Fall 2004

Undergraduate Students

Adam Aurisano, Richard Arnowitt, Teruki Kamon, David Toback, Peter Wagner
Signals in the Co-annihilation Region of Supersymmetry at the LHC
Research adviser: David Toback

Benjamin T. King, M. Amin Kayali, Wayne M. Saslow
Hysteresis of Two Inequivalent Planar Magnets with Anisotropy
Research adviser: Wayne Saslow

Graduate Students

Andrea M. Burzo, Alexei Sokolov
Additive Raman Technique for Generation and Control of Single Cycle Pulses
Research adviser: A. V. Sokolov

Elena Kuznetsova, Roman Kolesov, Olga Kocharovskaya
Suppression of excited-state absorption in laser crystals
Research adviser: Olga Kocharovskaya

Preeti S Yadav
Lateral Adhesive Forces of Sessile Drops and the role of three phase Contact line
Research adviser: Rafael Tadmor

Fall 2003

Michael Pate
[A2.002] Scattering of Charged Particles by Moving Image Charges on a Stationary Conducting Sphere
Michael Pate, Walter Borst (Department of Physics,Texas Tech University, Lubock, TX 79409)

Joseph Lambert
[A5.007] Increase Giant Unilamellar Vesicles (GUV) yield in physiological buffer.
Joseph Lambert, Geoffrey Lambright, Juyang Huang (Department of Physics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409)

Francine Abrego
[B2.008] Diblock Copolymer Patterning on Silicon Substrates
Francine Abrego, Ben Stotts, Jeremy Jarl, Deborah C Koeck, David Donnelly, Heather C. Galloway (Physics - Texas State University - San Marcos), Gary Beall, Chad Booth, Patrick Cassidy (Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas)

Elizabeth Covington
[C1.006] Characterization of Planarized Low-k Dielectrics by Atomic Force Microscopy
Elizabeth Covington, Eric Botello, Wayne Stalsworth, James McDonald, Daniel White, Christine Williams, Michael Arthur, Deborah C. Koeck, David Donnelly, Heather Galloway (Department of Physics, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas)

Jason L. McAfee
[[D2.005] Nitrogen and N,H Complexes in Silicon
Jason L. McAfee, S.K. Estreicher (Department of Physics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409)

Rayburn Thomas
[D3.005] Radiation Hardness of Optical Fibers
Rayburn Thomas (Department of Physics,Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409)

Fall 2002

Gioel Calabrese
[C1.007] Constraint-preserving boundary conditions in numerical relativity
GIOEL CALABRESE, LUIS LEHNER, MANUEL TIGLIO (Louisiana State University)

Miguel Castro-Colin
[A2.007] Grazing-incidence measurement of amorphous structure modulation in thin film
SiO_2 on Si(001)
M. CASTRO-COLIN, W. DONNER, S.C. MOSS (Dep. of Physics, University of Houston, Texas, 77204-5005), R.J. NEMANICH (Dep. of Physics, N. Carolina State Univ., N. Carolina 27695), Z. ISLAM, S.K. SINHA (XFD/APS Argonne Nat. Lab., 9700 South Cass Av., Argonne, Illinois 60439)

Gregory W. Sherman
[B2.004] Modulated Light Scattering for Detection of Microscale Particles
G.W. SHERMAN, C.C. BRADLEY (Texas Christian University)

Barry Spurlock
[C3.006] Intercalibration of Photomultiplier Tube Test Benches for ATLAS
BARRY SPURLOCK, KAUSHIK DE (University of Texas at Arlington)

Fall 2001

Magnus Gustafsson
[AD02] Infrared Absorption Spectra of a Gas Mixture of Deuterium Hydride (HD) and Helium
MAGNUS GUSTAFSSON and LOTHAR FROMMHOLD, University of Texas at Austin

Ezra N. Purdy
[BE03] Laser Manipulation of Microscopic Bubbles
EZRA N. PURDY and CURTIS C. BRADLEY, Texas Christian University

Jason C. Hunnell
[BE06] Photodetachment of lithium negative ion (Li- (2s2 1S)) e- -Li(2p) above the Li(2p) threshold
J.C. HUNNELL and S.J. WARD, University of North Texas

Jeffery Gaspard
[DB03] Prospects for Searching for Excited Electron During Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron
JEFFERY GASPARD, DAVID TOBACK, TAMU, EDWARD BOOS, ALEXANDER VOLOGDIN, Moscow State University

Geoffrey Lambright
[DB04] Implementation of Radioactive Sources in Calorimeters Used in High-energy Particle Experiments
GEOFFREY LAMBRIGHT, YAMAN HUSSAIN, NURAL AKCHURIN, Texas Tech University, Lubbock

Felipe Salinas
[DD08] Optical Properties of Natural Melanin
FELIPE SALINAS and DHIRAJ SARDAR, University of Texas at San Antonio

Cristian Pantea
[EA03] b-SiC Formation on Diamond Crystals under High Pressure-High Temperature Conditions
CRISTIAN PANTEA , GEORGIY VORONIN, TADEUSZ WALDEK ZERDA, Texas Christian University

Alan Figueroa
[EC01] A Periodic Table of Elementary Particles
ALLAN FIGUEROA and AKHTAR MAHMOOD, University of Texas Pan American

Fall 2000

Zane Arp
[A1.002] Utilization of Dispersed Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Jet-Cooled Molecules for Fingerprinting Electronic Excited State Vibronic Levels
Zane Arp, Jaan Laane (Texas A & M University, Department of Chemistry, College Station, TX 77843-3012)

K.E. Strecker
[A1.004] Cooling a Bose Fermi Mixture of Lithium Atoms to Quantum Degeneracy
K.E. Strecker, A.G. Truscott, R.G. Hulet (Rice University Houston Texas)

Thomas Sweet
[A1.007] Theoretical and experimental considerations on the efficiency and thermal susceptibility of the standard Nd3+:YVO4 (Yttrium orthovanadate) laser
Thomas Sweet, Dhiraj Sardar (The University of Texas at San Antonio)

Todd Timberlake
[A1.009] Resonance creation and periodic orbits
Todd Timberlake, Linda Reichl (University of Texas at Austin)

Agapi Emmanouilidou
[A2.007] Steering an eigenstate to a destination
Agapi Emmanouilidou (University of Texas at Austin, TX,78712), Xian Geng Zhao (Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100088, China), Ping Ao (Department of Theoretical Physics,Umera University,901 87 Umera,Sweeden), Qian Niu (University of Texas at Austin,TX,78712)

J.M. Steele
[B1.006] Dielectrophoretic Trapping of Gold Nanoshells
J.M. Steele, A.J. Rimberg (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University), J.B. Jackson, N.J. Halas (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University)

Sarah Westcott
[B1.008] Electron-Impurity Interactions in the Relaxation of Hot Electrons in Gold-Gold Sulfide Nanoshells
Sarah Westcott, John Wolfgang, Peter Nordlander, Naomi Halas (Rice University)

Antonios Apostolou
[B3.006] Bubble entrainment from the impact of drops in superfluid ^4He
Antonios Apostolou (Graduate Program in Acoustics, The Pennsylvania State University), Jin H. So, J.D. Maynard (Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University)

Elizabeth Fernandez
[C1.007] Active Galaxies in the Perseus Supercluster
Elizabeth Fernandez (New Mexico Tech)

George Haidar
[C2.009] Aggregation of natural polymer chains
George Haidar, Jun Gao, Xihua Lu, Zhibing Hu (University of North Texas)

Spring 2000

Undergraduate Students

Danielle Rabidas
[A3.07] Study of the Level 1 Trigger Rate for GLAST
Danielle Rabidas, Daniel Suson, Raymond Detiveaux (Texas A & M University-Kingsville)

Zachary Rouse
[A1.14] Design and Construction of a Non-Ferrous Capacitive Pressure Gauge
Zachary Rouse, Stephen R. Savitski, Glenn Agnolet (Texas A & M University)

Graduate Students

Tracy Benninger
[A3.08] Physics with the Initial State Radiation Events at B-Factory Experiments
Tracy L. Benninger, Xinchou Lou (University of Texas at Dallas), William M. Dunwoodie (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)

Will Grigsby
[A1.06] Inelastic Electron Tunneling Spectroscopy of Deuterated Species Using Self Assembling Tunnel Junctions
Will Grigsby (Texas Aamp;M University), Darin Zimmerman (Penn State Altoona College), Glenn Agnolet (Texas A & M University)

K. T. Kapale
[A2.09] Nonequilibrium Master Equation Approach to the Condensate Statistics of an Ideal Bose Gas
K. T. Kapale, V. V. Kocharovsky, M. O. Scully, M. Suhail Zubairy (Department of Physics and Institute for Quantum Studies, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX 77843)

Roman Kolesov
[A2.10] The resolution of gamma-ray laser dilemma
Roman Kolesov (Texas A & M University)

Hatcher Tynes
[B1.01] Polarotaxis in Nature: If they can see it, why can't we?
Hatcher Tynes, George Kattawar (Texas Aamp;M University Department of Physics)

Fall 1999

Undergraduate Students

Martha Navarro
[T22.08] A Semi-Classical Model to Study Nuclear Fragmentation
Martha Navarro (University of Texas at El Paso), Ariel Chernomoretz, Claudio Dorso (Universidad de Buenos Aires), Jorge Lopez (University of Texas at El Paso)

Alexis Thompson
[S12.02] Holographic Grating Relaxation Studies of Molecular Diffusion in a Nematic Liquid Crystal
Alexis L. Thompson, Wesley C. Campbell, Daniel R. Spiegel (Department of Physics, Trinity University)

Graduate Students

Jose Aguilar
[G42.04] Computer Simulations of The Early Stages Formation of Sn-Cu Alloys
Jose Aguilar, Ramon Ravelo (Physics Department and Materials Research Institute, University of Texas at El Paso), Michael Baskes (MST-8, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Zane Arp
[H54.03] Spectroscopic Investigations of the Ground and Electronic Excited States of Indan
Zane Arp, Sachie Sakurai, Kevin Morris, Jaan Laane (Texas A&M University)

Ethan Honda
[S13.06] Oscillons and the Fine Structure of the non-linear Klein Gordon equation
Ethan Honda, Matthew Choptuik (Center for Relativity, The University of Texas at Austin)

James Lancaster
[F36.03] Spin-dependent studies of interactions between electron-spin-polarized He^+ ions and CO_2-covered surfaces
J.C. Lancaster, F.J. Kontur, F.B. Dunning, G.K. Walters (Physics Department and the Rice Quantum Institute, Rice University, 6100 S. Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005)

Windell Oskay
[H54.06] Recovering the Classical Limit with Noise in the Quantum Kicked Rotor
W.H. Oskay, V. Milner, D.A. Steck, M.G. Raizen (The University of Texas at Austin

Spring 1999

No meeting was held

Fall 1998 Winners

Graduate Students

Rainer Appel
[CB.08] Application of Raman Micro-imaging in Characterization of Polymers
Rainer Appel and T. W. Zerda, Texas Christian University, Forth Worth, Texas

Dae-il Choi
[CA.03] Dynamical Study of 3D Boson Stars
Dae-Il Choi and M. W. Choptuik, The University of Texas at Austin

Ricardo Claps
[CB.07] Raman Spectroscopy with High Power DiodeLasers
Ricardo Claps, The University of Texas at Austin

Scott Hawley
[CA.02] Multi-Scalar Stars and Their Relation to Critical Phenomena of Perturbed Boson Stars
Scott Hawley and Mathew Choptuik, Center for Relativity, The University of Texas at Austin

Juan Lara
[CA.07] Methods of Calculating the Neutrino Heating Effect in Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
Juan Lara, Center for Relativity, The University of Texas at Austin

David Neilsen
[CA.05] Critical Collapse of Perfect Fluids
David Neilsen and M. W. Choptuik, Center for Relativity, The University of Texas at Austin

Moonsuk Seon
[CB.06] Raman Studies of Heavily Carbon Doped GaAs
Moonsuk Seon, M. Holtz, Texas Tech University, Lubbock; W. M. Duncan, T. S. Kim, Texas Instruments, Dallas

Rusty Towell
[BC.06] Measurement of the Flavor Asymmetry in the Nucleon Sea
Rusty Towell, Abilene Christian University, NuSea/Fermilab E866 Collaboration

Jagoda Urban-Klaehn
[CB.01] Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy of Rocks
Jagoda M. Urban-Klaehn and C. A. Quarles, Texas Christian University, Forth Worth

Spring 1998

Undergraduate Students

Martin Holt, Rice University, "Electronic Properties of V2O3 near a Mott Transition."

James Smith, Texas A&M University, "Modeling Financial Data as an Ergodic System."

T. B. Sweet, University of Texas San Antonio, "Optical and laser characteristics of Pyromethene BF2 dye in solid plastic host."

Graduate Students

Yandong Chen, University of North Texas, "Synthesis and Characterization of Er-doped Si Nanocrystals."

Kevin Morris, Texas A& M University, "Instrumentation for the Measurement of LIF and REMPI Spectroscopy of Jet-Cooled Molecules."

Fall 1997

Undergraduate Students

Chris J. Bednar, Texas A&M University, "Optical Pumping in High-F Magnetic Systems"

J. L. Hastings, Texas Tech University, "The Interaction of Hydrogen with Vacancy Clusters in Silicon"

Phil McJunkins, Texas A&M University, "Computer Analysis and Modeling of an Eclipsing Binary Star"

Jordi Mompart, Texas A&M University, "Quantum-jump approach to amplification without inversion in closed three-level systems"

Remus Nicolaescu, Texas A&M University, "Linewidth Narrowing of a Pulsed Alexandrite laser using intracavity phase modulation"

T. D. Sauncy, Texas Tech University, "Excitation Intensity Dependent Photoluminescence Studies of (100(- and (111(-grown In 0.22Ga 0.78As/GaAs strained single quantum wells"

Hami E. Teal, University of North Texas, "Development of Hydrophobic Interaction Chromatography Based on Temperature Sensitive Gels"

Jagoda Mary Urban, Texas Christian University, "Doppler Broadening and Residual Gas Measurements of Rocks as a Function of Temperature"

Spring 1997

Undergraduate Students

J. M. Clewell , University of North Texas, poster CC9, "Diamond Thin-film Thermionic Generator"

Frederick Gray, Rice University, paper CA2, "Neural network search for rare kaon decay events"

Graduate Student

Z. J. Qu , Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, paper CB5, "Magneto-transport Properties in Ag-doped YBCO 110-film"

Fall 1996

Zane Arp, Texas A&M University, "Vibrational Spectra and Pseudorotation of 1,3 Dithiolane and Tetrahydrothiophene."

A. W. Bigelow , University of North Texas, "A Compact Electrostatic Quadrupole Triplet Lens for a 200 kV Accelerator."

R. Coronado , University of Texas El Paso, "Signal Analysis Techniques for Gravity Wave Detection and Verification in Spacecraft Tracking Data."

D. R. Flanders , University of North Texas, "Experimental Investigation of Porous N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPA) Gels."

Chuguang He , Texas Tech University, "Madelung Energy Correction for Cluster Calculations of Defects in Compound Semiconductors."

L. Liu , Texas Tech University, "A Modified Single Photounting Technique for Determining Fluorescence Decay Times with Beta-Particle Sources."

C. A. Qualls , Texas A&M University-Commerce, "Spectral Analysis of Sonic Transducers Using Impulse Response Techniques."

K. F. Stephens , University of North Texas, "Space-Charge Saturated Electron Emission from a Plasma-Facing Material Surface"

Darin T. Zimmerman , Texas A&M University, "The Self-Assembling Tunnel Junction - An Adjustable Microscopic Junction for Vibrational Spectroscopy."

Spring 1996

Undergraduate Students

Alfredo Aranda , UT El Paso, "Phase space correlations in nuclear fragmentation."

Anne Mitchell , UT San Antonio, "Spectroscopic properties of YAG:Cr3+, Tm3+, Ho3+."

Graduate Students

Amir Azordegan , U North Texas, "Charge state dependence of L-shell x-ray production cross section for 4-14 Mev oxygen ions on 29Cu."

Kevin Morris , Texas A&M U, "Jet-cooled fluorescence spectra and carbonyl wagging of 2-chlorocyclopentanone."

Raymond Nazzario , Baylor U, "Dust bands of the planet Mars."

E. G. Roth , U North Texas, "Profiling hydrogen in materials using ion beams."

Fall 1995

Scott V. Franklin , UT Austin, "Plasticity and the motion of dislocations through a discrete lattice"

S. Liu , Texas Tech U., "Infrared and optical investigation of hydrogenated amorphous carbon (a-C:H) and its alloys (a-C:H4N3F)"

E. Parkey , U. North Texas, "Mechanism for the formation of mounds and pits on gold using scanning tunneling microscopy"

T. Sauncy , Texas Tech U., "Temperature dependent lifetime and press ure studies of self-activated photoluminescence in doped GaAs"

Mark Sosebee , UT Austin, "Searches for supersymmetry with the D0 de tector" ;

S. F. Yelin , Max Planck Institut fur Quantenoptik and TAMU, "Quantum corrections to the Lorentz-Lorentz formula"

D. Young , Texas Tech U., "Study of slow wave structures in a backward wave oscillator."

Spring 1995

Undergraduate Students

D. Brain , Rice University, "Effect of Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 on the Jovian magnetosphere."

Robert Haaser , University of Dallas, "Analysis of potential health h azard near power-lines."

Steven Stubblefield , UT San Antonio, "Spectroscopic characterization of Bamgar:Nd33D (2 at. wt. %), a potential laser material."

Graduate Students

Dan Bruton , Texas A&M University, "The collision of comet Shoemaker -Levy 9 with Jupiter."

Neil Koone , Texas Christian University, : "Temperature dependence and surface modification effects of acetone diffusion within porous sol-gel silica glass"

Paul Sagear , Texas A&M University, "Ring-bending and carbonyl inversi on potential energy functions of jet-cooled 3-cyclopenten-1-one in its S1(n,E3*) electro nic excited state by laser induced fluorescence excitation."

John Wolfgang , East Texas State University, "First and second hyperpolarizabilities of liquid crystal molecules."