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Session T02: Tests of General Relativity II

Sponsoring Units: DGRAV
Chair: Nico Yunes, Montana State University
Room: Sheraton Plaza D

Monday, April 15, 2019 3:30PM - 4:06PM		T02.00001: General relativistic effects around the Galactic Center black hole Invited Speaker: Frank Eisenhauer
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:06PM - 4:42PM		T02.00002: Gravitational-wave Tests of General Relativity: Present and Future Invited Speaker: Kent Yagi
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:42PM - 5:18PM		T02.00003: Recent and Future Tests of GR using Pulsar Systems Invited Speaker: Scott Ransom

Session T03: How Mentoring Shapes Pathways into Physics

Sponsoring Units: COM
Chair: Geraldine Cochran, Rutgers University
Room: Sheraton Plaza E

Monday, April 15, 2019 3:30PM - 3:57PM		T03.00001: Mentorship vs. Sponsorship Invited Speaker: Jessica Esquivel
Monday, April 15, 2019 3:57PM - 4:24PM		T03.00002: The Many Flavors of Mentoring Invited Speaker: Christopher Moore
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:24PM - 4:51PM		T03.00003: Experiences with Mentoring Invited Speaker: Simone HyaterAdams
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:51PM - 5:18PM		T03.00004: Multiple Mentors for Career Success Invited Speaker: Carol Y. Scarlett

Session T04: New Ideas In Dark Matter MiniSymposium

Sponsoring Units: DAP DPF
Chair: Kaixuan Ni, University of California, San Diego
Room: Sheraton Plaza F

Monday, April 15, 2019 3:30PM - 3:42PM		T04.00001: Probing Sub-GeV Dark Matter with Superfluid Helium and HeRALD Roger K Romani, Daniel McKinsey, Junsong Lin, Scott Hertel, Vetri Velan, Alessandro Serafin
Monday, April 15, 2019 3:42PM - 3:54PM		T04.00002: Exploring Low Mass Dark Matter in SuperCDMS SNOLAB Priscilla Brooks Cushman
Monday, April 15, 2019 3:54PM - 4:06PM		T04.00003: The Light Dark Matter eXperiment Omar Moreno
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:06PM - 4:18PM		T04.00004: First Results from ABRACADABRA-10 cm: A Search for Axion Dark Matter Lindley A Winslow
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:18PM - 4:30PM		T04.00005: Status and expected sensitivity in Phase II of the HAYSTAC experiment Danielle H Speller
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:30PM - 4:42PM		T04.00006: The Axion Dark Matter Experiment (ADMX) 4-cavity array Christian R Boutan
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:42PM - 5:18PM		T04.00007: Dark-Matter Small Projects New Initiatives Invited Speaker: Edward W Kolb

Session T05: DNP Prize Session

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: David Dean, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 14

Monday, April 15, 2019 3:30PM - 4:06PM		T05.00001: From stardust to globular clusters: puzzles in nuclear astrophysics Invited Speaker: Christian Iliadis
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:06PM - 4:42PM		T05.00002: A Frog's View of Physics Invited Speaker: Barry R Holstein
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:42PM - 5:18PM		T05.00003: The Mysteries of QCD Matter Invited Speaker: Barbara V Jacak

Session T06: Commercializing Research Technology

Sponsoring Units: GPMFC
Chair: Thad Walker, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 15

Monday, April 15, 2019 3:30PM - 4:06PM		T06.00001: Quantum diamond sensors Invited Speaker: Ronald L Walsworth
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:06PM - 4:42PM		T06.00002: TBD Invited Speaker: Dana Anderson
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:42PM - 5:18PM		T06.00003: Commercializing Atomic Physics at Twinleaf Invited Speaker: Thomas W Kornack

Session T07: Stereotype Threat: What is it, and what to do about it?

Sponsoring Units: FEd
Chair: Benjamin Dreyfus, George Mason University
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 16

Monday, April 15, 2019 3:30PM - 4:06PM		T07.00001: Building more inclusive educational environments in physics: understanding and addressing social-psychological factors to support learners Invited Speaker: Noah D. Finkelstein
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:06PM - 4:42PM		T07.00002: An introduction to social psychological research on stereotype threat: When and how STEM outcomes among minority students are diminished by stereotypes about their group Invited Speaker: Denise Sekaquaptewa
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:42PM - 5:18PM		T07.00003: Gendered performance in introductory STEM courses Invited Speaker: Timothy Alexander McKay

Session T08: Gamma-ray Bursts and Supernovae

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Judy Rascusin, NASA GSFC
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 10

Monday, April 15, 2019 3:30PM - 3:42PM		T08.00001: On-orbit operation and gamma-ray burst observations with the CALET Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Yuta Kawakubo
Monday, April 15, 2019 3:42PM - 3:54PM		T08.00002: The Search for >100 GeV Photons from Gamma Ray Bursts with HAWC Matthew M Rosenberg
Monday, April 15, 2019 3:54PM - 4:06PM		T08.00003: Radio Loud and Quiet Gamma-ray Bursts. Nicole M Lloyd-Ronning
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:06PM - 4:18PM		T08.00004: Fermi Observations of High Energy Emission from GRB 190114C Daniel Kocevski
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:18PM - 4:30PM		T08.00005: Studying Type Ia Supernovae Progenitor Parameters Sudeshna Chakraborty, Peter Hoeflich
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:30PM - 4:42PM		T08.00006: Adapting Wavelet-based Techniques to Photometrically Classify Cosmological Samples of Supernova Linoy Kotler, Gautham Narayan
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:42PM - 4:54PM		T08.00007: Detect Supernova Neutrinos with DarkSide-20k LAr TPC Ziping Ye
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:54PM - 5:06PM		T08.00008: Comparison between State-of-the-Art supernova simulations and the Notre Dame-Livermore supernova code Luca Boccioli, Grant James Mathews, MacKenzie Warren, In-Saeng Suh, Miguel Correa

Session T09: Progress in Understanding Neutron Stars and Pulsars

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Bernard Kelly, NASA GSFC
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 11

Monday, April 15, 2019 3:30PM - 3:42PM		T09.00001: The shape of rotating neutron stars and systematic errors in pulse profile observations parameter estimation Hector O. Silva, George Pappas, Nicolás Yunes, Kent Yagi
Monday, April 15, 2019 3:42PM - 3:54PM		T09.00002: A larger-than-2-solar-mass pulsar in NANOGrav: leveraging Shapiro delay to constrain the neutron star equation of state H. Thankful Cromartie, Emmanuel Fonseca, Scott Ransom, Paul Demorest
Monday, April 15, 2019 3:54PM - 4:06PM		T09.00003: Improved Analytic Modeling of Neutron Star Interiors Nan Jiang, Kent Yagi
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:06PM - 4:18PM		T09.00004: Quasi-universal relations for the masses and radii of rotating neutron stars Sharon M Morsink
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:18PM - 4:30PM		T09.00005: Inferring neutron star properties from GW170817 with universal relations Philippe Landry, Bharat Kumar
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:30PM - 4:42PM		T09.00006: On the Dynamical Stability of Uber-massive Neutron Stars Pedro Luis Espino, Vasileios Paschalidis
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:42PM - 4:54PM		T09.00007: Inhomogeneity in the Mass Distribution of Deformed Neutron Stars Omair Zubairi, Fridolin Weber
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:54PM - 5:06PM		T09.00008: Searches for Galactic Center Pulsars and Radio Observations of the Galactic Center Magnetar PSR J1745–2900 Aaron B. Pearlman, Walid A. Majid, Thomas A. Prince, Jonathon Kocz, Shinji Horiuchi
Monday, April 15, 2019 5:06PM - 5:18PM		T09.00009: First Results from the Hard X-Ray Polarimetric Observations of the Accreting X-Ray Pulsar GX 301-2 with the X-Calibur Mission Quincy Abarr, Richard Bose, Gianluigi de Geronimo, Paul Dowkontt, Manel Errando, Thomas Gadson, Victor Guarino, Scott Heatwole, Nirmal Kumar Iyer, Fabian Kislat, Mózsi Kiss, Takao Kitaguchi, Henric S Krawczynski, Rakhee Kushwah, James Lanzi, Shaorui Li, Lindsey Lisalda, Takashi Okajima, Mark Pearce, Zachary Peterson, Brian F Rauch, David Stuchlik, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Nagomi Uchida, Andrew West

Session T10: Collider and BSM IV

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Jeremy Love, Argonne National Laboratory
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 12

Monday, April 15, 2019 3:30PM - 3:42PM		T10.00001: Charmless hadronic B decays from Belle Vipin Gaur
Monday, April 15, 2019 3:42PM - 3:54PM		T10.00002: Using Ξ(1820) baryons to test for parity doubling at ALICE Corey James Myers
Monday, April 15, 2019 3:54PM - 4:06PM		T10.00003: Production of $X(3872)$ Accompanied by a Pion in $B$ Meson Decay Eric Braaten, Liping He, Kevin Ingles
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:06PM - 4:18PM		T10.00004:  Normalization Study for the Search for KL->π0νν with the KOTO Experiment Melissa Hutcheson
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:18PM - 4:30PM		T10.00005: New results on the KL—>π0νν search with the KOTO detector  Brian O Beckford
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:30PM - 4:42PM		T10.00006: Low Energy Neutron Emission after Muon Capture Jonathan Miller
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:42PM - 4:54PM		T10.00007: Neutrinoless Muon-to-Positron Conversion at Mu2e Hasung Song
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:54PM - 5:06PM		T10.00008: Pileup Systematic Studies in the Fermilab Muon g-2 Experiment Meghna Bhattacharya, Sudeshna Ganguly
Monday, April 15, 2019 5:06PM - 5:18PM		T10.00009: Measurement of Moller Scattering at 2.5 MeV Richard G Milner

Session T11: Quantum Aspects of Black Holes and de Sitter Space

Sponsoring Units: DGRAV
Chair: Jorge Pullin, Louisiana State University
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 17

Monday, April 15, 2019 3:30PM - 3:42PM		T11.00001: Quantum gravity and black hole spin in gravitational wave observations: a test of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy Hal M Haggard, Eugenio Bianchi, Anuradha Gupta, Bangalore S Sathyaprakash
Monday, April 15, 2019 3:42PM - 3:54PM		T11.00002: Quantum strong energy inequality and the Hawking singularity theorem Eleni-Alexandra Kontou, Christopher Fewster
Monday, April 15, 2019 3:54PM - 4:06PM		T11.00003: Quantum extension of Kruskal black holes Javier Olmedo, Abhay Ashtekar, Parampreet Singh
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:06PM - 4:18PM		T11.00004: Modified commutation relationships from the Berry-Keating program Erick Aiken, Michael Bishop, Douglas Alexander Singleton
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:18PM - 4:30PM		T11.00005: Next to leading order late time behavior for black hole evaporation Paul R Anderson, Raymond D Clark, Alessandro Fabbri, Michael R. R. Good
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:30PM - 4:42PM		T11.00006: Understanding the quantum singularity structure of Kerr spacetime Deborah A Konkowski, Drew Michael Weninger
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:42PM - 4:54PM		T11.00007: Thermodynamic Stability of Causal Diamonds Batoul Banihashemi, Ted Jacobson
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:54PM - 5:06PM		T11.00008: A radical proposal for the cosmological constant problem Steven J Carlip
Monday, April 15, 2019 5:06PM - 5:18PM		T11.00009: The Decay of the de Sitter Vacuum Emil Mottola

Session T12: Detector R&D II

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Roger Rusack, University of Minnesota
Room: Sheraton Plaza Court 1

Monday, April 15, 2019 3:30PM - 3:42PM		T12.00001: The MicroBooNE Continuous Readout Stream for the Detection of Supernova Core-collapse Neutrinos Iris Daniela Ponce-Pinto
Monday, April 15, 2019 3:42PM - 3:54PM		T12.00002: Optical Readout for the ICARUS Cosmic Ray Tagger Tyler N Boone, Robert John Wilson
Monday, April 15, 2019 3:54PM - 4:06PM		T12.00003: Optimizing momentum and time resolution for the NOvA Test Beam Brinden Carlson, Yagmur Torun
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:06PM - 4:18PM		T12.00004: The NOvA Test Beam Program Chatura D Kuruppu
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:18PM - 4:30PM		T12.00005: Overview of ProtoDUNE Hannah Elizabeth Rogers
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:30PM - 4:42PM		T12.00006: Development of Diamond Muon Detectors for DUNE Nicholas Johnston for the DUNE collaboration
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:42PM - 4:54PM		T12.00007: DUNE 3DST near detector Jairo H Rodriguez Rondon for the DUNE collaboration
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:54PM - 5:06PM		T12.00008: Directional Detection of Fast Neutron Beam Backgrounds at SuperKEKB Jeffrey T Schueler
Monday, April 15, 2019 5:06PM - 5:18PM		T12.00009: Progress status for the Mu2e calorimeter Gianantonio Pezzullo, Dexu Lin

Session T13: Computational Physics and Algorithms I

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Room: Sheraton Plaza Court 2

Monday, April 15, 2019 3:30PM - 3:42PM		T13.00001: The Pandora multi-algorithm approach to pattern recognition in MicroBooNE Andrew Smith
Monday, April 15, 2019 3:42PM - 3:54PM		T13.00002: Efficient Neutrino Oscillation Parameter Inference with a Gaussian Process-Accelerated Feldman-Cousins Algorithm Lingge Li, Nitish Nayak, Jianming Bian, Pierre Baldi
Monday, April 15, 2019 3:54PM - 4:06PM		T13.00003: lichen and h5hep: moving toward a ROOT-less workflow for HEP analyses Matthew Bellis, Madeline Hagen
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:06PM - 4:18PM		T13.00004: Machine Learning Applied To Background Events Identification In LUX Dark Matter Experiment Samuel Chan
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:18PM - 4:30PM		T13.00005: Deep Learning for Neutrino Physics on NOvA: Successes and Lessons Fernanda Psihas
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:30PM - 4:42PM		T13.00006: Machine learning for event classification and automated discovery of new physics at the LHC experiments Sergei Chekanov
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:42PM - 4:54PM		T13.00007: Measurement of the WW Cross Section using the Random Forest Algorithm Thoth Gunter
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:54PM - 5:06PM		T13.00008: Application of Machine Learning Techniques to study Jet Substructure Cristina Mantilla Suárez
Monday, April 15, 2019 5:06PM - 5:18PM		T13.00009: Quark-Gluon Discrimination at the Large Hadron Collider Owen W Tower, Amitabh Lath, Abhijith Gandrakota, Kevin Nash, Duncan Adams

Session T14: Gamma Ray SIG Minisymposium

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Sylvain Guiriec, George Washington University
Room: Sheraton Plaza Court 3

Monday, April 15, 2019 3:30PM - 5:18PM

T14.00001: Open Business and Discussion Sylvain Guiriec

Session T15: Computational Physics and Algorithms II

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Randy Ruchti, University of Notre Dame
Room: Sheraton Plaza Court 4

Monday, April 15, 2019 3:30PM - 3:42PM		T15.00001: Single Particle Identification with a Context-Enriched Convolutional Neural Network in the NOνA Experiment Ryan W Murphy
Monday, April 15, 2019 3:42PM - 3:54PM		T15.00002: A binned likelihood for stochastic models Carlos Argüelles, Austin Schneider, Tianlu Yuan
Monday, April 15, 2019 3:54PM - 4:06PM		T15.00003: Neutrino Energy Reconstruction with Regression Convolutional Neural Network at DUNE Ilsoo Seong
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:06PM - 4:18PM		T15.00004: Fast detector modeling using machine learning algorithms Walter Howard Hopkins, Sergei Chekanov, Jeremy R Love, Doug Benjamin
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:18PM - 4:30PM		T15.00005: Imaging Electrons in ATLAS Savannah J Thais
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:30PM - 4:42PM		T15.00006: The FTK First-Stage Tracking Board: A High Bandwidth Track Fitter for the ATLAS Trigger Todd M Seiss
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:42PM - 4:54PM		T15.00007: Wire Cell Reconstruction Studies for Liquid Argon TPC Orgho Anoronyo Neogi
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:54PM - 5:06PM		T15.00008: GEARS -  a Geant4 Example Application with Rich features and Small footprints Jing Liu
Monday, April 15, 2019 5:06PM - 5:18PM		T15.00009: Neural Network Algorithms for the CMS Level-1 Muon Trigger Mugeon Kim

Session T16: Gravitational Wave Signal Searches

Sponsoring Units: DGRAV
Chair: Maura McLaughlin, West Virginia University
Room: Sheraton Grand Ballroom I

Monday, April 15, 2019 3:30PM - 3:42PM		T16.00001: Results from the search for a stochastic gravitational wave background in the NANOGrav 12.5-year data set Joseph Simon
Monday, April 15, 2019 3:42PM - 3:54PM		T16.00002: Sub-threshold binary neutron star search in Advanced LIGO's first observing run RYAN MAGEE
Monday, April 15, 2019 3:54PM - 4:06PM		T16.00003: Results from the Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Search in Advanced LIGO Karan P Jani
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:06PM - 4:18PM		T16.00004: Searches for sub-solar mass ultracompact objects with Advanced LIGO Phoebe K McClincy
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:18PM - 4:30PM		T16.00005: Directed searches for gravitational waves from ultralight bosons Maximiliano Isi, Ling Sun, Richard Brito, Andrew Melatos
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:30PM - 4:42PM		T16.00006: Loosely coherent searches for continuous waves Vladimir Dergachev
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:42PM - 4:54PM		T16.00007: Memory Detection Prospects for Low-Frequency Gravitational Wave Detectors  Kristina Islo
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:54PM - 5:06PM		T16.00008: An Unmodelled Bayesian Burst Search for Gravitational Waves Atul Divakarla, Eric Thrane, Paul Lasky, Bernard F Whiting
Monday, April 15, 2019 5:06PM - 5:18PM		T16.00009: Detecting non-GR polarization states of continuous gravitational waves with pulsar timing arrays   Logan T O'Beirne, Neil J Cornish, Stephen R Taylor, Sarah J Vigeland

Session T17: Neutrinos III

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Young-Kee Kim
Room: Sheraton Grand Ballroom II

Monday, April 15, 2019 3:30PM - 3:42PM		T17.00001: Status of the Short-Baseline Near Detector at Fermilab Michael R Mooney, Ryan LaZur
Monday, April 15, 2019 3:42PM - 3:54PM		T17.00002: Charged and neutral pion production in the MINERνA experiment Gonzalo A Diaz Bautista
Monday, April 15, 2019 3:54PM - 4:06PM		T17.00003: Initial study of the Neutral Current Single π0  production in muon anti-neutrino interaction on water with the P0D Detector at T2K Shilin Liu
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:06PM - 4:18PM		T17.00004: First Oscillation Results Using Neutrinos and Antineutrinos from the NOvA Experiment Erica S Smith
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:18PM - 4:30PM		T17.00005: $\nu_e$ signal selection and cross-checks performed using muon removed simulations and cosmic muon brem showers in NOvA Reddy Pratap Gandrajula
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:30PM - 4:42PM		T17.00006: Systematic Uncertainties for the NOvA Oscillation Analyses Micah Groh
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:42PM - 4:54PM		T17.00007: ProtoDUNE Proton Analysis Heng-Ye Liao, Glenn Horton-Smith, Tingjun Yang
Monday, April 15, 2019 4:54PM - 5:06PM		T17.00008: Measurement of 8B Solar Neutrino Flux in the SNO+ Water Phase Eric Marzec
Monday, April 15, 2019 5:06PM - 5:18PM		T17.00009: Reconstruction Techniques used in the NOvA Experiment Nitish Nayak