Out of Equilibrium
2008 Joint fall meeting of the New England Sections of the APS and AAPT
Boston, Oct 10 & 11


Location
   
UMass Boston Campus Center
       
Rooms: 
1) Ballroom (Invited Talks)
2) 3540, 3545 (Submitted Talks)
   
Directions
   
Schedule 
   
Friday 
   
7:30-8:30      Registration

8:30-12:00    Invited Talks (Ballroom, 3rd Floor of Campus Center)

9:18 Pedro Reis (MIT)
How Far From equilibrium? Structure and Dynamics of a Uniformly Heated Granular Fluid

10:06 Danniel Needleman (Harvard University)
Single Molecule Dynamics in Cell Division

10:54 Gene Stanley (Boston University)
Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Behavior of Liquid Water:
New Results in Bulk, Nanoconfined, and Biological Environments


12:00-1:00    Lunch (Dining Hall, 1st Floor of Campus Center)

1:00              Submitted Sessions (Rooms 3540 and 3545, 3rd Floor CC)

Room 3540

1:00 Ernst Wall (Lockheed Inc.)
Earth’s Atmospheric CO2 Saturated IR Absorption

1:12 David Browning (University of Rhode Island)
Acoustics Meets Global Warming: The impact of ocean acidification on underwater sound

1:24 Constantin Andronache (Boston College)
Analysis of Atlantic tropical cyclones variability

1:36 Andrew Pawl, David Pritchard, Analia Barantes (MIT)
Mining the Internet for Intro Physics Data: Sports Equipment

1:48 V. Dunjko, A. C. Cassidy, D. Mason, and M. Olshanii
       
(UMass Boston)
Chaos and thermalization in the mean-field 1D Bose-Hubbard model


Room 3545

1:00 Joseph Shahbazian, Aram Karakashian (UMASS Lowell)
Reflection of Electromagnatic Waves on DPS/DNG layers

1:12 J.H. Shabazian, H. S. Choi, S.J. Woo (UMASS Lowel)
        Y.-K. Kwon (KHU, Seoul Korea)
Electronic Structure of Graphene layers in SiO2

1:24 Dipti Sharma, Marina Ruths (UMASS Lowell)
Non-Equilibrium Effect on Adsorption of Gold Nanoclusters Grown on p-Aminothiophenol Self Assembled Monolayer on Gold Substrates

1:48 Kurt Jacobs (UMASSS Boston)
Creating Mesoscopic "Schroedinger Cats" in a Nano-mechanical Resonator

2:00-2:30     Coffee Break

2:30-5:00     Invited Talks (Ballroom, 3rd Floor of Campus Center)

2:30 Maxim Olshanii (UMASS Boston)
The Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis and Quantum Thermodynamics

3:18 Dan Steck (University of Oregon)
Controlling the Motion of Ultracold Atoms

4:06 Jeffrey Urbach (Georgetown University)
Shaking as Baking: Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions in Thin Granular Layers

5:00-6:00     Poster Session (Ballroom, 3rd floor Campus Center)

Andre Pawl, David Pritchard, and Analia Barrantes (MIT)
Freely Available “Real-world” Problems in Introductory Mechanics

Dmitri Rabounski and Larissa Borissova
On the Doppler-Like Anisotropy of the Space-Time of General Relativity

Albert Khazan
The Last element in a New Periodic Table

Penglin Wang
Time, Light Speed and Space Energy

V. Christianto (Sciprint.org), Florentin Smaran- Dache, (UNM)
and F. Lichtenberg
A Note on Extended Proca Equations and Superconductivity


Saturday

   
7:30              AAPT Executive Council Meeting (Room 3545 3rd Floor CC)

9:00-11:30    APS Submitted Session  (Room 3540 3rd Floor of Campus center)

9:00 David M. McLeod (Bastyr University)
        Roger D. McLeod (UMASS Lowell)
Constellation Stick Figures Convey Information about Gravity and Neutrinos

9:12 Roger D. McLeod (UMASS Lowell)
        David M. McLeod (Bastyr University)
NATUROPTICS and vision research; Revision for QM and Heisenberg

9:24 Silvia F. Ribeiro, Célia C. R. Duarte (Goiana, Goias, Brazil)
        Roger D. McLeod (UMASS Lowell)
Can NATUROPTICS for safe Recovery of Vision Fund Brazilians’ Educations?

9:36 Ana P. De Moraes (Goiana, Goias, Brazil),
        Rosilia D. S. Marques (Goiana, Goias, Brazil), 
        Roger D. McLeod (UMASS Lowell)
Will Brazilian Patented Naturoptic Method for Recovery of Healthy Vision be Helpful Linguistically?

9:48 Ronald Benjamin (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Energetics of a Brownian motor driven position dependent temperature

10:00 Douglas Sweetser
Vector Current Coupling for Gravity

10:12 Thomas Marcella (UMASS Lowell)
An Axiomatic approach to quantum mechanics: the meaning of the wave function

10:24 M. P. Silverman, W. Strange (Trinity College)
Search for Correlated Fluctuiations in the Beta+ Decay of Na-22

10:36 Arthur Reardon
Theoretical Explanation of Constant Rotational Velo

10:48 Sudha Swaminathan, (Worcester State College)
          David Schrader, (Marquette University)
Positronium Quenching with Nitric Oxide Targets: A Theoretical Study of Spin Coupling

9:00-11:10    AAPT Submitted Session (Rooms to be announced...)

Room #1: Oportunities for your students

9:00-9:25 Don Donovan (Thayer Academy)
Physics Olympics

9:30-9:55 Nik Nicastro (Wachusett Regional High School)
Science Seminar

10:00-10:25 Gary Garber (BU Academy)
Robotic Competition

10:30-10:55 Don Donovan, (Thayer Academy)
High School Summer Research

Room #2: Environmental Studies/Physics Experiences

8:30-9:10 Laurence Gould, Univ.of Hartford
Is “Global Warming” Alarmism a Hoax?

9:15-9:55 Peter K Glanz, Rhode Island College
Should The United States Sign the Kyoto Protocol (2012)?

10:00-10:30 Martina B. Arndt (Bridgewater State College) 
                    Melinda Lekberg (Chelmsford High School) 
                    Robert Havasy
A Classroom Spectrometer and the 2008 Total Solar Eclipse

10:35-11:10 Dr. Zenobia Lojewska (Springfield College)
How to Engage Students in a Physics Course through Capture and Analysis of Their Own Video Clips 


11:30           APS Executive Council Meeting (Room 3545 3rd Floor CC)