Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2014
Volume 59, Number 5
Saturday–Tuesday, April 5–8, 2014; Savannah, Georgia
Epitome
Apr 5 2014 8:30AM, Saturday
A1
The Fred Kavli Keynote Plenary Session: The Mysteries of Mass
Room: Chatham Ballroom A/B
Sponsor:
APS
Chair: Jonathan Rosner, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers: Joe Incandela, Maria Spiropulu, Rafael Lang
Apr 5 2014 10:45AM, Saturday
B2
Invited Session: DPF Prize Session I
Room: Chatham Ballroom A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Ian Peter Shipsey, Purdue University
Invited Speakers: Kam-Biu Luk, Yifang Wang, Daniel Dwyer, Gregory Moore
B3
Invited Session: Hadron Polarizabilities
Room: Chatham Ballroom B
Sponsor:
DNP GFB
Chair: Elton Smith, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Invited Speakers: D. Hornidge, Rory Miskimen, Carl Carlson
B4
Invited Session: Neutron Star Radii
Room: Chatham Ballroom C
Sponsor:
DAP DNP
Chair: Michael Miller, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers: Slavko Bogdanov, Alexandros Gezerlis, Jocelyn Read
B6
Relativistic Heavy Ions: Theoretical Aspects
Room: 200
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Vivian Incera, University of Texas at El Paso
B7
Physics of Light Systems
Room: 201
Sponsor:
DNP
B9
Solar and Planetary Physics
Room: 203
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Miriam Forman, Stonybrook University
B10
History of Physics
Room: 204
Sponsor:
FHP
Chair: Catherine Westfall, Michigan State University
B11
Invited Session: Issues in Quantum Gravity
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Jorge Pullin, Louisiana State University
Invited Speakers: Bianca Dittrich, Parampreet Singh
B14
Undergraduate Research and Outreach - SPS I
Room: 102
Chair: Toni Sauncy, Society of Physics Students
B15
Gravitational Wave Astrophysics I
Room: 103
Chair: Larne Pekowsky, Georgia Institute of Technology
B17
Invited Session: Hyperloop and other Transportation Ideas
Room: 105-106
Sponsor:
FPS
Chair: Valerie Thomas, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers: Rhett Allain, Stephen Granade, Aatish Bhatia
Apr 5 2014 12:00PM, Saturday
B20
CSWP/DPF Networking Luncheon
Room: Hyatt Regency Savannah Savannah Room
Sponsor:
CSWP DPF
Apr 5 2014 12:30PM, Saturday
B21
Lunch with the Grads: A Panel Discussion About Physics Graduate School
Room: 102
Apr 5 2014 1:30PM, Saturday
C2
Invited Session: DPF Prize Session II
Room: Chatham Ballroom A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Joanne Hewett, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Invited Speakers: Lance Dixon, David Kosower, Zvi Bern
C3
Invited Session: Nuclear Physics at the Gamma-ray Intensity Frontier
Room: Chatham Ballroom B
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Calvin Howell, Duke University
Invited Speakers: Norbert Pietralla, Ernst Rehm, Haiyan Gao
C4
Invited Session: Astrophysical and Cosmological Neutrinos
Room: Chatham Ballroom C
Sponsor:
DAP DPF
Chair: Nathan Whitehorn, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Invited Speakers: Markus Ahlers, Amy Connolly, Zhen Hou
C6
Hadronic Physics
Room: 200
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Alan Krisch, University of Michigan
C7
Reactions: Hadrons & Light Nuclei
Room: 201
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Sait Umar, Vanderbilt University
C8
Neutron Stars and Pulsars
Room: 202
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Slavko Bogdanov, Columbia University
C9
Galaxies and Clusters
Room: 203
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Tonia Venters, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
C10
Invited Session: Impacts and Experiences with MOOCs
Room: 204
Sponsor:
FEd
Chair: James Brown, Wabash College
Invited Speakers: Michael Schatz, David E. Pritchard, Wolfgang Bauer
C11
Invited Session: Increasing the Participation of Women in Physics - Current Studies and Efforts
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium
Sponsor:
CSWP
Invited Speakers: Lara Perez-Felkner, Susan Blessing
C12
Axion and Dark Matter I
Room: 100
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Robert Bernstein, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
C14
Undergraduate Research and Outreach - SPS II
Room: 102
Chair: Kendra Redmond, Society of Physics Students - AIP
C15
Gravitational Wave Astrophysics II
Room: 103
Chair: Ben Lackey, Princeton
C16
Mathematical Aspects of General Relativity I
Room: 104
Chair: Ivan Booth
C17
Invited Session: Journeys in the History of Physics: Pais Prize Session in Honor of David Cassidy
Room: 105-106
Sponsor:
FHP
Chair: David Cassidy, Hofstra University
Invited Speakers: David C. Cassidy, Daniel Siegel, Brian Schwartz
Apr 5 2014 2:00PM, Saturday
D1
Poster Session I (14:00-17:00)
Room: Exhibit Hall
Sponsor:
APS
Apr 5 2014 3:30PM, Saturday
E2
Invited Session: Dark Matter - WIMPs
Room: Chatham Ballroom A
Sponsor:
DAP DPF
Chair: Tracy Slatyer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers: Blas Cabrera, Jan Conrad, Carsten Rott
E3
Invited Session: Rethinking the Quark-Gluon Plasma
Room: Chatham Ballroom B
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Helen Caines, Yale University
Invited Speakers: Gunther Roland, Xin Dong, Vladimir Skokov
E4
Invited Session: Panel Discussion on Career Opportunities for Physicists
Room: Chatham Ballroom C
Sponsor:
FGSA
Chair: Brock Russell, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers: Steven Lambert
E6
Nuclear Astrophysics
Room: 200
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Andrew Steiner, INT/University of Washington
E7
Non Accelerator Searches for Exotic Particles
Room: 201
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Rmualdo deSouza, Indiana University
E8
Black Holes in Astrophysics
Room: 202
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Sharon Morsink, University of Alberta
E9
Galactic Cosmic Rays
Room: 203
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Angela Olinto, University of Chicago
E10
Invited Session: Light Baryons as Few-Body Systems
Room: 204
Sponsor:
GFB
Chair: Martin Savage, University of Washington
Invited Speakers: Ian Cloet, Volker D. Burkert, Christian Weiss
E11
Invited Session: Compact Binaries and Gravitational Waves: Simulations, Templates and Interpretation
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Frans Pretorius, Princeton University
Invited Speakers: Geoffrey Lovelace, Manuel Tiglio, Nicolas Yunes
E12
Neutrinos: New Results
Room: 100
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Howard Haber, University of Califronia, Santa Cruz
E13
Andrei Sakharov Prize Session
Room: 101
Sponsor:
FIP
Chair: Esen Alp, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers: Boris Altshuler, Herb Berk
E16
Mathematical Aspects of General Relativity II
Room: 104
Chair: Mark Scheel, California Institute of Technology
E17
Invited Session: Extreme Energy Efficiency
Room: 105-106
Sponsor:
FPS
Chair: Valerie Thomas, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers: Robert Van Buskirk, Karina Garbesi, Tina Kaarsberg
Apr 5 2014 5:30PM, Saturday
F1
APS Welcome Reception
Room: Convention Center, Esplanade
Sponsor:
APS
Apr 5 2014 6:00PM, Saturday
F16
DPF Business Meeting
Room: 104
Sponsor:
DPF
V7
GHP Business Meeting
Room: 202
Sponsor:
GHP
Apr 5 2014 7:00PM, Saturday
G11
Town Hall: Re-Imagining the April Meeting
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium
Apr 5 2014 7:30PM, Saturday
G20
Public Lecture: Fireworks at the Galactic Center Black Hole
Room: Chatham Ballroom C
Chair: John Beacom, Ohio State University
Invited Speakers: Stefan Gillessen
Apr 6 2014 8:30AM, Sunday
H2
Invited Session: Higgs Boson I
Room: Chatham Ballroom A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Howard Haber, University of California, Santa Cruz
Invited Speakers: Gabriella Sciolla, Adolf Bornheim, Ayres Freitas
H3
Invited Session: Frontiers of the Interface Between Physics and Medicine
Room: Chatham Ballroom B
Sponsor:
DNP DPB
Chair: Jerry Nolen, Argonne National Laboratories
Invited Speakers: J. David Robertson, Suzanne Lapi, Oliver Jakel
H4
Invited Session: Early Universe
Room: Chatham Ballroom C
Sponsor:
DAP DPF
Chair: Lloyd Knox, University of California, Davis
Invited Speakers: Daniel Green, Marilena Loverde, Mu-Chun Chen
H6
Relativistic Heavy Ions: p+ p and p+ A
Room: 200
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Abhisek Sen, University of Tennessee
H7
Electroweak Interactions
Room: 201
Chair: Leah Broussard, Los Alamos National Laboratory
H8
Mini-Symposium on Physics of the Cosmos
Room: 202
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Alan Smale, NASA Goddard
Invited Speakers: Ann Hornschemeier
H10
Invited Session: AAPT: Physics in the Life Sciences
Room: 204
Sponsor:
FEd
Chair: Randall Knight, California Polytechnic State University
Invited Speakers: Mark Reeves, Catherine Crouch, Edward Redish
H11
Invited Session: Careers beyond General Relativity
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium
Sponsor:
GGR FGSA
Chair: Benjamin Farr, Northwestern University
Invited Speakers: Kenneth Smith, William Nelson, Michael Burka
H12
Dark Matter I
Room: 100
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Robert Bernstein, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
H13
QCD Physics
Room: 101
Sponsor:
GPMFC DPF
Chair: JoAnne Hewett, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
H14
Spin Structure
Room: 102
Sponsor:
GHP
Chair: Harut Avakian, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
H15
Gravitational Wave Astrophysics III
Room: 103
Chair: Ian Harry
H17
Invited Session: The Impact of Advanced Digital Resources on Research in Physics
Room: 105-106
Sponsor:
DCOMP DAP
Chair: Barry Schneider, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers: Colin Morningstar, Christian D. Ott, Tiziana Di Matteo
Apr 6 2014 9:30AM, Sunday
H18
FPS Business Meeting
Room: Jasper Boardroom
Sponsor:
FPS
Apr 6 2014 10:30AM, Sunday
H20
Undergraduate Awards Brunch
Room: Hyatt Regency Savannah Scarbrough 3-4
Apr 6 2014 10:45AM, Sunday
J2
Invited Session: Dark Matter - Beyond WIMPs
Room: Chatham Ballroom A
Sponsor:
DAP DPF
Chair: Carsten Rott, Sungkyunkwan University
Invited Speakers: Tracy Slatyer, Shunsaku Horiuchi, Rouven Essig
J3
Invited Session: Chromo Dynamics
Room: Chatham Ballroom B
Sponsor:
GHP GFB
Chair: Matthias Burkardt, New Mexico State University
Invited Speakers: Christian Holbling, Martin Savage, Peter Tandy
J4
Invited Session: Probing Inflation with the Cosmic Microwave Background
Room: Chatham Ballroom C
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Lloyd Knox, University of California, Davis
Invited Speakers: Jamie Bock
J6
Mini-Symposium on Nuclear Physics: Sensitive Input for Understanding Nucleosynthesis I
Room: 200
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Kelly Chipps, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers: Rebecca Surman
J7
Neutrino Physics
Room: 201
Chair: Joshua Albert, Indiana University
J8
Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Rays
Room: 202
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Lawrence Wiencke, Colorado School of Mines
J10
Invited Session: Large Scale International Facilities I: Photon Sources
Room: 204
Sponsor:
FIP DPB
Chair: Esen Alp, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers: Uwe Bergmann, S.L. Molodtsov, Tetsuya Ishikawa
J11
Invited Session: Excellence in Physics Education Award: AMTA
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium
Sponsor:
FEd
Chair: Michael Fauerbach, Florida Gulf Coast University
Invited Speakers: David Hestenes, Jane Jackson, Colleen Megowan-Romanowicz
J12
Instrumentation & Methods I
Room: 100
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Mike Tuts, Columbia University
J13
Top and Electroweak Physics
Room: 101
Sponsor:
GPMFC DPF
Chair: Howard Haber, University of California, Santa Cruz
J15
Numerical Relativity in Vacuum: Methods and Simulation I
Room: 103
Chair: Francois Foucart, University of Toronto
J16
Quantum Aspects of Gravitation I
Room: 104
Chair: Steven Carlip, University of California, Davis
J17
Invited Session: Joseph A. Burton Forum Award and Leo Szilard Lectureship Award
Room: 105-106
Sponsor:
FPS
Chair: Valerie Thomas, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers: Michael May, Ramamurti Rajaraman, M.V. Ramana
Apr 6 2014 12:00PM, Sunday
J20
DPB Business Meeting
Room: 102
Sponsor:
DPB
Apr 6 2014 12:30PM, Sunday
J30
Graduate Student Lunch with the Experts
Room: Exhibit Hall A
Sponsor:
SPS
Apr 6 2014 1:30PM, Sunday
K2
Invited Session: Quarkonium - XYZ States
Room: Chatham Ballroom A
Sponsor:
DPF GFB
Chair: Michael Tuts, Columbia University
Invited Speakers: Matthew Shepherd, Christopher Thomas, Eric Braaten
K3
Invited Session: Search for Sterile Neutrinos
Room: Chatham Ballroom B
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Sam Zeller, Fermi National Laboratory
Invited Speakers: Anna Hayes, Heather Ray, Kevork Abazajian
K4
Invited Session: Jets and Astophysical Tests of General Relativity
Room: Chatham Ballroom C
Sponsor:
DAP GGR
Chair: Grzegorz Madejski, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Invited Speakers: Sera Markoff, Alexander Tchekhovskoy, Scott Ransom
K6
Mini-Symposium on Nuclear Physics: Sensitive Input for Understanding Nucleosynthesis II
Room: 200
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Maxime Brodeur, University of Notre Dame
K7
Applications of Nuclear Physics
Room: 201
Chair: Andy Saunders, Los Alamos National Laboratory
K8
Astroparticle Observatories and Techniques
Room: 202
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Kohta Murase, Institute for Advanced Study
K9
Indirect Dark Matter Searches
Room: 203
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Carsten Rott, Sungkyunkwan University
K10
Invited Session: Large Scale International Facilities II: Particle Accelerators
Room: 204
Sponsor:
FIP DPB
Chair: Christine Darve, European Spallation Source
Invited Speakers: James Yeck, Frederick Bordry, Thomas Glasmacher
K11
Town Hall on APS Corporate Reform, Open Access Publishing, and the Future of Open Data
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium
Sponsor:
APS
K12
Neutrinos from Reactors and the Cosmos
Room: 100
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Sally Seidel, University of New Mexico
K13
Dark Sector and Neutrino Theory
Room: 101
Sponsor:
GPMFC DPF
Chair: JoAnne Hewett, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
K15
Numerical Relativity with Matter: Methods and Simulations I
Room: 103
Chair: Geoffrey Lovelace, California State University, Fullerton
K16
Quantum Aspects of Gravitation II
Room: 104
Chair: Parampret Singh, Lousiana State University
Invited Speakers: Martin Bojowald
K17
Invited Session: Gaining Inspiration from Galileo, Einstein and Oppenheimer
Room: 105-106
Sponsor:
FHP
Chair: Catherine Westfall, Michigan State University
Invited Speakers: Paolo Palmieri, Gerd Kortemeyer, Cameron Reed
Apr 6 2014 2:00PM, Sunday
L1
Poster Session II (14:00-17:00)
Room: Exhibit Hall
Sponsor:
APS
Apr 6 2014 2:30PM, Sunday
L14
Tutorial for Authors and Referees
Room: 102
Sponsor:
APS
Apr 6 2014 3:30PM, Sunday
M2
Invited Session: Flavor Physics
Room: Chatham Ballroom A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Nicholas Hadley, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers: Antonio Pellegrino, Brad Abbott, Gil Paz
M3
Invited Session: Orbiting Quarks
Room: Chatham Ballroom B
Sponsor:
DNP GFB
Chair: F.X. Girod, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Invited Speakers: Barbara Pasquini, Harut Avagyan, Silvia Niccolai
M4
Invited Session: Hot Topics in Astrophysics
Room: Chatham Ballroom C
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Paul Shapiro, University of Texas at Austin
Invited Speakers: Daryl Haggard, Dominic Walton, Petra Huentemeyer
M6
Nuclei with 40 < A < 100
Room: 200
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Jeremy Holt, University of Washington
M7
Few-Body Systems
Room: 201
Sponsor:
GFB
Chair: Ulf-G. Meissner, Bonn University/Juelich
M10
Invited Session: AAPT: Readying Physics Departments to Engage in Teacher Preparation in Course Transformation
Room: 204
Sponsor:
FEd
Chair: Monica Plisch, American Physical Society
Invited Speakers: Laurie McNeil, Rachel Scherr, David E. Meltzer
M11
Invited Session: Progress Toward the Advanced Detector Era
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Laura Cadonati, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Invited Speakers: Jeffrey Kissel, Jessica McIver, Ruslan Vaulin
M12
Dark Matter II
Room: 100
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Robin Erbacher, University of California, Davis
M13
Neutrinos: Experimental Methods
Room: 101
Sponsor:
GPMFC DPF
M15
Numerical Relativity in Vacuum: Methods and Simulations II
Room: 103
Chair: Roseanne Cheng, Georgia Institute of Technology
M17
Invited Session: Accelerators for the Future of Nuclear Physics
Room: 105-106
Sponsor:
DPB DNP
Invited Speakers: Donald Geesaman, Oliver Bruning, Thomas Glasmacher
M30
Meet the APS Journal Editors
Room: Georgia International Gallery
Sponsor:
APS
Apr 6 2014 4:30PM, Sunday
N4
LGBT Roundtable Discussion on LGBT+ Issues in Physics
Room: Jasper Boardroom
Apr 6 2014 5:45PM, Sunday
N1
APS Prizes and Awards Ceremonial Session
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium
Sponsor:
APS
Chair: Malcolm Beasley, Stanford University
Apr 6 2014 6:30PM, Sunday
N2
Diversity Reception
Room: Hyatt Regency Savannah Scarbrough 3-4
Apr 6 2014 8:00PM, Sunday
N3
A Staged Reading of the Play: Uranium + Peaches
Room: Hyatt Regency Savannah Regency Ballroom A
Apr 7 2014 8:30AM, Monday
Q1
Plenary Session II: Treasures From the Cosmic Frontier
Room: Chatham Ballroom A/B
Sponsor:
APS
Chair: Ian Shipsey, Purdue University
Invited Speakers: Naoko Kurahashi Neilson, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Suzanne Staggs
Apr 7 2014 10:45AM, Monday
R2
Invited Session: Neutrinos from Accelerators and Reactors
Room: Chatham Ballroom A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Robert Bernstein, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Invited Speakers: Laura Fields, Ornella Palamara, Lisa Everett
R3
Invited Session: Quadropole Collectivity and Shape Coexistence around A=100
Room: Chatham Ballroom B
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Sam Tabor, Florida State University
Invited Speakers: Alexandra Gade, Reiner Kr\"ucken, Christopher Campbell
R4
Invited Session: Gravitational Lensing Applications of CMB Surveys
Room: Chatham Ballroom C
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Lloyd Knox, University of California, Davis
Invited Speakers: Gilbert Holder, Lindsey Bleem, Neal Dalal
R6
QCD
Room: 200
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Simon Capstick, Florida State University
R7
Instrumentation I
Room: 201
Chair: Dipangkar Dutta, Mississippi State University
R8
Gamma-ray and Neutrino Observations
Room: 202
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Keith Bechtol, University of Chicago
R9
Education - Practice and Research I
Room: 203
R10
Invited Session: Vision of Accelerator and Detector R&D in the US
Room: 204
Sponsor:
DPB DNP DPF
Chair: Manouchehr Farkhondeh, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Physics
Invited Speakers: L.K. Len, Michael Zisman, H. Marsiske
R11
Invited Session: Precision Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium
Sponsor:
GFB DAP
Chair: Kenneth Nollett, Ohio University
Invited Speakers: Ryan Cooke, Brian Fields, Ulf-G. Meissner
R12
Axion and Dark Matter II
Room: 100
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Mike Tuts, Columbia University
R13
LHC Searches I
Room: 101
Sponsor:
GPMFC DPF
Chair: Nikos Varelas, University of Illinois at Chicago
R14
Tests of Physics Laws
Room: 102
Sponsor:
GPMFC
R15
Numerical Relativity with Matter: Methods and Simulations II
Room: 103
Chair: William East, Princeton University
R16
Tests of General Relativity and Gravitation
Room: 104
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Carlos Palenzuela
R17
Invited Session: The Many Worlds of Leo Szilard
Room: 105-106
Sponsor:
FHP
Chair: Daniel Kleppner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers: William Lanouette, Richard Garwin, Matthew Meselson
Apr 7 2014 1:30PM, Monday
S2
Invited Session: Searches for New Physics at the LHC
Room: Chatham Ballroom A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Yuri Gershtein, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers: Harinder Bawa, Daryl Hare, Mariangela Lisanti
S3
Invited Session: Electroweak Interactions, Neutrinos and Neutrons
Room: Chatham Ballroom B
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Ani Aprahamian, University of Notre Dame
Invited Speakers: Projjwal Banerjee, Chen-Yu Liu, Oscar Naviliat-Cuncic
S4
Invited Session: Cosmological Constraints from Gamma-Ray Data
Room: Chatham Ballroom C
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Julie McEnery, NASA
Invited Speakers: Keith Bechtol, Amy Furniss, Kohta Murase
S6
Heavy Nuclei and Matter
Room: 200
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Jeff Carroll, Army Research Laboratory
S7
Instrumentation II
Room: 201
Chair: Adbellah Ahmidouch, North Carolina A&T State University
S8
Radio in Ice: UHECR Cosmic-rays and Neutrinos
Room: 202
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Amy Connolly, Ohio State University
S9
Cosmic Microwave Background
Room: 203
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Tyler Natoli
S10
Education - Practice and Research II
Room: 204
S11
Invited Session: Singularities in General Relativity
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Dierdre Shoemaker, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers: James Isenberg, Abhay Ashtekar, David Garfinkle
S12
Flavor Physics: Charged Leptons and Updates
Room: 100
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Nicholas Hadley, University of Maryland
S13
Higgs Boson: Theory and Experiment
Room: 101
Sponsor:
DPF GPMFC
Chair: Ian Shipsey, Oxford University
S14
Topics in Accelerators and Beams
Room: 102
Sponsor:
DPB DPF
Chair: Robert Bernstein, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
S15
Gravitational Waveform Modeling
Room: 103
S17
Invited Session: Division of Physics of Beams Award Session
Room: 105-106
Sponsor:
DPB
Chair: Stan Shriber, Michigan State University
Invited Speakers: Kwang Je Kim, Stan Schriber, Jean Delayen
Apr 7 2014 2:00PM, Monday
T1
Poster Session III (14:00-17:00)
Room: Exhibit Hall
Sponsor:
APS
Apr 7 2014 3:30PM, Monday
U2
Invited Session: Instrumentation for Particle Physics
Room: Chatham Ballroom A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Sally Seidel, University of New Mexico
Invited Speakers: Elena Aprile, Ted Liu, Hartmut Sadrozinski
U3
Invited Session: DNP Prize/Award Session
Room: Chatham Ballroom B
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Berndt Mueller, Duke University
Invited Speakers: John Negele, William Zajc, Gerald A. Miller
U4
Invited Session: Cosmic Rays
Room: Chatham Ballroom C
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Angela Olinto, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers: Paolo Zuccon, Nathan Whitehorn, Toshihiro Fujii
U9
Cosmology
Room: 203
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Paul Anderson, Wake Forest University
U11
Invited Session: The Transient Gravitational Wave Sky
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium
Sponsor:
GGR DAP
Chair: Nicolas Yunes, Montana State University
Invited Speakers: Pablo Laguna, Rosalba Perna, Laura Cadonati
U12
Neutrino Experimental Considerations
Room: 100
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Robert Bernstein, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
U13
LHC Searches II
Room: 101
Sponsor:
GPMFC DPF
Chair: Nikos Varelas, University of Illinois at Chicago
U14
Data and Simulations: Methods and Implementation
Room: 102
U15
Alternate Theories of Gravity
Room: 103
Chair: Sam Gralla
U17
Invited Session: Physics Research and Innovation
Room: 105-106
Sponsor:
FPS
Chair: Pushpalatha Bhat, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Invited Speakers: Eric R. Fossum, Hasan Padamsee, Nathaniel Fisch
Apr 7 2014 5:30PM, Monday
V6
DNP Business Meeting
Room: 201
Sponsor:
DNP
V8
DAP Business Meeting
Room: 203
Sponsor:
DAP
V9
GGR Business Meeting
Room: 204
Sponsor:
GGR
V10
FEd Business Meeting
Room: 101
Sponsor:
FEd
V14
GFB Business Meeting
Room: 102
Sponsor:
GFB
V18
GPER Business Meeting
Room: 100
Sponsor:
GPER
Apr 7 2014 5:45PM, Monday
V17
App-y Hour
Room: Hyatt Regency Savannah Scarbrough 1
Sponsor:
APS
Apr 7 2014 8:00PM, Monday
V20
Special Movie Screening: Particle Fever
Room: Hyatt Regency Savannah Scarbrough 2-4
Sponsor:
APS
Apr 8 2014 8:30AM, Tuesday
W1
Plenary Session III: One Hundred Years of the Beta-Decay Spectrum
Room: Chatham Ballroom A/B
Sponsor:
APS
Chair: John F. Wilkerson, University of North Carolina
Invited Speakers: R.G. Hamish Robertson, Wick Haxton, Sheldon Stone
Apr 8 2014 10:45AM, Tuesday
X2
Invited Session: Electroweak Physics
Room: Chatham Ballroom A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Jonathan Rosner, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers: Ki Lie, Ping Tan, Konstantin Matchev
X3
Invited Session: Gravitational Waves and Nuclear Astrophysics
Room: Chatham Ballroom B
Sponsor:
DNP GGR
Chair: Jocelyn Read, California State University, Fullerton
Invited Speakers: Matthew Duez, Andrew Steiner, Daniel Kasen
X4
Invited Session: Results from the Dark Energy Survey
Room: Chatham Ballroom C
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Brenna Flaugher, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Invited Speakers: Marisa March, Eduardo Rozo, Joseph Clampitt
X6
Relativistic Heavy Ions: A+A
Room: 200
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Helen Caines, Yale University
X7
Nuclear Theory I
Room: 201
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Mark Caprio, University of Notre Dame
X8
Supernovae and Gamma Ray Bursts I
Room: 202
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Ignacio Taboada, Georgia Institute of Technology
X10
Invited Session: Open Innovation Labs for Physics Undergraduate Independent Research
Room: 204
Sponsor:
FEd
Chair: Duncan Carlsmith, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Invited Speakers: Duncan Carlsmith, John R. Brandenberger, Randall Tagg
X11
Invited Session: New Computational Techniques for Astrophysics
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium
Sponsor:
DCOMP DAP
Chair: Pedro Marronetti, National Science Foundation
Invited Speakers: M.A. Clark, Adrian Pope, Erik Schnetter
X12
Instrumentation & Methods II
Room: 100
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Nikos Varelas, University of Illinois at Chicago
X13
Formal Theory
Room: 101
Sponsor:
GPMFC DPF
Chair: Nicholas Hadley, University of Maryland
X14
Hadron Structure
Room: 102
Sponsor:
GHP
Chair: Volker Crede, Florida State University
X15
Approximations to General Relativity
Room: 103
Chair: Bela Szilagyi, California Institute of Technology
Apr 8 2014 1:30PM, Tuesday
Y2
Invited Session: Higgs Boson II
Room: Chatham Ballroom A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Nikos Varelas, University of Illinois at Chicago
Invited Speakers: Wade Fisher, Sally Dawson, Timothy Barklow
Y3
Invited Session: R-Process Nucleosynthesis
Room: Chatham Ballroom B
Sponsor:
DNP DAP
Chair: Charles Horowitz, Indiana University
Invited Speakers: Brian Metzger, Hendrik Schatz, Karl-Ludwig Kratz
Y7
Nuclear Theory II
Room: 201
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Anatoli Afanasjev, Mississippi State University
Y8
Supernovae and Gamma Ray Bursts II
Room: 202
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Shunsaku Joriuchi, University of California, Irvine
Y9
New Directions in Astrophysics
Room: 203
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: John Beacom, The Ohio State University
Y10
Invited Session: History of the G2 from 1947 to Present
Room: 204
Sponsor:
FHP DPF
Chair: Robert Crease, Stonybrook University
Invited Speakers: Toichiro Kinoshita, Richard Garwin, Yannis Semertzidis
Y12
Flavor Physics: Charm and Bottom
Room: 100
Sponsor:
DPF
Y13
Axion and Dark Matter III
Room: 101
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Nick Hadley, University of Maryland
Y15
Gravitational Wave Experiment
Room: 103
Chair: Zach Etienne, University of Maryland
Y16
Frontiers in Gravitation
Room: 104
Chair: Beverly Berger
Y17
Invited Session: Popularizing Physics
Room: 105-106
Sponsor:
FPS
Chair: Richard Wiener, Research Corporation for Science Advancement
Invited Speakers: David Lindley, Diandra Leslie-Pelecky, Mats Selen
Apr 5 2014 8:30AM, Saturday
A1
The Fred Kavli Keynote Plenary Session: The Mysteries of Mass
Room: Chatham Ballroom A/B
Sponsor:
APS
Chair: Jonathan Rosner, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers: Joe Incandela, Maria Spiropulu, Rafael Lang
Apr 5 2014 10:45AM, Saturday
B2
Invited Session: DPF Prize Session I
Room: Chatham Ballroom A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Ian Peter Shipsey, Purdue University
Invited Speakers: Kam-Biu Luk, Yifang Wang, Daniel Dwyer, Gregory Moore
B3
Invited Session: Hadron Polarizabilities
Room: Chatham Ballroom B
Sponsor:
DNP GFB
Chair: Elton Smith, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Invited Speakers: D. Hornidge, Rory Miskimen, Carl Carlson
B4
Invited Session: Neutron Star Radii
Room: Chatham Ballroom C
Sponsor:
DAP DNP
Chair: Michael Miller, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers: Slavko Bogdanov, Alexandros Gezerlis, Jocelyn Read
B6
Relativistic Heavy Ions: Theoretical Aspects
Room: 200
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Vivian Incera, University of Texas at El Paso
B7
Physics of Light Systems
Room: 201
Sponsor:
DNP
B9
Solar and Planetary Physics
Room: 203
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Miriam Forman, Stonybrook University
B10
History of Physics
Room: 204
Sponsor:
FHP
Chair: Catherine Westfall, Michigan State University
B11
Invited Session: Issues in Quantum Gravity
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Jorge Pullin, Louisiana State University
Invited Speakers: Bianca Dittrich, Parampreet Singh
B14
Undergraduate Research and Outreach - SPS I
Room: 102
Chair: Toni Sauncy, Society of Physics Students
B15
Gravitational Wave Astrophysics I
Room: 103
Chair: Larne Pekowsky, Georgia Institute of Technology
B17
Invited Session: Hyperloop and other Transportation Ideas
Room: 105-106
Sponsor:
FPS
Chair: Valerie Thomas, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers: Rhett Allain, Stephen Granade, Aatish Bhatia
Apr 5 2014 12:00PM, Saturday
B20
CSWP/DPF Networking Luncheon
Room: Hyatt Regency Savannah Savannah Room
Sponsor:
CSWP DPF
Apr 5 2014 12:30PM, Saturday
B21
Lunch with the Grads: A Panel Discussion About Physics Graduate School
Room: 102
Apr 5 2014 1:30PM, Saturday
C2
Invited Session: DPF Prize Session II
Room: Chatham Ballroom A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Joanne Hewett, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Invited Speakers: Lance Dixon, David Kosower, Zvi Bern
C3
Invited Session: Nuclear Physics at the Gamma-ray Intensity Frontier
Room: Chatham Ballroom B
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Calvin Howell, Duke University
Invited Speakers: Norbert Pietralla, Ernst Rehm, Haiyan Gao
C4
Invited Session: Astrophysical and Cosmological Neutrinos
Room: Chatham Ballroom C
Sponsor:
DAP DPF
Chair: Nathan Whitehorn, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Invited Speakers: Markus Ahlers, Amy Connolly, Zhen Hou
C6
Hadronic Physics
Room: 200
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Alan Krisch, University of Michigan
C7
Reactions: Hadrons & Light Nuclei
Room: 201
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Sait Umar, Vanderbilt University
C8
Neutron Stars and Pulsars
Room: 202
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Slavko Bogdanov, Columbia University
C9
Galaxies and Clusters
Room: 203
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Tonia Venters, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
C10
Invited Session: Impacts and Experiences with MOOCs
Room: 204
Sponsor:
FEd
Chair: James Brown, Wabash College
Invited Speakers: Michael Schatz, David E. Pritchard, Wolfgang Bauer
C11
Invited Session: Increasing the Participation of Women in Physics - Current Studies and Efforts
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium
Sponsor:
CSWP
Invited Speakers: Lara Perez-Felkner, Susan Blessing
C12
Axion and Dark Matter I
Room: 100
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Robert Bernstein, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
C14
Undergraduate Research and Outreach - SPS II
Room: 102
Chair: Kendra Redmond, Society of Physics Students - AIP
C15
Gravitational Wave Astrophysics II
Room: 103
Chair: Ben Lackey, Princeton
C16
Mathematical Aspects of General Relativity I
Room: 104
Chair: Ivan Booth
C17
Invited Session: Journeys in the History of Physics: Pais Prize Session in Honor of David Cassidy
Room: 105-106
Sponsor:
FHP
Chair: David Cassidy, Hofstra University
Invited Speakers: David C. Cassidy, Daniel Siegel, Brian Schwartz
Apr 5 2014 2:00PM, Saturday
D1
Poster Session I (14:00-17:00)
Room: Exhibit Hall
Sponsor:
APS
Apr 5 2014 3:30PM, Saturday
E2
Invited Session: Dark Matter - WIMPs
Room: Chatham Ballroom A
Sponsor:
DAP DPF
Chair: Tracy Slatyer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers: Blas Cabrera, Jan Conrad, Carsten Rott
E3
Invited Session: Rethinking the Quark-Gluon Plasma
Room: Chatham Ballroom B
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Helen Caines, Yale University
Invited Speakers: Gunther Roland, Xin Dong, Vladimir Skokov
E4
Invited Session: Panel Discussion on Career Opportunities for Physicists
Room: Chatham Ballroom C
Sponsor:
FGSA
Chair: Brock Russell, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers: Steven Lambert
E6
Nuclear Astrophysics
Room: 200
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Andrew Steiner, INT/University of Washington
E7
Non Accelerator Searches for Exotic Particles
Room: 201
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Rmualdo deSouza, Indiana University
E8
Black Holes in Astrophysics
Room: 202
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Sharon Morsink, University of Alberta
E9
Galactic Cosmic Rays
Room: 203
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Angela Olinto, University of Chicago
E10
Invited Session: Light Baryons as Few-Body Systems
Room: 204
Sponsor:
GFB
Chair: Martin Savage, University of Washington
Invited Speakers: Ian Cloet, Volker D. Burkert, Christian Weiss
E11
Invited Session: Compact Binaries and Gravitational Waves: Simulations, Templates and Interpretation
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Frans Pretorius, Princeton University
Invited Speakers: Geoffrey Lovelace, Manuel Tiglio, Nicolas Yunes
E12
Neutrinos: New Results
Room: 100
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Howard Haber, University of Califronia, Santa Cruz
E13
Andrei Sakharov Prize Session
Room: 101
Sponsor:
FIP
Chair: Esen Alp, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers: Boris Altshuler, Herb Berk
E16
Mathematical Aspects of General Relativity II
Room: 104
Chair: Mark Scheel, California Institute of Technology
E17
Invited Session: Extreme Energy Efficiency
Room: 105-106
Sponsor:
FPS
Chair: Valerie Thomas, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers: Robert Van Buskirk, Karina Garbesi, Tina Kaarsberg
Apr 5 2014 5:30PM, Saturday
F1
APS Welcome Reception
Room: Convention Center, Esplanade
Sponsor:
APS
Apr 5 2014 6:00PM, Saturday
F16
DPF Business Meeting
Room: 104
Sponsor:
DPF
V7
GHP Business Meeting
Room: 202
Sponsor:
GHP
Apr 5 2014 7:00PM, Saturday
G11
Town Hall: Re-Imagining the April Meeting
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium
Apr 5 2014 7:30PM, Saturday
G20
Public Lecture: Fireworks at the Galactic Center Black Hole
Room: Chatham Ballroom C
Chair: John Beacom, Ohio State University
Invited Speakers: Stefan Gillessen
Apr 6 2014 8:30AM, Sunday
H2
Invited Session: Higgs Boson I
Room: Chatham Ballroom A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Howard Haber, University of California, Santa Cruz
Invited Speakers: Gabriella Sciolla, Adolf Bornheim, Ayres Freitas
H3
Invited Session: Frontiers of the Interface Between Physics and Medicine
Room: Chatham Ballroom B
Sponsor:
DNP DPB
Chair: Jerry Nolen, Argonne National Laboratories
Invited Speakers: J. David Robertson, Suzanne Lapi, Oliver Jakel
H4
Invited Session: Early Universe
Room: Chatham Ballroom C
Sponsor:
DAP DPF
Chair: Lloyd Knox, University of California, Davis
Invited Speakers: Daniel Green, Marilena Loverde, Mu-Chun Chen
H6
Relativistic Heavy Ions: p+ p and p+ A
Room: 200
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Abhisek Sen, University of Tennessee
H7
Electroweak Interactions
Room: 201
Chair: Leah Broussard, Los Alamos National Laboratory
H8
Mini-Symposium on Physics of the Cosmos
Room: 202
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Alan Smale, NASA Goddard
Invited Speakers: Ann Hornschemeier
H10
Invited Session: AAPT: Physics in the Life Sciences
Room: 204
Sponsor:
FEd
Chair: Randall Knight, California Polytechnic State University
Invited Speakers: Mark Reeves, Catherine Crouch, Edward Redish
H11
Invited Session: Careers beyond General Relativity
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium
Sponsor:
GGR FGSA
Chair: Benjamin Farr, Northwestern University
Invited Speakers: Kenneth Smith, William Nelson, Michael Burka
H12
Dark Matter I
Room: 100
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Robert Bernstein, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
H13
QCD Physics
Room: 101
Sponsor:
GPMFC DPF
Chair: JoAnne Hewett, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
H14
Spin Structure
Room: 102
Sponsor:
GHP
Chair: Harut Avakian, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
H15
Gravitational Wave Astrophysics III
Room: 103
Chair: Ian Harry
H17
Invited Session: The Impact of Advanced Digital Resources on Research in Physics
Room: 105-106
Sponsor:
DCOMP DAP
Chair: Barry Schneider, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers: Colin Morningstar, Christian D. Ott, Tiziana Di Matteo
Apr 6 2014 9:30AM, Sunday
H18
FPS Business Meeting
Room: Jasper Boardroom
Sponsor:
FPS
Apr 6 2014 10:30AM, Sunday
H20
Undergraduate Awards Brunch
Room: Hyatt Regency Savannah Scarbrough 3-4
Apr 6 2014 10:45AM, Sunday
J2
Invited Session: Dark Matter - Beyond WIMPs
Room: Chatham Ballroom A
Sponsor:
DAP DPF
Chair: Carsten Rott, Sungkyunkwan University
Invited Speakers: Tracy Slatyer, Shunsaku Horiuchi, Rouven Essig
J3
Invited Session: Chromo Dynamics
Room: Chatham Ballroom B
Sponsor:
GHP GFB
Chair: Matthias Burkardt, New Mexico State University
Invited Speakers: Christian Holbling, Martin Savage, Peter Tandy
J4
Invited Session: Probing Inflation with the Cosmic Microwave Background
Room: Chatham Ballroom C
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Lloyd Knox, University of California, Davis
Invited Speakers: Jamie Bock
J6
Mini-Symposium on Nuclear Physics: Sensitive Input for Understanding Nucleosynthesis I
Room: 200
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Kelly Chipps, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers: Rebecca Surman
J7
Neutrino Physics
Room: 201
Chair: Joshua Albert, Indiana University
J8
Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Rays
Room: 202
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Lawrence Wiencke, Colorado School of Mines
J10
Invited Session: Large Scale International Facilities I: Photon Sources
Room: 204
Sponsor:
FIP DPB
Chair: Esen Alp, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers: Uwe Bergmann, S.L. Molodtsov, Tetsuya Ishikawa
J11
Invited Session: Excellence in Physics Education Award: AMTA
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium
Sponsor:
FEd
Chair: Michael Fauerbach, Florida Gulf Coast University
Invited Speakers: David Hestenes, Jane Jackson, Colleen Megowan-Romanowicz
J12
Instrumentation & Methods I
Room: 100
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Mike Tuts, Columbia University
J13
Top and Electroweak Physics
Room: 101
Sponsor:
GPMFC DPF
Chair: Howard Haber, University of California, Santa Cruz
J15
Numerical Relativity in Vacuum: Methods and Simulation I
Room: 103
Chair: Francois Foucart, University of Toronto
J16
Quantum Aspects of Gravitation I
Room: 104
Chair: Steven Carlip, University of California, Davis
J17
Invited Session: Joseph A. Burton Forum Award and Leo Szilard Lectureship Award
Room: 105-106
Sponsor:
FPS
Chair: Valerie Thomas, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers: Michael May, Ramamurti Rajaraman, M.V. Ramana
Apr 6 2014 12:00PM, Sunday
J20
DPB Business Meeting
Room: 102
Sponsor:
DPB
Apr 6 2014 12:30PM, Sunday
J30
Graduate Student Lunch with the Experts
Room: Exhibit Hall A
Sponsor:
SPS
Apr 6 2014 1:30PM, Sunday
K2
Invited Session: Quarkonium - XYZ States
Room: Chatham Ballroom A
Sponsor:
DPF GFB
Chair: Michael Tuts, Columbia University
Invited Speakers: Matthew Shepherd, Christopher Thomas, Eric Braaten
K3
Invited Session: Search for Sterile Neutrinos
Room: Chatham Ballroom B
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Sam Zeller, Fermi National Laboratory
Invited Speakers: Anna Hayes, Heather Ray, Kevork Abazajian
K4
Invited Session: Jets and Astophysical Tests of General Relativity
Room: Chatham Ballroom C
Sponsor:
DAP GGR
Chair: Grzegorz Madejski, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Invited Speakers: Sera Markoff, Alexander Tchekhovskoy, Scott Ransom
K6
Mini-Symposium on Nuclear Physics: Sensitive Input for Understanding Nucleosynthesis II
Room: 200
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Maxime Brodeur, University of Notre Dame
K7
Applications of Nuclear Physics
Room: 201
Chair: Andy Saunders, Los Alamos National Laboratory
K8
Astroparticle Observatories and Techniques
Room: 202
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Kohta Murase, Institute for Advanced Study
K9
Indirect Dark Matter Searches
Room: 203
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Carsten Rott, Sungkyunkwan University
K10
Invited Session: Large Scale International Facilities II: Particle Accelerators
Room: 204
Sponsor:
FIP DPB
Chair: Christine Darve, European Spallation Source
Invited Speakers: James Yeck, Frederick Bordry, Thomas Glasmacher
K11
Town Hall on APS Corporate Reform, Open Access Publishing, and the Future of Open Data
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium
Sponsor:
APS
K12
Neutrinos from Reactors and the Cosmos
Room: 100
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Sally Seidel, University of New Mexico
K13
Dark Sector and Neutrino Theory
Room: 101
Sponsor:
GPMFC DPF
Chair: JoAnne Hewett, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
K15
Numerical Relativity with Matter: Methods and Simulations I
Room: 103
Chair: Geoffrey Lovelace, California State University, Fullerton
K16
Quantum Aspects of Gravitation II
Room: 104
Chair: Parampret Singh, Lousiana State University
Invited Speakers: Martin Bojowald
K17
Invited Session: Gaining Inspiration from Galileo, Einstein and Oppenheimer
Room: 105-106
Sponsor:
FHP
Chair: Catherine Westfall, Michigan State University
Invited Speakers: Paolo Palmieri, Gerd Kortemeyer, Cameron Reed
Apr 6 2014 2:00PM, Sunday
L1
Poster Session II (14:00-17:00)
Room: Exhibit Hall
Sponsor:
APS
Apr 6 2014 2:30PM, Sunday
L14
Tutorial for Authors and Referees
Room: 102
Sponsor:
APS
Apr 6 2014 3:30PM, Sunday
M2
Invited Session: Flavor Physics
Room: Chatham Ballroom A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Nicholas Hadley, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers: Antonio Pellegrino, Brad Abbott, Gil Paz
M3
Invited Session: Orbiting Quarks
Room: Chatham Ballroom B
Sponsor:
DNP GFB
Chair: F.X. Girod, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Invited Speakers: Barbara Pasquini, Harut Avagyan, Silvia Niccolai
M4
Invited Session: Hot Topics in Astrophysics
Room: Chatham Ballroom C
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Paul Shapiro, University of Texas at Austin
Invited Speakers: Daryl Haggard, Dominic Walton, Petra Huentemeyer
M6
Nuclei with 40 < A < 100
Room: 200
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Jeremy Holt, University of Washington
M7
Few-Body Systems
Room: 201
Sponsor:
GFB
Chair: Ulf-G. Meissner, Bonn University/Juelich
M10
Invited Session: AAPT: Readying Physics Departments to Engage in Teacher Preparation in Course Transformation
Room: 204
Sponsor:
FEd
Chair: Monica Plisch, American Physical Society
Invited Speakers: Laurie McNeil, Rachel Scherr, David E. Meltzer
M11
Invited Session: Progress Toward the Advanced Detector Era
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Laura Cadonati, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Invited Speakers: Jeffrey Kissel, Jessica McIver, Ruslan Vaulin
M12
Dark Matter II
Room: 100
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Robin Erbacher, University of California, Davis
M13
Neutrinos: Experimental Methods
Room: 101
Sponsor:
GPMFC DPF
M15
Numerical Relativity in Vacuum: Methods and Simulations II
Room: 103
Chair: Roseanne Cheng, Georgia Institute of Technology
M17
Invited Session: Accelerators for the Future of Nuclear Physics
Room: 105-106
Sponsor:
DPB DNP
Invited Speakers: Donald Geesaman, Oliver Bruning, Thomas Glasmacher
M30
Meet the APS Journal Editors
Room: Georgia International Gallery
Sponsor:
APS
Apr 6 2014 4:30PM, Sunday
N4
LGBT Roundtable Discussion on LGBT+ Issues in Physics
Room: Jasper Boardroom
Apr 6 2014 5:45PM, Sunday
N1
APS Prizes and Awards Ceremonial Session
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium
Sponsor:
APS
Chair: Malcolm Beasley, Stanford University
Apr 6 2014 6:30PM, Sunday
N2
Diversity Reception
Room: Hyatt Regency Savannah Scarbrough 3-4
Apr 6 2014 8:00PM, Sunday
N3
A Staged Reading of the Play: Uranium + Peaches
Room: Hyatt Regency Savannah Regency Ballroom A
Apr 7 2014 8:30AM, Monday
Q1
Plenary Session II: Treasures From the Cosmic Frontier
Room: Chatham Ballroom A/B
Sponsor:
APS
Chair: Ian Shipsey, Purdue University
Invited Speakers: Naoko Kurahashi Neilson, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Suzanne Staggs
Apr 7 2014 10:45AM, Monday
R2
Invited Session: Neutrinos from Accelerators and Reactors
Room: Chatham Ballroom A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Robert Bernstein, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Invited Speakers: Laura Fields, Ornella Palamara, Lisa Everett
R3
Invited Session: Quadropole Collectivity and Shape Coexistence around A=100
Room: Chatham Ballroom B
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Sam Tabor, Florida State University
Invited Speakers: Alexandra Gade, Reiner Kr\"ucken, Christopher Campbell
R4
Invited Session: Gravitational Lensing Applications of CMB Surveys
Room: Chatham Ballroom C
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Lloyd Knox, University of California, Davis
Invited Speakers: Gilbert Holder, Lindsey Bleem, Neal Dalal
R6
QCD
Room: 200
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Simon Capstick, Florida State University
R7
Instrumentation I
Room: 201
Chair: Dipangkar Dutta, Mississippi State University
R8
Gamma-ray and Neutrino Observations
Room: 202
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Keith Bechtol, University of Chicago
R9
Education - Practice and Research I
Room: 203
R10
Invited Session: Vision of Accelerator and Detector R&D in the US
Room: 204
Sponsor:
DPB DNP DPF
Chair: Manouchehr Farkhondeh, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Physics
Invited Speakers: L.K. Len, Michael Zisman, H. Marsiske
R11
Invited Session: Precision Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium
Sponsor:
GFB DAP
Chair: Kenneth Nollett, Ohio University
Invited Speakers: Ryan Cooke, Brian Fields, Ulf-G. Meissner
R12
Axion and Dark Matter II
Room: 100
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Mike Tuts, Columbia University
R13
LHC Searches I
Room: 101
Sponsor:
GPMFC DPF
Chair: Nikos Varelas, University of Illinois at Chicago
R14
Tests of Physics Laws
Room: 102
Sponsor:
GPMFC
R15
Numerical Relativity with Matter: Methods and Simulations II
Room: 103
Chair: William East, Princeton University
R16
Tests of General Relativity and Gravitation
Room: 104
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Carlos Palenzuela
R17
Invited Session: The Many Worlds of Leo Szilard
Room: 105-106
Sponsor:
FHP
Chair: Daniel Kleppner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers: William Lanouette, Richard Garwin, Matthew Meselson
Apr 7 2014 1:30PM, Monday
S2
Invited Session: Searches for New Physics at the LHC
Room: Chatham Ballroom A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Yuri Gershtein, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers: Harinder Bawa, Daryl Hare, Mariangela Lisanti
S3
Invited Session: Electroweak Interactions, Neutrinos and Neutrons
Room: Chatham Ballroom B
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Ani Aprahamian, University of Notre Dame
Invited Speakers: Projjwal Banerjee, Chen-Yu Liu, Oscar Naviliat-Cuncic
S4
Invited Session: Cosmological Constraints from Gamma-Ray Data
Room: Chatham Ballroom C
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Julie McEnery, NASA
Invited Speakers: Keith Bechtol, Amy Furniss, Kohta Murase
S6
Heavy Nuclei and Matter
Room: 200
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Jeff Carroll, Army Research Laboratory
S7
Instrumentation II
Room: 201
Chair: Adbellah Ahmidouch, North Carolina A&T State University
S8
Radio in Ice: UHECR Cosmic-rays and Neutrinos
Room: 202
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Amy Connolly, Ohio State University
S9
Cosmic Microwave Background
Room: 203
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Tyler Natoli
S10
Education - Practice and Research II
Room: 204
S11
Invited Session: Singularities in General Relativity
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Dierdre Shoemaker, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers: James Isenberg, Abhay Ashtekar, David Garfinkle
S12
Flavor Physics: Charged Leptons and Updates
Room: 100
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Nicholas Hadley, University of Maryland
S13
Higgs Boson: Theory and Experiment
Room: 101
Sponsor:
DPF GPMFC
Chair: Ian Shipsey, Oxford University
S14
Topics in Accelerators and Beams
Room: 102
Sponsor:
DPB DPF
Chair: Robert Bernstein, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
S15
Gravitational Waveform Modeling
Room: 103
S17
Invited Session: Division of Physics of Beams Award Session
Room: 105-106
Sponsor:
DPB
Chair: Stan Shriber, Michigan State University
Invited Speakers: Kwang Je Kim, Stan Schriber, Jean Delayen
Apr 7 2014 2:00PM, Monday
T1
Poster Session III (14:00-17:00)
Room: Exhibit Hall
Sponsor:
APS
Apr 7 2014 3:30PM, Monday
U2
Invited Session: Instrumentation for Particle Physics
Room: Chatham Ballroom A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Sally Seidel, University of New Mexico
Invited Speakers: Elena Aprile, Ted Liu, Hartmut Sadrozinski
U3
Invited Session: DNP Prize/Award Session
Room: Chatham Ballroom B
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Berndt Mueller, Duke University
Invited Speakers: John Negele, William Zajc, Gerald A. Miller
U4
Invited Session: Cosmic Rays
Room: Chatham Ballroom C
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Angela Olinto, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers: Paolo Zuccon, Nathan Whitehorn, Toshihiro Fujii
U9
Cosmology
Room: 203
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Paul Anderson, Wake Forest University
U11
Invited Session: The Transient Gravitational Wave Sky
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium
Sponsor:
GGR DAP
Chair: Nicolas Yunes, Montana State University
Invited Speakers: Pablo Laguna, Rosalba Perna, Laura Cadonati
U12
Neutrino Experimental Considerations
Room: 100
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Robert Bernstein, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
U13
LHC Searches II
Room: 101
Sponsor:
GPMFC DPF
Chair: Nikos Varelas, University of Illinois at Chicago
U14
Data and Simulations: Methods and Implementation
Room: 102
U15
Alternate Theories of Gravity
Room: 103
Chair: Sam Gralla
U17
Invited Session: Physics Research and Innovation
Room: 105-106
Sponsor:
FPS
Chair: Pushpalatha Bhat, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Invited Speakers: Eric R. Fossum, Hasan Padamsee, Nathaniel Fisch
Apr 7 2014 5:30PM, Monday
V6
DNP Business Meeting
Room: 201
Sponsor:
DNP
V8
DAP Business Meeting
Room: 203
Sponsor:
DAP
V9
GGR Business Meeting
Room: 204
Sponsor:
GGR
V10
FEd Business Meeting
Room: 101
Sponsor:
FEd
V14
GFB Business Meeting
Room: 102
Sponsor:
GFB
V18
GPER Business Meeting
Room: 100
Sponsor:
GPER
Apr 7 2014 5:45PM, Monday
V17
App-y Hour
Room: Hyatt Regency Savannah Scarbrough 1
Sponsor:
APS
Apr 7 2014 8:00PM, Monday
V20
Special Movie Screening: Particle Fever
Room: Hyatt Regency Savannah Scarbrough 2-4
Sponsor:
APS
Apr 8 2014 8:30AM, Tuesday
W1
Plenary Session III: One Hundred Years of the Beta-Decay Spectrum
Room: Chatham Ballroom A/B
Sponsor:
APS
Chair: John F. Wilkerson, University of North Carolina
Invited Speakers: R.G. Hamish Robertson, Wick Haxton, Sheldon Stone
Apr 8 2014 10:45AM, Tuesday
X2
Invited Session: Electroweak Physics
Room: Chatham Ballroom A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Jonathan Rosner, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers: Ki Lie, Ping Tan, Konstantin Matchev
X3
Invited Session: Gravitational Waves and Nuclear Astrophysics
Room: Chatham Ballroom B
Sponsor:
DNP GGR
Chair: Jocelyn Read, California State University, Fullerton
Invited Speakers: Matthew Duez, Andrew Steiner, Daniel Kasen
X4
Invited Session: Results from the Dark Energy Survey
Room: Chatham Ballroom C
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Brenna Flaugher, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Invited Speakers: Marisa March, Eduardo Rozo, Joseph Clampitt
X6
Relativistic Heavy Ions: A+A
Room: 200
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Helen Caines, Yale University
X7
Nuclear Theory I
Room: 201
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Mark Caprio, University of Notre Dame
X8
Supernovae and Gamma Ray Bursts I
Room: 202
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Ignacio Taboada, Georgia Institute of Technology
X10
Invited Session: Open Innovation Labs for Physics Undergraduate Independent Research
Room: 204
Sponsor:
FEd
Chair: Duncan Carlsmith, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Invited Speakers: Duncan Carlsmith, John R. Brandenberger, Randall Tagg
X11
Invited Session: New Computational Techniques for Astrophysics
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium
Sponsor:
DCOMP DAP
Chair: Pedro Marronetti, National Science Foundation
Invited Speakers: M.A. Clark, Adrian Pope, Erik Schnetter
X12
Instrumentation & Methods II
Room: 100
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Nikos Varelas, University of Illinois at Chicago
X13
Formal Theory
Room: 101
Sponsor:
GPMFC DPF
Chair: Nicholas Hadley, University of Maryland
X14
Hadron Structure
Room: 102
Sponsor:
GHP
Chair: Volker Crede, Florida State University
X15
Approximations to General Relativity
Room: 103
Chair: Bela Szilagyi, California Institute of Technology
Apr 8 2014 1:30PM, Tuesday
Y2
Invited Session: Higgs Boson II
Room: Chatham Ballroom A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Nikos Varelas, University of Illinois at Chicago
Invited Speakers: Wade Fisher, Sally Dawson, Timothy Barklow
Y3
Invited Session: R-Process Nucleosynthesis
Room: Chatham Ballroom B
Sponsor:
DNP DAP
Chair: Charles Horowitz, Indiana University
Invited Speakers: Brian Metzger, Hendrik Schatz, Karl-Ludwig Kratz
Y7
Nuclear Theory II
Room: 201
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Anatoli Afanasjev, Mississippi State University
Y8
Supernovae and Gamma Ray Bursts II
Room: 202
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Shunsaku Joriuchi, University of California, Irvine
Y9
New Directions in Astrophysics
Room: 203
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: John Beacom, The Ohio State University
Y10
Invited Session: History of the G2 from 1947 to Present
Room: 204
Sponsor:
FHP DPF
Chair: Robert Crease, Stonybrook University
Invited Speakers: Toichiro Kinoshita, Richard Garwin, Yannis Semertzidis
Y12
Flavor Physics: Charm and Bottom
Room: 100
Sponsor:
DPF
Y13
Axion and Dark Matter III
Room: 101
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Nick Hadley, University of Maryland
Y15
Gravitational Wave Experiment
Room: 103
Chair: Zach Etienne, University of Maryland
Y16
Frontiers in Gravitation
Room: 104
Chair: Beverly Berger
Y17
Invited Session: Popularizing Physics
Room: 105-106
Sponsor:
FPS
Chair: Richard Wiener, Research Corporation for Science Advancement
Invited Speakers: David Lindley, Diandra Leslie-Pelecky, Mats Selen
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