Program overview

MONDAY AFTERNOON, 3 MAY 2004

14:30 S2.001 Bonner Prize Talk: Theoretical Perspectives on Nuclear Spectroscopy

George Bertsch (University of Washington and the Institute for Nuclear Theory)

15:06 S2.002 Dissertation in Nuclear Physics Award Talk: The Microphysics, Evolution, and Observations of Quarks in Neutron Stars

Andrew Steiner (University of Minnesota)

15:42 S2.003 Bethe Prize Talk: Nuclear Tests of Neutrino Properties

Wick Haxton (Institute for Nuclear Theory and Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Washington)

16:18 S2.004 Highlights in Nuclear Physics

Charles Glashausser (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University)

14:30 S3.001 Solar Flares Observed with the Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI)

Gordon Holman (NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)

15:06 S3.002 High Energy Flare Emissions

Ronald Murphy (Naval Research Laboratory)

15:42 S3.003 Plasma diagnostics with high-resolution soft X-ray observations of the Sun

Enrico Landi (Artep, Inc. at Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, USA)

16:18 S3.004 Solar Flares and Laboratory Plasmas

Massaki Yamada (Princeton University)

16:54 S3.005 Solar Oscillations

Thomas L. Jr. Duvall (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center)

14:30 S5.001 Panofsky Prize talk: The Structure of the Nucleon

Arie Bodek (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY)

15:06 S5.002 Wilson Prize Talk: KEKB B-Factory

Katsunobu Oide (KEK, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization)

15:42 S5.003 Wilson Prize Talk: The PEP-II e+e- Collider B-Factory

John Seeman (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)

16:18 S5.004 Beam Physics Dissertation Award Talk: Feedback Control of Coupled-Bunch Instabilities: Measurement of System Dynamics and Controller Design

Dmitry Teytelman (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)

16:54 S5.005 Tanaka Dissertation Award Talk: Observation of CP violation the B0 meson system

Shahram Rahatlou (University of California at San Diego)

14:30 S7.001 Differentiating Between Low Scale Gravity (LSG) and Standard Model (SM) with Ultra High Energy (UHE) Neutrinos from Astrophysical Sources.

Shahid Hussain, Douglas McKay (University of Kansas)

14:42 S7.002 The Search for Extremely High Energy Neutrinos with AMANDA-II

Lisa Gerhardt (University of California, Irvine), AMANDA Collaboration

14:54 S7.003 The Search for High-Energy Neutrinos from Gamma-Ray Bursts with AMANDA

Kyler Kuehn (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California-Irvine), The AMANDA Collaboration

15:06 S7.004 Design Studies For A Salt Neutrino Detector

Dawn Williams, Amy Connolly (University of California, Los Angeles)

15:18 S7.005 Neutrino and WIMP detection with CLEAN

Daniel McKinsey, Walter Lippincott, James Nikkel (Yale University), Andrew Hime, Mark Boulay, Jeff Lidgard (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Kevin Coakley (National Institute for Standards and Technology, Boulder), Edward Kearns (Boston University)

15:30 S7.006 XENON: A Search for Dark Matter Particles in Liquid Xenon

Elena Aprile, Karl-Ludwig Giboni, Pawel Majewski, Kaixuan Ni, Bhartendu Singh, Masaki Yamashita (Columbia University), Richard Gaitskell, Luiz DeViveiros, Peter Sorensen (Brown University), Tom Shutt, Kwong John (Princeton University), Daniel McKinsey, Richard Hasty (Yale University), Uwe Oberlack, Vargas Omar (Rice University), XENON Collaboration

15:42 S7.007 The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search

Joel Sander (University of California, Santa Barbara), CDMS Collaboration

15:54 S7.008 Nuclear Recoil Identification in CDMS Experiment

Gensheng Wang, Dan Akerib (Case Western Reserve University), CDMS Collaboration

16:06 S7.009 Limits on the WIMP-nucleon cross section seen at a shallow site by the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search Experiment

Sharmila Kamat (Case Western Reserve University), Cryogenic Dark Matter Search Collaboration

16:18 S7.010 Screening in Low Energy Nuclear Reactions of Importance to Astrophysics

George H. Miley (NPRE Dept., Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801), Heinz Hora (Physics Dept., Univ of New South Wales), Nie Luo (NPRE Dept., Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801)

14:30 S8.001 What One Physicist Has to Offer

Marc Ross (University of Michigan)

15:06 S8.002 Taking the King's Shilling: The Talk I Couldn't Give Before

Peter D. Zimmerman (MacArthur Centre for Science amp; Security Studies, Department of War Studies, King's College, London)

14:30 S9.001 On the Quantum Width of a Black Hole Horizon

Donald Marolf (University of California, Santa Barbara)

14:42 S9.002 Consistent discrete quantum gravity: progress and applications

Jorge Pullin (Louisiana State University), Rodolfo Gambini (Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay)

14:54 S9.003 Gravitation, Quantum Mechanics and Locality

Thomas Banks (Rutgers U. and U.C. Santa Cruz)

15:06 S9.004 Non-Quasinormal Modes and Black Hole Quantization

Danny Birmingham (University College Dublin, Ireland), Steven Carlip (University of California at Davis)

15:18 S9.005 Quantum singularity of Levi-Civita spacetimes

Deborah Konkowski (U.S. Naval Academy), Thomas Helliwell, Chris Wieland (Harvey Mudd College), Cassidi Reese (U. S. Naval Academy)

15:30 S9.006 Peaks in the Hartle-Hawking Wave Function from Interfering Topologies

Mike Anderson (SUNY at Stony Brook), Steven Carlip (University of California at Davis), John Ratcliffe, Steven Tschantz (Vanderbilt University), Sumati Surya (Raman Research Institute)

14:30 S10.001 The Swift Gamma Ray Burst Mission

Neil Gehrels (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center), on behalf of Swift Team

14:42 S10.002 The Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) on the Swift MIDEX mission

Craig Markwardt (U. Maryland and NASA/GSFC), Niel Gehrels (NASA/GSFC), Swift-BAT Instrument Team

14:54 S10.003 The Swift Ultra-Violet/Optical Telescope

Peter Roming, Sally Hunsberger, John Nousek, Mariya Ivanushkina (Penn State University), Keith Mason, Alice Breeveld (Mullard Space Science Laboratory), Neil Gehrels (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center), PSU Swift UVOT Team, MSSL Swift UVOT Team, SwRI Swift UVOT Team, NASA/GSFC Swift Team

15:06 S10.004 Swift GRB Operations

John Nousek (Penn State), Swift GRB MIDEX Team

15:18 S10.005 The Swift X-ray Telescope

Joanne Hill, David Burrows, John Nousek (Penn State University), Alan Wells, Julian Osborne, Kallol Mukerjee (University of Leicester), Guido Chincarini, Gianpiero Tagliaferri, Sergio Campana (Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera), Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera Collaboration

15:30 S10.006 Results from the Engineering Model 1 of the GLAST Large Area Telescope

Eduardo do Couto e Silva (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center), LAT of GLAST Collaboration

15:42 S10.007 The Calibration and Environmental Testing of the Engineering Module of GLAST LAT Calorimeter

A. Chekhtman (NRL/GMU), J. E. Grove, W. N. Johnson (NRL), B. Lott, G. Bogaert (IN2P3), for the GLAST LAT Calorimeter Team

15:54 S10.008 Luminous Infrared Galaxies as Gamma-Ray Sources for GLAST and IACTs

Seth W. Digel (Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Stanford University), Diego F. Torres (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Olaf Reimer (Ruhr-Universitat Bochum), Eva Domingo-Santamaría (Insitut de Física d'Altes Energies)

16:06 S10.009 Monitoring the High Energy Gamma-Ray Sky with GLAST

Julie McEnery (NASA/GSFC/UMBC), GLAST Collaboration

16:18 S10.010 The GLAST Silicon Tracker

Marcus G. Ziegler (Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, UCSC), GLAST LAT Collaboration

16:30 S10.011 Anti-Coincidence Detector for GLAST

Alexander A. Moiseev (USRA/NASA/GSFC), R.C. Hartman, Thomas E. Johnson, Jonathan F. Ormes, D.J. Thompson (NASA/GSFC)

16:42 S10.012 The GLAST Science Support Center

Dirk Petry (UMBC/NASA GSFC), GLAST Team

16:54 S10.013 The GLAST Burst Monitor

Charles Meegan, Gerald Fishman (NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center), GLAST Burst Monitor Collaboration

17:06 S10.014 Did a gamma-ray burst initiate the late Ordovician mass extinction?

Brian Thomas, Adrian Melott (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas), Bruce Lieberman (Departments of Geology and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas), Claude Laird (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas), Larry Martin (Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas), Mikhail Medvedev (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas), John Cannizzo, Neil Gehrels (Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), Charles Jackman (Laboratory for Atmospheres, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

14:30 S11.001 Search for the rare decay B^0 \rightarrow\gamma\gamma.

Remigius K. Mommsen (Univ. of California), BaBar Collaboration

14:42 S11.002 Search for the rare decay B^0 \rightarrow\phi\gamma.

Kevin Yarritu (SLAC), BaBar Collaboration

14:54 S11.003 Rare B Decays to Pairs of Neutral Mesons in BaBar.

Vincenzo Lombardo (University of Milan), BaBar Collaboration

15:06 S11.004 Search for the scalar a_0 meson in charmless B meson decays at BaBar.

Corry Lee (University of Colorado), BaBar Collaboration

15:18 S11.005 Phenomenology of Charmless Hadronic B Decays

Denis Suprun (University of Chicago)

15:30 S11.006 Search for rare decay B^0 \rightarrow D^*0\gamma.

Johannes Bauer (Univ. of Mississippi), BaBar Collaboration

15:42 S11.007 Search for the rare B decay B^+\rightarrow K^+\nu\bar\nu

Paul D. Jackson (University of Victoria), BaBar Collaboration

15:54 S11.008 Evidence for the rare decay B\rightarrow K \ell^+ \ell^- and measurement of the B \rightarrow K\ell^+ \ell^- branching fraction.

Jonathan Hollar (Univ. of Wisconsin), BaBar Collaboration

16:06 S11.009 A study of rare B meson decays using the DØdetector.

Burair Kothari (Columbia University), DZero Collaboration

16:18 S11.010 A search for B^+\rightarrow \tau^+ \nu_\tau

Steve Sekula (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison), BaBar Collaboration

16:30 S11.011 Search for B^0 \rightarrow \ell^\pm \tau^\mp Decay

Woochun Park (University of Rochester), CLEO Collaboration

16:42 S11.012 Search for Rare B Meson Decays Using CDF Run-II Data

Christoph Paus (TBA)

16:54 S11.013 Search for the flavor violating decay B_s \rightarrow \mu^+ \mu^-.

Ralf Bernhard (University of Zurich, Switzerland), DZero Collaboration

17:06 S11.014 Observation of the Cabibbo Suppressed Decay B^+ \to J/\psi pi^+ at CDF

CDF Collaboration (TBA)

17:18 S11.015 Search for the decays \Lambda_b \to p h in p\barp collisions at\$\sqrts=1.96~ TeV

Stefano Torre (University of Siena)

14:30 S12.001 Electrons as Field Quanta: Straightforward Approach to Teaching Quantum Physics

Art Hobson (University of Arkansas)

14:42 S12.002 Using Computer-Based Activities in Physics and Introductory Astronomy Instruction

Irina Romanovskaya (Houston Community College)

14:54 S12.003 An Introductory Course for Technical Energy Professionals

John Fanchi (Colorado School of Mines)

15:06 S12.004 An Innovative Course in Technical Communication and More

Maria B. Cranor, Richard H. Price (University of Utah)

15:18 S12.005 Virtual Teacher

Mayda Velasco (Northwestern Univesity)

15:30 S12.006 Einstein Online: A Web-based Course for K-12 Teachers from the American Museum of Natural History

Robert Steiner (American Museum of Natural History)

15:42 S12.007 PARTICLE at University of Rochester: Secondary School Teacher and Student Cosmic Ray Research

Kevin McFarland (University of Rochester), PARTICLE at University of Rochester Team

15:54 S12.008 The Berkeley Lab's Intensive Research Institute 2003

Peggy McMahan, Martin Mike, Eric Norman, Roland Otto, Al Smith (LBNL)

16:06 S12.009 CHICOS: Summer Lab Programs for Middle and High School Students

Theresa Lynn, Michelle Larson, Robert Gates, Chris Jillings, Peter Gaskell, Robert McKeown (Kellogg Lab, Calif. Inst. of Tech.), Ryoichi Seki (Dept. of Physics, CA State U, Northridge)

14:30 S13.001 Test Case for Identification of Local Mixmaster Dynamics in Generic Gravitational Collapse

Beverly K. Berger (NSF), David Garfinkle (U. of Guelph)

14:42 S13.002 Numerical approaches to the periodic standing wave approximation for black hole \ binary inspiral

Richard H. Price, Benjamin Bromley (Department of Physics, University of Utah), Robert Owen (Theoretical Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology)

14:54 S13.003 Constrained Evolution of Black Hole Spacetimes

Matthew Anderson, Richard Matzner (Center for Relativity, University of Texas at Austin)

15:06 S13.004 Harmonic Coordinates for Periodic Standing Wave Space-Times

Christopher Beetle (Florida Atlantic University)

15:18 S13.005 Construction of Equilibrium Solutions of Relativistic Rotating Boson Stars

Kevin Lai, Matthew Choptuik (UBC)

15:30 S13.006 The coalescence remnant of binary black holes

Carlos Lousto (The University of Texas at Brownsville)

15:42 S13.007 Charged matter accretion on Kerr black holes.

Roman Petryk (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia), Matthew Choptuik (CIAR Cosmology and Gravity Program; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia)

15:54 S13.008 Hydrodynamics in axysimmetry

Ignacio Olabarrieta (UBC)

S13.009 Radiation Content of Binary Black Hole Initial Data in the Extreme Mass Ratio Limit

Carlos Lousto (The University of Texas at Brownsville)

14:30 S14.001 Germany's Failure to Achieve an Atomic Bomb in World War II: Bad Science,Good Intentions or Neither?

Harry Lustig (City College of New York, emeritus)

14:54 S14.002 Bonebrake Theological Seminary - Most Secret A-Bomb Project Site

Katherine R. Sopka, Elisabeth M. Sopka (FOCAS - Four Corners Analytic Sciences)

15:18 S14.003 Early electron-atom scattering and its influence in the development of quantum mechanics

Benjamin Bederson (New York University)

15:42 S14.004 Newton's diffraction measurements

Michael Nauenberg (University of California Santa Cruz)

16:06 S14.005 THE QUEST FOR OTHER WORLDS

Virginia Trimble (Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD and Univ. of California, Irvine, CA)

16:30 S14.006 Karl Popper's Quantum Ghost

William Shields (Virginia Tech)