Program overview

FRIDAY MORNING, 7 NOVEMBER 1997

09:00 DA.01 A History of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society

L. Worth Seagondollar (North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27612)

09:35 DA.02 The Development of the George B. Pegram Award

Myron S. McCay (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, TN)

10:10 DA.03 History of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Vanderbilt: A Report

Wendell G. Holladay (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235)

10:45 DA.04 Physics at Fisk University

Nelson Fuson (Fisk University, Nasvhille, TN)

09:00 DB.01 Planar and Spherical Shock Waves Initiated by Infrared Laser Ablation of Crystalline Calcite

R. F. Haglund, O. Yavas, M. R. Papantonakis, E. L. Maddocks (Vanderbilt University)

09:12 DB.02 H/Ru(0001): ERD Measurements of Coverage and Sticking Coefficient

Curtis F. Walters (University of Pennsylvania and ORNL), John P. Pierce (University of Tennessee and ORNL), David M. Zehner (ORNL)

09:24 DB.03 Ultrahigh Density Data Storage on a New Organic Charge Transfer Complex System

Hongjun Gao (ORNL), Zhengquan Xue, Huiying Chen, Shijing Pan (Beijing Laboratory of Vacuum Physics), Steve Pennycook (ORNL)

09:36 DB.04 Raman Spectra of Yttrium Aluminum Borate Glasses and Glass-Ceramics

Juronica Bradley, Montel Brooks, Tiffany Crenshaw, Ayesha Morris, Steven Morgan (Center for Photonic Materials and Devices, Fisk University, Nashville, TN)

09:48 DB.05 Organic Thin Films: Thickness dependence of electrical and optical properties

Robert A. Weller, C. H. M. Marée, Y. Wu, L. C. Feldman (Vanderbilt University), K. Pakbaz, H. W. H. Lee (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

10:00 DB.06 Free Radicals in X-Irradiated Polyethylene

K.S. McKinny, M.J. Jahan (University of Memphis)

10:12 DB.07 Synthesis and Structure of Si and Ge Clathrates

B. Gao, O. Zhou (UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599), S. Kuroshima, K. Tanigaki (NEC Fundamental Research Lab, Tsukuba, Japan)

10:24 DB.08 Synthesis and Characterization of Pristine and Alkali Metal Intercalated Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Chris Bower, Otto Zhou, Laurie E. McNeil (UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599), Katsumi Tanigaki (NEC Fundamental Research Lab, Tsukuba, Japan), Satoru Suzuki (NTT Science and Core Technology Lab, Tokyo, Japan)

10:36 DB.09 Influence of Geometry on Quadrupolar Order-Disorder Transition in Solid N_2: Dielectric Response

S. Pilla, Jaha A. Hamida, K. A. Muttalib, N. S. Sullivan (Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611)

10:48 DB.10 Study of Dielectric Response of Quadrupolar Glasses using High Sensitivity AC Capacitance Bridge

S. Pilla, Jaha A. Hamida, N. S. Sullivan (Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611)

11:00 DB.11 Selection Criteria for New Materials For Thermoelectric Applications

T.M. Tritt (Clemson University)

11:12 DB.12 Effect of Isoelectronic Substitution of Thermopower and Resistivity of Hf_1_-_XZr_XTe_5

R.T. Littleton IV, M.L. Wilson, R. Feger, M.J. Marone, J. Kolis, T.M. Tritt (Clemson University), F. Levy (Institut de Physique Appliquee, Laussanne, Switzerland)

11:24 DB.13 Study of the electronic properties of filled skutterudites as a potential thermoelectric material

M. Fakhruddin, M.L. Wilson, T.M. Tritt (Clemson University), G.S. Nolas (Marlow Industries)

11:36 DB.14 Thermoelectric Properties of Stable Icosahedral Phase Quasicrystals

A.L. Johnson, M.L. Wilson, T.M. Tritt (Clemson University), S. Legault (McGill University)

11:48 DB.15 Phase Transition Study of Columnar Thermotropic Liquid Crystal by X-ray Transmission

Moin Sarkar (Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN 37209-1561.), N. Spielberg (Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242), H. Zimmermann (Max Planck Inst. f. Medizinische Forschung, D-6900 Heidelberg,Germany.)

09:00 DC.01 Neutrino and Anti-neutrino Reactions in Nuclei

S.L. Mintz (Florida International University)

09:22 DC.02 Determining the Strength of the Tensor Force from Polarization Observables

B. W. Raichle (Western Carolina U)

09:44 DC.03 Polarized Parity Violating Electron Scattering in ^3H at Intermediate Energies

G.M. Gerstner, S.L. Mintz, M.A. Barnett, M. Pourkaviani (Florida International University)

09:56 DC.04 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance System for a Polarized Deuteron Target

J. O. Poole, C. R. Gould, D. G. Haase, B. W. Raichle, J. R. Walston (NC State U and TUNL), M. L. Seely (TJNAF), W. Tornow (Duke U and TUNL)

10:08 DC.05 Measurement of the d(e,e'p)n Reaction at Large Recoil Momenta

Boeglin Werner U. (Physics Department, Florida International University), A1 Collaboration (Insitut für Kernphysik, Univesität Mainz, Germany)

10:20 DC.06 Analyzing powers for ^12C(^6\vecLi,d) at E(^6\vecLi) = 50 MeV

T.L. Drummer, E.E. Bartosz, P.D. Cathers, M. Fauerbach, K.W. Kemper, E.G Myers (Florida State University), K. Rusek (SINS, Warsaw)

10:32 DC.07 A New Approach in Searching for Quark-Gluon Plasma at the AGS

Timothy E. Miller (Vanderbilt University), Sean Gavin (Columbia University), Senta V. Greene (Vanderbilt University)

10:44 DC.08 Four-fold Coincidence Analysis in RadWare

C.J. Beyer (Vanderbilt University), D.C. Radford (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

10:56 DC.09 Polarized Parity Violating Electron Scattering in ^3He

S.L. Mintz, G.M. Gerstner, M.A. Barnett, M. Pourkaviani (Florida International University)

11:08 DC.10 New Developments in Small-Angle Electron Scattering

Z. Felfli, A.Z. Msezane, D. Bessis (Clark Atlanta University)

09:00 DD.01 New Techniques in the Theory of Electron-Multiple Scattering and Electron Dose Calculations

M. Waleed Gaber, Yunping Zhu (St.Jude Children's Res. Hospital and University of Memphis.)

09:12 DD.02 A Spherical Electrode Array for the Detection of Stretched Induced Arrhythmias

M.E. Kieron, K.P. Parker, J.W. Wikswo (Vanderbilt)

09:24 DD.03 Effects of Osmotic Stress on the Probability of Stretch-Induced Cardiac Arrhythmias

KK Parker, LK Taylor, CJ Wray, JP Wikswo, DE Hansen (Vanderbilt University)

09:36 DD.04 Effect of a Volume Conductor on the Transmembrane Potential Distribution over the Epicardial Surface of the Heart

David C. Latimer, Bradley J. Roth (Vanderbilt University)

09:48 DD.05 The magnetic field of gastrointestinal smooth muscle activity

Alan Bradshaw, JK Ladipo, William Richards, John Wikswo (Vanderbilt University)

10:00 DD.06 Time Dependence of Anodal and Cathodal Refractory Periods in Cardiac Tissue

Jonathan A. Bennett, Bradley J. Roth (Vanderbilt University)

10:12 DD.07 3-D Measurement and Visualization of Electrical Propagation on Heart Surface

Shien-Fong Lin, John P. Wikswo (Vanderbilt University)

10:24 DD.08 A Comparison of the Activation Enthalpies for Ionic Conduction in Animal and Plant Tissue

Francis X. Hart (The University of the South)

10:36 DD.09 Correlation between visible absorption spectra and enthalpies of electron transfer to biologically active low- symmetry cupric sites.

A.S. Brill (U. of Virginia)

10:48 DD.10 The Development and Detection of Conformations of DNA Bases: 2-Aminopurine Fluorescence Decays and NMR

Thomas Nordlund, Kervin Evans (University of Alabama at Birmingham)

11:00 DD.11 Infrared and swelling study of wet-spun films of DNA\cdot[(bipy)Pt(en)]^2+ as a function of hydration

A. Kuebler (Un. of Toledo), K.B. Whitson, R.L. Marlowe (Un. of Tenn. at Chat.), S.A. Lee (Un. of Toledo), A. Rupprecht (Un. of Stockholm)

11:12 DD.12 Differential Scanning Calorimetric Study and Potential Model of the Binding of the Primary Water of Hydration to K-Hyaluronate

K.B. Whitson, R.L. Marlowe (Univ. of Tenn. at Chat.), A.M. Lukan, S.A. Lee, L. Anthony (Univ. of Toledo), A. Rupprecht (Univ. of Stockholm)

11:24 DD.13 Effect of Base Sequence "Defects" on the Electrostatic Potential of Dissolved DNA

Scott V. Adams, Katrina Wagner, Thomas S. Kephart, Glenn Edwards (Vanderbilt University)

11:36 DD.14 Cooperative Quantum Effect Modeling a Living Cell

Robert Finkel (St. John's University)

11:48 DD.15 A Plant's Response to Gravity as a Wave Guide Phenomenon

Orvin Wagner (Wagner Research Laboratory)