Program overview

SUNDAY AFTERNOON, 7 NOVEMBER 1999

14:00 AA.01 Scale-Up: Improving Large Enrollment Physics Courses

Robert Beichner (North Carolina State University)

14:36 AA.02 WebAssign: Assessing Your Students' Understanding Continuously

John S. Risley (North Carolina State University)

15:12 AA.03 Going Beyond the End of the Chapter

Aaron Titus (North Carolina A amp; T State University)

15:48 AA.04 A New Approach to Authoring Interactive Curricular Material

Wolfgang Christian (Davidson College)

16:24 AA.05 A Different Kind of Physics Competition-the 12th International Young Physicists Tournament

Hugh Haskell (The North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics )

14:00 AB.01 Georgia State's CHARA Array on Mt. Wilson, California

Harold McAlister (CHARA, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303)

14:36 AB.02 Combining Research and Eduation in the New Millenium

Michael Castelaz (East Tennessee State University)

15:12 AB.03 Constraints on Large Scale Structure Formation From Distant Clusters of Galaxies and Wide Field Near-IR Surveys at the University of Florida

Richard Elston (University of Florida)

15:48 AB.04 The SOAR Telescope Project

Gerald Cecil (SOAR Project, NOAO, Tucson; Dept Physics and Astronomy, UNC-CH)

14:00 AC.01 Investigation of the ^26Mg(p,\gamma)^27Al Reaction Rate

C. Rowland, C. Iliadis, A. E. Champagne (UNC-Chapel Hill and TUNL)

14:12 AC.02 Complete Spectroscopy of ^30P

C. A. Grossmann, W. C. Beal, L. K. McLean, G. E. Mitchell (NCSU/TUNL), C. R. Westerfeldt (Duke Univ./TUNL), Jr. Shriner (Tenn. Tech. Univ.)

14:24 AC.03 Cross-Section Measurements of the Space-Star Configuration in Neutron-Deuteron Breakup at 25.0 MeV

J. Deng, H. Tang, Z. Zhou (CIAE Beijing), R. A. Macri, A. S. Crowell, C. R. Howell, R. L. Walter (Duke University and TUNL), H. Wita\la (Jagellonian Univ.), W. Glöckle (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

14:36 AC.04 Study of very neutron deficient isotopes using the symmetric reaction of 58Ni + 58Ni

W. Liu, P.G. Varmette, W.C. Ma (Mississippi State University), B. Herskind, G. Hagemann, G. Sletten, M. Bergstrom (Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark), G. De Angelis, M. Cinausero, C. Fahlander, H. Jensen, D. Napoli, P. Spolaore (INFN Laboratoria Nationale de Legnaro, Italy)

14:48 AC.05 Measurements of Tensor Polarization Observables in the ^2H(\vecd,\gamma)^4He Reaction at Low Energies

K. Sabourov, R.S. Canon, S.J. Gaff, J.H. Kelley, S.O. Nelson, E.C. Schreiber, H.R. Weller, E.A. Wulf (Duke University and TUNL), R.M. Prior, M. Spraker (North Georgia College and State University and TUNL), D.R. Tilley (North Carolina State University and TUNL)

15:00 AC.06 Stucture of ^44Ar through ^44Cl \beta decay

H. H. Yousif, W. C. Ma, W. Lui, R. B. Piercey, J. A. Winger (Mississippi State University), P. F. Mantica, B. Pritychenko, R. M. Ronningen, M. Steiner (NSCL/Michigan State University)

15:12 AC.07 Measurement of the ^1H(^17F,\alpha)^14O cross section using a radioactive ^17F beam at HRIBF

J. C. Blackmon, Z. Ma, M. S. Smith (Physics Division, ORNL), D. W. Bardayan, A. E. Champagne (UNC-Chapel Hill), R. L. Kozub (Tenn. Tech. U.), A. A. Chen, P. D. Parker, K. B. Swartz, D. W. Visser (Yale U.), K. I. Hahn (Ewah W. U.), U. Greife (Colorado School of Mines), T. Davinson, A. C. Shotter, P. J. Woods (U. of Edinburgh)

15:24 AC.08 The DFELL/TUNL High-Intensity Gamma-ray Source as a Nuclear Physics Facility

E.C. Schreiber, R.S. Canon, J.H. Kelley, S.O. Nelson, K. Sabourov, E.A. Wulf, H.R. Weller (Duke University and TUNL), V.N. Litvinenko, S.H. Park, I.V. Pinayev, Y. Wu (Duke Free Electron Laser Laboratory)

15:36 AC.09 Interlock, Control, and Data Acquisition System for an Ion Source Testbench

B.Jay Smith, Sergio Lemaitre (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC and Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Durham, NC)

15:48 AC.10 An Upgrade of the TUNL Dynamically Polarized Deuteron Target

R. D. Foster, C. R. Gould, D. G. Haase, D. M. Markoff, J. Messimore, G. Palmquist, E. Pearson, J. O. Poole (NC State University and TUNL), W. Tornow (Duke University and TUNL)

16:00 AC.11 Reflectivity of a Channel-Cut Silicon Crystal as a Precursor to Studying the Electric Dipole Moment of the Neutron

Michael Woehrman (College of Charleston), Keary Schoen, Helmut Kaiser (University of Missouri (MURR)), Thomas Dombeck (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), G. Roy Ringo (Argonne National Laboratory), Sam Werner (University of Missouri (MURR))

16:12 AC.12 Star Configurations in Neutron-Induced Deuteron Breakup -- Differential Cross-Section Measurements at 16.0 MeV

A. S. Crowell, C. R. Howell, R. A. Macri, S. Churchwell, D. E. González Trotter, F. Salinas, W. Tornow, R. L. Walter (Duke University and TUNL), H. Wita\la (Jagellonian Univ.), W. Glöckle (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), C. R. Jackson, R. S. Pedroni (North Carolina A amp; T State University), B. J. Crowe III (Shaw University), H. Tang, Z. Zhou (CIAE Beijing)

14:00 AD.01 The Use of the Finite Element Method to Solve the Paraxial Equation in Heterogenious Medium

Yeaton Clifton (Physicss Department, East Carolina University,Greenville,NC 27858), Xin H. Hu (Physics Department, East Carolina University)

14:12 AD.02 Optical Heterodyne Detection of Laser-trapped Biological Particles

Christina Christou, Yong-qing Li, Xin-Hua Hu, Mumtaz A. Dinno (Department of Physics, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858-4353)

14:24 AD.03 Computer-Aided Visualization of Four-Wave Mixing in Bose-Einstein Condensates

David Yoshikawa (Appalachian State University), Paul Julienne, David Feder (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

14:36 AD.04 Evaporative Cooling of Lithium Fermions in a Stable Optical Trap

K. M. O'Hara, M. E. Gehm, S. R. Granade, S. Bali, J. E. Thomas (Physics Department, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0305)

14:48 AD.05 Sub-shot-noise-limited optical heterodyne detection based on nonlinear harmonic generation

Yong-qing Li (Department of Physics, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858-4353), Dorel Guzun, Min Xiao, Gregory Salamo (Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701)

15:00 AD.06 Monte Carlo simulations of converging laser beam propagating in turbid media with parallel computing

Di Wu, Jun Q. Lu, Xin H. Hu (Department of Physics, ECU, Greenville, NC 27858), S. S. Zhao (ATamp;T LABS,200 S. Laurel Ave., Middletown, NJ 07748), biomedical laser lab at ECU Team

15:12 AD.07 Correlated Photon Detections from Cavity Radiation

Henk Arnoldus (Mississippi State University)

15:24 AD.08 Time-resolved Optical Phase Space Distributions for Coherence Tomography

A. Wax, F. Reil, K. F. Lee, S. Bali, J. E. Thomas (Physics Department, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0305)

15:48 AD.09 Two-dimensional photonic crystal Fabry-Perot resonators with lossy dielectrics

Matthew M. Beaky (Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708), Henry O. Everitt (Physics Division, U.S. Army Research Office, RTP, NC 27709)

16:00 AD.10 Theoretical Study of Optical Phase Conjugation in a Nonlinear Crystal

Sungho Kim, Henk Arnoldus (Mississippi State University)

16:12 AD.11 Spectroscopy and Tunable Mid-Infrared Lasing of a Novel Gain Medium: Cr2+:Cd(0.55)Mn(0.45)Te

M.C. Turner, U.H. Hommerich, J.T. Seo (Hampton University), S.B. Trivedi, S.W. Kutcher, R.J. Chen, C.C. Wang, H. Zong (Brimrose Corporation of America, 5020 Campbell Blvd., Baltimore, MD 21236, U.S.A.)

14:00 AE.01 Fabrication of indium tin oxide films using pulsed-laser deposition

Manuel Morales Paliza, Mengbing Huang, Richard Haglund, Leonard Feldman (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University)

14:12 AE.02 Temperature dependence of magnetic anisotropy of La0.8Ca0.2MnO3 thin films

M. C. Smoak, P. A. Ryan, F. Tsui (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill), R. A. Rao, T. K. Nath, C. B. Eom (Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University), Tsui Team, Eom Team

14:24 AE.03 Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy of Oxygen Migration in YBCO

Suzanne Huerth, Hans Hallen (North Carolina State University)

14:36 AE.04 Spatio-Temporal Chaos in Yttrium Iron Garnet Films

Chris Goodridge, Fred Rachford, Tom Carroll, Lou Pecora (Naval Research Laboratory-Washington, DC)

14:48 AE.05 Smoothening Transition during Initial Epitaxial Growth of Mo on Sapphire.

Paul Anthony Ryan, Frank Tsui (Department of Physics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599.)

15:00 AE.06 Adsorption of Polyelectrolytes at the Oppositely Charged Surface.

Alexander Deshkovski, Andrey Dobrynin, Michael Rubinstein (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

15:12 AE.07 Deposition of Daimond/Diamond-Like Carbon Thin Films on Graphitic Epoxy and the Effect on Incorporated Voids

Elivira Williams (Physics Professor at North Carolina Aamp;T State University), Jason Gilchrist (Graduate Physics student at North Carolina Aamp;T State University), Mechanical Engineering Collaboration

15:24 AE.08 Mechanism of reversible conductance transitions in a crystalline thin-film

Hongjun Gao, Karl Sohlberg (SSD, Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6031), Stephen J. Pennycook (SSD, Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6030)

15:36 AE.09 Near-Field Enhancement of Raman Spectra

Eric Ayars, Hans Hallen (NCSU, Raleigh NC)

15:48 AE.10 The structure of ultradispersed Pt on gamma-alumina

Karl Sohlberg (Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National Lab), Sokrates T. Pantelides (Department of Phys. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN), Stephen J. Pennycook (Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National Lab)

16:00 AE.11 Relaxation Times of Microemulsion Systems From Electro-Optical Measurements

Matthew Edwards (Spelman College)

16:12 AE.12 Yb^3+-OH energy transfer in \gamma-Al_2O_3

J.K. Krebs (Dept. of Phys. and Ast., The University of Georgia, Athens, GA), A.A. Kaplyanskii, R.I. Zakharchenya (A.F. Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia), U. Happek (Dept. of Phys. and Ast., The University of Georgia, Athens, GA)