Program overview

FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 16 APRIL 2004

14:00 A1.001 X-ray Astronomy 2004: Highlights from Chandra and Roadmap for the Future

Harvey Tananbaum (Chandra X-ray Center)

15:30 A2.001 Where's the Dark Matter? Current Problems in Halo Structure

Chris Kochanek (Ohio State University)

A3.001 Search for Nebular Emission in Distant cD Galaxies

Rocco Samuele, Brian R. McNamara (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University), C.R. Mullis (European Southern Observatory), 160 Square Degree ROSAT Survey Collaboration

A3.002 Breathing-mode resonance of a complex plasma disk

C. R. Buckey, D. J. Cox, R. J. Merrill, T. E. Sheridan (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio Northern University)

A3.003 Mass-Luminosity Relationship of Galaxy Clusters

Rebecca Stanek, August Evrard (University of Michigan)

A3.004 Time dependent radiation signatures of microquasar jets

Swati Gupta, Markus Boettcher (Ohio University)

A3.005 Modeling of a High/Soft State Flare in Cygnus X-1

Justin Finke (Affiliation), Markus Boettcher (Ohio University)

A3.006 Dynamical model for breathing oscillation of a complex plasma disk

T.E. Sheridan (Department of Physics, Ohio Northern University)

A3.007 Ultra High-Energy Cosmic Rays from Quasar Remnants

Timothy Hamilton (Shawnee State University), Elihu Boldt (NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center), Michael Loewenstein (University of Maryland; NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)

A3.008 Asymmetric Drift in the gas kinematics of NGC 4697

Jason Pinkney (Ohio Northern University), Nuker Collaboration

A3.009 Stagnation Flow in Solar Helmet Streamers

Steven Nerney (Ohio University-Lancaster), S. Suess (NASA)

09:51 A3.010 This abstract is not available.

09:51 A3.011 This abstract is not available.

09:51 A3.012 This abstract is not available.

A3.013 Statistical Mechanics of Semiflexible Polymers from a new Generating Function

Marcelo Marucho, Gustavo A. Carri (Department of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325- 3909)

A3.014 Modifications and lithography on iridovirus surface using amplitude modulated nanolithography

Sergei Lyuksyutov, Pavel Paramonov, Olga Mayevska (Department of Physics, The University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325), Kazuo Umemura (Department of Environmental Energy Engineering, Musashi Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan), Richard Vaia, Shane Juhl, Lynn Waterhouse (Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433)

A3.015 Development of High-Pressure Structural and Cellular Biophysics at Miami University

Paul Urayama (Miami University, Department of Physics)

A3.016 Properties of Biological Media Determined from Polarization Properties of Backscattered Light

Landon Locke (Wittenberg University)

A3.017 Optical transport of chlorella microorganisms using photogalvanic response of photorefractive mirror

Sergei Lyuksyutov, Michael Reagan (Department of Physics, The University of Akron, Akron OH 44325), Nickolai Kukhtarev, Tatiana Kukhtarev, M Bayssie (Department of Physics, Alabama Aamp;M University, Huntsville AL 35762), Preben Buchhave (Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby 2800 Denmark)

A3.018 Design and Construction of a UHV-LT-STM System for Single Atom Manipulation on MBE Grown Surfaces.

Kendal Clark, Danda Acharya, Thy Vo, Joel Vaughn, Saw-Wai Hla (Condensed Matter and Surface Science Program, Physics amp; Astronomy Department, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701)

A3.019 Studies of collinear optical amplification in a dye gain medium

Vanessa Williamson, Perry Yaney (University of Dayton), William McCroskey (Fused Multimodality Imaging, Ltd, Solon, OH), Joseph Haus (University of Dayton)

A3.020 A Portable UHV Chamber: Design and Construction

Joel Vaughn, Thy Vo, Saw-Wai Hla (Condensed Matter and Surface Program, Physics amp; Astronomy Department, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701)

A3.021 Tunneling Spectroscopy of Self Assembled Monolayers of Adamantane Compounds on Cadmium Sulfide

Robert Mallik, Ivan Dolog (Department of Physics, The University of Akron), Jun Hu (Department of Chemistry, The University of Akron)

A3.022 Electron wave interferometry through an asymmetric Aharonov-Bohm ring

Eric Hedin, Ron Cosby (Center for Computational Nanoscience, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306), Arkady Satanin (Center for Computational Nanoscience, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306; Institute for Physics of Microstructures, RAS, GSP-105, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russia), Yong Joe (Center for Computational Nanoscience, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306)

A3.023 Synthesis and magnetic properties of iron-iron oxide nanoparticles

Anna Clausen, Yumi Ijiri (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Oberlin College, Oberlin OH, 44074)

09:51 A3.024 This abstract is not available.

09:51 A3.025 This abstract is not available.

A3.026 Two experimental techniques for nano-writing on thin polymer films: A Comparison

Sergei Lyuksyutov, Pavel Paramonov (Departments of Physics and Polymer Engineering, The University of Akron, Akron OH 44325)

A3.027 The Study of Colloidal Crystals by Diffraction Employing Visible Electromagnetic Radiation

Nathan Baxter, Tyler Betts, Courtney Buckey, Tom Manuszak, Robert Merrill (Ohio Northern University)

A3.028 A technique for separation of plastic deformation in polymer materials

Sergei Lyuksyutov (Departments of Physics and Polymer Engineering, The University of Akron, Akron OH 44325), Ruslan Sharipov (Deaprtment of Mathematics, Bashkir State University, Ufa 450074, Russia)

A3.029 Reworking pretests in physics by inquiry classes

Gordon Aubrecht (Ohio State University at Marion)

A3.030 First Publication of 'Critical Mass'

Cameron Reed (Department of Physics, Alma College, Alma MI 48801)

A3.031 RELATIVE REALITY: THE MOVIE

David Onley (Ohio University), Gary Steinberg (Columbia University)

20:30 A4.001 THE FIVE AGES OF THE UNIVERSE

Fred Adams (University of Michigan)