Mar 20 2011 1:00PM, Sunday

1A Industrial Physics Forum: History, Current Status, Future Prospects
Room: Ballroom C1 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Robert Doering, Texas Instruments

Mar 20 2011 3:30PM, Sunday

1B Industrial Physics Forum: Large-Scale Applications
Room: Ballroom C1 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Kate Kirby, American Physical Society

Mar 21 2011 8:00AM, Monday

A1 Silicon Qubits
Room: Ballroom A1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Gavin Morley, London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London

A2 Compressibility and Transport in Bilayer Graphene
Room: Ballroom A2 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sankar Das Sarma, University of Maryland

A3 Experimental Studies of 5/2 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
Room: Ballroom A3 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: James Eisenstein, California Institute of Technology

A4 Nanostructures in Polymer-base Photovoltaics
Room: Ballroom A4 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Michael Mackay, University of Delaware

A5 Industrial Physics Forum: Small-Scale Applications
Room: Ballroom C1 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Frederick Dylla, American Institute of Physics

A6 Great Advances in Computational Physics: Past, Present and Future
Room: Ballroom C2 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Massimo Boninsegni, University of Alberta

A7 Prize Session: Single Molecule Biophysics I: Recent Advancements in Technology and Applications
Room: Ballroom C3 Sponsor: DBP DPOLY DCMP Chair: Yan Mei Wang, Washington University in St. Louis

A8 APS/GSNP/DCMP Prize Session: Heineman, Onsager, IUPAP/C10
Room: Ballroom C4 Sponsor: DCMP GSNP Chair: Valery Pokrovsky, Texas A&M University

A9 Micro-fluidics
Room: D220 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Alex Alexeev, Georgia Institute of Technology

A10 Structure and Morphology of Oxide Surfaces and Interfaces
Room: D221 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Shao-Chun Li, Tulane University

A11 Semiconductor Growths
Room: D222 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Renbo Song, Lehigh University

A12 Focus Session: Electricity-to-Light Conversion: Solid State Lighting I
Room: D223/224 Sponsor: GERA DMP Chair: Daniel Koleske, Sandia National Laboratory

A13 Focus Session: Polymer Colloids: Structure, Function, and Dynamics I
Room: D225/226 Sponsor: DFD DPOLY Chair: Alberto Fernandez De Las Nieves, Georgia Institute of Technology

A14 Focus Session: New Ways of Communicating Physics
Room: D227 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Leonardo Colletti, colletti@science.unitn.it

A15 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Spin Dynamics
Room: D171 Sponsor: DMP GMAG FIAP Chair: Craig Pryor, University of Iowa

A16 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanostructures I
Room: D173 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Guoxing Miao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

A17 Focus Session: Bulk Properties of Complex Oxides - Manganites I
Room: D174 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Rongying Jin, Louisiana State University

A18 Focus Session: Low D/Frustrated Magnetism - Pyrochlore, et al.
Room: D172 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Deepak Singh, University of Maryland

A19 Focus Session: Spin Transport & Magnetization Dynamics in Metals I
Room: D170 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Dario Arena, Brookhaven National Laboratory

A20 Focus Session: Physics of Energy Storage Materials I -- Cathodes and Electrolytes
Room: D168 Sponsor: FIAP/DMP GERA/DCOMP Chair: Donald J. Siegel, University of Michigan

A21 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy I -- Novel Tip and Material Control
Room: D161 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Chris Hammel, Ohio State University

A22 Charge Density Wave Materials
Room: D163 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dan Dessau, University of Colorado at Boulder

A23 Superconductivity: ARPES on BSCCO and SRO
Room: D165 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Bob Markiewicz, Northeastern University

A24 Computational Methods I: Numerical Methods for Strongly Correlated Systems
Room: D167 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Adrian Feiguin, University of Wyoming

A25 Superconductivity: Phases and Phase Transitions
Room: D166 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Thomas Lemberger, The Ohio State University

A26 Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors -- Theory
Room: D162/164 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Qimiao Si, Rice University

A27 Focus Session: Quantum Optics with Superconducting Circuits I
Room: C155 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Jay Gambetta, University of Waterloo

A28 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials: Fundamentals and Applications
Room: C156 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Mark Hersam, Northwestern University

A29 Quantum Communication, Theoretical Entanglement, and Cryptography
Room: C148 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Jan-Ake Larsson, Linkoping University

A30 Graphene: Growth, Properties and Devices
Room: C147/154 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Rodney Ruoff, University of Texas at Dallas

A31 Focus Session: van der Waals Bonding in Advanced Materials: Fundamentals and Simple Systems
Room: C145 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Giulia Galli, University of California, Davis

A32 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Nanostructures and Metamaterials I
Room: C144 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Niek van Hulst, Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain

A33 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides: Piezoelectrics, Oxides on Semiconductors, and Applications
Room: C143/149 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Valentino Cooper, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A34 Focus Session: Interfaces in Complex Oxides - LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Transport
Room: C141 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Anand Bhattacharya, Argonne National Laboratory

A35 Topological Insulators: Growth
Room: C140 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Joel Moore, University of California, Berkeley

A36 Focus Session: Scalable Technologies for Terawatt Photovoltaics
Room: C142 Sponsor: DMP GERA Chair: Wladek Walukiewicz, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

A37 Focus Session: Graphene: Growth, Characterization and Devices: Theory and Transport
Room: C146 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Walt de Heer, Georgia Institute of Technology

A38 Focus Session: Ultrafast Dynamics and Imaging I
Room: A130/131 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Markus Guehr, Stanford University

A39 Focus Session: Energy Future: Biological and Biometric Systems
Room: A124/127 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Marilyn Gunner, City College of New York

A40 New Experimental, Theoretical, and Computational Methods in Polymer and Soft Matter Physics
Room: A122/123 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Amalie Frischknecht, Sandia National Laboratories

A41 Focus Session: Active Biopolymers and Biomaterials
Room: A115/117 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: jennifer Ross, University of Massachusetts--Amherst

A42 Focus Session: Directed Assembly of Hybrid Nanomaterials
Room: A302/303 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Sanat Kumar, Columbia University

A43 Focus Session: Thin Film Block Copolymers I
Room: A306/307 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Thomas Epps, University of Delaware

A44 Friction, Adhesion, and Fracture of Polymers
Room: A309 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Al Crosby, University of Massachusetts--Amherst

A45 Focus Session: Exploring Quantum Phases in Cold Atom Systems
Room: A310 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Congjun Wu, University of California, San Diego

Mar 21 2011 11:15AM, Monday

B1 Quantum Devices Based on Semiconductor Nanowires
Room: Ballroom A1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sankar Das Sarma, University of Maryland

B1 Quantum Devices Based on Semiconductor Nanowires
Room: Ballroom A1 Chair: Sankar Das Sarma, University of Maryland

B2 Many-Body Effects for the Excited States of Graphene
Room: Ballroom A2 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Allan MacDonald, University of Texas at Austin

B3 The History of Superconductivity from its Discovery by Kammerlingh Onnes in 1911
Room: Ballroom A3 Sponsor: FHP Chair: Martin Blume, Brookhaven National Laboratory, APS, Retired

B4 Hybrid Nanomaterials Assembly
Room: Ballroom A4 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Richard Vaia, Air Force Research Laboratory

B5 Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Room: Ballroom C1 Sponsor: DCMP FEd Chair: Theodore Holdap, American Physical Society

B6 Few-body Aspects of Cold Atomic Gases
Room: Ballroom C2 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Robin Cote, University of Connecticut

B7 Superconductivity in Accelerators
Room: Ballroom C3 Sponsor: DPB Chair: Soren Prestemon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

B8 Critical Materials for Global Science and Technology
Room: Ballroom C4 Sponsor: FIP Chair: William Barletta, U.S. Particle Accelerator School, MIT and UCLA

B9 Nanofluidics
Room: D220 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Daniel Ou-Yang, Lehigh University

B10 SPS Undergraduate Research I
Room: D221 Sponsor: SPS Chair: Gary White, American Institute of Physics

B11 Compound and Oxide Semiconductors
Room: D222 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Nelson Tansu, Lehigh University

B12 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors: Compound Semiconductors I
Room: D223/224 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Su-Huai Wei, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

B13 Focus Session: Polymer Colloids: Structure, Function, and Dynamics II
Room: D225/226 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Eric R. Dufresne, Yale University

B14 Applications of Statistical and Nonlinear Physics to Social Systems and GSNP Student Speaker Award Talks
Room: D227 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Victor Yakovenko, University of Maryland

B15 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Spin Currents I
Room: D171 Sponsor: DMP GMAG FIAP Chair: David Awschalom, University of California, Santa Barbara

B16 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanostructures II
Room: D173 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Stephane Mangin, Nancy-Universite

B17 Focus Session: Bulk Properties of Complex Oxides - Manganites II
Room: D174 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Gang Cao, University of Kentucky

B18 Focus Session: Low D/Frustrated Magnetism - Quantum Magnetism
Room: D172 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Adrian del Maestro, John Hopkins University

B19 Focus Session: Spin Transport & Magnetization Dynamics in Metals II
Room: D170 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Hendrik Ohldag, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

B20 Focus Session: Physics of Energy Storage Materials II -- Anodes and Capacitors
Room: D168 Sponsor: FIAP/DMP GERA/DCOMP Chair: Gholam?Abbas Nazri, General Motors Company

B21 General Theory
Room: D161 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: David Singh, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

B22 Correlated Electrons Including "115" Materials
Room: D163 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Johnpierre Paglione, University of Maryland

B23 Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors -- Electronic Structure, Theory and Spectroscopy
Room: D165 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Bruce Harmon, Iowa State University

B24 Focus Session: Multiscale Modeling - Methodology and applications
Room: D167 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Jincheng Du, University of North Texas

B25 Superconductivity: Spin properties, Structure and Dynamics
Room: D166 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Young Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

B26 Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors -- Growth
Room: D162/164 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Leonardo Degiorgi, ETH Zurich

B27 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits - Measurement
Room: C155 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Matthias Steffen, IBM Research

B28 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials: Growth, Sorting and Properties
Room: C156 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ray Baughman, University of Texas at Dallas

B29 Advances in Ion Trap Quantum Computation
Room: C148 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Jungsang Kim, Duke University

B30 Graphene: Transport and Correlations
Room: C147/154 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Vladimir Falko, Lancaster University, UK

B31 Focus Session: van der Waals Bonding in Advanced Materials: Applications to Systems and Behaviors
Room: C145 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Yves Chabal, University of Texas at Dallas

B32 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Nanostructures and Metamaterials II
Room: C144 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Tom Driscoll, University of California, San Diego

B33 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides: Electronic Conduction and Defects
Room: C143/149 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Ichiro Takeuchi, University of Maryland

B34 Focus Session: Interfaces in Complex Oxides - Spectroscopy and Growth
Room: C141 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: John Hill, Brookhaven National Laboratory

B35 Topological Insulators: Theory I
Room: C140 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Kai Sun, University of Maryland

B36 Photovoltaics: Novel Approaches and System Issues
Room: C142 Sponsor: GERA Chair: Fatima toor, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

B37 Focus Session: Graphene Growth, Characterization, and Devices: Devices and Contacts
Room: C146 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Thomas Seyller, University of Erlanger-Nuernberg

B38 Earle K. Plyler Prize Session I: Spectroscopy
Room: A130/131 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Vladimir Chernyak, Wayne State University

B39 Focus Session: Single Molecule Biophysics II: Novel Single Molecule Approaches to Biology
Room: A124/127 Sponsor: DBP DPOLY DCP Chair: Keir Neuman, National Institutes of Health

B40 Lipid Bilayers and Biological Membranes: Dynamics and Thermodynamics
Room: A122/123 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Mark Henle, Harvard University

B41 Focus Session: Supramolecular Self-Assembly--Controlling Network and Gel Formation I
Room: A115/117 Sponsor: DPOLY DBP Chair: Aline Miller, University of Manchester

B42 Polyelectrolytes, Conformations, Assembly, and Dynamics
Room: A302/303 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Venkat Ganesan, University of Texas at Austin

B43 Focus Session: Polymers for Energy Storage and Conversion -- Nanoscale Structure in Polymer-based Photovoltaics
Room: A306/307 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY GERA Chair: Dean Delongchamp, National Institute of Standards and Technology

B44 Physics of Copolymers I
Room: A309 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Darrin Pochan, University of Delaware

B45 Optomechanics at the Quantum Limit
Room: A310 Sponsor: DAMOP GQI Chair: Brian DeMarco, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Mar 21 2011 2:00PM, Monday

C1 Poster Session I (2:00pm - 5:00pm)
Room: Hall D Sponsor: APS

Mar 21 2011 2:30PM, Monday

D1 New Developments in Quantum Criticality
Room: Ballroom A1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Meigan Aronson, Brookhaven National Laboratory

D2 Topological Surface States
Room: Ballroom A2 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ali Yazdani, Princeton University

D3 Materials for Energy
Room: Ballroom A3 Sponsor: DMP GERA Chair: Robert Nemanich, Arizona State University

D4 Simulations Meet Experiments on Ultracold Quantum Gases
Room: Ballroom A4 Sponsor: DCOMP DAMOP Chair: Matthias Troyer, ETH Zurich

D5 Industrial Physics Forum: Frontiers in Physics
Room: Ballroom C1 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Ernesto Marinaro, Hitachi San Jose Research Laboratory

D6 Physics of Proteins I: Unifying Principles and Concepts
Room: Ballroom C2 Sponsor: DBP DPOLY DCMP Chair: Robert Austin, Princeton University

D7 From Molecular Control to Spatiotemporal Patterns in Bacteria and Beyond
Room: Ballroom C3 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Herbert Levine, University of California, San Diego

D8 Spin Currents
Room: Ballroom C4 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Supriyo Datta, Purdue University

D9 Patterns, Nonlinear Dynamics followed by General Fluid Dynamics
Room: D220 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Yuri Antipov, Louisiana State University, and Galen Gisler, University of Oslo

D10 SPS Undergraduate Research II
Room: D221 Sponsor: SPS Chair: Crystal Bailey, American Physical Society

D11 Thermal Properties in Semiconductors and Nanostructures
Room: D222 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Hongping Zhao, Lehigh University

D12 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors: Compound Semiconductors II
Room: D223/224 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Mao-Hua Du, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

D13 Statistical and Nonlinear Physics: General
Room: D225/226 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: James Dufty, University of Florida

D14 Systems Far From Equilibrium
Room: D227 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: H. George E. Hentschel, Emory University

D15 Electronic Structure I
Room: D171 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Victor Pardo, University of California, Davis

D16 Magnetic Imaging and Characterization
Room: D173 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Mi-Young Im, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

D17 Focus Session: Bulk Properties of Complex Oxides - Cobaltites
Room: D174 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: John Mitchell, Argonne National Laboratory

D18 Focus Session: Low D/Frustrated Magnetism - Kagome Lattices
Room: D172 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Joel Helton, NIST Center for Neutron Research

D19 Low Dimensional Magnetism and Spin Tunneling
Room: D170 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Enrique Del Barco, University of Central Florida

D20 Bionanotechnology
Room: D168 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Michael Naughton, Boston College

D21 Focus Session: Novel Instrumentation & Measurements for Biomedical Research
Room: D161 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Larry Nagahara, National Institutes of Health

D22 Metal Insulator Transition in VO2
Room: D163 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Doug Natelson, Rice University

D23 Focus Session: Search for New Superconductors I: Exploring Emergent Phases
Room: D165 Sponsor: DMP Chair: David Mandrus, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

D24 Focus Session: Quantum Transport Simulations and Computational Electronics -- Nanostructures
Room: D167 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: David Ferry, Arizona State University

D25 Superconductivity: Vortex Phenomena I
Room: D166 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Carmen Almasan, Kent State University

D26 Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors -- Electronic Structure
Room: D162/164 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Adriana Moreo, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory

D27 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits - Gates and Algorithms
Room: C155 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Britton Plourde, Syracuse University

D28 Focus Session: Graphene Growth, Characterization, and Devices: Metal Substrates
Room: C156 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Kevin McCarty, Sandia National Laboratory

D29 Quantum Computing and Simulation I
Room: C148 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Ivan Deutsch, University of New Mexico

D30 Graphene: Hydrogenation and Defects
Room: C147/154 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Taisuke Ohta, Sandia National Laboratories

D31 Focus Session: van der Waals Bonding in Advanced Materials: Applications to Advanced and Functional Materials
Room: C145 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Per Hyldgaard, Chalmers University of Technology

D32 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Nanostructures and Metamaterials III
Room: C144 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Kurt Busch, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

D33 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides: Multiferroics
Room: C143/149 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Alison Hatt, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

D34 Focus Session: Interfaces in Complex Oxides - Photo and Electric Field Induced Devices
Room: C141 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Peter Abbamonte, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

D35 Topological Insulators: Theory II
Room: C140 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Vanderbilt, Rutgers University

D36 Photovoltaics: Nanostructured Materials
Room: C142 Sponsor: GERA Chair: Steven Konezny, Yale University

D37 Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Dopants, and Defects: Strain Engineering I
Room: C146 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jeanie Lau, University of California, Riverside

D38 Earle K. Plyler Prize Session II: Spectroscopy
Room: A130/131 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Sunney Xie, Harvard University

D39 Physics of Physiological Systems
Room: A124/127 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Wolfgang Losert, University of Maryland

D40 Lipid Bilayers and Biological Membranes: Peptide Interactions
Room: A122/123 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Emmanouil Doxastakis, University of Houston

D41 LeRoy Apker Prize Session: Clusters and Nanoscale Systems
Room: A115/117 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Jim Lisy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

D42 Colloids Theory & Computation, Emulsions, and Foams
Room: A302/303 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Eric Weeks, Emory University

D45 Many Body Physics of Quantum Gases in Reduced Dimension
Room: A310 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Ana Maria Rey, JILA/University of Colorado

Mar 21 2011 5:45PM, Monday

E1 APS Prizes and Awards Ceremonial Session
Room: Ballroom C1 Sponsor: APS Chair: Barry C. Barish, APS President and California Institute of Technology

Mar 21 2011 6:45PM, Monday

F1 Welcome Reception
Room: Hall A

Mar 21 2011 7:45PM, Monday

G1 Physics Community Outreach: Small Wonders: Bringing Nano to the Public Through Museum Partnership
Room: Ballroom C1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Barbara Jones, IBM Almaden Research Center

Mar 22 2011 8:00AM, Tuesday

H1 Spin-Triplet Supercurrents in Superconductor/Ferromagnet/Superconductor Josephson Junctions
Room: Ballroom A1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: James Sauls, Northwestern University

H2 New Materials for Spin Quantum Hall Effect and Topological Insulators
Room: Ballroom A2 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Shoucheng Zhang, Stanford University

H3 Collective Effects in Molecular Magnets
Room: Ballroom A3 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Yosi Yeshurun, Ber-Ilan University

H4 Polymer Physics Prize
Room: Ballroom A4 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Philip Pincus, University of California, Santa Barbara

H5 Drowning in Carbon: The Imperative of Nuclear Power
Room: Ballroom C1 Sponsor: FIAP GERA DNP Chair: Steve Libby, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

H6 Ultracold Molecules and Quantum Many Body Physics
Room: Ballroom C2 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Lincoln Carr, Colorado School of Mines

H7 Physics of Proteins II: Dynamics and Functions
Room: Ballroom C3 Sponsor: DBP DPOLY Chair: Wouter Hoff, Oklahoma State University

H8 Science, Art and Culture
Room: Ballroom C4 Sponsor: FPS Chair: Brian Schwartz, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

H9 Colloids: Experimental
Room: D220 Sponsor: DFD Chair: David Pine, New York University

H10 Semiconductor Surfaces and Interfaces
Room: D221 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Gary Kellogg, Sandia National Laboratories

H11 SPS Undergraduate Research III
Room: D222 Sponsor: SPS Chair: Thomas Olsen, American Institute of Physics

H12 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors: Silicon
Room: D223/224 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Bonna Newman, Massachusetts Intitute of Technology

H13 Focus Session: Jamming Theory and Experiment I
Room: D225/226 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Mark Shattuck, City College of New York

H14 Focus Session: Friction, Fracture and Deformation Across Length Scales I: Sliding Friction and Asperities
Room: D227 Sponsor: DMP GSNP DCOMP Chair: Qunyang Li, University of Pennsylvania

H15 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Ferromagnetic Semiconductors
Room: D171 Sponsor: DMP GMAG FIAP Chair: Chris Palmstrom, University of California, Santa Barbara

H16 Focus Session: Spins in Carbon-Based Materials-- Spin Valves and Interfaces
Room: D173 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Minn-Tsong Lin, Taiwan University

H17 Focus Session: Bulk Properties of Complex Oxides - Ferrites
Room: D174 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Peter Gehring, National Institute of Standards and Technology

H18 Electronic Structure II
Room: D172 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: David Prendergast, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

H19 Focus Session: Spin Transport & Magnetization Dynamics in Metals III
Room: D170 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Goran Mihajlovic, Hitachi GST

H20 Focus Session: Physics of Energy Storage Materials III -- Hydrogen Storage Adsorbents
Room: D168 Sponsor: FIAP/DMP GERA/DCOMP Chair: Frederick Pinkerton, General Motors Company

H21 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy II -- High Frequencies and Optical Techniques
Room: D161 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Sebastian Loth, IBM Research

H22 Heavy Fermions
Room: D163 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Eric Bauer, Los Alamos National Laboratory

H23 Superconductivity: Mainly ARPES
Room: D165 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Myron Salamon, University of Texas at Dallas

H24 Focus Session: What is Computational Physics? I
Room: D167 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Richard Scalettar, University of California, Davis

H25 Superconductivity: Tunneling Spectroscopy
Room: D166 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jenny Hoffman, Harvard University

H26 Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors -- Anisotropic Spin Dynamics
Room: D162/164 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Eduardo Granado Monteiro da Silva, Universidade Estadual de Campinas

H27 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits- Silicon Spin Qubits
Room: C155 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Mark Gyure, HRL Laboratories

H28 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials: Devices I
Room: C156 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Slava Rotkin, Lehigh University

H29 Focus Session: Quantum Information for Quantum Foundations - Axiomatics and Toy Models
Room: C148 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Oscar Dahlsten, Oxford University

H30 Graphene: Synthesis and Characterization
Room: C147/154 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Paul Campbell, Naval Research Laboratory

H31 Focus Session: Materials at High Pressure I: Molecular and Simple Materials
Room: C145 Sponsor: DMP GSCCM DCOMP Chair: Choong Shik Yoo, Washington State University

H32 Focus Session: Photonic Crystals, Metamaterials and Other Optical Systems
Room: C144 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Antoinette Taylor, Los Alamos National Laboratory

H33 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides: Multiferroics & Magnetoelectrics I
Room: C143/149 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Dipanjan Mazumdar, University of Alabama

H34 Focus Session: Atomic, Molecular, and Memristive Junctions
Room: C141 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Douglas Natelson, Rice University

H35 Topological Insulators: General
Room: C140 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sukbum Chung, Stanford University

H36 Photovoltaics: Compound Semiconductors and Organics
Room: C142 Sponsor: GERA Chair: Russell Holmes, University of Minnesota

H37 Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Dopants, and Defects: Transport I
Room: C146 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Caio Lewenkopf, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil

H38 Focus Session: Quantum Coherence in Biology I
Room: A130/131 Sponsor: DCP DBP Chair: Daniel Turner, University of Toronto

H39 Focus Session: Physics of Cancer
Room: A124/127 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Robert Austin, Princeton University

H40 Multi-cellular Processes and Development
Room: A122/123 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Eva-Maria Schoetz, Princeton University

H41 Irving Langmuir Prize Session: Ultrafast Dynamics
Room: A115/117 Chair: Oliver Gessner, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

H42 Focus Session: Polymers for Energy Storage and Conversion -- Physics of Ion Conductivity in Polymers
Room: A302/303 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY GERA Chair: Jodie Lutkenhaus, Texas A&M University

H43 Focus Session: Thin Film Block Copolymers II
Room: A306/307 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Ting Xu, University of California, Berkeley

H44 Surfaces, Interfaces, and Polymer Thin Films I
Room: A309 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: S. Michael Kilbey II, Oak Ridge National Laboratory/University of Tennessee

H45 Exotic Quantum Phases in Optical Lattices: FFLO, P-band Physics, and Beyond
Room: A310 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Marcos Rigol, Georgetown University

Mar 22 2011 11:15AM, Tuesday

J1 Toward Single Spin Electronics
Room: Ballroom A1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Andreas Heinrich, IBM Almaden Research Center

J2 Force Probes of Materials' Structure and Function
Room: Ballroom A2 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Chris Hammel, Ohio State University

J3 The Kavli Foundation Special Symposium: Nobelist Perspectives on 100 Years of Superconductivity
Room: Ballroom A3 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Warren Pickett, University of California, Davis

J4 Interactions Between Pore Forming Peptides and Membranes
Room: Ballroom A4 Sponsor: DPOLY DBP Chair: Gerard Wong, University of California, Los Angeles

J5 Hildred Blewett Scholars and their Research followed by Panel Discussion
Room: Ballroom C1 Sponsor: CSWP Chair: Sherry Yennello, Texas A&M University

J6 The Use of GPUs in Computational Physics
Room: Ballroom C2 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: David Ceperley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

J7 The Dynamics of Co-Evolving and Interdependent Networks
Room: Ballroom C3 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Alessandro Vespignani, Indiana University

J8 Physics Education Research in Upper-division Physics Courses
Room: Ballroom C4 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Paula Heron, University of Washington

J9 Liquid Crystals: Nematics, Lyotropics and Vesicles
Room: D220 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Satyendra Kumar, Kent State University

J10 Surface and Interfaces with Metals
Room: D221 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ted Einstein, University of Maryland

J11 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect I
Room: D222 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Nikolai Zhitenev, National Institute of Standards and Technology

J12 Focus Session: Electricity-to-Light Conversion: Solid State Lighting II
Room: D223/224 Sponsor: GERA DMP Chair: Fred Schubert, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

J13 Focus Session: Jamming Theory and Experiment II
Room: D225/226 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Leonardo Silbert, Southern Illinois University

J14 Focus Session: Physics of Active Materials
Room: D227 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Aparna Baskaran, Brandeis University

J15 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Spin Currents II
Room: D171 Sponsor: DMP GMAG FIAP Chair: Jairo Sinova, Texas A&M University

J16 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanostructures III
Room: D173 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Valentyn Novosad, Argonne National Laboratory

J17 Focus Session: Bulk Properties of Complex Oxides - Ferrites + Vanadates
Room: D174 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jaime Fernandez-Baca, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

J18 Focus Session: Low D/Frustrated Magnetism - Molecular Magnets I
Room: D172 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Vivien Zapf, Los Alamos National Laboratory

J19 Focus Session: Spin Transport & Magnetization Dynamics in Metals IV
Room: D170 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Peter Fischer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

J20 Optoelectronic Devices & Applications
Room: D168 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Patrick Folkes, Army Research Laboratory

J21 Focus Session: Imaging and Modifying Materials at the Limits of Space and Time Resolution I
Room: D161 Sponsor: DMP GIMS DCP Chair: Arnaud Delcorte, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Invited Speakers:  Lukas Novotny  

J22 Theory of Non Fermi Liquids
Room: D163 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Subir Sachdev, Harvard University

J23 Superconductivity: Fluctuation Phenomena
Room: D165 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michelle Johannes, Naval Research Laboratory

J24 Focus Session: Multiscale Modeling: Structural Materials
Room: D167 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Zhiqiang Wang, University of North Texas

J26 Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors -- Vortices & High Fields
Room: D162/164 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Stephen Wilson, Boston College

J27 Focus Session: Quantum Optics with Superconducting Circuits II
Room: C155 Sponsor: GQI Chair: David Schuster, University of Chicago

J28 Focus Session: Computational Materials Design - Data-Driven
Room: C156 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Long-Qing Chen, Penn State University

J29 Focus Session: Quantum Information for Quantum Foundations - Structures in Hilbert Space
Room: C148 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Asa Ericsson, Institute Mittag-Leffler

J30 Nanowires & Nanotubes: Electronic Properties
Room: C147/154 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mark Reed, Yale University

J31 Focus Session: Materials at High Pressure II: Elements
Room: C145 Sponsor: DMP GSCCM DCOMP Chair: Viktor Struzhkin, Carnegie Institution

J32 Focus Session: Electron, Ion, and Exciton Transport in Nanostructures: Nanowires
Room: C144 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Leigh Smith, University of Cincinnati

J33 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides: Multiferroics & Magnetoelectrics II
Room: C143/149 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Craig Fennie, Cornell University

J34 Focus Session: Interfaces in Complex Oxides - Microscopy and Local Structure
Room: C141 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Suzanne Stemmer, University of California, Santa Barbara

J35 Topological Insulators: Optics
Room: C140 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Carlo Piermarocchi, Michigan State University

J36 Focus Session: Graphene Growth, Characterization and Devices: SiC and Metal Substrates
Room: C142 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Kurt Gaskill, Naval Research Laboratory

J37 Focus Session: Graphene Growth, Characterization, and Devices: Surface Studies
Room: C146 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Phil First, Georgia Institute of Technology

J38 Focus Session: Ultrafast Dynamics and Imaging II
Room: A130/131 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Markus Guehr, Stanford University

J39 Physics of Proteins III: Folding, Structure and Stability
Room: A124/127 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Bernard Gerstman, Florida International University

J40 Theory of Clusters and Nanoscale Systems
Room: A122/123 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Shiv Khanna, Virginia Commonwealth University

J41 Focus Session: Polymers for Energy Storage and Conversion -- Structure in Organic Semiconductor Blends
Room: A115/117 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY GERA Chair: Enrique Gomez, Pennsylvania State University

J42 Padden Award Symposium
Room: A302/303 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: John Torkelson, Northwestern University

J43 Physics of Copolymers II
Room: A306/307 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Bradley Olsen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

J44 Focus Session: Kinetic Control of Solution Assemblies
Room: A309 Sponsor: DPOLY DFD Chair: Margarita Herrera-Alonso, Johns Hopkins University

J45 Focus Session: Non-equilbrium Physics with Cold Quantum Gases
Room: A310 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Miguel Angel Garcia March, Colorado School of Mines

Mar 22 2011 2:00PM, Tuesday

K1 Poster Session II (2:00pm - 5:00pm)
Room: Hall D Sponsor: APS

Mar 22 2011 2:30PM, Tuesday

L1 Recent Advances in Ultrafast Studies of Condensed Matter
Room: Ballroom A1 Sponsor: DCMP DCP Chair: Ee Min Elbert Chia, Nanyang Technological University

L2 Single Molecule Transistors and Graphene Quantum Dots
Room: Ballroom A2 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Daniel Ralph, Cornell University

L3 Gap Structure of the Ba-122 Iron Based Superconductors
Room: Ballroom A3 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Peter Hirschfeld, University of Florida

L4 Quantum Information: Featured Experiments
Room: Ballroom A4 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Richart Slusher, Georgia Tech Research Institute

L5 Topics in Alternative Energy
Room: Ballroom C1 Sponsor: COM Chair: Lou Strolger, Western Kentucky University

L6 Complexity in Invention: The Strongly Coupled Systems that Contribute to Innovation Success
Room: Ballroom C2 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Steven Rosenblum, Corning, Inc., Science and Technology

L7 System Biology I: The Physics of Development
Room: Ballroom C3 Sponsor: DBP Chair: David Lubensky, University of Michigan

L8 J. H. Van Vleck: Quantum Theory and Magnetism
Room: Ballroom C4 Sponsor: FHP Chair: Chun Lin, University of Wisconsin

L9 Micelles and Vesicles I
Room: D220 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Robin Selinger, Kent State University

L10 Nanoclusters and Nanowires on Surfaces
Room: D221 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Phillip Sprunger, Louisiana State University

L13 Focus Session: Jamming Theory and Experiment III
Room: D225/226 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Robert Behringer, Duke University

L14 Physics Education Research
Room: D227 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Kendra Redmond, American Institute of Physics

L15 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Spin Torque and Spin Injection
Room: D171 Sponsor: DMP GMAG FIAP Chair: Roberto Myers, Ohio State University

L16 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanostructures: Probing Using Advanced Methods
Room: D173 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Olav Hellwig, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies

L17 Focus Session: Magnetic Oxide Thin Films - Ferroic and Oxide Tunnel Junctions
Room: D174 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: James Eckstein, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

L18 Focus Session: Low D/Frustrated Magnetism - 2D Lattices
Room: D172 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Marcos Rigol, Georgetown University

L19 Focus Session: Spin Transport & Magnetization Dynamics in Metals V
Room: D170 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: John D. Burton, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

L20 Focus Session: Thermoelectric Materials: Skutterudites, Novel and Nanostructured Materials
Room: D168 Sponsor: DMP GERA FIAP Chair: George Nolas, University of South Florida

L21 Focus Session: Imaging and Modifying Materials at the Limits of Space and Time Resolution II
Room: D161 Sponsor: DMP GIMS DCP Chair: Richard Haglund, Vanderbilt University

L22 URu2Si2
Room: D163 Sponsor: DCMP GMAG Chair: Nicholas Butch, University of Maryland

L23 Focus Session: Search for New Superconductors II: Towards Theoretical Design
Room: D165 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Philip Phillips, University of Illinois

L24 Focus Session: Quantum Transport Simulations and Computational Electronics -- GNRs and QDs
Room: D167 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Zlatan Aksamija, University of Wisconsin-Madison

L25 Superconductivity: Vortex Phenomena II
Room: D166 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Milind Kunchur, University of South Carolina

L26 Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors -- ARPES
Room: D162/164 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Gabriel Kotliar, Rutgers University

L28 Focus Session: Computational Materials Design - Property Optimization
Room: C156 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Stefano Curtarolo, Duke University

L29 Quantum Entanglement
Room: C148 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Lana Sheridan, National University of Singapore

L30 Graphene: Thermal Conduction and Phonons
Room: C147/154 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Vitor Pereira, National University of Singapore

L31 Focus Session: Materials at High Pressure III: Electronic Transitions
Room: C145 Sponsor: DMP GSCCM DCOMP Chair: Koichiro Umemoto, University of Minnesota

L32 Focus Session: Nano-Optics, Semiconductor and Metal Nanostructures
Room: C144 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Henry O. Everitt, Department of the Army, Redstone Arsenal

L33 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides: Lattice Dynamics, Polarons, and Structure
Room: C143/149 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Matt Dawber, Stony Brook University

L34 Focus Session: Interfaces in Complex Oxides - Heterointerfaces
Room: C141 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jak Tchakhalian, Univeristy of Arkansas

L35 Metals: Alloys and Impurities
Room: C140 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Mehl, Naval Research Laboratory

L36 Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Dopants and Defects: Adsorbates
Room: C142 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Dmitry Abanin, Princeton University

L37 Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Dopants, and Defects: Magnetism
Room: C146 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Roland Kawakami, University of California, Riverside

L38 Focus Session: Quantum Coherence in Biology II
Room: A130/131 Sponsor: DCP DBP Chair: Andreas Buchleitner, University of Freiburg

L39 Focus Session: Single Molecule Biophysics III: Novel Single Molecule Approaches to Biology
Room: A124/127 Sponsor: DBP DPOLY DCP Chair: Ching Hwa Kiang, Rice University

L40 Focus Session: Noisy Dynamics as Survival Strategies and Nanopores
Room: A122/123 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Gabor Balazsi and Gurol Suel, MD Anderson Cancer Center

L41 Condensed Phase Dynamics and Structure
Room: A115/117 Sponsor: DCP Chair: David Nesbitt, University of Colorado at Boulder

L42 Dillon Medal Symposium
Room: A302/303 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Spiros Anastasiadis, IESL- FORTH

L43 Focus Session: Polymers for Energy Storage and Conversion -- Emerging Applications
Room: A306/307 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY GERA Chair: Lou Madsen, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

L44 Surfaces, Interfaces, and Polymer Thin Films II
Room: A309 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Russell Thompson, University of Waterloo

L45 Strongly Correlated Physics with Atoms and Molecules
Room: A310 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Joseph Thywissen, University of Toronto

Mar 22 2011 3:00PM, Tuesday

L12 APS Editorial Q&A: APS and Open Access
Room: D223/224 Sponsor: APS

Mar 22 2011 5:45PM, Tuesday

M14 GSNP Business Meeting
Room: D227 Sponsor: GSNP

M15 GMAG Business Meeting
Room: D171 Sponsor: GMAG

M20 FIAP Business Meeting
Room: D168 Sponsor: FIAP

M21 GIMS Business Meeting
Room: D161 Sponsor: GIMS

M27 GQI Business Meeting
Room: C155 Sponsor: GQI

M31 GERA Business Meeting
Room: C145 Sponsor: GERA

M38 DBP Business Meeting
Room: A130/131 Sponsor: DBP

M42 DPOLY Business Meeting
Room: A302/303 Sponsor: DPOLY

Mar 22 2011 7:00PM, Tuesday

M50 DCMP Business Meeting
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Moreno A Sponsor: DCMP

M51 DMP Business Meeting
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Reverchon B Sponsor: DMP

M52 DCP Business Meeting
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Reverchon A Sponsor: DCP

Mar 23 2011 8:00AM, Wednesday

P1 Magnetism and Localization in f Electron Systems
Room: Ballroom A1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Qimiao Si, Rice University

P2 The Kondo Ground State in Graphene
Room: Ballroom A2 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Piers Coleman, Rutgers University

P3 FIAP/DCMP/DMP Prize Session: Pake, Adler, IAP
Room: Ballroom A3 Sponsor: DCMP FIAP DMP Chair: Sam Bader, Argonne National Laboratory

P4 Kinetic Pathways to Assembly of Polymers, Particles and Biomolecules
Room: Ballroom A4 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Ryan Hayward, University of Massachusetts

P5 Broader Impact: Partnerships and Resources to Achieve Successful Public and K-12 Outreach and Engagement
Room: Ballroom C1 Sponsor: FEd FPS Chair: Eric Marshall, Materials Research Society and IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

P6 Creating and Probing Exotic Optical Lattices
Room: Ballroom C2 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Dan Sheehy, Louisiana State University

P7 System Biology II: The Physics of Morphogenesis
Room: Ballroom C3 Sponsor: DBP GSNP Chair: Shane Hutson, Vanderbilt University

P8 The Physics, Technology and Future of Robotics
Room: Ballroom C4 Sponsor: FPS FIAP Chair: Philip L. Taylor, Case Western Reserve University

P9 Liquid Crystals: Smectics, Nano-mixtures
Room: D220 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Luz J. Martinez-Miranda, University of Maryland

P10 Focus Session: Growth, Structure, Dynamics, and Function of Nanostructured Surfaces and Interfaces -- Metals
Room: D221 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jacques Amar, University of Toledo

P11 Electronic Structure: Theory and Spectra I
Room: D222 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Chris Van Der Walle, University of California, Santa Barbara

P12 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors: Hyper Doping
Room: D223/224 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jeff Grossman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

P13 Tutorial for Authors and Referees
Room: D225/226 Sponsor: APS

P14 Focus Session: Friction, Fracture and Deformation Across Length Scales II: Plasticity and Rupture
Room: D227 Sponsor: DMP GSNP DCOMP Chair: Robin Selinger, Kent State University

P15 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Quantum Computing with Defects
Room: D171 Sponsor: DMP GMAG FIAP Chair: Vlatcheslav Dobrivitski, Ames Laboratory/Iowa State University

P16 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanostructures, Vortices & Domain Walls
Room: D173 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Axel Hoffmann, Argonne National Laboratory

P17 Focus Session: Bulk Properties of Complex Oxides - 3d Oxides
Room: D174 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Michelle Johannes, Naval Research Laboratory

P18 Focus Session: Low D/Frustrated Magnetism - Triangular Lattices
Room: D172 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Bruce Gaulin, McMaster University

P19 Focus Session: Spin Transport & Magnetization Dynamics in Metals VI
Room: D170 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Stephane Mangin, Nancy-Universite

P20 Focus Session: Physics of Energy Storage Materials IV -- Complex Hydrides and Methane
Room: D168 Sponsor: FIAP/DMP GERA/DCOMP Chair: Randall Snurr, Northwestern University

P21 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy III - Novel SPM of Spin, Force & Conductance
Room: D161 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Yukio Hasegawa, University of Tokyo

P22 Metal-Insulator Phase Transitions I
Room: D163 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Rachel Wortis, Trent University

P23 Superconductivity: Josephson Effects I
Room: D165 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: George Crabtree, Argonne National Laboratory

P24 Focus Session: What is Computational Physics? II followed by Computational Methods: Numerical Methods for Strongly Correlated Systems II
Room: D167 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Bernd Berg, Florida State University, and Frank Harris, University of Forida

P25 Superconductivity: Devices and Applications
Room: D166 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Norman Bergren, National Institute of Standards and Technology

P26 Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors -- Spin Dynamics
Room: D162/164 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Dmitri Argyriou, European Spallation Source

P27 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits - Spin Readout, Backaction, and Valley Physics in Silicon
Room: C155 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Irfan Siddiqi, University of California, Berkeley

P28 Carbon Nanotubes: Optical Properties
Room: C156 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Paola Barbara, Georgetown University

P29 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits
Room: C148 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Robert McDermott, University of Wisconsin--Madison

P30 Nanowires & Nanotubes: Growth & Absorption Kinetics
Room: C147/154 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Latika Menon, Northeastern University

P31 Focus Session: Materials at High Pressure IV: Geophysical Materials and Magnetic Transitions
Room: C145 Sponsor: DMP GSCCM DCOMP Chair: Maddury Somayazulu, Carnegie Institution

P32 Optical Properties and Dynamics of Quantum Dots and Quantum Wells
Room: C144 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sam Carter, Naval Research Laboratory

P33 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides: BiFeO3
Room: C143/149 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Nicole Benedek, Cornell University

P34 Focus Session: Interfaces in Complex Oxides - Transport and Optics
Room: C141 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jean-Marc Triscone, University of Geneva

P35 Topological Insulators: Magnetotransport
Room: C140 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jens Bardarson, University of California, Berkeley

P36 Focus Session: Graphene: Growth, Characterization, and Devices: Electronic Structure
Room: C142 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Marco Buongiorno-Nardelli, North Carolina State University

P37 Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Dopants, and Defects: Strain Engineering II
Room: C146 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Crommie, University of California, Berkeley

P38 Focus Session: Quantum Coherence in Biology III
Room: A130/131 Sponsor: DCP DBP Chair: Seth Lloyd, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

P39 Physics of Proteins IV: Folding, Dynamics and Function
Room: A124/127 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Margaret Cheung, University of Houston

P40 Polymer Melts & Solutions
Room: A122/123 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Azar Alizadeh, GE Global Research

P41 Focus Session: Fundamental Issues in Interfacial Charge Transport for Energy Applications I
Room: A115/117 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Lin Chen, Northwestern University

P42 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics -- Organic Photovoltaic Devices
Room: A302/303 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Russell Holmes, University of Minnesota

P43 Focus Session: Thin Film Block Copolymers III
Room: A306/307 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Mark Stoykovich, University of Colorado at Boulder

P44 Focus Session: Assembly, Structure, & Instabilities in Polymer Films, Network Films, & Interfaces I
Room: A309 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Zhiqun Lin, Iowa State University

P45 Unitary Fermi Gases and the BCS-BEC Crossover
Room: A310 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Ken O'Hara, The Pennsylvania State University

Mar 23 2011 11:15AM, Wednesday

Q1 Gapless Spin Liquids
Room: Ballroom A1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Claudio Castelnovo, University of Oxford

Q3 The Kavli Foundation Special Symposium: Superconductivity Centennial: Future Research Opportunities
Room: Ballroom A3 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Zachary Fisk, University of California, Irvine

Q4 Macromolecular Crowding Effects in the Cytoplasm
Room: Ballroom A4 Sponsor: DPOLY DBP Chair: Arun Yetheraj, University of Wisconsin

Q5 The Physics of Confronting Weapons of Mass Destruction: Chemical, Biological and Nuclear
Room: Ballroom C1 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Jay Davis, Hertz Foundation

Q6 Hydrogen Storage Materials
Room: Ballroom C2 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Mei-Yin Chou, Georgia Institute of Technology

Q7 System Biology III: The Physics of Evolution
Room: Ballroom C3 Sponsor: DBP DCP Chair: Wouter Hoff, Oklahoma State University

Q8 New Developments in Organic Spintronics
Room: Ballroom C4 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Valy Vardeny, University of Utah

Q9 Fluid Dynamics at Interfaces
Room: D220 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Takeru Yano Osaka University, and Angbo Fang, Hong King University of Science and Technology

Q10 Chemisorption and Surface Reactions
Room: D221 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Yevgeniy Puzyrev, Vanderbilt University

Q11 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect II
Room: D222 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Albert Chang, Duke University

Q12 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors: Conducting Oxides
Room: D223/224 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Joel Ager, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Q13 Glassy Systems and Jamming I
Room: D225/226 Sponsor: GSNP DFD Chair: Corey O'Hern, Yale University

Q14 Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics: Elasticity and Deformation I
Room: D227 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Katia Bertoldi, Harvard University

Q15 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Quantum Dots and Nuclear Spins
Room: D171 Sponsor: DMP GMAG FIAP Chair: Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin, Ohio State University

Q16 Electronic Structure III
Room: D173 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Pierre Darancet, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Q17 Focus Session: Bulk Properties of Complex Oxides - Ruthenates
Room: D174 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Ward Plummer, Louisiana State University

Q18 Focus Session: Magnetic Oxide Thin Films - Multiferroic Thin Films
Room: D172 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Lane Martin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Q19 Ising, Spin Glass, Frustrated Magnets
Room: D170 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Daniel Stein, New York University

Q21 THz and Impedance Spectroscopy
Room: D161 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Rachael Floyd, Janis Research Company

Q22 Metal-Insulator Phase Transitions II
Room: D163 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Cengiz Sen, University of Tennessee

Q23 Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors -- Fermi Topology
Room: D165 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Mark Lumsden, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Q24 Focus Session: Multiscale Modeling: Heterogeneous Systems and Interfaces
Room: D167 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Srinivasan Srivilliputhur, University of North Texas

Q25 Superconductivity: Transport Properties
Room: D166 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Wai-Kwong Kwok, Argonne National Laboratory

Q26 Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors -- Optics, Heat Capacity, Thermopower
Room: D162/164 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Hong Ding, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Q27 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits- Quantum Control
Room: C155 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Sergey Frolov, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Q28 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials: Devices II
Room: C156 Sponsor: DMP Chair: David Tomanek, Michigan State University

Q29 Focus Session: Quantum Information for Quantum Foundations - Experiments and Tests
Room: C148 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Christoph Schaeff, University of Vienna

Q30 Graphene: Electron-Electron Interactions
Room: C147/154 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Bruno Uchoa, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Q31 Focus Session: Materials at High Pressure V: Structure Prediction and Complex Materials
Room: C145 Sponsor: DMP GSCCM DCOMP Chair: Salah Boulfelfel, SUNY Stony Brook

Q32 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Semiconductor and Metal Nanostructures
Room: C144 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Rainer Hillenbrand, CIC nanoGUNE, Spain

Q33 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides: Interfaces and Optical Properties
Room: C143/149 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Venkatraman Gopalan, Pennsylvania State University

Q34 Focus Session: Interfaces in Complex Oxides - Polar Interfaces
Room: C141 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Evgeny Tsybal, University of Nebraska

Q35 Topological Insulators: Interactions
Room: C140 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Christopher Varney, Georgetown University / University of Maryland

Q36 Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Dopants, and Defects: Nanoparticles
Room: C142 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Joshua Robinson, Penn State University

Q37 Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Dopants, and Defects: Transport II
Room: C146 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Shaffique Adam, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg

Q38 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics -- Morphology in polymer-based solar cells
Room: A130/131 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY GERA Chair: Garry Rumbles, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Q39 Information Processing in Biological Systems
Room: A124/127 Sponsor: GSNP DBP Chair: Madan Rao, Raman Research Institute

Q40 Theoretical Methods and Algorithms for Chemical Physics
Room: A122/123 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Donald Truhlar, University of Minnesota

Q41 Focus Session: Fundamental Issues in Interfacial Charge Transport for Energy Applications II
Room: A115/117 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Victor Batista, Yale University

Q42 Polymer Composites
Room: A302/303 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Tirtha Chatterjee, The Dow Chemical Company

Q43 Focus Session: Translocation through Nanopores I
Room: A306/307 Sponsor: DPOLY DBP Chair: Aniket Bhattacharya, University of Central Florida

Q44 Focus Session: Dynamics of Polymers-Phenomena due to Confinement
Room: A309 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Rob Riggleman, University of California, Santa Barbara

Q45 Non-equilibrium Physics with Cold Quantum Gases II
Room: A310 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Eite Tiesinga, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Mar 23 2011 1:00PM, Wednesday

S1 Poster Session III (1:00pm - 4:00pm)
Room: Hall D Sponsor: APS

Mar 23 2011 2:30PM, Wednesday

T1 Entanglement Spectroscopy
Room: Ballroom A1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ashvin Vishwanath, University of California, Berkeley

T2 Defects and Strain in Graphene
Room: Ballroom A2 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Brian LeRoy, University of Arizona

T3 DCMP/DMP Prize Session: Buckley, McGroddy, Davisson-Germer
Room: Ballroom A3 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Ward Plummer, Louisiana State University

T4 Keithly Award Session
Room: Ballroom A4 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Timothy Graber, University of Chicago

T5 20 Years of Quantum Information in Physical Review Letters
Room: Ballroom C1 Sponsor: GQI Chair: John Preskill, California Institute of Technology

T6 Theory in Industry
Room: Ballroom C2 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Alex Demkov, University of Texas at Austin

T7 Structural and Mechanical Properties of Jammed Amorphous Materials
Room: Ballroom C3 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University

T8 Shaping Regional Identities through Research Funding Policies
Room: Ballroom C4 Sponsor: FIP Chair: Giulia Pancheri, INFN Frascati National Laboratories

T9 Flow Instabilities, Turbulence and CFD
Room: D220 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Prabir Daripa, Texas A&M University

T10 Focus Session: Growth, Structure, Dynamics, and Function of Nanostructured Surfaces and Interfaces -- Oxides
Room: D221 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Dan Dougherty, North Carolina State University

T11 Spin and Transport in Low Dimensional Semiconductors
Room: D222 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Nikolai Klimov, National Institute of Standards and Technology

T12 Atomic Structures and Mechanical Properties in Semiconductors
Room: D223/224 Sponsor: FIAP

T13 Focus Session: Transport and Diffusion in Non-equilibrium Systems
Room: D225/226 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Daniel Lacks, Case Western Reserve University

T14 Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics: Elasticity and Deformation II
Room: D227 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Benny Davidovitch, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

T15 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - III-V Magnetic Semiconductors
Room: D171 Sponsor: DMP GMAG FIAP Chair: Ken Burch, University of Toronto

T16 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanostructures, Materials & Effects
Room: D173 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jiwei Lu, University of Virginia

T17 Focus Session: Magnetic Oxide Thin Films - Manganite Thin Films
Room: D174 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: John Freeland, Argonne National Laboratory

T18 Focus Session: Low D/Frustrated Magnetism - Molecular Magnets II
Room: D172 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: M. Sarachik, City College of New York

T19 Focus Session: Spin Transport & Magnetization Dynamics in Metals VII
Room: D170 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Frances Hellman, University of California, Berkeley

T20 Focus Session: Thermoelectric Materials: LAST/TAGS, Heusler, and Silicides
Room: D168 Sponsor: DMP GERA FIAP Chair: Joseph Heremans, Ohio State University

T21 Classical and Quantum Monte Carlo
Room: D161 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Bruce Miller, Texas Christian University

T22 Correlated Electrons and Magnetic Phase Transitions
Room: D163 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Harold Baranger, Duke University

T23 Focus Session: Search for New Superconductors III: Reduced Dimensionality
Room: D165 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ray Baughman, University of Texas at Dallas

T24 Focus Session: Quantum Transport Simulations and Computational Electronics -- Disorder
Room: D167 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Massimo Fischetti, University of Texas at Dallas

T25 Superconductivity: Theory, Mainly Vortices
Room: D166 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Maxim Korshunov, University of Florida

T26 Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors -- Magnetic Properties & Phase Diagrams
Room: D162/164 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Stephen Hayden, Bristol University

T27 Open Quantum Systems and Decoherence
Room: C155 Sponsor: GQI DAMOP Chair: Michael Zwolak, Los Alamos National Laboratory

T28 Graphene: Optical and Transport Properties
Room: C156 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Tony Heinz, Columbia University

T29 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits - Coherence and Materials I
Room: C148 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Andrew Houck, Princeton University

T30 Materials: Synthesis, Growth and Processing (Bulk & Films)
Room: C147/154 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Yunfeng Shi, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

T31 Novel Structural Chemistry & Materials
Room: C145 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Daniel Finkenstadt, U.S. Naval Academy

T32 Semiconducting Devices & Applications
Room: C144 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Linda Olafsen, Baylor University

T33 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides: Pb-based and novel materials
Room: C143/149 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Xiaoqing Pan, University of Michigan

T34 Optical and Electronic Properties of Nanocrystals and Wires
Room: C141 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Steve Erwin, Naval Research Laboratory

T35 Metals: Defects and Surfaces
Room: C140 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Don Nicholson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

T36 Focus Session: Graphene Growth, Characterization, and Devices: Structure, Interfaces and Transfer
Room: C142 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Joost Wintterlin, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen

T37 Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Dopants, and Defects: Nanoribbons
Room: C146 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Yong P. Chen, Purdue University

T38 Focus Session: Quantum Coherence in Biology IV
Room: A130/131 Sponsor: DCP DBP Chair: Mohan Sarovar, University of California, Berkeley

T39 Computational Molecular Biophysics
Room: A124/127 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Peter Hugo Nelson, Benedictine University

T40 Physics of Proteins V: Protein-Protein Interaction, and Protein Aggregation
Room: A122/123 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Huan-Xiang Zhou, Florida State University

T41 Focus Session: The Role of Water in Energy Production and Utilization I
Room: A115/117 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Greg Kimmel, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories

T42 Focus Session: The Physics of Evolution I
Room: A302/303 Sponsor: DCP DBP Chair: Eugene Shakhnovich, Harvard University

T43 Physics of Bacteria
Room: A306/307 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Rob Phillips, California Institute of Technology

T44 Evolutionary and Ecological Systems
Room: A309 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Ao Ping, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

T45 Focus Session: Magnetic and Spin Ordering in Atomic and Optical Systems
Room: A310 Sponsor: GMAG DAMOP Chair: Erich Mueller, Cornell University

Mar 23 2011 5:45PM, Wednesday

U1 Nobel Prize Session: Graphene: Materials in the Flatland
Room: Ballroom C1 Sponsor: APS Chair: Warren Pickett, University of California, Davis

Mar 23 2011 7:00PM, Wednesday

U50 DCOMP Business Meeting
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cockrell Sponsor: DCOMP

Mar 23 2011 7:30PM, Wednesday

U55 ``Trends" in the APS Publication Physics
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Reunion A-D Sponsor: APS Chair: Samindranath Mitra, APS Editorial Office

Mar 24 2011 8:00AM, Thursday

V1 Iron Pnictides versus Iron Chalcogenides: Magnetism and Pairing Fluctuation
Room: Ballroom A1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ilya Eremin, Ruhr-University Bochum

V2 Fermi Surface Reconstruction and Competing Orders in High Tc Cuprates
Room: Ballroom A2 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Peter Johnson, Brookhaven National Laboratory

V3 Controlling Quantum Interactions of Single Spins and Photons in Diamond
Room: Ballroom A3 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Awschalom, University of California, Santa Barbara

V4 Dynamics of Polymers: Phenomena Due to Confinement
Room: Ballroom A4 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Zahra Fakhraai, University of Wisconsin

V5 Physics for Everyone
Room: Ballroom C1 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Ivan Schuller, University of California, San Diego

V6 Hybrid Functionals Applied to Solids
Room: Ballroom C2 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Chris Van de Walle, University of California, Santa Barbara

V7 High Resolution Tunneling Spectroscopy of Dirac Fermions
Room: Ballroom C3 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Eric Hudson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

V8 Enhancing Graduate Education in Physics: Focus on Skills
Room: Ballroom C4 Sponsor: FEd FGSA Chair: Megan Comins, Cornell University

V9 Self Assembly I
Room: D220 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Steve Granick, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

V10 Focus Session: Growth, Structure, Dynamics, and Function of Nanostructured Surfaces and Interfaces -- Semiconductors
Room: D221 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ray Phaneuf, University of Maryland

V11 Electronic Structure: Theory and Spectra II
Room: D222 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Richard Martin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

V12 Transport in 2-D Systems
Room: D223/224 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Oki Gunawan, IBM T. J. Watson Research

V13 Glassy Systems and Jamming II
Room: D225/226 Sponsor: GSNP DFD Chair: Patrick Charbonneau, Duke University

V14 Focus Session: Statistical Mechanics of Complex Networks I
Room: D227 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Beate Schmittmann, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

V15 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Spin Currents III
Room: D171 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Ian Appelbaum, University of Maryland

V16 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanostructures, Exchange Coupled System
Room: D173 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Rafael Morales, UPV/EHU, Spain

V17 Focus Session: Bulk Properties of Complex Oxides - 5d Oxides
Room: D174 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Daniel Dessau, University of Colorado at Boulder

V18 Focus Session: Low D/Frustrated Magnetism - Spin Ice, et al.
Room: D172 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Sean Giblin, ISIS Science and Technology Facilities Council

V19 Focus Session: Spin Transport & Magnetization Dynamics in Metals VIII
Room: D170 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Eric Fullerton, University of California, San Diego

V20 Focus Session: Physics of Energy Storage Materials V -- Thermal Storage and Conventional Hydrides
Room: D168 Sponsor: FIAP/DMP GERA/DCOMP Chair: Donald J. Siegel, University of Michigan

V21 Focus Session: Teaching Computational Physics to Classroom and Research Students
Room: D161 Sponsor: DCOMP FEd Chair: Amy Bug, Swarthmore College

V22 Magnetic Phase Transitions I
Room: D163 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Kyle Shen, Cornell University

V23 Superconductivity: Josephson Effects II
Room: D165 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Victor Vakaryuk, Argonne National Laboratory

V24 History of Physics and International Programs
Room: D167 Sponsor: FHP FIP Chair: Gloria Lubkin, American Institute of Physics, retired

V25 Superconductivity: HTSC Theory, Mostly Nematics and Inhomogeneous Systems
Room: D166 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Alexander Gurevich, Florida State University

V26 Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors -- Doping Studies
Room: D162/164 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Ian Fisher, Stanford University

V27 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits- Dynamic Decoupling, Dephasing, and Relaxation
Room: C155 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Hendrik Bluhm, Harvard University

V28 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials: Devices III
Room: C156 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ralph Krupke, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

V29 Quantum Control and Measurement
Room: C148 Sponsor: GQI DAMOP Chair: Daniel Lidar, University of Southern California

V30 Nanowires and Nanotubes: Thermal and Mechanical Properties
Room: C147/154 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Traian Dumitrica, University of Minnesota

V31 Energy Production: Combustion, Heat Engines, Solar Thermal and Thermoelectrics
Room: C145 Sponsor: GERA Chair: Deborah Saunderson, Universit of Calgary

V32 Photonics: Metamaterials, Nanotechnology and Sensors
Room: C144 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Zhifeng Ren, Boston College

V33 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides: Vortices and Novel Mechanisms
Room: C143/149 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: James Rondinelli, Argonne National Laboratory

V35 Topological Insulators: ARPES & STM
Room: C140 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Shoucheng Zhang, Stanford University

V36 Graphene: Optical Properties I
Room: C142 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Farhan Rana, Cornell University

V37 Focus Session: Graphene Growth, Characterization, and Devices: Transport
Room: C146 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Claire Berger, Georgia Institute of Technology

V38 Focus Session: The Physics of Evolution II
Room: A130/131 Sponsor: DCP DBP Chair: Eugene Shakhnovich, Harvard University

V39 Cellular Biomechanics
Room: A124/127 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Helim Aranda-Espinoza, University of Maryland

V40 Thesis Award Session: Nucleic Acids -- Structure, Function, and the Genome
Room: A122/123 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Aihua Xie, Oklahoma State University

V41 Focus Session: The Role of Water in Energy Production and Utilization II
Room: A115/117 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Angelos Michaelides, University College London

V42 Focus Session: Supramolecular Self-Assembly--Controlling Network and Gel Formation II
Room: A302/303 Sponsor: DPOLY DBP Chair: Nigel Clarke, University of Durham

V43 Focus Session: Translocation Through Nanopores II
Room: A306/307 Sponsor: DPOLY DBP Chair: Johan Dubbeldam, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

V44 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics -- Small molecule semiconductors and molecular electronics
Room: A309 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Tim Jones, University of Warwick

V45 Rotation and Artificial Gauge Fields: Vortices and Quantum Hall Physics
Room: A310 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Hui Zhai, Tsinghua University

Mar 24 2011 11:15AM, Thursday

W1 Superconducting Qubits: Advances in Single-Shot QND Readout
Room: Ballroom A1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Martinis, University of California, Santa Barbara

W2 CVD Graphene: Synthesis, Properties and Applications
Room: Ballroom A2 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Millie Dresselhaus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

W3 Advances in ZnO Physics and Applications
Room: Ballroom A3 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Scott Chambers, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

W4 Glassy Dynamics and Jamming
Room: Ballroom A4 Sponsor: DCMP GSNP Chair: Arjun Yodh, University of Pennsylvania

W5 Educating Physicists for Industrial Careers
Room: Ballroom C1 Sponsor: FIAP FEd Chair: Mary Lanzerotti, Pacific Lutheran University

W6 Alkaline Earth Atoms and SU(N) Magnetism
Room: Ballroom C2 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Andrew Daley, University of Pittsburgh

W8 Bose-Einstein Condensation of Magnons and Related Phenomena
Room: Ballroom C4 Sponsor: GMAG DAMOP Chair: Andrey Zheludev, Paul Scherrer Institute

W9 Self Assembly II followed by Vesicles and Micelles II
Room: D220 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Remi Dreyfus, CNRS

W10 Adsorption, Wetting, and Complex Interfaces
Room: D221 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Milton Cole, Penn State University

W11 Electronic Structure: Thermodynamics and Optical Properties
Room: D222 Sponsor: FIAP

W12 Electronic Transport in Novel Materials and Nanostructures
Room: D223/224 Sponsor: FIAP

W13 Applications of Statistical and Nonlinear Physics in the Life Sciences
Room: D225/226 Sponsor: GSNP DBP Chair: Uwe Tauber, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

W14 Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics: Elasticity and Deformation III
Room: D227 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Pedro Reis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

W15 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Spin-Orbit Effects and Confinement
Room: D171 Sponsor: DMP GMAG FIAP Chair: Giovanni Vignale, University of Missouri

W16 Focus Session: Bulk Properties of Complex Oxides - Other
Room: D173 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Rongying Jin, Louisiana State University

W17 Focus Session: Magnetic Oxide Thin Films - Cobaltate and Ferrous Oxide Thin Films
Room: D174 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Chris Leighton, University of Minnesota

W18 Many Body
Room: D172 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Munehisa Matsumoto, University of California, Davis

W19 Focus Session: Novel Magnetic Devices
Room: D170 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Sujoy Roy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

W20 Focus Session: Thermoelectric Materials: Clathrates and Oxides
Room: D168 Sponsor: DMP GERA FIAP Chair: Donald Morelli, Michigan State University

W21 Novel Imaging Techniques and Calorimetry
Room: D161 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Wilhelmus Geerts, Texas State University

W22 Magnetic Phase Transitions II
Room: D163 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Thomas Vojta, Missouri University of Science and Technology

W23 Superconductivity: Mesoscopic and Nanometer Scale Phenomena
Room: D165 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Myron Salamon, University of Texas at Dallas

W24 Density Functional Theory I
Room: D167 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Alexey Zayak, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

W25 Novel Superconductors I
Room: D166 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Taner Yildirim, NIST/University of Pennsylvania

W26 Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors -- Tuning Magnetism and Superconductivity
Room: D162/164 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: David Mandrus, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory

W27 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits- Optical Control, Donors, and Hybrid Systems
Room: C155 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Jake Taylor, University of Maryland

W28 Graphene: Nanoribbons and Electronic Transport
Room: C156 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Nancy Sandler, Ohio University

W29 Symmetric Discrete Structures for Finite Dimensional Quantum Systems
Room: C148 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Christopher Fuchs, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

W30 Nanowires and Nanotubes: Optical Properties and Spectroscopy
Room: C147/154 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Alec Talin, National Institute of Standards and Technology

W31 Energy Production & Distribution, Nuclear, Hydrogen, Bio and Infrastructure
Room: C145 Sponsor: GERA Chair: Judy Pang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

W32 Focus Session: Frontiers in Computational Thermodynamics of Materials I
Room: C144 Sponsor: FIAP DCOMP Chair: Gus Hart, Brigham Young University

W33 Insulators and Dielectrics I
Room: C143/149 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: William Parker, Argonne National Laboratory

W34 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Nanocrystals
Room: C141 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Alexander Govorov, Ohio University

W35 Topological Insulators: Superconductivity
Room: C140 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Taylor Hughes, University of Illinois

W36 Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Dopants, and Defects: Graphene Oxide and Fluoride
Room: C142 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Masahiro Ishigami, University of Central Florida

W37 Focus Session: Graphene: Growth, Characterization, and Devices: Quantum Hall Effect
Room: C146 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Aaron Bostwick, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

W38 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics -- Charge transport
Room: A130/131 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Almantas Pivrikas, Johannes Kepler University Linz

W39 Experimental Techniques in Biophysics
Room: A124/127 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Mark Reeves, George Washington University

W40 Polymer Blends
Room: A122/123 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Mesfin Tsige, University of Akron

W41 Focus Session: Electronic Structure and Applications to Energy Conversion I
Room: A115/117 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Sergei Tretiak, Los Alamos National Laboratory

W42 Focus Session: Polymer Brushes
Room: A302/303 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: You Yeon Won, Purdue University

W43 Morphology and Transport in Charged Polymers, Block Copolymers, Membranes, and Films
Room: A306/307 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: LaShanda Korley, Case Western Reserve University

W44 Focus Session: Dynamics of Polymers-Phenomena due to Confinement - Diffusion, Particles, & Pores
Room: A309 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Karin Jacobs, Saarland University, Germany

W45 Atom-Light Interactions: Experiment and Theory
Room: A310 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Charles Clark, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Mar 24 2011 2:30PM, Thursday

X1 Quantum and Classical Phenomena in Josephson Junction Arrays
Room: Ballroom A1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Clarke, University of California, Berkeley

X2 Coexistence Between Antiferromagnetism and Superconductivity in Fe-pnictides
Room: Ballroom A2 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Joerg Schmailian, Iowa State University

X3 Topological Vortices in Magnets, Ferroelectrics, and Multiferroics
Room: Ballroom A3 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sang-Wook Cheong, Rutgers University

X4 Functional Gels
Room: Ballroom A4 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Igal Szleifer, Northwestern University

X5 The Corporate Feel: Atomic Force Microscopy in Industry
Room: Ballroom C1 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Jason Cleveland, Asylum Research

X6 Pairing in Imbalanced Fermi Mixtures
Room: Ballroom C2 Sponsor: DCOMP DAMOP Chair: Richard Scalettar, University of California, Davis

X7 Quantitative Approaches to DNA Replication
Room: Ballroom C3 Sponsor: DBP Chair: John Bechhoefer, Simon Fraser University

X8 Migrations of Physicists
Room: Ballroom C4 Sponsor: FHP FIP Chair: Noemie Koller, Rutgers University

X9 Coordination, Coherence and Synchronization through Hydrodynamic Interactions
Room: D220 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Thomas Powers, Brown University

X10 Focus Session: Growth, Structure, Dynamics, and Function of Nanostructured Surfaces and Interfaces -- Organic Molecules
Room: D221 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jay Gupta, Ohio State University

X11 Integer Quantum Hall Effect
Room: D222 Sponsor: FIAP

X13 Focus Session: Continuum Description of Particulate Media
Room: D225/226 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Ken Kamrin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

X14 Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics: Elasticity and Deformation IV
Room: D227 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Narayanan Menon, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

X15 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Manipulation of Dopant Spins
Room: D171 Sponsor: DMP GMAG FIAP Chair: Paul Koenraad, TU/Eindhoven

X16 Focus Session: Spins in Carbon-Based Materials -- Graphene, CNT, and C60
Room: D173 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Luis Hueso, CIC nanoGUNE Consolider

X17 Focus Session: Magnetic Oxide Thin Films - Multiferroic Heterostructures and Europium Oxide
Room: D174 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Tiffany Santos, Argonne National Laboratory

X18 Focus Session: Low D/Frustrated Magnetism - Spin Chains & Ladders
Room: D172 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Marcelo Jamie, Los Alamos National Laboratory

X19 Classical and Quantum Molecular Dynamics
Room: D170 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Isaac Tamblyn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

X20 Focus Session: Thermoelectric Materials: Theory
Room: D168 Sponsor: DMP FIAP GERA Chair: Marco Fornari, Central Michigan University

X21 Focus Session: Novel X-Ray Instrumentation and Measurement Techniques
Room: D161 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Albert Macrander, Argonne National Laboratory

X22 Metals: Bulk Properties and Nanostructures
Room: D163 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Lin-Lin Wang, Ames Laboratory/Iowa State University

X23 Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors -- Gap Symmetry
Room: D165 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Laura Greene, University of Illinois

X24 Focus Session: Quantum Transport Simulations and Computational Electronics -- Molecular Junctions
Room: D167 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Hong Guo, McGill University

X25 Superconductivity: Optical, Raman and Other Spectroscopies
Room: D166 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Tanner, University of Florida

X26 Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors -- Fe(Se-Te)
Room: D162/164 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Pengcheng Dai, University of Tennessee and ORNL

X27 Quantum Computing and Simulation II
Room: C155 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Harvard University

X28 Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials: Theoretical and Computational Studies
Room: C156 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Tahir Cagin, Texas A&M University

X29 Focus Session: Quantum Information for Quantum Foundations - Information Measures, Entanglement, and Entropies
Room: C148 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Mark Byrd, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

X30 Nanowires: Electronic Transport, Experimental
Room: C147/154 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Francois Leonard, Sandia National Laboratories

X31 Amorphous Solids, Glasses & Liquids I
Room: C145 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Punit Boolchand, University of Cincinnati

X32 Focus Session: Frontiers in Computational Thermodynamics of Materials II
Room: C144 Sponsor: FIAP DCOMP Chair: Stefano Curtarolo, Duke University

X33 Quantum Fluids and Solids I
Room: C143/149 Sponsor: DCMP

X34 Nanostructures: Assembly, Growth, and Characterization
Room: C141 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Eric Stinaff, Ohio University

X35 Topological Insulators: Theory III
Room: C140 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Andreas Ruegg, University of Texas at Austin

X36 Graphene: Quantum Hall Effect
Room: C142 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Eva Andrei, Rutgers University

X37 Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Dopants, and Defects: Magnetism and Nanoribbons
Room: C146 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Young-Woo Son, Korea Institute for Advanced Study

X38 Focus Session: Non-Equilibrium Insights into Single Molecules and Cell Function I
Room: A130/131 Sponsor: DCP DBP Chair: Norbert Scherer, University of Chicago

X39 Biomechanics: From Subcellular to Multicellular Scales
Room: A124/127 Sponsor: DBP DCOMP Chair: Gabor Forgacs, University of Missouri

X40 Biological Networks and Systems Biology
Room: A122/123 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Luis Cruz Cruz, Drexel University

X41 Focus Session: Electronic Structure and Applications to Energy Conversion II
Room: A115/117 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Troy van Voorhis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

X42 Polymeric Glasses
Room: A302/303 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Mark Ediger, University of Wisconsin--Madison

X43 Focus Session: Assembly, Structure, & Instabilities in Polymer Films, Network Films, & Interfaces II
Room: A306/307 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Ryan Toomey, University of Southern Florida

X44 Focus Session: Polymer Colloids-Structure, Function, and Dynamics II
Room: A309 Sponsor: DPOLY DFD Chair: Alberto Fernandez De Las Nieves, Georgia Institute of Technology

X45 Focus Session: Nanocomposite Physics I-Dispersions and Physical Properties
Room: A310 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Frederick Beyer, Army Research Laboratory

Mar 25 2011 8:00AM, Friday

Y1 New Insights Into the Mott Transition
Room: Ballroom A1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Andrew Millis, Columbia University

Y2 Topological Insulators: Transport and Interactions
Room: Ballroom A2 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Xiaoliang Qi, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Y3 Recent Developments in Solid 4He
Room: Ballroom A3 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Moses Chan, Pennsylvania State University

Y4 Polymer Colloids: Structure, Function and Dynamics
Room: Ballroom A4 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Eric Furst, University of Delaware

Y5 Opening the Gap: Chemical Functionalization and Substitution in Graphene
Room: Ballroom C1 Sponsor: DCOMP DCP Chair: Shaffique Adam, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Y6 Ultrafast Magnetization Dynamics: Where Are We Today?
Room: Ballroom C2 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Hendrik Ohldag, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Y8 Experiences and Issues for Young Physicists in the International Arena: Impact on the Future of Physics followed by Panel Discussion
Room: Ballroom C4 Sponsor: FGSA FIP Chair: Amy Flatten, American Physical Society

Y9 Motility, Locomotion and Cellular Fluid Mechanics
Room: D220 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Paulo Arratia, University of Pennsylvania

Y10 Electronic Structure of Surfaces and Interfaces
Room: D221 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Steven Erwin, Naval Research Laboratory

Y13 Granular Materials I
Room: D225/226 Sponsor: GSNP DFD Chair: Brian Utter, James Madison University

Y14 Focus Session: Statistical Mechanics of Complex Networks II
Room: D227 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Hernan Makse, City College of New York

Y15 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Spin Currents IV
Room: D171 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Roland Kawakami, University of California, Riverside

Y16 Focus Session: Spins in Carbon-Based Materials -- Magnetoresistance, Magneto-Electric Effect
Room: D173 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Bin Hu, University of Tennessee

Y18 Focus Session: Low D/Frustrated Magnetism - More Frustrated Magnets
Room: D172 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Mark Meisel, University of Florida

Y20 Focus Session: Thermoelectric Materials: Chalcogenides and 1D/2D Systems
Room: D168 Sponsor: DMP FIAP GERA Chair: Bhanu Mahanti, Michigan State University

Y21 High Magnetic Field Measurements, Novel sensors, and Neutron Diffraction
Room: D161 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Junichiro Kono, Rice University

Y22 Ferroelectric and Structural Phase Transitions
Room: D163 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jason Lashley, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Y23 Superconductivity: Proximity Effects
Room: D165 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ulrich Welp, Argonne National Laboratory

Y24 Density Functional Theory II
Room: D167 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Diola Bagayoko, Southern University and A&M College

Y25 Superconductivity: Mainly HTSC Theory
Room: D166 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Igor Mazin, Naval Research Laboratory

Y26 Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors -- Orbital Order
Room: D162/164 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Clarina dela Cruz, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Y27 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits- In Search of Majorana
Room: C155 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Gil Refael, California Institute of Technology

Y29 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits - Coherence and Materials II
Room: C148 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Haohua Wang, University of California, Santa Barbara

Y30 Nanowires and Nanotubes: Fundamentals and Applications
Room: C147/154 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ezequiel Johnston-Halperin, Ohio State University

Y31 Amorphous Solids, Glasses & Liquids II
Room: C145 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Horacio Castillo, Ohio University

Y33 Cold Fusion
Room: C143/149 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Scott Chub, Infinite Energy Magazine

Y35 Topological Insulators: Applications
Room: C140 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Xiaoliang Qi, Stanford University

Y36 Graphene: Optical Properties II
Room: C142 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Bennett Goldberg, Boston University

Y38 Focus Session: Non-Equilibrium Insights into Single Molecules and Cell Function II
Room: A130/131 Sponsor: DCP DBP Chair: Aaron Dinner, University of Chicago

Y39 Focus Session: Imaging and Interfaces in Energy Science
Room: A124/127 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Annabella Selloni, Princeton University

Y40 Focus Session: Nanocomposite Physics II-Polymer Dynamics
Room: A122/123 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Jim Watkins, University of Massachusetts--Amherst

Y41 Elastomers and Gels
Room: A115/117 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Kevin Cavicchi, University of Akron

Y42 Focus Session: Dynamics of Polymers--Phenomena due to Confinement--Theory, Wrinkling, and Glass Transitions
Room: A302/303 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Connie Roth, Emory University

Y43 Molecules, Solutions, Networks, & Gels
Room: A306/307 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Daniel Savin, University of Southern Mississippi

Y44 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics -- Exciton and charge separation physics
Room: A309 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Bryan Boudouris, University of California, Berkeley

Y45 Atom Interactions with Molecules, Surfaces, and X-Rays
Room: A310 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Han Pu, Rice University

Mar 25 2011 11:15AM, Friday

Z1 Solid-State Spin Qubits: Coherence Control and Protection
Room: Ballroom A1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sophia Economou, Naval Research Laboratory

Z2 Pseudogap in High Tc Cuprates
Room: Ballroom A2 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Martin Greven, University of Minnesota

Z9 Complex Fluids, Polymers, Gels
Room: D220 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Corey O'Hern, Yale University

Z10 Novel Instrumentation and Techniques in Surface Science
Room: D221 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ray Phaneuf, University of Maryland

Z13 Granular Materials II
Room: D225/226 Sponsor: GSNP DFD Chair: Arshad Kudrolli, Clark University

Z14 Focus Session: Statistical Mechanics of Complex Networks III
Room: D227 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Adilson Motter, Northwestern University

Z22 Properties of Semiconducting Nanosystems
Room: D163 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Stefan Badescu, Air Force Research Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio

Z23 Superconductivity: Thermodynamics, etc.
Room: D165 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: S.L. Budko, Ames Laboratory

Z25 Novel Superconductors II
Room: D166 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Chih-Kang Ken shih, University of Texas at Austin

Z26 Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors -- Electronic Anisotropy
Room: D162/164 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Rajiv Singh, University of California, Davis

Z27 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits - Theory and Experiment
Room: C155 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Xuedong Hu, SUNY Buffalo

Z29 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits - Coherence and Materials III
Room: C148 Sponsor: GQI Chair: John Teufel, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Z33 Quantum Fluids and Solids II
Room: C143/149 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Davis, University of Alberta

Z35 Insulators and Dielectrics II
Room: C140 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Oleksandr Kutana, Naval Research Laboratory

Z39 Surfaces, Interfaces and Colloids
Room: A124/127 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Phillip Geissler, University of California, Berkeley

Z40 Semi Crystalline Polymers: Morphology and Electronics
Room: A122/123 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Robert Hoy, Yale University

Z42 Biopolymers: Molecules, Solutions, Networks, and Gels
Room: A302/303 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Jan-Michael Carrillo, University of Connecticut

Z43 Liquid Crystalline Order in Polymer and Complex Fluids
Room: A306/307 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Chinedum Osuji, Yale University

Z44 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics -- New Materials and Applications
Room: A309 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Rui He, Columbia University

Z45 Bose-Einstein Condensates, Matter Optics, and Atomic Interferometry
Room: A310 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Zhenhua Yu, Ohio State University

Mar 20 2011 1:00PM, Sunday

1A Industrial Physics Forum: History, Current Status, Future Prospects
Room: Ballroom C1 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Robert Doering, Texas Instruments

Mar 20 2011 3:30PM, Sunday

1B Industrial Physics Forum: Large-Scale Applications
Room: Ballroom C1 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Kate Kirby, American Physical Society

Mar 21 2011 8:00AM, Monday

A1 Silicon Qubits
Room: Ballroom A1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Gavin Morley, London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London

A2 Compressibility and Transport in Bilayer Graphene
Room: Ballroom A2 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sankar Das Sarma, University of Maryland

A3 Experimental Studies of 5/2 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
Room: Ballroom A3 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: James Eisenstein, California Institute of Technology

A4 Nanostructures in Polymer-base Photovoltaics
Room: Ballroom A4 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Michael Mackay, University of Delaware

A5 Industrial Physics Forum: Small-Scale Applications
Room: Ballroom C1 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Frederick Dylla, American Institute of Physics

A6 Great Advances in Computational Physics: Past, Present and Future
Room: Ballroom C2 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Massimo Boninsegni, University of Alberta

A7 Prize Session: Single Molecule Biophysics I: Recent Advancements in Technology and Applications
Room: Ballroom C3 Sponsor: DBP DPOLY DCMP Chair: Yan Mei Wang, Washington University in St. Louis

A8 APS/GSNP/DCMP Prize Session: Heineman, Onsager, IUPAP/C10
Room: Ballroom C4 Sponsor: DCMP GSNP Chair: Valery Pokrovsky, Texas A&M University

A9 Micro-fluidics
Room: D220 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Alex Alexeev, Georgia Institute of Technology

A10 Structure and Morphology of Oxide Surfaces and Interfaces
Room: D221 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Shao-Chun Li, Tulane University

A11 Semiconductor Growths
Room: D222 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Renbo Song, Lehigh University

A12 Focus Session: Electricity-to-Light Conversion: Solid State Lighting I
Room: D223/224 Sponsor: GERA DMP Chair: Daniel Koleske, Sandia National Laboratory

A13 Focus Session: Polymer Colloids: Structure, Function, and Dynamics I
Room: D225/226 Sponsor: DFD DPOLY Chair: Alberto Fernandez De Las Nieves, Georgia Institute of Technology

A14 Focus Session: New Ways of Communicating Physics
Room: D227 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Leonardo Colletti, colletti@science.unitn.it

A15 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Spin Dynamics
Room: D171 Sponsor: DMP GMAG FIAP Chair: Craig Pryor, University of Iowa

A16 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanostructures I
Room: D173 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Guoxing Miao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

A17 Focus Session: Bulk Properties of Complex Oxides - Manganites I
Room: D174 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Rongying Jin, Louisiana State University

A18 Focus Session: Low D/Frustrated Magnetism - Pyrochlore, et al.
Room: D172 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Deepak Singh, University of Maryland

A19 Focus Session: Spin Transport & Magnetization Dynamics in Metals I
Room: D170 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Dario Arena, Brookhaven National Laboratory

A20 Focus Session: Physics of Energy Storage Materials I -- Cathodes and Electrolytes
Room: D168 Sponsor: FIAP/DMP GERA/DCOMP Chair: Donald J. Siegel, University of Michigan

A21 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy I -- Novel Tip and Material Control
Room: D161 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Chris Hammel, Ohio State University

A22 Charge Density Wave Materials
Room: D163 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dan Dessau, University of Colorado at Boulder

A23 Superconductivity: ARPES on BSCCO and SRO
Room: D165 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Bob Markiewicz, Northeastern University

A24 Computational Methods I: Numerical Methods for Strongly Correlated Systems
Room: D167 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Adrian Feiguin, University of Wyoming

A25 Superconductivity: Phases and Phase Transitions
Room: D166 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Thomas Lemberger, The Ohio State University

A26 Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors -- Theory
Room: D162/164 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Qimiao Si, Rice University

A27 Focus Session: Quantum Optics with Superconducting Circuits I
Room: C155 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Jay Gambetta, University of Waterloo

A28 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials: Fundamentals and Applications
Room: C156 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Mark Hersam, Northwestern University

A29 Quantum Communication, Theoretical Entanglement, and Cryptography
Room: C148 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Jan-Ake Larsson, Linkoping University

A30 Graphene: Growth, Properties and Devices
Room: C147/154 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Rodney Ruoff, University of Texas at Dallas

A31 Focus Session: van der Waals Bonding in Advanced Materials: Fundamentals and Simple Systems
Room: C145 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Giulia Galli, University of California, Davis

A32 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Nanostructures and Metamaterials I
Room: C144 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Niek van Hulst, Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain

A33 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides: Piezoelectrics, Oxides on Semiconductors, and Applications
Room: C143/149 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Valentino Cooper, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A34 Focus Session: Interfaces in Complex Oxides - LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Transport
Room: C141 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Anand Bhattacharya, Argonne National Laboratory

A35 Topological Insulators: Growth
Room: C140 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Joel Moore, University of California, Berkeley

A36 Focus Session: Scalable Technologies for Terawatt Photovoltaics
Room: C142 Sponsor: DMP GERA Chair: Wladek Walukiewicz, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

A37 Focus Session: Graphene: Growth, Characterization and Devices: Theory and Transport
Room: C146 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Walt de Heer, Georgia Institute of Technology

A38 Focus Session: Ultrafast Dynamics and Imaging I
Room: A130/131 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Markus Guehr, Stanford University

A39 Focus Session: Energy Future: Biological and Biometric Systems
Room: A124/127 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Marilyn Gunner, City College of New York

A40 New Experimental, Theoretical, and Computational Methods in Polymer and Soft Matter Physics
Room: A122/123 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Amalie Frischknecht, Sandia National Laboratories

A41 Focus Session: Active Biopolymers and Biomaterials
Room: A115/117 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: jennifer Ross, University of Massachusetts--Amherst

A42 Focus Session: Directed Assembly of Hybrid Nanomaterials
Room: A302/303 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Sanat Kumar, Columbia University

A43 Focus Session: Thin Film Block Copolymers I
Room: A306/307 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Thomas Epps, University of Delaware

A44 Friction, Adhesion, and Fracture of Polymers
Room: A309 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Al Crosby, University of Massachusetts--Amherst

A45 Focus Session: Exploring Quantum Phases in Cold Atom Systems
Room: A310 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Congjun Wu, University of California, San Diego

Mar 21 2011 11:15AM, Monday

B1 Quantum Devices Based on Semiconductor Nanowires
Room: Ballroom A1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sankar Das Sarma, University of Maryland

B1 Quantum Devices Based on Semiconductor Nanowires
Room: Ballroom A1 Chair: Sankar Das Sarma, University of Maryland

B2 Many-Body Effects for the Excited States of Graphene
Room: Ballroom A2 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Allan MacDonald, University of Texas at Austin

B3 The History of Superconductivity from its Discovery by Kammerlingh Onnes in 1911
Room: Ballroom A3 Sponsor: FHP Chair: Martin Blume, Brookhaven National Laboratory, APS, Retired

B4 Hybrid Nanomaterials Assembly
Room: Ballroom A4 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Richard Vaia, Air Force Research Laboratory

B5 Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Room: Ballroom C1 Sponsor: DCMP FEd Chair: Theodore Holdap, American Physical Society

B6 Few-body Aspects of Cold Atomic Gases
Room: Ballroom C2 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Robin Cote, University of Connecticut

B7 Superconductivity in Accelerators
Room: Ballroom C3 Sponsor: DPB Chair: Soren Prestemon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

B8 Critical Materials for Global Science and Technology
Room: Ballroom C4 Sponsor: FIP Chair: William Barletta, U.S. Particle Accelerator School, MIT and UCLA

B9 Nanofluidics
Room: D220 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Daniel Ou-Yang, Lehigh University

B10 SPS Undergraduate Research I
Room: D221 Sponsor: SPS Chair: Gary White, American Institute of Physics

B11 Compound and Oxide Semiconductors
Room: D222 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Nelson Tansu, Lehigh University

B12 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors: Compound Semiconductors I
Room: D223/224 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Su-Huai Wei, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

B13 Focus Session: Polymer Colloids: Structure, Function, and Dynamics II
Room: D225/226 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Eric R. Dufresne, Yale University

B14 Applications of Statistical and Nonlinear Physics to Social Systems and GSNP Student Speaker Award Talks
Room: D227 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Victor Yakovenko, University of Maryland

B15 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Spin Currents I
Room: D171 Sponsor: DMP GMAG FIAP Chair: David Awschalom, University of California, Santa Barbara

B16 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanostructures II
Room: D173 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Stephane Mangin, Nancy-Universite

B17 Focus Session: Bulk Properties of Complex Oxides - Manganites II
Room: D174 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Gang Cao, University of Kentucky

B18 Focus Session: Low D/Frustrated Magnetism - Quantum Magnetism
Room: D172 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Adrian del Maestro, John Hopkins University

B19 Focus Session: Spin Transport & Magnetization Dynamics in Metals II
Room: D170 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Hendrik Ohldag, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

B20 Focus Session: Physics of Energy Storage Materials II -- Anodes and Capacitors
Room: D168 Sponsor: FIAP/DMP GERA/DCOMP Chair: Gholam?Abbas Nazri, General Motors Company

B21 General Theory
Room: D161 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: David Singh, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

B22 Correlated Electrons Including "115" Materials
Room: D163 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Johnpierre Paglione, University of Maryland

B23 Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors -- Electronic Structure, Theory and Spectroscopy
Room: D165 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Bruce Harmon, Iowa State University

B24 Focus Session: Multiscale Modeling - Methodology and applications
Room: D167 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Jincheng Du, University of North Texas

B25 Superconductivity: Spin properties, Structure and Dynamics
Room: D166 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Young Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

B26 Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors -- Growth
Room: D162/164 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Leonardo Degiorgi, ETH Zurich

B27 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits - Measurement
Room: C155 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Matthias Steffen, IBM Research

B28 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials: Growth, Sorting and Properties
Room: C156 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ray Baughman, University of Texas at Dallas

B29 Advances in Ion Trap Quantum Computation
Room: C148 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Jungsang Kim, Duke University

B30 Graphene: Transport and Correlations
Room: C147/154 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Vladimir Falko, Lancaster University, UK

B31 Focus Session: van der Waals Bonding in Advanced Materials: Applications to Systems and Behaviors
Room: C145 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Yves Chabal, University of Texas at Dallas

B32 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Nanostructures and Metamaterials II
Room: C144 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Tom Driscoll, University of California, San Diego

B33 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides: Electronic Conduction and Defects
Room: C143/149 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Ichiro Takeuchi, University of Maryland

B34 Focus Session: Interfaces in Complex Oxides - Spectroscopy and Growth
Room: C141 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: John Hill, Brookhaven National Laboratory

B35 Topological Insulators: Theory I
Room: C140 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Kai Sun, University of Maryland

B36 Photovoltaics: Novel Approaches and System Issues
Room: C142 Sponsor: GERA Chair: Fatima toor, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

B37 Focus Session: Graphene Growth, Characterization, and Devices: Devices and Contacts
Room: C146 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Thomas Seyller, University of Erlanger-Nuernberg

B38 Earle K. Plyler Prize Session I: Spectroscopy
Room: A130/131 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Vladimir Chernyak, Wayne State University

B39 Focus Session: Single Molecule Biophysics II: Novel Single Molecule Approaches to Biology
Room: A124/127 Sponsor: DBP DPOLY DCP Chair: Keir Neuman, National Institutes of Health

B40 Lipid Bilayers and Biological Membranes: Dynamics and Thermodynamics
Room: A122/123 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Mark Henle, Harvard University

B41 Focus Session: Supramolecular Self-Assembly--Controlling Network and Gel Formation I
Room: A115/117 Sponsor: DPOLY DBP Chair: Aline Miller, University of Manchester

B42 Polyelectrolytes, Conformations, Assembly, and Dynamics
Room: A302/303 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Venkat Ganesan, University of Texas at Austin

B43 Focus Session: Polymers for Energy Storage and Conversion -- Nanoscale Structure in Polymer-based Photovoltaics
Room: A306/307 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY GERA Chair: Dean Delongchamp, National Institute of Standards and Technology

B44 Physics of Copolymers I
Room: A309 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Darrin Pochan, University of Delaware

B45 Optomechanics at the Quantum Limit
Room: A310 Sponsor: DAMOP GQI Chair: Brian DeMarco, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Mar 21 2011 2:00PM, Monday

C1 Poster Session I (2:00pm - 5:00pm)
Room: Hall D Sponsor: APS

Mar 21 2011 2:30PM, Monday

D1 New Developments in Quantum Criticality
Room: Ballroom A1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Meigan Aronson, Brookhaven National Laboratory

D2 Topological Surface States
Room: Ballroom A2 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ali Yazdani, Princeton University

D3 Materials for Energy
Room: Ballroom A3 Sponsor: DMP GERA Chair: Robert Nemanich, Arizona State University

D4 Simulations Meet Experiments on Ultracold Quantum Gases
Room: Ballroom A4 Sponsor: DCOMP DAMOP Chair: Matthias Troyer, ETH Zurich

D5 Industrial Physics Forum: Frontiers in Physics
Room: Ballroom C1 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Ernesto Marinaro, Hitachi San Jose Research Laboratory

D6 Physics of Proteins I: Unifying Principles and Concepts
Room: Ballroom C2 Sponsor: DBP DPOLY DCMP Chair: Robert Austin, Princeton University

D7 From Molecular Control to Spatiotemporal Patterns in Bacteria and Beyond
Room: Ballroom C3 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Herbert Levine, University of California, San Diego

D8 Spin Currents
Room: Ballroom C4 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Supriyo Datta, Purdue University

D9 Patterns, Nonlinear Dynamics followed by General Fluid Dynamics
Room: D220 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Yuri Antipov, Louisiana State University, and Galen Gisler, University of Oslo

D10 SPS Undergraduate Research II
Room: D221 Sponsor: SPS Chair: Crystal Bailey, American Physical Society

D11 Thermal Properties in Semiconductors and Nanostructures
Room: D222 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Hongping Zhao, Lehigh University

D12 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors: Compound Semiconductors II
Room: D223/224 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Mao-Hua Du, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

D13 Statistical and Nonlinear Physics: General
Room: D225/226 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: James Dufty, University of Florida

D14 Systems Far From Equilibrium
Room: D227 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: H. George E. Hentschel, Emory University

D15 Electronic Structure I
Room: D171 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Victor Pardo, University of California, Davis

D16 Magnetic Imaging and Characterization
Room: D173 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Mi-Young Im, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

D17 Focus Session: Bulk Properties of Complex Oxides - Cobaltites
Room: D174 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: John Mitchell, Argonne National Laboratory

D18 Focus Session: Low D/Frustrated Magnetism - Kagome Lattices
Room: D172 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Joel Helton, NIST Center for Neutron Research

D19 Low Dimensional Magnetism and Spin Tunneling
Room: D170 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Enrique Del Barco, University of Central Florida

D20 Bionanotechnology
Room: D168 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Michael Naughton, Boston College

D21 Focus Session: Novel Instrumentation & Measurements for Biomedical Research
Room: D161 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Larry Nagahara, National Institutes of Health

D22 Metal Insulator Transition in VO2
Room: D163 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Doug Natelson, Rice University

D23 Focus Session: Search for New Superconductors I: Exploring Emergent Phases
Room: D165 Sponsor: DMP Chair: David Mandrus, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

D24 Focus Session: Quantum Transport Simulations and Computational Electronics -- Nanostructures
Room: D167 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: David Ferry, Arizona State University

D25 Superconductivity: Vortex Phenomena I
Room: D166 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Carmen Almasan, Kent State University

D26 Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors -- Electronic Structure
Room: D162/164 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Adriana Moreo, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory

D27 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits - Gates and Algorithms
Room: C155 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Britton Plourde, Syracuse University

D28 Focus Session: Graphene Growth, Characterization, and Devices: Metal Substrates
Room: C156 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Kevin McCarty, Sandia National Laboratory

D29 Quantum Computing and Simulation I
Room: C148 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Ivan Deutsch, University of New Mexico

D30 Graphene: Hydrogenation and Defects
Room: C147/154 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Taisuke Ohta, Sandia National Laboratories

D31 Focus Session: van der Waals Bonding in Advanced Materials: Applications to Advanced and Functional Materials
Room: C145 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Per Hyldgaard, Chalmers University of Technology

D32 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Nanostructures and Metamaterials III
Room: C144 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Kurt Busch, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

D33 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides: Multiferroics
Room: C143/149 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Alison Hatt, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

D34 Focus Session: Interfaces in Complex Oxides - Photo and Electric Field Induced Devices
Room: C141 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Peter Abbamonte, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

D35 Topological Insulators: Theory II
Room: C140 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Vanderbilt, Rutgers University

D36 Photovoltaics: Nanostructured Materials
Room: C142 Sponsor: GERA Chair: Steven Konezny, Yale University

D37 Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Dopants, and Defects: Strain Engineering I
Room: C146 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jeanie Lau, University of California, Riverside

D38 Earle K. Plyler Prize Session II: Spectroscopy
Room: A130/131 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Sunney Xie, Harvard University

D39 Physics of Physiological Systems
Room: A124/127 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Wolfgang Losert, University of Maryland

D40 Lipid Bilayers and Biological Membranes: Peptide Interactions
Room: A122/123 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Emmanouil Doxastakis, University of Houston

D41 LeRoy Apker Prize Session: Clusters and Nanoscale Systems
Room: A115/117 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Jim Lisy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

D42 Colloids Theory & Computation, Emulsions, and Foams
Room: A302/303 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Eric Weeks, Emory University

D45 Many Body Physics of Quantum Gases in Reduced Dimension
Room: A310 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Ana Maria Rey, JILA/University of Colorado

Mar 21 2011 5:45PM, Monday

E1 APS Prizes and Awards Ceremonial Session
Room: Ballroom C1 Sponsor: APS Chair: Barry C. Barish, APS President and California Institute of Technology

Mar 21 2011 6:45PM, Monday

F1 Welcome Reception
Room: Hall A

Mar 21 2011 7:45PM, Monday

G1 Physics Community Outreach: Small Wonders: Bringing Nano to the Public Through Museum Partnership
Room: Ballroom C1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Barbara Jones, IBM Almaden Research Center

Mar 22 2011 8:00AM, Tuesday

H1 Spin-Triplet Supercurrents in Superconductor/Ferromagnet/Superconductor Josephson Junctions
Room: Ballroom A1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: James Sauls, Northwestern University

H2 New Materials for Spin Quantum Hall Effect and Topological Insulators
Room: Ballroom A2 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Shoucheng Zhang, Stanford University

H3 Collective Effects in Molecular Magnets
Room: Ballroom A3 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Yosi Yeshurun, Ber-Ilan University

H4 Polymer Physics Prize
Room: Ballroom A4 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Philip Pincus, University of California, Santa Barbara

H5 Drowning in Carbon: The Imperative of Nuclear Power
Room: Ballroom C1 Sponsor: FIAP GERA DNP Chair: Steve Libby, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

H6 Ultracold Molecules and Quantum Many Body Physics
Room: Ballroom C2 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Lincoln Carr, Colorado School of Mines

H7 Physics of Proteins II: Dynamics and Functions
Room: Ballroom C3 Sponsor: DBP DPOLY Chair: Wouter Hoff, Oklahoma State University

H8 Science, Art and Culture
Room: Ballroom C4 Sponsor: FPS Chair: Brian Schwartz, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

H9 Colloids: Experimental
Room: D220 Sponsor: DFD Chair: David Pine, New York University

H10 Semiconductor Surfaces and Interfaces
Room: D221 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Gary Kellogg, Sandia National Laboratories

H11 SPS Undergraduate Research III
Room: D222 Sponsor: SPS Chair: Thomas Olsen, American Institute of Physics

H12 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors: Silicon
Room: D223/224 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Bonna Newman, Massachusetts Intitute of Technology

H13 Focus Session: Jamming Theory and Experiment I
Room: D225/226 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Mark Shattuck, City College of New York

H14 Focus Session: Friction, Fracture and Deformation Across Length Scales I: Sliding Friction and Asperities
Room: D227 Sponsor: DMP GSNP DCOMP Chair: Qunyang Li, University of Pennsylvania

H15 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Ferromagnetic Semiconductors
Room: D171 Sponsor: DMP GMAG FIAP Chair: Chris Palmstrom, University of California, Santa Barbara

H16 Focus Session: Spins in Carbon-Based Materials-- Spin Valves and Interfaces
Room: D173 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Minn-Tsong Lin, Taiwan University

H17 Focus Session: Bulk Properties of Complex Oxides - Ferrites
Room: D174 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Peter Gehring, National Institute of Standards and Technology

H18 Electronic Structure II
Room: D172 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: David Prendergast, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

H19 Focus Session: Spin Transport & Magnetization Dynamics in Metals III
Room: D170 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Goran Mihajlovic, Hitachi GST

H20 Focus Session: Physics of Energy Storage Materials III -- Hydrogen Storage Adsorbents
Room: D168 Sponsor: FIAP/DMP GERA/DCOMP Chair: Frederick Pinkerton, General Motors Company

H21 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy II -- High Frequencies and Optical Techniques
Room: D161 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Sebastian Loth, IBM Research

H22 Heavy Fermions
Room: D163 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Eric Bauer, Los Alamos National Laboratory

H23 Superconductivity: Mainly ARPES
Room: D165 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Myron Salamon, University of Texas at Dallas

H24 Focus Session: What is Computational Physics? I
Room: D167 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Richard Scalettar, University of California, Davis

H25 Superconductivity: Tunneling Spectroscopy
Room: D166 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jenny Hoffman, Harvard University

H26 Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors -- Anisotropic Spin Dynamics
Room: D162/164 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Eduardo Granado Monteiro da Silva, Universidade Estadual de Campinas

H27 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits- Silicon Spin Qubits
Room: C155 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Mark Gyure, HRL Laboratories

H28 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials: Devices I
Room: C156 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Slava Rotkin, Lehigh University

H29 Focus Session: Quantum Information for Quantum Foundations - Axiomatics and Toy Models
Room: C148 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Oscar Dahlsten, Oxford University

H30 Graphene: Synthesis and Characterization
Room: C147/154 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Paul Campbell, Naval Research Laboratory

H31 Focus Session: Materials at High Pressure I: Molecular and Simple Materials
Room: C145 Sponsor: DMP GSCCM DCOMP Chair: Choong Shik Yoo, Washington State University

H32 Focus Session: Photonic Crystals, Metamaterials and Other Optical Systems
Room: C144 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Antoinette Taylor, Los Alamos National Laboratory

H33 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides: Multiferroics & Magnetoelectrics I
Room: C143/149 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Dipanjan Mazumdar, University of Alabama

H34 Focus Session: Atomic, Molecular, and Memristive Junctions
Room: C141 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Douglas Natelson, Rice University

H35 Topological Insulators: General
Room: C140 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sukbum Chung, Stanford University

H36 Photovoltaics: Compound Semiconductors and Organics
Room: C142 Sponsor: GERA Chair: Russell Holmes, University of Minnesota

H37 Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Dopants, and Defects: Transport I
Room: C146 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Caio Lewenkopf, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil

H38 Focus Session: Quantum Coherence in Biology I
Room: A130/131 Sponsor: DCP DBP Chair: Daniel Turner, University of Toronto

H39 Focus Session: Physics of Cancer
Room: A124/127 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Robert Austin, Princeton University

H40 Multi-cellular Processes and Development
Room: A122/123 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Eva-Maria Schoetz, Princeton University

H41 Irving Langmuir Prize Session: Ultrafast Dynamics
Room: A115/117 Chair: Oliver Gessner, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

H42 Focus Session: Polymers for Energy Storage and Conversion -- Physics of Ion Conductivity in Polymers
Room: A302/303 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY GERA Chair: Jodie Lutkenhaus, Texas A&M University

H43 Focus Session: Thin Film Block Copolymers II
Room: A306/307 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Ting Xu, University of California, Berkeley

H44 Surfaces, Interfaces, and Polymer Thin Films I
Room: A309 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: S. Michael Kilbey II, Oak Ridge National Laboratory/University of Tennessee

H45 Exotic Quantum Phases in Optical Lattices: FFLO, P-band Physics, and Beyond
Room: A310 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Marcos Rigol, Georgetown University

Mar 22 2011 11:15AM, Tuesday

J1 Toward Single Spin Electronics
Room: Ballroom A1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Andreas Heinrich, IBM Almaden Research Center

J2 Force Probes of Materials' Structure and Function
Room: Ballroom A2 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Chris Hammel, Ohio State University

J3 The Kavli Foundation Special Symposium: Nobelist Perspectives on 100 Years of Superconductivity
Room: Ballroom A3 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Warren Pickett, University of California, Davis

J4 Interactions Between Pore Forming Peptides and Membranes
Room: Ballroom A4 Sponsor: DPOLY DBP Chair: Gerard Wong, University of California, Los Angeles

J5 Hildred Blewett Scholars and their Research followed by Panel Discussion
Room: Ballroom C1 Sponsor: CSWP Chair: Sherry Yennello, Texas A&M University

J6 The Use of GPUs in Computational Physics
Room: Ballroom C2 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: David Ceperley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

J7 The Dynamics of Co-Evolving and Interdependent Networks
Room: Ballroom C3 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Alessandro Vespignani, Indiana University

J8 Physics Education Research in Upper-division Physics Courses
Room: Ballroom C4 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Paula Heron, University of Washington

J9 Liquid Crystals: Nematics, Lyotropics and Vesicles
Room: D220 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Satyendra Kumar, Kent State University

J10 Surface and Interfaces with Metals
Room: D221 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ted Einstein, University of Maryland

J11 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect I
Room: D222 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Nikolai Zhitenev, National Institute of Standards and Technology

J12 Focus Session: Electricity-to-Light Conversion: Solid State Lighting II
Room: D223/224 Sponsor: GERA DMP Chair: Fred Schubert, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

J13 Focus Session: Jamming Theory and Experiment II
Room: D225/226 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Leonardo Silbert, Southern Illinois University

J14 Focus Session: Physics of Active Materials
Room: D227 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Aparna Baskaran, Brandeis University

J15 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Spin Currents II
Room: D171 Sponsor: DMP GMAG FIAP Chair: Jairo Sinova, Texas A&M University

J16 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanostructures III
Room: D173 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Valentyn Novosad, Argonne National Laboratory

J17 Focus Session: Bulk Properties of Complex Oxides - Ferrites + Vanadates
Room: D174 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jaime Fernandez-Baca, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

J18 Focus Session: Low D/Frustrated Magnetism - Molecular Magnets I
Room: D172 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Vivien Zapf, Los Alamos National Laboratory

J19 Focus Session: Spin Transport & Magnetization Dynamics in Metals IV
Room: D170 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Peter Fischer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

J20 Optoelectronic Devices & Applications
Room: D168 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Patrick Folkes, Army Research Laboratory

J21 Focus Session: Imaging and Modifying Materials at the Limits of Space and Time Resolution I
Room: D161 Sponsor: DMP GIMS DCP Chair: Arnaud Delcorte, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Invited Speakers:  Lukas Novotny  

J22 Theory of Non Fermi Liquids
Room: D163 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Subir Sachdev, Harvard University

J23 Superconductivity: Fluctuation Phenomena
Room: D165 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michelle Johannes, Naval Research Laboratory

J24 Focus Session: Multiscale Modeling: Structural Materials
Room: D167 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Zhiqiang Wang, University of North Texas

J26 Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors -- Vortices & High Fields
Room: D162/164 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Stephen Wilson, Boston College

J27 Focus Session: Quantum Optics with Superconducting Circuits II
Room: C155 Sponsor: GQI Chair: David Schuster, University of Chicago

J28 Focus Session: Computational Materials Design - Data-Driven
Room: C156 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Long-Qing Chen, Penn State University

J29 Focus Session: Quantum Information for Quantum Foundations - Structures in Hilbert Space
Room: C148 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Asa Ericsson, Institute Mittag-Leffler

J30 Nanowires & Nanotubes: Electronic Properties
Room: C147/154 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mark Reed, Yale University

J31 Focus Session: Materials at High Pressure II: Elements
Room: C145 Sponsor: DMP GSCCM DCOMP Chair: Viktor Struzhkin, Carnegie Institution

J32 Focus Session: Electron, Ion, and Exciton Transport in Nanostructures: Nanowires
Room: C144 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Leigh Smith, University of Cincinnati

J33 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides: Multiferroics & Magnetoelectrics II
Room: C143/149 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Craig Fennie, Cornell University

J34 Focus Session: Interfaces in Complex Oxides - Microscopy and Local Structure
Room: C141 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Suzanne Stemmer, University of California, Santa Barbara

J35 Topological Insulators: Optics
Room: C140 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Carlo Piermarocchi, Michigan State University

J36 Focus Session: Graphene Growth, Characterization and Devices: SiC and Metal Substrates
Room: C142 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Kurt Gaskill, Naval Research Laboratory

J37 Focus Session: Graphene Growth, Characterization, and Devices: Surface Studies
Room: C146 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Phil First, Georgia Institute of Technology

J38 Focus Session: Ultrafast Dynamics and Imaging II
Room: A130/131 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Markus Guehr, Stanford University

J39 Physics of Proteins III: Folding, Structure and Stability
Room: A124/127 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Bernard Gerstman, Florida International University

J40 Theory of Clusters and Nanoscale Systems
Room: A122/123 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Shiv Khanna, Virginia Commonwealth University

J41 Focus Session: Polymers for Energy Storage and Conversion -- Structure in Organic Semiconductor Blends
Room: A115/117 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY GERA Chair: Enrique Gomez, Pennsylvania State University

J42 Padden Award Symposium
Room: A302/303 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: John Torkelson, Northwestern University

J43 Physics of Copolymers II
Room: A306/307 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Bradley Olsen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

J44 Focus Session: Kinetic Control of Solution Assemblies
Room: A309 Sponsor: DPOLY DFD Chair: Margarita Herrera-Alonso, Johns Hopkins University

J45 Focus Session: Non-equilbrium Physics with Cold Quantum Gases
Room: A310 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Miguel Angel Garcia March, Colorado School of Mines

Mar 22 2011 2:00PM, Tuesday

K1 Poster Session II (2:00pm - 5:00pm)
Room: Hall D Sponsor: APS

Mar 22 2011 2:30PM, Tuesday

L1 Recent Advances in Ultrafast Studies of Condensed Matter
Room: Ballroom A1 Sponsor: DCMP DCP Chair: Ee Min Elbert Chia, Nanyang Technological University

L2 Single Molecule Transistors and Graphene Quantum Dots
Room: Ballroom A2 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Daniel Ralph, Cornell University

L3 Gap Structure of the Ba-122 Iron Based Superconductors
Room: Ballroom A3 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Peter Hirschfeld, University of Florida

L4 Quantum Information: Featured Experiments
Room: Ballroom A4 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Richart Slusher, Georgia Tech Research Institute

L5 Topics in Alternative Energy
Room: Ballroom C1 Sponsor: COM Chair: Lou Strolger, Western Kentucky University

L6 Complexity in Invention: The Strongly Coupled Systems that Contribute to Innovation Success
Room: Ballroom C2 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Steven Rosenblum, Corning, Inc., Science and Technology

L7 System Biology I: The Physics of Development
Room: Ballroom C3 Sponsor: DBP Chair: David Lubensky, University of Michigan

L8 J. H. Van Vleck: Quantum Theory and Magnetism
Room: Ballroom C4 Sponsor: FHP Chair: Chun Lin, University of Wisconsin

L9 Micelles and Vesicles I
Room: D220 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Robin Selinger, Kent State University

L10 Nanoclusters and Nanowires on Surfaces
Room: D221 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Phillip Sprunger, Louisiana State University

L13 Focus Session: Jamming Theory and Experiment III
Room: D225/226 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Robert Behringer, Duke University

L14 Physics Education Research
Room: D227 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Kendra Redmond, American Institute of Physics

L15 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Spin Torque and Spin Injection
Room: D171 Sponsor: DMP GMAG FIAP Chair: Roberto Myers, Ohio State University

L16 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanostructures: Probing Using Advanced Methods
Room: D173 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Olav Hellwig, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies

L17 Focus Session: Magnetic Oxide Thin Films - Ferroic and Oxide Tunnel Junctions
Room: D174 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: James Eckstein, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

L18 Focus Session: Low D/Frustrated Magnetism - 2D Lattices
Room: D172 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Marcos Rigol, Georgetown University

L19 Focus Session: Spin Transport & Magnetization Dynamics in Metals V
Room: D170 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: John D. Burton, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

L20 Focus Session: Thermoelectric Materials: Skutterudites, Novel and Nanostructured Materials
Room: D168 Sponsor: DMP GERA FIAP Chair: George Nolas, University of South Florida

L21 Focus Session: Imaging and Modifying Materials at the Limits of Space and Time Resolution II
Room: D161 Sponsor: DMP GIMS DCP Chair: Richard Haglund, Vanderbilt University

L22 URu2Si2
Room: D163 Sponsor: DCMP GMAG Chair: Nicholas Butch, University of Maryland

L23 Focus Session: Search for New Superconductors II: Towards Theoretical Design
Room: D165 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Philip Phillips, University of Illinois

L24 Focus Session: Quantum Transport Simulations and Computational Electronics -- GNRs and QDs
Room: D167 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Zlatan Aksamija, University of Wisconsin-Madison

L25 Superconductivity: Vortex Phenomena II
Room: D166 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Milind Kunchur, University of South Carolina

L26 Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors -- ARPES
Room: D162/164 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Gabriel Kotliar, Rutgers University

L28 Focus Session: Computational Materials Design - Property Optimization
Room: C156 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Stefano Curtarolo, Duke University

L29 Quantum Entanglement
Room: C148 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Lana Sheridan, National University of Singapore

L30 Graphene: Thermal Conduction and Phonons
Room: C147/154 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Vitor Pereira, National University of Singapore

L31 Focus Session: Materials at High Pressure III: Electronic Transitions
Room: C145 Sponsor: DMP GSCCM DCOMP Chair: Koichiro Umemoto, University of Minnesota

L32 Focus Session: Nano-Optics, Semiconductor and Metal Nanostructures
Room: C144 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Henry O. Everitt, Department of the Army, Redstone Arsenal

L33 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides: Lattice Dynamics, Polarons, and Structure
Room: C143/149 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Matt Dawber, Stony Brook University

L34 Focus Session: Interfaces in Complex Oxides - Heterointerfaces
Room: C141 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jak Tchakhalian, Univeristy of Arkansas

L35 Metals: Alloys and Impurities
Room: C140 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Mehl, Naval Research Laboratory

L36 Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Dopants and Defects: Adsorbates
Room: C142 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Dmitry Abanin, Princeton University

L37 Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Dopants, and Defects: Magnetism
Room: C146 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Roland Kawakami, University of California, Riverside

L38 Focus Session: Quantum Coherence in Biology II
Room: A130/131 Sponsor: DCP DBP Chair: Andreas Buchleitner, University of Freiburg

L39 Focus Session: Single Molecule Biophysics III: Novel Single Molecule Approaches to Biology
Room: A124/127 Sponsor: DBP DPOLY DCP Chair: Ching Hwa Kiang, Rice University

L40 Focus Session: Noisy Dynamics as Survival Strategies and Nanopores
Room: A122/123 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Gabor Balazsi and Gurol Suel, MD Anderson Cancer Center

L41 Condensed Phase Dynamics and Structure
Room: A115/117 Sponsor: DCP Chair: David Nesbitt, University of Colorado at Boulder

L42 Dillon Medal Symposium
Room: A302/303 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Spiros Anastasiadis, IESL- FORTH

L43 Focus Session: Polymers for Energy Storage and Conversion -- Emerging Applications
Room: A306/307 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY GERA Chair: Lou Madsen, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

L44 Surfaces, Interfaces, and Polymer Thin Films II
Room: A309 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Russell Thompson, University of Waterloo

L45 Strongly Correlated Physics with Atoms and Molecules
Room: A310 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Joseph Thywissen, University of Toronto

Mar 22 2011 3:00PM, Tuesday

L12 APS Editorial Q&A: APS and Open Access
Room: D223/224 Sponsor: APS

Mar 22 2011 5:45PM, Tuesday

M14 GSNP Business Meeting
Room: D227 Sponsor: GSNP

M15 GMAG Business Meeting
Room: D171 Sponsor: GMAG

M20 FIAP Business Meeting
Room: D168 Sponsor: FIAP

M21 GIMS Business Meeting
Room: D161 Sponsor: GIMS

M27 GQI Business Meeting
Room: C155 Sponsor: GQI

M31 GERA Business Meeting
Room: C145 Sponsor: GERA

M38 DBP Business Meeting
Room: A130/131 Sponsor: DBP

M42 DPOLY Business Meeting
Room: A302/303 Sponsor: DPOLY

Mar 22 2011 7:00PM, Tuesday

M50 DCMP Business Meeting
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Moreno A Sponsor: DCMP

M51 DMP Business Meeting
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Reverchon B Sponsor: DMP

M52 DCP Business Meeting
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Reverchon A Sponsor: DCP

Mar 23 2011 8:00AM, Wednesday

P1 Magnetism and Localization in f Electron Systems
Room: Ballroom A1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Qimiao Si, Rice University

P2 The Kondo Ground State in Graphene
Room: Ballroom A2 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Piers Coleman, Rutgers University

P3 FIAP/DCMP/DMP Prize Session: Pake, Adler, IAP
Room: Ballroom A3 Sponsor: DCMP FIAP DMP Chair: Sam Bader, Argonne National Laboratory

P4 Kinetic Pathways to Assembly of Polymers, Particles and Biomolecules
Room: Ballroom A4 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Ryan Hayward, University of Massachusetts

P5 Broader Impact: Partnerships and Resources to Achieve Successful Public and K-12 Outreach and Engagement
Room: Ballroom C1 Sponsor: FEd FPS Chair: Eric Marshall, Materials Research Society and IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

P6 Creating and Probing Exotic Optical Lattices
Room: Ballroom C2 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Dan Sheehy, Louisiana State University

P7 System Biology II: The Physics of Morphogenesis
Room: Ballroom C3 Sponsor: DBP GSNP Chair: Shane Hutson, Vanderbilt University

P8 The Physics, Technology and Future of Robotics
Room: Ballroom C4 Sponsor: FPS FIAP Chair: Philip L. Taylor, Case Western Reserve University

P9 Liquid Crystals: Smectics, Nano-mixtures
Room: D220 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Luz J. Martinez-Miranda, University of Maryland

P10 Focus Session: Growth, Structure, Dynamics, and Function of Nanostructured Surfaces and Interfaces -- Metals
Room: D221 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jacques Amar, University of Toledo

P11 Electronic Structure: Theory and Spectra I
Room: D222 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Chris Van Der Walle, University of California, Santa Barbara

P12 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors: Hyper Doping
Room: D223/224 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jeff Grossman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

P13 Tutorial for Authors and Referees
Room: D225/226 Sponsor: APS

P14 Focus Session: Friction, Fracture and Deformation Across Length Scales II: Plasticity and Rupture
Room: D227 Sponsor: DMP GSNP DCOMP Chair: Robin Selinger, Kent State University

P15 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Quantum Computing with Defects
Room: D171 Sponsor: DMP GMAG FIAP Chair: Vlatcheslav Dobrivitski, Ames Laboratory/Iowa State University

P16 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanostructures, Vortices & Domain Walls
Room: D173 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Axel Hoffmann, Argonne National Laboratory

P17 Focus Session: Bulk Properties of Complex Oxides - 3d Oxides
Room: D174 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Michelle Johannes, Naval Research Laboratory

P18 Focus Session: Low D/Frustrated Magnetism - Triangular Lattices
Room: D172 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Bruce Gaulin, McMaster University

P19 Focus Session: Spin Transport & Magnetization Dynamics in Metals VI
Room: D170 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Stephane Mangin, Nancy-Universite

P20 Focus Session: Physics of Energy Storage Materials IV -- Complex Hydrides and Methane
Room: D168 Sponsor: FIAP/DMP GERA/DCOMP Chair: Randall Snurr, Northwestern University

P21 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy III - Novel SPM of Spin, Force & Conductance
Room: D161 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Yukio Hasegawa, University of Tokyo

P22 Metal-Insulator Phase Transitions I
Room: D163 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Rachel Wortis, Trent University

P23 Superconductivity: Josephson Effects I
Room: D165 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: George Crabtree, Argonne National Laboratory

P24 Focus Session: What is Computational Physics? II followed by Computational Methods: Numerical Methods for Strongly Correlated Systems II
Room: D167 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Bernd Berg, Florida State University, and Frank Harris, University of Forida

P25 Superconductivity: Devices and Applications
Room: D166 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Norman Bergren, National Institute of Standards and Technology

P26 Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors -- Spin Dynamics
Room: D162/164 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Dmitri Argyriou, European Spallation Source

P27 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits - Spin Readout, Backaction, and Valley Physics in Silicon
Room: C155 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Irfan Siddiqi, University of California, Berkeley

P28 Carbon Nanotubes: Optical Properties
Room: C156 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Paola Barbara, Georgetown University

P29 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits
Room: C148 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Robert McDermott, University of Wisconsin--Madison

P30 Nanowires & Nanotubes: Growth & Absorption Kinetics
Room: C147/154 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Latika Menon, Northeastern University

P31 Focus Session: Materials at High Pressure IV: Geophysical Materials and Magnetic Transitions
Room: C145 Sponsor: DMP GSCCM DCOMP Chair: Maddury Somayazulu, Carnegie Institution

P32 Optical Properties and Dynamics of Quantum Dots and Quantum Wells
Room: C144 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sam Carter, Naval Research Laboratory

P33 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides: BiFeO3
Room: C143/149 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Nicole Benedek, Cornell University

P34 Focus Session: Interfaces in Complex Oxides - Transport and Optics
Room: C141 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jean-Marc Triscone, University of Geneva

P35 Topological Insulators: Magnetotransport
Room: C140 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jens Bardarson, University of California, Berkeley

P36 Focus Session: Graphene: Growth, Characterization, and Devices: Electronic Structure
Room: C142 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Marco Buongiorno-Nardelli, North Carolina State University

P37 Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Dopants, and Defects: Strain Engineering II
Room: C146 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Crommie, University of California, Berkeley

P38 Focus Session: Quantum Coherence in Biology III
Room: A130/131 Sponsor: DCP DBP Chair: Seth Lloyd, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

P39 Physics of Proteins IV: Folding, Dynamics and Function
Room: A124/127 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Margaret Cheung, University of Houston

P40 Polymer Melts & Solutions
Room: A122/123 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Azar Alizadeh, GE Global Research

P41 Focus Session: Fundamental Issues in Interfacial Charge Transport for Energy Applications I
Room: A115/117 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Lin Chen, Northwestern University

P42 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics -- Organic Photovoltaic Devices
Room: A302/303 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Russell Holmes, University of Minnesota

P43 Focus Session: Thin Film Block Copolymers III
Room: A306/307 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Mark Stoykovich, University of Colorado at Boulder

P44 Focus Session: Assembly, Structure, & Instabilities in Polymer Films, Network Films, & Interfaces I
Room: A309 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Zhiqun Lin, Iowa State University

P45 Unitary Fermi Gases and the BCS-BEC Crossover
Room: A310 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Ken O'Hara, The Pennsylvania State University

Mar 23 2011 11:15AM, Wednesday

Q1 Gapless Spin Liquids
Room: Ballroom A1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Claudio Castelnovo, University of Oxford

Q3 The Kavli Foundation Special Symposium: Superconductivity Centennial: Future Research Opportunities
Room: Ballroom A3 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Zachary Fisk, University of California, Irvine

Q4 Macromolecular Crowding Effects in the Cytoplasm
Room: Ballroom A4 Sponsor: DPOLY DBP Chair: Arun Yetheraj, University of Wisconsin

Q5 The Physics of Confronting Weapons of Mass Destruction: Chemical, Biological and Nuclear
Room: Ballroom C1 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Jay Davis, Hertz Foundation

Q6 Hydrogen Storage Materials
Room: Ballroom C2 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Mei-Yin Chou, Georgia Institute of Technology

Q7 System Biology III: The Physics of Evolution
Room: Ballroom C3 Sponsor: DBP DCP Chair: Wouter Hoff, Oklahoma State University

Q8 New Developments in Organic Spintronics
Room: Ballroom C4 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Valy Vardeny, University of Utah

Q9 Fluid Dynamics at Interfaces
Room: D220 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Takeru Yano Osaka University, and Angbo Fang, Hong King University of Science and Technology

Q10 Chemisorption and Surface Reactions
Room: D221 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Yevgeniy Puzyrev, Vanderbilt University

Q11 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect II
Room: D222 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Albert Chang, Duke University

Q12 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors: Conducting Oxides
Room: D223/224 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Joel Ager, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Q13 Glassy Systems and Jamming I
Room: D225/226 Sponsor: GSNP DFD Chair: Corey O'Hern, Yale University

Q14 Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics: Elasticity and Deformation I
Room: D227 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Katia Bertoldi, Harvard University

Q15 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Quantum Dots and Nuclear Spins
Room: D171 Sponsor: DMP GMAG FIAP Chair: Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin, Ohio State University

Q16 Electronic Structure III
Room: D173 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Pierre Darancet, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Q17 Focus Session: Bulk Properties of Complex Oxides - Ruthenates
Room: D174 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Ward Plummer, Louisiana State University

Q18 Focus Session: Magnetic Oxide Thin Films - Multiferroic Thin Films
Room: D172 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Lane Martin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Q19 Ising, Spin Glass, Frustrated Magnets
Room: D170 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Daniel Stein, New York University

Q21 THz and Impedance Spectroscopy
Room: D161 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Rachael Floyd, Janis Research Company

Q22 Metal-Insulator Phase Transitions II
Room: D163 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Cengiz Sen, University of Tennessee

Q23 Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors -- Fermi Topology
Room: D165 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Mark Lumsden, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Q24 Focus Session: Multiscale Modeling: Heterogeneous Systems and Interfaces
Room: D167 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Srinivasan Srivilliputhur, University of North Texas

Q25 Superconductivity: Transport Properties
Room: D166 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Wai-Kwong Kwok, Argonne National Laboratory

Q26 Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors -- Optics, Heat Capacity, Thermopower
Room: D162/164 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Hong Ding, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Q27 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits- Quantum Control
Room: C155 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Sergey Frolov, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Q28 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials: Devices II
Room: C156 Sponsor: DMP Chair: David Tomanek, Michigan State University

Q29 Focus Session: Quantum Information for Quantum Foundations - Experiments and Tests
Room: C148 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Christoph Schaeff, University of Vienna

Q30 Graphene: Electron-Electron Interactions
Room: C147/154 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Bruno Uchoa, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Q31 Focus Session: Materials at High Pressure V: Structure Prediction and Complex Materials
Room: C145 Sponsor: DMP GSCCM DCOMP Chair: Salah Boulfelfel, SUNY Stony Brook

Q32 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Semiconductor and Metal Nanostructures
Room: C144 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Rainer Hillenbrand, CIC nanoGUNE, Spain

Q33 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides: Interfaces and Optical Properties
Room: C143/149 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Venkatraman Gopalan, Pennsylvania State University

Q34 Focus Session: Interfaces in Complex Oxides - Polar Interfaces
Room: C141 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Evgeny Tsybal, University of Nebraska

Q35 Topological Insulators: Interactions
Room: C140 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Christopher Varney, Georgetown University / University of Maryland

Q36 Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Dopants, and Defects: Nanoparticles
Room: C142 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Joshua Robinson, Penn State University

Q37 Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Dopants, and Defects: Transport II
Room: C146 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Shaffique Adam, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg

Q38 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics -- Morphology in polymer-based solar cells
Room: A130/131 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY GERA Chair: Garry Rumbles, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Q39 Information Processing in Biological Systems
Room: A124/127 Sponsor: GSNP DBP Chair: Madan Rao, Raman Research Institute

Q40 Theoretical Methods and Algorithms for Chemical Physics
Room: A122/123 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Donald Truhlar, University of Minnesota

Q41 Focus Session: Fundamental Issues in Interfacial Charge Transport for Energy Applications II
Room: A115/117 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Victor Batista, Yale University

Q42 Polymer Composites
Room: A302/303 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Tirtha Chatterjee, The Dow Chemical Company

Q43 Focus Session: Translocation through Nanopores I
Room: A306/307 Sponsor: DPOLY DBP Chair: Aniket Bhattacharya, University of Central Florida

Q44 Focus Session: Dynamics of Polymers-Phenomena due to Confinement
Room: A309 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Rob Riggleman, University of California, Santa Barbara

Q45 Non-equilibrium Physics with Cold Quantum Gases II
Room: A310 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Eite Tiesinga, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Mar 23 2011 1:00PM, Wednesday

S1 Poster Session III (1:00pm - 4:00pm)
Room: Hall D Sponsor: APS

Mar 23 2011 2:30PM, Wednesday

T1 Entanglement Spectroscopy
Room: Ballroom A1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ashvin Vishwanath, University of California, Berkeley

T2 Defects and Strain in Graphene
Room: Ballroom A2 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Brian LeRoy, University of Arizona

T3 DCMP/DMP Prize Session: Buckley, McGroddy, Davisson-Germer
Room: Ballroom A3 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Ward Plummer, Louisiana State University

T4 Keithly Award Session
Room: Ballroom A4 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Timothy Graber, University of Chicago

T5 20 Years of Quantum Information in Physical Review Letters
Room: Ballroom C1 Sponsor: GQI Chair: John Preskill, California Institute of Technology

T6 Theory in Industry
Room: Ballroom C2 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Alex Demkov, University of Texas at Austin

T7 Structural and Mechanical Properties of Jammed Amorphous Materials
Room: Ballroom C3 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University

T8 Shaping Regional Identities through Research Funding Policies
Room: Ballroom C4 Sponsor: FIP Chair: Giulia Pancheri, INFN Frascati National Laboratories

T9 Flow Instabilities, Turbulence and CFD
Room: D220 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Prabir Daripa, Texas A&M University

T10 Focus Session: Growth, Structure, Dynamics, and Function of Nanostructured Surfaces and Interfaces -- Oxides
Room: D221 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Dan Dougherty, North Carolina State University

T11 Spin and Transport in Low Dimensional Semiconductors
Room: D222 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Nikolai Klimov, National Institute of Standards and Technology

T12 Atomic Structures and Mechanical Properties in Semiconductors
Room: D223/224 Sponsor: FIAP

T13 Focus Session: Transport and Diffusion in Non-equilibrium Systems
Room: D225/226 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Daniel Lacks, Case Western Reserve University

T14 Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics: Elasticity and Deformation II
Room: D227 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Benny Davidovitch, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

T15 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - III-V Magnetic Semiconductors
Room: D171 Sponsor: DMP GMAG FIAP Chair: Ken Burch, University of Toronto

T16 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanostructures, Materials & Effects
Room: D173 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jiwei Lu, University of Virginia

T17 Focus Session: Magnetic Oxide Thin Films - Manganite Thin Films
Room: D174 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: John Freeland, Argonne National Laboratory

T18 Focus Session: Low D/Frustrated Magnetism - Molecular Magnets II
Room: D172 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: M. Sarachik, City College of New York

T19 Focus Session: Spin Transport & Magnetization Dynamics in Metals VII
Room: D170 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Frances Hellman, University of California, Berkeley

T20 Focus Session: Thermoelectric Materials: LAST/TAGS, Heusler, and Silicides
Room: D168 Sponsor: DMP GERA FIAP Chair: Joseph Heremans, Ohio State University

T21 Classical and Quantum Monte Carlo
Room: D161 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Bruce Miller, Texas Christian University

T22 Correlated Electrons and Magnetic Phase Transitions
Room: D163 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Harold Baranger, Duke University

T23 Focus Session: Search for New Superconductors III: Reduced Dimensionality
Room: D165 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ray Baughman, University of Texas at Dallas

T24 Focus Session: Quantum Transport Simulations and Computational Electronics -- Disorder
Room: D167 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Massimo Fischetti, University of Texas at Dallas

T25 Superconductivity: Theory, Mainly Vortices
Room: D166 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Maxim Korshunov, University of Florida

T26 Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors -- Magnetic Properties & Phase Diagrams
Room: D162/164 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Stephen Hayden, Bristol University

T27 Open Quantum Systems and Decoherence
Room: C155 Sponsor: GQI DAMOP Chair: Michael Zwolak, Los Alamos National Laboratory

T28 Graphene: Optical and Transport Properties
Room: C156 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Tony Heinz, Columbia University

T29 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits - Coherence and Materials I
Room: C148 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Andrew Houck, Princeton University

T30 Materials: Synthesis, Growth and Processing (Bulk & Films)
Room: C147/154 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Yunfeng Shi, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

T31 Novel Structural Chemistry & Materials
Room: C145 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Daniel Finkenstadt, U.S. Naval Academy

T32 Semiconducting Devices & Applications
Room: C144 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Linda Olafsen, Baylor University

T33 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides: Pb-based and novel materials
Room: C143/149 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Xiaoqing Pan, University of Michigan

T34 Optical and Electronic Properties of Nanocrystals and Wires
Room: C141 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Steve Erwin, Naval Research Laboratory

T35 Metals: Defects and Surfaces
Room: C140 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Don Nicholson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

T36 Focus Session: Graphene Growth, Characterization, and Devices: Structure, Interfaces and Transfer
Room: C142 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Joost Wintterlin, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen

T37 Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Dopants, and Defects: Nanoribbons
Room: C146 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Yong P. Chen, Purdue University

T38 Focus Session: Quantum Coherence in Biology IV
Room: A130/131 Sponsor: DCP DBP Chair: Mohan Sarovar, University of California, Berkeley

T39 Computational Molecular Biophysics
Room: A124/127 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Peter Hugo Nelson, Benedictine University

T40 Physics of Proteins V: Protein-Protein Interaction, and Protein Aggregation
Room: A122/123 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Huan-Xiang Zhou, Florida State University

T41 Focus Session: The Role of Water in Energy Production and Utilization I
Room: A115/117 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Greg Kimmel, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories

T42 Focus Session: The Physics of Evolution I
Room: A302/303 Sponsor: DCP DBP Chair: Eugene Shakhnovich, Harvard University

T43 Physics of Bacteria
Room: A306/307 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Rob Phillips, California Institute of Technology

T44 Evolutionary and Ecological Systems
Room: A309 Sponsor: DBP Chair: Ao Ping, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

T45 Focus Session: Magnetic and Spin Ordering in Atomic and Optical Systems
Room: A310 Sponsor: GMAG DAMOP Chair: Erich Mueller, Cornell University

Mar 23 2011 5:45PM, Wednesday

U1 Nobel Prize Session: Graphene: Materials in the Flatland
Room: Ballroom C1 Sponsor: APS Chair: Warren Pickett, University of California, Davis

Mar 23 2011 7:00PM, Wednesday

U50 DCOMP Business Meeting
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cockrell Sponsor: DCOMP

Mar 23 2011 7:30PM, Wednesday

U55 ``Trends" in the APS Publication Physics
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Reunion A-D Sponsor: APS Chair: Samindranath Mitra, APS Editorial Office