Department
of Physics and Astronomy
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University of Rochester, |
Rochester, New
York 14627-0171
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ROCHESTER SYMPOSIUM FOR PHYSICS (ASTRONOMY & OPTICS) STUDENTSSPS Zone 2 Regional MeetingWorld Year of Physics 2005 |
April 9, 2005 |
PROGRAM |
7:45-8:15 |
RSPS Registration:
Bausch and Lomb Lobby Option - tour sign up for the Laboratory of Laseer Energetics Coffee in Room 208 |
8:15-8:30 | Room 109: Welcome,
Prof. Dan Watson, Assistant Chair, RSPS XXIV |
8:30-9:45 |
Room 109: Astrophysics |
Session Chair: Prof. William Forrest,
University of Rochester |
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8:30 | Coronal Mass Ejections
and Forbush Decrease Recovery Robert Penna, Prof. Alice Quillen, University of Rochester |
8:45 |
Emission Line Gas in
Radio Galaxies George Privon, Prof. Christopher O'Dea, Rochester Institute of Technology |
9:00 |
Silicate Emission Features
of Class II Young Stellar Objects Jarron Leisenring, Prof. Dan Watson, University of Rochester |
9:15 |
Accretion Region Variability
Mechanisms in Low Luminosity AGN Grant Tremblay, Prof. Adam Frank, University of Rochester |
9:30 |
A Spitzer Survey of
NGC 2024 and Surrounding Region Kevin Flaherty, Prof. Judy Pipher, and Robert Gutermuth, University of Rochester and Prof. S. Thomas Megeath, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
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8:30-9:45 |
Room 106: Particles and Nuclei Physics |
Session Chair: Prof. Mark Yuly, Houghton
College |
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8:30 | The Liftime of Orthopositronium Blake Winter, Prof. Mark Yuly, Houghton College |
8:45 | Neutron-deuteron Scattering
as a Probe of the Three-Nucleon Force Christopher Wells, Prof. Mark Yuly, Houghton College |
9:00 | Band Crossing in Shape
Transition Nuclei 111,109Ru Daniel Riley, State University of New York at Geneseo, Prof. Douglass Cline, University of Rochester |
9:15 | Aqueous Scintillation
Development and Testing David Martell, Prof. Kevin McFarland, University of Rochester |
9:30 | Calculating the Magnetic
Moment of Cosmic-Ray Muons Ian Kleckner, Prof. Kevin McFarland, University of Rochester |
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9:45-10:30 | Room 109: Earth and Planetary Physics |
Session Chair: Prof. David Douglass,
University of Rochester |
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9:45 | Is the Arctic Melting? Matthew MacWilliams, St. John Fisher College, and Prof. David Douglass, University of Rochester |
10:00 |
Seismic Waveform Modeling:
Analysis of the Velocity Structure of the Outer Core Lindsey Goodman, Binghamton University, Prof. Lianxing Wen, State University of New York at Stony Brook |
10:15 |
Studies of Terrestrial
and Planetary Rado Emissions Justin Waterman, Prof. Allan T. Weatherwax, Siena College, Prof. James LaBelle, Dartmouth College |
9:45-10:30 | Room 106: Atoms and Molecules |
Session Chair: Prof. John Howell, University
of Rochester |
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9:45 | Lowdin Population Analysis
and Rotational Invariance George Bruhn, University of Rochester, Prof. Aurora Clark, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
10:00 |
Coating of Stainless
Steel Cells in an Attempt to Prolong the Polarization of Optically Pumped Rubidium Sean Gill, Michael Wickham, and Prof. Mark Rosenberry, Siena College |
10:15 |
Absorption Imaging
of Ultracold Cesium in a Magneto-Optical Trap Brian Anderson, Michael Holmes and Prof. Nicholas Bigelow, University of Rochester |
10:30-11:00 |
Room 208: Poster
Session and Break |
Capturing Air Flows
with Low-cost Schlieren Video Matthew Waters, Timothy Brackbill, and Prof. Scott Franklin, Rochester Institute of Technology |
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11:00-12:00 |
Room 109: Complex
Systems I |
Session Chair: Prof. Scott Franklin,
Rochester Institute of Technology |
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11:00 |
Connected Networks,
Jammed States, and Force Fluctuations in Prolate Granular Materials Kenneth Desmond, Prof. Scott Franklin, Rochester Institute of Technology |
11:15 |
Superconductor Degradation
Studies Amber Beckley, Binghamton University, Prof. Xiaoxing Xi, A.V. Pogrebnyakov, Pennsylvania State University, and Prof. R. Donovan, Reed College |
11:30 |
Twinning in Metallic
Alloys Richard Bell, Prof. Eric Cotts, Binghamton University |
11:45 |
The
Effect of Annealing on Magnetic Measurements of Granular Thin
Films of Cu80Co20 Fionnbarr O'Grady, Nam Kim, Jordan Peck, and Prof. Jian Wang, Binghamton Universtiy |
11:00-12:00 |
Room 106: Particle Physics and Detectors |
Session Chair: Dr. David Rainwater,
University of Rochester |
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11:00 |
The Effect of Tower
Threshold on Jet Response, Efficiency and Fate Rate at Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) James Dolen, Christopher Justus, and Prof. Regina Demina, University of Rochester |
11:15 |
The Effects of Production-Level
Radiation on Top Quark Mass Calculation George Bruhn, Prof. Lynne Orr, University of Rochester |
11:30 |
Simulation of Top Quark
Pair Production as Background for Higgs Events at the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Christopher Justus, James Dolen, and Prof. Regina Demina, University of Rochester |
11:45 |
Radiation
Damage Caused by 4He Charged Ions from Radioisotopes
in CR-39 Plastic Detector Robert Poltis, Jeffry Walker, Prof. Gurmukh Singh, and Prof. James Lauffenburger, Canisius College |
12:00-1:00 |
Lunch - The Meliora,
Salon D |
1:00-2:00 | EVERYONE Room 109: World Year Physics 2005 - Special Guest
Speaker |
Introduction: Prof. Arie Bodek, University of Rochester | |
Why Einstein? Why 2005? Dr. Gary White, Director of the Society of Physics Students, American Institute of Physics |
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2:00-3:15 | Room 109: Complex Systems II and Science Education |
Session Chair: Prof. Richard Mancuso,
State University of New York at Brockport |
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2:00 | Chaos in Resistor-Inductor-Diode
Circuit Joseph Murphy, Prof. Richard Mancuso, and Prof. Mohammed Tahar, State University of New York at Brockport |
2:15 | Avalanches in Granular
Materials: A Review of the Literature Scott Barker, Prof. Scott Franklin, Rochester Institute of Technology |
2:30 | 3D Avalanching of Rod-like
Granular Materials Walter Hopkins, Prof. Scott Franklin, Rochester Institute of Technology |
2:45 |
Investigating Student Writing in Physics
Classes Lars Schweidenback, Prof. Scott Franklin, Rochester Institute of Technology |
3:00 |
Y12.00007:
Search for Strange-Charmed Pentaquark States in the 1.96 TeV ppbar Collison Scott Field, Prof. Arie Bodek, University of Rochester |
2:00-3:00 | Room 106: Optics and Fields |
Session Chair: Prof. Miguel Alonso,
University of Rochester |
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2:00 | Viewing Atmospheric
Disturbances Using Speckle Cadet Venkat Motupalli, Cadet David Farrar, and Major Louis Florence, United States Military Academy, West Point |
2:15 | Resolving the Phase
Ambiguity in Continuous-Wave Sonar Devin Grady, Prof. Michael O'Grady, State University of New York at Fredonia |
2:30 |
Frequency Dependent
Dielectrics and the Casimir Effect Cadet Jennifer Sabino, Dr. Mitch Pfenning, United States Military Academy, West Point |
2:45 |
Adaptive Integration
of Highly Oscillatory Functions Samuel Wadsworth, Prof. Miguel Alonso, University of Rochester |
3:00 - 3:15 | Refreshment to Go,
Bausch and Lomb Hall Lobby |
Option- Tour of
the Laboratory of Laser Energetics (signup requested at arrival) |
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3:00
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Cars should leave for
Laboratory for Laser Energetics |