Program overview

FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 1 OCTOBER 1999

14:00 BA.01

14:12 BA.02 Differential Dijet and Dijet Mass Cross Section Studies at CDF

Alexander Brandl, Sally Seidel (University of New Mexico), The CDF Collaboration

14:24 BA.03 Measurement of Drell-Yan Cross Sections in 800 GeV pH and pD Collisions

Jason Webb (New Mexico State University), FNAL E866/NuSea Collaboration

14:36 BA.04 Measurement of Increased Relativistic Passive Gravitational Mass

John Fuhrmann (CSM), Jesse Chuhta, Jeff Hanel, C.K. Butterfield, Dr. F. Edward Cecil, Dr. Frank V. Kowalski

14:48 BA.05 Measurement, Fisher information and the fundamental particles

B. Roy Frieden (Optical Sciences Center, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721), Angelo Plastino (Dept. of Physics, National Univ. of La Plata, C.C. 727, 1900 La Plata, Argentina)

15:00 BA.06 Linking the BCS and GT Relations

M.D. Scadron (Department of Physics, The University of Arizona)

15:12 BA.07 Restricted Test Functions and the Polarization of Photon and Graviton States

William R. Stoeger (Vatican Observatory Research Group, Steward Observatory, The University of Arizona), Kurt Just (Dept. of Physics, The University of Arizona)

15:24 BA.08 Dynamical Higgs Mechanism or ``Mexican Hat?"

Kam-Y. Kwong (Dept. of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721), Kurt Just (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721)

15:36 BA.09 Results which contradict any neutrino theory of light

Kurt Just (Dept. of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Az 85721), Zbigniew Oziewicz (UNAM, Facultad de Estudios Superiores and Universytet Wroctawski)

15:48 BA.10 Wolfenstein Approximation is Insensitive to CP Violations

Vic Dannon (Four Corners Section), Robert Levine

14:00 BB.01 Overview of the High Resolution (HiRes) Fly's Eye Cosmic Ray Observatory

Kevin Reil, Wayne Springer (University of Utah), University of Utah The Department of Physics and High Energy Astrophysics Institute, AUSTRALIA Department of Physics and Mathematical Physics University of Adelaide, New York Columbia University Nevis Laboratories Irvington, Department of Physics Columbia University New York , Montana State University Bozeman , Department of Physics University of Mew Mexico Alburquerque

14:12 BB.02 Upper Limit on Fluctuations of Attenuation of Light Transmitted from Extended Air Showers

Stuart F. Taylor, Pierre Sokolsky, Lawrence Wiencke (University of Utah)

14:24 BB.03 The Milagro VHE Gamma Ray Observatory

Kelin Wang (University of California, Riverside), The Milagro Collaboration

14:36 BB.04 Search for TeV emission from GRBs using the Milagrito Detector.

Joseph McCullough (University of CA, Santa Cruz), Milagro Collaboration

14:48 BB.05 Results from Milagrito on TeV Emission from Active Galactic Nuclei

Morgan Wascko (University of California, Riverside), Milagro Collaboration

15:00 BB.06 Atmospheric Cherenkov Detectors at Milagro to Measure Cosmic-Ray Composition Above 50 TeV

Robert Atkins (University of Utah), Wide Angle Cherenkov Telescope (WACT) Collaboration

15:12 BB.07 Multiwavelength Observations of TeV Blazars

Michael Catanese (Iowa State University), The Whipple Gamma-ray Collaboration

15:24 BB.08 Search for TeV Emission from Pulsars with the Whipple Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope

Tony Hall (Purdue University), Whipple Collaboration

15:36 BB.09 Spectral analysis of the Markarian 501 flaring activity in 1997

Stephen Fegan (Department of Physics, University of Arizona), Whipple Collaboration

15:48 BB.10 A Proposed Search for TeV Counterparts to Gamma Ray Bursts

Deirdre Horan (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), Whipple Gamma Ray Collaboration

16:00 BB.11 The Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS)

Trevor Weekes (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), The VERITAS Collaboration

16:12 BB.12 A Search for a Dark Matter produced Sidereal dependant stopping Muon rate

Abram G. Young, Patrick McGuire, Theodore Bowen (University of Arizona)

14:00 BC.01 ``Evolution of surface stress during growth of cobalt silicide by reactive deposition."

Jerry G. Nivision (Science and Engineering of Materials, ASU), Dan G. Waters, Tim H. McDaniels, P. A. Bennett (Dept. of Physics, ASU)

14:12 BC.02 CdSe(ZnS) Nanocrystals as a Scintillator Wavelength Shifter

Benjamin Stevens, Robert Davis, Bart Czir (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young University; Provo, UT 84602)

14:24 BC.03 The Characteristics of the Acoustooptic Interaction in Single-Mode Fibers

Fred Hickernell (Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721)

14:36 BC.04 High Pressure Brillouin Scattering and Energy Dispersive X-ray Diffraction Study of (NH_4)_2ZnCl_4

J.L. Burris, L. Tereshchenko, P. Kabos, H.D. Hochheimer (Department of Physics, Colorado State University), Y. Luspin (Centre de Recherche sur les Matériaux à Haute Température, CNRS), C.R. Evenson, P.K. Dorhout (Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University)

14:48 BC.05 Characterization of Thin-film Polycrystalline Solar Cells Directed towards Improved Efficiency

Pamela Johnson (Department of Physics, Colorado State University)

15:00 BC.06 Hygrogen motion in a Ti-Zr-Ni icosahedral quasicrystal and a 1/1 bcc crystal approximant studied by ultrasonic measurements

K. Foster, R. G. Leisure, J. B. Shaklee (Colorado State University), J. Y. Kim, K. F. Kelton (Washington University)

15:12 BC.07 EPR Lineshape change near a tricritical point

Daniel Decker (Brigham Young University)

15:24 BC.08 Melting behavior of nanoscale indium islands

W. Evenson (Brigham Young University), M. Dippel, V. Gimple, A. Maier (Universität Konstanz, Germany), R. Rasera (University of Maryland Baltimore County), H. Wider, G. Schatz (Universität Konstanz, Germany)

15:36 BC.09 EFFECTIVE MASSES FOR 1 AND 2% N IN InGaAsN ALLOYS

E.D. Jones, A.A. Allerman, S.R. Kurtz, I.J. Fritz, N.A. Modine (Sandia National Laboratories), K.K. Bajaj (Emory University), S.T. Tozer, X. Wei (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory)

15:48 BC.10 Intense Lateral Composition Modulation in InAs/AlAs Superlattices

David Follstaedt, John Reno, Stephen Lee, Eric Jones (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185-0601), Andrew Norman, Helio Moutinho, Phil Ahrenkiel, Yong Zhang, Angelo Mascarenhas (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), Ray Twesten (University of Illinois), Joanna Mirecki Millunchick (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

16:00 BC.11 InGaAsN Solar Cells and Minority Carrier Properties

Steven R. Kurtz, A. A. Allerman, E. D. Jones (Sandia National Laboratories)