APS OHIO-MICHIGAN MEETING
Session Title: Poster Session
Chairperson: Wolfgang Bauer
Chair's Affiliation: Michigan State University
Chair's Email: Bauer@pa.msu.edu
Start Time: 17:30 p.m.
Date: Friday, April 11, 2003
Room: Centennial Rooms at Kellogg Center
Poster
1.	20005	Sergei F. Lyuksyutov	Electronic breakdown insluence on AFMEN nanolithography in thin polymer films
2.	20021	S. Burcin Bayram	Polarization Spectroscopy of Rydberg State Diatomic Molecules
3.	20033	Michael Crosser	Manipulating Distribution Functions to Control the pi-State in a SNS Josphson Junction
4.	10014	Ben Yu-Kuang Hu	Theory of frictional drag in bilayers with non-spherical fermi surfaces
5.	10025	Mellita Caragiu	The Study of Colloidal Crystals by Diffraction Employing Visible Electromagnitic Radiation
6.	10034	Stuart Tessmer	Modelling electric-field-sensitive SPM measurements for a tip of arbitrary shape
7.	10035	Stuart Tessmer	STM Observation of Sub-Surface Defect States in Narrow Gap Semiconductors
8.	20024	Timothy Peshek	Quantum Computing using Electrons on Liquid Helium
9.	10018	R. W. Brown	Group Theory and MRI Designs
10.	10017	R. W. Brown	Making SENSE out of MRI Coils
11.	10013	William Theisen	Results from the O.N.U. Dusty Plasma Experiment
12.	10012	William Theisen	The O.N.U. Dusty Plasma Experiment
13.	10009	Miron Kaufman	Advection and Mixing in a Rectangular Channel Flow
14.	20030	Slava Rotkin	Time evolution for the entropy of entanglement between two carbon nanotubes
15.	20028	Hilma DeVasconcelos	Displacement operator in optical quantum computing
16.	10023	Gordon Aubrecht	Getting students to come to grips with the meaning of division
17.	10001	Bruce Reed	Configuration-Interaction Integrals Without Group Theory
18.	10006	Mellita Caragiu	Simulation of Spiral Density Waves with Rotating, Shallow Water
19.	10027	Jarrod Schiffbauer	Model Detectors in Quantum Mechanics: Why the Wavefunction Appears to Collapse
Session Title: Nonlinear and Quantum Optics
Chairperson: Joseph Finck
Chair's Affiliation: Central Michigan University
Chair's Email: Finck@phy.cmich.edu
Start Time: 8:00 a.m.
Date: Saturday, April 12, 2003
Room: 1308 Biomedical Physical Sciences Building
Contributed Presentation
1.	10005	Marcos Dantus	Femtosecond Four-Wave Mixing for Molecule Based Computation
2.	10008	Samir Bali	An Investigation of Radiation Trapping in Cold Atoms
3.	20017	Perry Rice	Optical Data Storage in Photorefractive Barium Titanate
4.	20003	Kofi Nuroh	Role of Autoionization and Characteristic Decay in Core-Electron Energy-Loss Spectra in Rare-Earth Metals
5.	10028	Perry Rice	Nonclassical Intensity Cross Correlations in Cavity Quantuelectrodynamics
6.	20011	Perry Rice	Photon Statistics of a Cavity QED Systems with Quantized Center of Mass Motion
Session Title: Nuclear, Particle, Astrophysics
Chairperson: Vladimir Zelevinsky
Chair's Affiliation: Michigan State University
Chair's Email: zelevinsky@nscl.msu.edu
Start Time: 8:00 a.m.
Date: Saturday, April 12, 2003
Room: 3280 Biomedical Physical Sciences Building
Contributed Presentation
1.	20016	Graham Peaslee	Development of an Ion Beam Analysis Technique to Quantify Gel Electrophoresis
2.	20034	Catherine Mader	Beam Geometry & Luminosity Model for Radio Emission of Pulsars
3.	20022	Graham Peaslee	209Bi(6HE, alpha) Reaction Mechanisms Studied Near the Coulomb Barrier Using n-alpha Coincidence Measurements
4.	20002	Carlos Bertulani	Fingerprints of Entangled States in Reactions with Rare Isotopes
5.	20026	Declan Mulhall	Random Interactions, Order and Symmetry in a Simple Many-Fermion System
6.	10029	Scott Pratt	Discrete Methods for Canonical Ensembles
7.	10031	Gary Westfall	The Balance Function for p+p and Au+Au Collisions at RHIC
8.	10032	Shrihari Gopalakrishna	B-Meson Signatures of Supersymmetry and U(2) Flavor Symmetry
Session Title: Quantum Computing I
Chairperson: Mark Dykman
Chair's Affiliation: Michigan State University
Chair's Email: Dykman@pa.msu.edu
Start Time: 8:00 a.m.
Date: Saturday, April 12, 2003
Room: 1415 Biomedical Physical Sciences Building
Contributed Presentation
1.	20029	Roberto Ramos Ramos	Spectroscopy of Macroscopic Quantum States of Two Capacitively-Coupled Junctions
2.	20025	Jiming Bao	Optical Generation of Many-Spin Entangled States in a Quantum Well
3.	10011	Carlo Piermarocchi	Optical Control of Spin-Spin Interaction in Semiconductors
4.	10002	Sabre Kais	Tuning the Entanglement for a 1D Magnetic System with Anisotropic coupling and Impurities
5.	20013	Lea Santos	Localization and Antiresonant Decoupling in Disordered Spin and Qubit Chains
6.	20019	Chitr Rangan	Control of Trapped Ion Qubits using Optical Pulses
7.	10019	Martin Madsen	Towards Micro-Fabricated Ion Trap Quantum Computing
8.	10024	Christopher Monroe	Clean Quantum Logic Gates with Trapped Ions
Session Title: Quantum Computing II
Chairperson: Brage Golding
Chair's Affiliation: Michigan State University
Chair's Email: Golding@pa.msu.edu
Start Time: 8:00 a.m.
Date: Saturday, April 12, 2003
Room: 1420 Biomedical Physical Sciences Building
Contributed Presentation
1.	10004	Thomas Kaplan	Dirac-Heisenberg Spins and the Fermion Entanglement Question
2.	10010	Alexander Volya	Quantum Computer and Dynamics of Open Quantum Many-Body Systems
3.	10015	Scott Glancy	Quantum Computation with Optical Coherent States, Linear Interactions and Superposed Resources
4.	20014	Ulrich Zurcher	Broken Ergodicity in a Rough Energy Landscape
5.	20032	Muzaffer M. Tabanli	Generalized Fourier Tansforms and Isomorphic Hilbert Spaces for Entanglement
Session Title: Physics Education and General Theory
Chairperson: Catherine Mader
Chair's Affiliation: Hope College
Chair's Email: Mader@physics.hope.edu
Start Time: 8:00 a.m.
Date: Saturday, April 12, 2003
Room: 4270 Biomedical Physical Sciences Building
Contributed Presentation
1.	10007	William C. McHarris	Chaos in Quantum Mechanics: Implications for Quantum Information
2.	20009	Michael Harrison	Theory of Auditory Thresholds in Primates
3.	10020	William E. Baylis	The Quantum/Classical Interface: Spin and Qubits
4.	20008	Yikun Zhang	Core-Mantle Mill Theory
5.	10026	William Newby	A Numerical Study of the Entropy Density Function
6.	20036	Chris Clymer	Studying the Sagnac Effect with Ping
7.	10022	Gordon Aubrecht	May the Force Be With You: Student Explanations of Forces on Charges in Magnetic Fields
8.	20012	Chitra Rangan	Quantum Mechanics Without the Hydrogen Atom
9.	20027	Mellita Caragiu	Building Bridges Towards Physics in the Undergraduate Discrete Math Class
Session Title: Materials Physics
Chairperson: Stuart Tessmer
Chair's Affiliation: Michigan State University
Chair's Email: Tessmer@pa.msu.edu
Start Time: 8:00 a.m.
Date: Saturday, April 12, 2003
Room: 1400 Biomedical Physical Sciences Building
Contributed Presentation
1.	20035	Kaden Hazzard	Surprises in Small Silicon Interstitial Clusters
2.	10030	Mihai Horoi	Simulating the Si Cluster Growth Pattern
3.	20031	Bahram Roughani	SEM, EDS, and Raman Spectroscopy Analysis of Carbon Nanotubes and Silicon Carbide Crystals
4.	10021	Herbert Jaeger	Is There a Phase Transition in Zircon?
5.	10036	Stuart Tessmer	Direct Observations of Ordered Structure in a Two-Dimensional Electron System
6.	10016	Donald Hagen	Jet Engine Exit Plane Soot Emissions
Session Title: Polymers
Chairperson: Robert Brown
Chair's Affiliation: Case Western Reserve University
Chair's Email: rwb@po.cwru.edu
Start Time: 8:00 a.m.
Date: Saturday, April 12, 2003
Room: 1425 Biomedical Physical Sciences Building
Contributed Presentation
1.	20018	Fedor Semerianov	Entropy Crisis as the Guiding Force for the Glass Transition ina Dimer System
2.	20004	Sergei Lyuksyutov	Resistless AFM-Assisted Nanolithography in Polymer Materials
3.	20023	Kim Coplin	Photoinduced Absorption Studies of Phenyl Disubstitute Polyacetylene
4.	20020	Elizabeth Mann	Molecular Conformation and Dynamics in Ultrathin Polymer Films
5.	20006	Ernst D. von Meerwall	Molecular Mobility in Ultrasonically Devulcanized Unfilled Polybutadiene Rubber
6.	20007	Ernst D. von Meerwall	Transition to Entangled Diffusion in the Alkane-Polyethylene Melt System