2004 Fall Meeting of the Ohio Section of the American Physical Society and the Michigan Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers

 

Oakland University, October 15-16, 2005

 

All events are in Banquet Room A, Oakland Center, unless otherwise noted

 

Friday, Oct. 15

 

12:00- 5:00      Registration                                                                         

2:00 - 3:45       A. Magnetic Resonance Imaging Symposium               

    2:00 - 2:15               Welcome                                          

    2:15 - 3:00               Paul Callaghan, Victoria Univ. of Wellington

    3:00 - 3:45               Steve Blackband, Univ. of Florida 

3:45 - 4:00       Break

4:00 - 5:15       B.  Physics in Medicine Contributed Session                                          

5:15 - 6:00       C.  Poster Session                                                                

6:00 - 8:30       Banquet                                                                     Meadow Brook Hall

    6:00 - 7:00               Social Hour                                                                          

    7:00 - 8:00               Dinner

    8:00 - 8:30               After Dinner Talk, Paul Callaghan

 

 

Saturday, Oct. 16

 

7:30 - 8:30       Complimentary Continental Breakfast                            Cafeteria

8:30 - 10:30     Workshop, Dean Zollman                                                  Varner 226

8:30 - 10:15     Parallel Contributed Sessions

                                    D.  Physics Education Contributed Session                    

                                    E.  Condensed Matter Contributed Session        Gold Room A

                                    F.  General Physics Contributed Session              Gold Room B

10:15 - 10:45   Break

10:45 - 12:15   G.  Teaching 20th Century Physics in the 21st Century Symposium

    10:45 - 11:30           Mario Belloni, Davidson College

    11:30 - 12:15           Dean Zollman, Kansas State Univ.

12:15 - 1:15     Lunch                                                                                     Cafeteria

1:15 - 1:30       MIAAPT Business Meeting

1:30 - 3:30       Workshop, Mario Belloni                                                   Varner 226

1:30 - 3:15       H.  MIAAPT Contributed Session

 

 

Physics in Medicine Contributed Session

4:00     John Paul Morgan, Current density imaging using magnetic resonance imaging

4:15     Hisham Alhadlaq, Changes in regional T2 relaxation in compressed cartilage: A microscopic MRI (mMRI) sutdy

4:30     Barbara Weiland, Imaging DC MEG fields associated with epileptic onset

4:45     Donald Dolton, Nonlinear analysis of surface EMG time series of back muscles

5:00     Deborah Janks, Burst pacing with weak stimuli induces reentry in cardiac tissue

 

Physics Education Contributed Session

8:30     Timothy Moran, Use of a Spectrum Analyzer to Demonstrate Standing Sound Waves

8:45     Klaus Fritsch, The physics of rules of thumb for pilots

9:00     Henry Griffin, Teaching "radioactivity" through research

9:15     Ryan Fedewa, Adaptation of "6 ideas that shaped physics" for life-science major audiences

9:30     Ulrich Zurcher*, College physics with biomedical applications

9:45     Guy Vandegrift, Campus boat building and sailing group

10:00   Gordon Aubrecht, Studying teacher attitudes and student perceptions of physics laboratories using a Q-type assessment instrument

 

Condensed Matter Contributed Session

8:30     Russ Hayes, Ferrite-Piezoelectric layered composites: Synthesis and magnetoelectric characterization

8:45     Robert Hirst, Proton NMR relaxation in anhydrous ammonium-Y and H-Y Zeolites

9:00     E. D. von Meerwall, Ultrasound treatment of butyl gum and rubber, studied by NMR relaxation

9:15     Mark Taylor, Conformation of a polymer chain in solution: A density expansion approach

9:30     John Griffin, Transparent, weakly conductive films for space applications

9:45     Jutta Leuttmer-Strathmann*, Local friction in random and alternating polyolefin copolymers: a small scale simulation.

 

General Physics Contributed Session

8:30     Xiaodong Liu, Lorenz propulsion yielded by LC oscillator

8:45     Mario Belloni, Visualizing wave packet dynamics in the infinite square well
using the wigner quasi-probability distribution

9:00     Philip Ugorowski, Design and characterization of a compact multi-detector gamma spectrometer for studies of triggered energy release from nuclear isomers

9:15     Ronald Propri, Design and implementation of specialized analysis package for a small, multi-detector array

9:30     Pierre-Marie Robitaille, The photosphere as condensed matter

9:45     Kasey Plummer, Experimental estimation of physical effects leading to atomic clock instability

10:00   Michael Crescimanno*, The physics of coherent population trapped (CPT) atomic clock instability

 

MIAAPT Physics Education Contributed Session

1:30     Rosa Lukaszew, Integrated lecture and laboratory: A new concept for intermediate electronic labs

1:45     Laurie Reed, Using Blackboard to explore astronomy in art and music

2:00     James Porter, An overhead projection demonstration of non-collinear force addition

2:15     Frank Rose, Geometric method of finding the mid-potential in a coaxial conductor

2:30     Bradley Ambrose, A repeat performance? Challenges in addressing conceptual difficulties in quantum physics

2:45     Bill Semrau, A high school physics teacher goes to college

 

* Session Chairman