Program overview

FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 24 OCTOBER 2003

13:30 B1.001 Flashover across a dielectric surface at atmospheric pressure

Andreas Neuber, John Krile, James Dickens, Hermann Krompholz (Texas Tech University, Center of Pulsed Power and Electronics)

13:42 B1.002 Electrical breakdown in transformer oil

Michael Cevallos, James Dickens, Andreas Neuber, Hermann Krompholz, Mark Haustein (Texas Tech University, Center for Pulsed Power and Electronics)

13:54 B1.003 Photochromic Diffraction in Dye-Doped Liquid Crystal

Gene Carlisle (West Texas Aamp;M University), Yong-Jing Wang (Philips Components), Manlin Pei (Fujifilm Medical Systems)

14:06 B1.004 Design Parameters for an Efficient Accelerator Driven Thermal Nuclear Reactor.

Mike A. Shubov, M.A.K. Lodhi (Texas Tech University)

14:18 B1.005 Grid Computing Environment using a Beowulf Cluster

Fransisco Alanis, Akhtar Mahmood (University of Texas - Pan American)

14:30 B1.006 Molecular Organization and Biophysical Properties of Cholesterol Superlattice Domains

Brian Cannon, Sangeetha Balakrishnan, Metze Jennifer, Weaver Nolen, Juyang Huang, Kwan Hon Cheng (Texas Tech Department of Physics)

14:42 B1.007 Latent Fingerprint Detection by Photoluminescence and Time-Resolved Imaging

Kimberly Bouldin (Texas Tech University Center for Forensic Studies)

14:54 B1.008 Trace Explosives Detection by Photoluminescence with Applications to Time-Resolved Imaging

Kimberly Bouldin (Texas Tech University Center for Forensic Studies)

13:30 B2.001 Positron lifetime dependence on carbon black morphology and surface area in rubber-carbon black composites

Vincent Jobando, Jingyi Wang, C. A. Quarles (Texas Christian Univ.)

13:42 B2.002 Temperature dependence of the positron lifetime spectra of rubber-carbon black composites

Jingyi Wang, C. A. Quarles (Texas Christian Univ.)

13:54 B2.003 Applications of the Resonant Microwave Cavity to Test Material Properties

Jim Roberts (University of North Texas Center for Nonlinear Science), Jai Dahiya (Southeast Missouri State University, Associate Dean of Science)

14:06 B2.004 Effect of dislocation density on stress-temperature coefficient of epitaxial GaN grown on á–Al2O3 and 6H–SiC substrates

I. Ahmad, M. Holtz, N. N. Faleev, H. Temkin (Texas Tech University)

14:18 B2.005 Crystal truncation rod fitting of thin SiO2 on Si(001) system

M. Castro-Colin, W. Donner, S. C. Moss (Dept. of Phys., U. of Houston, Houston, TX, 77204), R. J. Nemanich (Dept. of Phys., N. C. S. U., NC, 27695), Z. Islam, S. K. Sinha (XFD/APS Argonne Nat. Lab., 9700 South Cass Av., Argonne, IL, 60439)

14:30 B2.006 Hyperfine Constants for Muonium in 4H and 6H Silicon Carbide

W. A. Nussbaum, R. L. Lichti (Department of Physics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409)

14:42 B2.007 Amorphous Silicon Microbolometer Technology

A. J. Syllaios, T. R. Schimert, R. W. Gooch, W. L. McCardel, J. H. Tregilgas, B. A. Ritchey (Raytheon Commercial Infrared, Dallas, Texas.)

14:54 B2.008 Diblock Copolymer Patterning on Silicon Substrates

Francine Abrego, Ben Stotts, Jeremy Jarl, Deborah C Koeck, David Donnelly, Heather C. Galloway (Physics - Texas State University - San Marcos), Gary Beall, Chad Booth, Patrick Cassidy (Chemistry and Biochemistry - Texas State University - San Marcos)

13:30 B3.001 Differential and Absolute Photometric Analysis of V1331 Cyg

Joshua Torres, Richard Olenick (University of Dallas)

13:42 B3.002 The Kinematic Signature of the Northern Tidal Arm of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy

Ronald Wilhelm (Texas Tech University)

13:54 B3.003 A Search for Kinematic Evidence of Tidal Tails in Globular Clusters

Adam Lauchner, Ronald Wilhelm (Texas Tech University)

14:06 B3.004 Abundance Analysis of Field Horizontal Branch Stars

Scott Young, Ronald Wilhelm (Texas Tech University)

14:18 B3.005 Automated Classification of Galaxy Morphologies

Abel Diaz (Texas Tech University)

14:30 B3.006 Plotting and Analyzing Data Release 1 Galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Jorge Munoz (The University of Texas at El Paso), Daniel Smith (South Carolina State University), Shavon Fleet (Morgan State University), Keith Teesdale (South Carolina State University)

14:42 B3.007 Influence of Expansion on Hierarchical Structure

Bruce Miller (Texas Christian University), Jean-Louis Rouet (Universite d'Orleans)

14:54 B3.008 The gpb probe -- now is the time to place your bets.

Russell L. Collins (retired, U.T. Austin)