Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Meeting 2020

Volume 65, Number 20

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

Session Index

Session B01: Physics Education Research I

Chair: Chandralekha Singh, University of Pittsburgh

Friday, December 4, 2020 2:00PM - 2:36PM		B01.00001: Developing the Future QIS Workforce Invited Speaker: Corey Stambaugh Preview Abstract
Friday, December 4, 2020 2:36PM - 3:12PM		B01.00002: Facilitating Thinking and Learning in and Beyond the Physics Classrooms Invited Speaker: chandralekha singh Preview Abstract
Friday, December 4, 2020 3:12PM - 3:48PM		B01.00003: Rethinking Teaching to Foster Student Success in a Fast-Changing World due to COVID-19 Disruption. Invited Speaker: Ashish Borgaonkar Preview Abstract
Friday, December 4, 2020 3:48PM - 4:00PM		B01.00004: Physics Innovation and Entrepreneurship (PIE) in the First-year Physics Course Randall Jones, Bahram Roughani Preview Abstract

Session B02: Cosmology and Dark Matter

Chair: David Radice, Pennsylvania State University

Friday, December 4, 2020 2:00PM - 2:36PM		B02.00001: The LZ Dark Matter Experiment Invited Speaker: Carmen Carmona-Benitez Preview Abstract
Friday, December 4, 2020 2:36PM - 3:12PM		B02.00002: Seeking the unseen: The Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX) Invited Speaker: David Tanner Preview Abstract
Friday, December 4, 2020 3:12PM - 3:48PM		B02.00003: Cosmological Open Quantum Systems Invited Speaker: Sarah Shandera Preview Abstract
Friday, December 4, 2020 3:48PM - 4:00PM		B02.00004: Determining Dark Matter Properties from Gravitational Wave Observations of Dark Matter Induced Implosions of Neutron Stars and Their Tidal Deformability. Divya Singh, Anuradha Gupta, B. Sathyaprakash, Sanjay Reddy Preview Abstract

Session B03: Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols I

Chair: Ogochukwu Enekwizu, NJIT

Friday, December 4, 2020 2:00PM - 2:36PM		B03.00001: Atmospheric Aerosol Chemistry: Climate and Air Quality Invited Speaker: Douglas Worsnop Preview Abstract
Friday, December 4, 2020 2:36PM - 3:12PM		B03.00002: What processes are responsible for the growth of atmospheric nanoparticles? Invited Speaker: James Smith Preview Abstract
Friday, December 4, 2020 3:12PM - 3:48PM		B03.00003: Wildfires and Their Contribution to Climate Change Invited Speaker: Arthur Sedlacek Preview Abstract
Friday, December 4, 2020 3:48PM - 4:00PM		B03.00004: Morphology of Atmospheric Particles Claudio Mazzoleni Preview Abstract

Session B04: Polar Materials & CMP&QM at NSF

Chair: Trevor Tysons, NJIT

Friday, December 4, 2020 2:00PM - 2:36PM		B04.00001: Novel Phases in Quantum Critical Polar Metals Invited Speaker: Premala Chandra Preview Abstract
Friday, December 4, 2020 2:36PM - 3:12PM		B04.00002: Novel Functionalities in Switchable Polar Materials from First Principles Invited Speaker: Karin M. Rabe Preview Abstract
Friday, December 4, 2020 3:12PM - 3:24PM		B04.00003: Nonlinear Hall effect as a potential response for polarity detection in polar metals Sobhit Singh, Jinwoong Kim, Karin M. Rabe, David Vanderbilt Preview Abstract
Friday, December 4, 2020 3:24PM - 4:00PM		B04.00004: Update on CMP and Quantum Materials at NSF Invited Speaker: Tomasz Durakiewicz Preview Abstract

Session B05: Topological Materials I

Chair: Seongshik Oh, Rutgers University

Friday, December 4, 2020 2:00PM - 2:36PM		B05.00001: Spin-charge Interconversion in Topological Quantum Materials Invited Speaker: Nitin Samarth Preview Abstract
Friday, December 4, 2020 2:36PM - 2:48PM		B05.00002: Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer pairing of composite fermions Anirban Sharma, Songyang Pu, Jainendra Jain Preview Abstract
Friday, December 4, 2020 2:48PM - 3:00PM		B05.00003: Observation of Flat Frequency Bands at Open Edges and Antiphase Boundary Seams in Topological Mechanical Metamaterials Kai Qian, Linghua Zhu, Keun Hyuk Ahn, Camelia Prodan Preview Abstract
Friday, December 4, 2020 3:00PM - 3:12PM		B05.00004: Experimental Demonstration of Dynamic Topological Pumping Across Incommensurate Bilayered Acoustic Metamaterials Wenting Cheng, Emil Prodan, Camelia Prodan Preview Abstract
Friday, December 4, 2020 3:12PM - 3:24PM		B05.00005: Nonlocal Kinetic Energy Functional Enables Reliable Large-scale Electronic Structure Simulations Wenhui Mi, Michele Pavanello Preview Abstract

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