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)