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Session Q02: Space Based Gravitational-wave Astronomy

Sponsoring Units: DGRAV
Chair: Geoffrey Lovelace, Cal State Fullerton
Room: Sheraton Plaza D

Monday, April 15, 2019 10:45AM - 11:21AM		Q02.00001: Low-frequency gravitational waves from massive black holes: implications for fundamental physics and astrophysics Invited Speaker: Emanuele Berti
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:21AM - 11:57AM		Q02.00002: The NANOGrav 12.5-year Dataset: Providing Insights into Galaxy Growth through Cosmic Time Invited Speaker: Maura McLaughlin
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:57AM - 12:33PM		Q02.00003: Galactic LISA sources and their potential for multi-messenger and multi-wavelength studies Invited Speaker: Thomas Kupfer

Session Q03: Long-Baseline Neutrino Program

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Kate Scholberg, Duke University
Room: Sheraton Plaza E

Monday, April 15, 2019 10:45AM - 11:21AM		Q03.00001: Recent Results from NOvA and T2K Invited Speaker: Patricia L. Vahle
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:21AM - 11:57AM		Q03.00002: Theoretical aspects of the long-baseline neutrino oscillations Invited Speaker: Pedro A.N. Machado
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:57AM - 12:33PM		Q03.00003: Potential of future long baseline experiments: DUNE and Hyper-Kamiokande Invited Speaker: Kendall Mahn

Session Q04: New Astrophysical Probes of Dark Matter

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Glennys Farrar, New York University
Room: Sheraton Plaza F

Monday, April 15, 2019 10:45AM - 11:21AM		Q04.00001: Dynamical evidence for a dark substructure in the Milky Way halo Invited Speaker: Ana Bonaca
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:21AM - 11:57AM		Q04.00002: Dark Matter Cartography in the Gaia Era Invited Speaker: Mariangela Lisanti
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:57AM - 12:33PM		Q04.00003: Dark Matter: What’s Beyond the WIMP Lamppost? Invited Speaker: John Beacom

Session Q05: Higgs as a Tool for New Physics: Current Status and Future Facilities

Sponsoring Units: DPB DPF
Chair: Roger Rusack, University of Minnesota
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 14

Monday, April 15, 2019 10:45AM - 11:09AM		Q05.00001: Higgs as a tool for new physics Invited Speaker: Toyoko Orimoto
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:09AM - 11:33AM		Q05.00002: The potential of Higgs factories Invited Speaker: James E Brau
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:33AM - 11:57AM		Q05.00003: Higgs as a tool for new physics: current status and future facilities Invited Speaker: Vladimir D Shiltsev
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:57AM - 12:21PM		Q05.00004: CERN Future Circular Colliders program Invited Speaker: Michael Benedikt

Session Q06: New Developments in Computing Hadron Structure

Sponsoring Units: DCOMP GHP
Chair: Swagato Mukherjee, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 15

Monday, April 15, 2019 10:45AM - 11:21AM		Q06.00001: Parton distribution inside the pion from lattice QCD Invited Speaker: Nikhil Karthik
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:21AM - 11:57AM		Q06.00002: Non-perturbative studies of Parton Distribution Functions Invited Speaker: Kostas Orginos
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:57AM - 12:33PM		Q06.00003: Hadron structure from current-current correlation functions in Lattice QCD Invited Speaker: Raza S Sufian

Session Q07: New Energy Technologies & Policies

Sponsoring Units: FPS
Chair: Richard Wiener, Research Corporation
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 16

Monday, April 15, 2019 10:45AM - 11:21AM		Q07.00001: An energy plan the Earth can live with Invited Speaker: Daniel M Kammen
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:21AM - 11:57AM		Q07.00002: North American Power-Grid Network: Failures and Opportunities Invited Speaker: Adilson E. Motter
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:57AM - 12:33PM		Q07.00003: Integrative Design for Radical Energy Efficiency Invited Speaker: Amory Bloch Lovins

Session Q08: Gamma-ray Catalogs, Extended Sources, and Diffuse Emission

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Amy Connolly, Ohio State University
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 10

Monday, April 15, 2019 10:45AM - 10:57AM		Q08.00001: The HAWC Observatory’s first catalog of sources emitting above 50 TeV and 100 TeV Kelly Malone
Monday, April 15, 2019 10:57AM - 11:09AM		Q08.00002: Constraints on the Diffuse Gamma-Ray Background with HAWC Pat Harding
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:09AM - 11:21AM		Q08.00003: HAWC measurements of the Cosmic-ray Flux of three Giant Molecular Clouds  Hugo Ayala
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:21AM - 11:33AM		Q08.00004: The gamma Cygni Supernova Remnant at the Highest Energies Henrike Fleischhack
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:33AM - 11:45AM		Q08.00005: On the observation of the supernova remnant IC443 with the HAWC Observatory Leah Hunt, Miguel A Mostafa
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:45AM - 11:57AM		Q08.00006: Setting Upper Limits on the Local Burst Rate Density of Primordial Black Holes Using HAWC Alison Peisker, Kristi L Engel

Session Q09: Multimessenger MiniSymposium

Sponsoring Units: DAP DPF
Chair: Marcelle Soares-Santos, Brandeis University
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 11

Monday, April 15, 2019 10:45AM - 11:21AM		Q09.00001: The search for gravitational waves associated with gamma ray bursts in LIGO's second observing run and beyond. Invited Speaker: Jordan Palamos
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:21AM - 11:33AM		Q09.00002: Cosmic Rays Escaping from Galactic Superbubbles and Application to the Fermi Bubble Zhaowei Zhang, Kohta Murase, Peter I Meszaros
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:33AM - 11:45AM		Q09.00003: Observations of the Sun in GeV Gamma Rays by CALET on the ISS Nicholas W Cannady
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:45AM - 11:57AM		Q09.00004: A DECam Search for Explosive Optical Transients in Association with IceCube Neutrino Alerts Robert Morgan, Keith Bechtol, Richard Kessler, Kenneth Herner
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:57AM - 12:09PM		Q09.00005: Measuring the Hubble constant with a gravitational wave black-hole merger and the Dark Energy Survey Antonella Palmese
Monday, April 15, 2019 12:09PM - 12:21PM		Q09.00006: Wide-Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST) Mission and new opportunities in time domain and multmessenger astrophysics Julie E McEnery
Monday, April 15, 2019 12:21PM - 12:33PM		Q09.00007: BurstCube: A CubeSat for Gravitational Wave Counterparts Alyson Joens, Jeremy S Perkins, Judith L Racusin, Michael S Briggs, Georgia A de Nolfo, Jacob R Smith, Regina M Caputo, Sean Griffin, John F Krizmanic, Julie E McEnery, Eric Burns, Peter Sven Shawhan, David Morris, Daniel Kocevski, Colleen Wilson-Hodge, Dieter Hartmann, Michelle Hui

Session Q10: WIMP Dark Matter III

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Ray Bunker, PNNL
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 12

Monday, April 15, 2019 10:45AM - 10:57AM		Q10.00001: Determination of Radiogenic Backgrounds in the LUX Detector Kelsey Colleen Oliver-Mallory
Monday, April 15, 2019 10:57AM - 11:09AM		Q10.00002: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:09AM - 11:21AM		Q10.00003: Lead-210 in SuperCDMS Copper Raymond A Bunker
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:21AM - 11:33AM		Q10.00004: Background Explorer: A Toolkit for Modeling Radioactive Backgrounds in Low Background Detectors Ben Loer
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:33AM - 11:45AM		Q10.00005: Mitigation of Radon Daughter Plate-out in the LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment Eric S Morrison
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:45AM - 11:57AM		Q10.00006: Radon reduction in gases for rare event search experiments Maris Arthurs, Wolfgang B Lorenzon
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:57AM - 12:09PM		Q10.00007: Emanation and Diffusion of Radon Through Gasket Materials for SuperCDMS SNOLAB Brandon M DeVries, Michael Bowles, Richard William Schnee
Monday, April 15, 2019 12:09PM - 12:21PM		Q10.00008: Radon Background Control for the SuperCDMS SNOLAB Dark Matter Experiment Joseph Street
Monday, April 15, 2019 12:21PM - 12:33PM		Q10.00009: Surface Background Rejection in Liquid Argon Dark Matter Detectors using Layered Wavelength-Shifting and Scintillating Thin Films Mark Boulay

Session Q11: Asymptotic Symmetries and QFT in Curved Spacetime

Sponsoring Units: DGRAV
Chair: Paul Anderson, Wake Forest University
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 17

Monday, April 15, 2019 10:45AM - 10:57AM		Q11.00001: The Asymptotic Behavior of Massless Fields and the Memory Effect Gautam Satishchandran, Robert M Wald
Monday, April 15, 2019 10:57AM - 11:09AM		Q11.00002: Horizon Foliations and Black Hole Memory Adel A Rahman, Robert M Wald
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:09AM - 11:21AM		Q11.00003: Conservation of asymptotic supermomenta from past to future null infinity Kartik Prabhu
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:21AM - 11:33AM		Q11.00004: The past cosmological horizon as the relevant scri minus Abhay Ashtekar, Sina Bahrami
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:33AM - 11:45AM		Q11.00005: Persistent gravitational wave observables Alexander M Grant, Eanna E Flanagan, Abraham I Harte, David A Nichols
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:45AM - 11:57AM		Q11.00006: Energy cost of entanglement extraction from quantum fields Lucas F Hackl, Robert H Jonsson
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:57AM - 12:09PM		Q11.00007: Electromagnetic Duality Anomaly in Curved Spacetimes  Ivan Agullo
Monday, April 15, 2019 12:09PM - 12:21PM		Q11.00008: Local and covariant flow relations for OPE coefficients in curved spacetime. Mark Klehfoth, Robert M. Wald
Monday, April 15, 2019 12:21PM - 12:33PM		Q11.00009: Correlation patterns in a BEC Black Hole Analog with Massive Phonons Richard A Dudley, Paul R Anderson, Alessandro Fabbri, Roberto Balbinot

Session Q12: CMB MiniSymposium

Sponsoring Units: DAP DPF
Chair: Clement Pryke, University of Minnesota
Room: Sheraton Plaza Court 1

Monday, April 15, 2019 10:45AM - 11:03AM		Q12.00001: CMB theory background Raphael Flauger
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:03AM - 11:30AM		Q12.00002: South Pole CMB measurements: Results from BICEP/Keck and the South Pole Telescope, and near term prospects W.L. Kimmy Wu
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:30AM - 11:57AM		Q12.00003: Current and near future Cosmic Microwave Background observations from Chile with the CLASS, POLARBEAR/Simons Array, ACT, and Simons Observatory experiments. Brian G Keating
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:57AM - 12:15PM		Q12.00004: Next Decade Ground: The CMB-S4 Experiment Nils W Halverson
Monday, April 15, 2019 12:15PM - 12:33PM		Q12.00005: CMB Space Missions in the Next Decade  Hannes Hubmayr

Session Q13: Mini-Symposium: FRIB and ReA Instrumentation I

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Andrew Rogers, UMass Lowell
Room: Sheraton Plaza Court 2

Monday, April 15, 2019 10:45AM - 11:21AM		Q13.00001: FRIB and ReA instrumentation for Nuclear Astrophysics Invited Speaker: Artemis Spyrou
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:21AM - 11:33AM		Q13.00002: The SOLARIS spectrometer B. P. Kay
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:33AM - 11:45AM		Q13.00003: ISLA Preliminary Design Performance A. Matthew Amthor, Daniel Bazin, Alexandre Comsa, Wolfgang Mittig
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:45AM - 11:57AM		Q13.00004: GODDESS and the ORRUBA arrays for ReA and Fast Beams at FRIB Steven D. Pain
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:57AM - 12:09PM		Q13.00005: Production of thin, self-supporting 28Si foils for near barrier fusion experiments with radioactive beams Carley Folluo, James E Johnstone, Sylvie Hudan, Tyler A Werke, Romualdo Desouza
Monday, April 15, 2019 12:09PM - 12:21PM		Q13.00006: Measurements with the JENSA gas jet target and the status of SECAR at ReA Louis Wagner
Monday, April 15, 2019 12:21PM - 12:33PM		Q13.00007: Simulation and Aberration Corrections of the Super-Enge Splitpole Spectrograph at FSU Kenneth Hanselman, Ingo Wiedenhoever, Gordon McCann, Lagy T Baby, Jessica E Koros, Jon Lighthall, Jeffery C Blackmon, Catherine M Deibel, Ashley A Hood, Erin Good

Session Q14: Nuclear Theory

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Gerald A. Miller, University of Washington
Room: Sheraton Plaza Court 3

Monday, April 15, 2019 10:45AM - 10:57AM		Q14.00001: Unwrapping Complex Phases to Address Sign Problems in Lattice Calculations William Detmold, Gurtej Kanwar, Michael L Wagman
Monday, April 15, 2019 10:57AM - 11:09AM		Q14.00002: Realistic simulations of neutron-neutron scattering on an efficient quantum processing unit Kyle A Wendt
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:09AM - 11:21AM		Q14.00003: Efficient Quantum Tomography for Quantum Simulations of Field Theories Andrew N Shaw, Zohreh Davoudi
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:21AM - 11:33AM		Q14.00004: Heavy quarkonium in the basis light-front quantization approach Guangyao Chen
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:33AM - 11:45AM		Q14.00005: What does kinematical target mass sensitivity in DIS reveal about hadron structure? Eric Moffat, Ted C Rogers, Wally Melnitchouk, Nobuo Sato, Fernanda Steffens
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:45AM - 11:57AM		Q14.00006: Modelling the Energy of light Nuclei using the IRC model Aran D Stubbs
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:57AM - 12:09PM		Q14.00007: Magnetic Monopoles and the Quantum Theory of Magnetism in Matter Amagh Nduka

Session Q15: Particle & Fields Theory II

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Francisco Ponce, Stanford University
Room: Sheraton Plaza Court 4

Monday, April 15, 2019 10:45AM - 10:57AM		Q15.00001: Construction and applications of Lorentz-violating nonabelian gauge field theories Zonghao Li, V Alan Kostelecky
Monday, April 15, 2019 10:57AM - 11:09AM		Q15.00002: Sources for Biconformal gravity  Walter Davis Muhwezi
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:09AM - 11:21AM		Q15.00003: Lattice N=4 three-dimensional super-Yang-Mills Joel Giedt, Arthur Lipstein, Paul Martin
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:21AM - 11:33AM		Q15.00004: Quantum Mechanics of a Single Photon and the question of its Localizability in Space Hassan Babaei, Ali Mostafazadeh
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:33AM - 11:45AM		Q15.00005: Anomalous Electron Velocity and Zitterbewegung Basil S Davis
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:45AM - 11:57AM		Q15.00006:  A  Hypergeometric Resummation Algorithm for the resummation of Divergent series in Quantum field Theory Abouzeid M Shalaby
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:57AM - 12:09PM		Q15.00007: Non-perturbative techniques in strongly coupled field theories Margaret Carrington
Monday, April 15, 2019 12:09PM - 12:21PM		Q15.00008: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN
Monday, April 15, 2019 12:21PM - 12:33PM		Q15.00009: Lorentz violation, scalar fields, and Finsler geometry Benjamin r Edwards, V Alan Kostelecky

Session Q16: Neutron Star Merger Outflows and Prospects for Observing Them

Sponsoring Units: DAP DGRAV
Chair: Carolyn Raithel, University of Arizona
Room: Sheraton Grand Ballroom I

Monday, April 15, 2019 10:45AM - 10:57AM		Q16.00001: HMNS Disk Outflows and the Blue Kilonova from GW170817 Steven Fahlman, Rodrigo Fernandez
Monday, April 15, 2019 10:57AM - 11:09AM		Q16.00002: Viewing angle of binary neutron star mergers Hsin-Yu Chen, Salvatore Vitale, Ramesh Narayan
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:09AM - 11:21AM		Q16.00003: A neutrinosphere model for kilonova photometry Jessica Meztger, James Annis
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:21AM - 11:33AM		Q16.00004: Long-term GRMHD Simulations of Neutron Star Merger Accretion Disks Rodrigo Fernandez, Alexander Tchekhovskoy, Eliot Quataert, Francois Foucart, Daniel Kasen
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:33AM - 11:45AM		Q16.00005: Status and prospects of the DES gravitational wave counterpart search and discovery pipeline Alyssa Garcia
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:45AM - 11:57AM		Q16.00006: Searching for Prompt Radio Emission from Compact Binaries with the OVRO-LWA Thomas A Callister, Marin Anderson, Gregg Hallinan
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:57AM - 12:09PM		Q16.00007: Gravitational-Wave Optical Counterpart Detection Methods for the TOROS Campaign During LVC O2 Observation Run Martin I Beroiz, Richard S Camuccio, Moises Castillo, Mario Claudio Diaz, Mariano J Dominguez, Marcelo Lares, Bruno Sanchez, Adam Zadrozny
Monday, April 15, 2019 12:09PM - 12:21PM		Q16.00008: Wide-survey difference imaging in the Dark Energy Survey Kenneth Herner, James Annis, Marcelle Soares-Santos

Session Q17: Collider and BSM III

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Matthew Bellis, Siena College
Room: Sheraton Grand Ballroom II

Monday, April 15, 2019 10:45AM - 10:57AM		Q17.00001: Higgs Boson to Invisible searches with the ATLAS Detector in Run 2 Rui Zou
Monday, April 15, 2019 10:57AM - 11:09AM		Q17.00002: Searches for exotic decays of the Higgs Boson to a pair of light resonances with the ATLAS detector Christopher Robyn Hayes
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:09AM - 11:21AM		Q17.00003: Rare Higgs Decays into Quarkonia Pairs Himal Acharya
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:21AM - 11:33AM		Q17.00004: Search For a Light Pseudoscalar Higgs Boson with Boosted Topologies at CMS Grace Haza
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:33AM - 11:45AM		Q17.00005: Understanding recent collider excesses in light of light Higgs bosons Evan Johnson, Patrick J Fox, Jose No
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:45AM - 11:57AM		Q17.00006: Search for dark matter in the Mono-Higgs final state. Marc Tost
Monday, April 15, 2019 11:57AM - 12:09PM		Q17.00007: Searching for flavor changing neutral Higgs interaction in associated single top production at Hadron Colliders. RISHABH JAIN, Chung Kao, Jack Brown, Tao Han
Monday, April 15, 2019 12:09PM - 12:21PM		Q17.00008: Measurement of Higgs bosons decaying to Tau lepton pairs and Constraints on Anomalous HVV couplings. Samuel L Higginbotham
Monday, April 15, 2019 12:21PM - 12:33PM		Q17.00009: Search for electroweak supersymmetry using vector boson fusion in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector Andrew Aukerman, Benjamin Carlson, Tae Min Hong

Session Q19: Estate Planning/Planned Giving Informational Session

Room: Sheraton Director's Row I

Monday, April 15, 2019 12:30PM - 2:00PM

Q19.00001: Estate Planning/Planned Giving Informational Session

Session Q20: Introduction to LISA Data Analysis Tools

Sponsoring Units: DGRAV
Chair: Joey Key, University of Washington
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 12

Monday, April 15, 2019 12:35PM - 1:30PM

Q20.00001: Introduction to LISA Data Analysis Tools