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Session L2: Invited Session: DPF Prize Session I

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Ian Shipsey, Purdue University
Room: Plaza D

Sunday, April 14, 2013 3:30PM - 3:57PM		L2.00001: W.K.H. Panofsky Prize Talk: The Search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particle Dark Matter: Science Motivation and CDMS strategy Invited Speaker: Bernard Sadoulet Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 3:57PM - 4:24PM		L2.00002: W. K. H. Panofsky Prize Talk: The Search for WIMP Dark Matter: CDMS Detectors Invited Speaker: Blas Cabrera Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:24PM - 4:51PM		L2.00003: Observation of time-reversal violation in B meson transitions at BABAR Invited Speaker: Fernando Martinez-Vidal Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:51PM - 5:18PM		L2.00004: The Heart of Darkness: Dark Matter Searches for Supersymmetry with Heavy Scalars Invited Speaker: David Sanford Preview Abstract

Session L3: Invited Session: Special Topics in Nuclear Physics

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Room: Plaza E

Sunday, April 14, 2013 3:30PM - 4:06PM		L3.00001: Recent Developments in Extended Density Functional Theories Invited Speaker: Elena Litvinova Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:06PM - 4:42PM		L3.00002: Reaction rate of the s-process neutron source 22Ne + alpha Invited Speaker: Richard Longland Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:42PM - 5:18PM		L3.00003: The limits of the nuclear landscape Invited Speaker: Jochen Erler Preview Abstract

Session L4: Invited Session: Galaxy Clusters Across the EM Spectrum

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Grzegorz Madejski, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Room: Plaza F

Sunday, April 14, 2013 3:30PM - 4:06PM		L4.00001: X-ray cluster science Invited Speaker: Christine Jones Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:06PM - 4:42PM		L4.00002: Cluster Cosmology from Large Optical Surveys Invited Speaker: Eduardo Rozo Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:42PM - 5:18PM		L4.00003: SZ Cluster Surveys and Cosmology Invited Speaker: Neelima Sehgal Preview Abstract

Session L5: Invited Session: Gravitational Wave Astrophysics

Sponsoring Units: GGR DAP
Chair: Daniel Holz, University of Chicago
Room: Governor's Square 14

Sunday, April 14, 2013 3:30PM - 4:06PM		L5.00001: Gravitational Waves: Probes of Stellar Collapse Invited Speaker: Chris Fryer Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:06PM - 4:42PM		L5.00002: Learning about dense matter from gravitational waves Invited Speaker: Jocelyn Read Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:42PM - 5:18PM		L5.00003: Gravitational waves from binaries and dense stellar clusters Invited Speaker: Will Farr Preview Abstract

Session L6: Invited Session: Intensity Frontier: Accelerators

Sponsoring Units: DPB
Chair: Donald Hartill, Cornell University
Room: Governor's Square 15

Sunday, April 14, 2013 3:30PM - 4:06PM		L6.00001: Near Term Prospects at FNAL and Project X Invited Speaker: Stuart Henderson Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:06PM - 4:42PM		L6.00002: European Spallation Source Progress Invited Speaker: Steve Peggs Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:42PM - 5:18PM		L6.00003: J-PARC Future Plans Invited Speaker: Yujiro Ikeda Preview Abstract

Session L7: Invited Session: Doing Science, Improving Diversity: Strategies for Minority Physicists

Sponsoring Units: COM
Chair: Mani Tripathi, University of California, Davis
Room: Governor's Square 16

Sunday, April 14, 2013 3:30PM - 4:06PM		L7.00001: My Path Into X-Ray, Optics and Pressure: Experiences and Achievements Invited Speaker: William Evans Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:06PM - 4:42PM		L7.00002: A Random Walk into Optical Signal Processing and Integrated Optofluidics Invited Speaker: Martha-Elizabeth Baylor Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:42PM - 5:18PM		L7.00003: Opportunities in Research in Nuclear Science at MSI Invited Speaker: Karl van Bibber Preview Abstract

Session L8: Supernovae and Extragalactic Backgrounds

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Dany Page, Instituto de Astronomia, UNAM
Room: Governor's Square 10

Sunday, April 14, 2013 3:30PM - 3:42PM		L8.00001: Progenitor Dependence of the Early Neutrino Signal in Core-Collapse Supernova Evan O'Connor, Christian Ott Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 3:42PM - 3:54PM		L8.00002: Impact of Sterile Neutrinos on Core-Collapse Supernovae MacKenzie Warren, Matthew Meixner, Grant Mathews, J. Hidaka, T. Kajino Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 3:54PM - 4:06PM		L8.00003: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:06PM - 4:18PM		L8.00004: The Most Powerful Stellar Explosions Ke-Jung Chen, Alexander Heger, Stan Woosley, Ann Almgren, Weiqun Zhang Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:18PM - 4:30PM		L8.00005: Acceleration, beaming, and synchrotron radiation above the 160 MeV limit from relativistic pair reconnection Gregory Werner, Benoit Cerutti, Dmitri Uzdensky, Mitchell Begelman Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:30PM - 4:42PM		L8.00006: The Imprint of the Extragalactic Background Light in the Gamma-ray Spectra of Blazars Marco Ajello, Rolf Buehler, Anita Reimer Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:42PM - 4:54PM		L8.00007: The Impact of Gamma-ray Halos on the Angular Anisotropy of the Extragalactic Gamma-ray Background Tonia Venters, Vasiliki Pavlidou Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:54PM - 5:06PM		L8.00008: Predicting the Blazar Anisotropy Energy Spectrum of the Gamma-Ray Background Cassandra Lochhaas, Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins Preview Abstract

Session L9: Spin Structure of the Nucleon I

Sponsoring Units: GHP
Chair: Kalyan Allada, Jefferson Laboratory
Room: Governor's Square 11

Sunday, April 14, 2013 3:30PM - 3:42PM		L9.00001: Persepectives of Polarized Drell-Yan Measurements with Future Fixed-Target and Collider Experiments Xiaodong Jiang, Kwangbok Lee Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 3:42PM - 3:54PM		L9.00002: Sign Flip of Single Transverse Spin Asymmetries in Drell-Yan and DIS: The Role of Cuts and Complex Phases Matthew Sievert, Stanley Brodsky, Dae Sung Hwang, Yuri Kovchegov, Ivan Schmidt Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 3:54PM - 4:06PM		L9.00003: Feasibility study for measuring the Drell-Yan cross section and double-spin asymmetry (ALL) at PHENIX using the FVTX Tracker Gonaduwage Perera, Stephen Pate Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:06PM - 4:18PM		L9.00004: The Double Helicity Asymmetry in Neutral Pion Production at PHENIX and Its Constraint on $\Delta G$ Through Global Analysis Kieran Boyle Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:18PM - 4:30PM		L9.00005: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:30PM - 4:42PM		L9.00006: Recent Results on $W$ Boson Production in Polarized $p+p$ Collisions at STAR Justin Stevens Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:42PM - 4:54PM		L9.00007: Measurement of $W^{\pm}$ Boson Production at Mid-rapidity in 510 GeV Polarized $p+p$ Collisions at PHENIX Mikhail Stepanov Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:54PM - 5:06PM		L9.00008: Transverse Single Spin Asymmetries in J/$\psi$ Production in Proton-Proton Collisions Oleg Eyser Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 5:06PM - 5:18PM		L9.00009: Reduction of Background in Observation of W Decay Using the Forward Vertex (FVTX) detector at PHENIX Abraham Meles Preview Abstract

Session L10: Gravitational Experiments and Instruments

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: James Ira Thorpe, NASA
Room: Governor's Square 12

Sunday, April 14, 2013 3:30PM - 3:42PM		L10.00001: A new test of short-distance gravity Ted Cook, Eric Adelberger, Erik Swanson Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 3:42PM - 3:54PM		L10.00002: Update: Parallel-Plate Null Test of the Gravitational Inverse Square Law Charles Hagedorn, Stephan Schlamminger, Matthew Turner, Krishna Venkateswara, Jens Gundlach Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 3:54PM - 4:06PM		L10.00003: Regression of Environmental Noise in LIGO data Vaibhav Tiwari, Sergei Klimenko Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:06PM - 4:18PM		L10.00004: An IndIGO update on LIGO-India Balasubramanian Iyer Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:18PM - 4:30PM		L10.00005: Analysis of a dense seismic array to determine sources of Newtonian gravitational noise at the LIGO sites Jennifer Driggers, Jan Harms, Vivien Raymond, Rana Adhikari Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:30PM - 4:42PM		L10.00006: Laser Frequency Noise Immune Gravitational Wave Detection Jason Hogan, Sheng-wey Chiow, Susannah Dickerson, Peter Graham, Tim Kovachy, Surjeet Rajendran, Alex Sugarbaker, Mark Kasevich Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:42PM - 4:54PM		L10.00007: Proposed Single Baseline Atom Interferometry Gravitational Wave Measurements Peter L. Bender Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:54PM - 5:06PM		L10.00008: Detecting high-frequency gravitational waves with optically levitated sensors Andrew Geraci, Asimina Arvanitaki Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 5:06PM - 5:18PM		L10.00009: Neutron Interference in the Gravitational Field of a Ring Laser Robert Fischetti Preview Abstract

Session L11: Top Quark at LHC and Tevatron

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Howard Haber, University of California, Santa Cruz
Room: Governor's Square 17

Sunday, April 14, 2013 3:30PM - 3:42PM		L11.00001: Measurement of the $t\bar{t}$ cross section in the $\tau$ plus jets final state using the ATLAS detector William Edson, Teeba Rashid, Anirvan Sircar Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 3:42PM - 3:54PM		L11.00002: Top mass measurement in the all-jet channel with a template method Ayesh Jayasinghe Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 3:54PM - 4:06PM		L11.00003: Motivation and event selection for the top quark pair production differential cross-section with ATLAS Clare Bernard Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:06PM - 4:18PM		L11.00004: Unfolding techniques in the ATLAS top differential cross-section measurement Taylor Childers Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:18PM - 4:30PM		L11.00005: A measurement of top quark pair differential cross-section $d\sigma/dm_{t\bar t}$ in the dilepton channel Ki Lie, Steven Errede, Irene Vichou Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:30PM - 4:42PM		L11.00006: Measurement of the single top associated production cross section with ATLAS Peng Ge, Reinhard Schwienhorst, Huaqiao Zhang Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:42PM - 4:54PM		L11.00007: Search for associated production of a single top quark with a W boson Daniel Noonan Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:54PM - 5:06PM		L11.00008: America's Next Top Model: Probing the $tWb$ Vertex with Polarized Top Quarks Kevin Sapp Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 5:06PM - 5:18PM		L11.00009: Search for Highly Collimated Top Quarks with the ATLAS Detector Daniel Pluth Preview Abstract

Session L12: Neutrino Physics

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Bob Bernstein, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Room: Plaza Court 1

Sunday, April 14, 2013 3:30PM - 3:42PM		L12.00001: Measurement of the Neutrino Velocity in MINOS Ioana Maria Anghel Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 3:42PM - 3:54PM		L12.00002: Neutrino and Superluminal Limiting Velocity Josip Soln Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 3:54PM - 4:06PM		L12.00003: Cosmic Neutrino Flavor Ratios with Broken $\nu_\mu$--$\nu_\tau$ Symmetry Lingjun Fu, Chiu Man Ho, Thomas Weiler Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:06PM - 4:18PM		L12.00004: Searching Magnetic Monopoles With NO$\nu$A Far Detector Zukai Wang Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:18PM - 4:30PM		L12.00005: A Large Water-based Liquid Scintillation Detector in Search for Proton Decay $p \to K^{+} \bar\nu$ and Other Physics Chao Zhang Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:30PM - 4:42PM		L12.00006: Kaon decay-at-rest as a probe of the sterile neutrino Joshua Spitz Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:42PM - 4:54PM		L12.00007: A search for non-standard neutrino interactions in MINOS Zeynep Isvan Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:54PM - 5:06PM		L12.00008: IsoDAR - A Definitive Search for Sterile Neutrinos William Barletta Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 5:06PM - 5:18PM		L12.00009: Tau neutrino as a probe of nonstandard interactions via charged Higgs and W' contribution Ahmed Rashed, Murugeswaran Duraisamy, Alakabha Datta Preview Abstract

Session L13: Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ions: Hot and Dense Matter

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Paul Sorensen, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Room: Plaza Court 2

Sunday, April 14, 2013 3:30PM - 3:42PM		L13.00001: Identified charged hadron spectra and ratios in Au+Au and d+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV Ron Belmont Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 3:42PM - 3:54PM		L13.00002: Bc absorption cross sections by light mesons in heavy ion collision M.A.K. Lodhi, Faisal Akram Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 3:54PM - 4:06PM		L13.00003: SHARE with CHARM Michal Petran, Johann Rafelski Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:06PM - 4:18PM		L13.00004: What do we learn from the scaling properties of azimuthal anisotropy measurements at RHIC and the LHC? Roy Lacey Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:18PM - 4:30PM		L13.00005: Effects of a realistic strange quark mass and color neutrality on the QCD phase diagram Philip Powell, Gordon Baym Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:30PM - 4:42PM		L13.00006: Results from the RHIC Beam Energy Scan Daniel Cebra Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:42PM - 4:54PM		L13.00007: Simulations of Statistical Model Fits to RHIC Data W.J. Llope Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:54PM - 5:06PM		L13.00008: Quark Number Fluctuations in a Chiral Model with a Magnetic Field Lidens Cheng, Vivian Incera Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 5:06PM - 5:18PM		L13.00009: Analysis of fixed target collisions with the STAR detector Brooke Haag Preview Abstract

Session L14: Multimessenger Cosmic Rays

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: John Krizmanic, NASA
Room: Plaza Court 3

Sunday, April 14, 2013 3:30PM - 3:42PM		L14.00001: High Energy Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos from Newborn Pulsars Ke Fang, Kumiko Kotera, Angela Olinto Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 3:42PM - 3:54PM		L14.00002: Cosmic-ray anisotropy studies with the IceCube, IceTop and AMANDA detectors Marcos Santander Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 3:54PM - 4:06PM		L14.00003: Fluorescence Detection of Cosmic Ray Air Showers between 10$^{16.5}$ eV and 10$^{19}$ eV with the Telescope Array Low Energy Extension (TALE) J.N. Matthews, Z. Zundel, C.C.H. Jui, J.D. Smith, S.B. Thomas, D. Ivanov Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:06PM - 4:18PM		L14.00004: Cosmic-Ray Observations with HAWC30 Daniel Fiorino Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:18PM - 4:30PM		L14.00005: Composition and Energy Resolution with HAWC300 Zigfried Hampel-Arias Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:30PM - 4:42PM		L14.00006: Characterization of CALET prototype TASC lead tungstate calorimeter using CERN beam test data Amir Javaid Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:42PM - 4:54PM		L14.00007: Predicted CALET Measurements of Ultra-Heavy Cosmic Ray Abundances Brian Rauch Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:54PM - 5:06PM		L14.00008: The Super-TIGER Instrument to Probe Galactic Cosmic-Ray Origins John E. Ward Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 5:06PM - 5:18PM		L14.00009: Time variations of cosmic-ray helium isotopes Nicolas Picot-Clemente Preview Abstract

Session L15: Computational Physics II

Sponsoring Units: DCOMP
Chair: Tim Germann, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Room: Plaza Court 4

Sunday, April 14, 2013 3:30PM - 3:42PM		L15.00001: Improving general relativistic astrophysics workflows with ADIOS Tanja Bode, Magdalena Slawinska, Jeremy Logan, Michael Clark, Matthew Kinsey, Matthew Wolf, Scott Klasky, Pablo Laguna Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 3:42PM - 3:54PM		L15.00002: The Noble Element Simulation Technique (NEST) Michael Woods Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 3:54PM - 4:06PM		L15.00003: Modeling the Energy Resolution of Xenon with NEST Sergey Uvarov Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:06PM - 4:18PM		L15.00004: Pulse Shape in 2-Phase Xenon Detectors Jeremy Mock Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:18PM - 4:30PM		L15.00005: Classical two-dimensional numerical algorithm for ?-Induced charge carrier advection-diffusion in Medipix-3 silicon pixel detectors Mason Biamonte, John Idarraga Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:30PM - 4:42PM		L15.00006: Occupancy Study of the Phase 1 Upgrade to the CMS Pixel Sub-detector James Zabel Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:42PM - 4:54PM		L15.00007: Tests of Pixel Detector Readout Components to be used in the CMS Experiment During Phase I of the LHC Upgrade Indira Vergara-Quispe Preview Abstract