Program overview

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, 24 MARCH 2004

14:30 S1.001 Liquid Crystals and the World of Broken Symmetry

Tom Lubensky (University of Pennsylvania)

15:06 S1.002 Spherical Crystallography: Virus Buckling and Grain Boundary Scars

David Nelson (Lyman Laboratory of Physics and DEAS, Harvard Unversity, Cambridge, MA 02138)

15:42 S1.003 Conformal Symmetry - a Cornucopia of Analytic Results in Two-Dimensional Physics

John Cardy (Oxford University)

16:18 S1.004 2004 Rahman Prize in Computational Physics: HOW DO SOLIDS FAIL? A Research Adventure Using Lots Of Atoms And Big Computers

Farid Abraham (IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, San Jose CA 95120)

16:54 S1.005 Energy Landscapes and Solved Protein Folding Problems

Peter Wolynes (University of California, San Diego)

14:30 S2.001 An unusual charge density wave state in the spin ladder plane of Sr14Cu24O41

Peter Abbamonte (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

15:06 S2.002 Magnetic excitations in YBCO and BSCCO superconductors

Bernhard Keimer (Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany)

15:42 S2.003 Signatures of inhomogeneous superconducting condensate in IR spectra of high-T_c cuprates

Sasa Dordevic (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

16:18 S2.004 From stripes, resonance and local pairing, to frozen spin clusters within SC order near the SC-AF crossover in YBCO

William JL Buyers (National Research Council Canada)

14:30 S3.001 Properties of Nonabelian Quantum Hall States

Steven H. Simon (Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs)

15:06 S3.002 Non Abelian States of Rotating Bose Gases

Nigel Cooper (University of Cambridge)

15:42 S3.003 Conformal Field Theory Approaches to Quantum Hall States and Rotating Bose Condensates

Kareljan Schoutens (Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam)

16:18 S3.004 The Hanbury Brown-Twiss set-up for fractional statistics

Smitha Vishveshwara (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

14:30 S4.001 Feeding—Not weeding: A Strategy to Grow More Women Scientists

Mary Pavone (Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755)

15:06 S4.002 Recruitment and Retention of Female Graduate Students: What Have We Learned from the APS Climate for Women Program?

Laurie McNeil (Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

15:42 S4.003 Gender Differences in the Careers of Former Postdoctoral Fellows

Gerhard Sonnert (Dept. of Physics, Harvard University)

16:18 S4.004 What Works for Women in Undergraduate Physics?

Barbara L. Whitten (Colorado College)

16:54 S4.005 Pathways into Science for High-School Girls

Elizabeth Simmons (Michigan State University)

17:30 S4.006 Retention of young female post-doc physics researchers in the UK

Elizabeth Whitelegg (The Institute of Physics and The Open University)

14:30 S5.001 Twenty Years of Ablative Photodecomposition (Industrial Applications of Physics Prize Lecture)

Rangaswamy Srinivasan (UVTech Associates, Ossining, NY 10562)

15:06 S5.002 Photochemical Ablation of Organic Solids

Barbara Garrison (The Pennsylvania State University)

15:42 S5.003 Chemical and Spectroscopic Aspects of Polymer Ablation-Special Features and Novel Directions-

Thomas Lippert (Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland)

16:18 S5.004 Cell-by-Cell Fabrication of Biological Systems by Laser Forward Transfer

Doug Chrisey (US Naval Research Laboratory)

16:54 S5.005 Laser Ablation of Polymer Microfluidic Devices

Kevin Killeen (Agilent Technologies)

14:30 S6.001 Time-Dependent, Lattice Approach for Atomic Scale Phenomena

David Schultz (Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831)

15:06 S6.002 Recent developments in quantum Monte Carlo methods for electronic structure of atomic clusters

Lubos Mitas (Department of Physics, North Carlina State University, Raleigh)

15:42 S6.003 Simulation of Black Hole binaries: pushing computational methods to extreme regimes

Luis Lehner (Louisiana State University)

16:18 S6.004 Atomic and Molecular Double Photoionization and Electron Impact Ionization from First-Principles Computation

C. William McCurdy (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

16:54 S6.005 The Fall and Rise of Lattice QCD

G. Peter Lepage (Physics Department, Cornell University)

14:30 S7.001 Mitosis: History and Overview.

Jonathan Scholey (Center for Genetics and Development and Section of MCB, University of California, Davis, CA 95616.)

15:06 S7.002 Reeling in chromosomes to spindle poles: The roles of microtubule-destabilizing enzymes in mitotic spindle dynamics

David Sharp (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)

15:42 S7.003 Regulatory mechanisms controlling mitotic spindle assembly

Andrew Wilde (Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology. University of Toronto)

16:18 S7.004 Molecular motors and physics of cell division

Jorge V. Jose (Center for the Interdisciplinary Research on Complex Systems and Physics Department, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115)

14:30 S8.001 Computing Optimal Binding of Two Nucleic Acid Chains

Nathan O. Hodas, Daniel P. Aalberts (Williams College)

14:42 S8.002 Thermodynamic Modeling of Donor Splice Site Recognition in pre-mRNA

Daniel P. Aalberts, Jeffrey A. Garland (Williams College)

14:54 S8.003 Isomers of the DNA bases and their possible role in base pair mismatch

Karo Michaelian (Instituto de Fisica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, A.P. 20-364, 01000 Mexico D.F. Mexico), Aldo Romero (Instituto Potosino de Investigacion en Ciencias y Tecnologia, C.P 78216, San Luis Potosi, Mexico)

15:06 S8.004 Statistical mechanics of base stacking and pairing in DNA melting

Vassili Ivanov, Yan Zeng, Giovanni Zocchi (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California Los Angeles)

15:18 S8.005 Molecular dynamics simulations of the d(CCAACGTTGG)_2 decamer in crystal environment: comparison of atom-centered charge, extra-point and polarizable force fields.

Jason Baucom (North Carolina State University (NCSU)), Thomas Transue (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)), Miguel Fuentes-Cabrera (NCSU), Joseph Krahn, Thomas Darden (NIEHS), Celeste Sagui (NCSU)

15:30 S8.006 Excluded volume effects in unzipping DNA with a force

Pui-Man Lam (Department of Physics, Southern University, Baton Rouge)

15:42 S8.007 Diffusion-limited looping of biopolymers: theory and biological implications

Suckjoon Jun, John Bechhoefer (Physics, Simon Fraser Univ., Vancouver), Bae-Yeun Ha (Physics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada)

15:54 S8.008 A Gibbs sampler for motif detection in phylogenetically close sequences

Rahul Siddharthan (The Rockefeller University), Erik van Nimwegen (University of Basel), Eric Siggia (The Rockefeller University)

16:06 S8.009 Bioinformatics in the Thermodynamic Limit: Applications to pre-mRNA Splice Site Detection

Eric G. Daub, Daniel P. Aalberts (Williams College)

16:18 S8.010 Differences in Muon and Muonium Trapping in A- and B-form DNA and in Individual Nucleic Acids: an \textitab initio study

E. Torikai (Yamanashi University, Kofu, Japan; RIKEN, Wako-shi, Japan), R. H. Scheicher, T. P. Das (State University of New York at Albany, Albany NY), F. L. Pratt (ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, UK), K. Nagamine (KEK-MSL, Tsukuba, Japan)

16:30 S8.011 Fabrication of Electrically Addressable Nanopore Arrays for DNA Translocation Studies

Sang Ryul Park, X. S. Ling (Department of Physics, Brown University)

16:42 S8.012 Self Assembly of Nanotubes from DNA Tiles

Axel Ekani-Nkodo, Ashish Kumar, Deborah Kuchnir Fygenson (Physics Department, Biomolecular Science and Engineering Program and California NanoSystems Institute, UC Santa Barbara, CA 93106)

16:54 S8.013 Reversible aggregation and Phase Transition in the DNA-linked gold nanoparticle Systems

Young Sun, Nolan Harris, Ching-Hwa Kiang (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005)

17:06 S8.014 Phase Transition of DNA Coated Nanogold Networks

Ching-Hwa Kiang, Young Sun, Nolan Harris, Nissanka Wickremasinghe (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005)

17:18 S8.015 HMGB1 proteins strongly alter the flexibility of single DNA molecules

Micah McCauley (Department of Physics, Northeastern University), Philip R. Hardwidge, L. James Maher (Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Foundation), Mark C. Williams (Department of Physics, Northeastern University)

S8.016 Effects of kinks on DNA elasticity.

Yuri Popov, Alexei Tkachenko (University of Michigan)

14:30 S9.001 Mechanical stretching and contact order of proteins

Marek Cieplak (Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland)

15:06 S9.002 Probing the energy landscape of proteins using mechanical unfolding experiments

Dave Thirumalai (University of Maryland)

15:42 S9.003 Experiments & Simulations of Pathway Shifts & T-dependent Forced Unfolding of 3-helix Proteins

Dennis Discher, Richard Law, Mike Klein (Univ. Pennsylvania)

15:54 S9.004 Mechanical Properties of Single Collagen Fibrils Revealed by Force Spectroscopy

John Graham (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, USA), Charlotte Phillips (Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, USA), Michel Grandbois (Départment de Pharmacologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, PQ, Canada)

16:06 S9.005 Density functional theory study of alpha-helical polypeptides under tensile strain.

Joel Ireta (Fritz-Haber-Institut, Berlin, Germany), Joerg Neugebauer (Theoretiche Physik, Universitaet Paderborn, Germany), Matthias Scheffler (Fritz-Haber-Institut, Germany)

16:18 S9.006 The effect of pulling geometry and concatamer architecture on the mechanical unfolding force of \beta-sheet proteins

PD Olmsted, RC Zinober, DA Smith (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds), AW Blake, DJ Brockwell, SE Radford (School of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Leeds), GS Beddard (School of Chemistry, University of Leeds), RN Perham (Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge), E Paci (Biochemisches Institut der Universität Zürich)

16:30 S9.007 Nonlinear Elasticity of \alpha-helical domains

Buddhapriya Chakrabarti, Alex Levine (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

16:42 S9.008 Flexibility of Protein Secondary Structures

Eldon Emberly (Physics Department, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC, CANADA), Ranjan Mukhopadhyay, Chao Tang, Ned Wingreen (NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, New Jersey 08540)

16:54 S9.009 Artificial Allosteric Control of Maltose Binding Protein

Brian Choi, Giovanni Zocchi (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles), Stephan Canale (Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology), Yim Wu, Sum Chan, Jeanne Perry (UCLA-DOE Institute for Proteomics and Genomics), UCLA-DOE Institute for Proteomics amp; Genomics Collaboration, Department of Molecular Collaboration

14:30 S10.001 The role of the Ge vacancy in electron transport in GeTe

Arthur Edwards (Air Force Research Laboratory), Peter Schultz, Harold Hjalarmson, Marcus Martin (Sandia National Laboratories), Aidan Thompson (Sandia National Laborarories)

14:42 S10.002 Deep-shallow transition and interplay between atomic and electronic structure

Stephan Lany, Alex Zunger (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)

14:54 S10.003 Quasi-particle optical signatures in silicon defects

Tat-Sang Choy, Daniel Cociorva, Kim Jeongnim, Aulbur Wilfried, John Wilkins (Department of Physics, Ohio State University)

15:06 S10.004 New stable configurations for tri-, tetra-, and penta-vacancies in silicon from ab-initio calculations

Dmitry Makhov, Laurent J. Lewis (Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, C. P. 6128, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, Québec H3C 3J7, Canada)

15:18 S10.005 Vibrational lifetimes and isotope effects of interstitial oxygen in silicon and germanium

Baozhou Sun, Qiguang Yang (Department of Applied Science, the College of William and Mary,Williamsburg, VA 23187), Ron Newman (Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Semiconductor Materials, The Blackett,Laboratory, Imperial College, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BZ, UK), Bernard Pajot (Groupe de Physique des Solides (UMR 75-88 du CNRS), Universités Pierre et Marie,Curie et Denis Diderot, 140 rue de Lourmel, 75015 Paris, France), Norman Tolk, Len Feldman (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University,Nashville, TN 37235), Gunter Luepke (Department of Applied Science, the College of William and Mary,Williamsburg, VA 23187)

15:30 S10.006 Vibrational spectroscopy of hydrogenated GaAsN

F. Jiang, M. Stavola (Lehigh Univ.), M. Capizzi (Univ. Roma "La Sapienza"), A. Polimeni (Univ. Roma "La Sapienza)

15:42 S10.007 Defects Introduced by High Energy Proton Irradiation in GaAs Diodes

Jeffrey Warner (University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD), Robert Walters (US Naval Research Laboratory), Scott Messenger (SFA, Largo, MD), Geoffrey Summers (US Naval Research Laboratory)

15:54 S10.008 Novel nondestructive approach to investigate Zn incorporation in InP using X-ray Standing Wave Technique

A. A. Sirenko (New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102), A. Ougazzaden (Laboratoire MOPS, Université de Metz / Supelec, 2, rue E. Belin, 57070 Metz, France), A. Kazimirov (Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS), Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853)

16:06 S10.009 Ab-initio simulation of self-defects diffusion mechanisms in silicon and Gallium Arsenide.

Fedwa EL Mellouhi-Ayeche, Normand Mousseau (Département de physique and RQMP, Université de Montréal), Pablo Ordejòn (Institut de Ciencia de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC))

16:18 S10.010 Theoretical Study of the Diffusion of Gallium and Arsenic in a Silicon Matrix

R. Meyer, M. Coté, L. J. Lewis, N. Mousseau (Départment de physique, Université de Montréal)

16:30 S10.011 Low Energy Ion Implantation Induced Intermixing in Photonic Devices:

François Schiettekatte, Martin Chicoine (Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Canada), Vincent Aimez, Stéphane Chevobbe (Département de Génie Électrique et de Génie Informatique, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada)

16:42 S10.012 First - Principles Cluster Investigation of Locations for Erbium in Silicon without Co-dopants

T. P. Das, Junho Jeong, R. H. Scheicher, C. Gaire, N. Sahoo, M. B. Huang (Dept of Physics, SUNY at Albany, NY), S. P. Byahut, D. R. Mishra, M. M. Aryal, N. B. Maharjan, D. D. Paudyal (Dept of Physics, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal)

S10.013 Identification of fluorine-decorated defects in silicon

Zs. Jenei, P. Asoka-Kumar (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550), P. Simpson (Department of Physics, University of Western Ontario, Ontario, Canada N6A 3K7), R.R. Robinson (University of Florida, Gainsville, FL 32611), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Collaboration, Department of Physics Collaboration, University of Florida Collaboration

14:30 S11.001 Interface related magneto-photoluminescence in single type-II broken-gap GaInAsSb/InAs heterostructures

K.A. Korolev, C.J. Meining, B.D. McCombe (Department of Physics and CAPEM, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA), K.D. Moiseev, M.P. Mikhailova, Yu.P. Yakovlev (A.F.Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, RAS, St. Petersburg, 194021, Russia)

14:42 S11.002 Spin Resolved Cyclotron Resonance in InSb Quantum Wells

Taroshani Kasturiarachchi, Xinhui Zhang, Robert Meyer, Ryan Doezema, Niti Goel, Seokjae Chung, Mike Santos (University of Oklahoma), Yong-Jie Wang (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University)

14:54 S11.003 Picosecond time resolved cyclotron resonance in InSb/InAlSb heterostructures

G. D. Sanders, C. J. Stanton (University of Florida), G. A. Khodaparast, D. C. Larrabee, J. Kono (Rice University), D. S. King (Stanford), N. Goel, M. B. Santos (University of Oklahoma)

15:06 S11.004 Carrier dynamics and high temperature operation in type-II quantum well MIR lasers

Ahmed Lobad, Vern Schlie (Air Force Research Lab.)

15:18 S11.005 Inter-subband Coupling of Landau Levels of Opposite Spin

Robert Meyer, Xinhui Zhang, Taroshani Kasturiarachchi, Niti Goel, Ryan Doezema, Seokjae Chung, Mike Santos (University of Oklahoma), Yong-Jie Wang (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University)

15:30 S11.006 Stress-Induced Shifts in Al(x)Ga(1-x)As Photoluminescence Peaks

Grady White, Albert Paul, Kristine Bertness (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

15:42 S11.007 Polariton spectrum of 1d photonic crystals based on multiple quantum well structures

Mikhail Erementchouk, Lev Deych, Alexander Lisyansky (Queens College of CUNY)

15:54 S11.008 New efficient approach to calculations of exciton resonance position and width for quantum-confined Stark effect in shallow quantum wells

I.V. Ponomarev, Lev Deych, Alexander Lisyansky (Department of Physics, Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, NY 11367)

16:06 S11.009 Charge Separation of Dense 2D Electron-Hole Gases in Semiconductor Quantum Wells: Cold Exciton Ring Pattern Formation

Ronen Rapaport, Gang Chen, Steven H. Simon, Loren Pfeiffer, Ken West (Bell Labs), David Snoke (University of Pittsburgh)

16:18 S11.010 The effective mass and the g-factor of the strongly-correlated 2-D electron fluid.

Chandre Dharma-wardana (National Research Council of Canada)

16:30 S11.011 Resistively detected NMR in GaAs/AlGaAs single quantum wells near nu=1 and in the extreme quantum limit

G. Gervais (Columbia University, Physics Dept. and National High Magnetic Field Laboratory), L.W. Engel, W.G. Moulton, A.P. Reyes, P.L. Kuhns (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, FL), L.N. Pfeiffer, K.W. West (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), D.C. Tsui (Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University), H.L. Stormer (Department of Physics and of Applied Physics, Columbia University)

16:42 S11.012 NMR study of large skyrmions in Al_0.13Ga_0.87As quantum wells

Vesna Mitrovic (Brown University), Mladen Horvatic, Claude Brethier (Grenoble High Magnetic Field Laboratory), M. Shayegan (Princeton University)

16:54 S11.013 Many-body interaction in the shifts of the Fermi energy of a two-dimensional electron gas

Y.D. Jho (Univ. of Florida), S.A. Crooker (NHMFL at LANL), X. Wang (Univ. of FL), X. Wei (NHMFL), J. Kono (Rice Univ.), D.H. Reitze, F.V. Kyrychenko, C.J. Stanton (Univ. of FL), C. Kadow, A.C. Gossard (UCSB)

S11.014 Observation of magneto-exciton splitting under intense femtosecond laser excitation in high magnetic fields

X. Wang, Y. Jho, D. Reitze, G. Sanders, F. Kyrychenko, C. Stanton (Univ. of FL), J. Kono (Rice Univ.), X. Wei (NHMFL), C. Kadow, A. C. Gossard (UCSB)

14:30 S12.001 Delocalization in two dimensional disordered Bose systems and depinning transition in vortex systems

Valerii Vinokur, Andrei Lopatin (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439)

14:42 S12.002 Microscopic Analysis of Quantum Vortex Dynamics

Ari Mizel (Department of Physics and Material Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University)

14:54 S12.003 Spontaneous flux lattices in Triplet Superconductors

Dietrich Belitz, Sumanta Tewari, John Toner (Department of Physics and Institute of Theoretical Science, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403--5203, USA), Ted Kirkpatrick (Institute for Physical Science and Technology and Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742)

15:06 S12.004 Quantitative Test of SO(5) Symmetry in the Vortex State of Nd_1.85Ce_0.15CuO_4

Han-Dong Chen (Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305), Congjun Wu, Shou-Cheng Zhang (Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305)

15:18 S12.005 Dirac quasiparticles in vortex lattice

Ashot Melikyan, Zlatko Tesanovic (Johns Hopkins University)

15:30 S12.006 Quantum dynamics of Josephson vortices

A. Wallraff (Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA), A. Lukashenko, J. Lisenfeld, A. Kemp, Y. Koval, M. V. Fistul, A. V. Ustinov (Physikalisches Institut III, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany), B. A. Malomed (Department of Interdisciplinary Science, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel)

15:42 S12.007 Weak- to strong pinning crossover

J.A.G. Koopmann, V.B. Geshkenbein, G. Blatter (Theoretische Physik, ETH Zurich)

15:54 S12.008 Novel Vortex Stripe Phase under Strong Magnetic Field in High Temperature Superconductors

Yan Chen (Department of Physics, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China), C. S. Ting (Texas Center for Superconductivity and Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204)

16:06 S12.009 Novel scaling at the transverse Meissner transition

Anders Vestergren, Jack Lidmar, Mats Wallin (Condensed matter theory, Royal Institute of Technology)

16:18 S12.010 Zero Temperature Transition in the Two Dimensional Gauge Glass Model

Marios Nikolaou, Mats Wallin (Condensed Matter Theory, KTH, 106 91 Stockholm, SWEDEN)

16:30 S12.011 Depinning of a Bose glass by point disorder

Jan Meinke, Cristina Marchetti, Alan Middleton (Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244)

16:42 S12.012 Knotted solitons and fractional vortices in two-gap and triplet superconductors

Egor Babaev (LASSP Cornell University)

14:30 S13.001 Vortex Imaging and Manipulation with a Magnetic Force Microscope

E. Straver, K.A. Moler (Department of Applied Physics and Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University), D. Rugar (IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center)

14:42 S13.002 Magneto Optical Studies of Fractal Flux Penetration in Type II Superconductors with Different Disorder Size

Zuxin Ye, Qiang Li, V. F. Solovyov, M. Suenaga, W. D. Si (Brookhaven National Lab)

14:54 S13.003 Penetration of vortices into micro-superconductors observed with a scanning SQUID microscope

Taichiro Nishio, Satoru Okayasu, Jun-ichi Suzuki, Kazuo Kadowaki (Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Research Institute)

15:06 S13.004 Scanning Hall Probe Imaging of ErNi_2B_2C

Hendrik Bluhm, Suchitra E. Sebastian, Janice W. Guikema, Kathryn A. Moler, Ian R. Fisher (Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University)

15:18 S13.005 Magneto-Optical and Magnetization Study of the Intermediate State in Type-I Superconductors

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

15:30 S13.006 Dymamic structure of Josephson vortices in mesoscopic intrisnic junctions

Itsuhiro Kakeya (Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba, Japan), Miyako Iwase, Yamamoto Takashi, Kazuo Kadowaki (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

15:42 S13.007 Study of Vortex Dynamics in Confined Systems Using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

G. Karapetrov, M. Iavarone (MSD, Argonne), J. Fedor (MSD, Argonne and IEE, Slovak Academy of Sciences), W. K. Kwok (MSD, Argonne)

15:54 S13.008 Enhancement of flux pinning in a ferromagnet-superconductor bilayer

Marta Z. Cieplak, A. Byczuk, O. Abal'oshev (Inst. of Physics, PAS, Warsaw, Poland), X. M. Cheng, C. L. Chien (The Johns Hopkins Univ.), M. Konczykowski (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France), Hai Sang (Nanjing Univ., China)

16:06 S13.009 Magnetic dot arrays for flux pinning in superconductors

Victor V. Moshchalkov (Nanoscale Superconductivity and Magnetism Group, LVSM, KULeuven, B-3001 Belgium)

16:18 S13.010 Imaging of RF Current Distribution and Intermodulation Sources in Superconducting Microwave Devices

A. P. Zhuravel (B. I. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics amp; Engineering, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 61164 Kharkov, Ukraine), A. V. Ustinov (Physics Institute III, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, D-91058, Erlangen, Germany), K. S. Harshavardhan (Neocera, Inc., 10000 Virginia Manor Road, Suite 300, Beltsville, MD 20705 USA), S. K. Remillard (Agile Devices, 906 University Place, Suite A202, Evanston, IL 60201 USA), Steven M. Anlage (Center for Superconductivity Research, and Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-4111 USA)

16:30 S13.011 Role of Reduction in Electron-Doped Cuprates PrCeCuO thin films

Jessica Gauthier, M.-È. Gosselin, J. Renaud, S. Gagné, P. Fournier (Dép. de physique, U. de Sherbrooke, Canada)

16:42 S13.012 Effect of Carbon Doping on the Properties of Epitaxial MgB_2 Films Grown by Hybrid Physical-Chemical Vapor Deposition

2 Pogrebnyakov^1, 3 Soukiassian^2, Yi Cui^1, Baoting Liu^1, 2 Xi^1, 3 Redwing^2, Yufeng Hu^1, Eric Wertz^1, 3 Li^1, 3 Vaithyanathan^2, 3 Schlom^2 (^1Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania; ^2Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania; ^3Materials Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania)

16:54 S13.013 Comparison between HTS nonlinearities in patterned and unpatterned thin films

Jordi Mateu, Carlos Collado, Juan M. O'Callaghan, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Team

17:06 S13.014 Inherent magnetic granularity of epitaxial superconducting coated conductors

Anna Palau, Teresa Puig, Xavier Obradors (Institut Ciencia Materials Barcelona, CSIC, Bellaterra, Spain), Ron Feenstra (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S.A.), Herbert C. Freyhardt (Zentrum fur FunktionWekstoffe, Gottingen, Germany)

17:18 S13.015 Theory of Superconducting Ball Formation in Low AC Electric Field

R. Tao (Dept. of Physics, Temple U., Philadelphia, PA 19122)

14:30 S14.001 Micromechanical Sensors for Magnetic Resonance Imaging Microscopy

John Moreland (NIST)

15:06 S14.002 Interpreting Electric Force Microscopy Using 3D Electrostatic Simulations

Emma Tevaarwerk, D.G. Keppel, M.M. Roberts, Peter Himpsel, P.P. Rugheimer, D.E. Savage, M.G. Lagally, M.A. Eriksson (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

15:18 S14.003 Sub-100nm InAs Hall Sensors for Scanned Probe Microscopy

M.A. Topinka, K.A. Moler (Stanford University Applied Physics Dept.), D. Goldhaber-Gordon (Stanford University Physics Dept.), G.J. Sullivan (Rockwell Scientific Company)

15:30 S14.004 Variable temperature large scan range hall probe microscope

Rafael Dinner, K.A. Moler, M.R. Beasley (Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University)

15:42 S14.005 A Novel Scanning Near-Field Microwave Microscope Capable of High Resolution Loss Imaging

Atif Imtiaz, Steven Anlage (Center for Superconductivity Research, Physics Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-4111, USA)

15:54 S14.006 Electromagnetic near-field from the interaction between a wave guide mode and surface nano defects

Javier Duran-Favela (Posgrado en Física, Universidad de Sonora), Jorge Gaspar-Armenta (Departamento de Investigaciòn en Física, Universidad de Sonora), Jose Valenzuela-Benavides (Centro de Ciencias de la Materia Condensada, UNAM), Raul Garcia-Llamas (Departamento de Investigaciòn en Física, Universidad de Sonora)

16:06 S14.007 Multiple Pulse Applications in Magnetic Resonance Force Spectroscopy

Gregory S. Boutis, Terry E. Phillips, Raul Fainchtein (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland 20723-6099)

16:18 S14.008 Investigation of Mechanical Resonance Parameters

Yong J. Lee, Wei Lu, Utkur M. Mirsaidov, John T. Markert (Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin)

16:30 S14.009 External field effects on resonant modes of double-torsional single-crystal silicon oscillators with individual thin-film micromagnets

Utkur M. Mirsaidov, Casey W. Miller, Yong J. Lee (Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin), Michelle D. Chabot (Department of Physics, University of San Diego), John T. Markert (Department of Physics and Texas Materials Institute, University of Texas at Austin)

16:42 S14.010 Low Temperature Magnetic Resonance Force Spectroscopy and Imaging

Raul Fainchtein, Gregory S. Boutis, Terry E. Phillips (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland 20723-6099)

16:54 S14.011 Force-gradient detected nuclear magnetic resonance in GaAs

Sean Garner (Department of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY), Seppe Kuehn, Jahan Dawlaty, Neil Jenkins, John Marohn (Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)

S14.012 Nuclear magnetic resonance force microscopy of (NH_4)_2SO_4 crystal and PMMA thin film

Jae-Hyuk Choi, Casey W. Miller, Samaresh Guchhait (Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin), Michelle D. Chabot (Department of Physics, University of San Diego), John T. Markert (Department of Physics and Texas Materials Institute, University of Texas at Austin)

14:30 S15.001 Nanostructured Diamond

Jean-Yves Raty (Physics department, University of Liege, Belgium)

15:06 S15.002 Fermi-Level Pinning of Contacted Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

Shi-Yu Wu, Lei Liu, Chakram Jayanthi (Department of Physics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, USA), Guang-Yu Guo (2Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan 106)

15:18 S15.003 Phonons of capped finite Single-wall carbon nanotubes

Chakram Jayanthi, Lei Liu, Shi-Yu Wu (University of Louisville)

15:30 S15.004 Quasiparticle energies, excitonic effects and optical absorption spectra of small diameter single-walled carbon nanotubes

Catalin D. Spataru (UC Berkeley and LBNL), Sohrab Ismail-Beigi (Department of Applied Physics, Yale University), Lorin X. Benedict (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Steven G. Louie (UC Berkeley and LBNL)

15:42 S15.005 Lattice dynamics and electron-phonon interaction in carbon nanotube

K.-B. Bohnen, R. Heid (Institut für Festkörperphysik, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany), H.J. Liu, C.T. Chan (Dept. of Physics, University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hongkong, China)

15:54 S15.006 Comparative Study of One-Electron Effects on the Density of States of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

C.T. White (NRL), I. Cabria (Universidad de Valladolid), J.W. Mintmire (Oklahoma State University)

16:06 S15.007 Theoretical Investigation of Carbon-based Clathrate Materials

Charles W. Myles (Texas Tech U.), Jianjun Dong (Auburn U.), Otto F. Sankey (Arizona State U.)

16:18 S15.008 Fracture of defective multi-walled carbon nanotubes

Ted Belytschko, Sulin Zhang (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University)

16:30 S15.009 Theoretical and experimental study on the reactivity of O3 and NO2 with carbon nanotubes: Role of Topological Defects

Luca Lozzi, Silvia Picozzi, Sandro Santucci (INFM and Department of Physics, University of L’Aquila, L'Aquila,Italy), Carlo Cantalini (Department of Chemistry and Materials, University of L'Aquila. L’Aquila, Italy), Luca Valentini, Ilaria Armentano, Josè Maria Kenny (Materials Engineering Centre, University of Perugia, Terni, Italy), Bernard Delley (Paul Scherrer Institut , Villigen PSI, Switzerland)

S15.010 Ab initio study of nanoporous carbon graphitization

Elena. R. Margine, Aleksey. N. Kolmogorov, Dragan Stojkovic, Jorge O. Sofo, Vincent H. Crespi (Department of Physics amp; Materials Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University)

14:30 S16.001 New photolithographic process for fabrication of single-walled carbon nanotube devices.

Paola Barbara, Kyle Hatton (Department of Physics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, USA), Michael Fuhrer (Department of Physics and Center for Superconductivity Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-4111, USA), Makarand Paranjape, Alexander Tselev (Department of Physics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, USA)

14:42 S16.002 Ultra-long carbon nanotubes: fabrication and measurements

Xinjian Zhou, Yuval Yaish, Paul McEuen (Cornell University), Shaoming Huang, Jie Liu (Duke University)

14:54 S16.003 Structure and Growth Mechanism of Y-junction Carbon Nanotubes

Wenzhi Li (Department of Physics, Florida International University, USA), Zhifeng Ren, Krzysztof Kempa (Department of Physics, Boston College, USA), Michael Giersig (Hahn Meitner Institute, Berlin, Germany), Jianguo Wen (Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

15:06 S16.004 Mechanism of Solubilization of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes using Surfactants

Koray Yurekli, Cynthia Mitchell, Ramanan Krishnamoorti (Department of Chemical Engg, Univ of Houston)

15:18 S16.005 In-situ electrochemical fabrication of natural contacts on single nanowires

John DiMaria (University of Connecticut (Undergraduate), University of Rochester (REU student)), Han Yoo, Wenhao Wu (University of Rochester)

15:30 S16.006 Biomolecular Doping of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes by Thyroid Hormone

Enrique Rojas, Scott Paulson, Mike Stern, Cristian Staii (University of Pennsylvania Department of Physics), Mary Dratman (University of Pennsylvania Department of Medicine), Alan Johnson (University of Pennsylvania Department of Physics)

15:42 S16.007 Effect of gas pressure, ratio of methane to hydrogen, and growth temperature on synthesis of DWNTs by chemical vapor deposition

Guangyong Xiong, Dezhi Wang, Zhifeng Ren (Department of Physics, Boston College)

15:54 S16.008 Assembly of Nanotube-Based Devices by Biomolecular Recognition

K.A. Williams, R. den Dulk, P.T.M. Veenhuizen, Cees Dekker (Dept. of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)

16:06 S16.009 Making a Metallic Wire in a Nanometer Scale with a Single Wall Carbon Nanotube

Young Jae Song, Seong Heon Kim, Yong Sung Cho, Hajin Kim, Jhinhwan Lee, Young Kuk (Center for Science in Nanometer Scale, Dep. of Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea), Goo-Hwan Jeong, Takamichi Hirata, Rikizo Hatakeyama (Dept of Electronic Engineering, Tohoku university, Japan)

16:18 S16.010 Neat single wall carbon nanotube fiber

Hua Fan, Lars Ericson (Carbon Nanotechnology Laboratory, Rice University), Virginia Davis (Department of Chemical Engineering, Rice University), Haiqing Peng (Chemistry Department, Rice University), Nicholas Parra-Vasquez (Department of Chemical Engineering, Rice University), Joseph Sulpizio (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University), Sivarajan Ramesh (Carbon Nanotechnology Laboratory, Rice University), Wade Adams (Centre of Carbon Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University), Matteo Pasquali (Department of Chemical Engineering, Rice University), Howard Schmidz, Robert Hauge, Richard Smalley (Carbon Nanotechnology Laboratory, Rice University)

16:30 S16.011 Catalysis-free site-selective growth of nanowires

Jacques Lefebvre, Philip Poole (National Research Council)

16:42 S16.012 Synthesis of Carbon Nanosphere and Copper-Catalyzed Branched

W. T. Chang, Liang You (Affiliation), Massood Tabib-Azar (Case Western Reserve University), Advanced Devices Laboratory Team

16:54 S16.013 Patterned Growth of Carbon Nanotubes for Device Applications

Ying Chen (Associate Professor)

17:06 S16.014 Selective Growth of Carbon Nanotubes by Catalyst Poisoning

Liang You, Weng-Teng Chang, Massood Tabib-Azar (Case Western reserve University), Advanced Devices Laboratory Team

14:30 S17.001 No Title

Wongbong Choi (Samsung Advanced Institute of Tech.)

15:06 S17.002 Atom Collision-Induced Resistivity of Carbon Nanotubes

Hugo Romero (Department of Physics), Kim Bolton, Arne Rosen (Department of Experimental Physics, Göteborg University and Chalmers University of Technology), Peter Eklund (Department of Physics amp; Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University)

15:18 S17.003 Effect of Torsional Stress on Transport Properties in Individual Carbon Nanotubes

A Hall (Curriculum in Applied and Materials Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), SJ Papadakis, D Spivak (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), R Superfine, S Washburn (Curriculum in Applied and Materials Sciences amp; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

15:30 S17.004 Gate-voltage Dependence of Zero-bias Anomalies in Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes

Akinobu Kanda (Institute of Physics and TIMS, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8571, Japan), Kazuhito Tsukagoshi (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Wako 351-0198, Japan), Yoshinobu Aoyagi (Department of Information Processing, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 226-8502, Japan), Youiti Ootuka (Institute of Physics and TIMS, University of Tsukuba)

15:42 S17.005 Effects of Mechanical Deformations on the Electrical Properties of Single and Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes

Antonio Pantano, David M. Parks, Mary C. Boyce (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Marco Nardelli (North Carolina State University)

15:54 S17.006 Temperature Dependent Conductivity of Metallized and NonMetallized Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes and Corresponding Nanocomposites

Max Alexander (Air Force Research Lab, Polymer Branch), Hilmar Koerner, Chyi-Shan Wang (University of Dayton Research Institute), Heather Dowty (Air Force Research Lab, Polymer Branch)

16:06 S17.007 Direct Measurement of Nanotube Conductance during Contact Formation

Mehdi Yazdanpanah, Swapan Chakraborty, Steve Harfenist, Robert Cohn, Bruce Alphenaar (University of Louisville)

16:18 S17.008 Conduction in Carbon Nanotubes Through Metastable Resonant States

Zhengfan Zhang, Venkat Chandrasekhar (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA), Dmitriy A. Dikin, Rodney S. Ruoff (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA)

16:30 S17.009 Proximity-induced supercoductivity in Nb/diffusive-MWNTs/Al junctions

Junji Haruyama, Shin-ichiro Miyadai, Naoki Kobayashi, Masato Nomura, Jun Tokita (Aoyama Gakuin University)

16:42 S17.010 SPM Imaging of Frequency-Dependent Electrical Transport through Carbon Nanotube Networks in Polymers

Sergei V. Kalinin (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Stephen Jesse, Junshoo Shin (University of Tennessee), Arthur P. Baddorf (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Michael A. Guillorn (Cornell University), David B. Geohegan (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

16:54 S17.011 Coulomb Blockade in Suspended and Coaxially Si3N4-Coated Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes

Haibing Peng, Jene Golovchenko (Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA)

14:30 S18.001 Sliding Friction at a Rubber/Brush Interface

Lionel Bureau (LPMC College de France, 11 pl. M. Berthelot, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France), Liliane Leger

14:42 S18.002 Friction, Fracture and Entanglement Density of Polymers

Philip Whitten, Hugh Brown (University of Wollongong)

14:54 S18.003 The Influence of Capillary Adhesive Forces on Friction and Wear

J. T. Dickinson, F. Stevens, S. C. Langford (Washington State University)

15:06 S18.004 Molecular Dynamics Study of Velocity Dependence of Sliding Friction at Al/Al and Al2O3/Al2O3 Interface

Qing Zhang, Tahir Cagin, William A. Goddard (Materials and Process Simulation Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA 91125), Yue Qi, Louis G. Hector (GM Research amp; Development Center, Warren, MI 48090)

15:18 S18.005 Investigation of atomic-scale friction with isotopically enriched monolayers

Matthew Brukman, Robert Carpick (University of Wisconsin)

15:30 S18.006 Joint Experimental-Modeling Study of Tribocontact for Benzene Films on Copper

J. Krim, A. Abdelmaksoud, S.M. Lee, C.W. Padgett, S. Gregory, D. Brenner (North Carolina State University)

15:42 S18.007 Computer Simulations of Friction Mechanisms at the Nanoscale

Martin H. Müser (University of Western Ontario)

16:18 S18.008 Transition from stick-slip to continuous sliding in atomic friction: Entering a new regime of ultra-low friction

Ernst Meyer, Anisoara Socoliuc, Enrico Gnecco, Urs Wyder (Insitute of Physics, University of Basel), Roland Bennewitz (Department of Physics, McGill University)

16:30 S18.009 Thermally Activated Effects in Nanotribology

Elisa Riedo (School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology), Enrico Gnecco, Roland Bennewitz, Ernst Meyer (University of Basel), Harald Brune (EPFL)

16:42 S18.010 Amontons' Friction Law: Statistical Analysis of MD Simulations

Jianping Gao, W.D Luedtke, Uzi Landman (Georgia Institute of Technology)

16:54 S18.011 Friction in the Zero Sliding Velocity Limit

Christopher Daly, Jeffrey B. Sokoloff, Jian Zhang (Northeastern University)

17:06 S18.012 Control of Friction at the Atomic Scale

Y. Braiman, J Barhen, V Protopopescu (Center for Engineering Science Advanced Research, Computer Science amp; Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory), S Jeon, T Thundat (Center for Engineering Science Advanced Research, Life Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

17:18 S18.013 A Mechanism for Lubrication between Surfaces with Atomic Level Roughness

Jeffrey B. Sokoloff (Northeastern University)

17:30 S18.014 Thermal Suppression of Friction in Sliding Monolayers

Itzhak Webman (Bar-Ilan University), Jeffrey B. Sokoloff (Northeastern University)

S18.015 Boundary lubrication with a glassy interface

Anaël Lemaître, Jean Carlson (Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara)

14:30 S19.001 Negative refraction in anisotropic composites

S. T. Chui (Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, U.S.A)

15:06 S19.002 An \epsilon < 0, \mu < 0 structure using cladded wires within a ferrimagnetic host

Graeme Dewar (University of North Dakota)

15:18 S19.003 A Novel Two-Dimensional Negative Index Metamaterial Suitable for Planar Processing

Mark S. Wheeler, J. Stewart Aitchison, Mohammad Mojahedi (The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering)

15:30 S19.004 DIELECTRIC PHOTONIC CRYSTALS AS MEDIUM WITH NEGATIVE ELECTRIC PERMITTIVITY AND MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY

Alexei Efros, Alexander Pokrovsky (Department of Physics, University of Utah)

15:42 S19.005 Left-Handed-Material-like behavior revealed by arrays of dielectric cylinders

Zhen Ye (Dept. of Physics, National Central University, Chungli, Taiwan 32054, R. O. China), Chao-Hsien Kuo (Dept. of Physics, National Central University, Chungli, Taiwan 32054, R.O. China), Wave Phenomena Lab Team

15:54 S19.006 Image formation by and wave propagation in a photonic crystal

Patanjali Parimi, Plarenta Vodo, Lu Wentao, Emiliano Di Gennaro, Srinivas Sridhar

S19.007 Anisotropy of Left-Handed Material Substrates Effect on Field Distributions

Clifford Krowne (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC)

16:06 S19.008 Negative Refraction experiments in Photonic Crystal prisms

Plarenta Vodo, Patanjali.V Parimi, Wentao.T Lu, Emiliano Di Gennaro, Srinivas Sridhar (Northeastern University)

14:30 S20.001 Chemical and Physical Pressure Effects on the Verwey-Type Transition in an A-Site Ordered Double-Perovskite System, (Ba,Sr)RFe_2O_5+d (d \sim 0)

Jin Nakamura (University of Tennessee), Yutaka Moritomo, Masashi Hanawa (Nagoya University), Maarit Karppinen, Hisao Yamauchi (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Takeshi Egami (University of Tennessee)

14:42 S20.002 Optical investigation of the metal-insulator transition in SrRu_1-xTi_xO_3

Kyungwan Kim, J.S. Lee, T.W. Noh (ReCOE and School of Physics, Seoul National University, Korea), S.R. Lee, K. Char (CSCMR and School of Physics, Seoul National University, Korea)

14:54 S20.003 A novel low-temperature metallic phase in RNiO3

J.-S. Zhou, John Goodenough (Texas Materials Institute, University of Texas at Austin), Bogdan Dabrowski (Dept of Physics, NIU)

15:06 S20.004 Optical study of the metal-insulator transition in CuIr_2S_4 crystals

N. L. Wang (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. O. Box 603, Beijing 100080, P. R. China), G. H. Cao (Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, P. R. China), P. Zheng, G. Li, Z. Fang (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. O. Box 603, Beijing 100080, P. R. China), T. Xiang (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, P. R. China), H. Kitazawa (National Institute for Materials Science, Sengen 1-2-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0047, Japan), T Matsumoto

15:18 S20.005 Gradual metal-insulator transition in extended pressure region in doped fullerenes

Slaven Garaj, Andrzej Sienkiewicz, Ante Bilusic, Neven Barisic, Laszlo Forro (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland), Veronique Brouet, Philip Singer, Henri Alloul (Universite Paris-Sud, France)

15:30 S20.006 Electronic Raman scattering in correlated materials: exact treatment of nonresonant, mixed, and resonant scattering with dynamical mean field theory

Andrij M. Shvaika, Oleg Vorobyov (Institute for Condensed Matter Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 1 Svientsitskii Street, 79011 Lviv, Ukraine), James Freericks (Department of Physics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057), Tom Devereaux (Department of Physics, University of Waterloo, Canada, Ontario N2L 3GI)

15:42 S20.007 Transformation of Anderson Disorder to Ordered Interacting Spins

Roger Haydock (University of Oregon)

15:54 S20.008 Breakdown of Mott insulators in strong electric fields --- Many-body Landau-Zener mechanism and the Schwinger formula

Takashi Oka (Dept. of Phys. Univ. of Tokyo), Ryotaro Arita, Hideo Aoki

16:06 S20.009 Temperature dependent transport of correlated disordered electrons: elastic vs. inelastic scattering

M. C. O. Aguiar, E. Miranda (University of Campinas), V. Dobrosavljevic (Florida State University), E. Abrahams, G. Kotliar (Rutgers University)

16:42 S20.010 Cluster Dynamical Mean Field Theory of the density-driven Mott transition in the one dimensional Hubbard model

Massimo Capone (Enrico Fermi Center, Roma, Italy), Marcello Civelli (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA), Gabriel Kotliar (Center for Materials Theory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA)

16:30 S20.011 How does a metal turn into an insulator? - A cluster DMFT approach

Andy Schofield, Edwin C. Carter (The School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom.)

16:42 S20.012 Cluster Dynamical Mean Field Theory of the density-driven Mott transition in the one dimensional Hubbard model

Massimo Capone (Enrico Fermi Center, Roma, Italy), Marcello Civelli (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA), Gabriel Kotliar (Center for Materials Theory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA)

14:30 S21.001 Crystal Structure of K2V3O8 Below 110K

B.C. Chakoumakos, B.C. Sales, M.D. Lumsden, S.E. Nagler (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge TN 37831), K. Oikawa, T. Kamiyama (Institute of Materials Structure Science, KEK, Tsukuba 305-0810 Japan)

14:42 S21.002 Calculated Electric Field Gradients in Tetragonal and Rhombohedral PST

Dandan Mao, Henry Krakauer, Eric J. Walter (College of William and Mary)

14:54 S21.003 Differences and Similarities between ZrO2 and HfO2 from the Monoclinic to the Cotunnite Phase

John Jaffe, Maciej Gutowski (Chemical Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352)

15:06 S21.004 Mixed-oxide formation during preparation of alumina-supported zirconia and titania: an EXAFS and DFT study

A. A. Leitão, K. R. Souza, J. G. Eon, Jr. Faro, A. B. Rocha, R. B. Capaz (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

15:18 S21.005 Ferroelastic phase transition in lithium niobate and lithium tantalate under high pressure

Galina Malovichko (Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA), Valentin Grachev (Osnabrueck University, Germany), Valentin Andreev, Tamara Nachal'naya (Institute of Superhard Materials, Kiev, Ukraine)

15:30 S21.006 Analysis of fluctuating charge and fluctuating dipole potentials for the simulation of silica

Daniel Herzbach (Universität Mainz), Martin H. Müser (University of Western Ontario)

15:42 S21.007 Local field distribution near graded interfaces

W. Y. Cheung, K. W. Yu (Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

15:54 S21.008 Antiphase domains and B-site ordering in Pb(Mg,Nb)O thin films

Seon Hee Seo, Do Young Noh (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea), Hyon Chol Kang (Argonne National Laboratory), Kiyotaka Wasa (Yokohama City University, Japan)

16:06 S21.009 Fluctuating charge model simulations of the order-disorder phase transition in solid NaNO_2

Wei-Guo Yin, W. N. Mei, Chun-Gang Duan, Jianjun Liu, R. W. Smith (Physics Department, University of Nebraska at Omaha), J. R. Hardy (Department of Physics and Center for Electro-Optics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

16:18 S21.010 XANES Data on Metal Ions in Hydroxyapatite Structures

Beth Schaefer, Anne Tabor-Morris, Adrian Simons (Georgian Court College)

16:30 S21.011 Tuning Non-linear Electronic Response by Compositionally Braking Inversion Symmetry

M. P. Warusawithana, Alfonso Reina, Eugene Colla, M. B. Weissman, J. N. Eckstein (Dept of Physics and Materials Research Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.)

16:42 S21.012 Investigation of the lattice dielectric properties of layered ferroelectrics

Craig J. Fennie, Karin M. Rabe (Dept of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University,Piscataway, NJ 08854)

16:54 S21.013 Ab initio Study of the Phase Diagram of Epitaxial BaTiO_3

Oswaldo Diéguez, Silvia Tinte, A. Antons, Claudia Bungaro (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019, USA), J. B. Neaton (The Molecular Foundry, Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA), Karin M. Rabe, David Vanderbilt (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019, USA)

17:06 S21.014 Ab-initio Modeling of Ferroelectric BaTiO3 Quantum Dots and Wires

Huaxiang Fu, L. Bellaiche (Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas)

14:30 S22.001 Liquid Dynamics in high melting materials studied by inelastic X-ray scattering

Harald Sinn, Ahmet Alatas, Ayman Said, Esen E Alp (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439), David L. Price, Marie Louis Saboungi (CNRS, 45701 Orleans, France), Richard Scheunemann (Containerless Research, Inc. 906 University Place Containerless Research, Inc. 906 University Place, Evanston, Illinois 60201), Argonne National Laboratory Collaboration, CNRS-Orleans Collaboration, Containerless Research Collaboration

14:42 S22.002 Breakup of a Fluid Thread in a Confined Geometry

Jack Douglas (Polymers Division, NIST), Nicos Martys (Materials and Construction Research Division, NIST), John Hagedorn (Computational Sciences Division, NIST)

14:54 S22.003 Influence of Substrate Corrugation on the Slip Length in Sheared Liquid Films

Nikolai Priezjev, Sandra Troian (Princeton University)

15:06 S22.004 Metastable liquid lamellar structures in binary and ternary mixtures of Lennard-Jones fluids

Enrique Díaz-Herrera (Dept. of Physics, UAM-I, MEXICO), Guillermo Ramírez-Santiago (Institute of Physics, UNAM, MEXICO), José A. Moreno Razo (Dept. of Physics, UAM-I, MEXICO)

15:18 S22.005 Speed of sound in liquid-gas mixtures

Lyudmila Gumen (Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estatdo de Puebla, 72160, Mexico), Arkadii Krokhin (University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203), Jesús Arriaga (Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, 72570, Mexico)

15:30 S22.006 Many-body correlations in water

Paolo Raiteri (INFM UdR Milano-Bicocca, Via Cozzi 53, 20123 Milano, Italy), Alessandro Laio, Michele Parrinello (Dept. of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH-Zuerich, c/o USI Campus, Via Giuseppe Buffi 13, CH-6904 Lugano, Switzerland)

15:42 S22.007 Wetting phenomenon in the liquid-vapor phase coexistence of a partially miscible Lennard-Jones binary mixture

Guillermo Ramírez-Santiago (Institute of Physics, UNAM, MEXICO), Enrique Díaz-Herrera, José A. Moreno Razo (Dept. of Physics, UAM-I, MEXICO)

15:54 S22.008 Dipole Dependent Slip of Simple Liquids

Bruce M. Law, Jae-Hie J. Cho (Physics Department, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506-2601), Francois Rieutord (Commissariat a l`Energie Atomique, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054 Grenoble Cedex 9, France)

16:06 S22.009 Transient Flow During Fiber Spinning

Jing Kai Cui, Roger E Khayat (Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, the University of Western Ontario)

16:18 S22.010 Steady and transient thin-jet flow

Rado German, Roger E. Khayat (Department of Mechanical amp; Materials Engineering, The University of Western Ontario)

16:30 S22.011 STABILITY OF HIGH-SPEED TWO-LAYER FILM CASTING OF NEWTONIAN FLUIDS

Jing Zhang (The University of Western Ontario), Wei Wang (Affiliation), Roger E. Khayat (The University of Western Ontario)

16:42 S22.012 High-speed film casting of Newtonian fluids

Fang Cao, Roger E. Khayat (Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering,The University of Western Ontario)

16:54 S22.013 Temporal and spatial dependence of optical pulsing in an absorbing liquid

Jacob Barnes, Dean Evans, Shekhar Guha (Air Force Research Laboratory), Air Force Research Laboratory Collaboration, Anteon Corporation Collaboration

14:30 S23.001 Magnetic Resonance Force Detection of Statistical Polarization in Small Spin Ensembles

H.J. Mamin (IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center), R. Budakian, B.W. Chui, D. Rugar (IBM)

14:42 S23.002 Active control of fluctuations in small spin ensembles

Raffi Budakian, John Mamin, Benjamin Chui, Daniel Rugar (IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center)

14:54 S23.003 Spin-valve effect in ferromagnet-superconductor-ferromagnet single-electron

Armando Anaya, Rupa Bhaumik, Dragomir Davidovic (School of Physics. Georgia Institute of Technology)

15:06 S23.004 Andreev Reflection Measurements of Spin Polarization

P. Chalsani, S.K. Upadhyay, O. Ozatay, R.A. Buhrman (Dept. of Applied Physics, Cornell University)

15:18 S23.005 Composition-controlled spin polarization in (Co,Fe)S2

L. Wang, K. Umemoto, R.M. Wentzcovitch (Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Department, University of Minnesota), J. Checkelsky, J.C. Eckert (Physics Department, Harvey Mudd College), T.Y. Chen (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University), E.D. Dahlberg (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota), C. Leighton (Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Department, University of Minnesota)

15:30 S23.006 Electron and spin injection through ferromagnetic metal-semiconductor interfaces

C. Adelmann, R.L. Compton, J.Q. Xie, B.D. Schultz, C.S. Kong, P.A. Crowell, C.J. Palmstrom (Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN)

15:42 S23.007 GMAG Dissertation Award: Tunnel spin injectors for semiconductor spintronics

Xin Jiang (1. IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA 2. Solid States and Photonics Laboratory, Stanford University, CA)

16:18 S23.008 Spin Injection from ferromagnetic tunnel injectors in quantum well structures at high temperatures

Roger Wang, Xin Jiang (Stanford University), Robert Shelby, Roger MacFarlane (IBM Almaden Research Center), Seth Bank, James Harris (Stanford University), Stuart Parkin (IBM Almaden Research Center)

16:30 S23.009 Spin polarization measurements of InAs-based LED's

C.J. Meining, K.A. Korolev, B.D. McCombe (Department of Physics and CAPEM, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA), P. Grabs, I. Chado, G. Schmidt, L.W. Molenkamp (Physikalisches Institut (EP3), Universität Würzburg, 97074 Würzburg, Germany)

16:42 S23.010 EuO as a spin filter material for spin injection

Tiffany Santos, Jagadeesh Moodera (MIT)

16:54 S23.011 Spin Torque and its Relation to Spin Filtering

Wonkee Kim, F. Marsiglio (Department of Physics, University of Alberta)

17:06 S23.012 A Spin-Mechanical Device for Detection and Control of Spin Current with Nanomechanical Torque

S. Kettemann (I. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Jungiusstr. 9, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg 20355, Germany), G. Zolfagharkhani (Department of Physics, Boston University, 590 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215), P. Fulde (Max-Planck Institut für Physik Komplexer Systeme, Nöthnitzer Str. 38, D-01187 Dresden, Germany), P. Mohanty (Department of Physics, Boston University, 590 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215)

17:18 S23.013 Spin-Guide: A Source of Highly Spin-Polarized Currents

E.N. Bogachek, Uzi Landman (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332), R.N. Gurzhi, A.N. Kalinenko, A.I. Kopeliovich, A.V. Yanovsky (Institute for Low Temperature Physics amp; Engineering, Kharkov, 61103, Ukraine)

S23.014 Epitaxial Ferromagnet on Ge(111)

Changgan Zeng (Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996), James Thompson, An-Ping Li, Yongwei Song, Leonard Feldman, Steven Erwin, Hanno Weitering

S23.015 Transmission amplitude in a basis of propagating states

Julian Velev, Xiaoguang Zhang (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), William Butler (Center for Materials for Information Technology, University of Alabama)

14:30 S24.001 Magnetic Impurities in Ruthenate Perovskites and Related Conducting Compounds

I-Wei Chen, Fuqiang Huang, Alexander Mamchik, Jay Kikkawa (University of Pennsylvania), Takeshi Egami (University of Tennessee)

14:42 S24.002 Anomalous Hall effect in Ca(x)Sr(1-x)RuO(3)

Peter Khalifah, Isao Ohkubo, Hans Christen (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), John Cerne (The University at Buffalo - SUNY), David Mandrus (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

14:54 S24.003 Strain effects on the anomalous Hall conductivity of SrRuO_3 thin films

R. Mathieu, A. Asamitsu, C. U. Jung, H. Yamada, M. Kawasaki, Z. Fang, N. Nagaosa, Y. Tokura (Spin Superstructure Project (ERATO-SSS) and Correlated Electron Research Center (CERC), AIST Central 4, Tsukuba 305-8562, Japan)

15:06 S24.004 Microstructure and transport properties of SrRuO_3 thin films

Gertjan Koster, Arturas Vailonis, Theodore Geballe, Malcolm Beasley (Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, CA), James Reiner (Applied Physics dept., Yale University, New Haven, CT)

15:18 S24.005 Evolution of the ferromagnetic order as a function of pressure in Ca2RuO4

Patricia Lebre Alireza, Stephen Julian, G.G. Lonzarich (University of Cambridge, England), M. Braden, P. Steffens (University of Cologne, Germany), F. Nakamura (Hiroshima University, Japan), Y. Maeno (Kyoto University, Japan), S. Nakatsuji (Kyoto University, Japan)

15:30 S24.006 Competing Ground States in Triple-layered Sr4Ru3O10:Verging on Itinerant Ferromagnetism with Critical Fluctuations

Xiunu Lin (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky), Luis Balicas (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory), Wenhai Song, Yuping Sun (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky), Yan Xin (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory), V.A. Bondarenko, Joseph Brill, Gang Cao (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky)

15:42 S24.007 Magnetic Excitations below the Orbital Phase Transition of La_4Ru_2O_10

Raymond Osborn (Argonne National Laboratory), Peter Khalifah, Stephen Nagler, Mark Lumsden (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Christopher Frost, Robert Bewley (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK)

15:54 S24.008 Doping Dependence of the Electronic Inhomogeneities of Ca2-xSrxRuO4*

Jiandi Zhang (Florida International University), I Ismail (University of Tennessee), S.-C. Wang, H.-B. Yang, H. Ding (Boston College), R. Jin (Oak Ridge National Lab), D. G. Mandrus (Oak Ridge National Lab, University of Tennessee), E. W. Plummer (University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Lab)

16:06 S24.009 Origin of metamagnetic quantum criticality in multi-layer ruthenates

Benedikt Binz (Département de physique, Université de Fribourg, Pérolles, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland), Manfred Sigrist (Theoretische Physik, ETH-Hönggerberg, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland)

16:18 S24.010 Magnetic Field Dependent Raman Study of the Layered Ruthenates

Rajeev Gupta, S L Cooper (Dept. of Physics, University of Illinois), Gang Cao (Dept. of Physics, University of Kentucky)

16:30 S24.011 Field-tuned Collapse of an Orbitally Ordered and Spin-polarized State: Colossal Magnetoresistance in Bilayered Ruthenate

Gang Cao (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky), Luis Balicas (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory), Xiunu Lin, Shelinee Chikara, Esmat Elhami, Vinobalan Duairaj, Ram Chandra Rai (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky), Joseph Brill (Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Kentucky), Jack Crow (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory)

16:42 S24.012 Photoemission measurements on SrRuO_3/SrTiO_3 films grown by in-situ pulsed laser deposition

Jung-Ho Kim, S.-J. Oh (Center for Strongly Correlated Material Research, Seoul National University, Korea)

S24.013 Mid-Infrared Hall effect in Ca_xSr_1-xRuO_3

Anthony Stephens, A. Arroyo, S.R. Cho, Andrea Markelz, John Cerne (Physics Dept., Univ. at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY), I. Ohkubo, H. Christen, P. Khalifah, D. Mandrus (Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN)

14:30 S25.001 Spin and orbital structure of uranium compounds based on a j-j coupling scheme

Takashi Hotta (Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute)

14:42 S25.002 Anisotropic Superconducting and Normal State Properties of Pu-based Superconductors

John Sarrao (Los Alamos National Laboratory), E. D. Bauer, L. A. Morales, J. D. Thompson (LANL), G. R. Stewars (University of Florida)

14:54 S25.003 Possible Pairing Mechanisms of PuCoGa_5 Superconductor

Yunkyu Bang (Chonnam National University, Kwangju, 500-757, Korea), A. V. Balatsky, J. D. Thompson (Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, USA)

15:06 S25.004 Low Temperature Behavior of (Pr,M)Pb_3; M=La, Lu

Costel Rotundu, Bohdan Andraka (University of Florida)

15:18 S25.005 Electronic properties of UCoAl0.75Sn0.25 single crystal

A.V. Andreev1 (1 Institute of Physics ASCR, Na Slovance 2, 182 21 Prague 8, Czech Republic), F. Honda, V. Sechovsky (Department of Electronic Structures, Charles University), S. El-Khatib, A. Alsmadi, H. Nakotte (New Mexico State University), A. Lacerda (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory)

15:30 S25.006 Electronic structure of Yb_4As_3 and Sm_4Bi_3

Ochiai Akira, Shirakawa Makoto, Aoki Haruyoshi (Center for Low Temperature Science, Tohoku University)

15:42 S25.007 Magnetic structure and fluctuations of Gd2IrIn8: an x-ray resonant diffraction study

E. Granado (Laboratório Nacional de Luz Síncrotron, CP 6192, CEP 13084-971, Campinas, SP, Brazil), P.G. Pagliuso, C. Giles, R. Lora-Serrano, F. Yokaichiya (Instituto de Fisica ``Gleb Wataghin,'' UNICAMP, 13083-970, Campinas-SP, Brazil), J.L. Sarrao (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, U.S.A)

15:54 S25.008 Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) of Gd^3+ in Gd_mM_nIn_3m+2n(M=Rh, Ir; n=0,1 and m=1,2) antiferromagnets

P.G. Pagliuso, C. Israel, R. R. Urbano, C. Rettori (Instituto de Física ``Gleb Wathagin'', UNICAMP, 13083-970, Campinas, Brazil), N.O. Moreno, J.L. Sarrao (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, U.S.A.), S.B. Oseroff (San Diego State University, San Diego, California, 92182, U.S.A)

16:06 S25.009 Fermi Surface Nesting in UGe_2

F. Wang, J.W. Allen (U. of Michigan), J.D. Denlinger (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab), Kai Rossnagel (U. of Kiel), A.D. Huxley, J. Flouquet (CEA-Grenoble)

16:18 S25.010 Unusual phonon softening in \delta-phase plutonium

Robert McQueeney (Iowa State University/Ames Laboratory), Angus Lawson, Albert Migliori (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Timothy Kelley, Brent Fultz (California Institute of Technology), Michael Ramos, Barbara Martinez, Jason Lashley (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

16:30 S25.011 High Sensitivity Magneto-Conductivity of \alpha-plutonium

Charles H. Mielke, Paul Goddard, Ross D. McDonald, John Singleton, Albert Migliori, Jason Lashley (Los Alamos National Laboratory, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory MS-E536, Los Alamos, NM 87545)

16:42 S25.012 Curious antiferromagnetic ordering of the R=Tb member of the RPtIn series

Hidekazu Tanaka (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011), Emilia Morosan (Ames Laboratory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011), Sergey L. Bud'ko (Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011), Hahnbidt Rhee, Joel D. Strand (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011), Paul C. Canfield (Ames Laboratory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011)

16:54 S25.013 Ambient pressure 99Ru NMR in URu2Si2 for HIIc as a function of temperature

Michael Moroz, Oscar Bernal (Physics Department, California State University of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90032), H.G. Lukefahr (Whittier College), D.E. MacLaughlin (University of California, Riverside), J.A. Mydosh Collaboration, Z.X. Zhou Collaboration

S25.014 Linking between a metamagnetic quantum critical end point and multiple phases in URu_2-xRh_xSi_2 (\itx=0.02, 0.025, 0.03, 0.04)

K. H. Kim (School of Physics, Seoul Nat'l Univ.), N. Harrison, G. Jorge (MST-NHMFL, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab.), H. Amitsuka (Division of Physics, Hokkaido Univ.), J. A. Mydosh (Kamerlingh Onnes Lab., Leiden Univ.)

S25.015 A single-impurity Anderson model study of the electronic entropy of the \gamma \rightarrow \alpha transition of Cerium.

Peter S. Riseborough (Physics Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa 19122)

S25.016 Pressure and field effects in UNi1/3Ru2/3Al

A.M. Alsmadi, S. El-Khatib, H. Nakotte (Physics Department, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003), M.H. Jung, A. Lacerda (NHMFL, Pulse Field Facility, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545), F. Honda, A.V. Andreev, V. Sechovsky (Department of Electronic Structures, Charles University, 12116 Prague 2, The Czech Republic)

14:30 S27.001 New Ground-State Structures in Fe-Co Alloys

Alejandro Diaz-Ortiz (Advanced Materials Department, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, 78231 San Luis Potosí, SLP, Mexico), Ralf Drautz (Materials Modelling Laboratory, Department of Materials, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PH, United Kingdom), Manfred Fähnle, Helmut Dosch (Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung, Heisenbergstraße 3, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany)

14:42 S27.002 A novel free energy minimum on Cu(001)

Mikhail Ovsyanko, Georgiana Stoian, Herbert Wormeester, Bene Poelsema (MESA+ Research Institute, University of Twente, P.O.Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands)

14:54 S27.003 Spinodal decomposition in the presence of mobile dislocations

Mikko Haataja, Jennifer Mahon, Nick Provatas (McMaster University), Francois Leonard (Sandia National Labs)

15:06 S27.004 First-principles study of solid solution softening in Mo alloys

N.I. Medvedeva, Yu.N. Gornostyrev, A.J. Freeman (Physics and Astronomy Dept., Northwestern U.)

15:18 S27.005 The effect of radiation damage on the resistivity of alpha-plutonium

Jason C. Cooley, Jason C. Lashley, Charles H. Mielke (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

15:30 S27.006 Temperature dependence of the elastic constants of Zirconium Tungstate

F. Drymiotis, A. Migliori, H. Ledbetter, T. Kimura, J. C. Lashley, J. B. Betts (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA), G. Kowach, A. P. Ramirez (Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, 07974, USA), J. Van Duijn (University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1TN, UK)

15:42 S27.007 Elastic Collapse in Plutonium Invar

A. Migliori, H. Ledbetter, A. C. Lawson, A. P. Ramirez, D. A. Miller, J. B. Betts, M. Ramos, J. C. Lashley (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 87545)

15:54 S27.008 Quantum Oscillations of Elastic Moduli and Softening of Phonon Modes in Metals

Gregory M. Zimbovsky (Urals State Academy of Mining and Geology, Yekaterinburg, Russia), Natalya A. Zimbovskaya (Department of Physics and Astronomy, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN)

16:06 S27.009 Measurement of the phonon entropy of alloying in dilute substitutional alloys.

Olivier Delaire (CALTECH, Materials Science Department), Tabitha Swan-Wood, Max Kresch, Brent Fultz (CALTECH)

16:18 S27.010 Low-frequency Einstein mode in the zero-volume-expansion material YbGaGe

F. R. Drymiotis, J. C. Lashley, G. Lawes, A. Migliori, H. Ledbetter, J. B. Betts, G. M. Schmiedeshoff, J. C. Cooley, D. Pines (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA), R. A. Fisher (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA), A. P. Ramirez (Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ, 07974, USA)

16:30 S27.011 Adiabatic and Non-Adiabatic Contributions to the Free Energy from the Electron-Phonon Interaction

Nicolas Bock (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Dermot Coffey (Buffalo State College), Duane Wallace (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

16:42 S27.012 Defect-Mediated Pathway for Rapid Formation of hcp Precipitates in fcc Al-Ag

Dan Finkenstadt, D.D. Johnson (Physics and Materials Science amp; Eng.,U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

16:54 S27.013 Thermal expansion and lattice misfit in two-phase superalloys

Yu.N. Gornostyrev (Institute of Metal Physics, Ekaterinburg, Russia), O.Yu. Kontsevoi, A.J. Freeman (Northwestern University), K.Yu. Khromov, A.F. Maksyutov, A.V. Trefilov (Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia), M.I. Katsnelson (Uppsala Universlty, Sweden), A.I. Lichtenstein (University of Nijmegen, Netherlands)

14:30 S28.001 Anomalous dispersion and the absence of damping of excitations in optical lattices

Shunji Tsuchiya (Department of Physics, University of Toronto and Department of Physics, Waseda University), Allan Griffin (Department of Physics, University of Toronto)

14:42 S28.002 Single-atom density of states of an optical lattice

Chris Hooley, Jorge Quintanilla (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, U.K.)

14:54 S28.003 Spatial Resonances in Bose-Einstein Condensation in Periodic Lattices

Mason Porter, Predrag Cvitanovic (Georgia Institute of Technology)

15:06 S28.004 Realization of a quantum random walk with ultracold atoms

Donatella Ciampini, Michael d'Arcy, Joshua Grossman, Kristian Helmerson, Paul Lett, William Phillips (National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Dr., Stop 8424, Gaithersburg MD 20899-8424), Steven Rolston (Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park MD 20742)

15:18 S28.005 Using Bragg scattering to measure the thermodynamics of a cold Bose gas

F. Gerbier, S. Richard, M. Hugbart, P. Bouyer, A. Aspect (Groupe d'Optique Atomique, Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique, 91403 Orsay, France), J. H. Thywissen (Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 1A7, Canada)

15:30 S28.006 Initial investigation of the Casimir-Polder force near a dielectric surface using trapped ultra-cold 87Rb atoms

David Harber, Jeffrey McGuirk, John Obrecht, Eric Cornell (JILA, NIST and University of Colorado)

15:42 S28.007 Quantum Monte Carlo study of the ground state of trapped bosons with negative and positive scattering lengths

Wirawan Purwanto, Shiwei Zhang (College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia)

15:54 S28.008 Phase engineering of Schrodinger cat states and nonadiabatic production of squeezed states in Bose-Einstein Condensates in multiple wells

Mary Ann Leung (University of Washington), Khan W. Mahmud, William P. Reinhardt

16:06 S28.009 Universal properties of quantum gases near Feshbach resonances with non-zero angular momentum

Nedeltcho Zahariev, Tin-Lun Ho (Department of Physics, The Ohio State University)

16:18 S28.010 Many-body physics with atomic gases near a Feshbach resonance

Rembert Duine (Utrecht University)

16:30 S28.011 Competition between phase coherence and correlation in a mixture of Bose-Einstein condensates

Hong Ma, Tao Pang (Department of Physics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154-4002)

16:42 S28.012 Quantum States of Matter of Simple Bosonic Systems: BEC's, Superfluids and Quantum Solids

David Santiago, Zaira Nazario (Department of Physics, Stanford University)

16:54 S28.013 Quantum expansion of the dynamics of interacting bosons: semiclassical approximation and beyond

Anatoli Polkovnikov (Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138)

17:06 S28.014 Properties of a dilute Bose gas near a Feshbach resonance

Lan Yin (School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China)

14:30 S32.001 Evolution dynamics of Ge islands on Si (001) and Si (113) surfaces

W.-C. Yang (Dep. of Physics, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC 27695), M. Himmerlich, J.A. Schaefer (Institute of Physics, Technical University Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany), R.J. Nemanich (Dep. of Physics, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC 27695)

14:42 S32.002 Composition of Ge/Si(111) islands

Fulvio Ratto, Federico Rosei (INRS-EMT)

14:54 S32.003 Shape and size scaling of three-dimensional InN islands grown by molecular

Yongge Cao, Maohai Xie, Yin Liu, Shihong Xu, Y.F. Ng, S.Y. Tong (Department of Physics, The Univeristy of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong)

15:06 S32.004 Atomistic Simulations of Nano-island Relaxation

Edmund Webb III (Sandia National Laboratories)

15:18 S32.005 Effect of Pb Concentration on the Thermal Decay of 2-D Islands on Pb/Cu(111) Surface Alloys

M.L. Anderson, B.S. Swartzentruber, G.L. Kellogg, N.C. Bartelt (Sandia National Labs)

15:30 S32.006 Modelling of island decay mechanisms in nanoislands.

Z. Kuntova, Z. Chvoj (Institute of Physics Czech Academy), M. C. Tringides (Iowa State Univesity Ames Laboratory-USDOE)

15:42 S32.007 A Monte Carlo Study of Island Nucleation in the Growth of Silicon on Si(111) under Chemical Vapor Deposition

K. E. Khor, S. Das Sarma (Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742-4111)

15:54 S32.008 Attractive migration and coalescence of TiSi2 islands on Si(111)

Matthew C Zeman, Woochul Yang, Robert J Nemanich (North Carolina State University)

16:06 S32.009 Fluctuations, Step Free Energy, and Correlation Times of Islands on (111) fcc Surfaces

Ferenc Szalma, T. J. Stasevich, Hailu Gebremariam, T. L. Einstein (U. of Maryland, College Park)

16:18 S32.010 Equilibrium Shapes of Two Dimensional Islands under Anisotropic Stress

Amit Pradhan, N-.Y. Ma, Feng Liu (University of Uath)

16:30 S32.011 Scaling of relaxation laws for two-dimensional structures

José L. Iguain, Laurent J. Lewis (Département de Physique et Groupe de Recherche en Physique et Technologie des Couches Minces (GCM), Université de Montréal.)

16:42 S32.012 Diffusion of gold clusters on defective graphite surfaces

Bokwon Yoon, W. D. Luedtke, Jianping Gao, Uzi Landman (School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia 30332-0430)

16:54 S32.013 Diffusion of small 2D Cu clusters on Cu(111): a Kinetic Monte Carlo Study

Chandana Gosh, Abdelkader Kara, Talat S. Rahman (Physics Department, Kansas State University)

17:06 S32.014 Mechanism of the enhancement of self-diffusion on Cu(111) by trace amounts of S

W.L. Ling, N.C. Bartelt, K. Pohl, J. de la Figuera, K.F. McCarty (Sandia National Laboratory, Livermore, CA)

14:30 S33.001 Elastic stability and electronic structure of carbon in the fcc phase

Alejandro Tapia, Gabriel Murrieta, Romeo de Coss (Department of Applied Physics, Cinvestav-Merida, Mexico.)

14:42 S33.002 Chemisorption Properties of CO on fccCo(100)

F.G. Curti, C.J. Bosco (Seton Hall Univ.), H. Yao, R.A. Bartynski (Rutgers Univ.)

14:54 S33.003 First-principles study on N/Cu(001) surfaces: the adsorbate effect on the surface stress, and the surface stiffness

Yoshihide Yoshimoto, Shinji Tsuneyuki (University of Tokyo)

15:06 S33.004 Anomalous vibrational spectra of CO and NO chemisorbed on transition-metal surfaces

Hideaki Aizawa, Takahisa Ohno (National Institute for Materials Science, Japan), Yoshitada Morikawa (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science, Japan)

15:18 S33.005 Elasticity theory connection rules for epitaxial interfaces

Corey Bettenhausen, Wade Bowie, Michael Geller (Department of Physics, University of Georgia)

15:30 S33.006 An Ab Initio Study of Aluminum Chemisorption on Ga-Rich GaAs(100)-(2 × 1) and β(4 × 2) Surfaces

Michael Mayo, Asok Ray (University of Texas at Arlington)

15:42 S33.007 Giant increase in isoelectronic reactivity index of Pd and Cu surfaces on alkali metal adsorption

Talat S. Rahman, Sergey Stolbov (Kansas State University)

15:54 S33.008 Near-surface contact potential fields and photoemission from image states on bimetallic Ag/Pt nanostructured surfaces

Serban Smadici, Richard Osgood Jr. (Center for Integrated Science and Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027)

16:06 S33.009 Simultaneous tunneling current and atomic force measurements of W-Au junction: from tunneling to point contact

Yan Sun, Henrik Mortensen, Anne-Sophie Lucier, Sacha Schär, Peter Grutter (Physics Dept., McGill University, 3600 University St., Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 2T8)

16:18 S33.010 Tunneling Density of States of the Interacting Two-Dimensional Electron Gas

Joerg Rollbuehler (Department of Physics, University of Oregon), Hermann Grabert (Physikalisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg, Germany)

16:30 S33.011 Surface roughness and surface-induced resistivity of thin gold films deposited on preheated mica substrates under high vacuum

Raul C. Munoz, Juan Pablo Garcia (Dept. of Physics, University of Chile. Blanco Encalada 2008. Santiago, Chile), Ricardo Henriquez (Dept. of Physics, University of Chile. Las Palmeras 3425. Santiago, Chile), Ana Maria Moncada, Nestor Sepulveda (Dept. of Physics, University of Chile. Blanco Encalada 2008. Santiago, Chile), German Kremer, Luis Moraga, Simon Cancino, Miguel Chesta, Pedro Miranda, Jose Roberto Morales (Dept. of Physics, University of Chile. Las Palmeras 3425. Santiago, Chile)

16:42 S33.012 Effect of inhomogeneous interactions on superconducting properties

Lucian Covaci, Frank Marsiglio (Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada)

16:54 S33.013 Penetration depth of edgemagnetoplasmons

Mehmet Goksu, Arnold Dahm (Case Western Reserve University)

17:06 S33.014 Dipoles at Polar Oxide Surfaces: MgO(111)

M. Weinert, V. Lazarov, M. Gajdardziska-Josifovska (U. Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

14:30 S34.001 Towards controlled coupling between a single metallic nanoparticle and a single molecule

Vahid Sandoghdar (Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, Swiss Federal Istitute of Technology (ETH))

15:06 S34.002 Scattering Spectra of Single Gold Nanoshells

Jason H. Hafner (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Chemistry), Colleen L. Nehl (Department of Physics and Astronomy), Glenn P. Goodrich (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering), Felicia Tam (Department of Physics and Astronomy), Naomi J. Halas (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, TX)

15:18 S34.003 Plasmon-induced modifications in spontaneous emission of fluorophores in controlled nanoscale geometries

Surbhi Lal, Glenn P. Goodrich, Bruce E. Brinson, N. J. Halas (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston TX 77005)

15:30 S34.004 Variation of Metal Enhanced Fluorescence of Ag Nanoparticles Patterned by E-Beam Lithography with Size and Spacing

Timothy Corrigan, Shy-Hauh Guo, Ray Phaneuf (University of Maryland), Vincent Pugh, Henryk Szmacinski (Microcosm, Inc.)

15:42 S34.005 Field-enhanced second-harmonic Rayleigh scattering from metal tips

Catalin Neacsu, Markus B. Raschke (Max-Born-Institut, Berlin, Germany)

15:54 S34.006 Nonlinear microscopy and imaging of nanoparticles

Yaron Silberberg (Weizmann Institute of Science)

16:30 S34.007 Chiral Image Charges in Nanoclusters

Michael-Rock Goldsmith (Departments of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham NC 27708), David Beratan (Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Duke University, Durham NC 27708), Ron Naaman (Chemical Physics Department, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot,), David Waldeck, Peter Wipf (Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA 15260)

16:42 S34.008 Intermittent Single-molecule Interfacial Electron Transfer Dynamics in Dye-TiO2 Nanoparticle systems

Vasudevanpillai Biju, Miodrag Micic, Dehong Hu, H. Peter Lu (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Fundamental Science Division, P.O. Box 999, Richland, WA 99352)

16:54 S34.009 Probing exciton delocalization in a synthetic multichromophoric system

Jordi Hernando, Jacob P. Hoogenboom, Erik M.H.P. van Dijk, Niek F. van Hulst, Maria F. Garcia-Parajo (Applied Optics Group, Fac. Science and Technology, Univ. Twente)

17:06 S34.010 Ordering of Single Conjugated Polymers in a Nematic Liquid Crystal Host

Karolina P. Fritz, Gregory D. Scholes (University of Toronto), Robin K. Lammi, Paul F. Barbara (University of Texas at Austin), Lash-Miller Chemical Laboratories Collaboration, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Collaboration

17:18 S34.011 Selectivity of Auger decays to the surface local environment

G.P. Brivio (INFM and Dip. Sci. Mat., Univ. Milano-Bicocca, (Italy)), M.I. Trioni (INFM ,Unita` di Milano-Bicocca, Milano (Italy)), S. Caravati (INFM and Dip. Sci. Mat., Univ. Milano-Bicocca, (Italy)), L. Floreano, F. Bruno, A. Morgante (TASC Lab, INFM , Trieste (Italy)), Milano-Bicocca Team, TASC Lab Collaboration

14:30 S35.001 Supercooled liquids and glasses. The role of structural frustration

Gilles Tarjus (LPTL, Universite P. et M. Curie, 4 Place jussieu, 75005 Paris, France)

15:06 S35.002 Statistics of excitation lines and local dynamics of glass formers

Juan P. Garrahan (University of Nottingham), David Chandler, YounJoon Jung (University of California Berkeley)

15:18 S35.003 What sets the temperature scale of the “glass transition?”

Steven Kivelson (UCLA), Tarjus Gilles (Jussieu), Daniel Kivelson (UCLA)

15:30 S35.004 Excitation lines and the breakdown of Stokes-Einstein relations in supercooled liquids

YounJoon Jung (Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1460), Juan P. Garrahan (Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, 1 Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3NP, UK and School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK), David Chandler (Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1460)

15:42 S35.005 Avoided Phase Transitions in Geometrically Frustrated Systems and Non-Abelian theories

Zohar Nussinov (Los Alamos National Lab), Daniel Kivelson (Chemistry Dept., UCLA), Steven Kivelson (Physics Dept, UCLA), Gilles Tarjus (Jussieu)

15:54 S35.006 Break

16:30 S35.007 Inherent Structure Approach to the Study of Glass Forming Liquids: Onset temperature of slow dynamics and fragility

Srikanth Sastry (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India)

16:42 S35.008 Particle dynamics and the development of string-like motion in a supercooled Dzugutov liquid

Yeshitila Gebremichael, Michael Vogel, Sharon Glotzer (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109)

16:54 S35.009 Frequency Dependence of the Specific Heat of Glass Forming Liquids

Clare Yu, Herve Carruzzo (University of California, Irvine)

17:06 S35.010 The alpha-beta relaxation scenario in glass forming oligomer systems of varying chain-end functionality

Johan Mattsson (Dept. of Physics and DEAS, Harvard University, Cambridge, 02138 USA), Rikard Bergman, Per Jacobson, Lars Borjesson (Dept. of Applied Phyics, Chalmers University of Technology, SE 412 96 Goteborg, Sweden)

14:30 S36.001 Semiclassical coupled wave theory for 1D photonic crystals

G. V. Morozov, D.W.L. Sprung (McMaster University, Hamilton ON L8S 4M1 Canada), Joan Martorell (Dept. ECM, Facultat Fisica, Universitat Barcelona, E-08028 Spain)

14:42 S36.002 High efficiency coupling technique between dielectric waveguides and planar photonic crystal circuits

Yuan-Fong Chau, Tzong-Jer Yang (Dept. of Electrophysics,National Chiao-Tung University)

14:54 S36.003 Index of refraction of magneto-dielectric photonic crystals

Arkadii Krokhin (University of North Texas, P.O. Box 311427, Denton, TX 76203), Edgar Reyes (Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, 72570, Mexico)

15:06 S36.004 Manifestation of the Intrinsic Band Structure of a Photonic Crystal in the Disorder-Induced Intensity Correlations in the Near Field

V.M. Apalkov, M.E. Raikh (University of Utah), B. Shapiro (Technion-Israel Inst. of Technology)

15:18 S36.005 Electrical tuning of photonic crystals infilled with liquid crystals

J. Adrian Reyes-Cervantes (Instituto de Física Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), Peter Halevi, Jorge A. Reyes-Avendano (Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica Optica y Electrónica)

15:30 S36.006 Proposal of new photonic materials named uniformly distributed photonic scatteres (UDPS)

Hiroshi Miyazaki (Tohoku University), Masashi Hase, Hideki Miyazaki (National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)), Yoichi Kurokawa (Tohoku University), Norio Shinya (National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)), Tohoku University Collaboration, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) Collaboration

15:42 S36.007 Hamiltonian Lattice Method for ``Exotic'' Photonic Band-Structure Calculations

S. Raghu, F. D. M. Haldane (Princeton University)

15:54 S36.008 Cherenkov radiation in photonic crystals

Javier Garcia de Abajo (Centro Mixto CSIC-UPV/EHU, San Sebastian, SPAIN), Andras Pattantyus-Abraham (Department of Chemistry, UBC, Vancouver, BC, Canada), Nerea Zabala (Dept. Electricidad y Magnetismo, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain), Alberto Rivacoba (Dept. Fisica de Materiales, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain), Michael Wolf (Department of Chemistry, UBC, Vancouver, BC, Canada), Pedro Echenique (Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), San Sebastian, Spain)

S36.009 Optical properties of complex metamaterials

Javier Garcia de Abajo (Centro Mixto CSIC-UPV/EHU and Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), San Sebastian, Spain)

S36.010 Photonic crystal circuits: Intrinsic localized modes

Arthur McGurn (Department of Physics, Western Michigan University)

14:30 S37.001 Multi-level quantum description of decoherence in superconducting qubits

Guido Burkard, Roger H. Koch, David P. DiVincenzo (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598)

14:42 S37.002 Coherent Oscillations on a Single Cooper Pair Box with RF-SET Readout

J. F. Schneiderman (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy, University of Southern California), A. Guillaume (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology), P. Delsing (Chalmers University of Technology, Microtechnology amp; Nanoscience), H. M. Bozler (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy, University of Southern California), P. M. Echternach (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)

14:54 S37.003 Decoherence in superconducting quantum bits by non-resonant phonon radiation.

Ruslan Usmanov, Lev Ioffe (Rutgers University)

15:06 S37.004 Probing Decoherence with Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Superconductive Quantum Circuits

Kota Murali, Donald Crankshaw, T.P. Orlando (EECS, MIT), Zachary Dutton (NIST, Gaithersburg), W.D. Oliver (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)

15:18 S37.005 Decoherence in Josephson Qubits from Quasiparticles

John M. Martinis, R.W. Simmonds, R. McDermott, K.B. Cooper, M. Steffen, D.A. Hite, S. Nam, D.P. Pappas (NIST, Boulder CO 80305)

15:30 S37.006 Distinguishing quantum and classical in coupled superconducting phase qubit spectroscopy

Philip R. Johnson, Frederick W. Strauch, Mohamed Abutaleb, Roberto C. Ramos, Andrew J. Berkley, Huizhong Xu, Sudeep Dutta, James R. Anderson, Alex J. Dragt, Chris J. Lobb, Fred C. Wellstood (University of Maryland)

15:42 S37.007 Decoherence in superconducting quantum bits by phonon radiation

Lev Ioffe (Rutgers University), V.B. Geshkenbein, Ch. Helm, G. Blatter (Theoretische Physik, ETH-Honggerberg, Zurich, Switzerland)

15:54 S37.008 Energy Relaxation Time between Macroscopic Quantum Levels in a Superconducting Persistent Current Qubit

Yang Yu, D. Nakada, Janice C. Lee, Bhuwan Singh, D. S. Crankshaw, T. P. Orlando (MIT), William D. Oliver, Karl. K Berggren (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)

16:06 S37.009 Measurement of Relaxation Time of a Josephson Junction Qubit

S.K. Dutta, H. Xu, A.J. Berkley, R.C. Ramos, M.A. Gubrud, J.R. Anderson, C.J. Lobb, F.C. Wellstood (Center for Superconductivity Research, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park)

16:18 S37.010 Backaction Effects of a SSET Measuring a Qubit

Johannes Majer, Benjamin Turek, Aashish Clerk (Department of Applied Physics, Yale University), Steven Girvin (Department of Physics, Yale University), Kevin Bladh, David Gunnarsson, Per Delsing (Microelectronics and Nanoscience, Chalmers University of Technology), Robert Schoelkopf (Department of Applied Physics and Physics, Yale University)

16:30 S37.011 Scaling and Control of Superconducting Phase Qubits

Frederick W. Strauch, Philip R. Johnson, Alex J. Dragt, C. J. Lobb, J. R. Anderson, F. C. Wellstood (Department of Physics, University of Maryland)

16:42 S37.012 RF-SET Measurements of a Cooper Pair Box

Carlos Sanchez, Akshay Naik (Laboratory for Physical Sciences and University of Maryland), Benjamin Palmer, Keith Schwab, Marc Manheimer (Laboratory for Physical Sciences)

16:54 S37.013 Superconducting qubit storage and entanglement with nanomechanical resonators

Michael R. Geller (Dept. of Physics, University of Georgia Athens), Andrew N. Cleland (Dept. of Physics, UC Santa Barbara)

17:06 S37.014 Ground state cooling of mechanical resonators

Ivar Martin (LANL), Alexander Shnirman (U Karlsruhe)

17:18 S37.015 Method of direct observation of Rabi oscillations and Ramsey fringes in the ABS qubit

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

14:30 S38.001 Increasing the precision of scanning probe instruments by theoretical methods.

Werner Hofer (Surface Science Research Centre, University of Liverpool)

15:06 S38.002 Ab initio exploration of electron-optical phonon interaction in nanotubes

Hande Ustunel, Tomas Arias (Department of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853)

15:18 S38.003 Electron Transport Through Molecules: Self-consistent and Non-self-consistent Approaches

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

15:30 S38.004 Super Parallel Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulation of Thin-Film Growth

Michael Merrick, Kristen Fichthorn (The Pennsylvania State University)

15:42 S38.005 Percolation of unsatisfiability in finite dimensions

J. M. Schwarz (UCLA), A. Alan Middleton (Syracuse University)

15:54 S38.006 A 3D Brownian Dynamics simulation study of packing constraints in amphiphilic self-assembly

Geuorgui Bourov, Aniket Bhattacharya (University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL-32816)

16:06 S38.007 The Effects of Geometry and Topology on the Self-Assembly of Tethered Nano Building Blocks

Mark Horsch, Zhenli Zhang, Christopher Iacovella, Sharon Glotzer (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109)

16:18 S38.008 Site selectivity in the adsorption of C on stepped and kinked Pd surfaces

Faisal Mehmood, Talat S. Rahman, Sergey Stolbov (Kansas State University)

16:30 S38.009 The Optical Properties of Nanoscaled Spherical TiO2

Yiming Mi (College of Fundamental Studies, Shanghai University of Engineering Science), Shuichi Iwata (RACE, The University of Tokyo)

16:42 S38.010 Current density distribution in carbon nanotube wires

Yi Liu, Hong Guo (Center for the Physics of Materials and Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, PQ, Canada H3A 2T8)

16:54 S38.011 Hydrogen in Mono-Atomic Gold Wires

Robert N. Barnett, Andrew G. Sherbakov, Uzi Landman (School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332), Hannu Hakkinen (Department of Physics, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland)

17:06 S38.012 Nanotribology of shear and energy dissipation by interstitials in nanotube assemblies

Yu Lin (Rice University), Yufeng Zhao (Rice University - National Renewable Energy Laboratory), Luise S. Couchman (Naval Research Laboratory), Boris I. Yakobson (Rice University)

17:18 S38.013 Three-Dimensional Nanoscale Element Analysis for Amorphous Polymer Field

Youqi Wang, Chongjian Zhang, Eric Zhou, Changjie Sun (Kansas State University), Jeffrey Hinkley, Thomas Gates, Ji Su (NASA Langley Research Center), Kansas State University Team, NASA Langley Research Center Team

14:30 S39.001 On Extending Miedema’s Model to Estimate Hydrogen Capacity in Metal Hydrides

J. F. Herbst (GM R amp; D Center)

14:42 S39.002 Electronic and Elastic Properties of RCo_5 and RCo_5H_n (R = La, Ce, Pr)

Jr. Hector, J. F. Herbst (GM R amp; D Center)

14:54 S39.003 Ab-initio Study of Known and Hypothetical Metal-Organic Frameworks

Miguel Fuentes-Cabrera (Carnegie Mellon University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Don M. Nicholson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

15:06 S39.004 Ab initio study of adsorption of molecular hydrogen on microporous metal-organic frameworks.

Sébastien Hamel (Université de Montreal, Réseau Québécois des Matériaux de Pointe), Michel Côté (Université de Montréal, Réseau Québécois des Matériaux de Pointe)

15:18 S39.005 Novel role of boron on carbon-based hydrogen storage

Yong-Hyun Kim, Yufeng Zhao, S. B. Zhang (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado 80401)

15:30 S39.006 Combined First-principles modeling and neutron scattering characterization of hydrogen storage materials

Taner Yildirim (NIST Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg, MD 20899), Jorge Iniguez (NIST Center for Neutron Research and University of Maryland, Colleger Park, Maryland)

15:42 S39.007 Neutron diffraction of ZrBe_2D_1.5, ZrBe_2H_x and inelastic scattering studies of hydride phases in ZrBe_2H_x

R.L. Cappelletti (NIST Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg, MD 20899), Zema Chowdhuri (NIST Center for Neutron Research and University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742), T.J. Udovic, Q.Z. Huang (NIST Center for Neutron Research)

15:54 S39.008 An ^57Fe Mössbauer Characterization of Hydrides of ZrCrFe_0.5Co_0.5 and ZrMnFe_0.5Ni_0.5

M Mani, Sundaram Ramaprabhu (Physics Department, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India 600 020), Natarajan Ravi (Physics Department, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA 30314), IIT Collaboration

16:06 S39.009 Synchrotron Techniques for in-situ Characterization of Hydrogen Storage Materials and Their Applications to NaAlH4

Yan Gao, Job T Rijssenbeek, William Morris, William Heward, Vincent Smentkowski (GE Global Research, Niskayuna, NY 12309), Jon Hanson, Xianqin Wang (Chemistry Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973), Peter Chupas (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439), Peter Lee (Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439), Sesha S Srinivasan, Craig M Jensen (Chemistry Department, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822)

16:18 S39.010 Advances in Hydrides for Hydrogen Storage

Karl Gross (Sandia National Laboratories), Weifang Luo Team, Eric Majzoub Team, Daniel Dedrick Team

16:30 S39.011 CHARACTERIZATION OF Ti CATALYST IN NaAlH4 DOPED WITH TiF3

Job T. Rijssenbeek, Yan Gao (GE Global Research, Niskayuna, NY 12309), Sesha S. Srinivasan, Craig M. Jensen (Chemistry Department, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822), Jonathan Hanson, Xianqin Wang (Chemistry Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973)

16:42 S39.012 Titanium Assisted Hydrogen Desorption in Alanates

P. JENA, S. N. KHANNA, B. K. RAO, H. KAWAMURA (Virginia Commonwealth University)

16:54 S39.013 The effect of compositional inhomogeneities on the enthalpies of hydrogen absorption by Pd-Ni alloys

Ted Flanagan (University of Vermont, Burlington VT 05405), C.-N. Park (Chonnam National University, Kwangju 500-757 S. Korea), Suifang Luo (University of Vermont, Burlington VT 05405)

17:06 S39.014 Low Temperature Hydrogen Cycling in Mechanically Alloyed Mg2Ni

Frederick E. Pinkerton, Martin S. Meyer (General Motors Ramp;D Center)

S39.015 The Thermodynamics of Hydrogen Absorption by Ordered and Disordered Pd3Mn

Ted Flanagan, Suifang Luo (University of Vermont, Burlington VT 05405)