Mar 17 2013 2:30PM, Sunday

1A Industrial Physics Forum: Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Room: Ballroom IV Chair: David Seiler, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Robert Colwell,  Mason Peck,  Hubert Lakner,  Jason Cleveland,  Robert Doering  

Mar 18 2013 8:00AM, Monday

A1 Invited Session: Spin Caloritronics
Room: Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP GMAG Chair: Kai Liu, University of California, Davis
Invited Speakers:  Eiji Saitoh,  Ssu-Yen Huang,  Barry Zink,  Tero Heikkila,  Axel Hoffmann  

A2 Invited Session: Novel Superconductivity in FE Selenide Superconductors
Room: Ballroom II Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Douglas Scalapino, University of California at Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Igor Mazin,  Xucun Ma,  Shaolong He,  Dung-Hai Lee,  Jiangping Hu  

A3 Invited Session: Second Landau Level: Quantum Phases
Room: Ballroom III Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Loren Pfeiffer, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Ursula Wurstbauer,  W. Pan,  Steven Simon,  Michael Manfra,  Jainendra Jain  

A4 Industrial Physics Forum: Frontiers in Physics
Room: Ballroom IV Chair: David Seiler, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Michael Tuts,  Collin Broholm,  Matthias Steffen,  Daniel Fabricant,  Mildred Dresselhaus  

A5 Focus Session: Van der Waals Bonding in Advanced Materials - Materials Behavior
Room: 301 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Roberto Car, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Latha Venkataraman  

A6 Topological Insulators: Novel States in Topological Insulators
Room: 302 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Tudor Stanescu, West Virginia University

A7 Focus Session: Graphene Devices I
Room: 303 Sponsor: DMP Chair: K.C. Fong, Caltech
Invited Speakers:  Monica Allen  

A8 Graphene: Quantum Hall Effect
Room: 307 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Herb Fertig, Indiana University

A9 Invited Session: Teaching Physics and Other STEM Subjects in an Urban Environment
Room: 308 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Mel Sabella, Chicago State University
Invited Speakers:  Richard Steinberg,  Cody Sandifer,  Rosalind Echols,  Anne Spence,  Gale Seiler  

A10 Invited Session: Hard and Soft Materials Modeling, Simulations and Big Data
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Priya Vashishta, University of Southern California
Invited Speakers:  Roberto Car,  William Goddard,  Gary S. Grest,  Rajiv Kalia,  Efthimios Kaxiras  

A11 Invited Session: Directed Assembly of Hybrid Materials
Room: 310 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Richard Vaia, Air Force Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Andrea Tao,  Arthi Jayaraman,  Dimitris Vlassopoulos,  Peter Mirau,  Alfons van Blaaderen  

A12 Focus Session: Complex Oxide Interfaces - Nickelates
Room: 314 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Prasana Balachandran, Drexel University
Invited Speakers:  Gregory A. Fiete,  Andrea Caviglia  

A13 Focus Session: Topological Materials - Magnetic Topological Insulators
Room: 315 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Fhurer, Monash University
Invited Speakers:  Suyang Xu  

A14 Focus Session: Perovskite Cobaltite & Titanate Heterostructures
Room: 316 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Chris Leighton, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Susanne Stemmer  

A15 Focus Session: Exchange Bias and Magnetic Interfaces
Room: 317 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Igor Roshchin, Texas A&M University
Invited Speakers:  Sujoy Roy  

A16 Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Physics in Organic Compounds
Room: 318 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Christoph Boehme, University of Utah
Invited Speakers:  Bert Koopmans,  Z. Valy Vardeny  

A17 Focus Session: Multiferroic Skyrmions
Room: 319 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Nicholas Butch, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Shinichiro Seki  

A18 Focus Session: Spin-transfer Torque: Devices and Dynamics
Room: 320 Sponsor: DMP FIAP GMAG Chair: Dan Ralph, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  Johan {\AA}kerman,  Huanlong Liu  

A19 Metal-Insulator Transitions: Iridiates and Heterostructures - Experiment & Theory
Room: 321 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Dennis Drew, University of Maryland

A20 Focus Session: Metamaterials
Room: 322 Sponsor: DMP Chair: John Pendry, Imperial College London
Invited Speakers:  Mario Silveirinha  

A21 Focus Session: New Ferroelectrics and Ferroelectric Mechanisms
Room: 323 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Eric Bousquet, Universite de Liege
Invited Speakers:  Philippe Ghosez,  Joseph Bennett  

A22 Organic Conductors & Other Correlated Electron Systems
Room: 324 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Claude Bourbonnais, Universite de Sherbrooke

A23 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors I
Room: 325 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Marek Skowronski, Carnagie Melon University
Invited Speakers:  Gerd Duscher  

A24 Novel Technologies and Algorithms
Room: 326 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Brandon Cook, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A25 Superconducting Qubits: Magnetic Flux and Vortex Noise on Qubits and Resonators, Quasiparticles, and Qubit-Resonator Designs
Room: 327 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Britton Plourde, Syracuse University

A26 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits - Optical Hybridization
Room: 328 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Thaddeus Ladd, HRL Laboratories, LLC
Invited Speakers:  Atac Imamoglu  

A27 Focus Session: Adiabatic Quantum Computing I
Room: 329 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Sergio Boixo, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
Invited Speakers:  Grant Biedermann,  Sergio Boixo  

A28 Focus Session: Statistical Physics of Active Systems Away from Detailed Balance
Room: 336 Chair: Aparna Baskaran, Brandeis University
Invited Speakers:  Julien Tailleur,  Jeremie Palacci  

A29 Three Dimensional Topological Insulators: Chalcogenides
Room: 337 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Cihan Kurter, University of Illinois

A30 Colloids: Diffusion and Transport
Room: 338 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Kazem Edmond, New York University

A31 Polymer Membranes for Clean Energy and Water I
Room: 339 Sponsor: DPOLY GERA Chair: Xinran Zhang, Georgetown University

A32 Focus Session: Crystallization and Directed Assembly of Multicomponent Systems
Room: 340 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Christopher Li, Drexel University
Invited Speakers:  Thomas Russell  

A33 Focus Session: Dielectric and Ferroelectric Polymers for Electrical Applications: Dielectrics
Room: 341 Sponsor: DPOLY DMP Chair: Lei Zhu, Case Western Reserve University
Invited Speakers:  Mason Wolak,  R. Ramprasad  

A34 Focus Session: Dynamics of Glassy Polymers Under Nanoscale Confinment: Glass Transition
Room: 342 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Robert Riggleman, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Rodney Priestley  

A35 Superconductivity: Tunneling Phenomena
Room: 343 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Zasadzinski, Illinois Institute of Technology

A36 Theory and Computation of Novel Superconductivity
Room: 344 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Roser Valenti, Universitaet Frankfurt

A37 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors: Coexistence with Magnetism
Room: 345/346 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Ulrich Welp, Argonne Natl Lab
Invited Speakers:  Julien Bobroff  

A38 Focus Session: Instrumentation and Measurement Science for a Sustainable Energy Future
Room: 347 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Eric Palm, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee
Invited Speakers:  Raymond L. Orbach,  Piotr Zelenay  

A39 Focus Session: Materials in Extremes: Theory and Simulations
Room: 348 Sponsor: GSCCM DCOMP DMP Chair: Aleksey Kolmogorov, Binghamton University-SUNY
Invited Speakers:  Joseph Hooper  

A40 Focus Session: Collective Diffusion and Self Organization
Room: 349 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael S. Altman, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Tapio Ala-Nissila  

A41 Localization, Cooling, Trapping and Clocks
Room: 350 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Matthew Beeler, University of Maryland

A42 Integer Quantum Hall Effect
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 3 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: James Tse, University of Texas

A43 Focus Session: Multiscale modeling--Coarse-graining in Space and Time I
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 2 Sponsor: DCP Chair: William Noid, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Gregory Voth,  M. Scott Shell,  Juan de Pablo  

A44 Focus Session: Population and Evolutionary Dynamics I
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DBIO GSNP Chair: Michel Pleimling, Virginia Tech
Invited Speakers:  Christoph Hauert,  Joachim Krug  

A45 Focus Session: Structure and Dynamics of Biomembranes I
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 4 Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY Chair: Fredrick Heberle, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  James Kindt  

A46 SPS Undergraduate I
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 5 Sponsor: SPS Chair: Toni Sauncy, American Institute of Physics

A47 Invited Session: Excitable Dynamics in Biological Systems
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 6 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Pankaj Mehta, Boston University
Invited Speakers:  Michael Elowitz,  David Schwab,  Adrienne Fairhall,  Michael Brenner,  Wouter-Jan Rappel  

Mar 18 2013 11:15AM, Monday

B1 Invited Session: Logical Spin Qubits for Quantum Computation
Room: Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Amir Yacoby, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Michael Shulman,  Charles Marcus,  Jelena Klinovaja,  Andrew Sachrajda,  Seigo Tarucha  

B2 Invited Session: 2D Charge Ordering in Under-Doped Cuprates
Room: Ballroom II Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Zhi-Xun Shen, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Giacomo Ghiringhelli,  Stephen Hayden,  Makoto Hashimoto,  Suchitra E. Sebastian,  Albert Migliori  

B3 Invited Session: Frustration and Quantum Criticality
Room: Ballroom III Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Leon Balents, University of California at Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Gilbert G. Lonzarich,  Kazushi Kanoda,  Seung-Hun Lee,  Shivaji Sondhi,  Myriam P. Sarachik  

B4 Invited Session: Cold Atoms on Higher Orbital Bands
Room: Ballroom IV Sponsor: DAMOP DCMP Chair: Erhai Zhao, George Mason University
Invited Speakers:  Andreas Hemmerich,  Maciej Lewenstein,  Klaus Sengstock,  Xiaopeng Li,  Jian-Wei Pan  

B5 Focus Session: Van der Waals Bonding in Advanced Materials - Surfaces, Growth, and Friction
Room: 301 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jacqueline Krim, North Carolina State University
Invited Speakers:  Zhenyu Zhang  

B6 Focus Session: CVD Graphene - Growth and Characterization
Room: 302 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Luigi Colombo, Texas Instruments
Invited Speakers:  Jie Shan  

B7 Focus Session: Graphene Devices II
Room: 303 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Arthur Hebard, University of Florida
Invited Speakers:  Jinseong Heo  

B8 Focus Session: Hexagonal BN, Graphene, and Graphene Oxide Synthesis I
Room: 307 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Mauricio Terrones, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Pulickel Ajayan,  Jong-Hyun Ahn  

B9 Invited Session: FIP Symposium on the Science of Climate
Room: 308 Sponsor: FIP Chair: Eugene Chudnovsky, City University of New York - Lehman College
Invited Speakers:  Richard Lindzen,  Joanna Haigh,  Bhupendra Nath Goswami,  Darryn W. Waugh,  Francois Forget  

B10 Invited Session: Celebrating 100 Years of Physical Review at APS
Room: 309 Sponsor: FHP Chair: Don Howard, University of Notre Dame
Invited Speakers:  Martin Blume,  Robert Crease,  Daniel Kennefick,  Mark Doyle,  Gene Sprouse  

B11 Invited Session: Polymer Membranes for Clean Energy and Water II
Room: 310 Sponsor: DPOLY GERA Chair: Ali Evern Ozcam, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  William Koros,  Bruce Hinds,  Volker Abetz,  Chinedum Osuji,  William Phillip  

B12 Focus Session: Complex Oxide Interfaces - Titanates
Room: 314 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Mikel Holcomb, West Virginia University
Invited Speakers:  Javier Junquera,  Matthew Dawber  

B13 Focus Session: Topological Materials - Topological Superconductors and Half Heuslers
Room: 315 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jagadeesh Moodera, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Satoshi Sasaki  

B14 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanoparticles I
Room: 316 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Dario Arena, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Xavier Batlle  

B15 Focus Session: Spin-orbit Effects in Spin-dependent Transport and Dynamics
Room: 317 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Xin Fan, University of Delaware
Invited Speakers:  Kyung-Jin Lee  

B16 Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Physics in Graphene
Room: 318 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Minn-Tsong Lin, National Taiwan University

B17 Focus Session: Iridate Mott Insulators
Room: 319 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Stephen Wilson, Boston College
Invited Speakers:  George Jackeli  

B18 Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors - Spin Valleytronics and Spin Orbit
Room: 320 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Aubrey Hanbicki, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Xiaodong Xu  

B19 Metal Insulator transitions in Vanadates: exp/theory
Room: 321 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mumtaz Qazilbash, College of William and Mary

B20 Focus Session: Mesoscopics - Transport
Room: 322 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Yvan Bruynseraede, Catholic University-Leuven, Belgium
Invited Speakers:  John Sarrao  

B21 Focus Session: Hexagonal Ferrites and Manganites
Room: 323 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Nicole Benedek, University of Texas at Austin
Invited Speakers:  Hena Das  

B22 Nano Particles, Wires, and Cavities
Room: 324 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sergio Ulloa, Ohio University

B23 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors II
Room: 325 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Gerd J. Duscher, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Invited Speakers:  John L. Lyons  

B24 Focus Session: Materials in Extremes: High-Strain-Rate Phenomena
Room: 326 Sponsor: GSCCM DCOMP DMP Chair: Igor Schweigert, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Jonathan Crowhurst,  Evan Reed  

B25 Superconducting Qubits: Loss Mechanisms (TLS) and Novel Materials
Room: 327 Sponsor: GQI Chair: David Pappas, National Institute of Standards and Technology

B26 Focus Session: Quantum Characterization, Verification, and Validation I
Room: 328 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Charles Tahan, Laboratory for Physical Sciences
Invited Speakers:  Steve Flammia,  Thomas Monz  

B27 Focus Session: Adiabatic Quantum Computing II
Room: 329 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Sergio Boixo, University of Southern California
Invited Speakers:  Rolando Somma,  Itay Hen  

B28 Focus Session: Statistical Physics of Active Systems Away from Detailed Balance: Motors, Swimmers and All That
Room: 336 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Alexander Grosberg, New York University
Invited Speakers:  Thomas Risler  

B29 Fluctuations in Non-Equilibrium Systems
Room: 337 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Chris Jarzynski, University of Maryland

B30 Colloids: Transitions and Structures
Room: 338 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Piotr Habdas, St. Joseph's University

B31 Focus Session: Nano to Meso-Scale Structure in Ordered Soft Matter: Liquid Crystal Structure, Dynamics and Function I
Room: 339 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Alberto Fernandez de las Nieves, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  James Adams  

B32 Focus Session: Polymer Crystallization and Morphology
Room: 340 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Xinfei Yu, NIST
Invited Speakers:  Sanjay Rastogi  

B33 Focus Session: Dielectric and Ferroelectric Polymers for Electrical Applications: Ferroelectrics
Room: 341 Sponsor: DPOLY DMP Chair: Philip Taylor, Case Western Reserve University
Invited Speakers:  Jerry Bernholc  

B34 Focus Session: Dynamics of Glassy Polymers Under Nanoscale Confinement
Room: 342 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Zahra Fakhraai, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Kari Dalnoki-Veress  

B35 Superconductivity: Spin Properties
Room: 343 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Yaroslaw Bazaliy, University of South Carolina

B36 HTSC: Transport Properties
Room: 344 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Carmen Almasan, Kent State University

B37 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors: Impurity Effects
Room: 345/346 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Ruslan Prozorov, Ames Lab
Invited Speakers:  Marcin Konczykowski  

B38 Focus Session: Building a Thriving Undergraduate Physics Program
Room: 347 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Ted Hodapp, American Physical Society
Invited Speakers:  Gubbi Sudhakaran  

B39 Focus Session: Imaging & Modifying Materials Under Extreme Conditions of Radiation, Temperature, and at the Limits of Space and Time Resolution
Room: 348 Sponsor: DMP GIMS
Invited Speakers:  Geoffrey Campbell,  Laura Smilowitz  

B40 Surfaces, Interfaces, and Thin Films: Electronic and Magnetic Properties
Room: 349 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Horn von Hoegen, Universitaet Duisburg-Essen

B41 Non-equilibrium Physics with Cold Atoms II
Room: 350 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Lode Pollet, Ludwig Maximilian University

B42 Quantum Hall Effect: Edges, Interferometry, & nu = 5/2
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 3 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Sriram Ganeshan, University of Maryland

B43 Focus Session: Multiscale modeling--Coarse-graining in Space and Time II
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 2 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Garegin Papoian, University of Maryland at College Park
Invited Speakers:  Gerhard Hummer,  Cecilia Clementi,  Christine Peter,  Raymond Kapral  

B44 Focus Session: Population and Evolutionary Dynamics II
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DBIO GSNP Chair: Uwe Tauber, Virginia Tech
Invited Speakers:  Michael Desai  

B45 Focus Session: Structure and Dynamics of Biomembranes II
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 4 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Mu-Ping Nieh, University of Connecticut
Invited Speakers:  Tonya Kuhl  

B46 SPS Undergraduate II
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 5 Sponsor: SPS Chair: Crystal Bailey, American Physical Society

B47 Invited Session: Physical Organizing Principles of Biomineral Formation
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 6 Sponsor: DBIO DMP Chair: Susan N. Coppersmith, University of Wisconsin
Invited Speakers:  Pupa Gilbert,  Markus J. Buehler,  Derk Joester,  Fiona Meldrum  

Mar 18 2013 2:30PM, Monday

C1 Invited Session: Spin-Orbit-Controlled Ground States in Single-Crystal Iridates
Room: Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Lance De Long, University of Kentucky
Invited Speakers:  Gang Cao,  Daniel Haskel,  T. Senthil,  Yue Cao,  Feng Ye  

C2 Invited Session: Coulomb Drag and Exciton Condensation in Semiconductor and Graphene Double Layers
Room: Ballroom II Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Lilly, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Debaleena Nandi,  Emanuel Tutuc,  Andre Geim,  Dmytro Pesin,  L.S. Levitov  

C3 Invited Session: Metamaterials
Room: Ballroom III Sponsor: DMP Chair: David Cahill, University of Illinois
Invited Speakers:  John Pendry,  David Smith,  Costas Soukoulis,  Mario Hentschel,  Xiang Zhang,  Martin Wegener  

C4 Invited Session: Industrial Physics Forum: Frontiers in Nanomanufacturing
Room: Ballroom IV Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Robert Celotta, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  James Liddle,  Thomas Theis,  Michelle Simmons,  Shawn Douglas,  Harry Atwater  

C5 Focus Session: Computational Discovery and Design of New Materials for Energy Applications
Room: 301 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Richard Hennig, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  Vidvuds Ozolins,  Chris Wolverton  

C6 Focus Session: Hexagonal BN, Graphene, and Graphene Oxide Synthesis II
Room: 302 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Saikat Talapatra, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

C7 Focus Session: Graphene Devices III
Room: 303 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Monica Allen, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Arthur Hebard  

C8 Complex Structured Materials: Transport and Optical Characterization of Dichalcogenides
Room: 307 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Nuh Gedik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

C9 Invited Session: Recent Developments in Density Functional Theory I
Room: 308 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Timo Thonhauser, Wake Forest University
Invited Speakers:  James Chelikowsky,  David Bowler,  Per Hyldgaard,  Neepa Maitra,  Alexandre Tkatchenko  

C10 Invited Session: Stabilization and Dynamics of Magnetic Skyrmions
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCMP GMAG Chair: N.P. Onn, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Christian Pfleiderer,  Sunxiang Huang,  Xiuzhen Yu,  Naoto Nagaosa,  Stefan Heinze  

C11 Invited Session: Quantum Communication and Cryptography
Room: 310 Sponsor: GQI DAMOP Chair: Mark Wilde, McGill University and Louisiana State University
Invited Speakers:  Graeme Smith,  Anthony Leverrier,  Thomas Vidick,  Vadim Makarov,  Fabio Sciarrino  

C12 Focus Session: Complex Oxide Interfaces - Polar interfaces I
Room: 314 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Mark Rzchowski, University of Wisconsin, Madison

C13 Focus Session: Topological Materials - Search for New Materials
Room: 315 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Seongshik Oh, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Arun Bansil  

C14 Focus Session: Magnetic Oxide Superlattices and Multiferroics
Room: 316 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Susanne Stemmer, UC Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Andrew Millis  

C15 Focus Session: New Frustrated Models: Theory & Materials
Room: 317 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: William Ratcliff, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Masaaki Matsuda  

C16 Focus Session: Spin Dynamics and EPR
Room: 318 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Stephen Hill, Florida State University and NHMFL
Invited Speakers:  Alejandro Gaita-Ari\~no  

C17 Magnetic Theory I
Room: 319 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Marcu Eisenbach, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

C18 Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors - Spin Injection and Transport
Room: 320 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Paul Crawell, University of Minnesota

C19 Vanadate Experiment: Devices
Room: 321 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Sambandamurthy Ganapathy, University at Buffalo
Invited Speakers:  Masaki Nakano  

C20 Focus Session: Metamaterials - Quantum Dots
Room: 322 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Yanwen Wu, University of Texas at Austin

C21 Focus Session: Domains, Switching, and Memristors
Room: 323 Sponsor: DMP Chair: James Scott, University of Cambridge
Invited Speakers:  Xiaoqing Pan  

C22 Metamaterials and THz Spectroscopy
Room: 324 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Matt Doty, University of Delaware

C23 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors III
Room: 325 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Matt McCluskey, Washington State University
Invited Speakers:  Henry Everitt  

C24 Focus Session: Materials in Extremes: Chemistry under Extreme Conditions
Room: 326 Sponsor: GSCCM DCOMP DMP Chair: Jonathan Crowhurst, Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Naresh Thadhani  

C25 Superconducting Qubits: 3D Architecture
Room: 327 Sponsor: GQI Chair: David Schuster, University of Chicago

C26 Semiconductor Qubits - Gates and Robust Control
Room: 328 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Hendrik Blhum, RWTH Aachen
Invited Speakers:  Hugo Ribeiro  

C27 Quantum Computing, Quantum Algorithms, and Quantum Simulation
Room: 329 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Harvard University

C28 Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics, Followed by GSNP Student Speaker Award
Room: 336 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Robin Selinger, Kent State University

C29 Flow in Confinement and Porous Media
Room: 337 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Howard Stone, Princeton University

C30 Polymers and Organic Systems
Room: 338 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: John Cressman, George Mason University

C31 Polymeric Elastomers and Gels
Room: 339 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Jens Glaser, University of Minnesota

C32 Polymer Nanocomposites I
Room: 340 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Venkat Ganesan, University of Texas at Austin

C33 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Interfaces and Contacts
Room: 341 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Xinran Zhang, Georgetown University
Invited Speakers:  Tatsuo Hasegawa  

C34 Thin Films of Block Copolymers and Hybrid Materials: Mechanics and Dynamics
Room: 342 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Alamgir Karim, University of Akron

C35 Superconductivity: Vortices I
Room: 343 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Timir Datta, University of South Carolina

C36 HTSC: Optical Probe of Competing Orders
Room: 344 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Xiao-Jia Chen, Carnegie Institution of Washington

C37 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors: DFT and DMFT
Room: 345/346 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Wei Ku, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Zhiping Yin  

C38 Undergraduate Physics Education
Room: 347 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Mel Sabella, Chicago State University

C39 Focus Session: Materials for Electrochemical Energy Storage I
Room: 348 Sponsor: DMP GERA FIAP DCOMP Chair: Apparao Rao, Clemson University
Invited Speakers:  Gary Rubloff  

C40 Focus Session: Control of Ultrathin Film Morphology
Room: 349 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Shirley Chang, University of California Davis
Invited Speakers:  Michael Horn von Hoegen  

C41 Quantum Simulation with Cold Atoms and Molecules
Room: 350 Sponsor: DAMOP

C42 Quantum Hall Effect: Materials, Geometries, & nu = 2
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 3 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Michael Zudov, University of Minnesota

C43 Focus Session: Plyler, Broida, Langmuir, and Research in an Undergraduate Institution prizes
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 2 Sponsor: DCP Chair: James Skinner, University of Wisconsin
Invited Speakers:  Brooks Pate,  Daniel Neumark,  Wilson Ho,  Mario Affatigato  

C44 Focus Session: Population and Evolutionary Dynamics III
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DBIO GSNP
Invited Speakers:  Yaneer Bar-Yam,  Charles Ofria  

C45 Focus Session: Physics of Biomineralization
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 4 Sponsor: DBIO DMP Chair: Pupa Gilbert, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Invited Speakers:  Susan N. Coppersmith,  Nico Sommerdijk,  Joanna Aizenberg  

C46 SPS Undergraduate III
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 5 Sponsor: SPS Chair: Melissa Hoffman, Drew University

C47 Invited Session: Statistical Physics for Systemic Risk and Infrastructural Interdependencies
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 6 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Antonia Scala, CNR-ISC Institute for Complex Systems
Invited Speakers:  Hamid Benbrahim,  Stefano Battiston,  Raissa D'Souza,  H. Eugene Stanley,  Alessandro Vespignani  

Mar 18 2013 5:45PM, Monday

D1 APS Prizes and Awards Ceremonial Session
Room: Hilton Baltimore Key Ballroom 8 Sponsor: APS Chair: Michael Turner, American Physical Society, University of Chicago

Mar 18 2013 6:45PM, Monday

E1 Welcome Reception
Room: Exhibit Hall D Sponsor: APS

Mar 18 2013 7:30PM, Monday

E11 Special Outreach Session: Meso-Physics
Room: 310 Sponsor: APS Chair: Laura H. Greene, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Invited Speakers:  Harriet Kung,  George Crabtree  

Mar 19 2013 8:00AM, Tuesday

F1 Invited Session: Physics from the Laboratory to the Universe: Davisson-Germer/Heineman/Onsager/Lilienfeld Prizes
Room: Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP GSNP Chair: Barbara Jones, International Business Machines
Invited Speakers:  Geraldine Richmond,  Daniel S. Fisher,  Tetsuji Miwa,  Michio Jimbo,  Margaret Geller  

F2 Invited Session: Low Energy Excitations in Iridates
Room: Ballroom II Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Paolo Radaelli, University of Oxford
Invited Speakers:  Leon Balents,  B.J. Kim,  Liviu Hozoi,  Xuerong Liu,  Radu Coldea  

F3 Invited Session: Quantum Computing in AMO
Room: Ballroom III Sponsor: GQI DAMOP Chair: Ivan Deutsch, University of New Mexico
Invited Speakers:  Mark Saffman,  Tommaso Calarco,  Akira Furusawa,  Jeremy O'Brien,  John Gaebler  

F4 Industrial Physics Forum: Frontiers in Biophysics
Room: Ballroom IV Sponsor: FIAP Chair: James Hollenhorst, Agilent Technologies
Invited Speakers:  W.E. Moerner,  Sara Nichols,  Adam Arkin,  Michael Roukes,  Scott Tanner  

F5 Focus Session: Computational Discovery and Design of New Two-dimensional Materials beyond Graphene
Room: 301 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Richard Hennig, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  Hyoungki Park  

F6 Focus Session: Van der Waals Bonding in Advanced Materials - Functional Materials
Room: 302 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Per Hyldgaard, Chalmers University of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Yves Chabal,  Noa Marom  

F7 Focus Session: Graphene Devices IV
Room: 303 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Cory Dean, City College of New York
Invited Speakers:  Roman Gorbachev  

F8 Functionalization and Decoration of Graphene
Room: 307 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jun Zhu, Pennsylvania State University

F9 Invited Session: The Impact of Hydraulic Fracturing
Room: 308 Sponsor: FPS GERA Chair: Richard Wiener, Research Corporation for Scientific Advancement
Invited Speakers:  Susan Sharkey,  Murray Hitzman,  Robert Jackson,  Francis O'Sullivan  

F10 Invited Session: Spin-Orbit Transfer Torques in Magnetic Bilayers
Room: 309 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Kyung-Jin Lee, Korea University
Invited Speakers:  Chi-Feng Pai,  Geoffrey S. D. Beach,  Hyun-Woo Lee,  Masamitsu Hayashi,  Yoshichika Otani  

F11 Invited Session: Polymer Physics Prize Session
Room: 310 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: John Torkelson, Northwestern University
Invited Speakers:  Stephen Z.D. Cheng,  Bernard Lotz,  Benjamin Chu,  Barry Farmer,  Edwin Thomas  

F12 Focus Session: Complex Oxide Interfaces - Polar interfaces II
Room: 314 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jeremy Levy, University of Pittsburgh
Invited Speakers:  Natalia Pavlenko  

F13 Topological Insulators: Theory I
Room: 315 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Pouyan Ghaemi, University of Illinois

F14 Focus Session: Material Properties Important for Spin-torque Dynamics
Room: 316 Sponsor: DMP FIAP GMAG Chair: Ting Yong Chen, Arizona State University
Invited Speakers:  Kristen Buchanan,  Michael Quinsat  

F15 Focus Session: New Frustrated Quantum States: Theory & Materials
Room: 317 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Piers Coleman, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Cristian Batista  

F16 Focus Session: High Magnetic Anisotropy Materials
Room: 318 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Randy Dumas, Gothenburg University, Sweden

F17 Focus Session: Magnetic Spinel and Perovskite Heterostructures
Room: 319 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Anand Bhattacharya, Argonne National Lab
Invited Speakers:  Arunava Gupta  

F18 Two Dimensional Topological Insulators I
Room: 320 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Yong Chen, Purdue University

F19 Heavy Fermions and Quantum Criticality in 115's
Room: 321 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Johnpierre Paglione, University of Maryland

F20 Focus Session: Mesoscopics - Optics and Plasmonics
Room: 322 Sponsor: DMP
Invited Speakers:  Gustaaf Van Tendeloo  

F21 Focus Session: Multiferroics and Magnetoelectrics
Room: 323 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Hans Christen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Alexei Belik  

F22 Strongly Correlated Electron Theory I
Room: 324 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Steve Hellberg, Naval Research Laboratory

F23 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors IV
Room: 325 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Beall Fowler, Lehigh University
Invited Speakers:  W. Beall Fowler  

F24 Focus Session: Computational Studies of Interactions between Electromagnetic Fields and Materials I
Room: 326 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Carsten Ullrich, University of Missouri
Invited Speakers:  George Bertsch  

F25 Superconducting Qubits: Read-out, Feedback and Stabilization
Room: 327 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Will Oliver, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

F26 Quantum Crytography, Quantum Communication, and Quantum Measurement
Room: 328 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Graeme Smith, IBM

F27 Physical Implementations of Qubits
Room: 329 Sponsor: GQI Chair: John Preskill, California Institute of Technology

F28 Physical Approaches to Social Modeling
Room: 336 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Bruno Goncalves, Indiana University
Invited Speakers:  Yamir Moreno  

F29 Focus Session: Spin Glasses: Advances, Algorithms, and Applications
Room: 337 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Jonathan Machta, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Invited Speakers:  Peter Young  

F30 Membranes, Micelles, Vesicles, Gels and Complex Fluids
Room: 338 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Elizabeth Mann, Kent State University

F31 Focus Session: Nano to Meso-Scale Structure in Ordered Soft Matter: Liquid Crystal Structure, Dynamics and Function II
Room: 339 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Chinedum Osuji, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Rajeswari Kasi  

F32 Polymer Nanocomposites II
Room: 340 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Nigel Clarke, University of Sheffield

F33 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Light Emission and Management
Room: 341 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Russell Holmes, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Chihaya Adachi  

F34 Charged Colloids with Short-Range Attractions I
Room: 342 Sponsor: DPOLY DCMP DBIO Chair: Yun Liu, University of Delaware/NIST
Invited Speakers:  Frank Schreiber  

F35 HTSC: ARPES and TR-ARPES
Room: 343 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Lex Kemper, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

F36 Superconductivity: Josephson Effect
Room: 344 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Carmen Almasan, Kent State University

F37 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors: Order Parameter Symmetry/Fe(Te,Se) Films
Room: 345/346 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Qiang Li, Brookhaven Natl Lab

F38 Physics Education Programs, Policy and the Media
Room: 347 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Aaron Wade, University of West Florida

F39 Focus Session: Materials in Extremes: High Pressures
Room: 348 Sponsor: GSCCM DCOMP DMP Chair: Evan Reed, Stanford University

F40 Surfaces, Interfaces, and Thin Films: Molecules on Surfaces
Room: 349 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Daniel Dougherty, North Carolina State University

F41 Rotation, Effective Fields, and Hydrodynamics in Atomic Gases
Room: 350 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Phil Johnson, American University

F42 Focus Session: Multiscale Modeling--Coarse-graining in Space and Time III
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 3 Sponsor: DCP Chair: William Noid, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Kurt Kremer,  Valeria Molinero,  Qiang Cui,  Wataru Shinoda  

F43 Focus Session: Motor dynamics---from Single Molecules to Cells I
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 2 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Zev Bryant, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Andrew Turberfield,  Zev Bryant,  Aaron Dinner,  Stephan W. Grill,  Jie Zhu  

F44 Focus Session: Stochasticity in Cellular Networks
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Ilya Nemenman, Emory University
Invited Speakers:  Ilya Nemenman,  Andre Levchenko  

F45 Focus Session: Physics of Proteins I
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 4 Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY Chair: Aihua Xie, Oklahoma State
Invited Speakers:  Jose Onuchic  

F46 SPS Undergraduate IV
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 5 Sponsor: SPS Chair: Crystal Bailey, American Physical Society

F47 Invited Session: Solid-State Nanopores: Translocation and Applications
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 6 Sponsor: DBIO DCMP Chair: Gustavo Stolovitzky, IBM Research
Invited Speakers:  Jiali Li,  Amit Meller,  Rashid Bashir,  Xinsheng Ling,  Marija Drndic  

Mar 19 2013 11:15AM, Tuesday

G1 Invited Session: Anderson-Higgs Boson in Condensed Matter Physics
Room: Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Subir Sachdev, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Immanuel Bloch,  Christian R\"uegg,  Chandra Varma,  Daniel Podolsky,  Nikolay Prokof'ev  

G2 Invited Session: Superconductivity in Topological Insulators
Room: Ballroom II Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Nitin Samarth, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Alex Hayat,  Liang Fu,  Jin-Feng Jia,  Alberto Morpurgo,  Jeffrey Teo  

G3 Invited Session: Progress in the New Energy Frontier
Room: Ballroom III Sponsor: GERA Chair: George Crabtree, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Peter Littlewood,  Eric Toberer,  John Lupton,  Michelle Johannes,  Christopher Soles  

G4 Invited Session: Frontiers in Nanomanufacturing: Atomic Scale Metrology, Large Scale Industry Technology Challegnes and Inherent Device Limitations
Room: Ballroom IV Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Ernesto Marinero, Hitachi Research Center, San Jose
Invited Speakers:  Christian Kisielowski,  Thomas Albrecht,  James Watkins,  Asen Asenov,  Scott List  

G5 Focus Session: Computational Discovery and Design of New Materials: Thermodynamics and Mechanical Properties
Room: 301 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Hyongki Park, Ohio State University
Invited Speakers:  Joerg Neugebauer  

G6 Focus Session: CVD Graphene - Doping and Defects
Room: 302 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Abhay Pasupathy, Columbia University
Invited Speakers:  Liuyan Zhao  

G7 Focus Session: Graphene Devices V
Room: 303 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Masa Ishigami, University of Central Florida
Invited Speakers:  Tony Low  

G8 Graphene: Nanoribbons, Dots, and Strain
Room: 307 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Vincent Meunier, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

G9 Invited Session: Broadening Participation in Physics and Other STEM Fields
Room: 308 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Paul Cottle, Florida State University
Invited Speakers:  Philip Rous,  Theodore Hodapp,  Paul Gueye,  Senta Greene,  Roxanne Hughes  

G10 Invited Session: Physics for the Public: Advice From the Pros
Room: 309 Sponsor: FOEP Chair: James Kakalios, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Maggie Koerth-Baker,  Henry Reich,  Paul Steinhardt,  Kenneth Chang,  Richard Wargo  

G11 Invited Session: Concurrent Multiple Length-Scale Modelling
Room: 310 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Qing Peng, Rensselear Polytechnical Institute
Invited Speakers:  Gang Lu,  Derek Warner,  Vincent Tan,  Xiantao Li,  Vikram Gavini  

G12 Focus Session: Complex Oxide Interfaces - Polar interfaces III
Room: 314 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Guneeta Singh Balla, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Chang-Beom Eom  

G13 Topological Insulators: Theory II
Room: 315 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Roman Lutchyn, Microsoft Station Q

G14 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanoparticles II
Room: 316 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Brian Kirby, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Josep Nogues  

G15 Focus Session: Quasi-Triangular Frustrated Magnets
Room: 317 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: John Schlueter, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Bella Lake  

G16 Focus Session: Quantum Spins
Room: 318 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Mark Meisel, University of Florida
Invited Speakers:  Stephen Blundell  

G17 Focus Session: Improper Ferroelectrics
Room: 319 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Taner Yildirim, NIST Center for Neutron Research
Invited Speakers:  A. Brooks Harris  

G18 Two Dimensional Topological Insulators II: Graphene and Related Materials
Room: 320 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Shaffique Adam, Yale University

G19 URu2Si2 Hidden Order and other U-based Systems
Room: 321 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jason Jeffries, Lawrence Livermore National Lab

G20 Focus Session: Metamaterials - Nanoparticles and Nanoparticle Arrays
Room: 322 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Shun Shang Lo, University of Notre Dame
Invited Speakers:  Michel Orrit  

G21 Focus Session: Theories of Electric, Elastic, Magnetic and Cross-coupling Terms in Ferroic Lattices
Room: 323 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Philippe Ghosez, Universite de Liege
Invited Speakers:  David Vanderbilt  

G22 Electronic Phenomena of Nanostructures
Room: 324 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Nancy Sandler, Ohio University

G23 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors V
Room: 325 Sponsor: DMP Chair: John Lyons, University of California at Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Marek Skowronski  

G24 Focus Session: Computational Studies of Interactions between Electromagnetic Fields and Materials II
Room: 326 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: kalman varga, Vanderbilt
Invited Speakers:  Peter Nordlander  

G25 Itinerant Photons, Squeezed States, and Entanglement
Room: 327 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Lev Bishop, University of Maryland

G26 Quantum Characterization, Verification, and Validation II
Room: 328 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Robin Blume-Kohout, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Jay Gambetta,  Oliver Dial  

G27 Quantum Error Correction and Quantum Control
Room: 329 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Leonid Pryadko, University of Californa, Riverside

G28 Statistical Mechanics of Social Systems
Room: 336 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Stefan Boettcher, Emory University

G29 FIAP Prize Session
Room: 337 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Mark Bernius, Dow Chemical Company
Invited Speakers:  Mark Pinto,  John Woollam  

G30 Self-Assembly
Room: 338 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Bulent Akgun, National Institute of Standards and Technology

G31 Padden Award Symposium
Room: 339 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Nitash Balsara, University of California at Berkeley

G32 Focus Session: Polymer Nanocomposites: Active Particles
Room: 340 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Russell Gorga, North Carolina State University
Invited Speakers:  Russell Composto  

G33 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Theoretical Photophysics and Excited State Dynamics
Room: 341 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Richard Lunt, Michigan State University

G34 Polymer Blends
Room: 342 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Julie Albert, North Carolina State University

G35 Focus Session: Search for New Superconductors I
Room: 343 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Horst Rogalla, University of Colorado
Invited Speakers:  Malcolm Beasley  

G36 Superconductivity: Transport Properties
Room: 344 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Zhuan Xu, Zhejiang University, China

G37 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors: RPA and Beyond/Gap Structure
Room: 345/346 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Peter Hirchfeld, Univ. Florida
Invited Speakers:  Hiroshi Kontani,  Shik Shin  

G39 Matter at Extreme Conditions: Experiment
Room: 348 Sponsor: GSCCM DCOMP DMP Chair: Renata Wentzcovitch, University of Minnesota

G40 Spin-Orbit Coupling in Ultracold Atom Systems
Room: 349 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Carlos Sa De Melo, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Ross Williams,  Chuanwei Zhang  

G41 Attosecond Physics and Optics
Room: 350 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Stephen Eckel, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Joachim Burgdoerfer,  Ralph Ernstorfer  

G42 Focus Session: Physics of Glasses and Viscous Liquids I
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 3 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Patrick Charbonneau, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Zahra Fakhraai,  Takeshi Egami,  Elisabeth Bouchaud  

G43 Focus Session: Motor dynamics---from Single Molecules to Cells II
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 2 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Sean Sun, Johns Hopkins University
Invited Speakers:  Ryota Iino,  Yann Chemla,  Anatoly Kolomeisky,  Arne Gennerich,  Sam Walcott  

G44 Multi-cellular Processes and Development
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Karen Kasza, Sloan-Kettering Institute

G45 Focus Session: Physics of Protein Aggregation
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 4 Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY DCP Chair: Daniel Cox, UC Davis
Invited Speakers:  Stephen Kowalczykowski  

G46 SPS Undergraduate V
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 5 Sponsor: SPS Chair: Kendra Redmond, American Institute of Physics

G47 Invited Session: Elasticity and Plasticity Outside of Equilibrium: Modeling From Micro to Meso Scales
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 6 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Zhi Feng Huang, Wayne State University
Invited Speakers:  Luiza Angheluta,  Elizabeth Holm,  Ken Elder,  Alain Karma,  Stephen Foiles  

Mar 19 2013 2:00PM, Tuesday

H1 Poster Session I (2:00 - 5:00PM)
Room: Exhibit Hall EF

Mar 19 2013 2:30PM, Tuesday

J1 Invited Session: Buckley Prize Session
Room: Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP GMAG Chair: Allan MacDonald, Univesity of Texas at Austin
Invited Speakers:  John Slonczewski,  Luc Berger,  Maxim Tsoi,  Daniel Ralph,  Julie Grollier  

J2 Invited Session: Topological States and Plasmonics in Graphene
Room: Ballroom II Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Qian Niu, University of Texas at Austin
Invited Speakers:  Ruqian Wu,  Zhenhua Qiao,  Oliver Rader,  Zhe Fei,  Motohiko Ezawa  

J3 Invited Session: Colloidal Carbon Nanotubes
Room: Ballroom III Sponsor: DCMP GSNP Chair: Erik K. Hobbie, North Dakota State University
Invited Speakers:  Mohammad Islam,  Paul van der Schoot,  Matteo Pasquali,  Michael Solomon,  Ming Zheng  

J4 Invited Session: Physics Challenges in Biophysics
Room: Ballroom IV Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Cha-Mei Tang, Creatv Micro Tech Inc
Invited Speakers:  Alessandro Olivo,  Cha-Mei Tang,  Sheila Nirenberg,  Stuart Harshbarger,  Jiangfeng Fei  

J5 Focus Session: Computational Discovery and Design of New Materials: Graphene
Room: 301 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Richard Hennig, Cornell University

J6 Growth, Structure, Properties, and Defects
Room: 302 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Paola Barbara, Georgetown University

J7 Focus Session: Graphene Devices VI
Room: 303 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Roman Gorbachev, University of Manchester
Invited Speakers:  Kin Chung Fong  

J8 Focus Session: Graphene: Raman, Strain, Thermal
Room: 307 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jun Yan , University of Massachusetts at Amhearst
Invited Speakers:  Rui He,  Hyeonsik Cheong  

J9 Invited Session: Computational Physics at the Bleeding Edge: To Exascale and Beyond
Room: 308 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Timothy Germann, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Thomas C. Schulthess,  Robert Harrison,  David Yllanes,  James Glosli,  Ron Dror  

J10 Invited Session: Fostering Collaborations in Minority-Serving Institutions
Room: 309 Sponsor: COM Chair: Joseph Barranco, San Francisco State University
Invited Speakers:  Charles Weatherford,  Mario Diaz,  Quinton Williams,  John Harkless  

J11 Dillon Medal Symposium
Room: 310 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Arun Yethiraj, University of Wisconsin
Invited Speakers:  Mahesh Mahanthappa  

J12 Topological Insulators: Magnetic Transport and Weak Localization
Room: 314 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Hadar Steinberg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

J13 Focus Session: Topological Materials - Thin Films
Room: 315 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Dennis Drew, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Seongshik Oh  

J14 Magnetic Devices and Techniques
Room: 316 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Mohammad Fashami, The Virginia Commonwealth University

J15 Focus Session: Quantum Spin Liquid Theory
Room: 317 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Todari Senthil, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Hong-Chen Jiang  

J16 Focus Session: Molecular Nanomagnets/Devices
Room: 318 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Stefano Carretta, University of Parma
Invited Speakers:  Franck Balestro  

J17 Focus Session: Magnetic Oxide Nano- & Hetero-Structures
Room: 319 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Yayoi Takamura, UC Davis

J18 Two Dimensional Topological Insulators: Theory
Room: 320 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Byounghak Lee, Texas State University

J19 Quantum Criticality in Lanthanide/Actinide & Related Systems - Experiment
Room: 321 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Makariy Tanatar, Ames Laboratory

J20 Focus Session: Metamaterials - Nanowires and Plasmonic Enhancement
Room: 322 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Peter Nordlander, Rice University
Invited Speakers:  Rupert F. Oulton  

J21 Focus Session: Oxide Superlattices, Interfaces and Growth
Room: 323 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Hena Das, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  Pavlo Zubko  

J22 Optical Properties and Interactions in Quantum Dots and Wells
Room: 324 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Scheibner, University of California, Merced

J23 Optical Excitations, Defects and Synthesis of Dielectrics
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Javier Junquera, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain

J24 Quantum Many-Body Systems and Methods I
Room: 326 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Cyrus Umrigar, Cornell University

J25 Focus Session: Explicitly correlated Methods and Quantum Few-Body Systems
Room: 327 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Ludwik Adamowicz, University of Arizona
Invited Speakers:  Chris Greene,  Sergiy Bubin  

J26 Semiconductor Qubits - Spin Measurement and Noise
Room: 328 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Bill Coish, McGill University
Invited Speakers:  Stephen Lyon  

J27 Focus Session: Nano/Optomechanics I
Room: 329 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Mohammad Hafezi, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Andrew Cleland  

J28 Liquid Crystals I
Room: 336 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Peter Collins, Swarthmore College

J29 Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
Room: 337 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Michel Pleimling, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

J30 Focus Session: Continuum Descriptions of Discrete Materials
Room: 338 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Kenneth Kamrin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Martin Van Hecke  

J31 Focus Session: Dynamics of Glassy Polymers Under Nanoscale Confinement: Friction and Adhesion
Room: 339 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Connie Roth, Emory University

J32 Focus Session: Assembly & Function of Biomimetic & Bioinspired Materials I
Room: 340 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY DBIO Chair: Jim de Yoreo, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

J33 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Photophysics and Charge Transfer
Room: 341 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Seth Darling, Argonne National Laboratory

J34 Focus Session: Charged Colloids with Short-Range Attractions II
Room: 342 Sponsor: DPOLY DCMP DBIO Chair: Frank Schreiber, Institut fuer Angewandte Physik, Universitaet Tuebingen
Invited Speakers:  Thomas Truskett  

J35 Superconductivity: Vortices II
Room: 343 Sponsor: DCMP

J36 Superconductivity: Properties and Phenomena
Room: 344 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Zhigang Wu, Colorado School of Mines

J37 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors: Pressure effects
Room: 345/346 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Xiao-Jia Chen, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Invited Speakers:  Shanta Saha  

J38 Focus Session: Materials for Electrochemical Energy Storage II
Room: 347 Sponsor: GERA Chair: Shengbai Zhang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

J39 Matter at Extreme Conditions: Theory and Simulations
Room: 348 Sponsor: GSCCM DCOMP DMP Chair: Joseph Hooper, Naval Postgraduate School

J40 Quantum Simulation II
Room: 349 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Khan W. Mahmud, University of Maryland

J41 Interacting Bosons in Optical Lattices
Room: 350 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Tigran Sedrakyan, University of Minnesota

J42 Focus Session: Physics of Glasses and Viscous Liquids II
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 3 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Mark Ediger, University of Wisconsin
Invited Speakers:  David Reichman,  Ludovic Berthier,  Gilles Tarjus,  Jeppe Dyre  

J43 Focus Session: Protein Misfolding and Aggregation I
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 2 Sponsor: DCP DBIO Chair: Elsa Yan, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  John Straub,  Carol Hall,  Roland Winter,  Stephen C. Meredith,  Normand Mousseau  

J44 Biological Networks
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DBIO

J45 Focus Session: Physics of Proteins II
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 4 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Wouter Hoff, Oklahoma State University
Invited Speakers:  Xiaoqin Zou  

J46 Focus Session: X-ray and Neutron Instruments and Measurement Science
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 5 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Albert Migliori, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Stefano Marchesini  

J47 Invited Session: Mechanics, Dynamics, and Organization in Cell Growth and Division
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 6 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Ned Wingreen, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  K.C. Huang,  David Nelson,  Kinneret Keren,  Madhav Mani,  Nir Gov  

Mar 19 2013 5:45PM, Tuesday

K5 GPC Business Meeting
Room: 301 Sponsor: GPC

K11 DPOLY Business Meeting
Room: 310 Sponsor: DPOLY

K15 GMAG Business Meeting
Room: 317 Sponsor: GMAG

K20 FIAP Business Meeting
Room: 322 Sponsor: FIAP

K25 GQI Business Meeting
Room: 327 Sponsor: GQI

K28 GSNP Business Meeting
Room: 336 Sponsor: GSNP

K39 FED Business Meeting
Room: 348 Sponsor: FEd

K42 DCP Business Meeting
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 3 Sponsor: DCP

K45 DBIO Business Meeting
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 4 Sponsor: DBIO

K46 GIMS Business Meeting
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 5 Sponsor: GIMS

Mar 19 2013 7:00PM, Tuesday

K43 DCMP Business Meeting
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 2 Sponsor: DCMP

K44 DMP Business Meeting
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DMP

Mar 20 2013 8:00AM, Wednesday

M1 Invited Session: Tunable, Intense, Coherent THz Emission From a High Temperature Superconductor
Room: Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ulrich Welp, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Reinhold Kleiner,  Huabing Wang,  Kazuo Kadowaki,  Richard Klemm,  Alexei Koshelev  

M2 Invited Session: Interaction-Driven Quantum Hall States in Graphene
Room: Ballroom II Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Benjamin Feldman,  Maxim Kharitonov,  Cory Dean,  Dmitry Abanin,  Bruno Uchoa  

M3 Invited Session: Novel Quantum Phases in Artificial Lattices and Networks
Room: Ballroom III Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Steven Louie, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Vittorio Pellegrini,  Cheol-Hwan Park,  Hari C. Manoharan,  Esa Rasanen,  Andrew Houck  

M4 Invited Session: Quantum Simulation with Photons
Room: Ballroom IV Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Ivan Deutsch, University of New Mexico
Invited Speakers:  Na Young Kim,  Jacob Taylor,  Hakan E. Tureci,  Jan Klaers,  Dimitris G. Angelakis  

M5 Focus Session: Computational Discovery and Design of New Materials: Semiconductors, Molecular Systems and Interfaces
Room: 301 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Joerg Neugebaur, Max-Planck Institute fuer Eisenforschung
Invited Speakers:  Adri van Duin,  Susan Sinnott  

M6 Graphene: Multilayer and Tunneling
Room: 302 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Chun Ning (Jeanie) Lau, University of California, Riverside

M7 Focus Session: Graphene Devices VII
Room: 303 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Adrian Bachtold, ICN Barcelona
Invited Speakers:  Frank Koppens  

M8 Focus Session: Graphene - Twisted Layers, Stacking
Room: 307 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Taisuke Ohta, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Adina Luican-Mayer,  Chun Hung Lui  

M9 Invited Session: A History of Physics in Industry followed by Panel Discussion
Room: 308 Sponsor: FHP Chair: Joseph Martin, University of Minnesota—Twin Cities
Invited Speakers:  Orville Butler,  Brittany Shields,  Cyrus Mody,  Stuart Leslie,  Joseph Martin  

M10 Invited Session: Physics Jobs in Government and Science Policy followed by Panel Discussion
Room: 309 Sponsor: FGSA Chair: Laura Boon, Purdue University
Invited Speakers:  Amy Flatten,  Laura Berzak Hopkins,  John Looney  

M11 Invited Session: Polymer Electrolytes for Energy Storage
Room: 310 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Enrique Gomez, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Nitash Balsara,  Jodie Lutkenhaus,  Ralph H. Colby,  Zhen-Gang Wang,  Michel Armand  

M12 Topological Insulators: Topological States in Superconductors
Room: 314 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Andrew Wray, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

M13 Focus Session: Topological Materials - Surface Effects
Room: 315 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Arun Bansil, Northeastern University
Invited Speakers:  Michael El-Batanouny  

M14 Focus Session: Patterned Magnetic Nanostructures
Room: 316 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Frances Hellman, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Caroline Ross  

M15 Focus Session: Spin/orbital Frustration and Short-range Order
Room: 317 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Collin Broholm, Johns Hopkins University
Invited Speakers:  Philippe Corboz,  Satoru Nakatsuji  

M16 Focus Session: Ferromagnetic Chains/Nanostructures
Room: 318 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Christopher Landee, Clark University
Invited Speakers:  Mark W. Meisel  

M17 Focus Session: Frustrated Multiferroics
Room: 319 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jaime Fermandez-Baca, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Martin Mourigal  

M18 Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors - Diamond
Room: 320 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Olaf van't Erve, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  David M. Toyli  

M19 Strongly Correlated Electron Systems and Phase Transitions
Room: 321 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Andriy Nevidomskyy, Rice University

M20 Focus Session: Metamaterials - Plasmonics
Room: 322 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Smith, Duke University

M21 Focus Session: Relaxors, Nanostructures and Morphotropic Phase Boundaries
Room: 323 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Patrycja Paruch, Universite de Geneve
Invited Speakers:  James F. Scott  

M22 Strongly Correlated Electron Theory II
Room: 324 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Srinivas Raghu, Stanford University

M23 Optical and Dielectric Properties
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Qingteng Zhang, University of Wisconsin

M24 Electronic Structure Methods I
Room: 326 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Wenguang Zhu, University of Tennessee

M25 Focus Session: Modeling of Rare Events I
Room: 327 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Amit Samanta, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Arthur Voter  

M26 Semiconductor Qubits - RF Measurement and Hybridization
Room: 328 Sponsor: GQI Chair: David Reilly, The University of Sydney
Invited Speakers:  Karl Petersson  

M27 Focus Session: Quantum Error Correction and Decoherence Control I
Room: 329 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Kenneth Brown, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Lorenza Viola,  Todd Brun  

M28 Liquid Crystals II
Room: 336 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Luz Martinez-Miranda, University of Maryland

M29 Focus Session: Wet Granular Material: Capillary Aggregation to Shaping of Landscapes
Room: 337 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Arshad Kudrolli, Clark University
Invited Speakers:  Julien Chopin  

M30 Self-Assembly: Janus and other Colloids
Room: 338 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Stefano Sacana, New York University

M31 Polymer Melts and Solutions
Room: 339 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Megan Robertson, University of Houston

M32 Focus Session: Polymer Nanocomposites: Dynamics
Room: 340 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Laura Clarke, North Carolina State University
Invited Speakers:  Dieter Richter  

M33 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Excited State Dynamics for Photovoltaics
Room: 341 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Mike Arnold, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Invited Speakers:  Marc Baldo,  Vladimir Dyakonov  

M34 Thin Films of Block Copolymers and Hybrid Materials: Directed Assembly I
Room: 342 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Bradley Olsen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Sang Ouk Kim  

M35 HTSC: Mainly X-ray Probes and Related Theory
Room: 343 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Sentef, Stanford University

M36 Superconductivity: Josephson and Nanoscale Phenomena
Room: 344 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Clarke, University of California, Berkeley

M37 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors: Novel Selenides
Room: 345/346 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Xian-Hui Chen, University of Science and Technology of China
Invited Speakers:  Dmytro Inosov  

M38 Energy Storage and Conversion
Room: 347 Sponsor: GERA Chair: Joseph Poon, University of Virginia

M39 Drops, Bubbles, and Interfacial Fluid Mechanics I
Room: 348 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Sidney R. Nagel, University of Chicago

M40 Surfaces, Interfaces, and Thin Film Reactions: Kinetics & Dynamics
Room: 349 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Brad Conrad, Appalachian State University

M41 Theory of Quantum Gases in Low Dimensions
Room: 350 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Juraj Radic, University of Maryland

M42 Focus Session: Physics of Glasses and Viscous Liquids III
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 3 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Patrick Charbonneau, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Patrick Charbonneau,  Aaron Keys,  Francesco Zamponi  

M43 Focus Session: Protein Misfolding and Aggregation II
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 2 Sponsor: DCP DBIO Chair: Joan Shea, UCSB
Invited Speakers:  Andrew Miranker,  Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy,  Martin Zanni  

M44 Focus Session: Translocation through Nanopores I
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Aniket Battacharya, University of Central Florida
Invited Speakers:  Kaifu Luo  

M45 Focus Session: Physics of the Cytoskeleton I
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 4 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Ajay Gopinathan, UC Merced
Invited Speakers:  Karen Kasza,  Ajay Gopinathan  

M46 Novel Instrumentation and Measurements for Biomedical Research
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 5 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Larry Nagahara, National Cancer Institute
Invited Speakers:  Shyam Khatau  

M47 Invited Session: Imaging and Manipulating Multicellular Systems and Molecular Clusters
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 6 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Raghuveer Parthasarath, University of Oregon
Invited Speakers:  Thai Truong,  Adam Douglass,  Joachim Spatz,  Yinghao Wu,  Sarah Veatch  

M48 Tutorial for Authors and Referees
Room: Key Ballroom 9-10 Sponsor: APS

Mar 20 2013 11:15AM, Wednesday

N1 Invited Session: Quantum Computing With Diamond
Room: Ballroom I Sponsor: GQI DCMP Chair: Mohammad Hafezi, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Joerg Wrachtrup,  David D. Awschalom,  Nathalie de Leon,  Vincent Jacques,  Ronald Hanson  

N2 Invited Session: Electron Matter in FE-Based Superconductors
Room: Ballroom II Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Zhi-Xun Shen, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Andrey Chubukov,  Milan P. Allan,  Pengcheng Dai,  Pierre Richard,  Tom Berlijn  

N3 Invited Session: Physics For Everyone
Room: Ballroom III Sponsor: DMP Chair: Laura H. Greene, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Invited Speakers:  Julien Bobroff,  Diandra Leslie-Pelecky,  J. Murray Gibson,  Louis Bloomfield,  Charles Falco  

N4 Invited Session: Climate as a Complex Dynamical System
Room: Ballroom IV Sponsor: GPC Chair: John Wettlaufer, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Claire Parkinson,  Nir Shaviv,  Sasha Madronich,  Peter Huybers,  William (Bill) Collins  

N5 Focus Session: Computational Discovery and Design of New Materials: Electronic properties of 1D and 2D materials
Room: 301 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Wei Ku, Brookhaven National Laboratory

N6 Focus Session: Graphene - Electronic Properties, Gap Formation
Room: 302 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Nancy Sandler, Ohio University
Invited Speakers:  Jairo Velasco Jr.,  Wenzhong Bao  

N7 Focus Session: Graphene Devices VIII
Room: 303 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Frank Koppens, ICFO Barcelona
Invited Speakers:  Adrian Bachtold  

N8 Transport and Optical Phenomena in Carbon Nanotubes
Room: 307 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Dan Prober, Yale University

N9 Invited Session: Computational Spectroscopy
Room: 308 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Giulia Galli, University of California, Davis
Invited Speakers:  E.K.U. Gross,  Dario Rocca,  Johannes Lischner,  Thomas Devereaux,  Marco Bernardi  

N10 Invited Session: Smart Magnetic Particles: On-Chip Transport, Assembly and Biomedical Applications
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCMP GMAG Chair: Valentyn Novosad, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Elizabeth Rapoport,  Benjamin Yellen,  Ratnasingham Sooryakumar,  Elina Vitol,  Jon Dobson  

N11 Invited Session: Landmark Reports in Education
Room: 310 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Daniel Crowe, Loudon County Publc Schools Academy of Science
Invited Speakers:  Taslima Rahman,  Gary Phillips,  Paula Heron,  Donald Langenberg,  Kenneth Heller  

N12 Focus Session: Thermoelectrics Materials Waste Heat
Room: 314 Sponsor: DMP GERA FIAP Chair: Brian Sales, ORNL
Invited Speakers:  Ctirad Uher  

N13 Focus Session: Topological Materials - Topological Superconductivity
Room: 315 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Peter Armitage, Johns Hopkins University
Invited Speakers:  Alexander Brinkman  

N14 Focus Session: Spin-dependent Tunneling and High Magnetoresistance Devices
Room: 316 Sponsor: DMP FIAP GMAG Chair: See-Hun Yang, IBM Almaden Research Center
Invited Speakers:  Mairbek Chshiev,  Enrique Cobas  

N15 Focus Session: Frustration in 1D and Spinels
Room: 317 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Craig Fennie, Cornell University

N16 Focus Session: Molecules on Surfaces
Room: 318 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Sebastian Loth, Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, Hamburg
Invited Speakers:  Katharina J. Franke  

N17 Focus Session: Manganite Dynamics and Structure
Room: 319 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Dmitry Reznik, University of Colorado
Invited Speakers:  Markus Braden  

N18 Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors - Spin Orbit and Mesoscopic
Room: 320 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Jean Heremans, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Invited Speakers:  Makoto Kohda  

N19 Open Quantum Systems and Decoherence
Room: 321 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Daniel Lidar, University of Southern California

N20 Focus Session: Mesoscopics - Tunneling
Room: 322 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Gabriel Ramirez, University of California, San Diego
Invited Speakers:  Eric Akkermans  

N21 Focus Session: BiFeO3 and Domain Wall Conductance
Room: 323 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Alexei Belik, NIMS Japan
Invited Speakers:  Patrycja Paruch  

N22 Artificially Structured Materials: Growth, Structure, and Related Phenomena
Room: 324 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Connie Li, Naval Research Laboratory

N23 Fractional Quantum Hall Theory I
Room: 325 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: B. Andrei Bernevig, Princeton University

N24 Electronic Structure Methods II
Room: 326 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Bin Wang, Vanderbilt University

N25 Focus Session: Modeling of Rare Events II
Room: 327 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Eric Vanden-Eijnden, New York University
Invited Speakers:  Eric Vanden-Eijnden  

N26 Entanglement in Many-Body Systems
Room: 328 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Ari Mizel, LPS

N27 Focus Session: Nano/Optomechanics II
Room: 329 Chair: Michael Metcalfe, Booz Allen Hamilton
Invited Speakers:  Charles Tahan,  Martin Gustafsson  

N28 Continua, Networks, & Earthquakes
Room: 336 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Oscar Lopez-Pamies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

N29 Granular Packing and Impacting
Room: 337 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Eric Corwin, University of Oregon

N30 Self-Assembly: Mostly Biopolymers, DNA and Nanoparticles
Room: 338 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Xiangyun Qiu, George Washington University

N31 Membrane and Membrane Protein Interactions
Room: 339 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Yossef Elabd, Drexel University
Invited Speakers:  Gary Lorigan  

N32 International Physics Programs and History of Physics
Room: 340 Sponsor: FIP FHP Chair: Gloria Lubkin, Physics Today Editor

N33 Focus Session: Polymers for Energy Storage and Conversion
Room: 341 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Jodie Lutkenhaus, Texas A&M University

N35 Focus Session: Search for New Superconductors II
Room: 343 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ivan Bozovic, Brookhaven National Laboratory

N36 Superconductivity: Mesoscopic Techniques and Applications
Room: 344 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Timir Datta, University of South Carolina

N37 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors: Spin Fluctuations
Room: 345/346 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Guangyong Xu, Brookhaven Natl Lab
Invited Speakers:  Raymond Osborn  

N38 Novel Photophysics and Transport in NanoPV I
Room: 347 Sponsor: GERA DPOLY DCOMP Chair: Sean Shaheen, University of Denver
Invited Speakers:  Alan Aspuru-Guzik,  Ahsan Nazir  

N39 Drops, Bubbles, and Interfacial Fluid Mechanics II
Room: 348 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Patricia McGuiggan, Johns Hopkins University

N40 Dipolar Gases and Rydberg Atoms
Room: 349 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Ryan Wilson, National Institute of Standards and Technology

N41 Hybrid Systems for Quantum Simulation
Room: 350 Sponsor: GSNP DAMOP

N42 Focus Session: Supercooled and Nanoconfined Water I
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 3 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Valeria Molinero, University of Utah
Invited Speakers:  Pablo Debenedetti,  Mikhail Anisimov,  Nicolas Giovambattista  

N43 Focus Session: Protein Misfolding and Aggregation III
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 2 Sponsor: DCP DBIO Chair: Elsa Yan, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Robert Tycko,  Reed Wickner,  Hilal Lashuel  

N44 Focus Session: Translocation through Nanopores II
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Gary Slater, University of Ottawa
Invited Speakers:  Hendrick W. de Haan,  Takahiro Sakaue  

N45 Focus Session: Cell Mechanics I
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 4 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Jennifer Curtis, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Jennifer Curtis  

N46 Detectors, Sensors, and Transducers
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 5 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Brad Ramshaw, Los Alamos National Laboratory

N47 Invited Session: American Science and America's Future
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 6 Sponsor: FPS Chair: Pushpa Bhat, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Maxine Savitz,  Rush Holt,  Bill Foster,  Neil Gershenfeld,   TBD  

Mar 20 2013 12:30PM, Wednesday

P1 Graduate Student Lunch with the Experts
Room: Sharp Street Lobby

Mar 20 2013 2:00PM, Wednesday

Q1 Poster Session II (Polymer Physics Poster 11:15-2:15; all other posters 2:00 - 5:00PM)
Room: Exhibit Hall EF Sponsor: APS

Mar 20 2013 2:30PM, Wednesday

R0 Kavli Foundation Special Session: Forefront Physics for Real World Problems: Energy, Climate, and the Environment
Room: Hilton Baltimore Key Ballroom Sponsor: APS Chair: Michael Turner, APS President and University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Steven Chu,  Lonnie Thompson,  Graeme Stephens,  Amy McKenna,  Stephen Harris  

R1 Invited Session: Controllng Magnetism Without Magnetic Fields
Room: Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP GMAG Chair: Ramamoorty Ramesh, University of California at Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Sayeef Salahuddin,  Theo Rasing,  Sebastian Goennenwein,  Jose de la Venta,  Leonid Rokhinson  

R2 Invited Session: New Developments in Organic Spintronics
Room: Ballroom II Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Markus Wohlgenannt, University of Iowa
Invited Speakers:  Christoph Boehme,  Alan Drew,  Michael E. Flatt\'e,  Tho Nguyen,  Zhi-Gang Yu  

R3 Invited Session: Nonequilibrium Relaxation and Aging in Materials
Room: Ballroom III Sponsor: GSNP DCMP Chair: Uew Tauber, Virginia Polytechnical Institute and State University
Invited Speakers:  Dragana Popovi\'c,  Ariel Amir,  Malte Henkel,  Christian Binek,  Michel Pleimling  

R4 Topologocal insulators: Nanostructures and Possible Applications: Transport phenomena
Room: Ballroom IV Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Vidya Madhaven, Boston College

R5 Graphene: Transport and Optical Properties: THz and Plasmons
Room: 301 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Elbert Chia, Nanyang Technological University

R6 Focus Session: Graphene - Defects, Edges, Theory
Room: 302 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Weinert, University of Wisconsin
Invited Speakers:  Vladimir Falko  

R7 Si and Other Semiconductors
Room: 303 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Alex Demkov, University of Texas at Austin

R8 Correlated Electron Magnetism
Room: 307 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Andre-Marie Tremblay, Universite de Sherbrooke

R9 Invited Session: Advances in Condensed Matter Physics in Latin America
Room: 308 Sponsor: FIP Chair: Eugenio Vogel, Universidad de La Frontera
Invited Speakers:  Elisa Maria Baggio Saitovitch,  Lilia Meza-Montes,  Antonio Jose Roque da Silva,  Carlos A. Balseiro,  Romeo de Coss  

R10 Invited Session: New Platforms for Non-Abelian Statistics Majoranas and Beyond
Room: 309 Sponsor: GQI DCMP Chair: Kirill Shtengel, University of California, Riverside
Invited Speakers:  Carlo Beenakker,  Moty Heiblum,  David Clarke,  Netanel Lindner,  Maissam Barkeshli  

R12 Focus Session: Thermoelectrics Phonons and Heat Conduction
Room: 314 Sponsor: DMP GERA FIAP Chair: David Cahill, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Invited Speakers:  David Broido  

R13 Focus Session: Topological Materials - Surface Microscopy and Spectroscopy
Room: 315 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Alexander Brinkman, University of Twente
Invited Speakers:  Jennifer Hoffman,  Haim Beidenkopf  

R14 Focus Session: Magneto-thermal Transport and Spin Current in Insulators
Room: 316 Sponsor: DMP FIAP GMAG Chair: Helmut Schulthei, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Shulei Zhang,  Sergio O. Valenzuela  

R15 Focus Session: Spin/charge in Frustrated Lattices
Room: 317 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Daniel Arovas, University of California at San Diego
Invited Speakers:  Yukitoshi Motome  

R16 Focus Session: Magnetic Thin Films
Room: 318 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Roland Kawakami, University of California, Riverside

R17 Focus Session: Manganite Heterostructures
Room: 319 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Steve May, Drexel University
Invited Speakers:  Javier E. Villegas  

R18 Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors - GaMnAs
Room: 320 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: John Peters, Northwestern University
Invited Speakers:  Petr Nemec  

R19 Kondo Screening - Different Aspects
Room: 321 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Piers Coleman, Rutgers University

R20 Focus Session: Electron, Ion, and Exciton Transport in Nanostructures - Modeling and Electrical Characterization
Room: 322 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Blanka Magyari-Kope, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Massimo Fischetti  

R21 Focus Session: Coupling Phenomena in Oxides and Optical and Electronic Properties
Room: 323 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Pavlo Zubko, Universite de Geneve
Invited Speakers:  Petro Maksymovych  

R22 Plasmonics and Optical Interactions in Structured Materials
Room: 324 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Eric Stinaff, Ohio University

R23 Fractional Quantum Hall Theory II
Room: 325 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Michael Manfra, Purdue University

R24 Focus Session: Recent Developments in Density Functional Theory I
Room: 326 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: David Vanderbilt, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Nicola Marzari  

R25 Focus Session: Computational Studies of Heterostructures
Room: 327 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Shiwei Zhang, College of William and Mary
Invited Speakers:  Simone Chiesa,  Rossitza Pentcheva  

R26 Foundations of Quantum Theory
Room: 328 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Caslav Brukner, University of Austria

R27 Focus Session: Quantum Error Correction and Decoherence Control II
Room: 329 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Andrew Landahl, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Sergey Bravyi,  Alireza Shabani  

R28 Interfaces
Room: 336 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Mark Robbins, Johns Hopkins University

R29 Granular Materials: Phases, Flow, and Rheology
Room: 337 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Mark Shattuck, City College of New York

R31 Focus Session: Assembly & Function of Biomimetic & Bioinspired Materials II
Room: 339 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY DBIO Chair: Mark Stevens, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  David Weitz  

R32 Focus Session: Polymer Liquids and Glasses
Room: 340 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Rodney Priestley, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Daniele Cangialosi,  Gregory McKenna  

R33 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Transport in Small Molecules
Room: 341 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jana Zaumseil, Institute of Polymer Materials, Friedrich-Alexander Universitaet Erlangen
Invited Speakers:  Vitaly Podzorov  

R34 Thin Films of Block Copolymers and Hybrid Materials: Hierarchical Structures
Room: 342 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Fred Phelan, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Ting Xu  

R35 Novel Superconductors I
Room: 343 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: James Eckstein, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

R36 Superconducting Proximity Effects: Mesoscopic and Related
Room: 344 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Zhiqiang Mao, Tulane University

R37 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors: Nematicity and Related Phenomena
Room: 345/346 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Andrey Chubukov, University of Wisconsin
Invited Speakers:  Shigeru Kasahara  

R38 Focus Session: Scalable Technologies for Photovoltaics I
Room: 347 Chair: Sue A. Carter, University of California at Santa Cruz
Invited Speakers:  David Mitzi  

R39 Pattern Formation and Nonlinear Dynamics
Room: 348 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Gregory Eyink, Johns Hopkins University

R40 Focus Session: Growth and Pattern Formation on Surfaces
Room: 349 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Zhenyu Zhang, University of Science and Technology of China

R41 Casimir Forces
Room: 350 Sponsor: DAMOP

R42 Colloids and Interfaces
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 3 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Jesse Kern, University of Kansas

R43 Electron Transfer, Charge Transfer and Transport
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 2 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Guy Cohen, Columbia University

R44 Nucleic Acids: Structure, Function, Protein Interactions
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Xiangyun Qiu, Physics department, George Washington University

R45 Focus Session: Physics of the Cytoskeleton II
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 4 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Timothy Sanchez, Brandeis University
Invited Speakers:  Tim Sanchez,  Daniel Chen  

R46 Invited Session: Keithley Session: Enabling Sensitive Measurements Beyond the Standard Quantum Limit
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 5 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Eric Hudson, The Pennsylvania State Unversity
Invited Speakers:  David McClelland,  Nergis Mavalvala,  Cindy Regal,  John Teufel,  Brian D'Urso  

R47 Invited Session: Simulation of Interfaces in Two-Fluid Flows
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 6 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Shahriar Afkhami, New Jersey Institue of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Anna-Karin Tornberg,  Gretar Tryggvason,  Marianne Francois,  Mark Sussman,  Stephane Zaleski  

Mar 20 2013 5:45PM, Wednesday

S19 Funding Opportunities in Europe for Creative Minds from Anywhere in the World
Room: 321

S22 The Status of NSF-DMR in FY13
Room: 324 Sponsor: NSF

S26 DCOMP Business Meeting
Room: 328 Sponsor: DCOMP

Mar 20 2013 7:30PM, Wednesday

S48 Special Evening Event Hosted by the Editors of Physics
Room: Ballroom IV Sponsor: APS Chair: Jessica Thomas, Editor, Physics
Invited Speakers:  William D. Phillips  

Mar 20 2013 8:00PM, Wednesday

S50 A Staged Reading of the Play: Farm Hall
Room: Holiday Ballroom 4 Sponsor: FHP
Invited Speakers:  David C. Cassidy  

Mar 21 2013 8:00AM, Thursday

T1 Invited Session: Superfluids under Nanoscale Confinement
Room: Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jeevak Parpia, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  John Saunders,  Kimitoshi Kono,  Ryuji Nomura,  Takeshi Mizushima,  Francis Gasparini  

T2 Invited Session: Valley Polarization Physics: Transition Metal Dichalcogenides and Other
Room: Ballroom II Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Tony Heinz, Columbia University
Invited Speakers:  Wang Yao,  Kin Fai Mak,  Andras Kis,  Ji Feng,  Benoit Fauque  

T3 Invited Session: From Cells to Tissues: The Material Properties of Living Matter
Room: Ballroom III Sponsor: DCMP DBIO Chair: Aaron Mertz, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Fran\c{c}oise Brochard-Wyart,  Shiladitya Banerjee,  Ramsey Foty,  Lars Hufnagel,  Xavier Trepat  

T4 Invited Session: Physics and Applications of Transparent Conducting Oxides
Room: Ballroom IV Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Chris Van de Walle, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Thomas Mason,  David Ginley,  Hartwin Peelaers,  Tim Veal,  Roy Gordon  

T5 Graphene: Transport and Optical Phenomena: Raman and Phonons
Room: 301 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Francois Peeters, University of Antwerp

T6 Focus Session: Graphene - Heterostructures, Overlayers
Room: 302 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Debdeep Jena, University of Notre Dame

T7 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Transport and Electronic Properties
Room: 303 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Phillip Collins, University of California, Riverside
Invited Speakers:  Jie Liu  

T8 Carbon Nanostructures: Transport and Optical Phenomena
Room: 307 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Lilia Woods, University of South Florida

T9 Invited Session: Thermalization and Non-Equilibrium Dynamics in Isolated Quantum Systems
Room: 308 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Marcos Rigol, Georgetown University
Invited Speakers:  Anatoli Polkovnikov,  Stefan Kuhr,  Ehsan Khatami,  Jean-Philippe Brantut,  Fabian Essler  

T10 Invited Session: Superconducting Qubits
Room: 309 Sponsor: GQI DCMP Chair: Matthias Steffen, IBM
Invited Speakers:  Jerry Chow,  Michel Devoret,  John Martinis,  Austin Fowler,  Alexandre Blais  

T11 Invited Session: Self-Assembly, Physical Properties and Functionalities of Amyloid Fibrils
Room: 310 Sponsor: DPOLY DBIO Chair: Raffaele Mezzenga, ETH-Zurich
Invited Speakers:  Christopher Dobson,  Ehud Gazit,  Vinod Subramaniam,  Tuomas Knowles,  Alberto Saiani  

T12 Focus Session: Thermoelectrics Materials I
Room: 314 Sponsor: DMP GERA FIAP Chair: Michael McGuire, ORNL
Invited Speakers:  Simon Billinge  

T13 Focus Session: Topological Materials - Quasi 1-dimensional
Room: 315 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Joel Moore, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Vidya Madhavan  

T14 Focus Session: Magnetic Vortices
Room: 316 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Kristen Buchanan, Colorado State University
Invited Speakers:  Vojt\v{e}ch Uhl\'I\v{r},  Shikha Jain  

T15 Focus Session: Spin Ice and Weakly Disordered Pyrochlores
Room: 317 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Michel Gingras, University of Waterloo
Invited Speakers:  Christopher Wiebe  

T16 Climate Physics / Instabilities and Turbulence
Room: 318 Sponsor: GPC DFD Chair: James Brasseur, Pennsylvania State University

T17 Magnetic Alloys and Multilayers
Room: 319 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Masatoshi Onoue, Northwestern University

T18 Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors - Magnetic Semiconductors
Room: 320 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Jairo Sinova, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University
Invited Speakers:  Dieter Weiss,  Ilias Perakis  

T19 Metal-Insulator Transitions I
Room: 321 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Nandini Trivedi, The Ohio State University

T20 Focus Session: Electron, Ion, and Exciton Transport in Nanostructures - Resistive Switching Phenomena
Room: 322 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Luca Larcher, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Invited Speakers:  Rainer Waser,  Daniele Ielmini  

T21 Focus Session: Lattice Dynamics and Surface Chemistry
Room: 323 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Kevin Garrity, Rutgers University

T22 Strongly Correlated Electron Theory III
Room: 324 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Adrian del Maestro, University of Vermont

T23 Semiconductors: Thermodynamic & Transport Properties (Experimental)
Room: 325 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Ernesto Marinero, Hitachi Global

T24 Focus Session: Recent Developments in Density Functional Theory II
Room: 326 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Timo Thonhauser, Wake Forest University

T25 Superconducting Qubits: Qubit Design
Room: 327 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Jamie Kerman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

T26 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits - Charge Qubits, Measurement, and Noise
Room: 328 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Matthew Borselli, HRL Laboratories, LLC
Invited Speakers:  Yuliya Dovzhenko  

T27 Focus Session: Superselection and Quantum Reference Frames
Room: 329 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Ian Durham, Saint Anselm College
Invited Speakers:  Barry Sanders,  Borzu Toloui  

T28 Focus Session: Shells, Plates, and Thin Films
Room: 336 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Katia Bertoldi, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Pedro Reis  

T29 Focus Session: Jamming: Marginal Solids I
Room: 337 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Corey S. O'Hern, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Stefanos Papanikolaou  

T30 Disordered and Glassy Systems (non-polymeric)
Room: 338 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Nicolas Giovambattista, Brooklyn College

T31 Biopolymers: Dynamics of Molecules Under Confinement, Networks, and Proteins
Room: 339 Sponsor: DPOLY DBIO Chair: Ting Xu, University of California, Berkeley

T32 Focus Session: Charged and Ion Containing Polymers
Room: 340 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Lilin He, Oak Ridge National Labs
Invited Speakers:  Jianzhong Wu  

T33 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Transport in Polymers
Room: 341 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Vitaly Podzorov, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Jana Zaumseil  

T34 Thin Films of Block Copolymers and Hybrid Materials: Directed Assembly II
Room: 342 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Gila Stein, University of Houston

T35 HTSC: Mostly Superconductor-insulator Transition and Quantum Oscillations
Room: 343 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Herbert Fotso, Georgetown University

T36 Ruthenates, Iridates, and p-wave Superconductivity
Room: 344 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Harald Jeschke, Universitat Frankfurt

T37 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors: Spectroscopic Probes
Room: 345/346 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Ruihua He, Boston College
Invited Speakers:  Amit Kanigel  

T38 Renewable Fuels
Room: 347 Sponsor: DMP GERA FIAP/DCOMP Chair: Peter Zapol, Argonne National Laboratory

T39 Metals Alloys and Metallic Structures
Room: 348 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Parker, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

T40 Strongly Interacting Quantum Gases
Room: 349 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Qi Zhou

T41 Focus Session: Nano/Optomechanics III
Room: 350 Sponsor: GQI DAMOP Chair: John Teufel, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Aashish Clerk  

T42 Focus Session: Supercooled and Nanoconfined Water II
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 3 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Anders Nilsson, SLAC
Invited Speakers:  Paola Gallo,  Hajime Tanaka  

T43 Liquid and Solid Interfaces
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 2 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Gil Nathanson, University of Wisconsin

T44 Focus Session: Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DBIO DCP Chair: Daniel Cox, UC Davis
Invited Speakers:  Rohit Pappu,  M. Madan Babu,  David Eliezer  

T45 Focus Session: Physics of Cancer I
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 4 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Kimberly Stroka, Johns Hopkins
Invited Speakers:  Jan Liphardt  

T46 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy 1: Scanning Probe Spectroscopy & Novel Applications to C-based Systems
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 5 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Alexander Otte, Delft University of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Jungseok Chae  

T47 Invited Session: The Effect of Electric Fields on Magnetism
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 6 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Chia-Ling Chien, Johns Hopkins University
Invited Speakers:  Weigang Wang,  Ilya Krivorotov,  Yoichi Shiota,  Valeri Stepanyuk,  Tomoteru Fukumura  

Mar 21 2013 11:15AM, Thursday

U1 Invited Session: Hidden Order in URu2Si2 and Possibly Related Compounds
Room: Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP DCP Chair: John Mydosh, Kamerlingh Onnes Lab
Invited Speakers:  Takasada Shibauchi,  Frederic Bourdarot,  Peter Oppeneer,  Peter Riseborough,  Premala Chandra  

U2 Invited Session: Topological Insulators: Surface State Transport
Room: Ballroom II Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Joel Moore, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Jens H. Bardarson,  Zohar Ringel,  Michael Fuhrer,  Claudia Felser,  Alexey Taskin  

U3 Invited Session: Application of the First-Principles and Atomistic Methods to Nuclear Detection Materials
Room: Ballroom III Sponsor: DCOMP DCMP Chair: David Beach, Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration
Invited Speakers:  Vincenzo Lordi,  Daniel Aberg,  Charles Henager, Jr.,  Andrew Canning,  Koushik Biswas  

U4 Invited Session: Quantum Reservoir Engineering and Feedback
Room: Ballroom IV Sponsor: DCMP GQI Chair: Steven Girvin, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Kater Murch,  Michael Hatridge,  Rajamani Vijayaraghavan,  Michel Brune,  Philipp Schindler  

U5 Graphene: Transport and Optical Phenomena: Mesoscopics and Harmonic Generation
Room: 301 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Chris Stanton, University of Florida

U6 Focus Session: Graphene - Intercalation, Doping, Characterization
Room: 302 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mark Hybersten, Brookhaven National Laboratory

U7 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Devices
Room: 303 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Junichiro Kono, Rice University
Invited Speakers:  Francois Leonard  

U8 Focus Session: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Graphene
Room: 307 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Eva Andrei, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Lin He  

U9 Three Dimensional Topological Insulators: Chalcogenides and New Materials
Room: 308 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Phillip King, Cornell University

U10 Invited Session: Science in the New Administration
Room: 309 Sponsor: FPS Chair: Micah Lowenthal, National Academy of Sciences
Invited Speakers:  Gerald Blazey,  William Brinkman,  Robert Jaffe,  E William Colglazier,  Dahlia Sokolov  

U11 Invited Session: New Laser Techniques for Imaging and Probing at the Nanoscale
Room: 310 Sponsor: DLS Chair: Henry Kapteyn, University of Colorado Boulder
Invited Speakers:  Martin Fischer,  Tom Silva,  Jianwei (John) Miao,  Naomi S. Ginsberg,  Julie Biteen  

U12 Focus Session: Thermoelectrics Materials II
Room: 314 Sponsor: DMP GERA FIAP Chair: David Parker, ORNL
Invited Speakers:  Donald Morelli  

U13 Topological Insulators: Bi2Se3 and Bi2Te2Se
Room: 315 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Gregory Jenkins, University of Maryland

U14 Focus Session: Quantum Dynamics in Spin Ice
Room: 316 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Satoru Nakatsuji, University of Tokyo
Invited Speakers:  Bruce D. Gaulin  

U15 Focus Session: The Physics of Climate
Room: 317 Sponsor: GPC Chair: Robert Behringer, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Geoffrey Vallis  

U16 Focus Session: Magnetic Molecules and Antiferromagnetic Chains
Room: 318 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Andrew Kent, New York University
Invited Speakers:  Pradeep Subedi  

U17 Focus Session: Femtoscale Multiferroics
Room: 319 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Sang-Wook Cheong, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Helen Walker  

U18 Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors - Spin Seebeck and Magneto-optics
Room: 320 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Berry Jonker, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Bernd Beschoten  

U19 Metal-Insulator Transitions II
Room: 321 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Rongwei Hu, University of Maryland

U20 Focus Session: Mesoscopics - Preparation, Superconductivity and Magnetism
Room: 322 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jacobo Santamaria, Universidad Complutense

U21 Nanotechnology Applications: Advances in Sensors and Therapies
Room: 323 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Michael Naughton, Boston College

U22 Optical Properties of Nanowires
Room: 324 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Joe Tischler, Naval Research Laboratory

U23 Semiconductors: Theory and Spectra I
Room: 325 Sponsor: FIAP

U24 Focus Session: Recent Developments in Density Functional Theory III
Room: 326 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Pieremanuele Canepa, Wake Forest University

U25 Superconducting Qubits: Qubit-Field Interactions and Qubit Theory
Room: 327 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Jay Gambetta, IBM

U26 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits - Impurity Complexes
Room: 328 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Kai-Mei Fu, University of Washington
Invited Speakers:  Andrew Dzurak  

U27 Quantum Entanglement: Theory and Experiment
Room: 329 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Andrews Doherty, University of Sydney

U28 Focus Session: Tunable Materials
Room: 336 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Jongmin Shim, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Invited Speakers:  David Gracias  

U29 Focus Session: Jamming: Marginal Solids II
Room: 337 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Joshua Dijksman, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Jie Zhang  

U30 Glassy Materials: Colloids, Traffic, Disordered Crystals, Etc.
Room: 338 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Peter Schall, University of Amsterdam

U31 Focus Session: Assembly & Function of Biomimetic & Bioinspired Materials III
Room: 339 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY DBIO Chair: Shengfeng Cheng, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Cyrus Safinya  

U32 Charged Polymers and Ionic Liquids
Room: 340 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Mu Ping Nieh, University of Connecticut

U33 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Organic Photovoltaics I - Theory and Processing
Room: 341 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Chabinyc, University of California at Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Jean-Luc Bredas,  Seth Darling  

U34 Thin Films, Surfaces and Interfaces I
Room: 342 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Mesfin Tsige, The University of Akron

U35 Focus Session: Search for New Superconductors III
Room: 343 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jochen Mannhart, Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Physics, Stuttgart, Germany
Invited Speakers:  Thilo Kopp  

U36 Electron Phonon Superconductivity and Isotope Effect
Room: 344 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Roxanna Margine, Binghamton University - SUNY

U37 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors: Tunneling Spectroscopy
Room: 345/346 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Laura Greene, University of Illinois

U38 Novel Photophysics and Transport in NanoPV II
Room: 347 Sponsor: GERA DPOLY DCOMP Chair: Richard Wiener, Research Corporaton

U39 Metals: Alloys and Actinide Compounds
Room: 348 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Lin-Lin Wang, Ames Laboratory

U40 Non-equilibrium Cold Atom Systems
Room: 349 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Marcos Rigol, Pennsylvania State University

U41 Quantum Simulation in Hybrid Systems (and Nano/Optomechanics IV)
Room: 350 Sponsor: GQI DAMOP Chair: Aashish Clerk, McGill University

U42 Focus Session: Supercooled and Nanoconfined Water III
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 3 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Anders Nilsson, SLAC
Invited Speakers:  Christiane Alba-Simionesco,  Alan Soper,  Francesco Mallamace  

U43 Molecules, Clusters, and Complexes
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 2 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Jeff Cina, University of Oregon

U44 Focus Session: Physics of Single-Cell Heterogeneity
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Wolfgang Losert, University of Maryland College Park
Invited Speakers:  Satwik Rajaram,  Juli\'an Candia  

U45 Focus Session: Cell Mechanics II
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 4 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Helim Aranda-Espinoza, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Patrick Oakes  

U46 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy 2: High Frequencies and Optical Techniques
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 5 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Robert McMichael, NIST
Invited Speakers:  Feng Guo  

U47 Invited Session: Controlling Biological Networks
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 6 Sponsor: DBIO GSNP Chair: Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Northeastern University/Harvard Medical School
Invited Speakers:  Johan Paulson,  Yang-Yu Liu,  Adilson Motter,  Reka Albert,  Jean-Jacques Slotine  

Mar 21 2013 1:00PM, Thursday

V1 Poster Session III (1:00 - 4:00PM)
Room: Exhibit Hall EF

Mar 21 2013 2:30PM, Thursday

W1 Invited Session: Superconductivity at High Pressure
Room: Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Viktor Struzhkin, Carnegie Institution for Science
Invited Speakers:  Xiao-Jia Chen,  Katsuya Shimizu,  Stuart Brown,  Hugo Keller,  Carmen Almasan  

W2 Invited Session: Theory of Interacting Topological Insulators
Room: Ballroom II Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Shou-Cheng Zhang, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Zhong Wang,  William Witczak-Krempa,  Haijun Zhang,  Shinsei Ryu,  Michael Levin  

W3 Invited Session: Quantum Foundations
Room: Ballroom III Sponsor: GQI Chair: Terry Rudolph, Imperial College London
Invited Speakers:  Renato Renner,  Nicolas Gisin,  Markus Mueller,  Caslav Brukner,  Terry Rudolph  

W4 Invited Session: Start-ups and Small Businesses: Success Stories and Tool Kits
Room: Ballroom IV Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Joseph Sabol, Chemical Consultant
Invited Speakers:  Gianna Arnold,  Debra Bowes,  Kimberly Brown,  Shirley Collier,  Kris Appel  

W5 Focus Session: Graphene: Transport and Optical Phenomena: Nanostructures
Room: 301 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Caio Lewenkopf, Universidade Federal Fluminense

W6 Focus Session: Graphene on SiC: Synthesis and Properties
Room: 302 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Randall Feenstra, Carnegie Mellon University
Invited Speakers:  Pierre Seneor  

W7 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Optical Properties
Room: 303 Sponsor: DMP

W8 Topological Insulators: Theory III
Room: 307 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Maxim Dzero, Kent State University

W9 Invited Session: Physics of Next Generation DNA Sequencing
Room: 308 Sponsor: DCMP DPOLY Chair: Alexander V. Balatsky, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Michael Zwolak,  Masateru Taniguchi,  Alexander Balatsky,  Ralph H. Scheicher,  Jens Gundlach  

W10 Invited Session: Many Body Physics in Quantum Gases
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCMP DAMOP Chair: Paul Goldbart, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Tilman Esslinger,  Philipp Strack,  Joe Bhaseen,  Martin W. Zwierlein,  Shuai Chen  

W11 Invited Session: Polymer Based Soft Materials: Industrial Applications
Room: 310 Sponsor: DPOLY FIAP Chair: Miriam Rafailovich, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Invited Speakers:  R.A. Vaia,  Valeriy Ginzburg,  Wilson Lee,  Jason Li,  A. Desikan  

W12 Focus Session: Thermoelectrics Nanomaterials I
Room: 314 Sponsor: DMP GERA FIAP Chair: Li Shi, University of Texas at Austin

W13 Topological Insulators: Bi2Se3, Pure and Chemically Doped
Room: 315 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: James Analytis, University of California, Berkeley

W14 Focus Session: Magnetic Domains
Room: 316 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Andrew Balk, National Institute of Standards and Technology

W15 Focus Session: Theory of Kagome Magnetism
Room: 317 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Oleg Tchernyshyov, Johns Hopkins University
Invited Speakers:  Yuan Wan  

W16 Focus Session: Biomagnetics, Magneto-Optics, and Ultrafast Effects
Room: 318 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Weigang Wang, University of Arizona
Invited Speakers:  Aaron Chen  

W17 Focus Session: CMR Manganites
Room: 319 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jeffrey Lynn, NIST Center for Neutron Research

W18 Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors - Dynamic and Nuclear Effects
Room: 320 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Vanessa Sih, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Andrew Ferguson  

W19 Holography and Higgs Physics in Condensed Matter
Room: 321 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Philip Phillips, University of Illinois

W20 Focus Session: Electron, Ion, Exciton Transport in Nanostructures: Charge Transport in Functional Nanostructures
Room: 322 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Kenji Shiraishi, University of Tsukuba
Invited Speakers:  Tae W. Noh  

W21 Optoelectronics & Photonics
Room: 323 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Leslie Cohen, Imperial College

W22 Transparent Conductors, Titania, and Other Oxides
Room: 324 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Kartik Ghosh, Missouri State University

W23 Semiconductors: Theory & Spectra II
Room: 325 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: M. S. Kushwaha, Rice University

W24 Focus Session: Configuration interaction Quantum Monte Carlo techniques
Room: 326 Sponsor: DCOMP
Invited Speakers:  Ali Alavi  

W25 Classical Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics: Methods and Applications
Room: 327 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Tim Germann, Los Alamos National Laboratory

W26 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits - Progress in Si
Room: 328 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Charles Tahan, Laboratory for Physical Sciences, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Dominique Bougeard  

W27 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits: Quantum Computing Architectures
Room: 329 Sponsor: GQI
Invited Speakers:  Mark W. Johnson,  Robert Schoelkopf  

W28 Focus Session: Soft-Matter, Biology, & Bioinspiration
Room: 336 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Carmel Majidi, Carnegie Mellon University
Invited Speakers:  Ellen Kuhl  

W29 Straight-Up Jamming
Room: 337 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Scott Franklin, Rochester Institute of Technology

W30 Nonlinear Dynamics
Room: 338 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: David Egolf, Georgetown University

W31 Focus Session: Understanding Fluctuation and Correlation Effects in Polymers
Room: 339 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Amalie Frischknecht, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Glenn Fredrickson  

W32 Focus Session: Micro/Nanofluidics I
Room: 340 Sponsor: DPOLY DFD Chair: Daeyeon Lee, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Lydia L. Sohn  

W33 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Organic Photovoltaics II - Efficiency, Stability, and Interfaces
Room: 341 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Richard Lunt, Michigan State University
Invited Speakers:  Sean Shaheen,  Michael McGehee  

W34 Thin Films, Surfaces and Interfaces II
Room: 342 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Dvora Perahia, Clemson University

W35 Novel Superconductors II
Room: 343 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Meigan Aronson, Brookhaven National Laboratory

W36 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors: Synthesis and Characterization
Room: 344 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Cedomir Petrovic, Brookhaven National Lab

W37 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors: General Theory
Room: 345/346 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Rafael Fernandes, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Maxim Khodas  

W38 Focus Session: Novel Photophysics and Transport in NanoPV III
Room: 347 Sponsor: GERA DPOLY DCOMP Chair: Zhigang Wu, Colorado School of Mines
Invited Speakers:  Janelle Leger  

W39 Computational Fluid Dynamics
Room: 348 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Gorges L. Chahine, Dynaflo, Inc

W40 Quantum Information in AMO Physics
Room: 349 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Kevin Wright, Dartmouth College

W41 Bose Gauge Fields
Room: 350 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Mark Edwards

W42 Focus Session: Supercooled and Nanoconfined Water IV
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 3 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Valeria Molinero, University of Utah
Invited Speakers:  Barbara Wyslouzil,  Tianshu Li,  Benjamin Murray  

W43 Chemical Physics of Graphene and Other Crystals
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 2 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Jeff Cina, University of Oregon

W44 Focus Session: The Physics of Behavior
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Greg J. Stephens, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Leslie Osborne,  Robert Austin  

W45 Physics of Bacteria
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 4 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Kun Zhao, University of California, Los Angeles

W46 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy III: Novel Approaches and Ultrasensitive Detection
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 5 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Eric Hudson, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Andreas Heinrich  

W47 Invited Session: The Spread of Cancer and the Tumor Microenvironment
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 6 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Herb Levine, Rice University
Invited Speakers:  L.M. Sander,  Eshel Ben-Jacob,  Ilan Tsarfaty,  E Antonio Chiocca,  Kandice Tanner  

Mar 21 2013 5:45PM, Thursday

X1 Nobel Prize Session: 2012 Nobel Prize Perspectives
Room: Ballroom I Sponsor: APS Chair: Daniel Lidar, University of Southern California
Invited Speakers:  Serge Haroche,  David J. Wineland  

Mar 22 2013 8:00AM, Friday

Y1 Invited Session: New Perspectives on Kondo Systems
Room: Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Goldhaber-Gordon, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Meigan Aronson,  Pegor Aynajian,  Gleb Finkelstein,  Mikhail Pletyukhov,  Andreas Weichselbaum  

Y2 Invited Session: Magnetism and non-Fermi Liquid in Heavy Fermion Metals
Room: Ballroom II Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Piers Coleman, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Silke Paschen,  Collin Broholm,  Peter W\"{o}lfle,  Manuel Brando,  J.C. Seamus Davis  

Y3 Invited Session: New Directions in Fractional Quantum Hall Phenomena
Room: Ballroom III Sponsor: DCMP DCOMP Chair: Mansour Shayegan, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Amir Yacoby,  Kun Yang,  Dieter Weiss,  Zlatko Papic,  Tayfun Gokmen  

Y5 Graphene: Transport and Optical Phenomena: Heterostructures
Room: 301 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sufei Shi, University of California, Berkeley

Y6 Nanotubes and Nanowires (non-carbon): Transport and Optical Phenomena
Room: 302 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jonathan Spanier, Drexel University

Y7 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Sensor Applications and Gas Absoprtion
Room: 303 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Charlie Johnson, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Gugang Chen  

Y8 Electron-electron Interactions and Unconventional Structures
Room: 307 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sumit Mazumdar, University of Arizona

Y9 Invited Session: Spin Mechanics
Room: 308 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Sebastian Goennenwein, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Invited Speakers:  Olivier Klein,  Mark Freeman,  Michael Grinolds,  Andrei Kirilyuk,  Mamoru Matsuo  

Y10 Invited Session: Advances in Actinide Measurement Techniques
Room: 309 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Jason Cooley, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Arkady Shekhter,  Corwin Booth,  Yasuoka Hiroshi,  James Tobin,  John Joyce  

Y11 Glassy and Amorphous Systems, Including Quasicrystals followed by Epitaxial Growth and Structure of Oxides
Room: 310 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Punit Boolchand, University of Cinncinatti

Y12 Focus Session: Themoelectrics Nanomaterials II
Room: 314 Sponsor: DMP GERA FIAP Chair: Austin Minnich, CalTech

Y13 Topological Insulators: Thin Films and Interfaces
Room: 315 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Fazel Fallah Tafti, Universite de Sherbrooke

Y14 Focus Session: Thermal and Magnon Spin Currents
Room: 316 Sponsor: DMP FIAP GMAG Chair: Gabriel Chaves-O'Flynn, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Azure Avery,  Sylvain Brechet  

Y15 Focus Session: Kagome Materials and Experiments
Room: 317 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Young Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Edwin Kermarrec  

Y16 Magnetic Theory II
Room: 318 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Khorgolkhuu Odbadrakh, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Y17 Focus Session: Magnetic Metal Insulator Transitions
Room: 319 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Eduardo Granado, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil)
Invited Speakers:  Stuart Calder  

Y18 Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors - Quantum Dots
Room: 320 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Avadh B. Saxena, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Samuel Carter  

Y19 Charge Density Wave Order
Room: 321 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Hawthorn, University of Waterloo

Y20 Focus Session: Electron, Ion, Exciton Transport in Nanostructures: Quantum Dots and Low-dimension Structures
Room: 322 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Seungbum Hong, Argonne National Laboratory

Y21 Semiconductors: Thermodynamic & Transport Properties (Theory)
Room: 323 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Chris Palmstrom, University of California, Santa Barbara

Y22 Quantum Solids - He4
Room: 324 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Matthias Graf, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Y23 Semiconductors: Thermodynamic & Optical Properties I
Room: 325 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Andre Sushkov, University of Maryland

Y24 Focus Session: Advances in Fermionic Simulatons
Room: 326 Sponsor: DCOMP
Invited Speakers:  Thereza Paiva,  Boris Svistunov  

Y25 Focus Session: Novel Theories and Methods in Computational Physics
Room: 327 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Rajamani Narayanan, Florida International University
Invited Speakers:  Ari Hietanen,  Anna Hasenfratz  

Y28 Rods & Buckling
Room: 336 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Basile Audoly, University Paris 6

Y29 Complex Networks and Their Applications I
Room: 337 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Greg Morrison, Harvard University

Y30 Jamming & Shearing
Room: 338 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Ted Brzinski, University of Pennsylvania

Y31 Phase Behavior of Copolymers
Room: 339 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Chris Ellison, University of Texas at Austin

Y32 Polymer Nanocomposites III
Room: 340 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Jeff Meth, DuPont Chemicals

Y33 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Morphology and Structure I
Room: 341 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Penpeng Zhang, Michigan State University

Y34 Focus Session: Microfluidics, Nanofluidics Applications
Room: 342 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Alberto Fernandez-Nieves, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Gabriel Lopez  

Y35 Low TC: 2-D Superconductor-insulator Transition
Room: 343 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Greg Boyd, Georgetown University

Y36 Novel Superconductors III
Room: 344 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: N. Peter Armitage, Johns Hopkins University

Y37 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors: Vortices and Critical Fields
Room: 345/346 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Morten Eskildsen, University of Notre Dame
Invited Speakers:  Philip Moll,  Atsutaka Maeda  

Y38 Focus Session: Scalable Technologies for Photovoltaics II
Room: 347 Sponsor: GERA FIAP Chair: Janelle Leger, Western Washington University
Invited Speakers:  David L. Young  

Y39 Swimming, Motility and Locomotion
Room: 348 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Alexander Alexeev, Georgia Institute of Technology

Y40 Surfaces, Interfaces, and Thin Films: Oxides
Room: 349 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Pierce, Rochester Institute of Technology

Y42 Focus Session: Single Molecule Studies of Nucleotides and Nanomachines
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 3 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Keir Neuman, NIH
Invited Speakers:  Keir Neuman,  Marek Cieplak  

Y43 Spectroscopy, Photochemistry, and Electrochemistry
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 2 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Jeff Owrutsky, Naval Research Laboratory

Y44 Focus Session: Novel Experimental Techniques for Probing Cellular Mechanics
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Cristian Staii, Tufts
Invited Speakers:  Jeff Urbach,  Igor Sokolov  

Y45 Focus Session: Physics of Cancer II
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 4 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Larry Nagahara, National Institutes of Health
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Larson  

Y46 Focus Session: Physics of Proteins III
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 5 Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY Chair: Corey O'Hern, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Joachim Heberle  

Y47 Invited Session: Controlling and Exploiting Topological Defects in Liquid Crystals
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 6 Sponsor: DFD GSNP Chair: Kathleen Stebe, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Nicholas Abbott,  Mohamed Amine Gharbi,  Ivan Smalyukh,  Valeria Garbin,  Nasser Mohieddin Abukhdeir  

Mar 22 2013 11:15AM, Friday

Z1 Invited Session: Time- and Angle- Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy of Complex Materials
Room: Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP GIMS Chair: Thomas Devereaux, SLAC National Acceleratory Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Jonathan Sobota,  Uwe Bovensiepen,  Yihua Wang,  Tomasz Durakiewicz,  Chris Jozwiak  

Z2 Invited Session: Jamming and Rheology of Disordered Systems
Room: Ballroom II Sponsor: DCMP GSNP Chair: Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University
Invited Speakers:  Scott Waitukaitis,  Daniel Bonn,  Corey O'Hern,  Joshua Dijksman,  Dapeng Bi  

Z3 Invited Session: Integration of Research and Teaching Excellence: Cottrell Scholars
Room: Ballroom III Sponsor: FEd Chair: Richard Wiener, Research Corporation
Invited Speakers:  Jairo Sinova,  Jennifer Ross,  Richard Taylor,  Mark Tuominen,  Erica Carlson  

Z5 Focus Session: Graphene: Transport and Optical Phenomena: Hot Electrons and Photocurrents
Room: 301 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Alex Holleitner, Technische Universitaet Muenchen

Z6 Nanotubes and Nanowires (non-carbon): Other Phenomena
Room: 302 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Yanjie Zhou, Purdue University

Z7 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Synthesis
Room: 303 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Eric Stach, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Don Futaba  

Z8 Topological Insulators: Transport and interfaces
Room: 307 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Rolando Valdes Aguilar, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Z10 Invited Session: Elastic Instabilities and Pattern Formation in Structureless Solids
Room: 309 Sponsor: DFD DPOLY GSNP Chair: Benny Davidovitch, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Invited Speakers:  Evan Hohlfeld,  Jos\'e Bico,  Robert Schroll,  Howard A. Stone,  Zhigang Suo  

Z11 Invited Session: Nonlinear Mechanics of Glassy Polymers
Room: 310 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Robert Hoy, University of South Florida
Invited Speakers:  Leon Govaert,  Daniel Lacks,  Shi-Qing Wang,  Ron Larson,  C.M. Roland  

Z12 Focus Session: Thermoelectric Magnetothermoelectric Magnetocaloric
Room: 314 Sponsor: DMP GERA FIAP Chair: David Singh, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Z14 Permanent Magnet Materials
Room: 316 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: George Hadjipanayis, University of Delaware

Z15 Focus Session: Frustrated Systems: Artificial and Disordered
Room: 317 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: John Cumings, University of Maryland

Z17 Focus Session: Orbital Order
Room: 319 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Despina Louca, University of Virginia

Z18 Focus Session: Spin-torque and Related Magnetic Oscillations
Room: 320 Sponsor: DMP FIAP GMAG Chair: Robert McMichael, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Pranaba Kishor Muduli  

Z19 f-Electron System Properties - Theory & Experiment
Room: 321 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ryan Baumbach, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Z21 Solid State Lighting and Other Semiconductors
Room: 323 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Angelo Mascarenhas, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Z22 He3 - He4 Quantum Fluids
Room: 324 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Benjamin Hunt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Z23 Semiconductors: Thermodynamic & Optical Properties II
Room: 325 Sponsor: FIAP

Z24 Quantum Many-Body Systems and Methods II
Room: 326 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Jia-An Yan, Towson University

Z28 Focus Session: Wrinkling
Room: 336 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Douglas Holmes, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Invited Speakers:  Alfred Crosby  

Z29 Complex Networks and Their Applications II
Room: 337 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Erin Rericha, Vanderbilt University

Z31 New Computational Methods in Polymer & Soft Matter Physics
Room: 339 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Gary Leuty, The University of Akron

Z32 Micro/Nanofluidics II
Room: 340 Sponsor: DFD Chair: German Drazer, Rutgers University

Z33 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Morphology and Structure II
Room: 341 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Brian Collins, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Z34 Polymeric Glasses
Room: 342 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Yunlong Guo, Princeton University

Z42 Focus Session: Single Molecule Studies of Protein Nanomachines
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 3 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Jing Xu, University of California, Merced
Invited Speakers:  Jing Xu,  Thomas A. Blanpied  

Z43 Catalysis and Chemical Reaction Dynamics
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 2 Sponsor: DCP Chair: James Skinner, University of Wisconsin

Z44 Focus Session: Cell Mechanics III
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Eric Dufresne, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Eric R. Dufresne  

Z45 Focus Session: From Molecules to Cells
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 4 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Herbert Levine, Rice University
Invited Speakers:  Gurol Suel,  Peter Wolynes  

Z46 Focus Session: Physics of Proteins IV
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 5 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Andrea Markelz, State University of New York at Buffalo
Invited Speakers:  Mikio Kataoka  

Z47 Invited Session: Active, Non-Equilibrium Dynamics in Complex Cellular Networks
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 6 Sponsor: DBIO GSNP Chair: Margaret Gardel, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Nikta Fakhri,  Michael Murrell,  Michael Sheinman,  Clifford Brangwynne,  Julie Theriot  

Mar 17 2013 2:30PM, Sunday

1A Industrial Physics Forum: Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Room: Ballroom IV Chair: David Seiler, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Robert Colwell,  Mason Peck,  Hubert Lakner,  Jason Cleveland,  Robert Doering  

Mar 18 2013 8:00AM, Monday

A1 Invited Session: Spin Caloritronics
Room: Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP GMAG Chair: Kai Liu, University of California, Davis
Invited Speakers:  Eiji Saitoh,  Ssu-Yen Huang,  Barry Zink,  Tero Heikkila,  Axel Hoffmann  

A2 Invited Session: Novel Superconductivity in FE Selenide Superconductors
Room: Ballroom II Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Douglas Scalapino, University of California at Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Igor Mazin,  Xucun Ma,  Shaolong He,  Dung-Hai Lee,  Jiangping Hu  

A3 Invited Session: Second Landau Level: Quantum Phases
Room: Ballroom III Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Loren Pfeiffer, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Ursula Wurstbauer,  W. Pan,  Steven Simon,  Michael Manfra,  Jainendra Jain  

A4 Industrial Physics Forum: Frontiers in Physics
Room: Ballroom IV Chair: David Seiler, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Michael Tuts,  Collin Broholm,  Matthias Steffen,  Daniel Fabricant,  Mildred Dresselhaus  

A5 Focus Session: Van der Waals Bonding in Advanced Materials - Materials Behavior
Room: 301 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Roberto Car, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Latha Venkataraman  

A6 Topological Insulators: Novel States in Topological Insulators
Room: 302 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Tudor Stanescu, West Virginia University

A7 Focus Session: Graphene Devices I
Room: 303 Sponsor: DMP Chair: K.C. Fong, Caltech
Invited Speakers:  Monica Allen  

A8 Graphene: Quantum Hall Effect
Room: 307 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Herb Fertig, Indiana University

A9 Invited Session: Teaching Physics and Other STEM Subjects in an Urban Environment
Room: 308 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Mel Sabella, Chicago State University
Invited Speakers:  Richard Steinberg,  Cody Sandifer,  Rosalind Echols,  Anne Spence,  Gale Seiler  

A10 Invited Session: Hard and Soft Materials Modeling, Simulations and Big Data
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Priya Vashishta, University of Southern California
Invited Speakers:  Roberto Car,  William Goddard,  Gary S. Grest,  Rajiv Kalia,  Efthimios Kaxiras  

A11 Invited Session: Directed Assembly of Hybrid Materials
Room: 310 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Richard Vaia, Air Force Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Andrea Tao,  Arthi Jayaraman,  Dimitris Vlassopoulos,  Peter Mirau,  Alfons van Blaaderen  

A12 Focus Session: Complex Oxide Interfaces - Nickelates
Room: 314 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Prasana Balachandran, Drexel University
Invited Speakers:  Gregory A. Fiete,  Andrea Caviglia  

A13 Focus Session: Topological Materials - Magnetic Topological Insulators
Room: 315 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Fhurer, Monash University
Invited Speakers:  Suyang Xu  

A14 Focus Session: Perovskite Cobaltite & Titanate Heterostructures
Room: 316 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Chris Leighton, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Susanne Stemmer  

A15 Focus Session: Exchange Bias and Magnetic Interfaces
Room: 317 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Igor Roshchin, Texas A&M University
Invited Speakers:  Sujoy Roy  

A16 Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Physics in Organic Compounds
Room: 318 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Christoph Boehme, University of Utah
Invited Speakers:  Bert Koopmans,  Z. Valy Vardeny  

A17 Focus Session: Multiferroic Skyrmions
Room: 319 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Nicholas Butch, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Shinichiro Seki  

A18 Focus Session: Spin-transfer Torque: Devices and Dynamics
Room: 320 Sponsor: DMP FIAP GMAG Chair: Dan Ralph, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  Johan {\AA}kerman,  Huanlong Liu  

A19 Metal-Insulator Transitions: Iridiates and Heterostructures - Experiment & Theory
Room: 321 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Dennis Drew, University of Maryland

A20 Focus Session: Metamaterials
Room: 322 Sponsor: DMP Chair: John Pendry, Imperial College London
Invited Speakers:  Mario Silveirinha  

A21 Focus Session: New Ferroelectrics and Ferroelectric Mechanisms
Room: 323 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Eric Bousquet, Universite de Liege
Invited Speakers:  Philippe Ghosez,  Joseph Bennett  

A22 Organic Conductors & Other Correlated Electron Systems
Room: 324 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Claude Bourbonnais, Universite de Sherbrooke

A23 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors I
Room: 325 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Marek Skowronski, Carnagie Melon University
Invited Speakers:  Gerd Duscher  

A24 Novel Technologies and Algorithms
Room: 326 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Brandon Cook, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A25 Superconducting Qubits: Magnetic Flux and Vortex Noise on Qubits and Resonators, Quasiparticles, and Qubit-Resonator Designs
Room: 327 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Britton Plourde, Syracuse University

A26 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits - Optical Hybridization
Room: 328 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Thaddeus Ladd, HRL Laboratories, LLC
Invited Speakers:  Atac Imamoglu  

A27 Focus Session: Adiabatic Quantum Computing I
Room: 329 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Sergio Boixo, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
Invited Speakers:  Grant Biedermann,  Sergio Boixo  

A28 Focus Session: Statistical Physics of Active Systems Away from Detailed Balance
Room: 336 Chair: Aparna Baskaran, Brandeis University
Invited Speakers:  Julien Tailleur,  Jeremie Palacci  

A29 Three Dimensional Topological Insulators: Chalcogenides
Room: 337 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Cihan Kurter, University of Illinois

A30 Colloids: Diffusion and Transport
Room: 338 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Kazem Edmond, New York University

A31 Polymer Membranes for Clean Energy and Water I
Room: 339 Sponsor: DPOLY GERA Chair: Xinran Zhang, Georgetown University

A32 Focus Session: Crystallization and Directed Assembly of Multicomponent Systems
Room: 340 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Christopher Li, Drexel University
Invited Speakers:  Thomas Russell  

A33 Focus Session: Dielectric and Ferroelectric Polymers for Electrical Applications: Dielectrics
Room: 341 Sponsor: DPOLY DMP Chair: Lei Zhu, Case Western Reserve University
Invited Speakers:  Mason Wolak,  R. Ramprasad  

A34 Focus Session: Dynamics of Glassy Polymers Under Nanoscale Confinment: Glass Transition
Room: 342 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Robert Riggleman, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Rodney Priestley  

A35 Superconductivity: Tunneling Phenomena
Room: 343 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Zasadzinski, Illinois Institute of Technology

A36 Theory and Computation of Novel Superconductivity
Room: 344 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Roser Valenti, Universitaet Frankfurt

A37 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors: Coexistence with Magnetism
Room: 345/346 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Ulrich Welp, Argonne Natl Lab
Invited Speakers:  Julien Bobroff  

A38 Focus Session: Instrumentation and Measurement Science for a Sustainable Energy Future
Room: 347 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Eric Palm, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee
Invited Speakers:  Raymond L. Orbach,  Piotr Zelenay  

A39 Focus Session: Materials in Extremes: Theory and Simulations
Room: 348 Sponsor: GSCCM DCOMP DMP Chair: Aleksey Kolmogorov, Binghamton University-SUNY
Invited Speakers:  Joseph Hooper  

A40 Focus Session: Collective Diffusion and Self Organization
Room: 349 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael S. Altman, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Tapio Ala-Nissila  

A41 Localization, Cooling, Trapping and Clocks
Room: 350 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Matthew Beeler, University of Maryland

A42 Integer Quantum Hall Effect
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 3 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: James Tse, University of Texas

A43 Focus Session: Multiscale modeling--Coarse-graining in Space and Time I
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 2 Sponsor: DCP Chair: William Noid, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Gregory Voth,  M. Scott Shell,  Juan de Pablo  

A44 Focus Session: Population and Evolutionary Dynamics I
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DBIO GSNP Chair: Michel Pleimling, Virginia Tech
Invited Speakers:  Christoph Hauert,  Joachim Krug  

A45 Focus Session: Structure and Dynamics of Biomembranes I
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 4 Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY Chair: Fredrick Heberle, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  James Kindt  

A46 SPS Undergraduate I
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 5 Sponsor: SPS Chair: Toni Sauncy, American Institute of Physics

A47 Invited Session: Excitable Dynamics in Biological Systems
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 6 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Pankaj Mehta, Boston University
Invited Speakers:  Michael Elowitz,  David Schwab,  Adrienne Fairhall,  Michael Brenner,  Wouter-Jan Rappel  

Mar 18 2013 11:15AM, Monday

B1 Invited Session: Logical Spin Qubits for Quantum Computation
Room: Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Amir Yacoby, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Michael Shulman,  Charles Marcus,  Jelena Klinovaja,  Andrew Sachrajda,  Seigo Tarucha  

B2 Invited Session: 2D Charge Ordering in Under-Doped Cuprates
Room: Ballroom II Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Zhi-Xun Shen, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Giacomo Ghiringhelli,  Stephen Hayden,  Makoto Hashimoto,  Suchitra E. Sebastian,  Albert Migliori  

B3 Invited Session: Frustration and Quantum Criticality
Room: Ballroom III Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Leon Balents, University of California at Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Gilbert G. Lonzarich,  Kazushi Kanoda,  Seung-Hun Lee,  Shivaji Sondhi,  Myriam P. Sarachik  

B4 Invited Session: Cold Atoms on Higher Orbital Bands
Room: Ballroom IV Sponsor: DAMOP DCMP Chair: Erhai Zhao, George Mason University
Invited Speakers:  Andreas Hemmerich,  Maciej Lewenstein,  Klaus Sengstock,  Xiaopeng Li,  Jian-Wei Pan  

B5 Focus Session: Van der Waals Bonding in Advanced Materials - Surfaces, Growth, and Friction
Room: 301 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jacqueline Krim, North Carolina State University
Invited Speakers:  Zhenyu Zhang  

B6 Focus Session: CVD Graphene - Growth and Characterization
Room: 302 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Luigi Colombo, Texas Instruments
Invited Speakers:  Jie Shan  

B7 Focus Session: Graphene Devices II
Room: 303 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Arthur Hebard, University of Florida
Invited Speakers:  Jinseong Heo  

B8 Focus Session: Hexagonal BN, Graphene, and Graphene Oxide Synthesis I
Room: 307 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Mauricio Terrones, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Pulickel Ajayan,  Jong-Hyun Ahn  

B9 Invited Session: FIP Symposium on the Science of Climate
Room: 308 Sponsor: FIP Chair: Eugene Chudnovsky, City University of New York - Lehman College
Invited Speakers:  Richard Lindzen,  Joanna Haigh,  Bhupendra Nath Goswami,  Darryn W. Waugh,  Francois Forget  

B10 Invited Session: Celebrating 100 Years of Physical Review at APS
Room: 309 Sponsor: FHP Chair: Don Howard, University of Notre Dame
Invited Speakers:  Martin Blume,  Robert Crease,  Daniel Kennefick,  Mark Doyle,  Gene Sprouse  

B11 Invited Session: Polymer Membranes for Clean Energy and Water II
Room: 310 Sponsor: DPOLY GERA Chair: Ali Evern Ozcam, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  William Koros,  Bruce Hinds,  Volker Abetz,  Chinedum Osuji,  William Phillip  

B12 Focus Session: Complex Oxide Interfaces - Titanates
Room: 314 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Mikel Holcomb, West Virginia University
Invited Speakers:  Javier Junquera,  Matthew Dawber  

B13 Focus Session: Topological Materials - Topological Superconductors and Half Heuslers
Room: 315 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jagadeesh Moodera, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Satoshi Sasaki  

B14 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanoparticles I
Room: 316 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Dario Arena, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Xavier Batlle  

B15 Focus Session: Spin-orbit Effects in Spin-dependent Transport and Dynamics
Room: 317 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Xin Fan, University of Delaware
Invited Speakers:  Kyung-Jin Lee  

B16 Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Physics in Graphene
Room: 318 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Minn-Tsong Lin, National Taiwan University

B17 Focus Session: Iridate Mott Insulators
Room: 319 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Stephen Wilson, Boston College
Invited Speakers:  George Jackeli  

B18 Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors - Spin Valleytronics and Spin Orbit
Room: 320 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Aubrey Hanbicki, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Xiaodong Xu  

B19 Metal Insulator transitions in Vanadates: exp/theory
Room: 321 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mumtaz Qazilbash, College of William and Mary

B20 Focus Session: Mesoscopics - Transport
Room: 322 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Yvan Bruynseraede, Catholic University-Leuven, Belgium
Invited Speakers:  John Sarrao  

B21 Focus Session: Hexagonal Ferrites and Manganites
Room: 323 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Nicole Benedek, University of Texas at Austin
Invited Speakers:  Hena Das  

B22 Nano Particles, Wires, and Cavities
Room: 324 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sergio Ulloa, Ohio University

B23 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors II
Room: 325 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Gerd J. Duscher, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Invited Speakers:  John L. Lyons  

B24 Focus Session: Materials in Extremes: High-Strain-Rate Phenomena
Room: 326 Sponsor: GSCCM DCOMP DMP Chair: Igor Schweigert, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Jonathan Crowhurst,  Evan Reed  

B25 Superconducting Qubits: Loss Mechanisms (TLS) and Novel Materials
Room: 327 Sponsor: GQI Chair: David Pappas, National Institute of Standards and Technology

B26 Focus Session: Quantum Characterization, Verification, and Validation I
Room: 328 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Charles Tahan, Laboratory for Physical Sciences
Invited Speakers:  Steve Flammia,  Thomas Monz  

B27 Focus Session: Adiabatic Quantum Computing II
Room: 329 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Sergio Boixo, University of Southern California
Invited Speakers:  Rolando Somma,  Itay Hen  

B28 Focus Session: Statistical Physics of Active Systems Away from Detailed Balance: Motors, Swimmers and All That
Room: 336 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Alexander Grosberg, New York University
Invited Speakers:  Thomas Risler  

B29 Fluctuations in Non-Equilibrium Systems
Room: 337 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Chris Jarzynski, University of Maryland

B30 Colloids: Transitions and Structures
Room: 338 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Piotr Habdas, St. Joseph's University

B31 Focus Session: Nano to Meso-Scale Structure in Ordered Soft Matter: Liquid Crystal Structure, Dynamics and Function I
Room: 339 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Alberto Fernandez de las Nieves, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  James Adams  

B32 Focus Session: Polymer Crystallization and Morphology
Room: 340 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Xinfei Yu, NIST
Invited Speakers:  Sanjay Rastogi  

B33 Focus Session: Dielectric and Ferroelectric Polymers for Electrical Applications: Ferroelectrics
Room: 341 Sponsor: DPOLY DMP Chair: Philip Taylor, Case Western Reserve University
Invited Speakers:  Jerry Bernholc  

B34 Focus Session: Dynamics of Glassy Polymers Under Nanoscale Confinement
Room: 342 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Zahra Fakhraai, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Kari Dalnoki-Veress  

B35 Superconductivity: Spin Properties
Room: 343 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Yaroslaw Bazaliy, University of South Carolina

B36 HTSC: Transport Properties
Room: 344 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Carmen Almasan, Kent State University

B37 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors: Impurity Effects
Room: 345/346 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Ruslan Prozorov, Ames Lab
Invited Speakers:  Marcin Konczykowski  

B38 Focus Session: Building a Thriving Undergraduate Physics Program
Room: 347 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Ted Hodapp, American Physical Society
Invited Speakers:  Gubbi Sudhakaran  

B39 Focus Session: Imaging & Modifying Materials Under Extreme Conditions of Radiation, Temperature, and at the Limits of Space and Time Resolution
Room: 348 Sponsor: DMP GIMS
Invited Speakers:  Geoffrey Campbell,  Laura Smilowitz  

B40 Surfaces, Interfaces, and Thin Films: Electronic and Magnetic Properties
Room: 349 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Horn von Hoegen, Universitaet Duisburg-Essen

B41 Non-equilibrium Physics with Cold Atoms II
Room: 350 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Lode Pollet, Ludwig Maximilian University

B42 Quantum Hall Effect: Edges, Interferometry, & nu = 5/2
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 3 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Sriram Ganeshan, University of Maryland

B43 Focus Session: Multiscale modeling--Coarse-graining in Space and Time II
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 2 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Garegin Papoian, University of Maryland at College Park
Invited Speakers:  Gerhard Hummer,  Cecilia Clementi,  Christine Peter,  Raymond Kapral  

B44 Focus Session: Population and Evolutionary Dynamics II
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DBIO GSNP Chair: Uwe Tauber, Virginia Tech
Invited Speakers:  Michael Desai  

B45 Focus Session: Structure and Dynamics of Biomembranes II
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 4 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Mu-Ping Nieh, University of Connecticut
Invited Speakers:  Tonya Kuhl  

B46 SPS Undergraduate II
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 5 Sponsor: SPS Chair: Crystal Bailey, American Physical Society

B47 Invited Session: Physical Organizing Principles of Biomineral Formation
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 6 Sponsor: DBIO DMP Chair: Susan N. Coppersmith, University of Wisconsin
Invited Speakers:  Pupa Gilbert,  Markus J. Buehler,  Derk Joester,  Fiona Meldrum  

Mar 18 2013 2:30PM, Monday

C1 Invited Session: Spin-Orbit-Controlled Ground States in Single-Crystal Iridates
Room: Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Lance De Long, University of Kentucky
Invited Speakers:  Gang Cao,  Daniel Haskel,  T. Senthil,  Yue Cao,  Feng Ye  

C2 Invited Session: Coulomb Drag and Exciton Condensation in Semiconductor and Graphene Double Layers
Room: Ballroom II Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Lilly, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Debaleena Nandi,  Emanuel Tutuc,  Andre Geim,  Dmytro Pesin,  L.S. Levitov  

C3 Invited Session: Metamaterials
Room: Ballroom III Sponsor: DMP Chair: David Cahill, University of Illinois
Invited Speakers:  John Pendry,  David Smith,  Costas Soukoulis,  Mario Hentschel,  Xiang Zhang,  Martin Wegener  

C4 Invited Session: Industrial Physics Forum: Frontiers in Nanomanufacturing
Room: Ballroom IV Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Robert Celotta, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  James Liddle,  Thomas Theis,  Michelle Simmons,  Shawn Douglas,  Harry Atwater  

C5 Focus Session: Computational Discovery and Design of New Materials for Energy Applications
Room: 301 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Richard Hennig, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  Vidvuds Ozolins,  Chris Wolverton  

C6 Focus Session: Hexagonal BN, Graphene, and Graphene Oxide Synthesis II
Room: 302 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Saikat Talapatra, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

C7 Focus Session: Graphene Devices III
Room: 303 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Monica Allen, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Arthur Hebard  

C8 Complex Structured Materials: Transport and Optical Characterization of Dichalcogenides
Room: 307 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Nuh Gedik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

C9 Invited Session: Recent Developments in Density Functional Theory I
Room: 308 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Timo Thonhauser, Wake Forest University
Invited Speakers:  James Chelikowsky,  David Bowler,  Per Hyldgaard,  Neepa Maitra,  Alexandre Tkatchenko  

C10 Invited Session: Stabilization and Dynamics of Magnetic Skyrmions
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCMP GMAG Chair: N.P. Onn, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Christian Pfleiderer,  Sunxiang Huang,  Xiuzhen Yu,  Naoto Nagaosa,  Stefan Heinze  

C11 Invited Session: Quantum Communication and Cryptography
Room: 310 Sponsor: GQI DAMOP Chair: Mark Wilde, McGill University and Louisiana State University
Invited Speakers:  Graeme Smith,  Anthony Leverrier,  Thomas Vidick,  Vadim Makarov,  Fabio Sciarrino  

C12 Focus Session: Complex Oxide Interfaces - Polar interfaces I
Room: 314 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Mark Rzchowski, University of Wisconsin, Madison

C13 Focus Session: Topological Materials - Search for New Materials
Room: 315 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Seongshik Oh, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Arun Bansil  

C14 Focus Session: Magnetic Oxide Superlattices and Multiferroics
Room: 316 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Susanne Stemmer, UC Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Andrew Millis  

C15 Focus Session: New Frustrated Models: Theory & Materials
Room: 317 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: William Ratcliff, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Masaaki Matsuda  

C16 Focus Session: Spin Dynamics and EPR
Room: 318 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Stephen Hill, Florida State University and NHMFL
Invited Speakers:  Alejandro Gaita-Ari\~no  

C17 Magnetic Theory I
Room: 319 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Marcu Eisenbach, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

C18 Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors - Spin Injection and Transport
Room: 320 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Paul Crawell, University of Minnesota

C19 Vanadate Experiment: Devices
Room: 321 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Sambandamurthy Ganapathy, University at Buffalo
Invited Speakers:  Masaki Nakano  

C20 Focus Session: Metamaterials - Quantum Dots
Room: 322 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Yanwen Wu, University of Texas at Austin

C21 Focus Session: Domains, Switching, and Memristors
Room: 323 Sponsor: DMP Chair: James Scott, University of Cambridge
Invited Speakers:  Xiaoqing Pan  

C22 Metamaterials and THz Spectroscopy
Room: 324 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Matt Doty, University of Delaware

C23 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors III
Room: 325 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Matt McCluskey, Washington State University
Invited Speakers:  Henry Everitt  

C24 Focus Session: Materials in Extremes: Chemistry under Extreme Conditions
Room: 326 Sponsor: GSCCM DCOMP DMP Chair: Jonathan Crowhurst, Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Naresh Thadhani  

C25 Superconducting Qubits: 3D Architecture
Room: 327 Sponsor: GQI Chair: David Schuster, University of Chicago

C26 Semiconductor Qubits - Gates and Robust Control
Room: 328 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Hendrik Blhum, RWTH Aachen
Invited Speakers:  Hugo Ribeiro  

C27 Quantum Computing, Quantum Algorithms, and Quantum Simulation
Room: 329 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Harvard University

C28 Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics, Followed by GSNP Student Speaker Award
Room: 336 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Robin Selinger, Kent State University

C29 Flow in Confinement and Porous Media
Room: 337 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Howard Stone, Princeton University

C30 Polymers and Organic Systems
Room: 338 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: John Cressman, George Mason University

C31 Polymeric Elastomers and Gels
Room: 339 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Jens Glaser, University of Minnesota

C32 Polymer Nanocomposites I
Room: 340 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Venkat Ganesan, University of Texas at Austin

C33 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Interfaces and Contacts
Room: 341 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Xinran Zhang, Georgetown University
Invited Speakers:  Tatsuo Hasegawa  

C34 Thin Films of Block Copolymers and Hybrid Materials: Mechanics and Dynamics
Room: 342 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Alamgir Karim, University of Akron

C35 Superconductivity: Vortices I
Room: 343 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Timir Datta, University of South Carolina

C36 HTSC: Optical Probe of Competing Orders
Room: 344 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Xiao-Jia Chen, Carnegie Institution of Washington

C37 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors: DFT and DMFT
Room: 345/346 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Wei Ku, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Zhiping Yin  

C38 Undergraduate Physics Education
Room: 347 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Mel Sabella, Chicago State University

C39 Focus Session: Materials for Electrochemical Energy Storage I
Room: 348 Sponsor: DMP GERA FIAP DCOMP Chair: Apparao Rao, Clemson University
Invited Speakers:  Gary Rubloff  

C40 Focus Session: Control of Ultrathin Film Morphology
Room: 349 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Shirley Chang, University of California Davis
Invited Speakers:  Michael Horn von Hoegen  

C41 Quantum Simulation with Cold Atoms and Molecules
Room: 350 Sponsor: DAMOP

C42 Quantum Hall Effect: Materials, Geometries, & nu = 2
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 3 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Michael Zudov, University of Minnesota

C43 Focus Session: Plyler, Broida, Langmuir, and Research in an Undergraduate Institution prizes
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 2 Sponsor: DCP Chair: James Skinner, University of Wisconsin
Invited Speakers:  Brooks Pate,  Daniel Neumark,  Wilson Ho,  Mario Affatigato  

C44 Focus Session: Population and Evolutionary Dynamics III
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DBIO GSNP
Invited Speakers:  Yaneer Bar-Yam,  Charles Ofria  

C45 Focus Session: Physics of Biomineralization
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 4 Sponsor: DBIO DMP Chair: Pupa Gilbert, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Invited Speakers:  Susan N. Coppersmith,  Nico Sommerdijk,  Joanna Aizenberg  

C46 SPS Undergraduate III
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 5 Sponsor: SPS Chair: Melissa Hoffman, Drew University

C47 Invited Session: Statistical Physics for Systemic Risk and Infrastructural Interdependencies
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 6 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Antonia Scala, CNR-ISC Institute for Complex Systems
Invited Speakers:  Hamid Benbrahim,  Stefano Battiston,  Raissa D'Souza,  H. Eugene Stanley,  Alessandro Vespignani  

Mar 18 2013 5:45PM, Monday

D1 APS Prizes and Awards Ceremonial Session
Room: Hilton Baltimore Key Ballroom 8 Sponsor: APS Chair: Michael Turner, American Physical Society, University of Chicago

Mar 18 2013 6:45PM, Monday

E1 Welcome Reception
Room: Exhibit Hall D Sponsor: APS

Mar 18 2013 7:30PM, Monday

E11 Special Outreach Session: Meso-Physics
Room: 310 Sponsor: APS Chair: Laura H. Greene, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Invited Speakers:  Harriet Kung,  George Crabtree