Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2018 Annual Meeting of the APS Mid-Atlantic Section
Volume 63, Number 20
Friday–Sunday, November 9–11, 2018; College Park, Maryland
Session Index
Session F01: Gravity and Cosmology
Chair: Jamie Holder, University of DelawareRoom: Edward St. John 1224
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Saturday, November 10, 2018 1:30PM - 2:06PM  | 
 
F01.00001: LIGO/Virgo gravitational wave observations, and what we are learning from the detected signals Invited Speaker: Peter S. Shawhan  | |
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Saturday, November 10, 2018 2:06PM - 2:18PM  | 
 
F01.00002: Measurement and Analysis of Uncertainty in Mechanical Quality Factor and Implications for LIGO Thermal-Noise Estimation Ian A MacMillan, Gregory M Harry  | |
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Saturday, November 10, 2018 2:18PM - 2:30PM  | 
 
F01.00003: Adapting Wavelet-based Techniques to Photometrically Classify Cosmological Samples of Supernova Linoy Kotler, Gautham Narayan  | |
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Saturday, November 10, 2018 2:30PM - 3:06PM  | 
 
F01.00004: The New Era of Gravitational Wave Counterparts Invited Speaker: Judith L Racusin  | 
Session F02: Chemical Physics II
Chair: Amy Mullin, University of Maryland, College ParkRoom: Edward St. John 1215
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Saturday, November 10, 2018 1:30PM - 2:06PM  | 
 
F02.00001: Three birds with one stone: reaction coordinate, thermodynamics and kinetics from all-atom molecular simulations Invited Speaker: Pratyush Tiwary  | |
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Saturday, November 10, 2018 2:06PM - 2:18PM  | 
 
F02.00002: Carbon Nanofibers as Conductive Additive in LiFePO4 Cathode Material for Li-ion Batteries Adewale Adepoju, Quinton Williams  | |
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Saturday, November 10, 2018 2:18PM - 2:30PM  | 
 
F02.00003: Dielectric Relaxation of Gaussian-smoothed Solutes Renjie Zhao, John D Weeks  | |
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Saturday, November 10, 2018 2:30PM - 3:06PM  | 
 
F02.00004: Complex kinetics of ion solvation in confinement and in bulkĀ  Invited Speaker: Richard C Remsing  | 
Session F03: Nuclear Physics I
Chair: Erik Blaufuss, University of Maryland, College ParkRoom: Edward St. John 2212
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Saturday, November 10, 2018 1:30PM - 2:06PM  | 
 
F03.00001: The Meson Spectrum from GlueX Invited Speaker: Greg Kalicy  | |
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(Author Not Attending)
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F03.00002: Entanglement Entropy of Proton and Neutron Wave Functions in Atomic Nuclei Oliver Gorton, Calvin Johnson  | |
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Saturday, November 10, 2018 2:18PM - 2:54PM  | 
 
F03.00003: From Quarks to Nucleons in A=3 Nuclei Invited Speaker: Florian Hauenstein  | 
Session F04: Cold Atoms
Chair: Michael Noel, Bryn MawrRoom: Edward St. John 2204
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Saturday, November 10, 2018 1:30PM - 2:06PM  | 
 
F04.00001: Beat the diffraction limit with geometric potentials Invited Speaker: Yang Wang  | |
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Saturday, November 10, 2018 2:06PM - 2:18PM  | 
 
F04.00002: A Wavefunction Microscope for Ultracold Atoms Sarthak Subhankar, Yang Wang, Tsz-Chun Tsui, Steven L Rolston, James V Porto  | |
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Saturday, November 10, 2018 2:18PM - 2:30PM  | 
 
F04.00003: Isotope shift spectroscopy in neutral strontium Peter Elgee, Neal Pisenti, Hirokazu Miyake, Ananya Sitaram, Nick Mennona, Gretchen K Campbell  | |
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Saturday, November 10, 2018 2:30PM - 3:06PM  | 
 
F04.00004: Measurement induced dynamics and defect stabilization in spinor condensates Invited Speaker: Hilary M. Hurst  | 
Session F05: Spintronics and Josephson Junctions
Chair: Pratibha Dev, Howard UniversityRoom: Edward St. John 2208
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Saturday, November 10, 2018 1:30PM - 2:06PM  | 
 
F05.00001: Majorana Fermions in Semiconductor Nanowire Invited Speaker: Sergey M Frolov  | |
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Saturday, November 10, 2018 2:06PM - 2:18PM  | 
 
F05.00002: Josephson junctions with weak links of topological crystalline insulator nanowires Christie J Trimble, Pengzi Liu, Judy J Cha, James R Williams  | |
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Saturday, November 10, 2018 2:18PM - 2:30PM  | 
 
F05.00003: Dynamically-created Josephson Junctions in thin layers of NbSe2 Steven Tran, Albert Davydov, Sergiy Krylyuk, James Williams  | |
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Saturday, November 10, 2018 2:30PM - 3:06PM  | 
 
F05.00004: Topological spintronics Invited Speaker: Nitin Samarth  | |
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Saturday, November 10, 2018 3:06PM - 3:18PM  | 
 
F05.00005: AC Josephson effect in a capacitively shunted graphene Josephson junction Fan Yu, Sandesh S Kalantre, James Williams  | |
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Saturday, November 10, 2018 3:18PM - 3:30PM  | 
 
F05.00006: Non-linear dynamical effects and crisis in an RF-driven graphene Josephson junction Sandesh S Kalantre, Fan Yu, James Williams  | 
Session F06: Lab Tours (Day 2)
Chair: Amber Johnson, University of Maryland, College ParkRoom: Edward St. John 0204
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Saturday, November 10, 2018 1:30PM - 1:42PM  | 
 
F06.00001: FOR ABSTRACTS SEE SESSION D06 | 
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