May 2 2009 8:30AM, Saturday

A1 Plenary Session I
Room: Plaza Ballroom ABC Sponsor: APS Chair: Curt Callan, Princeton University

May 2 2009 10:45AM, Saturday

B2 The State of the Standard Model and Higgs Searches
Room: Plaza D Sponsor: DPF Chair: Raymond Brock, Michigan State University

B3 Science with Intense Beams of Rare Isotopes: On the way to FRIB
Room: Plaza E Sponsor: DAP DNP Chair: Michael Turner, University of Chicago

B4 Frontiers in Computational Astrophysics
Room: Plaza F Sponsor: DAP Chair: Vassiliki Kalogera, Northwestern University

B5 The Scientific Legacy of John Wheeler
Room: Governor's Square 15 Sponsor: GGR FHP Chair: James Hartle, University of California, Santa Barbara

B6 Applications of Accelerators
Room: Governor's Square 16 Sponsor: FPS DPB Chair: Pushpa Bhat, Fermi National Accelerator Facility, and Swapan Chattopadhyay, Cockcroft Institute

B7 Physics in Latin America
Room: Governor's Square 12 Sponsor: FIP Chair: Galileo Violini, Universita della Calabria

B8 Galactic Gamma Rays
Room: Governor's Square 17 Sponsor: DAP Chair: Petra Huentemeyer, University of Utah

B9 Instrumentation for High Energy Physics
Room: Governor's Square 11 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Michael Strauss, University of Oklahoma

B10 Mini-Symposium on New Results in Heavy Ion Physics
Room: Governor's Square 10 Sponsor: DNP Chair: James Nagle, University of Colorado - Boulder

B11 LIGO Progress and Plans
Room: Plaza Court 1 Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Vuk Mandic, Univerisity of Minnesota

B12 Neutrino Physics I
Room: Plaza Court 2 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Reyco Henning, University of North Carolina

B13 Physics Education
Room: Plaza Court 3 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Gay Stewart, University of Arkansas

B14 Planetary Science
Room: Plaza Court 4 Sponsor: DAP Chair: Dan McCammon, University of Wisconsin-Madison

B15 High Energy Neutrinos
Room: Governor's Square 14 Sponsor: DAP Chair: Charles Dermer, Naval Research Laboratory

May 2 2009 1:30PM, Saturday

C2 The State of Neutrino Physics
Room: Plaza D Sponsor: DPF Chair: Janet Conrad, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

C3 Lattice QCD for Nuclear Physics
Room: Plaza E Sponsor: DNP DCOMP Chair: David Richards, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

C4 Plasma Astrophysics of Intracluster Media
Room: Plaza F Sponsor: GPAP DAP Chair: Maxim Lyutikov, Purdue University

C5 Searches for Gravitational Waves with LIGO, GEO and Virgo
Room: Governor's Square 15 Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Nergis Mavalvala, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

C6 History of Telescopes
Room: Governor's Square 16 Sponsor: FHP Chair: Daniel Kleppner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

C7 Teaching Physics of Energy I
Room: Governor's Square 12 Sponsor: FEd DNP Chair: Lawrence Cardman, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

C8 Instrumentation for Astrophysics
Room: Governor's Square 17 Sponsor: DAP Chair: David Kieda, University of Utah

C9 Charm and Kaon Physics
Room: Governor's Square 11 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Karen Gibson, University of Pittsburgh

C10 Nuclear Theory II: Structure and Reactions
Room: Governor's Square 10 Sponsor: DNP Chair: James Shepard, University of Colorado

C11 Numerical Analysis of Black Hole Binary Systems
Room: Plaza Court 1 Sponsor: GGR DCOMP Chair: Wolfgang Tichy, Florida Atlantic University

C12 Cosmic Microwave Background and Cosmology
Room: Plaza Court 2 Sponsor: DAP Chair: Michael Turner, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago

C13 W and Z Physics I
Room: Plaza Court 3 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Laura Reina, Florida State University

C14 Ultracold Neutrons and Fundamental Symmetries
Room: Plaza Court 4 Sponsor: GPMFC DNP Chair: Susan Gardner, University of Kentucky

May 2 2009 3:30PM, Saturday

D2 The State of HEP Theory
Room: Plaza D Sponsor: DPF Chair: JoAnne Hewett, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

D3 Few Body Physics I
Room: Plaza E Sponsor: DNP GFB Chair: A.R.P. Rau, Lousiana State University

D4 Panel Discussion: Global Physics Projects
Room: Plaza F Sponsor: FPS FIP Chair: Pushpa Bhat, Fermi National Accelerator Facility, and Lawrence Krauss, Arizona State University

D5 Spanning the Gravitational Wave Spectrum
Room: Governor's Square 15 Sponsor: GGR Chair: Stanley Whitcomb, California Institute of Technology

D6 Ion Heating in Turbulent Plasmas
Room: Governor's Square 16 Sponsor: GPAP DPP Chair: Michael Brown, Swarthmore College

D7 Teaching Physics of Energy II
Room: Governor's Square 12 Sponsor: FEd DPB Chair: Thomas Rossing, Stanford University

D8 Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Instruments
Room: Governor's Square 17 Sponsor: DAP Chair: Stefan Westerhoff, University of Wisconsin-Madison

D9 Mini-Symposium on Standard Model and Higgs Physics
Room: Governor's Square 11 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Daniela Bortoletto, Purdue University

D10 Neutrino Physics II
Room: Governor's Square 10 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Bill Louis, Los Alamos National Laboratory

D11 Theoretical and Quantum Gravity
Room: Plaza Court 1 Sponsor: GGR Chair: David Garfinkle, Oakland University

D12 Hadronic Physics
Room: Plaza Court 2 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Pete Markowtiz, Florida International University

D13 Nuclear Astrophysics Modelling
Room: Plaza Court 3 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Peter Moller, Los Alamos National Laboratory

D14 Undergraduate Research (including SPS) I
Room: Plaza Court 4 Sponsor: SPS Chair: Thomas Olsen, AIP Education: SPS

May 2 2009 4:30PM, Saturday

E1 Poster Session I (4:30-6:45pm)
Room: Plaza Exhibit Sponsor: APS

May 2 2009 4:45PM, Saturday

E2 FEd Business Meeting
Room: Governor's Square 12 Sponsor: FEd

May 2 2009 5:30PM, Saturday

E3 Welcome Reception and Poster Session I
Room: Plaza Exhibit Sponsor: APS

May 2 2009 7:00PM, Saturday

F1 Town Meeting on the DOE/NASA Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM)
Room: Plaza Ballroom ABC Chair: Neil Gehrels, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

May 2 2009 7:30PM, Saturday

F2 Town Hall Meeting on Science and Society
Room: Plaza Ballroom D Sponsor: FPS Chair: Pushpa Bhat, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and Andrew Zwicker, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

May 3 2009 8:30AM, Sunday

G2 The State of the Top Quark
Room: Plaza D Sponsor: DPF Chair: Kevin Pitts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

G3 Few Body Physics II
Room: Plaza E Sponsor: DNP GFB Chair: Ronald Gilman, Rutgers University

G4 New Eyes on the Universe I
Room: Plaza F Sponsor: DAP Chair: Steven Barwick, University of California, Irvine

G5 Developments in Quantum Gravity
Room: Governor's Square 15 Sponsor: GGR Chair: Jorge Pullin, Louisana State University

G6 Physics on the Road Conference : A follow-up to the World Year of Physics 2005
Room: Governor's Square 16 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Ernest Malamud, University of Nevada - Reno

G7 Science Policy: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Room: Governor's Square 12 Sponsor: FHP FPS Chair: Daniel Kleppner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

G8 Plasma Astrophysics of Clusters of Galaxies
Room: Governor's Square 17 Sponsor: DAP GPAP Chair: Steven Spangler, University of Iowa

G9 Running and Near Term Neutrino Experiments
Room: Governor's Square 11 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Patricia Vahle, College of William and Mary

G10 Nuclear Instrumentation
Room: Governor's Square 10 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Michael Murray, University of Kansas

G11 Gravitational Collapse and Theoretical Relativity
Room: Plaza Court 1 Sponsor: GGR Chair: Eric Poisson, University of Guelph

G12 Higgs II
Room: Plaza Court 2 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Alfred Goshaw, Duke University

G13 B Physics I
Room: Plaza Court 3 Sponsor: DPF Chair: David Saltzberg, University of California, Los Angeles

G14 Future HEP Experiments
Room: Plaza Court 4 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Dave Hedin, Northern Illinois University

G15 Sherwood I
Room: Governor's Square 14 Sponsor: Sherwood DPP Chair: Carl Sovinec, University of Wisconsin-Madison

May 3 2009 10:30AM, Sunday

H15 Sherwood II
Room: Governor's Square 14 Sponsor: Sherwood DPP Chair: James Myra, Lodestar Research Corporation

May 3 2009 10:45AM, Sunday

H2 The State of QCD
Room: Plaza D Sponsor: DPF Chair: Robert Cahn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

H3 Nucleon Structure and Fundamental Symmetries
Room: Plaza E Sponsor: GHP Chair: Mary Alberg, Seattle University

H4 Nobel Prize Session
Room: Plaza F Sponsor: APS Chair: Cherry Murray, APS President and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

H6 Women in Experimental High Energy Physics: Science and Career Paths
Room: Governor's Square 16 Sponsor: CSWP DPF Chair: Jane Nachtman, University of Iowa

H7 Managing Nuclear Fuels: An International Perspective
Room: Governor's Square 12 Sponsor: FIP FPS Chair: Noemie Benczer-Koller, Rutgers University

H8 Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays
Room: Governor's Square 17 Sponsor: DAP Chair: Todor Stanev, University of Delaware

H9 Mini-Symposium on Single Top
Room: Governor's Square 11 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Elizaveta Shabalina, Universitaet Goettingen

H10 Ultra-Relativistic Collisions
Room: Governor's Square 10 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Thomas Ludlam, Brookhaven National Laboratory

H11 LISA
Room: Plaza Court 1 Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Guido Mueller, University of Florida

H12 Mini-symposium on Nuclear Structure at Short Distances I
Room: Plaza Court 2 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Ronald Gilman, Rutgers University

H13 Focus Session: Professional Preparation of Teachers of Physics
Room: Plaza Court 3 Sponsor: FEd Chair: David Haase, North Carolina State University

H14 History and Philosophy of Science
Room: Plaza Court 4 Sponsor: FHP Chair: Dan Kleppner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

May 3 2009 12:45PM, Sunday

H20 GFB Business Meeting
Room: Plaza Court 3 Sponsor: GFB

May 3 2009 1:30PM, Sunday

J2 The State of Heavy Flavor
Room: Plaza D Sponsor: DPF Chair: Patricia McBride, Fermilab

J3 Puzzles and Challenges Near Doubly Magic 100Sn, the Heaviest Self-Conjugate Nucleus
Room: Plaza E Sponsor: DNP Chair: Rick Casten, Yale University

J4 Merging Galaxies
Room: Plaza F Sponsor: DAP GGR Chair: Scott Hughes, Masschusetts Institutue of Technology

J5 Heinemann Prize Session
Room: Governor's Square 15 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Andreas Kronfeld, Fermilab

J6 Precision Measurements Impacting Cosmology
Room: Governor's Square 16 Sponsor: GPMFC Chair: Karl Van Bibber, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

J7 Physics Contributions to the Intelligence Community
Room: Governor's Square 12 Sponsor: FPS Chair: Donald Prosnitz, Rand Corporation

J9 Top Mass
Room: Governor's Square 11 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Kenneth Bloom, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

J10 Electroweak Interactions
Room: Governor's Square 10 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Willem T.H. van Oers, TRIUMF

J11 Theoretical Gravity
Room: Plaza Court 1 Sponsor: GGR Chair: John Friedman, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

J12 Mini-Symposium on Nuclear Structure at Short Distances. II
Room: Plaza Court 2 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Eliezer Piasetzky, Tel Aviv University

J13 Few Body Physics III
Room: Plaza Court 3 Sponsor: GFB Chair: Wayne Polyzou, University of Iowa

J14 Undergraduate Research (including SPS) II
Room: Plaza Court 4 Sponsor: SPS Chair: Gary White, AIP Education: SPS

J15 Windows to Burning Plasmas
Room: Governor's Square 14 Sponsor: DPP Chair: Vincent Chan, General Atomics

May 3 2009 2:00PM, Sunday

K1 Plasma/Sherwood Poster Session I (2:00pm - 5:00pm)
Room: Plaza Exhibit

May 3 2009 2:30PM, Sunday

J8 APS Editorial Question and Answer
Room: Governor's Square 17 Sponsor: APS

May 3 2009 3:30PM, Sunday

L2 On the Threshold of the LHC
Room: Plaza D Sponsor: DPF Chair: Raymond Brock, Michigan State University

L3 Sakurai Prize Session
Room: Plaza E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Robert Cahn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

L4 Nucleon Microscopy
Room: Plaza F Sponsor: DNP Chair: Kees De Jager, Thomas Jefferson National National Accelerator Facility

L5 Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics: From Stars to Stellar Explosions
Room: Governor's Square 15 Sponsor: DNP DAP Chair: Sam Austin, Michigan State University

L6 Future Accelerators for Particle Physics
Room: Governor's Square 16 Sponsor: DPB DPF Chair: Matt Poelker, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

L8 Excellence in Physics Education Award
Room: Governor's Square 17 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Arthur Bienenstock, Stanford University

L9 QCD Topics
Room: Governor's Square 11 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Boris Kayser, Fermilab

L10 Nuclear Structure
Room: Governor's Square 10 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Jolie Cizewski, Rutgers

L11 Binary Inspiral and Gravitational Wave Kicks
Room: Plaza Court 1 Sponsor: GGR Chair: Frans Pretorious, Princeton University

L12 Dark Matter Searches I: Indirect Searches
Room: Plaza Court 2 Sponsor: DAP DPF GPMFC Chair: Brenda Dingus, Los Alamos National Laboratory

L13 Nuclear Theory I: Few-Body
Room: Plaza Court 3 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Daniel Phillips, Ohio University

L14 W and Z Physics II
Room: Plaza Court 4 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Alfred Goshaw, Duke University

L15 High Energy Density Plasmas
Room: Governor's Square 14 Sponsor: DPP Chair: Paul Drake, University of Michigan

May 3 2009 5:30PM, Sunday

M1 APS Prizes and Awards Ceremonial Session and Past President's Address
Room: Governor's Square 12 Sponsor: APS Chair: Cherry Murray, APS President and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

May 3 2009 7:30PM, Sunday

N1 Keynote Talk: The Quest for Giant Telescopes: Four Centuries of Challenge and Scientific Discovery
Room: Plaza Ballroom A Sponsor: APS Chair: Michael Turner, University of Chicago

May 4 2009 8:30AM, Monday

P1 Plenary Session II
Room: Plaza Ballroom ABC Sponsor: APS Chair: Cherry Murray, APS President and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

May 4 2009 10:45AM, Monday

Q2 Recent Progress at the Neutrino Frontier
Room: Plaza D Sponsor: DNP DPF Chair: Boris Kayser, Fermilab

Q3 Mini-Symposium on Transverse Spin Phenomena
Room: Plaza E Sponsor: DNP Chair: Alessandro Bacchetta, Jefferson Lab

Q4 Opportunities in Hadron Spectroscopy
Room: Plaza F Sponsor: GHP Chair: Winston Roberts, Florida State University

Q5 Computational Astrophysics of Disks: From Black Holes to Planets
Room: Governor's Square 15 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Richard Klein, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Q6 Introductory Physics for Pre-Health and Biological Science Students
Room: Governor's Square 16 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Robert Hilborn, University of Texas at Dallas

Q7 Is Geoengineering a Possible Stop-Gap Measure to Rapid Climate Change?
Room: Governor's Square 12 Sponsor: FPS Chair: Barbara Levi, American Institute of Physics

Q8 Cosmic Ray Electrons
Room: Governor's Square 17 Sponsor: DAP Chair: Jonathan Ormes, University of Denver

Q9 Mini-Symposium on Heavy Flavor: CP Violation and Rare Decays
Room: Governor's Square 11 Sponsor: DPF Chair: William Wisniewski, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Q10 Electromagnetic Interactions
Room: Governor's Square 10 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Zein-Eddine Meziani, Temple University

Q11 Experimental Tests of Gravitation
Room: Plaza Court 1 Sponsor: GGR GPMFC Chair: Eric Adelberger, University of Washington

Q12 Nuclear Astrophysics
Room: Plaza Court 2 Sponsor: DNP DAP Chair: Henry Weller, Duke University

Q13 Computational Materials and Accelerator Physics
Room: Plaza Court 3 Sponsor: DCOMP

Q14 Beam Physics
Room: Plaza Court 4 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Larry Cardman, Jefferson Lab

Q15 Sherwood III
Room: Governor's Square 14 Sponsor: Sherwood DPP Chair: Valerie Izzo, University of California, San Diego

May 4 2009 1:30PM, Monday

R2 New Eyes on the Universe II
Room: Plaza D Sponsor: DAP DPF Chair: Brenda Dingus, Los Alamos National Laboratory

R3 DNP Prize and Award Session I
Room: Plaza E Sponsor: DNP Chair: Richard Casten, Yale University

R4 Dark Matter
Room: Plaza F Sponsor: DAP DPF Chair: Steven Kahn, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

R5 Women and Minorities in Multi-Messenger Astronomy of Gamma-Ray Bursts
Room: Governor's Square 15 Sponsor: GGR DAP COM CSWP Chair: Pablo Laguna, Georgia Institute of Technology

R6 Imaging Advanced Accelerators
Room: Governor's Square 16 Sponsor: DPP DPB Chair: Thomas Antonsen, University of Maryland

R7 FPS Awards Session
Room: Governor's Square 12 Sponsor: FPS Chair: Donald Prosnitz, Rand Corporation

R8 Observation, Acceleration and Propagation of Cosmic Rays
Room: Governor's Square 17 Sponsor: DAP Chair: Dietrich Muller, University of Chicago

R9 Mini-Symposium on Searches I
Room: Governor's Square 11 Sponsor: DPF Chair: David Toback, Texas A\&M University

R11 Gravitational Wave Astrophysics
Room: Plaza Court 1 Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Stan Whitcomb, LIGO Lab/Caltech

R12 Mini-Symposium on Heavy Flavor: Future of Heavy Flavor Physics
Room: Plaza Court 2 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Thomas Ruf, CERN

R13 Focus Session: Adopting PER-Based Teaching Methods and Materials
Room: Plaza Court 3 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Noah Finkelstein, University of Colorado

R14 QCD Physics
Room: Plaza Court 4 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Cecilia Gerber, University of Illinois, Chicago

May 4 2009 2:00PM, Monday

S1 Sherwood Poster Session II (2:00pm - 5:00pm)
Room: Plaza Exhibit

May 4 2009 3:30PM, Monday

T2 The State of the Searches Beyond the Standard Model
Room: Plaza D Sponsor: DPF Chair: David Saltzberg, University of California, Los Angeles

T3 DNP Prize and Award Session II
Room: Plaza E Sponsor: DNP Chair: William Zajc, Columbia University

T4 Early Science from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope
Room: Plaza F Sponsor: DAP Chair: Steven Kahn, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

T5 Precision Measurements in Gravity
Room: Governor's Square 15 Sponsor: GGR Chair: Peter Bender, University of Colorado at Boulder

T6 Panel Discussion: Preparation of Graduate Students for Careers in a Globalized World I
Room: Governor's Square 16 Sponsor: FGSA FIP Chair: Kendall Mahn, Columbia University

T7 History of MURA, Fermilab and the SSC
Room: Governor's Square 12 Sponsor: FHP DPB Chair: Gloria Lubkin, American Institute of Physics

T8 Gravitation and Cosmology
Room: Governor's Square 17 Sponsor: DAP Chair: Deirdre Shoemaker, Georgia Institute of Technology

T9 B Physics II
Room: Governor's Square 11 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Patricia McBride, Fermilab

T11 Neutron Star and Black Hole Binary Simulations
Room: Plaza Court 1 Sponsor: GGR Chair: Steven Detweiler, University of Florida

T12 Dark Matter Searches II
Room: Plaza Court 2 Sponsor: DAP DPF GPMFC Chair: Uwe Oberlack, Rice University

T13 Physics Education Research
Room: Plaza Court 3 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Noah Finkelstein, University of Colorado

T14 New Directions in Particle Theory
Room: Plaza Court 4 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Andreas Kronfeld, Fermilab

May 4 2009 5:30PM, Monday

U6 FHP Business Meeting
Room: Governor's Square 16 Sponsor: FHP

U7 FPS Business Meeting
Room: Governor's Square 12 Sponsor: FPS

U8 DAP Business Meeting
Room: Governor's Square 17 Sponsor: DAP

U9 DPF Business Meeting
Room: Governor's Square 11 Sponsor: DPF

U10 DNP Business Meeting
Room: Governor's Square 10 Sponsor: DNP

U11 GGR Business Meeting
Room: Plaza Court 1 Sponsor: GGR

U12 GPMFC Business Meeting
Room: Plaza Court 2 Sponsor: GPMFC

U13 GHP Business Meeting
Room: Plaza Court 3 Sponsor: GHP

U14 DPB Business Meeting
Room: Plaza Court 4 Sponsor: DBP

May 4 2009 7:30PM, Monday

U50 Town Meeting on the Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey
Room: Plaza F Sponsor: DAP Chair: Steve Kahn, Stanford University, and Michael Turner, University of Chicago

May 5 2009 8:30AM, Tuesday

V1 Plenary Session III
Room: Plaza Ballroom ABC Sponsor: APS Chair: Richard Milner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

May 5 2009 10:45AM, Tuesday

W2 Bouchet Award and Panofsky Prize Session
Room: Plaza D Sponsor: DPF Chair: JoAnne Hewett, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

W3 Nuclear Physics Connections with Astrophysics/Cosmology
Room: Plaza E Sponsor: DNP Chair: James Nagle, University of Colorado at Boulder

W4 New Facilities in Particle Astrophysics I
Room: Plaza F Sponsor: DAP Chair: Michael Turner, University of Chicago

W6 Numerical Simulations of Coalescing Compact Objects: Black Holes and Neutron Stars
Room: Governor's Square 16 Sponsor: DCOMP GGR Chair: Manuela Campanelli, Rochester Institute of Technology

W7 Teaching Physics and the Arts
Room: Plaza Ballroom ABC Sponsor: FEd Chair: Thomas Rossing, Stanford University

W8 Gamma Ray Bursts
Room: Governor's Square 17 Sponsor: DAP Chair: Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, University of California, Santa Cruz

W9 Top and Higgs Physics
Room: Governor's Square 11 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Raymond Brock, Michigan State University

W10 Nuclear Reactions: Heavy Ions/Rare Isotope Beams I
Room: Governor's Square 10 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Misak Sargsian, Florida International University

W11 Data Analysis Techniques for Ground-Based Gravitational Wave Interferometers
Room: Plaza Court 1 Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Laura Cadonati, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

W12 Dark Matter Searches III
Room: Plaza Court 2 Sponsor: DAP DPF GPMFC Chair: Mark Boulay, Queen's University

W13 Neutrino Physics III
Room: Plaza Court 3 Sponsor: DNP

W14 Searches II
Room: Plaza Court 4 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Robert Cahn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

W15 Sherwood IV
Room: Governor's Square 14 Sponsor: Sherwood DPP Chair: Janardhan Manickam, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

May 5 2009 1:30PM, Tuesday

X2 Neutrino Oscillations in Electron Capture Decays
Room: Plaza D Sponsor: DNP Chair: Hamish Robertson, University of Washington

X4 New Facilities in Particle Astrophysics II
Room: Plaza F Sponsor: DAP Chair: Steven Kahn, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

X5 Panel Discussion: Women and Minorities in Gravity: Science and Career Paths
Room: Governor's Square 15 Sponsor: GGR DAP COM CSWP Chair: Vassiliki Kalogera, Northwestern University

X6 The Role of Scientists in Arms Control
Room: Governor's Square 16 Sponsor: FPS Chair: Benn Tannenbaum, American Association for the Advancement of Science

X7 Accelerator Technologies for Nuclear Physics
Room: Governor's Square 12 Sponsor: DNP DPB Chair: Yousef Makdisi, Brookhaven National Laboratory

X8 Active Galactic Nuclei
Room: Governor's Square 17 Sponsor: DAP Chair: James Chiang, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

X9 B Physics III
Room: Governor's Square 11 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Bob Cahn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

X10 Nuclear Reactions: Heavy Ions/Rare Isotope Beams II
Room: Governor's Square 10 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Jorge Piekarewicz, Florida State University

X11 Novel Aspects of Gravity
Room: Plaza Court 1 Sponsor: GGR Chair: Stan Whitcomb, LIGO Labs/Caltech

X12 General Astrophysics and Compact Objects
Room: Plaza Court 2 Sponsor: DAP Chair: Christopher Fryer, Los Alamos National Laboratory

X13 Quantum Mechanics and Tests of Physics Laws
Room: Plaza Court 3 Sponsor: GPMFC Chair: Hugh Lippincott, Yale University

X14 Higgs III
Room: Plaza Court 4 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Raymond Brock, Michigan State University

May 2 2009 8:30AM, Saturday

A1 Plenary Session I
Room: Plaza Ballroom ABC Sponsor: APS Chair: Curt Callan, Princeton University

May 2 2009 10:45AM, Saturday

B2 The State of the Standard Model and Higgs Searches
Room: Plaza D Sponsor: DPF Chair: Raymond Brock, Michigan State University

B3 Science with Intense Beams of Rare Isotopes: On the way to FRIB
Room: Plaza E Sponsor: DAP DNP Chair: Michael Turner, University of Chicago

B4 Frontiers in Computational Astrophysics
Room: Plaza F Sponsor: DAP Chair: Vassiliki Kalogera, Northwestern University

B5 The Scientific Legacy of John Wheeler
Room: Governor's Square 15 Sponsor: GGR FHP Chair: James Hartle, University of California, Santa Barbara

B6 Applications of Accelerators
Room: Governor's Square 16 Sponsor: FPS DPB Chair: Pushpa Bhat, Fermi National Accelerator Facility, and Swapan Chattopadhyay, Cockcroft Institute

B7 Physics in Latin America
Room: Governor's Square 12 Sponsor: FIP Chair: Galileo Violini, Universita della Calabria

B8 Galactic Gamma Rays
Room: Governor's Square 17 Sponsor: DAP Chair: Petra Huentemeyer, University of Utah

B9 Instrumentation for High Energy Physics
Room: Governor's Square 11 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Michael Strauss, University of Oklahoma

B10 Mini-Symposium on New Results in Heavy Ion Physics
Room: Governor's Square 10 Sponsor: DNP Chair: James Nagle, University of Colorado - Boulder

B11 LIGO Progress and Plans
Room: Plaza Court 1 Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Vuk Mandic, Univerisity of Minnesota

B12 Neutrino Physics I
Room: Plaza Court 2 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Reyco Henning, University of North Carolina

B13 Physics Education
Room: Plaza Court 3 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Gay Stewart, University of Arkansas

B14 Planetary Science
Room: Plaza Court 4 Sponsor: DAP Chair: Dan McCammon, University of Wisconsin-Madison

B15 High Energy Neutrinos
Room: Governor's Square 14 Sponsor: DAP Chair: Charles Dermer, Naval Research Laboratory

May 2 2009 1:30PM, Saturday

C2 The State of Neutrino Physics
Room: Plaza D Sponsor: DPF Chair: Janet Conrad, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

C3 Lattice QCD for Nuclear Physics
Room: Plaza E Sponsor: DNP DCOMP Chair: David Richards, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

C4 Plasma Astrophysics of Intracluster Media
Room: Plaza F Sponsor: GPAP DAP Chair: Maxim Lyutikov, Purdue University

C5 Searches for Gravitational Waves with LIGO, GEO and Virgo
Room: Governor's Square 15 Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Nergis Mavalvala, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

C6 History of Telescopes
Room: Governor's Square 16 Sponsor: FHP Chair: Daniel Kleppner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

C7 Teaching Physics of Energy I
Room: Governor's Square 12 Sponsor: FEd DNP Chair: Lawrence Cardman, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

C8 Instrumentation for Astrophysics
Room: Governor's Square 17 Sponsor: DAP Chair: David Kieda, University of Utah

C9 Charm and Kaon Physics
Room: Governor's Square 11 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Karen Gibson, University of Pittsburgh

C10 Nuclear Theory II: Structure and Reactions
Room: Governor's Square 10 Sponsor: DNP Chair: James Shepard, University of Colorado

C11 Numerical Analysis of Black Hole Binary Systems
Room: Plaza Court 1 Sponsor: GGR DCOMP Chair: Wolfgang Tichy, Florida Atlantic University

C12 Cosmic Microwave Background and Cosmology
Room: Plaza Court 2 Sponsor: DAP Chair: Michael Turner, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago

C13 W and Z Physics I
Room: Plaza Court 3 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Laura Reina, Florida State University

C14 Ultracold Neutrons and Fundamental Symmetries
Room: Plaza Court 4 Sponsor: GPMFC DNP Chair: Susan Gardner, University of Kentucky

May 2 2009 3:30PM, Saturday

D2 The State of HEP Theory
Room: Plaza D Sponsor: DPF Chair: JoAnne Hewett, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

D3 Few Body Physics I
Room: Plaza E Sponsor: DNP GFB Chair: A.R.P. Rau, Lousiana State University

D4 Panel Discussion: Global Physics Projects
Room: Plaza F Sponsor: FPS FIP Chair: Pushpa Bhat, Fermi National Accelerator Facility, and Lawrence Krauss, Arizona State University

D5 Spanning the Gravitational Wave Spectrum
Room: Governor's Square 15 Sponsor: GGR Chair: Stanley Whitcomb, California Institute of Technology

D6 Ion Heating in Turbulent Plasmas
Room: Governor's Square 16 Sponsor: GPAP DPP Chair: Michael Brown, Swarthmore College

D7 Teaching Physics of Energy II
Room: Governor's Square 12 Sponsor: FEd DPB Chair: Thomas Rossing, Stanford University

D8 Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Instruments
Room: Governor's Square 17 Sponsor: DAP Chair: Stefan Westerhoff, University of Wisconsin-Madison

D9 Mini-Symposium on Standard Model and Higgs Physics
Room: Governor's Square 11 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Daniela Bortoletto, Purdue University

D10 Neutrino Physics II
Room: Governor's Square 10 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Bill Louis, Los Alamos National Laboratory

D11 Theoretical and Quantum Gravity
Room: Plaza Court 1 Sponsor: GGR Chair: David Garfinkle, Oakland University

D12 Hadronic Physics
Room: Plaza Court 2 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Pete Markowtiz, Florida International University

D13 Nuclear Astrophysics Modelling
Room: Plaza Court 3 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Peter Moller, Los Alamos National Laboratory

D14 Undergraduate Research (including SPS) I
Room: Plaza Court 4 Sponsor: SPS Chair: Thomas Olsen, AIP Education: SPS

May 2 2009 4:30PM, Saturday

E1 Poster Session I (4:30-6:45pm)
Room: Plaza Exhibit Sponsor: APS

May 2 2009 4:45PM, Saturday

E2 FEd Business Meeting
Room: Governor's Square 12 Sponsor: FEd

May 2 2009 5:30PM, Saturday

E3 Welcome Reception and Poster Session I
Room: Plaza Exhibit Sponsor: APS

May 2 2009 7:00PM, Saturday

F1 Town Meeting on the DOE/NASA Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM)
Room: Plaza Ballroom ABC Chair: Neil Gehrels, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

May 2 2009 7:30PM, Saturday

F2 Town Hall Meeting on Science and Society
Room: Plaza Ballroom D Sponsor: FPS Chair: Pushpa Bhat, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and Andrew Zwicker, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

May 3 2009 8:30AM, Sunday

G2 The State of the Top Quark
Room: Plaza D Sponsor: DPF Chair: Kevin Pitts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

G3 Few Body Physics II
Room: Plaza E Sponsor: DNP GFB Chair: Ronald Gilman, Rutgers University

G4 New Eyes on the Universe I
Room: Plaza F Sponsor: DAP Chair: Steven Barwick, University of California, Irvine

G5 Developments in Quantum Gravity
Room: Governor's Square 15 Sponsor: GGR Chair: Jorge Pullin, Louisana State University

G6 Physics on the Road Conference : A follow-up to the World Year of Physics 2005
Room: Governor's Square 16 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Ernest Malamud, University of Nevada - Reno

G7 Science Policy: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Room: Governor's Square 12 Sponsor: FHP FPS Chair: Daniel Kleppner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

G8 Plasma Astrophysics of Clusters of Galaxies
Room: Governor's Square 17 Sponsor: DAP GPAP Chair: Steven Spangler, University of Iowa

G9 Running and Near Term Neutrino Experiments
Room: Governor's Square 11 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Patricia Vahle, College of William and Mary

G10 Nuclear Instrumentation
Room: Governor's Square 10 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Michael Murray, University of Kansas

G11 Gravitational Collapse and Theoretical Relativity
Room: Plaza Court 1 Sponsor: GGR Chair: Eric Poisson, University of Guelph

G12 Higgs II
Room: Plaza Court 2 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Alfred Goshaw, Duke University

G13 B Physics I
Room: Plaza Court 3 Sponsor: DPF Chair: David Saltzberg, University of California, Los Angeles

G14 Future HEP Experiments
Room: Plaza Court 4 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Dave Hedin, Northern Illinois University

G15 Sherwood I
Room: Governor's Square 14 Sponsor: Sherwood DPP Chair: Carl Sovinec, University of Wisconsin-Madison

May 3 2009 10:30AM, Sunday

H15 Sherwood II
Room: Governor's Square 14 Sponsor: Sherwood DPP Chair: James Myra, Lodestar Research Corporation

May 3 2009 10:45AM, Sunday

H2 The State of QCD
Room: Plaza D Sponsor: DPF Chair: Robert Cahn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

H3 Nucleon Structure and Fundamental Symmetries
Room: Plaza E Sponsor: GHP Chair: Mary Alberg, Seattle University

H4 Nobel Prize Session
Room: Plaza F Sponsor: APS Chair: Cherry Murray, APS President and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

H6 Women in Experimental High Energy Physics: Science and Career Paths
Room: Governor's Square 16 Sponsor: CSWP DPF Chair: Jane Nachtman, University of Iowa

H7 Managing Nuclear Fuels: An International Perspective
Room: Governor's Square 12 Sponsor: FIP FPS Chair: Noemie Benczer-Koller, Rutgers University

H8 Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays
Room: Governor's Square 17 Sponsor: DAP Chair: Todor Stanev, University of Delaware

H9 Mini-Symposium on Single Top
Room: Governor's Square 11 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Elizaveta Shabalina, Universitaet Goettingen

H10 Ultra-Relativistic Collisions
Room: Governor's Square 10 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Thomas Ludlam, Brookhaven National Laboratory

H11 LISA
Room: Plaza Court 1 Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Guido Mueller, University of Florida

H12 Mini-symposium on Nuclear Structure at Short Distances I
Room: Plaza Court 2 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Ronald Gilman, Rutgers University

H13 Focus Session: Professional Preparation of Teachers of Physics
Room: Plaza Court 3 Sponsor: FEd Chair: David Haase, North Carolina State University

H14 History and Philosophy of Science
Room: Plaza Court 4 Sponsor: FHP Chair: Dan Kleppner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

May 3 2009 12:45PM, Sunday

H20 GFB Business Meeting
Room: Plaza Court 3 Sponsor: GFB

May 3 2009 1:30PM, Sunday

J2 The State of Heavy Flavor
Room: Plaza D Sponsor: DPF Chair: Patricia McBride, Fermilab

J3 Puzzles and Challenges Near Doubly Magic 100Sn, the Heaviest Self-Conjugate Nucleus
Room: Plaza E Sponsor: DNP Chair: Rick Casten, Yale University

J4 Merging Galaxies
Room: Plaza F Sponsor: DAP GGR Chair: Scott Hughes, Masschusetts Institutue of Technology

J5 Heinemann Prize Session
Room: Governor's Square 15 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Andreas Kronfeld, Fermilab

J6 Precision Measurements Impacting Cosmology
Room: Governor's Square 16 Sponsor: GPMFC Chair: Karl Van Bibber, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

J7 Physics Contributions to the Intelligence Community
Room: Governor's Square 12 Sponsor: FPS Chair: Donald Prosnitz, Rand Corporation

J9 Top Mass
Room: Governor's Square 11 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Kenneth Bloom, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

J10 Electroweak Interactions
Room: Governor's Square 10 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Willem T.H. van Oers, TRIUMF

J11 Theoretical Gravity
Room: Plaza Court 1 Sponsor: GGR Chair: John Friedman, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

J12 Mini-Symposium on Nuclear Structure at Short Distances. II
Room: Plaza Court 2 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Eliezer Piasetzky, Tel Aviv University

J13 Few Body Physics III
Room: Plaza Court 3 Sponsor: GFB Chair: Wayne Polyzou, University of Iowa

J14 Undergraduate Research (including SPS) II
Room: Plaza Court 4 Sponsor: SPS Chair: Gary White, AIP Education: SPS

J15 Windows to Burning Plasmas
Room: Governor's Square 14 Sponsor: DPP Chair: Vincent Chan, General Atomics

May 3 2009 2:00PM, Sunday

K1 Plasma/Sherwood Poster Session I (2:00pm - 5:00pm)
Room: Plaza Exhibit

May 3 2009 2:30PM, Sunday

J8 APS Editorial Question and Answer
Room: Governor's Square 17 Sponsor: APS

May 3 2009 3:30PM, Sunday

L2 On the Threshold of the LHC
Room: Plaza D Sponsor: DPF Chair: Raymond Brock, Michigan State University

L3 Sakurai Prize Session
Room: Plaza E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Robert Cahn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

L4 Nucleon Microscopy
Room: Plaza F Sponsor: DNP Chair: Kees De Jager, Thomas Jefferson National National Accelerator Facility

L5 Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics: From Stars to Stellar Explosions
Room: Governor's Square 15 Sponsor: DNP DAP Chair: Sam Austin, Michigan State University

L6 Future Accelerators for Particle Physics
Room: Governor's Square 16 Sponsor: DPB DPF Chair: Matt Poelker, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

L8 Excellence in Physics Education Award
Room: Governor's Square 17 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Arthur Bienenstock, Stanford University

L9 QCD Topics
Room: Governor's Square 11 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Boris Kayser, Fermilab

L10 Nuclear Structure
Room: Governor's Square 10 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Jolie Cizewski, Rutgers

L11 Binary Inspiral and Gravitational Wave Kicks
Room: Plaza Court 1 Sponsor: GGR Chair: Frans Pretorious, Princeton University

L12 Dark Matter Searches I: Indirect Searches
Room: Plaza Court 2 Sponsor: DAP DPF GPMFC Chair: Brenda Dingus, Los Alamos National Laboratory

L13 Nuclear Theory I: Few-Body
Room: Plaza Court 3 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Daniel Phillips, Ohio University

L14 W and Z Physics II
Room: Plaza Court 4 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Alfred Goshaw, Duke University

L15 High Energy Density Plasmas
Room: Governor's Square 14 Sponsor: DPP Chair: Paul Drake, University of Michigan

May 3 2009 5:30PM, Sunday

M1 APS Prizes and Awards Ceremonial Session and Past President's Address
Room: Governor's Square 12 Sponsor: APS Chair: Cherry Murray, APS President and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

May 3 2009 7:30PM, Sunday

N1 Keynote Talk: The Quest for Giant Telescopes: Four Centuries of Challenge and Scientific Discovery
Room: Plaza Ballroom A Sponsor: APS Chair: Michael Turner, University of Chicago

May 4 2009 8:30AM, Monday

P1 Plenary Session II
Room: Plaza Ballroom ABC Sponsor: APS Chair: Cherry Murray, APS President and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

May 4 2009 10:45AM, Monday

Q2 Recent Progress at the Neutrino Frontier
Room: Plaza D Sponsor: DNP DPF Chair: Boris Kayser, Fermilab

Q3 Mini-Symposium on Transverse Spin Phenomena
Room: Plaza E Sponsor: DNP Chair: Alessandro Bacchetta, Jefferson Lab

Q4 Opportunities in Hadron Spectroscopy
Room: Plaza F Sponsor: GHP Chair: Winston Roberts, Florida State University

Q5 Computational Astrophysics of Disks: From Black Holes to Planets
Room: Governor's Square 15 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Richard Klein, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Q6 Introductory Physics for Pre-Health and Biological Science Students
Room: Governor's Square 16 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Robert Hilborn, University of Texas at Dallas

Q7 Is Geoengineering a Possible Stop-Gap Measure to Rapid Climate Change?
Room: Governor's Square 12 Sponsor: FPS Chair: Barbara Levi, American Institute of Physics

Q8 Cosmic Ray Electrons
Room: Governor's Square 17 Sponsor: DAP Chair: Jonathan Ormes, University of Denver

Q9 Mini-Symposium on Heavy Flavor: CP Violation and Rare Decays
Room: Governor's Square 11 Sponsor: DPF Chair: William Wisniewski, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Q10 Electromagnetic Interactions
Room: Governor's Square 10 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Zein-Eddine Meziani, Temple University

Q11 Experimental Tests of Gravitation
Room: Plaza Court 1 Sponsor: GGR GPMFC Chair: Eric Adelberger, University of Washington

Q12 Nuclear Astrophysics
Room: Plaza Court 2 Sponsor: DNP DAP Chair: Henry Weller, Duke University

Q13 Computational Materials and Accelerator Physics
Room: Plaza Court 3 Sponsor: DCOMP

Q14 Beam Physics
Room: Plaza Court 4 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Larry Cardman, Jefferson Lab

Q15 Sherwood III
Room: Governor's Square 14 Sponsor: Sherwood DPP Chair: Valerie Izzo, University of California, San Diego

May 4 2009 1:30PM, Monday

R2 New Eyes on the Universe II
Room: Plaza D Sponsor: DAP DPF Chair: Brenda Dingus, Los Alamos National Laboratory

R3 DNP Prize and Award Session I
Room: Plaza E Sponsor: DNP Chair: Richard Casten, Yale University

R4 Dark Matter
Room: Plaza F Sponsor: DAP DPF Chair: Steven Kahn, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

R5 Women and Minorities in Multi-Messenger Astronomy of Gamma-Ray Bursts
Room: Governor's Square 15 Sponsor: GGR DAP COM CSWP Chair: Pablo Laguna, Georgia Institute of Technology

R6 Imaging Advanced Accelerators
Room: Governor's Square 16 Sponsor: DPP DPB Chair: Thomas Antonsen, University of Maryland

R7 FPS Awards Session
Room: Governor's Square 12 Sponsor: FPS Chair: Donald Prosnitz, Rand Corporation

R8 Observation, Acceleration and Propagation of Cosmic Rays
Room: Governor's Square 17 Sponsor: DAP Chair: Dietrich Muller, University of Chicago

R9 Mini-Symposium on Searches I
Room: Governor's Square 11 Sponsor: DPF Chair: David Toback, Texas A\&M University

R11 Gravitational Wave Astrophysics
Room: Plaza Court 1 Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Stan Whitcomb, LIGO Lab/Caltech

R12 Mini-Symposium on Heavy Flavor: Future of Heavy Flavor Physics
Room: Plaza Court 2 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Thomas Ruf, CERN

R13 Focus Session: Adopting PER-Based Teaching Methods and Materials
Room: Plaza Court 3 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Noah Finkelstein, University of Colorado

R14 QCD Physics
Room: Plaza Court 4 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Cecilia Gerber, University of Illinois, Chicago

May 4 2009 2:00PM, Monday

S1 Sherwood Poster Session II (2:00pm - 5:00pm)
Room: Plaza Exhibit

May 4 2009 3:30PM, Monday

T2 The State of the Searches Beyond the Standard Model
Room: Plaza D Sponsor: DPF Chair: David Saltzberg, University of California, Los Angeles

T3 DNP Prize and Award Session II
Room: Plaza E Sponsor: DNP Chair: William Zajc, Columbia University

T4 Early Science from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope
Room: Plaza F Sponsor: DAP Chair: Steven Kahn, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

T5 Precision Measurements in Gravity
Room: Governor's Square 15 Sponsor: GGR Chair: Peter Bender, University of Colorado at Boulder

T6 Panel Discussion: Preparation of Graduate Students for Careers in a Globalized World I
Room: Governor's Square 16 Sponsor: FGSA FIP Chair: Kendall Mahn, Columbia University

T7 History of MURA, Fermilab and the SSC
Room: Governor's Square 12 Sponsor: FHP DPB Chair: Gloria Lubkin, American Institute of Physics

T8 Gravitation and Cosmology
Room: Governor's Square 17 Sponsor: DAP Chair: Deirdre Shoemaker, Georgia Institute of Technology

T9 B Physics II
Room: Governor's Square 11 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Patricia McBride, Fermilab

T11 Neutron Star and Black Hole Binary Simulations
Room: Plaza Court 1 Sponsor: GGR Chair: Steven Detweiler, University of Florida

T12 Dark Matter Searches II
Room: Plaza Court 2 Sponsor: DAP DPF GPMFC Chair: Uwe Oberlack, Rice University

T13 Physics Education Research
Room: Plaza Court 3 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Noah Finkelstein, University of Colorado

T14 New Directions in Particle Theory
Room: Plaza Court 4 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Andreas Kronfeld, Fermilab

May 4 2009 5:30PM, Monday

U6 FHP Business Meeting
Room: Governor's Square 16 Sponsor: FHP

U7 FPS Business Meeting
Room: Governor's Square 12 Sponsor: FPS

U8 DAP Business Meeting
Room: Governor's Square 17 Sponsor: DAP

U9 DPF Business Meeting
Room: Governor's Square 11 Sponsor: DPF

U10 DNP Business Meeting
Room: Governor's Square 10 Sponsor: DNP

U11 GGR Business Meeting
Room: Plaza Court 1 Sponsor: GGR

U12 GPMFC Business Meeting
Room: Plaza Court 2 Sponsor: GPMFC

U13 GHP Business Meeting
Room: Plaza Court 3 Sponsor: GHP

U14 DPB Business Meeting
Room: Plaza Court 4 Sponsor: DBP

May 4 2009 7:30PM, Monday

U50 Town Meeting on the Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey
Room: Plaza F Sponsor: DAP Chair: Steve Kahn, Stanford University, and Michael Turner, University of Chicago

May 5 2009 8:30AM, Tuesday

V1 Plenary Session III
Room: Plaza Ballroom ABC Sponsor: APS Chair: Richard Milner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

May 5 2009 10:45AM, Tuesday

W2 Bouchet Award and Panofsky Prize Session
Room: Plaza D Sponsor: DPF Chair: JoAnne Hewett, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

W3 Nuclear Physics Connections with Astrophysics/Cosmology
Room: Plaza E Sponsor: DNP Chair: James Nagle, University of Colorado at Boulder

W4 New Facilities in Particle Astrophysics I
Room: Plaza F Sponsor: DAP Chair: Michael Turner, University of Chicago

W6 Numerical Simulations of Coalescing Compact Objects: Black Holes and Neutron Stars
Room: Governor's Square 16 Sponsor: DCOMP GGR Chair: Manuela Campanelli, Rochester Institute of Technology

W7 Teaching Physics and the Arts
Room: Plaza Ballroom ABC Sponsor: FEd Chair: Thomas Rossing, Stanford University

W8 Gamma Ray Bursts
Room: Governor's Square 17 Sponsor: DAP Chair: Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, University of California, Santa Cruz

W9 Top and Higgs Physics
Room: Governor's Square 11 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Raymond Brock, Michigan State University

W10 Nuclear Reactions: Heavy Ions/Rare Isotope Beams I
Room: Governor's Square 10 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Misak Sargsian, Florida International University

W11 Data Analysis Techniques for Ground-Based Gravitational Wave Interferometers
Room: Plaza Court 1 Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Laura Cadonati, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

W12 Dark Matter Searches III
Room: Plaza Court 2 Sponsor: DAP DPF GPMFC Chair: Mark Boulay, Queen's University

W13 Neutrino Physics III
Room: Plaza Court 3 Sponsor: DNP

W14 Searches II
Room: Plaza Court 4 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Robert Cahn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

W15 Sherwood IV
Room: Governor's Square 14 Sponsor: Sherwood DPP Chair: Janardhan Manickam, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

May 5 2009 1:30PM, Tuesday

X2 Neutrino Oscillations in Electron Capture Decays
Room: Plaza D Sponsor: DNP Chair: Hamish Robertson, University of Washington

X4 New Facilities in Particle Astrophysics II
Room: Plaza F Sponsor: DAP Chair: Steven Kahn, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

X5 Panel Discussion: Women and Minorities in Gravity: Science and Career Paths
Room: Governor's Square 15 Sponsor: GGR DAP COM CSWP Chair: Vassiliki Kalogera, Northwestern University

X6 The Role of Scientists in Arms Control
Room: Governor's Square 16 Sponsor: FPS Chair: Benn Tannenbaum, American Association for the Advancement of Science

X7 Accelerator Technologies for Nuclear Physics
Room: Governor's Square 12 Sponsor: DNP DPB Chair: Yousef Makdisi, Brookhaven National Laboratory

X8 Active Galactic Nuclei
Room: Governor's Square 17 Sponsor: DAP Chair: James Chiang, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

X9 B Physics III
Room: Governor's Square 11 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Bob Cahn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

X10 Nuclear Reactions: Heavy Ions/Rare Isotope Beams II
Room: Governor's Square 10 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Jorge Piekarewicz, Florida State University

X11 Novel Aspects of Gravity
Room: Plaza Court 1 Sponsor: GGR Chair: Stan Whitcomb, LIGO Labs/Caltech

X12 General Astrophysics and Compact Objects
Room: Plaza Court 2 Sponsor: DAP Chair: Christopher Fryer, Los Alamos National Laboratory

X13 Quantum Mechanics and Tests of Physics Laws
Room: Plaza Court 3 Sponsor: GPMFC Chair: Hugh Lippincott, Yale University

X14 Higgs III
Room: Plaza Court 4 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Raymond Brock, Michigan State University