THURSDAY MORNING, 11 NOVEMBER 2004

Session BA. Spallation Neutron Source Invited Session.

Thursday morning, 08:30, Auditorium, Pollard Technology Conference Center

08:30 BA.001 Looking at Nature with New Eyes: The Spallation Neutron Source: Thomas Mason (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
09:06 BA.002 Neutron Beam Instrumentation at the Spallation Neutron Source: R. K. Crawford (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
09:42 BA.003 Science Opportunities Using Neutrons at the Spallation Neutron Source: Kenneth Herwig (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Session BB. Computational Science.

Thursday morning, 08:30, Dogwood, Pollard Technology Conference Center

08:30 BB.001 The Impact of Manual Segmentation of CT Images on Monte Carlo Based Skeletal Dosimetry: Steve Frederick, Derek Jokisch (Francis Marion University), Wesley Bolch, Amish Shah, Jim Brindle (University of Florida), Phillip Patton, J.S. Wyler (University of Nevada-Las Vegas)
08:42 BB.002 Simulation of Ametropic Human Eyes: Bo Tan, Ying-Ling Chen, James W.L. Lewis (Center for Laser Applications, University of Tennessee Space Institute)
08:54 BB.003 Simulating Photo-Refraction Images of Keratoconus and Near-Sightedness Eyes: Kevin Baker, James W. L. Lewis, Ying-Ling Chen (Center for Laser Application, University of Tennessee Space Institute)
09:06 BB.004 Computation of Reflection/Refraction from the Human Head in High-field MRI: Edward J. Butterworth (Vanderbilt University)
09:18 BB.005 Parallel Monte Carlo Electron and Photon Transport Simulation Code (PMCEPT code): Oyeon Kum (Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634)
09:30 BB.006 Cardiopulmonary Circuit Models for Predicting Injury to the Heart: Richard Ward (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN), Sarah Wing (Davidson College, Davidson, NC), James Bassingthwaighte (University of Washington, Seattle, WA), Maxwell Neal (University of Washington), Virtual Soldier Project Collaboration
09:42 BB.007 A Comparison of Transfer Hamiltonian vs. DFT Methods in QM/CM Multi-Scale Modeling: Aditi Mallik, Keith Runge, Hai-Ping Cheng, James Dufty (Dept. of Physics, University of Florida)
09:54 BB.008 On the Efficient Treatment of Data Covariance Matrices: Nancy Larson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
10:06 BB.009 A Grid Cataloging System: Bockjoo Kim, Craig Prescott, Jorge Rodrigue, Paul Avery (University of Florida), Grid2003 Collaboration

Session BC. Polymer Science.

Thursday morning, 08:30, Iris, Pollard Technology Conference Center

08:30 BC.001 Parallel Replica Dynamics with a Heterogeneous Distribution of Barriers: Applications to Hexadecane Pyrolysis and Polymerization of Ethylene and Styrene Monomers.: Oyeon Kum, Brad Dickson, Steven Stuart (Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634), Blas Uberuaga, Arthur Voter (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545)
08:42 BC.002 Structural Characterization of Polypropylene (PP) Mesomorphic Phases: Hristo Hristov, Katrina Werpetinski, Denise Taylor (Kimberly Clark Corp.)
08:54 BC.003 Polymer Induced Interaction between Solid Plates: Wenhua Jiang, Yongmei Wang (Department of Chemistry, The University of Memphis)
09:06 BC.004 Deposition control of polymers with a novel near-field proximal probe microscope: Michael Taylor, Hans Hallen (North Carolina State University)
09:18 BC.005 The effects of ionic species and molecular weight on the elctrostatic and hydrodynamic properties of a linear polyelectrolyte: Gina Sorci (Millsaps College, physics department)
09:30 BC.006 Detection of Thermoluminescence in Post-Gamma Shelf-Aged Polyethylene: Jonathan Gray, M. Shah Jahan (University of Memphis)
09:42 BC.007 An Ab Initio Study of Solid Nitromethane: Mankang Mai, Jeff Houze, Amber Benson, Sungho Kim, Seong-Gon Kim (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Mississippi State University)
09:54 BC.008 Chiral Molecular Interactions in al\-pha-Me\-thyl\-ben\-zyl\-amine: R. Compton (University of Tennessee), R. Pagni, A. Fischer

Session BD. Theoretical Physics I.

Thursday morning, 08:30, Mockingbird, Pollard Technology Conference Center

08:30 BD.001 On the Unitarity of the Bogoliubov Transformation in the HFB calculations: Jacek Dobaczewski (University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland; University of Tennesee, Knoxville, TN, USA; Joint Institute fo Heavy Ion Research, Oak Ridge, TN, USA; Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA), Piotr Borycki (University of Tennesee, Knoxville, TN, USA; Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland), Witold Nazarewicz (University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland; University of Tennesee, Knoxville, TN, USA; Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA), Mario Stoitsov (University of Tennesee, Knoxville, TN, USA; Joint Institute fo Heavy Ion Research, Oak Ridge, TN, USA; ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN, USA; Institute of Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Sofia, Bulgaria)
08:42 BD.002 Wave function factorization in large scale nuclear structure calculations: Thomas Papenbrock, Andrius Juodagalvis (University of Tennessee at Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory), David Dean (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
08:54 BD.003 A Semi-classical Model for Decay of the Neutron: Eugene Chaffin, Drew Rebar, Stephen Moody (Bob Jones Uinversity)
09:06 BD.004 A Wigner Function Formalism for a Degenerate Parametric Oscillator with Injected Squeezed Vacuum: Daniel Erenso (Department of Physics & Astronomy, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37132)
09:18 BD.005 Probabilities as Measures of Information: Francis Perey
09:30 BD.006 An Exact Special Solution to the Delayed Decay Equation: Ronald E. Mickens (Clark Atlanta University)
09:42 BD.007 Resolving the Feynman Disk Paradox without Field Theory: James Espinosa (State University of West Georgia), Clifton Brunson (West Texas A&M University)
09:54 BD.008 Zeros of Mittag-Leffler Functions: Raymond Puzio, John Hanneken, Narahari Achar (University of Memphis)