MONDAY MORNING, 22 MARCH 1999

Session EA02. DNP: Cent. Symposium: The Atomic Nucleus: A 20th Century Journey into the Microcosm of Matter.

Monday morning, 10:30, Room 361W, GWCC

10:30 EA02.01 Historical Perspectives in the Study of Atomic Nuclei: B.R. Mottelson (NORDITA, Denmark)
11:06 EA02.02 Quarks, Gluons, and the Origin of the Nuclear Force: Nathan Isgur (Jefferson Lab)
11:42 EA02.03 The Origin of Nuclei: Cosmic Cauldrons and the Phases of Matter: Steven Koonin (Caltech)
12:18 EA02.04 Symmetries and Fundamental Interactions: The Nucleus as a Laboratory: Stuart J. Freedman (Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley and Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Session EA04. DHPP: Cent. Symposium: Milestones in Polymer Physics.

Monday morning, 10:30, Room 360W, GWCC

10:30 EA04.01 The Exploration of Polymer Systems: Open Paths and Dead Ends: Pierre Giles de Gennes (College de France)
11:06 EA04.02 Polymeric Liquids - Structure, Elasticity and Dynamics: William W. Graessley (Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University)
11:42 EA04.03 Polymer Surfaces and Interfaces - Action at a Distance: Edward J. Kramer (Departments of Materials and Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara)
12:18 EA04.04 Crystalline Polymers: Highlights and Issues: Bernard Lotz (Institut Charles Sadron, CNRS-ULP, France)

Session EB01. DAP: Solar System, Extrasolar Planets.

Monday morning, 10:30, Room 201E, GWCC

10:30 EB01.01 Low-Order Nonlinear Model WINDMI for Substorm Dynamics: W. Horton, J.P. Smith, R. Weigel (University of Texas), I. Doxas, B. Goode (University of Colorado), Institute for Fusion Studies Team, Integrated Plasma Systems Team
10:42 EB01.02 Composition of the Local Interstellar Cloud Derived from Measurements of Pickup Ions: G. Gloeckler (Dept. of Physics and IPST, University of Maryland, College Park MD 20742), J. Geiss (International Space Science Institute, Hallerstrasse 6, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland)
10:54 EB01.03 Poynting-Robertson Enhancement of Kuiper Belt IR Signal: Vigdor Teplitz, Doris Rosenbaum (Southern Methodist University), Randall Scalise (Southern Methodist Univeristy), Dana Backman (Franklin and Marshall College), Alan Stern (Southwest Research Institute)
11:06 EB01.04 Bayesian Analysis of the Solar Neutrino Anomaly: Chandrashekhara M. Bhat (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
11:18 EB01.05 Simulations of Stellar Winds and Accretion Flows: R. Keppens, J.P. Goedbloed (FOM Netherlands), G. Tóth (Eötvös Univ. Hungary)
11:30 EB01.06 Planet formation near classical T Tauri star: Tamara Ruzmaikina (LPL, Univ.of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721)
11:42 EB01.07 A Functional Method Applied to Solving Problems in Celestial Mechanics: James Carr (Carr Astronautics Corporation, Washington, DC)
11:54 EB01.08 Why Are The Continents In Their Current Positions, A Constraint on Continental Drift: Ramiro A. Montalvo (351 Fern House Walk, Mt. Pleasant, SC)
12:06 EB01.09 Rapid Oscillations (P<2 sec), Obs. By Unaided Eye, Accompany Onset Thru Term. Of Flare Star's Brief Luminosity Apparition: Keith L. McDonald (P. O. Box 2433, Salt Lake City, UT., APS Member)
EB01.10 Concequences of the contamination of the Sun with debris of the planet formation: Tamara Ruzmaikina (LPL, Univ.of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721)

Session EB05. DPF: Theoretical Developments in Particle Physics.

Monday morning, 10:30, Room 205E, GWCC

10:30 EB05.01 Recent Topics in Supersymmetry Phenomenology: Hitoshi Murayama (University of California/Berkeley)
11:06 EB05.02 The physics of perturbative string theory: Mirjam Cvetic (University of Pennsylvania)
11:42 EB05.03 Brane World: Zurab Kakushadze (Harvard University)
12:18 EB05.04 The Brave New Worlds of M-theory: Joseph Lykken (Fermi National Accelerator Lab)

Session EB07. DPF: Features of Light-Hadron Production.

Monday morning, 10:30, Room 214E, GWCC

10:30 EB07.01 Bose-Einstein Correlations in Charged Kaon Pairs at LEP1: R. Perez-Ochoa (CERN), OPAL Collaboration
10:42 EB07.02 Intermittency and Correlations at the Z^0 Mass: E.K.G. Sarkisyan (CERN), OPAL Collaboration
10:54 EB07.03 Leading Particle Production in Light Flavour Jets: J. Letts (CERN), OPAL Collaboration
11:06 EB07.04 A Study of Spin Alignment of the \rho^\pm and ømega Mesons in Hadronic Z^0 Decays: J. Gascon (CERN), OPAL Collaboration
11:18 EB07.05 Charged Multiplicities in Z Decays into the Three Light Quark Flavours: M. Tonnesmann (CERN), OPAL Collaboration
11:30 EB07.06 A Search for the Tensor Glueball Candidate f_\mathrm J(2220) in Hadronic Z^0 Decays: T. Kress (CERN), OPAL Collaboration
11:42 EB07.07 Non-perturbative Scalar Meson Decay: Peter Agbakpe, Warren Buck (NuHEP Center, Dept. of Physics, Hampton University, Hampton, VA 23668), Afanasev Andrei (Dept. of Physics, North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC, 27707), NuHEP Center Team
11:54 EB07.08 Elastic meson form factors with modified vector resonance propagators.: Robert Williams (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse), Benjamin Jackson (Kettering Fairmont High School)
12:06 EB07.09 Form factors of two-body bound states and the analytic continuation methods in (3+1) dimensional scalar theory: Ho-Meoyng Choi, Chueng-Ryong Ji (North Carolina State University)
12:18 EB07.10 Light-Cone Quark Model Analysis of Pseudoscalar and Vector Mesons in Radial Excitation: Daniel Arndt, Chueng-Ryong Ji (North Carolina State University)
12:30 EB07.11 Multiparton Interactions in p-\bar p Collisions: William D. Walker, Sergei Matinyan (Dept. of Physics, Duke University)
12:42 EB07.12 Multiparton Collisions and Multiplicity Distribution in High-Energy pp(pp) Collisions: Sergei Matinyan (Dept. of Physics, Duke University; Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia)

Session EB08. DPF: Top and Charm Physics.

Monday morning, 10:30, Room 215E, GWCC

10:30 EB08.01 A Measurement of the Top Quark Differential Cross Section d\sigma/dp_t at CDF: Andrew Robinson (University of Toronto, CDF COLLABORATION)
10:42 EB08.02 t\bart Spin Correlations: Suyong Choi (Seoul National University)
10:54 EB08.03 Photon radiation in top quark production and decay: Ulrich Baur, Michael Buice (SUNY, Buffalo), Lynne H. Orr (University of Rochester)
11:06 EB08.04 Search for Two P-Wave (Orbitally Excited) J^P=\frac12^- Charmed Strange Baryons \Xi_c1^+ and \Xi_c1^0: Akhtar H. Mahmood, M. Sajjad Alam (University at Albany, SUNY), CLEO Collaboration
11:18 EB08.05 Search for Rare and Forbidden Dilepton Decays of D^+, D_s and D^0: David A Sanders (University of Mississippi), Fermilab E791 Collaboration
11:30 EB08.06 D^0 Mixing and Doubly Cabibbo Suppressed Decay\hfill: David Asner (UCSB), CLEO Collaboration
11:42 EB08.07 Charm Lifetime Results from FOCUS: Harry Cheung (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
11:54 EB08.08 Estimated Sensitivity to D^0 \rightarrow K^+e^-øverline\nu_e via Mixing: Christopher Sedlack (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), CLEO Collaboration
12:06 EB08.09 Charmed Baryon Spectroscopy in FOCUS: Eric W. Vaandering (University of Colorado, Boulder), FOCUS Collaboration
12:18 EB08.10 Relative Branching Fractions and Lifetimes of D^0 Decays to CP Eigenstates\hfill: Tony Hill (University of California Santa Barbara), CLEO Collaboration
12:30 EB08.11 Resonant Analysis of Fermilab E791 \Lambda_c\to pK\pi data: Milind V. Purohit (Univ. of S. Carolina), Fermilab E791 Collaboration
12:42 EB08.12 Search for D^0 Mixing and Doubly Cabibbo Suppressed Decays in the K\pi\pi^0 Channel\hfill: Michael Marsh (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), CLEO Collaboration

Session EB09. DPF: Electroweak Interactions I.

Monday morning, 10:30, Room 216E, GWCC

10:30 EB09.01 Measurement of triple gauge boson couplings from W^+W^- production at \sqrts = 189~GeV: S. Petzold (University of Hamburg/DESY), OPAL Collaboration
10:42 EB09.02 Measurement of the Triple Gauge Couplings of the W Boson at LEP: Artur Barczyk (ETH Zürich), L3 Collaboration
10:54 EB09.03 Search for Anomalous WW/WZ Couplings at DØ\: Krishnaswamy Gounder (University of California, Riverside)
11:06 EB09.04 Multi-photon production in e^+e^- collisions at \sqrts = 183 and 189 GeV at OPAL: K. Sachs (CERN), OPAL Collaboration
11:18 EB09.05 A Preliminary Direct Measurement of the Parity Violating Coupling of the Z^0 to Strange Quarks, A_s: Hermann Staengle (Colorado State University), SLD Collaboration ()
11:30 EB09.06 Study of Symmetry Violations in Interactions Between Massive Vector Bosons: Peter H. Fisher, Yoshi Uchida (MIT)
11:42 EB09.07 Measurements of R_b, A_FB^b, and A_FB^c in e^+ e^- Collisions at 130 - 189~GeV with the OPAL Detector at LEP: F. Fiedler (CERN), OPAL Collaboration
11:54 EB09.08 Direct measurement of the parity violation parameters A_b and A_c from the decay of polarized Z^0 into b and c quarks at SLD using a lepton tag: Giulia Bellodi (Oxford University)
12:06 EB09.09 Inclusive Measurement of A_c using Vertex Charge and Kaons: Thomas Wright (University of Wisconsin-Madison), SLD (K. Abe et al.) Collaboration
12:18 EB09.10 A precise measurement of the partial decay width ratio R_b^0 = \Gamma_b\bar b/\Gamma_had.: Louis Lyons (Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK)
12:30 EB09.11 A Measurement of R_b using a Double Tagging Method: T. Junk (CERN), OPAL Collaboration
12:42 EB09.12 CKM Matrix and the Evolution of the Quark Yukawa Couplings: S. Rebeca Juarez W. (Escuela Superior de Física y Matemáticas, IPN), Piotr Kielanowski, Gerardo Mora (Depto. de Física, Centro de Invest. y Estud. Avanz., IPN)

Session EB10. GGR: Gravitational Experiments II.

Monday morning, 10:30, Room 217E, GWCC

10:30 EB10.01 Diagnostics for gravitational-wave detectors: characterizing stationarity and gaussianity: Lee Samuel Finn, Gabriela Gonzalez, Mark Beilby, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee (Penn State), Ik Heng Siong (University of Western Australia)
10:42 EB10.02 Gravitational wave detector diagnostics: Soma Mukherjee, Lee Samuel Finn (Penn State)
10:54 EB10.03 Gravitational waves from \gamma-ray bursts: Soumya Mohanty, Lee Samuel Finn (Penn State), Joseph Romano (University of Texas, Brownesville)
11:06 EB10.04 New Techniques in Anelastic Aftereffect Measurements for High Q Mirror Materials: Steven Penn, William Startin, Peter Saulson (Syracuse University)
11:18 EB10.05 Internal Friction Measurements of Test-Mass Materials Using the Anelastic Aftereffect: William Startin, Steven Penn, Peter Saulson (Syracuse University Physics Department)
11:30 EB10.06 Development of a Double Pendulum for Gravitational Wave Detectors: Mark Beilby, Gabriela Gonzalez, Michelle Duffy (Pennsylvania State University)
11:42 EB10.07 General Frameword for the Analysis of LIGO Detector Measurements: R.F. O'Connell (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803)
11:54 EB10.08 Fermi Coordinates of an Observer Moving in a Circle in Minkowski Space: Apparent Behavior of Clocks: Thomas B. Bahder (U. S. Army Research Laboratory)

Session EB14. DAMOP: Polarized Atoms; Clusters.

Monday morning, 10:30, Room 305E, GWCC

10:30 EB14.01 Models of alkali-alkali spin relaxation due to the spin-axis interaction: Christopher Erickson, William Happer (Princeton University), Stephen Kadlecek, L. W. Anderson, Thad Walker (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
10:42 EB14.02 Magnetic field dependence of alkali-alkali spin relaxation: Stephen Kadlecek, Thad G. Walker, L. W. Anderson (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Christopher J. Erickson, William Happer (Princeton University)
10:54 EB14.03 Cryopumps, a mirror and a cold rf transition unit for the Mark-II ultra-cold spin-polarized hydrogen Jet: T. Kageya, B.B. Blinov, S.E. Gladycheva, A.D. Krisch, V.G. Luppov, R.S. Raymond, Y-W. Wu (Dept. of Physics, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1120), P.A. Semenov (IHEP, Protvino, Russia)
11:06 EB14.04 Electron-spin-polarized Atomic Hydrogen Beam Tests in the Mark-II Ultra-Cold Jet Target: S.E. Gladycheva, B.B. Blinov, T. Kageya, A.D. Krisch, V.G. Luppov, W.A. Peters, R.S. Raymond, K.V. Sourkont (Randall Laboratory of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI), P.A. Semenov, V.N. Grishin (IHEP, Protvino, Russia)
11:18 EB14.05 The Possibility of Separating Electron Spins with Inhomogeneous Magnetic Fields: George H. Rutherford, R. Grobe (Intense Laser Physics Theory Unit and Department of Physics, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61790-4560)
11:30 EB14.06 Evaulation of a small cylindrical Mott polarimeter: George H. Rutherford, Rachel M. King, Gary G. Shepard, Mark S. Zimmerle (Department of Physics, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61790-4560)
11:42 EB14.07 Comparison of serial and parallel minimization algorithms in the calculation of the ground state structure of atomic clusters: Carlos Fiolhais, Fernando Nogueira (Departamento de Física, Universidade de Coimbra, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal), Joaquim Júdice, Humberto Rocha, Luís Vicente (Departamento de Matemática, Universidade de Coimbra, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal)
11:54 EB14.08 Real-time path integral Monte Carlo simulation of vibrational transition probabilities of I_2 in Ar: Abolfazl Amini (Southern University and A & M College)
12:06 EB14.09 Angular differential cross sections for slow highly charged ions colliding with C_60 clusters: L. Hägg, A. Bárány, H. Cederquist (Stockholm University, Sweden), U. Thumm (Kansas State University)

Session EB15. AAPT: Strategies That Enhance Student Learning: Building on the Past, Looking to the Future.

Monday morning, 10:30, Room 306E, GWCC

10:30 EB15.01 Overview--what worked and stuck and what didn't: Dean Zollman (Department of Physics, Kansas State University)
11:00 EB15.02 Reform in the Traditional Format: Kenneth Heller (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN)
11:30 EB15.03 Reform in New Formats: Evelyn Patterson (US Air Force Academy)
12:00 EB15.04 Using Technology: Alan Van Heuvelen (The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH)

Session EB16. DAMOP: Rydberg States and Coherent Control.

Monday morning, 10:30, Room 307E, GWCC

10:30 EB16.01 Ultra-Cold Rydberg Atoms: P. Pillet (Laboratoire Aimi Cotton, CNRS II, Bât. 505, Campus d'Orsay, 91405 Orsay cedex, France)
11:00 EB16.02 Correlated motion inside atoms: F. Robicheaux (Auburn University)
11:30 EB16.03 The Kicked Rydberg Atom: F. Barry Dunning (Department of Physics, Rice University, P O Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251)
12:00 EB16.04 Coherent manipulation of electronic wave functions: Robert Jones (University of Virginia)
12:30 EB16.05 From Trojan Asteroids to Rydberg Atoms: Nonspreading Wavepackets and the Three-Body Problem of Celestial Mechanics: T. Uzer (School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0430)

Session EB19. GFC: Fundamental Constants and Tests of Physics Laws.

Monday morning, 10:30, Room 310E, GWCC

10:30 EB19.01 Progress on determination of G with the BIPM torsion strip balance: S. J. Richman, T. J. Quinn (BIPM), C. C. Speake (University of Birmingham), R. S. Davis (BIPM)
10:42 EB19.02 The NIST Watt Balance: Recent Results and Future Plans: David B. Newell, Richard L. Steiner, Edwin R. Williams (National Institute of Standards and Technology^, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8112)
10:54 EB19.03 Locality and reality of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlations: Marlan O. Scully, Berthold-Georg Englert (Department of Physics, Texas Aamp;M University, College Station % and MPI für Quantenoptik, Garching/Germany)
11:18 EB19.04 Davisson-Germer Revisited: Alfred Phillips Jr. (Cornell University)
11:30 EB19.05 Evidence of Two-Photon Modification of Interference Patterns: Willard Fadner (University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO 80639)
11:42 EB19.06 The Effect of a Double Slit Position on Interference Patterns: Leslie Reed, Willard Fadner (University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO 80639)
11:54 EB19.07 On the origin of anti-Stokes laser-induced cooling of Yb3+-doped glasses: Joaquín Fernández, Arantza Mendioroz, Angel Garcia, Rolindes Balda (Applied Physics Department I, Basque Country University (Spain)), Jean-Luc Adam (Lab. de Verres et Céramiques, Université de Rennes (France))
12:06 EB19.08 Precision measurement of the Casimir force: Umar Mohideen, Anushree Roy (University of California, Riverside, CA 92521)
12:18 EB19.09 Measurement of the topography dependence of the Casimir force: Anushree Roy, Umar Mohideen (Dept. of Physics, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521)

Session EB20. AAPT/FED: Embedding Physics in Society.

Monday morning, 10:30, Room 311E, GWCC

10:30 EB20.01 Careers for Physicists: Video, CD-ROM, and Web Career Resources: Jeffrey Orszak, Bo Hammer (American Institute of Physics, One Physics Ellipse, College Park, Maryland 20740)
10:42 EB20.02 Physics Skills Needed by Industry: Grey M. Tarkenton (Institute for Advanced Physics and Schlumberger, Ltd.)
10:54 EB20.03 The Compleat Education of the Undergraduate Physics Major Recruiter: Robert Mitchell (Jackson State University 69-81 and Florida Southern College 81-88)
11:06 EB20.04 How to Obtain a Billion Dollar Scientific Facility in Today's World: The NIF Example: William J. Hogan (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), NIF Team
11:18 EB20.05 The Authorship List in Physics: Junior Physicists' Recollections and Perceptions of Who Appears and Why: Eugen Tarnow (Avalon Business Systems, Inc.)
11:30 EB20.06 Arthur Gordon Webster, Founder of the American Physical Society: Roy S. Andersen, S. Leslie Blatt (Clark University)
11:42 EB20.07 A Brief History of the Division of Plasma Physics (DPP): M.A. Sweeney (Sandia National Laboratories)
11:54 EB20.08 History of the Forum on Physics and Society: David Hafemeister (California Polytechnic State University)
12:06 EB20.09 Einstein and China: Einstein's Promised Visit to China and the Introduction of Relativity Theory: Danian Hu (Yale University)

Session EB21. DPP/SHER: Nonlinear Dynamics of Complex Plasma Systems.

Monday morning, 10:30, Room 312E, GWCC

10:30 EB21.01 Plasma Physics In the 21st Century: John M. Dawson (UCLA, Department of Physics)
11:06 EB21.02 Zonal Flows in Geostrophic Fluids and Fusion Plasmas: P.H. Diamond (University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0319)
11:42 EB21.03 Magnetic Field Lines and Hamiltonian Dynamics: P.J. Morrison (The University of Texas, Austin TX 78712)
12:18 EB21.04 Complex Systems Dynamics as a Paradigm for Plasma Transport: David Newman (Univ. Of Alaska - Fairbanks)

Session EB22. DAP: The Cosmological Constants.

Monday morning, 10:30, Room 313E, GWCC

10:30 EB22.01 The Cosmological Constant: Sean Carroll (Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara)
11:00 EB22.02 Cosmological Background Radiation: Max Tegmark (Institute for Advanced Studies)
11:30 EB22.03 Omega: Michael Strauss (Princeton University)
12:00 EB22.04 The Hubble Constant: Robert Kennicutt (University of Arizona)
12:30 EB22.05 The Age and Fate of the Universe: John Huchra (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

Session EB23. DAMOP: Thesis Prize in AMO Physics.

Monday morning, 10:30, Room 314E, GWCC

10:30 EB23.01 Correlation Studies of the Massive Three Body Coulomb Interacting System H+ + H+ + H-: Lisa M. Wiese (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
11:00 EB23.02 The emission properties of asymmetric dielectric resonators with chaotic ray dynamics: Jens U. Nöckel (Max-Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden Germany)
11:30 EB23.03 Many-body effects in Bose-Einstein condensates of dilute atomic gases: Brett Esry (JILA and the University of Colorado)
12:00 EB23.04 Bose condensates and the atom laser: Michael R. Andrews (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies)
12:30 EB23.05 Electronic and Structural Properties of Alkali-Halide Cluster Anions: Fredrik Fatemi (University of Virginia)

Session EC03. DMP: Surfaces and Ultrathin Films I: Structure and Dynamics.

Monday morning, 10:30, Room 369W, GWCC

10:30 EC03.01 Growth and Dynamics of Strained Cu Films on Ru(0001): Arthur P. Baddorf (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
11:06 EC03.02 Substitutional Adsorption and the initial growth of Co/Cu(001): an ab initio Study: R. Pentcheva, M. Scheffler (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, D-14195 Berlin-Dahlem, Germany)
11:18 EC03.03 Quasi-harmonic Analysis of the Thermal Expansion of Ag(111): another look: Ahlam Al Rawi, Chandana Ghosh, Pavlin Staikov, Abdelkader Kara, Talat S. Rahman (Kansas State University)
11:30 EC03.04 Surface phonons at Mg surfaces: theory and experiment: Claudia Bungaro (International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA/ISAS), Trieste, Italy), W. Kress (Max Planck Institut, Stuttgart, Germany), Ismail, E.W. Plummer (Oak Ridge National Laboratories, Oak Ridge, TN, USA)
11:42 EC03.05 LEED studies of Xe Adsorption Geometries on Metal Surfaces: Mellita Caragiu, Thomas Seyller, Renee Diehl (Penn State University), Petri Kaukasoina, Matti Lindroos (Tampere University of Technology)
11:54 EC03.06 LEED Study of the Cu(211) Surface and Cu(211)-c(2x2)-Cs: Thomas Seyller, Mellita Caragiu, Renee Diehl (Penn State University), Franco Jona (SUNY Stony Brook)
12:06 EC03.07 Coverage-dependent structure transformation in the system Ni(100)/C: R Terborg, J.T. Hoeft, M Polcik, R Lindsay, O Schaff, A.M. Bradshaw (Fritz Haber Institute, Faradayweg 4-6, 14196 Berlin, Germany), R Toomes, N.A. Booth, D.P. Woodruff (Physics Department, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK)
12:18 EC03.08 Rumpled relaxations at transition-metal carbide and nitride surfaces: First-principles investigations: Josef Redinger (Dept. of Electrochemistry , Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria), Raimund Podloucky (Dept. of Phys. Chemistry, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria)
12:30 EC03.09 Can bcc Mn be stabilized at room temperature?: F. Jona, Y. Tian, P.M. Marcus (SUNY Stony Brook)
12:42 EC03.10 Metastable phase of vanadium.: Y. Tian, F. Jona, P.M. Marcus (SUNY Stony Brook)

Session EC04. DMP/DCMP: Magnetic Nanostructures I: Multilayers and Patterned Structures.

Monday morning, 10:30, Room 368W, GWCC

10:30 EC04.01 Calculated oscillatory magnetocrystalline anisotropy in Fe/Au superlattices: G Y Guo (Dept of Physics, National Taiwan University, 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei, Taiwan 10617, ROC)
10:42 EC04.02 Atomic Scale Studies of Magneic Multilayers: M. J. Plisch, J. A. Katine, J. Silcox, R. A. Buhrman (Cornell University), D. A. Muller (Lucent Technologies)
10:54 EC04.03 Charge and Magnetic Roughness Correlations in a Magnetic Multilayer: C.S. Nelson (Advanced Photon Source,* Argonne National Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University), G. Srajer, J.C. Lang, C.T. Venkataraman, S.K. Sinha (Advanced Photon Source,* Argonne National Laboratory), J.S. Jiang, A. Inomata, C.H. Sowers, S.D. Bader (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory)
11:06 EC04.04 Helical Spin-Density Waves in Fe/Cr Multilayers: Randy Fishman (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
11:18 EC04.05 A Complete Microstructural Analysis of Fe/Cr Superlattices: M.E. Gomez, J. Santamaria, S. Kim, M.C. Cyrille, Ivan K. Schuller (Physics Department, University of California San Diego), K.M. Krishnan (National Center for Electron Microscopy, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley)
11:30 EC04.06 Layer-resolved magnetic moments and anisotropy energies of free surfaces of (Fe-x-Co(1-x))n/Cu(100): J. Zabloudil, L. Szunyogh, U. Pustogowa, C. Uiberacker, P. Weinberger (Center for Computational Materials Science, TU Wien, Gumpendorferstr. 1a, A-1060 Wien, Austria)
11:42 EC04.07 Mössbauer Spectroscopy and Magnetization Measurements of Copper-304 Stainless Steel Multilayer Films: M. Varasteh, K. Parvin, C. Boekema, A.M. Krupski, W.S. Giles (Physics Dept., San Jose State University, San Jose, CA 95192-0106)
11:54 EC04.08 Patterned Magnetic Nanostructures and Quantized Magnetic Disks: Stephen Y. Chou, Linshu Kong, Eddie Cui, Wu Wei (NanoStructure Lab, Princeton University)
12:06 EC04.09 Large Area Nanostructured Superconducting and Magnetic Materials: V.V. Metlushko, U. Welp, G. Crabtree, R.M. Osgood III, D. Hinks, S.D. Bader (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439-4845), B. Ilic, K. Chung, P.J. Hesketh (EECS, University of Illinois at Chicago, 60607), P. Neuzil, R. Kumar (Institute of Microelectronics, 11 Science Park Road, Singapore, 117685), L.E. DeLong (UK, Lexington, KY 40506-0055), Wenjun Fan, S.R.J. Brueck (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87106)
12:18 EC04.10 Long Term Corrosion Stability of Patterned NiFe/Cu/NiFeCo Multilayers after Cl_2-Based Plasma Etching: KeeBum Jung, Hyun Cho, Jonathan Marburger, Fred Sharifi, Eric Lambers, Steve Pearton (University of Florida)
12:30 EC04.11 Magnetic Properties of e-beam evaporated Cobalt-Palladium Alloys: B. B. Maranville, A. L. Shapiro, O. Vajk, D. Vasumathi, F. Hellman (Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego)

Session EC05. DMP/DCMP: Magnetoresistance I: Electronic and Magnetic Structure of CMR Materials.

Monday morning, 10:30, Room 367W, GWCC

10:30 EC05.01 Synchrotron Radiation Studies of Charge Fluctuations and Lattice Distortions in the Manganite Compounds: Sunil Sinha (Advanced Photon Source,Argonne National Laboratory.)
11:06 EC05.02 Raman investigation of charge ordering in layered manganites: D.B. Romero (Optical Tech. Div., NIST, Gaithersburg, MD 20899 and Physics Dept., U. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742), V.B. Podobedov, A. Weber (NIST), Y. Moritomo (CIRSE and Dept. of Applied Physics, Nagoya University, Japan), H.D. Drew (Physics Dept., U. of Maryland)
11:18 EC05.03 Spin Dynamics in Magnetoresistive La_0.70Ca_0.30MnO_3 using Neutron Spin Echo Spectroscopy: R. H. Heffner, Jeff Sonier, Jason Gardner, F. Mezei (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545), Georg Ehlers (Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble Cedex, France)
11:30 EC05.04 Magnetism and orbital ordering in Nd_1-xSr_xMnO_3: R. Kajimoto, H. Yoshizawa (Neutron Scattering Laboratory, I. S. S. P., Univ. of Tokyo), H. Kawano (The Institute for Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN)), H. Kuwahara (Joint Research Center for Atom Technology (JRCAT)), Y. Tokura (JRCAT and Dept. of Applied Physics, Univ. of Tokyo), K. Ohoyama, M. Ohashi (Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku Univ.)
11:42 EC05.05 Orbital degrees of freedom in La_0.88Sr_0.12MnO_3: Kazuma Hirota, Yasuo Endoh, Hiroyuki Kimura (Dept.\ of Physics, Tohoku University), Tatsuo Fukuda (SPring-8, JAERI), Youichi Murakami (Photon Factory, KEK), Hiroyuki Nojiri (IMR, Tohoku University)
11:54 EC05.06 Unusual T-Dependence of the Spin Wave Stiffness in La-Ca Manganites: J.J. Rhyne, H. Kaiser, L. Stumpe (Univ. of Missouri), J.F. Mitchell, T. McCloskey (Argonne Natl. Lab.), A. Chourasia (Univ. of Texas)
12:06 EC05.07 Analysis of the lattice mode of vibrations in the layered CMR La_2-2xSr_1+2xMn_2O_7: Geoffrey Strouse (University of Clifornia-Santa Barbara), Heloisa Bordallo (LANL-LANSCE)
12:18 EC05.08 Persistent X-Ray Photoconductivity and Percolation of Metallic Clusters in Charge-Ordered Manganites: D. M. Casa, V. Kiryukhin, O. A. Saleh, B. Keimer (Dept. of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544), J. P. Hill (Dept. of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973), Y. Tomioka, Y. Tokura (Joint Research Center for Atom Technology (JRCAT), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan)
12:30 EC05.09 Polarized XAFS Studies of Change in Short-Range Order at T_C in the Layered Manganite La_1.2Sr_1.8Mn_2O_7: J. Linton, S.D. Bader, Dongqi Li (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439), D. Haskel (Physics Department, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195), M. Newville (CARS, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637), G.S. Knapp, J.F. Mitchell (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439)
12:42 EC05.10 The local distortion in La_.7Ca_.3Mn_1-xTi_xO_3 and La_.7Ca_.3Mn_1-xGa_xO_3 magnetoresistive samples: Daliang Cao, Frank Bridges, Mark Anderson (UC, Santa Cruz)

Session EC06. DCMP: $^4$He and $^3$He-$^4$He Mixtures.

Monday morning, 10:30, Room 366W, GWCC

10:30 EC06.01 Non Linear Second Sound Wave Propagation in ^3He-^4He Mixtures: Masoud Mohazzab, Norbert Mulders (University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716), Melora Larson, Al Nash (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109)
10:42 EC06.02 Depression of the Superfluid Transition in the Presence of a Heat Current: Kwangsik Nho, Efstratios Manousakis (Florida State University)
10:54 EC06.03 The Superfluid Transition of Helium-4 Under Pressure and in the Presence of a Heat Current: Melora Larson, Yuanming Liu, Ulf E. Israelsson (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)
11:06 EC06.04 Effects of Gravitation and Boundaries on the Depression of the Superfluid Transition Temperature by a Heat Flux: Robert Duncan (University of New Mexico)
11:18 EC06.05 Helium at negative pressures: Gregory H. Bauer, David M. Ceperley (Dept. of Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
11:30 EC06.06 Effective Mass and Spin and Density Fluctuations in Liquid ^3He.: Bjorn Fåk (Commissariat á l'Energie Atomique, France), Henry R. Glyde (University of Delaware)
11:42 EC06.07 Dynamic Structure Factor of Liquid ^4He in Aerogel.: O. Plantevin, B. Fåk (Commissariatá l'Energie Atomique, France), H.R. Glyde (University of Delaware), J. Bossy (Centre de Recherches sur les Très Basses Températures, France), J.R. Beamish (University of Alberta, Canada), N. Mulders (University of Delaware)
11:54 EC06.08 The Collective Excitations of Superfluid Helium in Silica Xerogel: Robert Dimeo, Nathan Grube, David Silva, Paul Sokol (The Pennsylvania State University)
12:06 EC06.09 Theory of Small Amplitude Shape Oscillations of a Superfluid Drop Surrounded by Vapor: Dwight L. Whitaker, Cheolkyu Kim, Carlos L. Vicente, George M. Seidel, Humphrey J. Maris (Brown University, Providence, RI 02912)
12:18 EC06.10 Avalanche Behavior in the Draining of Superfluid ^4He-filled Nuclepore: A.H. Wootters, R.B. Hallock (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Mass., Amherst, MA 01003)
12:30 EC06.11 Excitation Energies of Superfluid ^4He at Wavevectors Beyond the Roton.: H.R. Glyde (University of Delaware), M.R. Gibbs (University of Exeter, UK), W.G. Stirling (University of Liverpool, UK), M.A. Adams (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK)
12:42 EC06.12 Superfluidity of ^4Helium: The Zheng-Johansson Theory and Its Formulation Based on Experiments: J.X. Zheng-Johansson (H H Wills Physics Laboratory, Bristol University, Bristol, BS8, 1TL, England)

Session EC07. FIAP: Photonic Devices and Theory.

Monday morning, 10:30, Room 365W, GWCC

10:30 EC07.01 Theoretical prediction of the plasma frequency and Moss-Burstein shifts for degenerately doped InGaAs and InPAs: James E. Raynolds (Lockheed Martin Corp., Schenectady, NY), Clint B. Geller (Bettis Atomic Power Lab., Pittsburgh, PA), Greg W. Charache (Lockheed Martin Corp., Schenectady, NY), Todd Holden, Fred H. Pollak (Brooklyn College of CUNY, Brooklyn, NY), Wolfgang Mannstadt, Ryogi Asahi, Art J. Freeman (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL)
10:42 EC07.02 Faraday-Stark Photonic Effect: B. Lakshmi, D. Heiman (Northeastern University), Z.K. Lee, H. Wang, C.G. Fonstad (MIT)
10:54 EC07.03 Oxidized AlGaAs Heterostructure Waveguides: Yong Luo, Leigang Kou, Douglas C. Hall (University of Notre Dame), Olga Blum, Hong Hou (Sandia National Laboratory)
11:06 EC07.04 Interaction of Terahertz Transients and Semiconductor Superlattices:A Numerical Study: Michael W. Feise, David S. Citrin (Semiconductor Optics Theory Group, Washington State University)
11:18 EC07.05 Rayleigh's Gallery of Photonic Quantum Ring Laser: O'Dae Kwon, J. C. Ahn, K. S. Kwak, B. H. Park (Dept. Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, KOREA)
11:30 EC07.06 Effect of intracavity etalon on p-Ge laser emission dynamics: S.H. Withers, A.V. Muravjov, R.C. Strijbos, C.J. Fredricksen, R.E. Peale (Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816), S.G. Pavlov, V.N. Shastin (Institute for Physics of Microstructures, RAS, GSP-105, Nizhny Novgorod 603600, Russia)
11:42 EC07.07 Broadband Low-Dispersion Diffraction of Femtosecond Pulses from Photorefractive Quantum Wells: M. Dinu (Department of Physics, Purdue University), K. Nakagawa (Dept. of Computer and Systems Engineering, Kobe University), M. R. Melloch (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University), D. D. Nolte (Department of Physics, Purdue University)
11:54 EC07.08 Probing the vector character of electric fields by second-harmonic generation: Aniruddha Weling, Jerry Dadap, Jie Shan, Tony Heinz (Columbia University, New York, NY 10027), Ajay Nahata (AlliedSignal, Inc.)
12:06 EC07.09 Effects of Nonlocality on Waveguide Solutions: D. F. Nelson (Physics Dept., WPI), A. L. Ivanov (TCM, Cavendish Lab, Cambridge, UK)
12:18 EC07.10 Theory and numerical simulation of transient spectroscopy of quantum well structures: M. Ershov (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA), H. Ruda, A. Shik (Energenius Centre for Advanced Nanotechnology, University of Toronto, Toronto M5S 3E3, Canada), U. Perera (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA)
12:30 EC07.11 Bound States in Photonic Crystal Waveguides and Waveguide Bends: Attila Mekis, Shanhui Fan, John D. Joannopoulos (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
12:42 EC07.12 Geometrical Phase in Electrical Networks: Subbarao Dantu (Ctr. Energy Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi)
EC07.13 Measurement of Optical Modal Volume in a Photonic Bandgap Microcavity: G.H. Vander Rhodes, B.B. Goldberg, M.S. Ünlü (Departments of Physics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Photonics Center, Boston University), J.S. Foresi, P.R. Villeneuve, J. Ferrera, D. Lim, S. Fan, J.D. Joannopoulos, L.C. Kimerling, H.I. Smith (Departments of Physics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Session EC08. DMP: Ferroelectrics I: Theoretical Modeling of Ferroelectrics.

Monday morning, 10:30, Room 364W, GWCC

10:30 EC08.01 Structural, Dielectric and Piezoelectric Properties of Perovskite Alloys: Laurent Bellaiche (University of Arkansas and Rutgers University)
11:06 EC08.02 Lattice dynamics of BaTiO_3, PbTiO_3 and PbZrO_3: a comparative first-principles study: Philippe Ghosez, Eric Cockayne, Umesh Waghmare, Karin Rabe (Department of Applied Physics, Yale University)
11:18 EC08.03 Local Atomic Order in Single Crystal Relaxor Ferroelectrics: M. G. Wensell, H. Krakauer (Dept. of Physics, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA)
11:30 EC08.04 Ab-Initio Prediction of the Electronic Properties of Ferroelectric BaTiO_3: D. Bagayoko, G. L. Zhao, J. D. Fan, J. T. Wang (Department of Physics, Southern University and A amp; M College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70813)
11:42 EC08.05 Ferroelectricity in PbTiO_3 Thin Films: a First Principles Approach: Karin Rabe, Philippe Ghosez (Department of Applied Physics, Yale University)
11:54 EC08.06 Series Analysis for a 16-Vertex Model of Potassium Dihydrogen Phosphate: R.A. Stern, G.F. Tuthill (Physics Department, Montana State University, Bozeman MT)
12:06 EC08.07 Thermodynamics of BaTiO3 from First Principles: Alberto Garcia (Universidad del Pais Vasco, Bilbao, SPAIN), David Vanderbilt (Rutgers University, USA)
12:18 EC08.08 First-Principles Effective Hamiltonian for PbZrO_3: Eric Cockayne (NIST), Philippe Ghosez, Karin M. Rabe (Yale), Thomas V. Russo (Sandia)
12:30 EC08.09 Raman and microwave spectroscopy on mixed K_1-x(NH_4)_xNO_3 and K_1-x(Rb_x)NO_3: Jianjun Liu, M. Ossowski, J. R. Hardy (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588), Chun-gang Duan, R. W. Smith, W. N. Mei (University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE 68182), S. Cornelison (USARL, Aberdeen, MA 21001)
12:42 EC08.10 Thermodynamics of 1:1-type Short Range Order in PMN: Benjamin Burton (NIST)

Session EC09. DMP: Optics of Semiconductor Dots I: Theory and Spectroscopy.

Monday morning, 10:30, Room 363W, GWCC

10:30 EC09.01 Electronic Structure of semiconductor quantum dots: Alex Zunger (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
11:06 EC09.02 Intrinsic Gap States in Semiconductor Nanocrystals.: P. C. Sercel (University of Oregon, Eugene, OR), Al. L. Efros, M. Rosen (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC)
11:18 EC09.03 Pseudopotential theory of excitons in semiconductor quantum dots.: Alberto Franceschetti, Huaxiang Fu, Lin Wang Wang, Alex Zunger (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado 80401)
11:30 EC09.04 Excitonic Spectrum of Si Quantum Dots: Fernando A. Reboredo, Alberto Franceschetti, Alex Zunger (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
11:42 EC09.05 Direct and exchange interactions for multi-exciton states in InAs/GaAs strained quantum dots.: Craig Pryor (Lund University, Sweden)
11:54 EC09.06 Pseudopotential calculations of self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dots: Lin-Wang Wang, Alex Zunger (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden CO 80401)
12:06 EC09.07 Theory of the Level Structure of InAs-GaSb Type II Quantum Dots: D. A. Broido (Department of Physics, Boston College), U. Rössler (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Regensburg)
12:18 EC09.08 Luminescent Properties of Quantum Confined Atoms: R.N. Bhargava, V. Chhabra, B. Kulkarni, J.V.D. Veliadis (Nanocrystals Technology)
12:30 EC09.09 Improved Effective Mass Approximation for the Quantum Confinement Effect in Low Dimensional Systems: Shang Yuan Ren (Peking University, Beijing 100871, P.R.China)
EC09.10 Origin of polarized fine-structure in zero-dimensional localized excitons: The role of short-range electron-hole exchange interactions: Craig Pryor (Lund University, Sweden), Peter C. Sercel (Dept. of Physics, University of Oregon)

Session EC10. DMP/DCMP: Materials Theory: Electronic Structure I: Density Functional Theory.

Monday morning, 10:30, Room 362W, GWCC

10:30 EC10.01 Density Functional Theory for Superconductors: Balazs L. Gyorffy (University of Bristol)
11:06 EC10.02 Density Functional Theory for Superconductors: E.K.U. Gross, Martin Lüders (Universität Würzburg)
11:18 EC10.03 Local Density Approximation for Superconductors: Stefan Kurth (Tulane University), Miguel Marques (Universität Würzburg), E.K.U. Gross (Universität Würzburg)
11:30 EC10.04 Four theorems and a calculation in time-dependent density functional theory: Kieron Burke, Paul Hessler, Jang Park (Dept of Chemistry, Rutgers-Camden)
11:42 EC10.05 Real-time density funcytional approach to the electric conductivity: Osamu Sugino, Yoshiyuki Miyamoto (NEC Fundamental Res. Labs.)
11:54 EC10.06 Current density functional theory and Hund's second rule: R. A. Hyman (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA 30332), M. D. Stiles (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg MD 20899), A. Zangwill (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA 30332)
12:06 EC10.07 Oscillator strengths from time-dependent density functional theory: Heiko Appel (Dept of Physics, Rutgers University), Kieron Burke (Dept of Chemistry, Rutgers-Camden), E.K.U. Gross (Dept of Physics, University of Wuerzburg)
12:18 EC10.08 Plasmon Lifetime in K: A Case Study of Correlated Electrons in Solids Amenable to Ab Initio Theory: Wei Ku, A. G. Eguiluz (Department of Physics, Univ. of Tennessee, and SSD, Oak Ridge Nat. Lab.)
12:30 EC10.09 First-principles simulation of nonradiative decay in the excited systems: Yoshiyuki Miyamoto, Osamu Sugino (Fundamental Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation)

Session EC11. DCMP: Algorithms and Methods for Electronic Structure Calculations.

Monday morning, 10:30, Room 269W, GWCC

10:30 EC11.01 Wavelets for O(N) electronic structure calculations: Stefan Goedecker (Max-Planck Institute, Stuttgart), Oleg Ivanov (Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow)
10:42 EC11.02 Solutions to the Poisson Equation using Non-Separable Bi-orthogonal Wavelets: C.J. Tymczak, Heinrich Röder (Group T-1, Los Alamos National Laboratory)
10:54 EC11.03 The importance of nonlinear core corrections (NLCC) for the transferability of norm-conserving pseudopotentials: Dirk Porezag (Naval Research Lab and Georgetown University), Amy Y. Liu (Georgetown University), Mark R. Pederson (Naval Research Lab)
11:06 EC11.04 Correcting Overbinding in LDA Calculations: Axel van de Walle, Gerbrand Ceder (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT)
11:18 EC11.05 Building an O(N) Hamiltonian for density functional electronic structure calculations: Peter A. Schultz, Peter J. Feibelman (Sandia National Laboratories)
11:30 EC11.06 An unconstrained minimization approach for use in DFT calculations.: David Raczkowski (U.C. Davis), E.B. Stechel (Ford Motor Co.), Peter Schultz, R.A. Lippert (Sandia National Laboratories), C.Y. Fong (U.C. Davis)
11:42 EC11.07 Improved penalty-functional method for O(N) density-functional theory: Peter Haynes, Michael Payne (Theory of Condensed Matter, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge UK)
11:54 EC11.08 Real-Space Electronic Structure Calculations Using a Multigrid Method: Applications to periodic and nonperiodic systems: Y.-G. Jin, J.-W. Jeong, K. J. Chang (Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
12:06 EC11.09 A finite differencing scheme for evaluating an exchange-correlation potential having gradient contributions.: R. M. Hatcher (Vector Fields Inc.), G. E. Matthews, A. R. Tackett, N. A. W. Holzwarth (Wake Forest U.)
12:18 EC11.10 Progress on Directed Waves: Yi-Kuo Yu (Department of Physics, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431)
12:30 EC11.11 Structure and Electronic Properties of wide gap II-VI Be_1-xMg_xSe, Be_1-xZn_xSe and Mg_1-xZn_xSe Alloys: Stefano Martinelli, Stefano de Gironcoli, Stefano Baroni (INFM and Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), v. Beirut 2-4, I-34014 Trieste, Italy)