Program overview

SATURDAY MORNING, 8 NOVEMBER 1997

09:00 GA.01 What is biological physics?

Frank Moss (University of Missouri at St. Louis)

09:35 GA.02 Dynamics of Radical-Mediated Enzyme Catalyses

Kurt Warncke (Department of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322)

10:10 GA.03 Light Scattering and Absorption Studies of Sickle Cell Hemoglobin

Daniel Kim-Shapiro (Physics Department, Wake Forest University)

10:45 GA.04 Meandering of Spiral Waves in the Heart

Bradley J. Roth (Dept. Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University.)

09:00 GB.01 The Optics Project (TOP)

John T. Foley (Mississippi State University)

09:35 GB.02 Computational Physics at a Liberal Arts College

Wolfgang Christian (Davidson College)

10:10 GB.03 Photoluminescence spectroscopy of porous silicon using near-field scanning optical microscopy

Patrick J. Moyer (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223)

10:45 GB.04 Experiments For A Modern Physics Lab Using a Crystal X-Ray Generator

S.M. Shafroth (Physics and Astronomy Dept, University of NC at Chapel Hill)

09:00 GC.01 Tunneling of Massive Flux Lines in a High T_c Superconductor at absolute Zero

B. N. Narahari Achar (University of Memphis), M. Waleed Gaber (University of Memphis and St.Jude Children's Research Hospital)

09:12 GC.02 Heat capacity of BSCCO Whiskers

Matthew J. Marone (Clemson University), James E. Payne (South Carolina State University)

09:24 GC.03 Depth-selective Eddy Current Techniques Using SQUID Magnetometers

Yupei Ma, John P Wikswo Jr. (Vanderbilt University)

09:36 GC.04 A new SQUID system for corrosion measurements

Abedi Afshin, John Fellenstein, John P. Wikswo Jr (Vanderbilt University)

09:48 GC.05 Picosecond Relaxation Phenomena in Metal Nanocrystal Composites

D. H. Osborne, H. Chen, G. Luepke, R. H. Magruder, I. Perakis, R. F. Haglund (Vanderbilt University)

10:00 GC.06 Proton NMR Study of Nanocrystalline Beta-Phase Pd Hydride

John W. Hanneken (University of Memphis), D. Blane Baker (Ouachita Baptist University), Jeff Eastman (Argonne National Laboratory)

10:12 GC.07 Island Diffusion and Coarsening on Metal (100) Surfaces

Anna Swan, Woei Wu Pai, Zhenyu Zhang, John Wendelken (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

10:24 GC.08 Copper Oxide Thermally Grown on Copper Evaporated Films Exposed to MolecularOxygen

Kim Hanjung, A.T. Fromhold Jr (Auburn University)

10:36 GC.09 Impurity induced structural transformation of an MgO grain boundary

Yanfa Yan, Steve Pennycook, Matt Chisholm (ORNL), Sokrates Pantelides (Vanderbilt University)

10:48 GC.10 Lee-Yang Zeros of the 3-State Potts Model

Richard Creswick (University of South Carolina), Seung-Yeon Kim

11:00 GC.11 Analysis of Spatial Patterns in Secondary Flows Generated by Torsional Oscillating Spheres in Stratified Fluids

R.F. Folse, C. W. Piker, E. M. Quin (University of Southern Mississippi)

11:12 GC.12 Plasma Properties of an Exploding Semiconductor Igniter

J.S. McGuirk, K.A. Thomas (Wright Laboratory, Eglin AFB, FL), E. Shaffer (United States Military Academy, West Point, NY), A.L. Malone, T. Baginski, M.E. Baginski (Department of Electrical Engineering, Auburn University, AL.)

11:24 GC.13 Development of a Fiber Optic Biosensor based on Surface Plasmon Resonance

Robert D. Clapsadle, Milan C. Buncick (University of Memphis), Todd R. Doweny, Thomas L. Ferrell (Oak Ridge National Lab and University of Tennessee - Knoxville)

11:36 GC.14 Estimating Subsurface Physical Properties of Rocks and Fluids by Inversion of Surface Seismic Date

A.K. Benson (Brigham Young University)

11:48 GC.15 The Effects of Atomic Short Range Order on the Magnetic Properties of Transition Metal Alloys

R.E. Parra, A.C. Gonzalez (Centro de Fisica, Caracas, Venezuela)

09:00 GD.01 The Ultimate Experiment Proving the Beneficial Effect of Low Level Radiation and Safety of Nuclear Power Plant: Serendipity of the Airborne Nuclear Weapons Test

Peter Fong (Emory University)

09:22 GD.02 Inverse kinematics proton scattering with the radioactive beams ^18Ne and ^20O

P.D. Cottle, J.K. Jewell, L.A. Riley, K.W. Kemper (Florida State University), M. Chromik, T. Glasmacher, R.W. Ibbotson, D.J. Morrissey, H. Scheit (NSCL/Michigan State University), Y. Blumenfeld, S.E. Hirzebruch, T. Suomijärvi, F. Maréchal (IPN-Orsay)

09:34 GD.03 Shifted Identical Bands

E.F. Jones, P.M. Gore, R.S. Dodder, J.H. Hamilton, A.V. Ramayya, C.J. Beyer, J.K. Hwang, T.N. Ginter, B.R.S Babu, Q.H. Lu, J. Komicki, D. Shi (Vanderbilt Univ.), S.J. Zhu, J.K. Deng (Vanderbilt Univ., Tsinghua Univ.), M.G. Wang (Tsinghua Univ.), J.D. Cole, R. Aryaeinejad, K. Butler-Moore, M.W. Drigert (INEL), W.C. Ma (Mississipi State Univ.), G.M. Ter-Akopian, Yu.Ts. Oganessian, A.V. Daniel (JINR), J.O. Rasmussen, S.J. Asztalos, I.Y. Lee, A.O. Macchiavelli (LBNL), M.A. Stoyer, R.W. Lougheed, Y.X. Dardenne (LLNL), S.G. Prussin (Univ. of California), R. Donangelo (Univ. Fed. do Rio de Janerio)

09:46 GD.04 Identification of a new negative-parity band in ^154Nd and new negative-parity levels in ^152Nd

X.Q. Zhang, J.H. Hamilton, A.V. Ramayya, J.K. Hwang, J. Komicki, C.J. Beyer, L.K. Peker, B.R.S Babu, T.N Ginter, G.M. Ter-Akopian (Vanderbilt Univ.), Yu.Ts Oganessian, A.V. Daniel (JINR), W.C. Ma, P.G. Varmette (Mississipi State Univ.), S.J. Asztalos, S.Y. Chu, K.E. Gregorich, I.Y. Lee, A.O. Macchiavelli, R.W. Macleod, J.O. Rasmussen (LBNL), J.D. Cole, R. Aryaeinejad, K. Butler-Moore, Y.X. Dardenne, M.W Drigert (INEL), M.A. Stoyer, J.F. Wild, J.A. Becker, L.A. Bernstein, R.W. Lougheed, K.J. Moody (LLNL), R. Donangelo (Univ. Fed. do Rio de Janerio), S.G. Prussin (Univ. of California), H.C. Griffin (Univ. of Michigan)

09:58 GD.05 Similarity of high spin collective band structure in N=89 isotopes, ^145Ba and ^147Ce

S.J. Zhu, C.Y. Gan, M. Li, L.Y. Zhu (Tsinghua Univ.), J.H. Hamilton, A.V. Ramayya, J.K. Hwang, J. Kormicki, B.R.S. Babu (Vanderbilt Univ.), W.C. Ma (Mississippi State Univ.), J.D. Cole, R. Aryaeinejad (INEL), I.Y. Lee, J.O. Rasmussen, M. Stoyer, S.Y. Chu, K.E. Gregorich, F.K. Mohar, S. Prussin (LBNL), N.R. Johnson, F.K. Mcgowan (ORNL)

10:10 GD.06 Enhanced Deformation Bands in the Nucleus ^130Nd.

N. Yoder (Kutztown University), H.Q. Jin, W. Reviol, L.L. Riedinger, B.H. Smith (University of Tennessee), A. Galindo-Uribarri, W. Satula (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), D.G. Sarantites, D. LaFosse (Washington University), J.N. Wilson (McMaster University), S.M. Mullins (Australian National University)

10:22 GD.07 Tests of constancy of the anharmonicity in the shape transitional nuclei

J.B. Gupta (Univ. of Delhi, India)

10:34 GD.08 New high-spin structures in ^154Dy

J.P. Zhang, W.C. Ma, P.G. Varmette (Mississippi State Univ.), R.V.F. Janssens, I. Ahmad, D.J. Blumanthal, M.P. Carpenter, S.M. Fischer, T.L. Khoo, T. Lauritsen, D. Nisius (Argonne Nat. Lab.), M.A. Riley, T.B. Brown, D.J. Hartley (Florida State Univ.), J. Simpson (Daresbury Lab.)

10:46 GD.09 New N and Z and new combinations of octupole-driving particle numbers

J.K. Hwang, A.V. Ramayya, J.H. Hamilton, L.K. Peker (Vanderbilt University)

10:58 GD.10 Two-phonon \gamma-vibrational K=4^+ state in ^168Er in DPPQ model

J.B. Gupta (Univ. of Delhi, India)