Program overview

FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 29 OCTOBER 1999

15:45 H52.01 Probabilistic Independence in Quantum Mechanics

James Espinosa (Texas Woman's University)

15:57 H52.02 A Theory of Gravity with Dynamical Lapse

J. Brian Pitts, W. C. Schieve (University of Texas at Austin)

16:09 H52.03 Models of Vehicular Traffic: Toward a Kinetic Theory of Cellular Automata

Bryan Raney (Department of Computer Science, Texas Aamp;M University, College Station, TX 77843-3112)

16:21 H52.04 Modern Physics Simulations

Jorge Lopez (University Texas El Paso), Jose Correa (University of Texas El Paso)

16:33 H52.05 An Electromagnetic Basis for Gravity

Russell Collins (retired)

16:45 H52.06 The Structure of Atoms, Atomic Matter and Space, in the Sub-femtometer - Sub-femtosecond Scale

Menahem Simhony (Hebrew U.)

16:57 H52.07 Nuclear technology requires free elections

Miroslav Synek (Independent Consultant, POB 4911, San Antonio, TX 78280)

15:45 H53.01 Einstein-Yang-Mills Gauge Transformations

L.C. Shepley (University of Texas at Austin), J.M. Pons (Universitat de Barcelona), D.C. Salisbury (Austin College)

15:57 H53.02 Phenomenological Survey of a String Derived MSSM

Gerald B. Cleaver (Texas A & M/ Houston Advanced Research Center), Alon E. Faraggi (University of Minnesota), Dimitri V. Nanopoulos (Texas A & M/ Houston Advanced Research Center), Joel W. Walker (Texas A & M)

16:09 H53.03 Macroscopic determinism in noninteracting systems

Brian R. La Cour, William C. Schieve (University of Texas at Austin)

16:21 H53.04 Tunneling Time through a Barrier Using the "Tempus" Operator

D. H. Kobe, H. Iwamoto, M. Goto, V. Aguilera-Navarro (Department of Physics, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas 76203)

16:33 H53.05 Temperature and bias dependence of junction magnetoresistance derived from a modified Julliere model

Jianbiao Dai, Jinke Tang (Advanced Materials Research Institute and Department of Physics, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148)

16:45 H53.06 Matching characteristic codes: Getting the `most' out of `two' directions

Luis Lehner (The University of Texas at Austin)

16:57 H53.07 The Unique Ability of the Electron-Positron (Epo) Lattice (Epola) Model of Space to Explain the Natural Causes of All Known Physical Features and Phenomena, Extrinsic to Nuclear Particles

Menahem Simhony (Hebrew U.)

15:45 H54.01 Far-infrared Spectrum and Vibrational Potential Energy Surfaces of Vinylene Carbonate and 1,3-Cyclohexadiene

Daniel Autrey, Arnold Del Rosario (Texas A&M University), Jaebum Choo (Hanyang University, Korea), Jaan Laane (Texas A&M University)

15:57 H54.02 Electronic Absorption Spectra and Carbonyl Wagging Potential Energy Functions for Cyclobutanone, Cyclopentanone and Tetrahydrofuran-3-one in their S1(n, pi*) Excited States

SooNo Lee, Jaane Laane (Texas A&M University)

16:09 H54.03 Spectroscopic Investigations of the Ground and Electronic Excited States of Indan

Zane Arp, Sachie Sakurai, Kevin Morris, Jaan Laane (Texas A&M University)

16:21 H54.04 Sonoluminescence emission spectra

Dominik Hammer, Lothar Frommhold (Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin)

16:33 H54.05 A Spectroscopic Study of the Normal and Fractional Wannier-Stark Ladders

M. C. Fischer, K. W. Madison, M. G. Raizen (The University of Texas at Austin)

16:45 H54.06 Recovering the Classical Limit with Noise in the Quantum Kicked Rotor

W.H. Oskay, V. Milner, D.A. Steck, M.G. Raizen (The University of Texas at Austin)

16:57 H54.07 Quantum Interference in and Vibrational Relaxation of CO_2 in a Discharge

Craig McCluskey, John Keto (Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin)