Program overview

FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 8 OCTOBER 2004

14:00 B1.001 Anomalous Momentum Diffusion in the Classical Kicked Rotor

Yindong Zheng (University of North Texas), Donald H. Kobe (University of North Texas, Denton, Texas)

14:12 B1.002 Resolving the Feynman Disk Paradox

James Espinosa (State University of West Georgia), Clifton Brunson (West Texas A&M University)

14:24 B1.003 Exact solution of the Feynman-Kac path integral for a point potential in an infinite square well

James M. Rejcek, Nail G. Fazleev, John L. Fry (Physics Department, University of Texas at Arlington)

14:36 B1.004 Principle of Least Action in Quantum Mechanics

Donald H. Kobe (University of North Texas, Denton, Texas)

14:48 B1.005 Probability, Quantum Mechanics, and Bell's Inequality

James Espinosa (Texas Woman's University)

15:00 B1.006 AN EQUATION OF MOTION COUPLED CLUSTER APPROACH APPLIED TO A SET OF PERTURBED QUANTUM MECHANICAL HARMONIC OSCILLATORS

Alejandro Puga, Magnus Rittby (Department of Physics and Astronomy, TCU)

15:12 B1.007 Improving on the Rotating Wave Approximation (RWA) in a two-level system

Kuo-Cheng Chen, Magnus Rittby (Department of Physics and Astronomy, TCU)

15:24 B1.008 Multifractal Behavior in Hierarchical Structure Formation

Bruce N. Miller (Texas Christian University), Jean-Louis Rouet (Universite d'Orleans)

14:00 B2.001 Gas Absorption Study in Carbon Nanotubes Using a Microwave Resonant Cavity

James A. Roberts, Aman Anand (The University of North Texas), Jai N. Dahiya (Southeast Missouri State University), Wayne Holland, Floyd D. McDaniel (The University of North Texas)

14:12 B2.002 A Vibrating String Model for Microwave Carbon Nanotube Interaction

James A. Roberts, Bill Deering, Arkady Krokhin, Zhao Ye, Floyd McDaniel (The University of North Texas)

14:24 B2.003 A proposal to explain strong optical emission from single walled carbon nanotubes triggered by intense microwave radiation

James A. Roberts, Bill Deering, Arkady Krokhin, Zhao Ye, Floyd McDaniel (The University of North Texas)

14:36 B2.004 Rayleigh-Scattering-Limited Nano-Optical Probing

Thomas Doran, Curtis Bradley (Texas Christian University)

14:48 B2.005 The FDTD method and its far ranging applications

Changhui Li (Affiliation), George W. Kattawar (Department of Physics, Texas Aamp;M University)

15:00 B2.006 A REVIEW OF LIQUID AND CRYSTALLINE PLASMAS

Truell Hyde, Lorin Matthews (Baylor University)

15:12 B2.007 DUST CRYSTAL DYNAMICS IN COMPLEX PLASMAS WITH TWO DIFFERENT SIZE DUST SPECIES

Lorin Matthews, Ke Qiao, Bernie Smith, Truell Hyde (Baylor University)

15:24 B2.008 DUSTY PLASMAS WITH TWO DIFFERENT SIZE DUST SPECIES

Bernie Smith, Truell Hyde, Lorin Matthews (Baylor University), Jerry Reay (TSTC), Mike Cook, Jimmy Schmoke (Baylor University)

15:36 B2.009 THE MODIFICATION OF LOCAL PLASMA SHEATH POTENTIALS BY A DUST SIZE DISTRIBUTION

Meihong Sun, Lorin Matthews, Truell Hyde (Baylor University)

15:48 B2.010 TRANSITIONS WITHIN A VERTICALLY CONFINED PLASMA CRYSTAL

Ke Qiao, Truell Hyde (Baylor University)

14:00 B3.001 Globular Star Cluster Tidal Tails: Theory and Observations

William Lee Powell Jr., Ronald Wilhelm (Texas Tech University)

14:12 B3.002 Modeling and Prototyping of a Zoom Telescope for LIGO Optical Levers

David McKay, Dennis Ugolini (Trinity University), Michael Smith (California Institute of Technology)

14:24 B3.003 Optical/Ultraviolet Broad Emission Lines in the 3CR Compact, Steep-Spectrum Quasars

David Hough (Trinity University)

14:36 B3.004 FORMATION MECHANISMS FOR KUIPER BELT BINARIES

Ray Nazzario, Truell Hyde (Baylor University)

14:48 B3.005 Stratified Sheet Model of Large Scale Structure

Steven Scurlock, Bruce Miller (Texas Christian University)

15:00 B3.006 USING PZT GRID NETWORKS IN LOW VELOCITY IMPACT STUDIES

Jorge Carmona-Reyes, Mike Cook, Jimmy Schmoke (Baylor University), Katie Harper, Jerry Reay (TSTC), Lorin Matthews, Truell Hyde (Baylor University)

15:12 B3.007 SN1a Supernova Red Shifts

R.L. Collins (retired, U.T. Austin)

15:24 B3.008 DETECTION PROFILES OF ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEMS FOR BINARY ASTEROID IMAGES

Jesus Enriquez (University of Texas at El Paso), Franck Marchis (UC Berkeley)

14:00 B4.001 Pion-nucleon charge exhange cross sections in the momentum interval from 110 to 660 MeV/c

Michael Sadler, Melissa Jerkins, Shon Watson (Abilene Christian University), Crystal Ball Collaboration

14:12 B4.002 Narrowing Mossbauer Spectra by spinning magnetic field

Petr Anisimov, Olga Kocharovskaya, Yury Rostovtsev (Department of Physics, TAMU)

14:24 B4.003 Critical point phenomena in ^122,124Te

S. F. Hicks (Univ. of Dallas), J. R. Vanhoy (U. S. Naval Academy)

14:36 B4.004 Comparisons of Exact Results for the Virtual Correction to Bremsstrahlung in Electron-Positron Annihilation at High Energies

S.A. Yost (Dept. of Physics, Baylor University), C. Glosser (Dept. of Physics, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville), S. Jadach (CERN Theory Division, Cracow Institute of Nuclear Physics), B.F.L. Ward (Dept. of Physics, Baylor University)

14:48 B4.005 Transverse momentum resummation at small x for the Tevatron and LHC

Stefan Berge (SMU), Pavel Nadolsky (Argonne National Laboratory), Fred Olness (SMU), C.-P. Yuan (MSU)

15:00 B4.006 How Strange is the Proton? Heavy Quark Production and PDF's

Fred Olness (SMU)

15:12 B4.007 The Zeplin II Dark Matter Experiment

J. Gao, J.A. Maxin, J.T. White (Texas Aamp;M University), Zeplin II Collaboration

15:24 B4.008 Crystalline Xenon Particle Detector

J.A. Maxin, R. Blessitt, J. Gao, J. Miller, G. Salinas, J. Seifert, J.T. White (Texas Aamp;M University)

15:36 B4.009 Development of a High Pressure Gaseous Neon Based Detector for Dark Matter Searches

G. Salinas, R. Blessitt, J. Gao, J.A. Maxin, J. Miller, J. Seifert, J.T. White (Texas Aamp;M University)

15:48 B4.010 A Study of Wavelength Shifting Readout Methods for Noble Element-based Particle Detectors

R. Blessitt, J. Gao, J.A. Maxin, J. Miller, G. Salinas, J. Seifert, J.T. White (Texas Aamp;M University)

16:00 B4.011 Gated Cesium Iodide Photocathode for Particle Detectors

J. Miller, R. Blessitt, J. Gao, J. Maxin, G. Salinas, J. Seifert, J.T. White (Texas Aamp;M University)