Program overview

FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 12 NOVEMBER 2004

Session JA. Theoretical Physics II.

Friday afternoon, 16:15, Auditorium, Pollard Technology Conference Center

16:15 JA.001 Quantum gravity and string theory
Benjamin Dayton (Retired)
16:27 JA.002 Influence On The Physical Universe By Wormhole Generated Extra Dimensional Space
A. L. Choudhury (Dept. of Chemistry and Physics,Elizabeth City State University, Elizabeth City, NC.)
16:39 JA.003 The Newtonian Mercury Perihelion, Light Bending and General Relativity
Ronald Kotas (Grand Quantum Research)
16:51 JA.004 Derivation of the cosmological constant from a stochastic model of dark energy
Ervin Goldfain (OptiSolve Consulting)
17:03 JA.005 Charge-Interaction Conservation Laws for Electrodynamic Models
Nathan Folland (Kansas State University)
17:15 JA.006 Comparison of Numerical and Approximate Analytic Solution of a Nonlinear Oscillator Equation
'Kale Oyedeji (Morehouse College), Ronald E. Mickens (Clark Atlanta University)
17:27 JA.007 Polar Faculae Are Faculae Of Old Age, Ascending To Photosphere From Sun's Upper Magnetic Toroid Levels, And Then Descending Near Equator by 105 Km, In Their Circulatory Motion, To Depths Slightly Below That of Lower Magnetic Toroid, And Then Ascending Again To Photosphere At Lat. 0c ¡Ã50¢ª, N. And S.KEITH L. MCDONALD, P. O. Box 2433, Salt Lake City, UT
K.L. McDonald

Session JB. Nuclear Instrumentation.

Friday afternoon, 16:15, Dogwood, Pollard Technology Conference Center

16:15 JB.001 The Fundamental Neutron Physics Beamline at the Spallation Neutron Source
Vince Cianciolo, Geoffrey Greene, Richard Allen, Robert Huerto (Oak Ridge National Lab), William Michael Snow (Indiana University), Paul Huffman, Chris Gould (North Carolina State University), David Bowman, Martin Cooper (Los Alamos National Lab), John Doyle (Harvard University)
16:27 JB.002 Design of a fundamental nuclear physics beamline at the High Flux Isotope Reactor
Rob Mahurin (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
16:39 JB.003 Using modern visualization techniques to improve our understanding of small-angle scattering experiments
Yaspal Badyal, Valmor deAlmeida (ORNL)
16:51 JB.004 Kirkpatrick-Baez Mirrors For Efficient Focusing of Neutrons and X-rays
Gene Ice, Bennett Larson, Judy Pang, Jonathan Tischler, Wenjun Liu (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Oak Ridge National Laboratory
17:03 JB.005 Development of a Neutron Stimulated Emission Computed Tomography System
A.S. Crowell, C.R. Howell, M.R. Kiser, R.A. Macri, R.S. Pedroni, S. Tajima (Duke University Department of Physics and TUNL), C.E. Floyd, A. Kapadia (Duke University Department of Biomedical Engineering)
17:15 JB.006 Radon Detection and Counting
David Peterson (Francis Marion University, Florence, SC 29501)

Session JC. Biophysics Focus Session.

Friday afternoon, 16:15, Iris, Pollard Technology Conference Center

16:15 JC.001 Fluctuation/Dissipation Processes Drive the Internal Motions of the DNA Helix
Chia Shih (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996)
16:51 JC.002 Microscopic imaging of DNA condensation in the presence of charged nanospheres
Rajagopal Krishnan, Tejdev Sandhu, Thomas Nordlund (Dept. of Physics, University of Alabama at Birmingham)
17:03 JC.003 Detection of a thin depletion region of water on an extended hydrophobic surface using x-ray reflectivity
Andrew Richter, Jason Van de Walker (University of Memphis)
17:15 JC.004 Single-Molecule Detection in Micron-Sized Capillaries
David A. Ball, GuoQing Shen, Lloyd M. Davis (Center for Laser Applications, University of Tennessee Space Institute)