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Session L01: CMP + Materials 7: Superconductors

Chair: Y.-S. Wu, University of Utah
Room: JFB 101

Saturday, October 13, 2018 11:20AM - 11:56AM		L01.00001: Thermoelectric Effects in Superconductor-Ferromagnet Hybrids Invited Speaker: Meenakshi Singh
Saturday, October 13, 2018 11:56AM - 12:08PM		L01.00002: Thermoelectric properties of Copper Benzenehexathiol Ryuichi Tsuchikawa, Neda Lotfizadeh, Nabajit Lahiri, Shuwan Liu, Mackenzie Lach, Celine Slam, Janis Louie, Vikram V Deshpande
Saturday, October 13, 2018 12:08PM - 12:20PM		L01.00003: Calculating the Superconducting Superheating Field and Critical Wavelength Using Automatic Differentiation within Ginzburg-Landau Theory Mark Transtrum, Alden Pack
Saturday, October 13, 2018 12:20PM - 12:32PM		L01.00004: Modeling of 2DEG Formation at Polar ε-(AlGa)2O3/ε-Ga2O3 Heterojunctions Praneeth Ranga, Sung Beom Cho, Rohan Mishra, Sriram Krishnamoorthy
Saturday, October 13, 2018 12:32PM - 12:44PM		L01.00005: Electric and Magnetic Properties of Tungsten Doping in VO2/Ni multilayers Logan Sutton, Joshua P Lauzier, Jose De La Venta

Session L02: CMP + Materials 8: Structure/Materials General

Chair: Heinz Nakotte, New Mexico State University
Room: JFB 102

Saturday, October 13, 2018 11:20AM - 11:44AM		L02.00001: Group representation theory and crystal-structure determination Invited Speaker: Branton J Campbell
Saturday, October 13, 2018 11:44AM - 11:56AM		L02.00002: Optical Characterization of Stressed Aluminum Kaylee Rellaford, Shawn Averett, Alex Farnsworth, Scott Smith, Emma Carlsen, James Patterson
Saturday, October 13, 2018 11:56AM - 12:08PM		L02.00003: Selective Solar Absorber Development for Water Heating Applications Corey Collatz
Saturday, October 13, 2018 12:08PM - 12:20PM		L02.00004: Keeping Squares Square John Christensen, Gus L.W. Hart, Wiley S Morgan, Rodney Forcade
Saturday, October 13, 2018 12:20PM - 12:32PM		L02.00005: Mechanically Robust Ultra-Black Kevin Laughlin, Robert Davis, Richard Vanfleet

Session L03: CMP + Materials 9: Plasmonics/Heterostructures/Electron Yield Measurements

Chair: Sheng-Ting Hung, JILA
Room: JFB 103

Saturday, October 13, 2018 11:20AM - 11:44AM		L03.00001: Unraveling temperature-dependent photocarrier dynamics using plasmonic effects of metal nanoparticles Invited Speaker: Terefe Getaneh Habteyes
Saturday, October 13, 2018 11:44AM - 11:56AM		L03.00002: An Analysis of Historical Secondary Electron Yield Measurements for Copper Phil Lundgreen, John R Dennison
Saturday, October 13, 2018 11:56AM - 12:08PM		L03.00003: Electron Yield Measurements of a Carbon-composite Material Matthew L Robertson, Justin E Christensen, Gregory Wilson, John R Dennison
Saturday, October 13, 2018 12:08PM - 12:20PM		L03.00004: Electron Yield Measurements of Multilayer Conductive Materials Gregory Wilson, Matthew L Robertson, Jordan Lee, JR Dennison
Saturday, October 13, 2018 12:20PM - 12:32PM		L03.00005: Characterization of Electron Yield Suppression with Carbon Nanotube Forest Grown on Silicon Substrates Brian D Wood, Justin E Christensen, Jordan Lee, Gregory Wilson, JR Dennison, T.-C. Shen

Session L04: General Physics: Quantum Control

Chair: Ivan Smalyukh, University of Colorado Boulder
Room: CSC 10/14

Saturday, October 13, 2018 11:20AM - 11:32AM		L04.00001: Basis Dependence of Quantum Coherence for a Single Quantum State Richard D. Barney, Jean-François S. Van Huele
Saturday, October 13, 2018 11:32AM - 11:44AM		L04.00002: Quantum Dynamic Control of a Time Dependent Mass Parametric Oscillator via Lie Algebra Representation Ty Beus, Manuel Berrondo
Saturday, October 13, 2018 11:44AM - 11:56AM		L04.00003: Proposed Experiment to Test Single-Electron Entanglement of Spin and Space Paul W Bailey, Jean Francois Van Huele
Saturday, October 13, 2018 11:56AM - 12:08PM		L04.00004: A Comparison of Entanglement Measures Against Teleportation Fidelity Jason Saunders, Jean-Francois S Van Huele
Saturday, October 13, 2018 12:08PM - 12:20PM		L04.00005: IPSII Shadow Simulations Carter F Day, Jarom S. Jackson, Dallin S. Durfee
Saturday, October 13, 2018 12:20PM - 12:32PM		L04.00006: Quantum Control of the Squeezing Operator with Dynamics using Wei-Norman Factorization and the Time Evolution Operator Riley Martell, Manuel Berrondo, Ty Beus, Ray Hagimoto, Jean-Francois VanHuele

Session L05: AMO4: Optical Trapping and Precision Measurements

Chair: Dallin Durfee, Brigham Young University
Room: CSC 208

Saturday, October 13, 2018 11:20AM - 11:44AM		L05.00001: Measuring and quantifying quantum memory effects in cold atom systems Invited Speaker: Chen-Yen Lai
Saturday, October 13, 2018 11:44AM - 11:56AM		L05.00002: Proposal for loading hydrogen into a magic wavelength optical lattice Zakary Burkley, Dylan C Yost
Saturday, October 13, 2018 11:56AM - 12:08PM		L05.00003: Levitating Microscopic Particles in a Laser Beam via Photophoresis Leslie Howe
Saturday, October 13, 2018 12:08PM - 12:20PM		L05.00004: Precision Measurement of the 6S-7P1/2 Cesium Transition Radial Matrix Element via Simultaneous Absorption Spectroscopy Eric Ryan Putney, George Toh, Amy Damitz, Daniel Elliott
Saturday, October 13, 2018 12:20PM - 12:32PM		L05.00005: Stabilizing Lasers by Analyzing Phase Noise Paige Price, Dallin S. Durfee, Jarom S. Jackson

Session L06: Nuclear Physics

Chair: Eric Hirschmann, Brigham Young University
Room: CSC 210

Saturday, October 13, 2018 11:20AM - 11:44AM		L06.00001: Laser-driven pulsed neutrons for detection of nuclear material Invited Speaker: Andrea Favalli
Saturday, October 13, 2018 11:44AM - 11:56AM		L06.00002: Alpha particle formation in neutron star crusts with an improved trial wave function for nuclear Quantum Monte Carlo Cody Lee Petrie, Kevin E Schmidt
Saturday, October 13, 2018 11:56AM - 12:08PM		L06.00003: 2.7 years of beta-decay-rate ratio measurements in a controlled environment Quinton Dayle McKnight, Scott Douglas Bergeson, Justin Peatross, Michael Ware
Saturday, October 13, 2018 12:08PM - 12:20PM		L06.00004: Tests of \textit{ab initio} nuclear theory via the isobaric multiplet mass equation in $T=1$ superallowed beta decay systems Matthew S Martin, Kyle G Leach, Jason D Holt
Saturday, October 13, 2018 12:20PM - 12:32PM		L06.00005: The discontinuities in twist-3 GPDs Fatma Aslan, Matthias Burkardt
Saturday, October 13, 2018 12:32PM - 12:44PM		L06.00006: Graphic Methods for Electrical Pulse Classification  Michael Vernon Nelson

Session L07: Astrophysics: Forces and Particles

Chair: Darin Ragozzine, Brigham Young University
Room: JFB B-1

Saturday, October 13, 2018 11:20AM - 11:44AM		L07.00001: A Hunt for Dark Matter: a Tale of Sensitivity and Direction Invited Speaker: Dinesh Loomba
Saturday, October 13, 2018 11:44AM - 11:56AM		L07.00002: Formation of dark energy stars Philip Beltracchi, Paolo Gondolo
Saturday, October 13, 2018 11:56AM - 12:08PM		L07.00003: Sources for biconformal gravity Davis W Muhwezi, James T Wheeler
Saturday, October 13, 2018 12:08PM - 12:20PM		L07.00004: Probing the Existence of New Particles using Compact Objects Hyun Lim
Saturday, October 13, 2018 12:20PM - 12:32PM		L07.00005: Update on the analysis of near horizontal muons with HAWC Ahron Barber
Saturday, October 13, 2018 12:32PM - 12:44PM		L07.00006: Gamma-rays observed at ground level in coincidence with downward lightning leaders Jackson Remington, John Belz, Rasha Abbasi, Ryan Le Von, William Rison, Mark Stanley, Dan Rodeheffer, Paul Krehbiel

Session L08: Physics Education

Chair: Claudia DeGrandi, University of Utah
Room: CSC 13

Saturday, October 13, 2018 11:20AM - 11:44AM		L08.00001: Unpacking science identity through the lens of the listening subject: Implications for language, race, and gender-based equity in physics education. Invited Speaker: Sarah K. Braden
Saturday, October 13, 2018 11:44AM - 12:08PM		L08.00002: Incorporating Materials Research into Undergraduate Education Invited Speaker: Kristin Rabosky
Saturday, October 13, 2018 12:08PM - 12:20PM		L08.00003: Adding Value to the Advanced Lab Rudi Michalak
Saturday, October 13, 2018 12:20PM - 12:32PM		L08.00004: Laboratory Experiments for an Introductory Nanotechnology Curriculum Scott Alexander Kaiser, Paul Weber