Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2010
Volume 55, Number 1
Saturday–Tuesday, February 13–16, 2010; Washington, DC
Epitome
Feb 13 2010 8:30AM, Saturday
A1
The Energy Frontier at the LHC
Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 2
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Patricia McBride, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
A2
Flavor Decomposition of the Parton Distribution Functions
Room: Thurgood Marshall East
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Rolf Ent, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
A3
Pulsars in the Fermi Era
Room: Thurgood Marshall South
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Maxim Lyutikov, Purdue University
A4
Quantum Black Holes: Theory and Applications
Room: Thurgood Marshall North
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Theodore Jacobson, University of Maryland
A5
Art and Physics
Room: Thurgood Marshall West
Sponsor:
FPS AAPT
Chair: Charles Ferguson, Council on Foreign Relations
A6
New Directions in Plasma Science and Fusion
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
DPP/GPAP NSBP/NSHP
Chair: Steven Allen, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
A7
Mini-Symposium on Electromagnetic Reactions Involving Light Nuclei I
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
DNP GFB
Chair: Harald W. Griesshammer, The George Washington University
A8
Neutrino Physics I
Room: Delaware B
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Martin Cooper, Los Alamos National Laboratory
A9
Charm Physics
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Wendy Taylor, York University
A10
Dark Matter I
Room: Maryland B
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Angela Reisetter, University of Minnesota
A11
Lorentz Symmetry in Gravitation; followed by LISA Developments
Room: Maryland C
Sponsor:
GGR GPMFC
Chair: Michael Seifert, Indiana University, and Guido Mueller, University of Florida
A12
Jets
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Ben Kilminster, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
A13
Cosmological Tests of General Relativity and Supersymmetry
Room: Washington 6
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Will Kinney, University at Buffalo
A14
Gravitational Collapse and Numerical Relativity
Room: Washington 4
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: John Baker, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Feb 13 2010 10:45AM, Saturday
B1
Beyond the Standard Model: Searches for New Physics
Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 2
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Jacobo Konigsberg, University of Florida
B2
String Theory and Nuclear Collisions
Room: Thurgood Marshall East
Sponsor:
DNP DPF
Chair: William Zajc, Columbia University
B3
International Planning for Astroparticle Physics
Room: Thurgood Marshall South
Sponsor:
DAP DPF
Chair: Michael Turner, University of Chicago
B4
Panel Discussion: Physics in Africa
Room: Thurgood Marshall North
Sponsor:
FIP
Chair: David Ernst, Vanderbilt University
B5
Secrecy and Physics
Room: Thurgood Marshall West
Sponsor:
FHP FPS AAPT
Chair: Peter Galison, Harvard University
B6
Taxonomies as Tools for Enhancing Physics Learning
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
FEd DNP AAPT
Chair: Gerald Feldman, The George Washington University
B7
Nuclear Structure and Reactions
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Bill Walters, University of Maryland
B8
Neutrino Physics II
Room: Delaware B
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Vincente Guiseppe, University of South Dakota
B9
Instrumentation for Particle Physics I
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Alice Bean, University of Kansas
B10
Sub-Nucleonic Degrees of Freedom
Room: Maryland B
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Christian Weiss, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
B11
SPS Undergraduate Research I
Room: Maryland C
Chair: Gary White, American Institute of Physics
B12
Heavy Flavor CP
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: David Brown, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
B13
Observational Implications of Gravitational Waves
Room: Washington 6
Sponsor:
DAP GGR
Chair: John Baker, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
B14
Dynamics of Black Holes
Room: Washington 4
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: John Friedman, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Feb 13 2010 1:00PM, Saturday
C1
Poster Session I: (1:00 - 4:00 PM)
Room: Exhibit Hall A-B
Feb 13 2010 1:30PM, Saturday
D1
Inflation
Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 2
Sponsor:
DAP DPF
Chair: Michael Turner, University of Chicago
D2
Bethe and Bonner Prizes
Room: Thurgood Marshall East
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Lawrence Cardman, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
D3
Mentoring Perspectives of Mentor and Mentee
Room: Thurgood Marshall South
Sponsor:
COM/CSWP FGSA/AAPT
Chair: Pablo Laguna, Georgia Institute of Technology
D4
Probing Strong-Field Gravity with Observations of the Galactic Center Black Hole
Room: Thurgood Marshall North
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Scott Hughes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
D5
Nonproliferation
Room: Thurgood Marshall West
Sponsor:
FPS
Chair: Lawrence Krauss, Arizona State University
D6
Particle Beams and Accelerators in Energy Research and Applications
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
DPB GERA
Chair: Jill Dahlburg, Naval Research Laboratory
D7
Soft and Hard Interactions at RHIC
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Nathan Grau, Columbia University
D8
Mini-Symposium on Physics with an Electron-Nucleus Collider
Room: Delaware B
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Ronald Gilman, Rutgers University
D9
Physics Research at the LHC
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Ayana Arce, Duke University
D10
Precision Measurements on Atomic and Subatomic Systems
Room: Maryland B
Sponsor:
GPMFC
Chair: Jeff Nico, National Institute of Standards & Technology
D11
SPS Undergraduate Research II
Room: Maryland C
Chair: Ann Viano, Rhodes College
D12
Rare B Decays, B-Baryon
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Douglas Roberts, University of Maryland
D13
Ground-based and Space-based Instruments and Techniques
Room: Washington 6
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Eric Grove, Naval Research Laboratory
D14
Modeling Black Hole Binaries
Room: Washington 4
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Bernard Kelly, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Feb 13 2010 4:00PM, Saturday
E1
The Kavli Foundation Joint Plenary Session: Re-Energizing America's Focus in STEM Education
Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 1-2
Sponsor:
APS/AAPT NSBP NSHP
Chair: Alex Dickison, AAPT President and Seminole State College of Florida
Feb 13 2010 6:15PM, Saturday
F1
Town Hall: What Can Physicists Do to Help Solve the Energy-Climate Problem?
Room: Thurgood Marshall South
Feb 14 2010 8:30AM, Sunday
G1
Testing the Standard Model
Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 2
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Chris Quigg, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
G2
Nuclear Modifications of Structure Functions
Room: Thurgood Marshall East
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Misak Sargsian, Florida International University
G3
Extragalactic Gamma-Ray Sources
Room: Thurgood Marshall South
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Brenda Dingus, Los Alamos National Laboratory
G4
Numerical Relativity and Astrophysics
Room: Thurgood Marshall North
Sponsor:
GGR DCOMP
Chair: Steven Detwiler, University of Florida
G5
Recent Developments in Nuclear Physics
Room: Thurgood Marshall West
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Richard Casten, Yale University
G6
Panel Discussion: Benefits of Undergraduate Research Experiences
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
FEd AAPT
Chair: Catherine Mader, Hope College
G7
Instrumentation for Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: J.H. Lee, Brookhaven National Laboratory
G8
Electroweak Interactions I
Room: Delaware B
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: W.M. Snow, Indiana University
G9
Dark Matter II
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Carter Hall, University of Maryland
G10
Energy Research & Applications: from Processes to Promulgation
Room: Maryland B
Sponsor:
GERA
Chair: Jill Dahlburg, Naval Research Laboratory
G11
SPS Undergraduate Research III
Room: Maryland C
Chair: Kendra Rand, American Institute of Physics
G12
Neutrino Physics A
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Gregory Pawloski, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
G13
Astrophysical Searches for Dark Matter and New Physics
Room: Washington 6
Sponsor:
DAP DPF
Chair: Simona Murgia, SLAC KIPAC
G14
Interpretation of Gravitational Wave Forms from Compact Binaries
Room: Washington 4
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Alessandra Buonanno, University of Maryland
Feb 14 2010 10:45AM, Sunday
H1
Panofsky, Bouchet and Wilson Prizes
Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 2
Sponsor:
DPF DPB
Chair: Boris Kayser, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
H2
New Directions in Hadron Dynamics
Room: Thurgood Marshall East
Sponsor:
GHP
Chair: Les Bland, Brookhaven National Laboratory
H3
Magnetoplasmas in Astrophysical Jets, Lobes, and in the Laboratory
Room: Thurgood Marshall South
Sponsor:
DAP GPAP
Chair: Philipp Kronberg, Los Alamos National Laboratory
H4
Plans for Future High Energy Accelerators and Outlook on Advanced Concepts
Room: Thurgood Marshall North
Sponsor:
DPB DPF
Chair: Swapan Chattopadyay, Cockcroft Institute
H5
Physicists Inside the Beltway
Room: Thurgood Marshall West
Sponsor:
FPS AAPT
Chair: Charles Ferguson, Council on Foreign Relations
H6
Universality in Few-Fermion Systems
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
GFB DNP
Chair: Daniel Phillips, Ohio University
H7
Nuclear Astrophysics
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Kate Jones, University of Tennessee
H8
Electroweak Interactions II
Room: Delaware B
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Geoff Greene, University of Tennessee
H9
Electroweak Physics at the Energy Frontier
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Chip Brock, Michigan State University
H10
History of Physics Contributed Papers
Room: Maryland B
Sponsor:
FHP
Chair: David Cassidy, Hofstra University
H11
Physics Education Research
Room: Maryland C
Sponsor:
FEd
Chair: Samuel Lightner, Westminster College
H12
Neutrino Physics B
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Erik Blaufuss, University of Maryland
H13
High Energy Neutrino Detection and Properties
Room: Washington 6
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Kara Hoffman, University of Maryland
H14
Black Holes
Room: Washington 4
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Clifford Will, Washington University in St. Louis
Feb 14 2010 1:30PM, Sunday
J1
Remembering Enrico Fermi
Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 1-2
Sponsor:
FHP AAPT
Chair: James Cronin, University of Chicago
J2
The State of Theory
Room: Thurgood Marshall East
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Joanne Hewett, Stanfor Linear Accelerator Center
J5
Exploring Symmetries in Nuclear Structure
Room: Thurgood Marshall West
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Richard Casten, Yale University
J6
Panel Discussion: Policy for Physics and Science in Developing Countries
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
FIP FGSA
Chair: Galileo Violini, Universita della Calabria, and Paul Gueye, Hampton University
Feb 14 2010 3:30PM, Sunday
K1
Towards the Proton Intensity Frontier
Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 2
Sponsor:
DPF DPB
Chair: Kevin Pitts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
K2
Jet Reconstruction in a High-Multiplicity Environment
Room: Thurgood Marshall East
Sponsor:
DNP DPF
Chair: Saskia Mioduszewski, Texas A&M University
K3
Nucleosynthesis in Stellar Explosions
Room: Thurgood Marshall South
Sponsor:
DNP DAP
Chair: Christian Iliadis, University of North Carolina
K4
Earth, Sky and Moon: Gravity Tests Across 13 Orders of Magnitude
Room: Thurgood Marshall North
Sponsor:
GGR GPMFC
Chair: John Gillaspy, National Institute of Standards and Technology
K5
Pais Prize and Tate Medal
Room: Thurgood Marshall West
Sponsor:
APS AIP
Chair: Fred Dylla, American Institute of Physics
K6
Energy Research and Applications: Sustainability and the Environment
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
GERA
Chair: Claudio Pellegrini, University of California, Los Angeles
K7
Mini-Symposium on Electromagnetic Reactions Involving Light Nuclei II
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
DNP GFB
Chair: Ronald Gilman, Rutgers University
K8
Hadronic Physics I
Room: Delaware B
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Barry Berman, George Washington University
K9
Top Quark Physics I
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Cecilia Gerber, University of Illinois at Chicago
K10
Computational Physics
Room: Maryland B
Sponsor:
DCOMP
Chair: Jan Tobochnik, Kalamazoo College
K11
SPS Undergraduate Research IV
Room: Maryland C
Chair: Thomas Olsen, American Institute of Physics
K12
Higgs Searches I
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Al Goshaw, Duke University
K13
High Energy Gamma Rays from GRB and Gravitational Wave Detection
Room: Washington 6
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Jonathan Granot, Stanfor Linear Accelerator Center
K14
Approximations in General Relativity
Room: Washington 4
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Steven Detweiler, University of Florida
Feb 14 2010 5:30PM, Sunday
L1
APS Past President's Address and Prizes and Awards Ceremonial Session
Chair: Curtis Callan, APS President and Princeton University
Feb 14 2010 7:00PM, Sunday
M1
Welcome Reception and Poster Session II: (7:00-9:00 PM)
Room: Exhibit Hall A-B-C
Feb 15 2010 8:30AM, Monday
N1
Plenary Session II
Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 1-2
Chair: Barry Barish, APS President-Elect and California Institute of Technology
Feb 15 2010 10:45AM, Monday
P1
Sakurai Prize
Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 2
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: R. Sekhar Chivukula, Michigan State University
P2
Neutrinos - Mixing Angles
Room: Thurgood Marshall East
Sponsor:
DNP DPF
Chair: Boris Kayser, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
P3
QCD Structure of the Nucleon
Room: Thurgood Marshall South
Sponsor:
GHP
Chair: Ronald Gilman, Rutgers University
P4
Cross-fertilization Between Astrophysics and Laboratory Magnetized Plasma Physics
Room: Thurgood Marshall North
Sponsor:
DPP GPAP
Chair: Vyacheslav Lukin, Naval Research Laboratory
P5
Energy Education
Room: Thurgood Marshall West
Sponsor:
FPS FEd AAPT
Chair: Charles Ferguson, Federation of American Scientists
P6
Developing Exemplary Undergraduate Physics Programs: The SPIN-UP Regional Workshops
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
FEd AAPT
Chair: Ruth Howes, Ball State University
P7
Mini-Symposium: Electromagnetic Radiation from Quark-Gluon Plasma
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Charles Gale, McGill University
P8
Hadronic Physics II
Room: Delaware B
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Volker Burkert, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
P9
Higgs Searches II
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Rob Roser, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
P10
Dark Matter III
Room: Maryland B
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Dan Akerib, Case Western Reserve University
P11
Electromagnetic Interactions
Room: Maryland C
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Douglas Higinbotham, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
P12
Instrumentation for Particle Physics II
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Kevin Pitts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
P13
UHECR Detection and Results
Room: Washington 6
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Jordan Goodman, University of Maryland
P14
Numerical Simulations of Black Holes and Neutron Stars
Room: Washington 4
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Roland Haas, Georgia Institute of Technology
Feb 15 2010 12:00PM, Monday
P15
DPB Business Meeting
Room: Wilson B
Sponsor:
DPB
Feb 15 2010 1:30PM, Monday
Q1
Dark Matter in the Universe
Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 2
Sponsor:
DAP DPF
Chair: Craig Hogan, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory/University of Chicago
Q2
Fundamental Symmetries (in Few-Body Systems)
Room: Thurgood Marshall East
Sponsor:
DNP GFB
Chair: Allena Opper, The George Washington University
Q3
Keys to Success in Global Collaborative Physics Projects
Room: Thurgood Marshall South
Sponsor:
FIP DPF
Chair: Harvey Newman, California Institute of Technology
Q4
Ground-based Interferometers on the Road to Gravitational Wave Astrophysics
Room: Thurgood Marshall North
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Laura Cadonati, University of Massachusetts
Q5
Origins of Research and Teaching at Selected Physics Departments
Room: Thurgood Marshall West
Sponsor:
FHP FEd AAPT
Chair: James Stith, American Institute of Physics
Q6
Perspectives of Women Physicists As Seen From Academia, National Laboratories, and Industry
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
COM/CSWP FGSA/AAPT
Chair: Kawtar Hafidi, Argonne National Laboratory
Q7
Mini-Symposium: Exotic Phenomena in High Energy Nuclear Collisions
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Dmitri Kharzeev, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Q8
The Nucleus as a Theorists' Laboratory
Room: Delaware B
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Dean Halderson, Western Michigan University
Q9
Higgs Searches III
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Ritchie Patterson, Cornell University
Q10
Plasma Physics
Room: Maryland B
Sponsor:
DPP
Chair: James Drake, University of Maryland
Q11
Gravitational Waves from Neutron Stars
Room: Maryland C
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Lee Lindblom, California Institute of Technology
Q12
Neutrino Physics C
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Karsten Heeger, University of Wisconsin
Q13
Very High Energy Gamma Ray Detection and Cosmic Ray Propagation
Room: Washington 6
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: elizabeth Hays, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Q14
Quantum Aspects of Gravitation
Room: Washington 4
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Jorge Pullin, Louisiana State University
Feb 15 2010 2:00PM, Monday
R1
Poster Session III: (2:00 - 5:00 PM)
Room: Exhibit Hall A-B
Feb 15 2010 2:30PM, Monday
Q15
Editorial Question and Answer Session
Room: Wilson A
Feb 15 2010 3:30PM, Monday
S1
Dark Matter in the Laboratory
Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 2
Sponsor:
DPF DAP
Chair: David Saltzberg, University of California, Los Angeles
S2
Fusion, Fission and Super Heavy Element Production
Room: Thurgood Marshall East
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Daniel Shapira, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
S3
Probing Galactic Astrophysics with Supernova Remnants
Room: Thurgood Marshall South
Sponsor:
DAP GPAP
Chair: Patrick Slane, Harvard?Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
S4
Gravity in Extreme Conditions
Room: Thurgood Marshall North
Sponsor:
DCOMP GGR
Chair: Luis Lehner, Louisiana State University
S5
Sakharov Prize
Room: Thurgood Marshall West
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Robert Cahn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
S6
2010 Excellence In Physics Education Award Presentations
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
FEd
Chair: Richard Peterson, Bethel University
S7
Mini-Symposium on Electromagnetic Reactions Involving Light Nuclei III
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
DNP GFB
Chair: Mohammad Waseem Ahmed, Duke University
S8
Hadronic Physics III
Room: Delaware B
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: M.J. Tannenbaum, Brookhaven National Laboratory
S9
Single Top and Theory
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Pierre Raymond, University of Florida
S10
Equivalence Principle and Precision Gravity Tests
Room: Maryland B
Sponsor:
GGR GPMFC
Chair: Stephan Schlamminger, University of Washington
S11
Mini-Symposium: Recent Results from RHIC I: Heavy Flavor
Room: Maryland C
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Huan Huang, University of California, Los Angeles
S12
QCD Probes
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Dmitri Denisov, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
S13
UHECR Detection Techniques and Prospects
Room: Washington 6
Sponsor:
DAP
S14
Advances in Ground-based Gravitational Wave Detection
Room: Washington 4
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Peter Shawhan, University of Maryland
S15
Physics Outreach
Room: Harding
Sponsor:
FEd
Chair: Peggy Norris, Sanford Underground Laboratory at Homestake
Feb 15 2010 5:30PM, Monday
T6
FEd Business Meeting
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
FEd
T7
DNP Business Meeting
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
DNP
T8
FPS Business Meeting
Room: Delaware B
Sponsor:
FPS
T11
FHP Business Meeting
Room: Maryland C
Sponsor:
FHP
T12
DPF Business Meeting
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DPF
T13
DAP Business Meeting
Room: Washington 6
Sponsor:
DAP
T14
GGR Busines Meeting
Room: Washington 4
Sponsor:
GGR
Feb 16 2010 8:30AM, Tuesday
V1
Plenary Session III
Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 1-2
Chair: Michael Turner, University of Chicago
Feb 16 2010 10:30AM, Tuesday
W1
Poster Session IV: Post-Deadline Abstracts (10:30AM-1:30PM)
Room: Exhibit Hall A-B
Feb 16 2010 10:45AM, Tuesday
X1
The State of Heavy Flavor
Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 2
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Ritchie Patterson, Cornell University
X2
Strategies for Improving Climate and Diversity in Physics Departments
Room: Thurgood Marshall East
Sponsor:
CSWP FEd AAPT
Chair: Kawtar Hafidi, Argonne National Laboratory
X3
The Nature of the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays
Room: Thurgood Marshall South
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Corbin Cavault, Case Western Reserve University
X4
The Laser: Historical Perspectives and Impact on Precision Measurements
Room: Thurgood Marshall North
Sponsor:
FHP GPMFC
Chair: Daniel Kleppner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
X5
Burton Forum Award
Room: Thurgood Marshall West
Sponsor:
FPS
Chair: Charles Ferguson, Council on Foreign Relations
X6
New and Upgraded Accelerators for Nuclear Physics
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
DPB
Chair: Christoph Leemann, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
X7
Few-Body Theory
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
GFB DNP
Chair: Ionel Stetcu, University of Washington
X8
Hadronic Physics IV
Room: Delaware B
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Liguang Tang, Hampton University/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
X9
Instrumentation for Particle Physics III
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Bruce Barnett, Johns Hopkins University
X10
RHIC Heavy Ion Physics
Room: Maryland B
Chair: Anne Sickles, Brookhaven National Laboratory
X11
Mini-Symposium: Recent Results from RHIC II
Room: Maryland C
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Matthias Grosse Perdekamp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
X12
Searches for New Physics using Photonic Final States
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Todd Adams, Florida State University
X13
Plasma Astrophysics near Black Holes, Pulsars and Supernova Remnants
Room: Washington 6
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Kent Wood, Naval Research Laboratory
X14
Foundational Aspects of General Relativity
Room: Washington 4
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Steven Detweiler, University of Florida
Feb 16 2010 1:30PM, Tuesday
Y1
Neutrino Astrophysics
Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 2
Sponsor:
DPF DAP
Chair: Kara Hoffman, University of Maryland
Y2
An Introduction to the New Nuclear Physics
Room: Thurgood Marshall East
Sponsor:
DNP AAPT
Chair: Howard Matis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Y3
Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization
Room: Thurgood Marshall South
Chair: Clem Pryke, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, The University of Chicago
Y4
Panel Discussion: What Can We Learn from Physics Teachers in High Scoring Countries on the TIMSS and PISA International Assessments?
Room: Thurgood Marshall North
Sponsor:
FIP FEd AAPT
Chair: Cherrill Spencer, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Y5
Thesis Awards: DPF, DPB, DNP
Room: Thurgood Marshall West
Sponsor:
DPF DPB DNP
Chair: Stanley Wojcicki, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Y6
Instrumentation for Nuclear Physics
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: J.P. Schiffer, Argonne National Laboratory
Y7
Mini-Symposium on Nuclear Masses in Astrophysics
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Art Champagne, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Y8
Novel Approaches in Nuclear Theory
Room: Delaware B
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: James Vary, Iowa State University
Y9
Top Quark Physics II
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Nick Hadley, University of Maryland
Y10
Nuclear Instrumentation
Room: Maryland B
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: E. Beise, University of Maryland
Y11
Particle Production in d-Au Collisions
Room: Maryland C
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: C.L. da Silva, Iowa State University
Y12
Searches for New Physics
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Sarah Eno, University of Maryland
Y13
Applications of Nuclear Physics and Beams
Room: Washington 6
Sponsor:
DNP DPB
Chair: L. Waters, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Y14
Properties of Bulk Matter at RHIC
Room: Washington 4
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Derek Teaney, SUNY Stony Brook
Feb 16 2010 3:30PM, Tuesday
Z11
Approaches to Mentorship, Collaboration and Education
Room: Maryland C
Sponsor:
FEd AAPT
Chair: Yuhfen Lin
Feb 13 2010 8:30AM, Saturday
A1
The Energy Frontier at the LHC
Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 2
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Patricia McBride, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
A2
Flavor Decomposition of the Parton Distribution Functions
Room: Thurgood Marshall East
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Rolf Ent, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
A3
Pulsars in the Fermi Era
Room: Thurgood Marshall South
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Maxim Lyutikov, Purdue University
A4
Quantum Black Holes: Theory and Applications
Room: Thurgood Marshall North
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Theodore Jacobson, University of Maryland
A5
Art and Physics
Room: Thurgood Marshall West
Sponsor:
FPS AAPT
Chair: Charles Ferguson, Council on Foreign Relations
A6
New Directions in Plasma Science and Fusion
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
DPP/GPAP NSBP/NSHP
Chair: Steven Allen, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
A7
Mini-Symposium on Electromagnetic Reactions Involving Light Nuclei I
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
DNP GFB
Chair: Harald W. Griesshammer, The George Washington University
A8
Neutrino Physics I
Room: Delaware B
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Martin Cooper, Los Alamos National Laboratory
A9
Charm Physics
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Wendy Taylor, York University
A10
Dark Matter I
Room: Maryland B
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Angela Reisetter, University of Minnesota
A11
Lorentz Symmetry in Gravitation; followed by LISA Developments
Room: Maryland C
Sponsor:
GGR GPMFC
Chair: Michael Seifert, Indiana University, and Guido Mueller, University of Florida
A12
Jets
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Ben Kilminster, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
A13
Cosmological Tests of General Relativity and Supersymmetry
Room: Washington 6
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Will Kinney, University at Buffalo
A14
Gravitational Collapse and Numerical Relativity
Room: Washington 4
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: John Baker, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Feb 13 2010 10:45AM, Saturday
B1
Beyond the Standard Model: Searches for New Physics
Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 2
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Jacobo Konigsberg, University of Florida
B2
String Theory and Nuclear Collisions
Room: Thurgood Marshall East
Sponsor:
DNP DPF
Chair: William Zajc, Columbia University
B3
International Planning for Astroparticle Physics
Room: Thurgood Marshall South
Sponsor:
DAP DPF
Chair: Michael Turner, University of Chicago
B4
Panel Discussion: Physics in Africa
Room: Thurgood Marshall North
Sponsor:
FIP
Chair: David Ernst, Vanderbilt University
B5
Secrecy and Physics
Room: Thurgood Marshall West
Sponsor:
FHP FPS AAPT
Chair: Peter Galison, Harvard University
B6
Taxonomies as Tools for Enhancing Physics Learning
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
FEd DNP AAPT
Chair: Gerald Feldman, The George Washington University
B7
Nuclear Structure and Reactions
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Bill Walters, University of Maryland
B8
Neutrino Physics II
Room: Delaware B
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Vincente Guiseppe, University of South Dakota
B9
Instrumentation for Particle Physics I
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Alice Bean, University of Kansas
B10
Sub-Nucleonic Degrees of Freedom
Room: Maryland B
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Christian Weiss, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
B11
SPS Undergraduate Research I
Room: Maryland C
Chair: Gary White, American Institute of Physics
B12
Heavy Flavor CP
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: David Brown, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
B13
Observational Implications of Gravitational Waves
Room: Washington 6
Sponsor:
DAP GGR
Chair: John Baker, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
B14
Dynamics of Black Holes
Room: Washington 4
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: John Friedman, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Feb 13 2010 1:00PM, Saturday
C1
Poster Session I: (1:00 - 4:00 PM)
Room: Exhibit Hall A-B
Feb 13 2010 1:30PM, Saturday
D1
Inflation
Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 2
Sponsor:
DAP DPF
Chair: Michael Turner, University of Chicago
D2
Bethe and Bonner Prizes
Room: Thurgood Marshall East
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Lawrence Cardman, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
D3
Mentoring Perspectives of Mentor and Mentee
Room: Thurgood Marshall South
Sponsor:
COM/CSWP FGSA/AAPT
Chair: Pablo Laguna, Georgia Institute of Technology
D4
Probing Strong-Field Gravity with Observations of the Galactic Center Black Hole
Room: Thurgood Marshall North
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Scott Hughes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
D5
Nonproliferation
Room: Thurgood Marshall West
Sponsor:
FPS
Chair: Lawrence Krauss, Arizona State University
D6
Particle Beams and Accelerators in Energy Research and Applications
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
DPB GERA
Chair: Jill Dahlburg, Naval Research Laboratory
D7
Soft and Hard Interactions at RHIC
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Nathan Grau, Columbia University
D8
Mini-Symposium on Physics with an Electron-Nucleus Collider
Room: Delaware B
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Ronald Gilman, Rutgers University
D9
Physics Research at the LHC
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Ayana Arce, Duke University
D10
Precision Measurements on Atomic and Subatomic Systems
Room: Maryland B
Sponsor:
GPMFC
Chair: Jeff Nico, National Institute of Standards & Technology
D11
SPS Undergraduate Research II
Room: Maryland C
Chair: Ann Viano, Rhodes College
D12
Rare B Decays, B-Baryon
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Douglas Roberts, University of Maryland
D13
Ground-based and Space-based Instruments and Techniques
Room: Washington 6
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Eric Grove, Naval Research Laboratory
D14
Modeling Black Hole Binaries
Room: Washington 4
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Bernard Kelly, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Feb 13 2010 4:00PM, Saturday
E1
The Kavli Foundation Joint Plenary Session: Re-Energizing America's Focus in STEM Education
Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 1-2
Sponsor:
APS/AAPT NSBP NSHP
Chair: Alex Dickison, AAPT President and Seminole State College of Florida
Feb 13 2010 6:15PM, Saturday
F1
Town Hall: What Can Physicists Do to Help Solve the Energy-Climate Problem?
Room: Thurgood Marshall South
Feb 14 2010 8:30AM, Sunday
G1
Testing the Standard Model
Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 2
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Chris Quigg, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
G2
Nuclear Modifications of Structure Functions
Room: Thurgood Marshall East
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Misak Sargsian, Florida International University
G3
Extragalactic Gamma-Ray Sources
Room: Thurgood Marshall South
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Brenda Dingus, Los Alamos National Laboratory
G4
Numerical Relativity and Astrophysics
Room: Thurgood Marshall North
Sponsor:
GGR DCOMP
Chair: Steven Detwiler, University of Florida
G5
Recent Developments in Nuclear Physics
Room: Thurgood Marshall West
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Richard Casten, Yale University
G6
Panel Discussion: Benefits of Undergraduate Research Experiences
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
FEd AAPT
Chair: Catherine Mader, Hope College
G7
Instrumentation for Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: J.H. Lee, Brookhaven National Laboratory
G8
Electroweak Interactions I
Room: Delaware B
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: W.M. Snow, Indiana University
G9
Dark Matter II
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Carter Hall, University of Maryland
G10
Energy Research & Applications: from Processes to Promulgation
Room: Maryland B
Sponsor:
GERA
Chair: Jill Dahlburg, Naval Research Laboratory
G11
SPS Undergraduate Research III
Room: Maryland C
Chair: Kendra Rand, American Institute of Physics
G12
Neutrino Physics A
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Gregory Pawloski, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
G13
Astrophysical Searches for Dark Matter and New Physics
Room: Washington 6
Sponsor:
DAP DPF
Chair: Simona Murgia, SLAC KIPAC
G14
Interpretation of Gravitational Wave Forms from Compact Binaries
Room: Washington 4
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Alessandra Buonanno, University of Maryland
Feb 14 2010 10:45AM, Sunday
H1
Panofsky, Bouchet and Wilson Prizes
Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 2
Sponsor:
DPF DPB
Chair: Boris Kayser, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
H2
New Directions in Hadron Dynamics
Room: Thurgood Marshall East
Sponsor:
GHP
Chair: Les Bland, Brookhaven National Laboratory
H3
Magnetoplasmas in Astrophysical Jets, Lobes, and in the Laboratory
Room: Thurgood Marshall South
Sponsor:
DAP GPAP
Chair: Philipp Kronberg, Los Alamos National Laboratory
H4
Plans for Future High Energy Accelerators and Outlook on Advanced Concepts
Room: Thurgood Marshall North
Sponsor:
DPB DPF
Chair: Swapan Chattopadyay, Cockcroft Institute
H5
Physicists Inside the Beltway
Room: Thurgood Marshall West
Sponsor:
FPS AAPT
Chair: Charles Ferguson, Council on Foreign Relations
H6
Universality in Few-Fermion Systems
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
GFB DNP
Chair: Daniel Phillips, Ohio University
H7
Nuclear Astrophysics
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Kate Jones, University of Tennessee
H8
Electroweak Interactions II
Room: Delaware B
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Geoff Greene, University of Tennessee
H9
Electroweak Physics at the Energy Frontier
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Chip Brock, Michigan State University
H10
History of Physics Contributed Papers
Room: Maryland B
Sponsor:
FHP
Chair: David Cassidy, Hofstra University
H11
Physics Education Research
Room: Maryland C
Sponsor:
FEd
Chair: Samuel Lightner, Westminster College
H12
Neutrino Physics B
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Erik Blaufuss, University of Maryland
H13
High Energy Neutrino Detection and Properties
Room: Washington 6
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Kara Hoffman, University of Maryland
H14
Black Holes
Room: Washington 4
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Clifford Will, Washington University in St. Louis
Feb 14 2010 1:30PM, Sunday
J1
Remembering Enrico Fermi
Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 1-2
Sponsor:
FHP AAPT
Chair: James Cronin, University of Chicago
J2
The State of Theory
Room: Thurgood Marshall East
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Joanne Hewett, Stanfor Linear Accelerator Center
J5
Exploring Symmetries in Nuclear Structure
Room: Thurgood Marshall West
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Richard Casten, Yale University
J6
Panel Discussion: Policy for Physics and Science in Developing Countries
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
FIP FGSA
Chair: Galileo Violini, Universita della Calabria, and Paul Gueye, Hampton University
Feb 14 2010 3:30PM, Sunday
K1
Towards the Proton Intensity Frontier
Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 2
Sponsor:
DPF DPB
Chair: Kevin Pitts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
K2
Jet Reconstruction in a High-Multiplicity Environment
Room: Thurgood Marshall East
Sponsor:
DNP DPF
Chair: Saskia Mioduszewski, Texas A&M University
K3
Nucleosynthesis in Stellar Explosions
Room: Thurgood Marshall South
Sponsor:
DNP DAP
Chair: Christian Iliadis, University of North Carolina
K4
Earth, Sky and Moon: Gravity Tests Across 13 Orders of Magnitude
Room: Thurgood Marshall North
Sponsor:
GGR GPMFC
Chair: John Gillaspy, National Institute of Standards and Technology
K5
Pais Prize and Tate Medal
Room: Thurgood Marshall West
Sponsor:
APS AIP
Chair: Fred Dylla, American Institute of Physics
K6
Energy Research and Applications: Sustainability and the Environment
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
GERA
Chair: Claudio Pellegrini, University of California, Los Angeles
K7
Mini-Symposium on Electromagnetic Reactions Involving Light Nuclei II
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
DNP GFB
Chair: Ronald Gilman, Rutgers University
K8
Hadronic Physics I
Room: Delaware B
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Barry Berman, George Washington University
K9
Top Quark Physics I
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Cecilia Gerber, University of Illinois at Chicago
K10
Computational Physics
Room: Maryland B
Sponsor:
DCOMP
Chair: Jan Tobochnik, Kalamazoo College
K11
SPS Undergraduate Research IV
Room: Maryland C
Chair: Thomas Olsen, American Institute of Physics
K12
Higgs Searches I
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Al Goshaw, Duke University
K13
High Energy Gamma Rays from GRB and Gravitational Wave Detection
Room: Washington 6
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Jonathan Granot, Stanfor Linear Accelerator Center
K14
Approximations in General Relativity
Room: Washington 4
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Steven Detweiler, University of Florida
Feb 14 2010 5:30PM, Sunday
L1
APS Past President's Address and Prizes and Awards Ceremonial Session
Chair: Curtis Callan, APS President and Princeton University
Feb 14 2010 7:00PM, Sunday
M1
Welcome Reception and Poster Session II: (7:00-9:00 PM)
Room: Exhibit Hall A-B-C
Feb 15 2010 8:30AM, Monday
N1
Plenary Session II
Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 1-2
Chair: Barry Barish, APS President-Elect and California Institute of Technology
Feb 15 2010 10:45AM, Monday
P1
Sakurai Prize
Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 2
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: R. Sekhar Chivukula, Michigan State University
P2
Neutrinos - Mixing Angles
Room: Thurgood Marshall East
Sponsor:
DNP DPF
Chair: Boris Kayser, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
P3
QCD Structure of the Nucleon
Room: Thurgood Marshall South
Sponsor:
GHP
Chair: Ronald Gilman, Rutgers University
P4
Cross-fertilization Between Astrophysics and Laboratory Magnetized Plasma Physics
Room: Thurgood Marshall North
Sponsor:
DPP GPAP
Chair: Vyacheslav Lukin, Naval Research Laboratory
P5
Energy Education
Room: Thurgood Marshall West
Sponsor:
FPS FEd AAPT
Chair: Charles Ferguson, Federation of American Scientists
P6
Developing Exemplary Undergraduate Physics Programs: The SPIN-UP Regional Workshops
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
FEd AAPT
Chair: Ruth Howes, Ball State University
P7
Mini-Symposium: Electromagnetic Radiation from Quark-Gluon Plasma
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Charles Gale, McGill University
P8
Hadronic Physics II
Room: Delaware B
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Volker Burkert, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
P9
Higgs Searches II
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Rob Roser, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
P10
Dark Matter III
Room: Maryland B
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Dan Akerib, Case Western Reserve University
P11
Electromagnetic Interactions
Room: Maryland C
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Douglas Higinbotham, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
P12
Instrumentation for Particle Physics II
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Kevin Pitts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
P13
UHECR Detection and Results
Room: Washington 6
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Jordan Goodman, University of Maryland
P14
Numerical Simulations of Black Holes and Neutron Stars
Room: Washington 4
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Roland Haas, Georgia Institute of Technology
Feb 15 2010 12:00PM, Monday
P15
DPB Business Meeting
Room: Wilson B
Sponsor:
DPB
Feb 15 2010 1:30PM, Monday
Q1
Dark Matter in the Universe
Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 2
Sponsor:
DAP DPF
Chair: Craig Hogan, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory/University of Chicago
Q2
Fundamental Symmetries (in Few-Body Systems)
Room: Thurgood Marshall East
Sponsor:
DNP GFB
Chair: Allena Opper, The George Washington University
Q3
Keys to Success in Global Collaborative Physics Projects
Room: Thurgood Marshall South
Sponsor:
FIP DPF
Chair: Harvey Newman, California Institute of Technology
Q4
Ground-based Interferometers on the Road to Gravitational Wave Astrophysics
Room: Thurgood Marshall North
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Laura Cadonati, University of Massachusetts
Q5
Origins of Research and Teaching at Selected Physics Departments
Room: Thurgood Marshall West
Sponsor:
FHP FEd AAPT
Chair: James Stith, American Institute of Physics
Q6
Perspectives of Women Physicists As Seen From Academia, National Laboratories, and Industry
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
COM/CSWP FGSA/AAPT
Chair: Kawtar Hafidi, Argonne National Laboratory
Q7
Mini-Symposium: Exotic Phenomena in High Energy Nuclear Collisions
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Dmitri Kharzeev, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Q8
The Nucleus as a Theorists' Laboratory
Room: Delaware B
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Dean Halderson, Western Michigan University
Q9
Higgs Searches III
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Ritchie Patterson, Cornell University
Q10
Plasma Physics
Room: Maryland B
Sponsor:
DPP
Chair: James Drake, University of Maryland
Q11
Gravitational Waves from Neutron Stars
Room: Maryland C
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Lee Lindblom, California Institute of Technology
Q12
Neutrino Physics C
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Karsten Heeger, University of Wisconsin
Q13
Very High Energy Gamma Ray Detection and Cosmic Ray Propagation
Room: Washington 6
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: elizabeth Hays, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Q14
Quantum Aspects of Gravitation
Room: Washington 4
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Jorge Pullin, Louisiana State University
Feb 15 2010 2:00PM, Monday
R1
Poster Session III: (2:00 - 5:00 PM)
Room: Exhibit Hall A-B
Feb 15 2010 2:30PM, Monday
Q15
Editorial Question and Answer Session
Room: Wilson A
Feb 15 2010 3:30PM, Monday
S1
Dark Matter in the Laboratory
Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 2
Sponsor:
DPF DAP
Chair: David Saltzberg, University of California, Los Angeles
S2
Fusion, Fission and Super Heavy Element Production
Room: Thurgood Marshall East
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Daniel Shapira, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
S3
Probing Galactic Astrophysics with Supernova Remnants
Room: Thurgood Marshall South
Sponsor:
DAP GPAP
Chair: Patrick Slane, Harvard?Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
S4
Gravity in Extreme Conditions
Room: Thurgood Marshall North
Sponsor:
DCOMP GGR
Chair: Luis Lehner, Louisiana State University
S5
Sakharov Prize
Room: Thurgood Marshall West
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Robert Cahn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
S6
2010 Excellence In Physics Education Award Presentations
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
FEd
Chair: Richard Peterson, Bethel University
S7
Mini-Symposium on Electromagnetic Reactions Involving Light Nuclei III
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
DNP GFB
Chair: Mohammad Waseem Ahmed, Duke University
S8
Hadronic Physics III
Room: Delaware B
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: M.J. Tannenbaum, Brookhaven National Laboratory
S9
Single Top and Theory
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Pierre Raymond, University of Florida
S10
Equivalence Principle and Precision Gravity Tests
Room: Maryland B
Sponsor:
GGR GPMFC
Chair: Stephan Schlamminger, University of Washington
S11
Mini-Symposium: Recent Results from RHIC I: Heavy Flavor
Room: Maryland C
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Huan Huang, University of California, Los Angeles
S12
QCD Probes
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Dmitri Denisov, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
S13
UHECR Detection Techniques and Prospects
Room: Washington 6
Sponsor:
DAP
S14
Advances in Ground-based Gravitational Wave Detection
Room: Washington 4
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Peter Shawhan, University of Maryland
S15
Physics Outreach
Room: Harding
Sponsor:
FEd
Chair: Peggy Norris, Sanford Underground Laboratory at Homestake
Feb 15 2010 5:30PM, Monday
T6
FEd Business Meeting
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
FEd
T7
DNP Business Meeting
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
DNP
T8
FPS Business Meeting
Room: Delaware B
Sponsor:
FPS
T11
FHP Business Meeting
Room: Maryland C
Sponsor:
FHP
T12
DPF Business Meeting
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DPF
T13
DAP Business Meeting
Room: Washington 6
Sponsor:
DAP
T14
GGR Busines Meeting
Room: Washington 4
Sponsor:
GGR
Feb 16 2010 8:30AM, Tuesday
V1
Plenary Session III
Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 1-2
Chair: Michael Turner, University of Chicago
Feb 16 2010 10:30AM, Tuesday
W1
Poster Session IV: Post-Deadline Abstracts (10:30AM-1:30PM)
Room: Exhibit Hall A-B
Feb 16 2010 10:45AM, Tuesday
X1
The State of Heavy Flavor
Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 2
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Ritchie Patterson, Cornell University
X2
Strategies for Improving Climate and Diversity in Physics Departments
Room: Thurgood Marshall East
Sponsor:
CSWP FEd AAPT
Chair: Kawtar Hafidi, Argonne National Laboratory
X3
The Nature of the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays
Room: Thurgood Marshall South
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Corbin Cavault, Case Western Reserve University
X4
The Laser: Historical Perspectives and Impact on Precision Measurements
Room: Thurgood Marshall North
Sponsor:
FHP GPMFC
Chair: Daniel Kleppner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
X5
Burton Forum Award
Room: Thurgood Marshall West
Sponsor:
FPS
Chair: Charles Ferguson, Council on Foreign Relations
X6
New and Upgraded Accelerators for Nuclear Physics
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
DPB
Chair: Christoph Leemann, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
X7
Few-Body Theory
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
GFB DNP
Chair: Ionel Stetcu, University of Washington
X8
Hadronic Physics IV
Room: Delaware B
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Liguang Tang, Hampton University/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
X9
Instrumentation for Particle Physics III
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Bruce Barnett, Johns Hopkins University
X10
RHIC Heavy Ion Physics
Room: Maryland B
Chair: Anne Sickles, Brookhaven National Laboratory
X11
Mini-Symposium: Recent Results from RHIC II
Room: Maryland C
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Matthias Grosse Perdekamp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
X12
Searches for New Physics using Photonic Final States
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Todd Adams, Florida State University
X13
Plasma Astrophysics near Black Holes, Pulsars and Supernova Remnants
Room: Washington 6
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Kent Wood, Naval Research Laboratory
X14
Foundational Aspects of General Relativity
Room: Washington 4
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Steven Detweiler, University of Florida
Feb 16 2010 1:30PM, Tuesday
Y1
Neutrino Astrophysics
Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 2
Sponsor:
DPF DAP
Chair: Kara Hoffman, University of Maryland
Y2
An Introduction to the New Nuclear Physics
Room: Thurgood Marshall East
Sponsor:
DNP AAPT
Chair: Howard Matis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Y3
Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization
Room: Thurgood Marshall South
Chair: Clem Pryke, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, The University of Chicago
Y4
Panel Discussion: What Can We Learn from Physics Teachers in High Scoring Countries on the TIMSS and PISA International Assessments?
Room: Thurgood Marshall North
Sponsor:
FIP FEd AAPT
Chair: Cherrill Spencer, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Y5
Thesis Awards: DPF, DPB, DNP
Room: Thurgood Marshall West
Sponsor:
DPF DPB DNP
Chair: Stanley Wojcicki, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Y6
Instrumentation for Nuclear Physics
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: J.P. Schiffer, Argonne National Laboratory
Y7
Mini-Symposium on Nuclear Masses in Astrophysics
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Art Champagne, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Y8
Novel Approaches in Nuclear Theory
Room: Delaware B
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: James Vary, Iowa State University
Y9
Top Quark Physics II
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Nick Hadley, University of Maryland
Y10
Nuclear Instrumentation
Room: Maryland B
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: E. Beise, University of Maryland
Y11
Particle Production in d-Au Collisions
Room: Maryland C
Sponsor:
DNP
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Approaches to Mentorship, Collaboration and Education
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