Mar 14 2016 8:00AM, Monday

A1 Invited Session Charge Order and the Pseudogap in the Underdoped Cuprates
Room: Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Tom Devereaux, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Neil Harrison,  Wei-Sheng Lee,  Subir Sachdev,  Andrea Damascelli,  Eun-Ah Kim  

A2 Invited Session Frontiers in the Theory of Non-Equilibrium Physics: From Nanosystems to Cold Atoms
Room: Ballroom II Sponsor: DCMP DAMOP Chair: Marcos Rigol, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Thierry Giamarchi,  Nayana Shah,  Natan Andrei,  Aditi Mitra,  Fabian Heidrich-Meisner  

A3 Invited Session Recent Progress on 'Order by Disorder' Phenomena
Room: Ballroom III Sponsor: DCMP GMAG Chair: Israel Klich, University of Virginia
Invited Speakers:  Piers Coleman,  Seung-Hun Lee,  Michel J P Gingras,  Bruce D. Gaulin,  Alexander Chernyshev  

A4 Invited Session Polymer Dynamics: An Honor Session for Sir Sam Edwards
Room: Ballroom IV Sponsor: DPOLY GSOFT GSNP Chair: Gary Grest, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Masao Doi,  Julia Higgins,  Karl Freed,  Murugappan Muthukumar,  Jacob Klein  

A5 Focus Session Magnetic Resonance and Spin-Dependent Optical Phenomena in Semiconductors
Room: 301 Sponsor: GMAG DCMP FIAP Chair: Masashi Shiraishi, U. Kyoto

A6 Focus Session Metal Oxide Nanoparticles
Room: 302 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Erik Brok, NIST
Invited Speakers:  Manh-Huong Phan  

A7 Undergraduate Research/SPS I
Room: 303 Sponsor: APS SPS Chair: Crystal Bailey, American Physical Society

A11 Focus Session Pairing Interaction and Gap Symmetry in Fe-based Superconductors
Room: 307 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Rafael Fernandes, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Thomas Maier  

A12 Invited Session Advances in Real-Time Measurement of Structural Transformations
Room: 308 Sponsor: DLS Chair: Roseanne Sension, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Josh Vura-Weis,  Michael Minitti,  Bradley Siwick,  Julie Biteen,  Philippe Wernet  

A13 Invited Session Quantum Characterization, Verification and Validation
Room: 309 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Charles Tahan, Laboratory for Physical Sciences
Invited Speakers:  Joel Wallman,  Robin Blume-Kohout,  Steve Flammia,  Easwar Magesan,  Seth Merkel  

A14 Invited Session Peer Review: History and Issues
Room: 310 Sponsor: FHP Chair: Robert Crease, Stony Brook University
Invited Speakers:  Mario Biagioli,  Alex Csiszar,  Melinda Baldwin,  Daniel Ucko  

A15 Graphene: Quantum Hall Effect
Room: 314 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Paul Campbell, Naval Research Laboratory

A16 Focus Session 2D Devices: Sensors and Detectors
Room: 315 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ke Zou, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Jinglei Ping  

A17 Focus Session Graphene: Growth and Synthesis
Room: 316 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Joshua Robinson, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Pulickel M. Ajayan  

A18 Focus Session Spin-Hall I
Room: 317 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Arne Brataas, Norwegian University
Invited Speakers:  See-Hun Yang  

A19 Focus Session Manganites and Cobaltites
Room: 318 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Junjie Zhang, Argonne National Laboratory

A20 Focus Session Spin Superfluidity and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction
Room: 319 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Dario Arena, University of Southern Florida

A21 Focus Session Magnetic Layers
Room: 320 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Mark Meisel, University of Florida
Invited Speakers:  Al\v{z}beta Orend\'{a}\v{c}ov\'{a}  

A22 Focus Session Electrons, Phonons, and Electron-Phonon Scattering I
Room: 321 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: David Singh, University of Missouri
Invited Speakers:  Matthieu Verstraete  

A23 Focus Session Novel Plasmonic Effects and Devices
Room: 322 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Natalia Litchinitser, State University of New York, Buffalo
Invited Speakers:  Matthew Sheldon  

A24 Focus Session Electronic Transport through Individual Nanostructures
Room: 323 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Pierre Darancet, Argonne National Laboratory

A25 Superconductivity: Odd Parity
Room: 324 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Daniel Agterberg, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

A26 Focus Session Experimental Advances in Strongly Spin-orbit Coupled Oxides
Room: 325 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Kyle Shen, Cornell
Invited Speakers:  Bumjoon Kim  

A27 Focus Session Carbon Nanotube & Related Materials: Growth, Separation, and Assembly
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Zhihong Chen, Purdue University
Invited Speakers:  Yan Li,  Chongwu Zhou  

A28 Focus Session Topological Phases
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Yong Chen, Purdue University
Invited Speakers:  Arun Bansil  

A29 Dirac Semimetal
Room: 328 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jeffrey Teo, University of Virginia

A30 Focus Session Ferroelectric Heterostructures
Room: 329 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Marty Gregg
Invited Speakers:  R Ramesh  

A31 Focus Session Advances in Density Functional Theory I
Room: 331 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Donald Truhlar, University of Minnesot
Invited Speakers:  Jianwei Sun,  Kieron Burke  

A33 Charged & Ion-Containing Polymers
Room: 336 Sponsor: DPOLY GSOFT Chair: Lisa Hall, Ohio State University

A34 Focus Session Active Matter I
Room: 337 Sponsor: GSOFT DBIO GSNP/DFD Chair: Joern Dunkel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

A35 Focus Session Active Matter: Collective Phenomena in Living Systems I
Room: 338 Sponsor: DBIO GSOFT GSNP Chair: Karsten Kruse, Saarland University, Germany
Invited Speakers:  Nikta Fakhri  

A36 Colloids: Interactions, Structure, Statistics
Room: 339 Sponsor: GSOFT Chair: Xiang Cheng, University of Minnesota

A37 Focus Session Phase Transitions and Self-Assembly in Biological Systems I
Room: 340 Sponsor: GSOFT DBIO Chair: Jens Glaser, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Todd Yeates  

A38 Focus Session Polymer Nanocomposites, Active Particles and Applications
Room: 341 Sponsor: DPOLY FIAP GSOFT Chair: Michael Hore, Case Western Reserve University
Invited Speakers:  James Watkins  

A39 Focus Session Physics of Proteins: Bio Meets Quantum
Room: 342 Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY DCOMP Chair: Mark Tuominen, University of Massachusetts Amherst

A40 Systems Far From Equilibrium
Room: 343 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Michel Pleimling, Virginia Tech University

A41 Cellular Biophysics
Room: 344 Sponsor: DBIO GSOFT Chair: Bo Sun, Oregon State University

A42 Polymer Thin Films: Patterning and Flow
Room: 345 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Justin Pye, Emory University

A43 Focus Session Avalanches in Granular and Other Particle-based Materials I
Room: 346 Sponsor: GSNP GSOFT Chair: Corey O'Hern, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Robert Ecke  

A44 Quantum Information with Majorana Fermions & Parafermions
Room: 347 Sponsor: GQI Chair: David Aasen, California Institute of Technology

A45 Focus Session Semiconductor Qubits: Si/SiGe Quantum Dots
Room: 348 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Jason Petta, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Lieven Vandersypen  

A46 Focus Session Advances in Scanning Probe Microscopy I: Novel Approaches and Ultrasensitive Detection
Room: 311 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Hongwoo Baek, National Magnet Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Yuliya Dovzhenko  

A47 Surface and Thin Film Phase Transitions and Electronic Properties
Room: 312 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Daniel Dougherty, North Carolina State University

A48 Quantum Computing and Quantum Simulations with Superconducting Circuits
Room: 349 Sponsor: GQI Chair: David Schuster, University of Chicago

A51 Nanomanufacturing and Optical/Laser/High Frequency Devices
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 2 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Nicholas Charipar, Naval Research Lab

A53 Instabilities and Turbulence
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 4 Sponsor: DFD

A54 Optical Properties of Semiconductor Nanostructures I
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 5 Sponsor: FIAP DMP Chair: Yong Zhang, UNC - Charlotte

A55 Invited Session Quantitative Immunology
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 6 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Anton Zilman, University of Toronto
Invited Speakers:  Jay T. Groves,  Michael L. Dustin,  Tom Chou,  Anton Zilman,  Armita Nourmohammad  

Mar 14 2016 9:30AM, Monday

A56 Invited Session Special Event Keynote Address: Secretary Moniz
Room: Hilton Baltimore Key Ballroom 5-8 Sponsor: APS Chair: Homer Neal, University of Michigan & APS President
Invited Speakers:  Ernest Moniz  

Mar 14 2016 11:15AM, Monday

B1 Invited Session Condensed Matter Physics at NSF/DMR and DOE/BES: Challenges and Opportunties
Room: Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Tomasz Durakiewicz, Jim Horwitz, NSF/DMR , DOE/BES
Invited Speakers:  Anthony Leggett,  Paul Sokol,  Michael Pechan,  Daryl Hess,  James Davenport  

B2 Invited Session The Edwards Statistical Mechanics
Room: Ballroom II Sponsor: GSOFT DPOLY GSNP Chair: Fyl Pincus, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Daan Frenkel,  Raphael Blumenfeld,  Wyart Matthieu,  Tanniemola Liverpool,  Jasna Brujic  

B3 Invited Session Symmetry Breaking in Unconventional Superconductors
Room: Ballroom III Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sauls James, Northwestern University
Invited Speakers:  Saurabh Maiti,  Clifford Hicks,  Thomas Scaffidi,  Dong Qian,  Nitin Samarth  

B4 Invited Session Macromolecular Assemblies: Structure and Dynamics
Room: Ballroom IV Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Nitash Balsara, Univ of California - Berkelev
Invited Speakers:  Timothy Lodge,  Eugenia Kumacheva,  Julie Kornfield,  Bradley Olsen,  Stephen Z. D. Cheng  

B5 Focus Session Frustrated Magnetism: Low Dimensional Magnets I
Room: 301 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Oleg Starykh, University of Utah
Invited Speakers:  Andres Saul  

B6 Focus Session Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction
Room: 302 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Emilie Jue, NIST
Invited Speakers:  Teruo Ono  

B7 Undergraduate Research/SPS II
Room: 303 Sponsor: APS SPS Chair: Daniel Golombek, Society of Physics Students

B11 Focus Session Superconductivity in Monolayer FeSe/SrTiO3
Room: 307 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Douglas Scalapino, UCSB
Invited Speakers:  Zhi-Xun Shen  

B12 Invited Session Large Scale Neuroscience Projects
Room: 308 Sponsor: FIP DBIO Chair: Maria Spiropulu, California Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Terry Sejnowski,  Miyoung Chun,  Hanchuan Peng,  David Tank  

B13 Invited Session Adiabatic Quantum Computation and Quantum Annealing
Room: 309 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Tameem Albash, Univ of Southern California
Invited Speakers:  Matthias Troyer,  Hidetoshi Nishimori,  Daniel Lidar,  Mark W Johnson,  Andrew Landahl  

B14 Invited Session The History of Electrical Science
Room: 310 Sponsor: FHP Chair: Amy Fisher, University of Puget Sound
Invited Speakers:  Victor Boantza,  Robert Crease,  Amy Fisher,  Iain Watts,  Bruce Hunt  

B15 Graphene: Magnetotransport
Room: 314 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Aubrey Hanbicki, Naval Research Laboratory

B16 Focus Session 2D Devices: Plasmonics and Optoelectronics
Room: 315 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Paola Barbara, Georgetown University

B17 Focus Session Graphene: Synthesis, Properties, and Defects
Room: 316 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Saptarshi Das, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Joshua Robinson  

B18 Focus Session Spin-orbit and Superconductivity: Majorana Modes
Room: 317 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Alex Matos-Abiague, University at Buffalo
Invited Speakers:  Benedikt Scharf  

B19 Focus Session Magnetic Devices and Production Level Scaling
Room: 318 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Joe Davies

B20 Electronic Structure Methods I
Room: 319 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Oliver Albertini, Georgetown University

B21 Focus Session Single Molecule Magnets
Room: 320 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Janathan Friedman, Amherst College
Invited Speakers:  Johan Van Tol  

B22 Focus Session Theory and Simulation of Excited-State Phenomena in Semiconductors and Nanostructures I
Room: 321 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Andre Schleife, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Invited Speakers:  John L. Lyons  

B23 Focus Session Computational Materials Discovery and Design - Electronic Structure
Room: 322 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Sahar Sharifzadeh, Boston University
Invited Speakers:  Marco Govoni,  Volker Blum  

B24 Focus Session Optical Effects Near Metallic Nanostructures
Room: 323 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Latha Venkataraman, Columbia University
Invited Speakers:  Maxim Sukharev  

B25 Superconducting Materials: Growth, Structure, and Properties
Room: 324 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Joseph Prestigiacomo, Naval Research Laboratory

B26 Graphene and Graphene/hexagonal Bonron Nitride Superlattices
Room: 325 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jianhao Chen, ICQM, Peking University

B27 Strongly Correlated Physics in d-electron Systems
Room: 326 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Christianne Beekman, Florida State University

B28 Focus Session Topological Kondo Insulators
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Natalia Drichko, The Johns Hopkins University
Invited Speakers:  Johnpierre Paglione  

B29 Quantum Spin Hall Effect
Room: 328 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dong-Ling Deng, University of Maryland

B30 Focus Session Ferroelectric Walls, Heterostructures and Superlattices
Room: 329 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Rossitza Pentcheva, University of Duisburg-Essen
Invited Speakers:  Lane Martin  

B31 Focus Session Advances in Density Functional Theory II
Room: 331 Sponsor: DCP Chair: John Perdew, Temple University
Invited Speakers:  Mark Pederson,  Paola Gori-Giorgi  

B32 Focus Session Emerging Nanomaterials for Solar Energy Conversion I
Room: 332 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Gordana Dukovic, University of Colorado
Invited Speakers:  Michael Graetzel,  Gordana Dukovic  

B33 Focus Session Polymers in Batteries
Room: 336 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Brad Frieberg, NIST
Invited Speakers:  Steven Greenbaum  

B34 Focus Session Where Simulation, Theory, and Experiment Meet Across Length Scales I
Room: 337 Sponsor: DPOLY DCOMP FIAP Chair: Robert Riggleman, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Lisa Hall  

B35 Focus Session The Physics of Cellular Organization
Room: 338 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Michael Gramlich, Ali Tabei, Washington University, University of Northern Iowa
Invited Speakers:  Kimberly Weirich,  Anders Carlsson  

B36 Focus Session Active Matter II
Room: 339 Sponsor: GSOFT DBIO GSNP/DFD Chair: Robin Selinger, Kent University

B37 Focus Session Phase Transitions and Self-Assembly in Biological Systems II
Room: 340 Sponsor: GSOFT DBIO Chair: Michael Hagan, Brandeis University

B38 Focus Session Nanocomposites from Nano to Meso
Room: 341 Sponsor: DPOLY FIAP Chair: Jian Yang, Dow Chemical Company
Invited Speakers:  Robert Riggleman  

B39 Focus Session Physics of Cancer and Development I
Room: 342 Sponsor: DBIO GSOFT Chair: Arpita Upadhyaya, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Kenneth Yamada  

B40 Focus Session Fluids and Elasticity
Room: 343 Sponsor: GSNP DFD Chair: Doug Holmes, Boston University
Invited Speakers:  Katharine Jensen  

B42 Physics of Copolymers I
Room: 345 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Chaitanya Ullal, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

B41 Systems Biology
Room: 344 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Josh Shaevitz, Princeton University

B43 Focus Session Avalanches in Granular and Other Particle-based Materials II
Room: 346 Sponsor: GSNP GSOFT Chair: Bob Behringer, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Jonathan Bares  

B44 Focus Session Quantum Characterization, Verification and Validation I
Room: 347 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Elham Kashefi, University of Edinburgh

B45 Focus Session Semiconductor Qubits: Multidot Qubits and Dynamical Control
Room: 348 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Vanita Srinivasa, Laboratory  for  Physical  Sciences/University  of  Maryland,  College  Park,  MD
Invited Speakers:  Seigo Tarucha  

B46 Instumentation I: Detectors,Sensors, Signal Processing & Analysis
Room: 311 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: James Matey, NIST

B47 Molecular Assembly on Surfaces
Room: 312 Sponsor: DCMP

B48 Quantum Optics with Superconducting Circuits
Room: 349 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Irfan Siddiqi, University of California, Berkeley

B50 Driven and Dissipative Atomic Systems
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Ryan Wilson, Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland

B51 Materials: Synthesis, Growth, and Processing
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 2 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Seunghun Lee, University of Maryland

B52 Optomechanics and Hybrid Systems I: Novel Systems
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 3 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Tom Purdy, NIST

B53 Drops, Bubbles and Interfacial Fluid Mechanics
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 4 Sponsor: DFD GSOFT Chair: Siddhartha Das, University of Maryland-College Park

B54 Optical Properties of Semiconductor Nanostructures II
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 5 Sponsor: FIAP DMP Chair: Alexander Efros, Naval Research Lab

B55 Invited Session Complex Microbial Communities
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 6 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Jeff Gore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Wenying Shou,  Raghuveer Parthasarathy,  David Kessler,  Benjamin Kerr,  Joshua Weitz  

Mar 14 2016 12:00PM, Monday

B60 Meet Your Future: An Interactive Session on Industrial Careers for Physicists
Room: Hilton Baltimore Key Ballroom 3/4 Sponsor: APS

Mar 14 2016 2:30PM, Monday

C1 Invited Session New Developments in Iron Chalcogenide Superconductors
Room: Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ming Yi, University of California Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Qimiao Si,  Anna B\"{o}hmer,  Dung-Hai Lee,  Rafael Fernandes,  Amalia Coldea  

C2 Invited Session Novel Electronic Phenomena in Graphene
Room: Ballroom II Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Nikolai Zhitenev, Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, NIST, MD
Invited Speakers:  Joseph Stroscio,  Cory Dean,  Pablo Jarillo-Herrero,  Kin Chung Fong,  Denis Bandurin  

C3 Invited Session Antiferromagnetic Spintronics
Room: Ballroom III Sponsor: GMAG Chair: Axel Hoffmann, Argonne Natl Lab
Invited Speakers:  Tomas Jungwirth,  Maxim Tsoi,  Wei Zhang,  P Chris Hammel,  Vasyl Tyberkevych  

C4 Invited Session Bridging Time and Length Scales: From Nano Assemblies to Bio-Polymers
Room: Ballroom IV Sponsor: DCOMP DPOLY FIAP Chair: Dvora Perahia, Clemson University
Invited Speakers:  Gary S. Grest,  Florian Müller-Plathe,  Anupriya Agrawal,  Stefano Piana-Agostinetti,  Andrey Dobrynin  

C5 Focus Session Frustrated Magnetism: Theory
Room: 301 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Gang Chen, Fudan University
Invited Speakers:  Johannes Reuther  

C6 Focus Session Magnetic Characterization and Imaging
Room: 302 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Vojtech Uhlir, UCSD
Invited Speakers:  Mi-Young Im  

C7 Undergraduate Research/SPS III
Room: 303 Sponsor: APS SPS Chair: Crystal Bailey, American Physical Society

C12 Invited Session Intrinsic Localized Modes: Recent Developments and Future Perspectives
Room: 308 Sponsor: GSNP GSOFT Chair: David Campbell, Boston University
Invited Speakers:  Sergej Flach,  Yuri Kivshar,  Albert Sievers,  Mason Porter,  Demetrios Christodoulides  

C13 Invited Session DMP Prize Session
Room: 309 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael E. Flatté, University of Iowa
Invited Speakers:  Harry Atwater,  Dirk van der Marel,  D.B. Tanner,  Alexander Steppke,  Susanne Baumann  

C14 Invited Session The Author in Dialogue: Steven Weinberg's 'To Explain the World'
Room: 310 Sponsor: FHP FPS Chair: Joseph D. Martin, Michigan State University
Invited Speakers:  Steven Weinberg,  David Wootton,  F. Jamil Ragep,  William Thomas,  Jennifer Ouellette  

C15 Graphene: Adatoms, Doping, and Magnetism
Room: 314 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Olaf van 't Erve, Naval Research Laboratory

C16 Scanning Tunneling Microscopy/Spectroscopy of Graphene
Room: 315 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Michael Lodge, University of Central Florida

C17 Charge Density Waves: Low Dimensional and Organic Conductors
Room: 316 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Eva Andrei, Rutgers University

C18 Focus Session Iridates I
Room: 317 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Deepak Singh, Universityof Missouri
Invited Speakers:  Gregory Fiete,  Desmond McMorrow  

C19 Focus Session Epitaxial Engineering of Magnetic Oxide Thin Films
Room: 318 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Mark Huijben, University of Twente
Invited Speakers:  Julia Mundy  

C20 Electronic Structure Methods II
Room: 319 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Lucas Wagner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

C21 Focus Session Magnetic Chains and Kondo Effects
Room: 320 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Christopher Landee, Clark University

C22 Focus Session Electrons, Phonons, and Electron-Phonon Scattering II
Room: 321 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: David Broido, Boston College

C23 Focus Session Acoustic, Thermal, and Photonic Metamaterial Concepts
Room: 322 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Matthew Sheldon, Texas A&M University
Invited Speakers:  Evgenii Narimanov,  Natalia Litchinitser  

C24 Focus Session Time-resolved Energy Transfer and Exciton Transport in Nanostructures
Room: 323 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Maxim Sukharev, Arizona State University
Invited Speakers:  Richard Schaller,  Samuel Penwell,  Yoann Olivier  

C25 Optical Spectroscopy of Superconductors
Room: 324 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Peter Armitage, Johns Hopkins University

C26 Focus Session 2D Devices: Low-dimensional Properties and Contacts
Room: 325 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Doug Strachan, University of Kentucky
Invited Speakers:  Jewook Park  

C27 Heavy Fermion Compounds: Experiment and Theory
Room: 326 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sheng Ran, University of California, San Diego

C28 Focus Session Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect I
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Nikesh Koirala, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Ferhat Katmis  

C29 Bi-based Topological Insulators
Room: 328 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Seongshik Oh, Rutgurs University

C30 Focus Session Novel Ferroic Systems
Room: 329 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: R Ramesh, UCBerkeley
Invited Speakers:  Marty Gregg  

C31 Invited Session Journal of Chemical Physics Editor's Choice
Room: 331 Sponsor: DCP Chair: David Nesbitt, JILA, University of Colorado
Invited Speakers:  Todd Gingrich,  Andrew Moran,  Joseph Subotnik,  Athanassios Panagiotopoulos,  Melanie Schnell  

C32 Focus Session Device Characterization of Nanostructured Devices and Heterostructures
Room: 332 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Matt Law, UC-Irvine
Invited Speakers:  Cherie Kagan,  Matt Law  

C33 Focus Session Polymers in Batteries and Electrochemical Capacitors
Room: 336 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: David Hallinan, Florida State University
Invited Speakers:  Venkat Srinivasan  

C34 Focus Session The Physics of Confined Structured Fluids I
Room: 337 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Jaroslaw Majewski, LANL
Invited Speakers:  Mark Stevens  

C35 Focus Session Active Matter: Collective Phenomena in Living Systems II
Room: 338 Sponsor: DBIO GSOFT GSNP Chair: Yuhai Tu, IBM Research

C36 Focus Session Soft Colloids: From Single Particle Properties to Bulk Phase Behavior and Dynamics
Room: 339 Sponsor: GSOFT DPOLY Chair: Alberto Fernandez-Nieves, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Peter Schurtenberger  

C37 Physics of Bioinspired Materials I
Room: 340 Sponsor: GSOFT DBIO DPOLY Chair: Qiming Wang, University of Southern California

C38 Focus Session Assembly of Soft Nanoparticles and Colloids in Solution
Room: 341 Sponsor: DPOLY GSOFT Chair: Du Yeol Ryu, Yonsei University
Invited Speakers:  David Pine  

C39 Focus Session Physics of Cancer and Development II
Room: 342 Sponsor: DBIO GSOFT Chair: Kandice Tanner, National Institute of Health
Invited Speakers:  Eric Batchelor  

C40 Extra Mechanics: Fracking, Growing, Buckling, Defects, Stat Mech, and Bio
Room: 343 Sponsor: GSNP GSOFT Chair: Dominic Vella, Oxford University

C41 Focus Session Biopolymers in Confinement: I
Room: 344 Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY DCOMP Chair: Kevin Dorfman, University of Minnesota - Minneapolis
Invited Speakers:  Walter Reisner  

C42 Physics of Copolymers II: Bulk and Thin Films
Room: 345 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Steve Hudson, NIST

C43 Focus Session Sediment Transport, Geological Flows, and Avalanches
Room: 346 Sponsor: GSNP GSOFT DFD Chair: Mark Shattuck, CCNY
Invited Speakers:  Arshad Kudrolli,  Abe Clark  

C44 Anyons, Tensor Networks and Quantum Walks
Room: 347 Sponsor: GQI

C45 Focus Session Adiabatic Quantum Computation and Quantum Annealing: Tunneling, Speedup and Noise Effects
Room: 348 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Davide Venturelli, NASA Ames Research Center
Invited Speakers:  Tameem Albash  

C46 Instrumentation II: Spectroscopy
Room: 311 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Angela Hight-Walker, NIST

C47 Surface, Growth, and Morphology
Room: 312 Sponsor: DCMP

C48 Multimode Circuit QED and Strong Coupling
Room: 349 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Benjamin Palmer, Laboratory of Physical Sciences, College Park

C50 Focus Session Many-Body Localization in Atomic Systems I
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Bela Bauer, Microsoft Station Q
Invited Speakers:  Alain Aspect  

C51 Applications Semiconductors & Dielectrics
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 2 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Ichiro Takeuchi, University of Maryland

C52 Vortices, Rotation and Nonlinear Effects in BECs
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 3 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Stephen Eckel, Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland

C53 Invited Session Massively Parallel Simulations of Chemical, Materials and Biological Systems
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 4 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Priya Vashisthta, University of Southern California
Invited Speakers:  Lin Yang,  Adri van Duin,  Todd Martinez,  Aiichiro Nakano,  Amanda Randles  

C54 Ballistic Transport in Semiconductor Devices
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 5 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Ernesto Marinero, Purdue University

C55 Invited Session The Physics of Epidemics
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 6 Sponsor: FPS DBIO Chair: Walter Beyerler, Sandia National Labs
Invited Speakers:  Victoria Davey,  Charles Macal,  Timothy Lant,  Martin Meltzer  

Mar 14 2016 5:45PM, Monday

D1 Special Event APS Prizes and Awards Ceremonial Session
Room: Hilton Baltimore Key Ballroom 11/12 Sponsor: APS

D10 Undergraduate Professional Skills Workshop for Non-Academic Careers
Room: 303 Sponsor: FGSA FIAP

Mar 14 2016 6:45PM, Monday

D2 Special Event APS Welcome Reception
Room: Exhibit Hall EF Sponsor: APS

Mar 14 2016 7:30PM, Monday

D20 Special Event Special Outreach Session: Science and Cooking
Room: 310 Sponsor: DCMP FOEP

Mar 15 2016 8:00AM, Tuesday

E1 Invited Session Recent Developments in Hybrid Semiconductor-Superconductor Junctions
Room: Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Yong Chen, Purdue University
Invited Speakers:  Amir Yacoby,  Dale J Van Harlingen,  Leonid P. Rokhinson,  Carlo Beenakker,  Jason Alicea  

E2 Invited Session Computational Methods for Improved Transparent Conducting Oxides
Room: Ballroom II Sponsor: DCOMP DCMP Chair: Giulia Galli, Univ of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Julia Medvedeva,  Andr\'e Schleife,  Hartwin Peelaers,  Anna Miglio,  Joel Varley  

E3 Invited Session A New Approach to the Kitaev Quantum Spin Liquid
Room: Ballroom III Sponsor: GMAG DCMP Chair: Young-June Kim, Univ of Toronto
Invited Speakers:  Kenneth Burch,  Stephen Nagler,  Jennifer Sears,  Hidekazu Tanaka,  Alexander Tsirlin  

E4 Invited Session Polymer Physics Prize
Room: Ballroom IV Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Stephen Cheng, University of Akron
Invited Speakers:  Anna Balazs,  Irving Epstein,  Valeriy Ginzburg,  Daniel Hammer,  Joanna Aizenberg  

E5 Focus Session Magnetic Thin Films and Multilayers
Room: 301 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Madhukar Reddy, Lam Research Corporation

E6 Focus Session Spin Excitations in Ultrathin Films, Nanostructures and Domain Walls
Room: 302 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Behrouz Khodadadi, University of Alabama
Invited Speakers:  Georg Woltersdorf,  Kai Wagner  

E7 Undergraduate Research/SPS IV
Room: 303 Sponsor: APS SPS Chair: Cortney Bougher, American Physical Society

E8 Superconductivity: Transport Properties
Room: 304 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Philip Adams, Louisiana State University

E11 Focus Session Electronic Structure and Magnetism in Fe-based Superconductors I
Room: 307 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Qimiao Si, Rice University
Invited Speakers:  Elena Bascones  

E12 Invited Session Mechanisms for Long Carrier Lifetimes and High Detectivities from Novel Ga-free Narrow Gap III-V Semiconductor Superlattices
Room: 308 Sponsor: FIAP DMP Chair: Michael Flatte, Univ of Iowa
Invited Speakers:  Yong-Hang Zhang,  David Peters,  Thomas Boggess,  Christoph Grein,  Nicholas Kioussis  

E13 Invited Session Exploring Topological Physics with Cold Atoms
Room: 309 Sponsor: DAMOP
Invited Speakers:  Monika Schleier-Smith,  Ian Spielman,  Nathan Goldman,  Colin Kennedy,  Yoshiro Takahashi  

E14 Invited Session Understand and Improve the Status of Women in Physics
Room: 310 Sponsor: CSWP Chair: Cha-Mei Tang, Creatv MicroTech. Inc.
Invited Speakers:  Edmund Bertschinger,  Jane Stout,  John Riordan  

E15 Focus Session 2D Devices: Mobility and Energy Relaxation
Room: 314 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Wenjuan Zhu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Invited Speakers:  Jonathan Bird  

E16 Focus Session Graphene and Graphene Nanoribbons
Room: 315 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jing Kong, MIT

E17 Focus Session Strained Graphene
Room: 316 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Masahiro Ishigami, University of Central Florida

E18 Focus Session Spin-Hall II
Room: 317 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Se Kwon Kim, UC Los Angeles
Invited Speakers:  Wei Han,  Roopali Kukreja  

E19 Focus Session Magnetic Oxide Thin Films and Heterostructures: Novel Interfacial Phenomena
Room: 318 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Ho Nyung Lee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Mark Huijben  

E20 Focus Session II-VI Magnetic Semiconductors
Room: 319 Sponsor: GMAG DCMP FIAP Chair: Denis Kochan, U. Regensburg
Invited Speakers:  Tomasz Wojtowicz  

E21 Experimental Techniques and Results: Static and Dynamic High-Pressure Physics
Room: 320 Sponsor: DCMP DCOMP Chair: Audrey Grockowiak, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

E22 Focus Session Predicting and Classifying Materials via High-Throughput Databases and Machine Learning I
Room: 321 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Gus Hart, Brigham Young University
Invited Speakers:  Matthew Hirn  

E23 Focus Session Metamaterial Devices and Applications
Room: 322 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jeremy Munday, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Jason Valentine,  Deirdre O’Carroll  

E24 Focus Session Many-Body Perturbation Theory for Electronic Excitations: Computational Advances
Room: 323 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Volker Blum, Duke University
Invited Speakers:  Feliciano Giustino  

E25 Superconductivity: Vortex matter
Room: 324 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Valentin Taufour, Ames Laboratory

E27 Heavy Fermion Superconductors
Room: 326 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Paula Giraldo Gallow, Florida State University

E28 Focus Session Topological Superconductivity
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Abhay Pasupathy, Columbia University
Invited Speakers:  Lia Krusin-Elbaum  

E29 Majorana Fermions
Room: 328 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Sergey Frolovy, University of Pittsburgh

E30 Focus Session Topological and Correlation Effects in Oxide Heterostructures
Room: 329 Sponsor: DMP Chair: James Rondinelli, Northwestern University
Invited Speakers:  Rossitza Pentcheva  

E31 Focus Session Advances in Density Functional Theory III
Room: 331 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Neepa Maitra, Hunter College-CUNY
Invited Speakers:  Evert Jan Baerends,  Viktor Staroverov  

E32 Focus Session Emerging Nanomaterials for Solar Energy Conversion II
Room: 332 Sponsor: DCP GERA Chair: Arthur Nozik, NREL
Invited Speakers:  Jeffrey Pietryga,  Art Nozik,  Xiaogang Peng  

E33 Polymer Glass Formation and Stability
Room: 336 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Connie Roth, Emory University

E34 Focus Session Continuum Descriptions of Discrete Materials I
Room: 337 Sponsor: GSNP GSOFT Chair: Ken Kamrin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Farhang Radjai  

E35 Focus Session Population and Evolutionary Dynamics I
Room: 338 Sponsor: DBIO GSNP Chair: Michael Pleimling, Virginia Tech
Invited Speakers:  Nicolas Desprat  

E36 Colloids: Assembly, Mechanics and Techniques
Room: 339 Sponsor: GSOFT Chair: Daniel Blair, Georgetown University

E37 Self and Directed Assembly (Equilibrium and Non-Equilibrium)
Room: 340 Sponsor: GSOFT DPOLY Chair: Kazem Edmond, Oxford University

E38 Focus Session Active Matter III
Room: 341 Sponsor: GSOFT DBIO GSNP/DFD Chair: Cynthia J. Reichardt, Los Alamos National Laboratory

E39 Focus Session Cell Motility: From Single Cell to Collective Dynamics I
Room: 342 Sponsor: DBIO GSOFT Chair: Sima Setayeshgar
Invited Speakers:  Allyson Sgro  

E40 Leo Kadanoff Session I
Room: 343 Sponsor: GSNP GPC Chair: Sidney Nagel, University of Chicago

E41 Physics of Neural Systems
Room: 344 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Marc Howard, Boston University

E42 Bi-Component Systems: Composites and Blends
Room: 345 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Debra Audus, NIST

E43 Jamming and the Glass Transition I
Room: 346 Sponsor: GSNP GSOFT Chair: Ray Orbach

E44 Focus Session Quantum Characterization, Verification and Validation II
Room: 347 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Barry Sanders, University of Calgary
Invited Speakers:  Yuval Sanders  

E45 Focus Session Hybrid Quantum Systems I
Room: 348 Sponsor: GQI DAMOP Chair: Mark Dykman, Michigan State University
Invited Speakers:  Patrice Bertet  

E46 Focus Session Advances in Scanning Probe Microscopy II: High Frequencies and Optical Techniques
Room: 311 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Fabian Natterer, IBM Almaden Research Center
Invited Speakers:  William Paul  

E47 Surfaces and Interfaces of Complex Oxides
Room: 312 Sponsor: DCMP

E48 Focus Session Quantum Error Correction in Superconducting Qubits
Room: 349 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Austin Fowler, Google, Inc.
Invited Speakers:  David Schuster  

E51 Focus Session Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors: Theory
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 2 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Adam Gali, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Invited Speakers:  Humberto Terrones  

E52 Physics of Batteries I
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 3 Sponsor: GERA FIAP

E53 Invited Session The Future of Physics: Crossing Disciplines and Collaborating
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 4 Sponsor: FGSA Chair: Krista Freeman, Carnegie Mellon University
Invited Speakers:  Renee Horton,  Robert Leheny,  Amy Flatten  

E54 Microwave and Optical Properties of Semiconductors
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 5 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Todd Brintlinger, Naval Research Lab

E55 Invited Session Delbruck Prize Session
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 6 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Steven D. Schwartz, University of Arizona
Invited Speakers:  Stephen Quake,  Jens-christian Meiners,  Barbara Treutlein,  iwijn De Vlaminck,  Ning Jiang  

Mar 15 2016 11:15AM, Tuesday

F1 Invited Session Pattern Formation
Room: Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP GSNP Chair: Sidney Nagel, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Irmgard Bischofberger,  Deepak Dhar,  Julia M Yeomans,  Anne Juel  

F2 Invited Session Topology and Localization in Floquet Systems
Room: Ballroom II Sponsor: DCMP DAMOP Chair: Shivaji Sondhi, Princeton
Invited Speakers:  Gil Refael,  Anushya Chandran,  Achilleas Lazarides,  Michael Messer,  François Huveneers  

F3 Invited Session Superconducting Spintronics
Room: Ballroom III Sponsor: GMAG DCMP Chair: Hans Nembach, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Invited Speakers:  Matthias Eschrig,  Burm Baek,  Jason Robinson,  Taro Wakamura,  Eric Gingrich  

F4 Invited Session Polymer Architecture Effects on Structure Dynamics
Room: Ballroom IV Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Michael Rubinstein, Univ of NC - Chapel Hill
Invited Speakers:  Dieter Richter,  Ralf Everaers,  Ting Ge,  George Floudas,  Gregory McKenna  

F5 Focus Session Spin Transport in Semiconductors
Room: 301 Sponsor: GMAG DCMP FIAP Chair: Pengke Li, University of Maryland, College Park
Invited Speakers:  Martin Gmitra,  Ian Appelbaum  

F6 Focus Session Iridates II
Room: 302 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Ilija Zeljkovic, Boston College
Invited Speakers:  Mark P. M. Dean  

F7 Undergraduate Research/SPS V
Room: 303 Sponsor: APS SPS Chair: Sean Bentley, Adelphi University

F8 Superconductivity: Novel Superconductors
Room: 304 Sponsor: DCMP DMP

F11 Focus Session Nematicity in Fe-based Superconductors
Room: 307 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Anna Boehmer, Ames Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Samuel Lederer  

F12 Invited Session Climate Science Frontier: Cloud and Precipitation Physics
Room: 308 Sponsor: GPC DFD GSNP Chair: Juan Restrepo, Oregon State Univ
Invited Speakers:  Elisabeth Moyer,  J David Neelin,  David Romps,  Olivier Pauluis,  Leo Donner  

F13 Invited Session New Developments in the Study of Inhomogeneous Strongly Correlated Quantum Systems
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCOMP DAMOP Chair: Mark Jarrell, Louisiana State University
Invited Speakers:  Louk Rademaker,  Brian DeMarco,  Chinedu Ekuma,  Ehsan Khatami,  Ushnish Ray  

F14 Invited Session Integration of Research and Teaching Excellence: Cottrell Scholars
Room: 310 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Richard Wiener, Research Corp
Invited Speakers:  Mats Selen,  Keivan Stassun,  Tom Solomon,  Rae Anderson,  Dinah Loerke  

F15 Design of 2D Materials
Room: 314 Sponsor: DCMP DMP

F16 Focus Session Exciton Dynamics in 2D Semiconductors
Room: 315 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Xiaobo Yin, University of Colorado, Boulder
Invited Speakers:  Xiaoqin (Elaine) Li  

F17 Focus Session 2D Devices: Superconductors, Charge Density Waves, Phase Transitions
Room: 316 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Vincent Meunier, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Invited Speakers:  Ke Zou  

F18 Focus Session Frustrated Magnetism: Pyrochlore and Spin Ice
Room: 317 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Kate Ross, Colorado State University

F19 Kondo Physics, Heavy Fermions, and Quantum Criticality
Room: 318 Sponsor: GMAG DCMP Chair: Ivelisse Cabrera, NIST

F20 Focus Session Materials in Extremes: High-pressure Synthesis of New Materials
Room: 319 Sponsor: DCOMP GSCCM DMP Chair: Jennifer Ciezak-Jenkins, Army Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Elissaios Stavrou,  Artem Oganov  

F21 Focus Session Molecular Nanomagnets
Room: 320 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Andrew Kent, New York University
Invited Speakers:  Wolfgang Wernsdorfer  

F22 Focus Session Theory and Simulation of Excited-State Phenomena in Semiconductors and Nanostructures II
Room: 321 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Emmanouil Kioupakis, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Yosuke Kanai  

F23 Focus Session Synthesis, Fabrication and Characterization of Nanostructures
Room: 322 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Koray Aydin, Northwestern University

F24 Focus Session Electronic and Optical Properties of Nanoparticle Assemblies
Room: 323 Sponsor: DMP
Invited Speakers:  Juan Jose Saenz  

F25 Superconductivity: Mesoscopic and Nanometer Scale
Room: 324 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Timir Datta, University of South Carolina

F26 Weyl Semimetal - Theory
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Catalin Martin, Ramapo College of New Jersey

F27 Focus Session Carbon Nanotube & Related Materials: Optical & Other Properties
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Shu-Jen Han, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Invited Speakers:  Junichiro Kono  

F28 Focus Session Topological Insulator Thin Films
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Matthew Brahlek, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Anthony Richardella  

F29 Novel Topological Phases: Theory
Room: 328 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Bitan Roy, University of Maryland

F30 Focus Session Orbital and Electronic Transitions in Oxide Heterostructures
Room: 329 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Hyowon Park, University of Illinois, Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Liviu Hozoi  

F31 Superconductivity: Spectroscopy of Cuprates
Room: 331 Sponsor: DCMP

F33 Focus Session The Physics of Confined Structural Fluids II
Room: 336 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Erik Watkins, UC - Davis
Invited Speakers:  Oleg Shpyrko,  Ann Junghans  

F34 Focus Session Active Matter IV
Room: 337 Sponsor: GSOFT DBIO GSNP/DFD Chair: Cristina Marchetti, Syracuse University
Invited Speakers:  Ayusman Sen  

F35 Focus Session Population and Evolutionary Dynamics II
Room: 338 Sponsor: DBIO GSNP Chair: Uwe Tauber, Virginia Tech
Invited Speakers:  Michael Assaf  

F36 Focus Session Physics of Bioinspired Materials II
Room: 339 Sponsor: GSOFT BIO DPOLY Chair: Sung Hoong Kang, Johns Hopkins University
Invited Speakers:  Andre R Studart  

F37 Focus Session Clustering and Gelation with Competing Interactions I
Room: 340 Sponsor: GSOFT Chair: Emanuela Del Gado, Georgetown University

F38 Padden Award Symposium
Room: 341 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Wesley Burghardt, Northwestern University

F39 Focus Session Cell Motility: From Single Cell to Collective Dynamics II
Room: 342 Sponsor: DBIO GSOFT Chair: Jay Tang, Brown University
Invited Speakers:  Maxime Deforet  

F40 Leo Kadanoff Session II / GSNP Student Awards
Room: 343 Sponsor: GSNP DCMP Chair: Susan Coppersmith, Bulbul Chakraborty, University of Wisconsin, Brandeis University

F41 Focus Session Maximum Entropy Models: A Promising Link Between Statistical Physics, Inference, and Biology
Room: 344 Sponsor: DBIO GSNP GSOFT Chair: Gasper Tkacik, IST Austria
Invited Speakers:  Martin Weigt  

F42 Polymer Assembly I
Room: 345 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Sangwoo Lee, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

F43 Jamming and the Glass Transition II
Room: 346 Sponsor: GSNP GSOFT Chair: Paolo Sibani

F44 Focus Session Gravity and Quantum Information
Room: 347 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Caslav Brukner, IQOQI, Austrian Academy of Sciences; Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna
Invited Speakers:  Holger Mueller,  Miles Blencowe  

F45 Focus Session Adiabatic Quantum Computation and Quantum Annealing: Energy Landscapes, Speedup and Embedding
Room: 348 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Daniel Lidar, Univ. of Southern California
Invited Speakers:  Hartmut Neven  

F46 Instrumentation III: Scattering, Diffraction, Imaging
Room: 311 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Dennis Mills, Argonne National Laboratory

F47 Focus Session Sexual and Gender Diversity Issues in Physics – C-LGBT Ad Hoc Committee Report
Room: 312 Sponsor: APS Chair: Monica Plisch, APS
Invited Speakers:  Michael Falk  

F48 Quantum Gates in Superconducting Circuits
Room: 349 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Jerry Chow, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

F50 Focus Session Non-Equilibrium Physics with Cold Atoms
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Joe Britton, NIST
Invited Speakers:  Zoran Hadzibabic  

F51 2DEG and Quantum Hall Effect
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 2 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Mansour Shayegan, Princeton University

F52 Physics of Batteries II
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 3 Sponsor: GERA FIAP

F53 Focus Session DCP Plyler and Jankunis Prize Session
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 4 Sponsor: DCP Chair: David Nesbitt, University of Colorado, Boulder
Invited Speakers:  Donald Truhlar,  Peter Kraus,  Laura Gagliardi  

F54 Invited Session Materials for Sustainable Development
Room: Hilton Inner Harbor Holiday Ballroom 5 Sponsor: GERA Chair: Talat Rahman, University of Central Florida
Invited Speakers:  Marty Green,  R. LeSar,  Nina Orlovskaya,  Judith Yang,  Elizabeth A. Kocs  

F55 Invited Session Brain Morphology and Mechanics: From Cortex Folding to Neuronal Growth to Compression Stiffening
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 6 Sponsor: DBIO GSOFT Chair: Jennifer Schwartz, Syracuse University
Invited Speakers:  David Van Essen,  Tuomas Tallinen,  J. M. Schwarz,  Cristian Staii,  Katarzyna Pogoda  

Mar 15 2016 1:00PM, Tuesday

G2 Special Event Graduate School Fair Recpeption
Room: Graduate School Fair Space/Exhibit Hall EF Sponsor: APS Chair: Crystal Bailey, APS

Mar 15 2016 2:00PM, Tuesday

G1 Poster Session Poster Session I (Tuesday, 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm)
Room: Exhibit Hall EF

Mar 15 2016 2:30PM, Tuesday

H1 Invited Session Hidden Order in URu2Si2 Revealed by Advanced Spectroscopies
Room: Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP Chair: John Mydosh, Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratorium and Instituut-Lorentz Universit
Invited Speakers:  Girsh Blumberg,  Aharon Kapitulnik,  Yuji Matsuda,  Hiroshi Amitsuka,  Ricardo Lobo  

H2 Invited Session Emergent Topological Phenomena in Pyrochlore Iridates II
Room: Ballroom II Sponsor: DCMP DMP GMAG Chair: Zhi-Xun Shen, Stanford Univ
Invited Speakers:  Kentaro Ueda,  Eric Yue Ma,  Youhei Yamaji,  Zhaoming Tian,  Leon Balents  

H3 Invited Session Charge Noise Mitigation in Multiple Quantum Dot Qubits
Room: Ballroom III Sponsor: DCMP GQI Chair: Thaddeus Ladd, Hrl Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Matthew Reed,  Ferdinand Kuemmeth,  Susan Coppersmith,  Guido Burkard,  Hendrik Bluhm  

H4 Focus Session Dillon Medal Symposium
Room: Ballroom IV Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Darrin Pochan, University of Delaware
Invited Speakers:  Thomas Epps  

H5 Focus Session Frustrated Magnetism: Spin Liquids in 2D
Room: 301 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Arun Paramekanti, University of Tornoto

H6 Focus Session Perpendicular Anisotropy Multi-layers and Hard Magnets
Room: 302 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Mazin Almaqablah, Western Digital Corporation
Invited Speakers:  Gabriel Chaves-O'Flynn  

H7 Focus Session Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors: Spin Related Transport
Room: 303 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Lourdes Salamanca-Riba, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Michael E. Flatté  

H8 Superconductivity: CDW's and Chalcogenides
Room: 304 Sponsor: DCMP

H11 Focus Session Correlations and Superconductivity in Fe Chalcogenides I
Room: 307 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Amalia Coldea, Oxford University
Invited Speakers:  Donglai Feng  

H12 Invited Session Beyond STT-MRAM: Future Perspective for Spintronics Devices
Room: 308 Sponsor: FIAP GMAG Chair: Ernesto E. Marinero, Supriyo Datta, Purdue University
Invited Speakers:  Vincent Cros,  Jian-Ping Wang,  Kerem Yunus Camsari,  Kang L. Wang,  Stuart Parkin  

H13 Invited Session Rahman Prize Lecture and Computational Design of New Topological Materials
Room: 309 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Bluegel Stefan, Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH
Invited Speakers:  Victor Pardo,  Udo Schwingenschlogl,  Kesong Yang,  Matthias Troyer  

H14 Invited Session Reichert Award
Room: 310 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Tim Stelzer, Univ of Illinois - Urbana
Invited Speakers:  Van Bistrow,  Jacob Stanley,  Lowell McCann,  Mark Tuominen,  Chad Hoyt  

H15 Focus Session 2D and Graphene - Electronic and Atomic Structure
Room: 314 Sponsor: DMP

H16 Focus Session 2D Devices: Electronics and Optoelectronics
Room: 315 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jonathan Bird, University at Buffalo
Invited Speakers:  Wenjuan Zhu  

H17 Focus Session Transition Metal Dichalcogenides: Defects and Degradation
Room: 316 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Chongwu Zhou, University of Southern California
Invited Speakers:  Robert Wallace  

H18 Focus Session Spins in Reduced Dimensional Semiconductors
Room: 317 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Scott Crooker, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Luyi Yang  

H19 Focus Session Spin-Order and Half-Metallicity of Magnetic Thin Films
Room: 318 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Chiara Ciccarelli, University of Cambridge
Invited Speakers:  Alice Taylor  

H20 Focus Session Materials in Extremes: Novel Energetic Materials
Room: 319 Sponsor: GSCCM DCOMP DMP Chair: Elissaios Stavrou, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Jennifer Ciezak-Jenkins  

H21 Focus Session 1D Gapped Antiferromagnets
Room: 320 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Vivien Zapf, NHMFL-LANL
Invited Speakers:  Joris van Slageren  

H22 Focus Session Theory and Simulations of Novel Superconductors
Room: 321 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Barry Klein, University of California, Davis
Invited Speakers:  Zhiping Yin,  Ryosuke Akashi  

H23 Focus Session Computational Materials Discovery and Design - Materials for Catalysis
Room: 322 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: David Strubbe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Qimin Yan,  Naoto Umezawa  

H24 Focus Session Many-Body Perturbation Theory for Electronic Excitations: Excitonic Phenomena
Room: 323 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Serdar Ogut, University of Illinois at Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Lucia Reining  

H25 Josephson Tunneling: SQUIDS and Superconductor-ferromagnetic Interactions
Room: 324 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Steven Anlage, University of Maryland

H26 Graphene: Plasmons and Fluorescence
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Abdel El Fatimy, Georgetown University

H28 Focus Session Topological Crystalline Insulators and Quantum Hall Effects.
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Vidya Madhavan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Invited Speakers:  Liang Fu  

H29 Focus Session Two-dimensional Topological Insulators: InAs/GaSb Quantum Wells and Beyond
Room: 328 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Xiao Li, University of Maryland

H30 Focus Session Novel Behavior at Oxide Interfaces
Room: 329 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Beatriz Noheda, University of Groningen
Invited Speakers:  Manuel Bibes  

H31 Focus Session Advances in Density Functional Theory IV
Room: 331 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Adam Wasserman, Purdue University
Invited Speakers:  Angel Rubio  

H32 Focus Session Theoretical Modeling of Materials for Solar Energy Conversion
Room: 332 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Giulia Galli, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Giulia Galli  

H33 Focus Session Where Simulation, Theory, and Experiment Meet Across Time Scales
Room: 336 Sponsor: DPOLY FIAP DCOMP Chair: K. Michael Salerno, Sandia National Laboratory

H34 Focus Session Active Matter V
Room: 337 Sponsor: GSOFT DBIO GSNP/DFD Chair: Erik Luijten, Northwestern University
Invited Speakers:  Denis Bartolo  

H35 Focus Session Population and Evolutionary Dynamics III
Room: 338 Sponsor: DBIO GSNP Chair: Robert Austin, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Liyu Liu  

H36 Focus Session Soft Matter at Interfaces (Surfactants)
Room: 339 Sponsor: GSOFT Chair: Jonathan Whitmer, Notre Dame

H37 Focus Session Clustering and Gelation with Competing Interactions II
Room: 340 Sponsor: GSOFT Chair: Yun Liu, NIST
Invited Speakers:  Emmanuel Trizac  

H38 Polymer Nanocomposites: Dynamics
Room: 341 Sponsor: DPOLY FIAP Chair: Laura Clarke, NC State University

H39 Focus Session Cell Motility: From Single Cell to Collective Dynamics III
Room: 342 Sponsor: DBIO GSOFT Chair: Thomas Gregor, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Abhishek Shrivastava  

H40 Focus Session Mechanical Metamaterials and Origami I
Room: 343 Sponsor: GSNP GSOFT Chair: Chris Santangelo, University of Massachusetts Amherst

H41 Focus Session Biopolymers in Confinement II
Room: 344 Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY Chair: Kevin Dorfman, University of Minnesota - Minneapolis
Invited Speakers:  Bernhard Mehlig  

H42 Polymer Assembly II
Room: 345 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Boualem Hammouda, NIST

H43 Focus Session Aging in the Jammed State
Room: 346 Sponsor: GSNP GSOFT Chair: Stefan Boettcher, Emory University
Invited Speakers:  Peter Yunker  

H44 Quantum Algorithms
Room: 347 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Kenneth Rudinger, Sandia National Labs

H45 Focus Session Quantum Information with Ions, Photons and Spins
Room: 348 Sponsor: GQI DAMOP Chair: Philipp Schindler, Innsbruck University
Invited Speakers:  Jonathan Home  

H46 Metals I
Room: 311 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Duane Johnson, Ames Laboratory

H47 Chemical Physics of Graphene and Carbon
Room: 312 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Masuro Kuno, University of Notre Dame

H48 Entanglement in Superconducting Circuits
Room: 349 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Konrad Lehnert, JILA, University of Colorado, NIST-Boulder

H50 Many-Body Localization in Atomic Systems II
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DAMOP

H51 Focus Session Climate as a Non-equilibrium and Stochastic System
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 2 Sponsor: GPC DFD GSNP Chair: Juan Restrepo, Oregon State University
Invited Speakers:  Valerio Lucarini,  Hussein Aluie  

H52 Focus Session Optomechanics and Hybrid Systems II: Metrology and Other Topics
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 3 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Mukund Vengalatorre, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  Philipp Treutlein  

H53 Invited Session Explore the Expertise and Facilities at the DOE Nanocenters: Come Work With Us!
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 4 Sponsor: COM Chair: Fernando Camino, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Gabriel Montano,  Lunet Luna,  Fatima Amir,  Leonidas Ocola,  Lakeisha Walker  

H54 Materials for Energy Storage Devices I
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 5 Sponsor: DCMP GERA FIAP Chair: Marina Leite, Univ. of Maryland - College Park

H55 Invited Session Theoretical Physics and Networks of Real Neurons
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 6 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: William Bialek, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Mark Goldman,  Thierry Mora,  Adirenne Fairhall,  Surya Ganguli,  Stephanie Palmer  

Mar 15 2016 4:30PM, Tuesday

J1 Special Event Meet the Editors of APS Reception
Room: Ballroom Foyer

Mar 15 2016 5:30PM, Tuesday

J2 Special Event Student Reception & Awards Ceremony
Room: Exhibit Hall C Sponsor: APS Chair: Crystal Bailey, APS

Mar 15 2016 5:45PM, Tuesday

J15 GMAG Business Meeting
Room: 314 Sponsor: GMAG

J28 FIAP Business Meeting
Room: 327 Sponsor: FIAP

J29 GIMS Business Meeting
Room: 328 Sponsor: GIMS

J32 DCP Business Meeting
Room: 332 Sponsor: DCP

J33 DPOLY Business Meeting
Room: 336 Sponsor: DPOLY

J37 GERA Business Meeting
Room: 340 Sponsor: GERA

J38 GQI Business Meeting
Room: 341 Sponsor: GQI

J39 DBIO Business Meeting
Room: 342 Sponsor: DBIO

J40 GSNP Business Meeting
Room: 343 Sponsor: GSNP

J51 GPC Business Meeting
Room: Holiday Ballroom 2 Sponsor: GPC

J52 DCOMP Business Meeting
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom III Sponsor: DCOMP

Mar 15 2016 6:45PM, Tuesday

JA33 DPOLY NSF Question & Answer Session
Room: 336 Sponsor: DPOLY

Mar 15 2016 7:00PM, Tuesday

JA50 DMP Business Meeting
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DMP

JA51 DCMP Business Meeting
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballrom 2 Sponsor: DCMP

Mar 16 2016 8:00AM, Wednesday

K1 Invited Session Visualization of Vorticity in Quantum Fluids
Room: Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Katepalli Sreenivasan, New York Univ
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Lathrop,  Andrey Vilesov,  Makoto Tsubota,  Marco La Mantia,  Wei Guo  

K2 Invited Session Kitaev Spin Liquid Physics in Honeycomb and Related Lattice Materials
Room: Ballroom II Sponsor: DCMP DMP GMAG Chair: Stephen Nagler, Oak Ridge National Lab
Invited Speakers:  Arnab Banerjee,  Itamar Kimchi,  Maria Hermanns,  Tomohiro Takayama,  Yoshitomo Kamiya  

K3 Invited Session Weyl Topological Semimetals: Theory and Experiment
Room: Ballroom III Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Arun Bansil, Northeastern University
Invited Speakers:  Shuichi Murakami,  Anton Burkov,  M. Zahid Hasan,  Hong Ding,  Andrei Bernevig  

K4 Invited Session From Nano to Meso: Assembly, Structure and Dynamics of Polymers and Polymer Nanocomposite Thin Films I - Industry Day
Room: Ballroom IV Sponsor: DPOLY FIAP Chair: Sanat Kumar, Columbia Univ
Invited Speakers:  Alamgir Karim,  Laura Clarke,  Shengfeng Cheng,  K. Michael Salerno,  Karen Winey  

K5 Focus Session Frustrated Magnetism: Spinels
Room: 301 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Daniel Khomskii, University of Cologne
Invited Speakers:  Lucy Clark  

K6 Focus Session Ruthenates
Room: 302 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Songxue Chi, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Xianglin Ke,  Stephen Hayden  

K7 Focus Session Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors: Nitrides
Room: 303 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Christopher Van de Walle, UCSB
Invited Speakers:  James Speck,  Chris Van de Walle  

K8 Superconductivity: Cuprates
Room: 304 Sponsor: DCMP

K9 Superlattices & Nanostructures (Wires, Dots, etc): Optical Phenomenona
Room: 305 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Andrey Kiselev, HRL Laboratories, LLC

K11 Focus Session Electronic Structure and Magnetism in Fe-based Superconductors II
Room: 307 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Emilia Morosan, Rice University
Invited Speakers:  Ming Yi  

K12 Topological Insulators: Towards Applications
Room: 308 Sponsor: DCMP

K13 Invited Session Application of Monte Carlo Techniques to Cold Atom Systems
Room: 309 Sponsor: DAMOP DCOMP Chair: Barry Schneider, NIST/NSF
Invited Speakers:  Massimo Boninsegni,  Ana M Rey,  Marcos Rigol,  Richard Scalettar,  Lode Pollet  

K14 Invited Session Extreme Mechanics: Topology in Mechanics
Room: 310 Sponsor: GSNP GSOFT Chair: Pedro Reis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  William Irvine,  Randall Kamien,  Bryan Chen,  Huajian Gao,  Francisco Lopez Jimenez  

K15 Transport in Graphene and 1D Structures
Room: 314 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Kurt Gaskill, Naval Research Laboratory

K16 Focus Session 2D Devices: Black Phosphorous
Room: 315 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Marija Drndic, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Vincent Meunier  

K17 Many-body Interactions in Graphene
Room: 316 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Vikram Deshpande, University of utah

K18 Focus Session Spin-Hall III
Room: 317 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Benjamin Jungfleisch, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Chiara Ciccarelli  

K19 Focus Session III-V Magnetic Semiconductors
Room: 318 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Paul Crowell, University of Minnesota
Invited Speakers:  Tomonori Arakawa  

K20 Focus Session Quantum Many-Body Systems and Methods I
Room: 319 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Nicola Lanata, Rutgers University

K21 Geophysics and Planetary Science
Room: 320 Sponsor: DCMP GPC Chair: Arianna Gleason, Los Alamos National Laboratory

K22 Predicting and Classifying Materials via High-Throughput Databases and Machine Learning II
Room: 321 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Dimitrios Papaconstantopoulos, George Mason University

K23 Focus Session Focus Topic: Computational Materials Discovery and Design - Structure Prediction and Phase Diagrams
Room: 322 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Stephan Lany, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Stefano Curtarolo,  Vladan Stevanovic  

K24 Focus Session Many-Body Perturbation Theory for Electronic Excitations: Theoretical Spectroscopy
Room: 323 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Claudia Draxl, Humboldt University
Invited Speakers:  J J Rehr  

K25 Superconductivity: Theory I
Room: 324 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Harald Jeschke, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

K26 Insulator: Growth, Structure, Properties, and Defects
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Bharat Jalan, University of Minnesota

K27 Focus Session Carbon Nanotubes: Electronic, Transport & Sensing
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Yan Li, Peiking University
Invited Speakers:  Lian-Mao Peng,  Michael Schroter  

K28 Focus Session Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect II
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Anthony Richardella, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Ke He,  Andrew Bestwick  

K29 Topological Insulators: Theory I
Room: 328 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Siddharth Parameswaran, Univesrity of California, Irvine

K30 Focus Session Complexity in Ferroic Systems
Room: 329 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Manuel Bibes, CNRS Thales
Invited Speakers:  Beatriz Noheda  

K31 Focus Session Advances in Density Functional Theory V
Room: 331 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Michele Pavanello, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  E.K.U. Gross  

K32 Focus Session Plasmonics and Beyond I: Resonant Coupling
Room: 332 Sponsor: DCP Chair: David Nesbitt, JILA, University of Colorado
Invited Speakers:  Teri Odom,  David Masiello  

K33 Focus Session Polymers for Solar Energy Conversion
Room: 336 Sponsor: DPOLY FIAP Chair: Miriam Rafailovich, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Invited Speakers:  Emily Pentzer,  Vikram Kuppa  

K34 Rheology and Flow
Room: 337 Sponsor: GSOFT Chair: Paolo Arratia, University of Pennsylvania

K35 Focus Session Physics of Sensorimotor Neural Circuits I
Room: 338 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Tatyana Sharpee, Salk Institute
Invited Speakers:  Alexei Koulakov  

K36 Focus Session Coarse-graining, Advanced Sampling and Multiscale Methods in Soft Matter
Room: 339 Sponsor: GSOFT DPOLY DCOMP Chair: Gopinath Subramanian, University of Southern Mississippi
Invited Speakers:  Danny Perez  

K37 Focus Session Soft Matter at Interfaces (Particles)
Room: 340 Sponsor: GSOFT Chair: Michael Rubenstein, Univ. North Carolina
Invited Speakers:  Lucio Isa  

K38 Focus Session Glasses Altered by Interfaces I
Room: 341 Sponsor: DPOLY GSOFT Chair: Andrew Croll, North Dakota State University
Invited Speakers:  Ophelia Tsui  

K39 Evolutionary Design Principles of Bio-networks
Room: 342 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Gabor Balazsi, Oleg Igoshin, Stony Brook University, Rice University
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Segre',  Alvaro Sanchez  

K40 Focus Session Mechanical Metamaterials and Origami II
Room: 343 Sponsor: GSNP GSOFT Chair: Katia Bertoldi, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Julia Greer  

K41 Focus Session Physics of Proteins: Protein-Protein Interactions
Room: 344 Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY DCOMP Chair: Wei Wang, Nanjing University
Invited Speakers:  Corey OHern  

K42 Focus Session Polymer Dynamics - Insight from In-Situ Scattering
Room: 345 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Lilin He, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Madhu Sudan Tyagi  

K43 Complex Networks and their Applications I
Room: 346 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Flaviano Morone, City College of New York

K44 Quantum Error Correction, Control & Simulation
Room: 347 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Todd Brun, University of Southern California

K45 Focus Session Hybrid Quantum Systems II
Room: 348 Sponsor: GQI DAMOP Chair: Mark Friesen, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Invited Speakers:  Michael Koehl  

K46 Focus Session Advances in Scanning Probe Microscopy III: Scanning Probe Spectroscopic Techniques
Room: 311 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Jeonghoon Ha, National Magnet Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Vidya Madhavan  

K47 Bulk Water: Experiment and Theory
Room: 312 Sponsor: DCP Chair: David Chandler, Sandia National Laboratory

K48 Focus Session Novel Superconducting Qubits & Architectures
Room: 349 Sponsor: GQI Chair: John Martinis, Google, Inc.
Invited Speakers:  Karl Petersson,  Yun-Pil Shim  

K50 Spin-Orbit Coupling and Artificial Gauge Fields
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Lauren Aycock, Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland

K51 Fractional QHE: Topological, Non-Abelian, and 5/2 States
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 2 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: John Cumings, University of Maryland

K52 Nanostructured Photovoltaics
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 3 Sponsor: GERA DPOLY

K53 Granular and Multiphase Flows
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 4 Sponsor: DFD GSOFT GSNP

K54 Special Event Tutorial for Authors and Referees
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 5 Sponsor: APS

K55 Invited Session Physics of Cancer Metastasis
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 6 Sponsor: DBIO GSOFT Chair: Michael Espey, National Institute of Health
Invited Speakers:  Kenneth Pienta,  Jan Liphardt,  Herbert Levine,  Sui Huang,  Yi Jiang  

Mar 16 2016 10:45AM, Wednesday

N1 Special Event Meet the Editors of APS Coffee Break
Room: Exhibit Hall EF Sponsor: APS

Mar 16 2016 11:03AM, Wednesday

L15 Phenomena in Dirac Systems
Room: 314 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Adam Friedman, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Alexander Balatsky  

Mar 16 2016 11:15AM, Wednesday

L1 Invited Session Design and Control of the Superconducting Order Parameter in Low Dimensions
Room: Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Trivedi Nandini, Ohio State University
Invited Speakers:  Vincent BOUCHIAT,  Nadya Mason,  James Valles,  Nina Markovic,  Moses chan  

L2 Invited Session Physics of Interacting Particles in Two Dimensional Electron Systems at Half-Filling
Room: Ballroom II Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mansour Shayegan, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Jainendra Jain,  Arindam Ghosh,  T Senthil,  Yang Liu,  F. D. M. Haldane  

L3 Invited Session Buckley, Lilienfeld and Onsager Prize Session
Room: Ballroom III Sponsor: DCMP GSNP GSOFT Chair: Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Eli Yablonovitch,  David Pines,  Marc Mezard,  Giorgio Parisi,  Riccardo Zecchina  

L4 Invited Session Physics for Everyone
Room: Ballroom IV Sponsor: DMP Chair: Daniel Dessau, University of Colorado, Boulder
Invited Speakers:  Rush Holt,  Alan Willner,  Duncan Watts,  H. E. Stanley,  Mildred Dresselhaus  

L5 Focus Session Frustrated Magnetism: Artificial Spin Ice
Room: 301 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Jayasimha Atulasimha, Virginia Commonwealth University
Invited Speakers:  Laura Heyderman  

L6 Focus Session Spin-Transport Phenomena: Oscillators and Spin-Injections I
Room: 302 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Lihui Bai, University of Manitoba

L7 Focus Session Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors: Novel experimental techniques
Room: 303 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: James Speck, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invited Speakers:  Thomas Schenkel  

L8 Focus Session Electron Transport in Nanowires
Room: 304 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jonathan Baugh, University of Waterloo

L11 Focus Session Novel Physics of Fe-Pnictide Superconductors
Room: 307 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ming Yi, UC Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Roser Valenti  

L12 Invited Session From Nano to Meso: Assembly Structure and Dynamics of Polymers and Polymer Nanocomposite Thin Films II - Industry Day
Room: 308 Sponsor: DPOLY FIAP Chair: Neal Brant, Miliken, Inc.
Invited Speakers:  YuanQiao Rao,  Hongyou Fan,  Alexander Hexemer,  Praveen Agarwal,  Gurpreet Singh  

L13 Invited Session New Phenomena in 2D Fermi Gases
Room: 309 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Cheng Chin, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Selim Jochim,  John Thomas,  Andrey Turlapov,  Brandon Anderson,  Markus Holzmann  

L14 Invited Session Impacts and Experiences with Hybrid and Online Courses
Room: 310 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Michael Schatz, Georgia Institute of Technolgy
Invited Speakers:  Michael Schatz,  David Pritchard,  Tim Stelzer,  Gerd Kortemeyer,  Michael Dubson  

L16 Focus Session Black Phosphorus Device Physics
Room: 315 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Yuanbo Zhang, Fudan University, China
Invited Speakers:  Fengnian Xia  

L17 Focus Session 2D Devices: Charge, Spin, and Valley Control
Room: 316 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Kin Fai Mak, Penn State University
Invited Speakers:  Feng Wang  

L18 Focus Session Ultrafast Magnetization Dynamics
Room: 317 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Emrah Turgut, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  Lihui Bai  

L19 Focus Session Emergent Magnetic and Electronic States in Oxide Heterostructures
Room: 318 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Gervasi Herranz, ICMAB-CSIC
Invited Speakers:  Jobu Matsuno  

L20 Focus Session Quantum Many-Body Systems and Methods II
Room: 319 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Eric Andrade, TU Dresden, Germany

L21 Focus Session Materials in Extremes: Energetic Materials
Room: 320 Sponsor: GSCCM DCOMP DMP Chair: Tariq Aslam, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Darby Luscher  

L22 Focus Session Theory and Simulations of Strongly Correlated Systems with Disorder
Room: 321 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Richard Scalettar, University of California, Davis
Invited Speakers:  Eric Andrade  

L23 Focus Session Computational Materials Discovery and Design - Graphene and 2D Materials
Room: 322 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Mahesh Neupane, Army Research Lab
Invited Speakers:  Maria Chan  

L24 Focus Session Mesoscopic Materials and Devices I
Room: 323 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Nitin Samarth, Pennsylvania State Unversity
Invited Speakers:  Abhinav Kandala  

L25 Superconductivity: Theory II
Room: 324 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Alexander Balatsky, Los Alamos National Laboratory

L26 Electronic and Transport Properties of Insulators
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: L. Andrew Wray, New York University

L27 Quantum Criticality: Theory
Room: 326 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Lucile Savary, Massachusetts Institute of Techology

L28 Focus Session Topological Crystalline Insulators
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Liang Fu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  genda gu,  Ilija Zeljkovic  

L29 Two-Dimensional Topological Insulators: Heterostructures and Beyond
Room: 328 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Fan Zhang, University of Texas, Dallas

L30 Focus Session Functional Defects in Oxide Heterostructures
Room: 329 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Hanghui Chen, Columbia University
Invited Speakers:  Ulrich Aschauer  

L31 Focus Session Advances in Density Functional Theory VI
Room: 331 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Marivi Fernandez Serra, SUNY-Stony Brook
Invited Speakers:  Georg Kresse,  Karsten W. Jacobsen  

L32 Focus Session Dynamic Interactions Between Nanostructures
Room: 332 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Todd Krauss, University of Rochester
Invited Speakers:  Tianquan Lian,  Todd Krauss,  A. Paul Alivisatos  

L33 Focus Session Kitaev Physics in Honeycomb Iridates
Room: 336 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: George Jackeli, University of Stuttgart
Invited Speakers:  Yong-Baek Kim  

L34 Invited Session Forum on Outreach and Engaging the Public
Room: 337 Sponsor: FOEP Chair: Yvan Bruynseraede, University of Leuven
Invited Speakers:  Raymond Orbach,  Marc Schulman,  Joel Shurkin,  Matin Durrani,  jeremie palacci  

L35 Focus Session Thermoelectrics Low Dimensional Materials
Room: 338 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jeff Urban, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Heiner Linke  

L40 Focus Session Geometry and Dynamics of Slender Structures
Room: 343 Sponsor: GSNP GSOFT Chair: James Hanna, Virginia Tech
Invited Speakers:  John H. Maddocks  

L42 Invited Session Industry Day Plenary Session
Room: 345 Sponsor: FIAP DPOLY Chair: Jeffrey Hunt, Boeing, Inc.
Invited Speakers:  A.P. Nowak,  Om Prakash,  Jeannette M. Garcia  

L43 Complex Networks and their Applications II
Room: 346 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Mason Porter, Oxford University

L44 Quantum Information Theory and Quantum Foundations
Room: 347 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Bei Zeng, University of Guelph

L45 Focus Session Semiconductor Qubits: Quantum Dot Entanglement and Control
Room: 348 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Matthew Rakher, HRL Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Andrew Dzurak  

L46 Focus Session Metals II
Room: 311 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: David Singh, University of Missouri
Invited Speakers:  Andrew Potter  

L47 Chemical Physics of Condensed Phase Dynamics
Room: 312 Sponsor: DCP Chair: David Nesbitt, JILA, University of Colorado

L48 Decoherence in Superconducting Qubits: Materials and TLSs
Room: 349 Sponsor: GQI Chair: David Pappas, NIST-Boulder

L50 Cold Atomic Gases: Precision Measurement and Few-Body Physics
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Shina Tan, Georgia Institute of Technology

L51 Fractional QHE: Bilayer, & Many-Body Effects
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 2 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: John Cumings, University of Maryland

L52 Solar Energy Including Concentrated Solar, and Solar Thermal
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 3 Sponsor: GERA FIAP

L53 Flow of Complex Fluids, Polymers, Gels
Room: Hilton Inner Harbor Holiday Ballroom 4 Sponsor: DFD GSOFT DPOLY

L54 Supersolids and Band Structure in Strongly Correlated Systems
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 5 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: William Cannon, Texas A&M University

L55 Invited Session 20 Years of Quantum Error Correction
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 6 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Steve Flammia, University of Sydney
Invited Speakers:  John Preskill,  Daniel Gottesman,  David DiVincenzo,  Philipp Schindler,  Michel Devoret  

Mar 16 2016 11:30AM, Wednesday

M1 Poster Session Poster Session II (Wednesday, 11:30 am - 2:30 pm)
Room: Exhibit Hall EF Sponsor: DPOLY DBIO GSOFT GSNP DFD

Mar 16 2016 12:00PM, Wednesday

N2 Careers in Physics Workshop: Putting Your Science to Work
Room: Hilton Baltimore Key Ballrooms 9/10 Sponsor: APS

Mar 16 2016 2:30PM, Wednesday

P1 Invited Session The Fred Kavli Special Symposium on Physics Frontiers
Room: Exhibit Hall C Sponsor: APS Chair: Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Ana Maria Rey,  Xiaowei Zhuang,  David A. Weitz,  Naomi Halas,  Duncan Brown  

P5 Focus Session Spins in Two Dimensions: Graphene, 2DEGs and Quantum Wells
Room: 301 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Hanan Dery, University of Rochester
Invited Speakers:  Adam Friedman  

P6 Focus Session Magnetic Complex Oxides I
Room: 302 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Gian Guzman-Verri, University of Costa Rica / Argonne National Lab
Invited Speakers:  Jiaqiang Yan,  George Jackeli  

P7 Focus Session Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors: Oxides
Room: 303 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Michael Stavola, Lehigh University
Invited Speakers:  Mary Ellen Zvanut  

P8 Superconductivity: Proximity Effects and SN Junctions I
Room: 304 Sponsor: DCMP DMP

P9 Superlattices and Terahertz
Room: 305 Sponsor: DCMP FIAP

P11 Focus Session Correlations and Superconductivity in Fe chalcogenides II
Room: 307 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Makariy Tanatar, Ames Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Takasada Shibauchi  

P12 Invited Session Bridging Time and Length Scales in Polymers and Soft Materials: Computational Pathways to Accelerate the Lab to Fab Transition - Industry Day
Room: 308 Sponsor: DPOLY DCOMP FIAP Chair: Mark Stevens, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Mark Robbins,  Debra Audus,  David Heine,  Jeremy Lechman,  Steve Plimpton  

P13 Focus Session Mechanical Properties of 2D materials
Room: 309 Sponsor: DMP
Invited Speakers:  Wenzhong Bao  

P14 Invited Session International Cooperative Efforts for Electronic Structure Methods
Room: 310 Sponsor: FIP DCOMP Chair: Aldo Romero, West Virginia University
Invited Speakers:  Lucia Reining,  Gian-Marco Rignanese,  Francois Gygi,  Micael Oliveira,  Andrea Marini  

P15 Focus Session 2D Materials: Preparation and Characterization
Room: 314 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Huili Xing, Cornell University

P16 Focus Session 2D Devices: Black Phosphorous, III-IV, and IV-VI Materials
Room: 315 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jewook Park, ORNL

P17 Focus Session 2D Materials: Assembly and Characterization
Room: 316 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ching-Tzu Chen, IBM

P18 Focus Session Spin-Dynamics in Patterned Films and Devices
Room: 317 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Volker Sluka, New York University
Invited Speakers:  Matthias Benjamin Jungfleisch,  Joseph Sklenar  

P19 Focus Session Magnetic Materials
Room: 318 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Daniel Gopman, NIST
Invited Speakers:  Samaresh Guchhait,  Se Kwon Kim  

P20 Quantum Many-Body Systems and Methods III
Room: 319 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Herbert Fotso

P21 Focus Session Materials in Extremes: Energetic Materials and Reactive Chemistry
Room: 320 Sponsor: GSCCM DCOMP DMP/DCP Chair: Igor Schweigert, Naval Research Laboratory

P22 General Theory/Computational Physics
Room: 321 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Daniel Finkenstadt

P23 Focus Session Computational Materials Discovery and Design - Defects and Interfaces
Room: 322 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Vladan Stevanovic, Colorado School of Mines
Invited Speakers:  Alexie Kolpak  

P24 Focus Session Many-Body Perturbation Theory for Electronic Excitations: Electronic Structure
Room: 323 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Noa Marom, Tulane University
Invited Speakers:  Stefan Bl\"ugel  

P25 Superconducting Tunneling: Josephson Effect and THz Emission
Room: 324 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Richard Klemm, University of Central Florida

P26 Insulators: Ferroelectrics and Applications
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCMP DMP FIAP Chair: Mina Yoon, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

P27 VO2: Experiment and Theory
Room: 326 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Mengkun Liu, State University of New York, Stonybrook

P28 Focus Session Advances in Topological Materials I
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Anton Burkov, University of Waterloo
Invited Speakers:  Yong P. Chen  

P29 Optical Spectroscopy on 3D Topological Insulators
Room: 328 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Dennis Drew, University of Maryland

P30 Focus Session Advances in Complex Oxide Film Growth
Room: 329 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Steven May, Drexel University
Invited Speakers:  Dillon Fong,  Ying-Hao Chu  

P31 Focus Session Water at Interfaces: From Spectroscopy Techniques to Computer Simulations
Room: 331 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Songi Han
Invited Speakers:  Poul Petersen,  Mischa Bonn,  Ying Jiang,  James Skinner  

P32 Focus Session Quantum Thermoelectric Systems
Room: 332 Sponsor: DMP GERA FIAP Chair: Jeff Urban, Molecular Foundry, UC Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Charles Stafford  

P33 Focus Session Organic Electronics and Photonics - Structure-Property Relationships
Room: 336 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Diru Ratnaweera, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka

P34 Focus Session Biopolymers and Biohybrid Polymers - Assembly and Thermodynamics
Room: 337 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Muzhou Wang, NIST
Invited Speakers:  Sinan Keten  

P35 Focus Session Physics of Sensorimotor Neural Circuits II
Room: 338 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Alex Koulakov, Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Ann Hermundstad  

P36 Focus Session Frontiers of Liquid Crystals: From Colloids to Chiral Liquid Crystals
Room: 339 Sponsor: GSOFT Chair: Randy Kamien, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Ivan Smalyukh  

P37 Soft Matter Interfaces: BIo-, Dielectrics, Transport and Other Phenomena
Room: 340 Sponsor: GSOFT DPOLY Chair: Silvina Matysiak, University of Maryland, College Park

P38 Focus Session Glasses Altered by Interfaces II
Room: 341 Sponsor: DPOLY GSOFT Chair: Mesfin Tsige, University of Akron
Invited Speakers:  Mark Foster  

P39 Focus Session Information Processing in Cellular Signaling and Gene Regulation
Room: 342 Sponsor: DBIO GSNP Chair: Andrew J. Mugler, Purdue University
Invited Speakers:  Gasper Tkacik,  Roy Wollman  

P40 More Geometry and Dynamics: Wrinkling, Folding, Snapping, etc.
Room: 343 Sponsor: GSNP GSOFT Chair: Dominic Vella, Oxford University

P41 Focus Session Physics of Proteins: Structure and Dynamics I
Room: 344 Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY DCOMP Chair: Corey O'Hearn, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  Aihua Xie  

P42 Focus Session Small Molecule Transport in Polymers and Polymer Nanocomposites I - Industry Day
Room: 345 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Praveen Agarwal, Dow Chemical Company
Invited Speakers:  Edwin Chan  

P43 Granular Materials
Room: 346 Sponsor: GSNP GSOFT Chair: Eric DeGiuli, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

P44 Focus Session Quantum Error Correction
Room: 347 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Jacob Taylor, University of Maryland / NIST
Invited Speakers:  Sergey Bravyi  

P45 Focus Session Semiconductor Qubits: Quantum Dot / Donor Devices and Readout
Room: 348 Sponsor: GQI Chair: John Gamble, Sandia National Laboratory

P46 Metals III
Room: 311 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Michael Mehl, NRL

P47 Beyond the Lab: Bringing History and Physics to the Public
Room: 312 Sponsor: FOEP

P48 Quantum Control in Superconducting Circuits
Room: 349 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Alexander Korotkov, University of California, Riverside

P50 Quenched Atomic Systems and Thermalization
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Mohammad Maghrebi, Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland

P51 Fractional QHE: Level Mixing & Transitions
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 2 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: John Cumings, University of Maryland

P52 Optomechanics and Hybrid Systems III: Fundamental Methods and Applications
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 3 Sponsor: DAMOP FIAP Chair: Chen-lung Hung, Purdue University

P53 Swimming, Migration and Porous Media Flows
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 4 Sponsor: DFD GSOFT DBIO

P54 Focus Session Organic Systems for Photovoltaics, Including Perovskites
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 5 Sponsor: GERA DPOLY FIAP
Invited Speakers:  Richard Lunt  

P55 Invited Session Active Fluids in Living Matter: Collective Cell Motility
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 6 Sponsor: DBIO DFD GSOFT Chair: Yuhai Tu, IBM, Inc.
Invited Speakers:  Alexandre Kabla,  Josef Kas,  M Cristina Marchetti,  Wouter-Jan Rappel,  Sean Sun  

Mar 16 2016 5:00PM, Wednesday

Q2 Special Event NSBP Meetup
Room: Hilton Baltimore Johnson A Sponsor: APS

Q60 Special Event CSWP Networking Reception
Room: Hilton Baltimore Latrobe Sponsor: CSWP

Mar 16 2016 5:45PM, Wednesday

Q3 Special Event NSHP Meetup
Room: Hilton Baltimore Johnson B Sponsor: APS

Q4 GMAG Jobs Mixer
Room: Hilton Baltimore Pickersgill Sponsor: GMAG

Q16 GSCCM Business Meeting
Room: 315 Sponsor: GSCCM

Q37 GSOFT Business Meeting
Room: 340 Sponsor: GSOFT

Q50 Joint Task Force on Undergraduate Physics Programs
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 1

Mar 16 2016 6:00PM, Wednesday

Q51 Outreach Happy Hour and FOEP Business Meeting
Room: Pratt Street Ale House Restaurant Sponsor: FOEP Chair: Rebecca Thompson, APS

Mar 16 2016 7:00PM, Wednesday

Q5 Special Event Diversity Networking Session
Room: Hilton Baltimore Peale Sponsor: APS

Mar 16 2016 8:00PM, Wednesday

Q55 Special Event A Staged Reading of the Play: No No Nobel
Room: Hilton Baltimore Key Ballroom 9 Sponsor: FHP FOEP

Mar 16 2016 9:00PM, Wednesday

Q56 Special Event Rock-n-Roll Physics Sing-a-Long
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 6 Sponsor: APS

Mar 17 2016 8:00AM, Thursday

R1 Invited Session 3D Dirac Materials
Room: Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ady Stern, Weizmann Institute of Science
Invited Speakers:  Xi Dai,  Philip Moll,  Jun Xiong,  Madhab Neupane,  Sergey Borisenko  

R2 Invited Session Advances in Collective Effects in Organic Semiconductors
Room: Ballroom II Sponsor: DCMP GMAG Chair: Michael Flatte, University of Iowa
Invited Speakers:  Christoph Boehme,  Jian Shen,  Markus Wohlgenannt,  Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin  

R3 Invited Session Glass and Jamming Transitions
Room: Ballroom III Sponsor: DCMP GSOFT GSNP Chair: Sydney Nagel, University of Chicago
Invited Speakers:  Patrick Charbonneau,  Andrea J. Liu,  Thomas Mason,  jorge kurchan,  Giulio Biroli  

R4 Invited Session Where Electrostatics Counts: Assembly and Dynamics of Ionic Polymers
Room: Ballroom IV Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Svetlana Sukhishvili, Stevens Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Martien Cohen Stuart,  Louis Madsen,  Amalie Frischknecht,  David Hoagland,  Alexei Sokolov  

R5 Focus Session Disorder and Substitution Studies in Fe-based Superconductors
Room: 301 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Johnpierre Paglione, University of Maryland

R6 Focus Session Frustrated Magnetism: Triangular Lattice Magnets
Room: 302 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Collin Broholm, Johns Hopkins University
Invited Speakers:  Jeffrey Quilliam  

R7 Physics Education Student Retention
Room: 303 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Michael Falk, Johns Hopkins University

R8 Focus Session Hybrid Organic Inorganic Perovskite Photovoltaics
Room: 304 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Dali Sun, University of Utah
Invited Speakers:  Jinsong Huang  

R11 Focus Session Spin-Hall IV
Room: 307 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Igor Barsukov, UC Irvine
Invited Speakers:  Arne Brataas,  Emilie Ju\'e  

R12 Invited Session Recent Computational Advances in the Understanding of Complex Oxides
Room: 308 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: James Rondinelli, Northwestern University
Invited Speakers:  Silke Biermann,  Daniel Puggioni,  Cesare Franchini,  Lars Bjaalie,  Nicole Benedek  

R13 Invited Session Atomtronics
Room: 309 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Mark Edwards, Georgia Southern University
Invited Speakers:  Dan Stamper-Kurn,  Herwig Ott,  Eugene Demler,  Andrew Daley,  Stephen Eckel  

R14 Invited Session Geometry and Mechanics of Folded Filaments, Writhing Ribbons and Braided Bundles
Room: 310 Sponsor: GSNP GSOFT Chair: Gregory Grason, Univeristy of Massachusetts-Amherst
Invited Speakers:  Robin Ball,  Gert van der Heijden,  Anke Lindner,  Julien Chopin,  Etienne Vouga  

R15 Focus Session 2D Materials: Superconductivity and Correlations I
Room: 314 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jie Shan, Penn State University
Invited Speakers:  Matteo Calandra  

R16 Transport in Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
Room: 315 Sponsor: DCMP DMP

R17 Focus Session 2D Semiconductor Physics I
Room: 316 Sponsor: DMP Chair: John Schaibley, University of Washington
Invited Speakers:  Kostya Novoselov  

R18 Focus Session Spintransport Phenomena II
Room: 317 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: See-Hun Yang, IBM Almaden

R19 Focus Session Magnetic Bulk Materials
Room: 318 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: James Lee, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

R21 Focus Session Materials at Extremes: Dynamic Compression
Room: 320 Sponsor: GSCCM DCOMP DMP Chair: Jon Belof, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Arianna Gleason  

R22 URu2Si2 and Other Related Heavy Fermions
Room: 321 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Adam Dioguardi, Los Alamos National Laboratory

R23 Focus Session Thermoelectrics-Nanostructures
Room: 322 Sponsor: DMP GERA DCMP Chair: Matthew Grayson, Northwestern University
Invited Speakers:  Joseph Feser  

R24 Superfluid Helium
Room: 323 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Wei Guo, Maglab, Florida State University

R25 Superconductivity: Less Common Materials I
Room: 324 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Harald Jeschke, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

R26 Focus Session Complex Structured Materials - Computational
Room: 325 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Arunima Singh, NIST

R27 Non-Fermi-liquids
Room: 326 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Arkady Shekhter, Maglab, Florida State University

R28 Semiconductor Films, Defects, and Topological Materials
Room: 327 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Kenjiro Gomes, University of Notre Dame

R29 Disordered and Floquet Topological Phases
Room: 328 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Andrew Potter, University of California, Berkeley

R30 Focus Session Properties of Multiferroic Materials
Room: 329 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Sergey Artyukhin, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Steven Johnson  

R32 Focus Session Plasmonics and Beyond II: Ultrafast Dynamics
Room: 332 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Teri Odom, Northwestern University
Invited Speakers:  Martin Aeschlimann,  Jennifer A. Dionne  

R33 Focus Session Organic Electronics and Photonics - Organic Photovoltaics
Room: 336 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Daniel Sinkovits, University of Wisconsin, Stout
Invited Speakers:  Dean DeLongchamp  

R34 Polymer Glasses
Room: 337 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Rob Hoy, University of South Florida

R35 Focus Session Active Matter: Collective Phenomena in Living Systems III
Room: 338 Sponsor: DBIO GSOFT GSNP Chair: Carl Franck, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  Benoit Ladoux  

R36 Continuum Descriptions of Discrete Materials II
Room: 339 Sponsor: GSNP GSOFT Chair: Paul Umbanhowar, Northwestern University

R37 Liquid Crystals: Dimers and Liquid Crystal Applications
Room: 340 Sponsor: GSOFT Chair: Antal Jakil, Kent State University

R38 Focus Session Biopolymers and Biohybrid Polymers: Networks and Hydrogels
Room: 341 Sponsor: DPOLY DBIO GSOFT Chair: Bradley Olsen, MIT
Invited Speakers:  Niels Holten-Andersen  

R39 Focus Session Physics of Genome Organization: from DNA to Chromatin I
Room: 342 Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY GSNP Chair: John Marko, Northwestern University
Invited Speakers:  Wilma Olson,  Xiaowei Zhuang  

R40 Focus Session Systems with Large Fluctuations and Strong Correlations I
Room: 343 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Michel Pleimling, Virginia Tech
Invited Speakers:  Nuno Araujo  

R41 Focus Session Neural Control of Behavior
Room: 344 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Gordon Berman, Emory University
Invited Speakers:  Gwyneth Card  

R42 Focus Session Small Molecule Transport in Polymers and Polymer Nanocomposites II
Room: 345 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: William Phillip, Unviersity of Notre Dame
Invited Speakers:  Geoffrey Geise  

R43 Focus Session Nonlinear Dynamics in Networks I
Room: 346 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Adilson Motter, Northwestern University
Invited Speakers:  Hiroshi Kori  

R44 Focus Session Quantum Information and Thermodynamics
Room: 347 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Mohammad Ansari, Delft University of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Stephanie Wehner,  Jonathan Oppenheim  

R45 Focus Session Hybrid Quantum Systems III
Room: 348 Sponsor: GQI DAMOP Chair: Guido Burkard, University of Konstanz, Germany

R46 Focus Session Optical Spectroscopic Measurements of 2D Materials
Room: 311 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Erin Wood, NIST
Invited Speakers:  David Cobden  

R47 Kondo Insulator and Semimetal
Room: 312 Sponsor: DCMP

R48 Focus Session Decoherence in Superconducting Qubits: Junctions and Fluxonium
Room: 349 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Britton Plourde, Syracuse University
Invited Speakers:  Maja Cassidy  

R50 Focus Session Quantum Gases in Reduced Dimension, Ladders, and other Novel Geometries
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: M. Rigol, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Johannes Schachenmayer  

R53 Building New Pathways in Physics Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 4 Sponsor: FEd FIAP Chair: Job Ganem, Loyola University Maryland

R54 Focus Session Materials for Energy Storage Devices II
Room: Hilton Inner Harbor Holiday Ballroom 5 Sponsor: GERA FIAP
Invited Speakers:  Dhandapani Venkataraman  

R55 Invited Session The War on Cancer: Physics Enters the Fray
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 6 Sponsor: FPS DBIO Chair: Arian Pregenzer, Sandia National Laboratories
Invited Speakers:  Anna D. Barker,  Robert Austin,  Krastan B. Blagoev,  Chris Adami,  Michael Graham Espey  

Mar 17 2016 10:00AM, Thursday

R20 Invited Session Special Event Update from DOE's Office of Science
Room: 319 Sponsor: APS
Invited Speakers:  Cherry Murray  

Mar 17 2016 11:15AM, Thursday

S1 Invited Session Topological Mysteries in Kondo Insulating SmB6
Room: Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Lu Li, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Jing Xia,  Gang Li,  Beng Tan,  Collin Broholm,  Onur Erten  

S2 Invited Session Rheology of Dense Particulate Media
Room: Ballroom II Sponsor: GSOFT DFD Chair: Ted Brzinski, North Carolina State University
Invited Speakers:  Roseanna Zia,  Michiel Hermes,  Daniel Blair,  Brian Tighe,  Jacinta Conrad  

S3 Invited Session Towards Design of Correlated Electron Materials
Room: Ballroom III Sponsor: DMP Chair: Laura H. Greene, Florida State University, NHMFL
Invited Speakers:  Warren E. Pickett,  Lucas Wagner,  Chuck-Hou Yee,  Emilia Morosan,  Hua He  

S4 Invited Session Quantum Dot-Cavity Hybrid Systems
Room: Ballroom IV Sponsor: GQI DCMP Chair: Guido Burkard, University of Konstanz
Invited Speakers:  Jason R. Petta,  Jelena Vuckovic,  Michael Gullans,  Takis Kontos,  Andreas Wallraff  

S5 Focus Session New Fe-based Superconductors and Related Materials I
Room: 301 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Fazel Tafti, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Xianhui Chen  

S6 Focus Session Magneto-Optic/Electric and Strain/Shape Induced Magnetism
Room: 302 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Anirudh Sharma, Flinders University

S7 Physics Education
Room: 303 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Robin Selinger, Kent State University

S8 Focus Session Electrical Transport and Photoexcitations in Organic/Inorganic Perovskites
Room: 304 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jisong Huang, University of Nebraska Lincoln
Invited Speakers:  Oana Jurchescu,  Annamaria Petrozza  

S11 Focus Session Thin Film Skyrmions
Room: 307 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Wanjun Jiang, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Albert Fert  

S12 Invited Session Prospects and Challenges in Medical Physics and Imaging
Room: 308 Sponsor: FIAP GIMS Chair: Larry Nagahara, Johns Hopkins University
Invited Speakers:  Robert Jeraj,  S. H. Andy Yun,  Jeffrey Siewerdsen,  Thomas Foo,  Richard Conroy  

S13 Focus Session 2D Materials: Semimetals
Room: 309 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Xuan Gao, Case Western Reserve University
Invited Speakers:  Steve Young,  Yong-Lei Wang  

S14 Invited Session The Iran Nuclear Deal: Physics, Physicists and the Historic Agreement
Room: 310 Sponsor: FPS FHP Chair: Micah Lowenthal, National Academy of Science
Invited Speakers:  R. Scott Kemp,  Götz Neuneck,  Anton V. Khlopkov  

S15 Focus Session 2D Materials: Superconductivity and Correlations II
Room: 314 Sponsor: DMP Chair: James Eckstein, UIUC
Invited Speakers:  Yoshi Iwasa  

S16 Focus Session 2D Devices: Mechanical metamaterials
Room: 315 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Charlie Johnson, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Paul McEuen  

S17 Focus Session 2D Semiconductor Physics II
Room: 316 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Jeanie Lau, University of California, Riverside
Invited Speakers:  Hongyi Yu  

S18 Focus Session Magnetic Thin Films
Room: 317 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Burm Baek, NIST
Invited Speakers:  Rajeswari Jayaraman  

S19 Focus Session Cooperative Phenomena: Spin-Orbit Coupling and Antiferromagnetism
Room: 318 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Ian Gilbert, NIST

S20 Quantum Many-Body Systems and Methods I
Room: 319 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Brian Moritz, SLAC

S21 Focus Session Materials at Extremes: Kinetics of Phase Transitions
Room: 320 Sponsor: GSCCM DCOMP DMP Chair: Ricky Chau, LLNL
Invited Speakers:  Sheng-Nian Luo  

S22 Focus Session Revealing New Physics With Petascale and Beyond Computational Resources
Room: 321 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Bogdan Mihalia, National Science Foundation
Invited Speakers:  Gabriel Kotliar,  Rommie Amaro,  Thomas Miller  

S23 Focus Session Thermoelectrics Theory I
Room: 322 Sponsor: DMP GERA FIAP Chair: Joseph Feser, University of Delaware
Invited Speakers:  Gang Chen  

S24 Focus Session Mesoscopic Materials and Devices II
Room: 323 Sponsor: DMP Chair: David Lederman, West Virginia University
Invited Speakers:  Jairo Velasco Jr.,  Shahal Ilani  

S25 Superconductivity: Less Common Materials II
Room: 324 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Roser Valenti, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

S26 Focus Session 2D Materials Beyond Graphene
Room: 325 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Chris Hinkle, University of Texas at Dallas
Invited Speakers:  Jing Kong,  Grace Huili Xing  

S27 Focus Session Carbon Nanotube & Related Materials: Thermal, Mechanical & other Properties
Room: 326 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Michael Schroeter, Technical University Dresden

S28 Focus Session Advances in Topological Materials II
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Liang Wu, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Robert Cava  

S29 Two-dimensional Topological Insulators: Growth, Structure and Electronic Properties
Room: 328 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Hua Chen, University of Texas, Austin

S30 Focus Session Theory of Ferroic Systems
Room: 329 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Steve Johnson, ETHZ
Invited Speakers:  Sergey Artyukhin  

S31 Focus Session Ice Nucleation, Amorphous Ices and the Role of Interfaces
Room: 331 Sponsor: DCP GSOFT Chair: Nicolas Giovambattista
Invited Speakers:  Mary Jane Shultz,  David Limmer,  Bruce Kay  

S32 Focus Session Chemical Physics of Extreme Environments I
Room: 332 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Arthur Suits, University of Missouri
Invited Speakers:  Brooks Pate,  Susanna Widicus Weaver,  Lucy Ziurys,  Michael McCarthy  

S33 Ion Containing Polymer Membranes
Room: 336 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Phil Griffin, University of Pennsylvania

S34 Small Molecule Glasses
Room: 337 Sponsor: GSOFT Chair: Kate Jensen, Yale University

S35 Focus Session Active Matter: Collective Phenomena in Living Systems IV
Room: 338 Sponsor: DBIO GSOFT GSNP Chair: Steve Presse, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

S36 Focus Session Soft Matter at Interfaces: Wetting and Thin Films
Room: 339 Sponsor: GSOFT Chair: Justin Burton, Emory University

S37 Liquid Crystals, Membranes, Micelles and Vesicles
Room: 340 Sponsor: GSOFT Chair: L J Martinez-Miranda, University of Maryland, College Park

S38 Focus Session Mechanics of Biopolymers: Networks and Assemblies
Room: 341 Sponsor: DPOLY DBIO Chair: Louis Foucard, UCLA
Invited Speakers:  Alex Levine,  Omar Saleh  

S39 Focus Session Physics of Genome Organization: from DNA to Chromatin II
Room: 342 Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY GSNP Chair: Leonid Mirny, MIT
Invited Speakers:  Oleg Igoshin  

S40 Focus Session Systems with Large Fluctuations and Strong Correlations II
Room: 343 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Uwe Tauber, Virginia Tech
Invited Speakers:  Eli Ben-Naim  

S41 Focus Session Physics of Proteins: Protein Structure and Interactions
Room: 344 Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY DCOMP Chair: Aihua Xie, Oaklahoma State University
Invited Speakers:  Dongping Zhong  

S42 Focus Session Assembly of Nanoparticles
Room: 345 Sponsor: DPOLY GSOFT Chair: Chang Ryu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Invited Speakers:  Byeongdu Lee  

S43 Focus Session Nonlinear Dynamics in Networks II
Room: 346 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Adilson Motter, Northwestern University
Invited Speakers:  J\"urgen Kurths  

S44 Quantum Architectures and Control
Room: 347 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Ryan Babbush, Google

S45 Atomic, Molecular and Optical Quantum Information and Metrology
Room: 348 Sponsor: GQI DAMOP Chair: Jonathan Home, ETH

S47 Chemical Physics of Surfaces, Interfaces and Colloids
Room: 312 Sponsor: DCP GSOFT Chair: Jeff Owrutsky, Naval Research Laboratory

S48 Superconducting Circuits: Amplifiers
Room: 349 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Michel Devoret, Yale Univesity

S50 Strongly Interacting Bose and Fermi Gases
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Johannes Hofmann, Cavendish Laboratory

S51 Thermodynamic & Transport Properties of Semiconductors
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 2 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Neil Zimmerman, NIST

S52 Focus Session Photonic Topological Materials
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 3 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Xiaopeng Li, Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland
Invited Speakers:  Gennady Shvets  

S53 Invited Session Keithley Award Session
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 4 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Francis Hellman, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Albert Migliori,  Michael Carpenter,  Cristian Pantea,  Boris Maiorov,  Fedor F. Balakirev  

S55 Invited Session Inference in Biophysics
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 6 Sponsor: DBIO GSNP Chair: Steve Presse, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  William Bialek,  Naftali Tishby,  Justin Kinney,  Karen Sachs,  John Harte  

Mar 17 2016 1:00PM, Thursday

T1 Poster Session Poster Session III (Thursday, 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm)
Room: Exhibit Hall EF

Mar 17 2016 2:30PM, Thursday

V1 Invited Session Non-Equilibrium Aspects of Electron-Boson Coupling in High Temperature Superconductors
Room: Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Zhi-Xun Shen, Stanford University
Invited Speakers:  Shuolong Yang,  Claudio Giannetti,  Alexander Kemper,  Ryo Shimano,  Joseph Orenstein  

V2 Invited Session Liquid Droplets: From Surface Topology to Active Motion
Room: Ballroom II Sponsor: DCMP GSOFT Chair: Paul Chakin, New York University
Invited Speakers:  Manu Prakash,  Alberto Fernandez-Nieves,  Christian Bahr,  Timothy Swager,  Eli Sloutskin  

V3 Invited Session Complex Network Dynamics
Room: Ballroom III Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Adilson Motter, Northwestern University
Invited Speakers:  Shlomo Havlin,  Sean Cornelius,  Raissa D'Souza,  Hawoong Jeong,  Carlos Gershenson  

V4 Invited Session Where Morphology Meets Functionality: Light and Electron Transporting Polymeric Complexes
Room: Ballroom IV Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Enrique Gomez, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Thomas Russell,  Garry Rumbles,  Bryan Boudouris,  Adam Moule,  Michael Mackay  

V5 Focus Session Frustrated Magnetism: Low Dimensional Magnets II
Room: 301 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Alexander Chernyshev, University of California, Irvine
Invited Speakers:  Rodrigo Pereira,  Stefan S\"ullow  

V6 Focus Session Bulk Multiferroics
Room: 302 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Srinivasa Singamaneni, North Carolina State University

V7 Focus Session Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors: Silicon and Germanium
Room: 303 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Leonard Feldman, Rutgers University

V8 Superconductivity: Proximity Effects and SN Junctions II
Room: 304 Sponsor: DCMP

V11 Focus Session Thermoelectrics: McGroddy Prize and Novel Materials
Room: 307 Sponsor: DMP GERA FIAP Chair: Eric Toberer, Colorado School of Mines
Invited Speakers:  Mercouri G. Kanatzidis,  M. Grayson  

V12 Invited Session FIAP Prize Session
Room: 308 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Barbara Jones, IBM
Invited Speakers:  Robert Doering,  Raymond Beausoleil  

V13 Invited Session Heat Current Effects on Magnetization Dynamics
Room: 309 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Ecole Poylytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Invited Speakers:  Aakash Pushp,  David G. Cahill,  Bert Koopmans,  Haiming Yu,  SYLVAIN BRECHET  

V14 Invited Session TA Professional Development: Excellent TA's Making Excellent Researchers
Room: 310 Sponsor: FEd Chair: Michael Schatz, Georgia Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Kenneth Heller,  Jordan Gerton,  Emily Alicea-Munoz,  Joshua Von Korff  

V15 Focus Session 2D Materials: Charge Density Waves
Room: 314 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ken Burch, Boston College
Invited Speakers:  Adam Tsen,  Xiaoxiang Xi  

V16 Optical Studies of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
Room: 315 Sponsor: DCMP DMP

V17 Focus Session 2D Devices: Spin Transport, Spin Orbit Coupling
Room: 316 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Xia Hong, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Invited Speakers:  Ching-Tzu Chen  

V18 Focus Session Skyrmion Dynamics and Motion
Room: 317 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Vincent Cros, Unite Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales
Invited Speakers:  Gong Chen  

V19 Focus Session Magnetic Oxide Thin Films and Heterostructures: Spin Seebeck Effects
Room: 318 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Jobu Matsuno, RIKEN
Invited Speakers:  Stephen Wu  

V20 Focus Session Explicitly Correlated Methods and Quantum Few-Body Systems
Room: 319 Sponsor: DMP DCOMP Chair: Sergiy Bubin, Nazarbayev University
Invited Speakers:  Hiroshi Nakatsuji,  Krzysztof Szalewicz  

V21 Focus Session Materials at Extremes: Warm Dense Matter
Room: 320 Sponsor: GSCCM DCOMP DMP Chair: Arianna Gleason, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Adrien Denoeud  

V22 Classical Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics
Room: 321 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Paul Kent, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

V23 Superconductors: STM of Fe-based, Cuprates, and others
Room: 322 Sponsor: DCMP

V24 Focus Session Electron Transport at Nanoscale Interfaces
Room: 323 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Giacomo Lovat, Columbia University
Invited Speakers:  Marton Voros  

V25 Superconductivity: Superconductor-Insulator Transitions
Room: 324 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Eleanor Clements, University of South Florida

V26 Surface Studies of Beyond Graphene Materials (STM/ARPES)
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Vinod Sangwan, Northwestern University

V27 Mixed Valence and Kondo Physics
Room: 326 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Priscilla Rosa, Los Alamos National Laboratory

V28 Josephson and Superconducting Proximity Effect
Room: 327 Sponsor: DCMP

V29 Weyl Semimetals: Theory and Experiments
Room: 328 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Rudro Biswas, Purdue University

V30 Focus Session Charge Transfer and Electron Gases at Oxide Interfaces
Room: 329 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Uli Aschauer, ETH Zurich
Invited Speakers:  Hanghui Chen  

V31 Focus Session Plasmonics and Beyond III: Materials and Structures
Room: 331 Sponsor: DCP Chair: F. Javier Garcia de Abajo, Barcelona Institute of Science
Invited Speakers:  Mark Stockman,  Dmitri Basov,  Mathieu Kociak  

V32 Focus Session Chemical Physics of Extreme Environments II
Room: 332 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Timothy Zwier, Purdue University
Invited Speakers:  Andrew Orr-Ewing,  Caroline Jarrold,  Ruth Signorell  

V33 Focus Session Block Copolymer Thin Films: Directed Self-Assembly
Room: 336 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Gila Stein, University of Houston
Invited Speakers:  Sang Ouk Kim  

V34 Focus Session Where Simulation, Theory, and Experiments Meet Across Length Scales II
Room: 337 Sponsor: DPOLY DCOMP Chair: David Simmons, University of Akron
Invited Speakers:  Rajeev Kumar  

V35 Focus Session Active Matter: Collective Phenomena in Living Systems V
Room: 338 Sponsor: DBIO GSOFT GSNP Chair: Thierry Mora, ENS and CNRS
Invited Speakers:  Madan Rao  

V36 Disordered and Glassy Systems (Non-Polymeric)
Room: 339 Sponsor: GSOFT Chair: Colm Kelleher, New York University

V37 Focus Session Soft Mechanics in Biological Systems
Room: 340 Sponsor: GSOFT DBIO Chair: Itai Cohen, Cornell University
Invited Speakers:  Maria Kilfoil,  Moumita Das  

V38 Focus Session Mechanics of Biopolymers: Single Polymer Dynamics
Room: 341 Sponsor: DPOLY DBIO Chair: Alex Levine, UCLA
Invited Speakers:  Alexander Grosberg  

V39 Inference in Biophysics
Room: 342 Sponsor: DBIO GSNP Chair: David Schwab, Northwestern University

V40 Focus Session Robophysics: Physics Meets Robotics I
Room: 343 Sponsor: GSNP GSOFT DBIO Chair: Chen Li, Johns Hopkins University
Invited Speakers:  Howie Choset  

V41 Focus Session Physics of Proteins: Mechanics and Forces
Room: 344 Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY DCOMP Chair: Tom Chou, University of California, Los Angeles
Invited Speakers:  Yi Cao  

V42 Focus Session Polymer Architecture, Control of Structure and Dynamics in Polyolefins
Room: 345 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Lin Wang, The Dow Chemical Company
Invited Speakers:  Rufina G Alamo,  Chris Macosko  

V43 Focus Session Wave Chaos: Theory and Applications
Room: 346 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Gabriele Gradoni, University of Nottingham
Invited Speakers:  Edward Ott  

V44 Focus Session Quantum Information and Communication
Room: 347 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Mark Wilde, Louisiana State University
Invited Speakers:  Marco Tomamichel,  Mario Berta  

V45 Focus Session Semiconductor Qubits: Optical and Microwave Control
Room: 348 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Jake Taylor, NIST/JQI/QuICS
Invited Speakers:  Aymeric Delteil,  Edo Waks  

V46 Instrumentation IV
Room: 311 Sponsor: GIMS Chair: Chuck Mielke, LANL

V47 Dynamics of Surfaces, Adlayers, and Films
Room: 312 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Brad Conrad, Appalachian State University

V48 Readout and Trajectories in Superconducting Circuits
Room: 349 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Kater Murch, Washington University, St. Louis

V50 Quantum Gases in Optical Lattices
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: B. Svistunov, University of Massachusetts Amherst

V51 Semiconductors (Theory)
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 2 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Gerhard Klimeck, Purdue University

V53 Fluid Mechanics - General
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 4 Sponsor: DFD

V55 Invited Session DNA Physics and Chromatin Organization
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 6 Sponsor: DBIO GSNP DPOLY Chair: Alexandre V. Morozov, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  John Marko,  Leonid Mirny,  Jane Kondev,  Hernan Garcia,  Bin Zhang  

Mar 18 2016 8:00AM, Friday

X1 Invited Session Complex Oxide Interaces at the Nanoscale: Electronic, Magnetic and Superconducting Properties
Room: Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP GMAG Chair: Chang-Beom Eom, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Invited Speakers:  Jeremy Levy,  Jean-Marc Triscone,  Eli Zeldov,  Andrea Caviglia  

X2 Invited Session Recent Advances in Many Body Localization
Room: Ballroom II Sponsor: DCMP DAMOP Chair: Christopher Laumann, University of Washington
Invited Speakers:  John Imbrie,  Frank Pollmann,  Vedika Khemani,  Maksym Serbyn,  Immanuel Bloch  

X3 Invited Session Design, Characterization and Assembly of Hyperuniform Materials
Room: Ballroom III Sponsor: DCMP GSOFT Chair: Dreyfus Remi, CNRS
Invited Speakers:  Salvatore Torquato,  Douglas Durian,  Hexner Daniel,  Denis Bartolo,  Weining Man  

X4 Invited Session From Polymer Topology to Performance Materials
Room: Ballroom IV Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Chinedum Osuji, Yale University
Invited Speakers:  John Tumbleston,  Richard Vaia,  Jan Genzer,  miriam Rafailovich,  Paul Nealey  

X5 Focus Session Frustrated Magnetism: Kagome Lattice
Room: 301 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Oleg Tchernyshyov, Johns Hopkins University
Invited Speakers:  Tianheng Han  

X6 Focus Session Nanoparticles, Nanowires, and Clusters
Room: 302 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Deepak Singh, Univ. of Missouri
Invited Speakers:  Jose A. De Toro  

X7 Focus Session Dopants and Defects in Semiconductors: Compound Semiconductors
Room: 303 Sponsor: DMP FIAP Chair: Christophe Boehme, University of Utah

X8 Focus Session Organic Inorganic Perovskite Spintronics
Room: 304 Sponsor: DMP GMAG Chair: Oana Jurchescu, Wake Forest University
Invited Speakers:  Dali Sun  

X11 Focus Session New Fe-based Superconductors and Related Materials II
Room: 307 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Xianhui Chen, University of Science and Technology of China
Invited Speakers:  Ni Ni  

X12 Topological Materials: Theory and Experiment
Room: 308 Sponsor: DCMP DMP

X13 Invited Session Hall-Bar Structure for the Detection of Spin/Valley Hall Effect
Room: 309 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Wei Han, Peking University
Invited Speakers:  Laurens Molenkamp,  Joshua Folk,  Barbaros Oezyilmaz,  Alexey Kaverzin,  Xiaofeng Jin  

X14 Focus Session Transition Metal Dichalcogenides: Growth and Synthesis
Room: 310 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Manish Chhowalla, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Christopher Hinkle,  Eric Vogel,  Joshua Goldberger  

X15 Focus Session Unconventional Two Dimensional Materials.
Room: 314 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Luis Jauregui, Harvard University
Invited Speakers:  Walter R. L. Lambrecht  

X16 Two-Dimensional Material Heterostructures
Room: 315 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Masa Ishigami, University of Central Florida

X17 Focus Session 2D Semiconductor Physics III
Room: 316 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Yu Ye, University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:  Nuh Gedik  

X18 Focus Session Bulk and Artificial Skyrmions
Room: 317 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Gong Chen, Berkeley National Laboratory

X19 Focus Session Magnetic Oxide Thin Films and Heterostructures: Electrostatic, Ionic, and Magnetoelectric Coupling
Room: 318 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Philip Ryan, Argonne National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Tianyu Liu  

X20 Focus Session Van der Waals Bonding in Advanced Materials: Carbon Allotropes and Boron Nitride
Room: 319 Sponsor: DMP Chair: John Singleton, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Invited Speakers:  Nicole Grobert  

X21 Focus Session Materials in Extremes: Metals at High Strain Rates
Room: 320 Sponsor: GSCCM DCOMP DMP Chair: Tim Germann, Los Alamos National Laboratory

X22 Mott Physics Model Calculations
Room: 321 Sponsor: DCMP

X23 Focus Session Thermoelectrics Theory II
Room: 322 Sponsor: DMP GERA FIAP Chair: Heiner Linke, Lund University
Invited Speakers:  Zhiting Tian  

X24 Focus Session Nicholas Metropolis Award: Materials in Extremes
Room: 323 Sponsor: DCOMP GSCCM DMP Chair: Marivi Fernandez-Serra, Stony Brook University
Invited Speakers:  Remi Lehe  

X25 Superconductivity: Pseudogap and Related Phenomena
Room: 324 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Lex Kemper, North Carolina State University

X27 New Methods for Strongly Correlated Systems
Room: 326 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Gia-Wei Chern, University of Virginia

X28 Focus Session Topological Semimetals: Theory
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Sumanta Tewari, Clemson University.

X29 Focus Session Topological Insulator - Bi-based Materials
Room: 328 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Rolandes Valdes, Ohio State University
Invited Speakers:  Seongshik Oh  

X30 Focus Session Structural and Functional Imaging of Oxide Interfaces
Room: 329 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Ying-Hao Chu, National Chaio Tung University
Invited Speakers:  Juan Carlos Idrobo  

X31 Focus Session Nanoconfined and Interfacial Water
Room: 331 Sponsor: DCP GSOFT Chair: Nicolas Giovambattista, CUNY
Invited Speakers:  Shekhar Garde,  Alenka Luzar  

X32 Focus Session Plasmonics and Beyond IV: Single particle dynamics
Room: 332 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Hrvje Petek, University of Pittsburgh
Invited Speakers:  Fabrizio Carbone,  Natalia Del Fatti,  Stefano Lupi,  Javier Garcia de Abajo  

X33 Focus Session Organic Electronics and Photonics - Organic Electronic Devices
Room: 336 Sponsor: DPOLY FIAP Chair: Lei Zhu, Case Western University

X34 Emulsions, Foams, Gels, and Complex Fluids
Room: 337 Sponsor: GSOFT DPOLY Chair: Carlos Orellana, Emory University

X35 Focus Session Critical Transitions in Biological Systems
Room: 338 Sponsor: DBIO GSNP Chair: Chen Zeng, GWU
Invited Speakers:  Luonan Chen,  Xujing Wang  

X36 Metallic Glasses and Quasicrystals
Room: 339 Sponsor: GSOFT Chair: Fei Wang, Missouri State University

X37 Liquid Crystals: Defects, Theory and Simulations
Room: 340 Sponsor: GSOFT Chair: Chenhui Zhu, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

X38 Focus Session Block Copolymer Thin Films: Directed Assembly
Room: 341 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Ryan Hayward, U Mass Amherst
Invited Speakers:  Kevin Yager  

X39 Focus Session Method in Molecular Biophysics: DBIO Doctoral Thesis Award
Room: 342 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Henrik Flyvbjerg, Danish Technical University
Invited Speakers:  Quan Wang  

X40 General Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Room: 343 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Flavio Fenton

X41 Focus Session Physics of Proteins: Structure and Dynamics II
Room: 344 Sponsor: DBIO DPOLY DCOMP Chair: Yi Cao, Nanjing University

X42 Semicrystalline Polymers
Room: 345 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Ahmed Ismail, University of West Virginia

X43 Statistical Mechanics of Social Systems
Room: 346 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Eli Ben Naim, Los Alamos National Laboratory

X44 Measurement, Characterization, and Emulation
Room: 347 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Ken Brown, Georgia Institute of Techology

X47 Thin Insulating Adlayers and Films
Room: 312 Sponsor: DCMP

X48 Scalable Hardware for Superconducting Qubits
Room: 349 Sponsor: GQI Chair: William Oliver, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lincoln Laboratory

X50 Quantum Information with Cold Atoms and Ions
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DAMOP GQI Chair: Zhexuan Gong, Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland

X51 Fractional QHE: Measurement Methodologies
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 2 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: John Cumings, University of Maryland

X52 Atomic Physics: New Frontiers I
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 3 Sponsor: DAMOP

X53 Focus Session Electricity and Hydrogen Production, Storage and Delivery
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 4 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Ernesto Marinero, Purdue University
Invited Speakers:  Niazi Elfikky  

X55 Invited Session Principles of Cell to Cell Communication
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 6 Sponsor: DBIO GSNP Chair: Ned S. Wingreen, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Thibaud Taillefumier,  Richard Losick,  Yuval Hart,  Yaron Antebi,  Jennifer Zallen  

Mar 18 2016 11:15AM, Friday

Y1 Invited Session Orbital Angular Momentum of Light and Matter
Room: Ballroom I Sponsor: DCMP DAMOP Chair: Charles Clark, NIST
Invited Speakers:  Miles Padgett,  Dmitry Pushin,  Mario Krenn,  Robert W. Boyd,  Ady Arie  

Y2 Invited Session Spin and Valley Pseudo-Spin Transport in Strongly Spin-Orbit Coupled Systems
Room: Ballroom II Sponsor: DCMP DMP GMAG Chair: Kin Fai Mak, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  James Hone,  Shaffique Adam,  Jieun Lee,  Jagadeesh Moodera  

Y3 Invited Session Skyrmions in Chiral Magnets
Room: Ballroom III Sponsor: DCMP GMAG Chair: Nandini Trivedi, Ohio State University
Invited Speakers:  Christian Pfleiderer,  Mohit Randeria,  Shizeng Lin  

Y4 Invited Session Physics and Physicists in Cuba
Room: Ballroom IV Sponsor: FIP Chair: Mria Spiropulu, California Institute of Technolgy
Invited Speakers:  David Gross,  Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart,  Frances Colon  

Y5 Focus Session Semiconductor Spin Qubits
Room: 301 Sponsor: GMAG DMP FIAP Chair: Igor Zutic, University at Buffalo

Y6 Focus Session Magnetic Complex Oxides II
Room: 302 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Antia Botana, Argonne National Laboratory

Y7 Superconductivity: Devices, Vortex Dynamics, and Conductors
Room: 303 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Lei Wang, University of South Carolina

Y11 Tunneling in Superconductors: Spectroscopy, Andreev Reflection, and Nanowires
Room: 307 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Igor Fridman, Quasar, Inc.

Y12 Invited Session Inference in Complex Networks
Room: 308 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Adilson Motter, Northwestern Unviersity
Invited Speakers:  Zoltan Toroczkai,  Tiago P. Peixoto,  Aleksandar Haber,  Marc Timme,  Dmitri Krioukov  

Y13 Invited Session Beyond Darwin: Evolution in Single Cells
Room: 309 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Robert Austin, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Susan Rosenberg,  Julia Bos,  Martin Ackermann,  Nader Pourmand,  Xin Lu  

Y14 Invited Session Progress Towards a Solution of the Hubbard Model
Room: 310 Sponsor: DCOMP Chair: Emanuel Gull, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers:  Philippe Corboz,  James LeBlanc,  Olivier Parcollet,  Alessandro Toschi,  Bo-Xiao Zheng  

Y15 Focus Session 2D Materials: Superconductivity and Correlations III
Room: 314 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Walter Lambrecht, Case Western Reserve University
Invited Speakers:  Jian Wang,  Jiangping Hu  

Y16 Focus Session Silicene, Germanene, and Beyond
Room: 315 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Sufei Shi, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Invited Speakers:  Guy Le Lay,  Deji Akinwande  

Y17 Focus Session 2D Semiconductor Physics IV
Room: 316 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Liping Yu, Temple University
Invited Speakers:  Bernhard Urbaszek  

Y18 Focus Session Frustrated Magnetism: Pyrochlore and Kagome Lattices
Room: 317 Sponsor: GMAG DMP Chair: Lucile Savary, MIT
Invited Speakers:  Gang Chen  

Y19 Correlated Electron Magnetism
Room: 318 Sponsor: GMAG DCMP Chair: Steven Disseler, NIST

Y20 Focus Session Correlations and Superconductivity in Fe-chalcogenides III
Room: 319 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Robert Moore, SLAC
Invited Speakers:  CanLi Song  

Y21 Focus Session Materials in Extremes: Metals at High Strain Rates II
Room: 320 Sponsor: GSCCM DCOMP DMP Chair: Ramon Ravelo, University of Texas, El Paso

Y22 Focus Session Van der Waals Bonding in Advanced Materials: Methods
Room: 321 Sponsor: DMP Chair: John Singleton, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Y23 Focus Session Thermoelectrics, Low Dimensional Materials
Room: 322 Sponsor: DMP GERA FIAP Chair: Zhiting Tian, Virginia Tech
Invited Speakers:  David Broido  

Y25 Superconductivity: Theory III
Room: 324 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Khadijeh Najafi, Georgetown

Y26 Electron-phonon Interactions in 2D Materials (Raman/ ARPES)
Room: 325 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Jyoti Katoch, The Ohio State University

Y27 Low Dimensional Correlated Systems
Room: 326 Sponsor: DCMP Chair: Ben Ueland, Ames National Laboratory

Y28 Focus Session Weyl Semimetals: Theory and New Materials
Room: 327 Sponsor: DMP DCMP Chair: Siddharth Parameswaran, University of California, Irvine

Y29 Topological Insulators: Theory II
Room: 328 Sponsor: DCMP DMP Chair: Jay Sau, University of Maryland

Y30 Focus Session Ionically Controlled Transport and Electrooptical Functionalities at Oxide Interfaces
Room: 329 Sponsor: DMP Chair: Juan Carlos Idrobo
Invited Speakers:  Rama Vasudevan,  Carmela Aruta  

Y31 Focus Session Water at Biological Interfaces
Room: 331 Sponsor: DCP GSOFT Chair: Douglas Tobias
Invited Speakers:  Joshua Wand,  Kevin Kubarych,  Sihyun Ham  

Y32 Focus Session Chemical Physics of Extreme Environments III
Room: 332 Sponsor: DCP Chair: Marsha Lester, University of Pennsylvania
Invited Speakers:  Stephen Klippenstein,  John Stanton,  Judit Zador,  William Green  

Y33 Focus Session Organic Electronics and Photonics - Spin Transport and Photophysics
Room: 336 Sponsor: FIAP Chair: Bryan Boudouris, Purdue University

Y35 Focus Session Principles of Cell-to-Cell Communication
Room: 338 Sponsor: GSNP DBIO Chair: Ned Wingreen, Princeton University
Invited Speakers:  Massimo Vergassola,  Gregoire Altan-Bonnet  

Y36 Focus Session Soft Mechanics in Biological Systems
Room: 339 Sponsor: GSOFT DBIO Chair: Moumita Das, Rochester Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:  Vernita Gordon  

Y37 Fracture, Friction, and Deformation
Room: 340 Sponsor: GSOFT GSNP Chair: Mark Robbins, John Hopkins University

Y38 Polymeric Elastomers and Gels
Room: 341 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Jan Genzer, North Carolina State University

Y39 Methods in Biological Physics
Room: 342 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Tatsiana Mironava, State Unviersity of New York, Stonybrook

Y40 Focus Session Robophysics: Physics Meets Robotics II
Room: 343 Sponsor: GSNP GSOFT DBIO Chair: Daniel Goldman, Georgia Tech

Y41 Multi-cellular Systems
Room: 344 Sponsor: DBIO Chair: Simon Sponberg, Georgia Institute of Technology

Y42 Focus Session Renewable and Sustainable Polymers
Room: 345 Sponsor: DPOLY Chair: Megan Robertson, University of Houston
Invited Speakers:  Chang Ryu  

Y43 Statistical Mechanics of Frustrated Systems, Including Constraint Satisfaction, Satisfiability and NP-Complete Problems
Room: 346 Sponsor: GSNP Chair: Jonathsan Machta, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Y48 Decoherence in Superconducting Qubits: Noise
Room: 349 Sponsor: GQI Chair: Frederick Wellstood, University of Maryland

Y50 Fluctuation-Induced Forces
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 1 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Jeremy Munday, University of Maryland

Y52 Atomic Physics: New Frontiers II
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 3 Sponsor: DAMOP Chair: Seth Aubin, College of William and Mary

Y53 Superconductivity: Proximity Effects and SN Junctions III
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 4 Sponsor: DCMP

Y55 Invited Session Physics of Proteins: Pushing the Envelope on Understanding and Designing Function
Room: Hilton Baltimore Holiday Ballroom 6 Sponsor: DBIO DCOMP DPOLY Chair: Wouter Hoff, Oklahoma State University
Invited Speakers:  Ken Dill,  Tanja Kortemme,  Dave Thirumalai,  Rafael Bruschweiler,  Dean Myles