National Conference Presentations

A * denotes a Wooster student and a † denotes an REU student

2008

Joseph Thomas* and Susan Y. Lehman, Does Hot Water Freeze Faster than Cold? Investigation of the Reproducibility and Causes of the Mpemba Effect, American Physical Society, New Orleans LA (March 2008)

Mark Wellons*, Frank King*†, and Todd McAlpine, Simulating a charged spherical pendulum in time-varying electric and magnetic fields, American Physical Society, New Orleans LA (March 2008)

Kelly Patton*, James Gallagher†, and John F. Lindner, Experimental Observation of Solitons Propagating in a Hydro-Mechanical Array of One-Way Coupled Oscillators, American Physical Society, New Orleans LA (March 2008)

2007

Martha I. Roseberry*† and John F. Lindner, Precession and chaos in the Newtonian two-body problem in a spherical universe, American Physical Society, Denver CO (March 2007)

Evan Heidtmann*† and John F. Lindner, The "Escape Set" elucidates chaos in the restricted three-body problem, American Physical Society, Denver CO (March 2007)

Henry Timmers*†, Sarah Suddendorf*†, Angie Triplett*†, Nithya Venkataraman*† and D.T. Jacobs, Correlation length of a near-critical, eight-arm star polystyrene in methylcyclohexane, American Physical Society, Denver CO (March 2007)

Nathan Utt*† and D.T. Jacobs, Anomaly in the heat capacity of nitrobenzene and dodecane, American Physical Society, Denver CO (March 2007)

Mary Mills*†, Andrew Kindschuh* and D.T. Jacobs, Self-Organized Criticality in a Bead Pile, American Physical Society, Denver CO (March 2007)

2006

John Gamble*† and Shila Garg, Dielectric Properties of Binary Mixtures of MBBA and 7CB, American Physical Society, Baltimore MD (March 2006)
Megan Miller†, Tuan Nguyen†, Elizabeth Baker†, and D.T. Jacobs, Self-Organized Criticality in a Bead Pile, American Physical Society, Baltimore MD (March 2006)
Ruth Shewmon†, Ryan Hartschuh* and D.T. Jacobs, Anomaly in the heat capacity of triethylamine and water, American Physical Society, Baltimore MD (March 2006)
Daniel L. Tremblay*† and Susan Y. Lehman, Low-Cost Cavity Ring-Down System For Measurement Of High Reflectivity Semiconductor Mirrors, American Physical Society, Baltimore MD (March 2006)
C.A. O'Brien†, L.M. Boone, and J.D. Hohertz*†, Simulating Particle Dynamics in Tangled Magnetic Field, 207th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (Washington DC, January 2006)
L.M. Walker*†, K.L. Larson*† and L.M. Boone, An INTEGRAL Archival Search for Microquasar Candidates, 207th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (Washington DC, January 2006)

2005

Angie Triplett*†, Nithya L. Venkataraman*†, and D.T. Jacobs, Correlation length of a near-critical, eight-arm star polystyrene in methylcyclohexane, American Physical Society (Los Angeles CA, March 2005)
Stephen T. Poprocki*, Leann G. Erbsen†, and Susan Y. Lehman, Detection and Analysis of Quantum Dots from Atomic Force Microscope Images, American Physical Society (Los Angeles CA, March 2005)
Daniel Shai*† and John Lindner, Precession of nearly circular orbits in the Newtonian 2-body problem perturbed by constant positive curvature, American Physical Society (Los Angeles CA, March 2005)

2004

Andy P. Brinck*†, Nithya L. Venkataraman*†, and D.T. Jacobs, The correlation length amplitude for eight-arm star polystyrene in methylcyclohexane near the critical point, American Physical Society (Montreal Canada, March 2004)
Elizabeth Baker*† and D.T. Jacobs, Crystal Structure and Self-Organized Criticality in a Bead Pile, American Physical Society (Montreal Canada, March 2004)
Kathleen McCreary*† and Shila Garg, Dielectric Anisotropy of Nematic Binary Mixtures, American Physical Society (Montreal Canada, March 2004)
Katherine Olaksen*†, Nicholas Johann Harmon*†, and John F. Lindner, Nontrivial dynamics of two interacting point particles confined to a sphere, American Physical Society (Montreal Canada, March 2004)

2003

B.C. Thomas*, J.F. Lindner, S.B. Hughes*†, D.J. Miller*† and K. Wiesenfeld, The Flux Creep Automaton, American Physical Society (Austin Texas, March 2003)
N. Venkataraman†*, C.J. Locke* and D.T. Jacobs, The correlation length of an eight-arm polystyrene in methylcyclohexane near the critical point, American Physical Society (Austin Texas, March 2003)
D. Merriman*† and S. Garg, Investigating the Elastic Properties of N4 Through Freedericksz Transitions, American Physical Society (Austin Texas, March 2003)
J.R. Moffitt*, P. Macdonald† and J.F. Lindner, Self-erasing perturbations of Abelian sandpiles, American Physical Society (Austin Texas, March 2003)
C. Leidel†, N. Harmon*† and J.F. Lindner, Optimal Exit: Solar Escape as a Restricted Three-Body Problem, American Physical Society (Austin Texas, March 2003)

2002

T. Spears *† and S. Garg, Dielectric Interactions in a Nematic Binary Mixture, American Physical Society (Indianapolis Indiana, March 2002)
R. Hartschuh*† and D. T. Jacobs, Composition dependence for the near-critical heat capacity of triethylamine and water, American Physical Society (Indianapolis Indiana, March 2002)
N. J. Harmon*† and J. F. Lindner, Optimizing Solar Escape: A 3-Body Problem, American Physical Society (Indianapolis Indiana, March 2002)
J. A. Goetz, D. W. Brubaker*†, and C. A. Clerc†, Methanol Maser Emission in W75N and Orion Molecular Cloud 2 (OMC2), American Astronomical Society (Washington D.C., January 2002)

2001

C. Egnatuk*† and D. T. Jacobs, Self-Organized Criticality in a Bead Pile, American Physical Society (Seattle Washington, March 2001)
E.R. Oby† and D.T. Jacobs, Heat Capacity of the Liquid-Liquid Mixture Perfluoroheptane and 2,2,4-Trimethylpentane Near the Critical Point, American Physical Society (Seattle Washington, March 2001)

2000

J. Moffitt*† and D. Ludwigsen, Self-sustained oscillation as a function of blowing pressure in a one mass lip reed model, 140th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Newport Beach California, December 2000)
H. Wagner† and D.T. Jacobs, Bead Pile System as a Model for Self-Organized Criticality, American Physical Society (Minneapolis Minnesota, March 2000)
A. Lytle*† and D.T. Jacobs, Achieving Microkelvin Control at Room Temperature, American Physical Society (Minneapolis Minnesota, March 2000)
S. English*† and S. Garg, Liquid Crystalline Behavior of DNA Fragments, American Physical Society (Minneapolis Minnesota, March 2000)
L. Ault*† and D. Colladay, Spin Expectation Values in Fermion Gases, American Physical Society (Minneapolis Minnesota, March 2000)
J. Martin*† and S. Garg, Dendritic Growth in Nematic Liquid Crystals, American Physical Society (Minneapolis Minnesota, March 2000)

1999

Scott Hughes*†, John F. Lindner, William Ditto, Chaotic Brownian Billiards, Centennial Meeting of the American Physical Society (Atlanta Georgia, March 1999)
Sridhar Chandramouli*†, Andrew Kuck*, John F. Lindner, Scaling Laws for Noise Enhanced Propagation, Centennial Meeting of the American Physical Society (Atlanta Georgia, March 1999)
Hanna Coy†, Woodrow Shew*, John Lindner, Taming Chaos, Centennial Meeting of the American Physical Society (Atlanta Georgia, March 1999)
Madhujit Ghosh*, Shaun McClellan†, Donald Jacobs, Heat Capacity Anomaly in Succinonitrile and Water, Centennial Meeting of the American Physical Society (Atlanta Georgia, March 1999)
Rachel Costello*†, Donald Jacobs, Predicting Earthquakes from Sand Piles Using Self-Organized Criticality, Centennial Meeting of the American Physical Society (Atlanta Georgia, March 1999)
Chris Templeman*†, Shila Garg, Investigation of Electric Field Induced Wall and Zigzag Structures in the Nematic Liquid Crystal 5CB, Centennial Meeting of the American Physical Society (Atlanta Georgia, March 1999)

1998

J. Bozeday*† and J. Lindner, Taming Chaos with Disorder in Arrays of Phase Locked Loops, American Physical Society (Los Angeles California, March 1998)
K. Cruz† and D.T. Jacobs, Predicting Earthquakes from Sandpiles Using Self-Organized Criticality, American Physical Society (Los Angeles California, March 1998)
K. Purdy†, E. Bramley*†, and S. Garg, Growth of Focal Conic Domains in a Smectic A Liquid Crystal, American Physical Society (Los Angeles California, March 1998)
A. Kuck*†, M. Hayward*, and A.P. Andrews, Examination of the Fractal Dimension of Fatty Acid Aggregates, American Physical Society (Los Angeles California, March 1998)
C.A. Williams*†, D.T. Jacobs, S.M.Y. Lau†, and Anindya Mukherjee, Turbidity in a Near Critical, Liquid-Liquid System, American Physical Society (Los Angeles California, March 1998)

1996

W. Shew*† and A. Andrews, Surface Pressure Study of Lipid Aggregates at the Air Water Interface, Ohio Section/American Physical Society (November 1996)
B. Prusha*†, K. Clay*† and J. Lindner, Optimal Disorders for Taming Spatiotemporal Chaos, Ohio Section/American Physical Society (November 1996)
S. Garg, S. Saeed*, S. Wild†, E. Bramley*†, and U. D. Kini, Frequency Dependent Threshold in the Bend Geometry of 5CB, 16th International Liquid Crystal Conference (June 1996)
E. Bramley*†, R. Craig*, and S. Garg, Frequency Dependence of Bend Freedericksz Threshold in the Nematic Liquid Crystal 5CB, National Meeting/American Physical Society (March 1996)
C. Spillmann*†, A. Flewelling*† and A. Andrews, Macroscopic Self Assembly of Palmitic Acid as Studied by Surface Pressure, National Meeting/American Physical Society (March 1996)

1995

C. Spillmann*†, A. Flewelling*†, and A. Andrews, Macroscopic Self Assembly of Palmitic Acid as Studied by Surface Pressure, Ohio Section/American Physical Society (October 1995)
S. Wild† and S. Garg, Threshold Measurements in the Modulated Phase of 5CB, Ohio Section/American Physical Society (October 1995)
A. Flewelling*† and D.T. Jacobs, Heat Capacity Anomaly in Triethylamine and Water, National Meeting/American Physical Society (March, 1995)

1994

S. Garg and K. Kelley†, A Nematic Liquid Crystal Subjected to an Oscillating Magnetic Field, Ohio Section/American Physical Society (October, 1994)
J. Lindner and J. Hill†, Quantifying the Spatiotemporal Chaos of Coupled Duffing Oscillators, Ohio Section/American Physical Society (October, 1994)

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