Bulletin of the American Physical Society

2008 APS April Meeting and HEDP/HEDLA Meeting

Volume 53, Number 5

Friday–Tuesday, April 11–15, 2008; St. Louis, Missouri

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Apr 11 2008 8:30AM, Friday

1HE Stellar Explosions, Turbulence and Instabilities
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade F Sponsor: HEDP HEDLA Chair: Paul Drake, University of Michigan

Apr 11 2008 11:15AM, Friday

2HE Accretion and Photoionized Plasmas
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade F Sponsor: HEDP HEDLA Chair: Roberto Mancini, University of Nevada-Reno

Apr 11 2008 2:50PM, Friday

3HE AGN/BH Jet Dynamics
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade F Sponsor: HEDP HEDLA Chair: Paul Bellan, California Institute of Technology

Apr 11 2008 4:20PM, Friday

4HE Launching Dynamics for Stellar Jets
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade F Sponsor: HEDP HEDLA Chair: Patrick Hartigan, Rice University

Apr 11 2008 6:00PM, Friday

5HE HEDP/HEDLA Reception and Banquet
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis E Sponsor: HEDP HEDLA Chair: Bruce Remington, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Apr 12 2008 8:30AM, Saturday

A1 Plenary Session I
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Lous DE Sponsor: APS Chair: Curt Callan, APS Vice President, Princeton University

Apr 12 2008 10:45AM, Saturday

B2 Tevatron Physics
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis D Sponsor: DPF Chair: Pier Oddone, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

B3 Few Body Nuclear Physics I
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis E Sponsor: DNP GFB Chair: Robert Wiringa, Argonne National Laboratory

B4 How to Communicate Physics to the General Public Using Books and Articles
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade B Sponsor: FEd FPS Chair: Andrew Post-Zwicker, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

B5 Dark Matter
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade C Sponsor: DAP DPF Chair: Steven Kahn, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

B6 Triumphs of 20th Century Astrophysics I: Observatories and Telescopes
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade D Sponsor: FHP DAP Chair: Ramanath Cowsik, Washington University

B7 The Quantum Nature of Gravitational Singularities
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Rose Garden Sponsor: GGR Chair: Lior Burko, University of Alabama, Huntsville

B8 Neutrino Astronomy
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade A Sponsor: DAP Chair: Kara Hoffman, University of Maryland

B10 Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Inspirals and Mergers
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis A Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Duncan Brown, Syracuse University

B11 B Physics I
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis B Sponsor: DPF Chair: Rick van Kooten, Indiana University

B12 Detectors II
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis C Sponsor: DPF Chair: Ray Cowan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

B13 Minisymposium on Nuclear Physics Deep Underground I
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis F Sponsor: DNP Chair: Andrew Hime, Los Alamos National Laboratory

B14 Nucleon Spin Structure at High Energy
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis G Sponsor: DNP Chair: Gerry Bunce, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Apr 12 2008 10:50AM, Saturday

6HE Shocks in Stellar Jets
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade F Sponsor: HEDP HEDLA Chair: Sergey Lebedev, Imperial College

Apr 12 2008 1:30PM, Saturday

D2 Collider and Heavy Flavor Physics
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis D Sponsor: DPF Chair: Robert Cahn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

D3 Quantum Chromodynamics
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis E Sponsor: DPF DNP Chair: Paul Mackenzie, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

D4 Few Body Nuclear Physics II
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade B Sponsor: DNP GFB Chair: Wayne Polyzou, University of Iowa

D5 Triumphs of 20th Century Astrophysics II: We Master the Stars
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade C Sponsor: FHP DAP Chair: Ramanath Cowsik, Washington University

D6 Panel Discussion: International Gender Issues in Physics
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade D Sponsor: FIP FPS Chair: Arthur Bienenstock, APS President, Stanford University

D7 Physics Demonstrations and Strategies for Teaching and Public Outreach
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Rose Garden Sponsor: FEd Chair: John Wiegers, Washington University in St. Louis

D8 Nuclear Astrophysics I
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade A Sponsor: DAP Chair: Henric Krawczynski, Washington University at St. Louis

D10 Techniques of Numerical Relativity
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis A Sponsor: GGR Chair: Steve Liebling, Long Island University

D11 Accelerator Neutrinos
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis B Sponsor: DPF Chair: Janet Conrad, Columbia University

D12 Dark Matter I
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis C Sponsor: DPF Chair: Tom Shutt, Case Western University

D13 Minisymposium on Nuclear Physics Deep Underground II
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis F Sponsor: DNP Chair: Andrew Hime, Los Alamos National Laboratory

D14 Instrumentation for Low and Medium Energy Nuclear Physics
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis G Sponsor: DNP Chair: Peggy McMahan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

D15 Electroweak Interactions
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis H Sponsor: DNP Chair: William Donnelly, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Apr 12 2008 2:00PM, Saturday

7HE Shocks in the Universe and Laboratory
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade F Sponsor: HEDP HEDLA Chair: Hideaki Takabe, Osaka University

Apr 12 2008 3:30PM, Saturday

E1 FIP Business Meeting
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Boardroom 23 Sponsor: FIP

E2 Prize Winners
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis D Sponsor: DPF Chair: Natalie Roe, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

E3 Accelerator Technology and the Physics it Enables
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis E Sponsor: DNP DPB Chair: Geoffrey Krafft, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

E4 Panel Discussion: Non-traditional Careers for Physicists
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade B Sponsor: FGSA Chair: Meghan Anzelc, Northwestern University

E5 Computational Nuclear Physics
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade C Sponsor: DNP GHP Chair: Curtis Meyer, Carnegie Mellon University

E6 Ultra-High-Density Plasmas
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade D Sponsor: DPP Chair: Jonathan Fortney, University of California, Santa Cruz

E7 Astrophysicists' Perspectives on Current Problems in Plasma Astrophysics I
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Rose Garden Sponsor: GPAP Chair: Steven Spangler, University of Iowa

E8 Gamma Ray Bursts, Gravitational Wave Bursts, Supernovae
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade A Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Erik Katsavounidis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

E10 Self Force and Gravitational Wave Tails
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis A Sponsor: GGR Chair: Eric Poisson, University of Guelph

E11 Electroweak II
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis B Sponsor: DPF Chair: Erik Brubaker, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

E12 B Physics II
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis C Sponsor: DPF Chair: Alexei Garmash, Princeton University

E13 Minisymposium on Nuclear Physics Deep Underground III
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis F Sponsor: DNP Chair: Andrew Hime, Los Alamos National Laboratory

E14 Theory Involving Finite Nuclei
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis G Sponsor: DNP Chair: Witold Nazarewicz, University of Tennessee

E15 Manhattan Project and Beyond
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis H Sponsor: FHP Chair: Jeffrey Dunham, Middlebury College

Apr 12 2008 4:05PM, Saturday

8HE HEDP/HEDLA Poster Session (4:05-6:30pm)
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade E and Promenade Lobby Sponsor: HEDP HEDLA Chair: Bruce Remington, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Apr 12 2008 5:30PM, Saturday

F1 Welcome Reception and Poster Session I (5:30-6:45 p.m.)
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Fourth Floor Lobby Sponsor: APS

Apr 12 2008 7:00PM, Saturday

G1 APS Energy Efficiency Study
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis D Sponsor: APS Chair: Arthur Bienenstock, APS President, Stanford University

Apr 13 2008 8:30AM, Sunday

H2 B Physics III
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis D Sponsor: DPF Chair: Jack Ritchie, University of Texas

H3 The Long Distance Structure of the Nucleon
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis E Sponsor: DNP Chair: Richard Milner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

H4 Undergraduate Education in Nuclear Physics
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade B Sponsor: DNP FEd Chair: Cornelius Beausang, University of Richmond

H5 Astrophysicists' Perspectives on Current Problems in Plasma Astrophysics II
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade C Sponsor: GPAP DAP Chair: Dmitri Uzdensky, Princeton University

H6 Impact of Major Accelerator Projects on the Development of Emergent Countries
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade D Sponsor: DPB FIP Chair: Satoshi Ozaki, Brookhaven National Laboratory

H7 Laboratory and Space Tests of Gravitation
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Rose Garden Sponsor: GGR Chair: Eric Adelberger, University of Washington

H8 Galactic and Planetary Astrophysics
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade A Sponsor: DAP Chair: Steve Kahn, SLAC/Stanford University

H10 Numerical Simulations of Neutron Stars
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis A Sponsor: GGR Chair: Grant Mathews, University of Notre Dame

H11 Muon Colliders and Nu Beams
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis B Sponsor: DPF Chair: Steve Geer, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

H12 New Ideas
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis C Sponsor: DPF Chair: Cecilia Gerber, University of Illinois at Chicago

H13 Minisymposium on Correlations and Jets in Heavy-Ion Collisions
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis F Sponsor: DNP Chair: Jim Thomas, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

H14 Nuclear Structure: Light and Medium Mass Nuclei
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis G Sponsor: DNP Chair: Lee Sobotka, Washington University at St. Louis

H15 Nuclear Astrophysics II
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis H Sponsor: DNP Chair: Hendrik Schatz, Michigan State University

9HE HEDP/HEDLA Poster Session (8:30-11:00am) (Continuation of Poster Session 8HE)
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade E and Promenade Lobby Sponsor: HEDP HEDLA Chair: Bruce Remington, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Apr 13 2008 10:45AM, Sunday

J2 Joint Session on Neutrinos
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis D Sponsor: DNP DPF Chair: Kevin Lesko, University of California, Berkeley

J3 Los Alamos and the Manhattan Project: 65th Anniversary (Followed by Panel Discussion)
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis E Sponsor: FHP FPS Chair: Benjamin Bederson, New York University

J4 Topics in Mathematical and Computational Physics
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade B Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Rubin Landau, Oregon State University

J5 The U.S. Particle Accelerator School
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade C Sponsor: FEd DPB Chair: Linda Spentzouris, Illinois Institute of Technology

J6 Jets and Gamma Ray Bursts
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade D Sponsor: DPP GPAP Chair: Hui Li, Los Alamos National Laboratory

J7 Recent Highlights in Hadronic Physics
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Rose Garden Sponsor: GHP Chair: Paul Eugenio, Florida State University

J8 Cosmic Microwave Background and Analysis Techniques
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade A Sponsor: DAP Chair: Steve Kahn, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

J10 Numerical Simulations of Black Hole Binaries
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis A Sponsor: GGR Chair: Frans Pretorius, Princeton University

J11 QCD and Colliders I
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis B Sponsor: DPF Chair: Claude Bernard, Washington University

J12 Top I
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis C Sponsor: DPF Chair: Graham Wilson, University of Kansas

J13 Minisymposium on Hard Probes of the Quark-Gluon Plasma
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis F Sponsor: DNP Chair: Xin-Nian Wang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

J14 Minisymposium on From Thermonuclear to Pyconuclear Burning
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis G Sponsor: DNP Chair: Michael Wiescher, Univ of Notre Dame

J15 Nuclear Reactions and Astrophysics
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis H Sponsor: DNP Chair: Augusto Macchiavelli, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

J16 Physics Education I
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Director's Row 29 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Ken Heller, University of Minnesota

Apr 13 2008 11:00AM, Sunday

10HE Radiation and Supernovae
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade F Sponsor: HEDP HEDLA Chair: Steve Rose, Imperial College

Apr 13 2008 1:30PM, Sunday

L2 Neutrinos and Astrophysics
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis D Sponsor: DPF Chair: Andre de Gouvea, Northwestern University

L3 The Physics of X-Ray Bursts
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis E Sponsor: DNP DAP Chair: Ed Brown, Michigan State University

L4 Why We Should Double the Number of Undergraduate Degrees in Physics
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade B Sponsor: FEd Chair: Cathy Mader, Hope College/APS

L5 Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade C Sponsor: DAP Chair: Charles Dermer, Naval Research Laboratory

L6 Nuclear Forensics
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade D Sponsor: FPS Chair: Charles Ferguson

L7 Ground-based Gravitational Wave Searches
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Rose Garden Sponsor: GGR Chair: Stanley Whitcomb, California Institute of Technology

L8 Neutron Stars, Pulsars, and Black Holes
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade A Sponsor: DAP Chair: Jonathan Arons, University of California, Berkeley

L10 Mathematical and Post-Newtonian Relativity
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis A Sponsor: GGR

L11 Charm Physics
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis B Sponsor: DPF Chair: Ray Cowan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

L12 Higgs I
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis C Sponsor: DPF Chair: Kevin Pitts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

L13 Minisymposium on Flow, Eccentricity and the Equation of State in RHIC
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis F Sponsor: DNP Chair: Alice Mignerey, University of Maryland

L14 Few-Body Systems
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis G Sponsor: GFB Chair: Allena Opper, The George Washington University

L15 New Ideas in Cosmology
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis H Sponsor: DPF DAP Chair: Michael Turner, University of Chicago

Apr 13 2008 2:00PM, Sunday

K1 Poster Session II (2:00-5:00pm)
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Fourth Floor Lobby Sponsor: APS

Apr 13 2008 3:10PM, Sunday

11HE Physics of Planetary Interiors
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade F Sponsor: HEDP HEDLA Chair: Jonathan Fortney, University of California, Santa Cruz

Apr 13 2008 3:30PM, Sunday

M2 Dark Matter and Dark Energy
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis D Sponsor: DPF DAP Chair: Juan Collar, University of Chicago

M3 New Results on the Polarized Glue in the Nucleon
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis E Sponsor: DNP Chair: Abhay Deshpande, Stony Brook University and RIKEN-BNL Research Center

M4 Computational Physics Education
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade B Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Amy Bug, Swarthmore College

M5 Recent Results in Gamma-Ray Astrophysics
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade C Sponsor: DAP Chair: Fiona Harrison, California Institute of Technologoy

M6 Equipping Scientists to Run for Political Office
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade D Sponsor: FPS FGSA Chair: Jennifer Wiseman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

M7 The Broad Spectrum of Gravitation
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Rose Garden Sponsor: GGR COM Chair: Pablo Laguna, Pennsylvania State University

M8 Future Gamma Ray and X-Ray Astronomy Projects
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade A Sponsor: DAP Chair: Neil Gehrels, NASA/GSFC

M10 Gravitational Waves from Neutron Stars and Stochastic Backgrounds
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis A Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Keith Riles, University of Michigan

M11 Higgs II
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis B Sponsor: DPF Chair: Ricardo Flores, University of Missouri-St. Louis

M12 Top III
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis C Sponsor: DPF Chair: Chip Brock, Michigan State University

M13 Neutrinos I
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis F Sponsor: DNP Chair: Steve Elliott, Los Alamos National Laboratory

M14 Nuclear Structure: Medium Mass Nuclei
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis G Sponsor: DNP Chair: Nikolaos Fotiades, Los Alamos National Laboratory

M15 Space and Astrophysical Plasma
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis H Sponsor: DPP Chair: Michael Brown, Swarthmore College

Apr 13 2008 4:25PM, Sunday

12HE Laboratory Studies of Dense Matter I
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade F Sponsor: HEDP HEDLA Chair: Michel Koenig, Ecole Polytechnique

Apr 13 2008 5:30PM, Sunday

N1 APS Awards Presentations, Past-President's Address and Lilienfeld Prize Talk
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade C Sponsor: APS Chair: Arthur Bienenstock, APS President, Stanford University

Apr 14 2008 8:30AM, Monday

Q1 Plenary Session II
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Lous DE Sponsor: APS Chair: Arthur Bienenstock, APS President, Stanford University

Apr 14 2008 10:45AM, Monday

R2 American Particle Physics in the Coming Era I
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis D Sponsor: DPF Chair: Charlie Baltay, Yale University

R3 Neutron Rich Nuclei in the Laboratory and in the Cosmos
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis E Sponsor: DNP Chair: Hendrik Schatz, Michigan State University

R4 Building a Successful Career: Perseverance, Funding & Climate
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade B Sponsor: CSWP Chair: Roxanne Springer, Duke University

R5 Advanced Acceleration Techniques
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade C Sponsor: DPB DPP Chair: Warren Mori, University of California, Los Angeles

R6 80 Years of Quantum Mechanics: A New International Project
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade D Sponsor: FHP Chair: Clayton A. Gearhart, St. John's University

R8 Cosmology / Early Universe
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade A Sponsor: DAP Chair: Edmund Bertschinger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

R9 Lattice QCD in Elementary Particle Physics
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade E Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Steven Gottlieb, Indiana University

R10 Topics in Numerical Relativity
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis A Sponsor: GGR Chair: Lee Lindblom, Caltech

R11 Detectors I
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis B Sponsor: DPF Chair: Dan Amidei, University of Michigan

R12 Electroweak I
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis C Sponsor: DPF Chair: Graham Wilson, University of Kansas

R13 Neutrinos II
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis F Sponsor: DNP Chair: William Louis, Los Alamos National Laboratory

R14 Nuclear Reactions
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis G Sponsor: DNP Chair: Robert Charity, Washington University, St Louis

R15 Electromagnetic Interactions I
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis H Sponsor: DNP Chair: Zein-Eddine Meziani, Temple University

R16 Frontiers in Physics Education Research
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Director's Row 29 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Paula Heron, University of Washington

Apr 14 2008 10:50AM, Monday

13HE Laboratory Studies of Dense Matter II
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade F Sponsor: HEDP HEDLA Chair: Dieter Hoffmann, GSI

Apr 14 2008 11:40AM, Monday

14HE HEDP Theory and Experiments
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade F Sponsor: HEDP HEDLA Chair: George Kyrala, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Apr 14 2008 12:30PM, Monday

R18 DPB Business Meeting and Reception
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Director's Row 26 Sponsor: DPB

Apr 14 2008 1:30PM, Monday

S2 American Particle Physics in the Coming Era II
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis D Sponsor: DPF Chair: Robert Cahn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

S3 DNP Dissertation Awards
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis E Sponsor: DNP Chair: Richard Casten, Yale University

S4 Numerical Relativistic Astrophysics
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade B Sponsor: DAP Chair: Scott Hughes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

S5 50th Anniversary of Physical Review Letters
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade C Sponsor: FHP DPF Chair: R. Sekhar Chivukula, Michigan State University

S6 FPS/FHP Awards Session
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis H Sponsor: FPS FHP Chair: Lawrence Krauss, Case Western Reserve University

S8 Stellar Physics and Super Novae
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade A Sponsor: DAP Chair: Neil Brandt, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

S9 Inertial Confinement and High Energy Density Plasma
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade E Sponsor: DPP Chair: Juan Fernandez, Los Alamos National Laboratory

S10 Gravitational Waves Sources for LISA
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis A Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Richard Price, University of Texas at Brownsville

S11 Searches I
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis B Sponsor: DPF Chair: Alexey Drutskoy, University of Cincinnatti

S12 Accelerator Physics
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis C Sponsor: DPB Chair: Thomas Roser, Brookhaven National Laboratory

S13 QCD and Colliders II
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis F Sponsor: DPF Chair: Dan Amidei, University of Michigan

S16 The Place of the Advanced Laboratory in Undergraduate Education
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Director's Row 29 Sponsor: FEd Chair: David G. Haase, North Carolina State University

Apr 14 2008 2:00PM, Monday

S1 Poster Session III (2:00-5:00pm)
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Fourth Floor Lobby Sponsor: APS

Apr 14 2008 2:06PM, Monday

S18 Undergraduate Session I
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Director's Row 46 Sponsor: SPS Chair: Gary White, Society of Physics Students/American Institute of Physics

S19 Undergraduate Session II
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Director's Row 47 Sponsor: SPS Chair: Monica Plisch, American Physical Society

S20 Undergraduate Session III
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Director's Row 48 Sponsor: SPS Chair: Kendra Rand, American Institute of Physics

Apr 14 2008 2:25PM, Monday

15HE Intense Laser-Matter Interactions
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade F Sponsor: HEDP HEDLA Chair: Peter Norreys, Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory

Apr 14 2008 3:30PM, Monday

T2 DPB/DPF Prize Session
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis D Sponsor: DPB DPF Chair: Stephen Holmes, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

T3 Bethe, Bonner Prize Session
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis E Sponsor: DNP Chair: Richard Milner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

T4 Electric Dipole Moment Experiments
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade B Sponsor: GPMFC Chair: Eric Hessels, York University

T5 Dark Energy
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade C Sponsor: DAP DPF Chair: Michael Turner, University of Chicago

T6 Astrophysics of Black Hole Mergers
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade D Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: John Friedman, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

T7 Excellence in Physics Education Award Session
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Rose Garden Sponsor: FEd Chair: Leo Kadanoff, APS Past-President, University of Chicago

T8 Cosmic Rays
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade A Sponsor: DAP Chair: Elliott Bloom, SLAC/Stanford University

T9 History of Physics
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade E Sponsor: FHP Chair: Don Howard, University of Notre Dame

T10 Experimental Test of Gravitation and Gravitational Wave Detectors
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis A Sponsor: GGR Chair: Jens Gundlach, University of Washington

T11 Miscellaneous Searches II
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis B Sponsor: DPF Chair: Al Goshaw, Duke University

T12 Accelerator Neutrino Expts. I
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis C Sponsor: DPF Chair: Chris Polly, Indiana University

T13 Precision Low Energy
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis F Sponsor: DPF Chair: Ta Pei Cheng, University of Missouri-St. Louis

T14 SUSY
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis G Sponsor: DPF Chair: Boris Kayser, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Apr 14 2008 5:30PM, Monday

U8 DAP Business Meeting
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade C Sponsor: DAP

U9 GHP Business Meeting
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade F Sponsor: GHP

U10 GGR Business Meeting
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis A Sponsor: GGR Chair: Dieter Brill, University of Maryland

U11 DPF Town Hall Meeting: A New Era for Particle Physics
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis B Sponsor: DPF

U12 GFC Business Meeting
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis C Sponsor: GFC

U13 FEd Business Meeting and Reception
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis F Sponsor: FEd

U14 DNP Business Meeting
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis G Sponsor: DNP Chair: Rick Casten, Yale Unviersity

U15 GFB Business Meeting
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis H Sponsor: GFB

U16 FHP Business Meeting
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Director's Row 29 Sponsor: FHP

Apr 15 2008 8:30AM, Tuesday

V1 Plenary Session III
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Lous DE Sponsor: APS Chair: Natalie Roe, Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory

Apr 15 2008 10:45AM, Tuesday

W2 The LHC/ILC Era
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis D Sponsor: DPF DPB Chair: Boris Kayser, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

W3 Recent Developments in the Structure of Exotic Nuclei
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis E Sponsor: DNP Chair: Robert Janssens, Argonne National Laboratory

W5 Computational Challenges in Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravitation
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade C Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Pablo Laguna, Pennsylvania State University

W7 Astrophysics
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Rose Garden Sponsor: DAP Chair: Steven Kahn, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

W10 Alternative Gravity I
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis A Sponsor: GGR Chair: David Garfinkle, Oakland University

W11 Particle and String Theory
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis B Sponsor: DPF Chair: Sherwin Love, Purdue University

W12 D and B Physics
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis C Sponsor: DPF Chair: Brendan Casey, Fermi National Acceleratory Laboratory

W13 Neutrinos III
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis F Sponsor: DNP Chair: Zelimir Djurcic, Columbia University

W14 Applications of Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Techniques
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis G Sponsor: DNP Chair: George Souliotis, Texas A and M University

W15 Hadronic Physics
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis H Sponsor: DNP Chair: Bernd Surrow, MIT

W16 Physics Education II
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Director's Row 29 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Bruce Mason, University of Oklahoma

Apr 15 2008 10:50AM, Tuesday

16HE Quark-Gluon Plasmas
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade F Sponsor: HEDP HEDLA Chair: Barbara Jacak, State University of New York at Stony Brook

Apr 15 2008 1:30PM, Tuesday

X2 Future Accelerator Facilities
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis D Sponsor: DPB DPF Chair: Young-Kee Kim, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

X3 Topics In Nuclear Physics
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis E Sponsor: DNP Chair: Richard Casten, Yale University

X4 Programs to Prepare Teaching Assistants to Teach
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade B Sponsor: FEd FGSA Chair: Peter Shaffer, University of Washington

X5 Short Gamma-Ray Bursts
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade C Sponsor: DAP Chair: Neil Gehrels, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

X6 Space Debris
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade D Sponsor: FPS Chair: Benn Tannenbaum, AAAS

X7 Numerical Relativity Meets the Post Newtonian Approximation
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Rose Garden Sponsor: GGR Chair: Clifford Will, Washington University

X8 Gamma Ray Astronomy
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade A Sponsor: DAP Chair: Steve Ritz, NASA/GSFC

X10 Alternative Gravity II
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis A Sponsor: GGR Chair: David Garfinkle, Oakland University

X11 Top II
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis B Sponsor: DPF Chair: Amnon Harel, University of Rochester

X12 Searches III
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis C Sponsor: DPF Chair: Brendan Casey, Fermi National Acceleratory Laboratory

X13 Electromagnetic Interactions II
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis F Sponsor: DNP Chair: Jen-Chieh Peng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

X14 Nuclear Structure: Heavy Nuclei
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis G Sponsor: DNP Chair: Walter Reviol, Washington University at St. Louis

X15 Nuclear Theory
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis H Sponsor: DNP Chair: Mihai Horoi, Central Michigan University

Apr 15 2008 2:50PM, Tuesday

17HE Relativistic Plasmas and Gamma-Ray Bursts
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade F Sponsor: HEDP HEDLA Chair: Tomasz Plewa, Florida State University

Apr 15 2008 4:50PM, Tuesday

18HE HEDLA Business Meeting
Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), Promenade F Sponsor: HEDP HEDLA Chair: Bruce Remington, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory