Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2011
Volume 56, Number 4
Saturday–Tuesday, April 30–May 3 2011; Anaheim, California
Epitome
Apr 30 2011 8:30AM, Saturday
A1
Kavli Foundation Plenary Session: 100 Years of Sub-Atomic Physics
Room: Grand Ballroom A-D
Sponsor:
APS
Chair: Barry C. Barish, APS President and California Institute of Technology
Apr 30 2011 10:45AM, Saturday
B1
Solvay at One Hundred; Pais Prize Talk
Room: Grand A
Sponsor:
DPF FHP
Chair: Daniel Kleppner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B2
Tevatron Results
Room: Grand BCD
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Kevin Pitts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B3
Neutron Stars: What's the Matter?
Room: Garden 3
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Luis Lehner, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
B4
Hadron Spectroscopy and Exotic Particle Searches
Room: Garden 4
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Barry Ritchie, Arizona State University
B5
Electromagnetic Pulse Phenomena
Room: Royal AB
Sponsor:
FPS
Chair: Benn Tannenbaum, Sandia National Laboratories
B6
Plasma Physics of Cosmic Rays in Galaxies
Room: Terrace A-F
Sponsor:
DPP DAP
Chair: Ellen Zweibel, University of Wisconsin-Madison
B7
Nuclear Structure I: A<70
Room: Grand E
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Alan Wuosmaa, Western Michigan University
B8
Higgs Detection I
Room: Grand F
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Doug Bryman, University of British Columbia
B9
Performance of Operating Detectors
Room: Grand G
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Chris Parkes, University of Glasgow
B10
Electroweak Interactions
Room: Garden 1
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Timothy Chupp, University of Michigan
B11
New Instruments and Techniques for Astrophysics
Room: Garden 2
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Dan McCammon, University of Wisconsin--Madison
B12
Quantum Aspects of Gravitation
Room: Royal CD
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Parampreet Singh, Louisiana State University
B13
Undergraduate Research including SPS (all topics)
Room: Royal EF
Sponsor:
SPS
Chair: Gary White, Society of Physics Students (AIP)
Apr 30 2011 1:30PM, Saturday
C1
Centennial of the Nuclear Atom
Room: Grand A
Sponsor:
FHP
Chair: Peter Pesic, St. John's College
C2
Collider Signatures
Room: Grand BCD
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Alice Bean, University of Kansas
C3
Time Domain Astrophysics
Room: Garden 3
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Alicia Soderberg, Harvard University
C4
Proton Charge Radius and Precision QED
Room: Garden 4
Sponsor:
GFB
Chair: Hossein Sadeghpour, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
C5
Nuclear Structure at the Limits of Stability
Room: Royal AB
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Dan Bardayan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
C6
Computational Physics: Algorithms to Applications
Room: Terrace A-F
Sponsor:
DCOMP
Chair: Rajiv Kalia, University of Southern California
C7
Electromagnetic Interactions I
Room: Grand E
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: John Price, California State University, Dominguez Hills
C8
Electroweak and Gauge Boson Physics
Room: Grand F
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Chris Quigg, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
C9
New Techniques in Neutrino Detection
Room: Grand G
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Kate Scholberg, Duke University
C10
Mini-symposium on Early-Time and Long-Range Correlations in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions I
Room: Garden 1
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Prof. Roy Lacey, SUNY Stony Brook
C11
Cosmic Ray Measurements, Anisotropies and Propagation
Room: Garden 2
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Mikhail Medvedev, University of Kansas
C12
Self-force Calculations and their Implications for Gravitational Physics
Room: Royal CD
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Eric Poisson, University of Guelph
C13
Educating and Exciting the Public about Physics
Room: Royal EF
Sponsor:
FEd FGSA
Chair: Lawrence Woolf, General Atomics
Apr 30 2011 2:00PM, Saturday
D1
Poster Session I (2:00-5:00PM)
Room: Imperial/Regal Rooms
Sponsor:
APS
Apr 30 2011 3:30PM, Saturday
E1
AdS/CFT Physics
Room: Grand A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: JoAnne Hewett, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
E2
New Insights into the Short-Range, High-Momentum Components of the Nuclear Wavefunction
Room: Grand BCD
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Rolf Ent, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
E3
Best Practices in Undergraduate Research Experiences
Room: Garden 3
Sponsor:
FEd FGSA
Chair: Juan Burciaga, Denison University
E4
Frontiers of Computational Astrophysics and Gravitation
Room: Garden 4
Sponsor:
DCOMP GGR
Chair: Vicky Kalogera, Northwestern University
E5
Nuclear Weapons at 65
Room: Royal AB
Sponsor:
FPS
Chair: Patricia M. Lewis, Monterey Institute for International Studies
E6
Accelerators for Sub-Atomic Physics: I. History
Room: Terrace A-F
Sponsor:
DPB FHP
Chair: Lia Merminga, TRIUMF
E7
Hadronic Physics I
Room: Grand E
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Latifa Elouadrhiri, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
E8
QCD Physics
Room: Grand F
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Laura Reina, Florida State University
E9
Physics of the Top Quark I
Room: Grand G
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Bob Hirosky, University of Virginia
E10
Mini-symposium on Early-Time and Long-Range Correlations in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions II
Room: Garden 1
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Prof. Steffen Bass, Duke University
E11
Theoretical Outlooks
Room: Garden 2
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: David Saltzberg, University of California, Los Angeles
E12
Spacetime Structure of Binary Black Hole Simulations
Room: Royal CD
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Mark Scheel, California Institute of Technology
E13
Energy Research and Applications
Room: Royal EF
Sponsor:
GERA
Chair: Kathryn Clay, Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers
Apr 30 2011 5:45PM, Saturday
F1
Welcome Reception
Room: North Tower Poolside
Apr 30 2011 7:30PM, Saturday
F2
Physics in Hollywood
Room: Grand A
May 1 2011 8:30AM, Sunday
G1
Lattice QCD and the Hadron Spectrum
Room: Grand A
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Huey-Wen Lin, University of Washington
G2
Progress in Quantum Gravity
Room: Grand BCD
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Jorge Pullin, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
G3
Millisecond Pulsars
Room: Garden 3
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Lynn Cominsky, Sonoma State University
G4
The Scent of Neutrinos
Room: Garden 4
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Kara Hoffman, University of Maryland
G5
Pipkin Award and Quantum Technologies for Gravitational Wave Detection
Room: Royal AB
Sponsor:
GGR GPMFC
Chair: Blayne Heckel, University of Washington
G6
Excellence in Physics Education Award Session
Room: Terrace A-F
Sponsor:
FEd
Chair: Paula Heron, University of Washington
G7
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions I
Room: Grand E
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Miklos Gyulassy, Columbia University
G8
BSM via Resonances
Room: Grand F
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Sasha Pranko, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
G9
Tevatron Higgs Searches I
Room: Grand G
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Michael Eads, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
G10
Electromagnetic Interactions II
Room: Garden 1
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Doug Higinbotham, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
G11
Characterization and Instrumentation for Gravitational Wave Detection
Room: Garden 2
Sponsor:
DAP GGR
Chair: Sukanta Bose, Washington State University
G12
Gravitational Astrophysics
Room: Royal CD
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Carlos Lousto, Rochester Institute of Technology
G13
Instrumentation for Dark Matter Detection
Room: Royal EF
Sponsor:
DAP DPF GPMFC
Chair: Juan Collar, University of Chicago
May 1 2011 10:45AM, Sunday
H1
Laboratory Plasma Astrophysics
Room: Grand A
Sponsor:
DPP DAP
Chair: Dan McCammon, University of Wisconsin-Madison
H2
Advances in the Strong Interaction
Room: Grand BCD
Sponsor:
GHP
Chair: Abhay Deshpande, SUNY Stony Brook
H3
Frontiers in Computational Nuclear Physics
Room: Garden 3
Sponsor:
DNP DCOMP
Chair: Robert Tribble, Texas A&M University
H4
Accelerators for Sub-Atomic Physics: II. Present and Near Future
Room: Garden 4
Sponsor:
DPB
Chair: Lia Merminga, TRIUMF
H5
Panofsky Prize
Room: Royal AB
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Raymond Brock, Michigan State University
H6
Physics Education Research: Solved Problems and Open Questions
Room: Terrace A-F
Sponsor:
FEd
Chair: John Thompson, University of Maine
H7
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions II
Room: Grand E
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Zhangbu Xu, Brookhaven National Laboratory
H8
Dark Matter Experiments and Neutron Shielding
Room: Grand F
Sponsor:
DPF DAP GPMFC
Chair: Ed Blucher, University of Chicago
H9
LHC SUSY Searches
Room: Grand G
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Mike Tuts, Columbia University
H10
Mini-symposium on Parity Violation I
Room: Garden 1
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Charles Horowitz, Indiana University
H11
X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Astrophysics
Room: Garden 2
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Bing Zhang, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
H12
Post-Newtonian Approximations and Alternative Theories of Gravity
Room: Royal CD
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Tanja Hinderer, California Institute of Technology
H13
History of Physics I
Room: Royal EF
Sponsor:
FHP
Chair: David Cassidy, Hofstra University
May 1 2011 12:35PM, Sunday
H20
FED Business Meeting
Room: Terrace A-F
Sponsor:
FEd
H21
FPS Business Meeting
Room: Royal EF
Sponsor:
FPS
May 1 2011 1:30PM, Sunday
J1
The Essence of Neutrinos
Room: Grand A
Sponsor:
DPF DNP
Chair: Kate Scholberg, Duke University
J2
Centennial of Superconductivity
Room: Grand BCD
Sponsor:
FHP
Chair: Martin Blume, Brookhaven National Laboratory and APS
J3
New Results from the Cosmos
Room: Garden 3
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Neil Cornish, Montana State University
J4
Nuclear Theory
Room: Garden 4
Sponsor:
DNP GFB
Chair: Wayne Polyzou, University of Iowa
J5
Forum on Physics and Society, Awards Session
Room: Royal AB
Sponsor:
FPS
Chair: Charles Ferguson, Federation of American Scientists
J6
The Digital Divide in 2010
Room: Terrace A-F
Sponsor:
FIP
Chair: Harvey Newman, California Institute Technology
J7
Instrumentation I
Room: Grand E
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Andreas Piechaczek, Oak Ridge Associated Universities
J8
Accelerator Neutrino Results
Room: Grand F
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: JoAnne Hewett, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
J9
Reactor Neutrino Experiments
Room: Grand G
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Zarko Pavlovic, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
J10
Mini-symposium on Parity Violation II
Room: Garden 1
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Robert Michaels, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
J11
Nuclear Structure II: A>70
Room: Garden 2
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Jolie Cizewski, Rutgers University
J13
Integrating Modern Physics into the K-12 Curriculum I
Room: Royal EF
Sponsor:
FEd DNP
Chair: Peggy Norris, Black Hills State University
May 1 2011 2:00PM, Sunday
K1
Poster Session II (2:00-5:00PM)
Room: Imperial/Regal Rooms
Sponsor:
APS
May 1 2011 2:30PM, Sunday
J12
APS Editorial Q&A: APS and Open Access
Room: Royal CD
May 1 2011 3:30PM, Sunday
L1
Sakurai Prize
Room: Grand A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Pierre Ramond, University of Florida
L2
Relativistic Viscous Hydrodynamics at RHIC (DNP Thesis Prize Session)
Room: Grand BCD
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: William Zajc, Columbia University
L3
Astrophysical Flares
Room: Garden 3
Sponsor:
DAP DPP
Chair: Patrick Slane, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
L4
High Precision Spectroscopy
Room: Garden 4
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Blayne Heckel, University of Washington
L5
Initiatives for Broadening Participation of Minorities in Graduate Level Physics
Room: Royal AB
Sponsor:
COM CSWP
Chair: Yesim Darici, Florida International University
L6
Energy Research & Applications: Alternative Fuels
Room: Terrace A-F
Sponsor:
GERA
Chair: Jennifer Klay, California Polytechnic State University
L7
Applications and Instrumentation
Room: Grand E
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Elise Martin, University of Kentucky
L8
Tevatron and LHC BSM Searches
Room: Grand F
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Manfred Paulini, Carnegie Mellon University
L9
LHC Searches
Room: Grand G
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Nancy Marinelli, University of Notre Dame
L10
Mini-symposium on Parity Violation III
Room: Garden 1
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: David Armstrong, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
L11
Solar and Supernova Neutrinos, Compact Objects
Room: Garden 2
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Cecilia Lunardini, Arizona State University
L12
Strong-field gravity: black holes, event horizons, and cosmology
Room: Royal CD
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Carlos Lousto, Rochester Institute of Technology
L13
Integrating Modern Physics into the K-12 Curriculum II
Room: Royal EF
Sponsor:
FEd DNP
Chair: Peggy Norris, Black Hills State University
May 1 2011 5:45PM, Sunday
M1
APS Past President's Address and Prizes and Awards Ceremonial Session
Room: Grand BCD
Sponsor:
APS
Chair: Barry C. Barish, APS President and California Institute of Technology
May 1 2011 8:30PM, Sunday
N1
Discovery Science in a Time of Harsh Budgetary Constraints
Room: Grand A
Chair: Michael Lubell, APS Director of Public Affairs
May 2 2011 8:30AM, Monday
P1
Plenary Session II
Room: Grand Ballroom A-D
Sponsor:
APS
Chair: Michael Turner, University of Chicago
May 2 2011 10:45AM, Monday
Q1
The Standard Model and Beyond
Room: Grand A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Kara Hoffman, University of Maryland
Q2
Neutrinos and Fundamental Symmetries
Room: Grand BCD
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Brian Fujikawa, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Q3
Direct Detection of Dark Matter
Room: Garden 3
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Paul Shapiro, University of Texas at Austin
Q4
So Many Dynamos: Flow Generated Magnetic Fields in Nature, in the Computer, and in the Lab I
Room: Garden 4
Sponsor:
DPP
Chair: Cary Forest, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Q5
Physics and Engineering of Deep Water Drilling
Room: Royal AB
Sponsor:
FPS
Chair: Peter D. Zimmerman, King's College London
Q6
Spectroscopy and Interactions in Four & More-Body Systems: Efimov Spectrum
Room: Terrace A-F
Sponsor:
GFB
Chair: Seth Rittenhouse, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Q7
Nuclear Astrophysics I
Room: Grand E
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Richard Cyburt, Michigan State University
Q8
Proposed Neutrino Experiments
Room: Grand F
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Joe Formaggio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Q9
Physics of the Top Quark II
Room: Grand G
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: David Shih, Rutgers University
Q10
Hadronic Physics II
Room: Garden 1
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Simon Capstick, Florida State University
Q11
New Theories of Cosmology & Astrophysics
Room: Garden 2
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Edward Kolb, University of Chicago
Q12
Numerical Relativity: Black Holes, Neutron Stars and Accretion Disks
Room: Royal CD
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Pablo Laguna, Georgia Institute of Technology
Q13
International Physics
Room: Royal EF
Sponsor:
FIP
May 2 2011 1:30PM, Monday
R1
Neutron Stars and the Dense Matter Equation of State
Room: Grand A
Sponsor:
DNP DAP
Chair: Charles Horowitz, Indiana University, Bloomington
R2
LHC Results
Room: Grand BCD
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Raymond Brock, Michigan State University
R3
Black Holes: Nature's Ultimate Spinmeisters
Room: Garden 3
Sponsor:
DAP GGR
Chair: Manuela Campanelli, Rochester Institute of Technology
R4
So Many Dynamos: Flow Generated Magnetic Fields in Nature, in the Computer, and in the Lab II
Room: Garden 4
Sponsor:
DPP DCOMP
Chair: Cary Forest, University of Wisconsin-Madison
R5
The Status of Arms Control
Room: Royal AB
Sponsor:
FPS
Chair: Pierce Corden, American Association for the Advancement of Science
R6
Accelerators for Sub-Atomic Physics: III. Future
Room: Terrace A-F
Sponsor:
DPB
Chair: Lia Merminga, TRIUMF
R7
Neutrinos I
Room: Grand E
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Jelena Maricic, Drexel University
R8
Charm and B Physics I
Room: Grand F
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Mikhail Shifman, University of Minnesota
R9
Charm and B Physics II
Room: Grand G
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Kevin Pitts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
R10
Hadronic Physics III
Room: Garden 1
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Matthew Shepherd, Indiana University
R11
WIMP and Axion Searches
Room: Garden 2
Sponsor:
DAP DPF GPMFC
Chair: Dan Hooper, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
R12
Physics Education
Room: Royal CD
Sponsor:
FEd
Chair: Thomas Olsen, Society of Physics Students (AIP)
R13
Precision Measurements, Fundamental Symmetries, and Tests of the Standard Model
Room: Royal EF
Sponsor:
GPMFC
Chair: Blayne Heckel, University of Washington
May 2 2011 2:00PM, Monday
S1
Poster Session III (2:00-5:00PM)
Room: Imperial/Regal Rooms
Sponsor:
APS
May 2 2011 3:30PM, Monday
T1
The Future of Particle Physics
Room: Grand A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Patricia McBride, Fermilab
T2
Observational Implications of Gravitational-Wave Observations
Room: Grand BCD
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Szabolcs Marka, Columbia University
T3
The Death of Massive Stars
Room: Garden 3
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Alicia Soderberg, Harvard University
T4
Bonner Prize Session
Room: Garden 4
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: William Zajc, Columbia University
T5
FIP Prize Session
Room: Royal AB
Sponsor:
FIP
Chair: Harvey Newman, California Institute of Technology
T6
Effective Use of Technology: Engaging Students Inside and Outside Classrooms
Room: Terrace A-F
Sponsor:
FEd
Chair: Homeyra Sadaghiani, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
T7
CMB, Structure Formation, Reionization, Indirect Detection
Room: Grand E
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Corbin Covault, Case Western Reserve University
T8
Electroweak Physics
Room: Grand F
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Jonathan Feng, University of California, Irvine
T9
High Energy Neutrino Detection
Room: Grand G
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Ina Sarcevic, University of Arizona
T10
History of Physics II
Room: Garden 1
Sponsor:
FHP
Chair: Gloria Lubkin, Physics Today, Retired
T11
Background Supression in Noble Gas Dark Matter Detectors
Room: Garden 2
Sponsor:
GPMFC DAP DPF
Chair: Laura Baudis, University of Zurich
T12
Numerical Relativity: Algorithms and Code Development
Room: Royal CD
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Christian Ott, California Institute of Technology
T13
Pushing the Boundariesof Quantum Mechanics and Gravity
Room: Royal EF
Sponsor:
GPMFC
Chair: Blayne Heckel, University of Washington
May 2 2011 5:30PM, Monday
U1
DPF Business Meeting
Room: Grand A
Sponsor:
DPF
U4
DNP Business Meeting
Room: Garden 4
Sponsor:
DNP
U5
FIP Business Meeting
Room: Royal AB
Sponsor:
FIP
U7
DAP Business Meeting
Room: Grand E
U10
FHP Business Meeting
Room: Garden 1
Sponsor:
FHP
U11
GGR Business Meeting
Room: Garden 2
Sponsor:
GGR
U13
GPMFC Business Meeting
Room: Royal EF
Sponsor:
GPMFC
May 3 2011 8:30AM, Tuesday
V1
Plenary Session III
Room: Grand Ballroom A-D
Sponsor:
APS
Chair: Wiliam Zajc, Columbia University
May 3 2011 10:45AM, Tuesday
X1
Enhancing Performance and Retention of Under-Represented Students in Undergraduate Physics
Room: Grand A
Sponsor:
CSWP COM
Chair: Patricia Burchat, Stanford University
X2
Working with Luis Alvarez (1911-1988)
Room: Grand BCD
Sponsor:
FHP
Chair: Stanley Wojcicki, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
X3
Progess in Nuclear Physics
Room: Garden 3
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Craig Roberts, Argonne National Laboratory
X4
Einstein Prize and New Methods for Old Problems in Gravitational Physics
Room: Garden 4
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Patrick Brady, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
X5
Plasmas, Planets and Protostars
Room: Royal AB
Sponsor:
GPAP DPP DAP
Chair: Hantao Ji, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
X6
Beyond the Standard Model
Room: Terrace A-F
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Jonathan Feng, University of California, Irvine
X7
Nuclear Astrophysics II
Room: Grand E
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Achim Schwenk, Technical University Darmstadt
X8
Charm and B Physics III
Room: Grand F
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Stan Brodsky, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
X9
Charm and B Physics IV
Room: Grand G
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Pierre Ramond, University of Florida
X10
Reactions: Rare Isotopes/Heavy Ions/Fission
Room: Garden 1
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: C.W. Beausang, University of Richmond
X11
Dark Matter, Dark Energy and Structure
Room: Garden 2
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Anze Slosar, Brookhaven National Laboratory
X12
Signal Analysis Methods for Gravitational-wave Detection
Room: Royal CD
Sponsor:
DAP GGR
Chair: Neil Cornish, Montana State University
May 3 2011 1:30PM, Tuesday
Y1
Much Ado About Nothing: The Quantum Vacuum
Room: Grand A
Sponsor:
DPF DAP
Chair: Pierre Ramond, University of Florida
Y2
Massive Neutron Stars and Dense Matter
Room: Grand BCD
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Charles Horowitz, Indiana University
Y3
Searching for Dark Matter in Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies
Room: Garden 3
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Elizabeth Hays, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Y4
QCD in Nuclear Physics
Room: Garden 4
Sponsor:
GHP DNP
Chair: Doug Higinbotham, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Y5
Science Diplomacy
Room: Royal AB
Sponsor:
FIP FPS
Chair: Harvey Newman, California Institute of Technology
Y6
Best Practices in K12 Physics Teacher Preparation Programs
Room: Terrace A-F
Sponsor:
FEd
Chair: Alice Churukian, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Y7
Neutrinos II
Room: Grand E
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Allena Opper, The George Washington University
Y8
Novel Instrumentation
Room: Grand F
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: David Saltzberg, University of California, Los Angeles
Y9
Tevatron BSM Searches I
Room: Grand G
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Stephane Willocq, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Y10
Instrumentation II
Room: Garden 1
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Matthew Lamont, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Y11
Gravitational Wave Astronomy
Room: Garden 2
Sponsor:
DAP GGR
Chair: Alan Weinstein, California Institute of Technology
Y12
Numerical Relativity: Binaries with Matter
Room: Royal CD
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: John Friedman, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee
Apr 30 2011 8:30AM, Saturday
A1
Kavli Foundation Plenary Session: 100 Years of Sub-Atomic Physics
Room: Grand Ballroom A-D
Sponsor:
APS
Chair: Barry C. Barish, APS President and California Institute of Technology
Apr 30 2011 10:45AM, Saturday
B1
Solvay at One Hundred; Pais Prize Talk
Room: Grand A
Sponsor:
DPF FHP
Chair: Daniel Kleppner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B2
Tevatron Results
Room: Grand BCD
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Kevin Pitts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B3
Neutron Stars: What's the Matter?
Room: Garden 3
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Luis Lehner, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
B4
Hadron Spectroscopy and Exotic Particle Searches
Room: Garden 4
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Barry Ritchie, Arizona State University
B5
Electromagnetic Pulse Phenomena
Room: Royal AB
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B6
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Nuclear Structure I: A<70
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Higgs Detection I
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Performance of Operating Detectors
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Electroweak Interactions
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New Instruments and Techniques for Astrophysics
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Quantum Aspects of Gravitation
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Centennial of the Nuclear Atom
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Collider Signatures
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Proton Charge Radius and Precision QED
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Nuclear Structure at the Limits of Stability
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Electroweak and Gauge Boson Physics
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C9
New Techniques in Neutrino Detection
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Apr 30 2011 2:00PM, Saturday
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E1
AdS/CFT Physics
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Best Practices in Undergraduate Research Experiences
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Frontiers of Computational Astrophysics and Gravitation
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Nuclear Weapons at 65
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Accelerators for Sub-Atomic Physics: I. History
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QCD Physics
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Theoretical Outlooks
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Apr 30 2011 7:30PM, Saturday
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Physics in Hollywood
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May 1 2011 8:30AM, Sunday
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Lattice QCD and the Hadron Spectrum
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Progress in Quantum Gravity
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Millisecond Pulsars
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The Scent of Neutrinos
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Pipkin Award and Quantum Technologies for Gravitational Wave Detection
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G6
Excellence in Physics Education Award Session
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Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions I
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BSM via Resonances
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Tevatron Higgs Searches I
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Electromagnetic Interactions II
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Characterization and Instrumentation for Gravitational Wave Detection
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May 1 2011 10:45AM, Sunday
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Laboratory Plasma Astrophysics
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Advances in the Strong Interaction
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Frontiers in Computational Nuclear Physics
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Accelerators for Sub-Atomic Physics: II. Present and Near Future
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Panofsky Prize
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Physics Education Research: Solved Problems and Open Questions
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Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions II
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Dark Matter Experiments and Neutron Shielding
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LHC SUSY Searches
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History of Physics I
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H20
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May 1 2011 1:30PM, Sunday
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The Essence of Neutrinos
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Centennial of Superconductivity
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Nuclear Theory
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Accelerator Neutrino Results
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Reactor Neutrino Experiments
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Nuclear Structure II: A>70
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May 1 2011 2:00PM, Sunday
K1
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May 1 2011 2:30PM, Sunday
J12
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May 1 2011 3:30PM, Sunday
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Sakurai Prize
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Relativistic Viscous Hydrodynamics at RHIC (DNP Thesis Prize Session)
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Astrophysical Flares
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High Precision Spectroscopy
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Initiatives for Broadening Participation of Minorities in Graduate Level Physics
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Tevatron and LHC BSM Searches
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LHC Searches
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Mini-symposium on Parity Violation III
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Solar and Supernova Neutrinos, Compact Objects
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Strong-field gravity: black holes, event horizons, and cosmology
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Integrating Modern Physics into the K-12 Curriculum II
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M1
APS Past President's Address and Prizes and Awards Ceremonial Session
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May 1 2011 8:30PM, Sunday
N1
Discovery Science in a Time of Harsh Budgetary Constraints
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May 2 2011 8:30AM, Monday
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May 2 2011 10:45AM, Monday
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The Standard Model and Beyond
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Neutrinos and Fundamental Symmetries
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Direct Detection of Dark Matter
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So Many Dynamos: Flow Generated Magnetic Fields in Nature, in the Computer, and in the Lab I
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Proposed Neutrino Experiments
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Hadronic Physics II
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New Theories of Cosmology & Astrophysics
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International Physics
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May 2 2011 1:30PM, Monday
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LHC Results
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Black Holes: Nature's Ultimate Spinmeisters
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The Status of Arms Control
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Physics Education
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May 2 2011 2:00PM, Monday
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May 2 2011 3:30PM, Monday
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Electroweak Physics
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High Energy Neutrino Detection
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History of Physics II
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Background Supression in Noble Gas Dark Matter Detectors
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May 3 2011 8:30AM, Tuesday
V1
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May 3 2011 10:45AM, Tuesday
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Enhancing Performance and Retention of Under-Represented Students in Undergraduate Physics
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Working with Luis Alvarez (1911-1988)
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Progess in Nuclear Physics
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Einstein Prize and New Methods for Old Problems in Gravitational Physics
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X6
Beyond the Standard Model
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Nuclear Astrophysics II
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Charm and B Physics IV
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Reactions: Rare Isotopes/Heavy Ions/Fission
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Dark Matter, Dark Energy and Structure
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X12
Signal Analysis Methods for Gravitational-wave Detection
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May 3 2011 1:30PM, Tuesday
Y1
Much Ado About Nothing: The Quantum Vacuum
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Y2
Massive Neutron Stars and Dense Matter
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Searching for Dark Matter in Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies
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QCD in Nuclear Physics
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Science Diplomacy
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Y6
Best Practices in K12 Physics Teacher Preparation Programs
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Y7
Neutrinos II
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Y8
Novel Instrumentation
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Y9
Tevatron BSM Searches I
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Y10
Instrumentation II
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Y11
Gravitational Wave Astronomy
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Y12
Numerical Relativity: Binaries with Matter
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