Program overview

TUESDAY AFTERNOON, 23 MARCH 2004

14:30 L1.001 Collective excitations in doped two-leg quantum spin ladders

Girsh Blumberg (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies)

15:06 L1.002 Suppression of the Charge-Density Wave State in Sr14Cu24O41 by Calcium Doping

Silvia Tomic (Institut za fiziku, P.O.Box 304, HR-10001 Zagreb, Croatia)

15:42 L1.003 Superconductivity of the spin ladder system: pairing and spin gap

Naoki Fujiwara (Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan)

16:18 L1.004 Spectroscopic signatures of charge order in spin ladders

Markus Grueninger (2. Physikalisches Institut, University of Cologne, Germany)

16:54 L1.005 Broken Time-Reversal Symmetry in Strongly Correlated Ladder Structures

Matthias Troyer (ETH Zürich)

14:30 L2.001 NMR and Decoherence in Spin Systems: Polarization vs. Loschmidt Echoes

Patricia R. Levstein (FAMAF, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, 5000 Córdoba, Argentina)

15:06 L2.002 Classical dynamics, entanglement production, decoherence and quantum irreversibility

Philippe Jacquod (Departement for Theoretical Physics, University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland)

15:42 L2.003 Semiclassical evaluation of quantum fidelity

Jiri Vanicek (University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard University)

16:18 L2.004 Sensitivity of Wave Field Evolution in Simple, Chaotic Systems

Steven Tomsovic (Washington State University)

16:54 L2.005 Decoherence, Chaos, and the Arrow of Time

Wojciech H. Zurek (Los Alamos)

14:30 L3.001 Working out the kink: drop break-up with linear dynamics

Itai Cohen (Harvard University)

15:06 L3.002 Viscous entrainment: creating a singular spout

Wendy Zhang (Physics Department and James Franck Institute, University of Chicago)

15:42 L3.003 The Amazing Drop - Chemically Driven Tip Streaming

George Homsy (Mechanical Engineering, UCSB, Santa Barbara CA)

15:54 L3.004 Laser-induced tether amp; spouts

Jean-Pierre Delville (Centre de Physique Moleculaire Optique, Universite Bordeaux I, 351 Cours de la Liberation, F-33405 Talence Cedex, FRANCE)

16:30 L3.005 On the shock of a viscous liquid on itself

David Quéré (Collège de France, Paris, France)

14:30 L4.001 Inhomogeneous polymer systems: A quantitative comparison between computer simulation and self-consistent field theory

Marcus Müller (Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg Universität, 55099 Mainz, Germany)

15:06 L4.002 Field theoretic study of bilayer membrane fusion

Kirill Katsov (Materials Research Lab, UC, Santa Barbara), Marcus Mueller (Institute for Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany), Michael Schick (Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle)

15:18 L4.003 Nanoparticle-Block Copolymer Composites

Ellen Reister, Glenn H. Fredrickson (Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106)

15:30 L4.004 Computer simulation study of two dimensional polymers

Arun Yethiraj (Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin)

15:42 L4.005 The role of network connectivity on the mechanical properties of cross-linked polymers

Mesfin Tsige, Mark J. Stevens (Sandia National Laboratories)

15:54 L4.006 vCan tube models of rubber elasticity describe the microscopic and macroscopic response of end-linked polymer networks to elongational strain?

C. Svaneborg, R. Everaers (Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems), G. S. Grest (Sandia National Laboratories)

16:06 L4.007 Effective Charge of Flexible Polyelectrolytes

M. Muthukumar (University of Massachusetts)

16:18 L4.008 Polyelectrolyte Adsorption and Multilayering on Charged Colloidal Particles

Rene Messina (Institut fuer Theoretische Physik II, Heinrich-Heine-Universitate Duesseldorf, 40225 Duesseldorf, Germany), Christian Holm, Kurt Kremer (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, 55021 Mainz, Germany)

16:30 L4.009 Segmental Relaxation, Dynamic Fragility and the Glass Transition in Polymer Melts

Kenneth S. Schweizer, Erica J. Saltzman (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

16:42 L4.010 Thermal vitrification of dense suspensions of multi-arm star polymers: A Molecular Dynamics Study

Ioannis A. Bitsanis, Anastassia Rissanou, Dimitrios Vlassopoulos (FORTH-IESL)

16:54 L4.011 Multi-Resolution Approach to Polymer Self-Consistent Field Theory

Glenn H. Fredrickson, Hector Ceniceros (University of California, Santa Barbara)

17:06 L4.012 Thin films of asymmetric triblock copolymers: a Self-Consistent Field Theory study

Grzegorz Szamel (Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University)

17:18 L4.013 Single Polymer Molecules: Chain Conformation after Adsorption

Manfred Stamm (Institut fuer Polymerforschung Dresden, Germany)

14:30 L5.001 X-ray Amorphous Silicon Detectors for Medical and Industrial Imaging

J. Eric Tkaczyk (General Electric Research)

15:06 L5.002 A Dynamic DNA Chip to obtain single spot inference

Ravi Saraf (Chemical engineering, Virginia Tech)

15:42 L5.003 IR Sensors for Imaging and Health Monitoring Applications

Otto Gregory (Sensors and Surface Technology Partnership, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Rhode Island)

16:18 L5.004 Flat Panel Detectors for High Sensitivity X-ray Imaging

Robert Street (Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, CA 94304)

16:54 L5.005 Recent Development of Terahertz Wave Tomographic Imaging

Xi-Cheng Zhang (Rensselaer Poly Institute)

14:30 L6.001 Self Assembled ferroelectric/ferromagnetic Oxide Nanostructures

Lourdes Salamanca-Riba (University of Maryland)

15:06 L6.002 Structural correlations and dynamical effects on the electronic transport of complex molecules

Sergio E. Ulloa (Ohio University, Department of Physics and Astronomy)

15:42 L6.003 The nature of charge carriers in high-temperature superconductors

Mohamed Azzouz (Laurentian University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Sudbury, ON, Canada P3E 2C6)

16:18 L6.004 Low temperature magnetic force microscopy of novel materials

Alex de Lozanne (Deparment of Physics, University of Texas at Austin)

16:54 L6.005 Plastic deformation mechanisms in shocked single crystals

Ramon Ravelo (Physics Department and Materials Research Institute, The University of Texas at El Paso)

14:30 L7.001 Properties of Ultra-thin IrMn Antiferromagnets in Exchange Biased Multilayers

Nathaniel P. Stern (Harvey Mudd College)

15:06 L7.002 Development of the Atomic Force Microscope As I Saw It

Virgil Elings (First Nano)

15:42 L7.003 Imaging Charge and Imaging Stars

Nancy M. Haegel (Dept. of Physics, Fairfield University and Naval Postgraduate School)

16:18 L7.004 Why are so few females in physics, and what can be done?

H. Eugene Stanley (Center for Polymer Studies and Department of Physics, Boston University)

16:54 L7.005 Numerical Simulations of Gravitational Collapse

Frans Pretorius (California Institute of Technology)

14:30 L8.001 How Membranes Shape Protein Structure

Stephen White (Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics, University of California at Irvine)

15:06 L8.002 DNA and Protein Transport in Synthetic Nanotube Membranes

Charles R. Martin (University of Florida, Department of Chemistry, Gainesville, FL32611)

15:42 L8.003 Nanoporous inorganic membranes for bioseparation and drug delivery.

Tejal A. Desai (Boston University)

16:18 L8.004 Sensing DNA Molecules and Configurations in Solid State Nanopores

Golovchenko Jene (Harvard University, Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Cambridge, MA 02138)

14:30 L9.001 Feedback Stabilization and Control of Unstable Propagating Waves

Kenneth Showalter (West Virginia University)

15:06 L9.002 Dual-frequency spirals in reaction-diffusion media

Annette Taylor, Gavin Armstrong, Rita Toth, Netta Cohen (University of Leeds), Silvia De Monte (University of Copenhagen)

15:18 L9.003 SELF-INDUCED OSCILLATIONS IN COUPLED OVERDAMPED BISTABLE SYSTEMS

Visarath In, Andy Kho, Adi Bulsara (SPAWAR Systems Center San Diego, Code 2363, 53560 Hull Street, San Diego, CA 92152, USA), Antonio Palacios (Nonlinear Dynamics Group, Department of Mathematics amp; Statistics, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA), Salvatore Baglio, Bruno Ando (Dipartimento Elettrico Elettronico e Sistemistico, University of Catania, V.le A. Doria 6, 95125, Catania, Italy), Patrick Longhini (Nonlinear Dynamics Group, Department of Mathematics amp; Statistics, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA), Joseph Neff, Brian Meadows (SPAWAR Systems Center San Diego, Code 2363, 53560 Hull Street, San Diego, CA 92152, USA)

15:30 L9.004 Turing patterns in simple models for biogeochemical processes in marine sediments

Ulrike Feudel, Martin Baurmann, Wolfgang Ebenhöh (Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany)

15:42 L9.005 Small zooplankton sensing their environment: feeding, mating, and predator avoidance

Ai Nihongi (Great Lakes WATER Institute, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee)

16:18 L9.006 Bioconvective Plumes and Bacterial Self-Concentration at a Slanting Meniscus

Christopher Dombrowski, Sunita Chatkaew, Raymond Goldstein, John Kessler (University of Arizona)

16:30 L9.007 Large-Scale Coherence in Concentrated Bacterial Suspensions

Luis Cisneros, Christopher Dombrowski, Raymond Goldstein, John Kessler (University of Arizona)

16:42 L9.008 Action Potential and Conduction Velocity Restitution in Cardiac Tissue

Hana Dobrovolny (Department of Physics, Duke University), Robert Oliver, Soma Sau (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University), Elena Tolkacheva (Department of Physics, Duke University), David Schaeffer (Department of Mathematics, Duke University), Wanda Krassowska (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University), Daniel Gauthier (Departments of Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Duke University)

16:54 L9.009 Reactor-Diffusion Models For Cartilage Pattern Formation

Tilmann Glimm, H.G.E. Hentschel (Emory University)

17:06 L9.010 Addressable Excitable Media for Modeling Disease Spreading

Mark Tinsley, Jianxia Cui, Florin Chirila, Eugene Mihaliuk, Kenneth Showalter (West Virginia University)

17:18 L9.011 Dynamic Patterns of Modern Epidemics

Dirk Brockmann, Lars Hufnagel, Theo Geisel (Max-Planck-Institut für Strömungsforschung)

17:30 L9.012 Dynamics and Rheology of Active-Particle Suspensions

Yashodhan Hatwalne (Raman Research Institute, C.V. Raman Avenue, Bangalore 560 080 INDIA), Sriram Ramaswamy (Centre for Condensed Matter Theory, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012 INDIA), Madan Rao (Raman Research Institute, C.V. Raman Avenue, Bangalore 560 080 INDIA), R. Aditi Simha (MPI-PKS, Noethnitzer Str. 38, 01187 Dresden, Germany)

L9.013 Pattern formation in a drying droplet of DNA

Olena Rudko (Physics Dept., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), John C. Butler, Gerard C. L. Wong (Materials Science and Engineering Dept., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

14:30 L10.001 Templated Growth of Wide Bandgap Nanostructures

Azar Alizadeh, Surya Ganti, Pradeep Shrama, Steven LeBoeuf (General Electric, Global Research Center, Niskayuna, NY), Fatemeh Shahedipour-Sandvik (School of NanoSciences amp; NanoEngineering, University at Albany-SUNY, NY)

14:42 L10.002 Structural Properties of Nanocrystalline GaN:Mn Films Grown by Ion-Assisted Deposition

S Granville, F Budde, B Ruck, A Koo, H.J. Trodahl (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand), G.V.M Williams, A Bittar (Industrial Research Limited, Lower Hutt, New Zealand), V.J Kennedy (Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, Lower Hutt, New Zealand), J Cairney (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)

14:54 L10.003 Synthesis and Optical Properties of ZnO Nanoclusters*

Jiji Antony, X.B. Chen, Leah Bergman, You Qiang (Physics Department, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844-0903)

15:06 L10.004 Co-existence of Type-II Nanostructures and Isoelectronic Centers

Y. Gu, Igor L. Kuskovsky, M. van der Voort, G. F. Neumark (Columbia University, New York, NY 10027), X. Zhou, S. P. Guo, M. C. Tamargo (The City College, CUNY, New York, NY 10031)

15:18 L10.005 Control of soft quantum dot absorption in InAlN/AlN/Sapphire structures

Yuri Danylyuk (Department of ECE, Wayne State University), Dmitri Romanov (Department of Physics and Center for Advanced Photonics Research, Temple University), Ratna Naik (Department of Physics, Wayne State University), Gregory Auner (Department of ECE, Wayne State University)

15:30 L10.006 Synthesis and characterizations of nanoscale single crystal GaN grown by ion assisted gas source MBE

Bentao Cui, P. I. Cohen (University of Minnesota)

15:42 L10.007 Disordered gallium nitride grown by ion beam assisted deposition

F. Budde, B.J. Ruck, A. Koo, S. Granville, H. J. Trodahl (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand), A. Bittar (Industrial Research Limited, Lower Hutt, New Zealand)

15:54 L10.008 Band Edge Photoconductivity in Disordered Gallium Nitride Films

A Koo (Victoria University of Wellington), A Bittar (Industrial Research Limited, Lower Hutt, New Zealand), B J Ruck, F Budde, H J Trodahl, U D Lanke (Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand)

16:06 L10.009 Stepped In content growth of InGaN

Hisashi Kanie, Takaya Yoshimura (Tokyo University of Science)

16:18 L10.010 Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy of Nitride Semiconductors

Jun YUAN, Sangpeng Gao, Yukui Sun (Department of Materials Science and Enginneering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084 CHINA)

16:30 L10.011 Room Temperature Synthesis of Hexagonal Boron Nitride Buckling Nanowires

Hsi-Lien Hsiao (Department of Physics, Tunghai University), Ming-Chang Lu (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University), B-W Lin, A-B Yang (Department of Physics, Tunghai University), L-J Chen (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University)

16:42 L10.012 Stability of ScGaN alloys: a SIESTA study

Nancy Sandler (Ohio University), Pablo Ordejon (Institut de Ciencia de Materials de Barcelona - CSIC), Costel Constantin, Hamad Al-Brithen, Muhammad Haider, David Ingram, Arthur Smith (Ohio University)

16:54 L10.013 Structural observations in Lithium Aluminate

Richard Vanfleet (Brigham Young University), Jed Simmons (University of Central Florida)

14:30 L11.001 Novel Structure Imaged at the Edge of the Quantum Hall Liquid

Gary Steele, Ray Ashoori (MIT), Mansour Shayegan (Princeton University)

14:42 L11.002 Tunneling Spectroscopy of the Edge in Quantum Hall Systems in Cleaved-Edge Overgrowth Devices

J.H. Oh, M. Hilke (McGill University), D.C. Tsui (Princeton University), L.N. Pfeiffer, K.W. West (Bell Laboratories)

14:54 L11.003 Momentum resolved tunnel spectroscopy: Investigating interaction physics at quantum Hall edges

M. Grayson, M. Huber, W. Wegscheider, M. Bichler, G. Abstreiter (Walter Schottky Institut, Tech. Univ. Muenchen, Garching, Germany), W. Biberacher (Walther-Meissner-Institut, Garching, Germany)

15:06 L11.004 Transport properties of 2D electron gas in QH systems: tunneling between edge states

Emiliano Papa, Allan H. MacDonald (University of Texas at Austin, Physics Department, Austin, TX 78712-0264)

15:18 L11.005 Temperature dependence of the fractional quantum Hall edge structure

Roberto D'Agosta, Giovanni Vignale (University of Missouri), Roberto Raimondi (Università di Roma Tre)

15:30 L11.006 Strong-coupling branching of FQHL edges.

Dmitri V. Averin, Vadim V. Ponomarenko (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, SUNY)

15:42 L11.007 Tunneling between two parallel FQHL edges.

Vadim V. Ponomarenko, Dmitri V. Averin (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, SUNY)

15:54 L11.008 Gapless modes of fractional quantum Hall edges: a Hamiltonian study

Hoang Nguyen (University of Kentucky), Yogesh Joglekar (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Ganpathy Murthy (University of Kentucky)

16:06 L11.009 Spectral Function of the Reconstructed FQHE Edge

A. Melikidze, K. Yang (National High Magnetic Field Lab)

L11.010 Acoustic Edge Modes of 2D Electron Systems in Low Magnetic Fields

P.D. Ye (NHMFL,Princeton University,Agere Systems), L.W. Engel (NHMFL), D.C. Tsui (Princeton University), J.A. Simmons, J.L. Reno (Sandia National Laboratory)

14:30 L12.001 A Unified Theory of the ab-plane and c-axis Penetration Depths of Underdoped Cuprates

Thomas Davis (University of British Columbia), Daniel Sheehy (University of Colorado at Boulder), Marcel Franz (University of British Columbia)

14:42 L12.002 In-plane Penetration Depth in Very Underdoped YBa_2Cu_3O_y

J. W. Guikema, J. H. Bluhm (Department of Physics, Stanford University), D. A. Bonn, Ruixing Liang, W. N. Hardy (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia), K. A. Moler (Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University)

14:54 L12.003 Penetration depth measurements in underdoped YBa_2Cu_3O_6+x.

David Broun (Simon Fraser University), Patrick Turner (University of British Columbia), Sibel Ozcan, Ben Morgan (University of Cambridge), Tom David (University of British Columbia), Daniel Sheehy (University of Colorado), Marcel Franz, Ruixing Liang, Doug Bonn, Walter Hardy (University of British Columbia)

15:06 L12.004 Absolute Values of the London Penetration Depth in YBa2Cu3O6+y Measured by Zero Field ESR Spectroscopy on Gd Doped Single Crystals

Patrick Turner (University of British Columbia), T. Pereg-Barnea Collaboration, R. Harris Collaboration, G.K. Mullins Collaboration, J.S. Bobowski Collaboration, M. Raudsepp Collaboration, Ruixing Liang Collaboration, D.A. Bonn Collaboration, W.N. Hardy Collaboration

15:18 L12.005 Study of Intrinsic Doping Dependent Nonlinearities in YBa_2Cu_3O_7-\delta Thin Films with a Near-Field Microwave Microscope

Sheng-Chiang Lee, Steven Anlage (Center for Superconductivity, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742-4111)

15:30 L12.006 Investigation of local nonlinear electrodynamic response of surface states in cuprate superconductors at low temperatures

Dragos I. Mircea, Steven M. Anlage (Center for Superconductivity Research, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA)

15:42 L12.007 Influence of Superconducting/Normal Ground Plane on YBCO Microwave Microstrip Resonator Properties

S. Savard, P. Fournier (Dép. de physique, U. de Sherbrooke), H. Ghamlouche (Dép. de physique, U. des Émirats Arabes Unis)

15:54 L12.008 Probing the superconducting gap symmetry of PrOs_4Sb_12: A penetration depth study

Elbert E. M. Chia, M. B. Salamon (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), H Sugawara, H Sato (Department of Physics, Tokyo Metropolitan University)

16:06 L12.009 Magnetism in Bi2212 and Tl2223 Superconductors: ME Muon-Spin Research

Carolus Boekema (San Jose State University), J Lee (UC Santa Barbara), Y Prudchenko (U Southern CA), Y Li, L Robledo, B Launspach (San Jose State University), WiSE@SJSU Collaboration

16:18 L12.010 THz Measurement of the Quasiparticle Mass Renormalization in Simple Metals

Michael Gilmore, Saeid Kamal, J. Steven Dodge (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, CA V5A 1S6)

16:30 L12.011 Charge dynamics of La_2-xSr_xCuO_4 investigated by microwave broadband technique

A. MAEDA, H. KITANO, T. OHASHI (Department of Basic Science, Univeristy of Tokyo), I. TSUKADA (Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry)

L12.012 Thermal Phase Fluctuations and Intrinsic Granularity in Cuprates

Thomas R. Lemberger, John Skinta, Mun-Seog Kim, Yuri Zuev (Dept. of Physics; Ohio State University; Columbus, OH 43210), E. Wertz, K. Wu, Qi Li (Dept. of Physics; Pennsylvania State University; University Park, PA 16802)

14:30 L13.001 Dephasing from 1/f critical current fluctuations in superconducting qubits

T. A. Crane, D.J. Van Harlingen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), T.L. Robertson, B.L.T. Plourde (University of California, Berkeley), P.A. Reichardt (University of California, Berkele), John Clarke (University of California, Berkeley)

14:42 L13.002 Measurements of the 1/f Noise in Josephson Junctions for Potential Use as QUbits

Chas Mugford, Jan Kycia (Department of Physics and the Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, N2L 3G1 Canada), Matthias Korn, Michael Mueck (Institut of Applied Physics, Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Germany), John Clarke (University of California, Berkeley and LBNL, CA 94720)

14:54 L13.003 Qubit dephasing due to low-frequency noise.

Victor Sverdlov, Kristian Rabenstein, Dmitri Averin (Stony Brook University)

15:06 L13.004 Single-Crystal Josephson Junctions for Experiments in Quantum Computation

Paul B. Welander, Doug Jeffers, Angus Rockett, C. Peter Flynn, James N. Eckstein (Department of Physics and Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801)

15:18 L13.005 Sensitivity and Back-action of Josephson-Junction Comparators as Fast Qubit Readout Devices

Thomas Walls, Dmitri Averin, Konstantin Likharev (Stony Brook University)

15:30 L13.006 Superonducting optical photon detectors for quantum information applicaions

Sae Woo Nam, Danna Rosenberg, Adriana Lita, Aaron Miller, Arto Salminen, Erich Grossman, Robert Schwall, John Martinis (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

15:42 L13.007 High-Quality Nb Single-Electron Transistor Fabricated by Focused-Ion-Beam Etching

* Watanabe^1, 2 Nakamura^1, 4 Matsuba^3, 2 Tsai^1 (^1Frontier Research System, RIKEN, Japan, ^2NEC Fundamental Research Labs., Japan, ^3Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan, ^4CREST-JST, Japan, Present address: NIST (Boulder))

15:54 L13.008 Sensitivity and Linearity of Superconducting Radio-Frequency Single-Electron Transistor: Effects of Quantum Charge Fluctuations

Zhongqing Ji, Madhu Thalakulam, A. J. Rimberg (Rice University, Houston, TX 77005 USA)

16:06 L13.009 Fast ballistic readout for flux qubits

Kristian Rabenstein, Dmitri Averin, Vasili Semenov (SUNY Stony Brook)

16:18 L13.010 Measurement of electron-phonon relaxation in metal thin films using fast microwave thermometry

Minghao Shen, Bertrand Reulet, John Teufel, Daniel Prober, Robert Schoelkopf (Department of Applied Physcis, Yale University)

16:30 L13.011 Fabrication and characteristics of a multi-terminal SINIS device

Ivan Nevirkovets (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA; Institute for Metal Physics NASU, 03680 Kyiv, Ukraine), John Ketterson (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Matyerials Research Center, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA)

16:42 L13.012 Quantized states in superconducting quantum wells biased by an external field

Serhii Shafranjuk, John Ketterson (Physics and Astronomy Dept., Northwestern University, Evanston IL)

16:54 L13.013 Dynamical obstruction in a constrained system and its realization in lattices of superconducting devices

Claudio Castelnovo (Physics Department, Boston University), Pierre Pujol (Laboratoire de Physique, Groupe de Physique Théorique de l'École Normale Supérieure), Claudio Chamon (Physics Department, Boston University)

17:06 L13.014 NRG study of the Kondo effect on a Josephson current through a quantum dot

Akira Oguri, Yoshihide Tanaka (Osaka City University, Japan), A. C. Hewson (Imperial College, UK)

17:18 L13.015 Electrons and phonons at sub-Kelvin temperatures: validation of the disorder-mediated scattering theory

I. J. Maasilta, J. T. Karvonen, J. M. Kivioja, L. J. Taskinen (NanoScience Center, Department of Physics, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland)

14:30 L14.001 Dielectrophoretic Assembly and Integration of Mutlifunctional Nanowires in Single-Chip Microsystems

S. Evoy (1), A. Narayanan (2), J. Nangia, Y. Dan (1), S. Raman ((2) 1: Dept. of Electrical and Systems Engineering, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; 2: Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA)

14:42 L14.002 Branched nanotubes, nanowires and nanofibers for magnetic scanned probe sensing

J.I. oh, Y. Sun, D. Banerjee, Z.F. Ren, C.N. LaFratta, J. Praino, T. Baldacchini, J.T. Fourkas, M.J. naughton (Boston College), W.Z. Li (Florida International University)

14:54 L14.003 Smaller and Faster: Nanoscale structures probed at radio frequencies

Andrew N Cleland (Department of Physics, UC Santa Barbara)

15:30 L14.004 Rotational NEMS using multi-walled carbon nanotubes

Adam Fennimore, Thomas Yuzvinsky, Alex Zettl (Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley and Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

15:42 L14.005 Vapor-Phase Lubricants: Nanometer-scale Lubrication Mechanisms and Uptake on Silicon

Worakarn Neeyakorn, Manju Varma, Cherno Jaye, Adam Hook, Jacqueline Krim (North Carolina State University)

15:54 L14.006 Sub-micron InAs Hall Devices For Biosensing Applications

Glen Landry, Michael Miller, Mark Johnson (Naval Research Laboratory), Vera Smolyaninova (Department of Physics, Astronomy and Geosciences)

16:06 L14.007 MEMS-Based Multi-Analyte Biosensor

I.H. Chan, L.L. Sohn (U. C. Berkeley)

16:18 L14.008 Manipulation of biological cells with a microelectromagnet matrix

Hakho Lee, Tom P. Hunt (Department of Physics, Harvard University), Robert M. Westervelt (Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Department of Physics, Harvard University)

16:30 L14.009 A Micropost Matrix for Dielectrophoresis

Tom Hunt, Hakho Lee (Harvard Physics), Robert Westervelt (Harvard Division of Engineering and Applied Science)

16:30 L14.010 Lateral manipulation of magnetic particles in a microfluidic platform of arrayed magnetic elements: the road to high throughput sorting and probing of biological molecules

Elizabeth Mirowski, John Moreland, Stephen Russek (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

14:30 L15.001 Geometry and Dynamics of Vortex Loops at Superfluid Phase Transitions

Gary A. Williams (UCLA)

14:42 L15.002 Full quantum Monte Carlo treatment of BEC in traps from the dilute to dense regimes

Jonathan L DuBois, Henry R. Glyde (University of Delaware)

14:54 L15.003 Superfluids confined in cubic geometry: Specific heat scaling function

Kwangsik Nho (Physics Department, Washington State University), Efstratios Manousakis (Physics Department, Florida State University, USA and University of Athens, Greece)

15:06 L15.004 Specific Heat of Confined ^3He-^4He Mixtures in Channels of Square Cross-Section

Kevin P. Mooney, Mark O. Kimball, Francis M. Gasparini (University at Buffalo, State University of New York)

15:18 L15.005 Using Confined ^4He to Determine the Correlation-Length Exponent

Mark O. Kimball, Francis M. Gasparini (University at Buffalo, The State University of New York)

15:30 L15.006 Fabrication of Nanoaperture Arrays for Observation of the Josephson Effect in Superfluid ^4He

J. A. Hoffmann (Departments of Physics, University of California, Berkeley and Cornell University), C. T. Black (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY), M. Wang, B. Hunt, J. C. Davis (LASSP, Department of Physics, Cornell University)

15:42 L15.007 Thermally-driven Josephson Effect

Konstantin Penanen, Talso Chui (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)

15:54 L15.008 Thermal Phase Noise in a Superfluid Gyroscope with Configuration Equivalent to an RF SQUID

Talso Chui, Konstantin Penanen (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)

16:06 L15.009 Fermion Superfluidity and Confining Interactions

Abdelhamid Galal (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

16:18 L15.010 New BEC theory of superconductivity and superfluidity

M. de Llano, M. Fortes (UNAM, Mexico, DF, Mexico), BEC-BCS Collaboration

16:30 L15.011 Superfluidity Mechanism of He II

J. X. Zheng-Johansson (IOFPR), P-I. Johansson (Uppsala University)

14:30 L16.001 Fermi-liquid state and proximity to a quantum critical point in NaxCoO2

S. Li, D.G. Hawthorn, M. Tanatar, J. Paglione, M. Sutherland, R.W. Hill, Louis Taillefer (University of Toronto), C.H. Wang , X.H. Chen (University of Science and Technology of China)

14:42 L16.002 On the observation of Fermi liquid like behavior in the Cobaltates

Peter Johnson, Tonica Valla, Boris Narozhny (Physics Dept., Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973), Qiang Li (Material Sciences Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA), S Loureiro, Robert Cava (Department of Chemistry and Princeton Materials Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540), M Mikami, Y Mori, M Yoshimura, T Sasaki (Department of Electrical Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamada-oka, Suita-shi, Osaka, 565-0871 Japan)

14:54 L16.003 Electronic structures of Na_xCoO_2 studied by ARPES

H. -B. Yang, S. -C. Wang, A.K.P. Sekharan, Z. Wang, H. Ding (Department of Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467), H. Matsui, S. Souma, T. Sato, T. Takahashi (Department of Physics, Tohoku University, 980-8578 Sendi, Japan), T. Takeuchi (Research center for advanced waste and emission management, Nagoya University, Japan), J.C. Campuzano (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607), R. Jin, B.C. Sales, D. Mandrus (Condensed Matter Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831)

15:06 L16.004 Doping effects on the electronic and structural properties of Na_xCoO_2: An LSDA+U study

Peihong Zhang, Weidong Luo, Marvin L. Cohen, Steven G. Louie (Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 and Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720)

15:18 L16.005 A Tight-Binding Investigation of Na_xCoO_2

M. D. Johannes, D. A. Papaconstantopoulos, D. J. Singh, M. J. Mehl (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C.)

15:30 L16.006 Electron excitations in Na_xCoO_2(*)

O. D. Restrepo, A. G. Eguiluz(1) ((University of Tennessee and ORNL (2))), K. W. Lee, J. Kunes, W. E. Pickett (3) ((University of California, Davis))

15:42 L16.007 Ab Initio Calculation of Charge Disproportionation in Na(x)CoO2

Kwan-Woo Lee, Jan Kunes, Warren Pickett (UC Davis)

15:54 L16.008 The Role of hybridization in NaxCoO2 and the Effect of Hydration

Chris Marianetti (MIT), Gabriel Kotliar (Rutgers University), Gerbrand Ceder (MIT)

16:06 L16.009 Electronic state of CoO_2 layer

Wataru Koshibae, Sadamichi Maekawa (Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku Unversity, Sendai 980-8577, Japan)

16:18 L16.010 Infrared probe of the electronic structure and charge dynamics in Na_xCoO_2

N. L. Wang, P. Zheng, D. Wu, Y. C. Ma (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. O. Box 603, Beijing 100080, P. R. China), R. Y. Jin, D. Mandrus (Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831)

16:30 L16.011 Numerical Study for the Sound Attenuation in Sr2RuO4

Pedro Contreras, Michael Walker (Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 1A7, Canada.), Kirill Samokhin (Physics Department , Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, L2S 3A1, Canada.)

16:42 L16.012 New insights for superconducting Sr2RuO4 from excess current

Matthias Eschrig (Institut fuer Theoretische Festkoerperphysik, University of Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany), Mikael Fogelstrom (Applied Quantum Physics, Chalmers, S-41296 Gotenborg, Sweden), Ralph Werner (Intitut fuer Theorie der Kondensierten Materie, University of Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany), Frank Laube, Gernot Goll (Physikalisches Institut, University of Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany)

16:54 L16.013 Critical Current of the Spin-Triplet Superconducting Phase in Sr_2RuO_4

Kazumi Maki (Department of Physics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089), Hae-Young Kee, Yong Baek Kim (Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada)

17:06 L16.014 Synthesis and Charactrization of Ruthenium-Based Superconductors

Fouzi Arammash (Benedict College, Columbia ,South Carolina), Galina K. Strukova, D.V. Shovkun (Institute of Solid State Physics, Moscow, Russia), Alexey Snezhko, Tanya Prozorov, Ruslan Prozorov (University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina)

14:30 L17.001 Electronic Properties of Selectively Doped C_60 Clusters

Andre Wachowiak, Mike Grobis, Ryan Yamachika, Xinghua Lu, Michael F. Crommie (Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720-7300 and Material Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720-7300)

14:42 L17.002 Analysis of current theoretical models for electronic conduction through the C-60 molecular transistor

Dario Martinez (University of Texas Austin), Anita Parmar, Christina Hägemann, David Dunlap (University of New Mexico)

14:54 L17.003 Theory of the Different Photoemission Spectra of Metallic and Insulating C60 Compounds

Samuel Wehrli, Manfred Sigrist, T. Maurice Rice (Theoretische Physik, ETH-Honggerberg, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland)

15:06 L17.004 Fullerene dimers for quantum computing

S. M. Lee, D. A. Britz, G. W. Morley, A. N. Khlobystov, K. Porfyrakis, D. Nguyen-Manh, A. Ardavan, D. G. Pettifor, G. A. D. Briggs (Department of Materials, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PH, UK)

15:18 L17.005 An Ab Initio Theoretical Study of Alkali-C60 and Alkali-(C60)n Clusters

A.S. Hira (Northern NM Community College), Billy Terrazas (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Erica Velarde, Janette Atkins (Northern NM Community College)

15:30 L17.006 Electronic Structure of Chain of Fullerene Shuttlecocks

Susumu Okada, Atsushi Osiyama (Institute of Physics, University of Tsukuba), Hideo Aoki, Ryotaro Arita (Department of Physics, University of Tokyo)

15:42 L17.007 Electron-Phonon Interactions in C_28-derived Molecular Solids

Nichols A. Romero, Jeongnim Kim, Richard M. Martin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

15:54 L17.008 SECONDARY ELECTRON EMISSION OF ANNEALED GRAPHITIC AMORPHOUS CARBON: THE ROLE OF EVOLVING BANDGAP*

Jody Corbridge, JR Dennison (Utah State University), Neal Nickles (Ball Aerospace and Technology Corporation)

16:06 L17.009 Birefringence and VIS/VUV optical absorption of graphite-like amorphous carbon

S. Zollner, R. Liu, R.B. Gregory, N.V. Edwards, K. Junker (Motorola), T.E. Tiwald (J.A. Woollam Co.)

16:18 L17.010 VIBRATIONAL DYNAMICS OF ANNEALED GRAPHITIC AMORPHOUS CARBON USING THE EMBEDDED RING APPROACH

Sterling Smith (Utah State University), JR Dennison, T.E. Doyle (USU), Mark Holtz (Texas Tech University), T. Dallas (TTU)

16:30 L17.011 Low temperature elastic properties of amorphous carbon films prepared by pulsed laser deposition

Xiao Liu, Thomas Metcalf, Douglas Photiadis (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, 20375), Paolo Mosaner, Antonio Miotello (INFM and Dipartimento di Fisica, Universit à di Trento, 38050 Povo (TN), Italy)

L17.012 Vibrational Study of the Jahn Teller Distortion of C60- in [As Ph4]2 Cl C60

V.C. Long, E.C. Schundler (Colby College), G.B. Adams, J.B. Page (Arizona State University), W. Bietsch, I. Bauer (University of Bayreuth)

14:30 L18.001 Large-scale spatial structures in dense granular flows

Bulbul Chakraborty (Martin Fisher School of Physics, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454)

15:06 L18.002 Local Correlations of Velocity and Force in a 2D Granular Flow

Emily Gardel, Sonia Dragulin, Nalini Easwar (Smith College, Northampton, MA.), Narayanan Menon (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA)

15:18 L18.003 Spatial and temporal correlations of Velocity and Force in a 2D Granular Flow

Nalini Easwar, Emily Gardel, Sonia Dragulin (Smith College, Northampton, MA.), Narayanan Menon (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA)

15:30 L18.004 Large Scale Dynamical Structures in Gravity Driven Granular Flow

Allison Ferguson, Bulbul Chakraborty (Martin Fisher School of Physics, Brandeis University)

15:42 L18.005 Velocity Profiles in Sheared Repulsive Fluids

Ning Xu, Corey O'Hern (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yale University)

15:54 L18.006 Measurements of Effective Temperature in a Raft of Plastic Spheres

Michael Twardos, Michael Dennin (University of California Irvine)

16:06 L18.007 The Evolution of Force Distributions in Granular Materials Approaching the Jamming Transition

Eric Corwin, Heinrich Jaeger, Sidney Nagel (The James Franck Institute and Department of Physics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637)

16:18 L18.008 Molecular Dynamics of Glass Transitions

David Reichman (Harvard University)

16:54 L18.009 Experiments in randomly agitated granular assemblies close to the jamming transition

Gabriel Caballero (LMDH, Paris 6, France and Faculty of Sciences, UNAM, Mexico.), Anke Lindner (LMDH, Paris 6, France.), Guillaume Ovarlez (LCPC-ENPC, Champs sur Marne, France.), Guillaume Reydellet, José Lanuza, Eric Clément (LMDH, Paris 6, France.), Granular Team

17:06 L18.010 Multiscaling at the jamming transition

Jeffery A. Drocco (Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame), Matthew B. Hastings, Cynthia J. Olson Reichhardt, Charles Reichhardt (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

17:18 L18.011 Observations of a new length scale when dense colloidal liquids are poked

Eric R. Weeks, Piotr Habdas, Rachel Courtland, David Schaar, Shanshan Wu (Physics Dept., Emory University, Atlanta GA)

14:30 L19.001 Experimental model of Earth's core

Woodrow Shew, Daniel Lathrop (University of Maryland)

14:42 L19.002 Fluctuations in turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection: The role of plumes

Detlef Lohse (University of Twente)

15:18 L19.003 Nusselt number measurements for turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Guenter Ahlers, Alexei Nikolaenko (Dept. of Physics and iQUEST, University of California, Santa Barbara)

15:30 L19.004 Local Heat Transport in Turbulent Rayleigh-Benard Convection

Penger Tong (Hong Kong University of Science amp; Technology, Hong Kong)

16:06 L19.005 Fluctuations of charge transport in turbulent electroconvection

Peichun Tsai, Zahir A. Daya, Stephen W. Morris (Department of Physics, University of Toronto)

16:18 L19.006 Scaling behavior of charge transport in turbulent electroconvection

Zahir A. Daya, Peichun Tsai, Stephen W. Morris (Department of Physics, University of Toronto)

14:30 L20.001 Metals Near Ferromagnetic Quantum Critical Points

David J. Singh (Naval Research Laboratory)

15:06 L20.002 Search for Hidden Quantum Critical Point in CeCo(In,Sn)_5

Eric D. Bauer, C. Capan, F. Ronning, N.O. Moreno, R. Movshovich, J.D. Thompson, J.L. Sarrao, M.F. Hundley, P.G. Pagliuso (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Los Alamos National Laboratory Team

15:18 L20.003 A Field-tuned Quantum Critical Point in CeCoIn_5

Filip Ronning, C. Capan, R. Movshovich, A. Bianchi, E.D. Bauer, J.L. Sarrao, A. Lacerda (Los Alamos National Lab)

15:30 L20.004 Uncomplete Kondo Screening at some heavy fermion Quantum Critical Points

Catherine Pepin (SPhT, CEA-Saclay, France)

15:42 L20.005 Non-fermi liquid behavior of itinerant antiferromagnets

I. Vekhter (Louisiana State University), A. V. Chubukov (University of Wisconsin)

15:54 L20.006 Deviation from the Fermi Liquid universality: The role of collective modes

G Suhas, D Maslov (Univ. of Florida), A Chubukov (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison), L Glazman (Univ. of Minnesota)

16:06 L20.007 Fermi liquid breakdown in the paramagnetic phase of MnSi

Nicolas Doiron-Leyraud, I.R. Walker (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK), L. Taillefer (Département de Physique, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke J1K 2R1, Canada), S.R. Julian, G.G. Lonzarich (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK)

16:18 L20.008 NMR Studies of an Itinerant Ferromagnet MnSi near the Critical Pressure

W. Yu, S. E. Brown (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095), J. D. Thompson, J. L. Sarrao (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545), M. E. Torelli, Z. Fisk (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32310)

16:30 L20.009 Ferromagnetic quantum critical fluctuations in Zr1-xNbxZn2 (x=0.05)

Dmitry Sokolov, M C Aronson (The University of Michigan), Jeffrey Lynn, Boualem Hammouda (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Zachary Fisk (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory), The University of Michigan Team, National Institute of Standards and Technology Collaboration, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory Collaboration

16:42 L20.010 Tuning to a Quantum Critical Point in Disordered UCu_5-xNi_x

G. R. Stewart, D. J. Mixson, J. S. Kim (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Florida), E.-W. Scheidt, W. Scherer (Fachbereich Physik, Univ. Augsburg)

16:54 L20.011 Nonlinear Transport Near a Quantum Phase Transition in Two Dimensions

Denis Dalidovich (National High Field Magnetic Laboratory, Florida State Univ. Tallahassee, Florida, 32310), Philip Phillips (Loomis Laboratory of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Il. 61801-3080)

17:06 L20.012 Non-Fermi liquid behavior of quantum liquid-crystal phases

Daniel Barci (University of the state of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil), Victoria Fernandez, Eduardo Fradkin, Michael Lawler (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).), Luis Oxman (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil.)

17:18 L20.013 Why Ni_3Al and Ni_3Ga are on opposite sides of a quantum critical point?

Igor I Mazin (Naval Research Laboratory), Aaron Aguayo (Naval Research Laboratory and George Mason University), David J Singh (Naval Research Laboratory)

14:30 L22.001 Dislocations and Dislocation Motion in Colloidal Crystals

Peter Schall, Itai Cohen, David Weitz, Frans Spaepen (Harvard University)

14:42 L22.002 Melting of Colloidal Crystals and Gels

John R. Savage, A. D. Dinsmore (Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst)

14:54 L22.003 DNA-linked micron-sized colloids: reversibility and melting temperature

Marie-Pierre Valignat (Princeton University, Department of Physics), Anthony Kim, John Crocker (University of Pennsylvania, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department), Paul Chaikin (Princeton University, Department of Physics)

15:06 L22.004 Measuring Pair Interactions and Kinetics of DNA Grafted Colloids

Paul Biancaniello (The University of Pennsylvania, Department of Physics and Astronomy), Anthony Kim, John Crocker (The University of Pennsylvania, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)

15:18 L22.005 Patterned Heterogeneous Nucleation of Hard Sphere Crystals

M.T. Sullivan, K. Zhao, A.D. Hollingsworth, W.B. Russel, P.M. Chaikin (Princeton University)

15:30 L22.006 Observation of a stick to slip transition in colloidal suspensions

Itai Cohen (Harvard University), Thomas Mason (UCLA), David Weitz (Harvard University)

L22.007 Breakdown of Dynamical Scaling for Dilute Polymer Solutions in 2D?

Emma Falck, Olli Punkkinen, Tapio Ala-Nissila (Laboratory of Physics, Helsinki University of Technology), Ilpo Vattulainen (Helsinki Institute of Physics and Laboratory of Physics, Helsinki University of Technology)

15:54 L22.008 A Direct Experimental Demonstration Of The Transient Fluctuation Theorem By Using A Colloidal Particle Held In An Optical Trap

David Carberry, James Reid, Genmiao Wang, Edith Sevick (Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200 AUSTRALIA), Debra Searles (School of Science, Griffith University, Brisbane QLD 4111 AUSTRALIA), Denis Evans (Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200 AUSTRALIA)

16:06 L22.009 Microrheology of dense colloidal suspensions

Alexander Meyer, Eric Furst (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware)

16:18 L22.010 Rheology of Aqueous Suspensions of Surfactant Stabilized Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes

L. A. Hough, M. F. Islam, A. G. Yodh (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania 209 S. 33rd Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6396)

16:30 L22.011 Stability of Flowing Non-Newtonian Liquids of Cylindrical Shape

Kazem V. Edmond (Physics Dept., Univ. of Massachusetts-Amherst), J. P. Rothstein (Mechanical amp; Industrial Engineering Dept., Univ. of Massachusetts-Amherst), M. Marquez (Los Alamos Natl Lab, Chem. Div., and Nanotechnology Lab, Kraft Foods Ramp;D), A. D. Dinsmore (Physics Dept., Univ. of Massachusetts-Amherst)

16:42 L22.012 Anomalous hydrodynamic interaction in a quasi-two-dimensional colloidal suspension

Bianxiao Cui (James Franck Institute, University of Chicago), Haim Diamant (School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University), Binhua Lin, Stuart Rice (James Franck Institute, University of Chicago)

16:54 L22.013 Electrokinetic Characterization of 'Tunable Colloidal Crystals'

Andrew Hollingsworth, William Russel (Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University), Paul Chaikin (Dept. of Physics, Princeton University), Mirjam Leunissen, Alfons van Blaaderen (Dept. of Physics, Utrecht University)

17:06 L22.014 Light Scattering Probes of Kinetic Stability of Double Emulsions

Hu Gang (Hong Kong Baptist University)

L22.015 Nonequilibrium phase separation and arrest in weakly attractive colloids

Jacinta Conrad, Suliana Manley, Hans Wyss, Laura Kaufman (Harvard University), Veronique Trappe (University of Fribourg), Dave Weitz (Harvard University)

14:30 L23.001 Spin Dynamics of Annealed Buried Ultra-Thin Magnetic Layers

Justin Shaw (University of Arizona), Sungkyun Park (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Charles Falco (University of Arizona)

14:42 L23.002 Spin Dynamics in Magnetic Vortex Structures

J.P. Park, P. Eames, P.A. Crowell (University of Minnesota)

14:54 L23.003 Spin dynamics in ferromagnetic single domain nanoparticles

Zhigang Liu, Xiaobin Zhu, Mark Freeman (University of Alberta, Canada), Jianyu Liang, Jimmy Xu (Brown University, USA)

15:06 L23.004 Magnetic Dissipation of Single Submicron Magnets Characterized by Cantilever Magnetometry

Tse Nga Ng, Neil E. Jenkins, John A. Marohn (Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-1301)

15:18 L23.005 Ultrafast magnetic relaxation in strongly interacting Fe nanocomposite materials

Kristen S. Buchanan, Mark R. Freeman, Alkiviathes Meldrum (Deparment of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2J1 Canada)

15:30 L23.006 Magnetization damping in thin Permalloy films enhanced by coupling to self-assembled magnetic nanoparticle array

Snorri Ingvarsson (IceTec-Icelandic Technological Institute), Shouheng Sun, Roger H. Koch (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)

15:42 L23.007 Barkhausen Avalanches in 2D Ferromagnetic Films

Sung-Chul Shin (Department of Physics and Center for Nanospinics of Spintronic Materials, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea)

16:18 L23.008 Switching of magnetization by non-linear resonance studied in single nanoparticles

Wolfgang Wernsdorfer (LLN-CNRS, Grenoble, France)

16:30 L23.009 Hysteresis of Finite Arrays of Magnetic Nano Dots

M. Amin Kayali, Wayne M. Saslow (Texas Aamp;M University)

16:42 L23.010 Classical Stern-Gerlach Profiles for Mn_5 and Mn_6 Clusters

T. MORISATO, N. O. JONES, S. N. KHANNA (Virginia Commonwealth University), T. BARUAH, M. R. PEDERSON (Naval Research Laboratory)

16:54 L23.011 Distinguishing magnetic moment amp; magnetic-ordering on the Slater-Pauling curve

Roy F. Willis, Nat. Janke-Gilman (Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University)

L23.012 Resetting the magnetization of assemblies of nanoparticles with Microwaves

Derek Walton (Dept. of Phys. amp; Astr., McMaster Un., Hamilton, Canada)

L23.013 Experimental Determination of the Collective Barrier for Magnetic Relaxation in Frozen Colloids of Ferromagnetic Nanoparticles (Ferrofluids)

Ruslan Prozorov, Tanya Prozorov, Alexey Snezhko (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy, University of South Carolina)

14:30 L24.001 Soft x-ray resonant diffraction study of magnetic and orbital correlations in a manganite near half-doping

Jessica Thomas, J. Hill, Y-J. Kim, S. Grenier (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Physics Department), P. Abbamonte (National Synchrotron Light Source), Y. Tomioka (AIST, Tsukuba, Japan), Y. Tokura (Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan), M. van Veenendaal (Northern Illinois University and Argonne National Laboratory)

14:42 L24.002 Electronic excitations in Manganites, a RIXS study.

Stephane Grenier (Rutgers University, on leave to Brookhaven Natl Lab.), John Hill (Brookhaven Natl Lab), Valery Kiryukhin (Rutgers University), Y-J Kim, K.J. Thomas (Brookahaven Natl Lab.), S.W. Cheong (Rutgers University), Y Tokura (JRCAT (Japan)), T. Gog, D. Casa (APS, Argonne Natl Lab.)

14:54 L24.003 Ultrafast quasiparticle dynamics in bilayered and perovskite manganites

H. J. Lee, R. D. Averitt, J. Demsar, D. J. Funk, A. J. Taylor (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545), N. H. Hur (Center for CMR Materials, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Korea), Y. Moritomo (Nagoya University, Japan)

15:06 L24.004 Ultrafast dynamics in the colossal magnetoresistance pyrochlore Tl2Mn2O7

Rohit Prasankumar, Antoinette Taylor, Richard Averitt (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Hidekazu Okamura (Kobe University), Hideto Imai, Yuichi Shimakawa, Yoshimi Kubo (NEC Corporation), NEC Corporation Team

15:18 L24.005 Anisotropic magneto-optical response of (La_0.4Pr_0.6)_1.2Sr_1.8Mn_2O_7:

J. Choi, J.D. Woodward, J.T. Haraldsen, J.L. Musfeldt (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), X. Wei (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University), M. Apostu, R. Suryanarayanan, A. Revcolevschi (Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Etat Solide, Universit\acute e Paris-Sud)

15:30 L24.006 Measuring magnetic dynamics in the manganites with Kerr spectroscopy

R.I. Miller, S.A. McGill, O.N. Torrens., J.M. Kikkawa (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104), A. Mamchik, I-Wei Chen (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104)

15:42 L24.007 Charge ordering, Zener polarons, and phase separation in the Pr_1-xCa_xMnO_3 manganites

Aziz Daoud-Aladine (Laboratory for Neutron Scattering, Paul Sherrer Institut, Villigen, CH-5232 Switzerland)

16:18 L24.008 Surface Magnetic and Electronic Properties of Layered Manganite Single Crystals

K.E. Gray, J.W. Freeland, E. Badica, J. Kavich, Hong Zheng, J.F. Mitchell (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne IL 60439)

16:30 L24.009 Spectral Weight Transfer and the Role of Photoexcitation in PCMO

S.A. McGill, R.I. Miller, O.N. Torrens, J.M. Kikkawa (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104), A. Mamchik, I-Wei Chen (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104)

16:42 L24.010 Electron-phonon effects in the intermediate state of the resonant Raman scattering in hexagonal manganites

D.B. Romero (Laboratory for Physical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park MD 20740), A.B. Souchkov, H.D. Drew (Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, University of Maryland, College Park MD 20742), S.W. Cheong (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway NJ 08854)

16:54 L24.011 e_g Orbital Occupancy and the Temperature Dependence of the [110] Magnetic Compton Profile of La_1.2Sr_1.8Mn_2O_7

B. Barbiellini (Northeastern U.), P. E. Mijnarends (Delft University of Technology and Northeastern U.), S. Kaprzyk (AGH (Poland) and Northeastern U.), A. Bansil (Northeastern U.), Yinwan Li (University of Illinois Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory), P. A. Montano (University of Illinois Chicago and USDOE), J. F. Mitchell (Argonne National Laboratory)

17:06 L24.012 Spectroscopic evidence of electron doping in La_0.7Ce_0.3MnO_3

J.-Y. Lin (Institute of Physics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan, ROC), W. J. Chang, J. Y. Juang (Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan, ROC), J. M. Chen (National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC), Hsinchu 300, Taiwan ROC)

17:18 L24.013 High Temperature Electronic Structure Changes and Polaronic Behavior In Colossal Magnetoresistive Manganites

Norman Mannella, Corwin Booth, Axel Rosenhahn, Charles Fadley (Materials science division, LBNL Berkeley CA), Yasahide Tomioka (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) - Tsukuba - Japan)

L24.014 Optically Induced Lattice Dynamics Probed with Ultrafast X-ray Diffraction

H. J. Lee, A. J. Taylor, R. D. Averitt, D. Lim, J. Workman, J. P. Roberts, Q. McCulloch, D. E. Hof, D. J. Funk (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545), N. Hur, S. W. Cheong (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854)

14:30 L25.001 Manipulating Coherent Excitations in a Spin Liquid

D. M. Silevitch, C. Ancona-Torres, T. F. Rosenbaum (James Franck Institute/University of Chicago), G. Aeppli (University College London)

14:42 L25.002 Decoherence Rates in Quantum Nanomagnets- the Coherence Window

P.C.E. Stamp (Univerity of British Columbia amp; Canadian Institute for Advanced Research), I.S. Tupitsyn (Kurchatov Institute, Moscow), PITP Collaboration

14:54 L25.003 Relaxation on the boundary between spin glass and ferromagnet

C. Ancona-Torres, T.F. Rosenbaum (James Franck Institute, University of Chicago), G. Aeppli (University College London)

15:06 L25.004 Magnetic phase diagram of LiHoF_4 : Beyond mean field theory

Prabuddha Chakraborty (Yale University, New Haven, CT), Patrik Henelius (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden), Steven Girvin (Yale University, New Haven, CT)

15:18 L25.005 Study of the Magnetic Properties of the LiHo_xY_1-xF_4 Dipolar System

Andreia Saguia (Department of Physics - University of Waterloo - Canada), Ying-Jer Kao (Department of Physics - University of Toronto - Canada), Michel Gingras (Department of Physics - University of Waterloo - Canada)

15:30 L25.006 Quantum Monte Carlo simulation of LiHoF

Patrik Henelius (Condensed matter theory, KTH, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden), Anders Sandvik (Dept. of Physics, Abo Akademi, Porthansgatan 3, FIN-20500, Abo, Finland), Prabuddha Chakraborty, Steven Girvin (Dept. of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511)

15:42 L25.007 Perturbative Semi-Classical Monte Carlo Study of the Diluted (LiHo_xY_1-xF_4; x=0.44) Ferromagnet in a Transverse Magnetic Field

Ali Tabei, Michel J. P. Gingras (Department of physics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1 Canada)

15:54 L25.008 Random Field Effects in the Transverse Field Ferroglass LiY_1-xHo_xF_4

Ying-Jer Kao (Department of Physics, University of Toronto), Michel J.P. Gingras (Department of Physics, University of Waterloo)

16:06 L25.009 Dipolar Glass Behavior of an Amorphous Insulating Film Containing Ferromagnetic Particles

Norberto Majlis (Dept. of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada), Martin J. Zuckermann (Dept. of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada)

16:18 L25.010 Topology of the ground state landscape of two-dimensional +/-J Edwards-Anderson spin glasses

Sanjib Sabhapandit, S.N. Coppersmith (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

16:30 L25.011 Field effects on the glassy dynamics of an 3D Ising spin glass

P. E. Jönsson, H. Takayama (ISSP, Univ. Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan), H. Aruga Katori, A. Ito (RIKEN, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan)

16:42 L25.012 Low temperature behavior of the two-dimensional Ising spin glass

L. W. Lee (University of California, Santa Cruz), H. G. Katzgraber (Theoretische Physik, ETH Zurich), A.P. Young (University of California, Santa Cruz)

16:54 L25.013 Full Aging in Spin Glasses

G.F. Rodriguez, G.G. Kenning (Univ. of California, Riverside), R. Orbach (Dept of Energy)

17:06 L25.014 Aging, rejuvenation, and memory effects in short-range Ising spin glass: Cu_0.5Co_0.5Cl_2-FeCl_3 GBIC

M. Suzuki, I. S. Suzuki (SUNY-Binghamton)

17:18 L25.015 Spin dynamics in CoCr_2O_4

Keisuke Tomiyasu (School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Japan)

14:30 L26.001 Electron-active Ultrahigh Field Cyclotron Resonance of Itinerant Holes in InMnAs/GaSb Heterostructures

D. S. King (Stanford University), J. Kono (Rice University), Y. H. Matsuda (Okayama University), S. Takeyama (University of Tokyo), A. Oiwa, H. Munekata (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Y. Sun, G. D. Sanders, C. J. Stanton (University of Florida)

14:42 L26.002 Growth and characterization of (In,Ga,Mn)As and (In,Al,Mn)As epilayers and heterostructures

O. Maksimov, B. L. Sheu, P. Schiffer, N. Samarth (Penn State University, University Park)

14:54 L26.003 Theory of Electron and Hole Active Cyclotron Resonance in Ferromagnetic p-doped InMnAs Heterostructures

Y. Sun, G. D. Sanders, F. V. Kyrychenko, C. J. Stanton (University of Florida), D. S. King (Stanford), J. Kono (Rice University), Y. H. Matsuda (Okayama University), S. Takeyama (University of Tokyo), A. Oiwa, H. Munekata (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

15:06 L26.004 On the Origin of Magnetism in Mn Doped Ge

T. A. Tyson, M. DeLeon (NJIT), W. Caliebe (NSLS-BNL), J. Bai (ORNL), T. Hanbicki, B. T. Jonker (NRL)

15:18 L26.005 Does Room Temperature Ferromagnetism Exist in MnxGe1-x Magnetic Semiconductor?

A.P. Li, J. Shen (Condensed Matter Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory), H.H. Weitering (Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, and Condensed Matter Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

15:30 L26.006 Structures and Properties of Novel Ge-based Magnetic Semiconductors and Heterojunctions

Liang He, Frank Tsui (Department of Physics and Astro., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Yong Chu (APS, Argonne National Lab.)

15:42 L26.007 Magnetization and the Hall Effect in Highly Oxygen Reduced Rutile Ti_1-xCo_xO_2-\delta

J. S. Higgins, S. R. Shinde, S. B. Ogale, T. Venkatesan, R. L. Greene (Center for Superconductivity Research, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, Maryland USA 20742)

15:54 L26.008 Magneto-transport and magneto-optical properties of ferromagnetic semiconductor rutile Ti[sub1-x]Co[subx]O[sub2-delta] epitaxial thin films

Hidemi Toyosaki, Yashuhiro Yamada, Tomoteru Fukumura, Masashi Kawasaki (IMR, tohoku univ.), IMR Team

16:06 L26.009 Are Magnetically Doped Transition-metal Oxides Spin-glasses?

A. Lussier, J. Dvorak, Y.U. Idzerda (Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59715), S.B. Ogale, S.R. Shinde, T. Venkatesan (University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742), S.E. Lofland (Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ 08028)

16:18 L26.010 Characterization of transition metal doped CVD-grown ZnO films

D. Hill, J. Quinn, R.A. Bartynski, L. Wielunski, P. Wu, Y. Lu, G. Popov, M. Greenblatt (Rutgers U.)

16:30 L26.011 IMPURITY DRIVEN FERRROMAGNETISM IN TRANSITION METAL SUBSTITUTED ZnO

S. Kolesnik, B. Dabrowski, J. Mais (Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL)

16:42 L26.012 Strong ferromagnetism in Zn_1-xMn_xO semiconducting thin films

Nikoleta Theodoropoulou, John Philip, Patrick LeClair, Geetha Berrera, Jagadeesh Moodera (Francis Bitter Magnet Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139), Biswarup Satpati (Institute of Physics, Sachivalaya Marg, Bhubaneswar 751 005, India)

16:54 L26.013 Electronic structure and ferromagnetism of Mn implanted n-type and p-type ZnO

Leon Petit, Thomas Schulthess (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Axel Svane (University of Aarhus), Walter Temmerman, Zdzislawa Szotek (Daresbury Laboratory)

17:06 L26.014 Half-metallic ferromagnetism in Cu doped ZnO?

Lin-Hui Ye, A.J. Freeman (Materials Research Center, Northwestern University)

17:18 L26.015 High Temperature Ferromagnetism in Mn doped Indium tin oxide films

John Philip, Nikoleta Theodoropoulou (Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory), Geetha Berera (Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering), Jagadeesh Moodera (Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory), Biswarup Satpati (Institute of Physics)

L26.016 Anomaly in Magneto-Transport Properties in MBE Grown Ce doped Si Epitaxial Films

Norifumi Fujimura (Osaka Prefecture University), Takeshi Yokota, Satoru Hamasaki, Yasuhito Yoshimizu

L26.017 Magnetic and Structural Studies of Fe0.7-xSi0.3Cox Alloys

Imaddin A. Al-Omari, A. Rais, A. Yousif (Department of Physics, P.O. Box 36, Sultan Qaboos University, PC 123, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman)

14:30 L27.001 Undergraduate instruction in nanoscience and nanotechnology

Ronald Cosby, Yong Joe (Center for Computational Nanoscience, Department of Physics amp; Astronomy, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306)

14:42 L27.002 Innovative approach to to training nanoscience at an undergraduate institution

Wilbur Walters, Tigran Shahbazyan, Frank Hagelberg (Jackson State University)

14:54 L27.003 The Next Big Thing, Only Smaller: Nanotechnology in Undergraduate Education

Robert W. Carpick, Wendy C. Crone (Engineering Physics Dept., University of Wisconsin - Madison)

15:06 L27.004 Bachelors of Photonics in Ontario, Canada

Marc Nantel (Photonics Research Ontario), Johann Beda (Physiciens sans Frontieres), Paul Jessop (McMaster University), Shaowen Song (Wilfrid Laurier University)

15:18 L27.005 Value of Emphasizing Problem Solving Strategy in an Introductory Physics Course

Tarlok S. Aurora (University of the Sciences in Philadelphia)

15:30 L27.006 Teaching Through Tolkien: The Astronomy of Middle-earth

Kristine Larsen (Central Connecticut State University)

15:42 L27.007 A Dunking Bird of the Second Kind

Nadine Abraham (Western Reserve Academy, Hudson, OH), Peter Palffy-Muhoray (Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242), Western Reserve Academy Collaboration, Liquid Crystal Institute Collaboration

15:54 L27.008 A SIMPLE GENERALIZATION OF THE LAPLACE TRANSFORM AND ITS APLICATION TO THE TAUTOCHRONE PROBLEM FOR AN ARBITRARY POTENTIAL.

Raul Gomez, Sandra Gomez, Ma. Luisa Marquina (Faculty of Science, UNAM)

14:30 L28.001 Constraints on temperature and composition of the Earth's core

Dario Alfe' (Univeristy College London)

15:06 L28.002 Spectroradiometry and resistive heating to 4000 K and high pressures with in situ X-ray and Raman study of solids

Surendra Saxena, Andrij Durygin, Hans-Peter Liermann (CeSMEC, Florida International University, Miami, Florida)

15:18 L28.003 Magnetic Circular Dichroism Measurements of Iron at High Pressure

Valentin Iota, Jae-Hyun Park, Choong-Shik Yoo (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore CA 94550), Jonathan Lang, Daniel Haskel, George Srajer (XOR - Advanced Photon Source, Argonne IL 60439)

15:30 L28.004 Volume Collapse Transitions in Transition Metals and Compounds at High Pressures

Choong-Shik Yoo, B. Maddox (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), M. Hu, P. Chow (HPCAT/APS), V. Iota, B. Baer, W. Evans, H. Cynn (LLNL), D. Hausermann (HPCAT/APS), HPCAT/APS Team

15:42 L28.005 Electrical and Structural Studies on Neodymium Metal to 150 GPa Using Designer Diamond Anvils

Nenad Velisavljevic, Joel Griffith, Yogesh Vohra (University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)), Samuel Weir (Lawence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL))

15:54 L28.006 Thermal Conductivity of Complex Materials at High Temperatures and Pressures

J. Michael Brown (Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington), Yousheng Xu (Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University), Michael D. Harrell (Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington), Thomas Shankland (Geophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

16:06 L28.007 Structure, equation of state, and elasticity of CaSiO_3 at lower mantle pressures

Razvan Caracas (Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Minnesota Supercomputer Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis), Bijaya Karki (Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge), Koichiro Umemoto, Renata Wentzcovitch (Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Minnesota Supercomputer Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis)

16:18 L28.008 First principles study of liquid MgSiO_3 at conditions of the Earth's deep mantle

Jones Tsz-Kai Wan (Princeton Materials Institute)

16:30 L28.009 First principles study of aluminous hydrous perovskite

Jun Tsuchiya, Renata Wentzcovitch (Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota)

16:42 L28.010 AA new dense silica polymorph: a possible link between tetrahedrally and octahedrally coordinated silica

Oliver Tschauner (HiPSEC, Department of Physics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas), Sheng-nian Luo (Lindhurst Laboratory of Experimental Geophysics, Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena amp; 4Plasma Physics (P-24) and Earth and Environmental Sciences (EES-11), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos), Paul Asimow (Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena), Thomas Ahrens (Lindhurst Laboratory of Experimental Geophysics, Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena)

16:54 L28.011 First-principles determination of element partitioning in multi-component systems

Tsuchiya Taku, Wentzcovitch Renata (Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Minnesota Supercomputer Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis)

17:06 L28.012 New insights into the relationship between quartz and various post quartz phases

Carlos Campana, Martin H. Müser (University of Western Ontario)

17:18 L28.013 Pressure induced amorphization of Tb2Ti2O7 pyrochlore

Ravhi Kumar, Yongrong Shen, Andrew Cornelius (Dep.Physics, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Nevada 89154 , USA), Jason Gardner (National Research Council, NPMR, Chalk River Laboratories, Ontario, Canada)

17:30 L28.014 Inelastic X-ray scattering for high pressure researches

Michael Y. Hu, Paul Chow, Yue Meng, Maddury Somayazulu, Daniel Häusermann, David H. Mao (HP-CAT, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC 20015)

17:42 L28.015 Technique of investigations of thermomagnetic Nernst-Ettingshausen and Maggi-Righi-Leduc effects in micro-samples at ultrahigh pressure

Sergey Ovsyannikov, Vladimir Shchennikov (High Pressure Group, Institute of Metal Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Urals Division, 18 S.Kovalevskaya Str, GSP-170, Yekaterinburg 620219, Russia), High Pressure Group Team

15:06 L29.001 Facile creation of super-hydrophobic coated surface with micro-nano-binary structures

Charles C. Han, Qiong Dan Xie, Jian Xu, Lin Feng, Lei Jiang, Wen-Hong Tang, Xiang-Dong Luo (Joint laboratories of Polymer Science amp; Materials, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS), Beijing 100080 (PR China))

15:18 L29.002 Construct of Excellent Liquid Repellent Surface Using Fluorinated Block Copolymers Synthesized by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization

Masaya Hikita (Japan Chemical Inovation Institute), Tetsuya Nakamura (NOF Corporation), Keiji Tanaka (Kyushu University), Atsushi Takahara, Tisato Kajiyama

15:30 L29.003 Micrometer-Scaled Gradient Surfaces Generated Using Contact Printing of Octadecyltrichlorosilane

Bi-min Zhang Newby (Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325-3906, USA), Sung-Hwan Choi

15:42 L29.004 Changes in mechanical properties and morphology of elastomer coatings after immersion in salt solutions

Fernando Terán Arce, Recep Avci (Physics Department, Montana State University), Iwona Beech (University of Portsmouth, UK), Keith Cooksey, Barbara Wigglesworth-Cooksey (Department of Microbiology, Montana State University)

15:54 L29.005 Solvent Evaporation from Thin Polymer Films Studied Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations

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

16:06 L29.006 Ultrathin Chitosan Films with Tailored Properties

Chris Murray, Oleg Stukalov, John Dutcher (Department of Physics, University of Guelph)

16:18 L29.007 Effect of Capping Layer Thickness and Molecular Weight on the Self-Assembled Morphology and Dewetting Pathway for Polymer Trilayer Films

Christian Schultz-Nielsen, Stephen Kamp, John Dutcher (Department of Physics, University of Guelph)

16:30 L29.008 Non-spherical dewetted droplets in ordered lamellar diblocks: spherical to conical transition through the ODT

Andrew B. Croll, Michael V. Massa, Kari Dalnoki-Veress (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy and the Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada), Mark W. Matsen (Department of Physics, University of Reading, Reading, UK)

16:42 L29.009 Some Views about the Controversial Dewetting Morphology of Polystyrene Films

Yong Jian Wang, Heping Zhao, Binyang Du, Ophelia K. C. Tsui (Department of Physics and Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

16:54 L29.010 Dewetting Kinetics of PVP Overlayers on Immiscible PS Melt Layers

Huiman Kang (School of Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-744, Korea), Seung-Heon Lee (Corporate Ramp;D, LG Chemical, Research Park, Daejeon, 305-380, Korea), Kookheon Char (School of Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-744, Korea), Edward Kramer (Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106)

17:06 L29.011 Measuring Viscosity by Observing the Dewetting Velocity

Chunhua Li, Sarika Sharma, Clive Li, Yuan Sun, Miriam Rafailovich, Jonathan Sokolov (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, SUNY Stony Brook), Shira Billet, Dora Sosnowik (Stella K Abraham High School)

17:18 L29.012 Cavitation in a soft adhesive

Arnaud Chiche, Josef Dollhofer, Costantino Creton (PCSM - ESPCI, Paris, France)

15:06 L30.001 Extrusion of Triblock and Pentablock Copolymers: Evolution of Microstructure and Extrudate Surface Characteristics

Alhad Phatak, Frank Bates (Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota)

15:18 L30.002 Rheology and large-scale structure of block polyelectrolyte micelles: analogies to attractive colloids

Mark Crichton (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst), Ahmed Mourchid (CNRS/Rhodia Complex Fluids Laboratory), Surita Bhatia (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst)

15:30 L30.003 Computation of Mechanical Properties of a Poly-(Styrene-Butadiene-Styrene) Copolymer using a Mixed Finite Element Approach

Stephan A. Baeurle, Glenn H. Fredrickson (Departments of Chemical Engineering amp; Materials, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA), Andrei A. Gusev (Department of Materials, Institute of Polymers, ETH-Zentrum, CH-8092 Zuerich, Switzerland)

15:42 L30.004 Influence of Molecular Architecture on Tensile Properties of Multigraft Copolymers

Roland Weidisch, Ralf Lach (Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden, Germany), Yuging Zhu, Engin Burgaz, Samuel Gido (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), David Uhrig, Jimmy Mays (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Nikos Hadjichristidis (University of Athen, Greece), Hadjichristidis Collaboration

15:54 L30.005 Enhancement of Tensile Strength in Block Copolymers Using Solution Extrusion

Lisa S. Lim, Tamotsu Harada, Frank S. Bates (Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. University of Minnesota. Minneapolis, MN 55455), Marc A. Hillmyer (Department of Chemistry. University of Minnesota. Minneapolis, MN 55455)

16:06 L30.006 Linear viscoelasticity of a polystyrene-polyisoprene bicontinuous microemulsion

Kristin Brinker, Wesley Burghardt (Northwestern University)

16:18 L30.007 Domain Scaling Laws in Crystalline-Amorphous Diblock Copolymers.

Li-Bong W. Lee, Richard A. Register (Princeton University)

16:30 L30.008 destructive interference between molecular and form birefringence in a semicrystalline block copolymer

Cheolmin Park, Jiyoung Hwang (department of materials science and engineering, yonsei university, seoul, korea), Bumsuk Jung, Yong soo Kang (Korea institute of science and technology, P.O. Box 131, Cheongryang, Seoul 130-650, Korea), Edwin L. Thomas (department of materials science and engineering, Massachusetts Institute of technology, cambridge, MA 02139), nanopolymer laboratory Team, polymer physics laboratory Collaboration

16:42 L30.009 Deformation and fracture of semicrystalline-glassy block copolymers: Effect of microdomain orientation for cylindrical morphology

V. Khanna, J. Ruokolainen, G. H. Fredrickson, E. J. Kramer (Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara), S. F. Hahn (Dow Chemical)

16:54 L30.010 Synthesis, and Micro-Phase Separation of Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane Block Copolymers

Narupol Intasanta (Affiliation), Thomas P. Russell, E. Bryan Coughlin (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)

17:06 L30.011 Block and Graft Copolymers of Polyhydroxyalkanoates

Robert H. Marchessault, François Ravenelle, Jumpei Kawada (Chemistry Department, McGill University)

17:18 L30.012 Reversible gel formation of triblock copolymers studied by molecular dynamics simulation

Lei Guo, Erik Luijten (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801)

15:06 L31.001 Polymer-mediated interaction between nano-fillers immersed into the solution of immiscible polymers

Alexander Chervanyov (Dept. of Chemistry, University of Virginia)

15:18 L31.002 Fabrication of Mn_12-acetate Molecular Magnet Thin Films by the Dip-and-Dry Method

D.M. Seo, M. Viswanathan, W. Teizer (Department of Physics, Texas Aamp;M University, College Station, TX 77843-4242), H. Zhao, K.R. Dunbar (Department of Chemistry, Texas Aamp;M University, College Station, TX 77842-3012)

15:30 L31.003 Electrostatics in Non-Polar Colloidal Suspensions Mediated by Surfactants

Ming F. Hsu, Eric R. Dufresne, David A. Weitz (Harvard University)

15:42 L31.004 Scaling in Highly Stable Worm-like micelles of block copolymers

Dennis Discher, Paul Dalhaimer (Univ.Pennsylvania), F.S. Bates (Univ.Minnesota)

15:54 L31.005 Conformations of a semi-flexible diblock copolymer in a poor solvent solution

Ernesto Hernandez-Zapata, Ira R Cooke, David RM Williams (Australian National University)

16:06 L31.006 Linear response of a grafted semiflexible polymer to a uniform field

Panayotis Benetatos (Theoretical Physics Division, Hahn-Meitner Institute, Berlin, Germany (1)), Erwin Frey ((1) and Fachbereich Physik, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany)

16:18 L31.007 Solvent Effects on the Association of Rigid-Rod Poly(p-phenyleneethynylene)s into Fragile Phases.

Yunfei Jiang, Dvora Perahia (Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29634), Uwe H. F. Bunz (School of Chemistry and Biochemistry Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332)

16:30 L31.008 Thermally processed keratin films

Justin Barone, Walter Schmidt (USDA/ARS/ANRI/EQL)

16:42 L31.009 STRUCTURAL POLYMORPHISM IN ALPHA-ACTININ / F-ACTIN BUNDLES

Tommy E. Angelini (Physics, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana), Rob Coridan (Physics, Univeristy of Illinois Champaign-Urbana), Lori Sanders (Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana), Gerard C.L. Wong (Materials Science and Engineering, Physics, Bioengineering, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana)

16:54 L31.010 Molecular conformational changes in articular cartilage using NMR spectroscopy

Justin Barone, Walter Schmidt (USDA/ARS/ANRI/EQL)

17:06 L31.011 Interactions between cells and ionized dendritic biomaterials: Flow cytometry and fluorescence spectroscopic studies

R. M. Kannan, Parag Kolhe, Jayant Khandare (Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, and Biomedical Engineering, Wayne State University), Sujatha Kannan, Mary Lieh-Lai (Pediatric Critical Care, Children's Hospital of Michigan)

17:18 L31.012 Semiconducting polypyrrole-polyacrylamide microparticles with entrapped Glucose Oxidase for application in biosensors

Enrique Lopez-Cabarcos (Dpt. Pharmaceutical Physical-Chemistry , UCM, 28040 Madrid, Spain), Jorge Rubio-Retama (Dpt. Pharmaceutical Physical-Chemistry, UCM, 28040 Madrid, Spain), David Mecerreyes (CIDETEC, Paseo Mikeletegui 61, 20009 San Sebastian, Spain), Antonio Fernandez-Barbero (Dpt. Applied Physics, University Almería, 04120 Almería, Spain), Beatriz Lopez-Ruiz (Dpt. Analytical Chemistry, UCM, 28040 Madrid, Spain)

17:30 L31.013 Silk-I is a Hydrate

Sungkyun Sohn, Helmut H. Strey, Samuel P. Gido (Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 01003, USA)

14:30 L32.001 Nanometer scale structures generated by combined chemical and radiative exposure of solid surfaces

Khin Kjelgaard, S. C. Langford, J. T. Dickinson (Washington State University)

14:42 L32.002 Composition Driven Roughening Transition in LaSrMnO3 films

Maitri Warusawithana, Seongshik Oh, Xiaofang Zhai, Navot Israeli, Nigel Goldenfeld, James Eckstein (Department of Physics and MRL, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL)

14:54 L32.003 Formation of Regular Nano-Porous Structures During Anodization of Aluminum

Gogi Singh (Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University), Igor Aronson (Argonne National Laboratory), Alexander Golovin (Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University)

15:06 L32.004 Observation and Spectrum of Mesoscopic Buckling Modes

Stephen Carr, Walter Lawrence, Martin Wybourne (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College)

15:18 L32.005 Multimode Ginzburg-Landau Model of a Mesoscopic Euler Strut

Walter Lawrence, Stephen Carr, Martin Wybourne (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College)

15:30 L32.006 Confinement of molecular assemblies in atomically well-defined nanostructures on an insulating surface

Roland Bennewitz (Department of Physics, McGill University), Laurent Nony, Enrico Gnecco, Oliver Pfeiffer, Adrian Wetzel, Sabine Maier, Ernst Meyer (Insitute of Physics, University of Basel)

15:42 L32.007 Diffusion-limited relaxation kinetics of nano-scale rough-surface morphology

Peter Piercy (Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5)

15:54 L32.008 Effect of compositional inhomgenities on decay of nanostructures

Ramanarayan Hariharaputran, Vivek Shenoy (Division of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI-02912, USA)

16:06 L32.009 Morphology and Coarsening Dynamics of Faceted Crystal Surfaces

Watson Stephen J. (Northwestern University)

16:18 L32.010 True Upward Adatom Diffusion and Faceting in fcc metal (110) homoepitaxy

Francesco Buatier de Mongeot (INFM & Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 33, I-16146 Genova (Italy))

16:30 L32.011 Oxygen induced nano-faceting of Ir(210)

Ivan Ermanoski, Wenhua Chen, Theodore Madey (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey)

16:42 L32.012 Pyramidal Nanostructures in the Epitaxial Growth on (001) Crystal Surfaces: Far-from-equilibrium Transitions, Intermediary States, and Vertical Asymmetry

Leonardo Golubovic, Artem Levandovsky (Physics Department, West Virginia University)

14:30 L33.001 Atomically Uniform Thin Films on Silicon

Mary Upton, Thomas Miller, Tai-Chang Chiang (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

14:42 L33.002 Continuous Doping of a Metallic Surface State in 2D.

J. N. Crain, J. L. McChesney, F. J. Himpsel (University of Wisconsin-Madison), M. C. Gallagher (Lakehead University, CANADA)

14:54 L33.003 Electron Confinement and Interfactant (Ag) Effects in Pb Films on Si

Dominic Ricci, Thomas Miller, Tai-Chang Chiang (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801-3080; Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 104 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801-2902)

15:06 L33.004 Atomic Scale Characterization of the Pt/TiO_2 Interface

Hakim Iddir, Serdar Ogut (University of Illinois at Chicago), Mark M. Disko (Exxon-Mobil Research and Engineering Company), Nigel Browning (University of California Davis and LBNL Berkeley)

15:18 L33.005 A method for calculating surface electronic structures using semi-infinite boundary conditions.

Yonas Abraham, N. A. W. Holzwarth (Wake Forest University)

15:30 L33.006 In-Plane Dispersion of Quantum-Well States in Thin Metal Films

C. M. Wei (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan), M. Y. Chou (School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

15:42 L33.007 The effect of electric field on inhomogeneous broadening of excitons in narrow quantum wells

Ilya Ponomarev, Lev Deych, Alexander Lisyansky (Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, NY 11367)

15:54 L33.008 Experimental and theoretical surface core level shifts of Al(100) and Al(111)

Jesper Andersen, Mikael Borg, Maria Wiklund (Department of Synchrotron Radiation Research, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden), Ralf Nyholm (MAX-lab, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden), Carl-Olof Almbladh (Solid State Theory, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden), Andersn Mikkelsen (Department of Synchrotron Radiation Research, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden), Martin Birgersson (Solid State Theory, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden)

16:06 L33.009 Coincidence Measurement of Auger Cascade Processes in Manganese Oxide

S. Rajalakshmi, A. H. Weiss (The University of Texas at Arlington), S. L. Hulbert (NSLS Brookhaven National Lab), R. A. Bartynski (Rutgers University)

16:18 L33.010 Theoretical determination of electronic states at metal vicinal surfaces

Abdelkader Kara, Sergey Stolbov, Talat S. Rahman (Physics Department, Kansas State University), Felix Baumberger, Thomas Greber (Physik Institut der Universitaet Zuerich)

16:30 L33.011 Positron Trapping at Quantum-Dot Like Particles on Metal Surfaces

N. G. Fazleev, J. L. Fry, A. H. Weiss (Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas 76019)

16:42 L33.012 Image states and excitons at insulator surfaces with negative electron affinity

JOHANNES POLLMANN^1, 2 ROHLFING^1, NENG-PING WANG^1, PETER KRÜGER^1 (^1 Universität Münster, D-48149 Münster, Germany, ^2 International University of Bremen, D-28725 Bremen, Germany)

16:54 L33.013 Surface plasmon dispersion relation in Ag crystals: comparison of theoretical models.

Catalina Lopez-Bastidas (CCMC UNAM, Ensenada B.C.,Mexico)

17:06 L33.014 Hydrogen Abstraction from Individual Thiophenol Molecules Adsorbed on Cu(111)

Bommisetty Rao, Ki-Young Kwon, Anwei Liu, Jin-Tao Zhang, Ludwig Bartels (University of California at Riverside)

14:30 L34.001 Nanoparticle Optics: From Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering, to Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Spectroscopy, to Single Nanoparticle Sensors

Richard P. Van Duyne (Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University)

15:06 L34.002 Tip-Enhanced SERS from Ordered Ag Nanocluster Arrays

Steven Buratto, Jason Schmidt, Sarah Cross (University of California, Santa Barbara)

15:18 L34.003 Optical properties of metallic nanorods for single-molecule spectroscopy

Garnett W. Bryant, Javier Aizpurua, Lee Richter (NIST, Gaithersburg, MD 20899 USA), Brian K. Kelley, Tom Mallouk (Dept. of Chemistry, 152 Davey Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, PA 16802 USA)

15:30 L34.004 Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy on tunable plasmonic substrates

Joseph Jackson (Rice University)

16:06 L34.005 Single Molecule Detection Using Carbon Nanotubes

Yuval Yaish, Lisa Larrimore, Xinjian Zhou (Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics), Sonny S. Mark, Carl A. Batt (Food and Science), Paul L. McEuen (Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics)

16:18 L34.006 Individual single-walled carbon nanotubes as electrochemical probes

S. G. Lemay, H. A. Heering, I. Heller, J. Kong, K. A. Williams, C. Dekker (Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands)

16:30 L34.007 Nanoparticle Nanosensors for Intracellular Measurements of Metabolites and Metabolic Indicators

Chad Talley (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

17:06 L34.008 Fabrication of Nanowire Arrays for Molecular Electronics and Chemical Sensing

Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin, R. Beckman, N. Melosh, Y. Luo, J.E. Green, A. Boukai, J.R. Heath (Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125)

17:18 L34.009 Single-Molecule Spectroscopic Investigations of Amphipathic Helix Formation

Joy Ann Cunningham, Kenji Okamoto, Douglas English (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland-College Park)

14:30 L35.001 X-Ray Spectroscopy of the Liquid Water Surface

Richard Saykally (Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1460, U.S.A.)

15:06 L35.002 Structured Liquids: Custom-Built to Explore Transport at Liquid Interfaces

James P. Cowin, Martin J. Iedema (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland WA)

15:18 L35.003 Structured Liquids: Hydronium Ion Motion Toward/Away from the Oil-Water Interface

James P. Cowin, Hanfu Wang (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland WA), Richard C. Bell (Pennsylvania State University, Altoona), Martin J. Iedema (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland WA)

15:30 L35.004 Using Salts to Explore and Control Gas-Liquid Interfacial Reactivity

Annabel Muenter, Jennifer DeZwaan, Gilbert Nathanson (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

15:42 L35.005 Spreading Dynamics of Binary Polymer Nanodroplets

David R. Heine (Sandia National Laboratories), Gary S. Grest, Edmund B. Webb III

15:54 L35.006 Break

16:06 L35.007 Molecular Dynamics Studies of Structure and Reactivity at the Interfaces of Aqueous Ionic Solutions

Douglas Tobias (University of California, Irvine)

16:42 L35.008 Air-Liquid Interfaces: I. Alcohols and Aromatic Hydrocarbons

Heather Allen, Lisa Van Loon, Elizabeth Hommel (The Ohio State University)

16:54 L35.009 Air-Liquid Interfaces: II. Water Structure and Salts

Heather Allen, Sandhya Gopalakrishnan, Gang Ma, Dingfang Liu, Lori Levering (The Ohio State University)

17:06 L35.010 Behavior of the line tension of a model three-phase fluid system approaching a wetting transition

Caroline Taylor, Benjamin Widom (Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University)

17:18 L35.011 Deriving Effective Equations of Motion for Spontaneous and Driven Liquid Interfaces

Sami Majaniemi (Laboratory of Physics, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland), Teemu Laurila, Chaohui Tong, Tapio Ala-Nissila (Laboratory of Physics, Helsinki University of Technology)

14:30 L36.001 Local Manipulation of Nuclear Spin in a Semiconductor Quantum Well

Martino Poggio (Center for Spintronics and Quantum Computation, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106)

15:06 L36.002 Development of Atomic Scale Phosphorus-in-Silicon Devices for Quantum Computing

Alex Hamilton (Univ. of New South Wales, Australia)

15:42 L36.003 Exponentially Localized Magnetic Fields for Single-Spin Quantum Logic Gates

Daniel Lidar, Joseph Thywissen (University of Toronto)

15:54 L36.004 One-spin quantum logic gates from the exchange interaction and a global magnetic field

Lian-Ao Wu, Daniel Lidar (University of Toronto), Mark Friesen (University of Wisconsin)

16:06 L36.005 Progress on the realization of qubits using electrons on liquid helium

Subrahmanyam Pilla, Brian Naberhuis, Aleksandr Syshchenko, Xinchang Zhang, John Goodkind (University of California, San Diego)

16:18 L36.006 Nuclear spin qubits in a pseudospin quantum chain

Eduardo Novais, Antonio H. Castro Neto (Boston University)

16:30 L36.007 Decoherence rate of semiconductor charge qubit coupled to acoustic phonon reservoir

Arkady Fedorov, Leonid Fedichkin, Vladimir Privman (Center for Quantum Device Technology, Clarkson University)

16:42 L36.008 Theory of Non-Ergodic Behavior and Transport in Solid-State NMR Quantum Information Processors

Daniel Greenbaum, Markus Kindermann (Department of Physics, MIT), Chandrasekhar Ramanathan (Department of Nuclear Engineering, MIT), Leonid Levitov (Department of Physics, MIT), David Cory (Department of Nuclear Engineering, MIT)

16:54 L36.009 Effect of electron-nuclear spin interactions on electron-spin qubits localized in self-assembled quantum dots

Seungwon Lee, Paul von Allmen, Fabiano Oyafuso, Gerhard Klimeck (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology), K Birgitta Whaley (Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley)

17:06 L36.010 Effect of nuclear spin dynamics on quantum computing operations in spin based qubits

Paul von Allmen, Seungwon Lee, Fabiano Oyafuso, Gerhard Klimeck (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)

14:30 L37.001 Single- and multi-grain molecular nanojunctions.

Nikolai Zhitenev (Bell Labs., Lucent Technologies)

15:06 L37.002 Inelastic transport in molecular systems

Rafael Rey-Gonzalez (Universidad Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia), Sergio E. Ulloa (Ohio University, Athens OH, USA)

15:18 L37.003 Intermolecular Transport in Molecular Electronics Devices

Rui Liu, San-Huang Ke, H. Baranger, Weitao Yang (Duke University)

15:30 L37.004 Detection of Topological Transitions by Transport through Molecules and Nanodevices

A. A. Aligia, K. Hallberg (Instituto Balseiro, Bariloche), A. P. Kampf (Uni. Augsburg), B. Normand (Uni. Fribourg)

15:42 L37.005 First principles Investigations of the Conductance of Stretched Molecules

Gil Speyer, Richard Akis, David K. Ferry (Department of Electrical Engineering and Center for Solid State Electronics Research, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ 85287), Jun Li, Otto F. Sankey (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ 85287-1504)

15:54 L37.006 Electron transport through a molecular film with point defects

Brian LARADE, Alexander BRATKOVSKY (Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA 94304)

16:06 L37.007 Environmental, charging, and contact effects on charge transport through a model DNA

Zhu Yu, Chao-Cheng Kaun, Guo Hong (Center for the Physics of Materials and Department of Physics, McGill University)

16:18 L37.008 Conduction through a molecular species modified by large side chains

A. de Picciotto (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies and Columbia University), R.L. Willett, A. Erbe (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies), J. Klare, C. Nuckolls (Columbia University)

16:30 L37.009 Effect of packing and order on the transport properties of SAMs

Geetha Dholakia, James Williams, Wendy Fan (ELORET, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA), M Meyyappan (NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA)

16:42 L37.010 Molecular Conductance: Effects of Contact Atomic Structure and Anchoring Group

S.-H. Ke, H. U. Baranger, Weitao Yang (Duke University)

16:54 L37.011 The Kondo effect in C60 single-molecule transistor

Lam Yu, Douglas Natelson (Rice University Department of Physics and Astronomy)

17:06 L37.012 Charge transport through pentacene monolayers

Suyong Jung, Zhen Yao (Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712)

14:30 L38.001 Total Energies from the GW Approximation

Kris Delaney (Department of Physics, University of York, UK), Patrick Rinke (Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG, Berlin), P García-González (Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid), Tim Gould, Rex Godby (Department of Physics, University of York, UK)

14:42 L38.002 Self-Consistent, All-Electron GW Method

Mark van Schilfgaarde (Arizona State University), Sergey Faleev (Sandia National Labs), Takao Kotani (Osaka University)

14:54 L38.003 Density functional theory description of hole-trapping in quartz: a successful self interaction corrected approach

M. d'Avezac, M. Calandra, F. Mauri (Laboratoire de Minéralogie-Cristallographie, case 115, 4 place Jussieu, 75252, Paris cedex 05, France)

15:06 L38.004 Self-Consistent Self-Interaction Corrected DFT: The Method and Applications to Extended and Confined Systems

Eric Bylaska (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Kiril Tsemekhman (University of Washington), Hannes Jonsson (University of Iceland)

15:18 L38.005 Weighted Density Approximation Description of YH3, LaH3 and CaB6

Zhigang Wu (Carnegie Institution of Washington), D. J. Singh (Naval Research Lab), R. E. Cohen (Carnegie Institution of Washington)

15:30 L38.006 Environment Density Functional Theory: implicit ab initio approach to physics of solution

Sahak Petrosyan (Department of Physics, Cornell University), Angeliki Rigos (Department of Chemistry, Merrimack College), Tomas Arias (Department of Physics, Cornell University)

15:42 L38.007 TDDFT calculations of x-ray absorption spectra in tungsten

A. L. Ankudinov, J. J. Rehr (U. of WASHINGTON)

15:54 L38.008 TDDFT-MD Study on Dynamics in Photoinduced Ring Opening of Benzene

YOSHITAKA TATEYAMA (National Institute for Materials Science, Japan), YOSHIYUKI MIYAMOTO (NEC Fundamental Res. Labs, Japan), NORIHISA OYAMA (National Institute for Materials Science, Japan), TAKAHISA OHNO (National Institute for Materials Science, Japan and Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Japan)

16:06 L38.009 Time-dependent density functional study on the photoisomerization mechanism of azobenzene

NORIHISA OYAMA, YOSHITAKA TATEYAMA (National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan), YOSHIYUKI MIYAMOTO (NEC Fundamental Res. Labs, Japan), TAKAHISA OHNO (National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan, and Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Japan)

16:18 L38.010 Local perturbative approach to electronic structure in correlated f-electron systems: applications to Pu

L. V. Pourovskii (University of Nijmegen, NL 6525ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands), M. I. Katsnelson (Department of Physics, Uppsala University, Box 530, 751 21 Uppsala, Sweden), A. I. Lichtenstein (University of Nijmegen, NL 6525ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

16:30 L38.011 Role of Coulomb Correlations in the Metal Insulator Transition of VO_2

Ansgar Liebsch (Research Center Juelich, Germany), Hiroshi Ishida (Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan)

16:42 L38.012 Non-local Coulomb interactions and metal-insulator transition in lighter transition metal oxides: a cluster LDA+DMFT approach.

A. Poteryaev (University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands), S. Biermann (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France), A. Lichtenstein (University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands), A. Georges (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France), G. Kotliar (Serin Physics Laboratory, Rutgers University, USA)

16:54 L38.013 Calculation of coherent phonon frequency and amplitude in photo-excited bismuth

Eamonn D. Murray, Stephen Fahy (NMRC and Department of Physics, University College Cork, Ireland)

14:30 L39.001 Measurements of Hydrogen Storage

Gregory P. Meisner (General Motors Ramp;D, Warren, MI 48090)

15:06 L39.002 First-Principles Studies of Hydrogen in Metals

M. Y. Chou (School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology)

15:42 L39.003 A Highly Accurate Method for Measuring Hydrogen Storage Capacities

Katherine Gilbert (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Colorado School of Mines), P. A. Parilla, A. C. Dillon (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), T. Gennett (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Rochester Institute of Technology), J. L. Alleman, M. J. Heben (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)

15:54 L39.004 First-Principles Study of Hydrogen in Aluminum (and Other Metals)

Christopher Wolverton (Ford Motor Company), Vidvuds Ozolins (Univ. of California, Los Angeles), Mark Asta (Northwestern University)

16:06 L39.005 A Kinetic Model of Hydrogen Absorption and Desorption for Ti-Doped NaAlH4

Weifang Luo, Karl Gross (Sandia National Laboratories), Sandia National Laboratories Team

16:18 L39.006 Density Functional Theory Study of NHxBHx and NHxAlHx (x=4-1) as Candidate Materials for Hydrogen Storage

Maciej Gutowski, Tom Autrey (Chemical Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352)

16:30 L39.007 Density Functional Studies of NaAlH_4, NaH and AlH_3

Aaron Aguayo, David J. Singh (Naval Research Laboratory)

16:42 L39.008 Repeatable Hydrogen Storage using Nano-structured Graphite Materials

Hisashi Kajiura (Sony Corporation and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Koji Kadono, Shigemitsu Tsutsui, Yousuke Murakami (Sony Corporation)

16:54 L39.009 Nanoporous carbide-derived carbons with tunable pore size

John Fischer, Wei Zhou (University of Pennsylvania), Yury Gogotsi, Alexei Nikitin, Haihui Ye, Michel Barsoum (Drexel University), Bo Yi, Henry Foley (Penn State University)

L39.010 Metastable Nanocrystalline Metallic Hydrogen

W.J. Nellis (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)