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Session B02: Observations Confront Theory: Emerging Cosmological Tensions

Sponsoring Units: DAP DGRAV
Chair: Priyamvada Natarajan, Yale University
Room: MG Salon A - 3rd Floor

Saturday, April 15, 2023 10:45AM - 11:21AM		B02.00001: Massive galaxies at the beginning of cosmic time with James Webb: do they break our cosmological model? Invited Speaker: Erica Nelson
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:21AM - 11:57AM		B02.00002: The first Gyr of the PBH-LCDM Universe Invited Speaker: Nico Cappelluti
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:57AM - 12:33PM		B02.00003: Tensions on small scales: too many galaxy-galaxy strong lenses in galaxy clusters? Invited Speaker: Massimo Meneghetti

Session B03: Recent theoretical progress in few-body and multiparticle dynamics

Sponsoring Units: DNP GFB
Chair: Sofia Quaglioni, Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab
Room: MG Salon B - 3rd Floor

Saturday, April 15, 2023 10:45AM - 11:21AM		B03.00001: Chiral Effective Field Theory's Impact on Advancing Quantum Monte Carlo Methods Invited Speaker: Ingo Tews
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:21AM - 11:57AM		B03.00002: Ab initio prediction of α(d,γ)6Li at Big Bang nucleosynthesis energies Invited Speaker: Chloë Hebborn
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:57AM - 12:33PM		B03.00003: Quantifying uncertainties due to irreducible three-body forces in deuteron-nucleus reactions Invited Speaker: Linda Hlophe

Session B04: A Beginner's Guide to Gravitational Physics

Sponsoring Units: DGRAV
Chair: Gabriela Gonzalez, Louisiana State University
Room: MG Salon C - 3rd Floor

Saturday, April 15, 2023 10:45AM - 11:21AM		B04.00001: A Beginner's Guide to Numerical Relativity Invited Speaker: David Garfinkle
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:21AM - 11:57AM		B04.00002: A Beginner's Guide to Gravitational-Wave Astronomy Invited Speaker: Bangalore S Sathyaprakash
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:57AM - 12:33PM		B04.00003: A Beginner's Guide to Quantum Gravity Invited Speaker: Steven J Carlip

Session B05: LHC: Recent Results and Physics

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Todd Adams, Florida State University
Room: MG Salon E - 3rd Floor

Saturday, April 15, 2023 10:45AM - 11:21AM		B05.00001: Machine Learning for LHC physics Invited Speaker: Jennifer Ngadiuba
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:21AM - 11:57AM		B05.00002: Exploring EW symmetry breaking: Higgs, vector bosons, and top quarks Invited Speaker: Rafael Lopes de Sa
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:57AM - 12:33PM		B05.00003: BSM high-mass resonances and Higgs searches Invited Speaker: Daniel A Hayden

Session B06: Crisis and Big Science

Sponsoring Units: FHP
Chair: Paul Halpern, Saint Joseph's University
Room: MG Salon F - 3rd Floor

Saturday, April 15, 2023 10:45AM - 11:21AM		B06.00001: The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory Invited Speaker: Robert P Crease
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:21AM - 11:57AM		B06.00002: Why Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste? Big Science Funding Lessons Invited Speaker: Catherine L Westfall
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:57AM - 12:33PM		B06.00003: Launching the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University: Opportunities, Challenges, and then - Science Invited Speaker: Thomas Glasmacher

Session B08: Quantum Cosmology and Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetimes

Sponsoring Units: DGRAV
Chair: Gautam Satishchandran, Princeton University
Room: Symphony III - 2nd Floor

Saturday, April 15, 2023 10:45AM - 10:57AM		B08.00001: Reheating with Effective Potentials Sanjib Katuwal, Richard P Woodard, Shun-Pei Miao
Saturday, April 15, 2023 10:57AM - 11:09AM		B08.00002: Producing primordial fluctuations with quadratic curvature terms Mauricio Gamonal, Eugenio Bianchi
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:09AM - 11:21AM		B08.00003: Gravity of Gluonic Fluctuations Kristian Mackewicz, Craig J Hogan
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B08.00004: IR-finite Scattering theory in QFT Kartik Prabhu
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B08.00005: Mutual information in interacting quantum field theories away from equilibrium Brenden M Bowen, Albert R Farah, Spasen Chaykov, Nishant Agarwal
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B08.00006: The Average Null Energy Condition for Classical Dirac Fields Robert J Weinbaum
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B08.00007: Pseudo-Gravity at Quantum Scales: Role of Quantum Potentials in Spacetime Geometry Shantikumar Nair
Saturday, April 15, 2023 12:09PM - 12:21PM		B08.00008: An extension of General Relativity Frank S Hafner
Saturday, April 15, 2023 12:21PM - 12:33PM		B08.00009: Nature of the Curvature of Space-Time Rasulkhozha S Sharafiddinov

Session B09: Next-Generation Gravitational Wave Detectors

Sponsoring Units: DGRAV
Chair: Emanuele Berti, Johns Hopkins University
Room: Conrad B/C - 2nd Floor

Saturday, April 15, 2023 10:45AM - 10:57AM		B09.00001: Experimental investigations on the Higher-order Hermite-Gauss mode interferometry Liu Tao, Paul J Fulda
Saturday, April 15, 2023 10:57AM - 11:09AM		B09.00002: Guided Matter-Wave Resonant Atom Interferometry for Gravitational-Wave Detectors Grant D Meadors, Changhyun Ryu, Kevin C Henderson
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:09AM - 11:21AM		B09.00003: An optomechanical instrumentation amplifier with intracavity radiation pressure mediated gain Aaron Markowitz, Shruti Maliakal, Christopher Wipf, rana X adhikari
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B09.00004: Testing of a Prototype Optical Truss Interferometer for the LISA Telescope Kylan M Jersey, Yanqi Zhang, Ian Harley-Trochimczyk, Felipe Guzman
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B09.00005: UF Length Stability Testing for the LISA Telescope Structural Thermal Model Alexander J Weaver
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B09.00006: Sideband Locking for the LISA Optical Truss Interferometer Readout Paul Edwards, Paul Fulda
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B09.00007: Calculating the precision of tilt-to-length coupling estimation and noise subtraction in LISA using Fisher information Daniel George, Jose Sanjuan, Paul Fulda, Guido Mueller
Saturday, April 15, 2023 12:09PM - 12:21PM		B09.00008: Long-term optical path-length stability testing of the LISA Telescope Structural Thermal Model Laura R Roberts
Saturday, April 15, 2023 12:21PM - 12:33PM		B09.00009: Ensuring Reliability in Space: Environmental Testing of a UV-LED Based Charge Management System for the LISA Gravitational Wave Observatory Simon F Barke, Corey Richardson, Ben Letson, Samantha P Kenyon, Guido Mueller, Timothy Sumner, Peter J Wass, Mark Storm, John Conklin

Session B10: Mini-Symposium: Heavy Flavor Production From Heavy Ion to Electron Ion Collisions

Sponsoring Units: GHP DNP
Chair: Christina Markert, University of Texas at Austin
Room: Marquette I - 2nd Floor

Saturday, April 15, 2023 10:45AM - 11:21AM		B10.00001: Heavy flavor production and interaction from hot to cold QCD Invited Speaker: Krista L Smith
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B10.00002: J/psi and D Meson Production by Intrinsic Charm Ramona L Vogt
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B10.00003: Elliptic flow measurement of J/ψ in PHENIX Run14 Au+Au at √sNN = 200 GeV Luis Bichon
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B10.00004: PHENIX Measurements of Azimuthal Anisotropy of Light and Heavy Flavor Hadrons in Au+Au Collisions at Forward Rapidity Brandon T Blankenship, Julia Velkovska
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B10.00005: Investigating charm quark production in heavy ion collisions using ALICE at the LHC Josephina Wright
Saturday, April 15, 2023 12:09PM - 12:21PM		B10.00006: Searching for J/ψ collective flow in 13 TeV pp collisions at CMS Mike Z Reynolds
Saturday, April 15, 2023 12:21PM - 12:33PM		B10.00007: Heavy-Flavor Angular Correlations Measured by the ALICE Experiment Amanda N Flores

Session B11: Particle Astrophysics

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Sekhar Chivukula, University of California, San Diego
Room: Marquette II - 2nd Floor

Saturday, April 15, 2023 10:45AM - 10:57AM		B11.00001: New Constraints on Dark Matter and Cosmic Neutrino Profiles through Gravity Jason Arakawa, Yu-Dai Tsai, Marianna Safronova, Joshua Eby, Davide Farnocchia
Saturday, April 15, 2023 10:57AM - 11:09AM		B11.00002: A signal from stimulated decays of axion dark matter in the Milky Way Takuya Okawa, Bhupal Dev, Francesc Ferrer
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:09AM - 11:21AM		B11.00003: Modelling uncertainties for neutrino propagation using nuPyProp DIKSHA GARG
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B11.00004: Gamma rays run on time Felipe José Llanes Estrada, Gloria Tejedor-García, Daniel Beltrán Martínez
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B11.00005: The Surface Array of IceCube-Gen2 Frank G Schroeder
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B11.00006: Collisional flavor instability in dense neutrino gases Huaiyu Duan, Zewei Xiong, Meng-Ru Wu, Lucas Johns
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B11.00007: NGC 1068 and Neutrino Self-Interactions Jeffrey M Hyde
Saturday, April 15, 2023 12:09PM - 12:21PM		B11.00008: Forward production of prompt neutrinos in the atmosphere and at the LHC Yu Seon Jeong, Weidong Bai, Milind Diwan, Maria V Garzelli, Karan Kumar, Mary H Reno
Saturday, April 15, 2023 12:21PM - 12:33PM		B11.00009: Reaching Critical Thresholds in Cosmology with CMB-S4 Sara M Simon

Session B12: Dark Matter I

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Kelly Stifter, Fermilab
Room: Marquette III - 2nd Floor

Saturday, April 15, 2023 10:45AM - 10:57AM		B12.00001: DarkSide-20k: dark matter detection with liquid argon time projection chamber Allan Sung
Saturday, April 15, 2023 10:57AM - 11:09AM		B12.00002: The SPLENDOR experiment - Search for Particles of Light Dark Matter with Narrow-Gap Semiconductors Aparajita Mazumdar
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:09AM - 11:21AM		B12.00003: Compton step calibration feasibility study for SuperCDMS SNOLAB detectors Ata Sattari
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B12.00004: The ORGAN Experiment: Results, Status, and Future Plans Ben McAllister
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B12.00005: Position reconstruction of S2 signals near the edges of the DARWIN detector Dhanurdhar Bajpai
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B12.00006: Sub-GeV Dark Matter Results from an Above-Ground Detector with 2.3 eV Energy Resolution Jack Nelson
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B12.00007: Status of the DAMIC-M dark matter experiment Kellie McGuire
Saturday, April 15, 2023 12:09PM - 12:21PM		B12.00008: Low energy calibration and characterization of novel dark matter detectors utilizing cryogenic optical beam steering Kelly Stifter
Saturday, April 15, 2023 12:21PM - 12:33PM		B12.00009: Search for Dark Matter induced 180Ta decay in MAJORANA Steve R Elliott

Session B13: Multimessenger Astronomy I

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Kevork Abazajian, University of California, Irvine
Room: Marquette IV - 2nd Floor

Saturday, April 15, 2023 10:45AM - 10:57AM		B13.00001: The Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network Hugo Ayala
Saturday, April 15, 2023 10:57AM - 11:09AM		B13.00002: LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA data products in the fourth observing run Andrew Toivonen, Michael W Coughlin, Deep Chatterjee
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:09AM - 11:21AM		B13.00003: LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA real-time discovery alerts in the fourth observing run Deep Chatterjee
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B13.00004: Machine learning based source properties inference for fourth observing run of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Sushant Sharma Chaudhary, Marco Cavaglia, Deep Chatterjee, Shaon Ghosh
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B13.00005: Searching for Gravitational-Wave Counterparts using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Geoffrey Mo, Rahul Jayaraman, Michael Fausnaugh, Erotokritos Katsavounidis, George R Ricker, Roland Vanderspek
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B13.00006: IceCube search for neutrino-induced muons from gravitational wave sources Justin Vandenbroucke
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B13.00007: Timing coincidence search for supernovae neutrinos with optical transient surveys Sean Heston, Shunsaku Horiuchi, Emily Kehoe, Yudai Suwa
Saturday, April 15, 2023 12:09PM - 12:21PM		B13.00008: Neutrino Target-of-Opportunity Observations with EUSO-SPB2 Tonia M Venters, Claire Guépin, Tobias Heibges, John F Krizmanic, Jonatan Posligua, Hallsie Reno, Hannah L Wistrand

Session B14: Precision Measurements for Gravity, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy

Sponsoring Units: GPMFC
Chair: William Snow, Indiana University Bloomington
Room: Marquette V - 2nd Floor

Saturday, April 15, 2023 10:45AM - 10:57AM		B14.00001: Spectral method for computing gravitational quasinormal-mode frequencies of black hole Chung Ka Wai, Nicolas Yunes, Pratik K Wagle
Saturday, April 15, 2023 10:57AM - 11:09AM		B14.00002: Neutron grating interferometry evaluation of test masses Daniel S Hussey, Kofi T Assumin-Gyimah, Dipangkar Dutta, William M Snow, Chloe Langlois, Vincent D Lee
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:09AM - 11:21AM		B14.00003: Towards high precision measurements of dynamic gravity Tobias Brack, Jürg Dual, Fadoua Balabdaoui, Bernhard Zybach, Jonas Fankhauser, Stephan Kaufmann, Stefan Blunier, Donat Scheiwiller, Francesco Palmegiano, Pavel Trtik, Laura De Lorenzis, Helge C Hille, Jean-Claude Tomasina, Michael Meyer
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B14.00004: Generating an Array of Levitated Microspheres and its Applications to Precision Searches for Dark Matter Benjamin Siegel, Gadi Afek, Thomas Penny, Yu-Han Tseng, Jiaxiang Wang, Molly Watts, David C Moore
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B14.00005: Dark Matter search in the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab Byungchul Yu, On Kim, Baisakhi Mitra, Breese Quinn
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B14.00006: Measurement of the Gravitational Constant at NIST Stephan Schlamminger, David B Newell, Clive C Speake, Leon S Chao, Vincent D Lee
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B14.00007: Towards a Better Determination of Big G Using a Multi-Mode Apparatus Emily Ord, Muchuan Hua, Ricardo S Decca, C. D. Hoyle, Alexandra Papesh, Evan Liang, Marvin Q Jones, Grace C Mattingly, Hilde F Isachsen, Rutuj Gavankar, Nicholas Fuller, Ian S Guerrero, William M Snow, Stefan W Ballmer
Saturday, April 15, 2023 12:09PM - 12:21PM		B14.00008: Realization of a complete Stern-Gerlach interferometer: Towards a test of quantum gravity Ron Folman
Saturday, April 15, 2023 12:21PM - 12:33PM		B14.00009: Potential for definitive discovery of a 70 GeV dark matter WIMP with only second-order gauge couplings Roland E Allen

Session B15: Mini-Symposium: Opportunities with JLab Upgrades in Energy, Luminosity, and a Positron Beam I

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Harutyun Avagyan, Jefferson Lab/Jefferson Science Associate
Room: Marquette VI - 2nd Floor

Saturday, April 15, 2023 10:45AM - 11:21AM		B15.00001: Overview of JLab 20+ Upgrade Invited Speaker: Cynthia E Keppel
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B15.00002: Overview of JLab Primakoff Program Liping Gan
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B15.00003: Neutral Pion Tranzition Form Factors Measured through the Primakoff Mechanizm on Atomic Electrons at very Low Q2 Range. Ashot Gasparian
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B15.00004: The Primakoff Experimental Program on Nuclear Targets in Hall D at Jefferson Lab Alexander Somov
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B15.00005: Dark particle searches in Hall-D with Jefferson Lab at 22~GeV Igal Jaegle

Session B16: Undergraduate Research I

Sponsoring Units: APS SPS
Chair: Alexis Knaub, American Association of Physics Teachers
Room: Marquette VII - 2nd Floor

Saturday, April 15, 2023 10:45AM - 10:57AM		B16.00001: Computation of dark matter-nucleus scattering rates in direct detection experiments Stanislaw Rakowski, Michal Zdziennicki, Jakub Trzaska
Saturday, April 15, 2023 10:57AM - 11:09AM		B16.00002: Development of a Cable Checkout Board for the SuperCDMS Experiment Oleksandra Lukina, Ruslan Podviianiuk
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:09AM - 11:21AM		B16.00003: Measuring the Radial Component of the Magnetic Field in the Muon g-2 Experiment Fatima A Rodriguez
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B16.00004: Using RECAST to set an upper limit on the BSM Higgs decay channel H→ll+MET with the ATLAS experiment Enzo D Brandani, Tae M Hong, Benjamin T Carlson
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B16.00005: Searching for Extreme Events in Multi-lepton Data from the LHC Xinyue Wu
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B16.00006: Search for single vector-like B -> tW decays in a single-lepton final state Kyle M Howey, Julie Hogan
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B16.00007: Particle Discovery Lab: CMS Open Data in undergraduate physics courses Kalin Johnson, Julie Hogan
Saturday, April 15, 2023 12:09PM - 12:21PM		B16.00008: Refining MC-based Jet Energy Scale Calibrations with Machine Learning at the ATLAS Experiment Garrett S Linney

Session B17: Undergraduate Research II

Sponsoring Units: SPS
Chair: Rex Tayloe, Indiana University Bloomington
Room: Marquette VIII - 2nd Floor

Saturday, April 15, 2023 10:45AM - 10:57AM		B17.00001: Detector design and electronics for the NAUM (Non-intrusive Archaeometry Using Muons) program Oscar Meza Quintero, Joseph F Sagerer, Avery J Brown, Edmundo J Garcia, Mark R Adams, Arturo Menchaca-Rocha, Austin V Harton
Saturday, April 15, 2023 10:57AM - 11:09AM		B17.00002: On site prototype tests and structure modeling for the NAUM (Non-intrusive Archaeometry Using Muons) program Avery J Brown, Joseph Sagerer, Edmundo J Garcia, Oscar Meza Quintero, Austin V Harton, Mark R Adams, Arturo Menchaca-Rocha
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:09AM - 11:21AM		B17.00003: Properties of solutions to the mode equations for scalar fields in Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime Emily Foley, Paul R Anderson
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B17.00004: Testing Gravitational Interactions Below 50 Microns Abby Keltz, Kevin Chung, Tanner B Hooven, Emily N Ord, Alexandra Papesh, Claire Rodgers, C.D. Hoyle
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B17.00005: Topological Change of Kerr Compact Object Shadows: Properties of Unstable Spherical Photon Orbits Around Kerr Naked Singularities Bao Nguyen, Chi-Kwan Chan, Pierre Christian
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B17.00006: Tully Fisher and Radial Accelerations in the Bizyaev et al. 2021 Edge in Galaxies William M Kerin, James G O'Brien, Thomas Chiarelli
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B17.00007: Study of cosmic-ray secondary nuclei and isotopes using GALPROP Zachary M Dorris, Yuca Chen, Eun-Suk Seo
Saturday, April 15, 2023 12:09PM - 12:21PM		B17.00008: Study of Cosmic Ray Spectral Features Using GALPROP Yuca Chen, Hongyi Wu, Zachary M Dorris, Eun-Suk Seo

Session B18: Theoretical Frameworks and Methodologies

Sponsoring Units: GPER
Chair: Jennifer Blue, Miami University
Room: Marquette IX - 2nd Floor

Saturday, April 15, 2023 10:45AM - 10:57AM		B18.00001: Automating motivational coding of CUWiP responses using natural language processing approaches Colin Green, Eric Brewe
Saturday, April 15, 2023 10:57AM - 11:09AM		B18.00002: Why the machine (dis)agrees: understanding uncertainty in natural language processing classifications Rebeckah Fussell, Natasha G Holmes
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:09AM - 11:21AM		B18.00003: Effects of Anchor Item Choices on Bias on the Force Concept Inventory across the intersection of gender and race John B Buncher, Jayson M Nissen, Ben Van Dusen, Robert M Talbot
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B18.00004: Assessing introductory physics students using large open item bank created using GPT-3 and Wolfram Alpha Zhongzhou Chen
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B18.00005: Consistency of item response theory results between data sets Trevor I Smith, Nasrine Bendjilali
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B18.00006: Applying Causal Inference Principles to the Analysis of Observational Studies in Physics Education Vidushi Adlakha, Eric Kuo
Saturday, April 15, 2023 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B18.00007: Theoretical Considerations When Predicting the Outcome of Future Educational Interventions from Observational Studies Eric Kuo, Vidushi Adlakha
Saturday, April 15, 2023 12:09PM - 12:21PM		B18.00008: Draft of Referee Guidelines to maintain clarity and generativity of quantitative research studies in Physical Review Physics Education Research Tim J Stelzer, Eric Brewe, Andrew F Heckler, Rachel J Henderson, Natasha G Holmes, Eric Kuo