Jan 28 2017 8:30AM, Saturday

A1 Invited Plenary Plenary Session I: Science Policy in the 21st Century
Room: Ballroom Salon 2/3 Chair: Daniel Holz, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Cherry Murray,  Rush Holt Jr.,  Bill Foster  

Jan 28 2017 10:45AM, Saturday

B2 Undergraduate Research/SPS I
Room: Maryland B Sponsor: APS SPS Chair: Brad Conrad, SPS

B3 Tests of General Relativity and Alternatives: Theory Meets Experiment
Room: Maryland C Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Clifford Will, University of Florida - Gainesville

B4 Neutrino Astronomy and Search for Counterparts
Room: Virginia A Sponsor: DAP Chair: Naoko Kurahashi Neilson, Drexel University

B5 Inflation and Dark Energy
Room: Virginia B Sponsor: DAP Chair: Tanja Rindler-Daller, University of Vienna

B6 Gravitational-wave Detection in Space: From LISA Pathfinder to LISA
Room: Virginia C Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Shane Larson, Northwestern University / Adler Planetarium

B7 Diversity in Troubled Times
Room: Delaware A Sponsor: FHP FPS Chair: Luis Campos, University of New Mexico/Library of Congress
Invited Speakers:  Chanda Prescod-Weinstein,  Evelynn Hammonds,  Duchess Harris  

B8 Invited Ultralight Dark Matter
Room: Delaware B Sponsor: GPMFC Chair: Marianna Safronova, University of Delaware
Invited Speakers:  Dmitry Budker,  Yannis Semertzidis,  Andrei Derevianko  

B9 Dark Matter: DarkLight, Sequest, Other Ongoing Efforts
Room: Roosevelt 1 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Mike Tuts, Columbia University

B10 Invited Transitions in Physics and Related Fields from the Late 19th Century to Today
Room: Roosevelt 2 Sponsor: FHP Chair: Catherine Westfall, Michigan State University
Invited Speakers:  Joseph Martin,  Robert Smith,  Ann Robinson  

B11 Higgs I
Room: Roosevelt 3 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Tulika Bose, Boston University

B12 Hadron Tomography
Room: Roosevelt 4 Sponsor: DNP GHP Chair: Ian Cloet, Argonne National Lab

B13 Focus Mini-Symposium: Detecting Neutral Particles with Low-energy Thresholds
Room: Roosevelt 5 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Alan Poon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Daniel McKinsey  

B15 Invited Electromagnetic Signatures of Neutron Star Mergers
Room: Washington 2 Sponsor: DAP DGRAV DNP Chair: Daniel Kasen, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Rebecca Surman,  Andreas Bauswein,  Luke Roberts  

B16 Invited Applications of Accelerators and Nuclear Physics
Room: Washington 3 Sponsor: DNP DPB Chair: T Vincent Cianciolo, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Kevin John,  Jacek Capala,  Brandi Lee MacDonald  

Jan 28 2017 12:00PM, Saturday

B20 Future of Physics Days: Lunch with the Grads
Room: Coolidge Room

Jan 28 2017 12:30PM, Saturday

B21 Roundtable: Improving the Climate in Physics for LGBT+ Physicists
Room: Harding Room

Jan 28 2017 1:30PM, Saturday

C2 Undergraduate Research/SPS II
Room: Maryland B Sponsor: APS SPS Chair: Crystal Bailey, APS

C3 Gravitational-wave Astrophysics: Neutron Stars and Core Collapse Supernovae
Room: Maryland C Sponsor: DAP DGRAV Chair: Jocelyn Read, California State University, Fullerton

C4 Neutrinos - Instruments, Science and Modeling
Room: Virginia A Sponsor: DAP Chair: Justin Vandenbrouke, University of Wisconsin

C5 Numerical Relativity Codes and Methods
Room: Virginia B Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Steven Liebling, Long Island University

C6 Precision Measurements and Fundamental Symmetries
Room: Virginia C Sponsor: GPMFC Chair: Thomas Gentile, NIST

C7 Invited Nuclear Testing Limitations and Monitoring Low Level Radioactivity
Room: Delaware A Sponsor: FPS Chair: Thomas Cochran, Natural Resources Defense Council
Invited Speakers:  Pierce S. Corden,  Jay Zucca,  Lassina Zerbo  

C8 Invited Forum on Education Excellence in Physics Education Award
Room: Delaware B Sponsor: FEd Chair: John Stewart, West Virginia University
Invited Speakers:  Howard Matis,  Michael Wittmann,  Peter S. Shaffer  

C9 Dark Matter: R&D and New Directions
Room: Roosevelt 1 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Josh Klein, University of Pennsylvania

C10 Invited Indirect Detection of Dark Matter
Room: Roosevelt 2 Sponsor: DAP DPF Chair: Julie McEnery, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Invited Speakers:  Mei-Yu Wang,  Shunsaku Horiuchi,  Segev BenZvi  

C11 B Physics
Room: Roosevelt 3 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Marina Artuso, Syracuse University

C12 Hadron Structure and Form Factors
Room: Roosevelt 4 Sponsor: DNP GHP Chair: Rolf Ent, Jefferson Lab

C13 Nuclear Theory
Room: Roosevelt 5 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Charles Horowitz, Indiana Univ.

C14 Invited Extremes of Gravity: From Weak to Strong
Room: Washington 1 Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Theodore Jacobson, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Lydia Bieri,  Samuel Gralla,  James Isenberg  

C15 Invited Dannie Heineman Prize and Henry Primakoff Award Session
Room: Washington 2 Sponsor: DPF DCOMP
Invited Speakers:  Carl Bender,  Tracy Slatyer  

C16 Invited Light Nuclei Beyond the Standard Model
Room: Washington 3 Sponsor: GFB DPF Chair: Kenneth Nollett, San Diego State Univesrity
Invited Speakers:  Emanuele Mereghetti,  Bartosz Fornal,  Matthias Schindler  

Jan 28 2017 3:30PM, Saturday

E2 Undergraduate Research/SPS III
Room: Maryland B Sponsor: APS SPS Chair: Cortney Bougher, American Physical Society

E3 LIGO/Virgo and Holometer Searches for Continuous-wave, Burst and Supernova Signals
Room: Maryland C Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Jacob Slutsky, University of Maryland - Baltimore County

E4 Focus Multimessenger Particle Astrophysics
Room: Virginia A Sponsor: DAP Chair: Jim Beatty, The Ohio State University
Invited Speakers:  Miguel Mostafa  

E5 Getting a Handle on the Population of Merging Binaries
Room: Virginia B Sponsor: DAP DGRAV

E6 Orbits, Spins & Tides: Analytic and Numerical Methods
Room: Virginia C Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Lior Burko, Georgia Gwinnett College

E7 Invited Two Out of 535: The Role of Physicists in Policy
Room: Delaware A Sponsor: FGSA Chair: Nicholas Weingartner, Washington University in St. Louis

E8 Invited Online Communities Supporting Physics Education
Room: Delaware B Sponsor: FEd Chair: Bruce Mason, University of Oklahoma
Invited Speakers:  Wolfgang Christian,  Kelly Roos,  Eleanor Sayre  

E9 Dark Matter with Solid State Detectors
Room: Roosevelt 1 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Bob Tschirhart, FermiLab

E10 Invited W.K.H Panofsky Prize and Robert R. Wilson Prize Session
Room: Roosevelt 2 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Joe Incandela, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Tejinder Virdee,  Peter Jenni,  Anton Piwinski,  Sekazi K. Mtingwa  

E11 Beyond-Standard-Model Searches I
Room: Roosevelt 3 Sponsor: DPF Chair: JoAnne Hewett, SLAC

E12 Instrumentation for Hadron Structure Studies
Room: Roosevelt 4 Sponsor: DNP GHP Chair: Tanja Horn, Catholic University of America

E13 Focus Minisymposium: Spin Structure of the Nucleon
Room: Roosevelt 5 Sponsor: DNP GHP Chair: Xiaochao Zheng, University of Virginia
Invited Speakers:  Vladimir Pascalutsa  

E14 Invited Isotope Production and Accelerator Technology
Room: Washington 1 Sponsor: DPB DNP Chair: Ed Hartouni, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Kevin Crowley,  David Morrissey,  Grigory Eremeev  

E15 Invited DAP Thesis Prize Session
Room: Washington 2 Sponsor: DAP
Invited Speakers:  Anna Patej,  Garrett Somers,  Morgan MacLeod,  Carlos Arguellas Delgado  

E16 Invited Physics of Weakly-Bound Nuclear Systems
Room: Washington 3 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Hiro Iwasaki, Michigan State University
Invited Speakers:  Kevin Fossez,  Elizabeth McCutchan,  Kyle Brown  

Jan 28 2017 5:30PM, Saturday

F1 Poster Special Event Welcome Reception and Poster Session I
Room: Exhibit Hall A

Jan 28 2017 7:00PM, Saturday

F2 Special Event Public Lecture: From Mars to the Multverse
Room: Salon Ballroom 2/3 Sponsor: APS
Invited Speakers:  Martin Rees  

F6 GPMFC Business Meeting and Social Outing
Room: Virginia C Sponsor: GPMFC

Jan 29 2017 8:30AM, Sunday

H2 Topics in Physics Education
Room: Maryland B Sponsor: FEd

H3 New Directions in Gravity
Room: Maryland C Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Peter Shawhan, University of Maryland

H4 Cosmic-rays: Anisotropy and Ground Based Observations
Room: Virginia A Sponsor: DAP Chair: Amy Connolly, The Ohio State University

H5 Focus Mini-symposium: Physics of the Cosmos
Room: Virginia B Sponsor: DAP Chair: Ann Hornschemeier, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Invited Speakers:  Marshall Bautz  

H7 Invited Computational Accelerator Physics
Room: Delaware A Sponsor: DCOMP DPB Chair: Tor Raubenheimer, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  James Amundson,  Ji Qiang,  Jean-Luc Vay  

H9 Dark Matter with Lux/LZ, DarkSide and Axions and ADMX
Room: Roosevelt 1 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Mirjam Cvetic, University of Pennsylvania

H10 Invited Lattice QCD and the Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Room: Roosevelt 2 Sponsor: DCOMP DPF Chair: Steve Gottlieb, Indiana University
Invited Speakers:  Marina Artuso,  Christoph Lehner,  Carleton DeTar  

H11 Beyond-Standard-Model Searches II
Room: Roosevelt 3 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Tulika Bose, Boston University

H12 Nuclear Reactions and Astrophysics I
Room: Roosevelt 4 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Sanjay Reddy, Univ. of Washington

H13 Focus Minisymposium: Instrumentation for Low Energy Nuclear and Neutrino Physics
Room: Roosevelt 5 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Sharon Stephenson, Gettysburg College
Invited Speakers:  Remco Zegers  

H14 Invited Einstein Prize Talk and Advanced LIGO Search Results
Room: Washington 1 Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Emanuele Berti, University of Mississippi
Invited Speakers:  Robert Wald,  Jocelyn Read,  Patrick Meyers  

H15 Invited Cosmology with Ultra Low Mass Fields
Room: Washington 2 Sponsor: DAP DPF Chair: David Kaplan, Johns Hopkins University
Invited Speakers:  Peter Graham,  Michael Romalis,  William Terrano  

H16 Invited Nuclear Physics Careers Off the Beaten Path
Room: Washington 3 Sponsor: DNP FGSA Chair: Nicholas Weingartner, Washington University
Invited Speakers:  Susan White,  Robert Ledoux,  Carlo Mattoni  

Jan 29 2017 10:00AM, Sunday

J20 Undergraduate Breakfast, Career Workshop, and Awards
Room: Wilson Room

Jan 29 2017 10:45AM, Sunday

J2 Few-Body Systems
Room: Maryland B Sponsor: GFB Chair: Saori Pastore, Los Alamos National Laboratory

J3 Beams
Room: Maryland C Sponsor: DPB

J4 Cosmic Ray Science Interest Group I
Room: Virginia A Sponsor: DAP Chair: Igor Moskalenko, Stanford University

J5 Dwarf Galaxies, Dark Matter and Magnetic Fields
Room: Virginia B Sponsor: DAP Chair: Andrea Albert, Los Alamos National Laboratory

J6 Focus Testing General Relativity with Black Hole Observations
Room: Virginia C Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Leo Stein, Caltech
Invited Speakers:  Walter Del Pozzo  

J7 Invited FPS Awards Session
Room: Delaware A Sponsor: FPS
Invited Speakers:  James Timbie,  Allen Sessoms,  Michael Lubell  

J8 Invited Using 21st Century Physics to Educate 21st Century Students
Room: Delaware B Sponsor: FEd Chair: Kenneth Cecire, University of Notre Dame
Invited Speakers:  Elizabeth McCutchan,  Mark Adams,  Jeremy Smith  

J9 Dark Matter with Xenon
Room: Roosevelt 1 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Bob Tschirhart, FermiLab

J10 Invited 3-Flavor Neutrino Oscillations
Room: Roosevelt 2 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Kate Scholberg, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Lisa Whitehead,  Dan Dwyer,  Ed Kearns  

J11 Neutrino I
Room: Roosevelt 3 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Josh Klein, University of Pennsylvania

J12 Nuclear Reactions and Astrophysics II
Room: Roosevelt 4 Sponsor: DNP Chair: David Dean, ORNL

J13 Focus Mini-Symposium: New Approaches to Search for non-WIMP Dark Matter
Room: Roosevelt 5 Sponsor: DNP DPF Chair: Reyco Henning, University of North Carolina
Invited Speakers:  Jesse Thaler  

J14 Invited Focus Outreach and Engaging the Public
Room: Washington 1 Sponsor: FOEP Chair: Larry Gladney, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  David Kaplan,  Rachel Wolf  

J15 Invited Prize Talks: Black Holes and Cosmic Explosions
Room: Washington 2 Sponsor: DAP Chair: Fiona Harrison, California Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Martin Rees,  Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz,  Stuart Shapiro  

J16 Invited Investigating Parton Dynamics with Drell-Yan-like Processes
Room: Washington 3 Sponsor: GHP DNP Chair: Paul Reimer, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Alessandro Bacchetta,  Salvatore Fazio,  Vincent Andrieux  

Jan 29 2017 12:33PM, Sunday

N11 DPF Business Meeting
Room: Roosevelt 3 Sponsor: DPF

Jan 29 2017 1:30PM, Sunday

K3 Numerical Relativity Solutions for Black Hole Binaries
Room: Maryland C Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Bruno Giacomazzo, University of Trento

K4 Focus Cosmic Ray Science Interest Group II
Room: Virginia A Sponsor: DAP Chair: Igor Moskalenko, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  William Vernon Jones  

K5 Focus Mini-symposium: Gravitational Waves Science Interest Group
Room: Virginia B Sponsor: DAP Chair: John Conklin, University of Florida
Invited Speakers:  John Ziemer  

K6 Primordial Black Holes, Spacetime Structure and Thermodynamics
Room: Virginia C Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Beatrice Bonga, Penn State University

K7 Invited Future Accelerator-based Dark Sector Searches
Room: Delaware A Sponsor: DPB DPF Chair: Joseph Incandela, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Philip Schuster,  Jim Alexander,  Alex Romanenko  

K8 Invited The Cutting Edge of Physics Education Research
Room: Delaware B Sponsor: FEd GPER Chair: Marcos Caballero, Michigan State University
Invited Speakers:  Paul Irving,  Daniel Seaton,  Benjamin Zwickl  

K9 Mini-Symposium: Gamma-Ray Science Interest Group
Room: Roosevelt 1 Sponsor: DAP Chair: Henric Krawczynski, Washington University in Saint Louis

K10 Invited Exotic Hadrons from the LHC and B-Factories
Room: Roosevelt 2 Sponsor: GHP DPF Chair: Ramona Vogt, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Bryan Fulsom,  Claudia Patrignani  

K11 Neutrino II
Room: Roosevelt 3 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Kate Scholberg, Duke University

K12 Low-energy Electroweak Interactions I
Room: Roosevelt 4 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Tim Daniels, SLAC

K13 Focus Minisymposium: Physics Beyond Collinear Factorization
Room: Roosevelt 5 Sponsor: DNP GHP Chair: Renee Fatemi, University of Kentucky
Invited Speakers:  Duff Neill  

K14 Invited Observables and Entanglement in Space-Time
Room: Washington 1 Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Deborah Konkowski, U.S. Naval Academy
Invited Speakers:  William Donnelly,  Eugenio Bianchi  

K15 Invited Focus SN 1987A: 30 Years Later
Room: Washington 2 Sponsor: DAP DNP Chair: Fiona Harrison, California Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Robert Kirshner,  Laura Lopez  

K16 Invited Manhattan Project Scientific Legacy
Room: Washington 3 Sponsor: DNP FHP Chair: Vince Cianciolo, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Susan Seestrom,  Edward Hartouni  

Jan 29 2017 2:00PM, Sunday

L1 Poster Poster Session II (14:00 - 17:00)
Room: Exhibit Hall A

Jan 29 2017 2:30PM, Sunday

L2 Tutorial for Authors and Referees
Room: Maryland B

Jan 29 2017 3:30PM, Sunday

M1 Meet the APS Journal Editors
Room: Marriott Foyer, Mezzanine Level

M2 Research in Introductory Courses
Room: Maryland B Sponsor: GPER Chair: John Thompson

M3 Focus Electromagnetic Follow-up of Gravitational Wave Candidate Events
Room: Maryland C Sponsor: DGRAV DAP Chair: Marc Favata, Montclair State University
Invited Speakers:  Marcelle Soares-Santos  

M4 Space-Based Cosmic Ray Observations
Room: Virginia A Sponsor: DAP Chair: John Mitchell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

M5 Simulating Dark Matter and Galaxies
Room: Virginia B Sponsor: DAP Chair: Priya Natarajan, Yale University

M6 Quantum Aspects of Gravitation
Room: Virginia C Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Eugenio Bianchi, Pennsylvania State University

M7 Invited The Social Legacy of the Manhattan Project
Room: Delaware A Sponsor: FPS FHP DNP Chair: Allen Sessoms, Georgetown University
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Kevles,  Kelsey Davenport,  Carlton Stoiber  

M8 Invited The Role of Community in Recruiting and Retaining Women in Physics
Room: Delaware B Sponsor: CSWP Chair: Zahra Hazari, Florida International University
Invited Speakers:  Angela Kelly,  Catherine Riegle-Crumb,  Tiffany Ito,  Panel Discussion (with all speakers)  

M9 Higgs II
Room: Roosevelt 1 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Dmitri Denisov, FermiLab

M10 Invited Future Accelerator-based Neutrino Sources
Room: Roosevelt 2 Sponsor: DPB DPF Chair: Tor Raubenheimer, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Paul Derwent,  Tadashi Koseki,  Stuart D. Henderson  

M11 Neutrino III
Room: Roosevelt 3 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Kate Scholberg, Duke University

M12 Heavy Flavor Hadrons
Room: Roosevelt 4 Sponsor: DNP GHP Chair: Greg Kalicy, Catholic University of America

M13 Ultra-relativistic Heavy-Ions
Room: Roosevelt 5 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Christine Aidala, University of Michigan

M14 Invited Numerical GR Simulations of Core Collapse Supernovae
Room: Washington 1 Sponsor: DGRAV DCOMP Chair: Pedro Marronetti, National Science Foundation
Invited Speakers:  Philipp Mösta,  Bernhard Mueller,  Anthony Mezzacappa  

M15 Nuclear Instrumentation
Room: Washington 2 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Warren Rogers, Indiana Wesleyan University

M16 Invited Neutron Skins, Hypernuclei and Neutron Stars
Room: Washington 3 Sponsor: DNP DAP Chair: Rocco Schiavilla, Old Dominion University
Invited Speakers:  James Lattimer,  Robert Michaels,  Diego Lonardoni  

Jan 29 2017 5:30PM, Sunday

N20 Career Skills Workshop: Achieving Your Goals Through Effective Communication
Room: Washington 5 Chair: Crystal Bailey, APS

N1 APS Prizes and Awards Ceremonial Session
Room: Ballroom Salon 3

Jan 29 2017 6:30PM, Sunday

N2 National Society of Black Physicists and National Society of Hispanic Physicists Meetup
Room: McKinley Room

Jan 29 2017 7:00PM, Sunday

N3 APS Education and Diversity Reception
Room: Wilson Room

Jan 29 2017 8:00PM, Sunday

P1 Special Event Staged Reading of the Play: Reykjavik
Room: Delaware A Sponsor: FHP FOEP FPS

Jan 30 2017 8:30AM, Monday

Q1 Invited Plenary Kavli Foundation Keynote Plenary Session II: From Quarks to the Cosmos
Room: Ballroom Salon 2/3 Chair: Daniel Holz, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Barbara Jacak,  Cora Dvorkin,  Sylvester Gates  

Jan 30 2017 10:45AM, Monday

R2 Computational Physics
Room: Maryland B Sponsor: DCOMP

R3 Black Holes and Their Environments
Room: Maryland C Sponsor: DAP DGRAV Chair: Neil Cornish, Montana State University

R4 Missions, Instruments and Surveys
Room: Virginia A Sponsor: DAP Chair: Mattia Di Mauro, SLAC National Laboratory

R5 Focus The Galactic Center Excess
Room: Virginia B Sponsor: DAP Chair: Timothy Brandt, Institute for Advanced Study
Invited Speakers:  Tim Linden  

R6 Mathematical Aspects of General Relativity
Room: Virginia C Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Steven Carlip, University of California - Davis

R7 Invited The Manhattan Project: History and Heritage
Room: Delaware A Sponsor: FHP DNP Chair: Alan Chodos, The American Physical Society (retired)
Invited Speakers:  Cameron Reed,  Cynthia Kelly,  John Coster-Mullen  

R8 Invited Research in Teacher Preparation
Room: Delaware B Sponsor: FEd Chair: Monica Plisch, American Physical Society
Invited Speakers:  David E. Meltzer,  Eugenia Etkina,  Wendy Adams  

R9 LHC: Ongoing
Room: Roosevelt 1 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Mike Tuts, Columbia University

R10 Invited Sterile Neutrinos
Room: Roosevelt 2 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Alex Himmel, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Matthew Toups,  Thomas Langford,  Patrick Huber  

R11 Neutrino Detector I
Room: Roosevelt 3 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Dmitri Denisov, FermiLab

R12 Low-energy Electroweak Interactions II
Room: Roosevelt 4 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Diana Parno, Carnegie Mellon University

R13 Focus Minisymposium: Precision Measurements in Nuclear Physics I
Room: Roosevelt 5 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Hiro Iwasaki, Michigan State University
Invited Speakers:  Perry Chodash  

R14 Invited Gravitational Wave Observations with Current and Future Facilities
Room: Washington 1 Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Laura Cadonati, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Joseph Giaime,  Laura Sampson,  Guido Mueller  

R15 Invited The Future of Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction
Room: Washington 2 Sponsor: GFB DNP Chair: Matthias Schindler, University of South Carolina
Invited Speakers:  Ruprecht Machleidt,  Rodrigo Navarro Perez,  Maria Piarulli  

R16 Invited Future High Energy Hadron Colliders and Physics
Room: Washington 3 Sponsor: DPB DPF Chair: Joseph Incandela, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Giorgio Apollinari,  Frank Zimmermann,  Stephen Gourlay  

Jan 30 2017 1:30PM, Monday

S2 Physics Outreach and Physics History
Room: Maryland B Sponsor: FOEP FHP FED Chair: Rebecca Thompson, APS

S3 Topics in Physics Education Research
Room: Maryland C Sponsor: GPER Chair: Tim Stelzer

S4 Active Galactic Nuclei
Room: Virginia A Sponsor: DAP Chair: Sara Buson, NASA-GSFC

S5 From Axions to Active Galactic Nuclei
Room: Virginia B Sponsor: DAP Chair: Masha Baryakhtar, Perimeter Institute

S6 Focus Loop Quantum Gravity and Cosmology
Room: Virginia C Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Jorge Pullin, Louisana State University
Invited Speakers:  Ivan Agullo  

S7 Invited The Roles of Physicists in International and Nonprofit Organizations
Room: Delaware A Sponsor: FPS FIP Chair: Allen Sessoms, Georgetown University
Invited Speakers:  Charles D. Massey,  Anne-Marie Mazza,  Michelle L'Archeveque Jones  

S8 Invited Pushing the Boundaries of Lattice QCD
Room: Delaware B Sponsor: GHP DCOMP Chair: Peter Petreczky, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Martha Constantinou,  Balint Joo,  Patrick Steinbrecher  

S9 Accelerator and Detector Upgrades
Room: Roosevelt 1 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Bob Tschirhart, FermiLab

S10 Invited Maria Goeppert Mayer Award, Sakurai Prize Session
Room: Roosevelt 2 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Drew Baden, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Henriette Elvang,  Sally Dawson,  Howard Haber,  John Gunion,  Gordon Kane  

S11 Neutrino Detector II
Room: Roosevelt 3 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Dmitri Denisov, FermiLab

S12 Light Mesons and Baryons
Room: Roosevelt 4 Sponsor: DNP GHP Chair: William Briscoe, George Washington University

S13 Minisymposium: Precision Measurements in Nuclear Physics II
Room: Roosevelt 5 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Maxime Brodeur, University of Notre Dame

S14 Invited Progenitors of Merging Binary Black Holes
Room: Washington 1 Sponsor: DAP DGRAV Chair: Peter Shawhan, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Selma de Mink,  Nicholas Stone,  Carl Rodriguez  

S15 Invited Correlating Optical and CMB Surveys
Room: Washington 2 Sponsor: DAP Chair: Scott Dodelson, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Emmanuel Schaan,  Eric Baxter,  Simone Ferraro  

S16 Invited Neutrino Cross Sections from eV to TeV
Room: Washington 3 Sponsor: DNP DPF Chair: Alan Poon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Louis Strigari,  Kendall Mahn,  Kate Scholberg  

Jan 30 2017 2:00PM, Monday

T1 Poster Poster Session III (14:00 - 17:00)
Room: Exhibit Hall A

Jan 30 2017 3:30PM, Monday

U2 Invited Classically Forbidden Transitions: Tunneling Through the Barriers to Advance Women and Minorities in Physics
Room: Maryland B Sponsor: FPS COM Chair: Beverly Hartline, Montana Tech of the University of Montana
Invited Speakers:  Jocelyn Bell-Burnell,  Njema Frazier,  Keivan Stassun  

U4 Supernovae, GRBs and Other Transients
Room: Virginia A Sponsor: DAP Chair: Elizabeth Ferrara, University of Maryland - College Park

U5 Focus Gravitational Waves and Dark Matter
Room: Virginia B Sponsor: DAP Chair: Paul Shapiro, University of Texas
Invited Speakers:  Ely Kovetz  

U7 Invited Physics Drives Our Economy, Connects the World, Creates the Future
Room: Delaware A Sponsor: FIP Chair: Cherrill Spencer, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Neil Ruiz,  Thirumalai Venkatesan,  Neil Turok  

U8 Invited History of the Search for Gravitational Waves
Room: Delaware B Sponsor: FHP Chair: Alan Chodos, The American Physical Society (retired)
Invited Speakers:  Virginia Trimble,  Barry Barish,  Richard Isaacson  

U9 HL-LHC, Belle2, Future Colliders
Room: Roosevelt 1 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Marcela Carena, FermiLab

U10 Invited LHC Run 2 Physics
Room: Roosevelt 2 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Drew Baden, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Si Xie,  Michael Hance,  Stefania Gori  

U11 Underground and Collider
Room: Roosevelt 3 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Kate Scholberg, Duke University

U12 Focus Mini-Symposium: Compton Scattering and the Polarizabilities
Room: Roosevelt 4 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Evangeline Downie, George Washington Univ.
Invited Speakers:  Philippe Martel  

U13 Focus Minisymposium: Precision Measurements in Nuclear Physics III
Room: Roosevelt 5 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Guy Savard, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Rodney Orford  

U14 Invited Numerical Relativity Simulations of Compact Binary Mergers
Room: Washington 1 Sponsor: DGRAV DCOMP Chair: Carlos Lousto, Rochester Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Geoffrey Lovelace,  Matthew Duez,  Kenta Kiuchi  

U15 Invited New Results from Galaxy Surveys
Room: Washington 2 Sponsor: DAP Chair: Brenna Flaugher, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Shirley HO,  Chris D'Andrea,  Brian Nord  

U16 Invited Focus Neutrino Detection Challenges for Nuclear Physics
Room: Washington 3 Sponsor: DNP DPF GFB Chair: Saori Pastore, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Anna Hayes,  Minerba Betancourt,  Alessandro Lovato  

Jan 30 2017 5:30PM, Monday

V4 DAP Reception and Awards Ceremony
Room: Virginia A Sponsor: DAP

V6 DGRAV Business Meeting
Room: Virginia C Sponsor: DGRAV

V13 DNP Business Meeting
Room: Roosevelt 5 Sponsor: DNP

Jan 31 2017 8:30AM, Tuesday

W1 Invited Plenary Plenary Session III: Black Holes
Room: Ballroom Salon 2/3 Chair: Daniel Holz, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Laura Cadonati,  Chung-Pei Ma,  Raphael Bousso  

Jan 31 2017 10:30AM, Tuesday

X1 Poster Poster Session IV (10:30-13:30)
Room: Exhibit Hall A

Jan 31 2017 10:45AM, Tuesday

X2 Gravitational Wave Source Modeling
Room: Maryland B Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Reed Essick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

X3 Numerical Relativity Simulations of Neutron Star Binaries and Gravitational Collapse
Room: Maryland C Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Sean McWilliams, West Virginia University

X4 SNRs, PWNe, Binaries and other Galactic Sources
Room: Virginia A Sponsor: DAP Chair: Sarah Gossan, California Institute of Technology

X6 Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Techniques
Room: Virginia C Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Jessica McIver, Caltech

X7 Invited Physics Improves International Diplomacy: Hear from an Ambassador, a Science Advisor and a NGO Expert
Room: Delaware A Sponsor: FIP Chair: R.J. Peterson, University of Colorado, Boulder
Invited Speakers:  Sergei Kislyak,  Vaughan Turekian,  John Boright  

X9 Supersymmetry Searches
Room: Roosevelt 1 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Marcela Carena, FermiLab

X10 Particle and Gravity Theory I
Room: Roosevelt 2 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Geoffrey Lovelace, Cal State Fullerton

X11 Top and Flavor
Room: Roosevelt 3 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Joe Incandela, University of California, Santa Barbara

X14 Invited Focused Collection: Gender in Physics
Room: Washington 1 Sponsor: GPER FEd Chair: Vashti Sawtelle, Michigan State University
Invited Speakers:  Adrienne Traxler,  Rachel Ivie,  Katemari Rosa  

X15 Invited Dynamics of Planetary Systems
Room: Washington 2 Sponsor: DAP Chair: Padi Boyd, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Invited Speakers:  Konstantin Batygin,  Ruth Murray-Clay,  Eric Ford  

X16 Invited DNP Prize Session
Room: Washington 3 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Gordon Cates, University of Virginia
Invited Speakers:  Jens Dilling,  Charles F Perdrisat,  Joseph A. Carlson  

Jan 31 2017 1:30PM, Tuesday

Y2 Research on Conceptual Understanding
Room: Maryland B Sponsor: GPER FED Chair: Ellie Sayre

Y3 Solar Physics
Room: Maryland C Sponsor: DAP Chair: Eric Cramer, University of Alabama, Huntsville

Y4 Pulsars, Magnetars and Others
Room: Virginia A Sponsor: DAP Chair: Daniel Castro, NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center

Y5 The CMB and Reionization
Room: Virginia B Sponsor: DAP Chair: Simeon Bird, Johns Hopkins University

Y6 Exoplanets and Planetary Science
Room: Virginia C Sponsor: DAP Chair: Eric Ford, Pennsylvania State University

Y7 Invited Deep Science Around the World
Room: Delaware A Sponsor: FIP Chair: Young-Kee Kim, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Xavier Bertou,  Yeongduk Kim,  Zeblon Vilakazi  

Y8 Achieving Optimal Sensitivity with LIGO and other High-frequency Gravitational-wave Detectors
Room: Delaware B Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Marco Cavaglia, University of Mississippi

Y9 Focus Neutrino IV
Room: Roosevelt 1 Sponsor: DPF Chair: A. Himmel, FermiLab
Invited Speakers:  Cristiana Principato  

Y10 Particle and Gravity Theory II
Room: Roosevelt 2 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Ilias Cholis, Johns Hopkins University

Y11 LIGO Searches and Detection of Compact Binary Coalescences
Room: Roosevelt 3 Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Hsin-Yu Chen, University of Chicago

Y12 Electromagnetic Interactions
Room: Roosevelt 4 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Phillippe Markel, J. G. Univ. Mainz

Y13 Nuclear Structure
Room: Roosevelt 5 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Daniel Phillips, Ohio University

Y16 Invited Hadron Spectroscopy
Room: Washington 3 Sponsor: DNP GHP Chair: Curtis Meyer, Carnegie Mellon University
Invited Speakers:  Volker Crede,  Justin Stevens,  Tomasz Skwarnicki  

Jan 28 2017 8:30AM, Saturday

A1 Invited Plenary Plenary Session I: Science Policy in the 21st Century
Room: Ballroom Salon 2/3 Chair: Daniel Holz, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Cherry Murray,  Rush Holt Jr.,  Bill Foster  

Jan 28 2017 10:45AM, Saturday

B2 Undergraduate Research/SPS I
Room: Maryland B Sponsor: APS SPS Chair: Brad Conrad, SPS

B3 Tests of General Relativity and Alternatives: Theory Meets Experiment
Room: Maryland C Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Clifford Will, University of Florida - Gainesville

B4 Neutrino Astronomy and Search for Counterparts
Room: Virginia A Sponsor: DAP Chair: Naoko Kurahashi Neilson, Drexel University

B5 Inflation and Dark Energy
Room: Virginia B Sponsor: DAP Chair: Tanja Rindler-Daller, University of Vienna

B6 Gravitational-wave Detection in Space: From LISA Pathfinder to LISA
Room: Virginia C Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Shane Larson, Northwestern University / Adler Planetarium

B7 Diversity in Troubled Times
Room: Delaware A Sponsor: FHP FPS Chair: Luis Campos, University of New Mexico/Library of Congress
Invited Speakers:  Chanda Prescod-Weinstein,  Evelynn Hammonds,  Duchess Harris  

B8 Invited Ultralight Dark Matter
Room: Delaware B Sponsor: GPMFC Chair: Marianna Safronova, University of Delaware
Invited Speakers:  Dmitry Budker,  Yannis Semertzidis,  Andrei Derevianko  

B9 Dark Matter: DarkLight, Sequest, Other Ongoing Efforts
Room: Roosevelt 1 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Mike Tuts, Columbia University

B10 Invited Transitions in Physics and Related Fields from the Late 19th Century to Today
Room: Roosevelt 2 Sponsor: FHP Chair: Catherine Westfall, Michigan State University
Invited Speakers:  Joseph Martin,  Robert Smith,  Ann Robinson  

B11 Higgs I
Room: Roosevelt 3 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Tulika Bose, Boston University

B12 Hadron Tomography
Room: Roosevelt 4 Sponsor: DNP GHP Chair: Ian Cloet, Argonne National Lab

B13 Focus Mini-Symposium: Detecting Neutral Particles with Low-energy Thresholds
Room: Roosevelt 5 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Alan Poon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Daniel McKinsey  

B15 Invited Electromagnetic Signatures of Neutron Star Mergers
Room: Washington 2 Sponsor: DAP DGRAV DNP Chair: Daniel Kasen, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Rebecca Surman,  Andreas Bauswein,  Luke Roberts  

B16 Invited Applications of Accelerators and Nuclear Physics
Room: Washington 3 Sponsor: DNP DPB Chair: T Vincent Cianciolo, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Kevin John,  Jacek Capala,  Brandi Lee MacDonald  

Jan 28 2017 12:00PM, Saturday

B20 Future of Physics Days: Lunch with the Grads
Room: Coolidge Room

Jan 28 2017 12:30PM, Saturday

B21 Roundtable: Improving the Climate in Physics for LGBT+ Physicists
Room: Harding Room

Jan 28 2017 1:30PM, Saturday

C2 Undergraduate Research/SPS II
Room: Maryland B Sponsor: APS SPS Chair: Crystal Bailey, APS

C3 Gravitational-wave Astrophysics: Neutron Stars and Core Collapse Supernovae
Room: Maryland C Sponsor: DAP DGRAV Chair: Jocelyn Read, California State University, Fullerton

C4 Neutrinos - Instruments, Science and Modeling
Room: Virginia A Sponsor: DAP Chair: Justin Vandenbrouke, University of Wisconsin

C5 Numerical Relativity Codes and Methods
Room: Virginia B Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Steven Liebling, Long Island University

C6 Precision Measurements and Fundamental Symmetries
Room: Virginia C Sponsor: GPMFC Chair: Thomas Gentile, NIST

C7 Invited Nuclear Testing Limitations and Monitoring Low Level Radioactivity
Room: Delaware A Sponsor: FPS Chair: Thomas Cochran, Natural Resources Defense Council
Invited Speakers:  Pierce S. Corden,  Jay Zucca,  Lassina Zerbo  

C8 Invited Forum on Education Excellence in Physics Education Award
Room: Delaware B Sponsor: FEd Chair: John Stewart, West Virginia University
Invited Speakers:  Howard Matis,  Michael Wittmann,  Peter S. Shaffer  

C9 Dark Matter: R&D and New Directions
Room: Roosevelt 1 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Josh Klein, University of Pennsylvania

C10 Invited Indirect Detection of Dark Matter
Room: Roosevelt 2 Sponsor: DAP DPF Chair: Julie McEnery, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Invited Speakers:  Mei-Yu Wang,  Shunsaku Horiuchi,  Segev BenZvi  

C11 B Physics
Room: Roosevelt 3 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Marina Artuso, Syracuse University

C12 Hadron Structure and Form Factors
Room: Roosevelt 4 Sponsor: DNP GHP Chair: Rolf Ent, Jefferson Lab

C13 Nuclear Theory
Room: Roosevelt 5 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Charles Horowitz, Indiana Univ.

C14 Invited Extremes of Gravity: From Weak to Strong
Room: Washington 1 Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Theodore Jacobson, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Lydia Bieri,  Samuel Gralla,  James Isenberg  

C15 Invited Dannie Heineman Prize and Henry Primakoff Award Session
Room: Washington 2 Sponsor: DPF DCOMP
Invited Speakers:  Carl Bender,  Tracy Slatyer  

C16 Invited Light Nuclei Beyond the Standard Model
Room: Washington 3 Sponsor: GFB DPF Chair: Kenneth Nollett, San Diego State Univesrity
Invited Speakers:  Emanuele Mereghetti,  Bartosz Fornal,  Matthias Schindler  

Jan 28 2017 3:30PM, Saturday

E2 Undergraduate Research/SPS III
Room: Maryland B Sponsor: APS SPS Chair: Cortney Bougher, American Physical Society

E3 LIGO/Virgo and Holometer Searches for Continuous-wave, Burst and Supernova Signals
Room: Maryland C Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Jacob Slutsky, University of Maryland - Baltimore County

E4 Focus Multimessenger Particle Astrophysics
Room: Virginia A Sponsor: DAP Chair: Jim Beatty, The Ohio State University
Invited Speakers:  Miguel Mostafa  

E5 Getting a Handle on the Population of Merging Binaries
Room: Virginia B Sponsor: DAP DGRAV

E6 Orbits, Spins & Tides: Analytic and Numerical Methods
Room: Virginia C Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Lior Burko, Georgia Gwinnett College

E7 Invited Two Out of 535: The Role of Physicists in Policy
Room: Delaware A Sponsor: FGSA Chair: Nicholas Weingartner, Washington University in St. Louis

E8 Invited Online Communities Supporting Physics Education
Room: Delaware B Sponsor: FEd Chair: Bruce Mason, University of Oklahoma
Invited Speakers:  Wolfgang Christian,  Kelly Roos,  Eleanor Sayre  

E9 Dark Matter with Solid State Detectors
Room: Roosevelt 1 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Bob Tschirhart, FermiLab

E10 Invited W.K.H Panofsky Prize and Robert R. Wilson Prize Session
Room: Roosevelt 2 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Joe Incandela, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Tejinder Virdee,  Peter Jenni,  Anton Piwinski,  Sekazi K. Mtingwa  

E11 Beyond-Standard-Model Searches I
Room: Roosevelt 3 Sponsor: DPF Chair: JoAnne Hewett, SLAC

E12 Instrumentation for Hadron Structure Studies
Room: Roosevelt 4 Sponsor: DNP GHP Chair: Tanja Horn, Catholic University of America

E13 Focus Minisymposium: Spin Structure of the Nucleon
Room: Roosevelt 5 Sponsor: DNP GHP Chair: Xiaochao Zheng, University of Virginia
Invited Speakers:  Vladimir Pascalutsa  

E14 Invited Isotope Production and Accelerator Technology
Room: Washington 1 Sponsor: DPB DNP Chair: Ed Hartouni, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Kevin Crowley,  David Morrissey,  Grigory Eremeev  

E15 Invited DAP Thesis Prize Session
Room: Washington 2 Sponsor: DAP
Invited Speakers:  Anna Patej,  Garrett Somers,  Morgan MacLeod,  Carlos Arguellas Delgado  

E16 Invited Physics of Weakly-Bound Nuclear Systems
Room: Washington 3 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Hiro Iwasaki, Michigan State University
Invited Speakers:  Kevin Fossez,  Elizabeth McCutchan,  Kyle Brown  

Jan 28 2017 5:30PM, Saturday

F1 Poster Special Event Welcome Reception and Poster Session I
Room: Exhibit Hall A

Jan 28 2017 7:00PM, Saturday

F2 Special Event Public Lecture: From Mars to the Multverse
Room: Salon Ballroom 2/3 Sponsor: APS
Invited Speakers:  Martin Rees  

F6 GPMFC Business Meeting and Social Outing
Room: Virginia C Sponsor: GPMFC

Jan 29 2017 8:30AM, Sunday

H2 Topics in Physics Education
Room: Maryland B Sponsor: FEd

H3 New Directions in Gravity
Room: Maryland C Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Peter Shawhan, University of Maryland

H4 Cosmic-rays: Anisotropy and Ground Based Observations
Room: Virginia A Sponsor: DAP Chair: Amy Connolly, The Ohio State University

H5 Focus Mini-symposium: Physics of the Cosmos
Room: Virginia B Sponsor: DAP Chair: Ann Hornschemeier, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Invited Speakers:  Marshall Bautz  

H7 Invited Computational Accelerator Physics
Room: Delaware A Sponsor: DCOMP DPB Chair: Tor Raubenheimer, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  James Amundson,  Ji Qiang,  Jean-Luc Vay  

H9 Dark Matter with Lux/LZ, DarkSide and Axions and ADMX
Room: Roosevelt 1 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Mirjam Cvetic, University of Pennsylvania

H10 Invited Lattice QCD and the Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Room: Roosevelt 2 Sponsor: DCOMP DPF Chair: Steve Gottlieb, Indiana University
Invited Speakers:  Marina Artuso,  Christoph Lehner,  Carleton DeTar  

H11 Beyond-Standard-Model Searches II
Room: Roosevelt 3 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Tulika Bose, Boston University

H12 Nuclear Reactions and Astrophysics I
Room: Roosevelt 4 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Sanjay Reddy, Univ. of Washington

H13 Focus Minisymposium: Instrumentation for Low Energy Nuclear and Neutrino Physics
Room: Roosevelt 5 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Sharon Stephenson, Gettysburg College
Invited Speakers:  Remco Zegers  

H14 Invited Einstein Prize Talk and Advanced LIGO Search Results
Room: Washington 1 Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Emanuele Berti, University of Mississippi
Invited Speakers:  Robert Wald,  Jocelyn Read,  Patrick Meyers  

H15 Invited Cosmology with Ultra Low Mass Fields
Room: Washington 2 Sponsor: DAP DPF Chair: David Kaplan, Johns Hopkins University
Invited Speakers:  Peter Graham,  Michael Romalis,  William Terrano  

H16 Invited Nuclear Physics Careers Off the Beaten Path
Room: Washington 3 Sponsor: DNP FGSA Chair: Nicholas Weingartner, Washington University
Invited Speakers:  Susan White,  Robert Ledoux,  Carlo Mattoni  

Jan 29 2017 10:00AM, Sunday

J20 Undergraduate Breakfast, Career Workshop, and Awards
Room: Wilson Room

Jan 29 2017 10:45AM, Sunday

J2 Few-Body Systems
Room: Maryland B Sponsor: GFB Chair: Saori Pastore, Los Alamos National Laboratory

J3 Beams
Room: Maryland C Sponsor: DPB

J4 Cosmic Ray Science Interest Group I
Room: Virginia A Sponsor: DAP Chair: Igor Moskalenko, Stanford University

J5 Dwarf Galaxies, Dark Matter and Magnetic Fields
Room: Virginia B Sponsor: DAP Chair: Andrea Albert, Los Alamos National Laboratory

J6 Focus Testing General Relativity with Black Hole Observations
Room: Virginia C Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Leo Stein, Caltech
Invited Speakers:  Walter Del Pozzo  

J7 Invited FPS Awards Session
Room: Delaware A Sponsor: FPS
Invited Speakers:  James Timbie,  Allen Sessoms,  Michael Lubell  

J8 Invited Using 21st Century Physics to Educate 21st Century Students
Room: Delaware B Sponsor: FEd Chair: Kenneth Cecire, University of Notre Dame
Invited Speakers:  Elizabeth McCutchan,  Mark Adams,  Jeremy Smith  

J9 Dark Matter with Xenon
Room: Roosevelt 1 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Bob Tschirhart, FermiLab

J10 Invited 3-Flavor Neutrino Oscillations
Room: Roosevelt 2 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Kate Scholberg, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Lisa Whitehead,  Dan Dwyer,  Ed Kearns  

J11 Neutrino I
Room: Roosevelt 3 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Josh Klein, University of Pennsylvania

J12 Nuclear Reactions and Astrophysics II
Room: Roosevelt 4 Sponsor: DNP Chair: David Dean, ORNL

J13 Focus Mini-Symposium: New Approaches to Search for non-WIMP Dark Matter
Room: Roosevelt 5 Sponsor: DNP DPF Chair: Reyco Henning, University of North Carolina
Invited Speakers:  Jesse Thaler  

J14 Invited Focus Outreach and Engaging the Public
Room: Washington 1 Sponsor: FOEP Chair: Larry Gladney, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  David Kaplan,  Rachel Wolf  

J15 Invited Prize Talks: Black Holes and Cosmic Explosions
Room: Washington 2 Sponsor: DAP Chair: Fiona Harrison, California Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Martin Rees,  Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz,  Stuart Shapiro  

J16 Invited Investigating Parton Dynamics with Drell-Yan-like Processes
Room: Washington 3 Sponsor: GHP DNP Chair: Paul Reimer, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Alessandro Bacchetta,  Salvatore Fazio,  Vincent Andrieux  

Jan 29 2017 12:33PM, Sunday

N11 DPF Business Meeting
Room: Roosevelt 3 Sponsor: DPF

Jan 29 2017 1:30PM, Sunday

K3 Numerical Relativity Solutions for Black Hole Binaries
Room: Maryland C Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Bruno Giacomazzo, University of Trento

K4 Focus Cosmic Ray Science Interest Group II
Room: Virginia A Sponsor: DAP Chair: Igor Moskalenko, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  William Vernon Jones  

K5 Focus Mini-symposium: Gravitational Waves Science Interest Group
Room: Virginia B Sponsor: DAP Chair: John Conklin, University of Florida
Invited Speakers:  John Ziemer  

K6 Primordial Black Holes, Spacetime Structure and Thermodynamics
Room: Virginia C Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Beatrice Bonga, Penn State University

K7 Invited Future Accelerator-based Dark Sector Searches
Room: Delaware A Sponsor: DPB DPF Chair: Joseph Incandela, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Philip Schuster,  Jim Alexander,  Alex Romanenko  

K8 Invited The Cutting Edge of Physics Education Research
Room: Delaware B Sponsor: FEd GPER Chair: Marcos Caballero, Michigan State University
Invited Speakers:  Paul Irving,  Daniel Seaton,  Benjamin Zwickl  

K9 Mini-Symposium: Gamma-Ray Science Interest Group
Room: Roosevelt 1 Sponsor: DAP Chair: Henric Krawczynski, Washington University in Saint Louis

K10 Invited Exotic Hadrons from the LHC and B-Factories
Room: Roosevelt 2 Sponsor: GHP DPF Chair: Ramona Vogt, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Bryan Fulsom,  Claudia Patrignani  

K11 Neutrino II
Room: Roosevelt 3 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Kate Scholberg, Duke University

K12 Low-energy Electroweak Interactions I
Room: Roosevelt 4 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Tim Daniels, SLAC

K13 Focus Minisymposium: Physics Beyond Collinear Factorization
Room: Roosevelt 5 Sponsor: DNP GHP Chair: Renee Fatemi, University of Kentucky
Invited Speakers:  Duff Neill  

K14 Invited Observables and Entanglement in Space-Time
Room: Washington 1 Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Deborah Konkowski, U.S. Naval Academy
Invited Speakers:  William Donnelly,  Eugenio Bianchi  

K15 Invited Focus SN 1987A: 30 Years Later
Room: Washington 2 Sponsor: DAP DNP Chair: Fiona Harrison, California Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Robert Kirshner,  Laura Lopez  

K16 Invited Manhattan Project Scientific Legacy
Room: Washington 3 Sponsor: DNP FHP Chair: Vince Cianciolo, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Susan Seestrom,  Edward Hartouni  

Jan 29 2017 2:00PM, Sunday

L1 Poster Poster Session II (14:00 - 17:00)
Room: Exhibit Hall A

Jan 29 2017 2:30PM, Sunday

L2 Tutorial for Authors and Referees
Room: Maryland B

Jan 29 2017 3:30PM, Sunday

M1 Meet the APS Journal Editors
Room: Marriott Foyer, Mezzanine Level

M2 Research in Introductory Courses
Room: Maryland B Sponsor: GPER Chair: John Thompson

M3 Focus Electromagnetic Follow-up of Gravitational Wave Candidate Events
Room: Maryland C Sponsor: DGRAV DAP Chair: Marc Favata, Montclair State University
Invited Speakers:  Marcelle Soares-Santos  

M4 Space-Based Cosmic Ray Observations
Room: Virginia A Sponsor: DAP Chair: John Mitchell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

M5 Simulating Dark Matter and Galaxies
Room: Virginia B Sponsor: DAP Chair: Priya Natarajan, Yale University

M6 Quantum Aspects of Gravitation
Room: Virginia C Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Eugenio Bianchi, Pennsylvania State University

M7 Invited The Social Legacy of the Manhattan Project
Room: Delaware A Sponsor: FPS FHP DNP Chair: Allen Sessoms, Georgetown University
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Kevles,  Kelsey Davenport,  Carlton Stoiber  

M8 Invited The Role of Community in Recruiting and Retaining Women in Physics
Room: Delaware B Sponsor: CSWP Chair: Zahra Hazari, Florida International University
Invited Speakers:  Angela Kelly,  Catherine Riegle-Crumb,  Tiffany Ito,  Panel Discussion (with all speakers)  

M9 Higgs II
Room: Roosevelt 1 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Dmitri Denisov, FermiLab

M10 Invited Future Accelerator-based Neutrino Sources
Room: Roosevelt 2 Sponsor: DPB DPF Chair: Tor Raubenheimer, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Paul Derwent,  Tadashi Koseki,  Stuart D. Henderson  

M11 Neutrino III
Room: Roosevelt 3 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Kate Scholberg, Duke University

M12 Heavy Flavor Hadrons
Room: Roosevelt 4 Sponsor: DNP GHP Chair: Greg Kalicy, Catholic University of America

M13 Ultra-relativistic Heavy-Ions
Room: Roosevelt 5 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Christine Aidala, University of Michigan

M14 Invited Numerical GR Simulations of Core Collapse Supernovae
Room: Washington 1 Sponsor: DGRAV DCOMP Chair: Pedro Marronetti, National Science Foundation
Invited Speakers:  Philipp Mösta,  Bernhard Mueller,  Anthony Mezzacappa  

M15 Nuclear Instrumentation
Room: Washington 2 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Warren Rogers, Indiana Wesleyan University

M16 Invited Neutron Skins, Hypernuclei and Neutron Stars
Room: Washington 3 Sponsor: DNP DAP Chair: Rocco Schiavilla, Old Dominion University
Invited Speakers:  James Lattimer,  Robert Michaels,  Diego Lonardoni  

Jan 29 2017 5:30PM, Sunday

N20 Career Skills Workshop: Achieving Your Goals Through Effective Communication
Room: Washington 5 Chair: Crystal Bailey, APS

N1 APS Prizes and Awards Ceremonial Session
Room: Ballroom Salon 3

Jan 29 2017 6:30PM, Sunday

N2 National Society of Black Physicists and National Society of Hispanic Physicists Meetup
Room: McKinley Room

Jan 29 2017 7:00PM, Sunday

N3 APS Education and Diversity Reception
Room: Wilson Room

Jan 29 2017 8:00PM, Sunday

P1 Special Event Staged Reading of the Play: Reykjavik
Room: Delaware A Sponsor: FHP FOEP FPS

Jan 30 2017 8:30AM, Monday

Q1 Invited Plenary Kavli Foundation Keynote Plenary Session II: From Quarks to the Cosmos
Room: Ballroom Salon 2/3 Chair: Daniel Holz, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Barbara Jacak,  Cora Dvorkin,  Sylvester Gates  

Jan 30 2017 10:45AM, Monday

R2 Computational Physics
Room: Maryland B Sponsor: DCOMP

R3 Black Holes and Their Environments
Room: Maryland C Sponsor: DAP DGRAV Chair: Neil Cornish, Montana State University

R4 Missions, Instruments and Surveys
Room: Virginia A Sponsor: DAP Chair: Mattia Di Mauro, SLAC National Laboratory

R5 Focus The Galactic Center Excess
Room: Virginia B Sponsor: DAP Chair: Timothy Brandt, Institute for Advanced Study
Invited Speakers:  Tim Linden  

R6 Mathematical Aspects of General Relativity
Room: Virginia C Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Steven Carlip, University of California - Davis

R7 Invited The Manhattan Project: History and Heritage
Room: Delaware A Sponsor: FHP DNP Chair: Alan Chodos, The American Physical Society (retired)
Invited Speakers:  Cameron Reed,  Cynthia Kelly,  John Coster-Mullen  

R8 Invited Research in Teacher Preparation
Room: Delaware B Sponsor: FEd Chair: Monica Plisch, American Physical Society
Invited Speakers:  David E. Meltzer,  Eugenia Etkina,  Wendy Adams  

R9 LHC: Ongoing
Room: Roosevelt 1 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Mike Tuts, Columbia University

R10 Invited Sterile Neutrinos
Room: Roosevelt 2 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Alex Himmel, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Matthew Toups,  Thomas Langford,  Patrick Huber  

R11 Neutrino Detector I
Room: Roosevelt 3 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Dmitri Denisov, FermiLab

R12 Low-energy Electroweak Interactions II
Room: Roosevelt 4 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Diana Parno, Carnegie Mellon University

R13 Focus Minisymposium: Precision Measurements in Nuclear Physics I
Room: Roosevelt 5 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Hiro Iwasaki, Michigan State University
Invited Speakers:  Perry Chodash  

R14 Invited Gravitational Wave Observations with Current and Future Facilities
Room: Washington 1 Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Laura Cadonati, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Joseph Giaime,  Laura Sampson,  Guido Mueller  

R15 Invited The Future of Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction
Room: Washington 2 Sponsor: GFB DNP Chair: Matthias Schindler, University of South Carolina
Invited Speakers:  Ruprecht Machleidt,  Rodrigo Navarro Perez,  Maria Piarulli  

R16 Invited Future High Energy Hadron Colliders and Physics
Room: Washington 3 Sponsor: DPB DPF Chair: Joseph Incandela, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Giorgio Apollinari,  Frank Zimmermann,  Stephen Gourlay  

Jan 30 2017 1:30PM, Monday

S2 Physics Outreach and Physics History
Room: Maryland B Sponsor: FOEP FHP FED Chair: Rebecca Thompson, APS

S3 Topics in Physics Education Research
Room: Maryland C Sponsor: GPER Chair: Tim Stelzer

S4 Active Galactic Nuclei
Room: Virginia A Sponsor: DAP Chair: Sara Buson, NASA-GSFC

S5 From Axions to Active Galactic Nuclei
Room: Virginia B Sponsor: DAP Chair: Masha Baryakhtar, Perimeter Institute

S6 Focus Loop Quantum Gravity and Cosmology
Room: Virginia C Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Jorge Pullin, Louisana State University
Invited Speakers:  Ivan Agullo  

S7 Invited The Roles of Physicists in International and Nonprofit Organizations
Room: Delaware A Sponsor: FPS FIP Chair: Allen Sessoms, Georgetown University
Invited Speakers:  Charles D. Massey,  Anne-Marie Mazza,  Michelle L'Archeveque Jones  

S8 Invited Pushing the Boundaries of Lattice QCD
Room: Delaware B Sponsor: GHP DCOMP Chair: Peter Petreczky, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Martha Constantinou,  Balint Joo,  Patrick Steinbrecher  

S9 Accelerator and Detector Upgrades
Room: Roosevelt 1 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Bob Tschirhart, FermiLab

S10 Invited Maria Goeppert Mayer Award, Sakurai Prize Session
Room: Roosevelt 2 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Drew Baden, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Henriette Elvang,  Sally Dawson,  Howard Haber,  John Gunion,  Gordon Kane  

S11 Neutrino Detector II
Room: Roosevelt 3 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Dmitri Denisov, FermiLab

S12 Light Mesons and Baryons
Room: Roosevelt 4 Sponsor: DNP GHP Chair: William Briscoe, George Washington University

S13 Minisymposium: Precision Measurements in Nuclear Physics II
Room: Roosevelt 5 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Maxime Brodeur, University of Notre Dame

S14 Invited Progenitors of Merging Binary Black Holes
Room: Washington 1 Sponsor: DAP DGRAV Chair: Peter Shawhan, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Selma de Mink,  Nicholas Stone,  Carl Rodriguez  

S15 Invited Correlating Optical and CMB Surveys
Room: Washington 2 Sponsor: DAP Chair: Scott Dodelson, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Emmanuel Schaan,  Eric Baxter,  Simone Ferraro  

S16 Invited Neutrino Cross Sections from eV to TeV
Room: Washington 3 Sponsor: DNP DPF Chair: Alan Poon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Louis Strigari,  Kendall Mahn,  Kate Scholberg  

Jan 30 2017 2:00PM, Monday

T1 Poster Poster Session III (14:00 - 17:00)
Room: Exhibit Hall A

Jan 30 2017 3:30PM, Monday

U2 Invited Classically Forbidden Transitions: Tunneling Through the Barriers to Advance Women and Minorities in Physics
Room: Maryland B Sponsor: FPS COM Chair: Beverly Hartline, Montana Tech of the University of Montana
Invited Speakers:  Jocelyn Bell-Burnell,  Njema Frazier,  Keivan Stassun  

U4 Supernovae, GRBs and Other Transients
Room: Virginia A Sponsor: DAP Chair: Elizabeth Ferrara, University of Maryland - College Park

U5 Focus Gravitational Waves and Dark Matter
Room: Virginia B Sponsor: DAP Chair: Paul Shapiro, University of Texas
Invited Speakers:  Ely Kovetz  

U7 Invited Physics Drives Our Economy, Connects the World, Creates the Future
Room: Delaware A Sponsor: FIP Chair: Cherrill Spencer, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Neil Ruiz,  Thirumalai Venkatesan,  Neil Turok  

U8 Invited History of the Search for Gravitational Waves
Room: Delaware B Sponsor: FHP Chair: Alan Chodos, The American Physical Society (retired)
Invited Speakers:  Virginia Trimble,  Barry Barish,  Richard Isaacson  

U9 HL-LHC, Belle2, Future Colliders
Room: Roosevelt 1 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Marcela Carena, FermiLab

U10 Invited LHC Run 2 Physics
Room: Roosevelt 2 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Drew Baden, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Si Xie,  Michael Hance,  Stefania Gori  

U11 Underground and Collider
Room: Roosevelt 3 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Kate Scholberg, Duke University

U12 Focus Mini-Symposium: Compton Scattering and the Polarizabilities
Room: Roosevelt 4 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Evangeline Downie, George Washington Univ.
Invited Speakers:  Philippe Martel  

U13 Focus Minisymposium: Precision Measurements in Nuclear Physics III
Room: Roosevelt 5 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Guy Savard, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Rodney Orford  

U14 Invited Numerical Relativity Simulations of Compact Binary Mergers
Room: Washington 1 Sponsor: DGRAV DCOMP Chair: Carlos Lousto, Rochester Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Geoffrey Lovelace,  Matthew Duez,  Kenta Kiuchi  

U15 Invited New Results from Galaxy Surveys
Room: Washington 2 Sponsor: DAP Chair: Brenna Flaugher, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Shirley HO,  Chris D'Andrea,  Brian Nord  

U16 Invited Focus Neutrino Detection Challenges for Nuclear Physics
Room: Washington 3 Sponsor: DNP DPF GFB Chair: Saori Pastore, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Anna Hayes,  Minerba Betancourt,  Alessandro Lovato  

Jan 30 2017 5:30PM, Monday

V4 DAP Reception and Awards Ceremony
Room: Virginia A Sponsor: DAP

V6 DGRAV Business Meeting
Room: Virginia C Sponsor: DGRAV

V13 DNP Business Meeting
Room: Roosevelt 5 Sponsor: DNP

Jan 31 2017 8:30AM, Tuesday

W1 Invited Plenary Plenary Session III: Black Holes
Room: Ballroom Salon 2/3 Chair: Daniel Holz, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Laura Cadonati,  Chung-Pei Ma,  Raphael Bousso  

Jan 31 2017 10:30AM, Tuesday

X1 Poster Poster Session IV (10:30-13:30)
Room: Exhibit Hall A

Jan 31 2017 10:45AM, Tuesday

X2 Gravitational Wave Source Modeling
Room: Maryland B Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Reed Essick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

X3 Numerical Relativity Simulations of Neutron Star Binaries and Gravitational Collapse
Room: Maryland C Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Sean McWilliams, West Virginia University

X4 SNRs, PWNe, Binaries and other Galactic Sources
Room: Virginia A Sponsor: DAP Chair: Sarah Gossan, California Institute of Technology

X6 Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Techniques
Room: Virginia C Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Jessica McIver, Caltech

X7 Invited Physics Improves International Diplomacy: Hear from an Ambassador, a Science Advisor and a NGO Expert
Room: Delaware A Sponsor: FIP Chair: R.J. Peterson, University of Colorado, Boulder
Invited Speakers:  Sergei Kislyak,  Vaughan Turekian,  John Boright  

X9 Supersymmetry Searches
Room: Roosevelt 1 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Marcela Carena, FermiLab

X10 Particle and Gravity Theory I
Room: Roosevelt 2 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Geoffrey Lovelace, Cal State Fullerton

X11 Top and Flavor
Room: Roosevelt 3 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Joe Incandela, University of California, Santa Barbara

X14 Invited Focused Collection: Gender in Physics
Room: Washington 1 Sponsor: GPER FEd Chair: Vashti Sawtelle, Michigan State University
Invited Speakers:  Adrienne Traxler,  Rachel Ivie,  Katemari Rosa  

X15 Invited Dynamics of Planetary Systems
Room: Washington 2 Sponsor: DAP Chair: Padi Boyd, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Invited Speakers:  Konstantin Batygin,  Ruth Murray-Clay,  Eric Ford  

X16 Invited DNP Prize Session
Room: Washington 3 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Gordon Cates, University of Virginia
Invited Speakers:  Jens Dilling,  Charles F Perdrisat,  Joseph A. Carlson  

Jan 31 2017 1:30PM, Tuesday

Y2 Research on Conceptual Understanding
Room: Maryland B Sponsor: GPER FED Chair: Ellie Sayre

Y3 Solar Physics
Room: Maryland C Sponsor: DAP Chair: Eric Cramer, University of Alabama, Huntsville

Y4 Pulsars, Magnetars and Others
Room: Virginia A Sponsor: DAP Chair: Daniel Castro, NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center

Y5 The CMB and Reionization
Room: Virginia B Sponsor: DAP Chair: Simeon Bird, Johns Hopkins University

Y6 Exoplanets and Planetary Science
Room: Virginia C Sponsor: DAP Chair: Eric Ford, Pennsylvania State University

Y7 Invited Deep Science Around the World
Room: Delaware A Sponsor: FIP Chair: Young-Kee Kim, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Xavier Bertou,  Yeongduk Kim,  Zeblon Vilakazi  

Y8 Achieving Optimal Sensitivity with LIGO and other High-frequency Gravitational-wave Detectors
Room: Delaware B Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Marco Cavaglia, University of Mississippi

Y9 Focus Neutrino IV
Room: Roosevelt 1 Sponsor: DPF Chair: A. Himmel, FermiLab
Invited Speakers:  Cristiana Principato  

Y10 Particle and Gravity Theory II
Room: Roosevelt 2 Sponsor: DPF Chair: Ilias Cholis, Johns Hopkins University

Y11 LIGO Searches and Detection of Compact Binary Coalescences
Room: Roosevelt 3 Sponsor: DGRAV Chair: Hsin-Yu Chen, University of Chicago

Y12 Electromagnetic Interactions
Room: Roosevelt 4 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Phillippe Markel, J. G. Univ. Mainz

Y13 Nuclear Structure
Room: Roosevelt 5 Sponsor: DNP Chair: Daniel Phillips, Ohio University

Y16 Invited Hadron Spectroscopy
Room: Washington 3 Sponsor: DNP GHP Chair: Curtis Meyer, Carnegie Mellon University
Invited Speakers:  Volker Crede,  Justin Stevens,  Tomasz Skwarnicki