Program overview

SATURDAY MORNING, 31 MAY 2003

08:30 G1.001 Shedding light on chaos: the role of non-perturbative ray dynamics in micro-optic design

Jens U. Nöckel (Dept. of Physics, University of Oregon)

09:06 G1.002 The Effects of Crystallinity and Catalyst Dynamics on Nanospring Formation

David McIlroy (Department of Physics, University of Idaho)

09:42 G1.003 Precision Cosmology and the Cosmic Microwave Background: WMAP First Year Results

Mark Halpern (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, UBC, Vancouver), WMAP Science Team

10:18 G1.004 Coffee Break

10:38 G1.005 The Characteristics of Thriving Undergraduate Physics Programs: What We Have Learned from Project SPIN-UP

Kenneth Krane (Department of Physics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331 U.S.A.)

11:14 G1.006 Tunneling, Schrodinger Cats, and Chaos in Double Well BECs

William Reinhardt (University of Washington)

11:50 G1.007 Recent Progress in String Theory and Gravity/Gauge Theory Duality

Mark Van Raamsdonk (UBC/Stanford)