Program overview

THURSDAY MORNING, 14 NOVEMBER 1996

Session AA. Elementary Particles I.

Thursday morning, 09:00, Henry Oliver F, Holiday Inn

09:00 AA.01 Evidence for Neutrino Oscillations from the LSND Experiment
William J. Metcalf (for the LSND Collaboration)
09:35 AA.02 Overview of the National Spallation Neutron Source
Tony A. Gabriel (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
10:10 AA.03 Building a \mu^+ \, \mu^- Collider to Explore the Energy Frontier
Donald J. Summers (University of Mississippi--Oxford)
10:33 AA.04 Exclusive and Inclusive Neutrino Reactions in ^12C and the Implications for Neutrino Oscillations
S.L. Mintz, M. Pourkaviani (Florida International University)
10:45 AA.05 Anti-Neutrino Reactions in ^3He
G.M. Gerstner, M.A. Barnett, S.L. Mintz, M. Pourkaviani (Florida International University)
10:57 AA.06 Neutrino Reactions in ^3H
M.A. Barnett, G.M. Gerstner, S.L. Mintz, M. Pourkaviani (Florida International University)
11:09 AA.07 Search for Neutrino Oscillations at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station
Anthony J. Vital (University of Alabama)
11:21 AA.08 Status of the indications of a light gluino
Louis Clavelli (University of Alabama)
11:33 AA.09 Planned Searches for the Light Gluino
Eric Aitala (University of Mississippi--Oxford)

Session AB. General Physics & Teaching Physics.

Thursday morning, 09:00, Henry Oliver E, Holiday Inn

09:00 AB.01 No Long-Term Cancer Catastrophe in Reactor Meltdown and the Fallacy of Ecological Fallacy.
Peter Fong (Emory University, Atlanta, GA)
09:23 AB.02 A Web-based Quantum Mechanics Course for first Year Graduate Students in Physics
M. Breinig (The University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
09:46 AB.03 X-Ray Fluorescence Experiments with an Amptek X-Ray Detector
Stephen M. Shafroth (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
09:58 AB.04 Self-Organized Criticality: Theory and Experiment
Stefan Boettcher (CTSPS, Clark Atlanta University)
10:10 AB.05 Preliminary Operation of a Solar Thermal-Electric Propulsion (STEP) System
Dung X. Nguyen, Cecily J. Smith, Bagher M. Tabibi, Ja H. Lee (Hampton University)
10:22 AB.06 Attenuation of the Electronic Waves Due to Wet Snow
Mary A. Fares, Said C. Fares (Valdosta State University), Carl A. Ventrice (Tennessee Technological University)
10:34 AB.07 Angle and Spacing Quantization of Plant Structures
Orvin E. Wagner (Wagner Research Laboratory)
10:46 AB.08 W-waves Explain Gravitropism, Phototropism, Sap Flow, Plant Structure, and other Plant Processes
Raymond E. Wagner, Orvin E. Wagner (Wagner Research Laboratory)

Session AC. Atomic and Molecular Physics & Spectroscopy.

Thursday morning, 09:00, Mary Gay C, Holiday Inn

09:00 AC.01 Spin-Orbit Effects in the Autoionization of Atomic Bromine
C. Denise Caldwell, Sacia Benzaid, Alexander Menzel, Manfred O. Krause (Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816-2385)
09:23 AC.02 Electron Beam Fluorescence Determination of N_2^+* Quenching Rate
Charles A. Terrell, Bagher M. Tabibi, Ja H. Lee (Hampton University)
09:35 AC.03 Diffusion Quantum Monte Carlo Studies of Electric Field Aligned Ar--HX Clusters (X=F, Cl).
Robert J. Hinde (Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996 USA)
09:47 AC.04 Neural-Network Systematics and Prediction for Small-Molecule Data.
Ray Hefferlin, Jason Wohlers (Southern College, Collegedale, TN 37315), W. Bradford Davis (Rinker-Davis Corp., Belmont, CA 94002)
09:59 AC.05 The Rotational Spectrum of Nitric Acid in the \nu5 and 2\nu9 Vibrational States.
Randy A. Booker (UNC-Asheville), Thomas M. Goyette, Lee C. Oesterling, Douglas T. Petkie, Frank C. De Lucia (The Ohio State University), Paul Helminger (U. of South Alabama)
10:11 AC.06 Stability of H, D, and N atoms in irradiated solid isotopes of ammonia above 100K.
L. DeMarco, A.S. Brill, D.G. Crabb (U. of Virginia)
10:23 AC.07 Applicability of First Born Approximation in Small-Angle Electron Impact Excitation of Optically Allowed Transitions^
Z. Felfli, Zhifan Chen, A.Z. Msezane (CTSPS, Clark Atlanta U.)
10:35 AC.08 A Simple White-Light Imaging Interferometer
Jack Dodd (Colgate University)
10:47 AC.09 A Small-Field, High-Sensitivity Focusing Schlieren System for Flowfield Visualization
Darrell A. Spraggins, Bagher M. Tabibi, Ja H. Lee (Hampton University), Leonard M. Weinstein (NASA Langley Research Center)
10:59 AC.10 Characterization of Amplified Spontaneous Emission and Output Efficiencies in Grazing Incidence Dye Laser Designs
R. Seth Smith (Francis Marion University)
11:11 AC.11 Photodetachment Studies of the C- Ion in the 4S and 2D States
W.D. Brandon, D.H. Lee, D.J. Pegg (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN), D. Hanstorp (Chalmers University of Technology / Goeteborg University, Goteborg, Sweden)