Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Meeting 2020

Volume 65, Number 20

Friday–Sunday, December 4–6, 2020; Virtual

Invited Speakers

Alaoui, Meriem The Catholic University of America	Session D03.00002 Solar flare energetic electron diagnostics: Beyond hard X-ray power-law spectra
Andreescu, Silvana Clarkson University	Session J03.00001 Remote Sensors Incorporating Nanomaterials with Enzyme-Mimetic Properties.
Armitage, N. Peter The Johns Hopkins University	Session K04.00001 Duality and domain wall dynamics in a twisted Kitaev chain
Bai, Lu Pennsylvania State University	Session D01.00001 Thermodynamic Modeling of Genome-wide Nucleosome Depleted Regions in Yeast
Balasubramanian, Vijay University of Pennsylvania	Session D01.00003 The size of the immune repertoire of bacteria
Belfield, Kevin New Jersey Institute of Technology	Session K03.00002 Mitochondria Imaging, Sensing and Photo-modulation
Bianchi, Eugenio Pennsylvania State University	Session K02.00002 Small Spins of Primordial Black Holes from Random Geometries
Bisogni, Valentina Brookhaven National Laboratory	Session G04.00002 Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS) to Probe Spin Dynamics in Magnonic Materials
Borgaonkar, Ashish New Jersey Institute of Technology	Session B01.00003 Rethinking Teaching to Foster Student Success in a Fast-Changing World due to COVID-19 Disruption.
Boris, Alexander Max Planck Institute for Solid State Physics	Session J04.00001 Infrared spectroscopy of collective excitations in quasi-one-dimensional Ta$_2$NiSe$_5$ and Ta$_2$NiS$_5$
Broholm, Collin Johns Hopkins University	Session G04.00001 Magnetism and quantum transport in the kagome lattices of semi-metallic Mn3X
Carmona-Benitez, Carmen Pennsylvania State University	Session B02.00001 The LZ Dark Matter Experiment
Chandra, Premala Rutgers University	Session B04.00001 Novel Phases in Quantum Critical Polar Metals
Chen, Hao NJIT	Session J03.00003 Fast and Sensitive Detection of Oligosaccharides Using Desalting Paper Spray Mass Spectrometry (DPS-MS)
Cheong, Sang-Wook Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University	Session F04.00001 Trompe L'oeil Ferromagnetism
Cochran, Geraldine Rutgers University	Session C02.00003 Classifying and critiquing diversity efforts in physics
Crooker, Scott Los Alamos National Lab	Session D04.00001 Electrons, Holes, and Excitons in Monolayer Semiconductors: Insights from Optical Spectroscopy in (Really) High Magnetic Fields
Cruz Cruz, Luis Drexel Univ	Session F01.00004 Computational Study of the Role of Spatial Organization in the Synchronicity of Firing Events in Spiking Neuronal Networks
Delor, Milan Columbia University	Session F05.00004 Imaging energy transport and inter-particle interactions at the nanoscale
de Viveiros, Luiz Pennsylvania State University	Session C06.00001 Project 8: A Neutrino Mass Experiment using Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy
Dias, Cristiano New Jersey Institute of Technology	Session J01.00002 Monomeric structures of the disordered amyloid-beta protein: an all-atom computational study.
Durakiewicz, Tomasz National Science Foundation	Session B04.00004 Update on CMP and Quantum Materials at NSF
Ekuma, Chinedu Lehigh University	Session F05.00001 Computational-enabled Design and Electrostatic Doping in 2D Materials for Quantum and Neuromorphic Information Processing
Emberly, Eldon Simon Fraser University	Session E01.00001 Organizing space at the cellular scale using molecular lawnmowers
Francois, Paul McGill University	Session D01.00002 Robotic Mapping and Generative Modelling of Cytokine Responses
Gary, Dale New Jersey Institute of Technology	Session D03.00001 Radio-based Studies of Solar Flares: Looking Ahead to the Next Solar Maximum in 2025
Good, Melanie University of Pittsburgh	Session D02.00001 Prevalence of academic dishonesty in timed online quizzes in introductory physics, and effectiveness of interventions to encourage academic honesty
Goodman, Jordan University of Maryland, College Park	Session E02.00002 Recent Results from the HAWC Gamma Ray Observatory
Halbertal, Dorri Columbia University	Session E05.00001 Moir\'{e} metrology of energy landscapes in van der Waals heterostructures
Hanna, Chad Pennsylvania State University	Session J02.00001 Recent Results from LIGO and Virgo
Hasan, M. Zahid Princeton University	Session C05.00001 Discovery of Topological Magnets in 2D and 3D
Hayes, Laura NASA Goddard	Session E03.00002 Pulsations and oscillatory signatures in solar flares -- a unique probe of fundamental flare processes
Hays, Elizabeth NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	Session E02.00001 Astrophysical transformations in 12 years of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Hill, III, Wendell T. University of Maryland, College Park	Session D04.00003 Exploring the quantum vacuum with super-intense laser pulses
Homes, Christopher Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Dept., Brookhaven National Laboratory	Session E04.00002 Unusual electronic and vibrational behavior in the high thermopower antimonides FeSb$_2$ and CrSb$_2$
Honerkamp-Smith, Aurelia Lehigh Univ	Session C01.00001 Fundamental physics of flow-mediated membrane protein transport.
Jarrige, Ignace Brookhaven National Laboratory	Session F05.00002 Optimization of materials for quantum computing technologies
Katifori, Eleni University of Pennsylvania, Department of Physics and Astronomy	Session F01.00001 Pulse propagation in compliant complex networks.
Kerr, Graham Catholic Univeristy of America / NASA GSFC	Session E03.00003 Understanding the Flaring Solar Chromosphere
Khalizov, Alexei New Jersey Inst of Tech	Session G03.00002 Is direct molecular analysis of atmospheric oxidized mercury possible?
Kinney, Justin Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory	Session G01.00001 Massively Parallel Reporter Assays, Machine Learning, and the Biophysics of Gene Regulation
Kiryukhin, Valery Rutgers University	Session G05.00002 Direct imaging antiferromagnetic domain patterns using magnetic x-ray diffraction phase contrast
Knopf, Daniel Stony Brook University	Session F03.00001 Multiphase chemical kinetics and cloud formation by organic aerosol
Kosmrlj, Andrej Princeton University	Session E01.00002 Designing the Morphology of Separated Phases in Multicomponent Liquid Mixtures
Kotliar, Gabriel Rutgers University, New Brunswick	Session K05.00001 Strongly correlated superconductivity: ~a theoretical perspective from ~ the bronze the iron and the nickel era
Kurahashi Neilson, Naoko Drexel Univ	Session G02.00001 Detecting Cosmic Neutrinos with IceCube at the Earth's South Pole
Kuzmenko, Alexey University of Geneva	Session D05.00001 Cryogenic s-SNOM studies of metal-insulator transitions in correlated oxides
Leblond, Louis Pennsylvania State University	Session C02.00001 RASE: Modeling Cumulative Disadvantage Due to Marginalized Group Status in Academia
Lee, Sang-Hyuk Department of Physics and Astronomy, Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers University	Session J01.00001 Development of multimodal microscope and its application to single-molecule study of mitochondrial transcription initiation
Liu, Mengkun State Univ of NY - Stony Brook	Session D05.00003 Electronic Phenomena in Correlated Oxides at the nanoscale
Lupi, Stefano INFN and Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy	Session K04.00002 Linear and Non linear Terahertz Behavior of Topological Insulators Materials.
Lyman, Seth Utah State University	Session G03.00001 Atmospheric Mercury: Successes and Failures with Measurements in the Parts-Per-Quadrillion Range
Marsik, Premysl University of Fribourg	Session E04.00003 Phonon Anomalies in Strained SrMnO$_{\mathrm{3}}$ Films Studied by THz and Infrared Ellipsometry
Mason, Emily NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	Session C03.00002 Trigger Shy? A "Rosetta-Stone" Solar Eruption
Mazzoli, Claudio Brookhaven National Laboratory	Session G05.00003 Coherent Correlation Imaging: unveiling new space and time information in dynamical mesoscopic systems.
McEntaffer, Randall Pennsylvania State University	Session F02.00003 High-energy astrophysics enabled through high-resolution spectroscopy using nanofabricated gratings
Morozov, Alexandre Rutgers University, New Brunswick	Session F01.00002 Bayesian Exploration of Complex Networks by Random Walks
Mousseau, Normand Universite de Montreal	Session J01.00004 Amyloid aggregation: numerical challenges to understanding the onset of oligomerisation
Musfeldt, Janice University of Tennessee	Session D05.00002 Symmetry crossover in layered MPS3 complexes (M= Mn, Fe, Ni) via near-field infrared spectroscopy
Nieuwkoop, Andrew Rutgers University	Session K01.00001 Characterization of Phosphatidylinositol Phosphates Binding in Lipid Bilayers by Solid-state NMR
Oh, Seongshik Rutgers University, New Brunswick	Session C05.00002 Ten-years-journey: From classical to quantum regime of topological surface states
Pavanello, Michele Rutgers University, Newark	Session K05.00003 Towards ab-initio device-level electronic structure models with Density Functional Theory
Pfeiffer, Loren Princeton University	Session J05.00001 Achievement of a new higher electron mobility plateau for GaAs quantum wells
Pixley, Jedediah Rutgers University, New Brunswick	Session E05.00002 Controlling exotic Dirac cones with moire superlattices
Pronin, Artem The University of Stuttgart	Session K04.00003 The chiral anomaly in Weyl semimetals as seen by optical probes
Rabe, Karin M. Rutgers University, New Brunswick	Session B04.00002 Novel Functionalities in Switchable Polar Materials from First Principles
Radice, David Pennsylvania State University	Session K02.00001 The Strong Field Dynamics of Binary Neutron Star
Ratcliff, William National Institute of Standards and Technology	Session C05.00003 Neutron Investigations of the Antiferromagnet Topological Insulator, MnBi$_2$Te$_4$
Rizzo, Daniel Columbia University	Session E05.00003 Charge-Transfer Plasmon Polaritons at Graphene/$\alpha $-RuCl$_{\mathrm{3}}$ Interfaces
Sadik, Omowunmi Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology	Session J03.00002 Automated Analysis of Microbial Pathogens using Smart Biosensing with Machine Learning.
Samarth, Nitin Pennsylvania State University	Session B05.00001 Spin-charge Interconversion in Topological Quantum Materials
Schonfeld, Samuel Institute for Scientific Research, Boston College	Session F02.00001 Solar EUV emission from the Transition Region and Corona in the context of Coronal Heating
Schroeder, Frank Bartol Research Institute, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware	Session C06.00002 Radio Arrays for ultra-high-energy Cosmic Particles
Sedlacek, Arthur Brookhaven National Laboratory	Session B03.00003 Wildfires and Their Contribution to Climate Change
Shandera, Sarah Pennsylvania State University	Session B02.00003 Cosmological Open Quantum Systems
singh, chandralekha University of Pittsburgh	Session B01.00002 Facilitating Thinking and Learning in and Beyond the Physics Classrooms
Sivak, David Dept. of Physics, Simon Fraser University	Session E01.00003 Nonequilibrium energy transduction in stochastic strongly coupled rotary motors
Smith, James University of California, Irvine	Session B03.00002 What processes are responsible for the growth of atmospheric nanoparticles?
Sodhi, Jaskirat New Jersey Institute of Technology	Session D02.00002 Everyone's a Maker: Utilization of a Makerspace for all Degree Programs
Stambaugh, Corey National Quantum Coordination Office	Session B01.00001 Developing the Future QIS Workforce
Stroppa, Alessandro CNR-SPIN	Session D04.00002 Magneto-optical Kerr switching properties and spin configurations of magnetic 2D heterostructures
su, zhaoqian Albert Einstein College of Medicine	Session C01.00003 A Multiscale Study on the Mechanisms of Spatial Organization in Ligand-receptor Interactions on Cell Surfaces.
Talbayev, Diyar Tulane Univ	Session E04.00001 Terahertz spectroscopic studies of noncentrosymmetric magnets.
Tanner, David University of Florida	Session B02.00002 Seeking the unseen: The Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX)
Tchernyshyov, Oleg Johns Hopkins University	Session F04.00006 Chiral Magnetism: A Geometric Perspective
Transtrum, Mark Brigham Young University	Session G01.00002 Using Information Geometry to Find Simple Models of Complex Processes
Tun Beltran, Samuel United States Naval Research Laboratory	Session C03.00003 Exploring Electron Energy Distribution in the SEP-associated Radio CME of 2012 July 17
Turpen, Chandra University of Maryland, College Park	Session C02.00002 Students' exploring and refining their equity ethic within the Access Network
TYSON, TREVOR New Jersey Institute of Technology	Session C04.00001 Detailed Structure of Hybrid Improper Ferroelectric Ca$_{\mathrm{3}}$X$_{\mathrm{2}}$O$_{\mathrm{7}}$ Systems
Urbanc, Brigita Drexel Univ	Session K01.00003 Conformational Dynamics of Short Peptides in Aqueous Solutions: Assessment of Molecular Dynamics Force Fields
Viall, Nicholeen NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	Session E03.00001 Answering the Outstanding Questions of Solar Wind Physics
Vinogradov, Sergei University of Pennsylvania	Session K03.00001 Multiphoton Microscopy of Oxygen
Volkov, Pavel Rutgers University	Session K05.00002 Critical charge fluctuations and emergent coherence in a strongly correlated excitonic insulator
Walkup, Daniel National Institute of Standards and Technology	Session J05.00004 STM-based fabrication and characterization of quantum dots in graphene
Wang, Haimin New Jersey Institute of Technology	Session C03.00001 Understanding and Predicting Solar Eruptions with High Resolution Observations and Machine Learning
Wissel, Stephanie Pennsylvania State University	Session G02.00002 Cosmic Neutrino Searches at High Elevations
Worsnop, Douglas Aerodyne / Helsinki	Session B03.00001 Atmospheric Aerosol Chemistry: Climate and Air Quality
Wu, Liang University of Pennsylvania	Session J04.00004 Nonlinear terahertz emission spectroscopy of topological chiral multifold semimetals
Wu, Weida Rutgers University, New Brunswick	Session G05.00001 Magnetic imaging of domain walls and surface magnetism in antiferromagnetic topological insulator MnBi$_2$Te$_4$
Yang, Junjie Department of Physics, New Jersey Institute of Technology	Session C04.00005 Magnetic chirality induced by chemical substitution in a chiral-polar antiferromagnet.
Yu, Sijie New Jersey Inst of Tech	Session D03.00003 Dynamic imaging spectroscopy at radio wavelength: new insight into energetic processes on the Sun
Zhao, Liuyan University of Michigan	Session J04.00003 Real-time observation of dynamic modulations over a ferro-rotational charge density wave
Zheng, Jun Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology	Session F03.00002 Application of chemical ionization mass spectrometry in the new particle formation studies.
Zhitenev, Nikolai National Institute of Standards and Technology	Session J05.00003 Edge Channels of Quantum Hall States in Graphene probed by Atomic Force Microscopy
Zondlo, Mark Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University	Session F03.00003 Mid-infrared sensing of atmospheric ammonia: linking farms, cities, and ecosystems

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Volume 65, Number 20

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