Program overview

SATURDAY MORNING, 17 APRIL 2004

08:15 B5.001 An Investigation into the Instability of Numerical Integration Techniques

Dane Owen, Paul DeVries (Miami University)

08:27 B5.002 The Sun as a Hot Liquid Plasma: Additional Evidence

Pierre-Marie Robitaille (The Ohio State University)

08:39 B5.003 The X-ray Luminosity Function of Point Sources in Elliptical Galaxies

Steven Diehl, Thomas Statler (Ohio University)

09:51 B5.004 This abstract is not available.

09:03 B5.005 The Survey of Nearby Nuclei with STIS

Joseph Shields (Ohio University), SUNNS Collaboration

09:15 B5.006 Unveiling the power source of the nearby emission-line galaxies

Anca Constantin, Joseph Shields (Ohio University)

08:15 B6.001 Discovery of Blue Luminescence in the Red Rectangle: Possible Fluorescence by Neutral Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Molecules

Uma Vijh, Adolf Witt (Ritter Astrophysical Research Center), Karl Gordon (University of Arizona)

08:27 B6.002 A Discovery of High Galactic Latitude Halo Clouds

Yurii Pidopryhora (Ohio University, NRAO Green Bank), Felix Jay Lockman (NRAO Green Bank), Joseph Shields (Ohio University)

08:39 B6.003 Circular Polarization as a Probe of Extragalactic Radio Jets

Daniel Homan (Denison University)

08:51 B6.004 Heating of the Intracluster Medium by Radio-Induced X-Ray Cavities

D. Rafferty, L. Birzan, B. McNamara (Ohio University), M. W. Wise (MIT/CSR), P. E. J. Nulsen (Harvard CfA/University of Wollongong)

09:03 B6.005 Interactions between Radio Sources and the Intracluster Medium: X-Ray Cavities

L. Birzan-Rafferty, D. A. Rafferty, B. R. McNamara (Ohio University), M. W. Wise (MIT/CSR), P. E. J. Nulsen (Harvard CfA)

09:15 B6.006 X-ray Observations of the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium

Smita Mathur (The Ohio State University)

09:27 B6.007 The Inhomogeneous Centers of Cooling Flows in Galaxy Clusters

Mangala Sharma (Ohio University)

08:15 B7.001 Fast Dynamics of Binary Glass Formers and its Role in the Cryo-preservation of Proteins. An Atomistic Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study.

Taner E. Dirama, Gustavo A. Carri (Department of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-3909)

08:27 B7.002 Bretherton Flow in a Finite Cavity

Kevin Cissner, Roger Becker (Debye Research Corporation), Robert Schueler (Cornerstone Research Group)

08:39 B7.003 Conformation of a flexible chain in solvent: Some exact results for hard sphere systems

Mark Taylor (Dept. of Physics, Hiram College)

08:51 B7.004 A Minimal Model for the Helix-Coil Transition of Wormlike Polymers. Insights from Monte Carlo Simulations

Vikas Varshney, Taner E. Dirama, Gustavo A. Carri (Department of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-3909)

09:03 B7.005 Pattering of nanostructures with high aspect ratio in polymer materials

Sergei Lyuksyutov, Pavel Paramonov, Erol Sancaktar (Departments of Physics and Polymer Engineering, The University of Akron, Akron OH 44325), Richard Vaia, Shane Juhl (Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH 45433)

09:15 B7.006 NMR Relaxation and Diffusion Study of Ultrasound Recycling of Polyurethanes

E. von Meerwall, S. Ghose, A. I. Isayev (Univ. Akron)

09:27 B7.007 Double Network Formation During Aging of a Natural Rubber Vulcanizate

Crittenden J. Ohlemacher, Gary R. Hamed (Dept. of Polymer Science, The University of Akron)

09:39 B7.008 Quantum calculation of the QCA response function for non-zero temperatures

Ioan Sturzu, Mahfuza Khatun (Center for Computational Nanoscience, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306), D.P. Tougaw Collaboration

09:51 B7.009 This abstract is not available.

08:15 B8.001 Excitons and spin-dependent optical effects in semiconductor quantum dots

Alexander Govorov (Ohio University, Athens), Richard Warburton (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK), Khaled Karrai (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet, Munich, Germany)

08:27 B8.002 Dynamics of Energy Transfer in Quantum Dot Arrays

A. N. Al-Ahmadi, S. E. Ulloa (OU)

08:39 B8.003 Field enhanced thermionic electron emission from a new carbon nanotubes based thermionic cathode

Feng Jin (Ball State University)

08:51 B8.004 Low Temperature STM Manipulation and Spectroscopy of Chlorophyll-a Single Molecules from Spinach

Jessica J. Benson, Violeta Iancu, Aparna Deshpande, Saw-Wai Hla (Quantitative Bilogy Institute, Physics amp; Astronomy Department, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701.)

09:03 B8.005 LT-STM characterization of a Co(II)-porphyrin molecule

Violeta Iancu, Aparna Deshpande, Saw-Wai Hla (Condensed Matter and Surface Science Program at Ohio University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University, Athens, OH-45701, USA)

09:15 B8.006 Nonlinear Analysis of Surface EMG Time Series

Ulrich Zurcher (Physics, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH 44115), Miron Kaufman (Physics Dept, Cleveland State University, Cleveland OH 44115), Paul Sung (Dept. Health Sciences, Cleveland State University, Cleveland OH 44115)

09:27 B8.007 PhysTEC – An Induction/Mentoring Model for Pre- and In-Service Physics and Science Teachers

Michael Wolter, David Grosnick, James Watson, David Ober (Ball State Univ., Dept. of Physics and Astronomy), Walter Smith (Ball State Univ., Dept. of Biology)

08:15 B9.001 Energy Spectra and Charge Ratios of Atmospheric Muons

S.A. Minnick (Kent State University Tuscarawas Campus, New Philadelphia, OH 44663), A.S. Beach, J.J Beatty (The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802), A. Bhattacharyya, C.R. Bower (Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405), S. Coutu (The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802), M.A. Duvernois (The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455), A.W. Labrador (The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637), S.P. McKee (The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109), D. Muller (The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637), J.A. Musser (Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405), S.L. Nutter (Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY 41099), M. Schubnell (The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109), S.P. Swordy (The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637), G. Tarle, A.D. Tomasch (The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109), HEAT-pbar Collaboration

08:27 B9.002 The antimatter abundance ratios in the cosmic rays from 5 to 50 GeV

Scott Nutter (Northern Kentucky University), HEAT Collaboration

08:39 B9.003 Branching ratio measurements of the 7.12-MeV state in ^16O

Catalin Matei, Carl Brune (Ohio University)

08:51 B9.004 Astrophysically important ^26Si states studied with the ^24Mg(^3He,n) reaction and ^25Al(p,\gamma)^26Si reaction rate in explosive hydrogen burning environments

Y. Parpottas, S. M. Grimes, S. Al-Quraishi, C. R. Brune, J. E. O'Donnell, T. N. Massey, J. Oldendick, A. Salas, R. Wheeler, Ohio University / OUAL Collaboration

09:03 B9.005 The Effects of Absorbers on the Perturbed Angular Correlation Spectrum

Elijah Ayieta, Herbert Jaeger (Miami University)

09:15 B9.006 Testing Relativity with Electrodynamics

Quentin Bailey, Alan Kostelecky (Indiana University)

09:27 B9.007 Sufficient Data Exists to Provide a Unified Physics in 2004

Eugene Pamfiloff (Optigon Research and Development, Division of Vivitar Corp.)

10:30 B10.001 Strange Case of the Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays

Stephane Coutu (Pennsylvania State University)

11:45 B11.001 Cosmic Beacons: The Physics of Blazars

Markus Boettcher (Ohio University, Department of Physics and Astronomy)

14:00 B12.001 Transport coefficients and spectral functions from the lattice

Gert Aarts (Ohio State University)

14:12 B12.002 Shear viscosity of hot scalar fields with O(N) symmetry

Jose M Martinez Resco (Ohio State University)

14:24 B12.003 Production of the X(3870) in B Meson Decay by the Coalescence of Charm Mesons

Masaoki Kusunoki (Ohio State University)

14:36 B12.004 Dynamical Model for Pion Photo- and Electro-production on the Nucleon

George L. Caia, Louis Wright (Ohio University), Vladimir Pascalutsa (Jefferson Lab)

14:48 B12.005 Results from a Dynamical Model of Pion Photo- and Electro-production on the Nucleon

L. E. Wright, G.L. Caia (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University), V. Pascalutsa (Jefferson Lab)

15:00 B12.006 Extracting the Neutron Magnetic Form Factor - Theoretical Aspects

Sabine Jeschonnek (The Ohio State University)

15:12 B12.007 Neutron Polarizabilities? A Calculation of Compton Scattering on Deuteron in Baryon Chiral Perturbation Theory

Deepshikha Choudhury, Daniel Phillips (Ohio University)

15:24 B12.008 The Renormalization Group Approach to the Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction

S. Ramanan, R.J. Furnstahl, A. Schwenk (The Ohio State University)

15:36 B12.009 A complex energy method for two-body scattering

Ting Lin, Charlotte Elster (Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University)

15:48 B12.010 Three-Body Scattering Without Partial Waves

Hang Liu (Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics, and Department of Physics, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701), Charlotte Elster (Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics, and Department of Physics, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701), Walter Gloeckle (Institute for Theoretical Physics II, Ruhr-University Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany)

16:00 B12.011 Dissipation and momentum anisotropy in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC

Denes Molnar (The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH), Huovinen Pasi (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland)

16:12 B12.012 Computation of the HBT spatial correlation tensor using VEGAS

Anthony Kuhlman (The Ohio State University)

16:24 B12.013 The Kinetic Energy Density in Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory

Anirban Bhattacharyya, R. J. Furnstahl (Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210)