Virtual Press Room 2006

The APS March Meeting is the biggest physics meeting of the year anywhere. It is a showcase for cutting-edge research results that frequently lead to new electronic, communications, computer, and medical diagnosis products that have done so much to shape modern science and culture.
> For more information, read the general press release (PDF).

March meeting press events took place at the Baltimore Convention Center.
> Read more about press conferences at the 2006 March Meeting (PDF).
> See also additional meeting topics (PDF).

Author-Written Summaries

• The healing mechanism for excited molecules near metallic surfaces, A29.1
• Impact of Helicobacter Pylori on Mucus Rheology, B29.8
• Self-guiding of 100 TW Femtosecond Laser Pulses in Centimeter-scale Underdense Plasma, N43.12
• Some Thoughts Regarding Practical Quantum Computing, W40.15
• Magnetic Fields Create Artificial Gravity Chamber for Microorganisms, B29.3
• The Dynamical Evolution of Seizures: Discriminating Spatiotemporal Patterns in Neurons, Z7.3
• How to Distinguish between Cancer and Normal Cells: a Physicist's View, V26.1
• Towards the Fountain of Youth: Recovery of Elasticity of Aged Epithelial Cells, C1.131
• Abundance of Pseudoknots in the RNA World, B26.9
• Electrical Properties of Atom Wires Unraveled, B9.1
• Vortex-like light states help create a new kind of qubit for quantum information processing, B43.13
• Fluorescence microscopy studies of the antifreeze proteins, K29.11 and K29.12
• The Scaling Laws of Human Travel - A Message from George, Z28.4
• Large interaction between two light pulses traveling at equally slow velocities, N43.1
• Elucidating the nature of the Bose-Einstein condensate observed in cold fermionic gases when fermionic atoms are strongly paired, A43.3
• STM Manipulation of Nanoscale Biological Molecules, D9.5
• A Device for Tracking a Single Nanometer-Sized Particle in 3D with Nanometer Resolution and Millisecond Response Time, G26.8
• The Structure of Parasites in Food Webs, R28.9
• Energy Dependence of Biological Systems Under Radiation Exposure, G29.6, G29.7, and G29.9
• A Snake’s Perspective on Heat: How to Reconstruct Imperfect Detection of Infrared Radiation, Y26.3
• March Madness in Quantum Gases: New Phases and Exotic Fractal Behavior of Atoms in Optical Lattices, R43.6

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