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Session X2: Cosmic Neutrinos and New Physics

Sponsoring Units: DPF DAP
Chair: John Beacom, Ohio State University
Room: Ballroom A

Tuesday, April 19, 2016 10:45AM - 11:21AM		X2.00001: Measuring Neutrinos with Cosmology Invited Speaker: Lloyd Knox Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:21AM - 11:57AM		X2.00002: Results from the Search for eV-Sterile Neutrinos with IceCube Invited Speaker: Carlos Arg\"uelles Delgado Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:57AM - 12:33PM		X2.00003: Tests of new physics with astrophysical neutrinos Invited Speaker: Mauricio Bustamante Preview Abstract

Session X3: To the Heart of the Matter

Sponsoring Units: DNP DCOMP
Chair: Xiaochao Zheng, University of Virginia
Room: Ballroom B

Tuesday, April 19, 2016 10:45AM - 11:12AM		X3.00001: Direct measurements of astrophysically important $\alpha$-induced reactions Invited Speaker: Melina Avila Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:12AM - 11:39AM		X3.00002: Precise test of the unitarity of the CKM matrix via superallowed nuclear beta decay Invited Speaker: Hyo-In Park Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:39AM - 12:06PM		X3.00003: Experimental results on jet quenching Invited Speaker: Doga Gulhan Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 12:06PM - 12:33PM		X3.00004: From C to Parton Sea: How Supercomputing Reveals Nucleon Structure Invited Speaker: Huey-Wen Lin Preview Abstract

Session X4: DAP Hot Topics

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Julie McEnery, NASA
Room: Ballroom C

Tuesday, April 19, 2016 10:45AM - 11:21AM		X4.00001: Fermi-GBM follow-up of the first gravitational-wave detection Invited Speaker: Lindy Blackburn Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:21AM - 11:57AM		X4.00002: Measuring the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel$\backslash $'dovich effect with the South Pole~ Invited Speaker: Kyle Story Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:57AM - 12:33PM		X4.00003: A single prolific r-process event preserved in an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy Invited Speaker: Alexander Ji Preview Abstract

Session X5: Building an Inclusive STEM Community - The ACCESS Network

Sponsoring Units: FEd
Room: Ballroom D

Tuesday, April 19, 2016 10:45AM - 11:21AM		X5.00001: CU Prime Diversity Workshops: Creating Spaces for Growth Amongst Organizers Invited Speaker: Simone Hyater-Adams Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:21AM - 11:57AM		X5.00002: Promoting student ownership of university science programs: towards building a more equitable scientific educational experience Invited Speaker: Anna Zaniewski Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:57AM - 12:33PM		X5.00003: Using Mindfulness and metacognition to support and retain first generation and deaf and heard of hearing students Invited Speaker: Corey Ptak Preview Abstract

Session X6: The New Big Science and the Transformation of Research

Sponsoring Units: FHP
Chair: Cameron Reed, Alma College
Room: 150ABC

Tuesday, April 19, 2016 10:45AM - 11:21AM		X6.00001: The New Big Science: What's New, What's Not, and What's the Difference Invited Speaker: Catherine Westfall Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:21AM - 11:57AM		X6.00002: The New Big Science at the NSLS Invited Speaker: Robert Crease Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:57AM - 12:33PM		X6.00003: European Neutrons form Parasitic Research to Global Strategy: Realizing Plans for a Transnational European Spallation Source in the Wake of the Cold War Invited Speaker: Thomas Kaiserfeld Preview Abstract

Session X7: Physics and Physicists Around the World

Sponsoring Units: FIP
Chair: Maria Spiropulu, California Institute of Technology
Room: 150G

Tuesday, April 19, 2016 10:45AM - 11:21AM		X7.00001: Physics and Physicists in Russia Invited Speaker: Vladimir Shiltsev Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:21AM - 11:57AM		X7.00002: Physics and Physicists in Iran Invited Speaker: Hossein Sadeghpour Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:57AM - 12:33PM		X7.00003: Physics and Physicists in China Invited Speaker: Wang Yifang Preview Abstract

Session X9: Baryon Resonanaces and the Evolution of the Early Universe

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Phil Cole, Idaho State University
Room: 250A

Tuesday, April 19, 2016 10:45AM - 11:21AM		X9.00001: QCD thermodynamics and missing hadron states Invited Speaker: Peter Petreczky Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:21AM - 11:57AM		X9.00002: The quest for missing baryon states in electromagnetic interactions Invited Speaker: Volker Burkert Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:57AM - 12:33PM		X9.00003: Results from the RHIC energy scan and prospects for the future Invited Speaker: Daniel Cebra Preview Abstract

Session X14: Compact Binary Mergers: Rates, Populations, Waveforms, and Tidal Effects

Sponsoring Units: GGR DAP
Chair: Tanja Hinderer, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
Room: 251AB

Tuesday, April 19, 2016 10:45AM - 10:57AM		X14.00001: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 10:57AM - 11:09AM		X14.00002: Expected Bounds on Compact Binary Coalescence Rates from LIGO Observations Laura Sampson Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:09AM - 11:21AM		X14.00003: Variance in binary stellar population synthesis Katelyn Breivik, Shane L. Larson Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:21AM - 11:33AM		X14.00004: Beyond the Horizon Distance: LIGO-Virgo can Boost Gravitational-Wave Detection Rates by Exploiting the Mass Distribution of Neutron Star and Black Hole Binaries Zsuzsa Marka, Imre Bartos, Szabolcs Marka Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:33AM - 11:45AM		X14.00005: Binary Black Holes from Globular Clusters in the Advanced LIGO Era Carl Rodriguez, Sourav Chatterjee, Fred Rasio Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:45AM - 11:57AM		X14.00006: Error analysis of numerical gravitational waveforms from coalescing binary black holes Heather Fong, Tony Chu, Prayush Kumar, Harald Pfeiffer, Michael Boyle, Daniel Hemberger, Lawrence Kidder, Mark Scheel, Bela Szilagyi Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:57AM - 12:09PM		X14.00007: Accuracy Of Binary Black Hole Waveform Models For Advanced LIGO Prayush Kumar, Heather Fong, Kevin Barkett, Swetha Bhagwat, Nousha Afshari, Tony Chu, Duncan Brown, Geoffrey Lovelace, Harald Pfeiffer, Mark Scheel, Bela Szilagyi Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 12:09PM - 12:21PM		X14.00008: Accuracy and precision of gravitational-wave models of inspiraling neutron star-black hole binaries with spin: Comparison with matter-free numerical relativity in the low-frequency regime Swetha Bhagwat, Prayush Kumar, Kevin Barkett, Nousha Afshari, Duncan A. Brown, Geoffrey Lovelace, Mark A Scheel, Bela Szilagyi Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 12:21PM - 12:33PM		X14.00009: Gravitational waves from neutron-star mergers. Jocelyn Read, Torrey Cullen, Eric Flynn, Veronica Lockett-Ruiz, Conner Park, Susan Vong Preview Abstract

Session X15: Relativistic Gravitation Theory

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Maria Babiuc Hamilton, Marshall University
Room: 251C

Tuesday, April 19, 2016 10:45AM - 10:57AM		X15.00001: Orbital-plane precessional resonances for binary black-hole systems Michael Kesden, Xinyu Zhao, Davide Gerosa Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 10:57AM - 11:09AM		X15.00002: Four-hair relations for differentially rotating neutron stars in the weak-field limit Joseph Bretz, Kent Yagi, Nicolas Yunes Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:09AM - 11:21AM		X15.00003: Testing Gravity Using Pulsar Scintillation Measurements Huan Yang, Atsushi Nishizawa, Ue-Li Pen Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:21AM - 11:33AM		X15.00004: Self-forces on static bodies in arbitrary dimensions Peter Taylor, Abraham Harte, E\'anna Flanagan Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:33AM - 11:45AM		X15.00005: The Cauchy horizon singularity inside Kerr black holes Lior M. Burko, Gaurav Khanna Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:45AM - 11:57AM		X15.00006: Gravitomagnetic acceleration of accretion disk matter to polar jets John Poirier, Grant Mathews Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:57AM - 12:09PM		X15.00007: Dynamics In A Maximally Symmetric Universe Asnakew Bewketu Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 12:09PM - 12:21PM		X15.00008: An Introduction to Gravitational Frenetics I: The Nature and Physical Significance of the Frenetic Field Michael Jay Schillaci Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 12:21PM - 12:33PM		X15.00009: Kinematically Accelerated Repulsions Due to Relative Motion between Mass Particles in an Accelerating Universe David Savickas Preview Abstract

Session X16: Particle Theory

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Carleton De Tar, University of Utah
Room: 251D

Tuesday, April 19, 2016 10:45AM - 10:57AM		X16.00001: Fermion Propagators Interpolating between the Instant and Front Forms of Relativistic Dynamics Bailing Ma, Chueng-Ryong Ji Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 10:57AM - 11:09AM		X16.00002: Semi-classical Electrodynamics John Lestone Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:09AM - 11:21AM		X16.00003: Lattice Study of Magnetic Catalysis in Graphene Effective Field Theory Christopher Winterowd, Carleton DeTar, Savvas Zafeiropoulos Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:21AM - 11:33AM		X16.00004: Little Conformal Symmetry Rachel Houtz, Kit Colwell, John Terning Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:33AM - 11:45AM		X16.00005: Compactification on phase space Benjamin Lovelady, James Wheeler Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:45AM - 11:57AM		X16.00006: Reproducing sterile neutrinos and the behavior of flavor oscillations with superconducting-magnetic proximity effects Thomas E. Baker Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:57AM - 12:09PM		X16.00007: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 12:09PM - 12:21PM		X16.00008: Type-III seesaw fermionic triplets at high energy $e^{+}e^{-}$ collider Deepanjali Goswami, Poulose Poulose Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 12:21PM - 12:57PM		X16.00009: Is a Generalized NJL Model the Effective action of Massless QCD? Invited Speaker: Alejandro Cabo Montes de Oca Preview Abstract

Session X17: Particle Physics

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Douglas Bergman, Univ of Utah
Room: 251E

Tuesday, April 19, 2016 10:45AM - 10:57AM		X17.00001: $\nu_{e}$ Charged-Current Inclusive Cross Section Measurement and The Status of Flux Constraints Using $\nu-e$ Elastic Scattering in the NOvA Near Detector Kuldeep Maan Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 10:57AM - 11:09AM		X17.00002: Measurment of the Charged Current Inclusive Anti-Neutrino to Neutrino Cross Section Ratio Using the $\pi^0$ Detector at T2K Thomas Campbell, Erez Reinherz-Aronis, Walter Toki Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:09AM - 11:21AM		X17.00003: High-Energy Neutron Spectra and Flux Measurements Below Ground Caleb Roecker, Adam Bernstein, Peter Marleau, Kai Vetter Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:21AM - 11:33AM		X17.00004: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:33AM - 11:45AM		X17.00005: Spectra of $\pi^+$ and $\pi^-$ from $\pi^+$-Carbon Interactions at 31 GeV/c with the NA61/SHINE Spectrometer Scott Johnson Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:45AM - 11:57AM		X17.00006: Neutrino-Nucleon Interactions and Lattice QCD Richard Hill, Andreas Kronfeld, Aaron Meyer Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:57AM - 12:09PM		X17.00007: Search for electroweak production of a vector-like quark decaying to tH Alice Bean Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 12:09PM - 12:21PM		X17.00008: A search for supersymmetry in events containing a leptonically decaying Z boson, jets and missing transverse momentum in sqrt(s) $=$ 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector Tova Holmes Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 12:21PM - 12:33PM		X17.00009: SUSY Spectrum Calculator Effects on Dark Matter Observables Paul Bergeron Preview Abstract

Session X18: Dynamics and Observables of Curved Spacetime

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: David Nichols, Cornell University
Room: 251F

Tuesday, April 19, 2016 10:45AM - 10:57AM		X18.00001: Reduced-order surrogate models for Green's functions in black hole spacetimes Chad Galley, Barry Wardell Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 10:57AM - 11:09AM		X18.00002: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:09AM - 11:21AM		X18.00003: Constraining theories of gravity from Light Deviation Experiments Richard Bustos, Tirthabir Biswas Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:21AM - 11:33AM		X18.00004: To Collapse or not to Collapse: The Life of a Primordial Black Hole Robert Craig, Jolyon Bloomfield, Stephen Face Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:33AM - 11:45AM		X18.00005: Toroidal Event Horizons in Binary Black Hole Mergers Andy Bohn, Saul Teukolsky, Lawrence Kidder Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:45AM - 11:57AM		X18.00006: Plasma-wave generation in a dynamic spacetime Fan Zhang, Huan Yang Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:57AM - 12:09PM		X18.00007: An analysis of explicit solutions to force-free electrodynamics in a Kerr background Govind Menon Preview Abstract