Program overview

SUNDAY AFTERNOON, 2 MAY 2004

K1.001 Plasma Physics

K1.002 Axisymmetric Modes in Thin Accretion Disks: Analytical and Numerical Studies

Edward Keyes, Bruno Coppi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

K1.003 An analytical model of the coherent synchrotron radiation instability

Bjoern S. Schmekel (Department of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853), Richard V.E. Lovelace, Ira M. Wasserman (Department of Astronomy, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853)

K1.004 Magnetic Reconnection in Multi-Fluid Plasmas

Michael Shay (University of Maryland), Ellen Zweibel (University of Wisconsin)

K1.005 "Magnetic Reconnection and Effects of Electron Parallel Pressure Gradients in High Energy Plasmas"

L. Sugiyama, B. Coppi, C. Yarim (MIT)

K1.006 Dynamics of Charged ions inside magnetic field-reversed configuration

Alexandra Landsman, Samuel Cohen (Princeton University), George Zaslavsky (Courant University, NYU), Mark Edelman (Courant University), Nonlinear Dynamics Group at Courant University Collaboration

K1.007 Novel Radiation Sources in Vacuum UV and Near UV

Sheng Peng (Department of Physics, College of William and Mary), Joseph Ametepe (Department of Physics, Hollins University), Dennis Manos (Department of Physics, College of William and Mary)

K1.008 A Broad Coverage Neutron Source For Security Inspections

Yang Yang (University of Illinois), Stubbers Robert (Universtiy of Illinois), Wu Linchun, Miley George (University of Illinois)

K1.009 The Columbus Experiment

M. Salvetti, B. Coppi (MIT)

K1.010 Beam Physics

K1.011 Focused Electron Beam Incident on a LiNbO3 Crystal on Cooling in Dilute Gas

James Brownridge (State University of New York at Binghamton), Stephen Shafroth (Physics and Astronomy Department, University of NC at Chapel Hill)

K1.012 Numerical simulations of grazing angle collisions

Seth Veitzer, Peter Stoltz (Tech-X Corporation)

K1.013 Physics Education

K1.014 How do Students View Programming Computer Models of Physical Phenomena?

FUNDA ORNEK, MARK P. HAUGAN, WILLIAM R. ROBINSON (PURDUE UNIVERSITY)

K1.015 Enhancing Student Learning in Large General Education Astronomy Classes

Thomas Christensen (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs)

K1.016 Measuring the resistivities of metal wires using a digital multimeter

Ponn Maheswaranathan (Winthrop University)

K1.017 Astronomical Spectroscopy on a Microscopic Budget: First Results

Brian Baptista, James Davidson Jr., Michael O'Brien, Daniel Veillette (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)

K1.018 The Impact of High Wind Events on the Central Business District of Oklahoma City

Dustin Rapp (National Weather Center Research Experiences for Undergraduates), Jeffrey Basara (Oklahoma Climatological Survey), Jr Hall (University of Oklahoma)

K1.019 Classical particles subject to a gaussian-distributed random force

Aaron Plasek (Drake University), Athanasios Petridis (Drake Univeristy)

K1.020 PHYSICAL SIMULATION: TESTING THE ‘PHYSICALITY’ OF PHENOMENA

Jagdish Srivastava (CNS Research Professor, Colorado State University)

K1.021 Astrophysics

K1.022 The Chandra HETGS view of the plasma surrounding the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 2110

Maria Kamenetska, Julia Lee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Space Research)

K1.023 Study of Magnetic Bubble Expansion in Galaxy Clusters

J.M. Finn, H. Li, G. Lapenta (LANL)

K1.024 Numerical Simulations of Tilted Thick-Disk Accretion onto a Kerr Black Hole

P. Chris Fragile, Peter Anninos (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

K1.025 Simulation of the Accretion Induced Collapse of a White Dwarf to the Development of a Neutrino-Driven Wind

Daryl Davis, Stephen Bruenn (Florida Atlantic University)

K1.026 Simulation of Core Collapse Through the Evolution of the Neutrino-Driven Wind

Kenneth DeNisco, Stephen Bruenn (Florida Atlantic Univ.)

K1.027 Magnetohydrodynamic Shock Heating of the Solar Corona

Manuel Huerta, Jose Orta (University of Miami, Department of Physics)

K1.028 Measurements of scintillation and optical properties of condensed neon

Walter Hugh Lippincott, James Nikkel, Daniel McKinsey (Yale University)

K1.029 Distance calculation method for spiral galaxies

John Hodge (XZD Corp.)

K1.030 Status of the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System

John Kildea (McGill University, Montreal, Canada), VERITAS Collaboration

K1.031 Self Creating Universe And The Repulsion Gravity Cosmos

Bruce Terry (SCUINC, APS)

K1.032 The Stored Energy of Gravitational Collapse Powers Gamma Ray Bursts, Active Galactic Nuclei and Jets

Howard Greyber

K1.033 Study of the Formation of the Slow Solar Wind

Giovanni Lapenta, Dana Knoll (LANL)

K1.034 Post-Deadline

K1.035 Search for Supersymmetric Higgs in the decay p\barp \rightarrow b\barb\phi \rightarrow b\barbb\barb

Jared Yamaoka (Rutgers University), CDF Collaboration

K1.036 multi-modes terahertz generation using a quasi-periodic optical superlattice

Singhai TANG, Yiqiang QIN (Department of Physics, National University of Singapore)

K1.037 Achieving very low levels of background in a ton-scale XENON dark matter experiment

Tom Shutt (Princeton), Elena Aprile (Columbia), Bill Craig (LLNL), Luiz deViveriros, Rick Gaitskell (Brown), Karl Giboni (Columbia), Richard Hasty (Yale), John Kwong (Princeton), Pawel Majewski (Columbia), Dan McKinsey (Yale), Kaixuan Ni (Columbia), Uwe Oberlack (Rice), Peter Sorensen (Brown), Omar Vargas (Rice), Masaki Yamashita (Coumbia)

K1.038 Halo neutrons in the beta-decay of ^11Li

F. Sarazin (Dept of Physics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden CO), G.C. Ball, G. Hackman (TRIUMF, Vancouver BC, Canada), J.S. Al-Khalili, P.M. Walker (Dept of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK), B. Eshpeter, D. Melconian, C.J. Osborne, H.C. Scraggs, M.B. Smith (TRIUMF, Vancouver BC, Canada), R.A.E Austin, J.C. Waddington (Dept of Physics and Astronomy, Mc Master University, Hamilton ON, Canada), P.E. Garrett (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore CA), G.F. Grinyer, C.E. Svensson (Dept of Physics, University of Guelph, Guelph ON, Canada), W.D. Kulp, J.L. Wood (School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA), J.R. Leslie (Dept of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston ON, Canada)

K1.039 ANITA - Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna: Recent Progress

Steven W. Barwick (University of California - Irvine), ANITA Collaboration

K1.040 Measurement of Hadron Mass and Lepton Energy Moments in B \rightarrow X_c \ell \nu Decays and the Determination of the Inclusive Branching Fraction, |V_cb|, and Heavy Quark Parameters.

Jeffrey W. Berryhill (UC Santa Barbara), BaBar Collaboration

K1.041 Mid-infrared-wavelength Generation at 4.0 μm in a Mirrorless Counter-propagating Configuration

Sing-hai Tang, Hong Su (Department of Physics, National University of Singapore)

K1.042 Mid-infrared-wavelength Generation at 4.0 ¦Ìm in a Mirrorless Counter-propagating Configuration

Sing-hai Tang, Hong Su (Department of Physics, National University of Singapore)

K1.043 Observation of small-scale structure with a new lensing method

John Irwin, Marina Shmakova (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)

K1.044 Magnet design tolerances in a muon ionization cooling channel

Ulisse Bravar, John H. Cobb, Holger Witte (University of Oxford), Richard C. Fernow, Juan Gallardo, Robert B. Palmer (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

K1.045

K1.046 AMANDA

Kenneth Evans Jr., Rellen Hardtke (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona)

K1.047 A Precision Measurement of Neutron Beta Decay Angular Correlations with Polarized Pulsed Cold Neutrons

Pil-Neyo Seo (Los Alamos National Laboratory), abBA Collaboration

K1.048 Quantum bouncer with dissipation

Gustavo Lopez, Gabriel Gonzalez (University of Guadalajara)

K1.049

K1.050 Effective theory for 3-body systems

Nirav Mehta (Univ. of Colorado - Boulder), James Shepard (Univ. of Colorado - Boulder)

K1.051 Do Scientific Reasoning Skills Affect Learning in Introductory Physics?

Vincent Coletta, Jeff Phillips (Loyola Marymount University)

K1.052 Recent Results from KamLAND

ZELIMIR DJURCIC (Physics Department, University of Alabama), KAMLAND Collaboration