Bulletin of the American Physical Society

2014 Annual Meeting of the Far West Section of the APS

Volume 59, Number 14

Friday–Saturday, October 24–25, 2014; Reno, Nevada

Session Index

Session C1: Plasma Physics

Chair: Alla Safronova, University of Nevada, Reno
Room: JCSU 422

Friday, October 24, 2014 2:00PM - 2:12PM		C1.00001: X-ray image and x-ray burst features of under-dense plasma produced in high-density gas jets on the Leopard Laser at UNR K.A. Schultz, V.L. Kantsyrev, A.S. Safronova, J.J. Moschella, P. Wiewior, V.V. Shlyaptseva, M.E. Weller, E.E. Petkov, I.K. Shrestha, A. Stafford, M.C. Cooper Preview Abstract
Friday, October 24, 2014 2:12PM - 2:24PM		C1.00002: Positron Production Using a Laser-Wakefield Electron Source Jackson Williams, Felicie Albert, Hui Chen, Jaebum Park, Brad Pollock Preview Abstract
Friday, October 24, 2014 2:24PM - 2:36PM		C1.00003: ??ray production and transport in ultra-fast heated high Z matter Rishi Pandit, Yasuhiko Sentoku Preview Abstract
Friday, October 24, 2014 2:36PM - 2:48PM		C1.00004: Study of Hard X-rays and Electron Beams on 1.7 MA Z-pinch and Laser Plasma Experiments I. Shrestha, V.L. Kantsyrev, A.S. Safronova, V.V. Shlyaptseva, K.A. Schultz, M.E. Weller, A. Stafford, E.E. Petkov, M.C. Cooper, P. Wiewior Preview Abstract
Friday, October 24, 2014 2:48PM - 3:00PM		C1.00005: Formation of Plasma from Thick Metal Pulsed with Multi-Megagauss Magnetic Field B.S. Bauer, K.C. Yates, S. Fuelling, V.V. Ivanov, I.R. Lindemuth, R.E. Siemon, A.A. Anderson, T. Hutchinson, J. Mei, T.J. Awe, R.S. Bauer Preview Abstract
Friday, October 24, 2014 3:00PM - 3:12PM		C1.00006: Improvements to a novel photoionized plasma experiment and calculations at the Z facility T.E. Lockard, D.C. Mayes, T. Durmaz, R.C. Mancini, G. Loisel, J.E. Bailey, G.A. Rochau, D.A. Liedahl, R.F. Heeter Preview Abstract
Friday, October 24, 2014 3:12PM - 3:24PM		C1.00007: Renovated Compact Z-pinch Facility ``Sparky'' and Development and Tests of Focusing Crystal X-ray Spectrometers M.C. Cooper, V.L. Kantsyrev, A.S. Safronova, I.K. Shrestha, K.A. Schultz, V.V. Shlyaptseva, M.E. Weller, A. Stafford, E.E. Petkov, M.T. Schmidt-Petersen, M.Y. Lorance, W. Cline, C. Davidson Preview Abstract
Friday, October 24, 2014 3:24PM - 3:36PM		C1.00008: Plasma Formation and Evolution on the Surface of Aluminum, Copper, Titanium and Nickel Driven by a Mega-Ampere Current Kevin Yates, Bruno Bauer, Stephan Fuelling, Vladimir Ivanov, Austin Anderson, Jeffrey Mei, Trevor Hutchinson, Thomas Awe, Rebecca Bauer Preview Abstract
Friday, October 24, 2014 3:36PM - 3:48PM		C1.00009: Comparison of Radiative Properties of Wire Arrays and X-Pinches on the 1.7 MA Zebra Generator A. Stafford, A.S. Safronova, V.L. Kantsyrev, M.E. Weller, I. Shrestha, V.V. Shlyaptseva, A.S. Chuvatin Preview Abstract

Session C2: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

Chair: Linda Hirst, University of California at Merced
Room: JCSU 423

Friday, October 24, 2014 2:00PM - 2:12PM		C2.00001: Stokes' theorem, gauge symmetry and the time-dependent Aharonov-Bohm effect James Macdougall, Douglas Singleton Preview Abstract
Friday, October 24, 2014 2:12PM - 2:24PM		C2.00002: \textit{Ab initio} electronic structure calculations of spectroscopic constants and vibrational state lifetimes of diatomic alkali molecules Dmitry Fedorov, Andrei Derevianko, Sergey Varganov Preview Abstract
Friday, October 24, 2014 2:24PM - 2:36PM		C2.00003: Searching for non-Newtonian gravity with optically levitated microsphere in vacuum Gambhir Ranjit, David Atherton, Jordan Stutz, Mark Cunningham, Andrew Geraci Preview Abstract
Friday, October 24, 2014 2:36PM - 2:48PM		C2.00004: Laser spectroscopy {\&} optical pumping of matrix-isolated rubidium atoms Andrew Kanagin, Pawan Pathak, Sameer Regmi, Chase Hartzell, Jonathan Weinstein Preview Abstract
Friday, October 24, 2014 2:48PM - 3:00PM		C2.00005: Laser spectroscopy of LiHe, a van der Waals molecule Naima Tariq, Nada Al Taisan, Vijay Singh, Jonathan Weinstein Preview Abstract
Friday, October 24, 2014 3:00PM - 3:12PM		C2.00006: Micro-mechanical coupling of cold atoms Cris Montoya, Jose Valencia, Andrew Geraci, Matthew Eardley, John Kitching Preview Abstract
Friday, October 24, 2014 3:12PM - 3:24PM		C2.00007: The Classical Cheshire Cat David Atherton, Gambhir Ranjit, Andrew Geraci, Jonathan Weinstein Preview Abstract
Friday, October 24, 2014 3:24PM - 3:36PM		C2.00008: Modeling the electron as a circulating charged photon Richard Gauthier Preview Abstract

Session C3: Condensed Matter and Material Science

Chair: Sergey Savrasov, University of California, Davis
Room: JCSU 323

Friday, October 24, 2014 2:00PM - 2:12PM		C3.00001: Suspended Molybdenum Disulfide Field Effect Transistors Fenglin Wang, Petr Stepanov, Mason Gray, Chun Ning Lau Preview Abstract
Friday, October 24, 2014 2:12PM - 2:24PM		C3.00002: Growth of Au on Ge(110) Alex Dorsett, Bret Stenger, Marshall van Zijll, Catriana Paw U, Shirley Chiang Preview Abstract
Friday, October 24, 2014 2:24PM - 2:36PM		C3.00003: Optical Conductivity Studies of Small Polaron Hopping in Sm$_{\mathrm{1-x}}$Sr$_{\mathrm{x}}$TiO$_{3}$ Epitaxial Films William Flaherty, Clayton Jackson, Santosh Raghavan, Adam Hauser, Strange Law, Brandon Isaac, Susanne Stemmer, S. James Allen Preview Abstract
Friday, October 24, 2014 2:36PM - 2:48PM		C3.00004: Identifying Topological Order in the Shastry-Sutherland Model via Entanglement Entropy David Ronquillo, Michael Peterson Preview Abstract
Friday, October 24, 2014 2:48PM - 3:00PM		C3.00005: Cascading Proximity Effects in Inhomogeneous Superconductor-Feromagnetic Structures Thomas Baker, Adam Richie-Halford, Ovidiu Icreverzi, Andreas Bill Preview Abstract
Friday, October 24, 2014 3:00PM - 3:12PM		C3.00006: Odd-Triplet Superconductivity in SmCo/Py/Nb Thin Films Samuel Hedges, Mikhael Semaan, Jiyeong Gu Preview Abstract
Friday, October 24, 2014 3:12PM - 3:24PM		C3.00007: Photoinduced doping in heterostructures of graphene and boron nitride Salman Kahn, Jairo Velasco Jr, Long Ju, Edwin Hwang, Casey Nosiglia, Hsin Zon Tsai, Wei Yang, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Dillon Wong, Juwon Lee, Yuanbo Zhang, Guangyu Zhang, Michael Crommie, Alex Zettl, Feng Wang Preview Abstract
Friday, October 24, 2014 3:24PM - 3:36PM		C3.00008: Growing and Characterizing 2D Silica Bilayers on Graphene Epitaxially Grown on Ruthenium(0001)/Sapphire Jeff Guevara, Kenneth Ganezer, Eric Altman Preview Abstract
Friday, October 24, 2014 3:36PM - 3:48PM		C3.00009: The Log-Lin Metric for Generic Responses in Logarithmic Structures Antony Bourdillon Preview Abstract

Session C4: Education, Atmospheric Science and Other

Chair: Melodi Rodrigue, University of Nevada, Reno
Room: JCSU 324

Friday, October 24, 2014 2:00PM - 2:12PM		C4.00001: Summer as a Student Teacher and Researcher Fellow at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory E.B.I.T. Facility Dominique Davenport, Grecia Ramos, Heather Brown Preview Abstract
Friday, October 24, 2014 2:12PM - 2:24PM		C4.00002: Physics Instruction at the Davidson Academy of Nevada Brett Guisti Preview Abstract
Friday, October 24, 2014 2:24PM - 2:36PM		C4.00003: From Electrons Paired to Electric Power Delivered -- A Personal Journey in Physics Research and Applications at IBM, EPRI, and Beyond Paul Grant Preview Abstract
Friday, October 24, 2014 2:36PM - 2:48PM		C4.00004: Assessment of Wildfire Smoke Plume Impacts in Reno, NV During the 2013 California Fires Sandra Loria-Salazar, Heather Holmes, Patrick Arnott Preview Abstract
Friday, October 24, 2014 2:48PM - 3:00PM		C4.00005: Thermal Infrared Radiative Forcing by Atmospheric Aerosol Narayan Adhikari, William P. Arnott Preview Abstract

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