Bulletin of the American Physical Society

2025 Annual Meeting of the APS Far West Section

Friday–Sunday, October 10–12, 2025; UC Santa Cruz - Stevenson College

Session Index

Session I01: Condensed Matter/Materials Science I

Chair: Howard Ho Wai Lee, University of California, Irvine
Room: UC Santa Cruz Stevenson College Stevenson Event Center

Saturday, October 11, 2025 1:00PM - 1:12PM		I01.00001: Advancing Fusion Energy: Materials Challenges and Opportunities at General Atomics Carlos M Monton
Saturday, October 11, 2025 1:12PM - 1:24PM		I01.00002: Antiferromagnetic Topological Insulator MnBi₂Te_⁴:Epitaxial Growth and Magnetic Ordering Swosti Choudhury, Becker Sharif, Aidan Lindhe-Johan, Arthur P Ramirez, Ryan E Baumbach, David Lederman
Saturday, October 11, 2025 1:24PM - 1:36PM		I01.00003: Micromagnetic Insights into History-Dependent Domain Behavior in MBE-grown Magnet/Topological Insulator Heterostructure Fe₃GeTe₂/Bi₂Te₃ Mowen Zhao, Thow Min Jerald Cham, Andrew Koerner, Ethan Berg, Derek C Bergner, Wenyi Zhou, Ziling Li, Lukas Powalla, Khoa Dang Le, Sebastian Wintz, Markus Weigand, Jacob D Gayles, Daniel C Ralph, Roland K Kawakami, Yunqiu Kelly Luo
Saturday, October 11, 2025 1:36PM - 1:48PM		I01.00004: Synthesis and Structural Characterization in Lanthanide Intermetallic Gd₂PdAl₆Ge₄ Featuring Complex Magnetic Interactions Jordan Miller, Mauricio Corona, Melissa Anderson, Gregory T McCandless, Julia Y Chan, Ryan E Baumbach
Saturday, October 11, 2025 1:48PM - 2:00PM		I01.00005: Dynamical spin structure factor and heat capacity of the kagome lattice XXZ antiferromagnet - a case study of the hidden energy scale Phillip Gregory Popp, Sergey Syzranov, Arthur P Ramirez, Stephan Rosenkranz
Saturday, October 11, 2025 2:00PM - 2:12PM		I01.00006: Finite-temperature ferromagnetic correlations in the Kagome lattice Fermi-Hubbard model Francisco Z Correia, Ehsan Khatami, Kyle Corbett
Saturday, October 11, 2025 2:12PM - 2:24PM		I01.00007: Exploring Charge Density Wave Distortions in AV₃Sb₅ (A = K, Rb, Cs) Kagome Alloys Roland Yin, Andrea C Salinas, Brenden R Ortiz, Ganesh Pokharel, Stephen D Wilson
Saturday, October 11, 2025 2:24PM - 2:36PM		I01.00008: Survey of Sn and S Surface Terminations and Sulfur Migration on Co₃Sn₂S₂ With Experimental STM Measurements Sophie E Miller, Kazuaki Hatano, Shirley Chiang
Saturday, October 11, 2025 2:36PM - 2:48PM		I01.00009: Synthesis and Characterization of BiTeI Single Crystals Using the Bridgman Growth Method Jackson e Falk, Ryan E Baumbach
Saturday, October 11, 2025 2:48PM - 3:00PM		I01.00010: Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations of the SU(N) Hubbard Model Xinyi Li, Ettore Vitali, Eduardo Ibarra Garcia Padilla, Kaden R A Hazzard, Richard Theodore Scalettar

Session I02: High-Energy/Accelerator Physics I

Chair: Siqi Li
Room: UC Santa Cruz Stevenson College Stevenson Classroom 150

Saturday, October 11, 2025 1:00PM - 1:12PM		I02.00001: Efficient Statistical Modeling for Particle Physics Using Computational Graphs in Python Allexindir Smith, Giordon Stark, Michael Hance
Saturday, October 11, 2025 1:12PM - 1:24PM		I02.00002: Hidden Momentum And Field Momentum In The Wu-Yang Monopole Model Isaiah T Ruz, Doug Singleton
Saturday, October 11, 2025 1:24PM - 1:36PM		I02.00003: Weyl spinors with proto-charges as the bases for elementary particles Hyung S Choi
Saturday, October 11, 2025 1:36PM - 1:48PM		I02.00004: Nonlinear chiral forms in Sen formulation of superstring theory Anajak Phonchantuek, Sujiphat Janaun, Pichet Vanichchapongjaroen
Saturday, October 11, 2025 1:48PM - 2:00PM		I02.00005: Minimal lengths in 3D via the Generalized Uncertainty Principle Michael Bishop, Joey Zapata Contreras, Peter Andrew Martin, Piero Nicolini, Douglas Alexander Singleton
Saturday, October 11, 2025 2:00PM - 2:12PM		I02.00006: A replica trick for computing fluctuations in time-symmetric quantum systems Nicholas Parrilla, Curtis T Asplund
Saturday, October 11, 2025 2:12PM - 2:24PM		I02.00007: Probing sphalerons: energy scale, cross-section, and event rate predictions Pritvik Sinhadc
Saturday, October 11, 2025 2:24PM - 2:36PM		I02.00008: Cathode Fabrication for UH Manoa's Electron Gun Daniel A Criss, Niels K Bidault
Saturday, October 11, 2025 2:36PM - 2:48PM		I02.00009: Simulating angular dependent electron recombination in TRANSLATE for LArTPCs Aidan Shim

Session I03: Astrophysics I

Chair: Anna Kinderman
Room: UC Santa Cruz Stevenson College Stevenson Classroom 175

Saturday, October 11, 2025 1:00PM - 1:12PM		I03.00001: Abstract Withdrawn
Saturday, October 11, 2025 1:12PM - 1:24PM		I03.00002: Investigating Broadband Emission of the BL Lacertae Object 1ES 1959+650 between 2012 and 2024 Connor McSorley, Elliott Hamann, Amy Furniss
Saturday, October 11, 2025 1:24PM - 1:36PM		I03.00003: Ultra-Strongly Self-Interacting Dark Matter: From Phenomenology to Observables Michael G Roberts, Aarna Garg, Stefano Profumo, Tesla Erin Jeltema, Lila Braff
Saturday, October 11, 2025 1:36PM - 1:48PM		I03.00004: Origin of Little Red Dots Explained by Ultra Self-Interacting Dark Matter M. Grant Roberts, Lila Braff, Aarna Garg, Stefano Profumo, Tesla Erin Jeltema
Saturday, October 11, 2025 1:48PM - 2:12PM		I03.00005: Dwarf galaxies and star clusters in the new era of sky surveys Aaron Romanowsky, Yimeng Tang, Kevin Bundy, Brittney Shavor, Zachary Coustier, Yashraj Bains, Lailani Kenoly, Logan O'Brien
Saturday, October 11, 2025 2:12PM - 2:24PM		I03.00006: Cluster Catalog Validation with Multiwavelength Data Ethan K Steelberg, Tesla Erin Jeltema, Jackson H O'Donnell, Rance Solomon
Saturday, October 11, 2025 2:24PM - 2:36PM		I03.00007: Geodesic completion of big bangs from emergent geometry Liam O'Donnell, Benjamin Shlaer, Jada Young, Brooke Berrios, Cameron Corley
Saturday, October 11, 2025 2:36PM - 2:48PM		I03.00008: A New Explanation for the Nature of Black Holes Using a New Particle Called Cidtonium Gh. Saleh

Session I04: Education

Chair: Stamatis Vokos, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Room: UC Santa Cruz Stevenson College Stevenson Classroom 152

Saturday, October 11, 2025 1:00PM - 1:12PM		I04.00001: VersaLab: A cryogen-free material characterization platform for physics teaching labs Randy K. Dumas
Saturday, October 11, 2025 1:12PM - 1:24PM		I04.00002: Bridging Physics Researchers and Educators: A Novel Physics Education Scaffold for K-6 Instruction Stacey Y Noble, Mark D Lindsay
Saturday, October 11, 2025 1:24PM - 1:36PM		I04.00003: The Fluid Mechanics Research of Laura Bassi (1711-1778) Christopher H Tong
Saturday, October 11, 2025 1:36PM - 1:48PM		I04.00004: Enhancing scientific reasoning abilities of non-STEM majors through mobile apps Jrue Reese, Julian Labbe, Ryan Lauderbach, Bryce Uota, Ken Kubiak, Hyewon Pechkis, Joseph Pechkis
Saturday, October 11, 2025 1:48PM - 2:00PM		I04.00005: Optimizing Quantum Wave Functions with Automatic Differentiation Gaganpreet S Bassi, Ettore Vitali
Saturday, October 11, 2025 2:00PM - 2:12PM		I04.00006: Physical insights from the "skew" infinite square well Michael K Kruse
Saturday, October 11, 2025 2:12PM - 2:24PM		I04.00007: Position Basis Representation of the Quantum Mechanical Momentum Operator Ken Owens
Saturday, October 11, 2025 2:24PM - 2:36PM		I04.00008: From basic quantum mechanics to ultracold atoms: dynamics of two Lithium-6 atoms close to a Feshbach resonance Ettore Vitali, Gino Gamboni

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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

2025 Annual Meeting of the APS Far West Section

Friday–Sunday, October 10–12, 2025; UC Santa Cruz - Stevenson College

Session Index

Session I01: Condensed Matter/Materials Science I

Session I02: High-Energy/Accelerator Physics I

Session I03: Astrophysics I

Session I04: Education

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