Feb 27 2012 8:00AM, Monday

A1 Focus Session: Novel Instrumentation and measurements for Biomedical Research
Room: 203 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Larry Nagahara, National Cancer Institute
Invited Speakers:  Rong Fan  

A2 Invited Session: Teaching Quantum Information Science at Liberal Arts College
Room: 204AB Sponsor: GQI FEd Chair: Ian Durham, Saint Anselm College
Invited Speakers:  Benjamin Schumacher,  Michael Westmoreland,  William Wootters,  Herbert Bernstein,  Enrique Galvez  

A3 Invited Session: Superconducting Fluctuations in Cuprates
Room: 205AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: N. Peter Armitage, John Hopkins University
Invited Speakers:  Johan Chang,  Neven Bari\v{s}i\'{c},  Lucas Bilbro,  Florence Rullier-Albenque,  Andrey Varlamov  

A4 Focus Session: Hybrid Systems and Quantum Information Science in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Room: 205C Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  David Schuster  

A5 Surfaces: Structure, Transitions and Morphological Evolution
Room: 206A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sanjay Khare, University of Toledo

A6 Focus Session: van der Waals Bonding in Advanced Materials - Physisorption and Self Assembly on Metals
Room: 206B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Talat Rahman, University of Central Florida
Invited Speakers:  Kyuho Lee  

A7 Focus Session: Computational Design of Materials - Structure Prediction
Room: 207 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Richard Hennig, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  Krishna Rajan  

A8 Focus Session: Frustrated Magnetism - Triangular Lattice
Room: 208 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jason Gardner, NIST

A9 Focus Session: Magnetic Oxide Thin Films And Heterostructures - Cobaltite And Ferrite Thin Films
Room: 209 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Chris Palmstrom, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Alex Demkov  

A10 Invited Session: Computational Assessment of a Sustainable Energy Future: The Earth-abundant Materials Approach
Room: 210A Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Vincent Meunier, RPI
Invited Speakers:  Yiyang Sun,  Vidvuds Ozolins,  Frank Abild-Pedersen,  Veaceslav Coropceanu,  Giulia Galli  

A11 Graphene: Transport in Devices and Structures
Room: 210B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Xu Du, Stony Brook University

A12 Graphene: Electronic Structure and Interactions - Adsorbates, Doping and Defects
Room: 210C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jian-Hao Chen, University of California, Berkeley

A13 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanostructures-Patterned Nanostructures and Nanowires
Room: 211 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Andrew Baruth, University of Minnesota

A14 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Magnetic Semiconductors I
Room: 212 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Paul Crowell, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Margaret Dobrowolska  

A15 Focus Session: Spins in Metals - Thermal Effects on Magnons and Spin Currents
Room: 213 Sponsor: DMP FIAP GMAG Chair: Stewart Barnes, University of Miami
Invited Speakers:  C.L. Chien  

A16 Liquid and Solid Helium
Room: 251 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Souleymane Diallo, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A17 Focus Session: Thermoelectrics - Nanostructured and Oxide TE
Room: 252A Sponsor: DMP GERA FIAP Chair: Li Shi, University of Texas at Austin
Invited Speakers:  Mercouri Kanatzidis  

A18 Dynamics in II-VI Nanocrystals
Room: 252B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Joseph Tischler, Naval Research Laboratory

A19 Invited Session: New Correlated Electron Physics Using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Other Probes
Room: 253AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Abhay Pasupathy, Columbia University
Invited Speakers:  Steffen Wirth,  Wilson Ho,  Martin Wenderoth,  Dirk Morr,  James Williams  

A20 Invited Session: Advanced Quantum Materials for Future Information Technology
Room: 253C Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Cherry Murray, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Phaedon Avouris,  Ali Yazdani,  William Koehl,  Pablo Jarillo-Herrero,  Donhee Ham  

A21 Superconductivity: Josephson, Tunneling and Proximity Effects
Room: 254A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Wei, University of Toronto

A22 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors - Gap Structure
Room: 254B Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Wai-Kwong Kwok, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Jean-Philippe Reid  

A23 Metals Magnetic
Room: 255 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ralph Skomski, U. Nebraska

A24 Materials: Synthesis, Growth and Processing (Bullk and Films)
Room: 256 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Dmitri Tenne, Boise State University

A25 Focus Session: Simulation of Matter at Extreme Conditions - Energetic Materials
Room: 257A Sponsor: DCOMP GSCCM DMP Chair: Nir Goldman, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Thomas D. Sewell  

A26 Focus Session: Physics of Energy Storage Materials - Materials, Stability and Transport
Room: 257B Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: David Singh, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Yi Cui  

A27 Invited Session: Excitonic and Correlation Effects in Single-Layer Graphene
Room: 258AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Bruno Uchoa, University of Oklahoma
Invited Speakers:  Peter Abbamonte,  Tony Heinz,  Steven G. Louie,  Andre Geim,  Marco Polini  

A28 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors - ZnO
Room: 258C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Anderson Janotti, University of California Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  M.D. McCluskey  

A29 Focus Session: Quantum Optics with Superconducting Circuits: Hybrid Systems and Other Quantum Optics
Room: 259A Sponsor: GQI Chair: Alexandre Blais, University of Sherbrooke
Invited Speakers:  Franco Nori,  Konrad Lehnert  

A30 Focus Session: Qubits in Diamond I
Room: 259B Sponsor: GQI Chair: Fedor Jelezko, University of Ulm

A31 Focus Session: Topological Insulators - Exotic Phases and Phase Transitions
Room: 260 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Ashvin Vishwanath, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Tudor Stanescu  

A32 Topological Insulators: Quantum Hall Effect
Room: 261 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ion Garate, Yale University

A33 Physics of Photovoltaics
Room: 106 Sponsor: GERA Chair: Jeffrey Nelson, Sandia National Laboratories

A34 Focus Session: Impact of Ultrafast Lasers I: X-rays and THz
Room: 107A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Nancy Levinger and Amber Kummel, Colorado State University
Invited Speakers:  Kelly Gaffney,  Margaret Murnane,  Thomas Elsaesser  

A35 Focus Session: DFT I: Strongly Correlated Systems; GW and Many-Body Perturbation Theory
Room: 107B Sponsor: DCP Chair: Carsten Ullrich, University of Missouri
Invited Speakers:  Erin Johnson,  E. Miles Stoudenmire  

A36 Focus Session: New Energy I
Room: 107C Sponsor: DCP Chair: Bruce Garrett, Pacific Northwest Research Laboratory and Anders Nilsson, SLAC
Invited Speakers:  Eric Rohlfing,  Peidong Yang,  Emily Carter,  Nenad Markovic  

A37 Research Collaboration between Mentors and Undergraduate Students
Room: 108 Sponsor: FEd SPS Chair: Richard Peterson, Bethel University

A39 Electronic Structure: Theory and Numerical Methods
Room: 109B Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Juergen Eckert, University of California, Santa Barbara

A40 Focus Session: Protein Association I: Phase Separation, Crystallization, Self-Assembly
Room: 156A Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY Chair: Steve Whitelam, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Invited Speakers:  Robert Hayre  

A41 Focus Session: Structure and Dynamics of Membranes
Room: 156B Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY DMP Chair: Mu-Ping Nieh, University of Connecticut
Invited Speakers:  Stephen White,  Mathias Loesche  

A42 Focus Session: Cytoskeleton and Biomechanics - Biochemical mechanisms
Room: 156C Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY Chair: Megan Valentine, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Taviare Hawkins  

A43 Invited Session: Broader Impacts of Research-NSF Policy and Individual Responsibility
Room: 157AB Sponsor: FPS Chair: Donald Prosnitz, Rand Corporation
Invited Speakers:  Alan Leshner,  Barry C. Barish,  Charles Ferguson,  Don Prosnitz  

A44 Focus Session: Hydrophobic Interactions and Hydrogen Bonding Networks in Polymeric and Soft Matter Systems
Room: 157C Sponsor: DPOLY DBIO Chair: Garegin Papoian, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  John D. Weeks,  Roland Netz  

A45 Focus Session: Thin Film Block Copolymers - Directed Assembly
Room: 159 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Thomas Epps, University of Delaware
Invited Speakers:  Alamgir Karim  

A46 Invited Session: Inherently Strained Polymers and Soft Materials
Room: 160AB Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Sergei Sheiko, University of North Carolina
Invited Speakers:  Kenji Urayama,  Patrick Mather,  Dennis Discher,  Michael Rubinstein,  Eugenia Kumacheva  

A47 Focus Session: Gelation and Glass Transition in Colloids and Soft Matter Systems I
Room: 160C Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Mohammad Islam, Carnegie Mellon University

A48 Charged and Ion-Containing Polymers
Room: 161 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Thomas Seery, University of Connecticut

A49 Focus Session: Long-time, Entangled Dynamics in Polymers - Linear, Transient, Non-linear Rheology, Tubes
Room: 162A Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Gergory McKenna, Texas Tech University
Invited Speakers:  Sindee Simon  

A50 Liquid Crystalline Order in Polymers, Soft Matter, and Complex Fluids
Room: 162B Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Peter Shibayev, Fordham University

A51 Colloids I: Beyond Hard Spheres
Room: Boston Convention Center 154 Sponsor: DCMP DFD Chair: Anthony Dinsmore, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

A52 Using Chaos to Control Quantum Systems
Room: 153C Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Stephen Anlage, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Louis Pecora  

A53 Disordered and Glassy Systems I
Room: 153B Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Horacio Castillo, Ohio University

A54 Focus Session: Complex and Co-evolving Networks - Cascades in Networks
Room: 152 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Beate Schmittmann, Virginia Tech

Feb 27 2012 11:15AM, Monday

B1 Atom Interferometry and New Techniques with Ultracold Atoms
Room: 203 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Charles Mielke, Los Alamos National Laboratory

B2 Invited Session: Science Diplomacy: Africa and the Middle East
Room: 204AB Sponsor: FIP Chair: William Barletta, USPAS/Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Christine Darve,  Sekazi Mtingwa,  Herman Winick,  Omer Yavas,  Mulugeta Bekele  

B3 Invited Session: Superconducting Coherence, Fluctuations & Inhomogeneity in Mesoscopic & Low-Dimensions
Room: 205AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ying Liu, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Tzu-Chieh Wei,  Neal Staley,  Yu Chen,  Yen Lee Loh,  Jinfeng Jia  

B4 Hybrid Systems, Optomechanics and Macroscopic Systems at the Quantum Limit I
Room: 205C Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Johannes Otterbach, Harvard University

B5 Surface Electronic & Lattice Properties: Interfaces, Spin Effects, Etc.
Room: 206A Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Peter Dowben, University of Nebraska

B6 Thermal Properties of Graphene and Graphene Derivatives
Room: 206B Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Jing Shi, University of California, Riverside

B7 Focus Session: Computational Design of Materials - Nanostructured and Energy Materials
Room: 207 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Vanessa Ortiz, Columbia University

B8 Focus Session: Frustrated magnetism - Spin ice
Room: 208 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Bruce Gaulin, McMaster University
Invited Speakers:  Ivan Ryzhkin  

B9 Focus session: Complex Bulk Oxides: Iridates
Room: 209 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Giorgio Sangiovanni, Institut für Festkörperphysik, Vienna
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Khomskii  

B10 Invited Session: Equilibration and Relaxation in Cold Atoms
Room: 210A Sponsor: DCMP DAMOP Chair: Theja Desilva, SUNY Binghamton
Invited Speakers:  Stefan Natu,  Walter Hofstetter,  David Pekker,  Michael Koehl,  J\"{o}rg Schmiedmayer  

B11 Focus Session: Graphene/BN
Room: 210B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Nikolai Zhitenev, NIST
Invited Speakers:  David Goldhaber-Gordon,  Brian LeRoy  

B12 Graphene: Electronic Structure and Interactions - Bilayer Graphene
Room: 210C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Abergel, University of Maryland

B13 Focus Session: Low-Dimensional and Molecular Magnetism - 1D Magnetism/single-chain magnets - Theory
Room: 211 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jurgen Schnack, University of Bielefeld - Germany

B14 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Spin Relaxation in Semiconductors and Diamond
Room: 212 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Greg Fuchs, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  Xavier Marie  

B15 Focus Session: Spins in Metals: Spin Torque Switching and Magnetic Anisotropy Control
Room: 213 Sponsor: DMP FIAP GMAG Chair: Ilya Krivorotov, University of California, Irvine

B16 Hubbard Model
Room: 251 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Vladimir Dobrosavljevic, Florida State University

B17 Focus Session: Thermoelectrics - Nanowires and Other Nanostructures
Room: 252A Sponsor: DMP GERA FIAP Chair: David Broido, Boston College
Invited Speakers:  Li Shi  

B18 Focus Session: Nanostructures and Metamaterials, Growth, Structure, and Characterization -- Metamaterials with Gain and Active
Room: 252B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Nader Engheta, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Ortwin Hess  

B19 Invited Session: One Hundred Fifty Years of Maxwell's Equations (1862-2012)
Room: 253AB Sponsor: FHP Chair: Edward Gerjuoy, University of Pittsburgh
Invited Speakers:  Francis Everitt,  Bruce Hunt,  Jed Buchwald,  Roy Glauber,  Frank Wilczek  

B20 Invited Session: Astronomy's Detectors and Physics Education
Room: 253C Sponsor: FEd FIAP Chair: James Beletic, Teledyne Imaging Sensors
Invited Speakers:  James Beletic,  Vyshnavi Suntharalingam,  George Ricker,  Zoran Ninkov,  John Kovac  

B21 Focus Session: Search for New Superconductors: Methodologies and New Materials
Room: 254A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Robert Cava, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Ivan Schuller  

B22 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors- ARPES and Fermi Surfaces
Room: 254B Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Xingjiang Zhou, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Invited Speakers:  Daixiang Mou  

B23 Superconductivity Theory I: Cluster DMFT, t-J model, renormalization group
Room: 255 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Pouyan Ghaemi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

B24 Electronic Structure: Theory and Spectra
Room: 256 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Jan Musfeldt, University of Tennessee

B25 Focus Session: Simulation of Matter at Extreme Conditions - Shock-Induced Chemistry
Room: 257A Sponsor: DCOMP GSCCM DMP Chair: Igor Schweigert, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Nir Goldman  

B26 Focus Session: Physics of Energy Storage Materials - Advanced Materials
Room: 257B Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Tom Berlijn, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Jeff Dahn,  Jay Whitacre  

B27 Invited Session: Magneto-Electric and Magneto-Optical Properties of Topological Insulators
Room: 258AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Allan MacDonald, University of Texas at Austin
Invited Speakers:  Dennis Drew,  Kentaro Nomura,  Kenneth Burch,  Alexey Kuzmenko,  Nuh Gedik  

B28 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors - Nitrides
Room: 258C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Mary Ellen Zvanut, University of Alabama
Invited Speakers:  Andrew Armstrong  

B29 Focus Session: Quantum Optics with Superconducting Circuits: Many-Body Physics, Phase Transitions, & Bistability
Room: 259A Sponsor: GQI Chair: David Schuster, University of Chicago

B30 Quantum Error Correction and Quantum Control
Room: 259B Sponsor: GQI Chair: Daniel Lidar, University of Southern California

B31 Topological Insulators: Semimetals and Interactions
Room: 260 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Rolando Valez Aguilar, Johns Hopkins University

B32 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides - Relaxors, Nanostructures, and Morphotropic Phase Boundary
Room: 261 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Jirka Hlinka, Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences (ASCR)
Invited Speakers:  Ilya Grinberg  

B34 Focus Session: Impact of Ultrafast Lasers II: Multidimensional Methods
Room: 107A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Nancy Levinger and Amber Kummel, Colorado State University
Invited Speakers:  Keith A. Nelson,  Greg Engel  

B35 General Theory
Room: 107B Sponsor: DCP Chair: Donald Truhlar, University of Minnesota

B36 Focus Session: New Energy II
Room: 107C Sponsor: DCP Chair: Bruce Garrett, Pacific Northwest Research Laboratory and Anders Nilsson, SLAC
Invited Speakers:  George Schatz,  Richard Osgood,  Greg Kimmel,  Russell J. Hemley  

B37 SPS Undergraduate Research I
Room: 108 Sponsor: SPS Chair: Crystal Bailey, APS

B39 Electronic Structure: Calculations I
Room: 109B Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Ching Fong, University of California, Davis

B40 Focus Session: Cytoskeleton and Biomechanics - Entanglement and Crosslinking
Room: 156A Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY Chair: R.K.P. Zia, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Invited Speakers:  Megan Valentine  

B41 Lipid Bilayers and Biological Membranes
Room: 156B Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Jianjun Pan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

B42 Focus Session: BioChip Physics-Detection and Transport
Room: 156C Sponsor: DBIO DFD Chair: David Nolte, Purdue University and Peter Kiesel, Palo Alto Research Center
Invited Speakers:  Hatice Altug  

B43 Invited Session: Physical Mechanisms of Cell Growth
Room: 157AB Sponsor: DBIO Chair: K.C. Huang, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Ethan Garner,  Tristan Ursell,  Fred Chang,  Eleni Katifori,  Jacques Dumais  

B44 Focus Session: Translocation through Nanopores - Measurements and Theoretical Models
Room: 157C Sponsor: DPOLY DBIO Chair: Aniket Bhattacharya, University of Central Florida
Invited Speakers:  Aleksei Aksimentiev  

B45 Focus Session: Thin Film Block Copolymers - Swelling and Ordering
Room: 159 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Ting Xu, University of California, Berkeley

B46 Invited Session: Industrial Applications of Advanced Polymer-Based Nanomaterials
Room: 160AB Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Tirtha Chatterjee, Dow Chemical Company
Invited Speakers:  Peter Trefonas,  Azar Alizadeh,  Edward J. Kramer,  Christopher Soles,  Francois Tournilhac  

B47 Focus Session: Jamming, Glass Transition, and Gelation in Colloids and Soft Matter Systems
Room: 160C Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Peter Schall, University of Amsterdam
Invited Speakers:  Matthieu Wyart  

B48 Electrically and Optically Active Polymers
Room: 161 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Enrique Gomez, Pennsylvania State University

B49 Focus Session: Long-time, Entangled Dynamics in Polymers - Rods, Rings, Fibers, Particle Tracking
Room: 162A Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Marina Guenza, University of Oregon
Invited Speakers:  Wim Briels  

B50 Focus Session: Nano to Mesoscale Structures in Ordered Systems: Liquid Crystalline Structure and Interactions
Room: 162B Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Jan Lagerwall, Seoul National University

B51 Focus Session: Evolutionary Systems Biology I - Evolutionary Dynamics and Rugged Fitness Landscapes
Room: 154 Sponsor: DBIO GSNP Chair: Avigdor Eldar, Tel-Aviv University
Invited Speakers:  Edo Kussell  

B52 Granular Media: Flow and Structure
Room: 153C Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Wolfgang Losert, University of Maryland

B53 Disordered and Glassy Systems II
Room: 153B Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Craig Maloney, Carnegie Mellon University

B54 Focus Session: Complex and co-evolving networks - Modeling Social and Biological Networks
Room: 152 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Zoltan Toroczkai, Notre Dame

Feb 27 2012 2:00PM, Monday

C1 Poster Session I (2:00-5:00PM)
Room: Exhibit Hall C

Feb 27 2012 2:30PM, Monday

D1 Focus Session: High Magnetic Fields, THz Spectroscopy, MRI
Room: 203 Sponsor: GIMS GMAG Chair: Charles Mielke, NHMFL Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Marcelo Jaime  

D2 Invited Session: Harnessing Local Atomic Structure to Control Magnetic Interactions in Complex Oxides
Room: 204AB Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Steven May, Drexel University
Invited Speakers:  Harold Hwang,  Craig Fennie,  Philip Ryan,  Chris Leighton,  Kathrin Dorr  

D3 Invited Session: Stripe Order and Fermi-Surface Reconstruction in Cuprate Superconductors
Room: 205AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Norman, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Francis Lalibert\'e,  Marc-Henri Julien,  Gil Lonzarich,  Cyril Proust,  Steve Kivelson  

D4 Long-range Interacting Rydberg and Dipolar Gases
Room: 205C Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Michael Fleischhauer, University of Kaiserslautern

D5 Vanadium Oxides; Metal-insulator Transitions
Room: 206A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mumtaz Qazilbash, College of William and Mary

D6 Focus Session: Graphene Devices - Bolometers and Optical Response
Room: 206B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Tom Timusk, McMaster University
Invited Speakers:  Feng Wang  

D7 Quantum Hall Effect in Mono-, Bi- and Trilayer Graphene
Room: 207 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Erik Henriksen, California Institute of Technology

D8 Organo-metallics: Magnetic and other Properties
Room: 208 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Vivien Zapf, Los Alamos National Lab

D9 Magnetic Devices and Applications
Room: 209 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Dario Arena, Brookhaven National Laboratory

D10 Invited Session: Advancements in Computational Physics using NSF's TeraGrid/XSEDE Resources
Room: 210A Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Ralph Roskies, University of Pittsburgh
Invited Speakers:  Klaus Bartschat,  Richard Hennig,  Martin Berzins,  Juana Moreno,  Johannes Feist  

D11 Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Stacking, Interactions: Mesoscopics
Room: 210B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Shaffique Adam, NIST
Invited Speakers:  Jurgen Smet  

D12 Graphene Transport: Disorder Scattering
Room: 210C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Arthur F. Hebard, Prof. Dr.

D13 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanostructures-Characterization (Scanning Probe, X-ray and Neutron)
Room: 211 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Yimei Zhu, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Igor V. Roshchin  

D14 Focus Session: Spins in Carbon - Spins in Graphene
Room: 212 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin, Ohio State University
Invited Speakers:  Barbaros \"Ozyilmaz,  Wei Han  

D15 Focus Session: Spins in Metals - Ultra Fast Dynamics
Room: 213 Sponsor: DMP FIAP GMAG Chair: Shufeng Zhang, University of Arizona
Invited Speakers:  Ilie Radu,  Alexey Melnikov  

D16 Strongly Correlated Numerics and Theory
Room: 251 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Andre-Marie Tremblay, Universite de Sherbrooke

D17 Focus Session: Surfaces and Interfaces in Nonoxide Nanostructures: Growth, Structure, and Characterization - Growth Dynamics
Room: 252A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Dan Dougherty , North Carolina State University
Invited Speakers:  Norman Bartelt,  Rudolf Tromp  

D18 Focus Session: Nanostructures and Metamaterials, Growth, Structure, and Characterization -- What is a good conductor for Metamaterials and Plasmonics
Room: 252B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Costas Soukoulis, Ames Lab/Iowa State University
Invited Speakers:  Nader Engheta,  Philippe Tassin  

D19 Invited Session: Novel Phases in Strongly Correlated Iridates
Room: 253AB Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Gang Cao, University of Kentucky
Invited Speakers:  Hidenori Takagi,  Yong Baek Kim,  Simon Trebst,  Philipp Gegenwart  

D20 Invited Session: Advanced Electromagnetic Imaging and Remote Sensing: From DC to Daylight
Room: 253C Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Peter Weichman, BAE Systems
Invited Speakers:  Eugene Lavely,  Peter Weichman,  Thomas Kragh,  Dan Bliss,  Eric Miller  

D21 Multiband Superconductivity, mostly MgB2
Room: 254A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Morten Ring Eskildsen, University of Notre Dame

D22 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors - Crystal Growth, Structure, and Properties of K_xFe_1-ySe Phases
Room: 254B Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Nicholas Butch, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Cedomir Petrovic  

D23 Metals Theory Oxides Interfaces
Room: 255 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Khorgolkhuu Odbadrakh, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

D24 Bionanotechnology and Nanostructured Sensors
Room: 256 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Jayant Kumar, University of Massachusetts Lowell

D25 Focus Session: Matter at Extreme Conditions - New Experimental Capabilities
Room: 257A Sponsor: DCOMP GSCCM DMP Chair: Thomas Sewell, University of Missouri
Invited Speakers:  Michael Armstrong  

D26 Focus Session: Physics of Energy Storage Materials - Catalysis and H2 Storage
Room: 257B Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Juergen Eckert, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Yang Shao-Horn  

D27 Invited Session: Materials for Energy Applications
Room: 258AB Sponsor: DMP GERA Chair: Robert Nemanich, Arizona State University
Invited Speakers:  Ramamoorthy Ramesh,  Debra Rolison,  Michael Wasielewski,  Edward Yu,  Nicholas Melosh  

D28 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors - Oxides and Interfaces
Room: 258C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Stavola, Lehigh University
Invited Speakers:  Scott Chambers  

D29 Focus Session: Qubits in Diamond II
Room: 259A Sponsor: GQI Chair: David Awschalom, UCSB
Invited Speakers:  Philip Hemmer  

D30 Focus Session: Quantum Information for Quantum Foundations - Entanglement and Causal Structure
Room: 259B Sponsor: GQI Chair: Howard Barnum, University of New Mexico

D31 Focus Session: Topological Insulators: Synthesis & Characterization - Thin Films
Room: 260 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Anthony Richardella, Pennsylvania State University

D32 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides - Lattice Dynamics
Room: 261 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Ilya Grinberg, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Dawei Wang,  Jiri Hlinka  

D33 Physics of Batteries and Fuel Cells
Room: 106 Sponsor: GERA Chair: Matthew Panzer, Tufts University

D34 Focus Session: Nano I -- Clusters
Room: 107A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Shiv Khanna, Virginia Commonwealth University and Gabor Somorjai, UC Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  A. Welford Castleman  

D35 Focus Session: DFT II: Molecular Conductance; Charge Transfer
Room: 107B Sponsor: DCP Chair: Arindam Chakraborty, Syracuse University
Invited Speakers:  Charles Stafford  

D36 Focus Session: Environment I: Aerosols and Aqueous Solutions
Room: 107C Sponsor: DCP Chair: Don Baer, Pacific Northwest Research Laboratory and Ilja Siepmann, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Hanna Vehkamaki,  Heather Allen,  John Weare,  Vicki Grassian  

D37 SPS Undergraduate Research II
Room: 108 Sponsor: SPS Chair: Gary White, SPS/AIP

D39 Quantum Protocols: Tomography, Communication, and Coding
Room: 109B Sponsor: GQI Chair: Ivan Deutsch, University of New Mexico

D40 Focus Session: Systems Biology and Biochemical Networks I
Room: 156A Sponsor: DBIO GSNP Chair: Jin Wang, SUNY Stony Brook
Invited Speakers:  Chris Wiggins,  Chen Zeng  

D42 Focus Session: Physics of Cancer I -- Evolution and Resistance
Room: 156C Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Robert Austin, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Krastan B. Blagoev  

D43 Invited Session: Recent Advances in the Physics of Fractures
Room: 157AB Sponsor: DCMP GSNP Chair: James Sethna, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  Sinan Keten,  Jay Fineberg,  Karen Daniels,  Ashivni Shekhawat,  Stefano Zapperi  

D44 Invited Session: Topological Quantum Computing with Majorana Fermions
Room: 157C Sponsor: GQI DCMP Chair: Gil Refael, California Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Jason Alicea,  Jay Sau,  Leo Kouwenhoven,  Anton Akhmerov,  Piet Brouwer  

D51 Liquid Crystals: Chromonics and Nematics
Room: Boston Convention Center 154 Sponsor: DCMP DFD Chair: Peter Collings, Swarthmore University

D52 General Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and GSNP Student Prize Talks
Room: 153C Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Corey O'Hern, Yale University

D53 Focus Session: Jamming -- Nonlinear Acoustics and Vibrational Response
Room: 153B Sponsor: GSNP DFD Chair: Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University
Invited Speakers:  Carl Schreck  

D54 Focus Session: Complex and co-evolving networks - Foundations in Complex Networks
Room: 152 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Bruno Goncalves, Indiana University

Feb 27 2012 5:45PM, Monday

E1 APS Prizes and Awards Ceremonial Session
Room: 253AB Chair: Robert Byer, Stanford University

Feb 27 2012 6:45PM, Monday

F1 APS Welcome Reception
Room: Ballroom East

Feb 27 2012 8:00PM, Monday

G1 Physics Community Outreach: The Kitchen as a Lab
Room: 253AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Allan MacDonald, University of Texas at Austin

Feb 28 2012 8:00AM, Tuesday

H1 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy I: Novel Approaches to Complex Systems
Room: 203 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Andreas Heinrich, IBM Almaden
Invited Speakers:  Julie A. Bert  

H2 Invited Session: Novel and Proven Methods of Communicating Science to the Public
Room: 204AB Sponsor: FPS FEd Chair: Brian Schwartz, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of CUNY
Invited Speakers:  Debra Wise,  Odd Todd,  Flash Rosenberg,  John Durant,  Terry Bristol  

H3 Invited Session: Electronic Properties of the Pseudogap Phase in Cuprates
Room: 205AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Fu-Chun Zhang, University of Hong Kong
Invited Speakers:  Sriram Shastry,  Gey-Hong Gweon,  T. Maurice Rice,  Hongbo Yang,  Antoine Georges  

H4 Spin-orbit Coupling in Ultracold Gases
Room: 205C Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Ian Spielman, JQI

H5 Focus Session: Interfaces in Complex Oxides - Polar Interfaces and Ferroelectrics
Room: 206A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Susanne Stemmer, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Alexei Gruverman  

H6 Focus Session: van der Waals Bonding in Advanced Material - Methods and Application to Water and Ice
Room: 206B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Elsebeth Schr\"oder, Chalmers University of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Marivi Fernandez-Serra  

H7 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotube Sensing
Room: 207 Sponsor: DMP Chair: A.T. Charlie Johnson, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Michael Strano  

H8 Focus Session: Frustrated Magnetism - Kagome I
Room: 208 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Peter Schiffer, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Matthias Punk,  Young Lee  

H9 Focus Session: Complex Bulk Oxides: Ruthenates
Room: 209 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Craig Fennie, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  Kristjan Haule  

H10 Invited Session: Strongly Interacting Photons
Room: 210A Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Jelena Vuckovic,  Vladan Vuletic,  park hongkun,  Michael Fleischhauer,  Edo Waks  

H11 Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Stacking, Interactions: Interfaces and Adsorbates
Room: 210B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Eli Rotenberg, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

H12 Chemical Doping of Graphene and Applications: Solar Cells, Sensors
Room: 210C Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Sefaattin Tongay, Dr.

H13 Focus Session: Low-Dimensional and Molecular Magnetism - Magnetism and Transport of Isolated Molecular Magnets - Molecular spintronics
Room: 211 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Lapo Bogani, Universitat Stuttgart
Invited Speakers:  Roberta Sessoli  

H14 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Electrical Spin Injection
Room: 212 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Jean Heremans, Virginia Tech
Invited Speakers:  Connie H. Li  

H15 Focus Session: Spin and Dynamics in Metal, Spin logic and Spin-Based Devices
Room: 213 Sponsor: DMP FIAP GMAG Chair: Jimmy Zhu, Carnegie Mellon University
Invited Speakers:  Jayasimha Atulasimha,  Srikant Srinivasan  

H16 Quantum Fluids: Mainly Helium, Vortices, and Solitons
Room: 251 Sponsor: DCMP DAMOP Chair: Norbert Mulders, University of Delaware

H17 Focus Session: Thermoelectrics - Characterization/Molecular junctions/Magnetic and Low Temp
Room: 252A Sponsor: DMP GERA FIAP Chair: Jeffrey Urban, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Pramod Reddy  

H18 Focus Session: Electron, Ion, and Exciton Transport in Nanostructures - Nanowires and Superlattices
Room: 252B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Mark Lusk, Colorado School of Mines

H19 Invited Session: Current-Driven Spin Textures
Room: 253AB Sponsor: DCMP GMAG Chair: Joseph Orenstein, University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Luyi Yang,  Robert Ritz,  Ioan Miron,  Giovanni Vignale,  Achim Rosch  

H20 Invited Session: Hydrodynamics and Microstructure: From Single Self-Propelled Particles to Active Soft Matter
Room: 253C Sponsor: GSNP DFD Chair: Thomas Powers, Brown University
Invited Speakers:  Paulo Arratia,  Tim Sanchez,  M. Cristina Marchetti,  Sunghwan Jung,  Bin Liu  

H21 Superconductivity: Electronic Structure of BSCCO; ARPES and theory
Room: 254A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Weiguo Yin, Brookhaven National Lab

H22 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors - Anisotropic Transport and Anisotropy
Room: 254B Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Johnpierre Paglione, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  M.A. Tanatar  

H23 Metals Structural
Room: 255 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Parker, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

H24 Electrical and Thermal Properties of Semiconductors
Room: 256 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Michael Manfra, Purdue University

H25 Focus Session: Simulation of Matter at Extreme Conditions - Shock Compression of Metals
Room: 257A Sponsor: DCOMP GSCCM DMP Chair: Sheng Luo, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Ramon Ravelo  

H26 Focus Session: Friction, Fracture and Deformation Across Length Scales - Friction Across Length Scales
Room: 257B Sponsor: DCOMP GSNP Chair: Izabela Szlufarska, University of Wisconsin
Invited Speakers:  David L. Goldsby  

H27 Invited Session: McGroddy Prize, Adler Lectureship, and Pake Prize: Superconductivity and Spin Transport
Room: 258AB Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Paul Crowell, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis
Invited Speakers:  Paul Canfield,  Robert Cava,  Stuart Parkin,  T. Venkatesan,  Jian Shen  

H28 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors - Si
Room: 258C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Aziz, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Sokrates T. Pantelides  

H29 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits: Amplifiers and Read-out
Room: 259A Sponsor: GQI Chair: Irfan Siddiqi, University of California at Berkeley

H30 Semiconductor Qubits - Device Development
Room: 259B Sponsor: GQI Chair: Mark Eriksson, University of Wisconsin-Madison

H31 Focus Session: Topological Insulators: Synthesis and Characterization: Bulk Crystals
Room: 260 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Nicholas Butch, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Kouji Segawa  

H32 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides - Conducting Domain Walls and Conduction Mechanisms
Room: 261 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Gustau Catalan, ICREA and CIN2, Barcelona

H33 Focus Session: Scaleable Technologies for Photovoltaics
Room: 106 Sponsor: GERA FIAP Chair: Mark Bernius, Dow Chemcial Company
Invited Speakers:  Gregory N. Nielson  

H34 Focus Session: Nano II: Nanoscale Materials and Properties I
Room: 107A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Shiv Khanna, Virginia Commonwealth University and Gabor Somorjai, UC Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Charles Lieber  

H35 Focus Session: DFT III: Weak Bonding and Liquid Phase Systems
Room: 107B Sponsor: DCP Chair: Erin Johnson, University of California, Merced
Invited Speakers:  Troy Van Voorhis,  Valentino R. Cooper  

H36 Focus Session: Environment II: Green Processes
Room: 107C Sponsor: DCP Chair: Ilja Siepmann, University of Minnesota, Don Baer, Pacific Northwest Research Laboratory, and James Hutchinson, University of Oregon
Invited Speakers:  Edward Maginn,  James Hutchison,  Dermot Diamond  

H37 SPS Undergraduate Research III
Room: 108 Sponsor: SPS Chair: Gary White, AIP/SPS

H39 Electronic Structure: Calculations II
Room: 109B Chair: Seong-Gon Kim, Mississippi State Unviersity

H40 Focus Session: Protein Association II: Aggregation and Fibril Formation
Room: 156A Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY Chair: Tom Haxton, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Cox  

H43 Invited Session: Physics of Systems Biology
Room: 157AB Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Jin Wang, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Invited Speakers:  Marc Kirschner,  Masaki Sasai,  Arup K. Chakraborty,  Jin Wang,  Andrew Murray  

H44 Focus Session: Nano to Mesoscale Structure in Ordered Systems: Liquid Crystal Topology and Defects
Room: 157C Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Robin Selinger, Kent State University
Invited Speakers:  Robert Meyer  

H45 Focus Session: Thin Film Block Copolymers - Phase Behavior
Room: 159 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Andrew Croll, North Dakota State University

H46 Invited Session: Polymer Physics Prize
Room: 160ABC Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Jane Lipson, Dartmouth College
Invited Speakers:  Matthew Tirrell,  David Tirrell,  Jennifer Ross,  Daniel Fletcher,  Anthony Ryan  

H48 Polymer Gels and Solutions
Room: 161 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: James Watkins, University of Massachusetts

H49 Focus Session: Fluctuation-Induced Forces in Soft Matter & Polymeric Systems - Casimir and Interfacial Forces
Room: 162A Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Northwestern University
Invited Speakers:  Roya Zandi  

H50 Polymer Melts
Room: 162B Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Steven Hudson, NIST

H51 Colloids II: Crystals and Phase Transitions
Room: Boston Convention Center 154 Sponsor: DCMP DFD Chair: Alberto Fernandez-Nieves, Georgia Institute of Technology

H52 Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics - Rods
Room: 153C Sponsor: GSNP DFD Chair: Douglas Holmes, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Invited Speakers:  Basile Audoly  

H53 Focus Session: Continuum Descriptions of Discrete Materials
Room: 153B Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Ken Kamrin, MIT
Invited Speakers:  James Langer  

H54 Focus Session: Complex and co-evolving networks - Dynamics on Networks
Room: 152 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Daniel Goldman, Georgia Tech
Invited Speakers:  G. Korniss  

Feb 28 2012 11:15AM, Tuesday

J1 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy II: High Frequencies & Optical Techniques
Room: 203 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: David Goldhaber-Gordon, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  John Nichol  

J2 Invited Session: K-12 Science Education: Closing the Gap with the Leading Nations
Room: 204AB Sponsor: FEd Chair: Paul Cottle, Florida State University
Invited Speakers:  Helen Quinn,  George DeBoer,  Arthur Eisenkraft,  Gay Stewart,  Philip Sadler  

J3 Invited Session: Quantum Computing with Superconducting Circuits
Room: 205AB Sponsor: GQI DCMP Chair: John Martinis, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  I. Siddiqi,  Christopher Wilson,  Matthias Steffen,  Matteo Mariantoni,  Matthew Reed  

J4 Non-Equilibrium Dynamics with Quantum Gases
Room: 205C Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Rajdeep Sensarma, University of Maryland

J5 Focus Session: Interfaces in Complex Oxides - Electronic Structure
Room: 206A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Andres Felipe Santander-Syro, Universite Paris-Sud 11
Invited Speakers:  Kyle Shen  

J6 Focus Session: van der Waals Bonding in Advanced Materials - Layered Structures & Mechanical Properties
Room: 206B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Janice Reutt Robey, University of Maryland

J7 Focus Session: Graphene Devices
Room: 207 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Nina Markovic, Johns Hopkins University

J8 Quantum Magnetism, BEC, and Disorder
Room: 208 Sponsor: DCMP GMAG Chair: Marcelo Jaime, Los Alamos National Lab

J9 Focus Session: Magnetic Oxide Thin Films And Heterostructures - Multiferroic Thin Films
Room: 209 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Alex Demkov, University of Texas at Austin
Invited Speakers:  Morgan Trassin  

J10 Invited Session: How Reliable are Computed Electronic Properties?
Room: 210A Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Stefano Curtarolo, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Eric Shirley,  Francois Gygi,  Matthias Scheffler,  Sadasivan Shankar,  Gerbrand Ceder  

J11 Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Stacking, Interactions: Density Functional Theory
Room: 210B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Vitor Pereira, National University of Singapore

J12 Focus Session: Graphene: Growth, Mechanical Exfoliation, and Properties - Strain and Structure
Room: 210C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Alain Diebold, University at Albany - SUNY
Invited Speakers:  Phillip First  

J13 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanostructures - Thin Films, Surfaces and Interfaces
Room: 211 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Hao Zeng, SUNY Buffalo

J14 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Spin-Orbit Coupled Electrons and Holes in Semiconductors
Room: 212 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Giovanni Vignale, University of Missouri
Invited Speakers:  Alex Hamilton,  Ulrich Zuelicke  

J15 Focus Session: Spins in Metals - Spin Transport in Novel Devices and Structures
Room: 213 Sponsor: DMP FIAP GMAG Chair: Peter Metaxas, University of Western Australia
Invited Speakers:  Eric Fullerton  

J16 Vanadium Dioxide; Nano and Devices
Room: 251 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ivan Schuller, University of California, San Diego

J17 Focus Session: Surfaces and Interfaces in Nonoxide Nanostructures: Growth, Structure, and Characterization - Organic/Inorganic Interfaces & Quantum Dots
Room: 252A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Brad Conrad , Appalachian State University
Invited Speakers:  Klaus Kern  

J18 Focus Session: Nanostructures and Metamaterials, Growth, Structure, and Characterization -- New Fabrication Techniques
Room: 252B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Willie Padilla, Boston College
Invited Speakers:  John Rogers  

J19 Invited Session: Strongly Interacting Cold Fermi Gases
Room: 253AB Sponsor: DCMP DAMOP Chair: John Thomas, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Christophe Salomon,  Randall Hulet,  Jun Ye,  Aurel Bulgac,  Tin-Lun Ho  

J20 Invited Session: Sexual and Gender Diversity Issues in Physics
Room: 253C Sponsor: COM CSWP Chair: Savannah Garmon, University of Toronto
Invited Speakers:  Susan Rankin,  Michael Ramsey-Musolf,  Janice Hicks,  Elena Long,  Theodore Hodapp  

J21 Focus Session: Search for New Superconductors: New Theories and Experiments
Room: 254A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Malcolm Beasley, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Michael Norman  

J22 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors - Nodal and Nodeless Superconductivity
Room: 254B Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Takashi Imai, McMaster University
Invited Speakers:  Yuji Matsuda  

J23 Phase Changes, Metals, PC Memories
Room: 255 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Paul Kent, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

J24 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors - Si and III-V
Room: 256 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Socrates Pantelides, Vanderbilt University

J25 Focus Session: Simulation of Matter at Extreme Conditions: Shock Compression and Other High-Strain-Rate Phenomena
Room: 257A Sponsor: DCOMP GSCCM DMP Chair: Evan Reed, Stanford University

J26 Focus Session: What is Computational Physics?
Room: 257B Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Norman Chonacky, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Kai Ming Ho,  Nora Sabelli  

J27 Invited Session: International Energy Perspectives
Room: 258AB Sponsor: FIP GERA Chair: William Barletta, Fermilab
Invited Speakers:  Mark Levine,  Carmine Difiglio,  Richard Lester,  Alexis Malozemoff,  Ellen Stechel  

J28 Focus Session: Frontiers in Computational Thermodynamics of Materials
Room: 258C Sponsor: FIAP DCOMP Chair: Stefano Curtarolo, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  David Landau,  Mark Asta  

J29 Focus Session: Quantum Information for Quantum Foundations - Informational Principles and Fundamental Structures
Room: 259A Sponsor: GQI Chair: Giulio Chiribella, Perimeter Institute
Invited Speakers:  Valerio Scarani  

J30 Open Quantum Systems and Decoherence
Room: 259B Sponsor: GQI Chair: Bill Coish, McGill University

J31 Focus Session: Topological Insulators: Synthesis and Characterization - Transport
Room: 260 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Nitin Samarth, Pennsylvania State University

J32 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides - Domain Structures and Switching
Room: 261 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Peter Maksymovych, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Marty Gregg  

J34 Focus Session: Impact of Ultrafast Lasers III: Biophysics
Room: 107A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Nancy Levinger and Amber Kummel, Colorado State University
Invited Speakers:  Shaul Mukamel,  Jennifer Ogilvie,  Gregory Scholes  

J35 Liquids
Room: 107B Sponsor: DCP Chair: Donald Truhlar, University of Minnesota

J36 Focus Session: New Energy III
Room: 107C Sponsor: DCP Chair: Bruce Garrett, Pacific Northwest Research Laboratory and Anders Nilsson, SLAC
Invited Speakers:  Jens Norskov,  Horia Metiu,  Charles T. Campbell  

J37 SPS Undergraduate Research IV
Room: 108 Sponsor: SPS Chair: Peter Muhoro, American Physical Society

J39 Exciton, Polariton, and Electron Dynamics in two-dimensional semiconductor structures
Room: 109B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mark Sherwin, University of California, Santa Barbara

J40 Multi-cellular Processes and Development
Room: 156A Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Lisa Manning, Syracuse University

J41 Vortex Dynamics, Turbulence and Geophysical Flows
Room: 156B Sponsor: DFD Chair: Greg Voth, Wesleyan University

J42 Focus Session: Stochastic Population Dynamics I - Cyclic competition and population stability
Room: 156C Sponsor: DBIO GSNP Chair: Michel Pleimling and Uwe Tauber, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Invited Speakers:  R.K.P. Zia  

J43 Invited Session: Stochastic Geometry and Conformal Invariance in Non-Equilibrium and Disordered Systems
Room: 157AB Sponsor: GSNP DFD Chair: Walter Goldburg, University of Pittsburgh
Invited Speakers:  Gregory Falkovich,  Ilya Gruzberg,  Tom Kennedy,  - Stefanus,  Simon Thalabard  

J44 Focus Session: Dynamics of Polymers: Phenomena Due to Confinement I
Room: 157C Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Zahra Fakhraai, University of Pennsylvania

J45 Padden Award Symposium
Room: 159 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Karen Winey, University of Pennsylvania

J46 Invited Session: Electrostatic Interactions in Polymeric and Biological Systems
Room: 160ABC Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Andrey Dobrynin, University of Connecticut
Invited Speakers:  Yan Levin,  Christopher Mundy,  Mark Stevens,  Murugappan Muthukumar,  Jan-Michael Carrillo  

J48 Focus Session: Gelation and Glass Transition in Colloids and Soft Matter Systems II
Room: 161 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Michael Rubinstein, University of North Carolina
Invited Speakers:  Arjun Yodh  

J49 Focus Session: Crystallization in Single-, Multicomponent, and Hybrid Systems I
Room: 162A Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Christopher Li, Drexel University
Invited Speakers:  Martin Brinkmann,  Rong-Ming Ho  

J50 Focus Session: Translocation through Nanopores - Novel Devices and Computational Approaches
Room: 162B Sponsor: DPOLY DBIO Chair: Samuel Amanuel, Union College
Invited Speakers:  Aniket Bhattacharya  

J51 Liquid Crystals: Smectic, Ferroelectric, Nanocomposites and DNA
Room: Boston Conference Center 154 Sponsor: DCMP DFD Chair: Luz J Martinez-Miranda, University of Maryland

J52 Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics - Plates
Room: 153C Sponsor: GSNP DFD Chair: Christian Santangelo, University of Massachusetts

J53 Disordered Systems: Jamming
Room: 153B Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Patrick Charbonneau, Duke University

J54 Focus Session: Complex and Co-evolving Networks - Empirical Studies of Social Networks
Room: 152 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Gene Stanley, Boston University
Invited Speakers:  Alain Barrat  

Feb 28 2012 2:00PM, Tuesday

K1 Poster Session II (2:00-5:00PM)
Room: Exhibit Hall C

Feb 28 2012 2:30PM, Tuesday

L1 Focus Session: Imaging and Modifying Materials at the Limits of Space and Time Resolution
Room: 203 Sponsor: DMP GIMS Chair: Bernd Kabius, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Nigel Browning,  Andreas Menzel  

L2 Invited Session: Andrei Sakharov Prize Session
Room: 204AB Sponsor: DPB FIP Chair: W. Barletta, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Bruno Coppi,  Robert Cahn,  Tatiana Yankelevich,  Richard Wilson,  Yousef Makdisi  

L3 Invited Session: Fermiology of Electron and Hole Doped Cuprates - A Guide to High Temperature Superconductivity
Room: 205AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Suchitra Sebastian, University of Cambridge
Invited Speakers:  Philip Anderson,  Neil Harrison,  Inna Vishik,  Martin Greven,  Patrick A. Lee  

L4 Focus Session: Numerical Methods for Studying Nonequilibrium Many-Body Dynamics; DMRG, DMFT, Truncated Wigner Approximation, Exact Diagonalization
Room: 205C Sponsor: DAMOP
Invited Speakers:  Andrew Daley  

L5 Focus Session: Interfaces in Complex Oxides - Nickelates
Room: 206A Sponsor: DMP Chair: John Freeland, Argonne National Laboratory

L6 Focus Session: van der Waals Bonding in Advanced Materials - Metal Oxide Frameworks & Active Materials
Room: 206B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Yves Chabal, University of Texas at Dallas
Invited Speakers:  Taner Yildirim  

L7 Carbon Nanotube Hybrid Structures - Properties, Synthesis, Characterization
Room: 207 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Apparao Mohan Rao, Clemson University

L8 Focus Session: Frustrated Magnetism - 1D
Room: 208 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Oleg Starykh, University of Utah
Invited Speakers:  Mike Zhitomirsky  

L9 Focus Session: Complex Bulk Oxides: Theoretical techniques for oxides
Room: 209 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: James Rondinelli, Drexel University
Invited Speakers:  Wei Ku,  Xin Wang  

L10 Invited Session: Quantum Optics in Condensed Matter
Room: 210A Sponsor: DLS Chair: Nick Vamivakas, University of Rochester
Invited Speakers:  Glenn Solomon,  Mackillo Kira,  Mikhail Lukin,  Mete Atature,  Benoit Deveaud-Pl\'edran  

L11 Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Stacking, Interactions: Magnetism and Interactions
Room: 210B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Enrico Rossi, College of William and Mary

L12 Focus Session: Graphene: Growth, Mechanical Exfoliation, and Properties - Growth on Single Crystals
Room: 210C Sponsor: DMP Chair: James Hannon, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Invited Speakers:  Kevin McCarty,  Matthias Batzill  

L13 Focus Session: Low-Dimensional and Molecular Magnetism - 1D Magnetism/Single-Chain Magnets - Experiment
Room: 211 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Roberta Sessoli, University of Florence - Italy
Invited Speakers:  Lapo Bogani  

L14 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Magnetic Semiconductors II
Room: 212 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: George Kioseoglou, University of Crete
Invited Speakers:  Tomas Jungwirth  

L15 Focus Session: Spins in Metals - Resonance Phenomena I, Spin Wave Excitation and Spin Torque Oscillators
Room: 213 Sponsor: DMP FIAP GMAG Chair: Andrew Kent, New York University
Invited Speakers:  Marco Madami,  Sergei Urazhdin  

L16 Heavy Fermions - Theory and Experiment
Room: 251 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jianxin Zhu, Los Alamos National Laboratory

L17 Focus Session: Thermoelectrics - Electronic Structure and Transport
Room: 252A Sponsor: DMP GERA FIAP Chair: Oded Rabin, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  David Singh  

L18 Focus Session: Electron, Ion, and Exciton Transport in Nanostructures - Quantum Dots and Related Structures
Room: 252B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Latha Venkataraman, Columbia University
Invited Speakers:  Cherie Kagan  

L19 Invited Session: Spin Liquids with Disorder
Room: 253AB Sponsor: DCMP GMAG Chair: Leon Balents, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Steven White,  Tyrel McQueen,  Roderich Moessner,  Sian Dutton,  Lucile Savary  

L20 Invited Session: STEM Outreach to Underrepresented Communities
Room: 253C Sponsor: CSWP COM Chair: Richard Peterson, Bethel University
Invited Speakers:  Stephen McGuire,  Kevin Hewitt,  Cristina Torres,  Kevin Schindler,  Saeqa Vrtilek  

L21 Superconductivity: Mostly Mesoscopics & Low-d
Room: 254A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Timir Datta, Univeristy of South Carolina

L22 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors: -- Inelastic Neutron Scattering and Magnetic Excitations
Room: 254B Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Rob McQueeny, Ames Lab/Iowa State University
Invited Speakers:  Efrain Rodriguez  

L23 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors - First Principles, Models, and Spectroscopy
Room: 255 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Roser Valenti, Goethe University

L24 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors - Chalcogenides, Oxides, and Ternaries
Room: 256 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Hartwin Peelaers, University of California, Santa Barbara

L25 Focus Session: Simulation of Matter at Extreme Conditions - Warm Dense Matter
Room: 257A Sponsor: DCOMP GSCCM DMP Chair: Timothy Germann, Los Alamos National Laboratory

L26 Focus Session: Friction, Fracture and Deformation Across Length Scales - Dislocations and Fracture
Room: 257B Sponsor: DCOMP GSNP Chair: David Goldsby, Brown University
Invited Speakers:  Izabela Szlufarska  

L27 Invited Session: Quantum Design of Low-Dimensional Materials Structures for Enhanced Solar Energy Conversion
Room: 258AB Sponsor: DCMP FIAP Chair: Zhenyu Zhang, University of Science and Technology of China
Invited Speakers:  Alex Zunger,  Efstratios Manousakis,  Vladimir Bulovic,  Zhenchao Dong,  Marlan Scully  

L28 Electricity-to-Light Conversion: Solid State Lighting
Room: 258C Sponsor: FIAP GERA DMP Chair: Theodore Moustakas, Boston University

L29 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits - Single and Multi-Qubit Demonstrations
Room: 259A Sponsor: GQI Chair: Amir Yacoby, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Yasuhiro Tokura  

L30 Focus Session: Topologically Protected Qubits I
Room: 259B Sponsor: GQI Chair: Sumanta Tewari, Clemson University

L31 Focus Session: Topological Insulators: Synthesis and Transport - Magnetism
Room: 260 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Nuh Gedik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Cui-Zu Chang  

L32 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides - Mechanisms of Ferroelectricity
Room: 261 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Ronald Cohen, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Invited Speakers:  Nicole Benedek  

L33 Invited Session: Frontiers of Granular Physics
Room: 106 Sponsor: GSNP DFD Chair: Eric Weeks, Emory University
Invited Speakers:  Salvatore Torquato,  Michelle Girvan,  Daniel Goldman,  Scott Franklin,  Eric Brown  

L34 Focus Session: Impact of Ultrafast Lasers IV: Applications I
Room: 107A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Nancy Levinger and Amber Kummel, Colorado State University
Invited Speakers:  Martin Zanni,  Amy Mullin  

L35 Focus Session: DFT IV: Ground-State DFT: New Directions
Room: 107B Sponsor: DCP Chair: Sam Trickey, University of Florida
Invited Speakers:  Weitao Yang,  John P. Perdew  

L36 Focus Session: New Energy IV
Room: 107C Sponsor: DCP Chair: Bruce Garrett, Pacific Northwest Research Laboratory and Anders Nilsson, SLAC
Invited Speakers:  Mark Ratner,  Kevin Rosso,  Ryan Jorn  

L37 Informal Education and Public Outreach - Policy Questions
Room: 108 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Gary White, SPS/AIP

L39 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits: 3D Cavities
Room: 109B Sponsor: GQI Chair: Lev Bishop, Joint Quantum Institute and CMTC
Invited Speakers:  Hanhee Paik  

L40 Focus Session: Systems Biology and Biochemical Networks II
Room: 156A Sponsor: DBIO GSNP Chair: Yuhai Tu, IBM Watson Research Center
Invited Speakers:  Kalin Vetsigian  

L41 Pattern Formation, Nonlinear Dynamics, Computational Fluid Dynamics
Room: 156B Sponsor: DFD Chair: Daphne Klotsa, University of Michigan

L42 Focus Session: Physics of Cancer II -- Physical Aspects
Room: 156C Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Clare Yu, University of California, Irvine
Invited Speakers:  Clare Yu  

L43 Invited Session: Precursors to the Folding and Aggregation of Biological Molecules
Room: 157AB Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY Chair: Peter G. Vekilov, University of Houston and Vassiliy Lubchenko, University of Houston
Invited Speakers:  Garegin Papoian,  Vassiliy Lubchenko,  Dave Thirumalai,  Jim De Yoreo,  Boaz Pokroy  

L44 Focus Session: Nano to Mesoscale Structure in Ordered Soft Matter: Liquid Crystal Phases
Room: 157C Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Marina Ruths, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Invited Speakers:  Oriano Francescangeli  

L45 Friction and Brushes
Room: 159 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Mark Stoykovich, University of Colorado

L46 Dillon Medal Symposium
Room: 160ABC Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Frank Bates, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Rachel Segalman  

L48 Polymers and DNA Coated Colloid Particles
Room: 161 Sponsor: DPOLY DBIO Chair: Alexei Tkachenko, Brookhaven National Laboratory

L49 Focus Session: Fluctuation-Induced Forces in Soft Matter and Polymeric Systems - Charge, Shape and Nucleation
Room: 162A Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Zvonimir Dogic, Brandeis University
Invited Speakers:  Yacov Kantor  

L50 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Morphology
Room: 162B Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Mark Dadmun, University of Tennessee

L51 Self Assembly: Mostly Colloids, Lipids and Surfactants
Room: Boston Convention Center 154 Sponsor: DCMP DFD Chair: Arjun G Yodh, University of Pennsylvania

L52 Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics - Origami, Creasing, and Folding
Room: 153C Sponsor: GSNP DFD Chair: Ross Hatton, Carnegie Mellon University
Invited Speakers:  Erik Demaine  

L53 Frontiers of Statistical Physics
Room: 153B Sponsor: GSNP DCMP Chair: Susan Coppersmith, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
Invited Speakers:  Ian Affleck,  Giovanni Jona-Lasinio  

L54 Superconductivity: Mostly Devices and Applications
Room: 152 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Clarke, University of California, Berkeley

Feb 28 2012 5:45PM, Tuesday

M1 GIMS Business Meeting
Room: 203 Sponsor: GIMS

M8 GMAG Business Meeting
Room: 208 Sponsor: GMAG

M25 GSCCM Business Meeting
Room: 257A Sponsor: GSCCM

M28 FIAP Business Meeting
Room: 258C Sponsor: FIAP

M29 GQI Business Meeting
Room: 259A Sponsor: GQI

M33 GERA Business Meeting
Room: 106 Sponsor: GERA

M34 DCP Business Meeting
Room: 107B Sponsor: DCP

M42 DBIO Business Meeting
Room: 156C Sponsor: DBIO

M46 DPOLY Business Meeting
Room: 160ABC Sponsor: DPOLY

M52 GSNP Business Meeting
Room: 153C Sponsor: GSNP

Feb 28 2012 7:00PM, Tuesday

M60 DCMP Business Meeting
Room: Westin Boston Waterfront Paine Sponsor: DCMP

M61 DMP Business Meeting
Room: Westin Boston Waterfront Revere Sponsor: DMP

Feb 28 2012 8:00PM, Tuesday

N1 The IBM Computer Watson: Its Future Challenges After Winning at Jeopardy
Room: 253 ABC Chair: James Wynne, IBM Research Headquarters
Invited Speakers:  David McQueeney,  Neil Gershenfeld  

Feb 29 2012 8:00AM, Wednesday

P2 Invited Session: Large Fluctuations Far From Equilibrium
Room: 204AB Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Baruch Meerson, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Invited Speakers:  Dov Levine,  Manoj Chaudhury,  Alex Kamenev,  Michael Khasin,  Sidney Redner  

P3 Invited Session: Alkaline Iron Selenides vs Iron Pnictides: Properties and Their Implications
Room: 205AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Qimiao Si, Rice University
Invited Speakers:  Wei Bao,  Xingjiang Zhou,  Pallab Goswami,  Peter Hirschfeld,  Takashi Imai  

P4 Multi-Component BECs and Mixtures
Room: 205C Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Noah Bary-Lai, Joint Quantum Institute

P5 Surfaces, Interfaces, and Thin Films: Kinetics, Dynamics, and Reactions
Room: 206A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ray Phaneuf, University of Maryland

P6 Graphene Optical Phenomena
Room: 206B Sponsor: DMP Chair: John Cerne, SUNY Buffalo

P7 Focus Session: Computational Design of Materials: Graphene - Electronic Structure and Transport
Room: 207 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Yan Wang, University of Florida

P8 Focus Session: Spin Liquids I
Room: 208 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Claudio Castelnovo, Royal Holloway University
Invited Speakers:  Luis Balicas  

P9 Focus Session: Magnetic Oxide Thin Films And Heterostructures: Manganite Thin Films
Room: 209 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Anand Bhattacharya, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Yayoi Takamura  

P10 Invited Session: Quantum Simulations
Room: 210A Sponsor: DAMOP GQI Chair: Markus Greiner, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Ian Spielman,  Rainer Blatt,  Steven Girvin,  Mohammad Hafezi,  Ehud Altman  

P11 Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Stacking, Interactions: Strain and Stacking
Room: 210B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Piet Brouwer, Freie Universitat Berlin
Invited Speakers:  Markus Kindermann  

P12 Tutorial for Authors and Referees
Room: 210C

P13 Focus Session: Low-Dimensional and Molecular Magnetism - Single-Molecule Magnets - Dynamics, structure and interactions
Room: 211 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Stephen Hill, Florida State University
Invited Speakers:  Philip Stamp  

P14 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Quantum Dots and Qubits
Room: 212 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Connie Li, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Rafal Oszwaldowski,  Lieven Vandersypen  

P15 Focus Session: Spins in Metals - Spin Current Generation and Spin Motive Force
Room: 213 Sponsor: DMP FIAP GMAG Chair: Chia-Ling Chien, Johns Hopkins University
Invited Speakers:  Yasuhiro Fukuma  

P16 Heavy Fermions- Mostly URu2Si2
Room: 251 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jason Jeffries, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

P17 Focus Session: Thermoelectrics - TE and Thermal Conductivity
Room: 252A Sponsor: DMP GERA FIAP Chair: David Singh, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

P18 Focus Session: Electron, Ion, and Exciton Transport in Nanostructures - Quantum Transport I
Room: 252B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Cherie Kagan, University of Pennsylvania

P19 Invited Session: Dynamics of Strongly Correlated Systems: Control and Ultrafast X-Ray Probes
Room: 253AB Sponsor: DCMP GIMS Chair: Joseph Orenstein, UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Andrea Cavalleri,  Alessandra Lanzara,  Kai Rossnagel,  Martin Eckstein,  Daniel Santavicca  

P20 Invited Session: Scientific Reasoning in a Physics Course
Room: 253C Sponsor: FEd Chair: Nicola Ferralis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Dedra Demaree,  Vazgen Shekoyan,  David Brookes,  Suzanne Brahmia,  Andrew Boudreaux  

P21 Superconductivity: Electronic Structure of Cuprates
Room: 254A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ruslan Prozorov, Ames Laboratory

P22 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductivity - Fe(Te,Se)
Room: 254B Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Qiang Li, Brookhaven National Laboratory

P23 Superconductivity Theory II: p-wave, chiral, and topological
Room: 255 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Herbert Fotso, Georgetown University

P24 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect I
Room: 256 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Michael Manfra, Purdue University

P25 Focus Session: Simulation of Matter at Extreme Conditions - Static Pressure
Room: 257A Sponsor: DCOMP GSCCM DMP Chair: Ronald Cohen, Carnegie Institution of Washington

P26 Focus Session: Friction, Fracture and Deformation Across Length Scales - Friction and Geometric Effects
Room: 257B Sponsor: DCOMP GSNP Chair: Michael Chandross, Sandia National Laboratories

P27 Invited Session: Transport Studies of Topological Insulators
Room: 258AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Peng Xiong, Florida State University
Invited Speakers:  Hartmut Buhmann,  Ivan Knez,  Yoichi Ando,  Xi Dai,  Qikun Xue  

P28 Optical Applications: Nonlinear Optics, Waveguides, and Novel Structures
Room: 258C Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Doug Natelson, Rice University

P29 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits: Multiple Qubits and Entanglement
Room: 259A Sponsor: GQI Chair: Matthias Steffen, IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY
Invited Speakers:  Chad Rigetti  

P30 Semiconductor Qubits - Communication and Hybridization
Room: 259B Sponsor: GQI Chair: Jacob Taylor, NIST

P31 Topological Insulators: Disorder
Room: 260 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Chris Varney, University of Massachusetts

P32 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides - BiFeO3
Room: 261 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Valery Kiryukhin, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Jens Kreisel  

P33 Physics of Photovoltaics and other Electricity Production
Room: 106 Sponsor: GERA Chair: Jeffrey Nelson, Sandia National Laboratories

P34 Focus Session: Nano III: New Nanoscale Fabrication and Sensing
Room: 107A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Shiv Khanna, Virginia Commonwealth University and Gabor Somorjai, UC Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Paul Alivisatos,  Richard Van Duyne  

P35 Focus Session: DFT V: Partitioning and Embedding Theories; Finite-Temperature
Room: 107B Sponsor: DCP Chair: Barry Dunietz, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Thomas Miller,  Adam Wasserman  

P36 Focus Session: Environment III: Nanoparticles, Surfaces and Catalysis
Room: 107C Sponsor: DCP Chair: Don Baer, Pacific Northwest Research Laboratory and Ilja Siepmann, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Michael Hochella,  William F. Schneider,  David Shuh  

P37 CDW Materials - Chalcogenides and other
Room: 108 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Goran Karapetrov, Drexel University

P40 Protein Fluctuations and Conformation Changes
Room: 156A Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Daniel Cox, University of California, Davis

P41 Drops, Bubbles and Interfacial Fluid Mechanics
Room: 156B Sponsor: DFD Chair: Kripa Varanasi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

P42 Focus Session: Evolutionary Systems Biology II - From molecules to cells
Room: 156C Sponsor: DBIO GSNP Chair: Edo Kussell, New York University
Invited Speakers:  Ralf Bundschuh,  Gurol Suel  

P43 Invited Session: High Content Biophysical Data for Dynamic Studies in Cancer
Room: 157AB Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Larry Nagahara, National Cancer Institute
Invited Speakers:  Gabriel Popescu,  Nongjian Tao,  Seok-Hyun (Andy) Yun,  Stephen Wong,  Peter Kuhn  

P44 Focus Session: Block Copolymer Micelles and Polymersomes
Room: 157C Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: You-Yeon Won, Purdue University
Invited Speakers:  Marc A. Hillmyer,  Mu-Ping Nieh  

P45 Surfaces, Interfaces, and Polymeric Thin Films - Surface Instabilities
Room: 159 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Jyotsana Lal, Argonne National Laboratory

P46 Invited Session: DNA-Programmable Particle Assembly
Room: 160AB Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Oleg Gang, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Paul Chaikin,  Alexei Tkachenko,  Dmytro Nykypanchuk,  Chad Mirkin,  John Crocker  

P47 Biopolymers: Molecules, Solutions, Networks, and Gels
Room: 160C Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Gary Slater, University of Ottawa

P48 Focus Session: Crystallization in Single-, Multicomponent, and Hybrid Systems II
Room: 161 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Lei Zhu, Case Western Reserve University
Invited Speakers:  Stephen Z.D. Cheng,  Karen Winey  

P49 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Interfaces and Contacts
Room: 162A Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Lynn Loo, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Norbert Koch  

P50 Focus Session: Dynamics of Polymers: Phenomena due to Confinement; Glass Transition
Room: 162B Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Rodney Priestly, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Scott Milner,  Connie Roth  

P51 Colloids III: Shear and Hydrodynamics
Room: Boston Convention Center 154 Sponsor: DCMP DFD Chair: Vinothan N Manoharan, Harvard University

P52 Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics - Structures for Form and Function
Room: 153C Sponsor: GSNP DFD Chair: Jose Bico, ESPCI
Invited Speakers:  Carmel Majidi  

P53 Disordered Systems: Packing
Room: 153B Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Lisa Manning, Syracuse University

P54 Superconductivity: Thermodynamics and Phases
Room: 152 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Haihu Wen, University of Nanjing

Feb 29 2012 11:15AM, Wednesday

Q2 Invited Session: Manipulating Spin Waves
Room: 204AB Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Axel Hoffmann, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Sadamichi Maekawa,  Helmut Schultheiss,  Robert McMichael,  Antonio Azevedo,  Mingzhong Wu  

Q3 Invited Session: Recent Advances in Pnictide Superconductors
Room: 205AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Wei Ku, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Elbio Dagotto,  Ruslan Prozorov,  James Analytis,  Ulrich Welp,  Donglai Feng  

Q4 Focus Session: Many-body Quantum Phases in Cold Atom Systems
Room: 205C Sponsor: DAMOP
Invited Speakers:  Nikolay Prokofiev  

Q5 Nonequilibrium and Gauge/Gravity Duality
Room: 206A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Philip Phillips, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Q6 Carbon Nanotubes: Electronic and Thermal Properties
Room: 206B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Rodrigo Capaz, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Q7 Focus Session: Computational Design of Materials: Graphene - Strain, defect and interface engineering
Room: 207 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Marco Buongiorno Nardelli, North Carolina State University

Q8 Focus Session: Spin Liquids II
Room: 208 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Arthur Ramirez, UC Santa Cruz

Q9 Focus Session: Complex Bulk Oxide: Doped and Undoped Manganites
Room: 209 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta, S.N.Bose National Centre

Q10 Invited Session: Rare Fluctuation Effects in Strongly Disordered Systems
Room: 210A Sponsor: DCMP DCOMP Chair: Susan Coppersmith, University of Wisconsin
Invited Speakers:  Ravindra Bhatt,  Vladimir Dobrosavljevic,  Gil Refael,  Mohit Randeria,  Thomas Vojta  

Q11 Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Stacking, Interactions: Infrared and Terahertz Spectroscopy
Room: 210B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Andrea Young, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Milan Orlita,  Euyheon Hwang  

Q12 Focus Session: Graphene: Growth, Mechanical Exfoliation, and Properties - SiC and Growth Kinetics
Room: 210C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Kevin McCarty, Sandia National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  James Hannon,  Christopher Russo  

Q13 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanostructures-Nanoparticle Synthesis and Magnetism
Room: 211 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Janice Musfeldt, University of Tennessee

Q14 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Spin Dependent Transport
Room: 212 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Robert Lillianfeld, Purdue University
Invited Speakers:  Joerg Wunderlich  

Q16 Heavy Fermions - 1-1-5 Systems
Room: 251 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Johnpierre Paglione, University of Maryland, College Park

Q17 Focus Session: Nanostructures and Metamaterials, Growth, Structure, and Characterization -- Improved Materials and Applications I
Room: 252A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Richard Averitt, Boston University
Invited Speakers:  Alexandra Boltasseva  

Q18 Focus Session: Interfaces in Complex Oxides - Electronic, Magnetic and Optical Properties
Room: 252B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Kyle Shen, Department of Physics, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  Sohrab Ismail-Beigi  

Q19 Invited Session: The Scientific Legacy of Edward Purcell (1912-2012)
Room: 253AB Sponsor: FHP Chair: Gerald Holton, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Nicolaas Bloembergen,  Doc Ewen,  Howard Berg,  Richard Garwin,  John Rigden  

Q20 Invited Session: Robust Energy Storage with Engineered Si
Room: 253C Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Susan Babinec, A123 Systems
Invited Speakers:  Candace Chan,  Jason Goldman,  Claus Daniel,  Mark Obrovac,  Baris Key  

Q21 Novel Superconductivity in New and Low Dimensional Materials
Room: 254A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Emilia Morosan, Rice University

Q22 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductivity - Doped and Undoped BaFe2As2
Room: 254B Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Efrain Rodriguez, NIST Center for Neutron Research

Q23 Superconductivty Theory III: Mainly Cuprates
Room: 255 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Lex Kemper, Stanford University

Q24 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect II
Room: 256 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Michael Mulligan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Q25 Focus Session: Simulation of Matter at Extreme Conditions - Phase Transitions
Room: 257A Sponsor: DCOMP GSCCM DMP Chair: Renata Wentzcovitch, University of Minnesota

Q26 Focus Session: Computational Frontiers in Quantum Spin Systems I
Room: 257B Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Anders Sandvik, Boston University
Invited Speakers:  Roger Melko  

Q27 Invited Session: DCMP Prize Session: Buckley, Isakson, MGM
Room: 258AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Barbara Jones, IBM Almaden Research Center
Invited Speakers:  Charles Kane,  Laurens W. Molenkamp,  Shoucheng Zhang,  Dmitri Basov,  Nadya Mason  

Q28 Applications of Semiconductors, Dielectrics, Complex Oxides
Room: 258C Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Ernesto Marinero, Hitachi Global

Q29 Focus Session: Topologically Protected Qubits II
Room: 259A Sponsor: GQI Chair: Roman Lutchyn, Microsoft
Invited Speakers:  Sumanta Tewari  

Q30 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits: Architecture, Tunable, and Static Coupling
Room: 259B Sponsor: GQI Chair: Chad Rigetti, IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY
Invited Speakers:  Joel Strand  

Q31 Focus Session: Topological Insulators - Edge States
Room: 260 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Shaffique Adam, NIST
Invited Speakers:  Kai Chang  

Q32 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides - Multiferroics and Magnetoelectrics
Room: 261 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Jens Kreisel, CNRS -- Grenoble Institute of Technology

Q33 Focus Session: X-ray and Neutron Instruments and Measurement Science
Room: 106 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Albert Macrander, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  G. Brian Stephenson,  Jeffrey Lynn  

Q34 Focus Session: Nano IV: Nanocatalysis
Room: 107A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Shiv Khanna, Virginia Commonwealth University and Gabor Somorjai, UC Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Scott Anderson,  Francisco Zaera  

Q35 Focus Session: DFT VI: New Functional Developments
Room: 107B Sponsor: DCP Chair: Hardy Gross, Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics
Invited Speakers:  Miguel Marques,  Donald Truhlar  

Q36 Water and Ice
Room: 107C Sponsor: DCP Chair: James Skinner, University of Wisconsin

Q37 Focus Session: Students, Physics and Innovation
Room: 108 Sponsor: FIAP FEd Chair: Randy Tagg, University of Colorado Denver
Invited Speakers:  Douglas Arion  

Q39 Focus Session: Materials and Functional Structures for Biological Interfaces - Micro and Nanofluidics
Room: 109B Sponsor: DMP DBIO DPOLY Chair: Robert Riehn, North Carolina State University
Invited Speakers:  Marcella Chiari  

Q40 Focus Session: Systems Biology and Biochemical Networks III
Room: 156A Sponsor: DBIO GSNP Chair: Lei-Han Tang, Hong Kong Baptist University
Invited Speakers:  Ting Lu  

Q41 Biofluids
Room: 156B Sponsor: DFD Chair: Saverio Spagnolie, Brown University

Q42 Focus Session: Stochastic Population Dynamics II - Games and Spatial Dynamics
Room: 156C Sponsor: DBIO GSNP Chair: Michel Pleimling and Uwe Tauber, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Invited Speakers:  Erwin Frey,  Jeff Gore  

Q43 Invited Session: Techniques to Study Dynamic Cellular Processes One Molecule at a Time (Including Delbruck Award Lecture)
Room: 157AB Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Steve Kowalczykowski and Daniel Cox, University of California, Davis
Invited Speakers:  William Eaton,  Michelle D. Wang,  Taekjip Ha,  Hari Shroff,  Cees Dekker  

Q44 Focus Session: Interparticle Interactions in Polymer Nanocomposites - Transport and Dynamics
Room: 157C Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Mohan Srinivasarao, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Ken Schweizer  

Q45 Elastomers and Gels
Room: 159 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Jan-Michael Carrillo, University of Connecticut

Q46 Invited Session: Quantum Information Processing in Diamond
Room: 160AB Sponsor: GQI Chair: Ronald Hanson, TU Delft
Invited Speakers:  Fedor Jelezko,  Kai-Mei Fu,  J.G.E. Harris,  Hannes Bernien,  Lee C. Bassett  

Q47 Focus Session: DNA-Coated Colloid Particles
Room: 160C Sponsor: DPOLY DBIO Chair: Dmytro Nykypanchuk, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Francis W. Starr  

Q48 Polymer Blends and Crystallization
Room: 161 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Ryan Howard, University of Massachusetts

Q49 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Photophysics and Excited State Dynamics
Room: 162A Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Russell Holmes, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Charles Musgrave  

Q50 Focus Session: Dynamics of Polymers: Phenomena due to Confinement II
Room: 162B Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Christopher Ellison, University of Texas at Austin

Q51 Gels, Complex Fluids and Vesicles
Room: Boston Convention Center 154 Sponsor: DCMP DFD Chair: Jeff Urbach, Georgetown University

Q52 Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics - Shells & Snapping
Room: 153C Sponsor: GSNP DFD Chair: Dominic Vella, Oxford University

Q53 Packing, Self-Assembly, and Granular Memory
Room: 153B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Salvatore Torquato, Princeton University

Q54 Superconductivity: Mesoscopic and Nanometer Scale
Room: 152 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Vladimir Orlyanchik, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Feb 29 2012 1:00PM, Wednesday

S1 Poster Session III (1:00-4:00PM)
Room: Exhibit Hall C

Feb 29 2012 2:30PM, Wednesday

T1 Hybrid Systems, Optomechanics and Macroscopic Systems at the Quantum Limit II
Room: 203 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Ofer Firstenberg, Harvard University

T2 Invited Session: PIRE in Condensed Matter
Room: 204AB Sponsor: FIP Chair: Joan Frye, National Science Foundation
Invited Speakers:  Junichiro Kono,  Thomas Pruschke,  Chang Yeol Ryu,  Arthur R. Smith,  Yasutomo Uemura  

T4 Vortices, Rotation, and Synthetic Gauge Fields
Room: 205C Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Ross Williams, JQI

T5 Assembly of Atoms and Molecules in Adsorption Systems
Room: 206A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Daniel Dougherty, North Carolina State University

T6 Focus Session: Graphene Devices - Spin, Charge, and Superconductivity
Room: 206B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Daniel Gunlycke, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  M.W. Wu  

T7 Focus Session: Computational Design of Materials: Electronic Structure Methods for Materials - Faster and More Accurate
Room: 207 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Vanessa Ortiz, Columbia University

T8 Focus Session: Helical Phases and Skyrmions
Room: 208 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Oleg Tchernyshyov, Johns Hopkins University

T9 Focus Session: Magnetic Oxide Thin Films And Heterostructures - Interactions at Interfaces and in Superlattices
Room: 209 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Suzanne te Velthuis, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Michael Fitzsimmons,  Charles Ahn  

T10 Invited Session: Earth-Abundant Materials for Critical Technologies
Room: 210A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Phillip Duxbury, Michigan State University
Invited Speakers:  Karl Gschneidner, Jr.,  R. William McCallum,  Daniel G. Nocera,  Seth Coe-Sullivan,  Supratik Guha  

T11 Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Stacking, Interactions: Twisted Layers
Room: 210B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Gene Mele, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Jo\~{a}o Lopes dos Santos,  Allan MacDonald  

T12 Focus Session: Graphene: Growth, Mechanical Exfoliation, and Properties - CVD on Metals
Room: 210C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Matthias Batzill, University of South Florida
Invited Speakers:  Luigi Colombo  

T13 Focus Session: Low-Dimensional and Molecular Magnetism - Molecular Ferromagnetism and 2D Magnetism
Room: 211 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Philip Stamp, University of British Columbia
Invited Speakers:  Stephen Winter  

T14 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Spins and Edge States
Room: 212 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Yuli Lyanda-Geller, Purdue University
Invited Speakers:  Biswajit Karmakar  

T15 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanostructures-Exchange Bias and Exchange-Coupled Systems
Room: 213 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: David Lederman, West Virginia University
Invited Speakers:  Z.Q. Qiu  

T16 Kondo Lattice Theory
Room: 251 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ilya Vekhter, Louisiana State University

T17 Focus Session: Electron, Ion, and Exciton Transport in Nanostructures - Quantum Transport II
Room: 252A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Dibyendu Roy, University of Cincinnati

T18 Focus Session: Interfaces in Complex Oxides - Superconductivity and Magnetism at Interfaces
Room: 252B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jean-Marc Triscone, Universite de Geneve

T19 Kavli Foundation Special Session: Emergent Physics at the Mesoscale
Room: Ballroom East Sponsor: APS Chair: Kate Kirby, American Physical Society
Invited Speakers:  R.B. Laughlin,  William D. Phillips,  Angela Belcher,  William Bialek,  George Whitesides  

T20 Invited Session: Advanced Characterization of Transistor Gate Stacks and Interfaces
Room: 253C Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Chris Van Der Walle, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Matthew Copel,  Jon Pelz,  Justin R. Weber,  Paul McIntyre,  Gennadi Bersuker  

T21 Magnetic Ordering and Dynamics in Cuprates
Room: 254A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Anna Llobet, Los Alamos National Laboratory

T22 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductivity - Properties of 122 phases
Room: 254B Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Mark Lumsden, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

T23 Actinides and Transport Magnetism in Metals
Room: 255 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Valentino Cooper, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

T24 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect III
Room: 256 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Rui-Rui Du, Rice University

T25 High Pressure: Theory
Room: 257A Sponsor: DCOMP DCMP Chair: Xiaojia Chen, Carnegie Institution of Washington

T26 Focus Session: Computational Frontiers in Quantum Spin Systems II
Room: 257B Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Hans Gerd Evertz, Technical University of Graz
Invited Speakers:  Ribhu Kaul  

T28 Semiconductors
Room: 258C Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Loren Pfeiffer, Princeton University

T29 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits - Coherent Control, Decoherence, and Relaxation
Room: 259A Sponsor: GQI Chair: Charles Tahan, Laboratory for Physical Sciences
Invited Speakers:  Jason Petta  

T30 Quantum Algorithms
Room: 259B Sponsor: GQI Chair: Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Harvard University

T31 Focus Session: Topological Insulators: Synthesis and Characterization - Spin Transport and Superconductivity
Room: 260 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Nicholas Butch  

T32 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides - Manganites
Room: 261 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Vivien Zapf, Los Alamos National Laboratory

T35 Focus Session: Plyler Award Symposium
Room: 107B Sponsor: DCP Chair: Birgitta Whaley, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Andrei Tokmakoff,  James Skinner,  David Jonas  

T37 Physics Education Research and Resources
Room: 108 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Thomas Olsen, SPS/AIP

T40 Focus Session: Cytoskeleton and Biomechanics - Forced Dynamics
Room: 156A Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY Chair: Helim Aranda-Espinoza, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Arpita Upadhyaya  

T41 Swimming, Motility and Locomotion
Room: 156B Sponsor: DFD Chair: Paolo Arratia, University of Pennsylvania

T42 Focus Session: Evolutionary Systems Biology III - Evolutionary Games
Room: 156C Sponsor: DBIO GSNP Chair: Ralf Bundschuh, Ohio State University
Invited Speakers:  Avigdor Eldar,  Lingchong You  

T44 Focus Session: Interparticle Interactions in Polymer Nanocomposites - Grafted Chains
Room: 157C Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Mesfin Tsige, University of Akron

T45 Polymeric Glasses
Room: 159 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: James Runt, Pennsylvania State University

T46 Invited Session: Keithley Award Session: Photoacoustic and Photothermal Measurement Science
Room: 160AB Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Terrence Jach, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Andreas Mandelis,  Juan Jose Alvarado-Gil,  Gerald Diebold,  Peter Hess,  Keith Gillis  

T47 Focus Session: Heterogeneous Colloids I
Room: 160C Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Michael Engel, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Steve Granick,  Stefano Sacanna  

T48 Focus Session: Advanced Optical Probes of Soft Matter - Microrheology, Microbiography
Room: 161 Sponsor: DPOLY DBIO Chair: Daneil Ou-Yang, Lehigh University
Invited Speakers:  Ernst-Ludwig Florin  

T49 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics: Structure - Property Correlations
Room: 162A Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Dean DeLongchamp, NIST
Invited Speakers:  Garry Rumbles  

T50 Focus Session: Phase Behavior and Structure in Copolymers
Room: 162B Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Megan Robertson, University of Houston
Invited Speakers:  An-Chang Shi  

T52 Non-equilibrium Systems, Especially using Fluctuation Theorems and Fluctuation-Dissipation Relations
Room: 153C Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Michel Pleimling, Virginia Tech

T53 Focus Session: Wave Propagation in Strongly Scattering Media
Room: 153B Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Steven Anlage, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Azriel Genack  

T54 Superconductivity: Mostly Spectroscopy and Pairing
Room: 152 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Tanner, University of Florida

Feb 29 2012 5:45PM, Wednesday

U18 Meet the NSF-DMR Program Director and Learn About Funding Opportunities at NSF
Room: 252B

U20 Town Hall Meeting: Mesoscopic Materials and Chemistry
Room: 253C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Marc Kastner (MIT) and Bill Barletta (MIT), Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee

Feb 29 2012 7:30PM, Wednesday

U60 ``Trends" in the APS Publication Physics
Room: Westin Boston Waterfront Grand Ballroom A/B Chair: Samindranath Mitra, American Physical Society
Invited Speakers:  Gerrit E.W. Bauer,  Raymond Goldstein,  John Pendry  

Mar 1 2012 8:00AM, Thursday

V1 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy III: SPM of Single Atoms & Molecules
Room: 203 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Frances Niestemski, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Jascha Repp  

V2 Invited Session: Spin Caloritronics of Magnetic Structures and Devices
Room: 204AB Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Gerrit E. W. Bauer, Delft University of Technology
Invited Speakers:  John Slonczewski,  Eiji Saitoh,  Ke Xia,  Markus Muenzenberg,  Alexey A. Kovalev  

V3 Invited Session: Spin Fluctuations and Cooper Pairing in Unconventional Superconductors
Room: 205AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Assa Auerbach, Technion
Invited Speakers:  Nicolas Doiron-Leyraud,  Kui Jin,  Mathieu Le Tacon,  Oliver Stockert,  A.D. Christianson  

V4 Bosons and Fermions in Optical Lattices
Room: 205C Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Emanuele Dalla Torre, Harvard University

V5 Surface Electronic & Lattice Properties: Structure, Surface States, & Adsorption
Room: 206A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ted Einstein, U. of Maryland, College Park

V6 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotube Optics I: Spectroscopy and Excitons
Room: 206B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Philip Collins, University of California, Irvine
Invited Speakers:  Jiwoong Park  

V7 Focus Session: Computational Design of Materials - Engineering of Electronic Structure Materials
Room: 207 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Serdar Ogut, University of Illinois at Chicago

V8 Focus Session: Frustrated Magnetism - Kagome II
Room: 208 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Joe Helton, NIST

V9 Focus Session: Magnetic Oxide Thin Films And Heterostructures - Transport Properties
Room: 209 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Alex de Lozanne, University of Texas at Austin

V10 Invited Session: Quantum Entanglement in Many-Body Systems
Room: 210A Sponsor: GQI DAMOP Chair: John Preskill, California Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Eugene Polzik,  Frank Verstraete,  Dietrich Leibfried,  Xiao-Gang Wen,  Scott Aaronson  

V11 Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Stacking, Interactions: Edges and Grain Boundaries
Room: 210B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Aaron Bostwick, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  David Muller  

V12 Graphene: Optical Properties and Responses
Room: 210C Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Larry Carr, Brookhaven National Laboratory

V13 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanostructures-Domain Walls
Room: 211 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Laura Lewis, Northeastern University
Invited Speakers:  Oleg Tretiakov,  Nitin Samarth  

V14 Focus Session: Spins in Carbon - Spins and Magnetism in Carbon
Room: 212 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jian Shen, Fudan University
Invited Speakers:  Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin  

V16 Heavy Fermions- 1-1-5 Systems and Others
Room: 251 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Deepak Singh, NIST

V17 Focus Session: Electron, Ion, and Exciton Transport in Nanostructures - Junctions
Room: 252A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Kevin Ingersent, University of Florida and Douglas Natelson, Rice University

V18 Focus Session: Interfaces in Complex Oxides - Interface and Surface Conductivity in SrTiO3
Room: 252B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Stefano Gariglio, Universite de Geneve
Invited Speakers:  - Ariando  

V19 Invited Session: Holography and Strongly Correlated Electron Matter
Room: 253AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Subir Sachdev, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Sean Hartnoll,  Philip Phillips,  Liza Huijse,  Sung-Sik Lee,  Steven Gubser  

V20 Invited Session: High k Dielectrics for High Carrier Mobility Channel Applications
Room: 253C Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Jueinai Kwo, National Tsing Hua University
Invited Speakers:  Peide Ye,  Minghwei Hong,  John Robertson,  Marc Heyns  

V21 Superconductivity: Mostly Cuprates
Room: 254A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Despina Louca, University of Virginia

V22 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors - Magnetism and Anisotropy
Room: 254B Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Rafael Fernandes, Columbia University
Invited Speakers:  Elena Bascones  

V23 Superconductivity: Mostly Transport
Room: 255 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Wankyu Park, UI-urbana champaign

V24 Low-Dimensional Semiconductors
Room: 256 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Enrico Bellotti, Boston University

V25 High Pressure: Experiment
Room: 257A Sponsor: DCOMP DCMP Chair: Anatoly Belonoshko, Royal Institute of Technology

V26 Focus Session: Computational Frontiers in Quantum Spin Systems III
Room: 257B Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Stefan Wessel, Aachen University

V27 Invited Session: Flexible and Rolled Up Semiconductor Nanomembranes
Room: 258AB Sponsor: DCMP FIAP Chair: Pablo Bianucci, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
Invited Speakers:  Max G. Lagally,  Feng Liu,  Oliver Schmidt,  Xiuling Li,  Weidong Zhou  

V28 Semiconductor Defects and Doping
Room: 258C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Walter Lambrecht, Case Western Reserve University

V29 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits: Epitaxial Junctions and Two-Level Systems
Room: 259A Sponsor: GQI Chair: Hanhee Paik, Yale University

V30 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits - Measurement
Room: 259B Sponsor: GQI Chair: Mark Gyure, HRL
Invited Speakers:  Andrea Morello  

V31 Focus Session: Topological Insulators: Synthesis & Characterization - ARPES
Room: 260 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Zahid Hasan, Princeton University

V32 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides - Interfaces, Layered Materials, and Growth
Room: 261 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Matthew Dawber, SUNY Stony Brook

V34 Focus Session: Impact of Ultrafast Lasers V: Applications II
Room: 107A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Amber Krummel, Colorado State University

V35 Focus Session: DFT VII: Time-Dependent Processes I: Driven Systems
Room: 107B Sponsor: DCP Chair: Adam Wasserman, Purdue University
Invited Speakers:  E.K.U. Gross,  Angel Rubio  

V36 General Chemical Physics
Room: 107C Sponsor: DCP Chair: David Leitner, University of Nevada, Reno

V37 Topological Insulators: Magnetoelectric Effect, Control, and Dynamics
Room: 108 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Liang Fu, Harvard University

V40 Focus Session: Single Molecule Biological Physics - Proteins
Room: 156A Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY DCOMP Chair: Everett Lipman, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Chin-Lin Guo,  Jianshu Cao,  Randall Goldsmith  

V41 Focus Session: Physics of Proteins I: Dynamics and Function
Room: 156B Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY Chair: Aihua Xie, Oklahoma State University
Invited Speakers:  Denis Rousseau  

V42 Focus Session: Systems Biology - Stochastic Gene Expression
Room: 156C Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Stephen Hagen, University of Florida, Physics Dept
Invited Speakers:  Gabor Balazsi,  Rahul Kulkarni  

V43 Invited Session: Entrepreneurship - The Quest for Start-Up Success Based on Research Advances
Room: 157AB Sponsor: FEd FGSA Chair: John M. Newsam, Windhover Ventures LLC
Invited Speakers:  Lawrence Bock,  Eric Mazur,  Daniel Colbert,  Chad Mirkin,  Robert Brown  

V44 Focus Session: Interparticle Interactions in Polymer Nanocomposites - Surface Interactions
Room: 157C Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Dilip Gersappe, SUNY Stony Brook
Invited Speakers:  Jeffrey Meth  

V45 Soft Matter Physics of Heterogeneous Membranes - Experiments
Room: 159 Sponsor: DPOLY DBIO Chair: Gary Grest, Sandia National Laboratories

V46 Invited Session: Active Matter and Dynamical Systems
Room: 160AB Sponsor: DPOLY DBIO Chair: Cristina Marchetti, Syracuse University
Invited Speakers:  Zvonimir Dogic,  Daniel Needleman,  Raymond E. Goldstein,  Frank J\"ulicher,  Lev Tsimring  

V47 Focus Session: Heterogeneous Colloids II
Room: 160C Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: David Pine, New York University
Invited Speakers:  Michael Engel,  Willem Kegel  

V48 Focus Session: Advanced Optical Probes of Soft Matter - Forces, Imaging, Excitons
Room: 161 Sponsor: DPOLY DBIO Chair: Maria Kilfoil, University of Massachusetts

V49 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Solar Cells and Light Emitting Devices
Room: 162A Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Garry Rumbles, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Russell Holmes  

V50 Structure and Properties of Copolymers
Room: 162B Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Bradley Olsen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

V52 Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics - Biological Systems and Structures
Room: 153C Sponsor: GSNP DFD Chair: Jacy Bird, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Nicholas Fang  

V53 Wet and Cohesive Granular Materials
Room: 153B Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Arshad Kudrolli, Clark University

V54 Superconductivity: Magnetic Field Effects Including Vortex Related Phenomena (Theory)
Room: 152 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Singh, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Mar 1 2012 11:15AM, Thursday

W1 Photonic Systems and Entanglement Generation
Room: 203 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Mohammad Hafezi, Joint Quantum Insitute, University of Maryland

W2 Invited Session: Instrumentation and Measurement Science for Energy Research: PV and Batteries
Room: 204AB Sponsor: GIMS GERA Chair: Daniel Johnstone, Semetrol and Wilhelmus Geerts, Texas State University, San Marcos
Invited Speakers:  David Lang,  Robert Opila,  Manuel Romero,  Dmitry Ruzmetov,  Jianyu Huang  

W3 Invited Session: Fractional Topological Insulators
Room: 205AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Shou Cheng Zhang, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  F.J. Burnell,  R. Shankar,  Claudio Chamon,  Xiao-Liang Qi,  Brian Swingle  

W4 Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases
Room: 205C Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Alexey Gorshkov, Institute for Quantum Information, California Institute of Technology

W5 Thin Film Growth and Processing
Room: 206A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Laurent Henn-Lecordier, Cambridge Nanotechnologies

W6 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotube Synthesis, Structure and Defects
Room: 206B Sponsor: DMP Chair: David Tomanek, Michigan State University
Invited Speakers:  A. John Hart  

W7 Focus Session: Graphene Devices - Mechanical Effects
Room: 207 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Kirill Bolotin, Vanderbilt University
Invited Speakers:  James Hone  

W8 Focus Session: Frustrated Magnetism - Pyrochlore lattice
Room: 208 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Chris Wiebe, University of Winnipeg

W9 Focus Session: Complex Bulk Oxides: Multiferroics
Room: 209 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Pat Woodward, Ohio State University
Invited Speakers:  Laurent Chapon,  Tsuyoshi Kimura  

W10 Invited Session: Novel Bose-Einstein Condensates: Photons, Excitons, Magnons, Rydberg Atoms, and Polar Molecules
Room: 210A Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Martin Weitz, Institute fuer Angewandte Physik, Universitaet Bonn
Invited Speakers:  Martin Weitz,  David Snoke,  Sergej Demokritov,  Hans-Christoph Naegerl,  Matthias Weidemueller  

W11 Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Stacking, Interactions: Local Probes and Microscopy
Room: 210B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Phillip First, Georgia Institue of Technology

W12 Focus Session: Graphene: Growth, Mechanical Exfoliation, and Properties - Exfoliation and Doping
Room: 210C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Christopher Russo, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Glenn Jernigan  

W13 Focus Session: Low-Dimensional and Molecular Magnetism - Metallorganics and Spincrossover Molecular Magnets
Room: 211 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Richard Klemm, University of Central Florida
Invited Speakers:  Juan Bartolome  

W14 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Ferromagnetism and Spin Dynamics in Semiconductors
Room: 212 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: John Peters, Northwestern University

W15 Focus Session: Spins in Metals - Domain Wall, Vortex, Magnonic Based Devices
Room: 213 Sponsor: DMP FIAP GMAG Chair: Peter Fischer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

W16 Quantum Criticality
Room: 251 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Kevin Bedell, Boston College

W17 Optics of Semiconductor Nanowires
Room: 252A Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Steve Erwin, Naval Research Laboratory

W18 Focus Session: Interfaces in Complex Oxides - Devices and Nanostructures
Room: 252B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Beom Eom, University of Wisconsin
Invited Speakers:  Guanglei Cheng  

W19 Invited Session: Spin Coupling and Kondo Screening in Individual Magnetic Spins
Room: 253AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Andreas Heinrich, IBM Almaden Research Center
Invited Speakers:  Cyrus F. Hirjibehedin,  Daniel Ralph,  Piers Coleman,  Sami Amasha,  Noriaki Takagi  

W20 Invited Session: Nuclear Power, One Year After Fukushima
Room: 253C Sponsor: FPS FIP DCMP Chair: David Wright, Union of Concerned Scientists
Invited Speakers:  Akira Omoto,  Stephen Kuczynski,  Edwin Lyman,  Yun Zhou,  M.V. Ramana  

W21 Focus Session: Search for New Superconductors- Electron-Phonon Coupling
Room: 254A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Amy Liu, Georgetown University

W22 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductivity - Magnetism in AxFe(1-y)Se2
Room: 254B Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: John Tranquada, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Weiqiang Yu  

W23 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors - AFeAs and RFeAsO Families
Room: 255 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Peter Hirschfeld, University of Florida

W24 Integer Quantum Hall Effect
Room: 256 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Michael Zudov, University of Minnesota

W25 Focus Session: Modeling of Rare Events: Methods and Applications I
Room: 257A Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Weinan E, Department of Mathematics and Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  David Chandler,  Nomand Mousseau  

W26 Focus Session: What is Computational Physics? New Technologies and Their Application
Room: 257B Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Timothy Germann, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Thom Dunning  

W27 Invited Session: Electrons, Spins, and Collective Modes in Nanofilms
Room: 258AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Patricia Thiel, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Hanno Weitering,  Han Woong Yeom,  Bene Poelsema,  Iwao Matsuda,  Chih-Kang Shih  

W29 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits: Resonators and Loss Mechanisms
Room: 259A Sponsor: GQI Chair: Kevin Osborn, Laboratory for Physical Sciences, College Park, MD

W30 Quantum Entanglement
Room: 259B Sponsor: GQI Chair: Gerardo Adesso, University of Nottigham

W31 Focus Session: Topological Insulators: Synthesis & Characterization - Quantum Transport & Nanostructures
Room: 260 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Seongshik Oh, Rutgers University

W32 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides - Bandgaps, Surfaces, Oxides on Semiconductors
Room: 261 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Nicole Benedek, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  Robert Berger,  Massimiliano Stengel  

W33 Physics of Hydrogen Production, Storage, Delivery
Room: 106 Sponsor: GERA Chair: Peter Pfeifer, University of Missouri

W34 Focus Session: Nano V: Nanoscale Materials and Properties II
Room: 107A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Shiv Khanna, Virginia Commonwealth University and Gabor Somorjai, UC Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Donald Tomalia,  Mark Pederson  

W35 Focus Session: DFT VIII: Time-Dependent Processes II: Excitations
Room: 107B Sponsor: DCP Chair: Neepa Maitra, Hunter College, CUNY
Invited Speakers:  Carsten Ullrich  

W37 Topological Insulators: Fractionalization
Room: 108 Sponsor: DMP Chair: So Takei, University of Maryland

W39 Focus Session: Materials and Functional Structures for Biological Interfaces: Cells
Room: 109B Sponsor: DMP DBIO DPOLY Chair: Robert Ros, Arizona State University
Invited Speakers:  Milan Mrksich,  Adam Engler  

W40 Focus Session: Single Molecule Biological Physics - Nucleic acids and Proteins
Room: 156A Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY DCOMP Chair: Eric Greene, Columbia University and Jennifer Ross, University of Massachusetts
Invited Speakers:  Eric Greene,  Everett A. Lipman  

W41 Focus Session: Quantum Coherence in Biological Systems
Room: 156B Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Birgitta Whaley, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Birgitta Whaley  

W42 Focus Session: The Physics of Genome Folding I: Fractal Globules and Condensed Polymer States
Room: 156C Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY Chair: Erez Lieberman Aiden, Harvard Society of Fellows
Invited Speakers:  Erez Lieberman Aiden,  Alexander Grosberg,  Ralf Everaers  

W43 Invited Session: Physical Mechanisms of Collective Microbial Dynamics
Room: 157AB Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY Chair: Lev Tsimring, University of California, San Diego
Invited Speakers:  Herbert Levine,  Igor Aronson,  Thomas R. Powers,  Mark Alber,  Hugues Chate  

W44 Focus Session: Interparticle Interactions in Polymer Nanocomposites - Mechanical, Electrical, and Optical Properties
Room: 157C Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Alfredo Alexander-Katz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  LaShanda Korley  

W45 Focus Session: Soft Matter Physics of Heterogeneous Membranes - Theory and Simulation
Room: 159 Sponsor: DPOLY DBIO Chair: Philip Pincus, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Tetsuya Yamamoto,  Oded Farago  

W46 Invited Session: Silicon Spin Qubits: Relaxation and Decoherence
Room: 160AB Sponsor: DCMP GQI Chair: Mark Eriksson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Invited Speakers:  Christie Simmons,  Mark Gyure,  HongWen Jiang,  Wayne Witzel,  Xuedong Hu  

W47 Focus Session: Polymers for Energy Storage and Conversion - Fundamentals of Ion Transport
Room: 160C Sponsor: DPOLY DMP Chair: Evren Ozcam, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Amalie L. Frischknecht  

W48 New Experimental, Theoretical, and Computational Methods in Polymer and Soft Matter Physics
Room: 161 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Joanne Budzien, Frostburg State University

W49 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Thin Film Transistors
Room: 162A Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Oana Jurchescu, Wake Forest University and Saiful Khondaker, University of Central Florida
Invited Speakers:  Alberto Salleo  

W50 Focus Session: Micro and Nano Fluidics I: Devices and Applications
Room: 162B Sponsor: DPOLY DFD Chair: Dongshin Kim, Brandeis University
Invited Speakers:  Amy Rowat  

W52 Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics - Fluid-Structure Interactions and Swelling
Room: 153C Sponsor: GSNP DFD Chair: Prashant Purohit, University of Pennsylvania

W53 Focus Session: Common Features of Soft Materials: Polymers, Colloids and Granular Media I
Room: 153B Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Robert Hoy, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Nikos Karayiannis  

Mar 1 2012 2:30PM, Thursday

X1 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy IV: New Instrumentation & Techniques
Room: 203 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Alex de Lozanne, University of Texas at Austin

X2 Invited Session: History of Metrology and Today's Frontiers of Measurement
Room: 204AB Sponsor: FHP Chair: Richard Davis, BIPM
Invited Speakers:  Robert Crease,  Terry Quinn,  James Faller,  Howard Layer,  Richard Steiner  

X3 Invited Session: Full Counting Statistics, Fluctuation Theorems, and Many-Body Entanglement
Room: 205AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Andrew Jordan, University of Rochester
Invited Speakers:  Karyn Le Hur,  Thomas Ihn,  Christian Flindt,  Bertrand Reulet,  Dmitri Averin  

X4 Focus Session: Quantum Quench Dynamics in Cold Atom Systems
Room: 205C Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Anatoli Polkovnikov, Boston University
Invited Speakers:  Maxim Olshanii  

X5 Structure and Formation of Oxide Surfaces and Interfaces
Room: 206A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Pierce, Rochester Institute of Technology

X6 Carbon Nanotube Optics II: Absorption and Raman Spectroscopy
Room: 206B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Steve Cronin, University of Southern California

X7 Electronic, Structural and Chemical Properties of Non-Carbon Nanotubes and Nanowires
Room: 207 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Paul McIntyre, Stanford University

X8 Focus Session: Frustrated Magnetism - Theory
Room: 208 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Mike Zhitomirsky, CEA

X9 Focus Session: Complex Bulk Oxides: Magnetic Phase Transitions
Room: 209 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Mohit Randeria, Ohio State University
Invited Speakers:  Janice Musfeldt  

X10 Invited Session: Thermal Properties and Electron-Phonon Coupling from First Principles
Room: 210A Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Anderson Janotti, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Silke Biermann,  Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl,  Feliciano Giustino,  Emmanouil Kioupakis,  Ivana Savic  

X11 Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Stacking, Interactions: Twisting, Stretching, Folding, Wrinkling
Room: 210B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jeanie Lau, University of California, Riverside

X12 Focus Session: Graphene: Growth, Mechanical Exfoliation, and Properties - Morphology and Interactions
Room: 210C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Luigi Colombo, Texas Instruments
Invited Speakers:  Abhay Pasupathy,  Peter Sutter  

X13 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanostructures-Hard Magnetic Materials and Magnetocaloric Materials
Room: 211 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Sam Jiang, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  J. Ping Liu  

X14 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Spin-Orbit Interaction and Relaxation in Si and Ge
Room: 212 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Nicholas Harmon, University of Iowa
Invited Speakers:  Pengke Li  

X15 Focus Session: Spin and Dynamics in Metal, Resonance Phenomena II: FMR in Magnetic Nanostructures
Room: 213 Sponsor: DMP FIAP GMAG Chair: Xin Fan, University of Delaware
Invited Speakers:  Luqiao Liu  

X16 Manganites: Perovskite and Bilayer
Room: 251 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mark Golden, University of Amsterdam

X17 Focus Session: Nanostructures and Metamaterials, Growth, Structure, and Characterization -- Improved Materials and Applications II
Room: 252A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Luca Dal Negro, Boston University
Invited Speakers:  Carlos Garcia-Meca  

X18 Growth and Properties of Nanoparticles and Nanowires
Room: 252B Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Matthew McCluskey, Washington State University

X19 Invited Session: Two Dimensional Electron Systems at Oxide Interfaces
Room: 253AB Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Maitri Warusawithana, Florida State University
Invited Speakers:  Jean-Marc Triscone,  Jochen Mannhart,  Christopher Bell,  M.S. Rzchowski,  Andres Felipe Santander-Syro  

X20 Invited Session: Physics of Color Reflective Displays
Room: 253C Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Gary Gibson, Hewlett Packard - Palo Alto
Invited Speakers:  Jason Heikenfeld,  Gary Gibson,  Andre Arsenault,  Asad Khan,  Brian Gally  

X21 Fluctuation Phenomena (noise, nonequilibrium effects, localization effects)
Room: 254A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Carmen Almasan

X22 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors - Exchange Coupling Theory
Room: 254B Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Thomas Maier, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  B. Andrei Bernevig  

X23 Magnetic Field Effects: Experimental II
Room: 255 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Milind Kunchur, University of South Carolina

X24 Electronic Structure: Quantum Monte Carlo
Room: 256 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Jonathan Dubois, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

X25 Focus Session: Modeling of Rare Events: Methods and Applications II
Room: 257A Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Amit Samanta, Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Kristen Fichthorn,  Eric Vanden-Eijnden  

X26 Focus Session: Non-Adiabatic Dynamics in Irradiated Materials
Room: 257B Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Alfredo Caro, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Jorge Kohanoff,  Ivano Tavernelli  

X27 Invited Session: Physics for Everyone: Innovative Materials for Energy
Room: 258AB Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: David Cahill, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champain
Invited Speakers:  Arun Majumdar,  Tom Jarvi,  Frank van Mierlo,  Michael Raab,  Eric D. Wachsman  

X29 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits - Managing or Eliminating Nuclei
Room: 259A Sponsor: GQI Chair: Thaddeus Ladd, HRL
Invited Speakers:  Kristiaan De Greve  

X30 Focus Session: Quantum Information for Quantum Foundations - Foundational Experiments and Experimental Proposals
Room: 259B Sponsor: GQI Chair: Christopher Fuchs, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

X31 Focus Session: Topological Insulators: Synthesis and Characterization - Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy
Room: 260 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ali Yazdani, Princeton University

X32 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides - Elastic and Optical Properties
Room: 261 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Marty Gregg, Queen's University Belfast
Invited Speakers:  Gustau Catalan  

X33 Focus Session: X-ray, Gamma Ray, and Electron Diffraction
Room: 106 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Zahir Islam, Argonne National Laboratory

X34 Focus Session: Nano VI: Junctions and Transport
Room: 107A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Shiv Khanna, Virginia Commonwealth University and Gabor Somorjai, UC Berkeley

X39 Focus Session: Materials and Functional Structures for Biological Interfaces - Nanoscale Materials
Room: 109B Sponsor: DMP DBIO DPOLY Chair: Marcella Chiari, ICRM, Italy
Invited Speakers:  Shuang Fang Lim  

X40 Focus Session: Single Molecule Biological Physics - Nucleic Acids
Room: 156A Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY DCOMP Chair: Lori Goldner and Jennifer Ross, University of Massachusetts
Invited Speakers:  Lori Goldner  

X41 Focus Session: Physics of Proteins II: Folding and Structure
Room: 156B Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY DCOMP Chair: Ruhong Zhou, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Invited Speakers:  Angel Garcia,  Feng Gai  

X42 Focus Session: The Physics of Genome Folding II: Chromosomes and Nucleosomes
Room: 156C Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY Chair: Erez Lieberman Aiden, Harvard Society of Fellows
Invited Speakers:  Donald Ingber,  Alexandre Morozov  

X43 Invited Session: Bacterial Swimming and Chemotaxis
Room: 157AB Sponsor: DBIO DFD Chair: Jay X. Tang, Brown University
Invited Speakers:  Jay Tang,  Xiaolun Wu,  Greg Huber,  Mingming Wu,  Roman Stocker  

X44 Focus Session: Directed Assembly of Hybrid Materials - Nanoparticles in Micelles
Room: 157C Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Lynden Archer, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  Ryan Hayward  

X45 Focus Session: Soft Matter Physics of Drops, Bubbles, Foams, and Emulsions - Droplet spreading, colliding, wetting
Room: 159 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Esther Amstad, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Michelle Driscoll  

X46 Invited Session: Deformation and Fracture of Soft Materials
Room: 160AB Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Kenneth Shull, Northwestern University
Invited Speakers:  B.D. Olsen,  Ali Dhinojwala,  Costantino Creton,  Stephen Craig,  Zhigang Suo  

X47 Focus Session: Polymers for Energy Storage and Conversion - Nanostructures and Phase Separated Morphologies
Room: 160C Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Bryan Boudouris, Purdue University
Invited Speakers:  Thomas Thurn-Albrecht  

X48 Focus Session: Statistical Physics of Active Systems Away From Detailed Balance: Cytoskeleton, Flagella, and All That
Room: 161 Sponsor: DPOLY DBIO Chair: Michael Hagan, Brandeis University
Invited Speakers:  Chase Broedersz  

X49 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Polymer Dielectrics and Charge Transport
Room: 162A Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Peter Green, University of Michigan

X50 Focus Session: Micro and Nano Fluidics II: Structured or Active Surfaces and Electrotransport
Room: 162B Sponsor: DPOLY DFD Chair: Anna Balazs, University of Pittsburgh

X52 Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics - Fracture, Friction, and Frequencies
Room: 153C Sponsor: GSNP DFD Chair: Karin Dahmen, University of Illinois

X53 Focus Session: Common Features of Soft Materials: Polymers, Colloids and Granular Media II
Room: 153B Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Joerg Rottler, University of British Columbia

Mar 2 2012 8:00AM, Friday

Y1 Measurement Science from Optics through Thermodynamics
Room: 203 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Albert Migliori, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Y2 Invited Session: Magnetic Materials and Magnetism Research for Energy Applications
Room: 204AB Sponsor: GMAG FIAP Chair: Dario Arena, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Oliver Gutfleisch,  Hideo Ohno,  Vitalij Pecharsky,  George Hadjipanayis,  Matthew Willard  

Y3 Invited Session: Competing Phases and Quantum Criticality in Strongly Correlated Systems
Room: 205AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Piers Coleman, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Lei Shu,  Martin Dressel,  Stefan Kirchner,  Andriy Nevidomskyy,  Rafael Jaramillo  

Y4 Cold Quantum Gases in Reduced Dimensions
Room: 205C Sponsor: DAMOP

Y5 Optical Properties and Excitations in Semiconductor Quantum Dots
Room: 206A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Eric Stinaff, Ohio University

Y6 Carbon Nanotubes: Devices, Capacitors and Other Applications
Room: 206B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Mauricio Terrones, Pennsylvania State University

Y7 Glassy Metallic, Semiconductor, Oxide and Chalcogenide Systems
Room: 207 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Punit Boolchand, University of Cincinnati

Y8 Focus Session: Frustrated Magnetism - Experiment
Room: 208 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Benjamin Ueland, Los Alamos National Lab

Y9 Focus Session: Complex Bulk Oxide: Orbital Physics
Room: 209 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: David Vanderbilt, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Valery Kiryukhin  

Y10 Invited Session: Modeling & Simulation of the Impact of Space Radiation on Electronic Systems (Avionic and Astronautic)
Room: 210A Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: William Atkinson, Boeing Company
Invited Speakers:  William Atwell,  Gary Zank,  Robert A. Weller,  Shi Wu,  Nikolai Pogorelov  

Y11 Focus Session: Graphene Devices - Fabrication
Room: 210B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Hyun-Jong Chung, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology

Y12 Graphene: Electronic Structure and Interactions - STM and Nanoribbons
Room: 210C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Brian LeRoy, University of Arizona

Y13 Focus Session: Low-Dimensional and Molecular Magnetism - Nanomagnetism on Surfaces - Magnetic Adatoms and Clusters
Room: 211 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Juan Bartolome, University of Zaragoza - Spain

Y14 Focus Session: Spins in Carbon - Organic Spintronics
Room: 212 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Roland Kawakami, University of California, Riverside
Invited Speakers:  Markus Wohlgenannt  

Y15 Focus Session: Spins in Metals: Spin Torque Theory, Spin Dependent Transport
Room: 213 Sponsor: DMP FIAP GMAG Chair: Markus Eisenbach, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Yong Wang  

Y16 Strongly Correlated Electrons - Experiment and Theory
Room: 251 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ryan Baumbach, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Y17 Nanostructures and Interfaces: Electrons, Phonons, and Plasmons
Room: 252A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Evan Glaser, Naval Research Laboratory

Y18 Focus Session: Interfaces in Complex Oxides - Functional Interfaces
Room: 252B Sponsor: DMP Chair: J.D. Burton, University of Nebraska
Invited Speakers:  Christos Panagopoulos  

Y19 Invited Session: Novel Mechanisms of Multiferrocity
Room: 253AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Paolo Radaelli, Oxford University
Invited Speakers:  Jeroen van den Brink,  Stuart Wilkins,  Maxim Mostovoy,  Sang-Wook Cheong,  Manfred Fiebig  

Y20 Invited Session: New Anisotropy-Driven Phenomena in Colloidal Suspensions
Room: 253C Sponsor: DCMP GSNP Chair: David Weitz, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Sharon Glotzer,  David Pine,  Yilong Han,  Peter Yunker,  Sharon Gerbode  

Y21 Bi-based Cuprates -- Experiment
Room: 254A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Kui Jin, University of Maryland

Y22 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors - Crystal Growth and New Materials
Room: 254B Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Cedomir Petrovic, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Athena Sefat  

Y23 Superconductor-Insulator Transitions
Room: 255 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Osofsky, NRL

Y24 Quantum Many-Particle Systems: DMFT & DMRG
Room: 256 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: R. Torsten Clay, Mississippi State Unviersity

Y25 Focus Session: Multiscale Modeling
Room: 257A Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Turab Lookman, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Weinan E,  Ju Li  

Y26 General Theory / Computational Physics I
Room: 257B Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Amy Bug, Swarthmore College

Y27 Invited Session: Topological Phases in Magnets
Room: 258AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Achim Rosch, University of Cologne
Invited Speakers:  Naoya Kanazawa,  Dmitry Reznik,  Slobodan Zumer,  Minhyea Lee,  Sinead Griffin  

Y29 Focus Session: Quantum Optics with Superconducting Circuits: Nonlinearity and Itinerant Microwave Photons
Room: 259A Sponsor: GQI Chair: Andreas Wallraff, ETH Zurich

Y30 Quantum Computing, Quantum Algorithms, and Quantum Simulation
Room: 259B Sponsor: GQI Chair: Liang Jiang, Caltech

Y31 Focus Session: Topological Insulators: Synthesis & Characterization - Optical & THz Spectroscopy
Room: 260 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Kenneth Burch, University of Toronto

Y32 Topological Insulators: General Theory
Room: 261 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Bodgan Bernevig, Princeton University

Y40 Focus Session: Cytoskeleton and Biomechanics - Role of Motors (Including DBIO Best Thesis Award Lecture)
Room: 156A Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY Chair: Arpita Upadhyaya, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Siyuan Wang  

Y41 Focus Session: Physics of Cancer III -- Imaging
Room: 156B Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Robert Austin, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Chenghang Zong,  Alexander van Oudenaarden  

Y42 Physics of Bacteria and Viruses
Room: 156C Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Aparna Baskaran, Brandeis University

Y43 Invited Session: Physical Organizing Principles for Amyloid Matter: Prediction, Structure, Function
Room: 157AB Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Daniel L. Cox, University of California, Davis
Invited Speakers:  Susan Lindquist,  Roland Riek,  Ruth Nussinov,  Alexander Kluber,  Joel Schneider  

Y44 Focus Session: Directed Assembly of Hybrid Materials - Particle Organization and Arrays
Room: 157C Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Dvora Perahia, Clemson University
Invited Speakers:  Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos  

Y45 Focus Session: Soft Matter Physics of Drops, Bubbles, Foams and Emulsions - Bubbles, Films, Foams
Room: 159 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Robert Cohen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Shmuel Rubinstein  

Y47 Soft Matter Physics of Biological Systems
Room: 160C Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Maria Santore, University of Massachusetts

Y48 Focus Session: Statistical Physics of Active Systems Away From Detailed Balance: Swimmers and All That
Room: 161 Sponsor: DPOLY DBIO Chair: Daniel Needleman, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Guillaume Lambert  

Y49 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Small Molecules and General Advances
Room: 162A Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Richard Lunt, Michigan State University

Y50 Focus Session: Micro and Nano Fluidics III: Microtransport and Thermophysical Properties
Room: 162B Sponsor: DPOLY DFD Chair: Ralph Sperling, Harvard University

Y52 Focus Session: Spin Glasses: Advances, Algorithms, and Applications
Room: 153C Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Daniel Stein, New York University
Invited Speakers:  Helmut G. Katzgraber  

Y53 Nonlinear Dynamics of Coupled Systems
Room: 153B Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Sid Redner, Boston University

Mar 2 2012 11:15AM, Friday

Z1 General Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Room: 203 Sponsor: DAMOP

Z2 Invited Session: Active Responses of Biological Materials to Mechanical Stress
Room: 204AB Sponsor: DCMP DBIO Chair: Allen Ehrlicher, Harvard University and Chin-Lin Guo, California Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Fletcher,  Margaret Gardel,  Paul Janmey,  Allen Ehrlicher,  Denis Wirtz  

Z3 Invited Session: Frontiers of Non-Equilibrium Transport Theories
Room: 205AB Sponsor: DCMP DCOMP Chair: Zhenyu Zhang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Kieron Burke,  Stefano Sanvito,  Yoshihiro Asai,  Kirk Bevan,  Massimiliano Di Ventra  

Z4 Disorder and Pairing in Ultracold Systems
Room: 205C Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Seth Rittenhouse, ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Z5 Synthesis, Transport, and Devices Based on Artificially Structured Materials
Room: 206A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Alan Bristow, West Virginia University

Z6 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotube Electronics, Properties, and Devices
Room: 206B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Gyula Eres, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Eric Pop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Invited Speakers:  Wolfgang Wernsdorfer  

Z7 Transport and Optical Properties of Non-Carbon Nanotubes and Nanowires
Room: 207 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Xiuling Li, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Z8 Focus Session: Frustrated Magnetism - Magnetic insulators
Room: 208 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Vesna Mitrovic, Brown University

Z9 Focus Session: Complex Bulk Oxide: General Properties
Room: 209 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Tsuyosh Kimura, Osaka University

Z11 Focus Session: Graphene Devices - Hybrid Structures
Room: 210B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Saverio Russo, University of Exeter

Z12 Graphene: Electronic Structure and Interactions - Spectroscopy
Room: 210C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Tony Heinz, Columbia University

Z13 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanostructures-Nanoparticles and Granular Systems
Room: 211 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Renat Sabirianov, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Z16 Disordered and other Strongly Correlated Systems
Room: 251 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Adrian Del Maestro, University of Vermont

Z17 2D Crystals: Beyond Graphene
Room: 252A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sefeattin Tongay, University of Florida

Z18 Enhanced Optical Properties Using Plasmonics, Metamaterials, and Nanoparticles
Room: 252B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Xiaoqin Li, University of Texas, Austin

Z19 Invited Session: Non-Abelian States in the 1st Excited Landau Level: Experimental Status and Theoretical Outlook
Room: 253AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Aron Pinczuk, Columbia University
Invited Speakers:  Robert Willett,  Woowon Kang,  Ady Stern,  Parsa Bonderson,  Gabor Csathy  

Z20 Invited Session: Optical Processes in Nitrides and Other Wide-Band-Gap Semiconductors
Room: 253C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Joel Ager, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Steven M. Durbin,  Chris Van de Walle,  Colin Humphreys,  Michael Reshchikov,  Enrico Bellotti  

Z22 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors - Orbital Order and Chalcogenides
Room: 254B Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Tom Devereaux, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Cheng-Chien Chen  

Z23 Superconductivity: Magnetic Field & Vortex Related (Experimental)
Room: 255 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Bleiweiss, Naval Academy Preparatory School

Z26 General Theory / Computational Physics II
Room: 257B Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Timothy Germann, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Z27 Invited Session: Interaction Driven Broken Symmetry States in Bilayer Graphene
Room: 258AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Allan MacDonald, University of Texas at Austin
Invited Speakers:  Oskar Vafek,  Kostya Novoselov,  Fan Zhang,  Chun Ning Lau,  Edward McCann  

Z29 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits: Noise and Anomalous Temperature
Room: 259A Sponsor: GQI Chair: Will Oliver, MIT/ Lincoln Laboratory

Z30 Focus Session: Quantum Information for Quantum Foundations - Quantumness versus Classicality
Room: 259B Sponsor: GQI Chair: Philip Goyal, University of Albany

Z31 Topological Insulators: Junctions and Interfaces
Room: 260 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Shoucheng Zhang, Stanford University

Z32 Topological Insulators: General Theory II
Room: 261 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jens Bardarson, University of California, Berkeley

Z40 Biomechanics - Organismic Motion
Room: 156A Sponsor: DBIO Chair: James Valles, Brown University

Z41 Focus Session: Non-Covalent Protein Interactions
Room: 156B Sponsor: DBIO GSNP Chair: Corey O'Hern, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Wouter D. Hoff,  Sarel Fleishman,  Lynne Regan  

Z42 Focus Session: Physics of Biomaterials: Mechanics, Dynamics, and Transport
Room: 156C Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Lester Hedges, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Z43 Invited Session: Applications of Jamming
Room: 157AB Sponsor: GSNP DFD Chair: Lisa Manning, Syracuse University
Invited Speakers:  Heinrich Jaeger,  Vincenzo Vitelli,  Thomas Haxton,  Magdaleno Medina-Noyola,  Silke Henkes  

Z46 Invited Session: Self-Assembly of Proteins: From Capsids to Crystals
Room: 160AB Sponsor: DPOLY DBIO Chair: Steve Whitelam, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Mike Hagan, Brandeis University
Invited Speakers:  Adam Zlotnick,  James Lutsko,  Robijn Bruinsma,  Fajun Zhang,  Ard A. Louis  

Z47 Self-Assembly and Polymer Composites
Room: 160C Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Lutz Wiegart, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Z48 Focus Session: Statistical Physics of Active Systems Away from Detailed Balance; Motors, Swimmers and All That
Room: 161 Sponsor: DPOLY DBIO Chair: Alexander Grosberg, New York University

Z50 Focus Session: Micro and Nano Fluidics IV: Emulsions and Complex Fluids
Room: 162B Sponsor: DPOLY DFD Chair: Laura Adams, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Seth Fraden  

Feb 27 2012 8:00AM, Monday

A1 Focus Session: Novel Instrumentation and measurements for Biomedical Research
Room: 203 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Larry Nagahara, National Cancer Institute
Invited Speakers:  Rong Fan  

A2 Invited Session: Teaching Quantum Information Science at Liberal Arts College
Room: 204AB Sponsor: GQI FEd Chair: Ian Durham, Saint Anselm College
Invited Speakers:  Benjamin Schumacher,  Michael Westmoreland,  William Wootters,  Herbert Bernstein,  Enrique Galvez  

A3 Invited Session: Superconducting Fluctuations in Cuprates
Room: 205AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: N. Peter Armitage, John Hopkins University
Invited Speakers:  Johan Chang,  Neven Bari\v{s}i\'{c},  Lucas Bilbro,  Florence Rullier-Albenque,  Andrey Varlamov  

A4 Focus Session: Hybrid Systems and Quantum Information Science in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Room: 205C Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  David Schuster  

A5 Surfaces: Structure, Transitions and Morphological Evolution
Room: 206A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sanjay Khare, University of Toledo

A6 Focus Session: van der Waals Bonding in Advanced Materials - Physisorption and Self Assembly on Metals
Room: 206B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Talat Rahman, University of Central Florida
Invited Speakers:  Kyuho Lee  

A7 Focus Session: Computational Design of Materials - Structure Prediction
Room: 207 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Richard Hennig, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  Krishna Rajan  

A8 Focus Session: Frustrated Magnetism - Triangular Lattice
Room: 208 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jason Gardner, NIST

A9 Focus Session: Magnetic Oxide Thin Films And Heterostructures - Cobaltite And Ferrite Thin Films
Room: 209 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Chris Palmstrom, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Alex Demkov  

A10 Invited Session: Computational Assessment of a Sustainable Energy Future: The Earth-abundant Materials Approach
Room: 210A Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Vincent Meunier, RPI
Invited Speakers:  Yiyang Sun,  Vidvuds Ozolins,  Frank Abild-Pedersen,  Veaceslav Coropceanu,  Giulia Galli  

A11 Graphene: Transport in Devices and Structures
Room: 210B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Xu Du, Stony Brook University

A12 Graphene: Electronic Structure and Interactions - Adsorbates, Doping and Defects
Room: 210C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jian-Hao Chen, University of California, Berkeley

A13 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanostructures-Patterned Nanostructures and Nanowires
Room: 211 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Andrew Baruth, University of Minnesota

A14 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Magnetic Semiconductors I
Room: 212 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Paul Crowell, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Margaret Dobrowolska  

A15 Focus Session: Spins in Metals - Thermal Effects on Magnons and Spin Currents
Room: 213 Sponsor: DMP FIAP GMAG Chair: Stewart Barnes, University of Miami
Invited Speakers:  C.L. Chien  

A16 Liquid and Solid Helium
Room: 251 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Souleymane Diallo, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A17 Focus Session: Thermoelectrics - Nanostructured and Oxide TE
Room: 252A Sponsor: DMP GERA FIAP Chair: Li Shi, University of Texas at Austin
Invited Speakers:  Mercouri Kanatzidis  

A18 Dynamics in II-VI Nanocrystals
Room: 252B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Joseph Tischler, Naval Research Laboratory

A19 Invited Session: New Correlated Electron Physics Using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Other Probes
Room: 253AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Abhay Pasupathy, Columbia University
Invited Speakers:  Steffen Wirth,  Wilson Ho,  Martin Wenderoth,  Dirk Morr,  James Williams  

A20 Invited Session: Advanced Quantum Materials for Future Information Technology
Room: 253C Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Cherry Murray, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Phaedon Avouris,  Ali Yazdani,  William Koehl,  Pablo Jarillo-Herrero,  Donhee Ham  

A21 Superconductivity: Josephson, Tunneling and Proximity Effects
Room: 254A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Wei, University of Toronto

A22 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors - Gap Structure
Room: 254B Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Wai-Kwong Kwok, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Jean-Philippe Reid  

A23 Metals Magnetic
Room: 255 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ralph Skomski, U. Nebraska

A24 Materials: Synthesis, Growth and Processing (Bullk and Films)
Room: 256 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Dmitri Tenne, Boise State University

A25 Focus Session: Simulation of Matter at Extreme Conditions - Energetic Materials
Room: 257A Sponsor: DCOMP GSCCM DMP Chair: Nir Goldman, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Thomas D. Sewell  

A26 Focus Session: Physics of Energy Storage Materials - Materials, Stability and Transport
Room: 257B Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: David Singh, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Yi Cui  

A27 Invited Session: Excitonic and Correlation Effects in Single-Layer Graphene
Room: 258AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Bruno Uchoa, University of Oklahoma
Invited Speakers:  Peter Abbamonte,  Tony Heinz,  Steven G. Louie,  Andre Geim,  Marco Polini  

A28 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors - ZnO
Room: 258C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Anderson Janotti, University of California Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  M.D. McCluskey  

A29 Focus Session: Quantum Optics with Superconducting Circuits: Hybrid Systems and Other Quantum Optics
Room: 259A Sponsor: GQI Chair: Alexandre Blais, University of Sherbrooke
Invited Speakers:  Franco Nori,  Konrad Lehnert  

A30 Focus Session: Qubits in Diamond I
Room: 259B Sponsor: GQI Chair: Fedor Jelezko, University of Ulm

A31 Focus Session: Topological Insulators - Exotic Phases and Phase Transitions
Room: 260 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Ashvin Vishwanath, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Tudor Stanescu  

A32 Topological Insulators: Quantum Hall Effect
Room: 261 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ion Garate, Yale University

A33 Physics of Photovoltaics
Room: 106 Sponsor: GERA Chair: Jeffrey Nelson, Sandia National Laboratories

A34 Focus Session: Impact of Ultrafast Lasers I: X-rays and THz
Room: 107A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Nancy Levinger and Amber Kummel, Colorado State University
Invited Speakers:  Kelly Gaffney,  Margaret Murnane,  Thomas Elsaesser  

A35 Focus Session: DFT I: Strongly Correlated Systems; GW and Many-Body Perturbation Theory
Room: 107B Sponsor: DCP Chair: Carsten Ullrich, University of Missouri
Invited Speakers:  Erin Johnson,  E. Miles Stoudenmire  

A36 Focus Session: New Energy I
Room: 107C Sponsor: DCP Chair: Bruce Garrett, Pacific Northwest Research Laboratory and Anders Nilsson, SLAC
Invited Speakers:  Eric Rohlfing,  Peidong Yang,  Emily Carter,  Nenad Markovic  

A37 Research Collaboration between Mentors and Undergraduate Students
Room: 108 Sponsor: FEd SPS Chair: Richard Peterson, Bethel University

A39 Electronic Structure: Theory and Numerical Methods
Room: 109B Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Juergen Eckert, University of California, Santa Barbara

A40 Focus Session: Protein Association I: Phase Separation, Crystallization, Self-Assembly
Room: 156A Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY Chair: Steve Whitelam, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Invited Speakers:  Robert Hayre  

A41 Focus Session: Structure and Dynamics of Membranes
Room: 156B Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY DMP Chair: Mu-Ping Nieh, University of Connecticut
Invited Speakers:  Stephen White,  Mathias Loesche  

A42 Focus Session: Cytoskeleton and Biomechanics - Biochemical mechanisms
Room: 156C Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY Chair: Megan Valentine, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Taviare Hawkins  

A43 Invited Session: Broader Impacts of Research-NSF Policy and Individual Responsibility
Room: 157AB Sponsor: FPS Chair: Donald Prosnitz, Rand Corporation
Invited Speakers:  Alan Leshner,  Barry C. Barish,  Charles Ferguson,  Don Prosnitz  

A44 Focus Session: Hydrophobic Interactions and Hydrogen Bonding Networks in Polymeric and Soft Matter Systems
Room: 157C Sponsor: DPOLY DBIO Chair: Garegin Papoian, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  John D. Weeks,  Roland Netz  

A45 Focus Session: Thin Film Block Copolymers - Directed Assembly
Room: 159 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Thomas Epps, University of Delaware
Invited Speakers:  Alamgir Karim  

A46 Invited Session: Inherently Strained Polymers and Soft Materials
Room: 160AB Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Sergei Sheiko, University of North Carolina
Invited Speakers:  Kenji Urayama,  Patrick Mather,  Dennis Discher,  Michael Rubinstein,  Eugenia Kumacheva  

A47 Focus Session: Gelation and Glass Transition in Colloids and Soft Matter Systems I
Room: 160C Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Mohammad Islam, Carnegie Mellon University

A48 Charged and Ion-Containing Polymers
Room: 161 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Thomas Seery, University of Connecticut

A49 Focus Session: Long-time, Entangled Dynamics in Polymers - Linear, Transient, Non-linear Rheology, Tubes
Room: 162A Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Gergory McKenna, Texas Tech University
Invited Speakers:  Sindee Simon  

A50 Liquid Crystalline Order in Polymers, Soft Matter, and Complex Fluids
Room: 162B Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Peter Shibayev, Fordham University

A51 Colloids I: Beyond Hard Spheres
Room: Boston Convention Center 154 Sponsor: DCMP DFD Chair: Anthony Dinsmore, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

A52 Using Chaos to Control Quantum Systems
Room: 153C Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Stephen Anlage, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Louis Pecora  

A53 Disordered and Glassy Systems I
Room: 153B Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Horacio Castillo, Ohio University

A54 Focus Session: Complex and Co-evolving Networks - Cascades in Networks
Room: 152 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Beate Schmittmann, Virginia Tech

Feb 27 2012 11:15AM, Monday

B1 Atom Interferometry and New Techniques with Ultracold Atoms
Room: 203 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Charles Mielke, Los Alamos National Laboratory

B2 Invited Session: Science Diplomacy: Africa and the Middle East
Room: 204AB Sponsor: FIP Chair: William Barletta, USPAS/Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Christine Darve,  Sekazi Mtingwa,  Herman Winick,  Omer Yavas,  Mulugeta Bekele  

B3 Invited Session: Superconducting Coherence, Fluctuations & Inhomogeneity in Mesoscopic & Low-Dimensions
Room: 205AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ying Liu, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Tzu-Chieh Wei,  Neal Staley,  Yu Chen,  Yen Lee Loh,  Jinfeng Jia  

B4 Hybrid Systems, Optomechanics and Macroscopic Systems at the Quantum Limit I
Room: 205C Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Johannes Otterbach, Harvard University

B5 Surface Electronic & Lattice Properties: Interfaces, Spin Effects, Etc.
Room: 206A Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Peter Dowben, University of Nebraska

B6 Thermal Properties of Graphene and Graphene Derivatives
Room: 206B Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Jing Shi, University of California, Riverside

B7 Focus Session: Computational Design of Materials - Nanostructured and Energy Materials
Room: 207 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Vanessa Ortiz, Columbia University

B8 Focus Session: Frustrated magnetism - Spin ice
Room: 208 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Bruce Gaulin, McMaster University
Invited Speakers:  Ivan Ryzhkin  

B9 Focus session: Complex Bulk Oxides: Iridates
Room: 209 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Giorgio Sangiovanni, Institut für Festkörperphysik, Vienna
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Khomskii  

B10 Invited Session: Equilibration and Relaxation in Cold Atoms
Room: 210A Sponsor: DCMP DAMOP Chair: Theja Desilva, SUNY Binghamton
Invited Speakers:  Stefan Natu,  Walter Hofstetter,  David Pekker,  Michael Koehl,  J\"{o}rg Schmiedmayer  

B11 Focus Session: Graphene/BN
Room: 210B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Nikolai Zhitenev, NIST
Invited Speakers:  David Goldhaber-Gordon,  Brian LeRoy  

B12 Graphene: Electronic Structure and Interactions - Bilayer Graphene
Room: 210C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Abergel, University of Maryland

B13 Focus Session: Low-Dimensional and Molecular Magnetism - 1D Magnetism/single-chain magnets - Theory
Room: 211 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jurgen Schnack, University of Bielefeld - Germany

B14 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Spin Relaxation in Semiconductors and Diamond
Room: 212 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Greg Fuchs, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  Xavier Marie  

B15 Focus Session: Spins in Metals: Spin Torque Switching and Magnetic Anisotropy Control
Room: 213 Sponsor: DMP FIAP GMAG Chair: Ilya Krivorotov, University of California, Irvine

B16 Hubbard Model
Room: 251 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Vladimir Dobrosavljevic, Florida State University

B17 Focus Session: Thermoelectrics - Nanowires and Other Nanostructures
Room: 252A Sponsor: DMP GERA FIAP Chair: David Broido, Boston College
Invited Speakers:  Li Shi  

B18 Focus Session: Nanostructures and Metamaterials, Growth, Structure, and Characterization -- Metamaterials with Gain and Active
Room: 252B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Nader Engheta, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Ortwin Hess  

B19 Invited Session: One Hundred Fifty Years of Maxwell's Equations (1862-2012)
Room: 253AB Sponsor: FHP Chair: Edward Gerjuoy, University of Pittsburgh
Invited Speakers:  Francis Everitt,  Bruce Hunt,  Jed Buchwald,  Roy Glauber,  Frank Wilczek  

B20 Invited Session: Astronomy's Detectors and Physics Education
Room: 253C Sponsor: FEd FIAP Chair: James Beletic, Teledyne Imaging Sensors
Invited Speakers:  James Beletic,  Vyshnavi Suntharalingam,  George Ricker,  Zoran Ninkov,  John Kovac  

B21 Focus Session: Search for New Superconductors: Methodologies and New Materials
Room: 254A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Robert Cava, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Ivan Schuller  

B22 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors- ARPES and Fermi Surfaces
Room: 254B Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Xingjiang Zhou, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Invited Speakers:  Daixiang Mou  

B23 Superconductivity Theory I: Cluster DMFT, t-J model, renormalization group
Room: 255 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Pouyan Ghaemi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

B24 Electronic Structure: Theory and Spectra
Room: 256 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Jan Musfeldt, University of Tennessee

B25 Focus Session: Simulation of Matter at Extreme Conditions - Shock-Induced Chemistry
Room: 257A Sponsor: DCOMP GSCCM DMP Chair: Igor Schweigert, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Nir Goldman  

B26 Focus Session: Physics of Energy Storage Materials - Advanced Materials
Room: 257B Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Tom Berlijn, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Jeff Dahn,  Jay Whitacre  

B27 Invited Session: Magneto-Electric and Magneto-Optical Properties of Topological Insulators
Room: 258AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Allan MacDonald, University of Texas at Austin
Invited Speakers:  Dennis Drew,  Kentaro Nomura,  Kenneth Burch,  Alexey Kuzmenko,  Nuh Gedik  

B28 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors - Nitrides
Room: 258C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Mary Ellen Zvanut, University of Alabama
Invited Speakers:  Andrew Armstrong  

B29 Focus Session: Quantum Optics with Superconducting Circuits: Many-Body Physics, Phase Transitions, & Bistability
Room: 259A Sponsor: GQI Chair: David Schuster, University of Chicago

B30 Quantum Error Correction and Quantum Control
Room: 259B Sponsor: GQI Chair: Daniel Lidar, University of Southern California

B31 Topological Insulators: Semimetals and Interactions
Room: 260 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Rolando Valez Aguilar, Johns Hopkins University

B32 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides - Relaxors, Nanostructures, and Morphotropic Phase Boundary
Room: 261 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Jirka Hlinka, Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences (ASCR)
Invited Speakers:  Ilya Grinberg  

B34 Focus Session: Impact of Ultrafast Lasers II: Multidimensional Methods
Room: 107A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Nancy Levinger and Amber Kummel, Colorado State University
Invited Speakers:  Keith A. Nelson,  Greg Engel  

B35 General Theory
Room: 107B Sponsor: DCP Chair: Donald Truhlar, University of Minnesota

B36 Focus Session: New Energy II
Room: 107C Sponsor: DCP Chair: Bruce Garrett, Pacific Northwest Research Laboratory and Anders Nilsson, SLAC
Invited Speakers:  George Schatz,  Richard Osgood,  Greg Kimmel,  Russell J. Hemley  

B37 SPS Undergraduate Research I
Room: 108 Sponsor: SPS Chair: Crystal Bailey, APS

B39 Electronic Structure: Calculations I
Room: 109B Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Ching Fong, University of California, Davis

B40 Focus Session: Cytoskeleton and Biomechanics - Entanglement and Crosslinking
Room: 156A Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY Chair: R.K.P. Zia, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Invited Speakers:  Megan Valentine  

B41 Lipid Bilayers and Biological Membranes
Room: 156B Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Jianjun Pan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

B42 Focus Session: BioChip Physics-Detection and Transport
Room: 156C Sponsor: DBIO DFD Chair: David Nolte, Purdue University and Peter Kiesel, Palo Alto Research Center
Invited Speakers:  Hatice Altug  

B43 Invited Session: Physical Mechanisms of Cell Growth
Room: 157AB Sponsor: DBIO Chair: K.C. Huang, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Ethan Garner,  Tristan Ursell,  Fred Chang,  Eleni Katifori,  Jacques Dumais  

B44 Focus Session: Translocation through Nanopores - Measurements and Theoretical Models
Room: 157C Sponsor: DPOLY DBIO Chair: Aniket Bhattacharya, University of Central Florida
Invited Speakers:  Aleksei Aksimentiev  

B45 Focus Session: Thin Film Block Copolymers - Swelling and Ordering
Room: 159 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Ting Xu, University of California, Berkeley

B46 Invited Session: Industrial Applications of Advanced Polymer-Based Nanomaterials
Room: 160AB Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Tirtha Chatterjee, Dow Chemical Company
Invited Speakers:  Peter Trefonas,  Azar Alizadeh,  Edward J. Kramer,  Christopher Soles,  Francois Tournilhac  

B47 Focus Session: Jamming, Glass Transition, and Gelation in Colloids and Soft Matter Systems
Room: 160C Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Peter Schall, University of Amsterdam
Invited Speakers:  Matthieu Wyart  

B48 Electrically and Optically Active Polymers
Room: 161 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Enrique Gomez, Pennsylvania State University

B49 Focus Session: Long-time, Entangled Dynamics in Polymers - Rods, Rings, Fibers, Particle Tracking
Room: 162A Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Marina Guenza, University of Oregon
Invited Speakers:  Wim Briels  

B50 Focus Session: Nano to Mesoscale Structures in Ordered Systems: Liquid Crystalline Structure and Interactions
Room: 162B Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Jan Lagerwall, Seoul National University

B51 Focus Session: Evolutionary Systems Biology I - Evolutionary Dynamics and Rugged Fitness Landscapes
Room: 154 Sponsor: DBIO GSNP Chair: Avigdor Eldar, Tel-Aviv University
Invited Speakers:  Edo Kussell  

B52 Granular Media: Flow and Structure
Room: 153C Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Wolfgang Losert, University of Maryland

B53 Disordered and Glassy Systems II
Room: 153B Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Craig Maloney, Carnegie Mellon University

B54 Focus Session: Complex and co-evolving networks - Modeling Social and Biological Networks
Room: 152 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Zoltan Toroczkai, Notre Dame

Feb 27 2012 2:00PM, Monday

C1 Poster Session I (2:00-5:00PM)
Room: Exhibit Hall C

Feb 27 2012 2:30PM, Monday

D1 Focus Session: High Magnetic Fields, THz Spectroscopy, MRI
Room: 203 Sponsor: GIMS GMAG Chair: Charles Mielke, NHMFL Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Marcelo Jaime  

D2 Invited Session: Harnessing Local Atomic Structure to Control Magnetic Interactions in Complex Oxides
Room: 204AB Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Steven May, Drexel University
Invited Speakers:  Harold Hwang,  Craig Fennie,  Philip Ryan,  Chris Leighton,  Kathrin Dorr  

D3 Invited Session: Stripe Order and Fermi-Surface Reconstruction in Cuprate Superconductors
Room: 205AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Norman, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Francis Lalibert\'e,  Marc-Henri Julien,  Gil Lonzarich,  Cyril Proust,  Steve Kivelson  

D4 Long-range Interacting Rydberg and Dipolar Gases
Room: 205C Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Michael Fleischhauer, University of Kaiserslautern

D5 Vanadium Oxides; Metal-insulator Transitions
Room: 206A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mumtaz Qazilbash, College of William and Mary

D6 Focus Session: Graphene Devices - Bolometers and Optical Response
Room: 206B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Tom Timusk, McMaster University
Invited Speakers:  Feng Wang  

D7 Quantum Hall Effect in Mono-, Bi- and Trilayer Graphene
Room: 207 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Erik Henriksen, California Institute of Technology

D8 Organo-metallics: Magnetic and other Properties
Room: 208 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Vivien Zapf, Los Alamos National Lab

D9 Magnetic Devices and Applications
Room: 209 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Dario Arena, Brookhaven National Laboratory

D10 Invited Session: Advancements in Computational Physics using NSF's TeraGrid/XSEDE Resources
Room: 210A Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Ralph Roskies, University of Pittsburgh
Invited Speakers:  Klaus Bartschat,  Richard Hennig,  Martin Berzins,  Juana Moreno,  Johannes Feist  

D11 Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Stacking, Interactions: Mesoscopics
Room: 210B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Shaffique Adam, NIST
Invited Speakers:  Jurgen Smet  

D12 Graphene Transport: Disorder Scattering
Room: 210C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Arthur F. Hebard, Prof. Dr.

D13 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanostructures-Characterization (Scanning Probe, X-ray and Neutron)
Room: 211 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Yimei Zhu, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Igor V. Roshchin  

D14 Focus Session: Spins in Carbon - Spins in Graphene
Room: 212 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin, Ohio State University
Invited Speakers:  Barbaros \"Ozyilmaz,  Wei Han  

D15 Focus Session: Spins in Metals - Ultra Fast Dynamics
Room: 213 Sponsor: DMP FIAP GMAG Chair: Shufeng Zhang, University of Arizona
Invited Speakers:  Ilie Radu,  Alexey Melnikov  

D16 Strongly Correlated Numerics and Theory
Room: 251 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Andre-Marie Tremblay, Universite de Sherbrooke

D17 Focus Session: Surfaces and Interfaces in Nonoxide Nanostructures: Growth, Structure, and Characterization - Growth Dynamics
Room: 252A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Dan Dougherty , North Carolina State University
Invited Speakers:  Norman Bartelt,  Rudolf Tromp  

D18 Focus Session: Nanostructures and Metamaterials, Growth, Structure, and Characterization -- What is a good conductor for Metamaterials and Plasmonics
Room: 252B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Costas Soukoulis, Ames Lab/Iowa State University
Invited Speakers:  Nader Engheta,  Philippe Tassin  

D19 Invited Session: Novel Phases in Strongly Correlated Iridates
Room: 253AB Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Gang Cao, University of Kentucky
Invited Speakers:  Hidenori Takagi,  Yong Baek Kim,  Simon Trebst,  Philipp Gegenwart  

D20 Invited Session: Advanced Electromagnetic Imaging and Remote Sensing: From DC to Daylight
Room: 253C Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Peter Weichman, BAE Systems
Invited Speakers:  Eugene Lavely,  Peter Weichman,  Thomas Kragh,  Dan Bliss,  Eric Miller  

D21 Multiband Superconductivity, mostly MgB2
Room: 254A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Morten Ring Eskildsen, University of Notre Dame

D22 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors - Crystal Growth, Structure, and Properties of K_xFe_1-ySe Phases
Room: 254B Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Nicholas Butch, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Cedomir Petrovic  

D23 Metals Theory Oxides Interfaces
Room: 255 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Khorgolkhuu Odbadrakh, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

D24 Bionanotechnology and Nanostructured Sensors
Room: 256 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Jayant Kumar, University of Massachusetts Lowell

D25 Focus Session: Matter at Extreme Conditions - New Experimental Capabilities
Room: 257A Sponsor: DCOMP GSCCM DMP Chair: Thomas Sewell, University of Missouri
Invited Speakers:  Michael Armstrong  

D26 Focus Session: Physics of Energy Storage Materials - Catalysis and H2 Storage
Room: 257B Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Juergen Eckert, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Yang Shao-Horn  

D27 Invited Session: Materials for Energy Applications
Room: 258AB Sponsor: DMP GERA Chair: Robert Nemanich, Arizona State University
Invited Speakers:  Ramamoorthy Ramesh,  Debra Rolison,  Michael Wasielewski,  Edward Yu,  Nicholas Melosh  

D28 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors - Oxides and Interfaces
Room: 258C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Stavola, Lehigh University
Invited Speakers:  Scott Chambers  

D29 Focus Session: Qubits in Diamond II
Room: 259A Sponsor: GQI Chair: David Awschalom, UCSB
Invited Speakers:  Philip Hemmer  

D30 Focus Session: Quantum Information for Quantum Foundations - Entanglement and Causal Structure
Room: 259B Sponsor: GQI Chair: Howard Barnum, University of New Mexico

D31 Focus Session: Topological Insulators: Synthesis & Characterization - Thin Films
Room: 260 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Anthony Richardella, Pennsylvania State University

D32 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides - Lattice Dynamics
Room: 261 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Ilya Grinberg, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Dawei Wang,  Jiri Hlinka  

D33 Physics of Batteries and Fuel Cells
Room: 106 Sponsor: GERA Chair: Matthew Panzer, Tufts University

D34 Focus Session: Nano I -- Clusters
Room: 107A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Shiv Khanna, Virginia Commonwealth University and Gabor Somorjai, UC Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  A. Welford Castleman  

D35 Focus Session: DFT II: Molecular Conductance; Charge Transfer
Room: 107B Sponsor: DCP Chair: Arindam Chakraborty, Syracuse University
Invited Speakers:  Charles Stafford  

D36 Focus Session: Environment I: Aerosols and Aqueous Solutions
Room: 107C Sponsor: DCP Chair: Don Baer, Pacific Northwest Research Laboratory and Ilja Siepmann, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Hanna Vehkamaki,  Heather Allen,  John Weare,  Vicki Grassian  

D37 SPS Undergraduate Research II
Room: 108 Sponsor: SPS Chair: Gary White, SPS/AIP

D39 Quantum Protocols: Tomography, Communication, and Coding
Room: 109B Sponsor: GQI Chair: Ivan Deutsch, University of New Mexico

D40 Focus Session: Systems Biology and Biochemical Networks I
Room: 156A Sponsor: DBIO GSNP Chair: Jin Wang, SUNY Stony Brook
Invited Speakers:  Chris Wiggins,  Chen Zeng  

D42 Focus Session: Physics of Cancer I -- Evolution and Resistance
Room: 156C Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Robert Austin, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Krastan B. Blagoev  

D43 Invited Session: Recent Advances in the Physics of Fractures
Room: 157AB Sponsor: DCMP GSNP Chair: James Sethna, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  Sinan Keten,  Jay Fineberg,  Karen Daniels,  Ashivni Shekhawat,  Stefano Zapperi  

D44 Invited Session: Topological Quantum Computing with Majorana Fermions
Room: 157C Sponsor: GQI DCMP Chair: Gil Refael, California Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Jason Alicea,  Jay Sau,  Leo Kouwenhoven,  Anton Akhmerov,  Piet Brouwer  

D51 Liquid Crystals: Chromonics and Nematics
Room: Boston Convention Center 154 Sponsor: DCMP DFD Chair: Peter Collings, Swarthmore University

D52 General Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and GSNP Student Prize Talks
Room: 153C Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Corey O'Hern, Yale University

D53 Focus Session: Jamming -- Nonlinear Acoustics and Vibrational Response
Room: 153B Sponsor: GSNP DFD Chair: Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University
Invited Speakers:  Carl Schreck  

D54 Focus Session: Complex and co-evolving networks - Foundations in Complex Networks
Room: 152 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Bruno Goncalves, Indiana University

Feb 27 2012 5:45PM, Monday

E1 APS Prizes and Awards Ceremonial Session
Room: 253AB Chair: Robert Byer, Stanford University

Feb 27 2012 6:45PM, Monday

F1 APS Welcome Reception
Room: Ballroom East

Feb 27 2012 8:00PM, Monday

G1 Physics Community Outreach: The Kitchen as a Lab
Room: 253AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Allan MacDonald, University of Texas at Austin