Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Rochester
Rochester, New York 14627-0171
8:30-9:00
RSPS Registration, Bausch and Lomb Lobby,
Sign-up for Optional Laboratory Tours
Coffee in Room 208
9:00-9:10
Room 106: Welcome, Prof. Paul Tipton, Chair, RSPS XXIII
9:15-10:45
Room 109: ASNY/RSPS Joint Session
Session Chair: Prof. Alice Quillen,
University of Rochester
9:15
Stellar Formation and Spatial Distributions in S171
Kevin
Flaherty, Prof. Judith Pipher, and Robert Gutermuth, University of Rochester
9:30
A Near and Mid-Infrared Study of Young Stellar Cluster S140N
Michael Dunham, Prof. Judith Pipher, University of Rochester
9:45
Characteristic Star Forming Scales in Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies
Evan Flath, Prof. Mary Crone Odekon, Skidmore College
10:00
Near-Infrared Imaging of Young Stellar Objects in rho Ophiuchus
Melissa McClure, Prof. W. Forrest, and Ben Sargent, University
of Rochester
10:15
Better Homes and Gardens on Mars - Terraforming the Red Planet as Science
(Fiction)
Aaron Morris, Prof. Steven Sargent, Union College
10:30
Protoplanet Disks and Eccentric Orbits
Amanda LaPage,
Prof. Alice Quillen, and Peggy Varniere, University of Rochester
9:15-9:45
Room 106: Nuclear, Particle and Accelerator
9:15
Multiplicity and Pseudo-Rapidity
Distributions of 28Si Induced Emulsion Collisions a 14.5A GeV
Patrick Blochle, Prof. Michael J. Voytovich, and Prof.
G. Singh, Canisius College
9:30
Optimization of Storage Ring Optics
Elisa Pueschel, Binghamton University, Prof. David Rubin,
Cornell University
9:45
A 200 keV Electrostatic Accelerator
Peter Brady, Prof. Mark Yuly, Houghton College
10:00-10:45
Room 106: Optical Systems
Session Chair: Prof. Robert
Mancuso, SUNY at Brockport
10:00
A Time Resolved Double Pump-Probe
Experimental Technique to Characterize Excited-State Parameters of Organic
Dyes
Andrew Jensen, Captain Louis Florence, U.S. Army, U.S. Military Academy,
West Point
10:15
Three-Dimensional Optical
Confinement of Microscopic Object a.k.a Optical Tweezers
Patrick Crawford, Prof. Enrique
Galvez, Colgate University
10:30
An Inexpensive Method of Schlieren Imaging
Matthew Waters, Prof. Robert Teese,
Rochester Institute of Technology
10:45-11:15
Room 208: Poster Session and Break
Feasibility Study for Measuring
Three-Nucleon Force Effects in Neutron-Deuteron Breakup
Christopher Wells, Blake Winter, Peter Brady, and Prof.
Mark Yuly, Houghton College
11:15-12:15
Room 109: Complex Systems/Environmental Physics
11:15
Iceland is a Heat Island
Vikas Patel, SUNY at Buffalo, Prof.
David Douglass, University of Rochester
11:30
Dynamics of a Bouncing Elastic Dumbbell
Grayson Ross, Prof. Scott Franklin,
Rochester Institute of Technology
11:45
Dynamics of an Elastic Bouncing Dumbbell on a Periodically Oscillating
Plate
Bill Orr, Prof. Scott Franklin, Rochester
Institute of Technology
12:00
Jamming in a 2D Prolate Granular Material System
Jesus Benhumea, Prof. Scott Franklin,
Rochester Institute of Technology
11:15-12:15
Room 106: Applied Physics
11:15
Test of Ladder-Track Design for Inductrack Magnetic Levitation
David Starling, Becky Lindstrom, Prof.
Michael Grady, Prof. Peter Mattocks, SUNY at Fredonia
11:30
Optical Observation of Plasma Current Sheets
Andrew Collette, University of Rochester, Prof. Walter Gekelman, University
of California, Los Angeles
11:45
GMR Effects in Magnetic Thin Films
Fionnbarr O'Grady, Prof. J.Q. Wang, Binghamton University
12:00
Shear Viscosity Under Shock-Loading Conditions
Zhuohan Liang, University of Rochester,
Prof. Steven Valone,
MST-8, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Los Alamos, NM
12:15-1:15
Lunnch - The Meliora, Salon D
1:30-2:30
Room 106: Condensed Matter and Biophysics
Session Chair: Prof. Beth Parks,
Colgate University
1:30
Incorporating Individual Carbon Nanotubes into a Broadband Antenna
to Measure their High Frequency Response
Anthony Annunziata,
Prof. Beth Parks, Colgate University
1:45
Temperature-Dependent Phase Behavior of a 2-Component Membrane Mixture
Matthew Schutzer, Prof. Jeffrey
Buboltz, Colgate University
2:00
Vortex-Breather Interactions in Superconducting Circuits
Christopher Ritacco,
Prof. Kenneth Segall, Colgate University
1:30-2:15
Room 109: Quantum Mechanical Systems
Session Chair: Prof. Joseph Eberly, University
of Rochester
1:30
Exponentially-Decaying Pertubation in Bound Quantum States
George Bruhn,
Prof. Joseph Eberly, University of Rochester
1:45
Quantum Mechanics Violates Bell Inequalities
Catherine Prueitt, Prof. Joseph Eberly, University
of Rochester
2:00
Liberated Electrons from H-/H Sources in Electric
and Magnetic Fields: A Theoretical Study of Order and Chaos
Andrew McUmber, Binghamton University,
Prof. J.B. Delos and
Prof. K. Mitchell, College of William
and Mary
2:15
Refreshments to Go, Room 208
Optional Tours (signup requested at arrival)
2:45
Cars should leave for Laboratory for Laser Energetics
or
2:45
Research Labs in Bausch and Lomb Building