2012 Annual Meeting of the California-Nevada Section of the APS
Volume 57, Number 13
Friday–Saturday, November 2–3, 2012;
San Luis Obispo, California
Session Index
Session C1: Education, Energy, and Medical Physics
Chair: Kenneth Ganezer, CSU Dominguez Hills
Room: Business 003 0205
Friday, November 2, 2012
2:00PM - 2:12PM
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C1.00001: STAR: Preparing future science and math teachers through authentic research experiences at national laboratories
John Keller, Bryan Rebar
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Friday, November 2, 2012
2:12PM - 2:24PM
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C1.00002: Improving the Efficiency of Homologous Gene Replacement by Disrupting the NHEJ Pathway for Gene \textit{KusA} in the Oleaginous Fungus \textit{Mortierella alpina}
Kathleen Krueger, Ziyu Dai, Uger Uzuner
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Friday, November 2, 2012
2:24PM - 2:36PM
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C1.00003: The Implementation of the Shear Correlation Function and the Matter Power Spectrum in R
Allison Scheppelmann, Deborah Bard
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Friday, November 2, 2012
2:36PM - 2:48PM
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C1.00004: Small Satellites for Secondary Students
Kevin Zack, Lynn Cominsky
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Friday, November 2, 2012
2:48PM - 3:00PM
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C1.00005: Solar Concentration for Electricity and Cooking
Mike Kim, Connor Fourt, Pete Schwartz, Michael Lee, Taylor Frostholm, Josh Fernandes, Jared Tower
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Friday, November 2, 2012
3:00PM - 3:12PM
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C1.00006: A Characterization of Pleistocene Climate as Revealed by Empirical Mode Decomposition
Matthew Rodrigues, Charles Camp, Pamela Martin, Alex Gerber
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Friday, November 2, 2012
3:12PM - 3:24PM
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C1.00007: Designing high specificity anti-cancer nanocarriers by exploiting non-equilibrium effects
Konstantinos Tsekouras, Igor Goncharenko, Michael Colvin, Kerwyn Huang, Ajay Gopinathan
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Session C2: Condensed Matter I: Phase Changes and Liquid Crystals
Chair: Sergey Savrasov, University of California, Davis
Room: Business 003 0112
Friday, November 2, 2012
2:00PM - 2:12PM
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C2.00001: Analysis of an Unusual Liquid Crystal Phase Transition
Loni Fuller, Josh Fankhauser, Jonathan Fernsler
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Friday, November 2, 2012
2:12PM - 2:24PM
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C2.00002: Field Control of the Surface Electroclinic Effect in Liquid Crystal Displays I
Dana Hipolite, Kara Zappitelli, Karl Saunders
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Friday, November 2, 2012
2:24PM - 2:36PM
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C2.00003: Field Control of the Surface Electroclinic Effect in Liquid Crystal Displays II
Kara Zappitelli, Dana Hipolite, Karl Saunders
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Friday, November 2, 2012
2:36PM - 2:48PM
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C2.00004: Ordering Quantum Dot Clusters via Nematic Liquid Crystal Defects
Andrea Rodarte, R. Pandolfi, L.S. Hirst, S. Ghosh
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Friday, November 2, 2012
2:48PM - 3:00PM
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C2.00005: New experimental techniques to measure the electroclinic effect in smectic liquid crystals
Joshua Fankhauser, Loni Fuller, Jonathan Fernsler
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Friday, November 2, 2012
3:00PM - 3:12PM
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C2.00006: Dielectric Spectroscopy in Liquid Crystals:
Zachary Sailer, Crosby Sperling, Jonathan Fernsler
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Friday, November 2, 2012
3:12PM - 3:24PM
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C2.00007: X-ray scattering measurements of ionization in shock-compressed deuterium
Paul Davis
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Friday, November 2, 2012
3:24PM - 3:36PM
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C2.00008: Liquid Crystal Response to Surface-Plasmon-Induced Electric Fields
Zachary Nuno, Linda Hirst, Sayantani Ghosh
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Session C3: High Energy and Accelerator Physics
Chair: Nan Phinney, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Room: Business 003 0209
Friday, November 2, 2012
2:00PM - 2:12PM
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C3.00001: New Simulations of ATLAS Data for the 8TeV Upgrade
Arya Afshari
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Friday, November 2, 2012
2:12PM - 2:24PM
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C3.00002: Improved cross section calculations in ATLAS simulation packages, APPLgrid and NLOjet
Navid Rad
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Friday, November 2, 2012
2:24PM - 2:36PM
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C3.00003: Experimental Analysis of Gaseous Chambers for the ATLAS Muon sub-detector Upgrade R{\&}D
Emmanuel Angulo
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Friday, November 2, 2012
2:36PM - 2:48PM
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C3.00004: Simulating the Response of the High-Intensity Luminosity Monitor at the LHC
Samuel Hedges, Howard Matis, Alessandro Ratti, Massimo Placidi, William Turner
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Friday, November 2, 2012
2:48PM - 3:00PM
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C3.00005: Solar Neutrino Measurements in Super-Kamiokande-IV
Andrew Renshaw
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Friday, November 2, 2012
3:00PM - 3:12PM
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C3.00006: Recent results from Super-Kamiokande on searches for baryon number violation and on neutrino oscillations, neutrino astrophysics and plans for the future of Super-Kamiokande including Hyper-K
Dylan Nicholas
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Friday, November 2, 2012
3:12PM - 3:24PM
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C3.00007: The planned search for free neutron-antineutron transformation using the nnbarX experiment at Fermilab and how it relates to bound neutron oscillations at Super-Kamiokande and elsewhere
Eddie Banuelos
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Friday, November 2, 2012
3:24PM - 3:36PM
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C3.00008: The Heavy Photon Search Experiment: Searching for Dark Photons at Jefferson Lab
Omar Moreno
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