Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2016
Volume 61, Number 6
Saturday–Tuesday, April 16–19, 2016; Salt Lake City, Utah
Epitome
Apr 16 2016 8:30AM, Saturday
A1
Invited
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
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
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
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
Results from Advanced LIGO
Room: Ballroom D
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Vicky Kalogera, Northwestern University
Invited Speakers: Peter Fritschel, Chad Hanna, Salvatore Vitale
B6
Invited
Laboratory Searches for Dark Energy Scalar Fields
Room: 150ABC
Sponsor:
GPMFC
Invited Speakers: Justin Khoury, Holger Mueller, Dmitry Pushin
B7
Invited
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
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
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
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
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
Report from Joint Task Force on Undergraduate Physics Program
Room: 150ABC
Sponsor:
FEd
Invited Speakers: Paula Heron, Theodore Hodapp, Lawrence Woolf
C7
Invited
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Excellence in Education Award Session
Room: 150ABC
Sponsor:
FEd
Invited Speakers: Robert Beichner, Priscilla Laws, Carl Wieman
E7
Invited
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
Welcome Reception and Poster Session I (5:30pm - 7:00pm)
Room: South Foyer
Apr 16 2016 7:30PM, Saturday
G1
Invited
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
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
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
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
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
Supporting and Understanding Physics Identity Development
Room: 150ABC
Sponsor:
FEd
Invited Speakers: Eleanor Close, Paul Irving, Robynne Lock
H7
Invited
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
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
Neutrino Oscillations
Room: Ballroom A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Kate Scholberg, Duke University
Invited Speakers: Andre De Gouvea, Wesley Ketchum, Mathew Muether
J3
Invited
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
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
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
Bouchet Award Session - The Gravitational Wave Sky
Room: 150ABC
Sponsor:
COM
Invited Speakers: Pablo Laguna, Deirdre Shoemaker, Konstantinos Kokkotas
J7
Invited
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
Inflation Probe Science Interest Group
Room: 250C
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Edward Wollack, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Invited Speakers: Jamie Bock
J12
Focus
Gravitational Wave Science Interest Group
Room: 250DE
Sponsor:
DAP GGR
Chair: John Conklin, University of Florida
Invited Speakers: Neil Cornish
J13
Focus
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
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
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
DAP Thesis Prize
Room: Ballroom C
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Pat Burchat, Stanford University
Invited Speakers: Blakesley Burkhart, Liang Dai, Wen-fai Fong
K5
Invited
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Preparing and Supporting University Physics Educators
Room: Ballroom D
Sponsor:
GPER FEd
Invited Speakers: Eleanor Sayre, Chandra Turpen, Kathleen Hinko
M6
Invited
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
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
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
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
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
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
Measuring Big G
Room: Ballroom D
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Pedro Marronetti
Invited Speakers: Stephan Schlamminger, Guglielmo Tino, Christian Rothleitner
R6
Invited
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Space Based Gravitational Wave Astrophysics
Room: Ballroom D
Chair: Laura Sampson, LIGO Scientific Collaboration
Invited Speakers: Martin Hewitson, Scott Hughes, Kelly Bockelmann
S6
Invited
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
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
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
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
Poster Session III (2:00pm - 5:00pm)
Room: South Foyer
Apr 18 2016 3:30PM, Monday
U2
Invited
Flavor Physics
Room: Ballroom A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Aida El Khadra, University of Illinois
Invited Speakers: Alexey Petrov, Wendy Taylor, Michael Williams
U3
Invited
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
DAP Hot Topics
Room: Ballroom C
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Julie McEnery, NASA
Invited Speakers: Lindy Blackburn, Kyle Story, Alexander Ji
X5
Invited
Building an Inclusive STEM Community - The ACCESS Network
Room: Ballroom D
Sponsor:
FEd
Invited Speakers: Simone Hyater-Adams, Anna Zaniewski, Corey Ptak
X6
Invited
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Results from Advanced LIGO
Room: Ballroom D
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Vicky Kalogera, Northwestern University
Invited Speakers: Peter Fritschel, Chad Hanna, Salvatore Vitale
B6
Invited
Laboratory Searches for Dark Energy Scalar Fields
Room: 150ABC
Sponsor:
GPMFC
Invited Speakers: Justin Khoury, Holger Mueller, Dmitry Pushin
B7
Invited
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
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
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
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
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
Report from Joint Task Force on Undergraduate Physics Program
Room: 150ABC
Sponsor:
FEd
Invited Speakers: Paula Heron, Theodore Hodapp, Lawrence Woolf
C7
Invited
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Excellence in Education Award Session
Room: 150ABC
Sponsor:
FEd
Invited Speakers: Robert Beichner, Priscilla Laws, Carl Wieman
E7
Invited
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
Welcome Reception and Poster Session I (5:30pm - 7:00pm)
Room: South Foyer
Apr 16 2016 7:30PM, Saturday
G1
Invited
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
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
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
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
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
Supporting and Understanding Physics Identity Development
Room: 150ABC
Sponsor:
FEd
Invited Speakers: Eleanor Close, Paul Irving, Robynne Lock
H7
Invited
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
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
Neutrino Oscillations
Room: Ballroom A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Kate Scholberg, Duke University
Invited Speakers: Andre De Gouvea, Wesley Ketchum, Mathew Muether
J3
Invited
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
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
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
Bouchet Award Session - The Gravitational Wave Sky
Room: 150ABC
Sponsor:
COM
Invited Speakers: Pablo Laguna, Deirdre Shoemaker, Konstantinos Kokkotas
J7
Invited
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
Inflation Probe Science Interest Group
Room: 250C
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Edward Wollack, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Invited Speakers: Jamie Bock
J12
Focus
Gravitational Wave Science Interest Group
Room: 250DE
Sponsor:
DAP GGR
Chair: John Conklin, University of Florida
Invited Speakers: Neil Cornish
J13
Focus
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
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
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
DAP Thesis Prize
Room: Ballroom C
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Pat Burchat, Stanford University
Invited Speakers: Blakesley Burkhart, Liang Dai, Wen-fai Fong
K5
Invited
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Preparing and Supporting University Physics Educators
Room: Ballroom D
Sponsor:
GPER FEd
Invited Speakers: Eleanor Sayre, Chandra Turpen, Kathleen Hinko
M6
Invited
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
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
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
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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
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
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
Measuring Big G
Room: Ballroom D
Sponsor:
GGR
Chair: Pedro Marronetti
Invited Speakers: Stephan Schlamminger, Guglielmo Tino, Christian Rothleitner
R6
Invited
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
Sidney Coleman Remembered - Correspondence and Commentary
Room: 150G
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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
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
Fermi-HAWC-VERITAS
Room: 250F
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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
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
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
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
Space Based Gravitational Wave Astrophysics
Room: Ballroom D
Chair: Laura Sampson, LIGO Scientific Collaboration
Invited Speakers: Martin Hewitson, Scott Hughes, Kelly Bockelmann
S6
Invited
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
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
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
Intermediate Energy Cosmic Rays
Room: 250F
Sponsor:
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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:
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Chair: James Proudfoot, Argonne National Laboratory
S17
Neutrino Oscillation Searches
Room: 251E
Sponsor:
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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:
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Apr 18 2016 2:00PM, Monday
T1
Poster
Poster Session III (2:00pm - 5:00pm)
Room: South Foyer
Apr 18 2016 3:30PM, Monday
U2
Invited
Flavor Physics
Room: Ballroom A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Aida El Khadra, University of Illinois
Invited Speakers: Alexey Petrov, Wendy Taylor, Michael Williams
U3
Invited
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
DAP Hot Topics
Room: Ballroom C
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Julie McEnery, NASA
Invited Speakers: Lindy Blackburn, Kyle Story, Alexander Ji
X5
Invited
Building an Inclusive STEM Community - The ACCESS Network
Room: Ballroom D
Sponsor:
FEd
Invited Speakers: Simone Hyater-Adams, Anna Zaniewski, Corey Ptak
X6
Invited
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
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
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
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
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
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