Program overview

SATURDAY MORNING, 13 NOVEMBER 2004

08:30 MA.001 The Optics Project on the Web (WebTOP)

John Foley (Mississippi State University)

09:00 MA.002 Internet-Based Laboratory Immersion: When The Real Deal is Not Available

Gerald Meisner, Harol Hoffman (UNC Greensboro)

09:30 MA.003 Secondary Implementation of the SCALE-UP Studio Approach at Three Large Universities

Jeffery M. Saul (University of Central Florida Physics Department)

10:00 MA.004 Demonstrations for Advanced Physics Classes

Delma Rae Carpenter, Richard B. Minnix (Virginia Military Institute, emeritus), William McNairy (Duke University Dept. of Physics)

08:30 MB.001 Superluminal light, subluminal information transmission

Daniel Gauthier (Duke University, Department of Physics, Box 90305, Durham, North Carolina 27708 USA)

09:06 MB.002 Interference and dephasing in weak localization of light

Mark D. Havey (Department of Physics, Old Dominion University)

09:42 MB.003 Raman-tweezers spectroscopy of single biological cells and organelles

Yongqing Li (Department of Physics, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858)

08:30 MC.001 Temperature Dependence of the Upper Critical Field in bcc Solid Helium Three

Todd E. Sherline, N.F. Omelaenko, E.D. Adams, Y. Takano (University of Florida)

08:42 MC.002 Thermoelectric properties of Zr, Hf, Pt - doped half-Heusler alloys

Nicoleta Sorloaica (Clemson University), Slade Culp, Joe Poon (University of Virginia), Terry M. Tritt (Clemson University)

08:54 MC.003 Single crystal growth of Na_xCo_2O_4 by novel low temperature flux method

Xiaofeng Tang (Dept. of Mater. Sci. amp; Eng., Clemson University, Clemson, SC), Ed Abbott, J.K. Kolis (Dept. of Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, SC), Terry M. Tritt (Dept. of Physics, Clemson University, Clemson, SC)

09:06 MC.004 Thermal Conductivity and Grain Structure of TiNiSn_1-xSb_x and Zr_1-yTi_yNiSn_0.95Sb_0.05 Half-Heusler Alloys

S. Bhattacharya, M. J. Skove, M. Russell, T. M. Tritt (Clemson University), Y. Xia, V. Ponnambalam, S. J. Poon (University of Virginia), Clemson University Collaboration, University of Virginia Collaboration

09:18 MC.005 Influence of Zr and Hf Substitution on the Thermal Conductivity of the Half-Heusler alloy TiNiSn_0.99Sb_0.01

Slade Culp (Univ. of Virginia), Nicoleta Sorloaica (Clemson Univ.), Joe Poon (Univ. of Virginia), Terry M. Tritt (Clemson Univ.), Univ. of Virginia Collaboration, Clemson Univ. Collaboration

09:30 MC.006 Macroscopic Mean-Field Dynamics using a Modified Wang-Landau Density of States

Terrance Dubreus (Mississippi State University), Greg Brown (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Mark Novotny (Mississippi State University)

09:42 MC.007 Treatment of Small Flow Features as Nonlinear Solitary Waves Using Vorticity Confinement

John Steinhoff (Professor UTSI)

09:54 MC.008 Revisiting Some Analytical Solutions to Incompressible Flow Using Projection by Inspection

Jonas Holdeman (Knoxville, Tennessee)

10:06 MC.009 Boundary Layer Characteristics with Large K-type Roughness

Chelakara S. Subramanian (MAE, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL 32901), Mathilde Lebrun (Graduate Student)

08:30 MD.001 Biomolecular Photovoltaics and Artificial Sight

Elias Greenbaum, Tanya Kuritz (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Ida Lee (University of Tennessee), Elizabeth T. Owens (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Mark Humayun (Doheny Eye Institute/USC Keck School of Medicine)

08:42 MD.002 Interplay of Fluence and Wavelength in Soft Tissue Ablation with an IR-FEL

Shane Hutson, Gilma Adunas, Xiaoyan Ma (Dept. of Physics amp; Astronomy, Vanderbilt University)

08:54 MD.003 Force Regulation in Tissue Dynamics

G. Edwards, X. Peralta, Y. Toyama, Y. Tokutake, S. Hutson (Physics Department), S. Venakides (Mathematics Department), A. Wells, D. Kiehart (Biology Department, Duke University)

09:06 MD.004 Plant Physiology Studies Using Positron Emission Imaging

M.R. Kiser, C.R. Howell, A.S. Crowell (Duke University Physics Department and TUNL), C.D. Reid (Duke University Biology Department)

09:18 MD.005 Electronic-Vibrational Spectroscopy at the Duke FEL Laboratory

Glenn Edwards, Yusuke Toyama, Xomalin Peralta, Shane Hutson (Physics Department), Angela Gilliken, Richard A. Palmer (Chemistry Department, Duke University)

09:30 MD.006 Photophysical and Instrumental Effects in Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy

Guoqing Shen, David A. Ball, Lloyd M. Davis (University of Tennessee Space Institute)