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Session C2: Invited Session: Exotic Hadron States

Sponsoring Units: DNP DPF
Chair: Volker Crede, Florida State University
Room: Plaza D

Saturday, April 13, 2013 1:30PM - 2:06PM		C2.00001: Review of XYZ States Invited Speaker: Eric Swanson Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:06PM - 2:42PM		C2.00002: Light-Quark Spectroscopy on the Lattice Invited Speaker: David Richards Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:42PM - 3:18PM		C2.00003: Prospects for Future Studies of the XYZ: BESIII, GlueX, Panda Invited Speaker: Ryan Mitchell Preview Abstract

Session C3: Invited Session: Novel Detection in Low-Energy Nuclear Physics

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Sean Liddick, Michigan State University
Room: Plaza E

Saturday, April 13, 2013 1:30PM - 2:06PM		C3.00001: Nuclear Spectroscopy with HELIOS Invited Speaker: Calem Hoffman Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:06PM - 2:42PM		C3.00002: Active Target-Time Projection Chambers for Reactions Induced by Rare Isotope Beams: Physics and Technology Invited Speaker: Wolfgang Mittig Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:42PM - 3:18PM		C3.00003: First Results from GRETINA at the S800 Spectrometer Invited Speaker: Heather Crawford Preview Abstract

Session C4: Invited Session: Nature's Particle Accelerators

Sponsoring Units: DAP DCOMP
Chair: Rosalba Perna, University of Colorado at Boulder
Room: Plaza F

Saturday, April 13, 2013 1:30PM - 2:06PM		C4.00001: Understanding particle acceleration at supernova shocks Invited Speaker: Damiano Caprioli Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:06PM - 2:42PM		C4.00002: The Crab Pulsar: An Old Friend Full of Surprises Invited Speaker: Alice Harding Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:42PM - 3:18PM		C4.00003: Quasars in miniature: new insights into particle acceleration from X-ray binaries Invited Speaker: Sera Markoff Preview Abstract

Session C5: Invited Session: Recent Developments in Mathematical Relativity

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: James Isenberg, University of Oregon
Room: Governor's Square 14

Saturday, April 13, 2013 1:30PM - 2:06PM		C5.00001: On the dynamic formation of trapped surfaces in vacuum Invited Speaker: Sergiu Klainerman Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:06PM - 2:42PM		C5.00002: The black hole stability problem Invited Speaker: Mihalis Dafermos Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:42PM - 3:18PM		C5.00003: Dynamic and Thermodynamic Stability of Black Holes Invited Speaker: Robert Wald Preview Abstract

Session C6: Invited Session: Maria Goeppert Mayer: The 50th Anniversary of Her Nobel Prize

Sponsoring Units: FHP
Chair: Paul Halpern, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
Room: Governor's Square 15

Saturday, April 13, 2013 1:30PM - 2:06PM		C6.00001: Maria Goeppert Mayer's work on beta-decay and pairing, and its relevance today Invited Speaker: Steven Moszkowski Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:06PM - 2:42PM		C6.00002: Maria Goeppert Mayer and the Nobel Prize Invited Speaker: Karen E. Johnson Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:42PM - 3:18PM		C6.00003: Remembrances of Maria Goeppert Mayer and the Nuclear Shell Model. Invited Speaker: Elizabeth Baranger Preview Abstract

Session C7: Invited Session: Excellence in Physics Education Award Session: smartPhysics

Sponsoring Units: FEd
Chair: Paul Cottle, Florida State University
Room: Governor's Square 16

Saturday, April 13, 2013 1:30PM - 2:06PM		C7.00001: Excellence in Physics Education Award Talk: Initiating and Sustaining Reform in Introductory Physics Instruction: The Illinois Experience Invited Speaker: Gary Gladding Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:06PM - 2:42PM		C7.00002: Transforming the lecture experience at the University of Illinois Invited Speaker: Tim Stelzer Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:42PM - 3:18PM		C7.00003: Pedagogy meets Technology: Optimizing Labs in Large Enrollment Introductory Courses Invited Speaker: Mats Selen Preview Abstract

Session C8: CMB I

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Nils Halverson, University of Colorado at Boulder
Room: Governor's Square 10

Saturday, April 13, 2013 1:30PM - 1:42PM		C8.00001: Precision Measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization from the POLARBEAR experiment Bryan Steinbach Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 1:42PM - 1:54PM		C8.00002: ABSTRACT HAS BEEN MOVED TO R8.00009 Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 1:54PM - 2:06PM		C8.00003: The Keck Array CMB polarimeter overview and status Zachary Staniszewski Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:06PM - 2:18PM		C8.00004: The Atacama B-mode Search: Status and Prospect Akito Kusaka Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:18PM - 2:30PM		C8.00005: The physical origin of constraints on cosmological parameters from cosmic microwave background measurements Zhen Hou Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:30PM - 2:42PM		C8.00006: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:42PM - 2:54PM		C8.00007: Constraints from Planck and Other Experiments on Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Marius Millea Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:54PM - 3:06PM		C8.00008: Constraints on Tensor-to-scalar Ratio for Planck Mission King Lau, Jiayu Tang, Ming Chung Chu Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 3:06PM - 3:18PM		C8.00009: Planck component separation with Commander Ingunn Kathrine Wehus Preview Abstract

Session C9: Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ions: Quarkonia, Heavy Flavor

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Richard Seto, University of California, Riverside
Room: Governor's Square 11

Saturday, April 13, 2013 1:30PM - 1:42PM		C9.00001: Free energy and potential energy of static quark anti-quark pair at T$>$0 Peter Petreczky Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 1:42PM - 1:54PM		C9.00002: Quarkonium formation and melting at LHC energies Edwin Norbeck, Yasar Onel Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 1:54PM - 2:06PM		C9.00003: Quarkonia measurements and physics opportunities in $p$+A collisions at the PHENIX experiment. Kwangbok Lee Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:06PM - 2:18PM		C9.00004: Open heavy flavor production in Cu+Au collisions at forward rapidity at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200 GeV$ Irakli Garishvili, Sanghoon Lin Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:18PM - 2:30PM		C9.00005: Heavy quark production at forward and backward rapidity in d$+$Au collisions at $\sqrt{s} = $ 200 GeV Sanghoon Lim Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:30PM - 2:42PM		C9.00006: Intermediate Silicon Tracker for STAR HFT Upgrade Yaping Wang Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:42PM - 2:54PM		C9.00007: Forward Silicon Detector for the PHENIX Experiment Jin Huang Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:54PM - 3:06PM		C9.00008: Dielectron measurements in $d+Au$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}_{NN}$ = 200 GeV using the PHENIX Detector at RHIC Deepali Sharma Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 3:06PM - 3:18PM		C9.00009: Measurement of Dielectron Spectra with the Hadron Blind Detector in PHENIX Jiayin Sun Preview Abstract

Session C10: Coalescing Binary Waveforms

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Carlos Lousto, Rochester Institute of Technology
Room: Governor's Square 12

Saturday, April 13, 2013 1:30PM - 1:42PM		C10.00001: Simulations of coalescing binary black holes: Key Elements of Robustness Bela Szilagyi Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 1:42PM - 1:54PM		C10.00002: Simulations of coalescing binary black holes: Testing and validation Mark Scheel Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 1:54PM - 2:06PM		C10.00003: Coalescing binary black holes: Applications enabled by many simulations Harald Pfeiffer Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:06PM - 2:18PM		C10.00004: Accurate modeling of inspiral-merger-ringdown waveforms from non-precessing, spinning black-hole binaries Andrea Taracchini, Yi Pan, Alessandra Buonanno, Enrico Barausse, Michael Boyle, Tony Chu, Geoffrey Lovelace, Harald Pfeiffer, Mark Scheel Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:18PM - 2:30PM		C10.00005: Developments in IRS Multi-Mode Waveforms Bernard Kelly, John Baker Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:30PM - 2:42PM		C10.00006: Simulating precessing binary black hole systems Serguei Ossokine, Lawrence Kidder, Harald Pfeiffer, Michael Boyle, Abdul Mroue Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:42PM - 2:54PM		C10.00007: Precession Effects in Gravitational Waves from Compact Binaries Antoine Klein, Neil Cornish, Nico Yunes Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:54PM - 3:06PM		C10.00008: Periastron advance for a spinning particle in Kerr spacetime Tanja Hinderer, Alessandra Buonanno Preview Abstract

Session C11: Dark Matter I

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Bob Bernstein, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Room: Governor's Square 17

Saturday, April 13, 2013 1:30PM - 1:42PM		C11.00001: SuperCDMS - Status and Plans Joel Sander Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 1:42PM - 1:54PM		C11.00002: Full Reach of CDMS-II Ge Data Thomas Hofer Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 1:54PM - 2:06PM		C11.00003: Dark Matter Search Results from the Silicon Detectors of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search Experiment Kevin McCarthy Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:06PM - 2:18PM		C11.00004: Low Threshold Modulation Searches in CDMS-II Danielle Speller Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:18PM - 2:30PM		C11.00005: Towards a Low Threshold SuperCDMS Experiment Bradford Welliver Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:30PM - 2:42PM		C11.00006: The CDMSlite Experiment Ritoban Basu Thakur Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:42PM - 2:54PM		C11.00007: Results from the XENON1T Demonstrator Hugo Contreras, Elena Aprile, Ranny Budnik, Luke Goetzke, Guillaume Plante, Marcello Messina, Alfio Rizzo, Antonio Melgarejo, Junji Naganoma, Petr Chaguine Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:54PM - 3:06PM		C11.00008: Updates from the DMTPC Dark Matter Search Jeremy Lopez Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 3:06PM - 3:18PM		C11.00009: The DRIFT Directional Dark Matter Detector Eric Miller Preview Abstract

Session C12: Precision Measurements and Symmetry Tests

Sponsoring Units: GPMFC
Chair: Michael Romalis, Princeton University
Room: Plaza Court 1

Saturday, April 13, 2013 1:30PM - 1:42PM		C12.00001: Measurement of the Planck constant using a watt balance at NIST Stephan Schlamminger, Darine Haddad, Frank Seifert, Ruimin Liu, David Newell, Jon Pratt Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 1:42PM - 1:54PM		C12.00002: Conditional Spin Squeezing via Quantum Non-demolition Measurements with an Optical Cycling Transition Joshua Weiner, Kevin Cox, Matthew Norcia, Justin Bohnet, Zilong Chen, James Thompson Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 1:54PM - 2:06PM		C12.00003: Parity violating superfluidity in ultra-cold atoms with artificial non-Abelian gauge fields Li Han, Kangjun Seo, Carlos S{\'a} de Melo Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:06PM - 2:18PM		C12.00004: The Compton Polarimeter in Hall C of Jefferson Amrendra Narayan Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:18PM - 2:30PM		C12.00005: The E36 Experiment at J-PARC Michael Kohl Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:30PM - 2:42PM		C12.00006: The neutron electric dipole moment experiment at the FRM-II Michael Marino Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:42PM - 3:18PM		C12.00007: Francis M. Pipkin Award Talk: Proton structure from laser spectroscopy of muonic hydrogen Invited Speaker: Randolf Pohl Preview Abstract

Session C13: Structure & Reactions Involving Light Nuclei

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: June Matthews, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room: Plaza Court 2

Saturday, April 13, 2013 1:30PM - 1:42PM		C13.00001: Progress in Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations of Light Nuclei with Non-Local Potentials Joel Lynn, Kevin Schmidt, Joe Carlson, Stefano Gandolfi Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 1:42PM - 1:54PM		C13.00002: Consistency in Quenching of ``Absolute'' Spectroscopic Factors from Transfer Reactions J.P. Schiffer, B.P. Kay, S.J. Freeman Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 1:54PM - 2:06PM		C13.00003: Microscopic Optical Potential for Scattering of $^6$He and $^8$He off Protons Charlotte Elster, Azamat Orazbayev, Stephen Weppner Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:06PM - 2:18PM		C13.00004: Investigating halo features with the $^{11}$Be(p, d)$^{10}$Be transfer reaction at 110 MeV at TRIUMF-ISAC II K. Kuhn, R. Braid, F. Sarazin, D. Smalley, U. Hager, S. Ilyushkin, P. O'Malley, M.A.G. Alvarez, C. Andreoiu, P.C. Bender, G. Hackman, C. Unsworth, Z. Wang, W.N. Catford, C.Aa. Diget, A. DiPietro, P. Figuera, T.E. Drake, J. Gomez, E. Nacher, A. Perea, O. Tengblad, C.E. Svensson Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:18PM - 2:30PM		C13.00005: Direct Observation of a New $J^\pi = 2^+$ State in ${}^{12}\mathrm{C}$ through the ${}^{12}\mathrm{C}+\gamma \rightarrow 3\alpha$ Reaction W.R. Zimmerman, M.W. Ahmed, S.S. Henshaw, I. Mazumdar, J.M. Mueller, L.S. Myers, M.H. Sikora, S. Stave, H.R. Weller, M. Gai Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:30PM - 2:42PM		C13.00006: Determination of the ground state branching ratio in $^{14}$O$\rightarrow ^{14}$N beta decay Paul Voytas, Elizabeth George, Lynn Knutson, Gregory Severin Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:42PM - 2:54PM		C13.00007: Universality and the matter radius of Carbon-22 Daniel Phillips, Bijaya Acharya, Chen Ji Preview Abstract

Session C14: SPS Undergraduate Research II

Sponsoring Units: SPS
Chair: Toni Sauncy, Society of Physics Students
Room: Plaza Court 3

Saturday, April 13, 2013 1:30PM - 1:42PM		C14.00001: Toy Monte Carlo Simulations Mirroring K-Long Decay, as Studied by the K0TO Experiment Christiana Erba Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 1:42PM - 1:54PM		C14.00002: A Quantum Phase Transition in Hard-Core Bosons on an Optical Lattice in Three Dimensions Matthew Gammill, Richard Scalettar, Valy Rousseau Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 1:54PM - 2:06PM		C14.00003: Resolving Ionospheric E-region Modeling Challenges: The Solar Photon Flux Dependence Joseph Jensen, Jan Sojka, Michael David, Kent Tobiska, Robert Schunk, Tom Woods, Frank Eparvier Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:06PM - 2:18PM		C14.00004: Characterization of Hydrogen Embrittled Zircaloy-4 by Using a Van de Graaff Particle Accelerator John Budd Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:18PM - 2:30PM		C14.00005: Computational Study of Low Energy Nuclear Scattering Justin Salazar, Ajit Hira, Clifton Brownrigg, Jose Pacheco Preview Abstract

Session C15: Form Factors and Two-photon Exchange

Sponsoring Units: DNP GHP
Chair: Brad Sawatzky, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Room: Plaza Court 4

Saturday, April 13, 2013 1:30PM - 1:42PM		C15.00001: $\pi^-/\pi^+$ Exclusive Pion Electroproduction Results from Jefferson Lab Garth Huber Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 1:42PM - 1:54PM		C15.00002: Studying the Proton Radius Puzzle with $\mu$p Elastic Scattering Katherine Myers Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 1:54PM - 2:06PM		C15.00003: Strangeness Vector and Axial-Vector Form Factors of the Nucleon Dennis Trujillo, Stephen Pate Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:06PM - 2:18PM		C15.00004: The CLAS Two Photon Exchange Experiment Dasuni Adikaram, Robert Bennett, Larry Weinstein, Dipak Rimal, Puneet Khetarpal, Brian Raue Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:18PM - 2:30PM		C15.00005: The OLYMPUS Experiment Simulation Axel Schmidt Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:30PM - 2:42PM		C15.00006: An Update on the OLYMPUS Two-Photon Exchange Experiment at DESY Colton O'Connor Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:42PM - 2:54PM		C15.00007: A measurement of two-photon exchange in unpolarized elastic electron-proton scattering Mikhail Yurov Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:54PM - 3:06PM		C15.00008: Measurement of the Target Single-Spin Asymmetry in Quasi-Elastic $^3$He$^{\uparrow}$(e,e') Yawei Zhang Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 13, 2013 3:06PM - 3:18PM		C15.00009: Multiple Compton Scattering as a Function of Detector Size Tareq Alrefae Preview Abstract