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine), Ki Wook Kim (North Carolina State University)

12:51 P24.007 Theory of spin transport in an n-typed GaAs quantum well

M.W. Weng (Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China), M.W. Wu (Structure Research Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Academia Sinica, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China, and Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China)

13:03 P24.008 Spin dephasing in n-typed GaAs quantum wells

M.W. Wu (Structure Research Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Academia Sinica, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China, and Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China), M.Q. Weng (Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China)

13:15 P24.009 Semiclassical kinetic theory of electron spin relaxation in quantum wells

Franz X. Bronold (EMAU Greifswald), Avadh Saxena, Darryl L. Smith (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

13:27 P24.010 Tunability of Electron Spin Coherence in Parabolic Quantum Wells

Wayne H. Lau, Michael E. Flatte' (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA)

13:39 P24.011 Intersubband spin dynamics in quantum wells with bulk and structural inversion asymmetry

C.A. Ullrich (University of Missouri-Rolla), M.E. Flatte (University of Iowa)

13:51 P24.012 Rashba Spin-Orbit Interaction and Shot Noise for Spin-Polarized and Entangled Electrons

Guido Burkard (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598), J. Carlos Egues, Daniel Loss (University of Basel, Switzerland)

14:03 P24.013 Exchange Based Noise Spectroscopy of a Single Spin with STM

Yishai Manassen (Department of Physics Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, 84105, Israel), Alexander Balatsky (Theory Div, MS B 262, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545), Ran Salem (Department of Physics Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, 84105, Israel)

11:15 P25.001 Polaronic Effects in Bloch and Magneto-Bloch Oscillations

Yuriy A. Kosevich (IICO - UASLP, 78000 San Luis Potosi, S.L.P., Mexico)

11:27 P25.002 Electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions in Si/SiGe and CdTe/CdMgTe quantum wells probed by high field cyclotron resonance

N. MIURA, T. IKAIDA, S. IKEDA (ISSP, University of Tokyo), G. N. OSTOJIC, S. ZARIC, J. KONO (ECE Dept., Rice University), Y. J. WANG (NHMFL, Florida State University), Y. SHIRAKI (Dept. Appl. Phys., University of Tokyo), F. TAKANO, S. KURODA, K. TAKITA (IMS, University of Tsukuba)

11:39 P25.003 Valence Band Mixing, Trion Formation, and Carrier-Induced Shift of Magneto-Excitons

Y. D. Jho (Univ. of FL and NHMFL), F.V. Kyrychenko, X. Wang (Univ. of FL), J. Kono (Rice Univ.), D. H. Reitze, C. J. Stanton (Univ. of FL), G. S. Solomon (Solid-State Photonics Lab., Stanford Univ.), C. Kadow, A. C. Gossard (Materials Department, UCSB), X. Wei (NHMFL)

11:51 P25.004 Theoretical investigation of magnetooptical phenomena in strained semiconductor quantum well structures

F. V. Kyrychenko, D. Reitze, Young-Dahl Jho, C. J. Stanton (University of Florida), J. Kono (Rice University)

12:03 P25.005 Rabi splitting of intersubband cavity polaritons

Dimitri Dini, Ruedeger Koehler, Alessandro Tredicucci (NEST-INFM and Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, I-56126 Pisa (Italy)), Giorgio Biasiol, Lucia Sorba (NEST-INFM and Laboratorio Nazionale TASC-INFM, AREA Science Park, SS 14 Km 163.5, Basovizza, I-34012 Trieste (Italy))

12:15 P25.006 Exchange and Correlation Effects in a Double Barrier Quantum Well

J. E. Hasbun (State University of West Georgia)

12:27 P25.007 A simple model for analytical treatment of quantum confined Stark effect

Ilya Ponomarev, Lev Deych, Alexander Lisyansky (Department of Physics, Queens College of CUNY, 65-30 Kissena Blvd. Flushing, NY 11367)

12:39 P25.008 Exciton Photoluminescence Study of InSb Quantum Wells

X. H. Zhang, N. Dai, F.H. Zhao, Z.S. Shi, R.E. Doezema, N. Goel, S.J. Chung, M.B. Santos (Univeristi of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019)

12:51 P25.009 Band Offset Determination of Zn_0.53Cd_0.47Se/Zn_0.27Cd_0.23Mg_0.50Se Quantum Wells Using Contact-less Electroreflectance

Martín Muñoz, Maria C. Tamargo (Chemistry Department, City College of the City University of New York)

13:03 P25.010 Differential Transmission due to Coherent Acoustic Phonon Oscillations in GaN/InGaN Superlattices

Rongliang Liu, G. D. Sanders, C. J. Stanton (Department of Physics, University of Florida), Gia-Wei Chern, Chi-Kuang Sun (National Taiwan University)

13:15 P25.011 Spectroscopic phase comparison of second-harmonic generation from Si(001) surfaces

Yong Qiang An (JILA, University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and chnology, Boulder, CO 80309-0440), Steven T. Cundiff

13:27 P25.012 Surface Effects and UV Optical Properties of Silicon

E.J. Shiles (University of Vermont), Mitio Inokuti (Argonne National Laboratory), W. Karstens (St. Michael's College), D.Y. Smith (University of Vermont and Argonne National Laboratory)

13:39 P25.013 Second-harmonic and reflectance difference spectroscopy of vicinal Si(001)/SiO_2: an experimental comparison

Jinhee Kwon, Michael Downer (Texas Materials Institute, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712)

13:51 P25.014 Studies of positron surface states and annihilation characteristics at the reconstructed (100) surface of GaAs

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

14:03 P25.015 Charge Transfer Characteristics and Physical Structure of Crystalline Oxides on Silicon

Rodney McKee (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Fred Walker (University of Tennnessee), Curt Billman (Penn State University), Marco Buongiorno Nardelli (North Carolina State University), Bill Shelton, Malcolm Stocks (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

11:15 P26.001 Linking chiral indices and transport properties of Double Walled carbon nanotubes

Mathieu Kociak (JST-ICORP/Nanotubulites project, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan)

11:51 P26.002 Study of the Influence of Defects on Electron Transport in Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes

Cristian Staii, Marcus Freitag (Affiliation), Alan T. Johnson (Department of Physics and Astronomy and Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter, University of Pennsylvania,209 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104), Sergei Kalinin (Affiliation), Dawn Bonnell (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 3231 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104)

12:03 P26.003 Photoconductivity of Individual Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Illuminated with Synchrotron Radiation

Todd Narkis, Bryan Barnes, Matthew Marcus, Mark Eriksson, Max Lagally (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

12:15 P26.004 The conductance of nanotubes deformed by the AFM tip

A. Svizhenko (NASA Ames Research Center), A. Maiti (Accelrys Inc., 9685 Scranton Road, San Diego, CA 92121), M. P. Anantram (NASA Ames Research Center, MS: 229-1, Moffett Field, CA, 94035)

12:27 P26.005 Endohedral Impurities in Carbon Nanotubes

Dennis Clougherty (University of Vermont)

12:39 P26.006 Topological Origin of Edge States and Boundary Magnetic Moments in Carbon Nanotubes

Yasuhiro Hatsugai, Shinsei Ryu (Department of Applied Physics, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan), Yuichi Otsuka (Institute for Molecular Science, Japan)

12:51 P26.007 Theory of electronic transport properties in multiterminal carbon nanostructures

Vincent Meunier (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Jerry Bernholc, Marco Buongiorno Nardelli (North Carolina State University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Jean-Christophe Charlier (Universite Catholique de Louvain)

13:03 P26.008 Conductance and emittance of carbon-nanotube-based quantum dot

Wei Ren, Jian Wang (Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong)

13:15 P26.009 Effect of ac fields on the Kondo effect in a carbon nanotube quantum dot

Prashant Sharma (Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University), Pascal Simon (Department of Physics, Boston University)

13:27 P26.010 Magnetism of transition metal/carbon nanotube hybrid structures

Chih-Kai Yang (Chang Gung University, Taiwan, ROC), Jijun Zhao, Jianping Lu (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

13:39 P26.011 Electronic Transport Measurements and Optical Measurements of Individual Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

Stephen Cronin (Harvard University), S.G. Chou (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), A.K. Swan, B.B Goldberg (Boston University), M.S. Dresselhaus (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), M. Tinkham (Harvard University)

13:51 P26.012 Magnetic Field Dependent Suppression of Tunneling into Multi Wall Nanotubes

S Chakraborty, B W Alphenaar (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, USA), Liu Liu, C S Jayanthi, S Y Wu (Department of Physics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292 USA), K Tsukagoshi (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Hirosaea 2-1, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan)

14:03 P26.013 Electronic Transport Properties of Long Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes

T. Dürkop, T. Brintlinger, M. S. Fuhrer (Department of Physics and Center for Superconductivity Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-4111, USA)

11:15 P27.001 Electrical transport measurements on chemically grown nanowires

David Coffey, Chihak Ahn, Yael Hanein (Department of Physics, University of Washington), Brian Mayers, Younan Xia (Department of Chemistry, University of Washington), David Cobden (Department of Physics, University of Washington)

11:27 P27.002 Low-temperature transport in nanowire transistors

Silvano De Franceschi, Jorden van Dam, Tessa Nolst Trenite, Leonid Gurevich, Leo Kouwenhoven (TU Delft, The Netherlands), Erik Bakkers (Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands)

11:39 P27.003 Electronic Structure of Rare Earth Disilicide Nanowires Measured with ARPES

Matthew P. Rocha (University of Oregon, Department of Physics), Hoon Koh Collaboration, Regina Ragan Collaboration, Eli Rotenberg Collaboration, Kai Rossnagel Collaboration, Steven D. Kevan Collaboration, R. Stanley Williams Collaboration

11:51 P27.004 Surface Effects on Nanowire Conductivity

Venkat Sundaram, Ari Mizel (Department of Physics and Materials Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University)

12:03 P27.005 Screening and the stability of metal nanowires at large bias voltages

Charles Stafford, Chang-hua Zhang (University of Arizona)

12:15 P27.006 Energetics of graphitic carbon nanorods using a self-consistent and environment-dependent LCAO-based Hamiltonian

Chris Leahy, Ming Yu, Chakram Jayanthi, Shi-Yu Wu (Department of Physics, University of Louisville)

12:27 P27.007 Surface fluctuation and the Stability of Metal Naowires

Chang-hua Zhang (Department of Physics, University of Arizona, 1118 E. 4th Street, Tucson, Az 85721, USA), Frank Kassubek (ABB Corporate Research Ltd, CH-5405, Baden-Dattwil, Switzerland), Charles Stafford (Department of Physics, University of Arizona, 1118 E. 4th Street, Tucson, Az 85721, USA)

12:39 P27.008 A current-density functional approach to the electronic conductance of molecular wire junctions

Rudolph Magyar (Rutgers Department of Physics and Astronomy), Kieron Burke, Eunji Sim (Rutgers Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology)

12:51 P27.009 Ab-initio Pseudopotential calculations of Infinite Monatomic chains of Ru, Rh, Pd and Ag

Filipe Ribeiro, Marvin L. Cohen (University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

13:03 P27.010 Charging of a one-dimensional metallic segment side-coupled to a quantum wire.

Paata Kakashvili, Henrik Johannesson (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chalmers University of Technology and Göteborg University)

13:15 P27.011 Statistics of the Phase of a 1-D Quantum Resistor/Conductor

P Pradhan (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL)

13:27 P27.012 A Luttinger Liquid in a Box

Fabrizio Anfuso, Sebastian Eggert (Chalmers University of Technology)

13:39 P27.013 Zeeman splitting of zero-bias anomaly in Luttinger liquids

Andrey Shytov (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara), Leonid Glazman (Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota), Oleg Starykh (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hofstra University)

13:51 P27.014 Fabrication and electron transport of nanometer thickness of graphite crystallites

Yuanbo Zhang, Philip Kim (Department of Physics, Columbia University)

14:03 P27.015 Magnetism in hydrogenated nano-graphite

Koichi Kusakabe, Masanori Maruyama (Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University, 950-2181 Japan), Shinji Tsuneyuki, Kazuto Akagi (Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan), Yoshihide Yoshimoro (Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, 277-8581, Japan), Jun Yamauchi (Corporate Research and Development Center, Toshiba Corporation, 212-8582, Japan)

11:15 P28.001 Fabrication of single domain Co/Pd islands by deposition onto SiO_2 pillars

Simone Raoux, Charles T. Rettner, Mark W. Hart, Bruce D. Terris (IBM Almaden Research Center)

11:27 P28.002 Growth and Properties of Small Co Islands on Strained Pt surface

Renat Sabiryanov (University of Nebraska at Omaha), Ashok Solanki, Evgeny Tsymbal, Sitaram Jaswal (University of Nebraska at Lincoln)

11:39 P28.003 Magnetization reversal of nanoscale Co and NiFe lines

W. Casey Uhlig, Jing Shi (Department of Physics, University of Utah)

11:51 P28.004 Magnetization reversal of stripe arrays: comparison of PNR and MOKE results

Hartmut Zabel (Institut für Experimentalphysik/Festkoerperphysik, Ruhr-Universitaet, D 44780 Bochum, Germany)

12:27 P28.005 Solvothermal Formation of Free- Standing Magnetic FePt Alloy Nanowires

Zheng Gai (Condensed Matter Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Zongtao Zhang, Douglas A. Blom (Chemical Sciences Division, ORNL), James R. Thompson (Condensed Matter Sciences Division, ORNL), Sheng Dai (Chemical Sciences Division, ORNL), Jian Shen (Condensed Matter Sciences Division, ORNL)

12:39 P28.006 Comparison of magnetic properties of Ni80Fe20 and Co nanowire arrays fabricated with diblock copolymer templates

Qijun Xiao, Andrei Ursache, James Goldbach, Tom Russell, Mark Tuominen (U of Massachusetts Amherst)

12:51 P28.007 Spin waves in ferromagnetic double layers: modifications by in-plane spacer layer currents

Y. Au, R. Sooryakumar (The Ohio State University)

13:03 P28.008 A spatiotemporal magnetization dynamics of internally patterned Ni80Fe20 thin film microstructures.

Miroslav Belov, Zhigang Liu, Kristen Buchanan, Richard Sydora, Mark Freeman (Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, CAN)

13:15 P28.009 Magnetic films patterned by direct laser interference lithography

Aliekber Aktag, Yucheng Sui, Steven Michalski (Department of Physics and Astronomy, and CMRA, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588), Nikolay I. Polushkin (Institute for Physics of Microstructures, 603950 Nizhni Novgorod, Russia), Lanping Yue, Roger D. Kirby, David J. Sellmyer (Department of Physics and Astronomy, and CMRA, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588)

13:27 P28.010 Growth of Self Assembled Magnetic Nanostructures

Hamid Alouach, Said Al-Ghamdi, Zhiya Zhao, Prakash Mani (University of Alabama), Kara Scott (Chicago State University), Vemuru Krishnamurthy (University of Alabama), Justin Akujeize (Chicago State University), Doru Stefanescu, G.J. Mankey (University of Alabama)

13:39 P28.011 Magnetic anisotropy of finite Fe chains on Cu(100) and Cu(111) surfaces

Bence Lazarovits (CMS, TU Vienna, Austria), Laszlo Szunyogh (Dept. of Theoretical Physics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary), Peter Weinberger (CMS, TU Vienna, Austria), nanostructures Team

13:51 P28.012 Absence Of Kondo Resonance For Co Dimers On a Cu(111) Surface

J.-L. HELFER, F. REUSE (IPN, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland), S. N. KHANNA (Physics Department, VCU, Richmond, Virginia)

14:03 P28.013 A Magnetic Force Microscopy Study of the Magnetic Reversal of Single Domain Particle Chains Isolated from Magnetotactic Bacteria

Anca Lungu (University of Minnesota), Sarah Olmstead (Univeristy Of Minnesota), Pete Eames (University of Minnesota), Dennis A. Bazylinski (Iowa State University), E. Dan Dahlberg (University of Minnesota)

11:15 P29.001 Spinvalve Current Distributions from In-Situ Conductance Measurements

Andrew McCallum, Stephen Russek (NIST)

11:27 P29.002 Studies of giant magnetoresistance and interfacial structure in Cu/Co and Co/Re multilayers

Arun Setty (Department of Physics, West Virginia University), G Fernando (Department of Physics, University of Connecticut), B. R. Cooper (Department of Physics, West Virginia University)

11:39 P29.003 Examination of Giant Magnetoresistance in Cu-Co Granular Films with Two-Particle Size Distribution

John P. Gentile, Jian Q. Wang, Uran Serif (Physics Department, SUNY-Binghamton), Andriy Ya Vovk (AMRI, Univeristy of New Orleans)

11:51 P29.004 Spin Dependent Interface Resistances

Ke Xia (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing)

12:27 P29.005 Effects of interface disorder on the transmission probability

Julian Velev, William Butler (Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Center for Materials for Information Technology)

12:39 P29.006 Tests of Mean-Free-Path Effects in CPP-MR

Khalid Eid, Wen-Chung Chiang, Clark Ritz, William Pratt Jr., Jack Bass (Physics and Astronomy Department, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824)

12:51 P29.007 Interfacial Magnetic Transition Layers Probed by Soft-x-ray Resonant Scattering

Bryan Barnes, John Kelly IV, Don Savage, Eric Wiedemann, Max Lagally (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

13:03 P29.008 Probing the Local Magnetic Structure of Giant Magnetoresistance Devices

D.K. Wood, K.K. Ni, D.R. Schmidt (UCSB), A.N. Cleland (Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara 93106)

13:15 P29.009 Effect of dipolar interactions on the saturation field of Fe/Cr multilayers exhibiting glassy behavior

Nikoleta Theodoropoulou, Art. Hebard (University of Florida, Physics Department), Marc Gabay (, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Universite Paris-Sud, ORSAY), C. Pace, J. Lannon, Dorota Temple (MCNC, NC)

13:27 P29.010 Magnetic Activity of Metals in Contact with a Superconductor.

Huseyin Kurt, Khalid Eid, William Pratt Jr., Jack Bass (Physics and Astronomy Department, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824)

13:39 P29.011 Anomalous Proximity Effect in Superconductor/Normal-metal/Ferromagnet Trilayers

Yong-Joo Doh, Jinho Kim, Kookrin Char (Center for Strongly Correlated Materials Research, School of Physics, Seoul National University)

13:51 P29.012 Double oscillation behavior of the critical temperature in S/F bilayer

Hyeonjin Doh, Sang-Yoon Nam, Han-Yong Choi (Dept. of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea), Materials and Device Physics Laboratory Collaboration

14:03 P29.013 Influence of large currents on the magnetization dynamics of ferromagnetic metals

J. Fernandez-Rossier, M. Braun, A. H. MacDonald (Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin)

11:15 P30.001 Electronic and magnetic structures of magnetic vortex core in an Fe quantum dot

Kohji Nakamura, Tomonori Ito (Mie University, Japan), A. J. Freeman (Northwestern University)

11:27 P30.002 Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Co4 Single Molecule Magnet

Mark Pederson (Center for Computational Materials Science, Code 6390,Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375), Tunna Baruah (Department of Physics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057)

11:39 P30.003 First-principles DFT investigation of mixed transition-metal clusters

Samuel Dennler, Joseph Morillo (CEMES/CNRS, 29, rue Jeanne Marvig, 31055 Toulouse cedex 4, France), Gustavo M. Pastor (LPQ-IRSAMC/CNRS, 31062 Toulouse cedex 4, France)

11:51 P30.004 Structure and stability of TM@Si_12 Cage Clusters

Prasenjit Sen, Lubos Mitas (North Carolina State University)

12:03 P30.005 Concentration Induced Magnetic Crossover in Disordered f-electron Clusters

Claudio Verdozzi, Nicholas Kioussis, Yan Luo (Department of Physics,California State University Northridge, Northridge CA 91330)

12:15 P30.006 Single Molecule Magnets in High Magnetic Fields

Efremov Efremov, Richard Klemm (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik komplexer Systeme)

12:27 P30.007 Landau-Zener quantum tunneling in disordered metallic nanomagnets

Vincenzo Benza (Universita' dell'Insubria), Carlo Canali (Kalmar University), Giuliano Strini (Universita' di Milano)

12:39 P30.008 Cooling-history effects on magnetic relaxation through quantum tunneling

Julio Fernandez (ICMA, CSIC, Spain), Juan Alonso (Universidad de Malaga, Spain)

12:51 P30.009 Persistent Currents in Quantum Dot Systems

Erik Sorensen (McMaster University), Ian Affleck (Boston University)

13:03 P30.010 Superradiance From Molecular Nanomagnets

Eugene M. Chudnovsky (CUNY Lehman College)

13:39 P30.011 A multiple scattering formulism for electromagnetic scattering by magnetic particles

Zhifang Lin, S T Chui (Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware)

13:51 P30.012 Spin-dependent transport through an interacting quantum dot

Ping Zhang, Qi-Kun Xue, Yu-Peng Wang (International Center of Quantum Structures, Institute of Physics, The Chinese Academy of Sciences), X. C. Xie (Department of Physics, Oklahoma State University)

14:03 P30.013 Exact results of excitation spectra of few electron quantum dots in the presence of magnetic field

Yan Luo, Claudio Verdozzi, Nicholas Kioussis

11:15 P31.001 Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory - Efficient Algorithms for Atoms, Molecules and Solids

Ryan Hatcher, Alan Tackett, Sokrates Pantelides (Vanderbilt University Department of Physics and Astronomy)

11:27 P31.002 Excitation energies from TDDFT beyond the adiabatic approximation

Kieron Burke (Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University), C.A. Ullrich (Department of Physics, University of Missouri-Rolla)

11:39 P31.003 Solving the ultra-nonlocality problem in time-dependent spin-density functional theory

Zhixin Qian, Adi Constantinescu, Giovanni Vignale (University of Missouri-Columbia)

11:51 P31.004 Excitonic Optical Spectrum of Semiconductors Obtained by Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory with the Exact-Exchange Kernel

Yong-Hoon Kim (Materials and Process Simulation Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125-7400), Andreas Goerling (Lehrstuhl fuer Theoretische Chemie, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, D-85748 Garching, Germany)

12:03 P31.005 Absorption Spectra and Optical Gaps of Small Hydrogenated Silicon Dots: Comparison of Theory and Experiment

Igor Vasiliev (New Mexico State University)

12:15 P31.006 Generalized LDA+U Functional

A. G. Petukhov (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD 57701), I. I. Mazin (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375), L. Chioncel, A. I. Lichtenstein (University of Nijmegen, NL-6525 ED Njmegen, The Netherlands)

12:27 P31.007 Dynamical Charge Response of NiO

Oscar D. Restrepo, A. G. Eguiluz (Department of Physics, University of Tennessee), Wei Ku (Department of Physics, University of California, Davis), B. C. Larson, J. Tischler (ORNL)

12:39 P31.008 Giant Magnetic Moments of Nitrogen Doped Mn Clusters and Their Relevance to Ferromagnetism in Mn Doped GaN

P. Jena, B. K. Rao, S. N. Khanna (Virginia Commonwealth University)

12:51 P31.009 Atomic geometry, electronic structure, and magnetism of 13-atom metal clusters

Chun-Ming Chang (Department of Physics, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

13:03 P31.010 Evolution of the Electronic Structure of Be Clusters

V. Cerowski, B. K. Rao, S. N. Khanna, P. Jena (Virginia Commonwealth University), Y. Kawazoe (Tohoku University)

13:15 P31.011 All-electron GW quasiparticle energies of small silicon clusters

Soh Ishii (Intstitute for Materials Research, Tohoku Univ. ,sendai,Japan), Kaoru Ohno (Department of Physics, Graduate school of Engineering, Yokohama National Univ.,Yokohama,Japan), Vijay Kumar, Yoshiyuki Kawazoe (Intstitute for Materials Research, Tohoku Univ. ,sendai,Japan)

13:27 P31.012 Geometry and Electronic Structure of V_n(Benzene)_m complexes

A. K. Kandalam, B. K. Rao, P. Jena (Virginia Commonwealth University), R. N. Pande (Michigan Tech)

13:39 P31.013 Surface Plasmon Enhanced Optical Forces in Silver Nano-aggregates

Hongxing Xu, Mikael Käll (Applied Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, S-41296 Göteborg, Sweden)

13:51 P31.014 ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE, STABILITY AND VIBRATIONAL PROPERTIES OF TI_8C_12 AND ITS DIMER

Tunna Baruah (Department of Physics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057), Mark Pederson (Center for Computational Materials Science, Code 6390, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375)

P31.015 Strusture and Properties of Nitrogen Doped Small Cr Clusters

Q. Wang, B. K. Rao, P. Jena (Virginia Commonwealth University)

11:15 P32.001 Magnetic Resonance in the CeMIn_5 Materials

N. Curro, J. Thompson, J. Sarrao, V.S. Kos, A. Abanov, D. Pines (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA), P. Pagliuso (Instituto de Física ``Gleb Wataghin'', UNICAMP, Brazil)

11:27 P32.002 Anisotropic Kondo Behavior in Ce_1-xLa_xAl_3: A Polarized Neutron Scattering Study

Eugene Goremychkin, Raymond Osborn (Argonne National Laboratory), Brian Rainford (University of Southampton, UK)

11:39 P32.003 Electronic Structure of UGe_2

J.D. Denlinger, Kai Rossnagel (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab), J.W. Allen (Univ. of Michigan), A.D. Huxley, J. Flouquet (CEA-Grenoble)

11:51 P32.004 Evidence from Interband Optical Conductivity in YbIn_1-xAg_xCu_4

Tim McKnew, Jason N. Hancock, Zack Schlesinger (University of California, Santa Cruz), Zach Fisk (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University), John L. Sarrao (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

12:03 P32.005 Electrical resistivity and magnetization measurements on the heavy fermion superconductor PrOs_4Sb_12 in high magnetic fields

P.-C. Ho, N.A. Fredrick, E.D. Bauer, V.S. Zapf, M.B. Maple (Physics and IPAPS/UCSD), A.D. Christianson, A.H. Lacerda (NHMFL/LANL)

12:15 P32.006 Investigation of slow crossover and two energy scales in Yb_1-xLu_xAl_3

E.D. Bauer (LANL), C.H. Booth (LBNL), J.M. Lawrence (UCI), A. Malinowski, M.F. Hundley, J.D. Thompson, J.L. Sarrao (LANL)

12:27 P32.007 Second Order Transition with Pressure in U_0.98Th_0.02Be_13

R.J. Zieve, R. Duke (University of California, Davis), J.L. Smith (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

12:39 P32.008 Photoemission of UCoGa_5 and PuCoGa_5

M.T. Butterfield, J.J. Joyce, T. Durakiewicz, E. Guziewicz, D.P. Moore, A.J. Arko, L.A Morales, J.M. Wills, J.L. Sarrao, P.G Pagliuso, N.O. Moreno (Los Alamos National Laboratory), C.G Olson (Ames Laboratory)

12:51 P32.009 Physical properties of UMGa_5

Nelson O. Moreno, Joe D. Thompson, Zachary Fisk, John L. Sarrao (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

13:03 P32.010 Evolution of Spin Fluctuations in Li_1-xZn_xV_2O_4

S. Park (University of Maryland/NIST), S.-H. Lee (NIST), Y. Ueda (University of Tokyo), J. R. D. Copley (NIST)

13:15 P32.011 First order transition from Kondo insulator to ferromagnetic metal in FeSi1-xGex

Sunmog Yeo, Satoru Nakatsuji (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL), Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32310), Andrea D Bianchi (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545), Pedro Schlottmann (Department of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306), Zachary Fisk (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL), Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32310)

13:27 P32.012 Transport investigation of multiple ordered phases at a field-tuned quantum critical point

Kee-Hoon Kim, Neil Harrison, Marcelo Jaime (Los Alamos National Laboratory), John Mydosh (Max-Planck Institut for Chemical Physics of Solids)

13:39 P32.013 Reentrant hidden order at a metamagnetic quantum critical end point

Neil Harrison, Marcelo Jaime (Los Alamos National Laboratory), John Mydosh (Max-Planck Institut for Chemical Physics of Solids)

13:51 P32.014 Electronic Structure of Pu and Pu Compounds

J.J. Joyce, J.M. Wills, T. Durakiewicz, M.T. Butterfield, E. Guziewicz, J.L. Sarrao, L.A. Morales, D.P. Moore, A.J. Arko (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

14:03 P32.015 Optical Consequences of the Kondo Resonance in YbIn_1-xAg_xCu_4

Jason Hancock, Tim McKnew, Zack Schlesinger (UC Santa Cruz), John Sarrao (Los Alamos), Zach Fisk (Florida State University, NHMFL)

11:15 P33.001 Structure and Energetics of Cu Vicinal Surfaces: Role of Next Nearest Neighbors

John D. Spangler, Abdelkader Kara, Talat S. Rahman (Department of Physics, Kansas State University)

11:27 P33.002 Extracting Step-Step Interaction Potentials from Experimental TWDs

Howard Richards, Jeremy Yancey (Texas A amp; M University--Commerce), T.L. Einstein (U. of Maryland), M. Giesen (ISG3, FZ-Juelich), R. van Gastel (Leiden Inst. of Physics)

11:39 P33.003 Structure and Vibrational Dynamics of a kinked surface : Cu(532)

A. Kara, Talat S. Rahman (Kansas State University)

11:51 P33.004 Pb electrodeposition on Cu(100) in the presence of Chloride: An in situ optical oblique-incidence reflectivity difference study

Jeremy Gray (University of California, Davis), Walther Scwharzacher (H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8), Xiangdong Zhu (University of California, Davis)

12:03 P33.005 Theoretical Study of the Structure of Cu_3Au Vicinal Surfaces

Ahlam N. Al-Rawi, Abdelkader Kara, Talat S. Rahman (Department of Physics, Kansas State Unive