Schedule of Program
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 30 MARCH 2001
Session A1. Chaos and Complexity.
Friday afternoon, 14:00, Room 216, Bicentennial Hall
Chair: Jeffrey S. Dunham, Middlebury College
14:00 A1.001 Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation:
Where We Are and Where We Are Going
Robert C. Hilborn (Department of Physics, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts
01002)
15:00 A1.002 Mixing and Dynamical Systems
Jerry P. Gollub (Department of Physics, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania
19041)
16:00 A1.003 Experiences of an AJP Editor
Robert H. Romer (American Journal of Physics and Amherst College, Amherst,
Massachusetts 01002)
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 30 MARCH 2001
Session B1. APS and AAPT Poster Session.
Friday afternoon, 17:00, Great Hall, Bicentennial Hall
Chair: Crispin O. Butler, Middlebury College
B1.001 Energy Generation in Compost
Katinka LoCascio, Richard Wolfson (Middlebury College)
B1.002 Diffusion in a Rough Potential and Broken Ergodicity in Supercooled
Liquids
Ulrich Zurcher (Dept. of Physics, University of Rhode Island, Kingston,
RI 02881)
B1.003 Chebychev Basis representation of Exchange Interaction Potential
for e-Ar Scattering at Intermediate Energies
Joseph Paikeday (Southeast Missouri State University)
B1.004 Chaotic Synchronization Experiments using Electronic Circuits
Douglas Mar, M.K. Stephen Yeung, Kresimir Josic (Center for BioDynamics,
Boston University)
B1.005 Generalized synchronization of chaotic pulsations in a two-mode laser
Tao Hong (Science University of Tokyo in Yamaguchi), Takayuki Tsukamoto
(Corporate Research and Development Center, Toshiba Corporation), Kazuhito
Tanii (Chiyoda College of Art and Engineering), Tadao Shimizu (Science University
of Tokyo in Yamaguchi)
B1.006 Field Test of a Hand-Held Haze Detector- A SAASE Outreach
David Guerra (Department of Physics, Saint Anselm College, Manchester, NH),
Nick Cordella (Bishop Guertin High School, Nashua, NH), Sue Bracy (8th Grade
Class, Mountain View Middle School, Goffstown, NH)
B1.007 Chaotic Behavior in a Double Pendulum
Richard (Sandy) Hyde (Norwich University) AAPT
FRIDAY EVENING, 30 MARCH 2001
Session C1. Banquet Dinner and Talk.
Friday evening, 18:30, Dining Room, Kirk Alumni House
Chair: Jonathan Mitschele, Saint Joseph's College
18:30 C1.001 Dancing with Bears: Lessons in the Dance of Reform
Thomas A. Moore (Department of Physics, Pomona College, Claremont, California
91711)
SATURDAY MORNING, 31 MARCH 2001
Session D1. APS Contributed Papers.
Saturday morning, 08:00, Room 220, Bicentennial Hall
Chair: Stephen J. Ratcliff, Middlebury College
08:00 D1.001 Construction of an Extended Cavity Tunable Diode Laser
Dr. Edward Deveney (Current Research Advisor), Dr. Harold Metcalf, Dr. John
Noe (Research supervisor during NSF-REU program summer 2000)
08:12 D1.002 An Experimental Study of a Unidirectional Photorefractive Ring
Resonator with a Stabilized Cavity Length
Kristian Bodek, Hong Lin (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Bates College)
08:24 D1.003 Transverse heating due to nonadiabatic propagation of cold
atoms in an atomic guide
Nathan Blanchard, Alex Zozulya (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
08:36 D1.004 Oscillations in the Large-Scale Matter Power Spectrum Compared
with CMB Results
David Batuski (University of Maine), Christopher Miller, Robert Nichol (Carnegie
Mellon)
08:48 D1.005 Casimir Energy of a Relativistic Perfect Fluid confined to
a D-dimensional Hypercube
Ariel Edery (*McGill University, Montreal / presently at AI Solutions, Inc.,
MD)
09:00 D1.006 Cold Fusion of Deuterium in Metallic Lattices.
David W. Kraft (University of Bridgeport)
09:12 D1.007 Fractal Formations in Confined Geometries
Anthony M. Cruz, Germano S. Iannacchione (Department of Physics, WPI)
09:24 D1.008 Teaching Chaos to Art College Students
Ben Blum (Massachusetts College of Art)
Session D2. AAPT Contributed Papers.
Saturday morning, 08:00, Room 219, Bicentennial Hall
Chair: James J. Egan, University of Massachusetts
at Lowell
08:00 D2.001 Project COMPACT: Career-Oriented Materials for Physics and
Contemporary Technology
Doyle V. Davis (NH Technical College)
08:12 D2:002 Providing a Conceptual Basis for Quantum Mechanics
Jonathan Mitschele (Saint Joseph's College)
08:24 D2:003 Chaotic Behavior in a Double Pendulum
Patrick Keith-Hynes (Norwich University)
08:36 D2:004 Improved Learning of Mechanics Concepts at
Bridgewater State College
Dennis E. Kuhl (Bridgewater State College)
08:48 D2:005 Interactive Lecture Demonstrations at the University
of Sydney
Lisa M. DiFalco (Bridegewater State University)
SATURDAY MORNING, 31 MARCH 2001
Session E1. Chaos and Introductory Course Reform.
Saturday morning, 10:00, Room 216, Bicentennial Hall
Chair: Richard Wolfson, Middlebury College
10:00 E1.001 Applied Chaos: Ship Dynamics and Waveguide Propagation
Randall Tagg (Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Denver)
11:00 E1.002 Six Ideas That Shaped Physics: Past, Present and Future
Thomas A. Moore (Department of Physics, Pomona College, Claremont, California
91711)
Abstracts may be viewed at the "APS Abstracts" and "AAPT Abstracts" links below.