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Session L02: Einstein Prize Talk and Developments in Gravitational Theory

Sponsoring Units: DGRAV
Chair: Ted Jacobson, University of Maryland
Room: Sheraton Plaza D

Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:30PM - 4:06PM		L02.00001: Some unforeseen aspects of electromagnetic and gravitational waves. Invited Speaker: Abhay Vasant Ashtekar
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:06PM - 4:42PM		L02.00002: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:42PM - 5:18PM		L02.00003: The internal structure of dynamic vacuum black holes without symmetry Invited Speaker: Mihalis Dafermos

Session L03: Honoring Helen Edwards

Sponsoring Units: DPB DPF
Chair: Sergei Nagaitsev, Fermilab
Room: Sheraton Plaza E

Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:30PM - 3:35PM		L03.00001: Introducing Helen Edwards Invited Speaker: Young-Kee Kim
Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:35PM - 3:55PM		L03.00002: Helen Edwards and the Success of the Tevatron Invited Speaker: Michael S Witherell
Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:55PM - 4:15PM		L03.00003: Hellen Thom Edwards at the SSC and Cornell Invited Speaker: Maury Tigner
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:15PM - 4:35PM		L03.00004: Helen and DESY Invited Speaker: Reinhard Brinkmann
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:35PM - 4:55PM		L03.00005: Helen Edwards as a mentor Invited Speaker: Timothy W Koeth

Session L04: New Developments in Time-Domain Astronomy

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Amy Connolly, Ohio State University
Room: Sheraton Plaza F

Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:30PM - 4:06PM		L04.00001: Transients from Common Envelope Events and Stellar Mergers Invited Speaker: Morgan MacLeod
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:06PM - 4:42PM		L04.00002: Tidal Disruption of Stars by Supermassive Black Holes Invited Speaker: Katie Auchettl
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:42PM - 5:18PM		L04.00003: Supernovae in the era of Time-Domain Astronomy Invited Speaker: Raffaella -- Margutti

Session L05: Intersections of Nuclear and Nucleon Structure

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Douglas Higinbotham, Jefferson Lab
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 14

Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:30PM - 4:06PM		L05.00001: Bound Nucleon Structure in Neutron Rich Nuclei Invited Speaker: Eli Piasetzky
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:06PM - 4:42PM		L05.00002: Preliminary results searching for the onset of color transparency in A(e,e'p) in Hall C at Jefferson Lab Invited Speaker: Holly Szumila-Vance
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:42PM - 5:18PM		L05.00003: Bound Nucleon Structure in QCD and Quark Confinement Invited Speaker: Gerald A Miller

Session L06: Calling all physics teachers: It is time to integrate computation into your courses!

Sponsoring Units: FEd DCOMP
Chair: Deva O'Neil, Bridgewater College
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 15

Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:30PM - 4:06PM		L06.00001: The need for computation Invited Speaker: Marie Lopez del Puerto
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:06PM - 4:42PM		L06.00002: The PICUP Collection: A Unique Repository for Supporting the Integration of Computation into the Undergraduate Physics Curriculum Invited Speaker: Kelly R Roos
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:42PM - 5:18PM		L06.00003: Integrating Computation into Core Physics courses: A perspective from a research-intensive university Invited Speaker: Marcos Daniel Caballero

Session L07: Pais Prize Session: Helge Kragh

Sponsoring Units: FHP
Chair: Michel Janssen, University of Minnesota
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 16

Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:30PM - 4:06PM		L07.00001: Varying Gravity: Dirac’s Legacy in Cosmology and Geophysics Invited Speaker: Helge Kragh
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:06PM - 4:42PM		L07.00002: Is It the Same Result? Replication in Physics Invited Speaker: Allan Franklin
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:42PM - 5:18PM		L07.00003: Why Do the Stars Keep Shining? A Long Journey to a Satisfactory Answer Invited Speaker: Robert Smith

Session L08: Astrophysical Particle Acceleration

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Louis Strigari, Texas A&M University
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 10

Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:30PM - 3:42PM		L08.00001: 3D magnetic reconnection in relativistic pair plasma with moderate magnetization Gregory R Werner, Dmitri A Uzdensky
Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:42PM - 3:54PM		L08.00002: Kinetic Beaming of Emission Produced by Radiatively Cooled Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection John M Mehlhaff, Gregory R Werner, Dmitri A Uzdensky
Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:54PM - 4:06PM		L08.00003: Electron and proton energization in relativistic plasma turbulence Vladimir V Zhdankin, Dmitri A Uzdensky, Gregory R Werner, Mitchell Begelman
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:06PM - 4:18PM		L08.00004: Direct Numerical Demonstration of Diffusive Nonthermal Particle Acceleration in Particle-in-Cell Simulations of Kinetic Turbulence in Relativistic Pair Plasmas Kai W Wong, Vladimir V Zhdankin, Dmitri A Uzdensky, Gregory R Werner, Mitchell Begelman
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:18PM - 4:30PM		L08.00005: Magnetic Helicity and Turbulent Dynamos Ethan T Vishniac, Amir Jafari
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:30PM - 4:42PM		L08.00006: Jets from paramagnetic electrons in superstrong fields Paul N. Arendt
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:42PM - 4:54PM		L08.00007: Using lab-scale mixing experiments to inform LES of stellar convection Austin F Davis, John J Charonko, Katherine P Prestridge
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:54PM - 5:06PM		L08.00008: The X-ray Emissivity of Low-Density Stellar Populations Mario G Ivanov, Craig O Heinke

Session L09: Searches for Light Dark Matter

Sponsoring Units: GPMFC DAMOP
Chair: Andrew Geraci, Northwestern University
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 11

Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:30PM - 3:42PM		L09.00001: Constraints on axionlike dark matter with masses down to 10-23 eV/c2 William A Terrano, Eric G Adelberger, Charles A Hagedorn, Blayne R Heckel
Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:42PM - 3:54PM		L09.00002: Direct Search for Ultra-light Dark Matter with Torsion Balances Erik A Shaw, Charles A Hagedorn, Krishna Venkateswara, Eric G Adelberger, Jens H Gundlach
Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:54PM - 4:06PM		L09.00003: New results in searches for low-mass dark matter and dark bosons with AMO experiments Yevgeny Stadnik, Victor Flambaum
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:06PM - 4:18PM		L09.00004: "Fuzzy" Dark Matter Direct Detection with Quantum Gyroscopes: Status, Challenges and Prospects William A Terrano
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:18PM - 4:30PM		L09.00005: Search for beyond-the-Standard-Model Physics Using Optically Trapped Particles Sumita Ghosh, Gadi Afek, Fernando Monteiro, Andrew Kilby, David C Moore
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:30PM - 4:42PM		L09.00006: Progress in dark matter search with the global positioning system Conner Dailey, Ben Roberts, Vincent Dumont, Ibraheem Khan, Guglielmo Panelli, Geoffrey Blewitt, Andrei Derevianko
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:42PM - 4:54PM		L09.00007: Search for Axion dark Matter at UWA Michael Tobar
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:54PM - 5:06PM		L09.00008: Status of the TREK/E36 experiment Michael Kohl, Tongtong Cao, Dongwi H Dongwi
Sunday, April 14, 2019 5:06PM - 5:18PM		L09.00009: Search for light neutral bosons in the experiment E36 at J-PARC Dongwi H Dongwi, Tongtong Cao, Michael Kohl
Sunday, April 14, 2019 5:18PM - 5:30PM		L09.00010: A Two-Charge Theory of Gravity Hyung S Choi, Draven W Houser, Ye Jin Han

Session L10: Tonne Scale Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay R&D V

Sponsoring Units: DNP DPF
Chair: Reina Maruyama, Yale University
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 12

Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:30PM - 3:42PM		L10.00001: Design of the calibration system for LEGEND Ralph J Massarczyk
Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:42PM - 3:54PM		L10.00002: Calibration Techniques for the nEXO Experiment Erin Hansen
Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:54PM - 4:06PM		L10.00003: An Internal-Source Scanning Cryostat for HPGe Detectors Gulden Othman
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:06PM - 4:18PM		L10.00004: Cryogenic Electronics Readout for the nEXO Experiment Eric Raguzin
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:18PM - 4:30PM		L10.00005: An Electro-thermal Response Model of CUORE Bolometers Mingyu Li
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:30PM - 4:42PM		L10.00006: Characterization of an Ionization Readout Tile for nEXO Michael J Jewell
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:42PM - 4:54PM		L10.00007: Developing planar detectors for studying contact properties in liquid argon Rajendra Panth, Wenzhao Wei, Xianghua Meng, Guojian Wang, Hao Mei, Jing Liu, Gang Yang, Dongming Mei
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:54PM - 5:06PM		L10.00008: Signal-background Discrimination in EXO-200 with Deep Learning Thomas H Richards
Sunday, April 14, 2019 5:06PM - 5:18PM		L10.00009: Characterizing Germanium (Ge) Crystals for Developing Ge detectors Mathbar Singh Raut, Sanjay Bhattarai, Jing Liu, Hao Mei, Dongming Mei, Gang Yang, Guojian Wang

Session L11: Numerical Relativity: Neutron Stars and Other Sources with Matter

Sponsoring Units: DGRAV
Chair: David Radice, Princeton University
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 17

Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:30PM - 3:42PM		L11.00001: Interactions of Primordial Black Hole with Neutron Star Hyun Lim, William East
Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:42PM - 3:54PM		L11.00002: Binary neutron stars with high compactness and spin Wolfgang H Tichy, Alireza Rashti, Tim Dietrich, Reetika Dudi
Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:54PM - 4:06PM		L11.00003: Binary neutron star evolutions with high spin Alireza Rashti, Bernd Bruegmann, Tim Dietrich, Reetika Dudi, Wolfgang H Tichy
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:06PM - 4:18PM		L11.00004: Black Hole-Neutron Star mergers in the parameter range of GW170817 Francois V Foucart
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:18PM - 4:30PM		L11.00005: Complete initial value spacetimes containing black holes in general relativity:Application to black hole-disk systems Antonios Tsokaros, Koji Uryu, Stuart Louis Shapiro
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:30PM - 4:42PM		L11.00006: Simulating the Magnetorotational Collapse of Supermassive Stars: Incorporating Gas Pressure Perturbations and Different Rotation Profiles Lunan Sun, Milton Ruiz, Stuart Louis Shapiro
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:42PM - 4:54PM		L11.00007: Spritz: a new fully general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic code Federico Cipolletta
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:54PM - 5:06PM		L11.00008: Simulating Accretion Disks With Discontinous Galerkin Methods Nils Deppe
Sunday, April 14, 2019 5:06PM - 5:18PM		L11.00009: An Implementation of Axisymmetry in Numerical Relativity Using a Multipatch Scheme Jerred Jesse

Session L12: Nuclear Astrophysics I

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Carolyn Raithel, University of Arizona
Room: Sheraton Plaza Court 1

Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:30PM - 3:42PM		L12.00001: Multi-messenger Neutron Star Astrophysics and Determining the Composition of the Neutron Star Core Andrew W Steiner, Spencer Beloin, Sophia Han, Khorgolkhuu Odbadrakh
Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:42PM - 3:54PM		L12.00002: Imprints of the nuclear symmetry energy on the tidal deformability of neutron stars Plamen G Krastev, Bao-An Li
Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:54PM - 4:06PM		L12.00003: Dilute Fermi gas at fourth order in effective field theory Christian Drischler, Corbinian Wellenhofer, Kai Hebeler, Achim Schwenk
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:06PM - 4:18PM		L12.00004: Bulk viscosity in neutrino-transparent nuclear matter Steven P Harris, Mark Alford
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:18PM - 4:30PM		L12.00005: Properties of Hypothetical Quark-Hadron Coulomb Lattices in the Cores of Neutron Stars Fridolin Weber, William Spinella
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:30PM - 4:42PM		L12.00006: (Color-)Magnetic Defects in Dense Nuclear and Quark Matter Alexander Haber
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:42PM - 4:54PM		L12.00007: Remeasuring the resonance strength of the 21Ne(p,gamma)22Na reaction at DRAGON Matthew A Lovely, Jonathan Karpesky, Devin S Connolly, Charlie Akers, Greg Christian, Barry Davids, Jennifer Fallis, Dave Hutcheon, Uwe Greife, Alex Rojas, Chris Ruiz, Ulrike Hager

Session L13: Physics Education: From Particle Physics to Autonomous Driving to Contact

Sponsoring Units: FEd
Chair: Laurie McNeil, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Room: Sheraton Plaza Court 2

Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:30PM - 3:42PM		L13.00001: The AP Physics exams: content, depth, and sample test items. Angela S Jensvold, Beth Lindsey, La Tanya Sharpe, Suzanne Brahmia
Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:42PM - 3:54PM		L13.00002: A primer to numerical simulations: The perihelion motion of Mercury Christopher Koerber, Inka Hammer, Jan-Lukas Wynen, Joseline Heuer, Christian Müller, Christoph Hanhart
Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:54PM - 4:06PM		L13.00003: International Masterclasses: Particle Physics for High School Students and Teachers Kenneth Cecire
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:06PM - 4:18PM		L13.00004: The LEGO CMS Particle Flow Tutorial Andrew W Askew
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:18PM - 4:30PM		L13.00005: Modernizing the Physics Undergraduate Curriculum Rudi Michalak
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:30PM - 4:42PM		L13.00006: Autonomous Driving in Physics Curriculum Cahit Erkal, Travis Jenkins, Jason Alexander
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:42PM - 4:54PM		L13.00007: Agile Project Management in Scalable Team-Based Senior Capstone Design Experiences Wouter Deconinck
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:54PM - 5:06PM		L13.00008: Neutrino Oscillations in Magnetized Matter: A scaffolded quantum mechanics project for the thermal physics classroom Todd M. Tinsley
Sunday, April 14, 2019 5:06PM - 5:18PM		L13.00009: Using a novel as the main text to teach physical science Lior M Burko

Session L14: Fundamental Neutron Physics

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Shannon Hoogerheide, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Room: Sheraton Plaza Court 3

Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:30PM - 3:42PM		L14.00001: The Nab Experiment: A Precision Measurement of Unpolarized Neutron Beta Decay Jason A Fry
Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:42PM - 3:54PM		L14.00002: Magnetometry for the Nab Experiment Elizabeth M Scott
(Author Not Attending)		L14.00003: Detector Systematics for the Nab Experiment Glenn Randall
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:06PM - 4:18PM		L14.00004: Data Acquisition and Digital Signal Processing for the Nab Experiment Michelle H Gervais, Christopher B Crawford
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:18PM - 4:30PM		L14.00005: Progress on the Design, Construction and Test of the Full Size Magnet for the SNS Neutron Electric Dipole Moment Search Wanchun Wei, Simon A Slutsky, Christopher M Swank, Xuan Sun, Robert Carr, Charles Osthelder, John C. Ramsey, Christopher Daurer, Larry Bartoszek, Roy J Holt, Bradley Filippone
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:30PM - 4:42PM		L14.00006: 3He Spin Transport Magnet Development for the SNS nEDM Experiment Mark H McCrea
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:42PM - 4:54PM		L14.00007: Measurement of Neutron Polarization and Transport for the nEDM@SNS Experiment. Kavish Imam
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:54PM - 5:06PM		L14.00008: Scintillation from Charged Particles in Liquid Helium Nguyen Phan
Sunday, April 14, 2019 5:06PM - 5:18PM		L14.00009: Development of a Cryogenic High Voltage Multiplier Steven Clayton
Sunday, April 14, 2019 5:18PM - 5:30PM		L14.00010: Progress toward a new room temperature neutron electric dipole moment search at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center Robert W Pattie

Session L15: Mini-Symposium on Hard Probes in Heavy Ion Collisions II

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: J Matthew Durham, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Room: Sheraton Plaza Court 4

Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:30PM - 4:06PM		L15.00001: Heavy-Flavor Probes of Hot QCD Matter Invited Speaker: Ralf F Rapp
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:06PM - 4:18PM		L15.00002: $\phi$(1020) meson production with respect to high momentum hadrons in p-Pb collisions with ALICE at the LHC Justin T Blair
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:18PM - 4:30PM		L15.00003: Measurements of D± and D*± production in Au+Au collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV from STAR Xinyue Ju
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:30PM - 4:42PM		L15.00004: Recent physics results from the PHENIX experiment with the silicon-vertex detectors Ajeeta Khatiwada
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:42PM - 4:54PM		L15.00005: Λc and B+ production in Au+Au collision at √sNN= 200 GeV at sPHENIX Yuanjing Ji
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:54PM - 5:06PM		L15.00006: Feasibility of Tagging Heavy Flavor Jets at RHIC With Machine Learning George Halal
Sunday, April 14, 2019 5:06PM - 5:18PM		L15.00007: Baked Alaska: the Fate of Heavy Quark Bound States inside Quark-gluon Plasma Xiaojun Yao, Berndt Mueller, Thomas C Mehen, Steffen A Bass

Session L16: Gravitational Waves: Source Modeling

Sponsoring Units: DGRAV
Chair: Tanja Hinderer, University of Amsterdam
Room: Sheraton Grand Ballroom I

Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:30PM - 3:42PM		L16.00001: Evolution of highly eccentric binary orbits with radiation reaction Alexandria Tucker, Clifford M Will
Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:42PM - 3:54PM		L16.00002: Analytic black-hole binary mergers: waveforms and kicks from first principles Sean T McWilliams
Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:54PM - 4:06PM		L16.00003: High-accuracy remnant kicks, spins, and masses from precessing binaries with NR surrogate modeling Leo C Stein, Vijay Varma, Davide Gerosa, Francois Hebert, Hao Zhang
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:06PM - 4:18PM		L16.00004: Numerical relativity surrogate waveform model for precessing binary black holes Vijay Varma, Scott E Field, Davide Gerosa, Leo C Stein, Mark A Scheel
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:18PM - 4:30PM		L16.00005: Black hole ringdown: the importance of overtones Matthew Giesler, Maximiliano Isi, Mark A Scheel, Saul A Teukolsky
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:30PM - 4:42PM		L16.00006: Signature of horizon dynamics in binary black hole gravitational waveforms Ssohrab Borhanian, K. G. Arun, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Bangalore S. Sathyaprakash
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:42PM - 4:54PM		L16.00007: Hybrid Wave-forms for Precessing binary black holes for LIGO data analysis Jam Sadiq, Yosef Zlochower, Richard O'Shaughnessy
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:54PM - 5:06PM		L16.00008: Hybrid Gravitational Wave Systematics and Model Comparisons for Binary Neutron Star Systems Eric Flynn, Jocelyn Read
Sunday, April 14, 2019 5:06PM - 5:18PM		L16.00009: Gravitational Waves from Charged-Black Hole Binaries Justin Y. J. Burton, Ruomin Zhu, Thomas Osburn

Session L17: Neutrinos II

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Kate Scholberg, Duke University
Room: Sheraton Grand Ballroom II

Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:30PM - 3:42PM		L17.00001: DUNE as the next-generation solar neutrino experiment Francesco Capozzi, Shirley Li, Guanying Zhu, John F Beacom
Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:42PM - 3:54PM		L17.00002: Signal Processing in the ProtoDUNE-SP LArTPC Wenqiang Gu
Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:54PM - 4:06PM		L17.00003: The CEvNS Glow of a Supernova Kate Scholberg
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:06PM - 4:18PM		L17.00004: The Photon Detection System (PDS) at ProtoDUNE Bryan J Ramson
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:18PM - 4:30PM		L17.00005: Calorimetric Energy Measurement for Supernova Neutrinos using the DUNE Photon Detection System Biswaranjan Behera, Alexander I Himmel, Robert Wilson
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:30PM - 4:42PM		L17.00006: Photon Detection System for DUNE Dual Phase Ana Gallego
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:42PM - 4:54PM		L17.00007: Supernova Pointing Resolution of DUNE Alison Jacqueline Roeth
Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:54PM - 5:06PM		L17.00008: Fitting Supernova Spectral Parameters with DUNE Erin Conley for the DUNE Collaboration
Sunday, April 14, 2019 5:06PM - 5:18PM		L17.00009: Decomposition and Extrapolation Techniques for $\nu_e$ Signal and Background Predictions in NO$\nu$A Shiqi Yu

Session L20: Meet the Physical Review Journal Editors

Room: Sheraton Plaza Foyer

Sunday, April 14, 2019 3:30PM - 5:00PM

L20.00001: Meet the Physical Review Journal Editors