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Session B2: Undergraduate Research/SPS I

Sponsoring Units: APS SPS
Chair: Brad Conrad, SPS
Room: Maryland B

Saturday, January 28, 2017 10:45AM - 10:57AM		B2.00001: Thinking Outside the Lab Tabitha Colter Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 10:57AM - 11:09AM		B2.00002: The Development and Assessment of Particle Physics Summer Program for High School Students Brean Prefontaine, Dr. Naoko Kurahashi Neilson, Dr. Christina Love Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:09AM - 11:21AM		B2.00003: Ultrafast single-shot imaging of laser-produced plasmas via spatial division and routing Sarang Yeola, Donghoon Kuk, Ki-Yong Kim Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B2.00004: Dust Quantization and Effects on Agriculture Over Uttar Pradesh, India Pavel Munshi, Shubhansh Tiwari Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B2.00005: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract

Session B3: Tests of General Relativity and Alternatives: Theory Meets Experiment

Sponsoring Units: DGRAV
Chair: Clifford Will, University of Florida - Gainesville
Room: Maryland C

Saturday, January 28, 2017 10:45AM - 10:57AM		B3.00001: Testing gravity with Lunar Laser Ranging: An update on the APOLLO experiment James Battat, Nick Colmenares, Rodney Davis, Louisa Huang Ruixue, Thomas W. Murphy, Jr. Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 10:57AM - 11:09AM		B3.00002: Alternative theories of gravity and Lorentz violation Rui Xu, Joshua Foster, V. Alan Kostelecky Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:09AM - 11:21AM		B3.00003: Testing gravity at the micron scale using optically trapped nanospheres Andrew Geraci, Gambhir Ranjit, Mark Cunningham, Kirsten Casey Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B3.00004: Spin Precessing Black Hole Binaries in Dynamical Chern-Simons Gravity Nicholas Loutrel, Nicolas Yunes, Takahiro Tanaka Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B3.00005: Hamiltonian formalism for Perturbed Black Hole Spacetimes Deyan Mihaylov, Jonathan Gair Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B3.00006: Relativistic stars in scalar-tensor theories with disformal coupling Hector O. Silva, Masato Minamitsuji Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B3.00007: Biconformal Compactification Benjamin Lovelady, James Wheeler Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 12:09PM - 12:21PM		B3.00008: The Spacetime Between Einstein and Kaluza-Klein: Further Explorations Chris Vuille Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 12:21PM - 12:33PM		B3.00009: Constraining Gravity at Large Scales with Clusters of Galaxies D. Rapetti, M. Cataneo, F. Schmidt, L. Lombriser, B. Li, A. Mantz, S. Allen, D. Applegate, P. Kelly, A. von der Linden, R. G. Morris Preview Abstract

Session B4: Neutrino Astronomy and Search for Counterparts

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Naoko Kurahashi Neilson, Drexel University
Room: Virginia A

Saturday, January 28, 2017 10:45AM - 10:57AM		B4.00001: Search for Neutrinos from the Supergalactic Plane Stephen Sclafani Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 10:57AM - 11:09AM		B4.00002: Search for Blazar Flux-Correlated TeV Neutrinos in IceCube 40-String Data Colin Turley, Derek Fox, Kohta Murase Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:09AM - 11:21AM		B4.00003: Search for high energy neutrinos from Seyfert galaxies using IceCube Ben Relethford Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B4.00004: Constraining a Galactic Origin of the IceCube Neutrinos with HAWC All-Sky Gamma-Ray Observations John Pretz Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B4.00005: Constraining the extragalactic origin of IceCube’s neutrinos using HAWC Ignacio Taboada Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B4.00006: The Search for Sources of High Energy Astrophysical Neutrinos with VERITAS Ava Ghadimi, Marcos Santander Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B4.00007: Searching for astrophysical neutrinos with Super-Kamiokande Erin O'Sullivan Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 12:09PM - 12:21PM		B4.00008: Prospects for Detecting Galactic Sources of Cosmic Neutrinos with IceCube Ali Kheirandish, Francis Halzen, Vivana Niro Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 12:21PM - 12:33PM		B4.00009: A New Method for Finding Point Sources in High-Energy Neutrino Data Mark Giovinazzi Preview Abstract

Session B5: Inflation and Dark Energy

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Tanja Rindler-Daller, University of Vienna
Room: Virginia B

Saturday, January 28, 2017 10:45AM - 10:57AM		B5.00001: The Viability of Phantom Dark Energy as a Quantum Field in 1st-Order FLRW Space Kevin Ludwick Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 10:57AM - 11:09AM		B5.00002: Quantum Gravity, very early universe and the cosmic microwave background Brajesh Gupt, Abhay Ashtekar Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:09AM - 11:21AM		B5.00003: Inflationary squeezed bispectrum and super-horizon modes Anne-Sylvie Deutsch, Sarah Shandera Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B5.00004: Cosmic Gauge-Field Dark Energy Christopher Devulder, Robert Caldwell Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B5.00005: Observational effects from dimensional compactification Eleni-Alexandra Kontou, Jose-Juan Blanco-Pillado, Mark Hertzberg, Ali Masoumi Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B5.00006: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B5.00007: Gravitational waves in axion inflation: implications for CMB and small-scales interferometer measurements Caner Unal, Marco Peloso, Lorenzo Sorbo, Juan Garcia-Bellido Preview Abstract

Session B6: Gravitational-wave Detection in Space: From LISA Pathfinder to LISA

Sponsoring Units: DGRAV
Chair: Shane Larson, Northwestern University / Adler Planetarium
Room: Virginia C

Saturday, January 28, 2017 10:45AM - 10:57AM		B6.00001: Initial Results from ST7-Disturbance Reduction System on LISA Pathfinder Charles Dunn, Phillip Barela, Curt Cutler, Richard Denzin, Garth Franklin, Jacb Gorelik, Oscar Hsu, Shahram Javidnia, Irena Li, Peiman Maghami, Colleen Marrese-Reading, Jitendra Mehta, James O'Donnell, Andrew Romero-Wolf, Jacob Slutsky, Ira Thorpe, S. Harper Umfress, John Ziemer Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 10:57AM - 11:09AM		B6.00002: LISA Pathfinder as a drag-free accelerometer powered thrust stand Jacob Slutsky Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:09AM - 11:21AM		B6.00003: Detection of Micrometeoroids with LISA Pathfinder Ira Thorpe, Tyson Littenberg, Diego Janchez, John Baker Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B6.00004: Development of a Multi-axis Heterodyne Interferometry system for LISA Paul Fulda, James Thorpe Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B6.00005: Working Towards the LISA Optical Benches at UF Andrew Chilton, Daniel Hillsberry, Giacomo Ciani, John Conklin, Guido Mueller Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B6.00006: Telescopes for a Space-Based Gravitational Wave Observatory Shannon Sankar, Jeffrey Livas Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B6.00007: High Stability Low Scatter Telescope for a Space-based Gravitational Wave Observatory Jeffrey Livas, Shannon Sankar Preview Abstract

Session B7: Diversity in Troubled Times

Sponsoring Units: FHP FPS
Chair: Luis Campos, University of New Mexico/Library of Congress
Room: Delaware A

Saturday, January 28, 2017 10:45AM - 11:21AM		B7.00001: German scientists and complicity in Nazi Germany Invited Speaker: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:21AM - 11:57AM		B7.00002: The epistemological effect of excluding African-Americans from physics Invited Speaker: Evelynn Hammonds Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:57AM - 12:33PM		B7.00003: Hidden Human Computers: The Black Women of NASA Invited Speaker: Duchess Harris Preview Abstract

Session B8: Ultralight Dark Matter

Sponsoring Units: GPMFC
Chair: Marianna Safronova, University of Delaware
Room: Delaware B

Saturday, January 28, 2017 10:45AM - 11:21AM		B8.00001: Searching for ultralight dark matter with atomic spectroscopy and magnetic resonance Invited Speaker: Dmitry Budker Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:21AM - 11:57AM		B8.00002: The axion dark matter search at CAPP: a comprehensive approach. Invited Speaker: Yannis Semertzidis Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:57AM - 12:33PM		B8.00003: Global Positioning System as a dark matter detector Invited Speaker: Andrei Derevianko Preview Abstract

Session B9: Dark Matter: DarkLight, Sequest, Other Ongoing Efforts

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Mike Tuts, Columbia University
Room: Roosevelt 1

Saturday, January 28, 2017 10:45AM - 10:57AM		B9.00001: Progress toward a Dark Photon Search with DarkLight Ross Corliss Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 10:57AM - 11:09AM		B9.00002: A Calculation and Measurement of Radiative Moller Scattering at 100 MeV with DarkLight Charles Epstein Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:09AM - 11:21AM		B9.00003: Internal gas target system for the DarkLight experiment Ivica Friscic Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B9.00004: Fast Scintillating Paddles for DarkLight Daniel Palumbo Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B9.00005: Performance of GEM Detectors in the DarkLight Experiment at LERF Sahara Jesmin Mohammed Prem Nazeer Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B9.00006: Searching for Dark Photons in the SeaQuest Experiment Michelle Mesquita de Medeiros Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B9.00007: Sterile Neutrino Search with the PROSPECT Experiment Pranava Teja Surukuchi Venkata Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 12:09PM - 12:21PM		B9.00008: PROSPECT - A Precision Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment Xianyi Zhang Preview Abstract

Session B10: Transitions in Physics and Related Fields from the Late 19th Century to Today

Sponsoring Units: FHP
Chair: Catherine Westfall, Michigan State University
Room: Roosevelt 2

Saturday, January 28, 2017 10:45AM - 11:21AM		B10.00001: Before New Big Science: Alfred O. C. Nier and the Resurrection of Mass Spectrometry Invited Speaker: Joseph Martin Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:21AM - 11:57AM		B10.00002: Across the Divide: From the One Galaxy Universe to the Expanding Universe Invited Speaker: Robert Smith Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:57AM - 12:33PM		B10.00003: An Attempt to Solve the Controversies Over Elements 104 and 105: A Meeting in Russia, 23 September 1975 Invited Speaker: Ann Robinson Preview Abstract

Session B11: Higgs I

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Tulika Bose, Boston University
Room: Roosevelt 3

Saturday, January 28, 2017 10:45AM - 10:57AM		B11.00001: Measurements of fiducial and differential cross sections for Higgs boson production in the diphoton decay channel in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector Khilesh Mistry Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 10:57AM - 11:09AM		B11.00002: Phenomenology of a Flavorful Two Higgs Doublet Model Douglas Tuckler, Wolfgang Altmannshofer, Joshua Eby, Stefania Gori, Matteo Lotito, Mario Martone Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:09AM - 11:21AM		B11.00003: Search for the Standard Model Higgs produced in association with a vector boson and decaying to a $b\bar{b}$ pair in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector Alyssa Montalbano Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B11.00004: NLO QCD Corrections to Electroweak Higgs Boson Production in Association with Three Jets at the LHC Terrance Figy Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B11.00005: Search for heavy resonances decaying to a pair of Higgs bosons in the four b quark final state in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV Alice Cocoros Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B11.00006: Resonances of the Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Sector in unitarized Higgs-EFT Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada, Rafael L. Delgado, Antonio Dobado Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B11.00007: Measurement of fiducial and total cross section for Higgs boson production in the four-lepton decay channel in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector Hannah Herde Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 12:09PM - 12:21PM		B11.00008: The reach for charged Higgs bosons with boosted bottom and boosted top jets Zack Sullivan, Keith Pedersen Preview Abstract

Session B12: Hadron Tomography

Sponsoring Units: DNP GHP
Chair: Ian Cloet, Argonne National Lab
Room: Roosevelt 4

Saturday, January 28, 2017 10:45AM - 10:57AM		B12.00001: Nucleon Parton Structure from Continuum QCD Kyle Bednar, Ian Cloet, Peter Tandy Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 10:57AM - 11:09AM		B12.00002: A Euclidean bridge to the relativistic constituent quark model Timothy Hobbs, Mary Alberg, Gerald Miller Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:09AM - 11:21AM		B12.00003: Studies of the energy-momentum tensor in extreme-instability systems Filip Bergabo, Michael Cantara, Manuel Mai, Peter Schweitzer Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B12.00004: Studies of the Strange Sea-Quarks Spin with Kaons. Fatiha Benmokhtar, Andrew Voloshin, Justin Goodwill, Andrew Lendacky Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B12.00005: Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering (DVCS) Run (E12-06-114) in Hall A of Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF) Bishnu Karki Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B12.00006: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B12.00007: Confirming the Potential of Systems Containing Strangeness for 3D Structure Studies of the Proton Salina Ali, Tanja Horn, Marco Carmignotto Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 12:09PM - 12:21PM		B12.00008: Pion and kaon structure functions at 12 GeV JLab and EIC Tanja Horn Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 12:21PM - 12:33PM		B12.00009: $\bar{{d}}/\bar{{u}}$ Ratio in the Proton at Seaquest Daniel Morton Preview Abstract

Session B13: Mini-Symposium: Detecting Neutral Particles with Low-energy Thresholds

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Alan Poon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Room: Roosevelt 5

Saturday, January 28, 2017 10:45AM - 11:21AM		B13.00001: Detecting Neutrons, Neutrinos and Dark Matter Invited Speaker: Daniel McKinsey Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B13.00002: Theory Overview of Coherent Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering and Implications for Physics Beyond the Standard Model James Dent Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B13.00003: Search for Dark Matter with DEAP-3600 Chris Jillings Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B13.00004: Detector Technologies for the COHERENT Experiment Jacob Zettlemoyer Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B13.00005: Dark matter searches with PICO bubble chambers: An overview Orin Harris Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 12:09PM - 12:21PM		B13.00006: Prospects for using coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering to measure the nuclear neutron form factor Kelly Patton, Gail McLaughlin, Kate Scholberg, Jon Engel, Nicolas Schunck Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 12:21PM - 12:33PM		B13.00007: $^{\mathrm{37}}$Ar Calibration of the Large Underground Xenon Experiment Elizabeth Boulton Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 12:33PM - 12:45PM		B13.00008: The study of the correlation between ($\alpha $, $\gamma )$ induced events with respect to Radon annual modulation. Ashok Tiwari, Chao Zhang, Dongming Mei Preview Abstract

Session B15: Electromagnetic Signatures of Neutron Star Mergers

Sponsoring Units: DAP DGRAV DNP
Chair: Daniel Kasen, University of California, Berkeley
Room: Washington 2

Saturday, January 28, 2017 10:45AM - 11:21AM		B15.00001: Nucleosynthesis and neutrino physics in compact object mergers Invited Speaker: Rebecca Surman Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:21AM - 11:57AM		B15.00002: Dynamics of compact object mergers Invited Speaker: Andreas Bauswein Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:57AM - 12:33PM		B15.00003: Radioactive powered transients from compact object mergers Invited Speaker: Luke Roberts Preview Abstract

Session B16: Applications of Accelerators and Nuclear Physics

Sponsoring Units: DNP DPB
Chair: T Vincent Cianciolo, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Room: Washington 3

Saturday, January 28, 2017 10:45AM - 11:21AM		B16.00001: Targeted Alpha Therapy: The US DOE Tri-Lab (ORNL, BNL, LANL) Research Effort to Provide Accelerator-Produced $^{\mathrm{\mathbf{225}}}$\textbf{Ac for Radiotherapy} Invited Speaker: Kevin John Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:21AM - 11:57AM		B16.00002: Particle Beam Therapy In The U.S. Invited Speaker: Jacek Capala Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:57AM - 12:33PM		B16.00003: The Application of Neutron and X-Ray Techniques to Analyze Works of Art: Examples from The Unvarnished Truth Project Invited Speaker: Brandi Lee MacDonald Preview Abstract

Session B20: Future of Physics Days: Lunch with the Grads

Room: Coolidge Room

Saturday, January 28, 2017 12:00PM - 1:30PM

B20.00001: A Panel Discussion About Physics Grad School Preview Abstract

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

Room: Harding Room

Saturday, January 28, 2017 12:30PM - 1:30PM

B21.00001: Roundtable: Improving the Climate in Physics for LGBT+ Physicists Preview Abstract