Apr 16 2016 8:30AM, Saturday

A1 Invited Session Plenary I: Physics and Society
Room: Ballroom E-J Sponsor: APS Chair: Ian Shipsey, 2016 April Meeting Chair and Oxford University
Invited Speakers:  Helen Quinn,  Marcel Demarteau,  Mei Bai  

Apr 16 2016 10:45AM, Saturday

B2 Invited Session Higgs Physics I
Room: Ballroom A Sponsor: DPF Chair: Mike Tuts, Columbia University, Nevis Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Laura Reina,  Heather E. Logan,  Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez  

B3 Invited Session Direct and Surrogate Nuclear Reactions for Applications and Basic Research
Room: Ballroom B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Melina Avila, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Shea Mosby,  Anthony Kuchera,  Rituparna Kanungo  

B4 Invited Session Cosmic Microwave Background
Room: Ballroom C Sponsor: DAP DPF Chair: Paul Shapiro, University of Texas
Invited Speakers:  Brendan Crill,  Celine Boehm,  John Carlstrom  

B5 Invited Session Results from Advanced LIGO
Room: Ballroom D Sponsor: GGR Chair: Vicky Kalogera, Northwestern University
Invited Speakers:  Peter Fritschel,  Chad Hanna,  Salvatore Vitale  

B6 Invited Session Laboratory Searches for Dark Energy Scalar Fields
Room: 150ABC Sponsor: GPMFC
Invited Speakers:  Justin Khoury,  Holger Mueller,  Dmitry Pushin  

B7 Invited Session Recent Discoveries in Planetary Science and Their Potential Impacts on Physics and Society
Room: 150G Sponsor: FPS
Invited Speakers:  Matthew Stanley,  Peter Behroozi,  Lynnae Quick  

B9 Electroweak Interactions
Room: 250A Sponsor: DNP Chair: Gordon Cates, University of Virginia

B11 Precision Measurements and Fundamental Symmetries
Room: 250C Sponsor: GPMFC

B16 Liquid Xenon Dark Matter I
Room: 251D Sponsor: DPF Chair: Joseph Lykken, Fermilab

B17 Electroweak Physics
Room: 251E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Mirjam Cvetic, University of Pennsylvania

B18 Undergraduate Research/SPS I
Room: 251F Sponsor: APS Chair: Crystal Bailey, APS

Apr 16 2016 12:15PM, Saturday

B19 Future of Physics Days Lunch with the Grads
Room: 251F Sponsor: APS

Apr 16 2016 12:30PM, Saturday

B23 Creating a Supportive Professional Environment for All
Room: 250F Sponsor: CSWP

Apr 16 2016 1:30PM, Saturday

C2 Invited Session DPF Prize Session - W.K.H. Panofsky Prize
Room: Ballroom A Sponsor: DPF Chair: JoAne Hewett, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  David Hitlin,  Jonathan Dorfan,  Fumihiko Takasaki,  Stephen Lars Olsen  

C3 Invited Session Frontiers in Ab-Initio Calculations of Exotic Nuclei
Room: Ballroom B Sponsor: GFB DNP Chair: Bacca Sonia, TRIUMF
Invited Speakers:  Dean Lee,  Saori Pastore,  Kyle Wendt  

C4 Invited Session WIMP Dark Matter
Room: Ballroom C Sponsor: DPF DAP Chair: Joseph Lykken, Fermilab
Invited Speakers:  Paolo Gondolo,  Elena Aprile,  Miguel S\'anchez-Conde  

C5 Invited Session The Future of Ground Based Gravitational Wave Detection
Room: Ballroom D Sponsor: GGR Chair: Peter Shawhan, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Alessandra Corsi,  Stefan Ballmer,  Sheila Dwyer  

C6 Invited Session Report from Joint Task Force on Undergraduate Physics Program
Room: 150ABC Sponsor: FEd
Invited Speakers:  Paula Heron,  Theodore Hodapp,  Lawrence Woolf  

C7 Invited Session Modernizing Nuclear Weapons
Room: 150G Sponsor: FPS
Invited Speakers:  Donald Cook,  James Acton,  Daryl Press  

C9 Techniques for Measuring Precision or Tiny Things
Room: 250A Sponsor: DNP Chair: Gordon Cates, University of Virginia

C10 Light Mesons and Baryons
Room: 250B Sponsor: DNP GHP Chair: Leonard Gamberg, Pennsylvania State University

C11 Computational Physics
Room: 250C Sponsor: DCOMP

C13 Focus Session Sexual and Gender Diversity Issues in Physics – C-LGBT Ad Hoc Committee Report
Room: 250F Sponsor: APS
Invited Speakers:  Elena Long,  Elena Long  

C14 Binary Neutron Star Mergers and Multi-Messenger Signals
Room: 251AB Sponsor: GGR Chair: Joey Key, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley

C15 Invited Session Mathematical Aspects of Relativity I
Room: 251C Sponsor: GGR Chair: David Garfinkle, Oakland University

C16 Liquid Xenon Dark Matter II
Room: 251D Sponsor: DPF Chair: Kate scholberg, Duke University

C17 Supersymmetry Searches
Room: 251E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Heather Logan, Carleton University, Canada

C18 Undergraduate Research/SPS II
Room: 251F Sponsor: APS Chair: Cortney Bougher, American Physical Society

Apr 16 2016 3:30PM, Saturday

E2 Invited Session DPF Prize Session - J.J. Sakurai Prize; Henry Primakoff Award; and the Standard Model at the LHC
Room: Ballroom A Sponsor: DPF Chair: Andreas Kronfeld, Fermilab
Invited Speakers:  Peter Lepage,  Stefan Hoeche,  Sarah Demers  

E3 Invited Session New Results on the Spin Structure of the Nucleon
Room: Ballroom B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Volker Burkert, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Zein-Eddine Meziani,  Xiaorong Wang,  Andrey Kim  

E4 Invited Session Local Universe Cosmology
Room: Ballroom C Sponsor: DAP Chair: Paul Shapiro, University of Texas
Invited Speakers:  Matthias Steinmetz,  Joshua Simon,  Michael Boylan-Kolchin  

E5 Invited Session ILC, SRF and Advanced Accelerator Concepts
Room: Ballroom D Sponsor: DPB DPF Chair: Tor Raubenheimer, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Michael Harrison,  Martina Martinello,  Spencer Gessner  

E6 Invited Session Excellence in Education Award Session
Room: 150ABC Sponsor: FEd
Invited Speakers:  Robert Beichner,  Priscilla Laws,  Carl Wieman  

E7 Invited Session The Scales of Collaboration - Physics as a Cooperative Effort
Room: 150G Sponsor: FGSA
Invited Speakers:  Gianpaolo Carosi,  Bob Goodrich,  Daniel Tapia Takaki  

E9 Nuclear Reactions
Room: 250A Sponsor: DNP Chair: Shelly Lesher, University of Wisconsin at Lacrosse

E10 Mini-symposium on applications of nuclear physics
Room: 250B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Gordon Cates, University of Virginia

E11 Energy Research and Applications
Room: 250C Sponsor: GERA

E12 LISA and LISA pathfinder
Room: 250DE Sponsor: DAP GGR Chair: John Conklin, University of Florida

E13 Dark Matter, Indirect, Gamma-rays
Room: 250F Chair: Miquel Sanchez-Conde, Stockholm University

E14 Numerical Relativity Simulations of Binary Mergers
Room: 251AB Sponsor: GGR Chair: Geoffrey Lovelace, California State University, Fullerton

E15 Quantum Aspects of Gravitation I
Room: 251C Sponsor: GGR Chair: Deborah Konkowski, United States Naval Academy

E16 Liquid Xenon Dark Matter III
Room: 251D Sponsor: DPF Chair: Paolo Condolo, University of Utah

E17 LHC Instrumentation I
Room: 251E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Mike Tuts, Columbia University, Nevis Laboratory

Apr 16 2016 5:30PM, Saturday

D1 Poster Session Welcome Reception and Poster Session I (5:30pm - 7:00pm)
Room: South Foyer

Apr 16 2016 7:30PM, Saturday

G1 Invited Session Public Lecture: Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
Room: Ballroom A
Invited Speakers:  Lisa Randall  

Apr 17 2016 8:30AM, Sunday

H2 Invited Session Theory Developments in Particle Physics and Gravitation
Room: Ballroom A Sponsor: DPF GGR Chair: Mirjam Cvetic, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  John Preskill,  Burkhard Schwab,  Veronika Hubeny  

H3 Invited Session Low Energy, High Precision Lepton Flavor Physics
Room: Ballroom B Sponsor: DPF DNP Chair: Karsten Heeger, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Thomas Blum,  Peter Winter,  Bernhard Schwingenheuer  

H4 Invited Session The Physics of Exoplanets
Room: Ballroom C Sponsor: DAP Chair: Anna Frebel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Katherine Deck,  David Kipping,  Scott Gaudi  

H5 Invited Session Black Holes - The Schwarzschild Solution and Beyond
Room: Ballroom D Sponsor: GGR Chair: Thomas W. Baumgarte, Bowdoin College
Invited Speakers:  Marcia Bartusiak,  Aycin Aykutalp,  Javier Olmedo  

H6 Invited Session Supporting and Understanding Physics Identity Development
Room: 150ABC Sponsor: FEd
Invited Speakers:  Eleanor Close,  Paul Irving,  Robynne Lock  

H7 Invited Session Porting Particle Accelerator Codes on Emerging Computer Architectures
Room: 150G Sponsor: DPB DCOMP Chair: Jean-Luc Vay, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Henri VINCENTI,  Viktor Decyk,  Salman Habib  

H9 Nuclear Structure I
Room: 250A Sponsor: DNP Chair: Christopher Chiara, U.S. Army Research Laboratory

H11 Focus Session Physics of the Cosmos mini-symposium
Room: 250C Sponsor: DAP Chair: James Bock, California Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Ann Hornschemeier  

H12 Astrophysical Neutrinos
Room: 250DE Sponsor: DAP Chair: John Matthews, University of Utah

H14 Ground Based Gravitational Wave Detectors
Room: 251AB Sponsor: GGR Chair: Stefan Ballmer, Syracuse University

H15 Neutron Star and Supernova Gravity Wave Astrophysics
Room: 251C Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Steven Liebling, Long Island University

H16 Dark Matter I
Room: 251D Sponsor: DPF Chair: Josh Klein, University of Pennsylvania

H17 Instrumentation for Particle Physics
Room: 251E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Matthew Muether, Fermilab

H18 Alternative Theories of Gravity
Room: 251F Sponsor: GGR Chair: Ted Jacobson, University of Maryland

Apr 17 2016 10:30AM, Sunday

H19 Future of Physics Days Undergraduate Awards Brunch
Room: Marriott Salem AB Sponsor: APS

Apr 17 2016 10:45AM, Sunday

J2 Invited Session Neutrino Oscillations
Room: Ballroom A Sponsor: DPF Chair: Kate Scholberg, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Andre De Gouvea,  Wesley Ketchum,  Mathew Muether  

J3 Invited Session 30 Years of J/\Psi Suppression in Heavy Ion Collisions
Room: Ballroom B Sponsor: GHP DNP Chair: Ramona Vogt, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory/University of California, Davis
Invited Speakers:  Frithjof Karsch,  Enrico Scomparin,  Michael Strickland  

J4 Invited Session Cosmology with the Dark Energy Survey
Room: Ballroom C Sponsor: DAP DPF Chair: Marcelle Soares Santos, Fermilab
Invited Speakers:  Ravi Gupta,  Michael Troxel,  Boris Leistedt  

J5 Invited Session Forum on Outreach and Engaging the Public
Room: Ballroom D Sponsor: FOEP Chair: Yvan Bruynseraede, University of Leuven
Invited Speakers:  Thomas Hertog,  Rolf Landua,  Alice Bean  

J6 Invited Session Bouchet Award Session - The Gravitational Wave Sky
Room: 150ABC Sponsor: COM
Invited Speakers:  Pablo Laguna,  Deirdre Shoemaker,  Konstantinos Kokkotas  

J7 Invited Session Politicizing Science - Benefits and Costs
Room: 150G Sponsor: FPS
Invited Speakers:  Rush Holt,  Spencer Weart,  Joel Primack  

J9 Nuclear Structure II
Room: 250A Sponsor: DNP Chair: Adam Fritsch, Gonzaga University

J10 Heavy Flavor Hadrons
Room: 250B Sponsor: DNP GHP Chair: Peter Petreczky, Brookhaven National Laboratory

J11 Focus Session Inflation Probe Science Interest Group
Room: 250C Sponsor: DAP Chair: Edward Wollack, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Invited Speakers:  Jamie Bock  

J12 Focus Session Gravitational Wave Science Interest Group
Room: 250DE Sponsor: DAP GGR Chair: John Conklin, University of Florida
Invited Speakers:  Neil Cornish  

J13 Focus Session Cosmic-Ray Science Interest Group
Room: 250F Sponsor: DAP Chair: Eun-Suk Seo, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Igor Moskalenko  

J14 Advanced LIGO Methods and Results 1
Room: 251AB Sponsor: GGR Chair: Marco Cavaglia, University of Mississippi

J15 Mathematical Aspects of Relativity II
Room: 251C Sponsor: GGR Chair: Lior Burko, Georgia Gwinnett College

J16 Top Quark / Hadronic Physics
Room: 251D Sponsor: DPF Chair: Andreas Kronfeld, Fermilab

J17 Exotic Particle Searches
Room: 251E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Jesse Thaler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

J18 Quantum Physics and Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Room: 251F

Apr 17 2016 12:35PM, Sunday

JA1 LIGO@Lunch: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merge
Room: Ballroom E-J Sponsor: GGR Chair: Laura Cadonati, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  David Reitze,  Vassiliki Kalogera  

Apr 17 2016 1:30PM, Sunday

K2 Invited Session New Physics Searches at the LHC
Room: Ballroom A Sponsor: DPF Chair: Joseph Incandela, CERN
Invited Speakers:  Jesse Thaler,  Dominick Olivito,  James Proudfoot  

K3 Invited Session Low Energy Neutrino Nuclear Interactions
Room: Ballroom B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Reyco Henning, University of North Carolina
Invited Speakers:  Diana Parno,  Matthew Green,  Frank Calaprice  

K4 Invited Session DAP Thesis Prize
Room: Ballroom C Sponsor: DAP Chair: Pat Burchat, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Blakesley Burkhart,  Liang Dai,  Wen-fai Fong  

K5 Invited Session Listening to the Universe with Pulsar Timing Arrays
Room: Ballroom D Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Chiara Mingarelli, California Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Maura McLaughlin,  Xavier Siemens,  Sarah Burke-Spolaor  

K6 Invited Session Lattice Field and the Quest for Beyond the Standard Model Physics
Room: 150ABC Sponsor: DCOMP DPF Chair: Carleton DeTar, University of Utah
Invited Speakers:  David Schaich,  Enrico Rinaldi  

K7 Invited Session Electron-Ion Colliders
Room: 150G Sponsor: DPB DNP Chair: Fulvia Pilat, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Abhay Deshpande,  Thomas Roser,  Fulvia Pilat  

K9 Nuclear Astrophysics
Room: 250A Sponsor: DNP Chair: Carlos Bertulani, Texas A&M University Commerce
Invited Speakers:  Anna Frebel  

K10 Instrumentation I
Room: 250B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Gordon Cates, University of Virginia

K12 Astrophysics Data Analysis
Room: 250DE Sponsor: DAP Chair: Hao Zhou, Michigan Tech

K13 Compact Objects
Room: 250F Chair: Vicky Kalogera, Northwestern University

K14 Advanced LIGO Methods and Results II
Room: 251AB Sponsor: GGR Chair: Sarah Caudill, University of Western Michigan

K15 Numerical Relativity: Binary Black Hole Merger Outcomes
Room: 251C Sponsor: GGR Chair: Yosef Zlochower, Rochester Institute of Technology

K16 Axions at ADMX
Room: 251D Sponsor: DPF Chair: Kevork N. Abazajian, Univ of California, Irvine

K17 Accelerator-based Neutrino Experiments I
Room: 251E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Hallsie Reno, University of Iowa

K18 Research in Physics Education
Room: 251F Sponsor: GPER

K20 Communication & Negotiation Skills Workshop for Women I
Room: Marriott Alta Room Sponsor: APS

Apr 17 2016 2:00PM, Sunday

L1 Poster Session Poster Session II (2:00pm -5:00pm)
Room: South Foyer

Apr 17 2016 2:30PM, Sunday

L11 Tutorial for Authors & Referees APS Journals
Room: 250C Sponsor: APS

Apr 17 2016 3:30PM, Sunday

M2 Invited Session DPF Prize Session: Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award in Experimental Particle Physic, and J.J. and Noriko Sakurai Dissertation Award
Room: Ballroom A Sponsor: DPF FOEP Chair: Marcela Carena, Fermilab
Invited Speakers:  Cumrun Vafa,  Adish Vartak,  Yoni Kahn  

M3 Invited Session Neutron Stars in the Multi-Messenger Era
Room: Ballroom B Sponsor: DNP DAP Chair: Sanjay Reddy, University of Washington
Invited Speakers:  Sanjay Reddy,  Charles Horowitz,  Duncan Brown  

M4 Invited Session Future Circular Colliders
Room: Ballroom C Sponsor: DPB DPF Chair: Fulvia Pilat, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Ashutosh Kotwal,  Michael Benedikt,  Xinchou Lou  

M5 Invited Session Preparing and Supporting University Physics Educators
Room: Ballroom D Sponsor: GPER FEd
Invited Speakers:  Eleanor Sayre,  Chandra Turpen,  Kathleen Hinko  

M6 Invited Session Women in Physics - Thriving and Creating a Culture Where Others Thrive
Room: 150ABC Sponsor: CSWP
Invited Speakers:  Jessi L. Smith,  Elizabeth Simmons,  Brenda Dingus,  Panel Discussion  

M7 Invited Session Fracking and Physics
Room: 150G Sponsor: FPS
Invited Speakers:  J. Quinn Norris,  Arthur McGarr  

M9 Nuclear Theory
Room: 250A Sponsor: DNP Chair: Jorge Lopez, UTEP

M10 Low-energy Neutrino Physics
Room: 250B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Ralph Massarczyk, LANL

M11 History of Physics from Pythagoras to Higgs
Room: 250C Sponsor: FHP Chair: Alan Chodos, APS

M12 Missions and Instruments
Room: 250DE Sponsor: DAP Chair: Rasha Abbasi, University of Utah

M13 Supernovae, Gamma-Ray Bursts and Other Transients
Room: 250F Sponsor: DAP Chair: Janna Levin, Barnard College of Columbia University

M14 Gravitational Wave Prompt Analysis and Localization
Room: 251AB Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Jonah Kanner, California Institute of Technology

M15 Quantum Aspects of Gravitation II
Room: 251C Sponsor: GGR Chair: Jorge Pullin, Louisiana State University

M16 Dark Matter II
Room: 251D Sponsor: DPF Chair: Josh Klein, University of Pennsylvania

M17 Accelerator-based Neutrino Experiments II
Room: 251E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Wesley Ketchum, Fermilab

M18 Active Galactic Nuclei
Room: 251F Sponsor: DAP Chair: Robert Lauer, University of New Mexico

M19 Meet the APS Journal Editors
Room: North Foyer Sponsor: APS

Apr 17 2016 5:00PM, Sunday

M20 CSWP Meet and Greet Reception
Room: 150ABC Sponsor: CSWP

Apr 17 2016 5:45PM, Sunday

N1 APS Prizes & Awards Ceremony
Room: Ballroom A Sponsor: APS

Apr 17 2016 6:45PM, Sunday

P16 DPF Business Meeting
Room: 251D Sponsor: DPF

Apr 17 2016 7:00PM, Sunday

N2 Education & Diversity Reception
Room: Marriott Deer Valley II-III Sponsor: COM CSWP FEd

P10 GHP Business Meeting
Room: 250B Sponsor: GHP

Apr 17 2016 8:00PM, Sunday

P20 Staged Reading of the Play: Delicate Particle Logic
Room: Ballroom A Sponsor: FHP

Apr 18 2016 8:30AM, Monday

Q1 Invited Session Plenary II: Fred Kavli Keynote Session Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of Cowan and Reines Detection of the Neutrino in 1956
Room: Ballroom E-J Sponsor: APS Chair: Homer Neal, APS President and University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  A. B. McDonald,  Takaaki Kajita,  Neta Bahcall  

Apr 18 2016 10:45AM, Monday

R2 Invited Session Dark Matter Beyond WIMPs
Room: Ballroom A Sponsor: DPF DAP Chair: JoAnne Hewett, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Kathryn Zurek,  Leslie Rosenberg,  Kevork Abazajian  

R3 Invited Session Neutrino Cross Section with Nuclei
Room: Ballroom B Sponsor: DNP DPF Chair: Reyco Henning, University of North Carolina
Invited Speakers:  Mary Hall Reno,  Steven Dytman,  Cynthia Keppel  

R4 Invited Session Few-Body Physics at the Electron-Ion Collider
Room: Ballroom C Sponsor: GFB DNP Chair: Ricardo Alarcon, Arizona State University
Invited Speakers:  Pawel Nadel-Turonski,  Charles Hyde,  Misak Sargsian  

R5 Invited Session Measuring Big G
Room: Ballroom D Sponsor: GGR Chair: Pedro Marronetti
Invited Speakers:  Stephan Schlamminger,  Guglielmo Tino,  Christian Rothleitner  

R6 Invited Session Engaging the Public Through a Variety of Collaborations and Initiatives
Room: 150ABC Sponsor: FEd Chair: Geraldine Cochran, APS
Invited Speakers:  Gerceida Jones,  Michael Wittmann,  Emina A. Stojkovi\'c  

R7 Invited Session Sidney Coleman Remembered - Correspondence and Commentary
Room: 150G Sponsor: FHP DPF Chair: Catherine Westfall, Michigan State University
Invited Speakers:  Aaron Wright,  Erick Weinberg,  Howard Georgi  

R9 Nuclear Instrumentation II
Room: 250A Sponsor: DNP Chair: Nick Fotiades, Los Alamos National Laboratory

R10 Hadronic Physics
Room: 250B Sponsor: DNP GHP Chair: Tanja Horn, Catholic University of America

R11 Focus Session Telescope Array
Room: 250C Sponsor: DAP Chair: Gordon Thomson, University of Utah
Invited Speakers:  Rasha Abbasi  

R12 Cosmology: Inflation
Room: 250DE Sponsor: DAP Chair: Jeffrey Filippini, University of Illinois - Urbana

R13 Focus Session Fermi-HAWC-VERITAS
Room: 250F Sponsor: DAP Chair: Udara Abeysekara, University of Utah
Invited Speakers:  Roger Blandford  

R14 Optical and Gamma Ray Followups of Gravity Wave Triggers
Room: 251AB Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Leo Singer, NASA

R15 Gravitational Wave Theory
Room: 251C Sponsor: GGR Chair: Nico Yunes, Montana State University

R16 Higgs Physics II
Room: 251D Sponsor: DPF Chair: Ashutosh Kotwal, Duke University

R17 Quark Flavor
Room: 251E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Alexey Petrov, Wayne University

R18 Pulsar Timing Arrays and Supermassive Black Hole Binaries
Room: 251F Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Curt Cutler, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Apr 18 2016 12:00PM, Monday

J19 Career Opportunities for Physicists
Room: Marriott Deer Valley I-III Sponsor: APS Chair: Crystal Bailey, APS

Apr 18 2016 1:30PM, Monday

S2 Invited Session New Directions in Particle Physics Phenomenology
Room: Ballroom A Sponsor: DPF Chair: Marcela Carena, Fermilab
Invited Speakers:  Roni Harnik,  Geraldine Servant,  Michele Papucci  

S3 Invited Session Electron Beams for Parity Experiements
Room: Ballroom B Sponsor: DNP DPB Chair: Gordon Cates, University of Virginia
Invited Speakers:  Matthew Poelker,  Kent Paschke,  Juergen Diefenbach  

S4 Invited Session Supernovae - New Clues and Challenges
Room: Ballroom C Sponsor: DAP Chair: Fiona Harrison, California Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Adam Burrows,  Steven Boggs,  Edward Brown  

S5 Invited Session Space Based Gravitational Wave Astrophysics
Room: Ballroom D Chair: Laura Sampson, LIGO Scientific Collaboration
Invited Speakers:  Martin Hewitson,  Scott Hughes,  Kelly Bockelmann  

S6 Invited Session Insights in Hadron Structure from Transverse Momentum Dependent Distribution (TMDs)
Room: 150ABC Sponsor: GHP Chair: Paul Reimer, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Caroline Riedl,  Elke Aschenauer,  Zhongbo Kang  

S7 Invited Session Big International Neutrino Projects and Collaborations
Room: 150G Sponsor: FIP DPF Chair: Maria Spiropulu, California Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  David Wark,  Mark Thomson,  Marco Zito  

S9 Focus Session Mini-Symposium: Neutrinoless Double-beta Decay
Room: 250A Sponsor: DNP DPF Chair: Jing Liu, University of South Dakota
Invited Speakers:  Werner Rodejohann  

S10 Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ions
Room: 250B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Doga Gulhan, MIT

S11 From Planets to Galaxy Clusters
Room: 250C Sponsor: DAP Chair: Michelle Hui, NASA/MSFC

S12 Cosmology: Observation, Interpretation, Large Scale Structure
Room: 250DE Sponsor: DAP Chair: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, MIT

S13 Focus Session Intermediate Energy Cosmic Rays
Room: 250F Sponsor: DAP Chair: Jason Link, NASA
Invited Speakers:  Jason Link  

S14 Advanced LIGO Methods and Results III
Room: 251AB Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Vivien Raymond, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics

S15 Laboratory Tests of Gravitation
Room: 251C Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Sheila Dwyer, LIGO Laboratory

S16 LHC Instrumentation II
Room: 251D Sponsor: DPF Chair: James Proudfoot, Argonne National Laboratory

S17 Neutrino Oscillation Searches
Room: 251E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Hallsie Reno, University of Iowa

S18 Expanding Public Understanding of Physics
Room: 251F Sponsor: GPER

S20 Communication & Negotiation Skills Workshop for Women II
Room: Marriott Alta Room Sponsor: APS

Apr 18 2016 2:00PM, Monday

T1 Poster Session Poster Session III (2:00pm - 5:00pm)
Room: South Foyer

Apr 18 2016 3:30PM, Monday

U2 Invited Session Flavor Physics
Room: Ballroom A Sponsor: DPF Chair: Aida El Khadra, University of Illinois
Invited Speakers:  Alexey Petrov,  Wendy Taylor,  Michael Williams  

U3 Invited Session DNP Awards Session
Room: Ballroom B Sponsor: DNP Chair: John Wilkerson, University of North Carolina
Invited Speakers:  Xiangdong Ji,  I-Yang Lee,  R. G. H. (Hamish) Robertson  

U4 Invited Session New High Energy Views of the Galaxy
Room: Ballroom C Sponsor: DAP Chair: Julie McEnery, NASA
Invited Speakers:  Michelle Hui,  Tracy Slatyer,  Charles Hailey  

U5 Invited Session Computing Meets Experiment in Gravity
Room: Ballroom D Sponsor: GGR DCOMP Chair: Deirdre Shoemaker, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Ian Harry,  Patricia Schmidt,  Adam Otte  

U6 Invited Session Pais Prize Session - Some History You Won't Find In Physics Textbooks
Room: 150ABC Sponsor: FHP Chair: William Evenson, Brigham Young University
Invited Speakers:  Allan Franklin,  George Smith,  Jed Buchwald  

U7 Invited Session Sakharov Prize Session
Room: 150G Sponsor: FIP Chair: Maria Spiropulu, California Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Zafra Lerman,  Perry Link,  Adam Jermyn  

U11 Field Theory
Room: 250C Sponsor: DPF Chair: Marcela Carena, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

U12 High and Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays
Room: 250DE Sponsor: DAP Chair: John Belz, University of Utah

U13 Elementary Particles
Room: 250F Sponsor: DAP Chair: Brian Rauch, Washington University, St. Louis

U14 Advanced LIGO Methods and Results IV
Room: 251AB Sponsor: GGR Chair: Jessica McIver, LIGO Laboratory

U15 Initial Data and Head-On Collisions in Numerical Relativity
Room: 251C Sponsor: GGR Chair: Bernard Kelly, NASA

U16 Axions and Axion-like Particles
Room: 251D Sponsor: DPF Chair: Kev Abazajian, University of California, Irvine
Invited Speakers:  Michael Dine  

U17 Liquid Argon Neutrino Instrumentation
Room: 251E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Mark Thomson, University of Cambridge

U18 Technological and Curricular Innovations in Physics Education
Room: 251F Sponsor: GPER

Apr 18 2016 5:30PM, Monday

V9 DNP Business Meeting
Room: 250A Sponsor: DNP

V12 DAP Business Meeting
Room: 250DE Sponsor: DAP

V14 GGR Business Meeting
Room: 251AB Sponsor: GGR

V18 GPER Business Meeting
Room: 251F Sponsor: GPER

Apr 18 2016 6:00PM, Monday

V20 Nobel Reception
Room: South Foyer Sponsor: APS

Apr 19 2016 8:30AM, Tuesday

W1 Invited Session Plenary Session III: Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of Lee and Yang's Parity Violation Proposal and the Wu Experiment
Room: Ballroom E-J Sponsor: APS Chair: Ian Shipsey, 2016 April Meeting Chair and Oxford University
Invited Speakers:  Gerald Gabrielse,  Xiaochao Zheng,  Edward Witten  

Apr 19 2016 10:45AM, Tuesday

X2 Invited Session Cosmic Neutrinos and New Physics
Room: Ballroom A Sponsor: DPF DAP Chair: John Beacom, Ohio State University
Invited Speakers:  Lloyd Knox,  Carlos Arg\"uelles Delgado,  Mauricio Bustamante  

X3 Invited Session To the Heart of the Matter
Room: Ballroom B Sponsor: DNP DCOMP Chair: Xiaochao Zheng, University of Virginia
Invited Speakers:  Melina Avila,  Hyo-In Park,  Doga Gulhan,  Huey-Wen Lin  

X4 Invited Session DAP Hot Topics
Room: Ballroom C Sponsor: DAP Chair: Julie McEnery, NASA
Invited Speakers:  Lindy Blackburn,  Kyle Story,  Alexander Ji  

X5 Invited Session Building an Inclusive STEM Community - The ACCESS Network
Room: Ballroom D Sponsor: FEd
Invited Speakers:  Simone Hyater-Adams,  Anna Zaniewski,  Corey Ptak  

X6 Invited Session The New Big Science and the Transformation of Research
Room: 150ABC Sponsor: FHP Chair: Cameron Reed, Alma College
Invited Speakers:  Catherine Westfall,  Robert Crease,  Thomas Kaiserfeld  

X7 Invited Session Physics and Physicists Around the World
Room: 150G Sponsor: FIP Chair: Maria Spiropulu, California Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Vladimir Shiltsev,  Hossein Sadeghpour,  Wang Yifang  

X9 Invited Session Baryon Resonanaces and the Evolution of the Early Universe
Room: 250A Sponsor: DNP Chair: Phil Cole, Idaho State University
Invited Speakers:  Peter Petreczky,  Volker Burkert,  Daniel Cebra  

X14 Compact Binary Mergers: Rates, Populations, Waveforms, and Tidal Effects
Room: 251AB Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Tanja Hinderer, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics

X15 Relativistic Gravitation Theory
Room: 251C Sponsor: GGR Chair: Maria Babiuc Hamilton, Marshall University

X16 Particle Theory
Room: 251D Sponsor: DPF Chair: Carleton De Tar, University of Utah
Invited Speakers:  Alejandro Cabo Montes de Oca  

X17 Particle Physics
Room: 251E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Douglas Bergman, Univ of Utah

X18 Dynamics and Observables of Curved Spacetime
Room: 251F Sponsor: GGR Chair: David Nichols, Cornell University

Apr 19 2016 1:30PM, Tuesday

Y2 Invited Session Recent Advances in Hadron Spectroscopy
Room: Ballroom A Sponsor: GHP DPF Chair: Raju Venugopalan, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Paul Eugenio,  Jozef Dudek,  Yuanning Gao  

Y7 Invited Session Next Generation of Large International Telescopes and Cosmic Experiments
Room: 150G Sponsor: FIP Chair: Maria Spiropulu, California Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Laura Cadonati,  Angela Olinto,  Miguel Morales  

Apr 16 2016 8:30AM, Saturday

A1 Invited Session Plenary I: Physics and Society
Room: Ballroom E-J Sponsor: APS Chair: Ian Shipsey, 2016 April Meeting Chair and Oxford University
Invited Speakers:  Helen Quinn,  Marcel Demarteau,  Mei Bai  

Apr 16 2016 10:45AM, Saturday

B2 Invited Session Higgs Physics I
Room: Ballroom A Sponsor: DPF Chair: Mike Tuts, Columbia University, Nevis Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Laura Reina,  Heather E. Logan,  Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez  

B3 Invited Session Direct and Surrogate Nuclear Reactions for Applications and Basic Research
Room: Ballroom B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Melina Avila, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Shea Mosby,  Anthony Kuchera,  Rituparna Kanungo  

B4 Invited Session Cosmic Microwave Background
Room: Ballroom C Sponsor: DAP DPF Chair: Paul Shapiro, University of Texas
Invited Speakers:  Brendan Crill,  Celine Boehm,  John Carlstrom  

B5 Invited Session Results from Advanced LIGO
Room: Ballroom D Sponsor: GGR Chair: Vicky Kalogera, Northwestern University
Invited Speakers:  Peter Fritschel,  Chad Hanna,  Salvatore Vitale  

B6 Invited Session Laboratory Searches for Dark Energy Scalar Fields
Room: 150ABC Sponsor: GPMFC
Invited Speakers:  Justin Khoury,  Holger Mueller,  Dmitry Pushin  

B7 Invited Session Recent Discoveries in Planetary Science and Their Potential Impacts on Physics and Society
Room: 150G Sponsor: FPS
Invited Speakers:  Matthew Stanley,  Peter Behroozi,  Lynnae Quick  

B9 Electroweak Interactions
Room: 250A Sponsor: DNP Chair: Gordon Cates, University of Virginia

B11 Precision Measurements and Fundamental Symmetries
Room: 250C Sponsor: GPMFC

B16 Liquid Xenon Dark Matter I
Room: 251D Sponsor: DPF Chair: Joseph Lykken, Fermilab

B17 Electroweak Physics
Room: 251E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Mirjam Cvetic, University of Pennsylvania

B18 Undergraduate Research/SPS I
Room: 251F Sponsor: APS Chair: Crystal Bailey, APS

Apr 16 2016 12:15PM, Saturday

B19 Future of Physics Days Lunch with the Grads
Room: 251F Sponsor: APS

Apr 16 2016 12:30PM, Saturday

B23 Creating a Supportive Professional Environment for All
Room: 250F Sponsor: CSWP

Apr 16 2016 1:30PM, Saturday

C2 Invited Session DPF Prize Session - W.K.H. Panofsky Prize
Room: Ballroom A Sponsor: DPF Chair: JoAne Hewett, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  David Hitlin,  Jonathan Dorfan,  Fumihiko Takasaki,  Stephen Lars Olsen  

C3 Invited Session Frontiers in Ab-Initio Calculations of Exotic Nuclei
Room: Ballroom B Sponsor: GFB DNP Chair: Bacca Sonia, TRIUMF
Invited Speakers:  Dean Lee,  Saori Pastore,  Kyle Wendt  

C4 Invited Session WIMP Dark Matter
Room: Ballroom C Sponsor: DPF DAP Chair: Joseph Lykken, Fermilab
Invited Speakers:  Paolo Gondolo,  Elena Aprile,  Miguel S\'anchez-Conde  

C5 Invited Session The Future of Ground Based Gravitational Wave Detection
Room: Ballroom D Sponsor: GGR Chair: Peter Shawhan, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Alessandra Corsi,  Stefan Ballmer,  Sheila Dwyer  

C6 Invited Session Report from Joint Task Force on Undergraduate Physics Program
Room: 150ABC Sponsor: FEd
Invited Speakers:  Paula Heron,  Theodore Hodapp,  Lawrence Woolf  

C7 Invited Session Modernizing Nuclear Weapons
Room: 150G Sponsor: FPS
Invited Speakers:  Donald Cook,  James Acton,  Daryl Press  

C9 Techniques for Measuring Precision or Tiny Things
Room: 250A Sponsor: DNP Chair: Gordon Cates, University of Virginia

C10 Light Mesons and Baryons
Room: 250B Sponsor: DNP GHP Chair: Leonard Gamberg, Pennsylvania State University

C11 Computational Physics
Room: 250C Sponsor: DCOMP

C13 Focus Session Sexual and Gender Diversity Issues in Physics – C-LGBT Ad Hoc Committee Report
Room: 250F Sponsor: APS
Invited Speakers:  Elena Long,  Elena Long  

C14 Binary Neutron Star Mergers and Multi-Messenger Signals
Room: 251AB Sponsor: GGR Chair: Joey Key, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley

C15 Invited Session Mathematical Aspects of Relativity I
Room: 251C Sponsor: GGR Chair: David Garfinkle, Oakland University

C16 Liquid Xenon Dark Matter II
Room: 251D Sponsor: DPF Chair: Kate scholberg, Duke University

C17 Supersymmetry Searches
Room: 251E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Heather Logan, Carleton University, Canada

C18 Undergraduate Research/SPS II
Room: 251F Sponsor: APS Chair: Cortney Bougher, American Physical Society

Apr 16 2016 3:30PM, Saturday

E2 Invited Session DPF Prize Session - J.J. Sakurai Prize; Henry Primakoff Award; and the Standard Model at the LHC
Room: Ballroom A Sponsor: DPF Chair: Andreas Kronfeld, Fermilab
Invited Speakers:  Peter Lepage,  Stefan Hoeche,  Sarah Demers  

E3 Invited Session New Results on the Spin Structure of the Nucleon
Room: Ballroom B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Volker Burkert, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Zein-Eddine Meziani,  Xiaorong Wang,  Andrey Kim  

E4 Invited Session Local Universe Cosmology
Room: Ballroom C Sponsor: DAP Chair: Paul Shapiro, University of Texas
Invited Speakers:  Matthias Steinmetz,  Joshua Simon,  Michael Boylan-Kolchin  

E5 Invited Session ILC, SRF and Advanced Accelerator Concepts
Room: Ballroom D Sponsor: DPB DPF Chair: Tor Raubenheimer, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Michael Harrison,  Martina Martinello,  Spencer Gessner  

E6 Invited Session Excellence in Education Award Session
Room: 150ABC Sponsor: FEd
Invited Speakers:  Robert Beichner,  Priscilla Laws,  Carl Wieman  

E7 Invited Session The Scales of Collaboration - Physics as a Cooperative Effort
Room: 150G Sponsor: FGSA
Invited Speakers:  Gianpaolo Carosi,  Bob Goodrich,  Daniel Tapia Takaki  

E9 Nuclear Reactions
Room: 250A Sponsor: DNP Chair: Shelly Lesher, University of Wisconsin at Lacrosse

E10 Mini-symposium on applications of nuclear physics
Room: 250B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Gordon Cates, University of Virginia

E11 Energy Research and Applications
Room: 250C Sponsor: GERA

E12 LISA and LISA pathfinder
Room: 250DE Sponsor: DAP GGR Chair: John Conklin, University of Florida

E13 Dark Matter, Indirect, Gamma-rays
Room: 250F Chair: Miquel Sanchez-Conde, Stockholm University

E14 Numerical Relativity Simulations of Binary Mergers
Room: 251AB Sponsor: GGR Chair: Geoffrey Lovelace, California State University, Fullerton

E15 Quantum Aspects of Gravitation I
Room: 251C Sponsor: GGR Chair: Deborah Konkowski, United States Naval Academy

E16 Liquid Xenon Dark Matter III
Room: 251D Sponsor: DPF Chair: Paolo Condolo, University of Utah

E17 LHC Instrumentation I
Room: 251E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Mike Tuts, Columbia University, Nevis Laboratory

Apr 16 2016 5:30PM, Saturday

D1 Poster Session Welcome Reception and Poster Session I (5:30pm - 7:00pm)
Room: South Foyer

Apr 16 2016 7:30PM, Saturday

G1 Invited Session Public Lecture: Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
Room: Ballroom A
Invited Speakers:  Lisa Randall  

Apr 17 2016 8:30AM, Sunday

H2 Invited Session Theory Developments in Particle Physics and Gravitation
Room: Ballroom A Sponsor: DPF GGR Chair: Mirjam Cvetic, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  John Preskill,  Burkhard Schwab,  Veronika Hubeny  

H3 Invited Session Low Energy, High Precision Lepton Flavor Physics
Room: Ballroom B Sponsor: DPF DNP Chair: Karsten Heeger, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Thomas Blum,  Peter Winter,  Bernhard Schwingenheuer  

H4 Invited Session The Physics of Exoplanets
Room: Ballroom C Sponsor: DAP Chair: Anna Frebel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Katherine Deck,  David Kipping,  Scott Gaudi  

H5 Invited Session Black Holes - The Schwarzschild Solution and Beyond
Room: Ballroom D Sponsor: GGR Chair: Thomas W. Baumgarte, Bowdoin College
Invited Speakers:  Marcia Bartusiak,  Aycin Aykutalp,  Javier Olmedo  

H6 Invited Session Supporting and Understanding Physics Identity Development
Room: 150ABC Sponsor: FEd
Invited Speakers:  Eleanor Close,  Paul Irving,  Robynne Lock  

H7 Invited Session Porting Particle Accelerator Codes on Emerging Computer Architectures
Room: 150G Sponsor: DPB DCOMP Chair: Jean-Luc Vay, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Henri VINCENTI,  Viktor Decyk,  Salman Habib  

H9 Nuclear Structure I
Room: 250A Sponsor: DNP Chair: Christopher Chiara, U.S. Army Research Laboratory

H11 Focus Session Physics of the Cosmos mini-symposium
Room: 250C Sponsor: DAP Chair: James Bock, California Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Ann Hornschemeier  

H12 Astrophysical Neutrinos
Room: 250DE Sponsor: DAP Chair: John Matthews, University of Utah

H14 Ground Based Gravitational Wave Detectors
Room: 251AB Sponsor: GGR Chair: Stefan Ballmer, Syracuse University

H15 Neutron Star and Supernova Gravity Wave Astrophysics
Room: 251C Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Steven Liebling, Long Island University

H16 Dark Matter I
Room: 251D Sponsor: DPF Chair: Josh Klein, University of Pennsylvania

H17 Instrumentation for Particle Physics
Room: 251E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Matthew Muether, Fermilab

H18 Alternative Theories of Gravity
Room: 251F Sponsor: GGR Chair: Ted Jacobson, University of Maryland

Apr 17 2016 10:30AM, Sunday

H19 Future of Physics Days Undergraduate Awards Brunch
Room: Marriott Salem AB Sponsor: APS

Apr 17 2016 10:45AM, Sunday

J2 Invited Session Neutrino Oscillations
Room: Ballroom A Sponsor: DPF Chair: Kate Scholberg, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Andre De Gouvea,  Wesley Ketchum,  Mathew Muether  

J3 Invited Session 30 Years of J/\Psi Suppression in Heavy Ion Collisions
Room: Ballroom B Sponsor: GHP DNP Chair: Ramona Vogt, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory/University of California, Davis
Invited Speakers:  Frithjof Karsch,  Enrico Scomparin,  Michael Strickland  

J4 Invited Session Cosmology with the Dark Energy Survey
Room: Ballroom C Sponsor: DAP DPF Chair: Marcelle Soares Santos, Fermilab
Invited Speakers:  Ravi Gupta,  Michael Troxel,  Boris Leistedt  

J5 Invited Session Forum on Outreach and Engaging the Public
Room: Ballroom D Sponsor: FOEP Chair: Yvan Bruynseraede, University of Leuven
Invited Speakers:  Thomas Hertog,  Rolf Landua,  Alice Bean  

J6 Invited Session Bouchet Award Session - The Gravitational Wave Sky
Room: 150ABC Sponsor: COM
Invited Speakers:  Pablo Laguna,  Deirdre Shoemaker,  Konstantinos Kokkotas  

J7 Invited Session Politicizing Science - Benefits and Costs
Room: 150G Sponsor: FPS
Invited Speakers:  Rush Holt,  Spencer Weart,  Joel Primack  

J9 Nuclear Structure II
Room: 250A Sponsor: DNP Chair: Adam Fritsch, Gonzaga University

J10 Heavy Flavor Hadrons
Room: 250B Sponsor: DNP GHP Chair: Peter Petreczky, Brookhaven National Laboratory

J11 Focus Session Inflation Probe Science Interest Group
Room: 250C Sponsor: DAP Chair: Edward Wollack, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Invited Speakers:  Jamie Bock  

J12 Focus Session Gravitational Wave Science Interest Group
Room: 250DE Sponsor: DAP GGR Chair: John Conklin, University of Florida
Invited Speakers:  Neil Cornish  

J13 Focus Session Cosmic-Ray Science Interest Group
Room: 250F Sponsor: DAP Chair: Eun-Suk Seo, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Igor Moskalenko  

J14 Advanced LIGO Methods and Results 1
Room: 251AB Sponsor: GGR Chair: Marco Cavaglia, University of Mississippi

J15 Mathematical Aspects of Relativity II
Room: 251C Sponsor: GGR Chair: Lior Burko, Georgia Gwinnett College

J16 Top Quark / Hadronic Physics
Room: 251D Sponsor: DPF Chair: Andreas Kronfeld, Fermilab

J17 Exotic Particle Searches
Room: 251E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Jesse Thaler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

J18 Quantum Physics and Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Room: 251F

Apr 17 2016 12:35PM, Sunday

JA1 LIGO@Lunch: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merge
Room: Ballroom E-J Sponsor: GGR Chair: Laura Cadonati, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  David Reitze,  Vassiliki Kalogera  

Apr 17 2016 1:30PM, Sunday

K2 Invited Session New Physics Searches at the LHC
Room: Ballroom A Sponsor: DPF Chair: Joseph Incandela, CERN
Invited Speakers:  Jesse Thaler,  Dominick Olivito,  James Proudfoot  

K3 Invited Session Low Energy Neutrino Nuclear Interactions
Room: Ballroom B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Reyco Henning, University of North Carolina
Invited Speakers:  Diana Parno,  Matthew Green,  Frank Calaprice  

K4 Invited Session DAP Thesis Prize
Room: Ballroom C Sponsor: DAP Chair: Pat Burchat, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Blakesley Burkhart,  Liang Dai,  Wen-fai Fong  

K5 Invited Session Listening to the Universe with Pulsar Timing Arrays
Room: Ballroom D Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Chiara Mingarelli, California Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Maura McLaughlin,  Xavier Siemens,  Sarah Burke-Spolaor  

K6 Invited Session Lattice Field and the Quest for Beyond the Standard Model Physics
Room: 150ABC Sponsor: DCOMP DPF Chair: Carleton DeTar, University of Utah
Invited Speakers:  David Schaich,  Enrico Rinaldi  

K7 Invited Session Electron-Ion Colliders
Room: 150G Sponsor: DPB DNP Chair: Fulvia Pilat, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Abhay Deshpande,  Thomas Roser,  Fulvia Pilat  

K9 Nuclear Astrophysics
Room: 250A Sponsor: DNP Chair: Carlos Bertulani, Texas A&M University Commerce
Invited Speakers:  Anna Frebel  

K10 Instrumentation I
Room: 250B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Gordon Cates, University of Virginia

K12 Astrophysics Data Analysis
Room: 250DE Sponsor: DAP Chair: Hao Zhou, Michigan Tech

K13 Compact Objects
Room: 250F Chair: Vicky Kalogera, Northwestern University

K14 Advanced LIGO Methods and Results II
Room: 251AB Sponsor: GGR Chair: Sarah Caudill, University of Western Michigan

K15 Numerical Relativity: Binary Black Hole Merger Outcomes
Room: 251C Sponsor: GGR Chair: Yosef Zlochower, Rochester Institute of Technology

K16 Axions at ADMX
Room: 251D Sponsor: DPF Chair: Kevork N. Abazajian, Univ of California, Irvine

K17 Accelerator-based Neutrino Experiments I
Room: 251E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Hallsie Reno, University of Iowa

K18 Research in Physics Education
Room: 251F Sponsor: GPER

K20 Communication & Negotiation Skills Workshop for Women I
Room: Marriott Alta Room Sponsor: APS

Apr 17 2016 2:00PM, Sunday

L1 Poster Session Poster Session II (2:00pm -5:00pm)
Room: South Foyer

Apr 17 2016 2:30PM, Sunday

L11 Tutorial for Authors & Referees APS Journals
Room: 250C Sponsor: APS

Apr 17 2016 3:30PM, Sunday

M2 Invited Session DPF Prize Session: Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award in Experimental Particle Physic, and J.J. and Noriko Sakurai Dissertation Award
Room: Ballroom A Sponsor: DPF FOEP Chair: Marcela Carena, Fermilab
Invited Speakers:  Cumrun Vafa,  Adish Vartak,  Yoni Kahn  

M3 Invited Session Neutron Stars in the Multi-Messenger Era
Room: Ballroom B Sponsor: DNP DAP Chair: Sanjay Reddy, University of Washington
Invited Speakers:  Sanjay Reddy,  Charles Horowitz,  Duncan Brown  

M4 Invited Session Future Circular Colliders
Room: Ballroom C Sponsor: DPB DPF Chair: Fulvia Pilat, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Ashutosh Kotwal,  Michael Benedikt,  Xinchou Lou  

M5 Invited Session Preparing and Supporting University Physics Educators
Room: Ballroom D Sponsor: GPER FEd
Invited Speakers:  Eleanor Sayre,  Chandra Turpen,  Kathleen Hinko  

M6 Invited Session Women in Physics - Thriving and Creating a Culture Where Others Thrive
Room: 150ABC Sponsor: CSWP
Invited Speakers:  Jessi L. Smith,  Elizabeth Simmons,  Brenda Dingus,  Panel Discussion  

M7 Invited Session Fracking and Physics
Room: 150G Sponsor: FPS
Invited Speakers:  J. Quinn Norris,  Arthur McGarr  

M9 Nuclear Theory
Room: 250A Sponsor: DNP Chair: Jorge Lopez, UTEP

M10 Low-energy Neutrino Physics
Room: 250B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Ralph Massarczyk, LANL

M11 History of Physics from Pythagoras to Higgs
Room: 250C Sponsor: FHP Chair: Alan Chodos, APS

M12 Missions and Instruments
Room: 250DE Sponsor: DAP Chair: Rasha Abbasi, University of Utah

M13 Supernovae, Gamma-Ray Bursts and Other Transients
Room: 250F Sponsor: DAP Chair: Janna Levin, Barnard College of Columbia University

M14 Gravitational Wave Prompt Analysis and Localization
Room: 251AB Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Jonah Kanner, California Institute of Technology

M15 Quantum Aspects of Gravitation II
Room: 251C Sponsor: GGR Chair: Jorge Pullin, Louisiana State University

M16 Dark Matter II
Room: 251D Sponsor: DPF Chair: Josh Klein, University of Pennsylvania

M17 Accelerator-based Neutrino Experiments II
Room: 251E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Wesley Ketchum, Fermilab

M18 Active Galactic Nuclei
Room: 251F Sponsor: DAP Chair: Robert Lauer, University of New Mexico

M19 Meet the APS Journal Editors
Room: North Foyer Sponsor: APS

Apr 17 2016 5:00PM, Sunday

M20 CSWP Meet and Greet Reception
Room: 150ABC Sponsor: CSWP

Apr 17 2016 5:45PM, Sunday

N1 APS Prizes & Awards Ceremony
Room: Ballroom A Sponsor: APS

Apr 17 2016 6:45PM, Sunday

P16 DPF Business Meeting
Room: 251D Sponsor: DPF

Apr 17 2016 7:00PM, Sunday

N2 Education & Diversity Reception
Room: Marriott Deer Valley II-III Sponsor: COM CSWP FEd

P10 GHP Business Meeting
Room: 250B Sponsor: GHP

Apr 17 2016 8:00PM, Sunday

P20 Staged Reading of the Play: Delicate Particle Logic
Room: Ballroom A Sponsor: FHP

Apr 18 2016 8:30AM, Monday

Q1 Invited Session Plenary II: Fred Kavli Keynote Session Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of Cowan and Reines Detection of the Neutrino in 1956
Room: Ballroom E-J Sponsor: APS Chair: Homer Neal, APS President and University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  A. B. McDonald,  Takaaki Kajita,  Neta Bahcall  

Apr 18 2016 10:45AM, Monday

R2 Invited Session Dark Matter Beyond WIMPs
Room: Ballroom A Sponsor: DPF DAP Chair: JoAnne Hewett, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Kathryn Zurek,  Leslie Rosenberg,  Kevork Abazajian  

R3 Invited Session Neutrino Cross Section with Nuclei
Room: Ballroom B Sponsor: DNP DPF Chair: Reyco Henning, University of North Carolina
Invited Speakers:  Mary Hall Reno,  Steven Dytman,  Cynthia Keppel  

R4 Invited Session Few-Body Physics at the Electron-Ion Collider
Room: Ballroom C Sponsor: GFB DNP Chair: Ricardo Alarcon, Arizona State University
Invited Speakers:  Pawel Nadel-Turonski,  Charles Hyde,  Misak Sargsian  

R5 Invited Session Measuring Big G
Room: Ballroom D Sponsor: GGR Chair: Pedro Marronetti
Invited Speakers:  Stephan Schlamminger,  Guglielmo Tino,  Christian Rothleitner  

R6 Invited Session Engaging the Public Through a Variety of Collaborations and Initiatives
Room: 150ABC Sponsor: FEd Chair: Geraldine Cochran, APS
Invited Speakers:  Gerceida Jones,  Michael Wittmann,  Emina A. Stojkovi\'c  

R7 Invited Session Sidney Coleman Remembered - Correspondence and Commentary
Room: 150G Sponsor: FHP DPF Chair: Catherine Westfall, Michigan State University
Invited Speakers:  Aaron Wright,  Erick Weinberg,  Howard Georgi  

R9 Nuclear Instrumentation II
Room: 250A Sponsor: DNP Chair: Nick Fotiades, Los Alamos National Laboratory

R10 Hadronic Physics
Room: 250B Sponsor: DNP GHP Chair: Tanja Horn, Catholic University of America

R11 Focus Session Telescope Array
Room: 250C Sponsor: DAP Chair: Gordon Thomson, University of Utah
Invited Speakers:  Rasha Abbasi  

R12 Cosmology: Inflation
Room: 250DE Sponsor: DAP Chair: Jeffrey Filippini, University of Illinois - Urbana

R13 Focus Session Fermi-HAWC-VERITAS
Room: 250F Sponsor: DAP Chair: Udara Abeysekara, University of Utah
Invited Speakers:  Roger Blandford  

R14 Optical and Gamma Ray Followups of Gravity Wave Triggers
Room: 251AB Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Leo Singer, NASA

R15 Gravitational Wave Theory
Room: 251C Sponsor: GGR Chair: Nico Yunes, Montana State University

R16 Higgs Physics II
Room: 251D Sponsor: DPF Chair: Ashutosh Kotwal, Duke University

R17 Quark Flavor
Room: 251E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Alexey Petrov, Wayne University

R18 Pulsar Timing Arrays and Supermassive Black Hole Binaries
Room: 251F Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Curt Cutler, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Apr 18 2016 12:00PM, Monday

J19 Career Opportunities for Physicists
Room: Marriott Deer Valley I-III Sponsor: APS Chair: Crystal Bailey, APS

Apr 18 2016 1:30PM, Monday

S2 Invited Session New Directions in Particle Physics Phenomenology
Room: Ballroom A Sponsor: DPF Chair: Marcela Carena, Fermilab
Invited Speakers:  Roni Harnik,  Geraldine Servant,  Michele Papucci  

S3 Invited Session Electron Beams for Parity Experiements
Room: Ballroom B Sponsor: DNP DPB Chair: Gordon Cates, University of Virginia
Invited Speakers:  Matthew Poelker,  Kent Paschke,  Juergen Diefenbach  

S4 Invited Session Supernovae - New Clues and Challenges
Room: Ballroom C Sponsor: DAP Chair: Fiona Harrison, California Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Adam Burrows,  Steven Boggs,  Edward Brown  

S5 Invited Session Space Based Gravitational Wave Astrophysics
Room: Ballroom D Chair: Laura Sampson, LIGO Scientific Collaboration
Invited Speakers:  Martin Hewitson,  Scott Hughes,  Kelly Bockelmann  

S6 Invited Session Insights in Hadron Structure from Transverse Momentum Dependent Distribution (TMDs)
Room: 150ABC Sponsor: GHP Chair: Paul Reimer, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Caroline Riedl,  Elke Aschenauer,  Zhongbo Kang  

S7 Invited Session Big International Neutrino Projects and Collaborations
Room: 150G Sponsor: FIP DPF Chair: Maria Spiropulu, California Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  David Wark,  Mark Thomson,  Marco Zito  

S9 Focus Session Mini-Symposium: Neutrinoless Double-beta Decay
Room: 250A Sponsor: DNP DPF Chair: Jing Liu, University of South Dakota
Invited Speakers:  Werner Rodejohann  

S10 Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ions
Room: 250B Sponsor: DNP Chair: Doga Gulhan, MIT

S11 From Planets to Galaxy Clusters
Room: 250C Sponsor: DAP Chair: Michelle Hui, NASA/MSFC

S12 Cosmology: Observation, Interpretation, Large Scale Structure
Room: 250DE Sponsor: DAP Chair: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, MIT

S13 Focus Session Intermediate Energy Cosmic Rays
Room: 250F Sponsor: DAP Chair: Jason Link, NASA
Invited Speakers:  Jason Link  

S14 Advanced LIGO Methods and Results III
Room: 251AB Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Vivien Raymond, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics

S15 Laboratory Tests of Gravitation
Room: 251C Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Sheila Dwyer, LIGO Laboratory

S16 LHC Instrumentation II
Room: 251D Sponsor: DPF Chair: James Proudfoot, Argonne National Laboratory

S17 Neutrino Oscillation Searches
Room: 251E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Hallsie Reno, University of Iowa

S18 Expanding Public Understanding of Physics
Room: 251F Sponsor: GPER

S20 Communication & Negotiation Skills Workshop for Women II
Room: Marriott Alta Room Sponsor: APS

Apr 18 2016 2:00PM, Monday

T1 Poster Session Poster Session III (2:00pm - 5:00pm)
Room: South Foyer

Apr 18 2016 3:30PM, Monday

U2 Invited Session Flavor Physics
Room: Ballroom A Sponsor: DPF Chair: Aida El Khadra, University of Illinois
Invited Speakers:  Alexey Petrov,  Wendy Taylor,  Michael Williams  

U3 Invited Session DNP Awards Session
Room: Ballroom B Sponsor: DNP Chair: John Wilkerson, University of North Carolina
Invited Speakers:  Xiangdong Ji,  I-Yang Lee,  R. G. H. (Hamish) Robertson  

U4 Invited Session New High Energy Views of the Galaxy
Room: Ballroom C Sponsor: DAP Chair: Julie McEnery, NASA
Invited Speakers:  Michelle Hui,  Tracy Slatyer,  Charles Hailey  

U5 Invited Session Computing Meets Experiment in Gravity
Room: Ballroom D Sponsor: GGR DCOMP Chair: Deirdre Shoemaker, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Ian Harry,  Patricia Schmidt,  Adam Otte  

U6 Invited Session Pais Prize Session - Some History You Won't Find In Physics Textbooks
Room: 150ABC Sponsor: FHP Chair: William Evenson, Brigham Young University
Invited Speakers:  Allan Franklin,  George Smith,  Jed Buchwald  

U7 Invited Session Sakharov Prize Session
Room: 150G Sponsor: FIP Chair: Maria Spiropulu, California Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Zafra Lerman,  Perry Link,  Adam Jermyn  

U11 Field Theory
Room: 250C Sponsor: DPF Chair: Marcela Carena, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

U12 High and Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays
Room: 250DE Sponsor: DAP Chair: John Belz, University of Utah

U13 Elementary Particles
Room: 250F Sponsor: DAP Chair: Brian Rauch, Washington University, St. Louis

U14 Advanced LIGO Methods and Results IV
Room: 251AB Sponsor: GGR Chair: Jessica McIver, LIGO Laboratory

U15 Initial Data and Head-On Collisions in Numerical Relativity
Room: 251C Sponsor: GGR Chair: Bernard Kelly, NASA

U16 Axions and Axion-like Particles
Room: 251D Sponsor: DPF Chair: Kev Abazajian, University of California, Irvine
Invited Speakers:  Michael Dine  

U17 Liquid Argon Neutrino Instrumentation
Room: 251E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Mark Thomson, University of Cambridge

U18 Technological and Curricular Innovations in Physics Education
Room: 251F Sponsor: GPER

Apr 18 2016 5:30PM, Monday

V9 DNP Business Meeting
Room: 250A Sponsor: DNP

V12 DAP Business Meeting
Room: 250DE Sponsor: DAP

V14 GGR Business Meeting
Room: 251AB Sponsor: GGR

V18 GPER Business Meeting
Room: 251F Sponsor: GPER

Apr 18 2016 6:00PM, Monday

V20 Nobel Reception
Room: South Foyer Sponsor: APS

Apr 19 2016 8:30AM, Tuesday

W1 Invited Session Plenary Session III: Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of Lee and Yang's Parity Violation Proposal and the Wu Experiment
Room: Ballroom E-J Sponsor: APS Chair: Ian Shipsey, 2016 April Meeting Chair and Oxford University
Invited Speakers:  Gerald Gabrielse,  Xiaochao Zheng,  Edward Witten  

Apr 19 2016 10:45AM, Tuesday

X2 Invited Session Cosmic Neutrinos and New Physics
Room: Ballroom A Sponsor: DPF DAP Chair: John Beacom, Ohio State University
Invited Speakers:  Lloyd Knox,  Carlos Arg\"uelles Delgado,  Mauricio Bustamante  

X3 Invited Session To the Heart of the Matter
Room: Ballroom B Sponsor: DNP DCOMP Chair: Xiaochao Zheng, University of Virginia
Invited Speakers:  Melina Avila,  Hyo-In Park,  Doga Gulhan,  Huey-Wen Lin  

X4 Invited Session DAP Hot Topics
Room: Ballroom C Sponsor: DAP Chair: Julie McEnery, NASA
Invited Speakers:  Lindy Blackburn,  Kyle Story,  Alexander Ji  

X5 Invited Session Building an Inclusive STEM Community - The ACCESS Network
Room: Ballroom D Sponsor: FEd
Invited Speakers:  Simone Hyater-Adams,  Anna Zaniewski,  Corey Ptak  

X6 Invited Session The New Big Science and the Transformation of Research
Room: 150ABC Sponsor: FHP Chair: Cameron Reed, Alma College
Invited Speakers:  Catherine Westfall,  Robert Crease,  Thomas Kaiserfeld  

X7 Invited Session Physics and Physicists Around the World
Room: 150G Sponsor: FIP Chair: Maria Spiropulu, California Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Vladimir Shiltsev,  Hossein Sadeghpour,  Wang Yifang  

X9 Invited Session Baryon Resonanaces and the Evolution of the Early Universe
Room: 250A Sponsor: DNP Chair: Phil Cole, Idaho State University
Invited Speakers:  Peter Petreczky,  Volker Burkert,  Daniel Cebra  

X14 Compact Binary Mergers: Rates, Populations, Waveforms, and Tidal Effects
Room: 251AB Sponsor: GGR DAP Chair: Tanja Hinderer, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics

X15 Relativistic Gravitation Theory
Room: 251C Sponsor: GGR Chair: Maria Babiuc Hamilton, Marshall University

X16 Particle Theory
Room: 251D Sponsor: DPF Chair: Carleton De Tar, University of Utah
Invited Speakers:  Alejandro Cabo Montes de Oca  

X17 Particle Physics
Room: 251E Sponsor: DPF Chair: Douglas Bergman, Univ of Utah

X18 Dynamics and Observables of Curved Spacetime
Room: 251F Sponsor: GGR Chair: David Nichols, Cornell University

Apr 19 2016 1:30PM, Tuesday

Y2 Invited Session Recent Advances in Hadron Spectroscopy
Room: Ballroom A Sponsor: GHP DPF Chair: Raju Venugopalan, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Paul Eugenio,  Jozef Dudek,  Yuanning Gao  

Y7 Invited Session Next Generation of Large International Telescopes and Cosmic Experiments
Room: 150G Sponsor: FIP Chair: Maria Spiropulu, California Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Laura Cadonati,  Angela Olinto,  Miguel Morales