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 K1: Astrophysics III: Dark Matter

Chair: Robert Stencel, University of Denver
Room: 254

Saturday, October 19, 2013 11:15AM - 11:39AM		K1.00001: The Status of Supersymmetric Dark Matter Invited Speaker: Pearl Sandick Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 19, 2013 11:39AM - 12:03PM		K1.00002: Directional dark matter detection and the DRIFT experiment Invited Speaker: John Harton Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 19, 2013 12:03PM - 12:15PM		K1.00003: Chaos in the general relativistic three-body problem Taylor Morgan, Jared Jay, David Neilsen Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 19, 2013 12:15PM - 12:27PM		K1.00004: Charged Particle Spectrometer for LNAR Tyler Westover, John Ellsworth Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 19, 2013 12:27PM - 12:39PM		K1.00005: Chaotic Scattering in the Post-Newtonian Three-body Problem Jared Jay, David Neilsen Preview Abstract

Session K2: Biological and Soft Condensed Matter Physics II

Chair: Sefika Ozkan, Arizona State University
Room: 287

Saturday, October 19, 2013 11:15AM - 11:39AM		K2.00001: Modeling Active Microtubule-motor Networks Invited Speaker: M. Betterton Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 19, 2013 11:39AM - 12:03PM		K2.00002: Proteome and cell biophysics on the back of an envelope Invited Speaker: Kingshuk Ghosh Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 19, 2013 12:03PM - 12:15PM		K2.00003: Modeling stochastic cell dynamics with adhesion anisotropy quantitatively reproduces convergent extension Taylor Firman, Kingshuk Ghosh, J. Todd Blankenship, Dinah Loerke Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 19, 2013 12:15PM - 12:27PM		K2.00004: Weakening the Cell Elasticity of Chlorella Vulgaris under Nitrate Starvation Antonio Nava, Lieve Laurens, Nichlolas Sweeney, Sean Shaheen Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 19, 2013 12:27PM - 12:39PM		K2.00005: Expanding the locomotion repertoire of the eigenfish: Study of wildtype and mutant zebrafish larvae escape response Maria Benitez-Jones, Kiran Girdhar, Yann Chemla, Martin Gruebele Preview Abstract

Session K3: Condensed Matter IV: Theory/Computation

Chair: Charles Stafford, University of Arizona
Room: 281

Saturday, October 19, 2013 11:15AM - 11:39AM		K3.00001: Macroscopic quantum tunneling in Bose-Einstein condensates Invited Speaker: Lincoln Carr Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 19, 2013 11:39AM - 11:51AM		K3.00002: Computational Analysis of Energy Pooling to Harvest Low-Energy Solar Energy in Organic Photovoltaic Devices Michael LaCount, Sean Shaheen, Garry Rumbles, Jao van de Lagemaat, Nan Hu, Dave Ostrowski, Mark Lusk Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 19, 2013 11:51AM - 12:03PM		K3.00003: The Adsorption of Polyatomics on Carbon Surfaces Jared Burde, Mercedes Calbi Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 19, 2013 12:03PM - 12:15PM		K3.00004: Matching up the Kovalev and CDML space-group IRs Rebecca Winzer, Branton J. Campbell, Harold T. Stokes Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 19, 2013 12:15PM - 12:27PM		K3.00005: Porous Resonators for Chemical Sensing Steven Noyce, Robert Davis, Richard Vanfleet Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 19, 2013 12:27PM - 12:39PM		K3.00006: The role of shape anisotropy in the stabilization of magnetic antivortices in pound-key like structures Martin Asmat, Lin Li, Brian Shaw, Arabinda Haldar, Kristen Buchanan Preview Abstract

Session K4: Materials Physics II: Carbon

Chair: Kristen Buchanan, Colorado State University
Room: 253

Saturday, October 19, 2013 11:15AM - 11:39AM		K4.00001: Recent advances in block copolymer mesoscale modeling: Numerical Self-Consistent Field Theory Simulations Invited Speaker: Scott Sides Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 19, 2013 11:39AM - 11:51AM		K4.00002: Nano-imaging of graphene plasmons Justin Gerber, Brian O'Callahan, Samuel Berweger, Markus Raschke Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 19, 2013 11:51AM - 12:03PM		K4.00003: Atomic Layer Deposition of Tungsten on Carbon Nanotubes Jason Anderson, Collin Brown, David Allred Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 19, 2013 12:03PM - 12:15PM		K4.00004: The low-pressure, chemical vapor deposition of Si02 layers using CO2 as the oxygen source with applications to CNT-MEMS growth Kenneth Hinton Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 19, 2013 12:15PM - 12:27PM		K4.00005: Carbon nano-fuses for permanent data storage Kevin Laughlin Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 19, 2013 12:27PM - 12:39PM		K4.00006: Ab Initio Study of Graphene Functionalized with Benzyne Sanjiv Jha, Igor Vasiliev, Igor Magedov, Liliya Frolova, Nikolai Kalugin Preview Abstract

Session K5: Particle Physics IV: Experiment

Chair: Robert Wilson, Colorado State University
Room: 251

Saturday, October 19, 2013 11:15AM - 11:27AM		K5.00001: Controlled Freezing of Liquid Xenon on a Cryogenic Probe for Single Daughter Atom Detection in EXO Christopher Chambers Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 19, 2013 11:27AM - 11:39AM		K5.00002: The Development of a 1-ton scale Cryogenic Detector Development Test Facility Forrest Craft, Norm Buchanan, Thomas Cummings, John Jablonski, David Warner, Ryan Wasserman Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 19, 2013 11:39AM - 11:51AM		K5.00003: Readout and Monitoring Electronics Development for a Prototype Photon Detector Tom Cummings, Norm Buchanan, Dave Warner Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 19, 2013 11:51AM - 12:03PM		K5.00004: Measurement and Simulation of Cosmic Ray Background in LArTF for MicroBooNE Katherine Woodruff Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 19, 2013 12:03PM - 12:15PM		K5.00005: Simulation of DRIFT Dark Matter Detector Matthew Williams Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 19, 2013 12:15PM - 12:27PM		K5.00006: Attenuation Length Measurements of Custom Wavelength Shifting Fibers Dylan Adams, Norm Buchanan, John Harton Preview Abstract

Session K6: Industrial and Applied Physics

Chair: Matt Kim, QuantTera
Room: 151

Saturday, October 19, 2013 11:15AM - 11:39AM		K6.00001: The Use of Plasma Based Catalysts in the Automotive Industry Invited Speaker: Maximilian A. Biberger Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 19, 2013 11:39AM - 11:51AM		K6.00002: Wavelength Detection from Filtered Photodiodes Nils Otterstrom Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 19, 2013 11:51AM - 12:03PM		K6.00003: Mode transitions in strings with an abrupt change in mass density Tyler Allen, Nathaniel Wells, Bonnie Andersen Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 19, 2013 12:03PM - 12:15PM		K6.00004: Developing an amplitude compensation method for obtaining high-resolution acoustic directivities from played musical instruments Nicholas J. Eyring II, William J. Strong, Nathan G.W. Eyring Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 19, 2013 12:15PM - 12:27PM		K6.00005: Circular orbits on a warped spandex fabric Chad Middleton, Michael Langston Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 19, 2013 12:27PM - 12:39PM		K6.00006: Why there is no noon-midnight red shift in the GPS Neil Ashby, Marc Weiss Preview Abstract

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