Program overview

SATURDAY MORNING, 2 OCTOBER 1999

09:15 EA.01 No-core shell-model calculations for few-nucleon systems and light nuclei

Petr Navratil, Bruce Barrett (University of Arizona), James Vary (Iowa State University)

09:27 EA.02 A Renormalised Two Body Effective Interaction for the Nuclear Many Body Problem

David Marsden (Program in Applied Mathematics, University of Arizona), Petr Navratil, Bruce Barrett (Department of Physics, University of Arizona)

09:39 EA.03 Bc Formation in Quark-Gluon Plasma

Martin Schroedter, Robert L. Thews, Johann Rafelski (Dept. of Physics, U of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721)

09:51 EA.04 Density and Entropy Evolution in a Quark Gluon Plasma Using the Fokker-Planck Equation

Robert Jorstad, E. David Davis, Johann Rafelski (Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721)

10:03 EA.05 Antiprotons in the Cosmic Rays

Scott Nutter (Eastern New Mexico University)

10:15 EA.06 Computational Study of Weak Shock Reflection

Aramais Zakharian (armis@lpl.arizona.edu, Department of Planetary Sciences, University of Arizona), Moysey Brio (brio@math.arizona.edu, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona), Garry Webb (cosray@lpl.arizona.edu, LPL, University of Arizona)

10:27 EA.07 Supernova Neutrino Thermalization: Interactions and Timescales

Todd Thompson (Department of Physics, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ), Adam Burrows (Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ)

10:39 EA.08 The Oscillating Neutrino: Some Possible Answers

Jason Steffen (Department of Physics, Weber State University)

10:51 EA.09 The Adaptive Optics System for the New 6.5 Meter MMT Optical/Infrared Telescope

Patrick C. McGuire, Michael Lloyd-Hart, J. Roger P. Angel, George Z. Angeli, Robert L. Johnson, Bruce C. Fitz-Patrick, Warren B. Davison, Roland J. Sarlot, Cyndy J. Bresloff, John M. Hughes, Steve M. Miller, Phillip Schaller, Francois P. Wildi, Matthew A. Kenworthy, Richard M. Cordova, Matthew L. Rademacher, Mario H. Rascon, Maud Langlois, Thomas Roberts, Don McCarthy (Steward Observatory, University of Arizona), James H. Burge (Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona), Troy A. Rhoadarmer (Starfire Optical Range, Air Force Research Laboratory), J. Christopher Shelton (W.M. Keck Observatory, Waimea, Hawaii), Bruce Jacobsen (Nikon), Piero Salinari, Guido Brusa, Ciro Delvecchio (Osservatorio Arcetri, Firenze, ITALY), Roberto Biasi (Microgate S.r.L., Bolzano, ITALY), Daniele Gallieni (ADS and MediaLario S.r.L., Lecco, ITALY), David G. Sandler, Todd K. Barrett (Trex Enterprises, San Deigo), MMT Adaptive Optics Collaboration

11:03 EA.10 Angle-Resolved XUV Reflectivity Measurements

Jason Rowland, David D. Allred, Matthew B. Squires, R. Steven Turley (Brigham Young University)

09:15 EB.01 Theoretical study of electric conduction through alkanethiol chains

John Tomfohr, Otto Sankey (Arizona State University)

09:27 EB.02 Theoretical study of the structural, electronic and vibrational properties of CdIn_2Te_4

Miguel Fuentes-Cabrera, Jianjun Dong, Otto Sankey (Arizona State University), Miguel Meléndez-Lira (CINVESTAV-IPN, México)

09:39 EB.03 Rigid inter-tetrahedron angular interaction of non-molecular carbon-dioxide (CO_2) solids

Jianjun Dong (Dept of Physics and Astronomy, Materials Research Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1504), John K. Tomfohr, Otto Sankey, Paul McMillan (Arizona State University)

09:51 EB.04 Dynamics of Helical Strips

Patrick Shipman (University of Arizona, Department of Mathematics), Alain Goriely (University of Arizona, Department of Mathematics and Program in Applied Mathematics)

10:03 EB.05 Phase separation and shape deformation of two-phase membranes

Yi Jiang (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory), Turab Lookman (Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario, Canada), Avadh Saxena (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

10:15 EB.06 Tunneling in Optical Lattices

John Grondalski, Paul Alsing, Ivan Deutsch (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico), David Haycock, Poul Jessen (Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona)

10:27 EB.07 Theory of the Pressure Dependent Band Structure of GaAsN Alloys

N. A. Modine, E. D. Jones, A. A. Allerman, S. R. Kurtz (Sandia National Laboratories)

10:39 EB.08 Porting the ion-solid interaction code TRIM-RC to a parallel computer

J. A. Knapp, D. K. Brice, B. L. Doyle (Sandia National Laboratories)

10:51 EB.09 Magnetic-Field-Induced Quantized Conductance Staircase in a Double-Wire Quantum Point Contact

S. K. Lyo, M. A. Blount, J. S. Moon, J. A. Simmons, J. R. Wendt, J. L. Reno (Sandia National Laboratories)

11:03 EB.10 Diffusion and clustering in heavily arsenic-doped silicon

Jianjun Xie, Shao-Ping Chen (Theoretical Division, MS-B262, Los Alamos National Lab.), T-11 group Team

11:15 EB.11 Corona Discharge Source for the Growth of III-V Nitrides

Dirk Jordan, Barry Wilkens, Ig Tsong, Bruce Doak (Arizona State University, Department of Physics & Astronomy)

09:15 EC.01 A Capsule Review of Three Years of Progress in the Sandia Z-Pinch Program

M. A. Sweeney (Sandia National Laboratories)

09:27 EC.02 Two-Color Temperature Measurements of a Strongly-Coupled Plasma Jet

Thomas Tierney, Karen Byrd, John Benage, Jonathan Workman, George Kyrala, Los Alamos National Laboratory

09:39 EC.03 Towards Realization of an Atomic deBroglie Microscope: Helium Atom Focusing Using Fresnel Zone Plates

R. B. Doak (Arizona State University), R. I. Grisenti (Max-Planck-Institut für Strömungsforschung, Göttingen), S. Rehbein, G. Schmahl (Forschungseinrichtung Röntgenphysik, Universität Göttingen), J. P. Toennies (Max-Planck-Institut für Strömungsforschung, Göttingen), Ch. Wöll (Physikalische Chemie I, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

09:51 EC.04 Implementation of the plane-wave pseudopotential method for use on parallel computers

Alan F. Wright (Sandia National Laboratories)

10:03 EC.05 The Aharonov-Bohm effect in a 1D ring with a barrier

Jeremie Korta, Charles Stafford (University of Arizona)

10:15 EC.06 Volatility from Threshold Noise in Randomly Connected Synchronous Asymmetric Neural Networks

Patrick McGuire, Johann Rafelski, Chris Pershing, Henrik Bohr (now at: Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, The Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, DENMARK)

10:27 EC.07 Nonradiating sources and quantum communications

Edwin A. Marengo, Richard W. Ziolkowski (Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721)

10:39 EC.08 Twirling and Whirling: Viscous Dynamics of Rotating Elastica

Charles Wolgemuth (Department of Physics, University of Arizona), Thomas Powers (Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University), Raymond Goldstein (Department of Physics and Program in Applied Mathematics, University of Arizona)

10:51 EC.09 Recovery of Dirac Equations from Their Solutions

Erwin Sucipto, Kurt Just (Department of Physics - University of Arizona - Tucson, Arizona 85721)

11:03 EC.10 Dirac particle in a double square well

Seokjae Kim (University of Utah and Brigham Young University), Jean-Francois Van Huele (Brigham Young University)

11:15 EC.11 Dirac Equation Without Pauli Terms

James Thevenot, Kurt Just (Department of Physics, University of Arizona)

11:27 EC.12 ``Merged Beam" Measurement of the 4He2 Dimer Binding Energy

Mark Meloni, Bruce Doak (Arizona State University)

09:15 ED.01 Physics Animations and Simulations Using Macromedia's Director 7

Bradley Carroll, Farhang Amiri (Department of Physics, Weber State University)

09:27 ED.02 The Desert Project

Gail Paulin (Tucson Unified School District)

09:39 ED.03 New Professional Masters Degrees in the Sciences

Shiela Tobias (Sloane Foundation), Michael Shupe (University of Arizona)

09:51 ED.04 Experiences with Physics Modeling Instruction

Phil Gilbert (Tucson Magnet High School)

10:03 ED.05 Physics First

Caroline McCarthy (Canyon del Oro High School)

10:15 ED.06 Web-Delivered Conceptual Physical Science Course

R. Steven Turley, Dorian Hatch, Juliana Boerio-Goates, Dana Griffen, Grant Mason, Suzanne Hendrix (Brigham Young University)

EE.01 [NeV] Imaging of the Fast Shock Around the Crab Nebula.

Heidi Van Tassell, Jeff Hester (Arizona State University), Ravi Sankrit (Johns Hopkins University), Andrew Szentgyorgi (Center for Astrophysics)

EE.02 Circular and Elliptical States of Rydberg Atoms

John A. MacFarlane, Barbara L. Whitten, Colorado College Physics Department

EE.03 Sputtering of Amorphous Carbon Grains in a Cool Stellar Outflow

Carl Covatto, Per Aannestad (Arizona State University)

EE.04 Optical Manipulation of Atomic Gallium for Nanoscale Fabrication

S.J. Rehse, Jr. Fairbank, S.A. Lee (Department of Physics, Colorado State University)

EE.05 Graphite and the Ultraviolet Interstellar Extinction Curve

Lisa Will, Per Aannestad (Arizona State University)

EE.06 ``Anomalous nucleation behavior for silicide islands grown on silicon"

Tim McDaniels, P. A. Bennett (Dept. of Physics, ASU)

EE.07 ``Insitu surface stress measurements during contact reaction of ultrathin overlayers of cobalt on Si(100) and Si(111)"

Dan G. Waters, Jerry G. Nivison, P. A. Bennett (Dept. of Physics, ASU)

EE.08 Atmospheric Corrosion of Copper: First-Principles Pseudopotential Calculations of Solid-State Transport Processes in Copper Metal, Oxide and Sulfides

Jeffrey Nelson (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque)

EE.09 Inhomogeneity-Induced Superconductivity?

Juan Eroles, Gerardo Ortiz, A. Balatsky, Alan R. Bishop (Los Alamos Nat. Lab.)

EE.10 Light Transmission Fluctuations fromExtended Air Showers Produced by Cosmic-Rays and Gamma-Rays

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