Oct 24 2012 8:30AM, Wednesday

1WA Workshop on And Here Be Dragons: Understanding the Nature of Unstable Isotopes
Room: Plaza I Chair: Jutta Escher, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Calvin Johnson, San Diego State University
Invited Speakers:  Artemis Spyrou,  Gaute Hagen,  Willem Dickhoff,  J.C. Blackmon,  Ian Thompson,  Vladimir Zelevinsky,  Jolie A. Cizewski  

1WB Workshop on New Results in Spin Physics from Polarized Proton Beams at RHIC/New Results in Heavy Ions
Room: Plaza II Chair: Richard Hollis and Aneta Iordanova, University of California, Riverside
Invited Speakers:  Zhongbo Kang,  Renee Fatemi,  K. Oleg Eyser,  Christine Aidala,  Zhangbu Xu,  Torsten Dahms,  Wei Li,  Sangyon Jeon  

1WC Workshop on Instrumentation Beyond the Standard Model
Room: Plaza III Chair: Alan Poon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Daniel McKinsey,  Albert Young,  Takeyasu Ito,  David Hertzog,  Benjamin Monreal,  Azriel Goldschmidt,  Andrew Sonnenschein  

Oct 24 2012 3:00PM, Wednesday

AA Plenary Session
Room: Plaza I-III Chair: Robert McKeown, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Invited Speakers:  Johanna Stachel,  Hideto En'yo,  Guenther Rosner,  Nigel Smith  

Oct 24 2012 6:00PM, Wednesday

BA Welcome Reception
Room: Bay Pool

Oct 25 2012 8:30AM, Thursday

CA Nuclear Physics at California Institutions: From Large to the Very Small
Room: Plaza I Chair: Calvin Johnson, San Diego State University
Invited Speakers:  Joseph H. Hamilton,  Miklos Gyulassy,  Jim Napolitano  

CB Applications of Nuclear Physics
Room: Plaza II Chair: Christopher Morris, Los Alamos National Laboratory

CC Instrumentation I: JLab/Fission
Room: Plaza III Chair: Mark Jones, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

CD Nuclear Structure I
Room: Patio Chair: Vladimir Gudkov, University of South Carolina

CE Nuclear Reactions: Hadrons/Light Ions
Room: Garden I Chair: Calvin Howell, Duke University

CF Nuclear Theory I
Room: Garden III Chair: Erich Ormand, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

CG Theoretical Physics: Novel and Diverse Topics
Room: Surf Chair: Michael Karl Gerhard Kruse, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Oct 25 2012 10:30AM, Thursday

DA Novel Electroweak Probes of Nucleon Structure and the Standard Model
Room: Plaza I Chair: Wally Melnitchouk, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Invited Speakers:  Lawrence Weinstein,  Mark Dalton,  Xiaochao Zheng  

DB Mini-Symposium on Confronting ab-initio Theories of Nuclear Structure and Reactions with Experiments
Room: Plaza II Chair: Lucas Platter, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Petr Navratil  

DC Instrumentation II: Low Energy, Gamma
Room: Plaza III Chair: Jolie Cizewski, Rutgers University

DD Nuclear Structure II
Room: Patio Chair: Siegfried Krewald, FZ Juelich

DE Heavy Ions: Jets, Dielelectrons, and the Initial State
Room: Garden I Chair: Dave Morrison, Brookhaven National Laboratory

DF Nuclear Astrophysics: New Approaches
Room: Garden III Chair: Hendrik Schatz, NSCL, Michigan State University

DG Nuclear Theory II
Room: Surf Chair: Ian Thompson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Oct 25 2012 2:00PM, Thursday

EA Conference Experience for Undergraduates Poster Session (2:00-4:00PM)
Room: Plaza Arbor Chair: Warren Rogers, Westmont College

EB Meet the Editors of APS Journals
Room: Plaza Arbor

Oct 25 2012 4:00PM, Thursday

FA The Precision Frontier in Low Energy Nuclear Physics
Room: Plaza I Chair: Peter Mueller, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Jens Dilling,  I.-Yang Lee,  Matthew G. Sternberg  

FB Electromagnetic Interactions
Room: Plaza II Chair: Douglas Beck, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

FC Hadron Physics I
Room: Plaza III Chair: Christine Aidala, University of Michigan

FD New Heavy Quark Results in Heavy-Ion Physics
Room: Patio Chair: Kenneth Barish, University of California, Riverside
Invited Speakers:  Clint Young,  Maya Shimomura,  Francesco Prino  

FE MINERvA and LENS
Room: Garden I Chair: William Louis, Los Alamos National Laboratory

FF Nuclear Theory III
Room: Garden III Chair: Edward Tomusiak, University of Victoria

FG Hadron Physics II
Room: Surf Chair: Abhay Deshpande, Stony Brook University

Oct 25 2012 7:30PM, Thursday

GA Town Meeting: Nuclear Structure and Astrophysics
Room: Plaza I Chair: Brad Sherrill, Michigan State University

GB Town Meeting: Hadronic Physics
Room: Plaza II Chair: Sebastian Kuhn, Old Dominion University

GC Town Meeting: Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics
Room: Plaza III Chair: Paul Sorenson, Brookhaven National Laboratory and Xin-Nian Wang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

GD Town Meeting: Fundamental Symmetries and Neutrinos
Room: Patio Chair: Alan Poon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, David Hertzog, University of Washington, Takeyasu Ito, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Oct 26 2012 8:30AM, Friday

HA Precision Measurement and Novel Approaches to Neutron Decay
Room: Plaza I Chair: Jeffrey Nico, NIST
Invited Speakers:  Huey-Wen Lin,  Michael Mendenhall,  Susan Gardner  

HB Mini-Symposium on Energy/Geometry Dependence of Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions I
Room: Plaza II Chair: Steffan Bass, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Giorgio Torrieri  

HC Instrumentation III: TPC, Neutrons, beta-decay, Lasers
Room: Plaza III Chair: Betty Tsang, Michigan State University

HD Nuclear Structure III
Room: Patio Chair: Jutta Escher, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

HE Double Beta Decay and LUX
Room: Garden I Chair: Eric Norman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

HF Nuclear Astrophysics: Nuclear Reactions
Room: Garden III Chair: Michael Wiescher, University of Notre Dame

HG Hadron Physics III
Room: Surf Chair: Kijun Park, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Oct 26 2012 10:30AM, Friday

JA Neutron-rich Nuclei, r-Process Nuclei, and Radioisotopes
Room: Plaza I Chair: Barry Davids, TRIUMF
Invited Speakers:  Sean Liddick,  M. Madurga,  Leonard Mausner  

JB Mini-Symposium on Energy/Geometry Dependence of Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions II
Room: Plaza II Chair: Anthony Frawley, Florida State University

JC Hadron Physics IV
Room: Plaza III Chair: Carlos Granados, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

JD Nuclear Structure IV
Room: Patio Chair: Noemie Koller, Rutgers University

JE Ultra Cold Neutrons
Room: Garden I Chair: Takeyasu Ito, Los Alamos National Laboratory

JF Nuclear Astrophysics: Core Collapse and Collapsed Stars
Room: Garden III Chair: Sanjay Reddy, Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington

Oct 26 2012 2:00PM, Friday

KA Awards Session
Room: Plaza I Chair: Berndt Mueller, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Michael Thoennessen,  Gang Shen  

KB Relativistic Heavy Ions: Jets and the Future of Jet Measurements
Room: Garden I Chair: Jim Thomas, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

KC Instrumentation IV: Dark Matter, Double beta-decay
Room: Surf Chair: Krishna Kumar, University of Massachusetts

KD Nuclear Structure V
Room: Patio Chair: Con Beausang, University of Richmond

KE From Particle Decay to Qweak
Room: Garden II Chair: Rex Tayloe, Indiana University

KF Nuclear Astrophysics: Nuclear Structure
Room: Garden III Chair: Ani Aprahamian, University of Notre Dame

Oct 26 2012 4:00PM, Friday

LA DNP Business and Town Meeting
Room: Plaza I-III

Oct 26 2012 7:15PM, Friday

MA Reception and Banquet
Room: Terrace

Oct 27 2012 8:30AM, Saturday

NA r-Process Nucleosynthesis in Explosive Stellar Scenarios
Room: Plaza I Chair: George Fuller, University of California, San Diego
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Kasen,  Huaiyu Duan,  Ian U. Roederer  

NB Mini-Symposium on Initial-State Fluctuations in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
Room: Plaza II Chair: Agnes Mocsy, Pratt Institute
Invited Speakers:  Bjoern Schenke  

NC Instrumentation V: UCN, EDM, misc
Room: Plaza III Chair: Victor Gehman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

ND Nuclear Structure VI
Room: Patio Chair: Michael Kovash, University of Kentucky

NE Nuclear Reactions: Heavy Ions/Rare Isotope Beams
Room: Garden II Chair: Artemis Spyrou, Michigan State University

NF NPDGamma and nd Reactions
Room: Garden III Chair: Werner Tornow, Duke University

Oct 27 2012 10:30AM, Saturday

PA Nuclear Physics From Lattice QCD
Room: Plaza I Chair: Martin Savage, University of Washington
Invited Speakers:  William Detmold,  Owe Philipsen,  Keh-Fei Liu  

PB Mini-Symposium on Nuclear Astrophysics in Cosmology - BBN, First Stars, and Type-1a SN
Room: Plaza II Chair: Richard Cyburt, NSCL, Michigan State University
Invited Speakers:  Brian Fields  

PC Instrumentation VI: RHI, High Energy
Room: Plaza III Chair: John Haggerty, Brookhaven National Laboratory

PD Nuclear Structure VII
Room: Patio

PE Hadron Physics V
Room: Garden II Chair: Oscar Rondon, University of Virginia

PF Neutrino Oscillations and Underground Physics
Room: Garden III Chair: Dinko Pocanic, University of Virginia

Oct 24 2012 8:30AM, Wednesday

1WA Workshop on And Here Be Dragons: Understanding the Nature of Unstable Isotopes
Room: Plaza I Chair: Jutta Escher, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Calvin Johnson, San Diego State University
Invited Speakers:  Artemis Spyrou,  Gaute Hagen,  Willem Dickhoff,  J.C. Blackmon,  Ian Thompson,  Vladimir Zelevinsky,  Jolie A. Cizewski  

1WB Workshop on New Results in Spin Physics from Polarized Proton Beams at RHIC/New Results in Heavy Ions
Room: Plaza II Chair: Richard Hollis and Aneta Iordanova, University of California, Riverside
Invited Speakers:  Zhongbo Kang,  Renee Fatemi,  K. Oleg Eyser,  Christine Aidala,  Zhangbu Xu,  Torsten Dahms,  Wei Li,  Sangyon Jeon  

1WC Workshop on Instrumentation Beyond the Standard Model
Room: Plaza III Chair: Alan Poon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Daniel McKinsey,  Albert Young,  Takeyasu Ito,  David Hertzog,  Benjamin Monreal,  Azriel Goldschmidt,  Andrew Sonnenschein  

Oct 24 2012 3:00PM, Wednesday

AA Plenary Session
Room: Plaza I-III Chair: Robert McKeown, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Invited Speakers:  Johanna Stachel,  Hideto En'yo,  Guenther Rosner,  Nigel Smith  

Oct 24 2012 6:00PM, Wednesday

BA Welcome Reception
Room: Bay Pool

Oct 25 2012 8:30AM, Thursday

CA Nuclear Physics at California Institutions: From Large to the Very Small
Room: Plaza I Chair: Calvin Johnson, San Diego State University
Invited Speakers:  Joseph H. Hamilton,  Miklos Gyulassy,  Jim Napolitano  

CB Applications of Nuclear Physics
Room: Plaza II Chair: Christopher Morris, Los Alamos National Laboratory

CC Instrumentation I: JLab/Fission
Room: Plaza III Chair: Mark Jones, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

CD Nuclear Structure I
Room: Patio Chair: Vladimir Gudkov, University of South Carolina

CE Nuclear Reactions: Hadrons/Light Ions
Room: Garden I Chair: Calvin Howell, Duke University

CF Nuclear Theory I
Room: Garden III Chair: Erich Ormand, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

CG Theoretical Physics: Novel and Diverse Topics
Room: Surf Chair: Michael Karl Gerhard Kruse, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Oct 25 2012 10:30AM, Thursday

DA Novel Electroweak Probes of Nucleon Structure and the Standard Model
Room: Plaza I Chair: Wally Melnitchouk, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Invited Speakers:  Lawrence Weinstein,  Mark Dalton,  Xiaochao Zheng  

DB Mini-Symposium on Confronting ab-initio Theories of Nuclear Structure and Reactions with Experiments
Room: Plaza II Chair: Lucas Platter, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Petr Navratil  

DC Instrumentation II: Low Energy, Gamma
Room: Plaza III Chair: Jolie Cizewski, Rutgers University

DD Nuclear Structure II
Room: Patio Chair: Siegfried Krewald, FZ Juelich

DE Heavy Ions: Jets, Dielelectrons, and the Initial State
Room: Garden I Chair: Dave Morrison, Brookhaven National Laboratory

DF Nuclear Astrophysics: New Approaches
Room: Garden III Chair: Hendrik Schatz, NSCL, Michigan State University

DG Nuclear Theory II
Room: Surf Chair: Ian Thompson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Oct 25 2012 2:00PM, Thursday

EA Conference Experience for Undergraduates Poster Session (2:00-4:00PM)
Room: Plaza Arbor Chair: Warren Rogers, Westmont College

EB Meet the Editors of APS Journals
Room: Plaza Arbor

Oct 25 2012 4:00PM, Thursday

FA The Precision Frontier in Low Energy Nuclear Physics
Room: Plaza I Chair: Peter Mueller, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Jens Dilling,  I.-Yang Lee,  Matthew G. Sternberg  

FB Electromagnetic Interactions
Room: Plaza II Chair: Douglas Beck, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

FC Hadron Physics I
Room: Plaza III Chair: Christine Aidala, University of Michigan

FD New Heavy Quark Results in Heavy-Ion Physics
Room: Patio Chair: Kenneth Barish, University of California, Riverside
Invited Speakers:  Clint Young,  Maya Shimomura,  Francesco Prino  

FE MINERvA and LENS
Room: Garden I Chair: William Louis, Los Alamos National Laboratory

FF Nuclear Theory III
Room: Garden III Chair: Edward Tomusiak, University of Victoria

FG Hadron Physics II
Room: Surf Chair: Abhay Deshpande, Stony Brook University

Oct 25 2012 7:30PM, Thursday

GA Town Meeting: Nuclear Structure and Astrophysics
Room: Plaza I Chair: Brad Sherrill, Michigan State University

GB Town Meeting: Hadronic Physics
Room: Plaza II Chair: Sebastian Kuhn, Old Dominion University

GC Town Meeting: Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics
Room: Plaza III Chair: Paul Sorenson, Brookhaven National Laboratory and Xin-Nian Wang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

GD Town Meeting: Fundamental Symmetries and Neutrinos
Room: Patio Chair: Alan Poon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, David Hertzog, University of Washington, Takeyasu Ito, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Oct 26 2012 8:30AM, Friday

HA Precision Measurement and Novel Approaches to Neutron Decay
Room: Plaza I Chair: Jeffrey Nico, NIST
Invited Speakers:  Huey-Wen Lin,  Michael Mendenhall,  Susan Gardner  

HB Mini-Symposium on Energy/Geometry Dependence of Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions I
Room: Plaza II Chair: Steffan Bass, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Giorgio Torrieri  

HC Instrumentation III: TPC, Neutrons, beta-decay, Lasers
Room: Plaza III Chair: Betty Tsang, Michigan State University

HD Nuclear Structure III
Room: Patio Chair: Jutta Escher, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

HE Double Beta Decay and LUX
Room: Garden I Chair: Eric Norman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

HF Nuclear Astrophysics: Nuclear Reactions
Room: Garden III Chair: Michael Wiescher, University of Notre Dame

HG Hadron Physics III
Room: Surf Chair: Kijun Park, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Oct 26 2012 10:30AM, Friday

JA Neutron-rich Nuclei, r-Process Nuclei, and Radioisotopes
Room: Plaza I Chair: Barry Davids, TRIUMF
Invited Speakers:  Sean Liddick,  M. Madurga,  Leonard Mausner  

JB Mini-Symposium on Energy/Geometry Dependence of Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions II
Room: Plaza II Chair: Anthony Frawley, Florida State University

JC Hadron Physics IV
Room: Plaza III Chair: Carlos Granados, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

JD Nuclear Structure IV
Room: Patio Chair: Noemie Koller, Rutgers University

JE Ultra Cold Neutrons
Room: Garden I Chair: Takeyasu Ito, Los Alamos National Laboratory

JF Nuclear Astrophysics: Core Collapse and Collapsed Stars
Room: Garden III Chair: Sanjay Reddy, Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington

Oct 26 2012 2:00PM, Friday

KA Awards Session
Room: Plaza I Chair: Berndt Mueller, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Michael Thoennessen,  Gang Shen  

KB Relativistic Heavy Ions: Jets and the Future of Jet Measurements
Room: Garden I Chair: Jim Thomas, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

KC Instrumentation IV: Dark Matter, Double beta-decay
Room: Surf Chair: Krishna Kumar, University of Massachusetts

KD Nuclear Structure V
Room: Patio Chair: Con Beausang, University of Richmond

KE From Particle Decay to Qweak
Room: Garden II Chair: Rex Tayloe, Indiana University

KF Nuclear Astrophysics: Nuclear Structure
Room: Garden III Chair: Ani Aprahamian, University of Notre Dame

Oct 26 2012 4:00PM, Friday

LA DNP Business and Town Meeting
Room: Plaza I-III

Oct 26 2012 7:15PM, Friday

MA Reception and Banquet
Room: Terrace

Oct 27 2012 8:30AM, Saturday

NA r-Process Nucleosynthesis in Explosive Stellar Scenarios
Room: Plaza I Chair: George Fuller, University of California, San Diego
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Kasen,  Huaiyu Duan,  Ian U. Roederer  

NB Mini-Symposium on Initial-State Fluctuations in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
Room: Plaza II Chair: Agnes Mocsy, Pratt Institute
Invited Speakers:  Bjoern Schenke  

NC Instrumentation V: UCN, EDM, misc
Room: Plaza III Chair: Victor Gehman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

ND Nuclear Structure VI
Room: Patio Chair: Michael Kovash, University of Kentucky

NE Nuclear Reactions: Heavy Ions/Rare Isotope Beams
Room: Garden II Chair: Artemis Spyrou, Michigan State University

NF NPDGamma and nd Reactions
Room: Garden III Chair: Werner Tornow, Duke University

Oct 27 2012 10:30AM, Saturday

PA Nuclear Physics From Lattice QCD
Room: Plaza I Chair: Martin Savage, University of Washington
Invited Speakers:  William Detmold,  Owe Philipsen,  Keh-Fei Liu  

PB Mini-Symposium on Nuclear Astrophysics in Cosmology - BBN, First Stars, and Type-1a SN
Room: Plaza II Chair: Richard Cyburt, NSCL, Michigan State University
Invited Speakers:  Brian Fields  

PC Instrumentation VI: RHI, High Energy
Room: Plaza III Chair: John Haggerty, Brookhaven National Laboratory

PD Nuclear Structure VII
Room: Patio

PE Hadron Physics V
Room: Garden II Chair: Oscar Rondon, University of Virginia

PF Neutrino Oscillations and Underground Physics
Room: Garden III Chair: Dinko Pocanic, University of Virginia