16th Annual Meeting of the Northwest Section of the APS
Volume 60, Number 6
Thursday–Saturday, May 14–16, 2015;
Pullman, Washington
Session Index
Session E6: Astronomy, Cosmology, Relativity and Gravitation
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Chair: Matthew Duez, Washington State University
Room: Webster Physical Sciences 17
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Saturday, May 16, 2015
1:30PM - 2:00PM
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E6.00001: Spin-Orbit Alignment of Extrasolar Planets as a Probe of their Origin and Evolution
Invited Speaker:
Jason Barnes
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Saturday, May 16, 2015
2:00PM - 2:12PM
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E6.00002: Alfven's Theory of Sunspots and the Emission of Gravitational Waves from the Center of the Sun
Friedwardt Winterberg
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Saturday, May 16, 2015
2:12PM - 2:24PM
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E6.00003: Rotation Measures of diffuse polarized emission: Insights into Galactic magnetism from the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey
Anna Ordog, Jo-Anne Brown
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Saturday, May 16, 2015
2:24PM - 2:36PM
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E6.00004: Self-Consistent Primordial Helium Abundance Determinations using MCMC
Erik Aver
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Saturday, May 16, 2015
2:36PM - 2:48PM
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E6.00005: Accretion of The Magnetized Neutrino-cooled Torus on a Rotating Black Hole
Fatemeh Hossein Nouri
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Saturday, May 16, 2015
2:48PM - 3:00PM
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E6.00006: A high order accurate finite difference scheme with boundary closures for astrophysical simulations
Wyatt Brege
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Saturday, May 16, 2015
3:00PM - 3:30PM
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E6.00007: Break
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Saturday, May 16, 2015
3:30PM - 4:00PM
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E6.00008: Probing Physics with Observations of Neutron Stars and White Dwarfs
Invited Speaker:
Jeremy Heyl
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Saturday, May 16, 2015
4:00PM - 4:12PM
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E6.00009: Experimental highlights and challenges in Advanced LIGO
Kiwamu Izumi
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Saturday, May 16, 2015
4:12PM - 4:24PM
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E6.00010: Estimation of aligned search efficiency for low-mass coalescing generic spinning binary black holes in gravitational wave data
Nairwita Mazumder, Stephen Privitera, Parameswaran Ajith
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Saturday, May 16, 2015
4:24PM - 4:36PM
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E6.00011: Improving LIGO Data Quality By Detecting Artifacts Arising from Bilinear and Nonlinear Noise Couplings
Bernard Hall, Nairwita Mazumder
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Saturday, May 16, 2015
4:36PM - 4:48PM
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E6.00012: Acoustic Franz Wave Scattering From Circular Cylinders
Anthony Smith
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Saturday, May 16, 2015
4:48PM - 5:00PM
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E6.00013: Gravitational wave detectors for the coming decades
Sheila Dwyer
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