Program overview

SATURDAY AFTERNOON, 22 MAY 2004

13:30 H1.001 Status of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO)

Jared Heise (Los Alamos National Laboratory, SNO Collaboration)

14:06 H1.002 Laser Isotope Enrichment

E.B. Nieschmidt (Idaho State University)

14:42 H1.003 A Search for Correlations Between Four Different Atmospheric Aerosol Measurement Systems Atop Rattlesnake Mountain, Washington

Brian Milbrath (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

14:54 H1.004 The Angular Correlation Effect in Gamma-Ray Coincidence Summing

Werner Hager, Kenneth Krane (Department of Physics, Oregon State University, Corvallis OR 97331 USA)

15:06 H1.005 Asymmetry in neutron and proton densities and its impact on hadron dynamics

Francesca Sammarruca (University of Idaho)

15:18 H1.006 Modelling Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering above 1 GeV

Ruprecht Machleidt (University of Idaho), Oleg Eyser, Wolfgang Scobel (University of Hamburg, Germany)

15:30 H1.007 Configuration-Space Representation of a Chiral Nucleon-Nucleon Potential

Hiro Shimoyama, Ruprecht Machleidt (University of Idaho)

13:30 H2.001 Using research to guide the development of a dynamics curriculum

MacKenzie R. Stetzer (University of Washington)

14:06 H2.002 Helping students to develop a functional understanding of energy conservation

Beth A. Lindsey, Paula R.L. Heron, Peter S. Shaffer, Lillian C. McDermott (University of Washington)

14:18 H2.003 Adapting research-based curricula at Seattle Pacific University: Results on student learning

Eleanor Close, Stamatis Vokos, John Lindberg, Lane Seeley (Seattle Pacific University)

14:30 H2.004 Tensor Troubles

Sandra Wright, Jesse Huso (University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83843)

14:42 H2.005 Changing how students think about rigid body dynamics*

Hunter Close, Paula R.L. Heron, Peter Shaffer, Lillian C McDermott (University of Washington)

13:30 H3.001 Temperature- and Composition-Driven Changes in Sites Occupied by Indium in GdAl_2

Matthew O. Zacate, Gary S. Collins (Washington State University)

14:06 H3.002 First principles calculation of second order and third order elastic constants for single crystals of arbitrary symmetry

Jijun Zhao, Michael Winey, Yogendra Gupta (Institute for Shock Physics, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164)

14:18 H3.003 Determination of Quantum States in Micostructures

Dennis Sullivan (ECE Department, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 84843-1023)

14:30 H3.004 Seebeck Coefficient in the High Temperature Limit

Dara L. Easley, Allen L. Wasserman (Department of Physics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331)

14:42 H3.005 Self-(de)focusing mechanisms in dye-doped polymers

Jeong Joon Park, Mark G. Kuzyk (Department of Physics, Washington State University)

14:54 H3.006 Dark spatial solitons in bulk polymers using photo-induced molecular reorientation

Shaoping Bian, Mark Kuzyk (Washington State Unviersity)

15:06 H3.007 Reversible Photodegradation of 1-amino-2-methylanthraquinone in Poly(methyl methacrylate) Under Second-Harmonic Nd:YAG Laser Excitation

Natnael Embaye, Brent Howel, Mark Kuzyk (Washington State University)

15:18 H3.008 Studies of the mechanism of the formation of self-trapped excitons in quasi-one-dimensional materials

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

15:30 H3.009 Femtosecond far-infrared studies of carrier dynamics in amorphous semiconductors

A. V. V. Nampoothiri, S. L. Dexheimer (Department of Physics, Washington State University)

13:30 H4.001 The Decade of the Neutrino

Joseph Formaggio (University of Washington)

14:06 H4.002 Recent Results from the High Energy Frontier

Aran Garcia-Bellido (University of Washington)

14:42 H4.003 Search For Single Top Production at the Tevatron

Thomas Gadfort (University of Washington)

14:54 H4.004 Search for Lepton Flavor Violation in Tau Decays

Eric Torrence (University of Oregon)

15:06 H4.005 Studies for Reconstructing Rare B Decays with the BaBar Detector

Nasim Boustani (University of British Columbia), The BaBar Collaboration

15:18 H4.006 Silicon Tungsten Electromagnetic Calorimeter for the Next Linear Collider

Eric Fitzgerald (University of Oregon Center for High Energy Physics)

15:30 H4.007 Tensionless strings and free scalar fields

Adam Clark, Andreas Karch, Pavel Kovtun, Daisuke Yamada (University of Washington)

15:42 H4.008 Time to Space Conversion in General Quantum Field Theory of Flavor Oscillations

Yuriy Mishchenko, Chueng-Ryong Ji (Dept. of Physics, North Carolina State University)

15:54 H4.009 Local scaling invariance in high-energy physics and unified field theory

Ervin Goldfain (OptiSolve Consulting)