Mar 3 2014 8:00AM, Monday

A1 Recent Advances in Density Functional Theory I
Room: 103/105 Sponsor: DCP DCOMP Chair: Weitao Yang, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Axel Becke,  John P. Perdew  

A2 Focus Session: Surface Chemistry and Catalysis I
Room: 102 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Graeme Henkelman, University of Texas - Austin
Invited Speakers:  Jason Weaver,  Manos Mavrikakis  

A3 Undergraduate Research - Society of Physics Students I
Room: 107 Chair: Toni Sauncy, Society of Physics Students - American Institute of Physics

A4 Focus Session: Emergent Properties in Bulk Complex Oxides: Iridates I
Room: 112/110 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: L. Andrew Wray, SLAC/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Chetan Dhital  

A6 Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Physics in Carbon-Based Materials I
Room: 108 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Roland Kawakami, Ohio State University

A7 Focus Session: Patterned Magnetic Nanostructures
Room: 106 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Olle Heinonen, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Vinayak Bhat,  Dirk Grundler  

A8 Focus Session: Magnetodynamics: Generation and Application
Room: 104 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Jeffrey Grossman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Yan Zhou  

A10 Focus Session: Mechanics of Cells and Biological Networks I
Room: 201 Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY GSNP Chair: Daniel Blair, Georgetown University
Invited Speakers:  Moumita Das,  Jeffrey Urbach  

A11 Focus Session: Bacterial Biophysics I
Room: 203 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Gerard Wong, University of California, Los Angeles
Invited Speakers:  Andrew Utada  

A12 Invited Session: Phase Trasitions in Biology
Room: 205 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Cliff Brangwynne, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Mark Newman,  Gasper Tkacik,  Jeff Gore,  Chase Broedersz,  Aurelia Honerkamp-Smith  

A13 Focus Session: Fe based superconductors-Magnetism and Nematicity
Room: 207 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Wei-Cheng Lee, University of Illinois
Invited Speakers:  Joerg Schmalian  

A14 Invited Session: Industrial Applications of Olefin Block Copolymers
Room: 301-303 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Brent Neal, Milliken and Company
Invited Speakers:  Richard Spontak,  Rituparna Paul,  Jeffrey Weinhold,  Miriam Rafailovitch,  Brent Neal  

A15 Focus Session: Physics of Sensory Neuroscience
Room: 304 Sponsor: DBIO
Invited Speakers:  Mayank R. Mehta,  Alexander Neiman,  Michael DeWeese  

A16 Focus Session: Continuum Description of Discrete Materials
Room: 401 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Kenneth Kamrin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Heinrich Jaeger  

A17 Focus Session: Strong Correlations in Systems Far from Equilibrium I
Room: 402 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Michel Pleimling, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Invited Speakers:  Jeremy Allam  

A18 Soft Glassy Materials
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP GSNP DPOLY Chair: Gary Hunter, New York University

A19 Focus Session: Theory and Simulations of Macromolecules I - Self Consistent Field Theory
Room: 404 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Roland Faller, University of California, Davis
Invited Speakers:  Jeff Z.Y. Chen  

A20 Focus Session: Microfluidics and Nanofluidics I - The Physics of Confined Fluids
Room: 405 Sponsor: DPOLY DFD GSNP Chair: German Drazer, Rutgers University

A21 Focus Session: Soft Nanoparticles, Block Copolymer Micelles, and Polymersomes I
Room: 406 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Darrin Pochan, University of Delaware
Invited Speakers:  Bradley Olsen  

A22 Surfaces, Interfaces and Polymeric Thin Films
Room: 407 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Joshua Sangoro, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

A23 Invited Session: Phase Transitions in Classical and Quantum Lattice Models
Room: 505-507 Sponsor: DCOMP GSNP Chair: Anders Sandvik, Boston University
Invited Speakers:  Robert Swendsen,  Ribhu Kaul,  John Chalker,  Donna Sheng,  Thomas C. Lang  

A24 Focus Session: Materials for Electrochemical Energy Storage: Characterization and Computation Methods
Room: 504 Sponsor: DMP GERA DCOMP Chair: Brandon Wood, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Patrick Phillips,  Paul Kent  

A25 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Electronic Processes at Interfaces
Room: 503 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Vitaly Podzorov, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Antoine Kahn  

A26 Materials at High Pressure: Methods and Superconductors
Room: 502 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP GSCCM Chair: Christopher Seagle, Sandia National Laboratories

A27 Electronic Structure Methods I
Room: 501 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Brandon Cook, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A28 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits: Design & Tunable Coupling
Room: 601 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Douglas McClure, IBM
Invited Speakers:  William Oliver  

A29 Driven, Dissipative Many-body Systems
Room: 603 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Daniel Grief, ETH Zurich

A30 Focus Session: Graphene Devices: Fabrication, Characterization and Modeling: Plasmons
Room: 605 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Dmitri Basov, University of California, San Diego

A31 Focus Session: Computational Discovery and Design of New Materials I
Room: 607 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Bruce Harmon, Iowa State University
Invited Speakers:  Yanming Ma  

A32 Invited Session: Simulation of Materials: Quantum Computing Meets Classical Computing
Room: 708-712 Sponsor: GQI DCOMP Chair: Alejanndro Perdomo-Ortiz, NASA
Invited Speakers:  Michael Wall,  Ivan Deutsch,  Alan Aspuru-Guzik,  Andrew Houck,  Angel Rubio  

A33 Focus Session: Quantum Foundations: Quantum Theory Meets Relativity
Room: 706 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Jonathan Oppenheim, University College London
Invited Speakers:  Patrick Hayden  

A34 Focus Session: AMO Quantum Information Processing and Superconducting Qubits: Exploring Interactions of Photons and Qubits
Room: 704 Sponsor: GQI DAMOP Chair: Kenneth Brown, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Tracy Northup  

A35 Spinor Gases
Room: 702 Sponsor: DAMOP

A36 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits: Optically Addressed Impurities & Quantum Dots
Room: 703 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Sophia Economou, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Timothy Sweeney  

A37 Focus Session: Graphene on SiC: Growth, Structure and Properties
Room: 705/707 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Thushari Jayasekera, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Invited Speakers:  Paul Thibado  

A38 Invited Session: Bringing Newcomers into the Physics Community - The Importance of Growth and Community Support
Room: 709/711 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Angela Little, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Dimitri Dounas-Frazer,  Catherine Good,  Casey W. Miller,  Katie Hinko,  Angela Little  

A39 Invited Session: Order from Disorder in Superfluid 3He in Aerogel
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2A-3A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: William Halperin, Northwestern University
Invited Speakers:  Vladimir Dmitriev,  Vladimir Mineev,  J.I.A. Li,  Nikolay Zhelev,  Yoonseok Lee  

A40 Invited Session: Interplay Between Geometry, Organization and Function of Fluid Membranes
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2B-3B Sponsor: DCMP GMAG Chair: Martin Forstner, Syracuse University
Invited Speakers:  Mark Bowick,  Jeanne Stachowiak,  Tobias Baumgart,  Gerard C.L. Wong,  Raghuveer Parthasarathy  

A41 Focus Session: Multiferroics and Magnetoelectrics
Room: Mile High Ballroom 3C Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Manuel Bibes, Unite Mixte de Physique CNRS
Invited Speakers:  Janice Musfeldt  

A42 Focus Session: Non-equilibrium Effects in Topological Insulators
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Tom Devereaux, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

A43 Defects in Topological Insulators
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ruihua He, Boston College

A44 Focus Session: Defects in Semiconductors: PV Materials
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4C Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Shiyou Chen, China Eastern Normal University
Invited Speakers:  Fumiyasu Oba  

A45 Quantum Hall Effect: Bilayers and Microwave Induced Resistance Oscillations
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4D Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Michael Zudov, University of Minnesota

A46 Bilayer Graphene: Stacking, Transport and Magnetics
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4E Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jun Zhu, Pennsylvania State University

A47 Superconducting Devices and Applications
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4F Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Neda Foroozani, Washington University

A48 Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors: Spin Injection and Transport in Semiconductors
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1A Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Hanan Dery, University of Rochester
Invited Speakers:  Masashi Shiraishi,  Olaf van 't Erve  

A49 Nanostructures: Interaction Effects
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Scheibner, University of California, Merced

A50 Quantum Dots and Nanocrystals: Optical and Electronic Properties
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1D Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sam Carter, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

A51 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene: Synthesis, Defects, Structure, and Properties I
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1E Sponsor: DMP Chair: Linyou Cao, North Carolina State University
Invited Speakers:  Jun Lou  

A52 Superconductor Insulator Transitions
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1F Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Osofsky, Naval Research Laboratory

A53 Quantum Criticality and Fluctuations in Copper-oxide Superconductors
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Xiao-Jia Chen, Carnegie Institution of Washington

A54 Focus Session: Cooperative Phenomena: Spin Waves and Excitations
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1B Sponsor: GMAG

A55 Invited Session: Weyl and Dirac Semimetals: From Transport and Chiral Anomaly to Physical Realizations
Room: Four Seasons Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Asvin Vishwanath, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Anton Burkov,  Siddharth Parameswaran,  Saad Zaheer,  Zhong Fang,  Stephen Julian  

Mar 3 2014 11:15AM, Monday

B1 Recent Advances in Density Functional Theory II
Room: 103/105 Sponsor: DCP DCOMP Chair: Viktor Staroverov, University of Western Ontario (Canada)
Invited Speakers:  Helen van Aggelen,  Kieron Burke  

B2 Focus Session: Quantum Control of Molecular, Nano, and Plasmonic Materials I
Room: 102 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Yossi Paltiel, Hebrew University
Invited Speakers:  Christoph Lienau,  Gary Wiederrecht  

B3 Undergraduate Research - Society of Physics Students II
Room: 107 Sponsor: SPS Chair: Daniel Golombek, Society of Physics Students- American Institute of Physics

B4 Focus Session: Antiferromagnets on a Triangular Lattice
Room: 112/110 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Oleg Starykh, University of Utah
Invited Speakers:  Martin Mourigal  

B6 Focus Session: Magnetic Oxide Thin Films and Heterostructures: Electric Control of Magnetism in Oxides
Room: 108 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Will Echtenkamp, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Invited Speakers:  Stephen Wu,  Jonathan White  

B7 Focus Session: Metalorganic Magnets & Films
Room: 106 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Michael Baker, New York University

B8 Focus Session: Spin Transfer Torque
Room: 104 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Olle Heinonen, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Randy Dumas  

B10 Focus Session: Mechanics of Cells and Biological Networks II
Room: 201 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Maria Kilfoil, University of Massachusetts
Invited Speakers:  Dennis Discher,  Arpita Upadhyaya,  Fred MacKintosh  

B11 Focus Session: Teaching at the Intersection of Physics and Biology
Room: 203 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Mark Reeves, The George Washington University
Invited Speakers:  Rob Phillips,  Chandra Turpen  

B12 Invited Session: Exploring the Dynamics of Evolution and Ecology of Biological Systems
Room: 205 Sponsor: DBIO GSNP Chair: Alexandre Morozov, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Jin Wang,  Daniel Weinreich,  Claus Wilke,  Oskar Hallatschek,  Sander Tans  

B13 Focus Session: Fe-Based Superconductors-1111's,122's
Room: 207 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Athena Sefat, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Hideo Hosono  

B14 Invited Session: Trends and Perspectives on Fundamental Polymer Physics
Room: 301-303 Sponsor: DPOLY DFD Chair: James Forrest, Univesrity of Waterloo
Invited Speakers:  Mark Ediger,  Mark Matsen,  Elie Raphael,  Jorg Baschnagel,  Steve Granick  

B15 Bubbles, Interfaces & Porous Media
Room: 304 Sponsor: DFD Chair: C. Maldarelli, City University of New York

B16 Statistical Mechanics of Social Systems
Room: 401 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: G Korniss

B17 Focus Session: Packing of Anisotropic Particles
Room: 402 Sponsor: GSNP DPOLY Chair: Rob Hoy

B18 Focus Session: Liquid Crystals, Nano to Meso Scale Structure in Ordered Matter and Liquid Crystal I: Nanocomposites and Smectics
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP GSNP DPOLY Chair: Joseph MacLennan, University of Colorado, Boulder

B19 Focus Session: Theory and Simulations of Macromolecules II - From Atomistic to Coarse Grained Models
Room: 404 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Christoph Junghans, Los Alamos National Laboratory

B20 Focus Session: Microfluidics and Nanofluidics II - Colloidal Hydrodynamics and Active Particles
Room: 405 Sponsor: DPOLY GSNP DFD Chair: Steven Hudson, National Institute of Standards and Technology

B21 Focus Session: Soft Nanoparticles, Block Copolymer Micelles and Polymersomes I
Room: 406 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Thomas Epps III, University of Delaware
Invited Speakers:  Timothy Lodge  

B22 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Polymer Photovoltaics
Room: 407 Sponsor: GERA DPOLY Chair: Enrique Gomez, Pennsylvania State University

B24 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy I: Novel Approaches and Ultrasensitive Detection
Room: 504 Sponsor: GIMS
Invited Speakers:  Benoit Hackens  

B25 Focus Session: OPV Device Physics and Charge Transport
Room: 503 Sponsor: GERA Chair: Dana Olson, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Muhammad Alam,  David Ginger  

B26 Materials at High Pressure: Phase Transitions
Room: 502 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP GSCCM Chair: Li Zhang, Carnegie Institution
Invited Speakers:  Jon Eggert,  Yongjun Tian  

B27 Focus Session: Petascale Science and Beyond: Applications and Opportunities for Materials Science I
Room: 501 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Jack Wells, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  David Ceperley  

B28 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits: Error Correction & Validation Methods
Room: 601 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Alexandre Blais, Sherbrooke University
Invited Speakers:  Brian Vlastakis  

B29 Graphene Functionalization and Adsorbates
Room: 603 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dan Dougherty, North Carolina State University

B30 Focus Session: Graphene Devices: Fabrication, Characterization and Modeling: Trilayer and Bilayer Graphene: Transport and Stacking
Room: 605 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jeanie Lau, University of California, Riverside
Invited Speakers:  Jun Zhu,  Yafis Barlas  

B31 Focus Session: Computational Discovery and Design of New Materials II
Room: 607 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Lin-Lin Wang, Iowa State University
Invited Speakers:  Xiuwen Zhang  

B32 Invited Session: Thermalization and Prethermalization in Isolated Systems after a Quantum Quench
Room: 708-712 Sponsor: DCMP DAMOP Chair: Michael Kolodrubetz, Boston University
Invited Speakers:  Joerg Schmiedmayer,  Eric Cornell,  Stefan Kehrein,  Anushya Chandran,  Marcos Rigol  

B34 Photocatalysis, Proton Conductors and Other Energy Topics
Room: 704 Sponsor: GERA Chair: Zhigang We, Colorado School of Mines

B35 Fermi Gases
Room: 702 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Lawrence Cheuk, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

B36 Invited Session: Visa and Immigration Policies for 21st Century Science
Room: 703 Sponsor: FIP Chair: Amy Flatten, Director of International Affairs, American Physical Society
Invited Speakers:  Albert H. Teich,  Kathie Bailey,  Mathew Gillen  

B37 Focus Session: Graphene Stacking Sequence, Including Twisted Bilayers
Room: 705/707 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Diego Mastrogiuseppe, Ohio University
Invited Speakers:  Dimitrios Maroudas  

B38 Invited Session: Women and the Manhattan Project
Room: 709/711 Chair: Margaret Murnane, University of Colorado Boulder
Invited Speakers:  Denise Kiernan,  Michele Gerber,  Ruth Howes,  Cynthia Kelly,  Olivia Fermi, M.A.  

B39 Invited Session: Silicon-based Quantum Information Processing
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2A-3A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Flatte, University of Iowa
Invited Speakers:  Steven Schofield,  Sven Rogge,  Adam Gali,  Ben Murdin,  Abram Falk  

B40 Invited Session: Quantum Foundations
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2B-3B Sponsor: DCMP GQI Chair: Matt Leifer, Perimeter Institute
Invited Speakers:  Joseph Emerson,  Jonathan Oppenheim,  William Wootters,  Gilad Gour,  Tobias Fritz  

B41 Focus Session: Ferroelectrics and Anti-Ferroelectrics
Room: Mile High Ballroom 3C Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Antonio Cammarata, Drexel University
Invited Speakers:  Alexander K. Tagantsev  

B42 Focus Session: Experiments on Samarium Hexaboride
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Vidya Madhavan, Boston College

B43 Symmetry Protected Topological Phases
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Maxim Dzero, Kent State University

B44 Focus Session: Defects in Semiconductors: Computational Methods
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4C Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Joongoo Kang, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Linwang Wang  

B45 Topological Quantum Hall Phases
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4D Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Nickolas Bonesteel, Florida State University

B47 Superconductors/Ferromagnet Multilayer Structures
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4F Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Chia-Ling Chien, Johns Hopkins University

B48 General Magnetism I
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1A Sponsor: GMAG

B49 Focus Session: Electron Correlations and Spin Orbit: Iridates
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1C Sponsor: DMP Chair: James Rondinelli, Drexel
Invited Speakers:  Stephen Wilson,  Hyowon Park  

B50 Semiconductor Nanowires: Optical and Electronic Properties
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1D Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Roberto Myers, The Ohio State University

B51 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene: Synthesis, Defects, Structure, and Properties II
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1E Sponsor: DMP Chair: Xiaodong Xu, University of Washington
Invited Speakers:  Aaron Jones  

B52 Pseudogap Phenomenon in Copper-oxide Superconductors
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1F Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Carmen Almasan, Kent State University

B53 Surfaces, Interfaces, and Thin Films: Kinetics and Dynamics
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Brad Conrad, Appalachian State University

B54 Focus Session: Cooperative Phenomena: Phase Transitions and Magnetocalorics
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1B Sponsor: GMAG

B55 Invited Session: Novel Topological Phases and Surface States in Strongly Interacting Systems
Room: Four Seasons Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Charles Kane, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Xiao-Gang Wen,  Xie Chen,  Max Metlitski,  Chong Wang,  Lukasz Fidkowski  

Mar 3 2014 2:00PM, Monday

C1 Poster Session I (14:00 - 17:00)
Room: Exhibit Hall F

Mar 3 2014 2:30PM, Monday

D1 Focus Session: Surface Chemistry and Catalysis II
Room: 103/105 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Charlie Sykes, Tufts University
Invited Speakers:  Lai-Sheng Wang,  Graeme Henkelman  

D2 Focus Session: Quantum Control of Molecular, Nano, and Plasmonic Materials II
Room: 102 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Margaret Murnane, University of Colorado
Invited Speakers:  Regina de Vivie-Riedle,  Thomas Weinacht,  Philip Bucksbaum  

D3 Undergraduate Research - Society of Physics Students III
Room: 107 Sponsor: SPS Chair: Toni Sauncy, Society of Physics Students - American Institute of Physics

D4 Focus Session: Itinerant Frustrated Magnets
Room: 112/110 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Graeme Luke, McMaster University
Invited Speakers:  Masafumi Udagawa  

D6 Focus Session: Emergent Properties in Bulk Complex Oxides: Orthochromates and Other Oxides
Room: 108 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Brian Kirby, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Yoshihiko Okamoto  

D7 Focus Session: Magnetic Anisotropy
Room: 106 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Weigang Wang, University of Arizona
Invited Speakers:  Minn-Tsong Lin  

D8 Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors: Nitrogen Vacancies in Diamond and Nuclear Spins
Room: 104 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Hanan Dery, University of Rochester
Invited Speakers:  Michael Grinolds  

D10 Focus Session: Evolutionary Dynamics and Population Genetics
Room: 201 Sponsor: DBIO GSNP Chair: Xiang Qiang Chu, Wayne State University
Invited Speakers:  Michael Lassig  

D11 Focus Session: Bacterial Biophysics II
Room: 203 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Gerard Wong, University of California, Los Angeles
Invited Speakers:  Joshua Shaevitz  

D12 Invited Session: Materials Genome: Theory-Led Accelerated Materials Discovery
Room: 205 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Darrell Schlom, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  Mark Asta,  Stefano Curtarolo,  Richard G. Hennig,  Chris Pickard,  Alex Zunger  

D13 Focus Session: Fe-Based Superconductors-STM, FeSe, Ca10(Pt3As8)(Fe2As2)5
Room: 207 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Kee Hoon Kim, Seoul National University
Invited Speakers:  Hai-Hu Wen  

D14 Invited Session: Algorithms from Statistical Physics and the Physics of Algorithms
Room: 301-303 Sponsor: GSNP DCOMP
Invited Speakers:  A. Alan Middleton,  Cristopher Moore,  Aaron Clauset,  Marija Vucelja,  Robert Ziff  

D15 Droplets & Surfaces
Room: 304 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Xiang Cheng, University of Minnesota

D16 Systems Far from Equilibrium
Room: 401 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Beate Schmittmann, Iowa State University

D17 Granular Materials & GSNP Student Speaker Session
Room: 402 Sponsor: GSNP

D18 Cleverly Creating Colloidal Clusters
Room: 403 Sponsor: GSNP DCMP Chair: Kazem Edmond, New York University

D19 Focus Session: Theory and Simulations of Macromolecules III - Ionic Polymers
Room: 404 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Amalie Frischknecht, Sandia National Laboratories

D20 Focus Session: Microfluidics and Nanofluidics III - Pattern Formation and Droplets
Room: 405 Sponsor: DPOLY DFD GSNP Chair: John Royer, NIST
Invited Speakers:  Alberto Fernandez-Nieves,  Shelley Anna  

D21 Polymeric Elastomers and Gels
Room: 406 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Bradley Olsen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

D22 Films at Liquid and Solid Interfaces
Room: 407 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Thomas Salez, ESPCI

D23 Invited Session: Electron-Hole Interaction in Nanoparticles
Room: 505-507 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Ari Chakraborthy, Syracuse University
Invited Speakers:  Giulia Galli,  John Shumway,  Sergei Tretiak,  Carsten Ullrich,  Oleg Prezhdo  

D24 Focus Session: Materials for Electrochemical Energy Storage: Battery Materials
Room: 504 Sponsor: DMP GERA DCOMP Chair: Javier Bareno, Argonne National Laboratory

D25 Focus Session: OPV/DSSC Photophysics and Interfaces
Room: 503 Sponsor: GERA Chair: Sean Shaheen, University of Colorado at Boulder
Invited Speakers:  Naomi Ginsberg  

D26 Materials at High Pressure: H plus
Room: 502 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP GSCCM Chair: Kevin Driver, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Miguel A. Morales,  Ding Pan  

D27 Focus Session: High Performance Computing in Density Functional Theory
Room: 501 Sponsor: DCOMP DCP Chair: Aldo Romero, West Virginia University
Invited Speakers:  Francois Gygi,  Marc Torrent  

D28 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits: Gates and Entanglement
Room: 601 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Joel Strand, Northrop Grumman
Invited Speakers:  Yasunobu Nakamura  

D29 Electrical Transport Properties of Bilayer Graphene
Room: 603 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ki Wook Kim, North Carolina State University

D30 Focus Session: Graphene Devices: Fabrication, Characterization and Modeling: Optoelectronic Properties
Room: 605 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Marco Nardelli, University of North Texas

D31 Focus Session: Van der Waals Interactions in Complex Materials: Bridging Theory and Experiment I
Room: 607 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Alexandre Tkatchenko, Fritz Haber Institute, Germany
Invited Speakers:  John Dobson  

D32 Invited Session: Quantum Simulation and Computation with AMO Systems
Room: 708-712 Sponsor: GQI DAMOP Chair: Ivan Deutsch, Unversity of New Mexico
Invited Speakers:  Rainer Blatt,  David Weld,  Dietrich Leibfried,  Jens Eisert,  Ana Maria Rey  

D33 Focus Session: Quantum Foundations: What Powers Quantum Advantages for Information Processing?
Room: 706 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Joseph Emerson, University of Waterloo
Invited Speakers:  Antonio Acin  

D34 Solar Fuels, Biofuels, and PEC
Room: 704 Sponsor: GERA Chair: Sue Carter, University of California, San Diego

D35 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits: Simulation & Annealing
Room: 702 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Jay Gambetta, IBM
Invited Speakers:  Yi Yin  

D36 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits: QED Interfaces & Multi-Qubit Coupling
Room: 703 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Thaddeus Ladd, HRL
Invited Speakers:  Akira Oiwa  

D37 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Atom Mobility, Mechanical Response & Adsorption
Room: 705/707 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Mercedes Calbi, University of Denver
Invited Speakers:  Sinisa Coh  

D38 Invited Session: Secrecy and Science
Room: 709/711 Sponsor: FPS Chair: Arian Pregenzer
Invited Speakers:  George Dyson,  David A. Relman,  Paul McEuen,  Kim Budil,  Mildred Dresselhaus  

D39 Invited Session: Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Magnetic Topological Insulators
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2A-3A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Nitin Samarth, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Shoucheng Zhang,  Qi-Kun Xue,  Kang Wang,  Kevin Garrity,  Joseph Checkelsky  

D40 Invited Session: Graphene Spintronics and Magnetism
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2B-3B Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Wei Han, IBM
Invited Speakers:  Pierre Seneor,  Ernie Hill,  Barbaros Oezyilmaz,  Roland Kawakami,  Bart van Wees  

D41 Topological Insulators: Engineered Structures I
Room: Mile High Ballroom 3C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Robert Markiewicz, Northeastern University

D42 Topological Superconductors: Experiment
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Yoshinori Okada, WPI Advanced Institute for Materials Research

D43 Interaction Induced Topological Insulators
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Oliver Rader, The Helmholtz Centre Berlin for Materials and Energy Research

D44 Functional Materials & Devices
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4C Sponsor: FIAP

D45 Quantum Hall Effect: Theory
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4D Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Kun Yang, Florida State University

D47 Theory of Unconventional Superconductivity: Mainly Topical Phases
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4F Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Senthef, Stanford University

D48 Focus Session: Spin Transport and Magnetization Dynamics in Metal-Based Systems: Phononic and Thermal Phenomena
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1A Sponsor: DMP FIAP GMAG Chair: Ion Garate, Universite de Sherbrooke

D49 Focus Session: Nickelate Heterostructures
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Stephen Wilson, Boston College
Invited Speakers:  Bernhard Keimer  

D50 Focus Session: Nanostructrues and Metamaterials: Synthesis, Fabrication, and Characterization
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1D Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jon Schuller, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Nader Engheta  

D51 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene Devices: Function, Fabrication, and Characterization I
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1E Sponsor: DMP Chair: Marc Bockrath, University of California, Riverside
Invited Speakers:  Ali Javey  

D52 Optical Probes in Copper-oxide Superconductors
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1F Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Nan-Lin Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences

D53 Surfaces, Interfaces, and Thin Films: 2D Materials
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Kenan Gundogdu, North Carolina State University

D54 Structural and Mechanical Properties of Correlated Electron Magnets
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1B Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Dylan T. Grandmont, University of Alberta

D55 Invited Session: Isakson/ Bouchet/ Apker2 Prize Session
Room: Four Seasons Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dimitri Basov, University of California, San Diego
Invited Speakers:  Naomi Halas,  Peter Nordlander,  Luz J. Martinez-Miranda,  Hao Shi,  Mark Brongersma  

Mar 3 2014 5:45PM, Monday

E1 Prizes & Awards Ceremonial Session
Room: 301-303 Sponsor: APS

Mar 3 2014 6:00PM, Monday

E2 Building Your Undergraduate Physics Career
Room: Sheraton Denver Downtown Plaza Ballroom E Sponsor: APS

Mar 3 2014 6:45PM, Monday

E3 Welcome Reception
Room: Four Seasons Ballroom Sponsor: APS

Mar 3 2014 7:30PM, Monday

E4 Special Outreach Session: From Function to Form - Matter by Design
Room: 207 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Heinrich Jaeger,  Alex Zunger  

Mar 4 2014 8:00AM, Tuesday

F1 Focus Session: Surface Chemistry and Catalysis III
Room: 103/105 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Feng Tao, University of Notre Dame
Invited Speakers:  Cynthia Friend  

F2 Focus Session: Quantum Control of Molecular, Nano, and Plasmonic Materials III
Room: 102 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Maxim Sukharev, Arizona State University
Invited Speakers:  Yossi Paltiel,  Jelena Vuckovic  

F3 Undergraduate Research - Society of Physics Students IV
Room: 107 Sponsor: SPS Chair: Crystal Bailey, American Physical Society

F4 Focus Session: Frustrated Magnets and Spin-Orbit Coupling
Room: 112/110 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Seunghun Lee, University of Virginia
Invited Speakers:  Haidong Zhou  

F6 Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Physics in Carbon-Based Materials II
Room: 108 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Tatiana Rappoport, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Invited Speakers:  Joshua Folk  

F7 Focus Session: Low-D Quantum Spins I
Room: 106 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Chris Landee, Clark University
Invited Speakers:  Thierry Giamarchi  

F8 Focus Session: Magnetism Techniques: Temporal and Spatial Characterization
Room: 104 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Avag Sahakyan, The State Engineering University of Armenia

F10 Focus Session: Evolutionary and Ecological Dynamics II
Room: 201 Sponsor: DBIO GSNP Chair: Pankaj Mehta, Boston University
Invited Speakers:  Uwe C. Tauber  

F11 Focus Session: Active Soft Matter I - Transport, Biomimetics and Dynamic Response
Room: 203 Sponsor: DPOLY GSNP DBIO
Invited Speakers:  Gijsje Koenderink  

F12 Biophysical Dynamics and Locomotion
Room: 205 Sponsor: DBIO DFD Chair: Arpita Upadhyaya, University of Maryland

F13 Focus Session: Fe Based Superconductors-Orbital Physics
Room: 207 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Adriana Moreo, University of Tennessee
Invited Speakers:  Luca de Medici  

F14 Invited Session: Delbrueck Prize Session: Chance and Necessity - Determinism in the Physics of Cancer
Room: 301-303 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Daniel Cox, University of California, Davis
Invited Speakers:  Robert Austin,  Charles Lineweaver,  Thea Tlsty,  Josef A. Kas,  Paul Davies  

F15 Focus Session: Physics of Chromosomes
Room: 304 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Dieter Heerman, University of Heidelberg
Invited Speakers:  John F. Marko,  Mario Nicodemi  

F16 Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics: Filaments and their Assemblies, Elasticity and Defects
Room: 401 Sponsor: GSNP DPOLY Chair: Christian Santangelo, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Invited Speakers:  Gregory Grason  

F17 Focus Session: Glass Formation and Crystallization in Anisotropic Particles
Room: 402 Sponsor: GSNP DPOLY Chair: Corey O'Hern, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Robert S. Hoy  

F18 Emulsions and Foams
Room: 403 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Stephan Koehler, Harvard University

F19 Focus Session: Theory and Simulations of Macromolecules IV
Room: 404 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Anupriya Agarwal, Clemson University

F20 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Small Molecules
Room: 405 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Rodrigo Noriega, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Jun Takeya  

F21 Focus Session: Polymeric Fibers and Superstructures
Room: 406 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Hyun-Joong Chung, University of Alberta
Invited Speakers:  Tae-Woo Lee  

F22 Focus Session: Biological and Bio-inspired Adhesive Polymers I
Room: 407 Sponsor: DPOLY DBIO GSNP Chair: Devin Kachan, University of California, Los Angeles
Invited Speakers:  Costantino Creton  

F23 Invited Session: Industrial Physics Forum: The Squid at 50: Impact and Future
Room: 505-507 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: John Clarke, University of California, Berkeley, Dale Van Harlingen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Invited Speakers:  Arnold Silver,  John Clarke,  Kent Irwin,  Catherine Foley,  Risto Ilmoniemi  

F24 Photovoltaics, including Cu, Sulfides, and Si Alloys
Room: 504 Sponsor: GERA Chair: Gergely Zimanyi, University of California, Davis

F25 Focus Session: Materials for Electrochemical Energy Storage: Beyond Li-ion
Room: 503 Sponsor: DMP GERA DCOMP Chair: Paul Kent, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Laurence Hardwick  

F26 Focus Session: Materials in Extremes: High Pressures and Temperatures
Room: 502 Sponsor: GSCCM DCOMP DMP Chair: Anatoly Belonoshko, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

F27 Electronic Structure Methods II
Room: 501 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Jia-An Yan, Towson University

F28 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits: Coherence & Noise
Room: 601 Sponsor: GQI Chair: David Schuster, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  P. Bertet  

F29 Magnetotransport in Graphene
Room: 603 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Kathleen McCreary, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

F30 Focus Session: Graphene Devices: Fabrication, Characterization and Modeling: Graphene Quantum Dots
Room: 605 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Vincent Meunier, Rensselaer Polytechnic University
Invited Speakers:  Klaus Ensslin  

F31 Focus Session: Van der Waals Interactions in Complex Materials: Bridging Theory and Experiment II
Room: 607 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Robert DiStasio, Princeton University

F32 Invited Session: Quantum Communication and Cryptography
Room: 708-712 Sponsor: GQI DAMOP Chair: Jane Nordholt, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Richard Hughes,  Norbert Lutkenhaus,  Neil Sinclair,  Carlton Caves,  C.J. McKinstrie  

F34 Focus Session: Thermoelectrics - Novel Approaches
Room: 704 Sponsor: GERA DMP Chair: Alex Zevalkink, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

F35 Focus Session: Quantum Computing Architectures and Algorithms: Quantum Control
Room: 702 Sponsor: GQI
Invited Speakers:  Wayne Witzel  

F36 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits: Impurities & Quantum Devices
Room: 703 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Sven Rogge, University of New South Wales
Invited Speakers:  Yun-Pil Shim  

F37 Focus Session: Functionalization and Atomic Engineering of Graphene
Room: 705/707 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Alexander Tzalenchuk, National Physics Laboratory, United Kingdom
Invited Speakers:  Mike Crommie  

F38 Invited Session: Keyhole to the World: Public Access to Satellite Data for Environmental, Security, and Social Ends
Room: 709/711 Sponsor: FPS Chair: Micah Lowenthal, National Academy of Sciences
Invited Speakers:  Jeff Dozier,  John Amos,  Irmgard Niemeyer,  Lawrence Friedl  

F39 Invited Session: Cold Atomic Gases with Synthetic Spin-Orbit Coupling
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2A-3A Sponsor: DCMP DAMOP
Invited Speakers:  William Cole,  Ian Spielman,  Victor Galitski,  Hui Zhai,  Lawrence Cheuk  

F40 Invited Session: New Magnetoresistance in Metal/Magnetic Insulator Heterostructures
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2B-3B Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Sufeng Zhang, Arizona University
Invited Speakers:  Gerrit Bauer,  Matthias Althammer,  Chia-Ling Chien,  Jing Shi  

F41 Focus Session: BiFeO3
Room: Mile High Ballroom 3C Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Neil Mathur, University of Cambridge
Invited Speakers:  Manuel Bibes  

F42 Focus Session: Scanning Tunneling from Topological Insulators
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Arun Bansil, Northeastern University
Invited Speakers:  Yoshinori Okada  

F43 Topological Superconductivity: Theory
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sasha Balatsky, Los Alamos National Laboratory

F44 Focus Session: Defects in Semiconductors: Lighting Materials
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4C Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Anderson Janotti, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Mao-Hua Du  

F45 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect: First Landau Level
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4D Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Javad Shabani, University of California, Santa Barbara

F46 Quantum Criticality: Theory and Experiment
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4E Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Andriy Nevidomskyy, Rice University

F47 Metal-Insulator and Other Electronic Phase Transitions: Experiment I
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4F Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Hsieh, California Institute of Technology

F48 Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors: Spins in 2D Systems and II-VI Quantum Dots
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1A Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Aubrey Hanbicki, Naval Research Laboratory

F49 Focus Session: Electricity and Magnetism: Manganites
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1C Sponsor: DMP
Invited Speakers:  Jigang Wang  

F50 Superconductivity: Josephson and Proximity Effects
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1D Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jian-Xin Zhu, Los Alamos National Laboratory

F51 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene: Synthesis, Defects, Structure, and Properties IV
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1E Sponsor: DMP Chair: Junhao Lin, Vanderbilt University
Invited Speakers:  Manish Chhowalla  

F52 Focus Session: New and Improved Superconducting Materials
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1F Sponsor: DMP Chair: Eric Palm, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Duygu Yazici  

F53 Focus Session: Growth of Metal Clusters and Islands on Surfaces
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Bene Poelsema, University of Twente
Invited Speakers:  Harald Brune  

F55 Invited Session: Electronic Properties of Twisted Van der Waals heterostructures
Room: Four Seasons Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Javier D. Sanchez-Yamagishi,  Eugene Mele,  Jeil Jung,  Aaron Bostwick,  Brian LeRoy  

F56 Invited Session: Polymer Physics Prize Symposium
Room: Four Seasons Ballroom 4 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Tom Witten, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Karl Freed,  Murugappan Muthukumar,  Jack Douglas,  Alexei Sokolov,  Charles C. Han  

Mar 4 2014 11:15AM, Tuesday

G1 Recent Advances in Density Functional Theory III
Room: 103/105 Sponsor: DCP DCOMP Chair: John P. Perdew, Temple University
Invited Speakers:  Adrienn Ruzsinszky,  Matthias Scheffler  

G2 Focus Session: Quantum Control of Molecular, Nano, and Plasmonic Materials IV
Room: 102 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Thomas Weinacht, Stony Brook University
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Neuhauser,  Tamar Seideman,  Margaret Murnane  

G3 Outreach and Diversity
Room: 107 Sponsor: FEd Chair: David Rench, Pennsylvania State University

G4 Focus Session: New Frustrated Materials
Room: 112/110 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Jaime Fernandez-Baca, Oak Ridge National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Lucy Clark,  Harlyn Silverstein  

G6 Focus Session: Magnetic Oxide Thin Films and Heterostructures: Strain Effects
Room: 108 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Christian Urban, University of California, San Diego
Invited Speakers:  Steven May  

G7 Focus Session: Magnetic Thin Films
Room: 106 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Barry Zink, University of Denver
Invited Speakers:  Eric Fullerton  

G8 Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors: Magnetism in Semiconductors
Room: 104 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Connie Li, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Tomasz Wojtowicz  

G10 Focus Session: Physics of Cancer
Room: 201 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Robert Austin, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Jan Liphardt,  Jonathan Licht  

G11 Focus Session: Active Soft Matter II - Dynamical Response
Room: 203 Sponsor: DPOLY GSNP DBIO Chair: Zvonimir Dogic, Brandeis University
Invited Speakers:  Zvonimir Dogic  

G12 Invited Session: Energy Research and Applications
Room: 205 Sponsor: GERA Chair: Rueben Collins, Colorado School of Mines
Invited Speakers:  Robert Street,  Teri Odom,  Andrew May,  Derek Johnson,  Matthew Beard  

G13 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors-Pairing Symmetry and Damage
Room: 207 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Roman Movshovich, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Jean Philippe Reid  

G14 Invited Session: Toys and Mechanisms
Room: 301-303 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: James Hanna, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Invited Speakers:  Andy Ruina,  Beverley Taylor,  Tadd Truscott,  Dominic Vella,  Pierre-Thomas Brun  

G15 Membranes: Biological and Synthetic
Room: 304 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Mark Bowick, Syracuse University

G16 Focus Session: Soft Matter Perspectives on Protein Self-Assembly I
Room: 401 Sponsor: GSNP DBIO DPOLY Chair: Patrick Charbonneau, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Michael Hagan  

G17 Focus Session: Strong Correlations in Systems Far from Equilibrium II
Room: 402 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Uwe Tauber, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Invited Speakers:  Kazumasa A. Takeuchi  

G18 Focus Session: Liquid Crystals, Nano to Meso Scale Structure in Ordered Matter and Liquid Crystal II: Mostly Smectic and Chromonics
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP GSNP DPOLY Chair: Luz J. Martinez-Miranda, University of Maryland, College Park

G19 Polymer Composites
Room: 404 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Mircea Chipara, University of Texas Pan American
Invited Speakers:  TBD TBD  

G20 Focus Session: Theory and Simulations of Macromolecules V
Room: 405 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Mesfin Tsige, University of Akron
Invited Speakers:  Friederike Schmid  

G21 Physics of Copolymers: Ordering and Application of Block Copolymers
Room: 406 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Issei Nakamura, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry

G22 Focus Session: Padden Award Symposium
Room: 407 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Stephen Cheng, University of Akron

G23 Invited Session: Fuels From Sunlight: Computational Studies of Photo-Electrodes and Catalysts
Room: 505-507 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Giulia Galli, University of California, Davis
Invited Speakers:  Yuan Ping,  Michiel Sprik,  Annabella Selloni,  Aleksandra Vojvodic,  Alexander Soudackov  

G24 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy II: High Frequencies and Optical Techniques
Room: 504 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Sebastian Loth, Max Plank Institute for Structure and Dynamics
Invited Speakers:  Vladimir Aksyuk  

G25 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Novel Devices and Fabrication
Room: 503 Sponsor: DMP Chair: David Gundlach, National Institute of Standards and Technology

G26 Focus Session: Materials in Extremes: Phase Transitions
Room: 502 Sponsor: GSCCM DCOMP DMP Chair: Renata Wentzcovich, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Anatoly Belonoshko  

G27 Focus Session: Petascale Science and Beyond: Applications and Opportunities for Materials Science II
Room: 501 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Thomas Schulthess, ETH Zurich/ Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS)
Invited Speakers:  Joost VandeVondele  

G29 Focus Session: Artificial Gauge Fields and Systems with Long Range Interactions I
Room: 603 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Victor Galitski, University of Maryland at College Park
Invited Speakers:  Deborah Jin  

G30 Focus Session: Graphene Devices: Fabrication, Characterization and Modeling: Solitons in Few Layer Graphene
Room: 605 Sponsor: DMP Chair: James Hone, Columbia University
Invited Speakers:  Paul McEuen  

G31 Focus Session: Van der Waals Interactions in Complex Materials: Bridging Theory and Experiment III
Room: 607 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Anthony Reilly, Fritz Haber Institute, Germany
Invited Speakers:  Stefan Tautz  

G32 Invited Session: Superconducting Qubits
Room: 708-712 Sponsor: GQI DCMP Chair: Matthias Steffen, IBM
Invited Speakers:  Douglas McClure,  Andreas Wallraff,  Leonardo DiCarlo,  Frank Wilhelm,  John Preskill  

G33 Quantum Entanglement I
Room: 706 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Josh Combes, University of New Mexico

G34 Atoms in Reduced Dimensions and Novel Geometries
Room: 704 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Lincoln Carr, Colorado School of Mines

G35 Quantum Communication, Decoherence, & Cryptography
Room: 702 Sponsor: GQI

G36 Invited Session: Condensed Matter Physics in China
Room: 703 Sponsor: FIP Chair: Esen Alp, Argonna National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Yupeng Wang,  Enge Wang,  Changqing Jin,  Hong Ding,  Lu Yu  

G37 Focus Session: Quantum Hall Effect in Graphene
Room: 705/707 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Zhigang Jiang, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Alexander Tzalenchuk  

G38 Invited Session: Graduate Education: Sustaining Thriving Programs by Embracing Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century
Room: 709/711 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Theodore Hodapp, American Physical Society
Invited Speakers:  Renee Diehl,  Keivan Stassun,  Geoff Potvin,  Michael Thoennessen,  Lawrence Woolf  

G39 Invited Session: Advanced First-Principles Methods for Complex Oxides
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2A-3A Sponsor: DCMP DCOMP Chair: James Rondinelli, Drexel University
Invited Speakers:  Warren Pickett,  Craig Fennie,  Anderson Janotti,  Emilio Artacho,  Chris Marianetti  

G40 Invited Session: The Physics of Climate
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2B-3B Sponsor: GPC Chair: James Brasseur, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Kenneth Golden,  Patrick Heimbach,  Daniel Cziczo,  Kyle Armour,  Judith Curry  

G41 Focus Session: Flexoelectrics, Electrocalorics and Perovskites on Semiconductors
Room: Mile High Ballroom 3C Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Alexander Tagantsev, EPFL
Invited Speakers:  Neil Mathur,  Massimiliano Stengel  

G42 Focus Session: Novel Effects in Topological Insulator Films
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Hsin Lin, National University of Singapore
Invited Speakers:  Tai Chiang  

G43 Weyl Semimetals: Theory
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: James Analytis, University of California, Berkeley

G44 Focus Session: Defects in Semiconductors: Characterization
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4C Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Yong Zhang, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Invited Speakers:  P. James Schuck  

G45 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect: Second Landau Level
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4D Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Gabor Csathy, Purdue University

G46 Ce- and Pu-Based 115 Materials and Related Systems
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4E Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Johnpierre Paglione, University of Mayland

G47 Metal-Insulator and Other Electronic Phase Transitions: Theory
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4F Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Andre-Marie Tremblay, Universite de Sherbrooke

G48 Focus Session: Spin Transport and Magnetization Dynamics in Metal-Based Systems: Skyrmion I
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1A Sponsor: DMP FIAP GMAG Chair: J.-Y. Lin, National Chiao Tung University
Invited Speakers:  Masahito Mochizuki  

G49 Focus Session: Manganite and Cuprate Heterostructures
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Bernhard Keimer, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Invited Speakers:  John Freeland,  Alexander Grutter  

G50 Focus Session: Plasmon Enhanced Light: Matter Interactions
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1D Sponsor: DMP Chair: Xiaoqin (Elaine) Li, University of Texas at Austin
Invited Speakers:  Han Htoon  

G51 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene: Synthesis, Defects, Structure, and Properties V
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1E Sponsor: DMP Chair: Justin Song, Harvard University

G52 Focus Session: Films and Crystals: Understanding Causes of Superconductivity
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1F Sponsor: DMP Chair: Minghu Pan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Soonjae Moon,  Qiang Li  

G53 Focus Session: Diffusion, Quantum Size Effects, and Growth of Metals, Islands, and Grain Boundaries on Surfaces
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Harald Brune, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Invited Speakers:  Bene Poelsema  

G54 Theoretical Methods in Correlated Electron Magnetism
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1B Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Yi Nina Li, Princeton University

G55 Invited Session: Proximity Induced Ferromagnetism in Topological Insulators
Room: Four Seasons Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ilya Eremin, Ruhr University Bochum
Invited Speakers:  Jagadeesh Moodera,  Qi Yang,  Ion Garate,  Flavio Nogueira,  Yaroslav Tserkovnyak  

Mar 4 2014 11:30AM, Tuesday

G58 APS Corporate Reform, Open Access Publishing, and the Future of Open Data
Room: 601 Sponsor: APS

Mar 4 2014 12:30PM, Tuesday

G60 Graduate Student Lunch With The Experts
Room: Four Searsons Ballroom 2-3 Sponsor: SPS

Mar 4 2014 2:00PM, Tuesday

H1 Poster Session II (14:00 - 17:00)
Room: Exhibit Hall F

Mar 4 2014 2:30PM, Tuesday

J1 Recent Advances in Density Functional Theory IV
Room: 103/105 Sponsor: DCP DCOMP Chair: Neepa Maitra, Hunter College
Invited Speakers:  Erin Johnson,  Adam Wasserman  

J2 Focus Session: Surface Chemistry and Catalysis IV
Room: 102 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Jason Weaver, University of Florida
Invited Speakers:  Franklin (Feng) Tao  

J3 History of Physics, Public Policy and National Facilities
Room: 107 Sponsor: FHP Chair: Timir Datta

J4 Focus Session: Emergent Properties in Bulk Complex Oxides: Iridates II
Room: 112/110 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Gabriel Ramirez, University of California, San Diego
Invited Speakers:  Taka-hisa Arima  

J6 Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Physics in Carbon-Based Materials III
Room: 108 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Joshua Folk, University of British Columbia

J7 Focus Session: Molecules on Surfaces & in Devices
Room: 106 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Herre van der Zant, TU Delft
Invited Speakers:  Denis Vasyukov  

J8 Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors: Spin Manipulation and Phenomena in Semiconductors
Room: 104 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Igor Zutic, University at Buffalo
Invited Speakers:  Jeongsu Lee  

J10 Focus Session: Interactions in Biological Systems
Room: 201 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Todd Sulchek
Invited Speakers:  Cheng Zhu,  James Hone  

J11 Focus Session: Gene Regulatory Networks in Medicine and Biology
Room: 203 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Yang Liu, Northeastern University
Invited Speakers:  Albert-Laszlo Barabasi  

J12 Focus Session: AFM in Studying Cell Mechanics and Biointerfaces
Room: 205 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Igor Sokolov, Tufts University
Invited Speakers:  Robert Ros,  Cristian Staii  

J13 Focus Session: ARPES in Fe-Based Superconductors
Room: 207 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Alessandra Lanzara, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Donglai Feng,  Xingjiang Zhou  

J14 Invited Session: Collective Motion Across Scales: From Proteins to Animals
Room: 301-303 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Ajay Gopinathan, University of Califonria, Merced
Invited Speakers:  Sriram Ramaswamy,  Nicholas Ouellette,  Aparna Baskaran,  David Quint,  Jennifer Ross  

J15 Focus Session: Phase Transitions and Criticality in Cells
Room: 304 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Chase Broedersz, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Ken Dill,  Cliff Brangwynne  

J16 Focus Session: Soft Matter Perspectives on Protein Self-Assembly II
Room: 401 Chair: Michael Hagan, Brandeis
Invited Speakers:  Neer Asherie  

J17 Granular Materials
Room: 402 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Robert Behringer, Duke University

J18 Liquid Crystals III: Mostly Nematics and Cholesterics
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP GSNP Chair: Matthew Glaser, University of Colorado, Boulder

J19 Focus Session: Theory and Simulations of Macromolecules VI - Block Copolymers
Room: 404 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Sean Paradiso, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Alfredo Alexander-Katz  

J20 Focus Session: Microfluidics and Nanofluidics IV: Hydrodynamics, Separations and Slip
Room: 405 Sponsor: DPOLY DFD GSNP Chair: Vivek Sharma, University of Illinois at Chicago
Invited Speakers:  German Drazer  

J21 Focus Session: Polymers for Energy Storage and Conversion I- Capacitors and Fuel Cells
Room: 406 Sponsor: DPOLY GERA Chair: Michael Chabinyc, University of California, Santa Barbara

J22 Focus Session: Biological and Bio-Inspired Adhesive Polymers II
Room: 407 Sponsor: DPOLY DBIO GSNP Chair: Devin Kachan
Invited Speakers:  Megan Valentine,  Alex Levine  

J23 Invited Session: Industrial Physics Forum: Frontiers of Physics
Room: 505-507 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: James Hollenhorst, Agilent Technologies
Invited Speakers:  Hannes Hubmayr,  H. Eugene Stanley,  Pamela Conrad,  Rupak Mahapatra,  Ellen Zweibel  

J24 Photovoltaics, including Thermal, LSC, Oxides and Device Physics
Room: 504 Sponsor: GERA Chair: Janelle Leger, West Virginia University

J25 Focus Session: Materials for Electrochemical Energy Storage: Layered Materials and Capacitors
Room: 503 Sponsor: DMP GERA DCOMP Chair: Natalie Holzwarth, Wake Forest University

J26 Focus Session: Materials in Extremes: Energetic Materials
Room: 502 Sponsor: GSCCM DCOMP DMP Chair: Evan Reed, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Shawn McGrane  

J27 Focus Session: Computer Simulations of Interactions of Electromagnetic Fields and Nanostructures
Room: 501 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Kalman Varga, Vanderbilt University
Invited Speakers:  Kazuhiro Yabana,  Eric Suraud  

J28 Superconducting Qubits: Topological Effects, Entanglement and EIT
Room: 601 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Britton Plourde, Syracuse University

J29 Glassy & Amorphous Systems, including Quasicrystals
Room: 603 Sponsor: DCMP

J30 Physical Review X Q&A Session
Room: 605 Sponsor: APS

J31 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene: Synthesis, Defects, Structure, and Properties III
Room: 607 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Arend van der Zande, Columbia University
Invited Speakers:  David Muller,  Reshef Tenne  

J32 Focus Session: Physics of Proteins I
Room: 708-712 Chair: Donghua Zhou, Oklahoma State University
Invited Speakers:  H. Peter Lu  

J33 Few-body and Cold Molecule Physics
Room: 706 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Hanns-Christoph Nagerl, University of Innsbruck

J34 Focus Session: Hybrid Quantum Devices
Room: 704 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Mohammad Hafezi, University of Maryland, College Park
Invited Speakers:  Mikhail Lukin  

J35 Focus Session: Quantum Computing Architectures and Algorithms: Adiabatic Quantum Computation
Room: 702 Sponsor: GQI
Invited Speakers:  Kristen Pudenz  

J36 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits: Multi-Spin Gates & Sequence Optimization
Room: 703 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Jake Taylor, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Thaddeus Ladd  

J37 Focus Session: Graphene Growth on Cu Substrates
Room: 705/707 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Zachary Robinson, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Yong P. Chen  

J38 Invited Session: Research and Opportunties at the DOE Nanoscaled Science and Research Centers
Room: 709/711 Sponsor: COM Chair: Fernando Camino, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Esmeralda Yitamben,  Gonzalo Alvarez,  James Dickerson,  Leonidas E. Ocola,  Guillermo Garcia  

J39 Invited Session: Transport, Superconductivity, and Magnetism at the LAO/STO Interface
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2A-3A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Allan H. MacDonald, University of Texas at Austin
Invited Speakers:  Harold Y. Hwang,  Shahal Ilani,  Mohit Randeria,  Jochen Mannhart  

J40 Invited Session: Superconductivity and Magnetism of Iron-based Superconductors II
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2B-3B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jeffrey W. Lynn, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Vivek Thampy,  Zhongkai Liu,  Igor Zaliznyak,  Lili Wang,  Fa Wang  

J41 Topological Insulators: Experimental Tuning and Extreme Conditions
Room: Mile High Ballroom 3C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Xiaohang Zhang, University of Maryland

J42 Majorana Fermions in Nanowires
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dan Dessau, University of Colorado, Boulder

J43 Interaction Effects in Topological Insulators: Theory
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Feng Liu, University of Utah

J44 MEMS, NEMS, and Mechanical Properties
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4C Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Ichiro Takeuchi, University of Maryland

J45 Semiconductor Electronic Structure: Thermodynamic & Optical Properties
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4D Sponsor: FIAP

J46 Ce- and Yb-based Heavy-Fermion and Non-Fermi Liquid Systems
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4E Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Shanta Saha, University of Mayland

J47 Metal-Insulator and Other Electronic Phase Transitions: Computational
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4F Sponsor: DCMP

J48 Focus Session: Spin Transport and Magnetization Dynamics in Metal-Based Systems: Skyrmion II
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1A Sponsor: DMP FIAP GMAG Chair: Jacob Gayles, Texas A&M University

J49 Focus Session: Metal-Metal Bonding: Vanadates and Niobates
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jigang Wang, Ames Lab
Invited Speakers:  Jude Laverock  

J50 Focus Session: Graphene Plasmonics
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1D Sponsor: DMP Chair: Farhan Rana, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  Dimitri Basov  

J51 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene Devices: Function, Fabrication, and Characterization II
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1E Sponsor: DMP Chair: Aaron Jones, University of Washington
Invited Speakers:  Xiaodong Cui  

J52 Superconductors Phonons and Electrons
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1F Sponsor: DCMP DCOMP Chair: Lilia Boeri, TU-Graz

J53 Structure and Properties of Oxide Surfaces
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Daniel Dougherty, North Carolina State University

J54 Mott Insulators and Fermi Fluids
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1B Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Clarina dela Cruz, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

J55 Invited Session: Buckley / McGroddy / Adler / IUPAP YSP/ Nicholson Prize Session
Room: Four Seasons Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Arthur Ramirez University of California, Santa Cruz, Laura Greene, University of Illinois
Invited Speakers:  Philip Kim,  Zhong Lin Wang,  Paul Canfield,  Clarina de la Cruz,  E. Dan Dahlberg  

J56 Invited Session: Dillon Medal Symposium
Room: Four Seasons Ballroom 4 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Thomas Russell, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Invited Speakers:  Ryan Hayward  

Mar 4 2014 4:30PM, Tuesday

K0 Meet the APS Editors Reception
Room: Grand Concourse Sponsor: APS

Mar 4 2014 5:15PM, Tuesday

K51 Student Reception, Awards Ceremony, and Dance Party
Room: Sheraton Denver Downtown Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3 Sponsor: SPS

Mar 4 2014 5:45PM, Tuesday

K1 DCP Business Meeting
Room: 103/105 Sponsor: DCP

K4 GMAG Business Meeting
Room: 112/110 Sponsor: GMAG

K10 DBIO Business Meeting
Room: 201 Sponsor: DBIO

K11 The Status of NSF-DMR in FY14
Room: 203

K16 GSNP Business Meeting
Room: 401 Sponsor: GSNP

K21 DPOLY Business Meeting
Room: 406 Sponsor: DPOLY

K24 GIMS Business Meeting
Room: 504 Sponsor: GIMS

K25 GERA Business Meeting
Room: 503

K26 GSCCM Business Meeting
Room: 502 Sponsor: GSCCM

K27 DCOMP Business Meeting
Room: 501 Sponsor: DCOMP

K36 GQI Business Meeting
Room: 703 Sponsor: GQI

K44 FIAP Business Meeting
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4C Sponsor: FIAP

Mar 4 2014 7:00PM, Tuesday

K60 DCMP Business Meeting
Room: Sheraton Denver Downtown Plaza Court 3 Sponsor: DCMP

K61 DMP Business Meeting
Room: Sheraton Denver Downtown Plaza Court 4 Sponsor: DMP

Mar 5 2014 8:00AM, Wednesday

L1 Recent Advances in Density Functional Theory V
Room: 103/105 Sponsor: DCP DCOMP Chair: Aurora Pribram-Jones, University of California, Irvine
Invited Speakers:  Donald Truhlar,  Paul Ayers  

L2 Focus Session: Surface Chemistry and Catalysis V
Room: 102 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Jill Millstone, University of Pittsburgh
Invited Speakers:  J.R. Schmidt,  Jeffrey Greeley  

L3 Focus Session: Solvation, Dynamics, and Reactivity in Complex Environments I
Room: 107 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Valeria Molinero, University of Utah
Invited Speakers:  Gilbert Nathanson,  Amber Krummel  

L4 Focus Session: Quantum Spin Liquids
Room: 112/110 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Alexander Chernyshev, University of California, Irvine
Invited Speakers:  Olga Petrova  

L6 Focus Session: Emergent Properties in Bulk Complex Oxides: Manganites
Room: 108 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Xia Hong, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

L7 Focus Session: Dynamics and Symmetries of Magnetic Domain Walls
Room: 106 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Haifeng Ding, Nanjing University, China
Invited Speakers:  Yizheng Wu,  Aakash Pushp  

L8 Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors: Spin-Orbit Coupling in 1D and 2D Systems
Room: 104 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Jean Heremans, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

L10 Focus Session: Single Molecule Studies of Enzymes
Room: 201 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Jennifer Ross
Invited Speakers:  Ahmet Yildiz,  Michael Gramlich  

L11 Focus Session: Physics of Proteins II
Room: 203 Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY Chair: Corey O'Hern, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Ilme Schlichting,  Dongping Zhong  

L12 Invited Session: The Physics of Cell Division
Room: 205 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: M. Betterton, University of Colorado Boulder
Invited Speakers:  Richard McIntosh,  Nenad Pavin,  Andrea Liu,  Ajit Joglekar,  Sophie Roth  

L13 Focus Session: Fe Based Superconductors-Pairing Symmetry
Room: 207 Chair: Peter Hirschfield, Unversity of Florida
Invited Speakers:  Douglas Scalapino  

L14 Invited Session: Understanding Ion Containing Polymer Systems using Computer Simulations
Room: 301-303 Sponsor: DPOLY DCOMP Chair: Gary Grest, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Michael Rubinstein,  Dvora Perahia,  Amalie L. Frischknecht,  Andrey Dobrynin,  Erik Luijten  

L15 Focus Session: Inferring Physical Models from Noisy Biological Data
Room: 304 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Steve Presse, University of California, San Francisco
Invited Speakers:  Jhih-Wei Chu,  Jayajit Das  

L16 Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics: Origami and Structural Metamaterials
Room: 401 Sponsor: GSNP DPOLY Chair: Jose Bico, ESPCI
Invited Speakers:  Michael De Volder  

L17 Focus Session: Friction and Adhesion
Room: 402 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Gianpietro Moras, Fraunhofer IWM
Invited Speakers:  Michael Urbakh  

L18 Vesicles and Membranes
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP GSNP Chair: E Lyman, University of Delaware

L20 Focus Session: Dynamics of Glassy Polymers under Nanoscale Confinement I
Room: 405 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Connie Roth, Emory University
Invited Speakers:  Ophelia Tsui  

L21 Focus Session: Polymers for Energy Storage and Conversion II - Photovoltaics
Room: 406 Sponsor: DPOLY GERA Chair: Brian Collins, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Harald Ade  

L22 Focus Session: Directed Assembly of Hybrid Materials I - Crystallization and Multicomponent Systems
Room: 407 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Christopher Li, Drexel University
Invited Speakers:  Christoph Schick,  Lei Zhu  

L23 Invited Session: Industrial Physics Forum: Physics and Industrial Applications of Optoelectronics
Room: 505-507 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Robert Hickernell, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Steven S. Rosenblum, Corning, Inc.
Invited Speakers:  Alan Willner,  Marin Soljacic,  Carmen Menoni,  John Bowers,  Marshall Jones  

L24 Focus Session: NanoPV Novel Photophysics and Transport I
Room: 504 Sponsor: GERA Chair: Richard Wiener, Research Corporation for Science Advancement
Invited Speakers:  Vanessa Huxter  

L25 Focus Session: Thermoelectric Materials
Room: 503 Sponsor: GERA DMP Chair: Eric Toberer, Colorado School of Mines
Invited Speakers:  Georg K.H. Madsen  

L26 Focus Session: Materials in Extremes: High-Strain-Rate Phenomena I
Room: 502 Sponsor: GSCCM DCOMP DMP Chair: Dawn Flicker, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Eduardo Bringa,  Bruce Remington  

L27 Electronic Structure Methods III
Room: 501 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: James Shepherd, Rice University

L28 Tutorial for Authors and Referees
Room: 601 Sponsor: APS

L29 Electronic and Valleytronic Properties of Graphene
Room: 603 Chair: Michael Fogler, University of California, San Diego

L30 Graphene Devices: Fabrication, Characterization and Modeling: Nanomechanics
Room: 605 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Cory Dean, City College of New York
Invited Speakers:  Jim Hone  

L31 Focus Session: Computational Discovery and Design of New Materials III
Room: 607 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Hongjun Xiang, Fudan University
Invited Speakers:  Stefan Goedecker  

L32 Invited Session: Magnetism in Quantum Gasses
Room: 708-712 Sponsor: DAMOP
Invited Speakers:  Cheng Chin,  Daniel Greif,  Christian Gross,  Johannes Bauer,  Hanns-Christoph Naegerl  

L34 Superconducting Qubits: Two-level Systems & Decoherence
Room: 704 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Jerry Chow, IBM

L35 Focus Session: Quantum Computing Architectures and Algorithms: Quantum Error Correction
Room: 702 Sponsor: GQI
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Gottesman,  Tomas Jochym-O'Connor  

L36 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits: Relaxation, Decoherence, and Realistic Devices
Room: 703 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Charlie Tahan, LPS
Invited Speakers:  Andrew Higginbotham  

L37 Focus Session: Vacancy and Grain Boundary Effects in Graphene
Room: 705/707 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Kurt Gaskill, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

L38 Invited Session: History of the Communication of Science to the Public
Room: 709/711 Sponsor: FHP FOEP Chair: Brian Schwartz, City University of New York
Invited Speakers:  Frank Burnet,  Karen Rader,  Susan Marie Frontczak,  Dennis Overbye,  Joseph Hanson  

L39 Invited Session: Interplay between Charge Order and Superconductivity in Cuprates
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2A-3A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Steven Kivelson, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Matthieu Le Tacon,  Johan Chang,  Eduardo H. da Silva Neto,  david le boeuf,  Marc-Henri Julien  

L40 Invited Session: New Horizons for Magnetism and Competing Phases in Heavy Fermions
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2B-3B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Paul Canfield, Ames Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Hilbert v.L\"{o}hneysen,  Eundeok Mun,  Yoshi Tokiwa,  Kenji Ishida,  Valentin Taufour  

L41 Focus Session: Local Ionic Dynamics and Domain Walls in Oxides
Room: Mile High Ballroom 3C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Lane Martin, University of Illinois
Invited Speakers:  Sergei Kalinin,  Tomas Sluka  

L42 Focus Session: Topological Insulators: Spin Textures
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4A Chair: Zahid Hasan, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Alessandra Lanzara  

L43 Metals I
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Singh, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

L44 Focus Session: Defects in Semiconductors: Nano Materials
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4C Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Jun-Wei Luo, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

L45 Semiconductor Electronic Structure: Theory & Spectra I
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4D Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Gael Nardin, NIST/University of Colorado

L46 Heavy Fermions and Non-Fermi Liquids: Theory
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4E Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Pallab Goswami, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

L47 Metal-Insulator and Other Electronic Phase Transitions: Experiment II
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4F Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Rajeswari Kolagani, Towson University

L48 Invited Session: Light-matter Interaction in Valleytronic Materials and Topological Insulators
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1A-1B Sponsor: DCMP
Invited Speakers:  Franco Nori,  Zubin Jacob,  Di Xiao,  Zhou Li,  Andre Saraiva  

L49 Focus Session: Spectrocopy, Magnetism, and Transport at LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Interfaces
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jochen Mannhart, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Invited Speakers:  Claudia Cancellieri  

L50 Focus Session: Quantum Plasmonics, Metamaterials, and Nanocrystals
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1D Chair: Yanwen Wu, University of South Carolina
Invited Speakers:  Jeremy Baumberg  

L51 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene Devices: Function, Fabrication, and Characterization III
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1E Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jing Shi, University of California, Riverside
Invited Speakers:  Li Shi  

L52 Focus Session: Superconductivity, Vortex Matter I
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1F Sponsor: DMP Chair: Leonardo Civale, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Francois Peeters,  Wai-Kwong Kwok  

L53 Focus Session: Molecular Adsorption and Metal and Oxide Film Growth
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Shirley Chiang, University of California, Davis

Mar 5 2014 10:45AM, Wednesday

L54 Meet the APS Editors Coffee Break
Room: Exhibit Hall F Sponsor: APS

Mar 5 2014 11:15AM, Wednesday

M1 Recent Advances in Density Functional Theory VI
Room: 103/105 Sponsor: DCP DCOMP Chair: Jianwei Sun, Temple University
Invited Speakers:  Aron Cohen  

M2 Focus Session: Charge & Energy Transfer I
Room: 102 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Nathan Gabor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Arend van der Zande,  Xiaodong Xu,  Feng Wang  

M3 Physics Education
Room: 107 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Deepak Iyer, The Pennsylvania State University

M4 Focus Session: Pyrochlore magnets: spin ice and spin liquid
Room: 112/110 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Oleg Tchernyshyov, Johns Hopkins University
Invited Speakers:  Tom Fennell  

M6 Focus Session: Magnetic Oxide Thin Films and Heterostructures: Ferroelectric Effects
Room: 108 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Yu-Miin Sheu, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Dennis Meier,  Somdutta Mukherjee  

M7 Focus Session: Molecular Nanomagnets
Room: 106 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Stephen Hill, Florida State University and NHMFL
Invited Speakers:  Michael Baker  

M8 Focus Session: Spin Hall Effect and Related Phenomenon
Room: 104 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Luqiao Liu, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Invited Speakers:  Bingfeng Miao  

M10 FIAP Prize Session: Beyond Academia: Personal Journeys of Successful Physics Careers in Industry
Room: 201 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Gregory Meisner, General Motors Global Research and Development
Invited Speakers:  W. Dale Compton,  Paul Grant  

M12 Invited Session: The Impact of Heterogeneous High Performance Computing Platforms on Computational Physics
Room: 205 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Barry Schneider, National Science Foundation
Invited Speakers:  Lars Koesterke,  Viktor Decyk,  Andrei Alexandru,  R. Glenn Brook,  Thomas Cheatham  

M13 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors-Optical properties
Room: 207 Chair: David Tanner, University of Florida
Invited Speakers:  Masamichi Nakajima  

M14 Invited Session: Physics for Everyone
Room: 301-303 Sponsor: DMP Chair: John Mitchell, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Lawrence Krauss,  Anthony F. Starace,  Ronald Walsworth,  David Stevenson,  James Proudfoot  

M16 Focus Session: Computational Studies of Thermoelectric Materials
Room: 401 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Emmanouil Kioupakis, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  David Joseph Singh,  Mona Zebarjadi  

M17 Fracture and Other Problems in Statistical Physics
Room: 402 Sponsor: GSNP

M18 Rheology & Phases of Complex Colloidal Systems
Room: 403 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Alberto Fernandez-Nieves, Georgia Institute of Technology

M21 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene Devices: Function, Fabrication, and Characterization IV
Room: 406 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Darshana Wickramaratne, University of California, Riverside

M22 Hydrogen Storage, Transportation & Novel PV
Room: 407 Sponsor: GERA Chair: Peter Pfeifer, University of Missouri

M23 Invited Session: Industrial Physics Forum: Advances in Measurement Technology
Room: 505-507 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Martin Poitzsch, Schlumberger-Doll Research
Invited Speakers:  Joseph Dehmer,  Jason Cleveland,  Alain Diebold,  Lawrence Crum,  Harold Pfutzner  

M24 Focus Session: NanoPV Novel Photophysics and Transport II
Room: 504 Sponsor: GERA Chair: Mark Lusk, Colorado School of Mines
Invited Speakers:  Gergely Zimanyi  

M25 Focus Session: Thermoelectrics - Phonons and Heat Conduction I
Room: 503 Sponsor: GERA DMP Chair: Andrew May
Invited Speakers:  Joseph P. Heremans  

M26 Focus Session: Materials in Extremes: High-Strain-Rate Phenomena II
Room: 502 Sponsor: GSCCM DCOMP DMP Chair: Bruce Remington, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Timothy Germann,  Amy Lazicki  

M27 Focus Session: Petascale Science and Beyond: Applications and Opportunities for Materials Science III
Room: 501 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Jack Wells, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Aurel Bulgac  

M28 Superconducting Qubits: Measurement & Photodetection
Room: 601 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Konrad Lenhert, National Institute of Standards and Technology

M29 Quench dynamics
Room: 603 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Marcos Rigol, Penn State

M30 Focus Session: Graphene Devices: Fabrication, Characterization and Modeling: Sensing using 2D Materials
Room: 605 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Aldo Migone, Southern Illinois University
Invited Speakers:  Alan Johnson  

M31 Focus Session: Computational Discovery and Design of New Materials IV
Room: 607 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Manh Cuong Nguyen, Ames Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Thomas Koschny  

M32 Invited Session: Semiconductor Qubits
Room: 708-712 Sponsor: GQI DCMP Chair: Malcolm Carroll, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Jason Petta,  Mark Eriksson,  Robin Blume-Kohout,  Michelle Simmons,  Amir Yacoby  

M33 Invited Session: Postdocs and the Application Process
Room: 706 Sponsor: FGSA Chair: David Anderson, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Ronny Thomale,  Candace Pfefferkorn,  Paul Sokol  

M34 Focus Session: AMO Quantum Information Processing: Ion Trapping Technologies
Room: 704 Sponsor: GQI DAMOP Chair: L. Paul Parazzoli, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Hartmut Haeffner  

M35 Spin-orbit Coupling and the BEC-BCS Crossover
Room: 702 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Cheng Chin, University of Chicago

M36 Superconducting Qubits: Fabrication & Materials
Room: 703 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Andreas Wallraff, ETH Zurich

M37 Focus Session: Graphene on Cu and Other Metal Substrates
Room: 705/707 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Paul Thibado, University of Arkansas

M38 Invited Session: The Keithley Award Session: Submolecular Resolution and Exchange Force Measurements Using Atomic Force Microscopy with Quartz Cantilevers
Room: 709/711 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Joseph Stroscio, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Franz Giessibl,  Philip Moriarty,  Leo Gross,  Jascha Repp,  Xiaohui Qiu  

M39 Invited Session: SmB6: A Possible Topological Kondo Insulator
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2A-3A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Zach Fisk, University of California, Irvine
Invited Speakers:  Piers Coleman,  Dae-Jeong Kim,  Xi Dai,  M. Zahid Hasan,  Johnpierre Paglione  

M40 Invited Session: Onsager / Lilienfeld / UG Inst / Apker 1 Prize session
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2B-3B Sponsor: DCMP GSNP Chair: Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University
Invited Speakers:  Vladimir Mineev,  Edward Ott,  Tom Solomon,  Guy Marcus  

M41 Topological Superconductors: Bulk and Interfaces
Room: Mile High Ballroom 3C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Wei-Feng Tsai, University of Taiwan

M42 Spectroscopy of Topological Insulators
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Andrei Sushkov, University of Maryland

M43 Electronic Structures of Insulators and Superconductors
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Tai C. Chiang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

M44 Focus Session: Defects in Semiconductors: Oxides
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4C Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Zhengyu Zhang, China University of Science and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Bing Wang  

M45 Semiconductor Electronic Structure: Theory & Spectra II
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4D Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Alex Demkov, University of Texas at Austin

M46 Hidden Order, URu2Si2 and Other U-Based Heavy-Fermion Systems
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4E Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Nick Butch, National Institute of Standards and Technology

M47 Metal-Insulator and Other Electronic Phase Transitions: Experiment III
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4F Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Eric J. Walter, The College of William and Mary

M48 Invited Session: Advances in Correlated Electron Systems
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1A-1B Sponsor: DCMP
Invited Speakers:  Frank Steglich,  Elizabeth Schemm,  Michael Lang,  Yoshiteru Maeno,  Eduardo Fradkin  

M49 Focus Session: Oxide Thin Films: Growth and Properties
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Stefano Gariglio, University of Geneva

M50 Nanostructures and Metamaterials
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1D Sponsor: DMP
Invited Speakers:  Zhenchao Dong  

M51 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene: Synthesis, Defects, Structure, and Properties VI
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1E Sponsor: DMP Chair: Fan Zhang, University of Pennsylvania

M52 ARPES in Copper-oxide Superconductors
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1F Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Timir Datta, University of South Carolina

M53 Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films: Electronic Structures and Size Effects
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2C Sponsor: DCMP

P1 Poster Session III (11:15 - 14:30 - DPOLY, DCP, DBIO, GSNP)
Room: Exhibit Hall F

Mar 5 2014 12:30PM, Wednesday

Q0 Meet Your Future: Industrial Careers for Physicists
Room: 203 Sponsor: FIAP

Mar 5 2014 2:30PM, Wednesday

Q1 Focus Session: Charge & Energy Transfer II
Room: 103/105 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Xiaoyang Zhu, Columbia University
Invited Speakers:  Jiwoong Park,  Martin Wolf,  Tianquan Lian  

Q2 Focus Session: Surface Chemistry and Catalysis VI
Room: 102 Sponsor: DCP Chair: J.R. Schmidt, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Invited Speakers:  Jill Millstone,  Suljo Linic  

Q3 Focus Session: Solvation, Dynamics, and Reactivity in Complex Environments II
Room: 107 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Francesco Paesani, University of California, San Diego
Invited Speakers:  Michael Fayer,  Ward Thompson  

Q4 Focus Session: Pyrochlore Magnets: Ordering and Freezing
Room: 112/110 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Michel Gingras, University of Waterloo

Q6 Focus Session: Emergent Properties in Bulk Complex Oxides: Fe-Oxide and Hexaferrite
Room: 108 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: M. Khan, Miami University, Ohio
Invited Speakers:  Sae Hwan Chun  

Q7 Focus Session: Magnetic Domains and Domain Walls
Room: 106 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Randy Dumas, Gothenburg University, Sweden
Invited Speakers:  Sunil Sinha  

Q8 Focus Session: Spin Wave Phenomena and Spin Pumping and Damping
Room: 104 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Carl Boone, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder
Invited Speakers:  Takeshi Seki  

Q10 Focus Session: Evolution, Co-evolution, and Game Theory
Room: 201 Sponsor: DBIO GSNP Chair: Alexandre Morozov, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Nigel Goldenfeld,  Erwin Frey  

Q11 Nucleic Acids: Structure, Analysis, and Interaction with Proteins
Room: 203 Sponsor: DBIO

Q12 Invited Session: Irreversibilty and Entropy Production in Biological Dynamics
Room: 205 Sponsor: GSNP DBIO Chair: Jeremy England, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Mara Prentiss,  Pierre Gaspard,  Pankaj Mehta,  Chao Tang,  Steve Presse  

Q13 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors-STM and Neutrons
Room: 207 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Andreas Kreyssig, Iowa State University
Invited Speakers:  Yayu Wang  

Q14 Invited Session: Physics of Proteins: New Insights on Hydrogen Bonding and Proton Transfer
Room: 301-303 Sponsor: DBIO DCOMP Chair: Wouter Hoff, Oklahoma State University
Invited Speakers:  Steven Boxer,  Noam Agmon,  Aihua Xie,  Hiroshi Ishikita,  Nick Pace  

Q15 Pattern Formation & Nonlinear Dynamics
Room: 304 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Sandra Troian, California Institute of Technology

Q16 Extreme Mechanics: (more) Toys, Theory, and Fluid-Structure Interaction
Room: 401 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Douglas Holmes, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Q17 Focus Session: Network of Networks
Room: 402 Chair: Antonio Scala, CNR-ISC Institute for Complex Systems
Invited Speakers:  Guido Caldarelli  

Q18 Disordered and Glassy Systems I
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP GSNP Chair: Alexei Sokolov, University of Tennessee/Knoxville

Q19 Focus Session: Theory and Simulations of Macromolecules VII - Chain Conformation
Room: 404 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Ting Ge, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Q20 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Charge Transport
Room: 405 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Brian Collins, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Rodrigo Noriega  

Q21 Focus Session: Polymers for Energy Storage and Conversion III - Ion Transport
Room: 406 Sponsor: DPOLY GERA Chair: Dan Hallinan, Florida State University
Invited Speakers:  Thomas Epps, III  

Q22 Focus Session: Directed Assembly of Hybrid Materials II
Room: 407 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Sanat Kumar, Columbia University
Invited Speakers:  Michael R. Bockstaller,  Spiros H. Anastasiadis  

Q23 Invited Session: Dynamics of Fluids at Interfaces
Room: 505-507 Sponsor: DFD DPOLY Chair: Joshua McGraw, Saarland University
Invited Speakers:  Lyd\'eric Bocquet,  Kathleen Stebe,  Jacco Snoeijer,  Marcus Mueller,  Dirk Aarts  

Q24 Novel Instrumentation and Measurements for Biomedical Research
Room: 504 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Larry Nagahara, Office of Physical Scinences - Oncology, National Cancer Institute
Invited Speakers:  Thomas Thundat  

Q25 Focus Session: Thermoelectrics: Controlling Spin
Room: 503 Sponsor: GERA DMP FIAP Chair: Joseph Heremans, Ohio State University
Invited Speakers:  Brian Sales  

Q26 Focus Session: Materials in Extremes: Reactive Chemistry
Room: 502 Sponsor: GSCCM DCOMP DMP Chair: Timothy Germann, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Marc Cawkwell,  Evan Reed  

Q27 Focus Session: Electron-hole Interaction in Nanoparticles
Room: 501 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Ari Chakraborty, Syracuse University
Invited Speakers:  Leeor Kronik  

Q28 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits: Trajectories & Measurement
Room: 601 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Andrew Cross, IBM
Invited Speakers:  Landry Bretheau  

Q29 Graphene Defects and Functionalization
Room: 603 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Carl Ventrice, College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, SUNY Albany

Q30 The Physics of Climate
Room: 605 Sponsor: GPC
Invited Speakers:  Hezi Gildor  

Q31 Graphene: Raman Spectroscopy and Phonons
Room: 607 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Tony Heinz, Columbia University

Q32 Invited Session: Quantum Computing Architectures
Room: 708-712 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Andrew Landahl, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Krysta Svore,  Kevin Young,  Robert Raussendorf,  Cody Jones,  Olivier Landon-Cardinal  

Q33 Quantum Entanglement II
Room: 706 Sponsor: GQI

Q34 Bose Gases
Room: 704 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Michael Foss-Feig, JQI

Q35 Focus Session: Hybrid Quantum Systems
Room: 702 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Charles Clark, JQI/NIST
Invited Speakers:  Andreas Nunnenkamp  

Q36 Topological Quantum Information
Room: 703 Sponsor: GQI

Q37 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene Devices: Function, Fabrication, and Characterization V
Room: 705/707 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Wenjuan Zhu, IBM Watson Research Center
Invited Speakers:  Roman Gorbachev  

Q38 Superconducting Qubits: Amplifiers & Readout
Room: 709/711 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Stefano Poletto, University of Delft

Q39 Superconductivity: Sr2RuO4 and Related Materials
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2A-3A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Maxim Khodas, University of Iowa

Q40 Invited Session: Cell Motility in Three-Dimensions
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2B-3B Sponsor: DBIO DFD Chair: Moumita Das, Rochester Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Clare Waterman,  Denis Wirtz,  Mingming Wu,  J.M. Schwarz,  Ben Fabry  

Q41 Focus Session: Complex Oxide Thin-Film Growth
Room: Mile High Ballroom 3C Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Stephen Hellberg, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Lane Martin  

Q42 Focus Session: Topological Materials, Synthesis and Characterization
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ale Lanzara, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Genda Gu  

Q43 Metals II
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4B Chair: David Parker, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Q44 Materials: Synthesis, Growth, & Processing
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4C Sponsor: FIAP

Q45 Bionanotechnology and Applications of Polymers and Biomaterials
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4D Sponsor: FIAP

Q46 Strongly Correlated Electron Systems: Hubbard Model and other Many Body Theories
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4E Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Hae-Young Kee, University of Toronto

Q47 Magnetic Oxides, V2O3 and Related: Experiment
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4F Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dimitri Basov, University of California, San Diego

Q48 Superconductivity: Material and Properties
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1A-1B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Martin Nikolo, St. Louis University

Q49 Focus Session: Conductivity and Its Control at LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Interfaces
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Shahal Ilani, Weizmann Institute of Science
Invited Speakers:  Kathryn Moler  

Q50 Photonic Structures and Semiconductor Lasers
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1D Sponsor: DCMP

Q51 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene: Synthesis, Defects, Structure, and Properties VII
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1E Sponsor: DMP Chair: Eugenio Cinquanta, CNR-IMM MDM Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Joshua Goldberger  

Q52 Physical Properties of Copper-oxide Superconductors
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1F Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Antony Carrington, University of Bristol

Q53 Surfaces, Interfaces, and Thin Films: Molecules on Surfaces
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Chenggnag Tao, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Q57 The Fred Kavli Special Symposium: The Many Electron Problem -- Where are we now?
Room: Four Seasons Ballroom Sponsor: APS Chair: Leon Balents, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Yoshinori Tokura,  Laura Greene,  James Eisenstein,  Steven Kivelson,  Steven White  

Mar 5 2014 5:30PM, Wednesday

R41 ``App-y'' Hour
Room: Sheraton Denver Downtown Governor's Square 10

Mar 5 2014 5:45PM, Wednesday

R10 Report on NSF Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities of Polymer and Soft Matter Theory and Simulation
Room: 201

R11 Town Hall Meeting on High Magnetic Field Sciences
Room: 203

R12 Funding Opportunities - Physical Sciences in Oncology
Room: 205 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Larry Nagahara, National Cancer Institute Office of the Physical Sciences in Oncology

R40 GPC Business Meeting
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2B-3B Sponsor: GPC

Mar 5 2014 6:00PM, Wednesday

R46 NSBP Networking Session
Room: Sheraton Denver Downtown Governor's Square 9 Sponsor: APS

R47 LGBT Roundtable Discussion: Meet-up and Mentoring Discussion
Room: Sheraton Denver Downtown Governor's Square 11 Sponsor: APS

Mar 5 2014 7:00PM, Wednesday

R49 Diversity Networking Reception
Room: Sheraton Denver Downtown Governor's Square 15 Sponsor: APS

Mar 5 2014 7:30PM, Wednesday

R48 Special Evening Event Hosted by the Editors of Physics
Room: Sheraton Denver Downtown Plaza Ballroom ABC Sponsor: APS Chair: Matteo Rini, Deputy Editor of Physics
Invited Speakers:  Seth Lloyd  

Mar 5 2014 8:00PM, Wednesday

R50 A Staged Reading of the Play: W=S:Transistor Shock
Room: Sheraton Denver Downtown Governor's Square 14 Sponsor: FHP

Mar 5 2014 9:00PM, Wednesday

R51 Rock 'n Roll Physics Sing Along (Listening-Along Encouraged)
Room: Sheraton Denver Downtown (Tower) Windows Sponsor: APS

Mar 6 2014 8:00AM, Thursday

S1 Focus Session: Charge & Energy Transfer III
Room: 103/105 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Martin Wolf, Fritz-Haber-Institute
Invited Speakers:  Carlos Silva,  David Beljonne  

S2 Focus Session: Solvation, Dynamics, and Reactivity in Complex Environments III
Room: 102 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Christine Payne, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Francesco Paesani,  Alenka Luzar  

S3 Focus Session: Intracellular Organization
Room: 107 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Margaret Gardel, The University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Allen Liu,  Shermali Gunawardena  

S4 Focus Session: Kagome Antiferromagnets I
Room: 112/110 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Oleg Tchernyshyov, Johns Hopkins University
Invited Speakers:  Laura Messio  

S6 Focus Session: Magnetic Oxide Thin Films and Heterostructures: Interface Effects
Room: 108 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jason Hoffman, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Yaohua Liu,  Xianglin Ke  

S7 Focus Session: Low-D Quantum Spins II
Room: 106 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Tom Lancaster, Durham University
Invited Speakers:  Christopher Landee  

S8 Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Transport, Tunneling, and Spin Torque
Room: 104 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Kui Gong, McGill University

S10 Focus Session: Confined Nucleic Acids I
Room: 201 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Robert Riehn, North Carolina State University
Invited Speakers:  Patrick Doyle  

S11 Focus Session: Physics of Proteins III
Room: 203 Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY Chair: Andrea Markelz, SUNY Buffalo
Invited Speakers:  Wei Wang,  Brian Dyer  

S12 Invited Session: Impacts of Physics Research on the Economy
Room: 205 Sponsor: FPS Chair: Pushpalatha Bhat, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Peter Littlewood,  David Lee,  Thomas Baer,  Venkat Selvamanickam  

S13 Focus Session: Fe Based Superconductors-DFT and Pressure Effect
Room: 207 Chair: Rong Yu, Renmin University of China
Invited Speakers:  Roser Valenti  

S14 Invited Session: Dynamics of Polymers at Interfaces and in Confinement
Room: 301-303 Sponsor: DPOLY DFD Chair: Oliver Baeumchen, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
Invited Speakers:  Frederic Restagno,  Mark Robbins,  Hugues Bodiguel,  Narayanan Menon,  John Torkelson  

S15 Focus Session: Active Soft Matter III - Soft, Self-Propelled Particles
Room: 304 Sponsor: DPOLY DBIO GSNP Chair: Juan Aragones, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

S16 Extreme Mechanics: Morigami, Metamaterials, and Elasticity
Room: 401 Sponsor: GSNP DPOLY Chair: Gregory Grason, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

S17 Avalanches and Rearrangements during Shear
Room: 402 Chair: Karen Daniels, North Carolina State University

S18 Disordered and Glassy Systems II
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP GSNP Chair: Sindee Simon, Texas Tech University

S19 Focus Session: Thin Films of Block Copolymers and Hybrid Materials I - Solvent Vapor Annealing
Room: 404 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Mark Stoykovich, Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado
Invited Speakers:  Bryan Vogt  

S20 Polymer Glasses
Room: 405 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Rodney Priestly

S21 Focus Session: Polymer Nanocomposites I - Active Particles and Dynamics
Room: 406 Sponsor: DPOLY GSNP Chair: Nigel Clarke, University of Sheffield
Invited Speakers:  Joao Cabral  

S22 Charged and Ion-Containing Polymers
Room: 407 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Yossef Elabd, Drexel University

S23 Invited Session: Industrial Physics Forum: Frontiers of Nanomaterials and Interfaces
Room: 505-507 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Ichiro Takeuchi, University of Maryland, Luigi Colombo, Texas Instruments Incorporated
Invited Speakers:  Rodney S. Ruoff,  Liangbing Hu,  Theresa Mayer,  Sadasivan Shankar,  Andre Nel  

S24 Detectors, Sensors, and Transducers
Room: 504 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Rob Duncan, University of Missouri

S25 Focus Session: Thermoelectrics - Phonons and Heat Conduction II
Room: 503 Sponsor: DMP GERA FIAP Chair: Jonathan Malen, Carnagie Mellon University
Invited Speakers:  Jihui Yang  

S26 Focus Session: Materials in Extremes
Room: 502 Sponsor: GSCCM DCOMP DMP Chair: Marc Cawkwell, Los Alamos National Laboratory

S27 Quantum Many-Body Systems I
Room: 501 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Robert DiStasio Jr., Princeton University

S32 Invited Session: Topological Quantum Information and Phases of Matter
Room: 708-712 Sponsor: GQI DCMP Chair: Parsa Bonderson, Microsoft Corporation
Invited Speakers:  Roman Lutchyn,  Roger Mong,  Jeongwan Haah,  Xiao-Liang Qi,  Ashvin Vishwanath  

S33 Focus Session: Artificial Gauge Fields and Systems with Long Range Interactions II
Room: 706 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Chuangwei Zhang, University of Texas, Dallas
Invited Speakers:  Peter Engels  

S34 Focus Session: AMO Quantum Information Processing: Photons and Atoms
Room: 704 Sponsor: GQI DAMOP Chair: Grant Biedermann, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Jonathan Dowling,  Poul Jessen  

S35 Vortices, Solitons, and Driven Systems
Room: 702 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Tom Purdy, JILA

S36 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits: Device, Control, and Measurement System Engineering
Room: 703 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Matt Borselli, HRL
Invited Speakers:  David Reilly  

S37 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Diameter, Wall & Chirality Control
Room: 705/707 Sponsor: DMP
Invited Speakers:  Mildred Dresselhaus  

S38 Invited Session: Assessment Issues in Physics Education
Room: 709/711 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Eric Brewe, Florida International University
Invited Speakers:  Eugenia Etkina,  Wendy Adams,  Heather Lewandowski,  Adrian Madsen,  Melissa Dancy  

S39 Invited Session: Artificial Spin Ice and Artificial Frustrated Systems: Desiging Topology, Controlling Frustration, Engineering Emergence
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2A-3A Sponsor: DCMP GMAG Chair: Cristiano Nisoli, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Ian Gilbert,  Peter Derlet,  Will Branford,  Olle Heinonen,  Haifeng Ding  

S40 Invited Session: Spin Current and Magnetization Dynamics--Pure Spin Current Generation and Transport
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2B-3B Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Paul Crowell, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Robert Buhrman,  Sergej Demokritov,  Pengke Li,  Yong Pu,  Mingzhong Wu  

S41 Focus Session: Hexagonal Manganites and Ferrites and Perovskite Stannates
Room: Mile High Ballroom 3C Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Hiroyuki Takenaka, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Yu Kumagai  

S42 Focus Session: New Topological Materials
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Genda Gu, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Feng Liu  

S43 Weyl Semimetals: Theory and Experiment
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Steven Disseler, National Institute of Standards and Technology

S44 Focus Session: Defects in Semiconductors: Defects Engineering
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4C Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Andriy Zakutayev, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

S45 Semiconductors: Thermodynamic & Transport Properties I
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4D Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Lucas Lindsay, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

S46 Organic Conductors and Related Topics
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4E Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Claude Bourbonnais, Universite de Sherbrooke

S47 Low Temperature Properties of He3
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4F Sponsor: DCMP Chair: William Halperin, Northwestern University

S48 Invited Session: Multi-orbital Effects and Pairing Symmetry in Iron-Based Superconductors
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1A-1B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Andrey Chubukov, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Invited Speakers:  Rafael Fernandes,  Adriana Moreo,  Hong Ding,  Fazel Fallah Tafti,  Saurabh Maiti  

S49 Focus Session: Oxide Surfaces, Oxygen Vacancies/Disorder, Doped SrTiO3
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Gervasi Herranz, Institut de Ciencia de Materials de Barcelona

S50 Focus Session: Mesoscopic Materials and Devices I
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1D Sponsor: DMP Chair: John Sarrao, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Robert Suter,  Rodolfo Miranda  

S51 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene Devices: Function, Fabrication, and Characterization VI
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1E Sponsor: DMP Chair: Bernhard Urbaszek, CNRS Toulouse
Invited Speakers:  ZX Shen  

S52 Focus Session: Supercondcutivity, Vortex Matter II
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1F Sponsor: DMP Chair: Alex Gurevich, Old Dominion University
Invited Speakers:  Shi-Zeng Lin,  Jose L. Vicent  

S53 Focus Session: Electron, Ion, and Exciton Transport in Nanostructures I
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Matthew Gilbert, University of Illinois
Invited Speakers:  Vasili Perebeinos  

Mar 6 2014 11:15AM, Thursday

T1 Focus Session: Physics of Behavior I
Room: 103/105 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Greg Stephens, Vrije University Amsterdam
Invited Speakers:  Fernando Peruani  

T2 Surfaces, Nanoparticles, and Materials
Room: 102 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Gilbert Nathanson, University of Wisconsin-Madison

T3 Spectroscopy and Structure
Room: 107 Sponsor: DCP Chair: David Chandler, Sandia National Laboratories

T4 Focus Session: Kagome Antiferromagnets II
Room: 112/110 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Cristian Batista, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Gia-Wei Chern  

T6 Focus Session: Emergent Properties in Bulk Complex Oxides: Titanates and Ruthenates
Room: 108 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Matt Langner, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

T7 Focus Session: Magnetic Nanoparticles
Room: 106 Chair: Xuemei May Cheng, Bryn Mawr College

T8 Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors: Spin Hall Effect and Topological Insulators
Room: 104 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Enrique Cobas, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Federico Bottegoni  

T10 Focus Session: Confined Nucleic Acids II
Room: 201 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Kevin Dorfman, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Chia-Fu Chou  

T11 Focus Session: Systems Biology
Room: 203 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Jeff Gore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Ibrahim Cisse,  Eugene Shakhnovich  

T12 Invited Session: Functional Dynamics of Proteins from Physics to Biology
Room: 205 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Xiang-Qiang Chu, Wayne State University, and Michael Brown, University of Arizona
Invited Speakers:  Steven Schwartz,  Xiang-Qiang Chu,  Thomas Miller,  Michael F. Brown,  Jack Freed  

T13 Focus Session: Fe-Based Superconductors-STEM,11's,Various
Room: 207 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Amlan Biswas, University of Florida
Invited Speakers:  Claudia Cantoni  

T14 Invited Session: Novel Nonlinear Spectroscopic Techniques for Understanding Material Structure and Function
Room: 301-303 Sponsor: DLS Chair: Henry Kapteyn, JILA, CU Boulder and NIST
Invited Speakers:  Keith Nelson,  Dmitry Yarotski,  Markus Raschke,  Xiaoqin (Elaine) Li,  Richard Schaller  

T15 Focus Session: Active Soft Matter IV- Locomotion and Collective Behavior
Room: 304 Sponsor: DPOLY GSNP DBIO Chair: Alfredo Alexander-Katz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Davide Marenduzzo  

T16 Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics: Buckling, Wrinkling, and Poking
Room: 401 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Dominic Vella, University of Oxford
Invited Speakers:  Yonggang Huang  

T17 Focus Session: Jamming and the Glass Transition
Room: 402 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Corey O'Hern, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Kai Zhang  

T18 Colloids: Charged, Clustered, and/or Sticky
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP GSNP Chair: Carlos Orellana, Emory University

T19 Focus Session: Thin Films of Block Copolymers and Hybrid Materials II - Directed Self Assembly
Room: 404 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Chaitanya Ullal, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Invited Speakers:  Joseph Kline  

T20 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Photophysics
Room: 405 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Sahar Sharifzadeh, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Xiaoyang Zhu,  Chris Bardeen  

T21 Focus Session: Polymer Nanocomposites II - Dynamics
Room: 406 Sponsor: DPOLY GSNP Chair: Jason Bochinski, North Carolina State University
Invited Speakers:  Lynden Archer  

T22 Focus Session: Dynamics of Glassy Polymers under Nanoscale Confinement II
Room: 407 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Daniel Sussman, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Robert Riggleman  

T23 Invited Session: Industrial Physics Forum: Device Physics at the Nanoscale
Room: 505-507 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Ernesto Marinero, Purdue University
Invited Speakers:  Supriyo Datta,  Hideo Ohno,  Dmitri Nikonov,  Tsu-Jae King Liu,  Allan H. MacDonald  

T24 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy III: Scanning Probes Spectroscopic Techniques
Room: 504 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Duming Zhang, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Tong Zhang  

T25 Focus Session: Thermoelectrics - Nanomaterials
Room: 503 Sponsor: DMP GERA FIAP Chair: Georg Madsen
Invited Speakers:  Robert Cava  

T26 Classical Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics Methods
Room: 502 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Timothy Germann, Los Alamos National Laboratory

T27 Focus Session: Heterogeneous High Performance Computing Platforms on Computational Physics
Room: 501 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Bogdan Mihaila, National Science Foundation
Invited Speakers:  Jeffrey Vetter,  Adrian Roitberg  

T32 Invited Session: Synthetic Matter with Long-Range Interactions
Room: 708-712 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: John Bollinger, NIST--Boulder
Invited Speakers:  Thomas Pohl,  Alexey Gorshkov,  Luming Duan,  Andrew Daley,  James Freericks  

T33 Focus Session: Quantum Foundations: Interpretations, Contextuality, and Nonlocality
Room: 706 Sponsor: GQI Chair: William Wootters, Williams College
Invited Speakers:  Matthew Leifer  

T34 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits: 3D & Resonators
Room: 704 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Michael Vissers, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  G. Kirchmair  

T35 Focus Session: Quantum Computing Architectures and Algorithms: Quantum Algorithms
Room: 702 Sponsor: GQI
Invited Speakers:  Dominic Berry,  Matthias Troyer  

T36 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits: Magnetic Control & Nuclear Dynamics
Room: 703 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Jason Petta, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Pasquale Scarlino  

T37 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotube Transport
Room: 705/707 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ethan Minot, Oregon State University
Invited Speakers:  Lian Mao Peng  

T38 Invited Session: Reichert Award Session: Preparing Students for the Transition from Instructional to Research Lab
Room: 709/711 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Heather Lewandowski, University of Colorado Boulder
Invited Speakers:  Gabriel Spalding,  Marty Johnston,  Gabriela Weaver,  M.R. Stoneking,  Sean Robinson  

T39 Invited Session: Collective Phenomena in Two-Dimensional Atomic Crystals and Their Heterostructures
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2A-3A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Philip Kim, Columbia University
Invited Speakers:  Kostya S. Novoselov,  Pablo Jarillo-Herrero,  Michael Fogler,  Tony Heinz,  Kirill Bolotin  

T40 Invited Session: Collective Excitations in Cuprates
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2B-3B Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Daniel Dessau, University of Colorado Boulder
Invited Speakers:  Theodore Reber,  Wei-Sheng Lee,  Mark P.M. Dean,  Nuh Gedik,  Joseph Orenstein  

T41 Focus Session: Piezoelectrics, Relaxors and Tunable Dielectrics
Room: Mile High Ballroom 3C Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Tomas Sluka, EPFL
Invited Speakers:  Hiroyuki Takenaka  

T42 Physical Properties of Topological Insulators
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Claudia Felser, Max Planck Institute

T43 Nanoscale Effects in Topological Insulators
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jason Zhu, Harvard University

T44 Optical/Laser & High Frequency Devices & Applications
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4C Sponsor: FIAP

T45 Semiconductors: Thermodynamic & Transport Properties II
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4D Sponsor: FIAP Chair: John Kouvetukis, Arizona State University

T46 Charge Density Waves
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4E Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Makariy Tanatar, Ames National Laboratory

T47 Solid He4 and Other Quantum Solids
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4F Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Moses Chan, Pennsylvania State University

T48 Invited Session: Single Molecule Magnets
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1A-1B Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Enrique del Barco, University of Central Florida
Invited Speakers:  Andrew D. Kent,  Dmitry Garanin,  Jonathan Friedman,  Enrique del Barco,  H. S. J. van der Zant  

T49 Focus Session: Oxide Interfaces - Defects & Stoichiometry, Rashba and Spin-Orbit, Competing Phases
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Mohit Randeria, Ohio State University

T50 Focus Session: Mesoscopic Materials and Devices II
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1D Sponsor: DMP Chair: Yvan Bruynseraede, KU Leuven
Invited Speakers:  Ernesto Joselevich  

T51 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene: Synthesis, Defects, Structure, and Properties VIII
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1E Sponsor: DMP Chair: Valentino Cooper, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Alessandro Molle  

T52 Superconductivity at Mesoscopic and Nanometer Scales
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1F Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sergey Bud'ko, Ames Laboratory

T53 Focus Session: Electron, Ion, and Exciton Transport in Nanostructures II
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Blanka Magyari-Kope, Stanford University

Mar 6 2014 2:30PM, Thursday

W1 Focus Session: Charge & Energy Transfer IV
Room: 103/105 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Carlos Silva, University of Montreal
Invited Speakers:  Victor Klimov,  Eran Rabani  

W2 Focus Session: Solvation, Dynamics, and Reactivity in Complex Environments IV
Room: 102 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Ward Thompson, University of Kansas
Invited Speakers:  Christine Payne,  Joan Shea  

W3 Multi-cellular Processes and Development
Room: 107 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Shane Hutson, Vanderbilt University

W4 Focus Session: Domain Dynamics
Room: 112/110 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: John Cumings, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Robert McMichael  

W6 Focus Session: Emergent Properties in Bulk Complex Oxides: Strongly Spin-Orbit Coupled Systems
Room: 108 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Mark Dean, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Hidenori Takagi  

W7 Focus Session: Molecule-Based Magnets
Room: 106 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Mark Meisel, University of Florida
Invited Speakers:  Jamie Manson  

W8 Focus Session: Ferromagnetic Resonance and Damping
Room: 104 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Hans Nembach, University of Colorado Boulder
Invited Speakers:  Cheng Cheng  

W10 Focus Session: Physics of Behavior II
Room: 201 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Joshua Shaevitz, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Irene Giardina  

W11 Assembly and Function of Biomimetic and Bioinspired Materials
Room: 203 Sponsor: DMP DBIO Chair: Elaine Zhu, University of Notre Dame

W12 Invited Session: Active Matter and the Cytoskeleton
Room: 205 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Daniel Chen, Brandeis University
Invited Speakers:  Meredith Betterton,  Daniel Needleman,  M. Cristina Marchetti,  Simone Koehler,  Shiladitya Banerjee  

W13 Focus Session: Fe-Based Superconductors-Moments/Fluctuations/NMR
Room: 207 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Kenji Ishida, Kyoto University
Invited Speakers:  Young-June Kim  

W14 Invited Session: Patterns in Polymers: Elasticity, Fluids, and Surfaces
Room: 301-303 Sponsor: DPOLY GSNP Chair: Kari Dalnoki-Veress, McMaster University
Invited Speakers:  Darrin Pochan,  Andrew Croll,  An-Chang Shi,  Karin Jacobs,  Erik K. Hobbie  

W15 Instabilities & Turbulence
Room: 304 Sponsor: DFD Chair: James Brasseur, Pennsylvania State University

W16 General Statistical and Nonlinear Physics I
Room: 401

W17 Jamming and the Glass Transition
Room: 402 Chair: Kai Zhang, Yale University

W18 Colloidal Particles at Interfaces
Room: 403 Chair: Matthew Lohr, University of Pennsylvania

W19 Focus Session: Thin Films of Block Copolymers and Hybrid Materials III - Surface, Wetting, and Confinement Interactions
Room: 404 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Bradley D. Olsen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

W20 Focus Session: Membranes and Confinement
Room: 405 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Pullickel Ajayan, Rice University
Invited Speakers:  Ramanan Krishnamoorti,  Eric Baer  

W21 Polymer Melts and Solutions
Room: 406 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Rob Hoy, University of South Florida

W22 Focus Session: Dynamics of Polymers Under Nanoscale Confinement III
Room: 407 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Robert Riggleman, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Peter Green  

W23 Invited Session: Industrial Physics Forum: Panel Discussion: Industrial Innovation: An Intersection Among Industry, Academia and Government
Room: 505-507 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: David Seiler, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  George Thompson,  James Hollenhorst,  Robert Doering,  Martin Poitzsch,  William Gallagher,  Jason Cleveland,  Mark Bernius  

W24 Scattering and Diffraction
Room: 504 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Yaohua Liu, Argonne National Laboratory

W25 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Thermoelectric Properties of Polymers
Room: 503 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Bryan Boudouris, Purdue University
Invited Speakers:  Michael Chabinyc,  Joseph Brill  

W26 Focus Session: Explicitly Correlated Methods and Quantum Few-Body Systems
Room: 502 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Sergiy Bubin, University of Rochester
Invited Speakers:  Kalman Varga,  Gordon Drake  

W27 Quantum Many-Body Systems II
Room: 501 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Aldo Romero, West Virginia University

W32 Invited Session: Quantum Mechanics Applied to Biophysical Problems
Room: 708-712 Sponsor: DCOMP DBIO Chair: Susan Rempe, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Carmay Lim,  Maria J. Ramos,  Susan Rempe,  Manoj Kumar,  Massimo Olivucci  

W33 Cold Quantum Gases
Room: 706 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Luming Duan, University of Michigan

W34 Topological Systems and Quantum Dynamics
Room: 704 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Alexey Gorshkov, Joint Quantum Institute

W35 Focus Session: Quantum Computing Architectures and Algorithms: Characterization, Verification, & Validation
Room: 702 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Robin Blume-Kohout, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Shelby Kimmel  

W36 Invited Session: Panel Discussion: Increasing the Participation of Women in Physics--The Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP)
Room: 703 Sponsor: CSWP Chair: Theodore Hodapp, American Physical Society
Invited Speakers:  Kevin Pitts,  Eric Brewe,  Mette Gaarde,  Nicole Johnson,  Hsiu-Chuan Hsu,  Shannon Glavin,  Noelle Stiles,  Laurel Winter  

W37 Focus Session: Carbons Nanotubes: Towards More Complex Circuits
Room: 705/707 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Xia Hong, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Invited Speakers:  Subhasish Mitra  

W38 Invited Session: 20th Century Chinese Physicists and Physics
Room: 709/711 Sponsor: FHP FIP Chair: Danian Hu, City College of New York, CUNY
Invited Speakers:  Yuelin Zhu,  Xiaodong Yin,  Tian Yu Cao,  Bing Liu,  Liu Jinyan  

W39 Invited Session: Emergent Symmetries in Magnetic and Ferroelectric Systems
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2A-3A Sponsor: DCMP DMP
Invited Speakers:  Natalia B. Perkins,  Sungkyun Choi,  Peter P. Orth,  Sang-Wook Cheong,  Nicola Spaldin  

W40 Invited Session: Electronic Correlations in Unconventional Superconductors
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2B-3B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dung-Hai Lee, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Subir Sachdev,  Catherine Pepin,  Neil Harrison,  Qimiao Si,  Hae-Young Kee  

W41 Topological Order
Room: Mile High Ballroom 3C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Tanmoy Das, Los Alamos National Laboratory

W42 Focus Session: Magnetic Topological Insulators
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Don Heiman, Northeastern University
Invited Speakers:  Ke He  

W43 Topological Insulators: New Materials Predictions
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Nuh Gedik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

W44 Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes: Functionalization and Sensing Applications
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Enrique Cobas, Naval Research Laboratory

W45 Graphene: Functional Interfaces
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4D Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Yufeng Hao, University of Texas at Austin

W46 Interacting Electron Systems: Theory
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4E Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sergey Pershoguba, University of Maryland

W47 Superfluid He4 and Other Quantum Liquids
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4F Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Shaun Fisher, Lancaster University

W48 Invited Session: Exotic Phase Transitions in 5d Compounds
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1A-1B Sponsor: DCMP GMAG Chair: Sang-Wook Cheong, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Hide Takagi,  A.D. Christianson,  Yoon Seok Oh,  Lucile Savary,  Kenta Kimura  

W49 Focus Session: Titanate Interfaces, Layered Materials
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Emilio Artacho, CIC nanoGUNE, Spain

W50 Focus Session: Mesoscopic Materials and Devices III
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1D Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ivan Schuller, University of California, San Diego
Invited Speakers:  E. Dan Dahlberg  

W51 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene Devices: Function, Fabrication, and Characterization VII
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1E Sponsor: DMP Chair: David Cobden, University of Washington
Invited Speakers:  Yoshihiro Iwasa  

W52 Superconductivity: General Theory
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1F Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ronny Thomale, University of Wurzburg

W53 Focus Session: Electron, Ion, and Exciton Transport in Nanostructures III
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Yoshihiro Asai, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Blanka Magyari-Kope  

Mar 7 2014 8:00AM, Friday

Y1 Focus Session: Solvation, Dynamics, and Reactivity in Complex Environments V
Room: 103/105 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Amber Krummel, Colorado State University
Invited Speakers:  Dor Ben-Amotz,  Eric Potma,  Laura Kaufman  

Y2 Focus Session: Charge & Energy Transfer V
Room: 102 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Tim Lian, Emory University
Invited Speakers:  Valeria Kleiman  

Y4 Focus Session: Frustrated and Low-Dimensional Magnets
Room: 112/110 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Matthew Stone, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Y6 Focus Session: Magnetic Oxide Thin Films and Heterostructures: Oxide Films and Nanoparticles
Room: 108 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Jiun-Haw Chu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Y7 Focus Session: Magnetic Structures: Novel Mechanisms and Experimental Exploration
Room: 106 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Aakash Pushp, IBM Research

Y8 Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors: Spin and Noise in Quantum Dots
Room: 104 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: George Kioseoglou, University of Crete, Greece
Invited Speakers:  Richard J. Warburton  

Y10 Emerging Biophysical Techniques
Room: 201 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Wolfgang Losert

Y11 Focus Session: Physics of Proteins IV
Room: 203 Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY Chair: Timothy Sage, Northeastern University
Invited Speakers:  Philip G. Collins  

Y12 Invited Session: Novel Modeling Approaches to Cell Motility
Room: 205 Sponsor: DCMP GSNP Chair: Lev Tsimring, University of California, San Diego
Invited Speakers:  Herbert Levine,  Igor Aronson,  Karsten Kruse,  Pablo Iglesias  

Y13 Focus Session: Fe Based Superconductors-Correlation Effects
Room: 207 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Rafael Fernandes, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Kristjan Haule  

Y14 Invited Session: Dynamics of Polymer Nanocomposites
Room: 301-303 Sponsor: DPOLY DBIO Chair: Russell Composto, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Jacinta Conrad,  Robert Leheny,  Kenneth Schweizer,  Laura Clarke,  Karen Winey  

Y15 Stellar & General Fluid Dynamics
Room: 304 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Xifan Wu, Temple University

Y16 Complex Networks and their Applications I
Room: 401 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Kevin Bassler

Y17 Flow Near Jamming
Room: 402

Y18 Self- and Directed Assembly
Room: 403 Sponsor: GSNP DCMP Chair: Tom Truskett, University of Texas at Austin

Y19 Polymer Blends
Room: 404 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Hengxi Yang, University of Michigan

Y20 Semi Crystalline Polymers
Room: 405 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Kari Dalnoki-Veress, McMaster University

Y21 Elastic Instabilities and Pattern Formation
Room: 406 Sponsor: DPOLY GSNP DFD Chair: Andrew Croll, North Dakota State University

Y23 Invited Session: Quantum Bath Engineering with Superconducting Circuits
Room: 505-507 Sponsor: DCMP GQI Chair: Alexandre Blais, Universite de Sherbrooke
Invited Speakers:  Irfan Siddiqi,  Shyam Shankar,  Joseph Kerckhoff,  Nicolas Didier,  Yingdan Wang  

Y24 Instrumentation and Measurements
Room: 504 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Ricardo Jimenez-Matinez, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Y25 Focus Session: Thermoelectrics - Organic and Nanomaterials
Room: 503 Sponsor: DMP GERA FIAP Chair: Lakshmi Krishna, Colorado School of Mines

Y26 Focus Session: Modeling of Rare Events
Room: 502 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Amit Samanta, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Ron Elber,  Cameron Abrams  

Y27 Quantum Many-Body Systems III
Room: 501 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Zach Pozun, University of Pittsburgh

Y32 Invited Session: Recent Developments in the Kibble-Zurek Problem
Room: 708-712 Sponsor: DCMP
Invited Speakers:  Wojciech Zurek,  Gabriele Ferrari,  Michael Kolodrubetz,  Seung Chae,  Vedika Khemani  

Y33 Fundamental Issues in Quantum Theory
Room: 706 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Chris Ferrie, University of New Mexico

Y34 Nano/Optomechanics for Quantum Information Processing
Room: 704 Sponsor: GQI

Y35 Thermalization and Many-Body Localization
Room: 702 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Andrew Daley, University of Pittsburgh

Y36 Optical Cavites and Optomechanics
Room: 703 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Kaden Hazzerd, JILA

Y37 Carbon Nanotube Optical Properties
Room: 705/707 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Feng Wang, University of California, Berkeley

Y38 Invited Session: Quantitative Biomedical Imaging
Room: 709/711 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Ron Goldfarb, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder
Invited Speakers:  Kathryn Keenan,  Timothy Hall,  Galateia Kazakia,  Kim Pauly,  Brian Zimmerman  

Y39 Invited Session: Emergent States Driven by Spin-Orbit Coupling
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2A-3A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Tanmoy Das, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Andr\'es F. Santander-Syro,  Sergey Savrasov,  Changyoung Kim,  Anjan Soumyanarayanan,  Tanmoy Das  

Y40 Invited Session: New Views of Thermal Transport
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2B-3B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Barry Zink, University of Denver
Invited Speakers:  Austin Minnich,  Olivier Bourgeois,  Ilari Maasilta,  Jason Underwood  

Y41 Topological Insulators Under Extreme Conditions - Theory
Room: Mile High Ballroom 3C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Xinjiang Zhou, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Y42 Dielectrics: Optical and Bulk Properties
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ben White, University of California, San Diego

Y43 Topological Insulators: Engineered Structures II
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Madhab Neupane, Princeton University

Y45 Graphene Terahertz Optics and Strain Engineering
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4D Chair: Xinghan Cai, University of Maryland

Y46 Focus Session: Superconductivity, Vortex Matter-III; Unconventional Structures and Transport
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4E Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Alexei Koshelev, Argonne National Laboratory

Y47 Theory of Strongly Correlated Superconductivity
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4F Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Brian Moritz, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Y48 Invited Session: Spin Transport in Novel 2d Electronic Systems
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1A-1B Sponsor: GMAG DCMP Chair: Berend Jonker, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Hsin Lin,  Connie H. Li,  Yang Song,  Hongtao Yuan  

Y49 Focus Session: Oxide Tunnel Junctions, Metal-Ferroelectric Interfaces, A-site Ordering
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jorge Iniguez, ICMAB, Spain
Invited Speakers:  Qi Li  

Y50 Nanoparticle Plasmonics
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1D Sponsor: DCMP

Y51 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene Devices: Function, Fabrication, and Characterization VIII
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1E Sponsor: DMP Chair: Peide Ye, Purdue University

Y52 Competing Orders and Phase Diagrams in Copper-oxide Superconductors
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1F Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Hai-Hu Wen, Nanjing University

Y53 Focus Session: Electron, Ion, and Exciton Transport in Nanostructures IV
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2C Sponsor: DMP Chair: William Vandenberghe, University of Texas at Dallas
Invited Speakers:  Christopher Hinkle  

Mar 7 2014 11:15AM, Friday

Z2 Condensed-Phase Dynamics, Solvation, and Statistical Mechanics
Room: 102 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Gilbert Nathanson, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Z4 Focus Session: Magnetization Plateaus and Quantum Phase Transitions
Room: 112/110 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Vivien Zapf, National High Magnetic Field Lab
Invited Speakers:  Marcelo Jaime  

Z6 Focus Session: Magnetic Oxide Thin Films and Heterostructures: Manganite Thin Films
Room: 108 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: H. Jeffrey Gardner, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Z7 Focus Session: Magnetostructural Properties of Materials
Room: 106 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Luqiao Liu, IBM Research
Invited Speakers:  Radhika Barua  

Z8 Focus Session: Spin-Dynamics: Theory and Experiment
Room: 104 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Lifa Zhang, University of Texas at Austin

Z12 Invited Session: Application of Synchronization in the Micro and Macro World
Room: 205 Sponsor: GSNP DBIO Chair: Juan Restrepo, University of Colorado, Boulder
Invited Speakers:  Murray Holland,  Andrei Slavin,  Lev Tsimring,  Katharina Krischer,  Antonio Politi  

Z13 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors-Nematicity
Room: 207 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Chris Homes, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Philipp Gegenwart  

Z16 General Statistical and Nonlinear Physics II
Room: 401

Z17 Complex Networks and their Applications II
Room: 402 Sponsor: GSNP

Z18 Non-spherical Colloids and Complex Fluids
Room: 403 Chair: Ye Xu, University of Pennsylvania

Z19 Supercooled Polymer Liquids and Glasses
Room: 404 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Zahra Fakhraai, University of Pennsylvania

Z20 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Photonic and Electronic Properties
Room: 405 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Bryan Boudouris, Purdue University

Z21 Polymer Composites: Nanocomposites
Room: 406 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Laura Clarke, North Carolina State University

Z24 Neutron, Light, and X-ray Optics and Sources
Room: 504 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Ao Teng, University of Tennessee

Z25 Focus Session: Thermoelectrics - Phonons and Heat Conduction III
Room: 503 Sponsor: DMP GERA FIAP Chair: Austin Minnich
Invited Speakers:  Jonathan Malen  

Z26 Novel Technologies and Algorithms
Room: 502 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Jack Wells, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Z27 Focus Session: Friction and Wear at the Nano- and Micro-Scales
Room: 501 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Michael Chandross, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Robert Carpick,  Shengfeng Cheng  

Z35 The Bose-Hubbard Model
Room: 702 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Ana Maria Rey, JILA

Z36 Technological Applications in AMO Physics
Room: 703 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Andreas Nunnenkamp, University of Basel

Z37 Carbon Nanofoams and Composites
Room: 705/707 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Tomanek, Michigan State University

Z39 Invited Session: Strongly Correlated Electron Systems, Transition Metal Oxides, Vanadates
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2A-3A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dimitri Basov, University of California, San Diego
Invited Speakers:  Stuart S Parkin,  Gabriel Kotliar,  Federico Capasso,  David Cobden,  Mengkun Liu  

Z40 Invited Session: Unconvential Superconducting Pairing in Heavy Fermion Materials
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2B-3B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Qimiao Si, Rice University
Invited Speakers:  Brian Zhou,  Dirk Morr,  Yuji Matsuda,  David Broun,  Rebecca Flint  

Z46 Theory of Majorana States in Superconductors
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4E Chair: Greg Boyd, Georgetown University

Z47 Superconductivity: Pseudogap, Fluctuations, Anisotropy
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4F Chair: Werner Hanke, University of Wuerzburg

Z48 Graphene Transport: Role of Defects and Interfaces
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1A-1B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Masahiro Ishigami, University of Central Florida

Z49 Focus Session: Ferroelectric, Multiferroic and Polar Oxide Heterostructures
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Qi Li, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Xifan Wu  

Z50 Plasmonics and Metamaterials
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1D Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Christos Argyropoulos, Duke University

Z52 Superconductivity: Tunneling Phenomena
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1F Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Osofsky, Navel Research Laboratory

Z53 Surfaces, Interfaces, and Thin Films: Growth, Processing, and Characterization
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2C Sponsor: DMP

Mar 3 2014 8:00AM, Monday

A1 Recent Advances in Density Functional Theory I
Room: 103/105 Sponsor: DCP DCOMP Chair: Weitao Yang, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Axel Becke,  John P. Perdew  

A2 Focus Session: Surface Chemistry and Catalysis I
Room: 102 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Graeme Henkelman, University of Texas - Austin
Invited Speakers:  Jason Weaver,  Manos Mavrikakis  

A3 Undergraduate Research - Society of Physics Students I
Room: 107 Chair: Toni Sauncy, Society of Physics Students - American Institute of Physics

A4 Focus Session: Emergent Properties in Bulk Complex Oxides: Iridates I
Room: 112/110 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: L. Andrew Wray, SLAC/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Chetan Dhital  

A6 Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Physics in Carbon-Based Materials I
Room: 108 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Roland Kawakami, Ohio State University

A7 Focus Session: Patterned Magnetic Nanostructures
Room: 106 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Olle Heinonen, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Vinayak Bhat,  Dirk Grundler  

A8 Focus Session: Magnetodynamics: Generation and Application
Room: 104 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Jeffrey Grossman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Yan Zhou  

A10 Focus Session: Mechanics of Cells and Biological Networks I
Room: 201 Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY GSNP Chair: Daniel Blair, Georgetown University
Invited Speakers:  Moumita Das,  Jeffrey Urbach  

A11 Focus Session: Bacterial Biophysics I
Room: 203 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Gerard Wong, University of California, Los Angeles
Invited Speakers:  Andrew Utada  

A12 Invited Session: Phase Trasitions in Biology
Room: 205 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Cliff Brangwynne, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Mark Newman,  Gasper Tkacik,  Jeff Gore,  Chase Broedersz,  Aurelia Honerkamp-Smith  

A13 Focus Session: Fe based superconductors-Magnetism and Nematicity
Room: 207 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Wei-Cheng Lee, University of Illinois
Invited Speakers:  Joerg Schmalian  

A14 Invited Session: Industrial Applications of Olefin Block Copolymers
Room: 301-303 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Brent Neal, Milliken and Company
Invited Speakers:  Richard Spontak,  Rituparna Paul,  Jeffrey Weinhold,  Miriam Rafailovitch,  Brent Neal  

A15 Focus Session: Physics of Sensory Neuroscience
Room: 304 Sponsor: DBIO
Invited Speakers:  Mayank R. Mehta,  Alexander Neiman,  Michael DeWeese  

A16 Focus Session: Continuum Description of Discrete Materials
Room: 401 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Kenneth Kamrin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Heinrich Jaeger  

A17 Focus Session: Strong Correlations in Systems Far from Equilibrium I
Room: 402 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Michel Pleimling, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Invited Speakers:  Jeremy Allam  

A18 Soft Glassy Materials
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP GSNP DPOLY Chair: Gary Hunter, New York University

A19 Focus Session: Theory and Simulations of Macromolecules I - Self Consistent Field Theory
Room: 404 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Roland Faller, University of California, Davis
Invited Speakers:  Jeff Z.Y. Chen  

A20 Focus Session: Microfluidics and Nanofluidics I - The Physics of Confined Fluids
Room: 405 Sponsor: DPOLY DFD GSNP Chair: German Drazer, Rutgers University

A21 Focus Session: Soft Nanoparticles, Block Copolymer Micelles, and Polymersomes I
Room: 406 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Darrin Pochan, University of Delaware
Invited Speakers:  Bradley Olsen  

A22 Surfaces, Interfaces and Polymeric Thin Films
Room: 407 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Joshua Sangoro, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

A23 Invited Session: Phase Transitions in Classical and Quantum Lattice Models
Room: 505-507 Sponsor: DCOMP GSNP Chair: Anders Sandvik, Boston University
Invited Speakers:  Robert Swendsen,  Ribhu Kaul,  John Chalker,  Donna Sheng,  Thomas C. Lang  

A24 Focus Session: Materials for Electrochemical Energy Storage: Characterization and Computation Methods
Room: 504 Sponsor: DMP GERA DCOMP Chair: Brandon Wood, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Patrick Phillips,  Paul Kent  

A25 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Electronic Processes at Interfaces
Room: 503 Sponsor: DMP DPOLY Chair: Vitaly Podzorov, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Antoine Kahn  

A26 Materials at High Pressure: Methods and Superconductors
Room: 502 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP GSCCM Chair: Christopher Seagle, Sandia National Laboratories

A27 Electronic Structure Methods I
Room: 501 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Brandon Cook, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A28 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits: Design & Tunable Coupling
Room: 601 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Douglas McClure, IBM
Invited Speakers:  William Oliver  

A29 Driven, Dissipative Many-body Systems
Room: 603 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Daniel Grief, ETH Zurich

A30 Focus Session: Graphene Devices: Fabrication, Characterization and Modeling: Plasmons
Room: 605 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Dmitri Basov, University of California, San Diego

A31 Focus Session: Computational Discovery and Design of New Materials I
Room: 607 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Bruce Harmon, Iowa State University
Invited Speakers:  Yanming Ma  

A32 Invited Session: Simulation of Materials: Quantum Computing Meets Classical Computing
Room: 708-712 Sponsor: GQI DCOMP Chair: Alejanndro Perdomo-Ortiz, NASA
Invited Speakers:  Michael Wall,  Ivan Deutsch,  Alan Aspuru-Guzik,  Andrew Houck,  Angel Rubio  

A33 Focus Session: Quantum Foundations: Quantum Theory Meets Relativity
Room: 706 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Jonathan Oppenheim, University College London
Invited Speakers:  Patrick Hayden  

A34 Focus Session: AMO Quantum Information Processing and Superconducting Qubits: Exploring Interactions of Photons and Qubits
Room: 704 Sponsor: GQI DAMOP Chair: Kenneth Brown, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Tracy Northup  

A35 Spinor Gases
Room: 702 Sponsor: DAMOP

A36 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits: Optically Addressed Impurities & Quantum Dots
Room: 703 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Sophia Economou, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Timothy Sweeney  

A37 Focus Session: Graphene on SiC: Growth, Structure and Properties
Room: 705/707 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Thushari Jayasekera, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Invited Speakers:  Paul Thibado  

A38 Invited Session: Bringing Newcomers into the Physics Community - The Importance of Growth and Community Support
Room: 709/711 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Angela Little, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Dimitri Dounas-Frazer,  Catherine Good,  Casey W. Miller,  Katie Hinko,  Angela Little  

A39 Invited Session: Order from Disorder in Superfluid 3He in Aerogel
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2A-3A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: William Halperin, Northwestern University
Invited Speakers:  Vladimir Dmitriev,  Vladimir Mineev,  J.I.A. Li,  Nikolay Zhelev,  Yoonseok Lee  

A40 Invited Session: Interplay Between Geometry, Organization and Function of Fluid Membranes
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2B-3B Sponsor: DCMP GMAG Chair: Martin Forstner, Syracuse University
Invited Speakers:  Mark Bowick,  Jeanne Stachowiak,  Tobias Baumgart,  Gerard C.L. Wong,  Raghuveer Parthasarathy  

A41 Focus Session: Multiferroics and Magnetoelectrics
Room: Mile High Ballroom 3C Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Manuel Bibes, Unite Mixte de Physique CNRS
Invited Speakers:  Janice Musfeldt  

A42 Focus Session: Non-equilibrium Effects in Topological Insulators
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Tom Devereaux, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

A43 Defects in Topological Insulators
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ruihua He, Boston College

A44 Focus Session: Defects in Semiconductors: PV Materials
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4C Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Shiyou Chen, China Eastern Normal University
Invited Speakers:  Fumiyasu Oba  

A45 Quantum Hall Effect: Bilayers and Microwave Induced Resistance Oscillations
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4D Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Michael Zudov, University of Minnesota

A46 Bilayer Graphene: Stacking, Transport and Magnetics
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4E Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jun Zhu, Pennsylvania State University

A47 Superconducting Devices and Applications
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4F Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Neda Foroozani, Washington University

A48 Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors: Spin Injection and Transport in Semiconductors
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1A Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Hanan Dery, University of Rochester
Invited Speakers:  Masashi Shiraishi,  Olaf van 't Erve  

A49 Nanostructures: Interaction Effects
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Scheibner, University of California, Merced

A50 Quantum Dots and Nanocrystals: Optical and Electronic Properties
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1D Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sam Carter, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

A51 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene: Synthesis, Defects, Structure, and Properties I
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1E Sponsor: DMP Chair: Linyou Cao, North Carolina State University
Invited Speakers:  Jun Lou  

A52 Superconductor Insulator Transitions
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1F Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Osofsky, Naval Research Laboratory

A53 Quantum Criticality and Fluctuations in Copper-oxide Superconductors
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Xiao-Jia Chen, Carnegie Institution of Washington

A54 Focus Session: Cooperative Phenomena: Spin Waves and Excitations
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1B Sponsor: GMAG

A55 Invited Session: Weyl and Dirac Semimetals: From Transport and Chiral Anomaly to Physical Realizations
Room: Four Seasons Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Asvin Vishwanath, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Anton Burkov,  Siddharth Parameswaran,  Saad Zaheer,  Zhong Fang,  Stephen Julian  

Mar 3 2014 11:15AM, Monday

B1 Recent Advances in Density Functional Theory II
Room: 103/105 Sponsor: DCP DCOMP Chair: Viktor Staroverov, University of Western Ontario (Canada)
Invited Speakers:  Helen van Aggelen,  Kieron Burke  

B2 Focus Session: Quantum Control of Molecular, Nano, and Plasmonic Materials I
Room: 102 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Yossi Paltiel, Hebrew University
Invited Speakers:  Christoph Lienau,  Gary Wiederrecht  

B3 Undergraduate Research - Society of Physics Students II
Room: 107 Sponsor: SPS Chair: Daniel Golombek, Society of Physics Students- American Institute of Physics

B4 Focus Session: Antiferromagnets on a Triangular Lattice
Room: 112/110 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Oleg Starykh, University of Utah
Invited Speakers:  Martin Mourigal  

B6 Focus Session: Magnetic Oxide Thin Films and Heterostructures: Electric Control of Magnetism in Oxides
Room: 108 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Will Echtenkamp, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Invited Speakers:  Stephen Wu,  Jonathan White  

B7 Focus Session: Metalorganic Magnets & Films
Room: 106 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Michael Baker, New York University

B8 Focus Session: Spin Transfer Torque
Room: 104 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Olle Heinonen, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Randy Dumas  

B10 Focus Session: Mechanics of Cells and Biological Networks II
Room: 201 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Maria Kilfoil, University of Massachusetts
Invited Speakers:  Dennis Discher,  Arpita Upadhyaya,  Fred MacKintosh  

B11 Focus Session: Teaching at the Intersection of Physics and Biology
Room: 203 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Mark Reeves, The George Washington University
Invited Speakers:  Rob Phillips,  Chandra Turpen  

B12 Invited Session: Exploring the Dynamics of Evolution and Ecology of Biological Systems
Room: 205 Sponsor: DBIO GSNP Chair: Alexandre Morozov, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Jin Wang,  Daniel Weinreich,  Claus Wilke,  Oskar Hallatschek,  Sander Tans  

B13 Focus Session: Fe-Based Superconductors-1111's,122's
Room: 207 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Athena Sefat, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Hideo Hosono  

B14 Invited Session: Trends and Perspectives on Fundamental Polymer Physics
Room: 301-303 Sponsor: DPOLY DFD Chair: James Forrest, Univesrity of Waterloo
Invited Speakers:  Mark Ediger,  Mark Matsen,  Elie Raphael,  Jorg Baschnagel,  Steve Granick  

B15 Bubbles, Interfaces & Porous Media
Room: 304 Sponsor: DFD Chair: C. Maldarelli, City University of New York

B16 Statistical Mechanics of Social Systems
Room: 401 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: G Korniss

B17 Focus Session: Packing of Anisotropic Particles
Room: 402 Sponsor: GSNP DPOLY Chair: Rob Hoy

B18 Focus Session: Liquid Crystals, Nano to Meso Scale Structure in Ordered Matter and Liquid Crystal I: Nanocomposites and Smectics
Room: 403 Sponsor: DCMP GSNP DPOLY Chair: Joseph MacLennan, University of Colorado, Boulder

B19 Focus Session: Theory and Simulations of Macromolecules II - From Atomistic to Coarse Grained Models
Room: 404 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Christoph Junghans, Los Alamos National Laboratory

B20 Focus Session: Microfluidics and Nanofluidics II - Colloidal Hydrodynamics and Active Particles
Room: 405 Sponsor: DPOLY GSNP DFD Chair: Steven Hudson, National Institute of Standards and Technology

B21 Focus Session: Soft Nanoparticles, Block Copolymer Micelles and Polymersomes I
Room: 406 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Thomas Epps III, University of Delaware
Invited Speakers:  Timothy Lodge  

B22 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Polymer Photovoltaics
Room: 407 Sponsor: GERA DPOLY Chair: Enrique Gomez, Pennsylvania State University

B24 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy I: Novel Approaches and Ultrasensitive Detection
Room: 504 Sponsor: GIMS
Invited Speakers:  Benoit Hackens  

B25 Focus Session: OPV Device Physics and Charge Transport
Room: 503 Sponsor: GERA Chair: Dana Olson, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Muhammad Alam,  David Ginger  

B26 Materials at High Pressure: Phase Transitions
Room: 502 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP GSCCM Chair: Li Zhang, Carnegie Institution
Invited Speakers:  Jon Eggert,  Yongjun Tian  

B27 Focus Session: Petascale Science and Beyond: Applications and Opportunities for Materials Science I
Room: 501 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Jack Wells, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  David Ceperley  

B28 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits: Error Correction & Validation Methods
Room: 601 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Alexandre Blais, Sherbrooke University
Invited Speakers:  Brian Vlastakis  

B29 Graphene Functionalization and Adsorbates
Room: 603 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dan Dougherty, North Carolina State University

B30 Focus Session: Graphene Devices: Fabrication, Characterization and Modeling: Trilayer and Bilayer Graphene: Transport and Stacking
Room: 605 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jeanie Lau, University of California, Riverside
Invited Speakers:  Jun Zhu,  Yafis Barlas  

B31 Focus Session: Computational Discovery and Design of New Materials II
Room: 607 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Lin-Lin Wang, Iowa State University
Invited Speakers:  Xiuwen Zhang  

B32 Invited Session: Thermalization and Prethermalization in Isolated Systems after a Quantum Quench
Room: 708-712 Sponsor: DCMP DAMOP Chair: Michael Kolodrubetz, Boston University
Invited Speakers:  Joerg Schmiedmayer,  Eric Cornell,  Stefan Kehrein,  Anushya Chandran,  Marcos Rigol  

B34 Photocatalysis, Proton Conductors and Other Energy Topics
Room: 704 Sponsor: GERA Chair: Zhigang We, Colorado School of Mines

B35 Fermi Gases
Room: 702 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Lawrence Cheuk, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

B36 Invited Session: Visa and Immigration Policies for 21st Century Science
Room: 703 Sponsor: FIP Chair: Amy Flatten, Director of International Affairs, American Physical Society
Invited Speakers:  Albert H. Teich,  Kathie Bailey,  Mathew Gillen  

B37 Focus Session: Graphene Stacking Sequence, Including Twisted Bilayers
Room: 705/707 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Diego Mastrogiuseppe, Ohio University
Invited Speakers:  Dimitrios Maroudas  

B38 Invited Session: Women and the Manhattan Project
Room: 709/711 Chair: Margaret Murnane, University of Colorado Boulder
Invited Speakers:  Denise Kiernan,  Michele Gerber,  Ruth Howes,  Cynthia Kelly,  Olivia Fermi, M.A.  

B39 Invited Session: Silicon-based Quantum Information Processing
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2A-3A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Flatte, University of Iowa
Invited Speakers:  Steven Schofield,  Sven Rogge,  Adam Gali,  Ben Murdin,  Abram Falk  

B40 Invited Session: Quantum Foundations
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2B-3B Sponsor: DCMP GQI Chair: Matt Leifer, Perimeter Institute
Invited Speakers:  Joseph Emerson,  Jonathan Oppenheim,  William Wootters,  Gilad Gour,  Tobias Fritz  

B41 Focus Session: Ferroelectrics and Anti-Ferroelectrics
Room: Mile High Ballroom 3C Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Antonio Cammarata, Drexel University
Invited Speakers:  Alexander K. Tagantsev  

B42 Focus Session: Experiments on Samarium Hexaboride
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Vidya Madhavan, Boston College

B43 Symmetry Protected Topological Phases
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Maxim Dzero, Kent State University

B44 Focus Session: Defects in Semiconductors: Computational Methods
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4C Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Joongoo Kang, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Linwang Wang  

B45 Topological Quantum Hall Phases
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4D Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Nickolas Bonesteel, Florida State University

B47 Superconductors/Ferromagnet Multilayer Structures
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4F Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Chia-Ling Chien, Johns Hopkins University

B48 General Magnetism I
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1A Sponsor: GMAG

B49 Focus Session: Electron Correlations and Spin Orbit: Iridates
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1C Sponsor: DMP Chair: James Rondinelli, Drexel
Invited Speakers:  Stephen Wilson,  Hyowon Park  

B50 Semiconductor Nanowires: Optical and Electronic Properties
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1D Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Roberto Myers, The Ohio State University

B51 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene: Synthesis, Defects, Structure, and Properties II
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1E Sponsor: DMP Chair: Xiaodong Xu, University of Washington
Invited Speakers:  Aaron Jones  

B52 Pseudogap Phenomenon in Copper-oxide Superconductors
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1F Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Carmen Almasan, Kent State University

B53 Surfaces, Interfaces, and Thin Films: Kinetics and Dynamics
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Brad Conrad, Appalachian State University

B54 Focus Session: Cooperative Phenomena: Phase Transitions and Magnetocalorics
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1B Sponsor: GMAG

B55 Invited Session: Novel Topological Phases and Surface States in Strongly Interacting Systems
Room: Four Seasons Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Charles Kane, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Xiao-Gang Wen,  Xie Chen,  Max Metlitski,  Chong Wang,  Lukasz Fidkowski  

Mar 3 2014 2:00PM, Monday

C1 Poster Session I (14:00 - 17:00)
Room: Exhibit Hall F

Mar 3 2014 2:30PM, Monday

D1 Focus Session: Surface Chemistry and Catalysis II
Room: 103/105 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Charlie Sykes, Tufts University
Invited Speakers:  Lai-Sheng Wang,  Graeme Henkelman  

D2 Focus Session: Quantum Control of Molecular, Nano, and Plasmonic Materials II
Room: 102 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Margaret Murnane, University of Colorado
Invited Speakers:  Regina de Vivie-Riedle,  Thomas Weinacht,  Philip Bucksbaum  

D3 Undergraduate Research - Society of Physics Students III
Room: 107 Sponsor: SPS Chair: Toni Sauncy, Society of Physics Students - American Institute of Physics

D4 Focus Session: Itinerant Frustrated Magnets
Room: 112/110 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Graeme Luke, McMaster University
Invited Speakers:  Masafumi Udagawa  

D6 Focus Session: Emergent Properties in Bulk Complex Oxides: Orthochromates and Other Oxides
Room: 108 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Brian Kirby, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Yoshihiko Okamoto  

D7 Focus Session: Magnetic Anisotropy
Room: 106 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Weigang Wang, University of Arizona
Invited Speakers:  Minn-Tsong Lin  

D8 Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors: Nitrogen Vacancies in Diamond and Nuclear Spins
Room: 104 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Hanan Dery, University of Rochester
Invited Speakers:  Michael Grinolds  

D10 Focus Session: Evolutionary Dynamics and Population Genetics
Room: 201 Sponsor: DBIO GSNP Chair: Xiang Qiang Chu, Wayne State University
Invited Speakers:  Michael Lassig  

D11 Focus Session: Bacterial Biophysics II
Room: 203 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Gerard Wong, University of California, Los Angeles
Invited Speakers:  Joshua Shaevitz  

D12 Invited Session: Materials Genome: Theory-Led Accelerated Materials Discovery
Room: 205 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Darrell Schlom, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  Mark Asta,  Stefano Curtarolo,  Richard G. Hennig,  Chris Pickard,  Alex Zunger  

D13 Focus Session: Fe-Based Superconductors-STM, FeSe, Ca10(Pt3As8)(Fe2As2)5
Room: 207 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Kee Hoon Kim, Seoul National University
Invited Speakers:  Hai-Hu Wen  

D14 Invited Session: Algorithms from Statistical Physics and the Physics of Algorithms
Room: 301-303 Sponsor: GSNP DCOMP
Invited Speakers:  A. Alan Middleton,  Cristopher Moore,  Aaron Clauset,  Marija Vucelja,  Robert Ziff  

D15 Droplets & Surfaces
Room: 304 Sponsor: DFD Chair: Xiang Cheng, University of Minnesota

D16 Systems Far from Equilibrium
Room: 401 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Beate Schmittmann, Iowa State University

D17 Granular Materials & GSNP Student Speaker Session
Room: 402 Sponsor: GSNP

D18 Cleverly Creating Colloidal Clusters
Room: 403 Sponsor: GSNP DCMP Chair: Kazem Edmond, New York University

D19 Focus Session: Theory and Simulations of Macromolecules III - Ionic Polymers
Room: 404 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Amalie Frischknecht, Sandia National Laboratories

D20 Focus Session: Microfluidics and Nanofluidics III - Pattern Formation and Droplets
Room: 405 Sponsor: DPOLY DFD GSNP Chair: John Royer, NIST
Invited Speakers:  Alberto Fernandez-Nieves,  Shelley Anna  

D21 Polymeric Elastomers and Gels
Room: 406 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Bradley Olsen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

D22 Films at Liquid and Solid Interfaces
Room: 407 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Thomas Salez, ESPCI

D23 Invited Session: Electron-Hole Interaction in Nanoparticles
Room: 505-507 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Ari Chakraborthy, Syracuse University
Invited Speakers:  Giulia Galli,  John Shumway,  Sergei Tretiak,  Carsten Ullrich,  Oleg Prezhdo  

D24 Focus Session: Materials for Electrochemical Energy Storage: Battery Materials
Room: 504 Sponsor: DMP GERA DCOMP Chair: Javier Bareno, Argonne National Laboratory

D25 Focus Session: OPV/DSSC Photophysics and Interfaces
Room: 503 Sponsor: GERA Chair: Sean Shaheen, University of Colorado at Boulder
Invited Speakers:  Naomi Ginsberg  

D26 Materials at High Pressure: H plus
Room: 502 Sponsor: DCOMP DMP GSCCM Chair: Kevin Driver, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Miguel A. Morales,  Ding Pan  

D27 Focus Session: High Performance Computing in Density Functional Theory
Room: 501 Sponsor: DCOMP DCP Chair: Aldo Romero, West Virginia University
Invited Speakers:  Francois Gygi,  Marc Torrent  

D28 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits: Gates and Entanglement
Room: 601 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Joel Strand, Northrop Grumman
Invited Speakers:  Yasunobu Nakamura  

D29 Electrical Transport Properties of Bilayer Graphene
Room: 603 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ki Wook Kim, North Carolina State University

D30 Focus Session: Graphene Devices: Fabrication, Characterization and Modeling: Optoelectronic Properties
Room: 605 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Marco Nardelli, University of North Texas

D31 Focus Session: Van der Waals Interactions in Complex Materials: Bridging Theory and Experiment I
Room: 607 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Alexandre Tkatchenko, Fritz Haber Institute, Germany
Invited Speakers:  John Dobson  

D32 Invited Session: Quantum Simulation and Computation with AMO Systems
Room: 708-712 Sponsor: GQI DAMOP Chair: Ivan Deutsch, Unversity of New Mexico
Invited Speakers:  Rainer Blatt,  David Weld,  Dietrich Leibfried,  Jens Eisert,  Ana Maria Rey  

D33 Focus Session: Quantum Foundations: What Powers Quantum Advantages for Information Processing?
Room: 706 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Joseph Emerson, University of Waterloo
Invited Speakers:  Antonio Acin  

D34 Solar Fuels, Biofuels, and PEC
Room: 704 Sponsor: GERA Chair: Sue Carter, University of California, San Diego

D35 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits: Simulation & Annealing
Room: 702 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Jay Gambetta, IBM
Invited Speakers:  Yi Yin  

D36 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits: QED Interfaces & Multi-Qubit Coupling
Room: 703 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Thaddeus Ladd, HRL
Invited Speakers:  Akira Oiwa  

D37 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Atom Mobility, Mechanical Response & Adsorption
Room: 705/707 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Mercedes Calbi, University of Denver
Invited Speakers:  Sinisa Coh  

D38 Invited Session: Secrecy and Science
Room: 709/711 Sponsor: FPS Chair: Arian Pregenzer
Invited Speakers:  George Dyson,  David A. Relman,  Paul McEuen,  Kim Budil,  Mildred Dresselhaus  

D39 Invited Session: Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Magnetic Topological Insulators
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2A-3A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Nitin Samarth, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Shoucheng Zhang,  Qi-Kun Xue,  Kang Wang,  Kevin Garrity,  Joseph Checkelsky  

D40 Invited Session: Graphene Spintronics and Magnetism
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2B-3B Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Wei Han, IBM
Invited Speakers:  Pierre Seneor,  Ernie Hill,  Barbaros Oezyilmaz,  Roland Kawakami,  Bart van Wees  

D41 Topological Insulators: Engineered Structures I
Room: Mile High Ballroom 3C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Robert Markiewicz, Northeastern University

D42 Topological Superconductors: Experiment
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Yoshinori Okada, WPI Advanced Institute for Materials Research

D43 Interaction Induced Topological Insulators
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Oliver Rader, The Helmholtz Centre Berlin for Materials and Energy Research

D44 Functional Materials & Devices
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4C Sponsor: FIAP

D45 Quantum Hall Effect: Theory
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4D Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Kun Yang, Florida State University

D47 Theory of Unconventional Superconductivity: Mainly Topical Phases
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4F Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Senthef, Stanford University

D48 Focus Session: Spin Transport and Magnetization Dynamics in Metal-Based Systems: Phononic and Thermal Phenomena
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1A Sponsor: DMP FIAP GMAG Chair: Ion Garate, Universite de Sherbrooke

D49 Focus Session: Nickelate Heterostructures
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Stephen Wilson, Boston College
Invited Speakers:  Bernhard Keimer  

D50 Focus Session: Nanostructrues and Metamaterials: Synthesis, Fabrication, and Characterization
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1D Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jon Schuller, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Nader Engheta  

D51 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene Devices: Function, Fabrication, and Characterization I
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1E Sponsor: DMP Chair: Marc Bockrath, University of California, Riverside
Invited Speakers:  Ali Javey  

D52 Optical Probes in Copper-oxide Superconductors
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1F Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Nan-Lin Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences

D53 Surfaces, Interfaces, and Thin Films: 2D Materials
Room: Mile High Ballroom 2C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Kenan Gundogdu, North Carolina State University

D54 Structural and Mechanical Properties of Correlated Electron Magnets
Room: Mile High Ballroom 1B Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Dylan T. Grandmont, University of Alberta

D55 Invited Session: Isakson/ Bouchet/ Apker2 Prize Session
Room: Four Seasons Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dimitri Basov, University of California, San Diego
Invited Speakers:  Naomi Halas,  Peter Nordlander,  Luz J. Martinez-Miranda,  Hao Shi,  Mark Brongersma  

Mar 3 2014 5:45PM, Monday

E1 Prizes & Awards Ceremonial Session
Room: 301-303 Sponsor: APS

Mar 3 2014 6:00PM, Monday

E2 Building Your Undergraduate Physics Career
Room: Sheraton Denver Downtown Plaza Ballroom E Sponsor: APS

Mar 3 2014 6:45PM, Monday

E3 Welcome Reception
Room: Four Seasons Ballroom Sponsor: APS

Mar 3 2014 7:30PM, Monday

E4 Special Outreach Session: From Function to Form - Matter by Design
Room: 207 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Heinrich Jaeger,  Alex Zunger