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Session T2: Invited Session: Dark Matter: Direct Detection

Sponsoring Units: DAP DPF
Chair: Corbin Covault, Case Western Reserve University
Room: Regency Ballroom V

Monday, April 2, 2012 3:30PM - 4:06PM		T2.00001: New Results from The Search for Dark Matter with XENON100 Invited Speaker: Elena Aprile Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:06PM - 4:42PM		T2.00002: Searching for the Dark Matter Wind: Recent Progress in Directional Detection Invited Speaker: Jocelyn Monroe Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:42PM - 5:18PM		T2.00003: Dark Matter Theory Confronts the Data Invited Speaker: Neal Weiner Preview Abstract

Session T3: Invited Session: New Stars in Astrophysics

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Alicia Soderberg, Harvard Center for Astrophysics
Room: Hanover CDE

Monday, April 2, 2012 3:30PM - 4:06PM		T3.00001: Hans A. Bethe Prize Lecture: The Primordial Helium Abundance Invited Speaker: Manuel Peimbert Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:06PM - 4:42PM		T3.00002: A quest for sources of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays Invited Speaker: Kumiko Kotera Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:42PM - 5:18PM		T3.00003: Uncovering the Explosions of Supernova Remnants Invited Speaker: Laura Lopez Preview Abstract

Session T4: Panel Discussion: American Science & America's Future

Sponsoring Units: FPS
Chair: Pushpa Bhat, Fermi Accelerator National Laboratory, and Lawrence Krauss, Arizona State University
Room: International Ballroom North

Monday, April 2, 2012 3:30PM - 4:06PM		T4.00001: What is the way forward? Invited Speaker: Neal Lane Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:06PM - 4:16PM		T4.00002: Panelist Invited Speaker: Jim Siegrist Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:16PM - 4:26PM		T4.00003: Panelist Invited Speaker: Timothy Hallman Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:26PM - 4:36PM		T4.00004: Panelist Invited Speaker: Frank Wilczek Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:36PM - 4:46PM		T4.00005: Panelist Invited Speaker: Martin Perl Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:46PM - 5:18PM		T4.00006: Panel Discussion Preview Abstract

Session T5: Pais Prize Session: The National Laboratories after 1980

Sponsoring Units: FHP
Chair: Catherine Westfall, Michigan State University
Room: International Ballroom South

Monday, April 2, 2012 3:30PM - 4:06PM		T5.00001: Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics Lecture: Big, Bigger, Too Big? From Los Alamos to Fermilab and the SSC Invited Speaker: Lillian Hoddeson Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:06PM - 4:42PM		T5.00002: DOE and its Labs -- Evolution of the Relationship from the 1970s to Now Invited Speaker: Burton Richter Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:42PM - 5:18PM		T5.00003: A Good Name and Great Riches: Rebranding Solid State Physics for the National Laboratories Invited Speaker: Joseph Martin Preview Abstract

Session T6: Invited Session: Perspectives in Gravitational Physics

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: James Isenberg, University of Oregon
Room: Embassy C

Monday, April 2, 2012 3:30PM - 4:06PM		T6.00001: Perspectives in Gravitational Physics Invited Speaker: Beverly K. Berger Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:06PM - 4:42PM		T6.00002: Perspectives on Geometrodynamics: The Nonlinear Dynamics of Curved Spacetime Invited Speaker: Kip S. Thorne Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:42PM - 5:18PM		T6.00003: Perspectives on relativistic astrophysics in the century's first decade Invited Speaker: John Friedman Preview Abstract

Session T7: Cosmic Ray Composition and Air Shower Studies

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Robert Binns, Washington University in St. Louis
Room: Embassy D

Monday, April 2, 2012 3:30PM - 3:42PM		T7.00001: Fitting the Cosmic Ray Spectrum and Composition with IceCube Jonathan Eisch Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 3:42PM - 3:54PM		T7.00002: The Composition of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays at Telescope Array Elliott Barcikowski Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 3:54PM - 4:06PM		T7.00003: The nuclear mass composition of UHECR with the Pierre Auger Observatory Maria Monasor Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:06PM - 4:18PM		T7.00004: Determination of hadronic interaction characteristics with the Pierre Auger Observatory Eun-Joo Ahn Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:18PM - 4:30PM		T7.00005: Irregular Cosmic Ray Air Showers James Matthews, Amir Hosein Shadkam Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:30PM - 4:42PM		T7.00006: Prospects for Sampling the Cherenkov Lateral Distribution of Air Showers from the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays Donald Driscoll, Corbin Covault, Ross Burton, Andrew Ferguson, Danielle LaHurd Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:42PM - 4:54PM		T7.00007: Searching for Exotic Particles at the Pierre Auger Observatory Using Bayesian Inference David Schuster, Lawrence Wiencke Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:54PM - 5:06PM		T7.00008: Constraining the galactic magnetic field models Azadeh Keivani Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 5:06PM - 5:18PM		T7.00009: Newly-born Pulsars as Sources of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays Ke Fang, Kumiko Kotera, Angela Olinto Preview Abstract

Session T8: Exact Solutions and Analyses of Spacetimes

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Govind Menon, Troy University
Room: Embassy B

Monday, April 2, 2012 3:30PM - 3:42PM		T8.00001: Spacetime Dynamics from Spin Dynamics: Scalar and Pseudoscalar Fields James Crawford Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 3:42PM - 3:54PM		T8.00002: Jet Formation in Super-massive Black Holes Govind Menon, Charles Dermer Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 3:54PM - 4:06PM		T8.00003: Oppenheimer-Snyder Collapse in AdS Spacetime Eric Van Oeveren, Brett Bolen Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:06PM - 4:18PM		T8.00004: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:18PM - 4:30PM		T8.00005: A new form of the five-dimensional Myers-Perry rotating black hole metric Tehani Finch Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:30PM - 4:42PM		T8.00006: Hair on near-extremal Reissner-Nordstr{\o}m AdS black holes James Alsup, George Siopsis, Jason Therrien Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:42PM - 4:54PM		T8.00007: Quantum Stabilization of General-Relativistic Variable-Density Degenerate Stars David Cox, Ronald Mallett, Mark Silverman Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:54PM - 5:06PM		T8.00008: A Challenge to Entropic Gravity Jonathan Roveto, Gerardo Munoz Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 5:06PM - 5:18PM		T8.00009: Deduction of Einstein equation from homogeneity of Riemann spacetime Jun Ni Preview Abstract

Session T9: New Particle Searches III

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Graham Wilson, University of Kansas
Room: Embassy E

Monday, April 2, 2012 3:30PM - 3:42PM		T9.00001: Search for supersymmetry in events with large missing energy and multijets Jared Sturdy Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 3:42PM - 3:54PM		T9.00002: Search for New Physics with the ATLAS Detector in pp Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV in Hadronic Final States with Missing Transverse Energy and Heavy Flavor Bart Butler Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 3:54PM - 4:06PM		T9.00003: Search for new physics in events with b-jets and missing transverse energy in pp collisions at 7 TeV Wee Don Teo Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:06PM - 4:18PM		T9.00004: Search for New Physics with a Monojet and Missing Transverse Energy in 7 TeV pp collisions at CMS Mehmet Vergili Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:18PM - 4:30PM		T9.00005: Search for Gauge Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking in Events with Two Photons and Missing Energy Using the CMS Detector at the LHC Yueh-Feng Liu Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:30PM - 4:42PM		T9.00006: Heavy Charged Leptons in 6-dimensional Randall-Sundrum Model Erin De Pree, Dietrich Kiesewetter Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:42PM - 4:54PM		T9.00007: SUSY Effects in $t\overline{t}$ Production in the CP-Violating MSSM at the LHC Alexander Moreno Briceno, Stefan Berge, Margarete Muehlleitner, Doreen Wackeroth, Martin Wiebusch Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:54PM - 5:06PM		T9.00008: SCET improved SUSY search Xiaohui Liu, Sonny Mantry, Frank Petriello Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 5:06PM - 5:18PM		T9.00009: Search for Z' resonances decaying into top-antitop pairs in fully leptonic final state at CMS Supriya Jain Preview Abstract

Session T10: Nuclear Instrumentation

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Dipangkar Dutta, Mississippi State University
Room: Embassy A

Monday, April 2, 2012 3:30PM - 3:42PM		T10.00001: Hypernuclei production experiment E01-011 at Jefferson Laboratory Hall C by (e, e'K$^{+}$) reaction Yuncheng Han Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 3:42PM - 3:54PM		T10.00002: Spin Light Polarimeter at 12 GeV Prajwal Mohanmurthy, Dipangkar Dutta Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 3:54PM - 4:06PM		T10.00003: Mass Resolution in the Search for a New Boson in the APEX Experiment Eric Jensen Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:06PM - 4:18PM		T10.00004: VHMPID: A Proposed New Detector for the ALICE Experiment Karen Cossyleon, Edmundo Garcia Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:18PM - 4:30PM		T10.00005: The Assembly of the Forward Vertex Silicon Detector at Brookhaven National Laboratory Elaine Tennant Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:30PM - 4:42PM		T10.00006: A New Muon Trigger for W-Physics at Forward Rapidity in PHENIX Francesca Giordano Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:42PM - 4:54PM		T10.00007: The PHENIX MuTrig Local Level One Trigger Upgrade at PHENIX Joshua Perry Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:54PM - 5:06PM		T10.00008: Novel Zooming Scale Hough Transform Pattern Recognition Algorithm for the PHENIX Detector Theodore Koblesky Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 5:06PM - 5:18PM		T10.00009: A GEANT Model of the GEM-based Tracking Monitor for the STAR Experiment Kathleen Engle Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 5:18PM - 5:30PM		T10.00010: Prototype of a Muon Tomography Station with GEM detectors for Detection of Shielded Nuclear Contraband Michael Staib, Vallary Bhopatkar, William Bittner, Marcus Hohlmann, Judson Locke, Jessie Twigger, Kondo Gnanvo Preview Abstract

Session T11: Accelerator Neutrino Experiments

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Bob Svoboda, University of California, Davis
Room: Embassy F

Monday, April 2, 2012 3:30PM - 3:42PM		T11.00001: Status of the MiniBooNE combined appearance analysis Zarko Pavlovic Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 3:42PM - 3:54PM		T11.00002: Neutral Pion Production in MINERvA Jose Palomino Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 3:54PM - 4:06PM		T11.00003: Identifying NuE-CC and NuEbar-CC in the LBNE Water Cerenkov Detector Tyler Alion, Hongyue Duyang, Andrew Svenson, Sanjib Mishra, Seungyoonh Han Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:06PM - 4:18PM		T11.00004: Fast Photon Monte Carlo for Water Cherenkov Detectors Anthony LaTorre, Stanley Seibert Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:18PM - 4:30PM		T11.00005: Monte Carlo-based Reconstruction in Water Cherenkov Detectors using \emph{Chroma} Stanley Seibert, Anthony LaTorre Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:30PM - 4:42PM		T11.00006: Crosscheck of GLoBES Sensitivity Calculations For LBNE Jonathan Insler Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:42PM - 4:54PM		T11.00007: Study of Neutrino-Antineutrino Transitions in MINOS Richa Sharma Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:54PM - 5:06PM		T11.00008: DAE$\delta$ALUS Target Design Optimization Tess Smidt, Roger Barlow, Adriana Bungau, Janet Conrad Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 5:06PM - 5:18PM		T11.00009: Methods to Determine Neutrino Flux at Low Energies: Investigation of the Low $\nu $ Method Ulascan Sarica, Arie Bodek, Donna Naples, Lu Ren Preview Abstract

Session T12: Invited Session: Flow Signatures and its Implications for the Strongly Interacting Quark Gluon Plasma

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Xiaochun He, Georgia State University
Room: Grand Hall East A/B

Monday, April 2, 2012 3:30PM - 4:06PM		T12.00001: Recent flow results from Heavy Ions Experiments at the LHC Invited Speaker: Andrew Adare Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:06PM - 4:42PM		T12.00002: RHIC results on the energy dependence of flow fluctuations at all harmonics Invited Speaker: Paul Sorensen Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:42PM - 5:18PM		T12.00003: Characteristics of the strongly Interacting Quark Gluon Plasma -- implications of recent flow results Invited Speaker: Hannah Petersen Preview Abstract

Session T14: Computational Methods and Implementation

Sponsoring Units: DCOMP
Chair: Ronald Mickens, Clark Atlanta University
Room: Grand Hall East C

Monday, April 2, 2012 3:30PM - 3:42PM		T14.00001: Investigation of an Unforced Duffing Equation having Fractional Power Damping Ronald E. Mickens, Ray Bullock, W. Eugene Collins Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 3:42PM - 3:54PM		T14.00002: Estimate of the Damping Force Exponential Coefficient for an Oscillating Beam S. Ray Bullock, W. Eugene Collins$^1$, Ronald E. Mickens Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 3:54PM - 4:06PM		T14.00003: Dispersion corrections in the boron buckyball and nanotubes Rosi Gunasinghe, Cherno Kah, Kregg Quarles, Xiao-Qian Wang Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:06PM - 4:18PM		T14.00004: Relative stability of boron fullerenes: A dispersion-corrected density-functional study Larry Riche, Rosi Gunasinghe, Xiao-Qian Wang Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:18PM - 4:30PM		T14.00005: Distributed computing with an ATLAS Tier 3 cluster at KSU David Joffe Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:30PM - 4:42PM		T14.00006: Surface plasmon resonance based infrared photo-detectors Yigit Aytac, Unil Perera Preview Abstract
Monday, April 2, 2012 4:42PM - 4:54PM		T14.00007: Construction of An Approximate Periodic Solution to a Modified Lewis Equation 'Kale Oyedeji Preview Abstract