Dec 4 2020 1:30PM, Friday

A01 Plenary I: Opening Remarks
Chair: Tomek Kott, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

Dec 4 2020 2:00PM, Friday

B01 Physics Education Research I
Chair: Chandralekha Singh, University of Pittsburgh
Invited Speakers:  Corey Stambaugh,  chandralekha singh,  Ashish Borgaonkar  

B02 Cosmology and Dark Matter
Chair: David Radice, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Carmen Carmona-Benitez,  David Tanner,  Sarah Shandera  

B03 Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols I
Chair: Ogochukwu Enekwizu, NJIT
Invited Speakers:  Douglas Worsnop,  James Smith,  Arthur Sedlacek  

B04 Polar Materials & CMP&QM at NSF
Chair: Trevor Tysons, NJIT
Invited Speakers:  Premala Chandra,  Karin M. Rabe,  Tomasz Durakiewicz  

B05 Topological Materials I
Chair: Seongshik Oh, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Nitin Samarth  

Dec 4 2020 4:30PM, Friday

C01 Physics of Biological Membranes
Chair: Normand Mousseau, Universite de Montreal
Invited Speakers:  Aurelia Honerkamp-Smith,  zhaoqian su  

C02 Improving Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Physics
Chair: Geraldine Cochran, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Louis Leblond,  Chandra Turpen,  Geraldine Cochran  

C03 Solar Eruptions
Chair: Dale Gary, NJIT
Invited Speakers:  Haimin Wang,  Emily Mason,  Samuel Tun Beltran  

C04 Polar Materials & Multiferroics
Chair: Janice Musfeldt, University of Tennessee
Invited Speakers:  TREVOR TYSON,  Junjie Yang  

C05 Topological Materials II
Chair: Yi Li, Johns Hopkins University
Invited Speakers:  M. Zahid Hasan,  Seongshik Oh,  William Ratcliff  

C06 Neutrinos I
Chair: Stephanie Wissel, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Luiz de Viveiros,  Frank Schroeder  

Dec 5 2020 9:00AM, Saturday

D01 Principles of Molecular and Cellular Biophysics: I
Chair: Lu Bai, Penn State University
Invited Speakers:  Lu Bai,  Paul Francois,  Vijay Balasubramanian  

D02 Physics Education Research II
Chair: Melanie Good, Pittsburg University
Invited Speakers:  Melanie Good,  Jaskirat Sodhi  

D03 Solar Flares at High Energy
Chair: Nicholeen Viall-Kepko, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Invited Speakers:  Dale Gary,  Meriem Alaoui,  Sijie Yu  

D04 Quantum Materials & Optics I
Chair: Diyar Talbayev, Tulane
Invited Speakers:  Scott Crooker,  Alessandro Stroppa,  Wendell T. Hill, III  

D05 Quantum Materials on Nanoscale I (Oxides)
Chair: Mengkun Liu, Stony Brook University
Invited Speakers:  Alexey Kuzmenko,  Janice Musfeldt,  Mengkun Liu  

Dec 5 2020 11:30AM, Saturday

E01 Principles of Molecular and Cellular Biophysics: II
Chair: Eldon Emberly, Simon Fraser University
Invited Speakers:  Eldon Emberly,  Andrej Kosmrlj,  David Sivak  

E02 Gamma Rays
Chair: Miguel Mostafa, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Elizabeth Hays,  Jordan Goodman  

E03 Solar Activity
Chair: Bin Chen, NJIT
Invited Speakers:  Nicholeen Viall,  Laura Hayes,  Graham Kerr  

E04 Quantum Materials & Optics II
Chair: Wendell T. Hill III, University of Maryland, College Park
Invited Speakers:  Diyar Talbayev,  Christopher Homes,  Premysl Marsik  

E05 Quantum Materials on Nanoscale II
Chair: Alexey Kuzmenko, University of Geneva
Invited Speakers:  Dorri Halbertal,  Jedediah Pixley,  Daniel Rizzo  

Dec 5 2020 2:00PM, Saturday

F01 Physics of Complex Networks
Chair: Cristiano Dias, NJIT
Invited Speakers:  Eleni Katifori,  Alexandre Morozov,  Luis Cruz Cruz  

F02 Solar and X-Rays
Chair: Eugenio Bianchi, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Samuel Schonfeld,  Randall McEntaffer  

F03 Atmospheric Chemistry, Physics and Aerosols II
Chair: Daniel Knopf
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Knopf,  Jun Zheng,  Mark Zondlo  

F04 Quantum Magnetism I
Chair: Valery Kiryukhin, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Sang-Wook Cheong,  Oleg Tchernyshyov  

F05 Quantum Materials on Nanoscale III
Chair: Dorri Halbertal, Columbia University
Invited Speakers:  Chinedu Ekuma,  Ignace Jarrige,  Milan Delor  

Dec 5 2020 4:15PM, Saturday

G01 Machine Learning in Physics and Quantitative Biology
Chair: Justin Kinney
Invited Speakers:  Justin Kinney,  Mark Transtrum  

G02 Neutrinos II
Chair: Frank Schroeder, University of Delaware
Invited Speakers:  Naoko Kurahashi Neilson,  Stephanie Wissel  

G03 Atmospheric Mercury and Soot
Chair: Alexei Khalizov, NJIT
Invited Speakers:  Seth Lyman,  Alexei Khalizov  

G04 Quantum Magnetism II & Supercond.
Chair: Junjie Yang, NJIT
Invited Speakers:  Collin Broholm,  Valentina Bisogni  

G05 Quantum Materials on Nanoscale IV (Imaging)
Chair: Scott A. Crooker, Los Alamos National Lab
Invited Speakers:  Weida Wu,  Valery Kiryukhin,  Claudio Mazzoli  

Dec 5 2020 6:45PM, Saturday

H01 Poster Session (6:45-8:00pm)
Chair: Andrei Sirenko, NJIT

Dec 6 2020 9:00AM, Sunday

J01 Biomolecular Assemblies
Chair: Brigita Urbanc, Drexel University
Invited Speakers:  Sang-Hyuk Lee,  Cristiano Dias,  Normand Mousseau  

J02 Gravitational Waves
Chair: Sarah Shandera, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Chad Hanna  

J03 Bio-Sensing I
Chair: Silvana Andreescu, Clarkson University
Invited Speakers:  Silvana Andreescu,  Omowunmi Sadik,  Hao Chen  

J04 THz Spectroscopy of QM I
Chair: Pavel Volkov, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Alexander Boris,  Liuyan Zhao,  Liang Wu  

J05 Quantum Materials QHE&Graphene
Chair: Nikolai Zhitenev, NIST
Invited Speakers:  Loren Pfeiffer,  Nikolai Zhitenev,  Daniel Walkup  

Dec 6 2020 11:30AM, Sunday

K01 Protein and Lipid Dynamics
Chair: Aurelia Smith
Invited Speakers:  Andrew Nieuwkoop,  Brigita Urbanc  

K02 Black Holes
Chair: Miguel Mostafa, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  David Radice,  Eugenio Bianchi  

K03 Bio-Sensing II
Chair: Yuanwei Zhang, NJIT
Invited Speakers:  Sergei Vinogradov,  Kevin Belfield  

K04 THz Spectroscopy of QM II
Chair: Alexander Boris, MPI Sttuttgart
Invited Speakers:  N. Peter Armitage,  Stefano Lupi,  Artem Pronin  

K05 Electronic Structure Theory
Chair: Jedediah Pixley, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Gabriel Kotliar,  Pavel Volkov,  Michele Pavanello  

Dec 6 2020 1:34PM, Sunday

L01 Plenary 2: Closing Remarks
Chair: Andrei Sirenko, NJIT

Dec 4 2020 1:30PM, Friday

A01 Plenary I: Opening Remarks
Chair: Tomek Kott, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

Dec 4 2020 2:00PM, Friday

B01 Physics Education Research I
Chair: Chandralekha Singh, University of Pittsburgh
Invited Speakers:  Corey Stambaugh,  chandralekha singh,  Ashish Borgaonkar  

B02 Cosmology and Dark Matter
Chair: David Radice, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Carmen Carmona-Benitez,  David Tanner,  Sarah Shandera  

B03 Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols I
Chair: Ogochukwu Enekwizu, NJIT
Invited Speakers:  Douglas Worsnop,  James Smith,  Arthur Sedlacek  

B04 Polar Materials & CMP&QM at NSF
Chair: Trevor Tysons, NJIT
Invited Speakers:  Premala Chandra,  Karin M. Rabe,  Tomasz Durakiewicz  

B05 Topological Materials I
Chair: Seongshik Oh, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Nitin Samarth  

Dec 4 2020 4:30PM, Friday

C01 Physics of Biological Membranes
Chair: Normand Mousseau, Universite de Montreal
Invited Speakers:  Aurelia Honerkamp-Smith,  zhaoqian su  

C02 Improving Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Physics
Chair: Geraldine Cochran, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Louis Leblond,  Chandra Turpen,  Geraldine Cochran  

C03 Solar Eruptions
Chair: Dale Gary, NJIT
Invited Speakers:  Haimin Wang,  Emily Mason,  Samuel Tun Beltran  

C04 Polar Materials & Multiferroics
Chair: Janice Musfeldt, University of Tennessee
Invited Speakers:  TREVOR TYSON,  Junjie Yang  

C05 Topological Materials II
Chair: Yi Li, Johns Hopkins University
Invited Speakers:  M. Zahid Hasan,  Seongshik Oh,  William Ratcliff  

C06 Neutrinos I
Chair: Stephanie Wissel, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Luiz de Viveiros,  Frank Schroeder  

Dec 5 2020 9:00AM, Saturday

D01 Principles of Molecular and Cellular Biophysics: I
Chair: Lu Bai, Penn State University
Invited Speakers:  Lu Bai,  Paul Francois,  Vijay Balasubramanian  

D02 Physics Education Research II
Chair: Melanie Good, Pittsburg University
Invited Speakers:  Melanie Good,  Jaskirat Sodhi  

D03 Solar Flares at High Energy
Chair: Nicholeen Viall-Kepko, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Invited Speakers:  Dale Gary,  Meriem Alaoui,  Sijie Yu  

D04 Quantum Materials & Optics I
Chair: Diyar Talbayev, Tulane
Invited Speakers:  Scott Crooker,  Alessandro Stroppa,  Wendell T. Hill, III  

D05 Quantum Materials on Nanoscale I (Oxides)
Chair: Mengkun Liu, Stony Brook University
Invited Speakers:  Alexey Kuzmenko,  Janice Musfeldt,  Mengkun Liu  

Dec 5 2020 11:30AM, Saturday

E01 Principles of Molecular and Cellular Biophysics: II
Chair: Eldon Emberly, Simon Fraser University
Invited Speakers:  Eldon Emberly,  Andrej Kosmrlj,  David Sivak  

E02 Gamma Rays
Chair: Miguel Mostafa, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Elizabeth Hays,  Jordan Goodman  

E03 Solar Activity
Chair: Bin Chen, NJIT
Invited Speakers:  Nicholeen Viall,  Laura Hayes,  Graham Kerr  

E04 Quantum Materials & Optics II
Chair: Wendell T. Hill III, University of Maryland, College Park
Invited Speakers:  Diyar Talbayev,  Christopher Homes,  Premysl Marsik  

E05 Quantum Materials on Nanoscale II
Chair: Alexey Kuzmenko, University of Geneva
Invited Speakers:  Dorri Halbertal,  Jedediah Pixley,  Daniel Rizzo  

Dec 5 2020 2:00PM, Saturday

F01 Physics of Complex Networks
Chair: Cristiano Dias, NJIT
Invited Speakers:  Eleni Katifori,  Alexandre Morozov,  Luis Cruz Cruz  

F02 Solar and X-Rays
Chair: Eugenio Bianchi, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Samuel Schonfeld,  Randall McEntaffer  

F03 Atmospheric Chemistry, Physics and Aerosols II
Chair: Daniel Knopf
Invited Speakers:  Daniel Knopf,  Jun Zheng,  Mark Zondlo  

F04 Quantum Magnetism I
Chair: Valery Kiryukhin, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Sang-Wook Cheong,  Oleg Tchernyshyov  

F05 Quantum Materials on Nanoscale III
Chair: Dorri Halbertal, Columbia University
Invited Speakers:  Chinedu Ekuma,  Ignace Jarrige,  Milan Delor  

Dec 5 2020 4:15PM, Saturday

G01 Machine Learning in Physics and Quantitative Biology
Chair: Justin Kinney
Invited Speakers:  Justin Kinney,  Mark Transtrum  

G02 Neutrinos II
Chair: Frank Schroeder, University of Delaware
Invited Speakers:  Naoko Kurahashi Neilson,  Stephanie Wissel  

G03 Atmospheric Mercury and Soot
Chair: Alexei Khalizov, NJIT
Invited Speakers:  Seth Lyman,  Alexei Khalizov  

G04 Quantum Magnetism II & Supercond.
Chair: Junjie Yang, NJIT
Invited Speakers:  Collin Broholm,  Valentina Bisogni  

G05 Quantum Materials on Nanoscale IV (Imaging)
Chair: Scott A. Crooker, Los Alamos National Lab
Invited Speakers:  Weida Wu,  Valery Kiryukhin,  Claudio Mazzoli  

Dec 5 2020 6:45PM, Saturday

H01 Poster Session (6:45-8:00pm)
Chair: Andrei Sirenko, NJIT

Dec 6 2020 9:00AM, Sunday

J01 Biomolecular Assemblies
Chair: Brigita Urbanc, Drexel University
Invited Speakers:  Sang-Hyuk Lee,  Cristiano Dias,  Normand Mousseau  

J02 Gravitational Waves
Chair: Sarah Shandera, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  Chad Hanna  

J03 Bio-Sensing I
Chair: Silvana Andreescu, Clarkson University
Invited Speakers:  Silvana Andreescu,  Omowunmi Sadik,  Hao Chen  

J04 THz Spectroscopy of QM I
Chair: Pavel Volkov, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Alexander Boris,  Liuyan Zhao,  Liang Wu  

J05 Quantum Materials QHE&Graphene
Chair: Nikolai Zhitenev, NIST
Invited Speakers:  Loren Pfeiffer,  Nikolai Zhitenev,  Daniel Walkup  

Dec 6 2020 11:30AM, Sunday

K01 Protein and Lipid Dynamics
Chair: Aurelia Smith
Invited Speakers:  Andrew Nieuwkoop,  Brigita Urbanc  

K02 Black Holes
Chair: Miguel Mostafa, Pennsylvania State University
Invited Speakers:  David Radice,  Eugenio Bianchi  

K03 Bio-Sensing II
Chair: Yuanwei Zhang, NJIT
Invited Speakers:  Sergei Vinogradov,  Kevin Belfield  

K04 THz Spectroscopy of QM II
Chair: Alexander Boris, MPI Sttuttgart
Invited Speakers:  N. Peter Armitage,  Stefano Lupi,  Artem Pronin  

K05 Electronic Structure Theory
Chair: Jedediah Pixley, Rutgers University
Invited Speakers:  Gabriel Kotliar,  Pavel Volkov,  Michele Pavanello  

Dec 6 2020 1:34PM, Sunday

L01 Plenary 2: Closing Remarks
Chair: Andrei Sirenko, NJIT