Joint Spring 2014 Meeting of the Texas Sections of the APS, AAPT, and Zone 13 of the SPS
Volume 59, Number 2
Thursday–Saturday, March 20–22, 2014;
Abilene, Texas
Session Index
Session F1: Physics Education
Room: Hunter Welcome Center AB
Friday, March 21, 2014
2:30PM - 2:42PM
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F1.00001: ATE Workshops for Physics Faculty
Thomas O'Kuma
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Friday, March 21, 2014
2:42PM - 2:54PM
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F1.00002: Student Understanding of the Contributions of Women in Physics
Jill Marshall
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Friday, March 21, 2014
2:54PM - 3:06PM
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F1.00003: Interdisciplinary materials science projects used for linking physics and chemistry courses
Andra Troncalli, Bradley Smucker
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Friday, March 21, 2014
3:06PM - 3:18PM
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F1.00004: Report on Pilot Project Implementing New Texas General Education Requirements in Physics Course
Jim Sizemore
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Friday, March 21, 2014
3:18PM - 3:30PM
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F1.00005: Kinetic Energy Lost in Inelastic Scattering
William Madigan
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Friday, March 21, 2014
3:30PM - 3:42PM
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F1.00006: Case Study into Project Based Learning and Curriculum
Timothy Renfro, Tikhon Bykov, Wayne Keith
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Friday, March 21, 2014
3:42PM - 3:54PM
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F1.00007: Accelerated Reference Frames in Special Relativity
Lionel D. Hewett
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Friday, March 21, 2014
3:54PM - 4:06PM
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F1.00008: Development of Integrated Physics Identity in a Learning Assistant Program
Eleanor Close, Jessica Conn, Hunter Close
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Friday, March 21, 2014
4:06PM - 4:18PM
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F1.00009: Impressions of a faculty member teaching undergraduate mathematical methods for the first time
David Donnelly
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Friday, March 21, 2014
4:18PM - 4:30PM
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F1.00010: A better method to perform a Coulomb's Law experiment
Jim Sizemore
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Session F2: High Energy and Nuclear Physics
Room: Hunter Welcome Center Lynay Conference Room
Friday, March 21, 2014
2:30PM - 2:42PM
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F2.00001: Beam Systematic Studies for the Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment
Timothy Watson
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Friday, March 21, 2014
2:42PM - 2:54PM
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F2.00002: Long Term Multiplication Behavior Studies of the 30cmx 30cm prototype Gas electron Multiplier
Ying Wun Yvonne Ng, Jaehoon Yu, Seongtae Park, Andy White
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Friday, March 21, 2014
2:54PM - 3:06PM
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F2.00003: Status of the SeaQuest Experiment (Fermilab-E906)
Larry Donald Isenhower
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Friday, March 21, 2014
3:06PM - 3:18PM
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F2.00004: Measuring the Spin Crisis with PHENIX and COMPASS
Michael Daugherity
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Friday, March 21, 2014
3:18PM - 3:30PM
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F2.00005: PHENIX W-Boson Trigger Efficiency Analysis
Ramsey Towell
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Friday, March 21, 2014
3:30PM - 3:42PM
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F2.00006: Analysis of W-Boson Trigger-Rates for PHENIX
Andrew Miller
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Friday, March 21, 2014
3:42PM - 3:54PM
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F2.00007: Involving Undergraduates in Nuclear Physics Research
Rusty Towell
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Session F3: Condensed Matter and NanoScience
Room: Hunter Welcome Center C
Friday, March 21, 2014
2:30PM - 2:42PM
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F3.00001: The use of Multi-Wall Carbon Nanotubes in the area of Nanoenergetic Materials
Patricia Martinez, Mkhitar Hobosyan, Anvar Zakhidov, Karen Martirosyan
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Friday, March 21, 2014
2:42PM - 2:54PM
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F3.00002: A Novel Approach for Betavoltaic Devices Utilizing Nitrogen Doped Graphene Powder as an Electrode
Kyle Drake
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Friday, March 21, 2014
2:54PM - 3:06PM
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F3.00003: Correlations of Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy with TOC, XRF and XRD for Barnett Shale Core
Fnu Ameena, Helge Alsleben, C.A. Quarles
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Friday, March 21, 2014
3:06PM - 3:18PM
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F3.00004: Modeling of the trajectories of positrons and electrons in a Time of Flight Positron annihilation induced Auger Electron Spectrometer (TOF-PAES)
Randall Gladen, Prasad Joglekar, Alex Weiss
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Friday, March 21, 2014
3:18PM - 3:30PM
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F3.00005: Raman Spectroscopy of 3-D Graphene
Robert Friedfeld, Jonathan Belew, Matthew Pusko, Kyle Drake
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Friday, March 21, 2014
3:30PM - 3:42PM
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F3.00006: Role of plastic deformation in shock-induced phase transitions
Punam Ghimire, Ramon Ravelo
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Friday, March 21, 2014
3:42PM - 3:54PM
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F3.00007: Probing the Ground State of alpha-Plutonium with Density Functional Theory
Thomas Bates, Raymond Atta-Fynn
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Friday, March 21, 2014
3:54PM - 4:06PM
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F3.00008: Positronium formation at the Surface of a Topological Insulator
Thomas Bates, Alex Weiss
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Friday, March 21, 2014
4:06PM - 4:18PM
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F3.00009: Atomistic Modeling of Uranium (IV) Ion Interaction with Water
Austin McDonald, Raymond Atta-Fynn
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Session F4: Astrophysics I
Room: Hunter Welcome Center AT&T
Friday, March 21, 2014
2:30PM - 2:42PM
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F4.00001: Thermospheric winds around the cusp region
Cheng Sheng
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Friday, March 21, 2014
2:42PM - 2:54PM
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F4.00002: Numerical experiments to investigate Alfv\'{e}nic fluctuations using a global MHD simulation
Kevin Pham, Ramon Lopez
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Friday, March 21, 2014
2:54PM - 3:06PM
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F4.00003: Statistical analysis of corotating interaction regions and high speed streams
Kyle Van Zuiden, Soha Aslam, Derric Edwards, Kevin Pham, Ramon Lopez
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Friday, March 21, 2014
3:06PM - 3:18PM
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F4.00004: Studying how magnetopause erosion is affected by ionospheric conductivity, using GOES satellite data
Spencer Durrenberger, Robert Bruntz, Ramon Lopez
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Friday, March 21, 2014
3:18PM - 3:30PM
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F4.00005: Investigating the effects of a purely y-component IMF on the ionosphere, using new linear superposition techniques
Robert Bruntz, Shree Bhattarai, Ramon Lopez
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