Program overview

FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 7 NOVEMBER 1997

13:30 EA.01 Laser Annealing and Laser Ablation

Richard F. Wood (Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

14:05 EA.02 Materials Research with the Vanderbilt Free-Electron Laser

Norman Tolk (Vanderbilt University, USA)

14:40 EA.03 Atomic-scale dynamics driven by intense infrared radiation

Maurizio Ferconi (Department of Physics, Vanderbilt University)

15:15 EA.04 Ultrafast spectroscopy of laser-driven shock waves in solids

Dana Dlott, Jens Franken, Selezion A. Hambir (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

15:50 EA.05 High order resonances in Above Threshold Ionization

Marcus P. Hertlein (Physics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mi 48109-1120 USA)

13:30 EB.01 Peer Instruction in Large Introductory Physics Lectures

Michael Schatz (School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology)

14:05 EB.02 Using Mathematica to Motivate Upper Division Physics Majors

L.W. Martin (North Park University)

14:40 EB.03 Integrating Multimedia and Physics Problems

Aaron P. Titus (North Carolina State University)

15:15 EB.04 Conceptual Optics

Michael Paesler (Physics Department, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8202)

13:30 EC.01 Light-Cone Quark Model Phenomenology of Mesons

Chueng-Ryong Ji (North Carolina State University)

14:05 EC.02 Effective potential and mixing angles of (ømega,\phi) and (\eta,\eta') in the light-cone quark model

Ho-Meoyng Choi, Chueng-Ryong Ji (NCSU)

14:17 EC.03 Dynamical String-Parton Model with Particle Identification for Relativistic Collisions

D.E. Malov, D.J. Ernst, A.S. Umar (Vanderbilt University), D.J. Dean (Physics Division,Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

14:29 EC.04 Report from the Fermilab HyperCP Experiment: Search for CP Violation in

Charles Merrill Jenkins (University of South Alabama), HyperCP Collaboration

14:41 EC.05 On the Proton Parity

George L. Strobel (University of Georgia, Athens Ga 30602 USA)

14:53 EC.06 Dynamical String Fluids in General Relativity

Larry Smalley (UAH), J. P. Krisch (UMICH)

15:05 EC.07 The Development of a Modified Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Cosmological Model Using an Initial Global Rotation for an Imperfect Relativistic Fluid

Charles Stein (The University of Tennessee Space Institute)

15:17 EC.08 A Tale of Three Equations: Breit, Eddington-Gaunt, and Two-Body Dirac

Horace Crater, Peter Van Alstine (The University of Tennessee Space Institute)

15:29 EC.09 Solution to the Problem of Runaway Solutions in QED

R.F. O'Connell (Louisiana State University)

15:41 EC.10 Boltzmann Neutrino Transport in Core Collapse Supernovae

O. E. Bronson Messer (University of Tennessee), Anthony Mezzacappa (ORNL), Steve Bruenn (Florida Atlantic University), Michael Guidry (University of Tennessee and ORNL)

15:53 EC.11 One loop contribution to symmetry breaking around a wormhole

A. L. Choudhury (Elizabeth City State University, Elizabeth City, NC)

16:05 EC.12 Grand Quantum Gravitation

Ronald R. Kotas (Grand Quantum Research)