Oct 25 2017 9:00AM, Wednesday

1WA Modern Machine Learning Methods in Data Analysis
Room: Marquis A Chair: Curtis Meyer, Carnegie Mellon University
Invited Speakers:  Mike Williams,  Daniel Whiteson,  Taritree Wongjirad,  David Lawrence,  Hy Trac,  James Pivarski  

1WB Theoretical Approaches to Hadron Structure
Room: Marquis B Chair: Colin Morningstar, Carnegie Mellon University
Invited Speakers:  Martha Constantinou,  Alessandro Pilloni,  Harald W. Griesshammer,  Ian Cloet,  Andrei Alexandru,  Yang Li  

1WC Advances in Particle Detectors
Room: Marquis C Chair: Brian Quinn, Carnegie Mellon University
Invited Speakers:  Kondo Gnanvo,  Franck Sabatie,  Peter Friedman,  Patrizia Rossi,  Junqi Xie,  Diana Gooding  

Oct 25 2017 3:00PM, Wednesday

AA Plenary Session
Room: Grand Ballroom Chair: David Dean, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  David Gross,  Michael L. Miller,  Christine Aidala,  Calem Hoffman  

Oct 25 2017 6:30PM, Wednesday

BA Welcome Reception
Room: Ballroom Foyer

Oct 26 2017 8:30AM, Thursday

CB Mini-Symposium on Direct Reactions as a Probe of Nuclear Structure and Nuclear Astrophysics-New Techniques and Instrumentation I
Room: Salon 2 Chair: Alan Wuosmaa, University of Connecticut
Invited Speakers:  Sergio Almaraz-Calderon  

CC Nuclear Astrophysics I
Room: Salon 3 Chair: Zachary Meisel, Ohio University

CD Nuclear Structure I
Room: Salon 4 Chair: Anthony Kuchera, Davidson College

CE Advances in Mesonic Physics
Room: Salon 5 Chair: Colin Morningstar, Carnegie Mellon University
Invited Speakers:  Carsten Urbach,  Curtis Meyer,  Eric Swanson  

CF Meson Structure
Room: Salon 6 Chair: William Briscoe, The George Washington University

CG Mini-Symposium on Electro-weak Physics and Fundamental Symmetries I
Room: Marquis A Chair: Lisa Kaufman, SLAC
Invited Speakers:  Roger Carlini  

CH Neutrino Oscillations
Room: Marquis B Chair: Jordan Myslik, Lawrence Berekely National Laboratory

CK Mini-Symposium on Recent Results and Future Prospects of Heavy Flavor Physics
Room: City Center B Chair: Ramona Vogt, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Zhongbo Kang  

Oct 26 2017 10:30AM, Thursday

DB Mini-Symposium on Direct Reactions as a Probe of Nuclear Structure and Nuclear Astrophysics-New Techniques and Instrumentation II
Room: Salon 2 Chair: Steven Pain, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

DC Nuclear Astrophysics II
Room: Salon 3 Chair: Patrick O'Malley, Notre Dame

DD Nuclear Structure II
Room: Salon 4 Chair: Michael Carpenter, Argonne National Laboratory

DE From Quarks to Nuclei
Room: Salon 5 Chair: David Dean, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Christine Nattrass,  Phiala Shanahan,  Iris Dillmann  

DF Theoretical Approaches to Meson and Baryon Structure
Room: Salon 6 Chair: Patrizia Rossi, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

DG Mini-Symposium on Electro-weak Physics and Fundamental Symmetries II
Room: Marquis A Chair: Ciprian Gal, University of Virginia

DH Neutrino Mass
Room: Marquis B Chair: David Moore, Yale University

DK Mini-Symposium on the Nuclear Equation of State and its Astrophysical Applications
Room: City Center B Chair: Betty Tsang, Michigan State University
Invited Speakers:  Andrew Steiner  

Oct 26 2017 2:00PM, Thursday

EA CEU Poster Session (2:00-4:00pm)
Room: City Center A and Ballroom Foyer Chair: Shelly Lesher, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse

EB Meet the APS Editors (2:00-3:45pm)
Room: Ballroom Foyer

Oct 26 2017 4:00PM, Thursday

FB Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ions
Room: Salon 2 Chair: Christine Nattrass, University of Tennessee

FC Mini-Symposium on Theoretical Approaches to Nucleon Structure
Room: Salon 3 Chair: Phiala Shanahan, College of William and Mary
Invited Speakers:  Christopher Monahan  

FD Nuclear Instrumentation I
Room: Salon 4 Chair: Rusty Towell, Abilene Christian University

FE Spectroscopy of Exotic Nuclei via Proton Removal
Room: Salon 5 Chair: Alexandra Gade, Michigan State University
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Bazin,  Stefanos Paschalis,  Alan Wuosmaa  

FG Mini-Symposium on Electro-weak Physics and Fundamental Symmetries III
Room: Marquis A Chair: Rakitha Beminiwattha, Louisiana Tech University

FH Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
Room: Marquis B Chair: Vincente Guiseppe, University of South Carolina

FK Electromagnetic Interactions
Room: City Center B Chair: Fatiha Benmokhtar, Duquesne University

Oct 27 2017 8:30AM, Friday

HB Mini-Symposium on Coulomb Excitation of Exotic Nuclei
Room: Salon 2 Chair: Robert Janssens, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Augusto O. Macchiavelli  

HC Nuclear Astrophysics III
Room: Salon 3 Chair: Alfredo Estrade, Central Michigan University

HD Nuclear Instrumentation II
Room: Salon 4 Chair: Jenna Smith, Reed College

HE Novel Probes of the Quark Gluon Plasma
Room: Salon 5 Chair: Peter Jacobs, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Michael Lisa,  Sevil Salur,  Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler  

HF Structure Functions
Room: Salon 6 Chair: Misak Sargsian, Florida International University

HG Mini-Symposium on Fundamental Symmetries I
Room: Marquis A Chair: Nadia Fomin, University of Tennessee
Invited Speakers:  Brad Plaster  

HH Mini-Symposium on Instrumentation for Physics Beyond the Standard Model I
Room: Marquis B Chair: Chris Swank, California Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Kent Leung  

HJ Nuclear Theory I
Room: City Center A Chair: Charlotte Elster, Ohio University

HK Mini-Symposium on Photoproduction Physics with GlueX at JLab I
Room: City Center B Chair: Eric Swanson, University of Pittsburgh
Invited Speakers:  Naomi Jarvis  

Oct 27 2017 10:30AM, Friday

JB Mini-Symposium on Nuclear Structure of the Ge and Se Isotopes
Room: Salon 2 Chair: Hironori Iwasaki, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Alex Brown  

JC Nuclear Astrophysics IV
Room: Salon 3 Chair: Anna Simon, University of Notre Dame

JD Nuclear Instrumentation III
Room: Salon 4 Chair: Nathan Frank, Augustana College

JE Advances in Fundamental Neutron Physics Experiments
Room: Salon 5 Chair: Shannon Hoogerheide, NIST
Invited Speakers:  Robert Pattie,  Albert Young,  Christopher Crawford  

JF Gluons and Sea Quarks
Room: Salon 6 Chair: Ian Cloet, Argonne National Laboratory

JG Mini-Symposium on Coherent Elastic Neutrino Nuclear Scattering and Dark Matter
Room: Marquis A Chair: Vince Cianciolo, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Juan I. Collar  

JJ Mini-Symposium on How Small is the QGP? Collectivity in Small Systems I
Room: City Center A Chair: Julia Velkovska, Vanderbilt University
Invited Speakers:  Bjoern Schenke  

JK Mini-Symposium on Photoproduction Physics with GlueX at JLab II
Room: City Center B Chair: Vincent Mathieu, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Oct 27 2017 2:00PM, Friday

KB Nuclear Structure III
Room: Salon 2 Chair: Mitch Allmond, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

KC Mini-Symposium on the CEU 20th Anniversary
Room: Salon 3 Chair: Shelly Lesher, University of Wisconsin La Crosse
Invited Speakers:  Tanja Horn  

KD Proton Radius and Short Range Correlations
Room: Salon 4 Chair: Michael McCracken, Washington and Jefferson College

KE Award Session
Room: Salon 5 Chair: David Dean, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Gregory Smith,  Kyle W. Brown,  Matthew E. Caplan,  Sherry J. Yennello  

KF New Opportunities in Hadron Physics
Room: Salon 6 Chair: Cynthia Keppel, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

KG Mini-Symposium on Fundamental Symmetries II
Room: Marquis A Chair: Nadia Fomin, University of Tennessee

KH Mini-Symposium on Instrumentation for Physics Beyond the Standard Model II
Room: Marquis B Chair: Christopher Crawford, University of Kentucky

KJ Mini-Symposium on How Small is the QGP? Collectivity in Small Systems II
Room: City Center A Chair: Julia Velkovska, Vanderbilt University

KK Mini-Symposium on Photoproduction Physics with GlueX at JLab III
Room: City Center B Chair: Alessandro Pilloni, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Oct 27 2017 4:30PM, Friday

LA DNP Business Meeting/Town Hall
Room: Salon 5

Oct 27 2017 7:00PM, Friday

MA Cash Bar Reception (6:30-7:00pm) and Banquet (7:00-9:30pm)
Room: Marquis Ballroom
Invited Speakers:  Marcel Adam Just  

Oct 28 2017 8:30AM, Saturday

NB Nuclear Reactions: Hadrons/Light Ions
Room: Salon 2 Chair: Sean Kuvin, University of Connecticut

NC Nuclear Structure IV
Room: Salon 3 Chair: Calem Hoffman, Argonne National Laboratory

NE Recent Results From and Future Prospects for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Searches
Room: Salon 5 Chair: Diana Parno, Carnegie Mellon University
Invited Speakers:  Vincente Guiseppe,  Lindley Winslow,  David Moore  

NF Nuclear Theory II
Room: Salon 6 Chair: Pieter Maris, Iowa State University

NJ Nuclear Instrumentation IV
Room: City Center A Chair: Adam Fritsch, Gonzaga University

NK Nuclear Fission I
Room: City Center B Chair: Shea Mosby, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Oct 28 2017 10:30AM, Saturday

PB Heavy Ion Reactions and Radioactive Beams
Room: Salon 2 Chair: George Perdikakis, Central Michigan University

PC Mini-Symposium on Nuclear Matrix Element Calculations for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay
Room: Salon 3 Chair: John Engel, UNC Chapel Hill
Invited Speakers:  Vincenzo Cirigliano  

PE Unraveling the Proton Radius Puzzle
Room: Salon 5 Chair: Douglas Higinbotham, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Invited Speakers:  Aldo Antognini,  Ashot Gasparian,  Gerald A. Miller  

PF Nuclear Theory III
Room: Salon 6 Chair: Mark Caprio, University of Notre Dame

PG Mini-Symposium on Fundamental Symmetries III
Room: Marquis A Chair: Robert Pattie, Los Alamos National Laboratory

PH Mini-Symposium on Instrumentation for Physics Beyond the Standard Model III
Room: Marquis B Chair: Alan Poon, Lawrence Berekely National Laboratory

PJ Mini-Symposium on Nuclear Imaging for Homeland Security
Room: City Center A Chair: Jason Newby, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Donald Hornback  

PK Nuclear Fission II
Room: City Center B Chair: Anton Tonchev, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Oct 25 2017 9:00AM, Wednesday

1WA Modern Machine Learning Methods in Data Analysis
Room: Marquis A Chair: Curtis Meyer, Carnegie Mellon University
Invited Speakers:  Mike Williams,  Daniel Whiteson,  Taritree Wongjirad,  David Lawrence,  Hy Trac,  James Pivarski  

1WB Theoretical Approaches to Hadron Structure
Room: Marquis B Chair: Colin Morningstar, Carnegie Mellon University
Invited Speakers:  Martha Constantinou,  Alessandro Pilloni,  Harald W. Griesshammer,  Ian Cloet,  Andrei Alexandru,  Yang Li  

1WC Advances in Particle Detectors
Room: Marquis C Chair: Brian Quinn, Carnegie Mellon University
Invited Speakers:  Kondo Gnanvo,  Franck Sabatie,  Peter Friedman,  Patrizia Rossi,  Junqi Xie,  Diana Gooding  

Oct 25 2017 3:00PM, Wednesday

AA Plenary Session
Room: Grand Ballroom Chair: David Dean, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  David Gross,  Michael L. Miller,  Christine Aidala,  Calem Hoffman  

Oct 25 2017 6:30PM, Wednesday

BA Welcome Reception
Room: Ballroom Foyer

Oct 26 2017 8:30AM, Thursday

CB Mini-Symposium on Direct Reactions as a Probe of Nuclear Structure and Nuclear Astrophysics-New Techniques and Instrumentation I
Room: Salon 2 Chair: Alan Wuosmaa, University of Connecticut
Invited Speakers:  Sergio Almaraz-Calderon  

CC Nuclear Astrophysics I
Room: Salon 3 Chair: Zachary Meisel, Ohio University

CD Nuclear Structure I
Room: Salon 4 Chair: Anthony Kuchera, Davidson College

CE Advances in Mesonic Physics
Room: Salon 5 Chair: Colin Morningstar, Carnegie Mellon University
Invited Speakers:  Carsten Urbach,  Curtis Meyer,  Eric Swanson  

CF Meson Structure
Room: Salon 6 Chair: William Briscoe, The George Washington University

CG Mini-Symposium on Electro-weak Physics and Fundamental Symmetries I
Room: Marquis A Chair: Lisa Kaufman, SLAC
Invited Speakers:  Roger Carlini  

CH Neutrino Oscillations
Room: Marquis B Chair: Jordan Myslik, Lawrence Berekely National Laboratory

CK Mini-Symposium on Recent Results and Future Prospects of Heavy Flavor Physics
Room: City Center B Chair: Ramona Vogt, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Zhongbo Kang  

Oct 26 2017 10:30AM, Thursday

DB Mini-Symposium on Direct Reactions as a Probe of Nuclear Structure and Nuclear Astrophysics-New Techniques and Instrumentation II
Room: Salon 2 Chair: Steven Pain, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

DC Nuclear Astrophysics II
Room: Salon 3 Chair: Patrick O'Malley, Notre Dame

DD Nuclear Structure II
Room: Salon 4 Chair: Michael Carpenter, Argonne National Laboratory

DE From Quarks to Nuclei
Room: Salon 5 Chair: David Dean, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Christine Nattrass,  Phiala Shanahan,  Iris Dillmann  

DF Theoretical Approaches to Meson and Baryon Structure
Room: Salon 6 Chair: Patrizia Rossi, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

DG Mini-Symposium on Electro-weak Physics and Fundamental Symmetries II
Room: Marquis A Chair: Ciprian Gal, University of Virginia

DH Neutrino Mass
Room: Marquis B Chair: David Moore, Yale University

DK Mini-Symposium on the Nuclear Equation of State and its Astrophysical Applications
Room: City Center B Chair: Betty Tsang, Michigan State University
Invited Speakers:  Andrew Steiner  

Oct 26 2017 2:00PM, Thursday

EA CEU Poster Session (2:00-4:00pm)
Room: City Center A and Ballroom Foyer Chair: Shelly Lesher, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse

EB Meet the APS Editors (2:00-3:45pm)
Room: Ballroom Foyer

Oct 26 2017 4:00PM, Thursday

FB Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ions
Room: Salon 2 Chair: Christine Nattrass, University of Tennessee

FC Mini-Symposium on Theoretical Approaches to Nucleon Structure
Room: Salon 3 Chair: Phiala Shanahan, College of William and Mary
Invited Speakers:  Christopher Monahan  

FD Nuclear Instrumentation I
Room: Salon 4 Chair: Rusty Towell, Abilene Christian University

FE Spectroscopy of Exotic Nuclei via Proton Removal
Room: Salon 5 Chair: Alexandra Gade, Michigan State University
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Bazin,  Stefanos Paschalis,  Alan Wuosmaa  

FG Mini-Symposium on Electro-weak Physics and Fundamental Symmetries III
Room: Marquis A Chair: Rakitha Beminiwattha, Louisiana Tech University

FH Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
Room: Marquis B Chair: Vincente Guiseppe, University of South Carolina

FK Electromagnetic Interactions
Room: City Center B Chair: Fatiha Benmokhtar, Duquesne University

Oct 27 2017 8:30AM, Friday

HB Mini-Symposium on Coulomb Excitation of Exotic Nuclei
Room: Salon 2 Chair: Robert Janssens, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Augusto O. Macchiavelli  

HC Nuclear Astrophysics III
Room: Salon 3 Chair: Alfredo Estrade, Central Michigan University

HD Nuclear Instrumentation II
Room: Salon 4 Chair: Jenna Smith, Reed College

HE Novel Probes of the Quark Gluon Plasma
Room: Salon 5 Chair: Peter Jacobs, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Michael Lisa,  Sevil Salur,  Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler  

HF Structure Functions
Room: Salon 6 Chair: Misak Sargsian, Florida International University

HG Mini-Symposium on Fundamental Symmetries I
Room: Marquis A Chair: Nadia Fomin, University of Tennessee
Invited Speakers:  Brad Plaster  

HH Mini-Symposium on Instrumentation for Physics Beyond the Standard Model I
Room: Marquis B Chair: Chris Swank, California Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Kent Leung  

HJ Nuclear Theory I
Room: City Center A Chair: Charlotte Elster, Ohio University

HK Mini-Symposium on Photoproduction Physics with GlueX at JLab I
Room: City Center B Chair: Eric Swanson, University of Pittsburgh
Invited Speakers:  Naomi Jarvis  

Oct 27 2017 10:30AM, Friday

JB Mini-Symposium on Nuclear Structure of the Ge and Se Isotopes
Room: Salon 2 Chair: Hironori Iwasaki, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Alex Brown  

JC Nuclear Astrophysics IV
Room: Salon 3 Chair: Anna Simon, University of Notre Dame

JD Nuclear Instrumentation III
Room: Salon 4 Chair: Nathan Frank, Augustana College

JE Advances in Fundamental Neutron Physics Experiments
Room: Salon 5 Chair: Shannon Hoogerheide, NIST
Invited Speakers:  Robert Pattie,  Albert Young,  Christopher Crawford  

JF Gluons and Sea Quarks
Room: Salon 6 Chair: Ian Cloet, Argonne National Laboratory

JG Mini-Symposium on Coherent Elastic Neutrino Nuclear Scattering and Dark Matter
Room: Marquis A Chair: Vince Cianciolo, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Juan I. Collar  

JJ Mini-Symposium on How Small is the QGP? Collectivity in Small Systems I
Room: City Center A Chair: Julia Velkovska, Vanderbilt University
Invited Speakers:  Bjoern Schenke  

JK Mini-Symposium on Photoproduction Physics with GlueX at JLab II
Room: City Center B Chair: Vincent Mathieu, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Oct 27 2017 2:00PM, Friday

KB Nuclear Structure III
Room: Salon 2 Chair: Mitch Allmond, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

KC Mini-Symposium on the CEU 20th Anniversary
Room: Salon 3 Chair: Shelly Lesher, University of Wisconsin La Crosse
Invited Speakers:  Tanja Horn  

KD Proton Radius and Short Range Correlations
Room: Salon 4 Chair: Michael McCracken, Washington and Jefferson College

KE Award Session
Room: Salon 5 Chair: David Dean, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Gregory Smith,  Kyle W. Brown,  Matthew E. Caplan,  Sherry J. Yennello  

KF New Opportunities in Hadron Physics
Room: Salon 6 Chair: Cynthia Keppel, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

KG Mini-Symposium on Fundamental Symmetries II
Room: Marquis A Chair: Nadia Fomin, University of Tennessee

KH Mini-Symposium on Instrumentation for Physics Beyond the Standard Model II
Room: Marquis B Chair: Christopher Crawford, University of Kentucky

KJ Mini-Symposium on How Small is the QGP? Collectivity in Small Systems II
Room: City Center A Chair: Julia Velkovska, Vanderbilt University

KK Mini-Symposium on Photoproduction Physics with GlueX at JLab III
Room: City Center B Chair: Alessandro Pilloni, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Oct 27 2017 4:30PM, Friday

LA DNP Business Meeting/Town Hall
Room: Salon 5

Oct 27 2017 7:00PM, Friday

MA Cash Bar Reception (6:30-7:00pm) and Banquet (7:00-9:30pm)
Room: Marquis Ballroom
Invited Speakers:  Marcel Adam Just  

Oct 28 2017 8:30AM, Saturday

NB Nuclear Reactions: Hadrons/Light Ions
Room: Salon 2 Chair: Sean Kuvin, University of Connecticut

NC Nuclear Structure IV
Room: Salon 3 Chair: Calem Hoffman, Argonne National Laboratory

NE Recent Results From and Future Prospects for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Searches
Room: Salon 5 Chair: Diana Parno, Carnegie Mellon University
Invited Speakers:  Vincente Guiseppe,  Lindley Winslow,  David Moore  

NF Nuclear Theory II
Room: Salon 6 Chair: Pieter Maris, Iowa State University

NJ Nuclear Instrumentation IV
Room: City Center A Chair: Adam Fritsch, Gonzaga University

NK Nuclear Fission I
Room: City Center B Chair: Shea Mosby, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Oct 28 2017 10:30AM, Saturday

PB Heavy Ion Reactions and Radioactive Beams
Room: Salon 2 Chair: George Perdikakis, Central Michigan University

PC Mini-Symposium on Nuclear Matrix Element Calculations for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay
Room: Salon 3 Chair: John Engel, UNC Chapel Hill
Invited Speakers:  Vincenzo Cirigliano  

PE Unraveling the Proton Radius Puzzle
Room: Salon 5 Chair: Douglas Higinbotham, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Invited Speakers:  Aldo Antognini,  Ashot Gasparian,  Gerald A. Miller  

PF Nuclear Theory III
Room: Salon 6 Chair: Mark Caprio, University of Notre Dame

PG Mini-Symposium on Fundamental Symmetries III
Room: Marquis A Chair: Robert Pattie, Los Alamos National Laboratory

PH Mini-Symposium on Instrumentation for Physics Beyond the Standard Model III
Room: Marquis B Chair: Alan Poon, Lawrence Berekely National Laboratory

PJ Mini-Symposium on Nuclear Imaging for Homeland Security
Room: City Center A Chair: Jason Newby, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Donald Hornback  

PK Nuclear Fission II
Room: City Center B Chair: Anton Tonchev, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory