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Session E01: Quantum Education Research and Quantum Computing

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

Saturday, November 15, 2025 2:00PM - 2:14PM		E01.00001: What goes into pursuing a collaborative self-study of undergraduate students' learning of quantum physics? Chandra Turpen
Saturday, November 15, 2025 2:14PM - 2:28PM		E01.00002: Examining Student Understanding of the Mach-Zehnder Interferometer in Quantum Mechanics Classroom Jason Tran, James Freericks, Leanne Doughty
Saturday, November 15, 2025 2:28PM - 2:42PM		E01.00003: An Educational Approach to Quantum Decoherence via Single-Spin Noise Channels Berkley Delmonico, Lucas Nelson, James Freericks
Saturday, November 15, 2025 2:42PM - 2:56PM		E01.00004: Simulating the Hubbard model on a quantum computer as an advanced quantum mechanics project Grant Davis, Zekun He, James Freericks
Saturday, November 15, 2025 2:56PM - 3:10PM		E01.00005: Out-of-equilbrium dynamics of finite qubit systems Jeysen R Flores-Velazquez, Sarah Shandera, Unnati Akhouri
Saturday, November 15, 2025 3:10PM - 3:50PM		E01.00006: Teaching Quantum Physics for Quantum Computing: A Course for Undergraduate Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Mathematics Majors Invited Speaker: Robert C Hilborn

Session E02: Quantum Materials III

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

Saturday, November 15, 2025 2:00PM - 2:14PM		E02.00001: Modeling of Field‑Tunable Spin Spirals and Skyrmions in Multiferroic NiI₂ Monolayers Akram Ibrahim, Abdalla Eldemiry, Daniel Wines, Can Ataca
Saturday, November 15, 2025 2:14PM - 2:28PM		E02.00002: Topological Classification of Heterostructures from first-principles: Systematic Computation of the Chern Number from Wannier-Based Bogoliubov–de Gennes Hamiltonians for Heterostructures Christopher L Jacobs, Purna Prasad Paudel, Baishali Mandal, Robert eissele, Tudor Dan Stanescu, Subhasish Mandal
Saturday, November 15, 2025 2:28PM - 2:42PM		E02.00003: Hydrogen-Engineered 2D Semiconductors for Reconfigurable Spintronics Anthony Chidiebele Iloanya, Srihari Kastuar, Chinedu E Ekuma, GOUR JANA, Tianhao Lian
Saturday, November 15, 2025 2:42PM - 2:56PM		E02.00004: Title:The Geometric Origin of Quantum Mechanics: The Reduced Planck Constant as Action per RadianAuthors:Zhang Xiangqian, Xu YuchuanPresenter:Lynn Lou Beran (on behalf of the authors) Lynn L Beran, Xiangqian Zhang, Yuchuan Xu
Saturday, November 15, 2025 2:56PM - 3:10PM		E02.00005: Non-Hermitian magnetic fields, zero modes, and index theorems in two-dimensional Dirac materials Bitan Roy

Session E03: Nanostructures, Thin Films, Chemical and Molecular Physics, and Renewable Energy Devices

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

Saturday, November 15, 2025 2:00PM - 2:14PM		E03.00001: Abstract Withdrawn
Saturday, November 15, 2025 2:14PM - 2:28PM		E03.00002: Bridging Nanostructure Growth and Gas-Sensing Kinetics in Metal-Functionalized Graphene Using Machine Learning Molecular Dynamics Akram Ibrahim, Ahmed M Hafez, Mahmooda Sultana, Can Ataca
Saturday, November 15, 2025 2:28PM - 2:42PM		E03.00003: Investigating the Morphological Stability of IrO2 Catalysts for Green Hydrogen Max Chen Huang, Rachel Thatcher, Joseph Nicolas, Aleksandra Vojvodic
Saturday, November 15, 2025 2:42PM - 3:22PM		E03.00004: Exascale transport simulations for the understanding of the switching mechanism in atomically thin memristors Invited Speaker: Liangbo Liang

Session E04: Careers II: CVs and Applications (Walk-ins Welcome)

Chair: Rajeswari Kolagani, Towson University; Eric Hudson
Room: Penn State Harrisburg Educational Activities Building North Room 110 (EAB 110)

Saturday, November 15, 2025 2:00PM - 3:50PM

E04.00001: Careers II: CVs and Applications (Walk-ins Welcome)

Session E05: Stellar Astrophysics and Exoplanets

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

Saturday, November 15, 2025 2:00PM - 2:14PM		E05.00001: When Cannibal Stars Shine: How Common Envelope (Binary Star) Evolution May Be Observable with the Vera C. Rubin Telescope Emily Wilson
Saturday, November 15, 2025 2:14PM - 2:28PM		E05.00002: Exploring Composition Mixing in Kilonova Ejecta with Ray-by-ray Simulations Ruocheng Zhai, David Radice
Saturday, November 15, 2025 2:28PM - 2:42PM		E05.00003: A Search for Neutrinos from Pulsar Wind Nebulae Zoe Brunton
Saturday, November 15, 2025 2:42PM - 2:56PM		E05.00004: Einstein Crossing Times of Dark Compact Object Populations Joel J Cortez Osuna
Saturday, November 15, 2025 2:56PM - 3:10PM		E05.00005: How many terrestrial planets orbit Barnard's star? Oscar Andrés A Flores Gaitán, Sarah Dodson-Robinson, Victor Alejandro Ramirez Delgado
Saturday, November 15, 2025 3:10PM - 3:50PM		E05.00006: A JWST Survey for Free-flaoting Brown Dwarfs Down to the Mass of Jupiter Invited Speaker: Kevin Luhman

Session E06: Solid State Materials and Applied Physics (Semiconductors) II

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

Saturday, November 15, 2025 2:00PM - 2:14PM		E06.00001: Electronic Transport and Machine-Learned Modeling of Defect Dynamics in MoS2 Monolayers for Resistive Switching Devices Akram Ibrahim, Can Ataca
Saturday, November 15, 2025 2:14PM - 2:54PM		E06.00002: From Electrons to Devices: ML-Augmented Multiscale Modeling for 2D Materials Invited Speaker: Can Ataca