Program overview

WEDNESDAY MIDDAY, 24 MARCH 2004

Session P1. DCMP: Elect. Doped Superconduct. and Unconvent. Density Waves.

Wednesday midday, 11:15, 517A, Palais des Congres

11:15 P1.001 The Doping Dependence of the Ground State in the Electron-doped Cuprates
Richard L. Greene (Center for Superconductivity Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742)
11:51 P1.002 Single Particle Spectrum in the Electron Doped Cuprates
Hiroaki Kusunose (Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan)
12:27 P1.003 Pseudogap and related charge dynamics in Nd_2-xCe_xCuO_4
Yoshinori Onose (Spin Superstructure Project, ERATO, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Japan)
13:03 P1.004 Nernst effect, quasiparticles, and d-density waves in cuprates
Vadim Oganesyan (Princeton University)
13:39 P1.005 Orbital currents in a generalized Hubbard ladder
John O. Fjaerestad (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles)

Session P2. DCMP: Spintronics.

Wednesday midday, 11:15, 517B, Palais des Congres

11:15 P2.001 Universal intrinsic spin-Hall effect
Jairo Sinova (Texas Aamp;M University)
11:51 P2.002 Molecular Spintronics: Wiring Spin Coherence between Semiconductor Quantum Dots
Min Ouyang (Department of Physics and Center for Spintronics and Quantum Computation, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106)
12:27 P2.003 Quantum Interference Control of Ballistic Pure Spin Currents in Semiconductors.*
Henry van Driel (Department of Physics, University of Toronto)
13:03 P2.004 Theory of Anomalous Transport
Allan MacDonald (University of Texas at Austin)
13:39 P2.005 SPINTRONIC NANOSTRUCTURES
Laurens Molenkamp (Physikalisches Institut (EP3), Universitaet Wuerzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Wuerzburg, Germany)

Session P3. DCMP/GSNP: Packing and Flow in Granular Systems.

Wednesday midday, 11:15, 518AC, Palais des Congres

11:15 P3.001 Slow dynamics and aging of a confined granular flow
Eric Clement (University of Paris VI)
11:51 P3.002 Jamming and the properties of amorphous packings at zero temperature
Leo Silbert (UCLA and University of Chicago)
12:27 P3.003 Internal Structure of Sheared Granular Flows
Jerry Gollub (Haverford College and University of Pennsylvania)
13:03 P3.004 Granular Packing and Hopper Flow
James Landry (Sandia National Laboratories)
13:39 P3.005 Hydrodynamics of Close-Packed Levitating Granular Clusters
Baruch Meerson (Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904 Israel)

Session P4. DPOLY: Thermodynamics.

Wednesday midday, 11:15, 517C, Palais des Congres

11:15 P4.001 Electric field induced phase separation.
Ludwik Leibler (Laboratoire Matière Molle et Chimie, ESPCI, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France)
11:51 P4.002 Hydrogen Bonding in Aqueous Solutions of PEO: Theoretical Insights
Elena E. Dormidontova (Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106)
12:27 P4.003 Insight into Clustering in Poly(ethylene oxide) Solutions
Boualem Hammouda (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
13:03 P4.004 Miscibility in AB/BC block copolymer systems.
Kristoffer Almdal (The Danish Polymer Centre, Risø\ National Laboratory, P.O. Box 49, Denmark)
13:39 P4.005 Baroplastics: Processing polymers by pressure-enhanced miscibility
Anne Mayes (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Session P5. DMP: Grand Challenges in Nanomaterials.

Wednesday midday, 11:15, 524AB, Palais des Congres

11:15 P5.001 A Biomaterials Perspective
Angela Belcher (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
11:51 P5.002 A DOE Perspective
Kristin Bennett (U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science)
12:27 P5.003 Perspectives from the NSF-sponsored workshop on Grand Challenges in Nanomaterials
Robert Hull (University of Virginia)
13:03 P5.004 Nanomaterials - a Canadian Perspective
Peter Grutter (Physics Department, McGill University, Montreal, Canada)
13:39 P5.005 A Virtual Fab Perspective
Michel Côté (Département de physique, Université de Montréal)

Session P6. DCOMP: Correlated Electrons.

Wednesday midday, 11:15, 516AB, Palais des Congres

11:15 P6.001 Magnetic properties of the low-density two- and three- dimensional gas
David Ceperley (Dept. of Physics and NCSA, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
11:51 P6.002 How to describe exchange and correlation effects in the response properties of valence electrons?
Lucia Reining (Laboratoire des Solides Irradies, CNRS/CEA, Ecole Polytechnique, F-91128 Palaiseau, France)
12:27 P6.003 Computational Studies of Strongly Correlated Materials Using Dynamical Mean Field Theory
Gabriel Kotliar (Rutgers University)
13:03 P6.004 Density Functional Theory of Superconductivity
E.K.U. Gross (Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin, Germany)
13:39 P6.005 Computational methods and destruction of the Fermi liquid in systems of correlated lattice electrons
A.-M.S. Tremblay (Université de Sherbrooke and Regroupement Québecois sur les matériaux de pointe)

Session P7. FGSA/FPS: Physics Careers Outside the University.

Wednesday midday, 11:15, 516C, Palais des Congres

11:15 P7.001 Experiences with Science Policy
Susan Ginsberg (Department of Homeland Security)
11:51 P7.002 Public Interest Science: Careers in the Non-Profit Community
Lisbeth Gronlund (Global Security Program, Union of Concerned Scientists)
12:27 P7.003 Life at Physics Today
Richard Fitzgerald (Physics Today)
13:03 P7.004 Physicists in the Semiconductor Industry
P.M. Mooney (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598)
13:39 P7.005 An Industrial Physics Toolkit
Bill (Milo) Cummings Ph.D. (Iridigm Display Corporation, San Francisco CA)

Session P8. DBP: Nucleic Acids I.

Wednesday midday, 11:15, 510A, Palais des Congres

11:15 P8.001 A possible origin of semiconducting DNA and effects of Anderson localization in transport properties
Hiori Kino (National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)), Masaru Tateno (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)), Mauro Boero (Univ. Tsukuba), Jose Torres (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)), Takahisa Ohno (National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)), Kiyoyuki Terakura (Hokkaido Univ.), Hidetoshi Fukuyama (Tohoku Univ.)
11:27 P8.002 Inter-base Electronic Coupling for transport through DNA
Hatem Mehrez, M. P. Anantram (Center for NanoTechnology, NASA Ames Research center, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000, USA)
11:39 P8.003 Current-voltage characteristics of double stranded versus single stranded DNA molecules
B. Hartzell, Hong Chen, J.J. Heremans, B. McCord, V. Soghomonian (Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701)
11:51 P8.004 Role of Guanine in Electron Transmission through DNA
Supratim Ray, Shirley Daube (Affiliation), Ron Naaman (Dep. of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute)
12:03 P8.005 Electronic properties of O_2 doped DNA
H. Mehrez, S. P. Walch, M. P. Anantram (NASA Ames Research center, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000, USA)
12:15 P8.006 Dependence of electronic properties of a DNA molecule on the positions of an H atom
D. L. Cox, C. Y. Fong, M. C. Qian, R. R. P. Singh (Department of Physics, UC Davis), R. Endres (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
12:27 P8.007 Small polarons in dry DNA
Helio Chacham, Simone S. Alexandre (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil), Jose M. Soler (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain), Emilio Artacho (University of Cambridge, UK)
12:39 P8.008 Integral cross sections for electronic excitation of thymine by low-energy electron (6 – 12 eV) impact
Pierre L. Levesque, Marc Michaud, Wonseok Cho, Leon Sanche (Universite de Sherbrooke)
12:51 P8.009 Temperature dependence of electrical capacitance on DNA solutions
K.E. Kim, S.K. Lee, Sunbae Lee, K.-H. Yoo (Department of Physics, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749, Korea)
13:03 P8.010 Direct measurement of torque and twist generated by a dye binding to DNA
Jeff Gore (Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley), Zev Bryant (Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley), Carlos Bustamante (Department of Physics and Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
13:15 P8.011 Tiny wind-up toys: applications of torque and twist measurements on single DNA molecules
Zev Bryant (Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720), Jeff Gore (Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720), Michael D. Stone (Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720), Steven B. Smith (Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720), Nicholas R. Cozzarelli (Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720), Carlos Bustamante (Departments of Molecular and Cell Biology and Physics and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720)
13:27 P8.012 Influence of ac electrokinetic forces and torque on the elongation of immobilized DNA
Christoph Walti, W. A. Germishuizen, P. Tosch, R. Wirtz, A. P. J. Middelberg, M. Pepper (University of Cambridge), A. G. Davies (University of Leeds)
13:39 P8.013 The pulling force of a single DNA molecule condensed by spermidine
Rui Zhang (Department of Physics, University of Minnesota), Boris Shklovskii (William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota)
13:51 P8.014 Kinetics of DNA Helix-Destabilization by 32 Protein Studied by Single DNA Molecule Stretching
Ioulia Rouzina (University of Minnesota), Richard Karpel (University of Maryland), Kiran Pant, Mark Williams (Northeastern University), I.Rouzina Collaboration, Karpel's lab Collaboration, M.C. William's lab Collaboration
14:03 P8.015 Intermolecular Proton Transfer Induced by Excess Electron Attachment to Pyrimidine Nucleic Acid Bases and Breaks of Sugar-Phosphate Bond in Nucleotides
Maciej Gutowski (Chemical Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352), Iwona Dabkowska, Rafal Bachorz, Maciej Haranczyk, Janusz Rak (Deparment of Chemistry, Univerisy of Gdansk, 80-952 Gdansk, Poland), Dunja Radisic, Sarah Stokes, Michael Nilles, Kit Bowen (Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218), PNNL Collaboration

Session P9. DBP: Pattern Formation and Collective Phenomena III.

Wednesday midday, 11:15, 510B, Palais des Congres

11:15 P9.001 Nonlinear high-order mode locking in stochastic sensory neurons
Michael Rowe (Neuroscience program, Department of Biological Sciences, Ohio University), Muhammad Afghan, Alexander Neiman (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University)
11:27 P9.002 Spatial analysis of phase synchronization from EEG recordings
Jorge Brea (University of Missouri at St. Louis), R. Edward Hogan (St. Louis University Hospital), Alexander Neiman (Ohio University), Frank Moss (University of Missouri at St. Louis)
11:39 P9.003 Manipulating Traveling Brain Waves with Electric Fields: From Theory to Experiment.
Bruce J/. Gluckman (George Mason University), Kristen Richardson, Steven J. Schiff
11:51 P9.004 Synchrony and clustering in heterogeneous networks with global coupling and parameter dispersion.
Collins Assisi, Viktor Jirsa, J. A. Scott Kelso (Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, Florida Atlantic University)
12:03 P9.005 Analyzing spike trains with circular statistics
Daisuke Takeshita (University of Missouri at St. Louis), John T. Gale (Kent State University), Erwin B. Montgomery Jr (University of Wisconsin - Madison), Alexander Neiman (Ohio University), David Russell, Frank Moss (University of Missouri at St. Louis)
12:15 P9.006 Natural evolution, disease, and localization in the immune system
Michael Deem (Rice University)
12:27 P9.007 Computing with Chaos
K. Murali (Department of Physics, Anna University, Chennai 600 025, India), Sudeshna Sinah (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Taramani, Chennai 600 113, India), William Ditto (Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 326611-6131,USA)
12:39 P9.008 The effects of initial distribution on the formation and structure of conducting paths in a physical example of a resource transportation network
Joseph Jun, Alfred Hubler (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Center for Complex Systems Research Team
12:51 P9.009 Oxygen Transport Across Space-Filling Biological Membranes
Chen Hou, Peter Pfeifer (Department of Physics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211)
13:03 P9.010 Self-organized protein and lipid patterns at inter-membrane junctions
Raghuveer Parthasarathy, Jay T. Groves (Dept. of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley)
13:15 P9.011 Control of cell morphology through protein organization on Au/Si micropatterns
Nadine Pernodet, Lenny Slutsky, John Jerome, Miriam Rafailovich (Materials Science, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY)
13:27 P9.012 Cell Responses to Patterned Surfaces from Micro- to Nano-scale topography
Madelyn Ho, Lenny Slutsky, Miriam Rafailovich, Nadine Pernodet (SUNY, Stony Brook)
13:39 P9.013 Collagen Triple Helix Polymorphism and Material Morphology
Regina Valluzzi, Reena Desai (Tufts University Department of Chem and Biol Engineering), Peggy Cebe (Tufts University Department of Physics)
13:51 P9.014 Is Bacteriophage Adsorption Anomalous?
Radu Moldovan, X.L. Wu (Dept. of Physics, University of Pittsburgh)
P9.015 Thermodynamic stability of ecosystems
Karo Michaelian (Instituto de Fisica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, A.P. 20-364, 01000 Mexico D.F., Mexico)

Session P10. DMP: Focus Session: Wide-Band-Gap Semiconductors V.

Wednesday midday, 11:15, 510C, Palais des Congres

11:15 P10.001 Point Defects in SiC
Mary Ellen Zvanut (University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Physics)
11:51 P10.002 Role of intrinsic defects in compensation of high purity semi-insulating SiC
Mary Ellen Zvanut, Haiyan Wang (University of Alabama at Birmingham), William C Mitchel, William D Mitchell (Air Force Research Laboratory, WPAFB)
12:03 P10.003 Spectral Ellipsometry and Micro-Raman Investigations of MBE Grown GaN on 4H SiC
Todd Holden (Applications), Zhixun Ma, Lyudmila Malikova, Vladimir Chaldyshev, Fred H. Pollak (Brooklyn College of CUNY and Center for Advanced Technology in Ultrafast Materials and Applications), Benjamin Heying, Randy Sandhu, Mike Wojtowicz (Northrup Grummand Space Technology)
12:15 P10.004 Interface trap passivation for SiO_2/ (11\bar20) 4H-SiC
S Dhar (Interdisciplinary Materials Science, Vanderbilt University,Nashville, TN, U.S.A), Y.W. Song, L.C. Feldman (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University , Nashville, TN, U.S.A), J.R. Williams, T. Isaacs-Smith, S. Wang (Physics Dept. Auburn University, Auburn, AL, U.S.A), G. Chung (Dow Corning Corporation ,Midland, MI, U.S.A)
12:27 P10.005 Microstructure of the deep level defect E1/E2 in 6H silicon carbide
C. C. Ling, X. D. Chen (Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong), M. Gong (Department of Physics, Sichuan University)
12:39 P10.006 Design of shallow donor levels in diamond by isovalent-donor coupling
David Segev, Su-Huai Wei (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
12:51 P10.007 Electronic structure of thin heterocrystalline supperlattices in SiC and AlN
M. S. Miao, Walter R. L. Lambrecht (Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University)
13:03 P10.008 Electronic structures of the quaternary wide band gap semiconductors (SiC)1-x(AlN)x
Tang Yu-Hui, Tsai Min-Hsiung (Department of Physics, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, 804 Taiwan)
13:15 P10.009 Thermal effects in the size distribution of C induced roughness of Si(111)
Patricio Häberle (Universidad T. Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile), Marcos Flores (Universidad T. Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile)
13:27 P10.010 Role of strain relaxation in exciton resonance energies of ZnO epitaxial layers grown on SiC substrates
ABM Almamun Ashrafi (Lab for Photophysics, Photodynamics Research Center RIKEN, 519-1399 Aoba, Sendai 980-0845, Japan), N. T. Binh, B. P. Zhang, Y. Segawa

Session P11. DMP: Transport in Quantum Dots and Wires.

Wednesday midday, 11:15, 510D, Palais des Congres

11:15 P11.001 Parallel magnetic field-induced conductance fluctuations in GaAs/AlGaAs ballistic quantum dots.
S. Faniel, C. Gustin, S. Melinte, B. Hackens, V. Bayot (Cermin, Universite catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), M. Shayegan (Departement of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544)
11:27 P11.002 Interacting electrons in ballistic conformal billiard quantum dots
Ganpathy Murthy (University of Kentucky), Harsh Mathur (Case Western Reserve University), Ramamurti Shankar (Yale University)
11:39 P11.003 Quantitative theory of correlated electron states in semiconductor quantum dots in high magnetic fields
G. S. Jeon, Chia-Chen Chang, Jainendra K. Jain (The Pennsylvania State University)
11:51 P11.004 Crystalline character of cusp states in quantum dots at high B
C. YANNOULEAS, U. LANDMAN (School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology)
12:03 P11.005 Quantum Antidots in the Integer QHE Regime
V. J. Goldman (SUNY at Stony Brook), J. Liu, A. Zaslavsky (Brown University)
12:15 P11.006 Kondo temperature for a quantum dot in an Aharanov--Bohm ring
Caio H. Lewenkopf (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Hans A. Weidenmueller (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik, Germany)
12:27 P11.007 Unexpected Conductance Dip in Chains of Quantum Dots in the Kondo regime
Carlos A. Büsser, Adriana Moreo, Elbio Dagotto (National High Magnetic Field Lab and Department of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306)
12:39 P11.008 Cleaved Edge Overgrown AlAs Wires
Joel Moser, Matthew Grayson, Gerhard Abstreiter, Max Bichler, Dieter Schuh (Walter Schottky Institute, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany)
12:51 P11.009 Tunneling between Vertically Coupled GaAs/AlGaAs Quantum Wires
E. Bielejec, J. A. Seamons, M. P. Lilly, J. L. Reno, J. A. Simmons (Sandia National Laboratories)
13:03 P11.010 Ballistic to Diffuse Crossover in Long Quantum Wires
J. A. Seamons, E. Bielejec, M. P. Lilly, J. L. Reno, J. A. Simmons (Sandia National Laboratories), R. R. Du (University of Utah)
13:15 P11.011 Sign Anomaly of the Electron-Diffusion Magneto-thermopower in Ballistic and Diffusive Quantum-Well Wires
D. Huang (Air Force Research Laboratory), S. K. Lyo (Sandia National Laboratories)
13:27 P11.012 Nonequilibrium electron energy distribution in the presence of Kondo impurities in the logarithmic approach
Orsolya Ujsághy, Antal Jakovác (Institute of Physics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, H-1521 Budapest, Hungary), Alfred Zawadowski (Institute of Physics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, H-1521 Budapest and Research Institute for Solid State Physics, POB 49, H-1525, Budapest, Hungary)
13:39 P11.013 Full distribution function of the local density of states in a 1D disordered quantum wire and its crossover from the chiral to standard universality class
Shinsei Ryu (Dept. of Appl. Phys. , Univ. of Tokyo), Christopher Mudry (Paul Scherrer Institute), Akira Furusaki (RIKEN)
13:51 P11.014 Coulomb and spin-flip effects on spin-polarized transport through a quantum dot
Fabrício M. Souza, J. Carlos Egues (Departamento de Física e Informática, Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, 13560-970 São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil), Antti-Pekka Jauho (Mikroelektronik Centret, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark)

Session P12. DCMP: Theories for Vortices.

Wednesday midday, 11:15, 511A, Palais des Congres

11:15 P12.001 Vortex States of a Superconducting Film from a Magnetic Dot Array
D.J. Priour (University of Maryland), H.A. Fertig (University of Kentucky)
11:27 P12.002 Electron wavefunctions for vortices and phase-disordered states of a d-wave superconductor
Andrew Iyengar, Marcel Franz (University of British Columbia)
11:39 P12.003 Nonlocal response and rectification in Hall-shaped mesoscopic superconductors.
Dennis Vodolazov, Francois Peeters (Departement Natuurkunde, Universiteit Antwerpen), Irina Grigorieva, Andre Geim (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester)
11:51 P12.004 Creation of Frustrated Systems by d-dot Array
Machida Masahiko (Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute), Tomio Koyama Collaboration, Masaru Kato Collaboration
12:03 P12.005 Disorder driven phase transitions in fluxline systems with point disorder
Heiko Rieger, Roland Schorr, Ludger Santen (Theoretische Physik, Universität des Saarlandes, 66041 Saarbrücken)
12:15 P12.006 Typical versus average superfluid density: Understanding the vortex glass phase
Helmut G. Katzgraber, G. Blatter (Theoretische Physik, ETH Zurich), A. Peter Young (Department of Physics, University of California Santa Cruz)
12:27 P12.007 Vortex-antivortex lattices in superconducting films with arrays of magnetic dots
M. V. Milosevic, F. M. Peeters (Departement Natuurkunde, Universiteit Antwerpen (Campus Drie Eiken), Belgium)
12:39 P12.008 Vortex configurations in finite thin superconductors
Ben Baelus (Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8573, Japan; Departement of Physics, University of Antwerp, B-2610 Antwerp, Belgium), Francois Peeters (Departement of Physics, University of Antwerp, B-2610 Antwerp, Belgium), Kazuo Kadowaki (Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8573, Japan)
12:51 P12.009 Numerical study on transverse Meissner effects in three dimensions in the presence of a single columnar defect or twin boundary
Yoshihiko Nonomura, Xiao Hu (Computational Materials Science Center, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan), David R. Nelson (Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University)
13:03 P12.010 Dynamics of vorticies and Cooper charges in two coupled layers of Josephson junction arrays (JJA) and the formation of quantum Hall states
Said Sakhi (American University of Sharjah)
13:15 P12.011 Correlations in Liquids of Arbitrarily Curved Flux Lines and Loops: Thermal Fluctuations and Weak Disorder
Panayotis Benetatos (Theoretical Physics Division, Hahn-Meitner Institute, Berlin, Germany), M. Cristina Marchetti (Physics Department, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, U.S.A.)
13:27 P12.012 Ratchet Effects for Vortices in Nanostructured Superconductors
Charles Reichhardt, Cynthia J. Olson Reichhardt, Matthew B. Hastings (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory), Boldizsar Janko (Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame)
P12.013 Effect of composition gradients on the irreversibility and upper critical fields
L Cooley (Materials Science Dept., Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton NY 11973), D Larbalestier, P Lee, C Fischer (Applied Superconductivity Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI 53706)

Session P13. DCMP: Superconductivity: General Theory.

Wednesday midday, 11:15, 511B, Palais des Congres

11:15 P13.001 Electronic structure and unusual superconducting properties of of CaAlSi and SrAlSi
Igor I Mazin, Dimitris Papaconstantopoulos (Naval Research Laboratory)
11:27 P13.002 S-wave Superconducting Component in the Double Chain Cuprates
Theodore geballe, Gertjan Koster, Boris Moyzhes (Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, CA)
11:39 P13.003 Numerical calculations of the spin polarized superconducting gap equation
Alan Kyker, Warren Pickett (UC Davis), Francois Gygi (LLNL)
11:51 P13.004 Study of Superconductivity in Hole Doped BC_3 with Ab initio Pseudopotentials
Filipe J Ribeiro, Marvin L Cohen (University of California Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
12:03 P13.005 Electronic and Lattice Properties of the High Critical Field 18K Superconductor Y_2C_3
David J. Singh, Igor I. Mazin (Naval Research Laboratory)
12:15 P13.006 Spin-triplet s-wave local pairing induced by Hund's rule coupling
Jong E. Han (The State University of New York at Buffalo)
12:27 P13.007 Quantum Dynamical Manifold, u (1)xsu(2)-gauge Theory of Dirac Bipolarons in HTSC.
Thomas Collins (Oklahoma State Univeristy-EREDF), Dillon Scofield (Oklahoma State University-Department of Physics)
12:39 P13.008 Superconductivity and Chiral Anomalies
Yasuhiro Hatsugai, Ryu Shinsei (Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo), Kohmoto Mahito (INstitute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo)
12:51 P13.009 A General Theory of Superconductivity
Raul Riera, Jose Luis Marin, Ricardo Batancourt (Departamento de Investigacion en Fisica, Universidad de Sonora), Rodrigo Rosas (Departamento de Fisica, Universidad de Sonora)
13:03 P13.010 Superconductivity is not in the cuprate-planes.
John D. Dow (Arizona State University), Dale R. Harshman Collaboration, Howard A. Blackstead Collaboration
13:15 P13.011 The superconductivity of YBa_2Cu_3O_7 is in the BaO layers
Dale R. Harshman (Physikon Research Corporation and Arizona State University), John D. Dow (Arizona State University)
13:27 P13.012 Crucial Test of Real Coherent Phonon Defense Theory of High Temperature Superconductivity
John James (St. Louis University)
13:39 P13.013 A New Classification Scheme For Superconductors
O.Paul Isikaku-Ironkwe (The Center for Superconductivity Technologies TCST, Lagos, Nigeria)
P13.014 Strongly Correlated Superconductivity close to a Mott transition in orbitally degenerate models
Massimo Capone (Enrico Fermi Center, Rome, Italy), Michele Fabrizio (International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) and ICTP, Trieste, Italy), Claudio Castellani (Physics Department- University of Roma "La Sapienza", Piazzale A. Moro, 2, 00185, Rome, Italy), Erio Tosatti (nternational School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) and ICTP, Trieste, Italy)

Session P14. DCMP: Superconductivity in Nanowires and Nanostructures.

Wednesday midday, 11:15, 511C, Palais des Congres

11:15 P14.001 MoGe superconducting nanowires made by electron beam lithography
J. U. Free (Eastern Nazarene College and Harvard University), W. Niels, S. Valenzuela, M. Tinkham (Harvard University)
11:27 P14.002 Low-Temperature Transport Measurements in MoGe Nanowires
W. K. Neils, J. U. Free, B. Johnson, M. Tinkham (Harvard University)
11:39 P14.003 Experimental investigation of phase slips in 1D superconducting wires in strong magnetic fields
Andrey Rogachev, Anthony T. Bollinger, Alexey Bezryadin (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
11:51 P14.004 The effect of morphology on the superconductor-insulator transition in 1D nanowires
Anthony Bollinger, Mikas Remeika, Andrey Rogachev, Alexey Bezryadin (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
12:03 P14.005 Fabrication and study of superconducting Pb and Zn nanowires
Nitesh Kumar, Mingliang Tian, Jinguo Wang, Sheng-Yong Xu, Thomas E. Mallouk, Moses H. W. Chan (Pennsylvania State University)
12:15 P14.006 Calorimeters for Low Temperature Measurement of Nanowire Heat Capacity
Bob Johnson, James S. Kurtz, Moses H. W. Chan (Penn State University)
12:27 P14.007 Heat Capacity Measurements of Superconducting Nanowires
James S. Kurtz, Bob Johnson, Mingliang Tian, Nitesh Kumar, Zhigang Ma, Moses H. W. Chan (Penn State University)
12:39 P14.008 Arrays of Coupled Superconducting Nanowires
Andrei Ursache, Michael Thorn, James Goldbach, Thomas Russell, Mark Tuominen (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
12:51 P14.009 Persistent current and attractive interaction: BCS vs. local interaction models
Moshe Schechter (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy, University of British Columbia), Yuval Oreg, Yoseph Imry, Yehoshua Levinson (Department of Condensed Matter Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science)
13:03 P14.010 Superconductivity in doubly connected, nanoscopic cylinders
H. Wang, N. A. Kurz, M. M. Rosario, P. T. Carrigan, Y. Liu (Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University)
13:15 P14.011 Magnetic susceptibility of ultra-small superconductor grains
V. N. Gladilin, V. M. Fomin, J. T. Devreese (TFVS, Departement Natuurkunde, Universiteit Antwerpen, B-2610 Antwerpen, Belgium)
13:27 P14.012 Well-defined quasiparticles in interacting metallic grains
Dominique Gobert (Sektion Physik and CeNS, LMU Munchen), Moshe Schechter (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia), Ulrich Schollwoeck, Jan vonDelft (Sektion Physik and CeNS, LMU Munchen)
13:39 P14.013 Quantum Pair Creation of soliton domain walls
John Miller, Gustavo Cardenas, Armando Garcia-Perez, Wilfredo More, Andrew Beckwith (University of Houston, Houston, TX USA)
13:51 P14.014 Textures in a Generalized Ginzburg-Landau Free energy: Superconductivity in BKBO
P. Kumar, A.K. Farid (University of Florida), A. Saxena (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
14:03 P14.015 Phase coherence in mesoscopic Kondo / superconducting systems
Jonghwa Eom (Department of Physics, Sejong University, Korea), Yun-Sok Shin, Dong-Kun Kie, Wang-Hyun Park, Hu-Jong Lee (Department of Physics, POSTECH, Korea), Taegon Kim, Jonghan Song (Advanced Analysis Center, KIST, Korea)
P14.016 Thermal conductance measurements on mesoscopic devices at low temperatures
Zhigang Jiang, Venkat Chandrasekhar (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University)
P14.017 Discrete transverse superconducting modes in nano-cylinders
Jong E Han (The State University of New York at Buffalo), Vincent H Crespi (Pennsylvania State University)

Session P15. DMP: Focus Session: Raman Studies for Carbon Nanotubes.

Wednesday midday, 11:15, 511D, Palais des Congres

11:15 P15.001 High-resolution near-field Raman and fluorescence spectroscopy of single-walled carbon nanotubes
Achim Hartschuh (Physical Chemistry, Universitity of Siegen)
11:51 P15.002 Origin of intermediate frequency Raman modes in carbon nanotubes
R. Saito (Tohoku U.), Ge.G. Samsonidze (MIT), A. Jorio, C. Fantini, M. Souza, M.A. Pimenta (UFMG-Brazil), A.G. Souza Filho (UFC-Brazil), G. Dresselhaus, M.S. Dresselhaus (MIT)
12:03 P15.003 Single and Double Resonance Raman G-band processes in Carbon Nanotubes
V.W. Brar (MIT), M. Souza, A. Jorio, C. Fantini, B.R.A. Neves, M.A. Pimenta (UFMG-Brazil), R. Saito (Tohoku U.), Ge.G. Samsonidze, G. Dresselhaus, M.S. Dresselhaus (MIT)
12:15 P15.004 Raman characterization of chemical modifications to electrically contacted carbon nanotubes
J.M. Simmons, C.-S. Lee, Matthew S. Marcus, O.M. Castellini, S.E. Baker, R.J. Hamers, M.A. Eriksson (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
12:27 P15.005 Resonance Raman spectroscopy characterization of semiconducting and metallic single wall carbon nanotube separation process
A.P. Santos (CDTN/CNEN-Brazil), Ge.G. Samsonidze, S.G. Chou, V.W. Brar (MIT), D. Chattopadhyay, S.N. Kim, F. Papadimitrakopoulos (U. Connecticut), M. Zheng, A. Jagota, G.B. Onoa (DuPont Central Ramp;D), A.K. Swan, M.S. Ünlü, B.B. Goldberg (Boston U.), G. Dresselhaus, M.S. Dresselhaus (MIT)
12:39 P15.006 Resonance Raman Scattering in Carbon Nanotubes from the near infrared to the visible
J. Ren, J. Menendez (Arizona State University), K. McGuire, A.M. Rao (Clemson University)
12:51 P15.007 Raman Scattering Study of the Molecular Faraday Effect via n-doping of Double-walled Carbon Nanotubes
Gugang Chen (Departments of Physics), Shunji Bandow (Dept. of Materials Sci. and Eng., Meijo University), Clascidia Furtada (Centro de Desenvolvimento da Tecnologia Nuclear CDTN/CNEN), Sumio Iijima (Dept. of Materials Sci. and Eng., Meijo University amp; Japan Sci. and Tech. Corp., NEC Corporation), Peter Eklund (Departments of Physics amp; Department of Materials Science amp; Engineering, Pennsylvania State University)
13:03 P15.008 Study of individual double walled carbon nanotubes using a combination of resonant Raman scattering and fluorescence measurements
J. Stettenheim, A. K. Swan, B. B. Goldberg, M. S. Unlu, C. Chamon (Boston University), W. Bacsa, R. Bacsa (University of Toulouse)
13:15 P15.009 Resonance Raman on SWNTs grown by the HiPCO method using a Tunable Laser: E_ii and ømega_RBM analysis
Marcos A. Pimenta, Ado Jorio, Cristiano Fantini, Mauricio Souza, Americo J. Mai Jr (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - UFMG), Michael S. Strano, Paul Barone, Monica Ursey (University of Illinois), Gene Dresselhaus, Mildred S. Dresselhaus (Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT)
13:27 P15.010 Step-like dispersive Raman modes in carbon nanotubes
Ado Jorio, Marcos A. Pimenta, Cristiano Fantini, Mauricio Souza, Luiz Orlando Ladeira (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)), Antonio G. Souza Filho (Universidade Federal do Ceara), Riichiro Saito (Tohoku University), Georgii Ge. Samsonidze, Gene Dresselhaus, Mildred S. Dresselhaus (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), UFMG group Team, Ceara group Collaboration, Tohoku group Collaboration, MIT group Collaboration
13:39 P15.011 In-situ Observation of Raman Scattering from Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in the Growth Stage during Alcohol Catalytic CVD Process
Shohei Chiashi, Yoichi Murakami, Yuhei Miyauchi, Erik Einarsson, Shigeo Maruyama (Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan)
13:51 P15.012 Localized spectral analysis of single walled carbon nanotubes using near-field Raman spectroscopy
Neil Anderson (Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14620 USA), Achim Hartschuh (Physikalische Chemie, Universitat Siegen, 57068 Siegen, Germany), Lukas Novotny (Institute of Optics, Univeristy of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14620 USA)
14:03 P15.013 (n_1,n_2) assignment of carbon nanotubes by Raman excitation profiles
Janina Maultzsch, Hagen Telg (Institut f. Festkoerperphysik, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Hardenbergstr. 36, D-10623 Berlin, Germany), Frank Hennrich (Institut f. Nanotechnologie, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany), Stephanie Reich (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, United Kingdom; Institut f. Festkoerperphysik, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Hardenbergstr. 36, D-10623 Berlin, Germany), Christian Thomsen (Institut f. Festkoerperphysik, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Hardenbergstr. 36, D-10623 Berlin, Germany)

Session P16. DMP: Metallic Nanowires.

Wednesday midday, 11:15, 511E, Palais des Congres

11:15 P16.001 Universal equilibrium shape of metallic nanowires
Charles A. Stafford (University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ), Jérôme Bürki (Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany), Raymond E. Goldstein (University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ)
11:27 P16.002 Jahn-Teller distortions and the supershell effect in metal nanowires
Jérôme Bürki, Daniel Urban (Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany), Chang-hua Zhang, Charles A. Stafford (University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ), Hermann Graber (Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany)
11:39 P16.003 Interplay of Rayleigh and Peierls Instabilities in Metallic Nanowires
Daniel Urban, Hermann Grabert (Physikalisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs Universität, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany)
11:51 P16.004 Effect of impurities in gold nanowires
Edison Z. da Silva (Instituto de Física ``Gleb Wataghin'', UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, Brazil), F.D. Novaes, A.J.R. da Silva, A. Fazzio (Instituto de Física, USP, São Paulo - SP, BRAZIL)
12:03 P16.005 TEM observation of helical gold nanotube
Yoshifumi Oshima, Akiko Onga (Dept. Materials science and engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology), Kunio Takayanagi (Dept. physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
12:15 P16.006 Force and Structure of Gold Nanocontact Measured Simultaneously by High-Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy (HRTEM) and Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)
Sakiko Shibata (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology), Yasumasa Tanishiro, Kunio Takayanagi (Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
12:27 P16.007 Electrical conductance of helical multi-shell gold nanowire
Yoshifumi Oshima, Keinosuke Mouri (Dept. Materials science and engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology), Kunio Takayanagi (Dept. physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
12:39 P16.008 Charge transport in individual metal nanowires
G. de Marzi, D. Iacopino, A.J. Quinn, G. Redmond (Nanotechnology Group, NMRC, Ireland.)
12:51 P16.009 Confinement Effects and Surface-Induced Charge Carriers in Bi Quantum Wires
T.E. Huber (Howard University. Washington. DC 20059.), M.J. Graf (Department of Physics. Boston College. MA 02467.), Jr. Foss (Trex Hawaii. Lihue, HI 96766.)
13:03 P16.010 The electronic origin of contrast reversal in bias-dependent constant-current STM images of bismuth nanolines
J. M. MacLeod (Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada,K7L 3N6), R. H. Miwa (Faculdade de Física, Universidade Federal de Uberlíândia, C.P. 593, 38400-902, Uberlíândia, MG-Brazil), G. P. Srivastava (School of Physics, University of Exeter, Stocker Road, Exeter, EX4 4QL, UK), A. B. McLean (Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada,K7L 3N6)
13:15 P16.011 Fabrication of bismuth nanowires with rectangular cross-section using e-beam writing
Pit Ho Patrio Chiu, Ishiang Shih (Department of Electrical amp; Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
13:27 P16.012 Ultrathin nanowires templated by DNA molecules
David Hopkins, Alexey Bezryadin (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
13:39 P16.013 Quantized conductance behavior of copper nanowires
J. C. Gonzalez, V. Rodrigues, J. Bettini (Brazilian Synchrotron Light Lab.), A. R. Rocha (Dept. of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), L. G. C. Rego (Dept. Physics, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil), D. Ugarte (Brazilian Synchrotron Light Lab.)
13:51 P16.014 Growth of a Long Silver Nanowire and the Electric Conductance
Yasumasa Tanishiro, Ryoji Itoh (Dept. of Cond. Matter Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology), Akiko Arimoto (Dept. of Mat. Sci. and Eng., Tokyo Institute of Technology), Kunio Takayanagi (Dept. of Cond. Matter Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
14:03 P16.015 The story of the one-dimensional phoenix: Birth and re-birth of metallic nanowires on Ge(001)
Oguzhan Gurlu, Harold J.W. Zandvliet, Bene Poelsema (MESA+ Research Institute, Solid State Physics Group, University of Twente, P.O. Box. 217, 7500AE, Enschede, The Netherlands.), Solid State Physics Group Team

Session P17. DCOMP/DMP: Focus Session: Simulation of Complex Materials III.

Wednesday midday, 11:15, 511F, Palais des Congres

11:15 P17.001 Simple systems, complex kinetics: accurate, long time-scale dynamics at metal surfaces
Francesco Montalenti (INFM and L-NESS, Dipartimento di Scienza dei Materiali, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Via Cozzi 53, 20125 Milano (Italia))
11:51 P17.002 Accelerated molecular dynamics of Co/Cu(001) heteroepitaxy
Radu Miron, Kristen Fichthorn (Departments of Physics and Chemical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University)
12:03 P17.003 Fast and Accurate Coarsening Simulation with an Unconditionally Stable Time Step
Benjamin P. Vollmayr-Lee (Bucknell University), Andrew D. Rutenberg (Dalhousie University)
12:15 P17.004 Atomistic-continuum coupling for solid mechanics enforcing momentum balance and continuity
B. Kraczek, D.D. Johnson (Depts. of Physics and Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801), C. Xia, R.B. Haber (Dept. of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801)
12:27 P17.005 Real-space methods: towards O(N) first-principles molecular dynamics
Jean-Luc Fattebert, Francois Gygi (CASC, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
12:39 P17.006 A Comparison of Integration Schemes for Born-Oppenheimer First-Principles Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Francois Gygi, Jean-Luc Fattebert (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore CA 94551)
12:51 P17.007 Ab-initio molecular dynamics in electric fields via Wannier functions: Dielectric properties of liquid water.
Manu Sharma (Department of Chemistry, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ 08544), Raffaele Resta (INFM Democritos National Simulation Center and Trieste Univ., Italy), Roberto Car (Department of Chemistry and Princeton Materials Institute, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ 08544)
13:03 P17.008 Conductivity in Superionic Solids from First-principles Molecular Dynamics
Brandon Wood, Nicola Marzari (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT)
13:15 P17.009 A new algorithm to track the identity of clusters in physical systems
Subhranil De, Pablo Debenedetti (Princeton University)
13:27 P17.010 Dynamical equations for periodic systems under constant external stress
Gang Liu (High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory (HPCVL), Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3X6, Canada)
13:39 P17.011 First-principles simulations of finite systems under pressure: a novel approach
Matteo Cococcioni, Gerbrand Ceder (DMSE - M.I.T.), Francesco Mauri (LMCP - P. and M. Curie University, Jussieu), Nicola Marzari (DMSE - M.I.T.)
13:51 P17.012 Thermodynamically weighted ART (THWART): a finite-temperature activated algorithm
Gerard Barkema (Theoretical Physics, Universiteit Utrecht), Normand Mousseau (Département de physique, Université de Montréal)

Session P18. DMP/GSNP: Focus Session: Deformation, Dislocations.

Wednesday midday, 11:15, 512AE, Palais des Congres

11:15 P18.001 Deformation Microstructure Using Submicron Resolution X-Ray Structural Microscopy
Bennett C. Larson (Condensed Matter Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831)
11:51 P18.002 Deformation Microstructure Under Micro-Indents In Cu Single Crystals Using X-Ray Microbeam Diffraction*
Wenge Yang, B.C. Larson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA), G.M. Pharr (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, and University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA), G.E. Ice, J.D. Budai, J.Z. Tischler (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA)
12:03 P18.003 Surface Roughness and Friction During Deformation of Al-Mg Alloys
Mark Stoudt, Richard Ricker (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
12:15 P18.004 The Influence of Forming Strains on the Elastic Modulus and Springback of Al Alloys
Richard Ricker (National Institute of Standards and Technology), David Dayan (Nuclear Research Center Negev), David Pitchure, Stephen Banovic, Vladimir Luzin, Henry Prask (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
12:27 P18.005 Determination of strain localization in aluminum alloys using photoemission measurements
Mingdong Cai, Stephen Langford (Physics Department, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-2814), Lyle Levine (National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Dr., Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8553), Thomas Dickinson (Physics Department, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-2814)
12:39 P18.006 Solidification and deformation behavior of SnCuAg alloys
Eric Cotts, Lawrence Lehman, Lubov Zavalij, Yan Xing, Ju Wang, Kara Mather, Margaret Lowenstein, Robert Kinyanjui, Saurabh Athavale (Binghamton University)
12:51 P18.007 Non-Equilibrium Phenomena in High Power Beam Materials Processing
Sebastiano Tosto (ENEA)
13:03 P18.008 Ab-initio based classical potential describes dislocation motion in bcc molybdenum
Richard G. Hennig (Ohio State University), Thomas J. Lenosky (Mountain View, CA), Dallas R. Trinkle (Ohio State University), Sven P. Rudin (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Christopher F. Woodward (Wright Patterson AFB), John W. Wilkins (Ohio State University)
13:15 P18.009 Dislocation structure and mechanical behavior of Ir_3X L1_2 alloys: ab-initio investigation
O.Yu. Kontsevoi, A.J. Freeman (Northwestern University), Yu.N. Gornostyrev (Institute of Metal Physics, Ekaterinburg, Russia), A.F. Maksyutov, K.Yu. Khromov (Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia)
13:27 P18.010 Ab-initio Calculations for MEAM Potential of Al, Si, Mg, H, and O Alloys
Bohumir Jelinek (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762), Gabriel Potirniche (Engineering Research Center, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762), Seong-Gon Kim (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762), Mark F. Horstemeyer (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762), M. I. Baskes (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
13:39 P18.011 Surface Stress Oscillation in Mo (001) Thin Films
Xianghong Qian (Department of Physics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523)

Session P19. DMP: Focus Session: Metamaterials for Negative Refraction and Related PhenomenaI.

Wednesday midday, 11:15, 512BF, Palais des Congres

11:15 P19.001 Artificial Materials at THz Frequencies
Willie Padilla (University of California San Diego)
11:51 P19.002 Total and negative refraction in real crystals for ballistic electrons and light
Yong Zhang, Brian Fluegel, Angelo Mascarenhas (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
12:03 P19.003 Negative Refractive Bi-Crystal with Broken Symmetry Leading to Unusual Fields in Guided Wave Heterostructures
Clifford Krowne (Naval Research Laboratory)
12:15 P19.004 Nonlinear waves in left-handed metamaterials and waveguides
Ilya Shadrivov, Andrey Sukhorukov, Yuri Kivshar (Nonlinear Physics Group and CUDOS, Australian National University), Alexander Zharov (Institute for Physics of Microstructures), Nonlinear Physics Group Team
12:27 P19.005 Effective medium theory of left-handed materials
Th. Koschny, M. Kafesaki, R. Penciu, N. Katsarakis, E. N. Economou (IESL-FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, Greece), C. M. Soukoulis (Ames Lab. and Iowa State Univ.)
12:39 P19.006 Delay time investigation of EM waves through homogeneous and photonic crystals left-handed materials
R. Moussa, S. Foteinopoulou, C. M. Soukoulis (Ames Laboratory - USDOE and Physics Department, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 50011, USA)
12:51 P19.007 Transmission Line Metamaterials with Effective Negative Refractive Index and Negative Group Delay
Suzanne J. Erickson, Omar F. Siddiqui, George V. Eleftheriades, Mohammad Mojahedi (University of Toronto, Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
13:03 P19.008 Microwave pulse propagation measurements in left-handed materials
Emiliano Di Gennaro, Patanjali V. Parimi, Plarenta Vodo, Wentao Lu, Srinivas Sridhar (Department of Physics, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115)

Session P20. DCMP: Novel Ordered Phases.

Wednesday midday, 11:15, 512CG, Palais des Congres

11:15 P20.001 A Class of P,T-Invariant Topological Phases of Interacting Electrons
Michael Freedman (Microsoft), Chetan Nayak (UCLA), Kirill Shtengel (Microsoft)
11:27 P20.002 An extended Hubbard model with a possible non-Abelian topological phase.
Kirill Shtengel, Michael Freedman (Microsoft Research), Chetan Nayak (UCLA)
11:39 P20.003 Topological order and conformal quantum critical points in a quantum eight-vertex model.
Eddy Ardonne (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Paul Fendley (Department of Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville), Eduardo Fradkin (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
11:51 P20.004 Fractionalization in Field Theory
Paul Fendley (University of Virginia), Eddy Ardonne, Eduardo Fradkin (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
12:03 P20.005 On bipartite Rokhsar-Kivelson points and Cantor deconfinement
Eduardo Fradkin (UIUC), David Huse (Princeton University), Roderich Moessner (Laboratoire de Physique Th´eorique de lEcole Normale Sup´erieure), Vadim Oganesyan, Shivaji Sondhi (Princeton University)
12:15 P20.006 The planar pyrochlore antiferromagnet: A large-N analysis
Jean-Sebastien Bernier, Chung-Hou Chung, Yong Baek Kim (University of Toronto), Subir Sachdev (Yale University)
12:27 P20.007 Spin-Charge Separation in Two-dimensional Frustrated Quantum Magnets
Andreas Laeuchli, Didier Poilblanc (Laboratoire de Physique Theorique, UPS Toulouse, France)
12:39 P20.008 Low-energy charge excitations on frustrated lattices
Erich Runge, Peter Fulde (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany)
12:51 P20.009 Ground state splitting in topologically ordered superconductors
Jack Lidmar, Anders Vestergren (Royal Institute of Technology), T. Hans Hansson (Stockholm University)
13:03 P20.010 Phase Structure of Chern-Simons Gauge Theories
Eivind Smorgrav, Jo Smiseth, Asle Sudbo (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Flavio Nogueira (Freie Universitaet Berlin)
13:15 P20.011 TRIPLET PAIRING IN ELECTRON SYSTEMS WITH HEXAGONAL SYMMETRY
Akihiro Tanaka, Xiao Hu (Computational Materials Science Center, National Institute for Materials Science)
13:27 P20.012 Nonlocal Space-time Supersymmetry of Some Lattice Models
Xiao Yang, Paul Fendley (Department of Physics, University of Virginia)
13:39 P20.013 The connection between spin-charge separation and hidden order in Luttinger liquids
Ian McCulloch, Herman Kruis (Instituut Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9506, NL-2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands), Zohar Nussinov (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA), Jan Zaanen (Instituut Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9506, NL-2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands)
13:51 P20.014 Junctions of three quantum wires enclosing a flux
Masaki Oshikawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Claudio Chamon (Boston University), Ian Affleck (University of British Columbia)
14:03 P20.015 Spin-Charge Separation in Aharonov-Bohm Rings of Interacting Electrons
K. Hallberg, A. A. Aligia (Instituto Balseiro, Bariloche), A. P. Kampf (Uni. Augsburg), B. Normand (Uni. Fribourg)

Session P21. DMP: Multifunctional and Dielectric Materials.

Wednesday midday, 11:15, 512DH, Palais des Congres

11:15 P21.001 Ab initio calculation of the candidate multiferroic material Bi_2FeCrO_6
Pio Baettig, Nicola Spaldin (Materials Department, UCSB Santa Barbara, USA), Claude Daul (University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland)
11:27 P21.002 Field effect modulation of the Hall effect in the colossal magnetoresistive oxide \rmLa_1-xSr_xMnO_3
Xia Hong, Charles Ahn (Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8284, USA)
11:39 P21.003 Exploration of magnetoelectric materials using thin film composition spreads
Ichiro Takeuchi, Kao-Shuo Chang, Makoto Murakami, Maria Aronova, C.-L. Lin, Jason Hattrick-Simpers (University of Maryland), Samuel Lofland (Rowan University)
11:51 P21.004 BST/MgO Heterostrutured Thin Films with High Figure of Merit for Tunable Microwave Devices
Menka Jain, S.B. Majumder, Ram S. Katiyar (Department of Physics, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR 00931), A.S. Bhalla (Materials Research Center, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802)
12:03 P21.005 Dielectric response of CaCu_3Ti_4O_12 thin films grown on LaAlO_3 substrates by pulsed laser deposition
Alexander Tselev, Charles M. Brooks (Affiliation), Steven M. Anlage (Center for Superconductivity Research, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742), Haimei Zheng (Affiliation), Lourdes Salamanca-Riba (Department of Materials and Nuclear Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742), R. Ramesh (Department of Materials and Nuclear Engineering and Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742), M. Subramanian (DuPont Central Research and Development, Experimental Station, Wilmington, DE 19880)
12:15 P21.006 Evaluation of Pyro-optic Materials for Infrared Imaging
R.K. Pandey, Sushma Kotru, Xiuyu Song (The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL), David Donnelly (Texas State University, San Marcos. TX)
12:27 P21.007 Large Dielectric Constant and Maxwell-Wagner Relaxation of Bi_2/3Cu_3Ti_4O_12
Jianjun Liu, Chun-gang Duan, Wei-guo Yin, W. N. Mei (Department of Physics, University of Nebraska, Omaha, Nebraska 68182-0266), J. R. Hardy (Department of Physics and Center for Electro-Optics, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0111)
12:39 P21.008 The role of O-vacancy in the properties of high dielectric constant system CaCu_3Ti_4O_12: An Electron Spin Resonance study
C Israel, R. R. Urbano, O. Agüero, I. Torriani, C. Rettori, P.G. Pagliuso (Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghi, Unicamp, 13083-970, Campinas, Brazil), Zheng Le, Joshua L. Cohn (Physics Department, Univsersity of Miami, Coral Gables FL 33124), A. P. Ramirez (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los alamos NM 87544), L. Walmsley (Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, CEP 13500-970, S.P. Brazil), S.B. Oseroff (San Diego State University, San Diego, California 92181, USA.)
12:51 P21.009 Aging of the Piezoelectric Response of PNZT Thin Films for Meso-Gyroscope
R. K. Pandey (The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL35487), Corina Nistorica, Jian Zhong, P. Padmini, Sushma Kotru (The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487)
13:03 P21.010 Structural characterization of crystalline SrTiO_3 films on Si(001) with high-resolution medium energy ion scattering (MEIS).
Dmitri Starodub, Lyudmila Goncharova, Eric Garfunkel, Torgny Gustafsson (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854), Venugopalan Vaithyanathan, Darrell Schlom (Department of Material Science and Engineering, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802)
13:15 P21.011
13:27 P21.012 Study of ferroelectricity in thin films using the contact resonance of the cantilever in voltage-modulated force microscopy
Catalin Harnagea, Alain Pignolet (INRS – Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, Varennes, QC, J3X 1S2, Canada)
13:39 P21.013 Experimental results on pre-stressed piezoelectric cantilevers near resonance
Tim Usher (California State University San Bernardino), Alec Sim (Utah State University)
13:51 P21.014 Area-Selective Atomic Layer Deposition for Dielectric Materials
Rong Chen, Hyoungsub Kim, Junsic Hong, Paul McIntyre, Stacey Bent (Stanford University)
14:03 P21.015 Magnetic-dielectric coupling in hexagonal YMnO_3 and its doped analog
T. Katsufuji (Dept. Phys., Waseda Univ. and PRESTO JST.), Y. Aikawa (Dept. Phys., Waseda Univ.), K. Kato (JASRI/Spring-8), T. Arima (Inst. Mater. Sci., Univ. Tsukuba)

Session P22. DFD: Colloids and Emulsions: Statics.

Wednesday midday, 11:15, 513B, Palais des Congres

11:15 P22.001 The deformation field around a point displacement in a gel
Wenfeng Kang, A.D. Dinsmore (Dept. Physics, Univ. of Massachusetts-Amherst)
11:27 P22.002 Electron Transport Through Self-Assembled Metallic Colloidal Structures
C.R. Knutson, K.D. McCarthy, M.T. Tuominen (Dept. Physics UMass Amherst), R. Shenhar, V.M. Rotello (Dept. Chemistry UMass Amherst), A.D. Dinsmore (Dept. Physics UMass Amherst)
11:39 P22.003 Confocal Microscopy of Binary Colloidal Crystals
R.J. Christianson, D.A. Weitz (Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University), A.B. Schofield, P.N. Pusey (School of Physics, The University of Edinburgh)
11:51 P22.004 Exponential Sensistivity of Optical Fractionation
Kosta Ladavac (Dept. of Physics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637), Karen Kasza (Dept. of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138), David Grier (Dept. of Physics, New York University, New York, NY 10003)
12:03 P22.005 Structure of Generalized Helical Modes of Light
Steven Sundbeck, Ilya Gruzberg, David Grier (James Franck Institute and Department of Physics, The University of Chicago)
12:15 P22.006 Properties and Manipulation of Square Colloidal Platelets in Light and Electric Fields
Kun Zhao, M.T. Sullivan (Princeton University), Christopher Harrison (Schlumberger-Doll Research Center), W.B. Russel, P.M. Chaikin (Princeton University)
12:27 P22.007 Structure of Microparticles in Solid-Stabilized Emulsions
Lenore Dai, Sowmitri Tarimala (Texas Tech University)
12:39 P22.008 Magnetic Latex Beads Chaining on a Spherical Interface
R. J. McGorty, A. D. Dinsmore (Dept. of Physics at UMass Amherst)
12:51 P22.009 Electrorheological Chain Formation in Systems of Nanolayered Silicates
Jon Otto Fossum, Kanak Parmar, Yves Meheust, Davi de Miranda Fonseca (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, Hoegskoleringen 5, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway), Knut Jorgen Maloy (University of Oslo, Physics Department, Po.Box 1048 N-0316 Blindern, Norway), Kenneth Dahl Knudsen (Institute for Energy Technology, Po.Box 40 N-2027 Kjeller, Norway)
13:03 P22.010 Melting of lamellar phases in temperature sensitive colloid-polymer suspensions
Ahmed Alsayed, Zvonimir Dogic, Arjun Yodh (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104)
13:15 P22.011 Static light scattering study of colloid crystalization as a function of density difference
Jim McClymer (University of Maine), Phil Segre (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)
13:27 P22.012 Organization of microparticles in an extended surface field
Veneranda Garcés-Chávez (University of Saint Andrews), Gabriel Spalding (Illinois Wesleyan University), Kishan Dholakia (University of Saint Andrews), Optical trapping Team
13:39 P22.013 Structure of Dense Suspensions of Colloidal Crosses
Carlos J Hernandez, Thomas G Mason (University of California- Los Angeles, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry)
13:51 P22.014 REARRANGEMENTS AND YIELDING IN CONCENTRATED SUSPENSIONS OF HARD AND SOFT COLLOIDS
GEORGIOS PETEKIDIS, VINCENT CARRIER, DIMITRIS VLASSOPPOULOS (IESL-FORTH, HERAKLION, CRETE, GREECE), PETER PUSEY (School of Physics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK), MATTHIAS BALLAUFF (Physikalische Chemie, Universität Bayreuth, Germany)

Session P23. GMAG: Magnetic Thin Films and Surfaces: Characterization Techniques.

Wednesday midday, 11:15, 513CD, Palais des Congres

11:15 P23.001 Observation of a new spin structure in ultrathin Fe films on Cu (111)grown at low temperature
M.A. Torija (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of Tennessee, Knoxville), N.S. Myoung (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of Tennessee Knoxville), Z. Gai (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Departament of Physics and the Laboratory of Mesoscopic Physics, Peking university, Bijeng 100871, China), J. Shen (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
11:27 P23.002 Spin-resolved unoccupied band structure of Fe and Co magnetic thin films
C. Jozwiak (Department of Physics, U. C. Berkeley), J. Graf, A. K. Schmid (MSD, Lawrence Berkeley Lab), Alessandra Lanzara (Department of Physics, U.C. Berkeley - MSD, Lawrence Berkeley Lab)
11:39 P23.003 Mapping the quantum well effects in Fe and Co ferromagnetic thin films
Jeff Graf (Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California 94720), Chris Jozwiak (Department of Physics, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720), Andreas Schmid (Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California 94720), Alessandra Lanzara (Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California 94720 amp; Department of Physics, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720)
11:51 P23.004 Spin Polarised Quantum-well States in Layered Magnetic Nanostructures of Cu/Co/Cu(100)
Dehong Yu (Bragg Institute, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation), Markus Donath (Physics Institute, Muenster University, Germany)
12:03 P23.005 Spin Density Wave Phase Diagram in Thin Cr(110) Films
Eli Rotenberg, B.K. Freelon, H. Koh, K. Rossnagel (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), S.D. Kevan (University of Oregon)
12:15 P23.006 Predicting magnetic quenching at the V(001) surface with spin-dependent pseudopotentials
Vincent Cocula, Emily A. Carter (University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569 USA)
12:27 P23.007 Ferromagnetic Interactions in the Surface State of LaCoO3
J.-Q. Yan, J.-S. Zhou, J.B. Goodenough (Texas Materials Institute, ETC 9.102,the University of Texas at Austin ,1 University Station, C2201, Austin, TX 78712, USA)
12:39 P23.008 Sub-monolayer in situ micromechanical torque magnetometer with integrated fiber optic interferometer for UHV applications
Dong Hoon Min, Andrew McCallum, Stephen Russek, John Moreland (National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST Mail Stop 818.03 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305-3328, USA)
12:51 P23.009 Neutron reflectivity of thin films of dilute magnetic alloys
V. M. Fomin, V. N. Gladilin, J. T. Devreese (TFVS, Departement Natuurkunde, Universiteit Antwerpen, B-2610 Antwerpen, Belgium), J. Swerts, K. Temst, C. Van Haesendonck (VSM, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium)
13:03 P23.010 Magnetic Structure, Magnetization Reversal and Spin Dynamics of Micron-sized Permalloy Ring
Xiaobin Zhu, Zhigang Liu, Marek Malac, Hui Qian, Mark Freeman (University of Alberta, Canada), Vitali Metlushko (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA), Bojan Ilic (Cornell University, USA)
13:15 P23.011 In situ magnetotransport measurements on ion-beam-smoothed disordered ferromagnetic thin films
Partha Mitra, Arthur F Hebard (Physics Department University Of Florida Gainesville Fl 32611)
13:27 P23.012 Magnetic diffraction anomalous near-edge structure studies on magnetite
A. Cady, D. Haskel, Z. Islam, J. Lang, G. Srajer (APS, Argonne National Lab), J. Garcia, G. Subias (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
13:39 P23.013 Temperature Dependent Magnetic Compton Scattering from Magnetite
Yinwan Li (Priceton University), Pedro A Montano (US Department of Energy)

Session P24. GMAG/DMP: Focus Session: Magnetic Cobaltates and Spin Dependent Transport.

Wednesday midday, 11:15, 513EF, Palais des Congres

11:15 P24.001 Orbital ordering in Cobaltate Perovskites
Thomas Palstra (Materials Science Center, University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
11:51 P24.002 Spin correlations in La_1-xSr_xCoO_3 cobaltites
Peter J. Chupas, Stephan Rosenkranz, Ray Osborn, John F. Mitchell (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory), Jeff W. Lynn (NIST Center for Neutron Research)
12:03 P24.003 A Raman Scattering Study of the Low-Spin to Intermediate-Spin State Transition in LaCoO_3
J. F. Karpus, S. L. Cooper (Department of Physics and Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), J. F. Mitchell (Argonne National Laboratory)
12:15 P24.004 Small angle neutron scattering study of the magnetic phase separation in (La,Sr)CoO3
J Wu (Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Department, University of Minnesota), J.W. Lynn, C. Glinka (NIST Center for Neutron Research, NIST), C. Leighton (Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Department, University of Minnesota)
12:27 P24.005 Muon Spin Rotation and Relaxation in LaCoO3
sean giblin, Ian Terry (Department of Physics, University of Durham), Chris Leighton, Jing Wu (Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota), Robert Scheuermann Collaboration
12:39 P24.006 Temperature dependence of Magnetic Phase separation in La_1-xSr_xCoO_3 by ^139La NMR
P. L. Kuhns (Affiliation), M. J. R. Hoch, J. Lu, W. G. Moulton (NHMFL), C. Leighton, J. Wu (Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455)
12:51 P24.007 Semiclassical spin transport in spin-orbit coupled systems
Qian Niu, Dimitrie Culcer, Allan MacDonald (The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX78712), Jairo Sinova, Nikolai Sinitsyn (Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4242), Thomas Jungwirth (Institute of Physics ASCR, Cukrovarnicka 10, 162 53 Praha 6, Czech Republic)
13:03 P24.008 Reduction of Spin-Transfer Efficiency in Ferromagnets by Spin-Orbit Interactions
Alvaro S. Nunez, Allan H. MacDonald (Physics Dept. The University of Texas at Austin)
13:15 P24.009 Spin-transistor action in waveguides with periodically modulated strength of the spin-orbit interaction
P. Vasilopoulos, X. F. Wang (Concordia University Department of Physics, Montreal, PQ, H3G 1M8, Canada)
13:27 P24.010 Hall Effect in R_2Fe_14B Rare-Earth Intermetallic Compounds
Jolanta Stankiewicz, Juan Bartolomé (ICMA, CSIC - Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain)
13:39 P24.011 Suppression of Spin-Orbit Scattering in the Strongly Localized Regime
Dragomir Davidovic, Armando Anaya, Andrei Korotkov, Michael Bowman (Georgia Institute of Technology)
13:51 P24.012 Magnetic polaron and Fermi surface effects on the ESR Spin-Flip scattering of EuB_6 above T_c \approx 15 K
R. R. Urbano, P. G. Pagliuso, C. Rettori (Instituto de Física "Gleb Wataghin",UNICAMP,13083-970, Campinas-SP, Brazil.), S. B. Oseroff (San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, 92182, U.S.A.), J. L. Sarrao (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, U.S.A.), P. Schlottmann, Z. Fisk (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and Department of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, U.S.A.)
14:03 P24.013 Low temperature dephasing saturation from interactions and elastic spin disorder
George Kastrinakis (Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL), Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), P.O. Box 1527, Iraklio, Crete 71110, Greece)
14:15 P24.014 Glassy transport in La1-xSrxCoO3 single crystals
C. Leighton, J. Wu (Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Department,University of Minnesota), J. Burley, J.F. Mitchell, H. Zheng (Materials Science Division,Argonne National Laboratory)
P24.015 Spin-state Transition and Thermal Conductivity in RCoO3
J.-Q. Yan, J.-S. Zhou, J. B. Goodenough (Texas Materials Institute, ETC 9.102,the University of Texas at Austin ,1 University Station, C2201, Austin, TX 78712, USA)

Session P25. GMAG: Focus Session: Quantum Magnets in 2D.

Wednesday midday, 11:15, 514AB, Palais des Congres

11:15 P25.001 GMAG Dissertation Award: Quantum impurities in a two-dimensional antiferromagnet
Owen Vajk (Stanford University)
11:51 P25.002 The S=1/2 Heisenberg Antiferromagnet on a hexagonal lattice
Ute Löw (Theoretische Physik, Universität zu Köln,Zülpicher Str.77, 50937 Köln, Germany)
12:03 P25.003 Magnetic ordering in the triangular lattice (BEDT-TTF)_2X
R. T. Clay (Mississippi State University), S. Mazumdar (University of Arizona)
12:15 P25.004 Neutron Scattering Study of Magnetism in the High-Tc Analog Cs2Ag(II)F4
S. McLain, J. Turner (Dept. of Chemistry, University of Tennessee), D.A. Tennant (School of Physics amp; Astronomy, University of St.Andrews), T. Barnes (Department of Physics, University of Tennessee; Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Labs.)
12:27 P25.005 Dynamical Properties of a Novel Boride Spin Glass with Two-Dimensional Triangular Rare Earth Layers
Takao Mori, Hiroaki Mamiya (National Institute for Materials Science, Namiki 1-1, Tsukuba, Japan 305-0044)
12:39 P25.006 Neutron and X-ray diffraction study of the structure of Cs2AgF4
Sylvia Mclain (Dept. of Chemistry ,University of Tennessee; Intense Pulsed Neutron Source, Argonne National Laboratory), John Turner (Dept. of Chemistry, University of Tennessee), Ted barnes (Dept. of Physics, University of Tennessee; Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Lab), David Tennant (School of Physics and Astronomy, Univerisy of St. Andres), Thomas Proffen (LANSCE, Los Alamos National Lab)
12:51 P25.007 A New Rectangular Antiferromagnet, Cu(2,5-dmpz)Br2: Structure and Magnetism
Christopher Landee, Brian Wells, Mark Turnbull (Clark Universty)
13:03 P25.008 Field induced magnetic properties in SrCu_2(BO_3)_2
Shin Miyahara (Department of Physics, Aoyama-Gakuin University), Frederic Mila (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Institute of Theoretical Physics)
13:15 P25.009 Far-infrared spectroscopy of spin excitations in SrCu_2(BO_3)_2 and dynmaic Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction.
Urmas Nagel, Dan Hyvonen, Toomas Rõõm (Nat.-l Inst. of Chem. Phys. amp; Biophys., Tallinn, Estonia), Hiroshi Kageyama (Inst. of Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo)
13:27 P25.010 High-Field ESR Study of the Quasi-2D Spin Gap System SrCu_2(BO_3)_2.
Sergei Zvyagin, Jurek Krzystek (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, FL), Hanna Dabkowska, Bruce Gaulin (McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4M1, Canada), Raivo Stern (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Tallinn, Estonia)
P25.011 Specific heat of an S=1/2 two-dimensional Shastry-Sutherland antiferromagnet in high magnetic fields
Y. Takano, H. Tsujii, C.R. Rotundu, B. Andraka (University of Florida), H. Kageyama (Kyoto University), Y. Ueda (ISSP, University of Tokyo)

Session P26. GMAG: Magnetic Phenomena and Single Ion Effects.

Wednesday midday, 11:15, 515AB, Palais des Congres

11:15 P26.001 Universality of Barkhausen spectra at finite temperature
Robert White (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Alex Travesset (Iowa State University and Ames Natl. Lab), Karin Dahmen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
11:27 P26.002 Spin current generation by an AC biased finger-gate array in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction
C.S. Chu, L.Y. Wang (Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan), C.S. Tang (Physics Division, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, P.O. Box 2-131, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan)
11:39 P26.003 Thermal Expansion and Magnetostriction in Pr5Ni1.9Si3
B.J. Baker (1 Mat. and Eng. Physics Program, Ames Laboratory, US DoE, 2 Materials Sci. and Eng. Dept., ISU, Ames, IA 50011, USA), S.H. Song (1, 2), J.A. Paulsen (1, 3 Mech. Eng. Dept., ISU, Ames, IA 50011, USA), J.E. Snyder, D.C. Jiles (1, 2), A.O. Pecharsky (1)
11:51 P26.004 Giant magnetostriction and thermal expansion in the germanium rich range of Gd5(SixGe1-x)4
M. Han (1 Materials and Engineering Physics Program, Ames Laboratory, US Department of Energy, 2 Mat. Sci. and Eng. Dept., ISU, Ames, IA, 50011), D. C. Jiles (1, 2, 3 Comp. and El. Eng. Dept., ISU, Ames, IA, 50011), J. E. Snyder (1, 2), A. O. Pecharsky (1)
12:03 P26.005 Anomalous thermodynamic behavior of the Valence Transition in YbInCu4
Luis Balicas (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University), Kee Hoon Kim (Los Alamos National Lab, Pulsed Field Facility), Satoru Nakatsuji, Marcelo Jaime (Los Alamos National Lab, Pulsed Field Facility amp; National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University), Zachary Fisk (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University)
12:15 P26.006 Spin-lattice relaxation of Fe3+ ions in commercial silicate glasses:
Sushil Misra (Physics Department, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Boulevard West, Montreal, QC H3G 1M8, Canada), John Pilbrow (School of Physics amp; Materials Engineering, Building 27, Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia)
12:27 P26.007 Observation and interpretation of multi-atom resonant photoemission effects in O 1s emission from NiO
Watanabe Masamitsu, Mannella Norman, Yang See-Hun, Garcia de Abaho Havier, Mun Simon, Sell Brian, Ritchey Stephanie, Fadley Charles (Materials science division, LBNL – Berkeley CA)
12:39 P26.008 \textitAb initio Study of Nuclear Quadrupole Interactions in Selenium and Tellurium
N. B. Maharjan, D. D. Paudyal, D. R. Mishra, S. P. Byahut (Dept.\ of Physics, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal), Hwa-Suck Cho (Dept.\ of Physics, Yeung-Nam University, Taegu, S. Korea), R. H. Scheicher, Junho Jeong, T. P. Das (Dept.\ of Physics, State University of New York at Albany)
12:51 P26.009 The evolution of crystal electric field states and magnetic scattering in Sc_1-xU_xPd_3
S. Wilson, P. Dai (Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1200, USA), D. Adroja (ISIS Pulsed Neutron and Muon Source, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot OX11 OQX, UK), S.-H. Lee (NIST Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA), R. P. Dickey, M. Maple (Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093)
13:03 P26.010 Finite temperature description of magnetic excitations in NiMnSb
L Chioncel, G.A. de Wijs (University of Nijmegen, ESM, 6500 GL, Nijmegen, Netherlads), M.I. Katsnelson (Uppsala University, CMT, Box 530, SE-751 21 Uppsala, Sweden), R.A. de Groot, A.I. Lichtenstein (University of Nijmegen, ESM, 6500 GL, Nijmegen, Netherlads)
13:15 P26.011 Ferrimagnetic resonance of VxCo1-x[TCNE]2 organic-based magnetic semiconductors.
Y. Bataiev, N.P. Raju, K.I. Pokhodnya, A.J. Epstein (The Ohio State University), J.S. Miller (The University of Utah)
13:27 P26.012 Electronic Transport in Single-Molecule Magnets on Metallic Surfaces
Gwang-Hee Kim (Sejong Univ., Seoul, Republic of Korea), Tae-Suk Kim (Seoul National Univ., Seoul, Republic of Korea)
13:39 P26.013 Hartree-Fock Cluster Investigation of Trapping sites of Muon and Muonium and Hyperfine Interactions in the Organic Ferromagnet p-NPNN (\beta-phase)
Junho Jeong, T. P. Das (Dept. of Physics, SUNY Albany NY), N. Sahoo (Dept. of Radiation Oncology, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY), T. M. Briere (Institute of Materials Research, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Japan), S. Ohira (Muon Science Laboratory, RIKEN, Wako, Japan), K. Nishiyama, K. Nagamine (Meson Science Laboratory, Institute of Materials Structure Science, KEK, Tsukuba, Japan)
13:51 P26.014 Room Temperature Magnetic Ordering in an Organic Polymer
Ian Terry (university of durham), sean giblin, Naveed Zaidi, Andy Monkman (University of Durham)
14:03 P26.015 Unconventional Superconductivity in Organic Molecular Crystals
Ross McKenzie, Ben Powell (University of Queensland)
P26.016 Mn effect on the magnetic structure of FeMn-B amorphous alloys
Yang Wang (Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Carnegie Mellon University), D.M.C. Nicholson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Mike Widom (Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University), Miguel Fuentes-Cabrera (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Marek Mihalkovic (Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University)

Session P27. DCMP: Metals and Semiconductor Surfaces: Theory.

Wednesday midday, 11:15, 516D, Palais des Congres

11:15 P27.001 Ab-inito Calculations of RDS of Ordered GaInP: Bulk and Surface with Steps
I.G. Batyrev, T. Hannappel, W.E. McMahon, S.B. Zhang, J.M. Olson, S.-H. Wei (NREL, Golden, Colorado, 80401)
11:27 P27.002 Surface Termination and Properties of Fe_3O_4(001) from First Principles: Evidence for a Novel Surface Geometry
Rossitza Pentcheva, Wolfgang Moritz (Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University Munich, Germany), Matthias Scheffler (Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG, Berlin, Germany)
11:39 P27.003 Oxygen adsorption on Cu(100)
Matti Alatalo, Antti Puisto, Heikki Pitkänen (Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland), Sampsa Jaatinen, Petri Salo, Adam Foster (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland), Kari Laasonen (University of Oulu, Finland)
11:51 P27.004 Electronic and Bonding Properties of Hydrogen and Oxygen Adsorption on Uranium Layers*
M. N. Huda, A. K. Ray (Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas 76019)
12:03 P27.005 Atomic structure of the carbon induced Si(001)-c(4\times4) surface
Hanchul KIm, Wondong Kim (Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science), Geunseop Lee (Department of Physics, Inha University), Ja-Yong Koo (Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science)
12:15 P27.006 Stabilization mechanism of local structures on GaAs surfaces -Electron counting model and sp2 bond formation-
Akihito Taguchi (NTT Basic Research Labos.)
12:27 P27.007 Metal/Ceramic Adhesion at the Fe/TiN Interface: Electronic and Magnetic Structure, and Effect of S Impurities
Joo-Hyoung Lee, A. J. Freeman, G. B. Olson (Northwestern U.)
12:39 P27.008 Surface phase diagram for Cr_2O_3(0001)
Xiao-Gang Wang, John R. Smith (Delphi Research Labs, Shelby Twp., MI 48315)
12:51 P27.009 Ab initio core-level shifts in alloys by the complete screening picture
Weine Olovsson (Condensed Matter Theory Group, Department of Physics, Uppsala University, SE-751 21 Uppsala, Sweden), Igor A. Abrikosov (Department of Physics and Measurement Technology, Linköpings University, SE-581 83 Linköping, Sweden), Börje Johansson (Applied Materials Physics, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden)
13:03 P27.010 Fluctuating field model for the conduction electron spin resonance in graphite
D.L. Huber (Physics Dept., Univ.of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI), R.R. Urbano, M. S. Sercheli, C. Rettori (Instituto de Fisica "Gleb Wataghin", UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, Brazil)
13:15 P27.011 Accurate and realistic interfacial scattering using density functional theory in a plane-wave basis
I.P. Daykov, T.A. Arias (Department of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853)
13:27 P27.012 Transport Properties of Granular Metals
Andrei Lopatin, Igor Beloborodov (Argonne Nat Lab), Konstantin Efetov (Theoretical Physics Institute, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany), Valerii Vinokur (Argonne Nat Lab)
P27.013 Adsorptions of Atomic Hydrogen and Oxygen on \delta-Pu Layers
M. N. Huda, A. K. Ray (Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas 76019)

Session P28. DAMOP: BEC and BCS in Quantum Gases I.

Wednesday midday, 11:15, 516E, Palais des Congres

11:15 P28.001 Quantized Kelvin modes of a vortex in a nonuniform elongated BEC
Alexander Fetter (Stanford University)
11:27 P28.002 Collective Excitations of Rapidly Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensates*
C.B. Hanna, A.J. Sup, J.C. Diaz-Velez (Boise State University), J. Sinova (Texas Aamp;M University), A.H. MacDonald (University of Texas)
11:39 P28.003 Vortices in Spatially Inhomogeneous Superfluids
Daniel E. Sheehy, Leo Radzihovsky (Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder)
11:51 P28.004 Trapped Neutral Superfluid Fermi Gases Under Rotation
David Feder (University of Calgary)
12:03 P28.005 Tunneling Dynamics of a Superfluid Fermi Gas
Michiel Wouters, Jacques Tempere, Jozef T. Devreese (TFVS, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium)
12:15 P28.006 Atom-Molecule Kinetic Theory for a Fermi Gas with Resonant Interactions
Tetsuro Nikuni (Tokyo University of Science), James E. Williams, Nicolai Nygaard, Charles W. Clark (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
12:27 P28.007 Atom-molecule equilibration in a Fermi gas with resonant interactions
James E. Williams (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Tetsuro Nikuni (Tokyo University of Science), Nicolai Nygaard, Charles W. Clark (NIST)
12:39 P28.008 Effects of Spin Coherence Near a Feshbach Resonance in a Fermi Gas
Nicolai Nygaard, James E. Williams (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Tetsuro Nikuni (Tokyo University of Science), Charles W. Clark (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
12:51 P28.009 Solitons and Rabi Oscillations in a Time-Dependent BCS Pairing Problem
Roman Barankov, Leonid Levitov (Dept. of Physics, Mass. Inst. of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139), Boris Spivak (Dept. of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195)
13:03 P28.010 Artificial electromagnetism for neutral atoms: Escher staircases and Laughlin liquids
Erich J Mueller (LASSP Cornell)
13:15 P28.011 Berry's Phases of Ground States of Interacting Spin-One Bosons
Jeroen Wiemer (ITP,Utrecht University, Leuvenlaan 4, 3584 CE Utrecht, The Netherlands), Fei Zhou (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, 6224 Agriculture Road, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z1, Canada)
13:27 P28.012 Magnetic field sweeps across a Feshbach resonance in ultracold gases
Masudul Haque, Henk Stoof (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
13:39 P28.013 Dark soliton and Josephson vortex in a quasi-1D long Bose Josephson junction
Vitaliy Kaurov, Anatoly Kuklov (CSI, CUNY)
13:51 P28.014 Bose-Einstein condensation with attractive interactions
Asaad R. Sakhel, Jonathan L Du Bois, Henry R. Glyde (University of Delaware)

Session P29. DPOLY: Crystallization of Polymers.

Wednesday midday, 11:15, 519A, Palais des Congres

11:15 P29.001 Polyethylene/keratin fiber composites with varying polyethylene crystallinity
Justin Barone (USDA/ARS/ANRI/EQL)
11:27 P29.002 Remarks on processing and toughness of semi-crystalline polymers
Laurent Corte, Ludwik Leibler (Laboratoire Matiere Molle et Chimie, ESPCI, Paris, France)
11:39 P29.003 Monte Carlo Simulations of Shish-Kebab Crystallization
Jianing Zhang, M. Muthukumar (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
11:51 P29.004 Effects of deep quench aging on shallow quench nucleation in a polymer blend
Timothy Rappl, Nitash Balsara (University of California, Berkeley)
12:03 P29.005 Crystallization in the Thin and Ultra-thin Films of Poly(ethylene-vinyl acetate) and Linear Low Density Polyethylene
Yantian Wang, Shouren Ge, Miriam Rafailovich, Jonathan Sokolov (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, SUNY at Stony Brook, NY 11794-2275), Ying Zou, Harald Ade (Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695), Arnold Lustiger (ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company, Annandale, New Jersey 08801), Gad Marom (Department of Applied Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel)
12:15 P29.006 Morphological influence of heating rate, time and crystallization temperature on the nanostructural crystallization and melting behavior of PET
Francisco Medellin-Rodriguez, Estanislao Ortiz-Rodriguez (Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi, Fac. de Ciencias Quimicas CIEP, Av. Dr. Manuel Nava 6 Zona Univeristaria 78210 San Luis Potosi, S.L.P., Mexico), Norbert Stribeck (Institut fuer Technische un Makromoleculare Chemie, University of Hanburg, Hamburg, Germany and Hasylab at DESY), Armando Almendarez-Camarillo (Institut fuer Technische un Makromoleculare Chemie, University of Hanburg, Hamburg, Germany), Polymer Physics Team, Polymer Physics Collaboration
12:27 P29.007 Direct AFM Observation of Crystal Twisting and Organization in Banded Spherulites of Chiral Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyhexanoate)
Jun Xu, Bao-Hua Guo, Zen-Ming Zhang (Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua Univ., Beijing 100084, China), Jian-Jun Zhou, Yong Jiang, Shou-Ke Yan, Xia Gao, Lin Li (State Key Laboratory for Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China), Qiong Wu, Guo-Qiang Chen (Dept. Biological Sciences amp; Biotechnology, Tsinghua Univ., Beijing 100084, China), Jerold M. Schultz (Univ. of Delaware)
12:39 P29.008 Influence of the Film Thickness on the Crystallization of Poly(e-Caprolactone) Ultrathin Films, a Real Time AFM Study.
Vincent H. Mareau (CERSIM, Département de chimie, Université Laval, Québec, Canada G1K 7P4), Robert E. Prud’homme (Département de chimie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada H3C 3J7)
12:51 P29.009 Early stages of crystallisation in confined systems of poly(ethylene oxide)
Michael V. Massa, Kari Dalnoki-Veress (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy and the Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.)
13:03 P29.010 Origin of oriented recrystallization of carbon coated pre-oriented ultra thin polymer films
Shou-Ke Yan, Ji-Jun Wang, Charles C. Han (State Key Lab. of Polym. Phys. amp; Chem., Joint laboratories of Polymer Science amp; Materials, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS), Beijing 100080 (PR China))
13:15 P29.011 Crystallization of Polyethylene in Thin Films
Keesu Jeon, Ramanan Krishnamoorti (Department of Chemical Engg, Univ of Houston)
13:27 P29.012 Investigation of the Interfacial Interactions of Poly(Ethylene Oxide)
Rachel L. McSwain, Alison Markowitz, Tanishia Jarrett, Kenneth R. Shull (Northwestern University)
13:39 P29.013 Structure and Molecular Motion at Surface in Semi-Crystalline Isotactic Polypropylene Films
Keiji Tanaka (Department of Applied Chemistry, Kyushu University), Atsushi Sakai, Toshihiko Nagamura, Atsushi Takahara (Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University), Tisato Kajiyama (Kyushu University)
13:51 P29.014 Micromechanical Interpretation of the Modulus of Semicrystalline Copolymers and Ionomers
Katsuyuki Wakabayashi, Richard A. Register (Princeton University)
14:03 P29.015 Effect of self-generated mechanical fields on formation of ripples in isotactic polystyrene single crystals
Rujul Mehta, Thein Kyu (The University of Akron)

Session P30. DPOLY: Morphology and Assembly of Block Copolymers.

Wednesday midday, 11:15, 519B, Palais des Congres

11:15 P30.001 Self-Consistent Field Theory of AB_n Miktoarm Copolymer Melts
Gregory Grason, Randall Kamien (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania)
11:27 P30.002 Diblock Copolymer Electrolytes
Nitash Balsara, Steven Leone, Laurie McDonough, Omolola Odusanya (University of California, Berkeley)
11:39 P30.003 Hydrophobic Core Structure in Amphiphilic ABCA Tetrablock Copolymer Micelles
Aaron Brannan, Frank Bates (University of Minnesota)
11:51 P30.004 Birefringence and Depolarized Light Scattering from Ordered Block Copolymers with Anisotropic Distributions of Grain Orientations Produced by Shear Flow
Ferass Abuzaina, Bruce Garetz, Jatin Mody, Maurice Newstein (Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY 11201), Nitash Balsara (University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720)
12:03 P30.005 Small-Angle Neutron Scattering from Nonuniformly Labeled Block Copolymers
Nitash Balsara, Megan Ruegg (University of California, Berkeley), Maurice Newstein (Polytechnic University, Brooklyn), Benedict Reynolds (University of California, Berkeley)
12:15 P30.006 Homopolymer Solubilization in Diblock Copolymer Micelles
Michelle D. Lefebvre, Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Kenneth R. Shull (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University)
12:27 P30.007 Transmission Electron Microtomography of Gyroid-Forming Diblock Copolymer Blends
Hiroshi Jinnai (Kyoto Institute of Technology), Michael Braunfeld, David Agard (University of California at San Francisco), Hirokazu Hasegawa (Kyoto University), Richard Spontak (North Carolina State University)
12:39 P30.008 Control of polystrene-b-poly(acrylic acid) block copolymer aggregate morphology by molecular weight distribution of the core forming block.
Owen Terreau, Adi Eisenberg (McGill University)
12:51 P30.009 Equilibrium dynamics of a polymeric sponge phase
Simon Mochrie, Peter Falus (Yale University, Department of Physics), Matt Borthwick (MIT, Department of Physics)
13:03 P30.010 Self-assembly Behavior and Crystallization of a Low Molecular Weight Double Crystalline Polyethylene-block-Poly(ethylene oxide) Diblock Copolymer
Lei Zhu, Lu Sun (Inst. of Mater. Sci. & Chem. Eng., University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06296-3136), Benjamin Hsiao, Carlos Avila-Orta (Chemistry Dept., State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794)
13:15 P30.011 Designing Balanced Surfactants for the Organization of Immiscible Polymers
Megan Ruegg, Nitash Balsara, Benedict Reynolds (University of California, Berkeley), Timothy Shaffer, David Lohse (ExxonMobil), Min Lin (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
13:27 P30.012 Association And Chain Conformation Of PS-PEO In Solution
Gang Cheng, Dvora Perahia (Materials Science and Engineering and Chemistry Department, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0973)
13:39 P30.013 First-order melting in a 2D diblock copolymer system
Dan Angelescu, Christopher Harrison (Princeton University Physics Dept./ Schlumberger-Doll Research), Matthew Trawick (Princeton University Physics Dept.), Richard Register (Princeton University Chemical Engineering Dept.), Paul Chaikin (Princeton University Physics Dept)
13:51 P30.014 Homopolymer Blending in the Poly(Isoprene-b-Styrene-b-Ethylene Oxide) Triblock System
III Epps, Frank Bates (University of Minnesota, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science)

Session P31. DPOLY: Dynamics in Polymeric Systems.

Wednesday midday, 11:15, 523AB, Palais des Congres

11:15 P31.001 Gas diffusion through a polymer matrix
Manoj Gopalakrishnan, Beate Schmittmann, Royce Zia (CSPISE and Department of Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg)
11:27 P31.002 Effect of hydrogen bonding on thermal diffusion
Jutta Luettmer-Strathmann (University of Akron, Department of Physics)
11:39 P31.003 Mechanism of Thermal Transport in Materials Composed of Linear-chain Molecules
Liping Xue, Pawel Keblinski (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Simon Phillpot (University of Florida)
11:51 P31.004 Molecular Dynamics simulations of polymer friction coefficients and collision dynamics in sieving media.
Martin Kenward, Gary W. Slater (University of Ottawa)
12:03 P31.005 SURFACE DIFFUSION OF SINGLE POLYMER CHAIN USING MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION
Tapan Desai, Pawel Keblinski, Sanat Kumar (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.), Steve Granick (University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois.)
12:15 P31.006 Diffusion in Binary Polyethylene Blends: Role of Constraint Release
E. D. von MEERWALL, N. DIRAMA, W. L. MATTICE (Univ. Akron)
12:27 P31.007 High Pressure Local Dynamics of Bulk Polymers
David Adolf, Andrey Kirpatch (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT UK)
12:39 P31.008 Reptation Dynamics in a Random Energy Landscape with Long-Range Correlations
Gary W. Slater, Sylvain Hubert (University of Ottawa)
12:51 P31.009 Cooperative Dynamics in Polymer Melts and Blends
Marina Guenza (University of Oregon)
13:03 P31.010 The effect of chain architecture on the dynamics of copolymers in a homopolymer matrix.
Sudesh Kamath, Mark. D Dadmun (The University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
13:15 P31.011 Failure simulations of triglyceride-based adhesives
Christian D. Lorenz, Mark J. Stevens (Sandia National Laboratories), Richard P. Wool (University of Delaware)
13:27 P31.012 Simulation of the deformation and the dynamical behavior of entangled polymer chains
Marcus Wacha, Stefan Kreitmeier (University of Regensburg, Institute for exp. and appl. Physics, Germany)
13:39 P31.013 structure and Universal Property of Nonionic Surfactant/Phospholipid Mixed Micelle in the Semidilute Regime
Soojin Jang, Mahn Won Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
13:51 P31.014 Comments on a Dynamic Bead Size and Kuhn Segment Length in Polymers
Alexei Sokolov, Yifu Ding, Vladimir Novikov (Department of Polymer Science, The University of Akron)
P31.015 The Importance of Sequence Distribution on the Dynamics of a Copolymer
Mark Dadmun (University of Tennessee)

Session P32. FIAP: Focus Session: Interfacial Segregation on Atomic Scale: Experiment and Simulation.

Wednesday midday, 11:15, 524C, Palais des Congres

11:15 P32.001 BISMUTH INDUCED EMBRITTLEMENT OF COPPER GRAIN BOUNDARIES
M. F. Chisholm (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), G. Duscher (North Carolina State University)
11:27 P32.002 Intergranular and superficial segregation: a comparative study
. Creuze (Affiliation), F Berthier, R. T\~etot (LEMHE, Bât. 410, Universit\~e Paris XI, 91405 Orsay cedex, France), B Legrand (SRMP-DMN, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France)
11:39 P32.003 Segregation at Coherent Interphase Boundaries: The Case of Mg at Al/Al_3Sc
M. Asta (Northwestern University), E. A. Marquis (Sandia National Laboratories), D. N. Seidman, C. Woodward (Northwestern University), V. Ozolins (University of California Los Angeles)
12:15 P32.004 Effect of helium on grain boundary cohesion in iron: an ab initio study
Raju P. Gupta (SRMP, CEA-Sacly, 91191 Gif sur Yvette, France), Michèle Gupta (Université de Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay, France)
12:27 P32.005 Understanding the magnetocatalytic effect: Magnetism as a driving force for surface segregation
Donald Siegel (Materials Physics Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA), Mark vanSchilfgaarde (Chemical and Materials Engineering Department, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ), John Hamilton (Materials Physics Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA)
12:39 P32.006 Fe Segregation Effects on Grain Boundary Migration in Al
Mikhail Mendelev, David Srolovitz (Princeton University), Graeme Ackland (University of Edinburgh), Seungwu Han (Ewha Womans University)
12:51 P32.007 The composition and electronic structure of buried interfaces and point defects imaged at the atomic scale
David A. Muller (Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853)
13:27 P32.008 First-Principles Study of the (100) Interfacial Boundary in Ni-Ni_3Al
Christopher Woodward, Axel van de Walle, Mark Asta (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University)
13:39 P32.009 Equilibrium Solid-Liquid Interfacial Adsorption in Lennard-Jones Alloys
C.A. Becker, M. Asta (Northwestern University), J.J. Hoyt, S.M. Foiles (Sandia National Laboratories)
13:51 P32.010 Effects of gas adsorption and removal on friction during sliding along DLC films
Feodor M. Borodich (School of Engineering, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF24 3AT, UK), Leon M. Keer (Technological Institute, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208)
14:03 P32.011 Temporal Evolution of Solute Concentration Profiles at Heterophase Interfaces
Chantal Sudbrack (Northwestern University), Ronald Noebe (NASA Glenn Research Center), David Seidman (Northwestern University)
14:15 P32.012 Solute Spatial Distribution in Dilute Ni-Mn Alloy Electrodeposits
Emmanuelle Marquis, James Kelly, Alec Talin (sandia national labs), David Seidman (Northwestern University), Steven Goods (sandia national labs)

Session P33. DMP: Focus Session: Fundamental Challenges in Transport Properties of Nanostructures II.

Wednesday midday, 11:15, 525AB, Palais des Congres

11:15 P33.001 Quantum Coherence and Time Dependent Conductance Fluctuations in Ferromagnetic Nanowires
Sungbae Lee, Aaron Trionfi, Douglas Natelson (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University)
11:27 P33.002 Electron Coherence Length Comparison in Mesoscopic AuPd wires
A. Trionfi, S. Lee, D. Natelson (Rice University Dept. of Physics and Astronomy)
11:39 P33.003 Electronic Properties of Dy thin films and nanowires grown on Si(001)*
Chigusa Ohbuchi, N.O. Birge (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University), J. Nogami (Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University)
11:51 P33.004 Magnetic Phenomena and Ballistic Transport in Monatomic Transition Metal Nanowires
Erio Tosatti (SISSA, ICTP, and INFM DEMOCRITOS, Trieste, Italy)
12:27 P33.005 Theory of CO adsorption on linear gold chains: electronic properties and transport
Arrigo Calzolari (INFM-S3 and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy), Carlo Cavazzoni (CINECA, I-40033 Casalecchio di Reno, Bologna, Italy, and INFM-S3), Marco Buongiorno-Nardelli (Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC and CCS-CSM, Oak Ridge National Lab., Oak Ridge, TN)
12:39 P33.006 Transport in molecular wires: a momentum filtering effect
Chao-Cheng Kaun, Hong Guo (Physics Department, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2T8)
12:51 P33.007 Ionic Shell and Subshell Structures in Aluminum and Gold Nanocontacts
Ernesto Medina, Marisel Díaz, Natalia León, Carlo Guerrero, Anwar Hasmy (Centro de Fí sica, IVIC, Venezuela), Pedro Serena, Jose Costa-Kramer (CSIC, Madrid, España)
13:03 P33.008 Elucidation of the electronic properties of alkanethiolate-stabilized gold clusters and nanoparticles using scanning tunneling microscopy
Thomas P. Pearl (North Carolina State University), Sanjini U. Nanayakkara, Rachel K. Smith, Brent A. Mantooth, Paul S. Weiss (The Pennsylvania State University), Gerd H. Woehrle, James E. Hutchison (University of Oregon)
13:15 P33.009 Modeling of Nanoparticle Based Logic Gates
Christopher Berven, SaiKishore Jillepally, Tyrel Johnson (Department of Physics, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844)
13:27 P33.010 Study of Noise in Thiol-Coated Au Nanoparticle Films
J. Kim, A. Kuo, L.A. Farina, K.M. Lewis, X. Bai, C. Kurdak (Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109), M.P. Rowe, A.J. Matzger, W.H. Steinecker (Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109), E.T. Zellers (Department of Environmental Health Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109)

Session P34. DCP: Focus Session: Nanoparticle Enhanced Spectroscopies-III.

Wednesday midday, 11:15, 520A, Palais des Congres

11:15 P34.001 SERS Sensing with Plasmonic Nanoantennae
Vladimir M. Shalaev (Purdue University)
11:51 P34.002 An Efficient Nanolens: Self-Similar Chain of Metal Nanospheres
Mark I. Stockman, Kuiru Li (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303), David J. Bergman (School of Physics and Astronomy, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel)
12:03 P34.003 Many-body effects in SERS from molecules adsorbed on noble-metal nanoparticles
V. N. Pustovit, T. V. Shahbazyan (Jackson State University)
12:15 P34.004 Finite Difference Time Domain studies of optical properties of nano structures
Chris Oubre (Rice University)
12:51 P34.005 A hybridization model for the plasmon response of complex nanostructures
Emil Prodan (University of California-Santa Barbara), Corey Radloff (Air Force Research Laboratory), Naomi Halas, Peter Nordlander (Rice University)
13:03 P34.006 Plasmon hybridization in nanoparticle dimers
Peter Nordlander (RIce University), Emil Prodan (University of California-Santa Barbara), Chris Oubre (Rice University)
13:15 P34.007 Nonlinear Microscopy of Individual Nanoparticles
Alexandre Bouhelier (Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne IL, 60439)
13:51 P34.008 Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Localized States and Nanoparticles: Ligands on Molecular Wires
J. W. Gadzuk (NIST)
14:03 P34.009 An efficient implementation of the Finite Difference Time Domain method on distributed memory architectures
Chris Oubre, Peter Nordlander (Rice University)

Session P35. DCP: Focus Session: Structure and Dynamics of Supercooled Liquids and Glasses II.

Wednesday midday, 11:15, 520B, Palais des Congres

11:15 P35.001 Hyperquenching Experiments for the Study of the Supercooled Liquids and Protein Folding at Low Thermal Excitation Levels.
C. Austen Angell (Arizona State University)
11:51 P35.002 Slow Dynamics of the Complex Fluid, Liquid Water
Nicolas Giovambattista, Sergey Buldyrev, H. Eugene Stanley (Center for Polymer Studies and Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215), Francis Starr (Department of Physics, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459)
12:03 P35.003 Nanometer scale dynamics and local aging effects in glassy polymers probed by non Gaussian 1/f noise
Koneswaran Sinnathamby, Nathan Israeloff (Dept. of Physics, Northeastern University)
12:15 P35.004 Fluctuation Dissipation Relation and frequency domain study during aging processes in polymer glasses
Hassan Oukris, Shomeek Mukhopadhyay, Nathan Israeloff (Dept. of Physics, Northeastern University)
12:27 P35.005 Separation of time and space-dependence of correlated motions in gels and glasses
Yongxiang Gao, Maria Kilfoil (McGill University)
12:39 P35.006 Break
12:51 P35.007 Geometric View of Structural Glass Formers
David Chandler (University of California, Berkeley)
13:27 P35.008 Dynamical heterogeneity, dynamical facilitation and frustration limited domains in a simulated glass forming liquid
Magnus Bergroth, Aaron Keys, Michael Vogel, Sharon Glotzer (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109)
13:39 P35.009 Identifying Transition States in Glassy Systems : Temperature dependence of barriers on the Potential Energy Landscape
Tushar Jain, Juan de Pablo (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
13:51 P35.010 An energy landscape based approach for studying supercooled liquid and glassy thin films
Pooja Shah, Jeetain Mittal, Thomas M. Truskett (The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station C0400, Austin,TX-78712,USA)
14:03 P35.011 Aging in van der Waals liquids: a microscopic model
Didier Long (Université de Paris Sud/CNRS), Samy Merabia (Université de Paris Sud)
14:15 P35.012 What to be learned from glassy crystals?
Marc Descamps, Jean Francois Willart, Frederic Affouard (University Lille1, France)

Session P36. DCMP: Coupled Quantum Bits.

Wednesday midday, 11:15, 520C, Palais des Congres

11:15 P36.001 Indirect Exchange Coupling between Quantum Dots
Guy Ramon, Yuli Lyanda-Geller, Thomas Reinecke (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC 20375-5320), Lu Sham (Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0319)
11:27 P36.002 Exact Diagonalization Studies of Coupled Quantum Dot Exchange Gates
Vito Scarola, Sankar Das Sarma (Condensed Matter Theory Center, University of Maryland)
11:39 P36.003 Designer entanglement in spin chains at finite temperature
Layla Hormozi, Nick Bonesteel (Dept. of Physics and NHMFL, Florida State University), Henry Haselgrove, Michael Nielsen (University of Queensland)
11:51 P36.004 Asymmetric exchange interactions in coupled quantum dots
Stefan C Badescu, Yuli Lyanda-Geller, Thomas L Reinecke (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC)
12:03 P36.005 Double Quantum Dot as a Filter for Spin Entanglement
Xuedong Hu (Department of Physics, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York), Sankar Das Sarma (Condensed Matter Theory Center, Department of Physics, University of Maryland)
12:15 P36.006 Spin spitting in Mn-doped quantum dots
Y.B. Lyanda-Geller, T.L. Reinecke (Naval Research Laboratory), G. Bacher (University of Duisburg)
12:27 P36.007 Double dot electronic structure with exact diagonalization in a realistic geometry
Michael Stopa (ERATO-JST)
12:39 P36.008 QCA qubits and electrostatic limitations on single qubit operations
Andreas Weichselbaum, Sergio E. Ulloa (Ohio University, Athens OH)
12:51 P36.009 Localizing many-particle states in a quantum computer
L.F. Santos, M.I. Dykman, F.M. Izrailev, M. Shapiro (Institute for Quantum Sciences, Michigan State University)
13:03 P36.010 Many-spin interactions in quantum dot quantum computers
Ryan Woodworth, Ari Mizel (Department of Physics and Materials Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University), Daniel A. Lidar (Chemical Physics Theory Group, Chemistry Department, University of Toronto)
P36.011 Geometry of the 3-Qubit State, Entanglement and Division Algebras
Bogdan Bernevig (Stanford university), HanDong Chen (Stanford University)
P36.012 Coupled GaN quantum dots for quantum information processing
Sergio De Rinaldis (Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Canada), Irene D' Amico (Institute for Scientific Interchange (ISI), Torino, Italy), Fausto Rossi (Department of Physics, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy)

Session P37. DMP: Focus Session: Materials for Molecular Electronics III.

Wednesday midday, 11:15, 520D, Palais des Congres

11:15 P37.001 Properties of Complex Molecules at Metal Surfaces
Federico Rosei (INRS EMT, Univ. du Quebec)
11:51 P37.002 Molecular Spintronics: Theory of Spin-Dependent Electron Transport in Fe/BDT/Fe Molecular Wire Systems
Hugh Dalgleish, George Kirczenow (Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, V5A 1S6)
12:03 P37.003 Spin-Polarized Tunneling Through Self-Assembled Molecular Monolayers
S.K. Slater, J.R. Petta, D.C. Ralph (Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853)
12:15 P37.004 The Tetrathiafulvalene-based Donor-acceptor Diads for Molecular Electronics
Dmitrii F. Perepichka (INRS-Energy, Materials, Telecom., CANADA), Martin R. Bryce (Dep. Chemistry , University of Durham, UK), Gregory Ho, James R. Heath (Dep. Chemistry, Caltech, USA), Christopher Pearson, Michael C. Petty (School of Engineering, University of Durham, UK)
12:27 P37.005 Dissipative tunneling and orthogonality catastrophe in molecular transistors
Stephan Braig (Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853), Karsten Flensberg (Ørsted Laboratory, Niels Bohr Institute fAPG, Universitetsparken 5, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark)
12:39 P37.006 Tuning carrier density in organic thin film transistors with self-assembled monolayers
Yoshihiro Iwasa, Shin-ichiro Kobayashi, Taishi Takenobu (Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University), Takao Nishikawa, Tadaoki Mitani (JAIST), Tatsuya Shimoda (SEIKO-EPSON Corporation)
12:51 P37.007 Electrical and Mechanical Interfacing of Molecular Recognition Self-Assembled Systems: Conducting Probe AFM Studies.
Kevin D. McCarthy, Mark T. Tuominen (Dept. of Physics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst), Hao Xu, Tyler Norsten, Vincent M. Rotello (Dept. of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
13:03 P37.008 Roto-electrics: Three Dimensional Dipolar Molecular Rotor Lattices
Robert D. Horansky, Laura I. Clarke, John C. Price (University of Colorado, Boulder), Jose E. Nunez, Tinh-A.V. Kuong, Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay (University of California, Los Angeles)
13:15 P37.009 Dielectric Spectroscopy of Altitudinal Dipolar Molecular Rotors
L. I. Clarke (Dept. of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC), M. E. Mulcahy (Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO), R. D. Horansky (Dept. of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO), D. Horinek, X. Zheng, T. F. Magnera, J. Michl (Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO), J. P. Price (Dept. of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)
13:27 P37.010 Theory of electroluminescence from molecular wires
John Buker, George Kirczenow (Simon Fraser University)
13:39 P37.011 Fast photoresponse of functionalized pentacene single crystals
J. Gao, O. Ostroverkhova, L. Barker, F.A. Hegmann (Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada), R.R. Tykwinski (Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada), J.E. Bullock, J.E. Anthony (Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky)
13:51 P37.012 Transient photoconductivity in organic semiconductors: thin films versus single crystals
O. Ostroverkhova, S. Scherbyna, J. Gao, D. G. Cooke, R. Egerton, F. A. Hegmann (Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada), R. R. Tykwinski (Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada), J. E. Anthony (Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky)
14:03 P37.013 X-ray Rocking curve study of organic semiconductor crystals
Theo Siegrist (Bell Laboratories), Christian Kloc, X Chi, Arthur Ramirez
14:15 P37.014 Application of time-dependent quantum mechanics to electron transport through molecular junctions
Natalie Carroll, Karl Sohlberg (Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, 19104)

Session P38. DAMOP/DCOMP/DMP: Focus Session: Computational Nanoscience II.

Wednesday midday, 11:15, 520E, Palais des Congres

11:15 P38.001 Measuring the force of individual surface ions
Alexander Shluger (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK)
11:51 P38.002 Statistical Study of Thermal Effect in Quantum-dot Cellular Automata
Mahfuza Khatun (Center for Computational Nanoscience, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306, USA), Ioan Sturzu (Center for Computational Nanoscience, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Ball State University), Jonathan Kanuchok (Center for Computational Nanoscience, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306, USA), Douglas Tougaw (Department of Electrical Engineering, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN 46383, USA)
12:03 P38.003 Anomalous effect in a hydrogenic impurity in a spherical quantum dot under the influence of parallel electric and magnetic fields
Y. K. Ho, Y. C. Lin, S. Sahoo (Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, ROC.)
12:15 P38.004 Pair interaction energy for a 12-electron 2D square Quantum Dot.
Daniel Nissenbaum, Bernardo Barbiellini, Arun Bansil (Department of Physics, Northeastern University)
12:27 P38.005 Modeling the Surfactant Mediated Synthesis of Quantum Nanodots and Their Arrays
Narayan Adhikari (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY), Xihong Peng, Saroj Nayak (Department of Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY), Sanat Kumar (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY)
12:39 P38.006 What is the true low-energy structure of a semiconductor quantum dot? The case for silicon
Yufeng Zhao, Yong-Hyun Kim, Shengbai Zhang (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
12:51 P38.007 Effect of Alloying on the Infrared Spectrum of Metal-Carbide Nanoclusters
Steven P. Lewis, B. J. Cooley, Qin Zhang (University of Georgia)
13:03 P38.008 Interaction and Pulling of Thiolates on Coinage Atom Clusters and Surfaces
Martin Konopka (Slovak University of Technology (FEI STU), Bratislava, Slovakia), Roger Rousseau (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany), Ivan Stich (Slovak University of Technology (FEI STU), Bratislava, Slovakia), Dominik Marx (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany)
13:15 P38.009 Structure and energetic of water-silica clusters
Mao-Hua Du, Lin-Lin Wang, Hai-Ping Cheng (Department of Physics, University of Florida)
13:27 P38.010 STRUCTURAL AND VIBRATIONAL PROPERTIES OF SMALL VANADIUM CLUSTERS
Christian Ratsch (UCLA and Fritz-Haber-Institut), Andre Fielicke (FOM Institute for Plasma Physics), Gert v. Helden, Joerg Behler, Gerard Meijer, Matthias Scheffler (Fritz-Haber-Institut)
13:39 P38.011 Statistical Determination of the Thermodynamics of Clusters
Aurelio Tamez (Facultad de ciencias, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico), Karo Michaelian (Instituto de Fisica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), Andres Reyes-Nava (Posgrado en Fisica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), Ignacio Garzon (Instituto de Fisica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)
13:51 P38.012 Non-classical fullerene cages enclosing metal atom clusters
Sung-Soo Park, Frank Hagelberg (Computational Center for Molecular Structure and Interactions, Jackson State University, USA)
14:03 P38.013 Optical properties of chiral nanostructures
Noguez Cecilia, Román-Velázquez Carlos E., Garzón Ignacio L. (Instituto de Física, UNAM México)

Session P39. FIAP: Focus Session: MEMS/NEMS Applications II.

Wednesday midday, 11:15, 520F, Palais des Congres

11:15 P39.001 Integrative Technology: 21st Century Technology for 21st Century Engineers
Ph.D. Montemagno (Chair, Department of Bioengineering amp; Biomedical Engineering, IDP, University of California, Los Angeles)
11:51 P39.002 Quantum Dissipation in Nanomechanical Oscillators
G. Zolfagharkhani, A. Gaidarzhy, R.L. Badzey, P. Mohanty (Department of Physics and Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Boston University 590 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215)
12:03 P39.003 Towards the Quantum Mechanical Regime in Nanoscale Oscillators
A. Gaidarzhy, G. Zolfagharkhani, R.L. Badzey, P. Mohanty (Department of Physics and Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Boston University 590 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215)
12:15 P39.004 Towards Mechanical Signal Processing with Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems (NEMS)
R.L. Badzey, A. Gaidarzhy, G. Zolfagharkhani, P. Mohanty (Department of Physics and Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Boston University 590 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215)
12:27 P39.005 Approaching the Quantum Limit of a Nanomechanical Resonator
Matt LaHaye, Olivier Buu, Benedetta Camarota (LPS, University of Maryland, College Park), Keith Schwab (LPS, Univeristy of Maryland, College Park)