Program overview

SATURDAY MORNING, 9 OCTOBER 1999

08:00 CA.01 Near-Field Extension of S-matrix Diffraction Theory

Dirk Smits (University of Dayton), Roger Becker (AFRL/Debye Research), Collaboration

08:12 CA.02 Modeling Magnetic Rotation Spectroscopic Signals

Evelyn Breznik, Ernest Behringer (Eastern Michigan University)

08:24 CA.03 Monte Carlo Study of Magnetic Trilayers

Paul Scholten (Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056)

08:36 CA.04 Excited States of Block Copolymers: An Ab Initio Investigation

Amy Davis (Department of Chemistry, Wright State University), Rajiv Berry, Douglas Dudis (Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson AFB)

08:48 CA.05 Inellastic Scattering Matrix Elements for the reaction B ( 2P1/2 ) + H2 ( j ) <-> B ( 2P3/2 ) + H2 ( j´ )

T. A. Niday, David E. Weeks (Department of Engineering Physics, Air Force Institute of Technology)

09:00 CA.06 Maximum Values for Nonlinear Cross Sections

Roger Becker (AFRL/Debye Research)

09:12 CA.07 Electron Transport Parameters in CHF_3-Rare Gas, C_3F_8-Rare Gas, and NF_3-Rare Gas Mixtures

J. D. Clark (Wright State University)

09:24 CA.08 A New Application of the Interaction Picture to Calculate Reactive Scattering Matrix Elements

Michael J. MacLachlan, David E. Weeks (Department of Engineering Physics, Air Force Institute of Technology)

08:00 CB.01 Structure of Poly(ferrocenyldimethylsilane) in Electrospun Nanofibers

Zhihao Chen (Dept. of Polymer Science, The University of Akron), Mark Foster, Hao Fong, Darrell Reneker (Department of Polymer Science, The University of Akron), Ian Manners (Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto)

08:12 CB.02 Viscosity of Carbon Black-Polybutadiene Suspensions: Effects of Thermal and Treatment History.

J. C. Massey, T. Karlen, N. Mahmood, E. D. von Meerwall, F. N. Kelley (Univ. Akron)

08:24 CB.03 Effect of Vinyl Content on the Self-Diffusion of Polybutadiene Melts: Free-Volume Aspects.

E. D. von Meerwall, J. Jang, W. L. Mattice (Univ. Akron.)

08:36 CB.04 Differential scanning calorimetry study of the nucleosides at 95 % relative humidity

Robert Cooper, Scott Lee, Lawrence Anthony (University of Toledo), R.H. Griffey, V. Mohan (ISIS Pharmaceuticals)

08:48 CB.05 Transport properties of poly(pyridyl vinylene phenylene vinylene) strapped copolymer

J. B. Ferguson (Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210-1106 and Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7750), Y. Z. Wang, W. Takashima (Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210-1106), T. M. Swager (Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307), A. J. Epstein (Department of Physics and Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210-1106)

09:00 CB.06 Photovoltaic and I-V Studies of the Nonconjugated Polymer 6FPBO-OD

B. E. Taylor, J. Burkett (University of Dayton Research Institute), R. J. Spry, F. S. Mobley, G. Du, B. Reinhardt (Air Force Research Laboratory - Materials Directorate)

09:12 CB.07 The effects of high pressure and low temperature on adenosine: a Raman and infrared study

S.A. Lee, K.C. Martin, D.A. Pinnick (University of Toledo), A. Anderson, W. Smith (University of Waterloo), R.H. Griffey, V. Mohan (ISIS Pharmaceuticals)

09:24 CB.08 NONLINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF INDIGO AND ITS 5,5'-DISUBSTITUTED ANALOGS

SAM P. SINHA (Scientitfic Research & Development, 6565 Willowick Pl., Dayton, OH 45459)

08:00 CC.01 A Paperless Lab Manual - Lessons Learned

Daniel L. Hatten (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology), Maggie W. Hatten (none)

08:12 CC.02 Peer Instruction in an Algebra-Based General Physics Course

Thomas W. Listerman (Wright State University)

08:24 CC.03 Breaking the whole into its parts: categorizing items on a survey of student ideas about quantization

David May (Dept. of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210), Gordon Aubrecht (Dept. of Physics, Ohio State University, Marion, OH 43302-5695 and Columbus, OH 43210-1106 Ohio State University Marion, OH 43302-5695 and Columbus, OH 43210-1106), Thomas Kassebaum, Seth Rosenberg (Dept. of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210)

08:36 CC.04 Using facets in analyzing survey data from a project to investigate student concepts of quantization and the photon

Gordon Aubrecht (Dept. of Physics, Ohio State University, Marion, OH 43302-5695 and Columbus, OH 43210-1106), Thomas Kassebaum (Dept. of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210), David May, Seth Rosenberg (Dept. of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210)

08:48 CC.05 An Assessment of Information Literacy Instruction in Physics Curricula

Michael Fosmire (Purdue University)

09:00 CC.06 Peer Instruction in a Conceptual-based Physical Science Course

George K Miner (University of Dayton)

08:00 CD.01 Information Modelling in Physics

Vincent Marchetti

08:12 CD.02 On the transition from a molecular to a granular medium

JAMES CLARK (member)

08:24 CD.03 The Orthogonalization of Standard Model Properties onto a 1-brane

Wayne R. Lundberg (US Air Force)

08:36 CD.04 The Gravitational Theory of Condensed Matter and the Fabric of Space

Michael Anthony Paonessa (Mechanical Designer with Valiant International - Troy,MI)

08:48 CD.05 Coherent States applied to Particle Physics

Robert Levine, Vic Dannon (Ohio section)

09:00 CD.06 Multiple pion production from an oriented chiral condensate

Alexander Volya, Scott Pratt, Vladimir Zelevinsky (Department of Physics and Astronomy and National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University)

09:12 CD.07 Simulation for CPT Tests with Neutral-D Mesons.

Joo Chul Yoon, R.\ W. Gardner, V.\ Alan Kostelecký (Indiana University)

09:24 CD.08 Classical mechanics analogues for T and CPT violation

Ágnes Roberts, V. Alan Kostelecký (Indiana University)

09:36 CD.09 A toy model for the scattering of composite objects

Alexander Sakharuk, Vladimir Zelevinsky (National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, MSU.)

08:00 CE.01 Predicting the Quasar Photometric Reshift with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Filter System

Emily M. Laubacher (Univ. of Dayton), Donald G. York (Univ. of Chicago)

08:12 CE.02 Constraints on Lorentz violation from measurements of the speed of light

Matthew Mewes, V.\ Alan Kostelecký (Indiana University)

08:24 CE.03 Lorentz-Breaking Bounds from Clock-Comparison Tests

Charles D.\ Lane, V.\ A.\ Kostelecký (Indiana University)

08:36 CE.04 Dirac Fermions and Spontaneous Lorentz Breaking

Ralf Lehnert, V.\ Alan Kostelecký (Indiana University)

08:48 CE.05 Using the Landau-Zener Model to Describe Charge Transfer in Ion-surface Collisions

Minde Bolz, Ernest Behringer (Eastern Michigan University)

09:00 CE.06 An A-Priori Simplified Model for the Optical Absorption of a Type I MQW Semiconductor Near 0 K

W.C. Kreye, G. Bambakidis (Wright State University)

09:12 CE.07 Dispersion Relations and Optical Properties of Quantum Well Heterostructures

Sang H. Yang, David E. Weeks, Robert L. Hengehold (Department of Engineering Physics, Air Force Institute of Technology)

09:24 CE.08 Calculations of the Fermi energy and carrier densities in bismuth thin films using the charge-neutrality and the hole-majority models and comparison with experimental data.

Dion D. Franket, H. T. Chu (The University of Akron)

08:00 CF.01 Thin film blue phosphor of barium magnesium aluminate prepared by spray pyrolysis

Sergei Studenikin (University of Guelph, Ontario), Nickolay Golego (University of British Columbia), Michael Cocivera (University of Guelph)

08:12 CF.02 Tribology of PLD Thin Films of Cesium Oxythiomolybdate

Karla Strong (Graduate Student, University of Dayton)

08:24 CF.03 Angle Resolved Charge Collection Measurement from UV and Visible Laser Ablation of Graphite

Gyoowan Han (University of Dayton), Paul T. Murray (University of Dayton Research Institute)

08:36 CF.04 Absorption Coefficient of Buried-Si in Quartz Between 200 and 1000 nm

G. C. Farlow, S. Wrbanek (Wright State University)

08:48 CF.05 Radiative Recombination Dynamics in InAsSb Quantum-Well Lasers

W.T. Cooley (Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH), Michael Marciniak (Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright -Patterson AFB, OH), R.L. Hengehold, Y.K. Yeo (Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH), G.W. Turner (Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington MA)

09:00 CF.06 Raman Microprobe Imaging of Residual Surface Strain Patterns on Machined SiC Ceramic Specimens

Christian S. Reyerson, Perry P. Yaney (Univ. of Dayton)

09:12 CF.07 Electrical Properties of Bundled Microfine Carbon Fibers.^1^,^2

C. T. Alexander, T. L. Blanchard, A. M. Pal, S. H. Ubaid, P. D. Hambourger (Cleveland State U.)

09:24 CF.08 Electrical properties of boron doped p-SiGeC grown on n--Si substrate

M. Ahoujja, Y. K. Yeo, R. L. Hengehold (Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, USA), G. S. Pomrenke (Air Force Office of Scientific Research , Arlington, VA, USA)

09:36 CF.09 Optimized Cr2+ Concentration for a Pulsed Cr2+:CdSe Laser

Debra Krause, Jason McKay, Kenneth Schepler (Air Force Research Lab)