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PROGRAM

[Tue, Aug 12] [Wed, Aug 13] [Thu, Aug 14]

Tuesday, 12 August 2003 [Next ==>] Chair: Jack Douglas (NIST)

8:45-9:00 Opening by J. M. Rowe (The Director, NCNR)

9:00-9:35 William A. Goddard III (Pasadena, CA) [Abstract]
First principles simulations of structure and properties for complex systems

9:35-10:10 Valeria Arrighi (Edinburgh, UK) [Abstract]
Polymer local dynamics by QENS: experiments, MD and theory

10:10-10:45 Sow-Hsin Chen (MIT) [Abstract]
Neutron and Light Scattering Study of the Glass-to-Liquid-to-Glass and Glass-to-Glass Transitions in Dense L64 Copolymer Micellar System

10:45-11:05 Coffee break

Chair: Seung-Hun Lee (NCNR)

11:05-11:40 Christopher L. Henley (Cornell, NY) [Abstract]
Coarse-graining and critical spin correlations in pyrochlore antiferromagnets

11:40-12:15 Oleg Tchernyshyov (Johns Hopkins, MD) [Abstract]
Fighting frustration by all means!

12:15-12:35 Igor Zaliznyak ( Brookhaven, NY) [Abstract]
Charge and spin order in layered Co and Mn perovskite oxides at half-doping

12:35-14:00 Lunch break

Chair: A. B. Harris (UPENN, PA)

14:00-14:35 Art Ramirez (Los Alamos, NM) [Abstract]
Geometrical Frustration : Opportunities for Neutron Scattering and Modeling

14:35- 15:10 Collin Broholm (Johns Hopkins, MD) [Abstract]
Composite Spin in Fluctuating Magnets

15:10-15:30 Coffee break

Chair: Taner Yildirim (NCNR)

15:30-15:50 Stephen FitzGerald (Oberlin, OH) [Abstract]
Matrix isolation spectroscopy of H₂ in C₆₀

15:50-16:10 David Narehood (Penn State, PA) [Abstract]
Quasielastic Neutron Scattering of H₂ Adsorbed on Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes

16:10-16:45 A. Brooks Harris (UPENN, PA) [Abstract]
Rotation-Vibration Spectrum of H₂ in Nanocages

16:45-17:20 Douglas Tobias (Irvine, CA) [Abstract]
Solvent Effects on Protein Motion and Protein Effects on Solvent Motion

17:20-18:00 Conference Photo and Bus to Hotel at 18:00 pm
In front of NCNR building

19:00-21:00 Conference Dinner (Chesapeake Room at O'Donnells)

Wednesday, 13 August 2003 [<== Previous] | [Top] | [Next ==>]

Chair: Eric Shirley (NIST)

9:00-9:35	Steven G. Louie (Berkeley, CA) [Abstract] Theory of the electronic, transport and optical properties of nanotubes
9:35-10:10	Mark Johnson (Grenoble, ILL, France) [Abstract] Neutrons and Numerical Methods
10:10-10:45	Mei-Yin Chou (Georgia Tech) [Abstract] First-Principles Calculations of Hydrogen Vibrations in Metal Hydrides
10:45-11:05	Coffee break

Chair: Anne Chaka (NIST)

11:05-11:40	Kosmas Prassides (Sussex, UK) [Abstract] Strongly correlated fullerene-based solids
11:40-12:15	David Singh (Naval Research Lab.) [Abstract] Unusual Metals Near Ferromagnetic Quantum Critical Point
12:15-12:35	Eric L. Shirley (NIST) [Abstract] The Phonon Spectrum, Phonon-Phonon Interaction and Infrared Dielectric Response from First Principles
12:35-14:00	Lunch break

Chair: Amnon Aharony (Tel Aviv, Israel)

14:00-14:35	Subir Sachdev (Yale, New Haven, CT) [Abstract] Magnetic Quantum Transitions in Insulators and Superconductors
14:35-15:10	John Tranquada (Brookhaven, NY) [Abstract] Challenges in Probing and Analyzing Spin and Charge Dynamics in Stripe ``Ordered'' Systems
15:10-15:30	Coffee break

Chair: Jeff Lynn (NIST)

15:30-16:05	Young Lee (MIT) [Abstract] Unconventional phase transitions in low-dimensional transition metal oxides involving t_2g electrons
16:05-16:40	Pengcheng Dai (Tennessee and ORNL) [Abstract] Antiferromagnetic order as the competing ground state in electron-doped Nd$_{1.85}$Ce$_{0.15}$CuO$_{4}$
16:40-17:00	Douglas L. Abernathy (Spallation Neutron Source, Oak Ridge) [Abstract] Inelastic Scattering Instruments at the Spallation Neutron Source
17:00-18:00	NCNR Tour

Thursday, 14 August 2003 [<== Previous] | [Top] |

Chair: Joseph Curtis (NIST)

9:00-9:35	Franci Merzel (Heidelberg, Germany) [Abstract] Structural Characteristics of the Protein Hydration Water
9:35-10:10	Jayanth R. Banavar ( Penn State, PA) [Abstract] From polymers to proteins -- novel phases of short compact tubes
10:10-10:45	Mounir Tarek (Nancy, France) [Abstract] Probing the dynamics of proteins by MD simulations v.s. neutron scattering experiments
10:45-11:05	Coffee break

Chair: Dan Reich (Johns Hopkins)

11:05-11:40	Amnon Aharony (Tel Aviv, Israel) [Abstract] Magnetic order out of disorder in cuprates
11:40-12:15	Andrey Zheludev (ORNL) [Abstract] Waves in a field-frozen anisotropic quantum spin liquid
12:15-12:35	Michel Kenzelmann (JHU and NIST) [Abstract] Coherent spin states in quantum magnets
12:35-14:00	Lunch break

Chair: Mark Stiles (NIST)

14:00-14:35	Bernhard Keimer (MPI-FKF, Germany) [Abstract] Spin Dynamics in Orbitally Degenerate Mott Insulators
14:35-15:10	Ora Entin-Wohlman (Tel Aviv, Israel) [Abstract] Unusual hidden symmetries in the t_2g cubic perovskites and the magnetic structure of LaTiO₃
15:10-15:45	George A. Sawatzky (UBC, Canada) [Abstract] Possible pathways to new classes of ferromagnetic and half-metallic ferromagnetic materials
15:45-16:00	Adjourn