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Session R2: Computational Physics

Sponsoring Units: DCOMP
Room: Maryland B

Monday, January 30, 2017 10:45AM - 10:57AM		R2.00001: DSMC simulations of leading edge flat-plate boundary layer flows at high Mach number Dr. Sahadev Pradhan Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 10:57AM - 11:09AM		R2.00002: Exploring the Dynamics of a Quantum-Mechanical Compton Generator Martin Kandes, Ricardo Carretero Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:09AM - 11:21AM		R2.00003: The Phase-Amplitude (PhA) representation of a wave function George Rawitscher Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:21AM - 11:33AM		R2.00004: Computational Medical Apportionment Determination for Impairment Ratings Jerry Artz, Marten Thompson, John Alchemy, MD, Daniel Penn, MD Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:33AM - 11:45AM		R2.00005: Simulation and Digitization of a Gas Electron Multiplier Detector Using Geant4 and an Object-Oriented Digitization Program Timothy McMullen, Nilanga Liyanage, Weizhi Xiong, Zhiwen Zhao Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:45AM - 11:57AM		R2.00006: Final Results from A Pilot Project to Investigate Wake Vortex Patterns and Weather Patterns at the Atlantic City Airport by the Richard Stockton College of NJ and the FAA Joseph Trout, J. Russell Manson, David King, Nicolas DeCicco, Alyssa Prince, Alexis Di Mercurio, Manual Rios Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:57AM - 12:09PM		R2.00007: Computing Critical Properties with Yang-Yang Anomalies Gerassimos Orkoulas, Claudio Cerdeirina, Michael Fisher Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 12:09PM - 12:21PM		R2.00008: The generalized Onsager model and DSMC simulations of high-speed rotating flows with product and waste baffles Dr. Sahadev Pradhan Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 12:21PM - 12:33PM		R2.00009: DSMC Simulation of High Mach Number Taylor-Couette Flow Dr. Sahadev Pradhan Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 12:33PM - 12:45PM		R2.00010: High Precision Calculations of the Lennard-Jones Lattice Constants for Five Lattices Matthew Stein Preview Abstract

Session R3: Black Holes and Their Environments

Sponsoring Units: DAP DGRAV
Chair: Neil Cornish, Montana State University
Room: Maryland C

Monday, January 30, 2017 10:45AM - 10:57AM		R3.00001: The Effect of Supermassive Black Hole Binary Environments on Time to Detection for the Stochastic Background Sarah Vigeland, Xavier Siemens Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 10:57AM - 11:09AM		R3.00002: Efficiently Simulating the Evolution of Massive Black Holes, and Implications for NANOGrav and LISA Sean McWilliams Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:09AM - 11:21AM		R3.00003: Constraining stellar binary black hole formation scenarios with LISA eccentricity measurements Emanuele Berti, Atsushi Nishizawa, Alberto Sesana, Antoine Klein Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:21AM - 11:33AM		R3.00004: Radiation Transport in Dynamic Spacetimes Jeremy Schnittman, John Baker, Zachariah Etienne, Bruno Giacomazzo, Bernard Kelly Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:33AM - 11:45AM		R3.00005: Distinguishing transients from merger characteristics in EM signals from black hole binary mergers. Bernard Kelly, Zachariah Etienne, Bruno Giacomazzo, John Baker, Jeremy Schnittman Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:45AM - 11:57AM		R3.00006: Effects of Inner Alfv\'{e}n Surface Location on Black Hole Magnetospheres in the Force-Free Limit Kevin Thoelecke, Masaaki Takahashi, Sachiko Tsuruta Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:57AM - 12:09PM		R3.00007: The population of low-mass X-ray binaries ejected from black-hole retaining globular clusters Matthew Giesler, Drew Clausen, Christian Ott Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 12:09PM - 12:21PM		R3.00008: Gravitational waves from a plunge into a nearly extremal Kerr black hole Lior M. Burko, Gaurav Khanna Preview Abstract

Session R4: Missions, Instruments and Surveys

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Mattia Di Mauro, SLAC National Laboratory
Room: Virginia A

Monday, January 30, 2017 10:45AM - 10:57AM		R4.00001: An Account of Advances in Accessing “Discovery Space” Martin Harwit Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 10:57AM - 11:09AM		R4.00002: AugerPrime: the upgrade of the Pierre Auger Observatory Frederic Sarazin Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:09AM - 11:21AM		R4.00003: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:21AM - 11:33AM		R4.00004: IceCube Gen2: The Next Generation of Neutrino Astronomy Erik Blaufuss Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:33AM - 11:45AM		R4.00005: A future wide field-of-view TeV gamma-ray observatory in the Southern Hemisphere Miguel Mostafa Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:45AM - 11:57AM		R4.00006: The Extreme Universe Space Observatory Super Pressure Balloon Mission Lawrence Wiencke, Angela Olinto, Jim Adams Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:57AM - 12:09PM		R4.00007: Development of low-noise kinetic inductance detectors for far-infrared astrophysics Alyssa Barlis, Steven Hailey-Dunsheath, Charles M. Bradford, Christopher McKenney, Henry G. Le Duc, James Aguirre Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 12:09PM - 12:21PM		R4.00008: Status of the Micro-X Sounding Rocket Telescope David Goldfinger Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 12:21PM - 12:33PM		R4.00009: Prospects for Sterile Neutrino Observations with the Micro-X Sounding Rocket Antonia Hubbard Preview Abstract

Session R5: The Galactic Center Excess

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Timothy Brandt, Institute for Advanced Study
Room: Virginia B

Monday, January 30, 2017 10:45AM - 11:21AM		R5.00001: The GeV Excess in the Galactic Center Invited Speaker: Tim Linden Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:21AM - 11:33AM		R5.00002: Evidence for Spatial Variation in the High-Energy Spectrum of the Galactic Center Excess Anna Kwa, Shunsaku Horiuchi, Manoj Kaplinghat Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:33AM - 11:45AM		R5.00003: The GeV Galactic Center Excess – Uncertainties in the Measured Spectrum and Morphology and Dark Matter Implications Andrea Albert, Dmitry Malyshev, Anna Franckowiak, Luigi Tilbaldo, Mattia Di Mauro Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:45AM - 11:57AM		R5.00004: Implications of tension between observations of the bright Galactic Center Excess and dim dwarf galaxies Ryan Keeley, Kevork Abazajian Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:57AM - 12:09PM		R5.00005: Probing dim point sources in the inner Milky Way using PCAT Tansu Daylan, Stephen K. N. Portillo, Douglas P. Finkbeiner Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 12:09PM - 12:21PM		R5.00006: Searches for point sources in the Galactic Center region Mattia Di Mauro Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 12:21PM - 12:33PM		R5.00007: The Fermi Galactic Center excess as a signal from Bursts of Cosmic-Rays Ilias Cholis, Carmelo Evoli, Francesca Calore, Tim Linden, Christoph Weniger, Dan Hooper Preview Abstract

Session R6: Mathematical Aspects of General Relativity

Sponsoring Units: DGRAV
Chair: Steven Carlip, University of California - Davis
Room: Virginia C

Monday, January 30, 2017 10:45AM - 10:57AM		R6.00001: Blandford-Znajek without Plasma Maria Rodriguez, Theodore Jacobson Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 10:57AM - 11:09AM		R6.00002: Conserved currents for electromagnetic fields in the Kerr spacetime Alexander Grant, Eanna Flanagan Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:09AM - 11:21AM		R6.00003: Canonical energy and linear stability of Schwarzschild Kartik Prabhu, Robert Wald Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:21AM - 11:33AM		R6.00004: Horizon Instability of Extremal Charged Black Holes: Enhanced Growth for Charged Scalar Perturbations Peter Zimmerman Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:33AM - 11:45AM		R6.00005: Nonlinear dynamics of near-extremal black holes Stephen Green, Samuel Gralla, Peter Zimmerman Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:45AM - 11:57AM		R6.00006: Field Discontinuities and the Memory Effect Alexander Tolish, Robert Wald Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:57AM - 12:09PM		R6.00007: Late-time quadrupolar gravitational wave power in de Sitter space Jeffrey Hazboun Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 12:09PM - 12:21PM		R6.00008: Rain, Hail, and Drip frames of the Schwarzschild-de Sitter Geometry Tehani Finch Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 12:21PM - 12:33PM		R6.00009: Transverse traceless tensors in cosmology and gravitational wave theory Beatrice Bonga, Abhay Ashtekar Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 12:33PM - 12:45PM		R6.00010: An Example of Wang and Yau's Quasilocal Energy for Constant Radial Spacelike 2-Surfaces in a Maximally Rotating Black Hole Spacetime Shannon Ray, Warner Miller Preview Abstract

Session R7: The Manhattan Project: History and Heritage

Sponsoring Units: FHP DNP
Chair: Alan Chodos, The American Physical Society (retired)
Room: Delaware A

Monday, January 30, 2017 10:45AM - 11:21AM		R7.00001: The Manhattan Project: An Overview Invited Speaker: Cameron Reed Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:21AM - 11:57AM		R7.00002: Welcome to the Manhattan Project National Historical Park! Invited Speaker: Cynthia Kelly Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:57AM - 12:33PM		R7.00003: Deconstructing The Bomb: Confessions of a Nuclear Archeologist Invited Speaker: John Coster-Mullen Preview Abstract

Session R8: Research in Teacher Preparation

Sponsoring Units: FEd
Chair: Monica Plisch, American Physical Society
Room: Delaware B

Monday, January 30, 2017 10:45AM - 11:21AM		R8.00001: Historical Survey of Research in Physics Teacher Preparation Invited Speaker: David E. Meltzer Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:21AM - 11:57AM		R8.00002: Conceptual Model of Physics Teacher Preparation: Developing Habits of Mind and Practice through Apprenticeship in a Community Invited Speaker: Eugenia Etkina Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:57AM - 12:33PM		R8.00003: Development and validation of a new survey: Perceptions of Teaching as a Profession (PTaP) Invited Speaker: Wendy Adams Preview Abstract

Session R9: LHC: Ongoing

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

Monday, January 30, 2017 10:45AM - 10:57AM		R9.00001: Alignment of the Muon System at the CMS Experiment Ryan Mueller, Luca Perniè, Yuriy Pakhotin, Teruki Kamon, Alexei Safonov, Malachi Brown Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 10:57AM - 11:09AM		R9.00002: Electron Identification with the ATLAS detector Lucas Flores Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:09AM - 11:21AM		R9.00003: Improvement of the CMS Muon Reconstruction Performance due to Precise Track-based Alignment Malachi Brown Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:21AM - 11:33AM		R9.00004: Performance of b jet identification {\$}pp{\$} collisions at {\$}$\backslash $sqrt\textbraceleft s\textbraceright $=${\$} 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector Wasikul Islam Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:33AM - 11:45AM		R9.00005: Improvement of Event Synchronization in the ATLAS Pixel Readout Development Logan Adams Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:45AM - 11:57AM		R9.00006: ATLAS trigger operations: Monitoring with ``Xmon'' rate prediction system Andrew Aukerman, Tae Min Hong Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:57AM - 12:09PM		R9.00007: ATLAS Muon Identification and Reconstruction Performance in 2016 Laura Bergsten Preview Abstract

Session R10: Sterile Neutrinos

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Alex Himmel, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Room: Roosevelt 2

Monday, January 30, 2017 10:45AM - 11:21AM		R10.00001: Sterile Neutrino Experiments I: Accelerator-based Invited Speaker: Matthew Toups Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:21AM - 11:57AM		R10.00002: The search for sterile neutrinos at reactors and underground laboratories Invited Speaker: Thomas Langford Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:57AM - 12:33PM		R10.00003: Sterile neutrinos: fact or fiction? Invited Speaker: Patrick Huber Preview Abstract

Session R11: Neutrino Detector I

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Dmitri Denisov, FermiLab
Room: Roosevelt 3

Monday, January 30, 2017 10:45AM - 10:57AM		R11.00001: Calibrating Momentum Measurements Of The CMS Detector Using Cosmic Ray Muons Shawn Zaleski Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 10:57AM - 11:09AM		R11.00002: Attenuation Calibration in the NOvA Detectors Medbh Campbell Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:09AM - 11:21AM		R11.00003: An Overview of CC Coherent Pion Production Zachary Williams Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:21AM - 11:33AM		R11.00004: Simulation and Reconstruction for the OLIVIA Experiment Timothy Borucki Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:33AM - 11:45AM		R11.00005: Status of the Inclusive $\nu_{\mu}$ CC Cross Section Measurement in the NOvA Near Detector Biswaranjan Behera Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:45AM - 11:57AM		R11.00006: Scintillation Light Background Discrimination in the SBND Experiment Colton Hill, Andrzej Szelc, Diego Garcia-Gamez Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:57AM - 12:09PM		R11.00007: Statistical techniques for DeepCore Philipp Eller Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 12:09PM - 12:21PM		R11.00008: Study of Track Ambiguities and Wire Plane Orientation in Single Phase Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers Brendon Bullard, Chao Zhang Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 12:21PM - 12:33PM		R11.00009: Firmware algorithms for PINGU experiment Daria Pankova, Tyler Anderson Preview Abstract

Session R12: Low-energy Electroweak Interactions II

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Diana Parno, Carnegie Mellon University
Room: Roosevelt 4

Monday, January 30, 2017 10:45AM - 10:57AM		R12.00001: Precision measurement of the positron asymmetry of laser-cooled, spin-polarized \textsuperscript{37}K Dan Melconian, B. Fenker, J.A. Behr, M. Anholm, D. Ashery, R.S. Behling, I. Cohen, I. Craiciu, A. Gorelov, G. Gwinner, J. McNeil, M. Mehlman, S. Smale, C.L. Warner Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 10:57AM - 11:09AM		R12.00002: Time reversal violation in radiative beta decay: experimental plans J.A. Behr, J. McNeil, M. Anholm, A. Gorelov, D. Melconian, D. Ashery Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:09AM - 11:21AM		R12.00003: Result from, and status of, EXO-200 Tim Daniels Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:21AM - 11:33AM		R12.00004: Progress towards barium daughter tagging in $Xe^{136}$ decay using single molecule fluorescence imaging Austin Mcdonald, Ben Jones, Jordan Benson, David Nygren Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:33AM - 11:45AM		R12.00005: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:45AM - 11:57AM		R12.00006: Sensitivity of the LUX detector to the possible neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{134}$Xe Evan Pease Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:57AM - 12:09PM		R12.00007: A New Strangeness Fit to World Parity-Violating Electron Scattering Data Benjamin Gilbert Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 12:09PM - 12:21PM		R12.00008: Project 8: Towards cyclotron radiation emission spectroscopy on tritium Martin Fertl Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 12:21PM - 12:33PM		R12.00009: Project 8 Phase II: Improved beta decay electrons reconstruction Mathieu Guigue Preview Abstract

Session R13: Minisymposium: Precision Measurements in Nuclear Physics I

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Hiro Iwasaki, Michigan State University
Room: Roosevelt 5

Monday, January 30, 2017 10:45AM - 11:21AM		R13.00001: Nuclear Excitation by Electronic Transition of U-235 Invited Speaker: Perry Chodash Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:21AM - 11:33AM		R13.00002: Precision measurement of the radiative beta decay of the free neutron Thomas Gentile Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:33AM - 11:45AM		R13.00003: Progress toward a new beam measurement of the neutron lifetime Shannon Fogwell Hoogerheide Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:45AM - 11:57AM		R13.00004: Precision Measurement of Nuclear Electron Capture Decay David Koltick, Shih-Chieh Liu, Haoyu Wang, Jordan Heim, Jonathan Nistor Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:57AM - 12:09PM		R13.00005: Precision Nuclear Beta Spectroscopy as a Probe for BSM Physics Aaron Sprow Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 12:09PM - 12:21PM		R13.00006: Precision Magnetometry and Systematic Effects in the Nab Experiment Jason Fry Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 12:21PM - 12:33PM		R13.00007: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract

Session R14: Gravitational Wave Observations with Current and Future Facilities

Sponsoring Units: DGRAV
Chair: Laura Cadonati, Georgia Institute of Technology
Room: Washington 1

Monday, January 30, 2017 10:45AM - 11:21AM		R14.00001: Ground-based gravitational-wave observatories Invited Speaker: Joseph Giaime Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:21AM - 11:57AM		R14.00002: Pulsar timing arrays: closing in on low- frequency gravitational waves. Invited Speaker: Laura Sampson Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:57AM - 12:33PM		R14.00003: The path to a gravitational-wave detector in space Invited Speaker: Guido Mueller Preview Abstract

Session R15: The Future of Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction

Sponsoring Units: GFB DNP
Chair: Matthias Schindler, University of South Carolina
Room: Washington 2

Monday, January 30, 2017 10:45AM - 11:21AM		R15.00001: Historical perspective and future prospects for nuclear interactions Invited Speaker: Ruprecht Machleidt Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:21AM - 11:57AM		R15.00002: (Im)precise nuclear forces: From experiment to model Invited Speaker: Rodrigo Navarro Perez Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:57AM - 12:33PM		R15.00003: Local chiral potentials with $\Delta$-intermediate states and the structure of light nuclei Invited Speaker: Maria Piarulli Preview Abstract

Session R16: Future High Energy Hadron Colliders and Physics

Sponsoring Units: DPB DPF
Chair: Joseph Incandela, University of California, Santa Barbara
Room: Washington 3

Monday, January 30, 2017 10:45AM - 11:21AM		R16.00001: HL-LHC and HE-LHC Upgrade Plans and Opportunities for US Participation Invited Speaker: Giorgio Apollinari Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:21AM - 11:57AM		R16.00002: Progress towards next generation hadron colliders: FCC-hh, HE-LHC, and SPPC. Invited Speaker: Frank Zimmermann Preview Abstract
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:57AM - 12:33PM		R16.00003: Superconducting Magnet Technology for Future High Energy Proton Colliders Invited Speaker: Stephen Gourlay Preview Abstract