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 G01: Chemical Physics III

Chair: Amy Mullin, University of Maryland, College Park
Room: Edward St. John 1215

Saturday, November 10, 2018 4:00PM - 4:36PM		G01.00001: Exploring uncharted regions of atmospheric reaction pathways Invited Speaker: Marsha I Lester
Saturday, November 10, 2018 4:36PM - 4:48PM		G01.00002: State-Resolved Energy Profiles of Transient Sulfur Monoxide Radical: Photofragments from Sulfur Dioxide UV Photodissociation Paul B Diss, Christopher R Lukowski, Andrew J Pommersheim, Amy S Mullin
Saturday, November 10, 2018 4:48PM - 5:00PM		G01.00003: Multi-Harmonic Wavelength Modulation Spectroscopy for the Detection of Atmospheric Methane and Nitrous Oxide in mid-IR region May H Hlaing, Caio Azevedo, Amir Khan
Saturday, November 10, 2018 5:00PM - 5:36PM		G01.00004: Electronic State Coupling in the Photofragmentation of the SH molecule Invited Speaker: Millard H. Alexander
Saturday, November 10, 2018 5:36PM - 5:48PM		G01.00005: Investigating the Collision Dynamics of CO Super Rotors in the Single-Collision Regime Tara J Michael, Hannah M Ogden, Amy S Mullin

Session G02: Space Physics

Chair: Miguel A. Mostafa, Pennsylvania State University
Room: Edward St. John 2212

Saturday, November 10, 2018 4:00PM - 4:36PM		G02.00001: Investigating Mysteries of Cosmic Rays with Space-based Experiments Invited Speaker: Eun-Suk Seo
Saturday, November 10, 2018 4:36PM - 4:48PM		G02.00002: Improving Particle Identification with Resistant Track Finding for the ISS-CREAM Calorimeter Jon Paul Lundquist
Saturday, November 10, 2018 4:48PM - 5:00PM		G02.00003: Systematic Effects in the Measurement of Large Scale Anisotropies Miguel A Mostafa, Lindsey Diehl
Saturday, November 10, 2018 5:00PM - 5:12PM		G02.00004: Energy limits for acceleration of cosmic rays in supernova remnants Vladimir Ptuskin, Eun-Suk Seo, Vladimir Zirakashvili
Saturday, November 10, 2018 5:12PM - 5:24PM		G02.00005: Assessing SOLIS 854.2 A Diagnostics of the Chromospheric Magnetic Field Gaya Ganesan, Sasha Khidekel, Gregory Fleishman, Gelu Nita
Saturday, November 10, 2018 5:24PM - 5:36PM		G02.00006: On the Origin of the Slow Solar Wind Joseph Luc B Robitaille, Pierre-Marie L Robitaille

Session G03: Biophysics

Chair: Hacene Boukari, Delaware State University
Room: Edward St. John 1224

Saturday, November 10, 2018 4:00PM - 4:36PM		G03.00001: Probing the role of tissue biophysics in metastasis Invited Speaker: Kandice Danielle Tanner
Saturday, November 10, 2018 4:36PM - 5:12PM		G03.00002: New viscoelastic materials for more realistic cell biology Invited Speaker: Paul A Janmey
Saturday, November 10, 2018 5:12PM - 5:48PM		G03.00003: Modeling the spatial and temporal responses of the human thalamus Invited Speaker: Keith Schneider

Session G04: Nuclear Physics II

Chair: Florian Hauenstein, Old Dominion University
Room: Edward St. John 2309

Saturday, November 10, 2018 4:00PM - 4:36PM		G04.00001: Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Invited Speaker: Michelle J Dolinski
Saturday, November 10, 2018 4:36PM - 4:48PM		G04.00002: Detecting CP Violation in the Presence of Non-Standard Neutrino Interactions Jeffrey M Hyde
Saturday, November 10, 2018 4:48PM - 5:00PM		G04.00003: Solid Xenon Bolometers Philip Weigel, Michelle J Dolinski, Erin Hansen
Saturday, November 10, 2018 5:00PM - 5:36PM		G04.00004: Neutrinos from Nuclear Reactors Invited Speaker: Pieter Mumm

Session G05: Light and Atoms

Chair: Marianna Safronova, University of Delaware
Room: Edward St. John 2204

Saturday, November 10, 2018 4:00PM - 4:36PM		G05.00001: Resonant energy transfer among ultracold highly-excited atoms Invited Speaker: Michael W Noel
Saturday, November 10, 2018 4:36PM - 4:48PM		G05.00002: MeV Photoelectron Spectrometer for Ultrastrong field Laser-Atomic and Molecular Interactions: Next Generation Spectroscopy Siyu Luo, Chris Sweet, Zach Germain, Rachael McIntyre, Amylia Hoos, Zahide Demircioglu, Barry C Walker
Saturday, November 10, 2018 4:48PM - 5:00PM		G05.00003: High-Density Gas Jet Characterization for Laser-Plasma Interaction Abdurrahman Younis, Robert Schwartz, Linus Feder, Howard Michael Milchberg
Saturday, November 10, 2018 5:00PM - 5:36PM		G05.00004: Collective effects in Casimir-Polder forces Invited Speaker: Kanupriya Sinha

Session G06: Light, Solids, and Quantum Information

Chair: Liang Wu, University of Pennsylvania
Room: Edward St. John 2208

Saturday, November 10, 2018 4:00PM - 4:36PM		G06.00001: Tuning properties of deep defects in hexagonal boron nitride: an ab-initio study Invited Speaker: Pratibha Dev
Saturday, November 10, 2018 4:36PM - 4:48PM		G06.00002: Spin-Selective Energy Level Modification via the AC Stark Effect in a Quantum Dot Dillion J Cottrill, Tristan A Wilkinson, Josh M Cramlet, Cole E Maurer, Collin J Flood, Allan Bracker, Edward B Flagg
Saturday, November 10, 2018 4:48PM - 5:00PM		G06.00003: Construction and Analysis of an Inexpensive Arduino-Based Rotating Quarter-Wave Plate Stokes Polarimeter Cole E Maurer, Collin Flood, Tristan Wilkinson, Edward B Flagg
Saturday, November 10, 2018 5:00PM - 5:36PM		G06.00004: New Color Centers in Diamond for Quantum Networks Invited Speaker: Paul Stevenson
Saturday, November 10, 2018 5:36PM - 5:48PM		G06.00005: Direct three-dimensional measurement of refractive index via dual Brillouin scattering Antonio Fiore, Carlo Bevilacqua, Giuliano Scarcelli
Saturday, November 10, 2018 5:48PM - 6:00PM		G06.00006: Building a Predictive Tool-Chain for Superconducting Qubits Tomasz M. Kott, Andrew C. Strikwerda, Dennis G. Lucarelli, Jeffrey P. Barnes, Kyle P. McElroy, Philip R Johnson

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