FRIDAY MORNING, 12 NOVEMBER 2004

Session FA. Nanoscience Invited Session.

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

08:30 FA.001 Nanobiology: The Interplay Between Biology and Nanoscience.: Ronald Fox (School of Physics, Georgia Tech)
09:06 FA.002 Motion of individual ribosomes along mRNA: Koen Visscher (University of Arizona, Dept. of Physics)
09:42 FA.003 Charge Transfer Nanocomposites: Advances in Organic Devices: David Carroll (Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem NC 27109)

Session FB. Nuclear Physics Invited Session.

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

08:30 FB.001 Current Status of Pentaquark States: Elton Smith (Jefferson Lab)
09:06 FB.002 The First Three Years at RHIC and the Quest for Quark-Gluon Plasma: an Experimentalist's View: Julia Velkovska (Vanderbilt University)
09:42 FB.003 Exploring the Proton Spin at RHIC: Werner Vogelsang (RIKEN BNL Research Center and BNL Nuclear Theory, Brookhaven Nat. Laboratory)

Session FC. Solid-State Physics.

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

08:30 FC.001 Density functional theory study of GaSb(100) surface reconstruction: Jeffery Houze, Sungho Kim, Seong-Gon Kim (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762)
08:42 FC.002 First principles calculations of lattice thermal conductivity in Si and MgO: Jianjun Dong, Jeffrey Nickerson, Bin Xu (Department of Physics, Auburn University), Chris Brown (Department of Chemistry and biochemistry, Auburn University)
08:54 FC.003 Ab-initio Calculations for MEAM Potential of Al, Si, Mg, H, O and Cu Alloys: Bohumir Jelinek, Seong-Gon Kim, Mark F. Horstemeyer (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mississippi State University), M. I. Baskes (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
09:06 FC.004 Optical characterization of rubrene single crystals: J.R. Weinberg-Wolf, L.E. McNeil (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Christian Kloc (Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ 07974)
09:18 FC.005 Properties of interfaces between metals and binary oxides.: Matias Nunez (NC State University), Marco Nardelli (NC State University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
09:30 FC.006 Dielectric and Ferroelectric Negative Refractive Heterostructure Twin Bi-Crystal with Field Induced Asymmetry for Guided Microwaves: Clifford Krowne (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC)
09:42 FC.007 Phonon Instabilities in Ca1.4Sr0.6RuO4: Rob G. Moore (Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996), M. Lumsden, R. Jin (Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN 37831), D. Mandrus, E.W. Plummer (Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 and Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996)
09:54 FC.008 Crystal Growth and Physical Properties of LiVO_2: Wei Tian (UT), R. Jin, B.C. Sales (ORNL), S.E. Nagler, T. Egami, D.G. Mandrus (ORNL/UT)
10:06 FC.009 Defects studies in wide band gap semiconductors using optical admittance spectroscopy: Wonwoo Lee, Mary E. Zvanut (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
10:18 FC.010 Optimization of Ba_8Ga_16Ge_30 and Ba_8Ga_16Si_8Ge_22 Type I Semiconducting Clathrates: J. Martin, M. Beekman, S.J. Erickson, H.F. Rubin, G.S. Nolas (University of South Florida)
10:30 FC.011 Synthesis and Characterization of Type II Clathrates: H. F. Rubin, M. Beekman, J. Martin, S. J. Erickson, G.S. Nolas (University of South Florida)