Mar 2 2015 8:00AM, Monday

A0 Focus Session: Nematicity and Electron Correlations in Fe-Based Superconductors
Room: Ballroom A Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Rafael Fernandes, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Christoph Meingast  

A1 Focus Session: Graphene, Adsorbates, and Electronic Structure
Room: 001A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jeremy Robinson, Naval Research Laboratory

A2 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene - Phosphorene I
Room: 001B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Wenjuan Zhu, University of Illinois

A3 Invited Session: New Frontiers in Laser Science
Room: 002AB Sponsor: DLS Chair: Stephen Bradforth, University of Southern California
Invited Speakers:  Marsha I. Lester,  Marlan Scully,  Amy Mullin,  Mark Raizen,  David Chandler  

A4 Undergraduate Research/Society of Physics Students I
Room: Mayor Cockrell Room 004 Sponsor: APS Chair: Crystal Bailey, American Physical Society

A5 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect I
Room: Juan Gorman Room 005 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: John Watson, Purdue University

A6 Focus Session: Nanostructures and Metamaterials I
Room: 006A Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Federico Capasso, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Jennifer Dionne  

A7 Focus Session: Magnetism & Topological Insulators
Room: 006B Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Jagadeesh Moodera, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Cui-Zu Chang  

A8 Semiconductor Surfaces and Interfaces
Room: 006C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Francesca Cavallo, University of New Mexico

A9 Majorana Fermions and Superconductivity
Room: 006D Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Christian Platt, Stanford University

A10 Topological Matters
Room: 007A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jason Alicea, California Polytechnic Institute

A11 Cuprate Superconductivity: Charge Density Waves and Charge Order
Room: 007B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Wei Ku, Brookhaven National Laboratory

A12 Focus Session: Iridates and Ruthenates
Room: 007C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Gang Cao, University of Kentucky
Invited Speakers:  Young-June Kim  

A13 Focus Session: Titanate Interfaces and Heterostructures
Room: 007D Sponsor: DMP Chair: Roman Engel-Herbert, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Scott Chambers  

A14 Focus Session: Quantum Phase Transitions And Quantum Criticality
Room: 008A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Vivien Zapf, Los Alamos National Laboratory

A15 Electronic Structure: Theory and Spectra I
Room: 008B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Barbara Jones, IBM Almaden Research Center

A16 Focus Session: Materials by Theoretical Design
Room: 101AB Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: James Rondinelli, Northwestern University
Invited Speakers:  Aleksey Kolmogorov  

A17 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes & Related Materials: Growth, Separation, and Assembly
Room: 102AB Sponsor: DMP Chair: Andrew Rinzler, University of Florida
Invited Speakers:  Avetik Harutyunyan  

A18 Invited Session: Recent Advances in Quantum Algorithms
Room: Mission Room 103A Sponsor: GQI DAMOP Chair: Nathan Wiebe, Microsoft Research
Invited Speakers:  David Meyer,  Stephen Jordan,  Gian Giacomo Guerreschi,  Miklos Santha  

A19 Invited Session: Fifty Years of Molecular Dynamics Simulations I: Past, Present and Future
Room: Mission Room 103B Sponsor: DCOMP DCMP DCP Chair: Rajiv Kalia, University of Southern California
Invited Speakers:  Roberto Car,  Efthimios Kaxiras,  Susan Sinnott,  Priya Vashishta,  Uzi Landman  

A20 Invited Session: Interfacing Experiment and Theory in Polymer Physics
Room: Ballroom B Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Bryan Boudouris, Purdue University
Invited Speakers:  Frank S. Bates,  Sanat Kumar,  Nitash Balsara,  Arthi Jayaraman,  Janna K. Maranas  

A21 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy I: Novel Approaches and Ultrasenstive Detection
Room: 201 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Nikolai Zhitenev, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Andrea Centrone  

A22 Collective Modes and Superflow in Solid Helium
Room: 202A Sponsor: DCMP

A23 Proximity Effect and Josephson Junctions
Room: 202B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Andreas Bill, California State University, Long Beach

A26 Focus Session: Non-Adiabatic Dynamics: New Insights from Experiment and Theory I
Room: 204A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Richard Dawes, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Invited Speakers:  David Yarkony,  Kristie Boering,  Roseanne Sension  

A27 Focus Session: Emerging Ultrafast Technologies I
Room: 204B Sponsor: DCP Chair: Andrei Tokmakoff, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Richard Van Duyne,  Naomi Ginsberg,  Claus Ropers,  Markus Raschke  

A28 Focus Session: Skyrmions I
Room: 205 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: John Xiao, University of Delaware
Invited Speakers:  Johan Akerman  

A29 Focus Session: Antiferromagnets on Triangular Lattices
Room: 206A Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Alexander Chernyshev, University of California, Irvine
Invited Speakers:  Adam Aczel  

A30 Focus Session: Nanomagnetic Devices I
Room: 206B Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Alexander Khitun, University of California, Riverside
Invited Speakers:  Sayeef Salahuddin  

A31 Focus Session: Molecular Magnets
Room: 207A Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Christopher Landee, Clark University
Invited Speakers:  Mark W. Meisel,  Stephen Hill  

A32 Focus Session: Magnetic Oxide Films. Surface and Interface Effects
Room: 207B Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: J. D. Burton, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Invited Speakers:  Albina Borisevich  

A34 Focus Session: Experimental Techniques and Results: Dynamic High-Pressure Physics
Room: 210A Sponsor: DMP

A35 Low-Dimensional and Non-Equilibrium Physics in Quantum Gases
Room: 210B Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: David Pekker, University of Pittsburgh

A36 Interacting Fermi Gases I
Room: 211 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Congjun Wu, University of California, San Diego

A37 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits - Single Donors
Room: 212A Sponsor: GQI Chair: Bruce Kane, Laboratory for Physical Sciences
Invited Speakers:  Stephanie Simmons  

A38 Focus Session: Topological Quantum Information
Room: 212B Sponsor: GQI Chair: Mohammad Hafezi, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Robert Koenig  

A39 Superconducting Qubits: Entanglement and Feedback
Room: 213AB Sponsor: GQI Chair: Leo DiCarlo, Delft University of Technology

A41 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Thermoelectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Materials
Room: 214A Sponsor: DPOLY DMP Chair: Jennifer Schaefer, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Latha Venkataraman  

A42 Polymeric Elastomers and Gels
Room: 214B Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Edwin Chan, National Institute of Standards and Technology

A43 Focus Session: Stable Glasses and Their Properties
Room: 214C Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Kenneth Kearns, Dow Chemicals
Invited Speakers:  Ranko Richert  

A44 Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics: Origami, Kirigami and Mechanisms I
Room: 214D Sponsor: GSNP GSOFT DPOLY Chair: Christian Santangelo, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Invited Speakers:  Arthur Evans  

A45 Crystalline Polymers
Room: 216AB Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Christopher Li, Drexel University

A46 Invited Session: DNA Physics and Chromatin Organization
Room: 217A Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Alexandre Morozov, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Ralf Bundschuh,  Robijn Bruinsma,  Ulrich Gerland,  Alexander Vologodskii,  Anirvan Sengupta  

A47 Focus Session: Physics of Behavior I
Room: 217B Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Greg Stephens, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Eva-Maria Schoetz Collins  

A48 Focus Session: Physics of Protein: Allosteric Control
Room: 217C Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Andrea Markelz, State University of New York, Buffalo
Invited Speakers:  Ruth Nussinov,  Ashok Deniz  

A49 Focus Session: Self-Phoretic Colloids and Active Emulsions I
Room: 217D Sponsor: GSOFT Chair: Cristina Marchetti, Syracuse University
Invited Speakers:  Ramin Golestanian  

A50 Focus Session: Beyond the Gyroid: Complex Network Phases in Self-Assembled Soft Materials
Room: 218 Sponsor: GSOFT DPOLY Chair: Gerd Schroeder-Turk, Friedrich-Alexander Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg
Invited Speakers:  Stephen Hyde  

A51 Invited Session: Photonic and Driven Topological States
Room: Grand Ballroom C1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Aditi Mitra, New York University
Invited Speakers:  Mikael Rechtsman,  Babak Seradjeh,  Netanel Lindner,  Mark Rudner,  Pedram Roushan  

A52 Invited Session: Coherent Flow and Vortices in Polariton Condensates
Room: Grand Ballroom C2 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Peter Littlewood, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Iacopo Carusotto,  David Snoke,  Florent Baboux,  Pavlos Savvidis,  Na Young Kim  

A53 Invited Session: Optoelectronic Response of Low Dimensional Materials
Room: Grand Ballroom C3 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Nathaniel Gabor, University of California, Riverside
Invited Speakers:  Frank Koppens,  Qiong Ma,  Thomas Mueller,  Yuichiro K. Kato,  Alexey Chernikov  

Mar 2 2015 11:15AM, Monday

B0 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors – Neutrons and X-rays
Room: Ballroom A Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Guangyong Xu, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Pengcheng Dai  

B1 Focus Session: Graphene - Point Defects and Structural Defects
Room: 001A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Benjamin Butz, Friedrich Alexander Universitaet Erlangen

B2 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene - Transport & Heterostructures
Room: 001B Sponsor: DMP Chair: David Cobden, University of Washington

B3 Invited Session: Condensed Matter Physics in Latin America I
Room: 002AB Sponsor: FIP Chair: Alex de Lozanne, University of Texas at Austin
Invited Speakers:  Pablo Levy,  Adalberto Fazzio,  Marcelino Barboza-Flores,  Arturo Ayon  

B4 Meet Your Future: Industrial Careers for Physicists: An Interactive Workshop
Room: Mayor Cockrell Room 004 Sponsor: FIAP

B5 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect II
Room: Juan Gorman Room 005 Sponsor: FIAP DCMP Chair: Johannes Pollanen, California Institute of Technology

B6 Focus Session: Proper and Improper Ferroelectrics
Room: 006A Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Manfred Fiebig, ETH Zurich
Invited Speakers:  Yoon Seok Oh  

B7 Focus Session: Majorana Fermions
Room: 006B Sponsor: DMP DCMP
Invited Speakers:  Ali Yazdani  

B8 From Single Molecules to Molecular Assemblies on Surfaces I
Room: 006C Sponsor: DCMP
Invited Speakers:  Eva Zurek  

B9 Superconducting Cuprates: Spectroscopy
Room: 006D Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Pengcheng Dai, Rice University

B10 Topological Insulators - Materials and Structures (Theory)
Room: 007A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Arijit Kundu, University of Indiana, Bloomington

B11 Cuprate Superconductivity: Pseudogap
Room: 007B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mike Osofsky, Naval Research Laboratory

B12 Focus Session: New Thermoelectic Materials
Room: 007C Sponsor: DMP/DCOMP GERA FIAP Chair: Jihui Yang, University of Washington
Invited Speakers:  Donald Morelli,  Xinfeng Tang  

B13 Complex Oxide Films and Heterostructures - Growth and Properties
Room: 007D Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Scott Chambers, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Satoshi Okamoto  

B14 Focus Session: Phase Transitions in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems
Room: 008A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Divine Kumah, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Kyle Shen,  Patrick Clancy  

B15 Electronic Structure: Theory and Spectra II
Room: 008B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: David Strubbe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

B16 Focus Session: Materials Discovery with High-throughput Computation
Room: 101AB Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Prasanna Balachandran, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Marco Buongiorno Nardelli  

B17 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Electronic and Transport Properties
Room: 102AB Sponsor: DMP Chair: Zhihong Chen, Purdue University
Invited Speakers:  Shu-Jen Han  

B18 Invited Session: Optimal Control of Quantum Systems
Room: Mission Room 103A Sponsor: GQI DAMOP Chair: Adolfo del Campo, University of Massachusetts Boston
Invited Speakers:  Steffen Glaser,  Rami Barends,  Christiane Koch,  Michael Biercuk,  Lorenza Viola  

B19 Invited Session: Inspirational Approaches to Teaching Physics and History of Physics
Room: Mission Room 103B Sponsor: FHP FEd Chair: Catherine Westfall, Michigan State University
Invited Speakers:  Brian Schwartz,  Alberto Martinez,  Bob Jacobsen,  Leslie Atkins,  Louis Bloomfield  

B20 Invited Session: Physics of Glass-Forming Liquids: Challenges and Surprises I
Room: Ballroom B Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Gregory McKenna, Texas Tech University
Invited Speakers:  Sharon Glotzer,  David Simmons,  James Caruthers,  Beatrice Ruta,  Reiner Zorn  

B21 Detectors, Sensors, & Transducers
Room: 201 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Charles Mielke, Los Alamos National Laboratory

B22 Optical Studies of Strongly Correlated Systems
Room: 202A Sponsor: DCMP

B23 Focus Session: Explicitly Correlated Methods and Quantum Few-Body Systems
Room: 202B Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Sergiy Bubin, University of Rochester
Invited Speakers:  D. Blume  

B24 Electronic Structure Methods I
Room: 203AB Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Mark Pederson, United States Department of Energy

B26 Focus Session: Non-Adiabatic Dynamics: New Insights from Experiment and Theory II
Room: 204A Sponsor: DCP Chair: David R. Yarkony, Johns Hopkins University
Invited Speakers:  Ahren Jasper,  Andrew Orr-Ewing  

B27 Focus Session: Emerging Ultrafast Technologies II
Room: 204B Sponsor: DCP Chair: Munira Khali, University of Washington
Invited Speakers:  Kelly Gaffney,  Alexander F\"ohlisch,  Patrick Grychtol  

B28 Focus Session: YIG based systems
Room: 205 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Mathias Weiler, Walther Meissner Institute

B29 Focus Session: Artificial Spin Ice
Room: 206A Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Cristiano Nisoli, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Peter Schiffer  

B30 Focus Session: Nanomagnetic Devices II
Room: 206B Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Kai Liu, University of California, Davis
Invited Speakers:  Kai Liu  

B31 Focus Session: Single Molecule Magnets
Room: 207A Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Stephen Hill, National High Magneticm Field Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Liviu Chibotaru  

B32 Focus Session: Transition Metal Oxides I
Room: 207B Sponsor: GMAG DMP
Invited Speakers:  Stephen Pennycook  

B33 Focus Session: The Physics of Climate I
Room: 208 Sponsor: GPC Chair: Juan Restrepo, Oregon State University
Invited Speakers:  Kerry Emanuel  

B34 Electrochemical Reactions
Room: 210A Sponsor: GERA
Invited Speakers:  Kevin Leung  

B35 Circuit QED, Optomechanics and Hybrid Systems
Room: 210B Sponsor: DAMOP

B36 Focus Session: Artificial Gauge Fields and Spin Orbit Coupling in Cold Atoms
Room: 211 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Martin Zwierlein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Wolfgang Ketterle  

B37 Focus Session: Quantum Error Correction I
Room: 212A Sponsor: GQI Chair: Francesco Petruccione, University of KwaZulu-Natal

B38 Focus Session: Quantum Foundations and Technologies I
Room: 212B Sponsor: GQI Chair: Matthew Pusey, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Invited Speakers:  Stephanie Wehner  

B39 Superconducting Circuits: Decoherence I
Room: 213AB Sponsor: GQI Chair: Ted Thorbeck, University of Wisconsin-Madison

B41 Focus Session: Polymers for Solar Energy Conversion - Charge Transport in Organic Photovoltaics
Room: 214A Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Arthi Jayaraman, University of Delaware
Invited Speakers:  Natalie Stingelin  

B42 Focus Session: Block Copolymer Thin Films I
Room: 214B Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Gila Stein, University of Houston
Invited Speakers:  Rafael Verduzco,  Rachel Segalman  

B43 Focus Session: Fluids Under Confinement, Water at Interfaces and in Confinement
Room: 214C Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Elisa Riedo, Georgia Institute of Technology

B44 Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics: Origami, Kirigami and Mechanisms II
Room: 214D Sponsor: GSNP GSOFT DPOLY
Invited Speakers:  Vincenzo Vitelli  

B45 Polymer Melts & Solutions I
Room: 216AB Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Debra Audus, National Institute of Standards and Technology

B46 Invited Session: Thermodynamics and Information Processing in Biochemical Networks
Room: 217A Sponsor: DBIO
Invited Speakers:  Christopher Jarzynski,  Hong Qian,  Arvind Murugan,  Masaki Sano  

B47 Focus Session: Physics of Behavior II
Room: 217B Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Joshua Shaevitz, Princeton University

B48 Focus Session: Physics of Protein Interactions
Room: 217C Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Megan Valentine, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Benjamin Lopez,  Olga Dudko  

B50 Statistical Mechanics: Optimization and Algorithms
Room: 218 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Alan Middleton, Syracuse University

B51 Invited Session: Frontiers of Soft Matter I
Room: Grand Ballroom C1 Sponsor: GSOFT GSNP Chair: Randall Kamien, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Sidney R. Nagel,  M. Lisa Manning,  Anette Hosoi,  Xiaoming Mao,  Todd Squires  

B52 Invited Session: Emergent Quantum Phases and Their Transitions in Correlated Electron Systems
Room: Grand Ballroom C2 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Qimiao Si, Rice University
Invited Speakers:  Meigan Aronson,  Jedediah Pixley,  Alan I. Goldman,  Satoru Nakatsuji,  Yongkang Luo  

B53 Invited Session: Two-Dimensional Materials: Nanophotonics, Plasmonics and Polaritonics
Room: Grand Ballroom C3 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dmitiri Basov, University of California, San Diego
Invited Speakers:  Rainer Hillenbrand,  Marco Polini,  Harry Atwater,  Andras Kis,  Siyuan Dai  

Mar 2 2015 2:30PM, Monday

D0 Focus Session: Mostly Monolayer FeSe
Room: Ballroom A Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Peter Hirschfeld, University of Florida
Invited Speakers:  Xucun Ma  

D1 Focus Session: Graphene - Mechanics and Strain
Room: 001A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Phillip First, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Benjamin Butz  

D2 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene - Optics in 2D Semiconductors I
Room: 001B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Farhan Rana, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  Hui Zhao  

D4 Undergraduate Research/Society of Physics Students II
Room: Mayor Cockrell Room 004 Sponsor: APS Chair: Cortney Bougher, American Physics Society

D5 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect III
Room: Juan Gorman Room 005 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Wei Pan, Sandia National Laboratories

D6 Focus Session: Domain Walls, Surfaces, Interfaces
Room: 006A Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Xiaoqing Pan, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Weida Wu  

D7 Focus Session: Synthesis & Characterization of Topological Insulators
Room: 006B Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Anthony Richardella, Pennylvania State University

D8 Complex Films & Surfaces: Oxides, Alloys, and Semiconductors
Room: 006C Sponsor: DCMP

D9 Superconductivity in Cuprates: Photoemission
Room: 006D Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Donghui Lu, Stanford University

D10 Optical and THz Properties of Topological Insulators
Room: 007A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dennis Drew, University of Maryland

D11 Coexisting Orders In Underdoped Cuprates
Room: 007B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Vivek Mishra, Argonne National Laboratory

D12 Focus Session: Low Dimensional Thermoelectric Systems and Theory I
Room: 007C Sponsor: DMP/DCOMP GERA FIAP Chair: Shiren Wang, Texas A&M University
Invited Speakers:  Junichiro Shiomi  

D13 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Semiconductor Nanostructures
Room: 007D Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Thomas Reinecke, Naval Research Laboratory

D14 Invited Session: Bulk and Surface Spectroscopy of Mixed Valence Topological Insulator Samarium Hexaboride
Room: 008A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: James W. Allen, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Lu Li,  Ming Shi,  Wesley Fuhrman,  Steffen Wirth,  Byung Il Min  

D15 Invited Session: Quantum Criticality at the Superconductor-Insulator Transition and the Higgs Mode
Room: 008B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Subir Sachdev, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Assa Auerbach,  William Witczak-Krempa,  Nandini Trivedi,  Pratap Raychaudhuri,  Aviad Frydman  

D16 Focus Session: Machine Learning For Materials Discovery
Room: 101AB Sponsor: DMP Chair: Marco Nardelli, University of North Texas
Invited Speakers:  Raghu Ramakrishnan  

D17 Focus Session: Graphene Devices: Thermal and Mechanical Properties
Room: 102AB Sponsor: DMP Chair: Kirill Bolotin, Vannderbilt University

D18 Invited Session: Detecting Topological Order in Cold Atoms
Room: Mission Room 103A Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Eric Mueller, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  Bel\'en Paredes,  Maciej Lewenstein,  Nigel Cooper,  R\'emi Desbuquois,  Ulrich Schneider  

D19 Invited Session: Fifty Years of Molecular Dynamics Simulations II: Past, Present and Future
Room: Mission Room 103B Sponsor: DCOMP DPOLY GSOFT/DBIO Chair: Rajiv Kalia, University of Southern California
Invited Speakers:  Michele Parrinello,  Christine Peter,  Mesfin Tsige,  Gregory Voth,  Michael Klein  

D20 Invited Session: Physics of Glass-Forming Liquids: Challenges and Surprises II
Room: Ballroom B Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Sindee Simon, Texas Tech University
Invited Speakers:  Juan P. Garrahan,  Jane Lipson,  Kristine Niss,  Eric R. Weeks,  Thomas Truskett  

D21 Nickelates and Other Transition Metal Oxides
Room: 201 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jack Chakhalian, University of Arkansas

D22 Theory of Exotic States of Matter
Room: 202A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Eun-Ah Kim, Cornell University

D23 Focus Session: Theory and Simulation of Excited-State Phenomena in Semiconductors and Nanostructures I
Room: 202B Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Emmanouil Kioupakis, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Shane Yost,  Felipe H. da Jornada  

D24 Classical Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics Methods
Room: 203AB Sponsor: DCOMP

D26 Focus Session: Water and Liquid Dynamics
Room: 204A Sponsor: DCP Chair: David Chandler, Sandia National Laboratories

D27 Focus Session: Chemical Physics of Clusters: Bridging from Angstrom-scale Clusters to Micron-scale Aerosol Particles I
Room: 204B Sponsor: DCP Chair: Bruce Garrett, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Urs Baltensperger,  Michal Farnik,  Shawn Kathmann  

D28 Focus Session: Magnetic Tunnel Junctions
Room: 205 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Tom Silva, National Institute of Standards and Technology

D29 Focus Session: Ferromagnetic Metals
Room: 206A Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Johan Akerman, University of Gothenburg
Invited Speakers:  St\'ephane Andrieu  

D30 Focus Session: Magnetic Domains and Domain Walls
Room: 206B Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Timothy Phung, IBM Almaden Research Center
Invited Speakers:  Xiang Rong Wang  

D31 Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors: Magnetic Interactions in Semiconductors
Room: 207A Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Olaf van 't Erve, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Michelle E. Jamer  

D32 Focus Session: Density Functional Theory of Bulk Complex Oxides
Room: 207B Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Antonio Cammarata, Czech Technical University, Prague

D33 Focus Session: The Physics of Climate II
Room: 208 Sponsor: GPC DFD Chair: Juan Restrepo, Oregon State University
Invited Speakers:  Mary-Louise Timmermans  

D34 Gels and Complex Fluids
Room: 210A Sponsor: GSOFT Chair: George Thurston, Rochester Institute of Technology

D36 Invited Session: Materials for Energy: Predicting the Properties of Solid/Electrolyte Interfaces from First Principles
Room: 211 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Giulia Galli, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Tuan Anh Pham,  Brandon Wood,  Tomas Arias,  Marivi Fernandez-Serra,  Mark Hybertsen  

D37 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits - Optically Addressed Dots and Impurities I
Room: 212A Sponsor: GQI Chair: Thaddeus Ladd, HRL Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Alex Burgers  

D38 Focus Session: Sensing and Entanglement Measures
Room: 212B Sponsor: GQI Chair: Susanne Yelin, University of Connecticut
Invited Speakers:  Alexey Gorshkov  

D39 Superconducting Circuits: Decoherence II
Room: 213AB Sponsor: GQI Chair: Robert McDermott, University of Wisconsin-Madison

D41 Focus Session: Polymers for Solar Energy Conversion - Morphological Impacts
Room: 214A Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Bryan Boudouris, Purdue University
Invited Speakers:  Enrique Gomez  

D42 Focus Session: Block Copolymer Thin Films II
Room: 214B Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Chris Ellison, University of Texas at Austin
Invited Speakers:  Venkat Ganesan  

D43 Focus Session: Self Assembled Block Copolymers and Soft Nanoparticles in Solution I
Room: 214C Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Sangwoo Lee, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Invited Speakers:  Javid Rzayev  

D44 Invited Session: Mechanical Metamaterials
Room: 214D Sponsor: GSNP GSOFT Chair: Pedro Reis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Christian Santangelo,  Martin Wegener,  Adilson Motter,  Katia Bertoldi,  Martin van Hecke  

D45 Polymer Melts & Solutions II
Room: 216AB Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Muzhou Wang, National Institute of Standards and Technology

D46 Invited Session: Organo-Metallic Perovskites for Photovaltaic Energy Conversion
Room: 217A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Andre Schleife, University of Illinois-Urbana
Invited Speakers:  Yang Yang,  Filippo De Angelis,  Philip Schulz,  Joshua Choi,  Mark van Schilfgaarde  

D47 Focus Session: Physics of Behavior III
Room: 217B Sponsor: DBIO
Invited Speakers:  Benjamin de Bivort  

D48 Focus Session: Dynamically Bonded Soft Matter
Room: 217C Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY Chair: Niels Holten-Andersen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Michael Rubinstein  

D49 Focus Session: Active Living Matter I
Room: 217D Sponsor: GSOFT DBIO Chair: Vernita Gordon, University of Texas at Austin
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Chen  

D50 Focus Session: Dynamic Jamming Fronts and Shear Thickening
Room: 218 Sponsor: GSOFT GSNP Chair: Eric Brown, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Shomeek Mukhopadhyay  

D51 Invited Session: Towards a Scalable Superconducting Quantum Computer
Room: Grand Ballroom C1 Sponsor: GQI DCMP Chair: Michel Devoret, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Austin Fowler,  John Martinis,  Matthias Steffen,  Robert Schoelkopf,  Diego Rist\`e  

D52 Invited Session: DCMP Prize Session
Room: Grand Ballroom C2 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Laura Greene, Universirty of Illinois-Urbana
Invited Speakers:  Tai C. Chiang,  Miquel Salmeron,  Franz Wegner,  David D. Awschalom,  M. Eremets,  Tian Cui  

D53 Invited Session: Skyrmions in Thin Magnetic Films
Room: Grand Ballroom C3 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Axel Hoffmann, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Kirsten von Bergmann,  Vincent Cros,  Wanjun Jiang,  Jiadong Zang,  Christoforos Moutafis  

Mar 2 2015 5:45PM, Monday

E1 APS Prizes and Awards Ceremonial Session
Room: Mission Room 103B Sponsor: APS

Mar 2 2015 6:00PM, Monday

E20 Exploring Career Pathways: An Interactive Panel Discussion for Undergraduates
Room: Mayor Cockrell 004

Mar 2 2015 6:45PM, Monday

EE1 Welcome Reception
Room: Exhibit Hall C Sponsor: APS

Mar 2 2015 7:30PM, Monday

EE2 Special Outreach Session: Helium Availability: Impact on Basic Science and Alternative Technology
Room: 205 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: William Halperin, Northwestern University
Invited Speakers:  Mark Elsesser,  John Davis,  Andrew Casey and John Saunders,  John Burgoyne  

Mar 3 2015 8:00AM, Tuesday

F1 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene - Phosphorene II
Room: 001A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Xiaomu Wang, Yale University

F2 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene - Optics in 2D semiconductors II
Room: 001B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Sefaattin Tongay , Arizona State University
Invited Speakers:  Xavier Marie  

F3 Invited Session: Helical Edge States in INAs/GaSb Bilayers
Room: 002AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Kathryn Moler, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Rui-Rui Du,  Eric Spanton,  Thomas Ihn,  Ilya Drozdov,  Dmitry Pikulin  

F4 Undergraduate Research/Society of Physics Students III
Room: Mayor Cockrell Room 004 Sponsor: APS Chair: Sean Bentley, American Institute of Physics / Society of Physics Students

F5 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect IV
Room: Juan Gorman Room 005 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Yang-Le Wu, University of Maryland

F6 Focus Session: Nanostructures and Metamaterials II
Room: 006A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jennifer Dionne, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Federico Capasso,  Xiaobo Yin  

F7 Focus Session: Novel Topological Phases: Theory
Room: 006B Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Chao-xing Liu, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Taylor Hughes  

F8 Oxide Films and Surfaces
Room: 006C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Daniel Dougherty, North Carolina State University

F9 Focus Session: van der Waals Bonding in Advanced Materials: Advances in Theory
Room: 006D Sponsor: DMP Chair: Adrienn Ruzsinszky-Perdew, Temple University
Invited Speakers:  Adrian Parsegian  

F10 Magnetism and Topological Insulators
Room: 007A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jim Eckstein, University of Illinois-Urbana

F11 Odd-Parity Superconductivity
Room: 007B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Daoxin Yao, Sun Yat-sen University

F12 Focus Session: Thermoelectric Materials and Applications
Room: 007C Sponsor: DMP GERA FIAP DCOMP Chair: Lilia Woods, University of South Florida
Invited Speakers:  Gregory P. Meisner  

F13 Quantum Dots, Wires And Wells: Electronic Phenomena
Room: 007D Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Paul Simmonds, Boise State University

F14 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in III-V Nitrides
Room: 008A Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Denis Demchenko, Virginia Commonwealth University
Invited Speakers:  Filip Tuomisto  

F15 Focus Session: Exciton and Electron Transport in Nanostructures
Room: 008B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Richard Haglund, Vanderbilt University
Invited Speakers:  Vladimir Bulovic  

F16 Focus Session: Search for New Fe-based Superconductors I
Room: 101AB Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Qiang Li, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  C.W. Chu  

F17 Focus Session: Two-dimensional Materials Design
Room: 102AB Sponsor: DMP Chair: Aleskey Kolmogorov, Binghamton University, SUNY
Invited Speakers:  Sebastien Lebegue  

F18 Invited Session: Frontiers in Fermi Gasses
Room: Mission Room 103A Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Malcolm Kennett, Fanshawe College
Invited Speakers:  Randall Hulet,  Joseph Thywissen,  Chuanwei Zhang,  Meera Parish,  Martin Zwierlein  

F19 Invited Session: Physical Analytics
Room: Mission Room 103B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Supratik Guha, IBM
Invited Speakers:  Hendrik Hamann,  Tomas Soderstrom,  H. Eugene Stanley,  Alessandro Vespignani,  Geoffrey West,  L. C. Davis  

F20 Invited Session: Polymer Physics Prize
Room: Ballroom B Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Nitash Balsara, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Mark Ediger,  Juan de Pablo,  Marcus Cicerone,  James Forrest,  Zahra Fakhraai  

F21 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy II: High Frequencies and Optical Techniques
Room: 201 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Fabian Natterer, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Sebastian Loth  

F22 Transport and Theory of Non-Fermi liquids
Room: 202A Sponsor: DCMP

F23 Matter at Extreme Conditions I
Room: 202B Sponsor: DCMP DCOMP Chair: Mike Armstrong, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

F24 Superconducting Quantum Devices and Josephson Junctions
Room: 203AB Sponsor: DMP Chair: Laura Adams, Harvard University

F25 Superconductivity in Cuprates: Theory I
Room: 203B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Roser Valenti, University of Frankfurt

F26 Focus Session: At the Interface of Molecules and Materials I
Room: 204A Sponsor: DCP Chair: George Schatz, Northwestern University
Invited Speakers:  Delia Milliron,  Robert L. Whetten  

F27 Focus Session: Emerging Ultrafast Technologies III
Room: 204B Sponsor: DCP Chair: Jennifer Ogilvie, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  David Jonas,  Andrew Moran,  Michael Raymer  

F28 Focus Session: Pyrochlores and Spinels
Room: 205 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Christopher Wiebe, University of Winnepeg
Invited Speakers:  Katharina Fritsch  

F29 Focus Session: Spin-Orbit Effects
Room: 206A Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Weigang Wang, University of Arizona
Invited Speakers:  Geoffrey Beach  

F30 Focus Session: Skyrmions II
Room: 206B Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Peter Fischer, University of California, Santa Cruz
Invited Speakers:  Sujoy Roy  

F31 Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors: Defects in Diamond and SiC
Room: 207A Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Michael Flatte, University of Iowa
Invited Speakers:  F. Joseph Heremans  

F32 Focus Session: Manganites
Room: 207B Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Hyowon Park, University of Illinois at Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Manfred Fiebig  

F33 Invited Session: Supporting the Recruitment and Retention of Women in Physics
Room: 208 Sponsor: CSWP Chair: Zahra Hazari, Florida International University
Invited Speakers:  Geoff Potvin,  Vashti Sawtelle,  Allison Gonsalves  

F34 Focus Session: Novel Photophysics and Transport Mechanisms for Nanostructured Photovoltaics
Room: 210A Sponsor: GERA
Invited Speakers:  Miquel Salmeron  

F36 Focus Session: Biofunctionalized Nano-Materials
Room: 211 Sponsor: GSOFT DBIO Chair: Ras Pandey, University of Southern Mississippi
Invited Speakers:  Marek Cieplak  

F37 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits - Topological Qubits, Spin-orbit Effects and Micromagnets
Room: 212A Sponsor: GQI Chair: Leo Kouwenhoven, Technische Universiteit Delft
Invited Speakers:  Vlad Pribiag  

F38 Focus Session: Quantum Error Correction II
Room: 212B Sponsor: GQI Chair: Austin Fowler, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Gorjan Alagic  

F39 Superconducting Circuits: Amplifiers I
Room: 213AB Sponsor: GQI Chair: Irfan Siddiqi, University of California at Berkeley

F41 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics, Design of Semiconducting Materials
Room: 214A Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Alejandro Briseno, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Invited Speakers:  Christine Luscombe  

F42 Wetting, Adhesion and Dynamics of Polymer Films and Interfaces
Room: 214B Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Ryan Hayward, Unversity of Massachusetts, Amherst

F43 Blends and Block Copolymers
Room: 214C Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Ron Jones, National Institute of Standards and Technology

F44 Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics: Snapping, Jumping and Popping
Room: 214D Sponsor: GSNP GSOFT Chair: Doug Holmes, Boston University
Invited Speakers:  Keith Seffen  

F45 Focus Session: Systems far from Equilibrium I
Room: 216AB Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Uwe Tauber, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Invited Speakers:  Jordan Horowitz  

F46 Invited Session: DBIO Award Symposium
Room: 217A Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Wolfgang Losert, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Stanislas Leibler,  Lucy Colwell,  Doeke Hekstra,  Olivier Rivoire,  Zorana Zeravcic  

F47 Quantum Biology and Sensors
Room: 217B Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Steven Schwartz, University of Arizona

F48 Focus Session: Physics of Proteins I
Room: 217C Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Dongping Zhong, Ohio State University
Invited Speakers:  Jose Onuchic,  Lynne Regan  

F49 Focus Session: Wet Granular Matter
Room: 217D Sponsor: GSOFT GSNP DFD Chair: Arshad Kudrolli, Clark University
Invited Speakers:  Christian Wagner  

F50 Soft Glasses
Room: 218 Sponsor: GSOFT DPOLY Chair: Mark Shattuck, City College of New York

F51 Invited Session: Smart Assemblies: Self-Replication, Computation and Error-Free Self-Assembled Systems
Room: Grand Ballroom C1 Sponsor: DCMP GSOFT DPOLY Chair: Pablo Damasceno, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Michael Brenner,  Chris Adami,  Damien Woods,  Paul Chaikin,  Steve Whitelam  

F52 Invited Session: Tunable Topological States in Monolayer and Bilayer Graphene
Room: Grand Ballroom C2 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Allan MacDonald, University of Texas at Austin
Invited Speakers:  Andrea Young,  Zlatko Papic,  Alberto Morpurgo,  Angela Kou,  Emanuel Tutuc  

F53 Invited Session: Physics at Magnetic Interfaces, Both Engineered and Unexpected
Room: Grand Ballroom C3 Sponsor: GMAG DCMP Chair: Barry Zink, University of Denver
Invited Speakers:  Chris Leighton,  Paul Haney,  Frances Hellman,  Susanne Stemmer,  Michael Coey  

Mar 3 2015 11:15AM, Tuesday

G1 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene - Growth I
Room: 001A Sponsor: DMP Chair: John Schaibley, University of Washington
Invited Speakers:  Gong Gu  

G2 Focus session: Beyond Graphene - Valley properties
Room: 001B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Di Xiao, Carnegie Mellon University
Invited Speakers:  Kin Fai Mak  

G3 Invited Session: NSF-Funded Physics Education: Celebrating Accomplishments and Looking Forward
Room: 002AB Sponsor: FEd Chair: Theodore Hodapp, The American Physical Society
Invited Speakers:  Duncan McBride,  Paula Heron,  Edward Redish,  Gary White,  Robert Beichner  

G4 Invited Session: Physics Beyond the Lab: Science and Communication
Room: Mayor Cockrell Room 004 Sponsor: FGSA Chair: Valerie Gray, College of William and Mary
Invited Speakers:  Tyler Glembo,  Jennifer Ouellette,  Katherine Thomas  

G5 Integer Quantum Hall Effects
Room: Juan Gorman Room 005 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Ramesh Mani, Georgia State University

G6 Focus Session: Ferroic Materials by Design
Room: 006A Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Sang-Wook Cheong, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Jorge Iniguez  

G7 Focus Session: Novel Topological Materials
Room: 006B Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Yong Chen, Purdue University
Invited Speakers:  Chaoxing Liu  

G8 From Single Molecules to Molecular Assemblies on Surfaces II
Room: 006C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Pengpeng Zhang, Michigan State University

G9 Focus Session: Materials Functionality by Design
Room: 006D Sponsor: DMP Chair: Sebastien Lebegue, Universite de Lorraine
Invited Speakers:  Geoffroy Hautier  

G10 Interacting Dirac and Parabolic Semimetals
Room: 007A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Igor Herbut, Simon Fraser University

G11 Focus Session: Superconductivity in the 2D Limit I
Room: 007B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ho Nyung Lee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Gervasi Herranz  

G12 Proximity Induced Superconductivity in Topological Insulators
Room: 007C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Aaron Finck, University of Illinois

G13 Focus Session: Electrostatic Control of Phenomena at Complex Oxide Interfaces
Room: 007D Sponsor: DMP Chair: Rossitza Pentcheva, University of Duisburg-Essen
Invited Speakers:  Sohrab Ismail-Beigi  

G14 Focus Session: Mesoscopic Materials and Devices
Room: 008A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Nina Markovic, Johns Hopkins University
Invited Speakers:  Shane Cybart  

G15 Focus Session: Exciton and Energy Transport in 2D Materials
Room: 008B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Hayk Harutyunyan, Emory University

G16 Focus Session: Iron Based Superconductors: Local Probes
Room: 101AB Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Alexander Balatsky, Los Alamos National Laboratory/Nordita
Invited Speakers:  Ethan Rosenthal  

G17 Graphene: Quantum Hall Effects
Room: 102AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Fan Zhang, University of Texas at Dallas

G18 Invited Session: Quantum Trajectories and State Estimation
Room: Mission Room 103A Sponsor: DCMP GQI Chair: Klaus Moelmer, Aarhus University, Denmark
Invited Speakers:  Andrew Jordan,  Steven Weber,  Howard Wiseman,  Philippe Campagne-Ibarcq,  Kater Murch  

G19 Invited Session: Caloric Materials and Advances in Solid State Cooling Technologies
Room: Mission Room 103B Sponsor: FIAP DMP Chair: Jun Cui, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Vitalij Pecharsky,  Ichiro Takeuchi,  Kurt Engelbrecht,  G. Jeffrey Snyder  

G20 Invited Session: Stochastic Effects in Atmospheric and Oceanic Dynamics
Room: Ballroom B Sponsor: GPC Chair: John Wettlaufer, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Oliver Buhler,  Charles R. Doering,  Balu Nadiga,  Samuel Stechmann,  Jeffrey Weiss  

G21 Novel Instrumentation & Measurements for Biomedical Research
Room: 201 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Larry Nagahara, National Institute of Health/ National Cancer Institute

G22 Heavy Fermions: Theory and Experiment
Room: 202A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Onur Erten, Rutgers University

G23 Focus Session: Petascale Science and Beyond: Applications and Opportunities in Materials Science and Chemistry I
Room: 202B Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Barry Schneider, National Institute for Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Paul Kent,  Peter Staar  

G24 Electronic Structure Methods II
Room: 203AB Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: James Chelikowski, University of Texas at Austin

G25 Exotic Topological Superconductivity I
Room: 203B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Hongyi Xie, Rice University

G26 Focus Session: Non-Adiabatic Dynamics: New Insights from Experiment and Theory III
Room: 204A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Spiridoula Matsika, Temple University
Invited Speakers:  Stephen Bradforth,  Lyudmila Slipchenko,  Jingsong Zhang  

G27 Focus Session: Chemical Physics of Clusters: Bridging from Angstrom-scale Clusters to Micron-scale Aerosol Particles II
Room: 204B Sponsor: DCP Chair: Gerald Wilemski, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Bernd von Issendorff,  Richard Bowles,  Sotiris Xantheas  

G28 Focus Session: Spin Ice
Room: 205 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Claudio Castelnovo, Cambridge University
Invited Speakers:  Vassilios Kapaklis,  Ilya Sochnikov  

G29 Cooperative Phenomena in Magnetism I
Room: 206A Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Yang Zhao, National Institute of Standards and Technology

G30 Focus Session: Skyrmions III
Room: 206B Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Sujoy Roy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Jia Li  

G31 Focus Session: Spin Chains I: Random, Spin Peierls, and Uniform
Room: 207A Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Thierry Giamarchi, University of Geneva
Invited Speakers:  Oleg Starykh  

G32 Focus Session: Manganite Thin Films
Room: 207B Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Jason Hoffman, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Hans Hilgenkamp  

G33 Metal Physics: Structural and Mechanical Properties including Alloys and Superalloys
Room: 208 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Parker, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

G34 Interfacial Fluid Mechanics I: Bubbles/Drops/Films
Room: 210A Sponsor: DFD Chair: Sunghwan Jung, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

G35 Dipolar Gases, Rydberg Atoms, Cold Molecules, and Few-body Systems
Room: 210B Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Colin Parker, University of Chicago

G36 Topological Phases and Majorana Fermions in Cold Atoms
Room: 211 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Nigel Cooper, University of Cambridge

G37 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits - SiGe, Isotopic Purification, and Electrical Control
Room: 212A Sponsor: GQI Chair: Andrea Morello, University of New South Wales
Invited Speakers:  Mark Gyure  

G38 Focus Session: Novel Architectures and Implementations
Room: 212B Sponsor: GQI Chair: Jarrod McClean, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Adolfo del Campo,  Keith Lee  

G39 Superconducting Circuits: Amplifiers II
Room: 213AB Sponsor: GQI Chair: Josh Mutus, Google Inc, Santa Barbara

G41 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Small Molecule Semiconductors
Room: 214A Sponsor: DPOLY DMP Chair: Enrique Gomez, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Elizabeth von Hauff  

G42 Padden Award Symposium
Room: 214B Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Wes Burghardt, Northwestern University

G43 Focus Session: Fluids Under Confinement and in Biological Systems
Room: 214C Sponsor: DPOLY DBIO GSOFT Chair: Erio Tosatti, International School for Advanced Studies
Invited Speakers:  L. Mahadevan  

G44 Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics: Contortion of Filaments, Ribbons and Bundles
Room: 214D Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Greg Grason, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Invited Speakers:  Alain Goriely  

G45 Focus Session: Polymers in Batteries and Electrochemical Capacitors I
Room: 216AB Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Joe Elabd, Texas A&M University
Invited Speakers:  Paula Hammond  

G46 Invited Session: Ovshinsky Award Session - A Legacy of Energy Technologies
Room: 217A Sponsor: GERA Chair: David Ginley, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Darin Bellisario,  P. Craig Taylor,  Aaron Lindenberg,  Tetsuo Sakai,  John Turner  

G47 Focus Session: Physics of Cancer
Room: 217B Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Rachel Lee, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Wolfgang Losert  

G48 Focus Session: Physics of Proteins II
Room: 217C Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Katherine Niessen, State University of New York, Buffalo
Invited Speakers:  Delmar Larsen,  Babak Borhan  

G49 Fracture, Friction, and Deformation
Room: 217D Sponsor: GSOFT Chair: Mike Salerno, Sandia National Laboratories

G50 Focus Session: Physics of Neural Systems I
Room: 218 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Ilya Nemenman, Emory University
Invited Speakers:  Christopher Fang-Yen  

G51 Invited Session: Frontiers of Soft Matter II
Room: Grand Ballroom C1 Sponsor: GSOFT GSNP Chair: M. Cristina Marchetti, Syracuse University
Invited Speakers:  Francoise Brochard-Wyart,  David Nelson,  David Qu\'er\'e,  Kathleen Stebe,  Pedro Reis  

G52 Invited Session: Spin-Momentum Coupling in Topological Insulator Surface States and Semiconductors
Room: Grand Ballroom C2 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Daniel Ralph, Cornell Unversity
Invited Speakers:  Seokmin Hong,  Yabin Fan,  Alex Mellnik,  Yihua Wang,  Vanessa Sih  

G53 Invited Session: Microscopic Understanding of Dynamics of Localized Spin Wave Modes
Room: Grand Ballroom C3 Sponsor: GMAG DCMP
Invited Speakers:  Sander Otte,  Rohan Adur,  Thomas Silva,  Olivier Klein,  Hendrik Ohldag  

Mar 3 2015 12:30PM, Tuesday

H2 Graduate Student Lunch With The Experts
Room: Ballroom A Sponsor: APS

Mar 3 2015 2:00PM, Tuesday

H1 Poster Session I (2:00 pm- 5:00 pm)
Room: Exhibit Hall C Sponsor: APS

Mar 3 2015 2:30PM, Tuesday

J1 Focus Session: Graphene: Surface Functionalization and Other Topics
Room: 001A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jinglei Ping, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Jeremy Robinson,  Chun Ning (Jeanie) Lau  

J2 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene - Strongly Correlated Phenomena
Room: 001B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Kin Fai Mak, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Yuanbo Zhang  

J3 Invited Session: Research and Opportunties in Nanoscience: An Industrial Perspective
Room: 002AB Sponsor: COM FIAP Chair: Alfredo Alexander-Katz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Ricardo Ruiz,  Monika Weber,  Bernard Obi,  Rodolfo Camacho  

J4 Invited Session: Forum on Outreach and Engaging the Public
Room: Mayor Cockrell Room 004 Sponsor: FOEP Chair: R. Micahael Barnett, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  E. Dan Dahlberg,  Julien Bobroff,  Carlton Pennypacker,  Randal C. Ruchti,  James Bell  

J5 Electricity to Light Conversion: Solid State Lighting
Room: Juan Gorman Room 005 Sponsor: FIAP GERA DMP Chair: Anderson Janotti, University of California, Santa Barbara

J6 Focus Session: Phonons, Spins, Charge and Orbital ordering in Complex Oxides
Room: 006A Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Roman Engel-Herbert, Pennylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Andrea Cavalleri,  Charles Ahn  

J7 Focus Session: Spin Transport & Optical Phenomena in Topological Insulators
Room: 006B Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Nitin Samarth, Pennylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  N. Peter Armitage  

J8 Colloids: Crystals and Other Phases
Room: 006C Sponsor: GSOFT Chair: Cynthia Olson-Reichhardt, Los Alamos National Laboratory

J9 Focus Session: van der Waals Bonding in Advanced Materials: Layered Materials
Room: 006D Sponsor: DMP Chair: John Dobson, Griffith University
Invited Speakers:  Kristian Thygesen  

J10 Topological Kondo Insulators
Room: 007A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Nicholas Butch, National Institute of Standards and Technology

J11 Focus Session: Engineering Vortex Matter in Superconductors I
Room: 007B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ulrich Welp, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Chiara Tarantini  

J12 Focus Session: Thermoelectric and Coupled Phenomena
Room: 007C Sponsor: DMP/DCOMP GERA FIAP Chair: Anindya Roy, John Hopkins University
Invited Speakers:  G. Jeffrey Snyder  

J13 Focus Session: Ferroelectric and Multiferroic Oxide Heterostructures
Room: 007D Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jayakanth Ravichandran, University of Southern California
Invited Speakers:  Serge Nakhmanson  

J14 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Zinc Oxide
Room: 008A Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Shengbai Zhang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Invited Speakers:  D.E. Aspnes,  Bengt G. Svensson  

J15 Focus Session: Transport and Strong Coupling in Plasmonic Nanostructures
Room: 008B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Zhe Fei, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Richard Haglund  

J16 Focus Session: Theory of Magnetism and Correlation in Fe-Based Superconductors
Room: 101AB Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: IIya Eremin, Theory Physics III University
Invited Speakers:  Igor Mazin  

J17 Transport in Graphene and its Heterostructures
Room: 102AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jeanie Lau, University of California, Riverside

J18 Invited Session: Phonons and Electron-Phonon Interactions beyond LDA/GGA
Room: Mission Room 103A Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: David Vanderbilt, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Michel C\^ot\' e,  Audrius Alkauskas,  Carina Faber,  Jean-Luc Bredas,  Zhiping Yin  

J19 Invited Session: Solutions to the Challenge of Post-CMOS Technology
Room: Mission Room 103B Sponsor: FIAP GMAG Chair: Matthew Copel, IBM
Invited Speakers:  Suman Datta,  Jimmy Zhu,  Daniel C. Ralph,  Paul Solomon,  William Vandenberghe  

J20 Invited Session: Dillon Medal Symposium
Room: Ballroom B Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Rachel Segalman, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Chinedum Osuji  

J21 Focus Session: Measurement Techniques for In Operando and Extreme Conditions
Room: 201 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Peter Chupas, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Jordi Cabana  

J22 Heavy Fermions: U-based Compounds
Room: 202A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ryan Baumbach, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

J23 Theory and Simulation of Excited-State Phenomena in Semiconductors and Nanostructures II
Room: 202B Sponsor: DCOMP

J24 Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations of Fermion and Boson Systems I
Room: 203AB Chair: Juana Moreno, Louisiana State University
Invited Speakers:  Barbara Capogrosso-Sansone,  Valery Rousseau  

J25 Focus Session: Cooperative Phenomena in Plasticity I
Room: 203B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Peter Ispanovity, Eotvos University
Invited Speakers:  Satish Rao,  Alfonso Ngan  

J26 Focus Session: At the Interface of Molecules and Materials II
Room: 204A Sponsor: DCP Chair: YuHuang Wang, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Michael Strano,  Philippe Guyot-Sionnest  

J27 Focus Session: Chemical Physics of Clusters: Bridging from Angstrom-scale Clusters to Micron-scale Aerosol Particles III
Room: 204B Sponsor: DCP Chair: Cari Dutcher, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  J. Mathias Weber,  Xue-Bin Wang  

J28 Focus Session: Spin-Hall Effect I
Room: 205 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Ken-Ichi Uchida, Tohoku University
Invited Speakers:  Luqiao Liu  

J29 Focus Session: Ultrafast Spin-Dynamics
Room: 206A Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Charlie Karis, University of Uppsala

J30 Focus Session: Magnetic Imaging and Characterization
Room: 206B Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Yves Idzerda, Montana State University
Invited Speakers:  Yimei Zhu  

J31 Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors: Probing Spins in 2D Materials and Semiconductors
Room: 207A Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Aubrey Hanbicki, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Jie Shan  

J32 Focus Session: Manganite Heterostructures and Interfaces
Room: 207B Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: T. Zac Ward, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Jason Hoffman  

J33 Focus Session: Physics of Neural Systems II
Room: 208 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Ilya Nemenman, Emory University
Invited Speakers:  Tatyana Sharpee  

J34 Interfacial Fluid Mechanics II: Wetting Phenomena
Room: 210A Sponsor: DFD Chair: Edmund Webb III, Lehigh University

J35 Optomechanics and Hybrid Systems
Room: 210B Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Tongcang Li, Purdue University

J36 Bosons in Optical Lattices
Room: 211 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Randall Hulet, Rice University

J37 Focus Session: Quantum Dynamics with Phonons and Photons
Room: 212A Sponsor: GQI Chair: Ken Brown, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Andrew Wilson,  Crystal Senko  

J38 Focus Session: Entanglement and Mathematics of Quantum Information
Room: 212B Sponsor: GQI Chair: Sean Carroll, California Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Susanne Yelin  

J39 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits: Toward Fault Tolerant Quantum Computers
Room: 213AB Sponsor: GQI Chair: Daniel Sank, Google Inc.
Invited Speakers:  Rami Barends  

J41 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics, Optical and Electrical Properties
Room: 214A Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Michael Chabinyc, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  David Gundlach  

J42 GSNP Student Speaker Award / Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
Room: 214B Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Adilson Motter, Northwestern University

J43 Focus Session: Manipulating Glasses: Mechanics
Room: 214C Sponsor: DPOLY GSOFT Chair: Daniel Sussman, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Emanuela del Gado  

J44 Invited Session: Self-assembly in the Macro-World
Room: 214D Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Corey O'Hern, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Robert Behringer,  Bulbul Chakraborty,  Marc Miskin,  Mark Shattuck  

J45 Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics
Room: 216AB Sponsor: GSNP DPOLY Chair: Joel Marthelot, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

J46 Invited Session: Physics of Proteins: Integrating Computation with Experiment
Room: 217A Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Wouter Hoff, Oklahoma State University
Invited Speakers:  William Eaton,  Masashi Unno,  Timothy Cross,  Jianpeng Ma,  Luhua Lai  

J47 DBIO Thesis Prize: Biological Dynamics and Networks
Room: 217B Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Vijay Singh, Emory University
Invited Speakers:  Lei Dai  

J48 Focus Session: Physics of Cellular Organization I
Room: 217C Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Michael Gramlich, Unviersity of Massachusetts, Amherst
Invited Speakers:  Ali Tabei  

J49 Focus Session: Active Living Matter II
Room: 217D Sponsor: GSOFT DBIO Chair: Xiang Cheng, University of Minnesota

J50 Emulsions and Foams
Room: 218 Sponsor: GSOFT Chair: Vivek Sharma, University of Illinois at Chicago

J51 Invited Session: Irwin Oppenheim Memorial Session: Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics of Liquids, Glasses and Biomolecules
Room: Grand Ballroom C1 Sponsor: GSNP GSOFT Chair: Eli Ben-Naim, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Hans Andersen,  David Chandler,  Katja Lindenberg,  Udayan Mohanty,  Itamar Procaccia  

J52 Buckley Prize / Apker Award Session
Room: Grand Ballroom C2
Invited Speakers:  Allen Goldman,  Arthur Hebard,  Aharon Kapitulnik,  Matthew Fisher,  Michael Veit  

J53 Invited Session: Progress in Electrically-Gated Quantum Dot Qubits
Room: Grand Ballroom C3 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: HongWen Jiang, University of California, Los Angeles
Invited Speakers:  James Medford,  Dohun Kim,  Erika Kawakami,  Andrew Sachrajda,  Andrew Dzurak  

Mar 3 2015 4:30PM, Tuesday

DA1 Meet the APS Editors Reception
Room: Tower View Sponsor: APS

Mar 3 2015 5:30PM, Tuesday

K20 Student Reception, Awards Ceremony, and Dance Party
Room: Ballroom A Sponsor: APS

Mar 3 2015 5:45PM, Tuesday

K6 FIAP Business meeting
Room: 006A Sponsor: FIAP

K21 GIMS Business Meeting
Room: 201 Sponsor: GIMS

K27 DCP Business Meeting
Room: 204B Sponsor: DCP

K28 GMAG Business Meeting
Room: 205 Sponsor: GMAG

K33 GPC Business Meeting
Room: 208 Sponsor: GPC

K34 GERA Business Meeting
Room: 210A Sponsor: GERA

K36 GQI Business Meeting
Room: 211 Sponsor: GQI

K41 DPOLY Business Meeting
Room: 214A Sponsor: DPOLY

K44 GSNP Business Meeting
Room: 214D Sponsor: GSNP

K47 DBIO Business Meeting
Room: 217B Sponsor: DBIO

K49 GSOFT Business Meeting
Room: 217D Sponsor: GSOFT

Mar 3 2015 6:45PM, Tuesday

KA41 DPOLY - NSF Question and Answer Session on Polymers, Soft Matter, and the Materials Genome Initiative
Room: 214A Sponsor: DPOLY

Mar 3 2015 7:30PM, Tuesday

K16 DMP Business Meeting
Room: Grand Hyatt San Antonio Bowie A Sponsor: DMP

K17 DCMP Business Meeting
Room: Grand Hyatt San Antonio Bowie C Sponsor: DCMP

Mar 4 2015 8:00AM, Wednesday

L1 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene - Phosphorene III
Room: 001A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Yuanbo Zhang, Fudan University
Invited Speakers:  Peide Ye  

L2 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene - Spin and Magnetic Properties
Room: 001B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jun Zhu, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Nitin Samarth  

L3 Topics in Statistical Physics II
Room: 002AB Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Marco Mazza, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization

L4 Tutorial for Authors and Referees
Room: Mayor Cockrell Room 004 Sponsor: APS

L5 Focus Session: Orbital Fluctuations and Nematicity in FeSC
Room: Juan Gorman Room 005 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Kazuhiko Kuroki, Osaka University
Invited Speakers:  Wei-Cheng Lee  

L6 Focus Session: Phononic And Mechanical Phenomena In Nanostructures
Room: 006A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Scheibner, University of California, Merced

L7 Focus Session: Topological Superconductivity and Majorana Fermions
Room: 006B Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Taylor Hughes, University of Illinois

L8 Modeling and Measurement of Surface Morphology
Room: 006C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mina Yoon, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

L9 Semicondutor Atomic Structure, Lattice Properties, and Phase Transitions
Room: 006D Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Matthew Stone, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

L10 Two Dimensional Topological Insulators: Experiments
Room: 007A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sean Oh, Rutgers University

L11 Engineering Vortex Matter in Superconductors II
Room: 007B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Maxime Leroux, Argonne National Laboratory

L12 Focus Session: Oxide and Chalcogenide Thermoelectric Materials
Room: 007C Sponsor: DMP GERA FIAP DCOMP Chair: Zhifeng Ren, University of Houston
Invited Speakers:  Anke Weidenkaff,  Antoine Maignan  

L13 Focus Session: Nanostructured LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Heterostructures
Room: 007D Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jeremy Levy, University of Pittsburgh
Invited Speakers:  Ralph Claessen  

L14 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Group IV Semiconductors
Room: 008A Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Peihong Zhang, University of Buffalo
Invited Speakers:  Jonathan Moussa  

L15 Electronic Structure:Thermodynamic & Optical Properties
Room: 008B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Bryan Spann, Naval Research Laboratory

L16 Focus Session: van der Waals Bonding in Advanced Materials: Molecular Systems and Interfaces
Room: 101AB Sponsor: DMP Chair: Noa Marom, Tulane University
Invited Speakers:  Robert A. DiStasio Jr.  

L17 Graphene: Optical Properties
Room: 102AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Hua Chen, University of Texas at Austin

L18 Invited Session: Industry Day: Dynamics and Non-Equilibrium Processes of Colloids and Filled Polymer Blends
Room: Mission Room 103A Sponsor: DPOLY FIAP GSOFT Chair: Valeriy Ginzburg, Dow Chemical
Invited Speakers:  Alan Nakatani,  Jeffrey Meth,  Svetlana Sukhishvili,  Norman Wagner,  Lynn Walker  

L19 Invited Session: Industry Day: Introduction to Additive Manufacturing
Room: Mission Room 103B Sponsor: FIAP DPOLY Chair: Barbara Jones, IBM
Invited Speakers:  Eric Lin,  Robert Allen,  Joseph Beaman,  Joseph Mantese,  Azar Alizadeh  

L20 Invited Session: Novel Probes for New Physics in AMO Systems
Room: Ballroom B Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Bryce Gadway, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Invited Speakers:  Eugene Demler,  David Weiss,  John Bollinger,  Markus Oberthaler,  Leonardo Fallani  

L21 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy III: Novel Spectroscopic and Imaging Measurements
Room: 201 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Jonathan Wyrick, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Fabian Donat Natterer  

L22 Effects of Geometry on Superfluid Helium
Room: 202A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: James Sauls, Northwestern University

L23 Matter at Extreme Conditions II
Room: 202B Sponsor: DCMP DCOMP Chair: Zsolt Jenei, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

L24 Invited Session: Pais Prize Session: Physics at the Intersection of History, Technology and Society
Room: 203AB Sponsor: FHP FPS Chair: Catherine Westfall, Michigan State University
Invited Speakers:  Spencer Weart,  Cyrus Mody,  Aimee Slaughter,  Bruce Hunt,  Robert Crease  

L25 Superconductivity: Miscellaneous Experiments
Room: 203B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Eric Palm, High Magnetic Field Laboratory

L26 Focus Session: At the Interface of Molecules and Materials III
Room: 204A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Michael Strano, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  William Tisdale,  YuHuang Wang  

L27 Focus Session: Solvation of Ions and Electrons I
Room: 204B Sponsor: DCP Chair: Mary T. Rodgers, Wayne State University
Invited Speakers:  Peter Armentrout,  David Bartels,  David Russell  

L28 Focus Session: Spin Liquids I
Room: 205 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Roger Melko, University of Waterloo
Invited Speakers:  Joji Nasu  

L29 Focus Session: Spin Transport and Voltage Control
Room: 206A Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Ronny Knut, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Weigang Wang  

L31 Focus Session: Spin Dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors: Spin Orbit and Spin Relaxation
Room: 207A Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Hanan Dery, University of Rochester
Invited Speakers:  Nicholas Harmon  

L32 Focus Session: Multiferroics I
Room: 207B Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Dennis Meier, ETH Zuerich
Invited Speakers:  Tsuyoshi Kimura  

L33 Focus Session: Undergraduate Teaching at the Intersection of Physics and Biology
Room: 208 Sponsor: DBIO FEd Chair: Wolfgang Losert, University of Maryland, College Park
Invited Speakers:  Vashti Sawtelle,  Mark Reeves,  Jonathon Howard  

L34 Thin Film Photovoltaics (Perovskites, etc)
Room: 210A Sponsor: GERA

L35 Turbulence and Instabilities
Room: 210B Sponsor: DFD Chair: Greg Voth, Wesleyan University

L36 Focus Session: Reconfiguring and Actuating Soft Matter I: Metamaterials
Room: 211 Sponsor: GSOFT Chair: Vincenzo Vitelli, Leiden University

L37 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits - Electrically Controlled Quantum Dots
Room: 212A Sponsor: GQI Chair: Charles Marcus, University of Copenhagen
Invited Speakers:  Takashi Nakajima  

L38 Focus Session: Quantum Algorithms
Room: 212B Sponsor: GQI Chair: Nathan Wiebe, Microsoft Research
Invited Speakers:  Rolando Somma,  Jarrod McClean  

L39 Superconducting Circuits and Quantum Simulation
Room: 213AB Sponsor: GQI Chair: Yu Chen, Google Inc.

L41 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Transport in Polymer Thin Films
Room: 214A Sponsor: DPOLY DMP Chair: Barry Rand, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Andrew Spakowitz  

L42 Focus Session: Renewable and Sustainable Polymers
Room: 214B Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Megan Robertson, University of Houston
Invited Speakers:  John Dorgan,  Yossef Elabd  

L43 Focus Session: Stable Glasses, Fluids Under Confinement and at Interfaces
Room: 214C Sponsor: DPOLY GSOFT GSNP Chair: Zahra Fakhraai, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Peter Wolynes,  Lian Yu  

L44 Focus Session: Systems far from Equilibrium II
Room: 214D Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Michel Pleimling, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Invited Speakers:  Armin Bunde  

L45 Focus Session: Polymers in Batteries and Electrochemical Capacitors II
Room: 216AB Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Jodie Lutkenhaus, Texas A&M University
Invited Speakers:  Ralph H. Colby  

L46 Invited Session: Design Principles in Synthetic Biology
Room: 217A Sponsor: DBIO DCMP Chair: Ned Wingreen, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Michele Castellana,  Pamela Silver,  Wendell Lim,  Gurol Suel,  Kristala Prather  

L47 Focus Session: Stochastic Model Inference
Room: 217B Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Steve Presse, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis
Invited Speakers:  Brian Munsky,  Konstantinos Tsekouras  

L48 Focus Session: Physics of Cellular Organization II
Room: 217C Sponsor: DBIO Chair: S.M. Ali Tabei, University of Northern Iowa
Invited Speakers:  Shane Nelson  

L49 Focus Session: Mechanics of Defects and Discontinuities
Room: 217D Sponsor: GSOFT GSNP Chair: James Hanna, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Invited Speakers:  Eugenio Hamm  

L50 Self and Directed Assembly I: Mostly Nanoparticles/Rods and Colloids
Room: 218 Sponsor: GSOFT Chair: Alberto Olson-Reichhardt, Georgia Institute of Technology

L51 Invited Session: Topological Superconductors
Room: Grand Ballroom C1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ady Stern, Weizmann Institute of Science
Invited Speakers:  Erez Berg,  Sean Hart,  Karsten Flensberg,  Aaron Finck,  Kam Tuen Law  

L52 Invited Session: Many Body Localization and Entanglement
Room: Grand Ballroom C2 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Chandran Anushya, Peremiter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Invited Speakers:  Ehud Altman,  Brian DeMarco,  Dmitry Abanin,  Rahul Nandkishore,  Jens H. Bardarson  

L53 Invited Session: Advances in Glassy Systems Across Many Scales
Room: Grand Ballroom C3 Sponsor: DCMP GSOFT Chair: Andrea Liu, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Ludovic Berthier,  Francesco Zamponi,  Eric Corwin,  Frederik Denef,  Helmut G. Katzgraber  

Mar 4 2015 10:45AM, Wednesday

LA1 Meet the APS Editors Coffee Break
Room: Hall C

Mar 4 2015 11:00AM, Wednesday

P1 Poster Session II (11:00 am - 2:00 pm)
Room: Exhibit Hall C Sponsor: APS DPOLY/DBIO GSNP/GSOFT

Mar 4 2015 11:15AM, Wednesday

M1 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene - Growth II
Room: 001A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Gong Gu, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Invited Speakers:  Yi-Hsien Lee  

M2 Focus session: Beyond Graphene - Optics in 2D semiconductors III
Room: 001B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Xavie Marie, INSA Toulouse
Invited Speakers:  Phil King  

M3 Invited Session: Artificial Intelligence: Existential Risk or Boon to Humanity
Room: 002AB Sponsor: FPS DCOMP Chair: Arian Pregenzer, Sandia National Laboratories (Retired)
Invited Speakers:  Stuart Russell,  Guruduth Banavar,  Gill Pratt,  Benja Fallenstein  

M5 Focus Session: Intercalated FeSe and Other Fe-chalcogenide Superconductors
Room: Juan Gorman Room 005 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Stephen Wilson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Stephen Blundell  

M6 Focus Session: Coupling Polarization and Magnetism I
Room: 006A Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Weida Wu, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Roger Johnson  

M7 Focus Session: Topological Crystalline Insulators
Room: 006B Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Yoshinori Okada, Tohoku University
Invited Speakers:  Tomasz Story  

M8 From Single Molecules to Molecular Assemblies on Surfaces III
Room: 006C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jeff Guest, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Axel Enders  

M9 Semiconductor Materials: Synthesis, Growth, & Processing
Room: 006D Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dongming Mei, University of South Dakota

M10 Anomalous Quantum Hall Effect
Room: 007A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: James Williams, University of Maryland

M11 Superconductivity: Mostly Meso-Nano Scale
Room: 007B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Timir Datta, University of South Carolina

M12 Exotic Topological Superconductors II
Room: 007C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dale Van Harlingen, University of Illinois

M13 Focus Session: Complex Oxide Interfaces - LaAlO3/SrTiO3 I
Room: 007D Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ralph Claessen, Universitat Wurzburg
Invited Speakers:  Chris Marianetti  

M14 Focus Session: Mesoscopic Electronic Phenomena
Room: 008A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Juan M. Merlo, Boston College
Invited Speakers:  Joe Salfi,  Paul Klimov  

M15 Focus Session: Electronic Properties and Energy Conversion in Semiconductor Nanostructures
Room: 008B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Alexander Govorov, Ohio University
Invited Speakers:  Jochen Feldmann  

M16 Focus Session: Designed Function in Reduced Dimensional Materials and Clusters
Room: 101AB Sponsor: DMP Chair: Raghunathan Ramakrishnan, University of Basel, Switzerland

M17 Graphene: Terahertz Physics and Plasmons
Room: 102AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Junichiro Kono, Rice University

M18 Invited Session: Intersections of Density Functional Theory and Quantum Information
Room: Mission Room 103A Sponsor: DCOMP GQI Chair: Rudy Magyar, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Klaus Capelle,  David Tempel,  Norbert Schuch,  Ann Mattsson,  Frank Gaitan  

M19 Invited Session: Industry Day: Progress and Challenges of Additive Manufacturing
Room: Mission Room 103B Sponsor: FIAP DPOLY Chair: Miriam Rafailovich, State University of New York, Stonybrook
Invited Speakers:  Vlastimil Kunc,  Bradley Ringeisen,  Marcia Simon,  Florian Gstrein  

M20 Invited Session: Reichert Award Session: Re-imagining the Advanced Lab
Room: Ballroom B Sponsor: FEd Chair: Randall Knight, California Polytechnic State University
Invited Speakers:  Carl Akerlof,  David Jackson,  Heather Lewandowski,  D.A. Van Baak,  MacKenzie Stetzer  

M21 Focus Session: Novel Instrumentation and Measurement Science for X-ray and Neutrons
Room: 201 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Dennis Mills, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Yiping Feng,  Alan Tennant  

M22 Heavy Fermions: Ce-115 and Yb-based Compounds: Experiment
Room: 202A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Steven Dissler, NIST

M23 Focus Session: Petascale Science and Beyond: Applications and Opportunities in Materials Science and Chemistry II
Room: 202B Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Barry Schneider, National Institute for Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Martin Berzins,  Xiaoxu Guan  

M24 Electronic Structure Methods III
Room: 203AB Sponsor: DCOMP FIAP Chair: Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Harvard University

M25 Theory of Superconductivity I
Room: 203B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Harold Jeschke, ITP, Frankfurt

M26 Nanowires: Mechanical, Electronic, Optical, and Transport Properties
Room: 204A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Luis Balicas, Florida State University

M27 Invited Session: Prize Session: Broida, Pyler, Langmuir, Phd
Room: 204B Sponsor: DCP Chair: David Chandler, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Michael Ashfold,  Majed Chergui,  Jens Norskov,  Alexander White  

M28 Focus Session: Spin Liquids II
Room: 205 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Shigeki Onoda, RIKEN
Invited Speakers:  Paula Mellado,  Tigran Sedrakyan  

M29 Focus Session: Spin-Torque Oscillators
Room: 206A Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Igor Barsukov, University of California, Irvine

M30 Focus Session: Magnetism in Carbon and Nanoclusters
Room: 206B Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Enrique Cobas, Naval Research Laboratory

M31 Focus Session: Ladders, Layers, and Dimers
Room: 207A Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Jonathan Friedman, Amherst College
Invited Speakers:  Andrey Zheludev  

M32 Focus Session: Multiferroics II and Other 3d Transition Metal Oxides
Room: 207B Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Manfred Fiebig, ETH Zuerich

M33 Metal Physics: Thermodynamics ,Transport ,Optical Properties, Electronic Structure, etc.
Room: 208 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Markus Eisenbach, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

M35 Casimir Effect and Dispersive Interactions
Room: 210B Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Justin Wilson, University of Maryland

M36 Interacting Fermi Gases II
Room: 211 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Joseph Thywissen, University of Toronto

M37 Focus Session: Quantum Optics and Photonic Architectures
Room: 212A Sponsor: GQI Chair: Alexey Gorshkov, Joint Quantum Institute
Invited Speakers:  Mohammad Hafezi  

M38 Focus Session: Quantum Foundations and Technologies II
Room: 212B Sponsor: GQI Chair: Stephanie Wehner, TU Delft
Invited Speakers:  Matthew Pusey,  Sean Carroll  

M39 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits: Hybrid Systems
Room: 213AB Sponsor: GQI
Invited Speakers:  Cecile Grezes  

M41 Microwave Quantum Optics & Circuit QED
Room: 214A Sponsor: GQI Chair: Evan Jeffrey, Google Inc, Santa Barbara

M43 Focus Session: Industry Day: Applied Polymer Physics in Advanced Manufacturing
Room: 214C Sponsor: DPOLY FIAP Chair: Brent Neal, Milliken & Company
Invited Speakers:  Kaiming Ye  

M44 Focus Session: Systems Far from Equiibrium III
Room: 214D Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Cynthia Olson Reichardt, Los Alamos National Laboratory

M45 Focus Session: Emerging Topics in Network Synchronization: Patterns, Stability, and Transitions
Room: 216AB Chair: Takashi Nishikawa, Northwestern University
Invited Speakers:  Louis Pecora  

M46 Invited Session: Physics for Everyone
Room: 217A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Flatte, University of Iowa
Invited Speakers:  John Rogers,  David Weitz,  Volker Rose,  Peter Hore,  Jeff M. Byers  

M47 Invited Session: Insights into Ferroelectric and Multiferroic Matrials from Computational Methods
Room: 217B Sponsor: DCOMP DCMP Chair: Gabriel Kotliar, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  David Vanderbilt,  Jeroen van den Brink,  Reza Nourafkan,  Massimo Capone,  Karsten Held  

M49 Liquid Crystals I: Chromonics, Discotics, Polymers and Functional Uses
Room: 217D Sponsor: GSOFT Chair: Robin Selinger, Kent State University

M51 Invited Session: Topological Superconductivity in Ferromagnetic Metal Chains
Room: Grand Ballroom C1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Allan MacDonald, University of Texas at Austin
Invited Speakers:  Leonid Glazman,  Stevan Nadj-Perge,  Hua Chen,  Leo Kouwenhoven,  Jelena Klinovaja  

M52 Invited Session: Entanglement in Condensed Matter Systems
Room: Grand Ballroom C2 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Joel Moore, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Israel Klich,  Kun Yang,  Tarun Grover,  Brian Swingle,  Edward Rezayi  

M53 Invited Session: Iridium-Based Kitaev Materials
Room: Grand Ballroom C3 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Leon Balents, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics
Invited Speakers:  Natalia Perkins,  James Clancy,  Jeffrey G. Rau,  Philipp Gegenwart  

Mar 4 2015 2:30PM, Wednesday

Q0 Kavli Foundation Special Symposium: Frontiers of Light
Room: Ballroom A Sponsor: APS
Invited Speakers:  Stefan Hell,  W.E. Moerner,  Harald Hess,  Shuji Nakamura,  Margaret Murnane  

Q1 Focus Session: Graphene: Moire, Superlattices, and Twisted Bilayers
Room: 001A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Walt de Heer, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Leonid Ponomarenko  

Q2 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene - Optics in 2D Semiconductors IV
Room: 001B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jie Shan, Pennylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Ming-Wei Wu  

Q3 Invited Session: Condensed Matter Physics in Latin America II
Room: 002AB Sponsor: FIP Chair: Edmond L Berger, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Horacio M. Pastawski,  Antonio Jos\'e Roque da Silva,  Manuel Quevedo-Lopez,  Angela Camacho  

Q4 Invited Session: Fractional Quantum Hall Effect: New Directions
Room: Mayor Cockrell Room 004 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jainedra Jain, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Mansour Shayegan,  David Goldhaber-Gordon,  Jurgen Smet,  Hiroyuki Inoue,  Trevor David Rhone  

Q5 Focus Session: Search for New Fe-based Superconductors II
Room: Juan Gorman Room 005 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Clarina R. Dela Cruz, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Athena S. Sefat  

Q6 Focus Session: Coupling Polarization and Magnetism II
Room: 006A Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Haidan Wen, Argonne National Laboratory

Q7 Topological Insulators: Theory and Experiment
Room: 006B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ken Burch, Boston College

Q8 Focus Session: Wave Chaos: Theory and Applications
Room: 006C Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Gabriele Gradoni, University of Nottingham
Invited Speakers:  Eric Heller  

Q9 Semiconductor Thermodynamic & Transport Properties
Room: 006D Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Selman Hershfield, University of Florida - Gainesville

Q10 Emergent Dirac and Weyl Semimetals in Three Dimensions
Room: 007A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Arijit Kundu, University of Indiana at Bloomington

Q11 Chalcogenide Superconductors
Room: 007B Chair: Houlong Zhuang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Q12 Focus Session: Theory of Bulk Thermoelectric Materials
Room: 007C Sponsor: DMP GERA FIAP DCOMP Chair: David Singh, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Wenqng Zhang  

Q13 Focus Session: Complex Oxide Interfaces - LaAlO3/SrTiO3 II
Room: 007D Sponsor: DMP Chair: Sohraib Ismail-Beigi, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Agn`es Barthelemy  

Q14 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in Hybrid Perovskite and Other Materials
Room: 008A Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Yong Zhang, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Invited Speakers:  Tze-Chien Sum  

Q15 Focus Session: Energy and Electron Flow at Interfaces in Nanostructures
Room: 008B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Gary Wiederrecht, Argonne National Laboratory

Q16 Focus Session: van der Waals Bonding in Advanced Materials: Nano-Materials
Room: 101AB Sponsor: DMP Chair: Alexandre Tkatchenko, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Invited Speakers:  Karin Jacobs  

Q17 Graphene: Disorder and Defects
Room: 102AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Shaffique Adam, National University of Singapore

Q18 Invited Session: Recent Advances in Field-Responsive Fluids and Suspensions
Room: Mission Room 103A Sponsor: DFD GSOFT Chair: Rongjia Tao, Temple University
Invited Speakers:  James Martin,  Rongjia Tao,  Weijia Wen,  Norman Wereley,  Masami Nakano  

Q19 Invited Session: Industry Day: Rheology and Processing for Additive Manufacturing
Room: Mission Room 103B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Tirtha Chatterjee, The Dow Chemical Company
Invited Speakers:  Florian Schattenmann,  Robert Sammler,  Ravi Sharma,  Dilip Gersappe,  Antonios Doufas  

Q20 Focus Session: Superconductivity in the 2D Limit II
Room: Ballroom B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Hanno Weitering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Invited Speakers:  Christophe Brun,  Steven Johnston  

Q21 Metal Insulator Transitions
Room: 201 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dragana Popovic, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Q22 Heavy Fermions: Ce-based Compounds: Experiment
Room: 202A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sergey Bud'ko, Ames Laboratory/Iowa State University

Q24 Focus Session: Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations of Fermion and Boson Systems II
Room: 203AB Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Ka-Ming Tam, Lousiana State University

Q25 Focus Session: Cooperative Phenomena in Plasticity II
Room: 203B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Georgios Tsekenis, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Charles Reichhardt,  Hai-Bin Yu  

Q26 Focus Session: Non-Adiabatic Dynamics: New Insights from Experiment and Theory IV
Room: 204A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Scott Reid, Marquette University
Invited Speakers:  Hans Lischka,  Richard Dawes  

Q27 Focus Session: Chemical Physics of Clusters: Bridging from Angstrom-scale Clusters to Micron-scale Aerosol Particles IV
Room: 204B Sponsor: DCP Chair: Barbara Wyslouzil, Ohio State University
Invited Speakers:  Julia Laskin,  Stefan Vajda  

Q28 Focus Session: Honeycomb Antiferromagnets
Room: 205 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: James Analytis, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Johannes Knolle  

Q29 Focus Session: Spin-waves and Magnetizion Dynamics
Room: 206A Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Vassilios Kapaklis, University of Uppsala

Q30 Focus Session: Magnetic Films and Magnetic Anisotropy
Room: 206B Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: David Sellmyer, University of Nebraska

Q31 Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors: Spin Injection
Room: 207A Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Connie Li, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Adrian Swartz  

Q32 Focus Session: Magnetic Oxide Thin Films and Heterostructures: Electric Field and Magnetoelectric Effects
Room: 207B Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Christian Binek, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Invited Speakers:  Hidekazu Tanaka,  Zeila Zanolli  

Q33 Physics Education Research
Room: 208 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Monica Plisch, American Physical Society

Q34 Fluid Dynamics - General
Room: 210A Sponsor: DFD Chair: Thomas Solomo, Bucknell University

Q35 Many-body Localization and Disordered Optical Lattices
Room: 210B Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: David Weiss, Pennsylvania State University

Q36 Focus Session: Self-assembled Block Copolymers and Soft Nanoparticles in Solution II
Room: 211 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Zhong-Ren Chen, Ningbo University
Invited Speakers:  Cecilia Leal  

Q37 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits - Hybrid Systems and Electrons Floating on Liquid Helium
Room: 212A Sponsor: GQI Chair: Steve Lyon, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Yinyu Liu  

Q38 Focus Session: Ground State Quantum Computing and Quantum Annealing
Room: 212B Sponsor: GQI Chair: Ryan Babbush, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Barbara Terhal  

Q39 Focus Session: Polymer Nanocomposites - Active Particles and Dynamics
Room: 213AB Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Jacinta Conrad, University of Houston
Invited Speakers:  Anna Balazs  

Q41 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Structure-Property Relationships
Room: 214A Sponsor: DPOLY DMP Chair: Jacob Tarver, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Barry Rand  

Q42 Focus Session: Theory and Simulation of Macromolecules I
Room: 214B Sponsor: DPOLY DCOMP Chair: Lisa Hall, Ohio State University
Invited Speakers:  Scott Milner  

Q43 Focus Session: Manipulating Glasses, Theory and Experiment
Room: 214C Sponsor: DPOLY GSOFT Chair: Connie Roth, Emory University
Invited Speakers:  Sindee Simon  

Q44 Networks and their applications
Room: 214D Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Danielle Bassett, University of Pennsylvania

Q45 Transport in Charged and Ion-Containing Polymers
Room: 216AB Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Christopher Soles, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Q46 Rheology and Flow of Soft Materials
Room: 217A Sponsor: GSOFT Chair: Roseanna Zia, Cornell University

Q47 Physics of Bacteria and Viruses
Room: 217B Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Guannan Liu, Princeton University

Q48 Focus Session: Physics of Proteins: Dynamics and Function III
Room: 217C Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Dimitri Antoniou, University of Arizona
Invited Speakers:  Wouter Hoff  

Q49 Focus Session: Swimmers
Room: 217D Sponsor: GSOFT Chair: Andrea Liu, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Thomas Powers  

Q50 Focus Session: Reconfiguring and Actuating Soft Matter II: Tunable Interactions
Room: 218 Sponsor: GSOFT Chair: Zorana Zeravcic, Rockefeller University

Mar 4 2015 5:45PM, Wednesday

R3 The Division of Materials Research at NSF - Mary Galvin-Donahue, Division Director, followed by discussion of Broader Impacts in Research
Room: 202AB Sponsor: APS

R21 Joint Task Force on Undergraduate Physics Programs
Room: 201 Sponsor: APS

Mar 4 2015 6:00PM, Wednesday

R50 NSBP& NSHP Receptions
Room: Grand Hyatt Travis B & Travis C Sponsor: APS

R51 LGBT Roundtable Discussion
Room: Grand Hyatt San Antonio Bonham B Sponsor: APS

Mar 4 2015 6:30PM, Wednesday

R20 "App-y" Hour
Room: Grand Hyatt San Antonio Republic B Sponsor: APS

R47 Review of Trends in Biological Physics
Room: 217B Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Wolfgang Losert, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Sara Solla,  Wendell Lim  

Mar 4 2015 6:45PM, Wednesday

R6 Transformational Opportunities for Energy Sciences
Room: 006A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: George Crabtree, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  John Sarrao  

Mar 4 2015 7:00PM, Wednesday

R53 Diversity Networking Reception
Room: Grand Hyatt San Antonio Crockett CD Sponsor: APS

Mar 4 2015 7:30PM, Wednesday

R52 Special Evening Event Hosted by the Editors of Physics
Room: Texas DE Sponsor: APS Chair: Jessica Thomas, Editor, Physics

Mar 4 2015 8:00PM, Wednesday

R54 Staged Reading of the Play: Background
Room: Grand Hyatt Lone Star BC Sponsor: FHP

Mar 5 2015 8:00AM, Thursday

S1 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene - Atomic Scale Properties
Room: 001A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Abhay Pasupathy, Columbia University
Invited Speakers:  Chih-Kang Shih  

S2 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene - Optics in 2D Semiconductors V
Room: 001B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Bernhard Urbaszek, INSA Toulouse (France)
Invited Speakers:  John Schaibley  

S3 Invited Session: Why Peer Review?
Room: 002AB Sponsor: FHP Chair: Robert Crease, Stony Brook University
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Ucko,  Samindranath Mitra,  Timothy Smith,  Andrea Taroni  

S4 Physics Education Research: Course Transformation and Outreach
Room: Mayor Cockrell Room 004 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Randall Knight, California Polytechnic State University

S5 Focus Session: Spin Fluctuations and Pairing Symmetry in Fe-based Superconductors
Room: Juan Gorman Room 005 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Wei-Cheng Lee, Binghamton University
Invited Speakers:  Kazuhiko Kuroki  

S6 Focus Session: Nanostructures and Metamaterials III
Room: 006A Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Rashid Zia, Brown University
Invited Speakers:  David Miller,  Demetrios Christodoulides  

S7 Focus Session: Dirac & Weyl Semimetals
Room: 006B Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Madhab Neupane, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Yulin Chen  

S8 Disordered and Glassy Systems
Room: 006C Sponsor: GSOFT Chair: Megan Valentine, University of California, Santa Barbara

S9 Vanadium Oxides, Resistive Switching, and Interfaces with Oxides
Room: 006D Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Rick Mengyan, Texas Tech University

S10 Topological Insulators - Mainly Transport Properties (Theory)
Room: 007A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Hsin-Hua Lai, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

S11 Superconductivity: MgB2, Organics, Pd-Chalcogenides
Room: 007B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michelle Johannes, Naval Research Laboratory

S12 Focus Session: Low Dimensional Thermoelectric Systems and Theory II
Room: 007C Sponsor: DMP GERA FIAP DCOMP Chair: Frank Bridges, University of California, Santa Cruz
Invited Speakers:  Tsunehiro Takeuchi  

S13 Focus Session: Oxide-Semiconductor Interfaces, Oxygen Vacancy Defects, Doped SrTiO3
Room: 007D Sponsor: DMP Chair: Serge Nakhmanson, University of Connecticut
Invited Speakers:  Charles Fadley  

S14 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in III-V and II-VI Semiconductors
Room: 008A Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Kirstin Alberi, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

S15 Bio/Nano Applications Including Sensors
Room: 008B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Ernesto E. Marinero, Purdue University

S16 Focus Session: Graphene Devices: Function, Fabrication, and Characterization: van der Waals Heterostructures
Room: 101AB Sponsor: DMP Chair: Akm Newaz, San Francisco State University
Invited Speakers:  Vladimir Falko  

S17 Graphene: Transport Properties
Room: 102AB Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Inti Sodermann, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

S18 Invited Session: Statistical Physics for Electric Grids
Room: Mission Room 103A Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Guido Caldarelli, IMT Alti Studi Lucca
Invited Speakers:  Takashi Nishikawa,  David Newman,  Antonio Scala,  Thomas Fink  

S19 Invited Session: Additive Manufacturing: The Promises and Risks
Room: Mission Room 103B Sponsor: FPS FIAP Chair: Arian Pregenzer, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Michael Cima,  David M. Keicher,  Prabjhot Singh,  Bruce Goodwin,  Katherine Vorvolakos  

S20 Invited Session: Ion-Containing Polymers
Room: Ballroom B Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Kevin Cavicchi, University of Akron
Invited Speakers:  Jodie Lutkenhaus,  Charles Monroe,  Christopher Li,  Moon Jeong Park,  James Runt  

S21 Spectroscopic Techniques
Room: 201 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Dennis MIlls, Argonne National Laboratory

S22 Strong Correlations in Low Dimensional Systems
Room: 202A Sponsor: DCMP

S23 Simulations of Matter at Extreme Conditions
Room: 202B Sponsor: DCOMP GSCCM DMP Chair: Keith Runge, University of Florida

S24 Quantum Many-Body Systems and Methods I
Room: 203AB Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Chris Marianetti, Columbia University

S25 Focus Session: Search for New Superconductors I
Room: 203B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Chenglin Zhang, Rice University
Invited Speakers:  Jinfeng Jia  

S26 Focus Session: At the Interface of Molecules and Materials: IV
Room: 204A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Bruce Weisman, Rice University
Invited Speakers:  R. Bruce Weisman,  Libai Huang,  David Nesbitt  

S27 Focus Session: Solvation of Ions and Electrons II
Room: 204B Sponsor: DCP Chair: James M. Lisy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Invited Speakers:  Anne McCoy,  Knut R. Asmis,  Marie-Pierre Gaigeot,  Ryan Steele  

S28 Focus Session: Kagome Antiferromagnets I
Room: 205 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Steven White, University of California, Irvine
Invited Speakers:  Federico Becca  

S29 Correlated Electron Magnetism I
Room: 206A Sponsor: GMAG Chair: William Ratcliff, National Institute of Standards and Technology

S30 Magnetic Anisotropy and Permanent Magnets
Room: 206B Sponsor: GMAG Chair: David Jiles, Iowa State University

S31 Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors: Magnetic Semiconductors
Room: 207A Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Igor Zutic, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Invited Speakers:  James Glasbrenner  

S32 Focus Session: Magnetic Oxide Films and Heterostructures: Electrostatic and Strain Effects
Room: 207B Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Pavel Lukashev, University of Northern Iowa
Invited Speakers:  James Rondinelli  

S33 Focus Session: Conformations and Dynamics of Biopolymers I
Room: 208 Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY Chair: Aniket Bhattacharya, University of Central Florida
Invited Speakers:  Erwin Frey  

S34 Biofuels, Solar Fuels and Artificial Photosynthetic Systems
Room: 210A Sponsor: GERA

S35 Optomechanics, Hybrid Systems and Macroscopic Systems at the Quantum Limit
Room: 210B Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Chen-Lung Hung, Purdue University

S36 Focus Session: Driven Systems and Quench Dynamics In Interacting Bosons
Room: 211 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Eugene Demler, Harvard University

S37 Semiconductor Qubits - Gated Dots and Impurities I
Room: 212A Sponsor: GQI Chair: Andrey Kiselev, HRL Laboratories, LLC

S38 Mechanical Systems
Room: 212B Sponsor: GQI Chair: Crystal Senko, Harvard University

S39 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits: Materials and Characterization
Room: 213AB Sponsor: GQI Chair: Kevin Osborn, Laboratory for Physicsl Sciences
Invited Speakers:  David Pappas  

S41 New Directions in Polymer Physics
Room: 214A Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Julie Albert, Tulane University

S42 Electrically and Optically Active Polymers
Room: 214B Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Chelsea Chen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

S43 Focus Session: Dynamics of Glassy Polymers Under Confinement I
Room: 214C Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Rob Riggleman, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Connie B. Roth  

S44 Focus Session: Granular Materials and Continuum Descriptions of Discrete Media I
Room: 214D Sponsor: GSNP GSOFT Chair: Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University

S45 Focus Session: Polymer Nanocomposites: Dynamics
Room: 216AB Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Laura Clarke, North Carolina State University
Invited Speakers:  Nigel Clarke  

S46 Invited Session: Hybrid Spin-Strained Systems in Diamond
Room: 217A Sponsor: GMAG GQI Chair: Sunil Bhave, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  Gregory Fuchs,  Ania Bleszynski Jayich,  Jean Teissier,  Peter Rabl,  Marco Loncar  

S47 Focus Session: Mechanical Structure-Function Relations in Biological Matter I
Room: 217B Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Moumita Das, Rochester Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Jesse Silverberg  

S48 Focus Session: Physics of Evolutionary and Population Dynamics I
Room: 217C Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Michel Pleimliung, Virginia Tech University
Invited Speakers:  Mauro Mobilia  

S49 Focus Session: Migration of Cells, Droplets, and Particles on Substrates: Mostly Active Nematics
Room: 217D Sponsor: GSOFT DBIO Chair: Scott Milner, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Maria Santore  

S50 Self- and Directed Assembly
Room: 218 Sponsor: GSOFT Chair: Eric Corwin, University of Oregon

S51 Invited Session: The Valley Hall Effect in van der Waals Materials
Room: Grand Ballroom C1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Allan MacDonald, University of Texas at Austin
Invited Speakers:  Andre Geim,  Leonid Levitov,  Seigo Tarucha,  Wang Yao,  Kenan Gundogdu  

S52 Invited Session: Partial Order and Spin Liquids In Novel Frustrated Materials
Room: Grand Ballroom C2 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Johannes Knolle, Cambridge University
Invited Speakers:  Tyrel McQueen,  Kate Ross,  Minoru Yamashita,  Roderich Moessner,  Radu Coldea  

S53 Invited Session: Symposium on Novel Phenomena in Helium in Reduced Dimensions and Confinement
Room: Grand Ballroom C3 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Yoonseok Lee, University of Florida
Invited Speakers:  John Saunders,  James Sauls,  Jeevak Parpia,  Richard Haley,  Guillaume Gervais  

Mar 5 2015 11:15AM, Thursday

T1 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene - Silicene and Germanene
Room: 001A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Roland Kawakami, Ohio State University

T2 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene - Interaction & Correlation Effects
Room: 001B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ming-wei Wu, University of Science and Technology, China
Invited Speakers:  Steven G. Louie  

T3 Invited Session: Network and Grid Resilience
Room: 002AB Sponsor: FPS GSNP Chair: Micah Lowenthal, National Academy of Science
Invited Speakers:  Dan Ton,  Scott Backhaus,  Chen-Ching Liu,  Chuanyi Ji  

T4 Focus Session: Building New Pathways in Physics Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education
Room: Mayor Cockrell Room 004 Sponsor: FEd FIAP Chair: Bahram Roughani, Loyola University Maryland

T5 Focus Session: Disorder in Fe-based Superconductors
Room: Juan Gorman Room 005 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Gregory Stewart, University of Florida
Invited Speakers:  Nicholas Curro  

T6 Focus Session: Iridates and Osmates
Room: 006A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Saicharan Aswartham, University of Kentucky
Invited Speakers:  Vivien Zapf,  Hongbin Zhang  

T7 Focus Session: Dirac, Weyl Semimetals, Kondo Insulators
Room: 006B Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Kai Sun, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  James Analytis  

T8 Plasmonic Phenomena in Metallic Nanostuctures
Room: 006C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Yanwen Wu, University of South Carolina

T9 Physics and Applications of Photonics and Lasers
Room: 006D Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Aleksei Zheltikov, Texas A&M University

T10 Topological Insulators: Synthesis
Room: 007A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Yasuyuki Nakajima, University of Maryland

T11 Superconductivity: Heavy Elements and Spin-Orbit Effects
Room: 007B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Valentin Taufour, Ames Laboratory

T12 Focus Session: Non-Oxide Nanostructures and Artificially Structured Materials and Related Phenomena
Room: 007C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Pratibha Dev, Naval Research Laboratory

T13 Focus Session: Nickelate and Vanadate Heterostructures
Room: 007D Sponsor: DMP Chair: Yuri Suzuki, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Jak Chakhalian  

T14 Focus Session: Dopants and Defects in TiO2, SrTiO3, and Other Oxides
Room: 008A Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Kookrin Char, Seoul National University
Invited Speakers:  Anderson Janotti  

T15 Nanotechnology
Room: 008B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Samir Iqbal, University of Texas at Arlington

T16 Focus Session: Graphene Electronic Devices I
Room: 101AB Sponsor: DMP Chair: Saiful Khondaker, University of Central Florida
Invited Speakers:  Cory Dean  

T17 Focus Session: Graphene Devices: Function, Fabrication, and Characterization: Graphene Nanostructures
Room: 102AB Sponsor: DMP Chair: Biddut Sarker, Purdue University
Invited Speakers:  Carlo Antonio Pignedoli  

T18 Invited Session: Keithley Award Symposium
Room: Mission Room 103A Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Joseph Stroscio, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  John Unguris,  Alessandra Lanzara,  Markus Donath,  Andreas Schmid,  Alexander Khajetoorians  

T19 Invited Session: FIAP Prize Session and the Forum on Entrepreneurship in Physics
Room: Mission Room 103B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: John Rumble, R&R Data Services
Invited Speakers:  Supratik Guha,  Thomas Theis,  James Wynne  

T20 Invited Session: Recent Frontiers of Quantum Thermodynamics: From Theory to Experiment
Room: Ballroom B Sponsor: GQI DAMOP Chair: Akimasa Miyake, University of New Mexico
Invited Speakers:  Terence Rudolph,  David Huse,  Kilian Singer,  David Cory,  Chuan-Feng Li  

T21 Numerical Methods for Correlated Electrons
Room: 201 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Emmanuele Gull, University of Michigan

T22 Localization and Disorder in Strongly Correlated Systems
Room: 202A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Arijeet Pal, Harvard University

T23 Multiscale Modeling
Room: 202B Sponsor: DCOMP DMP Chair: Richard Lombardini, St. Mary's University

T24 Electronic Structure Methods IV
Room: 203AB Sponsor: DCOMP

T25 Focus Session: Search for New Superconductors II
Room: 203B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jiaqing Yan, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Invited Speakers:  Jianlin Luo  

T26 Computational Applications and Methods I
Room: 204A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Bruce Garrett, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

T27 Focus Session: Solvation of Ions and Electrons III
Room: 204B Sponsor: DCP Chair: Etienne Garand, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Invited Speakers:  Heather Allen,  Paul Cremer,  Sean Garrett-Roe  

T28 Focus Session: Spin-Hall Effect II
Room: 205 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Benjamin Jungfleisch, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Yasuhiro Niimi,  Mathias Weiler  

T29 Correlated Electron Magnetism II
Room: 206A Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Nick Butch, National Institute of Standards and Technology

T30 Focus Session: Exchange Spring Magnets and Multilayers
Room: 206B Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Luke Marshall, Northeastern University

T31 Focus Session: Ruthenates and Other Oxides
Room: 207A Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Dennis Meier, ETH Zuerich

T32 Focus Session: Transition Metal Oxides II
Room: 207B Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Robert Klie, University of Illinois at Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Jiawang Hong  

T33 Focus Session: Conformations and Dynamics of Biopolymers II
Room: 208 Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY Chair: Aniket Bhattacharya, University of Central Florida

T34 Materials for Electrochemical Energy Storage I
Room: 210A Sponsor: GERA DMP FIAP

T36 Focus Session: Novel Phases With Cold Atoms, Molecules and Ions
Room: 210B Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Ulrich Schneider, Ludwig Maxmillans Universitat
Invited Speakers:  Colin Parker  

T37 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits - Optically Addressed Dots and Impurities II
Room: 212A Sponsor: GQI Chair: Danny Kim, HRL Laboratories, LLC
Invited Speakers:  Peter McMahon  

T38 Quantum Characterization and Tomography
Room: 212B Sponsor: GQI Chair: Joshua Combes, Perimeter Institute

T39 Focus Session: Quantum Foundations Studies with Superconducting Qubits
Room: 213AB Sponsor: GQI Chair: Alexander Korotkov, University of California, Riverside
Invited Speakers:  Nicolas Roch,  Kater Murch  

T41 Polymer Nanocomposites I
Room: 214A Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Praveen Agarwal, Dow Chemical Company

T42 Focus Session: Theory and Simulation of Macromolecules II
Room: 214B Sponsor: DPOLY DCOMP Chair: Amalie Frischknecht, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Ronald Larson  

T43 Focus Session: Dynamics of Glassy Polymers Under Confinement II
Room: 214C Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Rodney Priestley, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Francis Starr  

T44 Focus Session: Granular Materials and Continuum Descriptions of Discrete Media II
Room: 214D Sponsor: GSNP GSOFT Chair: Jonathan Bares, Duke University

T45 Transport in Polymer Membranes
Room: 216AB Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Rajiv Taribagil, Infineum

T46 Invited Session: From Bacteria to Eukaryotes: Shape Organization in Living Matter
Room: 217A Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Shiladitya Banerjee, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Ariel Amir,  Aaron Dinner,  Manuel Campos,  Herve Turlier  

T47 Focus Session: Mechanical Structure-Function Relations in Biological Matter II
Room: 217B Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Moumita Das, Rochester Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Katherine Zhang  

T48 Focus Session: Physics of Evolutionary and Population Dynamics II
Room: 217C Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Uwe Tauber, Virginia Tech University
Invited Speakers:  Kirill Korolev  

T49 Focus Session: Reconfiguring and Actuating Soft Matter III: Shape
Room: 217D Sponsor: GSOFT Chair: Karen Daniels, North Carolina State University
Invited Speakers:  Michael Dickey  

T50 Liquid Crystals II: Chiral and Nanocomposites
Room: 218 Sponsor: GSOFT Chair: Chenhui Zhu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

T51 Invited Session: Soft Matter Nanophotonics: DNA-Directed Assemblies of Metal Clusters and Metal Nanoparticles
Room: Grand Ballroom C1 Sponsor: GSOFT DCMP Chair: Elisabeth Gwinn, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Olga Lopez-Acevedo,  Stacy Copp,  Gleb Finkelstein,  Nicholas Kotov,  Vinothan N. Manoharan  

T52 Invited Session: Dirac Physics in Bulk Semimetals
Room: Grand Ballroom C2 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Kamran Behnia, ESPCI ParisTech
Invited Speakers:  Yuki Fuseya,  Lucia Steinke,  N. Phuan Ong,  Jun Sung Kim  

T53 Invited Session: DMP Prize Session
Room: Grand Ballroom C3 Sponsor: DMP Chair: John Mitchell, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Hideo Hosono,  Jacqueline Krim,  Keji Lai,  Moureen Kemei,  Matthew Reed  

Mar 5 2015 1:00PM, Thursday

V1 Poster Session III (2:00 pm - 5:00 pm)
Room: Exhibit Hall C

Mar 5 2015 2:30PM, Thursday

W1 Focus Sesson: Graphene: Nanostructures
Room: 001A Sponsor: DMP Chair: An-Ping Li, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Walt de Heer  

W2 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene - Devices I
Room: 001B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Xia Hong, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Invited Speakers:  Michael Fuhrer  

W3 Invited Session: Growing the Physics Major
Room: 002AB Sponsor: FEd Chair: Duncan McBride, National Science Foundation
Invited Speakers:  Theodore Hodapp,  Scott Sommerfeldt,  Michael Marder,  Willie S. Rockward,  Sacha Kopp  

W5 Focus Session: Magnetism and Transport in Fe-Based Superconductors
Room: Juan Gorman Room 005 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Natalia Perkins, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Brian M. Andersen  

W6 Focus Session: Nanostructures and Metamaterials IV
Room: 006A Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Oded Rabin, University of Maryland

W7 Focus Session: Novel Topological Phases: Theory II
Room: 006B Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Jens Bardarson, Max Planck Institute, Dresden
Invited Speakers:  Timothy Hsieh  

W8 Focus Session: Optical And Electrical Properties Of Metamaterials And Photonic Crystals
Room: 006C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Patrick Vora, George Mason University

W10 Topological Insulators: Optical and Other Properties (Theory)
Room: 007A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Bitan Roy, University of Maryland

W11 Cuprates: Josephson Junctions
Room: 007B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Mike Osofsky, Naval Research Laboratory

W12 Insulators: Synthesis and Experiment
Room: 007C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ben White, University of California, San Diego

W13 Focus Session: Manganite Thin Films and Interfaces
Room: 007D Chair: Ganesh Panchapakesan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Yuri Suzuki  

W15 Glasses and Quasicrystals
Room: 008B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Erdal C. Oguz, Princeton University

W16 Focus Session: Graphene Electronic Devices II
Room: 101AB Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jiang Wei, Tulane University
Invited Speakers:  Aurelien Lherbier  

W17 Focus Session: Graphene Devices: Function, Fabrication, and Characterization: Graphene Surface Characterization
Room: 102AB Sponsor: DMP Chair: Doron Naveh, Bar-Ilan University
Invited Speakers:  Francisco Guinea  

W18 Invited Session: Novel Approaches for Quantum Information Processing With Polar Molecules
Room: Mission Room 103A Sponsor: GQI DAMOP Chair: Sabre Kais, Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute & Purdue University
Invited Speakers:  Michael Drewsen,  Jun Ye,  Alexey Gorshkov,  Brian Odom,  Felipe Herrera  

W19 Invited Session: Frontiers of Electronic Structure Theory for Materials
Room: Mission Room 103B Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Volker Blum, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Weitao Yang,  Patrick Rinke,  Thomas K\"orzd\"orfer,  Fernando Reboredo,  George Booth  

W20 Invited Session: Physics of Biomacromolecules
Room: Ballroom B Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Patrick Underhill, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Invited Speakers:  Monica Olvera De La Cruz,  Jeffery Saven,  Raffaele Mezzenga,  Sarah Heilshorn,  Charles Schroeder  

W21 Density Waves in Superconductors and Other Systems
Room: 201 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Akash V. Maharaj, Stanford University

W22 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes and Related Materials: Thin Films & Networks
Room: 202A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Shu-Jen Han, IBM T.J. Watson
Invited Speakers:  Michael Arnold  

W23 Focus Session: Anderson Localization
Room: 202B Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Mark Jarrell, Louisiana State University
Invited Speakers:  Hanna Terletska  

W24 Electronic Structure Methods V
Room: 203AB Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Eric Shirley, National Institute of Standards and Technology

W25 Focus Session: Cooperative Phenomena in Plasticity III
Room: 203B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Robert Maass, University of Gottingen
Invited Speakers:  Lucas Meza  

W26 Computational Applications and Methods II
Room: 204A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Ryan Steele, University of Utah

W27 Charge Transport and Plasmonics
Room: 204B Sponsor: DCP Chair: David Nesbitt, University of Colorado at Boulder

W28 Focus Session: Spin Caloritronics
Room: 205 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Geoffrey Beach, Massachusetts Insititute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Ken-ichi Uchida  

W29 Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Physics in Carbon-Based Materials
Room: 206A Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Olaf van’t Erve, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Tatiana Rappoport  

W30 Focus Session: Frontiers in Magnetism I
Room: 206B Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Christian Binek, University of Nebraska
Invited Speakers:  Josep Nogues  

W31 Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors: Spins in Quantum Dots and Impurities
Room: 207A Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Jason Petta, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Jiri Stehlik  

W32 Focus Session: Iridates
Room: 207B Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Sae-Hwan Chun, Argonne National Laboratory

W33 Focus Session: Conformations and Dynamics of Biopolymers III
Room: 208 Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY Chair: Jeffrey Noel, Rice University
Invited Speakers:  Paul Janmey  

W35 Colloidal Clusters, Interactions, and Synthesis
Room: 210B Sponsor: GSOFT Chair: Robert Hoy, University of South Florida

W36 New Developments in Cold Atom Physics
Room: 211 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Meera Parish, Monash University

W37 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits - Gated Dots and Impurities II
Room: 212A Sponsor: GQI Chair: Charles Tahan, Laboratory for Physical Sciences
Invited Speakers:  Mark Friesen  

W39 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits: Measurement and Novel Architectures
Room: 213AB Sponsor: GQI Chair: John Martinis, Google Inc, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Evan Jeffrey  

W41 Polymer Nanocomposites II
Room: 214A Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Shengfeng Cheng, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

W42 Focus Session: Multiscale Modeling of Polymers
Room: 214B Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Janna Maranas, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Marina Guenza  

W43 Focus Session: Dynamics of Glassy Polymers Under Confinement III
Room: 214C Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: David Simmons, University of Akron

W44 Focus Session: Jamming in Granular Media I
Room: 214D Sponsor: GSOFT GSNP Chair: Corey O'Hern, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Sumantra Sarkar  

W45 Structure and Phase Behavior of Charged and Ion Containing Polymers
Room: 216AB Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Anupriya Agrawal, Clemson University

W46 Invited Session: Collective Behavior and Jamming in Multi-Cellular Systems
Room: 217A Sponsor: DBIO GSNP Chair: Jerry Lee, National Cancer Institute
Invited Speakers:  Jeffrey Fredberg,  Robert Austin,  Pak Kin Wong,  Peter Friedl,  Joao Xavier  

W47 Membranes: Biological and Synthetic
Room: 217B Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Kranthi Mandadapu, University of California, Berkeley

W48 Physics of Evolutionary and Population Dynamics III
Room: 217C Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Jayajit DAS, The Ohio State University
Invited Speakers:  Ganhui Lan,  Paul Francois  

W49 Focus Session: Migration of Cells, Droplets, and Particles on Substrates
Room: 217D Sponsor: GSOFT Chair: Kim Weirich, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Erin Rericha  

W50 Liquid Crystals III: Nematic and Twist Bend Phases
Room: 218 Sponsor: GSOFT Chair: Luz Miranda-Martinez, University of Maryland-College Park

W51 Invited Session: Recent Advances in Spin Transport: Spin Pumping and the Spin Hall Effect
Room: Grand Ballroom C1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Thomas Silva, NIST-Boulder
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Ralph,  Berend Jonker,  Qian Niu,  Fengyuan Yang,  Henri Jaffres  

W52 Invited Session: The Upside of Noise: Engineered Dissipation in Quantum Many-Body Physics and Quantum Computing
Room: Grand Ballroom C2 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jens Koch, Norhtwestern University
Invited Speakers:  Mohammad Hafezi,  Zaki Leghtas,  Eliot Kapit,  Sebastian Diehl,  Tobias Donner  

W53 Invited Session: Discoveries in SrTiO3
Room: Grand Ballroom C3 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Chris Leighton, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Kamran Behnia,  Susanne Stemmer,  Scott Crooker,  Jun-Sik Lee  

Mar 5 2015 5:30PM, Thursday

X1 Science Film: An Aperture into Science Advocacy
Room: Grand Hyatt San Antonio Presidio Sponsor: APS

Mar 6 2015 8:00AM, Friday

Y1 Focus Session: Graphene - Multilayer and Interfacial Effects
Room: 001A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Rui He, University of Northern Iowa
Invited Speakers:  An-Ping Li  

Y2 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene - New 2D Materials
Room: 001B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ju Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Ana M. Sanchez  

Y4 Materials for Electrochemical Energy Storage II
Room: Mayor Cockrell Room 004 Sponsor: GERA DMP FIAP
Invited Speakers:  Minoru Otani  

Y5 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors -- Materials Synthesis and Charactarization
Room: Juan Gorman Room 005 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Athena Safa-Sefat, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Maw-Kuen Wu  

Y6 Optical and Electrical Properties of Hybrid Nanostructures
Room: 006A Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Peter Brereton, United States Naval Academy

Y7 Insulators: Transport, Spectroscopies, etc.
Room: 006B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Andrei Sushkov, University of Maryland

Y8 Ultrathin and Layered Materials
Room: 006C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Yuan Huang, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Y9 Focus Session: Honeycomb and Pyrochlore Lattices
Room: 006D Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ribhu Kaul, University of Kentucky
Invited Speakers:  Simon Trebst  

Y10 Topological Insulators: Band Structures Theory
Room: 007A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Philip Brydon, University of Maryland

Y11 Statistical Mechanics of Social Systems
Room: 007B Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Manolis Antonoyiannakis, Columbia University

Y12 Spectroscopy on Topological Insulators
Room: 007C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Andrew Wray, New York University

Y16 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes, Graphene, & Related Materials: Chemical Properties and Sensing
Room: 101AB Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Fuhrer, Monash University

Y17 Focus Session: Graphene Devices: Optical and Opto-electronics
Room: 102AB Sponsor: DMP Chair: Xiao Li, University of Maryland

Y18 Invited Session: New Approaches to the Non-Equilibrium Quantum Many-Body Problem
Room: Mission Room 103A Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Andrew Millis, Columbia University
Invited Speakers:  Guy Cohen,  Michele Fabrizio,  Herbert F. Fotso,  Ulrich Schollwoeck,  Philipp Werner  

Y19 Invited Session: Pictures From the Murk - Real Information from Complex Imaging Datasets
Room: Mission Room 103B Sponsor: GIMS DCOMP Chair: Chris Jacobsen, Northwestern University
Invited Speakers:  Chris Jacobsen,  Youssef Nashed,  Antonio Plaza  

Y20 Invited Session: Spin Accumulation: Experiment and Theory Behind the Controversy
Room: Ballroom B Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Ian Appelbaum, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Paul Crowell,  Ron Jansen,  Felix Casanova,  Hanan Dery,  Matthieu Jamet  

Y21 Vanadium Oxides I
Room: 201 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jiang Wei, Tulane University

Y22 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Optical, Mechanical, Magnetic & Other Properties
Room: 202A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael S. Arnold, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Invited Speakers:  Stephen Cronin  

Y23 Focus Session: Petascale Science and Beyond: Applications and Opportunities in Materials Science and Chemistry III
Room: 202B Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Thomas Schulthess, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
Invited Speakers:  John Joannopoulos  

Y25 Superconductivity in Cuprates (mostly): Theory II
Room: 203B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Wei Ku, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Y26 Surfaces, Interfaces, Colloids and Catalysis I
Room: 204A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Jinglie Ping, University of Pennsylvania

Y27 Superconductivity and Spin Orbit Coupling
Room: 204B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ke Chen, Temple University

Y28 Focus Session: Spin-Hall Effect III
Room: 205 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Luqiao Liu, IBM Yorktown Heights
Invited Speakers:  John Q. Xiao  

Y29 Focus Session: Disordered and Glassy Magnets
Room: 206A Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Daniel Silevitch, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Eugene Chudnovsky,  Kemp Plumb  

Y31 Focus Session: Spin Chains II: Mostly S = 1/2
Room: 207A Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Michael Baker, Stanford University

Y32 Focus Session: Magnetic Oxide Thin Films and Heterostructures: Oxide Films
Room: 207B Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Tula Paudel, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Invited Speakers:  Thirumalai Venkatesan  

Y34 Focus Session: Materials for Electrochemical Energy Storage
Room: 210A Sponsor: GERA DMP FIAP
Invited Speakers:  Anton Van der Ven  

Y35 Collective Modes and Topological Defects in Bose-Einstein Condensates
Room: 210B Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Lauren Aycock, Joint Quantum Institute/ Cornell University

Y36 New Developments in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Room: 211 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Nathan Gemelke, Pennsylvnia State University

Y39 Superconducting Cavities and Resonators
Room: 213AB Sponsor: GQI Chair: Jose Aumentado, NIST

Y41 Focus Session: Biopolymers I: Biohybrids, Biointerfaces, and Modeling
Room: 214A Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Bradley D. Olsen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Paola Carbone,  Igal Szleifer  

Y42 Theory and Modeling of Diblock Copolymers and Blends
Room: 214B Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Charles Sing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Y43 Focus Session: Fluids Under Confinement, Colloids and Liquid Crystals
Room: 214C Sponsor: DPOLY GSOFT DCMP Chair: Alberto Fernandez-Nieves, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Oleg Lavrentovich  

Y44 Focus Session: Jamming in Granular Media II
Room: 214D Sponsor: GSOFT
Invited Speakers:  Thibault Bertrand  

Y45 Focus Session: Granular Materials and Continuum Descriptions of Discrete Media III
Room: 216AB Sponsor: GSNP GSOFT Chair: Ken Kamrin, Massachusetts Institute of Techology
Invited Speakers:  Jean Carlson  

Y46 Invited Session: Novel Approaches to Understanding the Behavior of Self-Propelled Particles
Room: 217A Sponsor: GSNP DBIO Chair: Igor Aronson, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Jeffrey Guasto,  Andrey Sokolov,  Jorn Dunkel,  Saverio Spagnolie,  Michael Shelley  

Y47 Multi-cellular Processes and Development
Room: 217B Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Pushpita Ghosh, Rice University

Y49 Focus Session: Yielding of Colloidal Crystals, Glasses, and Other Soft Materials
Room: 217D Sponsor: GSOFT GSNP Chair: Shomeek Mukhopadhyay, Yale University

Y51 Invited Session: Origin and Manifestations of Electronic Nematicity in Iron-Based Superconductors
Room: Grand Ballroom C1 Sponsor: DCMP
Invited Speakers:  Raymond Osborn,  Andrey Chubukov,  Yann Gallais,  Peter Hirschfeld,  Abhay Pasupathy  

Y52 Invited Session: Geometrical Properties of Quantum Hall Fluids
Room: Grand Ballroom C2 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Eduardo Fradkin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Invited Speakers:  Gil Young Cho,  Joseph Maciejko,  Nicholas Read,  Dam Son  

Y53 Invited Session: Cuprate Pseudogap, Charge Density Wave and Pair Density Wave
Room: Grand Ballroom C3 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Steven Kivelson, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Riccardo Comin,  Rui-Hua He,  Patrick Lee,  Suchitra Sebastian,  Jennifer Hoffman  

Mar 6 2015 11:15AM, Friday

Z1 Focus Session: Graphene - Multilayer and Interfacial Effect
Room: 001A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Rui He, University of Northern Iowa
Invited Speakers:  Rui He  

Z2 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene - Devices II
Room: 001B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Tauno Palomaki, University of Washington
Invited Speakers:  Ju Li  

Z3 Invited Session: Thermodynamics of Information Processing
Room: 002AB Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Massimiliano Esposito, University of Luxembourg
Invited Speakers:  Andre Cardoso Barato,  John Bechhoefer,  Sebastian Deffner,  Takahiro Sagawa,  Sergio Ciliberto  

Z4 Physics of Batteries, Supercapacitors and Fuel Cells
Room: Mayor Cockrell Room 004 Sponsor: GERA
Invited Speakers:  Paul Fenter  

Z5 Focus Session: Competing Order and ARPES in Fe-Based Superconductors
Room: Juan Gorman Room 005 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Andrey Chubukov, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Donghui Lu  

Z7 Insulators: ARPES and Other Spectroscopies
Room: 006B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jonathan Denlinger, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Z10 Topological Insulators - General Theory
Room: 007A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Pallab Goswami, University of Maryland

Z16 Focus Session: Graphene - Growth
Room: 101AB Sponsor: DMP Chair: Anthony Boyd, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Dongmok Whang  

Z18 Invited Session: Development of Computational Techniques for Accelerated Materials Development
Room: Mission Room 103A Sponsor: DCOMP DCMP Chair: Marco Buongiorno Nardelli, University of North Texas
Invited Speakers:  Marco Fornari,  Stefano Sanvito,  Cormac Toher,  Georg Madsen,  David Broido  

Z19 Invited Session: Shear Thickening of Dense Suspensions
Room: Mission Room 103B Sponsor: DFD GSOFT Chair: Heinrich Jaeger, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Eric Brown,  Itai Cohen,  Jeffrey Morris,  Claus Heussinger,  Devaraj van der Meer  

Z20 Invited Session: Physics of Entanglements
Room: Ballroom B Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Scott Milner, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Suzanne Fielding,  Shi-Qing Wang,  Daniel Read,  Dimitris Vlassopoulos,  Jian Qin  

Z21 Vanadium Oxides II
Room: 201 Chair: Mengkun Liu, Stony Brook University

Z22 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes, Graphene, & Related Materials
Room: 202A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Stephen Cronin, University of Southern California
Invited Speakers:  Robert Haddon  

Z23 General Physics
Room: 202B Sponsor: APS

Z24 Quantum Many-Body Systems and Methods II
Room: 203AB Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Gopal Priya

Z25 Hubbard and Other Models: Theory
Room: 203B Sponsor: DCMP

Z26 Surfaces, Interfaces, Colloids and Catalysis II
Room: 204A Sponsor: DCP Chair: David Chandler, Sandia National Laboratories

Z28 Focus Session: Kagome Antiferromagnets II
Room: 205 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Collin Broholm, Johns Hopkins University

Z29 Cooperative Phenomena In Magnetism II
Room: 206A Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Daniel Parshall, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Z30 Focus Session: Frontiers in Magnetism II
Room: 206B Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Barbara Jones, IBM Almaden Research Center

Z31 Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors: Topological Insulators and Spin Hall Effect
Room: 207A Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Pengke Li, University of Maryland, College Park
Invited Speakers:  Lian Li  

Z32 Focus Session: Strongly Correlated Oxide Systems
Room: 207B Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Jian Liu, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Antoine Georges  

Z34 Hydrogen Production, Storage, Delivery
Room: 210A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Zachary Gabelle, Carnagie Institute for Science

Z36 Focus Session: Non-equilibrium Dynamics in Quantum Systems
Room: 211 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Stefan Natu, University of Maryland, College Park
Invited Speakers:  Michael Foss-Feig  

Z39 Focus Session: Superconducting Qubits and Junctions
Room: 213AB Sponsor: GQI Chair: William Oliver, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Ioan M. Pop  

Z41 Focus Session: Biopolymers II: Phase Behavior, Rheology, and Mechanics
Room: 214A Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Joseph Lott, University of Southern Mississippi
Invited Speakers:  Matthew Tirrell  

Z42 Theory and Modeling of Polymer Nanocomposites, Interfaces, and Surfaces
Room: 214B Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Ting Ge, University of North Carolina

Z43 Focus Session: Fluids Under Confinement, Instabilities
Room: 214C Sponsor: DPOLY GSOFT Chair: Peter Yunker, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Elisabeth Charlaix  

Z44 Focus Session: Jamming in Granular Media III
Room: 214D Sponsor: GSNP GSOFT Chair: Justin Burton, Emory University

Z45 Porous Media, Fibers, and Flow
Room: 216AB Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Jonathan Brown, Ohio State University

Z46 Invited Session: Mechanical Interactions and Pattern Formation in Multicellular Systems
Room: 217A Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Ingmar Riedel-Kruse, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Frank Julicher,  Karen Kasza,  M. Shane Hutson,  Carl-Philipp Heisenberg,  Dapeng Bi  

Z47 Physics of Genome Organization
Room: 217B Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Alexandre Morozov, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Alexandre Morozov,  Eldon Emberly  

Z49 Focus Session: Self-Phoretic Colloids and Active Emulsions II
Room: 217D Sponsor: GSOFT Chair: Michelle Driscoll, New York University
Invited Speakers:  Corinna Maass  

Z50 Membranes, Micelles and Vesicles
Room: 218 Sponsor: GSOFT Chair: Haskell Taub, University of Missouri, Columbia

Z51 Invited Session: FeSe/Oxide Interface Superconductivity
Room: Grand Ballroom C1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Qimiao Si, Rice University
Invited Speakers:  Robert Moore,  Hao Ding,  Rui Peng,  Zhong-Yi Lu,  Andrew Millis  

Z53 Invited Session: Thermal Transport: Modelling and Ab Initio Calculations
Room: Grand Ballroom C3 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Matthias Scheffler, Fritz-Haber, Berlin, Germany
Invited Speakers:  Kenneth Goodson,  Nicola Marzari,  Christian Carbogno,  Yuping He,  David Singh  

Mar 2 2015 8:00AM, Monday

A0 Focus Session: Nematicity and Electron Correlations in Fe-Based Superconductors
Room: Ballroom A Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Rafael Fernandes, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Christoph Meingast  

A1 Focus Session: Graphene, Adsorbates, and Electronic Structure
Room: 001A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jeremy Robinson, Naval Research Laboratory

A2 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene - Phosphorene I
Room: 001B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Wenjuan Zhu, University of Illinois

A3 Invited Session: New Frontiers in Laser Science
Room: 002AB Sponsor: DLS Chair: Stephen Bradforth, University of Southern California
Invited Speakers:  Marsha I. Lester,  Marlan Scully,  Amy Mullin,  Mark Raizen,  David Chandler  

A4 Undergraduate Research/Society of Physics Students I
Room: Mayor Cockrell Room 004 Sponsor: APS Chair: Crystal Bailey, American Physical Society

A5 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect I
Room: Juan Gorman Room 005 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: John Watson, Purdue University

A6 Focus Session: Nanostructures and Metamaterials I
Room: 006A Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Federico Capasso, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Jennifer Dionne  

A7 Focus Session: Magnetism & Topological Insulators
Room: 006B Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Jagadeesh Moodera, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Cui-Zu Chang  

A8 Semiconductor Surfaces and Interfaces
Room: 006C Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Francesca Cavallo, University of New Mexico

A9 Majorana Fermions and Superconductivity
Room: 006D Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Christian Platt, Stanford University

A10 Topological Matters
Room: 007A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jason Alicea, California Polytechnic Institute

A11 Cuprate Superconductivity: Charge Density Waves and Charge Order
Room: 007B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Wei Ku, Brookhaven National Laboratory

A12 Focus Session: Iridates and Ruthenates
Room: 007C Sponsor: DMP Chair: Gang Cao, University of Kentucky
Invited Speakers:  Young-June Kim  

A13 Focus Session: Titanate Interfaces and Heterostructures
Room: 007D Sponsor: DMP Chair: Roman Engel-Herbert, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Scott Chambers  

A14 Focus Session: Quantum Phase Transitions And Quantum Criticality
Room: 008A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Vivien Zapf, Los Alamos National Laboratory

A15 Electronic Structure: Theory and Spectra I
Room: 008B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Barbara Jones, IBM Almaden Research Center

A16 Focus Session: Materials by Theoretical Design
Room: 101AB Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: James Rondinelli, Northwestern University
Invited Speakers:  Aleksey Kolmogorov  

A17 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes & Related Materials: Growth, Separation, and Assembly
Room: 102AB Sponsor: DMP Chair: Andrew Rinzler, University of Florida
Invited Speakers:  Avetik Harutyunyan  

A18 Invited Session: Recent Advances in Quantum Algorithms
Room: Mission Room 103A Sponsor: GQI DAMOP Chair: Nathan Wiebe, Microsoft Research
Invited Speakers:  David Meyer,  Stephen Jordan,  Gian Giacomo Guerreschi,  Miklos Santha  

A19 Invited Session: Fifty Years of Molecular Dynamics Simulations I: Past, Present and Future
Room: Mission Room 103B Sponsor: DCOMP DCMP DCP Chair: Rajiv Kalia, University of Southern California
Invited Speakers:  Roberto Car,  Efthimios Kaxiras,  Susan Sinnott,  Priya Vashishta,  Uzi Landman  

A20 Invited Session: Interfacing Experiment and Theory in Polymer Physics
Room: Ballroom B Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Bryan Boudouris, Purdue University
Invited Speakers:  Frank S. Bates,  Sanat Kumar,  Nitash Balsara,  Arthi Jayaraman,  Janna K. Maranas  

A21 Focus Session: Advances in Scanned Probe Microscopy I: Novel Approaches and Ultrasenstive Detection
Room: 201 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Nikolai Zhitenev, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Andrea Centrone  

A22 Collective Modes and Superflow in Solid Helium
Room: 202A Sponsor: DCMP

A23 Proximity Effect and Josephson Junctions
Room: 202B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Andreas Bill, California State University, Long Beach

A26 Focus Session: Non-Adiabatic Dynamics: New Insights from Experiment and Theory I
Room: 204A Sponsor: DCP Chair: Richard Dawes, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Invited Speakers:  David Yarkony,  Kristie Boering,  Roseanne Sension  

A27 Focus Session: Emerging Ultrafast Technologies I
Room: 204B Sponsor: DCP Chair: Andrei Tokmakoff, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Richard Van Duyne,  Naomi Ginsberg,  Claus Ropers,  Markus Raschke  

A28 Focus Session: Skyrmions I
Room: 205 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: John Xiao, University of Delaware
Invited Speakers:  Johan Akerman  

A29 Focus Session: Antiferromagnets on Triangular Lattices
Room: 206A Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Alexander Chernyshev, University of California, Irvine
Invited Speakers:  Adam Aczel  

A30 Focus Session: Nanomagnetic Devices I
Room: 206B Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Alexander Khitun, University of California, Riverside
Invited Speakers:  Sayeef Salahuddin  

A31 Focus Session: Molecular Magnets
Room: 207A Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Christopher Landee, Clark University
Invited Speakers:  Mark W. Meisel,  Stephen Hill  

A32 Focus Session: Magnetic Oxide Films. Surface and Interface Effects
Room: 207B Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: J. D. Burton, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Invited Speakers:  Albina Borisevich  

A34 Focus Session: Experimental Techniques and Results: Dynamic High-Pressure Physics
Room: 210A Sponsor: DMP

A35 Low-Dimensional and Non-Equilibrium Physics in Quantum Gases
Room: 210B Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: David Pekker, University of Pittsburgh

A36 Interacting Fermi Gases I
Room: 211 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Congjun Wu, University of California, San Diego

A37 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits - Single Donors
Room: 212A Sponsor: GQI Chair: Bruce Kane, Laboratory for Physical Sciences
Invited Speakers:  Stephanie Simmons  

A38 Focus Session: Topological Quantum Information
Room: 212B Sponsor: GQI Chair: Mohammad Hafezi, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Robert Koenig  

A39 Superconducting Qubits: Entanglement and Feedback
Room: 213AB Sponsor: GQI Chair: Leo DiCarlo, Delft University of Technology

A41 Focus Session: Organic Electronics and Photonics - Thermoelectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Materials
Room: 214A Sponsor: DPOLY DMP Chair: Jennifer Schaefer, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Latha Venkataraman  

A42 Polymeric Elastomers and Gels
Room: 214B Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Edwin Chan, National Institute of Standards and Technology

A43 Focus Session: Stable Glasses and Their Properties
Room: 214C Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Kenneth Kearns, Dow Chemicals
Invited Speakers:  Ranko Richert  

A44 Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics: Origami, Kirigami and Mechanisms I
Room: 214D Sponsor: GSNP GSOFT DPOLY Chair: Christian Santangelo, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Invited Speakers:  Arthur Evans  

A45 Crystalline Polymers
Room: 216AB Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Christopher Li, Drexel University

A46 Invited Session: DNA Physics and Chromatin Organization
Room: 217A Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Alexandre Morozov, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Ralf Bundschuh,  Robijn Bruinsma,  Ulrich Gerland,  Alexander Vologodskii,  Anirvan Sengupta  

A47 Focus Session: Physics of Behavior I
Room: 217B Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Greg Stephens, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Eva-Maria Schoetz Collins  

A48 Focus Session: Physics of Protein: Allosteric Control
Room: 217C Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Andrea Markelz, State University of New York, Buffalo
Invited Speakers:  Ruth Nussinov,  Ashok Deniz  

A49 Focus Session: Self-Phoretic Colloids and Active Emulsions I
Room: 217D Sponsor: GSOFT Chair: Cristina Marchetti, Syracuse University
Invited Speakers:  Ramin Golestanian  

A50 Focus Session: Beyond the Gyroid: Complex Network Phases in Self-Assembled Soft Materials
Room: 218 Sponsor: GSOFT DPOLY Chair: Gerd Schroeder-Turk, Friedrich-Alexander Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg
Invited Speakers:  Stephen Hyde  

A51 Invited Session: Photonic and Driven Topological States
Room: Grand Ballroom C1 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Aditi Mitra, New York University
Invited Speakers:  Mikael Rechtsman,  Babak Seradjeh,  Netanel Lindner,  Mark Rudner,  Pedram Roushan  

A52 Invited Session: Coherent Flow and Vortices in Polariton Condensates
Room: Grand Ballroom C2 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Peter Littlewood, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Iacopo Carusotto,  David Snoke,  Florent Baboux,  Pavlos Savvidis,  Na Young Kim  

A53 Invited Session: Optoelectronic Response of Low Dimensional Materials
Room: Grand Ballroom C3 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Nathaniel Gabor, University of California, Riverside
Invited Speakers:  Frank Koppens,  Qiong Ma,  Thomas Mueller,  Yuichiro K. Kato,  Alexey Chernikov  

Mar 2 2015 11:15AM, Monday

B0 Focus Session: Fe-based Superconductors – Neutrons and X-rays
Room: Ballroom A Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Guangyong Xu, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Pengcheng Dai  

B1 Focus Session: Graphene - Point Defects and Structural Defects
Room: 001A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Benjamin Butz, Friedrich Alexander Universitaet Erlangen

B2 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene - Transport & Heterostructures
Room: 001B Sponsor: DMP Chair: David Cobden, University of Washington

B3 Invited Session: Condensed Matter Physics in Latin America I
Room: 002AB Sponsor: FIP Chair: Alex de Lozanne, University of Texas at Austin
Invited Speakers:  Pablo Levy,  Adalberto Fazzio,  Marcelino Barboza-Flores,  Arturo Ayon  

B4 Meet Your Future: Industrial Careers for Physicists: An Interactive Workshop
Room: Mayor Cockrell Room 004 Sponsor: FIAP

B5 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect II
Room: Juan Gorman Room 005 Sponsor: FIAP DCMP Chair: Johannes Pollanen, California Institute of Technology

B6 Focus Session: Proper and Improper Ferroelectrics
Room: 006A Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Manfred Fiebig, ETH Zurich
Invited Speakers:  Yoon Seok Oh  

B7 Focus Session: Majorana Fermions
Room: 006B Sponsor: DMP DCMP
Invited Speakers:  Ali Yazdani  

B8 From Single Molecules to Molecular Assemblies on Surfaces I
Room: 006C Sponsor: DCMP
Invited Speakers:  Eva Zurek  

B9 Superconducting Cuprates: Spectroscopy
Room: 006D Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Pengcheng Dai, Rice University

B10 Topological Insulators - Materials and Structures (Theory)
Room: 007A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Arijit Kundu, University of Indiana, Bloomington

B11 Cuprate Superconductivity: Pseudogap
Room: 007B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mike Osofsky, Naval Research Laboratory

B12 Focus Session: New Thermoelectic Materials
Room: 007C Sponsor: DMP/DCOMP GERA FIAP Chair: Jihui Yang, University of Washington
Invited Speakers:  Donald Morelli,  Xinfeng Tang  

B13 Complex Oxide Films and Heterostructures - Growth and Properties
Room: 007D Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Scott Chambers, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Satoshi Okamoto  

B14 Focus Session: Phase Transitions in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems
Room: 008A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Divine Kumah, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Kyle Shen,  Patrick Clancy  

B15 Electronic Structure: Theory and Spectra II
Room: 008B Sponsor: FIAP Chair: David Strubbe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

B16 Focus Session: Materials Discovery with High-throughput Computation
Room: 101AB Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Prasanna Balachandran, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Marco Buongiorno Nardelli  

B17 Focus Session: Carbon Nanotubes: Electronic and Transport Properties
Room: 102AB Sponsor: DMP Chair: Zhihong Chen, Purdue University
Invited Speakers:  Shu-Jen Han  

B18 Invited Session: Optimal Control of Quantum Systems
Room: Mission Room 103A Sponsor: GQI DAMOP Chair: Adolfo del Campo, University of Massachusetts Boston
Invited Speakers:  Steffen Glaser,  Rami Barends,  Christiane Koch,  Michael Biercuk,  Lorenza Viola  

B19 Invited Session: Inspirational Approaches to Teaching Physics and History of Physics
Room: Mission Room 103B Sponsor: FHP FEd Chair: Catherine Westfall, Michigan State University
Invited Speakers:  Brian Schwartz,  Alberto Martinez,  Bob Jacobsen,  Leslie Atkins,  Louis Bloomfield  

B20 Invited Session: Physics of Glass-Forming Liquids: Challenges and Surprises I
Room: Ballroom B Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Gregory McKenna, Texas Tech University
Invited Speakers:  Sharon Glotzer,  David Simmons,  James Caruthers,  Beatrice Ruta,  Reiner Zorn  

B21 Detectors, Sensors, & Transducers
Room: 201 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Charles Mielke, Los Alamos National Laboratory

B22 Optical Studies of Strongly Correlated Systems
Room: 202A Sponsor: DCMP

B23 Focus Session: Explicitly Correlated Methods and Quantum Few-Body Systems
Room: 202B Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Sergiy Bubin, University of Rochester
Invited Speakers:  D. Blume  

B24 Electronic Structure Methods I
Room: 203AB Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Mark Pederson, United States Department of Energy

B26 Focus Session: Non-Adiabatic Dynamics: New Insights from Experiment and Theory II
Room: 204A Sponsor: DCP Chair: David R. Yarkony, Johns Hopkins University
Invited Speakers:  Ahren Jasper,  Andrew Orr-Ewing  

B27 Focus Session: Emerging Ultrafast Technologies II
Room: 204B Sponsor: DCP Chair: Munira Khali, University of Washington
Invited Speakers:  Kelly Gaffney,  Alexander F\"ohlisch,  Patrick Grychtol  

B28 Focus Session: YIG based systems
Room: 205 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Mathias Weiler, Walther Meissner Institute

B29 Focus Session: Artificial Spin Ice
Room: 206A Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Cristiano Nisoli, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Peter Schiffer  

B30 Focus Session: Nanomagnetic Devices II
Room: 206B Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Kai Liu, University of California, Davis
Invited Speakers:  Kai Liu  

B31 Focus Session: Single Molecule Magnets
Room: 207A Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Stephen Hill, National High Magneticm Field Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Liviu Chibotaru  

B32 Focus Session: Transition Metal Oxides I
Room: 207B Sponsor: GMAG DMP
Invited Speakers:  Stephen Pennycook  

B33 Focus Session: The Physics of Climate I
Room: 208 Sponsor: GPC Chair: Juan Restrepo, Oregon State University
Invited Speakers:  Kerry Emanuel  

B34 Electrochemical Reactions
Room: 210A Sponsor: GERA
Invited Speakers:  Kevin Leung  

B35 Circuit QED, Optomechanics and Hybrid Systems
Room: 210B Sponsor: DAMOP

B36 Focus Session: Artificial Gauge Fields and Spin Orbit Coupling in Cold Atoms
Room: 211 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Martin Zwierlein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Wolfgang Ketterle  

B37 Focus Session: Quantum Error Correction I
Room: 212A Sponsor: GQI Chair: Francesco Petruccione, University of KwaZulu-Natal

B38 Focus Session: Quantum Foundations and Technologies I
Room: 212B Sponsor: GQI Chair: Matthew Pusey, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Invited Speakers:  Stephanie Wehner  

B39 Superconducting Circuits: Decoherence I
Room: 213AB Sponsor: GQI Chair: Ted Thorbeck, University of Wisconsin-Madison

B41 Focus Session: Polymers for Solar Energy Conversion - Charge Transport in Organic Photovoltaics
Room: 214A Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Arthi Jayaraman, University of Delaware
Invited Speakers:  Natalie Stingelin  

B42 Focus Session: Block Copolymer Thin Films I
Room: 214B Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Gila Stein, University of Houston
Invited Speakers:  Rafael Verduzco,  Rachel Segalman  

B43 Focus Session: Fluids Under Confinement, Water at Interfaces and in Confinement
Room: 214C Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Elisa Riedo, Georgia Institute of Technology

B44 Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics: Origami, Kirigami and Mechanisms II
Room: 214D Sponsor: GSNP GSOFT DPOLY
Invited Speakers:  Vincenzo Vitelli  

B45 Polymer Melts & Solutions I
Room: 216AB Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Debra Audus, National Institute of Standards and Technology

B46 Invited Session: Thermodynamics and Information Processing in Biochemical Networks
Room: 217A Sponsor: DBIO
Invited Speakers:  Christopher Jarzynski,  Hong Qian,  Arvind Murugan,  Masaki Sano  

B47 Focus Session: Physics of Behavior II
Room: 217B Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Joshua Shaevitz, Princeton University

B48 Focus Session: Physics of Protein Interactions
Room: 217C Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Megan Valentine, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Benjamin Lopez,  Olga Dudko  

B50 Statistical Mechanics: Optimization and Algorithms
Room: 218 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Alan Middleton, Syracuse University

B51 Invited Session: Frontiers of Soft Matter I
Room: Grand Ballroom C1 Sponsor: GSOFT GSNP Chair: Randall Kamien, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Sidney R. Nagel,  M. Lisa Manning,  Anette Hosoi,  Xiaoming Mao,  Todd Squires  

B52 Invited Session: Emergent Quantum Phases and Their Transitions in Correlated Electron Systems
Room: Grand Ballroom C2 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Qimiao Si, Rice University
Invited Speakers:  Meigan Aronson,  Jedediah Pixley,  Alan I. Goldman,  Satoru Nakatsuji,  Yongkang Luo  

B53 Invited Session: Two-Dimensional Materials: Nanophotonics, Plasmonics and Polaritonics
Room: Grand Ballroom C3 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dmitiri Basov, University of California, San Diego
Invited Speakers:  Rainer Hillenbrand,  Marco Polini,  Harry Atwater,  Andras Kis,  Siyuan Dai  

Mar 2 2015 2:30PM, Monday

D0 Focus Session: Mostly Monolayer FeSe
Room: Ballroom A Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Peter Hirschfeld, University of Florida
Invited Speakers:  Xucun Ma  

D1 Focus Session: Graphene - Mechanics and Strain
Room: 001A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Phillip First, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Benjamin Butz  

D2 Focus Session: Beyond Graphene - Optics in 2D Semiconductors I
Room: 001B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Farhan Rana, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  Hui Zhao  

D4 Undergraduate Research/Society of Physics Students II
Room: Mayor Cockrell Room 004 Sponsor: APS Chair: Cortney Bougher, American Physics Society

D5 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect III
Room: Juan Gorman Room 005 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Wei Pan, Sandia National Laboratories

D6 Focus Session: Domain Walls, Surfaces, Interfaces
Room: 006A Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Xiaoqing Pan, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Weida Wu  

D7 Focus Session: Synthesis & Characterization of Topological Insulators
Room: 006B Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Anthony Richardella, Pennylvania State University

D8 Complex Films & Surfaces: Oxides, Alloys, and Semiconductors
Room: 006C Sponsor: DCMP

D9 Superconductivity in Cuprates: Photoemission
Room: 006D Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Donghui Lu, Stanford University

D10 Optical and THz Properties of Topological Insulators
Room: 007A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dennis Drew, University of Maryland

D11 Coexisting Orders In Underdoped Cuprates
Room: 007B Sponsor: DMP Chair: Vivek Mishra, Argonne National Laboratory

D12 Focus Session: Low Dimensional Thermoelectric Systems and Theory I
Room: 007C Sponsor: DMP/DCOMP GERA FIAP Chair: Shiren Wang, Texas A&M University
Invited Speakers:  Junichiro Shiomi  

D13 Focus Session: Optical Properties of Semiconductor Nanostructures
Room: 007D Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Thomas Reinecke, Naval Research Laboratory

D14 Invited Session: Bulk and Surface Spectroscopy of Mixed Valence Topological Insulator Samarium Hexaboride
Room: 008A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: James W. Allen, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Lu Li,  Ming Shi,  Wesley Fuhrman,  Steffen Wirth,  Byung Il Min  

D15 Invited Session: Quantum Criticality at the Superconductor-Insulator Transition and the Higgs Mode
Room: 008B Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Subir Sachdev, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Assa Auerbach,  William Witczak-Krempa,  Nandini Trivedi,  Pratap Raychaudhuri,  Aviad Frydman  

D16 Focus Session: Machine Learning For Materials Discovery
Room: 101AB Sponsor: DMP Chair: Marco Nardelli, University of North Texas
Invited Speakers:  Raghu Ramakrishnan  

D17 Focus Session: Graphene Devices: Thermal and Mechanical Properties
Room: 102AB Sponsor: DMP Chair: Kirill Bolotin, Vannderbilt University

D18 Invited Session: Detecting Topological Order in Cold Atoms
Room: Mission Room 103A Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Eric Mueller, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  Bel\'en Paredes,  Maciej Lewenstein,  Nigel Cooper,  R\'emi Desbuquois,  Ulrich Schneider  

D19 Invited Session: Fifty Years of Molecular Dynamics Simulations II: Past, Present and Future
Room: Mission Room 103B Sponsor: DCOMP DPOLY GSOFT/DBIO Chair: Rajiv Kalia, University of Southern California
Invited Speakers:  Michele Parrinello,  Christine Peter,  Mesfin Tsige,  Gregory Voth,  Michael Klein  

D20 Invited Session: Physics of Glass-Forming Liquids: Challenges and Surprises II
Room: Ballroom B Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Sindee Simon, Texas Tech University
Invited Speakers:  Juan P. Garrahan,  Jane Lipson,  Kristine Niss,  Eric R. Weeks,  Thomas Truskett  

D21 Nickelates and Other Transition Metal Oxides
Room: 201 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jack Chakhalian, University of Arkansas

D22 Theory of Exotic States of Matter
Room: 202A Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Eun-Ah Kim, Cornell University

D23 Focus Session: Theory and Simulation of Excited-State Phenomena in Semiconductors and Nanostructures I
Room: 202B Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Emmanouil Kioupakis, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Shane Yost,  Felipe H. da Jornada  

D24 Classical Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics Methods
Room: 203AB Sponsor: DCOMP

D26 Focus Session: Water and Liquid Dynamics
Room: 204A Sponsor: DCP Chair: David Chandler, Sandia National Laboratories

D27 Focus Session: Chemical Physics of Clusters: Bridging from Angstrom-scale Clusters to Micron-scale Aerosol Particles I
Room: 204B Sponsor: DCP Chair: Bruce Garrett, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Urs Baltensperger,  Michal Farnik,  Shawn Kathmann  

D28 Focus Session: Magnetic Tunnel Junctions
Room: 205 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Tom Silva, National Institute of Standards and Technology

D29 Focus Session: Ferromagnetic Metals
Room: 206A Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Johan Akerman, University of Gothenburg
Invited Speakers:  St\'ephane Andrieu  

D30 Focus Session: Magnetic Domains and Domain Walls
Room: 206B Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Timothy Phung, IBM Almaden Research Center
Invited Speakers:  Xiang Rong Wang  

D31 Focus Session: Spin-Dependent Phenomena in Semiconductors: Magnetic Interactions in Semiconductors
Room: 207A Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Olaf van 't Erve, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Michelle E. Jamer  

D32 Focus Session: Density Functional Theory of Bulk Complex Oxides
Room: 207B Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Antonio Cammarata, Czech Technical University, Prague

D33 Focus Session: The Physics of Climate II
Room: 208 Sponsor: GPC DFD Chair: Juan Restrepo, Oregon State University
Invited Speakers:  Mary-Louise Timmermans  

D34 Gels and Complex Fluids
Room: 210A Sponsor: GSOFT Chair: George Thurston, Rochester Institute of Technology

D36 Invited Session: Materials for Energy: Predicting the Properties of Solid/Electrolyte Interfaces from First Principles
Room: 211 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Giulia Galli, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Tuan Anh Pham,  Brandon Wood,  Tomas Arias,  Marivi Fernandez-Serra,  Mark Hybertsen  

D37 Focus Session: Semiconductor Qubits - Optically Addressed Dots and Impurities I
Room: 212A Sponsor: GQI Chair: Thaddeus Ladd, HRL Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Alex Burgers  

D38 Focus Session: Sensing and Entanglement Measures
Room: 212B Sponsor: GQI Chair: Susanne Yelin, University of Connecticut
Invited Speakers:  Alexey Gorshkov  

D39 Superconducting Circuits: Decoherence II
Room: 213AB Sponsor: GQI Chair: Robert McDermott, University of Wisconsin-Madison

D41 Focus Session: Polymers for Solar Energy Conversion - Morphological Impacts
Room: 214A Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Bryan Boudouris, Purdue University
Invited Speakers:  Enrique Gomez  

D42 Focus Session: Block Copolymer Thin Films II
Room: 214B Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Chris Ellison, University of Texas at Austin
Invited Speakers:  Venkat Ganesan  

D43 Focus Session: Self Assembled Block Copolymers and Soft Nanoparticles in Solution I
Room: 214C Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Sangwoo Lee, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Invited Speakers:  Javid Rzayev  

D44 Invited Session: Mechanical Metamaterials
Room: 214D Sponsor: GSNP GSOFT Chair: Pedro Reis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Christian Santangelo,  Martin Wegener,  Adilson Motter,  Katia Bertoldi,  Martin van Hecke  

D45 Polymer Melts & Solutions II
Room: 216AB Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Muzhou Wang, National Institute of Standards and Technology

D46 Invited Session: Organo-Metallic Perovskites for Photovaltaic Energy Conversion
Room: 217A Sponsor: DMP Chair: Andre Schleife, University of Illinois-Urbana
Invited Speakers:  Yang Yang,  Filippo De Angelis,  Philip Schulz,  Joshua Choi,  Mark van Schilfgaarde  

D47 Focus Session: Physics of Behavior III
Room: 217B Sponsor: DBIO
Invited Speakers:  Benjamin de Bivort  

D48 Focus Session: Dynamically Bonded Soft Matter
Room: 217C Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY Chair: Niels Holten-Andersen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Michael Rubinstein  

D49 Focus Session: Active Living Matter I
Room: 217D Sponsor: GSOFT DBIO Chair: Vernita Gordon, University of Texas at Austin
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Chen  

D50 Focus Session: Dynamic Jamming Fronts and Shear Thickening
Room: 218 Sponsor: GSOFT GSNP Chair: Eric Brown, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Shomeek Mukhopadhyay  

D51 Invited Session: Towards a Scalable Superconducting Quantum Computer
Room: Grand Ballroom C1 Sponsor: GQI DCMP Chair: Michel Devoret, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Austin Fowler,  John Martinis,  Matthias Steffen,  Robert Schoelkopf,  Diego Rist\`e  

D52 Invited Session: DCMP Prize Session
Room: Grand Ballroom C2 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Laura Greene, Universirty of Illinois-Urbana
Invited Speakers:  Tai C. Chiang,  Miquel Salmeron,  Franz Wegner,  David D. Awschalom,  M. Eremets,  Tian Cui  

D53 Invited Session: Skyrmions in Thin Magnetic Films
Room: Grand Ballroom C3 Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Axel Hoffmann, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Kirsten von Bergmann,  Vincent Cros,  Wanjun Jiang,  Jiadong Zang,  Christoforos Moutafis  

Mar 2 2015 5:45PM, Monday

E1 APS Prizes and Awards Ceremonial Session
Room: Mission Room 103B Sponsor: APS

Mar 2 2015 6:00PM, Monday

E20 Exploring Career Pathways: An Interactive Panel Discussion for Undergraduates
Room: Mayor Cockrell 004

Mar 2 2015 6:45PM, Monday

EE1 Welcome Reception
Room: Exhibit Hall C Sponsor: APS

Mar 2 2015 7:30PM, Monday

EE2 Special Outreach Session: Helium Availability: Impact on Basic Science and Alternative Technology
Room: 205 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: William Halperin, Northwestern University
Invited Speakers:  Mark Elsesser,  John Davis,  Andrew Casey and John Saunders,  John Burgoyne