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Session B02: Quantum aspects of gravitation

Sponsoring Units: DGRAV
Chair: Gary Horowitz, University of California Santa Barbara
Room: Sheraton Plaza D

Saturday, April 13, 2019 10:45AM - 11:21AM		B02.00001: dS/dS and T\bar T Invited Speaker: Eva Silverstein
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:21AM - 11:57AM		B02.00002: Traversable wormholes Invited Speaker: Daniel L. Jafferis
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:57AM - 12:33PM		B02.00003: Tabletop experiments for quantum gravity Invited Speaker: Daniel Carney

Session B03: Lepton Number Violation and Charged Lepton Flavor Violation

Sponsoring Units: DPF DNP
Chair: Dmitri Denisov, Fermilab
Room: Sheraton Plaza E

Saturday, April 13, 2019 10:45AM - 11:09AM		B03.00001: LNV/LFV at colliders Invited Speaker: Swagato Banerjee
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:09AM - 11:33AM		B03.00002: Testing charged lepton flavor violation and universality with pions, muons, and kaons Invited Speaker: Douglas Bryman
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:33AM - 11:57AM		B03.00003: Introduction Invited Speaker: Jure Zupan
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:57AM - 12:21PM		B03.00004: Searches for new physics in b-hadron decays Invited Speaker: Marina Artuso

Session B04: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Thesis Award Finalist Session

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Loverde Marilena, Stony Brook University
Room: Sheraton Plaza F

Saturday, April 13, 2019 10:45AM - 11:21AM		B04.00001: MHD turbulence: resolving astrophysical puzzles Invited Speaker: Siyao Xu
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:21AM - 11:57AM		B04.00002: Signatures of the First Stars in Relics of the First Galaxies Invited Speaker: Alexander Ji
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:57AM - 12:33PM		B04.00003: Hunting for the Heaviest Elements with Multi-Messenger Astronomy Invited Speaker: Jennifer Barnes

Session B05: Remembering Julian Schwinger

Sponsoring Units: FHP DPF
Chair: Donald Salisbury, Austin College
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 14

Saturday, April 13, 2019 10:45AM - 11:21AM		B05.00001: Divergence Invited Speaker: Michael Lieber
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:21AM - 11:57AM		B05.00002: A Remembrance of Julian Schwinger Invited Speaker: Kimball A Milton
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:57AM - 12:33PM		B05.00003: Julian Schwinger at Harvard before June, '67 --- remembered by a star-struck and frequently confused undergrad Invited Speaker: Howard Georgi

Session B06: Meson and Baryon Spectroscopy

Sponsoring Units: DNP GHP
Chair: David Richards, Jefferson Lab
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 15

Saturday, April 13, 2019 10:45AM - 11:21AM		B06.00001: Meson Spectroscopy: a Perspective from GlueX Invited Speaker: Thomas Britton
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:21AM - 11:57AM		B06.00002: Theory of heavy-quark spectroscopy Invited Speaker: Stefan Meinel
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:57AM - 12:33PM		B06.00003: Nucleon-resonance studies with CLAS and CLAS12 Invited Speaker: Steffen Strauch

Session B07: Attracting Young People to Science and Science Policy

Sponsoring Units: FECS FPS
Chair: Kevin Ludwick, LaGrange College
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 16

Saturday, April 13, 2019 10:45AM - 11:21AM		B07.00001: A Warm Planet in a Cold Universe: Making Climate Change Concepts Accessible (and Acceptable) to a Wide Audience Invited Speaker: Brian Jones
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:21AM - 11:57AM		B07.00002: Physics for All:  Using Physics Demonstrations to Both Excite and Educate the Public in Science and Science Policy Invited Speaker: David Maiullo
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:57AM - 12:33PM		B07.00003: Opportunities in Public Engagement: Sharing Your Scientific Expertise with Policymakers and the Media Invited Speaker: Meredith Drosback

Session B09: Precision Tests of Physics Laws

Sponsoring Units: GPMFC DAMOP
Chair: Dima Budker, UC-Berkeley/Mainz
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 11

Saturday, April 13, 2019 10:45AM - 10:57AM		B09.00001: JILA’s search for the electron electric dipole moment (eEDM): constraining beyond Standard Model physics and time-varying eEDM Tanya S. Roussy, William B. Cairncross, Daniel N. Gresh, Matthew Grau, Kevin C. Cossel, Yan Zhou, Jun Ye, Eric A. Cornell
Saturday, April 13, 2019 10:57AM - 11:09AM		B09.00002: Towards a more sensitive measurement of the permanent electric dipole moment of Radium-225 Roy A Ready
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:09AM - 11:21AM		B09.00003: Towards a search for non-Newtonian gravity with optically-levitated microspheres Charles P Blakemore, Alexander D Rider, Akio Kawasaki, Nadav Priel, Alexander Fieguth, Sandip Roy, Giorgio Gratta
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B09.00004: A Microfluidic Approach to Producing Gravitational Masses for an Optically Levitated Force Sensor Andrew Kilby, Elizabeth C van Assendelft, Gadi Afek, Alec Emser, Sumita Ghosh, Wenqiang Li, Fernando Monteiro, David C Moore
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B09.00005: Room temperature optomechanical squeezing Nancy Aggarwal
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B09.00006: Progress toward a precessing ferromagnetic needle magnetometer for ultrasensitive torque measurements Tao Wang, Sean Lourette, Sean R O'Kelley, Matin Kayci, Yehuda Benzion Band, Dmitry Budker, Derek F Jackson Kimball, Alexander Sushkov
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B09.00007: A Laser Heterodyne Polarimeter to Search for VMB with ALPS IIc Hardware Harold Hollis, Gabriel Alberts, Giuseppe Messineo, D. B. Tanner, Guido Mueller
Saturday, April 13, 2019 12:09PM - 12:21PM		B09.00008: Is the Electron Orbital Gyromagnetic Factor Exactly Equal to 1? Ayodeji M Awobode
Saturday, April 13, 2019 12:21PM - 12:33PM		B09.00009: Relativity, Curved Space-Times, and the Dirac Equation for Atomic Systems Ulrich D Jentschura

Session B10: Dark Matter Astrophysics

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 12

Saturday, April 13, 2019 10:45AM - 10:57AM		B10.00001: Searching for Gamma-ray Spectral Lines in Dwarf Galaxies with HAWC Andrea Albert
Saturday, April 13, 2019 10:57AM - 11:09AM		B10.00002: Astrophysical Systematics on Anti-nuclei Cosmic-Rays and Dark Matter Ilias Cholis, Tim Linden, Dan Hooper
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:09AM - 11:21AM		B10.00003: Astrophysical signatures of caustic ring of dark matter Sankha Subhra Chakrabarty, Pierre Sikivie
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B10.00004: New Evidence for Caustic Rings based on GAIA and 3D Dustmap Yaqi Han, Pierre Sikivie, Sankha Subhra Chakrabarty
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B10.00005: Accretion of Dissipative Dark Matter onto Active Galactic Nuclei Walter O Tangarife
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B10.00006: Dynamical analysis of the dark matter and black hole mass in the dwarf spheroidal LEO I MARIA JOSE BUSTAMANTE ROSELL, EVA NOYOLA, KARL GEBHARDT, MAXIMILIAN FABRICIUS, JENS THOMAS, XIMENA MAZZALAY, GREG ZEIMANN
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B10.00007: Micro-X Sounding Rocket: 1st Flight Performance and Future Prospects Antonia Hubbard
Saturday, April 13, 2019 12:09PM - 12:21PM		B10.00008: First Space Flight of TESs with the Micro-X Rocket: Performance and Projections David C Goldfinger
Saturday, April 13, 2019 12:21PM - 12:33PM		B10.00009: In-flight Magnetic Field Environment for the Micro-X Sounding Rocket Renee E Manzagol-Harwood

Session B11: Early Universe and Dark Energy

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 17

Saturday, April 13, 2019 10:45AM - 10:57AM		B11.00001: The Evolution of Primordial Magnetic Fields due to Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence, and their Cosmological Applications Sayan Mandal, Axel Brandenburg, Ruth Durrer, Tina Kahniashvili, Alberto Roper Pol, Alexander Tevzadze, Tanmay Vachaspati, Weichen Yin
Saturday, April 13, 2019 10:57AM - 11:09AM		B11.00002: The gamma-ray signature of an early matter-dominated era M Sten Delos, Adrienne L Erickcek, Tim Linden
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:09AM - 11:21AM		B11.00003: Relativistic Electron Scattering and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Atul S Kedia, Nishanth Sasankan, Grant James Mathews, Motohiko Kusakabe
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B11.00004: Quantum Kinetics in the Early Universe Chad Kishimoto
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B11.00005: Reheating in two-sector cosmology Peter Adshead, Pranjal Ralegankar, Jessie Shelton
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B11.00006: Observational and theoretical status of tachyon inflation in teleparallel gravity Yousef Izadi, Amin Rezaei Akbarieh
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B11.00007: Constraints on Dark Energy Potentials for Models with Neutrinos Coupled to Dark Energy Olga Avsajanishvili, Gennady Chitov, Yiwen Huang, Tina Kahniashvili, Sayan Mandal, Bijit Singha
Saturday, April 13, 2019 12:09PM - 12:21PM		B11.00008: Minimal Coupling Between Dark Matter and Dark Energy Kevin Ludwick
Saturday, April 13, 2019 12:21PM - 12:33PM		B11.00009: Comparison and detection of different models of dark energy Chen Xiao-Fan

Session B12: Undergraduate Research I

Sponsoring Units: APS SPS
Chair: Crystal Bailey, American Physical Society
Room: Sheraton Plaza Court 1

Saturday, April 13, 2019 10:45AM - 10:57AM		B12.00001: Development of a high-precision autocollimator to study short-range interactions Neipori Pelle, Casey Ferris, Woo-Joong Kim
Saturday, April 13, 2019 10:57AM - 11:09AM		B12.00002: Search for vector-like quark pairs with DNN jet identification in single lepton events Sam Johnson, Julie M Hogan, Greta Knefelkamp, Cody Holz
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:09AM - 11:21AM		B12.00003: Search for the Type III Seesaw Mechanism with Multivariate Analysis Maine Christos, Sunil Somalwar
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B12.00004: Monte Carlo Computational Modeling of DANSS Short-Baseline Antineutrino Oscillation Experiment Lorien A MacEnulty, David J Ernst
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B12.00005: Cosmic Ray Detector Array Project Andrew Reyes, Aram Nino Canizal, Christian Hernandez, Ricardo Mendez
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B12.00006: Construction of a Multi-Wire Proportional Chamber for Cosmic Ray Muon Detection Emma I Pearson, Mike Reynolds, David N Joffe
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B12.00007: Designing and Testing Modular Multiwire Proportional Chambers for Cosmic Ray Muon Detection Michael Z Reynolds
Saturday, April 13, 2019 12:09PM - 12:21PM		B12.00008: Simulations of Modular Multiwire Proportional Chambers for Cosmic Ray Muon Detection Allen Townsend

Session B13: Outreach and Engaging the Public

Sponsoring Units: FOEP
Chair: Chad Orzel, Union College
Room: Sheraton Plaza Court 2

Saturday, April 13, 2019 10:45AM - 10:57AM		B13.00001: Quantum3: Learning Quantum Chromodynamics through Intuitive Play Huey-Wen Lin
Saturday, April 13, 2019 10:57AM - 11:09AM		B13.00002: Science as an Institution Nathan Foster
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:09AM - 11:21AM		B13.00003: Particle physics outreach in the cloud with Google’s Colab environment Daniel Whinnery, Tyler Sitterly, Matthew Bellis
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B13.00004: Leveraging the International Year of the Periodic Table Micha A Kilburn
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B13.00005: HEP Takes The Hill: A Case Study in 21st-Century Advocacy Justin Vasel, Fernanda Psihas
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B13.00006: Characterizing the Landscape of Informal Physics Activities that are Supported by Universities, National Physics Laboratories and Centers in the United States Kathleen A Hinko

Session B14: Mini-Symposium: Neutron-star mergers and the astrophysical r process

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Artemis Spyrou, Michigan State University
Room: Sheraton Plaza Court 3

Saturday, April 13, 2019 10:45AM - 11:21AM		B14.00001: Nuclear physics and the GW170817 kilonova Invited Speaker: Rebecca A Surman
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B14.00002: FRLDM fission properties for the nucleosynthesis occurring in neutron star mergers Matthew R Mumpower
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B14.00003: The University of Notre Dame Multi-Reflection Time-of-Flight mass spectrometer for the N = 126 beam factory Maxime Brodeur, James M Kelly, Biying Liu
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B14.00004: Beta-decay measurement for the A=130 r-process abundance peak Alfredo Estrade, Oscal Hall, Jiajian Liu, Giuseppe Lorusso, Fernando Montes, Vi Phong, Thomas Davinson, Keishi Matsui, Neerajan Nepal, Shunji Nishimura, Jorge Agramunt, Alejandro Algora, Nathan T Brewer, Roger Caballero-Folch, Francisco Calvino, Iris Dillmann, Cesar Domingo-Pardo, Robert K. Grzywacz, Gabor Kiss, Bertis C Rasco, Krzysztof Piotr Rykaczewski, Jose Luis Tain, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, Alvaro Tolosa-Delgado, Phil Woods
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B14.00005: Probing explosive nucleosynthesis via direct nuclear reactions Dennis Muecher, Leyla Atar, Vinzenz Bildstein, Frederic Sarazin, Iris Dillmann, Paul E Garrett, Roman Gernhaeuser, Fabrice Retiere, Artemis Spyrou, Carl E Svensson, Robert Hendersson
Saturday, April 13, 2019 12:09PM - 12:21PM		B14.00006: Nucleosynthesis of “light r elements” in neutrino-drive winds. Role of (α,n) reaction rates. Jorge Pereira, Almudena Arcones, Julia Bliss, Fernando Montes
Saturday, April 13, 2019 12:21PM - 12:33PM		B14.00007: Understanding r-process and Nuclear Structure via β-delayed Neutron Emission Studies in the 78Ni Region Maninder Singh, Robert Grzywacz, Rin Yokoyama, Thomas T King, Miguel Madurga Flores

Session B15: Cosmic Ray SIG Minisymposium

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Marcos Santander, University of Alabama
Room: Sheraton Plaza Court 4

Saturday, April 13, 2019 10:45AM - 11:21AM		B15.00001: Direct Cosmic Ray Measurements: Status and Perspectives Invited Speaker: Stephane Coutu
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B15.00002: The CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) Status and Initial Results T Gregory Guzik
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B15.00003: All-Sky Anisotropy of Cosmic Rays at 10 TeV Juan Carlos Diaz Velez, Paolo Desiati
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B15.00004: Recent Results from the Fourth Flight of the ANITA Experiment Andrew Ludwig
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:57AM - 12:33PM		B15.00005: Open Business and Discussion Marcos Santander

Session B16: Modified Gravity

Sponsoring Units: DGRAV
Chair: Leo Stein, University of Mississippi
Room: Sheraton Grand Ballroom I

Saturday, April 13, 2019 10:45AM - 10:57AM		B16.00001: Friedmann-like universes with torsion Dimitrios Kranas, Christos Tsagas, John David Barrow, Damianos Iosifidis
Saturday, April 13, 2019 10:57AM - 11:09AM		B16.00002: Parametrized Post-Einsteinian Waveforms in Various Modified Theories of Gravity Sharaban Tahura, Kent Yagi
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:09AM - 11:21AM		B16.00003: Hyperbolicity in gravitational collapse in a modified gravity theory Justin L Ripley, Frans Pretorius
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B16.00004: Massive Gravity in (Anti) de Sitter Space Laura A Johnson, Kurt Hinterbichler, Claudia de Rham
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B16.00005: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B16.00006: Radial Acceleration and Tully-Fisher Relations in Conformal Gravity James G O'Brien, Thomas Chiarelli, Philip David Mannheim
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B16.00007: Limits on Leading Order Terms in $f(R,T)$ Gravity Taylor Ordines, Eric D Carlson
Saturday, April 13, 2019 12:09PM - 12:21PM		B16.00008: Reexamining $f(R,T)$ Gravity Sarah B Fisher, Eric D Carlson
Saturday, April 13, 2019 12:21PM - 12:33PM		B16.00009: Black Hole Hair Loss in Parity Violating Gravity Pratik K Wagle, Nicolas Yunes, David Garfinkle, Lydia Bieri

Session B17: What we are Learning from the Population of Detected Binary Black Hole Mergers

Sponsoring Units: DAP DGRAV
Room: Sheraton Grand Ballroom II

Saturday, April 13, 2019 10:45AM - 10:57AM		B17.00001: The properties of binary black holes observed by LIGO and Virgo Christopher P L Berry
Saturday, April 13, 2019 10:57AM - 11:09AM		B17.00002: Rates of Compact Binary Mergers from LIGO-Virgo's First and Second Observing Runs Shasvath J Kapadia
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:09AM - 11:21AM		B17.00003: Using Gravitational Waves to Observe the Black Hole Mass Gap due to Pair-Instability Supernovae Daniel Finstad, Christopher Biwer, Laura K. Nuttall, Duncan A. Brown, Chris Fryer
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B17.00004: Characterization of low-significance gravitational-wave compact binary sources Yiwen Huang, Hannah Middleton, Ken K. Y. Ng, Salvatore Vitale, John Veitch
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B17.00005: Measurement of sub-dominant harmonic modes for gravitational-wave emission from a population of binary black holes Brendan D O'Brien
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B17.00006: Binary Black Hole gravitational waveform reconstruction with minimal morphological assumptions Sudarshan Ghonge, James Alexander Clark, Katerina Chatziioannou, Laura Cadonati
Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B17.00007: Impact of higher-modes and merger modeling for GW150914 & GW170104 Prayush Kumar, Jonathan Blackman, Scott E Field, Mark Scheel, Chad Galley, Michael Boyle, Lawrence E Kidder, Harald P Pfeiffer, Bela Szilagyi, Saul A Teukolsky
Saturday, April 13, 2019 12:09PM - 12:21PM		B17.00008: The impact of higher modes for GW170729 Jacob A Lange, Juan Calderón Bustillo, Katerina Chatziioannou, Roberto Cotesta, Sudarshan Ghonge, Sebastian Khan, Michael Pürrer, Salvatore Vitale

Session B20: Lunch with the Grads: A Panel Discussion on Physics Graduate School

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Room: Sheraton Director's Row H

Saturday, April 13, 2019 12:30PM - 1:30PM

B20.00001: Lunch with the Grads: A Panel Discussion on Physics Graduate School

Session B21: DPF Grad Slam

Room: Sheraton Plaza E

Saturday, April 13, 2019 12:40PM - 1:20PM

B21.00001: DPF Grad Slam