Program overview

FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 11 APRIL 2003

1A.001 Electronic breakdown influence on AFMEN nanolithography in thin polymer films

Sergei F Lyuksyutov (Department of Physics, The University of Akron), Grigori Sigalov (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh), Pavel Paramonov (Department of Physics, The University of Akron), Richard A Vaia, Shane Juhl (Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory)

1A.002 Polarization Spectroscopy of Rydberg State Diatomic Molecules

S. Burcin Bayram, John-Paul E. Anderson, Jacob Hinkle, Morgan J. Welsh (Miami University)

1A.003 Manipulating Distribution Functions to Control the \pi-State in a SNS Josephson Junction

M S Crosser, F Pierre, Norman O Birge (Physics and Astronomy Department - Michigan State University)

1A.004 Theory of frictional drag in bilayers with non-spherical fermi surfaces

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

1A.005 The Study of Colloidal Crystals by Diffraction Employing Visible Electromagnetic Radiation

Courtney Buckey, Christina Leidel, Tom Manuszak, Matthew Katschke, Robert Merrill, Mellita Caragiu (Ohio Northern University)

1A.006 Modelling electric-field-sensitive SPM measurements for a tip of arbitrary shape

I. Kuljanishvili, S. Chakraborty, I.J. Maasilta, S.H. Tessmer (Michigan State University)

1A.007 STM Observation of Sub-Surface Defect States in Narrow Gap Semiconductors

S. Urazhdin, A. Tomic, D. Bilc, Theodora Kyratsi, S. D. Mahanti, M. G. Kanatzidis, S. H. Tessmer (Michigan State University)

1A.008 Quantum Computing using Electrons on Liquid Helium

A.J. Dahm, I. Karakurt, T.J. Peshek, J.A. Heilman (Case Western Reserve University)

1A.009 Group Theory and MRI Designs

T. P. Eagan*, T. N. Baig*, Y.-C. N. Cheng*, T. K. Kidane*, H. Mathur*, T. Chmielewski**, J. Flock*, Sh.M. Shvartsman**, R.W. Brown* (*Case Western Reserve University, **Philips Medical System, Cleveland, Ohio)

1A.010 Making SENSE out of MRI Coils

T. K. Kidane*, T. P. Eagan*, Y.-C. N. Cheng*, T. N. Baig*, Sh. M. Shvartsman**, R. W. Brown* (*Case Western Reserve University, **Philips Medical System, Cleveland)

1A.011 Results from the O.N.U. Dusty Plasma Experiment

N. P. Baxter, T. E. Sheridan (Department of Physics, Ohio Northern University)

1A.012 The O.N.U. Dusty Plasma Experiment

T. E. Sheridan (Department of Physics, Ohio Northern University)

1A.013 Advection and Mixing in a Rectangular Channel Flow

Aditya Joshi, Miron Kaufman (Physics Department, Cleveland State University), Ica Manas-Zloczower (Department of Macromolecular Science, Case Western Reserve University)

1A.014 Time evolution for the entropy of entanglement between two carbon nanotubes

Ioan Sturzu, Slava Rotkin (Beckman Institute, UIUC, 405 N.Mathews, Urbana, IL 61801, USA)

1A.015 Displacement operator in optical quantum computing

Hilma DeVasconcelos, Scott Glancy (University of Notre Dame)

1A.016 Getting students to come to grips with the meaning of division

Gordon Aubrecht (Ohio State University at Marion)

1A.017 Configuration-Interaction Integrals Without Group Theory

Cameron Reed (Alma College)

1A.018 Simulation of Spiral Density Waves with Rotating, Shallow Water

Robert Merrill, Courtney Buckey, Matthew Katschke, Tom Manuszak, Jason Pinkney (Ohio Northern University)

1A.019 Model Detectors in Quantum Mechanics: Why the Wavefunction Appears to Collapse

Jarrod Schiffbauer (Grand Valley State University), David Onley (Ohio University)