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Session G01: FPS Business Meeting

Sponsoring Units: FPS
Room: Hilton Columbus Edward Parker Hayde

Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:30AM - 10:30AM

G01.00001: FPS Business Meeting Preview Abstract

Session G02: Sakurai and Panofsky Prize

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Marcela Carena, FNAL
Room: A112-113

Sunday, April 15, 2018 8:30AM - 9:00AM		G02.00001: J.J. Sakurai Prize Talk: Baryogenesis Invited Speaker: Ann Nelson Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:00AM - 9:30AM		G02.00002: J. J. Sakurai Prize Talk: Hierarchy of Hierarchies Invited Speaker: Michael Dine Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:30AM - 10:00AM		G02.00003: W.K. Panofsky Prize Talk: Directional Cherenkov Calorimetry: Birth Pangs, Adolescence, & Maturity Invited Speaker: Lawrence Sulak Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 10:00AM - 10:30AM		G02.00004: Sakurai Thesis Prize Talk: Quantum Gravity Constraints for Effective Field Theories Invited Speaker: Grant Remmen Preview Abstract

Session G03: Excellence in Physics Education Award

Sponsoring Units: FED
Chair: Geraldine Cochran, Rutgers University
Room: A114-115

Sunday, April 15, 2018 8:30AM - 9:06AM		G03.00001: Excellence in Physics Education Award Talk: PhET Interactive Simulations: Making physics engaging and accessible for all Invited Speaker: Katherine Perkins Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:06AM - 9:42AM		G03.00002: Equity and inclusion by design in calculus-based introductory physics Invited Speaker: Suzanne White Brahmia Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:42AM - 10:18AM		G03.00003: Rethinking Physics for Biologists: A Design-Based Research Approach Invited Speaker: Vashti Sawtelle Preview Abstract

Session G04: Beams for Physics Research

Sponsoring Units: DPB DCOMP
Chair: Stephen Milton, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Room: A120-122

Sunday, April 15, 2018 8:30AM - 9:06AM		G04.00001: Beams by Design Invited Speaker: Erik Hemsing Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:06AM - 9:42AM		G04.00002: Superconducting undulators for an enhanced production of x-rays at the light sources Invited Speaker: Yury Ivanyushenkov Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:42AM - 10:18AM		G04.00003: Operational experience with the first seeded x-ray FEL producing spatially and temporally coherent light Invited Speaker: Luca Giannessi Preview Abstract

Session G05: High Baryon Density Physics in Nuclei and the Cosmos

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Ramona Vogt, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Room: A123-125

Sunday, April 15, 2018 8:30AM - 9:06AM		G05.00001: New Extraterrestrial Observations of the Dense Matter Equation of State Invited Speaker: Jocelyn Read Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:06AM - 9:42AM		G05.00002: Hot Lattice QCD at Moderately Large Baryon Densities Invited Speaker: Swagato Mukherjee Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:42AM - 10:18AM		G05.00003: High Baryon Densities in Terrestrial Experiments Invited Speaker: Frank Geurts Preview Abstract

Session G07: Fireball Emission from Binary Neutron Star Mergers

Sponsoring Units: DAP DGRAV
Chair: Fiona Harrison, Caltech
Room: B131-132

Sunday, April 15, 2018 8:30AM - 9:06AM		G07.00001: The First Unambiguous Electromagnetic Counterpart to a Gravitational-Wave Signal: GRB 170817A and GW170817 Invited Speaker: Eric Burns Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:06AM - 9:42AM		G07.00002: The Radio Afterglow of GW170817 Invited Speaker: Gregg Hallinan Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:42AM - 10:18AM		G07.00003: Shedding Light on Gravitational Waves Invited Speaker: Anthony Piro Preview Abstract

Session G08: Neutrino Experiments: Backgrounds, Calibration, and Instrumentation

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Kate Scholberg, Duke University
Room: A110

Sunday, April 15, 2018 8:30AM - 8:42AM		G08.00001: A Model for the Global Quantum Efficiency for a TPB-based Wavelength-Shifting System used with Photomultiplier Tubes in Liquid Argon in MicroBooNE Thomas Wester Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 8:42AM - 8:54AM		G08.00002: Simulated Optical Efficiency of the IceCUBE Matryoshka WOM Patrick Bedard, Thomas Wester, Carlos Arguelles, Janet Conrad, Jenna Smith Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 8:54AM - 9:06AM		G08.00003: Improved muon background rejection at Low Energies (IceCube, DeepCore) Daria Pankova, FeiFei Huang Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:06AM - 9:18AM		G08.00004: The JUNO Calibration Systems Yuhang Guo, Qingmin Zhang, Feiyang Zhang, Mengjiao Xiao, Jianglai Liu, Yuanyuan Zhang Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:18AM - 9:30AM		G08.00005: Toward a CEvNS Observation With Germanium Jacob Daughhetee Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:30AM - 9:42AM		G08.00006: Reverse table reconstructions for low energy neutrinos in IceCube Justin Lanfranchi, Philipp Eller, Kevin Crust, Doug Cowen Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:42AM - 9:54AM		G08.00007: Recent Developments in Calibration of the IceCube Detector William Luszczak Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:54AM - 10:06AM		G08.00008: Measurement of the neutrino-induced neutron cross section in lead at the Spallation Neutron Source Brandon Becker Preview Abstract

Session G09: Dark Matter Theories, Models, and Phenomenology

Sponsoring Units: DPF DAP
Chair: Matthew Graham, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Room: A111

Sunday, April 15, 2018 8:30AM - 8:42AM		G09.00001: A Comparison of Future Dark Matter Searches Jeffrey Hutchinson, Kara Farnsworth, Anthony Grippo Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 8:42AM - 8:54AM		G09.00002: Direct Detection of Dark Matter as Three-Body Bound States Hershdeep Singh, Arman Margaryan, Thomas Mehen Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 8:54AM - 9:06AM		G09.00003: A Composite Mediator Philip Tanedo Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:06AM - 9:18AM		G09.00004: Annihilation rates of wino dark matter from an effective field theory approach Evan Johnson, Eric Braaten, Hong Zhang Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:18AM - 9:30AM		G09.00005: Spin-independent interactions between fermions induced from the exchange of two light axion-like particles Sheakha Aldaihan, Dennis Krause, William Michael Snow Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:30AM - 9:42AM		G09.00006: Fermionic dark matters, dark energy, massive graviton and extended standard model Jae-Kwang Hwang Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:42AM - 9:54AM		G09.00007: Quantum measurement and fuzzy dark matter Adam Helfer Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:54AM - 10:06AM		G09.00008: Adjoint matter, affine Lie algebras and MCRG Joel Giedt Preview Abstract

Session G10: Historical Trends Across the Disciplines

Sponsoring Units: FHP
Chair: Dan Kennefick, University of Arkansas
Room: A216

Sunday, April 15, 2018 8:30AM - 9:06AM		G10.00001: Doublet Dudes: Shaping the Future of Fusion Invited Speaker: Ryan Chaban Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:06AM - 9:18AM		G10.00002: Historical Failures in International Cooperation in Physics and Astronomy Virginia Trimble Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:18AM - 9:30AM		G10.00003: Observables and Hamilton-Jacobi approaches to general relativity Donald Salisbury Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:30AM - 9:42AM		G10.00004: Abstract Withdrawn
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:42AM - 9:54AM		G10.00005: Carl Anderson´s 1932 Positron Per Carlson Preview Abstract

Session G11: Mini-Symposium on FRIB and ReA Instrumentation I

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Benjamin Kay, Argonne National Laboratory
Room: A220-221

Sunday, April 15, 2018 8:30AM - 9:06AM		G11.00001: Instrumentation Plans for FRIB and ReA Invited Speaker: Manoel Couder Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:06AM - 9:18AM		G11.00002: The High Rigidity Spectrometer for FRIB. Remco Zegers Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:18AM - 9:30AM		G11.00003: Reaction Studies with a Gas Jet Target at ReA K.A. Chipps Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:30AM - 9:42AM		G11.00004: GODDESS: Gamma arrays and ORRUBA: Dual Detectors for Experimental Structure Studies at FRIB and ReA S.D. Pain, Jolie Cizewski, A. Lepailleur, D. Walter, A. Ratkiewicz Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:42AM - 9:54AM		G11.00005: Advancing Penning trap mass spectrometry of rare isotopes at the LEBIT facility M. Redshaw, G. Bollen, R. Ringle, S. Schwarz, K. Gulyuz, M. Eibach, A. Hamaker, C. Izzo, D. Puentes, J. Surbrook, I. Yandow, R. Sandler Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:54AM - 10:06AM		G11.00006: Development, commissioning and first experiment of the HabaNERO detector for the measurement of astrophysically important (a,n) reaction rates Shilun Jin Preview Abstract

Session G12: Hadrons and Light Ions; Bayesian Methods

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Roxanne Springer, Duke University
Room: A222-223

Sunday, April 15, 2018 8:30AM - 8:42AM		G12.00001: The power law for mass-dependent nuclear reactions Roy Peterson Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 8:42AM - 8:54AM		G12.00002: A study of Lambda-nucleon scattering using the CLAS detector Joseph Rowley, Kenneth Hicks, John W. Price Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 8:54AM - 9:06AM		G12.00003: Large Longitudinal Spin Alignment Generated in Inelastic Nuclear Reactions Daniel Hoff Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:06AM - 9:18AM		G12.00004: Direct capture potential models in light of halo EFT, and vice versa Kenneth Nollett, Xilin Zhang, Daniel Phillips Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:18AM - 9:30AM		G12.00005: A Linear equation for the Phase Amplitude description of a wave function George Rawitscher Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:30AM - 9:42AM		G12.00006: Bayesian Gaussian Process Models for Effective Field Theory Truncation Errors Jordan Melendez, Dick Furnstahl, Daniel Phillips, Matthew Pratola, Sarah Wesolowski Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:42AM - 9:54AM		G12.00007: Applying Bayesian Truncation Error Models to Chiral Effective Field Theory R.J. Furnstahl, J.A. Melendez, D. Phillips, M.t. Pratola, S. Wesolowski Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:54AM - 10:06AM		G12.00008: Estimating parameters and making predictions for nucleon-nucleon scattering: the role of EFT truncation errors Daniel Phillips, Sarah Wesolowski, Richard Furnstahl Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 10:06AM - 10:18AM		G12.00009: Two case studies in a Bayesian approach to estimating the parameters of nucleon-nucleon interactions in chiral effective field theory Sarah Wesolowski, Richard Furnstahl, Daniel Phillips Preview Abstract

Session G13: Gravitational Waves: Source Modeling - I

Sponsoring Units: DGRAV
Chair: Scott Hughes, MIT
Room: A224-225

Sunday, April 15, 2018 8:30AM - 8:42AM		G13.00001: Gravitational wave searches for ultralight bosons with LIGO and LISA Emanuele Berti, Enrico Barausse, Richard Brito, Vitor Cardoso, Irina Dvorkin, Shrobana Ghosh, Antoine Klein, Paolo Pani Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 8:42AM - 8:54AM		G13.00002: Detectability of gravitational waves from superradiant instabilities of scalar fields Shrobana Ghosh, Enrico Barausse, Emanuele Berti, Richard Brito, Vitor Cardoso, Irina Dvorkin, Antoine Klein, Paolo Pani, Mauricio Richartz Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 8:54AM - 9:06AM		G13.00003: Black hole spin evolution in black hole binaries Riccardo Barbieri, Davide Gerosa, Giovanni Rosotti Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:06AM - 9:18AM		G13.00004: Exciting black hole modes via misaligned coalescences: I. Framework and inspiral/plunge worldline computation Anuj Apte, Scott Hughes Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:18AM - 9:30AM		G13.00005: Exciting black hole modes via misaligned coalescences: II. Characterizing the mode content of late time coalescence waveforms Halston Lim, Gaurav Khanna, Scott Hughes Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:30AM - 9:42AM		G13.00006: Recent progress in the effective source approach to the self-force problem with a time domain code Peter Diener, Barry Wardell, Niels Warburton, Anna Heffernan, Adrian Ottewill Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:42AM - 9:54AM		G13.00007: Recent work in gravitational-wave memory waveform calculations Marc Favata, Matthew Karlson, Kevin Chen, Lita de la Cruz Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:54AM - 10:06AM		G13.00008: Inspirals into a charged black hole Ruomin Zhu, Thomas Osburn Preview Abstract

Session G14: Gravitational Waves: Data Analysis Techniques and Parameter Estimation - II

Sponsoring Units: DGRAV
Chair: Salvatore Vitale, MIT
Room: A226

Sunday, April 15, 2018 8:30AM - 8:42AM		G14.00001: Classifier for gravitational-wave inspiral signals in nonideal single-detector data Shasvath Kapadia, Thomas Dent, Tito Dal Canton Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 8:42AM - 8:54AM		G14.00002: Optimizing SEOBNRv3 for LIGO Parameter Estimation Tyler Knowles, Zachariah Etienne, Sean McWilliams Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 8:54AM - 9:06AM		G14.00003: Comparing parameter estimation results using model and numerical relativity templates of binary black hole systems Jacob Lange, Richard O'Shaughnessy, Manuela Campanelli, James Healy, Carlos Lousto, Yosef Zlochower Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:06AM - 9:18AM		G14.00004: Deep Learning for Real-time Gravitational Wave Detection and Parameter Estimation: Results with Advanced LIGO Data Daniel George, E. A. Huerta Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:18AM - 9:30AM		G14.00005: GWSurrogate: An easy-to-use interface to gravitational wave surrogate models Scott Field, Chad Galley, Jonathan Blackman Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:30AM - 9:42AM		G14.00006: Swarm Intelligence to detect Gravitational Waves. Varun Srivastava, Anuradha Samajhdar, Rajesh Nayak, Sukanta Bose Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:42AM - 9:54AM		G14.00007: Applying the TwoSpect X-Statistic to Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves Ansel Neunzert, Keith Riles Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:54AM - 10:06AM		G14.00008: Efficient Estimation of Barycentered Relative Time Delays for Distant Gravitational Wave Sources Orion Sauter, Vladimir Dergachev, Keith Riles Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 10:06AM - 10:18AM		G14.00009: Highly-Spinning Data for Puncture-Based Codes Yosef Zlochower, Carlos Lousto, James Healy, Ian Ruchlin Preview Abstract

Session G15: Medium Energy Cosmic Rays

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: William Hanlon, The University of Utah
Room: B230-231

Sunday, April 15, 2018 8:30AM - 8:42AM		G15.00001: Measurement of Cosmic-Ray Electron and Positron Spectrum from 10 GeV to 3 TeV with the CALET Alexander Moiseev Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 8:42AM - 8:54AM		G15.00002: CALET Ultra Heavy Cosmic Ray Analysis Status Brian Rauch, W. Robert Binns, Yosui Akaike Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 8:54AM - 9:06AM		G15.00003: Measurements of Cosmic-Ray Nuclei with CALET Yosui Akaike Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:06AM - 9:18AM		G15.00004: Measurements of the Elemental Abundances of GCRs from Carbon through Zirconium by the CRIS Instrument on the ACE Spacecraft W.R. Binns, E.R. Christian, A.C. Cummings, A.J. Davis, G.A. de Nolfo, M.H. Israel, K.A. Lave, R.A. Leske, R.A. Mewaldt, E.C. Stone, T.T. von Rosenvinge, M.E. Wiedenbeck Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:18AM - 9:30AM		G15.00005: SuperTIGER Abundances of Galactic Cosmic-Rays for the Charge Interval Z$=$41-56 Nathan Walsh, Walter Binns, Martin Israel, Ryan Murphy, Brian Rauch, John Ward, Terri Brandt, Jason Link, John Mitchell, Thomas Hams, Kenichi Sakai, Makoto Sasaki, Allan Labrador, Richard Mewaldt, Edward Stone, Mark Wiedenbeck, Cecil Waddington Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:30AM - 9:42AM		G15.00006: Galactic Cosmic Ray Energy Spectra for Heavy Elements (Z$<$30) from $\sim$0.8 to $\sim$10GeV/nuc with the SuperTIGER Instrument T. J. Brandt, W. R. Binns, R. G. Bose, P. F. Dowkontt, T. Hams, M. H. Israel, A. W. Labrador, J. T. Link, R. A. Mewaldt, J. W. Mitchell, R. P. Murphy, B. F. Rauch, K. Sakai, M. Sasaki, E. C. Stone, C. J. Waddington, N.E. Walsh, J. E. Ward, M. E. Wiedenbeck Preview Abstract

Session G16: Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay and Neutrino Mass

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Vincente Guiseppe, University of South Carolina
Room: B232-233

Sunday, April 15, 2018 8:30AM - 8:42AM		G16.00001: First results from the CUORE \boldmath$0\nu\beta\beta$ decay experiment Alexey Drobizhev Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 8:42AM - 8:54AM		G16.00002: Abstract Withdrawn
Sunday, April 15, 2018 8:54AM - 9:06AM		G16.00003: Status and results of the EXO-200 experiment. Matthew Coon Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:06AM - 9:18AM		G16.00004: Search for nucleon decays with EXO-200 Adam Craycraft Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:18AM - 9:30AM		G16.00005: Results and Status of the {\sc Majorana Demonstrator} Ian Guinn Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:30AM - 9:42AM		G16.00006: The Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay (LEGEND) Wenqin Xu Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:42AM - 9:54AM		G16.00007: SNO+: Into the second phase Logan Lebanowski Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:54AM - 10:06AM		G16.00008: Towards an improved neutrino mass measurement: a KATRIN status report Larisa Thorne Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 10:06AM - 10:18AM		G16.00009: ABRACADABRA: A Broadband and Resonant Search for Axion Dark Matter Reyco Henning Preview Abstract

Session G17: NICER: First Results

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Julie McEnery, NASA/GSFC
Room: B234-235

Sunday, April 15, 2018 8:30AM - 9:06AM		G17.00001: A NICER View: Astrophysics and Exploration from the International Space Station Invited Speaker: Zaven Arzoumanian Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:06AM - 9:18AM		G17.00002: Towards Neutron Star Radius and Mass Determinations Using NICER Sharon Morsink Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:18AM - 9:30AM		G17.00003: Mapping the Radii Around Neutron Stars with NICER Renee Ludlam Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:30AM - 9:42AM		G17.00004: Spectral-Timing of Aquila X-1 Peter Bult Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:42AM - 9:54AM		G17.00005: NICER monitoring of magnetar 4U 0142+61 during outburst Melania Nynka Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 9:54AM - 10:06AM		G17.00006: A Persistent Disk Wind in GRS 1915+105 with NICER Joey Neilsen Preview Abstract
Sunday, April 15, 2018 10:06AM - 10:18AM		G17.00007: NICER's Nicer Responses to Alerts of Giant Stellar Flares Kenji Hamaguchi Preview Abstract

Session G20: Undergraduate Breakfast, Career Workshop, and Awards

Sponsoring Units: APS SPS
Room: Hilton Columbus Emerson Burkhart A

Sunday, April 15, 2018 10:00AM - 12:00PM

G20.00001: Undergraduate Breakfast, Career Workshop, and Awards Preview Abstract