Program overview

FRIDAY MIDDAY, 26 MARCH 2004

Session Z1. DCMP: Excitations in Strongly Correlated Materials II.

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

11:15 Z1.001 Anomalous thermopower and phase diagram of Na_xCoO_2.*
N. Phuan Ong (Princeton University)
11:51 Z1.002 Strong Correlation and Superconductivity in the Na_xCoO_2 System
Patrick A. Lee (Department of Physics, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139)
12:27 Z1.003 Recombination and diffusion of nonequilibrium quasiparticles in high-Tc cuprates
NUH GEDIK (UC Berkeley and LBNL)
13:03 Z1.004 Long-lived coherent acoustic waves generated by femtosecond light pulses
Ivan Bozovic (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton NY 11973-5000)
13:39 Z1.005 Dynamics of photoexcited quasiparticles in heavy-electron compounds
Jure Demsar (J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia and Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, USA)

Session Z2. DCMP: RF Dynamics of Nanoelectronic & Nanomechanical Systems.

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

11:15 Z2.001 Quantum charge fluctuations and the polarizability of the single-electron box
Konrad Lehnert (JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and The University of Colorado)
11:51 Z2.002 Nanoscale thermometry, calorimetry, and bolometry at radio-frequencies.
Daniel Schmidt (UC Santa Barbara)
12:27 Z2.003 The Shot Noise Thermometer: Primary Electronic Thermometry Using the Noise from a Tunnel Junction
Lafe Spietz (Department of Applied Physics, Yale University)
13:03 Z2.004 Nanomechanical Sensing using the Single Electron Transistor
Robert Knobel (Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston ON)
13:39 Z2.005 Microwave Oscillations of a Nanomagnet Driven by a DC Spin-Polarized Current
S.I. Kiselev (Cornell University)

Session Z3. DCMP: MgB2 and Other Superconductivity.

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

11:15 Z3.001 Dying Gasps of a d-wave superconductor
Douglas Bonn (University of British Columbia)
11:51 Z3.002 Microwave conductivity and upper critical field in the two gap superconductor MgB2
Thomas Dahm (Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Tuebingen, Germany)
12:27 Z3.003 Anisotropic high field superconductinng behavior in MgB_2
Alexander Gurevich (University of Wisconsin, Madison*)
13:03 Z3.004 New Results on the Normal-Superconducting Phase Transition in YBCO
C. J. Lobb (University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742)
13:39 Z3.005 Why magnesium diboride is not described by anisotropic Ginzburg-Landau theory
Alexei Koshelev (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory)

Session Z4. DCOMP: Towards a Deeper Understanding of Spin Glasses.

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

11:15 Z4.001 Non-equilibrium dynamics in spin glasses
Per Nordblad (Uppsala University, Dept. Engineering Sciences, Box 534, 751 21 Uppsala, Sweden)
11:51 Z4.002 Single spin- and chiral-glass transition in vector spin glasses
A. P. Young (University of California Santa Cruz)
12:27 Z4.003 Overcoming system-size limitations in spin glasses
Helmut G. Katzgraber (Theoretische Physik, ETH Zurich)
13:03 Z4.004 Recent analytical results on spin glasses
Michael Moore (University of Manchester, Manchester, England)
13:39 Z4.005 Ground state algorithms for Ising spin glasses
Alexander K. Hartmann (Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Goettingen, Germany)

Session Z7. DBP: New Developments in Understanding Bacterial Chemotaxis.

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

11:15 Z7.001 Noise and unsteadiness of the chemotaxis network in a single bacterium
Philippe Cluzel (The university of Chicago)
11:51 Z7.002 Heterogeneous receptor cross talk and high gain in bacterial chemotaxis
Yuhai Tu (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598)
12:27 Z7.003 An integrated model for signal transduction, motor control and pattern formation in E. coli
Hans Othmer (School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota)
13:03 Z7.004 Timing bacterial chemotaxis
Shahid Khan (University of Illinois)
13:39 Z7.005 Synthetic Multivalent Ligands as Probes of Inter-Receptor Communication in Bacterial Chemotaxis
Jason Gestwicki (Stanford University)

Session Z8. DBP: Focus Session: Novel surface-based techniques for biomolecules and biomolecular thin films.

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

11:15 Z8.001 Determination of viscoelastic parameters based on QCM measurements on many overtones
Diethelm Johannsmann (Institute of Physical Chemistry, TU-Clausthal, Germany)
11:51 Z8.002 Measurements to Study Supported Lipid Bilayer Formation Resulting from Vesicle Fusion
Curtis Frank (Stanford University)
12:27 Z8.003 Optimisation of Hydrogel Biointerface Layers used for QCM Detection of Biomarkers
Shawn Carrigan (McGill University Biomedical Engineering Dept), George Scott (MDS Pharma Services), Maryam Tabrizian (McGill University Biomedical Engineering Dept)
12:39 Z8.004 Reversible, Light-Regulated Desorption of Photoactive Polyelectrolytes from Lipid Bilayers
Jason J. Benkoski, Aldo Jesorka, Fredrik Höök, Bengt Kasemo (Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden)
12:51 Z8.005 DNA Electrophoresis on Micro-Patterned Surfaces
Eric Petersen (Ward Melville High School), Bingquan Li, Vladimir Samuilov, Miriam Rafailovich, Jonathan Sokolov (SUNY Stony Brook)
13:03 Z8.006 Novel Method for the Investigation of the Morphologies of biological Self-Assembled Monolayers
Arum Amy Yu, Francesco Stellacci (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT), Julie Norville, Marc Baldo (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT), Barry Bruce (Department of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology amp; Knoxville), Baldo Collaboration, Bruce Collaboration
13:15 Z8.007 Scanning Probe Recognition Microscopy for Investigation of Multi-scale Biological Problems
Q Chen, Y Fan, L Udpa, V.M. Ayres (Michigan State University)
13:27 Z8.008 This abstract has been withdrawn
13:39 Z8.009 Highly Sensitive Detection of Processes Occurring Inside Nanoporous Anodic Alumina Templates a Waveguide Optical Study
K.H. Aaron Lau, Le Shon Tan (Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore), Kaoru Tamada (Departments of Chemistry and of Materials Science, National University of Singapore), Melissa S. Sander (Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore), Wolfgang Knoll (Departments of Chemistry and of Materials Science, National University of Singapore), Institute of Materials Research and Engineering Collaboration, Departments of Chemistry and of Materials Science Collaboration
13:51 Z8.010 Observation of polaron states in DNA induced by chemical doping process
Masashi Furukawa, H. S. Kato, Maki Kawai (RIKEN, Japan), M. Taniguchi, T. Kawai (ISIR, Japan), T. Hatsui, N. Kosugi (IMS, Japan), T. Yoshida, M. Aida (Hiroshima Univ., Japan)
Z8.011 Visualization of Cytoskeletal Elements by the Atomic Force Microscope
Tamara Berdyyeva (Dept of Physics, Clarkson University), Craig Woodworth (Dept of Biology, Clarkson University), Igor Sokolov (Dept of Physics, Clarkson University)
Z8.012 DNA Chain Dynamics in Surface Electrophoresis
Bingquan Li, Xiaohua Fang (department of materials science, stony brook university), Youngsoo Seo (NCNR,NIST), Vladimir Samuilov, Miriam Rafailovich, Jonathan Sakolov (department of materials science, stony brook university)
Z8.013 Surface Electrophoretic Cell using ITO conducting walls
PERUMAL RAMASAMY, VLADIMIR SAMUILOV, JONATHAN SOKOLOV, MIRIAM RAFAILOVICH (GARCIA center for polymers at engineered surfaces, Department of materials science and engineering , SUNY stonybrook , Newyork , 11790)

Session Z9. DBP: Focus Session: Materials Physics in Biology.

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

11:15 Z9.001 Scanning Probe Microscopy in the Visualization of Biological Ultrastructures: From Macromolecular Crystals to Human Pathogens
Alexander Malkin (Department of Chemistry and Materials Science, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CA 94551, USA)
11:51 Z9.002 Liquid-Solid transition in nuclei of protein crystals
Aleksey Lomakin, Neer Asherie, George Benedek (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
12:27 Z9.003 Synchrotron X-ray Microbeam Diffraction from Abalone Shell
Elaine DiMasi (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Mehmet Sarikaya (University of Washington, Seattle)
12:39 Z9.004 Ordering of Filamentous Proteins and Associated molecules via Micro-channel Confinement
L.S. Hirst, Z. Abu Samah, E Parker, Y Li, R Pynn, N.C. MacDonald, C.R. Safinya (Materials and Physics Departments, Biomolecular Science and Engineering Program, University of California, Santa Barbara.)
12:51 Z9.005 Interactions of biological molecules with inorganic surfaces
R.L. Willett, L.N. Pfeiffer, K.W. West (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies)

Session Z10. DBP: Focus Session: Molecular Biology and Computation.

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

11:15 Z10.001 Molecular Dynamics of Proteins on a Machine Designed for Quantum Chromodynamics
James Davenport (Brookhaven National Laboratory), X. Cai, Y. Deng (Stony Brook University), J. Glimm
11:27 Z10.002 Modeling Competitive Evolution on a Smooth Landscape
Morten Kloster (NEC Laboratories America, Inc.)
11:39 Z10.003 How much does horizontal gene transfer affect the phylogenetic tree of bacteria?
Bin Tang, Philippe Boisvert, Paul Higgs (Dept of Physics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.)
11:51 Z10.004 Combinatorial control of gene expression from simple molecular interactions
Terence Hwa (Physics Dept and Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, UC San Diego)
12:27 Z10.005 Engineering Cells with Computation and Signal Processing
Ron Weiss (Dept. of Electrical Engr., Princeton University)
13:03 Z10.006 Clustered bottlenecks in mRNA translation and protein synthesis
Tom Chou (UCLA), Greg Lakatos (UBC)
13:15 Z10.007 Analysis of informational redundancy in the protein-assembling machinery
Simon Berkovich (The George Washington University)
13:27 Z10.008 Solving the phase problem of X-ray crystallography using Genetic Algorithm
Yi Zhou, Wu-Pei Su (University of Houston)
13:39 Z10.009 Using three-dimensional protein structure to model protein aggregation: Collagen fibrillogenesis in vitro
Darren Anderson, Ivan Graovac (University of Toronto), Jan Rainey (PENCE - University of Alberta), M. Cynthia Goh (University of Toronto)
13:51 Z10.010 Stabilization of surface-immobilized enzymes using grafted polymers
Yevgeny Moskovitz, Simcha Srebnik (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
14:03 Z10.011 Toward an atomistic model for predicting transcription-factor binding sites
Robert Endres, Thomas Schulthess (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN, USA), Ned Wingreen (Princeton University, Department of Molecular Biology, NJ, USA)

Session Z11. DMP: Microwave Effects on 2-D Electronic Applications.

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

11:15 Z11.001 Crossover from Microwave Induced Zero Resistance States to Magnetoplasmon Resonant Absorption
J.A. Bonetti (Caltech), M.P. Lilly (Sandia National Labs), J.P. Eisenstein (Caltech), L.N. Pfeiffer, K.W. West (Bell Labs)
11:27 Z11.002 Local microwave induced “Zero Resistance States”
Alistair Armstrong-Brown, Michael Hilke (McGill University), Lloyd Engel (National High Magnetic Field Labs), Lauren Pfeiffer, Ken West (Bell Labs)
11:39 Z11.003 Transition to zero resistance in an irradiated 2DEG
J. Alicea, L. Balents (UCSB Physics), M. P. A. Fisher, A. Paramekanti (UCSB KITP), L. Radzihovsky (UC Boulder Physics)
11:51 Z11.004 A model for the microwave assisted Hall superconductivity
Manuel Torres (UNAM-México), Alejandro Kunold (UAM-México)
12:03 Z11.005 Microwave rectification of the electric current in a dilute two-dimensional electron gas.
Andrey D. Ivliev (Urals State Academy of Mining and Geology, Yekaterinburg, Russia), Natalya A. Zimbovskaya (Department of Physics and Astronomy, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN)
12:15 Z11.006 Damping of microwave induced oscillations in the magneto-resistance of high-mobility 2D electrons: role of disorder
Sergei Studenikin (NRC, Canada), M. Potemski (Grenoble High Magnetic Field Laboratory, France), P. T. Coleridge, A. Sachrajda, P. Zawadzki, M. Ciorga, M. Pioro-Landriere (NRC, Canada), M. Hilke (McGill University, Canada), L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West (Bell Laboratories, New Jersey)
12:27 Z11.007 Microwave conductivity of a 2D electron system in the vicinity of \nu=9/2
R. M. Lewis, Yong Chen (NHMFL-FSU and Princeton University), L. W. Engel (NHMFL-FSU), D. C. Tsui (Princeton University), P. D. Ye (Agere systems), L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West (Lucent Technology)
12:39 Z11.008 Microwave resonance of the reentrant insulating phase between \nu= 1/5 and 2/9
L. W. Engel (NHMFL-FSU), R. M. Lewis, Yong Chen (NHMFL-FSU and Princeton University), D. C. Tsui (Princeton University), P. D. Ye (Agere systems), L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West (Lucent Technologies)
12:51 Z11.009 Dynamics of pinned quantum Hall bubble crystals
René Côté, Meirong Li, Alexandre D. Faribault (Université de Sherbrooke), Herbert A. Fertig (University of Kentucky), Hangmo Yi (Korea Institute for Advanced Studies)
13:03 Z11.010 Quantum Depinning Transition of Quantum Hall Stripes
Meirong Li (Université de Sherbrooke), Herbert A. Fertig (University of Kentucky), René Côté (Université de Sherbrooke), Hangmo Yi (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)
Z11.011 Microwave Conductivity Spectra in Different Regimes of High B Wigner Solid in High Quality 2DES
Yong CHEN (National High Magnetic Field Lab and Princeton University), R. M. Lewis (NHMFL and Princeton), L. W. Engel (NHMFL), D. C. Tsui (Princeton), P. D. Ye (Agere Systems), L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West (Bell Labs)

Session Z15. DCOMP/DMP: Focus Session: Theory of Nanotubes and Carbon Based Nanostructures III.

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

11:15 Z15.001 Sensor and Macroelectronic Applications of C Nanotubes
Eric Snow (Naval Research Laboratory)
11:51 Z15.002 Band Gap of Armchair Carbon Nanotubes: Mirror Symmetry Breaking
Yan Li-, Slava Rotkin, Umberto Ravaioli (Beckman Institute,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
12:03 Z15.003 Electronic properties of finite length armchair nanotubes
Deyu Lu, Yan Li-, Slava Rotkin, Umberto Ravaioli, Klaus Schulten (Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois)
12:15 Z15.004 New empirical model for vibrational spectra of single-wall carbon nanotubes
Yuri Gartstein (Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Dallas)
12:27 Z15.005 Molecular dynamics study of catalysed carbon nanotube growth within the vapor-liquid-solid model
Arne Rosen (Dept of Physics Gothenburg University and Chalmers University of Technology Gothenburg Sweden), Feng Ding (Dept of Physics Chalmers University of Technology Gothenburg Sweden), Kim Bolton (Dept of Physics, Gothenburg University and Chalmers University of Technology Gothenburg Sweden)
12:39 Z15.006 Theory of Transport of Long Polymer Molecules through Carbon Nanotube Channels
Chenyu Wei, Deepak Srivastava (NASA AMES Research Center)
12:51 Z15.007 Effects of vacancies on the inter-tube conductance of carbon nanotubes ropes and multiwalled nanotubes
Matthew A Tunney, Nigel R Cooper (University of Cambridge, UK)
13:03 Z15.008 The Hallmark of Perfect Graphene
Elizabeth Duplock (School of Physical Sciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NR, UK), Matthias Scheffler (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Plank-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, D-14 195 Berlin-Dahlem, Germany), Philip J. D. Lindan (School of Physical Sciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NR, UK)
13:15 Z15.009 Bipolar doping of carbon nanotube on semiconductor surfaces via surface orientation
Y.-H. Kim, M. J. Heben, A. J. Nozik, S. B. Zhang (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado 80401)

Session Z17. DMP: Studies in Carbon Nanotubes.

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

11:15 Z17.001 Ab initio study of field emission currents of graphitic ribbons
T.C. Leung, S. F. Huang (Department of Physics, National Cheng Chung University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan.), C. T. Chan, Bin Li (Department of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong.)
11:27 Z17.002 Phonon Overlaps in Molecular Quantum Dot Systems
Connie Chang, James Sethna (Cornell University)
11:39 Z17.003 Linear and nonlinear optical properties of carbon and BN nanotubes from first-principles
Guang-Yu Guo (Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan)
11:51 Z17.004 Hydrogen Storage in Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes: Effects of Nanotube Size and Chirality
Hansong Cheng, Alan Cooper (Affiliation), Guido Pez (Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.), Milen Kostov (Affiliation), Milton Cole (Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University), Steven Stuart (Department of Chemistry, Clemson University), Air Products and Chemicals Collaboration, Department of Physics Collaboration, Department of Chemistry Collaboration
12:03 Z17.005 Electronic properties of carbon nanotubes with covalent sidewall functionalization
Hyoungki Park, Jijun Zhao, Jian Ping Lu (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
12:15 Z17.006 Optimization of the electric arc discharge synthesis of single-walled carbon nanotubes on the basis of near-IR spectroscopy
M.E. ITKIS, D.E. PEREA, S. NIYOGI, J. LOVE, J. TANG, A. YU, C. KANG, R.C. HADDON (Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering, University of California, Riverside, California 92521-0403)
12:27 Z17.007 In situ Optical Monitoring of Vertically-Aligned Multiwall Carbon Nanotube Array Growth During Chemical Vapor Deposition
Alex A. Puretzky (University of Tennessee), David B. Geohegan, Jane Howe (Oak Ridge National laboratory), Ilia N. Ivanov, Stephen Jesse (University of Tennessee), Gyula Eres (Oak Ridge National laboratory)
12:39 Z17.008 Double-Walled carbon Nanotubes under Compression
U.D. Venkateswaran (Oakland U.), R. Gupta (Penn State Univ., U. Illinois), B. Buller (Oakland U.), S. Bandow, S. Iijima (Meijo Univ., Japan), P.C. Eklund (Penn State Univ.)
12:51 Z17.009 Carbon Nanotubes Embedded in Oriented Polymer Nanofibers by Electrospinning
Yachin Cohen, Yael Dror, Rafail L. Khalfin (Chemical Eng. Dept.), Wael Salalha, Alexander L. Yarin, Eyal Zussman (Mechanical Eng. Dept., Technion, Israel.)
13:03 Z17.010 Dispersion Dependent conductivity of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes in Epoxy Composites
M. B. Bryning, M. F. Islam, J. M. Kikkawa, A. G. Yodh (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6396)
13:15 Z17.011 Experimental Evidence for a New Understanding of the Tunneling Conductance in Multi-Wall Nanotubes
Swapan Chakraborty, Bruce Alphenaar (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Louisville), Lei Liu, Chakram Jayanthi, Shi-Yu Wu (Department of Physics, University of Louisville)
13:27 Z17.012 Photoconductivity of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Films
Aditya Mohite, Swapan Chakraborty, Gamini Sumanasekera, Bruce Alphenaar (University of Louisville)
Z17.013 Modelling carbon nanotubes with balance equations
Bart Soree, Wim Magnus (IMEC, Kapeldreef 75, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium), Arnout Ceulemans, Liviu Chibotaru, Steven Compernolle (KULeuven, Faculty of Sciences, Dep. Quantum Chemistry, Celestijnenlaan 200F, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium)

Session Z21. DMP: Defects: Point, Line & Interface.

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

11:15 Z21.001 Electronic Structure of Oxygen Vacancies in Cubic and Antiferrodistortive Phases of SrTiO_3
James Buban, Serdar Ogut (University of Illinois at Chicago)
11:27 Z21.002 Radiation effects on porous low-k dielectric materials
Zs. Jenei, P. Asoka-Kumar (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550), M.P. Petkov (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109), R.D. Miller, W. Volksen (IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA 95120), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Collaboration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Collaboration, IBM Almaden Research Center Collaboration
11:39 Z21.003 HOLE-CONTROLLED DEFECT FORMATION AT Si-SiO_2\ INTERFACES IN THE PRESENCE OF WATER AND FLUORINE-RELATED SPECIES.
L. Tsetseris (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN), X. Zhou, D. M. Fleetwood, R. D. Schrimpf (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN), S. T. Pantelides (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, and Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN)
11:51 Z21.004 Noise Spectroscopy for the Characterization and Investigation of Ultra-Thin Gate Dielectrics
Nauman Butt (School of Electrical amp; Computer Engineering, Purdue University), Albert Chang (Dept. of Physics, Duke amp; Purdue University), Rashid Bashir, Hassan Raza (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University), Dim-Lee Kwong (Dept. of Electrical amp; Computer Engineering, University of Texas, Austin)
12:03 Z21.005 Atomistic Simulation of Generation of Reidinger Defects in BaMgAl_10O_17
Kailash C. Mishra (Central Research, OSRAM SYLVANIA, Beverly, MA)
12:15 Z21.006 Radiation defects in lithium tetraborate
Valentin Grachev, Galina Malovichko (Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA), Yaroslav Burak (Institute of Physical Optics, Lviv, Ukraine), Andrii Matkovskii (Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv, Ukraine)
12:27 Z21.007 Effect of dopant distribution on aging of catalytic Cr-doped transition aluminas
Albina Borisevich (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Sergey Rashkeev, Sanwu Wang (Vanderbilt University), Michael Glazoff (Alcoa, Inc.), Karl Sohlberg (Drexel University), Stephen Pennycook (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Sokrates Pantelides (Vanderbilt University)
12:39 Z21.008 Stabilization of \gamma-alumina catalyst by adsorbed La atoms
S. N. Rashkeev, Sanwu Wang (Vanderbilt University), A. Y. Borisevich, S. J. Pennycook (Oak Ridge National Lab), M. V. Glazoff (Alcoa, Inc.), K. W. Sohlberg (Drexel University), S. T. Pantelides (Vanderbilt University)
12:51 Z21.009 X-ray micro-diffraction from 90 degree domains in barium titanate
Khosrow Hassani, Martin Holt, Mark Sutton (Department of Physics, McGill University)
13:03 Z21.010 Radiolytic Hydrogen Sources in Silicon Dioxide
Harold P. Hjalmarson (Sandia National Laboratories), Blair Tuttle (Penn State University Erie), Thomas R. Mattsson, Peter A. Schultz (Sandia National Laboratories), Arthur E. Edwards (Air Force Research Laboratory)
13:15 Z21.011 Interstitial Oxygen in Tin-Doped Indium Oxide Transparent Conductors
Oliver Warschkow (University of Sydney, School of Physics), Ljubomir Miljacic, Donald Ellis (Northwestern University, Department of Physics and Astronomy)
13:27 Z21.012 Defect annealing in self-implanted poly-Si studied by nanocalorimetry
Rachid Karmouch, Jean-François Mercure, Yonathan Anahory, François Schiettekatte (Groupe de Recherche en Physique et Technologie des Couches Minces, Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128 succ. centre-ville, Montréal, QC, Canada H3C 3J7)
13:39 Z21.013 Fatigue properties of Pb(Zr_0.5Ti_0.5)O_3 films on PT and Ti polycrystalline substrates.
V. Ishchuk, V. Cherginets, O. Demirskaya, A. Aslanov, Zh. Klitsova, T. Rebrova, T. Teplitskaya (Institute for Single Crystals of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkov 61001, Ukraine), Vladimir Sobolev (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD 57701)

Session Z23. GMAG: Quantum Dots and Magnetic Recording Materials.

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

11:15 Z23.001 Non-Perturbative Role of Potential Scattering in Quantum Dots: Consequences for Fano Resonances
Robert Konik (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
11:27 Z23.002 Entanglement of Electron Spins in Two Coupled Quantum Dots
Yuanzhen Chen, Richard Webb (Center for Superconductivity Research, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742*)
11:39 Z23.003 Quantum Entanglement of Anisotropic Magnetic Nanodots
Ralph Skomski, Andrei Y. Istomin, Anthony F. Starace, D. J. Sellmyer (Department of Physics and Astronomy and Center for Materials Research and Analysis, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588)
11:51 Z23.004 Spin blockade and co-tunneling in a double quantum dot
Michel Pioro-Ladrière, Mariusz Ciorga, Piotr Zawadzki, Jean Lapointe, Pawel Hawrylak, Andrew S. Sachrajda (Institute for Microstructural Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0R6)
12:03 Z23.005 Quantum dot sandwiched between anomalous metals with a pseudogap.
Émilie Dupont, John Hopkinson, Karyn Le Hur (Département de physique and RQMP, Université de Sherbrooke, J1K2R1 Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.)
12:15 Z23.006 The Kondo effect in a quantum dot with ferromagnetic leads
Abhay Pasupathy, Radoslaw Bialczak, Luke Donev, Jacob Grose, Paul McEuen, Dan Ralph (LASSP, Cornell University)
12:27 Z23.007 Positive cross correlations in a three-terminal quantum dot with ferromagnetic contacts
Audrey Cottet, W. Belzig, C. Bruder (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 82, 4056 Basel, Switzerland)
12:39 Z23.008 Kinks in Faraday Rotation for II-VI Semiconductor Quantum Dots
Joseph H. Kratzer, John Schroeder (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY)
12:51 Z23.009 Modeling MFM Response of the Magnetic Recording Write Head.
M.L. Plumer, A.V. Nazarov, B. Pant (Seagate Technology)
13:03 Z23.010 Measurements of the MFM response over magnetic recording writer poles
Alexey V. Nazarov, Martin P. Plumer, Bharat B. Pant (Seagate Technology)
13:15 Z23.011 Micromagnetic simulations of magnetic recording near the limits of writeability
Manfred Schabes (Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, San Jose Research Center, San Jose, CA, USA)
13:27 Z23.012 Comparison of the Properties of \gamma-Fe_22O_3 Nanoparticles Synthesized Inside of Ferritin Protein Cages to the Native Iron Oxy-hydroxide Cores
Keith Gilmore (Montana State University)
13:39 Z23.013 Non-epitaxially Grown, Oriented L10 FeNiPt Films and Their Magnetic Properties
M. L. Yan, Y. F. Xu, D. J. Sellmyer (Center for Materials Research and Analysis and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588)
Z23.014 FePt (001) L10 Nanoparticles with Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy
Jun Wan, V. Skumryev, Y. Huang, S. Stoyanov, Y. Zhang, G. Hadjipanayis, D. Weller, Seagate Technology LLC Collaboration

Session Z26. GMAG/DMP: Emerging Semiconductor Spintronic Materials.

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

11:15 Z26.001 Ferromagnetism in MBE-grown n-type GaMnN Alloys
J. D. Albrecht, J. E. Van Nostrand (Air Force Research Laboratory)
11:27 Z26.002 Unoccupied orbitals of 3d transition metals in ZnS
V. Pérez-Dieste, J.N. Crain, A. Kirakosian, J.L. McChesney (Dept. of Physics., UW-Madison., Madison, WI), E. Arenholz, A.T. Young, J.D. Denlinger (Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab., Berkeley, CA), D.L. Ederer (Dept. of Physics, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA), T.A. Callcott (Dept. of Physics, Knoxville, TN), S. A. López-Rivera (Lab. de Fisica Aplicada, Universidad de los Andes, Merida, Venezuela), F.J. Himpsel (Dept. of Physics., UW-Madison., Madison, WI)
11:39 Z26.003 Quantum Interference Effects in the Optical Spectrum of a Magnetic Semiconductor
F. P. Mena, D. van der Marel, C. Presura, A. Damascelli (Material Science Center, University of Groningen, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands.), G. Aeppli (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT, UK), J. DiTusa (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Lousiana State University, Baton Rouge, Lousiana 70803, USA), A. A. Menovsky, J. A. Mydosh (Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory, Leiden University, 2500 RA Leiden, The Netherlands)
11:51 Z26.004 Large Anomalous Hall Effect in a Monosilicide Magnetic Semiconductor
John DiTusa, David Young, Yvan Sidis (Louisiana State University), Ncholu Manyala (National University of Lesotho), Gabriel Aeppli (University College London), Zachary Fisk (NHMFL Florida State University)
12:03 Z26.005 Characteristic thermal energy scale for suppression of conductivity in magnetically doped amorphous semiconductors
Erik Helgren, John Cherry, Li Zeng, Frances Hellman (University of California San Diego)
12:15 Z26.006 Low temperature ferromagnetism in Sb_2-xCr_xTe_3 single crystals
J. S. Dyck (Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109), C. Drasar, P. Lostak (Faculty of Chemical Technology, University of Pardubice, Pardubice, Czech Republic), C. Uher (Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109)
12:27 Z26.007 Neutron Scattering in the Ferromagnetic Semiconductor Yb_14MnSb_11
S. E. Nagler, M. Yethiraj, H. A. Mook, D. G. Mandrus, B. C. Sales (Condensed Matter Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
12:39 Z26.008 Structural and doping aspects of the spin state transition in FeSb2
Cedomir Petrovic, Tom Vogt, Yongjae Lee (Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973-5000)
13:03 Z26.010 High Field Longitutional Magnetoresistance of Ag_2+\deltaSe
Jingshi Hu, T.F. Rosenbaum (The James Franck Institute, University of Chicago), J.B. Betts, F.F Balakirev (Pulsed Magnetic Field Facility, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos)
13:15 Z26.011 Anisotropic Magnetotransport in GdBaCo_2O_5.5
C.S. Alexander, Z.X. Zhou, X.H. Zhang, J.E. Crow (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory*, Tallahassee, FL 32310), S.N. Barilo (Institute of Solid State and Semiconductor Physics, Minsk, Belarus)
13:27 Z26.012 Half metallic ferromagnetism and stability of Mn pnictides in strained zinc blende structures
Jin-Cheng Zheng, James Davenport (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
13:39 Z26.013 Transport properties of the half-Heusler alloy NiMnSb
John Androulakis (IESL-FORTH,P.O. Box 1527, Vasilika Vouton, 711 10 Heraklion, Crete, Greece), Spiros Gardelis, John Giapintzakis
Z26.014 Half-metallic ferromagnets compatible with semiconductors
Bang-Gui Liu (Institute of Physics amp; Center of Condensed Matter Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, P.R. China)

Session Z29. DPOLY: Polymer Thin Films and Interfaces.

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

11:15 Z29.001 Nanoparticles at Fluid-Fluid Interfaces: Assembly, Scattering and Ultrathin Membranes
Yao Lin, Alexander Böker, Habib Skaff, Todd Emrick (Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst), A. D. Dinsmore (Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Thomas P. Russell (Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
11:27 Z29.002 Baroplastic core-shell nanoparticles
Sang Woog Ryu, Juan Gonzalez, Metin Acar, Anne Mayes (MIT, Depart. of Materials Science and Engineering, 77 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02140)
11:39 Z29.003 Long and short range forces at polymer/polymer interface
Clara Carelli (Dept of Physics, Univ of Surrey, Guildford, UK), Michele Sferrazza (Département de Physique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgique), Richard Jones (Dept of Physics, Univ of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK), Ron Young (Dept of Chemistry, Univ of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK)
11:51 Z29.004 Early-Stage Block Copolymer Formation by Reactive Coupling at a Planar Polymer-Polymer Interface
Shane Harton (North Carolina State University), Miriam Rafailovich, Jonathan Sokolov (SUNY Stony Brook), Richard Spontak, Harald Ade (North Carolina State University)
12:03 Z29.005 Size-dependent Assembly and Segregation of Nanoparticles at Liquid-liquid Interfaces
Alexander Böker, Yao Lin, Habib Skaff, Todd Emrick, Thomas P. Russell (Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst), David Cookson (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization, PMB 1, Menai 2234, Australia), A. D. Dinsmore (Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Heiko Zettl, Georg Krausch (Lehrstuhl für Physikalische Chemie II, Universität Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany)
12:15 Z29.006 direct imaging of nanoparticle embedding to probe polymer surface viscoelasticity
Jonathan H. Teichroeb, James A. Forrest (Department of Physics and Guelph-Waterloo Physics Institute, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1)
Z29.007 Effect of sample preparation on the glass transition temperature of thin polymer films
Zahra Fakhraai, James A. Forrest (Department of Physics and Guelph-Waterloo Physics Institute, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, On, Canada), James S. Sharp (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, U.K.)
Z29.009 Nano-Calorimetric Studies of Ultrathin Film Polymers
Azar Alizadeh, Surya Ganti, Kenneth Conway, Kasiraman Krishnan, Anis Zribi, Loucas Tsakalakos (General Electric, Global Research Center, Niskayuna, NY)
Z29.010 Block Copolymers at Sheared Blend Interfaces: DSCF-MD Comparison
Yitzhak Shnidman (Affiliation), Maja Mihajlovic (Polytechnic university, Brooklyn, NY), Tak Shing Lo (City College of New York, City University of New York), Dilip Gersappe, Wentao Li (State University of New York at Stony Brook)
Z29.011 Elasticity of diblock copolymer melts and applications to thin films
Gerald Pereira (Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney 2052)
Z29.012 High-throughput mapping of polymer mixture phase-behavior
Joao T. Cabral, Alexander Norman, Alamgir Karim, Eric J. Amis (Polymers Division, NIST, Gaithersburg MD)

Session Z30. DPOLY: Transport and Optical Properties of Organic Materials.

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

11:15 Z30.001 Resonance Raman Measurements from 20 K to 50 K of Alpha-Hexathiophene Single Crystals
J.R. Weinberg-Wolf, L.E. McNeil (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill NC 27599)
11:27 Z30.002 Direct measurements of triplet quantum yield of poly(3-dodecylthiophene) in solution
Yi-Fang Huang, Hsin-Liang Chen, Wunshain Fann (Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan)
11:39 Z30.003 Ultrafast dynamics in pentacene and tetracene probed using optical pump-probe spectroscopy
Verner Thorsmølle, Richard Averitt, Jure Demsar (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Xiaoliu Chi (Columbia University), Sergie Tretiak (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Arthur Ramirez (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies), Antoinette Taylor (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
11:51 Z30.004 In-situ studies of iodine intercalation in pentacene thin films and single crystals
S. Haas, ** Bergemann^*, B. Batlogg^* (^*ETH Zurich, Switzerland / ^**Cavendish Lab., Univ. Cambridge, UK)
12:03 Z30.005 Interface structure of photonic multilayers prepared by PECVD
Mark Foster, Hyeonjae Kim (Maurice Morton Institute of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325), Hao Jiang (Anteon Co., Dayton, OH 45431), Scott Tullis, Timothy Bunning (Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate/MLP, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH 54533), Charles Majkrzak (NIST Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg, MD 20899)
12:15 Z30.006 Ionic charge conduction in molecular organic diodes
Zaccheus Buffett, Ross Datars (McMaster University)
12:27 Z30.007 Comb-like structured multiple heterojunctions organic devices
Yu Hui, Ishiang Shih (Department of Electrical amp; Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
12:39 Z30.008 Modulation in Optical Response in Conducting Polymer-Based Field Effect Devices
Youngmin Kim, Fang-Chi Hsu, Nan-Rong Chiou, June Hyoung Park, Oliver Waldmann, Vladimir Prigodin, Arthur J. Epstein (The Ohio State University)
12:51 Z30.009 The Effects of Polydispersity and Energetic Disorder on Carrier Injection and Transport
S.J. Konezny (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627), S. Vaidyanathan, O.Y. Kas, M.E. Galvin (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716), D.L. Smith (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545), L.J. Rothberg (Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627)
13:03 Z30.010 Photoluminescence from PTCDA Films and PTCDA/Alq3 Multilayers
Ajith De Silva, H. P. Wagner (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH 45221-0011), T. U. Kampen (Institut fuer Physik, Technische Universitaet Chemnitz, D-09197 Chemnitz, Germany)
13:15 Z30.011 Confined and delocalized polarons in pi-conjugated oligomers and polymers
Markus Wohlgenannt (University of Iowa), Xiaomei Jiang, Z. Valy Vardeny (University of Utah)
13:27 Z30.012 Photon Echo Studies of MEH-PPV with Broken Conjugation
Tieneke E. Dykstra, Xiujuan Yang, Gregory D. Scholes (Lash Miller Chemical Laboratories, University of Toronto)
13:39 Z30.013 Photo-optic HPDLCs incorporating azobenzene derived liquid crystals
Augustine Urbas, Jay Klosterman, Vincent Tondiglia, Lalgudi Natarajan, Richard Sutherland, Timothy Bunning (Air Force Research Laboratory/MLPJ), Tomiki Ikeda (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Session Z34. DCP: Focus Session: Multiscale Phenomena for Fluids and Solids IV.

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

11:15 Z34.001 Multiscale modeling of the flow of DNA through micro- and nanofluidic devices
Michael Graham (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
11:51 Z34.002 ``On the fly'' localization of electronic orbitals in Car-Parrinello molecular dynamics: Toward a linear scaling ab initio molecular dynamics algorithm
Mark Tuckerman (Department of Chemistry and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University)
12:03 Z34.003 Hierarchical Modeling of Transport Through Nanoporous Media
Norman Wagner (University of Delaware, Department of Chemical Engineering, Newark, DE 19716)
12:39 Z34.004 Break
12:51 Z34.005 Coupling multiscale phenomena in systems with mobile chemical species through first principles coarse graining
Anton Van der Ven (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT, Cambridge MA)
13:27 Z34.006 Computational Modeling of the TiC_1-xN_x System
Brian Kolb, Gus Hart (Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-6010)
13:39 Z34.007 Ordering Tendencies in NbC_1-xN_x
Brett Irwin, Gus L. W. Hart (Northern Arizona University)

Session Z35. DCP: Surfaces and Interfaces.

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

11:15 Z35.001 Red-Shifting Methane Photochemistry on Pt(111) into the Visible by Cs Promotion
Kristy M. DeWitt, Merrick J. DeWitt, A. Ian Harrison (CAMOS, Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia), Samantha Horvath (University of Tampa), Joshua Judge (Centre College)
11:27 Z35.002 Methane Photochemical Dynamics on Pt(111)
Indraneel Samanta, Rob Zehr, Ian Harrison (University of Virginia)
11:39 Z35.003 Corrosion of an alloy studied in situ with synchrotron x-ray diffraction
Frank Renner, Tien-Lin Lee (ESRF), Dieter M. Kolb (University Ulm), Andreas Stierle, Helmut Dosch (MPI-MF), Jorg Zegenhagen (ESRF)
11:51 Z35.004 Fast Reaction Chemistry of Nano-Aluminum Reactive Composites Using Time-Resolved Spectroscopy
Laura Parker, Victor Bellitto (Affiliation), Stanley Caulder (Research and Technology Department, Naval Surface Warfare Center - Indian Head Division, Indian Head, MD 20640)
12:03 Z35.005 Neutron and Thermodynamic investigations of Ethane on MgO Surfaces
Richard Cook, Peter Yaron (University of Tennessee Chemistry Dept), Tom Arnold (ORNL Chemical Sciences Div), Luc Daemen (LANL, LANSCE div), J.Z. Larese (University of Tennessee Chemistry Dept /ORNL Chemical Sciences Div), ORNL Chemical Sciences Collaboration, University of Tennessee Chemistry Dept Collaboration, LANL Collaboration
12:15 Z35.006 Room-temperature associative adsorption and thermal dissociative desorption of trifluorobenzene on Si(100)2x1
Xiaojing Zhou, K. T. Leung (University of Waterloo)
12:27 Z35.007 Electronic Band Structure of Na Adsorbed MoS2(0002) Surface
K.T. Park, T.S. Ellis, A. Jayasinghe (Baylor University), S. Hulbert (National Synchrotron Light Source), M.D. Ulrich (Army Research Office), J. Rowe (North Carolina State University and Army Research Office)
12:39 Z35.008 Determination of the structures of ordered and disordered adsorbates on a surface from substrate LEED spots
H. C. Poon, T. Zheng, D. Stacchiola, W. T. Tysoe, D. K. Saldin (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
12:51 Z35.009 Surface and Subsurface Core-Level Shifts in Rh(111), Rh(100), and Ta(110)
G. A. Benesh, M.R. Mastin (Baylor University)
13:03 Z35.010 Surface reaction of dichloroethenes on Ni(110) surface studied by electron energy loss spectroscopy and ab-initio calculation
Shihong Xu, Xiang Yang, K. T. Leung (WATLabs and Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada)
13:15 Z35.011 Low-Energy Electron Induced Damage in Solid Films of Tetrahydrofuran
S.-P. Breton, M. Michaud, L. Sanche (Département de Médecine Nucléaire et Radiobiologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada J1H 5N4), C. Jäggle, P. Swiderek (Institut für Physikalische Chemie II, Universität zu Köln, Luxemburger Str. 116, 50939 Köln, Germany)
13:27 Z35.012 Solubility of Metal Oxides Near the Consolute Point of Isobutyric Acid + Water
James Baird (Department of Chemistry, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL 35899), Eric Cuffle, Yeong Woo Kim (University of Alabama in Huntsville)
13:39 Z35.013 The mechanism of the geminate recombination of the solvated electron-cation pair in isooctane
Tieqiao Zhang, Young Jong Lee, Paul F. Barbara (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, the Unviersity of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712)
13:51 Z35.014 Ab initio Study of Helium Entities (He^+, He^0, (He--H)^+) as Impurities in Solid Hydrogen
R. H. Scheicher, T. P. Das (State University of New York at Albany, Albany NY), K. Ishida, T. Matsuzaki (RIKEN, Wako-shi, Japan), S. N. Nakamura (Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan), N. Kawamura, K. Nagamine (KEK-MSL, Tsukuba, Japan)
14:03 Z35.015 Calculations of Single Particle time correlation functions from Bose-Einstein Centroid Dynamics
Paul Moffatt (Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2J1, Canada), Pierre-Nicholas Roy (Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2G2, Canada)