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Session K1: Astronomy and Astrophysics

Chair: Stacey Palen, Weber State University
Room: Lory Student Center 304

Saturday, October 21, 2017 9:25AM - 9:49AM		K1.00001: Gone with the (solar) wind: Escape to Space of the Ancient Martian Atmosphere Invited Speaker: Dave Brain Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 21, 2017 9:49AM - 10:01AM		K1.00002: Equilibrium models of relativistic stars with differential rotation and toroidal magnetic fields Logan Carpenter, Eric Hirschmann Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 21, 2017 10:01AM - 10:13AM		K1.00003: Understanding the role of a stars surface gravity on its spectrum Jessica Galbraith-Frew, Inese Ivans Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 21, 2017 10:13AM - 10:25AM		K1.00004: Polarization behavior of stellar wind bow shocks Manisha Shrestha, Jennifer L. Hoffman, Hilding R. Neilson, Richard Ignace Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 21, 2017 10:25AM - 10:37AM		K1.00005: Surveillance of Ionized Hydrogen Near Supermassive Black Holes Samuel Montgomery Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 21, 2017 10:37AM - 10:49AM		K1.00006: Spectropolarimetry with SALT: New Observations of Wolf-Rayet Binaries Andrew G. Fullard, Jennifer L. Hoffman, Kenneth H. Nordsieck Preview Abstract

Session K2: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics III

Chair: Dylan Yost, Colorado State University
Room: Lory Student Center 372

Saturday, October 21, 2017 9:25AM - 9:49AM		K2.00001: Optical Atomic Clocks - New Clocks for New Physics Invited Speaker: Chris Oates Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 21, 2017 9:49AM - 10:01AM		K2.00002: A Next-Generation Ultracold KRb Apparatus William Tobias, Luigi De Marco, Giacomo Valtolina, Kyle Matsuda, Jacob Covey, Jun Ye Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 21, 2017 10:01AM - 10:13AM		K2.00003: Exploring Jaynes-Cummings-like Models for Quantum Control Austen Couvertier, Jean-Francois VanHuele Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 21, 2017 10:13AM - 10:25AM		K2.00004: Detection and Memory Loophole Closing Chained Bell Test with Trapped Ions Stephen Erickson, Ting Rei Tan, Yong Wan, Peter Bierhorst, Daniel Kienzler, Scott Glancy, Emanuel Knill, Dietrich Leibfried, David Wineland Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 21, 2017 10:25AM - 10:37AM		K2.00005: Imaging of single barium atoms in solid xenon for nEXO James Todd, Chris Chambers, Tim Walton, Danielle Harris, David Fairbank, William Fairbank Jr. Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 21, 2017 10:37AM - 10:49AM		K2.00006: Parity Nonconservation in Cold Atomic Hydrogen Cory Rasor, Dylan Yost Preview Abstract

Session K3: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics IV: High Intensity and Short Wavelengths

Chair: Mario Marconi, Colorado State University
Room: Lory Student Center 322

Saturday, October 21, 2017 9:25AM - 9:49AM		K3.00001: Photo Emission from Large Electron Wave Packets in Strong Laser Fields Invited Speaker: Michael Ware Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 21, 2017 9:49AM - 10:01AM		K3.00002: Power scaling of extreme-ultraviolet frequency combs to the mW level per high-harmonic order Stephen Schoun, Gil Porat, Christoph Heyl, Craig Benko, Jun Ye Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 21, 2017 10:01AM - 10:13AM		K3.00003: Compact gain--saturated X-ray lasers down to 6.9 nm wavelength and amplification down to at 5.9 nm Alex Rockwood, Yong Wang, Shoujun Wang, Mark Berrill, Vyacheslav Shlyaptsev, Jorge Rocca Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 21, 2017 10:13AM - 10:25AM		K3.00004: 3-D Visualization of an electron and its field in a high-intensity laser focus Jacob Barker Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 21, 2017 10:25AM - 10:37AM		K3.00005: Petawatt-class laser operation at 3.3 Hz and high-contrast ultrahigh-intensity $\lambda =$ 400 nm second-harmonic beamline Shoujun Wang, Yong Wang, Alex Rockwood, Bradley Luther, Reed Hollinger, Alden Curtis, Chase Calvi, Carmen S. Menoni, Jorge J. Rocca Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 21, 2017 10:37AM - 10:49AM		K3.00006: Population of Rydberg states in short intense laser pulses Joel Venzke, Brynn Reiff, Zetong Xue, Erez Shani, Agnieszka Jaron-Becker, Andreas Becker Preview Abstract

Session K4: Biophysics II

Chair: Martin Gelfand, Colorado State University
Room: Lory Student Center 308

Saturday, October 21, 2017 9:25AM - 9:49AM		K4.00001: High-Speed Low-Energy Superconducting/Magnetic Josephson Junction Neurons and Neural Nets Invited Speaker: Stephen Russek Preview Abstract
(Author Not Attending)		K4.00002: Electrical Conductivity of Monolayer Films of Ferritin Molecules Alessandro Perego, John Colton, Robert Davis Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 21, 2017 10:01AM - 10:13AM		K4.00003: Higher-order correlations uncover hidden information in the fluorescence fluctuation analysis of fast molecular kinetics Farshad Abdollah-Nia, Martin Gelfand, Alan Van Orden Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 21, 2017 10:13AM - 10:25AM		K4.00004: Investigating Cellular Structure via Optical Scattering Profiles from a Near-Infrared Laser Diode Vern Hart, James Graham, Ryan Bevan, Duncan Reeves, Ellie Evans, Chris Berneau, Daniel Blumel, Diana Turcios Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 21, 2017 10:25AM - 10:37AM		K4.00005: On the Analysis of Time-Dependent Biochemical Systems Via the Utilization of Ising Mean Field Parameters Curtis Peterson, Tommy Byrd, Robert Vogel, Amir Erez, Andrew Mugler Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 21, 2017 10:37AM - 10:49AM		K4.00006: Biosensing with Spatial Resolution Using Graphene Lauren Zundel, Alejandro Manjavacas Preview Abstract

Session K5: Condensed Matter and Materials IV

Chair: William Rice, University of Wyoming
Room: Lory Student Center 376

Saturday, October 21, 2017 9:25AM - 9:49AM		K5.00001: Computational and experimental force multipliers for the discovery of new thermoelectric materials Invited Speaker: Eric Toberer Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 21, 2017 9:49AM - 10:01AM		K5.00002: Development of Updated Spacecraft Materials Database for Mitigation of Charging Risk Phillip Lundgreen, JR Dennison Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 21, 2017 10:01AM - 10:13AM		K5.00003: Coalescence-induced self-propulsion of viscous droplets on superomniphobic surfaces. Hamed Vahabi, Wei Wang, Seth Davies, Joseph M.Mabry, Arun Kota Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 21, 2017 10:13AM - 10:25AM		K5.00004: Pulsed Electro-Acoustic Measurements of Charging and Relaxation in Low Density Polyethylene Zachary Gibson, Lee Pearson, Erick Griffiths, Anthony Pearson, JR Dennison Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 21, 2017 10:25AM - 10:37AM		K5.00005: Cooling limit of a quantum thermocouple Marco Antonio Jimenez Valencia, Abhay Shankar C. Shastry, Charles A. Stafford Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 21, 2017 10:37AM - 10:49AM		K5.00006: Measuring and Modeling the Conductivity of Highly Insulating Materials David King, Brian Wood, JR Dennison Preview Abstract

Session K6: Condensed Matter and Materials V

Chair: Karine Chesnel, Brigham Young University
Room: Lory Student Center 382

Saturday, October 21, 2017 9:25AM - 9:49AM		K6.00001: Domain walls in magnetic nanowires Invited Speaker: Karen Livesey Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 21, 2017 9:49AM - 10:01AM		K6.00002: High-Bandwidth Scanning Hall Probe Microscopy of Superconducting Flux Vortices A. D. DeMann, S. B. Field Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 21, 2017 10:01AM - 10:13AM		K6.00003: Maximizing the Magnetic Domain Morphologies in CoPt thin-films Carson Richards, Karine Chesnel Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 21, 2017 10:13AM - 10:25AM		K6.00004: Spin-wave fractals in a quasi-one-dimensional magnonic crystal Daniel Richardson, Boris Kalinikos, Lincoln Carr, Mingzhong Wu Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 21, 2017 10:25AM - 10:37AM		K6.00005: Optical investigations of the photo-spin-voltaic effect in metal/magnetic insulator heterostructures Subash Kattel, Joseph R. Murphy, David Ellsworth, Peng Li, Mingzhong Wu, William D. Rice Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 21, 2017 10:37AM - 10:49AM		K6.00006: Temperature Dependence in the Magnetic Properties of FeRh/Ni Bilayers Joshua Lauzier, Logan Sutton, Jose de la Venta Preview Abstract

Session K7: Particle and Nuclear Physics IV

Chair: John Harton, Colorado State University
Room: Lory Student Center 386

Saturday, October 21, 2017 9:25AM - 9:49AM		K7.00001: Particle discoveries at the LHC Invited Speaker: Sally Seidel Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 21, 2017 9:49AM - 10:01AM		K7.00002: Forward Folding Likelihood Fitting as a Method for Kinematic Unfolding at T2K Thomas Campbell Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 21, 2017 10:01AM - 10:13AM		K7.00003: Multi-Particle Identification Using Convolutional Neural Networks In MicroBooNE Samantha Sword-Fehlberg Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 21, 2017 10:13AM - 10:25AM		K7.00004: Determining Thermal Shock Effects on Silicon Photo-Multipliers for use in DUNE Connor Johnson, Norm Buchanan, Aurora Popescu, Justin Cole Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 21, 2017 10:25AM - 10:37AM		K7.00005: The Short Baseline Program at Fermilab Tyler Boone, Robert Wilson Preview Abstract
Saturday, October 21, 2017 10:37AM - 10:49AM		K7.00006: Measurement of the Lifetime of Cosmic Ray Muons Ian Brubaker, Darrel Smith Preview Abstract