Program overview

THURSDAY MORNING, 6 MARCH 2003

Session W1. DMP/FIAP: Materials for Quantum Information Processing.

Thursday morning, 11:15, Ballroom A, Austin Convention Center

11:15 W1.001 Fabrication of Atomic-Scale Devices in Silicon
Michelle Y. Simmons (Centre for Quantum Computer Technology, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia)
11:51 W1.002 The Electron Spin in Silicon, a Promising Qubit
Eli Yablonovitch (Electrical Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1594)
12:27 W1.003 Towards few-electron silicon-germanium quantum dots: progress and challenges
M.A. Eriksson (Physics Department, Univeristy of Wisconsin-Madison)
13:03 W1.004 Readout of the single electron spin by optical spectroscopy
Fedor Jelezko (Physics Institute 3, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany)
13:39 W1.005 Spin-based quantum computation using endohedral fullerenes
Jason Twamley (National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland)

Session W2. FIAP/CCPD: Physics Careers in the Semiconductor Industry.

Thursday morning, 11:15, Ballroom B, Austin Convention Center

11:15 W2.001 Internship-based degrees in applied physics with microelectronics emphasis
Mark Holtz (Department of Physics, Texas Tech University)
11:51 W2.002 Electrical Engineering Preparation for the Semiconductor Industry
Mark E. Law (University of Florida)
12:27 W2.003 Technologically driven research and education in physics--a golden opportunity for physicists
Toh Ming Lu (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
13:03 W2.004 Physics Careers in the Semiconductor Industry: OK, I’m in, now what?
Larry Larson (SEMATECH)
13:39 W2.005 A Phycisist's View of CMOS Semiconductor Manufacturing: What it takes to Produce a Product
Brad Melnick (Motorola - SPS)

Session W3. DMP: Focus Session: Morphological Evolution of Nanostructures, Interfaces, Surfaces, and Thin Films VI.

Thursday morning, 11:15, Ballroom C, Austin Convention Center

11:15 W3.001 Large-scale DFT studies of adsorbate interactions and their ramifications for thin-film growth
Weiwei Luo, Kristen Fichthorn (The Pennsylvania State University), Matthias Scheffler (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)
11:27 W3.002 First-principles Study of Carbon-Carbon interaction on Nickel Surfaces
X.G. Gong (Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China), Qiming Zhang (U of Texasi at Arlington), Zhenyu Zhang (ORNL)
11:39 W3.003 Investigation of elastic interaction on surfaces by finite elements technique
D Barlam (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Ben Gurion University, P.O. Box 653 Beer Sheva 84105 Israel), A Brokman (School of Applied Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904 Israel), R Shneck (Dept. of Materials Engineering, Ben Gurion University, P. O. Box 653 Beer Sheva 84105 Israel)
11:51 W3.004 Application of Generalized Wigner Distribution to Extracting Step Repulsions on Vicinals: Progress Report
Hailu Gebremariam (Dep't of Physics, U. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-4111 [UMCP]), Howard L. Richards (UMCP and Dep't of Physics, Texas Aamp;M Univ.--Commerce, Commerce, TX 75429-3011), T.L. Einstein (UMCP)
12:03 W3.005 Extracting Step Stiffness from Correlation Functions Consistent with the GWD
Amber Benson, Howard Richards (Dept.\ of Physics, Texas A amp; M University-Commerce)
12:15 W3.006 TWDs and Correlation Functions for 2 Interacting Steps in a Harmonic Well
Carl Hooey, April St. John, Howard L. Richards (Dept. of Physics, Texas Aamp;M University-Commerce)
12:27 W3.007 Terrace Width Distributions for Steps of Alternating Stiffness
Jeremy Yancey, Howard L. Richards (Dept. of Physics, Texas A amp; M University-Commerce)
12:39 W3.008 Step Fluctuations on a Multiple Phase Al/Si(111) Surface
I. Lyubinetsky, D.B. Dougherty, T.L. Einstein, E.D. Williams (Department of Physics and MRSEC University of Maryland at College Park)
12:51 W3.009 Determination of absolute orientation-dependent step energies and stiffnesses from two-dimensional island shape-fluctuation and coarsening measurements
S. V. Khare (Department of Materials Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL 61801)
13:03 W3.010 Fluctuations of Anisotropic Islands at Equilibrium and During Slow Decay
Ferenc Szalma, T.L. Einstein (Dep't of Physics, U. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-4111), Michael I. Haftel (Code 6651 Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC 20375)
13:39 W3.011 Step fluctuations on Mo(011) studied by low energy electron microscopy.
Michal Ondrejcek, Wacek Swiech, Curtis S. Durfee, C. Peter Flynn (Department of Physics, Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
W3.012 Crossover from surface to bulk diffusion in the fluctuations of step edges on Pt (111)
Michal Ondrejcek, Wacek Swiech, Guowei Yang, C. Peter Flynn (Department of Physics, Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Session W4. DCMP: Phonons at Interfaces followed by Quantum Fluids in Confined Geometries.

Thursday morning, 11:15, Ballroom E, Austin Convention Center

11:15 W4.001 Confinement of acoustical vibrations in a semiconductor phonon cavity
Alejandro Fainstein (Centro Atómico Bariloche amp; Instituto Balseiro, C.N.E.A., 8400 S. C. de Bariloche, R. N., Argentina)
11:51 W4.002 The Origin and Manifestations of Enhanced Surface Electron-Phonon Coupling
Ward Plummer (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN and Condensed Matter Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN)
12:27 W4.003 Electron-Phonon Interaction in Quantum Wells
Tai Chiang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
13:03 W4.004 Submonolayer He-3-He-4 Mixture Films*
Moses Chan (Penn State University)
13:39 W4.005 Superfluid ^3He in Aerogel: A Gapless Superfluid
George R. Pickett (Department of Physics, Lancaster University, UK)

Session W5. DCMP: Exotic Order in Correlated Systems followed by Electron Structure of Ultra Thin Oxides.

Thursday morning, 11:15, Ballroom F, Austin Convention Center

11:15 W5.001 Microscopic models for fractionalized phases of strongly correlated systems
T. Senthil (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
11:51 W5.002 Fractionalized and critical phases in correlated boson systems
Leon Balents (Physics Department, UCSB)
12:27 W5.003 Resonating valence bond liquid physics on the triangular lattice
Shivaji Sondhi (Princeton University)
13:03 W5.004 BEEM and STS Studies of Ultra-Thin Aluminum Oxide
Andrew Perrella (Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca NY)
13:39 W5.005 Insulator at the ultrathin limit: MgO on Ag(001)
Wolf-Dieter Schneider (University of Lausanne, Institute of Condensed Matter Physics)

Session W7. CSWP/GMAG: Magnetism and Dimensionality: Bulk, Films and Lateral Nanostructures.

Thursday morning, 11:15, Room 17A, Austin Convention Center

11:15 W7.001 Spin Dependent Transport in Magnetic Oxide Based Junctions
Yuri Suzuki (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley)
11:51 W7.002 "Magnetic Correlations near T=0 Phase Transitions."
Meigan Aronson (University of Michigan)
12:27 W7.003 The Spin-flop Transition in a Finite Antiferromagnetic Superlattices
S.G.E. te Velthuis (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory)
13:03 W7.004 Electronic, Magnetic and Structural Characteristics of GaMnN and AlMnN
Cammy Abernathy (Dept. of Materials Science and Eng., University of Florida)
13:39 W7.005 Fabricating and measuring magnetic heterostructures with length scales below 100nm
Liesl Folks (IBM)

Session W8. FIAP: Focus Session: Understanding Molecular and Nanoelectronics III.

Thursday morning, 11:15, Room 3, Austin Convention Center

11:15 W8.001 Beyond Silicon, Scientific and Technical Challenges on the Road to Molecular Electronics
Thomas Theis (IBM Research, T.J.Watson Research Center)
11:51 W8.002 The Smallest Molecular Switch
George Kirczenow (Simon Fraser University), Eldon Emberly (Rockefeller University)
12:03 W8.003 Current rectification by self-assembled molecular quantum dots from first principles
Brian LARADE, Alexander BRATKOVSKY (Hewlett-Packard Labs)
12:15 W8.004 Electron transport through single metal nanocrystals and molecules
Hongbin Yu, Yi Luo, Kristen Beverley, H.R. Tseng, J.F. Stoddart, J.R. Heath (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at Los Angeles)
12:27 W8.005 Study of Au induced chains on vicinal silicon
J.L. McChesney, J.N. Crain, J.-L. Lin, A. Kirakosian, Fan Zheng, F.J. Himpsel (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
12:39 W8.006 SUBSTRATE EFFECT ON CARBON NANOTUBE DEVICES
Jaewu Choi, Manghat (Wayne State University)
12:51 W8.007 Rotational polarons and transport in short molecular devices
Sergio E. Ulloa (Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Nanoscale Quantum Phenomena Institute, Ohio University), J. Sierra-Ortega (Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Nanoscale Quantum Phenomena Institute, Ohio University, Departamento de Fisica, Universidad del Magdalena, A. A. 731 Santa Marta, Colombia), Wei Zhang (Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Nanoscale Quantum Phenomena Institute, Ohio University)
13:03 W8.008 First-principles calculations of electronic transport through ultrathin films -- Fowler-Nordheim tunneling
Zhong-Yi Lu (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235), Sokrates T. Pantelides (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235 and Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831)
13:15 W8.009 Sequential resonant tunneling in nanocrystalline silicon dioxide superlattices
Boris Kamenev (New Jersey Institute of Technology), David J. Lockwood, John P. McCaffrey (National Research Council of Canada), Boris Laikhtman (Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel), Leonid Tsybeskov (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
13:27 W8.010 Novel features in the distribution of conductances in quasi one dimensional wires
K. Muttalib (Physics Dept., U. Florida, Gainesville, USA), P. Wölfle, A. Garcia-Martin (ITKM, U. Karlsruhe, Germany), V. Gopar (IPCMS-GEMME, U. Strasbourg, France:)
13:39 W8.011 Impedance spectroscopy in Si-based nanostructures
Volodimyr Duzhko (New Jersey Institute of Technology), David J. Lockwood, Jean-M. Baribeau (National Research Council of Canada), Leonid Tsybeskov (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
13:51 W8.012 Electroluminescence on the molecular scale
Zhen-Chao DONG, X.-L. Guo, A.S. Trifonov, P. Dorozhkin, K. Amemiya, T. Uchihashi (National Institute for Materials Science, 1-2-1 Sengen, Tsukuba 305-0047, Japan), S. Yokoyama, T. Kamikado, S. Mashiko (Communication Research Laboratory), T. Okamoto (RIKEN)
W8.013 Effects of gold contacts on transport through benzene molecule
Amir A. Farajian, Rodion V. Belosludov, Hiroshi Mizuseki, Yoshiyuki Kawazoe (Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan)

Session W9. DBP: Auditory Coding: Biophysics of Cochlear Transduction and Neuronal Processing of the Auditory World.

Thursday morning, 11:15, Room 4 ABC, Austin Convention Center

11:15 W9.001 Mechano-electrical transduction and amplification by hair cells of the non-mammalian inner ear
Dolores Bozovic (Rockefeller University)
11:51 W9.002 Modeling Sound Processing in Cochlear Nuclei
Ray Meddis (Essex University, UK)
12:27 W9.003 Mapping the Azimuth in the Brain through Many Channels or Just Two Populations?
J. Leo van Hemmen (Physik Department, TU Munich, 85747 Garching/Munich, Germany)
13:03 W9.004 Physics, Physiology, and Psychoacoustics of Binaural Hearing
William Hartmann (Michigan State University)

Session W10. DCMP/DBP: Thin Plate and Fiber Mechanics in Biology.

Thursday morning, 11:15, Room 5 ABC, Austin Convention Center

11:15 W10.001 Buckling cascade in thin sheets and leaves
Benoît Roman (PMMH (UMR 7636) ESPCI 10, rue Vauquelin - 75231 Paris Cedex 5 - FRANCE)
11:51 W10.002 The role of mechanical forces in the shoot apical meristem
Charles Steele (Stanford University)
12:27 W10.003 On the growth of walled cells: From shells to vesicles.
Arezki Boudaoud (Department of Mathematics, MIT amp; Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, Ecole Normale Supérieure)
13:03 W10.004 The shape and stability of elastic sheets: wrinkling, crumpling and snapping
L Mahadevan (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge)
13:39 W10.005 Fluid Drag and Flexible Structures
Jun Zhang (Department of Physics, Courant Institute, New York University)

Session W11. DCP: Focus Session: Photonics and the Nanoscale: Devices, Materials and Chemistry IV.

Thursday morning, 11:15, Room 6A, Austin Convention Center

11:15 W11.001 TBD
Robert Dixon (Georgia Tech)
11:51 W11.002 Ultrabright and photostable fluorescence from individual water-soluble metal nanodots
Jie Zheng, Robert Dickson (School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology)
12:03 W11.003 Probing the Polarizability of Photo-Generated Excitons in CdSe Nanocrystals at THz Frequencies
Feng Wang (Columbia University), Mischa Bonn (Leiden Institute of Chemistry, The Netherlands), Jie Shan (Case Western Reserve University), Mohammad Islam, Irving P. Herman, Tony F. Heinz (Columbia University)
12:15 W11.004 Structural, electronic, and impurity-doping effects in catalytically active gold nanoclusters
Hannu Häkkinen, Uzi Landman (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA)
12:27 W11.005 Metal Nanoparticles as Optical Nano-Sensors
Jochen Feldmann (Photonics and Optoelectronics Group, University of Munich, Germany)
13:03 W11.006 TBD
Christine Keating (Pennsylvania State University)
13:39 W11.007 Adsorptive Behavior of Oxygen on Gold Clusters
Y. D. Kim, D. Stolcic, M. Fischer, G. Ganteför (University of Konstanz), Q. Sun, B. K. Rao, P. Jena (Virginia Commonwealth University)
13:51 W11.008 The interaction of O_2 with gold clusters: molecular and dissociative adsorption
Bokwon Yoon, Hannu Häkkinen, Uzi Landman (School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0430)
14:03 W11.009 Oxygen chemisorption on gold nanoparticles
Alberto Franceschetti (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831), Sokrates Pantelides (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235)
14:15 W11.010 Electronic structure of metallic clusters from GW theory
Yaroslav Pavlyukh (Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik, Weinberg 2, D-06120 Halle, Germany), Wolfgang Hübner (Department of Physics, Kaiserslautern University, D-67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany)

Session W12. DCP: Focus Session: Frontiers in Optical Control of Complex Systems III.

Thursday morning, 11:15, Room 6B, Austin Convention Center

11:15 W12.001 Reduced quantum dynamics beyond the weak system-bath coupling approximation
Qiang Shi, Eitan Geva (Department of Chemistry and the FOCUS center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055)
11:27 W12.002 Quantum control of molecular vibrational dephasing
Martin Gruebele (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
12:03 W12.003 Coherent control in the presence of pure dephasing
Eitan Geva (Department ofChemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055)
12:39 W12.004 Laser control of nonlinear optical processes based on multiphoton intrapulse interference
Marcos Dantus (Michigan State University)
13:15 W12.005 Ultrafast Control over Stimulated Raman Gain in Liquid Phase
Brett Pearson, Svetlana Malinovskaya, Phil Bucksbaum (Physics Department, University of Michigan), Aaron Linder, Roseanne Sension (Chemistry Department, University of Michigan)

Session W13. DFD: Fluid Dynamics and Turbulence II.

Thursday morning, 11:15, Room 8AB, Austin Convention Center

11:15 W13.001 Statistical mechanics of turbulent flow in a rapidly rotating tank*
Sunghwan Jung, Charles N. Baroud, P. J. Morrison, Harry L. Swinney (University of Texas at Austin)
11:27 W13.002 Tidal Conversion by Rough Topography
Norbert Schorghofer (California Institute of Technology), Samar Khatiwala (Columbia University), Oded Aharonson (California Institute of Technology)
11:39 W13.003 Trailing Edge Noise-- Effect of Angle of Attack
Michael Goody (NSWC--Carderock Division, Code 7250, Bethesda, MD, 20817-5700)
11:51 W13.004 High drag reduction in viscoelastic turbulent channel flow
Kostas Housiadas, Antony Beris (University of Delaware)
12:03 W13.005 The evolution of coherent structures in decaying two-dimensional turbulence
Robert E. Ecke, Michael K. Rivera, W. Brent Daniel (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
12:15 W13.006 Coherent structures and energy and enstrophy transport in two-dimensional turbulence
Michael K. Rivera, W. Brent Daniel, Robert E. Ecke (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
12:27 W13.007 Hydrodynamic particle interactions
W. Brent Daniel, Michael K. Rivera, Robert E. Ecke (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
12:39 W13.008 Turbulence
Marc Comeau (University of Ottawa)
12:51 W13.009 Irregular Dynamics of an Open One-Dimensional Mechanical System
Austin Gerig, Alfred Hubler (Center for Complex Systems Research, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Session W14. GIMS: Scattering and Diffraction.

Thursday morning, 11:15, Room 8C, Austin Convention Center

11:15 W14.001 A new application of non-resonant x-ray Raman scattering: Local symmetry and site-substitutional disorder in icosahedral B4C
G.T. Seidler, Yejun Feng, J.O. Cross (Univ. Washington & PNC-CAT, Advanced Photon Source), A.T. Macrander (Advanced Photon Source), J.J Rehr (Univ. Washington)
11:27 W14.002 Exciton spectroscopy using non-resonant x-ray Raman scattering: Reflection symmetry and crystalline anisotropy in hexagonal BN
Yejun Feng, G.T. Seidler, J.O. Cross (Univ. Washington amp; PNC-CAT, Advanced Photon Source), A.T. Macrander (Advanced Photon Source)
11:39 W14.003 X-ray Laue Microdiffraction Studies of 3-D Grain Growth in Bulk Aluminum
J.D. Budai, W. Yang, W. Liu, J.Z. Tischler, B.C. Larson, G.E. Ice (Oak Ridge National Lab), H. Weiland (Alcoa Inc.)
11:51 W14.004 Three-Wave X-ray Resonance Diffraction of CdTe Thin Films: Determination of Resonance Phases
Y.-R. Lee, S.-C. Wong, C.-T. Lin, H.-H. Chen, W.-S. Sun, W.-C. Sun, B.-K. Wu, M.-S. Chiu (Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu. P. Stetsko (Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu, Taiwan), S.-L. Chang (Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan)
12:03 W14.005 THREE-DIMENSIONAL X-RAY DIFFRACTION MICROSCOPY OF GRAIN BOUNDARIES
Wenjun Liu, Gene Ice, Judy Pang, Wenge Yang, Jon Tischler, Ben Larson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Oak Ridge National Laboratory Team
12:15 W14.006 Development of 2-D focusing Multilayer Bragg-Fresnel Optics
Youli Li, Mario Yasa, Cyrus Safinya, Ernie Caine, Evelyn Hu (University of California Santa Barbara), Jen Als-Nielsen (Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark), Andreas Freund (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, France)
12:27 W14.007 A Femtosecond Electron Diffractometer for the Study of Ultrafast Structural Dynamics
Hyuk Park, Zhao Hao, Daekwang Kau, Chenggang Tao, Lukasz Blaszczyk, Jianming Cao (Physics Department and National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, 1800 E. Paul Dirac Dr., Tallahassee, Florida 32310)
12:39 W14.008 Electron-Induced Electron Emission of Insulators Using Short-Duration Low-Amplitude Pulsed Sources
C.D. Thomson, V. Zavyalov, J.R. Dennison (Utah State University)
12:51 W14.009 EFFECTS OF BANDGAP ON SECONDARY ELECTRON EMISSION FOR GRAPHTIC CARBON SEMICONDUCTORS
Jodie Corbridge, J.R. Dennison (Utah State University), Neal Nickles (Ball Aerospace and Technology Corporation)
13:03 W14.010 Limited vibrational information extracted from atomic pair-density functions
M.J. Graf, D.L. Starr, I.-K. Jeong, R.H. Heffner (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
13:15 W14.011 X-ray Emission Magnetic Circular Dichroism
Robert Winarski, Philip Ryan, David Keavney, Richard Rosenberg, John Freeland (Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory), David Ederer (Department of Physics, Tulane University)
13:27 W14.012 Electron Emission Cross Sections from a Polycrystalline Gold Surface
J.T. Kite, J.R. Dennison (Utah State University), R.E. Davies (Whitman College)
W14.013 X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy study of block co-polymer micelles
Péter Falus, Matthew A Borthwick (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Physics), Simon GJ Mochrie (Yale University Department of Physics and Applied Physics), IMM-CAT Collaboration
W14.014 Electron optical system for ambient pressure photoemission spectroscopy.
Gennadi Lebedev, Simon Mun Zahid Hussain (Lawrence Berkeley National Leboratory)
W14.015 Design principles of time-of-flight electron (TOF) energy analyzer
Gennadi Lebedev, Zahid Hussain (Lawrence Berkeley National Leboratory)

Session W15. DFD: Complex Fluids.

Thursday morning, 11:15, Room 9A, Austin Convention Center

11:15 W15.001 Shear induced phase transitions induced in edible fats
Gianfranco Mazzanti (Department of Food Science, University of Guelph, Canada), Sarah E. Welch (Physics Department, University of Waterloo, Canada), Alejandro G. Marangoni (Department of Food Science, University of Guelph, Canada), Eric B. Sirota (ExxonMobil, NJ, USA), Stefan H.J. Idziak (Physics Department, University of Waterloo, Canada)
11:27 W15.002 Structural and dynamical properties of hairy wormlike micelles
Gladys Massiera (University of Pennsylvania), Laurence Ramos (Universite de Montpellier II (France)- GDPC), Estelle Pitard (Universite de Montpellier II (France)- LPM), Christian Ligoure (Universite de Montpellier II (France)- GDPC)
11:39 W15.003 Scaling of the dynamics of “sweetened” sponges
L. Porcar (National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg, MD 20899), W.A. Hamilton, P.D. Butler (Condensed Matter Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA), G.G. Warr (School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia)
11:51 W15.004 An in situ method for observing wax crystallization under pipe flow
Sarah E. Welch (University of Waterloo), Gianfranco Mazzanti (University of Guelph), Tyrone N. Steer, MacKenzie R. Stetzer, Sacha P. Kautsky, Hugh Merz, Stefan H. J. Idziak (University of Waterloo), Eric B. Sirota (ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company)
12:03 W15.005 Tracer Brownian Motion in Complex Fluids
John van Zanten, Samiul Amin, Christopher Kloxin (Chemical Engineering Department, North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC 27695-7905)
12:15 W15.006 Rheological Microscopy: Bulk and Local Properties from Microrheology
D.T. Chen, M.F. Islam, R. Verma, J. Gruber, T.C. Lubensky, A.G. Yodh (Dept. of Physics amp; Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104), E.R. Weeks (Dept. of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322), J.C. Crocker (Dept. of Chemical amp; Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104), A.J. Levine (Dept. of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003)
12:27 W15.007 Gravity-driven collapse of model pastes
Maria L. Kilfoil, D. A. Weitz (Harvard University)
12:39 W15.008 Phase separation of mixtures of gammaB and alpha-crystallin eye lens proteins
George Thurston (Rochester Institute of Technology), Laurence Lurio (Northern Illinois University), Vladimir Lobaskin (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research), Anna Stradner, Peter Schurtenberger (Universite Fribourg), Simon Mochrie (Yale University)
12:51 W15.009 Supramolecular Anisotropic Phases in Orange II / gamma-Cyclodextrin Solutions
David Jenkins, Jung Ok Park, Mohan Srinivasarao (School of Textile and Fiber Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology)
13:03 W15.010 Formation and stability of twisted ribbons in mixtures of rod-like fd-virus and non-adsorbing polymer
Z. Dogic, B. DiDonna, M. Bryning, T. C. Lubensky, A. G. Yodh (Department of Phyics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104), P. A. Janmey (Institute of Medicine and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104)
13:15 W15.011 Temporal measurements of surfactant squeeze-out from a surface using magneticaly-levitated liquid bridges
Neha M. Patel, P.L. Taylor (Department Of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland,OH 44106), Michael R. Fisch (Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242), Charles Rosenblatt (Department Of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland,OH 44106)
13:27 W15.012 Theory of microemulsion glasses
Sangwook Wu, Harry Westfahl Jr., Joerg Schmalian (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, I A 50011,USA), Peter G. Wolynes (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0371, La Jolla, San Diego, CA 92093-0371, USA)
13:39 W15.013 Network Formation in Aqueous Block Copolymer Solutions
Sumeet Jain, Frank Bates (DPOLY)
13:51 W15.014 Dynamics of Front Propagation in Marangoni Driven Spreading
Benjamin J. Fischer, Anton A. Darhuber, Sandra M. Troian (Microfluidic Research and Engineering Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ)
W15.015 Entropic phase separatino in transient networks
Anton Zilman, Samuel Safran (Weizmann Institute of Science), Jean Kieffer, Francoise Molino, Gregoire Porte (University of Montpellier)
W15.016 Shear induced orientation of edible fat and chocolate crystals
Gianfranco Mazzanti (Department of Food Science, University of Guelph, Canada), Sarah E. Welch (Physics Department, University of Waterloo, Canada), Alejandro G. Marangoni (Department of Food Science, University of Guelph, Canada), Eric B. Sirota (ExxonMobil, NJ, USA), Stefan H.J. Idziak (Physics Department, University of Waterloo, Canada)

Session W16. DPOLY: Thin Films.

Thursday morning, 11:15, Room 9C, Austin Convention Center

11:15 W16.001 Evolution of Morphology in Thin Films of Poly(butadiene-b-ethylene oxide)
Xiaodong Wu, Zhiqun Lin, Dong Ha Kim, Samuel Gido, Thomas Russell (Polymer Science and Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003)
11:27 W16.002 Morphology Evolution of Critical and Off-Critical Thin Polymer Blend Films Undergoing Phase Separation and Wetting
Hyun-joong Chung, Russell J. Composto (Materials Science and Engineering, Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6272), Howard Wang (Materials Science and Engineering, Michigan Technological Univ., Houghton, MI49931)
11:39 W16.003 Density-Fluctuation-Induced Swelling and Dynamics of Polymer Thin Films in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide
Tadanori Koga, Miriam Rafailovich, Jonathan Sokolov (Dept of Mat. Sci. amp; Eng., SUNY at Stony Brook), Benjamin Chu (Dept of Chem., SUNY at Stony Brook), Sushil Satija (Center for Neutron Research, NIST)
11:51 W16.004 Swelling Behavior of Ultrathin Polymer Films in Supercritical Ethane
Yuan Ji, Tadanori Koga, Young-soo Seo, Miriam Rafailovich, Jonathan Sokolov (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, SUNY Stony Brook), Sushil Satija (NIST Center for Neutron Research)
12:03 W16.005 Co-solvent Effect of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide for Immiscible Polymer Interfaces
John Jerome, Tadanori Koga, Young-soo Seo, Miriam Rafailovich (Dept of Mat. Sci. amp; Eng. SUNY at Stony Brook), Jonathan Sokolov (Affiliation), Sushil Satija (Center for Neutron Research, NIST)
12:15 W16.006 Surface roughness of supported PS films above the glass transition
Laurence Lurio (Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University), Hyunjung Kim (Department of Physics, Sogang University), Adrian Ruhm (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Metallforschung), Joydeep Basu, Jyotsana Lal (Argonne National Laboratory), Sunil Sinha (Department of Physics, University of California San Diego), Simon Mochrie (Department of Physics, Yale University)
12:27 W16.007 Morphological Transitions in Thin Films of Spinodal Decomposition
Xiaorong Wang (Bridgestone/Firestone Research Center, Akron, Ohio 44317)
12:39 W16.008 Molecular layering of polydimethylsiloxane confined between hard walls
Hyeonjae Kim, Mark D. Foster (Maurice Morton Institute of Polymer Science, U. Akron, Akron, OH 44325), Hyunjung Kim, Oliver H. Seeck, Sunil K. Sinha (Advanced Photon Source, Argonne Nat'l Lab, Experimental Facilities Div., 9700 So. Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439), Joydeep K. Basu (Materials Research Lab, U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL 61801), Michael S. Kent (Sandia Nat'l Labs, Dept 1851, POB 5800, Albuquerque, NM 87185)
12:51 W16.009 Spontaneous Curvature of Polymer Brushes
Sergei Sheiko, Marcelo Da Silva, David Shirvaniants, Carlos Rodrigues (University of North Carolina), Kathryn Beers (NIST), Krzysztof Matyjaszewski (Carnegie Mellon University), Igor Potemkin (Moscow State University), Martin Moeller (Institut fuer Makromolekulare Chemie, RWTH Aachen)
13:03 W16.010 Structural Analysis of Multilayer Thin Films Prepared by Dip/Spin Self-Assembly Methods
Kookheon Char, Hiesang Sohn, Sangcheol Kim, Jinhan Cho (School of Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University)
13:15 W16.011 Charge Inversion and Layer-by-Layer Film Formation in Macroion Thin Films
Nily Dan (Department of Chemical Engineering, Drexel University)
13:27 W16.012 The effect of strain rate on the deformation zone in thin polystyrene films
Lun Si (Department of Materials Science amp; Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada), Michael V. Massa, Kari Dalnoki-Veress (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy and Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada)
13:39 W16.013 Effect of Shear on the Diffusion of Individual Molecules in Confined Fluids
Ashis Mukhopadhyay, Jiang Zhao (Affiliation), Steve Granick (University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign)
13:51 W16.014 Ultrafast Electromechanical Response in Non-Gibbs Thin Film of Polymers
Gaurav Singh, Vivek Maheshwari (Affiliation), Ravi F. Saraf (Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA24061)
14:03 W16.015 Registration and long-range ordering in block copolymer films on chemically nanopatterned substrates
Paul Nealey (University of Wisconsin)
W16.016 The Effects of Confinement of Thin Spin Cast Films of Perfluorinated Ionomers
Dvora Perahia, Teresa Hill (Chemistry Department, Clemson University, Clemson, Sc 2934-0973)

Session W17. DPOLY/DBP: Focus Session: Biopolymer and Biomimetic Structures.

Thursday morning, 11:15, Room 10A, Austin Convention Center

11:15 W17.001 Rheology and Microstructure of Cytoplasmic Extracts
M.T. Valentine (Dept. of Physics, Harvard University), Z. Perlman, T.J. Mitchison (Dept. of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School), D.A. Weitz (Dept. of Physics, amp; DEAS Harvard University)
11:27 W17.002 Self-Porating Copolymer Vesicles
Dennis Discher (Univ. Pennsylvania), Frank S. Bates amp; Fariyal Ahmed Collaboration
11:39 W17.003 Physical Properties of the Glycoprotein Mucin
Garrett Matthews, William Davis, Richard Superfine, Richard Boucher (UNC - Chapel Hill)
11:51 W17.004 Dynamics of Binary Glasses and Relationship to Protein Preservation
Marcus Cicerone, Jan Obrzut, Oleksiy Anopchenko, Christopher Soles (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
12:03 W17.005 Correlation and cross-linking effects in imprinting sites for divalent adsorption in gels
Kimani Stancil, Michael Feld, Mehran Kardar (Department of Physics and the George R. Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
12:15 W17.006 Domain Unfolding in Neurofilament Sidearms: Effects of Phosphorylation and ATP
Helim Aranda-Espinoza, Paul Janmey, Dennis Discher (Institute for medicine and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania), Jean-Francois Leterrier (UMR 6558 CNRS, Poitiers, France)
12:27 W17.007 Controlled protein adsorption using surface-patterned microhydrogels
Peter Krsko, Svetlana Sukhishvili, Matthew Libera (Stevens Institute of Technology)
12:39 W17.008 Using High Resolution Force Spectroscopy to Study Haemocompatibility
Monica Rixman, Celia Macias ((1)), Delphine Dean ((2)), Christine Ortiz ((1). (1):Dept. of Mat. Sci. and Eng., (2):Dept. of Elec. Eng. and Comp. Sci.; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA)
12:51 W17.009 Reading the sequence of HP model proteins
Namkyung Lee, Thomas Vilgis (Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research), MPI-P Collaboration
13:03 W17.010 Ultrastructure And Nanomechanics Of Biological Tissues : Cartilage And Bone
Laurel Ng, Kuangshin Tai (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Anna Plaas (University of South Florida), Alan Grodzinsky, Christine Ortiz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
13:15 W17.011 Enhanced cellular transport and drug targeting using dendritic nanostructures
R. M. Kannan, Parag Kolhe (Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Wayne State Univerity, Detroit, MI), Sujatha Kannan, Mary Lieh-lai (Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, MI)
13:27 W17.012 Single molecule visualization of stiffness- and curvature-tunable worm micelles with applications for micro and nano delivery
Paul Dalhaimer (University of Pennsylvania), Frank Bates (University of Minnesota), Dennis Discher (University of Pennsylvania), NSF-MRSEC Collaboration
13:39 W17.013 Probing the nanostructure of bioerodible polyanhydrides with solid-state NMR
Matt Kipper (Department of Chemical Engineering, Iowa State University), Sheng-shu Hou, Klaus Schmidt-Rohr (Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University), Balaji Narasimhan (Department of Chemical Engineering, Iowa State University)
13:51 W17.014 Thin film of biocompatible polysaccharides
Ludovic RICHERT, Philippe LAVALLE (INSERM U424), Pierre SCHAAF (Institut Charles Sadron and ECPM), Jean-Claude VOEGEL (INSERM U424), Catherine PICART (INSERM U424 and ECPM), INSERM U424 Team, Institut Charles Sadron Team, ECPM Team
14:03 W17.015 The Effect of Terminal Hydroxyl Groups on the Self-Assembly of PEO in Water
Elena E. Dormidontova (Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106)

Session W18. DPOLY/DCOMP: Focus Session: Multiscale Modeling of Polymer Systems.

Thursday morning, 11:15, Room 10B, Austin Convention Center

11:15 W18.001 Linking Atomistic and Mesoscale Simulations of Water Soluble Polymers
J.L. Jones (Unilever Research and Development Port Sunlight, Bebington, Wirral CH63 3JW, UK)
11:51 W18.002 M3B: A coarse grain model for the simulation of oligosaccharides and their water mixtures.
William A. Goddard (MSC - California Institute of Technology (Caltech)), Tahir Cagin, Valeria Molinero (MSC - Caltech)
12:03 W18.003 First-principles simulations of thiophene oligomers
Damian Scherlis, Nicola Marzari (DMSE, MIT), Ian Hunter Collaboration, Tim Swager Collaboration
12:15 W18.004 Pyro- and piezoelectric properties of polar polymers from the first principles
Serge Nakhmanson (Dep-t of Physics, NC State University, Raleigh, NC 27695), Marco Buongiorno Nardelli, Jerry Bernholc (Dep-t of Physics, NC State University, Raleigh, NC 27695 and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37830)
12:27 W18.005 Automatic Self-Consistent Multiscale Modeling for Polymer Melts
Roland Faller (University of California-Davis)
12:39 W18.006 Phase behavior of random copolymers
Marcus Mueller (Institut fuer Physik, WA331, Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet, D55099, Mainz, Germany), Jerome Houdayer (Service de Physique Theorique, Bat 774, Ormes des Merisiers, F-91191 Gif sur Yvette, Cedex, France)
12:51 W18.007 Monte Carlo Simulation Investigating Threading of Poly(ethylene oxide) in the Melt
Carin Helfer, Guoqiang Xu, Wayne Mattice, Coleen Pugh (University of Akron)
13:03 W18.008 3-Dimensional Lattice Modeling of the Amorphous Interlamellar Region in Dense Semi-Crystalline Polymers
Stevan Wilson, Joydeep Mukherjee, Antony Beris (University of Delaware)
13:15 W18.009 Stochastic Integration of Epitaxial Systems
Alvin Chua, Dimitri Vvedensky (Imperial College London)
13:27 W18.010 Coarse Grained Modeling of Polyimides
Thomas Clancy (NASA-Langley Research Center)
13:39 W18.011 Monte Carlo Simulation of Ternary Polymer Systems
Erik Luijten, Lei Guo (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801)

Session W19. DCOMP: Electronic Structure.

Thursday morning, 11:15, Room 11AB, Austin Convention Center

11:15 W19.001 Application of a Finite Electric Field in Density Functional Schemes with Periodic Boundary Conditions: the Raman Spectrum of Vitreous B_2O_3
Paolo Umari, Alfredo Pasquarello (ITP-EPFL CH-1015 Lausanne Switzerland, IRRMA CH-1015 Lausanne Switzerland)
11:27 W19.002 Role of non-stoichiometry and carbon ordering on the metastability of cementite (Fe_3C)
N. I. Medvedeva (Institute of Solid State Chemistry, Ekaterinburg, Russia and Northwestern U.), A. J. Freeman, G.B. Olson (Northwestern U.)
11:39 W19.003 Full potential, real-space Green's function calculations of electronic structure and x-ray spectra
A.L. Ankudinov, J.J. Rehr (U. of Washington)
11:51 W19.004 Final state rule vs the Bethe-Salpeter equation for deep-core x-ray absorption spectra
J. J. Rehr (U. of Washington), J. Aleksi Soininen (U. of Washington and NIST), E. L. Shirley (NIST)
12:03 W19.005 Electronic structure and total energy calculations for random alloys: the EMTO-CPA method
Igor A. Abrikosov, Andreas Kissavos, Sergei I. Simak (Physics Department, Uppsala University, Sweden), Vitalii I. Baykov (Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, Moscow, Russia, and Applied Materials Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), Levente Vitos (Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Budapest , Hungary and Applied Materials Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
12:15 W19.006 Self-consistent atomic deformation (SCAD) method applied to the water molecule
M. M. Ossowski, L. L. Boyer, M. J. Mehl, M. R. Pederson (Center for Computational Materials Science, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20375-5345)
12:27 W19.007 Ab-initio calculation of screened Coulomb matrix elements and Hartree-Fock treatment for simple metals
Olaf Peschel (University of Bremen, Germany), Ilan Schnell (Los Alamos National Lab), Gerd Czycholl (University of Bremen, Germany)
12:39 W19.008 A self-consistent atomic deformation method for application density functional theory
L. L. Boyer, M. J. Mehl, M. M. Ossowski (Center for Computational Materials Science, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20375), H. T. Stokes (Dept. of Physics, Brigham Young Universtiy, Provo, Utah 84602)
12:51 W19.009 Tests of Gaussian Basis Implementation of Perturbative DFT Total Energy Estimates
S.B. Trickey, Wuming Zhu (Quantum Theory Project, Departments of Physics and of Chemistry, P.O.Box 118435, University of Florida, Gainesville FL 32611-8435)
13:03 W19.010 Cumulant Approximations to Reduced Density Matrices
Frank E. Harris (Quantum Theory Project, University of Florida)
13:15 W19.011 Analytical theory on the electronic states in FCC films
Shang Yuan Ren (Peking University, P. R. China)
W19.012 Velocity of Elastic Waves in NaCl Crystals, in the Electron Positron Lattice (Epola) Space, and their Phonons/Photons.
Menahem Simhony (Hebrew U., Retired Associate Professor)
W19.013 Localization on Short-Range Potentials in Dissipative Quantum Mechanics
Akakii Melikidze (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA)

Session W20. DCMP: MgB2: Electronic Properties.

Thursday morning, 11:15, Room 12A, Austin Convention Center

11:15 W20.001 Momentum-Dependent Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy in MgB2
Maria Iavarone, Goran Karapetrov, A.E. Koshelev, D.G. Hinks, W.K. Kwok, G.W. Crabtree (Materials Science Division, Argonne Nat. Lab.), C.U. Jung, Kijoon H.P. Kim, Hyunsook Lee, S.I. Lee (NCRICS and Department of Physics, Pohang University)
11:27 W20.002 Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of MgB2 using Superconducting-Insulating-Superconducting Junctions
T.W. Heitmann, S.D. Bu, D.M. Kim, J.H. Choi, J. Giencke, C.B. Eom, D.C. Larbalestier, M.S. Rzchowski (University of Wisconsin-Madison), K.A. Regan, N. Rogado, M.A. Hayward, T. He, J.S. Slusky, P. Khalifah, M. Haas, R.J. Cava (Princeton University)
11:39 W20.003 A New Approach to the Josephson Effect in MgB2 SIS Junctions
Yong-Jihn Kim (Physics Department, Univ. of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez)
11:51 W20.004 Break-Junction Tunneling on MgB_2
H. Schmidt, J. F. Zasadzinski (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439; Physics Division, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616), K. E. Gray, D. G. Hinks (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439)
12:03 W20.005 Vortex core structure of a two-band superconductor
K. Tanaka, D. F. Agterberg (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439)
12:15 W20.006 Extreme Electron-Phonon Coupling in MgB_2-like Systems
W. E. Pickett, H. Rosner (UC Davis), J. M. An (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), S. Y. Savrasov (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
12:27 W20.007 Cooper-pair breaking and superconducting state recovery dynamics in MgB2
Jure Demsar, Richard D. Averitt, Antoinette J. Taylor (Los Alamos National Laboratory, MST-10), Won-Nam Kang, Heon Jung Kim, Eun-Mi Choi, Sung-Ik Lee (Pohang Superconductivity Center, Pohang, Korea)
12:39 W20.008 Generation of coherent superconducting gap excitations in MgB _2
C. Aku-Leh, A.V. Bragas, T.A. Eckhause, R. Merlin (Phys. Dept. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI), X.H. Zeng, X.X. Xi (Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park PA 16802)
12:51 W20.009 Effect of Heavy Carbon Doping of MgB_2
Deepa Kasinathan, W. E. Pickett (UC Davis)
13:03 W20.010 Fermi Surfaces of Diborides: MgB_2 and ZrB_2
H. Rosner (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Noethnitzer Str. 40, D-01187 Dresden, Germany), J.M. An (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley CA), S.-L. Drechsler (Institut fuer Festkoerper- und Werkstoffforschung, P.O. Box 270116, D-01171 Dresden, Germany), W.E. Pickett (Department of Physics, University of California, Davis CA 95616)
13:15 W20.011 Ab initio evidence of intrinsic anharmonicity in superconducting Al-doped MgB2
Romeo de Coss, Filiberto Ortiz, Omar de la Peña, Ramiro Quijano, Gabriel Murrieta (Department of Applied Physics, CINVESTAV-Merida, A.P. 73 Cordemex 97310, Merida, MEXICO)
13:27 W20.012 Dynamical Structure of Electrons in Single Crystal MgB_2
P. Chow, Y.Q. Cai, H. Ishii, C.C. Chen, K.S. Liang, C.T. Chen (SRRC, Taiwan), S. Tsuda, S. Shin (U. Tokyo, Japan), Y. Takano, K. Togano (NIMS, Japan), H. Kito (AIST, Japan), W. Ku (U.Cal.Davis), A.G. Eguiluz (U.Tenn/ORNL), B. Freidman (SHSU), C.C. Kao (NSLS)
13:39 W20.013 An angle-resolved soft x-ray spectroscopy study of the electronic states of single crystal MgB2
G.P. Zhang (Department of Physics Indiana State University Terre Haute, IN 47809), G.S. Chang, T.A. Callcott (Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee at Knoxville, TN 37996), D.L. Ederer (Physics Department, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118), W.N. Kang, Eun-Mi Choi, Hyeong-Jin Kim, Sung-Ik Lee (National Creative Research Initiative Center for Superconductivity and Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 790-784, Korea)
13:51 W20.014 MgB_2 boron K x-ray absorption edge
A. R. Moodenbaugh (BNL), D. A. Fischer (NIST), Qiang Li, G. D. Gu, Y. Zhu, J. W. Davenport, D. O. Welch (BNL), Haibin Su (SUNY-Stony Brook)
14:03 W20.015 Anisotropy of the Boron p states in MgB2 measured by electron energy-loss spectroscopy
Juan Idrobo, Serdar Ogut, Nigel Browning (University of Illinois at Chicago, M/C 273, 845 W. Taylor, Chicago Illinois, 60607)

Session W21. DCMP: Transport in Metals: Mostly 2D.

Thursday morning, 11:15, Room 12B, Austin Convention Center

11:15 W21.001 Two-component scaling near the metal-insulator transition
David Neilson (University of Camerino, Italy), D.J.W. Geldart (Dalhousie University, Canada)
11:27 W21.002 Kohn-Luttinger pairing in a two-dimensional electron liquid
Victor Galitski, Sankar Das Sarma (Condensed Matter Theory Center, University of Maryland at College Park)
11:39 W21.003 Mottness: Understanding the Pseudogap Phase of the Underdoped Cuprates
Tudor Stanescu (Rutgers University, 136 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019), Philip Phillips (Loomis Laboratory of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1100 W.Green St., Urbana, IL 61801-3080)
11:51 W21.004 Screening and Dissipation at the Superconductor-Insulator Transition.
Ashvin Vishwanath (MIT), Joel Moore (University of California, Berkeley.), Senthil Todadri (MIT)
12:03 W21.005 Ferromagnetism from localized deep d-impurities in the divalent hexaborides.
Victor Barzykin (University of Tennessee)
12:15 W21.006 Sharp increase of the effective mass near the critical density in a metallic 2D electron system
V.~T. Dolgopolov (Institute of Solid State Physics, Chernogolovka, Russia), A.~A. Shashkin, S.~V. Kravchenko (Northeastern University), T.~M. Klapwijk (Delft University of Technology.)
12:27 W21.007 Suppression of the weak localization near the metal-insulator transition in two dimensions
Maryam Rahimi, S. Anissimova, M. R. Sakr, S. V. Kravchenko (Northeastern University), T. M. Klapwijk (Delft University of Technology)
12:39 W21.008 Spin-independent origin of the enhanced effective mass near the critical density in a 2D electron system
S. Anissimova, Maryam Rahimi, A. A. Shashkin, S. V. Kravchenko (Northeastern University), V. T. Dolgopolov (Institute of Solid State Physics, Chernogolovka), T. M. Klapwijk (Delft University of Technology.)
12:51 W21.009 RF studies of the phase transition in a 2D electron system on liquid He films
Ivan Skachko, E.Y. Andrei (Department of Physics and Astronomy Rutgers University)
13:03 W21.010 Metal-Insulator and Glass Transitions in Si MOSFETs in Parallel Magnetic Fields
J. Jaroszy\'nski, Dragana Popovi\'c (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, FSU, Tallahassee), T. M. Klapwijk (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
13:15 W21.011 In-plane Magnetoconductivity of Si-MOSFETs: a quantitative comparison between theory and experiment.^1
KURT JAMES, SERGEY VITKALOV, M.P. SARACHIK (City College of New York, CUNY), BORIS NAROZHNY (Brookhaven National Laboratory), T.M. KLAPWIJK (Delft University of Technology)
13:27 W21.012 Quantization of hopping transport in dilute 2D electron systems
Arindam Ghosh, Michael Pepper, Harvey Beere, David Ritchie (SP Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom.)
13:39 W21.013 A Study of the Low-Temperature Magnetoconductivity of a 2D Electron Gas^1
YEEKIN TSUI, SERGEY VITKALOV, M.P. SARACHIK (City College of New York, CUNY), T.M. KLAPWIJK (Delft University of Technology)
13:51 W21.014 A Criterion for the Size of the Scaling Regime for the Metal-Insulator Transition for Doped Semiconductors
Theodore G. Castner (University of Massachusetts Lowell)

Session W22. DCMP: Optics of Quantum Dots and Wells.

Thursday morning, 11:15, Room 14, Austin Convention Center

11:15 W22.001 Spatial ordering of InAs quantum dots in a microdisk cavity to achieve large spontaneous emission enhancement
Zhigang Xie, Glenn Solomon (Solid-State Photonic Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305), Fang Wei Collaboration
11:27 W22.002 Thermal broadening of the exciton line in a semiconductor single quantum dot
Katsumoto Ikeda, Takashi Kuroda, Fujio Minami (Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology), S Kuroda, K Takita (Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba), N Koguchi (National Institute for Material Science)
11:39 W22.003 Photon correlation studies in a cross-section geometry
P. Bianucci, A. Muller, Q. Wang, C. K. Shih (Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin)
11:51 W22.004 Time-evolution of fluorescence of high-density excitons in quantum well embedded by semiconductor microcavity
G.R. Jin, Wu-Ming Liu (National Lab of Magnetism, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China)
12:03 W22.005 Bose-Einstein condensation of excitons in coupled quantum wells under laser excitation.
MASUDUL HAQUE (Rutgers, State University of New Jersey (Dept of Physics amp; Astronomy))
12:15 W22.006 Theory of Kondo-excitons in self-assembled quantum dots interacting with the Fermi sea
Alexander Govorov (Ohio University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Athens, OH 45701), Khaled Karrai (Center for NanoScience and Sektion Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1,80539, Munich, Germany), Richard Warburton (Department of Physics, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK)
12:27 W22.007 Manifestations of Anderson Localization in Semiconductor Optics
Erich Runge (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems)
12:39 W22.008 Influence of Excitonic Effects on Dynamic Localization in Semiconductor Superlattices in dc-ac Electric Fields
Ai-Zhen Zhang, Marc Dignam (Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada)
12:51 W22.009 The indirect excitons in coupled quantum wells
Bo Xiong, Wu-Ming Liu (National Lab of Magnetism, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China)
13:03 W22.010 The Influence of Continuum Excitonic States on Intraband Dynamics in Biased Semiconductor Superlattices
Lijun Yang, Marc Dignam (Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada), Jean-Marc Lachaine (Department of Physics, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada)
13:15 W22.011 Terahertz electro-optics in GaAs quantum wells
S. Carter, V. Ciulin, M.S. Sherwin (UCSB Physics), A. Huntington, L. Coldren (UCSB Materials), A. Maslov (Eloret Corporation), D. Citrin (Georgia Institute of Technology, Electrical and Computer Engineering)
13:27 W22.012 Optical bistability in far-infrared driven quantum-well intersubband transitions
Adriano Batista, David Citrin (Georgia Institute of Technology)
13:39 W22.013 Polariton stop band in Bragg multiple quantum wells with index of refraction contrast
Eugeniyus Ivchenko, Mikhail Voronov (Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia), Mikhail Erementchouk, Lev Deych, Alexander Lisyansky (Queens College of the City University of new York, Flushing, NY 11367)
13:51 W22.014 Excitons and magnetic fields in bidimensional quantum rings
J. Sierra-Ortega^* (Departamento de Física, Universidad del Magdalena, A. A. 731 Santa Marta, Colombia), I. D. Mikhailov (Departamento de Física, Universidad Industrial de Santander, A. A. 678 Bucaramanga, Colombia), S. E. Ulloa, A. O. Govorov (* Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Nanoscale and Quantum Phenomena Institute, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701, USA)
14:03 W22.015 Exciton states in finite GaAs/Al_xGa_1-xAs parabolic quantum wells
Zhigang Xiao (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science, University of Cincinnati)

Session W23. DMP: Focus Session: Ternary and Binary Wide Band Gap Semiconductors.

Thursday morning, 11:15, Room 15, Austin Convention Center

11:15 W23.001 Improved Doping in Wide Bandgap Semiconductors via Formation of Doped Nanostructures
Igor Kuskovsky (038

Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Columbia University, New York, NY 10027)

11:51 W23.002 Ultrafast time-resolved photoluminescence study of ZnCdSe quantum well structures and epilayers
D.-J Jang, C.-S Lin (Department of Physics, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaoshiung, 80441 Taiwan), C.-S. Yang, W.C. Chou (Department of Physics, Chung Yuan Christian University, Chung-Li, 32023 Taiwan)
12:03 W23.003 Vibrational spectroscopy of hydrogen donors in zinc oxide
M.D. McCluskey, S.J. Jokela, K.K. Zhuravlev, K.G. Lynn (Dept. of Physics, Washington State University), P.J. Simpson (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Western Ontario)
12:15 W23.004 Cluster doping of p-type ZnO by Ga and N: A first-principles study*
Ligen Wang, Alex Zunger (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401)
12:27 W23.005 Lifetime and oscillator strength of excitonic luminescence in ZnO
John Wilkinson, Gang Xiong, Burak Ucer, Richard Williams (Department of Physics, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, 27109)
12:39 W23.006 Multiple Layer BeSeTe/Si Heteroepitaxial Growth on Vicinal Si (100) Surfaces by Molecular Beam Epitaxy
Eduardo Maldonado, Kevin Clark, Nasir Basit, Titus Sandu, Robert Bate, Wiley Kirk (University of Texas at Arlington)
12:51 W23.007 Electrical transport in thin BeSeTe/Si epitaxial layers
Kevin Clark, Eduardo Maldonado, Nasir Basit, Titus Sandu, Robert Bate, Wiley Kirk (Nanofab Center, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington TX 76019)
13:03 W23.008 Growth Regimes of (Ga,Mn)N during rf MBE and their effect on the Alloy Formation
M. Haider, C. Constantin, H. Al-Brithen, H. Yang, A. R. Smith, E. Trifan, D. Ingram (Condensed Matter and Surface Science Program, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701), C. Kelly, Y. Ijiri (Department of Physics, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, 44074)
13:15 W23.009 X-ray emission and absorption of N 1s in GaAsN
Clas Persson, Alex Zunger (NREL, Golden CO 80401)
13:27 W23.010 The Investigation of ScGaN Alloy Growth by rf-MBE
Costel Constantin, Hamad Al-Brithen, Muhammad Haider, Arthur R. Smith (Condensed Matter and Surface Science Program, Physics and Astronomy Department, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701)
13:39 W23.011 Boron alloying of GaN
Laurian Escalanti, Gus L.W. Hart (Northern Arizona University Department of Physics and Astronomy, Flagstaff AZ 86011-6010)
13:51 W23.012 Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study of the Surface Reconstructions of Cubic GaN Grown by rf MBE on MgO(001)
Hamad AL-Brithen, Arthur R. Smith (Condensed Matter and Surface Science Program, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701)
14:03 W23.013 Effective potential treatment of exciton-phonon interaction in a spherical ionic quantum dot
R.T. Senger, K.K. Bajaj (Department of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322)

Session W24. DMP/GMAG: Focus Session: Spin Effects in Chalcopyrite, Rutile, Anatase and Spinel Systems.

Thursday morning, 11:15, Room 16A, Austin Convention Center

11:15 W24.001 Anomalous Hall Effect in Ti_1-xCo_xO_2-\delta
J.S. Higgins, S.R. Shinde, S.B. Ogale, R.L. Greene (Center for Superconductivity Research, University of Maryland, College Park)
11:27 W24.002 Ferromsagnetic Origin of anatase Co:TiO_2
J.H. Park (POSTECH), J.Y. Kim (PAL), B.G. Park (POSTECH), H.J. Noh, S.J. Oh, J.S. Yang, D.H. Kim, S.D. Bu, T.W. Noh (SNU), H.J. Lin, H.H. Hsieh, C.T. Chen (SRRC), POSTECH Collaboration, PAL Collaboration, SNU Collaboration, SRRC Collaboration
11:39 W24.003 Properties of anatase Ti1-xCoxO2-d films grown by pulsed laser deposition
S.R. Shinde, S.B. Ogale, V.N. Kulkarni, J. Higgins, R.L. Greene, T. Venkatesan (Center for Superconductivity Research, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742), S. Das Sarma, J.R. Simpson, H.D. Drew (Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742), S.E. Lofland (Department of Chemistry and Physics, Rowan University, Glassboro, N.J. 08028), J. Buban, N.D. Browning (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 West Taylor Street, Chicago, IL 60607)
11:51 W24.004 Temperature Dependent Optical Studies of Ti_1-xCo_xO_2
S. Guha, K. Ghosh (Dept. of Physics, Astro. amp; Mat. Science, Southwest Missouri State University.), S.B. Ogale, S.R. Shinde, T. Venkatesan (CSR, Dept. of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park.), J.R. Simpson, H.D. Drew (Dept. of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park.)
12:03 W24.005 Theory of Dopants and Defects in Co-doped TiO_2 Anatase
James M. Sullivan, Steven C. Erwin (Naval Research Laboratory)
12:15 W24.006 Ferromagnetism of anatase Ti_0.96Co_0.04O_2 thin films originated by Co clustering
T. W. Noh, D. H. Kim, J. S. Yang, S. D. Bu, S. H. Phark, Z. G. Khim, S.-J. Oh (School of Physics, Seoul Nat. Univ., Seoul, Korea), Y.-W. Kim (School of Materials Sci. and Eng., Seoul Nat. Univ., Seoul, Korea), J. Y. Won, S. H. Park, J. C. Lee (SAIT, Yongin-shi, Kyungki-do, Korea)
12:27 W24.007 Is Co_xTi_1-xO_2 a Spin-glass System?
A. Punnoose (Physics Department, Boise State University, Boise, ID-83725), M. S. Seehra (Physics Department, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV-26506), W. K. Park, J. S. Moodera (Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, MIT, Cambridge, MA-02139)
12:39 W24.008 Ferromagnetism and transport properties of Fe-doped reduced-rutile TiO(2-d) thin films
Zhenjun Wang, Jinke Tang (Department of Physics, University of New Orleans), Le Tung, Leonard Spinu (Advanced Materials Research Institute, University of New Orleans), University of New Orleans Team
12:51 W24.009 Optical conductivity of cobalt-doped titanium dioxide
J. R. Simpson, H. D. Drew, S. R. Shinde, Y. Zhao, S. B. Ogale, T. Venkatesan (Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.)
13:03 W24.010 Band-Offsets at CdCr2Se4-(AlGa)As and CdCr2Se4-ZnSe Interfaces
Gunter Lüpke, Zhao Haibin, Yuhang Ren, Baozhou Sun (College of William and Mary), Aubrey Hanbicki, Berry Jonker (Naval Research Laboratory), College of William and Mary Collaboration, Naval Research Laboratory Collaboration
13:15 W24.011 Theoretical Band Offsets in CdCr2Se4/GaAs Heterojunctions
Steven C. Erwin, James M. Sullivan (Center for Computational Materials Science, Naval Research Laboratory)
13:27 W24.012 Materials Design of Ferromagnetic Semiconductors with Defect-Chalcopyrite Structure (v-Mn)III_2VI_4
Tatsuya Shishidou, Yu-Jun Zhao, Julia Medvedeva, A. J. Freeman (Northwestern University), J. K. Furdyna (University of Notre Dame)
13:39 W24.013 Enhanced Anomalous Hall effect in the diluted magnetic system Cu(Ga,Mn)Te_2-delta
Wei-Li Lee, T. Pray, R.J. Cava, R.N. Bhatt, N.P. ONG (Princeton University)
13:51 W24.014 Zero-field NMR of a new chalcopyrite magnetic semiconductor MnGeP_2
Taesoon Hwang, Junghyun Kim, Soonchil Lee (Dept. of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Sunglae Cho (Dept. of Physics, University of Ulsan)
14:03 W24.015 Magnetic and transport properties of ferromagnetic semiconductor Mn-based chalcopyrite films
Yunki Kim, J. B. Ketterson (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University), Sungyoul Choi, Sunglae Cho (Department of Physics, University of Ulsan)

Session W25. DCMP: Insulators III: Spectroscopy, Defects, and Piezoelectrics.

Thursday morning, 11:15, Room 16B, Austin Convention Center

11:15 W25.001 Theory of Nuclear Quadrupole Interaction of ^35Cl Nuclei in Solid Chlorine*
M. M. Aryal, D. R. Mishra, S. P. Byahut, D. D. Paudyal (Dept of Physics, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal), R. H. Scheicher, Junho Jeong, C. Gaire, T. P. Das (Dept of Physics, SUNY at Albany, NY)
11:27 W25.002 Nuclear quadrupole interaction and nonlinear optical property of some borate crystals^*
S. H. Choh, I. G. Kim, H. W. Shin (Dept. of Physics, Korea University), I.-W. Park (Seoul Branch, Korea Basic Science Institute)
11:39 W25.003 Theory of Electronic Structures of Selenium and Tellurium with and without Impurities
Hwa-Suck Cho (Dept. of Physics, Yeung-Nam University, Taegu, S. Korea), R. H. Scheicher, Junho Jeong, T. P. Das (Department of Physics, State University of New York at Albany), D. D. Paudyal, N. B. Maharjan, D. R. Mishra, S. P. Byahut (Department of Physics, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal)
11:51 W25.004 Investigation of Hydrogen Centers in TiO_2 Anatase Phase
S. P. Byahut (Dept. of Physics, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal), S. Kurita (Dept. of Physics, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan), L. Chow (Dept. of Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando), C. Gaire, Junho Jeong, R. H. Scheicher, T. P. Das (Dept. of Physics, SUNY at Albany)
12:03 W25.005 Investigation of Binding Energy of Chlorine Molecule in Solid Chlorine
D. R. Mishra, M. M. Aryal, D. D. Paudyal, S. P. Byahut (Dept of Physics, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal), R. H. Scheicher, Junho Jeong, C. Gaire, T. P. Das (Dept of Physics, SUNY at Albany, NY)
12:15 W25.006 Photoinduced Absorption as a Function of Impurity in Bismuth Germanium Oxide
Dean Evans, Amantha Allen, Mohammad Saleh, Tim Pottenger, Shekhar Guha (Air Force Research Laboratory), Gary Cook (Defence Science and Technology Laboratory), Joel Martin (Department of Physics, Oklahoma State University)
12:27 W25.007 Spectroscopic characterization of tunable electronic energy transfer in layered inorganic solids
C.L. Larochelle (Franklin amp; Marshall College, Department of Physics), H.H. Patterson (University of Maine, Dept. of Chemistry)
12:39 W25.008 Noise Spectroscopy for the Investigation and Characterization of Ultra-Thin Gate Dielectrics
Nauman Z. Butt, Hassan Raza, Rashid Bashir (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907), Albert M. Chang (Dept. of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907)
12:51 W25.009 Atomic and Electronic Relaxations of Optically Active Defects in Crystalline vs. Amorphous SiO2
Tamas Bakos, Sergey Rashkeev, Sokrates Pantelides (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235)
13:03 W25.010 The Wavelength Dependence of Laser Induced Damage: Determining the Damage Initiation Mechanisms
Chris Carr, Harry Radousky (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and University of California, Davis Physics Department), Stavros Demos (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
13:15 W25.011 Piezoelectric high displacement actuators
Tim Usher (California State University San Bernardino (CSUSB)), Gevale Ashford, Adalia Cabanyog, Alec Sim, Jr. Ulibarri (CSUSB)

Session W26. DMP: Focus Session: Carbon Nanotube Composites.

Thursday morning, 11:15, Room 17B, Austin Convention Center

11:15 W26.001 Polymer-grafted single-walled carbon nanotube composites
Gunaranjan Viswanathan (Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY), Nirupama Chakrapani, Pulickel M. Ajayan (Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY), Chang Y. Ryu (Dept. of Chemistry, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY)
11:27 W26.002 SWNT/Polymer Composites Using Water Soluble Polymers
Xiefei Zhange, Tao Liu, Satish Kumar (School of Textile and Fiber Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332), Vallerie Moore, R.H. Hauge, R.E. Smalley (Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005)
11:39 W26.003 Molecular Design of Strong SWNT/Polyelectrolyte Multilayers Composites
Nicholas Kotov (Oklahoma State University)
12:15 W26.004 Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube/PMMA Composites
Fangming Du, John Fisher, Karen Winey (University of Pennsyvania, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Philadelphia, PA)
12:27 W26.005 Dispersion and Mechanical Properties of Carbon Nanotube/Polymer Composites via Melt Compounding
Russell Gorga, Robert Cohen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
12:39 W26.006 Alignment of SWNT in Electrospun SWNT-Polymer Composite Fibers
I.N. Ivanov, A.A. Puretzky, M.J. Lance, S. Jesse, S. Viswanathan, P.F. Britt, D.B. Geohegan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Collaboration
12:51 W26.007 Imaging and Electrical Characterization of Nanotube Networks in SWNT/Polymer Composites
Stephen Jesse (Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee), M.A. Guillorn, D.W. Austin, I.N. Ivanov, A.A. Puretkzy, S. Viswanathan, P.F. Britt, D.B. Geohegan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Collaboration
13:03 W26.008 SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE / NYLON66 COMPOSITES
Reto Haggenmueller, John E. Fischer, Karen I. Winey (Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA)
13:15 W26.009 Carbon Nanotubes - Polymer Composites with Enhanced Conductivity using Functionalized Nanotubes
Rajagopal Ramasubramaniam, Jian Chen, Rishi Gupta (Zyvex Corporation, 1321 North Plano Road, Richardson, TX 75081)
13:27 W26.010 Electrical and Dielectric Properties of Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Polymer Composites
Cheol Park, Kristopher E. Wise (ICASE), Zoubeida Ounaies (Virginia Commonwealth University), Sharon E. Lowther, Emilie J. Siochi, Joycelyn S. Harrison (Advanced Materials and Processing Branch, NASA Langley Research Center), Cosmas Chiteme, David S. McLachlan (Department of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)
13:39 W26.011 Dielectric properties of nanotube composites
Krzysztof Kempa (Boston College)
13:51 W26.012 Irradiation Effects on Multi-walled Nanotube-Polymer Composites
Julie P. Harmon, Shelli Tatro (Chemistry Department, University of South Florida), Apparao Rao (Physics Department, Clemson University)
W26.013 Structure and Properties of Polymer Composites from Infiltrated Aligned Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes
I.N. Ivanov, A. Rar, A.A. Puretzky, M.J. Lance, S. Jesse, S. Viswanathan, P.F. Britt, G.P. Pharr, D.B. Geohegan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Collaboration

Session W27. DMP/FIAP: Focus Session: Novel and Complex Oxides II.

Thursday morning, 11:15, Room 18A, Austin Convention Center

11:15 W27.001 Structure and dielectric properties of SrTiO_3/SrO superlattices from first principles
Craig Fennie, Karin Rabe (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)
11:27 W27.002 Finite-temperature properties of PZT superlattices near the morphotropic phase boundary from first principles
Igor Kornev, Laurent Bellaiche (Physics Department, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA)
11:39 W27.003 Electronic Structure of Delta-Doped SrTiO_3
D. R. Hamann (Bell Laboratories and Mat-Sim Research), H. Y. Hwang, D. A. Muller (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies)
11:51 W27.004 First-principles design of epitaxial perovskite heterostructures
J. B. Neaton (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University)
12:27 W27.005 Epitaxial Stabilization of BiMnO3 Films on (100), (110), and (111) SrTiO3 Substrates
James Lettieri, Yunfa Jia, Venkatraman Gopalan, Darrell Schlom (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State University), Wei Tian, Xiaoqing Pan (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Michigan), Antonio Moreira dos Santos, Anthony Cheetham (Materials Research Laboratory, University of California Santa Barbara), Jürgen Schubert (Institut für Schichten und Grenzflächen ISG1-IT, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH), Junling Wang, Ramamoorthy Ramesh (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland)
12:39 W27.006 Resonant x-ray microdiffraction imaging of polarization switching in ferroelectric thin films
Paul Evans (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison), Eric Isaacs, Glen Kowach, Paul Citrin, Paul Northrup (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies), Alain Pignolet (INRS, University of Quebec), Ho-Nyung Lee (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Dietrich Hesse (MPI for Microstructure Physics, Halle), Eric Dufrense (University of Michigan)
12:51 W27.007 Random Field Models for Relaxor Ferroelectric Behavior
Ronald Fisch (Dept of MSE, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104)
13:03 W27.008 Probing Ferroelectricity in BiMnO3 Ferroelectromagnets using nonlinear optics
Venkatraman Gopalan (Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802)
13:39 W27.009 A site substitution and local structure in ferroelectric perovskites
Na Sai, James E. Anderson (Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania), Andrew M. Rappe (Department of Chemistry and Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter, University of Pennsylvania)
13:51 W27.010 Quantum effects in incipient ferroelectrics KTaO_3 and K(Ta_1-xNb_x)O_3
A.R. Akbarzadeh, L. Bellaiche (Department of physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA), Kevin Leung (Sandia National Laboratories, Mail Stop 1421, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185, USA), Jorge Iniguez, David Vanderbilt (Department of physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8019, USA)
14:03 W27.011 First-principles study of (1-x)BiScO_3-xPbTiO_3 piezoelectric alloys
Jorge Iñiguez, David Vanderbilt (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019, USA), L. Bellaiche (Physics Department, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA)

Session W28. DCOMP: Molecular Dynamics and Multiscale Simulations.

Thursday morning, 11:15, Room 18B, Austin Convention Center

11:15 W28.001 A parallel order-N tight-binding molecular dynamics program
Dave Turner, Xuehua Chen, Cai-Zhuang Wang (Ames Laboratory)
11:27 W28.002 A new constant-pressure molecular dynamics method for finite system
D. Y. Sun, X. G. Gong (Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China)
11:39 W28.003 A first-principles molecular dynamics study of liquid water and the aqua ferrous complex
P. H.-L. Sit (Department of Physics, MIT), Nicola Marzari (DMSE, MIT)
11:51 W28.004 Relaxation Times, Residual Sizes and Limit Temperatures for Ni+Ni HIC
Armando Barranon (Dept. of Basical Sciences, UAM-A, Mexico City, Mexico), Jorge A. Lopez (Dept. of Physics,The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, USA.), Claudio O. Dorso (Dept. of Physics, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.), LATINO Collaboration
12:03 W28.005 Genetic Programming for Multi-Time-Scale Modeling: First Results
3 Sastry^2, 4 Johnson^2, D.E. Goldberg^3 (^2Material Science amp; Engineering, ^3General Engineering, ^4Physics. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
12:15 W28.006 Reliability of First-Principles Thermodynamics Based on Truncated Cluster Expansions
Nikolai Zarkevich, D.D. Johnson (Physics and Material Science amp; Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
12:27 W28.007 Atomic-scale Simulation of Solid-Liquid Interface Dynamics
Deyan Sun, Mark Asta (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 60208), J. J. Hoyt (Sandia National Laboratories, MS 1411, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185), Alain Karma (Physics Department, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115)
12:39 W28.008 A cocktail Approach for Simulation of Nanocrystalline Materials*
Mo Li, Guang-Ping Zheng (School of Materials Science and Engineering)
12:51 W28.009 Accelerated Molecular Dynamics with the Bond-Boost Method
Radu Miron, Kristen Fichthorn (The Pennsylvania State University)
W28.010 First Principles Molecular Dynamics in a Uniform Magnetic Field
Wei Cai, Giulia Galli (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

Session W29. DCMP/GMAG: Focus Session: Magnetic Oxide: Optical and Related Spectroscopies.

Thursday afternoon, 14:30, Room 18C, Austin Convention Center

11:15 W29.001 Self Trapped Exciton and Franck-Condon Spectra Predicted in LaMnO3.
Vasili Perebeinos (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
11:51 W29.002 Orbital versus Multi-Phonon Excitations in the Raman Spectra of LaMnO_3
R. Krüger, J. Bäckström, M. Rübhausen (Inst. of Applied Physics, University of Hamburg, Jungiusstr. 11, 20355 Hamburg, Germany), K.H. Kim (MST-NHMFL, MS E536, Los Alamos National Lab., Los Alamos, NM 87545), S-W. Cheong (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854)
12:03 W29.003 Optical study on thermal development of ordering in La_2-2xSr_1+2xMn_2O_7
Jörg Kunze, Stefan Naler, Joakim Bäckström, Michael Rübhausen (Institute of Applied Physics, University Hamburg, Germany), John F. Mitchell (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois)
12:15 W29.004 Spin and Orbital Correlations in Pyrochlore Molybdates Probed by Optical Spectroscopy
M. W. Kim, Y. S. Lee, T. W. Noh (ReCOE and School of Physics, Seoul National University), Y. Moritomo (CIRSE, Nagoya University)
12:27 W29.005 Spin and Orbital Pattern Dependent Polaron Absorption in Bilayered Manganites
H. J. Lee, M. W. Kim, T. W. Noh (ReCOE and School of Physics, Seoul National University), Y. Moritomo (CIRSE, Nagoya University)
12:39 W29.006 Exchange effects on the electronic excitations in the optical spectrum of LuMnO_3
H.D. Drew, J.R. Simpson, A.B. Sushkov, D.B. Romero (University of Maryland, MD), M. Quijada (NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, MD), J.S. Ahn, H. Ishibashi, N. Hur, S.W. Cheong (Rutgers University, NJ), A.J. Millis (Columbia University, NY)
12:51 W29.007 Spin-Phonon coupling effects in the infrared spectrum of LuMnO_3
A.B. Sushkov, J.R. Simpson, H.D. Drew (University of Maryland, MD), M. Quijada (NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, MD), J.S. Ahn, H. Ishibashi, N. Hur, S.W. Cheong (Rutgers University, NJ)
13:03 W29.008 Comparison of Charge and Spin Dynamics in Pr_1-xCa_xMnO_3 by Time-Resolved Optical Spectroscopy.
S.A. McGill, J.M. Kikkawa (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104), A. Mamchik, I-Wei Chen (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104)
13:15 W29.009 Time-resolved optical pump-probe study of LaMnO3
Daeyoung Lim, Jure Demsar, Richard , Quanxi Jia, Antoinette Taylor (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545)
13:27 W29.010 Antiferromagnetic resonance in LaMnO_3
Diyar Talbayev, Laszlo Mihaly (Stony Brook University), Jianshi Zhou (University of Texas, Austin), G. L. Carr (NSLS, BNL)
13:39 W29.011 Novel Non-Equilibrium Magnetism in La_1-xCa_xMnO_3 Studied by Time-Resolved Kerr Spectroscopy.
S.A. McGill, R.I. Miller, J.M. Kikkawa (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104), A. Mamchik, I-Wei Chen (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104)

Session W30. DCOMP/DMP/GMAG: Theory and Simulation of Magnetism and Spin Dependent Properties VI.

Thursday morning, 11:15, Room 18D, Austin Convention Center

11:15 W30.001 Large magnetic moment in density functional calculations of the uranium (001) surface
Natavsa Stoji\'c (University at Stony Brook, Brookhaven National Laboratory), James W. Davenport (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Matej Komelj (Jozef Stefan Institute), James Glimm (University at Stony Brook, Brookhaven National Laboratory)
11:27 W30.002 Magnetization of the unsegregated and segregated (100) surface of MoV
Igor A. Abrikosov, Leonid V. Pourovskii (Physics Department, Uppsala University, Sweden), Alena V. Ponomareva, Eyvaz I. Isaev, Yurii Kh. Vekilov (Theoretical Physics Department, Moscow Steel and Alloys Institute, Moscow, Russia), Börje Johansson (Physics Department, Uppsala University and Applied Material Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
11:39 W30.003 Negative Differential Magnetization in Ultrathin Fe on Vicinal W(100)
Yugui Yao, Hector C. Mireles, Jie Liu, Qian Niu, J. L. Erskine (Department of Physics, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712)
11:51 W30.004 Computational investigation of spin-polarization in cobalt/graphite superlattices
Kim F. Goto, Nicola A. Hill (Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106), Stefano Sanvito (Physics Department, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland)
12:03 W30.005 Spin-dependent ballistic electron transport through Fe/MgO/Fe from ab-initio Green function embedding
Daniel Wortmann, Stefan Blugel (Institut fur Festkorperforschung, Forschungszentrum Julich, Germany), Hiroshi Ishida (College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon University, Japan)
12:15 W30.006 Magneto-optical properties of Fe/Pd multilayers
Andras Vernes (CMS, TU-Vienna, Austria), Laszlo Szunyogh (Dept. of Theoretical Physics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary), Peter Weinberger (CMS, TU-Vienna, Austria)
12:27 W30.007 MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY OF COMPLEX TWO-DIMENSIONAL LATTICES: THE CASE OF Fe/Cu3Au(001)
Silvia Gallego, Carmen Munoz (Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, CSIC, Spain), Laszlo Szunyogh, Peter Weinberger (CMS, TU-Vienna, Austria)
12:39 W30.008 Magneto-structural phase transition in Gd_5(Si_xGe_1-x)_4.
G.D. Samolyuk, V.P. Antropov (Ames Laboratory)
12:51 W30.009 Calculation of magnetic anisotropy energy in SmCo_5
P. Larson, I.I. Mazin, D.A. Papaconstantopoulos (Center for Computational Materials Science, Naval Research Laboratory)
13:03 W30.010 Theory Of Orbital Moment Collapse under Pressure in FeI_2
Jan Kunes, Helge Rosner, Deepa Kasinathan (Dept. of Physics, University of California, Davis), C. Osvaldo Rodriguez (IFLYSIB, Grupo Fisica del Solido, La Plata, Argentina), Warren E. Pickett (Dept. of Physics, University of California, Davis)
13:15 W30.011 Total Energy Calculation for Gd_3NiSi_2
Yongbin Lee, Bruce Harmon
13:27 W30.012 Berry's Phase and the Anomalous Hall Effect of Single-Crystal Gadolinium
S.A. Baily, M.B. Salamon (University of Illinois, Department of Physics, Urbana, Illinois)
13:39 W30.013 Semiclassical wavepacket dynamics in nearly degenerate bands
Dimitrie Culcer, Qian Niu (The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX78712)

Session W31. DCMP/GMAG: Kondo and Correlated Electron Models.

Thursday morning, 11:15, Room 19A, Austin Convention Center

11:15 W31.001 Collapse of the Coherence Gap in Kondo Insulators
Peter Riseborough (Physics Department, Temple University, Philadelphia Pa)
11:27 W31.002 Interaction-induced spin rotation and the Kondo effect in quantum dots coupled to ferromagnetic leads
Jan Martinek (Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik, Universität Karslruhe, Germany and Institute of Molecular Physics, Polish Academy of Science, Poznan, Poland), Jürgen König (Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik, Universität Karslruhe, Germany)
11:39 W31.003 Charge fluctuations in a quantum dot by spin-flip assisted tunneling: SU(4) Kondo theory
Karyn LE HUR (Departement de Physique and CEPERMA - J1K 2R1 Sherbrooke - Quebec), Pascal SIMON
11:51 W31.004 Spin necklace in a dissipative bath: Dynamics of a spatially extended magnetic nanostructure
Nayana Shah (Rutgers University), Andrew Millis (Columbia University)
12:03 W31.005 Kondo Physics in Multi-Level Dots: Universality from Exact Solvability
Robert Konik (University of Virginia)
12:15 W31.006 On quantum Griffiths effects in metallic systems
Joerg Schmalian (Iowa State University), A. J. Millis (Columbia University), D. K. Morr (University of Illinois at Chicago)
12:27 W31.007 Magnetic impurities in magnetically ordered systems
Antonio Castro Neto, Eduardo Novais (Boston University), Gergely Zarand (Harvard University), Laszlo Borda (Theorie Physik Uni-Muenchen), Ian Affleck (Boston University)
12:39 W31.008 Uniform hopping approach to the FM Kondo Model at finite temperature
Winfried Koller, Alexander Prüll, Hans Gerd Evertz, Wolfgang von der Linden (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Graz, Austria)
12:51 W31.009 Theory of Frequency Dependence of Metallic Glass Point Contacts: Kondo Resonance versus Scattering on Slow Two Level Systems
Laszlo Borda (LS fuer Theor. Festkoerperphysik, LMU Muenchen, Theresienstr. 37 D80333 Muenchen Germany), Alfred Zawadowski (Institute of Physics, Technical University of Budapest, Budafoki ut 8. H1111 Budapest, Hungary)
13:03 W31.010 Magnetic field effects on weak ferromagnetism: new physics and expected ESR patterns.
Paulo F. Farinas (IF-UFRJ), Kevin S. Bedell (Boston College Dept. of Physics)
13:15 W31.011 The modified perturbation treatment of the single impurity Anderson model and its application in dynamical mean-field theory.
Claas Grenzebach, Gerd Czycholl (Physics Department, University of Bremen, Germany)
13:27 W31.012 Staggered-flux pattern in the t-J model with twisted boundary conditions
P. W. Leung (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
13:39 W31.013 Exact results for the two-dimensional periodic Anderson model
Zsolt Gulacsi (University of Debrecen, Department of Theoretical Physics, Debrecen, Hungary)
13:51 W31.014 Ground State and Elementary Excitations for Spin 1/2 Model of Insulating V_2O_3
Anuvrat Joshi (NHMFL/FSU, Tallahassee, FL, 32310)
14:03 W31.015 Exact-diagonalization Study of Thermopower in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems
Wataru Koshibae, Sadamichi Maekawa (Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan)

Session W32. DCMP: Focus Session: Imaging of Superconductive Phenomena.

Thursday morning, 11:15, Room 19B, Austin Convention Center

11:15 W32.001 Magneto-optical studies of ac loss in YBCO thin film and the effect of non-uniform flux pinning on the critical current in HTS
Qiang Li, Zuxing Ye, M. Suenaga (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973)
11:27 W32.002 Magneto-optical studies of the critical state in superconducting thin films
Zuxing Ye, Qiang Li (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973)
11:39 W32.003 Scanning SQUID Microscope Observation of Self-organized Vortex Arrangement in Micro-scale Superconductors with Geometrical Constraints
Jun-ichi Suzuki, Yoshiaki Hata, Satoru Okayasu (Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan), Kazuo Kadowaki, Itsuhiro Kakeya (Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573, Japan), Akikazu Odawara, Atsushi Nagata, Satoshi Nakayama, Kazuo Chinone (Seiko Instruments Inc., Matsudo, Chiba 270-2222, Japan)
11:51 W32.004 Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Impurity Resonances in High Temperature Superconductors
Eric Hudson (Department of Physics, MIT)
12:27 W32.005 Spatial Modulation and Layer Dependence of Electronic States in Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_8+\delta
Shashank Misra (University of Illinois- Urbana/ Champaign)
13:03 W32.006 Translational Symmetry Breaking in the Superconducting Stateamp;oslash;f the Cuprates: Analysis of the Quasiparticle Density of States
Daniel Podolsky, Eugene Demler (Harvard University), Kedar Damle (Rice University), B.I. Halperin (Harvard University)
13:15 W32.007 Real-Space Imaging of the Vortex Lattice in V_3Si
C. E. Sosolik, J. A. Stroscio, M. D. Stiles, E. W. Hudson, S. R. Blankenship, A. P. Fein, R. J. Celotta (Electron Physics Group, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8412)
13:27 W32.008 Critical field for vortex nucleation in narrow superconducting strips
Stuart B. Field, Gheorghe Stan (Department of Physics, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO 80523), John Martinis (National Institute of Science and Technology, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305)
13:39 W32.009 Magnetic Force Microscopy Study of Vortex Pinning in YBCO
E. Straver, K.A. Moler (Department of Applied Physics and Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305)
13:51 W32.010 Micro-Hall Probe Study of a YBCO Ring
Rafael Dinner, Malcolm Roy Beasley, Kathryn Moler (Applied Physics Department, Stanford University)
14:03 W32.011 Real-Time imaging of vortex-antivortex annihilation in BSCCO single crystals by Low Temperature Scanning Hall Probe Microscopy(LT-SHPM)
Munir Dede, Ahmet Oral (Dept. Phys., Bilkent University, Turkey), Takashi Yamamoto, Kazuo Kadowaki (Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba, Japan), Hadas Shtrikman (Weizmann Institute of Science,Dept. Cond. Matter Phys., Rehovot,Israel), Oral Team, Kadowaki Team, Shrikman Team

Session W33. DCMP: Surfaces and Interfaces VI: Reactions.

Thursday morning, 11:15, Room 8C, Austin Convention Center

11:15 W33.001 Nano-oxidation of Cu film investigated by in situ UHV-TEM
Guangwen Zhou, Judith C. Yang (University of Pittsburgh)
11:27 W33.002 Kinetics of initial oxidation of Mg surfaces studied by chemicurrent and Auger electron measurements
Stefan Glass (Universität Duisburg), Hermann Nienhaus (Universität Essen)
11:39 W33.003 An In-situ Time-dependent Study of CO Oxidation on Pt(111) in Aqueous Solution by Voltammetry and Sum Frequency Generation
Keng Chang Chou, Nenad M. Markovic, Joonyeong Kim, Philip N. Ross, Gabor A. Somorjai (Departments of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 and Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720)
11:51 W33.004 Temperature Effects in CO Oxidation on Au/TiO2 Model Catalysts and Collision-Induced Reactions
James Stiehl, Tae Kim, Buddie Mullins (University of Texas at Austin)
12:03 W33.005 CO Oxidation on TiO2 Supported Gold Nanoclusters Pre-covered with Atomic Oxygen at 77 K
Tae S. Kim, James D. Stiehl, Christopher T. Reeves, Randall J. Meyer, C. Buddie Mullins (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin)
12:15 W33.006 Structure determination of doping-induced Surface Phase Transitions in the Br/Pt(110) system
Joseph Redinger, Cesare Franchini, Guenter Schneider (Inst. f. Allgemeine Physik, Vienna University of Technology, Getreidemarkt 9/134, A-1060 Vienna, Austria), Clemens Deisl, Krishna Swamy, Norbert Memmel, Erminald Bertel (Inst. f. Physikalische Chemie, Unversitaet Innsbruck, Innrain 52a, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria), Sebastian Walter, Lutz Hammer, Klaus Heinz (Lehrstuhl f. Festkoerperphysik, Inst. f. Angewandte Physik, Staudtstr. 7-A3, D- 91058 Erlangen, Germany)
12:27 W33.007 Quantum Confined Fano Interference in Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy
J.W. Gadzuk (NIST)
12:39 W33.008 Microscopic Modeling of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy in Cu Surface
Chiung-Yuan Lin, Antonio Castro-Neto (Boston University), Barbara Jones (IBM - Almaden)
12:51 W33.009 Diffusion in binary mixtures of n--alkanes adsorbed on a solid substrate
F. Y. Hansen (Technical University of Denmark), L. Criswell, H. Taub (University of Missouri-Columbia), K. W. Herwig (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
13:03 W33.010 On the Emission of Light During Electrolysis
James Galligan, Mark Robson (Department of Metallurgy, University of Connecticut)
13:15 W33.011 Desorption of Water from Crystalline Vinylidene Fluoride-Trifluoroethylene Polymer Surfaces
Luis Rosa, Christina Othon, Stephen Ducharme, Peter Dowben (University of Nebraska)
13:27 W33.012 Sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopic studies of mineral-water interfaces
Victor Ostroverkhov (Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720), Glenn A. Waychunas (Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720), Y. Ron Shen (Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720)
13:39 W33.013 Spin-polarized Matastable Helium Atom Scattering from Water-adsorbed Fe/Cu(100) Surfaces
Mitsunori Kurahashi, Taku Suzuki, Xin Ju, Yasushi Yamauchi (National Institute for Materials Science)
13:51 W33.014 Effect of Sub-surface Boron on H2O Adsorption on Si(100):A First Principles Study
Yun Wang, Gyeong Hwang (Department of Chemical Engineering The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712)
14:03 W33.015 Crystallization Kinetics of Sub-micron Amorphous Solid Water Films: Nucleation, Growth, and Possible Evidence of Liquid-Like Behavior
Douglas J. Safarik, C. Buddie Mullins (The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Chemical Engineering)

Session W34. DMP: Focus Session: High Pressure Materials Research V.

Thursday morning, 11:15, Room 2, Austin Convention Center

11:15 W34.001 Pressure as a Probe of Substituted Quantum Paraelectrics: SrTiO_3
Eugene Venturini (Sandia National Labs)
11:51 W34.002 Anisotropic Elastic Properties of CeRhIn_5
Ravhi Kumar, Holger Kohlmann, Brian Light, Andrew Cornelius (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), V. Raghavan, Tim Darling, John Sarrao (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
12:03 W34.003 Novel Cuprate Compounds under High Pressure
C.Q. JIN, X.M. QIN, W.J. MAI, G.M. ZHANG, F.Y. LI, R.C. YU (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China), High prerssure materials Team
12:15 W34.004 Magnetic field and pressure effects on charge density wave, superconductivity, and magnetism in Lu5Ir4Si10 and Er5Ir4Si10
M. H. Jung, H.C. Kim, H.C. Ri (National Research Laboratory for Material Science, Korea Basic Science Institute, Daejeon 305-333, South Korea), A. Migliori (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos NM 87545), F. Galli, J.A. Mydosh (Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory, Leiden University, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands)
12:27 W34.005 Uniaxial Pressure Dependence of Superconductivity with Stripe Instability in (La,Eu,Sr)_2CuO_4 Single Crystals
Takao Sasagawa (University of Tokyo), Nao Takeshita (AIST-CERC), Hidenori Takagi (University of Tokyo)
12:39 W34.006 First-Principles Transport Calculations for Sb_2Te_3
Timo Thonhauser, Jorge Sofo, Gerald D. Mahan (Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA)
12:51 W34.007 High Pressure Studies on Bioceramic Hydroxylapatite Using Designer Diamond Anvils
Nenad Velisavljevic, Yogesh Vohra (Department of Physics, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB))
13:03 W34.008 Ruby Magnetometer for High-Pressure Diamond-Anvil Cell Experiments
J.G. Tischler (Naval Research Lab., Washington, DC), A. Pushchin, B.A. Weinstein (Physics Dept., SUNY Buffalo, NY)
13:15 W34.009 First Principles Investigation of the MgSiO_3 Akimotoite to Perovskite Phase Transition
Lars Stixrude (Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan), Renata Wentzcovitch (Dept. of Chemica