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Session C01: Physics Education Research (PER) and Education: Beyond the Classroom

Room: Penn State Harrisburg Educational Activities Building North Room 102 (EAB 102)

Saturday, November 15, 2025 9:00AM - 9:14AM		C01.00001: The rise of anti-intellectualism and suggestions to combat it Peter Hu
Saturday, November 15, 2025 9:14AM - 9:28AM		C01.00002: Becoming The EleMentor: a Journey in Science through Showmanship Arthur K. Pallone
Saturday, November 15, 2025 9:28AM - 10:10AM		C01.00003: The Culture around Systemic Change Survey (CSCS): Assessing how physicists work to enact systemic change in their programs Invited Speaker: Chandra Turpen
Saturday, November 15, 2025 10:10AM - 10:50AM		C01.00004: Enacting Departmental Change: Revising the Physics Qualifying Exam through Inclusive Stakeholder Engagement Invited Speaker: Eric William Hudson

Session C02: Quantum Materials I

Room: Penn State Harrisburg Educational Activities Building North Room 103 (EAB 103)

Saturday, November 15, 2025 9:00AM - 9:40AM		C02.00001: Geometric and quantum phenomena on projected branes Invited Speaker: Bitan Roy
Saturday, November 15, 2025 9:40AM - 9:54AM		C02.00002: Stripe and anomalous Hall orders in quarter metals of rhombohedral honeycomb multilayer Sk Asrap Murshed, Bitan Roy
Saturday, November 15, 2025 9:54AM - 10:08AM		C02.00003: How disordered integer topological insulators become trivial: Prominent case studies in static and Floquet crystals Daniel James Salib, Bitan Roy
Saturday, November 15, 2025 10:08AM - 10:22AM		C02.00004: Quantum phase diagram of disordered hyperbolic Dirac fermions Christopher Andrew Leong, Daniel James Salib, Bitan Roy
Saturday, November 15, 2025 10:22AM - 10:36AM		C02.00005: Conventional crystal defect as a probe of topology Aiden Mains, Bitan Roy

Session C03: AI and Neural Networks

Room: Penn State Harrisburg Educational Activities Building North Room 104 (EAB 104)

Saturday, November 15, 2025 9:00AM - 9:14AM		C03.00001: Physics-Informed Neural Networks Ava Oberrender, Antonio Falbo, Agustin A Menjivar, Alexey Prokudin, Haley Rathman
Saturday, November 15, 2025 9:14AM - 9:28AM		C03.00002: Generating CMB Power Spectra via Artificial Neural Nets Colin P Flanagan, Steven J Clark
Saturday, November 15, 2025 9:28AM - 10:10AM		C03.00003: Integrating AI/ML and Extreme-scale computing workflows to accelerate and control materials dynamics and synthesis Invited Speaker: Soumendu Bagchi
Saturday, November 15, 2025 10:10AM - 10:50AM		C03.00004: Transforming Single Crystal Neutron Diffraction with ML Acceleration and AI Automation Invited Speaker: Zhongcan Xiao

Session C04: Solid State Materials and Applied Physics (Semiconductors) I

Room: Penn State Harrisburg Educational Activities Building North Room 110 (EAB 110)

Saturday, November 15, 2025 9:00AM - 9:14AM		C04.00001: Bonding-Property Relationships in HfNbTaTiMoX (X = V, Fe, Zr, Re) Refractory High-Entropy Alloys. Himani Yadav
Saturday, November 15, 2025 9:14AM - 9:28AM		C04.00002: Typical Medium Cluster Study of Anderson Localization and Spin–Orbit–Coupled Spin Dynamics in 2D Systems Yongtai Li, GOUR JANA, Chinedu E Ekuma
Saturday, November 15, 2025 9:28AM - 9:42AM		C04.00003: Field-Controlled Topological States in Atomically thin ScV6Sn6 Kagome Metal Chidiebere Nwaogbo, Sanjib K Das, Chinedu E Ekuma
Saturday, November 15, 2025 9:42AM - 10:22AM		C04.00004: Superfluids of Light: Bose–Einstein Condensation of Exciton–Polaritons Invited Speaker: Hassan Ali Alnatah

Session C05: Neutrino Astrophysics and Active Galactic Nuclei

Room: Penn State Harrisburg Science and Technology Building Room 128 (TL 128)

Saturday, November 15, 2025 9:00AM - 9:14AM		C05.00001: A NICER view of the multi-messenger processes in AGN Abhishek Desai, Regina M Caputo, Justin Vandenbroucke, Stefano Marchesi, Indrani Pal, Ke Fang, Dieter Hartmann, Marco Ajello, Kavic Kumar, Samuel Hori, Jessie Thwaites
Saturday, November 15, 2025 9:14AM - 9:28AM		C05.00002: Probing the Physics of Supermassive Black Holes with Powerful Radio Sources Ruth A Daly
Saturday, November 15, 2025 9:28AM - 9:42AM		C05.00003: Galactic Correlates of Supermassive Black Hole Growth and Their Application William Nielsen Brandt
Saturday, November 15, 2025 9:42AM - 9:56AM		C05.00004: The Drivers of the Decline in Supermassive Black Hole Growth at z < 2 Zhibo Yu, William Nielsen Brandt, Fan Zou, Bin Luo, Qingling Ni, Donald P Schneider, Fabio Vito
Saturday, November 15, 2025 9:56AM - 10:10AM		C05.00005: Investigating the Star Formation Characteristics of Radio Active Galactic Nuclei Bojun Zhang, Fan Zou, William Nielsen Brandt, Shifu Zhu, Nathan Cristello, Qingling Ni, Yongquan Xue, Zhibo Yu
Saturday, November 15, 2025 10:10AM - 10:50AM		C05.00006: Radio Detection of Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos Invited Speaker: Brian Allen Clark

Session C06: High Energy and Particle Physics I

Room: Penn State Harrisburg Science and Technology Building Room 118 (TL 118)

Saturday, November 15, 2025 9:00AM - 9:14AM		C06.00001: Resonant Cavity Characterization for the Project 8 Neutrino Mass Experiment Neela J Pifer, Luiz de Viveiros, Richard Mueller
Saturday, November 15, 2025 9:14AM - 9:28AM		C06.00002: The Practicality of Citizen Science for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory Willem Kirsch
Saturday, November 15, 2025 9:28AM - 10:10AM		C06.00003: Beyond a Decade Beneath the Ice: Science with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory Invited Speaker: Aswathi Balagopal V.
Saturday, November 15, 2025 10:10AM - 10:50AM		C06.00004: Machine Learning-Based Reconstruction for Precision Neutrino Oscillation Measurements in NOvA Invited Speaker: Erika Catano-Mur