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Session Q2: Invited Session: Neutrinos: The Precision Frontier

Sponsoring Units: DPF DNP
Chair: Kate Scholberg, Duke University
Room: Regency Ballroom V

Monday, April 2, 2012 10:45AM - 11:21AM		Q2.00001: What's up with neutrinos? ({\ldots}and what can we do about it?) Invited Speaker: Robert Svoboda Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:21AM - 11:57AM		Q2.00002: Physics with Reactor Neutrinos: The Show has Begun! Invited Speaker: Lindley Winslow Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:57AM - 12:33PM		Q2.00003: Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay: Where We Are and Where We're Going Invited Speaker: Lisa Kaufman Preview Abstract

Session Q3: Invited Session: Dark Matter: Indirect Detection

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Francesc Ferrer, Washington University in St. Louis
Room: Hanover CDE

Monday, April 2, 2012 10:45AM - 11:21AM		Q3.00001: Latest results from searches for indirect evidence of dark matter from space-based observations Invited Speaker: Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:21AM - 11:57AM		Q3.00002: Dark Matter and High-Energy Gamma Rays Invited Speaker: James Buckley Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:57AM - 12:33PM		Q3.00003: Theory, synthesis, and future prospects for indirect detection of dark matter Invited Speaker: Stefano Profumo Preview Abstract

Session Q4: Invited Session: Advances in Quantum Gravity

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Jorge Pullin, Lousiana State University
Room: International Ballroom North

Monday, April 2, 2012 10:45AM - 11:21AM		Q4.00001: Applications of holography to condensed matter physics Invited Speaker: Diego Hofman Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:21AM - 11:57AM		Q4.00002: Beyond the standard inflationary paradigm Invited Speaker: Ivan Agullo Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:57AM - 12:33PM		Q4.00003: Loop Quantum Gravity, Spin Foams, and gravitons Invited Speaker: Eugenio Bianchi Preview Abstract

Session Q5: Invited Session: New Developments in Radiation Detection Technologies

Sponsoring Units: FPS
Chair: Douglas Wright, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Room: International Ballroom South

Monday, April 2, 2012 10:45AM - 11:21AM		Q5.00001: Latest developments in radiation detection technology and nuclear security Invited Speaker: Warren Stern Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:21AM - 11:57AM		Q5.00002: Nuclear Threat Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Invited Speaker: Michael Kuliasha Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:57AM - 12:33PM		Q5.00003: Don't Mess with the NEST Invited Speaker: Michael Larson Preview Abstract

Session Q6: Invited Session: The Role of Physics Departments in Preparing Instructors of Physics

Sponsoring Units: FEd
Chair: Monica Plisch, American Physical Society
Room: Embassy C

Monday, April 2, 2012 10:45AM - 11:21AM		Q6.00001: How Well Do We Build the Foundation of Physics? - The Report of the National Task Force on Physics Teacher Preparation Invited Speaker: David G. Haase Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:21AM - 11:57AM		Q6.00002: Preparing Physics Ph.D. Students as Instructors Invited Speaker: Michael Manhart Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:57AM - 12:33PM		Q6.00003: Preparing Learning Assistants for University Instruction and Beyond Invited Speaker: Rachel Scherr Preview Abstract

Session Q7: Gravitational Waves: Astrophysics

Sponsoring Units: DAP GGR
Chair: Peter Shawhan, University of Maryland
Room: Embassy D

Monday, April 2, 2012 10:45AM - 10:57AM		Q7.00001: LIGO+Virgo Search for Gravitational-Wave Bursts Associated with GRBs Peter Shawhan Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 10:57AM - 11:09AM		Q7.00002: Gamma-Ray burst triggered searches for gravitational wave inspiral signals in LIGO/Virgo data Alexander Dietz Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:09AM - 11:21AM		Q7.00003: All-sky Search for Gravitational-wave Bursts in the Second Joint LIGO-Virgo Run Amber Stuver Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:21AM - 11:33AM		Q7.00004: High Precision Gravitational Wave Hubble Diagram with Pulsar Timing Arrays Xihao Deng, Lee Samuel Finn Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:33AM - 11:45AM		Q7.00005: Pulsar Timing Observations of Black Hole Binaries Neil Cornish, Alberto Sesana Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:45AM - 11:57AM		Q7.00006: Small Aperture Wide Field Surveys for Gravitational Wave Counterparts Shane L. Larson, Arne A. Henden Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:57AM - 12:09PM		Q7.00007: Inferring Core-Collapse Supernova Physics with Gravitational Waves Peter Kalmus Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 12:09PM - 12:21PM		Q7.00008: Detecting and setting upper limits on continuous gravitational waves from unknown spinning neutron stars in binary systems Evan Goetz, Keith Riles Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 12:21PM - 12:33PM		Q7.00009: Distinguishing between merging black hole binaries, with orientation-dependent emission Richard O'Shaughnessy, James Healy, Zachary Meeks, Lionel London, Deirdre Shoemaker Preview Abstract

Session Q8: Numerical Relativity: Black-Hole Binaries

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Geoffrey Lovelace, Cornell University
Room: Embassy B

Monday, April 2, 2012 10:45AM - 10:57AM		Q8.00001: Including Realistic Tidal Deformations in Binary-Black-Hole Initial Data Tony Chu Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 10:57AM - 11:09AM		Q8.00002: Spin-Spin Effects in Models of Binary Black Hole Systems Scott Hawley, Richard Matzner, Lindsey Thompson Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:09AM - 11:21AM		Q8.00003: Alternatives to Standard Puncture Initial Data for Binary Black Hole Evolution George Reifenberger, Wolfgang Tichy Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:21AM - 11:33AM		Q8.00004: New Conformally Flat Initial Data for Spinning Black Holes Yosef Zlochower, Carlos Lousto, Hiroyuki Nakano, Manuela Campanelli, Bruno Mundim Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:33AM - 11:45AM		Q8.00005: Hangup Kicks: Still Larger Recoils by Partial Spin/Orbit Alignment of Black-Hole Binaries Carlos Lousto, Yosef Zlochower Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:45AM - 11:57AM		Q8.00006: Effects of nearly extremal black-hole spin in numerical-relativity simulations Geoffrey Lovelace Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:57AM - 12:09PM		Q8.00007: Towards mass-production of binary black hole simulations Abdul Mroue, Harald Pfeiffer Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 12:09PM - 12:21PM		Q8.00008: BH-BH mergers, ringdowns and wave-forms in a mass-production environment Bela Szilagyi Preview Abstract

Session Q9: New Particle Searches I

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Yuri Gershtein, Rutgers University
Room: Embassy E

Monday, April 2, 2012 10:45AM - 10:57AM		Q9.00001: Search for pair production of a new $b'$ quark that decays to a $Z$ boson and a bottom quark with the ATLAS detector at the LHC Andre Bach, Mark Cooke, Marjorie Shapiro Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 10:57AM - 11:09AM		Q9.00002: A Search for Supersymmetry with three or more leptons using $4.7 fb^{-1}$ of $\sqrt{s} = 7$ TeV CMS data Shruti Panwalkar, Richard Gray, Sunil Somalwar, Amitabh Lath, Scott Thomas, John Paul Chou, Matthew Walker, Sanjay Arora, Emmanuel Contreras-Campana, Peter Thomassen, Patrick Zywicki, Michael Park, Kin Chan, Kelvin Mei, Eric Williams Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:09AM - 11:21AM		Q9.00003: Search for $W^\prime$ boson production in the top quark decay channel Michael Segala Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:21AM - 11:33AM		Q9.00004: Search for W' production in the single top channel with the ATLAS detector Patrick True Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:33AM - 11:45AM		Q9.00005: Search for Lepton Flavor Violation in the $e\mu$ Continuum with the ATLAS detector Daniel Pomeroy Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:45AM - 11:57AM		Q9.00006: Search for SUSY in events with a single lepton, jets, and missing transverse momentum using a neural net approach Avishek Chatterjee Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:57AM - 12:09PM		Q9.00007: Search for technicolor in the Z + gamma channel in 7 TeV ATLAS data Matthew Fisher Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 12:09PM - 12:21PM		Q9.00008: Search for a Heavy Exotic partner of the top quark with charge 5/3 Saptaparna Bhattacharya Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 12:21PM - 12:33PM		Q9.00009: Signal optimization for a $W' \rightarrow t\bar{b}$ search in proton-proton collisions at 7~TeV with the ATLAS detector Ho Ling Li Preview Abstract

Session Q10: Relativistic Heavy Ions II

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Berndt Mueller, Duke University
Room: Embassy A

Monday, April 2, 2012 10:45AM - 10:57AM		Q10.00001: Strangeness Signature of Quark Gluon Plasma at LHC Johann Rafelski Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 10:57AM - 11:09AM		Q10.00002: Measurement of $\phi$ meson production in Cu+Cu collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV from PHOBOS Siarhei Vaurynovich Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:09AM - 11:21AM		Q10.00003: A study of lambda baryon production in $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=200 GeV Au+Au and $p$+$p$ collisions at PHENIX Dillon Roach Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:21AM - 11:33AM		Q10.00004: Strangeness Enhancement in Heavy Ion Collision M.A.K. Lodhi, Faisal Akram Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:33AM - 11:45AM		Q10.00005: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:45AM - 11:57AM		Q10.00006: Higher order flow harmonics from 2.76 TeV PbPb collisions measured by CMS Shengquan Tuo Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:57AM - 12:09PM		Q10.00007: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 12:09PM - 12:21PM		Q10.00008: Elliptic flow results from 2.76 GeV PbPb collisions measured by CMS Eric Appelt Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 12:21PM - 12:33PM		Q10.00009: HBT Measurements for charged pions in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=39, 62.4 and 200 GeV Alex Mwai Preview Abstract

Session Q11: Photoproduction and Dynamics of Light Mesons

Sponsoring Units: DNP GHP
Chair: Simon Capstick, Florida State University
Room: Embassy F

Monday, April 2, 2012 10:45AM - 10:57AM		Q11.00001: Measurement of the Beam Asymmetry, I$^{\,\odot}$ and the Helicity Difference, $P_z^{\odot}$ in $\vec{\gamma} \vec{p}\to p\pi^+\pi^-$ with CLAS spectrometer at JLab SungKyun Park Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 10:57AM - 11:09AM		Q11.00002: Gauge-invariant theory of two-pion photoproduction off the nucleon Helmut Haberzettl, Kanzo Nakayama Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:09AM - 11:21AM		Q11.00003: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:21AM - 11:33AM		Q11.00004: Photoproduction of $\Phi$(1020) meson in neutral decay mode $\gamma p \to \phi p \to p K_S K_L$ from CLAS Heghine Seraydaryan Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:33AM - 11:45AM		Q11.00005: Phi meson photoproduction near threshold energies Benjamin Jackson, Fei Huang, Kanzo Nakayama Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:45AM - 11:57AM		Q11.00006: Meson Spectroscopy in Coherent Production off $^4$He with CLAS Bayram Torayev Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:57AM - 12:09PM		Q11.00007: The Search for a $\pi_1(1400)$ Exotic Meson in the $\gamma p\to\Delta^{++}\eta\pi^-$ System with CLAS Diane Schott Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 12:09PM - 12:21PM		Q11.00008: Compton Scattering and Photo-absorption Sum Rules on Nuclei Mikhail Gorshteyn, Timothy Hobbs, J. Timothy Londergan, Adam P. Szczepaniak Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 12:21PM - 12:33PM		Q11.00009: A Gaussian Sum-Rules Analysis of Scalar Meson-Glueball Mixing Derek Harnett, Tom Steele, Robin Kleiv, Ken Moats Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 12:33PM - 12:45PM		Q11.00010: Generalized Linear Sigma Model Framework for Scalar and Pseudoscalar Mesons Below 2 GeV Amir Fariborz Preview Abstract

Session Q12: Invited Session: Non-perturbative Physics in the Standard Model and Beyond Explored by Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Calculations

Sponsoring Units: DCOMP DNP
Chair: Alexei Bazavov, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Room: Grand Hall East A/B

Monday, April 2, 2012 10:45AM - 11:21AM		Q12.00001: Flavor physics and CKM matrix elements Invited Speaker: Ran Zhou Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:21AM - 11:57AM		Q12.00002: Deconfined phase of QCD and thermodynamics of the quark-gluon plasma Invited Speaker: Ludmila Levkova Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:57AM - 12:33PM		Q12.00003: Physics Beyond the Standard Model, search for non-perturbative models of electroweak symmetry breaking Invited Speaker: Michael Cheng Preview Abstract

Session Q16: Sherwood III

Sponsoring Units: DPP
Chair: Guoyong Fu, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Room: Hanover FG

Monday, April 2, 2012 10:45AM - 11:15AM		Q16.00001: Nonlinear Frequency Chirping of $\beta $-induced Alfven Eigenmode Huasen Zhang Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:15AM - 11:45AM		Q16.00002: Axiomatic approach to wave-particle interactions and its applications to waves with trapped particles I.Y. Dodin Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 11:45AM - 12:15PM		Q16.00003: A five-field model of Peeling-Ballooning modes with BOUT++ T. Xia, X.Q. Xu, J. Li Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 12:15PM - 12:45PM		Q16.00004: Nonlinearly unstable interchange modes in transverse magnetic field Jupiter Bagaipo, Adil Hassam, Parvez Guzdar Preview Abstract