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Session M2: Invited Session: Flavor Physics

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Nicholas Hadley, University of Maryland
Room: Chatham Ballroom A

Sunday, April 6, 2014 3:30PM - 4:06PM		M2.00001: Recent Results on B$^{0}_{(S)} \to \mu^{+}\mu^{-}$ and Other Rare B Meson Decays Invited Speaker: Antonio Pellegrino Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 4:06PM - 4:42PM		M2.00002: Latest Results on Experimental Heavy Flavor Physics Invited Speaker: Brad Abbott Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 4:42PM - 5:18PM		M2.00003: Theory of Inclusive B Decays Invited Speaker: Gil Paz Preview Abstract

Session M3: Invited Session: Orbiting Quarks

Sponsoring Units: DNP GFB
Chair: F.X. Girod, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Room: Chatham Ballroom B

Sunday, April 6, 2014 3:30PM - 4:06PM		M3.00001: Theory of \#-D partonic distributions Invited Speaker: Barbara Pasquini Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 4:06PM - 4:42PM		M3.00002: Studies of Transverse Momentum Distributions of Partons Invited Speaker: Harut Avagyan Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 4:42PM - 5:18PM		M3.00003: Experimental studies of Generalized Parton Distributions Invited Speaker: Silvia Niccolai Preview Abstract

Session M4: Invited Session: Hot Topics in Astrophysics

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Paul Shapiro, University of Texas at Austin
Room: Chatham Ballroom C

Sunday, April 6, 2014 3:30PM - 4:06PM		M4.00001: Hot News from the Milky Way's Central Black Hole Invited Speaker: Daryl Haggard Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 4:06PM - 4:42PM		M4.00002: Hot News from NuSTAR about black hole spin Invited Speaker: Dominic Walton Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 4:42PM - 5:18PM		M4.00003: Hot News from the HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory Invited Speaker: Petra Huentemeyer Preview Abstract

Session M6: Nuclei with 40 < A < 100

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Jeremy Holt, University of Washington
Room: 200

Sunday, April 6, 2014 3:30PM - 3:42PM		M6.00001: Isomeric character of the 4$^{+}_{1}$ state in $^{44}$S: Mechanisms of breaking of the N$=$28 shell J. Parker, I. Wiedenh\"over, J. Baker, P. Cottle, D. McPherson, M. Riley, D. Santiago-Gonzalez, A. Volya, V. Bader, T. Baugher, D. Bazin, A. Gade, T. Ginter, H. Iwasaki, C. Loelius, C. Morse, F. Recchia, D. Smalley, R. Stroberg, D. Weisshaar, K. Whitmore, A. Lemasson, H. Crawford, A. Macchiavelli, K. Wimmer Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 3:42PM - 3:54PM		M6.00002: Inverse Kinematic Proton Scattering of $^{49}$Ca D.M. McPherson, P.D. Cottle, K.W. Kemper, L.A. Riley, M.L. Agiorgousis, F.G. Devone, M.T. Glowacki, B.V. Sadler, T.R. Baugher, D. Bazin, M. Bowry, A. Gade, E.M. Lunderberg, S. Noji, F. Recchia, M. Scott, D. Weisshaar, R.G.T. Zegers Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 3:54PM - 4:06PM		M6.00003: Polarized photon scattering of $^{52}$Cr: Determining the parity of dipole states Fnu Krishichayan, M. Bhike, W. Tornow Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 4:06PM - 4:18PM		M6.00004: Shapes and structures in the neighborhood of $^{68}$Ni: levels in $^{69}$Cu William Walters Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 4:18PM - 4:30PM		M6.00005: New Decay Studies of $^{66}$Ga Suresh Kumar, I. Ahmad, M.P. Carpenter, J. Chen, J.P. Greene, F.G. Kondev, S. Zhu Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 4:30PM - 4:42PM		M6.00006: Transition from collectivity to single-particle degrees of freedom from magnetic moment measurements in $^{82}_{38}$Sr and $^{90}_{38}$Sr Gerfried J. Kumbartzki, Noemie Benczer-Koller, Andrew Ratkiewicz, Yitzhak Y. Sharon, Samantha Rice, Sean Burcher, Diego A. Torres, Karl-Heinz Speidel, Gulhan Gurdal, Steven D. Pain, Matthew McCleskey, Mike Henry, Antti Saastamoinen, Alexandra Spiridon, Michael Slater, Andrew Cudd, Vladimir Zherebchevskii, Sergey Torilov Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 4:42PM - 4:54PM		M6.00007: The Checkerboard Model of the Nucleus Theodore Lach Preview Abstract

Session M7: Few-Body Systems

Sponsoring Units: GFB
Chair: Ulf-G. Meissner, Bonn University/Juelich
Room: 201

Sunday, April 6, 2014 3:30PM - 3:42PM		M7.00001: Parity-violating asymmetry in $\vec{\gamma} d \to np$ Matthias Schindler, Jared Vanasse Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 3:42PM - 3:54PM		M7.00002: Configuration space Faddeev formalism for system of non-identical particles: three-body model for $^6_\Lambda$He Igor Filikhin, Vladimir Suslov, Branislav Vlahovic Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 3:54PM - 4:06PM		M7.00003: Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of electromagnetic transitions in low-lying states of $^8$Be Saori Pastore, Robert Wiringa, Rocco Schiavilla, Steven Pieper Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 4:06PM - 4:18PM		M7.00004: Study of few body Kaonic Nuclei using the method of hyperspherical functions in momentum representation Roman Kezerashvili, Shalva Tsiklauri Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 4:18PM - 4:30PM		M7.00005: The Wigner effect for three interacting bosonic dipoles in a harmonic trap Shalva Tsiklauri, Joseph Ganser Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 4:30PM - 4:42PM		M7.00006: Protons Are Spinning On regular Orbits And Neutrons Have Different Binding Energies Inside Atoms Niazi Elfikky Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 4:42PM - 4:54PM		M7.00007: Nuclear Axial Currents in Chiral Effective Field Theory Alessandro Baroni Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 4:54PM - 5:06PM		M7.00008: Strangeness in the proton Mary Alberg Preview Abstract

Session M10: Invited Session: AAPT: Readying Physics Departments to Engage in Teacher Preparation in Course Transformation

Sponsoring Units: FEd
Chair: Monica Plisch, American Physical Society
Room: 204

Sunday, April 6, 2014 3:30PM - 4:06PM		M10.00001: It starts with one: Leading change and forming partnerships for teacher preparation and pedagogical change Invited Speaker: Laurie McNeil Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 4:06PM - 4:42PM		M10.00002: Sustained programs in physics teacher education Invited Speaker: Rachel Scherr Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 4:42PM - 5:18PM		M10.00003: Research on U.S. physics teacher education Invited Speaker: David E. Meltzer Preview Abstract

Session M11: Invited Session: Progress Toward the Advanced Detector Era

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Laura Cadonati, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Room: Oglethorpe Auditorium

Sunday, April 6, 2014 3:30PM - 4:06PM		M11.00001: The Status of Advanced LIGO: Light at the End of the Tunnels! Invited Speaker: Jeffrey Kissel Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 4:06PM - 4:42PM		M11.00002: Preparing to analyze Advanced LIGO data: from detectors to first observations Invited Speaker: Jessica McIver Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 4:42PM - 5:18PM		M11.00003: Multi-messenger Observations of Gravitational-Wave Sources in the Advanced Detectors Era Invited Speaker: Ruslan Vaulin Preview Abstract

Session M12: Dark Matter II

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Robin Erbacher, University of California, Davis
Room: 100

Sunday, April 6, 2014 3:30PM - 3:42PM		M12.00001: Recent Results from The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search II (CDMSII) Peter Redl Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 3:42PM - 3:54PM		M12.00002: Energy Scale for Nuclear Recoils in CDMS II Silicon Detectors Michael Bowles Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 3:54PM - 4:06PM		M12.00003: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 4:06PM - 4:18PM		M12.00004: Low energy threshold analysis of LUX data Jeremy Mock Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 4:18PM - 4:30PM		M12.00005: LUX HV Conditioning Rachel Mannino Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 4:30PM - 4:42PM		M12.00006: An analysis of LUX data in the S2-only mode Sergey Uvarov Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 4:42PM - 4:54PM		M12.00007: Two Years of SuperCDMS at Soudan Bradford Welliver Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 4:54PM - 5:06PM		M12.00008: Backgrounds and Discrimination Algorithms for Low-energy SuperCDMS Soudan Data Adam Anderson Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 5:06PM - 5:18PM		M12.00009: Dark matter search results from the first analysis of SuperCDMS Soudan low-threshold data Kristiana Schneck Preview Abstract

Session M13: Neutrinos: Experimental Methods

Sponsoring Units: GPMFC DPF
Room: 101

Sunday, April 6, 2014 3:30PM - 3:42PM		M13.00001: Electron-neutrino charged-current quasi-elastic scattering in MINERvA Jeremy Wolcott Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 3:42PM - 3:54PM		M13.00002: Cosmic Background in Detection of Low Energy Neutrinos in Liquid Argon Detectors Zepeng Li, Kate Scholberg Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 3:54PM - 4:06PM		M13.00003: Calibration of the NOvA Far Detector Kanika Sachdev Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 4:06PM - 4:18PM		M13.00004: Liquid Xenon Purity Studies for nEXO Michael Jewell Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 4:18PM - 4:30PM		M13.00005: Development of a Photon Detection System in Liquid Argon for the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment Denver Whittington, Brice Adams, Brian Baptista, Brian Baugh, Mark Gebhard, Michael Lang, Stuart Mufson, James Musser, Paul Smith, Jon Urheim Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 4:30PM - 4:42PM		M13.00006: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 4:42PM - 4:54PM		M13.00007: Utilizing Neutron Capture on Hydrogen to Measure Theta$_{13}$ at Daya Bay Logan Lebanowski Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 4:54PM - 5:06PM		M13.00008: Fast Neutron Detection with the Double Chooz Time Projection Chamber Marjon Moulai Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 5:06PM - 5:18PM		M13.00009: Lightguide-based Light Collection System for LArTPCs Alexander Moss Preview Abstract

Session M15: Numerical Relativity in Vacuum: Methods and Simulations II

Chair: Roseanne Cheng, Georgia Institute of Technology
Room: 103

Sunday, April 6, 2014 3:30PM - 3:42PM		M15.00001: Numerical Relativity in Spherical Polar Coordinates Thomas Baumgarte Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 3:42PM - 3:54PM		M15.00002: Modeling large remnant kicks for the mergers of unequal mass black hole binaries Yosef Zlochower, Carlos Lousto Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 3:54PM - 4:06PM		M15.00003: On the dynamics of spinning binary black holes and some astrophysical consequences Carlos Lousto, Manuela Campanelli, James Healy, Ian Ruchlin, Yosef Zlochower Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 4:06PM - 4:18PM		M15.00004: The Final Spin of a Binary Black-Hole System Karan Jani, Deirdre Shoemaker Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 4:18PM - 4:30PM		M15.00005: Modeling the Richness of Ringdown: From Spheroidal Decomposition to Beyond the Fundamental and First Order Quasinormal Modes Lionel London, James Healy, Deirdre Shoemaker Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 4:30PM - 4:42PM		M15.00006: Scattering of force-free electrodynamic waves by spacetime curvature Fan Zhang, Sean McWilliams Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 4:42PM - 4:54PM		M15.00007: Black Hole Superradiance Frans Pretorius, William East, Fethi Ramazanoglu Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 4:54PM - 5:06PM		M15.00008: Chaos in the general relativistic three-body problem David Neilsen, Jared Jay, Taylor Morgan Preview Abstract

Session M17: Invited Session: Accelerators for the Future of Nuclear Physics

Sponsoring Units: DPB DNP
Room: 105-106

Sunday, April 6, 2014 3:30PM - 4:06PM		M17.00001: Tools for the Future of Nuclear Physics Invited Speaker: Donald Geesaman Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 4:06PM - 4:42PM		M17.00002: Electron-Ion Colliders Worldwide Invited Speaker: Oliver Bruning Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 6, 2014 4:42PM - 5:18PM		M17.00003: Rare Isotope Beams worldwide Invited Speaker: Thomas Glasmacher Preview Abstract

Session M30: Meet the APS Journal Editors

Sponsoring Units: APS
Room: Georgia International Gallery

Sunday, April 6, 2014 3:30PM - 5:00PM

M30.00001: Meet the APS Journal Editors Preview Abstract