Program overview

FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 26 MARCH 2004

A.001 At the Crossroads of Art and Science: A New Course for University Non-Science Majors

S. Leslie Blatt (Department of Physics and Department of Education, Clark University, Worcester, MA 01610)

A.002 The Solar Ejecta from October/November 2003

Charles Smith (Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire), Ruth Skoug (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Thomas Zurbuchen (University of Michigan)

A.003 Heating the Outer Heliosphere by Pickup Ions

Charles Smith, Philip Isenberg (Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire), William Matthaeus (Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware), Sean Ougton (University of Waikato, New Zealand), John Richardson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Gary Zank (University of California at Riverside)

A.004 The evolution of parameters of interplanetary magnetic clouds from \sim0.3 AU to 1 AU as inferred from Helios and Wind measurements

Charles Farrugia (Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, and Department of Physics, Durham, NH 03824, USA), Martin Leitner (Institute for Geophysics, Astrophysics, and Meteorology, University of Graz, Universiteatsplatz 5, A--8010 Graz, Austria), Helfried Biernat (Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Schmiedlstr. 6, A--8042 Graz, Austria.), Daniel Berdichevsky (Laboratory for Extraterrestrial Physics, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA), Rainer Schwenn (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Aeronomie, Max-Planck-Str. 2, 37191 Katlenburg Lindau, Germany), Hiroshi Matsui, Harald Kucharek, Roy Torbert (Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, and Department of Physics)

A.005 On the stand-off distance of the shock driven by interplanetary magnetic clouds: A joint Wind-Helios study

Martin Leitner (Institute of Geophysics, Astrophysics, and Meteorology, University of Graz, Universitaetsplatz 5, A-8010 Graz, Austria), Charles Farrugia (Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, and Department of Physics, Univerisity of New Hampshire, Durham, NH), Helfried Biernat (Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Schmiedlstr. 6, A-8010, Graz, Austria)

A.006 MODELING GEOMAGNETIC STORMS USING NON-DIPOLE MAGNETIC FIELD

Alexander Vapirev, Vania Jordanova (Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire)

A.007 Using Alfven wave frequencies to determine magnetospheric mass density

Richard Denton (Dartmouth College), Kazue Takahashi (Applied Physics Laboratory; Johns Hopkins University)

A.008 Upconversion and Down-Conversion Luminescence in a Novel Er-doped Ceramic Material

Leanne Lortie, Xuesheng Chen (Wheaton College, Norton, MA 02766)

A.009 Upconversion dynamics in Pr3+ doped YAG and YAlO3 laser crystals

Gonul Ozen, Ottavio Forte (Boston College), John Collins, Xuesheng Chen (Wheaton College, MA), Baldassare Di Bartolo (Boston College), Team Boston College Physics Dept.

A.010 Absorption Properties of New Rare-Earth Ion Doped Optical Ceramics

Nicholas Roberts-Warren, Xuesheng Chen (Wheaton College, Norton, MA 02766)

A.011 Photoluminescence Studies on a New Type of Transparent Electro-Optic Ceramic Materials

Charlotte Hau-Yiu Wong, Xuesheng Chen (Wheaton College, Norton, MA 02766)