The meeting was organized by Professor Kannan Jagannathan. There were 134 registrants of whom 67 were APS members, 10 emeriti, 6 non-members and 51 students. 124 attended the banquet Friday. There were 51 contributed papers, of which 38 are included in this APS Bulletin.
The theme of the Friday tutorial session was Precision Measurements. After welcoming remarks by Peter Pouncey, the President of Amherst College, Edward Hinds (Yale University) spoke on "Measurements of the Van Der Waals and Casimir-Polder Interactions," and Eric Adelberger (University of Washington) spoke on "Particle Physics at Ridiculously Low Mass Scales."
The theme of the Saturday tutorial session was Physical Phenomena in Restricted Dimensions. Moses Chan (Pennsylvania State University) spoke on "Phase Transitions of Two-Dimensional Systems," Robert Hallock (University of Massachusetts) spoke on "The Magic of ^3He on thin ^4He Films."
On Friday evening a social hour and banquet were held at the Lord Jeffrey Amherst Inn. Victor Weisskopf, Emeritus Professor of Physics at MIT, spoke on "Endangered Support of Basic Science."
The next meeting of the New England Section of The American Physical Society will be held as a joint meeting with the New England Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers, 9-10 April 1994 at Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts, under the direction of Howard Georgi, Department of Physics, Harvard University [telephone (617) 495-2866].
A 2 Monitoring and Control of Anode Wire Tension in
the GEM Muon Detector.
Marie Muratori, Department of Physics, Adelphi University; Margaret
Smith, John Sondericker III, Brookhaven National Laboratory; Marcus
Meier, State University of New York, Stony Brook.
A 3 Automating the Controls of External Cavity Single Frequency Tunable
Diode Lasers. Jamie Fitzpatrick, Andreas Karpf, Maureen Karpf, and
G.N. Rao, Department of Physics, Adelphi University.
A 4 Intermodulated Optogalvanic Spectroscopy with Diode Lasers. Andreas
Karpf, Maureen Karpf, Jamie Fitzpatrick and G.N. Rao, Department of
Physics, Adelphi University.
A 5 Time development of surface at interface between two rotating liquids
of differing densities and viscosities. H.L. Fox, Fox Research
Associates.
B 1 Screening of Donors in GaAs/Ga_1-x A1_x As quantam dots. A.M. Elabsy,
United Arab Emerates University, P.O. Box 17551, Al-Ain, UAE and
P. Csavinszky, University of Maine.
B 2 Orbited-Limited Return Flow of Beam Electrons to a Spacecraft. Shu
T. Lai, Phillips Lab.
B 3 Time Evolution of Fission-Product Gamma Spectra unsing ENDF/B-VI.
J.M. Campbell, G.P. Couchell, S.Li, H.V. Nguyen, D.J. Pullen, W.A.
Schier, E.H. Seabury, S.V. Tipnis, University of Massachusetts, Lowell;
T.R. England, Los Alamos National Lab.
B 4 Comparison of Halflives of Short-lived 235U Fission Products with
ENDF/B-VI. S.V. Tipnis, J.M. Campbell, G.P. Couchell, S. Li, H.V.
Nguyen, D.J. Pullen, E.H. Seabury and W.A. Schier, University of
Massachusetts, Lowell; and T.R. England, Los Alamos National
Laboratory.
B 5 Interpolation of Response Functions Used in the Analysis of 5"x5" Nal
Gamma-ray Measurements. H.V. Nguyen, J.M. Campbell, G.P. Couchell,
S.Li, D.J. Pullen, W.A. Schier, E.H. Seabury and S.V. Tipnis,
University of Massachusetts, Lowell.
B 6 Aggregate Gamma Decay Heat Spectra Comparison Following 238U and
235U Neutron Fission. S. Li, J.M. Campbell, G.P. Couchell, H.V.
Nguyen, D.J. Pullen, W.A. Schier, E.H. Seabury and S.V. Tipnis,
University of Massachusetts, Lowell.
B 7 Experimental Arrangement for 238U(n,f) Aggregate Beta-Particle and
Gamma-Ray Decay Heat Study. E.H. Seabury, J.M. Campbell, G.P. Couchell,
S. Li, H.V. Nguyen, D.J. Pullen, W.A. Schier, and S.V. Tipnis,
University of Massachusetts, Lowell.
C 1 A Precise Measurement of a 3He/4He Isotope Shift and a New Value for
the Charge Radius of the 3He Nucleus. V. Vedantham, R. Dixson, D.
Shiner, Yale Univ.
C 4 Revision of Relative Velocity Equation for the Force Between Moving
Charges. Parry Moon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Domina
Eberle Spencer, University of Connecticut; Arjan S. Mirchandaney,
Defiance College; Uma Y. Shama, Bridgewater State College; Philip J.
Mann, University of Connecticut.
C 5 Can Maxwell's Equations be Derived from the Lorenz Retarded Potentials?
Philip J. Mann, Domina Eberle Spencer, University of Connecticut.
C 6 The Electrodynamic Interpretation of the Weld Problem. Gerard Coutu,
Hartford Graduate Center; Wallace W. Bowley, Domina Eberle Spencer,
University of Connecticut.
C 7 Scintillation Decay Times for Nuclear Radiations in CsI(T1) Using A
Transient Digitizer. H. Chen, P. Harihar, UMass-Lowell; W.J. Stapor
A.R. Knudson, Naval Research Laboratory.
PSI 1 AC Susceptibility Measurements on High Temperature Superconductors.
D.A. Karp and J.E. Gordon, Amherst College.
A'1 Why White Men Haven't Predicted Earthquakes Yet: Some Environmental
and Spiritual Natural Philosophy of The American Indian. Michael Ann
Ochs, Environmental Protection Agency, Boston, MA; David M. McLeod,
An Wang Math/Science Magnet at Lowell, MA; Roger D. McLeod, Univ. Mass
at Lowell.
A'2 The Mashantucket Drainage Basin's "Medicine Men" and some of their
applied "Spirit" Science. David M. McLeod, Wang Math/Science Magnet,
Lowell; Roger D. McLeod, Univ. Mass at Lowell; Michael Ann Ochs,
Environmental Protection Agency, Boston.
A'3 "Manitou Spirit" at Amerindian Chambers, Effigies and Sites Correlates
with Eclipses, the Weather, (and Other Phenomena!) Roger D. McLeod,
Univ. Mass at Lowell; David M. McLeod, Wang Math/Science Magnet,
Lowell; Michael Ann Ochs, Environmental Protection Agency, Boston.
A'4 Exercise Protocol to Correct Human Vision is Predictable from the
Spatial Fourier Component of the Focally Coincident Electric Vector.
Roger D. McLeod, Univ. Mass at Lowell, MA.
A'5 Precision Measurement of sin 2theta w and rho in Neutrino Neutral
Current Interactions. Robert V. Steiner, Department of Physics,
Adelphi University.
A'6 Spectral Index and Polarization Studies of Head Tail Sources in Poor
Clusters of Galaxies. T.C.A. Venkatesan, D.J. Batuski, University of
Maine; R.J. Hanisch, STScI; J.O. Burns, NMSU.
A'7 A Calculation of the Bound State Energies of He Atoms Adsorbed on
Ag(110). J.A. King and J.S. Brown, Univ. of Vermont.
A'8 Views of an inner satellite from another while circling outside a
Schwarzchild black hole. J. Therrien and E. Sheldon, University of
Massachusetts-Lowell.
B'1 I-V Characteristics and the Superconducting Transition in
Polycrystalline YBCO. R.J. Joshi and R.B. Hallock, University of
Massachusetts at Amherst.
B'2 A Surface Plasmon Study of Biomolecular Adsorption. J.R. Rahn and
R.B. Hallock, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
B'3 Memory in Hysteretic Capillary Condensation. M.P. Lilly, P.T. Finley
and R.B. Hallock, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
B'5 Further development of a four-parameter multichannel pulse-height
analyzer system based on a personal computer. C. de la Vega, R.
Volpicelli, and A.L. Catz, University of Massachusetts, Boston.
B'6 Stability and Dynamics of Convective Flow Cell Walls in Nematic Liquid
Crystals Driven by Perpendicular Electric and Magnetic Fields. Omer B.
Artun and Susan R. McKay, U. of Maine.
B'7 Analytical Determination of the Onset of Chaos in Weakly Nonlinear
Driven Oscillators Using Secondary Averaging. Andrey B. Belogortsev
and Susan R. McKay, U. of Maine.
B'8 Synchrotron Studies of X-ray Transmission Grating Efficiency. C.S.
Nelson, T.H. Markert, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, D.E.
Graessle, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
PSI'1 Nonlinear Optics in Celestial Natural Maser-Laser Environment.
Y.C. Wu, Harvard Univ.
PSI'2 Optical Response of Grating Coupled Detectors. Kannan Krishnaswami,
Robert Tremblay, A.S. Karakashian and C. Wong, UMass, Lowell.
PSI'3 Using Color Mirrors in Phase Images of 2-D Fourier Transforms to
Analyze Quasi-Regular Patterns. A.M. Rosenberg, Keene State College.
PSI'4 Energy Transfer in Ba 6s7d 3D 2 - rare gas collisions. K.N.
LaFortune, J. Gray, and J.E. Smedley, Bates College.
PSI'7 Third Sound in 3He-4He Mixture Films. P.A. Sheldon, D.T. Sprague,
J.Vithayithal and R.B. Hallock, University of Massachusetts at
Amherst.
SESSION A
Friday afternoon, 15 October 1993
Merrill Science Center, Lecture Room III, 15:30(to 16:30)
Kannan Jagannathan, presidingSESSION B
Friday afternoon, 15 October 1993
Merrill Science Center, Lecture Room III at 16:40(to 18:04)
Robert Hilborn, presidingSESSION C
Friday afternoon, 15 October 1993
Merrill Science Center, Lecture Room II at 16:40(to 18:04)
Joel Gordon, presidingPOSTER SESSION I
Friday afternoon, 15 October 1993
Merrill Science Center, Room 301 at 17:00(to 18:00)SESSION A'
Saturday morning, 16 October 1993
Merrill Science Center, Lecture Room III at 8:30(to 10:18)
Kannan Jagannathan, presidingSESSION B'
Saturday morning, 16 October 1993
Merrill Science Center, Lecture Room II 8:30(to 10:18)
Don Lemons, presidingPOSTER SESSION PSI'
Saturday morning, 16 October 1993
Merrill Science Center, Room 301 at 9:00(to 10:00)AUTHORS INDEX
A
Artun, Omer B.--B'6
B
Batuski, D.J.--A'6
Belogortsev, Andrey B.--B'7
Bowley, Wallace W.--C6
Brown, J.S.--A'7
Burns, J.0. -- A'6
C
Campbell, J.M.--B3,B4,B5,B6,B7
Catz, A.L.--B'5
Chen, H.--C7
Couchell, G.P.--B3,B4,B5,B6,B7
Coutu, Gerard--C6
Csavinszky, P.--B1
D
de la Vega, C.--B'5
Dixson, R.--C1
E
Elabsy, A.M.--B1
England, T.R.--B3,B4
F
Finley, P.T.--B'3
Fitzpatrick, Jamie--A3,A4
Fox, H.L.--A5
G
Gordon, J.E.--PSI1
Graessle, D.E.--B'8
Gray, J.--PSI'4
H
Hallock, R.B.--B'1,B'2,B'3,PSI'7
Hanisch, R.J.--A'6
Harihar, P.--C7
J
Joshi, R.J.--B'l
K
Karakashian, A.S.--PSI'2
Karp, D.A.--PSI1
Karpf, Andreas--A3,A4
Karpf, Maureen--A3,A4
King, J.A.--A'7
Knudson, A.R.--C7
Krishnaswami, Kannan--PSPSI'2
L
Lai, Shu T.--B2
Laurence, A.P.--PSI'6
Li, S.--B3,B4,B5,B6,B7
Lilly, M.P.--B'3
M
Mann, Philip J.--C4,C5
Markert, T.H.--B'8
McKay, Susan R.--B'6,B'7
McLeod, David M.--A'1,A'2,A'3
McLeod, Roger D.--A'1,A'2,A'3,A'4
Meier, Marcus--A2
Mirchandaney, Arjan S.--C4
Moon, Parry--- C4
Muratori, Marie---A2
N
Nelson, C.S.--B'8
Nguyen, H.V.--B3,B4,B5,B6,B7
O
Ochs, Michael Ann--A'1,A'2,A'3
P
Pullen, D.J.--B3,B4,B5,B6,B7
R
Rahn, J.R.--B'2
Rao, G.N.--A3,A4
Rosenberg, A.M.--PSI'3
Ruff, G.A.--PSI'6
S
Schier, W.A.--B3,B4,B5,B6,B7
Seabury, E.H.--B3,B4,B5,B6,B7
Shama, Uma Y.--C4
Sheldon, E.--A'8
Sheldon, P.A.--PSI'7
Shiner, D.--C1
Smedley, J.E.--PSI'4
Smith, Margaret--A2
Sondericker, John, III--A2
Spencer, Domina Eberle--C4,C5,C6
Sprague, D.T.--PSI'7
Stapor, W.J.--C7
Steiner, Robert V.--A'5
T
Therrien, J.--A'8
Tipnis, S.V.--B3,B4,B5,B6,B7
Tremblay, Robert--PSI'2
V
Vedantham, V.--C1
Venkatesan, T.C.A.--A'6
Vithayithal, J.--PSI'7
Volpicelli, R.--B'5
W
Wong, C.--PSI'2
Wu, Y.C.--PSI'1