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Session C02: Isaacson Award Talk and Ground Based Gravitational-wave Astronomy

Sponsoring Units: DGRAV
Chair: Alan Weinstein, California Institute of Technology
Room: Sheraton Plaza D

Saturday, April 13, 2019 1:30PM - 2:06PM		C02.00001: Making LIGO Possible: A Technical History Invited Speaker: Stanley E Whitcomb
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:06PM - 2:42PM		C02.00002: The current status of gravitational wave astronomy with LIGO and Virgo Invited Speaker: Katerina Chatziioannou
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:42PM - 3:18PM		C02.00003: The Next Generation of Ground-Based Gravitational-Wave Detectors Invited Speaker: Evan D Hall

Session C03: Quantum Information Science

Sponsoring Units: DPF DPB
Chair: Marcel Demarteau, Argonne Lab
Room: Sheraton Plaza E

Saturday, April 13, 2019 1:30PM - 2:06PM		C03.00001: Simulating Black Holes with Superconducting Quantum Processors Invited Speaker: Irfan Siddiqi
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:06PM - 2:42PM		C03.00002: Accelerating the search for axionic dark matter with quantum information technology Invited Speaker: Konrad W Lehnert
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:42PM - 3:18PM		C03.00003: Atomic Quantum Engineering for Fundamental Physics Invited Speaker: Monika H Schleier-Smith

Session C04: Twenty Years of the Chandra X-ray Observatory

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Daniel Castro, Harvard-Smithsonian
Room: Sheraton Plaza F

Saturday, April 13, 2019 1:30PM - 2:06PM		C04.00001: Chandra's Impact on Astrophysics and Active Galaxy Research Invited Speaker: Belinda J Wilkes
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:06PM - 2:42PM		C04.00002: Chandra Explores Sagittarius A*'s Event Horizon Dynamics: X-ray and Multi-wavelength Variability Invited Speaker: Daryl Haggard
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:42PM - 3:18PM		C04.00003: The Chandra View of Supernovae and Supernova Remnants  Invited Speaker: Carles Badenes

Session C05: Exploring the Standard Model with Precision Atomic Physics

Sponsoring Units: DAMOP GPMFC
Chair: Marianna Safronova, University of Delaware
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 14

Saturday, April 13, 2019 1:30PM - 2:06PM		C05.00001: A tabletop-scale probe for TeV-scale physics: new limit on the electron electric dipole moment from the ACME experiment Invited Speaker: David DeMille
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:06PM - 2:42PM		C05.00002: Parity Violation in Yb Invited Speaker: Dmitry Budker
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:42PM - 3:18PM		C05.00003: Measurement of the fine structure constant as test of the standard model Invited Speaker: Holger Mueller

Session C06: International Underground Facilities for Rare Event Searches

Sponsoring Units: FIP
Chair: Elena Aprile, Columbia University
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 15

Saturday, April 13, 2019 1:30PM - 2:06PM		C06.00001: Rare physics searches at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory Invited Speaker: Qian Yue
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:06PM - 2:42PM		C06.00002: Research and advanced training at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory: a review. Invited Speaker: Aldo Lanni
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:42PM - 3:18PM		C06.00003: The role of national facilities in the international research ecosystem and development of highly qualified personnel: SNOLAB, a case study Invited Speaker: NIgel Smith

Session C07: New Challenges to International Science Collaborations

Sponsoring Units: FPS
Chair: Anna Quider, Northern Illinois University
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 16

Saturday, April 13, 2019 1:30PM - 2:06PM		C07.00001: APS Task Force on Expanding International Engagement: Long-term Strategic Planning for APS International Activities Invited Speaker: Amy K. Flatten
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:06PM - 2:42PM		C07.00002: TBD Invited Speaker: E Colglazier
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:42PM - 3:18PM		C07.00003: TBD Invited Speaker: Karla Hagan

Session C09: 3D Quark and Gluon Structure of the Proton

Sponsoring Units: GHP DNP
Chair: David Richards, Jefferson Lab
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 11

Saturday, April 13, 2019 1:30PM - 1:42PM		C09.00001: The future EIC program and its impact on hadron tomography and HEP phenomenology Timothy J Hobbs
Saturday, April 13, 2019 1:42PM - 1:54PM		C09.00002: E1039/SpinQuest Polarized Drell-Yan Experiment at Fermilab Chun-Min Jen
Saturday, April 13, 2019 1:54PM - 2:06PM		C09.00003: The systematic uncertainty and measurement approach of the sea quark Sivers Function of the Fermilab SpinQuest experiment. Arthur Conover
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:06PM - 2:18PM		C09.00004: Luminosity Measurement at an Electron Ion Collider Charles Earl Hyde
(Author Not Attending)		C09.00005: The pressure distribution and shear forces inside the proton from lattice QCD Phiala Shanahan
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:30PM - 2:42PM		C09.00006: Top quark pair production as a window into polarized quark and gluon distributions in pp scattering Gary R Goldstein
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:42PM - 2:54PM		C09.00007: Extraction of Observables from Deeply Virtual Electron Proton Scattering Experiments Brandon Kriesten, Simonetta Liuti

Session C10: Large-Scale Structure and Cosmic Microwave Background

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

Saturday, April 13, 2019 1:30PM - 1:42PM		C10.00001: Structure formation beyond ΛCDM Marilena Loverde
Saturday, April 13, 2019 1:42PM - 1:54PM		C10.00002: A More Direct Method for Studying the Cosmic Velocity Correlation Function Yuyu Wang, Sarah A Peery, Hume A Feldman, Richard Watkins
Saturday, April 13, 2019 1:54PM - 2:06PM		C10.00003: Super-Sample Covariance in Future Weak Lensing Surveys Matthew C Digman, Christopher M Hirata, Joseph Mcewen
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:06PM - 2:18PM		C10.00004: Imprints of Primordial Non-Gaussianity on Gravitational Wave Spectrum Caner Unal
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:18PM - 2:30PM		C10.00005: Primordial Black Hole Abundances from Peaks Theory Jolyon K Bloomfield
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:30PM - 2:42PM		C10.00006: Status of the POLARBEAR-2a CMB Telescope John Groh
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:42PM - 2:54PM		C10.00007: Study of the Cross Correlation between Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Lensing from POLARBEAR and Cosmic Shear from Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam Yuji Chinone
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:54PM - 3:06PM		C10.00008: Modulations of the CMB Daniel Grin
Saturday, April 13, 2019 3:06PM - 3:18PM		C10.00009: CCAT-prime: Cosmology with A Six-meter Submillimeter Telescope at Cerro Chajnantor Steve Choi, the CCAT-prime Collaboration

Session C11: Numerical Relativity: Black Hole Binaries

Sponsoring Units: DGRAV
Chair: Carlos Lousto, Rochester Institute of Technology
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 17

Saturday, April 13, 2019 1:30PM - 1:42PM		C11.00001: Numerical Relativity in the LISA era Deirdre Shoemaker, Deborah Ferguson, Karan P Jani, Pablo Laguna
Saturday, April 13, 2019 1:42PM - 1:54PM		C11.00002: The BlackHoles@Home Project: Black Hole Binaries on the Desktop Computer Zachariah Etienne, Ian Ruchlin, Thomas W Baumgarte
Saturday, April 13, 2019 1:54PM - 2:06PM		C11.00003: An update on the Simulating Extreme Spacetimes (SXS) simulation catalog for binary black holes CJ Woodford
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:06PM - 2:18PM		C11.00004: The NCSA eccentric gravitational waveform catalog Roland Haas, Eliu Antonio Huerta, Sarah Habib, Anushri Gupta, Adam Rebei, Vishnu Chavva, Daniel Johnson, Shawn Rosofsky, Erik Wessel, Bhanu Agarwal, Diyu Luo, Wei Ren
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:18PM - 2:30PM		C11.00005: Surrogate modeling of binary black hole waveforms with rapid spins  Marissa B Walker
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:30PM - 2:42PM		C11.00006: Induced Spins from Hyperbolic and Near-Hyperbolic Encounters of Initially Nonspinning Black Holes Patrick Nelson, Zachariah Etienne, Sean T McWilliams
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:42PM - 2:54PM		C11.00007: Improved initial Lapse and Shift for Binary Black Hole Simulations Nicole C Rosato, Carlos Lousto, James Healy
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:54PM - 3:06PM		C11.00008: "The LIGO/Virgo Binary-Black-Hole Orrery" Teresita D Ramirez, Geoffrey Lovelace
Saturday, April 13, 2019 3:06PM - 3:18PM		C11.00009: Quick BBH merger visualizations: Interpolating numerical apparent horizons Akshay Khadse, Leo C Stein

Session C12: Undergraduate Research II

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

Saturday, April 13, 2019 1:30PM - 1:42PM		C12.00001: Study of the feasibility of identifying the process H0 → gg via g → bb̅ at the Large Hadron Collider Rebecca Moore, Stephen J. Sekula
Saturday, April 13, 2019 1:42PM - 1:54PM		C12.00002: Upgrades for The Fast Interaction Trigger Detector of ALICE at the LHC Dominique N Newell, Mackenzie Stewart, Austin Guard, Yuri Melikyan, Austin V Harton, Edmundo J Garcia-Solis
Saturday, April 13, 2019 1:54PM - 2:06PM		C12.00003: Edge detection and Deep Learning Algorithm Performance Studies for the ATLAS Trigger System. Adrian G Gutierrez, Stephanie A Majewski, Walter Hopkins, Jacob Searcy
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:06PM - 2:18PM		C12.00004: Redesign and Assembly of Improved PMT Bases for Fermilab E1039/SpinQuest Nathaniel T Rowlands
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:18PM - 2:30PM		C12.00005: Evaluating Performance of Improved SpinQuest/E1039 Trigger Hodoscopes Thomas Fitch
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:30PM - 2:42PM		C12.00006: A low energy track reconstruction algorithm to be applied to the MiniBooNE Low Energy Excess Search in MicroBooNE Elizabeth W Hall
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:42PM - 2:54PM		C12.00007: Boosted Decision Tree Based Single Electron Selection in MicroBooNE Keng Lin
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:54PM - 3:06PM		C12.00008: Study of the KL0 → KS0 Regeneration Process with the KOTO Detector Kristin Marie Dona
Saturday, April 13, 2019 3:06PM - 3:18PM		C12.00009: Radon Emanation Measurements for The LZ Dark Matter Experiment Marcus A Hall

Session C13: Ultra-relativistic Heavy Ions

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Dennis Perepelitsa, University of Colorado
Room: Sheraton Plaza Court 2

Saturday, April 13, 2019 1:30PM - 1:42PM		C13.00001: Anisotropic hydrodynamics approach to dilepton emission from quark-gluon plasma Babak Salehi Kasmaei, Michael Strickland
Saturday, April 13, 2019 1:42PM - 1:54PM		C13.00002: GPU-Accelerated Computation of Femtoscopic Correlation Functions for Heavy-Ion Collisions Sameed Pervaiz, Christopher Plumberg, Ulrich W Heinz
Saturday, April 13, 2019 1:54PM - 2:06PM		C13.00003: Model studies of two-particle correlations in small and large collision systems Sedigheh Jowzaee
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:06PM - 2:18PM		C13.00004: Longitudinal Flow Correlations in Xe-Xe Collisions at √sNN = 5.44 TeV with the ALICE Detector Raquel Quishpe, Anthony R. Timmins
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:18PM - 2:30PM		C13.00005: Measurement of the D0-meson elliptic and triangular flow in Au+Au collisions √sNN = 200 GeV collisions from STAR Yue Liang
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:30PM - 2:42PM		C13.00006: Soft and Collective Particle Generator for a Better Understanding of Heavy Ion Background in Jet Studies Charles P Hughes, Alex L Aukerman, Thomas Krobatsch, Adam Matyja, Christine E Nattrass, James C Neuhaus, William E Witt
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:42PM - 2:54PM		C13.00007: Heavy Ion Physics with LHCb J Matthew Durham
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:54PM - 3:06PM		C13.00008: Measurement of Higher Moments of Multiplicity Distributions of Conserved Quantities in the STAR Experiment at RHIC. Debasish Mallick
Saturday, April 13, 2019 3:06PM - 3:18PM		C13.00009:   Net-lambda fluctuations in Pb-Pb collisions at √SNN = 5.02 TeV in ALICE at the LHC Ejiro Naomi Umaka

Session C14: Mini-Symposium:The Neutron Lifetime Anomaly - current status

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Nadia Fomin, University of Tennessee
Room: Sheraton Plaza Court 3

Saturday, April 13, 2019 1:30PM - 2:06PM		C14.00001: The state of the neutron lifetime Invited Speaker: Shannon Fogwell Hoogerheide
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:06PM - 2:18PM		C14.00002: The BL2 Experiment: An In-Beam Measurement of the Neutron Lifetime Jimmy Caylor
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:18PM - 2:30PM		C14.00003: Precision Measurement of Neutron Flux using Alpha-Gamma Evan R Adamek, Geoffrey L Greene, Nadia Fomin, Maynard Dewey, David M Gilliam, Shannon M Fogwell Hoogerheide, Hans P Mumm, Jeffrey Scott Nico, William Michael Snow
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:30PM - 2:42PM		C14.00004: The UCNτ measurement of the free neutron lifetime: overview and status report Christopher Cude-Wood
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:42PM - 2:54PM		C14.00005: Simulating the UCN$\tau$ Neutron Lifetime Experiment Francisco M Gonzalez
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:54PM - 3:06PM		C14.00006: Measurement of systematic effects in the UCN$\tau$ experiment Eric M Fries

Session C15: Mini-Symposium: Short Range Nuclear Structure I

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Alexandra Gade, MSU and NSCL
Room: Sheraton Plaza Court 4

Saturday, April 13, 2019 1:30PM - 2:06PM		C15.00001: Recent developments in understanding short-range correlations Invited Speaker: Axel Schmidt
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:06PM - 2:18PM		C15.00002: "Probing the Deuteron at Short Distances on the Light-Front" Frank Vera, Misak M Sargsian
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:18PM - 2:30PM		C15.00003: Lepton-scattering off nuclei in the Short-Time-Approximation Saori Pastore
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:30PM - 2:42PM		C15.00004: Probing the nuclear interaction at neutron-stars densities Or Hen
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:42PM - 2:54PM		C15.00005: Modern Theories of Nuclear Forces and their Applications in ab initio Nuclear Structure Ruprecht Machleidt
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:54PM - 3:06PM		C15.00006: Short-Range Correlations in Nuclei and Nuclear Matter Francesca Sammarruca, Laura Elisa Marcucci, Michele Viviani, Ruprecht Machleidt

Session C16: Loop Quantum Gravity and History of Physics

Sponsoring Units: DGRAV
Chair: Ivan Agullo, Louisiana State University
Room: Sheraton Grand Ballroom I

Saturday, April 13, 2019 1:30PM - 1:42PM		C16.00001: Equivalence of models in loop quantum cosmology and group field theory Sean T Crowe, Martin Bojowald, Bekir Baytas
Saturday, April 13, 2019 1:42PM - 1:54PM		C16.00002: Towards the Understanding of Quantum Cosmology from Loop Quantum Gravity Bao-Fei Li, Parampreet Singh, Anzhong Wang
Saturday, April 13, 2019 1:54PM - 2:06PM		C16.00003: Emergent Dimension in Background-Independent Quantum Gravity Kassahun Betre
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:06PM - 2:18PM		C16.00004: Classical axisymmetric gravity in real Ashtekar variables Jorge Pullin
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:18PM - 2:30PM		C16.00005: Loop Quantum Gravity on lattice: toward effective dynamics Andrea Dapor
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:30PM - 2:42PM		C16.00006: Syracuse 1960-61 – A burgeoning international relativity community Donald C Salisbury
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:42PM - 2:54PM		C16.00007: Wheeler and the two Japanese avatars Dieter R Brill
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:54PM - 3:06PM		C16.00008: Quantization Conditions, 1900–1927: From Ambiguity to Uncertainty Michel H P Janssen
Saturday, April 13, 2019 3:06PM - 3:18PM		C16.00009: Using the SLAC 8 GeV Spectrometer to Probe Nucleon Structure, 1968–1986 Michael Riordan

Session C17: Collider and BSM I

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Tae Min Hong, University of Pittsburgh
Room: Sheraton Grand Ballroom II

Saturday, April 13, 2019 1:30PM - 1:42PM		C17.00001: Electroweak and QCD aspects in V+jets Daniel J Arcaro
Saturday, April 13, 2019 1:42PM - 1:54PM		C17.00002: New CTEQ global analysis of quantum chromodynamics with high precision data from the LHC Keping Xie
Saturday, April 13, 2019 1:54PM - 2:06PM		C17.00003: Toward Mueller-Tang Jets at Next-to-Leading Order Federico Deganutti, Christophe Royon, Timothy Raben
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:06PM - 2:18PM		C17.00004: Search for Single Production of Vector-like Quarks (Top Partners) in the Multilepton Channel at the ATLAS Experiment at the LHC Avik Roy, Timothy R Andeen
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:18PM - 2:30PM		C17.00005: Search for vector-like quarks in events with two oppositely charged leptons and jets in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV Dalath Rachitha A Mendis
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:30PM - 2:42PM		C17.00006: Search for vector-like quarks decaying to an all-jets final state using pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV Reyer Band
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:42PM - 2:54PM		C17.00007: Search for W’ boson in top-quark final states in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector Kuan-Yu Lin
Saturday, April 13, 2019 2:54PM - 3:06PM		C17.00008: Search for low mass Z' signature in four muon final state with the ATLAS detector. Shuzhou Zhang