BIOPHYSICS AND SOFT CONDENSED MATTER 1. A Simulation of DNA Sequencing by AFM Shahid Qamar Center for Single Molecule Biophysics, The Biodesigne Institute, Arizona State University, USA 2. Nonlinear Dynamics of Endothelial Cells A.E. Tikhomirova and V.A. Volpert Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University, USA. 3. Fluctuation Theorems in Dissipative Systems Jacob Siegel University of California, Berkeley, USA 4. Pattern Formation in a Radiation Transport Model for Melting Snow K. Mitchell1, T. Tiedje1, Bayo Lau1, A. Ballestad1, R.W. Wittenberg2, E. Nodwell1 1University of British Columbia, 2Simon Fraser University, Canada 5. Phase Diagrams of Colloids Trapped in 2D Square Potentials Michael C. Mikulis University of California, Davis, USA 6. Effects of the Variation of Fluence, Wavelength and Beam Spot Size in Soft Tissue Ablation with an IR-FEL Gilma Adunas, M. Shane Hutson, Yaowu Xiao. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA 7. Electrical Monitoring of Endothelial Cells Cultured On the Layers of Extracellular Matrix Proteins and Synthetic Peptides Containing RGD Sequence Chunzhi Dong*, Charles R. Keese^§ and Ivar Giaever^§ *Physics Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA; ^Applied Biophysics, Inc., 1223 Peoples Avenue, Troy, NY, USA; §School of Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA 8. Stripe Distortions in Liquid Crystalline Physical Gels Rafael Verduzco and Julia A. Kornfield California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA ATOMIC, MOLECULAR, AND OPTICAL PHYSICS AND PLASMA PHYSICS 1. Atom Interferometry with 2-Dimensional Bose-Einstein Condensates David Scherer, Chad Weiler, Brian Anderson College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona 2. Time averaged optical dipole traps for cold atoms Peyman Ahmadi Oklahoma State 3. Quantum information storage in atomic media Eden Figueroa University of Calgary 4. A Miniature Microscope built with Microlenses and MEMS J. D. Rogers University Arizona 5. Enhanced Transmission in Plasmonic Spherical Bragg Resonators C. Rohde1, K. Hasegawa, M. Deutsch University of Oregon, Department of Physics, 1371 E. 13th St. Eugene, OR, 97403. 6. Application of an Optical Frequency Comb for Terahertz Generation Qudsia Quraishi Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Time and Frequency Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, CO 80309 Martin Griebel Heinrich-Heine-Strasse 18/3, 72555 Metzingen, Germany Thomas Kleine-Ostmann Institut fur Hochfrequenztechnik, Technische Universitat Braunschweig, Schleinitzstr. 22 38106 Braunschweig, Germany Rudolf Bratschitsch Fachbereich Physik, LS Leitenstorfer, University of Konstanz and Center for Applied Photonics 78457 Konstanz, Germany 7. Infrared Absorption Changes in LiTaO3 Waveguides Induced By Illumination With Femtosecond Pulses Andy Carson San Diego State University 8. Computational Study of Plasma Radiation in MITL Gap* M.A. Angelova, B.S. Bauer, V. Makhin, R.E. Siemon, S. Fuelling University of Nevada, Reno, Physics/220 Reno, NV 89557 USA CONDENSED MATTER 1. Characterization of the Filled Skutterudite Compound PrOs4As12 W. M. Yuhasz, T. A. Sayles, N. P. Butch, P.-C. Ho, N. A. Frederick, T. Yanagisawa and M. B. Maple Department of Physics and Institute for Pure and Applied Physical Sciences, University of California,San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA Z. Henkie and A. Pietraszko Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, 50-950 Wroclaw, Poland S. K. McCall and M. W. McElfresh Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94550 2. Effect of annealing on non-Fermi liquid behavior in UCu4Pd Ryan Baumbach Department of Physics and Institute for Pure and Applied Physical Sciences, University of California,San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA 3. The optical response of crystalline TbMn2O5 R. Valdes Aguilar(1), A. Sushkov(1), H. D. Drew(1), S.W. Cheong(2). (1)Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, College Park, MD 20742 (2)Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854 4. Perovskite oxide thin film electrical programmable non-volatile resistance memory Y. B. Niana, C. Papagianni, X. Chen, N. J. Wu, and Alex Ignatiev Texas Center for Superconductivity and Advanced Material University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204-5007 5. Application of oxide thin films for fuel cells Hans L. Infante University of Houston 6. Mass Spectrometric Analyses of Functionalized Pentacene and Rubrene Molecules: the Most Prospective Organic Semiconductors for Organic Thin Films Transistor Technology. Svitlana Shcherbyna1, Vladimir Baranov2, John Anthony3, Diethard K. Bohme1 1Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada; 2MDS Sciex, Concord, Canada; 3University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky. 7. Low temperature photoluminesence of dilute nitride GaNAs Daniel A. Beaton University of British Columbia 8. Controlling Optical Scattering by Plastic Composites Alex Small National Institutes of Health 9. Comparative study of CO adsorption on nanostructured Cu and Au surfaces Faisal Mehmood, Abdelkader Kara and Talat S. Rahman Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan KS 66502 NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS 1. Branching Ratio Measurement of Rare Semileptonic Decays Sylvie Brunet University of Montreal 2. Determination of |Vub| from the measurement of B ? p+/p0/?/?'/? Branching Fractions and Form Factors with a "loose neutrino reconstruction" technique at BaBar David Côté, S. Brunet, M. Simard, B.F. Viaud and P. Taras Université de Montréal 3. Preparation for a Low Background Phase of KamLAND Greg Keefer University of Alabama 4. Results from KamLAND Tim Classen University of Alabama 5. Production of pure radioactive Al beams by laser-ionization and a fast-release RFQ J.P. Lavoie, P. Bricault, J. Lassen TRIUMF 6. Status and Results of MiniBooNE Kendall Mahn Columbia University 7. Measurement of the Neutral Current Neutrino Interaction During the Salt Phase of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Mark Kos Queen's University 8. Measurement of single electron azimuthal anisotropy v2 from Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) 200 GeV W.J. Dong University of California at Los Angeles 9. Spin flipping 2.1 GeV/c polarized protons stored in COSY M.A. Leonova, A.D. Krisch, V.S. Morozov, R.S. Raymond, V.K. Wong,?R. Gebel, A. Lehrach, B. Lorentz, R. Maier, D. Prasuhn, A. Schnase, H. Stockhorst,?D. Eversheim, F. Hinterberger and K. Ulbrich University of Michigan ASTROPHYSICS 1. Eclipsing Binary Systems as Calibration for Star Formation Models Yilen Gomez Maqueo Chew Vanderbilt University 2. How fast can neutron stars spin? Ruxandra Bondarescu Cornell University 3. Polarized Power Spectrum Estimation of the CMB Using Gibbs Sampling David Larson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 4. Non-Perturbative Instabilities as a Solution of the Cosmological Moduli Problem Natalia Shuhmaher McGill University 5. Are Recent Cosmological Velocity Surveys Consistent With Each Other? Devdeep Sarkar University of Kansas 6. Testing cosmological models and understanding cosmological parameter determinations with metaparameters Mike Chu, Lloyd Knox University of California, Davis 7. Measurement of neutron capture cross section of 62Ni in the keV region A.M. Alpizar-Vicente, T.A. Bredeweg, E.-I. Esch, U. Greife, R.C. Haight, R. Hatarik, J.M. O'Donnell, R. Reifarth, R.S. Rundberg, J.L.Ullmann, D.J. Vieira, J.B. Wilhelmy and J.M. Wouters Colorado School of Mines 8. 102Pd(n,g) cross section measurement using DANCE R. Hatarik, A. M. Apizar-Vicente, T. A. Bredeweg, E.-I. Esch, U. Greife, R. C. Haight, J. M. O'Donnell, R. Refarth, R.S. Rundberg, J.L. Ullmann, D. J. Viera and J. M. Wouters Colorado School of Mines 9. Physics and Kuhn: Aether Way Sean Lehane University of Toronto THEORETICAL PHYSICS 1. Weak Measurements are Universal Ognyan Oreshkov , Todd A. Brun Department of Physics, University of Southern California, USA Communication Science Institute, University of Southern California, USA 2. Lorentz Violating Supersymmetric Quantum Electrodynamics Pavel A. Bolokhov, Stefan Groot Nibbelink, Maxim Pospelov Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada 3. Including Neutrino Flavor Changing Interactions in the Supernova Model Philip Amanik, George M. Fuller and Benjamin Grinstein Department of Physics, UCSD, CA, USA 4. A Maximum likelihood method approach for under-constrained systems: an application from Particle Physics for Biology Sarosh N. Fatakia, on behalf of the DZero collaboration Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA 5. Adaptive Design of Metallic Nanoscale Chains Amy Cassidy, Stephan Haas, Ilya Grigorenko Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Southern California, CA, USA A.F.J Levi Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, CA, USA 6. Transport in closed nanoscale systems Neil Bushong , Na Sai, Massimiliano Di Ventra Department of Physics, UCSD, CA, USA 7. Accuracy in photon beam modeling of radiation treatment plans Alejandra Rangel, Ian Kay, Peter Dunscombe Department of Medical Physics, Tom Baker Cancer Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 8. Incorporating radiotherapy dose uncertainties into the evaluation of tumour control probability G Cranmer-Sargison§ and S Zavgorodni Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Canada§ British Columbia Cancer Agency – Vancouver Island Centre, Canada 9. Self-Consistent Proteomic Field Theory of Stochastic Gene Switches Aleksandra M. Walczak1, Masaki Sasai3, M., Peter G. Wolynes1,2 1Department of Physics and 2Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCSD, CA, USA 3Department of Complex Systems Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan POSTERS (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) Calculation of Torque Near a Thermodynamic Attractor for a Driven Non-Neutral Plasma Michael Anderson Department of Physics, UCSD In Situ initial oxidation of Ti45Al44Nb11 and Ti56Al44 alloys investigated by surface analyses Marco A. Avila Fusion Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin Observation of Helmholtz-Gauss Beams Carlos López-Mariscal, Miguel A. Bandres and Julio C. Gutiérrez-Vega Photonics and Mathematical Optics Group, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey 64849, México Coherent Parity Violation: Neutron Spin Rotation Christopher Bass Indiana University Cyclotron Facility Viewing Einstein's Spacetime Geometry Don V. Black University of California, Irvine Simple solutions to the Einstein Equations in spaces with unusual topology Mihai Bondarescu California Institute of Technology Collinear Laser Spectroscopy on neutron deficient La isotopes at ISAC - TRIUMF Thomas Elias Cocolios McGill University Formation of Antihydrogen Quasi-Bound States C. E. Correa, J. R. Correa, and C. A. Ordonez Department of Physics, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas 76203 Proposal of a spintronic-based polarization detector Lukasz Cywinski, Hannan Dery, Lu J. Sham University of California, San Diego Laser Photodetachment Electron Spectroscopy of Zirconium Dimers1 Srividya Duvvuri, Aaron Covington, Vernon Davis, Erik Emmons, Richard Kraus, Jeffrey S. Thompson Physics department, University of Nevada-Reno Dynamic Studies of Phase Transitions in f-electron Materials Using Photoluminescence Spectroscopy* E.D. Emmons, T.E. Cowan, S. Duvvuri, G. Kaplan, R.G. Kraus, K.R. McCall, G. Mishra, J.S. Thompson, and A.M. Covington Physics Department and Nevada Terawatt Facility, University of Nevada, Reno Effects of Surfactants on Oxidation Resistance of Iron Nanoparticle Fluids Shannon Fritz1, Nguyen H. Hai1, Steve Wignall2, and Diandra Leslie-Pelecky1 1Department of Physics & Astronomy and Center for Materials Research & Analysis, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Lincoln NE 68588-0111, U.S.A. 2Seward High School, Seward NE 68434, U.S.A. LST - BABAR IFR Barrel Upgrade Bryan Fulsom University of British Columbia The conformal operator connecting the HS-Vertex and the CSV-Vertex Mahmoud A. Gassem1, A Abdurrahman2 1South Texas College 2Department Of Physics, University Of Shippensburg Particle Physics Jeff Haas San Francisco State University Neutron Scattering from a Coordination Polymer Spin-1/2 Ladder Tao Hong, C. Broholm, D.H. Reich Johns Hopkins University M.M. Turnbull, C.P. Landee Clark University K.P. Schmidt, G.S. Uhrig Universitat zu Koln Y. Qiu National Institute of Standards and Technology Ultrahigh-Energy (UHE) Neutrino Search with Radio Ice Cherenkov Experiment (RICE) Shahid Hussain (for the RICE collaboration) University of Kansas Superfluid density in the high temperature superconductor YBa2Cu3O6+x Wendell Huttema Simon Fraser University Radio Selected Quasar Survey for Damped Ly? Systems Regina Jorgenson and Arthur Wolfe Department of Physics, and Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, University of California, San Diego, Gilman Dr., La Jolla; CA 92093-0424 Elasticity as a function of grain size and grain boundary segregation of bismuth in polycrystalline copper using resonant ultrasound spectroscopy (RUS) Gunes Kaplan, Tim Darling, Katherine McCall University of Nevada, Reno, USA Diffusion of small 2D-Cu islands on Cu (111) Altaf Karim, Ahlam Al-Rawi, Abdelkader Kara, and Talat S. Rahman Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA. Substituting hands-on physics laboratories with computer simulations: What's gained and what's lost? Christopher Keller, Noah Finkelstein, Katherine Perkins, Steven J. Pollock University of Colorado, Boulder Search for high energy neutrinos from GRB in the AMANDA 1997-2003 data Kyler Kuehn (ICECUBE) University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-4575 USA Linear and Nonlinear properties of photonic crystal optical fiber with broadband flat zero dispersion Yannick Lize École Polytechnique de Montréal Dynamic Sub-Grid Scale Modeling of Tearing Mode interaction with Turbulence C. McDevitt and P.H. Diamond University of California, San Diego, Department of Physics, La Jolla, CA 92093-0319 USA Spin manipulating vector and tensor polarized deuterons stored in COSY* V.S. Morozov(1), A.D. Krisch(1), M.A. Leonova(1), R.S. Raymond(1), D. W. Sivers(1), V.K. Wong(1); K. Yonehara(2); R. Gebel(3), A. Lehrach(3), B. Lorentz(3), R. Maier(3), A. Schnase(3), H. Stockhorst(3); D. Eversheim(4), F. Hinterberger(4), H. Rohdjess(4), K. Ulbrich(4); W. Scobel(5) Spin Physics Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1120, USA Dept. of Biology, Chemistry, and Physics, Illinois Inst. of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616, USA Forschungszentrum Jülich, Inst. für Kernphysik, Postfach 1913, D-52425 Jülich, Germany Helmholtz Inst. für Strahlen-Kernphysik, Univ. Bonn, Nussallee 14-16, D-53115 Bonn, Germany Inst. für Experimentalphysik, Univ. Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany A Molecular Dynamics Study of the Screening of Nuclear Reactions inside the Sun Katie Mussack, Dan Mao, and Werner Dappen University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 90089-1342, U.S.A. Vibrational energy relaxation of H2O and HOD in D2O Yoonsoo Pang, Zhaohui Wang, and Dana D. Dlott School of Chemical Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL First identification of gamma rays in the nucleus 92Pd O.L. Pechenaya, C.J. Chiara, D.G. Sarantites, W. Reviol, R.J. Charity Washington University, St Louis, MO 63130 M.P. Carpenter, R.V.F. Janssens, D. Seweryniak, S. Zhu Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439 L.-L. Andersson, E.K. Johansson, D. Rudolph Lund University, S-22100 Lund, Sweden Growth of Tl-2201 Single Crystals Darren Peets, Ruixing Liang, Doug Bonn, Walter Hardy and Mati Raudsepp University of British Columbia Yttrium Oxide Epitaxial Films Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy for Optical Devices Shawn Penson, Alex Oleinik, Raveen Kumaran, Michael B.Whitwick Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, Canada, V6T 1Z4 Interaction of He2 on HeN Droplet Surfaces Raghuram Petluri* and Jan Northby Department of Physics, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA Synthesis of aligned Single-walled carbon nanotubes with Ethanol Chemical Vapor Deposition Alfonso Reina, Mario Hoffman, Jing Kong Tecnológico de Monterrey Space/Time, Supernovae and the CMB L. Riofrio James Cook University A Diquark Interpretation of the Structure and Energies of Hadrons Alexander Selem University of California, Berkeley Performance of AMANDA-II using Transient Waveform Recorders Andrea Silvestri University of California, Irvine Raman Spectroscopy of Organic and Biomedical Molecules and Processes Arnold Burger, Fisk University, G. Turner, Y. Cui, V. Alexander, I. Smith, A. Sease, Z. Pan, M. Guo, T. Yan, S. Morgan Fisk University Yin Yeh University of California, Davis Application of microfluidics to high resolution measurements of stress-induced luminescence in the marine dinoflagellate Lingulodinium polyedrum Virginia VanDelinder1, Michelle Bovard2, Michael Latz3, Alexander Groisman1 1Department of Physics, UCSD, La Jolla, CA 2Mechanical Engineering Department, UCSD, La Jolla, CA 3Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA Condensed Matter Cuiyun Wang Georgia Institute of Technology Understanding KamLAND's Detector Response: Instrumentation for KamLAND's Full- Volume Calibration System L. Winslow for the KamLAND Collaboration University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Search for Quark-lepton Compositeness in the Dimuon Channel Nguyen Phuoc Xuan University of Notre Dame