Program overview

SUNDAY AFTERNOON, 21 MARCH 1999

Session BA01. GIMS/FHP: Cent. Symposium: 20th Century Developments in Instrumentation & Measurements.

Sunday afternoon, 14:00, Ballroom I, GWCC

14:00 BA01.01 Status of Electrical and Magnetic Instruments as of the Turn of the Century
Arden L. Bement (Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Purdue University)
14:36 BA01.02 Electronic Instruments During the Past 60 Years
Alan Bagley (Hewlett-Packard, Retired)
15:12 BA01.03 The Birth of the Integrated Circuit
Gordon Moore (Intel Corporation)
15:48 BA01.04 NIST at 98: A Retrospective
Ralph P. Hudson (National Bureau of Standards (Retired) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (Guest Worker))
16:24 BA01.05 History of Laboratory Automation
James R. Matey (Sarnoff Corporation)
   

Session BA02. FPS: Cent. Symposium: Science Policy for the New Millennium.

Sunday afternoon, 14:00, Ballrooms II & III, GWCC

14:00 BA02.01 Moderator
David Alpern (Newsweek)
14:00 BA02.02 TBD
Hon. Joseph Lieberman (U.S. Senate - CT)
14:15 BA02.03 Science, Politics, and Policy
Hon. Vernon Ehlers (U.S. House of Representatives - MI)
14:30 BA02.04 TBD
Neal Lane (Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy)
14:45 BA02.05 The New Age of Exploration
Hon. Rita Colwell (Director, National Science Foundation)
15:00 BA02.06 American Technology and Victory in Wars: Hot and Cold
Hon. Hans Mark (Defense Research and Engineering)
15:15 BA02.07 Panel Discussion
   

Session BA03. CSWP: Cent. Symposium: Breakthroughs of Women in Physics.

Sunday afternoon, 14:00, Ballroom IV, GWCC

14:00 BA03.01 Women Physicists in Industry
Esther Conwell (Chemistry Department, University of Rochester)
14:36 BA03.02 Critical Points in My Career
Johanna M.H. Levelt Sengers (Physical and Chemical Properties Division National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg)
15:12 BA03.03 Dancing to the Music of Physics and Politics
Martha Krebs (United States Department of Energy)
15:48 BA03.04 Women in Physics: A personal perspective
Mary K. Gaillard (University of California, Berkeley)
16:24 BA03.05 Experiences of a Woman Particle Experimentalist
Gail G. Hanson (Indiana University)
   

Session BC11. SPS: Society of Physics Students Undergraduate Research.

Sunday afternoon, 14:00, Room 269W, GWCC

14:00 BC11.01 Aperture Effects in Optical Resonators
Maria Bell (Hendrix College)
14:12 BC11.02 Stability Analysis of Coupled Chaotic Oscillators
Kenneth Fink (Columbia University)
14:24 BC11.03 Negative Pion Pair Production in P-A Collisions
Jamila Hussain (Columbia University and Barnard College)
14:36 BC11.04 The Cosmic Ray Experiment High Resolution Fly's Eye
Benjamin Dubin-Thaler (Columbia University)
14:48 BC11.05 Neutral Heavy Leptons at the BooNE Detector
Sarah Case (Columbia University)
15:00 BC11.06 Analysis of Antiproton Production in E910, A Fixed Target P-A Collision Experiment
Suzanne Greenstein (Columbia University)
15:12 BC11.07 Break
15:22 BC11.08 Monitoring Metallic Compounds in Rocket Plumes
Emily Maher (Hendrix College)
15:34 BC11.09 Cavity Stability in Large Ring Lasers
Brad Austin (Hendrix College)
15:46 BC11.10 Attenuation of Ultrasonic Pulses through Cancellous Bone
S. Andrew Whitten, Jae Y. Rho, Brent K. Hoffmeister (Rhodes College)
15:58 BC11.11 The Effect of Double Slit Position on Interference Patterns
Leslie Reed, Willard L. Fadner, Kendall Mallory (University of Northern Colorado)
16:10 BC11.12 Characterization of Silicon Microstrip Detectors in a Low Intensity Pion Beam
Nicholas Koch (University of Northern Colorado), Phillip Gutierrez, Michael Strauss, Georg Steinbrueck (University of Oklahoma)
16:22 BC11.13 Kepler's Laws and the Elementary Classroom
Charles Miller, Courtney Willis (University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO 80639)
   

Session BC12. GGR: Gravitational Experiments I.

Sunday afternoon, 14:00, Room 268W, GWCC

14:00 BC12.01 Preparing for the Flight of Gravity Probe B
C.W. Francis Everitt, Bradford W. Parkinson, John P. Turneaure (W.W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Stanford University)
14:36 BC12.02 Science Instrument Assembly for Gravity Probe B
Barry Muhlfelder, Doron Bardas, Saps Buchman, Paul Ehrensberger, Dale Gill, Dz-Hung Gwo, John Lipa, James Lockhart, Mark Sullivan, John Turneaure, Suwen Wang (W.W.Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory (HEPL), Stanford University)
14:48 BC12.03 Gravity Probe B Cryogenic Systems
M. A. Taber, D. Bardas (Hansen Experimental Physics Lab., Stanford University), D. J. Frank (Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center, Palo Alto CA), J. M. Lockhart, J. C. Mester, D. O. Murray (Hansen Experimental Physics Lab., Stanford University), R. T. Parmley (Consultant), D. C. Read, G. M. Reynolds (Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center, Palo Alto CA), J. P. Turneaure (Hansen Experimental Physics Lab., Stanford University)
15:00 BC12.04 Gravity Probe B: Spacecraft, Telemetry, and Data Analysis
G. M. Keiser, S. Buchman, D. B. DeBra, C. W. F. Everitt, M. Heifetz, B. W. Parkinson, A. Silbergleit, J. P. Turneaure (Hansen Laboratories, Stanford University), N. Bennett, H. Dougherty, J. Kirschenbaum, B. Reeve, B. Schultz (Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center, Palo Alto, CA)
15:12 BC12.05 Status of Experimental Search for Gravitational-Strength Forces Below One Centimeter
Joshua C. Long, Hilton W. Chan, John C. Price (University of Colorado)
15:24 BC12.06 Equivalence principle, Lorentz invariance and the microscopic origin of gravity
Wei-Tou Ni (Center for Gravitation and Cosmology, Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Republic of China)
15:36 BC12.07 New Test of Gravitation using Planetary VLBI and Ranging
T. M. Eubanks (Code EO, U.S. Naval Observatory, 34th and Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, DC 20392), S. A. Klioner (Lohmann Observatory, Dresden Technical University, 01062 Dresden, Germany)
15:48 BC12.08 Measurement of Gravitational Constant and Related Quantities
Ming Yin (Benedict College, Columbia, SC), M Bleiweiss, S Saygi, J Vargas, T Datta (University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC)
16:00 BC12.09 OMEGA: A Space Gravitational Wave MIDEX Mission
William A. Hiscock (Montana State University), Ronald W. Hellings (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
16:12 BC12.10 Sensitivity curves for spaceborne gravitational wave interferometers
Shane L. Larson, William A. Hiscock (Montana State University), Ronald W. Hellings (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
   

Session BC13. DPF: CP Violation and Rare Processes.

Sunday afternoon, 14:00, Room 267W, GWCC

14:00 BC13.01 Recent progress on rare kaon decay experiments
Katsushi Arisaka (Univ. of California/Los Angeles)
14:36 BC13.02 Recent Results and Future Prospects of CP Violation Measurements From the KTeV Experiment at Fermilab
Robert Tschirhart (Fermilab)
15:12 BC13.03 Measurement of Direct CP-violation in the NA48 experiment at CERN
Lydia Iconomidou-Fayard (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (LAL))
15:48 BC13.04 CP Nonconservation and the Standard Model
Mark Wise (Caltech)
   

Session BC16. DAP: Gamma Ray Bursts.

Sunday afternoon, 14:00, Room 264W, GWCC

14:00 BC16.01 The History and Observed Properties of Gamma-Ray Bursts
Gerald J. Fishman (NASA/MarshallSpace Flight Center)
14:36 BC16.02
15:12 BC16.03 Gamma-Ray Bursts and Supernovae from Collapsed Stars
Stan Woosley (Astronomy Department, UCSC)
15:48 BC16.04 Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows: Fire from Relativistic Supernovae
Ralph Wijers (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, SUNY at Stony Brook)
16:24 BC16.05 Tracing the Early Universe with Gamma Ray Burst Observations
Dieter Hartmann (Clemson University)
   

Session BC18. DCP: Surfaces (General).

Sunday afternoon, 14:00, Room 258W, GWCC

14:00 BC18.01 Halogen Induced Corrosion of Pt(111) Studied by STM
Ian Harrison, Hongwei Xu (Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22901)
14:12 BC18.02 Vibrational dephasing study on hydrogenated and deuterated semiconductor surfaces
J.-K. Wang (Center for Condensed Matter Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC), J.-C. Lin (Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC), C.-S. Tsai, C. Chen, C.-E. Lin (Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC)
14:24 BC18.03 Time Dependence of Fluorescence and SERRS Spectra from Dye Molecules Adsorbed to Silver Nanoparticles
David R. Smith, Jack J. Mock, David A. Schultz, Sheldon Schultz (Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego), Phil M. Platzman (Lucent Technologies Inc.)
14:36 BC18.04 Halogenated Benzene Molecules Adsorbed on Au Surfaces
Jhinhwan Lee, H. Chung, Y. D. Suh, S.-J. Kahng, Y. Kuk (Center for Science in Nanometer Scale and Department of Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-742, Korea)
14:48 BC18.05 Adsorption and Desorption of Hydrogen on GaN(0001)
Y. Yang, V. J. Bellitto, B. D. Thoms (Georgia State University), D. D. Koleske, A. E. Wickenden (Naval Research Laboratory)
15:00 BC18.06 The desorption yield dependence on wavelength of femtosecond laser from CO/Cu(111)
Jingyan Guo, Hidong Kwak, Harry W. K. Tom (Department of Physics, University of California, Riverside)
15:12 BC18.07 Neutral Desorption Products Produced by Molecular Core Excitation
S.P. Frigo (Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory), P. Feulner, B. Kassühlke, C. Keller, R. Rhomberg, D. Menzel (Physik-Department E20, Technische Universität München)
15:24 BC18.08 The Detachment of a Polymer Chain from a Weakly Adsorbing Surface using an AFM Tip
B.J. Haupt, J. Ennis, E.M. Sevick (Research School of Chemistry, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT, Australia)
15:36 BC18.09 Simulations of Collision-Induced Subsurface Absorption
James T. Kindt, John C. Tully (Yale University, Department of Chemistry)
15:48 BC18.10 Anharmonic effects on monolayer phonons
L. W. Bruch (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
16:00 BC18.11 Phase-Field Model for Wetting
Sami Majaniemi (Helsinki Institute of Physics)
16:12 BC18.12 Noise-induced Wetting of Rough Surfaces
T. S. Chow (Xerox Corporation, Wilson Center for Research and Technology)
16:24 BC18.13 EXAFS of ZnSe_xTe_1-x Superlattices and CdSe Quantum Dots
Maxim Boyanov, Seong-kyun Cheong, Debdutta Lahiri, Tomohiro Shibata, Bruce Bunker (University of Notre Dame), Shanghoon Lee, Jacek Furdyna
   

Session BC19. DCP: Spectroscopy and Dynamics (General).

Sunday afternoon, 14:00, Room 257W, GWCC

14:00 BC19.01 Gas Phase Spectroscopy using Multiplex OPO CARS
Candace Joyner (Spelman College), Peter Chen (Spelman college), Michael Burns-Kaurin (Spelman College)
14:12 BC19.02 Detection of coherent and squeezed vibrational states in pump-probe spectroscopy
Anand T.N. Kumar, Florin Rosca, Allan Widom, Paul M. Champion (Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston MA 02115)
14:24 BC19.03 Variations in Absorption Coefficients of Sulfur Dioxide, Nitric Oxide and Hydrogen Chloride in the Mid-Infrared Due to Adsorption-Desorption Kinetic Effects in Different Tubing Materials
Prabhakar Misra, Chandran Haridass (Department of Physics & Astronomy, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059)
14:36 BC19.04 Chemical control of line profiles of reactive species: CH^+, CH, and CN in the ISM
Robert J. Glinski, Stefan A. Schulz, Joseph E. King (Department of Chemistry, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN 38505)
14:48 BC19.05 Dynamics of Photodissociation of ClOOCl
Mitchio Okumura, Teresa A. Moore (Arthur Amos Noyes Laboratory of Chemical Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA), James W. Seale, Timothy K. Minton (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717)
15:00 BC19.06 Electronic Accessibility of Amide UV Photodissociation Pathways
Nancy R. Forde, Laurie J. Butler (James Franck Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago)
15:12 BC19.07 Effects of Optical Resonance in Pulsed Laser-Induced Chemical Reactions of Al in Air
Gerardo I. Pangilinan (Nova Research/NRL), Thomas P. Russell, Harold D. Ladouceur (Code 6112, Chemistry Division, Naval Research Laboratory)
15:24 BC19.08 A Novel Discharge Pulsed Molecular Beam Source
Julian Fleniken, Yangsoo Kim, Henning Meyer (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Georgia)
15:36 BC19.09 Ab initio ro-vibrational energy transfer studies of LiH in collisions with He
Brian Taylor, Robert J. Hinde (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
15:48 BC19.10 Laser Ignition of Gas Mixtures
W. Qin, Y.-L. Chen, J.W.L. Lewis, C.G. Parigger (UTSI)
16:00 BC19.11 Origin of the Phase Lag in the Coherent Control of Atomic and Molecular Processes
Jeanette A. Fiss, Ani Khachatrian, Langchi Zhu, Robert J. Gordon (Dept. of Chemistry (m/c 111), University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607), Tamar Seideman (Steacie Institute, National Research Council, Ottawa K1AOR6, Canada)
16:12 BC19.12 Electron-Nuclear Dynamics Control during Coulomb Explosions of H_2^+\ in Intense Laser Pulses - Non-Born-Oppenheimer Simulations
André D. Bandrauk, Szczepan Chelkowski (Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique, Université de Sherbrooke, Qué, J1K 2R1, Canada)
16:24 BC19.13 The Formation of the Isomers of Cyanoacetylene in Interstellar Clouds
Yoshihiro Osamura (Department of Chemistry, Rikkyo University, Tokyo 171-8501, Japan; Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322), Kaori Fukuzawa (Department of Chemistry, Rikkyo University, Tokyo 171-8501, Japan), Radoslava Terzieva (Department of Chemistry and Chemical Physics Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210-1106), Eric Herbst (Departments of Physics and Astronomy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210-1106)
16:36 BC19.14 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and the Age of the Universe.
Pierre-Marie Robitaille (Department of Radiology, The Ohio State University)
   

Session BC20. DCP: Irving Langmuir Prize and Earl K. Plyler Prize Talks.

Sunday afternoon, 14:00, Room 256W, GWCC

14:00 BC20.01 Irving Langmuir Prize Recipient: The Physics of Supercooled Liquids and Glasses
Daniel Kivelson (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles)
14:36 BC20.02 Earl K. Plyler Prize Recipient: High Resolution Electronic Spectroscopy in the Gas Phase
David W. Pratt (Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh)
   

Session BC21. DMP/DCMP: Magnetoresistance I: Theory I.

Sunday afternoon, 14:00, Room 255W, GWCC

14:00 BC21.01 Theoretical Study of Orbital Orderings and Excitations in Manganites - Observation by Resonant X-ray Scattering
Sumio Ishihara, Sadamichi Maekawa (Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan)
14:12 BC21.02 Statistical Models of the Polaronic Phase Transition in Manganites
Valery Pokrovsky, Igor Lyuksyutov (Department of Physics, Texas Aamp;M University, College Station, TX 77843-4242)
14:24 BC21.03 P-Wave Pairing and Colossal Magnetoresistance in Manganese Oxides
Yong-Jihn Kim (Bilkent University)
14:36 BC21.04 Electronic structure of the colossal magnetoresistance manganites
Stephen B. Dugdale (H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TL, UK), Gilles Santi, Thomas Jarlborg (Département de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Université de Genève, 24 quai Ernest Ansermet, CH-1211 Genève 4, Switzerland)
14:48 BC21.05 Spin-wave spectrum and percolative features in manganites.
Vladimir Z. Kresin (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory), Lev P. Gor'kov (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory)
15:00 BC21.06 On the Effect of Complex Hopping Amplitudes in a Classical Double Exchange Ferromagnet.
Denis I. Golosov (NORDITA)
15:12 BC21.07 ``Flux'' State in Double Exchange Model
Masanori Yamanaka (Department of Applied Physics, Science University of Tokyo, Tokyo 162, Japan), Wataru Koshibae, Sadamichi Maekawa (IMR, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan)
15:24 BC21.08 Effective Orbital Interaction: Spin and Orbital Ordering in Undoped Manganites
Li Sheng, C.S. Ting (Texas Center For Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX77024)
15:36 BC21.09 Role of the Berry phase in the Formation of Stripes in Manganite Oxides
T. Hotta, Y. Takada (ISSP, Univ. of Tokyo, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-8666, Japan), H. Koizumi (Himeji Inst. of Tech., Hyogo 678-1292, Japan)
15:48 BC21.10 Electronic and Magnetic States in Manganite Perovskites
Chandra Varma (Bell Labs)
   

Session BC22. DCMP: Synthesis, Growth and Processing of Metallic Materials.

Sunday afternoon, 14:00, Room 254W, GWCC

14:00 BC22.01 Measurement of Titanium Liquid Diffusion with Pulsed Ion Beam Melting
Paul Sanders, Michael Aziz (Harvard University), Michael Thompson (Cornell University), Tim Renk (Sandia National Laboratories)
14:12 BC22.02 Synthesis and Structural Characterization of LaS
Hai Tang, Aashish Malhotra, W.J. Bresser, Marc Cahay, P. Boolchand (Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Cincinnati)
14:24 BC22.03 De-mixing of Fe2B by mechanical grinding
A. Bakhshai (Goucher College), C.E. Rodriguez, F.H. Sanchez (Univ. Nacional de La Plata), L. Takacs (UMBC)
14:36 BC22.04 Initial growth modes of Mo on W(001) surface studied by first-principles calculation
T. C. Leung, S. Y. Lai (Department of Physics, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, R.O.C.), J.G. Che, C.T. Chan (Physics Department, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China)
14:48 BC22.05 Observation of Sputter Erosion on Au(111) and Cu(111) by X-Ray Diffraction amp; Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM)
A. Judy (Cornell Center for Materials Research(CCMR), Cornell University), E. Butler, J. Pomeroy, M.V. Ramana Murty, B.H. Cooper (CCMR, Cornell University), R.L. Headrick (Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source(CHESS)), A.R. Woll, J.D. Brock (School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University)
15:00 BC22.06 The Mechanism of Formation of Metal Borides Fabricated by Laser-Induced Deposition from Solution
Zhenchen Zhong, Peter Dowben, David Sellmyer (University of Nebraska - Lincoln)
15:12 BC22.07 Controlled Fabrication of Metallic Electrodes with Atomic Separation
A.F. Morpurgo, D.B. Robinson, C.M. Marcus (Stanford University)
15:24 BC22.08 Fabrication of Stable Metallic Nanowires with Quantized Conductance
Nongjian Tao (Florida International University), Chunzeng Li, Albert Bogozi, Wenlue Huang
15:36 BC22.09 Fabrication of nanoscale metallic wires
D. Natelson, R.L. Willett, K.W. West, L.N. Pfeiffer (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies), L.L. Sohn (Princeton University)
   

Session BC23. DMP: Combinatorial Synthesis.

Sunday afternoon, 14:00, Room 253W, GWCC

14:00 BC23.01 Nanoparticle Assembly Using Engineered Proteins Selected via Combinatorial Mutagenesis
Mehmet Sarikaya, Richard Humbert (Materials Science and Engineering, Box: 352120, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA), Stanley Brown (Molecular Cell Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark)
14:12 BC23.02 Combinatorial Synthesis and High Throughput Evaluation
Xiao-Dong Xiang (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
14:48 BC23.03 Combinatorial Synthesis and Characterization of Ln_1-xB_xMnO_3
Young K. Yoo (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA), Hauyee Chang, Yi Dong, Fred Duewer, Jingwei Li, Xiao-Dong Xiang (Materials Science Div., Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA), Michael Martin (Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley Natl lab, Berkeley, CA), Eric D. Issacs (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ)
15:00 BC23.04 Fabrication and measurements of high-density dielectric device and interface libraries
Ichiro Takeuchi, Hauyee Chang, Xiao-Dong Xiang (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
15:12 BC23.05 Composition-Spread Approach to Combinatorial Synthesis
Robert B. van Dover (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill NJ)
15:48 BC23.06 Imaging of High Frequency Material Properties with a Scanning Near-Field Microwave Microscope
A. Schwartz, Steven M. Anlage, D. E. Steinhauer, B. J. Feenstra, C. P. Vlahacos, A. S. Thanawalla, W. Hu, J. Lee, F. C. Wellstood (Center for Superconductivity Research, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-4111)
16:00 BC23.07 Perovskite superlattice synthesis by using combinatorial laser MBE
Tsuyoshi Ohnishi, Hideomi Koinuma, Daisuke Komiyama (Ceramics Materials and Structures Lab.,Tokyo Inst. of Tech.), Mikk Lippmaa (Dept. of Innovative and Engineered Materials, Tokyo Inst. of Tech.), Satoru Ohashi (Ceramics Materials and Structures Lab.,Tokyo Inst. of Tech.), Akira Ohtomo, Masashi Kawasaki (Dept. of Innovative and Engineered Materials, Tokyo Inst. of Tech.)
16:12 BC23.08 Combinatorial Laser MBE for Oxide Alloy and Lattice Engineering
Yuji Matsumoto
BC23.09 Database and Computational Tools to Aid Combinatorial Approaches in Materials Science
John R. Rodgers (Toth Information Systems)
   

Session BC24. DCMP: Theory of the Interacting Electron Gas.

Sunday afternoon, 14:00, Room 172W, GWCC

14:00 BC24.01 Spin response of the two--dimensional electron gas
Gaetano Senatore (INFM and Dip. Fisica Teorica, Università di Trieste, Italy), Saverio Moroni (INFM and SISSA, Trieste, Italy), David M. Ceperley (NCSA and Dep. Physics, UIUC)
14:12 BC24.02 Ground state structures of 2-D electron crystals
S. A. Bonev, N. W. Ashcroft (Cornell University)
14:24 BC24.03 Zero-point oscillations of strongly correlated electrons
Michael Seidl (Department of Physics and Quantum Theory Group, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118)
14:36 BC24.04 Weak Ferromagnetism in the Electron Gas
G. Ortiz (Theoretical Div., Los Alamos National Laboratory), M. Harris (Max-Planck Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart), P. Ballone (Institut für Festkörperforschung Forschungszentrum, Jülich)
14:48 BC24.05 The collisionless hydrodynamical theory for an electron gas
I. Tokatly, O. Pankratov (Institut für Technische Physik III, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Staudtstr.\ 7, D-91058 Erlangen)
15:00 BC24.06 Jellium: analytic pair distribution and structure factor
Paola Gori Giorgi, Francesco Sacchetti (Dipartimento di Fisica and INFM, Universita' di Perugia, Italy), Giovanni B. Bachelet (Dipartimento di Fisica and INFM, Universita' La Sapienza, Roma, Italy)
15:12 BC24.07 Stabilized Jellium and the Ideal Metal
H.B. Shore (San Diego State Univ.), J.H. Rose (Ames Laboratory and Dept. of Physics, Iowa State Univ.)
15:24 BC24.08 Diffusion Monte Carlo study of a model one--dimensional electrons gas
Antonella Malatesta, Gaetano Senatore (INFM and Dip. Fisica Teorica, Università di Trieste, Italy)
15:36 BC24.09 Absence of Quantum Features in the Partition Function Moments for One Dimensional Quantum Systems Governed by Short Range Forces
Rafael Martin (Laboratory for Statistical Physics and Collective Fenomena School of Physics, Faculty of Science Central University of Venezuela)
15:48 BC24.10 Thermodynamics and Static Correlation Functions of Coupled Identical Oscillators within the Path-Integral Formalism
Fons Brosens (Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium)
16:24 BC24.11 Correlations in a Confined gas of Harmonically Interacting Spin-Polarized Fermions
J. T. Devreese, F. Brosens, L. F. Lemmens (Universiteit Antwerpen)
BC24.12 Hydrodynamics of Fermi liquids with Landau damping: application to stopping power
I. Tokatly, O. Pankratov (Theoretische Festkörperphysik, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Staudtstr.\ 7, D--91058 Erlangen)
   

Session BC25. DCMP: Granular Materials: Shake, Rattle and Roll.

Sunday afternoon, 14:00, Room 171W, GWCC

14:00 BC25.01 Spiral patterns in oscillated granular layers
John R. de Bruyn (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Beth Lewis, Harry L. Swinney (University of Texas at Austin)
14:12 BC25.02 Metastable states in an excited granular layer
Wolfgang Losert, David G.W. Cooper (Haverford College), Jerry P. Gollub (Haverford College and University of Pennsylvania)
14:24 BC25.03 Switching states of vibrating grains in a U-Tube
G. Gutierrez (Universidad Simon Bolivar), A. Cawthorne, D. Lathrop, C. Lobb (Department of Physics, University of Maryland)
14:36 BC25.04 Modes of Grain Motion in a Horizontally Shaken Granular Medium
Milica Medved, Heinrich M. Jaeger, Sidney R. Nagel (University of Chicago)
14:48 BC25.05 Convection and segregation in a horizontally shaken 2-d granular system
Benjamin Painter, R. P. Behringer (Duke University, Dept.~of Physics and Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems)
15:00 BC25.06 Interfaces and Hexagons in a Vibrated Granular Layer
Igor Aranson (Argonne National Laboratory), Lev Tsimring (Institute for Nonlinear Science, UCSD), Valerii Vinokur (Argonne National Laboratory)
15:12 BC25.07 Controlled Dynamics of Interfaces in Vertically Oscillated Granular Layers
Daniel L. Blair, I. Aronson, G. Karapetrov, U. Welp, W.K. Kwok, G. Crabtree, V.M. Vinokur (Argonne National Laboratory), L. Tsimring (Institute for Nonlinear Science, UCSD)
15:24 BC25.08 Convection Patterns and Heaping in Vertically Shaken Sand
R. R. Hartley, R. P. Behringer (Duke University Dept.\ of Physics amp; Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems (CNCS))
15:36 BC25.09 Hysteresis in Gas-Fluidized Beds
Rajesh Ojha, Doug Durian (UCLA Dept. of Physics and Astronomy)
15:48 BC25.10 Velocity Fluctuations in Fluidized Suspensions measured by Diffusing Acoustic Wave Spectroscopy
M. L. Cowan, J. H. Page (U. Manitoba), D. A. Weitz (U. Penn.)
16:00 BC25.11 Statistical properties of a vertically vibrated 2D granular system
Paul G. Silva, Narayanan Menon (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
16:12 BC25.12 Statistical properties of the density fluctuations in vibrated granular material and related simulations
E. Nowak (University of Illinois - UC)
16:24 BC25.13 Density distributions in vibrated granular materials
J. Sasha Henry, A. Kudrolli (Dept. of Physics, Clark U., Worcester MA)
   

Session BC28. DCMP: Dynamical Systems and Chaos.

Sunday afternoon, 14:00, Room 168W, GWCC

14:00 BC28.01 Dynamical Renormalization of the Swift-Hohenberg Equation
Michael Ignatiev, Bulbul Chakraborty (Brandeis University, Physics Department), Nicholas Gross (Boston University, College of General Studies)
14:12 BC28.02 Dynamical Simulations of Fluctuation-Driven First-Order Transition
Nicholas Gross (Boston University, College of General Studies), Mike Ignatiev, Bulbul Chakraborty (Brandeis University, Physics Department)
14:24 BC28.03 Associated Markov Processes for Mixing Maps
Brian R. La Cour, William C. Schieve (University of Texas at Austin)
14:36 BC28.04 Critical Exponents for Chaotic Transients in Higher Dimensional Crises
Carl Robert (Institute for Plasma Research and Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742), Celso Grebogi, Edward Ott (Institute for Plasma Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742), James A. Yorke (Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742)
14:48 BC28.05 Significance Beyond Surrogate Data in Unstable Periodic Orbit Extraction
Bruce Gluckman, Paul So, Steven J. Schiff (George Mason University)
15:00 BC28.06 Computing Box-counting Dimension from Average Expansion Rates
Paul So, Ernest Barreto (Department of Physics and Astronomy, George Mason University), Brian Hunt (University of Maryland at College Park)
15:12 BC28.07 From Generalized Synchrony to Topological Decoherence: Emergence in Coupled Chaotic Systems
Ernest Barreto, Paul So, Bruce Gluckman (Department of Physics and Astronomy, George Mason University), Steven Schiff (Krasnow Institute for Advanced Studies, George Mason University), Neural Dynamic Laboratory Team
15:24 BC28.08 Inelastic collapse of a randomly forced particle
Stephen J. Cornell (University of Cambridge), Michael R. Swift, Alan J. Bray (University of Manchester)
15:36 BC28.09 Phase Synchronization of Chaos
Epaminondas Rosa (Nonlinear Dynamics Lab, Dept. of Physics, University of Miami), Edward Ott, William B. Pardo, Jonathan A. Walkenstein, Marco Monti
15:48 BC28.10 Chaotic transport and current reversal in deterministic ratchets
Jose L. Mateos (Instituto de Fisica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)
16:00 BC28.11 Trace formulas for stochastic evolution
Ronnie Mainieri (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Predrag Cvitanovic, Carl Dettmann, Gabor Vattay (Niels Bohr Institute)
16:12 BC28.12 Localization and Universal Fluctuations in Kicked Rotors
Indubala Satija (George Mason Univ), Bala Sundaram (City Univ of New York)
   

Session BC29. DCMP: Thermodynamic and Elastic Properties.

Sunday afternoon, 14:00, Room 166W, GWCC

14:00 BC29.01 Thermoelasticity of earth minerals by first principles
Renata Wentzcovitch (Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Univ. of Minnesdota)
14:36 BC29.02 Free Energy and Melting in Silica
David W. Dean, James R. Chelikowsky (University of Minnesota), Nadia Binggeli (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
14:48 BC29.03 Measurements of C-Diamond Shocked into a Conducting State
G.W. Collins, P. Celliers, L.B. Da Silva, D.M. Gold, R. Cauble, D. Bradley, R.J. Wallace (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
15:00 BC29.04 Pressure-Induced Phase Transition In Nanocrystalline \gamma-Al_2O_3
B. Chen, D. Penwell (University of Missouri-Kansas City), L.R. Benedetti, W. Caldwell, R. Jeanloz (UC Berkeley), M.B. Kruger (University of Missouri-Kansas City)
15:12 BC29.05 Inelastic soft X-ray scattering at the 3d and 4d-4f thresholds of Lanthanum
Alexander Moewes (CAMD/LSU), Dave Ederer (Tulane University), Thomas Callcott (University of Tennessee)
15:24 BC29.06 Pressure Induced Amorphization in Silica Polymorphs: Quartz and Coesite
Nadia Binggeli (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), David W. Dean, Renata M. Wentzcovitch, James R. Chelikowsky (University of Minnesota), Nitin R. Keskar (Oracle Corporation)
15:36 BC29.07 Hydration Dynamics and Layer Rigidity of CO_3-Cl Layer Double Hydroxides
D.R. Hines, S.A. Solin (NEC Research Inst.), U. Costantino, M. Nocchetti (University of Perugia)
15:48 BC29.08 Pressure-Induced Cubic-to-Orthorhombic Phase Transition in the Negative-Thermal-Expansion Material Zirconium Tungstate
J. D. Jorgensen, Z. Hu, S. Teslic, D. N. Argyriou, S. Short (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory), J. S. O. Evans (University of Durham, UK), A. W. Sleight (Oregon State University)
   

Session BC30. DMP/GMAG: Fundamental Issues in Magnetoelectronics.

Sunday afternoon, 14:00, Room 165W, GWCC

14:00 BC30.01 Current and Future Applications of Magnetoelectronics
Gary Prinz (Naval Research Laboratory)
14:36 BC30.02 Injecting and Dragging Spin Coherence in Doped Semiconductors
David D. Awschalom (Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106)
15:12 BC30.03 Micromagnetic dynamics: a view from picosecond microscopy
Mark Freeman (Department of Physics, University of Alberta)
15:48 BC30.04 Electrons in Magnetoelectronics: Finding the Relevant States and Tailoring them in Nanostructures
F. J. Himpsel (Dept. of Physics, University of Wisconsin Madison)
16:24 BC30.05 Exchange Coupling in Magnetic Multilayers
C. L. Chien (Johns Hopkins University)
   

Session BC31. DBP/FIAP: Biological and Organic Materials and Applications.

Sunday afternoon, 14:00, Room 164W, GWCC

14:00 BC31.01 Massive DNA-based Neural Networks
Allen P. Mills Jr. (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ 07974)
14:36 BC31.02 The meaning of DNA information in the phenomenon of Life.
Simon Berkovich (GWU)
14:48 BC31.03 Nonlinear Modeling Technique for the Analysis of DNA Chains
José Barral, Anwar Hasmy (IVIC, Venezuela), Juan Jiménez, Alfredo Marcano (Universidad Central de Venezuela)
15:00 BC31.04 Low Power Non-linear Optics with Biological Materials
D.V.G.L.N. Rao (University of Massachusetts Boston), Department of Physics Team
15:12 BC31.05 Using PSI as Molecular Electronic Devices: Their Electronic Properties and Orientation Control
Ida Lee, James Lee, Elias Greenbaum (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6194)
15:24 BC31.06 Electronic Detection of Single Biological Macromolecules
O. A. Saleh, J. B. Knight, L. L. Sohn (Dept. of Physics, Princeton University)
15:36 BC31.07 Photonic Crystal Based Organic Lasers
Attila Mekis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology,Lucent Technologies), Martin Meier, Ananth Dodabalapur, Richart E. Slusher (Lucent Technologies), John D. Joannopoulos (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
15:48 BC31.08 Photoacoustic Characterization of Corn Flours
J.M. Carrion-Jimenez, M.C. Garcia-Viveros, E. Lopez-Cruz (IFUAP), J. de la L. Martinez-Montes (CICATA-IPN)
   

Session BC32. DBP: Imaging and Spectroscopy: Optical and X-Ray.

Sunday afternoon, 14:00, Room 163W, GWCC

14:00 BC32.01 Nanocrystals as Biological Probes for Fluorescence Microscopy
M. Dahan (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), M. Moronne (LBNL), M. Bruchez (UC Berkeley), D. Hamamoto (LBNL), A.P. Alivisatos (UC Berkeley), S. Weiss (LBNL)
14:12 BC32.02 Fluorescence Characteristics of PHIP
Rezik Agbaria (LLNL, Livermore, CA.), Ming Yang, Kenneth Turteltaub, Harry Radousky
14:24 BC32.03 Microbial Reduction of Cr^6+ on Mineral Surfaces: A Synchrotron FTIR Spectromicroscopy Study.
Hoy-Ying N. Holman, Dale L. Perry, Michael C. Martin, Wayne R. McKinney, Jennie C. Hunter-Cevera (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA.)
14:36 BC32.04 Near-Field Raman Microscopy for Single Molecule Detection
L. T. Nieman, Robert Martinez (University of Texas at Austin)
14:48 BC32.05 Cellular Imaging by Second-Harmonic Optical Microscopy
Salah Sedarous (Department of Biochemistry, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester,MN 55905)
15:00 BC32.06 Optical Probes of Single Proteins
W. E. Moerner (Stanford University), E. J. Peterman, S. Brasselet (University of California San Diego)
15:12 BC32.07 Time-Resolved Transillumination imaging of Normal and Cancerous Human Breast Tissues with a Picosecond Electronic Time gate
S. K. Gayen, R. R. Alfano, Manuel E. Zevallos (The City College of New York)
15:24 BC32.08 A Self Assembled Microlensing Rotational Probe
James P Brody, Stephen R. Quake (Dept of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology)
15:36 BC32.09 In vivo Applications of Opto-Acoustic Imaging
Alexander Oraevsky, Alexander Karabutov, Elena Savateeva, Rinat Esenaliev (Biomedical Engineering Center, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston)
15:48 BC32.10 Coherent Bremsstrahlung from Electron Linacs: A Source for Angiography
H. Überall (Department of Physics, Catholic University of America)
16:00 BC32.11 Comparison of Bragg and Laue Modes in a Diffraction Enhanced X-Ray Imaging (DEI) System
Miklos Z. Kiss, Dale E. Sayers (Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695), William Thomlinson, Zhong Zhong (National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973), Dean Chapman (CSRRI, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616), Eugene Johnston, Etta Pisano (Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599)
16:12 BC32.12 Synchrotron X-ray Studies of Phase Transitions in Fatty Acid Monolayers as a Function of Subphase Metal Ion Electronegativity
J. Kmetko, A. Datta, A. Richter, C.-J. Yu, M.K. Durbin, P. Dutta (Northwestern University), J.M. Bai (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
16:24 BC32.13 Studies of Interaction Events with Molecular and Highly Selective Radiation Objects
Kresimir Rupnik (Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University)
   

Session BC33. DCMP: Novel Surface Probes.

Sunday afternoon, 14:00, Room 162W, GWCC

14:00 BC33.01 Non-contact Attowatt Dissipation Detection using Silicon Cantilevers to Probe Ohmic Surface Losses
Timothy Stowe (Stanford, Dept. of Appl. Phys.), Thomas Kenny (Stanford, Dept. of Mech. Eng.), Doug Thomson (U. of Manitoba, Dept. of Electrical Eng.), Daniel Rugar (IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center)
14:12 BC33.02 Achieving Ultrasensitive and Quantitative Cantilever Magnetometry: a New Geometry, Artifact Reduction, and Scaling Laws
Raul Fainchtein (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory), John A. Marohn, Doran D. Smith (U.S. Army Research Laboratory)
14:24 BC33.03 Scanning Tunneling Microscope Combined with an X-ray Source for Elemental Analysis
Yukio Hasegawa, T. Sakurai, Kouichi Tsuji, Kazuaki Wagatsuma (The Institute for Materials Research (IMR) , Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan)
14:36 BC33.04 Electron Standing Wave Stimulated Desorption
M.T. Sieger (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), G.K. Schenter, T.M. Orlando
14:48 BC33.05 Electronic structure of a realistic STM - tip: the role of different apex atoms
W.A. Hofer, J. Redinger (CMS TU-Vienna)
15:00 BC33.06 Temperature Study of Zero Bias Features in Self-Assembling Tunnel Junctions (SATJ)
Stephen R. Savitski, Michael B. Weimer, Glenn Agnolet (Texas Aamp;M University)
15:12 BC33.07 Electrostatic force microscopy study of polycrystalline thin films
Yu Xia, J. W. P. Hsu (University of Virginia)
15:24 BC33.08 Ballistic Electron Emission Microscopy (BEEM) of the metal-GaAs interface under ultra high vacuum conditions
R.G. Mani, V. Narayanamurti (Gordon McKay Laboratory of Applied Physics, Harvard University)
15:36 BC33.09 Micro four-point probes for conductivity measurements.
Peter BØggild, Christian L. Petersen, Francois Grey (Mikroelektronik Centret, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
15:48 BC33.10 Tribological Investigations at MHz-Frequencies with Quartz Crystal Resonators
Alexander Laschitsch (Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research), Diethelm Johannsmann (MPI-P)
16:00 BC33.11 Polycapillary X-Ray Optics for Thin Film Strain and Texture Analysis
C.A. MacDonald, W.M. Gibson, S.M. Lee (Center for X-ray Optics, Univ. at Albany, Albany, NY 12222)
16:12 BC33.12 Apparatus for Creation of Surface Plasmon Standing Waves
Roger Crazy Wolf, Andrew Holt, James Rantschler (Metropolitan State College of Denver), Bernard Siebner, Jens Soelter (University of Oldenburg), James Bergh, Daniel McClelland, Brad Busley, John Starrett, George Hammond, Martin Huber, Randall Tagg (University of Colorado at Denver)
   

Session BC34. DCMP: Spin-Polarized and Half-Metallic Materials.

Sunday afternoon, 14:00, Room 161W, GWCC

14:00 BC34.01 Spin-polarized Transport in Manganite Trilayer Junctions
Jonathan Z. Sun (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)
14:36 BC34.02 Assisted Tunneling in Ferromagnetic Junctions and Half-Metallic Oxides
Alexander Bratkovsky (Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA 94304)
15:12 BC34.03 Determination of the spin-polarization of LSMO using point contact tunneling
Michael Osofsky (Naval Research Laboratory)
15:48 BC34.04 Spin relaxation of conduction electrons in polyvalent metals
Jaroslav Fabian (University of Maryland at College Park)
16:24 BC34.05 Half Metal CrO_2: Strong Correlations or Strong Renormalization?
Igor Mazin (Naval Research Laboratory)
   

Session BC35. DCMP: Sedimentation and Particulate Dispersion.

Sunday afternoon, 14:00, Room 160W, GWCC

14:00 BC35.01 Experiments on the sedimentation of spheres and fibers
Elisabeth Guazzelli (IUSTI, UMR CNRS 6595, Marseille, France)
14:36 BC35.02 Chaotic Particle Dynamics in Viscous Flows
Imre M. Janosi (Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Eotvos University, Budapest, HUNGARY)
15:12 BC35.03 Long Range Correlations in Sedimentation
Phil N. Segre (Dept. of Physics, University of Pennsylvania)
15:48 BC35.04 Analogies between Particle Sedimentation and Turbulent Convection
Penger Tong (Department of Physics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, 74078)
16:24 BC35.05 Screened and Unscreened Phases in Sedimenting Suspensions
Alex Levine (Exxon Research and Engineering Co.)
   

Session BC36. GMAG: Microstructures and Nanostructures of Magnetic Materials.

Sunday afternoon, 14:00, Room 158W, GWCC

14:00 BC36.01 Phase Separation of Two-Dimensional Co-Cr Alloy
S.-J. Kahng, Y. J. Choi, J.-Y. Park, Y. Kuk (Center for Science in Nanometer Scale and Department of Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-742, Korea)
14:12 BC36.02 Sputtered SmCo Thin Films: Microstructural and Magnetic Properties
V. Neu, S.A. Shaheen (The Center for Materials Research and Technology (MARTECH), Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4351)
14:24 BC36.03 Magnetic Properties of FeMnO_3.
D. Seifu (Department of Physics, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD 21251), A. Kebede (Department of Physics, North Carolina Aamp; T University, Greensboro, NC 27411), F.W. Oliver, E. Hoffman, E. Hammond (Department of Physics, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD 21251), C. Wynter (Department of Chemistry, Nassau Community College, Nassau, NY 11530), A. Aning (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Blacksburg, VA 27411), L. Takacs (Department of Physics, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250), I-L. Siu, J.C. Walker (Department of Physics, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21250)
14:36 BC36.04 Nanostructured Sm-Co Powders by Mechanical Milling
Zhongmin Chen, Michelle Corte-Real, Yong Zhang, George Hadjipanayis (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716)
14:48 BC36.05 Effect of TaN Seed Layer on the Magnetic Properties of Permallloy
Zheng Gao, Kathleen O'Donell, Ned Tabat (Seagate Technology)
15:00 BC36.06 New Sm2TM17 Magnets for High Temperature Applications
Jinfang Liu, Y. Zhang, W. Tang, George Hadjipanayis (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716)
15:12 BC36.07 Magnetic hysteresis of exchange-coupled nanocomposite films*
J.P. Liu, R. Skomski, D.J. Sellmyer (Center for Materials Research and Analysis, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588)
15:24 BC36.08 Rapidly Solidified Neodymium Iron Boron Magnetic Materials
Charlie Sellers, Barry Rabin (Magnequench International, Inc.), Andrew Gavrin (Indiana University, Purdue University at Indianapolis)
15:36 BC36.09 The Synthesis of High Coercivity Highly Textured SmCo Based Films by Pulsed Laser Deposition
R. Rani, Li Chen, T. Theodoropoulos (Queens College CUNY)
15:48 BC36.10 Nanocrystaline and Nanocomposite R-Fe Carbides
Naoki Hayashi, Maria Daniil, George Hadjipanayis (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA)
16:00 BC36.11 Magnetic Field-Induced Transitions From Spin Glass to Liquid to Long Range Order in a 3D Geometrically Frustrated Magnet.
Y.K. Tsui (Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA), C.A. Burns (Department of Physics, Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5151, USA), J. Snyder, P. Schiffer (Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA)
   

Session BC37. DCMP: Magnetic and Elastic Properties of CMR Manganites.

Sunday afternoon, 14:00, Room 157W, GWCC

14:00 BC37.01 Theory of Strain Effects in CMR Manganite
Andrew J Millis (Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218)
14:36 BC37.02 Percolative Phase Separation and CMR in Mixed-Valent Manganites
Sang-Wook Cheong (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University and Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies)
15:12 BC37.03 Local structure, hole localization, and magnetism in CMR perovskites
Corwin H. Booth (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
15:48 BC37.04 The role of spin correlations in the colossal magnetoresistance of naturally layered manganites
Stephan Rosenkranz (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory)
16:24 BC37.05 Changes of T_c under epitaxial strain : Implications for the mechanism of superconductivity
Jean-Pierre Locquet (IBM Research Division, Zurich Research Laboratory, CH--8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland)
   

Session BC38. GMAG: Mostly Spin Ladders.

Sunday afternoon, 14:00, Room 155W, GWCC

14:00 BC38.01 The investigation of spin ladder systems in weak external magnetic field
Ping Sun, D Schmeltzer (Department of Physics, The City College of CUNY)
14:12 BC38.02 The Ferromagnetic-Antiferromagnetic Zig-Zag Heisenberg Chain
Sebastian Eggert, Martin Andersson (Chalmers and Göteborg University, Sweden)
14:24 BC38.03 Zig-zag spin ladders in a magnetic field
D.C. Cabra (PI Universität Bonn), A. Honecker (ETH Zürich, Theoretische Physik), P. Pujol (ENS Lyon)
14:36 BC38.04 Magnetic Field Induced 1D to 3D Transition in Spin-1/2 Antiferromagnetic 2-Leg Ladders
Stephan Haas (Department of Physics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089), Manfred Sigrist (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan)
14:48 BC38.05 Spin Dynamics of Cu_2(1,4-diazacycloheptane)_2Cl_4
M. B. Stone, J. Rittner, D. H. Reich, C. Broholm, D. V. Ferraris, T. Lectka (The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218)
15:00 BC38.06 Magnetic Properties of Two S=1/2 Ladder-like Compounds
B.C. Watson, M.W. Meisel (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville), D.A. Jensen, G.E. Fanucci, D.R. Talham (Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville), G.E. Granroth, S. E. Nagler (ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN)
15:12 BC38.07 The Luttinger Liquid in an Antiferromagnetic Environment: Spin Gap from Magnetic Correlations
Mats Granath, Henrik Johannesson (Chalmers University of Technology and Göteborg University)
15:24 BC38.08 Opening of the Haldane Gap in Anisotropic Two- and Four- Leg Spin Ladders
Eugene H. Kim (Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106-9530), J. Solyom (Research Institute for Solid State Physics, P.O. Box 49, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary)
15:36 BC38.09 Spin dynamics at microwave frequencies in the spin chain and ladder (Sr,Ca)-Cu-O single crystals
Z. Zhai, N. Hakim, P. V. Patanjali, C. Kusko, S. Sridhar (Physics Department,Northeastern University), U. Ammerahl, A. Revcolevschi (Laboratoire de Chimie des Solides,University de Paris-Sud), Physics Department Northeastern University Collaboration, Laboratoire de Chimie des Solides University de Paris-Sud Collaboration
15:48 BC38.10 Inelastic neutron scattering measurement of the ladder-rung structure factor in Sr_2.5Ca_11.5Cu_24O_41
S.E. Nagler, G.E. Granroth (ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN), Y. Nagata, H. Fujino, J. Akimitsu (Aoyama-Gakuin University, Japan), S. Katano (JAERI, Japan)
16:00 BC38.11 Spin Dynamics of the Spin Ladder System Sr_14-xCa_xCu_24O_41
A.H. Moudden (LLB, CE/Saclay, 91191 Gif/Yvette), L.P. Regnault (DRFMC/MDN CEA Grenoble), E. Lorenzo (Lab. Crist., CNRS Grenoble), J.P. Boucher (Lab. Spect. Phys., Grenoble), A. Hiess (ILL, Grenoble), A. Revcolevschi (LCS, CNRS UPS 91405 Orsay)
16:12 BC38.12 Crossover from Dilute Moment to Majority Spin Freezing in Sr(Cu,Zn)_2O_3 Measured by \muSR
M.I. Larkin, Y. Fudamoto, I. Gat, K.M. Kojima, Y.J. Uemura (Columbia University), G.M. Luke (McMaster University), M. Azuma, M. Takano (Kyoto University)