Epitome
Mar 31 2012 8:30AM, Saturday
Session A1 Plenary Session I: Kavli Foundation Keynote Session
Sponsor: APS Room: Regency Ballroom VI-VII
Invited Speakers: Ellen Zweibel, Samuel Ting
Mar 31 2012 10:45AM, Saturday
Session B2 Invited Session: Rare Decays
Sponsor: DPF Chair: Kevin Pitts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Room: Regency Ballroom V
Invited Speakers: Toshiyuki Iwamoto, Jiasen Ma, Luciano Ristori, Alessio Sarti
Session B3 Invited Session: Homing in on the Galactic Center Black Hole
Sponsor: DAP Chair: Clifford Will, Washington University in St. Louis Room: Hanover CDE
Invited Speakers: Mark Reid, Ramesh Narayan, Avery Broderick
Session B4 Invited Session: Numerical Relativity Beyond Astrophysics
Sponsor: GGR Chair: Frans Pretorius, Princeton University Room: International Ballroom North
Invited Speakers: Luis Lehner, Paul Chesler, Ulrich Sperhake
Session B5 Invited Session: Applications of Graphical Processing Units in Physics
Sponsor: DNP DCOMP Chair: Matthew Shepard, Indiana University, Bloomington Room: International Ballroom South
Invited Speakers: Balint Joo, Evghenii Gaburov, Niklaus Berger
Session B6 Invited Session: FPS Awards
Sponsor: FPS Chair: Pete Zimmerman, King's College, London Room: Embassy C
Invited Speakers: Arian Pregenzer, Siegfried Hecker, Peter Zimmerman
Session B7 Dark Matter: Direct Searches and Theory Sponsor: DAP Chair: Heywood Tam, University of Florida Room: Embassy D
Session B8 Current and Future Gravitational Wave Experiments
Sponsor: GGR Chair: Duncan Brown, Syracuse University Room: Embassy B
Invited Speakers: Stefan Ballmer
Session B9 Higgs Searches I Sponsor: DPF Chair: Nikos Varelas, University of Illinois at Chicago Room: Embassy E
Session B10 Non-accelerator Neutrino Experiments Sponsor: DPF Chair: Yuri Efremenko, University of Tennessee Room: Embassy A
Session B11 Nuclear Theory Sponsor: DNP Chair: James Vary, Iowa State University Room: Embassy F
Session B12 Invited Session: Longitudinal and Transverse Structure of the Nucleon
Sponsor: DNP Chair: Wally Melnitchouk, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Room: Grand Hall East A/B
Invited Speakers: Xin Qian, Hovhannes Baghdasaryan
Session B15 SPS Undergraduate Research and Outreach I Sponsor: FEd Chair: Kendra Redmond, Am. Inst. of Physics/Soc. of Physics Students Room: Grand Hall East D
Mar 31 2012 12:35PM, Saturday
Session B20 FPS Business Meeting Sponsor: FPS Room: Embassy C
Mar 31 2012 1:30PM, Saturday
Session C2 Invited Session: Instrumentation in High Energy Physics
Sponsor: DPF Chair: Alice Bean, University of Kansas Room: Regency Ballroom V
Invited Speakers: Gary Varner, Minfang Yeh
Session C3 Invited Session: Intermediate Mass Black Holes: In Search of the Missing Link
Sponsor: DAP Chair: Avery Broderick, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Room: Hanover CDE
Invited Speakers: Jenny Greene, Mathieu Servillat, Ilya Mandel
Session C4 Invited Session: Isospin and Spin Dependence of Few-Nucleon Forces
Sponsor: GFB DNP Chair: Calvin Howell, Duke University Room: International Ballroom North
Invited Speakers: Ruprecht Machleidt, Werner Tornow
Session C5 Invited Session: The Scientific Legacy of Bruno Rossi
Sponsor: FHP Chair: Daniel Kleppner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Room: International Ballroom South
Invited Speakers: George W. Clark, Edward Stone, Jim Cronin
Session C6 Invited Session: Goals and Assessment of the Physics Graduate Program
Sponsor: FEd FGSA Chair: Juan Burciaga, Mount Holyoke College Room: Embassy C
Invited Speakers: Stefan Zollner, Harald W. Griesshammer
Session C7 Neutrino Astronomy Sponsor: DAP Chair: Ignacio Taboada, Georgia Institute of Technology Room: Embassy D
Session C8 Gravitational-Wave Source Modeling Sponsor: GGR Chair: Bernard Kelly, University of Maryland Baltimore County Room: Embassy B
Session C9 Higgs Searches II Sponsor: DPF Chair: Alexey Drozdetskiy, University of Florida Room: Embassy E
Session C10 Electroweak Interactions Sponsor: DNP Chair: Pieter Mumm, NIST Room: Embassy A
Session C11 Nuclear Structure and Reactions I Sponsor: DNP Chair: Ingo Wiedenhoever, Florida State University Room: Embassy F
Session C12 Invited Session: Hard Hadronic Probes of Nuclear Collisions
Sponsor: GHP DNP Chair: Peter Petreczky, Brookhaven National Laboratory Room: Grand Hall East A/B
Invited Speakers: Raphael Granier de Cassagnac, Alexei Bazavov
Session C15 SPS Undergraduate Research, Education, and Outreach II Sponsor: FEd Chair: Gary White, Society of Physics Students, American Institute of Physics Room: Grand Hall East D
Mar 31 2012 3:30PM, Saturday
Session D2 Invited Session: Particle Physics in Antarctica
Sponsor: DPF Chair: Kara Hoffman, University of Maryland Room: Regency Ballroom V
Invited Speakers: Reina Maruyama
Session D3 Invited Session: Research in Cosmology Education
Sponsor: FEd DAP Chair: Lynn Cominsky, Sonoma State University Room: Hanover CDE
Invited Speakers: Janelle M. Bailey, Kim Coble, Edward Prather
Session D4 Invited Session: Analytical Relativity Meets Numerical Relativity
Sponsor: GGR Chair: Emanuele Berti, University of Mississippi/California Institute of Technology Room: International Ballroom North
Invited Speakers: Ajith Parameswaran
Session D5 Panel Discussion: Forum at Forty
Sponsor: FPS Chair: Pushpalatha Bhat, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Room: International Ballroom South
Invited Speakers: Martin Perl, Brian Schwartz, David Hafemeister, Peter Zimmerman, Andrew Zwicker
Session D6 Invited Session: Accelerator Driven Systems
Sponsor: DPB Chair: William Barletta, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Room: Embassy C
Invited Speakers: John Galambos, Luciano Calabretta, Sama Bilbao y Le\'on
Session D7 Inflation and Cosmology Sponsor: DAP Chair: Stephon Alexander, Haverford College Room: Embassy D
Session D8 Gravitational Waves: Data Analysis Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Melissa Frei, Rochester Institute of Technology Room: Embassy B
Session D9 Higgs Searches III Sponsor: DPF Chair: Alexey Drozdetskiy, University of Florida Room: Embassy E
Session D10 Relativistic Heavy Ions I Sponsor: DNP Chair: Senta Greene, Vanderbilt University Room: Embassy A
Session D11 Nuclear Instrumentation and Applications Sponsor: DNP Chair: Fred Wietfeldt, Tulane University Room: Embassy F
Session D12 Invited Session: Testing of 3-Body Forces in Light Neutron-Rich Nuclei
Sponsor: DNP Chair: Ernst Rehm, Argonne National Laboratory Room: Grand Hall East A/B
Invited Speakers: P. Fallon, Artemisia Spyrou
Session D14 Axion Dark Matter Search Sponsor: GPMFC Chair: Gianpaolo Carosi, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Room: Grand Hall East C
Session D15 100 Years of Cosmic Rays: Educational Opportunities I Sponsor: FEd Chair: Peggy Norris, Sanford Underground Laboratory at Homestake Room: Grand Hall East D
Mar 31 2012 5:45PM, Saturday
Session E1 Welcome Reception and Poster Session I: APS Posters I (5:45 pm - 7:30 pm) Sponsor: APS Room: Grand Hall West
Apr 1 2012 8:30AM, Sunday
Session G2 Invited Session: Results from Electron-Positron Colliders
Sponsor: DPF Chair: Jonathan Rosner, University of Chicago Room: Regency Ballroom V
Invited Speakers: Yury Kolomensky, Todd Pedlar
Session G3 Invited Session: Toward Understanding the Origins of Galactic Cosmic Rays
Sponsor: DAP Chair: Martin Israel, Washington University in St. Louis Room: Hanover CDE
Invited Speakers: Mirko Boezio, Stefan Funk, Elena Amato
Session G4 Invited Session: Pulsar Timing Arrays and Gravitational Radiation
Sponsor: DAP GGR Chair: Luis Lehner, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Room: International Ballroom North
Invited Speakers: Zoltan Haiman, Massimo Tinto
Session G5 Invited Session: Advancements in Computational Physics Using NSF's TeraGrid/XSEDE Resources
Sponsor: DCOMP GFB Chair: Deirdre Shoemaker, Georgia Institute of Technology Room: International Ballroom South
Invited Speakers: Colin Morningstar
Session G6 Invited Session: Students as Colleagues: An Examination of Teacher-Student Collaboration in Improving Educational Environments
Sponsor: FEd COM Chair: Angela Little, University of California, Berkeley Room: Embassy C
Invited Speakers: Ana Aceves, Badr Albanna, Joel Corbo, Gina Quan, Kenneth Tobin
Session G7 Dark Matter: Indirect Searches Sponsor: DAP Chair: James Buckley, Washington University in St. Louis Room: Embassy D
Session G8 General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamical Simulations
Sponsor: GGR DCOMP Chair: Joshua Faber, Rochester Institute of Technology Room: Embassy B
Invited Speakers:
Session G9 Charm and Variety Sponsor: DPF Chair: Doreen Wackeroth, SUNY Buffalo Room: Embassy E
Session G10 The Small Neutrino Mixing Angle Theta13 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Bob McKeown, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Room: Embassy A
Session G11 Nuclear Structure and Reactions II Sponsor: DNP Chair: Christopher Chiara, University of Maryland Room: Embassy F
Session G12 Invited Session: The Nucleon Resonance Spectrum
Sponsor: DNP Chair: Volker Burkert, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Room: Grand Hall East A/B
Invited Speakers: Volker Crede, Satoshi Nakamura, Stephen Wallace
Session G14 Instrumentation and Accelerator Technologies Sponsor: DPB Room: Grand Hall East C
Session G16 Sherwood I
Sponsor: DPP Chair: Chris Hegna, University of Wisconsin-Madison Room: Hanover FG
Invited Speakers: Dennis Whyte
Apr 1 2012 10:45AM, Sunday
Session H2 Invited Session: The Top Quark
Sponsor: DPF Chair: Craig Group, The University of Virginia and Fermi Accelerator National Laboratory Room: Regency Ballroom V
Invited Speakers: Robert Kehoe, Meenakshi Narain
Session H3 Invited Session: Toward Understanding the Origins of Extra-Galactic Cosmic Rays
Sponsor: DAP Chair: Angela Olinto, University of Chicago Room: Hanover CDE
Invited Speakers: Joerg Hoerandel, Peter Gorham
Session H4 Invited Session: Science Diplomacy: Accelerator Based Science in Korea
Sponsor: DPB FIP Chair: Kwang-Je Kim, Argonne National Laboratory Room: International Ballroom North
Invited Speakers: Won Namkung, Dong-Pil Min, M.H. Cho
Session H5 Invited Session: Physicists Advising on National Security
Sponsor: FHP Chair: Gloria Lubkin, Physics Today Editor Emerita Room: International Ballroom South
Invited Speakers: Richard Garwin, Roy Schwitters, John Foster, Jr.
Session H6 Invited Session: Energy Services for the Developing World I
Sponsor: GERA FIP Chair: Alvin Compaan, University of Toledo Room: Embassy C
Invited Speakers: Ashok Gadgil, Kurt Kornbluth, Jeffrey Nelson
Session H7 Extragalactic Astronomy and Gamma Ray Bursts Sponsor: DAP Chair: Elizabeth Hays, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Room: Embassy D
Session H8 Numerical Relativity: Neutron Stars and Black Holes Sponsor: GGR Chair: Wolfgang Tichy, Florida Atlantic University Room: Embassy B
Session H9 Bottom Quark Physics Sponsor: DPF Chair: Kevin Pitts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Room: Embassy E
Session H10 Few-nucleon Systems Sponsor: GFB DNP Chair: Haiyan Gao, Duke University Room: Embassy A
Session H11 Nuclear Astrophysics Sponsor: DNP Chair: Artemis Spyrou, Michigan State University Room: Embassy F
Session H12 Invited Session: New Measurements of Fundamental Constants and Materials
Sponsor: DNP GPMFC Chair: Susan Gardner, University of Kentucky Room: Grand Hall East A/B
Invited Speakers: Alexander Sushkov
Session H14 Hot Topics in Computational Astrophysics
Sponsor: DCOMP DAP Chair: Vicky Kalogera, Northwestern University Room: Grand Hall East C
Invited Speakers: David Merritt, Chris Fryer
Session H15 Cosmic Rays Education II and Faster-than-Light Controversies Sponsor: FEd DAP Chair: Marjorie Bardeen, Fermilab Room: Grand Hall East D
Apr 1 2012 11:00AM, Sunday
Session H16 Sherwood II Sponsor: DPP Chair: Paul Bonoli, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Room: Hanover FG
Apr 1 2012 1:30PM, Sunday
Session J2 Invited Session: Standard Model Higgs Boson Searches
Sponsor: DPF Chair: Nikos Varelas, University of Illinois at Chicago Room: Regency Ballroom V
Invited Speakers: Doreen Wackeroth, Craig Group, Alexey Drozdetskiy
Session J3 Invited Session: Cosmic Rays and Hadron Physics
Sponsor: GHP DAP Chair: Amy Connolly, Ohio State University Room: Hanover CDE
Invited Speakers: Lisa Gerhardt, Klaus Werner
Session J4 Prize Session: Bouchet Award, Lilienfeld Prize, Nicholson Medal
Sponsor: APS Room: International Ballroom North
Invited Speakers: Ramon Lopez, Gordon Kane, David Ernst
Session J5 Invited Session: The Dynamics of Waves and Energetic Particles: Observations
Sponsor: DPP GPAP Chair: Donald Spong, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Room: International Ballroom South
Invited Speakers: Donald A. Gurnett, Timothy Hankins
Session J6 Invited Session: Teaching and Learning Physics Through ComPADRE
Sponsor: FEd Chair: Bruce Mason, University of Oklahoma Room: Embassy C
Invited Speakers: Wolfgang Christian, Taha Mzoughi
Session J7 Gamma Rays and Neutrinos in the Galaxy Sponsor: DAP Chair: Julie McEnery, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Room: Embassy D
Session J8 Simulations of General Relativistic Astrophysical Phenomena Sponsor: GGR Chair: Christian Reisswig, California Institute of Technology Room: Embassy B
Session J9 Top Quark Sponsor: DPF Chair: Robert Kehoe, Southern Methodist University Room: Embassy E
Session J11 Minisymposium: Dark Forces below the Proton Mass Scale
Sponsor: DNP Chair: O. Keith Baker, Yale University Room: Embassy F
Invited Speakers: Natalia Toro
Session J12 Invited Session: Energy Services for the Developing World II
Sponsor: FIP GERA Chair: Ellen Stechel, Sandia National Laboratories Room: Grand Hall East A/B
Invited Speakers: Alexie Kolpak, Trudy Forsyth
Session J14 Computational Methods in Particle & Nuclear Physics Sponsor: DCOMP DPF DNP Chair: Dean Lee, North Carolina State University Room: Grand Hall East C
Session J15 History of Physics and Educational Topics Sponsor: FHP Chair: Adrienne Kolb, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Room: Grand Hall East D
Apr 1 2012 2:00PM, Sunday
Session K1 Poster Session II: Sherwood I and APS Posters II (2:00 pm - 5:00 pm) Room: Grand Hall West
Apr 1 2012 2:30PM, Sunday
Session J16 Tutorial for Authors and Referees Sponsor: APS Room: Hanover FG
Apr 1 2012 3:30PM, Sunday
Session L2 Invited Session: Beyond the Standard Model; Hot Topics
Sponsor: DPF Chair: Yuri Gershtein, Rutgers Unversity Room: Regency Ballroom V
Invited Speakers: Ann Nelson, Graham Wilson, David Berge
Session L3 Invited Session: The Dynamics of Waves and Energetic Particles: Simulations
Sponsor: DPP GPAP Chair: William Heidbrink, University of California, Irvine Room: Hanover CDE
Invited Speakers: Lorenzo Sironi, Donald Spong, Joe Giacalone
Session L4 Invited Session: Challenges in Numerical Relativity
Sponsor: GGR COM Chair: Carlos Lousto, Rochester Institute of Technology Room: International Ballroom North
Invited Speakers: Pablo Laguna, Pedro Marronetti
Session L5 Bonner Prize Session
Sponsor: DNP Chair: Robert Tribble, Texas A&M University Room: International Ballroom South
Invited Speakers: Witold Nazarewicz, Douglas Higinbotham, Scott Bogner
Session L6 Tests of General Relativity and Gravitation
Sponsor: GGR Chair: Nicholas Yunes, Montana State University Room: Embassy C
Invited Speakers: Nicolas Yunes
Session L7 Cosmic Ray Abundances and Electron/Positron Measurements Sponsor: DAP Chair: Mark Wiedenbeck, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Room: Embassy D
Session L8 Quantum Aspects of Gravitation Sponsor: GGR Chair: Jorge Pullin, Louisiana State University Room: Embassy B
Session L9 Instrumentation in High Energy Physics Sponsor: DPF Chair: Marcel Demarteau, Argonne National Laboratory Room: Embassy E
Session L10 Neutrino Beams and Backgrounds Sponsor: DPF Chair: Kate Scholberg, Duke University Room: Embassy A
Session L11 Spin Structure of the Nucleon Sponsor: GHP Chair: Ernst Sichtermann, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Room: Embassy F
Session L12 Invited Session: High School Physics Teachers: Supply and Demand
Sponsor: FEd Chair: Paul Cottle, Florida State University Room: Grand Hall East A/B
Invited Speakers: Tim Sass, Susan White, Monica Plisch
Session L14 Fundamental Constants Sponsor: GPMFC Chair: Rana Adhikari, California Institute of Technology Room: Grand Hall East C
Apr 1 2012 5:45PM, Sunday
Session M1 APS Past President's Address followed by Prizes and Awards Ceremonial Session
Sponsor: APS Chair: Robert Byer, Stanford University Room: Regency V
Invited Speakers: Barry Barish
Apr 1 2012 7:00PM, Sunday
Session N11 GHP Business Meeting Sponsor: GHP Room: Embassy F
Apr 2 2012 8:30AM, Monday
Session P1 Plenary Session II: Nobel Prize Session
Sponsor: APS Room: Regency Ballroom VI-VII
Invited Speakers: Adam Riess, Frank Wilczek
Apr 2 2012 10:45AM, Monday
Session Q2 Invited Session: Neutrinos: The Precision Frontier
Sponsor: DPF DNP Chair: Kate Scholberg, Duke University Room: Regency Ballroom V
Invited Speakers: Robert Svoboda, Lindley Winslow, Lisa Kaufman
Session Q3 Invited Session: Dark Matter: Indirect Detection
Sponsor: DAP Chair: Francesc Ferrer, Washington University in St. Louis Room: Hanover CDE
Invited Speakers: James Buckley, Stefano Profumo
Session Q4 Invited Session: Advances in Quantum Gravity
Sponsor: GGR Chair: Jorge Pullin, Lousiana State University Room: International Ballroom North
Invited Speakers: Diego Hofman, Ivan Agullo, Eugenio Bianchi
Session Q5 Invited Session: New Developments in Radiation Detection Technologies
Sponsor: FPS Chair: Douglas Wright, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Room: International Ballroom South
Invited Speakers: Warren Stern, Michael Kuliasha, Michael Larson
Session Q6 Invited Session: The Role of Physics Departments in Preparing Instructors of Physics
Sponsor: FEd Chair: Monica Plisch, American Physical Society Room: Embassy C
Invited Speakers: David Haase, Michael Manhart, Simon Knapen, Rachel Scherr
Session Q7 Gravitational Waves: Astrophysics Sponsor: DAP GGR Chair: Peter Shawhan, University of Maryland Room: Embassy D
Session Q8 Numerical Relativity: Black-Hole Binaries Sponsor: GGR Chair: Geoffrey Lovelace, Cornell University Room: Embassy B
Session Q9 New Particle Searches I Sponsor: DPF Chair: Yuri Gershtein, Rutgers University Room: Embassy E
Session Q10 Relativistic Heavy Ions II Sponsor: DNP Chair: Berndt Mueller, Duke University Room: Embassy A
Session Q11 Photoproduction and Dynamics of Light Mesons Sponsor: DNP GHP Chair: Simon Capstick, Florida State University Room: Embassy F
Session Q12 Invited Session: Non-perturbative Physics in the Standard Model and Beyond Explored by Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Calculations
Sponsor: DCOMP DNP Chair: Alexei Bazavov, Brookhaven National Laboratory Room: Grand Hall East A/B
Invited Speakers: Ran Zhou, Ludmila Levkova, Michael Cheng
Session Q16 Sherwood III Sponsor: DPP Chair: Guoyong Fu, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Room: Hanover FG
Apr 2 2012 1:30PM, Monday
Session R2 Invited Session: Angular Momentum Transport in the Laboratory and in Nature
Sponsor: DPP GPAP Chair: Fred Skiff, University of Iowa Room: Regency Ballroom V
Invited Speakers: S. Kaye, Michael Barnes, John Hawley
Session R3 Invited Session: Testing Gravity on Cosmic Scales
Sponsor: DAP GGR Chair: Nikhil Padmanabhan, Yale University Room: Hanover CDE
Invited Speakers: Bhuvnesh Jain, Claudia deRham, Fabian Schmidt
Session R4 Invited Session: Women in Physics: Status and Interventions
Sponsor: CSWP Chair: Senta Greene, Vanderbilt University Room: International Ballroom North
Invited Speakers: Rachel Ivie, Abigail Stewart, Kelly Holley-Bockelmann
Session R5 Wilson Prize Session
Sponsor: DPB Chair: William Barletta, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Room: International Ballroom South
Invited Speakers: John M.J. Madey, Stephen Milton, Ferdinand Willeke
Session R6 Invited Session: Parton Density Studies at an Electron-Ion Collider
Sponsor: GHP Chair: Ramona Vogt, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Room: Embassy C
Invited Speakers: Raju Venugopalan, Dennis Sivers, Ernst Sichtermann
Session R7 Extracting Physical Information from Gravitational Wave Signals
Sponsor: DCOMP GGR Chair: Neil Cornish, Montana State University Room: Embassy D
Invited Speakers:
Session R8 Approximations in General Relativity Sponsor: GGR Chair: Samuel Gralla, University of Maryland College Park Room: Embassy B
Session R9 New Particle Searches II Sponsor: DPF Chair: Yuri Gershtein, Rutgers University Room: Embassy E
Session R10 QCD, EWK, and Jet Physics Sponsor: DPF Chair: Nikos Varelas, University of Illinois at Chicago Room: Embassy A
Session R11 Precision Neutrino Physics and Its Interpretation Sponsor: DNP Chair: Jonathan Link, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Room: Embassy F
Session R12 Dissertation and Mentorship Awards
Sponsor: DNP Chair: Robert Tribble, Texas A&M University Room: Grand Hall East A/B
Invited Speakers: Phillip Barbeau, Emanuele Mereghetti
Session R14 High Energy Physics and Dark Matter Search Sponsor: GPMFC Room: Grand Hall East C
Session R15 Physics Education Research: Issues in Intro Classes, Modeling and Gender Sponsor: FEd Chair: Thomas Olsen, Am. Inst. of Physics/Soc. of Physics Students Room: Grand Hall East D
Apr 2 2012 2:00PM, Monday
Session S1 Poster Session III: Sherwood (2:00 pm - 5:00 pm) Sponsor: APS Room: Grand Hall West
Apr 2 2012 3:30PM, Monday
Session T2 Invited Session: Dark Matter: Direct Detection
Sponsor: DAP DPF Chair: Corbin Covault, Case Western Reserve University Room: Regency Ballroom V
Invited Speakers: Jocelyn Monroe, Neal Weiner
Session T3 Invited Session: New Stars in Astrophysics
Sponsor: DAP Chair: Alicia Soderberg, Harvard Center for Astrophysics Room: Hanover CDE
Invited Speakers: Manuel Peimbert, Laura Lopez
Session T4 Panel Discussion: American Science & America's Future
Sponsor: FPS Chair: Pushpa Bhat, Fermi Accelerator National Laboratory, and Lawrence Krauss, Arizona State University Room: International Ballroom North
Invited Speakers: Neal Lane, Timothy Hallman, Frank Wilczek, Martin Perl
Session T5 Pais Prize Session: The National Laboratories after 1980
Sponsor: FHP Chair: Catherine Westfall, Michigan State University Room: International Ballroom South
Invited Speakers: Lillian Hoddeson, Burton Richter
Session T6 Invited Session: Perspectives in Gravitational Physics
Sponsor: GGR Chair: James Isenberg, University of Oregon Room: Embassy C
Invited Speakers: Beverly K. Berger, Kip Thorne, John Friedman
Session T7 Cosmic Ray Composition and Air Shower Studies Sponsor: DAP Chair: Robert Binns, Washington University in St. Louis Room: Embassy D
Session T8 Exact Solutions and Analyses of Spacetimes Sponsor: GGR Chair: Govind Menon, Troy University Room: Embassy B
Session T9 New Particle Searches III Sponsor: DPF Chair: Graham Wilson, University of Kansas Room: Embassy E
Session T10 Nuclear Instrumentation Sponsor: DNP Chair: Dipangkar Dutta, Mississippi State University Room: Embassy A
Session T11 Accelerator Neutrino Experiments Sponsor: DPF Chair: Bob Svoboda, University of California, Davis Room: Embassy F
Session T12 Invited Session: Flow Signatures and its Implications for the Strongly Interacting Quark Gluon Plasma
Sponsor: DNP Chair: Xiaochun He, Georgia State University Room: Grand Hall East A/B
Invited Speakers: Andrew Adare, Hannah Petersen
Session T14 Computational Methods and Implementation Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Ronald Mickens, Clark Atlanta University Room: Grand Hall East C
Apr 2 2012 5:45PM, Monday
Session U7 DAP Business Meeting Sponsor: DAP Room: Embassy D
Session U8 GGR Business Meeting Sponsor: GGR Room: Embassy B
Session U9 DPF Business Meeting Sponsor: DPF Chair: Pierre Ramond, University of Florida Room: Embassy E
Session U10 FIP Business Meeting Sponsor: FIP Room: Embassy A
Session U11 DNP Business Meeting Sponsor: DNP Room: Embassy F
Session U14 DCOMP Business Meeting Sponsor: DCOMP Room: Grand Hall East C
Session U15 FED Business Meeting Sponsor: FEd Room: Grand Hall East D
Apr 2 2012 7:30PM, Monday
Session U50 Energy Challenges Confronting our Nation in the 21st Century
Chair: Rocky Kolb, University of Chicago Room: International Ballroom North
Invited Speakers: Robert Rosner, Steven E. Koonin
Apr 3 2012 8:30AM, Tuesday
Session V1 Plenary Session III
Sponsor: APS Room: Regency Ballroom VI-VII
Invited Speakers: Krishna Rajagopal, Zheng-Tian Lu, Judith Curry
Apr 3 2012 10:45AM, Tuesday
Session W2 DPF Prize and Award Session
Sponsor: DPF Chair: Patricia McBride, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Room: Regency Ballroom V
Invited Speakers: William Atwood, Daniel Jafferis, Djordje Radicevic, Georgia Karagiorgi, Andre Lessa
Session W3 Invited Session: Cosmological Constraints from Small-Scale CMB Anisotropies
Sponsor: DAP Chair: John Wise, Georgia Institute of Technology Room: Hanover CDE
Invited Speakers: Bradford Benson, Kendrick Smith
Session W5 Invited Session: Nuclear Energy, Post-Fukushima
Sponsor: FPS Chair: Peter Zimmerman, Kings College London Room: International Ballroom South
Invited Speakers: Richard Meserve, Mark Peters, Harold Feiveson
Session W6 Panel Discussion: Challenges for Early Career Researchers in International Collaborations and Exchanges
Sponsor: FIP FGSA Chair: Renee Horton, Lousiana State University Room: Embassy C
Invited Speakers: Lindley Winslow
Session W7 Cosmic Ray Spectrum and Distribution Sponsor: DAP Chair: Gregory Guzik, Louisiana State University Room: Embassy D
Session W8 Topics in Numerical Relativity Sponsor: GGR Chair: Manuel Tiglio, University of Maryland College Park Room: Embassy B
Session W9 Direct Dark Matter Detection Sponsor: DPF DAP Chair: Corbin Covault, Case Western Reserve University Room: Embassy E
Session W10 Partonic Structure in Nucleons and Nuclei Sponsor: GHP DNP Chair: John Arrington, Argonne National Laboratory Room: Embassy A
Session W12 Invited Sesson: Neutrinos: The Wild Frontier
Sponsor: DNP DPF Chair: Bruce Vogelaar, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Room: Grand Hall East A/B
Invited Speakers: Yuri Efremenko, Gabriel Orebi Gann, Basudeb Dasgupta
Session W14 Nucleon Form Factors and Two-Photon Exchange Sponsor: DNP Chair: Andrei Afanasev, The George Washington University Room: Grand Hall East C
Session W16 Sherwood IV Sponsor: DPP Room: Hanover FG
Apr 3 2012 1:30PM, Tuesday
Session X2 Sakurai Prize Session
Sponsor: DPF Chair: Pierre Ramond, University of Florida Room: Regency Ballroom V
Invited Speakers: Guido Altarelli, Torbjorn Sjostrand, Bryan Webber
Session X3 Invited Session: Hot Topics in Astrophysics
Sponsor: DAP DCOMP Chair: Neil Cornish, Montana State University Room: Hanover CDE
Invited Speakers: Nikhil Padmanabhan, Michael Boylan-Kolchin
Session X4 Invited Session: The Detection Challenge in Modern Physics Experiments
Sponsor: GGR DPF Chair: Patrick Brady, University of Madison-Wisconsin Room: International Ballroom North
Invited Speakers: Gabriela Gonzalez, Dario Autiero
Session X5 Invited Session: Accelerators for Nuclear Physics
Sponsor: DPB DNP Chair: Thomas Glasmacher, Michigan State University Room: International Ballroom South
Invited Speakers: Charles Reece
Session X6 Invited Session: The Dynamics of Waves and Energetic Particles: Theoretical Models
Sponsor: GPAP DPP Chair: James Drake, University of Maryland College Park Room: Embassy C
Invited Speakers: Liu Chen, Richard Thorne, Martin Lee
Session X7 Neutron Stars and General Astrophysics Sponsor: DAP Chair: Pablo Laguna, Georgia Institute of Technology Room: Embassy D
Session X8 General Relativity and Cosmology Sponsor: GGR Chair: Jocelyn Read, University of Mississippi Room: Embassy B
Session X9 New Directions Sponsor: DPF Chair: Lindley Winslow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Room: Embassy E
Session X10 W, Z, Drell-Yan Sponsor: DPF Chair: Meenakshi Narain, Brown University Room: Embassy A
Session X11 Underground Neutrino Physics and Background Studies Sponsor: DNP Chair: Lisa Kaufman, Indiana University Room: Embassy F
Session X12 Invited Session: Precision Tests of New Physics Using Neutrons and Nuclei
Sponsor: DNP Chair: Fred Wietfeldt, Tulane University Room: Grand Hall East A/B
Invited Speakers: Joseph Wasem, Dan Melconian, Bastian Maerkisch