Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Annual Meeting of the Four Corners Section of the APS

Volume 58, Number 12

Friday–Saturday, October 18–19, 2013; Denver, Colorado

Session Index

Session C1: AMOI: Atomic Clocks and Frequency Combs

Chair: Brian Anderson, University of Arizona
Room: 151

Friday, October 18, 2013 11:00AM - 11:24AM		C1.00001: Frequency combs for optical clocks and low-noise oscillators Invited Speaker: Scott Diddams Preview Abstract
Friday, October 18, 2013 11:24AM - 11:48AM		C1.00002: Nested Frequency Combs Invited Speaker: Jean Claude Diels Preview Abstract
Friday, October 18, 2013 11:48AM - 12:00PM		C1.00003: A New Record in Atomic Clock Performance Travis Nicholson, Benjamin Bloom, Jason Williams, Sara Campbell, Michael Bishof, Xibo Zhang, Wei Zhang, Sarah Bromley, Jun Ye Preview Abstract
Friday, October 18, 2013 12:00PM - 12:12PM		C1.00004: A ``Nearly-Lightless'' Laser Kevin Cox, Justin Bohnet, Joshua Weiner, Matthew Norcia, Zilong Chen, James Thompson Preview Abstract
Friday, October 18, 2013 12:12PM - 12:24PM		C1.00005: Scheme for locking cooling and slowing lasers for a silicon magneto-optical trap Sam Ronald, Jonathan Gilbert, William Fairbank, Siu Au Lee Preview Abstract

Session C2: Astrophysics I

Chair: Pearl Sandick, University of Utah
Room: 254

Friday, October 18, 2013 11:00AM - 11:24AM		C2.00001: New Views of Stellar Explosions: The Supernova Spectropolarimetry Project Invited Speaker: Jennifer L. Hoffman Preview Abstract
Friday, October 18, 2013 11:24AM - 11:36AM		C2.00002: Finding the First Cosmic Explosions: Hypernovae and Pair-Instability Supernovae Brandon Wiggins Preview Abstract
Friday, October 18, 2013 11:36AM - 11:48AM		C2.00003: Cross Section Measurements for 34S($\alpha $,$\gamma )$ Patrick O'Malley, Devin Connolly, Ulrike Hager, Uwe Greife, Sergey Ilyushkin, Fred Sarazin, Charles Akers, Alan Chen, Greg Christian, Jennifer Fallis, Brian Fulton, Dave Hutcheon, Alison Laird, Chris Ruiz, Kiana Setoodehnia, Barry Davids Preview Abstract
Friday, October 18, 2013 11:48AM - 12:00PM		C2.00004: Convective Origins of Active Longitudes on Solar-like Stars Maria Weber, Yuhong Fan, Mark Miesch Preview Abstract
Friday, October 18, 2013 12:00PM - 12:12PM		C2.00005: Chromospheric activity and stellar winds in supergiant stars Kathleen Geise Preview Abstract
Friday, October 18, 2013 12:12PM - 12:24PM		C2.00006: Understanding the Relation of Progenitors and Supernovae through the Study of Circumstellar Material (CSM) Manisha Shrestha, Jennifer L. Hoffman, Hilding R. Neilson, Richard Ignace Preview Abstract

Session C3: Biological and Soft Condensed Matter Physics I

Chair: Kingshuk Ghosh, University of Denver
Room: 287

Friday, October 18, 2013 11:00AM - 11:24AM		C3.00001: The ugly truth of enzyme dynamics: coupled chaos and biological function Invited Speaker: Elan Eisenmesser Preview Abstract
Friday, October 18, 2013 11:24AM - 11:48AM		C3.00002: Designing Foldable Protein Sequence Through Zipping Contacts Invited Speaker: Sefika Ozkan Preview Abstract
Friday, October 18, 2013 11:48AM - 12:00PM		C3.00003: Role of native-state dynamics in thermophilic adaptation Lucas Sawle, Kingshuk Ghosh Preview Abstract
Friday, October 18, 2013 12:00PM - 12:12PM		C3.00004: An approach to quantifying macromolecular transition pathways Sean Seyler, Avishek Kumar, Michael Thorpe, Oliver Beckstein Preview Abstract
Friday, October 18, 2013 12:12PM - 12:24PM		C3.00005: Lipid Sorting on Curved Supported Lipid Bilayers Using a Nanoparticle Patterned Substrate Philip Cheney, Michelle Knowles Preview Abstract

Session C4: Condensed Matter I

Chair: Arthi Jayaraman, University of Colorado - Boulder
Room: 281

Friday, October 18, 2013 11:00AM - 11:24AM		C4.00001: Ultrafast nano-optics: accessing structure, function, and dynamics of matter on its natural length and time scales Invited Speaker: Markus Raschke Preview Abstract
Friday, October 18, 2013 11:24AM - 11:36AM		C4.00002: Characterization of Order-Disorder Phase Transition Temperature for Select Nanoparticles Greg Sutherland Preview Abstract
Friday, October 18, 2013 11:36AM - 11:48AM		C4.00003: Non-Specular Reflectance to Determine Surface Roughness Jonathan Schuler, Joshua Marx, R. Steve Turley Preview Abstract
Friday, October 18, 2013 11:48AM - 12:00PM		C4.00004: Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Critical Point Energy Shift of Ge Films Grown on Si(100) Substrate due to Strain Nalin Fernando, Ayana Ghosh, Cayla Nelson, Amber Medina, Seth Xu Preview Abstract
Friday, October 18, 2013 12:00PM - 12:12PM		C4.00005: Generation of spin currents with light and spin Seebeck effect David Ellsworth, Lei Lu, Mingzhong Wu Preview Abstract
Friday, October 18, 2013 12:12PM - 12:24PM		C4.00006: Molecular Dynamics and the Melting Transition: A Computational Modeling Approach for Building Intuition Derek Ostrom, Gus Hart Preview Abstract

Session C5: Materials Physics I

Chair: Davor Balzar, University of Denver
Room: 253

Friday, October 18, 2013 11:00AM - 11:24AM		C5.00001: Metamaterials: What They Are and How They Work Invited Speaker: Michael Petras Preview Abstract
Friday, October 18, 2013 11:24AM - 11:36AM		C5.00002: Investigation of the cycling stability of an ionically-gated organic thin-film transistor Jacob Friedlein, Robert McLeod, Sean Shaheen Preview Abstract
Friday, October 18, 2013 11:36AM - 11:48AM		C5.00003: Extensions of the Walden-Wintle Model of Charge Transport in Disordered Materials for Charge Injection with Electron Beams JR Dennison, Greg Wilson, Alec Sim, Jodie Corbridge Gillespie Preview Abstract
Friday, October 18, 2013 11:48AM - 12:00PM		C5.00004: Optical constants of Ni1-xPtx silicides from spectroscopic ellipsometry Lina Abdallah, Stefan Zollner, Christian Lavoie, Ahmet Ozcan, Mark Raymond Preview Abstract
Friday, October 18, 2013 12:00PM - 12:12PM		C5.00005: Influences of small clusters of defects near probe nuclei in cubic structures in perturbed angular correlation models F. Sullivan, M. Adams, P. Matheson, W.E. Evenson Preview Abstract
Friday, October 18, 2013 12:12PM - 12:24PM		C5.00006: Pre-breakdown Arcing in Dielectrics under Electric Field Stress Allen Andersen, JR Dennison Preview Abstract

Session C6: Particle Physics I: Theory

Chair: Shufang Su, University of Arizona
Room: 251

Friday, October 18, 2013 11:00AM - 11:24AM		C6.00001: Hunting Asymmetric Top Squark Decays Invited Speaker: Michael Graesser Preview Abstract
Friday, October 18, 2013 11:24AM - 11:48AM		C6.00002: Lattice field theory: QCD and beyond Invited Speaker: Ethan Neil Preview Abstract
Friday, October 18, 2013 11:48AM - 12:00PM		C6.00003: Higgs Assisted Stop Search Huanian Zhang, Shufang Su Preview Abstract
Friday, October 18, 2013 12:00PM - 12:12PM		C6.00004: Constraining Type II 2HDM in Light of LHC Higgs Searches Felix Kling, Baradhwaj Coleppa, Shufang Su Preview Abstract
Friday, October 18, 2013 12:12PM - 12:24PM		C6.00005: Confinement in a 2 + 1 Dimensional Center Vortex Model of the Yang-Mills Vacuum Derar Altarawneh, Michael Engelhardt Preview Abstract

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