Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2019
Volume 64, Number 3
Saturday–Tuesday, April 13–16, 2019; Denver, Colorado
Session Index
Session H02: New Detectors for Medical Imaging: Translating Discoveries from Nuclear and Particle Physics to Medicine
Sponsoring Units: GMEDChair: Peter Krizan, Ljubljana University and J. Stefan Institute
Room: Sheraton Plaza D
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 10:45AM - 11:09AM |
H02.00001: Nanocrystal-based scintillators for TOF-PET with ultimate time resolution Invited Speaker: Paul Lecoq | |
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 11:09AM - 11:33AM |
H02.00002: Compact and Handheld Radioisotope Imaging Systems for Bio-medicine Invited Speaker: Andrew Weisenberger | |
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 11:33AM - 11:57AM |
H02.00003: Ultrafast detection in positron emission tomography using Cherenkov light Invited Speaker: Peter Krizan | |
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 11:57AM - 12:21PM |
H02.00004: Frontiers in X-ray Imaging - Applications of Photon Counting Spectral Detectors (Medipix) Invited Speaker: Mini Das |
Session H03: Sakurai Prize and Primakoff Award
Sponsoring Units: DPFChair: Tao Han, University of Pittsburgh
Room: Sheraton Plaza E
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 10:45AM - 11:21AM |
H03.00001: Thinking Outside the Hypercube Invited Speaker: Lisa Randall | |
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 11:21AM - 11:57AM |
H03.00002: From Higgs Compositeness to Higher Dimensions Invited Speaker: Raman Sundrum | |
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 11:57AM - 12:33PM |
H03.00003: Boosting searches for new physics at the LHC Invited Speaker: Nhan Tran |
Session H04: Looking at Super Massive Black Holes
Sponsoring Units: DAP DGRAVChair: Priya Natarajan, Yale University
Room: Sheraton Plaza F
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 10:45AM - 11:21AM |
H04.00001: The Event Horizon Telescope: Imaging a Black Hole Invited Speaker: Shep Doeleman | |
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 11:21AM - 11:57AM |
H04.00002: Resolving the event horizon: Black holes in the era of the Event Horizon Telescope Invited Speaker: Avery Broderick | |
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 11:57AM - 12:33PM |
H04.00003: Latest News from the Galactic Center Invited Speaker: Stefan Gillessen |
Session H05: Building the Bridge to Exascale Computing: Applications and Opportunities for Nuclear Physics
Sponsoring Units: DNP DCOMPChair: Dean Lee, FRIB and Michigan State University
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 14
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 10:45AM - 11:21AM |
H05.00001: Nuclear Astrophysics approaching the Exascale: Multi-physics simulations of stellar explosions and their nucleosynthesis Invited Speaker: Bronson Messer | |
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 11:21AM - 11:57AM |
H05.00002: Nuclear Structure approaching the Exascale: large scale ab initio calculations Invited Speaker: Saori Pastore | |
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 11:57AM - 12:33PM |
H05.00003: Lattice QCD for nuclear physics at the Exascale Invited Speaker: André P Walker-Loud |
Session H06: FPS Prize Session
Sponsoring Units: FPSChair: Joel Primack, University of California, Santa Cruz
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 15
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 10:45AM - 11:21AM |
H06.00001: Physics: The River that Runs Through it All Invited Speaker: Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson |
Session H07: Focused Collection: Quantitative Methods in Physics Education Research
Sponsoring Units: GPER FEdChair: John Aiken, University of Oslo
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 16
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 10:45AM - 11:21AM |
H07.00001: Missing data and bias in physics education research: A case for using multiple imputation Invited Speaker: Jayson Micheal Nissen | |
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 11:21AM - 11:57AM |
H07.00002: Two-phase study examining perspectives and use of quantitative methods in physics education research Invited Speaker: Alexis V Knaub | |
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 11:57AM - 12:33PM |
H07.00003: Mapping students' attitudes and identities without imposing a priori demographic categories: A quantitative study using topological data analysis Invited Speaker: Jacqueline Doyle |
Session H08: Next Generation Cosmic Ray Observatories
Sponsoring Units: DAPChair: Tonia Venters, NASA GSFC
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 10
Session H09: Hadronic Interactions
Sponsoring Units: DNP GHPChair: Kenneth Hicks, Ohio University
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 11
Session H10: Tonne Scale Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay R&D III
Sponsoring Units: DNP DPFChair: Andrea Pocar, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 12
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 10:45AM - 11:21AM |
H10.00001: A Clear-Eyed View of Matter Creation: Beating Background in Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Searches Invited Speaker: Jason A Detwiler | |
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 11:21AM - 11:33AM |
H10.00002: Measurement of External Radioactive Backgrounds in the SNO+ Water Phase Anthony Zummo | |
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 11:33AM - 11:45AM |
H10.00003: Surface Backgrounds in the Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless Double beta decay (LEGEND) Bjoern Lehnert | |
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 11:45AM - 11:57AM |
H10.00004: Materials Radioassay Techniques for the nEXO Experiment O. Nusair for the nEXO Collaboration The University of Alabama Omar Nusair | |
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 11:57AM - 12:09PM |
H10.00005: Investigation of Background Sources in CUORE Krystal Alfonso | |
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 12:09PM - 12:21PM |
H10.00006: Cosmogenic Backgrounds in the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay in 76Ge Andrew M Lopez |
Session H11: Thermodynamic and Mathematical Aspects of Gravity
Sponsoring Units: DGRAVChair: David Garfinkle, Oakland University
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 17
Session H12: Reactor Based Sterile Neutrino Searches
Sponsoring Units: DNP DPFChair: Pieter Mumm, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Room: Sheraton Plaza Court 1
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 10:45AM - 10:57AM |
H12.00001: PROSPECT: Detector Performance and Calibration Timothy M Classen | |
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 10:57AM - 11:09AM |
H12.00002: The HUNTER Sterile Neutrino Search Experiment Charles Jeff Martoff, Eric R. Hudson, Paul Hamilton, Peter F. Smith, Christian Schneider, Andrew L Renshaw, Peter Daniel Meyers, Basu R Lamichhane, Francesco Granato, Xunzhen Yu, Eddie Chang, Frank C Malatino | |
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 11:09AM - 11:21AM |
H12.00003: The CHANDLER antineutrino detector TULASI P SUBEDI | |
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 11:21AM - 11:33AM |
H12.00004: Validating Inverse Beta Decay Response of PROSPECT with an AmBe correlated neutron source Ian A Mitchell | |
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 11:33AM - 11:45AM |
H12.00005: Uncertainty Quantification in the Summation Method for Nuclear Reactor Antineutrinos Alejandro A. Sonzogni, Elizabeth A. McCutchan | |
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 11:45AM - 11:57AM |
H12.00006: Test of Decay Rate Parameter Variation due to Antineutrino Interactions Shih-Chieh Liu, David S Koltick, Haoyu Wang, Jonathan M Nistor, Jordan Heim, Thomas E Ward, Shih-Chieh Liu | |
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 11:57AM - 12:09PM |
H12.00007: High-precision gamma-ray spectroscopic study of the main contributor to the reactor antineutrino spectrum: 92Rb Elizabeth McCutchan, August C Gula, Lemise Saleh, S. Padgett, Nicholas David Scielzo, Karolina Kolos, Michael P Carpenter, Jason A Clark, Christopher J Lister, Scott T Marley, A.J. Mitchell, Eric B Norman, Guy Savard, Alejandro A Sonzogni, Shaofei Zhu | |
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 12:09PM - 12:21PM |
H12.00008: Measurement of the U-235 antineutrino energy spectrum with PROSPECT Benjamin Foust |
Session H13: Particle & Fields Theory I
Sponsoring Units: DPFChair: Steve Sekula
Room: Sheraton Plaza Court 2
Session H14: Mini-Symposium:The Neutron Lifetime Anomaly - possible explanations
Sponsoring Units: DNPChair: Chris Wrede, Michigan State University
Room: Sheraton Plaza Court 3
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 10:45AM - 11:21AM |
H14.00001: Neutron Dark Decay Invited Speaker: Bartosz Fornal | |
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 11:21AM - 11:33AM |
H14.00002: Search for anomalous decay of the free neutron using the UCNA experiment: n -> $\chi + e^+ + e^-$ Xuan Sun | |
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 11:33AM - 11:45AM |
H14.00003: Exotic decay modes in Be-11 Bruno Olaizola, Yassid Ayyad, Wolfgang J Mittig, Saul Beceiro | |
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 11:45AM - 11:57AM |
H14.00004: Search for novel decay modes using $^{11}$Be Jason Surbrook, Tamas A Budner, Moshe Friedman, Cathleen E Fry, Brent E Glassman, Molly A Janasik, Emmanuel Pollacco, Michael J Roosa, Jordan Stomps, Christopher Lars Henrik Wrede | |
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 11:57AM - 12:09PM |
H14.00005: Ultra-Cold Neutron measurement of Proton branching ratio in neutron Beta decay (UCNProBe) Zhaowen Tang, Chris Cude-Woods, Steven Clayton, Christopher Lee Morris, Takeyasu M Ito, Mark F Makela, Alexander Saunders, Jin Ha Choi, Jared Lambert, Chen-Yu Liu, Albert Young, Deion Fellers, Kevin P Hickerson, Erik Watkins, Robert W Pattie, Bryan A Zeck, Christopher Martin O'Shaughnessy | |
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 12:09PM - 12:21PM |
H14.00006: UCNbX:a high-precision ultracold neutron decay branching ratio experiment. Kevin Peter Hickerson |
Session H15: Mini-Symposium: Short Range Nuclear Structure III
Sponsoring Units: DNPChair: Or Hen, MIT
Room: Sheraton Plaza Court 4
Session H16: What we learned from GW170817 and what we'll learn from future events
Sponsoring Units: DAP DGRAVChair: Duncan Brown, Syracuse University
Room: Sheraton Grand Ballroom I
Session H17: WIMP Dark Matter II
Sponsoring Units: DPFChair: Ben Loer, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Room: Sheraton Grand Ballroom II
Session H20: FPS Business Meeting
Sponsoring Units: FPSRoom: Sheraton Governor's Square 15
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 11:30AM - 12:33PM |
H20.00001: FPS Business Meeting |
Session H21: Preparing Students for Careers Outside Academia
Room: Sheraton Director's Row H|
Sunday, April 14, 2019 12:00PM - 2:00PM |
H21.00001: Preparing Students for Careers Outside Academia |
Session H22: DPF Business Meeting
Sponsoring Units: DPFRoom: Sheraton Plaza E
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 12:40PM - 1:20PM |
H22.00001: DPF Business Meeting |
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