QFS98 -- Scientific Program - Oral Presentations (Friday June 12, 1998):


Friday June 12, 1998.


Quantum Solids [Chair: B. Cowan]

8:40 - 9:00 -- John Goodkind [12-S1](O) -- New Experiments on the Possible Bose Condensed State in Solid 4He

9:00 - 9:20 -- Takayoshi Mamiya [12-S2](O) -- Specific Heat Anomaly in bcc Solid 3He

9:20 - 10:00 -- Francesco Pederiva [12-S3](I) -- Does Antisymmetry Matter in bcc 3He Crystals?

10:00 - 10: 15 -- discussion


10:15 - 10:40 -- coffee break

Macroscopic Quantization Effects [Chair: T. Mizusaki]

10:40 - 11:20 -- Richard Packard [12-S4](I) -- New Discoveries in Superfluid 3He Weak Links

11:20 - 11:40 -- Vladimir Eltsov [12-S5](O) -- New Modes of Stable Spin Precession in Superfluid 3He-B

11:40 - 12:00 -- Luc Thomas [12-S6](O) -- Resonant Tunneling of the Magnetization in Mn12-acetate

12:00 - 12:20 -- Phil Stamp [12-S7](O) -- Quantum Tunneling Relaxation in Crystals of Magnetic Macromolecules

12:20 - 12:35 -- discussion


12:35 - 14:20 -- lunch break (Campus Center, 10th floor)

Microgravity Physics [Chair: U. Israelsson]

14:20 - 15:00 -- Guenther Ahlers [12-S8](I) -- Opportunities for Microgravity Research along the Lambda Line of Liquid Helium

15:00 - 15:40 -- John Lipa [12-S9](I) -- Early Results from the Confined Helium Experiment (CHEX)

15:40 - 16:00 -- Robert Duncan [12-S10](O) -- Gravitational Effects on Nonlinear Heat Transport near the Superfluid Transition in 4He

16:00 - 16:15 -- discussion


16:15 - 16:40 -- coffee break

Droplets and Clusters [Chair: J. Northby]

16:40 - 17:20 -- Dwight Whitaker [12-S11](I) -- Shape Oscillations in Levitated HeII Drops

17:20 - 17:40 -- Peter Toennies [12-S12](O) -- Low Energy Scattering of 4He and 3He Atoms from Large 3He and 4He Droplets

17:40 - 18:00 -- Dwight Adams [12-S13](O) -- Magnetic Susceptibility of 3He Nano-Clusters

18:00 - 18:15 -- discussion


19:00 - 22:00 -- Conference Banquet (Campus Center, 10th floor)



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