Program overview

FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 30 APRIL 1999

P.01 A "Zero Space" Theory

Mark Messer (Ford Motor Co.)

P.02 A WWW-Based Tool to Assist Teaching

Xianming Han (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Butler University)

P.03 The density of local minima near the ground state of Si_20

Ionel Rata, Koblar Jackson (Dept. of Physics, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859), Gerd Jungnickel, Thomas Frauenheim (Theoretische Physik, University-GH Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany)

P.04 First-principles Raman intensities for chalcogenide glasses

Koblar Jackson, Shau Grossman (Dept. of Physics, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859)

P.05 Preparation by spray pyrolysis and properties of thin polycrystalline La_1-xBa_xMnO_3 films

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

P.06 Influence of a Geometrically Induced Space Charge on the Electron Energy Distribution Function

F. A. Tersigni, Wm. F. Bailey (Air Force Institute of Technology)

P.07 The Influence of Electron Temperature Variations on Shock Structure in a Glow Discharge

S. L. Walker, Wm. F. Bailey (Air Force Institute of Technology)

P.08 Deblurring Images

Everett Ramer (U.S. Department of Energy)

P.09 Analysis of Loss in a Single Mode Rectangular Optical Waveguide Induced by the Crossover of a Second Waveguide

R.T. Deck, Anca L. Sala, Yuri Sikorski, B.G. Bagley (The University of Toledo)

P.10 Measuring AC Electric Conductivity of Thin Liquid Film

Gang Sun (Department of Physics, Wayne State University)

P.11 First Order Vortex Melting Transition in YBa_2Cu_3O_7-d Single Crystals in the Presence of Defects

L.M. Paulius, A.M. Petrean, V. Tobos, S. Ferguson (Dept. of Physics, Western Michigan University), R.J. Olsson, W-K. Kwok, G.W. Crabtree (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory)

P.12 Percolation and its Applications

Christian Lorenz, Robert Ziff (University of Michigan)

P.13 Raman Scattering Analysis of Unkonwn Si Samples

Dave Warner (Kettering University, Electrical Engineering Department), Bahram Roughani (Kettering University)