Program overview

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, 18 MARCH 1998

14:30 Q1.01 Polarization Dynamics of Coherent Emission from Quantum Wells

Arthur L. Smirl (University of Iowa)

15:06 Q1.02 Nonlinear Nano-Optics: Probing One Exciton at a Time

Nicolas H. Bonadeo (The Harrison M. Randall Laboratory of Physics and The Center for Ultrafast Optical Science The Univ. of Mich., Ann Arbor, MI 48109)

15:42 Q1.03 Ultrafast Coherent Control in Semiconductor Heterostructures

Jeremy J. Baumberg (Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory)

Q1.04

16:54 Q1.05 Coulomb correlations in Ultrafast Nonlinear Spectroscopy: Fermi sea effects

Ilias Perakis (Vanderbilt University)

14:30 Q2.01 Unusual Properties of Hot Wire Amorphous Semiconductors

Richard Crandall (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)

15:06 Q2.02 Novel Internal Friction of Amorphous Solids

Xiao Liu (Cornell University)

14:30 Q3.01 Squeezed Phonon Fields: Control of Lattice Fluctuations with Ultrafast Optical Pulses

R. Merlin (Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1120)

15:06 Q3.02 Phonon Squezed States and Polaritons in Condensed Media

M. Artoni (European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy (LENS) Largo E. Fermi 2 (Arcetri), Firenze I-50125, ITALY)

15:42 Q3.03 Phonon Squeezed States: Quantum Noise Reduction in Solids

Xuedong Hu (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Chicago)

14:30 Q4.01 Probing the Symmetry of the Pairing State of Unconventional Superconductors by SQUID Interferometry Measurements

Dale J. Van Harlingen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

15:06 Q4.02 Preparation and Properties of Some Exotic Superconductors

D. M. Ginsberg (U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Physics Department and Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory)

15:42 Q4.03 Imaging of the half-integer flux quantum effect with the scanning SQUID microscope

John R. Kirtley (IBM Research)

16:18 Q4.04 Phase-sensitive tests of pairing symmetry in cuprate superconductors using crystals with controlled orientations

Chang C. Tsuei (IBM Research)

16:54 Q4.05 From Equilibrium Correlation to Non-Equilibrium Complexity

Leo P. Kadanoff (The James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago)

14:30 Q5.01 Magnetic Refrigeration and Liquefaction for Large-Scale Applications

John A. Barclay (University of Victoria, Institute for Integrated Energy Systems)

15:06 Q5.02 Sub-room Temperature Magnetic Refrigerator

Carl Zimm (Astronautics Corporation of America)

15:42 Q5.03 The Giant Magnetocaloric Effect

Vitalij K. Pecharsky (Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University)

16:18 Q5.04 The Enhanced Magnetocaloric Effect of Magnetic Nanocomposites

Robert D. Shull (Group Leader, Magnetic Materials Group, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899)

16:54 Q5.05 Composite Materials for Magnetic Refrigeration: -Thermodynamic Investigations Using Numerical Analyses

R. Chahine (Univ. du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Qc., Canada)

14:30 Q6.01 Learning From A Negative Example

Brian B. Schwartz (Brooklyn College of City University of New York, email: bschwart@email.gc.cuny.edu)

15:06 Q6.02 Helping Students to Give Good Talks

Robert B. Hallock (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003.)

15:42 Q6.03 Advice to Beginning Physics Speakers

James Garland (Miami University)

16:18 Q6.04 Physics for the Masses and the Media: The Universe in a Teacup

K. C. Cole (Los Angeles Times)

14:30 Q7.01 The surface structure of a \beta-Al(Cu_1-xFe_x)-(110) film formed on an AlCuFe quasicrystal substrate, analyzed by dynamical LEED

F. Shi (Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720), Z. Shen, D.W. Delaney, A.I. Goldman, C.J. Jenks, M.J. Kramer, T. Lograsso, W. Raberg, M. Heinzig, P.A. Thiel (Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011), M.A. Van Hove (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720)

14:42 Q7.02 On The Structure of Al-Pd-Mn Icosahedral Phase

Nobumichi Tamura (Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston TX 77204-5506, USA), J. Lee Robertson (Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA), Simon C. Moss (Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston TX 77204-5506, USA)

14:54 Q7.03 Properties of Single-Grain R-Mg-Zn Quasicrystals Grown from the Ternary Melt (R = Y, Er, Ho, Dy, Tb)

I.R. Fisher, Z. Islam, A.F. Panchula, K.O. Cheon, M.J. Kramer, A.I. Goldman, P.C. Canfield (Ames Laboratory and Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011)

15:06 Q7.04 "Quasi-Antiferromagnetic" Ordering in the R-Mg-Zn Icosahedral Alloys? The Case of Tb-Mg-Zn

A.I. Goldman, Z. Islam, I.R. Fisher, A.F. Panchula, K.O. Cheon, P.C. Canfield, C. Stassis, J. Zarestky (Ames Laboratory and Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011)

15:18 Q7.05 Transverse elastic isotropy in decagonal (10-fold-symmetric) quasicrystal of Al-Ni-Co

M.A. Chernikov, H.R. Ott, A. Bianchi (Laboratorium für Festkörperphysik, Eidenössische Technische Hochschule-Hönggerberg), A. Migliori, T.W. Darling (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

15:30 Q7.06 Dislocations in Quasicrystals and their interaction with cluster-like obstacles

Ralf Mikulla (Applied Theoretical and Computational Physics Division, Los National Laboratory, MS-B258, Los Alamos, NM, 87545), G. Schaaf, H.-R. Trebin (Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Theoretische und Angewandte Physik, Pfaffenwaldring 57, 70550 Stuttgart - Germany), P. Gumbsch (Max--Planck--Institut für Metallforschung, Seestr. 92, 70147 Stuttgart - Germany)

15:42 Q7.07 X-Ray Standing Wave Investigations of Centrosymmetry in the Quasicrystal AlPdMn

T. Jach (N.I.S.T.), Y. Zhang, R. Colella (Purdue U.), M. de Boissieu, M. Boudard (LTPCM-ENSEEG, Grenoble), A.I. Goldman, T.A. Lograsso, D.W. Delaney (DoE AmesLab and Iowa State U.)

15:54 Q7.08 Debye-Waller Factors in a Quasicrystal.

R. Colella, Y. Zhang, J. P. Sutter, S. N. Ehrlich (Purdue U.)

14:30 Q8.01 Shock Temperature and Optical Emission Measurements of H2 and D2 along the Principal Hugoniot up to 2 Mbar

G.W. Collins, L.B. DaSilva, P. Celliers, R. Cauble, D. Gold, M. Foord, N.C. Holmes, R. Stewart, K.S. Budil, B.A. Hammel, J.D. Kilkenny, R.J. Wallace, M. Ross (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), A. Ng (University of British Columbia)

14:42 Q8.02 Measurement of optical reflectivity and shock speed in liquid D_2 along the principle Hugoniot from 0.2 to 2 Mbar

P.M. Celliers, G. W. Collins, L.B. Da Silva, D. Gold, R. Cauble, M. Foord, R. J. Wallace (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

14:54 Q8.03 Fermionic Path Integral Simulations of Hot, Dense Hydrogen

Burkhard Militzer, William Magro (Cornell Theory Center), David Ceperley (NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

15:06 Q8.04 Generation of Hydrogen Microparticles

Tito E. Huber, Frank Boccuzi (Polytechnic University)

15:18 Q8.05 Vibron spectrum of fluid hydrogen

J. Karl Johnson (University of Pittsburgh), Willem L. Vos (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Joseph L. Feldman (Naval Research Laboratory), Jon H. Eggert (Colorado School of Mines)

15:30 Q8.06 Structural Features of Dense Hydrogen: Relation to the Gap Closure

Kurt A. Johnson, N. W. Ashcroft (Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Clark Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853-2501 USA)

15:42 Q8.07 The Ground State Energy of a Fermion Hard Sphere Fluid

Mark Dewing, David Ceperley (UIUC)

15:54 Q8.08 Improved Measurement of the Thermodynamic Magnetization of Normal and Superfluid ^3He

A.G. Mikhalchuk, K.S. White, H.M. Bozler, C.M. Gould (Univ. of Southern California)

16:06 Q8.09 Quantum phase decoherence due to vibrations, and its effect on observations of the Josephson effect in superfluids

S.V. Pereverzev, R.E. Packard, J.C. Davis (Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley)

16:18 Q8.10 Self-induced current enhancements in a ^3He weak-link array: the Josephson frequency relation.

A. Loshak, S.V. Pereverzev, S. Backhaus, J.C. Davis, R.E. Packard (Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley)

16:30 Q8.11 A metastable state with a \pi-phase difference across a superfluid ^3He weak-link

R.W. Simmonds, S. Backhaus, S.V. Pereverzev, A. Loshak, J.C. Davis, R.E. Packard (Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley)

16:42 Q8.12 Observation of Acoustic Faraday Effect in Superfluid ^3He-B

Y. Lee, T.M. Haard, J.B. Kycia, W.P. Halperin (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208)

16:54 Q8.13 Superflow-Driven Transformations of Texture in ^3He A_1

M. Bastea, K. Ichikawa, P. DeVegvar, H. Kojima (Rutgers University)

14:30 Q9.01 Exploring complex chemical reactions by ab-initio simulation

Michele Parrinello (Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart, Germany)

15:06 Q9.02 Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics of Dynamical Processes in Condensed Hydrogen Bonded Systems

Michiel Sprik (University of Cambridge, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, U.K.)

15:42 Q9.03 On the Solvation and Transport of Hydronium and Hydroxyl Ions in Water

Mark Tuckerman (New York University)

16:18 Q9.04 Break

16:30 Q9.05 Multidimensional Femtosecond Spectroscopy of Nuclear Dynamics in Liquids

Shaul Mukamel (University of Rochester)

17:06 Q9.06 Percolation Thoery in Gas Condensate Reservoir

Fang Fang (UC-Berkeley), T. Patzek, C. Radke (Berkeley)

14:30 Q10.01 Femtosecond Energy Transfer Dynamics and Disorder in Bacterial Light-Harvesting Systems

Rienk Van Grondelle (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

15:06 Q10.02 Exciton Dynamics in Photosynthetic Bacterial Antenna Complexes

V. Nagarajan (University of Washington)

15:42 Q10.03 Disorder-Induced Exciton Scattering in the Light-Harvesting Complexes of Photosynthetic Purple Bacteria

R. M. Hochstrasser, R. Kumble (Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania)

15:54 Q10.04 Time-Resolved Hole-Burning Spectroscopy of Subunits of LH1

S. Volker, T.M.H. Creemers, U. Storkel, J.G. van der Toorn (Huygens Laboratory, University of Leiden,the Netherlands)

16:06 Q10.05 Excitation Dynamics in Light Harvesting Complexes

Robert Silbey (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA)

14:30 Q11.01 A New Liquid Phase and Metal-Insulator Transition in Si MOSFETs

Song He (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ 07974), X. C. Xie (Dept. of Physics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078)

14:42 Q11.02 Scaling theory of two-dimensional metal-insulator transitions

V. Dobrosavljevi\'c (NHMFL/Florida State University), E. Abrahams (NHMFL/Rutgers University), E. Miranda (NHMFL/Florida State University), S. Chakravarty (University of California Los Angeles)

14:54 Q11.03 The B=0 Insulator-Metal Transition

P. Phillips, Y. Wan, I. Martin, S. Knysh, D Dalidovich (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801)

15:06 Q11.04 Electron-electron interactions in a dilute D=2 electron gas: Application to the insulator-metal transition

S. Knysh, I. Martin, D. Dalidovich, P. Phillips (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801)

15:18 Q11.05 Interactions and scaling in a disordered two-dimensional metal

Lan Yin, Sudip Chakravarty (Deptartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles)

15:30 Q11.06 A Weak Metal to Insulator Transition in Two Dimensions

Roger Haydock (Department of Physics and Materials Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR)

15:42 Q11.07 Numerical Evidence of a Quantum Localization Transition in Two Dimensions

Wolfram T. Arnold, Roger Haydock (Department of Physics and Materials Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR)

15:54 Q11.08 Metal Insulator Transition in Correlated 2DEG with Disorder at Finite Temperature

Lerwen Liu, J.S. Thakur, D Neilson (^\starScuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy)

16:06 Q11.09 New Scaling Analysis of Multifractal Wavefunctions at the Metal-Insulator Transition

K. Yakubo, M. Ono (Department of Applied Physics, Hokkaido University, Japan)

Q11.10 Quantum Intereference and Electron-Electron Interaction Effects at Strong Spin-Orbit Coupling.

Yuli Lyanda-Geller (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.)

14:30 Q12.01 Controlling and synchronizing the dynamics of biological systems

Daniel J. Gauthier (Duke University, Department of Physics and Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems, Box 90305, Durham, NC 27708, USA)

15:06 Q12.02 Synchronization of ensembles of stochastic resonators by weak signals

Alexander Neiman, Frank Moss, Xing Pei (Center for Neurodynamics, UMSL), Lutz Schimansky-Geier (Humboldt University at Berlin)

15:18 Q12.03 Detecting Phase Synchronization in Human MEG Data.

Peter Tass, Jörg Weule (Department of Neurology, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany), Michael Rosenblum, Jürgen Kurths (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Pots\-dam University, Germany), Jens Volkmann, Alfons Schnitzler, Hans-Joachim Freund (Department of Neurology, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany)

15:30 Q12.04 Oscillation and synchronization of the electrosensitive cells in the >paddlefish, Polyodon Spathula.

Xing Pei, David Russell, Lon Wilkens, Frank Moss (Center for Neurodynamics, Univ. of Missouri at St. Louis)

15:42 Q12.05 Synchronization in Human Cardiorespiratory System.

Jürgen Kurths, Carsten Schäfer, Michael Rosenblum (Pots\-dam University), Hans-Henning Abel (Städtisches Klinikum Braunschweig, Germany)

15:54 Q12.06 Quantifying Stochastic Resonance

P. Jung (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701), M.H. Choi, R.F. Fox (School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga 30332)

16:06 Q12.07 Temporal firing reliability in response to periodic synaptic inputs

John D. Hunter, John G. Milton (University of Chicago)

16:18 Q12.08 Predicting multistability in recurrent oscillator loops from phase resetting

Jennifer Foss, John Milton (Committee on Neurobiology, The University of Chicago)

16:30 Q12.09 Bursting and Chaos in Coupled Neurons With Fast and Slow Synapses

Sridhar Raghavachari, James Glazier (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Notre Dame)

16:42 Q12.10 Bifurcation Of Olfactory Bulb Neuron Biophysics During Odor-Evoked Subthreshold Oscillation.

Yoshihisa Kubota, James Bower (Caltech)

14:30 Q13.01 Observation of Folding Dynamics of Single GCN-4 Peptides By Two - Channel Fluorescence Confocal Microscopy

David S. Talaga, Yiwei Jia, Helen S. M. Lu, William F. DeGrado, Robin M. Hochstrasser (University of Pennsylvania)

14:42 Q13.02 Control of Cytochrome c Unfolding by Ligand Exchange Reactions

Syun-Ru Yeh, Denis Rousseau (Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine)

14:54 Q13.03 Sampling of Conformational Substates by Cytochrome C: Correlation to Hydrogen Exchange.

Angel Garcia, Gerhard Hummer (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

15:06 Q13.04 Hydration free energy of polar and charged molecules and amino acids: From water structure to hydration thermodynamics

Shekhar Garde, Gerhard Hummer (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory), Michael E. Paulaitis (Department of Chemical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University), Angel E. Garcia (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

15:18 Q13.05 Transition State Ensemble of Protein Folding

Jin Wang, Peter Wolynes, Ben Shoemaker, Steve Plotkin (Citibank and Univ. of Illinois)

15:30 Q13.06 The Energy Landscape and Dynamics of a Model \beta-Hairpin

H. Nymeyer (UCSD), A.E. Garcia (LANL), J.N. Onuchic (UCSD)

15:42 Q13.07 Nature of Driving Force for Protein Folding-- A Result From Analyzing the Statistical Potential

Hao Li (Center for Studies in Physics and Biology, Rockefeller University), Chao Tang, Ned S. Wingreen (NEC Research Institute)

15:54 Q13.08 Are Natural Protein Structures Atypical?

Ned S. Wingreen (NEC Research Institute), Hao Li (Rockefeller University), Chao Tang (NEC Research Institute)

16:06 Q13.09 Identifying Floppy and Rigid Regions in Proteins

D.J. Jacobs, M.F. Thorpe, L.A. Kuhn (Michigan State University)

16:18 Q13.10 Conformations of Model Proteins from Correlation Functions, Distance Matrix and Embedding Algorithm

Hin Hark Gan, Byung Chan Eu (Department of Chemistry, McGill University, Montreal)

16:30 Q13.11 Structure Formation in Model Heteropolymers

Ralf Bundschuh, Terence Hwa (Physics Dept., University of California, San Diego)

16:42 Q13.12 A New Model for Studying Coil-Helix Transitions

Josh Kemp, Z.Y. Chen (Department of Physics, University of Waterloo)

16:54 Q13.13 Quantum-Mechanical Force Laws for Transition Metals in Biomolecules.

Anders E. Carlsson (Washington University in St. Louis.)

14:30 Q14.01 Dynamics of granular stratification.

Hernan A. Makse (Schlumberger Doll Research, Ridgefield, CT 06877), Robin C. Ball, Stephen Warr (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK), H. Eugene Stanley (Center for Polymer Studies, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215 USA)

14:42 Q14.02 Dynamics of Gravity Driven Granular Flow

Colin Denniston (Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford), Hao Li (Rockefeller University)

14:54 Q14.03 Particle Diffusion at Subcritical Slopes in a Grain Pile

Manuel Diaz-Avila, Surajit Sen (SUNY-Buffalo), Somnath Pal (Penn. State Univ.-Univ. Park)

15:06 Q14.04 A Continuum Description of Vibrated Sand

Jens Eggers (Universität Gesamthochschule Essen, Germany), Hermann Riecke (Northwestern University, USA)

15:18 Q14.05 Drag Force In Granular Media: Analog to Viscosity?

Peter Schiffer, Mark Pfeifer, Reka Albert, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi (Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556)

15:30 Q14.06 Velocity distributions in vertically shaken granular media: effects of inelasticity

Jean Delour (Haverford Coll.), Arshad Kudrolli (Haverford Coll. and Clark U.), Jerry P. Gollub (Haverford Coll. and U. Penn.)

Q14.07

15:54 Q14.08 Collapse and Ordering in a Driven Granular Monolayer.

Jeffrey S. Olafsen, Jeffrey S. Urbach (Department of Physics, Georgetown University)

16:06 Q14.09 Study of the height and density distributions of the 2-D granular system under vertical vibration

Hyuk Kyu Pak, Kipom Kim, Yonggun Jun (Department of Physics, Pusan National Univeristy, Pusan, KOREA)

16:18 Q14.10 Liquid-Like Behavior in a Two-Dimensional Rotating Cylinder of Binary Disks

Jon Eggert, David Wu (Colorado School of Mines)

14:30 Q15.01 Quantum Molecular Dynamics Study of Silicon Oxidation

Alex A. Demkov (Predictive Engineering Laboratory, Motorola, Inc., Mesa AZ 85202), Otto F. Sankey, Thomas Lenosky (Deparment of Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ 85287)

14:42 Q15.02 Characterization of UV Ozone Grown Ultra-Thin SiO_2 Tunneling MOS Structures

J. Greg Massey, Mark Lee (University of Virginia)

14:54 Q15.03 Characterization of Thin SiO_2 on Si by Neutron Reflectivity, X-ray Reflectivity, and Spectroscopic Ellipsometry

J. A. Dura, C. F. Majkrzak (NIST-Center for Neutron Research), C. A. Richter, N. V. Nguyen (NIST-Semiconductor Electronics Division)

15:06 Q15.04 Nature of Ultra-thin oxides on silicon

Y.J. Chabal (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies), Alejandra Gurevich (Chemistry Department, Columbia University), M.K. Weldon, R.L. Opila (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies)

Q15.05

15:30 Q15.06 Photoluminescence of Nanometer-Thick Oxide-Clad Crystal Silicon Films

Peter N. Saeta, Michael G. Bush (Physics Department, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711-5990), Evan D. Goer (Physics Department, University of Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9530)

15:42 Q15.07 Electrical transport properties of SOI materials: thickness and surface morphology dependence

K.C. Lin, H.H. Weitering (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996)

15:54 Q15.08 Preservation of atomic flatness at SiO_2/Si(111) interface during furnace oxidation

Noriyuki Miyata, Heiji Watanabe, Masakazu Ichikawa (Joint Research Center for Atom Technology, Ibaraki, Japan.)

16:06 Q15.09 Processing Effects on the Structural and Electrical Characteristics of the Si/SiO_2 Transition Layer

J. Bevk, Y. J. Chabal, K. Evans-Lutterodt, M. L. Green, C. Gruensfelder, K. S. Krisch, W. Mansfield, R. L. Opila, P. J. Silverman, T. W. Sorsch (), M. K. Weldon (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ), P. K. Roy (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Orlando. FL)

16:18 Q15.10 Wavelength-Selective Alteration of the Si(001)/SiO_2 Interface by Intense Tunable Infrared Radiation

W. Wang, G. Lüpke, J.M. Gilligan, L.C. Feldman, N.H. Tolk (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN), G. Lucovsky (North Carolina State University, Raleign, NC), I. C. Kiziyalli (Microelectonics, Lucent Technologies, Orlando, FL)

16:30 Q15.11 Proton trapping at the Si/SiO_2 interface studied by first-principles method

Qiming Zhang (University of Texas at Arlington), Shaoping Tang, R. M. Wallace (Texas Instruments Inc.), L. Archer (Sandia National Laboratory and Texas Instruments Inc.)

16:42 Q15.12 Hot Electron Cleavage of Si-H Bonds in SiO2 Films: Amphoteric Trap Formation

D. R. Jennison, J. P. Sullivan, P. A. Schultz, M. P. Sears, E. B. Stechel (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM.)

16:54 Q15.13 Surface Morphology and Nanolithography on NH_4F Etched Si(111) Surfaces

T.-C. Shen, X. Yao, W. G. Klemperer (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

17:06 Q15.14 Atomic Fluorine Beam Etching of Silicon and Related Materials

M.B. Johnson, P.R. Larson, K.A. Copeland, G. Dharmasena, M. Keil (Dept. of Physics, University of Oklahoma)

17:18 Q15.15 Etching Patterns in SrTiO_3 Crystals

G.C. Spalding, W.L. Murphy, T. Davidsmeier (Illinois Wesleyan)

14:30 Q16.01 First-principles calculations of magnetic anisotropy

H. J. F. Jansen (Department of Physics, Oregon State University)

14:42 Q16.02 Magnetism in the Hubbard model on fcc and bcc lattices

Martin Ulmke (Theoretische Physik III, Universität Augsburg, Germany)

14:54 Q16.03 Theory of the spin dynamics of bulk Fe and ultrathin Fe(100) films^+

M Plihal (Dept. of Physics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey), H. Tang, D.L. Mills (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697)

15:06 Q16.04 Why Cr needs a spin-density wave to become antiferromagnetic.

P.M. Marcus, V.L. Moruzzi (IBM Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598), S.L. Qiu (Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431)

15:18 Q16.05 Phase Diagram of Fe/Cr Wedges

Zhu-Pei Shi (Read-Write Corporation, Milpitas, CA), Randy Fishman (Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN)

15:30 Q16.06 Breakdown of the meanfield description in a class of orbital-spin models

Frederic Mila (Laboratoire de Physique Quantique, Université Paul Sabatier, 31062 Toulouse, France), Beat Frischmuth (Institute of Theoretical Physics, ETH Hönggerberg, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland)

15:42 Q16.07 Physical Properties of the Double Exchange I

Hai-cang Ren (The Rockefeller University)

15:54 Q16.08 Theory for Itinerant Magnetism in V_2-yO_3

T. Wolenski, M. Grodzicki, J. Appel (I. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Hamburg, Germany)

16:06 Q16.09 Entangled States in Macroscopic Paramagnetic Systems

V.I. Tsifrinovich (Polytechnic University, Six Metrotech Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201), G.P. Berman (), G.D. Doolen (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos NM 87545), G.V. López (Department of Physics, University of Guadalajara, Apartado Postal 4-137 44410 Guadalajara, Jal., México)

16:18 Q16.10 Spin-wave Gap in \gamma -Mn Alloys

Randy Fishman (Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN), S.H. Liu (Physics Department, University of California, San Diego, CA)

16:30 Q16.11 Berry phase and ab initio calculation of spinwaves.

Qian Niu, Leonard Kleinman (University of Texas at Austin)

16:42 Q16.12 Density functional calculations of spin-wave dispersion curves.

Leonard Kleinman, Qian Niu (University of Texas at Austin)

16:54 Q16.13 The dynamics of skyrmion decay in 2D magnetic films.

Artem G. Abanov (Department of Physics, Texas Aamp;M University.), Valery L. Pokrovsky (Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow and Department of Physics, Texas Aamp;M University.)

17:06 Q16.14 Reversal of the sign of the temperature dependence of the dominant spin-spin correlation in the magnetic percolation Ising system Fe_0.25Zn_0.75F_2

W. C. Barber, Z. Slanic, D. P. Belanger (Physics Department, UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA 95064)

Q16.15 Physical Properties of the Double Exchange II

Hai-cang Ren (The Rockefeller University)

14:30 Q18.01 Computer Science Techniques Applied to Parallel Atomistic Simulation

Aiichiro Nakano (Concurrent Computing Laboratory for Materials Simulations, Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4020)

15:06 Q18.02 Parallel Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Dynamic Fracture in Silicon Nitride Nanowires

Phillip Walsh, Kenji Tsuruta, Rajiv Kalia, Priya Vashishta (Concurrent Computing Laboratory for Materials Simulations, Dept. of Physics, Dept. of Computer Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803-4001.)

15:18 Q18.03 Dynamic Fracture in Silicon Carbide via Multimillion Atom Molecular Dynamics

Kenji Tsuruta, Alok Chatterjee, Hideaki Kikuchi, Aiichiro Nakano, Rajiv K. Kalia, Priya Vashishta (Concurrent Computing Laboratory for Materials Simulations, Louisiana State University)

15:30 Q18.04 Energetics of vacancy occupation in gamma--alumina

F. H. Streitz (Auburn University), J. W. Mintmire (Naval Research Laboratory)

15:42 Q18.05 First-principles study of oxidation kinetics in amorphous SiO_2.

Kwok-On Ng, David Vanderbilt (Rutgers University)

15:54 Q18.06 Atomic-Scale Analysis of Surface Reaction Mechanisms in the Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition of Si Thin Films

Shyam Ramalingam, Dimitris Maroudas, Eray Aydil (UCSB)

16:06 Q18.07 Model for Wet Thermal Oxidation of AlAs in Cylindrical Geometry: Dependence of Diffusion and Reaction Constants on Temperature

A.C. Alonzo, X.-C. Cheng, T.C. McGill (California Institute of Technology)

16:18 Q18.08 Shock Initiation via Conical Intersection

M. Riad Manaa, Laurence E Fried (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

16:30 Q18.09 Molecular Dynamics Study of Thermal Expansion of Transition-Metal Aluminides.

Leonid Muratov, Bernard R. Cooper (Department of Physics, West Virginia University)

16:42 Q18.10 Ab initio evaluation of theoretical tensile strength in metals and intermetallic alloys.

M. Sob, L.G. Wang (Institute of Physics of Materials, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Zizkova 22, CZ-616 62 Brno, Czech Republic), V. Vitek (Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 3231 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19104-6272, U.S.A.)

16:54 Q18.11 Ab Initio Thermo-Elasticity of Mg

Carl W. Greeff, Dean L. Preston (Los Alamos National Laboratory), John A. Moriarty (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

17:06 Q18.12 Molecular Dynamics Simulations of AlPO_4

Osamu Kitao, Ersan Demiralp, Jan Sefcik, Tahir Cagin, William A. Goddard III (Materials and Process Simulation Center, Beckman Institute (139-74), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125)

14:30 Q19.01 Vibrational Properties of Carbon Nanotubes and Nanotube Bundles

Daniel Kahn, Jian ping Lu (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

14:42 Q19.02 Raman Study of SWNT Under High Pressure

U. Venkateswaran, A. M. Rao, E. Richter, P. C. Eklund, R. E. Smalley (^1Dept. of Physics, Oakland Univ., ^2Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Kentucky, ^3Center for Applied Energy Research, Univ. of Kentucky, ^4Dept. of Chemistry, Rice Univ.)

14:54 Q19.03 Raman Spectra of Mono-Dispersed Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes Formed in the Channels of AlPO_4-5 Zeolite Crystal

Han Dong Sun, Zi Kang Tang, Jiannong Wang (Physics Department, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology)

15:06 Q19.04 Resonant Raman effect in single wall carbon nanotubes

M.A. Pimenta, A. Marucci, E.B. Hanlon, S.D.M. Brown, M.J. Matthews, G. Dresselhaus, M.S. Dresselhaus (MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139), P.C. Eklund (University of Kentucky), R.E. Smalley (Rice University)

15:18 Q19.05 In situ Raman study of Electrochemically Intercalted Bisulfate Ions in Carbon Nanotube Bundles

G. U. Sumanasekera, J. L. Allen, A. M. Rao, S. L. Fang, P. C. Eklund (Department of Physics, Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky)

15:30 Q19.06 Raman studies of vapor-grown carbon nanofibers and multi-walled carbon nanotubes

Sandra D. M. Brown, H. M. Cheng, M.A. Pimenta, A. Marucci, M.S. Dresselhaus (MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, U.S.A.), Morinobu Endo (Shinshu University, Nagano 380, Japan)

15:42 Q19.07 Far Infrared Transmittance of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes

W. Holmes, J. Hone, P.L. Richards, A. Zettl (Physics Dept. UC Berkeley and MSD at LBNL)

14:30 Q20.01 Microstructure and Optics of Laser Ablation Grown Si Clusters

S. Vijayalakshmi, J. Federici, H. Grebel (New Jersey Institute of Technology), Z. Iqbal (AlliedSignal)

14:42 Q20.02 Photoexcitation of Si-Si Radiative Surface States in Nanocrystallites

M. H. Nayfeh, N. Rigakis, Z. Yamani (Department of Physics, University of Illinois, 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL 61801)

14:54 Q20.03 Si(001)-SiO2 Interfaces in Silicon Nanocrystallites

W.Howard Thompson, Zain Yamani, Laila AbuHassan, Osman Gurdal, Munir Nayfeh (Department of Physics, University of Illinois, 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL 61801)

15:06 Q20.04 Quantum Confinement Effects in Silicon Nanocrystals

Serdar Ogut (University of Minnesota)

15:42 Q20.05 Two-Photon-Excited Photoluminescence From Porous Si

J. Diener, Y.R. Shen (Department of Physics, U.C. Berkeley), D.I. Kovalev, G. Polisski, F. Koch (Physics Department E16, TU Munich, 85747 Garching, Germany)

15:54 Q20.06 Size dependence of the luminescence peak position in silicon nanocrystallites

V. Ranjan, V.A. Singh (Physics Department, I.I.T. Kanpur, India), G.C. John (Department of Physics, University of Louisville)

16:06 Q20.07 Mesoscale luminescence from porous silicon probed by NSOM and single nanoparticle spectroscopy

Steven K. Buratto, Michael D. Mason, Grace M. Credo, Kenneth D. Weston (Department of Chemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106)

16:18 Q20.08 First-principles calculations of optical properties for silicon clusters beyond density-functional theory.

Ming Yu, Sergio E. Ulloa, David A. Drabold (Dept of Phys. and Astron, and Condensed Matter and Surface Sciences Program, Ohio University)

16:30 Q20.09 Size Effects on Optical-absorption Spectra of Large Silicon Nanocrystallites

T. Iitaka, S. Nomura, X. Zhao, Y. Aoyagi, T. Sugano (RIKEN)

16:42 Q20.10 A Self-Consistent Non-Orthogonal Tight Binding Scheme for Charge Transfer Effects

Shi-Yu Wu, Dominic Alfonso, Chakram Jayanthi (University of Louisville)

16:54 Q20.11 Excitonic effects and optical absorption spectrum of hydrogenated Si clusters

Michael Rohlfing, Steven G. Louie (Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-7300, and Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720)

17:06 Q20.12 Synthesis, Optical Properties and Photoluminescence Quenching of Silicon Nanocrystals

S. Li, M.S. El-Shall (Virginia Commonwealth University)

14:30 Q21.01 Magnetoresistance in the pyrochlores: electrical transport in a low carrier density ferromagnet

Pinaki Majumdar (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, 600 Mountain Ave, Murray Hill, NJ 07974)

15:06 Q21.02 Probing the Magnetism of the CMR Pyrochlore Tl_2Mn_2O_7 by Pressure-Effect Measurements

Yu.V. Sushko, Y. Kubo, Y. Shimakawa, T. Manako (NEC Fundamental Research Laboratories, Tsukuba 305, Japan), J.D. Jorgensen (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA)

15:18 Q21.03 Ferromagnetic Coupling and Electron-Spin Interactions in Tl_2Mn_2O_7 Pyrochlore

Jun Zang, S. A Trugman, A. R. Bishop (Theoretical Division, LANL)

15:30 Q21.04 Electronic Structure and Magnetic Exchange in Manganese Pyrochlores: Tl_2Mn_2O_7

Sashi Satpathy, S.K. Mishra (University of Missouri)

15:42 Q21.05 Magnetic and Transport Properties of Eu_1-xLa_xB_6

D. Young, M.E. Torelli, Z. Fisk (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University), J.L. Sarrao (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM)

15:54 Q21.06 Creation of a new spin ordered state on magnetic artificial superlattice.

K. Ueda, H. Tabata, T. Kawai (ISIR-sanken Osaka University, 8-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka 567 Japan)

16:06 Q21.07 Synthesis and Properties of the Defect-Free La_1-xBa_xMnO_3

B. Dabrowski, K. Rogacki, X. Xiong, P. W. Klamut, R. Dybzinski, Z. Bukowski, J. Milstein, J. Shaffer, C. W. Kimball (Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Il 60115)

16:18 Q21.08 Colossal Magnetoresistive in the Zintl Compound Sr_14MnSb_11

R.M. Cohen, D.J. Webb, P. Klavins, R.N. Shelton (Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, California 95616), S.M. Kauzlarich (Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, California 95616)

16:30 Q21.09 Investigations on bulk Eu_xCa_1-xMnO_3.

A. Kebede (North Carolina Aamp;T University, Greensboro, NC 27411), F.W. Oliver, D. Seifu, E. Hoffman, C. Williams, E. Kannan (Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD 21251), G. Tessema (Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634)

16:42 Q21.10 Specific Heat of the Colossal Magnetoresistive Compound Eu_14MnBi_11

P. Klavins, C.C. Hoellwarth, D.J. Webb, R.N. Shelton (Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, California 95616), J.Y. Chan, S.M. Kauzlarich (Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, California 95616), J.T. Sipowska (Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Flint, Michigan 48502)

16:54 Q21.11 Colossal Magnetoresistance and Metallic Behavior in the (La_1-xBi_xMnO_3 Manganites: CMR in the Absence of Divalent Cations.

P.N. Rogers, J.Z. Liu, R.N. Shelton (Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, CA 95616)

17:06 Q21.12 First principles investigation of bismuth manganite, the ferromagnetic ferroelectric perovskite

Nicola A. Hill (Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106), Karin M. Rabe (Yale University, Dept. of Applied Physics, P.O. Box 208284, New Haven, CT 06520-8284)

Q21.13 Double Exchange Ferromagnetism in La(Mn_1-xCo_x)O_3

J.-H. Park (NSLS), S-W. Cheong (Bell Labs.), C.T. Chen (SRRC)

14:30 Q22.01 Flux Pinning in a Superconductor by an Array of Submicron Magnetic Dots

Ivan K. Schuller (\urllinkPhysics Department, University of California--San Diego, La Jolla, Ca. 92093-0319 http://physics.ucsd.edu/)

15:06 Q22.02 Dynamics of Nanoscopic Magnetic Systems

R.V. Chamberlin, M.R. Scheinfein (Arizona State University)

15:18 Q22.03 Magnetic properties of nanometer-scale iron particles

S. Wirth, J.J. Heremans, S. von Molnár (Martech, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL 32306), M. Field, D.D. Awschalom (Dept. of Physics, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA 93106)

15:30 Q22.04 Size and Strain Dependence of the Permeability of Ni_3Fe Nanocrystals

H.N. Frase, B. Fultz (California Institute of Technology), M. Barmatz (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

15:42 Q22.05 Superlattices of Organically Linked Cobalt Nanoparticles

Hongkun Park (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley), Marc Bockrath, A. Paul Alivisatos, Paul L. McEuen

15:54 Q22.06 Magnetic Properties of Core/Shell Transition Metal Nanoparticles

D. Zhang, K.J. Klabunde, C.M. Sorensen (Department of Physics, Kansas State University), G.C. Hadjipanayis (Department, of Physics amp; Astronomy, University of Delaware)

16:06 Q22.07 Tailoring of Nanostructure in Nanocomposite Magnetic Films

J.P. Liu, Y. Liu, D.J. Sellmyer (Center for Materials Research and Analysis, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588)

16:18 Q22.08 SmFe_2/Fe Nanocomposites

W. Manrakhan, Y.F. Li, J.Q. Xiao, G.C. Hadjipanayis (University of Delaware)

16:30 Q22.09 Microstructure and Magnetic Properties of Iron-Cobalt-Based Soft Magnetic Alloys

R. H. Yu, S. Basu, R. Taylor, K. M. Unruh, J. Q. Xiao (University of Delaware)

16:42 Q22.10 Structural, Thermal, and Magnetic Studies of Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Co Substituted Finemet-Type Alloys

R.S. Taylor, B.A. Sauer, K.M. Unruh (University of Delaware)

16:54 Q22.11 Nonlinear Optical Effects in Ferrofluids Induced by Temperature and Concentration Cross-Coupling

Tengda Du, Weili Luo (Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816)

17:06 Q22.12 Laser Induced Complex Dynamics in Magnetic Fluids

Sarik R. Nersisyan, Tengda Du, Nelson V. Tabiryan, Weili Luo (Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816)

14:30 Q23.01 Recent Discoveries Involving Hydrogen in Compound Semiconductors

Matthew McCluskey (University of California and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

15:06 Q23.02 Transient-Enhanced Diffusion and Interface Intermixing in Nonstoichiometric AlAs/GaAs Superlattices

D. D. Nolte, R. Geursen, I. Lahiri (Department of Physics, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN 47907), M. R. Melloch, J. R. Woodall (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN 47907)

15:18 Q23.03 Radially Resolved NMR at Defect Sites in GaAs Epitaxial Structures

Michael A. Miller, James G. Kempf, Daniel P. Weitekamp (A.A. Noyes Laboratory of Chemical Physics, California Institute of Technology)

15:30 Q23.04 Local structures of the metastable EL2* defects near GaAs(110) surfaces

S. B. Zhang (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden CO 80401)

15:42 Q23.05 Persistent Photoconductivity in Si \delta-doped GaAs.

C.Y. Chen, Tineke Thio (NEC Research Inst.), K.L. Wang, K.W. Alt, P.C. Sharma (Dept. of Electr. Engr., UCLA.)

15:54 Q23.06 Surface Segregation and Dopant Compensation in Si \delta-doped InSb and Al_xIn_1-xSb Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy

W. K. Liu, K. J. Goldammer, M. B. Santos (The University of Oklahoma)

16:06 Q23.07 PL and ODMR Studies of As Doping Sheets in AlSb

E.R Glaser, T.A. Kennedy, B.R. Bennett, B.V. Shanabrook (NRL)

16:18 Q23.08 Carrier Concentration Profiles in MBE-Grown LT-GaAs and HT-GaAs

N. C. Halder (Department of Physics, Univ. of S. Florida, Tampa, FL 33620)

16:30 Q23.09 Epitaxial Growth of InGaAs on a Borosilicate-Glass- Bonded Compliant Substrate

Kathleen Dunn, Jodi Reeves, Susan Babcock (University of Wisconsin - Madison, Materials Science Program), Peter Moran, Darren Hansen, Thomas Kuech (University of Wisconsin - Madison, Chemical Engineering Dept.)

16:42 Q23.10 A Model of Si/SiO2 Interface Trap Generation Resulting from the Presence of Holes in the Oxide

Patrick Lenahan (The Pennsylvania State University), John Conley (Dynamics Research Corporation)

16:54 Q23.11 Observation and Creation of Current Leakage Sites in Ultrathin SiO_2 Films Using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

Heiji Watanabe, Masakazu Ichikawa (Joint Research Center for Atom Technology, Ibaraki, Japan.)

17:06 Q23.12 First Observation of the Bloembergen Effect in Amorphous Insulating Thin Films on Silicon: A microscopic Probe of Oxide Electric Fields

Milan Lillis, Patrick Lenahan (The Pennsylvania State University)

14:30 Q24.01 Conjugated Polymers Excited on Ultrashort Timescales

Graham Denton (Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, UK)

15:06 Q24.02 Photoexcitation Dynamics and Nonlinear Emission in DOO-PPV Thin Films.

M.N. Shkunov, S.V. Frolov (), Z.V. Vardeny (University of Utah), K.S. Wong (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), K. Yoshino (Osaka University)

15:18 Q24.03 Ultrafast spectroscopy of excitons and biexcitons in conducting polymers

Duncan McBranch, Victor Klimov, Brett Kraabel, Natasha Kirova, Serguei Brazovskii, Alan Bishop (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

15:30 Q24.04 Studies of Second Order Optical Nonlinearities of 4-Aminobenzophenone (ABP) Single Crystal Films

Achintya Bhowmik, Mrinal Thakur (Auburn University, AL 36849)

15:42 Q24.05 Enhancement of optical nonlinearity due to breathers in finite polyenes

J. D. Kress, A. Saxena, A. R. Bishop, R. L. Martin (Los Alamos National Lab)

15:54 Q24.06 Measurement of Spectral Broadening in PTS-Polydiacetylene

Achintya Bhowmik, Mrinal Thakur (Auburn University, AL 36849)

16:06 Q24.07 Effect of nonadiabaticity on nonlinear optical response in quasi-1D materials

Z. Shuai (Univ. Mons-Hainaut, Belgium), W. Z. Wang, A. Saxena, A. R. Bishop (Los Alamos National Lab), J. L. Brédas (Univ. Mons-Hainaut, Belgium)

16:18 Q24.08 Two-Photon Photoemission Spectroscopy of poly(3-octylthiophene)

G. D. Hale, N. J. Halas (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, and The Rice Quantum Institute, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005)

Q24.09

14:30 Q25.01 Phonons and Vibrational Entropy in Systems with Reduced Symmetry

Talat S. Rahman (Kansas State University)

15:06 Q25.02 Electronic Structure Calculations on the Surface of Cu(001)

Chih-Kai Yang (Center of General Education, Chang Gung University, Kueishan, Taiwan, ROC)

15:18 Q25.03 Films of Fe epitaxial on Cu(001) are not strained fcc Fe.

F. Jona, P.M. Marcus (Dept. Materials Science, SUNY Stony Brook, NY11794-2275)

15:30 Q25.04 Ab-initio lattice dynamics and thermal expansion of Be (0001) surface

Michele Lazzeri, Stefano de Gironcoli (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), Trieste, Italy)

15:42 Q25.05 Dynamic image potential at an Al(111) surface

I.D. White (Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, UK), R.W. Godby (Dept. of Physics, York, UK), M.M. Rieger, R.J. Needs (Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, UK)

15:54 Q25.06 First--Principles Calculations of the Vibrational Properties of the Mg(0001) and Be(0001) Surfaces

Jeffrey Althoff (Department of Materials Science and Mineral Engineering, University of California, Berkeley), Andrew Quong (Computational Materials Science Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, 94551)

16:06 Q25.07 Ab initio study of point defect formation in Ni_3Al

Hannes Schweiger (Institut für Physikalische Chemie der Universität Wien), Walter Wolf (Molecular Simulations Inc. (Orsay)), Elio Moroni, Raimund Podloucky (Institut für Physikalische Chemie der Universität Wien), Wolfgang Pfeiler (Institut für Materialphysik der Universität Wien)

16:18 Q25.08 Non-local Interactions and the Electronic Structure of Defects in Metals

Susan R. Atlas, Ramamurthy Ramprasad (Center for Advanced Studies and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico)

16:30 Q25.09 Interstitial Oxygen in Simple Metals

S.A Kajihara, C. Woodward (Materials and Processing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson AFB, OH)

16:42 Q25.10 First-principles calculations of the electronic structure of edge and screw dislocations: NiAl ^\ast

O.Yu. Kontsevoi, O.N. Mryasov, A.J. Freeman (Northwestern University), Yu.N. Gornostyrev, M.I. Katsnelson (Institute of Metal Physics, Ekaterinburg, Russia)

16:54 Q25.11 Transport properties of atomic wires: an ab initio study

Chuncheng Wan (Dept. of Phys., McGill Univ., Montreal, Que H3A 2T8, CA)

17:06 Q25.12 First-principles calculations of the thermal expansion of metal surfaces

Jianjun Xie, Matthias Scheffler (Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG, D-14195 Berlin-Dahlem), Stefano de Gironcoli, Stefano Baroni (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)

14:30 Q26.01 X-ray inelastic scattering from single crystal of CeO_2

Eugene Mamontov (University of Pennsylvania), Wojciech Dmowski, Takeshi Egami (University of Pennsylvania), Chi-Chang Kao (NSLS, Brookhaven National Laboratory)

14:42 Q26.02 Resonant Inelastic x-Ray Scattering from the Insulating Cuprates

P. Abbamonte (University of Illinois), E. D. Isaacs (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), C. Burns (Western Michigan University)

14:54 Q26.03 Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering in NiS_1.5Se_0.5

C. Burns (Western Michigan University), E. D. Isaacs (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), T. Thio, J.W. Bennett (NEC Research Institute), J.M. Honig, S. Perooly (Purdue University)

15:06 Q26.04 The local spin-flip spectral distribution obtained by resonant x-ray Raman scattering

Frank de Groot (Solid State Physics, Materials Science Center, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, Netherlands), Pieter Kuiper (ITN, Hogskolan i Halmstad, Box 823, S-301 18 Halmstad, Sweden), George Sawatzky (Solid State Physics, Materials Science Center, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, Netherlands)

15:18 Q26.05 Measuring Dynamic Scaling in Charge-Density Wave Relaxation

K.L. Ringland, A.C. Finnefrock, Y.P. Li, S.G. Lemay, R.E. Thorne, J.D. Brock (Cornell University)

15:30 Q26.06 Electronic properties of the energetic material TATB

S. Kakar (Department of Applied Science, University of California at Davis/Livermore, Livermore, CA 94550), R. Treusch (Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, WI 53706), T. van Buuren, L.J. Terminello (Chemical and Materials Science Department, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94556)

Q26.07

15:54 Q26.08 In Situ X-ray Diffraction and Absorption Studies of the Li_xMn_2O_4 Cathode Materials by Synchrotron Radiation

X. Q. Yang, S. Mukerjee, J. McBreen (Brookhaven National Lab.), M. L. Daroux, X. K. Xing (Gould Electronics Inc., Powerdex Division)

16:06 Q26.09 X-ray resonant magnetic scattering on (Gd/Fe) multilayers

D.R. Lee, Y.J. Park, Y.H. Jeong, K.-B. Lee, S.J. Kwon (POSTECH), E. Lidström, F. Yakhou, C. Vettier (ESRF)

16:18 Q26.10 Resonant Magnetic X-Ray Scattering at the M_IV Edge of Uranium Compou nds

D. Wermeille, C. Vettier, A. Stunault, E. Lidström (ESRF, France), N. Bernhoeft (ILL, France), J. Flouquet (CEA, France), P. Lejay (CNRS, France)

16:30 Q26.11 Magnetic Structures of TbNi_2Ge_2 Crystal

Z. Islam, C. Detlefs, A. Goldman, S. Bud'ko, P. Canfield (Ames Laboratory and Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011.), J. Hill, D. Gibbs, T. Vogt, A. Zheludev (Dept. of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973.), W.J.L. Buyers (Dept. of Physics, AECL, Chalk River, ON Canada.)

16:42 Q26.12 Magnetic Structure of HoBe_13 in an Applied Magnetic Field

P. Dervenagas, P. Burlet, F. Bourdarot (CEA-Grenoble, France), A. Hiess (ILL, France), G. H. Lander (EITU, Karlsruhe, Germany), J. S. Kim (Univ. of Florida), G. R. Stewart (Univ. of Florida and Univ. Augsburg, Germany)

16:54 Q26.13 The Dzyaloshinskii-spiral magnet Ba_2CuGe_2O_7 in an in-plane magnetic field

A. Zheludev, S. Maslov, G. Shirane (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Y. Sasago, N. Koide, K. Uchinokura (University of Tokyo), D.A. Tennant, S.E. Nagler (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

14:30 Q27.01 Mid-infrared (\lambda=7.1 \mum) interminiband laser action in undoped superlattices

A. Tredicucci, F. Capasso, C. Gmachl, D. L. Sivco, A. L. Hutchinson, A. Y. Cho (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill NJ), J. Faist (Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland), G. Scamarcio (Università di Bari, Italy)

14:42 Q27.02 Mid-Infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers

Benjamin S. Williams, Brian Riely, Qing Hu (MIT, Dept. of EECS and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Cambridge, MA 02139), Michael R. Melloch (Purdue Univ., School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, West Lafayette, IN 47907)

14:54 Q27.03 Optical Gain of Type I and Type II Quantum Cascade Lasers

E.E. Mendez (SUNY at StonyBrook), J.L. Jimenez (Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

15:06 Q27.04 Near-Room-Temperature Operation of Interband Cascade Lasers Emitting at 3.6 \mum

L. J. Olafsen, E. H. Aifer, I. Vurgaftman, W. W. Bewley, C. L. Felix, J. R. Meyer (Naval Research Laboratory), D. Zhang, C.-H. Lin, S.-S. Pei (Space Vacuum Epitaxy Center, University of Houston)

15:18 Q27.05 Auger Lifetimes in an AlSb-InAs-GaInSb-InAs Type-II Quantum-Well Mid-IR Laser Structure

L. T. Heen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU),Norway), H. P. Hjalmarson (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185-0820), C. L. Felix, I. Vurgaftman, J. R. Meyer (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375), T. A. Fjeldly (NTNU and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180)

15:30 Q27.06 XSTM Characterization of Anion Cross Incorporation in MBE-Grown Mid-IR Laser Structures

J. Harper, M. Weimer (Department of Physics, Texas Aamp;M University, College Station, TX 77843), D. Zhang, C. H. Lin, S. S. Pei (Space Vacuum Epitaxy Center, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77094)

15:42 Q27.07 High-power quantum-cascade lasers at \lambda = 8 \mum

C. Gmachl, A. Tredicucci, F. Capasso, A.L. Hutchinson, D.L. Sivco, A.Y. Cho (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies)

15:54 Q27.08 Dual wavelength infrared emitters and Stark-tunable lasers with cascaded intersubband transitions

A. Tredicucci, F. Capasso, D. L. Sivco, A. L. Hutchinson, A. Y. Cho (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill NJ), C. Sirtori (LCR Thomson-CSF, Orsay, France), J. Faist (Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland)

16:06 Q27.09 Carrier recombination rates in narrow-gap semiconductor superlattices

Michael E. Flatté, T. C. Hasenberg, D.-J. Jang, J. T. Olesberg, Thomas F. Boggess (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242), C. H. Grein (Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60607), S. A. Anson (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242)

16:18 Q27.10 Modulation of carrier concentration by mid-infrared light intersubband excitation in a charge transfer double quantum well

M. Rüfenacht, S. Tsujino (Quantum Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara), H. Sakaki (Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo)

16:30 Q27.11 Increasing the External Radiative Efficiency of InGaAs/InP Heterostructures

T.H. Gfroerer (JILA)

16:42 Q27.12 Variation in the Internal Loss of 1.3 \mum InGaAsP Lasers with Hydrostatic Pressure and their Impact on the Laser Output

C.S. Menoni, D. Patel, J.M. Pikal (Colorado State University)

16:54 Q27.13 Microstructure of Mixed- and Common-Anion Interfaces in InAs/GaSb/AlSb Heterostructures Examined with XSTM

M. Weimer, J. Harper (Department of Physics, Texas Aamp;M University, College Station, TX 77843), D. Zhang, C. H. Lin, S. S. Pei (Space Vacuum Epitaxy Center, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77094)

14:30 Q28.01 Surface electronic structure determined by scanning tunnelling microscopy ^*

Philip Hofmann (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, 14195 Berlin, Germany)

15:06 Q28.02 Complex Wave Patterns Observed in Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

W.W. Pai, E.W. Plummer (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of TN, Knoxville and ORNL), L. Bartels, G. Meyer, K.-H. Rieder (Freie Univ. Berlin, Germany), Q. Niu (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of TX, Austin)

15:18 Q28.03 Low Temperature STM Investigation of Na on Au(111)

T. Jamneala, V. Madhavan, W. Chen, M. F. Crommie (Department of Physics, Boston University, 590 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215)

15:30 Q28.04 STM Spectroscopy of a Single Kondo Impurity

V. Madhavan, W. Chen, T. Jamneala, M. F. Crommie (Department of Physics, Boston University, 590 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215)

15:42 Q28.05 STM Observation of an Electronic Superlattice at the Surface of Clean Gold

W. Chen, V. Madhavan, T. Jamneala, M. F. Crommie (Department of Physics, Boston University, 590 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215)

15:54 Q28.06 Diffusion measurements of H/Si(111) from STM tunneling current fluctuations

M. Hupalo, M.C. Tringides (Iowa State University)

16:06 Q28.07 STM Tunneling area determination from tunnelling current fluctuations

M. Hupalo, N. Voss, M.C. Tringides (Iowa State University)

16:18 Q28.08 Inducing and Monitoring the Reversible Rotation of a Single Molecule

B.C. Stipe, M.A. Rezaei, W. Ho (Cornell University)

16:30 Q28.09 Tip Induced Motion of Adatoms on Metal Surfaces

Ulrike Kürpick, Talat. S. Rahman (Kansas State University)

16:42 Q28.10 Low Temperature STM Images of Atomic Adsorbates on Catalytically Active Metal Surfaces: Experiment and Theory

I. S. Tilinin, M. K. Rose, J. C. Dunphy, M. Salmeron, M. A. Van Hove (Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720)

16:54 Q28.11 Surface Reconstructions of FeAl(110), (210) and (310) Studied with STM,LEED, and AES

P.T. Sprunger (CAMD-LSU), D.M. Zehner (ORNL)

14:30 Q29.01 Response Time of Electrorheological Fluids

R. Tao, Xuesong Zhang, Richard Cyburt (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, IL)

14:42 Q29.02 An Electrorheological Fluid Made Of High Tc Superconductor Powders

Xuesong Zhang, R. Tao, Richard Cyburt (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, IL)

14:54 Q29.03 Cryogenic Electrorheological Fluids

Richard Cyburt, Xuesong Zhang, T.-J. Chen, R. Tao (Dept. of Physics, Southern Illinois University)

15:06 Q29.04 Electrorheological effect at cryogenic temperature

Tian-Jie Chen (Dept. of Physics, Southern Illinois Uiversity), Xuesong Zhang, Richard Cyburt, Rongjia Tao (Dept. of Physics, Southern Illinois University)

15:18 Q29.05 Ground States of Magnetorheological Fluids

Lei Zhou, Weijia Wen, Ping Sheng

15:30 Q29.06 MR Fluid: The Transition from Overdamped to Underdamped Vibrations

Ray Ward, Yun Zhu, Mark Gross, Jing Liu (California State University, Long Beach)

15:42 Q29.07 Equilibrium Columnar Structure of Magnetorheological Fluid

Mark Gross (California State University, Long Beach)

15:54 Q29.08 Field-Induced Optical Transmittance in Magnetic Particle Suspensions

K.M. Hill, J.E. Martin, C.P. Tigges (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185)

16:06 Q29.09 Particle Dynamics Studied by Diffusing Wave Spectroscopy in a Ferrofluid Emulsion

Sadayoshi Okumoto (California State university, Long Beach), Jing Liu

16:18 Q29.10 Transverse Chain Dynamics of a Ferrofluid Emulsion Studied Using Dynamic Light Scattering

Serge Cutillas (California State University, Long Beach), Martin Hagenbuechle, Jing Liu

16:30 Q29.11 Longitudinal Chain Dynamics of a Ferrofluid Emulsion Studied Using Dynamic Light Scattering

Armin Hagenbuechle (California State University, Long Beach), Martin Hagenbuechle, Jing Liu

16:42 Q29.12 The Effect of Induced Structures on Rheology in a Model Magnetorheological Fluid.

Neal J. Breslin (California State University, Long Beach), Yun Zhu, Jing Liu

16:54 Q29.13 Experimental Study of Field-induced Non-Equilibrium Patterns in a Ferrofluid Emulsion.

George A. Flores (California State University, Long Beach), Jing Liu

17:06 Q29.14 Simulation Study of the Non-Equilibrium Structure Formation In Magnetorheological Fluids.

M. Mohebi (Center for Scientific Investigation and Higher Education of Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico), N. Jamasbi (Center for Scientific Investigation and Higher Education of Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico), Jing Liu (California State University, Long Beach)

14:30 Q30.01 Experimental Study of Symmetry of the Superconducting Order Parameter in Sr_2RuO_4

R. Jin, Yu. Zadorozhny, Y. Liu (Penn State University, University Park), Y. Mori, Y. Maeno (Kyoto University, Kyoto), D. G. Schlom (Penn State University, University Park), F. Lichtenberg (Universit\ddotat Augsburg, Augsburg)

14:42 Q30.02 Transition into a low temperature superconducting phase of unconventional pinning in \mathrmSr_2RuO_4

A.C. Mota, E. Dumont (ETH Zürich), A. Amann (ETH Zürich, Present address: UCSD, IPAPS-0360, La Jolla, CA 92093-0360), Y. Maeno (Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 660-01)

14:54 Q30.03 Test for time reversal symmetry breaking in superconducting Sr_2RuO_4

Daniel F. Agterberg (Theoretische Physik, ETH-Hönggerberg, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland), Manfred Sigrist (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-01, Japan)

15:06 Q30.04 Single Spin Superconductivity: Bulk and Junction Effects

Robert E. Rudd (SFA amp; Naval Research Laboratory), Warren E. Pickett (UC-Davis amp; Naval Research Laboratory)

15:18 Q30.05 Evidence for Hubbard ferromagnetism in SrRuO_3

J. S. Dodge (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), L. Klein (Bar-Ilan University), C.H. Ahn (Université de Genève), J.W. Reiner, L. Mieville, T.H. Geballe, M.R. Beasley, A. Kapitulnik (Stanford University), E.T. Kulatov, H. Ohta (Kobe University), Yu. Uspenskii (P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute), S. Halilov (Technische Universitaet Dresden)

15:30 Q30.06 Thermal Transport in Sr_1-xCa_xRuO_3.

M. Shepard, G. Cao, J.E. Crow (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, FSU), P.F. Henning (Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY.)

15:42 Q30.07 Infrared conductivity of the itinerant ferromagnet SrRuO_3 .

P. Kostic, Y. Okada, Z. Schlesinger (U. C., Santa Cruz), L. Klein, J.W. Reiner, M.R. Beasley, T.H. Geballe, A. Kapitulnik (Stanford University)

15:54 Q30.08 Single Crystal Ca_3Ru_2O_7 in High Magnetic Fields

S. McCall, G. Cao, J.E. Crow (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory/FSU), R.P. Guertin (Tufts University.)

16:06 Q30.09 Negative Differential Resistivity in the Non-metallic Phase of Layered Ruthenates and Iridates

R.P. Guertin (Tufts University), G. Cao, J. Bolivar, S. McCall, J.E. Crow (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, FSU)

16:18 Q30.10 Optical Conductivity Study in (Ca,Sr)RuO_3 films.

J. Bak, H. S. Choi, T. W. Noh (Department of Physics, Seoul National University), J. H. Cho (Department of physics, Pusan National University, Korea), Q. X. Jia (Superconductivity Technology Center, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

14:30 Q31.01 Transition to paired Hall states in half-filled Landau levels.

E. H. Rezayi (CSULA), F. D. M. Haldane (Princeton)

14:42 Q31.02 Field Theory for the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

R Shankar (Yale University)

14:54 Q31.03 Neutral Fermions at \nu = 1/2

Dunghai Lee (Physics Department, UC Berkeley)

15:06 Q31.04 Charge and current oscillations in Fractional quantum Hall systems with edges

Mahito Kohmoto, Junichi Shiraishi (ISSP, Univ. of Tokyo), Yshai Avishai (Physics Department, Ben Gurion University of the Negev)

15:18 Q31.05 Composite fermions in the half-filled Landau level: why gauge field fluctuations are important.

Peter Kopietz (Göttingen/UCLA.)

15:30 Q31.06 The Physics of The Haldane-Rezayi Quantum Hall State

Victor Gurarie, Chetan Nayak (Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara CA 93106-4030), Michael Flohr (Institute for Advanced Study, Olden Lane, Princeton NJ 08540)

15:42 Q31.07 A Chern-Simons Effective Field Theory for the Pfaffian Quantum Hall State

Chetan Nayak (Institute for Theoretical Physics,UCSB), Eduardo Fradkin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Alexei Tsvelik (University of Oxford), Frank Wilczek (Institute for Advanced Study)

15:54 Q31.08 Study of the Rezayi-Read Wavefunction for Three Particles

J. H. Han (APCTP)

16:06 Q31.09 Composite Fermion Pairing in Double-Layer Quantum Hall Systems

Takao Morinari (U. Tokyo)

16:18 Q31.10 Phase diagram of spinful composite fermion and a new effective mass

Kwon Park, Jainendra K. Jain (SUNY at Stony Brook)

16:30 Q31.11 Quantitative Study of Large Composite-Fermion Systems

J. K. Jain, K. Park (SUNY at Stony Brook), V. Melik-Alaverdian, N.E. Bonesteel (Florida State University)

16:42 Q31.12 Microscopic Approach to Composite Fermions.

F. D. M. Haldane (Princeton), V. Pasquier (CEA Saclay)

14:30 Q32.01 Universality of Shot Noise in Mesoscopic Diffusive Conductors.

Eugene Sukhorukov, Daniel Loss (University of Basel, Switzerland)

14:42 Q32.02 Shot noise in mesoscopic disordered SNS junctions

Athanassios Bardas, Dmitri V. Averin (SUNY at Stony Brook)

14:54 Q32.03 Measurements of Shot Noise in a Metallic Diffusive Mesoscopic Wire with Superconducting Leads.

A.A. Kozhevnikov, R.J. Schoelkopf, D. Prober (Yale University), P. Wahlgren, P. Delsing (Chalmers Univ. of Technology)

15:06 Q32.04 Noise in Three - Dimensional Nanowires

A.G. Scherbakov, E.N. Bogachek, Uzi Landman (School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0430)

15:18 Q32.05 Localized plasmons in quantum point contacts

Henrik Bruus (Niels Bohr Institute, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark), Karsten Flensberg (Danish Institute of Fundamental Metrology, Anker Engelunds Vej 1, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark)

15:30 Q32.06 Temperature Dependence of the ``0.7" Structure in Strongly Confined Quantum Point Contacts

J. Nygård, A. Kristensen, H. Bruus, J.B. Jensen, C.B. SØrensen, P.E. Lindelof (Ørsted Laboratory, Niels Bohr Institute, Universitetsparken 5, DK2100 Copenhagen, Denmark), M. Michel, A. Forchel (Technische Physik, Universität Würzburg, D97074 Würzburg, Germany)

15:42 Q32.07 Nanography of tunable quantum point contacts with an Atomic Force Microscope: Control of the adiabatic coupling by using self-aligned gates

Thomas Heinzel, Ryan Held, Klaus Ensslin (Solid State Physics Lab, ETH Zurich 8093 Zurich, Switzerland)

15:54 Q32.08 Frequency Dispersion of an Admittance in the Quantum Point Contact

G.P. Berman (), G.D. Doolen (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos NM 87545), I.E. Aronov (Sage Technology Inc., 1800 Sandy Plains Parkway, Suite 320, Marietta GA 366), D.K. Campbell (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 West Green St., Urbana, IL 61801-3080), N.N. Beletskii (), S.V. Dudiy (Institute of Radiophysics and Electronics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 12 Acad. Proskura St., 310085, Kharkov, Ukraine)

16:06 Q32.09 Imaging Flow through a Quantum Point Contact using a Cryogenic SPM

M.A. Topinka, M.A. Eriksson, R.G. Beck, R.M. Westervelt (Harvard University), K.D. Maranowski, A.C. Gossard (U.C. Santa Barbara)

16:18 Q32.10 Conductance and Its Bias Dependence in Hard and Soft Metallic Nanocontacts

Akira Sakai, Katsuhiro Itakura (Kyoto University), Hiroshi Yasuda (TI Japan)

16:30 Q32.11 Electron Transport Through an Asymmetric Microjunction ---A Ballistic Rectifier---

A.M. Song, A. Lorke, J.P. Kotthaus (Sektion Physik, LMU, München, Germany), W. Wegscheider, M. Bichler (Walter-Schottky-Institut, TUM, Garching, Germany)

16:42 Q32.12 Random Telegraph Noise in Microstructures

Sh. Kogan (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545)

14:30 Q33.01 Magnetoresistance in Ultrathin Homogeneous and Granular Superconducting Wires

Peng Xiong (MARTECH and Department of Physics, Florida State University)

15:06 Q33.02 Supercurrent Quantization in Interfacial Josephson Junctions

M.J. Black, B.W. Alphenaar, H. Ahmed (Microelectronics Research Centre and Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory, Cavendish Laboratory, UK)

15:18 Q33.03 Hall effect in NS and SNS junctions

Fei Zhou, Boris Spivak (University of Washington)

15:30 Q33.04 AC Non-equilibrium Supercurrents: The Unusually Strong Half-integer Shapiro Step in Mesoscopic SNS Junctions

K. W. Lehnert, S. J. Allen (Quantum Institute, UC Santa Barbara), H.-R. Blank, K.C. Wong, H. Kroemer (Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UCSB), Nathan Argaman (Inst. for Theoretical Physics, UCSB)

15:42 Q33.05 Field Theory of Mesoscopic Fluctuations in Superconductor/Normal-Metal Systems

Damian Taras-Semchuk, Alex Altland, Ben Simons (Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, U.K.)

15:54 Q33.06 Aharonov-Bohm type Oscillations of Thermopower in Andreev Interferometers

J. Eom, C-J. Chien, V. Chandrasekhar (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University)

16:06 Q33.07 Reentrance effect in normal-metal superconducting hybrid loops

C.-J. Chien, V. Chandrasekhar (Northwestern University)

16:18 Q33.08 Thermometry by Arrays of Small Tunnel Junctions

G. Y. Hu, R.F. O'Connell (Loisiana State U, Baton Rouge), Young Bong Kang, Jai Yon Ryu (Cheju National U, Korea)

14:30 Q34.01 Band Structure and Many-Body Local-Field Effects in the Energy Loss Spectrum of Aluminum

B.C. Larson, J.Z. Tischler (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), A.G. Eguiluz (Univ. of Tenn. and Oak Ridge National Laboratory), A. Fleszar (Univ. Würzburg)

14:42 Q34.02 The Energy Dependence of the Many-Body Local-Field Factor in Aluminum

J.Z. Tischler, B.C. Larson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), A.G. Eguiluz (Univ. of Tenn. and Oak Ridge National Laboratory), A. Fleszar (Univ. Würzburg)

14:54 Q34.03 Angle-resolved photoemission study of PtGa_2

L.-S. Hsu (National Chang-Hua Univ. of Education, Taiwan and Univ. Michigan), J.D. Denlinger, J.W. Allen (Univ. Michigan)

15:06 Q34.04 X-Ray Observation of Friedel Oscillations and of the Strong CDW Pinning in Alloys of Quasi 1D conductors.

S.A. Brazovskii (Landau Inst.amp; Los Alamos NL), S. Rouzière (ISSP, Univ. of Tokyo), S. Ravy, J.-P. Pouget (LPS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Orsay.)

15:18 Q34.05 Fermi surface-driven magnetic ordering in Gd_xY_1-x alloys

S.B. Dugdale, T. Jarlborg (DPMC, University of Geneva, CH-1211, Geneva 4, Switzerland), H.M. Fretwell, A. Rodriguez-Gonzalez, M.A. Alam (H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TL, UK), S.B. Palmer (Dept. of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK)

15:30 Q34.06 Infrared Study of CuGeO_3 and \alpha\prime-NaV_2O_5: Is the Spin-Peierls Picture Appropriate for Both Systems?

A. Damascelli, C. Presura, D. van der Marel, T. Palstra (Material Science Center, University of Groningen, The Netherlands), J. Jegoudez, G. Dhalenne, A. Revcolevschi (Laboratoire de Chimie des Solides, Universit\acutee de Paris-sud, France)

15:42 Q34.07 Origin of Phase Separation on a Pd-Ag Alloy Surface

Chanyong Hwang (Materials Evaluation Center, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science), Il Sang Choi (LG Semiconductor), C.N. Whang (Physics Department, Yonsei University)

15:54 Q34.08 High-field de Haas-van Alphen measurements in Pd

J. J. Vuillemin (University of Arizona), N. Harrison (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, LANL), R. G. Goodrich (Louisiana State University)

16:06 Q34.09 A Determination of the Paramagnetic Susceptibility of Potassium from Short-Wavelength Spin-Wave Modes

J.S. Payson, D. Yang, G.L. Dunifer (Wayne State U.)

14:30 Q35.01 Preparation of YBCO single-crystal surfaces for angularly resolved planar tunneling studies

Benoit Lussier, M. Charalambous, H. Guillou, J. Chaussy, P. Lejay (CRTBT CNRS, Grenoble Cédex 9, FRANCE), M. Pissas (Institute of Materials Science NCRS Demokritos, GREECE)

14:42 Q35.02 YBCO Single Crystals Growth using BaZrO_3 Crucibles: Growth conditions and Crystal Characterizations

Ruixing Liang (Dept. of Phys. & Astron., Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6T 1Z1), D.A. Bonn, W.N. Hardy

14:54 Q35.03 Growth of YBa_2Cu_3O_7 - \delta Crystals with BaZrO_3-Coated Alumina Crucibles

Jing Shi, Joshua Berger, Xinsheng Ling (Brown University)

15:06 Q35.04 Microstructure and Superconducting Properties of Top-Seeded YBCO Single Crystals

R. H. Yu, N. Reginald, John Q. Xiao (University of Delaware), J. Mora, N. Vilalta, F. Sandiumenge, B. Martinez, X. Obradors (Institute of Materials Science, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain)

15:18 Q35.05 Two-component Fast Synthesis of YBa_2Cu_3O_7-\delta

F. Chen, W. L. Hults, J. C. Cooley, J. L. Smith, D. E. Peterson (Superconductivity Technology Center, MS-K763, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545)

15:30 Q35.06 Optimized Synthesis and Compositions for Nd-123 Materials

Z. Bukowski, K. Rogacki, J. Siewenie, B. Dabrowski (Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Il 60115)

15:42 Q35.07 Superconducting PrBa_2Cu_3O_x Powders

J. C. Cooley, W. L. Hults, E. J. Peterson (Los Alamos National Laboratory), J. D. Dow (Arizona State University), H. A. Blackstead (University of Notre Dame), J. L. Smith (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

15:54 Q35.08 Properties of CLCBO, a 123-type superconducting compound

D. Goldschmidt, A. Knizhnik, Y. Direktovich, Y. Eckstein (Department of Physics and Crown Center for Superconductivity, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel)

16:06 Q35.09 Optimized Superconducting Properties of Mo Substituted YBaSrCu_3O_7 Compound with T_c= 86 K

K. Rogacki, B. Dabrowski (Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Il 60115), O. Chmaissem, J. D. Jorgensen (Material Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Il 60439)

16:18 Q35.10 Nickel impurities in optimally oxygen doped 1:2:3 like CaLaBaCuO superconductors

A Knizhnik (Crown Center for Superconductivity and Department of Physics,Technion, Haifa Israel)

16:30 Q35.11 Local Cu and Br Environments and Their Relationship to Superconductivity Restoration in Brominated YBa_2Cu_3O_6.1

D. M. Potrepka, J. I. Budnick, D. B. Fenner, M. Balasubramanian, W. A. Hines (Dept. of Physics and Inst. of Materials Science, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269)

16:42 Q35.12 The effects of C-Content on YSr_2Cu_3O_y

Y.S. Wang, S.H. Xu, Y. Cao, Y.Y. Sun, Y.Y. Xue, C.W. Chu (Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX77204)

16:54 Q35.13 Pressure Effect of T_c on YSr_2Cu_3O_x

Yong Cao (University of Houston), Troy Hudson (MIT), Shenghui Xu, Yongsheng Wang, Yuyi Xue, Ching-wu Chu (University of Houston)

14:30 Q36.01 Pseudogap Effects Above and Below T_c: a Resonant Pair Scattering Approach

I. Kosztin, Q. Chen, B. Jankó, K. Levin (The James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago)

14:42 Q36.02 Pseudogap Phenomena in d-wave Superconductors via Resonant Pair Scattering

Q. Chen, I. Kosztin, B. Jankó, K. Levin (The James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago)

14:54 Q36.03 Theory of pseudogap and unconventional pairing in the Hubbard model

Y. M. Malozovsky, J. D. Fan (Department of Physics, Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70813, USA)

15:06 Q36.04 Temperature Evolution of the Pseudogap State in La_1.87Sr_0.13CuO_4

Tatiana Startseva, Tom Timusk (McMaster University, Canada), M. Okuya, T. Kimura, K. Kishio (Department of Applied Chemistry, University of Tokyo, Japan)

15:18 Q36.05 Probing the Symmetry of the Pseudogap in Underdoped Superconductors by Neutron Crystal-Field Spectroscopy

J. Mesot (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory), G. Boettger, A. Furrer (Laboratory for Neutron Scattering, ETH Zurich and PSI, Switzerland), H. Mutka (Institut Laue-Langevin, France)

15:30 Q36.06 STM Observation of Temperature and Doping Dependences of BSCCO Pseudogap

Azusa Matsuda, Satoshi Sugita, Takao Watanabe (NTT Basic Research Labs. Kanagawa 243-01, Japan)

15:42 Q36.07 Evolution of the pairing pseudogap in the spectral function with interplane anisotropy

G. Preosti, Y. M. Vilk, M. R. Norman (Argonne National Laboratory)

15:54 Q36.08 Pseudogap formation in a model with d_x^2-y^2 superconductivity.

Alexander Nazarenko, Jan R. Engelbrecht (Department of Physics, Boston College), Mohit Randeria (Tata Inst., Mumbai), Elbio Dagotto (NHMFL and Department of Physics, FSU)

16:06 Q36.09 Normal State Properties of the Attractive Hubbard Model.

Jan R. Engelbrecht, Alexander Nazarenko, Sarah Shiple (Department of Physics, Boston College)

16:18 Q36.10 Evidence of Pseudogap from Tunneling Spectra of Underdoped Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_8

Anjan K. Gupta, K.-W. Ng (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY40506)

16:30 Q36.11 Pseudo-gap in High T_c Superconductor YBa_2Cu_3O_7 (YBCO)

G. L. Zhao, D. Bagayoko (Department of Physics, Southern University and A amp; M College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70813)

14:30 Q37.01 Variable Delay Superconducting Transmission Line

A.D. Smith, E. Dantsker, A.G. Sun, T. Tighe, A. H. Silver (TRW Space amp; Electronics Group, Redondo Beach, CA)

14:42 Q37.02 Properties of Grain-Boundary Josephson Junctions at Microwave Frequencies

Y.M. Habib (MIT Cambridge, MA 02139), C.J. Lehner, D.E. Oates (MIT Lincoln Lab), L.R. Vale, R.H. Ono (NIST Boulder, CO 80303), M.S. Dresselhaus, G. Dresselhaus (MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139)

14:54 Q37.03 Microwave induced voltage steps of a long inhomogeneous Josephson junction

Gabriele F. Giuliani (Purdue U.), Mikhail V. Fistul (Physikalisches Inst. III, Erlangen-N\''urenberg U.)

15:06 Q37.04 Fluxon Dynamics in Multilayer Josephson Tunnel Junctions

N. Thyssen, H. Kohlstedt (Institut für Schicht- und Ionentechnik, Forschungszentrum Jülich, D-52425 Jülich, Germany), S. Sakai (Electrotechnical Laboratory, Umezono, Tsukuba-shi Ibaraki, Japan), A. V. Ustinov (Physikalisches Institut III, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany)

15:18 Q37.05 Angular dependence of the Josephson critical current across c-axis twist junctions of high temperature superconductors

K. Scharnberg, C. T. Rieck (Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, FRG), R. A. Klemm (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL USA)

15:30 Q37.06 Spontaneous Magnetic Flux and Quantum Noise in an Annular Mesoscopic SND Junction

Alexandre Zagoskin, Masaki Oshikawa (Physics and Astronomy Department, The University of British Columbia, 6224 Agricultural Rd., Vancouver, Canada, V6T 1Z1)

15:42 Q37.07 Properties of junctions with antiferromagnetic YBa_2Cu_2.5Co_0.5O% _7-\delta barriers

K. Char, R. Contreras, B. H. Moeckly (Conductus, Inc.)

15:54 Q37.08 Systematic Study of Planar Thin Film YBa_2Cu_3O_7-\delta Josephson Devices

A.S. Katz, A.G. Sun, S.I. Woods, K. Char, S.S. Lau, R.C. Dynes (University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093)

16:06 Q37.09 Ramp-type high-T_c Josephson junctions incorporating interface-engineered edges

B. H. Moeckly, K. Char (Conductus, Inc.)

16:18 Q37.10 A new method of fabricating 45^o bi-epitaxial Y_1B_2C_3O junctions on YSZ substrates

Shu-hui Tsai, Cheng-chung Chi, Maw-kuen Wu (Material Science Center and Department of Physics, National Tsing-hua University , Hsinchu ,30043 , Taiwan , R.O.C.)

16:30 Q37.11 Field dependent critical current of planar Josephson Junctions in the presence of fluxons trapped in the electrode.

B.M. Hinaus (Allegheny College Department of Physics), M.S. Rzchowski (University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Physics)

16:42 Q37.12 Vortex structures in comb-like Josephson junctions

Mikhail V. Fistul (Physikalisches Inst. III, Erlangen-N\''urenberg U.), Gabriele F. Giuliani (Purdue U.)

16:54 Q37.13 The Stationary Josephson Effect in Mesoscopic Metal Particles

Zafer Gedik, Igor O. Kulik (Department of Physics, Bilkent University, Bilkent 06533, Ankara, Turkey)

17:06 Q37.14 Conductivity of Josephson Junctions under a Dissipative Environment

K.A. Chao, X.H. Wang (Department of Theoretical physics, Lund University, Sweden)

17:18 Q37.15 Superconductive tunneling in junctions with resonant double barrier structures

Göran Johansson (Department of Microelectronics and Nanoscience, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden), Vitaly Shumeiko, Ekaterina Bratus (B. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering, Kharkov, Ukraine), Göran Wendin (Department of Microelectronics and Nanoscience, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden)

Q38.01 Examination of Monomer Functionality in the Anisotropic Phase Separation of Liquid Crystals

T.J. Bunning, R.T. Pogue, L.V. Natarajan, V.P. Tondiglia, R.L. Sutherland (SAIC, AFRL/MLPJ, WPAFB, OH), S. Lakhia (University of Dayton, OH)

Q38.02 Chromophore-doped Polymers Studied by Positron Annihilation

Chia-Ming Huang, E. Hellmuth, Y.C. Jean (University of Missouri-Kansas City)

Q38.03 SCF-MO Analysis of Polycroconaine

K.K. Taylor, T.E. Ezell, J.A. Darsey (University of Arkansas at Little Rock), B.K. Rao (Virginia Commonwealth University)

Q38.04 Tethered Chains In Poor Solvent Conditions: An Experimental Study Involving Langmuir Diblock Copolymer Monolayers

M.S. Kent (Sandia National Labs.), J. Majewski, G.S. Smith (Los Alamos National Labs.), S. Satija (NIST), L.T. Lee (Lab. Leon Brillouin)

Q38.05 Electrophoretic Deposition of Polymer Chains on Adsorbing Walls: Nonuniversal Scaling and Conformational Crossover

Grace M. Foo (National University of Singapore), Ras B. Pandey (University of Southern Mississippi)

Q38.06 Imidization and Interfacial Properties of Polyimides

J.A. Young, B.L. Farmer (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903)

Q38.07 Polymer Dynamics Studies using SERF (Spreadsheet Environment Reflectivity Fitting)

K.A. Welp, R.P. Wool, C. Co (U. of Delaware, Dept. of Chemical Engineering)

Q38.08 Adsorption of polymers with stickers onto patchy surfaces

Chandralekha Singh, Anna C. Balazs (University of Pittsburgh)

Q38.09 Protein Adsorption on Surfaces with Grafted Polymers

I. Szleifer (Department of Chemistry, Purdue University), A. Kidane, K. Park (School of Pharmacy, Purdue University)

Q38.10 Mean-Field Study on the Structure and Deformation of Polymer Brushes

K.K. Kim, K. Char (Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea)

Q38.11 Computer Simulation Study of the Role of Substrate Thermal Vibrations in Liquid Crystal Anchoring at a Polymer Surface

T.P. Doerr, P.L. Taylor (CWRU)

Q38.12 Surface Segregation in Blends of Regular Star/Linear Polystyrene

M.D. Foster, D.M. Teale, C.C. Greenberg, E. Cloutet, C.M. Turner, R.P. Quirk (U. of Akron)

Q38.13 Atomic Force Microscopy Analysis of Indium Tin Oxide Surface For Organic Light Emitting Device Applications

E.W. Forsythe (University of Rochester), F.M. Avendano (), Yongli Gao (University of Rochester)

Q38.14 Semi-Flexible Chains Between Hard Walls Under a Density Functional Driving Force

Justin B. Hooper, John D. McCoy (Materials Dept., New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM), John G. Curro, Jeffrey D. Weinhold (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM)

Q38.15 Surface and Interfaces of Polymer Coating Probed by Positron Annihilation

Renwu Zhang, Huimin Cao, Jen-Pwu Yuan, Q. Zhang, Y.C. Jean (University of Missouri-Kansas City), Bent Nielsen (Brookhaven National Laboratory), C.S. Sundar (IGCAR, India), T.C Sandreczki, Y. He (University of Missouri-Kansas City), R. Suzuki (Electrotechnical Laboratory)

Q38.16 The Transition between Capillarity and non-Capillarity in Small V-Shaped Grooves

John A. Emerson (Sandia National Laboratories)

Q38.17 Stretching of Single Polymer Chains Using the Atomic Force Microscope

C. Ortiz, E. W. Van der Vegte, E. Van Swieten, G. T. Robillard, G. Hadziioannou (University of Groningen)

Q38.18 The Structure of Polyelectrolyte Block Copolymers in Water/Butanol Mixtures

K.W. Shin, S. Ge, M. Rafailovich, J. Sokolov (SUNY @ Stony Brook), D. Chang (Commack H.S), D. Nguyen (BNL), Z. Li (Exxon Res. & Eng.), A. Gibaud, G. Vignaud (U.du Maine Faculte des Sciences,France), J. Cox, A. Eisenberg (McGill Univ,Canada)

Q38.19 Non-Flory-Huggins Behavior at Co\-po\-ly\-mer/Ho\-mo\-po\-ly\-mer Interfaces

J.F. Ankner, M.D. Lewis, H. Kaiser (U. of Missouri at Columbia), O. Byutner, G.D. Smith (U. of Utah), T.P. Russell (U. of Massachusetts at Amherst)

Q38.20 Frequency dependence of force modulation measurement for polymer surface

Shouren Ge, Miriam Rafailovich, Jonathan Sokolov (SUNY, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Stony Brook, NY), Cynthia Buenviaje, Rene Overney (University of Washington, Dept. of Chemical Enginering, Seattle, WA), Dennis Peiffer (Exxon Research and Engineering Company, Annandale, NJ)

Q38.21 EXAFS Study of Structural Changes in Zr-doped Polyimides

S. Kostov, D. Garan, M. L. denBoer, S. Greenbaum (Hunter College CUNY), M. L. Illingsworth, H. Dai, R. Stapleton (Rochester Inst. of Tech.)

Q38.22 Altered Binary Polymer Blend Adsorption on Si Surfaces Modified with Tethered Polymer Brushes

H. Grüll, A. Karim, C.C. Han (NIST, Polymer Division), L. Sung, S.K. Satija (NIST, Center for Neutron Research)

Q38.23 Diffusion and Relaxation in Ultrathin Polymer Films Studied via Optical Probe Techniques

D.B. Hall, J.M. Torkelson (Northwestern University)

Q38.24 Microscopic Model of Craze Propagation in a Thin Polymer Film

Glenn Fredrickson, Tom Krupenkin (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Q38.25 Compatibilization by Block Copolymers in Confined Geometries

Veronika Simonian, Ying Liu, Sichuan Qu, Dilip Gersappe, Miriam Rafailovich, Jon Sokolov (Dept. Of Materials Science and Engineering, State Univeristy of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794)

Q38.26 Random Polyelectroltye Polymers in Mixed Solvents

Kwanwoo Shin, Miriam Rafailovich, Jon Sokolov, Dilip Gersappe (Dept. Of Materials Science and Engineering, State Univeristy of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794), Diep Ngyuen (Brookhaven National Lab, Brookhaven, NY 11974), Nan-Loh Yang, D Xu (College of Staten Island, Staten Island, NY), Sushil Satija (NIST, Gaithesburg, MD), Adi Eisenberg (McGill University, Montreal CA)

Q38.27 Dewetting of PS/PBrS bilayers

D. Slep (Hilord Chem. Corp.), J. Asselta, X. Zhu, M. Rafailovich, J. Sokolov (SUNY@StonyBrook), D. A. Winesett, A. P. Smith, H. Ade (NCSU)

Q38.28 Effect of substrate topography on polymer blend morphology

M.J. Fasolka, A.M. Mayes (Dept. Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Q38.29 Grafted silane monolayers: reconsideration of growth mechanisms

D.A. Ivanov, B. Nysten, A.M. Jonas, R. Legras (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)

Q38.30 A direct comparison of Langmuir-Blodgett and Langmuir films of hairy rod polymers

Greg Martin, S. L. Hsu, B. Chien (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Q38.31 Synthesis and Morphology of Grafted Poly(caprolactone) Ultrathin Films

S. Gullerud, C.W. Frank (Stanford University), M. Trollsas, J.L. Hedrick (IBM Almaden Research Center)

Q38.32 Rheology of Microemulsion Under Shear

Werner H. Hort, Anna C. Balazs, David Jasnow (University of Pittsburgh)

Q38.33 Enhanced Craze Resistance due to a Correlated Conformational Transition

Jianwei Liu (Univ. of Michigan)

Q38.34 Study of the relaxation processes of amorphous poly(Ethylene-Terephtalate) by isothermal depolarization currents.

J. Menegotto, P. Demont, C. Lacabanne (Laboratoire de Physique des Polymères, Toulouse, France.), E. Marchal (Institut C.Sadron, Strasbourg, France.)

Q38.35 Enhanced Craze Resistance due to a Correlated Conformational Transition

Jianwei Liu (Univ. of Michigan)

Q38.36 Influence of the thermo-mechanical history on epoxy systems

Lacabanne Colette, Maraval Celine, Bernes Alain (Laboratoire de Physique des Polymères, Université Paul Sabatier, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse Cedex, France), Medda Bruno (Division Avion, Aérospatiale, 31060 Toulouse Cedex 03, France.)

Q38.37 Modeling of Space Charge and Glass Transition Relaxation Processes in Thermal Stimulated Polarization and Depolarization Experiments

N. Suárez (Departamento de Física, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Apartado Postal 89000, Caracas 1080-A, Venezuela), M. Puma (Fundación Instituto de Ingeniería, Apartado Postal 40200, Caracas 1040-A, Venezuela)

Q38.38 Lower Limit to Size of Heterogeneities in Polymers above Tg from Reduced 4D Exchange NMR

W. Hu, K. Schmidt-Rohr, H. Zimmermann (Polym. Sci. and Eng. Dept., Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst)

Q38.39 Long-ranged Relaxations in Poly(ethylene oxide) Melts

Jim Selser, Rainer Walkenhorst, Greg Piet (Physics, UNLV, Las Vegas, NV 89154-4002)

Q38.40 Molecular Dynamic Simulation of 1,2-Dimethoxyethane(DME)/Water System: Static and Dynamic Properties.

Dmitry Bedrov, Oleg Borodin, Grant Smith (University of Utah)

Q38.41 Topological effects in ring polymer solutions

E. Flikkema, G. ten Brinke (University of Groningen)

Q38.42 Phase separation of polymer solutions under shear flow

Karin de Moel, Gerrit ten Brinke (University of Groningen), Igal Szleifer (Purdue University)

Q38.43 Pulsed Bromine-81 Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance Spectroscopy of Brominated Flame Retardants and Associated Polymer Blends.

Anthony A. Mrse, Youngil Lee, Pamela L. Bryant, Frank R. Fronczek, Leslie G. Butler (Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University), Larry S. Simeral (Albemarle Corporation)

Q38.44 Self-Consistent PRISM Studies of Polyolefin Melts

J.D. Weinhold, J.G. Curro (Sandia National Laboratories), A. Habenschuss, J.D. Londono (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Q38.45 The Solubility of Gases in Amorphous Polyethylene as a Function of the Solubility Parameters of both Polymer and Gas

Joanne L. Budzien, John D. McCoy (Materials Engineering, New Mexico Tech, Socorro NM 87801), John G. Curro (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185), Randall A.. LaViolette (Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID 83415)

Q38.46 Silk Solution Properties and the Natural Silk Spinning Process

P. Jeanene Willcox, Sanaul K. Siddiquee, Jan W. Van Egmond, Samuel P. Gido (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Q38.47 Structure and dynamics of ring polymers

Scott Brown, Grzegorz Szamel (Colorado State University)

Q38.48 X-ray Scattering Studies of Director Tumbling Dynamics in a Nematic Surfactant Solution

F. Caputo, W. Burghardt (Northwestern University)