Program overview

THURSDAY MORNING, 25 MARCH 2004

08:00 U1.001 Quantum Conductance in Metal Nanowires

Daniel Ugarte (Brazilian National Synchrotron Light Laboratory, C.P. 6192, 13084-971 Campinas SP, Brazil)

08:36 U1.002 Effects of Quantization on the Physical Properties of Atomically-Uniform Films

T. Miller (Department of Physics and Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

09:12 U1.003 Quantum Effects in Low Energy Electron Microscopy: a 3-D Probe of Nanostructure

Michael Altman (Department of Physics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

09:48 U1.004 Growth behavior and properties of nano Pb quantum islands on Si(111) surfaces at low temperatures

Tien T. Tsong (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan 11529)

10:24 U1.005 Electronic states and chemisorption on metallic quantum wells

Robert Bartynski (Rutgers University)

08:00 U2.001 Quantum dots on a helium surface: constructing disorder to localize excitations

Mark Dykman (Michigan State University)

08:36 U2.002 Counting Electrons on Liquid Helium

Phillip Glasson (Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK.)

09:12 U2.003 Optical lattices as quantum crystals with controlled disorder

Alexander Meyerovich (Department of Physics, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA)

09:48 U2.004 Experimental studies of BECs in optical lattices: Nonlinear effects

Oliver Morsch (INFM, Dipartimento di Fisica "E. Fermi", Pisa, Italy)

08:00 U3.001 Left-handed materials: positively negative

John Pendry (Imperial College London)

08:36 U3.002 The Reality of Negative Refraction

David Smith (University of California, San Diego)

09:12 U3.003 Left-handed materials and negative refraction: Transfer matrix and FDTD calculations

Costas M. Soukoulis (Ames Laboratory and Physics Dept., Iowa State Univ., Ames, Iowa)

09:48 U3.004 Electromagnetic waves: Negative refraction by photonic crystals

Ekmel Ozbay (Department of Physics, Bilkent University)

10:24 U3.005 IMAGING BY FLAT LENS USING NEGATIVE REFRACTION IN MICROWAVE PHOTONIC CRYSTALS

Srinivas Sridhar (Physics Department and Electronic Materials Research Institute, Northeastern University)

08:00 U4.001 Pake Prize Recipient: Technology Policy in the US

Robert White (Carnegie Mellon University)

08:36 U4.002 The Next Technology Revolution - Nano Electronic Technology

Iwona Turlik (Motorola, Inc)

09:12 U4.003 Can Industrial Physics Avoid Being Creatively Destroyed?

Kenneth C. Hass (Ford Motor Company)

09:48 U4.004 Getting Value from Research

Charles Duke (Xerox Wilson Center for Research and Technology)

10:24 U4.005 A Catalyst for Industry-University Partnerships

Donald Senich (National Science Foundation)

08:00 U5.001 Measurements of velocity gradient properties of turbulence in laboratory and atmospheric boundary layer flows

James Wallace (University of Maryland)

08:36 U5.002 Measurements of Complex Oceanic Flows, from Turbulence in the Coastal Ocean to Interaction of Zooplankton with its Local Environment

J. Katz (The Johns Hopkins University)

09:12 U5.003 Polymers and bio-polymers: optical diagnostics of changes in turbulent flows

Daniel Lathrop (Department of Physics, IREAP and IPST, University of Maryland)

09:48 U5.004 Particle Tracking Acceleromentry: The Lagrangian statistics of fully developed turbulence

Eberhard Bodenschatz (Cornell University)

08:00 U6.001 Molecular Nanostructures: Fabrication And Transport Aspects

Mark A. Ratner (Department of Chemistry and Materials Research Center, Northwestern University)

08:36 U6.002 Quantum Transport from first principles, status, prospects and future directions

Jeremy Taylor (Atomistix Inc, Universitetsparken 5, Building D, DK-2100 Copenhagen East, Denmark)

09:12 U6.003 Level-Set Simulation of Dislocation Dynamics in the Presence of Particles

David Srolovitz (Princeton University)

09:48 U6.004 Reflections on "chemical accuracy" and "nearsightedness"

Matthias Scheffler (Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG, D-14195 Berlin, Germany)

10:24 U6.005 Ultrathin metal films on oxides: ferroelectric boundary conditions and surface chemistry

Andrew M. Rappe (Makineni Theoretical Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania)

08:00 U7.001 Understanding the mechanisms of protein-DNA interactions

Richard Lavery (Laboratoire de Biochimie Theorique, IBPC, Paris, France)

08:36 U7.002 Specificity of protein-DNA interaction in transcription control: physics, evolution and bioinformatics

Anirvan Sengupta (Department of Physics and Astronomy and the BioMaPS Institute, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ)

09:12 U7.003 Is There a Code for Protein-DNA Recognition?

Gary D. Stormo (Washington University in St. Louis)

09:48 U7.004 Computational studies of small RNA regulation

Rahul Kulkarni (NEC Laboratories America)

08:00 U8.001 Investigation of Skin Cancers Using MicroRaman Spectroscopy

M. A. Short, X. K. Chen (Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University; Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada), H. Zeng (Department of Cancer Imaging, British Columbia Cancer Agency;Vancouver, BC, V5Z 1L3, Canada), A. A. Ajlan, D. I. McLean, H. Hui (Division of Dermatology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 4E8, Canada), X. K. Chen Team, H. Zeng Collaboration, H. Lui Collaboration

08:12 U8.002 Keratin based materials: a deep-UV inelastic light-scattering study

Benjamin Schulz, Danny Chan, Joakim Bäckström, Michael Rübhausen (Institut für Angewandte Physik, Universität Hamburg, Jungiusstraße 11, D-20355 Hamburg, Germany)

08:24 U8.003 In-vivo spectroscopic ellipsometry measurements of human skin

Danny Chan, Benjamin Schulz, Michael Ruebhausen (Institute of Applied Physics, University of Hamburg, Jungiusstr. 11, 20355 Hamburg, Germany)

08:36 U8.004 Physical Properties of the Transcytosis Machinery in Endothelial Cells

Meron Mengistu, Linda Lowe-Krentz (Department of Biological Science, Lehigh University), H. Daniel Ou-Yang (Department of Physics, Lehigh University)

08:48 U8.005 Diffraction enhanced computed tomography of trabecular bone

Dean Connor, Dale Sayers (North Carolina State University), David Lalush Collaboration, D. Rick Sumner Collaboration, Zhong Zhong Collaboration

09:00 U8.006 Trabecular bone as a hierarchical material

Iwona Jasiuk (Georgia Institute of Technology)

09:12 U8.007 Alternans Suppression in Cardiac Tissue by Electrotonic Effects

Flavio Fenton (Beth Israel Medical Center), Elizabeth Cherry (Hofstra University)

09:24 U8.008 Short-term Cardiac Memory Can Suppress Alternans

Elizabeth Cherry (Hofstra University), Flavio Fenton (Beth Israel Medical Center)

09:36 U8.009 Hierarchical Structure of Heart Rate Variability in Humans

X.Z. Gao (Department of Mech. amp; Ind. Engng., Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada), E.S.C Ching (Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong), D.C. Lin (Department of Mech. amp; Ind. Engng., Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada)

09:48 U8.010 Synchronization and Cardio-pulmonary feedback in Sleep Apnea

Limei Xu, Plamen Ch. Ivanov, Zhi Chen, Kun Hu (Boston University), David Paydarfar (University of Massachusetts), H. Eugene Stanley (Boston University)

10:00 U8.011 STUDY OF SEDIMENTATION OF BLOOD USING LIGHT TRASMISION

CESAR CAB-CAUICH (CINVESTAV-UNIDAD MERIDA, MERIDA, 97310, MEXICO), OLGA LEANOS (UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH, GUELPH, ONTARIO, N1G2W1, CANADA), JUAN ALVARADO-GIL, GERARDO GOLD (CINVESTAV-UNIDAD MERIDA, MERIDA, 97310, MEXICO)

10:12 U8.012 Low-Energy Defibrillation Failure Correction is Possible Through Nonlinear Analysis of Spatiotemporal Arrhythmia Data

Jennifer Simonotto, Michael Furman (Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Florida), Thomas Beaver (Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Florida), Mark Spano (US Navy, Carderock Laboratory), Katherine Kavanagh, Jason Iden, Gang Hu (Department of Medicine, University of Alberta), William Ditto (Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Florida)

10:24 U8.013 Nested Sphere Model for SQUID-based Impedance Magnetocardiography

Vijayanand Vajrala, Dharmakeerthi Nawarathna, James Claycomb, John Miller (University of Houston, Houston, TX USA)

10:36 U8.014 Targeted medication delivery using magnetic nanostructures

Mina Yoon, David Tomanek (Michigan State University)

10:48 U8.015 ECM Proteins Glycosylation and Relation to Diabetes

Nadine Pernodet, Ayla Bloomberg, Vandana Sood, Lenny Slutsky, Shouren Ge, Richard Clark, Miriam Rafailovich (Materials Science, SUNY at Stony Brook, NY)

08:00 U9.001 Ab Initio Electronic Structure of Antiferromagnetic Metal Centers in Proteins

Jorge H. Rodriguez (Department of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907)

08:36 U9.002 Ab Initio Excited State Dynamics of the Green Fluorescent and Photoactive Yellow Protein Chromophores

Todd Martinez (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

09:12 U9.003 Conformational Control of Electron Tunneling in Redox Proteins: Sulfite Oxidase

Ilya Balabin, Tsutomu Kawatsu (Duke University), David Beratan (Duke.University)

09:24 U9.004 Diffusion coupled intramolecular electron transfer in proteins

Tsutomu Kawatsu, David Beratan (Depertment of Chemistry, Duke University)

09:36 U9.005 Ab initio Study of Transition metal binding to the Prion Protein

Daniel L. Cox, Rajiv R.P. Singh, Jianping Pan (Physics Department, University of California, Davis)

09:48 U9.006 First Principles Hartree Fock Investigation of Electronic Structure and Hyperfine Properties of Nitrosylhemoglobin

Minakhi Pujari, T. P. Das (Dept. of Physics, SUNY, Albany, NY), N. Sahoo (Dept. of Radiation Oncology, Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY)

10:00 U9.007 ATP-Binding Cassette Proteins: Towards a Computational View of Mechanism

Jielou Liao (APS), David N. Beratan Collaboration

10:12 U9.008 Mechanistic Investigation of Enzymes using QM/MM Methods

Yolanda Small (Penn State University), Sharon Hammes-Schiffer Collaboration

10:24 U9.009 Quantum studies of deprotonated forms of malonic acid

Eliana Asciutto, Jung Goo Lee (North Carolina State University), Lee G Pedersen (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Celeste Sagui (North Carolina State University)

10:36 U9.010 Electronic structure of metallic reaction centers in biomolecules

Michal Bajdich, Lucas K. Wagner, Gabriel Drobny (North Carolina State University), Jeffrey C. Grossman (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Lubos Mitas (North Carolina State University)

10:48 U9.011 Reflectance anisotropy for porphyrin ostaester

Raúl Vázquez-Nava, César Castillo, Bernardo Mendoza (Centro de investigaciones en óptica A. C. Loma del Bosque No. 115, Col. Lomas del Campestre, León, Guanajuato, México.)

08:00 U10.001 Cleaved edge overgrowth of InAs layers on InGaAs stressor layers

D. Wasserman (Princeton University), M. Hadjipanayi, A. Maciel, J.F. Ryan (Clarenden Laboratory, Oxford University), S.A. Lyon (Princeton University)

08:12 U10.002 Electrostatic Force Spectroscopy of self-assembled InAs quantum dots by cryogenic noncontact AFM

Romain Stomp, Yoichi Miyahara, Quingfeng Sun, Hong Guo, Peter Grutter (McGill University, Department of Physics, Montréal, Canada), Philip Poole, Sergei Studenikin, Andy Sachrajda (National Research Council, Institute for Microstructural Sciences, Ottawa, Canada)

08:24 U10.003 Control of InAs quantum dot epitaxial growths on Si (001)

ZuoMing Zhao, Bin Shi (UCLA, Dept. Materials Science amp; Engineering), Oksana Hulko (University of Toronto), Ya-Hong Xie (UCLA, Dept. Materials Science amp; Engineering)

08:36 U10.004 GaInTlAs alloys for high-speed devices*

An-Ban Chen (Auburn University)

08:48 U10.005 Virtual Synthesis of Semiconductor Nanoclusters with Pre-designed Electronic Properties

Liudmila A. Pozhar, Alan T. Yeates, Frank Szmulowicz, William C. Mitchel (Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, MLPS, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433), Virtual Nanocluster Collaboration

09:00 U10.006 Electrical Pumping of Colloidal Nanocrystals Using Epitaxial Injection Layers of Wide-Gap Semiconductors

Alexander Mueller, Melissa Petruska, Marc Achermann, Elshan Akhadov, Ilya Bezel (Los Alamos National Lab), Mary Crawford (Sandia National Lab), Brady Gibbons (Los Alamos National Lab), Daniel Koleske (SandiaNational Lab), Jagit Nanda, Victor Klimov, Mark Hoffbauer (Los Alamos National Lab)

09:12 U10.007 CdSe and CdTe Nanostructure Deposition by Electrochemical Atomic Layer Epitaxy

David J. Poxson (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824), Stephen M. Cox, Uwe Happek (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602), Mahlanyane K. Mathe, John L. Stickney (Dept. of Chemistry, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602)

09:24 U10.008 Quantum Confinement Effects in PbSe Thin Films Formed Using Electrochemical Atomic Layer Epitaxy

Stephen M. Cox, Uwe Happek (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602), Mahlanyane K. Mathe, John L. Stickney (Dept. of Chemistry, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602)

09:36 U10.009 Structural Defect in InSb/AlInSb Quantum Wells Grown on GaAs (001) Substrates

T.D. Mishima, M.B. Santos (University of Oklahoma)

09:48 U10.010 Nucleation and crystallization process of silicon using Stillinger-Weber potential

Philippe Beaucage, Normand Mousseau (UdeM)

10:00 U10.011 OHRS: Hydroxyl and hydrogen resistant silicon

Susana Curatolo (CZT Inc.)

10:12 U10.012 Electronic structures and stabilities of dimers of endohedral silicon clusters

Haruki Eguchi (IHI. JAPAN), Kazuo Tsumuraya, Hiroyuki Takenaka (School of Science and Engineering, Meiji University, JAPAN)

10:24 U10.013 Growth and characterization of GeTe, Sb_2Te_3, and Ge_2Sb_2Te_5 thin film chalcogenide glasses.

J.K. Olson, J. Whitaker, M.C. DeLong, P.C. Taylor (University of Utah Physics Department)

10:36 U10.014 Indirect (J) coupling of inequivalent ^75As nuclei in crystalline and glassy As_2Se_3 and As_2S_3

J. Whitaker, E. Ahn (University of Utah), P. Hart (California State University at Fresno), G. A. Williams, P. C. Taylor, J. C. Facelli (University of Utah)

10:48 U10.015 Micro-processes on semiconductor surface and exploitation of novel semiconductor devices

Gagik Shmavonyan (State Engineering University of Armenia), Nirmal Tej Kumar (Agilent Technologies, USA), Semiconductor Devices group Collaboration

08:00 U11.001 Calculated spin-orbit splitting of all diamond and zinc-blende semiconductors: Effects of p_1/2 orbitals and chemical trends

Pierre Carrier, Su-Huai Wei (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)

08:12 U11.002 Orientation and shape effects on nanowire band structure

Benny Lassen, Morten Willatzen, Roderick Melnik (Mads Clausen Institute), Lok Lew Yan Voon (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

08:24 U11.003 Energy Level structure in a Quantum Wire of Cylindrical Geometry

J. E. Hasbun (University of West Georgia)

08:36 U11.004 \textitab initio study of the structural and electronic propreties of the GaAsN alloys

Nassima Madini, Vladimir Timochevski, Michel Côté (Département de physique, Université de Montréal and RQMP)

08:48 U11.005 Conduction band valley splitting in Si

Gerhard Klimeck (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA), T. B. Boykin (U of Alabama in Huntsville, AL), M. Eriksson, M. Friesen, S. N. Coppersmith (The U of Wisconsin, Madison, WI), P. von Allmen, F. Oyafuso, S. Lee (JPL)

09:00 U11.006 Structure and Bonding in Mixed Silicon-Carbon Nanoclusters: A LDA-DFT Study.

*Prachi Pradhan, Asok Ray (University of Texas at Arlington , TX 76019)

09:12 U11.007 Electronic structure of rare-earth pnictides: LDA+U approach

James Niggemann, A. G. Petukhov (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology)

09:24 U11.008 Electrontc and Physical Structure of Tellurium Dioxide

Leonard Kleinman, B.R. Sahu (University of Texas at Austin)

09:36 U11.009 Ab-initio electronic properties and effective mass tensor of bismuth telluride in the GW approximation.

Emmanouil S. Kioupakis, Murilo L. Tiago, Steven G. Louie (UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

09:48 U11.010 Electronic Structure Studies of K2Bi8Se13

Aleksandra Tomic, Daniel Bilc, Theodora Kyratsi, S.D. Mahanti, Stuart Tessmer, M.G. Kanatzidis (Michigan State University)

10:00 U11.011 Ab initio study of the electronic and structural properties of CsSnI3 perovskite

Jean-Francois Chabot, Michel Côté, Jean-Francois Brière (UdeM)

10:12 U11.012 First-principles Study of Band Offsets at Hematite-Chromia (0001) Interfaces

John Jaffe, Michel Dupuis, Maciej Gutowski (Pacific Northwest National Lab)

U11.013 Effect of a Monolayer M2O3 Interfactant (M=Al, Ga, First Row TM) on Electronic and Magnetic Properties of the Hematite-Chromia (0001) Interface

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

08:00 U12.001 Reversal of Thickness Dependence of Jc in YBCO Thick Films

Qiang Li, Zuxin Ye, Masaki Suenaga (Materials Sciences Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973), Stephen Foltyn, Haiyan Wang (Los Alamos National Laboratory, P.O. Box 1663, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545)

08:12 U12.002 Phase slips and vortex-antivortex pairs in superconducting films with constrictions

Sang Chu, Anthony Bollinger, Alexey Bezryadin (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801)

08:24 U12.003 Lower Critical Field and Mixed State Magnetisation of Single Crystal Bi_2Sr_2Ca_2Cu_3O_10

Nicholas Clayton, Nicolas Musolino, Enrico Giannini, Vincent Garnier, Rene Flukiger (DPMC, University of Geneva, 24 quai Ernest-Ansermet, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland)

08:36 U12.004 Vortex Phases in Modulation-free (Bi,Pb)-2212 Crystals

Nicolas Musolino, Nicholas Clayton, Rene Flukiger (DPMC, University of Geneva, 24 Quai E. Ansermet, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland)

08:48 U12.005 Thermally and Magnetyically excited vortex-antivortex pairs in the parallel field of Bi-2212

Hirata Kazuto, Ooi Shuuichi, Yu Shan, Sadki El Hadi, Mochiku Takashi (Superconducting Materials Center, NIMS)

09:00 U12.006 The Dynamics of the Magnetization Collapse in the Second Type Anisotropic Superconductors

Oleksandr Levchenko (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Toledo, USA), Valery Yampol'skii (Institute of Radiophysics and Electronics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine), Leonid Fisher, I. F. Voloshin, A.V. Kalinov (State Research Center All-Russia Institute of Electrical Engineering, Moscow, 111250 Russia)

09:12 U12.007 Vortex-solid and vortex-liquid phases in tilted magnetic fields in Bi-2212 single crystals

Jovan Mirkovic, Shintaro Hayama, Atsushi Nakano, Takashi Yamamoto, Itsuhiro Kakeya, Kazuo Kadowaki (Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8573, Japan)

09:24 U12.008 Universal Flux Trapping Behavior Due to Oxygen Disorder in Y-Ba-Cu-O

Kurt Vandervoort, Matthew Demine, Robert Frisbee (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA 91768)

09:36 U12.009 Vortex states in moderately anisotropic high-T_c superconductors under tilted-fields

Masashi Tokunaga, Hirofumi Aoki, Tsuyoshi Tamegai (Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo)

09:48 U12.010 From crossing to Josephson vortex states in Bi2212

Kazuo Kadowaki, Shintaro Hayama (Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba), Jovan Mirkovic, Atsushi Nakano (Institute of Materials Science, Univeristy of Tsukuba)

10:00 U12.011 Crossing Energy between Pancake and Josephson Vortices in Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_8+y

Tsuyoshi Tamegai, Masahiko Matsui, Hirofumi Aoki, Masashi Tokunaga (Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo)

10:12 U12.012 Investigations of the Vortex Phase Diagram in Proton Irradiated YBa_2Cu_3O_7-\delta Single Crystals

Lucian Undreiu, Lisa Paulius, Valentina Tobos (Department of Physics, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008), Christophe Marcenat (CEA, DRFMC-SPSMS, 17 rue des Martyrs, F-38054 Grenoble Cedex 9, France), Wai Kwok (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory , Argonne, Illinois 60439), Thierry Klein (LEPES-CNRS.PO Box 166, F-38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France)

10:24 U12.013 Pinning Action of Correlated Disorder against Equilibrium Properties of HgBa_2Ca_2Cu_3O_x: a Delicate Balance

b Thompson^a (^AOak Ridge Nat'l Lab, Oak Ridge, TN and ^BPhysics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN), J. G. Ossandon (University of Talca, Curico, Chile), L. Krusin-Elbaum (IBM Watson Lab, Yorktown, NY), D.K. Christen^a, H.J. Kim^b, K.J. Song^b, K.D. Sorge^b, J.L. Ullmann (Los Alamos Nat'l Lab, Los Alamos, NM)

08:00 U13.001 Universal Point Contact Tunnel Conductance Between Superconducting Thin Films

Michael Hermele (Physics Department, UCSB), Gil Refael, Matthew P. A. Fisher (KITP), Paul Goldbart (Physics Department, UIUC)

08:12 U13.002 XPS Studies of Ultra-Thin AlOx Tunnel Barrier Layers

E Tan, PG Mather, AC Perrella, JC Read, RA Buhrman (Cornell University)

08:24 U13.003 Demonstration of planar tunneling through solid inert gas barriers

Laura Adams (School of Physics and Astronomy - University of Minnesota), Cathryn Christiansen (IBM - Burlington, VT), A. M. Goldman (School of Physics and Astronomy - University of Minnesota)

08:36 U13.004

08:48 U13.005 Frequency Synchronization in Disordered, Underdamped Josephson Ladders

B.R. Trees, V. Saranathan (Ohio Wesleyan University)

09:00 U13.006 Input impedance of a Cooper pair box

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

09:12 U13.007 Current-phase relation measurements of SFS \pi-Josephson junctions

S.M. Frolov, D.J. Van Harlingen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL), V.A. Oboznov, V.V. Ryazanov (Institute of Solid State Physics, Chernogolovka, Russia)

09:24 U13.008 Novel superconducting quantum structures based on build-in pi-phase shifts

Hans Hilgenkamp, Henk-Jan Smilde, Ariando, Guus Rijnders, Dave H.A. Blank, Horst Rogalla (Faculty of Science and Technology and MESA+ Institute, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands), John R. Kirtley, Chang C. Tsuei (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights NY, USA)

09:36 U13.009 Using Zeeman Splitting to Control the \pi-State in a SNS Josephson Junction

M S Crosser, Norman O Birge (Dept of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University)

09:48 U13.010 Revisiting The SINIS Junction Via Scattering Matrix Analysis

Mi-Kyung Kim, Kyungsun Moon (Dept. of Physics and IPAP, Yonsei University, 134 Shinchon, Seodaemun, Seoul 120-749, Korea)

10:00 U13.011 Nonlinear magnetic field dependence of the conductance in d-wave NIS tunnel junctions

Mikael Fogelstrom (Applied Quantum Physics, MC2, Chalmers Technical University Gotenburg S- 41 296 Sweden), Dierk Rainer (Physikalisches Institut, Universitaet Bayreuth, D-95440 Bayreuth, Germany), James A. Sauls (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208 USA)

10:12 U13.012 A New Approach to the AC Josephson Effect

Miguel A. Morales (University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez), Yong-Jihn Kim (UPR-Mayaguez)

10:24 U13.013 Full Counting Statistics of Multiple Andreev Reflection

Göran Johansson (Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik, Universitat Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany), Peter Samuelsson (Département de Physique Theorique, Universite de Genève, CH-1211 Genève 4, Switzerland), Åke Ingerman (Department of Physics, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa)

U13.014 c-Axis twist bicrystal, artificial and natural cross-whisker Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_8+\delta Josephson junctions: Strong evidence for an s-wave order parameter for T\le T_c

Richard Klemm (University of North Dakota)

U13.015 Josephson effect in triplet superconductor - ferromagnet - triplet superconductor junctions

Dirk Morr (University of Illinois at Chicago), Dirk Manske (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Festkoerperforschung Stuttgart), Karl-Heinz Bennemann (Freie Universitaet Berlin)

08:00 U14.001 Resonance phonon Raman scattering in high T_c superconductors

M. Rubhausen, D. Budelman, B. Schulz (U. Hamburg), M. V. Klein (U. Illinois, Urbana), P. Guptasarma (U. Wisconsin, Milwaukee), D. Bonn, R. Liang, W. Hardy (U. British Columbia)

08:12 U14.002 Probing the gap feature in high T_c superconductors using resonance electronic Raman scattering

M. Klein (U. Illinois, Urbana), M. Rubhausen, D. Budelmann, B. Schulz (U. Hamburg), P. Guptasarma (U. Wisconsin, Milwaukee), D. Bonn, R. Liang, W. Hardy (U. British Collumbia)

08:24 U14.003 EXCITATION-WAVELENGTH AND TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE OF RAMAN-ACTIVE PHONONS IN THE SPIN-LADDER SYSTEM, Sr(14-x)Ca(x)Cu(24)O(41)

Joakim Holmlund (Chalmers University of Technology), Jakob Andreasson Collaboration, Mikael Käll Collaboration, Joakim Bäckström Collaboration, Minoru Osada Collaboration, Lars Börjesson Collaboration

08:36 U14.004 Phase diagram of the electron-doped high T_c superconductors as a function of doping and magnetic field as revealed by Raman spectroscopy

M. M. Qazilbash, H. Balci, R. L. Greene (Center for Superconductivity Research, University of Maryland at College Park), G. Blumberg, B. S. Dennis (Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories), C. A. Kendziora (United States Naval Research Laboratory)

08:48 U14.005 Electrostatic charge transfer as a probe for the phase diagram of PrCeCuO

Jacques Renaud, P. Fournier (Dép. de physique, U. de Sherbrooke), J. Beauvais (Dép. de génie électrique, U. de Sherbrooke), M. W. Denhoff (IMS, National Research Council, Canada)

09:00 U14.006 Optical symmetries and anisotropic transport in high-Tc superconductors

Thomas Devereaux (University of Waterloo)

09:12 U14.007 Raman Investigation of Ni-Doped YBCO Single Crystals

X. K. Chen, M. A. Short, J. C. Irwin (Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada), R. Liang, D. A. Bonn, W.N. Hardy (Department of Physics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z1, Canada), X.K. Chen Team, W.N. Hardy Collaboration

09:24 U14.008 Observation of coherent superconducting gap excitations in MgB_2

C. Aku-Leh, T.A. Eckhause, A.V. Bragas (University of Michigan), R. Merlin (University of Michgan), X.H. Zeng, A.V. Pogrebnyakov, D.A. Tenne, X.X. Xi (Pennsylvania State University)

09:36 U14.009 Raman study of charge ordering in La_2-xSr_xCuO_4

Leonardo Tassini, Francesca Venturini, Rudi Hackl (Walther Meissner Institute, Bavarian Academy of Sciences, D-85748 Garching, Germany), Qing-Ming Zhang (Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P.R. China), Naoki Kikugawa, Fujita Toshizo (Department of Quantum Matter, ADSM, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan)

09:48 U14.010 B_1g and B_2g Raman Responses of a Hole-Doped Spin-Fermion Model for Cuprates

Moraghebi Mohammad, Devereaux Thomas P. (Department of Physics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1)

10:00 U14.011 The Electronic and Superconducting Properties of Oxygen-Ordered MgB2 compounds of the form Mg2B3Ox

Juan-Carlos Idrobo (University of California Davis), Serdar Ogut (University of Illinois at Chicago), Taner Yildirim (National Institute of Standards & Technology), Robert F. Klie (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Nigel D. Browning (University of California Davis & Nacional Center for Electron Microscopy, LBNL)

10:12 U14.012 Perturbation induced by Zn impurities in Sr-doped La2CuO4

Brandon Chapman, Debdutta Lahiri, Edward Stern (University of Washington), Daniel Haskel (Advance Photon Source, Argonne National labs)

10:24 U14.013 Electron Correlation and Charge Transfer in ((Ba0.9Nd0.1)CuO2+d)2/(CaCuO2)2 Superconducting Superlattices

Byron Freelon, Andreas Augustsson, Jinghua Guo, Zahid Hussain (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Medaglia Pier Gianni, Antonio Tebano, Giuseppe Balestrino (INFM-COHERENTIA Universita di Roma �Tor Vergata�)

10:36 U14.014 Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering Study of HgBa_2CuO_4+\delta

Li Lu, Guichuan Yu, Xudong Zhao (Stanford University), Stephane Grenier (Rutgers State University and Brookhaven National Laboratory), Diego Casa, Thomas Gog (Argonne National Laboratory), Martin Greven (Stanford University)

08:00 U15.001 Measuring the conductivity of long molecules with Scanning Force Microscopy: carbon nanotubes and DNA

Pedro J. de Pablo (Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain)

08:36 U15.002 Affinity Studies on the Binding between DNA and Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Qi Lu, Allen Parker, A. M. Rao, Pu-Chun Ke, Lyndon L. Larcom (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634)

08:48 U15.003 Charge transfer from ammonia physisorbed on nanotubes

Keith Bradley, Jean-Christophe Gabriel (Nanomix, Inc.), Mikhail Briman (University of California, Los Angeles), Alexander Star, Georg Grüner (Nanomix, Inc.)

09:00 U15.004 Biological Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes Using Cell Surface Mucin Mimics

Xing Chen, Goo Soo Lee (Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley and Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Alex Zettl (Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley and Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Carolyn Bertozzi (Department of Chemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley and Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

09:12 U15.005 Single Molecule Optical Studies of DNA-Nanotube Hybrids Isolated by Sequence Dependent DNA Assembly

S.G. Chou, Ge.G. Samsonidze (MIT), A.P. Santos (CDTN/CNEN-Brazil), M. Zheng (DuPont Central Ramp;D), S. Cronin (Harvard U.), M.S. Dresselhaus, G. Dresselhaus, Y. Chiang (MIT), J. Stettenheim, A.K. Swan, M.S. Ünlü, B.B. Goldberg (Boston U.)

09:24 U15.006 Trapped and Physisorbed Molecules in Single Walled Carbon Nanotube Bundles

Christopher Matranga (National Energy Technology Laboratory, U. S. Dept of Energy), Milton Smith (Bethany College), Edward Bittner (Penn State University - McKeesport), Bradley Bockrath (National Energy Technology Laboratory, U. S. Dept of Energy)

09:36 U15.007 Selective Functionalization of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes According to Electronic Structure

Michael Strano (Univeristy of Illinois)

09:48 U15.008 The Effect of Encapsulation on the Structure of 1D Fullerene Crystals

Shaul Aloni (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley CA 94720 USA,Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA), William Michelson, Weiqiang Han (Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA), Alex Zettl (Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley CA 94720 USA)

10:00 U15.009 Fullerene Incorporation into SWNTs in Liquid-Phase at Room Temperature

Masako Yudasaka (JST, NEC, 34 Miyukigaoka, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8501, Japan), Kumiko Ajima (JST, NEC), Kazu Suenaga (AIST, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8565), Toshinari Ichihashi (NEC), Ayako Hashimoto (AIST), Sumio Iijima (JST, NEC)

10:12 U15.010 Irradiation resistant Carbon nanotube/polymer nanocomposite thin films

Ebrahim Najafi, Kwanwoo Shin (Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology), Jae-yong Kim (Pohang Accerator Laboratory)

10:24 U15.011 Two phases of Ar and Kr confined inside open single walled carbon nanotubes.

Zygmunt Jakubek, Benoit Simard (Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)

10:36 U15.012 Structure and transport properties of doping controlled carbon nanotube by encapsulation of organic molecules.

Taishi Takenobu, Takumi Takano, Yoshihiro Iwasa (Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University), Masashi Shiraishi, Masafumi Ata (SONY Materials Labs., Pi-electron Materials Research Gp.)

10:48 U15.013 Charge Transfer between Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes and MEHPPV Molecular Chains

Bin Hu, Yue Wu, Karl Menako (University of Tennessee), Ilia Ivanov, Dave Geohegan (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

08:00 U16.001 Progress in self-directed growth of molecular assemblies

Robert Wolkow (University Alberta and National Institute for Nanotechnology)

08:12 U16.002 Reversible Passivation of Silicon Dangling Bonds with the Stable Radical TEMPO: A Method to Control Styrene line Growth on Silicon

Jason Pitters, Paul Piva (National Institute for Nanotechnology, National Research Council of Canada), Bob Wolkow (Department of Physics, University of Alberta)

08:24 U16.003 Piezoelectricity and Ferroelectricity in one dimensional nanowires

Zhaoyu Wang, Abhijit Suryavanshi (Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering), Jianguo Wen (Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory), Min-Feng Yu (Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

08:36 U16.004 Effect of sheet distance on the optical properties of vanadate nanotubes

J. Cao, J. Choi, J. L. Musfeldt (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), S. Lutta, M. S. Whittingham (State University of New York, Binghamton)

08:48 U16.005 A Versatile Technique for Synthesis of Semiconducting Nanowires

Rahul Rao (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, 29634), Hari Chandrasekaran, Mahendra K. Sunkara (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 40292), Apparao M. Rao (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, 29634)

09:00 U16.006 Synthesis, characterizations, and property studies of various ZnO and In2O3 Nanostructures

Debasish Banerjee, Sung-Ho Jo (Boston College), Brian Kimball, Diane Steeves (The US Army Natick Soldier Systems Center, Natick), Jack Politis, Jianyu Huang, Zhifeng Ren (Boston College)

09:12 U16.007 Field emission characteristics of ZnO nanowires

SeGi Yu (Department of Physics, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, YongIn 449-791, Korea), Sang Hyun Lee, Taewon Jeong, Jungna Heo, Wonseok Kim, Jeonghee Lee, J. M. Kim (The NCRI Center for Electron Emission Source, Samsung Adv. Inst. of Technol., P.O. Box 111, Suwon 440-600, Korea), Jong-Bong Park (AE Center, Samsung Adv. Inst. of Technol., P.O. Box 111, Suwon 440-600, Korea), Tae Yun Kim, Kee Suk Nahm (School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Chonbuk Nat'l University, Chonju 561- 756, Korea)

09:24 U16.008 Optical Characterization of Chromium Doped Alumina Nanowires

L. Pham, U. Happek (Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602), J. Park, J.L. Stickney (Department of Chemistry, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602)

09:36 U16.009 Electric field effect on electronic properties of boron nitride nanotubes

Masa Ishigami, Shaul Aloni (Affiliation), A. Zettl (Physics Department, University of California at Berkeley, and Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley CA 94720)

09:48 U16.010 Electronic and Mechanical Properties of Planar and Tubular Boron Structures

Matthew Evans (Dept. of Physics, Vanderbilt University), John Joannopoulos (Dept. of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Sokrates Pantelides (Dept. of Physics, Vanderbilt University)

10:00 U16.011 Excellent Oxidation Behavior of Boron Nitride Nanotubes

Ying Chen (Associate Professor)

10:12 U16.012 Structure of BN Nanotubes

Ayten Celik-Aktas (Department of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering and F. Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Jing Tao, Jian-Min Zuo (Department of Material Science and Engineering and F. Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

10:24 U16.013 Copper Sulfide Solid Electrolytic Switches for Nanoelectronics

Massood Tabib-Azar (Affiliation), Liang You (Case Western Reserve University), Advanced Devices Team

10:36 U16.014 A generic method of designing branched nanostructures: Nanotrees

Kimberly Dick, Knut Deppert, Werner Seifert, Lars Samuelson (Solid State Physics, Lund University), Magnus Larsson, Reine Wallenberg (Materials Chemistry, Lund University)

10:48 U16.015 Electronic properties of individual defects in carbon nanotubes and semiconductor nanowires by Scanning Probe Microscopy

V. Meunier, S. V. Kalinin (Oak Ridge National Lab), J. Shin (U. of Tennessee), A. P. Baddorf, R. J. Harrison (Oak Ridge National Lab)

08:00 U18.001 Functional and topological characterization of protein interaction networks

Soon-Hyung Yook (University of Notre Dame), Zoltan N. Oltvai (Northwestern University), Albert-Laszlo Barabasi (University of Notre Dame), Zoltan N. Oltvai Collaboration

08:12 U18.002 The protein folding network

Francesco Rao, Amedeo Caflisch (University of Zurich, Biochemistry department)

08:24 U18.003 Global organization of metabolic fluxes

Eivind Almaas (University of Notre Dame), Baldvin Kovacs, Tamas Vicsek (Eotvos University), Zoltan Oltvai (Northwestern University), Albert-Laszlo Barabasi (University of Notre Dame)

08:36 U18.004 Kinetic Approach for Growing Networks

Sidney Redner (Department of Physics, Boston University)

09:12 U18.005 Networks of Learning

Luis Bettencourt (CCS-3 Computer and Computational Science, Los Alamos National Laboratory), David Kaiser (Dep. of Physics, MIT)

09:24 U18.006 Properties of a random attachment growing network

Jan Tobochnik, Rebecca Warner (Kalamazoo College), László Zalányi, Gábor Csárdi, Tamás Kiss, Máté Lengyel, Péter Érdi (Kalamazoo College and KFKI Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

09:36 U18.007 Multi-component static model for social networks

Do-Hyun Kim, Byungnam Kahng, Doochul Kim (Center for Theoretical Physics and Physics Department, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea)

09:48 U18.008 On the evolution of scale-free graphs

Deok-Sun Lee, Kwang-Il Goh, Byungnam Kahng, Doochul Kim (School of Physics and Center for Theoretical Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-747, Korea)

10:00 U18.009 Designer Nets from Local Strategies

Hernán D. Rozenfeld, Daniel ben-Avraham (Clarkson University)

10:12 U18.010 Competition induced preferential attachment

Raissa D'Souza, Noam Berger, Christian Borgs, Jennifer Chayes (Microsoft Research), Robert Kleinberg (MIT)

08:00 U19.001 Universal scaling at field-induced magnetic phase transitions

Omid Nohadani (University of Southern California), Stefan Wessel (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Bruce Normand (University of Fribourg, Switzerland), Stephan Haas (University of Southern California)

08:12 U19.002 Charge and spin order in one dimensional systems with long range Coulomb interaction

M. Belen Valenzuela (University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada), Simone Fratini (CNRS, Grenoble, France), Dionys Baeriswyl (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)

08:24 U19.003 Peierls transition in a quasi-1D Heisenberg model coupled to bond phonons

Pinaki Sengupta (UCR)

08:36 U19.004 Topological order of the 1D Kondo Lattice

Ian McCulloch, Jan Zaanen (Instituut Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9506, NL-2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands), Miklos Gulacsi (Department of Theoretical Physics, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia)

08:48 U19.005 Phase diagram of the one dimensional periodic Anderson model

Raymond Chan (Department of Theoretical Physics, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia), Ian McCulloch (Instituut Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9506, NL-2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands), Miklos Gulacsi (Department of Theoretical Physics, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia)

09:00 U19.006 Dissipation driven quantum phase transition in a spin chain

Philipp Werner, Matthias Troyer (ETH Zurich), Klaus Völker (University of Toronto), Sudip Chakravarty (UCLA)

09:12 U19.007 Smeared phase transition in a three-dimensional Ising model with planar defects: Monte-Carlo simulations

Rastko Sknepnek, Thomas Vojta (Department of Physics, University of Missouri-Rolla)

09:24 U19.008 Experimental evidence of a change of Fermi surface around the field-induced quantum critical point in Sr3Ru2O7

Joe Hooper, Zhiqiang Mao (Tulane University), Robin Perry, Yoshiteru Maeno (Kyoto University)

09:36 U19.009 Transport properties of Sr_3Ru_2O_7 near the quantum critical point

X.H. Zhang, Z.X. Zhou, C.S. Alexander, J.E. Crow, P. Schlottmann (NHMFL, Florida State University), M. Haas, R. Cava (Princeton University), G. Gao (University of Kentucky)

09:48 U19.010 Thermodynamic properties of Sr_3Ru_2O_7 near the quantum critical point

Zhixian Zhou, S. McCall, S. Alexander, J.E. Crow, P. Schlottmann (NHMFL, Florida State University), A. Bianchi, C. Capan, R. Movshovich, K.H. Kim, M. Jaime, N. Harrison (Las Alamos National Laboratory), M. Haas, R. Cava (Princeton University), G. Cao (University of Kentucky), University of Kentucky Collaboration

10:00 U19.011 An Investigation of Magnetically Induced Structural Phase Transitions Near a Magnetic Phase Boundary

D.E. Brown, C.A. Hoffmann, J. Hua, S. Totapally, J. Mais, O. Chmaissem, B. Dabrowski (Northern Illinios University), Yang Ren (Advanced Photon Source/Argonne National Labs)

10:12 U19.012 Understanding the Origin of the Low Magnetic Moments in Strained Manganite Films: La_xMnO_3-d Films

Michael Deleon, Trevor Tyson (New Jersey Institute of Technology), Catherine Dubourdieu (CNRS), Dario Alejandro Arena, Joseph Dvorak (BNL, NSLS)

10:24 U19.013 Stripe Ordering and Related Physical Properties in La_2-xSr_xNiO_4

Kyoko Ishizaka, Shigeki Miyasaka (Dept. of Appl. Phys., Univ. of Tokyo), Taka-hisa Arima (Ins. Mat. Sci., Univ. of Tsukuba), Ryoichi Kajimoto (Dept. of Phys., Ochanomizu Univ.), Hideki Yoshizawa (Ins. of Sol. Stat. Phys., Univ. of Tokyo), Yoshinori Tokura (Dept. of Appl. Phys., Univ. of Tokyo, and Correlated Electron Research Center, AIST)

10:36 U19.014 Magnetic phase transition of La_0.7Ca_0.3MnO_3 and La_0.7Sr_0.3MnO_3 - spin polarization studied by spectral generalized magneto-optical ellipsometry

Ralf Rauer, Gerd Neuber, Jörg Kunze, Joakim Bäckström, Michael Rübhausen (Institut für Angewandte Physik, Universität Hamburg, Jungiusstraße 9, D-20355 Hamburg, Germany), Theresia Walter, Kathrin Dörr (Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstofforschung, D-01171 Dresden, Germany)

10:48 U19.015 Temperature dependent inelastic light scattering of doped Sr_1-xCa_xMnO_3

Stefan Naler, Joakim Baeckstroem, Michael Ruebhausen (Institute of Applied Physics, University of Hamburg, Jungiusstr. 11, 20355 Hamburg, Germany), Jakob Andreasson, Joakim Holmlund, Lars Boerjesson (Department of Applied Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Goeteborg, Sweden), Bogdan Dabrowski (Materials Science Division, MSD 223 Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne IL 60439, USA)

08:00 U20.001 Scaling in the Emergent Behavior of Heavy Electron Materials

N Curro, B.-L. Young, D. Pines (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Joerg Schmalian (Iowa State University)

08:12 U20.002 Quantum critical properties of the Bose-Fermi Kondo Model: a large-N study

Lijun Zhu, Stefan Kirchner, Qimiao Si (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas), Antoine Georges (Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France)

08:24 U20.003 Bosonic large N approach to the under screened Kondo model

Indranil Paul (SPhT, CEA-Saclay, L'Orme des Merisiers, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France), Piers Coleman (Center for Materials Theory, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854)

08:36 U20.004 NRG study of a generalized Anderson impurity model with non Fermi liquid fixed point.

Lorenzo De Leo, Michele Fabrizio (International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), and INFM UR-Trieste SISSA, Via Beirut 2-4, I-34014 Trieste, Italy)

08:48 U20.005 Frustrated magnetic clusters on metallic surfaces

Kevin Ingersent (U. of Florida)

09:00 U20.006 Scales, scaling and quantum critical behaviour in the pseudogap Anderson model

Matthew T. Glossop (U. of Florida)

09:12 U20.007 Change of Fermi momentum in a one-dimensional Kondo lattice

Eugene Pivovarov, Qimiao Si (Rice University), Alexei M. Tsvelik (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

09:24 U20.008 Spin liquid behavior in electronic Griffiths phases

D. Tanaskovic (Florida State University), E. Miranda (University of Campinas), V. Dobrosavljevic (Florida State University)

09:36 U20.009 Toy model of the electronic Griffiths phase

V. Dobrosavljevic, D. Tanaskovic (Florida State University), E. Miranda (University of Campinas)

08:00 U21.001 The molecular scale structure of water at interfaces

Miquel Salmeron (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

08:36 U21.002 Probing the interaction of hydrogen chloride on low-temperature water ice surfaces using electron stimulated desorption

Thomas Orlando (School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA USA 30332), Janine Herring, Alexandr Aleksandrov, Gregory Grieves (School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA USA 30332)

08:48 U21.003 Influence of Chemical Composition on the Reaction Products Observed During Electron Stimulated Decomposition of Organohalides Adsorbed in Water (Ice) Films

Howard Fairbrother, Christopher Perry (Johns Hopkins University), Nadir Faradzhev, Theodore Madey (Rutgers University)

09:00 U21.004 Electron-activated processes in thin films of CF_2Cl_2 co-deposited with water (ice): dissociation and reaction dynamics

N.S. Faradzhev, D.O. Kusmierek, T.E. Madey (Lab. for Surface Modification and Physics Dept., Rutgers Univ.), C.C. Perry, D.H. Fairbrother (Chemistry Dept., Johns Hopkins Univ.)

09:12 U21.005 Low-Energy Electron-Stimulated Chemical Reactions of CO in Water Ice

Susumu Yamamoto, Kozo Mukai, Yoshiyuki Yamashita, Jun Yoshinobu (ISSP, University of Tokyo)

09:24 U21.006 Desorption of D^-, O^-, and OD^- Stimulated by 0-20 eV Electron Impact on Amorphous Water (D_2O) Ice.

Xiaoning Pan, Andrew Bass, Leon Sanche (Universite de Sherbrooke)

09:36 U21.007 Electron-Stimulated Production of Molecular Hydrogen in Thin Water Films Adsorbed On Pt(111)

Nikolay Petrik, Gregory Kimmel (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

09:48 U21.008 Influence of H_2O coadsorption on Electron-Stimulated Desorption of SF_6

D.O. Kusmierek, N.S. Faradzhev, T.E. Madey (Rutgers U.)

10:00 U21.009 Photo ejection of water molecules from amorphous ice films

Johan Bergeld, Bengt Kasemo, Dinko Chakarov (Department of Applied Physics, Chalmers and Göteborg University, S-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden)

08:00 U22.001 Existence of solutions to the Bethe-Ansatz equations for the one dimensional Hubbard model on a finite lattice.

Pedro Goldbaum (Princeton University)

08:12 U22.002 Beyond mean-field universality in the random solid state

Swagatam Mukhopadhyay, Paul Goldbart (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

08:24 U22.003 Fluctuating random solids in low dimensions

Paul Goldbart, Swagatam Mukhopadhyay (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Annette Zippelius (Universitaet Goettingen)

08:36 U22.004 Numerical simulations of the propagation of a wave through a random non-linear medium

Sioan Zohar, Gabriel A. Cwilich (Department of Physics, Yeshiva University, New York, NY 10033)

08:48 U22.005 Effects of aperiodic sequences on first-order phase transitions

Nilton Branco, Marcelo Tragtenberg (Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis SC, Brazil)

09:00 U22.006 Exact ground-state energies of one-dimensional random-field Ising models

Toshiyuki Hamasaki (Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology)

09:12 U22.007 Universal mean moment rate profiles of earthquake ruptures: Theoretical predictions and analysis of observed data

Amit Mehta, Karin Dahmen (University of Illinois-Urbana), Yehuda Ben-Zion (University of Southern California)

09:24 U22.008 Hysteresis in a one-dimensional random field Ising model with second-nearest-neighbor interactions

John Kimball (University at Albany)

09:36 U22.009 Scaling theory of random field Ising model driven out of equilibrium

Robert White, Karin Dahmen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), James Sethna (Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University)

09:48 U22.010 The generalized Wilsonian renormalization group applied to a \phi^4-theory

David Reynolds (Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara)

10:00 U22.011 Inversion of Specific Heat to Obtain Phonon Spectra from Real Data

Thomas C. Butler, W. E. Evenson (Department of Physics, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602), Xian-Xi Dai (Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China)

10:12 U22.012 Statistical theory of high-gain free-electron laser saturation

Julien Barre (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA), Thierry Dauxois (Laboratoire de Physique, ENS Lyon, FRANCE), Stefano Ruffo (Dipartimento di Energetica, Universita di Firenze, ITALY), Giovanni De Ninno (Sincrotrone Trieste, Trieste, ITALY), Duccio Fanelli (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, SWEDEN)

10:24 U22.013 Regular and Anomalous Diffusion in Classical Models of Small Polaron Motion in Organic Solids

Alex Silvius, Paul E. Parris (Department of Physics, University of Missouri-Rolla)

10:36 U22.014 Quantum dynamics of the formation of a polaron quasiparticle

Stuart A. Trugman (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory), Li-Chung Ku (Department of Physics, UC Irvine)

08:00 U23.001 Magnetic stripe domains in Fe/Ni/Cu(001) system

Y.Z. Wu, C.Y. Won, H.W. Zhao, Z.Q. Qiu (Dept. of Phys., Univ. of Calif. at Berkeley), A. Doran, A. Scholl (Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley Nat. Lab.)

08:12 U23.002 Spin-Polarized Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study of Single-Crystallized Fe Nano-Magnet Arrays Fabricated with an Alumina Shadow Mask

T.-H. Kim, J.H. Choi, J. Seo, Y. Kuk (Department of Physics and Center for Science in Nanometer Scale, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-747, Korea)

08:24 U23.003 SEMPA Measurements of Magnetic Nanostructure in Magnetic Sensors

W. Casey Uhlig, John Unguris (NIST, Electron Physics Group, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8412), Fabio da Silva, David Pappas (NIST, Electromagnetics Division, Boulder, CO, 80305-3328)

08:36 U23.004 Scanning Magnetoresistance Microscopy Studies of Small Magnetic and Electrical Structures

Gang Xiao (Physics Department, Brown University)

09:12 U23.005 Arrays of 100 nm Magnetic Nanorings with High Areal Densities

F.Q. Zhu, D.L. Fan, R.C. Cammarata (Johns Hopkins University), X.C. Zhu, J.G. Zhu (Carnegie Mellon University), C.L. Chien (Johns Hopkins University)

09:24 U23.006 Magnetic Normal Modes in Nano-particles.

Marcos Grimsditch (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Lab., IL), Gary Leaf, Hans Kaper, Dmitry Karpeev (Mathematics and Computer Science Divison, Argonne National Lab., IL), Robert Camley (Department of Physics, Univ. of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO)

09:36 U23.007 Thermally-activated Magnetization Reversal Dynamics of Elongated Nanoparticles in Misaligned Fields

Per Arne Rikvold, S. Hill Thompson (Florida State Univ), Gregory Brown (Oak Ridge Natl Lab/Florida State Univ), Stephen M. Stinnett, Mark A. Novotny (Mississippi State Univ)

09:48 U23.008 Reversible and Irreversible Magnetization Switching in Co/Pt Multilayers

J. E. Davies, Kai Liu (Physics Department, UC Davis), O. Hellwig, E. E. Fullerton (Hitachi Global Storage Technologies)

10:00 U23.009 Detecting domain wall trapping and motion in narrow ferromagnetic wires using perpendicular-current giant magnetoresistance

Antonio Zambano, William Pratt Jr (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-2320)

10:12 U23.010 Localized domain walls in Nanoconstrictions

Sonali Mukherjee (Seagate Research, Pittsburgh Pa, 15222)

10:24 U23.011 Giant magnetic moment of nano-sized CuNi clusters

M. H. Jung (National Research Laboratory for Material Science, Korea Basic Science Institute, Daejeon 305-333, South Korea), M. C. Kyun (Control Development Team, Korea Basic Science Institute, Daejeon 305-333, South Korea), K. H. Park, Y. N. Kim (Mechanical Engineering Department, Korea Maritime University, Pusan 606-791, South Korea)

10:36 U23.012 Magnetization inhomogeneities due to surface defects

Vladimir Sobolev (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD 57701), Huei Li Huang (National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

08:00 U24.001 Spin waves throughout the Brillouin zone

Thomas Enck, Pengcheng Dai (Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1200, USA), J. A. Fernandez-Baca (Condensed Matter Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA), D. Adroja, T. G. Perring (ISIS Pulsed Neutron and Muon Source, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot OX11 OQX, UK), Y. Tomioka (Correlated Electron Research Center, Tsukuba 305-8562, Japan), Y. Tokura (Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan)

08:12 U24.002 Magnetic-field-induced structural homogeneity of phase-separated manganites

Yang Ren, J. F. Mitchell, M. A. Beno (Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Ave, Argonne, IL 60439), O. Yu Gorbenko (Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University, Vorobievy Gory, Moscow 119899, Russia), N. A. Babushkina (Kurchatov Insitute, 123182, Moscow, Russia)

08:24 U24.003 Approach of the metallic state in cubic manganites: spin waves as a probe of the peculiar ferromagnetic insulating state

Martine Hennion (Laboratoire Leon Brillouin CE-Saclay (91191) Gif-sur-Yvette France)

09:00 U24.004 Lattice Dynamics Simulation of Structural Changes in the CMR manganite La_1.2Sr_1.8Mn_2O_7

N. Aliouane (Affiliation), D.N. Argyriou (Hahn Meitner Insitut, 100 Glienicker str, D-14109 Berlin, (Germany))

09:12 U24.005 Spin correlations in \mbox\boldmathRMnO_3

T. Kimura, R. Kajimoto (Neutron Science Laboratory, IMSS, KEK, Tsukuba, Japan), H. Mochizuki, H. Yoshizawa (Neutron Science Laboratory, ISSP, University of Tokyo, Tokai, Japan), H. Shintani, Y. Tokura (Dept.\ of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan)

09:24 U24.006 Enhancement of Curie temperature with Ru doping at the Mn sites of Pr_0.5Sr_0.5MnO_3

J. S. Kim, B. H. Kim, D. C. Kim, H. J. Lee, Y. W. Park (School of Physics and Condensed Matter Research Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-747, Korea), M. G. Kim (Beamline Research Division, Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 790-784, Korea), A. Maignan, B. Raveau (Laboratoire CRISMAT, UMR CNRS ISMRA 6508, 6bd Mar\acuteechal Juin 14050, Caen Cedex, France)

09:36 U24.007 Evidence for a universal relationship between magnetization and changes in the local structure in La_1-xCa_xMnO_3.

F. Bridges, L. M. Downward, S. Bushart (University of California, Santa Cruz), J. J. Neumeier (Montana State University), L. Zhou (Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, SLAC)

09:48 U24.008 Mesoscopic magnetic and crystallographic phase separation in La1-xCaxMnO3

Hirotoshi Terashita, John Neumeier (Department of Physics, Montana State University), Chris Ling (Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France)

10:00 U24.009 Changes in the local structure of the Mn-O layeramp;oslash;f La_1.2Sr_1.8Mn_2O_7 through the ferromagnetic transition

L. M. Downward, F. Bridges, S. Bushart (University of California, Santa Cruz), J. F. Mitchell, H. Zheng (Argonne National Laboratory)

10:12 U24.010 Effect of nanoscale order on magnetic properties of highly polarized manganites

J. Mais, B. Dabrowski, S. Kolesnik, O. Chmaissem, C. W. Kimball (Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL)

08:00 U25.001 Simultaneous Super-Antiferroelectric Ordering and Spin Dimerization in Two-Dimensional Quarter-Filled Ladders

Gennady Y. Chitov, Claudius Gros (Dept. 7.1-Theor. Physics, U. of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany)

08:12 U25.002 Inelastic Neutron Scattering Observables for Small Antiferromagnetic S = \frac12 Spin Clusters

Jason Haraldsen (University of Tennessee), Ted Barnes (University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Janice Musfeldt (University of Tennessee)

08:24 U25.003 Emptiness Formation Probability in the XY Model

Fabio Franchini, Alexander Abanov (Stony Brook University)

08:36 U25.004 Hydrodynamic approach to correlation functions

Alexander Abanov (Stony Brook University)

08:48 U25.005 Direct perturbation theory on the ESR shift and its applications

Yoshitaka Maeda, Masaki Oshikawa (Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology,Japan)

09:00 U25.006 Mott transition vs multicritical phenomenon of superconductivity and antiferromagnetism in \kappa-(BEDT-TTF)_2X

Shigeki Onoda (Tokura Spin Superstructure Project, ERATO, Japan Science and Technology Agency), Naoto Nagaosa (Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo; CERC, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology; CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency)

09:12 U25.007 From nodal liquid to nodal Mottness in a frustrated Hubbard model

John Hopkinson, Karyn Le Hur (Universite de Sherbrooke)

09:24 U25.008 Diverging Entanglement Length in Gapped Quantum Spin Systems

F. Verstraete (Max Planck Institut for Quantum Optics), M.A. Martin-Delgado (Departamento de Física Teórica I, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain), J.I. Cirac (Max Planck Institut for Quantum Optics)

09:36 U25.009 Antiferromagnetism and gigantic response in disordered spin-Peierls system

Hitoshi Seo (CERC, AIST Tsukuba), Yukitoshi Motome (RIKEN), Naoto Nagaosa (Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo)

09:48 U25.010 Mass spectrum of the two-dimensional O(3) non-linear sigma model with \theta term

Davide Controzzi (International School for Advanced Studies - Trieste- Italy), Giuseppe Mussardo (International School for Advanced Studies - Trieste - Italy)

10:00 U25.011 Ising transition driven by frustration in a 2D classical model with continuous symmetry

Federico Becca (INFM-Democritos, National Simulation Centre, and SISSA I-34014 Trieste, Italy), Luca Capriotti (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara CA 93106-4030), Maged Elhajal (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland), Gregoire Misguich (Service de Physique Theorique, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France), Cedric Weber, Frederic Mila (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland)

10:12 U25.012 Avalanches in Bootstrap Percolation

Christopher Farrow, Phil Duxbury (Michigan State University)

10:24 U25.013 Nematic and Spin Singlet Mott states of Spin-One Bosons

Michiel Snoek (Utrecht University), Fei Zhou (University of British Colombia)

10:36 U25.014 The role of long-range fields for history-induced critical scaling in disordered systems.

John H. Carpenter, Karin A. Dahmen, Andrea C. Mills, Michael B. Weissman (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Andreas Berger, Olav Hellwig (Hitachi Global Storage Technologies)

08:00 U26.001 Laser threshold reduction in a spintronic device

Michael Oestreich (University Hannover, Institute for Solid State Research, Appelstrasse 2, D-30167 Hannover, Germany)

08:36 U26.002 Theory of Spin Injection into Conjugated Organic Semiconductors

P.Paul Ruden (University of Minnesota), Darryl L. Smith (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

08:48 U26.003 Spin Relaxation and Hyperfine Effects in Electrical Spin Injection

J. Strand, B. D. Schultz, X. Lou, A. F. Isakovic, C. Adelmann, C. J. PalmstrØm, P. A. Crowell (University of Minnesota)

09:00 U26.004 Spin injection and spin detection in silicon

Igor Zutic, Steven Erwin (Center for Computational Materials Science, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C.), Jaroslav Fabian (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Karl-Franzens Univ. Graz, Austria)

09:12 U26.005 Realization of advanced Magnetic Tunnel Transistor with MIS hot electron injector

P. LeMinh, H. Gokcan, T. Banerjee, R. Jansen, J.C. Lodder (University of Twente, MESA+ Research Institute, The Netherlands)

09:24 U26.006 Spin Injection Enhancement through Schottky Barrier Engineering

J. Pingenot, M. E. Flatté (Optical Science and Technology Center and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242)

09:36 U26.007 Bias-Controlled Hole Degeneracy in an n-i-p GaAs spin-LED

G. Kioseoglou, A.T. Hanbicki, B.T. Jonker (Naval Research Laboratory)

09:48 U26.008 Effect of confined electrons on the emission spectra and polarization of Fe-based GaAs/AlGaAs spin-LEDS

M. Yasar, R. Mallory, Y-G. Kim, A. Petrou (SUNY Buffalo), G. Kioseoglou, A.T. Hanbicki, C.H. Li, O. van't Erve, B.T. Jonker (Naval Research Laboratory), A. Dzyubenko (University of California at Bakersfield)

10:00 U26.009 Phonon Assisted Recombination in (001) and (110) Fe based GaAs/AlGaAs spin LEDs

R. Mallory, M. Yasar, Y-G. Kim, A. Petrou (SUNY Buffalo), G. Kioseoglou, C.H. Li, A.T. Hanbicki, O. vanât Erve, B.T. Jonker (Naval Research Laboratory)

10:12 U26.010 Ballistic Electron Emission Microscopy Studies of Ferromagnet – Semiconductor Interfaces

P. G. Mather, A. C. Perrella, A. Yurtsever, R. A. Buhrman (Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University)

10:24 U26.011 Interface magnetization and mid-gap states in Fe/AlGaAs Tunneling Diodes

Haibin Zhao, Qiguang Yang, Gunter Luepke (Department of Applied Science, College of William and Mary), Aubrey Hanbicki, Berry Jonker (Materials Physics Branch, Naval Research Laboratory)

10:36 U26.012 Spin-dependent tunneling at an interface between a ferromagnetic metal and a paramagnetic semiconductor

S. Gaudio (Boston College), K.B. Blagoev (Los Alamos National Laboratory), P.P. Ruden (University of Minnesota), D.L. Smith (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

10:48 U26.013 Spin accumulation in forward-biased MnAs/GaAs Schottky diodes

J. Berezovsky, J. Stephens, J. P. McGuire, L. J. Sham, A. C. Gossard, D. D. Awschalom (Center for Spintronics and Quantum Computation, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106)

08:00 U28.001 Demonstration of an all-optical quantum controlled-NOT gate

Jeremy O'Brien, Geoffery Pryde, Andrew White, Timothy Ralph, Alexei Gilchrist, Nathan Langford (Centre for Quantum Computer Technology, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072 Australia), David Branning (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN 47803, USA), Daniel James (Quantum Institute, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA)

08:12 U28.002 Simulation of the BCS Hamiltonian on an NMR Quantum Computer

Robert Clark, Kenneth Brown, Isaac Chuang (MIT Center for Bits and Atoms)

08:24 U28.003 Multiphoton entanglement and quantum key distribution

Yuhui Luo, Kam Tai Chan (Department of Electronic Engineering, CUHK, Shatin,N. T., Hong Kong)

08:36 U28.004 Fault Tolerant Quantum Error Correction with Anisotropic Exchange

Masoud Mohseni (Department of Physics, University of Toronto), Daniel Lidar (Chemical Physics Theory Group, University of Toronto)

08:48 U28.005 The Adiabatic Approximation in Markovian Open Quantum Systems

Marcelo S. Sarandy, Daniel A. Lidar (Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Canada)

09:00 U28.006 Quantum Measurement Approach to a Non-Markovian Master Equation

Alireza Shabani (University of Toronto, Physics Department), Daniel A. Lidar (University of Toronto, Chemical Physics Theory Group)

09:12 U28.007 Multipulse control of disentanglement

Chikako Uchiyama (Univ. of Yamanashi), Masaki Aihara (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)

09:24 U28.008 Designing scalable quantum logic gates using "soft" continuous pulses

Pinaki Sengupta, Leonid P. Pryadko (UCR)

09:36 U28.009 Optimally Squeezed Spin States

Alberto Rojo (Oakland University)

09:48 U28.010 Positivity of the Density Matrix in Terms of the Coherence Vector

Mark Byrd, Navin Khaneja (Harvard University)

10:00 U28.011 Electrical Simulation of Quantum Algorithms

Kaden R.A. Hazzard (Centre for Quantum Computer Technology, University of New South Wales, Australia (CQCT)), Andrew D. Greentree (Quantum Processes Group, The Open University, UK, CQCT), R.P. Starrett (CQCT), F.G. Robertson (Interfaculty Electronics and Computing, The Open University, UK), A.R. Hamilton, R.G. Clark (CQCT)

08:00 U29.001 Textures in multiphase polymer-liquid crystalline materials

Susanta Kumar Das (Department of Chemical Engineering, McGill University, 3610 University Street, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B2, Canada.), Alejandro D. Rey (Department of Chemical Engineering, McGill University, 3610 University Street, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B2, Canada.)

08:12 U29.002 Structural Characters and Defects in Ethyl-cyanoethyl cellulose/Acrylic acid Cholesteric Liquid Crystalline System

Yong Huang, Lin-Ge Wang, Charles C. Han (Joint laboratories of Polymer Science amp; Materials, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS), Beijing 100080 and Laboratory of Cellulose and Lignocellulosics Chemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China)

08:24 U29.003 Computational modeling of texture formation in liquid crystalline polymers

Dana Grecov, Alejandro D. Rey (Chemical Engineering Department, McGill University, Montreal, Canada)

08:36 U29.004 Cell dynamics simulations of curvature driven grain boundary migration using half-loop bicrystal geometry

Matthew L. Trawick (Princeton University, Princeton, NJ), Daniel A. Vega (Universidad Nacional del Sur. 8000-Bahia Blanca, Argentina), Dan E. Angelescu (Schlumberger-Doll Research Center, Ridgefield, CT), Paul M. Chaikin, Richard A. Register (Princeton University, Princeton, NJ)

08:48 U29.005 The Effect of Molecular Architecture on the Coarsening of AnBn Star Block Copolymers

Xiaochuan Hu, Samuel Gido, Thomas Russell (Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA), Ferass Abuzaina, Bruce Garetz (Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences and Engineering, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA)

09:00 U29.006 Kinetics of Coarsening and Pattern Features in a 2D Hexagonal Phase

Daniel A Vega (UNSur-8000 Bahia Blanca, Argentina), Matthew L Trawick, Paul M Chaikin, Richard A Register (Princeton University. Princeton, NJ 08544, USA), Christopher K Harrison (Schlumberger-Doll Research Center. Ridgefield CT 06877, USA)

09:12 U29.007 Superparamagnetism and Blocking in Ferronematic Liquid Crystals

Derek Walton (Dept. of Phys. amp; Astr., McMaster Un., Hamilton, Canada), Suhail M. Shibli (Inst. de Fisica, Universidade de S.Paulo, S.Paulo, Brasil)

09:24 U29.008 Defect Study on Noncentrosymmetric Lamellar Block Copolymer Blends

Shujun Chen, Samuel P. Gido (Dept of Polymer Science and Engineering, Univ of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003), Thodoris Tsoukatos, Apostolos Avgeropoulos, Nikos Hadjichristidis (Dept of Chemistry, Univ of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Zografou, 15771 Athens, Greece), Kunlun Hong, Jimmy W. Mays (Dept of Chemistry, Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996), Univ of Tennessee Collaboration

09:36 U29.009 Observation of defect influence on the deformation behavior of glassy rubbery block copolymer

Panitarn Wanakamol, Edwin Thomas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

09:48 U29.010 Correlation of mechanical properties with complex orientation distributions in injection molded LCPs

Stanley Rendon, Wesley Burghardt (Northwestern University), Robert Bubeck (Michigan Molecular Institute)

10:00 U29.011 Strain Fixing and Recovery in Liquid Crystalline Elastomers

Ingrid A. Rousseau, Patrick T. Mather (University of Connecticut)

10:36 U29.012 Helicity Within and Among Macromolecules

Mark M. Green (Herman F. Mark Polymer Research Institute, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York 11201 (mgreen@duke.poly.edu))

08:00 U30.001 Recent advances in the theory of charge transport in organic semiconductors

V. M. Kenkre (Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Consortium of the Americas for Interdisciplinary Science, University of New Mexico)

08:36 U30.002 DMRG study of pi-conjugated polymers with additional pi-conjugation in the transverse direction

Yongguo Yan, S. Mazumdar (U. Arizona)

08:48 U30.003 A study of Eletronic and Structural Properties Of THe [ Co(tpy-SH)2]

Antonio J. R. da Silva, Renato B. Pontes, A. Fazzio (Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, CP 66318, 05315-970, São Paulo SP, Brazil)

09:00 U30.004 Photoisomerization of azobenzene from first principles calculations

Murilo L. Tiago (University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Sohrab Ismail-Beigi (Yale University), Steven G. Louie (University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

09:12 U30.005 Multi-terminal electron transport through single molecules

David Cardamone, Charles Stafford, Sumit Mazumdar (University of Arizona)

09:24 U30.006 Phonon effects in molecular transistors: Quantum and classical treatment

Aditi Mitra, Igor Aleiner, Andrew Millis (Columbia University)

09:36 U30.007 Reinterpreting the Molecular Origins of Optical Nonlinearity

Garth J Simpson (Department of Chemistry, Purdue University)

09:48 U30.008 Electron-Vibrational Dynamics of Photoexcited Polyfluorenes

Ignacio Franco (University of Toronto), Sergei Tretiak (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

10:00 U30.009 Molecular Memory Effect

Sasha Alexandrov (Department of Physics, Loughborough University, United Kingdom)

10:12 U30.010 Surface tension driven laser lithography of polymer thin films by forced dewetting

John M. Hudson, Joanna J. Jarecki, Kari Dalnoki-Veress, John S. Preston (Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada)

10:24 U30.011 The 7/3 helical phase of poly[(S)-2-methylbutyl(n-nonyl)]silane

Withoon Chunwachirasiri, Michael Winokur (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Julian Koe, Peng Wenqing (International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan)

10:36 U30.012 Near-term aging and thermal behavior of polyfluorene films~in~various~aggregation~states

Michael Winokur, Boy Tanto, Withoon Chunwachirasiri (Dept.\ of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI), Hyunseok Cheun, Brad Larson (Dept.\ of Materials Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI)

10:48 U30.013 Examination of Nanostructured Polymer Surfaces for Liquid Crystal Alignment

Adam Fontecchio, Hemang Shah (Drexel University)

08:00 U31.001 Glass Transition of Ultra Thin Polymer Films: Nanocalorimetry Study

Mikhail Efremov, Eric Olson, Ming Zhang, Zishu Zhang, Leslie Allen (Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, U.S.A.)

08:12 U31.002 Glass transition temperature of polymer thin films

Haobin Luo, Miriam Rafailovich, Jonathon Sokolov, Dilip Gersappe (Dept of Materials Science and Engg, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook NY 11794)

08:24 U31.003 The role of sample preparation in thin film glass transitions

Zahra Fakhraai, James A. Forrest (Department of Physics and Guelph-Waterloo Physics Institute, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1), James S. Sharp (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham U.K. NG7 2RD)

08:36 U31.004 The Onset of Dispersion-Driven Morphology for Freely-Standing Polymer Trilayer Films

Stephen Kamp, Christopher Murray, John Dutcher (Department of Physics, University of Guelph)

08:48 U31.005 Distribution of Glass Transition Temperatures across Thin and Nanoscopically Confined Polymer Films

Christopher J. Ellison, John M. Torkelson (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208 USA)

09:00 U31.006 Viscoelastic and thermodynamic properties of short chain polymer melts with van der Waals interactions near the glass transition

Matthew Wallace, Bela Joos (University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada), Michael Plischke (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada)

09:12 U31.007 Effects of Attractive Polymer-Substrate Interactions and Diluent Addition on Tg-Nanoconfinement Behavior in Polymer Films

John M. Torkelson, Robert L. Ruszkowski, Nathaniel J. Fredin, Christopher J. Ellison (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208 USA)

09:24 U31.008 Surface Vibrational Spectroscopy on Shear-Aligned Poly(tetrafluoroethylene) Films

Na Ji, Victor Ostroverkhov, Francois Lagugné-Labarthet, Y.R. Shen (Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720)

09:36 U31.009 Surface Interaction Effect on Viscosity of Polymer Thin Films

Chunhua Li, Koga Tadanori, Sarika Sharma, Miriam Rafailovich, Jonathan Sokolov (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, SUNY Stony Brook), Laurence Lurio, Sunil Sinha (Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory), Shira Billet, Dora Sosnowik (Stella K Abraham High School)

09:48 U31.010 Glass transition temperature of freely-standing poly(methyl methacrylate) films

Adam Pound, Connie Roth, Stephen Kamp, Christopher Murray, John Dutcher (Department of Physics, University of Guelph)

10:00 U31.011 Shear deformation in thin free-standing polymer films as a probe of entanglement in confined systems

Lun Si (Department of Materials Science amp; Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada), Michael V. Massa, Kari Dalnoki-Veress (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy and the Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada), Hugh R. Brown (BHP Steel Institute, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia), Richard A. L. Jones (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK)

10:12 U31.012 Visco-Elasti-Plastic Response of Ultra-Thin Films Below Tg.

Jean Harry Xavier, Clive Li, Miriam Rafailovich, Jonathan sokolov (Stony Brook University)

10:24 U31.013 Dynamics of inhomogeneous layers in thin polymer films : theoretical considerations

Hyunjung Kim (Sogang University, Korea), S. K. Sinha (Univ. of California, San Diego and LANSCE, Los Alamos National Laboratory), S. G. J. Mochrie (Yale Univ.), Adrian Ruehm (Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung, Germany), L. B. Lurio (Northern Illinois University)

10:36 U31.014 Relaxation Kinetics in Nano-Structured Thin Polymer Films

Urs Duerig, Bernd Gotsmann, Armin Knoll (IBM Research, Zurich Research Laboratory, CH-8803 Rueschlikon, Switzerland), William P. King (Woodrow School of Mechanical Engineering, Giorgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA, USA 30332-0405), Graham Cross (Dept. Physics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland)

10:48 U31.015 Hole growth in viscoelastic freely-standing polystyrene films at temperatures very close to Tg

Connie Roth, Ben Deh, Bernie Nickel, John Dutcher (Department of Physics, University of Guelph)

08:00 U32.001 Adsorption, Structure and Growth of Weakly Bound Species on Metals

Peter Zeppenfeld (Institute of Experimental Physics, University Linz, Austria)

08:36 U32.002 Catalytic Activity of Nano-gold Rafts

Andrew Lupini, Steve Pennycook, Alberto Franceschetti (Condensed Matter Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN 37831), Steve Overbury, Bei Chen, Wenfu Yan, Sheng Dai (Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN 37831), Sokrates Pantelides (Department of Physics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.)

08:48 U32.003 Origin of catalytic activity of gold nanoparticles on titania substrates

A. Franceschetti (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN), A.R. Lupini, S.H. Overbury, B. Chen, W. Yan, S. Dai, S.J. Pennycook, S.T. Pantelides (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN)

09:00 U32.004 Nonlinear conductance from switching of H_2 on Cu(111)

J.A. Gupta, C.P. Lutz, A.J. Heinrich, D.M. Eigler (IBM Research Division, IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Rd., San Jose, CA 95120)

09:12 U32.005 Resonant neutralization of H^- on Cu surfaces: Combined effects of the beam velocity and surface Miller index

Himadri Chakraborty, Thomas Niederhausen, Uwe Thumm (Dept. of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66502)

09:24 U32.006 Phonons in H_2 on LiF(001)

L. W. Bruch (Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

09:36 U32.007 Neutron and Thermodynamic investigations of H2 on MgO Surfacs

Tom Arnold (ORNL, Chemical Sciences Division), Lillian Frazier (Chemistry Dept. Univ. of Tennessee), Ramirez-Cuesta Tim (ISIS facility RAL), Robert Hinde (Chemistry Dept. Univ. of Tennessee), John Larese (Chemistry Dept. Univ. of Tennessee / ORNL, Chemical Sciences Division), University of Tennessee / ORNL Collaboration, ISIS Collaboration

09:48 U32.008 Experimental and theoretical studies of novel hydrogen diffuson in fullerite C_60

Stephen FitzGerald, Rym Hannachi (Oberlin College), David Sholl, Kurt Sieber, Dimitrios Gerogiorgis (Carnegie Mellon University)

10:00 U32.009 Inelastic Neutron Scattering of H2 Adsorbed on Activated Carbon

D. G. Narehood (Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University), B. K. Pradhan (Columbian Chemicals Company), P. C. Eklund, P. E. Sokol (Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University)

10:12 U32.010 Ortho-to-para conversion of H2 Adsorbed on Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Bundles

P. E. Sokol, D. G. Narehood, M. W. Cole, P. C. Eklund (Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University)

10:24 U32.011 129Xe NMR in Oxygen-Doped Solid Xenon

J. W. McNabb, D. Balakishiyeva, A. Honig (Syracuse University)

08:00 U33.001 Growth of nano-crystalline Si:H thin films with extremely low hydrogen dilution

Yung M. Huh (Physics Department, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57007), R Shinar, V.L. Dalal (Microelectronics Research Center, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011)

08:12 U33.002 Growth and overgrowth of huts and domes in the InAs/GaAs(001) system

G. Costantini, A. Rastelli, C. Manzano, R. Songmuang, O. Schmidt, K. Kern (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Festkoerperforschung)

08:24 U33.003 Transition to island growth with anomalously high island density in submonolayer hyperthermal deposition: A consequence of enhanced adatom detachment and island mobility

Ismo T Koponen, Mika Jahma (Department of Physical Sciences, University of Helsinki)

08:36 U33.004 Electric field induced deposition of gold nanodots by non-contact atomic force microscopy

Manuel E. Pumarol, Yoichi Miyahara, Peter Gruetter (Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada)

08:48 U33.005 Nano-scale modification of electrical and magnetic properties on Fe3O4 thin film by AFM lithography

Motoyuki Hirooka, Bertrand Vilquin, Runwei Li, Hidekazu Tanaka, Tomoji Kawai (ISIR-Osaka University-Japan)

09:00 U33.006 Atomic control of water interaction with bio-compatible surfaces: nano-patterning of cubic SiC(001).

Giulia Galli (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore CA94550 USA), Giancarlo Cicero (INFM and Physics Department, Polytechnic of Torino, C.Duca degliAbruzzi, 24, I-10129 Torino, Italy), Alessandra Catellani (CNR-IMEM, Parco Area delle Scienze, 37A, I-43010 Parma, Italy)

09:12 U33.007 Direct laser interference patterning of Co/Pt thin film multilayers

Aliekber Aktag, Lanping Yue, Steven Michalski, Sy Hawang Liou, Roger D. Kirby (Department of Physics and Astronomy, and CMRA, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588)

09:24 U33.008 Novel Nanostructured Alloys Prepared by Means of Cross-Beam Pulsed Laser Deposition

Eric Irissou, Mohamed Chaker, Daniel Guay (INRS-EMT, C.P. 1020, Varennes, Québec J3X 1S2, Canada)

09:36 U33.009 Sub-diffraction resolution in laser ablation of thin films

Ivan Avrutsky, Daniel G. Georgiev, Dmitry Frankstein, Golam Newaz, Gregory Auner (Wayne State University)

08:00 U34.001 Shape and Size-Dependance of the Enhancement Factor in Nanoparticles

Olivier J.F. Martin (Nanophotonics and Metrology Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne EPFL, Switzerland, www.nanophotonics.ch)

08:36 U34.002 Simulations of near-field and far-field optical properties of electromagnetically coupled multi-layered nanoparticles

Hongxing Xu (Division of Solid State Physics, Lund University, P.O. Box 118, SE-221 00, Sweden)

08:48 U34.003 Photon generation from plasmons on modulated surfaces

Douglas Clauss, Ben Yu-Kuang Hu (Dept. of Physics, University of Akron)

09:00 U34.004 Synthesis and characterizations of uniformly sized boron carbide nanoparticles

Shuo Chen, Dezhi Wang, Jianyu Huang, Zhifeng Ren (Department of Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467)

09:12 U34.005 Transition from Coulomb to molecular charging in tunneling spectra of gold nanocrystals

T. P. Bigioni (Georgia Institute of Technology), T. G. Schaaff (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), R. L. Whetten, P. N. First (Georgia Institute of Technology)

09:24 U34.006 Studies of the mechanism of excitonic self-trapping in quasi-one-dimensional materials

F.X. Morrissey, S.L. Dexheimer (Washington State University)

09:36 U34.007 Weakly disordered two-dimensional Frenkel excitons

A. BOUKAHIL (Mathematical and Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Whitewater, WI 53190), Nouredine Zettili (Department of Physical and Earth Sciences, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL 36265)

09:48 U34.008 Investigation of orientational randomization during nonradiative decay of excited-state dye molecules in a solvent

Thai Viet Truong, Yuen-Ron Shen (Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California; Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California)

10:00 U34.009 Investigation of the upconversion process in nanocrystalline Gd_3Ga_5O_12:Ho^3+ and Gd_3Ga_5O_12:Ho^3+, Yb^3+

John-Christopher Boyer, Fiorenzo Vetrone, John A. Capobianco (Deptartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Concordia University), Adolfo Speghini, Marco Bettinelli (Dipartimento Scientifico e Tecnologico, Università di Verona)

10:12 U34.010 Concentration of Yb3+ in Nanocrystalline Y2O3:Er3+, Yb3+ and Its Effect on the NIR-to-Green Upconversion Mechanism

Fiorenzo Vetrone, John-Christopher Boyer, John A. Capobianco (Concordia University), Adolfo Speghini, Marco Bettinelli (Universita di Verona)

10:24 U34.011 Production and characterization of europium doped sol-gel yttrium oxide

J.K. Krebs, Christopher Hobson (Franklin and Marshall College), Ann Silversmith (Hamilton College)

10:36 U34.012 Luminescence Properties of Praseodymium Doped Gadolinium Gallium Garnet (GGG) Nanocrystals

Rafik Naccache, Fiorenzo Vetrone, John-Christopher Boyer, John A. Capobianco (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Concordia University), Adolfo Speghini, Marco Bettinelli (Dipartimento Scientifico e Tecnologico, Università degli Studi di Verona)

08:00 U35.001 Dynamics in a model potential energy landscape; entropic transport

Tom Keyes (Chemistry Dept, Boston University)

08:36 U35.002 Effect of Free Surfaces on the Glass Transition of Thin Polymer Films

James S. Sharp (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, U.K.), James A. Forrest (Department of Physics and Guelph Waterloo Physics Institute, Waterloo, On, Canada, N2L 3G1)

08:48 U35.003 Orientational Ordering of short LC rods in an Anisotropic Liquid Crystalline Polymer Glass

Lorin Gutman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University), Jianshu Cao (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

09:00 U35.004 A low-density approach to Instantaneous Normal Modes: spectra and localization properties

Stefano Ciliberti (Departamento de Fisica Teorica I, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid 28040 (Spain)), T.S. Grigera Collaboration, V. Martin-Mayor Collaboration, G. Parisi Collaboration, P. Verrocchio Collaboration

09:12 U35.005 Microscopic origins of the normal force response in polymer glasses

Anny Flory, Gregory B. McKenna (Texas Tech University)

09:24 U35.006 Break

09:36 U35.007 Dynamic criticality in glass-forming liquids

Ludovic Berthier (University of Oxford)

10:12 U35.008 Nonbonded Energy Density and Mobility for Chain Systems

Joanne Budzien, John D. McCoy (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology), Douglas B. Adolf (Sandia National Laboratories)

10:24 U35.009 Water Mobility in Reverse Micelles Studied through Quasielastic Neutron Scattering and Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Branka M. Ladanyi, Michael R. Harpham, Nancy E. Levinger (Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523), Kenneth W. Herwig (Spallation Neutron Source, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37830)

10:36 U35.010 Two-mode approximation for anomalous diffusion in a potential

William T. Coffey (Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland), Yuri. P. Kalmykov (Lab. Mathématiques et Physique pour les Systèmes, Groupe de Physique Moléculaire, Université de Perpignan, 52, Avenue de Paul Alduy, 66860 Perpignan Cedex, France), Sergey V. Titov (Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vvedenskii Square 1, Fryazino, Moscow Region, 141190, Russian Federation)

10:48 U35.011 Computer Simulations of Nanostructure Formation in Ionomers

Monojoy Goswami, Sanat Kumar (Department of Chemical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 12180)

08:00 U36.001 Self-assembled particle arrays with long-range periodicity for photonic crystals

Jakub Rybczynski, Yang Wang (Boston College, USA), Witold Kandulski, Adam Kosiorek, Michael Giersig (CAESAR, Germany), Krzysztof Kempa, Zhifeng Ren (Boston College, USA)

08:12 U36.002 Tuning photonic crystal waveguide modes via optically generated free carriers

J. Mondia, H.W. Tan, S. Linden, H.M. van Driel (Dept. of Physics, University of Toronto, Canada), M. Banaee, J.F. Young (Dept. of Physics and Astronomony, University of British Columbia)

08:24 U36.003 Novel frequency selective surfaces and photonic cavities comprised of reconfigurable plasma elements

James Raynolds (University at Albany, State University of New York), Ted Anderson (Haleakala Research and Development, Inc.)

08:36 U36.004 Optical response of 3-D photonic crystals: effects of deformation and incident light convergence

Yun-Ju Lee (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, and Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory)

08:48 U36.005 Integrated photonic crystals and quantum well infrared photodetector

T. Zhou, D.C. Tsui (Princeton University), K.K. Choi (Army research Lab)

09:00 U36.006 Resonant tunneling of acoustic waves through a double barrier consisting of two phononic crystals.

John Page, Alexey Sukhovich (University of Manitoba), Arnaud Tourin, Francois van der Biest, Mathias Fink (Laboratoire Ondes et Acoustiques, ESPCI), Bart van Tiggelen (CNRS/Laboratoire de Physique et Modelisation des Milieux Condenses, Universite J. Fourier), Zhengyou Liu (Wuhan University)

09:12 U36.007 The effect of disorder on the photonic band gap of porous anodic alumina

David Meredith, Jarod Rowland, Scott Holmstrom (Department of Physics amp; Engineering Physics, University of Tulsa, Tulsa OK 74104 USA)

09:24 U36.008 Experiments on 3D and calculations on 2D photonic quasicrystals.

Weining Man, Mischa Megens, Steinhardt Paul, Chaikin Paul (Physics Department, Princeton University)

09:36 U36.009 Light propagation in random colloidal films with varying coordination number

X. peng, A.D. Dinsmore (physics of UMASS at Amherst)

09:48 U36.010 Formation of regular arrays of submicron GaAs dots on silicon

R.T. Collins, J.D. Beach, C. Veauvy, R. Caputo (Colorado School of Mines), A.A. Khandekar, T.F. Kuech (University of Wisconsin), C.K. Inoki, T.S. Kuan (University at Albany-SUNY), R.E. Hollingsworth (ITN Energy Systems, Inc.)

08:00 U37.001 Floppy and rigid rotating Wigner molecules in quantum dots

U. LANDMAN, C. YANNOULEAS (School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology)

08:12 U37.002 Shell filling and angular-momentum mixing in few-electron lateral quantum dots

Jordan Kyriakidis (Dalhousie University)

08:24 U37.003 Spin-orbit coupling and intrinsic spin mixing in quantum dots

Carlos Destefani, Sergio Ulloa (Department of Physics and Astronomy and Nanoscale and Quantum Phenomena), Gilmar Marques (Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, (Brazil))

08:36 U37.004 Electron Spin Decoherence due to Hyperfine coupling in a Quantum Dot.

L. M. Woods (Department of Physics, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620), T. L. Reinecke (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375)

08:48 U37.005 Spin-Orbit Effects in Coupled Quantum Dots

Lilia Meza-Montes (Instituto de Fisica UAP, Puebla, Mexico), Sergio. E. Ulloa (Ohio University)

09:00 U37.006 Gate and scrambling effects in realistic quantum dots

Hong Jiang, D. Ullmo, H. U. Baranger, Weitao Yang (Duke University)

09:12 U37.007

09:24 U37.008 Interaction Effects in Irregular Quantum Dots: A QMC Study

Amit Ghosal (Duke University), C. J. Umrigar (Cornell University), Hong Jiang (Duke University), Denis Ullmo (Affiliation), H. U. Baranger (Duke University)

09:36 U37.009 Spin Density Functional Calculations for Quantum Dots: How Much Can We Trust Them?

Denis Ullmo, Hong Jiang, Weitao Yang, H. U. Baranger (Duke University)

09:48 U37.010 From molecules to semiconductors, doping on a small scale.

Torbjörn Blomquist, George Kirczenow (Simon Fraser University)

10:00 U37.011 Study of CdSe Quantum Dot with and without Doping

Steven Oliver, Ching-Yao Fong (University of California, Davis)

13:27 U37.012 This abstract has been withdrawn

08:00 U38.001 Numerical test: Is there a high energy (~ J/3) d-wave pairing scale in the t-J model?

Oron Zachar, Steven Kivelson (UCLA Dept. of Physics)

08:12 U38.002 Superconducting Instabilities in the 2D Hubbard Model: A Cellular DMFT Study

Sarma Kancharla (Dept de Physique, Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, J1K 2R1 Canada), Marcello Civelli (Dept of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019), Massimo Capone (Enrico Fermi Center, Roma, Italy), Gabriel Kotliar (Center for Materials Theory, Dept of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019)

08:24 U38.003 Exact DOS in the T-Matrix approximation: Demonstration of a robust pseudogap in the 3D Attractive Hubbard Model

RJ Gooding (Queen's University, Kingston ON Canada), F Marsiglio (University of Alberta, Edmonton AB Canada), S Verga (University of Alberta), KSD Beach (MIT)

08:36 U38.004 Pairing fluctuations induced pseudogap in the Attractive Hubbard Model

Simona Verga (Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB T6G 2J1), Robert J. Gooding (Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston ON K7L 3N6), Frank Marsiglio (Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB T6G 2J1)

08:48 U38.005 Many-Body Fermion Density Matrix: Operator-Based Truncation Scheme

Siew-Ann Cheong, C. L. Henley (LASSP, Cornell U.)

09:00 U38.006 Dynamical DMRG study of photoexcited states in 1D Mott insulators

Hiroaki Matsueda, Tohyama Takami, Sadamichi Maekawa (imr, tohoku university)

09:12 U38.007 Parallelization Strategies for Density Matrix Renormalization Group Algorithms on Shared-Memory Systems

Gerhard Wellein, Georg Hager (Computing Center Erlangen, Germany), Eric Jeckelmann (Institute for Physics, University of Mainz), Holger Fehske (Institute for Physics, University of Greifswald)

09:24 U38.008 Multi-level Algorithm for the Anderson Impurity Model

S. Chandrasekharan, J. Yoo, H. U. Baranger (Duke University)

09:36 U38.009 Quantum Monte Carlo Study of a Disordered Fermionic System

J.-W. Lee, S. Chandrasekharan, H. U. Baranger (Duke University)

09:48 U38.010 Diagonalizing Quantum Spin Models on Parallel Machine

Yuk-Lin CHAN, Hai-Qing LIN (Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

10:00 U38.011 Converging Perturbation Theory about Self-Consistent Field Solution

Armen Kocharian (California State University, Northridge, CA), Chi Yang (Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taiwan), You-Ling Chiang (Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan)

08:00 U39.001 Light Emission from Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistors

James Misewich (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

08:36 U39.002 Nanotube Devices for Optoelectronics

Derek Stewart, Francois Leonard (Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA)

08:48 U39.003 Photo-gated Carbon Nanotube FET Devices

Matthew S. Marcus, O.M. Castellini, J.M. Simmons, M.A. Eriksson (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

09:00 U39.004 Nanowire-Based Avalanche Photodiodes

Ritesh Agarwal, Oliver Hayden, Charles M Lieber (Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138 USA)

09:12 U39.005 Photoconductivity and Response Times of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Bundles on Quartz

O.M. Castellini, Matthew S. Marcus, J.M. Simmons, M.A. Eriksson (Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

09:24 U39.006 Functional Semiconductor Nanowires and Their Optical Properties

Peidong Yang (Chemistry Department, University of California, Berkeley)

10:00 U39.007 Forster energy transfer from a quantum well to a proximal nanocrystal-quantum-dot monolayer

Simon Kos (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545), Marc Achermann, Melissa Petruska, Victor Klimov (Chemistry Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545), Darryl Smith (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545)

10:12 U39.008 Ultrafast optically controlled superprism effect in nonlinear photonic crystals

Nicolae Panoiu, Mayank Bahl, Richard Osgood (Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA)