Bulletin of the American Physical Society

APS March Meeting 2012

Volume 57, Number 1

Monday–Friday, February 27–March 2 2012; Boston, Massachusetts

Chair Index

A1 Focus Session: Novel Instrumentation and measurements for Biomedical Research Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 203	Larry Nagahara, National Cancer Institute
A2 Invited Session: Teaching Quantum Information Science at Liberal Arts College Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 204AB	Ian Durham, Saint Anselm College
A3 Invited Session: Superconducting Fluctuations in Cuprates Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 205AB	N. Peter Armitage, John Hopkins University
A4 Focus Session: Hybrid Systems and Quantum Information Science in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 205C	Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University
A5 Surfaces: Structure, Transitions and Morphological Evolution Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 206A	Sanjay Khare, University of Toledo
A6 Focus Session: van der Waals Bonding in Advanced Materials - Physisorption and Self Assembly on Metals Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 206B	Talat Rahman, University of Central Florida
A7 Focus Session: Computational Design of Materials - Structure Prediction Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 207	Richard Hennig, Cornell University
A8 Focus Session: Frustrated Magnetism - Triangular Lattice Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 208	Jason Gardner, NIST
A9 Focus Session: Magnetic Oxide Thin Films And Heterostructures - Cobaltite And Ferrite Thin Films Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 209	Chris Palmstrom, University of California, Santa Barbara
A10 Invited Session: Computational Assessment of a Sustainable Energy Future: The Earth-abundant Materials Approach Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 210A	Vincent Meunier, RPI
A11 Graphene: Transport in Devices and Structures Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 210B	Xu Du, Stony Brook University
A12 Graphene: Electronic Structure and Interactions - Adsorbates, Doping and Defects Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 210C	Jian-Hao Chen, University of California, Berkeley
A13 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanostructures-Patterned Nanostructures and Nanowires Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 211	Andrew Baruth, University of Minnesota
A14 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Magnetic Semiconductors I Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 212	Paul Crowell, University of Minnesota
A15 Focus Session: Spins in Metals - Thermal Effects on Magnons and Spin Currents Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 213	Stewart Barnes, University of Miami
A16 Liquid and Solid Helium Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 251	Souleymane Diallo, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A17 Focus Session: Thermoelectrics - Nanostructured and Oxide TE Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 252A	Li Shi, University of Texas at Austin
A18 Dynamics in II-VI Nanocrystals Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 252B	Joseph Tischler, Naval Research Laboratory
A19 Invited Session: New Correlated Electron Physics Using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Other Probes Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 253AB	Abhay Pasupathy, Columbia University
A20 Invited Session: Advanced Quantum Materials for Future Information Technology Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 253C	Cherry Murray, Harvard University
A21 Superconductivity: Josephson, Tunneling and Proximity Effects Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 254A	John Wei, University of Toronto
A22 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors - Gap Structure Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 254B	Wai-Kwong Kwok, Argonne National Laboratory
A23 Metals Magnetic Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 255	Ralph Skomski, U. Nebraska
A24 Materials: Synthesis, Growth and Processing (Bullk and Films) Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 256	Dmitri Tenne, Boise State University
A25 Focus Session: Simulation of Matter at Extreme Conditions - Energetic Materials Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 257A	Nir Goldman, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
A26 Focus Session: Physics of Energy Storage Materials - Materials, Stability and Transport Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 257B	David Singh, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A27 Invited Session: Excitonic and Correlation Effects in Single-Layer Graphene Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 258AB	Bruno Uchoa, University of Oklahoma
A28 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors - ZnO Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 258C	Anderson Janotti, University of California Santa Barbara
A29 Focus Session: Quantum Optics with Superconducting Circuits: Hybrid Systems and Other Quantum Optics Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 259A	Alexandre Blais, University of Sherbrooke
A30 Focus Session: Qubits in Diamond I Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 259B	Fedor Jelezko, University of Ulm
A31 Focus Session: Topological Insulators - Exotic Phases and Phase Transitions Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 260	Ashvin Vishwanath, University of California, Berkeley
A32 Topological Insulators: Quantum Hall Effect Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 261	Ion Garate, Yale University
A33 Physics of Photovoltaics Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 106	Jeffrey Nelson, Sandia National Laboratories
A34 Focus Session: Impact of Ultrafast Lasers I: X-rays and THz Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 107A	Nancy Levinger and Amber Kummel, Colorado State University
A35 Focus Session: DFT I: Strongly Correlated Systems; GW and Many-Body Perturbation Theory Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 107B	Carsten Ullrich, University of Missouri
A36 Focus Session: New Energy I Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 107C	Bruce Garrett, Pacific Northwest Research Laboratory and Anders Nilsson, SLAC
A37 Research Collaboration between Mentors and Undergraduate Students Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 108	Richard Peterson, Bethel University
A39 Electronic Structure: Theory and Numerical Methods Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 109B	Juergen Eckert, University of California, Santa Barbara
A40 Focus Session: Protein Association I: Phase Separation, Crystallization, Self-Assembly Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 156A	Steve Whitelam, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
A41 Focus Session: Structure and Dynamics of Membranes Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 156B	Mu-Ping Nieh, University of Connecticut
A42 Focus Session: Cytoskeleton and Biomechanics - Biochemical mechanisms Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 156C	Megan Valentine, University of California, Santa Barbara
A43 Invited Session: Broader Impacts of Research-NSF Policy and Individual Responsibility Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 157AB	Donald Prosnitz, Rand Corporation
A44 Focus Session: Hydrophobic Interactions and Hydrogen Bonding Networks in Polymeric and Soft Matter Systems Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 157C	Garegin Papoian, University of Maryland
A45 Focus Session: Thin Film Block Copolymers - Directed Assembly Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 159	Thomas Epps, University of Delaware
A46 Invited Session: Inherently Strained Polymers and Soft Materials Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 160AB	Sergei Sheiko, University of North Carolina
A47 Focus Session: Gelation and Glass Transition in Colloids and Soft Matter Systems I Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 160C	Mohammad Islam, Carnegie Mellon University
A48 Charged and Ion-Containing Polymers Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 161	Thomas Seery, University of Connecticut
A49 Focus Session: Long-time, Entangled Dynamics in Polymers - Linear, Transient, Non-linear Rheology, Tubes Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 162A	Gergory McKenna, Texas Tech University
A50 Liquid Crystalline Order in Polymers, Soft Matter, and Complex Fluids Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 162B	Peter Shibayev, Fordham University
A51 Colloids I: Beyond Hard Spheres Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 154 Boston Convention Center	Anthony Dinsmore, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
A52 Using Chaos to Control Quantum Systems Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 153C	Stephen Anlage, University of Maryland
A53 Disordered and Glassy Systems I Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 153B	Horacio Castillo, Ohio University
A54 Focus Session: Complex and Co-evolving Networks - Cascades in Networks Feb 27 2012 8:00AM 152	Beate Schmittmann, Virginia Tech
B1 Atom Interferometry and New Techniques with Ultracold Atoms Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 203	Charles Mielke, Los Alamos National Laboratory
B2 Invited Session: Science Diplomacy: Africa and the Middle East Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 204AB	William Barletta, USPAS/Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B3 Invited Session: Superconducting Coherence, Fluctuations & Inhomogeneity in Mesoscopic & Low-Dimensions Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 205AB	Ying Liu, Pennsylvania State University
B4 Hybrid Systems, Optomechanics and Macroscopic Systems at the Quantum Limit I Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 205C	Johannes Otterbach, Harvard University
B5 Surface Electronic & Lattice Properties: Interfaces, Spin Effects, Etc. Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 206A	Peter Dowben, University of Nebraska
B6 Thermal Properties of Graphene and Graphene Derivatives Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 206B	Jing Shi, University of California, Riverside
B7 Focus Session: Computational Design of Materials - Nanostructured and Energy Materials Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 207	Vanessa Ortiz, Columbia University
B8 Focus Session: Frustrated magnetism - Spin ice Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 208	Bruce Gaulin, McMaster University
B9 Focus session: Complex Bulk Oxides: Iridates Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 209	Giorgio Sangiovanni, Institut für Festkörperphysik, Vienna
B10 Invited Session: Equilibration and Relaxation in Cold Atoms Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 210A	Theja Desilva, SUNY Binghamton
B11 Focus Session: Graphene/BN Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 210B	Nikolai Zhitenev, NIST
B12 Graphene: Electronic Structure and Interactions - Bilayer Graphene Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 210C	David Abergel, University of Maryland
B13 Focus Session: Low-Dimensional and Molecular Magnetism - 1D Magnetism/single-chain magnets - Theory Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 211	Jurgen Schnack, University of Bielefeld - Germany
B14 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Spin Relaxation in Semiconductors and Diamond Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 212	Greg Fuchs, Cornell University
B15 Focus Session: Spins in Metals: Spin Torque Switching and Magnetic Anisotropy Control Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 213	Ilya Krivorotov, University of California, Irvine
B16 Hubbard Model Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 251	Vladimir Dobrosavljevic, Florida State University
B17 Focus Session: Thermoelectrics - Nanowires and Other Nanostructures Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 252A	David Broido, Boston College
B18 Focus Session: Nanostructures and Metamaterials, Growth, Structure, and Characterization -- Metamaterials with Gain and Active Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 252B	Nader Engheta, University of Pennsylvania
B19 Invited Session: One Hundred Fifty Years of Maxwell's Equations (1862-2012) Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 253AB	Edward Gerjuoy, University of Pittsburgh
B20 Invited Session: Astronomy's Detectors and Physics Education Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 253C	James Beletic, Teledyne Imaging Sensors
B21 Focus Session: Search for New Superconductors: Methodologies and New Materials Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 254A	Robert Cava, Princeton University
B22 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors- ARPES and Fermi Surfaces Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 254B	Xingjiang Zhou, Chinese Academy of Sciences
B23 Superconductivity Theory I: Cluster DMFT, t-J model, renormalization group Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 255	Pouyan Ghaemi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B24 Electronic Structure: Theory and Spectra Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 256	Jan Musfeldt, University of Tennessee
B25 Focus Session: Simulation of Matter at Extreme Conditions - Shock-Induced Chemistry Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 257A	Igor Schweigert, Naval Research Laboratory
B26 Focus Session: Physics of Energy Storage Materials - Advanced Materials Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 257B	Tom Berlijn, Brookhaven National Laboratory
B27 Invited Session: Magneto-Electric and Magneto-Optical Properties of Topological Insulators Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 258AB	Allan MacDonald, University of Texas at Austin
B28 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors - Nitrides Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 258C	Mary Ellen Zvanut, University of Alabama
B29 Focus Session: Quantum Optics with Superconducting Circuits: Many-Body Physics, Phase Transitions, & Bistability Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 259A	David Schuster, University of Chicago
B30 Quantum Error Correction and Quantum Control Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 259B	Daniel Lidar, University of Southern California
B31 Topological Insulators: Semimetals and Interactions Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 260	Rolando Valez Aguilar, Johns Hopkins University
B32 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides - Relaxors, Nanostructures, and Morphotropic Phase Boundary Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 261	Jirka Hlinka, Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences (ASCR)
B34 Focus Session: Impact of Ultrafast Lasers II: Multidimensional Methods Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 107A	Nancy Levinger and Amber Kummel, Colorado State University
B35 General Theory Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 107B	Donald Truhlar, University of Minnesota
B36 Focus Session: New Energy II Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 107C	Bruce Garrett, Pacific Northwest Research Laboratory and Anders Nilsson, SLAC
B37 SPS Undergraduate Research I Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 108	Crystal Bailey, APS
B39 Electronic Structure: Calculations I Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 109B	Ching Fong, University of California, Davis
B40 Focus Session: Cytoskeleton and Biomechanics - Entanglement and Crosslinking Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 156A	R.K.P. Zia, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
B41 Lipid Bilayers and Biological Membranes Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 156B	Jianjun Pan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
B42 Focus Session: BioChip Physics-Detection and Transport Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 156C	David Nolte, Purdue University and Peter Kiesel, Palo Alto Research Center
B43 Invited Session: Physical Mechanisms of Cell Growth Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 157AB	K.C. Huang, Stanford University
B44 Focus Session: Translocation through Nanopores - Measurements and Theoretical Models Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 157C	Aniket Bhattacharya, University of Central Florida
B45 Focus Session: Thin Film Block Copolymers - Swelling and Ordering Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 159	Ting Xu, University of California, Berkeley
B46 Invited Session: Industrial Applications of Advanced Polymer-Based Nanomaterials Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 160AB	Tirtha Chatterjee, Dow Chemical Company
B47 Focus Session: Jamming, Glass Transition, and Gelation in Colloids and Soft Matter Systems Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 160C	Peter Schall, University of Amsterdam
B48 Electrically and Optically Active Polymers Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 161	Enrique Gomez, Pennsylvania State University
B49 Focus Session: Long-time, Entangled Dynamics in Polymers - Rods, Rings, Fibers, Particle Tracking Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 162A	Marina Guenza, University of Oregon
B50 Focus Session: Nano to Mesoscale Structures in Ordered Systems: Liquid Crystalline Structure and Interactions Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 162B	Jan Lagerwall, Seoul National University
B51 Focus Session: Evolutionary Systems Biology I - Evolutionary Dynamics and Rugged Fitness Landscapes Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 154	Avigdor Eldar, Tel-Aviv University
B52 Granular Media: Flow and Structure Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 153C	Wolfgang Losert, University of Maryland
B53 Disordered and Glassy Systems II Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 153B	Craig Maloney, Carnegie Mellon University
B54 Focus Session: Complex and co-evolving networks - Modeling Social and Biological Networks Feb 27 2012 11:15AM 152	Zoltan Toroczkai, Notre Dame
D1 Focus Session: High Magnetic Fields, THz Spectroscopy, MRI Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 203	Charles Mielke, NHMFL Los Alamos National Laboratory
D2 Invited Session: Harnessing Local Atomic Structure to Control Magnetic Interactions in Complex Oxides Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 204AB	Steven May, Drexel University
D3 Invited Session: Stripe Order and Fermi-Surface Reconstruction in Cuprate Superconductors Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 205AB	Michael Norman, Argonne National Laboratory
D4 Long-range Interacting Rydberg and Dipolar Gases Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 205C	Michael Fleischhauer, University of Kaiserslautern
D5 Vanadium Oxides; Metal-insulator Transitions Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 206A	Mumtaz Qazilbash, College of William and Mary
D6 Focus Session: Graphene Devices - Bolometers and Optical Response Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 206B	Tom Timusk, McMaster University
D7 Quantum Hall Effect in Mono-, Bi- and Trilayer Graphene Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 207	Erik Henriksen, California Institute of Technology
D8 Organo-metallics: Magnetic and other Properties Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 208	Vivien Zapf, Los Alamos National Lab
D9 Magnetic Devices and Applications Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 209	Dario Arena, Brookhaven National Laboratory
D10 Invited Session: Advancements in Computational Physics using NSF's TeraGrid/XSEDE Resources Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 210A	Ralph Roskies, University of Pittsburgh
D11 Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Stacking, Interactions: Mesoscopics Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 210B	Shaffique Adam, NIST
D12 Graphene Transport: Disorder Scattering Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 210C	Arthur F. Hebard, Prof. Dr.
D13 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanostructures-Characterization (Scanning Probe, X-ray and Neutron) Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 211	Yimei Zhu, Brookhaven National Laboratory
D14 Focus Session: Spins in Carbon - Spins in Graphene Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 212	Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin, Ohio State University
D15 Focus Session: Spins in Metals - Ultra Fast Dynamics Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 213	Shufeng Zhang, University of Arizona
D16 Strongly Correlated Numerics and Theory Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 251	Andre-Marie Tremblay, Universite de Sherbrooke
D17 Focus Session: Surfaces and Interfaces in Nonoxide Nanostructures: Growth, Structure, and Characterization - Growth Dynamics Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 252A	Dan Dougherty , North Carolina State University
D18 Focus Session: Nanostructures and Metamaterials, Growth, Structure, and Characterization -- What is a good conductor for Metamaterials and Plasmonics Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 252B	Costas Soukoulis, Ames Lab/Iowa State University
D19 Invited Session: Novel Phases in Strongly Correlated Iridates Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 253AB	Gang Cao, University of Kentucky
D20 Invited Session: Advanced Electromagnetic Imaging and Remote Sensing: From DC to Daylight Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 253C	Peter Weichman, BAE Systems
D21 Multiband Superconductivity, mostly MgB2 Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 254A	Morten Ring Eskildsen, University of Notre Dame
D22 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors - Crystal Growth, Structure, and Properties of K_xFe_1-ySe Phases Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 254B	Nicholas Butch, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
D23 Metals Theory Oxides Interfaces Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 255	Khorgolkhuu Odbadrakh, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
D24 Bionanotechnology and Nanostructured Sensors Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 256	Jayant Kumar, University of Massachusetts Lowell
D25 Focus Session: Matter at Extreme Conditions - New Experimental Capabilities Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 257A	Thomas Sewell, University of Missouri
D26 Focus Session: Physics of Energy Storage Materials - Catalysis and H2 Storage Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 257B	Juergen Eckert, University of California, Santa Barbara
D27 Invited Session: Materials for Energy Applications Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 258AB	Robert Nemanich, Arizona State University
D28 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors - Oxides and Interfaces Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 258C	Michael Stavola, Lehigh University
D29 Focus Session: Qubits in Diamond II Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 259A	David Awschalom, UCSB
D30 Focus Session: Quantum Information for Quantum Foundations - Entanglement and Causal Structure Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 259B	Howard Barnum, University of New Mexico
D31 Focus Session: Topological Insulators: Synthesis & Characterization - Thin Films Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 260	Anthony Richardella, Pennsylvania State University
D32 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides - Lattice Dynamics Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 261	Ilya Grinberg, University of Pennsylvania
D33 Physics of Batteries and Fuel Cells Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 106	Matthew Panzer, Tufts University
D34 Focus Session: Nano I -- Clusters Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 107A	Shiv Khanna, Virginia Commonwealth University and Gabor Somorjai, UC Berkeley
D35 Focus Session: DFT II: Molecular Conductance; Charge Transfer Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 107B	Arindam Chakraborty, Syracuse University
D36 Focus Session: Environment I: Aerosols and Aqueous Solutions Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 107C	Don Baer, Pacific Northwest Research Laboratory and Ilja Siepmann, University of Minnesota
D37 SPS Undergraduate Research II Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 108	Gary White, SPS/AIP
D39 Quantum Protocols: Tomography, Communication, and Coding Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 109B	Ivan Deutsch, University of New Mexico
D40 Focus Session: Systems Biology and Biochemical Networks I Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 156A	Jin Wang, SUNY Stony Brook
D42 Focus Session: Physics of Cancer I -- Evolution and Resistance Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 156C	Robert Austin, Princeton University
D43 Invited Session: Recent Advances in the Physics of Fractures Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 157AB	James Sethna, Cornell University
D44 Invited Session: Topological Quantum Computing with Majorana Fermions Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 157C	Gil Refael, California Institute of Technology
D51 Liquid Crystals: Chromonics and Nematics Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 154 Boston Convention Center	Peter Collings, Swarthmore University
D52 General Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and GSNP Student Prize Talks Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 153C	Corey O'Hern, Yale University
D53 Focus Session: Jamming -- Nonlinear Acoustics and Vibrational Response Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 153B	Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University
D54 Focus Session: Complex and co-evolving networks - Foundations in Complex Networks Feb 27 2012 2:30PM 152	Bruno Goncalves, Indiana University
E1 APS Prizes and Awards Ceremonial Session Feb 27 2012 5:45PM 253AB	Robert Byer, Stanford University
G1 Physics Community Outreach: The Kitchen as a Lab Feb 27 2012 8:00PM 253AB	Allan MacDonald, University of Texas at Austin
H1 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy I: Novel Approaches to Complex Systems Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 203	Andreas Heinrich, IBM Almaden
H2 Invited Session: Novel and Proven Methods of Communicating Science to the Public Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 204AB	Brian Schwartz, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of CUNY
H3 Invited Session: Electronic Properties of the Pseudogap Phase in Cuprates Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 205AB	Fu-Chun Zhang, University of Hong Kong
H4 Spin-orbit Coupling in Ultracold Gases Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 205C	Ian Spielman, JQI
H5 Focus Session: Interfaces in Complex Oxides - Polar Interfaces and Ferroelectrics Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 206A	Susanne Stemmer, University of California, Santa Barbara
H6 Focus Session: van der Waals Bonding in Advanced Material - Methods and Application to Water and Ice Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 206B	Elsebeth Schr\"oder, Chalmers University of Technology
H7 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotube Sensing Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 207	A.T. Charlie Johnson, University of Pennsylvania
H8 Focus Session: Frustrated Magnetism - Kagome I Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 208	Peter Schiffer, Pennsylvania State University
H9 Focus Session: Complex Bulk Oxides: Ruthenates Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 209	Craig Fennie, Cornell University
H10 Invited Session: Strongly Interacting Photons Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 210A	Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University
H11 Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Stacking, Interactions: Interfaces and Adsorbates Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 210B	Eli Rotenberg, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
H12 Chemical Doping of Graphene and Applications: Solar Cells, Sensors Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 210C	Sefaattin Tongay, Dr.
H13 Focus Session: Low-Dimensional and Molecular Magnetism - Magnetism and Transport of Isolated Molecular Magnets - Molecular spintronics Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 211	Lapo Bogani, Universitat Stuttgart
H14 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Electrical Spin Injection Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 212	Jean Heremans, Virginia Tech
H15 Focus Session: Spin and Dynamics in Metal, Spin logic and Spin-Based Devices Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 213	Jimmy Zhu, Carnegie Mellon University
H16 Quantum Fluids: Mainly Helium, Vortices, and Solitons Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 251	Norbert Mulders, University of Delaware
H17 Focus Session: Thermoelectrics - Characterization/Molecular junctions/Magnetic and Low Temp Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 252A	Jeffrey Urban, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
H18 Focus Session: Electron, Ion, and Exciton Transport in Nanostructures - Nanowires and Superlattices Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 252B	Mark Lusk, Colorado School of Mines
H19 Invited Session: Current-Driven Spin Textures Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 253AB	Joseph Orenstein, University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
H20 Invited Session: Hydrodynamics and Microstructure: From Single Self-Propelled Particles to Active Soft Matter Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 253C	Thomas Powers, Brown University
H21 Superconductivity: Electronic Structure of BSCCO; ARPES and theory Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 254A	Weiguo Yin, Brookhaven National Lab
H22 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors - Anisotropic Transport and Anisotropy Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 254B	Johnpierre Paglione, University of Maryland
H23 Metals Structural Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 255	David Parker, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
H24 Electrical and Thermal Properties of Semiconductors Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 256	Michael Manfra, Purdue University
H25 Focus Session: Simulation of Matter at Extreme Conditions - Shock Compression of Metals Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 257A	Sheng Luo, Los Alamos National Laboratory
H26 Focus Session: Friction, Fracture and Deformation Across Length Scales - Friction Across Length Scales Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 257B	Izabela Szlufarska, University of Wisconsin
H27 Invited Session: McGroddy Prize, Adler Lectureship, and Pake Prize: Superconductivity and Spin Transport Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 258AB	Paul Crowell, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis
H28 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors - Si Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 258C	Michael Aziz, Harvard University
H29 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits: Amplifiers and Read-out Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 259A	Irfan Siddiqi, University of California at Berkeley
H30 Semiconductor Qubits - Device Development Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 259B	Mark Eriksson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
H31 Focus Session: Topological Insulators: Synthesis and Characterization: Bulk Crystals Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 260	Nicholas Butch, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
H32 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides - Conducting Domain Walls and Conduction Mechanisms Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 261	Gustau Catalan, ICREA and CIN2, Barcelona
H33 Focus Session: Scaleable Technologies for Photovoltaics Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 106	Mark Bernius, Dow Chemcial Company
H34 Focus Session: Nano II: Nanoscale Materials and Properties I Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 107A	Shiv Khanna, Virginia Commonwealth University and Gabor Somorjai, UC Berkeley
H35 Focus Session: DFT III: Weak Bonding and Liquid Phase Systems Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 107B	Erin Johnson, University of California, Merced
H36 Focus Session: Environment II: Green Processes Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 107C	Ilja Siepmann, University of Minnesota, Don Baer, Pacific Northwest Research Laboratory, and James Hutchinson, University of Oregon
H37 SPS Undergraduate Research III Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 108	Gary White, AIP/SPS
H39 Electronic Structure: Calculations II Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 109B	Seong-Gon Kim, Mississippi State Unviersity
H40 Focus Session: Protein Association II: Aggregation and Fibril Formation Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 156A	Tom Haxton, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
H43 Invited Session: Physics of Systems Biology Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 157AB	Jin Wang, State University of New York at Stony Brook
H44 Focus Session: Nano to Mesoscale Structure in Ordered Systems: Liquid Crystal Topology and Defects Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 157C	Robin Selinger, Kent State University
H45 Focus Session: Thin Film Block Copolymers - Phase Behavior Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 159	Andrew Croll, North Dakota State University
H46 Invited Session: Polymer Physics Prize Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 160ABC	Jane Lipson, Dartmouth College
H48 Polymer Gels and Solutions Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 161	James Watkins, University of Massachusetts
H49 Focus Session: Fluctuation-Induced Forces in Soft Matter & Polymeric Systems - Casimir and Interfacial Forces Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 162A	Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Northwestern University
H50 Polymer Melts Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 162B	Steven Hudson, NIST
H51 Colloids II: Crystals and Phase Transitions Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 154 Boston Convention Center	Alberto Fernandez-Nieves, Georgia Institute of Technology
H52 Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics - Rods Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 153C	Douglas Holmes, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
H53 Focus Session: Continuum Descriptions of Discrete Materials Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 153B	Ken Kamrin, MIT
H54 Focus Session: Complex and co-evolving networks - Dynamics on Networks Feb 28 2012 8:00AM 152	Daniel Goldman, Georgia Tech
J1 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy II: High Frequencies & Optical Techniques Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 203	David Goldhaber-Gordon, Stanford University
J2 Invited Session: K-12 Science Education: Closing the Gap with the Leading Nations Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 204AB	Paul Cottle, Florida State University
J3 Invited Session: Quantum Computing with Superconducting Circuits Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 205AB	John Martinis, University of California, Santa Barbara
J4 Non-Equilibrium Dynamics with Quantum Gases Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 205C	Rajdeep Sensarma, University of Maryland
J5 Focus Session: Interfaces in Complex Oxides - Electronic Structure Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 206A	Andres Felipe Santander-Syro, Universite Paris-Sud 11
J6 Focus Session: van der Waals Bonding in Advanced Materials - Layered Structures & Mechanical Properties Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 206B	Janice Reutt Robey, University of Maryland
J7 Focus Session: Graphene Devices Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 207	Nina Markovic, Johns Hopkins University
J8 Quantum Magnetism, BEC, and Disorder Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 208	Marcelo Jaime, Los Alamos National Lab
J9 Focus Session: Magnetic Oxide Thin Films And Heterostructures - Multiferroic Thin Films Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 209	Alex Demkov, University of Texas at Austin
J10 Invited Session: How Reliable are Computed Electronic Properties? Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 210A	Stefano Curtarolo, Duke University
J11 Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Stacking, Interactions: Density Functional Theory Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 210B	Vitor Pereira, National University of Singapore
J12 Focus Session: Graphene: Growth, Mechanical Exfoliation, and Properties - Strain and Structure Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 210C	Alain Diebold, University at Albany - SUNY
J13 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanostructures - Thin Films, Surfaces and Interfaces Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 211	Hao Zeng, SUNY Buffalo
J14 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Spin-Orbit Coupled Electrons and Holes in Semiconductors Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 212	Giovanni Vignale, University of Missouri
J15 Focus Session: Spins in Metals - Spin Transport in Novel Devices and Structures Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 213	Peter Metaxas, University of Western Australia
J16 Vanadium Dioxide; Nano and Devices Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 251	Ivan Schuller, University of California, San Diego
J17 Focus Session: Surfaces and Interfaces in Nonoxide Nanostructures: Growth, Structure, and Characterization - Organic/Inorganic Interfaces & Quantum Dots Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 252A	Brad Conrad , Appalachian State University
J18 Focus Session: Nanostructures and Metamaterials, Growth, Structure, and Characterization -- New Fabrication Techniques Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 252B	Willie Padilla, Boston College
J19 Invited Session: Strongly Interacting Cold Fermi Gases Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 253AB	John Thomas, Duke University
J20 Invited Session: Sexual and Gender Diversity Issues in Physics Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 253C	Savannah Garmon, University of Toronto
J21 Focus Session: Search for New Superconductors: New Theories and Experiments Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 254A	Malcolm Beasley, Stanford University
J22 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors - Nodal and Nodeless Superconductivity Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 254B	Takashi Imai, McMaster University
J23 Phase Changes, Metals, PC Memories Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 255	Paul Kent, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
J24 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors - Si and III-V Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 256	Socrates Pantelides, Vanderbilt University
J25 Focus Session: Simulation of Matter at Extreme Conditions: Shock Compression and Other High-Strain-Rate Phenomena Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 257A	Evan Reed, Stanford University
J26 Focus Session: What is Computational Physics? Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 257B	Norman Chonacky, Yale University
J27 Invited Session: International Energy Perspectives Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 258AB	William Barletta, Fermilab
J28 Focus Session: Frontiers in Computational Thermodynamics of Materials Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 258C	Stefano Curtarolo, Duke University
J29 Focus Session: Quantum Information for Quantum Foundations - Informational Principles and Fundamental Structures Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 259A	Giulio Chiribella, Perimeter Institute
J30 Open Quantum Systems and Decoherence Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 259B	Bill Coish, McGill University
J31 Focus Session: Topological Insulators: Synthesis and Characterization - Transport Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 260	Nitin Samarth, Pennsylvania State University
J32 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides - Domain Structures and Switching Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 261	Peter Maksymovych, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
J34 Focus Session: Impact of Ultrafast Lasers III: Biophysics Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 107A	Nancy Levinger and Amber Kummel, Colorado State University
J35 Liquids Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 107B	Donald Truhlar, University of Minnesota
J36 Focus Session: New Energy III Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 107C	Bruce Garrett, Pacific Northwest Research Laboratory and Anders Nilsson, SLAC
J37 SPS Undergraduate Research IV Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 108	Peter Muhoro, American Physical Society
J39 Exciton, Polariton, and Electron Dynamics in two-dimensional semiconductor structures Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 109B	Mark Sherwin, University of California, Santa Barbara
J40 Multi-cellular Processes and Development Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 156A	Lisa Manning, Syracuse University
J41 Vortex Dynamics, Turbulence and Geophysical Flows Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 156B	Greg Voth, Wesleyan University
J42 Focus Session: Stochastic Population Dynamics I - Cyclic competition and population stability Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 156C	Michel Pleimling and Uwe Tauber, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
J43 Invited Session: Stochastic Geometry and Conformal Invariance in Non-Equilibrium and Disordered Systems Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 157AB	Walter Goldburg, University of Pittsburgh
J44 Focus Session: Dynamics of Polymers: Phenomena Due to Confinement I Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 157C	Zahra Fakhraai, University of Pennsylvania
J45 Padden Award Symposium Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 159	Karen Winey, University of Pennsylvania
J46 Invited Session: Electrostatic Interactions in Polymeric and Biological Systems Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 160ABC	Andrey Dobrynin, University of Connecticut
J48 Focus Session: Gelation and Glass Transition in Colloids and Soft Matter Systems II Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 161	Michael Rubinstein, University of North Carolina
J49 Focus Session: Crystallization in Single-, Multicomponent, and Hybrid Systems I Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 162A	Christopher Li, Drexel University
J50 Focus Session: Translocation through Nanopores - Novel Devices and Computational Approaches Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 162B	Samuel Amanuel, Union College
J51 Liquid Crystals: Smectic, Ferroelectric, Nanocomposites and DNA Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 154 Boston Conference Center	Luz J Martinez-Miranda, University of Maryland
J52 Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics - Plates Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 153C	Christian Santangelo, University of Massachusetts
J53 Disordered Systems: Jamming Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 153B	Patrick Charbonneau, Duke University
J54 Focus Session: Complex and Co-evolving Networks - Empirical Studies of Social Networks Feb 28 2012 11:15AM 152	Gene Stanley, Boston University
L1 Focus Session: Imaging and Modifying Materials at the Limits of Space and Time Resolution Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 203	Bernd Kabius, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
L2 Invited Session: Andrei Sakharov Prize Session Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 204AB	W. Barletta, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
L3 Invited Session: Fermiology of Electron and Hole Doped Cuprates - A Guide to High Temperature Superconductivity Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 205AB	Suchitra Sebastian, University of Cambridge
L5 Focus Session: Interfaces in Complex Oxides - Nickelates Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 206A	John Freeland, Argonne National Laboratory
L6 Focus Session: van der Waals Bonding in Advanced Materials - Metal Oxide Frameworks & Active Materials Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 206B	Yves Chabal, University of Texas at Dallas
L7 Carbon Nanotube Hybrid Structures - Properties, Synthesis, Characterization Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 207	Apparao Mohan Rao, Clemson University
L8 Focus Session: Frustrated Magnetism - 1D Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 208	Oleg Starykh, University of Utah
L9 Focus Session: Complex Bulk Oxides: Theoretical techniques for oxides Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 209	James Rondinelli, Drexel University
L10 Invited Session: Quantum Optics in Condensed Matter Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 210A	Nick Vamivakas, University of Rochester
L11 Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Stacking, Interactions: Magnetism and Interactions Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 210B	Enrico Rossi, College of William and Mary
L12 Focus Session: Graphene: Growth, Mechanical Exfoliation, and Properties - Growth on Single Crystals Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 210C	James Hannon, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
L13 Focus Session: Low-Dimensional and Molecular Magnetism - 1D Magnetism/Single-Chain Magnets - Experiment Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 211	Roberta Sessoli, University of Florence - Italy
L14 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Magnetic Semiconductors II Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 212	George Kioseoglou, University of Crete
L15 Focus Session: Spins in Metals - Resonance Phenomena I, Spin Wave Excitation and Spin Torque Oscillators Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 213	Andrew Kent, New York University
L16 Heavy Fermions - Theory and Experiment Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 251	Jianxin Zhu, Los Alamos National Laboratory
L17 Focus Session: Thermoelectrics - Electronic Structure and Transport Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 252A	Oded Rabin, University of Maryland
L18 Focus Session: Electron, Ion, and Exciton Transport in Nanostructures - Quantum Dots and Related Structures Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 252B	Latha Venkataraman, Columbia University
L19 Invited Session: Spin Liquids with Disorder Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 253AB	Leon Balents, University of California, Santa Barbara
L20 Invited Session: STEM Outreach to Underrepresented Communities Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 253C	Richard Peterson, Bethel University
L21 Superconductivity: Mostly Mesoscopics & Low-d Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 254A	Timir Datta, Univeristy of South Carolina
L22 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors: -- Inelastic Neutron Scattering and Magnetic Excitations Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 254B	Rob McQueeny, Ames Lab/Iowa State University
L23 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors - First Principles, Models, and Spectroscopy Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 255	Roser Valenti, Goethe University
L24 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors - Chalcogenides, Oxides, and Ternaries Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 256	Hartwin Peelaers, University of California, Santa Barbara
L25 Focus Session: Simulation of Matter at Extreme Conditions - Warm Dense Matter Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 257A	Timothy Germann, Los Alamos National Laboratory
L26 Focus Session: Friction, Fracture and Deformation Across Length Scales - Dislocations and Fracture Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 257B	David Goldsby, Brown University
L27 Invited Session: Quantum Design of Low-Dimensional Materials Structures for Enhanced Solar Energy Conversion Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 258AB	Zhenyu Zhang, University of Science and Technology of China
L28 Electricity-to-Light Conversion: Solid State Lighting Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 258C	Theodore Moustakas, Boston University
L29 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits - Single and Multi-Qubit Demonstrations Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 259A	Amir Yacoby, Harvard University
L30 Focus Session: Topologically Protected Qubits I Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 259B	Sumanta Tewari, Clemson University
L31 Focus Session: Topological Insulators: Synthesis and Transport - Magnetism Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 260	Nuh Gedik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
L32 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides - Mechanisms of Ferroelectricity Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 261	Ronald Cohen, Carnegie Institution of Washington
L33 Invited Session: Frontiers of Granular Physics Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 106	Eric Weeks, Emory University
L34 Focus Session: Impact of Ultrafast Lasers IV: Applications I Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 107A	Nancy Levinger and Amber Kummel, Colorado State University
L35 Focus Session: DFT IV: Ground-State DFT: New Directions Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 107B	Sam Trickey, University of Florida
L36 Focus Session: New Energy IV Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 107C	Bruce Garrett, Pacific Northwest Research Laboratory and Anders Nilsson, SLAC
L37 Informal Education and Public Outreach - Policy Questions Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 108	Gary White, SPS/AIP
L39 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits: 3D Cavities Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 109B	Lev Bishop, Joint Quantum Institute and CMTC
L40 Focus Session: Systems Biology and Biochemical Networks II Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 156A	Yuhai Tu, IBM Watson Research Center
L41 Pattern Formation, Nonlinear Dynamics, Computational Fluid Dynamics Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 156B	Daphne Klotsa, University of Michigan
L42 Focus Session: Physics of Cancer II -- Physical Aspects Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 156C	Clare Yu, University of California, Irvine
L43 Invited Session: Precursors to the Folding and Aggregation of Biological Molecules Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 157AB	Peter G. Vekilov, University of Houston and Vassiliy Lubchenko, University of Houston
L44 Focus Session: Nano to Mesoscale Structure in Ordered Soft Matter: Liquid Crystal Phases Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 157C	Marina Ruths, University of Massachusetts Lowell
L45 Friction and Brushes Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 159	Mark Stoykovich, University of Colorado
L46 Dillon Medal Symposium Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 160ABC	Frank Bates, University of Minnesota
L48 Polymers and DNA Coated Colloid Particles Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 161	Alexei Tkachenko, Brookhaven National Laboratory
L49 Focus Session: Fluctuation-Induced Forces in Soft Matter and Polymeric Systems - Charge, Shape and Nucleation Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 162A	Zvonimir Dogic, Brandeis University
L50 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Morphology Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 162B	Mark Dadmun, University of Tennessee
L51 Self Assembly: Mostly Colloids, Lipids and Surfactants Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 154 Boston Convention Center	Arjun G Yodh, University of Pennsylvania
L52 Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics - Origami, Creasing, and Folding Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 153C	Ross Hatton, Carnegie Mellon University
L53 Frontiers of Statistical Physics Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 153B	Susan Coppersmith, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
L54 Superconductivity: Mostly Devices and Applications Feb 28 2012 2:30PM 152	John Clarke, University of California, Berkeley
N1 The IBM Computer Watson: Its Future Challenges After Winning at Jeopardy Feb 28 2012 8:00PM 253 ABC	James Wynne, IBM Research Headquarters
P2 Invited Session: Large Fluctuations Far From Equilibrium Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 204AB	Baruch Meerson, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
P3 Invited Session: Alkaline Iron Selenides vs Iron Pnictides: Properties and Their Implications Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 205AB	Qimiao Si, Rice University
P4 Multi-Component BECs and Mixtures Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 205C	Noah Bary-Lai, Joint Quantum Institute
P5 Surfaces, Interfaces, and Thin Films: Kinetics, Dynamics, and Reactions Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 206A	Ray Phaneuf, University of Maryland
P6 Graphene Optical Phenomena Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 206B	John Cerne, SUNY Buffalo
P7 Focus Session: Computational Design of Materials: Graphene - Electronic Structure and Transport Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 207	Yan Wang, University of Florida
P8 Focus Session: Spin Liquids I Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 208	Claudio Castelnovo, Royal Holloway University
P9 Focus Session: Magnetic Oxide Thin Films And Heterostructures: Manganite Thin Films Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 209	Anand Bhattacharya, Argonne National Laboratory
P10 Invited Session: Quantum Simulations Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 210A	Markus Greiner, Harvard University
P11 Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Stacking, Interactions: Strain and Stacking Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 210B	Piet Brouwer, Freie Universitat Berlin
P13 Focus Session: Low-Dimensional and Molecular Magnetism - Single-Molecule Magnets - Dynamics, structure and interactions Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 211	Stephen Hill, Florida State University
P14 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Quantum Dots and Qubits Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 212	Connie Li, Naval Research Laboratory
P15 Focus Session: Spins in Metals - Spin Current Generation and Spin Motive Force Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 213	Chia-Ling Chien, Johns Hopkins University
P16 Heavy Fermions- Mostly URu2Si2 Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 251	Jason Jeffries, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
P17 Focus Session: Thermoelectrics - TE and Thermal Conductivity Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 252A	David Singh, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
P18 Focus Session: Electron, Ion, and Exciton Transport in Nanostructures - Quantum Transport I Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 252B	Cherie Kagan, University of Pennsylvania
P19 Invited Session: Dynamics of Strongly Correlated Systems: Control and Ultrafast X-Ray Probes Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 253AB	Joseph Orenstein, UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
P20 Invited Session: Scientific Reasoning in a Physics Course Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 253C	Nicola Ferralis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
P21 Superconductivity: Electronic Structure of Cuprates Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 254A	Ruslan Prozorov, Ames Laboratory
P22 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductivity - Fe(Te,Se) Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 254B	Qiang Li, Brookhaven National Laboratory
P23 Superconductivity Theory II: p-wave, chiral, and topological Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 255	Herbert Fotso, Georgetown University
P24 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect I Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 256	Michael Manfra, Purdue University
P25 Focus Session: Simulation of Matter at Extreme Conditions - Static Pressure Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 257A	Ronald Cohen, Carnegie Institution of Washington
P26 Focus Session: Friction, Fracture and Deformation Across Length Scales - Friction and Geometric Effects Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 257B	Michael Chandross, Sandia National Laboratories
P27 Invited Session: Transport Studies of Topological Insulators Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 258AB	Peng Xiong, Florida State University
P28 Optical Applications: Nonlinear Optics, Waveguides, and Novel Structures Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 258C	Doug Natelson, Rice University
P29 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits: Multiple Qubits and Entanglement Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 259A	Matthias Steffen, IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY
P30 Semiconductor Qubits - Communication and Hybridization Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 259B	Jacob Taylor, NIST
P31 Topological Insulators: Disorder Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 260	Chris Varney, University of Massachusetts
P32 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides - BiFeO3 Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 261	Valery Kiryukhin, Rutgers University
P33 Physics of Photovoltaics and other Electricity Production Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 106	Jeffrey Nelson, Sandia National Laboratories
P34 Focus Session: Nano III: New Nanoscale Fabrication and Sensing Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 107A	Shiv Khanna, Virginia Commonwealth University and Gabor Somorjai, UC Berkeley
P35 Focus Session: DFT V: Partitioning and Embedding Theories; Finite-Temperature Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 107B	Barry Dunietz, University of Michigan
P36 Focus Session: Environment III: Nanoparticles, Surfaces and Catalysis Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 107C	Don Baer, Pacific Northwest Research Laboratory and Ilja Siepmann, University of Minnesota
P37 CDW Materials - Chalcogenides and other Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 108	Goran Karapetrov, Drexel University
P40 Protein Fluctuations and Conformation Changes Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 156A	Daniel Cox, University of California, Davis
P41 Drops, Bubbles and Interfacial Fluid Mechanics Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 156B	Kripa Varanasi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
P42 Focus Session: Evolutionary Systems Biology II - From molecules to cells Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 156C	Edo Kussell, New York University
P43 Invited Session: High Content Biophysical Data for Dynamic Studies in Cancer Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 157AB	Larry Nagahara, National Cancer Institute
P44 Focus Session: Block Copolymer Micelles and Polymersomes Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 157C	You-Yeon Won, Purdue University
P45 Surfaces, Interfaces, and Polymeric Thin Films - Surface Instabilities Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 159	Jyotsana Lal, Argonne National Laboratory
P46 Invited Session: DNA-Programmable Particle Assembly Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 160AB	Oleg Gang, Brookhaven National Laboratory
P47 Biopolymers: Molecules, Solutions, Networks, and Gels Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 160C	Gary Slater, University of Ottawa
P48 Focus Session: Crystallization in Single-, Multicomponent, and Hybrid Systems II Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 161	Lei Zhu, Case Western Reserve University
P49 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Interfaces and Contacts Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 162A	Lynn Loo, Princeton University
P50 Focus Session: Dynamics of Polymers: Phenomena due to Confinement; Glass Transition Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 162B	Rodney Priestly, Princeton University
P51 Colloids III: Shear and Hydrodynamics Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 154 Boston Convention Center	Vinothan N Manoharan, Harvard University
P52 Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics - Structures for Form and Function Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 153C	Jose Bico, ESPCI
P53 Disordered Systems: Packing Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 153B	Lisa Manning, Syracuse University
P54 Superconductivity: Thermodynamics and Phases Feb 29 2012 8:00AM 152	Haihu Wen, University of Nanjing
Q2 Invited Session: Manipulating Spin Waves Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 204AB	Axel Hoffmann, Argonne National Laboratory
Q3 Invited Session: Recent Advances in Pnictide Superconductors Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 205AB	Wei Ku, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Q5 Nonequilibrium and Gauge/Gravity Duality Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 206A	Philip Phillips, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Q6 Carbon Nanotubes: Electronic and Thermal Properties Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 206B	Rodrigo Capaz, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Q7 Focus Session: Computational Design of Materials: Graphene - Strain, defect and interface engineering Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 207	Marco Buongiorno Nardelli, North Carolina State University
Q8 Focus Session: Spin Liquids II Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 208	Arthur Ramirez, UC Santa Cruz
Q9 Focus Session: Complex Bulk Oxide: Doped and Undoped Manganites Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 209	Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta, S.N.Bose National Centre
Q10 Invited Session: Rare Fluctuation Effects in Strongly Disordered Systems Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 210A	Susan Coppersmith, University of Wisconsin
Q11 Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Stacking, Interactions: Infrared and Terahertz Spectroscopy Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 210B	Andrea Young, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Q12 Focus Session: Graphene: Growth, Mechanical Exfoliation, and Properties - SiC and Growth Kinetics Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 210C	Kevin McCarty, Sandia National Laboratory
Q13 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanostructures-Nanoparticle Synthesis and Magnetism Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 211	Janice Musfeldt, University of Tennessee
Q14 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Spin Dependent Transport Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 212	Robert Lillianfeld, Purdue University
Q16 Heavy Fermions - 1-1-5 Systems Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 251	Johnpierre Paglione, University of Maryland, College Park
Q17 Focus Session: Nanostructures and Metamaterials, Growth, Structure, and Characterization -- Improved Materials and Applications I Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 252A	Richard Averitt, Boston University
Q18 Focus Session: Interfaces in Complex Oxides - Electronic, Magnetic and Optical Properties Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 252B	Kyle Shen, Department of Physics, Cornell University
Q19 Invited Session: The Scientific Legacy of Edward Purcell (1912-2012) Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 253AB	Gerald Holton, Harvard University
Q20 Invited Session: Robust Energy Storage with Engineered Si Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 253C	Susan Babinec, A123 Systems
Q21 Novel Superconductivity in New and Low Dimensional Materials Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 254A	Emilia Morosan, Rice University
Q22 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductivity - Doped and Undoped BaFe2As2 Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 254B	Efrain Rodriguez, NIST Center for Neutron Research
Q23 Superconductivty Theory III: Mainly Cuprates Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 255	Lex Kemper, Stanford University
Q24 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect II Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 256	Michael Mulligan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Q25 Focus Session: Simulation of Matter at Extreme Conditions - Phase Transitions Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 257A	Renata Wentzcovitch, University of Minnesota
Q26 Focus Session: Computational Frontiers in Quantum Spin Systems I Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 257B	Anders Sandvik, Boston University
Q27 Invited Session: DCMP Prize Session: Buckley, Isakson, MGM Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 258AB	Barbara Jones, IBM Almaden Research Center
Q28 Applications of Semiconductors, Dielectrics, Complex Oxides Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 258C	Ernesto Marinero, Hitachi Global
Q29 Focus Session: Topologically Protected Qubits II Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 259A	Roman Lutchyn, Microsoft
Q30 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits: Architecture, Tunable, and Static Coupling Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 259B	Chad Rigetti, IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY
Q31 Focus Session: Topological Insulators - Edge States Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 260	Shaffique Adam, NIST
Q32 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides - Multiferroics and Magnetoelectrics Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 261	Jens Kreisel, CNRS -- Grenoble Institute of Technology
Q33 Focus Session: X-ray and Neutron Instruments and Measurement Science Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 106	Albert Macrander, Argonne National Laboratory
Q34 Focus Session: Nano IV: Nanocatalysis Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 107A	Shiv Khanna, Virginia Commonwealth University and Gabor Somorjai, UC Berkeley
Q35 Focus Session: DFT VI: New Functional Developments Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 107B	Hardy Gross, Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics
Q36 Water and Ice Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 107C	James Skinner, University of Wisconsin
Q37 Focus Session: Students, Physics and Innovation Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 108	Randy Tagg, University of Colorado Denver
Q39 Focus Session: Materials and Functional Structures for Biological Interfaces - Micro and Nanofluidics Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 109B	Robert Riehn, North Carolina State University
Q40 Focus Session: Systems Biology and Biochemical Networks III Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 156A	Lei-Han Tang, Hong Kong Baptist University
Q41 Biofluids Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 156B	Saverio Spagnolie, Brown University
Q42 Focus Session: Stochastic Population Dynamics II - Games and Spatial Dynamics Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 156C	Michel Pleimling and Uwe Tauber, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Q43 Invited Session: Techniques to Study Dynamic Cellular Processes One Molecule at a Time (Including Delbruck Award Lecture) Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 157AB	Steve Kowalczykowski and Daniel Cox, University of California, Davis
Q44 Focus Session: Interparticle Interactions in Polymer Nanocomposites - Transport and Dynamics Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 157C	Mohan Srinivasarao, Georgia Institute of Technology
Q45 Elastomers and Gels Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 159	Jan-Michael Carrillo, University of Connecticut
Q46 Invited Session: Quantum Information Processing in Diamond Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 160AB	Ronald Hanson, TU Delft
Q47 Focus Session: DNA-Coated Colloid Particles Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 160C	Dmytro Nykypanchuk, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Q48 Polymer Blends and Crystallization Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 161	Ryan Howard, University of Massachusetts
Q49 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Photophysics and Excited State Dynamics Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 162A	Russell Holmes, University of Minnesota
Q50 Focus Session: Dynamics of Polymers: Phenomena due to Confinement II Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 162B	Christopher Ellison, University of Texas at Austin
Q51 Gels, Complex Fluids and Vesicles Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 154 Boston Convention Center	Jeff Urbach, Georgetown University
Q52 Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics - Shells & Snapping Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 153C	Dominic Vella, Oxford University
Q53 Packing, Self-Assembly, and Granular Memory Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 153B	Salvatore Torquato, Princeton University
Q54 Superconductivity: Mesoscopic and Nanometer Scale Feb 29 2012 11:15AM 152	Vladimir Orlyanchik, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
T1 Hybrid Systems, Optomechanics and Macroscopic Systems at the Quantum Limit II Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 203	Ofer Firstenberg, Harvard University
T2 Invited Session: PIRE in Condensed Matter Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 204AB	Joan Frye, National Science Foundation
T4 Vortices, Rotation, and Synthetic Gauge Fields Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 205C	Ross Williams, JQI
T5 Assembly of Atoms and Molecules in Adsorption Systems Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 206A	Daniel Dougherty, North Carolina State University
T6 Focus Session: Graphene Devices - Spin, Charge, and Superconductivity Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 206B	Daniel Gunlycke, Naval Research Laboratory
T7 Focus Session: Computational Design of Materials: Electronic Structure Methods for Materials - Faster and More Accurate Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 207	Vanessa Ortiz, Columbia University
T8 Focus Session: Helical Phases and Skyrmions Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 208	Oleg Tchernyshyov, Johns Hopkins University
T9 Focus Session: Magnetic Oxide Thin Films And Heterostructures - Interactions at Interfaces and in Superlattices Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 209	Suzanne te Velthuis, Argonne National Laboratory
T10 Invited Session: Earth-Abundant Materials for Critical Technologies Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 210A	Phillip Duxbury, Michigan State University
T11 Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Stacking, Interactions: Twisted Layers Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 210B	Gene Mele, University of Pennsylvania
T12 Focus Session: Graphene: Growth, Mechanical Exfoliation, and Properties - CVD on Metals Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 210C	Matthias Batzill, University of South Florida
T13 Focus Session: Low-Dimensional and Molecular Magnetism - Molecular Ferromagnetism and 2D Magnetism Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 211	Philip Stamp, University of British Columbia
T14 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Spins and Edge States Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 212	Yuli Lyanda-Geller, Purdue University
T15 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanostructures-Exchange Bias and Exchange-Coupled Systems Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 213	David Lederman, West Virginia University
T16 Kondo Lattice Theory Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 251	Ilya Vekhter, Louisiana State University
T17 Focus Session: Electron, Ion, and Exciton Transport in Nanostructures - Quantum Transport II Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 252A	Dibyendu Roy, University of Cincinnati
T18 Focus Session: Interfaces in Complex Oxides - Superconductivity and Magnetism at Interfaces Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 252B	Jean-Marc Triscone, Universite de Geneve
T19 Kavli Foundation Special Session: Emergent Physics at the Mesoscale Feb 29 2012 2:30PM Ballroom East	Kate Kirby, American Physical Society
T20 Invited Session: Advanced Characterization of Transistor Gate Stacks and Interfaces Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 253C	Chris Van Der Walle, University of California, Santa Barbara
T21 Magnetic Ordering and Dynamics in Cuprates Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 254A	Anna Llobet, Los Alamos National Laboratory
T22 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductivity - Properties of 122 phases Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 254B	Mark Lumsden, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
T23 Actinides and Transport Magnetism in Metals Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 255	Valentino Cooper, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
T24 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect III Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 256	Rui-Rui Du, Rice University
T25 High Pressure: Theory Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 257A	Xiaojia Chen, Carnegie Institution of Washington
T26 Focus Session: Computational Frontiers in Quantum Spin Systems II Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 257B	Hans Gerd Evertz, Technical University of Graz
T28 Semiconductors Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 258C	Loren Pfeiffer, Princeton University
T29 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits - Coherent Control, Decoherence, and Relaxation Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 259A	Charles Tahan, Laboratory for Physical Sciences
T30 Quantum Algorithms Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 259B	Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Harvard University
T31 Focus Session: Topological Insulators: Synthesis and Characterization - Spin Transport and Superconductivity Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 260	Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
T32 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides - Manganites Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 261	Vivien Zapf, Los Alamos National Laboratory
T35 Focus Session: Plyler Award Symposium Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 107B	Birgitta Whaley, University of California, Berkeley
T37 Physics Education Research and Resources Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 108	Thomas Olsen, SPS/AIP
T40 Focus Session: Cytoskeleton and Biomechanics - Forced Dynamics Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 156A	Helim Aranda-Espinoza, University of Maryland
T41 Swimming, Motility and Locomotion Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 156B	Paolo Arratia, University of Pennsylvania
T42 Focus Session: Evolutionary Systems Biology III - Evolutionary Games Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 156C	Ralf Bundschuh, Ohio State University
T44 Focus Session: Interparticle Interactions in Polymer Nanocomposites - Grafted Chains Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 157C	Mesfin Tsige, University of Akron
T45 Polymeric Glasses Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 159	James Runt, Pennsylvania State University
T46 Invited Session: Keithley Award Session: Photoacoustic and Photothermal Measurement Science Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 160AB	Terrence Jach, National Institute of Standards and Technology
T47 Focus Session: Heterogeneous Colloids I Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 160C	Michael Engel, University of Michigan
T48 Focus Session: Advanced Optical Probes of Soft Matter - Microrheology, Microbiography Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 161	Daneil Ou-Yang, Lehigh University
T49 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics: Structure - Property Correlations Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 162A	Dean DeLongchamp, NIST
T50 Focus Session: Phase Behavior and Structure in Copolymers Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 162B	Megan Robertson, University of Houston
T52 Non-equilibrium Systems, Especially using Fluctuation Theorems and Fluctuation-Dissipation Relations Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 153C	Michel Pleimling, Virginia Tech
T53 Focus Session: Wave Propagation in Strongly Scattering Media Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 153B	Steven Anlage, University of Maryland
T54 Superconductivity: Mostly Spectroscopy and Pairing Feb 29 2012 2:30PM 152	David Tanner, University of Florida
U20 Town Hall Meeting: Mesoscopic Materials and Chemistry Feb 29 2012 5:45PM 253C	Marc Kastner (MIT) and Bill Barletta (MIT), Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee
U60 ``Trends" in the APS Publication Physics Feb 29 2012 7:30PM Grand Ballroom A/B Westin Boston Waterfront	Samindranath Mitra, American Physical Society
V1 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy III: SPM of Single Atoms & Molecules Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 203	Frances Niestemski, Stanford University
V2 Invited Session: Spin Caloritronics of Magnetic Structures and Devices Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 204AB	Gerrit E. W. Bauer, Delft University of Technology
V3 Invited Session: Spin Fluctuations and Cooper Pairing in Unconventional Superconductors Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 205AB	Assa Auerbach, Technion
V4 Bosons and Fermions in Optical Lattices Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 205C	Emanuele Dalla Torre, Harvard University
V5 Surface Electronic & Lattice Properties: Structure, Surface States, & Adsorption Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 206A	Ted Einstein, U. of Maryland, College Park
V6 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotube Optics I: Spectroscopy and Excitons Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 206B	Philip Collins, University of California, Irvine
V7 Focus Session: Computational Design of Materials - Engineering of Electronic Structure Materials Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 207	Serdar Ogut, University of Illinois at Chicago
V8 Focus Session: Frustrated Magnetism - Kagome II Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 208	Joe Helton, NIST
V9 Focus Session: Magnetic Oxide Thin Films And Heterostructures - Transport Properties Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 209	Alex de Lozanne, University of Texas at Austin
V10 Invited Session: Quantum Entanglement in Many-Body Systems Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 210A	John Preskill, California Institute of Technology
V11 Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Stacking, Interactions: Edges and Grain Boundaries Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 210B	Aaron Bostwick, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
V12 Graphene: Optical Properties and Responses Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 210C	Larry Carr, Brookhaven National Laboratory
V13 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanostructures-Domain Walls Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 211	Laura Lewis, Northeastern University
V14 Focus Session: Spins in Carbon - Spins and Magnetism in Carbon Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 212	Jian Shen, Fudan University
V16 Heavy Fermions- 1-1-5 Systems and Others Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 251	Deepak Singh, NIST
V17 Focus Session: Electron, Ion, and Exciton Transport in Nanostructures - Junctions Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 252A	Kevin Ingersent, University of Florida and Douglas Natelson, Rice University
V18 Focus Session: Interfaces in Complex Oxides - Interface and Surface Conductivity in SrTiO3 Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 252B	Stefano Gariglio, Universite de Geneve
V19 Invited Session: Holography and Strongly Correlated Electron Matter Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 253AB	Subir Sachdev, Harvard University
V20 Invited Session: High k Dielectrics for High Carrier Mobility Channel Applications Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 253C	Jueinai Kwo, National Tsing Hua University
V21 Superconductivity: Mostly Cuprates Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 254A	Despina Louca, University of Virginia
V22 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors - Magnetism and Anisotropy Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 254B	Rafael Fernandes, Columbia University
V23 Superconductivity: Mostly Transport Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 255	Wankyu Park, UI-urbana champaign
V24 Low-Dimensional Semiconductors Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 256	Enrico Bellotti, Boston University
V25 High Pressure: Experiment Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 257A	Anatoly Belonoshko, Royal Institute of Technology
V26 Focus Session: Computational Frontiers in Quantum Spin Systems III Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 257B	Stefan Wessel, Aachen University
V27 Invited Session: Flexible and Rolled Up Semiconductor Nanomembranes Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 258AB	Pablo Bianucci, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
V28 Semiconductor Defects and Doping Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 258C	Walter Lambrecht, Case Western Reserve University
V29 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits: Epitaxial Junctions and Two-Level Systems Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 259A	Hanhee Paik, Yale University
V30 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits - Measurement Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 259B	Mark Gyure, HRL
V31 Focus Session: Topological Insulators: Synthesis & Characterization - ARPES Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 260	Zahid Hasan, Princeton University
V32 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides - Interfaces, Layered Materials, and Growth Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 261	Matthew Dawber, SUNY Stony Brook
V34 Focus Session: Impact of Ultrafast Lasers V: Applications II Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 107A	Amber Krummel, Colorado State University
V35 Focus Session: DFT VII: Time-Dependent Processes I: Driven Systems Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 107B	Adam Wasserman, Purdue University
V36 General Chemical Physics Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 107C	David Leitner, University of Nevada, Reno
V37 Topological Insulators: Magnetoelectric Effect, Control, and Dynamics Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 108	Liang Fu, Harvard University
V40 Focus Session: Single Molecule Biological Physics - Proteins Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 156A	Everett Lipman, University of California, Santa Barbara
V41 Focus Session: Physics of Proteins I: Dynamics and Function Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 156B	Aihua Xie, Oklahoma State University
V42 Focus Session: Systems Biology - Stochastic Gene Expression Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 156C	Stephen Hagen, University of Florida, Physics Dept
V43 Invited Session: Entrepreneurship - The Quest for Start-Up Success Based on Research Advances Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 157AB	John M. Newsam, Windhover Ventures LLC
V44 Focus Session: Interparticle Interactions in Polymer Nanocomposites - Surface Interactions Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 157C	Dilip Gersappe, SUNY Stony Brook
V45 Soft Matter Physics of Heterogeneous Membranes - Experiments Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 159	Gary Grest, Sandia National Laboratories
V46 Invited Session: Active Matter and Dynamical Systems Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 160AB	Cristina Marchetti, Syracuse University
V47 Focus Session: Heterogeneous Colloids II Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 160C	David Pine, New York University
V48 Focus Session: Advanced Optical Probes of Soft Matter - Forces, Imaging, Excitons Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 161	Maria Kilfoil, University of Massachusetts
V49 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Solar Cells and Light Emitting Devices Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 162A	Garry Rumbles, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
V50 Structure and Properties of Copolymers Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 162B	Bradley Olsen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
V52 Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics - Biological Systems and Structures Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 153C	Jacy Bird, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
V53 Wet and Cohesive Granular Materials Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 153B	Arshad Kudrolli, Clark University
V54 Superconductivity: Magnetic Field Effects Including Vortex Related Phenomena (Theory) Mar 1 2012 8:00AM 152	David Singh, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
W1 Photonic Systems and Entanglement Generation Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 203	Mohammad Hafezi, Joint Quantum Insitute, University of Maryland
W2 Invited Session: Instrumentation and Measurement Science for Energy Research: PV and Batteries Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 204AB	Daniel Johnstone, Semetrol and Wilhelmus Geerts, Texas State University, San Marcos
W3 Invited Session: Fractional Topological Insulators Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 205AB	Shou Cheng Zhang, Stanford University
W4 Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 205C	Alexey Gorshkov, Institute for Quantum Information, California Institute of Technology
W5 Thin Film Growth and Processing Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 206A	Laurent Henn-Lecordier, Cambridge Nanotechnologies
W6 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotube Synthesis, Structure and Defects Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 206B	David Tomanek, Michigan State University
W7 Focus Session: Graphene Devices - Mechanical Effects Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 207	Kirill Bolotin, Vanderbilt University
W8 Focus Session: Frustrated Magnetism - Pyrochlore lattice Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 208	Chris Wiebe, University of Winnipeg
W9 Focus Session: Complex Bulk Oxides: Multiferroics Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 209	Pat Woodward, Ohio State University
W10 Invited Session: Novel Bose-Einstein Condensates: Photons, Excitons, Magnons, Rydberg Atoms, and Polar Molecules Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 210A	Martin Weitz, Institute fuer Angewandte Physik, Universitaet Bonn
W11 Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Stacking, Interactions: Local Probes and Microscopy Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 210B	Phillip First, Georgia Institue of Technology
W12 Focus Session: Graphene: Growth, Mechanical Exfoliation, and Properties - Exfoliation and Doping Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 210C	Christopher Russo, Harvard University
W13 Focus Session: Low-Dimensional and Molecular Magnetism - Metallorganics and Spincrossover Molecular Magnets Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 211	Richard Klemm, University of Central Florida
W14 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Ferromagnetism and Spin Dynamics in Semiconductors Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 212	John Peters, Northwestern University
W15 Focus Session: Spins in Metals - Domain Wall, Vortex, Magnonic Based Devices Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 213	Peter Fischer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
W16 Quantum Criticality Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 251	Kevin Bedell, Boston College
W17 Optics of Semiconductor Nanowires Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 252A	Steve Erwin, Naval Research Laboratory
W18 Focus Session: Interfaces in Complex Oxides - Devices and Nanostructures Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 252B	Beom Eom, University of Wisconsin
W19 Invited Session: Spin Coupling and Kondo Screening in Individual Magnetic Spins Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 253AB	Andreas Heinrich, IBM Almaden Research Center
W20 Invited Session: Nuclear Power, One Year After Fukushima Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 253C	David Wright, Union of Concerned Scientists
W21 Focus Session: Search for New Superconductors- Electron-Phonon Coupling Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 254A	Amy Liu, Georgetown University
W22 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductivity - Magnetism in AxFe(1-y)Se2 Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 254B	John Tranquada, Brookhaven National Laboratory
W23 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors - AFeAs and RFeAsO Families Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 255	Peter Hirschfeld, University of Florida
W24 Integer Quantum Hall Effect Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 256	Michael Zudov, University of Minnesota
W25 Focus Session: Modeling of Rare Events: Methods and Applications I Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 257A	Weinan E, Department of Mathematics and Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University
W26 Focus Session: What is Computational Physics? New Technologies and Their Application Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 257B	Timothy Germann, Los Alamos National Laboratory
W27 Invited Session: Electrons, Spins, and Collective Modes in Nanofilms Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 258AB	Patricia Thiel, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory
W29 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits: Resonators and Loss Mechanisms Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 259A	Kevin Osborn, Laboratory for Physical Sciences, College Park, MD
W30 Quantum Entanglement Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 259B	Gerardo Adesso, University of Nottigham
W31 Focus Session: Topological Insulators: Synthesis & Characterization - Quantum Transport & Nanostructures Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 260	Seongshik Oh, Rutgers University
W32 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides - Bandgaps, Surfaces, Oxides on Semiconductors Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 261	Nicole Benedek, Cornell University
W33 Physics of Hydrogen Production, Storage, Delivery Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 106	Peter Pfeifer, University of Missouri
W34 Focus Session: Nano V: Nanoscale Materials and Properties II Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 107A	Shiv Khanna, Virginia Commonwealth University and Gabor Somorjai, UC Berkeley
W35 Focus Session: DFT VIII: Time-Dependent Processes II: Excitations Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 107B	Neepa Maitra, Hunter College, CUNY
W37 Topological Insulators: Fractionalization Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 108	So Takei, University of Maryland
W39 Focus Session: Materials and Functional Structures for Biological Interfaces: Cells Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 109B	Robert Ros, Arizona State University
W40 Focus Session: Single Molecule Biological Physics - Nucleic acids and Proteins Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 156A	Eric Greene, Columbia University and Jennifer Ross, University of Massachusetts
W41 Focus Session: Quantum Coherence in Biological Systems Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 156B	Birgitta Whaley, University of California, Berkeley
W42 Focus Session: The Physics of Genome Folding I: Fractal Globules and Condensed Polymer States Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 156C	Erez Lieberman Aiden, Harvard Society of Fellows
W43 Invited Session: Physical Mechanisms of Collective Microbial Dynamics Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 157AB	Lev Tsimring, University of California, San Diego
W44 Focus Session: Interparticle Interactions in Polymer Nanocomposites - Mechanical, Electrical, and Optical Properties Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 157C	Alfredo Alexander-Katz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
W45 Focus Session: Soft Matter Physics of Heterogeneous Membranes - Theory and Simulation Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 159	Philip Pincus, University of California, Santa Barbara
W46 Invited Session: Silicon Spin Qubits: Relaxation and Decoherence Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 160AB	Mark Eriksson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
W47 Focus Session: Polymers for Energy Storage and Conversion - Fundamentals of Ion Transport Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 160C	Evren Ozcam, University of California, Berkeley
W48 New Experimental, Theoretical, and Computational Methods in Polymer and Soft Matter Physics Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 161	Joanne Budzien, Frostburg State University
W49 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Thin Film Transistors Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 162A	Oana Jurchescu, Wake Forest University and Saiful Khondaker, University of Central Florida
W50 Focus Session: Micro and Nano Fluidics I: Devices and Applications Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 162B	Dongshin Kim, Brandeis University
W52 Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics - Fluid-Structure Interactions and Swelling Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 153C	Prashant Purohit, University of Pennsylvania
W53 Focus Session: Common Features of Soft Materials: Polymers, Colloids and Granular Media I Mar 1 2012 11:15AM 153B	Robert Hoy, Yale University
X1 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy IV: New Instrumentation & Techniques Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 203	Alex de Lozanne, University of Texas at Austin
X2 Invited Session: History of Metrology and Today's Frontiers of Measurement Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 204AB	Richard Davis, BIPM
X3 Invited Session: Full Counting Statistics, Fluctuation Theorems, and Many-Body Entanglement Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 205AB	Andrew Jordan, University of Rochester
X4 Focus Session: Quantum Quench Dynamics in Cold Atom Systems Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 205C	Anatoli Polkovnikov, Boston University
X5 Structure and Formation of Oxide Surfaces and Interfaces Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 206A	Michael Pierce, Rochester Institute of Technology
X6 Carbon Nanotube Optics II: Absorption and Raman Spectroscopy Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 206B	Steve Cronin, University of Southern California
X7 Electronic, Structural and Chemical Properties of Non-Carbon Nanotubes and Nanowires Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 207	Paul McIntyre, Stanford University
X8 Focus Session: Frustrated Magnetism - Theory Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 208	Mike Zhitomirsky, CEA
X9 Focus Session: Complex Bulk Oxides: Magnetic Phase Transitions Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 209	Mohit Randeria, Ohio State University
X10 Invited Session: Thermal Properties and Electron-Phonon Coupling from First Principles Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 210A	Anderson Janotti, University of California, Santa Barbara
X11 Focus Session: Graphene Structure, Stacking, Interactions: Twisting, Stretching, Folding, Wrinkling Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 210B	Jeanie Lau, University of California, Riverside
X12 Focus Session: Graphene: Growth, Mechanical Exfoliation, and Properties - Morphology and Interactions Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 210C	Luigi Colombo, Texas Instruments
X13 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanostructures-Hard Magnetic Materials and Magnetocaloric Materials Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 211	Sam Jiang, Argonne National Laboratory
X14 Focus Session: Spins in Semiconductors - Spin-Orbit Interaction and Relaxation in Si and Ge Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 212	Nicholas Harmon, University of Iowa
X15 Focus Session: Spin and Dynamics in Metal, Resonance Phenomena II: FMR in Magnetic Nanostructures Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 213	Xin Fan, University of Delaware
X16 Manganites: Perovskite and Bilayer Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 251	Mark Golden, University of Amsterdam
X17 Focus Session: Nanostructures and Metamaterials, Growth, Structure, and Characterization -- Improved Materials and Applications II Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 252A	Luca Dal Negro, Boston University
X18 Growth and Properties of Nanoparticles and Nanowires Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 252B	Matthew McCluskey, Washington State University
X19 Invited Session: Two Dimensional Electron Systems at Oxide Interfaces Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 253AB	Maitri Warusawithana, Florida State University
X20 Invited Session: Physics of Color Reflective Displays Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 253C	Gary Gibson, Hewlett Packard - Palo Alto
X21 Fluctuation Phenomena (noise, nonequilibrium effects, localization effects) Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 254A	Carmen Almasan
X22 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors - Exchange Coupling Theory Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 254B	Thomas Maier, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
X23 Magnetic Field Effects: Experimental II Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 255	Milind Kunchur, University of South Carolina
X24 Electronic Structure: Quantum Monte Carlo Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 256	Jonathan Dubois, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
X25 Focus Session: Modeling of Rare Events: Methods and Applications II Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 257A	Amit Samanta, Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University
X26 Focus Session: Non-Adiabatic Dynamics in Irradiated Materials Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 257B	Alfredo Caro, Los Alamos National Laboratory
X27 Invited Session: Physics for Everyone: Innovative Materials for Energy Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 258AB	David Cahill, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champain
X29 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits - Managing or Eliminating Nuclei Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 259A	Thaddeus Ladd, HRL
X30 Focus Session: Quantum Information for Quantum Foundations - Foundational Experiments and Experimental Proposals Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 259B	Christopher Fuchs, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
X31 Focus Session: Topological Insulators: Synthesis and Characterization - Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 260	Ali Yazdani, Princeton University
X32 Focus Session: Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides - Elastic and Optical Properties Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 261	Marty Gregg, Queen's University Belfast
X33 Focus Session: X-ray, Gamma Ray, and Electron Diffraction Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 106	Zahir Islam, Argonne National Laboratory
X34 Focus Session: Nano VI: Junctions and Transport Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 107A	Shiv Khanna, Virginia Commonwealth University and Gabor Somorjai, UC Berkeley
X39 Focus Session: Materials and Functional Structures for Biological Interfaces - Nanoscale Materials Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 109B	Marcella Chiari, ICRM, Italy
X40 Focus Session: Single Molecule Biological Physics - Nucleic Acids Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 156A	Lori Goldner and Jennifer Ross, University of Massachusetts
X41 Focus Session: Physics of Proteins II: Folding and Structure Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 156B	Ruhong Zhou, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
X42 Focus Session: The Physics of Genome Folding II: Chromosomes and Nucleosomes Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 156C	Erez Lieberman Aiden, Harvard Society of Fellows
X43 Invited Session: Bacterial Swimming and Chemotaxis Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 157AB	Jay X. Tang, Brown University
X44 Focus Session: Directed Assembly of Hybrid Materials - Nanoparticles in Micelles Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 157C	Lynden Archer, Cornell University
X45 Focus Session: Soft Matter Physics of Drops, Bubbles, Foams, and Emulsions - Droplet spreading, colliding, wetting Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 159	Esther Amstad, Harvard University
X46 Invited Session: Deformation and Fracture of Soft Materials Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 160AB	Kenneth Shull, Northwestern University
X47 Focus Session: Polymers for Energy Storage and Conversion - Nanostructures and Phase Separated Morphologies Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 160C	Bryan Boudouris, Purdue University
X48 Focus Session: Statistical Physics of Active Systems Away From Detailed Balance: Cytoskeleton, Flagella, and All That Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 161	Michael Hagan, Brandeis University
X49 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Polymer Dielectrics and Charge Transport Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 162A	Peter Green, University of Michigan
X50 Focus Session: Micro and Nano Fluidics II: Structured or Active Surfaces and Electrotransport Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 162B	Anna Balazs, University of Pittsburgh
X52 Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics - Fracture, Friction, and Frequencies Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 153C	Karin Dahmen, University of Illinois
X53 Focus Session: Common Features of Soft Materials: Polymers, Colloids and Granular Media II Mar 1 2012 2:30PM 153B	Joerg Rottler, University of British Columbia
Y1 Measurement Science from Optics through Thermodynamics Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 203	Albert Migliori, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Y2 Invited Session: Magnetic Materials and Magnetism Research for Energy Applications Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 204AB	Dario Arena, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Y3 Invited Session: Competing Phases and Quantum Criticality in Strongly Correlated Systems Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 205AB	Piers Coleman, Rutgers University
Y5 Optical Properties and Excitations in Semiconductor Quantum Dots Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 206A	Eric Stinaff, Ohio University
Y6 Carbon Nanotubes: Devices, Capacitors and Other Applications Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 206B	Mauricio Terrones, Pennsylvania State University
Y7 Glassy Metallic, Semiconductor, Oxide and Chalcogenide Systems Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 207	Punit Boolchand, University of Cincinnati
Y8 Focus Session: Frustrated Magnetism - Experiment Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 208	Benjamin Ueland, Los Alamos National Lab
Y9 Focus Session: Complex Bulk Oxide: Orbital Physics Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 209	David Vanderbilt, Rutgers University
Y10 Invited Session: Modeling & Simulation of the Impact of Space Radiation on Electronic Systems (Avionic and Astronautic) Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 210A	William Atkinson, Boeing Company
Y11 Focus Session: Graphene Devices - Fabrication Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 210B	Hyun-Jong Chung, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology
Y12 Graphene: Electronic Structure and Interactions - STM and Nanoribbons Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 210C	Brian LeRoy, University of Arizona
Y13 Focus Session: Low-Dimensional and Molecular Magnetism - Nanomagnetism on Surfaces - Magnetic Adatoms and Clusters Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 211	Juan Bartolome, University of Zaragoza - Spain
Y14 Focus Session: Spins in Carbon - Organic Spintronics Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 212	Roland Kawakami, University of California, Riverside
Y15 Focus Session: Spins in Metals: Spin Torque Theory, Spin Dependent Transport Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 213	Markus Eisenbach, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Y16 Strongly Correlated Electrons - Experiment and Theory Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 251	Ryan Baumbach, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Y17 Nanostructures and Interfaces: Electrons, Phonons, and Plasmons Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 252A	Evan Glaser, Naval Research Laboratory
Y18 Focus Session: Interfaces in Complex Oxides - Functional Interfaces Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 252B	J.D. Burton, University of Nebraska
Y19 Invited Session: Novel Mechanisms of Multiferrocity Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 253AB	Paolo Radaelli, Oxford University
Y20 Invited Session: New Anisotropy-Driven Phenomena in Colloidal Suspensions Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 253C	David Weitz, Harvard University
Y21 Bi-based Cuprates -- Experiment Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 254A	Kui Jin, University of Maryland
Y22 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors - Crystal Growth and New Materials Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 254B	Cedomir Petrovic, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Y23 Superconductor-Insulator Transitions Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 255	Michael Osofsky, NRL
Y24 Quantum Many-Particle Systems: DMFT & DMRG Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 256	R. Torsten Clay, Mississippi State Unviersity
Y25 Focus Session: Multiscale Modeling Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 257A	Turab Lookman, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Y26 General Theory / Computational Physics I Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 257B	Amy Bug, Swarthmore College
Y27 Invited Session: Topological Phases in Magnets Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 258AB	Achim Rosch, University of Cologne
Y29 Focus Session: Quantum Optics with Superconducting Circuits: Nonlinearity and Itinerant Microwave Photons Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 259A	Andreas Wallraff, ETH Zurich
Y30 Quantum Computing, Quantum Algorithms, and Quantum Simulation Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 259B	Liang Jiang, Caltech
Y31 Focus Session: Topological Insulators: Synthesis & Characterization - Optical & THz Spectroscopy Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 260	Kenneth Burch, University of Toronto
Y32 Topological Insulators: General Theory Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 261	Bodgan Bernevig, Princeton University
Y40 Focus Session: Cytoskeleton and Biomechanics - Role of Motors (Including DBIO Best Thesis Award Lecture) Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 156A	Arpita Upadhyaya, University of Maryland
Y41 Focus Session: Physics of Cancer III -- Imaging Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 156B	Robert Austin, Princeton University
Y42 Physics of Bacteria and Viruses Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 156C	Aparna Baskaran, Brandeis University
Y43 Invited Session: Physical Organizing Principles for Amyloid Matter: Prediction, Structure, Function Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 157AB	Daniel L. Cox, University of California, Davis
Y44 Focus Session: Directed Assembly of Hybrid Materials - Particle Organization and Arrays Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 157C	Dvora Perahia, Clemson University
Y45 Focus Session: Soft Matter Physics of Drops, Bubbles, Foams and Emulsions - Bubbles, Films, Foams Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 159	Robert Cohen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Y47 Soft Matter Physics of Biological Systems Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 160C	Maria Santore, University of Massachusetts
Y48 Focus Session: Statistical Physics of Active Systems Away From Detailed Balance: Swimmers and All That Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 161	Daniel Needleman, Harvard University
Y49 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Small Molecules and General Advances Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 162A	Richard Lunt, Michigan State University
Y50 Focus Session: Micro and Nano Fluidics III: Microtransport and Thermophysical Properties Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 162B	Ralph Sperling, Harvard University
Y52 Focus Session: Spin Glasses: Advances, Algorithms, and Applications Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 153C	Daniel Stein, New York University
Y53 Nonlinear Dynamics of Coupled Systems Mar 2 2012 8:00AM 153B	Sid Redner, Boston University
Z2 Invited Session: Active Responses of Biological Materials to Mechanical Stress Mar 2 2012 11:15AM 204AB	Allen Ehrlicher, Harvard University and Chin-Lin Guo, California Institute of Technology
Z3 Invited Session: Frontiers of Non-Equilibrium Transport Theories Mar 2 2012 11:15AM 205AB	Zhenyu Zhang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Z4 Disorder and Pairing in Ultracold Systems Mar 2 2012 11:15AM 205C	Seth Rittenhouse, ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Z5 Synthesis, Transport, and Devices Based on Artificially Structured Materials Mar 2 2012 11:15AM 206A	Alan Bristow, West Virginia University
Z6 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotube Electronics, Properties, and Devices Mar 2 2012 11:15AM 206B	Gyula Eres, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Eric Pop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Z7 Transport and Optical Properties of Non-Carbon Nanotubes and Nanowires Mar 2 2012 11:15AM 207	Xiuling Li, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Z8 Focus Session: Frustrated Magnetism - Magnetic insulators Mar 2 2012 11:15AM 208	Vesna Mitrovic, Brown University
Z9 Focus Session: Complex Bulk Oxide: General Properties Mar 2 2012 11:15AM 209	Tsuyosh Kimura, Osaka University
Z11 Focus Session: Graphene Devices - Hybrid Structures Mar 2 2012 11:15AM 210B	Saverio Russo, University of Exeter
Z12 Graphene: Electronic Structure and Interactions - Spectroscopy Mar 2 2012 11:15AM 210C	Tony Heinz, Columbia University
Z13 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanostructures-Nanoparticles and Granular Systems Mar 2 2012 11:15AM 211	Renat Sabirianov, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Z16 Disordered and other Strongly Correlated Systems Mar 2 2012 11:15AM 251	Adrian Del Maestro, University of Vermont
Z17 2D Crystals: Beyond Graphene Mar 2 2012 11:15AM 252A	Sefeattin Tongay, University of Florida
Z18 Enhanced Optical Properties Using Plasmonics, Metamaterials, and Nanoparticles Mar 2 2012 11:15AM 252B	Xiaoqin Li, University of Texas, Austin
Z19 Invited Session: Non-Abelian States in the 1st Excited Landau Level: Experimental Status and Theoretical Outlook Mar 2 2012 11:15AM 253AB	Aron Pinczuk, Columbia University
Z20 Invited Session: Optical Processes in Nitrides and Other Wide-Band-Gap Semiconductors Mar 2 2012 11:15AM 253C	Joel Ager, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Z22 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors - Orbital Order and Chalcogenides Mar 2 2012 11:15AM 254B	Tom Devereaux, Stanford University
Z23 Superconductivity: Magnetic Field & Vortex Related (Experimental) Mar 2 2012 11:15AM 255	Michael Bleiweiss, Naval Academy Preparatory School
Z26 General Theory / Computational Physics II Mar 2 2012 11:15AM 257B	Timothy Germann, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Z27 Invited Session: Interaction Driven Broken Symmetry States in Bilayer Graphene Mar 2 2012 11:15AM 258AB	Allan MacDonald, University of Texas at Austin
Z29 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits: Noise and Anomalous Temperature Mar 2 2012 11:15AM 259A	Will Oliver, MIT/ Lincoln Laboratory
Z30 Focus Session: Quantum Information for Quantum Foundations - Quantumness versus Classicality Mar 2 2012 11:15AM 259B	Philip Goyal, University of Albany
Z31 Topological Insulators: Junctions and Interfaces Mar 2 2012 11:15AM 260	Shoucheng Zhang, Stanford University
Z32 Topological Insulators: General Theory II Mar 2 2012 11:15AM 261	Jens Bardarson, University of California, Berkeley
Z40 Biomechanics - Organismic Motion Mar 2 2012 11:15AM 156A	James Valles, Brown University
Z41 Focus Session: Non-Covalent Protein Interactions Mar 2 2012 11:15AM 156B	Corey O'Hern, Yale University
Z42 Focus Session: Physics of Biomaterials: Mechanics, Dynamics, and Transport Mar 2 2012 11:15AM 156C	Lester Hedges, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Z43 Invited Session: Applications of Jamming Mar 2 2012 11:15AM 157AB	Lisa Manning, Syracuse University
Z46 Invited Session: Self-Assembly of Proteins: From Capsids to Crystals Mar 2 2012 11:15AM 160AB	Steve Whitelam, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Mike Hagan, Brandeis University
Z47 Self-Assembly and Polymer Composites Mar 2 2012 11:15AM 160C	Lutz Wiegart, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Z48 Focus Session: Statistical Physics of Active Systems Away from Detailed Balance; Motors, Swimmers and All That Mar 2 2012 11:15AM 161	Alexander Grosberg, New York University
Z50 Focus Session: Micro and Nano Fluidics IV: Emulsions and Complex Fluids Mar 2 2012 11:15AM 162B	Laura Adams, Harvard University

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APS March Meeting 2012

Volume 57, Number 1

Monday–Friday, February 27–March 2 2012; Boston, Massachusetts

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