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Session M1: Meet the APS Journal Editors

Sponsoring Units: APS
Room: South Foyer

Sunday, April 12, 2015 3:30PM - 5:00PM

M1.00001: Meet the APS Journal Editors Preview Abstract

Session M2: GRBs and Other Transients

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Sylvia Zhu, University of Maryland
Room: Holiday 1

Sunday, April 12, 2015 3:30PM - 3:42PM		M2.00001: An Overview of Recent Fermi-LAT Observations of Gamma-ray Bursts Daniel Kocevski Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 3:42PM - 3:54PM		M2.00002: Precursors in gamma-ray bursts detected by the Fermi-LAT and GBM Sylvia Zhu Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 3:54PM - 4:06PM		M2.00003: A Characteristic Value for the BAT / XRT- plateau Flux Ratio in GRB? Demosthenes Kazanas, Judith Racusin, Joseph Sultana, Apostolos Mastichiadis Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:06PM - 4:18PM		M2.00004: Constraints on the Source for Gamma-ray bursts from Observed X-Ray Afterglows Grant Mathews, Remo Ruffini Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:18PM - 4:30PM		M2.00005: iPTF14yb: The First GRB Discovered Outside the Gamma-Ray Bandpass and the Rate of Orphan Afterglows Stephen Cenko Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:30PM - 4:42PM		M2.00006: Parameter study of r-process lanthanide production and heating rates in kilonovae Jonas Lippuner, Luke F. Roberts Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:42PM - 4:54PM		M2.00007: On the search for VHE emission from Fermi LAT Gamma-Ray Bursts with the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory Kathryne Sparks Woodle Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:54PM - 5:06PM		M2.00008: Self-triggered Search for GRB Emission at $\sim$100 GeV with HAWC Joshua Wood Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 5:06PM - 5:18PM		M2.00009: Offline flare searches with HAWC Colas Rivi\`ere Preview Abstract

Session M3: Invited Session: Nuclear Structure of Rare Isotopes

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: David Radford, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Room: Holiday 2

Sunday, April 12, 2015 3:30PM - 4:06PM		M3.00001: Evolution of collectivity in exotic isotopes Invited Speaker: Shaofei Zhu Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:06PM - 4:42PM		M3.00002: New results on the structure of exotic nuclei Invited Speaker: Hiroyoshi Sakurai Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:42PM - 5:18PM		M3.00003: Toward model-independent computations of atomic nuclei Invited Speaker: Thomas Papenbrock Preview Abstract

Session M4: Neutrino Physics and Searches

Sponsoring Units: DNP DPF
Chair: Reyco Henning, University of North Carolina
Room: Holiday 3

Sunday, April 12, 2015 3:30PM - 3:42PM		M4.00001: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 3:42PM - 3:54PM		M4.00002: New Paradigm for the Analysis of Three Neutrino Oscillation Data: Hierarchy David Ernst, Hugo Espejel, Bernadette Cogswell, David Latimer Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 3:54PM - 4:06PM		M4.00003: Search for invisible nucleon decay in SNO$+$ during commissioning phase Ian Coulter Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:06PM - 4:18PM		M4.00004: Search for heavy Majorana neutrinos in same-sign dilepton final states in pp collisions at $\surd $s$=$ 8 TeV with CMS detector Emrah Tiras Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:18PM - 4:30PM		M4.00005: A Search for Lorentz Violation in the T2K Near Detectors Gary Alexander Clifton Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:30PM - 4:42PM		M4.00006: Features in the energy and time distributions of neutrinos from a supernova burst and their detection with a multi-kiloton liquid argon detector Gleb Sinev, Kate Scholberg Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:42PM - 4:54PM		M4.00007: The Search for Exotic Physics with EXO-200 Josiah Walton Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:54PM - 5:06PM		M4.00008: Search for Sterile antineutrinos in MINOS using $\bar \nu_{\mu}$ disappearance Navaneeth Poonthottathil Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 5:06PM - 5:18PM		M4.00009: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 5:18PM - 5:30PM		M4.00010: Measurement of Mixing Parameters and Sterile Neutrino Search at Daya Bay En-Chuan Huang, Jiajie Ling, Jen-Chieh Peng Preview Abstract

Session M5: Simulation Methods and Implementation

Sponsoring Units: DCOMP
Room: Key 1

Sunday, April 12, 2015 3:30PM - 3:42PM		M5.00001: Simulating Isotope Enrichment by Gaseous Diffusion Cameron Reed Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 3:42PM - 3:54PM		M5.00002: Dynamic Adaptive Runtime Systems for Advanced Multipole Method-based Science Achievement Jackson DeBuhr, Matthew Anderson, Thomas Sterling, Bo Zhang Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 3:54PM - 4:06PM		M5.00003: On verification and validation of spring fabric model Zheng Gao, Qiangqiang Shi, Yiyang Yang, Xiaolin Li Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:06PM - 4:18PM		M5.00004: GEANT4 Hadron Monitor Simulation Studies for the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility Timothy Watson, Amit Bashyal, Jaehoon Yu Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:18PM - 4:30PM		M5.00005: A Generalized 4th-Order Runge-Kutta Method for the Gross-Pitaevskii Equation Martin Kandes Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:30PM - 4:42PM		M5.00006: Fast Multipole Method for Coulomb Interaction Based on Traceless Totally Symmetric Tensor He Huang, Rui Li, Jie Chen, Li-Shi Luo, He Zhang Preview Abstract

Session M6: Identifying and Training Best Practices, Communicating Meaning, and Probing Student Reasoning

Sponsoring Units: GPER FEd
Chair: Kimberly Moore, University of Maryland
Room: Key 2

Sunday, April 12, 2015 3:30PM - 3:42PM		M6.00001: \textit{Periscope:} Looking into learning in best-practices physics classrooms Rachel Scherr, Renee Michelle Goertzen Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 3:42PM - 3:54PM		M6.00002: How Physicists Communicate Conceptual Meaning with Math Scott Franklin Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 3:54PM - 4:06PM		M6.00003: Dynamics of How Students Conceptualize the Particle in a Box Benjamin W. Dreyfus, Andrew Elby, Ayush Gupta Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:06PM - 4:18PM		M6.00004: Student decision making in large group discussion Mary Bridget Kustusch, Corey Ptak, Eleanor C. Sayre, Scott V. Franklin Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:18PM - 4:30PM		M6.00005: Using Time-on-Task Measurements to Understand Student Performance in a Physics Class: A Ten-Year Study John Stewart Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:30PM - 4:42PM		M6.00006: Network Analysis of Force Concept Inventory Responses to Improve Diagnostic Utility Eric Brewe, Jesper Bruun Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:42PM - 4:54PM		M6.00007: Meta-analysis of teaching methods: a 50k+ student study Eleanor Sayre, Benjamin Archibeque, K. Alison Gomez, Tyrel Heckendorf, Adrian M. Madsen, Sarah B. McKagan, Edward W. Schenk, Chase Shepard, Lane Sorell, Joshua Von Korff Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:54PM - 5:06PM		M6.00008: Comparing the Attitudes of Pre-Health Professional and Engineering Students in Introductory Physics Courses Meghan McKinney Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 5:06PM - 5:18PM		M6.00009: Analyzing NEXUS/Physics Laboratory Curriculum in a Large-enrollment Environment Kimberly Moore, Wolfgang Losert Preview Abstract

Session M7: Gravitational Waveforms from Compact Object Binaries

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Tyson Littenberg, Northwestern University
Room: Key 3

Sunday, April 12, 2015 3:30PM - 3:42PM		M7.00001: Analytical Templates for Generically Spin-Precessing Compact Binaries Katerina Chatziioannou, Antoine Klein, Nicolas Yunes, Neil Cornish Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 3:42PM - 3:54PM		M7.00002: Accuracy of Binary Black Hole waveforms for Advanced LIGO searches Prayush Kumar, Kevin Barkett, Swetha Bhagwat, Tony Chu, Heather Fong, Duncan Brown, Harald Pfeiffer, Mark Scheel, Bela Szilagyi Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 3:54PM - 4:06PM		M7.00003: The Effect of Spin Precession and Amplitude Corrections in Waveform Approximants on The Accuracy of Gravitational-Wave Searches Saeed Mirshekari, Riccardo Sturani Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:06PM - 4:18PM		M7.00004: Ambiguities in waveforms from precessing and recoiling black-hole binaries Michael Boyle Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:18PM - 4:30PM		M7.00005: Gravitational Waveforms for generic precessing binaries in the Fourier domain Antoine Klein, Neil Cornish, Nicolas Yunes Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:30PM - 4:42PM		M7.00006: A frequency-domain approach to LISA binary black hole waveforms John Baker, Sylvain Marsat, Philip Graff Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:42PM - 4:54PM		M7.00007: Nonspinning numerical relativity waveform surrogates: Building the model Chad Galley Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:54PM - 5:06PM		M7.00008: Nonspinning numerical relativity waveform surrogates: assessing the model Scott Field, Jonathan Blackman, Chad Galley, Mark Scheel, Bela Szilagyi, Manuel Tiglio Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 5:06PM - 5:18PM		M7.00009: Surrogate waveform models Jonathan Blackman, Scott Field, Chad Galley, Mark Scheel, Bela Szilagyi, Manuel Tiglio Preview Abstract

Session M9: Invited Session: Windows on the Epoch of Reionization

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Paul Shapiro, University of Texas at Austin
Room: Key 5

Sunday, April 12, 2015 3:30PM - 4:06PM		M9.00001: Progress Towards Measuring the Cosmic 21cm Background from the Epoch of Reionization Invited Speaker: Aaron Parsons Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:06PM - 4:42PM		M9.00002: The Cosmic Microwave and Infrared Background Windows on the Epoch of Reionization Invited Speaker: Olivier Dore Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:42PM - 5:18PM		M9.00003: Observing the Earliest Galaxies: Looking for the Sources of Reionization Invited Speaker: Garth Illingworth Preview Abstract

Session M10: Invited Session: The Oscillating Neutrino

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Karsetn Heeger, Yale University
Room: Key 6

Sunday, April 12, 2015 3:30PM - 4:06PM		M10.00001: Results from Long Baseline Experiments Invited Speaker: Mark Messier Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:06PM - 4:42PM		M10.00002: Results from Short Baseline Neutrino Experiments Invited Speaker: Steve Brice Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:42PM - 5:18PM		M10.00003: TBD Invited Speaker: Pilar Coloma Preview Abstract

Session M11: Invited Session: Quantum Gravity in the 100th Anniversary of General Relativity

Sponsoring Units: DPF GGR
Chair: Mirjam Cvetic, University of Pennsylvania
Room: Key 7

Sunday, April 12, 2015 3:30PM - 4:06PM		M11.00001: Black Holes and Firewalls Invited Speaker: Joseph Polchinski Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:06PM - 4:42PM		M11.00002: Gravity from entanglement close to a quantum critical point Invited Speaker: Thomas Faulkner Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:42PM - 5:18PM		M11.00003: Dynamics and Renormalization Group Evolution of Black Hole Binaries from Effective Field Theory Invited Speaker: Walter Goldberger Preview Abstract

Session M12: Invited Session: Accelerator Facilities

Sponsoring Units: DPB
Chair: Stuart Henderson, Argonne National Laboratory
Room: Key 8

Sunday, April 12, 2015 3:30PM - 4:06PM		M12.00001: Spallation Neutron Source performance and plans Invited Speaker: Kevin Jones Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:06PM - 4:42PM		M12.00002: Results of the NSLS-II commissioning Invited Speaker: Guimei Wang Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:42PM - 5:18PM		M12.00003: Commissioning and Status of the CEBAF 12 GeV Upgrade at Jefferson Lab Invited Speaker: Todd Satogata Preview Abstract

Session M13: Gravitation and Astrophysics

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Ben Lackey, Princeton University
Room: Key 9

Sunday, April 12, 2015 3:30PM - 3:42PM		M13.00001: Prospects for observing dynamically formed stellar mass black hole binaries with gravitational waves Matthew Benacquista Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 3:42PM - 3:54PM		M13.00002: Binary Neutron Star Mergers: Prospects for Multimessenger Observations Steven Liebling, Matthew Anderson, Luis Lehner, Patrick Motl, David Neilsen, Carlos Palenzuela, Marcelo Ponce Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 3:54PM - 4:06PM		M13.00003: Integrated GW-EM Follow-up Analysis Kendall Ackley, Stephen Eikenberry, Sergey Klimenko Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:06PM - 4:18PM		M13.00004: Probing the Milky Way electron density using multi-messenger astronomy Katelyn Breivik, Shane Larson Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:18PM - 4:30PM		M13.00005: Neutron Stars are Follicly Challenged Nicolas Yunes, Kent Yagi, Leo Stein, George Pappas, Theocharis Apostolatos, Koutarou Kyutoku Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:30PM - 4:42PM		M13.00006: Why neutron stars have three hairs Leo Stein, Kent Yagi, George Pappas, Nicolas Yunes, Theocharis Apostolatos Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:42PM - 4:54PM		M13.00007: I-Love-Q Anisotropically Kent Yagi, Nicolas Yunes Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:54PM - 5:06PM		M13.00008: Hydrodynamic circularization in stellar tidal disruption events Roseanne Cheng, Hotaka Shiokawa, Julian Krolik, Tsvi Piran, Scott Noble Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 5:06PM - 5:18PM		M13.00009: Gravitomagnetic Acceleration of Black Hole Accretion Disk Matter to Polar Jets John Poirier, Grant Mathews Preview Abstract

Session M14: General Cosmic Rays

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Elizabeth A. Hays, NASA
Room: Key 10

Sunday, April 12, 2015 3:30PM - 3:42PM		M14.00001: The Effect of a Maximum Lepton Energy on the Stability of Pions and Cosmic Ray Physics Peter Denton, Danny Marfatia, Thomas Weiler Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 3:42PM - 3:54PM		M14.00002: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 3:54PM - 4:06PM		M14.00003: Geant4-based Simulation Study of Cosmic Ray Showers and the Associated Applications Olesya Sarajlic, Xiaochun He Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:06PM - 4:18PM		M14.00004: Geant4 Simulation of Air Showers using Thinning Method Mohammad S. Sabra, John W. Watts, Mark J. Christl Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:18PM - 4:30PM		M14.00005: Radio Emission from particle cascades in the presence of a magnetic field Katharine Mulrey Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:30PM - 4:42PM		M14.00006: Studying Stratospheric Temperature Variation with Cosmic Ray Measurements Xiaohang Zhang, Xiaochun He Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:42PM - 4:54PM		M14.00007: Correlation of Windspeed and Antarctic Surface Roughness Mark Stockham Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:54PM - 5:06PM		M14.00008: How did the universe get magnetized? Mikhail Medvedev Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 5:06PM - 5:18PM		M14.00009: Stokes' Parameters Compared to Astrophysical Magnetic Turbulence Parameters Miriam Forman, Robert Wicks, Sean Oughton, Timothy Horbury Preview Abstract

Session M15: Few-Body Systems

Sponsoring Units: GFB
Chair: Rocco Schiavilla, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Room: Key 11

Sunday, April 12, 2015 3:30PM - 3:42PM		M15.00001: Compton Scattering from Deuterium and the Electromagnetic Polarizabilities of the Neutron Gerald Feldman Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 3:42PM - 3:54PM		M15.00002: A New High-Accuracy Analysis of Compton Scattering in Chiral EFT: Neutron Polarisabilities Harald W. Griesshammer, Judith A. McGovern, Daniel R. Phillips Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 3:54PM - 4:06PM		M15.00003: Hadron electric polarizability from lattice QCD Andrei Alexandru, Michael Lujan, Walter Freeman, Frank Lee Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:06PM - 4:18PM		M15.00004: Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of electromagnetic transitions and magnetic radii of light nuclei with two-body $\chi$EFT currents Saori Pastore, Rocco Schiavilla, Robert Wiringa, Steven Pieper Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:18PM - 4:30PM		M15.00005: Measurement of the Double Polarization Observables $C_x$ and $C_z$ for $\Lambda n$ Final-state Interactions in $\overrightarrow{\gamma} d\rightarrow K^+ \overrightarrow{\Lambda} n$ Tongtong Cao Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:30PM - 4:42PM		M15.00006: Study of double-antikaonic $K^{-} K^{-} p$ cluster: numerical benchmarks Sh.M. Tsiklauri, R.Ya. Kezerashvili, I. Filikhin, V.M. Suslov, B. Vlahovic Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:42PM - 4:54PM		M15.00007: Quasi-bound state in $K^{-} pp$ system: numerical benchmarks R. Ya. Kezerashvili, Sh. M. Tsiklauri, I. Filikhin, V.M. Suslov, B. Vlahovic Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:54PM - 5:06PM		M15.00008: Universality and the Coulomb dissociation of two-neutron halos Danel Phillips, Bijaya Acharya, Philipp Hagen, Hans-Werner Hammer Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 5:06PM - 5:18PM		M15.00009: The Non-Perturbative Scalar Yukawa Theory on the Light Front Yang Li, Vladimir Karmanov, Pieter Maris, James Vary Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 5:18PM - 5:30PM		M15.00010: Phase Structure of the T-matrix and Multichannel Unitary Isobar Model S. Razavi, K. Nakayama Preview Abstract

Session M16: Electroweak Physics

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Tao Han, University of Pittsburgh
Room: Key 12

Sunday, April 12, 2015 3:30PM - 3:42PM		M16.00001: $W$ Boson Mass Measurement with D0 Data Michelle Brochmann Preview Abstract
(Author Not Attending)		M16.00002: $Z$ boson rapidity distribution for $p\bar{p} \rightarrow Z/\gamma^{*} \rightarrow e^{+}e^{-} + X$ events at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV Pengfei Ding Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 3:54PM - 4:06PM		M16.00003: Study of the inclusive four-lepton lineshape in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC Bing Li Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:06PM - 4:18PM		M16.00004: The signal strength of CP-odd spin zero states in the Model of Electroweak-scale Right-handed Neutrinos at LHC Vinh Hoang, Ajinkya Kamat, Hung Pham Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:18PM - 4:30PM		M16.00005: Measurement of the $W+b\bar{b}$ Cross Section at CMS Thomas Perry Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:30PM - 4:42PM		M16.00006: Search for $WWW\rightarrow l\nu l\nu l\nu$ production in the ATLAS detector at $\sqrt{s} = 8$ TeV Alex Long Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:42PM - 4:54PM		M16.00007: Search for Z decays into an electron and muon at CMS Nicholas Mucia Preview Abstract

Session M17: LGBT Rountable Discussion on LGBT and Issues in Physics

Sponsoring Units: APS
Room: Latrobe

Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:30PM - 5:30PM

M17.00001: LGBT Rountable Discussion on LGBT+ Issues in Physics Preview Abstract

Session M18: National Society of Hispanic Physicists Meetup

Sponsoring Units: APS
Room: Peale A

Sunday, April 12, 2015 4:45PM - 5:30PM

M18.00001: National Society of Hispanic Physicists Meetup Preview Abstract

Session M19: National Society of Black Physicists Meetup

Sponsoring Units: APS
Room: Peale B

Sunday, April 12, 2015 6:15PM - 7:00PM

M19.00001: National Society of Black Physicists Meetup Preview Abstract