Program overview

TUESDAY AFTERNOON, 18 MARCH 1997

Session G1. Nobel Prize.

Tuesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 1203C, Conv. Center

14:30 G1.01 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Robert F. Curl (Rice University)
15:06 G1.02 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Future of the Fullerenes
Richard E. Smalley (Rice University)
15:42 G1.03 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics
David M. Lee (Cornell University)
16:18 G1.04 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics
Douglas Osheroff (Stanford University)
16:54 G1.05 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics
Robert E. Richardson (Cornell University)

Session G2. DCMP: Quantum Hall Effects in Weak Fields.

Tuesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 1203B, Conv. Center

14:30 G2.01 Fate of Extended States and Localization Transition at Weak Fields
Kun Yang (Departments of Electrical Enigneering and Physics, Princeton University)
15:06 G2.02 Numerical Studies of the QHE at Low Fields
Dongzi Liu (University of California at San Diego)
15:42 G2.03 Reentrant Quantum Hall Effect at Low Fields
H. W. Jiang (University of California, Los Angeles)

Session G3. DCMP: Spin Ladders.

Tuesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 1203A, Conv. Center

14:30 G3.01 Neutron Scattering Study of Low Dimensional Quantum Magnets
Collin Broholm (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University)
15:06 G3.02 Theory of Spin Correlations in Antiferromagnetic Spin Ladders
Alexei Tsvelik (University of Oxford)
15:42 G3.03 Observation of a Dimerized State in the Quasi-One-Dimensional Magnet Sr_14Cu_24O_41
K. Katsumata (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research(RIKEN), Japan)
16:18 G3.04 Disorder Driven Phase Transitions in String Ordered Quantum Spin Chains
R. A. Hyman (Physics Department, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA, 30332)
16:54 G3.05 Magnetic Excitations in (VO)_2P_2O_7
Stephen Nagler (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Session G4. JT: Advanced Semiconductor Characterization, Instrumentation and Techniques.

Tuesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 2210A, Conv. Center

14:30 G4.01 Semiconductor Characterization with Acoustic and Thermal waves on Picosecond Timescales
Oliver B. Wright (PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST), Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060, Japan)
15:06 G4.02 Advanced photothermal characterization of thermal and electronic processes in Porous Silicon
Giampiero Amato (Istituto Elettrotecnico Nazionale Galileo Ferraris)
15:42 G4.03 Contactless Electromodulation Charact.of Wafer-Scale Semiconductor Device Structures at Room Temp.:HBT's, Pseudomorphic HEMT's & Quantum Well Lasers
Fred Pollack (NY State Ctr. for Advanced Technology in)
16:18 G4.04 Remote Laser-Induced Infrared Radiometric Non-Destructive Monitoring of Industrial Semiconductor Substrates and Devices
Alex Salnick (Photothermal and Optoelectronic Diagnostics Laboratories, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada M5S 3G8)
16:54 G4.05 Scanned-Probe Measurements of Semiconductor Materials and Devices
Grover C. Wetsel (The University of Texas at Dallas)

Session G5. FPS: Waste is a Terrible Thing to Mind.

Tuesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 2210C, Conv. Center

14:30 G5.01 Panel Discussion
David Bodde Moderator (University of Missouri-KC)
14:30 G5.02 Waste is a Terrible Thing to Mind: Perspectives on the Cleanup of the United States Nuclear Weapons Complex
David Bodde (University of Missouri-KC)

Session G7. DCP: Molecular Electronics and General Chemical Physics I.

Tuesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 4202A, Conv. Center

14:30 G7.01 Molecular Wires: A Friedel Sum Rule Approach
W. Tian, S. Datta (Purdue University)
14:42 G7.02 Electrostatic trapping of single conducting molecules and metallic nanocrystals between nanofabricated electrodes
A. Bezryadin, C. Dekker (Delft University of Technology, Dept. Applied Physics and DIMES, Lorentzweg 1, 2628 CJ Delft, The Netherlands)
14:54 G7.03 Exploring multidimensional free energy surfaces of peptides
Yan Wang, Krzysztof Kuczera (University of Kansas)
15:06 G7.04 Spontaneous onset of coherence and energy storage by a membrane transporter in an LCR electric circuit
Dean Astumian (University of Chicago), Imre Derenyi (Eotvos University)
15:18 G7.05 Measuring the atomic-scale structure of a Helmholtz `double layer'
T M Hayes, L B Lurio, J Pant (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), L Wang, T E Furtak (Colorado School of Mines)
15:30 G7.06 Kinetics of periodic and confined precipitationin agarose gels : 1 and 2-dimensional study
Chein-Shiu Kuo (), Rama Bansil (Boston University), E. Carbacos (Complutense Univ., Madrid, Spain)
15:42 G7.07 Novel Experiments In Picosecond X-Ray Diffraction
P. Chen (UCI), I.V. Tomov, P.M. Rentzepis
15:54 G7.08 Quantum-Statistical Corrections to Dynamic Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
D.P. Weitekamp, L.J. Mueller (A.A. Noyes Laboratory of Chemical Physics, California Institute of Technology)
16:06 G7.09 Nitrogen Nuclear Quadrupole Interactions in Heroin
Ranjit Pati, N. Sahoo, T.P. Das (State University of New York at Albany), S.N. Ray (Software Corporation of America, Lanham, MD)
16:18 G7.10 Non-adiabatic Transitions in the Photodissociation Dynamics of C_2H
Osman Sorkhabi, Victor M. Blunt, Hua Lin, William Fink, William M. Jackson (University of California, Davis)
G7.11

Session G8. DCP: Vibrational Dephasing and Relaxation in Liquids and Solids III.

Tuesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 4202B, Conv. Center

14:30 G8.01 Vibrational Energy Relaxation in Liquids and Cyrstals
Sergei Egorov (Columbia University)
15:06 G8.02 Mechanisms Contributing to Vibrational Relaxation in Polyatomic Solvents.
Branka M. Ladanyi (Dept. of Chemistry, Colorado State University), Richard M. Stratt (Dept. of Chemistry, Brown University)
15:18 G8.03 Vibrational Dephasing in Liquids with a Phonon Based Approach
Roger Loring (Department of Chemistry, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 14853)
15:54 G8.04 The Elementary Events in Vibrational Relaxation.
R. M. Stratt (Department of Chemistry, Brown University)
16:30 G8.05 A Two--Body Description of Vibrational Population Relaxation and Solvation in Dense Fluids
Ross E. Larsen, Edwin F. David, Grant Goodyear, Richard M. Stratt (Brown University)

Session G9. DMP: Critical Currents: Grain Boundaries.

Tuesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 1201, Conv. Center

14:30 G9.01 Implications of d-wave Symmetry and Faceting on the Transport Properties of Grain Boundaries in High-T_c Superconductors
Hans Hilgenkamp (University of Augsburg, Electronic Correlations and Magnetism, Experimentalphysik VI, Universitaetsstr. 1, D-86135 Augsburg, Germany)
15:06 G9.02 Twin Boundaries in d-wave Superconductors
D.L. Feder, A.J. Beardsall, A.J. Berlinsky, C. Kallin (McMaster University)
15:18 G9.03 Model for Twin-Boundary Grain-Boundary Interactions in YBa_2Cu_3O_7-x
M. B. Walker (University of Toronto)
15:30 G9.04 Flux penetration in bicrystal-substrate thin film YBCO Josephson junctions.
B.M. Hinaus, R.D. Redwing, M.S. Rzchowski (Applied Superconductivity Center, University of Wisconsin - Madison.)
15:42 G9.05 Current Transport Through Low-Angle Grain Boundaries in High-Temperature Superconductors
E.A. Pashitskii, A. Gurevich, D.C. Larbalestier (University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706)
15:54 G9.06 Superconducuting Properties of High-J_c Biaxially Aligned YBa_2Cu_3O_7-\delta Thick Films of Metallic Tape Substrates
D.K. Christen, D.P. Norton, A. Goyal, J.D. Budai, Qing He, C.E. Klabunde, R. Feenstra, D.M. Kroeger, D.F. Lee, F.A. List, M. Paranthaman, B. Saffian, E.D. Specht, M.F. Chisholm (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
16:06 G9.07 Experimentally Determined Superconducting Boudary Effects in S-N-S Multifilamentary Composites
M.D. Sumption, E.W. Collings (MSE, The Ohio State University, Columbus OH 43210, USA), S. Takacs (Electrotechnical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia)
G9.08 Transport Properties Of Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_8+\delta Bicrystals With Low Angle Tilt Grain-Boundary
Qiang Li, Y. N. Tsay, Y. Zhu, M. Suenaga (Department of Applied Sciences, Brookhaven National Lab, Upton, NY 11973), G. D. Gu, N. Koshizuka (Superconductivity Research Laboratory, ISTEC, Tokyo 135, Japan)

Session G10. HTSC: Spin Ordering.

Tuesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 1202A, Conv. Center

14:30 G10.01 The effect of Sr impurity disorder on the magnetic correlations of La_2-xSr_xCuO_4.
R. J. Gooding, N. M. Salem, K. Beach (Queen's University), R. J. Birgeneau, F. C. Chou (MIT)
14:42 G10.02 Single Ion Anisotropy, Crystal Field Effects, and Spin Waves in R_2CuO_4
R. Sachidanandam (School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv Univ., Tel Aviv 69978, Israel), T. Yildirim (Univ. of Maryland and NIST, Gaithersburg, MD), A.B. Harris (Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA), Amnon Aharony, O.E. Wohlman (School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv Univ., Tel Aviv, Israel)
14:54 G10.03 Observation of Pr Magnetic Order in PrBa_2Cu_3O_7,
S. Skanthakumar, J. W. Lynn (Reactor Radiation Division, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD 20899 and University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742), N. Rosov (Reactor Radiation Division, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD 20899), S. Uma (Max Planck Institut-FKF,Germany), A. Erb (University of Geneva, Switzerland), G. Cao, J. E. Crow (NHMFL, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32310)
15:06 G10.04 Praseodymium and Copper Magnetism in (Pr_1.5Ce_0.5)Sr_2Cu_2GaO_9
P.N. Rogers, T.G. Goodwin (), R.N. Shelton (Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, CA 95616)
15:18 G10.05 Anomalous Pr Magnetic Ordering of the 2212-Type Cuprates (Tl,Pb,Bi,Cu)_2(Sr,Ba)_2PrCu_2O_8+\delta
H.C. Ku, Y.Y. Hsu, T.I. Hsu, J.U. Lin, Y.H. Toh (Department of Physics,National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan 300, R.O.C.)
15:30 G10.06 The annealed positions of ferromagnetic bonds doped into a 2D antiferromagnet: a demonstration of magnetic phase separation.
N. M. Salem, R. J. Gooding (Queen's University)
15:42 G10.07 Search for a Copper Isotope Effect in the Antiferromagnetic Transition of CuO
D.D. Lawrie (Department of Physics, University of Alberta), J.P. Franck (University of Alberta)
15:54 G10.08 Local Enhancement of Antiferromagnetic Correlations by Nonmagnetic Impurities
Markus Laukamp, George Balster Martins, Elbio Dagotto (National High Magnetic Field Lab, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306,U.S.A.), José Riera (Instituto de Física Rosario, Argentina)
16:06 G10.09 Magnetic Studies of Ca_2CuO_2Cl_2 Above and Below T_N
Lance L. Miller, David Vaknin, Jerel L. Zarestky (Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University)
16:18 G10.10 An efficient implementation of high-order coupled-cluster techniques applied to quantum magnets.
Chen Zeng (Syracuse Univ.), D.J.J. Farnell, R.F. Bishop (UMIST)
16:30 G10.11 Spin Lattice Relaxation Contributions to ^63Cu Echo Decay in YBa_2Cu_4)_8
N.J. Curro, C.P. Slichter (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), B. Dabrowski (Argonne National Laboratory)
16:42 G10.12 NMR Spin Echo Shapes in Hi-Tc Superconductors.
Boris Fine (Physics Dept., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
16:54 G10.13 NMR in conducting samples thick compared to penetration depth.
C. T. Milling, C. P. Slichter, D. M. Ginsberg, J.-T. Kim (University of Illinois)
G10.14 Quantum disordered phase of a spin-1/2 frustrated square lattice antiferromagnet
M. E. Zhitomirsky (Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada), Kazuo Ueda (Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan)

Session G11. HTSC: Theory III: Stripes and Chains.

Tuesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 1202B, Conv. Center

14:30 G11.01 NMR Study of Magnetic Properties in La_(2-x)Sr_xNiO_4
P.C. Hammel, J.D. Thompson, Y. Yoshinari (Los Alamos National Laboratory), J. Neumeier (Florida Atlantic University)
14:42 G11.02 Landau Theory of Spin and Charge Stripes Ordering=20 in Cuprates and Nickelates
Oron Zachar, S.K. Kivelson (UCLA Physics Department), V.J. Emery (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
14:54 G11.03 d-Wave Pairing from Antiferromagnetic Droplets via the Spin-Gap Proximity Effect.
N.E. Bonesteel (Dept. of Physics and NHMFL, Florida State University.)
15:06 G11.04 Antiferromagnetic Hybridization and Stripes
Guillermo Castilla Canto, A. H. Castro Neto (University of California, Riverside)
15:18 G11.05 Stripes, Two Types of Carriers, and High T_c in the Cuptates
J. Ashkenazi (University of Miami)
15:30 G11.06 Striped Phases and Pseudogaps of Strongly Correlated 2D Holes
R.S. Markiewicz (Northeastern U., Boston)
15:42 G11.07 Phonon Modes in Striped Phases of Oxide superconductors.
J. Tinka Gammel, A.R. Bishop (Los Alamos National Laboratory), J. Zaanen (Leiden University)
15:54 G11.08 Cross-over Functions for the Impurity Susceptibility in the Spin-1/2 Antiferromagnetic Chain
Sebastian Eggert (Göteborg University and Chalmers TH, Sweden)
16:06 G11.09 Magnetization plateaus in spin chains: ``Haldane gap'' for half-integer spins
Masaki Oshikawa (UBC), Masanori Yamanaka (U. Tokyo), Ian Affleck (CIAR,UBC)
16:18 G11.10 Deviation from quantum-critical scaling in the spin-half Heisenberg chain
Oleg Starykh (Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611), Rajiv Singh (Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, CA 95616), Anders Sandvik (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL 61801)
16:30 G11.11 Separation of spin and charge excitation in 1D SrCuO_2.
C. Kim, Z.-X. Shen (SSRL), N. Motoyama, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida (University of Tokyo), T. Tohyama (Mie University), S. Maekawa (Nagoya and Tohoku University)
16:42 G11.12 Dynamics of a Dipole Chain
Jinming Sun, Weili Luo (Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816)
G11.13 Luttinger stripes in antiferromagnets
A.H. Castro Neto (UCR)
G11.14 Low-frequency dynamics of the spin-half Heisenberg chain at intermediate temperatures
Oleg Starykh (University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611), Anders Sandvik (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL 61801), Rajiv Singh (University of California, Davis, CA 95616)

Session G12. DCMP: Optical Properties of Superlattices.

Tuesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 1204A, Conv. Center

14:30 G12.01 Resonant Magnetopolaron Effects due to Barrier Interface Phonons in GaAs/AlGaAs MQWs.
Y.J. Wang (NHMFL), h.a. nickel, b.d. mccombe (SUNY at Buffalo), f.m. peeters, j.m. shi (U. Antwerpen), g.q. hai (U. Federal de Sao Carlo), X.g. Wu (Ins. of Semicond., Beijing), t.j. eustis, w. schaff (Cornell U.)
14:42 G12.02 Magneto-optical study of interband transitions in ZnTe/CdSe Quantum Wells
S. Stoltz, E.H. Lee, J. Haetty, H.C. Chang, A. Petrou, H. Luo (SUNY at Buffalo), P. Hawrylak (Institute for Microstructural Sciences, NRC, Ottawa)
14:54 G12.03 Study of Type-I and Type-II Interband Transitions in CdSe/ZnTe Superlattices
E.H. Lee, J. Haetty, S. Stoltz, H.C. Chang, H. Luo, A. Petrou (SUNY at Buffalo), J. Warnock (IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights)
15:06 G12.04 Optically Detected Resonance (ODR) Study of Electrons, Holes, and Excitons in GaAs/Al_0.3Ga_0.7As Multiple Quantum Well (MQW) Structures.
H.A. Nickel, G.S. Herold, M.S. Salib, B.D. McCombe, A. Petrou (SUNY at Buffalo), D. Broido (Boston College)
15:18 G12.05 Photoluminescence Investigation of p-type GaAs/AlGaAs Quantum Well Infrared Detectors(QWIPs) Designed for Normal Incidence Detection in the 10 micron region.
S. M. Hegde (Materials Directorate(WL/MLPO), Wright Laboratory, Wright Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7707), Gail J. Brown, Michael Capano (Materials Directorate(WL/MLPO),), Kurt Eyink (Materials Directorate(WL/MLBT), Wright Laboratory, Wright Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7707)
15:30 G12.06 A Voltage-Tunable Quantum Well Detector for Terahertz Radiation
G. Briceño, J. B. Williams, M. S. Sherwin (Physics Department and Center for Terahertz Science and Technology, UCSB), K. Campman, A. C. Gossard (Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara)
15:42 G12.07 Pressure Dependence of the Conduction-Band Mass: InGaAs/GaAs Single-Strained Quantum Wells
S. W. Tozer, T. Schmiedel (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory), E. D. Jones (Sandia National Laboratories)
15:54 G12.08 Magnetoluminescence Studies of n-Type InGaAs/InP Superlattices
E. D. Jones (Sandia National Laboratory), N. Kotera (Kyushu Institute of Technology), T. Mishima (Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi), N. Miura (Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo)
16:06 G12.09 Orientational superlattices in ordered GaInP_2
Yong Zhang, A. Mascarenhas (NREL, Golden, CO)
16:18 G12.10 Silicon-Based Intersubband Lasers
Lionel Friedman, Richard A. Soref (Rome Laboratory/EROC Hanscom AFB,MA 01731), Gregory Sun (Univ. Mass. Boston, Ma 02125)
16:30 G12.11 The Electronic and Vibrational Spectra of (GaAs)_m/\-(AlAs)_m Short Period Superlattices.
H. Kim, A. D. Alvarenga, R. Vogelgesang, A. K. Ramdas, M. Melloch (Purdue U.), H. R. Chandrasekhar (U. of Missouri, Columbia)
16:42 G12.12 Optical Properties of InGaN/GaN Superlattices
R. J. Radtke (Harvard University), C. G. Grein (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago), E. Runge (Humboldt Univ. at Berlin, FRG), H. Ehrenreich (Harvard University)

Session G13. DCMP: 1D + 2D Mesoscopic Systems.

Tuesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 1204B, Conv. Center

14:30 G13.01 Dephasing in Mesoscopic Systems.
P. Mohanty, E.M.Q. Jariwala, R.A. Webb (University of Maryland)
14:42 G13.02 Fermion Mappings for Logarithmic Coulomb Gas
M.B. Hastings (MIT)
14:54 G13.03 Multi-Channel Kondo Effect in an Interacting Electron System
Mats Granath, Henrik Johannesson (Chalmers University of Technology and Göteborg University,Sweden)
15:06 G13.04 Surface Acoustic Wave measurements of a long 1-dimensional channel
C.J.B. Ford, J.M. Shilton, V.I. Talyanskii, J.E.F Frost, M. Pepper, C.G. Smith, V. Drouot, D.A. Ritchie, G.A.C. Jones (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE)
15:18 G13.05 Edge singularities in TLL transport
V. Ponomarenko (University of Tokyo and A.F.Ioffe PTI), N. Nagaosa (University of Tokyo)
15:30 G13.06 Effective mass renormalization and 1D-subband carrier depopulation in parallel magnetic field
C. Gustin, J-P. Leburton (Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801)
15:42 G13.07 Mesoscopic Behavior Near a Two-Dimensional Metal-Insulator Transition
Dragana Popovi\'c (Dept. of Physics, City College of CUNY and NHMFL/Florida State University), S. Washburn (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
15:54 G13.08 Statistical Analysis of Magnetoconductance in a Mesoscopic 2DEG
Kuo-Ping Li (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Dragana Popovi\'c (Dept. of Physics, City College of CUNY and NHMFL/Florida State University), Sean Washburn (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
16:06 G13.09 Wave-length Tunable FIR Detector Using Perpendicular Photoconductivity in a Lateral Superlattice
E.H. Aifer, B.B. Goldberg (BU), J.F Furneaux (OU)
16:18 G13.10 Differential conductance of a saddle-point constriction with a time-modulated gate-voltage
Chi-Shung Tang, C.S. Chu (National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan, R.O.C.))
16:30 G13.11 Spectral Statistics in Disordered Metals: Trajectories Approach
R A Smith, I V Lerner (University of Birmingham, UK), B L Altshuler (NEC Research Institute)
16:42 G13.12 Quantum fluctuation effects on 2D Superconductor-Insulator- Normal metal junctions
Fei Zhou, Boris Spivak (Physics Department, University of Washington)
G13.13 Measurement of the distribution of total transmission of microwave radiation in absorbing random media with low values of the dimensionless conductance
Marin Stoytchev, Azriel Genack (Department of Physics, Queens College of CUNY, New York State Center for Advanced Technology, 65-30 Kissena Boulevard, Flushing, NY 11367)

Session G14. DCMP: Highly Correlated Metals: Low D Theory.

Tuesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 1205, Conv. Center

14:30 G14.01 Soliton Lattices in Spin-Peierls Systems.
Valery Kiryukhin (Princeton University)
15:06 G14.02 Luttinger Theorem in One Dimensional Metals
Krastan B. Blagoev, Kevin S. Bedell (Physics Department, Boston College)
15:18 G14.03 Correlation Functions of Luttinger Liquids at Finite Size and Temperature
Sebastian Eggert, Ann Mattsson (Göteborg University and Chalmers TH, Sweden)
15:30 G14.04 Superconductivity in the One-Dimensional Extended Hubbard Model
R.Torsten Clay, David K. Campbell (University of Illinois)
15:42 G14.05 Transport properties of one-dimensional interacting fermions in aperiodic potentials
Juan Carlos Chaves, Indubala Satija (George Mason Univ)
15:54 G14.06 Low temperature dynamics of one-dimensional spin gap systems
Subir Sachdev (), Kedar Damle (Yale University)
16:06 G14.07 Non-Fermi Liquids in Higher Dimensions
David Lidsky (Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo), Yasuhiro Hatsugai (Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo), Mahito Kohmoto, Jun'ichi Shiraishi (Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo)
16:18 G14.08 Random dimerized spin-1/2 chains: A numerical study
Patrik Henelius, Steven M. Girvin (Department of Physics, Indiana University), Ross Hyman (Department of Physics, Georgia Tech)
16:30 G14.09 Polarons and Bipolarons in the Holstein model
Eric Jeckelmann, Steven R. White (University of California, Irvine)
16:42 G14.10 Optical Conductivity of the Half-Filled 1D Hubbard Model
A. W. Sandvik, D. K. Campbell (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), N. M. R. Peres, J. M. P. Carmelo (University of Évora, Portugal)
G14.11 String solutions of Hofstadter problem
A.G Abanov, J.C. Talstra, P.B. Wiegmann (Univ. of Chicago)
G14.12 Insulator-Metal Transition in the One and Two-Dimensional Hubbard Models
F. F. Assaad (Department of Physics, University of California,Santa Barbara, CA-93106), M. Imada (Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, 7-22-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106, Japan.)

Session G15. DCMP: Oxide, Halide, and Polymeric Glasses.

Tuesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 2201, Conv. Center

14:30 G15.01 New Interatomic Potentials For Silicas
Ersan Demiralp, Tahir Cagin, William A. Goddard III (California Institute of Technology)
14:42 G15.02 Sytemmatic Construction of Large Periodic Structural Models for Covalent glasses and Interfaces
Lizhi Ouyang, W.Y. Ching (University of Missouri-Kansas City)
14:54 G15.03 Low Frequency Raman Scattering in Alkali Silicate Glasses
J. Toulouse, R.K. Pattnaik, C. McIntosh, R. Sommer (Physics Department, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015)
15:06 G15.04 Non-exponential Structural Relaxation, Anomalous Light Scattering, and Nanoscale Inhomogeneities in Glasses
M Lee, C T Moynihan, J Schroeder (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
15:18 G15.05 Nonequilibrium acoustic response of glasses at low temperatures
Douglas Natelson, Danna Rosenberg, Douglas D. Osheroff (Stanford University)
15:30 G15.06 X-ray Scattering from Fusion-Drawn Aluminosilicate Glass Surfaces
Christopher C. Umbach (), John M. Blakely (Cornell University)
15:42 G15.07 The Structure of Iron Phosphate Glasses: A Novel Medium for the Disposal of High Level Nuclear Waste
G.K Marasinghe, M Karabulut, C.S. Ray (University of Missouri-Rolla)
15:54 G15.08 Optical Studies Of Chromophore-Doped Sol-Gel Derived Low Density Silica Aerogels, Xerogels, and Thin Films for Electroluminescent Applications
Sally A. Cahill Glauser (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and University of California, Davis), Howard W. H. Lee (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
16:06 G15.09 Kinetics of Phase Formation in a Glass Ceramic Base Glass Studied With Different Small-Angle Scattering Techniques
Rainer Brueckner, Ulrich Lembke, Rainer Kranold (Universität Rostock, Germany)
16:18 G15.10 Structural and Thermodynamic Studies of a Transparent Vitro- ceramic
A.R. Kortan, H.S. Chen, N. Kopylov, C.H. Chen (Bell Labs. Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ 07974)
16:30 G15.11 Spectroscopy of optically-induced index changes in Cr- and Ce- doped fluorozirconate glasses
G. A. Thomas, D. H. Rapkine, A.R. Kortan, N. Kopylov, C.M. Varma (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ)
16:42 G15.12 Elastic Properties of Vulcanised Matter in the Amorphous Solid State
H. E. Castillo, P. M. Goldbart (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), A. Zippelius (Universität Göttingen)
16:54 G15.13 Path Dependence of the Fragility of Polymeric Glass Formers
Dina M. Colucci, Gregory B. McKenna (NIST)
G15.14 Anomalous low temperature dielectric properties of CKN
Douglas Natelson, Danna Rosenberg, Douglas D. Osheroff (Stanford University)
G15.15 Characterization of the Localization Properties of Vibrational Modes in Models of Amorphous Materials
Joseph L. Feldman (Naval Research Laboratory), Gerhard E. Engel (George Mason University and Naval Research Laboratory)

Session G16. DCMP: Liquid Crystals in Confined Geometries.

Tuesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 2214, Conv. Center

14:30 G16.01 Fluid Flow in 2D-like Liquid Films
Xiao-lun Wu (Department of Physics, University of Pittsburgh)
15:06 G16.02 Shear Induced Topological Defects in Free-standing Liquid-Crystal Membranes
D. Dash, X-l. Wu (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA)
15:18 G16.03 Atomic Force Microscopy of Transferred Freely Suspended Liquid Crystal Films
Baek-woon Lee, Noel A. Clark (Condensed Matter Laboratory, Physics Department, University of Colorado at Boulder)
15:30 G16.04 Optical Reflectivity Studies of One and Two Layer Free-Standing Liquid-Crystal Films
M. Veum, P. Mach, C.C. Huang (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455)
15:42 G16.05 Hexatic Behavior and Surface Freezing in Liquid Crystals
John T. Ho (State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo NY 14260-1500)
16:18 G16.06 Pair Annihilation of Topological Defects in Freely Suspended Films of a Smectic C Liquid Crystal Material
Darren R. Link, Anuranjita Tewary, Valeriy Ginzburg, Noel A. Clark (Condensed Matter Laboratory, Physics Department, University of Colorado at Boulder)
16:30 G16.07 Theory of Smectic Liquid Crystals with Application to Surface-Induced Bulk Alignment
Y. R. Shen, X. Zhuang (Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley)
16:42 G16.08 Temperature Dependent Structural Study of Partially Confined Smectic Liquid Crystals
L.J. Martinez-Miranda (University of Maryland), Yushan Shi (), Satyendra Kumar (Kent State University)
16:54 G16.09 Ordered phases in Langmuir Monolayers of an Azobenzene derivative
M.K. Durbin, A. Malik, A.G. Richter, C.-J. Yu, V. Bhashyam, P. Dutta (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern Univ.), R. Eisenhower (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
G16.10 Liquid Crystal Orientational Order in Silica Aerogels
G.S. Iannacchione, B. Zalar, H. Zeng (), D. Finotello (Kent State University)

Session G17. DCMP: Metal Surfaces: Physisorption.

Tuesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 2215, Conv. Center

14:30 G17.01 The dynamics of an elastic graphite substrate
L. W. Bruch (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
14:42 G17.02 Simulations of the fluid phase of nitrogen molecules adsorbed on the basal planes of graphite: structural and dynamical effects of the corrugation in the holding potential.
F.Y. Hansen (Technical University of Denmark), L.W. Bruch (University of Wisconsin--Madison), H. Taub (University of Missouri--Columbia)
14:54 G17.03 Wetting transitions of Ne on alkali metal surfaces
M. J. Bojan, M. W. Cole, W. A. Steele (Penn State Univ.)
15:06 G17.04 Quasiepitaxial Growth of n-Butane on a Ag(111) Surface
Z. Wu, B. Matthies, K. W. Herwig, H. Taub (U. of Mo.-Columbia), S. N. Ehrlich (Purdue U.^2)
15:18 G17.05 Quasielastic Neutron Scattering and Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Molecular Conformational Changes in Adsorbed Monolayers
K. W. Herwig, Z. Wu, P. Dai, H. Taub (University of Missouri-Columbia), F. Y. Hansen (Technical University of Denmark)
15:30 G17.06 Neutron Diffraction from Long-alkane Multilayers Adsorbed on Graphite
B. Matthies, K. W. Herwig, H. Taub (U. of Mo.-Columbia)
15:42 G17.07 Defect induced binding of water and salicylic acid on epitaxial alkali halide layers.
U. Malaske, H. Pfnür, Chr. Tegenkamp, M. Henzler (Institut für Festkörperphysik, U. of Hannover, Germany)
15:54 G17.08 Retardation Effects in Ultra-Low Energy Scattering and Physisorption
A.V.G. Chizmeshya (Dept. of Physics and Astromomy, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ)
16:06 G17.09 Theory of the STM imaging of graphite defects with C_60-adsorbed STM tips
Kevin F. Kelly, Naomi J. Halas (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University, Houston, Texas)
16:18 G17.10 STM/HREELS study of C_60 on the Al(111) surface
Tsutomu Kobayashi, C. Tindall, Y. Hasegawa, T. Sakurai (Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-77 Japan), H. Shinohara (Department of Chemistry, Nagoya University, Nagoya 454, Japan)
16:30 G17.11 Molecular Hydrogen Formation on and Desorption from Low Temperature Surfaces of Astrophysical Interest
Gianfranco Vidali (Syracuse University), Valerio Pirronello (Universita' di Catania (Italy)), Liyong Shen, Chi Liu (Syracuse University)
16:42 G17.12 Temperature Dependent Surface Structure of Liquid Mercury
E. DiMasi, O.M. Magnussen, B.M. Ocko (Brookhaven National Laboratory), M. Deutsch (Bar-Ilan Univ., Israel), H. Tostmann, O.G. Shpyrko, M.J. Regan, P.S. Pershan (Harvard University)

Session G18. DCMP: Optical Properties: Dynamics and Surface Effects.

Tuesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 2205, Conv. Center

14:30 G18.01 Interband Hole Scattering in Ge Studied by Femtosecond Pump-Probe Reflectivity
Stefan Zollner (Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011)
15:06 G18.02 Is Reversality Violated?
D.F. Nelson, A.L. Ivanov (WPI)
15:18 G18.03 Exactly Solvable Model of Surface Sum Frequency Generation
W. Luis Mochan (Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México), Bernardo S. Mendoza, J. Cruz (Centro de Investigación en Optica, León, Guanajuato, México), Jesus A. Maytorena (Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México)
15:30 G18.04 Sum Frequency Generation at Metal Surfaces
Jesus A. Maytorena (Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México), W. Luis Mochan (Laboratorio de Cuernavaca, Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México), Bernardo S. Mendoza (Centro de Investigaciones en Optica, León, Guanajuato, México)
15:42 G18.05 Calculation of the Optical Response of Noble Metals in vacuum and electrolytes
Catalina Lopez-Bastidas (Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México), W. Luis Mochan (Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México)
15:54 G18.06 Differential Reflectance and Atomic Structure of (001) Diamond Surface: Experiment.
J.E. Butler, P.E. Pehrsson (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC), V.I. Gavrilenko, F.H. Pollak (Brooklyn College of CUNY, Brooklyn, NY)
16:06 G18.07 Differential Reflectance and Atomic Structure of (001) Diamond Surface. Theory.
V.I. Gavrilenko (Brooklyn College of CUNY, Brooklyn, NY), F. Bechstedt (Institut fuer Festkoerpertheorie und theoretische Optik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet, Jena, Germany)
16:18 G18.08 Magnetic Field Dependence of ac Conductivity in UNiSn
B. Love, H.K. Ng, C.J. Cope (Department of Physics and MARTECH, Florida State University), Y.J. Wang (NHMFL), T. Yuen, C.L. Lin (Department of Physics, Temple University)
G18.09 Optical Spectroscopy of GaAs(100) Surfaces: Theory and Experiment
A.I. Shkrebtii (University of Toronto), N. Esser, W. Richter (Technische Universität Berlin), W.G Schmidt, F. Bechstedt (Institut für Festkörpertheorie und Theoretische Optik, Jena), A. Kley (Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG, Berlin), R. Del Sole (II Universita di Roma)
G18.10 Phase and Polarization Contrast Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy
T.J. Yang, U. Mohideen (UC Riverside)

Session G19. DMP/Gmag: Coercivity in Rare-Earth Magnets: Theory and Practice.

Tuesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 2206, Conv. Center

14:30 G19.01 Structure and Magnetic Properties of (Ce_1-xPr_x)_3Co_8Si Compounds.
T. Matsui, Z.S. Shan, R.D. Kirby, D.J. Sellmyer (Behlen Laboratory of Physics and Center for Materials Research and Analysis, University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
14:42 G19.02 Bond-Order-Potential Theory of Chemical Bonding, Solute Systematics, and Lattice Defects in RE_1TM_5 and RE_2TM_17 Permanent-Magnet Compounds
David O. Welch (Materials Science Division, Dept. of Applied Science, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973)
14:54 G19.03 Relationships Between Iron-Iron Interatomic distances and Magnetic Properties in Several Rare Earth - Transition Metal Intermetallics
W.J. James, G.K. Marasinghe (University of Missouri-Rolla), W.B. Yelon (University of Missouri-Columbia)
15:06 G19.04 Coercivity of Nanocrystalline and Nanocomposite Permanent Magnets
G. C. Hadjipanayis (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 19716, USA)
15:42 G19.05 Coercive Mechanisms in Rare Earth Permanent Magnets
S. Hirosawa (Sumitomo Special Metals Co., Ltd.)
16:18 G19.06 Magnetic Properties and Microstructure of Melt--Spun Sm(Co-Fe-Cu-Zr)_zM_x (M\! =\! B or C) Nanocomposite Magnets
W. Manrakhan (), L. Withanawasam, X. Meng-Burany, Z.M. Chen, G.C. Hadjipanayis (University of Delaware)
16:30 G19.07 Magnetic Properties and Microstructure of Some 2:17 High Temperature Magnets
X. Meng--Burany, George C. Hadjipanayis, S. T. Chui (University of Delaware)
16:42 G19.08 Technical Magnetic Properties of Nanoscale (Nd_1-xPr_x)_2Fe_14B at Low Temperature
L. H. Lewis (Division of Applied Science, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, U.S.A.), V. Panchanathan (Magnequench International, Inc., 6435 Scatterfield Road, Anderson, Indiana, U.S.A.)

Session G20. DLS: Probing Electron Dynamics at and Near Surfaces with Ultrafast Lasers.

Tuesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 2207, Conv. Center

14:30 G20.01 Femtosecond Time-Resolved Photoemission Studies of Electron Dynamics at Surfaces
Yongli Gao (University of Rochester)
15:06 G20.02 Surface and bulk hot electron dynamics in silicon
Seongtae Jeong (Department of Physics, UC Berkeley), Jeffrey Bokor (Department of EECS, UC Berkeley)
15:18 G20.03 Ultrafast Carrier Dephasing and Relaxation Near a Silicon Surface by Two-Color Reflecting Transient Grating Scattering
T. Sjodin, H.L. Dai (University of Pennsylvania), H. Petek (Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd., Japan)
15:30 G20.04 Femtosecond Two-Photon Photoemission Study of Layered Semiconductor SnS%_2% at Room- and Low-Temperature
Su Xu, S. Diol, A. Makinen, D. A. Mantell, A. A. Muenter, G. M. Mason, B. A. Parkinson, R. J. D. Miller, Y. Gao (Center for Photoinduced Charge Transfer, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627)
15:42 G20.05 Femtosecond Harmonic Photoemission from Semiconductor Surfaces
U.O. Karlsson (Department of Materials Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, S-100 44 Stockholm)
16:18 G20.06 Femtosecond and Picosecond Hot Electron Dynamics at GaAs (100) Surfaces
S.J. Diol, S. Xu, A.J. Makinen, Y. Gao (Center for Photoinduced Charge Transfer, University of Rochester), R.J.D. Miller (Departments of Chemistry and Physics, University of Toronto)
16:30 G20.07 Dynamics of Electrons in Xe Quantum Wells
Jason McNeill, N.-H. Ge, C. M. Wong, R. L. Lingle Jr., C. B. Harris (Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, and Chemical Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720)
16:42 G20.08 Ultrafast Two-Photon Photoemission Study of Perylene Bisimide Pigments
A.J. Makinen, S. Xu, S. Diol, A.R. Melnyk, D.A. Mantell, Y. Gao, G.M. Mason, A.A. Muenter (Center for Photoinduced Charge Transfer, University of Rochester)
16:54 G20.09 Measurement of optical dephasing in Cu(111) by interferrometric two-photon time-resolved photoemission
S. Ogawa, H. Nagano, H. Petek (Hitachi Advanced Research Lab. Japan), A. Heberle (Hitachi Cambridge Lab. UK)
17:06 G20.10 Photmodulated Second Harmonic Spectroscopy at the Si(001)/SiO2 Interface Using Femtosecond Pulses
J.I. Dadap (Columbia University), P.T. Wilson, M. Terbeek, M.C. Downer (University of Texas at Austin), O.A. Aktsipetrov, E.D. Mishina (Moscow State University)
17:18 G20.11 Pulsed Terahertz Output Dependence on Substrate Properties
A.G. Markelz, E.J. Heilweil (Physics Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD)
17:30 G20.12 Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Electronic Structure of Met-Car Ti_8C_12
Lai-Sheng Wang, San Li, Hongbin Wu (Department of Physics, Washington State University and Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest Nation= al Laboratory*)

Session G21. DBP: Molecular Motors and Stochastic Ratchets.

Tuesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 2213, Conv. Center

14:30 G21.01 Thermal Ratchets and Molecular Motors: An Introductory Survey
Marcelo Magnasco (The Rockefeller University)
15:06 G21.02 Motor Mechanics: Experimental Studies of Individual Motor Proteins
Christoph Schmidt (University of Michigan)
15:42 G21.03 The bacterial flagellar motor: a new mechanism for energy transduction.
Timothy C. Elston (University of California, Berkeley and Los Alamos National Laboratory.)
16:18 G21.04 A Stochastic Ratchet for Particle Separation: Theory and Experiment
Martin Bier (University of Chicago)
16:54 G21.05 A Statistical Physicist's Approach to Biological Motion: From the the Kinesin Walk to Muscle Contraction
Tamas Vicsek (Department of Atomic Physics, Eotvos University, Budapest, Puskin u. 5-7, 1088 Hungary)

Session G22. DMP: Wide-Band-Gap Semiconductors IV: Optical Spectroscopy of GaN.

Tuesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 4300H, Conv. Center

14:30 G22.01 Photoluminescence of Hexagonal and Cubic MBE-grown GaN Thin Films
J. Krueger, Christian Kisielowski, Michael Leung, Ralf Klockenbrink (), Zuzanna Liliental-Weber (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA), Michael Rubin (), Eicke R. Weber (Department of Materials Science, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA)
14:42 G22.02 SHG Spectroscopy of GaN/Al_2O_3 Below the Band Gap
W. E. Angerer, N. Yang, A. G. Yodh (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104), M. A. Khan, C. J. Sun (APA Optics, Blaine, MN 55449)
14:54 G22.03 Femtosecond Four-Wave-Mixing Studies of Nearly Homogeneously Broadened Excitons in GaN
A.J. Fischer, G.H. Park, J.J. Song (Oklahoma State University), D.S. Kim, D.S. Yee (Seoul National University), R. Horning, B. Goldenberg (Honeywell Technology Center)
15:06 G22.04 Efficient Ab Initio Method for the Calculation of the Non-Linear Optical Response in Semiconductors: Application to Wide-Band-Gap Semiconductors.
S.N. Rashkeev, W.R.L. Lambrecht, B. Segall (Physics Dept., Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH 44106-7079)
15:18 G22.05 Low-Temperature Optical Degradation of Band-Edge Photoluminescence (PL) of GaN
C. Kothandaraman, D. Li, I. Kuskovsky, J. Holland, G.F. Neumark (HKSM, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027), J.M. Redwing, R.P. Vaudo (Epitronics, Danbury, CT)
15:30 G22.06 Temperature dependence of the energies and broadening parameters of the excitonic interband transitions in Ga_0.95Al_0.05N
L. Malikova, Y.S. Huang, F.H. Pollak (Brooklyn College of CUNY, Brooklyn, NY 11210), Z.C. Feng, C. Tran, R.A. Stall (EMCORE Corp., Somerset, NJ 08873)
15:42 G22.07 Raman Analysis of Electron-Phonon Interaction in GaN Films
L. Bergman, M.D. Bremser, J.A. Christman, S.W. King, R.F. Davis, R.J. Nemanich (Dept. of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.)
15:54 G22.08 Multiphoton Photolumiscence from GaN with Tunable Picosecond Pulses
Doseok Kim, I. H. Libon, C. Voelkmann, Y. R. Shen, V. Petrova-Koch (Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley)
16:06 G22.09 Strain Effects on Excitonic Transitions in GaN
W. Shan, A.J. Fischer, R.J. Hauenstein, J.J. Song (Oklahoma State University), W.G. Perry, M.D. Bremser, R.F. Davis (North Carolina State University), B. Goldenberg (Honeywell Technology Center)
16:18 G22.10 Spectroscopic Studies of Excitons in GaN
S.J. Hwang, W. Shan, A.J. Fischer, B.D. Little, J.J. Song (Oklahoma State University), G. Cantwell (Eagle-Picher Labs)
16:30 G22.11 Hole scattering and optical transitions in wide bandgap nitrides: wurtzite and zincblende structures
J.B. Jeon, Yu. Sirenko, B.C. Lee, J. Wang, K.W. Kim, M.A. Littlejohn (ECE, North Carolina State University)
G22.12 Surface Morphology and Optical Characterization of GaN Grown on (0001) \alpha-Al_2O_3 by RF-assisted MBE
M. Yeadon, F. Hamdani, F. Xu, A. Salvador, O. Aktas, A. Botchkarev, L. Zhou, J.M. Gibson, H. Morkoc (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Session G23. DMP: Magnetoresistive Oxides II: Magnetic Ordering.

Tuesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 4300F, Conv. Center

14:30 G23.01 Electronic structure of layered La_1.2Sr_1.8Mn_2O_7: full-potential LMTO study
A.J. Freeman, D.L. Novikov (Science and Technology Center for Superconductivity^, Northwestern U.)
14:42 G23.02 Step by step snapshots of the ferromagnetic metal to paramagnetic insulator in La_0.8Ca_0.2MnO_3 and La_0.67Ca_0.33MnO_3
Amar Nath, Vladimir Chechersky (Department of Chemistry, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104), H. L. Ju, J. L. Peng, R. L. Greene (Center for Superconductivity Research, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742)
14:54 G23.03 Oxygen Isotope Effect Investigation in the CMR Compound La_0.65Ca_0.35MnO_3
J.P. Franck (), Weimin Chen (University of Alberta), J. Chrzanowski (), J.C. Irwin (Simon Fraser University)
15:06 G23.04 Muon Studies of Magnetic Ordering and Relaxation in Manganites
Robert H. Heffner (Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS K764, Los Alamos, N. M. 87545)
15:42 G23.05 Magnetization and Magnetoresistance Studies in Perovskite La_2/3A_1/3MnO_3 manganites (A = Ca, Ba and Sr)
K. Ghosh, R. Shreekala, A. Goyal, M. Rajeswari, C. Kwon, R. Ramesh, T. Venkatesan, R. Greene (Center for Superconductivity Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742)
15:54 G23.06 Structural and magnetic properties of La_0.5Ca_0.5MnO_3
J.A. Fenandez-Baca, P. Dai, S.E. Nagler, B. Chakomakos (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), P. Schiffer, N. Kalechfsky, M. Roy, Yee-Kin Tsui (University of Notre Dame)
16:06 G23.07 Determination of the Critical Exponent \beta of La_0.7Sr_0.3MnO_3
M. A. Manheimer (Laboratory for Physical Sciences, College Park, Maryland), S. M. Bhagat, S. E. Lofland Jr. (Dept. of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland), S. G. Karabashev, Y. M. Mukovskii (Moscow State Steel and Alloys Institute)
16:18 G23.08 Short Range Spin Correlations in the CMR Material La_1.4Sr_1.6Mn_2O_7
T.M. Kelley, D.N. Argyriou, R.A. Robinson, H. Nakotte (Los Alamos Neutron Science Center, Los Alamos National Laboratory, MSH805, Los Alamos, NM, 87545), J.F. Mitchell, R. Osborn (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, 60439)
16:30 G23.09 Neutron scattering study on a single crystal of La_1\frac23Sr_\frac13NiO_4.
S.-H. Lee (University of Maryland, College Park, MD and N.I.S.T., Gaithersburg, MD 20899), S-W. Cheong (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ 07974)
16:42 G23.10 Evidence of Charge Disproportionation in LaMnO_3 by Pulsed Neutron Diffraction
Despina Louca, T. Egami (University of Pennsylvania)
16:54 G23.11 Magnetic and ferroelectric ordering in YMnO_3.
Y.E. Medvedeva (Ural State U., Russia), N.I. Medvedeva (Institute of Solid State Chemistry, Yekaterinburg, Russia), O.N. Mryasov, D.L. Novikov, A.J. Freeman (Northwestern U.^)
17:06 G23.12 Magnetic Properties of the Double Exchange Model
Jun Zang, H. Röder, A.R. Bishop, S.A. Trugman (LANL)
G23.13 Geometrical parameter effects on magnetoresistance in LCMO thin films
Yoon Hee Jeong, Soo Hyun Park, K.-B. Lee (Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology)

Session G24. DMP: Materials Theory/Electronic and Atomic Structure Novel Methods.

Tuesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 4300B, Conv. Center

14:30 G24.01 Real-Space Multigrid Calculations for Surfaces, Interfaces, and Proteins
J. Bernholc (North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8202)
15:06 G24.02 Incorporation of an Adaptive Real Space Grid in the Projector Augmented Wave Method
A.R. Tackett, R.B. Dunning, G. Eric Matthews, N.A.W. Holzwarth (Wake Forest University)
15:18 G24.03 Structural Properties of the BeO System using an Adaptive Plane Wave Methods based on Density Functional Theory
In-Ho Lee (Beckman Institute, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Richard M. Martin (Department of Physics, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
15:30 G24.04 Electronic structure calculation approach based on the finite element method(Work supported by the Campus Laboratory Collaborations Program of the University of California.)
John E. Pask, Barry M. Klein, C. Y. Fong (University of California at Davis)
15:42 G24.05 Linear Scaling Solution of the Coulomb Problem using Wavelets
Oleg Ivanov (P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia), Stefan Goedecker (Max-Planck Institute, Stuttgart, Germany)
15:54 G24.06 Finite difference wavelet-optimized grid calculations of a hydrogen impurity in a quantum dot
Vivek Rao, Richard M. Martin (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), In-Ho Lee, Leonardo Fonseca (Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
16:06 G24.07 Atomic and electronic structure calculations for large number of molecules and clusters by parallel computation.
Shuhei Ohnishi (NEC Fundamental Research Labs.)
16:18 G24.08 Wannier functions obtained from projection - An effective way of accelerating current order-N schemes
Uwe Stephan, David Drabold (Ohio University)
16:30 G24.09 Locally self-consistent Green's function method: an order-N % technique for electronic structure calculations
I.A. Abrikosov, B. Johansson (Condensed Matter Theory Group, Uppsala University, Sweden)
16:42 G24.10 Toward a Total Energy Tight-Binding Hamiltonian Based on the Linear-Muffin-Tin-Orbital Method
Dane Morgan, Didier de Fontaine (UCB, LBNL), Mark Asta (Sandia National Laboratory, CA)
16:54 G24.11 An Order(N) Scheme for the Calculation of the Total Energy and the Atomic Force
C.S. Jayanthi, N.S. Luo, S.Y. Wu, Z.L. Xie, G. Yang (University of Louisville)

Session G25. DMP: Fullerenes II: Nanotubes.

Tuesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 4300D, Conv. Center

14:30 G25.01 Electronic Properties Of Bulk, Single Wall, Carbon Nanotube Material At Low Temperatures
R.D. Antonov, A.T. Johnson (University of Pennsylvania), R.E. Smalley, A. Thess (Rice University)
14:42 G25.02 Carbon Nanotube Conductivities Studied with a Sliding Electrical Contact
Philip G. Collins, A. Zettl (Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, and Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley CA 94720), H. Bando (Physical Science Division, Electrotechnical Laboratory, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan)
14:54 G25.03 Thermoelectric Power of Carbon Nanotubes
I. Ellwood, J. Hone, M. Muno, A. Zettl (Physics Department of University of California at Berkeley and Materials Sciences Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.)
15:06 G25.04 Single-Electron Transport in Ropes of Carbon Nanotubes
Marc Bockrath, David Cobden, Paul McEuen, Nasreen Chopra, Alex Zettl (University of California, Berkeley), Andreas Thess, Richard Smalley (Rice University)
15:18 G25.05 Extended discrete electron states in individual single-wall carbon nanotubes
S. J. Tans, H. M. Devoret, L. J. Geerligs, C. Dekker (Delft University of Technology, Dept. Applied Physics and DIMES, Lorentzweg 1, 2628 CJ Delft, The Netherlands), H. Dai, A. Thess, R. E. Smalley (Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice Quantum Institute, and Depts of Chemistry and Physics, MS-100, Rice University, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251, U.S.A.)
15:30 G25.06 Raman Intensity of Carbon Nanotubes.(This work was supported by NSF and the Japanese Ministry of Education.)
R. Saito, T. Takeya (Department of Electronics Engineering, University of Electro-Communications, Chofugaoka, Chofu, 182 Tokyo, Japan), G. Dresselhaus, M.S. Dresselhaus (MIT, Cambridge, MA. 02139)
G25.07
15:54 G25.08 Quantum conductance of metal/metal carbon nanotube heterojunctions
Lorin X. Benedict, Leonor Chico, Steven G. Louie, Marvin L. Cohen (Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, and Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
16:06 G25.09 Landauer's formula conductance of nanotube junctions
Ryo Tamura, Masaru Tsukada (University of Tokyo)
16:18 G25.10 Resonant Raman Scattering in Carbon Nanotubes: Theory
Ernst Richter, K.R. Subbaswamy (University of Kentucky)
16:30 G25.11 The Far Infrared Transmission of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes from 1.5K to 350K.
J. Orenstein, W. Holmes, R. Mallozzi, P.L. Richards, J. Hone, A. Zettl (UC Berkeley Physics and MSD at LBNL)
16:42 G25.12 Hall effect and magnetoresistance of thin films of carbon nanotubes
Gabriel Baumgartner, Michel Carrard, Libero Zuppiroli, Wolfgang S. Bacsa, Walt A. de Heer, László Forró (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland)
G25.13 Diameter-Selective Raman Scattering from Vibrational Modes in Carbon Nanotubes
A. M. Rao, E. Richter, S. Bandow, B. Chase, P. C. Eklund, K. A. Williams, S. Fang, K. R. Subbaswamy, M. Menon, A. Thess, R. E. Smalley, G. Dresselhaus, M. S. Dresselhaus (Department of Physic amp; Astronomys, ^Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky; ^#IMS, Okazaki, Japan; ^**Dupont Experimental Station; ^***Department of Chemistry, Rice University; ^****Department of Physics, MIT)
G25.14 Electronic Structure and Localized States at Carbon Nanotube Tips
J.-C. Charlier, X. Blase, A. De Vita, R. Car (IRRMA, IN-Ecublens, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.)
G25.15
G25.16 A New Method for the Determination of the Elastic Properties of Nanoscaled Specimens
Nobuyuki Osakabe, Ken Harada, Mark Lutwyche, Hiroto Kasai, Akira Tonomura (ARL, Hitachi)

Session G26. DMP: Dislocations in Deformed Materials I.

Tuesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 4300A, Conv. Center

14:30 G26.01 Forms of Arrangement of Dislocations in Plastic Deformation of Crystalline Solids
Ali Argon (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
15:06 G26.02 High-resolution diffraction imaging of single-crystal Al deformed in situ
L. E. Levine (Washington State University), D. R. Black, G. G. Long (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
15:18 G26.03 Ultra-small-angle x-ray scattering by single-crystal Al deformed in situ
Gabrielle Long (N.I.S.T.), Lyle Levine (Washington State University)
15:30 G26.04 Analytic theory for X-ray scattering by dislocations in crystals
Robb Thomson (Emeritus, National Institute of Standards and Technology), L. E. Levine (Washington State University)
15:42 G26.05 Dislocation Tunneling Suppression in the Normal State for Single Crystal Aluminum
D.M. McKay, T. Kosugi (), A.V. Granato (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
15:54 G26.06 Dislocation Motion At Low Temperatures
J.M. Galligan (Dept. of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering and Institute of Materials Science, Univ. of Connecticut), A. Krokhin (Instituto de Fisica de la UAP, Mexico), J. Galligan (University of Connecticut)
16:06 G26.07 Tilt-Effect in the Electron Drag of Dislocations in Metals
L. Gumen (Universidad Popular Autonoma del Estado de Puebla, Mexico), A. Krokhin (Instituto de Fisica de la UAP, Mexico), J. Galligan (University of Connecticut)
16:18 G26.08 Deuterium Magnetic Resonance of Residual Hydrogen in Crystalline N-Type Silicon After Long-Term Out-Diffusion.(Supported in part by NSF 93-05344.)
R. Borzi, D. Leopold, P. Fedders, R. Norberg (Washington University, St. Louis, MO), J. Boyce, N. Johnson (Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA)
16:30 G26.09 Spatially Resolved Electronic Structure of Dislocation/Stacking Fault Structures in Si
P.E. Batson (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center)

Session G27. DMP: Granular Materials, Avalanches, Fracture and Related Instabilities I.

Tuesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 4300C, Conv. Center

14:30 G27.01 Force Fluctuations in Granular Media
S. N. Coppersmith (The University of Chicago)
15:06 G27.02 Driven Dissipative Gases: Phase Transitions in Simple Granular Materials
David R.M. Williams (Institute of Advanced Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia.)
15:18 G27.03 What Determines the Direction of Granular Convection?
Heinrich Jaeger (The University of Chicago), James Knight (Princeton University), Sidney Nagel (The University of Chicago)
15:30 G27.04 Reversibility and Irreversibility in the Packing of Vibrated Granular Material
E.R. Nowak, J.B. Knight, M. Povinelli, H.M. Jaeger, S.R. Nagel (James Franck Institute, The Unversity of Chicago)
15:42 G27.05 Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Particle Dynamics in a Rotating Drum Mixer
K.M. Hill, J. Kakalios (University of Minnesota), A. Caprihan (The Lovelace Institutes)
15:54 G27.06 Propagation of Acoustic Perturbations in Granular Columns
James D. Wright (Physics Dept., Univ. of Kent, Canterbury), Robert S. Sinkovits (Naval Research Lab., Washington, DC 20375), Somnath Pal (Physics Dept., Penn. State Univ. - Univ. Park, PA 16802), Surajit Sen (Physics Dept., State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260)
16:06 G27.07 Effects of Controlled Wetting on the Repose Angle in Granular Media
P. Schiffer, A.-L. Barabasi, D. J. Hornbaker, R. Albert, I. Albert (Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556)
16:18 G27.08 Internal States of Dense Granular Systems
F. Radjai (Theoretische Physik, Gerhard-Mercator Universität, Germany)
G27.09 Effect of velocity gradients on the dynamics of flowing grains
Narayanan Menon, D.J. Durian (UCLA Dept. of Physics)

Session G28. DMP: Hydrogen in Metals.

Tuesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 4300E, Conv. Center

14:30 G28.01 Direct Visual Observation of Hydrogen Migration in a Switchable Metal-Hydride
M. Kremers, R. Griessen, J.N. Huiberts (Institute COMPAS, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands), F.J.A. Den Broeder (Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, the Netherlands)
14:42 G28.02 Interpretation of the Small Angle X-Ray Scattering Pattern of Hydrogen in Aluminum
C.E. Buckley (), H.K. Birnbaum (U of I, Urbana), S. Spooner (), J.S. Lin (ORNL)
14:54 G28.03 NMR Studies of Yttrium Trideuteride
John Balbach, Mark Conradi (Washington University)
15:06 G28.04 Modeling the Rate of Hydrogen Absorption by Ti-based Icosahedral Quasicrystals
J.W. Hanneken, A.M. Viano (Department of Physics, The University of Memphis, Memphis,TN), K.F. Kelton, P.C. Gibbons (Department of Physics, Washington University, St.Louis,MO)
15:18 G28.05 Low Temperature Proton Relaxation in Laves-Phase Metal Hydrides
R.D. Stoddard, M.S. Conradi (Washington University, St. Louis), A.V. Skripov (Institute for Metals Physics, Ekaterinburg, Russia)
15:30 G28.06 Charge transfer mechanism of H-induced intergranular embrittlement of iron.
Lieping Zhong, A. J. Freeman, G. B Olson (Northwestern Univ.), Ruqian Wu (California State Univ., Northridge.)
15:42 G28.07 Electronic Structure and Binding Energies of Hydrogen Decorated Vacancies in Ni
H.P. Zheng, B.K. Rao, S.N. Khanna, P. Jena (Virginia Commonwealth University)
15:54 G28.08 Measurement of Hydrogen Absorption in Ti Using Elastic Recoil Detection (ERD)
M.A. Teter, N.R. Shivaparan, R.H. Barnes, R.J. Smith (Montana State University, Bozeman MT 59717)
G28.09 Determination of the Thickness Distribution for Platelets in the Aluminum Hydrogen System
C.E. Buckley (), H.K. Birnbaum (U of I, Urbana), S. Spooner (), J.S. Lin (ORNL)

Session G29. DHPP: Dillon Medal Symposium.

Tuesday afternoon, 14:30, Room 4203, Conv. Center

14:30 G29.01 The Early Stages of Nucleation and Growth in Polymer Mixtures
Nitash Balsara (Polytechnic University, Brooklyn)
15:06 G29.02 The Behavior of \chi in Isotope Blends
Buckley Crist (Northwestern Univ)
15:18 G29.03 Phase Behavior of Nominally Athermal Polymer Blends.
Sanat Kumar, Jeffrey Weinhold (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.)
15:30 G29.04 Fluctuation Theory of Diblock Copolymer/ Homopolymer Blends
L. Kielhorn, M. Muthukumar (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
15:42 G29.05 Experimental and Theoretical Phase Behavior of Diblock Copolymer Blends
Paul M. Lipic, Mark W. Matsen, Damian A. Hajduk, Jin Zhao, Frank S. Bates (University of Minnesota)
15:54 G29.06 Rheology of Matched Diblock and Triblock Copolymers in the Cylindrical and Spherical Morphologies.
C.Y. Ryu, M.S. Lee, D.A. Hajduk, T.P. Lodge (University of Minnesota)
16:06 G29.07 "Homogenization" of Polymer Blends by Shear Flow
C. C. Han, S. Kim, J.-W. Yu, J. F. Douglas, E. K. Hobbie (NationalInstitute of Standards and Technology)
16:18 G29.08 Effect of Shear on Order-Disorder and Order-Order Transitions in Block Copolymers
Micheal C.-Y. Huang, M. Muthukumar (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
16:30 G29.09 Trajectories of Shear-Induced Alignment of Lamellar Block Copolymers
J. A. Kornfield, Z.-R. Chen, A. Issaian (California Institute of Technology), S. D. Smith, J. T. Grothaus, M. M. Satkowski (Procter and Gamble.)
16:42 G29.10 Solvent Distribution in Weakly Ordered Block Copolymer Solutions
C. Huang, M. W. Hamersky, K. J. Hanley, T. P. Lodge (University of Minnesota)
16:54 G29.11 Block Copolymer Adhesion Measured by Contact Mechanics Methods
A. Falsafi, S. Bates, M. Tirrell (Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota), A.V. Pocius (3M Corporation)
17:06 G29.12 Miscibility of Polyolefin Blends
David Lohse (Exxon Research & Engineering Co.)
17:18 G29.13 Effect of Architecture and Conformational Asymmetry on Interfacial Curvature and Long Range Order in Microphase Separated Block and Graft Copolymers
Samuel P. Gido, Darrin Pochan (), Chin Lee (Polymer Science and Eng. Dept., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA), Jimmy Mays (Department of Chemistry, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL)

Session G'30. DHPP: Charged Polymers.

Tuesday afternoon, 15:06, Room 4204A, Conv. Center

15:06 G'30.01 Liquid State Theory of Ionomeric Polymers.
Kathleen Kolbet, Kenneth Schweizer (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
15:18 G'30.02 The Cation Environment in a LiI Doped PEO melt via Neutron Scattering and MD Simulations
J. D. Londono, B. K. Annis (Oak Ridge Nat. Lab.), O. Borodin, G. D. Smith (Univ. of Miss.-Columbia)
15:30 G'30.03 Polyelectrolyte Brushes: Novel Synthesis, Surface Force and Ellipsometric Study.
Svetlana Sukhishvili, Steve Granick (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Carl Kessel (3M Company, St. Paul, MN.)
15:42 G'30.04 Solvent Polarity Effects in Ionomer Solutions.
Srinivas Nomula, Stuart Cooper (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE.)
15:54 G'30.05 Integral Equation Theory for the Conformational Properties and Static Structure Factor of Polyelectrolyte Solutions
Arun Yethiraj, Chwen-Yang Shew (Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI 53706.)
16:06 G'30.06 The Structure of Flexible Polyelectrolytes at Non-zero Concentrations.
James P. Donley, Andrea J. Liu (U. C. Los Angeles^1)
16:18 G'30.07 Phase Behavior of Ionomer Solutions in Non-polar Solvents
R. A. Weiss, K. Chakrabarty, T. A. P. Seery (University of Connecticut)
16:30 G'30.08 Theory of Inhomogeneous Weakly Charged Polyelectrolytes
An-Chang Shi, Jaan Noolandi (Xerox Research Centre of Canada)
16:42 G'30.09 Conformational Properties of Charged Polymers in Poor Solvents
Chwen-Yang Shew, Arun Yethiraj (Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI 53706)
16:54 G'30.10 Origin of Attractive Interactions between Two Like-charged Rods
Bae-Yeun Ha, Andrea J. Liu (UCLA)
17:06 G'30.11 Microphase Behavior Of Hydrogen Bonded Polystyrenesulfonate Ionomers From Dynamic Light Scattering Measurements
Thomas A. P. Seery, Kaushik Chakrabarty, Amit Sehgal, Robert A. Weiss (Polymer Program, University of Connecticut, Storrs CT)
17:18 G'30.12 Entangled States of Charged Polymers
Namkyoung Lee, Sergei Obukhov (University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611), Michael Rubinstein (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599)

Session G'4. Business Meeting - Instrument and Science Topical Group.

Tuesday evening, 17:30, Room 2210A, Conv. Center

Session G'17. FIAP: Business Meeting - Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics.

Tuesday evening, 17:30, Room 2215, Conv. Center

Session G'27. DMP: Business Meeting -- Division of Materials Physics.

Tuesday afternoon, 17:30, Room 4300C, Conv. Center

Session G'29. DHPP: Business Meeting - Division of High Polymer Physics.

Tuesday evening, 17:30, Room 4203A, Conv. Center