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Session X1: The State of Heavy Flavor

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Ritchie Patterson, Cornell University
Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 2

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:45AM - 11:21AM		X1.00001: Heavy Flavor Physics - News from the Tevatron Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:21AM - 11:57AM		X1.00002: Status of LHCb Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:57AM - 12:33PM		X1.00003: The e+e- perspective on the state of heavy flavor physics Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session X2: Strategies for Improving Climate and Diversity in Physics Departments

Sponsoring Units: CSWP FEd AAPT
Chair: Kawtar Hafidi, Argonne National Laboratory
Room: Thurgood Marshall East

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:45AM - 11:21AM		X2.00001: Improving Climate and Gender Equity in Physics Departments Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:21AM - 11:57AM		X2.00002: Beyond Dialogue and Good Intention: Taking Action on Gender and Race in Physics Departments Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:57AM - 12:33PM		X2.00003: Faculty career flexibility: Why we need it and how best to achieve it Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session X3: The Nature of the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Corbin Cavault, Case Western Reserve University
Room: Thurgood Marshall South

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:45AM - 11:21AM		X3.00001: Observations of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays by the Pierre Auger Observatory Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:21AM - 11:57AM		X3.00002: Composition Studies of the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays with the High Resolution Fly's Eye Observatory Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:57AM - 12:33PM		X3.00003: Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Origin and Model Building in Light of new data Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session X4: The Laser: Historical Perspectives and Impact on Precision Measurements

Sponsoring Units: FHP GPMFC
Chair: Daniel Kleppner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room: Thurgood Marshall North

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:45AM - 11:21AM		X4.00001: First light : from the ruby laser to nonlinear optics Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:21AM - 11:57AM		X4.00002: Freedom from band-gap slavery: from diode lasers to quantum cascade lasers Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:57AM - 12:33PM		X4.00003: Developing Stabilized Lasers, Measuring their Frequencies, demoting the Metre, inventing the Comb, and further consequences Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session X5: Burton Forum Award

Sponsoring Units: FPS
Chair: Charles Ferguson, Council on Foreign Relations
Room: Thurgood Marshall West

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:45AM - 11:21AM		X5.00001: Joseph A. Burton Forum Award Talk: Science and Subversion -- Experiences from Pakistan Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:21AM - 11:57AM		X5.00002: Joseph A. Burton Forum Award Talk Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session X6: New and Upgraded Accelerators for Nuclear Physics

Sponsoring Units: DPB
Chair: Christoph Leemann, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Room: Washington 5

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:45AM - 11:21AM		X6.00001: Progress on the CEBAF 12 GeV Upgrade Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:21AM - 11:57AM		X6.00002: Status and Outlook for the RHIC Luminosity Upgrade Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:57AM - 12:33PM		X6.00003: Realization of FRIB at Michigan State University Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session X7: Few-Body Theory

Sponsoring Units: GFB DNP
Chair: Ionel Stetcu, University of Washington
Room: Delaware A

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:45AM - 10:57AM		X7.00001: Higher Fock-State Effect to the Bound-State in Light-Front Dynamics Yukihisa Tokunaga Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:57AM - 11:09AM		X7.00002: The Pseudospectral Method: A Numerically Exact Partial Differential Equation Solver Applied to the Two-Electron Atom Paul Grabowski, David Chernoff Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:09AM - 11:21AM		X7.00003: Parity-violating three-body forces in effective field theory Matthias R. Schindler Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:21AM - 11:33AM		X7.00004: Ab initio no core results for light nuclei with a Woods-Saxon basis Gianina Alina Negoita, James Vary, Peter Maris, Andrey Shirokov Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:33AM - 11:45AM		X7.00005: The Similarity Renormalization Group with Spurious Deep Bound States K.A. Wendt, R.J. Furnstahl, R.J. Perry Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:45AM - 11:57AM		X7.00006: Effective theory approach to few-fermion systems in a trap Jimmy Rotureau, Ionel Stetcu, Bruce Barrett, Mike Birse, Ubirajara Van Kolck Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:57AM - 12:09PM		X7.00007: Phase-fluctuating regime of a ring-shaped Bose-Einstein condensate Ludwig Mathey, Anand Ramanathan, Kevin Wright, William Phillips, Charles Clark Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 12:09PM - 12:21PM		X7.00008: Dissipative hydrodynamics (DHD) of rigid spherical particles Albert Kim, Yong Shi Preview Abstract

Session X8: Hadronic Physics IV

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Liguang Tang, Hampton University/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Room: Delaware B

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:45AM - 10:57AM		X8.00001: Branching Ration of the radiative decay of the Sigma+(1385) Dustin Keller Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:57AM - 11:09AM		X8.00002: Data Analysis Strategy for Spectroscopic investigation of Lambda hypernuclei in the wide mass region using the (e,e'K) reaction Zhihong Ye Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:09AM - 11:21AM		X8.00003: Overview for Spectroscopic estigation of Lambda hypernuclei in the wide mass region using the (e,e'K) reaction Chunhua Chen Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:21AM - 11:33AM		X8.00004: Coulomb Sum Rule at 0.55 GeV/$c$ $\leq \vec {\vert q \vert} \leq$ 1.0 GeV/$c$ Huan Yao Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:33AM - 11:45AM		X8.00005: Latest results from Jefferson Lab HKS experiment Lulin Yuan Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:45AM - 11:57AM		X8.00006: The $\pi^0$ Lifetime: Experimental Probe of the QCD Chiral Anomaly Dustin McNulty Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:57AM - 12:09PM		X8.00007: Partial decay widths of negative parity baryons in the 1/Nc expansion Chandana Jayalath, Jose Goity, Norberto Scoccola Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 12:09PM - 12:21PM		X8.00008: A Study of Boundary Conditions in Background Field Simulations in Lattice QCD Scott Moerschbacher, Frank Lee, Andrei Alexandru Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 12:21PM - 12:33PM		X8.00009: Magnetic Moments of Negative-Parity Baryons from Lattice QCD Frank Lee, Aryan Khojandi, Andrei Alexandru Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 12:33PM - 12:45PM		X8.00010: MathQCDSR: a Mathematica Package for QCD Sum Rules Calculations Lai Wang, Frank X. Lee Preview Abstract

Session X9: Instrumentation for Particle Physics III

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Bruce Barnett, Johns Hopkins University
Room: Maryland A

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:45AM - 10:57AM		X9.00001: Calibration of the CMS Hadronic Calorimeter with cosmic rays and early LHC beam data Steven Won Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:57AM - 11:09AM		X9.00002: CMS HF PMT Abnormal Event Simulation Anthony Moeller Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:09AM - 11:21AM		X9.00003: A Novel Method to Eliminate Muon Events on PMT Windows of CMS Hadronic Forward Calorimeter Ugur Akgun Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:21AM - 11:33AM		X9.00004: Study of CMS HF Candidate PMTs With Muons And \u{C}erenkov Light in Electron Showers Burak Bilki Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:33AM - 11:45AM		X9.00005: CMS Hadronic Endcap Calorimeter Upgrade Studies for SLHC ``P-Terphenyl Deposited Quartz Plate Calorimeter Prototype'' Warren Clarida Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:45AM - 11:57AM		X9.00006: CMS Hadronic Endcap Calorimeter Upgrade Studies for SLHC ``Quartz Plate Calorimeter with Wavelength Shifting Fibers" Ugur Akgun Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:57AM - 12:09PM		X9.00007: Stability in the response of HFPMT as a function of magnetic field at the HF position, when CMS solenoid field is ramped up to 4 T Elif Asli Albayrak Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 12:09PM - 12:21PM		X9.00008: Construction and Performance of 64-channel Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) Prototype Using KPiX Analog Readout Chip Seongtae Park, Jacob Smith, Edwin Baldelomar, Clayton Wills, Mark Sosebee, Andy White, Jaehoon Yu, Kwangjune Park Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 12:21PM - 12:33PM		X9.00009: Forward Physics with the CMS-CASTOR calorimeter Hans Van Haevermaet Preview Abstract

Session X10: RHIC Heavy Ion Physics

Chair: Anne Sickles, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Room: Maryland B

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:45AM - 10:57AM		X10.00001: Search for QCD critical point through fourth moments of net-proton distributions with the STAR experiment Xiaofeng Luo Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:57AM - 11:09AM		X10.00002: Energy Dependence of the \textit{v}$_{2}$ scaling and the QCD Phase Boundary Nu Xu Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:09AM - 11:21AM		X10.00003: Charged hadron spectra in Cu+Cu collisions at 22.4 GeV with STAR at RHIC Orpheus Mall Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:21AM - 11:33AM		X10.00004: Strangeness Production in 19.6 GeV Collisions at RHIC Kyle Englund-Krieger Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:33AM - 11:45AM		X10.00005: Results from the lowest energy ($\sqrt{s_{NN}} =$ 9.2 GeV) collisions at RHIC Lokesh Kumar Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:45AM - 11:57AM		X10.00006: Directed flow of identified particles for Au+Au collisions at 200 GeV Jiayun Chen Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:57AM - 12:09PM		X10.00007: Hadron Blind Detector implementation during PHENIX Run-10 Benji Lewis Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 12:09PM - 12:21PM		X10.00008: Baseline study for Chiral Symmetry Restoration using the Hadron Blind Detector in the PHENIX Experiment Sky Rolnick Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 12:21PM - 12:33PM		X10.00009: Dielectron mass spectra from $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV heavy ion collisions at PHENIX Sarah Campbell Preview Abstract

Session X11: Mini-Symposium: Recent Results from RHIC II

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Matthias Grosse Perdekamp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Room: Maryland C

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:45AM - 10:57AM		X11.00001: PHENIX measurements of sqrt(s) dependence of pi0 production in pp collisions at mid-rapidity Alexander Bazilevsky Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:57AM - 11:09AM		X11.00002: Dihadron fragmentation functions within reconstructed jets in $p+p$ collisions at $sqrt(s)$=200 GeV in STAR Muhammad Elnimr Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:09AM - 11:21AM		X11.00003: Status of Neutral Dijet Analysis on Data from 200GeV Proton Proton Collisions Using the STAR Detector at RHIC B.S. Page Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:21AM - 11:33AM		X11.00004: Measurement of gluon polarization contribution to proton spin through Charged Pion probes at PHENIX Sook Hyun Lee Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:33AM - 11:45AM		X11.00005: PHENIX Measurements of the Double Longitudinal Helicity Asymmetry in Neutral Pion Production in Polarized p+p Collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 200 and 500 GeV Andrew Manion Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:45AM - 11:57AM		X11.00006: Non-photonic electron double longitudinal spin asymmetry measurements in polarized $\vec{p}+\vec{p}$ collisions at STAR Priscilla Kurnadi Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:57AM - 12:09PM		X11.00007: Measurement of transverse single spin asymmetries of very forward $\eta$ mesons in $\vec{p}+p$ collisions in PHENIX David Kleinjan Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 12:09PM - 12:21PM		X11.00008: Status and prospects of the STAR W boson spin physics program at RHIC Bernd Surrow Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 12:21PM - 12:33PM		X11.00009: Measurement of the Cross Section for $W$ Boson Production at $\sqrt{s}=500$ GeV at STAR Justin Stevens Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 12:33PM - 12:45PM		X11.00010: The parity-violating spin asymmetry $A_L$ for $W^{\pm}$ bosons with STAR at RHIC Jan Balewski Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 12:45PM - 12:57PM		X11.00011: Forward polarization studies at STAR Xuan Li Preview Abstract

Session X12: Searches for New Physics using Photonic Final States

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Todd Adams, Florida State University
Room: Virginia A

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:45AM - 10:57AM		X12.00001: Systematic Effects in the H$\rightarrow\gamma\gamma$ Decay Channel in the ATLAS Detector R. Ishmukhametov, D. Joffe, R. Stroynowski Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:57AM - 11:09AM		X12.00002: Search for a SM Higgs boson in the diphoton final state at CDF Karen Bland Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:09AM - 11:21AM		X12.00003: Search for Fermiophobic Higgs in the 4-gamma + X Final State Atsunari Hamaguchi Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:21AM - 11:33AM		X12.00004: Search for Higgs and TeV-Scale Gravitons in the Diphoton Channel at the LHC Yousi Ma Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:33AM - 11:45AM		X12.00005: A Search for Randall-Sundrum Gravitons in the Dielectron and Diphoton Channels with 5.4 fb-1 of Data Ning Zhou Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:45AM - 11:57AM		X12.00006: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:57AM - 12:09PM		X12.00007: Early Search for Extra Dimensions in the Diphoton Channel at CMS Duong Nguyen Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 12:09PM - 12:21PM		X12.00008: Search for Diphoton Resonances at High Masses K. Dindar-Yagci, H. Hadavand, R. Kehoe Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 12:21PM - 12:33PM		X12.00009: Searches for New Physics with Photons in CMS at LHC Harvey Newman Preview Abstract

Session X13: Plasma Astrophysics near Black Holes, Pulsars and Supernova Remnants

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Kent Wood, Naval Research Laboratory
Room: Washington 6

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:45AM - 10:57AM		X13.00001: Plasma Regimes in the Surroundings of Black Holes, Composite Magnetic Field Structures and Associated Radiation Processes* B. Coppi Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:57AM - 11:09AM		X13.00002: Plasma Regions and Regimes Near Black Holes and High Frequency QPOs P. Rebusco, B. Coppi, M. Bursa Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:09AM - 11:21AM		X13.00003: 3D accretion disks: investigation of global transient dynamics Paola Rebusco, Orkan Umurhan, Wlodek Kluzniak, Oded Regev Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:21AM - 11:33AM		X13.00004: Poynting Robertson Battery and the Chiral Magnetic Fields of AGN Jets Demosthenes Kazanas, Ioannis Contopoulos, Dimitris Christodoulou, Denise Gabuzda Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:33AM - 11:45AM		X13.00005: Fermi-LAT Observations of the Core of Centaurus A Justin Finke Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:45AM - 11:57AM		X13.00006: TANAMI: High Resolution Physics of AGN in the Multiwavelength Era Roopesh Ojha, Matthias Kadler Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:57AM - 12:09PM		X13.00007: Nonthermal Filaments in CAS A: Testing Plasma Turbulence Maxim Lyutikov Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 12:09PM - 12:21PM		X13.00008: A small magnetic inclination model for the paucity of accreting millisecond X-ray pulsars Stratos Boutloukos, Frederick Lamb, Ka Ho Lo, Robert Chamberlain, M. Coleman Miller Preview Abstract

Session X14: Foundational Aspects of General Relativity

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Steven Detweiler, University of Florida
Room: Washington 4

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:45AM - 10:57AM		X14.00001: How does a black hole horizon start? Dieter Brill Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:57AM - 11:09AM		X14.00002: A Classical and Quantum Two-Sphere Singularity Deborah Konkowski, Thomas Helliwell Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:09AM - 11:21AM		X14.00003: Quasilocal Energy in FRW Cosmology Marcus Afshar Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:21AM - 11:33AM		X14.00004: Initial Data for the Gravity Dual in an AdS/CFT Correspondence Hans Bantilan, Frans Pretorius Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:33AM - 11:45AM		X14.00005: Asymptotically AdS spacetimes in 2+1 dimensions Arif Mohd, Luca Bombelli Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:45AM - 11:57AM		X14.00006: Gravity from Thermodynamics: Going beyond Einstein equation of state Sudipta Sarkar, Maulik Parikh, Ted Jacobson Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:57AM - 12:09PM		X14.00007: Einsteinian Relativity in the Tangent Bundle of Spacetime Howard Brandt Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 12:09PM - 12:21PM		X14.00008: The GSL implies the ANEC on Null Lines Aron Wall Preview Abstract
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 12:21PM - 12:33PM		X14.00009: Advance in the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics Juliana Brooks Preview Abstract