Program overview

FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 21 MAY 1999

14:00 B1.01 Paradigms in Physics: A New Approach to the Upper-Division Curriculum

Janet Tate (Oregon State University)

14:30 B1.02 K-6 Science in Spokane: It's Hands-on, It's Fun, and It's Working

Robert E. Gibbs (Eastern Washington University)

15:00 B1.03 Enhancing physics learning in lecture with interactive lecture demonstrations

David R. Sokoloff (University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403)

15:30 B1.04 Research as a guide to improving student learning in physics*

Paula R. L. Heron (University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1560)

16:00 B1.05 Investigation of student ability to relate measurements of physical quantities made in different inertial reference frames*

Andrew Boudreaux (University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1560)

16:12 B1.06 A Comprehensive Program to Prepare Graduate Students for Careers in College or University Teaching

K. S. Krane (Oregon State University)

16:24 B1.07 Student understanding of hydrostatics and thermal physics and the underlying concepts from mechanics

Michael E. Loverude (University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1560)

16:36 B1.08 Investigating Student Understanding of Avogadro's Law

Christian H. Kautz (University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1560)

16:48 B1.09 Students' Ability to Answer Physics Questions Using Auditory Graphs

S.C. Sahyun, J.A. Gardner (Oregon State University)

14:00 B2.01 Large-Scale Velocity Fields and Cosmology

Stephane Courteau (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Victoria)

14:30 B2.02 A Next Generation Microlensing Search for Dark Matters

Christopher Stubbs (University of Washington, Seattle)

15:00 B2.03 M54, the Sagittarius Dwarf, and the Chemical Evolution of the Halo

Jeffrey Brown (Washington State University)

15:30 B2.04 Starquakes in Neutron Stars and Observable Consequences

Bennett Link (Montana State University), Lucia M. Franco (University of Chicago), Richard I. Epstein (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

15:42 B2.05 High Latitude Extinction in the Bright Star Catalog

B.P. Snowder, K.A. Larson (Western Washington Universtiy)

15:54 B2.06 Direct Derivation of the Gravitational Red Shift (Einstein Shift) with the frequency dependent Gall metric

Clarence A Gall (Universidad del Zulia, INPELUZ-Postgrado, Apartado 98, Maracaibo, Venezuela)

16:06 B2.07 Exotic Spaces in Quantum Gravity

Kristin Schleich, Don Witt (UBC)

16:18 B2.08 Topological Censorship and Black Hole Topologies

Greg Galloway (U. of Miami), Kristin Schleich, Don Witt (UBC), Eric Woolgar (U. of Alberta)

14:00 B3.01 Trapped and optically cooled single atomic ions at the University of Washington

Justin Torgerson (Department of Physics, University of Washington)

14:30 B3.02 "Two-color" Laser Cooling and Magneto-Optic Trapping of Neutral Ytterbium

Tom Loftus (Oregon Center for Optics and Department of Physics, University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403)

15:00 B3.03 Measurements of Muon Catalyzed dt Fusion in Solid HD

Tracy Porcelli (University of Victoria), for the TRIUMF Muonic Hydrogen Collaboration

15:12 B3.04 Side-illumination fluorescence (SIF) measurements of dye-doped polymer optical fibers

Robert J. Kruhlak, Michelle C. Repp, Mark G. Kuzyk (Physics Dept., Washington State University)

15:24 B3.05 Search for the effects of low-gravity and hyper-gravity on single bubble sonoluminescence

Ben Dzikowicz, David B. Thiessen, Mark J. Marr-Lyon, Philip L. Marston (Department of Physics, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-2814)

15:36 B3.06 A Linear-Geometry Ion Trap for Studies of Ion-Molecule and Ion-Photon Processes

Robert Thompson (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary), Hans Schuessler (Department of Physics, Texas Aamp;M University)

15:48 B3.07 Non-Adiabatic Transitions in Multi-Level Systems

Michael Morgan (Seattle University), M. A. Morgan and M. Wilkinson Collaboration

16:00 B3.08 Transport Coefficients from Projection Operators in the Time Correlation Function Formalism.

Saman Alavi, R. F. Snider (Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia)

16:12 B3.09 Quantum vs Classical Driving in a System of Two Coupled Rotators

Joseph Emerson (Simon Fraser University)

14:00 B4.01 Metal-Insulator Transitions in 2, 3, and 6 Dimensions

D. Belitz (University of Oregon)

14:30 B4.02 Accidental deneracies in the spectrum of mesoscopic quantum dots

Brad Johnson (Dept. of Physics, Westren Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225), George Kirczenow (Dept. of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC Canada V5A 1S6)

14:42 B4.03 Chaos in Quantum Dots: Dynamical Modulation of Coulomb Blockade Peak Heights

Nicholas R. Cerruti (Washington State University), Evgenii E. Narimanov, Harold U. Baranger (Bell Laboratories-Lucent Technologies), Steven Tomsovic (Washington State University)

14:54 B4.04 Calculating the Properties of Many Interacting Electrons

Roger Haydock (University of Oregon)

15:06 B4.05 The importance of correlations and disorder in 2D metal-insulator transitions

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

15:18 B4.06 The 590 cm^-1 B_1g feature in underdoped Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_8+\delta

Kevin C Hewitt, N. L. Wang, J. C. Irwin (Simon Fraser University, Department of Physics, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6), D. M. Pooke (Industrial Research Limited, P.O. Box 31310, Lower Hutt New Zealand), A. E. Pantoja, H. J. Trodahl (School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand)

15:30 B4.07 Investigation of the Pseudogap in La_2-xSr_xCuO_4 by Raman Spectroscopy

J. G. Naeini, J. C. Irwin (Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University), K. Kishio, T. Sasagawa, Y. Togawa (Department of Superconductivity, University of Tokyo)

15:42 B4.08 Superlattices under Intense THz-Radiation: A Numerical Study

Michael W. Feise, David S. Citrin (Semiconductor Optics Theory Group, Washington State University)

15:54 B4.09 Characterization of CVD grown carbon nitride films

Saibal Mitra, Justin Hartman (Department of Engineering Physics, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK 74104), Anna Guy, Dale House (Department of Chem. Eng., University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK 74104)

16:06 B4.10 Entropic Contribution to Rigidity Percolation

Daniel Vernon, Michael Plischke (Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada V5A 1S6), Béla Joós (University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5)

16:18 B4.11 Coherent Soft X-ray Scattering from Random Epitaxial Semiconductor Surfaces

T. Tiedje, M. Adamcyk (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Canada), S. Eisebitt, A. Karl, R. Scherer, W. Eberhardt (Forschungszentrum, Jülich, Germany)

16:30 B4.12 Real Time X-Ray Diffraction Measurements in Shock Compressed Crystals

Y.M. Gupta, P.A. Rigg, T. d'Almeida, K. Zimmerman

14:00 B5.01 The ISAC Facility at TRIUMF

R. Laxdal (TRIUMF)

14:30 B5.02 Science at the ISAC Facility

J. D'Auria (Simon Fraser University)

15:00 B5.03 Test of the Low Temperature Nuclear Orientation setup at TRIUMF-ISAC.

P.P.J. Delheij, C.A. Davis (Triumf), A. Kotlicki (Univ. of Brit. Col.), K.S. Krane (Oregon State Univ.), P.F. Mantica (Michigan State Univ.), J. Pond, B.G. Turrell (Univ. of Brit. Col.), A. Waterhouse (Triumf), J. Wood (Georgia Inst. of Techn.)

15:12 B5.04 Determining the magnitude of induced spin polarization following intermediate energy projectile fragmentation

D.W. Anthony, P.F. Mantica, P.A. Lofy, D.J. Morrissey, J.I. Prisciandaro (National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University)

15:24 B5.05 The Idaho Accelerator Center: A Complete Low Energy User Facility

John Knox (Idaho State University)

15:36 B5.06 Measurement of Thermal Neutron Capture Cross Sections of Radioactive Nuclei by Activation

K. S. Krane (Oregon State University), E. B. Norman (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

15:48 B5.07 Monitoring of air-borne radio-activity in Vancouver by the GARDS station

T. Stocki (University of British Columbia)

16:00 B5.08 A study of B-9 via the beta-delayed particel decay of C-9

E. Gete (University of British Columbia)

16:12 B5.09 Effective Theory for Neutron-Deuteron Scattering and the Triton

H.-W. Hammer (TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 2A3, Canada), P.F. Bedaque (Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA), U. van Kolck (Kellogg Radiation Laboratory, 106-38, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena , CA 91125, USA)

B6.01 A thermostat for critical phenomena studies

Nicola Fameli, David Balzarini (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia)

B6.02 Comparative analysis of neutron and Raman scattering in relaxor ferroelectrics of AB'xB''1-xO3 -type

Sergey Lushnikov, Igor Siny, Hugo Schmidt (Physics Department, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717), Severian Gvasaliya (Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, St. Petersburg 194021, Russia)

B6.03 Brillouin and Raman scattering anomalies in KNSBN with the tungsten bronze structure

Igor Siny, Sergey Lushnikov, Hugo Schmidt (Physics Department, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717), Alex Savvinov, Ram Katiyar (Physics Department, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR 00931)

B6.04 Refractive index profiling methods for polymer optical fiber preforms and fibers

Brian Canfield, Mark Kuzyk (Dept. of Physics, Washington State University)

B6.05 Raman scattering study on the anomalous metallic state of the natural and deuterated \kappa-(BEDT-TTF)_2Cu(N(CN)_2)Br

Yuankun Lin, John Eldridge (Physics Department, University of British Columbia), H. H. Wang Team, A. M. Kini Team, M. E. Kelly Team, J. M. Williams Team, J. Schlueter Team

B6.06 Inconstancy-theory/quantum-gravity

Faheem Murtaza (Nil)

B6.07 Structural Prediction and Experimental Verification of Three New Ferroelectric Materials

D. J. Arbogast (Physics Dept., Southen Oregon University), M. C. Foster, R. M. Nielson (Chemistry Dept., Southern Oregon University), P. J. Photinos, S. C. Abrahams (Physics Dept., Southern Oregon University)

B6.08 Modeling the H_2 + H_2 Reaction in Restricted Geometries

T. A. Rothwell, M. E. Mandy (UNBC)

B6.09 High Field Gradient Enables Nanometer-Scale Slice Resolution in Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy

Kelly Bruland, Shih-Hui Chao, William Dougherty, Joseph Garbini, Seth Jensen, John Sidles (University of Washington, Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Orthopaedics, Seattle, WA)

B6.10 Magnetic oscillations and a turbulent dynamo

E.J. Zita (The Evergreen State College)

B6.11 Numerical Integration of Magnetic Field Lines

Christopher Wolfe, E.J. Zita (The Evergreen State College)

B6.12 Variable star observations to test a magnetohydrodynamic model.

Andrea Nowicki, E.J. Zita (The Evergreen State College)

B6.13 Observing Gravitational Waves

Gregory Hunter (The Evergreen State College)

B6.14 Magnetars as soft gamma repeaters

Karen O'Meara (The Evergreen State College)

B6.15 Matters of Gravity

Seth Samson (The Evergreen State College)

B6.16 Calculating magnetosonic frequencies to test a new MHD model

Tomoko Adachi, E.J. Zita (The Evergreen State College)

B6.17 Magnetic confinement fusion

Caylin Mendelowitz (The Evergreen State College)

16:06 B6.18 Relaxation and Saturation in High-Gradient Force-Detected Magnetic Resonance: Theory and Observation

William Dougherty, Kelly Bruland, Shih-Hui Chao, Joseph Garbini, Seth Jensen, John Sidles (University of Washington, Seattle, WA)

17:00 B7.01 Business Meeting of the APS Northwest Section

17:30 B7.02 Northwest Council Meeting

18:00 B8.01 Reception

19:00 B8.02 Banquet