Nov 3 2017 1:00PM, Friday

A1 Improving Learning 1
Room: 303, Central King Building (CKB), NJIT Chair: Gordon Thomas, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Eugenia Etkina,  Diane Jammula,  Angela Kelly  

Nov 3 2017 3:15PM, Friday

B1 Improving Learning 2
Room: 204, Central King Building (CKB), NJIT Chair: Diane Jammula, Rutgers University, Newark
Invited Speakers:  Carolyn Sealfon,  Nancy Watt  

Nov 3 2017 5:30PM, Friday

C1 Physics Demonstration and Lecture Show
Room: 303, Central King Building (CKB), NJIT Chair: Sean O'Malley, Rutgers University, Camden
Invited Speakers:  David Maiullo  

Nov 4 2017 8:50AM, Saturday

D1 Plenary I
Room: Atrium, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Bangalore Sathyaprakash, Penn State
Invited Speakers:  Rosalba Perna  

Nov 4 2017 10:00AM, Saturday

E1 From living matter to the brain
Room: 235, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Kathleen McEnnis, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Joshua Shaevitz,  Dmitri Chklovskii  

E2 CMP-QM: Topological Insulators and Semimetals I
Room: Ballroom B, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Peter Armitage, Johns Hopkins University
Invited Speakers:  Dmitri Basov,  Mikhail Portnoi,  N. Peter Armitage  

E3 CMP-QM: Low Dimensional Structures
Room: 215, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Alexander Efros, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Alexander Efros,  Boris Shklovskii,  Christian Bernhard  

E4 Optics-I
Room: 225, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Dan Bubb, Rutgers University, Camden
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Bubb,  Daniel Mittleman  

E5 Astro I: Gravitational Physics
Room: Atrium, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Rosalba Perna, Stony Brook University
Invited Speakers:  Bangalore Sathyaprakash,  Juan Maldacena,  Neelima Sehgal  

E6 Terrestrial Physics I
Room: 240, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Rualdo Soto-Chavez, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Louis Lanzerotti,  Gurudas Ganguli,  Amitava Bhattacharjee  

Nov 4 2017 12:15PM, Saturday

F1 Lunch Talk: Careers for Physics-PhD
Room: Ballroom B, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Michael Kotelyanskii, Rudolph Technology
Invited Speakers:  Rudolf Tromp  

Nov 4 2017 12:55PM, Saturday

G1 Plenary II
Room: Atrium, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Gregory Fleishman, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  David Spergel  

Nov 4 2017 2:00PM, Saturday

H1 Proteins and DNA I
Room: 235, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Luis Cruz, Drexel University
Invited Speakers:  Yong-Ick Kim,  Stefano Piana,  Stephen Harvey  

H2 CMP-QM: Magnetic Solitons / NSF
Room: Ballroom B, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Oleg Tchernyshov, Johns Hopkins University
Invited Speakers:  Oleg Tchernyshyov,  Tomasz Durakiewicz  

H3 CMP-QM: Ferroelectrics and other Novel Materials / NSF
Room: 215, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Premala Chandra, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Premala Chandra  

H4 Optics-II
Room: 225, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Bart Kahr, New York University
Invited Speakers:  David Weiss,  Bart Kahr  

H5 Astr II: Solar Tomography
Room: Atrium, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Maria Kazachenko, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Gelu Nita  

Nov 4 2017 4:15PM, Saturday

J1 Experiments in Biophysics
Room: 235, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Alberto Perez, Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology
Invited Speakers:  Joshua Wand,  Gleb Shtengel,  Aurelia Honerkamp-Smith  

J2 CMP-QM: Superconductivity and Strongly Correlated Systems - I
Room: 215, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Igor Zaliznyak, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Weilu Zhang,  Igor Zaliznyak,  Christopher Homes  

J3 CMP-QM: Topology, Domains, and Ferroelectrics
Room: 240, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: S-W Cheong, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Sang-Wook Cheong,  Elizabeth Nowadnick,  David Vanderbilt  

J4 Chemistry, Spectroscopy, and Dynamics
Room: 225, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Alexei Khalizov, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Anatoly Frenkel,  James Carroll  

J5 Astro III: High Energy
Room: Atrium, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: David Spergel, Princeton / CCA at Flatiron
Invited Speakers:  Anatoly Spitkovsky,  Eric Blackman  

Nov 4 2017 6:30PM, Saturday

K1 Poster Session
Room: Ballroom, Campus Center, NJIT

Nov 5 2017 8:50AM, Sunday

L1 Plenary III
Room: Atrium, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Andrei Sirenko, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  David Grier  

Nov 5 2017 10:00AM, Sunday

M1 Protein and DNA II
Room: 235, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Brigita Urbanc, Drexel University
Invited Speakers:  Themis Lazaridis,  Sharon Loverde  

M2 CMP-QM: Superconductivity and Strongly Correlated Systems - II
Room: 240, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Girsh Blumberg, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Girsh Blumberg,  John Tranquada  

M3 CMP-QM: Scattering and Spectroscopy
Room: 215, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Trevor Tyson, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  William Ratcliff,  G. Lawrence Carr  

M4 Chemistry and Energy Science-I
Room: 225, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Bruce Koel, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Bruce Koel,  Peter Khalifah  

M5 Astro IV: Quantum Cosmology / Dark Matter / Energy
Room: Atrium, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Eric Blackman, University of Rochester
Invited Speakers:  Eugenio Bianchi  

M6 Terrestrial Physics II
Room: 220, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Nathanial Frissell, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Chris Crabtree,  Andrew Gerrard  

Nov 5 2017 12:15PM, Sunday

N1 Protein Aggregation
Room: 235, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Luca Larini, Rutgers University, Camden
Invited Speakers:  Jean Baum,  Brigita Urbanc  

N2 CMP-QM: Topological Insulators and Semimetals II
Room: 240, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Yi Li, Johns Hopkins University
Invited Speakers:  Yi Li,  Nuh Gedik  

N3 CMP-QM: Structural Properties
Room: 215, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: K.H. Ahn, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Kristjan Haule,  Marivi Fernandez-Serra  

N4 Energy Science - II
Room: 225, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Mark Hybertsen, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Center for Functional Nanomaterials
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Steingart,  Mark Hybertsen  

N5 Astro V: Solar Physics
Room: Atrium, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Gregory Fleishman, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Maria Kazachenko  

Nov 5 2017 2:45PM, Sunday

P1 Proteins and Biomedical Devices
Room: 235, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Sharon Loverde, City University of New York
Invited Speakers:  Luca Larini,  James Phillips  

P2 CMP-QM: Topological Materials - III
Room: 240, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Valery Kiryukhin, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Aron Pinczuk,  Valery Kiryukhin  

P5 Astro VI: Exoplanets, Exomoons, and Galaxies
Room: Atrium, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Dale Gary, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Mary West,  David Kipping  

Nov 5 2017 5:00PM, Sunday

Q1 Plenary IV
Room: Atrium, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Gelu Nita, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Dale Gary  

Nov 3 2017 1:00PM, Friday

A1 Improving Learning 1
Room: 303, Central King Building (CKB), NJIT Chair: Gordon Thomas, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Eugenia Etkina,  Diane Jammula,  Angela Kelly  

Nov 3 2017 3:15PM, Friday

B1 Improving Learning 2
Room: 204, Central King Building (CKB), NJIT Chair: Diane Jammula, Rutgers University, Newark
Invited Speakers:  Carolyn Sealfon,  Nancy Watt  

Nov 3 2017 5:30PM, Friday

C1 Physics Demonstration and Lecture Show
Room: 303, Central King Building (CKB), NJIT Chair: Sean O'Malley, Rutgers University, Camden
Invited Speakers:  David Maiullo  

Nov 4 2017 8:50AM, Saturday

D1 Plenary I
Room: Atrium, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Bangalore Sathyaprakash, Penn State
Invited Speakers:  Rosalba Perna  

Nov 4 2017 10:00AM, Saturday

E1 From living matter to the brain
Room: 235, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Kathleen McEnnis, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Joshua Shaevitz,  Dmitri Chklovskii  

E2 CMP-QM: Topological Insulators and Semimetals I
Room: Ballroom B, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Peter Armitage, Johns Hopkins University
Invited Speakers:  Dmitri Basov,  Mikhail Portnoi,  N. Peter Armitage  

E3 CMP-QM: Low Dimensional Structures
Room: 215, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Alexander Efros, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Alexander Efros,  Boris Shklovskii,  Christian Bernhard  

E4 Optics-I
Room: 225, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Dan Bubb, Rutgers University, Camden
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Bubb,  Daniel Mittleman  

E5 Astro I: Gravitational Physics
Room: Atrium, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Rosalba Perna, Stony Brook University
Invited Speakers:  Bangalore Sathyaprakash,  Juan Maldacena,  Neelima Sehgal  

E6 Terrestrial Physics I
Room: 240, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Rualdo Soto-Chavez, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Louis Lanzerotti,  Gurudas Ganguli,  Amitava Bhattacharjee  

Nov 4 2017 12:15PM, Saturday

F1 Lunch Talk: Careers for Physics-PhD
Room: Ballroom B, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Michael Kotelyanskii, Rudolph Technology
Invited Speakers:  Rudolf Tromp  

Nov 4 2017 12:55PM, Saturday

G1 Plenary II
Room: Atrium, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Gregory Fleishman, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  David Spergel  

Nov 4 2017 2:00PM, Saturday

H1 Proteins and DNA I
Room: 235, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Luis Cruz, Drexel University
Invited Speakers:  Yong-Ick Kim,  Stefano Piana,  Stephen Harvey  

H2 CMP-QM: Magnetic Solitons / NSF
Room: Ballroom B, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Oleg Tchernyshov, Johns Hopkins University
Invited Speakers:  Oleg Tchernyshyov,  Tomasz Durakiewicz  

H3 CMP-QM: Ferroelectrics and other Novel Materials / NSF
Room: 215, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Premala Chandra, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Premala Chandra  

H4 Optics-II
Room: 225, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Bart Kahr, New York University
Invited Speakers:  David Weiss,  Bart Kahr  

H5 Astr II: Solar Tomography
Room: Atrium, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Maria Kazachenko, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Gelu Nita  

Nov 4 2017 4:15PM, Saturday

J1 Experiments in Biophysics
Room: 235, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Alberto Perez, Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology
Invited Speakers:  Joshua Wand,  Gleb Shtengel,  Aurelia Honerkamp-Smith  

J2 CMP-QM: Superconductivity and Strongly Correlated Systems - I
Room: 215, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Igor Zaliznyak, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Weilu Zhang,  Igor Zaliznyak,  Christopher Homes  

J3 CMP-QM: Topology, Domains, and Ferroelectrics
Room: 240, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: S-W Cheong, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Sang-Wook Cheong,  Elizabeth Nowadnick,  David Vanderbilt  

J4 Chemistry, Spectroscopy, and Dynamics
Room: 225, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Alexei Khalizov, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Anatoly Frenkel,  James Carroll  

J5 Astro III: High Energy
Room: Atrium, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: David Spergel, Princeton / CCA at Flatiron
Invited Speakers:  Anatoly Spitkovsky,  Eric Blackman  

Nov 4 2017 6:30PM, Saturday

K1 Poster Session
Room: Ballroom, Campus Center, NJIT

Nov 5 2017 8:50AM, Sunday

L1 Plenary III
Room: Atrium, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Andrei Sirenko, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  David Grier  

Nov 5 2017 10:00AM, Sunday

M1 Protein and DNA II
Room: 235, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Brigita Urbanc, Drexel University
Invited Speakers:  Themis Lazaridis,  Sharon Loverde  

M2 CMP-QM: Superconductivity and Strongly Correlated Systems - II
Room: 240, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Girsh Blumberg, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Girsh Blumberg,  John Tranquada  

M3 CMP-QM: Scattering and Spectroscopy
Room: 215, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Trevor Tyson, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  William Ratcliff,  G. Lawrence Carr  

M4 Chemistry and Energy Science-I
Room: 225, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Bruce Koel, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Bruce Koel,  Peter Khalifah  

M5 Astro IV: Quantum Cosmology / Dark Matter / Energy
Room: Atrium, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Eric Blackman, University of Rochester
Invited Speakers:  Eugenio Bianchi  

M6 Terrestrial Physics II
Room: 220, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Nathanial Frissell, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Chris Crabtree,  Andrew Gerrard  

Nov 5 2017 12:15PM, Sunday

N1 Protein Aggregation
Room: 235, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Luca Larini, Rutgers University, Camden
Invited Speakers:  Jean Baum,  Brigita Urbanc  

N2 CMP-QM: Topological Insulators and Semimetals II
Room: 240, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Yi Li, Johns Hopkins University
Invited Speakers:  Yi Li,  Nuh Gedik  

N3 CMP-QM: Structural Properties
Room: 215, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: K.H. Ahn, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Kristjan Haule,  Marivi Fernandez-Serra  

N4 Energy Science - II
Room: 225, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Mark Hybertsen, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Center for Functional Nanomaterials
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Steingart,  Mark Hybertsen  

N5 Astro V: Solar Physics
Room: Atrium, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Gregory Fleishman, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Maria Kazachenko  

Nov 5 2017 2:45PM, Sunday

P1 Proteins and Biomedical Devices
Room: 235, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Sharon Loverde, City University of New York
Invited Speakers:  Luca Larini,  James Phillips  

P2 CMP-QM: Topological Materials - III
Room: 240, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Valery Kiryukhin, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Aron Pinczuk,  Valery Kiryukhin  

P5 Astro VI: Exoplanets, Exomoons, and Galaxies
Room: Atrium, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Dale Gary, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Mary West,  David Kipping  

Nov 5 2017 5:00PM, Sunday

Q1 Plenary IV
Room: Atrium, Campus Center, NJIT Chair: Gelu Nita, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Dale Gary