Program overview (TEST)

FRIDAY MORNING, 3 MAY 1996

Session F1. DCOMP: Computer Modeling of the Atmosphere and Oceans.

Friday morning, 11:00, 500 Ballroom

11:00 F1.01 Simulation of the Earth's Hydrologic Cycle Using the NCAR Community Climate Model
James J. Hack
11:36 F1.02 Eddy Resolving Global Ocean Simulations
Richard D. Smith Rick Smith (Theoretical Division, group T-3 (Fluid Dynamics), Los Alamos National Laboratory)
12:12 F1.03 Operational Numerical Prediction of Thunderstorms: It's Just Around the Corner
Kelvin K. Droegemeier (School of Meteorology and Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms, University of Oklahoma)
12:48 F1.04 Laboratory and Numerical Experiments in Oceanic Convection
John Marshall (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA)

Session F2. DPF: Searches for New Phenomena.

Friday morning, 11:00, Room 107/108

11:00 F2.01 The Highest Energy Cosmic Rays
Paul Sommers (University of Utah High Energy Astrophysics Institute)
11:36 F2.02 Searches for Supersymmetry and other new phenomenon at the Tevatron Collider
David Stuart (Fermilab)
12:12 F2.03 Search Results from LEP at 130--136 GeV
Richard J. Van Kooten (Indiana University/OPAL)
12:48 F2.04 The Status of the Supersymmetric Standard Model
Jonathan A. Bagger (Johns Hopkins University)

Session F3. DPB & FIAP: Particle Beam Processing of Materials II.

Friday morning, 11:00, Room 109/110

11:00 F3.01 Sources for Future Lithography Generations
Juan Maldonado (IBM GT Division)
11:36 F3.02 Ion Beam Surface Treatment, A New Technique for Thermally Modifying Surfaces Using Intense, Pulsed Ion Beams
R.W. Stinnett (Quantum Manufacturing Technologies, Inc.)
12:12 F3.03 Magnetically Nozzled Plasma Accelerator for Material Surface Treatment
Kurt F. Schoenberg (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
12:48 F3.04 The APT Accelerator.*
George P. Lawrence (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
13:24 F3.05 Accelerator-Driven Tranmutation of Nuclear Waste: Status, New Concepts and Future Developments
Tarlochan Bhatia

Session F4. DAP & DNP: The Physics of Novae and Supernovae.

Friday morning, 11:00, Sagamore Ballroom 6

11:00 F4.01 Measuring the Universe with Supernovae
Robert Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
11:36 F4.02 The Type II Supernova Mechanism
Stephen W. Bruenn (Florida Atlantic University)
12:12 F4.03 The Physics of Nova Explosions
Sumner Starrfield
12:48 F4.04 Trigger Reactions and the Endpoints of the rp Process: Experiments with Radioactive Beams
Michael Wiescher

Session F5. FCTG& IMSTG: Progress in Fundamental Constants and Time Standards.

Friday morning, 11:00, Room 105

11:00 F5.01 Status of the 1997 Least Squares Adjustment of the Fundamental Constants
Peter Mohr
11:36 F5.02 Measurement of h/m for an Atom and the Prospects for the Determination of the Fine Structure Constant
Brent Young
12:12 F5.03 Ultra-Stable Hg Ion Frequency Standards
John Prestage
12:48 F5.04 Laser-Cooled Hg + Ions for Accurate Microwave and Optical Clocks
James Berquist
13:24 F5.05 Realization of the ITS-90 from 3.0 K to 24.5561 K at NIST Using Gas Thermometry
C.W. Meyer (NIST)

Session F6. APS Award Symposium: Prize for Research in an Undergraduate Institution and the Apker Award.

Friday morning, 11:00, Room 106

11:00 F6.01 Planets, Powders, and Piledrivers
David Peak (Physics Dept., Union College, Schenectady, NY 12308, and Physics Dept., Utah State Univ., Logan, UT 84322-4415)
11:36 F6.02 Two-Dimensional Electron Transport and Magnetoresistance Effects in a Random Magnetic Dipole Array
F. B. Mancoff, L. J. Zielinski, C. M. Marcus, S. C. Zhang (Department of Physics, Stanford University), K. Campman, A. C. Gossard (Materials Department, University of California at Santa Barbara)
12:00 F6.03 Identification and Study of Supernova Remnants in M31
Benjamin Williams (Middlebury College)
12:24 F6.04 A Search for Flavor Changing Neutral Current Decays of the Top Quark in p\bar p Collisions at \sqrts= 1.8 TeV
Robin L. Coxe (Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago)
12:48 F6.05 Apker Award Lecture: Rotation Periods of Starts in the Orion Nebula Cluster: the Bimodal Distribution
Phillip Choi, W. Herbst (Van Vleck Observatory, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT)
12:48 F6.05 Apker Award Lecture: Rotation Periods of Starts in the Orion Nebula Cluster: the Bimodal Distribution
Phillip Choi, W. Herbst (Van Vleck Observatory, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT)

Session F7. DNP: Relativistic Heavy Ions II.

Friday morning, 11:00, Room 101

11:00 F7.01 Preequilibrium and Thermal Proton Sources in Au+C Collisions at E/A=1 GeV
F. Bieser, H. Matis, M. McMahan, C. McParland, D. Olson, G. Rai, J. Rasmussen, H.G. Ritter, T.J.M. Symons, H. Wieman (Lawrence Berkeley Lab), M. Justice, H. Liu, D. Keane, A. Scott, Y. Shao, S. Wang, D. Weerasundara (Kent State), Y. Choi, J. Elliot, M. Gilkes, A. Hauger, A. Hirsch, E. Hjort, N. Porile, R. Scharenberg, B. Srivastava, M. Tincknell, P. Warren (Purdue University), F.P. Brady, D. Cebra, J. Chance, J. Kintner, M. Partlan, J. Romero (UC Davis), A.D. Chacon, K. Wolf (Texas Aamp;M University), S. Albergo, Z. Caccia, S. Costa, A. Insolia, R. Potenza, G.V. Russo, J. Romanski, C. Tuve (INFN Catania)
11:12 F7.02 Production of Direct Photons in 200 A GeV S+Au Collisions
Paul Stankus, for the WA80 Collaboration (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
11:24 F7.03 Systematics of E_\textrmt Production in 160 GeV/A Pb-Induced Collisions
David P. Morrison (University of Tennessee)
11:36 F7.04 Statistical Multifragmentation: Comparison of the EOS AU + C 1 AGeV Data to Stimulation
B. Srivastava (EOS Collaboration)
11:48 F7.05 Temperatures and Densities 1 AGeV Au + C Collisions
P. Warren (EOS Collaboration)
12:00 F7.06 Scaling Behavior in the Nuclear Multifragmentation of 1.0 AGeV Au + C
J.B. ELLIOTT (EOS Collaboration)
12:12 F7.07 The Determination of Fragment Masses in 1 AGeV Au + C Collisions
J.A. Hauger (EOS Collaboration)
12:24 F7.08 A Preliminary Search For Neutral Strangelets
Kaihui Zhao (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202), For The E864 Collaboration
12:36 F7.09 Production of Positron plus Excited-Bound-Electron Pairs in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions.
Anthony J. Baltz (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
12:48 F7.10 Strange Particle Signatures of Quark-Gluon Plasma
Johann Rafelski (Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721), Jean Letessier, Ahmed Tounsi (LPTHE, University Paris 7, F-75251-Cedex 05)

Session F8. DNP: Parton Distributions and Light-Cone Approaches.

Friday morning, 11:00, Room 102

11:00 F8.01 Hyperon Beta Decays and Quark Spin Distribution in the Nucleon
X. Song, P. K. Kabir, J. S. McCarthy (Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics)
11:12 F8.02 Neutron Structure Functions at Small and Large x
Wally Melnitchouk (University of Maryland)
11:24 F8.03 The \Upsilon Meson as a Probe of Nuclear Matter.
Athanasios Petridis (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA 50011)
11:36 F8.04 Partons in Phase Space
David Brown, Pawel Danielewicz (NSCL, Michigan State University)
11:48 F8.05 The Role of Gluons in Mesons in Light-Front QCD
Brent H. Allen (Ohio State Univ.)
12:00 F8.06 A Similarity Light-Front Hamiltonian Approach to the Bound State Problem in QED: Positronium's Fine Structure
Billy D. Jones (Robert J. Perry, Stanisl\!\!/\!aw D. Gl\!\!/\!azek)
12:12 F8.07 Light-cone quark model predictions for radiative meson decays
Ho-meoyng Choi, Chueng-Ryong Ji (Department of Physics, North Carolina State University)
12:24 F8.08 Going Beyond the Peaking Approximation in the PQCD Analysis of Exclusive Heavy Meson Pair Production
Chueng-Ryong Ji (Department of Physics, North Carolina State University), Alex Pang (Nuclear Theory Center, Indiana University)
12:36 F8.09 Pomeron-exchange and exclusive electroproduction of vector mesons in QCD
M. A. Pichowsky (Argonne National Laboratory and University of Pittsburgh), T.-S. H. Lee (Argonne National Laboratory)
F8.10 Higher-twist Contributions in Spin-dependent Structure Functions
X. Song (Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics)

Session F9. GTG: Gravitation Theories.

Friday morning, 11:00, Room 103

11:00 F9.01 The Relationship between Relativity Theory and Newton's Second Law of Motion
D. SAVICKAS (Western New England College, Springfield, MA)
11:12 F9.02 The Inter-relation of Particles,Natural Laws, and Cosmology
Milo Wolff (Technotran, 1124 Third St. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266)
11:24 F9.03 Linear Gravity Fixed by Michelson-Morley (MM) and Gravitational (G) Redshift Experiments
Rafael A. Vera (Universidad de Concepcion, Chile)
11:36 F9.04 Worlds and Anti-worlds Revisted
Milo Wolff (Technotran, 1124 Third St. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266)
11:48 F9.05 Singular and Non-singular Metrics for Rotating Collapsed Bodies in Various Gravitation Theories
James Graber
12:00 F9.06 Maxwell Solutions of Gravitational Geometry With Electrodynamic Torsion
H.I. Ringermacher (United Technologies Research Center, East Hartford.CT.)
12:12 F9.07 COSMOGENESIS, GRAVITATION AND NUMBER THEORY
Alexander A. BEREZIN (McMaster U., Canada)

Session F10. DAP: Galaxies/Cosmology.

Friday morning, 11:00, Room 104

11:00 F10.01 Source of Relaxation in the One Dimensional Gravitating System
Bruce Miller (Texas Christian University)
11:12 F10.02 Steadily Rotating Perfect-Fluids Ellipsoids and Spheroids in Linear Gravitational Theories
E. Esteban (University of Puerto Rico, Humacao, P.R.)
11:24 F10.03 Constraints on Structure Formation Scenarios by Observations of Damped Lyman-Alpha Systems at High Redshift
Karsten Jedamzik (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Jason X. Prochaska, Arthur M. Wolfe, George M. Fuller (University of California, San Diego)
11:36 F10.04 Gravitational Wave Sources Containing Massive Black Holes
Peter L. Bender, Dieter Hils (JILA, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309)
11:48 F10.05 Evolution of Cosmological Magnetic Fields
Karsten Jedamzick (LLNL), Visnja Katalinic, Angela V. Olinto (University of Chicago)
12:00 F10.06 Characterization of the Large-Scale Structure using the Minimal Spanning Tree
Suketu Bhavsar, Randall Splinter (University of Kentucky)
12:12 F10.07 Cosmological Perturbations: Entering the Non-Linear Regime.
Román Scoccimarro (Department of Physics and Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, and NASA/Fermilab Astrophysics Center, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), Joshua Frieman (NASA/Fermilab Astrophysics Center, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago)
12:24 F10.08 PLANCKATOR: an Astrophysical Accelerator to Planck Energies
Leonid M. Ozernoy (Phys. amp; Astr. Dept. and Inst. for Comp. Sci. amp; Inform., George Mason U., also Lab. for Astron. amp; Sol. Phys., NASA/GSFC), Vladimir M. Lipunov (Phys. Dept. amp; Sternberg Astr. Inst., Moscow State U.)
F10.09
12:48 F10.10 A Causality Problem for the Big Bang and a Possible Solution
F.R. Tangherlini
13:00 F10.11 The Cosmology Fixed by Michelson-Morley Experiments
Rafael A. Vera (Universidad de Concepcion, Chile)
13:00 F10.12 On the Hot Intracluster Medium and Halo Microlensing Events
Brian D. Fields, Grant J. Mathews (University of Notre Dame), Stéphane Charlot (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris), David N. Schramm (University of Chicago)

Session F11. AAPT: Reaching Teachers and the Public.

Friday morning, 11:00, Room 210

11:00 F11.01 Meaningful Outreach-A Cognitive View
J.L. Discenna (Dept. of Science Studies, Western Michigan Univ.), S.L. Snyder (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University), Science Theatre Abrams Planetarium (Michigan State University)
11:12 F11.02 A Comprehensive Outreach Initiative for the Physical Sciences: An Example from Northeastern Illinois University
P. Sethi, P.J. Dolan Jr., M.P. McCann, M. Rand (Department of Earth Science, Physics and Chemistry, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL)
11:24 F11.03 Sharing Science Outreach: Planning to Implementation
Vijendra K. Agarwal (Department of Physics, Moorhead State University), Walter G. Wesley (Department of Physics, Moorhead State University)
11:36 F11.04 ALCOM Education Outreach
Renata-Maria Marroum (Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University)
11:48 F11.05 Alternative Strategies for Tutorials in Physics at a Small Two-Year College
Ntungwa Maasha (Dept. of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Brunswick College)
12:00 F11.06 The Role of the Collaborative in Enhancing Physics Teacher Preparation
Carl J. Wenning (Dept. of Physics, Illinois State University)
12:12 F11.07 An Eighth Grade Adventure to EPCOT
James Watson, Nancy Watson (Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Ball State University)
12:24 F11.08 A Case Study of One Student's Cheating in a High School Physics Classroom
Scott Robinson (SUNY College)

Session F12. DPB Mini-Symposium: New Low Cost High Energy Hadron Colliders II.

Friday morning, 11:00, Room 211

11:00 F12.01 Microtunneling and Horizontal Directional Drilling
T. Iseley (North American Society for Trenchless Technology)
11:30 F12.02 Design Concepts for Remote Installtion and Repair
M. May (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
11:50 F12.03 Low Cost Warm Bore Vacuum Chamber Options
Hajime Ishimaru (KEK)
12:05 F12.04 Synchrotron Radiation in a Large Warm-Bore Collider
W. Turner (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
12:25 F12.05 Accelerator Physics in a large Superferric Collider
Gerald P. Jackson (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Session F13. DPB Mini-Symposium: Pulsed Power Applications in Basic Research and Industry I.

Friday morning, 11:00, Room 212

11:00 F13.01 Pulsed Power Applications in Basic Research and Industry
Jr. Humphries (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico)
11:00 F13.02 Pulsed Power for Plasma Implantation Devices
R.J. Adler (North Star Research Corporation), M. Tuszewski, J. Scheuer (Los Alamos National Laboratories), Jr. Horne (Empire Hard Chrome)
11:25 F13.03 Basic Science at the Extreme States of Matter
Johndale C. Solem (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory -- Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA)
11:50 F13.04 Materials Testing with High-intensity Plasma Guns
J.M. Gahl (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM), P.D. Rocket (Fusion Technology Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM)
12:15 F13.05 Dose Rate Effects on e-SCRUB process - Experiments and Theory
Ralph Genuario (Virginia Accelerators Corporation)
12:40 F13.06 Ablative Processing with Low-voltage Pulsed Electron Beams
Richard Hubbard (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory)
13:05 F13.07 Overview of Industrial Applications of the Dense Plasma Focus
Mahadevan Krishnan (Alameda Applied Sciences Corporation)

Session F16. DCO & FHP: History of Computing in Physics.

Friday morning, 11:00, Sagamore Ballroom 7

11:00 F16.01 The Roots of Computational Science and Engineering: The Development of Computing at Los Alamos
Jack Worlton (Los Alamos National Laboratory (retired))
11:36 F16.02 Computational Condensed Matter Physics: From its Early Beginnings to its Present Golden Age
A.J. Freeman (Northwestern University)
12:12 F16.03 How the Physics Community Drove the Development of the SuperComputer Industry
Charles J. Murray ()