Program overview

SATURDAY MORNING, 16 OCTOBER 2004

10:45 R1.001 Stresses in Tungsten Thin Films for Single Photon Detectors

Laurna Kaatz (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Denver), Adriana Lita (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado), Davor Balzar (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Denver)

10:57 R1.002 Self-Aligned Palladium Silicide Process for Attachment of Carbon Nanotubes to Silicon Surfaces

Mike Sprinkle, Kevin Bylund, Dale Kitchen, Robert Davis (Brigham Young University)

11:09 R1.003 Vortex State in Type-I Superconductors

Gheorghe Stan, Stuart Field (Department of Physics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO-80523)

11:21 R1.004 Dielectric Properties of CaCu_3Ti_4O_12: Influence of Temperature, Pressure and Doping

Robert Grubbs, Gene Venturini, Paul Clem, Jacob Richardson, Bruce Tuttle, George Samara (Sandia National Laboratories)

11:33 R1.005 The Effect of Stresses and Defects on Ferroelectric Properties of Thin-Film Barium-Strontium Titanates

Davor Balzar (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Denver)

10:45 R2.001 High-Energy Ion Interaction with Thin Materials

Adam Norman, David Follstaedt (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185-1056), Paolo Rossi (Universita di Padova, Italy), Barney Doyle (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185-1056), Floyd McDaniel (University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203), Eduardo Bringa (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA)

10:57 R2.002 Numerical and Theoretical Treatment of Electron-Impact Ionization

Jason Byrd (Metropolitan State College of Denver), Mark Baertschy (University of Colorado at Denver)

11:09 R2.003 Status of the Low-Background Counting Laboratory at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant

Victor M. Gehman (Los Alamos National Laboratory/University of Washington), Majorana Collaboration

11:21 R2.004 A high-efficiency device for resolving incident neutron energy at spallation sources

Brad Underwood, Branton Campbell (Brigham Young University, Dept. of Physics amp; Astronomy)

11:33 R2.005 Accelerated life test for proportional counters

Cameron Scott (Utah Valley State Collage)

11:45 R2.006 Modeling a VASIMR rocket at UVSC

Phil Matheson, William Gray, Leland Page (Utah Valley State College)

11:57 R2.007 Real-time Quantitative X-Ray Spectroscopy with a von Hamos Spectrometer

Tyler Weeks, Michael Johnson, Scott Raymond, Jon Paul Johnson, Larry Knight (BYU), Alexander Shevelko (Lebedev Physical Institute)

12:09 R2.008 Signatures of a Spinodal Decomposition in HIC

Armando Barranon (Dept. of Basic Sciences, UAM-Azcapotzalco, Mexico City.), Jorge López (Dept. of Physics, The University of Texas at El Paso, USA), J. Escamilla, LATINO Collaboration

12:21 R2.009 Advanced plasma dignostics-Measurement of electric fields in a radio-frequency discharge

Edward V. Barnat (Sandia National Laboratories)

10:45 R3.001 Einstein on the Web

Donna Cromer (University of New Mexico, Centennial Science and Engineering Library)

10:57 R3.002 Investigation of Phase Transitions in Submonolayer Hexane Physisorbed onto the Basal Plane of Graphite

Cary Pint, Michael Roth (University of Northern Iowa), Carlos Wexler (University of Missouri-Columbia)

11:09 R3.003 Theoretical study of surface stabilities of CeO2: a DFT and DFT+U study

Yong Jiang, James Adams (Arizona State University)

11:21 R3.004 Ab initio Molecular Dynamics Study of Glycine Tautomerization in Water

Kevin Leung, Susan B. Rempe (Sandia National Laboratories)

11:33 R3.005 Interdiffusion of solvent into polymer films studied by molecular dynamics simulation

Mesfin Tsige, Gary S. Grest (Sandia National Laboratories)

11:45 R3.006 Determining seabed properties in shallow ocean areas

Tracianne Neilsen (Brigham Young University)