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Session H2: Dark Matter III

Sponsoring Units: DPF DNP
Chair: Laura Reina, Florida State University
Room: Holiday 1

Sunday, April 12, 2015 8:30AM - 8:42AM		H2.00001: Stability Analysis of DM-Ice17 Zachary Pierpoint Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 8:42AM - 8:54AM		H2.00002: The speculation of the formation process about dark matter Yongquan Han Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 8:54AM - 9:06AM		H2.00003: Dark matter or point sources? ~Utilizing the 1-pt PDF to understand the origin of the GeV excess seen by the Fermi LAT detector Natalie Harrison, Jennifer Gaskins Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:06AM - 9:18AM		H2.00004: Multiscale renormalization group methods for effective potentials with multiple scalar fields Zhi-Wei Wang, Tom Steele, Gerry McKeon Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:18AM - 9:30AM		H2.00005: Optimization of Geometries for Experimental Searches of Chameleon Scalar Fields Vladimir Skavysh, Muhammad Arif, Chandra Shahi, Robert Haun, Mike Snow, Ke Li, Benjamin Heacock, Albert Young Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:30AM - 9:42AM		H2.00006: Search for strongly coupled Chameleon scalar field with neutron interferometry K. Li, M. Arif, D. Cory, R. Haun, B. Heacock, M. Huber, J. Nsofini, D.A. Pushin, P. Saggu, D. Sarenac, C. Shahi, V. Skavysh, M. Snow, A. Young Preview Abstract

Session H3: Invited Session: Neutral-Current Parity Violation - From eV to GeV

Sponsoring Units: GPMFC DNP
Chair: Zheng-Tian Lu, Argonne National Laboratory
Room: Holiday 2

Sunday, April 12, 2015 8:30AM - 9:06AM		H3.00001: The weak mixing angle, radiative corrections and Z' bosons Invited Speaker: William Marciano Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:06AM - 9:42AM		H3.00002: Extracting electroweak observables from atomic parity violation: status and challenges Invited Speaker: Andrei Derevianko Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:42AM - 10:18AM		H3.00003: Measurement of parity-violating asymmetry in deep inelastic scattering at Jefferson Lab Invited Speaker: Xiaochao Zheng Preview Abstract

Session H4: Mini-symposium on Partonic Structure beyond Densities: Orbital Motion, Correlations, Fluctuations I

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Peter Schweitzer, University of Connecticut
Room: Holiday 3

Sunday, April 12, 2015 8:30AM - 9:06AM		H4.00001: Quark-gluon dynamics: what we don't know Invited Speaker: Feng Yuan Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:06AM - 9:18AM		H4.00002: Studies of Transverse Momentum Dependent Parton Distributions and Bessel Weighting Leonard Gamberg Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:18AM - 9:30AM		H4.00003: Measuring transversity in polarized p+p collisions with di-hadron correlations at $\sqrt{s} = $ 200 and 500 GeV at the STAR experiment Keith Landry Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:30AM - 9:42AM		H4.00004: Phenomenology of Transverse spin: Nucleon Tensor Charge determination Alexei Prokudin, Zhong-Bo Kang, Feng Yuan, Peng Sun Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:42AM - 9:54AM		H4.00005: New results from the Transversity Experiment (E06-010) at JLab Yuxiang Zhao Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:54AM - 10:06AM		H4.00006: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 10:06AM - 10:18AM		H4.00007: Di-hadron production at Jefferson Laboratory Sergio Anefalos Pereira Preview Abstract

Session H5: Computional Physics-General Methods

Sponsoring Units: DCOMP
Room: Key 1

Sunday, April 12, 2015 8:30AM - 8:42AM		H5.00001: Role of weak interactions in phase transitions of layered transition metal dichalcogenides: An ab initio study Niladri Sengupta, Adrienn Ruzsinszky, John P. Perdew Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 8:42AM - 8:54AM		H5.00002: An intrinsic poperty of memory of the Cellular automaton infrastructure of Nature leading to the organization of the physical world as an Internet o things; TOE$=$IOT Simon Berkovich Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 8:54AM - 9:06AM		H5.00003: Initial Results of Coupling the Output of a Regional Weather Model and a Localized Computational Fluid Dynamics Model at the Atlantic City International Airport Joseph Trout, J. Russell Manson, Manny Rios, David King, Nicholas DeCicco Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:06AM - 9:18AM		H5.00004: Computational methods in the exploration of the classical and statistical mechanics of celestial scale strings: Rotating Space Elevators Steven Knudsen, Leonardo Golubovic Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:18AM - 9:30AM		H5.00005: Study of the Focusing Horns Performance Through Pion Flux Distribution Amit Bashyal Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:30AM - 9:42AM		H5.00006: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:42AM - 9:54AM		H5.00007: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:54AM - 10:06AM		H5.00008: Quantum-Inspired Genetic Algorithm or Quantum Genetic Algorithm: Which Is It? Erika Jones Preview Abstract

Session H6: Nuclear Astrophysics II: Neutron Stars

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Charles Horowitz, Indiana University
Room: Key 2

Sunday, April 12, 2015 8:30AM - 8:42AM		H6.00001: Pulsar Glitches and the Neutron-Star Matter Equation of State Farrukh J. Fattoyev, Jorge Piekarewicz, Charles J. Horowitz Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 8:42AM - 8:54AM		H6.00002: Phase conversion dissipation in multi-component compact stars Sophia Han, Mark Alford, Kai Schwenzer Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 8:54AM - 9:06AM		H6.00003: Nuclear Mass Predictions for Neutron Stars with a Bayesian Neural Network Raditya Utama, Jorge Piekarewicz Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:06AM - 9:18AM		H6.00004: Nuclear Pasta: Topology and Defects Andre da Silva Schneider, Charles Horowitz, Don Berry, Matt Caplan, Christian Briggs Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:18AM - 9:30AM		H6.00005: Disordered nuclear pasta, magnetic field decay, and crust cooling in neutron stars C.J. Horowitz, D.K. Berry, C.M. Briggs, M.E. Caplan, A. Cumming, A.S. Schneider Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:30AM - 9:42AM		H6.00006: Pasta Elasticity: Molecular dynamics simulations of nuclear pasta deformations M.E. Caplan, C.J. Horowitz, D.K. Berry Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:42AM - 9:54AM		H6.00007: Properties of Leptons in Hot and Dense Medium Samina Masood Preview Abstract

Session H7: Neutrino Cross Sections and Flux I

Sponsoring Units: DPF DNP
Chair: Vadim Rusu, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Room: Key 3

Sunday, April 12, 2015 8:30AM - 8:42AM		H7.00001: Anit-Nu/Nu Cross Section Ratio Using P0D+TPC1 Events Thomas Campbell, Erez Reinherz-Aronis, Walter Toki Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 8:42AM - 8:54AM		H7.00002: A Measurement of the $\nu_{\mathrm{\mu }}$ Charged Current Quasielastic Cross-section on Water with T2K's Near Detector Tianlu Yuan, Jeremy Lopez, Alysia Marino Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 8:54AM - 9:06AM		H7.00003: Neutrino-Nucleon Deep Inelastic Scattering in MINERvA Anne Norrick Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:06AM - 9:18AM		H7.00004: Measurement of charged current single charged pion production cross-section on water with P0D detector Shamil Assylbekov, Robert Wilson, Tomasz Wachala Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:18AM - 9:30AM		H7.00005: Neutral current $\pi^0$ analysis in the NO$\nu$A experiment Himansu Sahoo Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:30AM - 9:42AM		H7.00006: Measurement of Neutral Current 1$\pi^0$ production in $\nu_{\mu}$ interaction on water with the Pi0 Detector at T2K Zoya Vallari Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:42AM - 9:54AM		H7.00007: Measurement of Neutrino-Induced Coherent Pion Production and the Diffractive Background in MINERvA Alicia Gomez Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:54AM - 10:06AM		H7.00008: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract

Session H8: Invited Session: Moving Astronomy Education Research Results into Teaching

Sponsoring Units: FEd
Chair: Tim Slater, University of Wyoming
Room: Key 4

Sunday, April 12, 2015 8:30AM - 9:06AM		H8.00001: Impacting Society through Astronomy Undergraduate Courses Invited Speaker: Sharon Schleigh Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:06AM - 9:42AM		H8.00002: ASTRO 101 Labs and the Invasion of the Cognitive Scientists Invited Speaker: Stephanie J. Slater Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:42AM - 10:18AM		H8.00003: A new international agenda for astronomy education research Invited Speaker: Paulo Bretones Preview Abstract

Session H9: Invited Session: Astrophysical and Cosmological Neutrinos

Sponsoring Units: DAP DPF
Chair: Lloyd Knox, University of California, Davis
Room: Key 5

Sunday, April 12, 2015 8:30AM - 9:06AM		H9.00001: New Prospects for Neutrino Astronomy in Underground Laboratories Invited Speaker: John Beacom Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:06AM - 9:42AM		H9.00002: Cosmological Constraints on Neutrinos Invited Speaker: Marius Millea Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:42AM - 10:18AM		H9.00003: Observation of high energy neutrinos with IceCube Invited Speaker: Albrecht Karle Preview Abstract

Session H10: Invited Session: Future Facilities: High Energy Accelerators

Sponsoring Units: DPF DPB
Chair: Robin Erbacher, University of California, Davis
Room: Key 6

Sunday, April 12, 2015 8:30AM - 9:06AM		H10.00001: Run II of the LHC: The Accelerator Science Invited Speaker: Stefano Redaelli Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:06AM - 9:42AM		H10.00002: Worldwide Activities towards a Future Circular Collider: The Accelerator Invited Speaker: Swapan Chattopadhyay Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:42AM - 10:18AM		H10.00003: Worldwide Activities towards a Future Circular Collider: Physics and Detector Studies Invited Speaker: Michelangelo Mangano Preview Abstract

Session H11: Invited Session: GGR Prize Session

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Joey Shapiro Key, University of Texas at Brownsville
Room: Key 7

Sunday, April 12, 2015 8:30AM - 9:06AM		H11.00001: Einstein Prize: Black Hole Entropy - Then and Now Invited Speaker: Jacob Bekenstein Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:06AM - 9:42AM		H11.00002: MHD-driven Supernovae in Three Dimensions Invited Speaker: Philipp Moesta Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:42AM - 10:18AM		H11.00003: Spacetime Physics of Force-free Magnetospheres Invited Speaker: Samuel Gralla Preview Abstract

Session H12: Invited Session: How Advanced Computational Resources Enhance Our Understanding of Physics

Sponsoring Units: DCOMP
Chair: Peter Diener, Louisiana State University
Room: Key 8

Sunday, April 12, 2015 8:30AM - 9:06AM		H12.00001: The Standard Model of Nuclear Physics Invited Speaker: William Detmold Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:06AM - 9:42AM		H12.00002: Nicholas Metropolis Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Work In Computational Physics Award Winner: Numerical Hydrodynamics at Gravity's Extremes Invited Speaker: William East Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:42AM - 10:18AM		H12.00003: Computing the universe: how large-scale simulations illuminate galaxies and dark energy Invited Speaker: Brian O'Shea Preview Abstract

Session H13: Statics and Dynamics in Spacetimes

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Javier Olmedo, Louisiana State University
Room: Key 9

Sunday, April 12, 2015 8:30AM - 8:42AM		H13.00001: Simulation of Black Hole Collisions in Asymptotically anti-de Sitter Spacetimes Hans Bantilan, Paul Romatschke Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 8:42AM - 8:54AM		H13.00002: Conserved quantities and dual turbulent cascades in Anti--de Sitter spacetime Stephen Green, Alex Buchel, Luis Lehner, Steven Liebling Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 8:54AM - 9:06AM		H13.00003: Reflection Symmetry in Higher Dimensional Black Hole Spacetimes Robert Wald, Joshua Schiffrin Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:06AM - 9:18AM		H13.00004: Growth rate for blackhole instabilities Kartik Prabhu, Robert Wald Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:18AM - 9:30AM		H13.00005: Numerical Tests of the Cosmic Censorship Conjecture via Event-Horizon Finding Maria Okounkova, Christian Ott, Mark Scheel, Bela Szilagyi Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:30AM - 9:42AM		H13.00006: Numerical simulations of null singularities David Garfinkle Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:42AM - 9:54AM		H13.00007: Stationarity of Extremum Entropy Stars and Black Holes Joshua Schiffrin Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:54AM - 10:06AM		H13.00008: Novel Solutions for Nonminimally Coupled D-Stars Graham Reid Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 10:06AM - 10:18AM		H13.00009: Examination of a simple case of gravitational wave memory Alexander Tolish, Lydia Bieri, David Garfinkle, Robert Wald Preview Abstract

Session H14: Cosmology I: Large-Scale Structure, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Cora Dvorkin, University of Chicago
Room: Key 10

Sunday, April 12, 2015 8:30AM - 8:42AM		H14.00001: How to disentangle the Cosmic Web? Sergei Shandarin, Mikhail Medvedev Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 8:42AM - 8:54AM		H14.00002: Angular momentum - mass relation for dark matter haloes Shihong Liao, Dalong Cheng, Ming-chung Chu, Jiayu Tang Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 8:54AM - 9:06AM		H14.00003: Understanding the Large Scale Clustering of the Lyman-alpha Forest Agnieszka Cieplak, Anze Slosar, Nishikanta Khandai Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:06AM - 9:18AM		H14.00004: Bayesian semi-blind component separation for foreground removal in interferometric 21cm observations Le Zhang, Peter Tmbie, Benjamin Wandelt, Paul Sutter, Ata Karakci, Emory Bunn, Andrei Korotkov, Gregory Tucker Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:18AM - 9:30AM		H14.00005: Measuring Dark Energy with CHIME Laura Newburgh Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:30AM - 9:42AM		H14.00006: Effects of Self Interacting Dark Matter on the Formation of Satellite Galaxies Aditya Dhumuntarao, Carl Gardner Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:42AM - 9:54AM		H14.00007: Dark Stars: Evolution and First Pulsation Results Tanja Rindler-Daller, Katherine Freese, Michael H. Montgomery, Donald E. Winget, Bill Paxton Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:54AM - 10:06AM		H14.00008: Unified System of Mass, Energy, Space, and Time-MEST Dayong Cao Preview Abstract

Session H15: Nuclear Theory

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: James Vary, Iowa State University
Room: Key 11

Sunday, April 12, 2015 8:30AM - 8:42AM		H15.00001: Operator evolution for {\em ab initio} electric dipole transitions of $^4$He Micah Schuster, Sofia Quaglioni, Calvin Johnson, Eric Jurgenson, Petr Navratil Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 8:42AM - 8:54AM		H15.00002: Ab Initio Neutron Drops with Chiral Hamiltonians Hugh Potter, Pieter Maris, James Vary Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 8:54AM - 9:06AM		H15.00003: Yang-Mills generalization of the geometrical collective model George Rosensteel, Nick Sparks Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:06AM - 9:18AM		H15.00004: Spinors and Polarization Vectors Interpolated Between Instant Form and Front Form Ziyue Li, Murat An, Chueng-Ryong Ji Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:18AM - 9:30AM		H15.00005: Self Organizing Maps for use in Deep Inelastic Scattering Evan Askanazi Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:30AM - 9:42AM		H15.00006: Algebraic Apect of Helicities in Hadron Physics Murat An, Chueng Ji Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:42AM - 9:54AM		H15.00007: Decoding the nuclear genome using nuclear binding and fusion energies Jay R. Yablon Preview Abstract

Session H16: Strong Interaction and Hadron Physics

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Sally Seidel, University of New Mexico
Room: Key 12

Sunday, April 12, 2015 8:30AM - 8:42AM		H16.00001: Search for diboson resonances with jets in 20fb$^{-1}$ of $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt[]{s}=8$ TeV with the ATLAS detector Angel Campoverde Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 8:42AM - 8:54AM		H16.00002: Measurement of the triple differential cross section for direct photon plus jet production with the CMS detector Ajeeta Khatiwada Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 8:54AM - 9:06AM		H16.00003: Phase space generator for the initial state radiation in the P P interaction Essma Redouane Salah, Christian Bauer, Marjorie Shapiro Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:06AM - 9:18AM		H16.00004: An analytic determination of the gluon distribution function from HERA combined data for the proton structure function $F_2^{\gamma p}(x,Q^2)$ Phuoc Ha Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:18AM - 9:30AM		H16.00005: An Intimate Relationship between Higgs Forces, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy Antonio Colella Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:30AM - 9:42AM		H16.00006: Double Parton Interactions in $2\gamma + 2$ jets events in $p\bar{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96$ TeV at D0 George Golovanov Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:42AM - 9:54AM		H16.00007: Jet vetoes versus giant K-factors in the exclusive Z+1-jet cross section Christfried Focke, Radja Boughezal, Xiaohui Liu Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:54AM - 10:06AM		H16.00008: Aspects regarding decay of superfluid vortices in dense quark matter S Kumar Mallavarapu, Mark Alford Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 10:06AM - 10:18AM		H16.00009: Study of the Sensitivity for Searches for Excited Boson ($W^*$) in Dijet Final States in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC Jaryd Ulbricht, Harinder Bawa, Yongsheng Gao Preview Abstract

Session H17: FPS Business Meeting

Sponsoring Units: FPS
Room: Marshall

Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:15AM - 10:15AM

H17.00001: FPS Business Meeting Preview Abstract