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Session Y02: NICER and its Implications

Sponsoring Units: DGRAV DAP
Chair: Sharon Morsink, University of Alberta, Canada
Room: Sheraton Plaza D

Tuesday, April 16, 2019 1:30PM - 2:06PM		Y02.00001: NICER Observations of Neutron Stars and Black Holes Invited Speaker: Deepto Chakrabarty
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:06PM - 2:42PM		Y02.00002: NICER Probes of Neutron Stars and Dense Matter Invited Speaker: Tod E Strohmayer
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:42PM - 3:18PM		Y02.00003: Probing Extreme Gravity with NICER Invited Speaker: Hector O. Silva

Session Y03: Selected Topics in Fundamental Symmetries and the Intensity Frontier

Sponsoring Units: DPF DNP
Chair: Nadia Fomin, University of Tennessee
Room: Sheraton Plaza E

Tuesday, April 16, 2019 1:30PM - 2:06PM		Y03.00001: Lepton Number Violation and Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Invited Speaker: Vincenzo Cirigliano
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:06PM - 2:42PM		Y03.00002: Measuring the Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon Invited Speaker: David J. Flay
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:42PM - 3:18PM		Y03.00003: An Improved Measurement of the Neutron Decay Beta-Neutrino Correlation with the aCORN Experiment Invited Speaker: Fred E Wietfeldt

Session Y04: Searching for Axions

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Guido Mueller, University of Florida
Room: Sheraton Plaza F

Tuesday, April 16, 2019 1:30PM - 2:06PM		Y04.00001: First results from the Generation-2 Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX) Invited Speaker: Rakshya Khatiwada
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:06PM - 2:42PM		Y04.00002: The International Axion Observatory (IAXO): The Next Generation of Axion Helioscopes Invited Speaker: Julia K. Vogel
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:42PM - 3:18PM		Y04.00003: ALPSII: Using Long Baseline Cavities to Probe the Hidden Sector Invited Speaker: Aaron D Spector

Session Y05: Frontiers of Nuclear few-body Reactions

Sponsoring Units: DNP GFB
Chair: Dean Lee, FRIB and Michigan State University
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 14

Tuesday, April 16, 2019 1:30PM - 2:06PM		Y05.00001: Clustering in Exotic Nuclei Invited Speaker: Grigory V Rogachev
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:06PM - 2:42PM		Y05.00002: Ab initio calculations of few-body reactions Invited Speaker: Sofia Quaglioni
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:42PM - 3:18PM		Y05.00003: Studying few-body fusion reactions with laser-generated high-energy-density plasmas Invited Speaker: Alex Zylstra

Session Y06: The New SI System: Should 2 pi Have Units?

Sponsoring Units: FIP
Chair: Roy Jerome Peterson, University of Colorado, Boulder
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 15

Tuesday, April 16, 2019 1:30PM - 2:06PM		Y06.00001: The New SI system and the Definition of Frequency Invited Speaker: Judah Levine
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:06PM - 2:42PM		Y06.00002:  Reaching international consensus on fundamental changes to the International System of Units (SI) Invited Speaker: Richard S Davis
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:42PM - 3:18PM		Y06.00003: Magnetic Flux Density, Magnetic Field Strength, and the Permeability of Vacuum Invited Speaker: Ronald B Goldfarb

Session Y07: Excellence in Physics Education Award: The Learning Assistants Alliance

Sponsoring Units: FEd
Chair: Laurie McNeil, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 16

Tuesday, April 16, 2019 1:30PM - 2:06PM		Y07.00001: The Learning Assistant Model for Building Equitable Learning Environments  Invited Speaker: Valerie K Otero
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:06PM - 2:42PM		Y07.00002: The Learning Assistant Alliance for Supporting a Diversity of Institutions, Faculty, and Students Invited Speaker: Laurie Langdon
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:42PM - 3:18PM		Y07.00003: Leveraging student expertise in the Learning Assistant (LA) Model:  The importance of understanding diverse LA and Instructor Partnerships Invited Speaker: Mel S Sabella

Session Y08: Computational Physics

Sponsoring Units: DCOMP
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 10

Tuesday, April 16, 2019 1:30PM - 1:42PM		Y08.00001: Towards Robust Methods for Relativistic Neutrino Transport Eirik Endeve
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 1:42PM - 1:54PM		Y08.00002: Using Machine Learning Tools to Enhance Background Subtraction at E906/SeaQuest Marshall Scott
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 1:54PM - 2:06PM		Y08.00003: Accelerating NOvA's Feldman Cousins procedure with high performance computing platforms Derek D Doyle
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:06PM - 2:18PM		Y08.00004: Benefits of the Sirepo cloud computing framework for graduate level physics education David L Bruhwiler, Robert Nagler, Paul Moeller, Christopher Hall, Nathan M Cook, Dan T Abell, Boaz Nash, Michael Keilman
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:18PM - 2:30PM		Y08.00005: Computational Study of Double Ionization in Intense Bicircular Fields Jan Lucien Chaloupka
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:30PM - 2:42PM		Y08.00006: Efficient calculation of ground state properties of strongly correlated fermionic systems with BCS-Constrained-Path Auxiliary-Field Quantum Monte Carlo Ettore Vitali, Peter Rosenberg, Shiwei Zhang
(Author Not Attending)		Y08.00007: A Mathematical Model for the Holistic Medicine Part 1 Christina Pospisil, Tong Shu

Session Y09: Axion II

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: LIndley Winslow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 11

Tuesday, April 16, 2019 1:30PM - 1:42PM		Y09.00001: Characterization of the HAYSTAC dark matter detector cavity: microwave measurement and simulation Nicholas M Rapidis, Samantha M Lewis, Karl Albert Van Bibber
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 1:42PM - 1:54PM		Y09.00002: Photonic Band Gap resonators for HAYSTAC Samantha M Lewis
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 1:54PM - 2:06PM		Y09.00003: A tunable higher-frequency resonant cavity for HAYSTAC Maria Simanovskaia, Alex Droster, Karl Albert Van Bibber
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:06PM - 2:18PM		Y09.00004: Squeezed state quantum receiver for HAYSTAC phase 2 Kelly M Backes
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:18PM - 2:30PM		Y09.00005: Mechanical design and operational improvement for Phase 2 of HAYSTAC Elizabeth C van Assendelft
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:30PM - 2:42PM		Y09.00006: CAPP-8TB axion haloscope for a mass range of 6.62 - 7.03 μeV Saebyeok Ahn
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:42PM - 2:54PM		Y09.00007: Microwave Cavity Axion Dark Matter Search from 3.3 to 12.4 μeV at IBS/CAPP Andrew Kunwoo Yi
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:54PM - 3:06PM		Y09.00008: The integration of the heterodyne readout system in ALPS-II  Ayman Hallal

Session Y10: Gravitational Waves: Data Analysis Techniques 2

Sponsoring Units: DGRAV
Chair: Karan Jani, Georgia Tech
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 12

Tuesday, April 16, 2019 1:30PM - 1:42PM		Y10.00001: Integrated approaches to deep learning in gravitational-wave signal modeling and statistical inference Alvin J. K. Chua
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 1:42PM - 1:54PM		Y10.00002: NNETFIX: A neural network to 'fix' Gravitational Wave signals overlapping with short-duration glitches in LIGO-Virgo data. Sumeet Kulkarni, Marco Cavaglia
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 1:54PM - 2:06PM		Y10.00003: A new method to find the origin of glitches in ground-based gravitational-wave detectors Kentaro Mogushi, Massimiliano Razzano, Marco Cavaglia, Giancarlo Cella, Giorgio Nicolini
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:06PM - 2:18PM		Y10.00004: Rapid parameter estimation for compact binary coalescence events in LIGO data Sinead Walsh
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:18PM - 2:30PM		Y10.00005: Background reduction in LIGO-Virgo searches for supernova signals with machine learning Marco Cavaglia, Sergio Gaudio, Travis James Hansen, Kai Staats, Marek Szczepanczyk, Michele Zanolin
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:30PM - 2:42PM		Y10.00006: The impact of LIGO noise transients on accurate gravitational-wave event skymaps Jess McIver, Thomas J Massinger, Derek Davis, Laura Kate Nuttall, Vivien Raymond, Rory Smith
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:42PM - 2:54PM		Y10.00007: Strain Histograms for Evaluating Continuous Gravitational Wave Candidates Grant Weldon, Keith Riles
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:54PM - 3:06PM		Y10.00008: Modern Pulsar Timing Array Sensitivity Curves Jeffrey Shafiq Hazboun
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 3:06PM - 3:18PM		Y10.00009: The "Dropout Method”: A Bayesian technique for identifying spurious signals in pulsar timing arrays Sarah J Vigeland, Michele Vallisneri, Stephen R Taylor

Session Y11: Analytical Calculations and Approximations in General Relativity

Sponsoring Units: DGRAV
Chair: Steve Carlip, University of California, Davis
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 17

Tuesday, April 16, 2019 1:30PM - 1:42PM		Y11.00001: Coulombic contribution to angular momentum flux in general relativity Beatrice Bonga, Eric Poisson
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 1:42PM - 1:54PM		Y11.00002: Non-axial angular momentum fluxes and black hole perturbation theory Karna Ashwin Morey, Scott A Hughes
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 1:54PM - 2:06PM		Y11.00003: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:06PM - 2:18PM		Y11.00004: Horizon instability of the extremal BTZ black hole Samuel Gralla, Arun Ravishankar, Peter Zimmerman
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:18PM - 2:30PM		Y11.00005: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

Session Y12: Nuclear Astrophysics III

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Andrew Steiner, University of Tennessee
Room: Sheraton Plaza Court 1

Tuesday, April 16, 2019 1:30PM - 1:42PM		Y12.00001: Calculation of Stellar NucleosynthesisAbundances using ENDF/B-VIII.0 andTENDL-2015 Evaluated Nuclear Data Libraries Boris Pritychenko
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 1:42PM - 1:54PM		Y12.00002: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 1:54PM - 2:06PM		Y12.00003: Influence of statistical uncertainties of Skyrme-type nuclear mass models on r-process nucleosynthesis simulations Trevor M Sprouse, Rodrigo Navarro Perez, Rebecca Surman, Matthew R Mumpower, Gail McLaughlin, Nicolas Schunck
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:06PM - 2:18PM		Y12.00004: Beta-Decay Experiment for Rapid Neutron-Capture Process Nucleosynthesis Neerajan Nepal, Alejandro Algora, Alfredo Estrade, Shunji Nishimura
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:18PM - 2:30PM		Y12.00005: A new measurement of the 17O(α,n)20Ne cross section  Kevin T Macon, Axel Boeltzig, Richard J DeBoer, Michael T Febbraro, Qian Liu, Rebecca Toomey, Sean P Burcher, Rebeka Kelmar, August C Gula, Jerome Kovoor, Craig Reingold, Shane Moylan, Shea Mosby, Kate L Jones, Michael C F Wiescher, Karl Smith
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:30PM - 2:42PM		Y12.00006: Probing fusion by using an isotopic chain of neutron-rich oxygen isotopes to bombard a carbon target Sylvie Hudan, Romualdo Desouza

Session Y13: Electroweak Nuclear Physics

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Steven R. Elliott, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Room: Sheraton Plaza Court 2

Tuesday, April 16, 2019 1:30PM - 1:42PM		Y13.00001: The Parity-Violating Asymmetry in the N→∆ Transition at Very Low Q2  Thamraa A Alshayeb
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 1:42PM - 1:54PM		Y13.00002: Parity-Violating and Parity-Conserving Asymmetries in Electron Scattering from 27Al David S Armstrong
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 1:54PM - 2:06PM		Y13.00003: Maintaining a Magnetic Environment for a Nab Polarimetry Measurement Chelsea M Hendrus
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:06PM - 2:18PM		Y13.00004: Precision Half-life Measurement of $^{13}$N Jacob Long, Maxime Brodeur
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:18PM - 2:30PM		Y13.00005: Search for Tri-Nucleon Decay in the Majorana Demonstrator Xiaoyu Zhu, Pinghan Chu, Steve Elliott, Ralph J Massarczyk

Session Y14: Detector R&D III

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Young-Kee Kim
Room: Sheraton Plaza Court 3

Tuesday, April 16, 2019 1:30PM - 1:42PM		Y14.00001: Calculation and Measurement of the Interstrip Capacitance on the Readout Board of the GE2/1 GEM Detector Stephen D Butalla, Marcus Hohlmann
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 1:42PM - 1:54PM		Y14.00002: Wavelength Shifting Liquid-Filled Capillaries for Compact Optical Electromagnetic Calorimetry Applications Randal C Ruchti, Mark Vigneault, Daniel Smith, John Taylor, Kiva Ford
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 1:54PM - 2:06PM		Y14.00003: Modeling Magnetic Fields with Helical Solutions to Laplace’s Equation Brian Pollack, Ryan Pellico, Cole Kampa, Henry Glass, Michael Schmitt
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:06PM - 2:18PM		Y14.00004: Spatial Imaging of Charge Transport in Silicon at Low Temperature Chris C Stanford
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:18PM - 2:30PM		Y14.00005: Ultrastrong coupling of CdZnS/ZnS quantum dots and breathing plasmons in Aluminum metal-insulator-metal nanocavities in near-ultraviolet spectrum Li Li
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:30PM - 2:42PM		Y14.00006: Hot-Electron Plasmonics for Ultrafast Control of Intensity, Phase, and Polarization of light Mohammad Taghinejad, Wenshan Cai
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:42PM - 2:54PM		Y14.00007: Nuclear recoil calibration of SuperCDMS HVeV detectors using a neutron scattering setup Runze Ren
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:54PM - 3:06PM		Y14.00008: Measurement of neutron activation of tritium in silicon using CCDs. Ryan J Thomas
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 3:06PM - 3:18PM		Y14.00009: Impact Ionization in SuperCDMS HVeV Detectors Francisco Ponce, Paul Brink, Blas Cabrera, Matthew A. Cherry, Caleb Fink, Noah Kurinsky, William Page, Richard Allan Partridge, Matt Pyle, Bernard Sadoulet, Bruno Christian Serfass, Chris C Stanford, Samuel Watkins, Steven J. Yellin, Betty Young

Session Y15: Collider and BSM VI

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Fernanda Psihas, University of Texas, Austin
Room: Sheraton Plaza Court 4

Tuesday, April 16, 2019 1:30PM - 1:42PM		Y15.00001: Search for supersymmetry in the single-lepton final state using the sum of large jet masses Alex Dorsett, Jeffrey D Richman, David D Stuart
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 1:42PM - 1:54PM		Y15.00002: Search for long-lived particles decaying into displaced jets Jingyu Luo
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 1:54PM - 2:06PM		Y15.00003: Supersymmetry discovery potential at HL-LHC and HE-LHC Amin Aboubrahim
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:06PM - 2:18PM		Y15.00004: Searching for Ultra Long-Lived Particles with MATHUSLA Mason Proffitt
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:18PM - 2:30PM		Y15.00005: Searching for axion-like particles in light-by-light scattering with proton tagging at the Large Hadron Collider Cristian X Baldenegro Barrera
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:30PM - 2:42PM		Y15.00006: Forward Physics with intact protons at the LHC Cristian Baldenegro, Christophe Royon
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:42PM - 2:54PM		Y15.00007: A search for pair production of new light bosons decaying into muons Wei Shi
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:54PM - 3:06PM		Y15.00008: Searches for dark matter mediators with dijet final states in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC Kathleen Whalen, David M Strom, Antonio Boveia, Emma Tolley