Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2020
Volume 65, Number 2
Saturday–Tuesday, April 18–21, 2020; Washington D.C.
Epitome
Apr 18 2020 8:30AM, Saturday
A01
Invited
Live
Plenary
Kavli Foundation Keynote Plenary Session: Exploring the Cosmos
Room: Marriott Ballroom 2/3
Sponsor:
APS
Chair: Tao Han, University of Pittsburgh
Invited Speakers: James Peebles, Michel Mayor, Eric Cornell
Apr 18 2020 10:15AM, Saturday
A02
Networking Break (10:15am - 10:45am)
Room: N/A
Apr 18 2020 10:45AM, Saturday
B02
Invited
Live
New Results from the CERN LHC
Room: Washington 1
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Mayda Velasco, Northwestern University
Invited Speakers: Andreas Jung, Isobel Ojalvo, Evelyn Thomson
B03
Invited
Cancelled
Outreach and Engaging the Public
Room: Washington 2
Sponsor:
FOEP
Chair: Don Lincoln, Fermilab
Invited Speakers: Virginia Trimble, Lucy Fortson, Francis Slakey
B04
Invited
Live
Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay: Physics Results and Perspectives
Room: Washington 3
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: A. Galindo-Uribarri, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers: Michelle Dolinski, Danielle Speller, Jason Detwiler
B06
Invited
Live
Our Neighborly Supermassive Black Holes
Room: Roosevelt 1
Sponsor:
DGRAV DAP
Chair: Manuela Campanelli, Rochester Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers: Michael Johnson, Reinhard Genzel, Andrew Chael
B07
Invited
Live
Exotic Hadrons
Room: Roosevelt 2
Sponsor:
GHP
Chair: Jake Bennett, University of Mississippi
Invited Speakers: Eric Swanson, Ryan Mitchell, Daniel Craik
B08
Invited
Live
A Sampling of Career Paths Available for Early-Career Scientists
Room: Roosevelt 3
Sponsor:
FECS
Chair: Kevin Ludwick, LaGrange College
Invited Speakers: Rama Balasubramanian, Daniel Berdichevsky, Ajinkya Kamat
B09
Live
Observations of Galactic Cosmic Rays
Room: Roosevelt 4
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Fred Sarazin, Colorado School of Mines
B10
On Demand
Cosmic Microwave Background and Cosmic Ray Observation
Room: Roosevelt 5
Sponsor:
DAP
B11
On Demand
Few-Body Nuclear Physics
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
DNP GFB
Chair: Maxim Mai, George Washington University
B12
On Demand
Axions I
Room: Maryland B
Chair: Gianpaolo Carosi, LLNL
B13
Live
Beyond the Standard Model Searches at the LHC I
Room: Maryland C
Chair: Marina Artuso, Syracuse University
B14
On Demand
Fundamental Symmetries
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Nadia Fomin, University of Tennessee
B15
Live
Quantum Theory of Cosmology and Black Holes
Room: Virginia B
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Ted Jacobson, University of Maryland
B16
Live
Interface of Numerical Relativity and Classical General Relativity
Room: Virginia C
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Beverly Berger, Stanford University
B17
On Demand
Undergraduate Research I
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
APS
Chair: Midhat Farooq, American Physical Society
B19
Live
Accelerator Technology
Room: Washington 4
Sponsor:
DPB
Chair: Michiko Minty, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Apr 18 2020 12:00PM, Saturday
B24
Live
APS Press Conference: A Q&A with Reinhard Genzel
Room: Washington 6
Sponsor:
APS
Chair: David Barnstone, APS Science Communications Manager
Apr 18 2020 12:30PM, Saturday
B21
Live
Lunch with the Grads: A Panel Discussion on Physics Graduate School
Room: Wilson A/B
Sponsor:
Careers
Chair: Midhat Farooq, American Physical Society
Apr 18 2020 12:40PM, Saturday
B23
Live
DPF Grad Slam
Room: Washington 1
Sponsor:
DPF
Apr 18 2020 1:30PM, Saturday
C02
On Demand
History of Physics
Room: Washington 1
C03
Invited
Live
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Thesis Prize
Room: Washington 2
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Taboada Ignacio, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers: Nicholas Rodd, Anna Ogorzalek, Jessica Muir
C04
Invited
Live
New Insights from Precision Measurements of Weak Interaction Phenomena
Room: Washington 3
Sponsor:
GPMFC DNP
Chair: Susan Gardner, University of Kentucky
Invited Speakers: Stefan Baessler, Thomas Papenbrock, Elena Aprile
C05
Invited
Live
Physics of the Cosmos & PhysPAG Town Hall
Room: Washington 6
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Ryan Hickox, Dartmouth University
Invited Speakers: Paul Hertz, Graca Rocha, Fiona Harrison, John Conklin, Daniel Kocevski, Hermann Marshall
C06
Invited
Live
New Results from LIGO
Room: Roosevelt 1
Sponsor:
DGRAV DAP
Chair: Katerina Chatziioannou, California Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers: Chad Hanna, Maya Fishbach, Maximiliano Isi
C07
Invited
Live
Physics with Accelerators - Particle Physics
Room: Roosevelt 2
Sponsor:
FIP
Chair: Vladimir Shiltsev, FNAL
Invited Speakers: Sergio Bertolucci, Daniel Winklehner, Caterina Biscari
C08
Invited
Live
Science and National Security
Room: Roosevelt 3
Sponsor:
FPS
Chair: Ellen Williams, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers: Laurie Garrett, Rod Schoonover, Herb Lin
C09
Live
Sources of Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos
Room: Roosevelt 4
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Tonia Venters, GFSC
C10
Live
Neutron Star Theory
Room: Roosevelt 5
Sponsor:
DAP DGRAV
Chair: Daniel Holz, University of Chicago
C11
On Demand
Physics Education: Introductory Courses and Labs
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
FEd
Chair: MacKenzie Stetzer, University of Maine
C12
Live
The Study of the Higgs Particle
Room: Maryland B
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Marc Sher, College of William & Mary
C13
Live
Status and Future of Dark Matter Experiments at the 1-10+ GeV Scale
Room: Maryland C
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Bjoern Penning, Brandeis University
C14
Focus
Live
Mini-Symposium: Science Opportunities Enabled by the Electron-Ion Collider
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
GHP
Chair: Kent Paschke, University of Virginia
Invited Speakers: Rolf Ent
C15
Live
Quantum Theory of Gravity
Room: Virginia B
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: David Craig, Oregon State University
C17
Live
Undergraduate Research II
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
APS SPS
Chair: Midhat Farooq, American Physical Society
C20
Focus
Live
Neutrinos I – Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay: Background Challenges
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: A. Galindo-Uribarri, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers: Julieta Gruszko
Apr 18 2020 3:30PM, Saturday
D02
Invited
Live
Extreme Beams
Room: Washington 1
Sponsor:
DPB
Chair: Sergei Nagaitsev, Fermilab
Invited Speakers: Felicie Albert, Timur Shaftan, Vitaly Yakimenko
D03
Invited
Live
AMO Frontiers in Astrophysics
Room: Washington 2
Sponsor:
DAMOP DAP
Chair: Joe Britton, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers: Jason Hogan, David Phillips, Scott Diddams
D04
Invited
Live
New Physics Searches at the Precision Frontier
Room: Washington 3
Sponsor:
DNP DPF
Chair: Vincenzo Cirigliano, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers: Philipp Schmidt-Wellenburg, Aida El-Khadra, Carl Carlson
D05
Live
Improving the Sensitivity of LIGO and Future Ground-Based Gravitational Wave Detectors
Room: Washington 6
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: James Thorpe, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
D06
Invited
Live
Progress in Analytical Relativity
Room: Roosevelt 1
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Eanna Flanagan, Cornell University
Invited Speakers: Gary Horowitz, Justin Vines, Scott Hughes
D07
Invited
Live
Physics with Accelerators - Nuclear Physics
Room: Roosevelt 2
Sponsor:
FIP
Chair: Elena Aprile, Columbia University
Invited Speakers: Silvia Dalla Torre, Yasuhiro Okada, Marek Lewitowicz
D08
Invited
Live
From Particle Physics to Brain Imaging and Radiotherapy
Room: Roosevelt 3
Sponsor:
GMED
Chair: Peter Krizan, JSI and University of Ljubljana
Invited Speakers: Cynthia Keppel, John Wong, Stanislaw Majewski, Rok Dolenec
D09
Live
Ultra High-energy Cosmic Ray Observations
Room: Roosevelt 4
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Foteini Oikonomou, Technische Universität München (TUM) / ESO
D10
Live
Gravitational Waves and Gamma Ray Bursts
Room: Roosevelt 5
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Eric Burns, Goddard Space Flight Center
D12
Live
Sub-GeV and Other Light Dark Matter, and Calibrations for These Scales
Room: Maryland B
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: John Orrell, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
D13
On Demand
Nuclear Reactions:Heavy-ion / Rare Isotope Beams
Room: Maryland C
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Kelly Chipps, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
D14
Live
Heavy Flavor and Exotic Hadrons
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
GHP
Chair: Timothy Hobbs, Southern Methodist University
D15
Live
Numerical Relativity: Algorithms and Code Development
Room: Virginia B
Sponsor:
DGRAV DCOMP
Chair: Carlos Lousto, Rochester Institute of Technology
D16
Focus
Live
Correlations and Fluctuations in Heavy-ion Collisions
Room: Virginia C
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Claudia Ratti, University of Houston
Invited Speakers: Anthony R. Timmins
D17
Live
Undergraduate Research III
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
APS SPS
Chair: Crystal Bailey, American Physical Society
D20
Focus
Live
Neutrinos II – Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay: Increasing Sensitivities
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: David Radford, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers: Benjamin Jones
Apr 18 2020 5:30PM, Saturday
D21
Poster
On Demand
Welcome Reception and Poster Session I (17:30-19:30)
Room: Exhibit Hall A
D23
Live
DPF Town Hall Meeting on Snowmass Preparation
Room: Washington 1
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Young-Kee Kim, University of Chicago
Apr 18 2020 6:30PM, Saturday
D25
Invited
Live
Mini-Symposium: NASA Inflation Probe Science Interest Group
Room: Washington 2
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Graca Rocha, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Invited Speakers: Graca Rocha, Shaul Hanany, Alan Kogut, Krzysztof Gorski, Reijo Keskitalo, Tess Jaffe
Apr 18 2020 7:00PM, Saturday
E01
Invited
Special Event
Live
Public Lecture: Seeing the Unseeable: Capturing an Image of a Black Hole
Room: Marriott Ballroom 2/3
Chair: James Gates, Brown University
Invited Speakers: Sheperd Doeleman
Apr 19 2020 8:30AM, Sunday
G02
Invited
Live
Accelerator Based Neutrino Physics
Room: Washington 1
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Elizabeth Worcester, BNL
Invited Speakers: Lisa Koerner, Xiao Luo, Peter Denton
G03
Invited
Live
Precision Tests of Fundamental Physics
Room: Washington 2
Sponsor:
GPMFC DAMOP
Chair: Susan Gardner, University of Kentucky
Invited Speakers: Gerald Gabrielse, Natasha Sachdeva, E. A. Hessels
G04
Invited
Cancelled
Connecting Science Policy with Science's History
Room: Washington 3
Chair: Melinda Baldwin, American Institute of Physics
Invited Speakers: Erin Heath, Tiffany Nichols, William Thomas
G05
Invited
Cancelled
Mini-Symposium: Gravitational Wave SIG
Room: Washington 6
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, Vanderbilt
Invited Speakers: Terri Brandt, John Conklin, Xavier Siemens
G06
Invited
Live
Physical Review Invited Session: Aspects of Multimessenger Astrophysics
Room: Roosevelt 1
Sponsor:
PR/PRL DAP DGRAV
Chair: Robert Garisto, APS/ PRL
Invited Speakers: Tyson Littenberg, Wen-fai Fong, Dawn Williams
G07
Invited
Live
The Hadronic Spectrum in Hot and Cold QCD
Room: Roosevelt 2
Sponsor:
GHP DNP
Chair: Anne Sickles, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Invited Speakers: Claudia Ratti, Jozef Dudek, Anders Knospe
G08
Invited
Live
Why it is Critical to Promote and Support Equity and Inclusion in Physics
Room: Roosevelt 3
Sponsor:
FEd
Chair: Gerald Feldman, George Washington University
Invited Speakers: Anne Marie Porter, Timothy McKay, Alexandru Maries
G09
Focus
Live
Mini-Symposium: The Cosmic Microwave Background and Fundamental Physics on the Cosmic Frontier
Room: Roosevelt 4
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Kevin Huffenberger, Florida State University
Invited Speakers: Raphael Flauger
G10
Live
New Techniques and Theories for Dark Matter and Cosmology
Room: Roosevelt 5
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Yacine Ali-Haimoud, New York University
G11
On Demand
Applications of Nuclear Physics
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Evie Downie, George Washington University
G12
Live
Axions II
Room: Maryland B
Chair: Andrew Sonnenschein, FNAL
G13
Live
Developments in Quantum Field Theory
Room: Maryland C
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: James Halverson, Northeastern University
G14
On Demand
Hadronic Physics
Room: Virginia A
G15
Live
Quantum Field Theory in a Curved Spacetime
Room: Virginia B
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Ivan Agullo, Louisiana State University
G16
Live
Technology for Space-Based Gravitational-Wave Detectors
Room: Virginia C
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Jeffrey Livas, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
G17
Focus
Live
The Nucleosynthesis of Proton-Rich Isotopes
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Catherine Deibel, Louisiana State University
Invited Speakers: Zach Meisel
G18
Live
Numerical Relativity: Magnetohydrodynamics
Room: Delaware B
Sponsor:
DCOMP DGRAV
Chair: Maria Babiuc Hamilton, Marshall University
G20
Live
Neutrinos III – Neutrino Properties
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Kate Scholberg, Duke University
Apr 19 2020 9:30AM, Sunday
G23
Cancelled
DPF Quarknet Workshop
Room: Marriott Balcony 'B'
Sponsor:
DPF
Apr 19 2020 10:15AM, Sunday
G24
Networking Break (10:15am - 10:45am)
Room: N/A
Apr 19 2020 10:30AM, Sunday
G25
Cancelled
Undergraduate Breakfast, Career Workshop, and Awards
Room: Thurgood Marshall Southwest
Sponsor:
Careers
Apr 19 2020 10:45AM, Sunday
H02
Invited
Live
Recent Advances in Theoretical Particle Physics
Room: Washington 1
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Keith Dienes, University of Arizona
Invited Speakers: Stefania Gori, Jim Halverson, Daniel Harlow
H03
Invited
Live
From the Sun to the Highest Energies in the Universe
Room: Washington 2
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Thomas Gaisser, University of Delaware
Invited Speakers: Michael Unger, Damiano Caprioli, Justin Kasper
H04
Invited
Live
Electron-Ion Collider Science
Room: Washington 3
Sponsor:
DNP GHP
Chair: Ernst Sichtermann, LBL
Invited Speakers: Alexei Prokudin, Anna Stasto, Thomas Ullrich
H06
Invited
Live
Data Science in Physics Education
Room: Roosevelt 1
Sponsor:
GDS FEd
Chair: Dimitri Bourilkov, University of Florida
Invited Speakers: Sergei Gleyzer, Matthew Bellis, Vicki Toy-Edens
H07
Invited
Live
Funding Top Quality Research in Physics
Room: Roosevelt 2
Sponsor:
FIP
Chair: Luisa Cifarelli, University of Bologna and INFN
Invited Speakers: Fabio Zwirner, Ayse Erzan, James Siegrist
H08
Invited
Live
Invited talk by former NSF Director France Córdova
Room: Roosevelt 3
Sponsor:
FPS
Chair: E. Colglazier, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Invited Speakers: France Cordova
H09
Live
Astrophysics with LISA
Room: Roosevelt 4
Sponsor:
DAP DGRAV
Chair: Bangalore Sathyaprakash, The Pennsylvania State University
H10
Live
Baryon Acoustic Oscillations, Early Universe, and Cosmological Constants
Room: Roosevelt 5
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Josh Frieman, Fermilab
H11
Focus
Live
Mini-Symposium: Tests of Time Reversal Violation I
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Nadia Fomin, University of Tennessee
Invited Speakers: William Snow
H12
Live
Unconventional ideas in Astrophysics and Cosmology
Room: Maryland B
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Chris Fryer, LANL
H13
Live
Detectors and Upgrades I
Room: Maryland C
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Rajdeep Chatterjee, University of Minnesota
H14
Live
Experimental Dark Matter Detection
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DAP DPF
Chair: Arran Phipps, Stanford University
H15
On Demand
Gravitational Wave Observations with Pulsar Timing Arrays
Room: Virginia B
Sponsor:
DGRAV DAP
Chair: Xavier Siemens, Oregon State University
H16
Live
Modeling Eccentric and Spinning Compact Binaries
Room: Virginia C
Sponsor:
DAP DGRAV
Chair: Sean McWilliams, West Virginia University
H17
Focus
Live
The Nucleosynthesis of Proton-Rich Isotopes in Classical Novae
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Kelly Chipps, Oak Ride National Laboratory
Invited Speakers: S.D. Pain
H18
Live
Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics with Gravitational Waves
Room: Delaware B
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Peter Shawhan, University of Maryland
H20
Live
Neutrino Oscillations and Scattering
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Mike Kordosky, College of William & Mary
Apr 19 2020 12:40PM, Sunday
H22
DPF Open Business Meeting
Room: Washington 1
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Young-Kee Kim, University of Chicago
Apr 19 2020 1:00PM, Sunday
H23
Cancelled
DPF CMS Masterclass
Room: Marriott Balcony 'B'
Sponsor:
DPF
Apr 19 2020 1:30PM, Sunday
J02
Invited
Live
Special Session for the Sakurai, Panofsky and Primakoff Award Winners
Room: Washington 1
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Young-Kee Kim, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers: Matt Pyle, Pierre Sikivie, Wesley Smith
J03
Invited
Live
Neutrino Astrophysics
Room: Washington 2
Sponsor:
DAP DPF
Chair: Kate Scholberg, Duke University
Invited Speakers: Ignacio Taboada, Irene Tamborra, Kfir Blum
J04
Invited
Cancelled
History of Cosmology
Room: Washington 3
Sponsor:
FHP DGRAV
Chair: Christopher Smeenk, University of Western Ontario
Invited Speakers: Christopher Smeenk, Dennis Lehmkuhl, Jim Peebles
J06
Invited
Live
NICER and the Mass-radius Relation of Neutron Stars
Room: Roosevelt 1
Sponsor:
DGRAV DNP
Chair: David Nice, Lafayette College
Invited Speakers: Wynn C.G. Ho, Anna Bilous, Andrew Steiner
J07
Invited
Live
Creating an Inclusive Physics Community for the Next Century
Room: Roosevelt 2
Sponsor:
CSWP
Chair: Maria Rodriguez, USU-IFT
Invited Speakers: Evangeline Downie, Maria J Rodriguez, Mahzarin Banaji
J08
Invited
Live
Excellence in Physics Education Award: The Open Source Team
Room: Roosevelt 3
Sponsor:
FEd
Chair: Gerald Feldman, George Washington University
Invited Speakers: Wolfgang Christian, Harvey Gould, Bruce Mason
J09
Live
Gravitational Wave Populations
Room: Roosevelt 4
Sponsor:
DAP DGRAV
Chair: Tyson Littenberg, Marshall Space Flight Center
J10
Live
Particle Astrophysics
Room: Roosevelt 5
Sponsor:
DPF DAP
Chair: Marcelle Soares-Santos, Brandeis University
J11
Focus
Live
Mini-Symposium: QCD and the Nuclear Medium
Room: Maryland A
Chair: Douglas Higinbotham, Jefferson Lab
Invited Speakers: Florian Hauenstein
J12
Live
Neutrinos and Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Room: Maryland B
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Erika Catano-Mur, William and Mary
J13
Live
Beyond the Standard Model Searches at the LHC II
Room: Maryland C
Chair: Stefania Gori, UC Santa Cruz
J14
Live
Numerical Modeling of Neutron Stars
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Zach Etienne, West Virginia University
J15
Live
Tests of General Relativity with Gravitational Waves I
Room: Virginia B
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Miriam Cabero, The University of British Columbia
J16
Live
Nucleon Structure and Nucleon Spin
Room: Virginia C
Sponsor:
GHP
Chair: Garth Huber, University of Regina
J17
On Demand
Nuclear Astrophysics
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Jeffrey Blackmon, Louisiana State University
J18
On Demand
Jets in Heavy Ion Collisions
Room: Delaware B
Chair: Anthony Timmins, University of Houston
J20
Live
Beyond The Standard Model Physics with Neutrinos
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Mike Kordosky, College of William & Mary
Apr 19 2020 2:00PM, Sunday
K01
Poster
On Demand
Poster Session II (14:00-17:00)
Room: Exhibit Hall A
Apr 19 2020 2:30PM, Sunday
J21
Live
Tutorial for Authors & Referees
Room: Wilson AB
Chair: Michael Thoennessen, American Physical Society
Apr 19 2020 3:30PM, Sunday
K02
Live
Meet the Physical Review Journals' Editors
Room: Wilson Foyer
Sponsor:
EDADM
Chair: Michael Thoennessen, American Physical Society
K03
Live
Meet Your Future: Career Panel and Networking
Room: Madison A/B
Sponsor:
Careers
Chair: Midhat Farooq, American Physical Society
L02
Invited
Live
Science, Status, and Prospects of U.S. Facilities for Nuclear Physics
Room: Washington 1
Sponsor:
DPB DNP
Chair: Sarah Cousineau, Oak Ride National Lab
Invited Speakers: Stuart Henderson, Jie Wei, Thomas Roser
L03
Invited
Live
Fast Radio Bursts and Tidal Disruption Events
Room: Washington 2
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Yuri Levin, Columbia University
Invited Speakers: Sjoert Van Velzen, Kiyoshi Masui, Andrei Beloborodov
L04
Invited
Live
Sensitive Reaction Studies for Nuclear Astrophysics
Room: Washington 3
Sponsor:
DNP DCOMP
Chair: Chris Wrede, Michigan State University
Invited Speakers: Matthew Mumpower, Nicole Vassh, Luke Roberts
L05
Invited
Cancelled
Pais Prize Session: Farm Hall
Room: Washington 6
Sponsor:
FHP
Chair: Michael Janssen, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers: Mark Walker, David Cassidy, Dieter Hoffmann
L06
Invited
Live
Tests of General Relativity
Room: Roosevelt 1
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Kent Yagi, University of Virginia
Invited Speakers: Clifford Will, Leo Stein, Dimitrios Psaltis
L07
Invited
Live
Acknowledging African and Indigenous Peoples' Contributions to Physics and Astronomy
Room: Roosevelt 2
Sponsor:
COM
Chair: Geraldine Cochran, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers: Ximena Cid, Gerceida Jones, Katemari Rosa, PANEL DISCUSSION
L08
Invited
Live
From Deuterium to Light Nuclei: Measurements and Ab-Initio Theory
Room: Roosevelt 3
Sponsor:
GFB DNP
Chair: Or Hen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers: M. Piarulli, Werner Boeglin, Richard Furnstahl
L09
Live
Neutron Star and Black Hole Binary Merger Simulations and Modeling
Room: Roosevelt 4
Sponsor:
DAP DGRAV
Chair: Andrew Macfadyen, New York University
L10
Focus
Live
Mini-Symposium: Advances in Spectroscopic Cosmology
Room: Roosevelt 5
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Eric Linder, Berkeley Lab
L11
Live
Tests of Time Reversal Violation II
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Nadia Fomin, University of Tennessee
L12
Focus
Live
Mini-Symposium: Nuclear Femtography
Room: Maryland B
Chair: Latifa Elouadrhiri, Jefferson Lab
Invited Speakers: Charles Hyde
L13
Live
Instrumentation in Nuclear and Particle Physics II
Room: Maryland C
Sponsor:
DPF DNP
Chair: Christine Nattrass, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
L14
Live
Dark Matter, Inflation and Phase Transitions
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Marc Sher, William & Mary
L15
Live
Detectors and Upgrades II
Room: Virginia B
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Rachel Bartek, Catholic Univ of America
L16
Live
Theoretical Approaches in Hadronic Physics
Room: Virginia C
Sponsor:
GHP
Chair: Ramona Vogt, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
L17
Live
Physics Education Research
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
FEd GPER
Chair: Andrew Heckler, Ohio State University
L18
Live
Advanced Modeling of Gravitational Waves and the Impact on Parameter Estimation
Room: Delaware B
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Jeff Hazboun, University Washington Bothell
L20
Focus
Live
Neutrinos IV - Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay: Prospects
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Krishna Kumar, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Apr 19 2020 5:00PM, Sunday
L21
NSBP/NSHP Networking Event
Room: Wilson C
Sponsor:
COM DIV
Apr 19 2020 5:45PM, Sunday
L22
Cancelled
APS Prizes and Awards Ceremonial Session
Room: Washington 4
Sponsor:
APS
Apr 19 2020 6:00PM, Sunday
L23
LGBT+ Roundtable
Room: Harding
Sponsor:
EDU
Apr 19 2020 6:30PM, Sunday
L24
GHP Business Meeting
Room: Virginia C
Sponsor:
GHP
M01
Invited
Live
Mini-Symposium: NASA X-Ray Science Interest Group
Room: Roosevelt 4
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Ryan Hickox, Dartmouth University
Invited Speakers: Ryan Hickox, Brian Williams, Will Zhang, Ryan Hickox
Apr 19 2020 7:00PM, Sunday
M02
Cancelled
Education and Diversity Reception
Room: Wilson A/B
Sponsor:
COM
Apr 19 2020 7:30PM, Sunday
M03
Live
Showing the Documentary LIGO
Room: Marriott Ballroom A/B
Chair: David Reitze, California Insitute of Technology
Apr 19 2020 8:00PM, Sunday
M04
Cancelled
Piano Recital: Original Songs on Science
Room: Madison A/B
Sponsor:
FHP
Invited Speakers: Nancy Abrams
Apr 20 2020 8:30AM, Monday
P01
Invited
Live
Plenary
Plenary: Multi-Messenger Probes of Fundamental Physics
Room: Marriott Ballroom 2/3
Sponsor:
APS
Chair: Deirdre Shoemaker, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers: Michael Thoennessen, Laura Cadonati, Amina Helmi, Zaven Arzoumanian
Apr 20 2020 10:15AM, Monday
P02
Networking Break (10:15am - 10:45am)
Room: N/A
Apr 20 2020 10:45AM, Monday
Q02
Invited
Live
Direct Detection of Dark Matter
Room: Washington 1
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Matthew Szydagis, University of Albany
Invited Speakers: Ethan Brown, Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano, Lindley Winslow
Q03
Invited
Cancelled
Future Projects and Decadal Survey
Room: Washington 2
Sponsor:
DAP DGRAV
Chair: Joshua Frieman, Fermilab
Invited Speakers: Fiona Harrison, TBD TBD, TBD TBD
Q04
Invited
Live
BSM Physics in Nuclear and Neutron Beta Decay
Room: Washington 3
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Nadia Fomin, University of Tennessee
Invited Speakers: Chien Yeah Seng, Daniel Salvat, Maxime Brodeur
Q06
Invited
Live
Quantum Aspects of Gravitation
Room: Roosevelt 1
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Abhay Ashtekar, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers: Radu Roiban, Ivan Agullo, Astrid Eichhorn
Q07
Invited
Live
Celebrating the Diversity of New GFB/DNP Fellows
Room: Roosevelt 2
Sponsor:
GFB DNP
Chair: Harald Griesshammer, George Washington University
Invited Speakers: Charles Weatherford, Evgeny Epelbaum, Sofia Quaglioni
Q08
Invited
Live
Response of Physics to the Coronavirus Pandemic
Room: Roosevelt 3
Sponsor:
FPS
Chair: Savannah Thais, Princeton University
Invited Speakers: Reiner Kruecken, Stephen Streiffer, Savannah Thais
Q09
Live
Pulsars, Supernova Remnants and Galactic Sources
Room: Roosevelt 4
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Cole Miller, University of Maryland
Q10
Live
Dark Matter and Astrophysics
Room: Roosevelt 5
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Masha Baryakhtar, New York University
Q11
Cancelled
Computational Elements in the Physics Curriculum
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
FEd
Chair: Wolfgang Christian, Davidson College
Q12
Live
Accelerators and Beams
Room: Maryland B
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Sarah Cousineau, Oak Ridge National Lab
Q13
Live
Charged Leptons
Room: Maryland C
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Mlnerba Betencourt, FNAL
Q14
Live
Probing the Standard Model at Colliders
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Jinlong Zhang, Argonne National Laboratory
Q15
Live
LIGO/Virgo Search and Data Analysis Methods
Room: Virginia B
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Jessica Mclver, The University of British Columbia
Q16
On Demand
Numerical Modeling of Binary Black Holes
Room: Virginia C
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Jorge Pullin, Louisiana State University
Q18
On Demand
Heavy Flavor and the Initial State in Heavy Ion Collisions
Room: Delaware B
Chair: Anders Knospe, University of Houston
Q20
Focus
Live
Neutrinos V - Reactor Neutrinos
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Karsten Heeger, Yale University
Apr 20 2020 12:30PM, Monday
R01
Cancelled
Planned Giving Luncheon
Room: Wilson C
Sponsor:
DEVEL
Apr 20 2020 12:40PM, Monday
Q21
DPF Early Career Physicists Meet Funding Agency Officers
Room: Washington 1
Sponsor:
DPF
Apr 20 2020 1:30PM, Monday
R02
Invited
Live
Bottom and Charm Quark Physics
Room: Washington 1
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Sheldon Stone, Syracuse University
Invited Speakers: Matthew Rudolph, Jake Bennett, Amarjit Soni
R03
Invited
Live
New Approaches to H_0
Room: Washington 2
Sponsor:
DAP DGRAV GPMFC
Chair: Glennys Farrar, New York University
Invited Speakers: Wendy Freedman, Suzanne Staggs, Kenneth Wong
R04
Invited
Live
From Quarks to the Cosmos
Room: Washington 3
Sponsor:
DNP DCOMP
Chair: Peter Petreczky, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers: Huey-Wen Lin, Michael Wagman, Rasmus Larsen
R05
Live
Tests of General Relativity with Gravitational Waves II
Room: Washington 6
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Helvi Witek, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
R06
Invited
Live
Emerging Technologies for Future Accelerators
Room: Roosevelt 1
Sponsor:
DPB
Chair: Sarah Cousineau, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and University of Tennessee
Invited Speakers: James Rosenzweig, Alexander Zlobin, Ryan Lindberg
R07
Invited
Cancelled
The Author in Dialogue: Jeffery Bub, Bananaworld: Quantum Mechanics for Primates
Room: Roosevelt 2
Sponsor:
FHP
Chair: Paul Cadden-Zimansky, Bard College
Invited Speakers: Leah Henderson, Michael Janas, Michel Janssen, Jeffrey Bub
R08
Invited
Live
Status of the Effective Practices for Physics Programs (EP3) Project
Room: Roosevelt 3
Sponsor:
FEd
Chair: Gerald Feldman, George Washington University
Invited Speakers: Theodore Hodapp, Neal Abraham, Eric Brewe
R09
Live
Observational Aspects of Neutrino Astrophysics
Room: Roosevelt 4
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Marcos Santander, University of Alabama
R10
Live
Future Gamma-ray Space Missions
Room: Roosevelt 5
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Roopesh Ojha, Goddard Space Flight Center
R11
On Demand
Nuclear Theory
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Harald Griesshammer, George Washington University
R12
Live
Axions III
Room: Maryland B
Chair: Lindley Winslow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
R13
Live
Understanding Noble Element Detectors for Dark Matter and 0vBB
Room: Maryland C
Sponsor:
DPF DNP
Chair: Matthew Szydagis, University of Albany SUNY
R14
On Demand
Neutron Physics
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Shannon Hoogerheide, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
R15
Live
Gravitational Wave Data Analysis
Room: Virginia B
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Maximilano Isi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
R16
Live
Instrumentation in Nuclear and Particle Physics I
Room: Virginia C
Sponsor:
DPF DNP
Chair: Soumya Mohapatra, Columbia University
R17
Focus
Live
Science Opportunities with Stable and Long Lived Beams in Inverse Kinematics
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Andrew Rogers, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Invited Speakers: Benjamin Kay
R18
Live
Numerical Relativity: Neutron Stars and Other Sources with Matter
Room: Delaware B
Sponsor:
DCOMP DGRAV
Chair: Wolfgang Tichy, Florida Atlantic University
R20
Focus
Live
Neutrinos VI - Accelerator Neutrinos
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Ralph Massarczyk, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Apr 20 2020 2:00PM, Monday
S01
Poster
On Demand
Poster Session III (14:00-17:00)
Room: Exhibit Hall A
Apr 20 2020 3:30PM, Monday
T02
Invited
Live
Wilson Prize Awards Session
Room: Washington 1
Sponsor:
DPB DPF
Chair: Sergei Nagaitsev, Fermilab
Invited Speakers: Bruce Carlsten, Siqi Li, Katelin Schultz, William Barletta, Bjorn Scholz
T03
Invited
Cancelled
DAP Award Session: Bethe, Lillienfeld, and Maria Goeppart-Meyer Prizes
Room: Washington 2
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Glennys Farrar, New York University
Invited Speakers: Fiona Harrison, Elisabeth Krause, Joel Primack
T04
Invited
Live
DNP Awards Session
Room: Washington 3
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Robert Janssens, University of North Carolina
Invited Speakers: Katelyn Cook, Richard Milner, Ubirajara van Kolck
T05
Live
Astrophysics with Ground-Based Gravitational-Wave Observations
Room: Washington 6
Sponsor:
DGRAV DAP
Chair: John Conklin, University of Florida
T06
Invited
Live
Nuclear Physics with Gravitational Wave Observations
Room: Roosevelt 1
Sponsor:
DGRAV DNP DAP
Chair: Sanjay Reddy, University of Washington
Invited Speakers: Brian Metzger, Andreas Bauswein, Collin Capano
T08
Invited
Live
Advances in the Design and Implementation of Physics Curriculum
Room: Roosevelt 3
Sponsor:
GPER FEd
Chair: Leslie Atkins, Boise State University
Invited Speakers: Paul Emigh, Natasha Holmes, Edward Price
T09
Live
Future and Upgraded Cosmic-Ray and Ground Based Gamma-Ray Experiments
Room: Roosevelt 4
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: David Williams, UC Santa Cruz
T10
Live
MeV Gamma-ray Science Prospects and Extragalactic Diffuse Emission
Room: Roosevelt 5
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Regina Caputo, Goddard Space Flight Center
T11
Live
Big G and Tests of Gravity
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
GPMFC
Chair: Stephan Schlamminger, NIST
T12
Live
Axions IV
Room: Maryland B
Chair: Gianpaolo Carosi, LLNL
T13
Live
Dark Energy and Dark Matter
Room: Maryland C
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Chung Kao, University of Oklahoma
T14
Live
Detectors and Upgrades III
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Roger Rusack, University of Minnesota
T15
On Demand
Tests of Modified Gravity
Room: Virginia B
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: David Garfinkle, Oakland University
T16
On Demand
Approximate Methods in Gravitational Astrophysics
Room: Virginia C
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Emanuele Berti, Johns Hopkins University
T17
On Demand
Nuclear Structure
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Elizabeth McCutchan, Brookhaven National Laboratory
T20
Focus
Live
Neutrinos VII – Precision Measurements
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Kyle Leach, Colorado School of Mines
Apr 20 2020 5:30PM, Monday
U01
DAP Business Meeting
Room: Roosevelt 5
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Josh Frieman, Fermilab
U02
DPB Business Meeting
Room: Washington 2
Sponsor:
DPB
Chair: Sergei Nagaitsev, Fermilab
U03
DNP Business Meeting
Room: Washington 3
Sponsor:
DNP
U04
Cancelled
DPF Business Meeting
Room: Washington 1
Sponsor:
DPF
U05
DGRAV Business Meeting
Room: Roosevelt 1
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Gary Horowitz, University of California, Santa Barbara
Apr 20 2020 6:00PM, Monday
U06
Cancelled
March Meeting Town Hall
Room: Wilson C
Sponsor:
MMTF
Apr 20 2020 6:30PM, Monday
V01
Invited
Cancelled
Mini-Symposium: NASA Gamma-Ray Science Interest Group
Room: Roosevelt 5
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Sylvain Guiriec, George Washington University
Invited Speakers: Sylvain Guiriec, Sylvain Guiriec, Bindu Rani, Marcos Santander, Sylvain Guiriec
Apr 21 2020 8:30AM, Tuesday
W01
Invited
Live
Plenary
Plenary: Frontiers of Discovery: Flavor, Color, and Exoplanets
Room: Marriott Ballroom 2/3
Sponsor:
APS
Chair: Priscilla Cushman, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers: Didier Queloz, Chris Polly, Larry McLerran
Apr 21 2020 10:15AM, Tuesday
W02
Networking Break (10:15am - 10:45am)
Room: N/A
Apr 21 2020 10:45AM, Tuesday
X02
Invited
Live
Advances in Instrumentation and Detectors for Particle Physics
Room: Washington 1
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Roger Rusack, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers: Laura Manenti, Lindsey Gray, Frank Golf
X03
Invited
Live
Axion Cosmology and Astrophysics
Room: Washington 2
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Asimina Arvanitaki, Perimeter Institute
Invited Speakers: Anthony Pullen, Giovanni Villadoro, Masha Baryakhtar
X04
Invited
Live
Increasing Nuclear Literacy for the Public and for Professionals
Room: Washington 3
Sponsor:
FEd DNP
Chair: Gerald Feldman, George Washington University
Invited Speakers: Shelly Lesher, Christopher Cahill, Artemis Spyrou
X06
Invited
Live
Isaacson Award Session: Challenges in Gravitational Wave Research
Room: Roosevelt 1
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Gabriela Gonzalez, Louisiana State University
Invited Speakers: Bernard Schutz, William East, Bruce Allen
X07
Invited
Cancelled
Data Analysis Applications in Astrophysics: Past and Future
Room: Roosevelt 2
Sponsor:
FGSA
Chair: Tiffany Nichols, Harvard University
Invited Speakers: Joshua Yao-Yu Lin, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Christopher Berry, Duncan Brown
X08
Invited
Live
Science and International Relations
Room: Roosevelt 3
Sponsor:
FPS
Chair: Anna Quider, Northern Illinois University
Invited Speakers: Rebecca Keiser, Cherry Murray, Arthur Bienenstock
X09
On Demand
Supernovae and Tidal Disruption Events
Room: Roosevelt 4
Sponsor:
DAP
X10
Live
Pulsar Timing
Room: Roosevelt 5
Sponsor:
DAP DGRAV
Chair: Elizabeth Ferrara, Univ. Maryland/GSFC
X11
Live
Neutrino Detection
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Justin Vandenbroucke, University of Wisconsin
X12
Live
Flavor Physics In and Beyond the Standard Model
Room: Maryland B
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: George Hou, Natl Taiwan Univ
X13
Live
Computational Techniques For Event Reconstruction I
Room: Maryland C
Chair: MInerba Betencourt, FNAL
X14
On Demand
Computational Physics I
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DCOMP
Chair: Huey-Wen Lin, Michigan State University
X15
Live
Topics in Physics Education
Room: Virginia B
Sponsor:
FEd
Chair: Eric Brewe, Drexel University
X16
Focus
Live
Neutrinos VIII - Neutrino Interactions
Room: Virginia C
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Vince Guiseppe, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Apr 21 2020 1:30PM, Tuesday
Y02
Invited
Live
In Memoriam: Winston Ko, Ann Nelson, and Steven Gubser
Room: Washington 1
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Tao Han, University of Pittsburgh
Invited Speakers: Silviu Pufu, David Kaplan, Robin Erbacher
Y03
Invited
Live
Indirect Constraints on Dark Matter
Room: Washington 2
Sponsor:
DAP DPF
Chair: Jodi Cooley, Southern Methodist University
Invited Speakers: Tracy Slatyer, Ben Safdi, Kimberly Boddy
Y04
Invited
Live
Polarization and the QCD Nuclear Medium
Room: Washington 3
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Brad Sawatzky, Jefferson Lab
Invited Speakers: Phiala Shanahan, Douglas Higinbotham, Xiaochao Zheng
Y06
Live
Medical Physics and Radiation
Room: Roosevelt 1
Sponsor:
GMED
Chair: Wojtek Zbijewski, Johns Hopkins University
Y07
Invited
Live
Intersection of Science and Politics
Room: Roosevelt 2
Sponsor:
FPS
Chair: E. William Colglazier, University of Manitoba
Invited Speakers: James Jensen, David Goldston, Mary Woolley
Y08
Invited
Live
Big Data in Physics Education Research
Room: Roosevelt 3
Sponsor:
GPER FEd
Chair: Andrew Heckler, Ohio State University
Invited Speakers: John Stewart, Rachel Henderson, Shima Salehi
Y09
Live
Gamma Ray Bursts
Room: Roosevelt 4
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Judy Racusin, GSFC
Y10
Live
Active Galaxies, Star Clusters and Exoplanets
Room: Roosevelt 5
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Nicolas Stone, Hebrew University
Y11
Live
Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
GPMFC
Chair: Samir Mathur, Ohio State University
Y12
On Demand
Unconventional Ideas in Theory
Room: Maryland B
Sponsor:
DPF
Y13
Live
Computational Techniques For Event Reconstruction - II
Room: Maryland C
Chair: Mike Kordosky, William & Mary
Y14
On Demand
Computational Physics II
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DCOMP
Chair: Amy Liu, Georgetown University
Y15
Live
New Perspectives in Gravitational Physics and Electrodynamics
Room: Virginia B
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Richard O'Shaughnessy, Rochester Institute of Technology
Apr 18 2020 8:30AM, Saturday
A01
Invited
Live
Plenary
Kavli Foundation Keynote Plenary Session: Exploring the Cosmos
Room: Marriott Ballroom 2/3
Sponsor:
APS
Chair: Tao Han, University of Pittsburgh
Invited Speakers: James Peebles, Michel Mayor, Eric Cornell
Apr 18 2020 10:15AM, Saturday
A02
Networking Break (10:15am - 10:45am)
Room: N/A
Apr 18 2020 10:45AM, Saturday
B02
Invited
Live
New Results from the CERN LHC
Room: Washington 1
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Mayda Velasco, Northwestern University
Invited Speakers: Andreas Jung, Isobel Ojalvo, Evelyn Thomson
B03
Invited
Cancelled
Outreach and Engaging the Public
Room: Washington 2
Sponsor:
FOEP
Chair: Don Lincoln, Fermilab
Invited Speakers: Virginia Trimble, Lucy Fortson, Francis Slakey
B04
Invited
Live
Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay: Physics Results and Perspectives
Room: Washington 3
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: A. Galindo-Uribarri, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers: Michelle Dolinski, Danielle Speller, Jason Detwiler
B06
Invited
Live
Our Neighborly Supermassive Black Holes
Room: Roosevelt 1
Sponsor:
DGRAV DAP
Chair: Manuela Campanelli, Rochester Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers: Michael Johnson, Reinhard Genzel, Andrew Chael
B07
Invited
Live
Exotic Hadrons
Room: Roosevelt 2
Sponsor:
GHP
Chair: Jake Bennett, University of Mississippi
Invited Speakers: Eric Swanson, Ryan Mitchell, Daniel Craik
B08
Invited
Live
A Sampling of Career Paths Available for Early-Career Scientists
Room: Roosevelt 3
Sponsor:
FECS
Chair: Kevin Ludwick, LaGrange College
Invited Speakers: Rama Balasubramanian, Daniel Berdichevsky, Ajinkya Kamat
B09
Live
Observations of Galactic Cosmic Rays
Room: Roosevelt 4
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Fred Sarazin, Colorado School of Mines
B10
On Demand
Cosmic Microwave Background and Cosmic Ray Observation
Room: Roosevelt 5
Sponsor:
DAP
B11
On Demand
Few-Body Nuclear Physics
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
DNP GFB
Chair: Maxim Mai, George Washington University
B12
On Demand
Axions I
Room: Maryland B
Chair: Gianpaolo Carosi, LLNL
B13
Live
Beyond the Standard Model Searches at the LHC I
Room: Maryland C
Chair: Marina Artuso, Syracuse University
B14
On Demand
Fundamental Symmetries
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Nadia Fomin, University of Tennessee
B15
Live
Quantum Theory of Cosmology and Black Holes
Room: Virginia B
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Ted Jacobson, University of Maryland
B16
Live
Interface of Numerical Relativity and Classical General Relativity
Room: Virginia C
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Beverly Berger, Stanford University
B17
On Demand
Undergraduate Research I
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
APS
Chair: Midhat Farooq, American Physical Society
B19
Live
Accelerator Technology
Room: Washington 4
Sponsor:
DPB
Chair: Michiko Minty, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Apr 18 2020 12:00PM, Saturday
B24
Live
APS Press Conference: A Q&A with Reinhard Genzel
Room: Washington 6
Sponsor:
APS
Chair: David Barnstone, APS Science Communications Manager
Apr 18 2020 12:30PM, Saturday
B21
Live
Lunch with the Grads: A Panel Discussion on Physics Graduate School
Room: Wilson A/B
Sponsor:
Careers
Chair: Midhat Farooq, American Physical Society
Apr 18 2020 12:40PM, Saturday
B23
Live
DPF Grad Slam
Room: Washington 1
Sponsor:
DPF
Apr 18 2020 1:30PM, Saturday
C02
On Demand
History of Physics
Room: Washington 1
C03
Invited
Live
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Thesis Prize
Room: Washington 2
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Taboada Ignacio, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers: Nicholas Rodd, Anna Ogorzalek, Jessica Muir
C04
Invited
Live
New Insights from Precision Measurements of Weak Interaction Phenomena
Room: Washington 3
Sponsor:
GPMFC DNP
Chair: Susan Gardner, University of Kentucky
Invited Speakers: Stefan Baessler, Thomas Papenbrock, Elena Aprile
C05
Invited
Live
Physics of the Cosmos & PhysPAG Town Hall
Room: Washington 6
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Ryan Hickox, Dartmouth University
Invited Speakers: Paul Hertz, Graca Rocha, Fiona Harrison, John Conklin, Daniel Kocevski, Hermann Marshall
C06
Invited
Live
New Results from LIGO
Room: Roosevelt 1
Sponsor:
DGRAV DAP
Chair: Katerina Chatziioannou, California Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers: Chad Hanna, Maya Fishbach, Maximiliano Isi
C07
Invited
Live
Physics with Accelerators - Particle Physics
Room: Roosevelt 2
Sponsor:
FIP
Chair: Vladimir Shiltsev, FNAL
Invited Speakers: Sergio Bertolucci, Daniel Winklehner, Caterina Biscari
C08
Invited
Live
Science and National Security
Room: Roosevelt 3
Sponsor:
FPS
Chair: Ellen Williams, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers: Laurie Garrett, Rod Schoonover, Herb Lin
C09
Live
Sources of Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos
Room: Roosevelt 4
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Tonia Venters, GFSC
C10
Live
Neutron Star Theory
Room: Roosevelt 5
Sponsor:
DAP DGRAV
Chair: Daniel Holz, University of Chicago
C11
On Demand
Physics Education: Introductory Courses and Labs
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
FEd
Chair: MacKenzie Stetzer, University of Maine
C12
Live
The Study of the Higgs Particle
Room: Maryland B
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Marc Sher, College of William & Mary
C13
Live
Status and Future of Dark Matter Experiments at the 1-10+ GeV Scale
Room: Maryland C
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Bjoern Penning, Brandeis University
C14
Focus
Live
Mini-Symposium: Science Opportunities Enabled by the Electron-Ion Collider
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
GHP
Chair: Kent Paschke, University of Virginia
Invited Speakers: Rolf Ent
C15
Live
Quantum Theory of Gravity
Room: Virginia B
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: David Craig, Oregon State University
C17
Live
Undergraduate Research II
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
APS SPS
Chair: Midhat Farooq, American Physical Society
C20
Focus
Live
Neutrinos I – Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay: Background Challenges
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: A. Galindo-Uribarri, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers: Julieta Gruszko
Apr 18 2020 3:30PM, Saturday
D02
Invited
Live
Extreme Beams
Room: Washington 1
Sponsor:
DPB
Chair: Sergei Nagaitsev, Fermilab
Invited Speakers: Felicie Albert, Timur Shaftan, Vitaly Yakimenko
D03
Invited
Live
AMO Frontiers in Astrophysics
Room: Washington 2
Sponsor:
DAMOP DAP
Chair: Joe Britton, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers: Jason Hogan, David Phillips, Scott Diddams
D04
Invited
Live
New Physics Searches at the Precision Frontier
Room: Washington 3
Sponsor:
DNP DPF
Chair: Vincenzo Cirigliano, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers: Philipp Schmidt-Wellenburg, Aida El-Khadra, Carl Carlson
D05
Live
Improving the Sensitivity of LIGO and Future Ground-Based Gravitational Wave Detectors
Room: Washington 6
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: James Thorpe, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
D06
Invited
Live
Progress in Analytical Relativity
Room: Roosevelt 1
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Eanna Flanagan, Cornell University
Invited Speakers: Gary Horowitz, Justin Vines, Scott Hughes
D07
Invited
Live
Physics with Accelerators - Nuclear Physics
Room: Roosevelt 2
Sponsor:
FIP
Chair: Elena Aprile, Columbia University
Invited Speakers: Silvia Dalla Torre, Yasuhiro Okada, Marek Lewitowicz
D08
Invited
Live
From Particle Physics to Brain Imaging and Radiotherapy
Room: Roosevelt 3
Sponsor:
GMED
Chair: Peter Krizan, JSI and University of Ljubljana
Invited Speakers: Cynthia Keppel, John Wong, Stanislaw Majewski, Rok Dolenec
D09
Live
Ultra High-energy Cosmic Ray Observations
Room: Roosevelt 4
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Foteini Oikonomou, Technische Universität München (TUM) / ESO
D10
Live
Gravitational Waves and Gamma Ray Bursts
Room: Roosevelt 5
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Eric Burns, Goddard Space Flight Center
D12
Live
Sub-GeV and Other Light Dark Matter, and Calibrations for These Scales
Room: Maryland B
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: John Orrell, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
D13
On Demand
Nuclear Reactions:Heavy-ion / Rare Isotope Beams
Room: Maryland C
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Kelly Chipps, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
D14
Live
Heavy Flavor and Exotic Hadrons
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
GHP
Chair: Timothy Hobbs, Southern Methodist University
D15
Live
Numerical Relativity: Algorithms and Code Development
Room: Virginia B
Sponsor:
DGRAV DCOMP
Chair: Carlos Lousto, Rochester Institute of Technology
D16
Focus
Live
Correlations and Fluctuations in Heavy-ion Collisions
Room: Virginia C
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Claudia Ratti, University of Houston
Invited Speakers: Anthony R. Timmins
D17
Live
Undergraduate Research III
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
APS SPS
Chair: Crystal Bailey, American Physical Society
D20
Focus
Live
Neutrinos II – Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay: Increasing Sensitivities
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: David Radford, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers: Benjamin Jones
Apr 18 2020 5:30PM, Saturday
D21
Poster
On Demand
Welcome Reception and Poster Session I (17:30-19:30)
Room: Exhibit Hall A
D23
Live
DPF Town Hall Meeting on Snowmass Preparation
Room: Washington 1
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Young-Kee Kim, University of Chicago
Apr 18 2020 6:30PM, Saturday
D25
Invited
Live
Mini-Symposium: NASA Inflation Probe Science Interest Group
Room: Washington 2
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Graca Rocha, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Invited Speakers: Graca Rocha, Shaul Hanany, Alan Kogut, Krzysztof Gorski, Reijo Keskitalo, Tess Jaffe
Apr 18 2020 7:00PM, Saturday
E01
Invited
Special Event
Live
Public Lecture: Seeing the Unseeable: Capturing an Image of a Black Hole
Room: Marriott Ballroom 2/3
Chair: James Gates, Brown University
Invited Speakers: Sheperd Doeleman
Apr 19 2020 8:30AM, Sunday
G02
Invited
Live
Accelerator Based Neutrino Physics
Room: Washington 1
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Elizabeth Worcester, BNL
Invited Speakers: Lisa Koerner, Xiao Luo, Peter Denton
G03
Invited
Live
Precision Tests of Fundamental Physics
Room: Washington 2
Sponsor:
GPMFC DAMOP
Chair: Susan Gardner, University of Kentucky
Invited Speakers: Gerald Gabrielse, Natasha Sachdeva, E. A. Hessels
G04
Invited
Cancelled
Connecting Science Policy with Science's History
Room: Washington 3
Chair: Melinda Baldwin, American Institute of Physics
Invited Speakers: Erin Heath, Tiffany Nichols, William Thomas
G05
Invited
Cancelled
Mini-Symposium: Gravitational Wave SIG
Room: Washington 6
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, Vanderbilt
Invited Speakers: Terri Brandt, John Conklin, Xavier Siemens
G06
Invited
Live
Physical Review Invited Session: Aspects of Multimessenger Astrophysics
Room: Roosevelt 1
Sponsor:
PR/PRL DAP DGRAV
Chair: Robert Garisto, APS/ PRL
Invited Speakers: Tyson Littenberg, Wen-fai Fong, Dawn Williams
G07
Invited
Live
The Hadronic Spectrum in Hot and Cold QCD
Room: Roosevelt 2
Sponsor:
GHP DNP
Chair: Anne Sickles, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Invited Speakers: Claudia Ratti, Jozef Dudek, Anders Knospe
G08
Invited
Live
Why it is Critical to Promote and Support Equity and Inclusion in Physics
Room: Roosevelt 3
Sponsor:
FEd
Chair: Gerald Feldman, George Washington University
Invited Speakers: Anne Marie Porter, Timothy McKay, Alexandru Maries
G09
Focus
Live
Mini-Symposium: The Cosmic Microwave Background and Fundamental Physics on the Cosmic Frontier
Room: Roosevelt 4
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Kevin Huffenberger, Florida State University
Invited Speakers: Raphael Flauger
G10
Live
New Techniques and Theories for Dark Matter and Cosmology
Room: Roosevelt 5
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Yacine Ali-Haimoud, New York University
G11
On Demand
Applications of Nuclear Physics
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Evie Downie, George Washington University
G12
Live
Axions II
Room: Maryland B
Chair: Andrew Sonnenschein, FNAL
G13
Live
Developments in Quantum Field Theory
Room: Maryland C
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: James Halverson, Northeastern University
G14
On Demand
Hadronic Physics
Room: Virginia A
G15
Live
Quantum Field Theory in a Curved Spacetime
Room: Virginia B
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Ivan Agullo, Louisiana State University
G16
Live
Technology for Space-Based Gravitational-Wave Detectors
Room: Virginia C
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Jeffrey Livas, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
G17
Focus
Live
The Nucleosynthesis of Proton-Rich Isotopes
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Catherine Deibel, Louisiana State University
Invited Speakers: Zach Meisel
G18
Live
Numerical Relativity: Magnetohydrodynamics
Room: Delaware B
Sponsor:
DCOMP DGRAV
Chair: Maria Babiuc Hamilton, Marshall University
G20
Live
Neutrinos III – Neutrino Properties
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Kate Scholberg, Duke University
Apr 19 2020 9:30AM, Sunday
G23
Cancelled
DPF Quarknet Workshop
Room: Marriott Balcony 'B'
Sponsor:
DPF
Apr 19 2020 10:15AM, Sunday
G24
Networking Break (10:15am - 10:45am)
Room: N/A
Apr 19 2020 10:30AM, Sunday
G25
Cancelled
Undergraduate Breakfast, Career Workshop, and Awards
Room: Thurgood Marshall Southwest
Sponsor:
Careers
Apr 19 2020 10:45AM, Sunday
H02
Invited
Live
Recent Advances in Theoretical Particle Physics
Room: Washington 1
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Keith Dienes, University of Arizona
Invited Speakers: Stefania Gori, Jim Halverson, Daniel Harlow
H03
Invited
Live
From the Sun to the Highest Energies in the Universe
Room: Washington 2
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Thomas Gaisser, University of Delaware
Invited Speakers: Michael Unger, Damiano Caprioli, Justin Kasper
H04
Invited
Live
Electron-Ion Collider Science
Room: Washington 3
Sponsor:
DNP GHP
Chair: Ernst Sichtermann, LBL
Invited Speakers: Alexei Prokudin, Anna Stasto, Thomas Ullrich
H06
Invited
Live
Data Science in Physics Education
Room: Roosevelt 1
Sponsor:
GDS FEd
Chair: Dimitri Bourilkov, University of Florida
Invited Speakers: Sergei Gleyzer, Matthew Bellis, Vicki Toy-Edens
H07
Invited
Live
Funding Top Quality Research in Physics
Room: Roosevelt 2
Sponsor:
FIP
Chair: Luisa Cifarelli, University of Bologna and INFN
Invited Speakers: Fabio Zwirner, Ayse Erzan, James Siegrist
H08
Invited
Live
Invited talk by former NSF Director France Córdova
Room: Roosevelt 3
Sponsor:
FPS
Chair: E. Colglazier, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Invited Speakers: France Cordova
H09
Live
Astrophysics with LISA
Room: Roosevelt 4
Sponsor:
DAP DGRAV
Chair: Bangalore Sathyaprakash, The Pennsylvania State University
H10
Live
Baryon Acoustic Oscillations, Early Universe, and Cosmological Constants
Room: Roosevelt 5
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Josh Frieman, Fermilab
H11
Focus
Live
Mini-Symposium: Tests of Time Reversal Violation I
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Nadia Fomin, University of Tennessee
Invited Speakers: William Snow
H12
Live
Unconventional ideas in Astrophysics and Cosmology
Room: Maryland B
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Chris Fryer, LANL
H13
Live
Detectors and Upgrades I
Room: Maryland C
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Rajdeep Chatterjee, University of Minnesota
H14
Live
Experimental Dark Matter Detection
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DAP DPF
Chair: Arran Phipps, Stanford University
H15
On Demand
Gravitational Wave Observations with Pulsar Timing Arrays
Room: Virginia B
Sponsor:
DGRAV DAP
Chair: Xavier Siemens, Oregon State University
H16
Live
Modeling Eccentric and Spinning Compact Binaries
Room: Virginia C
Sponsor:
DAP DGRAV
Chair: Sean McWilliams, West Virginia University
H17
Focus
Live
The Nucleosynthesis of Proton-Rich Isotopes in Classical Novae
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Kelly Chipps, Oak Ride National Laboratory
Invited Speakers: S.D. Pain
H18
Live
Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics with Gravitational Waves
Room: Delaware B
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Peter Shawhan, University of Maryland
H20
Live
Neutrino Oscillations and Scattering
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Mike Kordosky, College of William & Mary
Apr 19 2020 12:40PM, Sunday
H22
DPF Open Business Meeting
Room: Washington 1
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Young-Kee Kim, University of Chicago
Apr 19 2020 1:00PM, Sunday
H23
Cancelled
DPF CMS Masterclass
Room: Marriott Balcony 'B'
Sponsor:
DPF
Apr 19 2020 1:30PM, Sunday
J02
Invited
Live
Special Session for the Sakurai, Panofsky and Primakoff Award Winners
Room: Washington 1
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Young-Kee Kim, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers: Matt Pyle, Pierre Sikivie, Wesley Smith
J03
Invited
Live
Neutrino Astrophysics
Room: Washington 2
Sponsor:
DAP DPF
Chair: Kate Scholberg, Duke University
Invited Speakers: Ignacio Taboada, Irene Tamborra, Kfir Blum
J04
Invited
Cancelled
History of Cosmology
Room: Washington 3
Sponsor:
FHP DGRAV
Chair: Christopher Smeenk, University of Western Ontario
Invited Speakers: Christopher Smeenk, Dennis Lehmkuhl, Jim Peebles
J06
Invited
Live
NICER and the Mass-radius Relation of Neutron Stars
Room: Roosevelt 1
Sponsor:
DGRAV DNP
Chair: David Nice, Lafayette College
Invited Speakers: Wynn C.G. Ho, Anna Bilous, Andrew Steiner
J07
Invited
Live
Creating an Inclusive Physics Community for the Next Century
Room: Roosevelt 2
Sponsor:
CSWP
Chair: Maria Rodriguez, USU-IFT
Invited Speakers: Evangeline Downie, Maria J Rodriguez, Mahzarin Banaji
J08
Invited
Live
Excellence in Physics Education Award: The Open Source Team
Room: Roosevelt 3
Sponsor:
FEd
Chair: Gerald Feldman, George Washington University
Invited Speakers: Wolfgang Christian, Harvey Gould, Bruce Mason
J09
Live
Gravitational Wave Populations
Room: Roosevelt 4
Sponsor:
DAP DGRAV
Chair: Tyson Littenberg, Marshall Space Flight Center
J10
Live
Particle Astrophysics
Room: Roosevelt 5
Sponsor:
DPF DAP
Chair: Marcelle Soares-Santos, Brandeis University
J11
Focus
Live
Mini-Symposium: QCD and the Nuclear Medium
Room: Maryland A
Chair: Douglas Higinbotham, Jefferson Lab
Invited Speakers: Florian Hauenstein
J12
Live
Neutrinos and Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Room: Maryland B
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Erika Catano-Mur, William and Mary
J13
Live
Beyond the Standard Model Searches at the LHC II
Room: Maryland C
Chair: Stefania Gori, UC Santa Cruz
J14
Live
Numerical Modeling of Neutron Stars
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Zach Etienne, West Virginia University
J15
Live
Tests of General Relativity with Gravitational Waves I
Room: Virginia B
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Miriam Cabero, The University of British Columbia
J16
Live
Nucleon Structure and Nucleon Spin
Room: Virginia C
Sponsor:
GHP
Chair: Garth Huber, University of Regina
J17
On Demand
Nuclear Astrophysics
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Jeffrey Blackmon, Louisiana State University
J18
On Demand
Jets in Heavy Ion Collisions
Room: Delaware B
Chair: Anthony Timmins, University of Houston
J20
Live
Beyond The Standard Model Physics with Neutrinos
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Mike Kordosky, College of William & Mary
Apr 19 2020 2:00PM, Sunday
K01
Poster
On Demand
Poster Session II (14:00-17:00)
Room: Exhibit Hall A
Apr 19 2020 2:30PM, Sunday
J21
Live
Tutorial for Authors & Referees
Room: Wilson AB
Chair: Michael Thoennessen, American Physical Society
Apr 19 2020 3:30PM, Sunday
K02
Live
Meet the Physical Review Journals' Editors
Room: Wilson Foyer
Sponsor:
EDADM
Chair: Michael Thoennessen, American Physical Society
K03
Live
Meet Your Future: Career Panel and Networking
Room: Madison A/B
Sponsor:
Careers
Chair: Midhat Farooq, American Physical Society
L02
Invited
Live
Science, Status, and Prospects of U.S. Facilities for Nuclear Physics
Room: Washington 1
Sponsor:
DPB DNP
Chair: Sarah Cousineau, Oak Ride National Lab
Invited Speakers: Stuart Henderson, Jie Wei, Thomas Roser
L03
Invited
Live
Fast Radio Bursts and Tidal Disruption Events
Room: Washington 2
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Yuri Levin, Columbia University
Invited Speakers: Sjoert Van Velzen, Kiyoshi Masui, Andrei Beloborodov
L04
Invited
Live
Sensitive Reaction Studies for Nuclear Astrophysics
Room: Washington 3
Sponsor:
DNP DCOMP
Chair: Chris Wrede, Michigan State University
Invited Speakers: Matthew Mumpower, Nicole Vassh, Luke Roberts
L05
Invited
Cancelled
Pais Prize Session: Farm Hall
Room: Washington 6
Sponsor:
FHP
Chair: Michael Janssen, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers: Mark Walker, David Cassidy, Dieter Hoffmann
L06
Invited
Live
Tests of General Relativity
Room: Roosevelt 1
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Kent Yagi, University of Virginia
Invited Speakers: Clifford Will, Leo Stein, Dimitrios Psaltis
L07
Invited
Live
Acknowledging African and Indigenous Peoples' Contributions to Physics and Astronomy
Room: Roosevelt 2
Sponsor:
COM
Chair: Geraldine Cochran, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers: Ximena Cid, Gerceida Jones, Katemari Rosa, PANEL DISCUSSION
L08
Invited
Live
From Deuterium to Light Nuclei: Measurements and Ab-Initio Theory
Room: Roosevelt 3
Sponsor:
GFB DNP
Chair: Or Hen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers: M. Piarulli, Werner Boeglin, Richard Furnstahl
L09
Live
Neutron Star and Black Hole Binary Merger Simulations and Modeling
Room: Roosevelt 4
Sponsor:
DAP DGRAV
Chair: Andrew Macfadyen, New York University
L10
Focus
Live
Mini-Symposium: Advances in Spectroscopic Cosmology
Room: Roosevelt 5
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Eric Linder, Berkeley Lab
L11
Live
Tests of Time Reversal Violation II
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Nadia Fomin, University of Tennessee
L12
Focus
Live
Mini-Symposium: Nuclear Femtography
Room: Maryland B
Chair: Latifa Elouadrhiri, Jefferson Lab
Invited Speakers: Charles Hyde
L13
Live
Instrumentation in Nuclear and Particle Physics II
Room: Maryland C
Sponsor:
DPF DNP
Chair: Christine Nattrass, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
L14
Live
Dark Matter, Inflation and Phase Transitions
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Marc Sher, William & Mary
L15
Live
Detectors and Upgrades II
Room: Virginia B
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Rachel Bartek, Catholic Univ of America
L16
Live
Theoretical Approaches in Hadronic Physics
Room: Virginia C
Sponsor:
GHP
Chair: Ramona Vogt, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
L17
Live
Physics Education Research
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
FEd GPER
Chair: Andrew Heckler, Ohio State University
L18
Live
Advanced Modeling of Gravitational Waves and the Impact on Parameter Estimation
Room: Delaware B
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Jeff Hazboun, University Washington Bothell
L20
Focus
Live
Neutrinos IV - Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay: Prospects
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Krishna Kumar, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Apr 19 2020 5:00PM, Sunday
L21
NSBP/NSHP Networking Event
Room: Wilson C
Sponsor:
COM DIV
Apr 19 2020 5:45PM, Sunday
L22
Cancelled
APS Prizes and Awards Ceremonial Session
Room: Washington 4
Sponsor:
APS
Apr 19 2020 6:00PM, Sunday
L23
LGBT+ Roundtable
Room: Harding
Sponsor:
EDU
Apr 19 2020 6:30PM, Sunday
L24
GHP Business Meeting
Room: Virginia C
Sponsor:
GHP
M01
Invited
Live
Mini-Symposium: NASA X-Ray Science Interest Group
Room: Roosevelt 4
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Ryan Hickox, Dartmouth University
Invited Speakers: Ryan Hickox, Brian Williams, Will Zhang, Ryan Hickox
Apr 19 2020 7:00PM, Sunday
M02
Cancelled
Education and Diversity Reception
Room: Wilson A/B
Sponsor:
COM
Apr 19 2020 7:30PM, Sunday
M03
Live
Showing the Documentary LIGO
Room: Marriott Ballroom A/B
Chair: David Reitze, California Insitute of Technology
Apr 19 2020 8:00PM, Sunday
M04
Cancelled
Piano Recital: Original Songs on Science
Room: Madison A/B
Sponsor:
FHP
Invited Speakers: Nancy Abrams
Apr 20 2020 8:30AM, Monday
P01
Invited
Live
Plenary
Plenary: Multi-Messenger Probes of Fundamental Physics
Room: Marriott Ballroom 2/3
Sponsor:
APS
Chair: Deirdre Shoemaker, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers: Michael Thoennessen, Laura Cadonati, Amina Helmi, Zaven Arzoumanian
Apr 20 2020 10:15AM, Monday
P02
Networking Break (10:15am - 10:45am)
Room: N/A
Apr 20 2020 10:45AM, Monday
Q02
Invited
Live
Direct Detection of Dark Matter
Room: Washington 1
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Matthew Szydagis, University of Albany
Invited Speakers: Ethan Brown, Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano, Lindley Winslow
Q03
Invited
Cancelled
Future Projects and Decadal Survey
Room: Washington 2
Sponsor:
DAP DGRAV
Chair: Joshua Frieman, Fermilab
Invited Speakers: Fiona Harrison, TBD TBD, TBD TBD
Q04
Invited
Live
BSM Physics in Nuclear and Neutron Beta Decay
Room: Washington 3
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Nadia Fomin, University of Tennessee
Invited Speakers: Chien Yeah Seng, Daniel Salvat, Maxime Brodeur
Q06
Invited
Live
Quantum Aspects of Gravitation
Room: Roosevelt 1
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Abhay Ashtekar, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers: Radu Roiban, Ivan Agullo, Astrid Eichhorn
Q07
Invited
Live
Celebrating the Diversity of New GFB/DNP Fellows
Room: Roosevelt 2
Sponsor:
GFB DNP
Chair: Harald Griesshammer, George Washington University
Invited Speakers: Charles Weatherford, Evgeny Epelbaum, Sofia Quaglioni
Q08
Invited
Live
Response of Physics to the Coronavirus Pandemic
Room: Roosevelt 3
Sponsor:
FPS
Chair: Savannah Thais, Princeton University
Invited Speakers: Reiner Kruecken, Stephen Streiffer, Savannah Thais
Q09
Live
Pulsars, Supernova Remnants and Galactic Sources
Room: Roosevelt 4
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Cole Miller, University of Maryland
Q10
Live
Dark Matter and Astrophysics
Room: Roosevelt 5
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Masha Baryakhtar, New York University
Q11
Cancelled
Computational Elements in the Physics Curriculum
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
FEd
Chair: Wolfgang Christian, Davidson College
Q12
Live
Accelerators and Beams
Room: Maryland B
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Sarah Cousineau, Oak Ridge National Lab
Q13
Live
Charged Leptons
Room: Maryland C
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Mlnerba Betencourt, FNAL
Q14
Live
Probing the Standard Model at Colliders
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Jinlong Zhang, Argonne National Laboratory
Q15
Live
LIGO/Virgo Search and Data Analysis Methods
Room: Virginia B
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Jessica Mclver, The University of British Columbia
Q16
On Demand
Numerical Modeling of Binary Black Holes
Room: Virginia C
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Jorge Pullin, Louisiana State University
Q18
On Demand
Heavy Flavor and the Initial State in Heavy Ion Collisions
Room: Delaware B
Chair: Anders Knospe, University of Houston
Q20
Focus
Live
Neutrinos V - Reactor Neutrinos
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Karsten Heeger, Yale University
Apr 20 2020 12:30PM, Monday
R01
Cancelled
Planned Giving Luncheon
Room: Wilson C
Sponsor:
DEVEL
Apr 20 2020 12:40PM, Monday
Q21
DPF Early Career Physicists Meet Funding Agency Officers
Room: Washington 1
Sponsor:
DPF
Apr 20 2020 1:30PM, Monday
R02
Invited
Live
Bottom and Charm Quark Physics
Room: Washington 1
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Sheldon Stone, Syracuse University
Invited Speakers: Matthew Rudolph, Jake Bennett, Amarjit Soni
R03
Invited
Live
New Approaches to H_0
Room: Washington 2
Sponsor:
DAP DGRAV GPMFC
Chair: Glennys Farrar, New York University
Invited Speakers: Wendy Freedman, Suzanne Staggs, Kenneth Wong
R04
Invited
Live
From Quarks to the Cosmos
Room: Washington 3
Sponsor:
DNP DCOMP
Chair: Peter Petreczky, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers: Huey-Wen Lin, Michael Wagman, Rasmus Larsen
R05
Live
Tests of General Relativity with Gravitational Waves II
Room: Washington 6
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Helvi Witek, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
R06
Invited
Live
Emerging Technologies for Future Accelerators
Room: Roosevelt 1
Sponsor:
DPB
Chair: Sarah Cousineau, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and University of Tennessee
Invited Speakers: James Rosenzweig, Alexander Zlobin, Ryan Lindberg
R07
Invited
Cancelled
The Author in Dialogue: Jeffery Bub, Bananaworld: Quantum Mechanics for Primates
Room: Roosevelt 2
Sponsor:
FHP
Chair: Paul Cadden-Zimansky, Bard College
Invited Speakers: Leah Henderson, Michael Janas, Michel Janssen, Jeffrey Bub
R08
Invited
Live
Status of the Effective Practices for Physics Programs (EP3) Project
Room: Roosevelt 3
Sponsor:
FEd
Chair: Gerald Feldman, George Washington University
Invited Speakers: Theodore Hodapp, Neal Abraham, Eric Brewe
R09
Live
Observational Aspects of Neutrino Astrophysics
Room: Roosevelt 4
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Marcos Santander, University of Alabama
R10
Live
Future Gamma-ray Space Missions
Room: Roosevelt 5
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Roopesh Ojha, Goddard Space Flight Center
R11
On Demand
Nuclear Theory
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Harald Griesshammer, George Washington University
R12
Live
Axions III
Room: Maryland B
Chair: Lindley Winslow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
R13
Live
Understanding Noble Element Detectors for Dark Matter and 0vBB
Room: Maryland C
Sponsor:
DPF DNP
Chair: Matthew Szydagis, University of Albany SUNY
R14
On Demand
Neutron Physics
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Shannon Hoogerheide, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
R15
Live
Gravitational Wave Data Analysis
Room: Virginia B
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Maximilano Isi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
R16
Live
Instrumentation in Nuclear and Particle Physics I
Room: Virginia C
Sponsor:
DPF DNP
Chair: Soumya Mohapatra, Columbia University
R17
Focus
Live
Science Opportunities with Stable and Long Lived Beams in Inverse Kinematics
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Andrew Rogers, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Invited Speakers: Benjamin Kay
R18
Live
Numerical Relativity: Neutron Stars and Other Sources with Matter
Room: Delaware B
Sponsor:
DCOMP DGRAV
Chair: Wolfgang Tichy, Florida Atlantic University
R20
Focus
Live
Neutrinos VI - Accelerator Neutrinos
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Ralph Massarczyk, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Apr 20 2020 2:00PM, Monday
S01
Poster
On Demand
Poster Session III (14:00-17:00)
Room: Exhibit Hall A
Apr 20 2020 3:30PM, Monday
T02
Invited
Live
Wilson Prize Awards Session
Room: Washington 1
Sponsor:
DPB DPF
Chair: Sergei Nagaitsev, Fermilab
Invited Speakers: Bruce Carlsten, Siqi Li, Katelin Schultz, William Barletta, Bjorn Scholz
T03
Invited
Cancelled
DAP Award Session: Bethe, Lillienfeld, and Maria Goeppart-Meyer Prizes
Room: Washington 2
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Glennys Farrar, New York University
Invited Speakers: Fiona Harrison, Elisabeth Krause, Joel Primack
T04
Invited
Live
DNP Awards Session
Room: Washington 3
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Robert Janssens, University of North Carolina
Invited Speakers: Katelyn Cook, Richard Milner, Ubirajara van Kolck
T05
Live
Astrophysics with Ground-Based Gravitational-Wave Observations
Room: Washington 6
Sponsor:
DGRAV DAP
Chair: John Conklin, University of Florida
T06
Invited
Live
Nuclear Physics with Gravitational Wave Observations
Room: Roosevelt 1
Sponsor:
DGRAV DNP DAP
Chair: Sanjay Reddy, University of Washington
Invited Speakers: Brian Metzger, Andreas Bauswein, Collin Capano
T08
Invited
Live
Advances in the Design and Implementation of Physics Curriculum
Room: Roosevelt 3
Sponsor:
GPER FEd
Chair: Leslie Atkins, Boise State University
Invited Speakers: Paul Emigh, Natasha Holmes, Edward Price
T09
Live
Future and Upgraded Cosmic-Ray and Ground Based Gamma-Ray Experiments
Room: Roosevelt 4
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: David Williams, UC Santa Cruz
T10
Live
MeV Gamma-ray Science Prospects and Extragalactic Diffuse Emission
Room: Roosevelt 5
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Regina Caputo, Goddard Space Flight Center
T11
Live
Big G and Tests of Gravity
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
GPMFC
Chair: Stephan Schlamminger, NIST
T12
Live
Axions IV
Room: Maryland B
Chair: Gianpaolo Carosi, LLNL
T13
Live
Dark Energy and Dark Matter
Room: Maryland C
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Chung Kao, University of Oklahoma
T14
Live
Detectors and Upgrades III
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Roger Rusack, University of Minnesota
T15
On Demand
Tests of Modified Gravity
Room: Virginia B
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: David Garfinkle, Oakland University
T16
On Demand
Approximate Methods in Gravitational Astrophysics
Room: Virginia C
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Emanuele Berti, Johns Hopkins University
T17
On Demand
Nuclear Structure
Room: Delaware A
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Elizabeth McCutchan, Brookhaven National Laboratory
T20
Focus
Live
Neutrinos VII – Precision Measurements
Room: Washington 5
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Kyle Leach, Colorado School of Mines
Apr 20 2020 5:30PM, Monday
U01
DAP Business Meeting
Room: Roosevelt 5
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Josh Frieman, Fermilab
U02
DPB Business Meeting
Room: Washington 2
Sponsor:
DPB
Chair: Sergei Nagaitsev, Fermilab
U03
DNP Business Meeting
Room: Washington 3
Sponsor:
DNP
U04
Cancelled
DPF Business Meeting
Room: Washington 1
Sponsor:
DPF
U05
DGRAV Business Meeting
Room: Roosevelt 1
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Gary Horowitz, University of California, Santa Barbara
Apr 20 2020 6:00PM, Monday
U06
Cancelled
March Meeting Town Hall
Room: Wilson C
Sponsor:
MMTF
Apr 20 2020 6:30PM, Monday
V01
Invited
Cancelled
Mini-Symposium: NASA Gamma-Ray Science Interest Group
Room: Roosevelt 5
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Sylvain Guiriec, George Washington University
Invited Speakers: Sylvain Guiriec, Sylvain Guiriec, Bindu Rani, Marcos Santander, Sylvain Guiriec
Apr 21 2020 8:30AM, Tuesday
W01
Invited
Live
Plenary
Plenary: Frontiers of Discovery: Flavor, Color, and Exoplanets
Room: Marriott Ballroom 2/3
Sponsor:
APS
Chair: Priscilla Cushman, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers: Didier Queloz, Chris Polly, Larry McLerran
Apr 21 2020 10:15AM, Tuesday
W02
Networking Break (10:15am - 10:45am)
Room: N/A
Apr 21 2020 10:45AM, Tuesday
X02
Invited
Live
Advances in Instrumentation and Detectors for Particle Physics
Room: Washington 1
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Roger Rusack, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers: Laura Manenti, Lindsey Gray, Frank Golf
X03
Invited
Live
Axion Cosmology and Astrophysics
Room: Washington 2
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Asimina Arvanitaki, Perimeter Institute
Invited Speakers: Anthony Pullen, Giovanni Villadoro, Masha Baryakhtar
X04
Invited
Live
Increasing Nuclear Literacy for the Public and for Professionals
Room: Washington 3
Sponsor:
FEd DNP
Chair: Gerald Feldman, George Washington University
Invited Speakers: Shelly Lesher, Christopher Cahill, Artemis Spyrou
X06
Invited
Live
Isaacson Award Session: Challenges in Gravitational Wave Research
Room: Roosevelt 1
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Gabriela Gonzalez, Louisiana State University
Invited Speakers: Bernard Schutz, William East, Bruce Allen
X07
Invited
Cancelled
Data Analysis Applications in Astrophysics: Past and Future
Room: Roosevelt 2
Sponsor:
FGSA
Chair: Tiffany Nichols, Harvard University
Invited Speakers: Joshua Yao-Yu Lin, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Christopher Berry, Duncan Brown
X08
Invited
Live
Science and International Relations
Room: Roosevelt 3
Sponsor:
FPS
Chair: Anna Quider, Northern Illinois University
Invited Speakers: Rebecca Keiser, Cherry Murray, Arthur Bienenstock
X09
On Demand
Supernovae and Tidal Disruption Events
Room: Roosevelt 4
Sponsor:
DAP
X10
Live
Pulsar Timing
Room: Roosevelt 5
Sponsor:
DAP DGRAV
Chair: Elizabeth Ferrara, Univ. Maryland/GSFC
X11
Live
Neutrino Detection
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Justin Vandenbroucke, University of Wisconsin
X12
Live
Flavor Physics In and Beyond the Standard Model
Room: Maryland B
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: George Hou, Natl Taiwan Univ
X13
Live
Computational Techniques For Event Reconstruction I
Room: Maryland C
Chair: MInerba Betencourt, FNAL
X14
On Demand
Computational Physics I
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DCOMP
Chair: Huey-Wen Lin, Michigan State University
X15
Live
Topics in Physics Education
Room: Virginia B
Sponsor:
FEd
Chair: Eric Brewe, Drexel University
X16
Focus
Live
Neutrinos VIII - Neutrino Interactions
Room: Virginia C
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Vince Guiseppe, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Apr 21 2020 1:30PM, Tuesday
Y02
Invited
Live
In Memoriam: Winston Ko, Ann Nelson, and Steven Gubser
Room: Washington 1
Sponsor:
DPF
Chair: Tao Han, University of Pittsburgh
Invited Speakers: Silviu Pufu, David Kaplan, Robin Erbacher
Y03
Invited
Live
Indirect Constraints on Dark Matter
Room: Washington 2
Sponsor:
DAP DPF
Chair: Jodi Cooley, Southern Methodist University
Invited Speakers: Tracy Slatyer, Ben Safdi, Kimberly Boddy
Y04
Invited
Live
Polarization and the QCD Nuclear Medium
Room: Washington 3
Sponsor:
DNP
Chair: Brad Sawatzky, Jefferson Lab
Invited Speakers: Phiala Shanahan, Douglas Higinbotham, Xiaochao Zheng
Y06
Live
Medical Physics and Radiation
Room: Roosevelt 1
Sponsor:
GMED
Chair: Wojtek Zbijewski, Johns Hopkins University
Y07
Invited
Live
Intersection of Science and Politics
Room: Roosevelt 2
Sponsor:
FPS
Chair: E. William Colglazier, University of Manitoba
Invited Speakers: James Jensen, David Goldston, Mary Woolley
Y08
Invited
Live
Big Data in Physics Education Research
Room: Roosevelt 3
Sponsor:
GPER FEd
Chair: Andrew Heckler, Ohio State University
Invited Speakers: John Stewart, Rachel Henderson, Shima Salehi
Y09
Live
Gamma Ray Bursts
Room: Roosevelt 4
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Judy Racusin, GSFC
Y10
Live
Active Galaxies, Star Clusters and Exoplanets
Room: Roosevelt 5
Sponsor:
DAP
Chair: Nicolas Stone, Hebrew University
Y11
Live
Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity
Room: Maryland A
Sponsor:
GPMFC
Chair: Samir Mathur, Ohio State University
Y12
On Demand
Unconventional Ideas in Theory
Room: Maryland B
Sponsor:
DPF
Y13
Live
Computational Techniques For Event Reconstruction - II
Room: Maryland C
Chair: Mike Kordosky, William & Mary
Y14
On Demand
Computational Physics II
Room: Virginia A
Sponsor:
DCOMP
Chair: Amy Liu, Georgetown University
Y15
Live
New Perspectives in Gravitational Physics and Electrodynamics
Room: Virginia B
Sponsor:
DGRAV
Chair: Richard O'Shaughnessy, Rochester Institute of Technology
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