Program overview

SATURDAY MORNING, 11 OCTOBER 1997

10:00 CA.01 Finding Unstable Periodic Orbits in Biological Specimens

Frank Moss (Center for Neurodynamics, University of Missouri at St. Louis)

10:36 CA.02 Quantum Chaos -- New Directions>

Linda Reichl (University of Texas at Austin)

11:12 CA.03 Maintaining Chaos for Fun and Profit

Mark Spano (Office of Naval Research)

10:00 CB.01 Invited Talk I

Farzin Davanloo (University of Texas at Dallas)

10:36 CB.02 Invited Talk II

Kevin Nelson (University of Texas at Arlington)

11:12 CB.03 Invited Talk III

Waldek Zerda (Texas Christian University)

11:48 CB.04 Invited Talk IV

Russell Pinizzotto (University of North Texas)

10:00 CC.01 Quotienting Procedure for Gauge Theories

L.C. Shepley (Physics Dept., Univ.\ of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712-1081), J.M. Pons (Dept.\ Estruct.\ Consts.\ Mat., Univ.\ de Barcelona, and Inst.\ de Fís.\ d'Altes Energies, Diagonal 647, E-08028 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain), D.C. Salisbury (Dept.\ of Physics, Austin College, Sherman, Texas 75090-4440, USA)

10:12 CC.02 Gauge Transformations in Einstein-Yang-Mills and Ashtekar Theories

D.C. Salisbury (Dept.\ of Physics, Austin College, Sherman, Texas 75090-4440), J.M. Pons (Dept.\ Estruct.\ Consts.\ Mat., Univ.\ de Barcelona, and Inst.\ de Fís.\ d'Altes Energies, Diagonal 647, E-08028 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain), L.C. Shepley (Physics Dept., Univ.\ of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712-1081)

10:24 CC.03 Separable Potentials For The Hadronic Phase.

Jorge A. Lopez (University of Texas at El Paso), T.-S. Harry Lee (Argonne National Laboratory), Jaime Morales, Ganesh Thondikulam (University of Texas at El Paso)

10:36 CC.04 The Parity Violating Electron Scattering Asymmetry in the N \rightarrow \Delta Transition

Steven P. Wells, Neven Simicevic (Center for Applied Physics Studies, Louisiana Tech University)

10:48 CC.05 Cosmic Ray Test Stand in Detector Testing

Brian Anderson (Center for Applied Physics Studies - Louisiana Tech University)

11:00 CC.06 Using the G0 Spectrometer for a Measurement of the Parity Violating Asymmetry in the N \rightarrow \Delta Transition

Neven Simicevic, Steven P. Wells (Center for Applied Physics Studies, Louisiana Tech University)

10:00 CD.01 New Materials Research for Thermoelectric Applications

George Nolas (Marlow Industries)

10:12 CD.02 Auger Lineshape and Positronium Measurments on GaAs(100) Using Positron Annihilation induced Electron Spectroscopy

Shannon Starnes (University Texas at Arlington), Ranjani Ventakaraman, Wu Chi Chen, A.H. Weiss (The University Texas at Arlington)

10:24 CD.03 Photoelectric threshold of CVD diamond as a function of carbon to diamond content

Ike Akwani, Seong Lim, Richard Stallcup, Jaime Castillega, Edward Sosa, David Golden, Jose Perez (University of North Texas)

10:36 CD.04 Surface magnetic domain structures of thin-gauged 3%Si-Fe sheets using Scanning Electron Microscopy with polarization Analysis(SEMPA)

Yeon-Suk Lee (University Texas at Arlington), A. R . Koymen (University Texas at Arlington), N. H Heo (Materials and Corrosion Lab . KEPRI), J. G. Na (Div. of Metals, KIST), J. S. Woo (Research Lab., Pohang Iron and Steel Corp.)

10:48 CD.05 Synthesis of surface patterns on the gel surface

Yindong Zheng, Changjie wang, Zhibing Hu (Physics Department, University of North Texas), Yong Li (Kimberly-Clark Corporation)

11:00 CD.06 Turbidity study of entrapped linear polymer solution

George Morgan, Changjie wang, Yuanye Chen, Zhibing Hu (Physics Department, University of North Texas), Yong Li (Kimberly-Clark Corporation)

11:12 CD.07 Direct observation of polymer network structure in macroporous N-isopropylacrylamide gel by Raman microscopy

R. Appel, X. Wei, T.W. Zerda (Texas Christian University), Z. Hu (University of North Texas)

11:24 CD.08 The effect of adsorbed atomic hydrogen on the growth of the Si/Ge(100) interface studied by Positron-annihilation induced Auger Electron Spectroscopy (PAES)

J.H. Kim (University Texas at Arlington), N. Jiang, A.H. Weiss (The University Texas at Arlington)

11:36 CD.09 Study of the energy distribution of secondary electrons and redistributed primaries from a Ge(100) surface utilizing incident beams of electrons and positrons.

R Venkataraman (University Texas at Arlington), E Jung (University Texas at Arlington), S Starnes , W.C. Chen (University of Texas at Arlington), A Weiss (University of Texas at Arlington)

10:00 CE.01 Excitation Intensity Dependent Photoluminescence Studies of \langle 100 \rangle- and \langle 111 \rangle-grown In_0.22Ga_0.78As/GaAs strained single quantum wells

T. Sauncy, M. Holtz (Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-1051), O. Brafman, D. Fekete (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel)

10:12 CE.02 Bulk Refractive Index Measurement

D. Bessire (Texas Tech University)

10:24 CE.03 Frequency-resolved Brillouin scattering in fresh and salt water.

Jeffrey Katz, Dahe Liu, Yves Emery, Xiaojiang Pan, Thomas Walther, Edward S. Fry (Texas Aamp;M University, Dept. of Physics, College Station, TX 77843-4242)

10:36 CE.04 Nonlinear dynamics of coupled lasind and lossy optical waveguides

Scott R. Shepard (Department of Physics, Texas Aamp;M University, College Station, TX 77843-4242)

10:48 CE.05 Functional Approach to Collective Intersubband Excitations in Quantum Wells

Dmitri Volchenkov (epartment of Physics, Texas Aamp; M University College Station, TX, 77843-4242), Dmitri Nikonov (Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106-9560)

11:00 CE.06 Enhancement of Index of Refraction in Phase-Coherent Media

Yuri Rostovtsev, Mikhail Lukin (Department of Physics, Texas A amp; M University, College Station, TX 77843-4242), Sussane Yelin (Max-Plank-Institut fur Quantenoptik, Hans-Kopfermann-Str.~1, D-85748 Garching, Germany)

11:12 CE.07 Enhansment of Free Electron Laser operation via plasma coherence effects

Andrew Matsko, Yuri Rostovtsev (Department of Physics, Texas A amp; M University, College Station, TX 77843-4242)

11:24 CE.08 Optical Pumping in High-F Magnetic Systems

Chris J. Bednar (Department of Physics, Texas Aamp;M University, College Station, TX 77843-4242)

11:36 CE.09 Linewidth Narrowing of a Pulsed Alexandrite laser using intracavity phase modulation

Remus Nicolaescu, Thomas Walther, Edward S. Fry (Texas Aamp;M University, Dept. of Physics, College Station, TX 77843-4242)

10:00 CF.01 A Student Experiment to Study the Kinematics of Low Energy Nuclear Reactions.

D.G. Scheffer, J.L. Duggan, F.D. McDaniel (Ion Beam Modification and Analysis Laboratory (IBMAL), University of North Texas, Denton Texas 76203)

10:12 CF.02 Fluorine Thickness Measurements in Thin Films Using Resonant Nuclear Reaction Analysis

B.F. Hughes, J.L. Duggan, D. Scheffer, S. Matteson (Ion Beam Modification and Analysis Laboratory (IBMAL), University of North Texas, Denton Texas 76203)

10:24 CF.03 Polarization Bremsstrahlung: what is it and why haven't we seen it?

C. A. Quarles (Texas Christian University)

10:36 CF.04 Detection of Hg atoms in an EPR experiment.

Aihua Dong, Robert A. Kenefick, Thomas Walther, Kym R. Chapin, Edward S. Fry (Texas Aamp;M University, Dept. of Physics, College Station, TX 77843-4242)

10:48 CF.05 ^10B analysis using Charged Particle Activation Analysis

B.N. Guo, J.Y. Jin, J.D. Duggan, F.D. McDaniel (Ion Beam modification and Analysis Laboratory(IBMAL), Department of Physics, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203.)

11:00 CF.06 Charge State Distributions of Molecular Dissociation

S. N. Renfrow, F. D. McDaniel (Ion Beam Modification and Analysis Laboratory (IBMAL),University of North Texas, Denton TX 76203)

11:12 CF.07 Hydrogen Analysis in Diamond Like Carbon (DLC) Films by Elastic Recoil Detection using ^12C Beams

Jian-Yue Jin, J.L. Duggan, F.D. McDaniel (Ion Beam Modification and Analysis Laboratory (IBMAL), University of North Texas, Denton Texas 76203), Geoff Dearnaley, Jim Arps (Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio Texas 78228)

11:24 CF.08 Monte Carlo Computer Simulation of Ga:In Sputtering

C.D. McMillon, A.W. Bigelow, D.L. Weathers (Dept. of Physics, University of North Texas)