CALIFORNIA SECTION
DECEMBER MEETING
December 3 – 4,
2004
The final schedule is posted below. The abstracts can be found at the abstract book.
The Harvey Mudd campus is located in Claremont. The regional map can be found at http://www.hmc.edu/campus/directions/. The college is between the 10 and 210 freeways, east of the 57 freeway. A map of the Harvey Mudd College campus can be found at http://www.hmc.edu/campus/campus-map/. The meeting will be held in Galileo Hall. The banquet will be held in the Green Room in Platt Hall.
There is free parking in the lot off Foothill near Dartmouth (ignore the “Permits required” sign) or on the streets near the campus.
The 2004 Annual meeting of the California of the American Physical Society will be held at Harvey Mudd College, one of the Claremont Colleges, on Friday and Saturday, December 3-4, 2004. Claremont is in the northeast corner of Los Angeles county. Maps will available from the conference website. A block of rooms has been reserved in the Claremont Inn. Registration will be through the website http://www4.hmc.edu:8001/physics/caaps04/form.html. Abstract submission will be through http://abstracts.aps.org/. The meeting identifier is CSF04.
This is a general meeting featuring a wide range of invited talks on topics including outreach, radio astronomy, colloidal clusters, nanoscale science, biophysics, airplane navigation and space weather, dark energy, and the quantum vacuum. Contributed talks and posters are also on a wide range of topics. Students are particularly encouraged to present their work as there will be prizes awarded. In addition, the conference banquet on Friday night will feature Prof. Gregory Benford, UCI and noted author, talking about “A Scientist in Hollywood”.
Friday, December 3, 2004:
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Registration
2:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. #C1 Michael Zwolak, et al, Caltech, “Mixed-state dynamics in one-dimensional quantum lattice systems: a time-dependent superoperator renormalization algorithm”
3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. #C2 Tamara Leskova, et al, UCI, “Interference of two symmetric Collett-Wolf beams”
3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. #C3 Eugenio Mendez, et al, CICESE and UCI, “A two-dimensional random surface that acts as a Collett-Wolf source”
3:45 p.m. –
4:25 p.m. Dayton Jones, JPL “The Fundamental Physics and Astronomy with the Square
Kilometer Array” (abstract)
4:25
p.m. – 5:05 p.m. Nathan
Cook, Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base “Home-Grown: Math,
Science, Engineering, and Technology Outreach in the Antelope Valley” (abstract)
5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. No-host Cocktail Reception
6:00 p.m. Conference Banquet
Saturday, December 4, 2004:
8:00 a.m. Registration, Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m. Town Hall Meeting
10:00 a.m. –
10:40 a.m. Umar Mohideen, UC --
Riverside, “Exploring
the Quantum Vacuum through the Casimir Effect” (abstract)
10:40
a.m. – 11:20 a.m. Daniel
Cormier, Raytheon, "Satellite Navigation and the Ionosphere: How to Land
an Airplane in Bad Spaceweather" (abstract)
11:20 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Robijn Bruinsma, UC-Los Angeles
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch Break
1:30 p.m. –
2:10 p.m. Wilson Ho from UC-Irvine on “Nanoscience Viewed by the Scanning Tunneling
Microscope” (abstract)
2:10 p.m. – 2:50
p.m. David Pine, UC-Santa
Barbara on “Colloidal Clusters and Atoms: New Building Blocks
for Self-Assembly” (abstract)
2:50 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Roberto Peccei, UC-Los Angeles on "Particle Physics and
Dark Energy"
3:45
p.m. – 4:00 p.m. #C4 Katherine Perdue, et al, HMC, “Exchange Bias in Spin Valves with Pico-Scale
IrMn Layers”
4:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. #C5 Milo Wolff, et al, “Why were Dirac, Schroedinger,
Mach, and Einstein good friends?”
4:30 – 4:45 p.m. #C6 Michael Zwolak, et al, Caltech, “Simulation of Mixed and Thermal States of One-dimensional Quantum Systems”
4:45 – 5:00 p.m. #C7 Andrew Angus, Absolute Knowledge Foundation, “Elliptical orbit of electron in Hydrogen atom”
#1 David Liao, Harvey Mudd College, “Reduction of the orbital approximation”
#2 Alex Maradudin,
et al, UCI, “Scattering of a Scalar Plane Wave from a Two-Dimensional
Circularly Symmetric Random Dirichlet Surface”
#3 Tamara Leskova,
et al, UCI, “Controlling enhanced backscattering by a dielectric film coating a
randomly rough metal surface”
#4 Alex Maradudin,
et al, UCI, “Surface Plasmon Polariton Microscopy: Near-Field and Far-Field
Optics”
#5 M. Kretschmann,
et al, UCI, “The Scattering of Light
from a Randomly Rough Dielectric Film on a Reflecting Surface”
#6 Tamara Leskova,
et al, UCI, “A Wolf Effect in Rough Surface Scattering”
#7 Meng Sheng, et al, Chalmers University, “Two-dimensional hydration shells of alkali metal ions at a hydrophobic surface”
#8 Anthony Manzo, et al, UCR, “Multiple light scattering effects and their manifestation in
conformational memory effects of membrane-bound photosynthetic Reaction
Centers”
#9 Armando Barranon, et al, UTEP and UAM-Azcapotzalco, “Isoscaling Parameters of HIC”
#10 Sheldon Wang, et al, New Jersey Institute of Technology, “From Immersed Boundary Method to Immersed Continuum Method”
#11 GingGui Hu, Southwest Jiao Tong University, “The Mistakes of the theory of relativity”
The Executive Committee will host this breakfast to facilitate interactions with the members and seek feedback to enhance the role of the section.
Registration will be over the internet at website or on site.
The conference banquet will be held Friday evening at 7:00
p.m. on the Harvey Mudd College campus. A pre-banquet no-host reception will be
held between 6:00 and 7:00 p.m. All registered participants are welcome for
dessert and the after-dinner speech. Gregory
Benford from UC-Irvine will speak (abstract)
on “A Scientist in Hollywood”.
We welcome contributions for talks or poster sessions in all areas of physics. Students are particularly encouraged to submit work since there will be prizes awarded for best posters and presentations. More information will be available on the website.
Abstract Deadline…………………….November 13, 2004
Early registration Deadline………...…November 20, 2004
Banquet reservations………………….November 29, 2004
Meeting ID: CSF04