Poster Session: Tuesday Evening June 24, 2007 Normal Modes and Light Absorption in Alkyne Functionalized Silicon Surface (111) Alexei Bykhovski, North Carolina State University Chemical Threat Detection via Portable THz Spectroscopy David Brigada, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Method for Detection of Chemical Nerve Agents Using Zirconium-Polystyrene Composites Diana Chira, Albany State University Emulation of Ball Lightning for THz Stand-off Detection of Bio-Chemical Agents Peter Handel, University of Missouri-St. Louis Dynamics of a Two-Dimensional Quantum Dot Subject to Landau Quantization Norman Horing, Stevens Institute of Technology Graphene Stopping Power for a Fast Charged Particle: Parallel Case Norman Horing, Stevens Institute of Technology How Sensitive is Safe? Risk-based Targets for Ambient Monitoring Yin Huang, Drexel University Fast High-Order Methods for the Wigner-Poisson Equations Carl T. Kelley, North Carolina State University Organizational Structure and Electronic Properties of Chiral Molecular Domains and Single Biomolecules Pengshun Luo, North Carolina State University Detection of Thol-Containing Amino Acids Using Gold-Polystyrene Composites Davoy Murray, Albany State University Biosensor Based on Double-Stranded DNA Transversal Characteristics Jorge Seminario, Texas A&M University Development of Nano-Composite Particles for Use in the Detection of Chemical Warfare Agents O'Neil Smith, Albany State University Optical Methane Sensor Based on a Fiber Loop at 1665nm Kuanglu Yu, Beijing Jiaotong University