Program overview

FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 21 MAY 2004

13:30 B1.001 Recent Results from the LIGO Experiment

Isabel Leonor (University of Oregon), LIGO Scientific Collaboration

14:06 B1.002 Does Galactic Dark Matter Obey the Equivalence Principle?

Stephan Schlamminger (University of Washington)

14:42 B1.003 Estimating the parameters of inspiraling compact binaries with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna

Sukanta Bose, Aaron Rogan (Washington State University, Pullman, USA)

14:54 B1.004 Hierarchical Search Strategy for Detecting Gravitational waves from Inspiraling Compact Binaries with Multiple Interferometers

Shawn Seader (Washington State University), Sukanta Bose (Washinton State University)

15:06 B1.005 Energy Emission by Quantum Systems Due to Effects of the Acceleration Universe

V. G. Kriss (Lewis-Clark State College), D. P. Sheehan (University of San Diego)

15:18 B1.006 Deficiencies in Tidal Friction

Jack Hohner (SPS member)

13:30 B2.001 Short-term quantum revivals in chaotic systems

Konstantin Kouptsov, Steven Tomsovic (Washington State University)

14:06 B2.002 Fractal Dimension as a Measure of the Chaotic Behavior of Taylor-Couette Flow with Hourglass Geometry for both Laminar and Turbulent Regimes

Thomas Olsen, Brett Tomlin (Lewis amp; Clark College, Portland, OR), Richard Wiener (Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR)

14:18 B2.003 A Uniform Approximation for the Fidelity in Chaotic Systems

Nicholas R. Cerruti, Steven Tomsovic (Washington State University)

14:30 B2.004 Ocean Acoustic Wave Propagation and Ray Method Correspondence: Internal Wave Fine Structure

Katherine C Hegewisch, Nicholas R Cerruti, Steven Tomsovic (Washington State University)

14:42 B2.005 Enhanced damping for capillary bridge

Wei Wei, David Thiessen, Philip Marston (Department of Physics, Washington State University)

14:54 B2.006 Coherent Control of THz Coherent Transients of Molecular Rotational Transitions via Shaped THz Pulses

W. C. Hurlbut, N. Amer, Y.-S. Lee (Department of Physics, Oregon State University,Corvallis, OR 97331), J. Förstner, A. Knorr (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Technical University Berlin, Hardenbergstr. 36,10623 Berlin, Germany), S. W. Koch (Department of Physics and Material Sciences Center, Philipps University, Renthof 5,35032 Marburg, Germany), J.W. Nibler (Department of Chemistry, Oregon State University,Corvallis, OR 97331), Femtosecond Spectroscopy in Semiconductors Team

15:30 B2.007 Path Integral Monte Carlo Studies of molecular parahydrogen clusters

Kwangsik Nho, Doerte Blume (Department of Physics, Washington State University)

15:42 B2.008 Quantum Limits to Nonlinear Susceptibilities.

Javier Perez-Moreno, Mark G Kuzyk (Washington State University)

15:54 B2.009 Experimental investigation of the effect of stress on the optical properties of a polymer photonic crystal fiber

Juefei Zhou, Mark Kuzyk (Department of Physics, Washington State University)

16:06 B2.010 Twisted light in nonlinear optical polymeric materials

Weiya Zhang, Shaoping Bian, Mark Kuzyk (Department of Physics, Washington State University)

13:30 B4.001 Instability of hydrogen as a donor in zinc oxide

S.J. Jokela, M.D. McCluskey (Washington State University)

14:06 B4.002 Ultraviolet Raman Scattering in GaN Nanocrystallites

Xiang-Bai Chen, John Morrison, Jennifer Elle, Jesse Huso (Department of Physics, University of Idaho), Dmitriy Myedvyedyev (Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Idaho), Leah Bergman (Department of Physics, University of Idaho), Andrew Purdy (Chemistry Division, US Naval Research Laboratory)

14:18 B4.003 Impact of Ultraviolet-Laser Heating on the Photoluminescence and Raman Scattering of Ensembles of GaN Nanocrystallites

John Morrison, Xiang-Bai Chen, Jennifer Elle, Jesse Huso (Department of Physics, University of Idaho), Dmitriy Myedvyedyev (Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Idaho), Leah Bergman (Department of Physics, University of Idaho), Andrew Purdy (Chemistry Division, US Naval Research Laboratory)

14:30 B4.004 Excitonic Recombination and Raman Scattering in GaN Nanocrystallites of Different Surface Morphologies

Xiang-Bai Chen, Jesse Huso, John Morrison, Jennifer Elle (Department of Physics, University of Idaho), Dmitriy Myedvyedyev (Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Idaho), Leah Bergman (Department of Physics, University of Idaho), Andrew Purdy (Chemistry Division, US Naval Research Laboratory)

14:42 B4.005 Dynamic and static magnetic susceptibility of diluted magnetic semiconductors

Adel Kassaian, Mona Berciu (University of British Columbia)

14:54 B4.006 Synthesis of Iron-Iron Oxide Core Shell Nanoclusters for Environmental Applications

Antony Jiji, You Qiang (Department of Physics,University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83843), Baer R, Wang, David E McCready, Engelhard H (Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory,Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA ,99352)

15:06 B4.007 Synthesis and characterization of silicon carbide nanowires

PRADEEP KUMAR PAGA, ABDULLAH ALKHATEEB, DAQING ZHANG, HAN HONGMEI, MARCUS DRIVER (Affiliation), DAVID MCILROY (UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO)

15:18 B4.008 Metalization of Silicon Carbide nanowires

H. Han, D. Zhang, A.D. LaLonde*, A. Alkhateeb, R. Padmanabhan, M.G. Norton* (School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University*), D.N. McIlroy (Physics Department, University of Idaho), School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering Collaboration

15:30 B4.009 THz wave propagation in 1D and 2D photonic crystals

Naaman Amer (Department of physics,Oregon state University(osu)), W.C.Hurlbut Team, M.E.Godinez Team, Y.-S.Lee Team, S.L.Etringer Collaboration, B.K.Paul Collaboration