Annual Meeting of the Four Corners Section of the APS
Volume 57, Number 11
Friday–Saturday, October 26–27, 2012;
Socorro, New Mexico
Session Index
Session C1: Particle Detector Physics
Chair: Shufang Su, University of Arizona
Room: Macey Center Silver
Friday, October 26, 2012
1:15PM - 1:39PM
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C1.00001: Status of HAWC: Unraveling the Extreme Universe at TeV Energies
Invited Speaker:
Asif Imran
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Friday, October 26, 2012
1:39PM - 1:51PM
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C1.00002: Radiation Hard Detector R\&D at the University of Colorado
John Cumalat, Benjamin Bentele, Darren Schaeffer, Kevin Stenson, Steve Wagner
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Friday, October 26, 2012
1:51PM - 2:03PM
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C1.00003: Calibration of the Pi-Zero Detector at T2K
Paul Rojas
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Friday, October 26, 2012
2:03PM - 2:15PM
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C1.00004: On the temperature dependence observed in the scaler rates of a water Cherenkov detector
Fred Schuckman II, Miguel Mostafa
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Friday, October 26, 2012
2:15PM - 2:39PM
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C1.00005: The Search For Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay With The Majorana Demonstrator
Invited Speaker:
Michael Ronquest
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Session C2: Active Galactic Nuclei in Galaxies
Chair: David Meier, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Room: Macey Center Auditorium
Friday, October 26, 2012
1:15PM - 1:39PM
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C2.00001: New Insights into Galaxy Evolution: the Atlas3D project
Invited Speaker:
Lisa Young
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Friday, October 26, 2012
1:39PM - 1:51PM
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C2.00002: The Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Candidate in the Center of NGC 404
Kristina Nyland, Josh Marvil, Joan M. Wrobel, Lisa M. Young, B. Ashley Zauderer
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Friday, October 26, 2012
1:51PM - 2:03PM
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C2.00003: Photometric Reverberation Mapping of Mrk 926
Carla June Carroll, Michael Joner
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Friday, October 26, 2012
2:03PM - 2:15PM
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C2.00004: A Three-decade X-band VLBI Study of the Nucleus in the Lobe-dominated Quasar 3C207
David Hough
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Friday, October 26, 2012
2:15PM - 2:27PM
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C2.00005: An Experiment to Demonstrate an $\alpha\omega$ Dynamo in the Accretion Disk leading to Galaxy and MBH formation
Jiahe Si, Stirling Colgate, Hui Li, Vladimir Pariev, David Westpfahl, Joe Martinic
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Friday, October 26, 2012
2:27PM - 2:51PM
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C2.00006: An Experiment to Demonstrate the $\alpha-\Omega$ Dynamo in the Accretion Disk Leading to Galaxy and Massive Black Hole Formation
Invited Speaker:
Stirling Colgate
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Session C3: Experimental Condensed Matter Techniques
Chair: Heinz Nakotte, New Mexico State University
Room: Macey Center Copper
Friday, October 26, 2012
1:15PM - 1:39PM
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C3.00001: A superradiant laser with $<1$ intracavity photon
Invited Speaker:
James K. Thompson
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Friday, October 26, 2012
1:39PM - 1:51PM
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C3.00002: 3D Effect in Determination of Spin Polarization using Andreev Reflection Spectroscopy
Jessica Gifford, Charles Snider, Jonny Martinez, Tingyong Chen
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Friday, October 26, 2012
1:51PM - 2:03PM
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C3.00003: Andreev Reflection Spectra of $d$-wave Superconductors
Charles Snider, Jessica Gifford, Jonathan Martinez, Tingyong Chen
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Friday, October 26, 2012
2:03PM - 2:15PM
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C3.00004: Determination of Spin Polarization of Fe$_{65}$Si$_{35}$ Using Andreev Reflection Spectroscopy
Jonathan Martinez, Jessica Gifford, Charles Snider, Tingyong Chen, Julie Karel, Frances Hellman
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Friday, October 26, 2012
2:15PM - 2:27PM
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C3.00005: Proposed investigation of spin dynamics using time-resolved scanning Kerr microscopy
Christopher Finkeldei, Kristen Buchanan
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Friday, October 26, 2012
2:27PM - 2:39PM
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C3.00006: Development of a SMOKE Apparatus
Susan Stoffer, Karine Chesnel, Luke Pritchett, Kyle Miller
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Friday, October 26, 2012
2:39PM - 2:51PM
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C3.00007: Characterization of Surfactant Free Emulsions
Ramaninder Brar, Jacob Urquidi
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Session C4: Materials Physics II
Chair: Jean-Francois Van Huele, Brigham Young University
Room: Macey Center Galena
Friday, October 26, 2012
1:15PM - 1:39PM
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C4.00001: Living On The Edge
Invited Speaker:
Boris Kiefer
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Friday, October 26, 2012
1:39PM - 1:51PM
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C4.00002: Microwave microscopy of electrical and magnetic properties of graphene and graphite
Nikolai Kalugin, Christopher Del Barga, Lee Wickey, Mekan Ovezmyradov, Eric Shaner, Aaron Gin, Vladimir Talanov
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Friday, October 26, 2012
1:51PM - 2:03PM
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C4.00003: The optical properties of using graphene as a saturable absorber
Nathan Keschl, Thomas Schibli, Chien-Chung Lee, Wanyan Xie
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Friday, October 26, 2012
2:03PM - 2:15PM
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C4.00004: Ab initio study of single and double vacancies in graphene
Mahmoud Hammouri, Igor Vasiliev
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Friday, October 26, 2012
2:15PM - 2:27PM
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C4.00005: The Physics and Chemistry of Carbon Cages
Robert Courtney, Boris Kiefer
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Friday, October 26, 2012
2:27PM - 2:39PM
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C4.00006: Ultrafast pump-probe measurements of thermal transport in nanospheres
Brian Green, Mark Siemens
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Session C5: Atmospheric Physics I
Chair: Sonja Behnke, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Room: Macey Center Agora
Friday, October 26, 2012
1:15PM - 1:27PM
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C5.00001: High-time-resolution Imaging of Lightning with the Long Wavelength Array
Jacob M. Hartman, Richard Sonnenfeld, Bill Rison
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Friday, October 26, 2012
1:27PM - 1:39PM
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C5.00002: Turbulence Measurement at the Very Large Array
Keith Morris, Bryan Butler, Richard Sonnenfeld
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Friday, October 26, 2012
1:39PM - 1:51PM
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C5.00003: Feasibility of Using Integrated Cavity Output Spectroscopy (ICOS) for Laser Scattering Research
Emily Sotelo
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Friday, October 26, 2012
1:51PM - 2:15PM
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C5.00004: New developments in geostrophic turbulence and its implications for climate modeling and weather predictability
Invited Speaker:
Joseph Tribbia
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Friday, October 26, 2012
2:15PM - 2:27PM
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C5.00005: Intracloud Lightning Flashes Can Be Similar in Detail
Richard Sonnenfeld, William Winn, Gaopeng Lu, Harald Edens, Steven Hunyady, Jeff Lapierre
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Friday, October 26, 2012
2:27PM - 2:39PM
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C5.00006: Combined Current Measurements and Lightning Mapping Array Observations of Rocket-Triggered Lightning at Langmuir Lab
Jacob Trueblood
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Friday, October 26, 2012
2:39PM - 2:51PM
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C5.00007: Analysis of Electric Field Change, Interferometric, and Lightning Mapping Data to Study Intra-Cloud Lightning
Jeff Lapierre, Mike Stock, Manabu Akita, Richard Sonnenfeld, Paul Krehbiel, William Rison, Zen Kawasaki, Harald Edens
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