Program overview
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 18 APRIL 1997
Session C1. DAMOP: DAMOP Prize Session.
Friday afternoon, 14:30, North Salon, Renaissance
- 14:30 C1.01
Broida Prize Lecture: From Curiosity-Driven Research to Medical Imaging with He-3 and Xe-129.
- William Happer (Princeton University)
- 15:06 C1.02
I. I. Rabi Prize Lecture: Paradox Lost and Paradox Regained: Recent Experimental Results in Dilute-Gas Bose-Einstein Condensation
- Eric A. Cornell (JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309)
- 15:42 C1.03
I.I. Rabi Prize Lecture: Bose-Einstein condensates - matter with laser-like properties
- Wolfgang Ketterle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge)
- 16:18 C1.04
The Maria-Goeppert-Mayer Award Lecture: The Science of Ultrashort Pulse Generation, in the Visible and X-Ray Regions of the Spectrum
- Margaret M. Murnane (Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI)
- 16:54 C1.05
Faculty Member Prize for Research at an Undergraduate Institution Lecture: Experimental Tests of the Spin-Statistics Theorem
- Robert C. Hilborn (Amherst College)
Session C3. DNP: First Results From TJNAF.
Friday afternoon, 14:30, South Salon, Renaissance
- 14:30 C3.01
Measurements of Inclusive Electron Scattering from Nuclei at x>1
- Brad Filippone (W. K. Kellogg Radiation Laboratory, Caltech, Pasadena CA 91125)
- 15:06 C3.02
Proton Propagation in Nuclei as Measured in the (e,e^\primep) Reaction
- Rolf Ent (TJNAF)
- 15:42 C3.03
Deuteron Photodisintegration: New Results from TJNAF
- Haiyan Gao (Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory)
- 16:18 C3.04
Kaon Electroproduction at TJNAF
- Oliver K. Baker (Hampton University and TJNAF)
Session C4. AAPT,FED: Research in Physics Education at the Introductory Level and Beyond.
Friday afternoon, 14:30, Auditorium, Renaissance
- 14:30 C4.01
Evaluation of an Integrated Curriculum in Physics, Mathematics, Engineering, and Chemistry
- Robert Beichner (North Carolina State University, beichner@ncsu.edu)
- 15:06 C4.02
Making Connections Between Physics and Engineering: An Example From Mechanics
- Paula Heron (University of Washington, pheron@phys.washington.edu)
- 15:42 C4.03
Identifying and addressing student difficulties with mathematics when learning physics
- Richard Steinberg (University of Maryland, rstein@delphi.umd.edu)
- 16:18 C4.04
Identifying student conceptual and reasoning difficulties with relativity
- Stamatis Vokos (University of Washington, vokos@phys.washington.edu)
- 16:54 C4.05
Student Misconceptions on Classical Issues at the Boundary of Quantum Mechanics
- Edward Redish (University of Maryland,redish@quark.umd.edu)
Session C5. DPF: The Search for Flavor Physics.
Friday afternoon, 14:30, West Salon A, Renaissance
- 14:30 C5.01
Search for Flavor Physics in K Decays
- Yau Wei Wah (University of Chicago)
- 15:06 C5.02
CP Violation in B Decay
- David London (Université de Montréal)
- 15:42 C5.03
Experimental Aspects of CP Violation in the B System
- Patty McBride (FNAL)
- 16:18 C5.04
The Significance of the Heavy Top Quark
- Elizabeth H. Simmons (Boston University)
Session C6. DAP: Advances in Astrophysics.
Friday afternoon, 14:30, West Salon B, Renaissance
- 14:30 C6.01
Recent Highlights of Hubble Space Telescope Observations
- John Bahcall (Institute for Advanced Study)
- 15:06 C6.02
Gamma-Ray Line Spectroscopy with COMPTEL
- Schönfelder Volker (Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, P.O. Box 1603, D-85740 Garching, Germany)
- 15:42 C6.03
Extrasolar Planets and Brown Dwarfs
- Alan P. Boss (Carnegie Institution of Washington)
- 16:18 C6.04
Milagrito: Progress Toward a Water Cherenkov VHE Gamma-Ray Telescope
- Anthony L. Shoup (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine)
Session C8. DNP: Nuclear Theory.
Friday afternoon, 14:30, Room 10/11, Renaissance
- 14:30 C8.01
How Short Is Too Short? Short-Range Interactions in Effective Field Theory Treatments of Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering
- Daniel Phillips, Thomas Cohen (U. of Maryland, College Park)
- 14:42 C8.02
Renormalization Group Study of Chiral Nuclear Models
- Andrew S. Johnson, J. A. McNeil (Colorado School of Mines), J.R. Shepard (University of Colorado)
- 14:54 C8.03
An Effective Lagrangian with Broken Scale and Chiral Symmetry at Finite Temperature
- G.W. Carter, P.J. Ellis, S. Rudaz (Univ. of Minnesota)
- 15:06 C8.04
Effective Lagrangian Approach to the Polarization Observables in the Eta Photoproduction
- Jea W. Hyun, Nilmani Mathur, Nimai C. Mukhopadhyay (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
- 15:18 C8.05
How to Distinguish Reaction Mechanisms of the Eta Prime Photoproduction
- R. M. Davidson, Nimai C. Mukhopadhyay, J.-F. Zhang (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), M. Benmerrouche (Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory)
- 15:30 C8.06
Investigation of halo nuclei with pion photoproduction
- Cornelius Bennhold (Department of Physics, 725 21st Street, The George Washington University, Washington D.C., 20052), Steven Karataglidis, B. Alex Brown (NSCL, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824)
- 15:42 C8.07
Vector-Meson Exchange and Nuclear Charge Asymmetry
- Sidney A. Coon (New Mexico State University), B.H.J McKellar, A. A. Rawlinson (University of Melbourne)
- 15:54 C8.08
TDHF Periodic Orbits and Nuclear Collective States
- Jianshi Wu, Kowk C. Wong (Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC 28301), Michael R. Strayer (Physics Division, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN 37831)
- 16:06 C8.09
Correlational entropy and complexity of wave functions
- B.A. Brown, V. Zelevinsky (NSCL, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824), V. Sokolov (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia)
- 16:18 C8.10
Low-Energy Spin-Orbit Interaction of Composite Spin-Half Systems With Scalar and Vector Fields
- Daniel Phillips (U. of Maryland, College Park), Michael Birse (U. of Manchester, U.K.), Stephen Wallace (U. of Maryland, College Park)
Session C9. DNP: Nuclear Reactions II.
Friday afternoon, 14:30, Room 16, Renaissance
- 14:30 C9.01
Threshold Meson and Strangeness Production in the Proton-Proton Scattering at COSY-Jülich
- Walter Oelert (Institut für Kernphysik, Forschungszentrum Jülich)
- 14:42 C9.02
Sensitivities of K^+ observables to `swelling' of K^+-N interactions within nuclei
- R.J. Peterson, A.A. Ebrahim (University of Colorado), H.C. Bhang (Seoul National University)
- 14:54 C9.03
Inelastic K^+ scattering from ^12C and ^6Li
- R.E. Chrien, S. Bart, R. Sawafta, R. Sutter (Brookhaven National Laboratory), M.B. Barakat, E.V. Hungerford, B. Mayes, L. Pinsky (University of Houston), K.H. Hicks, R. Michael (Ohio University), L. Tang (Hampton University), C.M. Kormanyos, R.J. Peterson, J.E. Wise (University of Colorado), T. Kishimoto (Osaka University), L. Lee (TRIUMF)
- 15:06 C9.04
Entrance Channel Dependent \alpha-Particle Spectra from the ^224Th^\ast Compound Nucleus
- Julia Velkovska, A.L. Caraley, R.L. McGrath, C.R. Morton, M. Sharan, P. Chung (University at Stony Brook)
- 15:18 C9.05
Analyzing Power Measurements for ^12C(n,n)^12C from 2.3 to 8.5 MeV.
- C.D. Roper, R.L. Walter, R.T. Braun, Qiankun Chen, A.S. Crowell, D.E. González Trotter, C.R. Howell, F. Salinas, R.S. Setze, W. Tornow (Duke University and TUNL), Zemin Chen (Tsinghua University)
- 15:30 C9.06
Low Energy Deutron-Induced Reactions on ^27AL and ^56Fe
- S.I Al-Quraishi, C.E. Brient, D. Grimes, T.N. Jacobs, J. Massey, J.E. Oldendick, R. O'Donnell, Wheeler (Ohio Univ.)
- 15:42 C9.07
Enhanced Evaporation Residue Cross Sections from ^58Ni~+~^112Sn\longrightarrow^170Pt: Evidence for Dynamical Effects
- A.L. Caraley, K.-T. Brinkmann, B.J. Fineman, N. Gan, R.L. McGrath, M. Sharan, J. Velkovska (University at Stony Brook), B.B. Back, D.J. Blumenthal, C.N. Davids, B.G. Glagola (Argonne National Laboratory), P.A. DeYoung (Hope College), P. Decowski (Smith College), G.P. Gilfoyle (University of Richmond)
- 15:54 C9.08
One Nucleon Transfer Cross Sections for Cl + Ni at 88 MeV
- K.L Kurz, D.C. Bryan, C.G. Freeman, D.M. Herrick, F.L.H. Wolfs (University of Rochester, Nuclear Structure Research Laboratory)
- 16:06 C9.09
Extracting GT Strength from (p,n) Experiments Correcting For Neutron Scattering
- Maurice B. Aufderheide, Stewart D. Bloom (LLNL), Charles D. Goodman, Xun Yang (IUCF)
- 16:18 C9.10
How important is contribution of pion absorption to pion double-charge-exchange reaction?
- L.C. Liu (Los Alamos National Laboratory, N.M.), Q. Haider (Fordham University, Bronx, N.Y.)
- 16:30 C9.11
Elastic Neutron Angular Distributions In The Resonance Region
- H.S. Camarda (Penn. State University)
Session C10. FCTG: Tests of Physical Principles.
Friday afternoon, 14:30, Room 5, Renaissance
- 14:30 C10.01
Testing Unruh Radiation with Ultra-Intense Lasers
- Pisin Chen (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94309), Toshiki Tajima (Department of Physics, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712)
- 14:42 C10.02
A Proposed Experimental Test of Unsharp Spin Variables
- Millard Baublitz (Boston University)
- 14:54 C10.03
Bell's Theorem Faces Symmetries of Experimental System.
- Joshua H. Rosenbloom (1000 Chiswell Lane, Silver Spring, MD 20901)
- 15:06 C10.04
Measurement of the phase shift due to the acceleration of matter in a neutron interferometer
- K. C. Littrell, S. A. Werner (University of Missouri-Columbia Physics Department and Research Reactor, Columbia, MO 65211)
- 15:18 C10.05
Scalar Aharonov-Bohm Effect with Longitudinally Polarized Neutrons
- W.-T. Lee, O. Motrunich, B. E. Allman, S. A. Werner (Univ. of Missouri-Columbia, Missouri 65211.)
- 15:30 C10.06
The Validity/Utility of the Naive Time-reversal Operation
- H. E. Conzett (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)
- 15:42 C10.07
Ehrenfest's Theorem and the Quantum Hall Effect
- Malcolm H. Mac Gregor (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
- 15:54 C10.08
Heat Without Heat
- Elihu Lubkin (University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee 53201--0413)
- 16:06 C10.09
Observation of Atomic Antihydrogen
- David Christian (Fermilab), Glenn Blanford, Keith Gollwitzer, George Zioulas, Jonas Schultz, Mark Mandelkern (U.C. Irvine), Charles Munger
Session C11. GTG: Analyzing Data From Gravitational Wave Detectors.
Friday afternoon, 14:30, Room 4, Renaissance
- 14:30 C11.01
Data Analysis for Gravitational-wave Antennae
- Lee Samuel Finn (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University)
- 15:06 C11.02
Nonlinear filtering methods for searching for burst gravitational waves
- Eanna Flanagan (Cornell University)
- 15:18 C11.03
Pulsar Search using the Allegro Gravitational Wave Detector
- Evan Mauceli (LSU)
- 15:30 C11.04
Lessons learned from ALLEGRO
- Warren Johnson (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803)
- 16:06 C11.05
Coincidence Analysis Using the Multinomial Distribution
- Andrew Morse, William Hamilton, Warren Johnson, Evan Mauceli, Martin McHugh (Louisiana State University)
- 16:18 C11.06
Extending the Frequency Range of Gravity-Wave Interferometers by Magnetic Levitation and Other Techniques
- Ronald W. P. Drever (California Institute of Technology)
- 16:30 C11.07
Prediction of Test Mass Thermal Noise by Measurement of the Anelastic Aftereffect
- Mark A. Beilby, Peter R. Saulson (Syracuse University), Alex Abramovici (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
- 16:42 C11.08
Elimination of Possible Sources of Systematic Experimental Error in the Gravity Probe B Experiment
- G.M. Keiser, M. Heifetz, A. Silbergleit (W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Stanford University)
Session C'1. CAM97: Special Plenary Session: The Future of Science and Technology in North America.
Friday afternoon, 17:00, North Salon, Renaissance
- 17:00 C'1.01
Special CAM97 Plenary Session on the Future of Science and Technology in North America
- Moderator D. Allan Bromley (President, APS), Keynote address, Mary Good (Assistant Secretary, United States Department of Commerce), Remarks by, Carmen Cisneros (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), Beverly Robertson (Canadian Physical Society), D. Allan Bromley (The American Physical Society)
Session C'3. COM, DNP, CSWP: The Impact on Nuclear Physics and the Public of Jefferson Lab Programs on Education and Outreach.
Friday afternoon, 18:30, South Salon, Renaissance
- 18:30 C'3.01
Exciting Precollege Students and Teachers About Science: Examples from Jefferson Lab
- B. K. Hartline (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA)
- 19:06 C'3.02
The Hampton Experiment: the growing of a nuclear physics program
- Warren W. Buck (Hampton University and The Jefferson Laboratory)