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Session E2: DPF Prize Session - J.J. Sakurai Prize; Henry Primakoff Award; and the Standard Model at the LHC

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Andreas Kronfeld, Fermilab
Room: Ballroom A

Saturday, April 16, 2016 3:30PM - 4:06PM		E2.00001: J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics: 40 Years of Lattice QCD Invited Speaker: Peter Lepage Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:06PM - 4:42PM		E2.00002: Precision Event Simulation for Hadron Colliders Invited Speaker: Stefan Hoeche Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:42PM - 5:18PM		E2.00003: Standard Model and Top Physics at the LHC Invited Speaker: Sarah Demers Preview Abstract

Session E3: New Results on the Spin Structure of the Nucleon

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Volker Burkert, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Laboratory
Room: Ballroom B

Saturday, April 16, 2016 3:30PM - 4:06PM		E3.00001: Nucleon transverse spin structure in the valence quark region: Probing color forces Invited Speaker: Zein-Eddine Meziani Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:06PM - 4:42PM		E3.00002: Transverse Spin at RHIC Invited Speaker: Xiaorong Wang Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:42PM - 5:18PM		E3.00003: Studies of chiral-odd GPDs using pseudoscalar meson production at Jefferson Lab Invited Speaker: Andrey Kim Preview Abstract

Session E4: Local Universe Cosmology

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

Saturday, April 16, 2016 3:30PM - 4:06PM		E4.00001: Cosmic Flows and the Structure of the Local Universe Invited Speaker: Matthias Steinmetz Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:06PM - 4:42PM		E4.00002: Observing Dwarf Galaxies in the Local Universe Invited Speaker: Joshua Simon Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:42PM - 5:18PM		E4.00003: Testing the LCDM Cosmology with Observations of the Local Group Invited Speaker: Michael Boylan-Kolchin Preview Abstract

Session E5: ILC, SRF and Advanced Accelerator Concepts

Sponsoring Units: DPB DPF
Chair: Tor Raubenheimer, Stanford University
Room: Ballroom D

Saturday, April 16, 2016 3:30PM - 4:06PM		E5.00001: The Status of the International Linear Collider Invited Speaker: Michael Harrison Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:06PM - 4:42PM		E5.00002: Progress in the Development of Superconducting RF Invited Speaker: Martina Martinello Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:42PM - 5:18PM		E5.00003: Plasma Wakefield Acceleration of Positrons Invited Speaker: Spencer Gessner Preview Abstract

Session E6: Excellence in Education Award Session

Sponsoring Units: FEd
Room: 150ABC

Saturday, April 16, 2016 3:30PM - 4:06PM		E6.00001: Excellence in Physics Education Award: SCALE-UP, Student Centered Active Learning Environment with Upside-down Pedagogies Invited Speaker: Robert Beichner Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:06PM - 4:42PM		E6.00002: Online Interactive Video Vignettes (IVVs) Invited Speaker: Priscilla Laws Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:42PM - 5:18PM		E6.00003: Introductory labs; what they don't, should, and can teach (and why)} Invited Speaker: Carl Wieman Preview Abstract

Session E7: The Scales of Collaboration - Physics as a Cooperative Effort

Sponsoring Units: FGSA
Room: 150G

Saturday, April 16, 2016 3:30PM - 4:06PM		E7.00001: The Axion Dark Matter Experiment: Big Science with a (relatively) Small Team. Invited Speaker: Gianpaolo Carosi Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:06PM - 4:42PM		E7.00002: Collaboration at the Giant Magellan Telescope Organization Invited Speaker: Bob Goodrich Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:42PM - 5:18PM		E7.00003: Multidisciplinary and large international projects at CERN Invited Speaker: Daniel Tapia Takaki Preview Abstract

Session E9: Nuclear Reactions

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Shelly Lesher, University of Wisconsin at Lacrosse
Room: 250A

Saturday, April 16, 2016 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E9.00001: Does the $\alpha $ Cluster Structure in Light Nuclei Persist Through the Fusion Process? Justin Vadas, Tracy Steinbach, Jon Schmidt, Varinderjit Singh, Sylvie Hudan, Romualdo deSouza, Lagy Baby, Sean Kuvin, Ingo Wiedenhover Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 3:42PM - 3:54PM		E9.00002: Measuring the Fusion Cross-Section of $^{\mathrm{18}}$O $+$ $^{\mathrm{12}}$C with Low-Intensity Beams near and below the Coulomb barrier Tracy Steinbach, Justin Vadas, Varinderjit Singh, Sylvie Hudan, Romualdo deSouza, Lagy Baby, Sean Kuvin, Ingo Wiedenhover, Sait Umar, Volker Oberacker Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E9.00003: Experimental evidence for a fusion enhancement in $^{19}$O$+^{12}$C at near barrier energies Varinderjit Singh, T.K. STEINBACH, J. Vadas, B.B. WIGGINS, S. Hudan, R.T. Desouza, L.T. Baby, V. TRIPATHI, S.A. KUVIN, I. WIEDENHOVER, A.S. Umar, V.E. Oberacker Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E9.00004: Dynamical Coupling of Pygmy and Giant Resonances Carlos Bertulani, Nathan Brady, Thomas Aumann, James Thomas Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E9.00005: Differential (p,p') and (p,d) Cross Sections of $^{89}$Y and $^{92}$Zr Molly Wakeling, Jason Burke, Johnathon Koglin, John McClory Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E9.00006: Feeding of isomers of stable Rh, Ag, Ir and Au isotopes in fast-neutron-induced reactions. N. Fotiades, M. Devlin, R.O. Nelson, J.J. Carroll Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:42PM - 4:54PM		E9.00007: Theoretical study of isotopic production cross-sections in proton-nucleus reactions at 200MeV Mohammad S. Sabra Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:54PM - 5:06PM		E9.00008: Isospin-dependent phase diagram of nuclear matte Jorge Lopez, Sergio Terrazas-Porras Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 5:06PM - 5:18PM		E9.00009: Rydberg phases of Hydrogen and low energy nuclear reactions Sveinn Olafsson, Leif Holmlid Preview Abstract

Session E10: Mini-symposium on applications of nuclear physics

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Gordon Cates, University of Virginia
Room: 250B

Saturday, April 16, 2016 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E10.00001: Detection of Breeding Blankets Using Antineutrinos Bernadette Cogswell, Patrick Huber Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 3:42PM - 3:54PM		E10.00002: Multimodal Imaging Using a $^{\mathrm{11}}$B(d,n$\gamma )^{\mathrm{12}}$C Source Jason Nattress, Paul Rose, Michal Mayer, Marc Wonders, Kyle Wilhelm, Anna Erickson, Igor Jovanovic Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E10.00003: A comparison of positron emission particle tracking (PEPT) methods for analysis of a tube-in-shell heat exchanger Cody Wiggins, Nitant Patel, Arthur Ruggles Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E10.00004: Some geophysical considerations in radioisotope dating applications. Robert Hayes Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E10.00005: Nuclear Scattering from Transition Metals. Ajit Hira, James Mckeough, Mario Valerio, Tommy Cathey Preview Abstract

Session E11: Energy Research and Applications

Sponsoring Units: GERA
Room: 250C

Saturday, April 16, 2016 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E11.00001: Power Distribution at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Illumination through Affordable and Sustainable Solution of Gram Power Nisha Pandey, Prashant Sarswat Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 3:42PM - 3:54PM		E11.00002: CPV for the rooftop market: novel approaches to tracking integration in photovoltaic modules Harry Apostoleris, Marco Stefancich, Alfredo Alexander-Katz, Matteo Chiesa Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E11.00003: A Metamaterial-Inspired Approach to RF Energy Harvesting Clayton Fowler, Jiangfeng Zhou Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E11.00004: Magnetically modulated electroluminescence from hybrid organic/inorganic light-emitting diodes based on electron donor-acceptor exciplex blends. Zhiyong Pang, Sangita Baniya, Chuang Zhang, Dali Sun, Z. Valy Vardeny Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E11.00005: Magnetic field enhanced electroluminescence in organic light emitting diodes based on electron donor-acceptor exciplex blends Sangita Baniya, Tek Basel, Dali Sun, Ryan McLaughlin, Zeev Valy Vardeny Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E11.00006: Probing the Surface Defect States of Gallium Nitride Nanowires Lauren Simonsen, Yuchen Yang, Nicholas Borys, Anil Ghimire, James Schuck, Shaul Aloni, Jordan Gerton Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:42PM - 4:54PM		E11.00007: Spin-wave excitations induced by spin current in spin-valve structures Haoliang Liu, Dali Sun, Chuang Zhang, Matthew Groesbeck, Zeev Valy Vardeny Preview Abstract

Session E12: LISA and LISA pathfinder

Sponsoring Units: DAP GGR
Chair: John Conklin, University of Florida
Room: 250DE

Saturday, April 16, 2016 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E12.00001: Accelerated prospective parameter estimation for observing black hole mergers with LISA John Baker, Sylvain Marsat, Philip Graff Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 3:42PM - 3:54PM		E12.00002: Comparing Different Analysis Approaches for the GRACE Follow-On Mission Peter L. Bender Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E12.00003: Characterization of the LISA Pathfinder Drag Reduction System Jacob Slutsky Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E12.00004: ST7-DRS on LISA Pathfinder: Initial Status Curt Cutler, John Ziemer, Phil Barela, Nathaniel Demmons, Charles Dunn, Vlad Hruby, Oscar Hsu, Otfrid Liepack, Peiman Maghami, James O'Donnell, Jacob Slutsky, James Thorpe, Andrew Romero-Wolfe Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E12.00005: Spurious Acceleration Noise on the LISA Spacecraft Due to Solar Irradiance Brandon Piotrzkowski, Barret Frank, Brett Bolen, Shane Larson Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E12.00006: Results from a prototype telescope for a space-based gravitational-wave observatory Shannon Sankar, Jeffrey Livas Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:42PM - 4:54PM		E12.00007: LISA Pathfinder as a micrometeorite instrument James Thorpe Preview Abstract

Session E13: Dark Matter, Indirect, Gamma-rays

Chair: Miquel Sanchez-Conde, Stockholm University
Room: 250F

Saturday, April 16, 2016 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E13.00001: Looking for the Northern Fermi Bubble with HAWC Hugo Ayala, Hao Zhou, Petra Huentemeyer Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 3:42PM - 3:54PM		E13.00002: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E13.00003: Gamma-ray Signal from Dark Matter Annihilation Mediated by Mixing Slepton Fei Teng Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E13.00004: Gamma-ray signals from weak scale SUSY dark matter Takahiro Yamamoto, Pearl Sandick, Fei Teng, Jason Kumar Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E13.00005: The High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory Miguel Mostafa Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E13.00006: The HAWC Sensitivity to Dark Matter Annihilation and Decay Tolga Yapici Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:42PM - 4:54PM		E13.00007: The search for dark matter in dwarf galaxies with HAWC Patrick Harding Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:54PM - 5:06PM		E13.00008: Implications of the Observed Scaling Relations between the Dark Matter Halo Parameters and Half-Light Radii of Milky Way Dwarf Spheroidals. Zechariah Miller, Hunter Somers, Ben Woodall, Casey Watson Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 5:06PM - 5:18PM		E13.00009: Diffuse gamma-ray emission modeling near the Galactic Center and the 3 GeV excess Andrea Albert, Dmitry Maleshev, Anna Franckowiak, Luigi Tibaldo Preview Abstract

Session E14: Numerical Relativity Simulations of Binary Mergers

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Geoffrey Lovelace, California State University, Fullerton
Room: 251AB

Saturday, April 16, 2016 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E14.00001: Neutron star evolutions using the discontinuous Galerkin method Francois Hebert Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 3:42PM - 3:54PM		E14.00002: Developing Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Solving Multiphysics Problems in General Relativity Lawrence Kidder, Scott Field, Saul Teukolsky, Francois Foucart Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E14.00003: Gravitational waveforms for neutron star binaries from binary black hole simulations Kevin Barkett, Mark Scheel, Roland Haas, Christian Ott, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Duncan Brown, Bela Szilagyi, Jeffrey Kaplan, Jonas Lippuner, Curran Muhlberger, Francois Foucart, Matthew Duez Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E14.00004: A complete waveform model for compact binaries on eccentric orbits Eliu Huerta, Bhanu Agarwal, Daniel George, Prayush Kumar Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E14.00005: Modeling Dynamical Black Holes with Spin Parameters Larger Than 0.999 Ian Ruchlin, Zachariah Etienne Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E14.00006: Reduced order model for binary neutron star waveforms with tidal interactions Benjamin Lackey, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Chad Galley Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:42PM - 4:54PM		E14.00007: Binary black hole simulations for surrogate modeling Daniel Hemberger Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:54PM - 5:06PM		E14.00008: Robust GRMHD Evolutions of Merging Black-Hole Binaries in Magnetized Plasma Bernard Kelly, Zachariah Etienne, Bruno Giacomazzo, John Baker Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 5:06PM - 5:18PM		E14.00009: Optimizing spinning time-domain gravitational waveforms for Advanced LIGO data analysis Zachariah Etienne, Caleb Devine, Sean McWilliams Preview Abstract

Session E15: Quantum Aspects of Gravitation I

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Deborah Konkowski, United States Naval Academy
Room: 251C

Saturday, April 16, 2016 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E15.00001: Unitarization of black hole decay Steven Giddings Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 3:42PM - 3:54PM		E15.00002: Dimensional Reduction in Causal Set Gravity Steven Carlip Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E15.00003: Maximal vacuum entanglement principle Ted Jacobson Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E15.00004: Four-dimensional Quantum Gravity with a Cosmological Constant from Three-dimensional Holomorphic Blocks Hal Haggard, Muxin Han, Wojciech Kaminski, Aldo Riello Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E15.00005: Conformal Loop quantization of gravity coupled to the standard model Jorge Pullin, Rodolfo Gambini Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E15.00006: The Necessity of Quantizing Gravity Jeremy Adelman Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:42PM - 4:54PM		E15.00007: Tunneling of squeezed states with an eye to evaporating black holes Eleni-Alexandra Kontou, Hal Haggard Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:54PM - 5:06PM		E15.00008: Quantum Gravitational Force Between Polarizable Objects Mark Hertzberg, Larry Ford, Johanna Karouby Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 5:06PM - 5:18PM		E15.00009: Generalized information (entanglement) entropies depending on the probability (density matrix), (modified gravity). Octavio Obregón, Nana Geraldine Cabo Bizet Preview Abstract

Session E16: Liquid Xenon Dark Matter III

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Paolo Condolo, University of Utah
Room: 251D

Saturday, April 16, 2016 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E16.00001: VUV light reflectivity measurements from PTFE in Liquid Xenon for the LZ Dark Matter experiment Kirill Pushkin Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 3:42PM - 3:54PM		E16.00002: TPC GRID DESIGN IN LUX-ZEPLIN(LZ) AND LZ SYSTEM TEST Wei Ji Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E16.00003: High Voltage Tests in the LUX-ZEPLIN System Test Thomas Whitis Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E16.00004: Measurement of the Field-Dependent Response of Liquid Xenon to Low-Energy Electronic Recoils Luke Goetzke, Matthew Anthony, Elena Aprile, Patrick de Perio, Zach Greene, Qing Lin, Marcello Messina, Guillaume Plante, Alfio Rizzo, Yun Zhang Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E16.00005: Measurement of the Charge and Light Yield of Low Energy Nuclear Recoils in Liquid Xenon at Different Electric Fields Matthew Anthony, Elena Aprile, Patrick de Perio, Luke Goetzke, Zach Greene, Qing Lin, Marcello Messina, Guillaume Plante, Alfio Rizzo, Yun Zhang Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E16.00006: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:42PM - 4:54PM		E16.00007: Front-end electronics for the LZ experiment James Morad Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:54PM - 5:06PM		E16.00008: DAX: A Versatile Testbed for Xenon Detector R{\&}D Jacob Cutter Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 5:06PM - 5:18PM		E16.00009: Design and First Results of the CoDeX Liquid-Xenon Compton-Imaging Detector Brian Tennyson, Sidney Cahn, Ethan Bernard, Elizabeth Boulton, Nicholas Destefano, Blair Edwards, Ariana Hackenburg, Markus Horn, Nicole Larsen, James Nikkel, Christopher Wahl, Moshe Gai, Daniel McKinsey Preview Abstract

Session E17: LHC Instrumentation I

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Mike Tuts, Columbia University, Nevis Laboratory
Room: 251E

Saturday, April 16, 2016 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E17.00001: Assembly and test of the modules for the CMS Forward Pixel Phase 1 Upgrade Jose Monroy Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 3:42PM - 3:54PM		E17.00002: Automated procedures for the assembly of the CMS Phase 1 upgrade pixel modules Alex Wade Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E17.00003: Service cylinder electronics for the CMS Forward Pixel Phase 1 Upgrade Suleyman Durgut Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E17.00004: Tests of CMS Phase 1 Pixel Upgrade Back-End Electronics Matthew Kilpatrick Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E17.00005: CMS Run-2 Instrumentation for beam radiation and luminosity measurement using novel detector technologies Alejandro Gomez Espinosa Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 16, 2016 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E17.00006: A Highly-Segmented, Radiation Tolerant Shashlik Electromagnetic Calorimeter Christopher Neu Preview Abstract