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Of the American Physical Society 73Rd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the APS Thursday - Saturday, November 9 - 11, 2006 Williamsburg, Virginia BULLETIN of the American Physical Society 73rd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the APS Thursday - Saturday, November 9 - 11, 2006 Williamsburg, Virginia Jefferson Lab - Aerial View Sir Christopher Wren Building © 2002 Dr. Ellen K. Rudolph November 2006 Volume 5, No. 8 Meeting Bulletin Sessions Directory SESSION BA Solid State NMR - Invited Session.................6 SESSION GB Biophysics ....................................................27 Thursday, November 9, 2006 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM Friday, November 10, 2006 8:00 AM - 9:48 AM SESSION BB Nuclear Physics I ...........................................7 SESSION GC Poster Session.............................................29 Thursday, November 9, 2006 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM Friday, November 10, 2006 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM SESSION BC Atomic, Molecular, Optical .............................9 SESSION HA Jefferson Lab: Plans for the Future Thursday, November 9, 2006 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM - Invited Session ..........................................34 Friday, November 10, 2006 10:15 AM - 12:03 PM SESSION CA Jefferson Lab: The First Ten Years - Invited Session ..........................................2 SESSION HB Gravity / Astrophysics ..................................35 Thursday, November 9, 2006 10:45 AM - 12:33 PM Friday, November 10, 2006 10:15 AM - 12:03 PM SESSION CB Materials I ....................................................3 SESSION HC Materials II ...................................................36 Thursday, November 9, 2006 10:45 AM - 12:33 PM Friday, November 10, 2006 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM SESSION CC Theory, General ...........................................5 SESSION JA Tour of Jefferson Lab ...................................39 Thursday, November 9, 2006 10:45 AM - 12:45 PM Friday, November 10, 2006 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM SESSION DA Bio/Nanophysics - Invited Session ..............7 SESSION KA SESAPS Business Meeting .........................39 Thursday, November 9, 2006 2:00 PM - 3:48 PM Friday, November 10, 2006 5:30 PM - 6:15 PM SESSION DB Recent Advances in High Energy Physics SESSION LA SESAPS Banquet Speaker..........................39 - Invited Session ..........................................8 Friday, November 10, 2006 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM Thursday, November 9, 2006 2:00 PM - 3:48 PM SESSION MA Rising Above the Gathering Storm SESSION DC Nuclear Physics II ........................................8 - Invited Session ..........................................40 Thursday, November 9, 2006 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Saturday, November 11, 2006 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM SESSION EA Searching for Gravitational Waves SESSION MB Nuclear Physics III .......................................4 - Invited Session ..........................................2 Saturday, November 11, 2006 8:30 AM - 10: 18 AM Thursday, November 9, 2006 4:15 PM - 6:15 PM SESSION MC High Energy Physics II.................................42 SESSION EB High Energy Physics I..................................22 Saturday, November 11, 2006 8:30 AM - 10:18 AM Thursday, November 9, 2006 4:15 PM - 5:39 PM SESSION NA Astronomy and Astrophysics SESSION EC Nanoscience ................................................23 - Invited Session ..........................................45 Thursday, November 9, 2006 4:15 PM - 6:15 PM Saturday, November 11, 2006 10:45 AM - 12:45 PM SESSION FA Energy Challenges for the 2st Century SESSION NC Physics Teaching .........................................46 - Invited Session ..........................................25 Saturday, November 11, 2006 10:45 AM - 12:45 PM Thursday, November 9, 2006 8:00 PM - 9:40 PM SESSION P Graduate School Opportunities ...................47 SESSION GA Recent Advances in Neutrino Physics Saturday, November 11, 2006 12:45 PM - 2:00 PM - Invited Session ..........................................26 Friday, November 10, 2006 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM On the cover: The two photos depict scenes from our two host institutions for SESAPS06. The Sir Christopher Wren Building on The College of William and Mary campus is the oldest academic building in continuous use in the United States. It was constructed between 1695 and 1699, before Williamsburg was founded and when the capital of the colony of Virginia was still located nearby at Jamestown. Coden BAPSA6 ISSN: 0003-0503 Series II, Vol. 51, No. 8 November 2006 The aerial photograph of the CEBAF accelerator site at The Copyright 2006 by the American Physical Society Thomas Jefferson Laboratory shows clearly the racetrack shape of the underground accelerating ring (560 meters along its long axis), and at the bottom of the photo three circular, green grassy mounds above the three underground experimental halls. 2 SESAPS 2006 Preamble of the 73rd Annual Southeastern Section Meeting of the APS SESAPS 2006 November 9-11, 2006 Williamsburg, Virginia General Information Nuclear physics – Our meeting this year in Williamsburg The 73rd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of affords the opportunity to become more familiar with the the American Physical Society will be held November 9- research activities of the neighboring Thomas Jefferson 11, 2006 (Thursday-Saturday) at the Williamsburg Hospi- National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, which be- tality House in Williamsburg, Virginia. It will be co-hosted came operational for physics measurements a decade ago. there by The College of William & Mary and the Thomas Electron beams of up to 6 GeV from this accelerator have Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. Detailed, up-to-date enabled highly sensitive studies of the quark-gluon sub- information about the meeting can be found at http://con- structure of nucleons and nuclei. Two sessions of invited ferences.jlab.org/SESAPS/index.html. Williamsburg and talks on Thursday and Friday mornings will highlight JLab the surrounding Tidewater Virginia area are the location research. Talks in the first session focus on how Jefferson of noted sites of historical and tourist interest. Information Lab was developed by regional scientists, and on research about these attractions can be found on the meeting hotel highlights which have emerged from the nuclear physics website or from the Williamsburg Chamber of Commerce. program and from an allied beam physics and materials studies program enabled by a unique, high-powered free- Scientific Program electron laser. The second session focuses on plans and A stimulating program of invited and contributed talks on experimental motivation for a recently approved upgrade of forefront research topics is outlined by abstracts on the fol- the accelerator and associated experimental equipment to lowing pages of this Bulletin. Invited talk program highlights enable studies with beams of energy up to 2 GeV. are: Physics and society - On Thursday evening, a plenary ses- Astrophysics - One of the most advanced US physics lab- sion will focus on the societal challenges which loom as oratories is the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave growing global economies and populations face energy Observatory (LIGO), which has one of its two detectors in limits imposed by the coming era of peak oil production. Livingston, LA. Talks on Thursday afternoon will highlight The Friday evening banquet speaker will highlight efforts the status of the search for gravitational waves with LIGO, being spearheaded by scientists in the Southeast to utilize the astrophysics questions being investigated there, and widening arrays of networked sensors and rapidly advanc- future plans for improving LIGO’s sensitivity. Already LIGO ing technologies of grid computing for real-time modeling of can detect dimensional changes smaller than the size of an the enormous coastal hurricanes which periodically threat- atomic nucleus, and further improvements in its detection en our region. systems are being planned. A subsequent Saturday morn- ing session is designed to acquaint non-experts with cur- Physics workforce education – A recent National Academy rent forefront research in astronomy and astrophysics, with report, Rising Above The Gathering Storm: Energizing and talks describing searches for planets outside our solar sys- Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future, sug- tem, for sources of cosmic gamma ray bursts, and describ- gests an urgent need to train the nation’s future scientific ing new studies of active galactic nuclei and cosmic rays. workforce, to enable continued US economic competitive- ness. In a Saturday morning session, an introduction to Condensed matter physics - Attendees should find particu- the topic will be provided by the Deputy Staff Director for larly interesting invited talk sessions on solid state nuclear the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, magnetic resonance and on recent advances which are who will also discuss the FY07 federal budget response to enabling biophysics studies on nanoscale-sized systems. this report. Others will then address issues of best prac- These sessions are scheduled on Thursday morning and tices in educating and training physicists, how many physi- afternoon, respectively. Another talk of particular interest to cists are in the academic pipeline and where they go after this community will be a Thursday morning overview of a they graduate, and outreach programs which are trying to new class of physics and materials experiments enabled engage pre-college students in physics-related activities. by the Jefferson Laboratory kilowatt-class high average- power, sub-picosecond free-electron laser, covering the Information for Speakers mid-infrared spectral region.
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