Program overview

FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 30 MAY 2003

13:45 B1.001 Exploring Ionized Gas in the Milky Way’s Disk and Halo with the Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper

Stephen Tufte (Lewis amp; Clark College)

14:21 B1.002 Star Formation in Dwarf Stellar Systems

Stephen Murray, Chris Fragile (Lawrence Livermore National Lab.), Shawfeng Dong, Douglas Lin (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz), Peter Anninos (Lawrence Livermore National Lab.)

14:57 B1.003 Scalar Fields, SUSY, and Dark Matter

Rob Fardon, Ann Nelson (University of Washington)

15:09 B1.004 Tunneling-photon holographic renormalization equivalence to the cosmic-microwave-background Doppler redshift direction

George Soli (Integrated Detector Systems, LLC)

15:21 B1.005 Coffee Break

15:41 B1.006 LIGO Commissioning and Initial Science Runs: Current Status

Michael Landry (LIGO Hanford Observatory/Caltech), LIGO Scientific Collaboration

16:17 B1.007 Implementation of LIGO's Triggered Burst Search

Rauha Rahkola (representing the LIGO Scientific Collaboration)

16:29 B1.008 Gravitational Radiation from Pulsating White Dwarfs

Matthew Benacquista (Montana State University-Billings), David Sedrakian, Mekhak Hairapetyan, Karen Shahabasyan, Avetis Sadoyan (Yerevan State University, Armenia)

16:41 B1.009 Short-Range Tests of Newton's Inverse Square Law

Daniel Kapner, Eric Adelberger, Jens Gundlach, Blayne Heckel, Erik Swanson (University of Washington)

13:45 B2.001 Measurements of Molecular Distribution Functions using Fourier Imaging Correlation Spectroscopy (FICS)

Andrew Marcus (Department of Chemistry, University of Oregon)

14:21 B2.002 Time-Domain THz Spectroscopy of H2O and HCl

W.C. Hurlbut, N. Amer, Y.-S. Lee (Physics Department, Oregon State University), J.W. Nibler (Chemistry Department, Oregon State University), Femtosecond Spectroscopy in Semiconductors Team

14:33 B2.003 Absorbance Spectrum of SF6

E.B. Nieschmidt, S.H. Vegors Jr, K. Bernabee (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho)

14:45 B2.004 Laser control of atomic desorption: Experiment and theory

Wayne Hess, Alan Joly, Ken Beck, Matthias Henyk (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Tom Dickinson (Washington State University), Peter Sushko, Alexander Shluger (University College London)

15:21 B2.005 Coffee Break

15:41 B2.006 Non-adiabatic Molecular Dynamics of the Photo-induced Electron Transfer from a Molecular Donor to the Titanium Dioxide Semiconductor

William Stier, Oleg Prezhdo (University of Washington Chemistry Department)

15:53 B2.007 Quantum dynamics of electron-nuclear correlations in photo-excited molecular dimers

Dmitri S. Kilin (University of Washington, Seattle WA 98195-1700), Yuri V. Pereverzev, Oleg V. Prezhdo (Univsity o Washington, Seattle WA 98195-1700)

16:05 B2.008 Theoretical Studies of Free Radicals in NaY Zeolite

Yan Alexander Wang (Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada)

16:41 B2.009 Stability of Uracil and Thymine with Respect to Intermolecular Proton Transfer Reactions Induced by Excess Electrons

Maciej Gutowski, Iwona Dabkowska, Maciej Haranczyk (Department of Chemistry, University of Gdansk, 80-952 Gdansk, Poland), Rafal Bachorz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Chemistry, Quantum Chemistry Group, Grunwaldzka 6, 60-780 Poznan, Poland), Janusz Rak (Department of Chemistry, University of Gdansk, 80-952 Gdansk, Poland), Shoujun Xu, Michael Nilles, Dunja Radisic, Sarah Stokes, Kit Bowen (Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA)

16:53 B2.010 Coarse Explosive Particles of PBX as a Dominant Factor of the Detonation Instability

I. Plaksin, J. Campos, P. Simões, A. Portugal, J. Ribeiro, R. Mendes, J. Góis, J. Direito, D. Braga (Laboratory of Energetics and Detonics of University of Coimbra. Mech. and Chem. Eng. Dept. PORTUGAL)

17:05 B2.011 Molecular Properties of the Ice Ih Basal Surface: An Application of the SCME Water Interaction Potential

Fernando Vila, Hannes Jónsson (Department of Chemistry, University of Washington)

13:45 B3.001 Paradigms in Physics

Corinne Manogue (Oregon State University), Paradigms in Physics Development Team

14:21 B3.002 Bridging the Vector Calculus Gap

Tevian Dray (Department of Mathematics, Oregon State University), Corinne Manogue (Department of Physics, Oregon State University)

14:35 B3.003 Is Physics at the Root of Students' Incorrect Geologic Concepts?

Rose McKenney (Pacific Lutheran University), John Webster (Minot State University)

14:49 B3.004 Examining student learning in an introductory laboratory on electric circuits

MacKenzie R. Stetzer, Peter S. Shaffer, Mark N. McDermott (Department of Physics, University of Washington)

15:03 B3.005 Coffee Break

15:23 B3.006 Research as a Guide for Improving Instruction: An Example from Light and Shadow^1

Karen Wosilait (University Preparatory Academy and University of Washington)

15:59 B3.007 Physics Outreach: Road Shows and World Year of Physics 2005

Stanley Micklavzina (Dept. of Physics, University of Oregon)

16:13 B3.008 Physics education research as a guide for instruction on mechanical waves

Mila Kryjevskaia, Paula R.L. Heron (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Washington), Karen Wosilait (Univ. Preparatory Academy), Lillian C. McDermott (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Washington)

16:27 B3.009 Identifying student difficulties with heat transfer and temperature

Matthew Cochran (University of Washington), Paula R. L. Heron Collaboration, Lillian C. McDermott Collaboration

13:45 B4.001 Ferromagnetic Dot Array as Pinning Centers for High-Tc Superconductors

W. J. Yeh, Bo Cheng, Kun Yang (Department of Physics, University of Idaho, Moscow), B. L. Justus (Naval Research Laboratory)

13:57 B4.002 Magnetism in nanoclusters and nanocluster films

You Qiang, Jiji Antony (Department of Physics, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844)

14:09 B4.003 Impurities in homogeneous electron gas

Jung-Hwan Song, Henri Jansen (Oregon State University)

14:21 B4.004 A simple fracture and fragmentation model for plastically deforming or melted solids.

Donald Curran, Lynn Seaman (SRI International)

14:33 B4.005 Stationary distribution for stochastic dynamics near fixed points

Chulan Kwon, Ping Ao, David J. Thouless (University of Washington)

14:45 B4.006 Chaotic Pattern Dynamics Due to Spatially Ramped Turbulence

Richard Wiener, Eric Ashbaker (Physics Department, Pacific University), Thomas Olsen (Physics Department, Lewis amp; Clark College)

14:57 B4.007 Experimental Determination of Fractal Dimension Characterizing Chaos in Modified Taylor Vortex Flow

Ruben Bjorge, Thomas Olsen (Lewis amp; Clark College, Portland, OR), Richard Wiener (Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR)

15:09 B4.008 Exploration of the Parameter Space of the Damped Driven Pendulum for Fixed Points Subject to Control of Chaos Algorithms

Andrew Dittmore, Collin Trail, Thomas Olsen (Lewis amp; Clark College, Portland, OR), Richard Wiener (Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR)

15:21 B4.009 Coffee Break