Program overview

THURSDAY AFTERNOON, 6 NOVEMBER 1997

13:30 BA.01 Chaos in Quantum Many-Body Systems

G.E. Mitchell (NC State University, Raleigh, NC and Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Durham, NC)

14:05 BA.02 Controlling Chaos in Fast Optical Systems

Daniel J. Gauthier (Duke University, Department of Physics and Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems, Durham, NC 27708)

14:40 BA.03 Angular Distribution Study of the ^29Si(p,\gamma) Reaction

C.A. Grossmann, L.K. McLean, G.E. Mitchell, E.F. Moore, J.D. Shriner (NCSU/TUNL), E.G. Bilpuch, C.R. Westerfeldt (Duke Univ./TUNL), J.F. Shriner Jr. (Tenn.Tech.Univ.), D.C. Powell (UNC/TUNL)

14:52 BA.04 Surface distortion effects on the ground state energy of quantum dot Helium

Babak Etemadi, Mario Encinosa (Florida Aamp;M University)

15:04 BA.05 Fabrication and Characterization of Bismuth Oxide Quantum Dots in Porous Vycor Glass

Tarivia Taylor, D. Denmark, A. Ueda, Y.S. Tung, M.H. Wu, R. Mu, D.O. Henderson (CPL, Department of Physics, Fisk University, Nashville, TN 37208)

15:16 BA.06 Invariant Lyapunov Exponents: Diagnosing Chaos in Extended Phase Space

R. Dwayne Ramey (Tennessee State University), N. L. Balazs (SUNY at Stony Brook)

15:28 BA.07 Structure Factors and Scattering Behaviors of Fractal Clusters

Yuanji Tang (Center for Laser Applications, University of Tennessee Space Institute)

15:40 BA.08 Trajectories for a Two-Dimensional Quartic Potential.

K. Oyedeji (Morehouse College), R. E. Mickens (Clark Atlanta U.)

13:30 BB.01 Time-Resolved Infrared Transmission and Reflection Spectroscopy of Optical-Pulse-Induced Phase Transitions in GaAs.

Brian J. Keay, Marcus Mendenhall, Glenn S. Edwards (Dept. of Physics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235)

13:42 BB.02 Study of zero-bias anomaly in tunnel conductivity of Au/GaAsSb contacts

Tatiana Allen (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga), Khalim Nazhmudinov, Tatiana Polyanskaya (A.F.Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences)

13:54 BB.03 Photoluminescence Measurements of Tensile Strained GaAs/InAlAs Double Quantum Wells

Zhijiong Luo, Laurie E. McNeil (UNC-CH), Q.W. Meng, Theda Daniels-Race (Duke University)

14:06 BB.04 Optically Detected Resonance Spectroscopy of Intersubband Transitions in GaAs/AlAs Multiple Quantum Wells

G. S. Herold, M. S. Salib, A. Petrou, B. D. McCombe (SUNY at Buffalo), G. Mensing, J. Gilligan, N. Tolk (Vanderbilt University), M. Dutta, J. Pamulapati, P. G. Newman (Army Research Lab, Ft. Monmouth)

14:18 BB.05 Electric and magnetic Field Dependence of the Electronic Resistivity in 2D Quantum Well Systems.

J. E. Hasbun (State University of West Georgia)

14:30 BB.06 Optical polaron effect on the electronic states of a heterojunction potential

S. L. Ban, J. E. Hasbun (State University of West Georgia)

14:42 BB.07 Spectral Shift of Galvanomagnetic Luminescence at Constant Magnetic Field in N-Type Indium Antimonide

Floyd James (North Carolina A amp; T State University), Paul Berdahl (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Fernando Diaz (Universitad Metropolitana, San Juan, Puerto Rico)

14:54 BB.08 Infrared Wavelength-Selective Photodesorption from Diamond Films

Judit Sturmann, Royal G. Albridge, Jonathan M. Gilligan, Gunter Luepke, Norman H. Tolk (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt university), Jimmy L. Davidson (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vanderbilt University)

15:06 BB.09 Ballistic Electron Emission Microscopy and Spectroscopy of Platinum-Gallium Nitride Interfaces

Nicole Morgan, Robert Nemanich, Kieran Tracy (North Carolina State University)

15:18 BB.10 Physical Vapor Transport Growth and Characterization of PbI_2

Wright Gomez, Monica Cole, Kuo-Tong Chen, Henry Chen, Kaushik Chattopadhyay, Arnold Burger (Center for Photonic Materials and Devices, Department of Physics, Fisk University), Laura Fornaro (Radiochemistry Department, Faculty of Chemistry, Montevideo, Uruguay)

15:30 BB.11 Crystal Growth and Characterization of Lead Iodide

Ying-Fang Chen, Kuo-Tong Chen, Henry Chen, Kaushik Chattopadhyay, Arnold Burger (Center for Photonic Materials and Devices, Department of Physics, Fisk University)

13:30 BC.01 Configuration in the Time Domain

T. F. Gallagher (University of Virginia)

14:05 BC.02 Temperature determination from aluminum monoxide spectra

Ivan Dors, C. G. Parigger, J. O. Hornkohl, J. W. L. Lewis (Center for Laser Applications, University of Tennessee Space Institute)

14:17 BC.03 Measurements of focal volume characteristics of lens-axicon doublets

Guoming Guan, Christian Parigger, Jim W. L. Lewis (B.H. Goethert Parkway, UTSI, Tullahoma, TN37388)

14:29 BC.04 Analysis of molecular emission spectra

Guoming Guan, Christian Parigger, Jim Hornkohl, Jim W. L. Lewis (B.H. Goethert Parkway, UTSI, Tullahoma, TN37388)

14:41 BC.05 Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption and Ionization using a Free Electron Laser

M. R. Papantonakis, M. L. Baltz-Knorr, R. F. Haglund, O. Yavas (Vanderbilt University), W.P. Hess (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

14:53 BC.06 Efficient Counting of Single Molecules with Sub-100 Microsecond Transit Times

Lloyd M. Davis (Center for Laser Applications, University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, TN37388)

15:05 BC.07 Time-Resolved Images of Laser-Induced Gas Ignition Using High-Speed Photographic and Spectroscopic Techniques

Ying-Ling Chen, J.W.L. Lewis, C.G. Parigger (Center for Laser Applications, University of Tennessee Space Institute)

15:17 BC.08 Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy of Cesium Atoms in a Cesium Heat Pipe

Robert G. Ardis, Bernard W. Gardner, R. Seth Smith (Francis Marion University)